May 2008 Archives
The king of Bahrain is garbaging," Don't take Christians and jews as friends, or people of authority. Koran 5:51."
He's also throwing to the garbage mohammad's sayings, the hadith.
Sahih Muslim, Book 41: Number 6985:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
This is the enequivocal proof, and the obvious admission by muslim rulers that mohammad's teachings are nothing but garbage that has been exposed to the whole world, thanks to the anti-jihadists community, and the mounting rejections of islam by Western populations, despite all their efforts, and all their public relation campaigns to the tune of millions of dollars.
Is islam feeling the heat? the answer is: YES
Bahrain is exploding a heavy bombshell, hoping to bleach islam and put it back on the map of the civilized world. But it's too late for this illusion to redeem 1400 years of evil history. It's a proof they realizing they reached a dead end, and the only road open for them is downturn.
They know that Islam's "religious" cover is blown away and destroyed for ever, since there were never any religion in islam. It became evident to the visionary rulers of the Arab-Islamic world, that the only way to keep islam from being swept by the deluge, is try to go with the tide, and the illusion of spectacular moves to save what could be saved.
Personally, I have the firm belief that no matter how many times a snake would change his skin, or his color, his venom is still the same, deadly. And I also have the firm belief that a “religion” consisting of deception (Taqiya) as its core fundamental cornerstone belief can’t offer anything, especially now that it’s cornered and smelling, but illusions to gain time in order to continue its all time evil mission started by its prophet of doom,
Our pledge should be: no turning back, no let down, and no compromising with Satan, even if it present itself in the form of an Angel of light.
Bahrain appoints Jewish woman as envoy to US
MANAMA (Agencies)
Friday, 30 May 2008
Bahrain's king has appointed a Jewish Shura Council member and a top female activist as the Kingdom’s next ambassador to Washington, making her the Arab world's first ever Jewish ambassador.
“It is an honor bestowed upon me by HM the King. I am yet to receive the documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I will visit them next week and then they will spell out my role in Washington,” lawmaker Huda Ezra Nonoo was quoted by the Bahrain Tribune as saying.
“I look forward to the challenges that such a role brings with it,” she added. A member of Bahrain’s Jewish community, Huda has served as legislator in the 40-member Shura for three years.
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Nonoo, a 43-year-old mother of two boys, insisted she was not chosen for the post because of her religion. |
For the last twenty five years, muslim fundamentalists attacked and robbed Coptic jewelers who refused to pay the jeziah
It's worth noting that the all powerful Egyptian security apparatus never succeeded in bringing any of the perpetrators to justice.
May 28, 2008
Two men on motorbike enter Copts owned jewellery shop in Egyptian capital's Zeitoun district, shoot dead owner, staff.
The victims included the owner, named as Makram Gamil, 60, and one of his staff, named as Makram Salib, 22, both of them Christians. The other names were not immediately available.
CAIRO - Two men in wigs and sunglasses shot dead four Coptic Christians jewellery shop workers in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday in an apparent gangland-style killing, a security official and witnesses said.
The shooting happened at around 12:30 pm (0930 GMT) in the mixed Christian-Muslim district of Zeitoun in northeast Cairo, the official said, adding that the attackers escaped without stealing anything from the shop.
Eyewitnesses said that the men arrived at the shop on a motorbike, walked in and shot dead the shop's owner and three employees before driving away, in a rare act of brazen bloodshed in the capital.
"Preliminary investigations show that the motivation behind the attack could have been revenge," the official said, adding that the owner had frequent disputes with local residents.
The official had initially said the killings were the result of a drive-by shooting.
Police, who swiftly cordoned off the area, found 15 revolver shell casings at the scene, the official said.
Cairo's Zeitoun district is a famed pilgrimage site where, according to witness accounts, the Virgin Mary appeared above the Church of Saint Mary over a period of several years in the late 1960s.
The apparitions were seen by millions including Copts, Muslims, Jews and atheists.
Egypt's Copts - the largest Christian community in the Middle East - account for an estimated twelve to 15 percent of the country's 80 million inhabitants and complain of systematic discrimination and harassment.
Tensions often run high between Egypt's Muslim and Christian communities in an increasingly religious society dominated by Sunni Muslims.
After Mohamed the bear, now Allah the dog
Muslims should do what Walt Disney did to protect Mickey's name and copyright muhammad and allah.
UK officer transferred for calling his dog 'Allah'
DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
A prison officer in the United Kingdom was transferred after he caused a stir amongst inmates by calling his sniffer dog 'Allah', press reports said Monday.
Although officer Chris Langridge, 28, insisted the Labrador's name was infact 'Ali' not 'Allah', a Muslim inmate filed an official complaint with Britain's top Belmarsh high-security jail, The Sun newspaper reported.
“This is political correctness gone mad,” a Belmarsh officer was quoted by The Sun as saying.
According to a prison source there is no suggestion that he did call the dog Allah but it was thought it would be better to transfer him, the paper said.
Belmarsh contains the highest number of Muslim inmates of any UK prison, including some notorious extremists such as hook-handed Abu Hamza.
Rejection of Islam is snowballing in the West
It have nothing to do with the religion, it's just bad for the traffic. That’s what Australians say, and who are we to argue with that?
Australian commentator: This has nothing to do with nationalism and religion, this is democracy in action. Is Australia a free democratic society in which people can debate without fear about what they want or a theocracy by stealth in which people are second after Allah without any debate, that’s the question??? In any democracy the will of the people is paramount or democracy has no meaning whatsoever full stop.
"we don't want them not only here, but we don't want them in Australia," one woman said at the council meeting on Tuesday.
I guess she meant that Australians suffer a severe (muslim) traffic syndrome all over the country.
Now we understand better the Italian government decision to demolish a mosque in Verona. It has nothing to do with islam, they just needed to clean the air. It was purely an environmental problem. Cursing the kafirs 17 times a day was heating up the air coming out of the mosque which aggravated the dangers of global warming. Muslims should consult Al Gore for that; he can explain it better than me. That’s why it was decided that an Oriana Fallaci parc with trees and birds is healthier for the environment, birds don’t curse.
SYDNEY (REUTERS)
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Australian authorities rejected the development of a 1,200-student Islamic school on the outskirts of Sydney on Tuesday, saying it was inappropriate for the small town where anti-Muslim (traffic) protesters opposed the school. [Emphasis added.]
Camden Council voted against the school being built based on concerns over the impact on traffic flows, loss of agricultural land, but not on religious grounds. [Not to mention a sewer problem.]
"It is a site issue ... we said all along religious issues, nationalistic issues, will not be entered into," Mayor Chris Patterson told local media. [Yes Sir, I can't argue with that, you're the boss.]
The school was planned for Muslim students and would have taught the standard Australian education program but also conducted religious classes just as Catholic and Anglican schools in Australia do.
It looks like islam is having a domino effect. Or should we say Islamic traffic effect.
In reaction to this news, Saudi Arabia and other islamic countries announced that they'll reciprocate and refuse the opening of Jewish schools.
ViVa Italia: The first demolished mosque in Italy, to be "The Oriana Fallaci Parc"
The writing is on the wall, and the bulldozers are out.
Muslim Organizations, their media, their apologists, their fifth columnists, and their dogs are mourning, while looking for revenge, to perfidiously strike back, by using all the tricks of subversions to spread their venom that is always ready at the tip of their tongue.
They started already, with the announcement of this great news, for us, with their trademark of deception, by claiming that the responsibility for that terrorists nest (mosque) cleanup was done by the Italian Rightist party. But let no one swallow the bait and slip into their sewer trap.
The cleanup of those Jihadists infection was done by the government of the Republic of Italy elected lawfully to implement the will of the Italian people. Full stop. Our Civilized laws are not fabricated by Mullahs, Ayatollahs, Hezbollah, or cooked in El Doha -Qatar, under the guardianship of a seventh century turban head, with the patronage of a thug in chief, and an assassin in chief as they did to Lebanon.
Having said this, I invite all the anti-jihadists sites reporting this news, not to be distracted by the devout deceivers and their use of divisive terminology. It's nothing new for them. They're the same people that goes to the Christians telling them, "How you deal with the Jews that killed your Jesus," and then turn around to tell the Jews, "How can you deal with the Christians that massacred you." Same old tricks, now they play the rightists – leftists divide, but let them swallow their saliva. The fact is, the Italian people have spoken.
For 1400 years, muslims made it a habit to destroy, burn, and loot Churches and Synagogues in every country they attacked to steal, that's how they want to finish up with Israel as well. The ones they couldn't destroy, they simply turned to mosques. Hagia Sophia, and the Ummayyad mosque in Damascus, just to name two landmark Churches that are still standing today to condemn the religion of thieves and robbers. But they still dare to tell us with a straight face that theirs is the religion that respect and love all other religions. We know their love slogan, “love them, to rob them."
This is the most posthumous honor to vindicate Oriana Fallaci that was sued visciously on several occasions by muslims before her death. And a sweet revenge for the great lady that sounded the alarm till her last noble breath, of the death that always comes with islam. As another great lady said it, the fight is not against islamofascism, fundamental islam, political islam, B.S. islam, it's islam. Mosques, the spearheads acting as the predatory takeover by muslims to conquer and change the European landscape, aiming to erase every symbol of the Judeo - Christian civilization from our cities and even our neighbourhoods.
I can't help but salute the struggle of another great lady, Brigitte Bardot, for having the courage to speak up against the islamization plague in France.
Last but not least, a very big Viva l'Italia, and a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig hug to all the the true Italians, without whom this could've not been possible. Keep up the good work, and never forget that you're the sons and daughters, of the great Garibaldi, and the least you should do is to send whoever called you, "the sons of apes and pigs," to the garbage where they belong.
One thing for sure, Italians meant business when they went to the polls to elect their new government. And certainly this will be the first salvo to celebrate the crack of the temple of allah, and show the rest of the European populations that the road to follow for the destruction of allah's terrorist cells, and give back Europe to its people, are in their ballot boxes. We have no doubt, the spirit of Oriana Fallaci, the great European symbol of courage and freedom, will also guide them on the way. The legacy of truth always lives forever.
Today Verona is not just a name of a great Italian city, but a symbol that could be synonymous with the Gates of Vienna.
Only one thing is missing, the mosque rubbles' screen savers, But there is more to come.
Italy Raze Verona Mosque to be Oriana Fallaci Parc, the best is yet to come
By Hadi Yahmid, IOL Correspondent
ROME — Italy's far-right , anti-immigrant Northern League party has elected government started its (promised) mission with bringing down a mosque in the northern city of Verona. [Emphasis and correction added.]
"The mosque destruction reinforces Muslim fears (fears is healthy and humbling) of seeing the League in the ruling coalition," Ali Abu Shwaima, the head of Milan-based Islamic Centre, told IslamOnline.net on Saturday, May 24. [Emphasis added.]
Bulldozers brought down last week a building housing a Muslim prayer (kafir's cursing) room in the city. [Emphasis added.]
"I never felt at ease with this mosque," Elisonder Antonneli, the head of Verona city council, said. [Who can blame you.]
"This place will be turned into a park and a car parking space and will be named after (Italian writer) Oriana Fallaci." [Should be called: Saint Oriana Fallaci.]
Fallaci, who died in 2006, was notorious for anti-Islam stances. {Free spirits never dies.]
Following the 9/11 attacks, the far-right writer published a book entitled "Rage and Pride" in which she ridiculed the Noble Qur'an. [The Qur'an never needed anyone to ridicule it, it's embedded in it.]
She has also authored another book "The Force of Reason" in which she warned that Europe was turning into "an Islamic province, an Islamic colony" and that "to believe that a good Islam and a bad Islam exist goes against all reason." [And against living, even for people that don't reason.]
The Northern League has four ministers in Silvio Berlusconi's government, including the portfolio of the Interior.
The League grabbed 8 percent of the vote in last month's general elections, securing Berlusconi's right-wing coalition a comfortable majority in the parliament.
The party has nearly doubled its parliamentary strength from 4.5 percent two years ago.
[ Yes, we can see that Italians certainely had something in mind, it was worth it. The best is yet to come]
The Northern League is widely accused of racism with many critics calling it the BNP of Italy, a reference to the British right-wing party.
[ You may call it our Western Shariaa Italiano style, or our Italian Wahabismo, but we don't cut heads, kill the apostate, kidnap little girls to spread our Wahabismo religion through the little girls vagina, and we don't rob you muslims with the jeziah, actually we feed you and cure your diseases.
But Look who's talking, this is the site of islam Online, co-owned by Saudi Arabia (how many Churches and Synagogues are built there? Hard to count them when they don't exist. And by sheik al Qaradawi, "World champ for suicide bombing fatwas Guiness book of record." Both considered beacons of tolerance, yet to be discovered on Al Jazeera turban head idols for allah.]
Its election campaign played on issues such as immigration crime and economic and cultural fears from immigration.
[There couldn't be better issues. Actually they could be summarized in one issue: islam, which is immigration, crime, economics (cost of muslims and mosques surveillance and siphoning the social benefits), cultural fears (raping girls and women, that the only culture muslims bring with them).]
Hard Time
Abu Shwaima, the Muslim leader, said Italian Muslims will face hard times under the far-right league.
[Abu, maybe it's time to take a sick leave, and go for some Mecca fresh air to teach those far-right league a lesson. Just stay there and keep stoning the devil till we call you.]
"We believe the life of Italian Muslims will get more complicated," he said.
[Abu, remember, "Don't take Jews and Christians as friends." Beside, they're unclean, you should trust your book and jump on the boat for Dar el islam, nothing beats the couscous mouton du bled.]
He said Muslims in the city of Verona used to find spiritual comfort at the razed mosque.
[ Oh Abu, Italians are nice people, I'm sure they wouldn't mind that every muslim takes a peace of the rock for spiritual comfort with him on the boat. For more comfort, ask for Southern comfort at the bar.]
"The mosque destruction is sign of spiraling Islamophobia in many European countries," he said.
[Oh Abu, you son of a gun, you took it out of my mouth, you're no dum, you're talented .. you're a mind reader or a good lucky guesser, when you get home buy a lottery ticket. For European, you know what the doctor says: take your country today to keep the muslims away.]
There are nearly 20,000 Muslims in Verona.
[Abu, you just reminded me, we have 3 to 4 million Christian workers in Saudi Arabia with not one church for their spiritual comfort as you call it, and when there was rumors that there may be a deal to build a church after king Abdullah met with the pope to salvage some islam respectability, the majority of your muslim people were scandalized to allow the "unclean" Christians to have an unclean Church in the holy land of your caravan robber, pedophile prophet. So I feel your pain.]
"I used to pray in the mosque for years," an Italian Muslim in Verona told IOL, requesting anonymity.
[You mean you used to curse the kafirs in that mosque for years, and ask your allah that at judgement day he takes your sins heavy as mountains and put them on the heads of those doomed Christians and Jews deserving the wrath of the hell fire. But it seems your allah didn't find your curses forceful enough, try harder next time. In the meantime, do it as koran 3:28 tells you, keep the rage in your heart and curse them in private, or go meet allah personally where you keep him enclosed in the kaaba stone in Mecca.]
"But this Friday I went to the mosque for prayers but I could not as it was razed.
[Did you looked under the rubbles, just to make sure that allah, is not buried under. What surprised me is, how that allah didn't strike the kafirs that bulldozed him and didn't strike their necks, or put terrors in the heart of the unbelievers as he keeps telling you how to do it ? Honestly, I think the allah of this mosque was a phony counterfeit, made in China]
"We live in a state of anticipation and fear after the mosque was destroyed and we want Arab and Muslim governments to pile pressures on Italy to stop anti-immigrant and anti-Islam policies."
[Oh Abu, you disappoint me, we thought your allegiance is to Italy, as you keep claiming that you're part of the Italian people, and now you want to incite your arab and muslim governments rage boy mobs to pile pressure on Italy, and Italians, the people hosting and feeding you and your tribe when you fled the misery of the house of islam to come to the house of war on kafirs. And what you mean by "pile pressures?" Like, boycott the Italian pizza, and parmegiano cheese, with a bon fire of few Italian embassies? Abu, don't you know brother that this is called sedition, and plotting with the enemy? How come you never called for "pile of pressures," on Saudi Arabia and your muslim brothers to let Christians and Jews build a church or a Synagogue? You see Abu, the Copts of Egypt, or all the Christians of the Middle east, when you burn and destroy their churches and kill them, they don't call on the Christian Western countries to "pile pressures," on the muslim governments, otherwise they would be considered as traitors. So, are you muslim traitors working with external enemies from the inside? Are you undercover agents to foreign countries? Abu, this is called Trojan horses, or blackmail and extortion, at the least. We thought you were part of us, so you tell us. We thought you came to the West so we can have a big multiculturalism feast, as u told us. And if you want Italy to stop anti-islam policies, then there will be no Italy. Better you stop islam, so we can all live peacefully. But if you love islam so much, take it somewhere else. Why you want to impose on us, your infection.]
Abu Shwaima, the Muslim leader, has a similar message.
"We want to tell the Muslim world that mosques' construction in Italy is almost a mission impossible.
[Abu, don't forget, while your at it, tell them that Church construction for Christian natives in their own countries is a mission impossible to, since your muslim mobs stole their countries, beside their systematic destruction of the existing ones. The only place in your islamic world of darkness where they don't burn, or destroy Churches is Saudi Arabia, you know why.]
"Except for the Milan-based Islamic Center and the Rome mosque, there are no real mosques in Italy."
[Don't forget Abu, Allah is in Mecca, and you should be where the real thing is. Don't go for the imitations. You don't want allah to reside with the kafirs, do you?
Last November, former Italian deputy Education Minister and League member Mariella Mazzetto angered Muslims after parading a pig on the site of a planned mosque in the northern city of Padua.
Two months earlier, League senator Roberto Calderoli called for a "Pig Day" protest against the mosque construction in the northern city of Bologna.
In 2006, protesters left a pig's head at a mosque building site in the central Italian city of Tuscany.
[ Hey Abu, don't blame us for our love for pigs. Especially in Italy, prosciutto is a big business. maybe that's why your allah called us the Sons of apes and pigs. But our pigs are clean, they don't sexually molest little piglets.]
Italy has a Muslim population of some 1.2 million, including 20,000 reverts, according to unofficial estimates.
The islamic media since yesterday is at loss, like here on islam online, they're feeling the heat, and the changing times. All their editorials today aimed at brainwashing us with their garbage. The best we should do is to recycle their garbage and serve it back to them, with the gravy.
We were told to love our enemy, but we were not told to love evil.
Peace Arab style: If you can't beat them, fight them or love them, then burn their books.
To be cool or accepted in Egypt, you must do Israel bashing. If God forbid you compliment the Jewish state in any way you are condemned for dealing with the enemy that Egypt have a peace treaty with!
For fairness sake, I came to know personally, years ago, Faruq Hosni when he was the director of the Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris. And he seemed to be a genuinely liberal, modern, progressive, and pro-European. And I tend to believe that during his tenure as Culture Minister, he tried to be on the side of modernity. But times has changed dramatically backwards and the Tsunami of the last thirty years of Wahabi islamic fundamentalism, swept any one that got out of line. Especially a Culture Minister that would allow Israeli books be sold in Egyptian libraries, lest some muslim Egyptians read them, and consequently becomes illuminated civilized humans.
I would advise all muslims to burn all books and theories of Einstein's, Sigmund Freud, and hundreds of other jewish scientists. And stop using the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, to have. All these people are included in the 17 curses a day, and use the islamic scientific medical wonders, they so much boast about to congest our ears, the black seed that cures every disease except death, the seven dates in the morning to keep you healthy and keep the devils away, the camel urine, the fly wing (the one with the cure, not the one with the disease), and the honey for diabetics. If all this islamocology doesn't cure muslims, then Allah will be on our side, and it will save us money from the war on terror.
Having said this, it's a no, niet, nicht, non, et absolument pas, to put at the head of the UNESCO, a Culture Minister from a country that made hate, discrimination, persecution, slander, kidnaping of Christian girls, terrorism, and death the only culture they excelled in promoting for the last forty years.
Oh, by the way, Faruk Hosni was considered a moderate muslim, but since islam is a disease, moderates get very easily infected.
Egypt minister under fire for 'burn books' remark
CAIRO (AFP)
CAIRO/ OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP)
"I'd burn Israeli books myself if I found any in libraries in Egypt," Hosni said in parliament on May 10 in reply to questioning from an opposition MP.
The comment, which Hosni admits making but which he says must be put into perspective, sparked an official protest from Israel's ambassador in Cairo Shalom Cohen to the foreign ministry.
In his defense, Hosni told AFP that he had only used "a popular expression to prove something exists," -- to be specific, Israeli books in Egyptian libraries.
"A minister of culture cannot demand that a book be burnt, and that includes an Israeli book," he added, and pointed out he had spoken in favor of Israeli books being translated into Arabic during a televised debate on the subject.
This week, the international Simon Wiesenthal Centre wrote to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation director general Koichiro Matsuura, saying that Hosni had now ruled himself out as a possible successor to head the Paris-based body.
With Allies Like These Who Needs Enemies?
Is the United States government, and the State Department in particular, receiving good counsel from its advisors about Egypt? Egypt is the recipient of America’s second largest aid package at $2.1 billion annually. And yet the democratic reforms Egypt’s government has promised have failed to materialize, and the little progress that has been made is quickly being reversed. Egypt consistently ranks near the bottom globally in upholding human rights standards. And of particular importance to the U.S., the Egyptian government’s actions are often in direct contradiction to the best interests of America in the Middle East.
But most advisors on the Middle East, and Egypt in particular, counsel the U.S. government to accept the status quo, and especially not to attach conditions to the aid package in order to encourage change. If Egypt is supposed to be America’s strongest ally in the Middle East and is actually working against the U.S. in many ways, and if in spite of this Egypt is to continue receiving billions of dollars in aid from the U.S. government, is this good advice?
There is a particular tribe of Americans who have spent a great deal of time in Egypt, who speak the language, who fell in love with the country, and who because of these feelings have become friendly with the Egyptian government and its supporters – so much so that they almost become one of them. And it seems that the people who fall into this category have the ears of Washington policymakers.
At a fundraiser for Rep. Frank Wolf in October, Sen. John McCain said that Egypt is a good friend to America in the Middle East. McCain’s statement seems indicative of the current prevailing mode of thought in the U.S. government, the State Department in particular, and among those who advise them on Egypt. This thinking is misguided and damaging to U.S. foreign policy.
The truth is that the Egyptian government practices a two-faced policy regarding the United States. The face Egypt shows America is the one that government officials and their advisors are referring to when they speak of Egypt as America’s friend and ally. This is the face that assures the U.S. that Egypt is doing all it can to fight and contain terrorism in the Middle East and to promote America’s interests regarding Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
But the other face is the true face of the Egyptian government that is shown to its citizens and other Middle Eastern countries. It is obvious to Egyptian-Americans when we see the news or read the papers from Egypt. This is the face of the Egyptian government that encourages radical thinking and promotes it through its educational system, the media and all forms of communication with its citizens in their everyday lives. This policy is reflected clearly in changes in Egyptian society and the Middle East in general toward radicalism and Islamism in the past 30 years in particular. Two obvious examples of the promotion of radicalism by the Egyptian government come to mind:
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The uproar about the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed was in large part encouraged, if not orchestrated, by Egyptian officials. On Oct. 17, 2005, the cartoons in question were published in an Egyptian newspaper along with an article that strongly denounced them, but there were no protests from either the Egyptian government or religious authorities. Over 2 months later, the Egyptian Ambassador to Denmark, Mona Omar Attia, stirred up a hornet’s nest by stating that the Danish Prime Minister had not responded in a way that was appropriate to “appease the whole Muslim world” and organizing international Muslim groups to take up the cause. Then at a meeting of leaders from the world’s 57 Muslim nations in Mecca, Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Aboul Gheit, circulated a report about the cartoons and other purported anti-Islamic activities in Denmark that further inflamed the Muslim world. The problem was that the report contained a great deal of erroneous information and Gheit knew it. Two Egyptians took a non-issue and manipulated it into an anti-Western crusade that culminated in violent protests worldwide.
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At the beginning of the recent Lebanon-Israel War, the Egyptian government placed the blame for the conflict squarely on Hezbollah in its communications with the U.S. and Israel. At the same time, however, local media encouraged Egyptian citizens to demonstrate in support of Hezbollah. They promoted the portrayal of Hezbollah as the brave David standing against the aggression of the giant Israel with its U.S. backing. And today Hezbollah is perceived by Egyptians as a band of heroes who were the only ones who could defeat Israel. We cannot forget that after Mubarak blamed Hezbollah on the first day of the war, a few days later he called for an unconditional cease-fire that was in direct opposition to U.S. policy at that time.
Sadly, advisors to the State Department seem to downplay such blatant anti-American and anti-Western actions in favor of promoting the current policies of the Egyptian government.
In June of 2006, the House debated the Obey/Hyde/Lantos amendment to the 2007 Foreign Appropriations Bill on June 8, 2006. The amendment would have held back $100 million in U.S. aid to Egypt in response to the Egyptian government’s abysmal human rights record. The bill was defeated by a surprisingly narrow margin, but by it not passing, Egypt was basically given a free license to cease any efforts to reform its government, to continue with its flagrant violations of human rights and to continue to work against the U.S. in the Middle East.
This vote was followed up by a hearing about U.S. aid to Egypt that was held before the House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia on June 21, 2006. At this hearing, various experts were engaged to brief the Subcommittee about the U.S. aid package to Egypt. While the testimony was mixed in its recommendations, much of the advice counseled accepting the status quo and looking to the future for any substantive change. Certain advisors even counseled that attaching any contingencies to the aid package would not only fail to prod the Egyptian government to change its ways, but might actually backfire on the U.S. and produce a recalcitrant anti-American response.
This hearing, just weeks after the amendment vote, would have been a perfect opportunity for top advisors on Egypt to educate the Subcommittee about the true nature of Egypt’s relationship with the U.S. so that they might debate the issue in the future with more knowledge about the situation. Testimony given on behalf of the Leadership Council for Human Rights did just this, but most of the other testimony sought to sweep problems under the rug and advocated the status quo. This acceptance of the current situation and implicit faith that the next generation will be more U.S.-friendly is a tacit acceptance of the face the Egyptian government wants America to see. Those who advise this government should have the ability, desire and capability to look beyond the surface at what is really going on in Egypt and the courage to expose the ugly face of anti-Americanism espoused by the Egyptian regime.
The American government, and especially the State Department, needs to see the other face of Egypt’s government. The State Department must widen its circle of advisors to include people who are more knowledgeable about Egyptian intentions and actions that are not obvious to America. The current lack of understanding of the true motivations of the U.S.’s most important ally in the Middle East is terribly damaging to our interests in that region and can no longer be ignored.
An often heard claim is that America has no power to effect change in Egypt through placing conditions on aid. History, however, shows a different reality. When Saad Eddin Ibrahim was unjustly convicted and imprisoned, it was only when America cut a post-9/11 supplemental aid package of $150 million that Egypt was spurred to overturn his conviction. Without pressure from the U.S., Ibrahim might well still be in prison. If the current advisors to the White House and the State Department provide information to the government that only reflects the views of people who choose to see Egypt’s U.S.-friendly face, we as Americans and our government will endorse the following:
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Egypt will continue to indirectly promote radical Islam, which is the largest cause of the terrorism that is threatening the civilized world. If this is allowed to continue, Iraq will become a breeding ground for more and more radicals, creating an increasingly volatile situation. And from Egypt and Iraq, even more terrorism will crop up around the globe.
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In the Middle East sectarian fighting is prevalent and indeed is the basis for most conflict. One need only look to Lebanon where Christians fight against the Muslim Hezbollah, to Iraq where Sunni fight Shia, and to Sudan where Arab Muslims fight African Muslims. As the cultural leader in the region, Egypt should be setting an example of tolerance and cooperation between various religious factions within its own borders. Egypt’s population, both Muslim and Christian, have lived in general peace and harmony for centuries until relatively recent times when a government encouraged campaign of intolerance against Coptic Christians has promoted never before seen divisions within the country. By endorsing the status quo, America will support the government of Egypt in its continued suppression, discrimination and devastation of the Copts, the largest Christian minority in the Middle East, which has been in Egypt for 2,000 years. The following are just a few of the ways in which Copts are discriminated against: Copts are denied basic economic, educational and social opportunities, governmental representation, due process in legal matters and basic civil rights. Copts are admitted in very small numbers to military schools and security training centers and are not allowed to advance to top military and civilian posts. They are not allowed to build or even repair churches without express governmental permission, which is rarely granted. And although Copts comprise 15-18% of Egypt’s total population, they are represented by only 1% of Parliamentary seats. And in a few years if the trend continues, Egypt may face a disastrous situation in regards to its Coptic population, and then we in America will truly regret our country’s lack of action.
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Ayman Nour, the hope of democracy in Egypt, the person who captured 1 million votes in the 2005 presidential election after only being allowed to campaign for 3 weeks, the one man who truly believes in American-style democracy, will remain in jail for another four years. And the Egyptian government will continue to eliminate all opposition parties in the field except the Muslim Brotherhood so it can say to the world that there are only two options: the Mubarak regime or the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Voices advocating freedom in Egypt, like Talaat Sadat, nephew of the late President Anwar Sadat, will continue to be actively suppressed. The younger Sadat was one of very few opposition voices in Parliament, and the government arranged for the Army to court martial him in a military court for speaking out about his belief that there were Army officers involved in his uncle’s assassination. Sadat was not only deprived of his right to speak freely, he was stripped of his Parliamentary seat and sentenced to prison for a year. This all took place because Sadat is a strong, frank opposition voice unafraid to speak out against government corruption. Sadat’s court martial was merely an excuse to eliminate his dissenting voice from the Parliament.
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Women will be deprived of their rights and their freedom. Egypt, once the most progressive and liberal country for women’s rights, has been sliding steadily backward in this area over the last 30 years with the rise of Islamism and radicalism. If the Egyptian government’s current policies go unchecked, women in Egypt will have few rights and no safety. That this is already happening can be seen in the kidnappings of young Christian girls and the open harassment of women that has been plaguing the streets of Cairo in recent times.
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In the last 30 years, Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the equivalent of the Vatican to Roman Catholicism in terms of its influence on Muslim thought, has become increasingly radical and conservative. Because Al-Azhar sets the tone for Muslim thinking around the world, this escalating push toward extremism is being exported to Muslim countries all over the globe, thereby providing even more fertile soil for the breeding of terrorism. Failure on the part of the American government to recognize this trend and to press the Egyptian government to curb it will result in increased danger globally.
It is absolutely crucial that the U.S. government begin to find advisors who will give it an accurate appraisal of what is really going on in Egypt. Only when it is armed with correct information will our government be able to craft a foreign policy in regards to Egypt that is in the best interests of America.
This 'Letter of Apology' was written by Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman, US Marine Corps, Retired (thanks to Louis S. who sent it in):
For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern day massacre.
I humbly offer my opinion here:
I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth; it was in the defense of Muslims (Bosnia , Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait , etc.)
I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11.
I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs.
I am sorry that most Arabs and Muslims have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships.
I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth.
I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media.
I am sorry that Yasser Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and high-jacked the Palestinian 'cause.'
I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.
I am sorry that the U. S. A. has to step in and be the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame the USA for all their problems.
I am sorry that our own left wing, our media, and our own brainwashed liberal masses do not understand any of this (from the misleading vocal elements of our society like radical liberal professors, CNN and the NY TIMES).
I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the 'food for oil' money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.
I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death
I am sorry that those same bombers are brainwashed thinking they will receive 72 virgins in 'paradise.'
I am sorry that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies, children, the elderly and other noncombatant civilians are legitimate targets.
I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own making.
I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.
I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.
I am sorry we don't drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.
I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient 'Holy Site.'
I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church - one of our Holy Sites.
I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl, etc....etc!
I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa.
America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because that is what we do
I am sorry that voters on the liberal left don't understand the frightening changes that are taking place in the Muslim world and what these changes will do to this world in which we live.
I am sorry that the Democratic Party has been high-jacked by Socialists and Communists right under the very noses of those who take pride in calling themselves democrats.
We hang out our dirty laundry for the entire world to see. We move on. That's one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don't hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.
Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we were like - so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners. Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we're supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated?
Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujahans.
If you want an apology from this American, you're going to have a long wait! You have a better chance of finding those seventy-two virgins.
Chuck Pitman
Lieutenant General, USMC
Terrorism is not Osama Ben laden, Zawahri, Zarkawi and company. They're just the terrorists.
When the stakes are world domination through terror, then the terrorists becomes just an element, the foot soldiers of the great deception scheme devised by the highest authority that possess the great resources to provide the supply lines to all the elements.
In that scheme, what may seem an irrelevant deception to the general Western public, have a different meaning and a wider perspective to the perpetrators, for whom, no deception is too small, irrelevant or unnecessary.
For the followers of muhammad deception is not a small game, it's a religion, it's islam, "War is deception, and Allah is the best of deceivers"
This article by Nina Shea in the Weekly Satandard is just an example of that scheme (thanks to H.M.M. that send it in).
A Medal for Brass
A brazen publicity stunt from the House of Saud.
by Nina Shea
Already dogged by a reputation for promoting religious extremism abroad and repression at home, the government of Saudi Arabia now faces growing resentment at the soaring price of oil. As is their custom, Saudi rulers have responded with a public relations campaign. It's a campaign built on deception.
On May 8, Saudi royals placed a full-page ad in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Times of London, and other papers proclaiming that a charity founded by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud, a nephew of King Abdullah and the world's 13th-richest person, had been honored by the pope. Directly under a Koranic passage on tolerance, the headline declared: "Alwaleed bin Talal Humanitarian Foundation, representing Kingdom Foundation, awarded the Pontifical Medal by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican."
At the center of the page was depicted a medallion bearing the image of Pope Benedict XVI, which the ad labeled "The Pontifical Medal." The Holy See's coat of arms was displayed bottom center, implying that the ad carried the imprimatur of the pope.
All of this seemed unlikely on its face. Take that coat of arms. The ad labels it "The Vatican," a term never used by the Holy See to identify itself. More fundamentally, no church has yet been permitted in Saudi Arabia, a point the pope pressed with King Abdullah at a first-of-its-kind meeting last November. Nor does any great service to the Church figure among the benefactions for which Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is best known--the check to New York City famously refused by Mayor Giuliani after 9/11; the gifts to the Carter Center and the presidential library of George H.W. Bush; the donations to universities like Harvard and Georgetown which now boast "Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centers" for Islamic studies.
But then, what was going on? Neither the American mainstream press nor the Catholic press had reported any papal decoration of a Saudi prince. A search of the Holy See's website turned up nothing. Most Google hits for "Pontifical Medal" were Arabic papers' echoes of the very PR material presented in the ad. And official listings of the honors awarded by the Vatican--knighthoods in the Orders of St. Gregory the Great and the Holy Sepulcher, for example--made no mention of the medal shown.
Besides, why would the Vatican confer a high honor on this Saudi prince? A Catholic knighthood normally requires a recommendation from the local bishop, and Saudi Arabia tolerates no "local" bishops or Christian clergy of any kind. Repeated calls to the Vatican embassy and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington and to the Holy See's press office in Rome brought no clarification.
In the end, it was consultations with an independent expert on the Vatican and interviews with several recipients that solved the mystery: The medal shown in the ad is a common souvenir.
It is minted each year by the thousand and handed out as a memento to those granted an audience with the pope. All the staffers at the American embassy to the Holy See, for instance, have received it. It was given to White House officials when Pope Benedict met with Bush. It is for sale at the Vatican bookstore. It confers no honor at all.
Perhaps Prince Talal came by the medallion through his aunt, the vice president of his Beirut-based foundation, which has been generous to Lebanese Catholics. On March 12, she met the pope in Rome, and a photograph of their encounter appears in the ad. Although the caption claims the picture shows Pope Benedict "awarding the Pontifical Medal" to the prince's aunt "in recognition of her distinguished social and humanitarian work," an uncropped version of the same picture found online makes clear the two are merely shaking hands. This is a bit like portraying an Oval Office photo op as the awarding of a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
What can have prompted such reckless misrepresentation? A fair surmise is that the answer lies partly in the royal family's eagerness to deflect criticism from Saudi philanthropy in the West.
Thus, in 2005, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal gave $20 million to Georgetown University for a center within its Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. The ad specifically mentions Georgetown's now-renamed Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, as if it were somehow covered by the pope's purported commendation. The center is controversial.
Last December, the Washington Times published an article under the headline "Saudis buy a campus presence; Georgetown shares in largesse to fund Islamic studies programs." Noting that Harvard, Duke, and Berkeley were also beneficiaries of Saudi donations, the piece raised concerns that these gifts were "creating bastions of noncritical pro-Islamic scholarship within academia."
Some on Capitol Hill agreed. Representative Frank Wolf, ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the State Department, home of the Foreign Service, took up the issue with Georgetown president John DeGioia. In a February 14 letter, Wolf asked whether the center could maintain "the impartiality and integrity of scholarship that befits so distinguished a university as Georgetown and that is required by the exigencies of national security for training American officials." Meanwhile, Saudi subsidizing of Western universities proceeds apace. Only this month, Cambridge University and the University of Edinburgh each announced the creation of an Islamic studies center funded by and named after Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
But if the ad's immediate purpose may have been to cast the appearance of a papal blessing over the growing Saudi presence on Western campuses, it also served a larger Saudi aim. The Saudi monarchy has begun using the model of the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church to position itself as the authoritative voice of Islam worldwide. This is new. In the history of Sunni Islam, theological authority has been located in various centers, but never in the House of Saud.
In 2006, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, in a letter to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, quoted the king as referring to his government as the "Vatican of Islam." The implication is that Saudi Arabia is not only hallowed ground as host of the two holiest Muslim sites, but also the arbiter of Islamic orthodoxy.
The recent ad directly supports this power play. It sets up visual parallels between the pope and the king, the Vatican and Mecca. A slogan at the bottom reads, "Two great faiths, Sharing one cause: humanity." Using its control of the hajj and the vast wealth it pours into foreign evangelism, funding mosques, schools, libraries, and academic centers worldwide, the House of Saud is patiently pursuing its quest to make the Saudi variant of Islam--Wahhabism, with its warrant for the murder of heretics, apostates, and infidels--the Muslim norm. This is the ad's chilling subtext.
The latest Saudi publicity stunt should not be dismissed as merely a boorish hoax. It offers a useful glimpse of the ambitions and methods of the Saudi state, which deserve to be taken seriously.
Nina Shea is director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom.
That's what they pray for five times a day, so guess who their prophet, and their allah are?
Islam is never idle. The savage events in Nigeria proves that muslims don’t have to be a majority to spread the only thing they excelled in practicing, the legacy of their thug prophet and the allah he created on his own image. Death, destruction, looting, kidnapping and raping of little girls. Which they call the islamization through the kafirs’ vagina.
Their “No compulsion in religion,” garbage, is true, since islam is anything but religion. Except the kidnapping religion, the little girls vagina’s religion, the burning of Churches religion, the looting and destruction of Christian businesses and homes religion, the beheadings religion, the subversion and deception religion, the evil’s religion, and the total desolation religion.
I’m sorry for using some explicit language, but you can’t know islam unless you can stomach its filth. Pretending or refusing to see it won’t change its reality. It will still hit you, and even more, in your back while you’re not looking. Besides, I’m not inventing the wheel; it’s all in the Koran. In case you don’t know it yet, the Koran is not only the macabre killing manual that is known to be, it