Pamela Geller's Blog, page 7

December 31, 2013

Happy New Year!

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Me? I am going to dance all night. *Clink* to the fight, freedom lovers.

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Published on December 31, 2013 15:43

‘Leave orphans’: Muslim bus bomber in Russia

This says it all about the enemy. And the West keeps kissing the ring of the OIC, CAIR, MS, MSU and Muslim jihad groups worldwide. This scourge must be defeated.
Weakness and submission is a suicide mission.


‘Leave orphans’: Twisted words of bus bomber," NY Post, December 31, 2013




‘Leave orphans’: Twisted words of bus bomber
Russian officials investigate the site of a bus bombing in Volgograd onMonday, the city’s second strike in 24 hours. Inset: Pavel Pechyonkin, ID’d as the train-depot bomber Photo: EPA

Russian investigators scoured the gutted remains of a trolley bus destroyed by a suicide bomber on Monday and said a former paramedic who converted to Islam and joined a terrorist underground was responsible for another horrific attack at a train station just hours before.


Fourteen people were killed in the bus blast in Volgograd, while 17 died in the explosion at the city’s train hub.


Officials said little about the bus bomber but identified the earlier attacker as Pavel Pechyonkin, who left a note to his mother and vanished from his home more than a year ago to join militants in the Dagestan region.


“I have come here only to make Allah happy, to earn heaven,” he said in a video posted on YouTube earlier this year after his parents pleaded with him in their own video to renounce terror.


“Why should we follow those Christian commandments, when Allah, may he be glorified, urges us to fight those kafirs [infidels]?” he added. “Why shouldn’t we leave their children orphans?”


Russian investigators believe Pechyonkin exploded the equivalent of 22 pounds of TNT at the Volgograd train station on Sunday.


A second suicide bomber, using explosives of the same type and amount, struck the trolley bus in the heart of the city still known to many Russians as Stalingrad, the site of a turning-point battle of World War II.


In addition to the dead, the bombings wounded 104 people, including 58 who remained hospitalized late Monday.


The attacks, coming a month before the Winter Olympics in Sochi, about 400 miles from Volgograd, are a major embarrassment for President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin leader is expected to order armed raids on militant targets in Dagestan — a center of terror activity and briefly home to the Boston Marathon bombers.


The White House said Monday that the United States was offering “full support” and “closer cooperation” with Russia on security preparations for the Olympics
— despite frigid relations between Washington and Moscow.


Australia became the first nation to publicly talk about backing out of Sochi. “We don’t want to lightly prevent our athletes participating in any event for which they’ve trained for years,” Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said.


“But their safety and the safety of their families and other spectators is of utmost concern.”

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Published on December 31, 2013 15:17

Fox News publishes piece whitewashing jihad violence and proselytizing for Ahmadi Islam

Qasim Rashid is an Ahmadi Muslim; I debated him here. Despite the fact that Ahmadis are persecuted, oppressed and slaughtered in Muslim countries, Qasim Rashid carries water for his oppressors and furthers the Islamic supremacist war against freedom of speech. He also whitewashes the Qur'an's justification for domestic abuse. Nuts.


Fox News publishes piece whitewashing jihad violence and proselytizing for Ahmadi Islam Robert Spencer at Jihadwatch



QasimRashid.jpg Qasim Rashid: War is deceit



Fair and balanced. Can you imagine Fox, or any other news outlet, running a piece like this proselytizing for Christianity? Exhorting people to revere and follow Pope Francis? Media Matters would be in an uproar, it would be all over the networks, and Fox would remove the piece and apologize. But this one is just fine with everyone.

"Meet the Muslim Mandela," by Qasim Rashid for Fox News, December 28:


A recent FoxNews.com op-ed asks, "Where is the Muslim Mandela?" While alleging that such a person does not exist, and that Muslims do not seek such a person, the piece provides a laundry list of injustices done by extremists in the name of Islam -- and holds 1.56 billion Muslims responsible.

Click on the link and read the piece to which Rashid is referring. He doesn't tell you that it is written by a reformist Muslim, Qanta Ahmed. Rashid caricatures Ahmed's piece as holding "1.56 billion Muslims responsible" for jihad terror, obscuring her valid and important point that peaceful Muslims who claim to reject jihad violence need to act against it rather than simply contenting themselves with issuing pro-forma condemnations.


Why would Rashid want to obscure that point? One clue may be in the fact that, although he is an Ahmadi, and thus a member of a group that mainstream Muslims violent persecute as heretical, he consistently carries water for his persecutors, whitewashing the reality of jihad violence and Sharia oppression. Rashid has lied about the Qur'an's sanction of deception of unbelievers; lied about the presence of violent passages in the Qur'an; lied about the Qur'an's sanction of beating disobedient women; lied about the nature of Sharia; and called for limitations on the freedom of speech and expression to outlaw behavior and speech some Muslims may find offensive. So it is hardly surprising, given these revealing indications of his true sentiments, that he would object to a piece calling upon peaceful Muslims to fight actively against jihad terrorists.



While the piece may have been well intentioned, it has some notable omissions.


It ignores that every faith has extremists. After all, the colonialists who championed South African apartheid were ostensibly Christian. The Lord’s Resistance Army is a Ugandan terrorist organization that has killed, maimed, raped, and displaced over 100,000 people -- all in the name of Christianity.


In Norway, Anders Breivik claimed he was a Christian warrior in his murderous rampage of 77 innocent people. Yet, somehow only Muslims are painted as potential extremists.



It is odd that Islamic supremacists like Rashid find these moral equivalence arguments so compelling, since they establish exactly nothing: even if one granted his point that "every faith has extremists" who are more or less equivalent to one another, would the existence of Christian extremists somehow excuse Muslims from the responsibility to clean their own house? If Christians do evil in the name of Christianity, does that somehow make it all right for Muslims to do evil in the name of Islam? Certainly atrocities have been committed in the name of all manner of religions and ideologies, but Rashid obscures the fact that while all the mainstream sects and schools of Islamic jurisprudence teach warfare against unbelievers and their subjugation under Sharia, no sect of Christianity teaches apartheid or killing, maiming, or raping.


Rashid is pretending that Muslims committing violence in the name of Islam are doing so in violation of its teachings, just as Christians practicing apartheid or killing, maiming and raping are violating the teachings of Christianity. This will reassure ignorant non-Muslims and keep them complacent about the jihad threat, but it will do nothing to blunt the force of the arguments from the Qur'an and Sunnah that Islamic jihadists routinely use to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims. Does Rashid have any interest in combating those Qur'anic arguments? He has never shown any.


Also, by the way, in contrast to jihad groups, the Lord's Resistance Army is not in any way inspired by the texts and teachings of Christianity, and is backed by no Christian clerics. Even the late Christopher Hitchens, who had no love for Christianity, acknowledged that the LRA’s leader, Joseph Kony, was “obviously far away from the Christian ‘mainstream.’” In fact, “his paymasters and armorers are the cynical Muslims of the Sudanese regime, who use him to make trouble for the government of Uganda, which has in turn supported rebel groups in Sudan. In an apparent reward for this support, Kony at one stage began denouncing the keeping and feeding of pigs” – hardly orthodox Christian behavior. (God Is Not Great, p. 189.) Likewise Breivik wrote that he was "not an excessively religious man." He did not and could not invoke any Christian teachings to justify his mass murder.



The piece also makes an inappropriate comparison between South African apartheid and extremists acting in the name of Islam, stating the latter is “far more heinous than the colonial apartheid of South Africa.”


The fact is South African apartheid doesn’t suddenly become "better" because someone else might have it "worse." Atrocities needn’t be compared for recognition.



How ironic that Rashid would say this after seeking to dismiss the grim reality of Islamic jihad by pointing to supposed Christian "extremists."



In this case, the comparison unfairly dismisses the tens of millions of black South Africans who suffered under official or unofficial apartheid governance for well over a century.


But most remarkably, the piece ignores the real life and living Muslim Mandela who is accomplishing today what critics claim no one has the courage to.


The Muslim Mandela is a reconciler, earning praise and support from both far right Republicans like Peter King and from staunch Obama supporters like Democrat Keith Ellison.


The Muslim Mandela is a beacon of peace, enduring prison patiently for his beliefs, living in exile from his homeland for over a decade for his faith, and forbidding any violent or uncivilized response to the countless acts of terrorism and apartheid against his tens of millions of followers.


The Muslim Mandela is just, emphatically declaring, “we believe entirely in a separation of religion and matters of State,” and in universal freedom of conscience for all people regardless of belief.


Perhaps this is why the U.S. House of Representatives introduced an unprecedented resolution recognizing the Muslim Mandela as “a man of peace.”


Extremists belonging to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism denounce the Muslim Mandela as a heretic even today -- just as the world’s powerful nations denounced President Mandela as a terrorist, even until 2008.



Christian and Jewish extremists denounce this Muslim as a heretic? Notice that Rashid offers no names, because he can't, because he probably knows that what he is writing is arrant nonsense.



The Muslim Mandela responds to the intense persecution with free hospitals for all in need and free secular education for all children, boy or girl, Muslim or non-Muslim -- just as President Mandela responded to 27 years of unjust imprisonment with forgiveness to his persecutors and service to all humanity, black or white.


The Muslim Mandela responds to violence and intimidation with powerful lectures worldwide on Capitol Hill, at the UK Houses of Parliament, at European Parliament, and at New Zealand’s Parliament, championing absolute justice in all affairs -- just as President Mandela spoke before the United Nations and to countless heads of state to champion absolute justice in all affairs. And just as President Mandela conquered apartheid in South Africa, the Muslim Mandela continues to conquer extremism and radicalism in all forms worldwide.


Finally, just as President Mandela spoke with the authority of a president after years of persecution in his home of South Africa, the Muslim Mandela speaks with the authority as the Khalifa of Islam and head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, after years of persecution and now exile from his home of Pakistan.


So come meet the Muslim Mandela -- he is His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad Khalifa of Islam.


His Holiness is the Mandela the Muslim world needs, wants, and is slowly but surely accepting.


Under His Holiness’ leadership, tens of millions of Muslims from Syria and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nigeria and Kenya, America and over 200 nations worldwide, Sunni and Shia, are uniting in peace and justice. And they have done so for over 124 years and counting without a single act of violence.


President Mandela extended his hand in peace for 27 years before the world finally embraced it. So, don’t get impatient and ask, where is the Muslim Mandela?


Instead, get informed, and in the name of humanity, education, and absolute justice -- reach for Masroor’s extended hand.



"Reach for Masroor's extended hand" -- imagine the outcry if Fox published a piece concluding with "Reach for Franklin Graham's extended hand," or "Reach for Pope Francis's extended hand." Why is it allowing this dishonest Ahmadi to proselytize?


Qasim Rashid, by the way, is just as supremely arrogant, contemptuous of all opposition, rude and insulting as other Islamic supremacists. Apparently his Muslim Mandela has not taught him to respect other human beings or show them basic courtesy. When he sees this piece, he will sneer that he need not respond or explain himself because it is not a peer-reviewed article published in an academic journal. He is apparently unaware that the argument from authority is the weakest of all arguments. He knows he can still sway a few easy marks with it.


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Published on December 31, 2013 13:57

Putin vows to fight terrorists until their "total destruction"; Obama spokesperson offers help against "folks who want to cause mischief"

"Mischievous" slaughter. Your man in the White House, sanctioning savagery in the cause of Allah.


Putin vows to fight terrorists until their "total destruction"; Obama spokesperson offers help against "folks who want to cause mischief" (thanks to Robert Spencer)PutinObama.jpg




The shirtless horseman is unlikely to need the helmeted bike rider's help. "Russia's Putin Vows to Fight Terrorists Until Destroyed," from the VOA News, December 31 (thanks to Kenneth):


Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to fight terrorists until their "total destruction," following the two suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd on Sunday and Monday that left 34 people dead.


In his annual New Years address, Putin said that at the country's most trying times, Russia has always been united and consolidated.


Russian authorities have deployed more than 5,000 security force personnel in and around Volgograd in the wake of the bombings.




In Monday's attack, a bomb blast ripped apart a trolleybus, killing 16 people and injuring 30 others. A day earlier, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the security entrance of the city's main train station in an attack that left 18 dead.


A spokesman for Russia's main investigative agency said the bomb in Monday's explosion was similar to the one used in Sunday's attack, confirming suspicions that they may be linked.


Russia's foreign ministry compared the attacks to similar acts of terrorism in the United States, Iraq and Nigeria. It called for international solidarity in countering terrorism....


"After Attacks, Administration Offers to Help Russia Counter ‘Folks Who Want to Cause Mischief,’" by Bridget Johnson for PJ Media, December 30:


Over at the State Department, spokeswoman Marie Harf acknowledged the security issues highlighted by the bombings but still strove to argue that Sochi, 600 miles southwest of Volgograd but a hundred miles closer to Chechnya, is likely safe enough for the Olympic Games in six weeks.


“In terms of security for Sochi, U.S. citizens planning to attend should remain alert regarding their personal security at all times. I think our security experts have said that criminal activity in Sochi is similar to other cities of comparable size. Obviously, major events such as the Olympic games are an opportunity for thieves or for other folks who want to cause mischief,” Harf said.


 

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Published on December 31, 2013 13:36

Sharia in the UK: Reporting of Muslim lawyers' trial banned "for cultural reasons"

The more I see of the galloping Islamization of Britain, the more the ban on my entry makes ..... sense. They have gone country mad, like this case in point, perverting the justice system to protect those charged with (and found guilty of) perverting the course of justice.



Daily Mail lifts veil of secrecy judge threw over trial of two Muslim lawyers on trial for perverting the course of justice 'for cultural reasons' By Eleanor Harding, Daily Mail, December 30, 2013 Screen Shot 2013-12-31 at 3.18.02 PM(thanks to David W)



Reporting the case of Asha Khan, 30, and Kashif Khan, 34, was banned
The order was made to prevent them being shamed in their community
But after a legal challenge from the Daily Mail, the restrictions were lifted
Asha Khan was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice
She and Kashif were said to be involved in a plot to switch speeding points
But Kashif, Asha's brother, was acquitted after arguing he did not know

Guilty: Asha Khan has been convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice A judge allowed two Muslim solicitors accused of trying to cheat the legal system to hide behind a cloak of secrecy for ‘cultural reasons’, the Daily Mail can disclose.


He banned reporting of the case of Asha Khan, 30, and her brother Kashif, 34, to prevent them allegedly being shamed in the eyes of their community.


In the latest farce involving secret justice, the pair were told they could enjoy the court’s protection because members of their family would pass judgment if the case was reported.


It is a privilege rarely bestowed on defendants in the justice system, which has operated on the principle of transparency for centuries. However, following a challenge by the Daily Mail, the restriction was lifted – enabling the case to be reported.


Judge Peter Hughes reversed his original ban after deciding that the principle of open justice was more important than saving the embarrassment of a defendant.




After almost a year of court appearances and legal argument, Miss Khan has been convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice, while her brother was acquitted of the charge.


They were on trial accused of helping their father, Mohammed, dodge a speeding fine by pretending he was not driving at the time of the offence.


In a saga with echoes of the Chris Huhne scandal, he allowed a man who worked for the family to take the blame instead.


At the beginning of the hearings, Miss Khan’s barrister, Glenn Gatland, argued she would not give evidence properly in the presence of the Press because she was afraid of family repercussions.


He said she did not want to criticise her father in public – though she was quite happy to have her mother sit in the public gallery.


‘Miss Khan is quite upset that if matters are reported she doesn’t feel she would be able to give her evidence as freely as she would have done otherwise,’ said Mr Gatland. ‘Culturally, it’s very difficult for them to say things in public. The evidence would be impacted on by the cultural background of Miss Khan.’

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Published on December 31, 2013 12:19

CAIR-tied American Imam Inspired Devout Muslim who Beheaded a British Soldier on a Public Street in London

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'The more I learnt [about Islam]  the more interested I became which led to me listening to a lecture by Sheikh Khalid Yaseen, you may have heard of him?


Sheikh Khalid Yasin is a U.S.-born Muslim convert (he was raised as a Christian) and a Malcolm X disciple who has been a popular guest speaker at Muslim Students Association (MSA) events on college campuses across the United States.


He speaks regularly in the US and has appeared with Hamas-CAIR favorite Siraj Wahhaj, the 911 co-conspirator.


CAIR featured Khalid Yasin at a CAIR fundraiser this past February in St. Louis (here). Proving us right, yet again, that the line between moderate and extreme is an allusion. It's more a question of "operative" and/or secular.


Send this to your Congressmen, Senator and any other elected official who is meeting or conferring with the Muslim Brothewrhood CAIR.


Revealed, the U.S. hate preacher who inspired murderer of Lee Rigby: Killer tells how he became a Muslim after watching Islamic hardliner's sermons," Daily Mail, December 30, 2013 (thanks to David W)


Michael Adebowale praised Khalid Yasin in prison letter to pen pal
Says extremist preacher who advocates killing gays inspired him to convert to Islam
Complains that he is alienated from his family because they aren't Muslim
Also says that most Muslims have rejected him after he murdered soldier
Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo face life in jail after being convicted of killing Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks

One of the Woolwich killers decided to convert to Islam after being inspired by a hate preacher who advocates killing gays and beating women, he has revealed in a letter.


Michael Adebowale, 22, said that lectures posted online by notorious firebrand cleric Sheikh Khalid Yasin taught him the ‘purpose of life’.


In the note written from Belmarsh Prison, he said he made the decision to convert to Islam in 2009 – around the same time that he was serving half of a 15-month sentence for supplying heroin.



Michael Adebowale Sheikh Khalid Yasin


Inspiration: Michael Adebowale, left, converted to Islam after listening to a sermon by Khalid Yasin, right


Victim: Adebowale helped murder Fusilier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks in May this year

Victim: Adebowale helped murder Fusilier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks in May this year


 


The letter, which uses his prisoner number A0882CY, is dated December 20 – the day after he was convicted of Lee Rigby’s murder.



PURPOSE: KILLER'S PRISON LETTER

 'I have always been Muslim for nearly five years. I have always been a fairly spiritual person and most of my friends at that time were Muslims.


>'So the combination of the two factors caused me to start learning more about Islam.


'The more I learnt the more interested I became which led to me listening to a lecture by Sheikh Khalid Yaseen, you may have heard of him?


'He is based in the US. The title of the lecture is called "What is the purpose of Life".


After hearing this I had to conclude that the purpose of life is to acknowledge and worship the creation as Allah said in Surat Az-Zaariyat:


'"I did not create the Jinn-kind and mankind except to worship me."'




ecalling his introduction to the religion, he wrote: ‘I have been Muslim for nearly five years. I have always been a fairly spiritual person and most of my friends at that time were Muslims.


‘So the combination of the two factors caused me to start learning more about Islam.’


 


 

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‘The title of this lecture is called “What is the Purpose of Life?” After hearing this I had to conclude that the purpose of life is to acknowledge and worship the creator.’


Yasin, who calls the Taliban his ‘brothers’, has been given free rein to tour the world and spread his vile views – stopping off in countries including Britain and the US.


Linked to the hardline Wahhabi branch of Islam, he has previously denounced both Christian and Jewish beliefs as ‘filth’ and believes there can be no such thing as gender equality.


He claims that the Koran gives men permission to ‘beat women lightly’ and thinks all Muslims should shun anyone who does not follow their faith.


He has also called homosexuality an ‘aberration’ that should be ‘punishable by death’.


Michael Adebowale Michael Adebolajo


 Zebiba! Guilty: Adebowale, left, and Michael Adebolajo, right, were convicted of murder earlier this month.
Alienated: Adebowale's mother Juliet Obasuyi has spoken out against his horrific crimes

Alienated: Adebowale's mother Juliet Obasuyi has spoken out against his horrific crimes




 And DVDs of his sermons were given to would-be jihadists who were being recruited in Britain’s streets to fight in Afghanistan.


Adebowale and his accomplice Michael Adebolajo, 29, were convicted earlier this month of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby outside his barracks in Woolwich.


Both killers were also inspired by Anjem Choudary and Adebolajo was filmed standing alongside  the hate cleric at demonstrations.


The pair, who were brought up in Christian families, face spending the rest of their lives behind bars when they are sentenced next year. 


The hand-written letter is the first insight into the mind of Adebowale, who refused to give evidence during the Old Bailey trial.


His fragile mental state repeatedly delayed court proceedings  as his barristers claimed he could not face the dock or make important decisions about his defence. 


In it, he complained that his family did not understand his views, writing: ‘They aren’t Muslim so I never get that “click” with them. May Allah forgive their mistakes.’


He also wrote of his disappointment that he has been ‘ill-judged’ and offered ‘little support’ from  fellow Muslims who were appalled  by the atrocity.


Writing from  his solitary confinement cell, he said: ‘The trial has now come to  an end and me and my brother  in Islam are waiting till next year  as the case was adjourned for sentencing.



 
Hate speech: Yasin has previously called for gay people to be put to death

Hate speech: Yasin has previously called for gay people to be put to death



Controversy: The preacher was born in New York City and converted to Islam as a teenager

Controversy: The preacher was born in New York City and converted to Islam as a teenager





 ‘I have had little support as you can imagine, many people are shocked and many Muslims sadly ill-judged me, Allah help them.’


Adebowale also said he had changed his name to Ismail ‘because I knew about the Prophet Ismail from Christianity’.


Adebowale and Adebolajo said they killed Mr Rigby in May in revenge for British troops being in Muslim countries.


>They ran him over in a car, almost decapitated him and then dragged him into the middle of the road and ordered onlookers to film them.


Prime Minister David Cameron has now created an extremism taskforce which aims to stop radical leaders inciting hatred.


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Published on December 31, 2013 12:07

Christmas in Nigeria: Muslims murder 12 Christians in attacks on two Christian villages -- 8 at wedding reception

Muslim slaughtering Christians has become an institution during Christmas. The response in media and cultural circles? Islamophobia is the problem.


Nigeria: Muslims murder 12 Christians in attacks on two Christian villages -- 8 at wedding reception (thanks to Robert Spencer)

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The Christian leaders who are silent about who does this killing and why, for fear of offending their Muslim "dialogue" partners in the West, have a great deal to answer for.


"Extremists kill 12 in Nigerian Christian villages," from the Associated Press, December 30 (thanks to Kenneth):


MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Witnesses say suspected Islamic militants killed 12 civilians in weekend attacks on two Christian villages in Muslim-dominated northeast Nigeria. One attack targeted a wedding party.

The witnesses said eight victims died when extremists attacked a wedding reception at Tashan-Alede village in Borno state late Saturday night, and four in neighboring Kwajffa village on Sunday.


A security official confirmed the attacks but said they did not yet have casualty figures. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.


The leader of a 4-year-old Islamic uprising that has killed thousands in northeast Nigeria recently threatened to target Christians. Village attacks have become common with many more Muslims than Christians killed this year.


The attacks have continued despite a state of emergency and the deployment of thousands of troops since May.




 

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Published on December 31, 2013 11:33

Muslim Bus Bomber: 'I Have Come Only to Make Allah Pleased with Me'

Echoing what the London jihad beheader said, what the 911 Muslim terrorists said, the Fort Hood jihadi said, the Kenya mall slaughterers said, and the Boston bombers said.....different language, same ideology. The misunderstanders are the apologists, relativists and dhimmis who cover for these killers.


We are constantly admonished that Islamic jihadists are misunderstanders of Islam, and that Islam teaches peace. Yet jihadists constantly invoke the quran to justify their murders. When will government and law enforcement authorities drop their self-deception and call upon Muslims to expunge the quran of its texts that incite Muslims to violence (and Jew-hatred, and misogyny, and kaffir-hatred)?



Paents of 'Volgograd Train Station Bomber' Pleaded for His Return (Video) The Moscow Times via Halal PorkShop (thanks to Religion of Peace) December 31, 2013


The Volgograd train station bomb that killed at least 17 people on Sunday was set off by a Russian man from the nearby region of Mary El who had converted to Islam and joined Dagestani militants, officials said.


The suspect, identified as Pavel Pechyonkin, worked as a paramedic with an ambulance service but left home in 2011 and joined Dagestani militants after converting to Islam and changing his name to Ansar Ar-rusi.


In response to his parents' video appeals for him to come home, Pechyonkin posted his own video online this spring, saying he was following God's will and would not turn back.


"I have come here only to make Allah pleased with me, to earn heaven," he said in the video.




In a plea by his parents recorded in March, his father, Nikolai, admonished his son to "drop those weapons" before he would become a "terrorist."


"Do all Muslims go around with weapons?" the father said in the video. "You are the only one so stubborn. What harm have people done you? […] You are going to kill children."


His mother, Fanaziya, said that she was also a Muslim, and pleaded with her son that he should abstain from using violence.


"What kind of the Koran…" she said, apparently too pained to finish the sentence, before finding the strength to continue: "I don't believe that Allah has ever said that one must kill people."


"Pasha, I'm appealing to you — please come back," she said. "Imagine, what is happening to me now, how I am feeling. …I'm not living, I'm in hell."


"Imagine that somebody were to kill your parents, how would that make you feel? Why are you turning children into orphans?" she said.


For the video recorded message from Pavel's parents, click here.


In his response, Pechyonkin told his parents that initially their "tears had saddened" him, but that he had then decided he would not be swayed.


"I didn't want to watch your appeal, I thought that it would weaken me, that it would make me softer," he said, adding that he had "no intention" of turning back.


"Why should we follow those Christian commandments, when Allah, may he be glorified, urges us to fight those kafirs [unbelievers]," he said. "Why shouldn't we leave their children orphaned?"


He also brushed off his mother words that the Koran does not instruct believers to kill.


"I am not inventing anything from the Koran, I am reading," he said.


"You say that a man has no right to kill," he said. "Those kafirs have occupied radio and television, and they are making the kind of religion that they need for the Muslims. They are trying to convince you that a man can't do this."


 
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Published on December 31, 2013 11:22

Iraq: Jihadists murder at least 15 people with bombs across Baghdad

Happy new year, Islamic style.



Iraq: Islamic jihadists murder at least 15 people with bombs across Baghdad
(thanks to Jihadwatch)

iraq-ramadi.jpgAfter Muslim clerics called for jihad. "Bombs across Baghdad kill at least 15, clashes continue in Anbar - sources," from Reuters, December 31 (thanks to Kenneth):


BAGHDAD, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, police and medical sources said, a day after police broke up a Sunni Muslim protest camp in a western province.



No group immediately claimed responsibility for any of Tuesday's attacks but al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, which was forced underground in 2006-07, has reemerged this year, invigorated by civil war in Syria and Sunni resentment at home.


In the deadliest attack in Baghdad, seven people were killed when two car bombs hit the Shi'ite neighbourhood of Zafaraniya.


In southeastern Baghdad, three mortar rounds landed near a housing complex, killing four people, medics and police sources said.


A bomb attached to a truck killed the driver and one passenger in the mainly Shi'ite district of Basateen in northern Baghdad and gunmen shot dead one policeman and wounded another in southern part of the capital, police said....


Sunni outrage and the violence across Iraq is likely to deepen already severe sectarian rifts. More than 8,000 people have been killed in such violence this year....


 

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Published on December 31, 2013 11:11

December 30, 2013

'Moderate' Malaysia: Sharia police hunt down Christians who use the word Allah

More interfaith dialogue and tolerance from savages. Muslim leadership constantly beat us about the head with demands for "interfaith dialogue." They not only butcher people, they butcher language.


Imagine: devout Muslims are hunting down a Christian group for worshipping in their own mother language. The Malaysian government won't authorize the construction of churches, so Christian groups rent or convert shop lots and warehouses to use as a place of worship. This group's activity at a hotel was a private function, yet the (Muslim) morality police is going to hunt them down.


It is illegal for Christians to use the word alah for god in Malaysia.


Why Christians would want to use the word allah for god is beyond me. Allah bears no resemblance to Hashem or Jesus Christ.


 


Malaysia



"Selangor religious authorities hunt for Christians who used ‘Allah’ illegally," Malaysian Insider, December 25, 2013 (hat tip Tracy)


It might be Christmas Day cheer across the world but Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) officials are not feeling the festive occasion as they look for a Christian group that used the word “Allah” in their worship illegally last weekend.


Malay newspapers had reported that the Christian group had allegedly used “Allah” at their Sunday function at a hotel in Klang, reigniting the battle for the word which is now before the country's apex court.


A Court of Appeal ruling decided that the home minister has the power to restrict use of the world.




The Government and religious authorities have not only gone to restrict Christians from using the word but have now started a campaign to outlaw Shia Islam in the country.  


There are only some 1,500 Shias but the number cannot be independently verified.


In the latest case, deputy director of Jais Ahmad Zaki Arshad said they had yet to get proof that the Christian group had used the word “Allah” in their meeting.


"We are seeking the assistance of the hotel management to view footage of the closed-circuit television camera to check on the validity of the claim. We cannot act, based on a photograph in a newspaper," Ahmad Zaki told The Malaysian Insider.


He said the department was seeking the cooperation of the event organisers to come forward to facilitate investigation.


"A photograph is insufficient evidence to act."


Ahmad Zaki was referring to Utusan Malaysia's report on Monday which carried a photograph of the event, with the words, “International Full Gospel Fellowship: Keluarga Allah satelit Nilai dan satelit Puchong, 'Dari dalam gelap akan terbit terang’,” on a backdrop.


The department is investigating the case under a 1988 enactment which bars non-Muslims from using the word “Allah”.


The daily had reported that some 200 people had attended the gathering, organised by International Full Gospel Fellowship.


The report said those present sang songs containing the word “Allah”. Following this, two Muslim groups have called for action against a Christian group for allegedly using the word “Allah” at their function.


In their reaction, Pertubuhan Ikatan Kebajikan dan Dakwah Selangor (Ikddas) and Perkasa Selangor chapter urged Jais to investigate and act on the matter.


“From a legal perspective, it is clear the use of the word 'Allah' is prohibited to non-Muslims. If the organiser uses the sacred word in a non-Islamic function, then Jais should not hesitate to take action against them,” Ikddas president Rosdi Long told Utusan.


Selangor Perkasa chief Abu Bakar Yahya said it was inappropriate for non-Muslims to use the word, saying the Selangor sultan had issued a decree on the matter.


Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, who is also the Islamic religious head, recently called on non-Muslims in his state not to refer God as “Allah” and ordered that the word not be used in the Bible and in the Bahasa Malaysia section of Catholic weekly, Herald.


This, he said, was to avoid causing confusion among Muslims in Selangor.


On October 14, the Court of Appeal ruled to uphold the Home Ministry's ban on Herald's use of the word “Allah”. – December 25, 2013.

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