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Worldwide, Islamic Fundamentalists Join the Fray
Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews ^ | 8/8/6 | Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

Posted on 08/08/2006 11:27:32 AM PDT by SmithL

Energized by the ongoing war between Israel and Hizbullah-controlled Lebanon, some Islamic fundamentalist groups claim to dispatch terrorists to Lebanon and to target Jews worldwide.



An Indonesian Muslim group announced Tuesday that it had sent 20 of its members to Lebanon in order to join the Jihad against the Jewish state. The claim, made by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), was reported by the Associated Press, which warned that it had not been verified.

FPI spokesman Soleh Mahmoud said the 20 men left Indonesia five days ago and are now undergoing training in Lebanon under the supervision of Hizbullah. "They are ready to die to defend Muslims," Mahmoud said.

On Friday, before the FPI announced that it had already sent Muslim fighters to Lebanon, Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Desra Percaya said, "The government understands what they are feeling... anger, disappointment and frustration with Israeli troops acting inhumanly and brutally." He said that while the government could not stop people from joining the war in Lebanon, the seriousness of threats to do so is questionable: "If you want to do something, you want to travel, you do not need to declare it publicly, just say, 'In the name of God' and then go."

Last week, the Australian government announced that it was investigating a claim by another Indonesia-based Islamist group, the Asian Muslim Youth Movement (AMYM), that it had dispatched hundreds of Southeast Asian terrorist bombers to strike Jewish or infrastructure targets in countries such as Israel, the United States, Britain and Australia. A leader of the AMYM, Suaib Bidu, told The Australian newspaper that 217 suicide bombers - financed by wealthy Australian-Indonesian businessmen - had already been dispatched to their target countries, with thousands more prepared to set out. According to the report, more than 3,000 terrorists were to have been inducted on Saturday in the Indonesian city of Pontianak on Kalimantan island.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (known as Ikhwaan in Arabic) has also claimed to have 10,000 volunteers ready to travel to Lebanon to fight the Israelis. Speaking to a conference organized by the Egyptian Scientists Association on August 2, Brotherhood leader Mohammad Mahdi Akef called on his co-religionists to "help the resistance in all its forms" in Lebanon and in the Palestinian Authority.

Similarly, Yemen's President Ali Abdallah Saleh told an Al-Jazeera interviewer on August 1, 2006: "I hope that all the countries bordering Israel, not just Syria, would enter the war. I mean the countries bordering with Israel. We will not enter the war officially, but we will open the borders to the fighters. We will allow the transfer of money and equipment to support the Lebanese resistance and the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. ...This war has become a duty incumbent upon us. Every Muslim has the individual duty to fight on this front." (English transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute [MEMRI].)

Also speaking from Yemen, on an official visit to the country, Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) praised Hizbullah terrorists shortly after a lethal Katyusha rocket attack on northern Israel that killed 11 people. Abbas told reporters that the Hizbullah war has reawakened the Arab world's honor and is an example for others to follow.


As reported in late July, Al-Qaeda's number two, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, announced in a videotaped message that Al-Qaeda will make the nations supporting Israel "pay the price." His statement indicated unity of purpose among all sects of Muslim fundamentalists, reiterated by Shi'ite leaders in Iran and elsewhere, when it comes to jihad against Israel. However, a former teacher of Osama Bin-Laden, Saudi sheikh Safar Al-Hawali, called the Hizbullah ("party of Allah" in Arabic) the "party of Satan" and issued a fatwa (religious ruling) forbidding any support or prayers for the group, due to its Shi'a religious orientation, which Sunni Salafi groups such as those ruling Saudi Arabia generally consider to be apostasy.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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Energized by the ongoing war between Israel and Hizbullah-controlled Lebanon, some Islamic fundamentalist groups claim to dispatch terrorists to Lebanon and to target Jews worldwide.
1 posted on 08/08/2006 11:27:33 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Excellent! Come into the kill zone stoodges.


2 posted on 08/08/2006 11:30:40 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (A proportionate response would be the indiscriminate slaughter of Western journalists)
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To: SmithL

All together now...WHO IS THE ENEMY????

"** ISLAMOFACISTS **"


3 posted on 08/08/2006 11:31:56 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: SmithL
An Indonesian Muslim group announced Tuesday that it had sent 20 of its members to Lebanon in order to join the Jihad against the Jewish state.

Does anybody over there actually work for a living?

4 posted on 08/08/2006 11:32:22 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: SmithL

In 1937, too many in the West saw goose-stepping Nazis and failed to grasp the threat posed by such.

Now we have Islamists giving Nazi salutes, and liberals fail to grasp the threat.

History repeats itself for those unable to learn from it.

5 posted on 08/08/2006 11:32:26 AM PDT by dirtboy (Why does Israel take border security seriously but we do not, when Islamists wish us both harm?)
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To: dirtboy

I agree.

I see the similarities too.


6 posted on 08/08/2006 11:35:52 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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Look at the faces of the mullahs. Motivated by the same hate that motivated the Nazi leaders.


7 posted on 08/08/2006 11:39:17 AM PDT by dirtboy (Why does Israel take border security seriously but we do not, when Islamists wish us both harm?)
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To: SmithL

8 posted on 08/08/2006 11:40:19 AM PDT by Fighting Irish (Béagán agus a rá go maith)
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To: SmithL
"They are ready to die to defend Muslims," Mahmoud said.

Good! Y'all come on down. Israel is ready to kill you filthy Koranimals too!!

9 posted on 08/08/2006 11:41:04 AM PDT by NRA2BFree (Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American G. I.)
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10 posted on 08/08/2006 11:41:08 AM PDT by Fighting Irish (Béagán agus a rá go maith)
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To: DungeonMaster

"Does anyone over there actually work for a living?"

Wondered the same thing myself. All those crowd scenes are almost always men. If they spent as much time building things instead of blowing them up, maybe the ME wouldn't look like a war zone ALL THE TIME.


11 posted on 08/08/2006 11:41:59 AM PDT by texaslil (and)
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To: Fighting Irish

welll.....I had a rather interesting shot of Hitler that didn't take. nuts


12 posted on 08/08/2006 11:42:00 AM PDT by Fighting Irish (Béagán agus a rá go maith)
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To: dirtboy

IMHO we won WWII by force of luck. Witness some of the battles and the chance happenings, midway, D-day, etc. I hope that luck will be with us this time..........


13 posted on 08/08/2006 11:42:16 AM PDT by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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To: dirtboy

LIEberals in the 30's said told us to not worry because Germany was only one nation and couldn't possibly try to "take over the world." They said, "Let Hitler build his military machine. Germany has the right to do anything it wants within it's own borders. We have more weapons than they have. They are no threat to us." The same half-wit Liberal mentality exists today. They run the DemonRat Party.


14 posted on 08/08/2006 11:43:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth shall set you free))))
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To: SmithL

Has our government commented that Israel's war against the Hezbos is part of the global war on terrorism? Maybe it has, but if so, I missed it.


15 posted on 08/08/2006 11:50:08 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: Fighting Irish

(I copied the properties of the failed graphic, put it in the address line of the browser, and retrieved it that way. Good photo.)


16 posted on 08/08/2006 11:51:57 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: SmithL

Apparently the crazy mullahs convinced the Indonesian young men to chose this over Holland American cruise ships.


17 posted on 08/08/2006 11:52:56 AM PDT by rod1
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To: dirtboy

By coincidence, I'm reading a fantastic book entitled "Militant Islam Reaches America" by Daniel Pipes. I picked it up at my local library.

A fascinating and yet alarming book about the rise of militant Islam. Daniel Pipes is an authority on Islam and the Middle East and seems to have a good grasp of the situation.

Amazingly enough, he was writing this book BEFORE September 11th and has been warning people about the dangers of militant Islam for many years now.


18 posted on 08/08/2006 11:53:44 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: SmithL
Bring it on. Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
19 posted on 08/08/2006 11:58:18 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: DungeonMaster

Sure - we buy their oil and enable this leisure time activity.


20 posted on 08/08/2006 12:08:39 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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