Hate cleric leads jihad cash appeal, "Send money to mujaheddin"
Anjem Choudary, who led protests against returning British troops, has urged his followers to send money to 'mujaheddin'
Times
Anjem Choudary, the former head of al-Muhajiroun
Abul Taher and Daniel Foggo
AN Islamic cleric, whose supporters led a hate-filled protest against British troops returning from Iraq, has urged his followers to give cash to front-line mujaheddin fighters.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch police said Friday they were questioning six men and a woman who were arrested following an anonymous tip of a terrorist threat against a popular shopping area.
The warning came in a call from an unregistered phone in Belgium, and appeared linked to the train bombings in Madrid exactly five years earlier. Police said one of those detained is a relative of an Islamic extremist involved in the Madrid attacks who committed suicide a few weeks later as police closed in.
Al-Gama’ at Islamiyya is an Egyptian Islamic movement linked to Al-Qaeda that has been operating in Brazil since 1995. Mohammed Ali Hassan Mokhles, a group member, left Egypt in 1993 and established residency in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. Authorities claim that Mokhles was sent to the TBA to collect funds for the Middle East and to conduct logistic support activities such as forging passports or other documents for Islamic jihadists. Mokhles reportedly attended a training camp in Khost, Afghanistan.
For the second time in a week, a Coptic Christian man has been murdered in Egypt over rumours of illicit involvement with a Muslim woman. The man’s body was found floating in the Nile. He had been abducted and tortured for nine days before being killed.
Muslim charged with setting fire to man, murdering fatherWorldNetDaily
An Egyptian Muslim is charged with setting fire to a 25-year-old Christian, murdering the victim's father and wounding his younger brother over a rumor about a romance between the young Christian and the Muslim man's sister.
'Disgraceful' Islamist protesters plan to target more soldiers returning from Iraq
Times on line
Islamist extremists in the UK are plotting to repeat their protest of yesterday in which they held up banners labelling British troops on their homecoming parade as "cowards" and "butchers".
The Islam for the UK group, believed to be a spin-off of the extremist al-Muhajiroun, called for similar rallies against other regiments coming home following protests in Luton town centre targeting the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.
The sentencing of a 75-year-old widow to 40 lashes and four months in prison for mingling with two young men who were reportedly bringing her bread has sparked new criticism of Saudi Arabia's ultraconservative religious police and judiciary.
Khamisa Sawadi, who is Syrian but was married to a Saudi, was convicted and sentenced last week for meeting with men who were not her immediate relatives. The two men, including one who was Sawadi's late husband's nephew, were also found guilty and sentenced to prison terms and lashes.
UNITED NATIONS — Canada's top diplomat at the United Nations in Geneva used his position as debate chair to cut short an accredited speaker as he detailed anti-Semitism in Islamic-sourced books.
Egyptian Christian Burned Alive; Father Murdered Also
Christian Post
A young Christian man was suddenly set on fire by a Muslim man in Egypt after a rumor circulated that the Christian man had a relationship with the Muslim man’s sister.
Yasser Ahmed Qasim approached 25-year-old Sabri Shihata and poured gasoline on the Coptic Christian and then set him on fire, reported the Voice of the Copts on Friday. The young Copt tried to put out the fire by throwing himself into a nearby canal, but the burns were too severe and he later died.
UK: Four men jailed sending gear to insurgents fighting UK troops.
BBC News
The four men were arrested after
a lengthy police investigation
Four men from Birmingham have been jailed for terrorism offences.
Mohammed Nadim, 29, Shahid Ali, 34, and Shabir Mohammed, 30, pleaded guilty to sending gear to insurgents fighting UK troops on the Afghan/Pakistan border.
One Law for All, the group that campaigns against the adoption of Islamic law or sharia in the UK, is planning a mass demonstration in the centre of London tomorrow, Saturday. 'We know we have a huge fight ahead and can only win if we do this together.
Female Coptic lawyer gets 6 months imprisonment and 3000 pound fine after being assaulted by Islamist lawyers because she said "I complain to the Atorney-General".
The case is a testimony to bias of the Egyptian police and judiciary against Christians.
In another battle to obtain justice by the 25-year old female Coptic lawyer against the Muslim Brotherhood infested police, lawyers and judges in Abu-Korkas, Upper Egypt, Lawyer Mervet Ragy was handed an unfair 6 months prison sentence and a bail of £3000. She was charged with insulting the prosecutor during her court case by saying "I will complain to the Attorney General” for being treated unfairly.
Recovering jihadist: "We used to have sex with Syrian prostitutes after signing temporary marriage contracts with them"
Jihad Watch
To which he is asked, "Isn't marriage meant to be out of pure intentions? Weren't you conning God this way?" More Islamic -- specifically Shia -- legalism, wherein fulfilling the letter of the law is all that matters. Oh, and by the way, this former Hizbullah member, as a 14 year-old teenager, stabbed his sister for being a "sinner," i.e., for probably "shaming the family" by not wearing a hijab. What's with this rather "assertive" form of teenage "piety"?
"Former Hizbullah Member Rami 'Aleiq: We Used to Have Sex with Syrian Prostitutes after Signing Temporary Marriage Contracts With Them," from MEMRI, March 3 (thanks to Jeffrey imm):
Moroccan jailed for 10 years over Casablanca bombs
RABAT (AFP)
A Moroccan man already convicted over the 2004 Madrid bombings was sentenced Monday on appeal to 10 years in jail for his role in suicide attacks the year before in Casablanca that killed 45 people.
A Moroccan man already convicted over the 2004 Madrid bombings was sentenced Monday on appeal to 10 years in jail for his role in suicide attacks the year before in Casablanca that killed 45 people.
Cairo - An American has been slightly hurt after being knifed in the legendary Cairo bazaar of Khan al-Khalili, just days after a French teenager was killed there by a bomb, a security official said on Saturday.
International poll: Muslims support strict Sharia, Islamic supremacism
They differ with Al-Qaeda on the means, not on the goals.
Here is a pdf of the full report. See especially pages 27 through 30: "Islamist Groups and Shari'a." On page 27, the report says: "The Islamist goal of giving Shari'a a larger role in Islamic society is viewed positively."
