BANGKOK (AP) — An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians Tuesday after an earlier blast shook his house in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India – an attack Israel blamed on Iran.

Authorities say it’s unclear whether the Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack, but Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, “we can’t rule out any possibility.”

Thai security forces found more explosives in a house where the Iranian man was staying in Bangkok, but the possible targets were not known, Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.

A passport found at the scene of one blast indicated the assailant was Saeid Moradi from Iran, Pansiri said. Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.

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Iranian Terrorist in Thailand Blows Off His Own Legs in Attack

BANGKOK (AP) — An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians Tuesday after an earlier blast shook his house in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India – an attack Israel blamed on Iran.

Authorities say it’s unclear whether the Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack, but Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, “we can’t rule out any possibility.”

A Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) official examines a backpack that was left on the bomb site by a suspect bomber in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP)

Thai security forces found more explosives in a house where the Iranian man was staying in Bangkok, but the possible targets were not known, Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.

A passport found at the scene of one blast indicated the assailant was Saeid Moradi from Iran, Pansiri said. Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.

A suspected bomber lies injured at an explosion site in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP

Tuesday‘s violence began in the afternoon when a stash of explosives apparently detonated by accident in Moradi’s house, blowing off part of the roof. Police said two foreigners quickly left the residence, followed by a wounded Moradi.

“He tried to wave down a taxi, but he was covered in blood, and the driver refused to take him,” Pansiri said. He then threw an explosive at the taxi and began running.

Police who had been called to the area then tried to apprehend Moradi, who hurled a grenade to defend himself. “But somehow it bounced back” and blew off his legs, Pansiri said.

Photos of the wounded Iranian showed him covered in dark soot on a sidewalk strewn with broken glass. He lay in front of a Thai primary and secondary school. No students were reported wounded.

A dark satchel nearby was investigated by a bomb disposal unit. Pansiri said police found Iranian currency, US dollars and Thai money in the bag.

Three Thai men and one Thai woman were brought to Kluaynamthai Hospital for treatment of injuries, said Suwinai Busarakamwong, a doctor there.

Another Iranian was detained Tuesday night at Bangkok’s international airport as he attempted to leave for neighboring Malaysia, said police commander Winai Thongsong. Authorities were interrogating the man, but it was not yet known whether he was involved in Tuesday’s blasts.

Last month, a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants was detained by Thai police. He led authorities to a warehouse filled with more than 8,800 pounds (4,000 kilograms) of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate.

Israel and the United States at the time warned their citizens to be alert in the capital, but Thai authorities said Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.

Pansiri said that “so far, we haven’t found any links between these two cases.”

Immigration police are trying to trace Moradi’s movements, but initial reports indicated he flew into Thailand from Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 8, Pansiri said. He landed at the southern Thai resort town of Phuket, then stayed in a hotel in Chonburi, a couple hours drive southeast of Bangkok, for several nights.

Bangkok’s blasts came one day after bombs targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. The attack in India wounded four people, while the device found in Georgia did not explode. Iran has denied it was responsible.

In Jerusalem, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said there was not yet any sign that any targets in Bangkok were Israeli or Jewish.

Israeli police have increased the state of alert in the country, emphasizing public places, foreign embassies and offices, as well as Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Thailand has rarely been a target for foreign terrorists, although a domestic Muslim insurgency in the country’s south has involved bombings of civilian targets.

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It is not unusual for Middle Eastern countries to block certain websites that authorities feel pose a political or moral danger. Now, Iran has gone one step further and cut off an entire swathe of the internet.

When one of Iran’s 40 million internet users tries to access any website that uses the common https protocol – and that includes Facebook, Gmail and YouTube – the site does not load, and instead a message appears on the screen.

It reads: “According to computer crime regulations, access to this website is denied.”

Although they have not justified the latest measures, Iranian officials have previously claimed that Western websites are being used by the US authorities to spy on their country.

There are contradictory reports about the timing and consistency of the new restrictions. Some bloggers have reported that the crackdown has happened ahead of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on February 11, which was expected to be a flashpoint for anti-government protests. But respected internet portal Ars Technica says the restrictions have been gradually implemented over the last few months. It also appears as if the firewall has not been imposed universally, with some users still able to access the websites at least some of the time.

In any case, the measures represent another episode in the game of cat-and-mouse that Iran’s censors play with the country’s online population. Tech-savvy Iranian’s have long used workarounds to avoid the stringent filtering system.

More sceptical web enthusiasts are afraid that the new restrictions herald the arrival of the long-dreaded “National Internet”. Authorities in the Islamic republic have spent US$1 billion constructing a special closed network that will allow access to a list of specially-selected “halal” or appropriate websites, while the worldwide web as a whole will be blocked completely to non-privileged users. Instead of Google, Iranians will have access to a new search engine, Ya Haq, which translates as “Oh the Just One.” Officials have previously claimed that the National internet is ready to start operating at any time.

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wide-ranging interview with the U.K.’s Independent newspaper. The rare criticism from inside the royal family— and by a woman from a nation with pervasive gender issues, to boot — came from the youngest child of the country’s second king, Saud.

While avoiding direct criticisms of her uncle King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s current ruler, the 47-year-old Basma blamed ministers for incompetence and lamented lack of accountability for the wealthy. She reserved her sharpest criticisms for the Saudi religious police — officially the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices, but known as the mutawa. She blamed them for sectarianism, sexism, and labeled them “dangerous” for society:

This is the atmosphere you have now. It is such a non-tolerant atmosphere, even of other sects.…

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society – the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanaticism. The mutawa are everywhere, trying to lead society to a very virtuous life that doesn’t exist. Everything is now behind closed doors.

Basma is no stranger to criticizing the ills of the country her family rules as an absolute monarchy. In July, she called this year’s Saudi invasion and repression of Shia-dominated pro-democracy protests in Bahrain a “faux pas” while talking with the BBC. The divorcée and business woman told the Independent she recently faced pressure to self-censor her writings, which deal with issues such as poverty and women’s rights.

Basma said the recent campaign by Saudi women to win the right to drive — which has won international plaudits but met opposition from Saudi religious authorities — did not go far enough. “Why don’t we actually fight for a woman’s right even to complain about being beaten up,” she said. “That is more important than driving.” (HT: Sultan Al Qassemi)

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FFI received some gruesome pictures about Abu Ghraib prison, and other instances of human brutality, including the first shown picture in this posting, from Mr. Muhammad Ali. Below is our email exchange with this great pundit…

Muhammad Ali

assalamun ala manit taba al huda

brother and sister who organizing the www.faithfreedom.org ,
this some picture i m sending you to all, please upload it at www.faithfreedom.org ,
and i know it is not form muslim and islam, but i know perfectly that it is from christians and (Jews) yahoodi, because the pictures telling itself,
and you shows so many pictures from muslim they doing wrong with others, i exapt it, but you shows us, shia Muslim, sunni Muslim is not like this
i am waiting for your reply

your well wisher.
previous christian and (Jews) yahoodi but now Muslim

Ali Sina

You Muslims love lies.

The pictures you are showing are misrepresentation of the truth.

The pictured of Abu Ghraib are very old. The soldiers who scared the terrorists and mistreated them were tried and sent to jail. A few of them were sentenced to 16 years imprisonment. This is not the same as Muslims killing innocent people and becoming heroes among other brain dead Muslims.

The child sitting on an Israeli jeep is probably someone saved by the Israelis. The Israel soldiers don’t use any human as shield and if they do they will be prosecuted in Israel. Muslims use children, including their own as shield all the time.

Other pictures show Israeli soldiers have captured Palestinian terrorists or stop them for search. There is nothing wrong in that. They have to do that because Palestinians have the habit of carrying bomb under their dress.

So you are a “previous christian and (Jews) yahoodi but now Muslim.”

So you’re so ignorant of the subject don’t know that Jews and Christians are not the same.

What is wrong with you Muslims? It does not seem that there is any intelligence in you people.

Editor

Sir, thank you for the email

People all over do evil things to others. Evils done by man to other humans is not confined to Muslims. Does that make Islam a good religion? I am just trying to understand your logic.

Do those pictures that you sent us change the fact the Muhammad was a pedophile?

Do those pictures change the fact the Muhammad was a Mass-Murderer?

Do those pictures change the fact the Muhammad attacked other people for no reason at all except his own greed?

Do those pictures change the fact the Muhammad beheaded between 600 and 900 Men of Bani Qurayza in one day? That evil thug you call a prophet did that, then raped the women with his Muslim gangsters, and enslaved the women and children.

Kind regards. And do respond to me though. I am trying to understand how your flow of reasoning goes.

Muhammad Ali

i am realy shoked that, you all are can not understand, that how i was ?
in my priveous life……….. first i was jews……… after that i exapt christianity, ……. after that ….. islam the great……

you all told me the pic of abu guraeb is old….. i am thenking to allah, u exapt it that is true…………

i have some question,, plz answer me

who was adolf hitler, who kills the millions of innocent jews and muslim ?
who is george bush, who kills the millions of innocent muslim in iraq, and afghan ?
plzz plzz answer me, in a good way,, realy i am not your enemy, i want correct thing, who will corret i will exapt..
your well wisher ………… your brother……

Ali Sina

Pray that you may die soon and inshallah in your next reincarnation you will be born a good atheist and a true human being.

Hitler did not kill Muslims. He loved Islam and Muhammad and was a friend of Muslims. Muslims loved him too and still love him. His book is most popular book in Turkey.

George Bush did not kill innocent people. You must check your facts.

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Can we admit that we have been scammed?   Many of us in the Western world believed the Bangladeshi journalist and publisher, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, when he called himself a “Muslim Zionist.” Choudhury presented himself as devoted to Jewish people and Western principles of democracy. He won international acclaim and generous financial support as one of the few Muslims who affirmed our values by playing on the hopes and fears of the West in the post 9/11 world. However, this in-depth investigation reveals that he has been exploiting his supporters and is creating national security risks for both Israel and the West.
The Legend of Shoaib Choudhury

An earnest fan club has gathered around Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. His image was of a noble, highly moral person who was willing to face imprisonment and death in support of minorities, especially Jews, in his Muslim rule country. In November, 2003 Choudhury defied a ban Bangladesh had placed on its citizens preventing them from traveling to Israel, and was arrested. Choudhury was on his way to a media conference in Tel Aviv organized by Dr. Ada Aharoni, the head of a group called the International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC). Very quickly, word got out to an American friend, Richard Benkin, with whom Choudhury had been communicating by email and telephone for almost a year. Through Benkin’s intercession, the Internet was soon awash with Free Choudhury petitions and articles denouncing his imprisonment and demanding his release.

An international movement was born, and Choudhury was eventually released from prison on bail. In the United States, Choudhury won endorsements from Congressional representatives Mark Steven Kirk, Nita Lowey, Peter King, Joseph Crowley, and Anthony Weiner. They pushed through Congressional Resolution 64 in 2007 to demand that the Bangladeshi government drop all charges against Choudhury and no longer insist that he show up for court appearances; the European Parliament took a similar action in 2006, as did the Australian Senate in 2007. A Canadian Member of Parliament and international lawyer, Erwin Cotler, provided pro bono representation. Choudhury received a cash award from the Prince of Monaco at a ceremony attended by Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel in 2007. Many Israeli newspapers and institutions sang his praises with weekly articles. The Wall Street Journal carried admiring articles about him, as did many other newspapers, and bloggers flooded the Internet with their awe stricken appreciation of what looked like Choudhury’s dedication to Western humanistic principles. He was a celebrated lecturer at Yale University, Rutgers, and the American Jewish Council, among others.

Choudhury’s fame brought him donations from well-funded institutions such as the Middle East Forum and the Hudson Institute, as well as from many individuals. With a gentle, charming manner and a gift for empathy, Choudhury inspired respect, love and even adoration among many. For those concerned with antisemitism, there was a rush to be part of the “in” group that knew about the Shoaib saga, almost like the frenzy that developed around Bernie Madoff when some Jews, trusting Madoff because he was one of them, competed for status in gaining access to the Great Man. As if held in a kind of hypnotic spell, the collective media first of the Jewish community and then of the larger Western world failed to heed many disquieting rumblings about Choudhury from his Bangladeshi compatriots, those who knew him best.
The Legerdemain of Choudhury- His Hidden Islamist And Criminal Past

The spell was broken for me when I realized he had defrauded two of his most devoted female, Zionist supporters of large sums of money.

After viewing the documents involved, the New York Police Department charged Choudhury with Grand Larceny via Fraud. Not only did he bounce three checks, break a contract, and send countless email promises to repay that were never kept, but Choudhury founded the business relationships on an elaborate deception. He tricked the women by inventing elaborate stories about the businessmen he was dealing with – a Mr. Yun, David Jones, Sagir Ahmed Bhai – to convince the defrauded women that their money was involved in legitimate transactions.  But the problem is, the associates never existed. For over a year, Choudhury maintained these ruses. When the women wrote that they suspected fraud, Choudhury threatened to sue them for slandering his good name. Furthering the deception, and demanding their continued trust, he created elaborate email exchanges between the women and the fabricated associates. The fake partners wrote to the women that they thought the world of Choudhury on both a personal and a professional level.

Choudhury mailed one of his victims an obviously counterfeit check, signed by the fictitious David Jones, by way of indicating that he would pay her when the check was cashed.

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Muhammad had sex with just about anyone he pleased, thanks to Allah’s
extraordinary interest in his personal sex life, as immortalized in the
Qur’an. Lets see the evidence from authentic Islamic scriptures to
support my claim.

Quran 33:51 - You may put off any of your
wives you please and take to your bed any of them you please, and there
is no blame on you if you call back any of them you had temporarily set
aside. This is most proper, so that their eyes may be cooled and
they may not grieve, and that they will remain satisfied with what you
give them. O believers! Allah knows all that is in your hearts; for
Allah is All-Knowing, Most Forbearing.

These are Allah’s word unaltered, and see what Allah is commanding
Muhammad to do. Allah commands Muhammad to sleep with anyone he pleases
to without any restriction. Commentaries of Qur’an gives a clear view
about Allah’s plan.

Tafsir Ibn Abbas says:- [33:51]

(Thou canst defer) you can leave (whom thou wilt of them) from among the daughters of your aunts from

your father’s side, and or the daughters of your uncles from your mother’s side, and not marry them (and

receive unto thee whom thou wilt) and marry them, (and whomsoever thou desirest) to marry (of those

whom thou hast set aside (temporarily), it is no sin for thee (to receive her again)) it is also said that this

could be understood in this manner: you can abstain from whoever you will of your wives and you can go to

whoever you will of your wives and there is no sin for you in abstaining from some and going to others;

(that) the widening of the scope and dispensation (is better; that they may be comforted) when they know

that this widening of scope is from Allah (and not grieve) for fear of divorce, (and may all be pleased with

what thou givest them) of sharing your physical presence with them. (Allah knoweth what is in your hearts)

whether it is contentment or resentment; (and Allah is Knower) of your righteousness and theirs, (Clement)

in that which He explained to you and forgave you.

So, according to Allah Muhammad is even authorized to marry and sleep
with daughters of his aunt temporarily if he wishes to. I think
Muhammad was a lucky one to get Allah( who was just his illusion) to
satisfy his sexual desires with whom so  ever he pleased, without
marrying or by temporarily marrying them.This not the end of Muhammad’s
lust, lets see further what Bukhari reports.

Volume 4, Book 52, Number 143

Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said to Abu Talha, “Choose
one of your boy servants to serve me in my expedition to Khaibar.” So,
Abu Talha took me letting me ride behind him while I was a boy nearing
the age of puberty. I used to serve Allah’s Apostle when he stopped to
rest. I heard him saying repeatedly, “O Allah! I seek refuge with You
from distress and sorrow, from helplessness and laziness, from
miserliness and cowardice, from being heavily in debt and from being
overcome by men.” Then we reached Khaibar; and when Allah enabled
him to conquer the Fort (of Khaibar), the beauty of Safiya bint Huyai
bin Akhtab was described to him. Her husband had been killed while she
was a bride. So Allah’s Apostle selected her for himself and took her
along with him till we reached a place called Sa`d−AsSahba,’ where her
menses were over and he took her for his wife. Haris (a kind of
dish) was served on a small leather sheet. Then Allah’s Apostle told me
to call those who were around me. So, that was the marriage banquet of
Allah’s Apostle and Safiya. Then we left for Medina. I saw Allah’s
Apostle folding a cloak round the hump of the camel so as to make a wide
space for Safiya (to sit on behind him) He sat beside his camel letting
his knees for Safiya to put her feet on so as to mount
the camel. Then, we proceeded till we approached Medina; he looked at
Uhud (mountain) and said, “This is a mountain which loves us and is
loved by us.” Then he looked at Medina and said, “O Allah! I make the
area between its (i.e. Medina’s) two mountains a sanctuary as Abraham
made Mecca a sanctuary. O Allah! Bless them (i.e. the people of Medina)
in their Mudd and Sa (i.e. measures).

The Carnal Life of the Prophet of Allah

11/21/2011

Muhammad had sex with just about anyone he pleased, thanks to Allah’s
extraordinary interest in his personal sex life, as immortalized in the
Qur’an. Lets see the evidence from authentic Islamic scriptures to
support my claim.

Quran 33:51 - You may put off any of your
wives you please and take to your bed any of them you please, and there
is no blame on you if you call back any of them you had temporarily set
aside. This is most proper, so that their eyes may be cooled and
they may not grieve, and that they will remain satisfied with what you
give them. O believers! Allah knows all that is in your hearts; for
Allah is All-Knowing, Most Forbearing.

These are Allah’s word unaltered, and see what Allah is commanding
Muhammad to do. Allah commands Muhammad to sleep with anyone he pleases
to without any restriction. Commentaries of Qur’an gives a clear view
about Allah’s plan.

Tafsir Ibn Abbas says:- [33:51]

(Thou canst defer) you can leave (whom thou wilt of them) from among the daughters of your aunts from

your father’s side, and or the daughters of your uncles from your mother’s side, and not marry them (and

receive unto thee whom thou wilt) and marry them, (and whomsoever thou desirest) to marry (of those

whom thou hast set aside (temporarily), it is no sin for thee (to receive her again)) it is also said that this

could be understood in this manner: you can abstain from whoever you will of your wives and you can go to

whoever you will of your wives and there is no sin for you in abstaining from some and going to others;

(that) the widening of the scope and dispensation (is better; that they may be comforted) when they know

that this widening of scope is from Allah (and not grieve) for fear of divorce, (and may all be pleased with

what thou givest them) of sharing your physical presence with them. (Allah knoweth what is in your hearts)

whether it is contentment or resentment; (and Allah is Knower) of your righteousness and theirs, (Clement)

in that which He explained to you and forgave you.

So, according to Allah Muhammad is even authorized to marry and sleep
with daughters of his aunt temporarily if he wishes to. I think
Muhammad was a lucky one to get Allah( who was just his illusion) to
satisfy his sexual desires with whom so  ever he pleased, without
marrying or by temporarily marrying them.This not the end of Muhammad’s
lust, lets see further what Bukhari reports.

Volume 4, Book 52, Number 143

Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said to Abu Talha, “Choose
one of your boy servants to serve me in my expedition to Khaibar.” So,
Abu Talha took me letting me ride behind him while I was a boy nearing
the age of puberty. I used to serve Allah’s Apostle when he stopped to
rest. I heard him saying repeatedly, “O Allah! I seek refuge with You
from distress and sorrow, from helplessness and laziness, from
miserliness and cowardice, from being heavily in debt and from being
overcome by men.” Then we reached Khaibar; and when Allah enabled
him to conquer the Fort (of Khaibar), the beauty of Safiya bint Huyai
bin Akhtab was described to him. Her husband had been killed while she
was a bride. So Allah’s Apostle selected her for himself and took her
along with him till we reached a place called Sa`d−AsSahba,’ where her
menses were over and he took her for his wife. Haris (a kind of
dish) was served on a small leather sheet. Then Allah’s Apostle told me
to call those who were around me. So, that was the marriage banquet of
Allah’s Apostle and Safiya. Then we left for Medina. I saw Allah’s
Apostle folding a cloak round the hump of the camel so as to make a wide
space for Safiya (to sit on behind him) He sat beside his camel letting
his knees for Safiya to put her feet on so as to mount
the camel. Then, we proceeded till we approached Medina; he looked at
Uhud (mountain) and said, “This is a mountain which loves us and is
loved by us.” Then he looked at Medina and said, “O Allah! I make the
area between its (i.e. Medina’s) two mountains a sanctuary as Abraham
made Mecca a sanctuary. O Allah! Bless them (i.e. the people of Medina)
in their Mudd and Sa (i.e. measures).

Its a wonderful example set by the Pedophilia Prophet for his
extremist followers, the very first question arises in my mind here is
that, how can a women marry a man who has killed his husband? Its
impossible, and in other words we can define his deed as rape with
Safiyah.. It continues further with another
report in Sahih Bukhari, lets see:-

Bukhari:Volume 5, Book 59, Number 459

Narrated Ibn Muhairiz: I entered the Mosque and saw Abu Sa`id Al−Khudri and sat beside him and asked him about Al−Azl (i.e. coitus interruptus). Abu Sa`id said, “We went out with Allah’s Apostle for the Ghazwa of Banu Al−Mustaliq and we received captives from among the Arab captives and we desired women and celibacy became hard on us and we loved to do coitus interruptus. So when we intended to do coitus interrupt us, we said, ‘How can we do coitus interruptus before asking Allah’s Apostle who is present among us?” We asked (him) about it and he said, ‘It is better for you not to do so, for if any soul (till the Day of Resurrection) is predestined to exist, it will exist.”

To me and any other reasonable man, the Revelation and Inspiration
will look like a porn book, which contains all knowledge about sex.
These are the deeds of Muhammad A.K.A (Allah) Islamic God. His followers
did what he taught them throughout his life. When Muhammad and his
followers received captives their celibacy became hard( as if they were
already prepared for sex). Islam has only destructed this Mother Earth
by innumerable ways. Today we find Islam the  fastest growing religion,
its because the prophet ordered his followers not to do coitus
interruptus.  We can imagine now how many illegal children were born
from Muhammad followers at Muhammad’s time..

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Bosnian Islamic fighters – Bosnian Islamic fighters during
their Jihad which was blessed by President Bill Clinton

The hidden “Islamic jihad” and dimensions of Bosnia have been ignored prior to the conflict, during the civil war in the early 1990s, and afterwards. This misrepresentation of reality meant that thousands of Islamists from all over the world were aided by so-called democratic powers and the role of the mass media and many leading academics served the ambitions of Al-Qa’ida and other outside powers. Therefore, what is the reality of Bosnia and why is it claimed that all communities resided in peace and tranquility?

According to many naïve Western commentators Bosnia was a tranquil reality where Muslims and Christians lived happily together for many centuries. Not only this, the Western rhetoric claimed that in modern times it was the Muslim leadership in Bosnia which was open-minded, democratic, modernist, and which desired to maintain a multi-cultural and multi-religious society.

The truth could not have been further and Western commentators and academics are clearly glossing over reality because the Ottoman Empire was not based on enlightenment. On the contrary, the Islamization of Bosnia was paid by the blood of Christians and the slavery and forced conversions of young Christian boys who were forcibly converted to Islam via the barbaric devshirme system.

John R. Schindler stated in his book called Unholy Terror that “The most hated aspect of Ottoman rule in Bosnia, and the one whose memory lingers most sharply even today, was the practice of devshirme, the blood tax imposed on Christians. For three centuries beginning with the conquest of Bosnia, the Ottomans annually levied male children as tribute; every year, up to one-fifth of Christian boys in Bosnia – usually aged fourteen to twenty, but some were younger – were forcibly taken from their families in contingents of a thousand and shipped to the imperial court at Istanbul to become warrior-slaves in the janissaries, the Sultan’s elite guard. They were converted to Islam….” Page 23 – Unholy Terror

The Christians of Bosnia clearly faced pogroms, institutional discrimination, and a system which was brutal. If Christian men happened to fall in love with Muslim women then they faced the death penalty because it is forbidden in Islam, however, countless numbers of Christian women were taken by Muslims, just like in modern day Egypt and Pakistan, and the legal authorities deemed this permissible.

In fact the myth of peaceful Islam in Bosnia could not be further from the truth because conditions for Christians in Bosnia was especially brutal because the landed elites who were Muslim, ruled over their Christian subjects with disdain. The Western hype of multi-cultural Bosnia is just that and in the middle of the 19th century you had around one hundred mosques in Sarajevo but only one Orthodox Christian church.

Non-Muslims suffered the fate of being dhimmis and converts to Islam used their power in order to maintain a system which supported every indignity that you could imagine. It was a policy based on the “superior Muslims” against the “enslaved Christians” and if the Christians did not accept dhimmitude, paying heavy taxes via jizya, and allowing young Christian boys to be converted to Islam and taken away to Istanbul, then the Islamic sword awaited them.

World War Two also witnessed the mutual support of the Muslim elites with Nazi Germany and Orthodox Christians faced the brutality of many forces. This notably applies to the Croatian Catholic Ustasha regime which was genocidal towards the Serbian Orthodox Christians and it must be stated that Muslims participated fully within the military wing and police force of this brutal and barbaric regime. At the same time Muslims served under the Nazi regime of Germany and the 13th Volunteer Mountain Division of the Waffen-SS (Handschar) was famous for killing Orthodox Christians.

John R. Schindler states that “Despite strong local support, Himmler’s Bosnian division ultimately did little to help the Nazi cause or defend the Bosnian Muslims…….the 13th Division’s actual combat record was slight, while its depredations against unarmed Serbs were impressive; the Muslim troops spent more time killing and looting than actually fighting…….the 13th Division ended the war ingloriously, plagued by war crimes and desertion.” Page 36 – Unholy Terror

Again, it must be remembered that this Bosnia is the same Bosnia that Western journalists and academics claimed was peaceful and based on religious and ethnic toleration. It would appear that these journalists and academics deem the control of land in the hands of Muslims; converting Christian boys to Islam by the barbaric devshirme system; killing Christian males for marrying Muslim women; no rights under law during cases involving Christians and Muslims; a brutal jizya tax system; the mass inequality of the dhimmitude system; and the fact that Muslims joined forces with both the Ustasha fascist regime and the Nazi SS; somehow, all this in the eyes of Western academics and journalists meant ethnic and religious bliss.

If the same journalists and academics had vindicated Western European and Arab slavery of Africans in Africa then the mass media would have ridiculed such disgraceful notions of history. However, the same mantra was used in order to vindicate the Muslim side in Bosnia during the 1990s.

The communist interlude in Yugoslavia certainly contained Islamists in Bosnia but Muslim elites like Alija Izetbegovic were waiting in the wings and his pan-Islamic dreams for the Islamization of Bosnia and then further afield remained strong. However, when the conflict broke out in 1992 the media in the West remained silent about this and other future crimes by both Bosnian Islamists and international Islamic jihadists who glorified in beheading Orthodox Christians and spreading a new Islamic jihad.

The hidden “Islamic jihad” in Bosnia was covered up because this suited the needs of interested parties and it was not productive to show America, Alija Izetbegovic, Al-Qa’ida, the global jihadist network, and other nations, working hand in hand. Therefore, the “Muslim victim card” was played and the same applies to re-writing history. The Serbians, who had been the victims of Islamic jihad under the Ottomans and then suffered so brutally under the Ustasha/Nazi/Islamic collaboration during World War Two, were once more victims, just like they had been under the Habsburg Empire, because during the 1990s it is clear that the mass media sided with all anti-Serbian forces. This applies to supporting Croatia, the Muslims of Bosnia, and the Albanian Muslims of Kosovo.

In my article called Bosnia and Clinton’s Radical Islamists, I comment that “Sky News has obtained clear and proper evidence of a major cover-up and footages of massacres against Serbian Christians have been seen. According to the investigation and footages which were shown, it is abundantly clear that thousands of radical Islamists from all over the world were given a free-reign in Bosnia.”

“This free-reign meant that innocent Serbian Christians were to meet terrible and disturbing deaths at the hands of radical Islamists who celebrated openly while cutting the heads off innocent civilians. The same Islamic forces which unleashed September 11th and which stone people to death in order to create “year zero,” were welcomed openly by ex-President Clinton and by people within his administration.”

Vojin Joksimovich in his book called Kosovo is Serbia states that “Tudjman preferred Milosevic to Bosnian Muslims and their leader Alija Izetbegovic, whom he detested and described him as an Islamic fundamentalist with ambition to create an Islamic state in Europe. Needless to say, Washington and the Germans, as appeasers of radical Islam, did not allow Tudjman and Milosevic to proceed with their plan which would have avoided the war and associated sufferings.” Page 106 – Kosovo is Serbia

Vojin Joksimovich also states that “During the war in Bosnia, Milosevic supported every single peace proposal for termination of the war, starting with the Vance-Owen plan in 1993 in contrast to President Clinton who undermined four peace proposals and thus extended the bloody conflict in an attempt to deliver victory to the Bosnian Muslims. Milosevic fired Milan Babic, Republic of Serbian Krajina president, for rejecting the Vance Plan for autonomy of Krajina which Milosevic considered acceptable.” Page 107 – Kosovo is Serbia

However, for Muslim elites the Bosnian conflict provided an opportunity and Alija Izetbegovic who had ties with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and who openly admired Ayatollah Khomeini, saw an opening for Islam in Bosnia and his pan-Islamism meant that he ignored the Sunni-Shi divide.

Izetbegovic’s Islamic Declaration made it clear that he supported a pan-Islamic state which would include vast areas of land and link Europe with the Muslim world in the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, and to nations like Indonesia. In his views “There can be no peace or harmony between the ‘Islamic religion’ and non-Islamic social and political institutions.”

However, despite Izetbegovic having links with the Muslim Brotherhood and obtaining support from Iran in the 1980s during the height of a Muslim crackdown against all forces of moderation in Iran, he somehow emerges under the wings of moderation during the Bosnian conflict. The leader of America, Bill Clinton, in the early 1990s was not concerned about Izetbegovic stating that “Islamic society without an Islamic government is incomplete and impotent.”

Before the war broke out in 1992 it is clear that the Muslim leader understood full well about which direction he wanted Bosnia to go. Izetbegovic visited Iran before the conflict erupted and asked for support. John R. Schindler comments that “Izetbegovic and his entourage, including his sons, were treated royally by the Iranians, the culmination of the Bosnian Islamists’ love affair with revolutionary Iran. They wanted Tehran’s help, and they received it. Izetbegovic asked Iranian leader Rafsanjani about the views of Iranian intelligence regarding the situation in Bosnia, regarding the risks of a war, and explicitly asked for Iranian “help” if hostilities broke out. The Bosnians were pleased when they were informed that they could count on Iran’s full support; they received blank checks…..” Page 54 – Unholy Terror

Therefore, we have a whitewash of past history and how the Serbian Orthodox Christians suffered during the Ottoman Empire. This applies to the brutality of the devshirme system, dhimmitude, pogroms, and the enslavement of Christians. The reality of history is being reduced in order to meet current political trends and this collective amnesia also applies to the Muslims supporting both Croatian fascists and the Nazi Party during World War Two.

Turning to events in the 1990s it is clear that Alija Izetbegovic had an Islamic vision for Bosnia and he also spoke about the need to support all Muslims throughout the former Yugoslavia. At the same time he was welcomed with open arms by Iran and he had links with the Muslim Brotherhood. However, this meant nothing to Bill Clinton and Al-Qa’ida was given a free-reign in Bosnia by America and other forces which had vested interests.

Vojin Joksimovich in his book called The Revenge of the Prophet highlights the role of Al-Qa’ida because he states that “Osama Bin Laden saw a great opportunity in Bosnia and established a base of operations in Europe against Al Qaeda’s true enemy, the U.S. The Afghan Jihad and the Gulf War combined to produce fertile ground for 9/11. However, Bosnia became the direct springboard for 9/11, the Madrid train bombings and probably London.” Page 298 – The Revenge of the Prophet

Just like the mass media and academics had falsified history they were now ignoring the reality of Bosnia. Islamic jihadists were given the “green light” alongside terrorist networks and thousands entered Bosnia with the complicity of the Bosnian Muslim government and agencies which were serving Bill Clinton. Therefore, the beheadings of Orthodox Christians were not shown on television, nor were images of thousands of Islamists who were killing in the name of Allah and of course the real underdogs were the Bosnian Serbs because they were fighting Bosnian Muslims, Croatians, Islamic jihadists, and covert military support and training from Western nations who were involved in murky dealings with nations like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and a host of other nations.

The Islamic agenda of Izetbegovic before the war was ignored and then during the war the mass media and academics, alongside political leaders, all developed collective amnesia. Memories of history remained strong but somehow the Orthodox Christians of Bosnia were meant to welcome their future “dhimmi” status if Izetbegovic’s dreams were to come true.

John R. Schindler states that “How the mujahidin, bin Laden’s holy warriors, came to Bosnia, were funded by corrupt Islamic financiers, and left their unfortunate mark on Europe is a tale of fanaticism, criminality, and violence that must be explained to understand the actual course of events in Bosnia during the war and after.” Page 147 – Unholy Terror

El-Mujahid fighters in Bosnia and other Islamists enjoyed torturing Christian captives and beheading them and then sending these images to the internet. Just like Islamists have done after capturing Americans and other nationals in Iraq and other parts of the world. However, for Bill Clinton and the Western media this did not concern them because they had to highlight the “Muslim victim card.” Yet the same Americans who were disgusted when Muslim jihadists did this to their nationals in Iraq did not know that their own American government tolerated this during the war in Bosnia.

In fact it is known that billions of dollars were sent to Bosnia in order to fund an Islamic jihad and Islamists entered Bosnia freely and with tacit support. John R. Schindler states that “Izetbegovic and SDA higher-ups mendaciously claimed to have no knowledge of el-Mujahid or any such units, a pleasant fraud that nobody in the West seemed interested in unmasking. Izetbegovic’s mid-November 1993 visit to the “el-jihad unit of the Army of Bosnia and Hercegovina” was reported by Sarajevo radio, including the president’s counsel to the holy warriors to “be merciless towards the enemy,” but none of the legion of Western journalists in the capital bothered to take note.” Page 167 – Unholy Terror

Izetbegovic stated that “He who rises against Islam will reap nothing but hate and resistance” and the Bosnian Orthodox Christians new full well that he was not interested in sharing power or a democratic nation which was based on pluralism. On the contrary Izetbegovic was warning the Christians to accept dhimmitude and Islamization. At the same time he welcomed support from the Muslim Brotherhood, international Islamists, Al-Qa’ida, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Islamic channels via Sudan and other nations.

Izetbegovic also stated that “….In perspective, there is but one way out in sight: creation and gathering of a new intelligence which thinks and feels along Islamic lines. This intelligence would then raise the flag of the Islamic order and together with the Muslim masses embark into action to implement this order…..”

Chris Deliso who is the author of The Coming Balkan Caliphate: the Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West , comments that“…the proliferation of foreign-funded fundamentalist groups has challenged the power and legitimacy of traditional Balkan Muslim communities in unprecedented and often violent ways. Well-funded groups like the Saudi-backed Wahabbis continue to exploit internal schisms within local communities…”

Chris Deliso also comments that “The direct relation between Bosnia as a localized jihad and Bosnia as a springboard for Islamist attacks in the West became felt almost immediately. Hundreds of foreign mujahedin, treated as heroes and presented with Bosnian passports after the war, were naturalized into the country, and were awarded their own enclaves ruled by Sharia law. Veterans of the Bosnian war who had seen it as just another in a series of jihad operations proved reluctant to settle down into rural ‘retirement,’ however. Failed terrorist attacks against the 1996 G-7 Summit in Lille, France and Los Angeles International Airport in December 1999 both involved veterans of Bosnia. Indeed, “five years before the sophisticated terrorist assault on the U.S.,” the Los Angeles Times would conclude in October of 2001, “the French were starting to uncover loosely linked violent networks spreading into several countries, all tied together by a common thread: Bosnia.”

“Most disturbingly, with the seminal attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington several individuals, including fundraisers, planners, and actual hijackers were associated with the Bosnian jihad. In addition, a tight-lipped CIA source also told the Washington Times on September 18, 2001 that there was a definite connection between the 9/11 plotters and Albania-based Islamic terrorists. Finally, a group of Albanian-American imams who had gleefully predicted the attacks the month before, and who had links with Kosovo Albanian organized crime structures, were briefly detained in Kosovo by UN police; however, they were inexplicably released. In November, 2007, it was revealed that some of the 9/11 hijackers had also been trained in Turkey, which despite being a secular Islamic state had also long been a two-way conveyor belt for international mujahedin and fundraisers active in both the Bosnian and Chechen jihads.”

It is clear that Muslim demographic factors will continue to alter the landscape of parts of the Balkans and alongside this will be major investments from Islamic nations which desire to spread and create Islamic states in Europe. Added to this are Islamic terrorist cells and individuals who were welcomed into Bosnia and Kosovo by local Muslim elites and by policy makers in Washington during the conflicts of Bosnia and Kosovo.

Policy makers in Washington now have a different agenda but more recent terrorist activity is evidence that the international Islamists have spread their ideology alongside Muslim elites in Bosnia who had an Islamic agenda. The “Muslim victim card” is still being used and this needs to be challenged because the conflict in Bosnia was complex and the Bosnian Serb leadership faced a “hidden Islamic war” and a “covert war,” whereby international players openly manipulated the situation on the ground.

Serge Trifkovic (Srdja Trifkovic) who is the author of The Sword of the Prophet states that “The American intervention in the Balkans – humanitarian bombings, multicultural Muslims, and all – was the Clinton team’s exercise in counter-realism. Its end result is the strengthening of an already aggressive Islamic base in the heart of Europe that will not go away.” Page 227 – The Sword of the Prophet

John R. Schindler states that “Although Sarajevo’s supporters went to great lengths to deny it, there was no avoiding the reality that after 9/11, as al-Qa’ida attacks multiplied across the world, a disturbing number of the terrorists involved had close ties to Bosnia and the holy war waged there. The dedicated cadres bin Laden had first nurtured in Afghanistan and brought to fruition in Bosnia were ready for the all-out confrontation with the “apostates” and “infidels” that al-Qa’ida had promised.” Page 296 – Unholy Terror

John R. Schindler continues by stating that “The role of the West in the fate of Bosnia cannot be underestimated. The willful blindness of Western elites, the dishonest and mendacious representations of Bosnia and its war presented by intellectuals, academics, entertainers and journalists, decisively influenced the course of the conflict, to the benefit of radical Islam.” Page 324 – Unholy Terror

The events of Bosnia and the role of Izetbegovic and radical Islam did not fit the Western agenda and for multi-cultural media outlets which desired to maintain the “Muslim victim card myth” it suited their quaint upbringings. Therefore, while the Serbians were being demonized the international Islamic brigade was slitting the throats of Orthodox Christians and they clearly had the blessing of Izetbegovic.

The ramifications of Bosnia continues and this applies to Islamic terrorist cells; Islamization funding projects by Bosnian Muslim elites alongside funding from Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations; demographic factors; the “Muslim victim card” in order to radicalize Muslim youths; and other factors.

However, despite everything it appears that America is still intent on a unified Bosnia whereby a Christian majority will be ruled by Muslim elites. Maybe the leadership in America could point to a nation where non-Muslims welcomed being ruled by Muslims and what happened once they became ruled by Islamic Sharia law?

It is clear that the Bosnian Serbs cannot trust the international community because of past deeds and the ongoing reality of Kosovo where Orthodox Christians reside in fear and in the knowledge that many Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries have been destroyed.

The past reality of Islam in Bosnia means that you have no history of mutual co-existence because dhimmitude, jizya, pogroms, and the devshirme system was brutal. Therefore, you had a Muslim landed elite and an Orthodox Christian peasantry which was taxed heavily in order to maintain Islamic power and control.

Overall, the distortions of past history and events during the war is one of international shame because the media bias was not only extreme, it was dangerous. Therefore, Islamists within the Bosnian elites were given a power base and they increased their power base by blocking any compromise and allowing thousands of Islamists from all over the world to enter Bosnia.

Today global Islamists and the followers of Izetbegovic are still dreaming about an Islamic state and Saudi funding and other policies are intent on changing the Balkans. Islamists also hope to use the demographic factor in order to achieve this. Therefore, the Bosnian Serbs need either an independent nation state or to be allowed a referendum in order to join Serbia.

If not, the Serbs face another de-Orthodox Christianization reality and this factuality can be seen in modern day Kosovo where their culture, churches, and community is under constant threat. The rich history of Orthodox Christianity in Kosovo faces a bleak future and one of little hope. If the Bosnian Serbs continue to wait or are forced by the international community to accept Bosnian centralization then surely the same fate awaits them and this applies to Islamization.

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• Undercover footage shows pupils being taught religious apartheid
  
• Muslims who adopt Western ways will be ‘tortured in afterlife’
  
• Unprovoked beatings captured on camera in Yorkshire madrassa
• Boy threatened with bench by senior student left in charge of class

It is an assembly hall of the sort found in any ordinary school. Boys aged 11 and upwards sit cross-legged on the floor in straight rows. They face the front of the room and listen carefully. But this is no ordinary assembly. Holding the children’s attention is a man in Islamic dress wearing a skullcap and stroking his long dark beard as he talks.

‘You’re not like the non-Muslims out there,’ the teacher says, gesturing towards the window. ‘All that evil you see in the streets, people not wearing the hijab properly, people smoking . . . you should hate it, you should hate walking down that street.’

He refers to the ‘non-Muslims’ as the ‘Kuffar’, an often derogatory term that means disbeliever or infidel.

Grabbed: Secretly filmed footage from the Markazi Jamia mosque shows a teacher pulling a pupil towards him and striking him on the back

Slapped: A child receives a sharp blow on the back of the head from the same teacher. The impact of the blow can be heard on the film

Welcome to one of Britain’s most influential Islamic faith schools, one of at least 2,000 such schools in Britain, some full-time, others part-time. They represent a growing, parallel education system.

The school is the Darul Uloom Islamic High School in Birmingham, an oversubscribed independent secondary school. Darul Ulooms are world-renowned Islamic institutions and their aim is to produce the next generation of Muslim leaders. In fact, these schools have been described as the ‘Etons of Islam’.

This school is required by its inspectors to teach tolerance and respect for other faiths. But the Channel 4 current affairs programme Dispatches filmed secretly inside it – and instead discovered that Muslim children are being taught religious apartheid and social segregation.

We recorded a number of speakers giving deeply disturbing talks about Jews, Christians and atheists.

We found children as young as 11 learning that Hindus have ‘no intellect’ and that they ‘drink cow p***’.

And we came across pupils being told that the ‘disbelievers’ are ‘the worst creatures’ and that Muslims who adopt supposedly non-Muslim ways, such as shaving, dancing, listening to music and – in the case of women – removing their headscarves, would be tortured with a forked iron rod in the afterlife.

In 2009 this school was praised by Government-approved inspection teams for its interfaith teachings. The report said that ‘pupils learn about the beliefs and practices of other faiths and are taught to show respect to other world religions’.

It seems that the inspectors were unaware of the teaching methods revealed by our undercover reporter, Osman. He was taken on as a volunteer at the Darul Uloom school in Birmingham in April 2009 and was allowed to sit in on some lessons – but not their Islamic classes.

So, in July last year, he went into one of the rooms where we’d heard they taught Islamic studies and left a secret camera to record the lessons.

Filming intermittently over a period of four months, the camera recorded children being taught a hardline, intolerant and highly anti-social version of Islam.

During the same period our reporter also attended the Markazi Jamia mosque in Keighley, West Yorkshire, after hearing of serious allegations that children were being hit at its madrassa.

Madrassas in the UK are part-time after-school or weekend classes, often held in mosques, where children are taught to read the Koran. In Keighley it is not what they are being taught that is the problem, but how.

Again, Osman went into the mosque and left the camera in the room where classes took place.

The film shows children as young as six sitting on the floor of a large room in the mosque, one of the biggest in the country. The boys are hunched over wooden benches, rocking backwards and forwards as they rote-learn the Koran in Arabic. A man with a long white beard dressed in a traditional shalwar kameez – tunic and trousers – sits at the head of the class.

Periodically he gets up and walks behind the boys. As he passes, the children appear to cower and watch him nervously. It soon becomes clear why.

He unexpectedly raises his hand and slaps a young boy hard on the head. Moments later he strikes another. And then he kicks a third child.

 In just two days of filming in December 2010, the camera recorded the teacher hitting children as young as six or seven at least ten times, in less than three hours of lessons.

From what we could see, every ¬single blow was pretty much unprovoked. We soon realised that the beatings were routine. The behaviour of the boys, the way they flinched and backed away when he approached, indicated that they were long-accustomed to being hit and kicked as they studied.

In another incident an older boy, left in charge of a class while a teacher is out at prayer, picks up a bench and threatens to hit a younger boy with it.

During the making of this Dispatches film I have often counted my blessings. I received my Islamic education at home. My mum would read the Koran with me and most of my knowledge of Islam came from within the family. Others have not been so lucky.

Osman was subjected to beatings at four separate madrassas in the East Midlands as a child. He says that for the nine years he spent going to after-school Koran classes, he was hit regularly, at least a couple of timesa week.

‘It destroyed my confidence,’ he says, ‘and the worst bit was never knowing when it was going to happen. I had a horrible teacher who would use his fists, a stick, a shoe, anything he could find. He’d just get angry and lash out.’

Threatened: An older pupil holds down a boy while another pupil – put in charge during the teacher’s absence – aims a bench at him

Osman’s young cousins go to the same madrassas he attended and told him the beatings were still continuing. This persuaded Osman to try to reveal the truth behind the private world of faith schools. Over a period of two years he bravely placed cameras in both schools and collected highly sensitive material for us. His experience of madrassas is not uncommon. But persuading people to go on camera about this has been difficult. One family who were willing to talk were too frightened to do so openly.

‘Salma’ and ‘Ayesha’ are a mother and daughter whose identities we are protecting. Ayesha is now sitting her A-levels but when she was seven she was beaten at her Koran classes. She says: ‘The teacher would sit there, tell me what to read, pronounce it to me – then if I said it wrong he would hit me on the hands with a ruler.’

Her younger brother, only five at the time, would be hit on his feet with a stick. They dreaded going to those classes but did not tell their mother. Salma eventually withdrew her children from attending madrassas for a completely different reason: she learned that they were being taught an intolerant version of Islam. ‘They were using terms like “Kaffir” just because somebody isn’t of the same religion,’ she says, ‘and I’m teaching my children to integrate and not be racist so I pulled my children out.’

Academic and theologian Dr Taj Hargey invited me to visit his part-time Islamic school in Oxford where children are taught in mixed-gender classes.

Here I witnessed a modern and refreshing method of teaching. Pupils were told to respect other faiths, ask questions about their religion and recite from the Koran in English as well as Arabic.

Dr Hargey told me he set up this school because of claims that Muslim parents had made to him about beatings in other madrassas. ‘It’s an outdated, archaic concept,’ he says, ‘and if we inflict this violence we will sow the seeds of violence in them.’

Sir Roger Singleton, former Government chief adviser on the safety of children, and Ann Cryer, former MP for Keighley, want the law to change to ban physical punishment in supplementary classes, as it does in full-time schools. ‘It just isn’t acceptable,’ says Cryer. ‘We wouldn’t allow this to happen to white kids going to Sunday schools.’

Punished: One of the madrassa students is grabbed by the wrist, pulled towards the teacher in charge of the class and struck on the back

We approached the Darul Uloom Islamic High School in Birmingham with the findings of our film. It claimed that the senior student who gave the speech about Hindus was later reported by other students, and has been expelled, and that no teachers were present ‘during the incident’.

The school said that a speaker who made comments about Jews was ‘visiting’ and his views did not represent school policy. It denied that its religious instruction was hardline or extremist and said it did not tolerate hatred towards any faith group.

In a statement, the school said: ‘Our ethos is for students to be full and active participants of British society.’ It also said that it would study our evidence and take ‘disciplinary measures’ if required.

Regarding the Keighley madrassa, we were told that the Jamia Mosque committee was firm in its resolve to take whatever action was necessary to protect children being taught at the mosque and that it would give its full co-operation to any enquiries resulting from our film.

If the law on physical punishment does change, that would be one way to protect the very young that attend these classes. But these part-time and full-time Muslim schools also need closer scrutiny – the regulatory system needs to be tightened up.

However, we have a Government that, on the one hand, gives grand speeches about tackling the causes of extremism, as David Cameron did last week, while, on the other, encouraging local communities to set up their own schools – including faith schools. It’s time to stop these mixed messages.

And Muslims can no longer sweep this under the carpet – they need to face up to what is happening behind closed doors. Many warn that if we don’t all tackle this toxic mix of hatred and violence head on, we will reap the whirlwind in years to come.

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A new evil is sweeping the Middle East and the Foreign Office is failing to confront it.

Father Immanuel Dabaghian, one of Baghdad’s last surviving priests, is expecting a quiet Christmas. To join him in the Church of the Virgin Mary means two hours of security checks and a body search at the door, and even then there’s no guarantee of survival. Islamist gunmen massacred 58 people in a nearby church last year, and fresh graffiti warns remaining worshippers that they could be next.

  Al-Azhar makes an Absurd request from Coptic Church,

   “denounce the US religious discrimination report”

Pope Shenoudeh of Egypt shaking hands with the Azhar new Grand Sheikh

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria shaking hands with Dr. Ahmed El Tayeb, Al-Azhar’s new Grand Sheik, March 23, 2010. El Tayeb is named Al-Azhar’s Grand Sheik following his predecessor’s, Sheik Mohamed Sayed Tantawi’s, death few weeks ago.

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/al-azhar-asks-coptic-church-denounce-us-religious-discrimination-claims.

Egyptian newspaper today reported a bizarre and extraordinary event.

“Al-Azhar attempted to persuade Egypt’s Coptic Church on Thursday to rebuff a US report claiming that Christians in Egypt were discriminated against.”

Is this some sort of a sick twisted Joke?

The report continues as follows:

“The Coptic Church had–for the first time–welcomed an annual US report on religious freedoms, saying there was indeed discrimination against Christians in Egypt. The Church held the government responsible for the report’s conclusions, since it had ignored previous criticisms.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry, for its part, rejected the report, saying that Washington had no right to assess religious freedoms in the country.

The Islamic Research Academy, which is affiliated with Al-Azhar, held a meeting on 6 December to discuss the report following consultations with church representatives.

Al-Azhar spokesman Ambassador Mohammad Rafaa al-Tahtawi said the objective of the meeting was to take a “patriotic stance” representing all citizens, both Muslim and Christian alike. He said Al-Azhar considered the report “unacceptable interference” in Egypt’s domestic affairs.

The US State Department’s international religious freedoms report, released Wednesday, details alleged abuses of religious freedoms around the world. This year’s report criticized “the practice of religious discrimination against Christians and Baha’is” in Egypt, pointing out that they did not enjoy equal representation in high-level government positions.

The report went on to claim that converts from Islam to Christianity were subject to numerous restrictions, the most noteworthy of which was the refusal of the authorities to issue them new national identity cards reflecting their conversion to Christianity.”

So here we have it, the oldest institute of Islamic teaching in the world and guardians of the religion of peace want the Coptic church to come out and declare” they are not been discriminated against.

The answer to their request is totally insignificant.

What is significant however is the implications and true meaning of such an absurd request.

To make such a request after the events that have transpired this year is totally abhorrent.

Are the Muslim Scholars at Al-Azhar

A) Ashamed

B) In denial

C) Oblivious

D) Or stupid.

In the first instance they are actually asking the church to be unfaithful to itself, and lie to its 10 million Copts within Egypt. The audacity of even thinking of such a vile request.

What I find totally incredible is in light of the events this transpired two days ago ( because of the construction of a church, the deaths, brutality and arrests, theft of church property, destruction and emotional distress), instead of sending HH Pope Shenouda their condolences, they are asking him to declare” the Copts are quiet happy and content living as second class citizens with no voice in government, no true rights, discriminatory prohibitions, abuse, violence and fear”

What concerns me the most is the reprehensible sinister message behind such a request?

To make such a request is total lack of indifference that, “ directly infers that the status and treatment of the Copts as it stands in society acceptable, normal and DOES NOT constitute any form of discrimination.

The heads of the religion of Peace are telling us that” in their minds, hearts and souls and through adherence to their faith, they can not see any problem with the treatment of the Copts and we have no reason to complain, not should anyone else.

Do you find it disturbing that they actually think it is totally acceptable for the Copts to continue to be treated as they currently are?

Such a request Coming for the Al-Azhar, is sending very dangerous message to all Muslim nations is,” it is acceptable and righteous under the teachings of Islam to treat non Muslims as we treat the Copts in egypt.

I would tell the Al-Azhar legends, you have made total fools of yourselves and fully exposed the nature, sympathy & empathy of Islam. If you can not even see there is a problem, how in the name of God are things ever going to improve?

What message are you sending the Egyptian community?

You should be condemning what happened this week, not diving into damage control because Egypt is again been exposed as a draconian, unruly uncivilised nation where Christians are abused under Islamic rule.

To the Egyptian Foreign Minister & Al-Azhar spokesman Ambassador Mohammad Rafaa al-Tahtawi I would remind the highly intelligent and learned gents, take the sunglasses off, remove the ear plugs and look and listen for a moment. Firstly do you think for 1 second, that even if the Coptic Church yielded to your request any one would actually believe it?

Who are you kidding?

Such a response would only serve to further highlight the discrimination against the Copts.

It isn’t 1960.

Technology, satellite, mobiles, internet, provide instant information.

The net is a world library.

If you know how to use a computer, type in: “ COPTIC PERSECUTION”, make sure you are sitting down and have lots of free time and start reading.

Gentlemen no statement will ever change the facts.

The entire world is aware that Egypt is still in the dark ages, a country of discrimination and favouritism, a country with no rule of law and rife with corruption.

You might fool the Egyptian community and yourselves, but sunshine, a fact is a fact and history speaks for itself and no amount of rhetoric will ever change the facts.

Your Image will change when you unwillingness to accept reality changes. Your self denial is reprehensible and shameful irrespective of faith.

I would implore you to be honest,

“ if Muslims abroad were treated likewise there would be a bellow of condemnation from the Middle East and Muslim communities abroad”.

The Difference is Jesus Christ taught us “treat others as you would have them treat you”.

The reason you do not hear the bellows, is Christians are not taught to treat others as they treat them.

As Christians “we do not treat Muslims in non Muslim lands, as the Christians are treated in Islamic lands”, and that is a fact and it is what separates us. A modern day revolution against Islam was achieved by Islamic radicals that made the religion notorious and synonymous with blood shed, terror, death, and extremist inhumane ideologies.

I know the truth hurts and the first reaction is to refute such an assertion, but sadly for you, the self denial will not change anything. Islam must change the manner it perceives and treats non Muslim communities.

Assad Elepty

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2010/index.htm (index of countries)

The Report for egypt Is below and available onLine at

Egypt http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2010/148817.htm

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