OOTDnews: 04/25/11

Monday, April 25, 2011

Dearborn imam’s Islamophobia and the “Religion of Breaching the Peace”

Posted on April 25, 2011 by creeping

Dearborn Imam Hassan Qazwini is an Islamophobe. via Dearborn mosque imam says Quran burning comments misunderstood | Detroit Free Press | freep.com.

During the trial of Pastor Terry Jones, Dearborn’s Police Chief testified in court that the head of the Islamic Center of America told him that for some Muslims burning the Quran was worse than 1,000 deaths. Wayne County prosecutors used that testimony as part of the reason why Jones should not be allowed to protest in front of the Islamic Center because they said it could lead to a breach of the peace.

But the head of that mosque, Imam Hassan Qazwini, said Saturday that his comments were about Muslims living abroad, not in metro Detroit or from his mosque.

“I was not talking about my congregation,” Qazwini said. “I know my congregation. They will not do anything.”

Of course not, so why all the fuss then? Looks like Qazwini, Haddad, CAIR and others have perfected the good Muslim, bad Muslim routine.

Instead, Qazwini said he was talking about Muslims living in foreign countries who might commit acts of violence that could endanger U.S. troops.

In his testimony, Dearborn Police Chief Haddad said:

“Imam Qazwini … expressed to me concern with the 19- to 30-year-old people. He indicated to me that the burning of the Quran for some Muslims, it’s worse than a thousand deaths. He feared that other people may use this … to exploit their harsh feelings.”

Ellison in Saudi Arabia says we “have common interests and apsirations”

Posted on April 25, 2011 by creeping

Surely Keith Ellison (Muslim – Ummah) wasn’t referring to women drivers, beheading in Chop Chop Square, Muslim-only cities, or sharia law was he? Last we checked Obama promised to end American dependence on foreign oil in ten years. Not a common interest or aspiration. via Saudi, US businessmen look for synergies – Arab News.

DAMMAM: Businessmen from the Eastern Province and the state of Minnesota met Sunday at the Asharqia Chamber to explore opportunities for collaboration.

Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the nation’s first Muslim congressman, accompanied the delegation and said he was upbeat about the potential in Saudi Arabia.

Feds mine Facebook for info

By Robert Snell | The Detroit News | Posted: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:05 am

DETROIT — Federal investigators in Detroit have taken the rare step of obtaining search warrants that give them access to Facebook accounts of suspected criminals.

The warrants let investigators view photographs, email addresses, cell phone numbers, lists of friends who might double as partners in crime, and see GPS locations that could help disprove alibis.

There have been a few dozen search warrants for Facebook accounts nationwide since May 2009, including three approved recently by a federal magistrate judge in Detroit, according to a Detroit News analysis of publicly available federal court records.

The trend raises privacy and evidentiary concerns in a rapidly evolving digital age and illustrates the potential law-enforcement value of social media, experts said.

Locally, Facebook accounts have been seized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and FBI to investigate more than a dozen gang members and accused bank robber Anthony Wilson of Detroit.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/article_bbd23382-6ecf-11e0-aeef-001a4bcf6878.html

Zakat is not about charity, but jihad

Posted on April 25, 2011 by creeping

Andrew C. McCarthy writing at National Review Online.

…Zakat is every Muslim’s obligation to contribute to the fortification of the ummah, the notional worldwide Islamic nation. And that very much includes the funding of violent jihad against non-Muslims.

When an earthquake devastated Haiti last year, the West, led as always by the Great Satan, instantly opened its heart and pocketbook. Within days, as the Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Claudia Rosett reported, the U.S. government had pledged $90 million in public funds, 44 percent of the total anted up by governments worldwide. That was just a fraction of the true American contribution. Despite a deep recession and widespread unemployment, private citizens contributed tens of millions of dollars to the relief efforts. In addition, our armed forces mobilized to provide food, medical treatment, and other humanitarian aid. Untold additional millions in American aid backed relief efforts by the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the World Bank. The economic downturn was global, but still European, Canadian, Japanese, and South American governments and citizens also donated millions.

Video: Islamic Leader Reacts to Verdict in Terry Jones Case (CAIR-MI)

Yemen Falling

A potential agreement brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council between Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his opponents was rejected on Sunday pending substantial alterations to the pact. Now, with chances for a peaceful resolution to the crisis fading, fears are growing in Washington and Saudi Arabia that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) will have even more freedom to carry out attacks against America and its allies. Perhaps most troubling of all, a quick end to the chaos may result in a government that is unwilling to cooperate with the United States in its battle against AQAP terrorists, who are based in Yemen’s northern provinces bordering Saudi Arabia.

The putative agreement negotiated by the Saudi-led GCC would have required Saleh to leave office in 30 days, transferring power to his Vice President in exchange for the legislature passing a measure that would have given the president and his family immunity from prosecution.

Read more: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/25/yemen-falling/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8249e00c87-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

Brotherhood leader: Preparing for an Islamic government

The role of the Muslim Brotherhood is to mobilize the nation to establish a way of life based on Islam, said its Deputy Supreme Guide Khairat al-Shater.

Speaking at a conference in Alexandria two days ago, Shater further said that the group is preparing to initiate an Islamic government to achieve progress based on Islamic principles, and that its objective is to establish an Islamic state and become world leaders.

Pointing out that no Sunni state currently has a regime with Islamic references, he urged Muslim scholars to contribute an workable, comprehensive, civilized Islamic model.

Full story: http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/409973

Video: CAIR-MI Rep Comments on Planned Anti-Islam Rally

Breslov Hassid injured in shooting tells Ynet: They were shooting to kill, It was crazy. Incident fatality Ben-Yosef Livnat will be buried today in Jerusalem

Witness: Shooters yell Allahu Akbar

A group of Breslov Hassidim's regular twilight visit to Palestinian controlled Joseph's Tomb in Nablus came to a tragically violent end Sunday: According to one of the Breslovers, Palestinian police officers fired at the convoy as they were on their way in to the Tomb.

The fire continued as they drove out, killing Ben-Yosef Livnat, a 24 year-old father of four from Jerusalem and the nephew of Minister Limor Livnat, and injuring five others.

Full story: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4060142,00.html

Yair Altman

Published:

04.24.11, 10:29 / Israel News

Low-key Easter preparations for Pakistan's Christians

Credit: Reuters/Naseer Ahmed

By Kamran Haider

Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:03am BST

GOJRA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Christians in the small Pakistani town of Gojra are making low-key preparations for Easter this year.
Residents of the neighbourhood, known as Christian Colony, in the town in Punjab province, are haunted by memories of a 2009 attack by a Muslim mob in which seven members of a family were killed and dozens of houses torched.

A few days before Easter, which Christians believe marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his crucifixion, bare-foot children played cricket in the town's dusty alleys while some men chatted on a bench under a tree.

"If we celebrate it with a fanfare, we fear somebody might get annoyed and attack us," said Khalid Anjum, 45, the owner of a small snooker hall.

The only sign of the approach of Easter was a few young men rehearsing hymns in St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Full story: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/04/24/uk-pakistan-easter-idUKTRE73L2SM20110424

Bridge for sale: Pakistan's army chief says his forces have broken the jihadists' "backbone"

In November 2009, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, said that the Taliban is being routed along the Afghanistan border. “The operation so far has been very successful,” he revealed. “The resistance that we were expecting initially did not come with the same swiftness we were expecting.”

AP reported that “Pakistan’s armed forces hope to rout Taliban militants in the rugged mountainous region along the border with Afghanistan before winter sets in by late December.” That's late December 2009. Qureshi said that Pakistan’s armed forces have the Taliban “on the run. They are in retreat and there is disarray over there.”

In May 2009, Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said that the Pakistani military was just about to wrap up its offensive against the Taliban: “The operation against the terrorists is progressing very successfully and those who destroyed the peace of the nation are fleeing in disguise,” he said confidently. Only mop-up operations remained: “Troops will remain in the region until peace is ensured and all the displaced people return home.”

Full story: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/04/bridge-for-sale-pakistans-army-chief-says-his-forces-have-broken-the-jihadists-backbone.html