From AP, “Pakistan Nabs Militants in London Blasts” LONDON – Police rounded up seven Islamic militants in Pakistan to determine whether the London bombing plot stretched to South Asia and Prime Minister Tony Blair asked British Muslim leaders Tuesday to weed out extremists blamed for radicalizing their young followers. Investigators are trying to find out […]
Palestinian Civil Strife in Gaza Deepens
From AFX, “12 wounded in Palestinian clashes as protestors demand unity” GAZA CITY – At least a dozen people have been wounded in the latest outbreak of armed clashes between followers of the governing Fatah faction and members of the radical Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip. As internicine fighting raged in the impoverished […]
Egyptian Islamist Kamal Habib: The Problem Is Not with the Islamic Curricula but with the American Zionist Plan
From MEMRI with thanks to Sr. Soph. The following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian Islamist Dr. Kamal Habib, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 17, 2005. Host: Do you deny that in some of our Islamic curricula, some of the lessons call to reject the Other, and use phrases such as: “The […]
Chechnya attack kills 15 people, mainly police
From Reuters: MOSCOW – Around 15 people were killed and another 20 injured on Tuesday when an armoured police carrier was blown up by rebels in Russia’s Chechnya, officials said. Itar-Tass news agency quoted local Prime Minister Sergei Abramov as saying the dead included 11 policeman and three civilians. A member of the FSB state […]
Pakistan holds suspected Taliban officials
From Reuters: ISLAMABAD – Pakistani security forces have arrested some suspected Taliban officials in a raid in northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, police said on Tuesday. Pakistani newspaper reports quoted unnamed officials as saying Mawlavi Abdul Kabir — a deputy of elusive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar — was among those arrested, but senior Pakistani officials […]
Shallah: “I do not condemn the killing of civilians in Netanya”
This story states that “[Ramadan Abdallah] Shallah, former director of the Palestinian think tank founded by Al-Arian at USF, left Tampa in 1995 and emerged later as the commander of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Damascus, Syria.” Here he is in an interview which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on July 17, 2005 provided […]
Blair: Muslims to confront ‘evil’
From the UK Express: Prime Minister Tony Blair said that a No 10 meeting of Muslim community leaders had agreed to deal “head-on” with extremism based on a perversion of Islam that can lead to terrorism. He said there would be a network of people prepared to take on arguments within the Muslim community and […]
Shop That Sold Propaganda DVDS.. ‘Funded by the Lotto’
News about the Leeds Islamic Bookstore that the 7/7 bombers frequented from the Mirror. THESE graphic pictures [not shown] are taken from £5-a-time DVDs and videos said to have been viewed by the London bombers before their murder mission. The Mirror obtained them from a Leeds bookshop – Beeston’s Iqra “learning centre” – which has […]
German court frees ‘top bin Laden aide’
From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Sr. Soph. A SUSPECTED al-Qaeda operative was released from jail in Germany yesterday after the country”s highest court blocked his extradition to Spain on a new EU arrest warrant. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian-German businessman, was entitled to protection under a law which says […]
Monitoring the Muslim Council of Britain
MCB Watch is a new blog out of London dedicated to monitoring the words and actions of the Muslim Council of Britain. Below is an excerpt from this site: Since its inception, the MCB has also been actively courted by the British Government, who had previously struggled to engage with the Muslim community due to […]