Farsi language visitors check out Multilingual and an interview with one of the assassination team, which killed a dissident Kurdish leader in Austria - with death bed testimony that current President of Islamic Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad was one of the killers.
This article was posted earlier on this site in English and now translated to bring it to Iranians and Farsi speakers as the information has been suppressed in Iran and although previously posted on some blogs in Farsi in the past has not received the attention it deserves.
Also MUST READ: leaving Hillary & Girlfriend post (below) for a couple more days to give more people a chance to read the article. Go to the FR site link I have posted (by clicking on the title/heading of the article) and hardly believe your eyes at what you discover.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Sunday, November 11, 2007
HILLARY'S AL-QAEDA "GIRLFRIEND?" & CONSTANT COMPANION
Huma Abedin with Hillary Clinton May 2000CLICK ON TITLE TO GO TO PROFESSIONAL QUALITY RESEARCH AND DETAILS OF THE AL-QAEDA CONNECTED HUMA ABEDIN WHO IS AND HAS BEEN HILLARY CLINTON'S CONSTANT COMPANION AND WOULD BRING AL-QAEDA BACK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE SHOULD HILLARY WIN THE ELECTION.
(Photo Caption)
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, UNITED STATES:
US First Lady and New York Senate candidate Hillary Clinton (Center) carries flowers and is led by an unidentified Andrews Air Force Base Protocol Officer(Right) while her personal aide Huma Abedin carries a bag and a stack of New York newspapers - 06 May 2000 - after returning from New York to meet up with her husband, President Bill Clinton at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
The Clintons then boarded Air Force One and traveled to Subiaco, Arkansas, to attend a friend's wedding . (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO PAUL J. RICHARDS
UNDER PRESENT ISLAMIC JIHADIST CIRCUMSTANCES WORSE EVEN THAN HER HUSBAND BILL BRINGING THE CHINESE INTO THE WHITE HOUSE DURING HIS ADMINISTRATIONS.
AMERICA WE ARE INCREASINGLY IN DANGER THROUGH THE CLINTONS. WE LOST OUR MISSILE GUIDANCE AND OTHER TOP SECRET NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO THE CHINESE DURING THE BILL CLINTON WATCH, NOW WE HAVE HUMA CONSTANTLY STILL AT HILLARY'S SIDE.
READ THE ARTICLE AT THE LINK AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHETHER WE CAN TRUST OR EVEN SURVIVE THE CLINTONS A SECOND TIME.
WAKE UP, AMERICA! WAKE UP BEFORE YOUR IGNORANCE OR INDIFFERENCE GET US ALL KILLED!
THIS IS NO LONGER POLITICS - IT IS SURVIVAL OF OUR COUNTRY IN THE FACE OF LIBIDO DRIVEN BETRAYAL. THE DANGEROUS LIBIDO APPEARS TO RUN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CLINTON COUPLE.
CHECK OUT MORE INFO ON THIS AT
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/03/huma-abedin-power-behind-hillarys.html
Saturday, November 10, 2007
CONFLICT & TERR0R 11/09 (USUALLY POSTED ON TERROR NEWS BRIEFS PAGE)
Also check out Terror News Nov 09 on Terror News Briefs Page. (Page links in left hand column).
Twelve die as Yemen tribesmen, oil firm guards clash
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:21am
Twelve people were killed when Yemeni tribesmen clashed on Thursday with security personnel for a Ukrainian oil firm during a protest, the Yemeni ruling party's Web site said. Full Story
Egypt finds six smuggling tunnels near Gaza border
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:23am
Egyptian security forces discovered six smuggling tunnels linking Egypt with the Gaza Strip this week, including one with an entrance concealed in a private home, security sources said on Wednesday. Full Story
Court Convicts 32 al-Qaida Suspects
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:33am
A Yemeni court convicted Wednesday 32 al-Qaida suspects of planning attacks on oil and gas installations in the country, sentencing them to prison terms of up to 15 years. Four others were acquitted. Full Story
Islamists vow to fight Ethiopia
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:35am
A top Somalian opposition leader has vowed to fight until the withdrawal of all Ethiopian troops, ruling out peace talks with the transitional government. "It is our belief that every individual in Somalia has to participate in the resistance and the defeat of the Ethiopian occupation," Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed told AFP in the Eritrean capital. Full Story
Algerian, Tunisian suspects arrested in anti-terror raids in Europe
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 10:38am
Twenty Algerians and Tunisians were arrested in an anti-terror swoop in Italy, Britain, France and Portugal on Tuesday (November 6th). The operation was ordered by Milan anti-terrorist police, who claim the suspects were setting up militant cells to recruit suicide bombers for Iraq and Afghanistan. Full Story
Italy-Romania plea over migrants
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:00am
The prime ministers of Italy and Romania have urged the EU to do more to help integrate migrants. In a joint letter, Italy's Romano Prodi and Romania's Calin Tariceanu called for clearer EU rules on inclusion and on deportation of EU nationals. The two leaders met in Rome to try to ease tensions over Italy's decision to deport some Romanians under a new decree aimed at tackling crime. Full Story
Four dead in Black Hawk crash in Italy
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:08am
A U.S. army Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Italy on Thursday, killing four Americans and wounding the other seven on board, officials said. The helicopter, which according to Italian media was on a training mission, split into at least two pieces after crashing at 12:34 p.m. (1134 GMT) in a grassy field near the Italian city of Treviso. At least three of the injured were seriously hurt.Full Story
'Lyrical Terrorist' found guilty in British court
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:10am
A 23-year-old who called herself the "Lyrical Terrorist" and penned poems with titles including "How To Behead" has Thursday become the first woman to be convicted under terrorism legislation. Samina Malik, who worked in a newsagent at London's Heathrow airport, was a "committed Islamic extremist who supports terrorism and terrorists," prosecutor Jonathan Sharp told the Old Bailey.Full Story
Sarkozy returns from U.S. to skepticism and strikes
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:18am
French President Nicolas Sarkozy returned home on Thursday from Washington to face skepticism about his new transatlantic friendship and a month of strikes that signal growing domestic problems. Two powerful Paris public transport unions said on Thursday they would join a wider rail strike from the evening of November 13, after rejecting a government offer on reforming their pensions.
Hospital helicopter pilots and police officers also joined a growing list of those protesting over Sarkozy's reforms that now includes court officials, students and civil servants.Full Story
Georgia's president calls early election
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:20am
Georgia's pro-Western president said Thursday the country would hold early presidential elections in January to defuse a crisis fueled by protests against him. President Mikhail Saakashvili also promised to lift within days the nationwide state of emergency that he had imposed late Wednesday after a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, saying "the situation in Georgia is quickly stabilizing." The election had been due to take place in late 2008, but Saakashvili said it would now be scheduled for Jan. 5 "to receive the trust of the people."Full Story
Finland mourns school shooting victims
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:22am
Flags flew at half-mast across Finland on Thursday in mourning for eight people killed by an 18-year-old gunman at a school hours after he posted a video on YouTube predicting a massacre there. Six pupils of Jokela High School, along with the school's principal and its nurse, were killed when student Pekka-Eric Auvinen opened fire with a .22 caliber handgun in the middle of the school day. He then shot himself in the head.Full Story
Japan's Opposition in Disarray
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 1:18pm
The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Ichiro Ozawa played out a puzzling political drama this week by first announcing his resignation as president of the party on Sunday and then three days later by reversing his decision to step down.
The three-day political soap opera was totally unexpected. While Ozawa for now has made his position clear by announcing his resolve to build the party and lead it to success at the next general election, he has also already done huge damage to the party and has betrayed supporter's expectations of the DPJ as a viable alternative to replace the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).Full Story
About 1,000 sick in Vietnam diarrhea epidemic
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 1:21pm
More than 1,000 people are sick with diarrhea in northern Vietnam, but government officials said on Thursday cholera had not been confirmed. "We are not announcing a cholera outbreak. So far it is still identified as dangerous acute diarrhea," said Ministry of Health spokesman Nguyen Quang Thuan.Full Story
Aung San Suu Kyi ready to 'cooperate' with Myanmar juntaPosted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 1:25pmAung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's stifled democracy movement, said in a statement released by the United Nations on Thursday that she was ready to "cooperate" with the military government.
The announcement came as state television in Myanmar said the government would allow Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with executives of her political party, the first time in at least three years that this has been allowed.Full Story
Deaths as bridge collapses in Dubai
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 2:57pm
Seven construction workers have been killed and 15 injured after a bridge under construction collapsed in Dubai, police have said.
The bridge was being built in Dubai Marina, a new residential and commercial development in the booming Gulf city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A crane hit the half-built Dubai bridge, causing it to collapse in an area near luxury hotels and high-rise apartments. Full Story
Despite maneuvers, analysts rule out imminent war between Hizbullah, Israel
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 2:59pm
War will not erupt any time soon between Hizbullah and Israel, despite large-scale military maneuvers staged recently by each side, a number of security and political analysts told The Daily Star Wednesday. "I don't think Hizbullah is in any way preparing for such an eventuality," said Timur Goksel, former senior adviser to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
"They are in a defensive mode in the present." Last weekend Hizbullah organized military exercises, which were reportedly the largest in its history, only days after Israeli troops performed maneuvers in Al-Jaleel in northern Israel from October 28-31. Hizbullah's show of strength should be read as a response to Israel's exercises and not as saber-rattling presaging an imminent conflict, Goksel said. Full Story
Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:01pm
American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network, from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top American general said today, allowing American troops involved in the surge to depart as planned. Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., commander of United States forces in Baghdad, also said that American troops had yet to clear some 13 percent of the city, including Sadr City and several other areas controlled by Shiite militias. But, he said, there's just no question that violence had declined since a spike in June.Full Story
Iraq Plans to Confront Security Firms on Guns
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:03pm
The Iraqi interior minister said Wednesday that he would authorize raids by his security forces on Western security firms to ensure that they were complying with tightened licensing requirements on guns and other weaponry, setting up the possibility of violent confrontations between the Iraqis and heavily armed Western guards. Full Story
Iran Reaches 'Irreversible' Nuclear Program Milestone
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:10pm
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday that the country's uranium enrichment program has reached a target of 3,000 working centrifuges. "We have now reached 3,000 machines," Ahmadinejad said at a rally, according to the Agence France-Presse. He also said he "could not care less" about U.N. Security Council resolutions opposing the Iranian nuclear program, and that Iran's "progress is irreversible." Full Story
India holds its tongue on Pakistan
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:29pm
As the United States has intensified pressure on the Pakistani president, General Pervez Musharraf, to call off the state of emergency there, India has maintained a studiously low-key response to the unfurling crisis in its neighbor and nuclear rival.
The Ministry of External Affairs issued its only formal statement shortly after emergency rule was declared Saturday, and kept it succinct, limiting it to just two sentences. Indian analysts said the muted response reflected a desire not to sour newly improved relations between the two countries by taking a overly critical stand at this juncture.Full Story
Pakistani police cordon off Bhutto home
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 12:19am
Pakistani police cordoned off the home of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday and sealed off a park in Rawalpindi where she was due to hold her first rally since President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule. Full Story
US urges Sri Lanka to end fighting with rebels
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 12:48am
The United States urged Sri Lanka to negotiate an end to decades of fighting with the Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said. Full Story
Japan's parliament extends term amid naval mission row
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 2:33am
Japan on Friday extended the current parliamentary session as the ruling parties strive to secure a resumption of a controversial naval mission supporting the US-led "war on terror." Full Story
Unrest could distract Pakistan military
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 4:28am
The longer the political turmoil in Islamabad continues, the greater the risk that it will distract the Pakistani army from battling insurgents along the border of Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. Full Story
US calls on Asian states to work closer together on security
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 4:30am
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates called Friday on Asian states to work more closely together on security issues and not to depend only on the United States to ensure regional stability. Full Story
9 Iranians released in IraqPosted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 4:31amNine Iranians were released Friday from U.S. custody in Iraq, the American military said. Full Story
Courtesy Terrorism Research Center, Inc.
Twelve die as Yemen tribesmen, oil firm guards clash
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:21am
Twelve people were killed when Yemeni tribesmen clashed on Thursday with security personnel for a Ukrainian oil firm during a protest, the Yemeni ruling party's Web site said. Full Story
Egypt finds six smuggling tunnels near Gaza border
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:23am
Egyptian security forces discovered six smuggling tunnels linking Egypt with the Gaza Strip this week, including one with an entrance concealed in a private home, security sources said on Wednesday. Full Story
Court Convicts 32 al-Qaida Suspects
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:33am
A Yemeni court convicted Wednesday 32 al-Qaida suspects of planning attacks on oil and gas installations in the country, sentencing them to prison terms of up to 15 years. Four others were acquitted. Full Story
Islamists vow to fight Ethiopia
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 9:35am
A top Somalian opposition leader has vowed to fight until the withdrawal of all Ethiopian troops, ruling out peace talks with the transitional government. "It is our belief that every individual in Somalia has to participate in the resistance and the defeat of the Ethiopian occupation," Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed told AFP in the Eritrean capital. Full Story
Algerian, Tunisian suspects arrested in anti-terror raids in Europe
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 10:38am
Twenty Algerians and Tunisians were arrested in an anti-terror swoop in Italy, Britain, France and Portugal on Tuesday (November 6th). The operation was ordered by Milan anti-terrorist police, who claim the suspects were setting up militant cells to recruit suicide bombers for Iraq and Afghanistan. Full Story
Italy-Romania plea over migrants
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:00am
The prime ministers of Italy and Romania have urged the EU to do more to help integrate migrants. In a joint letter, Italy's Romano Prodi and Romania's Calin Tariceanu called for clearer EU rules on inclusion and on deportation of EU nationals. The two leaders met in Rome to try to ease tensions over Italy's decision to deport some Romanians under a new decree aimed at tackling crime. Full Story
Four dead in Black Hawk crash in Italy
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:08am
A U.S. army Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Italy on Thursday, killing four Americans and wounding the other seven on board, officials said. The helicopter, which according to Italian media was on a training mission, split into at least two pieces after crashing at 12:34 p.m. (1134 GMT) in a grassy field near the Italian city of Treviso. At least three of the injured were seriously hurt.Full Story
'Lyrical Terrorist' found guilty in British court
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:10am
A 23-year-old who called herself the "Lyrical Terrorist" and penned poems with titles including "How To Behead" has Thursday become the first woman to be convicted under terrorism legislation. Samina Malik, who worked in a newsagent at London's Heathrow airport, was a "committed Islamic extremist who supports terrorism and terrorists," prosecutor Jonathan Sharp told the Old Bailey.Full Story
Sarkozy returns from U.S. to skepticism and strikes
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:18am
French President Nicolas Sarkozy returned home on Thursday from Washington to face skepticism about his new transatlantic friendship and a month of strikes that signal growing domestic problems. Two powerful Paris public transport unions said on Thursday they would join a wider rail strike from the evening of November 13, after rejecting a government offer on reforming their pensions.
Hospital helicopter pilots and police officers also joined a growing list of those protesting over Sarkozy's reforms that now includes court officials, students and civil servants.Full Story
Georgia's president calls early election
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:20am
Georgia's pro-Western president said Thursday the country would hold early presidential elections in January to defuse a crisis fueled by protests against him. President Mikhail Saakashvili also promised to lift within days the nationwide state of emergency that he had imposed late Wednesday after a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters, saying "the situation in Georgia is quickly stabilizing." The election had been due to take place in late 2008, but Saakashvili said it would now be scheduled for Jan. 5 "to receive the trust of the people."Full Story
Finland mourns school shooting victims
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:22am
Flags flew at half-mast across Finland on Thursday in mourning for eight people killed by an 18-year-old gunman at a school hours after he posted a video on YouTube predicting a massacre there. Six pupils of Jokela High School, along with the school's principal and its nurse, were killed when student Pekka-Eric Auvinen opened fire with a .22 caliber handgun in the middle of the school day. He then shot himself in the head.Full Story
Japan's Opposition in Disarray
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 1:18pm
The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Ichiro Ozawa played out a puzzling political drama this week by first announcing his resignation as president of the party on Sunday and then three days later by reversing his decision to step down.
The three-day political soap opera was totally unexpected. While Ozawa for now has made his position clear by announcing his resolve to build the party and lead it to success at the next general election, he has also already done huge damage to the party and has betrayed supporter's expectations of the DPJ as a viable alternative to replace the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).Full Story
About 1,000 sick in Vietnam diarrhea epidemic
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 1:21pm
More than 1,000 people are sick with diarrhea in northern Vietnam, but government officials said on Thursday cholera had not been confirmed. "We are not announcing a cholera outbreak. So far it is still identified as dangerous acute diarrhea," said Ministry of Health spokesman Nguyen Quang Thuan.Full Story
Aung San Suu Kyi ready to 'cooperate' with Myanmar juntaPosted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 1:25pmAung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's stifled democracy movement, said in a statement released by the United Nations on Thursday that she was ready to "cooperate" with the military government.
The announcement came as state television in Myanmar said the government would allow Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with executives of her political party, the first time in at least three years that this has been allowed.Full Story
Deaths as bridge collapses in Dubai
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 2:57pm
Seven construction workers have been killed and 15 injured after a bridge under construction collapsed in Dubai, police have said.
The bridge was being built in Dubai Marina, a new residential and commercial development in the booming Gulf city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A crane hit the half-built Dubai bridge, causing it to collapse in an area near luxury hotels and high-rise apartments. Full Story
Despite maneuvers, analysts rule out imminent war between Hizbullah, Israel
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 2:59pm
War will not erupt any time soon between Hizbullah and Israel, despite large-scale military maneuvers staged recently by each side, a number of security and political analysts told The Daily Star Wednesday. "I don't think Hizbullah is in any way preparing for such an eventuality," said Timur Goksel, former senior adviser to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
"They are in a defensive mode in the present." Last weekend Hizbullah organized military exercises, which were reportedly the largest in its history, only days after Israeli troops performed maneuvers in Al-Jaleel in northern Israel from October 28-31. Hizbullah's show of strength should be read as a response to Israel's exercises and not as saber-rattling presaging an imminent conflict, Goksel said. Full Story
Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:01pm
American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network, from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top American general said today, allowing American troops involved in the surge to depart as planned. Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., commander of United States forces in Baghdad, also said that American troops had yet to clear some 13 percent of the city, including Sadr City and several other areas controlled by Shiite militias. But, he said, there's just no question that violence had declined since a spike in June.Full Story
Iraq Plans to Confront Security Firms on Guns
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:03pm
The Iraqi interior minister said Wednesday that he would authorize raids by his security forces on Western security firms to ensure that they were complying with tightened licensing requirements on guns and other weaponry, setting up the possibility of violent confrontations between the Iraqis and heavily armed Western guards. Full Story
Iran Reaches 'Irreversible' Nuclear Program Milestone
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:10pm
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday that the country's uranium enrichment program has reached a target of 3,000 working centrifuges. "We have now reached 3,000 machines," Ahmadinejad said at a rally, according to the Agence France-Presse. He also said he "could not care less" about U.N. Security Council resolutions opposing the Iranian nuclear program, and that Iran's "progress is irreversible." Full Story
India holds its tongue on Pakistan
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:29pm
As the United States has intensified pressure on the Pakistani president, General Pervez Musharraf, to call off the state of emergency there, India has maintained a studiously low-key response to the unfurling crisis in its neighbor and nuclear rival.
The Ministry of External Affairs issued its only formal statement shortly after emergency rule was declared Saturday, and kept it succinct, limiting it to just two sentences. Indian analysts said the muted response reflected a desire not to sour newly improved relations between the two countries by taking a overly critical stand at this juncture.Full Story
Pakistani police cordon off Bhutto home
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 12:19am
Pakistani police cordoned off the home of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday and sealed off a park in Rawalpindi where she was due to hold her first rally since President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule. Full Story
US urges Sri Lanka to end fighting with rebels
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 12:48am
The United States urged Sri Lanka to negotiate an end to decades of fighting with the Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said. Full Story
Japan's parliament extends term amid naval mission row
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 2:33am
Japan on Friday extended the current parliamentary session as the ruling parties strive to secure a resumption of a controversial naval mission supporting the US-led "war on terror." Full Story
Unrest could distract Pakistan military
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 4:28am
The longer the political turmoil in Islamabad continues, the greater the risk that it will distract the Pakistani army from battling insurgents along the border of Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. Full Story
US calls on Asian states to work closer together on security
Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 4:30am
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates called Friday on Asian states to work more closely together on security issues and not to depend only on the United States to ensure regional stability. Full Story
9 Iranians released in IraqPosted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 4:31amNine Iranians were released Friday from U.S. custody in Iraq, the American military said. Full Story
Courtesy Terrorism Research Center, Inc.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
به دختران و ملت ايران تجاوزمیشود THEY RAPE US
Some still photos (below) from the video of an Iranian girl getting raped by plain clothes authorities. Link to heart wrenching video of the event at the end.
Rape is a part of daily life in Iran. Specially to enforce obedience, frighten their menfolk into submission and to punish the women for whatever the rapists consider to have been insubordination.
This is the society the Mullahs have created in Iran and encourage with their religious Sharia laws where women have no status in society - by official Mullocratic decree.
COMING SOON TO THIS SITE -Translations of religious Islamic tenets - some are so WEIRD as to be mind boggling, yet they are the template for "correct living" in Islam.
And exactly the tenets the Jihadists are trying to impose on all of us - dragging us back by force and threat from our modern times to the way backward fanatics lived some 1,400 years.
The video below of "life" in Iran - and many Islamic countries today - and the Islamic tenets as they post should indicate why the AntiMullah site exists and is so fervent. Not only politically but socially.
LINKS IN LEFT HAND COLUMN
Rape is a part of daily life in Iran. Specially to enforce obedience, frighten their menfolk into submission and to punish the women for whatever the rapists consider to have been insubordination.
This is the society the Mullahs have created in Iran and encourage with their religious Sharia laws where women have no status in society - by official Mullocratic decree.
COMING SOON TO THIS SITE -Translations of religious Islamic tenets - some are so WEIRD as to be mind boggling, yet they are the template for "correct living" in Islam.
And exactly the tenets the Jihadists are trying to impose on all of us - dragging us back by force and threat from our modern times to the way backward fanatics lived some 1,400 years.
The video below of "life" in Iran - and many Islamic countries today - and the Islamic tenets as they post should indicate why the AntiMullah site exists and is so fervent. Not only politically but socially.
CLICK ON GRAPHIC TO ENLARGE
ALSO CHECK OUT NEW ARTICLES ON OTHER PAGES
Monday, November 5, 2007
LET'S NOT REPEAT OUR IRAN MISTAKES WITH PAKISTAN
The World Bank is in the processs of transfering nearly ONE BILLION dollars to the regime of Ahmadi-Nejad in Iran. ($900 million approved from before). So American money will be funding the anti-USA actions of our worst enemy and killer of our soldiers and civilians in Iraq.
This money would pass through Iranian banks, like Bank Melli, that have been blacklisted and should not be used to channel the funds. This roadblock seems to have given pause but not stopped the cash flow. In fact Iran appears to have already received some $50 million during the summer months.
The situation in Pakistan resembles what faced the late Shah of Iran when the Soviets inflamed an uneducated and politically ignorant VERY young populace to rise up and bring in a new religious “hero” Khomeini.
Some 50% of the Pakistani population polled stated they wanted Osama bin Laden as their leader. They already have their Khomeini in place.
Some four of the geographical divisions of Pakistan are Taleban controlled and oriented to sharia law and strict Islamic behavior and mind sets.
A very high percentage of the total population of the country leans toward sharia religious law and strict Islamic customs. Dry tinder for inflaming similar to Iran in the old days.
A religious take-over of Pakistan, like Khomeini in Iran will certainly lead to a huge blow to Western interests.
The question remains whether the Bush Administration/USA will follow Jimmy Carter’s inept and idiotic handling of the revolution against the Shah and put “idealistic democracy” over allowing Pakistan’s secular leader to block a terrorist take over. And maintain a pro-West status within Pakistan.
Already the State Department and President Bush are making noises about “democracy” and “elections” similar to those uttered by Carter back in 1978.
Meanwhile Musharaf has to face fanatical, suicidal, Islamic terrorist actions that neither follow democratic norms nor would allow a spark of democracy to survive in Pakistan after they take over. So let’s not help them by weakening Musharaf.
Again we are demanding political suicide for Pakistan in the name of an ephemeral democracy that exists in name only anywhere else in the world except the USA - even in much of Europe.
With Osama bin Laden in Pakistan’s Waziristan, it is a short step to much of Pakistan pledging allegiance to him and allowing him free movement in the four already “Taleban” regions.
And the official power to order sharia law and anti-Western activity inside and outside the country. The Islamic Jihadists will not follow Benazir Bhutto so she is not an alternative option. Nor powerful enough to fight against them.
And!
Pakistan’s nuclear capability falling into terrorist and Al Qaeda hands, even if only some dirty bomb useful, radioactive material and not the bombs Pakistan possesses - must weigh heavily in favor of supporting the only thing standing in the way of this horrifying event - Pervez Musharaf!
Let’s not cut our own throats by following in Carter’s footsteps which, some 30-years later, are the root of all our terrorist troubles today.
This money would pass through Iranian banks, like Bank Melli, that have been blacklisted and should not be used to channel the funds. This roadblock seems to have given pause but not stopped the cash flow. In fact Iran appears to have already received some $50 million during the summer months.
The situation in Pakistan resembles what faced the late Shah of Iran when the Soviets inflamed an uneducated and politically ignorant VERY young populace to rise up and bring in a new religious “hero” Khomeini.
Some 50% of the Pakistani population polled stated they wanted Osama bin Laden as their leader. They already have their Khomeini in place.
Some four of the geographical divisions of Pakistan are Taleban controlled and oriented to sharia law and strict Islamic behavior and mind sets.
A very high percentage of the total population of the country leans toward sharia religious law and strict Islamic customs. Dry tinder for inflaming similar to Iran in the old days.
A religious take-over of Pakistan, like Khomeini in Iran will certainly lead to a huge blow to Western interests.
The question remains whether the Bush Administration/USA will follow Jimmy Carter’s inept and idiotic handling of the revolution against the Shah and put “idealistic democracy” over allowing Pakistan’s secular leader to block a terrorist take over. And maintain a pro-West status within Pakistan.
Already the State Department and President Bush are making noises about “democracy” and “elections” similar to those uttered by Carter back in 1978.
Meanwhile Musharaf has to face fanatical, suicidal, Islamic terrorist actions that neither follow democratic norms nor would allow a spark of democracy to survive in Pakistan after they take over. So let’s not help them by weakening Musharaf.
Again we are demanding political suicide for Pakistan in the name of an ephemeral democracy that exists in name only anywhere else in the world except the USA - even in much of Europe.
With Osama bin Laden in Pakistan’s Waziristan, it is a short step to much of Pakistan pledging allegiance to him and allowing him free movement in the four already “Taleban” regions.
And the official power to order sharia law and anti-Western activity inside and outside the country. The Islamic Jihadists will not follow Benazir Bhutto so she is not an alternative option. Nor powerful enough to fight against them.
And!
Pakistan’s nuclear capability falling into terrorist and Al Qaeda hands, even if only some dirty bomb useful, radioactive material and not the bombs Pakistan possesses - must weigh heavily in favor of supporting the only thing standing in the way of this horrifying event - Pervez Musharaf!
Let’s not cut our own throats by following in Carter’s footsteps which, some 30-years later, are the root of all our terrorist troubles today.
SAUDI SHARIA INDOCTRINATION CONTINUES
Saudi Methods of Indoctrination
Author: Adrian MorganSource: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.Date: November 2, 2007
The Saudi government uses its great wealth and influence to fund Muslim schools and mosques throughout the world. FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan gives a shocking account of how widely materials intended to indoctrinate the recipients to radical Islam are disseminated.
Saudi Methods of Indoctrination
By Adrian Morgan
On Monday October 29, 2007, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia arrived in Britain for the beginning of a state visit. His retinue followed in five separate planes. As soon as the monarch arrived, he created controversy by claiming that Britain had ignored intelligence warnings given by Saudi Arabia before the suicide bomb attacks of 7/7 (July 7, 2005) in which 52 people were killed. Abdullah intimated that if Britain's intelligence services had taken note of the warnings, the events of 7/7 would not have taken place.
U.K. government officials issued denials. Information presented on the website of MI5 on April 30th this year stated: "The Saudis provided information about possible planning for an attack in the U.K. which was materially different from the attacks that took place in London on 7 July."
Apart from this controversy, and the inevitable protests about abuses of human rights in Abdullah's feudal kingdom, a report was published on the day of his arrival which has attracted widespread media attention. The center-right think tank called the Policy Exchange issued the results of an investigation into extremist material, much of it provided by Saudi agencies, appearing in British mosques. The 202-page report is entitled "The Hijacking of British Islam: How extremist literature is subverting mosques in the U.K."
Four groups of moderate Muslims had been sent to almost 100 mosques and Islamic establishments in various British regions between 2006 and 2007. In a quarter of these establishments, extremist literature was found. Eighty books and pamphlets were collected, and of these 38 were in English, 36 in Arabic and 6 were in Urdu.
Schools and Charities
The report noted that extremist literature was found in the King Fahd Academy on Bromyard Avenue, Acton, West London. This is directly funded by Saudi Arabia's monarchical regime. This establishment educates children aged from 5 to 16, and has already been exposed several times in the U.K. media for having extremist texts. The Policy Exchange researchers found that the 19th century anti-Semitic forgery known as the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was being described as authentic in one of the school's textbooks. The textbook claims that the tenets of the Protocols – such as using gold and pornography to subvert the masses – have already been implemented by Jews.
As documented in the report (pp 51-58), textbooks produced under the aegis of the Saudi government encourage contempt for non-Muslims. One such text, called "Al-Tawhid" (monotheism) was produced in 2004 by the Saudi Ministry of Education, Learning and Educational Advancement. It states: "One of the great requirements for hating the unbelievers and showing enmity towards them is to stay away from their ceremonies and celebrations." The book advises against "using the solar calendar, because it establishes their Christmas holiday."
A book by the same Saudi ministry, produced in 2006-7, is entitled "Sharh Kitab al-Tawhid" (Commentary on the Book of Monotheism). The Kitab al-Tawhid is the only surviving book written by the founder of Saudi Wahhabism, Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792). The "Commentary" teaches students at King Fahd Academy that if non-Muslims do not convert to Islam, then they must be fought:
"The basis of Islam is the divine unity. This requires bearing witness that 'There is no god but God'; it therefore is incumbent on the people of Islam that their aim in jihad is to guide mankind to Islam, and to enter into it. It is, therefore, preferable to call them to Islam before fighting them, even if the summons had already reached them before that. But if it had not already reached them, it is necessary to summon them before fighting them."
Another book at the King Fahd Academy, aimed at 12-year-olds and produced by the same Saudi education ministry in 2005-6, is called “Al-Hadith wa'l-thaqafa al-Islamiyya” (Prophetic tradition and Islamic culture). This book tells children that women complain too much, are never satisfied by their husbands' "favors," and are weak. It advises against mixing of the sexes socially (khalwat, which is punished in Saudi Arabia by lashes). A book on the Hadith produced by the Saudi education ministry in 2005-6 and aimed at 13-year-olds states: "The Jews and Christians are the enemies of the Muslim, and they will never be pleased with the Muslims."
The Al-Muntada Al-Islami Trust is a registered charity (No: 293355) based in Parsons Green, West London. It was founded in 1986 and though it gains tax-emption from the British government, its area of benefit is "not defined" in its official records. It has branches in 20 African and Asian countries and promotes fundamentalist Islam.
Various books were found at this charity headquarters. One book called "Loyalty and Enmity" (published by Al Firdous Publications in 1993) cites scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyah and Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Shaykh to advise that rulers who do not follow Islamic principles should not be followed. Another publication found at the charity advises: "A true believer loves the believers and takes them for friends, and shows hate towards the disbelievers and does not take them for friends." Yet another book tells readers: "Jihad is considered as the peak of Islam, and of the best acts or worship. Some scholars went as far as considering it as the sixth pillar of Islam."
A book on fatwas, produced by The Permanent Council for Knowledge and Edict Research in Saudi Arabia, was found at the charity. This book advises Muslims not to vote for non-Muslims and states "It is impermissable for a Muslim to seek judgment from a non-Muslim government." The second volume of this publication tells Muslims that they should not take holidays in non-Muslim countries, or to take citizenship in a country such as America, governed by non-believers.
The report notes that the King Fahd Academy has been visited by Prince Charles, and has previously claimed that it has removed books that refer to Christians as "swine" and to Jews as "apes and pigs.". The school caters to 1,000 pupils, and has been in existence since 1978. When Colin Cook, a teacher who had been at the academy for 18 years, filed a complaint for unfair dismissal, some unsavory allegations were made at his tribunal.
Mr. Cook was sacked in December 2006. He claimed that Saudi textbooks described Jews as "repugnant" and Christians as "pigs". He said that he had heard pupils saying they wished to "kill Americans" and also idolizing Osama bin Laden. In January 2007, the female principal of the academy, Dr. Sumaya Alyusuf, claimed that the Saudi curriculum had been dropped. The Policy Exchange report indicates that this has not happened.
In May 2006 U.S. research group Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom published a 39-page report entitled Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance. This examined textbooks created by the Saudi Ministry of Education, and found that these propounded "a belief that Christians and Jews and other unbelievers have united in a war against Islam that will ultimately end in the complete destruction of such infidels." Specific excerpts of passages from the books can be found here.
Following the 2006 publication of the Freedom House report, the Saudi education minister, Dr. Abdullah bin Salih Obeid, held a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in which he claimed that Saudi education was being subjected to root and branch reform. The recent Policy Exchange report indicates that such reforms have not included the Saudi books provided to children at the King Fahd Academy.
It should also be noted that the problem may be happening in at least one Saudi-funded school in the United States. On October 17th of this year, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom published a report. This highlighted concerns about the Islamic Saudi Academy with campuses in Fairfax and Alexandria in Northern Virginia. The report's authors recommended that if the Saudi-funded school did not hand over copies of its textbooks for examination, it should be closed down. The report stated: "Significant concerns remain about whether what is being taught at the (school) promotes religious intolerance and may adversely affect the interests of the United States."
On Monday this week, it was announced that officials from Fairfax County were examining copies of the textbooks at the academy, which educates 1,000 students. The review of the books was requested by County Supervisor Gerald Hyland.
Mosques
The British Policy Exchange report highlights extremist literature, much of it Saudi in origin, which has been found at two British mosques which have prestigious reputations and were built with Saudi funding. These are the Regents Park Mosque (pictured) and the East London Mosque. The Regents Park Mosque (called the Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Center) was built at a cost of $13 million, with funds including a donation of $3.95 million from the Saudi monarchy. It was built on land donated by King George VI in 1944. Construction began in 1969 and the mosque opened officially in 1977. It has been a registered U.K. charity (No: 231920) since 1965.
One of the books found at the Regents Park Mosque was entitled “Four Essays on The Obligation of Veiling.” This states that women "are obligated to stay in their homes and are forbidden to come out from them." It advised: "It is not permissible for a woman to ride in her car alone with a driver that is not a mahram (relative, spouse) to her because this is from the prohibited forms of privacy." The book stated that women should never go out with perfume, nor uncovered. It avowed that Muslim men had the power to force women to wear the veil. Additionally, a woman must cover her feet and even her fingernails when outside the home.
Another book from the mosque is “Fatawa Islamiyah – Islamic Verdicts, volume 1” co-authored by the Saudi Permanent Council. This book reviles Freemasons for their links to Jews, and criticized Sufi Muslims and members of the peaceful Ahmadiyyah sect (who are barred from doing pilgrimage to Mecca). Volume 5 of this book series advocates polygamy, states that a boy as young as 10 can marry, and forbids Muslim woman from marrying a Christian or "other disbeliever." Such a marriage is to be annulled, until the husband proves he has converted to Islam. However, "if he apostasizes after that, his head should be chopped off according to the Hadith: 'Whoever changes his religion, kill him'."
The same book recommends that a Muslim employer who has a Muslim worker who does not pray should first urge the employee to pray. When that fails, the employee should be fired. Volume 8 of the same book's series states: "There are different kinds of Jihad – with one's self, wealth, supplication, teaching, giving guidance, or helping others in good in any form. The highest form of Jihad, however, is with one's life...Jihad with one's life is the highest form."
Volumes 1, 5 and 8 of “Fatawa Islamiyah – Islamic Verdicts” were also found at the East London Mosque on Whitechapel Road. Another text was found at this mosque, with the intriguing title "Women Who Deserve To Go To Hell."
The East London Mosque was completed in 1985. Adjoining this mosque is now a six story community center, which was officially opened in June, 2004. The community center cost $20 million to construct. At least $2 million was donated by Saudi Arabia. When it was opened, the star speaker was a Saudi. Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Sudays (Sudeis) is the senior imam at the grand mosque at Mecca.
Sudeis is a hate-spewing anti-Semite. He has called Jews "the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs" and also "infidels, distorters of [others'] words, calf-worshippers, prophet-murderers, prophecy-deniers...the scum of the human race 'whom Allah cursed and turned into apes and pigs…' These are the Jews, an ongoing continuum of deceit, obstinacy, licentiousness, evil, and corruption..."
The chairman of the East London Mosque is Bangladesh-born Dr. Muhammad Abdul Bari. In 2005, Bari was confronted by BBC journalist John Ware about his invitation of Sudeis to the opening of the mosque's community center. Bari's response to charges that Sudeis condemned followers of other faiths was evasive to the point of dishonesty. Ware asked: "Do I take it that if you were satisfied he had said such things you would not have invited him over?" Bari replied: "Well of course if it was proved that he exactly said this thing that you mentioned then why do you invited people who would be saying like this?" Video of Ware's conversation with the evasive Dr. Bari can be found here.
Dr. Muhammad Bari has, since June 4, 2006, been the head of the Muslim Council of Britain. As I wrote earlier on FSM, the MCB's leadership has acted in an advisory capacity for the Labour government, even though its luminaries have Islamist tendencies. The MCB was co-founded in 1996 by Kamal Helbawy, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, shortly before the Labour Party was elected in May 1997.
There are 400 mosques and Islamic Institutions which claim to be represented by the Muslim Council of Britain. These include mosques and institutions listed in the Policy Exchange report, such as the Muslim Cultural Heritage Center (Al-Manaar) in West London. Here, a book by the Saudi Office for Da'wah in the UK, called "Loyalty and enmity concerning relations between Muslims and non-Muslims" was found. This book states: "it is mandatory to hate and dislike the unbelievers and polytheists, to never ask them for support against the Muslims, to never follow their example in any thing, to never obey them in matters of religion, to never imitate them. Actually it is mandatory to stay far away from them and to separate from them, and to do what is necessary in terms of jihad and its like against their fighters."
Another Saudi book, which claims to be a "gift" from the Saudi King Fahd, was found at the Al-Manaar center. This volume, entitled "Correct beliefs, their opposite, along with the treatise of the Divine presence" argues that it is permissible to kill apostates. Another book at the center, published by the Saudi Ministry of Affairs-funded Office of Da’wah in Britain, is called "Women and their scheming enemies." This argues that among the worst enemies of women are the Jews who "are of all people the keenest on corrupting humanity, and on destroying their beliefs and values. The reason why they work so hard to corrupt humanity is that they cannot see an existence for themselves except through the destruction of others, or corrupting them." The Muslim Council of Britain is affiliated with other mosques listed in the report.
When John Ware compiled his 2005 BBC documentary, he mentioned that the MCB supports a group called the Markaz Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, which has 41 mosques and faith schools under its influence. In 2005 its website claimed that Muslims should "be different from Jews and Christians" whose "ways are based on sick or deviant views." In January this year, a documentary on Britain's Channel 4 showed that at the Ahl-e-Hadith headquarters, the Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham, Saudi-trained preachers incited hatred of homosexuals, contempt for non-Muslims and argued for separation from non-Muslims. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia frequently had video-link appearances at this mosque. Bizarrely, West Midlands Police turned their attentions from the Saudi-trained hate preachers featured in the documentary to consider prosecuting the documentary makers.
The Markaz Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith featured in the Policy Exchange report for having extremist literature on its premises. The book "Correct beliefs, their opposite, along with the treatise of the Divine presence" was found at the Green Lanes Mosque, as well as at the Islamic Center of Edinburgh, Scotland, and at Birmingham's Central Mosque.
The author of the Policy Exchange report, Denis MacEoin, is critical of the Muslim Council of Britain and other similar "representative" bodies for allowing texts of hate to be in the mosques with which they are affiliated. He states on page 7:
"The Government and other authorities should reassess whether it is right to place even a measure of responsibility for the future direction of policy towards Britain's Muslim communities in the hands of groups such as the MCB [Muslim Council of Britain] and the Islamic Foundation in Markfield, which are implicated in this report."
The Islamic Foundation in Markfield, near Leicester, was noted for promoting material by Syed Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979), the Indian-born founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party, an extreme Islamist group with branches in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Maududi's ideas are said to have influenced Sayyid Qutb, ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood. The foundation in Markfield was founded by Khurshid Ahmad, a senior figure in Jamaat-e-Islami.
In July 2006, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Bari welcomed Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Delwar Hossein Sayeedi to the East London Mosque. Sayeedi is a fanatic who has said that American soldiers should become Muslims or die. He supports the persecution of Ahmadiyyahs in his country and has called Hindus "excrement." Bari never explained why he welcomed Sayeedi to his mosque community center, nor has the British government explained why Sayeedi was given a visa. In 2000, Sayeedi's supporters beat up five Bangladeshi elders in Britain.
As was expected, senior members of the Muslim Council of Britain condemned the Policy Exchange report before they had time to read all of its 202 pages. Inayat Bunglawala of the MCB said: "Bookshops sell a variety of publications and we live in an open, democratic society where it is not illegal to sell books which contain anti-Western views." Bunglawala in 1993 described terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman as "courageous," a month before Rahman organized the first attack on the World Trade Center. When Rahman was arrested, Bunglawala said Rahman had only been apprehended because the blind Sheikh had called "on Muslims to fulfil their duty to Allah and to fight against oppression and oppressors everywhere."
Bunglawala has also said that the BBC is "Zionist-controlled". Shortly before 9/11, Bunglawala called Osama bin Laden a "freedom fighter". In August 2005 Bunglawala defended his comment, saying "At the time he was." Bunglawala has also said: "Maududi is a very important Muslim thinker."
It is strange that the MCB has had such a close relationship with the Labour government, considering the nature of its leadership. In August 2006 this group was one of many that signed an open letter blaming the British government's foreign policy for encouraging terrorism and extremism. In June 2006 the MCB had pressured the government to abandon its plans to outlaw forced marriage, even though at least 200 British Muslim girls annually undergo this abuse of their rights.
Dr. Bari's predecessor as head of the MCB was Iqbal Sacranie, who was knighted by Tony Blair in June 2005. Sacranie had said after Salman Rushdie's death fatwa that, "Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him...his mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah...” Malawi-born Sacranie argued in 1996 that Osama bin Laden should be allowed to visit London to preach. At the time, Sacranie called bin Laden an "Islamic scholar." He has called Sheikh Yassin, founder of terror group Hamas, a "renowned Islamic scholar". Sacranie attended a memorial service for Sheikh Yassin, which was held in Regents Park Mosque.
Sacranie condemned the Policy Exchange report, saying: "The majority of Muslims will totally dismiss this because it is written by the Policy Exchange, who have an agenda to denigrate the mainstream of Islam in this country. If there is any material which falls foul of the law, then the law should take its course. We cannot accept messages of hate – there is zero tolerance on that. But it is irresponsible to target religious texts and take them out of context. These texts can be found not just in mosques but in ordinary bookshops – the report overlooks that."
Younes Teniaz of the trust that runs the Regents Park Mosque argued that the bookshop on its premises was run independently. He said: "The bookshop is franchised to a separate organization. These books express their authors’ opinions and not those of the London Central Mosque Trust." The same argument was used when Channel 4 revealed in January that the same bookshop had on sale DVDs which supported armed Jihad and expressed hostility for Christians and non-Muslims.
Birmingham Central Mosque was mentioned in the report. The chairman of this mosque, Dr. Muhammad Naseem, has also condemned the report, even though he allowed extremist preacher Riyadh Ul Haq to be the senior mam at this mosque for years. Ul Haq's sermons argue that Muslims should be separate from non-Muslims. Dr Naseem himself is an extremist. He has argued that homosexuals should be killed. He has also condemned legitimate anti-terror operations carried out in Birmingham.
The Saudi government is using its wealth and influence to fund Muslim schools and mosques around the world. Saudi Education Minister Abdullah bin Salih Obeid appears to have reneged on his 2006 promise to overhaul the literature used in these establishments.
Perhaps the last words should come from Denis MacEoin, author of the report. He states:
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia should also be pressed to give full disclosure as to the extent and character of the support which it provides to a range of Islamic institutions in the United Kingdom. The British Government must demand a far greater level of transparency from Saudi charitable institutions operating in this country - and these should be monitored, regulated and held to public account on a regular basis. Finally, the public must be told whether Islamic preachers and teachers in the United Kingdom are granted diplomatic status, as in the US - and if so, how many of them enjoy this."
"The Government and other authority figures - including politicians, members of the Royal Family and those in positions of influence more generally - need to set a higher standard for their public partners and stakeholder organizations. They must insist that those Islamic partners and stakeholders remove such extremist literature from their midst, even when they did not publish or distribute it themselves. The authorities should also urge that umbrella bodies must not tolerate such materials appearing in locations associated with affiliated bodies. For example, the Metropolitan Police Service and the Association of Chief Police Officers should reassess their willingness to embrace bodies such as the Muslim Safety Forum - the self-designated 'advisory body... on issues concerning British Muslims' - when some of their affiliate organizations have not cleansed their premises of the literature featured here. The terms of engagement with these bodies need now to be re-examined - and a proper audit conducted as to what is to be gained and lost by such engagement."
Author: Adrian MorganSource: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.Date: November 2, 2007
The Saudi government uses its great wealth and influence to fund Muslim schools and mosques throughout the world. FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan gives a shocking account of how widely materials intended to indoctrinate the recipients to radical Islam are disseminated.
Saudi Methods of Indoctrination
By Adrian Morgan
On Monday October 29, 2007, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia arrived in Britain for the beginning of a state visit. His retinue followed in five separate planes. As soon as the monarch arrived, he created controversy by claiming that Britain had ignored intelligence warnings given by Saudi Arabia before the suicide bomb attacks of 7/7 (July 7, 2005) in which 52 people were killed. Abdullah intimated that if Britain's intelligence services had taken note of the warnings, the events of 7/7 would not have taken place.
U.K. government officials issued denials. Information presented on the website of MI5 on April 30th this year stated: "The Saudis provided information about possible planning for an attack in the U.K. which was materially different from the attacks that took place in London on 7 July."
Apart from this controversy, and the inevitable protests about abuses of human rights in Abdullah's feudal kingdom, a report was published on the day of his arrival which has attracted widespread media attention. The center-right think tank called the Policy Exchange issued the results of an investigation into extremist material, much of it provided by Saudi agencies, appearing in British mosques. The 202-page report is entitled "The Hijacking of British Islam: How extremist literature is subverting mosques in the U.K."
Four groups of moderate Muslims had been sent to almost 100 mosques and Islamic establishments in various British regions between 2006 and 2007. In a quarter of these establishments, extremist literature was found. Eighty books and pamphlets were collected, and of these 38 were in English, 36 in Arabic and 6 were in Urdu.
Schools and Charities
The report noted that extremist literature was found in the King Fahd Academy on Bromyard Avenue, Acton, West London. This is directly funded by Saudi Arabia's monarchical regime. This establishment educates children aged from 5 to 16, and has already been exposed several times in the U.K. media for having extremist texts. The Policy Exchange researchers found that the 19th century anti-Semitic forgery known as the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was being described as authentic in one of the school's textbooks. The textbook claims that the tenets of the Protocols – such as using gold and pornography to subvert the masses – have already been implemented by Jews.
As documented in the report (pp 51-58), textbooks produced under the aegis of the Saudi government encourage contempt for non-Muslims. One such text, called "Al-Tawhid" (monotheism) was produced in 2004 by the Saudi Ministry of Education, Learning and Educational Advancement. It states: "One of the great requirements for hating the unbelievers and showing enmity towards them is to stay away from their ceremonies and celebrations." The book advises against "using the solar calendar, because it establishes their Christmas holiday."
A book by the same Saudi ministry, produced in 2006-7, is entitled "Sharh Kitab al-Tawhid" (Commentary on the Book of Monotheism). The Kitab al-Tawhid is the only surviving book written by the founder of Saudi Wahhabism, Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792). The "Commentary" teaches students at King Fahd Academy that if non-Muslims do not convert to Islam, then they must be fought:
"The basis of Islam is the divine unity. This requires bearing witness that 'There is no god but God'; it therefore is incumbent on the people of Islam that their aim in jihad is to guide mankind to Islam, and to enter into it. It is, therefore, preferable to call them to Islam before fighting them, even if the summons had already reached them before that. But if it had not already reached them, it is necessary to summon them before fighting them."
Another book at the King Fahd Academy, aimed at 12-year-olds and produced by the same Saudi education ministry in 2005-6, is called “Al-Hadith wa'l-thaqafa al-Islamiyya” (Prophetic tradition and Islamic culture). This book tells children that women complain too much, are never satisfied by their husbands' "favors," and are weak. It advises against mixing of the sexes socially (khalwat, which is punished in Saudi Arabia by lashes). A book on the Hadith produced by the Saudi education ministry in 2005-6 and aimed at 13-year-olds states: "The Jews and Christians are the enemies of the Muslim, and they will never be pleased with the Muslims."
The Al-Muntada Al-Islami Trust is a registered charity (No: 293355) based in Parsons Green, West London. It was founded in 1986 and though it gains tax-emption from the British government, its area of benefit is "not defined" in its official records. It has branches in 20 African and Asian countries and promotes fundamentalist Islam.
Various books were found at this charity headquarters. One book called "Loyalty and Enmity" (published by Al Firdous Publications in 1993) cites scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyah and Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Shaykh to advise that rulers who do not follow Islamic principles should not be followed. Another publication found at the charity advises: "A true believer loves the believers and takes them for friends, and shows hate towards the disbelievers and does not take them for friends." Yet another book tells readers: "Jihad is considered as the peak of Islam, and of the best acts or worship. Some scholars went as far as considering it as the sixth pillar of Islam."
A book on fatwas, produced by The Permanent Council for Knowledge and Edict Research in Saudi Arabia, was found at the charity. This book advises Muslims not to vote for non-Muslims and states "It is impermissable for a Muslim to seek judgment from a non-Muslim government." The second volume of this publication tells Muslims that they should not take holidays in non-Muslim countries, or to take citizenship in a country such as America, governed by non-believers.
The report notes that the King Fahd Academy has been visited by Prince Charles, and has previously claimed that it has removed books that refer to Christians as "swine" and to Jews as "apes and pigs.". The school caters to 1,000 pupils, and has been in existence since 1978. When Colin Cook, a teacher who had been at the academy for 18 years, filed a complaint for unfair dismissal, some unsavory allegations were made at his tribunal.
Mr. Cook was sacked in December 2006. He claimed that Saudi textbooks described Jews as "repugnant" and Christians as "pigs". He said that he had heard pupils saying they wished to "kill Americans" and also idolizing Osama bin Laden. In January 2007, the female principal of the academy, Dr. Sumaya Alyusuf, claimed that the Saudi curriculum had been dropped. The Policy Exchange report indicates that this has not happened.
In May 2006 U.S. research group Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom published a 39-page report entitled Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance. This examined textbooks created by the Saudi Ministry of Education, and found that these propounded "a belief that Christians and Jews and other unbelievers have united in a war against Islam that will ultimately end in the complete destruction of such infidels." Specific excerpts of passages from the books can be found here.
Following the 2006 publication of the Freedom House report, the Saudi education minister, Dr. Abdullah bin Salih Obeid, held a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in which he claimed that Saudi education was being subjected to root and branch reform. The recent Policy Exchange report indicates that such reforms have not included the Saudi books provided to children at the King Fahd Academy.
It should also be noted that the problem may be happening in at least one Saudi-funded school in the United States. On October 17th of this year, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom published a report. This highlighted concerns about the Islamic Saudi Academy with campuses in Fairfax and Alexandria in Northern Virginia. The report's authors recommended that if the Saudi-funded school did not hand over copies of its textbooks for examination, it should be closed down. The report stated: "Significant concerns remain about whether what is being taught at the (school) promotes religious intolerance and may adversely affect the interests of the United States."
On Monday this week, it was announced that officials from Fairfax County were examining copies of the textbooks at the academy, which educates 1,000 students. The review of the books was requested by County Supervisor Gerald Hyland.
Mosques
The British Policy Exchange report highlights extremist literature, much of it Saudi in origin, which has been found at two British mosques which have prestigious reputations and were built with Saudi funding. These are the Regents Park Mosque (pictured) and the East London Mosque. The Regents Park Mosque (called the Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Center) was built at a cost of $13 million, with funds including a donation of $3.95 million from the Saudi monarchy. It was built on land donated by King George VI in 1944. Construction began in 1969 and the mosque opened officially in 1977. It has been a registered U.K. charity (No: 231920) since 1965.
One of the books found at the Regents Park Mosque was entitled “Four Essays on The Obligation of Veiling.” This states that women "are obligated to stay in their homes and are forbidden to come out from them." It advised: "It is not permissible for a woman to ride in her car alone with a driver that is not a mahram (relative, spouse) to her because this is from the prohibited forms of privacy." The book stated that women should never go out with perfume, nor uncovered. It avowed that Muslim men had the power to force women to wear the veil. Additionally, a woman must cover her feet and even her fingernails when outside the home.
Another book from the mosque is “Fatawa Islamiyah – Islamic Verdicts, volume 1” co-authored by the Saudi Permanent Council. This book reviles Freemasons for their links to Jews, and criticized Sufi Muslims and members of the peaceful Ahmadiyyah sect (who are barred from doing pilgrimage to Mecca). Volume 5 of this book series advocates polygamy, states that a boy as young as 10 can marry, and forbids Muslim woman from marrying a Christian or "other disbeliever." Such a marriage is to be annulled, until the husband proves he has converted to Islam. However, "if he apostasizes after that, his head should be chopped off according to the Hadith: 'Whoever changes his religion, kill him'."
The same book recommends that a Muslim employer who has a Muslim worker who does not pray should first urge the employee to pray. When that fails, the employee should be fired. Volume 8 of the same book's series states: "There are different kinds of Jihad – with one's self, wealth, supplication, teaching, giving guidance, or helping others in good in any form. The highest form of Jihad, however, is with one's life...Jihad with one's life is the highest form."
Volumes 1, 5 and 8 of “Fatawa Islamiyah – Islamic Verdicts” were also found at the East London Mosque on Whitechapel Road. Another text was found at this mosque, with the intriguing title "Women Who Deserve To Go To Hell."
The East London Mosque was completed in 1985. Adjoining this mosque is now a six story community center, which was officially opened in June, 2004. The community center cost $20 million to construct. At least $2 million was donated by Saudi Arabia. When it was opened, the star speaker was a Saudi. Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Sudays (Sudeis) is the senior imam at the grand mosque at Mecca.
Sudeis is a hate-spewing anti-Semite. He has called Jews "the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs" and also "infidels, distorters of [others'] words, calf-worshippers, prophet-murderers, prophecy-deniers...the scum of the human race 'whom Allah cursed and turned into apes and pigs…' These are the Jews, an ongoing continuum of deceit, obstinacy, licentiousness, evil, and corruption..."
The chairman of the East London Mosque is Bangladesh-born Dr. Muhammad Abdul Bari. In 2005, Bari was confronted by BBC journalist John Ware about his invitation of Sudeis to the opening of the mosque's community center. Bari's response to charges that Sudeis condemned followers of other faiths was evasive to the point of dishonesty. Ware asked: "Do I take it that if you were satisfied he had said such things you would not have invited him over?" Bari replied: "Well of course if it was proved that he exactly said this thing that you mentioned then why do you invited people who would be saying like this?" Video of Ware's conversation with the evasive Dr. Bari can be found here.
Dr. Muhammad Bari has, since June 4, 2006, been the head of the Muslim Council of Britain. As I wrote earlier on FSM, the MCB's leadership has acted in an advisory capacity for the Labour government, even though its luminaries have Islamist tendencies. The MCB was co-founded in 1996 by Kamal Helbawy, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, shortly before the Labour Party was elected in May 1997.
There are 400 mosques and Islamic Institutions which claim to be represented by the Muslim Council of Britain. These include mosques and institutions listed in the Policy Exchange report, such as the Muslim Cultural Heritage Center (Al-Manaar) in West London. Here, a book by the Saudi Office for Da'wah in the UK, called "Loyalty and enmity concerning relations between Muslims and non-Muslims" was found. This book states: "it is mandatory to hate and dislike the unbelievers and polytheists, to never ask them for support against the Muslims, to never follow their example in any thing, to never obey them in matters of religion, to never imitate them. Actually it is mandatory to stay far away from them and to separate from them, and to do what is necessary in terms of jihad and its like against their fighters."
Another Saudi book, which claims to be a "gift" from the Saudi King Fahd, was found at the Al-Manaar center. This volume, entitled "Correct beliefs, their opposite, along with the treatise of the Divine presence" argues that it is permissible to kill apostates. Another book at the center, published by the Saudi Ministry of Affairs-funded Office of Da’wah in Britain, is called "Women and their scheming enemies." This argues that among the worst enemies of women are the Jews who "are of all people the keenest on corrupting humanity, and on destroying their beliefs and values. The reason why they work so hard to corrupt humanity is that they cannot see an existence for themselves except through the destruction of others, or corrupting them." The Muslim Council of Britain is affiliated with other mosques listed in the report.
When John Ware compiled his 2005 BBC documentary, he mentioned that the MCB supports a group called the Markaz Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, which has 41 mosques and faith schools under its influence. In 2005 its website claimed that Muslims should "be different from Jews and Christians" whose "ways are based on sick or deviant views." In January this year, a documentary on Britain's Channel 4 showed that at the Ahl-e-Hadith headquarters, the Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham, Saudi-trained preachers incited hatred of homosexuals, contempt for non-Muslims and argued for separation from non-Muslims. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia frequently had video-link appearances at this mosque. Bizarrely, West Midlands Police turned their attentions from the Saudi-trained hate preachers featured in the documentary to consider prosecuting the documentary makers.
The Markaz Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith featured in the Policy Exchange report for having extremist literature on its premises. The book "Correct beliefs, their opposite, along with the treatise of the Divine presence" was found at the Green Lanes Mosque, as well as at the Islamic Center of Edinburgh, Scotland, and at Birmingham's Central Mosque.
The author of the Policy Exchange report, Denis MacEoin, is critical of the Muslim Council of Britain and other similar "representative" bodies for allowing texts of hate to be in the mosques with which they are affiliated. He states on page 7:
"The Government and other authorities should reassess whether it is right to place even a measure of responsibility for the future direction of policy towards Britain's Muslim communities in the hands of groups such as the MCB [Muslim Council of Britain] and the Islamic Foundation in Markfield, which are implicated in this report."
The Islamic Foundation in Markfield, near Leicester, was noted for promoting material by Syed Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979), the Indian-born founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party, an extreme Islamist group with branches in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Maududi's ideas are said to have influenced Sayyid Qutb, ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood. The foundation in Markfield was founded by Khurshid Ahmad, a senior figure in Jamaat-e-Islami.
In July 2006, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Bari welcomed Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Delwar Hossein Sayeedi to the East London Mosque. Sayeedi is a fanatic who has said that American soldiers should become Muslims or die. He supports the persecution of Ahmadiyyahs in his country and has called Hindus "excrement." Bari never explained why he welcomed Sayeedi to his mosque community center, nor has the British government explained why Sayeedi was given a visa. In 2000, Sayeedi's supporters beat up five Bangladeshi elders in Britain.
As was expected, senior members of the Muslim Council of Britain condemned the Policy Exchange report before they had time to read all of its 202 pages. Inayat Bunglawala of the MCB said: "Bookshops sell a variety of publications and we live in an open, democratic society where it is not illegal to sell books which contain anti-Western views." Bunglawala in 1993 described terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman as "courageous," a month before Rahman organized the first attack on the World Trade Center. When Rahman was arrested, Bunglawala said Rahman had only been apprehended because the blind Sheikh had called "on Muslims to fulfil their duty to Allah and to fight against oppression and oppressors everywhere."
Bunglawala has also said that the BBC is "Zionist-controlled". Shortly before 9/11, Bunglawala called Osama bin Laden a "freedom fighter". In August 2005 Bunglawala defended his comment, saying "At the time he was." Bunglawala has also said: "Maududi is a very important Muslim thinker."
It is strange that the MCB has had such a close relationship with the Labour government, considering the nature of its leadership. In August 2006 this group was one of many that signed an open letter blaming the British government's foreign policy for encouraging terrorism and extremism. In June 2006 the MCB had pressured the government to abandon its plans to outlaw forced marriage, even though at least 200 British Muslim girls annually undergo this abuse of their rights.
Dr. Bari's predecessor as head of the MCB was Iqbal Sacranie, who was knighted by Tony Blair in June 2005. Sacranie had said after Salman Rushdie's death fatwa that, "Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him...his mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah...” Malawi-born Sacranie argued in 1996 that Osama bin Laden should be allowed to visit London to preach. At the time, Sacranie called bin Laden an "Islamic scholar." He has called Sheikh Yassin, founder of terror group Hamas, a "renowned Islamic scholar". Sacranie attended a memorial service for Sheikh Yassin, which was held in Regents Park Mosque.
Sacranie condemned the Policy Exchange report, saying: "The majority of Muslims will totally dismiss this because it is written by the Policy Exchange, who have an agenda to denigrate the mainstream of Islam in this country. If there is any material which falls foul of the law, then the law should take its course. We cannot accept messages of hate – there is zero tolerance on that. But it is irresponsible to target religious texts and take them out of context. These texts can be found not just in mosques but in ordinary bookshops – the report overlooks that."
Younes Teniaz of the trust that runs the Regents Park Mosque argued that the bookshop on its premises was run independently. He said: "The bookshop is franchised to a separate organization. These books express their authors’ opinions and not those of the London Central Mosque Trust." The same argument was used when Channel 4 revealed in January that the same bookshop had on sale DVDs which supported armed Jihad and expressed hostility for Christians and non-Muslims.
Birmingham Central Mosque was mentioned in the report. The chairman of this mosque, Dr. Muhammad Naseem, has also condemned the report, even though he allowed extremist preacher Riyadh Ul Haq to be the senior mam at this mosque for years. Ul Haq's sermons argue that Muslims should be separate from non-Muslims. Dr Naseem himself is an extremist. He has argued that homosexuals should be killed. He has also condemned legitimate anti-terror operations carried out in Birmingham.
The Saudi government is using its wealth and influence to fund Muslim schools and mosques around the world. Saudi Education Minister Abdullah bin Salih Obeid appears to have reneged on his 2006 promise to overhaul the literature used in these establishments.
Perhaps the last words should come from Denis MacEoin, author of the report. He states:
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia should also be pressed to give full disclosure as to the extent and character of the support which it provides to a range of Islamic institutions in the United Kingdom. The British Government must demand a far greater level of transparency from Saudi charitable institutions operating in this country - and these should be monitored, regulated and held to public account on a regular basis. Finally, the public must be told whether Islamic preachers and teachers in the United Kingdom are granted diplomatic status, as in the US - and if so, how many of them enjoy this."
"The Government and other authority figures - including politicians, members of the Royal Family and those in positions of influence more generally - need to set a higher standard for their public partners and stakeholder organizations. They must insist that those Islamic partners and stakeholders remove such extremist literature from their midst, even when they did not publish or distribute it themselves. The authorities should also urge that umbrella bodies must not tolerate such materials appearing in locations associated with affiliated bodies. For example, the Metropolitan Police Service and the Association of Chief Police Officers should reassess their willingness to embrace bodies such as the Muslim Safety Forum - the self-designated 'advisory body... on issues concerning British Muslims' - when some of their affiliate organizations have not cleansed their premises of the literature featured here. The terms of engagement with these bodies need now to be re-examined - and a proper audit conducted as to what is to be gained and lost by such engagement."
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