Robert Spencer: Unsettling Alliance ("Islamic radicalism is a cleric-driven phenomenon.")

The Washington Times ^ | January 20, 2004 | Robert Spencer

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Adi Suryana, an Islamic teacher in Indonesia, has just been arrested on terrorism-related charges. Commissioner General Erwin Mappaseng of the national police detective department said, "We have long been looking for him. He is the planner of terror, including the plan to bomb the headquarters of the national police and the Jakarta police headquarters." Referring to an Indonesian terrorist group, Mappaseng said that Suryana "is sort of their manager."

In Syria, meanwhile, investigators have just discovered that an Islamic cleric known only as Fouad is referred to by radical Muslims as the "gatekeeper" to Iraq, and coordinates suicide attacks there that are carried out by Muslims recruited in Europe.

Also, Scotland Yard last week warned the Jewish community in Britain that the terror threat "remained high." Why? Because Mohammed al-Garbuzi, a Moroccan imam who has been linked to last May's bombings in Casablanca, is apparently on the loose in Britain. And in Norway, Mullah Krekar, a Muslim cleric from Iraq, was recently arrested. Norwegian authorities claim that he is or was the leader of the Iraqi radical Muslim group Ansar al-Islam, a charge he has repeatedly denied. But last month he was identified several times as the Ansar leader on Al Jazeera TV and offered no correction. He also acknowledged on Al Jazeera that Ansar al-Islam was responsible for a suicide attack in Iraq last March.

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[Stopislamnow]

How much must we endure? How long before we declare war on all of Islam?

Each and every mosque is a self contained terrorist sanctuary by its very nature. There can be no meeting in the middle with these people. Make no mistake, if you're not moslem, you're dead meat, as soon as they can get away with it.

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...the still-prevailing view that Islamic radicals are a tiny minority that has "hijacked" the religion.

It's not a "tiny" minority, but it's definitely a minority. Lots of Muslims worldwide are appalled at what has been, and is being, done in their name.

Lots more are unaware because, in most of the world, to live a Muslim is to live in a totalitarian society.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F