Radical Islam
9/8/2010 | Radical Islam, Religion
Media ignoring Muslim opposition to mosque
OneNewsNow
A conservative media watchdog organization says the mainstream media is virtually ignoring the Muslims who are speaking out in opposition to the proposed "Ground Zero" mosque in New York City.
The mainstream media appears to have gone out of its way to support the premise that Islam is a peaceful religion and that most Muslims are "moderate." But the Culture and Media Institute (CMI) at the Media Research Center has found that when it comes to the question of the Ground Zero mosque, the networks have ignored those moderate Muslims who have spoken out against locating the mosque so close to the 9/11 site.
Nathan Burchfiel"You've seen the media depicting opponents of the mosque as bigots, as racists, as xenophobes -- and yet they're ignoring a pretty substantial list of Muslim figures who have come out and said essentially the same thing that most Americans are saying," notes Nathan Burchfiel, associate editor at the CMI. "But the media [is] ignoring those kinds of people because it doesn't fit the media agenda of saying that this is something that everybody wants."
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8/25/2010 | Radical Islam
Islamist Leader in Pakistan Says Accepting Flood Relief From U.S. and India Is Like ‘Poison’
CNS News
Accepting emergency aid from the United States or India amounts to taking “poison,” the head of one of Pakistan’s leading Islamist political parties said Tuesday.
The remarks by Syed Munawar Hasan, head of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), evidently were intended to apply new pressure on a government already walking a tightrope between dealing with the flood crisis and antagonizing radical elements.
He spoke on the same day the United Nations appealed for more helicopters to help reach hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis cut off by the “unprecedented floods.”
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8/23/2010 | Radical Islam, Religion
Rallies Over Mosque Near Ground Zero Get Heated
Associated Press
Hundreds of impassioned demonstrators -- all waving American flags, but separated into two groups by police -- descended on the site of the proposed mosque near ground zero, with opponents chanting, "No mosque, no way!" and supporters shouting, "We say no to racist fear!"
The two leaders of the construction project, meanwhile, defended their plans on Sunday, though one suggested that organizers might eventually be willing to discuss an alternative site. The other, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said during a Middle East trip that the attention generated by the project is actually positive and that he hopes it will bring greater understanding.
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8/19/2010 | Radical Islam
'Ground Zero' imam not a moderate
OneNewsNow
A former member of the Palestine Liberation Organization has monitored Arabic language traffic in Middle East that reveals the controversial "Ground Zero" mosque imam is not a moderate at all.
Walid Shoebat, a convert from Islam to Christianity who is now an outspoken critic of Islam, recently translated an Arabic language interview conducted by Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf. He believes the imam's words should be alarming as they indicate what the world will look like if he gets his way.
The Islam critic explains that the organizer spearheading the Ground Zero mosque outlined his manifesto for the infiltration of secular governments like that of the United States by means of "peaceful lobbying efforts."
"What he is suggesting is to make the governors and the political institutions consult Muslim institutions and Muslim personalities like himself...in the field so as to ensure that the decision-making...reflects the spirit of sharia, to make Muslim personalities so they can begin to influence the government and so they can become consultants to the government," Shoebat reports. "And then they make sure that the laws are within the spirit of sharia Islamic laws."
He points out that Abdul Rauf has already taken a step toward his goal by getting a State Department-funded trip to the Middle East to be an envoy for alleged "peaceful" Islam.
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8/18/2010 | Radical Islam
Ground Zero Mosque Group Says It Has No Plan to Move Site or Meet With N.Y. Governor
CNS News
The organization planning to build a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero denied reports Tuesday about a scheduled meeting to discuss the matter with New York Gov. David Paterson. The group reaffirmed that it has no intention of moving the controversial project.
Earlier Rep. Peter King (R.-N.Y.), a vocal critic of the plan, said Paterson told him during a phone conversation that he planned to meet with the developers later this week to discuss the possibility of an alternative site.
The project is the brainchild of Feisel Abdul Rauf, an Islamic cleric who heads the Cordoba Initiative, an organization whose stated goal is to improve Muslim-West relations.
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7/13/2010 | Radical Islam, Terrorism
U.S. Should Better Define Islamic Extremism in Order to Fight It, Report Says
Associated Press
The Obama administration's recent move to drop references to Islamic radicalism is drawing fire in a new report warning that the decision ignores the role religion can play in motivating terrorists.
Several prominent counter-terror experts are challenging the administration's shift in its recently unveiled National Security Strategy, saying the terror threat should be defined in order to fight it.
The question of how to frame the conflict against al-Qaida and other terrorists poses a knotty problem. The U.S. is trying to mend fences with Muslim communities while toughening its strikes against militant groups.
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4/22/2010 | Freedom of Religion, Radical Islam
Activists Claim Free Speech Victory As ‘Leaving Islam’ Ads Return to Buses
CNS News
A public transit authority in Florida has reversed a decision to take down banner advertisements on buses that offer help to Muslims wanting to leave their faith. Activists are hailing the move as a victory for free speech and religious freedom.
Not only will the ten originally planned ads appear on Miami-Dade Transit buses in coming days, but an additional 20 ads will be run at no extra cost.
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3/10/2009 | U.S. Military, Radical Islam, Presidential Issues
Detainees Say They Planned Sept. 11
The New York Times
The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people. The document, which may be released publicly on Tuesday, uses the Arabic term for a consultative assembly in describing the five men as the “9/11 Shura Council,” and it says their actions were an offering to God, according to excerpts of the document that were read to a reporter by a government official who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. President Obama halted the military proceedings at Guantánamo in the first days after his inauguration, and the five men’s case is on hiatus until the government decides how it will proceed.
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12/31/2008 | Radical Islam
Hundreds of Iranians storm British compound in Tehran over Gaza attacks
Times Online
Hundreds of Iranian radicals stormed the British compound in Tehran last night, replacing the Union flag with a Palestinian one in protest against Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip. British officials will be assessing whether the security breach, unprecedented in recent years, was an isolated incident or presages further violent demonstrations. A hardline Iranian news agency said that protests against Britain and Egypt, whose embassy was also targeted, would continue. Hardline Iranian students have often staged noisy protests outside the British embassy in Tehran, hurling stones and petrol bombs at the building, but Tuesday night’s incident was the first time in decades that they have breached diplomatic territory.
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11/18/2008 | Radical Islam
Russian Newsweek warned for "insulting" Muslims
Breitbart.com
MOSCOW (AP) - Moscow prosecutors say they have warned the Russian-language edition of the Newsweek magazine for allegedly insulting Muslims. The Moscow Prosecutor's Office says the magazine published two stories that could be "insulting or humiliating" to Muslims. It said Tuesday on article also included one of the 2005 Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The magazine published the stories on Muslims in the European Union in late October. It could not be immediately reached for comment. About 20 million Muslims live in Russia.
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9/23/2008 | Iran, Israel, Radical Islam
Iran president blames Wall Street turmoil on U.S. 'military engagement'
The Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Monday that the turmoil on Wall Street was rooted in part in U.S. military intervention abroad and voiced hope that the next American administration would retreat from what he called President Bush's "logic of force." He also asserted, in an interview with The Times, that Israel was doomed like "an airplane that has lost its engine" and that Western intelligence documents questioning the peaceful purpose of Iran's nuclear program were crude forgeries.
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8/5/2008 | Radical Islam
Chinese border assault kills 16
BBC News
Sixteen Chinese policemen have been killed in an attack on a border post in the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media say. Two attackers reportedly drove up to the post in a rubbish truck and threw two grenades, before moving in to attack the policemen with knives. The attack came four days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Both attackers were captured during the raid near the city of Kashgar, Xinhua state news agency reported. Kashgar, known as Kashi in Chinese, is some 2,500 miles (4,000km) from Beijing, near the border with Tajikistan.
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7/28/2008 | Radical Islam
4 female bombers strike in Iraq, killing 57
My Way News
BAGHDAD (AP) - Four suicide bombers believed to be women struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300 in one of this year's deadliest attacks, police said. The U.S. military is recruiting and training women in Iraq's police force, and trying to enlist them to join U.S.-allied Sunni groups fighting against al-Qaida in Iraq. But such attacks are becoming increasingly common, even as overall violence is at the lowest level in four years. Women are more easily able to hide explosives under their all-encompassing black Islamic robes, or abayas, and often are not searched at checkpoints because of sensitivities. On Monday, three bombers believed to be women blew up their explosive vests in the middle of pilgrims in Baghdad moments after a roadside bomb attack, killing at least 32 people and wounding 102, Iraqi officials said.
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7/9/2008 | Foreign Policy, Iran, Radical Islam, Terrorism
Defiant Iran angers US with missile test
Breitbart.Com
Iran on Wednesday test-fired a missile it said is capable of reaching Israel, angering the United States amid growing fears that the standoff over the contested Iranian nuclear drive could lead to war. The Shahab-3 was among a broadside of nine missiles fired off simultaneously at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) from an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert, state television pictures showed. State-run Arabic channel Al-Alam said the missiles test-fired by the elite Revolutionary Guards included a "Shahab-3 with a conventional warhead weighing one tonne and a 2,000-kilometre (1,240-mile) range." The firing comes at a time of growing tension over Tehran's nuclear drive, which Iran insists is peaceful but the West fears could be aimed at making an atomic bomb. "The aim of these war games is to show we are ready to defend the integrity of the Iranian nation," Al-Alam quoted Revolutionary Guards air force commander Hossein Salami as saying.
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7/4/2008 | Radical Islam
Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK's top judge
Mail Online
The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance. He declared: 'Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.'
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6/20/2008 | Iran, Radical Islam, Terrorism
Ahmadinejad says West failed in Iran nuclear crisis
Breitbart.com
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday the West has failed to break Iran's will in the nuclear standoff, days after world powers presented Tehran with a new offer aimed at ending the crisis. "In the nuclear issue, the bullying powers have used up all their capabilities but could not break the will of the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state television. World powers -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States -- on Saturday offered Tehran a new package of technological and economic incentives in exchange for suspending uranium enrichment activities. The West fears the process might be used to make an atomic bomb although Iran insists it only wants to generate nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Ahmadinejad's comments were his first statement on the nuclear crisis since the offer was presented but it was not clear if they represented a reaction to the proposal
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6/11/2008 | Foreign Policy, Iran, Radical Islam
Ahmadinejad Says Bush Administration Can't Hurt Iran
Bloomberg.com
June 11 (Bloomberg) -- George W. Bush's administration is in its dying days and won't be able to harm Iran, the Islamic Republic's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said. ``It's Bush's dream to harm Iran's nation,'' Ahmadinejad said today during a televised speech in the western Iranian city of Shahre Kord. ``You thought you would be able to do something but your term came to an end and you will not be capable of harming even 1 centimeter of Iran's sacred land.'' The Bush administration has accused the government in Tehran of supporting insurgents in neighboring Iraq who have fought American troops there, and of backing Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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6/3/2008 | Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, God and Government, Racial Intolerance, Radical Islam, Religious Persecution, Terrorism
Former screen siren Bardot convicted in race case
Yahoo News
PARIS - Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP. Bardot's lawyer, Francois-Xavier Kelidjian, said he would talk to her about the possibility of an appeal. A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed a lawsuit last year over a letter she sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The remarks were published in her foundation's quarterly journal. In the December 2006 letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot said France is "tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts." Bardot, 73, was referring to the Muslim feast of Aid el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep. French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot had been convicted four times previously for inciting racial hatred.
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6/2/2008 | Foreign Policy, Iran, Radical Islam, Terrorism
Ahmadinejad says Israel will soon disappear
Breitbart.com
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims would uproot "satanic powers" and repeated his controversial belief that Israel will soon disappear, the Mehr news agency reported. "I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene," he said. "Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started." Since taking the presidency in August 2005, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly provoked international outrage by predicting Israel is doomed to disappear. "I tell you that with the unity and awareness of all the Islamic countries all the satanic powers will soon be destroyed," he said to a group of foreign visitors ahead of the 19th anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Ahmadinejad also again expressed his apocalyptic vision that tyranny in the world be abolished by the return to earth of the Mahdi, the 12th imam of Shiite Islam, alongside great religious figures including Jesus Christ.
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5/30/2008 | Radical Islam, Terrorism, U.S. Military
US marines in hot water over Christian coins in Iraq
Breitbart.com
The US military said on Friday it was probing complaints that marines handed out coins inscribed with a verse from the Bible to a group of Sunni Muslims in Iraq, sparking outrage among local residents. It said a service member involved in the incident in the former flashpoint city of Fallujah west of Baghdad was removed from his duties on Thursday. "US forces initiated an investigation into reports that a coin with a Bible verse written in Arabic was distributed to Iraqi citizens as they passed through a Fallujah entry control point," the military said in a statement. "A coalition force service member was removed from his duties Thursday amid concerns from Fallujah's citizens regarding reports of inappropriate conduct." Residents of Fallujah, scene of one of the bloodiest post-invasion battles between insurgents and US forces in Iraq in 2004, said that marines had been doling out the token-like coins to residents to promote Christianity. The incident occurred less than than two weeks after a US soldier was removed from Iraq for using a Koran for target practice at a firing range near Baghdad and writing graffiti in the Muslim holy book.
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