Islam - a Religion of peace?

Some people/critics claim that the true Islam is a peacful Religion, and the terrorists(such as BinLaden and Hamas) must/should not be taken to represent true Islam. Terrorism is often depicted as Extremism.

Let us examine the news and some facts the World is informed with:

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Seven die in Bangladesh attacks

At least seven people are killed in what police believe to be a mounting Islamic militant campaign in Bangladesh.

BBC News - Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 14:02 GMT

D.Lim: More death, more evil.

This belief is not taken as racial hatred or religious persecution.

It is a reasoning of a people who want to live in their little turf.

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JORDAN'S KING DECLARES WAR ON ISLAMIC MILITANTS - November 25, 2005 JVIM

D.Lim: Islam fighting Islam. Muslims fighting Muslims.

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IRAQ SEIZES BOOBY-TRAPPED TOYS - November 25, 2005 JVIM

D.Lim: Who wants to kill or hurt children? Who wants to break the hearts of the parents?

Who wants to hurt the next generation?

Where is the protection of Islam?

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PA SECURITY ROCKED BY AL QAIDA ATTACKS

November 14, 2005 - JVIM

The Middle East Newsline reports: “The Palestinian Authority security forces have been rocked by Al Qaida suicide strikes.

PA officials said two of the 56 casualties in the Al Qaida suicide strikes in Jordan were senior security representatives. They said four Palestinians were killed in the suicide bombings in Amman on Nov. 9.

The Palestinians killed in the blasts included PA military intelligence chief Gen. Bashir Nafie, who headed the organization in the West Bank. Nafie was said to be in Amman for talks with Jordanian security officials.

Nafie runs one of the smaller PA security agencies, with about 1,000 officers. Military intelligence has dealt mostly with espionage and dissidence and many of its officers were active in the Palestinian war against Israel?

D.Lim: Muslims against Muslims. Muslims killing and hurting Muslims.

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Al Qaeda calls British queen "enemy of Islam"

Reuters

LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahri has called Britain's Queen Elizabeth "one of the severest enemies of Islam" in a video message after July's deadly bombings in London, the Sunday Times reported.

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FATAH AGREES: "WIPE OUT ISRAEL"

A military wing of the Palestinian Authority's (PA) ruling Fatah faction declared its support on November 6 for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's desire to see Israel "wiped off the map." - BFP - November 11, 2005

For those unconvinced that the various terrorist organizations that make up the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)/PA ever truly abandoned their own long-stated aspirations to eradicate the Jewish "stain" from the Middle East, the announcement came as little surprise.

In a leaflet published by Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the group stressed its "identification with and overall support of the position and declaration of the Iranian president, who called with all honesty to wipe Israel off the map of the world." Ahmadinejad was correct in labeling Israel a "fictitious Zionist state, which will disappear with the help of Allah," according to the leaflet.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade warned against official recognition of Israel, as doing so "constitutes contempt of the Palestinian people, who sacrifice their blood every day for the sake of freeing Palestine and Jerusalem." The group was referring to daily attempts by its own members and other Palestinian terrorists to mass murder Jewish men, women, and children.

Unnamed PA officials insisted the leaflet did not represent the position of the regime or of PLO Chief Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). "We strongly condemn the leaflet," one told The Jerusalem Post. Attempting to play down the incident, the same official suggested the leaflet "does not even reflect the position of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade."

The PA is currently working to integrate the Brigade into its official police forces. For the Brigade to openly call for Israel's complete destruction at this time would call into question the wisdom of such a move and the PA's own intentions for having initiated it. Under the terms of the Oslo Accords and Road Map peace agreements, the PA is obligated to disarm and dismantle groups such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Abbas hopes that by paying them police salaries, the international community will see that commitment as fulfilled. Washington has indicated it will play along, and is financing the move, PA sources told Middle East Newsline last week.

Many members of the group already draw official police salaries, including a top Gaza-based terrorist killed in an Israel Defense Forces missile strike last week after his involvement in numerous kassam rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns.

(By Ryan Jones, Jerusalem Newswire, www.jnewswire.com, November 7, 2005)

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On Wednesday evening, at least 67 people were killed and 300 injured in three coordinated suicide strikes on luxury hotels in Amman. Most of the casualties were said to have been Jordanian? � JVIM - November 11, 2005

D.Lim: Arabs killing Arabs.

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Rioting spreads across France

Nov. 6, 2005. 07:09 AM - TS

Ten nights of urban unrest that brought thousands of arson attacks on cars, nursery schools and other targets from the Mediterranean to the German border reached Paris where at least 28 cars were burned overnight in the French capital, government officials said Sunday.

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RADICAL ISLAM BLAMED FOR FRENCH RIOTING

November 5, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “As rioting that began in a poor, mostly Muslim, neighborhood near Paris a week ago continues to spread to other suburbs and cities across France and parts of Europe, U.S. experts and at least one American lawmaker believe radical Islam is most likely responsible for the chaos.

And, they say, despite the characterization by several media outlets that those perpetuating the violence are primarily disaffected youth upset with French economic and social policies, the fact the unrest spread so quickly and is virtually limited to Muslim neighborhoods signifies a deeper, ideologically driven motive.

U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., in an interview with WND, said he believes the chickens are coming home to roost in France because, for years, the country with the largest Islamic population in Europe has ignored rising Muslim tensions within its own borders. The real issue the French ‘are now dealing with,?he said, ‘is [that] you cannot integrate some people into your society.?p>Daniel Pipes, an expert on Islam and the director of the Middle East Forum, a think tank promoting American ideals in that region, thinks the riots in France are a microcosm of the larger radical Islamic goal of gaining a solid foothold in Europe.

‘The great majority of Muslims in Europe see themselves as bearers of a superior civilization and see themselves growing prodigiously,?he told WND. ‘Through a cultural, religious and demographic confidence they feel scorn towards European ways and conspire to take it over.?p>Lee Kaplan, spokesman for United American Committee, an organization striving to educate more Americans to the threat of radical Islam, suggested France's quest to be ‘evenhanded?in its dealings with its massive Muslim immigration has backfired and now reached a point where Paris has little choice but to meet the problem head-on. In an interview with WND, he suggested that ‘with 5 million Muslims in France ?the most in all of Europe,?this week's chaos was inevitable?

D.Lim: Violence after violence. Sorrow after sorrow. Destruction increases.

Christ Jesus taught of the good Samaritan, about loving and helping neighbors, not about hurting and destroying neighbors and others.

Choose today who you would follow.

The end does not justify the means.

Peace is not a product or by-product of EVIL. - David Lim

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DISILLUSIONED PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS JOIN AL-QAIDA

November 2, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “Jailed Hamas members disillusioned with the Palestinian terror group because it's not radical enough for them renounced their Hamas membership and attempted to set up an al-Qaeda cell to direct attacks against the Jewish state, Israeli prison officials said yesterday.

The revelation is the latest evidence the global terror network has established itself in the Palestinian territories, with Israeli security officials telling WND al-Qaeda agents infiltrated the Gaza Strip after Israel's military withdrawal from the area in September.

‘The terrorists in jail were defying Hamas, which they said wasn't radical enough. ... They wanted to create their own cell of al-Qaeda that would be the network's arm in Israeli prison to direct attacks,?said a prison official.

Israeli security officials said nine jailed Hamas terrorists ‘with blood on their hands,?including two militants trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, tried to set up the al-Qaeda cell last month. Officials said the cell planned to direct attacks on behalf of al-Qaeda by sending messages to terrorists outside the Israeli prison.

There have been many cases the past few years of Palestinian terrorists planning or directing attacks from within Israeli jails.

Prison officials said they began investigating after they intercepted communications between some of the nine prisoners, messages that contained al-Qaeda ideology and operational instructions specific to the global jihad group.

Said a prison official, ‘The jailed terrorists renounced their membership in Hamas. They didn't think Hamas was carrying out enough attacks. ... They thought Hamas was too focused on trying to join upcoming Palestinian legislative elections. So they joined with al-Qaeda.

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Canadians in giving mood, charity stats show

- Nov. 1, 2005. 10:09 AM - TS

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BBC News - Monday, 31 October 2005, 12:23 GMT

Pakistan 'Taleban bill' revived

By Haroon Rashid

BBC News, Peshawar

Law minister Malik Zafar Azam (L) defended the timing of the bill

A bill critics say will bring in a Taleban-style moral code has been revived in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province.

The minister defended the presentation of the bill at this time, saying the earthquake was the result of God's wrath at man's misdeeds.

D.Lim: More misdeed from Muslims than from non-Muslims? How come more Muslims are hurt in the quake? Non-Muslims being more righteous and more pleasing to God?

He said the need for such a legislation was more keenly felt now given the need to save moral values by introducing God's rules.

D.Lim: For Islamic countries of more liberal approach(ie: Egypt) there is less earthquake and less affected by great natural disasters. What moral values?

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Three Indonesian girls beheaded

By Tim Johnston

BBC News, Jakarta - Saturday, 29 October 2005, 08:32 GMT 09:32 UK

Three girls have been beheaded and another badly injured as they walked to a Christian school in Indonesia.

This is an area that has a long history of religious violence between Muslims and Christians.

A government-brokered truce has only partially succeeded in reducing the number of incidents in recent years.

It is unclear what was behind the attack, but the girls attended a private Christian school and one of the heads was left outside a church leading to speculation that it might have had a religious motive.

A bomb in May in the nearby town of Tentena, which is predominantly Christian, killed 22 people and injured over 30.

Analysts say the militants have targeted central Sulawesi and believe that it could be turned into the foundation stone of an Islamic state.

The analysts have warned that the violence could resurface at any time.

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The Koran, in fact, does not once mention Jerusalem, where, at the time of the Koran's writing, the Temple Mount was occupied by a Byzantine Christian trash dump rather than a mosque. That did not stop Hatib from insisting the "Al-Aqsa [literally "the furthest mosque"] of the Koran is the same Al-Aqsa of our days, not any other mosque."

Islam, of course, had its beginnings some 1,500 years after the time of Solomon. Klein noted that what the sheikh was saying "contradicts reality. There is no serious scholar or archeologist in the world who argues Al-Aqsa was built before the Jewish Temples."

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Israel will be 'wiped off map,' Iranian leader says

� TS Wed. Oct. 26, 2005. | Updated at 01:20 PM

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Forcing Hindus into exile

Geoffrey Clarfield - National Post , Tuesday, October 25, 2005

On Oct. 10, just two days after an earthquake killed tens of thousands in South Asia, Islamist terrorists belonging to Hizb ul-Mujahideen and Lashkar e-Tolba killed 10 Hindu civilians in the Rajouri district of Indian-controlled Kashmir. The attacks were part of an orchestrated campaign designed to cleanse Kashmir of its indigenous Hindus and bring the area entirely under Muslim governance -- either through a union with Pakistan, or as an independent, Sharia-based Islamic state. Apparently, not even the massive devastation wrought by mother nature has slowed the terrorists' murderous campaign.

. . . But during the 1980s, Kashmiriat was dealt a blow from which it may never recover. Moderate Kashmiri Muslims woke up to find that their mosques had new preachers, many of whom had been trained outside of the country. They preached against the old versions of Islam and insisted that their intolerant Wahhabi strain must be adopted by all Kashmiris. Women were to adopt the veil and music was proscribed.

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Man killed in Egypt church riot � BBC News

- Saturday, 22 October 2005, 01:17 GMT 02:17 UK

A man is killed in a protest outside a Coptic church in Egypt against a play accused of offending Islam.

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BLASTS ROCK BAGHDAD SHIA MOSQUES

February 18, 2005

BBC News reports: At least 18 people have been killed and dozens of others injured in twin attacks on Shia Muslim mosques in Baghdad, Iraqi security sources say.

In the deadliest blast, at least 17 worshippers are said to have died when a suicide bomber struck at prayer time.

D.Lim: Muslims against Muslims, faction against faction when the West or non-Muslims are not faced or blamed.

Not just any Islamic mosques; but very specific Shia mosques at a very important day/time of Shia Islam.

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Taliban rebels kill 9 Afghan soldiers

Taliban rebels are taking responsibility for an ambush in southern Afghanistan that killed nine soldiers.

"Yes, the Taliban did this and we will launch more attacks against government and coalition forces," Mullah Latif Hakimi, who often speaks for the Taliban, told The Associated Press by telephone.

Friday, 25 February 2005 7:56 EST - CBC News

D.Lim: Muslims killing Muslims.

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9 peacekeepers killed in Congo

Last Updated Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:53:36 EST

CBC News

KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - At least nine United Nations peacekeeping troops from Bangladesh were killed in an ambush in northeastern Congo on Friday, a UN spokesman said.

D.Lim: Killing non-Christians and non-Westerners is no rarity in this Modern World. Killing is not just about Western invasion.

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Bomber rattles Mideast ceasefire

Feb. 26, 2005. 08:21 AM

TEL AVIV�A Palestinian suicide bomber carrying nine kilograms of explosives blew himself up in a crowd of young Israelis waiting outside a nightclub near Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade just before midnight yesterday, killing at least four other people, wounding dozens and shattering an informal Mideast truce.

D.Lim: Killings to destroy truce. Do Palestinians want peace? Can Palestinians afford peace?

Israel blames Syria for Tel Aviv blast

Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz is blaming Syria for Friday night's suicide bombing that killed four Israelis outside a Tel Aviv nightclub and shattered a two-week-old ceasefire.

Saturday, 26 February 2005 8:38 EST

D.Lim: Can Syrians keep peace and avoid bloodshed? Can Syrians love peace and love people? Can Syrians love Palestinians and Israelites?

SYRIA SAID TO TRAIN INSURGENTS IN BOMBS, EXECUTIONS

February 25, 2005

The Middle East Newsline reports: Syrian intelligence was said to have trained numerous Sunnis in abductions, executions and car bombings against the U.S.-led coalition and the interim government in Baghdad.

For the first time, Iraqi authorities have presented details of Syrian support for and sponsorship of insurgency groups as well as their attacks on the U.S. military and its Iraqi allies. Authorities have presented Syrian and Iraqi nationals who recalled their recruitment and training by Syrian intelligence for the anti-American operation in Iraq.

On Wednesday, Iraqi state television broadcast the confessions of nearly a dozen people who identified Syria as their employer in the insurgency in Iraq. The men included a purported Syrian intelligence officer and his aides recruited to infiltrate Iraq in a mission that reflected Syrian fear that it was also a target of the United States.

The Syrian-sponsored operatives said Syria and the Saddam Hussein regime planned the insurgency nearly two years before the war against Baghdad in March 2003. They said much of the training of the Syrian-sponsored insurgents took place in Pakistan?

D.Lim: Can Syrians keep peace and avoid bloodshed? Can Syrians love peace and love people? Can Syrians love Americans and Iraqis?

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Saddam tribunal judge, lawyer killed

An Iraqi judge and a lawyer working on the special tribunal to try Saddam Hussein were assassinated in Baghdad, as two car bombs killed at least 10 soldiers in other areas of the city.

Wednesday, 2 March 2005 4:47 EST � CBC News

Gunmen in a speeding car fired repeatedly at the pair as they were entering a vehicle outside their home.

FROM FEB. 28, 2005: At least 115 dead in Iraq suicide attack

D.Lim: Killing/murdering/assassomations taken as solution and strategy. How do Iraqis love their own natives?

5 killed in Iraqi car bombs

At least five Iraqi police officers were killed Thursday and several more were injured when two suicide car bombs exploded outside the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

Thursday, 3 March 2005 8:54 EST -CBC News

SUNNI INSURGENTS PULL OFF MOST LETHAL BLAST

March 2, 2005 �JVIM News

The Middle East Newsline reports: Sunni insurgents have carried out their single most lethal strike yet against a military target in Iraq.

A suicide car bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police and military recruits as they waited for a physical outside a clinic south of Baghdad. At least 125 people were killed in the bloodiest single strike in the insurgency war in Iraq.

The attack took place in Hilla a Shi'ite community about 100 kilometers south of Baghdad. Authorities said another 132 people were injured in a blast so powerful that investigators could find virtually no trace of the bomber or his vehicle. They said the only thing left of the bomber was a pair of hands on the steering wheel.

The only Iraqi insurgency attack that was more deadly was when 181 people were killed in multiple suicide bombings in Karbala in March 2004. The Hilla strike was said to have consisted of only one suicide bomber?

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Published on: Sunday, 11 Shaba´an 1422 (28 October 2001)

Pakistan Christian Congress condemns killings, accuses Sipah e Sahaba

New York, USA

Mr. Nazir S. Bhatti, President Pakistan Christian Congress

Nazir S Bhatti, President, Pakistan Christian Congress, has condemned the killing of Christian worshipers at St. Dominic Church, Bahawalpur during Sunday services.

The number of dead according to Mr. Bhatti is 20 while Bahawalpur police said 16 worshipers were killed.

In a statement sent to Shia News today, Mr. Bhatti said that Sipah e Sahaba, (the Wahabi organisation) is responsible for these killings as they have been the group behind all the blasphemy cases registered against Christians in Pakistan.

"The recent attack on Christian Sunday services in Bahawapur is in connection of "Fathwa"(religious decree) of killing two Christians to avenge the death of every Muslim killed in Afghanistan by the U.S led coalition," said Mr. Bhatti in his statement.

"We have appealed to the government of Pakistan to take notice of JUI and SSP leader's "Fathwas" and adopt necessary measures for security of life and property of Christians in Pakistan," he added.

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British worker killed in Kabul attack

A 41-year-old British man working in Afghanistan was shot and killed in downtown Kabul, police said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 8 March 2005 4:54 EST � CBC News

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Bali Bombing Cleric Draws Short Jail Term

The U.S. and Australian governments have reacted with dismay to the 30-month jail term handed down by an Indonesian court to a radical Islamic cleric who conspired in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks since 9/11. - GOPUSA News

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Iraqi forces find 41 bodies

Police in Iraq said Wednesday they have discovered the bodies of 41 people � some shot and some beheaded � in two different locations. It's believed some of the bodies are Iraqi soldiers.

Wednesday, 9 March 2005 5:16 EST - CBC News

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Mosque founder tied to terror group

Mar. 9, 2005. 06:22 AM � Toronto Star

He was a founding director of a Scarborough mosque and a doting father who brought his children to the park for picnics on weekends. Now he's been named as a key commander of a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda that's fighting against the Americans in Iraq.

Michelle Shephard and Tonda MacCharles report.

D.Lim: Peaceful Islam and Muslims in the West? The West being more civilized?

Islam being a peaceful religion when it is in the West?

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Attack Kills Thirty-Six, Displaces Thousands (Nigeria)

In an unprovoked attack, Islamic militants attacked a predominantly

Christian community in the village of Demsa, Adamawa in northern Nigeria.

According to a March 4 report by Compass Direct, thirty-six Christians were

killed and their property destroyed when their community was attacked on

February 4. Those who survived, around 3000, have fled for refuge to the

village of Mayolope in the neighbouring state of Taraba.

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Belgian police remove Iranian protestors from plane

Police in Brussels have removed a group of 56 passengers of Iranian origin, who had refused to leave an airplane until the world helped to overthrow Iran's Islamic regime.

Thursday, 10 March 2005 23:10 EST �CBC World News

D.Lim: Islam is not well loved even in the Middle East.

10s of thousands of Pakistanis also turning to Christ.

Islam could not rule over the Middle East(Islamic World) if terrorism is not in place.

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CHRISTIAN CONVERT GETS MUSLIM DEATH THREAT

March 12, 2005

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “A Muslim convert to Christianity who discusses his faith with Muslims on a popular Internet chat site has received a death threat.

The threat posted on the New York-based site PalTalk came after a WorldNetDaily column published the man's name and comments on the slaying of four members of a New Jersey Coptic Christian family, reported the weblog Jihad Watch.

The message is similar to others aimed at a number of Christians who are tracked systematically by a radical Islamic website, barsomyat.com.

The target of the threat, Ahmed Mohamed, a convert to the Coptic Christian Church, uses the moniker ‘Ahmed_love_Jesus?on PalTalk.

The message sent March 6 reads:

Know this, Ahmed_love_Jesus, we tracked you and being in America will not help you. Your blood is lawful and we will kill you soon.

If you were with me I would have killed you.

I will know where you are and kill you someday.

Ahmed_Love_Jesus, by the life of your mother's [obscenity deleted], your blood is lawful. We know where you are in America and we will slaughter you like the lamb that you worship.

A WND column March 1 by Maria Sliwa said Mohamed was one of the targeted Christians whose photo and contact information were posted on barsomyat.com because he debated Muslims on PalTalk.

Mohamed told Sliwa that while sometimes afraid, he is prepared to die for his faith?

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Terrorists Threaten Revenge After Leaders Killed in Prison Uprising - GOPUSA

An al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group in the Philippines has vowed to avenge the deaths of three of its leaders, who were among 22 detainees killed Tuesday as government forces ended a 29-hour uprising in a maximum security prison.

D.Lim: Blood thirsty desire and acts. Terrorism is not about the weak or/and helpless against the strong and powerful. Terrorism is about terror, evil, wickedness, deceit, and darkness.

Terrorists live under the education, life-style, institution and protection of Islam.

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Bomb at Shia shrine in Pakistan kills 24

Pakistan has also been troubled over the years by sectarian violence � mostly between rival majority Sunni and minority Shia extremists. � CBC News 19-3-05

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Fighting 'Occupation' Does Not Legitimize Terrorism, Annan Says

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for an international treaty banning terrorism on Thursday, dashing the hopes of those in the Arab-Muslim world who believe that violent Palestinian actions against Israel should be exempt from any definition of terrorism. � CNS News

D.Lim: First of all, there are Arab-Muslims who believe in terrorism as legitimate way of achieving victory, even honor and respect. They have not been ousted by other Muslims who claim to be peaceful.

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Are Muslims evil? Wicked?

Are Muslims evil according to the Word of God?

Some Muslims think of themselves not evil by not adhering to the Holy Bible.

Some Humanists think of Biblical Christians as evil by their own definition of "evil", not according to the Holy Bible.

We show our true color by our adherence.

Biblical Christians do not recognise any other book apart from Holy Scriptures(The Holy Bible, the Word of God) as revelation and the law of God/Yhwh ElShaddai.

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If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Jesus the Christ called/identified His disciples as evil. Even His followers whose sins are washed clean by His merit. So, non-believers, even non-Christians are evil, according to His Word(The Holy Bible).

If you think of mankind profiled by Holy Scriptures, you have to consider them evil. Only God is Holy(set apart).

If you feel or know that you are lacking, ask of God with persistence. The Father in Heaven gives good things. God can give the peace(shalom) of God. No other can.

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Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. �KJV

2John v9: Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

v10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.

v11 Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work. - NIV

2John v9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

v10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,

v11 for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works. � ESV

D.Lim: Obviously Mohammad of any kind or any one is not Christ/HaMessiah/Christus.

Work of Anti-Christians is known as wicked work. So, according to Scripture, the work of Muslims is wicked work. The work of Humanists is wicked work. Biblical Christians are not appealing to the wicked work of UN for truth or righteousness or holiness.

Some Muslims appeal to Liberal Christians to support their view. According to this scripture, Liberals are also evil and wicked.

This is a clear line that cannot be crossed or neglected. The Bible is not an opened book to addition.

D.Lim: According to this Scripture, Muslims and Islam do not have God/Jehovah Almighty. They are a different religion, a different way(excluded from the Way and the Life and the Truth.).

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Canadian tortured for days, says Iranian doctor

The massive injuries suffered by Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi while in Iranian custody were so disturbing to the doctor who examined her that he felt compelled to flee the country to expose what happened.

Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:05 EST - CBC News

Kazemi brutally tortured, MD says

Mar. 31, 2005. 05:33 PM � Toronto Star

OTTAWA � A former Iranian army doctor spoke with clinical coolness today as he methodically recounted a tally of bruises, broken bones and other injuries he says could only have been the result of the deliberate torture and rape of Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi.

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ABBAS BACKS DOWN FROM INSURGENCY CRACKDOWN - Apr3, 2005 JVIM

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KORAN SCHOLAR: U.S. WILL CEASE TO EXIST IN 2007 � Apr1, 2005 JVIM

D.Lim: Tsunami hit Islamic settlement in Indonesia and Buddhist Thai resort/settlement at the end of 2004. Act/judgement of God? Aftershock in early 2005 also killed thousands. More judgement and warning?

A foretaste of judgement of God on Muslims and Islamic communities?

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UNKNOWN ISLAMIC GROUP CLAIMS CAIRO BOMBING - April 11, 2005 JVIM

D.Lim: So much we do not know, and have not yet heard of.

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SAUDIS ARREST 40 CHRISTIANS FOR PRAYING

April 25, 2005 - JVIM

Reuters reports: Saudi Arabia has detained 40 Pakistani Christians for holding prayers at a house in the Muslim kingdom, where practicing any religion other than Islam is illegal, newspapers said on Saturday.

A group of men, women and children were attending the service in the capital Riyadh when police raided the house, Al Jazirah newspaper said.

It said authorities also found Christian tapes and books.

Another Saudi daily, Al Yaum, said the raid took place on Friday while a Pakistani preacher was delivering a sermon. It was not clear what measures might be taken against the group.

Saudi authorities were not immediately available to comment.

There are around six million foreigners in the conservative kingdom, which has a population of 23 million, including many Christians from Europe, North America, Asia and other Arab states.

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Teenage Christian Barely Escapes Death

at the Hands of Her Own Family!

Brought to you by The Voice of the Martyrs � 5-5-05

Dianaís face must remain hidden for her own protection Diana grew up in a strict Islamic family in Pakistan. Her life was pretty typical until she met a girl named Mary who was a Christian. Now Diana is also a Christian and on the run.

When Diana's family learned that she had become a Christian, they repeatedly beat her and insisted she return to Islam. But Diana refused. She was then forced to a local canal where her uncle put a pistol to her head and gave her one last chance to return to Islam. Diana replied, "You can kill me if you want. I will not leave Christ."

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OFFICIAL PA SERMON: MUSLIMS WILL RULE AMERICA

May 18, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “An Islamic preacher on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority gave a fiery sermon broadcast on PA television in which he vowed Muslims would rule America and called Jews an AIDS-like virus that will soon be finished off.

‘Allah has tormented us with 'the people most hostile to the believers' ?the Jews,?said Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris in his Friday sermon, which is viewable on the Middle East Media Research Institute website.

Mudeiris said that with the establishment of the state of Israel, ‘the entire Islamic nation was lost, because Israel is a cancer spreading through the body of the Islamic nation, and because the Jews are a virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers.

‘You will find that the Jews were behind all the civil strife in this world. The Jews are behind the suffering of the nations. Mudeiris then recounted how nations have tortured and driven out Jews over the centuries, insisting it was deserved in each case due to provocation. He referred to Britain in the sixth century, France at the time of Louis XIX, Portugal, Czarist Russia and finally Nazi Germany.

‘It was the Jews who provoked Nazism to wage war against the entire world, when the Jews, using the Zionist movement, got other countries to wage an economic war on Germany and to boycott German merchandise,?he said. ‘They provoked Russia, Britain, France and Italy. This enraged the Germans toward the Jews, leading to the events of those days, which the Jews commemorate today. The sheik said Jews are committing ‘worse deeds than those done to them in the Nazi war. They have inflated their suffering, he said, ‘in order to win over the media and gain the world's sympathy. Mudeiris said Allah has made all of the great superpowers in the past disappear, and ‘he who made them disappear will make America disappear too, God willing. He who made Russia disappear overnight is capable of making America disappear and fall, Allah willing.

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EGYPT MAINTAINS PLANS FOR ATTACK ON ISRAEL

May 18, 2005 - JVIM

The Middle East Newsline reports: “Egypt has been the only Arab state that has maintained plans to attack Israel, a senior Israeli parliamentarian says.

Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said Egypt has been developing its military in an effort to ensure capability to attack Israel. Steinitz said Egypt's operational plans and exercises have focused on striking Israel.

‘Egypt is the only country in the region that is preparing for the possibility of a military confrontation with Israel,?Steinitz said.

Steinitz, whose committee obtains weekly briefings by Israel's military intelligence, said Egypt has developed or procured missiles that could strike Israeli military and civilian targets. He said the Egyptian targets include Israeli air force bases?

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EGYPTIAN CHRISTIAN HELD IN MENTAL HOSPITAL

May 24, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “Doctors in a Cairo mental hospital are holding an Egyptian Christian against his will, telling the man he'll be a permanent resident there until he recants his faith and returns to Islam, reports a leading monitor of Christian persecution.

Reminiscent of the tactics of Communists in the USSR who put dissidents in mental hospitals, the forced stay, according to Voice of the Martyrs, has been in effect since January. At that time, the adoptive parents of Gaser Mohammed Mahmoud, 30, committed him to the El-Khanka Hospital after learning he had converted from Islam to Christianity two years earlier.

Reports Voice of the Martyrs:

‘The hospital medical committee placed Mahmoud under the care of a female physician identified only as Dr. Nevine, whom sources describe as a 'fanatic Muslim.' Since his forced confinement, Mahmoud has reportedly endured beatings, whippings and potentially fatal injections.

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Free Korans for the American People

An Islamic civil rights group is launching a Koran giveaway -- a campaign intended to turn a "negative incident into something more positive," it said. � GOPUSA 26-5-05

D.Lim: Such group have not recognised and fought for equality in Islamic environment, advocating free Bibles for all Muslim and Islamic people.

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PM lauds Palestinian leader

May. 28, 2005. 08:26 AM � Toronto Star

OTTAWA � Prime Minister Paul Martin issued an unequivocal condemnation of Hamas, the Palestinian militant organization, yesterday after his meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Graham Fraser reports.

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Japan tries to confirm Internet claim that kidnapped worker killed in Iraq

Kenji Hall - Canadian Press

Saturday, May 28, 2005

TOKYO (AP) - Japan's government said Saturday it was trying to verify whether a photo of a dead Asian man posted on the Internet was that of a Japanese security worker kidnapped in Iraq, but acknowledged the difficulty of doing that before examining the man's body.

Late Friday, the Japanese news agency Kyodo said a Web site reportedly operated by the Sunni militant group Ansar al-Sunnah Army claimed that Japanese hostage Akihiko Saito had died. Kyodo said the group had posted pictures of the bloodied victim.

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Church Sign Endangers Christian Minorities

In the internet age, signs on an obscure church building can have global repercussions.

by Dr. Anthony McRoy | posted 05/26/2005 09:00 a.m.

Muslim leaders have protested a sign outside the Danieltown Baptist Church in North Carolina reading 'The Koran needs to be flushed', reflecting the recent outrage over allegations that U.S. military personnel in Guantanamo desecrated a Qur'an by flushing it down a toilet. The report led to riots and deaths in Muslim countries. Coming so soon after the Newsweek debacle, and though pastor, Creighton Lovelace has since apologized, it is quite likely that this sign could lead to Christians in Muslim lands being attacked�perhaps fatally.

Muslims have a saying: 'Kill me, but do not mock my faith.' In Islamic jurisprudence, blasphemy is considered a capital crime, and the laws of states such as Pakistan reflect this. Muslims around the world will feel this sign is an attack on their honor, and in Muslim cultures honor can only be avenged with blood. Inevitably local Christians in Iraq and Pakistan, missionaries, and anyone with white skin will be considered fair game, as will church buildings. Zarqawi's group in Iraq beheaded their first captive immediately after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. In the eyes of Muslims, this is even worse. And though Muslims are responsible for their actions, including violence, Christians need not provoke such behavior, even when seen as unjustified.

D.Lim: Lacking tolerance and righteousness and help from God, Muslims like(resort to) violence, murder and other forms of terrorism. The god of Islam seemingly has no power protecting Islamic matters peacefully.

D.Lim: Christians speaking the truth is regarded by secular people(including evil-doers) to be blasphemous and provocative. Christians however need/have to witness for/to the Truth for Christ/Yhwh. Light and justice is not to be hidden and covered by evil worldly forces.

"Christians often ask themselves, 'What would Jesus do?'" said Council on American-Islamic Relations National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. "I don't think Jesus, who is loved by Muslims and mentioned frequently in the Qur'an, would use such hate-filled and divisive rhetoric." A leading British Sunni Muslim informed me that he had already been contacted by a number of British Muslims who were "very emotional" about the church sign. A leading U.K. Shia Muslim expressed confidence that evangelicals would publicly dissociate themselves from such bigotry.

D.Lim: Jesus spoke out against evil-doers even when evil-doers were worshippers of God/Yhwh in the eyes of the World. Jesus did not hold back telling the Truth. Jesus is not mentioned in the Koran as claimed and believed by so many. Yeshua/Jesus is not mentioned in the Koran at all. A figure called "Isa" is used by Islamic people to counterfeit Jesus Christ. A figure that does not speak as God or for God. A figure that cannot resurrect. A figure who did not commission the apostles bringing thousands upon thousands to happiness and freedom from sin, and personal relationship with the Father. Also, "The Father" is not mentioned in the Koran.

How often telling the truth is regarded as hatred. Christians ought to hate sin and falsehood. Yet telling the truth about sin and falsehood is not expressing hatred. Christians are the light of the World.

In our global village, with internet connections, a sign can go up in some obscure U.S. town in the morning, and by evening Britons will be aware of it, and we can be sure that within a few days Muslims in Islamic countries will respond. While it is essential to be adamant for the uniqueness of Jesus and the Bible, there surely is no place for inflammatory language�especially when it damages the gospel message, and endangers human lives.

Dr Anthony McRoy is Lecturer in Islamics at the Evangelical Theological College of Wales, is a regular contributor to Muslim periodicals such as Q-News and Muslim Weekly, and a frequent guest on Iranian TV. He is presently writing a book about Islamic radicalism in the UK, and is an expert on jihad and martyrdom, recently lecturing at a university on 'The Jihad of Al-Qaida'.

D.Lim: In Muslim countries, Christians are being run down as second class citizens in colonies, praying and healing many sick and needy who would come for prayers. Christians speak the Truth and Love with Power, patience, and kindness. The power of the Name of Jesus is expressed with holiness and righteousness; relieving ancieties, pains and sufferings. The power of the name of "Isa" has not been reported of having such positive healing aspect/power.

Come to Christ for healing and liberation, people. The Sacred Name of Jesus/Yeshua can break bonds of Satan, evil spirits and sin.

Unload your burdens before Jesus the Christ/Messiah.

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SAUDI RELIGIOUS POLICE ARREST 8 CHRISTIANS

June 2, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “Saudi Arabia's religious police arrested eight Christians, including one who was beaten in front of his 5-year-old son, according to a Washington, D.C.-based human rights group?p>The Muslim kingdom bars all public expression of religion, except for its strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. No church buildings are allowed, and religious police crack down at times on worship in private homes.

At least one of the prisoners arrested Saturday has been abused -- forced to continuously stand -- and was beaten with his hands bound behind his back?p>Last September, for the first time, the U.S. State Department named Saudi Arabia a ‘country of particular concern,?subjecting it to possible sanctions for egregious and ongoing violations of religious freedom.

But the State Department has extended the deadline for deciding on an appropriate penalty more than two months?p>The State Department's annual report says that in Saudi Arabia ‘religious freedom does not exist?and non-Muslim ‘worshippers risk arrest, imprisonment, lashing, deportation and sometimes torture for engaging in religious activity that attracts official attention.

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US WARNS OF POSSIBLE TERRORIST ATTACKS IN INDONESIA

June 3, 2005 - JVIM

Voice of America News reports: “The United States has warned Americans in Indonesia of a threat by terrorists to attack hotels frequented by Westerners in Jakarta.

The U.S. Embassy in the Indonesian capital issued a security alert Friday, saying it had learned of plans to strike at noon on an unspecified date, although the nature of the attack was not known.

The warning contained no more details. It follows the shutdown of U.S. diplomatic facilities for four days last week after receipt of an unspecified threat.

Militant members of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group are active in the region. They have been blamed for the Bali nightclub bombings and other deadly attacks on Jakarta's Marriott hotel and the Australian Embassy in the past three years?

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CHRISTIANS JAILED AMID SAUDI DENIAL OF PERSECUTION

June 10, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “Saudi Arabian officials, after denying allegations that the Kingdom arrests and tortures religious believers, released five Christians arrested in connection to a house church while three remain in custody.

The men released Wednesday, all citizens of India, are Nediyakalayil Daniel Samuel, Koilpillai Vijayakumar, Moothenpackal Mathai Thomas, George Mathew and Biju Thomas, according to International Christian Concern, a Washington, D.C.-based monitor of persecution?p>According to ICC sources, at least one of the prisoners was abused -- forced to continuously stand -- and was beaten with his hands bound behind his back?p>In Saudi Arabia, public expression of any faith other than the Wahhabi interpretation of Sunni Islam is illegal?

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Kashmiri Woman Escapes Her Kidnappers Twice

Nargis (22) is a Christian worker in the predominantly Muslim area of

Kashmir, India. According to Asia Harvest, she was kidnapped five weeks

ago. When her friends heard no news from her, they began to fear for the

worst. On June 8, however, coworkers received a phone call from her saying

she had managed to escape. She said that her captors had produced false

documents claiming she had married one of them. She gave them her location.

Her family rushed to get her, only to find out that she had been captured

again. Ten days later, the family received notice that she had escaped for

a second time and was making her way to a safe location. �VOM 22-6-05

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IRAN URGES WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC REVOLT

July 1, 2005 - JVIM

The Middle East Newsline reports: “Iran's president-elect has called for an Islamic revolution throughout the world.

In the first such statement by an Iranian president in nearly 20 years, Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his election would mark what he termed a new Islamic revolution. Ahmadinejad said such a revolution would spread throughout the world.

‘Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world,?Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official Iranian news agency as saying. ‘The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached its end.?p>It was the first time since his June 24 election that Ahmadinejad outlined Iran's policy to export Islamic insurgency. The Teheran mayor has served as a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and has been identified as a suspect in the killing of Kurdish dissidents in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

D.Lim: Christians serve the Lord Jesus/Yeshua Christ by reaching out to sinners/unsaved everywhere preaching redemption, forgiveness, love and peace. This is viewed as injustice and bad/evil by murderers, terrorists, non-Christian fanatics and revolutioneries.

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Jul. 6, 2005 18:08 | Updated Jul. 6, 2005 21:42

J'lem Arab turns himself in for murder

By ETGAR LEFKOVITS

A 29-year-old Jerusalem Arab was under arrest Wednesday for allegedly strangling two of his sisters to death and trying to kill a third in the name of family honor.

Maher Shakirat, of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jebl Mukaber, turned himself in to police Tuesday, after hiding out in the Palestinian-run West Bank for the last two months.

The two women, aged 20 and 27, were found strangled to death in their east Jerusalem home on May 2 shortly after the victims' father had reported the murders to police.

A third sister who survived a strangulation attempt was hospitalized, and has since recovered.

The attacker then fled the scene, and remained at large until giving himself up to police this week.

The suspect, who was remanded Wednesday by seven days at the Jerusalem Magistrate's court, has confessed to carrying out the attack, police said.

The parents and wife of the suspected murderer were arrested immediately after the attack, and have since been indicted on charges of assisting a murder.

In largely conservative Arab societies, where the male is clearly the domineering force, Arab women who commit adultery or other "unpardonable" acts often face violent retribution by their direct family members seeking to purify the blemish they feel has been wrought on their family.

In such cases, the male family members often take the law in their own hands, going so far as to kill their own relatives in an effort to cleanse their name.

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MUSLIM SCHOLAR: KILLING CIVILIANS OK

July 12, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “Responding to questions about the terrorist attack on London, a Muslim scholar in the British capital asserted Islam makes no distinction between civilians and military targets.

‘The term 'civilians' does not exist in Islamic religious law,?said Hani Al-Siba'i, head of the Al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies in London.

Al-Siba'i, in an interview with the Arab news channel al-Jazeera, elaborated, ‘There is no such term as 'civilians' in the modern Western sense. People are either of Dar Al-Harb or not.?p>Dar Al-Harb refers to the Muslim concept of the world being divided into two ‘houses,?the House of Islam and the remaining territories, the House of War, or Dar Al-Harb.

Al-Siba'i speculated that a Western nation could have been responsible for the attack, but he acknowledged it could have been carried out by Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization, according to a transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.

‘If al-Qaida indeed carried out this act, it is a great victory for it,?he said. ‘It rubbed the noses of the world's eight most powerful countries in the mud.??/p>

D.Lim: Islam does not demonstrate itself to be stronger by terrorist attacks or by affirmation of Koranic law. The G8 could have removed all Muslims from the Earth if they had laws or rules of Islamic nature. If the G8 makes no distinction of targets and have justified killing all opposition, Muslim would have died in millions upon millions. Mercy and kindness are Godly and not weakness. Compassion and love of the non-Islamic World is much more abundant than of the Islamic World and teaching. Allah is great? Jehovah God is Great! The Church is Great; showing mercy and love to others. Winning with love and not terror.

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PALESTINIAN TV SERMON CALLS FOR GENOCIDE

July 15, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “Less than a day after the terrorist bombings in London, the Palestinian Authority's official television channel broadcast a sermon calling for extermination of all non-Muslims.

‘Annihilate the Infidels and the Polytheists! Your [Allah's] enemies are the enemies of the religion!?said Suleiman Al-Satari in a July 8 broadcast translated by Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch, or PMW.

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Muslim leaders in call for action

Britain's top Muslims condemn the London suicide bombings as "utterly criminal and absolutely un-Islamic". � BBC News 16-5-05

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SAUDIS ALLOWED TO FUND AL QAIDA

July 18, 2005 - JVIM

The Middle East Newsline reports: “The United States has determined that Saudi Arabia continues to allow citizens to finance Al Qaida, including its insurgency campaign in Iraq.

U.S. officials said that despite numerous appeals the Saudi kingdom has not arrested financiers of Al Qaida or related groups. They said the kingdom has also failed to freeze the assets of leading Saudi financiers of Islamic insurgency groups.

‘Wealthy Saudi financiers and charities have funded terrorist organizations and causes that support terrorism and the ideology that fuels the terrorists' agenda,?Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey said. ‘Even today, we believe that Saudi donors may still be a significant source of terrorist financing, including for the insurgency in Iraq.?p>It was the first time a senior Bush administration official asserted that Saudi nationals have been financing the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Over the last two years, the Bush administration has blamed Syria for the flow of insurgents and funding into Iraq?

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25,000 Iraqi civilians killed: Report

Jul. 19, 2005. 06:47 AM � Toronto Star

Nearly 25,000 Iraqi civilians have died violently in the two years since the United States led an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein � more than half of them at the hands of fellow Iraqis, says a report released today by a British think-tank. Olivia Ward reports.

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Britain Is Among the Infidels:

"America, Britain, and Spain...are uniting to strike at the people of truth [i.e. Muslims] in their homeland. This is the infidels' way, oh Muslims...the United Nations, to our regret, has become Dar al-Nadwa [literally 'House of Assembly,' the term for the pre-Islamic meeting place in Mecca], because that is where the infidels meet" (Ibrahim Mudayris, PA TV, February 28, 2003).

"The infidel countries under the leadership of the US made up an excuse and justification to wage their dirty war [post 9-11 war in Afghanistan] against Islam and the Muslims...Concerning evil Britain, which directly brought about this corrupt entity [Israel] on Palestinian land, Britain forgot that it is the height of terror and the height of hatred against Islam and Muslims" (Yusuf Abu Sneina, Iman of Al-Aqsa Mosque, PA Radio, December 28, 2001).

Prayers to Allah to Destroy Britain:

Dr. Ikrime Sabri, Mufti of Jerusalem, highest-ranking Islamic figure in the PA, just 18 days before the September 11 attacks against America in 2001: "Oh, Allah, destroy America and its supporters and collaborators. Oh Allah, destroy Britain and its supporters and collaborators" (Ikrime Sabri, PA Radio, August 24, 2001).

"It is our obligation to prepare for the soldiers of Allah who are advancing in the will of Allah, glorified and praised. We will prepare a foothold for them. Allah willing, this oppressive state will disappear, the oppressive state Israel. The oppressive country America will disappear. The oppressive country Britain will disappear�those who caused our people's catastrophe [PA term for the establishment of Israel]" (Muhammad Ibrahim Maadi, PA TV, June 8, 2001).

"We shall rule Britain. The ultimate victory is predetermined. The Palestinian nation is the strongest on earth. Look at all the civilizations! Look at all the states! Look at all the civilizations and forces and empires. To where did Great Britain disappear? We [Muslims] have ruled the world and a day will come, by Allah, and we shall rule the world [again]. The day will come and we shall rule America. The day will come and we shall rule Britain" (Ibrahim Mudayris, PA TV, May 13, 2005).

Britain Hated Because of Israel's Existence:

"Those [Jews] do not know what a homeland is and do not know what a land is...Concerning Palestine, it belongs to us...They came, expelled from every land, came to this land from every country and claimed to have a national homeland on the land of Palestine with the help of Britain. That vengeance still stands between us and them; [a vengeance] that will not be forgotten except by a coward or traitor" (Ibrahim Mudayris, PA TV, April 4, 2004).

"In 1917 of the previous century, Palestine was conquered by Britain, on whom we place full responsibility for the events in this land. At this opportunity, we put the responsibility on Britain [for the creation of the state of Israel] and say: We will never forget our revenge! We will never forget our revenge on Britain, who cannot escape the burden of its historical, political, and moral responsibility because of what it committed on the land of Palestine... Britain [is the one] that promised them [i.e. Jews] the establishment of a national homeland on the land of Palestine. Why? Because Britain resented the Jewish presence there, in Britain, and wanted to be relieved of them" (Ibrahim Mudayris, PA TV, May 13, 2005).

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Militant Muslims in Nigeria have pronounced a death sentence on a Christian

family in Ikorodu, Lagos state, Nigeria. The 57-year-old father, Emma

Osagie, was also recently assaulted. At various times, each member of the family

has been assaulted by the militants. The police have been informed but have

taken no action.

Unlike twelve other Nigerian states, however, Lagos state is not ruled by Sharia law.

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In May, the Persecution and Prayer Alert reported on the arrest of three

Indonesian women for attempting to convert Muslim children to Christianity.

According to updates received from VOMC sources in Indonesia, the trial has

been chaotic as masses of people have gathered around the courthouse,

calling for a jihad and threatening to kill Christians. � VOM 27-7-05

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IRA ends armed rebellion

Jul. 28, 2005. 08:54 AM � Toronto Star

The Irish Republican Army announced today it will renounce violence and resume disarmament in a dramatic declaration designed to revive Northern Ireland�s peace process. The IRA said all of its clandestine units have been ordered to place their weapons in arms dumps and cease all activities, effective at 11 a.m. (EDT), but would not formally disband.

D.Lim: Armed struggle can end.

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IRAN'S NEW PRESIDENT PROMOTES SUICIDE SQUADS

July 30, 2005 � JVIM News

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “In the second TV appearance since his election victory, Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad spoke in praise of ‘the art of martyrdom?as volunteers continued to mobilize for suicide squads aimed at U.S., British and Israeli forces.

The day after the appearance, the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a report about the new leader's spiritual advisor, Ayatollah Mohammad Misbach Yazdi, who told Iranians how to volunteer for the regime-sponsored ‘martyrdom squads,?according to the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.

The report mentioned an Iranian women's volunteer group dedicated to carrying out martyrdom operations against U.S., British, and Israeli forces.

The subject of Iranian martyrdom seekers also was the topic of a recent program on Al-Arabiya TV.

In Ahmadi-Nejad's July 25 segment on Iranian Channel 1, he praised martyrdom operations and declared Islam will conquer the world.

Referring to martyrdom, he said, ‘We want art that is on the offensive. Art on the offensive exalts and defends the noble principles, and attacks principles that are corrupt, vulgar, ungodly, and inhuman.?p>The president elect declared, ‘Art reaches perfection when it portrays the best life and best death. After all, art tells you how to live. That is the essence of art. Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal than the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those who wish to undermine this principle undermine the foundations of our independence and national security. They undermine the foundation of our eternity.?p>Ahmadi-Nejad said, ‘The message of the [Islamic] revolution is global and is not restricted to a specific place or time. It is a human message, and it will move forward.

‘Have no doubt ... Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.?p>The spiritual adviser Yazdi called on the Iranian people to volunteer for an Iranian organization of martyrs?

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Fundamentalist won't condemn bombs

Loud voices filled the hall outside the sparsely furnished office of one of the country's most controversial imams just before afternoon prayers yesterday. � National Post 30-7-05 by Isabel Vincent - Saturday, July 30, 2005

But Imam Aly Hindy was not arguing about CSIS, Islamist terrorism or U.S. President George W. Bush -- the subjects that have lately thrust him into the national media spotlight.

"It's the driveway," said one of his bearded attendants, almost apologetically. "We're dealing with the contractors over the price."

Dr. Hindy, who has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Western Ontario, presides over the Salaheddin Islamic Centre, a fundamentalist mosque and school, some of whose former congregants are suspected of having links to al-Qaeda.

Dr. Hindy is at turns solicitous and somewhat evasive when answering questions, and he is no stranger to controversy. Last week, he publicly criticized CSIS and earned the enmity of many of his fellow imams across the country by refusing to join them in a collective statement denouncing the terrorist attacks in London. He was also shut out of a meeting with Prime Minister Paul Martin, who met on Thursday with the imams who signed the declaration.

"Why should we sign a declaration against terrorism when it is obvious that we don't support it?" he asked. "The statement is implying that we bear some guilt for what happened in London, which is simply not true."

Earlier this week, Dr. Hindy told an interviewer for the CBC that the London attacks might have been part of a plot by the United States.

"I'm really wondering how come this terrorist attack happened just exactly before the Congress debated renewing the Patriot Act," he said.

The comment, which was condemned by many of his fellow imams, won praise with others in the Muslim community.

"He's consistent," says Tariq Fatah, a spokesman for the Canadian Muslim Congress. "He has integrity and he sticks to what he's saying."

Dr. Hindy took over the Salaheddin mosque in Toronto in 1997. He is clearly proud of the modest two-storey complex that he helped to design in a down-at-heels section of Toronto's ethnically diverse suburb of Scarborough.

He says the recently paved driveway is just the latest improvement at the mosque, which is the spiritual home of 2,500 fundamentalist Muslims, and since Sept. 11, 2001, the centre of intense scrutiny by CSIS agents who have monitored several of the congregants for their links to al-Qaeda and other extremist groups.

The mosque's most infamous member was Ahmed Said Khadr, an Egyptian-born Canadian and one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted lieutenants. Khadr was killed in Pakistan in October, 2003, but members of his family who have lately returned to Canada attend services at the mosque.

Yesterday, one of Khadr's daughters, clad in a black hijab that permitted only her eyes to show, walked purposely through the mosque's green and white halls, accompanied by a little girl. Another daughter, Zaynab Khadr, who had her laptop seized by CSIS agents when she returned to Canada this year, occasionally does volunteer work at the Salaheddin mosque.

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Church Desecration Video Serves as Jihad Fund-Raiser

A violent video showing the desecration of a church and the murder of a Serbian soldier is one of many "jihad" videos currently making the rounds in Western countries to raise funds for Muslim terrorists, according to counter-terrorism experts interviewed by Cybercast News Service. � GOPUSA 11-8-05

Pakistan Tests First Cruise Missile

Pakistan said Thursday it had successfully test-fired its first ground-launched cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. � GOPUSA 11-8-05

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Churches Closed in West Java, Indonesia

Since the beginning of August, the Persecution and Prayer Alert has reported

on a series of churches closed in West Java. An August 16 report from

Jubilee Campaign recounts a series of closures in communities around the

city of Bandung. On Sunday, August 14, members of the militant Islamic

cleric organization, the Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI), entered eight

churches in the village of Cimahi and ordered them to close. In each case,

a sizable number of militants entered the church, marched to the front and

forced the pastor to sign a letter agreeing to the closure. They then

forced the members out of the building. Two days earlier, a church and a

Christian kindergarten school were closed in Turwakarta. During the

previous week, eight churches in Cileunyi were also forced to close. These

incidents bring the total number of closed churches to thirty-five since the

end of July. According to Colonel Andy Krisna, a retired police officer

from Jakarta who led the raids on August 14, the churches were closed

because they lacked permits. However, such permits require the approval of

neighbours and the MUI has prevented the approval through threats of

violence. � VOM 17-8-05

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The destruction of 150 church buildings and the simultaneous construction of

200 mosques may reveal a significant threat if Kosovo is granted full

independence, claims a former U.S. diplomat, Thomas Patrick Melady.

According to an August 15 report from Cybercast News Service (CNS), ethnic

Albanians, most of the Muslim, are carrying on a campaign against Christians

in the U.N. Protectorate, with substantial funds from "Wahhabist nations."

CNS has obtained a video of the destruction of one Orthodox Church, St.

Andrew the Apostle Church in Podujevo. A link to this video can be found at

http://www.persecution.net/news/kosovo2.html.

Other video footage showing the desecration of an Orthodox Church in September 1995 is being used as part of a fundraiser for a Jihad, calling on Muslims to kill Serbs.

An edited segment of the video is available from CNS at

http://www.cnsnews.com/video/2005/9509ChurchDesecration.wmv.

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Iranian lay pastor, Hamid Pourmand remains in a Tehran prison, convicted of

deceiving the Iranian Army about his conversion to Christianity in 1980. He

was sentenced to three years in prison and was dismissed from the army.

According to Middle East Concern, Pourmand is facing pressure in the prison

to return to Islam. � VOM 17-8-05

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"The greatest need of the church in mission is to reflect biblically and thereafter act upon that reflection." - Christopher R. Little entitled "Mission in the Way of Paul: Biblical Mission for the Church in the Twenty-first Century" (Peter Lang Publishing, 2005).

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British Survey Should Be Cause For Concern

August 1, 2005

by Glenn Penner

This past week, Britain's Daily Telegraph released the results of a YouGov survey of British Muslims that the newspaper claimed were "at once reassuring and disturbing, in some ways even alarming." I understand the "alarming" and "disturbing" parts; I fail to see how this survey can be the least bit "reassuring" however.

For example, six per cent of those Muslims surveyed insisted that the London bombings on July 7th were "fully justified". As the Daily Telegraph noted, "six per cent may seem a small proportion but in absolute numbers it amounts to about 100,000 individuals who, if not prepared to carry out terrorist acts, are ready to support those who do."

Of course, there will be those who will point out in response that the survey also showed that the vast majority of British Muslims (88 percent) feel that such attacks are "not justified at all" or "on balance, not justified". But let us not forget that another six per cent said that they "did not know" if the bombings were justified. Throughout this survey, the number of respondents who replied to questions that they "did not know" is high. Generally, such a response is a means of hedging an unexpressed answer that is known to be unflattering or potentially harmful.

The survey also noted that 24 percent of those surveyed said that they "had some sympathy with the feelings and motives of those who carried them out." Another six percent said that they "did not know."

YouGov also asked whether or not its Muslim respondents agreed or disagreed with Tony Blair's description of the ideas and ideology of the London bombers as "perverted and poisonous". Again, while a large majority, 58 percent, agree with the British Prime Minister, a substantial minority, 26 percent, are reluctant to be so dismissive. In addition, eighteen percent say that they have little or no loyalty toward Great Britain, with the proportion of men who say they feel no loyalty to Britain being more than three times the proportion of women saying the same.

Now, some will accuse me of focusing on the negative aspects of this survey, pointing out that the majority of British Muslims are obviously opposed to the actions and motives of those who commit acts of terror in the name of Islam. Astonishingly, however, it should be noted that only 40 percent of those surveyed actually believed that the bombers were Muslims at all. Thirty-four percent said that they did not believe that they were Muslims and twenty-six percent said that they "did not know".

This is clear illustration of what I mentioned in my weblog last week, of the continuing hesitation on the part of western Muslims to face up to the fact that this present terrorism is a problem within Islam. Muslims who consider themselves moderates must begin to acknowledge it openly and assume responsibility to effectively deal with it, both publicly and privately. This is not going to be easy. The survey also noted that only just over half of British Muslims (54 percent) surveyed would support a law making it easier to deport any imam from abroad who would preach hatred against the West. Thirty-six percent denied that there even were any such imams in Great Britain. Alarmingly, only 66 percent felt that British Muslims had a responsibility to prevent such crimes as the London bombings and to help bring to justice those who commit them. Twenty-four percent felt that British Muslims had little or no such responsibility.

Personally, if I lived in Britain today, with its large and growing Muslim population, I would find little reassurance in the fact that there are potentially hundred of thousands of Muslim men, in particular, who sympathise with the London bombers, who feel little or no loyalty to the country, who believe that they have little or no responsibility to prevent such crimes and who believe that the killing of innocent people is entirely justified. It only took four of them on July 7th.

(Glenn Penner is the Communications Director for The Voice of the Martyrs in Canada)

(Note: a copy of the YouGov survey can be found online at http://www.yougov.com/archives/pdf/TEL050101030_1.pdf )

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QUIET BANGLADESH WOKEN BY BOMBS

August 18, 2005

The Christian Science Monitor reports: “Some 300 small bombs rocked cities across Bangladesh Wednesday, killing one person, wounding at least 100, and raising questions here about whether the government has come down hard enough against a rising tide of Islamic militarism.

No one claimed responsibility for the blasts, but copies of a leaflet found at most of the bomb sites carried a call by an Islamic group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, for Islamic rule in Bangladesh.

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and other militant outfits were banned in February for their alleged involvement in criminal activities. But critics here say the government, which includes two Islamist parties, has been reluctant to take a harder line with militant groups.

‘The government has been suffering from some sense of self-complacency,?says Zaid Bakht, Research Director of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. ‘They think they are in control of extreme right elements. They government has been discounting their size, their capacity and how they can destabilize things here.?p>Most of Bangladesh's 141 million people are Muslim. The country was founded on secular principles and enjoys a moderate, peaceful reputation. However, political violence has been a part of the long-standing rivalries between the two main political parties - the right-leaning Bangladesh National Party (BNP), which is now in power, and the left-leaning Awami League. According to Maj. Gen. Mainul Hossain Chowdhury (ret.), Bangladesh has seen some 400 other bombing cases since 1999?

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Indonesia:

Protestors in the court room for the trial of three women accused of

attempting to convert Muslim children caused such uproar on August 18 that

the Chief Justice, Judge Hasby exploded in anger, shouting, "This court has

its rules and regulations! Who dared to tell us to hand down the verdict

now?" According to Assist News report, the uproar followed the judge's

decision to postpone the proceedings for a week to allow the defense to

prepare for new elements introduced by the prosecution. Observers question

the possibility of an impartial judgment, since the judges have been faced

threats by Muslim militants. - VOM

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Islamic nations will have difficulty reforming themselves because of the twin weapons of blasphemy and apostasy prosecutions.

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Al Qaeda claims July 7 blasts

Sep. 2, 2005. 06:31 AM � Toronto Star

Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, claimed responsibility for the July 7 London bombings in a video aired yesterday on Al-Jazeera that included a farewell statement by a man identified as one of the four suicide attackers.

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SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS GET 3 YEARS PRISON

September 2, 2005 - JVIM

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “In an Indonesian court under threat of violence from Islamic radicals, three women were found guilty yesterday of violating the country's Child Protection Act by ‘Christianizing?Muslims.

Rebecca Laonita, Ratna Mala Bangun, and Ety Pangesti ?who conducted a ‘Happy Week?program in their homes ?were sentenced to three years in prison.

Indonesia's Child Protection Act of 2002 prohibits the enticement of minors to convert to another religion.

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IRAN WARNS AGGRESSORS OF 'FIRE AND DESTRUCTION'

September 23, 2005 � JVIM � preparing a way for the Anti-Christ to send down fire from heaven.

On show at an annual military parade were thousands of troops and a range of hardware including six of Iran's Shahab-3 ballistic missiles -- which sported banners saying Death to America? ‘We will crush America under our feet?and Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth?

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Dozens killed as small army storms Russian city

Oct. 13, 2005. 09:00 AM - TS

Scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in the city of Nalchik in Russia�s turbulent Caucasus region Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 63 people.

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Last Updated: Thursday, 13 October 2005, 09:43 GMT 10:43 UK - BBC News

Kashmir 'woman suicide attacker'

For the first time a woman has carried out a suicide attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, the police there say.

D.Lim: Killing while people need help. Killing while many in Pakistan are suffering, and 1000 hospitals are said to have been destroyed.

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