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Alabama Judge imposes maximum 15-year prison sentences for American Muslims plotting jihad

Born in the USA. Educated, lacking for nothing -- so what possibly went wrong? How did these American Muslims come to "misunderstand" Islam in the exact same way as millions of other devout Muslims across the world? Downright mystifying. It's a brain twister, all right.

"Judge imposes maximum 15-year prison sentences for Alabama-hatched terrorism plot," By Brendan Kirby, All Alabama.com, December 20, 2013

Citing a lack of remorse and a failure to renounce their intentions to commit violent jihad abroad, a federal judge Friday sentenced a pair of silent men to the maximum punishment for a plot hatched in Alabama.



 





Randy “Rasheed” Wilson and Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair, both 26, will spend 15 years in prison for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and then will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for three years.

U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose said she read hundreds of pages of recorded conversations and intercepted emails from the defendants and searched for evidence that they were “just talking a big game.” And, she added that she had reserved judgment, hoping they would renounce their intentions.

“Unfortunately, there is no other reasonable conclusion that (their conversations) were for the primary purpose of committing violent jihad,” she said. “I don’t have to speculate about that.”

At one point, prosecutors had asked for two days for the sentencing hearing. In the end, the lawyers did most of their arguing through written submissions to the court, and the hearing was over in less than half an hour.

Each defendant rose individually to hear his sentence. Neither said a word or expressed any emotion. Wilson, sporting a longer beard than the one he had when authorities arrested him at the Atlanta airport last year, gave a slight smirk toward his family as federal marshals led him out of the courtroom. His relatives declined to comment after the hearing.

Federal law enforcement officials welcomed the judge’s decision.

“The United States remains vigilant and will continue to investigate individuals who take action to materially support terrorist organizations around the world,” U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown said in a prepared statement. “Those who materially support the violence of terror groups will be brought to justice.”

Stephen Richardson, the special agent in charge of the FBI office in Mobile said in his own statement: “This terrorism investigation sends a resounding message to all those individuals who wish to participate in terrorism acts and cause us harm that our resolve to both pursue them and protect the American people from the violent threats they pose is unwavering.”

According to prosecutors, Abukhdair moved from his home in Syracuse, N.Y., to Egypt and struck up an online friendship with Wilson in 2010 centered on their extremist views of Islam. Wilson, a convert to the religion, is from Mobile and spent time in Birmingham as a child before returning home. He converted after his mother married a Muslim. He, himself, is married to a convert and has two young children.

Abukhdair moved to Mobile after Egyptian authorities arrested and deported him. The two spent months discussing the best country to move to in order to defend Islam, according to court records. They then tried to board a plane for Africa.

The FBI began monitoring them in 2011, using a pair of undercover agents posing as a married Muslim couple who had just moved to Mobile. The male agent approached Wilson at the car lot where he was working at the time. A “confidential human source” – someone who knew Wilson from the Mobile area – also fed information to investigators.

After considering a large number of countries, Wilson and Abukhdair settled on a plan to move to the African nation of Mauritania, where they would be well-positioned to join an Islamic uprising in neighboring Mali, according to court records.

Rick Yelverton, a court-appointed attorney for Abukhdair, said his client had asked that he not put up a defense. “He’s a kind person,” Yelverton told the judge. “And I’m saying this on my own without his permission.”

Attorney Dom Soto, who represented Wilson, noted that authorities had stationed sharpshooters near the courthouse and taken other extraordinary security measures Friday.

“There’s a lot of external stuff driving this, as opposed to this young man from DIP (Dauphin Island Parkway),” he said.

Soto focused his argument on what his client did not do. Unlike others convicted of terrorism charges in the United States, he said, Wilson did not go to a terrorism training camp, try to acquire weapons, reveal sensitive information or make contact with a terrorism organization.

The prosecution’s entire case, Soto said, boils down to “speculative” and “vague” jihad intentions.

“I’d ask you to look at who he is and not what the (advisory sentencing) guidelines say. … It’s important that you punish Randy Wilson and not Osama bin Laden,” he said.

DuBose pointed out that Wilson and Abukhdair discussed their hatred of America, wished for the death of Americans and expressed admiration of bin Laden, the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks.

But that, DuBose said, is not a crime. The crime involved a sophisticated plan to move to a foreign country and wage violent jihad, she said. It was a plan they started to put in place when they bought plane tickets and tried to leave the country, she added.

DuBose said she believes the likelihood of recidivism is high due to the defendants’ refusal to renounce those plans.

“For these reasons, I feel the harsh sentence of 15 years is justified in both cases,” she said.

The defendants have 14 days to file a notice of appeal, but they signed away most of those rights when they agreed to plead guilty. The only avenue for appeal is to argue ineffective assistance of their lawyers.

Canada Wants U.N. Official Ousted Over ‘Palestinian Holocaust’ Comment

The UN appoints vicious anti-semites to these positions, ie "U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories". Always these positions are given over to these horrible bastards. This is not a lone incident. This is representative of the UN. The irony is that the UN was established in the wake of the genocide of the Jews during World War II. The goal of the world body was supposed to be "never again".  But it's painfully clear that their objective now is "the sooner, the better."

And why is it always Canada that stands up righteously? Where's the US statement on this? After Harper, who will speak?

Canada Wants U.N. Official Ousted Over ‘Palestinian Holocaust’ Comment," The Jewish Press, December 21, 2013 (thanks to Mark)

Ottawa “completely rejects and condemns” the “appalling” remarks made by Richard Falk, U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said in a statement. Canada has previously called for Falk to be fired “for his numerous outrageous and anti-Semitic statements,” Baird said, “and these [latest] comments underscore once more the complete and total absurdity of his service as a UN Special Rapporteur.” Baird again called on the U.N. Human Rights Council “to remove Falk from his position immediately.” In a Dec. 15 interview on Russia’s English television news channel RT, Falk was asked about a past article he had written in which he said that Israel was “slouching toward nothing less than a Palestinian holocaust.” Falk told RT, “When you target a group, an ethnic group and inflict this kind of punishment upon them, you are in effect nurturing a kind of criminal intention that is genocidal.” Baird said the comments not only “undermine the fundamental values of the United Nations, they also belittle the terrible genocides that have tragically taken place throughout history and around the world.” Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor also attacked Falk’s statements, The Jerusalem Post reported. “This man has already branded himself as the radical version of extremism,” Palmor said.

Saturday Night Cinema Feature One: Sarah's Key

Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema selection is so powerful a story, it is one of only two times that I have run a movie that you'll have to pay to watch ($2.99). The money does not go to Atlas, it's a rental fee, but if you have not seen the movie Sarah's Key or read the book, then you must watch this film.

It is a horror film of a whole other sort.

How many more millions of devastating stories are there out there that have never been told or seen the light of day?

Nigeria: Muslims "Kill More Children in Their Sleep" Muslim Herdsmen join forces with Foreign Jihadists, "the terrorism being witnessed in the country is purely in pursuit of Jihad"

Herdsmen in Nigeria,  rappers in Germany, doctors in Glasgow,  chemical engineering students in Canada, heart surgeons in Saudi Arabia, university students in Britain, imams in America and so forth - what brings these wildly different people together? Jihad. From the Sahara to the Kalahari, London to Lisbon, Manhattan to Madrid, Bali to Boston, Tiananmen Square to Thailand, Myanmar to Malaysia, Nairobi to Nigeria  ..... no matter what the background, upringing, schooling, wealth or poverty, color, what have you. It doesn't matter. The understanding of Islam and jihad is the same and it is the motive, the incitement to this monstrous war on the West and and the East and all points in between.

If the world was a s concerned with the mass slaughter of non-Muslims by jihadists as they are about the fictional narrative of "islamophobia" we might begin to defeat this enemy of humanity.

Terrorist Influence on Herdsmen Seen in Killing of 12 Christians in Nigeria," By Morningstar Nes Nigeriam Correspondant, December 20, 2013

Ethnic Fulanis kill more children as they sleep

Photo: Chom Philip, wounded in Muslim Fulani attack on predominantly Christian town of Gwol. (Morning Star News)

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – As violence against Christians hit in central Nigeria again this week, there are indications that Muslim Fulani herdsmen are working with Islamic extremist groups made up in part of foreigners.

The Rev. Yiman Orkwar, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Makurdi in Benue state, told Morning Star News that Fulani herdsmen seem to have joined forces with Islamic extremist groups. "From all indications, the terrorism being witnessed in the country is purely in pursuit of Jihad," Orkwar said. "In Benue state, Fulani terrorists in collaboration with Boko Haram and other foreign mercenaries are causing wanton destruction of lives and property."

Boko Haram, a Nigerian rebel group that includes mercenaries from Chad, Niger and Cameroon, seeks to impose a strict version of sharia (Islamic law) throughout Nigeria, and the terrorist organization has ties to Al Qaeda. Ethnic Fulani herdsmen, some of them from outside of Nigeria, are carrying out their assaults in military camouflage and armed with sophisticated weapons.

On Tuesday night (Dec. 17) in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, a group of eight such gunmen killed six members of extended families in their home in Foron, five of them children.

In the slaughter in the Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, the Muslim Fulani herdsmen in military camouflage also wore bullet-proof vests, Christian survivors said. Deborah Stephen, 28, lost her 4-year-old son, Promise Stephen, she told Morning Star News. Her daughter, Mary Stephen, 6, was in critical condition at a hospital.

Stephen was away on a business trip when the gunmen broke into the home she shares with other relatives at about 9 p.m., she said. She had called her family just 20 minutes before the slaughter to let them know she would return the next morning; she rushed back to the village that night after learning of the attack.

“I found out that Miracle Ishaya [2 years old, killed in the attack] had his intestines spilled on his bed as he was shot in his stomach,” Stephen said. “I was also told by relatives that the Muslim gunmen who attacked our home were eight, and that they wore military camouflage and bullet- proof vests.”

Also killed were Bidami Ishaya, 10; Jerry Dalyop, 8; Izine Emeka, 6; and John David, 30, she said. Contrary to official statements that a married couple and their four children were killed in the attack, Stephen said David was the only adult killed in the onslaught.

Besides Stephen’s daughter, also wounded were Dalyop Gyang, 40, and Titi Gyang, 65. Stephen said Titi Gyang is her mother.

At Plateau State Specialist Hospital in Jos, Stephen told Morning Star News that she and her children were members of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Kuru Jenta, while her mother and other Christian victims were members of Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Foron Junction.

Her 6-year-old daughter underwent a second surgery on Friday (Dec. 20).

Dominic Esin, a spokesman for the Plateau Police Command, confirmed the deadly attack to Morning Star News.

Also in Barkin Ladi, on Dec. 14 Fulani herdsmen attacked the predominantly Christian town of Gwol, killing two Christians and wounding a third, 23-year-old Chom Philip, who is also receiving treatment at the Specialist Hospital in Jos. From his hospital bed he told Morning Star News that the attack took place at about 7 p.m.

“I had gone out to a nearby kiosk to our house to buy phone card for my mobile phone when the Muslim gunmen suddenly began shooting us,” Philip said. “When I was hit by the bullets, I crawled under a parked car, and that was how I survived the attack. The other two Christians, whose names I do not know, were killed instantly.”

Philip said he is a member of the COCIN congregation at Nding-Loh, Barkin Ladi. He told Morning Star News that his father, Philip Gyang Pam, had been killed by Muslim gunmen in 2001 in Nding-Loh.

In Tixkan village, also in Barkin Ladi, Muslim herdsmen on Dec. 11 killed four other Christians, according to the Rev. Pam Jang Pam of the COCIN in Foron. He identified them as Garos Bitrus, Nzang Bitrus, Davou Bitrus, and Simon Magit.

Emmanuel Loman, a Christian leader in Barkin Ladi, told Morning Star News that the several months of such attacks have devastated Christian communities in the area.

“This is a very sad development,” Loman said. “How long will these attacks continue?”

Plateau officials on Nov. 24 had alerted Christians that Muslim extremists planned to carry out massive attacks on Christians in Jos and in other parts of the state during Christmas and New Year celebrations. Gov. Jonah Jang sounded the alert while speaking during a worship service at COCIN headquarters in Jos.

“Recent security reports available to the government point to the fact that some terrorists want to take the advantage of this Christmas to attack Plateau,” Jang said. “We must be watchful; we must not go to sleep, because keeping peace is not the job of government alone. We must report suspicious characters in our midst, and that’s the only way we can defeat them.”

Islamic extremist marauders have long attacked Christians in Plateau, Bauchi, Kaduna, Taraba and Adamawa states. In Kaduna state in northern Nigeria, Muslim Fulani herdsmen dressed in military fatigues on Dec. 12 attacked the Christian community of Bara in Sanga Local Government Area, said Dan Amos, chairman of the Sanga Local Government Council.

The assailants wounded security guards keeping watch over the house of the late Gen. Luka Yusuf, a Christian who served in the Nigerian Army.

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From July 5 to July 7, Fulani Muslim herdsmen killed 60 Christians in Guma area villages, displacing about 7,000 Christians, church leaders said. Frank Usa Adii, chairman of the Guma Local Government Council, told Morning Star News that most of the displaced are women, children and the elderly.

“Christians are being attacked and killed every now and then in the villages,” he said. “The situation is bad because we actuallly have a serious refugee situation in our hands at the moment, considering that over 7,000 persons have been displaced by these attacks.”

Read the whole thing here.

 

New Video Series, German Jihadi Abu Talha Discusses Life And Jihad In Syria

The future of reality television. Move over, Kim Kardashian.

In Part I Of New Video Series, German Jihadi Abu Talha Discusses Life And Jihad In Syria MEMRI

On December 13, 2013, the Global Islamic Jihad Forum (GIMF) released what it said was the first video in a series called 'Al-Rahma Fi Bilad Al-Sham' about daily life in Al-Sham (Syria). In the video, German jihadi Abu Talha Al-Almani discusses current conditions in Syria and the problems experienced by the local people. He says that the purpose of the series is to provide the Muslim brothers with firsthand information from Syria.

Abu Talha in the video

In the video, Abu Talha, speaking in German, greets the sisters and brothers in Europe, Germany, America, France, Russia and all over the world.

He says that there are many places in Syria with no electricity and that Allah has supplied him and his comrades with a generator, so they will be able to continue their da'wa work and 'let the brothers and sisters around the world know what is happening in Al-Sham.' He states that is very important to conduct da'wa with the local people, and says that every day they go out and speak with the brothers about Islam, democracy, and shari'a.

 

The Role of the Mosque and the Muslim Community in an Honor Killing

 

 

Extended members of the woman’s family accused her of “disgraceful and outrageous acts” in a petition that was widely circulated in her village of Deir Al Ghusun, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem.

The petition demanded Ms. Zeidan’s father, Munther, “reinstate the cultural and religious morals in his family.”

It was posted in five local mosques during Friday prayer and signed by more than 50 relatives, including Abed Al-Rahman Zeidan, a Palestinian lawmaker.

“My husband was under tremendous pressure,” said Ms. Zeidan’s mother, Laila. “The family wanted to banish us from the West Bank and people started rumours that my husband wasn‎‎’t mentally stable.”

Reacting to demands to restore the family’s honour, Munther killed his daughter.

Of course, as a non-Muslim, I would sooner suffer exile and live in a cave than kill a child. But I am not a Muslim .... and therein lies the problem. It is very much an Islamic tradition enforced, not just by family, but community and mosque.

Honor killings are sanctioned under Islam. But no one is allowed to address it. My ads (above) that are designed to increase awareness of honor killings are prohibited from running in the US and Canada for fear of offending ...... honor killers? Those who sanctioned honor violence?

Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide.

The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but "the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour 'provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.'" And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values." (Source: Jihadwatch).

It matters that honor killing has Islamic sanction. Robert Spencer explains here:

In light of all this, until authorities get the courage to tell the truth about honor killing, there will be many more such murders.

A manual of Islamic law certified by Al-Azhar as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right." However, "not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).

In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. In accord with this, in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."

And related to the practice is this:

"The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used not to kill the children, so thou shouldst not kill them unless you could know what Khadir had known about the child he killed, or you could distinguish between a child who would grow up to he a believer (and a child who would grow up to be a non-believer), so that you killed the (prospective) non-believer and left the (prospective) believer aside." -- Sahih Muslim Book 019, Number 4457

Khadir, or Khidr, figures in sura 18 of the Qur'an. He is traveling with Moses, and: "Then they proceeded: until, when they met a young man, he [Khadir] slew him. Moses said: "Hast thou slain an innocent person who had slain none? Truly a foul (unheard of) thing hast thou done!" Khadir replies: "As for the youth, his parents were people of Faith, and we feared that he would grieve them by obstinate rebellion and ingratitude (to Allah and man). So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in purity (of conduct) and closer in affection...." (18:74, 18:80-81).

Why does it matter that the practice of honor killing has Islamic sanction? Because if the roots of honor killing are never discussed and always ignored, the practice will never stop. Until the Islamic roots of the practice are discussed openly and human rights groups begin calling for reform, honor killings will continue in the Islamic world -- and in Muslim communities in the West.

"Anatomy of an ‘honour’ killing: Why a Palestinian community demanded a father murder his divorced daughter," By Diana Atallah, The Media Line | December 19, 2013 (thanks to Gisele)

Thamar Zeidan was murdered by her father when he choked her to death as she took an afternoon nap in their small, conservative West Bank village.

“Honour crimes” are rarely talked about in Palestinian society, but Ms. Zeidan’s mother and sister have gone public to highlight the case and reveal the immense pressure her father came under to commit the crime.

Extended members of the woman’s family accused her of “disgraceful and outrageous acts” in a petition that was widely circulated in her village of Deir Al Ghusun, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem.

The petition demanded Ms. Zeidan’s father, Munther, “reinstate the cultural and religious morals in his family.”

It was posted in five local mosques during Friday prayer and signed by more than 50 relatives, including Abed Al-Rahman Zeidan, a Palestinian lawmaker.

“My husband was under tremendous pressure,” said Ms. Zeidan’s mother, Laila. “The family wanted to banish us from the West Bank and people started rumours that my husband wasn‎‎’t mentally stable.”

Reacting to demands to restore the family’s honour, Munther killed his daughter, Laila Zeidan said.

“My husband is a peaceful man and this is completely out of character, but the pressure was too intense.”

There have been 27 “honour crimes” in Palestinian areas this year, compared with 13 last year, according to organizations who keep track of such murders.

My husband is a peaceful man and this is completely out of character, but the pressure was too intense

“It’s not clear that honour killing is on the rise, but we can say that documenting such cases has improved and police and media are more aware of them,“ said Surayda Hassan, the general director of the Women Affairs Technical Committee.

Ms. Zeidan, 32, was killed in September, but her family are only now speaking out to highlight the tragedy and bring public attention to “honour killings,” which are a sensitive subject in Palestinian society.

Ms. Zeidan divorced her husband four years ago and moved back in with her parents. However, to gain her freedom she had to give up custody of her three children.

Problems began when she became friendly with Iyad Na’lweh, a labourer who worked in Israel. He was married, but promised to make Ms. Zeidan his second wife, which is legal in Islamic law.

Although she wanted to marry him, her family objected, saying he had a drinking problem.

On the night of Sept. 17, Mr. Na’lweh was seen outside Ms. Zeidan’s house. Rumours, many of them false, began to spread.

“People said they had been together in her room for the past three days, but that’s impossible,” Laila Zeidan said. “In fact I had been in the hospital and she spent the past three days in my room there.”

Men from the neighbourhood attacked Mr. Na’lweh and he ran into the house. The police were called and the attackers, who believed they were defending her honour, were arrested.

The men were later released and Ms. Zeidan was taken to Ramallah by her sister and brother-in-law so matters could calm down. But then the petition began circulating.

He told us she will be safe and he won’t surrender to the family’s pressure

Its aim was to protect the honour of the Zeidan family, which is conservative and has its own customs and traditions, Abed Al-Rahman Zeidan, the lawmaker who signed it, told Maan, a Palestinian news agency. However, he denounced “honour killings” as a violation of Islamic teaching.

Ms. Zeidan’s mother said she hoped she could appease relatives by disciplining her daughter.

“I wanted my husband to discipline her. We took away her phone and limited her movement,” she said.

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Munther Zeidan later drove to Ramallah to bring his daughter home.

“He told us she will be safe and he won’t surrender to the family’s pressure,” said her sister, Suad.

However, the father then killed his daughter.

“My father doesn’t understand that he will go straight to hell now,” said Suad Zeidan.

After the killing, Munther Zeidan went to the local police station and turned himself in.

Later, the family found a letter he had written, outlining his plan to kill his daughter. It stated he held those who circulated the petition against the family to be responsible.

“Don’t hold any kind of funeral for my daughter, and don’t let those who signed the petition into my house,” the letter said.

Ms. Zeidan’s brother-in-law, Zaher Mohammed, said the family was outraged at the people behind the petition.

“Thamar’s sisters kicked relatives who came to pay their respects out of their house. They were angry because they believe these were the same people who helped spread gossip that led to killing Thamar,” he said.

For some of the relatives, the death was a cause for celebration. Ms. Zeidan’s aunt held a feast celebrating that the family’s honour had been restored.

Ms. Zeidan’s mother said she visits her husband weekly in jail, where he is awaiting trial for murder.

Suad Seidan said the family does not discuss the case when they see him.

“We avoid talking about it as he is suffering physically,” she said. “He only recently stopped crying.”

 

9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia

In the wake of the recently released suppressed 911 reports -- every family member of every 9/11 victim should sue. George W. Bush has to answer for this cover-up. 

"9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia" Yahoo, December 20, 2013

Families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks today celebrated a federal court's ruling that allows relatives of people who died in the 9/11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia.

Most of the hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 were from Saudi Arabia, and the complaint states that much of the funding for the al-Qaeda terrorists came from Saudi Arabia.

An attempt to Saudi Arabia in 2002 was blocked by a federal court ruling that said the kingdom had sovereign immunity. That ruling was reversed Thursday by a three-judge federal panel.

"I'm ecstatic.... For 12 years we've been fighting to expose the people who financed those bastards," said William Doyle, the father of Joseph Doyle, 25, a Cantor-Fitzgerald employee who was killed in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

"Christmas has come early to the 9/11 families. We're going to have our day in court," he told ABCNews.com.

The ruling struck down an earlier decision that found Saudi Arabia immune from lawsuits. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it's in the "interests of justice" to allow them to proceed.

Families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 attacks and insurers who lost billions of dollars covering damaged businesses have alleged Saudi Arabia bankrolled al-Qaeda, knowing the money would be used for terrorism.

The lawsuit, filed a decade ago by the Philadelphia firm Cozen O'Connor, accuses the Saudi government and members of the royal family of serving on charities that financed al-Qaeda operations.

 

Obama-backed Al Qaeda Commander: Syria Will Be Governed According To The Shari'a

Consistent with Obama's foreign policy: wherever Obama intervenes, Sharia is the horrible result. Every time, everywhere.

Even the New York Times is reporting: "Jihadist Leader Envisions an Islamic State in Syria"

MEMRI TV EXCLUSIVE: Jabhat Al-Nusra Commander Al-Joulani In First Ever Interview: Syria Will Be Governed According To The Shari'a

Following are excerpts from an interview with Jabhat Al-Nusra Commander Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani. The interview – the first ever to be held with Al-Joulani – was conducted by Tayseer Allouni, the former Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Kabul, who had been detained in Spain for seven years over charges of collaboration with Al-Qaeda. He was released following a European court ruling on January 17, 2012. The interview with Al-Joulani was aired by Al-Jazeera on December 18, 2013.

 

 

Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani: "In Jabhat Al-Nusra, we adhere to the shari'a, the Koran, and the Sunna. We strongly condemn whoever accuses the public of heresy. We believe that Muslim societies are indeed mostly Muslim. We believe that Syrian society is mostly Muslim. In Turkey, most of the society is Muslim, and the same goes for Egypt. This is the rule. We condemn whoever says that heresy is at the core of these societies. We punish whoever commits this [takfir] without knowledge and guidance from Allah."

Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV

"Moderate" Muslim Indonesia: New Rash of Church Closings, Hundreds of screaming Muslims hurled rocks, dirt, bags of urine at congregation as the police stood by and watched, Signs hanging at church "Jesus is a dog" "Kill the Christians"

For years, the world, including the United States, has lauded Indonesia as the prime example of a tolerant, Muslim democracy. Ludicrous. It's an insult to the victims of these savages.

"New Rash of Church Closings Sweeps Across Indonesia" By International Christian Concern, December 20, 2013 (thanks to Claude)

I watched as the pastor began to cry, tears welling up in his eyes as he described the scene to me. It was May 18th, 2012, and there were hundreds upon hundreds of screaming fanatics hurling rocks, dirt, and even bags filled with urine at his congregation as the police stood by and watched. Signs hanging near his church read "Jesus is a dog" and "Kill the Christians." The rioters claimed the pastor had never obtained the proper permits to operate his church, and the local government agreed, sealing the building and prohibiting the pastor and his congregation from ever returning.

 

My interview with Pastor Palti Panjaitan of the GKI Yasmin church was eye opening. For years the world, including the United States, has lauded Indonesia as the prime example of a tolerant, Muslim democracy. The largest Muslim-majority nation in the world, Indonesia embraces a welcoming political philosophy known as "Pancasila," composed of five "inseparable" principles, including social justice. The vicious attack Pastor Palti described hardly seemed synonymous with Indonesia's pristine reputation. After further investigation, it proved to merely be the tip of the iceberg.

 

Across Indonesia in 2012, International Christian Concern (ICC) found that at least 50 churches like Pastor Palti's were forcibly shut down, almost always under pressure from radical Islamic groups. These groups usually claim the church lacks the proper permits to operate, based on a 2006 zoning law that requires "places of worship" to obtain signatures of approval from surrounding neighbors. The law is well-known to be a charade, as it is almost never applied to anyone except religious minorities. It is also well-known among Indonesia's church leaders that obtaining a permit can be nearly impossible and usually requires hefty bribery of local officials. In 2012, I was told of one very large church which had to spend more than a million U.S. dollars to obtain a permit that is, officially at least, supposed to be free.

 

By early 2013, the closure of churches had begun to garner international attention. In March, photos and video of a Batak Protestant Christian church being demolished by the government was picked up by international news agencies. The video showed radical Muslims cheering and applauding as the building was torn apart, all while members of the congregation stood by and watched helplessly. The next month, ICC took the issue to Congress and the State Department. Soon after, reports of churches being sealed shut by local governments plummeted to almost zero.

 

That is, until three weeks ago. Now, seemingly out of nowhere, a new rash of church closings appears to be sweeping across Indonesia.   On Dec. 1, radicals belonging to the Islamic Defenders Front stormed a church service in North Sumatra, creating such havoc that the church members had to be escorted home by riot police. Future services were indefinitely suspended.

 

On Dec. 6, the Jakarta Globe reported that two new churches had been sealed shut, one in West Java and one in South Sulawesi. The church in South Sulawesi was subsequently demolished by local authorities, leaving hundreds of Christians in the area without a single church to attend.

 

Then on Monday, ICC received word that at least two more churches, located near Jakarta, had been forced to stop services by radicals last week, bringing the total number of closed churches to five in just three weeks.

 

The reason behind this month's rash of church closures, especially after seven months of relative quiet, is not exactly clear. It may be that the coming Christmas holiday has ignited always simmering anti-Christian sentiment among radical groups. In 2000, 16 were killed by bomb attacks on churches over the Christmas holiday.

 

On Monday, Indonesia's national police chief, General Sutarman, announced that 87,000 police personnel would be mobilized to "prevent disruptions to Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations." The majority of the police forces will be tasked with guarding churches and "other places of worship."

 

Yesterday, AsiaNews, a Catholic news service, also reported that an Islamic council in the province of Aceh had recently ordered Muslims not to participate in Christmas celebrations, calling the activities "forbidden."Aceh is the only province in Indonesia fully governed by Sharia law and was the site of several church closures last year.

 

The one thing that is clear is the need for an international spotlight to shine once again on what can only be defined as religious discrimination protected by badly misused legislation. Recent history has shown that without the glare of this spotlight, Indonesia's federal government has little, if any, incentive to protect its Christian population from mistreatment.  

Obama's Partner Muslim Brotherhood Terror-Prez Morsi linked to al-Qaeda Chief

I know ti's Pravda but the American press will never cover it. Obama is a huge supporter of the terrorist group the Muslims Brotherhood and the US press is voluntary state run media. Hence, no coverage.  The the recordings of these phone conversations will tell all.

Before the "election" the Obama administration warned Egypt's military leaders to speedily hand over power or risk losing billions of dollars in U.S. military and economic aid to the country. And Obama scrambled to save Morsi when  33 million Egyptians marched to oust Morsi (that was 22 million more than voted for the jihadist Egyptian prez).

Obama's unwavering support for terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group is so severe that he punished the Egyptian people for throwing off the the Islamic yoke of tyranny.  He suspended hundred of millions in military and other aid to punish the people of Egypt for throwing off the yoke of Islamic tyranny.

Obama's support for thr Muslim Brotherhood caused enormous anger in Egypt.

Not only do we need to hear the recorded conversations between Morsi and Al Qaeda leader Muhammad Al-Zawahiri, we need to hear the conversations between Morsi and Obama.

"Morsi linked to al-Qaeda?" By Giovanni Giacalone,  Pravda, Deember 19, 2013

Recordings of phone conversations between former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri could soon be released in detail.

In October 2013 Albawaba News claimed to be in possession of such recordings where ousted president Morsi committed to al-Qaeda's leader and made several promises which included avoiding the arrest of Jihadists and personal permission to open training camps for Jihad in the Sinai.

According to unspecified sources such conversations could soon become public, with dramatic consequences for Mohamed Morsi who is currently awaiting trial in a maximum security prison near Alexandria.

In addition, such leak would further compromise the image of a Muslim Brotherhood which is already strongly damaged by the Egyptian events of summer 2013, weakening the Organization's influence in the West and putting into serious doubt the theory that the Muslim Brotherhood could actually help in stopping al-Qaeda.

According to Albawaba news and Egyptian state sources Morsi also kept close contacts with Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the brother of Ayman and a former member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

Such sources also revealed details of phone conversations between the two: the first recording call between Mohamed Morsi and Muhammad Al-Zawahiri was from the presidential institution and lasted for 59 seconds. Morsi congratulated Al-Zawahiri on his release from jail and assured him that he won't be followed or observed by any Egyptian Authorities, because he is the president of Egypt and all the institutions of the country work under his orders and commands.

In another call, which lasted for 2 minutes and 56 seconds, Morsi informed Muhammad Al-Zawahiri about the Muslim Brotherhood's support for Al-Mojahidin (Islamist fighters) and explained the necessity that Islamist fighters support the Muslim Brotherhood  in order to succeed in ruling Egypt and they also discussed the necessity of Islamist putting their hands on all the joints of the Egyptian State, like the example of the Iranian regime.

Another call was recorded after one month and a half  from the previous and revealed a common plan between the presidency institution and the Muslim Brotherhood from one side and Al-Qaeda on the other side, in order to create cells inside the country  to protect the Ikhwani regime.

Always according to such sources Al-Zawahiri expressed the need to have training camps for militants in Sinai in order to support the Brotherhood. Morsi replied that the Muslim Brotherhood intended to form corps similar to the Revolutionary Guards with the objective of protecting his legitimacy. In addition he also expressed his will to safeguard Islamist cells in the Sinai.

Even though such recordings still need to be confirmed and become fully public there are elements that could make such claims quite credible.

In the first place it is true that a large number of Islamic extremists were released from prison under the Morsi government, including Muhammad al-Zawahiri. It is also important to recall how after elections  Morsi immediately expressed the will to work for the extradition to Egypt on humanitarian ground of the blind sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, convicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and detained in the United States.

After Morsi went to power violence towards religious minorities such as the Christian Copts largely increased, with several churches and properties vandalized and set on fire. The Sinai has turned from a tourist destination to a jihadi playground with at least 15 groups operating in the area, including Ansar Al-Jihad, Jund Al-Islam, Jaish al Islam and al Takfir Wal Hijra. The Egyptian authorities are still having problems in controlling the area and they have repeatedly come under attack, with hundreds of casualties since early 2011.

Some analysts also believe that Mohamed Morsi did look at Iran as an example of  an"Islamic state" which could be emulated and it's no secret that  in late December 2012  Iran's intelligence chief arrived in Cairo to meet with Egypt's political and intelligence leadership.

On Jannuary  9th 2013, the Western daily and the Australian reported that Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was advising the Morsi regime on how to establish intelligence agencies independent of Egypt's powerful military. The newspaper also said  that Morsy was frustrated by the refusal of the military-controlled agencies to cooperate with the new Muslim Brotherhood regime.