Iraqi Christians forced to pay ‘protection tax’.
Muslims enforcing Islamic law requiring tribute or conversion.
The newest report said Muslims in the Dora neighborhood are forcing Assyrians, who also are known as Chaldeans and Syriacs, but who largely are Christian, to pay the jizya, the poll tax demanded by the Quran.
Christians – and Jews – must pay the tax “in exchange for being allowed to live and practice their faith as well as being entitled to ‘Muslim protection’ from outside aggression,” the agency reported.
People have been warned by these insurgents to uninstall the satellite dishes since this is ‘haram’ [forbidden] is Islam, they are telling people to convert, leave, pay ‘jizya’ taxation, or die.
Such tributes have been collected since the arrival of Islam in 630 A.D.
40 percent of the refugees fleeing Iraq are Christian.
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WorldNetDaily: Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily
WASHINGTON – While the military “quagmire” in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups have produced estimates based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That’s 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863. Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to the Department of Defense.
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The Arabist » Muslim Brothers: so hot right now
As they face one of the biggest crackdowns in decades and the military trial of some of their top funders begins, the Egyptian Muslim Brothers are attracting ever more attention. There is a long piece in the NY Times Magazine — a pretty decent and sympathetic portrait of the group and some of its personalities, even if it is generally inconclusive — that looks at their recent pro-reform parliamentary record and what various members of the group say about issues such as alcohol, Copts, and so on. James Traub, the author of the piece, is working on a book on democracy promotion and it shows: there are references to the Bush administration’s stance towards the MB, which Traub posits as being at odds with the Forward Agenda for Freedom (Bushspeak for democracy promotion.) To me it seems the democracy promotion angle (a US policy issue) is a bit awkwardly tackled to the more general look at the Brothers’ democratic credentials, but of course it’s an interesting issue.
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The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people—many times more numerous than the agents of Osama bin Ladin—who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the strictures of militant Islam. Although not responsible for the atrocities in September, they harbor designs for this country that warrant urgent and serious attention.
In June 1991, Siraj Wahaj, a black convert to Islam and the recipient of some of the American Muslim community’s highest honors, had the privilege of becoming the first Muslim to deliver the daily prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives. On that occasion he recited from the Qur’an and appealed to the Almighty to guide American leaders “and grant them righteousness and wisdom.”
A little over a year later, addressing an audience of New Jersey Muslims, the same Wahaj articulated a rather different vision from his mild and moderate invocation in the House. If only Muslims were more clever politically, he told his New Jersey listeners, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. “If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. . . . [T]ake my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.” In 1995, Wahaj served as a character witness for Omar Abdel Rahman in the trial that found that blind sheikh guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States. More alarming still, the U.S. attorney for New York listed Wahaj as one of the “unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators” in the sheikh’s case.
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A quick expanse of the hotspots in the Islamic world reveals a very repulsive and distressful drama unf olding very silently and unnoticeably. 6th of June marked the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Six Day War according to the civil calendar. So how did the Palestinians acknowledge this significant date? They tore each other apart this time, unable to penetrate through the thick walls, the desire for blood now turns to their own. Of course, this ongoing conflict provides a ready made excuse for all the problems of Arab societies ranging from the national to the deeply personal. As Egyptian columnist Wael Abdel Fattah wrote in the independent weekly Al-Fagr newspaper that Arabs blame the defeat for “everything” – from “price hikes, dictatorship, religious extremism, sectarian strife, even sexual impotence.” The heavy fighting, pitting forces loyal to Palestinian Presid ent Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, against members of the Islamist Hamas movement, have not only revived fears of an intra-Palestinian civil war, but they have shattered the dream of the Palestinians gaining independence and ruling themselves as a sovereign nation at any time in the foreseeable future.
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Until the so called “religion” of Islam gets its act together and reels in the “ones that hijacked the religion” it needs to be placed on hold from developing any further in this non-Islamic country of the United States.
By Randy Taylor, Independent Analyst
9 June 2007: I remember as a child in school, the discussion of perpetual motion. For this editorial, I’ll stand by my belief that all motion has to have a starting point. True, it applies to objects but it also applies here as once this thing called Jihad was set into motion, it hasn’t stopped. It hasn’t even slowed down. Like unwanted weeds it is choking the lawn of freedom and democracy and squeezing the life out of what is good. But unlike weeds, this is going to be hard if not impossible to do away with.
Why? It’s because we refuse to identify the root cause of this Islamic terrorism problem.
In 2001 most Americans received their first real wake up call to the Jihad, were finally introduced in a most savage manner to al Qaeda and since have been repeatedly attacked by Islam. I mention all three because they are the Trilogy of Terror known as Islam, al Qaeda and the Jihad. One cannot survive without the other two. They are one.
The Jihad has been going on for decades but since September 11, 2001 this Islamic invasion of terrorism has spread like wild fire throughout the world and has become quite obvious, quite apparent. We knew of some regions where there were problems like Sudan, Afghanistan, Kenya, the Philippines and a few other areas such as Somalia and of course Palestine. Since that time it has grown and developed in an organized fashion in almost every country in the world. Growing like weeds, out of control. All of this was carefully orchestrated by the Islamic ideologues long ago. It was decided that Iran would be the base of the Caliphate and the oil rich country would provide the financing for terrorism and weapons development in their quest.
In order to exterminate the weeds of terror one must look very closely at the root system. This is the problem with the way the western world is looking at it. The governments, the people, the ones protecting us haven’t properly identified the roots of Islamic terrorism. Anything can be exterminated if you get to the roots. If you choose to leave it be and only defend against it, you still have to know the root of it, the identifying signs of its presence.
The unknowing, the “ignorant in their bliss” types continue to blame a small element in Islam which they refer to as “militant Islam”, the “few that have hijacked the religion” or al Qaeda. Let’s examine that closely and with a few simple facts, a little math and common sense you will see the “root system” of this Islamic growth. Until you acknowledge and decide to confront the “root system”, you cannot effectively protect yourself from it. Because of this refusal to identify, we are allowing terrorism to manifest, to grow.
There is a misconception that al Qaeda is the root of Islamic evil. Oh, granted, they are quite evil but simply being named al Qaeda or “The Base” doesn’t effectively shed light on the “base” or root system. Al Qaeda is only part of the problem. They didn’t start the fire. They were the accelerant on the fire. Some Islamic pedophile “prophet” named Mohammed started the fire, centuries ago. The rest have capitalized on it.
Fact: If we were to eliminate al Qaeda, Islamic terrorism (the Jihad) would still be present as it is today.
Fact: If we were to kill Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Islamic terrorism (the Jihad) would still be present as it is today.
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The Islamic religion has a long history of myth making. The claim they are the fastest growing religion in the world is pure myth. We have collected the latest statistics from David A. Barrett’s huge two volume, “World Christian Encyclopedia”, the 2001 AD edition. In case you haven’t heard of this work, it is the world standard for religious statistics.
Muslim’s claim that their growth rate is 235 percent and 47 percent for Christianity. This statistic came from the Readers Digest Almanac and Yearbook 1983, and represents 235 percent increase over 50 years. Muslims always leave off the 50 year fact to make it appear they are going 235% every year. A simple review of the readers Digest study shows that the growth rate of Islam vs. Christianity is directly linked to the birth rate in Third World countries where Islam dominates and not actual conversions to each religion. Christianity has always been larger than Islam. These statistics from Readers Digest are over 20 years old. Further, we do not consider readers digest to be an authority on such matters. Why will Muslims not quote real authoritative statistics from certified research groups who show Islam is not the fastest growing religion in 3/4’s of the worlds countries.
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And there’s the rub: Not that our cultural relativists would admit to it, but the concept of truth in Arab culture is extremely elastic. Al-Ghazzali, “the famous 11th-century Muslim theologian, claimed that the lie is not wrong in itself. If the lie is the way to achieve good results, then it is permissible. It is necessary to lie when the truth might lead to unpleasant or undesired results,” writes Dr. David Bukay. More recently, Arab sociologist Sania Hamady (Katz, 2002) has documented the low value attached to truth in Arab culture. Feelings, flights of fancy and fabrications are integral to Arab discourse. Lies are also potent political weapons, having successfully achieved the delegitimization of Israel, for instance. Clearly, Muslim leaders have learned that Westerners demand nothing more than a denunciation of terrorism. So they denounce – and get on with the business of Jihad (which is, like Shari’a, an essential tenet of true Islam).
Since two-facedness is both a way of life and a political strategy, there’s nothing extraordinary about the countless Muslim leaders who pose as moderates, forswear terrorism, and then do what the Quran commands: “instill terror in the hearts of unbelievers” (8:12). Both Serge Krifkovic (author of “The Sword of the Prophet”) and Paul Sperry (“Infiltration”) have traced the trajectory of these “moderate” Muslims, as they’ve gone from “the White House to the Big House.” Embraced by American presidents, Sami Al-Arian, Abdurahman M. Alamoudi and Muzammil H. Siddiqi, to name but a few, represent a sample of the crème de la crème of “moderate” Islam in America. The first now awaits trial for heading the U.S branch of Islamic Jihad. The second “pleaded guilty of plotting terrorist acts with Libya.” The third is a dyed-in-the-wool radical (or simply true to The Faith), advising Muslims to work to establish Shari’a in the U.S.
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Lying in Islam
By Abdullah Al Araby
Like most religions, Islam in general, forbids lying. The Quran says, “Truly Allah guides not one who transgresses and lies.” Surah 40:28. In the Hadith, Mohammed was also quoted as saying, “Be honest because honesty leads to goodness, and goodness leads to Paradise. Beware of falsehood because it leads to immorality, and immorality leads to Hell.”
However, unlike most religions, within Islam there are certain provisions under which lying is not simply tolerated, but actually encouraged. The book “The spirit of Islam,” by the Muslim scholar, Afif A. Tabbarah was written to promote Islam. On page 247, Tabbarah stated: “Lying is not always bad, to be sure; there are times when telling a lie is more profitable and better for the general welfare, and for the settlement of conciliation among people, than telling the truth. To this effect, the Prophet says: ‘He is not a false person who (through lies) settles conciliation among people, supports good or says what is good.”
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Attack forces U.N. from earthquake zone
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The U.N. halted operations in part of earthquake-hit Kashmir after assailants burned down a staff residence amid protests of aid organizations employing women, officials said Wednesday.
No one was hurt in the attack Monday in Bagh, a town affected by the October 2005 quake that killed thousands in Pakistan and India, U.N. spokeswoman Raabya Amjad said.
She said 83 staff had been evacuated from the area, although emergency services were continuing.
She said groups who had failed to win contracts from aid agencies were inciting local residents against them, but declined to be more specific.
However, police said the trouble began when residents seized two women employed by a Western aid group in the company of a man near the town last week and handed them over to police, accusing them of “spreading obscenity,” said Mohammed Arif, the town police chief.
According to residents, a local cleric then led a demonstration against nongovernment organizations, demanding that they not employ women. Arif confirmed the protest but declined to give details.
A statement from the world body said it intended to improve its contacts with local authorities and community leaders and better inform people about its activities.
It said it would resume normal operations “when the situation improves.”
Conservative clerics in Pakistan regularly complain about the employment of women in NGOs, accusing then of importing Western ideas and undermining Islamic culture.
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