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• Lecturer queries rebuff

   The Sunday Times (Perth, W. Australia), By PAUL LAMPATHAKIS, p 22, January 1, 2006
   PERTH: A PERTH Islamic lecturer who was denied entry to the US without being given a reason has called for immigration procedures to be investigated to stop innocent people being targeted.
   Yahya Ibrahim, assistant deputy principal of the Australian Islamic College, was held for four hours at Detroit airport two weeks ago before being refused an entry visa and sent on to Canada.
   Mr Ibrahim, a respected academic known for his moderate views and condemnation of terrorism, though also a critic of the US-led Iraq invasion, was told only that the refusal was under the Immigration Act.
   Speaking to The Sunday Times from Canada yesterday, he said he had done nothing wrong, the US authorities' actions were not justified and their procedures should be examined.

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   "(The US authorities) just said, 'we don't have to give a reason and you don't have the right to petition us'," said Mr Ibrahim, who had been invited to speak before 4000 people at an Islamic conference in Houston, Texas.
   "But they said, 'you have the right to withdraw the visa application', which we did.
   "In the volatile times we live in, we have to be vigilant, but also we have to be level-headed and treat others with respect and dignity.
   "It is also important to network with other people to ensure decisions being made are correct and there is a path of recourse for people to be able to question decisions.
   "That's a cornerstone of democracy."
   Mr Ibrahim said he hoped Muslims were not being targeted and he did not think it would be US policy.
   But he had contacted the US consulate in Perth and would follow up his inquiries when he returned to Australia.
   Mr Ibrahim is the second known WA Islamic figure to have been delayed during travel in recent months.
   In November, the president of the Daawah Association of WA, Soflane Khalifa, was stopped from boarding a flight for Algeria with his daughters after being mistaken for someone on a US security watch list.
   When The Sunday Times revealed Mr Ibrahim's plight last week it sought comment from US authorities.
   "The only information I can give out is that he was denied entry under the Immigration Act," US customs spokesman Ron Smith said. #
   [RECAPITULATION: Mr Ibrahim said he hoped Muslims were not being targeted and he did not think it would be US policy. ENDS.]
   [DOCTRINE: Sūrah 2, "Al Baqara" (The Cow), āya 193 (or 189):- ... Fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left. www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran/ 002.qmt.html #002.193 .
   Sūrah 3, "The Family of Imran," āya 118 (or 114):- O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom. www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran/ 003.qmt.html #003.118 . GUIDELINE ENDS.] [Jan 1, 2006]

• Escape From Slavery

Australian Reader's Digest, editors.au@readersdigest.com , by Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan, pp 128-146, (received December 21, 2005), dated January 2006
SUDAN: The world has woken up to the brutal Arab militias of Sudan who have terrorised other ethnic and religious groups for decades. This is one young tribesman's story of murder, abduction and enslavement. His attempts to escape ended in success, and he is now based in the USA where he works to free slaves around the world.

READER'S DIGEST | JANUARY 2006 128

Escape From Slavery

BY FRANCIS BOK WITH EDWARD TIVNAN The world has woken up to the brutal Arab militias of Sudan who have terrorised other ethnic groups for decades. This is one young tribesman's story of abduction and enslavement FROM "ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY," COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY FRANCIS BOK WITH EDWARD TIVNAN, PUBLISHED BY ST MARTIN'S PRESS, NEW YORK "LEAVE YOUR THINGS AND RUN!"

MY FATHER'S FARM was full of family, friends and love. We had chickens and goats, sheep and cows; we had beautiful green trees with yellow mangoes and coconuts as big as your head. My father, it seemed to me, owned the best farm in our village of the Dinka people in Sudan, about 100 kilometres of what the maps call the Bahr al-Arab River, the border between the north and south of the country.
   We lived in two houses - one for men, the other for women - made from mud and topped by straw roofs shaped like upside-down cones. I did not go to school. No-one in my family had any formal education. Like most boys, I spent my days playing games and running in the fields. But what I liked to do most was follow my father around as he worked on the farm. I felt my father's love every day. One day he called me muycharko, which means "12 men." I asked him, "Why do you call me muycharko?"
   He laughed and explained that out of all his children, I was the one who worked the hardest, the one who would never give up. I felt my father's words flow into my body and fill me with happiness. I dreamed of being a great man with a big farm and many cattle.
[Picture] The crisis in Darfur, Western Sudan, which erupted in 2003, has many echoes of the attacks by militiamen on Francis Bok's native territory in the south of the country
   When my mother told me she had instructed some village kids to take me with them on their trip to the nearby market town, I saw it as the first step to becoming the important man my father thought I could be.
[Picture] Government-backed Arab militiamen have inflicted terrible atrocities on minority ethnic groups in Sudan
This would be my first trip to town on my own, although I had been there with my father when he went to trade animals, and with my mother on market days. Our family also went to the Catholic church there.
   On market day the other kids turned up, and my mother warned me, "When you sell something, give the money to the older children so you do not lose it."
   I grabbed the carrying pole with my goods: two tins of hard-boiled eggs and peanuts. We walked along a dusty road and soon approached the marketplace. People were already set up in the shade, and the market smelled of fish, fruit and vegetables. The big kids picked a spot under a tree. I made some sales and handed over the money, just as my mother had said.
   Then something changed. People began walking faster, talking to each other. They seemed excited; some were pointing towards the river. "Smoke," I heard. "In the villages." More people ran into town with news. "Maybe the murahaliin came," one said. "They came and burned the houses." I had heard people in my village talk of these dangerous men from the north who killed people and stole their cattle. But I had never seen these murahaliin.
   The customers began to rush from the marketplace. The sellers gathered their things. Then we heard bursts of loud noises. Everyone was running. "The murahaliin are coming!" Wherever people scattered they ran into men with guns entering the town. First men on horses, shooting people with bursts from their rifles. Then men on foot, shooting and slashing at people with their swords.
   They were not Dinka, but people with lighter skin than ours, in headdresses and robes. They were shooting the Dinka men, slashing with their swords, chopping off heads with a single swipe. I had never seen such violence and never heard so many screams. I looked around for help, but all I could see were the bodies of Dinka men
   "Run!" I heard. "Leave your things and run!" I raced from the marketplace, right into a huge horse with a militiaman pointing a gun at me. I stopped; I could not move. Someone grabbed me from behind - another murahaliin, yelling and waving his gun.
   I was sure he was going to kill me. All around I saw people screaming and falling to the ground and not getting up. He pushed me back into the marketplace with other boys and girls. Everyone was crying and screaming for their parents.
   I looked around for help, but all I could see were the bodies of Dinka men, the blood running from them like water in little rivers. I had never seen a dead body before, and now I saw more than I could count. I wanted my mother; I wanted my father to pick me up onto his shoulders and carry me away from this. My entire body and mind turned numb as I waited to be killed.
   With no Dinka men standing, the killing seemed to be finished. While a few murahaliin guarded us, others began collecting food and loading it into baskets. A man picked me up and set me on a donkey. [***]
   [And the article goes on about his enslavement, escape attempts, and finally escaping to work with the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), website Iabolish.com . His parents and two sisters had been murdered, and it was 13 years before he could talk to his elder brother Buk by telephone.]

From Australian Reader's Digest, "Escape From Slavery," by Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan, pp 128-146, dated January 2006. Based on the book ©2003 of the same name, published by St Martin's Press, New York,
http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/subchron4.htm#slavery    [COMMENT: People from enslaving cultures sometimes kill all the men and enslave the women and children, it seems, though sometimes they murder all the adults. There is approval of slavery and concubinage, the leader being allowed to marry nieces, in the culture of the group exposed in this article and the book. Many people of other cultures are too lazy to check the source documents, and are easy prey to sloppy trendies who blame the Western empires for most of the world's ills. COMMENT ENDS.]
[THEME DOCTRINE: Sūrah 8, "The Spoils" āya 12 - ... I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them. www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/ quran/008. qmt.html #008.012 . ENDS.]
[OTHER DOCTRINES: Sūrah 2, "The Cow," āya 220 - Marry not idolatresses until they believe; a slave who believeth is better than an idolatress, though she please you more. And wed not your daughters to idolaters until they believe; for a slave who is a believer, is better than an idolater, though he please you. (Rodwell's translation, 1994 reprint, p 23)
   23, "The Believers," 5-6 - And who restrain their appetites, (Save with their wives, or the slaves whom their right hands possess: for in that case they shall be free from blame: (Rodwell's, p 224)
   See also 24:31
   33, "The Confederates," 49 - O Prophet! we allow thee thy wives whom thou hast dowered, and the slaves whom thy right hand possesseth out of the booty which God hath granted thee, and the daughters of thy uncle, and of thy paternal and maternal aunts who fled with thee to Medina, and any believing woman who hath given herself up to the Prophet, if the Prophet desired to wed her - a Privilege for thee above the rest of the Faithful. (Rodwell's, 33:49, pp 281-2)
   Read also 33:50 and 52.
   33, "The Confederates," 55 - There is no blame (on these ladies if they appear) before their fathers or their sons, their brothers, or their brother's sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the (slaves) whom their right hands possess. And, (ladies), fear Allah; for Allah is Witness to all things. www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran/ 033.qmt.html #033.055 . ENDS.] [(received Dec 21 05) Jan 2006 issue, ]
• [1988: Fatwa ordering deaths of 2800 to 10,000 in Iran] Forgotten massacre; The Ayatollah's hidden legacy.

New Internationalist, Currents section, currents@ newint.org , "Human Rights: Forgotten massacre; The Ayatollah's hidden legacy," by Veronique Mistiaen, p 25, January-February 2006 issue
Currents section
HUMAN RIGHTS

Forgotten massacre

The Ayatollah's hidden legacy
   New Internationalist, Currents section; "Human Rights: Forgotten massacre; The Ayatollah's hidden legacy," by Veronique Mistiaen, p 25, January-February 2006 issue
   IRAN: EVERY Friday, families gather on a derelict plot next to the cemetery of religious minorities in the district of Khavaran, in south-east Tehran. They call it 'the rose garden of Khavaran' - for a rose, in a culture where it is often safer to use poetry, represents a fallen freedom fighter. The Iranian leadership calls it the 'place of the damned' or the 'cemetery of the infidels'. There, in unmarked mass graves, lie thousands of political prisoners killed by the Islamic regime.
   In February 1989, the world expressed outrage when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, sentencing the writer Salman Rushdie to death for blasphemy. Yet a few months earlier, Khomeini had issued another fatwa ordering the killing of thousands of prisoners of conscience. Silence.
   In July and August 1988, the Islamic regime had executed in secret thousands of political prisoners throughout the country - men, women and teenagers. They were intellectuals, students, leftists, members of opposition parties and ethnic and religious minorities. Many were jailed for no more than distributing leaflets, having a banned book or being accused by 'a trusted friend of the regime'.
   The slaughter was efficient and relentless. All day long, prisoners were loaded on forklift trucks and hanged from cranes and beams in groups of six at half-hourly intervals. Others were killed by firing squad. Those not executed were subjected to horrific torture. The killing was 'an act of violence unprecedented in Iranian history, unprecedented in form, content and intensity,' wrote the historian Ervand Abrahamian in his book on Iranian prisons Tortured Confessions.
   'When they took me to the death committee in (Tehran's) Gohardasht prison, the lobby was piled high with sandals, glasses and blindfolds. That's all that was left of our friends. They are all gone and I am alive. Part of Prison Memoir in Painting by Iranian artist Soudabeh Ardavan. She survived the 1988 massacre but spent eight years in Iranian prisons, painting by using her hair as a brush and toothpaste or tea as paint She now lives in exile in Sweden.
   I am alive to tell their story. That is my only goal,' says Mehdi Aslani, 49, who survived the massacre and now lives in exile in Germany.
   The regime has never acknowledged the massacre, revealed how many were executed, nor why. Amnesty International has recorded the names of 2,800 victims, but survivors believe it was probably between 5,000 and 10,000. The execution of such a large number of people within such a short time, without any due process, violates many international human rights treaties to which Iran is signatory; yet the world has remained largely silent. Most of the perpetrators are still in power today.
   'Nobody has been brought to justice' says Drewery Dyke, Amnesty's Iran researcher. 'Impunity for such appalling crimes only leads to further human rights abuses.'
   The husband and two brothers of Rakhshndeh Hosseinpoor, now 53, were killed by the Islamic regime. She now lives in Germany with her son. 'They have ruined so many lives. I've lost three members of my family, but some families have lost six or seven. So many children are without fathers and mothers, so many young widows, so much pain that never goes away... We need justice.'
   'We need people to know about the massacre of 1988 because it isn't just the problem of the survivors and their families,' says Reza Moini, another survivor, who works as a human rights activist in Paris. 'It was a political act, a social act, not a private one. We need the truth for tomorrow's youth.' [This alleged massacre is noted briefly in a webpage at 1988.] [Jan-Feb 2006]
• The year Rome was sacked
A book published in the United States offers to the public a comprehensive collection of the major documents on the theory and practice of jihad, from Mohammed until today.

THE YEAR ROME WAS SACKED

   Annals Australasia, annalsaust ralasia@nareg. com.au , by Sandro Magister, pp 6-7, January-February 2006
A BOOK published recently in the United States lifts the veil on a crucial aspect of Islam, one which too many understand poorly and know too little about: jihad, the holy war.
   It is an aspect that meets with widespread silence, as if it were a taboo. Even among Christians, there are wide gaps on this topic in the general awareness of Church history.
   An example? Many recall what happened in Rome, at St. Peter's Basilica, the night of Christmas Day of the year 800. After the Mass, pope Leo III solemnly placed upon the head of Charlemagne the crown of the Holy Roman Empire.
   That night, the basilica of St. Peter gleamed with breathtaking brilliance. A few years earlier, Leo Ill's predecessor, pope Hadrian I, had covered the entire floor of the sanctuary with plates of silver; he had covered the walls with gold plates and enclosed it all with a balustrade of gold weighing 1,328 pounds. He had remade the sanctuary gates with silver, and had placed on the iconostasis six images also made of silver, representing Christ, Mary, the archangels Gabriel and Michael, and saints Andrew and John. Finally, in order to make this splendour visible to all, he had ordered the assembly of a candelabrum in the form of a huge cross, on which 1,365 candles burned.
   But less than half a century later, none of this remained. And what happened remains generally unknown among Christians today.
   What happened is that in 846 some Muslim Arabs arrived in a fleet at the mouth of the Tiber, made their way to Rome, sacked the city, and carried away from the basilica of St. Peter all of the gold and silver it contained.
   And this was not just an incidental attack. In 827 the Arabs had conquered Sicily, which they kept under their dominion for two and a half centuries. Rome was under serious threat from nearby. In 847, the year after the assault, the newly elected pope Leo IV began the construction of walls around the entire perimeter of the Vatican, 12 metres high and equipped with 44 towers. He completed the project in six years. These are the 'Leonine' walls, and significant traces of them still remain. But very few today know that these walls were erected to defend the see of Peter from an Islamic jihad. And many of those who do know this remain silent out of discretion. 'Bridges, not walls' is the fashionable slogan today.
   The book that lifts the veil on the Islamic holy war is entitled The Legacy of Jihad, and is edited by Andrew G. Bostom. [www.amazon.com/ exec/obidos/tg/ detail/-/1591023 076/qid=1124927694/ sr=8-1/ref=pd_ bbs_1/002-8662893- 4522465?v=glance &s=books&n=507846]
   The book is essentially made up of documents, many of which have been translated for the first time from Arabic or Farsi, or have been reproduced from books of oriental studies that would be difficult for the general public to find.
   The documents range from Mohammed in the seventh century, to the twentieth century. And they include the classic texts on the topic of jihad by Muslim theologians and jurists, accounts of war from ancient and modern witnesses, and analyses of jihad by scholars of varying outlooks.
   The book also contains Islamic miniatures depicting moments of jihad throughout history, and maps that document the military expansion of Islam century after century, from the seventh to the eleventh century. Each map is accompanied by a summary listing the acts of war in each region.
   For example, in the ninth century, during which Rome was assaulted and Sicily was conquered, the Muslim armies occupied Bari and Brindisi in Italy for thirty years; Taranto for forty; Benevento for ten; they attacked Naples, Capua, Calabria, and Sardinia several times; they put the abbey of Montecassino to fire and the sword; they even made skirmishes in northern Italy, arriving from Spain and crossing over the Alps.
   One fact emerges clearly from the documentation compiled by Bostom: jihad is not just one of the forms by which the expansion of Islam took place in particular places and times, but it is an institution inherent to the Islamic system itself; it is a permanent religious obligation.
   One astonishing thing is that it was not a specialist who published this documentation in the West. Bostom is an epidemiologist living in Providence, Rhode Island. But perhaps' this very distance from the academic world of the oriental and Islamic studies scholars leaves him more free from the taboos that gag many of these.
   Biting criticisms of the pro-Islamic sentiment of much of Western culture have been written by, among others, Jacques Ellul, Oriana Fallaci, and Bat Ye'or. The latter of these is a leading specialist in the condition of subordination systematically imposed by Islam upon the non-Muslim subjects of conquered countries. She is also the author of an essay published in 2005, carrying the eloquent title 'Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.'
   One of the central theses of the three authors cited is that Islam is an organic whole and cannot be reformed in its essential elements, and that personal freedom and rights cannot be incorporated into it.
   But even another author who does not share this thesis, and is indeed one of the most decisive proponents of the idea that Islam and democracy are compatible - Bernard Lewis, one of the most authoritative Islamic studies experts alive, professor at Princeton University - has severely criticized the pro-Islamic tendencies in vogue among Western intellectuals and politicians, even among Jewish ones.
   In an essay entitled 'The Pro-Islamic Jews,' Lewis explains how the idea of an early Islamic Spain tolerant of Christians and Jews - evoked by many today as a golden age - is a romantic myth of the nineteenth century, created by Jews themselves in their intellectual conflict with Christians.
   And modern Turkey's aligning itself with the Western world and its support for the state of Israel have also induced a widespread unwillingness to speak about the massacres it carried out last century against the Armenian Christians.
   Other factors encouraging the general silence over the holy wars of yesterday and today - and also over slavery, which is still practiced by Muslims in some regions, over assaults on churches and the killing of Christians - are the effort to establish a good relationship with the increasing numbers of Muslim immigrants in Europe, fear of terrorist attacks, and the desire to create distance from the outlook of the 'clash of civilizations.'
   But the Muslim victims of this reticence and silence on the part of the West are precisely those who are courageously fighting to reform the Islamic faith and reconcile it with democracy and modernity.
   It's a good thing that, with books like the one by Andrew G. Bostom, they aren't being left entirely alone. #
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SANDRO MAGISTER manages Chiesa.com. Sandro Magister's e-mail address is s.magister@espressoeditit [Jan-Feb 2006]
• [Islamism's End Game somewhat like Red terrorists']

Islamism's End Game

   Annals Australasia, by Sadik J. Al-Azm, p 11, January-February 2006
LOOKING back after 9/11 it seems to me that the left-wing terrorism of the 1970s in Europe was...a futile attempt to break out of the historical impasse and terminal structural crisis reached by communism, radical labor movements, Third Worldism, and revolutionary trends everywhere. The terrorism of that period was the first visible manifestation of that impasse and the prelude to the final demise of those movements, including world communism itself.
   Today the hard-core Islamists' spectacular terrorist violence reflects a no less desperate attempt to break out of the historical impasse and terminal structural crisis reached by the world Islamist movement in the second half of the 20th century. I predict this violence will be the prelude to the dissipation and final demise of militant Islamism in general.
   Like the armed factions in Europe who had given up on society, political parties, reform, proletarian revolution, and traditional communist organization in favor of violent action, militant Islamism has given up on contemporary Muslim society, its sociopolitical movements, the spontaneous religiosity of the masses, mainstream Islamic organizations, the attentism of the original and traditional Society of Muslim Brothers (from which they generally derive in the way the 1970s terrorists derived from European communism), in favor of violence. -- Sadik J. Al-Azm, an emeritus professor of modern European philosophy at the University of Damascus, Syria, in Boston Review (Oct-Nov. 2004), Quoted, The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2005. [Jan-Feb 2006]
• The Difficulties Of Dialogue With Islam

THE DIFFICULTIES OF DIALOGUE WITH ISLAM

   Annals Australasia, by Giuseppe Germano Bernadini (Archbishop of Izmir, Turkey), p 23, probably spoken in 1999, January-February 2006
I HAVE been living in Turkey for the past 42 years, a 99.9 per cent Muslim country, and I have been the Archbishop of Izmir - Asia Minor - for the past 16 years. The theme of my intervention is therefore obvious: the problem of Islam in Europe today and in the future. I thank Bishop Pelatre, who already spoke about this theme in this prestigious assembly, dispensing me therefore from the necessity of a long examination and relevant interpretations.
   My intervention is to make a humble request of the Holy Father, above all. To be brief and clear, first I will mention cases that, due to their provenance, I believe to be true.
   1. During an official meeting on Islamic-Christian dialogue, an authoritative Muslim person, speaking to the Christians participating, at one point said very calmly and assuredly: 'Thanks to your democratic laws we will invade you; thanks to our religious laws we will dominate you'.
   This is to be believed because the 'domination' has already begun with the 'petrol-dollars' used not to create work in the poor North African or Middle Eastern countries, but to build mosques and cultural centres in Christian countries with Islamic immigrants, including Rome, the centre of Christianity. How can we fail to see in all this a clear programme of expansion and re-conquest?
   2. During another Islamic-Christian meeting, always organised by Christians, a Christian participant publicly asked the Muslims present why they did not organise at least one meeting of this kind. The Muslim authority present answered in the following words: 'Why should we? You have nothing to teach us and we have nothing to learn'.
   A dialogue between deaf persons? It is a fact that terms such as 'dialogue' 'justice', 'reciprocity', or concepts such as 'rights of man' and 'democracy' have a completely different meaning for Muslims than for us.
   But I believe that by now this is recognised and admitted by all.
   I end this with an exhortation suggested to me by experience: do -not allow Muslims ever to use a Catholic church for their worship, because in their eyes this would be the surest proof of our apostasy. -- Archbishop Giuseppe Germane Bernardini, O.F.M. Cap., Izmir, Turkey. Osservatore Romano Nov. 17, 1999. Reporting on the 2nd Special Assembly for Europe of the Synod of Bishops.
   [COMMENT: It is NOT "recognised and admitted by all" that the "rights of man" and "democracy" have different meanings for Muslims than for others. The Vatican from the 1960s under Pope Paul VI and under Pope John Paul II , like other religions and the "politically correct" groups, refused to give full value in their thinking to the Arab-Islamic, Moor-Islamic, and Turkic-Islamic conquests of history, and defying the news each month about human rights atrocities under Islam. Even the 20-year jihad to expel black Africans from both southern Sudan and Darfur in western Sudan has not awakened the dreamers. COMMENT ENDS.]
   [AFTERWARDS: A similar article, with a THIRD case ("a Muslim Arab servant") was published in Fidelity magazine (Australia), fidelity@j23.com.au , p 6, March 2006. [Jan-Feb 2006]
• [Sword and money were irrefutable.]

Convincing Proof

Annals Australasia, p 31, January-February 2006
‘THE Khalif Mu'izz when asked for proof of his descent from the Prophet's son-in-law ['Ali] replied boldly as he drew half his sword from its scabbard, "Behold my genealogy," and then bestowing handfuls of gold to the bystanders he added, "Here are my proofs". All declared the evidence irrefragable.'
- Mu'izz was an Isma'ili, a Fatimid Mahdi, who became Khalif in Egypt in 909 AD. See Journal Asiatique, Series III, tome iii, p.167.
[DEFINITION: Irrefragable (adjective): (Of statement, argument, person) indisputable, unanswerable. (Concise Oxford Dictionary, Fifth Edition, 1969 reprint, page 643.) ENDS.] [Jan-Feb 2006]
• The Key to Racial Harmony

   Repent Australia (Perth, W. Australia), January-February 2006
   AUSTRALIA: The riots in Sydney in December 2005 saw mobs of Australian and Lebanese Islamic youth clash in some of the most violent rampages ever seen in Australia. The bashing of two lifesavers at Cronulla beach by Lebanese youths sparked the race-hate mob violence that escalated into a battleground in several Sydney suburbs resulting in the burning of a church, the destruction of hundreds of cars and police patrolling the streets in record numbers. Worse, it had all the hallmarks of spreading to other cities as anger grows at the destruction of the Australian way of life by these "people of Middle East appearance". ...
   However, though multiculturalism sounds noble and fine it completely ignores the fundamental fact that worshipping many gods will never bring harmony or unity to a nation! Some years ago author John Gully put it this way: "The trendy 'New Class' version of multiculturalism being thrust upon us would reduce Australia from a solid, united sovereign nation down to a political area populated by a Babel of tribes, a kind of human menagerie, with no common loyalty, no core values, minimal intercommunication and no feeling of fellowship". ...
   The point is that Australians are right to be alarmed and their alarm has nothing to do with racism, class or colour, but has everything to do with creed or belief. Now we have an Islamic problem of some sizeable magnitude. For over 500 years either physically or covertly Muslims have been at war with infidel unbelievers - Christians or any other non-believer in Islam. And knowing that Christian countries, such as Australia, are a soft touch, Islamic leaders now have their followers migrate here and when in sufficient numbers demand part of this 'Great Southland of the Holy Spirit' for Islam! ...
   What has happened in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark and many other countries is now happening here. All Islamic countries are covertly funding and supporting death and destruction through terrorism against Christian nations while publicly condemning the terrorist attacks in New York, London and Madrid. Before the latest strife in Cronulla, gangs of Muslims brutally dragged women off the street and pack-raped them with their supporters laughing on camera after the case was dealt with in court. And this is just one example of Muslim intolerance of Western women whom they often refer to as sluts and whores for wearing bikinis. ...

	REPENT AUSTRALIA
	"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14

VOLUME 11:1-2 JAN/FEB 2006

THE KEY TO RACIAL HARMONY

The recent riots in Sydney in December 2005 saw mobs of Australian and Lebanese Islamic youth clash in some of the most violent rampages ever seen in Australia. The bashing of two lifesavers at Cronulla beach by Lebanese youths sparked the race-hate mob violence that escalated into a battleground in several Sydney suburbs resulting in the burning of a church, the destruction of hundreds of cars and police patrolling the streets in record numbers. Worse, it had all the hallmarks of spreading to other cities as anger grows at the destruction of the Australian way of life by these "people of Middle East appearance".
Multiculturalism: Yet the issue of why so many young Australian men and women reacted so strongly to continual loutish behaviour by groups of Lebanese troublemakers will no doubt be avoided, because it embraces the vexed subject of multiculturalism, a concept developed without respecting the rule of God, yet loved and protected by left-wing politicians and academics with unlimited support from the media. For the godless media, like many politicians, believe they have some kind of divine right to tell everyone else what is good for them.
However, though multiculturalism sounds noble and fine it completely ignores the fundamental fact that worshipping many gods will never bring harmony or unity to a nation! Some years ago author John Gully put it this way: "The trendy 'New Class' version of multiculturalism being thrust upon us would reduce Australia from a solid, united sovereign nation down to a political area populated by a Babel of tribes, a kind of human menagerie, with no common loyalty, no core values, minimal intercommunication and no feeling of fellowship". Extreme? No doubt, but containing more than a grain of truth, as we shall see as time goes by.
Accept Christian Standards: As the Australian way of freedom and democracy, under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, has provided true unity in diversity, surely it cannot be asking too much that people who want to come here to live and enjoy our Christian spiritual blessings, should accept our standards and ways and assimilate. For people of a Christian persuasion this is no real problem but for those of vastly different religious backgrounds it is another story. The point is that Australians are right to be alarmed and their alarm has nothing to do with racism, class or colour, but has everything to do with creed or belief. Now we have an Islamic problem of some sizeable magnitude. For over 500 years either physically or covertly Muslims have been at war with infidel unbelievers - Christians or any other non-believer in Islam. And knowing that Christian countries, such as Australia, are a soft touch, Islamic leaders now have their followers migrate here and when in sufficient numbers demand part of this 'Great Southland of the Holy Spirit' for Islam!
Supporting Terrorism: What has happened in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark and many other countries is now happening here. All Islamic countries are covertly funding and supporting death and destruction through terrorism against Christian nations while publicly condemning the terrorist attacks in New York, London and Madrid. Before the latest strife in Cronulla, gangs of Muslims brutally dragged women off the street and pack-raped them with their supporters laughing on camera after the case was dealt with in court. And this is just one example of Muslim intolerance of Western women whom they often refer to as sluts and whores for wearing bikinis.
One-World System: Many people are aware that plans are well in hand to set up an anti-Christian, socialist one-world system to bring the nations of planet Earth under the control of a group of elites via the auspices of the godless United Nations. < www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron5.htm#key >

In order to accomplish this aim various means have been employed to destroy the homogeneity of countries such as Australia, which is a prime target for fragmentation as this land was founded and established on the Word of God and until recently has virtually honoured one God, God Almighty and His Son the Lord Jesus Christ since European settlement over 200 years ago.
   Our weakness is that, although this nation has been richly blessed over the years, most of us do not understand why. Many give credit to our own cleverness or to the god of luck but not to the God of the Bible whose Kingdom laws for living we Australians received through our British heritage and the English Common Law. Herein lies the key to the downfall of Christian Australia. We do not understand the source of our blessings. Nor do we understand the spiritual war going on all around us between the forces of good and the seducing and deceptive spirits of evil in the spirit world.
Interrelated Keys: So, what is the key to restoring racial harmony in this land of diverse cultures that are threatening to tear us apart? Actually, there are several keys, but all are interrelated. The first is for all of us, both leaders and citizens, to acknowledge that Christianity is our basic culture; that we are not a melting pot of cultures and that the melting pot is itself meant to melt. We must realise that no nation in history has survived with many gods as its source of worship. In fact, God has commanded, "You shall have no other gods but Me".
   Moreover, He has said, "If you ever forget the Lord your God, and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish". It is time to stand firm against the assaults of those who would lead us away from the true God whoever they may be, whether our political masters, the media, Marxist academics or any others of the secular humanist brigade. Whoever we may be, it is time for us all to "nail God's colours to the mast, to make tomorrow sure and fast".
Not Many Roads to God: Secondly, we must be fully convinced that all religions are not equal. There are not many roads to God, as we are so often told. Jesus made it perfectly clear when He said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me". The Scriptures further add, "Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also". (1 John 2:23) Neither Allah, Buddha, Confucius nor any other so-called god can save us. All these roads lead not to Life but to Death! And thirdly, if we are to live in harmony, we must pray fervently to God through Christ Jesus in the power of His Holy Spirit in us. Everyone who wants to see God bring healing to our land must heed the words of Repent Australia's motto: "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land". (2 Chronicles 7:14) Therein lies the key. Will you use it?
PRAYER
   Lord God Almighty, Spirit of the Great I AM; our Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; how Great Thou art! There is no other God like You, loving Father. As ambassadors and kingdom warriors of the Most High God, cleansed and washed in the blood of Jesus, and fired by Your Holy Spirit, we rejoice and worship You in Spirit and in truth. Thank You, Abba Father for making known to us the End from the Beginning and that in the midst of terrorism, national unbelief, deception, spiritual ignorance and increasing chaos from ethnic conflicts, You have a great sovereign plan of redemption. Moreover, omniscient Father, we acknowledge, that Your plan cannot be thwarted because You triumphed over evil through the blood of Jesus at Calvary. At the Cross too the dividing walls between peoples were broken down to set captives free, and to release from darkness the spiritually blind as the Good News is preached to the lost to find true harmony by becoming one in Christ Jesus.
   Gracious Father, clothed in the full armour of God, we pull down all evil strongholds and destroy every symptom of bigotry, rebellion, pride, false gods and racial hatred and cast them under the feet of Christ Jesus. Holy Father, by Your Spirit of Counsel and Might, renew the minds of both leaders and citizens of this 'Great Southland of the Holy Spirit' to obey God's Word and look to Jesus Christ, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Also, empower Your kingdom warriors with Wisdom and Understanding to boldly preach the Gospel to those lost in materialism and apathy to demonstrate Your true new creation - on earth. By this means, we pray, fulfil Your eternal plan for Christ's coming Kingdom of Love, Truth, Righteousness, Justice, Goodness, Joy and Peace. We pray all this in the majestic name of the King of kings and Lord of lords, JESUS CHRIST, to Your glory. Amen.

R.A.: Led by our Lord Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit to glorify God with the Brotherhood of Man and in love and faithfulness to bring glory and honour to His Holy Name. Amen.
REJOICE & SHARE IN FAITH THIS MESSAGE IN PRAYER WITH OTHERS & BE BLESSED TO BE ONE IN CHRIST JESUS. < www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron5.htm#key >

[COMMENT: In the "Accept Christian Standards" section it says that Muslims have been warring against non-Muslims for over 500 years. Correct. In fact, its more than 1350 years. What started as a few followers in Mecca who fled to Medina and then began raiding some of Mecca's trading caravans, crystalised in 624 AD when Muhammad's forces defeated an army of Mecca at the battle of Badr. The Muslims lost the battle of Uhud in 625. In 627 the Muslims massacred the men of the Jewish tribe of Quruyzah, which had supported the Meccans. From 633-44 Muslim armies invaded Iraq, Palestine, Syria, and Egypt. (Refer: Karen Armstrong, ©2002, Islam: A Short History, 2003 impression, Phoenix Press, London, pages xii-xiii)
(The scripture quotation of 2 Chronicles 7:14 near the top, and repeated above the subheading "PRAYER", in RC Douay Bibles will be found at 2 Paralipomenon 7:14.) COMMENT ENDS.] [Jan-Feb 2006]

• Muslims square off in war of words over religious decrees

   The West Australian, by BRIAN MURPHY,Associated Press Religion Writer, p 21, Thursday, January 5, 2006
   [Summary] It is becoming known as the war of the fatwas: ...
   Now some Muslim leaders seek to shift tactics against radicals. Their hope rests in one of Islam's most elemental questions: Who has the real authority to make religious rulings?
   ... Jordan's King Abdullah II ... told the 56-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference last month that failure to establish a clear framework to interpret Islam left the door open for radicals.
   The summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia -- Islam's holiest site -- wrapped up with a statement reinforcing that only "those who are authorised" can issue fatwas. [... ]
   One of the most infamous salvos was the February 1998 "fatwa" by bin Laden and followers that called on Muslims to "kill the Americans and their allies". It has been blamed for inspiring some of the most staggering terrorist strikes, including the September 11 attacks. [...]
   In March, Spain's Muslim leaders issued a fatwa condemning al-Qaida on the anniversary of the 2004 train bombings in Madrid that claimed 191 lives. A similar anti-terrorist fatwa was made by Britain's biggest Sunni Muslim group after the July attacks that killed 52 commuters.
   Jordan announced last month it would prosecute clerics who promoted violence or issued fatwas without state permission. [...]

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2006 • 21

Muslims square off in war of words over religious decrees

BRIAN MURPHY

It is becoming known as the war of the fatwas: the dizzying exchange of proclamations between Islamic moderates and militants.
   Now some Muslim leaders seek to shift tactics against radicals. Their hope rests in one of Islam's most elemental questions: Who has the real authority to make religious rulings?
   Proposals to control the issuing of fatwas -- the non-binding edicts on Muslim life, law and duties -- are still little more than loose concepts and would require potentially stormy challenges to Islam's traditions of decentralised leadership. But there are some influential backers such as Jordan's King Abdullah II. They argue that bold changes are needed in Islam's hierarchy to isolate radical clerics and discredit terrorist leaders, including Osama bin Laden, who have used self-styled religious decrees to justify their views and actions.
   King Abdullah told the 56-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference last month that failure to establish a clear framework to interpret Islam left the door open for radicals.
   The summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia -- Islam's holiest site -- wrapped up with a statement reinforcing that only "those who are authorised" can issue fatwas. But Islamic scholars say it would require a fundamental shift away from Islam's traditions to place religious authority under a single leader or institution. Some powerful centres of Islamic learning, such as Egypt's Al-Azhar University, also resist reforms that could diminish their theological voice. "Religious authority is in the eyes of the beholder and not anywhere else," said Abdullahi An-Na'im, an expert in Islamic law at Emory University in Atlanta. "This reality has not changed in 15 centuries of history, and will not change now," he said.
   But now there is the internet and other ways to spread messages to mass audiences -- which some have dubbed "the war of the fatwas". One of the most infamous salvos was the February 1998 "fatwa" by bin Laden and followers that called on Muslims to "kill the Americans and their allies". It has been blamed for inspiring some of the most staggering terrorist strikes, including the September 11 attacks.
   Other militants increasingly have followed suit with fatwa-style declarations of their own -- including statements attributed to terrorist chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the alleged mastermind of the November 9 hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, which killed 60 people. Moderate clerics initially were slow to react to the radical fatwas. But now there is a potent counterattack.
   In March, Spain's Muslim leaders issued a fatwa condemning al-Qaida on the anniversary of the 2004 train bombings in Madrid that claimed 191 lives. A similar anti-terrorist fatwa was made by Britain's biggest Sunni Muslim group after the July attacks that killed 52 commuters.
   Jordan announced last month it would prosecute clerics who promoted violence or issued fatwas without state permission.
   "The fatwa, unfortunately, has become a tool of terrorists," said Abdulssalam Al-Abbadi, Jordan's former religious affairs minister. "We cannot keep having two versions of Islam: the correct and moderate views and the violent and extremists views. It is tearing apart the faith."
   Brian Murphy is an Associated Press Religion Writer.

   [DOCTRINE: Sūrah 2, "The Cow," āya 193 (or 189):- ... Fight the unbelievers until no other religion except Islam is left. www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran/ 002.qmt.html #002.193 .
   Sūrah 3, "The Family of Imran," āya 118 (or 114):- O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom. www.usc.edu/ dept/MSA/quran/ 003.qmt.html #003.118 .
   4, "Women," 74 (or 76):- ... Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward. www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/004.qmt.html#004.074 .
   5, "The Table," 85:- Of all men thou wilt certainly find the Jews, and those who join other gods with God, to be the most intense in hatred of those who believe; and thou shalt certainly find those to be nearest in affection to them who say, 'We are Christians.' This, because some of them are priests and monks, and because they are free from pride. ENDS.]
   [RECAPITULATION 1: Mecca, Saudi Arabia -- Islam's holiest site. RECAP. ENDS.]
   [COMMENT: Many other holy sites, including the homes where Mohammad lived at various times, are being demolished in Arabia, by order of the Wahhabist ruling elite. Nothing is sacred to the really hardline Islamists -- even Moslem funerals, mosques, and hospitals have been suicide-bombed now in the name of religion! As for non-Moslem funerals, remember how the Indonesian militia (Muslims) massacred people attending a funeral in East Timor. COMMENT ENDS.]
   [RECAP 2: ... it would require a fundamental shift away from Islam's traditions to place religious authority under a single leader or institution. ... "Religious authority is in the eyes of the beholder and not anywhere else," said Abdullahi An-Na'im, an expert in Islamic law at Emory University in Atlanta. "This reality has not changed in 15 centuries of history, and will not change now," he said. RECAP. ENDS.]
   [COMMENT: Yes, the history of Islam is a history of rebellion from supposed authority (but, so are the histories of other religions, too). The first split was between those who said that a close associate of Mohammad ought to be their military and spiritual leader when he died, and those who opposed him. The murder of Ali is one of the memorable events in that split, which goes on to this day.
   But, wasn't there the Khalifate, centred on Baghdad, giving out religious and legal rulings for a long time? (The statue of Baghdad's founder was felled by Islamists in 2005.) And in the 20th-21st centuries haven't the religious leaders of Iran tried to act as if they could give such rulings? I don't think that it would require a "fundamental shift" for Moslems to submit to a universal leader. The very word Islam means "submission."
   Islam's REAL problem is that it doesn't have the Ten Commandments. "Thou shalt not kill" is not part of what the Prophet salvaged from Judaism. "The eye for the eye, and the tooth for the tooth", stonings, and taking slaves including sex slaves were ideas borrowed from Hebrew religion. There are repeated calls to strike off heads, hands, and; even fingertips are in one verse.
   Any Moslem MAN who feels "oppressed" is entitled to physically attack his oppressor. No Moslem woman may do so. People with such beliefs cannot agree to the rule of law or the rights of minorities, except as a strategem until they are in control. Jihad is a duty, so any self-appointed leader can lead a rebellion or a terrorist cell, if he can convince some others he is following the two religious books, the Koran and the Hadith. Some such leaders simply assassinate a moderate or cautious imam, and his flock lets him take the pulpit!
   Christians who practice suicide murders, bombings, assassination, etc., do so in defiance of the Jesus teachings. The pity is that many Christian leaders in the past have failed to understand this, and have quite failed to condemn, for example, the illegal Iraq war and occupation, and call on their adherents to radically withdraw all co-operation with it.
   [RECAP 3: Abdulssalam Al-Abbadi: "We cannot keep having two versions of Islam: the correct and moderate views and the violent and extremists views. It is tearing apart the faith." ENDS.]
   [COMMENT: There are MORE THAN TWO views of Islam, as a good encyclopaedia can explain. Whom are you fooling, Effendi? The faith has been torn apart since the 600s.
   And why say we "cannot" have two versions? The Shia and the Sunni are just two major versions that, probably, even our politicians and churchmen vaguely know exist. A few other versions exist, too.
   And who are you to say which is the "correct" version? Why doesn't the Deity come down and tell us which is correct? Or is Submission to Self-appointed Leaders your real doctrine?
   Khartoum, Sudan's capital, from whence it is said the drive comes for religious and ethnic cleansing by ethnic Moslem Arabs of the blacks of various religions, is where an international Arab group and a pan-African group plan to next meet. So, do these international leaders care about the human rights violations? Do they back "violent and extremists views", or the "correct" views? [Jan 5, 06]

• [Islamist murderers kill 55 at funeral; US weapons kill family 9.
Abramoff and DeLay cases expose Washington's rot.]

   Information Clearing House (USA), www.information clearinghouse. info , "Bombs kill women and children," E-mail 6.02 am January 5, 2006
   55 killed in Iraq violence The funeral attack was the bloodiest single incident since the vote, killing 36 and wounding 40 in the town of Miqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the capital http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1677843,00.html
   U.S. Bombs Kill Women and Children: Enrages Iraqi Officials: United States warplanes killed nine members of an Iraqi family, including women and young children, during a bombing strike Monday night that obliterated a home near the northern industrial city of Bayji, Iraqi officials said today. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11448.htm
   Insurgents burn 19 fuel tankers north of Baghdad : Insurgents attacked a convoy of fuel tankers escorted with police commando in north of Baghdad on Wednesday, setting 19 tankers ablaze and destroying three military vehicles, a police source told Xinhua. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/04/content_4009250.htm
   Jobless Iraqis clash with police: Clashes have broken out in Nasiriya in southern Iraq between jobless protesters and police. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C28596F2-F5AF-4F7F-BA67-57EE6814617F.htm
   Iraqi V.P. Says No New Gov't Until April: Administration officials and supportive lawmakers have argued that the United States gives the detainees unprecedented access to U.S. courts, in some cases more than U.S. military personnel who have been convicted of crimes by military courts. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5520676,00.html
   "The country's on the verge of a civil war,": Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, V Corps commander since 2003 http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=34094
   Scott Ritter : Elections in 2005, Civil War in 2006?: When Paul Bremer signed into law his dictate that banned the Ba'ath Party, he forgot the age-old notion that the enemy has a vote. In this case the enemy was the two-million plus members of the Ba'ath party who were suddenly disenfranchised from any legitimate role in determining the future of Iraq. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/30299
   Iraq Wants U.S. Choice Out As Chief Of Brigade: Over the strong objections of U.S. commanders in Baghdad, the Iraqi government has nominated a new leader for a brigade that is set to assume control over some of the capital's most sensitive areas. This dispute appears likely to postpone an already overdue handover by American forces for at least another month. http://www.aina.org/news/20060104113923.htm
   In case you missed it: Draft Iraq Indictment: The 2003 U.S. invasion and its ongoing occupation of Iraq are illegal, immoral and unjust, aimed at furthering U.S. imperialist aims in the Middle East and the world, not liberating the Iraqi people, but rather subjecting them to new, more brutal and direct forms of foreign domination and turning Iraq into a platform for further aggression and imperial maneuvers. http://www.bushcommission.org/iraq.htm
   Billion Dollar Bunker: U.S. plans Baghdad embassy more secure than Pentagon http://tinyurl.com/96785
   Iraq to give $3bn worth of bonds to Saddam-era creditors: NEARLY $3 billion worth of bonds bearing the name of the Republic of Iraq are scheduled to begin trading in London on January 19, in a private placement that will mark the troubled country's first appearance in the international debt markets. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9063-1969496,00.html
   US threatens action if Iran resumes N-fuel works : "Our view is that if Iran takes an further enrichment-related steps, the international community will have to consider additional measures to constrain Iran's nuclear ambitions," McCormack told reporters. http://tinyurl.com/e4ffj
   Iran to brief U.N. on atomic research plan - diplomats: Iran says its atomic work aims solely to generate electricity and years of IAEA inquiries have found nothing to clearly disprove this. http://tinyurl.com/dnzjq
   War pimp alert: Secret services say Iran is trying to assemble a nuclear missile : The Iranian government has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment needed to develop a nuclear bomb, according to the latest western intelligence assessment of the country's weapons programmes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11449.htm
   Iran's nuclear capacity 'can be destroyed': Israeli military chief Dan Halutz on Tuesday said that Iran's nuclear program "can be destroyed," Israel's Army Radio reported. http://tinyurl.com/8v7vm
   War pimp alert: Make them drink their sea of oil: Oil makes people crazy, especially if they are world leaders. Oil is what drove the president and the vice president to the lost-cause war in Iraq, and oil is what is now preventing them from removing the bomb from the stalls of the Persian market. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/665418.html
   Patrick J. Buchanan : Time to Talk to Tehran : Does President Bush intend a preventive war, early this year, to effect the nuclear castration of Iran? Or are we rattling sabers? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11450.htm
   CIA Gave Iran Bomb Plans, Book Says: The CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11458.htm
   Iran Elbows Afghanistan From Pipeline Project With Turkmenistan: The US will be dismayed as its oil and gas company UNOCAL's efforts to pass gas pipeline from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to Pakistan had been delayed because India and Pakistan have opted to sign an accord with Iran, analysts say. http://tinyurl.com/apu2x
   3 killed in explosion in southern Afghanistan : A suicide bomb explosion rattled Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, the former stronghold of Taliban http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=130264
   Militants behead headmaster in S. Afghanistan : "Armed militants entered the house of the headmaster of the Shikh Mati Lycee in Zabul's provincial capital Qalat last night and brutally beheaded him in front of his children," http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/04/content_4008097.htm
   At least five die of cold-related ailments in Pakistan : Freezing temperatures have claimed the lives of least five Pakistani earthquake survivors, a U.N. health official said Wednesday, as a trickle of villagers descended from mountain settlements in Kashmir to seek shelter on lower ground. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060104-1050-southasia-quake.html
   US presses Syria on al-Hariri inquiry: John Bolton said, "Syria's record to date has been one of obstructing the investigation, of tampering with the evidence and not making witnesses available in a timely fashion." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F651DB94-EC80-4628-B1BD-814F241754EE.htm
   It is 'showtime' for Syria - UK : The current international pressure on Syria is "entirely deserved" and it is now "showtime" for its president, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4579442.stm
   Blair's Cynical Policy on Palestine: The British Government likes to portray itself as an honest broker' in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seeing "blame on both sides". Perhaps because such a position finds no basis in international law, the Government dislikes international institutions getting too involved -- as seen when it tried to prevent the International Court of Justice ruling on the illegality of the Separation Wall 18 months ago. http://www.counterpunch.com/dearden01042006.html
   Rights group urges US to cut Israel aid: A prominent US human rights organisation has called on the Bush administration to cut back its direct foreign aid to Israel until the latter complies with calls to stop settlement expansion and work on the separation wall. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/198C6D92-9EB1-46F9-BEFD-C42BBACC422C.htm
   New evidence in Sharon corruption case: According to the late Tuesday report, Sharon's family may have received a bribe from Australian billionaire Martin Schlaff in connection with a scandal involving illegal campaign contributions in 1999. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=14171
   Increasing Calls for PM Sharon to Step Down : Calls directed at Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to step down from office, are resonating from many prominent political personalities following a Channel 10 News report on Tuesday night that the prime minister received a $3 million payment http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=96000
   Bush could bypass new torture ban: When President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass the law under his powers as commander in chief. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11457.htm
   Justice to Try to Toss Gitmo Challenges : The Justice Department will seek dismissal of lawsuits from more than 300 Guantanamo Bay detainees fighting the legality of their confinement, using a new law that the Bush administration says sharply limits existing challenges. Advocates for detainees quickly registered their opposition Tuesday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11453.htm
   The coverup begins: NSA acted on its own to expand surveillance: Agency moved without directive from Bush after 9/11, declassified documents show http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3563662.html
   Something to Hide: As the Bush administration downplays its illegal wiretapping, the New York Times' chiefs keep quiet about their role in the scandal. http://www.alternet.org/story/30352/
   They don't tell him anything: Turns out thousands of Americans and resident foreigners have been or are being monitored and recorded by the NSA. It's more like information-mining, which is what, you may recall, the administration said it would not do. But now Bush has to investigate The New York Times because Bush has been breaking the law, you see? http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2006/1290
   Bush to Give Away Abramoff Donations: President Bush's re-election campaign will give the American Heart Association thousands of dollars in campaign contributions connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the White House said Wednesday, as the government pressed forward with a broad-ranging corruption investigation. http://tinyurl.com/ac7nf
   Juan Cole: Abramoff and al-Arian: Lobbyist's "Charity" a Front for Terrorism: Abramoff's dense network of illicit finances and phony charities might end some political careers in the United States. But the investigation into his activities by the FBI also shed light on the ways in which rightwing American Jews have often been involved in funding what are essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11456.htm
   Abramoff Money Halted Sweat Shop Legislation: East Bay Congressman George Miller just couldn't understand why his legislation to end sex and textile sweat shops in the Northern Mariana Islands -- a U.S. protectorate in the Pacific -- was being blocked in the House of Representatives. Now, he has his answer. http://www.ktvu.com/news/5839523/detail.html
   To Russia, Love Tom DeLay : Jack Abramoff's plea is just the beginning. DeLay's dealings with Russia should be one of the biggest stories of the year. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20060104/to_russia_love_tom_delay.php
   The $4bn industry that is America's guilty secret : Lobbying is Washington's grubby secret. Some say lobbying is part of the democratic process. Others claim it is legalised bribery, even corruption. But love it or loathe it, it is the way Washington works. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article336396.ece
   The man who bought off Washington : Lobbyist's guilty plea set to expose bribery scandal at the heart of US political system http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article336400.ece
   In case you missed it: Foundation's Funds Diverted From Mission : Records Detail Spending By GOP Lobbyist Abramoff : Tax and spending records of the Capital Athletic Foundation obtained by The Washington Post show that less than 1 percent of its revenue has been spent on sports-related programs for youths. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11455.htm
   Lobbying Plan Was Central to GOP's Political Strategy: The corruption investigation surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff shows the significant political risk that Republican leaders took when they adopted what had once seemed a brilliant strategy for dominating Washington: turning the K Street lobbying corridor into a cog of the GOP political machine. http://tinyurl.com/c2a83
   On Father's Day, Send Your Cards to Tom Instead of George: Our history books tell us that George Washington was the father of the abomination America has become. Many around the world, including some Americans, have written off the possibility that the United States is capable of acting with morality and sanity. Yet hope remains on the horizon for our country. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11454.htm
   Roberts, Alito regarded as allies to business on high court: One represented corporate interests as a private attorney; the other often sided with employers in lawsuits filed by workers http://tinyurl.com/8ubwz
   Business will support Alito: Corporate America should find some cheer in Alito's strictly conservative judicial philosophy. http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/economy/alito_nomination/
   U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Alito Seen as Ally by Businesses : U.S. business groups, already cheered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s appointment, anticipate getting another ally in Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=IPD4YP076GHT
   Eminent domain now big business: One day at the age of 82, Irene Angell received an unexpected letter. The city of Des Plaines needed her home and planned to use eminent domain to force her to sell it. http://tinyurl.com/7uhol
   WISE WORDS: "The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace." : James Madison - (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
   "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.": Kahlil Gibran - (1883-1931) Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist
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• [Religious gangs shoot at cars and abuse families at school's Christmas carols.]

CathNews (from Church Resources, Australia), "Pell Tells Race Gangs That Christmas Is Sacred," www.cathnews. com/news/ 512/74.php , January 6, 2006
SYDNEY (NSW), Australia: Cardinal George Pell warned gangs of youths of Middle Eastern descent not to target Christmas celebrations, after families were abused and gunshots fired into cars at a primary school's carols night in western Sydney. [Jan 6, 06]

• German officials given list of questions to ask Muslim citizenship applicants in Baden-Wurtenberg

   MilitantIslamMonitor.org (MIM), www.militant islammonitor. org/article/ id/1524 , January 7, 2006
   GERMANY: Questions to be asked of citizenship applicants in Baden-Wurtenberg (Translated by Beila Rabinowitz, director of MIM) (German text is on original webpage, http://islam.de/4401.php )
   Note :These questions were placed on a webpage with the title 'Islam at a glance' and it is unclear if they were leaked or officially slated for publication.
   A note at the bottom of the webpage asks readers 'How much do you value the work of Islam.de?" (Deutschland) .Please send us your opinion of this news item!"
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   1) The recognition of the free democratic laws of the Constitution of the Bundesrepublik of Deutschland encompasses the values which are set forth in the Constitution, which are the same in content as those in all of the States of the European Union.
   The protection of human rights is one of the areas in which the State has exclusive jurisdiction over the use of aggression, which means that no person can use aggression against another ,and that only in emergency situations. The State itself can only use violence in the context of legally mandated enforcement of the law such as the equality of men and women.
   Are these concepts compatible with your personal views?
   2 )What is your opinion of the following statements?
   Democracy is the worst form of government which we have, but the best which exists.' Humanity had never experienced such a dark phase as during democracy, but for man to free himself from democracy, he has to understand that democracy cannot give anything good to man."
   3) In films, plays, and books, the religious feelings are sometimes insulted of those who have different religious beliefs. According to you which methods are acceptable for individuals to" use to fight against such religious insults and which not.
   4 )How do you feel about criticism about your religion? Do you find this permissible? Could you discuss this?
   5) In Germany political parties and organizations can be banned due to their stated opposition to the constitution and rule of law. Would you,in spite of such a ban, still support such a party and such an organization? Under what circumstances?
   6) What do you think of the statement: That a wife must obey her husband and he can hit her if she does not obey him ?
   7) Do you think it is permissible that a man shuts his wife and daughter into the house in order to prevent them from dishonoring him in public?
   8) In Germany the police can intervene in a violent argument between a married couple, and in order to prevent further threats can send the aggressor out of the house for several days. What do you think about this?
   9) Do you think It is progress that a men and women in Germany are equal under the law? In your opinion what should the country do when men do not accept this?
   10) In Germany everyone can work in any profession according to their education. What do you think about this? Are you of the opinion that certain professions should only be reserved for men or women? If so, which and why?
   11) According to your opinion which profession should not be engaged in by a woman under any circumstances and why ? Do you have difficulty with accepting a woman in a position of authority in certain jobs?
   12) In Germany everyone can decide for themselves if they want to be treated by a female or a male doctor. In certain situations this choice is not available: Emergency, change of shift in the hospital. In such a case would you let yourself be treated or operated on by a female doctor (male citizenship candidate) or a male doctor (female citizenship candidate)?
   13) People often hear that parents forbid their adult daughter to work in certain jobs or to marry a man of their choice, What are your personal views regarding this standpoint?
   14) What would you do, when your daughter marries a man who has a different religion or wants to pursue a course of study in something you disapprove of ?
   15) What is your opinion of parents who push their children into forced marriages? Do you believe that such marriages are compatible with human rights?
   16) In Germany, sports and swimming lessons are part of the normal school curriculum. Would you allow your daughter to participate? If not, why not?) What is your stance on allowing school children to take part in school trips and overnight school vacations?
   17) Your adult daughter/your wife would like to dress like other German girls and women . Would you attempt to prevent her from doing this? If so, with what methods?
   18) For female citizenship candidates: Your adult daughter would very much like to dress like other girls and women too, but your husband is against it - What would you do?
   19) Your daughter /sister comes home and says that she was sexually molested. What would you do as a father/mother/brother/ sister ?
   20) Your son/brother comes home and says that he was insulted. What would you do as father/mother/brother/sister?
   21) According to you does the Constitution permit one to change their religion, or to leave their present religious community, and to live without a religion or to take on another religion. What is your opinion, when a person is punished due to such a change of religions (for example with the loss of sucession )?
   22) You learn that people in your neighborhood or from your friend or acquaintances is has perpetrated or is planning a terrorist attack. How do you react and what do?
   Suggestions for the EEB (Individual Citizenship Official) :The chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany,Dr.Nadeem Elyas, had declared in the ZDF (broadcast) on 15/07/2005 after the attacks in London- that " cooperation between the security services is for Muslims an Islamic obligation and not betrayal"!
   23) You have heard about the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York and on March 11th 2004 in Madrid. In your eyes were the perpetrators terrorists or freedom fighters? Explain your viewpoint.
   24) In the newspaper one sometimes reads about a case where a daughter or a wife is murdered because of "immoral lifestyle" in order to restore the family honor. How do you feel about such an act?
   25) What do you think when a man in Germany is married to two women at the same time?
   26) How do you judge, when a married man in Germany goes to his former hometown and marries a second time?
   27) Some people say that Jews are responsible for all the evil in the world and even claim that they were behind the attacks of 2001 in New York? What is your view of such claims?
   28) Your daughter applies for a position in Germany. She receives a letter that she was not accepted. You later learn that a black African from Somalia has gotten the position. How would you react?
   29) Imagine this: Your adult son comes to you and declares that he is a homosexual. He says that he would like to live together with another man. How would you react?
   30) In Germany several politicians have openly proclaimed that they are homosexual. What do you think about homosexuals in Germany holding public office?
   Declaration of the Citizenship Candidate,
   My answers and explanations in regard to the questions which were asked correctly reflect and correspond to my own inner convictions. I had no difficulty understanding the questions. In the case where I did not understand, they were explained to me so that I could understand them all. I was made completely aware, that any false declarations would be considered as fraud against the citizenship officals, and could lead, even after several years, to the revocation of my citizenship even in the case where that would render me stateless.
   Place, Date, Signature ,
   ------------------------------------------------- [Jan 7, 06]

• [Addicted to blood, planned to bomb Big Ben, train children -- "Captain Hamza Hook".]

   The West Australian, "Cleric's plan to bomb Big Ben," p 10, Friday, January 13, 2006
   LONDON: Radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza said on a tape: "We like blood and are addicted to it," the court was told. "When people say they love Allah they must ask themselves how much kafir (unbelievers') blood they have spilt for Allah."
   He had told followers they had a religious duty to kill non-Muslims and that "blasphemous and dirty" Jews should be removed from the Earth, prosecutor David Perry said. ...
   It also refers to an "external pressure unit" which "belongs to the execution unit which operates abroad" and should be sent to a country "at least 10 years" before the jihad starts.
   ... in 1997 or 1998, Mr Hamza said the role of women should be to encourage their husbands to train children as young as 10 so they could become mujahideen (holy warriors).
   In a tape aimed at young people, he said: "When you meet Allah you will be asked who was killed at your hands?" ...

10 • FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2006 THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Radical preacher Abu Hamza had terror book which had targets including the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower.
[Pictures: Bearded man with hook instead of right hand; Statue of Liberty; Big Ben.] On Trial. Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza is said to have had a 10-volume terrorist manual that featured a list of possible targets including New York's Statue of Liberty and London's Big Ben.

Cleric's plan to bomb Big Ben

LONDON: Radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza had a 10-volume terrorism manual at his home which was dedicated to Osama bin Laden and featured a list of targets, including Big Ben, skyscrapers, airports and football stadiums, the Old Bailey court has been told.
   The Encyclopaedia of Afghani Jihad was written in Arabic between 1989 and 1999 with the help of Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan.
   It featured sections on explosives and sabotage, the court was told on Wednesday at his trial on terror-related charges, including soliciting to murder and stirring up racial hatred.
   "We like blood and are addicted to it," Mr Hamza told his followers in a taped message, the court was told. "When people say they love Allah they must ask themselves how much kafir (unbelievers') blood they have spilt for Allah."
   The one-eyed and hook-handed Egyptian-born preacher fought with the Mujahideen against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan where a landmine claimed his eye and hand. A former Soho bouncer, he was a preacher at London's Finsbury Park mosque until he was banned for preaching for personal and political reasons.
   He had told followers they had a religious duty to kill non-Muslims and that "blasphemous and dirty" Jews should be removed from the Earth, prosecutor David Perry said. The first volume of the terrorism manual talks of a holy war against English, French and communist "imperialists" who protect Israel. It also refers to an "external pressure unit" which "belongs to the execution unit which operates abroad" and should be sent to a country "at least 10 years" before the jihad starts.
‘'We like blood and are addicted to it... people must ask... how much kafir blood they have spilt for Allah.'’   ABU HAMZA
   Among the high-profile targets suggested are the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Big Ben. Targets where there would be a big loss of life are suggested as skyscrapers, ports, airports, nuclear plants and football stadiums
   Mr Perry described the manual as a "blueprint for terrorism", adding: "It includes all anyone ever needs to know if they want to make a homemade bomb or explosive.". Mr Hamza, 47, lived in Britain for several years as a British citizen.
   When police raided his home in west London in May 2004 they found more than 2700 audio tapes and 570 video tapes, some of them labelled "Jihad", meaning holy war, the court was told.
   The jury saw pictures of Mr Hamza's home in Shepherd's Bush. It contained boxes piled with blank tapes and others labelled "master", suggesting they were being prepared for distribution. The tapes included sections on the evils of adultery and drink.
   In a speech delivered to a meeting in London in 1997 or 1998, Mr Hamza said the role of women should be to encourage their husbands to train children as young as 10 so they could become mujahideen (holy warriors).
   In a tape aimed at young people, he said: "When you meet Allah you will be asked who was killed at your hands?"
   Britain and Western nations were "100 per cent anti-Islam", he said in another tape.
   He called on his followers to spread Islam by the sword and adding: "European leaders only respect those that are strong."
   Asked if suicide bombing was permissible, he said: "People call it suicide to put people off. It is not called suicide, it is called martyrdom."
   Mr Hamza refused to answer questions when he was arrested.
   However, he gave a statement claiming he had never read the encyclopaedia, which was given to him as a gift.
   The trial continues. #

[COMMENT: What false philosophy ever possessed the British to allow an Egyptian to migrate to overcrowded Britain? Is this indiscriminate immigration, or indiscriminate self-immolation? And haven't other countries complained for a few years that Britain has been harbouring terrorism leaders? COMMENT ENDS.] [Jan 13, 06]

• EDITORIAL: Islamic intimidation dashed in Denmark; A firm stand against offended Muslims sets example for West

   Review Journal (Las Vegas), www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jan-12-Thu-2006/opinion/5299429.html , January 13, 2006
   Islamic fundamentalists have an arrogance that matches their intolerance for Western values. How else can one explain their efforts to limit free expression in countries that have graciously allowed Muslim immigrants the freedom to follow even the most radical movements within their faith..." Islamic intimidation dashed in Demark in the Las Vegas Review Journal [...]
   Last year, Jyllands-Posten, Denmark 's biggest daily newspaper, asked 40 artists to submit caricatures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.... The newspaper wanted to find out whether the country's freedom of speech had been eroded by Islamic intimidation.... Because Islamic tradition prohibits any depiction of Muhammad -- even positive ones -- Muslims attacked the newspaper. They demanded an apology, then they demanded that the editors and artists be prosecuted. [...]
   Middle Eastern nations, led by Egypt, tried to make the cartoons an international scandal and demanded that Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen hand down swift, severe punishments.
   The demands were frighteningly absurd. The cartoons were published in Denmark, not Saudi Arabia or Egypt, so no laws had been broken. The newspaper and the cartoonists have refused to apologize (although a couple of artists are in hiding) because they have nothing to apologize for. And on Saturday, Danish prosecutor Peter Broendt Joergensen reiterated that no charges would be filed against the artists or the newspaper's editors because the drawings were a form of protected speech.
   "We cannot understand the decision," said Ahmad Akkari, a spokesman for Danish Muslim groups, adding that the caricatures were a "clear offense to Islam." [...]
   Is the Islamic world ready to meet the West in the middle? Unfortunately, Muslims barely have one foot on that bridge. Egypt demonstrated as much when it issued a statement that said its government "respects freedom of opinion and expression" -- as long as those opinions and expressions don't offend Muslims.
   The Danes deserve the Western world's thanks for defending free speech. We can best show our gratitude by following their example. # (By courtesy of Jim Ball's webpage, http://www. jimball. com.au/ . Early hours radio 12 to 5am on 2GB 873.)
   [COMMENT: You noticed that the Islamic spokesperson could not understand the decision? Lives in a free-speech democracy, but can't understand a Free Press! Think! Re-read the part about those gone into hiding. Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered bloodily in 2004 for exposing his beliefs about the way many Muslims treat women. His murder exposes how some Muslims treat men, too! Remember the fatwa against Salman Rushdie? END.] [Jan 13, 06]

• Pope assailant may face draft charges

   The West Australian, p 10, Friday, January 13, 2006
   TURKEY: The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 left prison a free man yesterday after serving more than 25 years behind bars in Italy and Turkey for the plot and killing a Turkish journalist
   Mehmet Ali Agca, 48, was freed five years after he was pardoned by Italy and extradited to Turkey. He had served 20 years in prison in Italy.
   Agca shot the pope as he rode in an open car in St Peter's Square in Rome on May 13,1981.
   It was unclear if Agca, a draft-dodger who escaped from a military prison in 1979, would face criminal charges for evading the military and escaping. #
   [COMMENT: The television pictures showed a crowd in Turkey throwing flower petals on his car, welcoming Agca like a hero. The draft-dodger "danger" looks like a "plant" by a cynical group in Turkey. If the military had wanted to charge him, he would have come out of prison wearing military shackles, not being applauded! COMMENT ENDS.] [Jan 13, 06]
• Destroy non-believers, says Muslim preacher

   The West Australian, p 8, Saturday, January 14, 2006
   LONDON: Renegade Muslim preacher Abu Hatnza called for the "blood and destruction" of non-believers in a video produced at his trial on terror-related charges on Thursday.
  In the video made for his followers and played to the jury he quoted the prophet Mohammed and added: "The blood and destruction is the destruction upon you kafirs (unbelievers)."
   The former Soho bouncer was a preacher at London's Finsbury Park mosque until he was banned for personal and political reasons.
   In two videos he described Britain as a country "like the inside of a toilet" [...]
   "We are all under the heavy boots of the kafir (unbeliever)," he said.
   Mr Hamza said democracy was crumbling and laid out a two-stage plan to replace it with a Muslim nation.
   The first stage, he said, was to "bleed them from their sides, their heads, their economy, everything until they surrender". [...]

8 • SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2006 THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

Destroy non-believers,
says Muslim preacher

   LONDON: Renegade Muslim preacher Abu Hatnza called for the "blood and destruction" of non-believers in a video produced at his trial on terror-related charges on Thursday.
  In the video made for his followers and played to the jury he quoted the prophet Mohammed and added: "The blood and destruction is the destruction upon you kafirs (unbelievers)."
   The former Soho bouncer was a preacher at London's Finsbury Park mosque until he was banned for personal and political reasons.
   The jury heard him speak in two videos, in which he described Britain as a country "like the inside of a toilet" and accused Prime Minister Tony Blair of killing Muslim children.
   The first video, called the Holy Way to Khilafa (Muslim nationhood), showed Mr Hamza seated at a table with a banner which read "Al-Jihad" during a London meeting.
[Picture caption] 'You have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death, until he dies, then you cut his meat the way you like it or leave it for the maggots.' RADICAL MUSLIM PREACHER ABU HAMZA
   "We are all under the heavy boots of the kafir (unbeliever)," he said.
   Mr Hamza said democracy was crumbling and laid out a two-stage plan to replace it with a Muslim nation.
   The first stage, he said, was to "bleed them from their sides, their heads, their economy, everything until they surrender".
   He went on: "Like you imagine you have only one small knife and you have a big animal in the front of you, the size of the knife you can't slaughter him with this.
   "You have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death, until he die, then you cut his meat the way you like it or leave it for the maggots."
   After that, he claimed: "The people who called you terrorist before, they will call you khalifas (Muslim rulers) and the scholars who used to call you khawarij (rebels against Islam) yesterday, they will write poems about you."
   The second stage involved taking control of the whole world.
   "Don't be a shield for the kafir because we will get you," he said. "Even if you are not a target and you are in the target area. If you fear them, you should fear Allah more. It's a bloody way."
   Mr Hamza told his followers they would eventually see a Muslim ruler in the White House.
   "The whole earth, it will be for Muslims, this is a promise from Allah," he said. "Go and fight, light and heavy, rich and poor, sick and healthy."
   Targets included every court, interest-charging banks and video shops selling 'naked' videos.
   "You have to bleed the enemy, whether you work alone, you work with a group or you work with your own family, work has to be done," he added. "Tease them, make them afraid, show their humiliation.
   "Anybody he sees a deficiency and an enemy of Islam, just go and kill him."
   Laughing when a woman asked him whether she could join the holy war, Mr Hamza told her to tell her children, if they were aged 10 or 12, to "go with their father for training . . . make sure he shows them videos about jihad ideas".
   He described Britain as a kafir country in which most were pagans and churches as places of iniquity.
   The case continues. #

   [RECAPITULATION: "We are all under the heavy boots of the kafir (unbeliever)," he said. ...
   In two videos he described Britain as a country "like the inside of a toilet" ...
   "The whole earth, it will be for Muslims, this is a promise from Allah." ...
   He described Britain as a kafir country ... and churches as places of iniquity. RECAP. ENDS.]
   [COMMENT: See the comment on the January 13 coverage of the trial. ENDS.] [Jan 14, 06]

• Force's new look of diversity

   The Australian www.news.com. au/story/0, 10117,17815528- 28097,00.html , By Alana Buckley-Carr, January 14, 2006
   PERTH: NAVY blue hijabs, loose-fitting shirts and turbans emblazoned with the police logo will be part of a new range of West Australian police uniforms.
   But the institution of religiously appropriate attire to attract to the ranks Muslims and Sikhs was lambasted yesterday by the police union and state Opposition.
   Opposition police spokesman Rob Johnson asked if officers would also be permitted to interrupt their duties to pray to Mecca.
   Victoria and Queensland police have already allowed culturally appropriate uniforms for Muslims and Sikhs on a case-by-case basis, but West Australian Police are the first to introduce blanket uniform exemptions to accommodate religious beliefs.
   Superintendent Duane Bell said under the initiative, officers would be allowed to keep their beards or wear shoes made of synthetic materials rather than leather in order to remain faithful to their customs.
   "In essence, we recognise that the police uniform has been a barrier to people wishing to become police officers, from certain ethnic backgrounds," Mr Bell said.
   Turbans and hijabs will remain in keeping with the rest of the uniform, emblazoned with the metal police badge and checkered hatband. Mr Bell said the hijab would have a velcro section so if offenders tried to pull the cloth, it would become loose rather than strangling the officer.
   "If officers have already come in, they've had to shave their beard off or take off their turban," he said.
   "We are now open to those officers who might wish to meet those observances."
   He said the move was aimed at increasing police numbers and targeting new recruits from a variety of backgrounds.
   But West Australian Police Union spokesman Mike Dean said people of different cultural backgrounds should be required to meet uniform standards. "Special treatment for special groups brings difficulties," he said.
   Mr Johnson said the public might not react kindly to being policed by officers wearing unfamiliar uniforms.
   Historian and author Geoffrey Blainey welcomed the initiative, saying it was an experiment and needed to be introduced slowly.
   "This is an experiment and needs to be looked at as such," Mr Blainey said.
   Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Minister Margaret Quirk said the Police Service needed more diversity in its ranks.
   "It is very important that the composition of the police is more accurately representative of the composition of the community," she said.
   [COMMENT: Will non-Sikhs be marked in some special way, or Christians, or Jews? What about Aborigine dress codes? What if one joins some Indian mountain sect, whose gurus remain nude? COMMENT ENDS.] [Jan 14, 06]
• Police turbans reverse discrimination

Police turbans reverse discrimination

The West Australian, Various Letters to The Editor, p 18, Tuesday, January 17, 2006

In trying to be politically correct, our Police Commissioner has effectively shot himself in the foot by creating reverse discrimination.
   In being "culturally appropriate" and allowing beards to be worn by Sikhs and others whose religion requires them to be bearded, he then says this relaxation of the regulations does not apply to police officers who do not fit that criterion, thus discriminating against any officer who wishes to grow a beard for reasons other than culture or religion.
   Male police officers in some Australian States are permitted to grow beards, as they do in the UK. When I left England in 1974 my local bobby had a fine ginger beard and British police forces had sanctioned the growth of beards for many years.
   Surely, a simple solution would be to amend the police regulations to allow all policemen to grow a beard, within certain guidelines of course. This is 2006, for goodness sake, what difference is it going to make if an officer wears a beard or not?
   Perhaps Mr O'Callaghan is thinking back to the 1860s when the police wore beards to make them look fiercer and more threatening (allegedly), something definitely non PC. Tony Adams, Parkwood.
Going too far
I read with amusement and disbelief the latest comments from the Police Commissioner about changes to the dress code for our police (report, 14/1). I believe that respect for others, and their beliefs, is one part of our Australian psyche that makes us such a wonderful and diverse country.
[Picture] Mr O'Callaghan
   But surely we are going too far to be bending the rules for the minorities like this? Are we selling ourselves out to make friends?
   For too long we have been making exceptions to our rules, and how have we been repaid? With acts of violence, terrorism and civil unrest. Are we allowed to dress "culturally appropriately" in countries that aren't so liberal in their views? No, I think not. And there is nothing wrong with that. It is all about experiencing the culture of different lands and enjoying our differences.
   But are we really going to sell out our Australian culture and identity to make sure that people with different cultures feel accepted and safe in our society?
   When are we going to stand up and say, welcome to our country, feel free to practise your beliefs in ours?
   Get some courage, Australia, and stand up for what we believe in: giving everyone a fair go and relishing our freedom in the best country on Earth. Natika Hawes-Right, Wyndham.
Kilts next?
This is ridiculous. Do we have a police force or a politically correct force? Just out of curiosity, are the Scottish police going to wear kilts on duty.
   Is a Jewish policeman going to wear a skull cap? I can't wait to see what the Japanese police are going to wear, maybe a samurai sword instead of a gun.
   Respect for the law is pretty slim now. This will just make it worse. Mr O'Callaghan says it's culturally appropriate. That's fine, we live in Australia. We took a vow when we became Australians, and that's what we are -- Australians.
   They are Australian police officers, and that's what they should be. When they are off duty they can be whatever they like. Garry Frank, West Perth.
Standard dress
I am absolutely furious about variations to our police uniforms. This would have to be the ultimate kowtow to political correctness.
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