Fatah student leaders in Gaza Strip announce ’state of alert’

Students called upon the Palestinian people to “stand together” to protect the university in Gaza City from “attacks by the Islamic bloc.”

The Fatah students also accused Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, of being responsible for attacks against students and workers at the university earlier this week, according to the statement.  >>>>>

It seems as if the pitting against a people against themselves is working.  Unless there is truly representation of honest-brokering, the fear is that the Palestinians will be doing the Israelis a favor by destroying themselves.

Egypt: Sunni scholars sanction ‘electronic Jihad’

Attacking American and Israeli websites by hacking and sabotage is allowed under Islamic law and is a form of ‘Jihad’ or holy war, top Muslim scholars have decreed.

The religious edict (fatwa) issued by a committee from the highest authority in Sunni Islam, Egypt’s Al-Azhar University in Cairo, was published on the website of the Islamist Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement on Thursday.  >>>>>

This comes years after the West has used their electronic warfare against even something as innocent as Islamic charities.

AKP accused of Islamist staffing of Turkey’s TRT

Turkey’s first and only official national public broadcaster, TRT, is currently facing a radical wave of internal appointments, a move accepted as aiming to shift TRT’s autonomies policy toward a more Islamic axis, the Turkish Daily News (TDN) wrote on Monday.  >>>>>

Troop pull-out leaves government on brink

The US must now be wondering whether it was all worth it. Western backing for the unpopular Somali government and US support for the Ethiopian intervention has created a groundswell of anti-West sentiment in Somalia.

The Islamist leaders they were so keen to oust are the same ones they are now engaged in negotiations with. US officials have met both Sheikh Sharif and the more hardline Sheikh Aweys in an effort to find a peace deal.

Meanwhile, in Somalia, the Islamists taking control of towns and villages across the country are considered far more extremist than Aweys. “They are real international jihadis,” said one Nairobi-based diplomat. “The Americans’ fear of al-Qaeda in Somalia is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.”  >>>>>

Morocco’s king launches offensive against radical Islam – Feature

Morocco is trying to stem radicalism with a two-track approach, combining attempts to promote a tolerant brand of Islam with the detentions of thousands of extremist suspects.

 

The arrests have elicited criticism from human rights groups, which say that the secret service has abducted dozens of suspects illegally, taking them to detention centres such as the ill-famed Temara near the capital Rabat.

 

Police have also cracked down on non-violent Islamist movements, such as the non-parliamentary (), which many analysts regard as Morocco’s biggest de-facto political party.  >>>>>

Therefore, this is stating that Morocco is cutting out their competition which would otherwise win in a democratic election.  It seems like the burying of this data within stories that talk about matters that are highly disturbing to most people is an effective propaganda tool to rid any Islamic reference to an otherwise uncorrupted democracy.

Distorting the Meaning of Shariah

The tsunami of Islamophobia continues to roll in.  The article by Frosty Woolridge, ”America Must Never Succumb to Islam’s Shariah Law,” in today’s NewswithViews.com is perhaps the clearest distortion yet of Islamic law.  He supports Congressman Tancredo’s “Jihad Prevention Act … which would deny U.S. visas to advocates of ‘Shari’a’ law and expel Islamists already here.” >>>>>

Islamic Group Gains Power in Indonesia

JAKARTA — In a sign of its growing prominence, Indonesia’s Council of Ulemas moved its headquarters from the basement of a major mosque here into an expensive new office tower in the heart of downtown. The council was established in 1975 as a quasi-governmental body of Muslim scholars by Suharto, the country’s leader for three decades, partly as a tool to keep politically minded Islamic organizations in check. But in the decade since the dictator’s fall, the group — whose leaders have increasingly espoused a radical form of Islam — has worked to establish itself as an assertive political force. >>>>>

Suicide bomber kills at least 18 at Pakistani politician’s home

An attacker walked into an open meeting that member of parliament Rashid Akbar Nowani was holding in the courtyard of his home in the central town of Bhakkar, in Punjab province, and blew himself up amid a throng of about 200. Some reports put the death toll as high as 25, with 53 hurt, some critically. Mr. Nowani – from the conservative, mildly Islamist Pakistan Muslim League (N), party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif – got away with minor injuries to his legs. >>>>>

Islamist movement banned in Bulgaria

A Bulgarian court has banned an Islamic association from operating in the country, accusing it of fanning religious hatred, it was announced yesterday.  The association Charitable Projects, which has been active in Bulgaria since the mid-1990s, was banned for “propagating religious hatred against the majority Christian Orthodox Bulgarians and the traditionally Hanif Muslims in the country”, the State Agency for National Security (DANS) said in a statement. >>>>>

Seven Years in Afghanistan: From “War on Terror” to “War of Terror”

October 7, 2008. Seven years ago today the U.S. began the assault on Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban regime and produced the present mess. Abetted by U.S. bombing and commando operations, the Northern Alliance took Kabul on November 13, 2001. This was the initial U.S. response to 9-11, an assault on the U.S. by Saudi Islamist fanatics based in Afghanistan. The al-Qaeda attacks killed 3000 people. By March 2002 the U.S. bombing had produced that many Afghan civilian fatalities. This was just the beginning. >>>>>

Fan’s kiss ends Tamer Hosni’s Kuwait concert

The newspaper reported that security removed the adoring fan and the Information Ministry abruptly ended the concert one hour ahead of schedule Hosni, who had sung only three songs, apologized to the audience and said that he wished he could stay with them until dawn, but the decision was out of his control.

The Kuwaiti parliament discussed the incident and castigated the ministers of Trade, Information and Interior, according to al-Qabas. Islamist MPs criticized the live broadcast of the concert and the slow response from security.  >>>>>

Music and other stimuli are very enticing.  It slowly, sometimes quickly, causes us to lose control of ourselves.  Other times, the performers are perceived as something greater than that what is normal.  Would this not be the road to ‘minor shirk?’  While many Westerners understand this to be incorrect, they do so until they find out that it was their wives or girlfriend(s) are throwing their undergarments to someone like Tom Jones or Elvis Presley. Look at the reaction of the people who follow(ed) Michael Jackson or the Beatles.  Sometimes un-#$%*-believable.  Yet if their own prophet, whom many take as a god, were to walk in front of them, he would not be given the time of day.

Turkey’s widening diplomatic horizons

Long before Turkey sought to join the European Union, the European powers were eager to penetrate deep into Turkey’s hinterland. >>>>>

Yemen Rejects Some U.S. Requests on Extremists

SANAA, Yemen — A growing number of attacks attributed to Islamist fighters, including last week’s assault on the U.S. Embassy here, appear to have ended Yemen’s immunity from such violence, but the country’s leaders say they have no intention of adopting some of the tougher security measures, as U.S. officials have urged.  >>>>>

Being Muslim without Islam

With the republic, Islam left people’s agenda.

And today there is this esthetics of being Muslim which is disliked and complained by the most. Number one reason is that the culture of being Muslim originates from the rural. It is today partly provincial and partly urban, mimicking something that it doesn’t belong to. >>>>>

Reports: 9 killed in Algerian violence

ALGIERS, Algeria: Islamist militants raided a bootleg bar in Algeria and beheaded one of its patrons because he was a prison guard, Algerian media reported Saturday, and a security official confirmed the separate killing of five soldiers and two police in a gunbattle. >>>>>

Malaysia: Anwar backed by Islamist party after election win

Kuala Lumpur, 27 August (AKI) – Malaysia’s de facto opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, extended his political base on Wednesday when an Islamist party endorsed him as leader of a key anti-government alliance. >>>>>

Yemen Arrests Wanted Islamist Jihad Leader – Official

SANAA, Yemen (AFP)–Yemeni authorities have arrested a leader of the Islamist Jihad movement in the south of the country after a five-year search, a security official said on Saturday. >>>>>

West Bank mayor jailed for aiding Hamas

An Israeli military court last week found the former mayor of the West Bank city of Jenin guilty of aiding Hamas militants and sentenced him to six years’ imprisonment, the army said on Tuesday.  >>>>>

Pakistan forces kill 50 militants

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani troops andhelicopter gunships targeted Islamist militant hideouts in theSwat Valley on Sunday, the military said, after fierce fightingkilled 50 militants and 10 soldiers in the past 24 hours.  >>>>>

Morocco’s urban Woodstock

This is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, but you wouldn’t know it from the music festivals. The Casablanca festival turns the commercial capital into an urban Woodstock, with masses of young people clogging the mosque-filled streets and partying to the pulse of hip-hop, rock, pop and Arab music.   >>>>>