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Jammu And Kashmir poll result leaves Pak media cold and Pak Leader?s Confus
2008-12-29 19:29:00 Jammu And Kashmir poll result leaves Pak media cold and Pak Leader’s Confused From Times of India: For a country obsessed with the K word, the Pakistan English media was spectacularly reticent on the outcome of the Jammu and Kashmir election. Newspapers either ignored it or dismissed it in small news items. The Dawn on Monday carried ...
Nawaz Sharif: Pakistan presenting picture of A Failed State
2008-12-18 21:50:00 Nawaz Sharif: Pakistan presenting picture of A Failed State Thank God some common sense prevails. Today in an exclusive interview with Pakistan GEO TV channel Ex. Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Nawaz Sharif said the country is presenting a picture of a failed state as the entire system of the country seems to be collapsing. Well ...
Muslims plan Gaelic translation of Koran
2008-06-08 18:21:00 The move drew a frosty response from the main Gaelic church in the Western Isles. Rev Iver Martin, the minister of Stornoway Free Church, said: "I wouldn't have thought there would be much of a market for this. I'm not sure that a lot of Gaelic-speaking people would be inclined to read it. Of course, Muslims have the freedom to do what they want, but it's worth pointing out that in many Muslim countries, Christians do not have the freedom to freely read the Bible."
Britain?s phoney war on terror
2008-05-25 20:06:00 We are too concerned with multiculturalism and political correctness to combat the threat of Islamism effectively. After spending time recently with senior Pentagon officials and other Americans involved in counter-terror-ism, I was struck by the global scope of their concerns. Above all I was reminded how different their attitudes are from those of their British counterparts, ...
By: 1913 Intel
Distinguishing Islam and 'Islamism'
2008-05-08 17:45:00 Is it that 'new atheists' like Sam Harris simply don't understand religion (beyond assembling everything bad they know to attack it with), or is the failure to distinguish positive and negative deliberate? read more
By: Ekklesia
Bishop tells Muslims they are in denial
2008-04-25 17:52:00 Muslims were accused of being "in denial" by the senior Christian bishop accused of inflaming anti-Islamic feeling by declaring extremists have made parts of Britain "no go areas" for non-Muslims.
Summary of Geert Wilders? anti-Qur?an film Fitna (SPOILER ALERT)
2008-03-28 05:12:00 This review will largely be a summary of the film. I will make some appraisals, but because I am by no means an expert on the Qur’an or the domestic and international relations history of the Islamic world, I do not feel sufficiently informed to make a great deal of value judgments. Picture of Geert ...
John McCain in Israel speaking on Islamism
2008-03-19 17:57:00 John McCain is in Israel this week winning over conservatives one step at a time. This is great stuff. Here he is speaking with the Jerusalem Post about Islamism and the threat posed to the western world. “If Hamas/Hizbullah succeeds here, they are going to succeed everywhere, not only in the Middle East, but everywhere. Israel ...
Storm Track Disinformation: Jihad, Islamism, and the American Free Press
2008-03-19 16:25:00 From The Gathering Storm Blog “Our enemies are not all we need to fear, we must fear those that refuse to name them”. Susan Duclos Wake Up America If you can?t name the enemy, you can?t fight it and if you can?t name them you can?t REPORT it. There is an excellent article by Jeffrey Imm over at CounterTerrorismBlog. It ...
The Genealogy Of Hate - The Roots Of Anti-Islamism
2008-03-18 11:52:00 (Here is another rather long article on the issue of Islam-West relations. Before reacting to the title or the terms used alone readers are requested to first kindly peruse the piece. I am sure your queries will be answered within the same text. Regards) On March 16, 2001 several youths allegedly attacked two Muslims who were ...
Jihad, Islamism, and Non-Interventionism
2008-03-17 23:45:00 As seen in two recent books by counterterrorism analysts, the ideology of Non-Interventionism is gaining popularity with a segment of the American public. While Non-Interventionist ideology plays off the frustrations of some of the American public with America's handling of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is the wrong answer to the confusion over global Jihad and Islamism . Two recently-released books by counterterrorism analysts offer a panacea of Non-Interventionism ideology: Michael Scheuer's...(read more)
Arab Journalist: 'I Consider Islamism to Be Fascism' [Digg]
2008-03-13 07:05:00 A fascinating interview with an Arab journalist who infiltrated an Al Qaeda cell in France: Mohamed Sifaoui: ‘I Consider Islamism to Be Fascism’.
Jihad, Islamism, and the American Free Press
2008-03-11 00:45:00 In the war with global Jihad , words and definitions matter, and in fighting anti-freedom ideologies, the free press and media should be America's greatest ally. Yet the confused and inconsistent reporting on Islamism and Islamist terrorism is another key fault line in America's struggles with global Jihad. Without a precise definition of the enemy by American political leadership, major segments of the American free press have made their own foreign policy decisions as to who is and is not an enemy,...(read more)
Jihad, Islamism, and U.S. Envoy to OIC
2008-03-01 05:30:00 In the global war against Jihad , America's recurring challenge is the unwillingness of its political leadership to confront the fact that political Islamism is an ideological basis for " Islamist terrorism ", as defined in the 9/11 Commission Report . This week, while operational war tactics garnered most of the headlines, once again America's political leadership ignored the global challenge of political Islamism, and President Bush announced his selection of a new U.S. envoy to the Organization...(read more)
Shocka: NIU Killer had ties to Islamism
2008-02-21 18:51:00 Debbie Schlussel tears the lid off the background of NIU Killer, Steven Kazmierczak After all, how dare I repeat the words of a Muslim reporter in the Chicago Sun-Times who was friends with Northern Illinois University killer Steven Kazmierczak, and said he was a good guy because he spoke Muslim phrases in Arabic with a phony ...
Murder plot against Danish cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard
2008-02-13 00:31:00 JP.DK reports that Early this morning Danish police arrested several individuals of Muslim background suspected of conspiring to kill Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 Danish cartoonists who on September 30, 2005 published cartoons of alleged Muslim prophet. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service had been tracking three of the arrested suspects for a number of ...
Over 130,000 Muslims have demanded that Wikipedia take down depictions of M
2008-02-12 06:14:00 In yet another attempt to make non-Muslims follow the rules of Islam, thousands of self-righteous Islamists have signed a petition pressuring Wikipedia to remove depictions of Muhammed. I would post those pictures here but I don’t want to risk getting sent to the hospital. Are you proud of yourselves, now? A message to Islamists: If you ...
If they?re so concerned about modesty, why do these Muslims think they?re s
2008-02-12 05:28:00 The UK-based Telegraph reports: Muslim medical students* are refusing to obey hygiene rules brought in to stop the spread of deadly superbugs, because they say it is against their religion. Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, ...
Sentenced to death for ?blasphemy? in Afghanistan
2008-02-02 18:03:00 From the Independant-: A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan ? not in Taliban times but six years after “liberation” and under the democratic rule of the West’s ally ...
Jihad, Islamism, and the United Nations
2008-02-02 01:30:00 In the ongoing battle against Jihad , the most important advances are not tactical, but rather those advances that allow us to define, address, and counter the ideology behind Jihadist actions. As the 9/11 Commission report states , "Islamist terrorism is an immediate derivative of Islamism ." (Notes, Part 12, Note 3, page 562) Recently, a little-noticed advance in countering Islamist ideology was achieved in the one of the least likely places of all: the United Nations Human Rights Council ( UNHRC...(read more)
Sharia banking: Not unsecular, but deceitful to Muslims?
2008-01-28 17:41:00 I first heard of the introduction of sharia loan programs at North American banks this past summer. It didn’t bother me, and why should it have? It’s not like having sharia banking options is going to affect the options of others. It’s not like we are all going to have to engage in sharia banking. Some ...
Islamism and Challenges to Resources for U.S. Strategic Planning Against Ji
2008-01-12 20:00:00 As previously discussed, in addressing the strategic planning to fight Jihad, any blueprint strategy for national security must define Jihad, must address it within the national security threat, and must also define a national policy on the ideology of political Islamism. The 9/11 Commission report defines Islamism as follows: "an Islamic militant, anti-democratic movement, bearing a holistic vision of Islam whose final aim is the restoration of the caliphate." Yet the United States still has no...(read more)
The complete Islamic guide to sex!
2007-12-26 11:39:00 Check this out. LMAO! Especially don’t forget to-: ” utter the name of allah before touching ones wifes sexually(Its is sunnah )” On the wedding night.. “It is also an act of Sunnah to hold the hair bangs of the bride and offer a Sunnah supplication, as reported in Hadith, which read as follows: “Oh Allah! I seek ...
Study of British media shows ?demonisation? of Muslims
2007-12-15 19:08:00 A “torrent” of negative stories has been revealed by a study of the portrayal of Muslims and Islam in the media, according to a report published yesterday.Research into one week’s news coverage showed that 91% of articles in national newspapers about Muslims were negative. The London mayor, Ken Livingstone, who commissioned the study, said the ...
Find Your Way to Real Happiness
2007-12-14 04:48:00 Witten by Dr. Bilal Philips 1 April 2007 Please take a moment to think about the answers to the following earth-shaking questions: What is the purpose of life? Can true happiness be attained without knowledge of life?s purpose? Does real happiness and /or purpose lie in mere eating and drinking, sex and procreation; a few enjoyable moments, followed by sudden ...
Islamist terrorists drinking alcohol!??
2007-12-07 23:40:00 Islamists make for poor Muslims. Here’s why; An Islamist’s compound was dynamited in Pakistan, revealing: “small machine guns, pistols, hand-grenades, rocket-launchers, computers and, surprisingly, some liquor bottles.” source Alcohol is clearly forbidden in Islam, yet these inquisitors of Islamic morality and jurisprudence don’t obey their own laws. Hah. It kind of makes sense. In Pakistan, you will often see these ...
Islamists make Islamic Teddy Bears!
2007-12-04 08:33:00 The reasoning of the Islamist’s outrage over naming a teddy bear “Muhammad” has been revealed: there is nothing inherently wrong in teddy bears themselves, it’s just disrespectful to name a Western looking teddy bear Muhammad. Therefore Islamists have made their own versions of teddy bears, which can now be named any Muslim name! The Arab Muslim ...
How Muslims become Islamists
2007-11-12 00:31:00 Natural Geographic’s September issue carried this front cover (click the image below to download the article in discussion): Like every Natural Geographic production, this one was well informed, expansive and authoritative. They covered the issue of Islamism and Muslims in Pakistan, the fight for human rights in a torn country. The reporter explains the reason why many ...
Pakistan Polls and Growing Support for Islamism
2007-11-02 00:15:00 Two recent polls of Pakistanis show that between 60 and 76 percent of those polled seek the growth of Sharia throughout Pakistan, which is a key principle in political Islamism . The enforcement of Sharia throughout Pakistan is the stated goal of the Taliban in Pakistan . The Islamist aspects of these poll findings are not news headlines because America lacks a policy and a coherent position on Islamism . However, these polls are not only informative to American taxpayers funding the Pakistan efforts...(read more)
Jihad, Islamism, and the Challenge of Anti-Freedom Ideologies
2007-10-26 16:20:00 As previously discussed , large segments of America and the West have a continuing dangerous denial on Jihad . But what of political Islamism itself? How does it factor into a blueprint strategy in addressing our national security issues? In the documentary "Islam versus Islamism" , anti-terrorist Muslim Dr. Zuhdi Jasser states: "a majority, I believe, look at the lens of politics through an Islamist lens... if we hand them the mantle of religion that they seek to exploit for their own geopolitical...(read more)
The Threat of Lawful Islamism
2007-10-21 03:40:00 “Islamist Watch”A Project of the Middle East ForumSummary: Launched April 21, 2006, Islamist Watch combats the ideas and institutions of nonviolent, radical Islam in the United States and other Western countries. It exposes the far-reaching goals of Islamists, works to reduce their power, and seeks to strengthen moderate Muslims.Introduction: The Threat of Lawful Islamism Islamists ultimately seek hegemonic control via a worldwide caliphate that applies the Islamic law in full. Afghanistan under the Taliban offers one model of what they would establish globally. Terrorism is one method to advance these projects but it is not the only one. Indeed, the activities of nonviolent Islamists arguably will prove a more effective tactic in the long term. For while the public intuitively understands the threat of terrorism and is mobilized by it, and while states have well-developed institutions (law enforcement, intelligence agencies, the military, the justice system) to protect ...
Storm Track Infiltration: Islamism and Turkey – The First Shoe Drops?
2007-09-26 17:58:00 From The Gathering Storm Blog Ever since a party with deep Islamic roots has won a landslide victory in Turkey’s elections we’ve wondered if the Islamists would try to re-establish a fundamentalist Islamic culture in Turkey’s secular society. Are we starting to see the first shoe to drop? Turkey’s Islamic-leaning prime minister called Wednesday for lifting a ban on women wearing head scarves in universities, a shift in position that is certain to alarm secularists who fear the government is moving to foist a Muslim agenda on the nation. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement at a news conference that he wants a constitutional change to remove the ban comes just weeks after he scored a major political triumph: the election of his ally Abdullah Gul _ a devout Muslim _ as Turkey’s president. The opposition had vehemently opposed Erdogan’s choice of Gul for the influential and highly symbolic post, saying it would open the way for the government to carry ou...
The Mufti, the Nazis, and modern Islamism
2007-09-19 18:54:00 Bryan at Hot Air points to a video in German that talks about the connections of the Mufti and the Nazis during WW2. As Bryan says, it's about: The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem before and during the WWII years, Haj Amin El Husseini, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (founded 1928) aligned with the German Nazis in 1937 and recruited Muslim SS units in Bosnia during the war.And Yasir Arafat was a
By: Tel-Chai Nation
Storm Track Infiltration: Malaysia’s Decent into Islamism
2007-08-24 18:09:00 From The Gathering Storm Blog The political insurgence of up to now moderate Muslim nations goes pretty much unreported by the Western MSM and when those moderate Muslim countries are mentioned, they are painted in a positive light as shinning examples of Muslim living peacefully with other religious sects. Malaysia is one such moderate Muslims nation that is feeling the sword of political jihad. Over a drink of green coconut at what used to be called the Passionate Love Beach until his Islamist party came to power and scrapped the name, state minister Takiyuddin Hassan outlines the victories in the war on sin. To the south, in Kuala Lumpur, the capital, celebrations are starting for Malaysia’s 50th year as an independent state. Its proud achievements are modern universities, a buoyant economy and a respected place in the world as a moderate Islamic nation. Mr Hassan’s party boasts a different set of achievements: banning mini-skirts, chastising unmarried couples and renaming...
How I escaped Islamism
2007-08-12 19:12:00 For almost four years I was on the front line of British Islamism serving as a regional officer in northeast England for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group committed to the creation of a puritanical caliphate. Since leaving in 2005, I?ve been concerned at just how easy it was for me to join a radical Islamist movement ? and why there was hardly any support available when I decided to leave.
Islamism in universities
2007-07-18 08:52:00 Given the headline above you can perhaps see how would-be terrorists would be keen to up their academic credentials. On which topic, I heard Ed Husain on Today this morning repeating the familiar mantra that universities are centres of Islamist recruitment. It was an odd piece, since it seemed to lack any factual peg - except perhaps an op-ed in the Spectator on 4 July. What sloppy stuff.In an age of mass higher education, university attendance is hardly unusual. Given that Islamist extremists have been recruiting for over a decade, where are the campus-recruited terrorists? Medical school, perhaps? Husain by his own account was radicalized before going into higher education.Support came from the likely quarter of Anthony Glees trotted out his line on universities, again with no new evidence.The one example Ed brought forward was a guy whose experience of university had de-radicalized him by exposing him to wider influences. Doh! His claims of hate preaching at SOAS were equally uns...
By: Adrian Monck
Sexual Frustration Driving Muslim Youths to Militant Islamism
2007-07-06 23:32:00 The medieval king who persecuted St. Valentine must have had similar ideas when he banned marriages to get more warriors. He was of the view that married men who had more sex would not be able to make good warriors. His idea was not without a base however, as numerous historical trends and facts would ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Storm Track Disinformation: Islamism ? Mental Illness or Dangerous Ideology
2007-06-30 18:28:00 From The Gathering Storm Blog With the recent attempted terrorist attacks in London and The Glasgow Airport, we will hear more about “Asian men” who are good boys disconnected from their community and most certainly a debate over true Islamic ideals with surface once again. In January of 2007, such a debate raged over the battle for ...
Storm Track Infiltration: The Global Insurgence of Islamism ?Who?s Really R
2007-05-30 17:19:00 From The Gathering Storm Blog I?ve written before of how the Islamist global insurgency threats both non-Muslim and Muslim countries alike and that the struggle today is with the ideology of Islamism not Islam itself. Outside of the mid-East, Muslims have more or less lived in peace within multicultural societies like Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia which ...
Public Broadcaster Pulls TV Documentary on Islamism
2007-04-24 00:27:00 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has dropped a documentary film purporting to show the struggles of U.S. "moderate" Muslims against Islamic extremists from a television series airing this week on more than 300 U.S. public television stations. No sooner had PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) excluded "Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Centre" from the series "America... [read more]
By: Munaeem's Blog
Winds of War: A Statesman Against Islamism
2007-04-08 16:44:00 From The Gathering Storm Blog There?s a joke that says a statesman is a dead politician and Lord know we need more statesmen. That may be funny but this is closer to the truth. A politician has his eyes on the next election. A statesman has his eyes on the next generation. There is a promising statesman in ...
The Intelligent American?s Guide To Islamism
2007-03-24 02:43:00 The current winds of change in the Middle East is a welcome whiff of fresh air in the region, but the hasty promotion of democracy, could plunge the region deeper into the ?dark side?, bringing the Moslem Brotherhood to power in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and elsewhere. While some in Washington are ready to take on this risk, many (of us) liberals in the region, worry about the dangerous unintended consequences. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB?s) (established in Egypt in 1928), is the best organized political force in many Arab countries. It is a radical transnational organization which aims to take over the Islamic world in order to establish a Caliphate, is the best organized political force in many Arab countries. . Such a Caliphate, a religious militarized state will be the base to wage war against the infidel West. And for our own societies, in the Middle East and Arab world, rule by the MB?s would undoubtedly result in: less freedom, increased state-ownership, segregated class-ro...
By: Munaeem's Blog
Factors Facilitating the Rise of Radical Islamism in Sub-Saharan Africa
2007-03-21 09:20:00 On February 12, 2007, a new article was circulated in the Jihadi forums, which sketched very clearly the new direction of the strategy of al-Qaeda or global Jihad, in Africa . The article in Arabic, titled "Al-Qaeda Organization and the African Continent: Past, Present and Future", provides us with an analysis of Africa 's importance for global Jihad. This same article was published in June 2006 by a virtual magazine of supporters of global Jihad ? Sada al-Jihad (Echo of Jihad) ? and was circulated in the Jihadi forums. That article in Arabic, titled "Al-Qaeda is Moving to Africa ", was written by Abu Azzam al-Ansari.According to these articles, al-Qaeda has always been aware of Africa 's importance and since its emergence attempted at "feeling its pulse". The Mujahidin have had a prominent role in North and East Africa . Al-Qaeda's operations also reflect the focus of al-Qaeda in East and North Africa: The US Embassies Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania ; the expulsion of the Americ...
By: Munaeem's Blog
Storm Track Infiltration: Malaysian Muslims March Towards Islamism
2007-02-08 03:22:01 From The Gathering Storm Blog ?If the camel gets his nose into the tent, the whole body will follow.? ? An Old Arab Proverb. Along with Turkey, Malaysia has been looked upon as an example of a moderate Muslim state. But that is changing and the secular vision of Malaysia is being faced with the ?writing on the ... |
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