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Construction of a proposed mosque sparked a heated meeting in Newmarket's town hall Monday afternoon. But the mosque itself is not the source of controversy. Instead, people in the community are worried about the imam. Members of the community packed the town hall, asking for a public meeting about the zoning of a proposed mosque.
Residents are concerned by the imam's published views on controversial subjects, saying Zafar Bangash's comments could be considered hateful. "Diversity is welcome. Religion is welcome. We have no problems with any of that," neighbourhood resident George Cunningham said. "But what we don't want is someone with such radical beliefs as this gentleman."
Bangash's critics say many of his comments and published writing could be interpreted as anti-Israeli and anti-American. The imam admits he has opinions on U.S. and Israeli policies and he is willing to discuss them. "I'm very happy to sit with anybody anytime, any place, to discuss my views," Bangash said after attending the meeting. "Of course I have certain views with respect to U.S. policy or Israeli policy, but I'm quite prepared to sit down and talk to people about that. But I don't express those views in the mosque. The mosque is something totally different."
The proposed mosque is set to be built on Mulock Drive near Bayview. It is an area zoned as rural which allows religious institutions to be built there. A site plan approval process was launched at the town council because of a planned parking lot for the mosque. Newmarket town council approved the plan last autumn. The plan is waiting on a final approval.
The residents' request for a public meeting was rejected by the council on Monday. The town council said granting the request would be inconsistent with how the town processes similar applications.
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Abbas Warns of Civil War if Mecca Talks Fail
Feb 06, '07 / 18 Shevat 5767
Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas warned Tuesday that if his talks with PA Prime Minister and Hamas chairman Ismail Haniyeh fail, it would mean a civil war. Abbas’ remarks were reported by the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
“Failure would mean the deterioration of the internal situation and igniting civil war,” he said in a reference to the bloody clashes that have repeatedly stained the streets of Gaza. “The world ‘failure’ is forbidden.”
Excerpted
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=121087
Israeli excavation in Jerusalem stirs Muslim anger
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
JERUSALEM - Palestinians warned Israel on Tuesday that a ceasefire deal in Gaza would unravel if Israeli excavation work near a compound housing al-Aqsa mosque damaged Islam's third holiest shrine. Israel said the excavation work, which began on Tuesday when bulldozers started breaking paving stones outside the compound, would not cause harm to the site in Jerusalem's walled Old City, the heart of Arab-Israeli conflict.
But President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction said any damage to al-Aqsa would release Palestinian militant groups from a ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip. The governing Hamas movement said "any assault" on the mosque "will lead to a termination of the limited ceasefire" declared in November and would spark "a volcano of anger."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020600956.html
Ping to Oorang's post no. 341.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777773/posts?page=341#341
Post #341
Canada ping.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
You're welcome fanfan.
OUTSIDE THE WIRE
http://www.outsidethewire.com
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/06/outside-the-wire
HOT AIR.com: "OUTSIDE THE WIRE"
(February 6, 2007)
Nine More Illegal Immigrants Found In Ohio County (WV)
Twenty-six in custody in two days.
WHEELING -- Nine more illegal immigrants, six men and three women, were taken to jail in Ohio County Tuesday. That brings the number of illegals arrested in this area to 26 in just two days
Ohio County Chief Deputy Pat Butler said the illegals were walking near the Dallas Pike Exxon when they were arrested.(snip)
http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=19693
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Iran detains two suspected al-Qaeda men
Wednesday Feb 7
Iran has detained two suspected al-Qaeda operatives who illegally crossed the border from Iraq, state television reports. The two entered Iran through the western Ilam Province, state TV said, but did not provide additional information.
The United States accuses Iran of harbouring fugitives belonging to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network. But Iran insists it has made a significant contribution to the war on terror by arresting agents from the group.
Iran in the past has said it was holding "a large number of small and big-time elements of al-Qaeda." Iran says it has handed over more than 500 suspected al-Qaeda operatives, most of them Saudis, to their home countries.
American counterterrorism officials have said a handful of senior al-Qaeda operatives who fled to Iran after the war in Afghanistan in 2001 may have developed a working relationship with a secretive military unit linked to Iran's religious hard-liners. Iran has rejected the claims.
You're very welcome fanfan.
"I know I shouldn't be voicing my personal opinion, but, I...can't...stand...it.
Is this a lame token gesture by Iran? Do they really think the world is going to pat them on the back?"
OPINION....Giggling...oh please, please VOICE YOUR OPINION, Oorang. There's no shock and awe if Iran has discovered "two suspected Al-Qaeda operatives."
Sorry, AllMyJihad, you have a loooong way to go before you get my congratulations.
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs, Ijaz-ul-Haq has admitted that 950 Afghan performed Haj during the last year on Pakistani passports but no link to Al-Qaeda and Taliban has been proven yet.
Giving briefing to Standing Committee of National Assembly on Religious matters Tuesday in the Parliament House, the Federal Minister said that most of these Afghan people were sent by private tour operators and two operators were arrested while investigations are underway against 18 tour operators.
The Federal Minister informed that a private tour operator scuffled with officers of Ministry of Religious Affairs and during the investigations, it has been found that some Afghan people were performed Haj on Pakistani passport and NADRA identity cards were found from their possession. The Prime Minister and the Saudi government has been informed immediately and Saudi government during Haj eyed on the activities of these Afghan people, he added.
Excerpted
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?168121
Yep, I do understand.
OPINION: AllMyJihad needed a 12-step program a long, long time ago.
Former CIA director R. James Woolsey drives a Toyota Prius, a gas-electric hybrid. Its bumper sticker boasts: “Bin Laden hates this car.” In 2005, Osama bin Laden told his followers that al-Qaida’s operations in Iraq were costing more than $1 million a month. What’s the connection between bin Laden’s Iraq expenditures and James Woolsey’s Prius?
Since the 1970s, Islamic extremism and terrorists have been financially fueled by the world’s two largest oil exporters, Saudi Arabia and Iran. And those two countries have a lot of financial fuel to burn. Saudi Arabia’s crude oil export revenues were $154 billion in 2006, which gave the Saudis a $57.1 billion budget surplus. Iran’s oil revenue jumped 25 percent in 2005, soaring to $55 billion in 2006. By comparison, the United States had a $390 billion budget deficit in 2006.
Saudi Arabia’s support for terror is made mostly through its quasi-official charities. In Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia which have no income tax, they have mandatory, non-voluntary giving called zakat, which is collected by the government, mosques or Islamic centers. Voluntary contributions, or Sadaqah, are given directly to Islamic charities.
Twenty percent of the world’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are Islamic. Al-Qaida workers have infiltrated these NGOs, which allows them to use the charities’ reputations and money to advance al-Qaida’s goals globally.
Washington officials say Iran gives at least $100 million a year to Hezbollah, the radical Shiite Muslim group in Lebanon, which this past year used those funds to buy the rockets it fired into Israel. Israel may have been the immediate target, but Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said: “The courageous resistance of the Lebanese people and Hezbollah is the manifestation of the rebellious spirit of Muslim and Arab nations against America.”
Our best weapon against Islamic terrorists is to reduce the petrodollars received by them. We can do that by reducing our future need for oil through bio-diesel and hydrogen fuel cell development, but right now we can start domestically producing the oil we can’t do without.
The National Energy Security Act was introduced in Congress back in 2000 to try and reduce the nation’s dependency on foreign oil by 50 percent by 2010. Former President Clinton opposed the bill and it was never passed. In February 2000 former Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson (who is now the governor of New Mexico and a presidential candidate) admitted: “[T]he federal government was not prepared. We were caught napping. We got complacent.” ...
As far back as 1995, Clinton vetoed a budget bill that would have allowed oil drilling in part of the Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). If he hadn’t, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that ANWR could already have been yielding about 30 years-worth of oil imports from Saudi Arabia.
Alaska is a really big state, covering 365,039,104 acres. Of that huge expanse, the area being discussed for oil and gas exploration within ANWR is 1.5 million acres, but, as The Washington Post reported, because of advances in technology, only 2,000 acres of ANWR will be needed for the actual oil production. That means ANWR’s oil production area is basically the same size as Dulles Airport.
Before we continue forsaking our national security for a Dulles-sized wilderness area, we’d better also start considering a new oil producer that is a whole lot closer than Saudi Arabia and Iran. The People’s Republic of China just erected its first oil rigs 50 miles off Florida’s coast in Cuba’s territorial waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
One arson case shut: Another remains open (Dearborn, MI)
http://www.pressandguide.com/stories/020707/loc_20070207002.shtml
But of course you should voice your opinion!
Lame token gesture - I agree. :-)
Thanks to Abu Afak for the ping to this graphic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780397/posts?page=18#18
and the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780397/posts
"{Saudi] Partygoers to be Flogged"
news24 ^ | 2/4/07
Posted on 02/06/2007 5:25:02 PM PST by abu afak
Riyadh
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Terrorism board game dicey, victims say
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
The war on terror can now be fought in the comfort of your living room — thanks to a controversial board game that lets players dominate the world using nuclear weapons, hijacked airplanes, suicide bomb belts and a pair of dice.
War On Terror: The Board Game is the creation of two entrepreneurs from Cambridge, England, who have sold more than 2,500 copies worldwide through their online company TerrorBull Games. The game, launched in October 2006, has been banned from British department stores and condemned by some British media outlets.
Terrorism victims in Canada aren't pleased either. "The first thing you can say is that it is in very poor taste," said Bal Gupta of Mississauga, Ont., who lost his wife in the Air India bombing. "They are probably insensitive," he added, commenting on the game's creators. "(It's been done) to make a buck."
Andrew Sheerin and Andy Tompkins told CBC News they created the game to satire the War on Terror and show how ridiculous it is. They got the idea three years ago while having a few beers and watching news about the War in Iraq unfold on television. The two men say they were astonished to hear U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair talking freely about weapons of mass destruction. "It's great material for a board game," Sheerin said. "There's lying in there, double-crossing, geo-politics and world domination."
The game, billed as a family game for 2-6 players, lets players be either terrorists or the establishment, known as the Empire. Players roll the dice and move pieces across a map of the world. The game has a deck of cards depicting cartoon images of nuclear weapons and airplane hijackings. One shows a middle-aged Caucasian suicide bomber wearing a raincoat and a belt of bombs.
The game sells for $60 Cdn, plus shipping fees. It's an English-language game, but Sheerin and Tompkins are working out a deal to sell a Spanish version.
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http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/02/06/terror-game.html
According to a report by Iran's Farsi news agency, the Mossad could not have been behind the death of one of its nuclear scientists three weeks ago, because Israeli operatives cannot penetrate the Iranian security apparatus. The Iranian dismissal of the Mossad's capabilities came in response to a report in the Sunday Times of London that attributed the death of nuclear scientist Ardshir Hosseinpour to a Mossad assassination. The official Iranian position on the death of Hosseinpour, a professor at Shiraz University, is that he was killed by fumes from a faulty gas burner while he slept, and that his death was in no way connected to his role at Iran's uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, where uranium hexafluride is produced from uranium ore.
In a week when the Mossad's operations has been a reoccurring story line in the press, the Iranians are taking the opportunity to paint a negative image of the agency in the Arab world, while minimizing its capabilities. The denigrations do not end there. The unnamed Iranian official continued to attack the Mossad, criticizing the role it plays in protecting the home front, saying Israeli intelligence is powerless to solve the crisis facing the "Zionist regime," and adding, "If the Mossad was capable of doing great things, it should have solved the domestic crisis of Israel."
"The United States and Israel have repeatedly come under deep criticism from Western politicians and experts for their weaknesses in collecting correct information about Iran's capabilities," he said. The report in the Sunday Times was merely propaganda in the war for international superiority, he said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359788739&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Brigitte in court for nuclear plot (France)
February 07, 2007
A FRENCH Muslim convert suspected of plotting to attack an Australian nuclear power station goes on trial on terrorism charges in a Paris court on today.
Willy Brigitte faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of association with criminals involved in a terrorist enterprise by the main Paris criminal court. Prosecutors allege Brigitte, 38, and Sajid Mir, his co-accused who will be tried in absentia, considered targeting a nuclear power station or another high-profile facility near Sydney.
Excerpted
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21185805-5005961,00.html
Adding 1 link (recap) to your post no. 359, Oorang:
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000816.html
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