Saddam Hussein's former southern regional commander, gave the first videotaped testimony confirming that Iraq had WMDs up to the American invasion in 2003 and that Russia helped remove them prior to the war. His testimony confirms numerous other sources that have pointed to Russia's secret alliance with Iraq and the co-ordinated moving of WMDs before the American liberation.
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General Al-Tikriti was known as the "Butcher of Basra" and was a southern regional commander for Saddam Hussein, a friend of his. He defected shortly before the Gulf War but has maintained contacts inside Iraq ever since, including weapons scientists.
He has confirmed in previous interviews that Iraq sent nuclear scientists and technology to Libya in the mid-1990s to continue his WMD programs, and that Syria is the holding place for Iraqi WMD today. He said that he had first-hand knowledge of discussions between Iraq and Syria to send their weapons programs to the other for safe harbor, should either Baghdad or Damascus be threatened with occupation.
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. . . a shocked audience at the Intelligence Summit that he had numerous UK and Ukranian sources track Russian Spetznatz units down into Iraq. It was these Russian special forces who moved the WMD to Syria.
All the pieces fit, the Russians threw sand in our eyes. They moved the WMD across the border while we went digging holes in the desert. Nice allies.
Sudan's Offensive Comes at Key Time Push in Darfur Seen As Effort to Preempt Deployment by U.N.
By Craig Timberg Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, September 5, 2006; A01
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 4 -- The Sudanese government has dramatically intensified the war in Darfur in a bid to finish off a tenacious, three-year-old rebellion before a U.N. peacekeeping force can deploy there, say analysts, rebels and officials from the African Union monitoring mission.
Four months after what was hailed as a groundbreaking peace deal was signed in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, bombing raids on villages and increasingly aggressive ground attacks are allowing government forces to drive back rebels while also pushing tens of thousands of civilians into already overflowing camps.
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The U.N. Security Council last week approved a peacekeeping force of up to 22,500 that would take the place of the African Union troops, but Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has sought to block it from being deployed. Two students were killed and 10 wounded in the North Darfur capital of El Fasher on Monday as troops violently dispersed a rally supporting the deployment of a U.N. force, news reports said.
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British troops find huge cache Friday, 21 July 2006
British Soldiers discovered a significant weapons cache that included sophisticated bomb making equipment, improvised explosive devices, rockets, mortars and hand grenades near Basra on July 18.Story and photo courtesy of British Ministry of Defense
BASRA - British troops in Basra uncovered a large cache of terrorist weapons and equipment in a dawn raid on July 18.
The operation involved Coalition members from Multi-National Division - Southeast, operating in the northeast suburbs of Basra.
The intelligence-led operation was conducted to search property where weapons were believed to be stored in support of terrorist activities.
Early in the operation, British Soldiers were attacked and returned fire. Attacks on the British troops continued from rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds and small arms fire throughout the operation.
The Soldiers discovered a significant weapons cache that included sophisticated bomb making equipment, improvised explosive devices, rockets, mortars and hand grenades.
More than two tons of weapons were seized by Soldiers from the British 20th Armor Brigade.
Three suspected terrorists were detained during the search operation.
No British troops were injured in the fighting.
Brig. Gen. James Everard, the brigade's commander, said the raid was "highly successful" and achieved the objective.
"Multi-National forces will combat the threat from terrorists and this is an example of the measures we will take to meet our commitment," he said.
"Along side the governor of Basra and members of the provincial security council this was our pledge, signed in a writen undertaking. We have made it clear that in support of the Basra Security Plan, we will combat those who attempt to incite sedition and destabilize the security situation. We will take the necessary steps to reach our mutually desired end state."
The attached manual was located by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of an al Qaeda member ’s home. The manual was found in a computer file described as “the military series ”related to the “Declaration of Jihad. "The manual was translated into English and was introduced earlier this year at the embassy bombing trial in New York.
DECLARATION OF JIHAD [HOLY WAR ] AGAINST THE COUNTRY ’S TYRANTS MILITARY SERIES [Emblem ]:A drawing of the globe emphasizing the Middle East and Africa with a sword through the globe [On the emblem:] Military Studies in the Jihad [Holy War ] Against the Tyrants
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In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate PRESENTATION To those champions who avowed the truth day and night... ...And wrote with their blood and sufferings these phrases... -*-The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates..., Platonic ideals..., nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun.
***... Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions and cooperative councils. They are established as they [always ]have been
by pen and gun by word and bullet by tongue and teeth
Pledge, O Sister
To the sister believer whose clothes the criminals have stripped o f f . To the sister believer whose hair the oppressors have shaved. To the sister believer who's body has been abused by the human dogs. To the sister believer whose... Pledge, O Sister Covenant, O Sister ...to make their women widows and their children orphans. Covenant, O Sister ...to make them desire death and hate appointments and prestige. Covenant, O Sister...to slaughter them like lambs and let the Nile,al-Asi,and Euphrates rivers flow with their blood. Covenant, O Sister...to be a pick of destruction for every godless and apostate regime. Covenant, O Sister...to retaliate for you against every dog who touch you even with a bad word.
In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate Thanks be to Allah. We thank him, turn to him, ask his forgiveness, and seek refuge in him from our wicked souls and bad deeds. Whomever Allah enlightens will not be misguided, and the deceiver will never be guided. I declare that there is no god but Allah alone; he has no partners. I a l s o declare that Mohammed is his servant and prophet.
[Koranic verses ]:
“O ye who believe! Fear Allah as He should be feared, and die not except in a state of Islam"
“O mankind! Fear your guardian lord who created you from a single person. Created, out of it, his mate, and from them twain scattered [like seeds ]countless men and women; fear Allah, through whom ye demand your mutual [rights ],and be heedful of the wombs [that bore you ]:for Allah ever watches over you."
"O ye who believe! Fear Allah, and make your utterance straight forward: That he may make your conduct whole and sound and forgive you your sins. He that obeys Allah and his messenger, has already attained the great victory."
Afterward,
The most truthful saying is the book of Allah and the best guidance is that of Mohammed, God bless and keep him. [Therefore,] the worst thing is to introduce something new, for every novelty is an act of heresy and each heresy is a deception.
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The Irreconcilable Wing of Islam believes in a strikingly different world then the one we believe. It is an uncivilized and barbaric world. This wing of Islam, and its adherents and recruits, are irreconcilable because they cannot peacefully coexist with the civilized world. Their views on the role of women, on the application of medieval religious law (the Sha’ria) and religious intolerance (prosecuting Christians) make them irreconcilable with civilization in the modern age.
This ideological wing of Islam is irreconcilable because it does not accept freedom of conscience.
It does not accept freedom of speech.
It does not accept that women are equal in dignity and equal under the law, but instead accords them an inferior status in the life of society.
It does not accept the existence of the United States, with the Iranian regime adherents of the Irreconcilable Wing of Islam constantly fomenting a cheering chorus calling the United States the “Great Satan” and calling for its destruction. Their constantly declared goal is to either destroy or dominate the United States.
It does not accept Israel as a legal state.
It does not accept the inherent dignity of every human life. Instead, it supports the taking of innocent lives--in the name of its ideology--of anyone or any group that disagrees with its world view.
Dutch citizen Theo van Gogh dared to criticize certain practices of the Irreconcilable Wing of Islam and an adherent of this wing killed him in cold blood on the streets of Amsterdam. After first shooting and then standing over a still alive van Gogh who was begging for his life, the killer slit his throat and then stabbed a knife into his chest with a letter attached. The letter contained the following threat: “I surely know that you, O America, will be destroyed. I surely know that you, O Europe, will be destroyed. I surely know that you, O Holland, will be destroyed.”
Should we not assume the fervor of this cold blooded killer is matched by the fervor of the current President of Iran? Should we not then take the Iranian president seriously when he threatens to destroy the United States and wipe Israel off the face of the map?
Because this war is at its core an ideological war, it is more accurate to think of and identify this war as the “Long War”.
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The nation will pause today to remember, September 11. Five years ago we saw a manifestation of evil that was shocking and sobering, as terrorists attacked New York and Washington, DC.
What was it that constituted the specific evil of September 11? It was that some human beings had no regard for the right to life of other human beings. That makes the events of that day more profoundly disturbing than "loss" or "tragedy"; that's what makes them "evil."
Yet is this evil any less if the victims are five inches tall instead of five feet tall, or if the instruments of killing are surgical forceps rather than airplanes?
The evil we fight when we oppose terrorism is merely a reflection of the evil we do. Every day, from coast to coast, our nation's abortion clinics carry out the same evil. Some human beings disregard the right to life of other human beings.
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Iran and Syria are doing all they can to try to re-arm Hizballah despite an Israeli air and sea blockade, Israel said on Thursday. But one expert said that stopping the flow of money to the organization could be just as important as halting the weapons supply.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan spent this week here in the region urging Israel - first from Lebanon, then from Jerusalem and on Thursday from Amman, Jordan - to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon.
Israel imposed the air and sea blockade seven weeks ago at the beginning of the war with Hizballah, to prevent weapons from being transferred to the organization, which is funded and supplied by Syria and Iran.
Now Israel is reluctant to give up that control unless international forces are in place that will control the ports and stop the flow of weapons.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Annan on Wednesday that Israel would not be removing the blockade yet and the government was ready to explain its reluctance on Thursday.
Israel is "deeply concerned" about the continuing efforts of Syria and Iran to re-supply weapons to Hizballah, said Israeli government spokesperson Miri Eisen. Since the ceasefire took affect on Aug. 14, they have been trying to bring in weapons overland since the air and sea routes are closed, she said.
Hundreds of Russian, Syrian and Iranian-made anti-tank missiles were fired at Israeli forces in southern Lebanon during the recent war. Dozens more were captured by Israel unused, Eisen said. It is this kind of weaponry that Hizballah is trying to re-stock, she said.
According to U.N. Resolution 1701, there is an embargo against supplying weapons to any non-governmental group, i.e. Hizballah, (with the exception of the international force).
Israel wants to see the international force, now taking shape in Lebanon, deployed along the 375-kilometer (225 mile) Lebanese-Syrian border as well as manning the air and seaports to prevent weapons from reaching Hizballah.
Prior to the war, Hizballah controlled all cargo at the Beirut airport, one source said. Iran, which shares no border with Lebanon, was free to ship weapons to Hizballah by air and sea. Israel wants to prevent that from happening again.
The Lebanese government has said it does not want international forces to man the border with Syria and insists that it can do the job. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has also voiced his opposition to such a plan.
Israel thinks that the Lebanese government knows about the smuggling attempts but is unwilling or unable to stop it on its own, said Eisen.
Along that border there are nine major legal crossing points, through which trucks carrying missiles and rockets could pass, and there is no border fence, Eisen said. Israel believes a robust international force could help to secure these crossings, she said.
Cut the flow of money
"Iran and Syria will do their best to continue to arm Hizballah," said Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy. "But if they won't have access to money, their ability to hold on to their 'volunteers' will diminish."
If they can't pay the volunteers and sustain their social, medical and welfare organizations, it will also cut down on their ability to recruit, Ehrenfeld said from the U.S. It will also limit their ability [to] pay for propaganda through the media, radio, TV and Internet, to travel, buy false documents and pay for safe houses, she added.
But what might seem like a logical solution for crippling the organization is meeting with resistance.
"The international community, i.e. the U.N. and the E.U. are doing all they can to preserve Hizballah," said Ehrenfeld. (While the U.S. considers Hizballah to be a terrorist organization, the European Union does not.)
But Ehrenfeld argued that although Hizballah has members in the Lebanese parliament, it is not a political party. "Hizballah is the operational arm of Iran and a fifth column inside Lebanon."
The international community should concentrate not only on the effort to disarm Hizballah but to freeze the group's bank accounts, which are also in Lebanon, Ehrenfeld said.
Hizballah funds
During the last six years, experts say, Hizballah used its social outreach to gain popularity among the local population. Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has vowed to help rebuild Lebanon. It is believed he would do so with the financial help of Iran.
Nasrallah said in a television interview earlier this week the millions of dollars in cash that his group is handing out for reconstruction in Lebanon and to help those who are suffering was "clean" money that had no political strings attached that "could jeopardize the national interests" of Lebanon.
But Ehrenfeld said Hizballah is not an independent organization and much of its money comes from criminal activities around the world.
In addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars that Hizballah receives from Iran, the organization also has a booming business in illegal drug trade, counterfeit goods, bank robberies and fraud.
Hizballah runs a flourishing drug trade in the tri-border region in Latin America (Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina) and in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, where Syria is heavily involved in the growing of hashish and production of heroine, said Ehrenfeld, who is the author of "Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It."
In addition, Hizballah is involved in crime, counterfeiting CDs, DVDs and clothing as well as in bank robberies and fraud. Its illegal activities were estimated to net Hizballah some $6 billion annually, about three years ago, Ehrenfeld said.
Hizballah also raises money through charities and Internet websites, although many were closed after Aug. 12, she added.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Treasury designated one of those charities - The Islamic Resistance Support Organization - as a key fundraising organization for Hizballah.
"While some terrorist-supporting charities try to obscure their support for violence, IRSO makes no attempt to hide its true colors," said Stuart Levey, Treasury's Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI).
"IRSO's fundraising materials present donors with the option of sending funds to equip Hizballah fighters or to purchase rockets that Hizballah uses to target civilian populations," Levey said.Linking the group to Hizballah locks the IRSO out of the U.S. financial system by freezing its assets in the U.S. and prohibiting Americans from dealing with the group.
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Al-Qaida Warns Muslims: Time To Get Out Of U.S. Afghan terror commander hints at big attack on N.Y., Washington WorldNetDaily.com
The new al-Qaida field commander in Afghanistan is calling for Muslims to leave the U.S. -- particularly Washington and New York -- in anticipation of a major terror attack to rival Sept. 11, according to an interview by a Pakistani journalist.
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It is the Islamicfascists terrorists' jihads that have vowed to wipe Israel of the face of the earth, have vowed to kill all infidels if they do not convert and, oh, BTW, have prayed for civilization to end in two years.
So who's the world wide threat???
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Originally posted by GG: It is the Islamicfascists terrorists' jihads that have vowed to wipe Israel of the face of the earth, have vowed to kill all infidels if they do not convert and, oh, BTW, have prayed for civilization to end in two years.
So who's the world wide threat???
But it is the Bush Endtimers who are the ones actually trying to fulfill the book of revelations and bring about Armageddon.
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Originally posted by GG: Senators want the prisoner of the mastermind of the 9/11 and other evil atrocities to be treated like Martha Steward:
About the same time Bush announced the US intention to ignore the geneva conventions and start torturing prisoners--not only did the US sell its soul to the Devil--but we started losing people like Pearl and Berg and many others to beheadings.
Those of us who argued against fascism disguised as Bush-style Christianity warned early on that these kinds of things would result--not to mention that future US POW's may very well be subjected to torture.
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Strawberry, desperately you make statements and cannot give factual incidences of any proportionately improper care of Islamic fascists' prisoner. These prisoners of war are generously treated with many comforts, given better food, and awarded more rights than the guards.
I would think you would be grateful for the guards putting their lives on the line for the safety of you and your family.
The Beheadings had NOTHING to do with your accusations.
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But it is the Bush Endtimers who are the ones actually trying to fulfill the book of revelations and bring about Armageddon.
Why do you say this, Strawberry? This is slander and contrived interpretation of scripture that is useful as a weapon for some.
Do you recognize Pope Benedict XVI's call for unity, that ideology of power has given way to terrorism. He points out the "new barbarism that threatens world peace.
Terrorists and their various organizations, are rejecting the best achievements of our civilization.
The fundamental responsibility of political authority is to promote, defend and safeguard the human rights of its people."
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Are Islamicfascists looking out for 'human rights'?
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The Beheadings had NOTHING to do with your accusations.
So it's just a coincidence the beheadings started after Bush publicly announced we would ignore the geneva conventions and after the torture debate resulted immediately thereafter?
Ok, you believe that.
Frankly, any religious group that accepts torture and warmongering is a violent religion.
And no, I am not grateful to any US troop who commits crimes--even if ordered to. They have a duty not to follow illegal orders and instead to report such abuses to other superior officers.
I am grateful to all US troops who perform their duties to the best of their ability within the law, and I also recognize sometimes that war--and war led by incompetent civilians--forces unusual choices on a few troops who then shoudl be considered victims instead of criminals. In that sense, many young people are committing crimes because of a lack of leadership from Washington, and many of these young people in my opinion are victims.
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But it is the Bush Endtimers who are the ones actually trying to fulfill the book of revelations and bring about Armageddon.
Why do you say this, Strawberry? This is slander and contrived interpretation of scripture that is useful as a weapon for some.
Do you recognize Pope Benedict XVI's call for unity, that ideology of power has given way to terrorism. He points out the "new barbarism that threatens world peace.
Terrorists and their various organizations, are rejecting the best achievements of our civilization.
The fundamental responsibility of political authority is to promote, defend and safeguard the human rights of its people."
Zenit.org ZE06092807
Are Islamicfascists looking out for 'human rights'?
Child, most of the terrorists are creations of the people you falsely worship.
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So it's just a coincidence the beheadings started after Bush publicly announced we would ignore the geneva conventions and after the torture debate resulted immediately thereafter?
not having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
not carrying arms openly;
That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
And MUCH much more.
Strawberry, what about the Geneva Convention violations of the beheadings. ARE you equally upset at these killers for violations!!Were you upset that Pope Benedict XVI's life is in danger because of his speech, the burnings, the nun killed, the promises to kill all infidels!!!! Your outrage is terribly misplaced. We have an enemy that has prayed for civilization to end and you want to impeach Pres. Bush. Proportionately, YOU've got a problem.
What about the Catholic Priests that China continually takes into prison falsely charged, tortured, and not released until years of separation and inhumane treaments.
Are you equally outraged? Of course not. You are part of the Bush hating crowd and at all and ANY cost, tear him down; likewise you are tearing down your nation.
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THE TOP 10 REASONS WHY IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE THAT ISLAM ISN'T EXACTLY A RELIGION OF PEACE. By Don Feder 08-28-06
"When you hear of a terrorist incident, is the first thought that pops into your head: Probably some crazy Muslim? Guess what? It probably was some crazy Muslim!
Guessing the religion of those who plant bombs, highjack planes, fire into crowds of civilians, take hostages and murder hostages is the world's ultimate no-brainer.
And yet our leaders, the media and many of us pretend there's absolutely no connection between psychopathic, ideological killers and the religion which exalts the slaughter of unbelievers.
Top 10 Reasons Why It's Quite Possible That Islam Isn't Exactly A Religion of Peace.
#1 -- While it's certainly true that not all Muslims are terrorists, it's equally true that most terrorists are Muslims.
Think about the really ghastly terrorist incidents over the past two decades -- the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing (242 dead), the 1988 Pam Am 103 bombing (259 dead), the 1993 World Trade Center attack (6 dead, more than 1,000 injured), the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Center (86 dead ), the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (291 dead, 5,000 wounded), the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole (17 dead), September 11, 2001 (over 3,000 killed), the 2002 Moscow theater hostage-taking (94 dead), the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis (344 dead), the 2004 Madrid train bombings (192 dead), the 2005 London underground bombings (56 dead) and the 2006 commuter train bombings in Mumbai -- formerly Bombay (at least 200 dead).
In each and every case, the killers were... ? That is correct, sir -- Muslims! What other religion condones savagery committed in its name?
#2 -- Muslims don't play well with other children. Wherever there's religious bloodshed anywhere in the world, it's invariably Muslims versus someone else. Could this be a coincidence?
Israel, Gaza and Lebanon -- Muslims verses Jews. Kashmir -- Muslims vs. Hindus. Kosovo/Bosnia -- Muslims vs. Serbian Orthodox. Nigeria, the Sudan -- Muslims versus Christians. Indonesia -- Muslims vs. Christians. Myanmar -- Muslims vs. Buddhists. The Northern Caucuses -- Chechen Muslims against Russia Orthodox, and so on.
Islam remains what it was at its beginning 1,300 years ago -- a violent, expansionist faith that will tolerate no competitors. What other religion has the concept of jihad (holy war) -- the notion that if you die fighting for Allah you get 72 virgins (exhausting as that must be) in Paradise? Muhammed started by eliminating the competition -- annihilating Jewish tribes in the Arabian Peninsula. More than a millennium latter, it's still business as usual for his successors.
#3 -- For Muslims, violence and threats of violence are always the first resort to any perceived insult or injury.
Recall the Muslim response to Danish cartoons of their beloved prophet. The Danish embassy in Beirut was burned to the ground. There were death threats against the cartoonists and the editors of papers that published the cartoons. (In London, protestors held signs proclaiming "Those who insult Islam should die" and "Europe is a disease. Islam is the cure.")
In rioting in Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 139 died. Protestors were particularly offended by the implication of the cartoons -- that Muhammed and his religion encourage murder and mayhem. The irony of "They say Islam promotes violence? For that they should die!" was lost on demonstrators.
#4 -- Islam is virulently anti-Semitic
Jews have been described as the miner's canary of the world. Those who start with the Jews never stop there. The 20th century's mass murderers -- the Nazis and communists -- saw Jews as a special threat. Hitler killed 6 million Jews -- as well as millions of non-Jews.
The Koran connects genocide to the end times: "The last hour will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, so Jews will hide behind stones and trees and the Stone and the tree will say 'O Muslim, 'O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him." Muhammed called Jews "the descendants of apes and pigs."
Every anti-Semitic canard in history has currency in the Muslim world, including the Blood Libel (that Jews murder non-Jewish children and use their blood to bake Passover matzo) and The Protocols of The Elders of Zion ("exposing" a Jewish conspiracy to subdue humanity).
Jew-hatred is a staple of Muslim rhetoric.
In a recent interview with the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram, Gen. Hamid Gul (former head of Pakistani Intelligence) said Mel Gibson was right, "Jews cause all the wars." Egyptian Mufti Sheikh Ali Gum'a says the war in Lebanon once again exposed the "Hebrew entity" (Israel) as "the bloodsuckers... who prepare matzos from human blood." In Britain, popular Islamic cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal (a Jamaican convert) tells audiences "Jews should be killed... as by Hitler."
When he met John Paul II in 2001, Syrian President-for-Life Bashar Assad told the pontiff that the Jews "try to kill all the principles of divine faith with the same mentality of betraying Jesus and torturing him."
And Adb al-Rahman al-Sudais, sheikh of Mecca's Grand Mosque, in Islam's holiest city, calls Jews "the scum of the earth," and calls for the genocide of a people who are, in the sheikh's words, "an ongoing continuum of deceit, obstinacy, licentiousness, evil and corruption."
Muslims really have a hard time deciding whether the Holocaust: 1) Never happened 2) Is grossly exaggerated or 3) Didn't go far enough.
#5 -- Public Opinion In The Muslim World is Scary.
Muslim public opinion can be summarized as acid hatred, chauvinism and revenge fantasies -- leavened with paranoia. In the 5 years since 9/11, polls consistently show that, irrefutable evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, worldwide, a majority of Muslims believe the World Trade Center attack couldn't possibly have been committed by Arab Muslims.
Naturally, they attribute the crime to "Zionists." If someone wrote a book titled "How To Fly a Plane Into A Skyscraper Whilst Using Human Blood To Bake Matzos: A Zionist Training Manual," it would top the Tehran Bestsellers List.
#6 -- Generally, the more Muslim a nation, the more lunatic and dangerous it is.
Think Iran. Think Saudi Arabia. Think Afghanistan while the Taliban was in power.
Think of the fate of women in these regimes -- consigned to the status of breeding stock. Think of their attitudes toward democracy, civil liberties and minority rights -- No way, Jamal.
As a rule, the more a nation is governed by Islamic law and customs, the more it hates the West, supports terrorism (Iran's support for Hezbollah, Syria's support for Hamas, Al Qaeda training camps in Taliban Afghanistan. Radical mosques in the US financed by the Saudis), and covets weapons of mass jihad (witness Iran's nuclear program).
If Islam is the religion of peace, where is its St. Francis of Assisi, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa? Where are the Islamic equivalents of the Quakers and Jehovah's Witnesses?
Far from making rulers more enlightened, Islam specializes in the mass production of Ayatollah Khomeinis, Osama bin Ladens, Mullah Omars, Hafez Assads and Saddam Husseins.
#7 -- When a young Muslim becomes more involved with his religion, his thoughts often stray to suicide bombing.
#8 -- Islam isn't minority friendly.
In Freedom House's 2006 Global Survey, of the 8 countries with the worst human rights records, 5 are Muslim -- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Libya, Syria and Sudan. The other three -- Cuba, North Korea and Burma -- are communist dictatorships. Cuba and North Korea are frequently aligned with radical Muslim regimes.
Islam has the concept of the dhimmi (non-Moslem living under Islam), which is several steps below blacks in the Jim Crow South -- though slightly better than Jews in Nazi Germany.
#9 -- Where Have All The Moderate Muslims Gone -- Long Time Passing?
If suicide bombers are radical Muslims, apologists for suicide bombers must be moderate Muslims. (In a letter to Tony Blair following the unraveling of the latest plot, 40 Muslim community leaders -- including six members of Parliament -- claimed Britain's foreign policy gave "ammunition to extremists.")
If someone slaughtered hundreds of innocents in the name of Christianity, everyone from the Pope and Billy Graham to your parish priest or local pastor would denounce the crime as an obscenity -- without reference to the fall of Constantinople.
Hardly a day goes by that evil isn't perpetrated in the name of Islam somewhere in the world. When it comes to denouncing same, moderate Muslims are mostly AWOL.
# 10 -- Islam is bent on global conquest.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." -- Omar Ahmad, founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
"Islam will return to Europe. The conquest need not necessarily be by the sword. Perhaps we will conquer these lands without armies. We want an army of preachers and teachers who will present Islam in all languages and all dialects." -- Dr. Al-Qaradawi, Egyptian-born, Qatar-based spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"The Muslims are required to raise the banner of jihad in order to make the Word of Allah supreme in the world." -- posting on the website of the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi government. (These oil-rich fascists control roughly 80% of U.S. mosques.)
"Islam is advancing according to a steady plan, to the point that tens of thousands of Muslims have joined the American army and Islam is the second largest religion in America. America will be destroyed. But we must be patient." -- Saudi Professor Nassar bin Suleiman al-Omar on
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