...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Cry “hammock!” and let loose the dog days of summer: It’s that time of year again—my annual final week of August vacance. I’m signing off for the rest of the month, and hope to be back on Labour Day or shortly thereafter (depending on how quickly I can get my act in gear). See y’all then.
Amanpour’s shameless apologia for Islam: Phyllis Chessler demolishes Christiane "Useful Idiot" Amanpour’s appalling exercise in moral equivalence and insult to our intelligence--her three part CNN documentary about religious extremism:
In her three part series, Amanpour is far more combative and confrontational with both Jewish and Christian religious leaders than she is with Muslim leaders. She is warmer, softer, more "at home," with even the most extreme of Islamist leaders, perhaps even more respectful, than she is with their allegedly Jewish or Christian counterparts.
Amanpour completely fails to make the distinction between Islamists who teach hatred of infidels and women and who blow infidel and Muslim civilians up (as well as honor-murder their own women); Israelis who are under perpetual terrorist seige and who are trying to defend themselves against Islamist attacks; and conservative Christians who are trying to moblize votes, change laws, or win hearts and minds with words, not bombs (although she certainly has lots of footage of the bloody bombings at abortion clinics--bombings I personally abhor and mourn--as do many Christians).
Amanpour wants us to like Muslims--even the most extremist among them. They are human, prick them will they not bleed? But she does not want us to like Christians or Jews, especially those who are Zionists.
Amanpour does not seem to show the same respect towards conservative Christians who wish to dress modestly, remain chaste until marriage, and avoid a secular culture of rampant pornography and rape as she shows their far more extremist counterparts in the Islamist world or than she shows, at great length, one well-spoken Muslim-American woman who decides to "cover."
In one instance, Amanpour accuses Ron Luce, a Christian leader of teenagers, as being like the Taliban. He actually answers Amanpour in a rather charming, disarming way. She will not be moved. Amanpour herself takes no stand on what Luce says about an American secular and popular culture which allows virgin teenager
Perhaps Amanpour can't forgive these "radical" Christians their support for
Amanpour again returns to former President Jimmy Carter--this time to have him tell us that he had to break with evangelical Baptists over their sexist position on women in the church. Carter who believes that
Amanpour has a definite political agenda--no less so than the Christian conservatives whom she attacks for daring to conduct "stealth politics, under the radar" when they engage in Christian voter drives. Amanpour wants to put a Democrat in the White House. She wants someone there who will move against the so-called Israel Lobby and who will finally stop funding
Yes, our ethnically super-trendy, British-accented war correspondent really wants exactly this. And she wants us to see that such right-wing Christians are no different than Islamists, including Bin Laden, who want a world Caliphate. (We are all the same, all cultures are equal, remove the mote from your own eye before you judge anyone else, etc.)
To accomplish her goal, Amanpour presents Christian conservatives as truly scary, as mounting a Crusader-like Army against liberal secular
By the end of her third and final segment we are meant to fear and loathe the Christian conservative right far more than we are meant to fear or loathe Amanpour's Amadinejad whom --incredibly--she never accuses of funding Hezbollah's terrorist work abroad. What she mainly shows us in
Her third segment is one long running advertisement for a Democratic candidate for the next Presidency. She is electioneering as hard as she accuses the Christians of doing.
The mullahs tighten the noose: Word is that the lit’ler Hitler and the mully-bullies are so despised on their home turf that any moment now the fed-up, put-upon populace is about to rise up and throw the blackguards out.
Faint hope, I’d say. It’s awfully hard to rise up when the merest peep of dissent can land you an appointment with the Shia hangman, one of the busiest chaps in the land. From the Telegraph (which, amusingly, refers to the pint-sized Shia-Nazi as “Mr” Ahmadinejad):
Stonings, hangings, floggings, purges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might claim that United Nations sanctions can't hurt his country, but that is not how it feels for
The most visible manifestation of the new oppression sweeping
It's the same kind of argument that was used immediately after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took control to purge the country of its prosperous, secular middle class and secure his hold on power. Now Mr Ahmadinejad is adopting similar tactics in a desperate attempt to keep his embattled regime in power.
Although
The location of the cranes, at a busy thoroughfare surrounded by office blocks, was chosen as much to remind the diplomatic community that Mr Ahmadinejad's hardline regime was still very much in charge as to send a message to ordinary citizens.
For these public executions, together with the estimated 30 others that have taken place in other parts of the country, are nothing more than a brutal exercise in political, as opposed to religious, persecution. There have also been several public floggings carried out on men and women accused of flouting the strict morality laws. Many of the executions were shown live on Iranian television. The message the government wants to get across is clear: mess with us and this is what will happen to you.
However much the authorities insist the sentences relate only to their campaign to improve public morals, Western diplomats in Teheran believe many of the victims have been singled out for their participation in the anti-government fuel riots that erupted in late June.
Those disturbances, in which an estimated third of the country's petrol stations were destroyed by protesters angry at the introduction of fuel rationing (Iran, remember, boasts the world's second largest oil reserves), can be seen as a direct consequence of the sanctions imposed by the United Nations over Iran's controversial nuclear programme…
So much for the oppressed Iranians being the agents of regime change, at least for the time being.
The siren call of jihad: David Horovitz writes about The Islamist, a book written by someone who was well down the road to martyrdom but who, fortunately, managed to take a detour. The same can not be said of friend, the young Brit who strapped on a bomb for Allah and blew up a Tel Aviv
On April 30, 2003, Asif Hanif, 21, achieved the notorious feat of becoming Britain's first suicide bomber, killing Ran Baron, Dominique Hass and Yanai Weiss and wounding 60 others when he detonated his explosives to murderously shatter the mellow peace of Mike's Place, the Tel Aviv
Ed Husain knew Hanif, and remembers him as "a teddy
Both men had been studying Arabic in
"The Asif I knew did not believe in killing innocent civilians in
Had Husain not so starkly changed course, he might have wound up as murderously transformed as Hanif. For Husain had traveled along the same route to indoctrination. He too had been well on the way to persuasion, over years of deepening immersion in the prevalent victim-aggressor culture of perverted Islam, that it was God's will, Allah's will, for his soldiers to kill the infidels - Jews, Christians, even nonextreme Muslims - to establish an all-powerful Islamist state.
Husain's book, recently published in the
Husain himself was thus instrumental in the trend that saw Islamist separation politics rise and thrive; hatreds inculcated among thousands of recruits against nonbelievers and against Britain; the adoption of Islamic clothing by female students on campuses, open confrontation with utterly overwhelmed and impotent college authorities and, in what was for Husain a climactic, epiphanic incident, a murder just outside the grounds of his own Newham College for which he holds himself partially, indirectly responsible. "It was we who had encouraged Muslim fervor," he writes, "a sense of separation from others, a belief that Muslims were worthier than other humans."…
I think Ed is being too hard on himself. The Muslim fervor and sense of superiority he speaks of isn’t something he, his late friend and other impressionable young lads came up with on their own. It’s all there, chapter and verse, in the perfect, uncreated word of God as text messaged to the Islam’s founder, the world’s first—and still most influential—jihadi.
Backlash on campus:
“The main thrust of the meeting was strategizing ways they could get the university president to rescind his statement and get back at him through some sort of popular movement [for making his statement]. They seemed quite comfortable with using RSU resources and staff for this pro-Palestinian movement,” said a Canadian Federation of Jewish Students’ official who attended, who asked to remain anonymous.
“It’s like you know exactly what happened, like you talked to someone at the meeting,” Kere said, when asked to confirm whether the idea for the motion came from this meeting.
Kere, although she wouldn’t confirm or deny it, is alleged to be an active member of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), but insists she is not anti-Israel and that the motion was drafted because Levy did not consult students before speaking for the university on such a large issue.
However, she did not consult students to find out what they thought before drafting the resolution either.
“There was no consultation needed for such a motion because we weren’t pushing a position we were simply asking that before any statement be made, consultation happen. There are certain decisions I am entrusted with as an elected official and I think student’s need to be asked [what they think by the university] before a statement is made.”
However, there is one member of the Ryerson community who wishes they were consulted about the motion. An anonymous letter to the Jewish Tribune reads: “I don’t think that my students’ union has the right to take this sort of position on behalf of the students of Ryerson – many of whom are Jewish – the majority of which would be offended to have their students’ union support antisemitism. I think that this decision is motivated by bigotry and arrogance and will create a chill on campus so that Jewish students don’t feel welcome. It will be very divisive and we don’t want what happens at
RSU President Nora Loretto agrees that students should have been told about the motion.
“I think it’s kind of bizarre that we don’t get direction from the membership on this and this issue is so big that we definitely need it,” she said.
She added that this year’s executive is more divided than in previous years.
The motion was not tabled at the last board meeting due to a lack of a quorum, but it was expected to be tabled again at the next meeting on Aug. 22.
It’s nice to see that RSU Academic Council Director Saron Ghebressallassie is continuing her career of activism on behalf of progressive causes—and has now turned an eye toward what Canadian Arabs have isolated as a crucial global challenge. During her previous incarnation, as education and campaigns co-ordinator for the Ryerson Women's Centre, the highly motivated Ms. Ghebressallassie tended to concern herself with local controversies—like the woeful condition of tampon dispensers in Rye High’s chick washrooms.
Pilger—the man and the verb: Pernicious anti-Zionist John Pilger—who, like all pernicious anti-Zionists, exists in an alternate reality wherein Jews are Nazis, Palestinians are innocent, victimized Yids and there’s no discernable jihad—is ecstatic that the world has finally come to its senses (in reality, lost its marbles) and signed on to the boycott of Israel. From hard left
From a limestone hill rising above Qalandia refugee camp you can see
"How do you feel about all that?" I asked him.
"Do you expect me to feel hatred? What is that to a Palestinian? I never hated the Jews and their
That was 40 years ago. On my last trip back to the West Bank, I recognised little of Qalandia, now announced by a vast Israeli checkpoint, a zigzag of sandbags, oil drums and breeze blocks, with conga lines of people, waiting, swatting flies with precious papers. Inside the camp, the tents had been replaced by sturdy hovels, although the queues at single taps were as long, I was assured, and the dust still ran to caramel in the rain. At the United Nations office I asked about Ahmed Hamzeh, the street entertainer. Records were consulted, heads shaken. Someone thought he had been "taken away . . . very ill". No one knew about his son, whose trachoma was surely blindness now. Outside, another generation kicked a punctured football in the dust.
And yet, what Nelson Mandela has called "the greatest moral issue of the age" refuses to be buried in the dust. For every BBC voice that strains to equate occupier with occupied, thief with victim, for every swarm of emails from the fanatics of
The ethnic cleansing of
But something is changing. Perhaps last summer's panoramic horror
The greatest moral issue of the age, huh? I thought the greatest moral issue of our age was whether the West had gumption enough to stand up to the Islamic supremacists. But then, I’m not a sagacious Elder, like old Nelson; nor am I a useful idiot determined to pilger (i.e. to pillory, smear, delegitimate) the one democracy—and the one bright spot—in the entire Islamo-loopy Middle East.
Read between the lines (and the lyin'): The countdown to
""We have in front of us… a work plan. We agreed on modalities on how to implement it. We have a timeline for the implementation,"" IAEA deputy director Olli Heinonen said after the talks, which he said were ""good, constructive.""
""I think this was an important milestone,"" he told a press conference. ""But this process will take its time.""
Heinonen said work would start swiftly on implementing Tuesday's agreement, with activities later this month as well as in September and October. Details of the deal would be included in a report for the IAEA board by early September.
Javad Vaeedi, the head of the Iranian negotiating team, also said the two sides agreed on a framework to resolve the ambiguities.
""The talks produced very great results and constructive progress,"" he added.
""We came up with a working plan on how to address the remaining issues,"" AFP quoted Vaeedi as saying.
In the modality plan, each subject will be investigated by a particular date, he explained.
“Our desire to answer the remaining questions is serious.”
On the details of the modality plan, he said issues such as inspection of the Arak heavy water facility and the drafting of a plan for the inspection of the Natanz enrichment facility have been included in the agreement.
The two previous rounds of talks, in
Well, as long as the mully-bullies and the IAEA are getting along better—that’s all that really counts.
A tale of two women: Not long ago the Canadian Islamic Congress went ballistic over the news that historian Bat Ye-or would be speaking at a conference sponsored by the Fraser Institute. And no wonder. Bat Ye’or has arguably done more than anyone else to shed light on a dark corner of history—Islam’s jihad against infidels and its ignominious treatment of dhimmis, conquered Christians and Jews. To add insult to injury (in CIC eyes, anyway), in her book Eurabia she documented the EU elites’ wholesale sell-out of Western civilization to the Arab world.
The CIC doesn’t like Bat Ye-or; not one little bit. But there is a wench who is far more to their taste: Yvonne Ridley, a British journalist who “reverted” to Islam when she was kidnapped by some ardent true believers, and a key member of George Galloway’s Islamo-Fascist Respect Party. The CIC is so thrilled to have the lovely and talented Yvonne in the fold that it is featuring her at some upcoming fund-raisers, and is promoting the events on its website:
How many times have we heard; "Where were you on 9/11?" Yvonne Ridley is certainly no stranger to one of the most loaded questions of our time. And in large measure, she chose to answer it not with the expected blow-by-blow reportage of a veteran journalist but with Ticket to
The immediate logical approach would say that you can't properly analyze a historical event -- especially one of this magnitude -- by portraying the interwoven lives of fictional people. But after reading Ticket to
For each of us, the day that changed our world forever is etched into our minds by the image of World Trade Centre twin towers burning like ghastly torches over the ravaged skyline of
As a journalist, Yvonne Ridley was profoundly affected -- both personally and professionally -- by 9/11 and its fear-driven global aftermath. She became oddly famous not long after, getting herself captured by the Taliban while trying to work under cover (literally ... in a burka) in
But 9/11 itself was the ignition and momentum for her rather clumsy donkey ride into Taliban territory and subsequent international emergence as one of the most outspoken and proactive freed hostages of modern times (to the everlasting embarrassment of the British government!). During her days in captivity, in which she seriously dialogued with her keepers about the real truths of Islam, and the months following her media-splashed return to Britain, Ridley studied the people of the faith as intensely as the Qur'an itself, along with the tawdry international sub-politics of contrived warfare.
With her vast experience and ability at sifting mountains of raw news data to see the core of a story, she could have become a non-fiction expert and contributed yet another volume to the growing monument of "think tank literature" that will surely make 9/11 the most documented event of this century. But like such illustrious precursors as James Michener or Edwin Rutherford -- whose lengthy fiction odysseys have inspired many to study the factual events that inspired them -- Yvonne Ridley's shorter but no less insightful tale gives feet to real-world events and weaves a complex but accessible series of personalized responses around them.
I won't tell you the plot of how feisty London reporter, Judith Tempest, narrowly avoids marriage to an obscenely rich, charming and ethically empty New York lawyer; becomes romantically involved with a mysterious Muslim stranger; fights (and usually wins) battles with narrow-minded and self- absorbed editors; is followed by several sets of spying eyes; questions her faith and wrestles with the tensions between religion and culture; or how she is finally caught up in a surprising and shocking denouement.
What I've listed above are merely the ingredients. What Yvonne Ridley has accomplished in Ticket to
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Fun for the whole mishpacha.
The Western Standard posts an open letter from some
“Yvonne Ridley is coming to
“A commentator for Britain’s Islam Channel, where she is responsible for political issues, she is a founder and frequent candidate for the Respect Party, a deviant coalition of leftists, fundamentalist Muslims and Islamists. Yvonne Ridley supports, in its essence and entirety, the ideological program of radical Islam and defends even today the very Taliban against which the Canadian Forces is fighting a just and necessary combat.
“Ridley is also the
“Why do the Iranian governmental authorities not stop her from lionizing Abu Hamza al-Masri, the openly Jihadist Imam at
“Why do the Iranian authorities not reprimand her for calling on the British Muslim community to stop co-operating with the police in any security investigation? Why don’t they reproach her for having called Chechan Shamil Basayev, who perpetrated the horrific Beslan school massacre, a ‘martyr’?
“Why do the Iranians not oppose her eulogies to suicide bombers? Why are they not vexed that this ‘journalist’ expresses open sympathy for notorious terrorists, like Jordanian Abu Musad al-Zarqawi?
“Why? Because Yvonne Ridley plays the game for the enemies of the West and the friends of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!
“We, the undersigned demand that the Islamic Congress of Canada publicly disassociate itself from Yvonne Ridley and manifest clearly to the Canadian and Quebec public its refusal to offer any form of support — direct or indirect — for Islamist terrorism." (The Suburban)
That Mo Elmasry sure can pick ‘em.
Another cautionary tale: If you don’t pay attention to what’s happening under your very nose, pretty soon a humungous mosque will come to dominate the landscape. From Expatica:
The Turkish mosque association Ditib said the mosque's two minarets would be 55 metres high, although some modifications would be made to the original design of the complex.
Architect Paul Boehm said reducing the height of the minarets would have left them out of proportion with the rest of the building and surrounding structures, such as a television tower and a high- rise block.
The Muslim minority has been facing vehement criticism in the city where there is a strong opposition to the 40-million-dollar (30- million-euro) mosque covering an area of 20,000 square metres.
The most widespread criticism has been that the proposed building would be too dominant. Plans call for it to have a 35-metre glass dome, space for 1,900 worshippers and a community centre with shops well as offices and a restaurant.
Boehm said the minarets would be more abstract and less traditional due to "organic changes in the dome-shaped construction of the mosque's prayer room."
Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma had originally welcomed plans by Ditib to consider shortening the height of the minarets as a "first and an important step."
He said many city residents still had difficulty accepting the size of the mosque's domed roof in
A recent survey of city residents by Omniquest pollsters showed 36 per cent favoured the original design, 31 per cent opposed the project and 27 per cent said they would accept a mosque on a smaller scale.
Ditib, backed by the Turkish ministry of religion, is a a major builder of mosques for ethnic Turkish Muslims in
Ralph Giordano, a novelist of Jewish origin with atheist views, has been one of the most vocal critics of the project. He said last month that mosques were "popping up like mushrooms and named after Ottoman conquerors."
He has also called on Muslims to learn secular values and integrate into German society.
Giordano received death threats for his criticism, but these were condemned by Ditib, which claims to represent a large section of the 3.2 million Muslims resident in
Why would Muslims want to learn secular values and integrate into German society when they can build immense palaces for Allah and remain exactly as they are?
You get what you pay for: Ontario Conservative leader John Tory is running on an agenda of extending public funding to religious schools in the province; currently, Catholics are the only ones who have the tab for their schools picked up by the government. FrontPage Magazine offers a cautionary tale about what can happen when public coffers are opened and shared with an Islamic school—the public ends up financing an anti-social religious curriculum:
…The Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), a publicly funded Arab language children’s school, is set to open its doors next month, on
The KGIA Advisory Council is made up of a group of area leaders. One of the advisors is Talib Abdul-Rashid, the imam of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood (MIB), located in
Allah is our goal
The Prophet Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah is our leader
The Qu’ran is our constitution
Jihad is our way
And death in the way of Allah is our promised end.
Reading the above passage, apart from its English translation, one would think that they were in Cairo, Egypt or Lahore, Pakistan, as it is straight out of the text of the Muslim Brotherhood founder’s, Hasan Al-Banna’s, treatise, ‘The Message of the Teachings.’ It is these exact words that have been the impetus for violence in the Muslim world for generations and the inspiration for scores of terrorists from Hamas, Al-Qaeda and the like. However, this author’s source for this is not Middle-Eastern or South Asian. No, it was written in the “About” section of the website for Abdul-Rashid’s mosque.
According to the site, the mosque, MIB, was founded in 1964, after Malcolm X departed from the Nation of Islam (NOI), the anti-Semitic hate group that is today run by Louis Farrakhan and his disciples. Abdul-Rashid became the imam of the center in 1989. Prior to that, he was receiving accolades for his leadership skills as a Cub Scout Master, and by the time he took over as imam, MIB’s Boy Scout program – Unit 357 – was well established. But what would seem to be a wholesome American pastime, when combined with Radical Islam, could be a recipe for disaster.
Unlike most Boy Scouts, MIB’s troop wore patches containing the Sword of Islam, a symbol of armed might. In time, the children got older, and MIB Boy Scout Troop 357 became Sea Explorer Ship 357, utilizing the SUNY Maritime Campus at
Was this just honest recreation or was/is it something more?
The MIB website was created in October of 2006. It was last worked on in December. This means that the material on it has been up for at least eight months, which encompasses more than the entire time that intentions of the new KGIA were announced to the public. When the founders of the school were picking an Advisory Council, one would think that they would have thoroughly researched the backgrounds of those they would soon entrust with their children’s well being. That is, unless those involved with the school had other intentions.
Even before Debbie Almontaser resigned, concerns about Khalil Gibran International Academy were understandable. Now that it has been revealed that one of its advisors heads a Muslim Brotherhood-oriented mosque with possible combat training, how can KGIA move forward? Unless they’re considering converting the school to an Islamist military academy, common sense would say it can’t…
Tell me, Mr. Tory: what safeguards will be in effect to prevent a Khalil Gibran-type school from sucking at the public teat in
Arrrrgh!: Jihad on the high seas.
Flying chazer moment: A Ceeb report about Israel that isn't snide, scolding or in lockstep with hard Leftoid loathing for the Jewish state; a report that--be still my racing heart--is actually kind of positive.
Wonders never cease.
The King sings: If Hizb ut-Tahir and the other Islamic supremacists have their way, the world will be presided over by a Muslim strongman—the caliph.
Here’s the caliph-to-be—whoever he is—proclaiming his caliphate to the tune of an old Roger Miller number. (All you dhimmis, start snapping your fingers now—or else):
Jihad has been the key—
Our juggernaut’s been hailed.
Now ev’ry chick's been veiled.
Ya know, a caliph’s what I am.
Hey there, you, put down that ham.
I’m a man of laws with no flaws,
King of the world.
Knew that it’s a cinch we'd win.
Allah, he sure came through
Just like Mo foretold he'd do.
We flog those who defy sharia.
I’m a man of laws with no flaws,
King of the world.
I know every dhimmi chief
In every land.
All of their children
Now heed my command.
And every kafir who’s not of “the book”
If they don’t fit and won’t submit
Well, their goose is cooked.
I sing, jihad has been the key—
That and lots of treachery.
Our juggernaut’s been hailed.
Now ev’ry chick's been veiled.
Ya know, a caliph’s what I am.
Hey there, you, put down that ham.
I’m a man of laws with no flaws,
King of the world.
Yes, I’m
King of the world.
CAIR’s decline: Things had been going so well for CAIR. Its spokesman, “revert” Ibrahim Hooper, got plenty of airtime on mainstream media outlets like CNN. It had managed to downplay its supremacist agenda such that it was seen as a “moderate” advocacy group—the Muslim equivalent of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League. Folks down in
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it's suffering a decline in membership and fundraising and blames the Justice Department for listing it as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Texas case against a charity accused of ties to terrorists.
CAIR asked a U.S. District Court in Dallas to strike it from the list of more than 300 other Muslim groups named as unindicted co-conspirators in the government's case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The case is being tried in Dallas.
"The public naming of CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator has impeded its ability to collect donations as possible donors either do not want to give to them because they think they are a 'terrorist' organization or are too scared to give to them because of the possible legal ramifications of donating money to a 'terrorist' organization," CAIR said in an amicus curiae brief filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
The brief cites reporting by The Washington Times as evidence of the organization's declining membership. When this account of declining CAIR membership was published in The Times earlier this summer, CAIR denounced it as a "hit piece."
The Justice Department shut down the Holy Land Foundation and in 2004 indicted several of its top officers, who are accused of raising $36 million from 1995 through 2001 for the benefit of organizations and persons linked with Hamas, designated as a terrorist organization by the Clinton administration in 1995. The foundation raised $12.4 million after the designation that made such fundraising illegal, prosecutors say.
The 42-count federal indictment accuses the foundation's officers of conspiracy, providing support to terrorists, money-laundering and income-tax evasion.
On May 29, the Justice Department made public a list naming 307 unindicted co-conspirators — including CAIR — in the case now being tried before U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish.
"The name of CAIR has been smeared by association with a criminal case that ostensibly involves the charitable funding of a 'terrorist' group," the brief, filed last week, sets out. The brief argues that federal prosecutors had no legitimate governmental interest in publicly releasing the names of CAIR and other unindicted co-conspirators. "Instead, the disclosure is the vindictive attempt of the government to smear a group which has been critical of the government's actions in aggressively and selectively prosecuting Muslim groups or persons," CAIR told the court.
Looks like Ibrahim and the brothers still have a lot of ‘splaining to do.
Popular supremacists: The Globe and Mail’s Mark MacKinnon has an article about a so-called "alternative to Hamas":
KFAR AQAB, WEST BANK — The
He laughed, but it wasn't entirely a joke. There's nothing a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir takes more seriously than trying to convert others to their particular brand of Islam. The party's goal is the establishment of a worldwide Caliphate, a global Islamic empire. We're all welcome to join the umma, or Islamic nation, and become its subjects.
Founded in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir has for decades troubled governments from the
In recent weeks, a newly assertive Hizb ut-Tahrir has been showing its strength across the Muslim world, most impressively by drawing 100,000 people to a soccer stadium in
Now the rapidly growing movement has been emerging from the shadows in the Palestinian territories as well, capitalizing on public unhappiness with the recent bloodshed between the mainstream Hamas and Fatah movements that has split the Palestinian cause in two. A recent rally in the
"Why are we watching infidels prosper in this world and not stopping them?" Sheik Abu Abdullah, a young-looking man sporting a black turban and a neat black
"Muslims in
The scene at al-Faruq mosque was one that's now repeated nightly at mosques all around the