Happy Easter to All Muslims

The Infidel would like to wish all Muslims a very Happy Easter and invite
them to celebrate the resurrection of the ONE TRUE LORD.

Iraqi Civilians Fight Back Against Insurgents

This is great news! Perhaps this is a sign that the Iraqi people are learning that democracy belongs to them and, at times, they must fight for it. I hope there are many more courageous Iraqis who step forward and take the fight to the insurgents. The Infidel Army Suppports You!

BAGHDAD, Iraq March 22 (New York Times) -- Ordinary Iraqis rarely strike back at the insurgents who terrorize their country. But just before noon on Tuesday, a carpenter named Dhia saw a troop of masked gunmen with grenades coming toward his shop here and decided he had had enough.

As the gunmen emerged from their cars, Dhia and his young relatives shouldered their Kalashnikov rifles and opened fire, the police and witnesses said. In the fierce gun battle that followed, three of the insurgents were killed, and the rest fled just after the police arrived. Two of Dhia's nephews and a bystander were wounded, the police said.

"We attacked them before they attacked us," said Dhia, 35, his face still contorted with rage and excitement, as he stood barefoot outside his home a few hours after the battle, a 9-millimeter pistol in his hand. He would not give his last name.

"We killed three of those who call themselves the mujahedeen," he said. "I am waiting for the rest of them to come, and we will show them."

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Woman leads Muslim prayer service

New York is in the United States, right?

NEW YORK (AP) -- A female professor led an Islamic prayer service Friday with men in the congregation despite sharp criticism from Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East who complained that it violated centuries of tradition.

Amina Wadud, a professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, led the service at Synod House at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, an Episcopal church in Manhattan.

Some Islamic scholars have said they were aware of a few other mixed-gender prayer meetings led by women, mostly in the West, but they are rare.

"The issue of gender equality is a very important one in Islam, and Muslims have unfortunately used highly restrictive interpretations of history to move backward," Wadud said before the service. "With this prayer service we are moving forward. This single act is symbolic of the possibilities within Islam."

About 80 to 100 people attended the service, and the group appeared evenly divided between men and women. Most women wore the traditional Muslim headscarf and long, flowing robes.

The event was meant to draw attention to the inequality for women in Muslim spiritual life and Muslim life in general, said Asra Q. Nomani, an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter who is the lead organizer of the prayer.

"We are standing up for our rights as women in Islam. We will no longer accept the back door or the shadows," Nomani said. "At the end of the day, we'll be leaders in the Muslim world."

There was a brief outburst from some protesters outside the building at the start of the service, but they were kept from entering by a heavy police presence. One young U.S.-born, bearded activist, who only gave his name as Nussrah, said Wadud was not representative of Muslims.

"She is tarnishing the whole Islamic faith," he said.

Hey Nussrah: This is America and your fucking Sharia law doesn't mean shit to us. If you want 7th century laws in your own country, we don't give fuck, but don't even try and enforce that shit over here! We are sure there are many strong American women here that would have no problem kicking your limp-dick ass.

Yvonne Haddad, a professor of Islamic studies at Georgetown University, said the service goes against the religion's traditions.

"It's a time when people can get away with anything," Haddad said. "When people have a breakdown of traditional leadership, largely because the U.S. government has delegitimized the Muslim leadership in America, American Muslims are searching for new leaders more able to address their daily needs.

"People in America think they are going to be the vanguards of change," Haddad said. "But for Arab Muslims in the Middle East, American Muslims continue to be viewed on the margins of the faith."

And why should Americans give a rat's hairy ass about Islam's religious traditions? It's not like Islam respects any other religion's traditions. And don't forget, The Constitution, not Sharia, is the law of OUR land. If you don't like it, get the fuck out! We don't want your sorry ass here anyway.

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Indonesia ousts Christian groups

(The Washington Times) -- Christian groups and some other private relief agencies are being asked to halt their work in the tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province of Aceh and leave the area by March 26, Indonesia's defense minister said yesterday.

The decision likely will target Western and smaller church groups as the government moves to tighten control over reconstruction work in Aceh, the home of a decades-old separatist insurgency.

"We want each of the relief agencies to be transparent in their programs: Some of them are not clear about their mandates," said Juwono Sudarsono during an interview in a Washington hotel.

"Aceh is mostly Muslim, and some church groups from Australia and the United States are too eager to be there and do their part," he said.

Mr. Sudarsono said his government had set March 26 some weeks ago as a target date for moving from the disaster-relief phase of post-tsunami operations to the reconstruction phase.

With that goal in sight, he said, the overwhelming presence of U.S. and Western relief agencies could make members of the local Islamic community uncomfortable, adding that they would be replaced by Pakistani and Saudi Arabian workers....

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Muzzled by Muslims

(Front Page Magazine) -- In academia today, "academic freedom" protects those who compare the 9/11 victims to Nazi higher ups, but it does not cover a professor with the temerity to challenge the beliefs of Muslim students in a single encounter which constituted, in the words of his boss, an "assault on their dignity."

Thomas Klocek, a part-time adjunct professor at DePaul University, knows this first-hand; he was unlucky enough to fall on the wrong side of the political correctness fence.

With no current income and facing the possibility of losing the health insurance he desperately needs for a serious kidney condition, he has decided to go public with his fight. Klocek considers his case a matter of academic freedom; the school insists it's a health issue. The Muslim students who had the 20-30 minute run-in with him that precipitated his suspension charge racism.

Although every party involved frames the overall matter differently, multiple conversations with each side reveal that the facts are what are least in dispute.

Here's what we do know. After 14 years of continuous employment at the Chicago-based college, Klocek was suspended with pay for the rest of the fall quarter last September, and then stayed suspended - this time without pay - through the winter quarter.

Despite having, by all accounts, an unblemished record during that span, DePaul summarily dismissed him from his duties after the school learned that he had "insulted" and "demeaned" several Muslim students at a campus fair for extracurricular groups.

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Terrorist Website Drops Dirty Bomb

JEDDAH (Arab News) -- A terrorist group has published a do-it-yourself plan to make a dirty bomb on its Internet site. Named Alma'sadah Al-Jihadiah, the site is run by a group whose aim is to promote and propagate terror activities in the region. A member of the group, calling himself Abu Al-Harith Al-Sawahiri the Mujahid Sheikh, provides a step-by-step instruction of making a dirty bomb, starting from tear gas canisters to higher-grade bombs, including those using uranium, on the site.

Remember now! Jihad is a spiritual struggle. Jihad is a spiritual struggle. Jihad is a spiritual struggle. Apparently American Muslim advocacy groups believe that if they repeat that long enough and loudly enough, they will compel Americans to believe it. But still, I wonder: how many Buddhist sites have instructions for building dirty bombs?

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30 Muslim workers fired for praying on job at Dell

Nashville (Dhimmi Watch) -- Anti-dhimmitude at Dell. Why? Well, it would be perfectly clear to everyone that a Christian who left his work station during work hours to go to church should be held responsible. This is not a question of the infringement of rights unless these employees had arranged with Dell for a work schedule that included time off for prayers, and then Dell reneged. But I doubt that was the case. Otherwise, they contracted with Dell to be on the job from a certain hour to another, and they should hold up their end of the deal.

Work or pray.

Faced with that difficult decision, Abdi H. Nuur removed his employee badge and walked away last month from his forklift driver's job at Dell Computer's Nashville plant. He and 29 other Somali Muslims say they were forced to choose between their faith and their employment.

Now the Metro Human Relations Commission is trying to intervene in a
confrontation that pits American-style production quotas against Islam's requirement that its adherents pray daily when the sun sets.

"They told us that we cannot pray at sunset," Nuur said. "They told us that we would have to wait for our break."

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Not even the dead can escape Islam.

Muzzie's having a banner week! What's that about being a religion of peace? I've said it before and I will say it again, Islam is nothing more than a cult of death.

MOSUL, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim funeral procession killed at least 47 people Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, hospital officials said.

The explosion also wounded 27 others, the officials said, near the Shahedayein Mosque in central Mosul's al-Ta'meen district.

A U.S. military statement said preliminary reports indicated 25 to 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.

"As we were inside the mosque, we saw a ball of fire and heard a huge explosion," Tahir Abdullah Sultan, 45, told The Associated Press. "After that blood and pieces of flesh were scattered around the place."

Another witness, Adnan al-Bayati, told AP, "After the cloud of smoke and dust dispersed, we saw the scattered bodies of the fallen and smelled gunpowder."

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Iraqi officials find 41 bodies

Three women and two children beheaded! As seen in before in Belsan, Muzzie has no problem killing women and children. What kind of sick fuck cuts off a child's head? Followers of that so-called religion of peace (perhaps 'piece' would be more accurate) have rules when killing women, children, and the elderly is permitted. This is Islam people!

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- South of Baghdad in Latifiya, Iraqi troops yesterday made another gruesome discovery, finding 15 headless bodies in a building inside an abandoned former army base, Defense Ministry Capt. Sabah Yassin said.

The bodies included 10 men, three women and two children. Their identities, such as the others found in western Iraq, were not known.

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Non Muslims need not Apply, Saudis Say

Washington DC ( Saudi Institute) -- The Saudi Government said today it won’t allow non Muslims to seek its citizenship, Al-Watan newspaper reported today.

Naser Al-Hanaya, Ministry of Interior Assistant for Civil Affairs, told Al-Watan that the citizenship law amended October 18 of last year won’t allow any non Muslims living in the country to seek Saudi nationality.

Al-Hanaya said "Islam is the religion and non Muslims won’t be allowed citizenship."

The US has been involved in negotiation with the Saudi government for two years on admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The nationality law was amended as part of these negotiations.

The Saudi government bars all non Muslims including Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists from practicing their faith publicly in Saudi Arabia. It also bars them from celebrating all national and cultural holidays such as Independence Day, Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Russian military kills Chechen separatist leader

MOSCOW (Kansas City Star) -- Aslan Maskhadov, leader of Chechnya's decade-long separatist conflict against Russian rule, was killed Tuesday as Russian commandos closed in on his bunker near the breakaway republic's capital, Russian and pro-Moscow Chechen authorities said.

Russian television showed images of Maskhadov's shirtless body splayed out on a concrete floor, his head in a pool of blood. How he died remained unclear. Kremlin-backed Chechen leaders said that in the midst of a clash between Russian special forces and Maskhadov's men in the village of Tolstoi-Yurt, a bodyguard standing next to Maskhadov accidentally shot and killed the rebel leader.

"We intended to take him alive," Chechen Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told the Russian news agency, Interfax. But the Russian military said Maskhadov was killed when soldiers blew up the bunker.

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Throngs rally in Pakistan on rape victim’s behalf

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) -- Thousands of women rallied in eastern Pakistan on Monday to demand justice and protection for a woman who said she was gang-raped at the direction of a village council, after a court ordered the release of her alleged attackers.

The victim, Mukhtar Mai, also attended the rally in Multan, a major city in the eastern province of Punjab.

Waving signs and chanting, the demonstrators, many of them from nearby villages, joined the rally. Organizer Farzana Bari said more than 3,000 women were at the event.

“We will fight for justice for Mukhtar Mai,” the women chanted during the rally, while others carried placards reading: “Give protection to Mukhtar Mai.”

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Iraq's insurgent children learn how to become killers

BAGHDAD (The Scotsman) -- SITTING cross-legged on the mosque floor, the 12-year-old boys listen avidly as the tough-looking man in front of them holds up a rocket-propelled grenade.

"Be careful of the Americans, but don’t fear their vehicles and technology," he says, turning the diamond-shaped warhead before a dozen pairs of widening eyes. "You see this small bomb? It can destroy any US Army Humvee and all the soldiers inside."

Placing the missile back in a wooden box beside him, the teacher then passes a wrapped lump of plastic explosive around the class, sparking a flurry of grasping hands. "Come on! It’s my turn," hisses one impatient young boy at his neighbour.

So begins lesson one of jihad for juniors, the newest recruits to Iraq’s insurgency. After nearly two years of struggle which has decimated their adult ranks, resistance commanders are grooming a fresh generation of child soldiers to carry on the fight.

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PODCAST: Winds of Jihad

(PODCAST) -- New on The Infidel's Rant

Winds of Jihad by Sheik Yer'mami

My Allah is better than yours...
My religion is better than yours...

Enjoy!

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Al-Qaeda 'on streets of Britain'

(BBC) -- Former Metropolitan Police chief Sir John Stevens says up to 200 Al-Qaeda "terrorists" are operating in Britain and the threat of attacks is real.

He urged the government to press ahead with its controversial anti-terror legislation as quickly as possible.

Sir John, writing in the News of the World, said militants trained by Osama bin Laden "fester" across the country.

But the Liberal Democrats accused him of sending "mixed messages" adding to an already "complicated situation".

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Islamic terrorists seeking to recruit women: report

ROME (Daily Times) -- Islamic extremists are looking to recruit women and are trying to do so mainly through the Internet, according to an Italian intelligence report.

The document, presented to parliament Thursday, gathers evidence from the second half of 2004. The report said the Internet has established itself as a fundamental means of recruiting extremists.

The recruits, the report adds, “are now also being sought among the female audience,” and an Internet journal has been created especially with the purpose of attracting female warriors.

Female terrorists have most notably taken part in a theater siege in Moscow in October 2002, in which they and their male comrades threatened to blow up the building.

Russian special forces stormed the theater after three days and 129 hostages were killed, most by the effects of the gas used to knock out the assailants. In Italy, recruitment is also carried out by what the report calls “wandering imams” _ extremists who originally come from Pakistan and are believed to be responsible for turning mosques into recruiting centers as well as helping militants from abroad infiltrate the country. The 103-page report also singled out attacks on Italian interests in Iraq and elsewhere abroad and kidnappings in the war-ravaged country as the main risks posed by Islamic terrorism against Italy.

The risks mainly come from militants who fled the Iraqi city of Fallujah, an insurgent stronghold that U.S. and Iraqi forces assaulted in November.

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Why am I not an Arab?

“But why are you not an Arab?” might you ask!

My answer is simply “because I am Lebanese!" Period! End of story! Bye bye now!
But here's my lame attempt at "intellectualizing" the answer – though it is evidently simple and needn't be tinkered with and cluttered with tedious idiotarianisms...
But I can appreciate the fact that some of you still go to university, and might need some half-academic-sounding evidence to placate your half-witted senile obsolete third-worldist professors. So here goes.

Given that Arabness is an exclusivist concept, one cannot identify with it as an added identity without being impelled to relinquish pre-existing ones. Given that Arabism and Arabness have this fiendish knack for denying peoples their specific cultural and historical references, one is impelled to out-and-out repudiate any hints of this imputed, contrived Arabness.

But who are the “Arabs”, and what is the “Arab World”?
This is a thorny question to which there isn’t one clearly defined or satisfying answer. I can understand that the labels “Arab World” or “Arab” can be soothing to some who believe that Arab nationalism or Arabness are valid identity markers; but the terms themselves are loaded, misleading, ambiguous, abstract, and false, not to mention grotesque oversimplifications of a political ethnic and cultural realm that is anything but uniform and homogeneous, let alone exclusively Arab (to merit a comprehensive “Arab” label)..

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