"Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Friday executed two men by strapping explosives to their bodies after accusing them of spying, security officials said.

"Morocco has expelled foreign Christians who tried to convert Muslims because, as a moderate Islamic state, it wants to foster "order and calm" and avoid a clash between faiths, its Islamic affairs minister said.

It is true that at least 10 percent of Muslims believe in conducting jihad against people of other faiths -- especially the U.S.

A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.

I decided to seed this not so much for what it says, but rather because of who is saying it. Blogger Charles Johnson is usually thought of as a leading conservative, and has a considerable following. No doubt this will make waves.

""You are all dirty terrorists!" "Your soldiers are monsters! They wear uniforms that say – 'Kill Palestinians.'" "We have no water.

"Quiet has now returned to the Gaza Strip after the weekend violence which claimed the lives of 28 people. The last of the funerals of the Jund Ansar Allah fighters killed in the suppression of the organization by Hamas authorities has taken place.

"President Gloria Arroyo had called for the "annihilation" of Muslim extremists in the southern Philippines after 23 soldiers died in a bloody battle, her defence minister said Saturday.

"The Jerusalem Post says that 28 have been killed in the clashes between Hamas and the Jund Ansar Allah group in Rafah. PCHR says "at least" 28 have been killed.

A Hamas official said that the main purpose of these groups was to "defame" Hamas by making it appear as if it was behind the bombing of coffee shops and Internet centers.

"A roadside bomb has killed one soldier and wounded five others in southern Thailand's Pattani province. Muslim separatist fighters have been blamed for the attack - one of hundreds in a region plagued by a five-year insurgency that has left at least 3,700 people dead.

"Somalia's hardline Islamist rebels beheaded seven people on Friday for being "Christians" and "spies" in the latest imposition of strict sharia, Islamic law, by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group, witnesses said. ——————————————-————

"By official count, some 450 people have been arrested in opposition protests against Iran's presidential election results. Many sources inside Iran put the count in the thousands.

In his writings he frequently quotes fellow conspiracy theorists to bolster his paranoid arguments:

Born in Istanbul in 1952, in 2005 Pamuk was charged with having declared to the Swiss weekly Das Magazin that "we Turks are responsible for the death of 30 thousand Kurds and a million Armenians and no-one in Turkey dares speak about it, except me".

"During Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, Hamas security forces or masked gunmen believed to be with Hamas extra-judicially executed 18 Palestinians, mainly those accused of collaborating with Israel, and beat and maimed dozens of political rivals, especially members and sup …

" This morning, Rihab al-Hazin, from the al-Nussairat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, was murdered by her brother on the pretext of 'maintaining family honor.' Last Thursday, three persons, including a child, were murdered for the same reason.

"A Danish press freedom group said Wednesday it is selling copies of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad that caused outrage across the Muslim World. ""All we are doing is starting a debate," Hedegaard said. "We are using our freedom of speech."

"An in-depth study emerged recently that leveled accusations against Arab organizations and individuals and claimed that that they are trying to control ideology in Indonesia and alter its society from one that is known for tolerance to one that is religiously fanatic and politic …

"Whew, what a relief to no longer have a president so intimately tied to the Saudi royal family.

" Islamisation of the state and the polity was supposed to have been in the interest of the ruling class – a classic strategy for preserving it from the wrath of the working class. But the amazing success of the state is turning out to be its own undoing.

"The Swedish Federation warned the Israeli delegation that they had concrete threats of an attack on the Israelis during the competition. They asked the Israeli delegation to cancel the trip due to security problems and the flight was indeed canceled.

"At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics met senior Hamas officials to plot a new jihad centred on Gaza. "The choice of Turkey was significant. Arab hardliners were keen to put aside historic differences with the Turks.

"Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak slammed Hamas and Iran in a speech delivered on Wednesday, and suggested that Hamas was responsible for the recent fighting in Gaza Strip against Israel.

" As millions of Brits plan to celebrate St Valentine's Day this Saturday, the controversial Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary has warned Brit lovers that if they celebrate Valentine's Day, they will rot in hell.

"The Middle East is gripped by a Muslim cold war, fiercer than anything since the 1950s.

The core of the war waged against the US by religious radicalism in the Middle East is ideological. On the one side, there is what one might describe as the Western ideology of human rights, democracy and secularism.

"A decade ago, Western and Israeli leaders could count on Turkey as an ally. A solid NATO member, Ankara took decisions based on pragmatic calculations of interest - and erred on the side of caution if at all. But under the rule of the Islamic conservative AKP, this has changed.

"The war against Hamas is taking place not only in the Gaza Strip, but in the West Bank as well, Palestinians said on Thursday.

Satire from the Onion

"JUST days after Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced tough new measures to name and shame foreign-based extremists and prevent them coming from abroad to stir up hatred in the UK, firebrand preacher Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad cocked a snook at her new initiative, the Evening St …

Governments across Europe must do more to safeguard freedom of speech for Muslim reformers who face threats from extremists, a think tank has warned.

"How do racists, anti-Semites and all-purpose hate-mongers view the possibility of America's first black president? Not necessarily the way you think they would."

"Israel and Azerbaijan have closed a weapons deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars. "Predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan has increasingly been caught in a tug-of-war for influence between its large southern neighbor, and the secular, democratic West.

"Almost nine months have passed and a baby is now born in Britain. His name is Sharia.

Many people claim that Muslims never speak out against extremism.. Of course this is totally false. One such example is Irshad Manje-- a devout Muslim, but despite numerous death threats she is also a voice for reform in her faith.

The documentary, an undercover investigation into extremism in mainstream British mosques, featured preachers calling for homosexuals to be killed, espousing male supremacy, condemning non-Muslims and predicting jihad.

A person grows up and believes there are perpetrators and victims. He sees a person assaulted or hears about a rape or someone being abused, and he believes that in each incident there is a person who perpetrates the crime and a person who is the victim.

After almost five years of war, many young people in Iraq, exhausted by constant firsthand exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach.

Qur'an (9;29) "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of truth,even if they are of the people of the book [Jews Christians],until they pay the Jizya with wil …

A majority of Israeli teens believe the country is under "serious threat" of destruction, a survey published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel's 60th anniversary revealed.

The Karni and Kerem Shalom Crossings are two pipelines through which Israel supplies the Gaza Strip with fuel, food, and humanitarian aid. Meanwhile, crossings such as "Nitzanei Shalom" are used by Palestinian laborers who enter Israel.

A 6.6% rise in the number of anti-Semitic attacks has been registered across the world in 2007, a report published on Wednesday by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at the Tel Aviv University revealed.

"The bill, the Coordinated American Response to Extreme Radicals or CARTER Act prohibits taxpayer funds from being appropriated to the Carter Center, which Knollenberg's office said has received at least $19 million in federal money since 2001.

Riots in the wake of the publication of Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad was one of the most pathetic "activist" spectacles I've ever seen, but the press coverage blew the whole thing way out of proportion.

Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that Israel's disappearance was an established fact and that "the murder of (Hizbullah commander) Imad Mugniyah is a preliminary step Israel is planning for Lebanon and the region."

I had known that a lot of them were racist-- but I didn't realize that they were also so blatantly anti-Semitic-- and in a very weird way.

''In December 2007, the Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) bestowed its highest social achievement award upon Louis Farrakhan, the head of ''the Nation of Islam.

[political opinion - with several interesting links] ''Kevin McCullough has posted at Townhall.com about the Ron Paul neo-Nazi story, and he is being viciously attacked in the comments for his post: Ron Paul: Likes to Lunch with Nazis? (SOURCE: WHITE SUPREMACISTS) [...]

Excerpts- ''This outlook that seeks to annihilate the other is something that stifles us and makes us feel like we are a prey. Perhaps that is the reason behind the continuous Arab crises.

Well-- here's one who does-

Excerpt: "Other than among Islamic hardliners, you would think that the plight of British teacher Gillian Gibbons, who faces jail and 40 lashes in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed, would elicit near-universal sympathy.

Zapiro's dig at a Sunday newspaper's zero tolerance for Satanism upsets some readers. Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro — better known as Zapiro — has riled Muslims with a cartoon that portrays Allah, but he is unrepentant.

More and more information is starting to come to light...there are quite a few disturbing details in this article. (Before commenting-- please read it and decide for yourself)

An authoritative new report by Policy Exchange entitled 'The Hijacking of British Islam: How extremist literature is subverting Britain's mosques', reveals the worrying extent of extremist penetration of mosques and other key institutions of the British Muslim community.

Excerpt:

Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Commission (HRC) will urge its counterparts in the European Union to ask their governments not to link terrorism to Islam and also to issue regulations to protect Muslims from prejudice and discrimination because of their faith.

Quote from Ahmadinejad: # "We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world." # "Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi."

Many non-Muslims are obviously very well-meaning with regard to Islam, but they are also extremely naïve and ignorant of the facts. They seem to think that Islam is just another religion of love and peace and Muslims should be given full freedom to practice their religion.

A blind Vancouver man who was shunned by a taxi driver who didn't want a guide dog in his cab has reached a $2,500 settlement with North Shore Taxi. Bruce Gilmour, 49, had called a cab from a West Vancouver coffee shop after a day of skiing in November 2006.

Since its opening in 1957, the Islamic Center of Washington has been the city's most prominent mosque—a center of worship for thousands of area Muslims, including many members of the capital's diplomatic corps.

Excerpt re: the concept of "sustained good governance": Too much emphasis has been placed on brokering negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians — negotiations that bring up the same issues again and again.

Excerpt: The popular Islamist-jihadist forum www.alhesbah.org, hosted by RealWebHost in Texas, U.S., recently posted an anonymously written document from 2003 titled "The Excellent Summary of the Rules of the Art of Kidnapping Americans."

Iranian authorities in Tehran lashed a man on his back earlier this year for having a bible in his car, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website on Friday.

Members of Christian and Hindu communities settled in the city have been threatened by the so-called militants through a stunning letter to convert to Islam or face suicide attacks, sources confided to The News here on Wednesday.

video, pt 2, added to YouTube: August 08, 2007 "Police are reporting Channel 4 to the media reg... more info Police are reporting Channel 4 to the media regulator Ofcom over the way an undercover programme was edited.

"video added to YouTube: August 08, 2007 Police are reporting Channel 4 to the media reg... more info Police are reporting Channel 4 to the media regulator Ofcom over the way an undercover programme was edited.

Bangladeshi writer and women's rights activist Taslima Nasreen was in Hyderabad, India to promote a new book when she was attacked—by a mob led by elected Islamist members of the Indian Senate.!

Controversial Bangladeshi novelist Taslima Nasreen says her attackers at a book release function in Hyderabad earlier Thursday were intent on killing her, but she would not be cowed down and would continue to write.

Excellent Flash Presentation-- al-Qaeda Attacks Since February 1998. (Unfortunately, it only goes up to 2005). HOW MANY OF THESE DO YOU REMEMBER? (You might be surprised)

Chrsitopher Hitchens-- opinionated as always!