http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/clerics/ en-us Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:01:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849842/posts Hundreds of Islamic centers in the United States have become a hot-bed of extremist activity; they promote violence, terrorism and hatred against America. “Our initial investigation has concluded there are between 400 to 500 radical Islamic centers in the U.S.,” said David Gaubatz, the director of counterintelligence and counterterrorism for the Society of Americans for National Existence. “In those places, they preach an extreme version of Islam that says America and the West is the enemy. They espouse violence, hatred and the need for terrorism.” Gaubatz is a former senior U.S. intelligence official, who now works for the Mapping Shari’a... Insight Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849842/posts#comment Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:01:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387923/posts LONDON (Reuters) -- Counterterrorism detectives said they had arrested five men in early morning raids today in northwest England. They were being held on suspicion of committing terrorism offenses including inciting an act of terrorism overseas. Police said the suspects, aged 21, 26, 27, 52, and 62, were detained after swoops at homes in Manchester and Bolton, and at a hotel near London's Heathrow Airport. The properties were now being searched. RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387923/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:22:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382634/posts The Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood massacre apparently acted alone and without outside direction in the attack, investigative officials said Monday evening. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be charged by the U.S. military rather than in a civilian court, they said. Although investigative officials portrayed Hasan as a lone wolf, the investigators and a U.S. official disclosed that Hasan communicated 10 to 20 times with a radical imam overseas who in the past came under scrutiny for possible links to terror groups. The investigative officials said the communications began last year and continued into this year and "were... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382634/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:38:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373207/posts DETROIT – Federal authorities say a leader of what they describe as a nationwide radical Sunni Islam group has been fatally shot during an FBI raid in the Detroit area. The U.S. attorney's office in Detroit says Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah refused to surrender during an FBI raid Wednesday and was killed in an exchange of gunfire. ..conspiracy to commit several federal crimes, including illegal possession and sale of firearms and theft from interstate shipments. AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373207/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:03:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354335/posts Tire, Lebanon (Reuters) – A protest by Muslim clerics torpedoed a Brazilian samba show in the Lebanese city of Tire on Thursday, local officials said. A statement by the clerics condemned plans for the open-air display by a dance troupe that has been touring Lebanon. "We support tourism but are against obscenity," said Sheikh Ali Yassin, who heads a group of clerics in the predominantly Shi'ite Muslim city. The local council responded by cancelling the show after consulting politicians and security officials, officials said. Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354335/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 23:07:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2298102/posts WASHINGTON (CNS) -- From lost causes to the unattractive, patron saints are associated with virtually every occupation, ailment and activity. St. Gabriel Francis Possenti, a 19th-century Passionist monk and patron saint of Italy's Abruzzi region, clerics and youths, is gaining a line of followers who feel he should be recognized by the Vatican as the patron saint of "handgunners." http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20090720.htm#head7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2298102/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:20:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288329/posts TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's supreme leader has imposed his will on the streets with security forces that crushed mass protests over the country's disputed election. But he faces an unprecedented level of behind-the-scenes political discontent among the Muslim clerics who form the theological bedrock of the Islamic Republic. The bitterness could represent a deeper, long-term challenge to the rule of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The outright rejection by some clerics of election results that Khamenei ruled valid breaks a basic taboo against criticizing the man who in the philosophy of the Islamic Revolution literally represents God's rule on... Google hosted news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288329/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:52:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356414/posts From Gloucester to Afghanistan: the making of a shoe bomber Saajid Badat this week pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a plane. What drove this quiet football fan to thoughts of terror? Mark Honigsbaum and Vikram Dodd Saturday March 5, 2005 The Guardian He seemed the model British Muslim citizen - a poster boy for integration whose knowledge of the Qu'ran and achievement at grammar school made Gloucester's close-knit Islamic community proud. When in November 2003 anti-terrorist police turned up at the terraced house in the Barton and Tredworth district of the city that Saajid Badat shared with his... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356414/posts#comment Sat, 5 Mar 2005 04:07:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294207/posts French anti-terror magistrates wrapped up an investigation into four Islamists who may have helped British shoe bomber Richard Reid in France. Le Parisien reports the suspects include the head of a Paris mosque, the leader of a Pakistani community and two other men. Reid spent several days in Paris before boarding a Miami-bound plane in December 2001 with explosives stuffed in his sneakers. Last year, Reid was sentenced to life in prison by a U.S. court for trying to blow up the flight. One of the French suspects, Imam Kamel Lakhram, reportedly acknowledged to French authorities Reid had slept at... Big News Network.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294207/posts#comment Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:11:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263312/posts The four men charged with plotting to blow up two New York synagogues and shoot down military planes converted to Islam while behind bars, a place terror experts say is a cauldron for Islamic radicalism. James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen were said by friends and family to have become Muslims while in prison, where they began on a path toward terrorist violence that law enforcement officials say is part of a troubling trend in America. "Prisons can play a critical role in both triggering and reinforcing the radicalization process," read a landmark 2007 report from the... FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263312/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:16:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185749/posts RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi king on Saturday dismissed the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the owners of TV networks that broadcast "immoral" content, signaling an effort to weaken the country's hard-line Sunni establishment. The shake-up — King Abdullah's first since coming to power in August 2005 — included the appointment of a female deputy minister, the highest government position a Saudi woman has attained. snip Khashoggi said Faisal has been working behind the scenes on plans to reform education. After the Sept. 11 attacks, carried out by 19 Arabs, including 15 Saudis,... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185749/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262622/posts The jihadist, back from Yemen I have learned from a well-placed source that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who killed one soldier and wounded another at a a Little Rock military recruiting center today, and who faces charges of terrorism as well as first-degree murder, has recently returned from Yemen, where he studied jihad with an Islamic scholar there. Apparently the Islamic scholar under whom this American convert to Islam studied was yet another misunderstander of Islam's true, peaceful teachings. More on this as it develops. Jihad Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262622/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 02:43:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146946/posts (IsraelNN.com) The head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan called on Palestinian Authority Arabs to formally start a third intifada by carrying out suicide bombing attacks to "slaughter the Jews" in Israel. The harangues by Arab Islamic clerics that aired on the Lebanese Hizbullah terrorist-linked Al-Manar and Palestinian Authority-run Al-Aqsa television networks from December 3-5, which were translated by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) in a report published this week. Arab Muslim Clerics: 'Slaughter the Jews!' Arutz 7 Video 00:00 Embed Video - Copy code to embed video in HTML document Can't see the video player? Click here... arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146946/posts#comment Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:39:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037235/posts “Just as Muslims have the right to exercise Da’wa - an invitation to Islam - so Christians must have the freedom to invite people to follow Jesus Christ,” explained the bishop at a press conference in Jerusalem on June 24. “Dialogue proceeds on the understanding that each is a missionary faith. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037235/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:31:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014547/posts What are we going to do about Iran? When Hillary Clinton surreally promised to obliterate the Islamic Republic if the mullahs nuked Israel, she at least recognized that a nuclear-armed clerical regime is a serious menace, and that successful diplomacy with Tehran without the threat of force is fantasy. How to handle Iran may well be the decisive foreign-policy question of the 2008 presidential campaign--especially if Tehran continues to exploit the vacuum left by the collapse of the Bush administration's Iran policy and the general listlessness of the U.S. presence in the Middle East outside of Iraq. Tehran is on... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014547/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 22:11:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989203/posts Saudi Arabia is to retrain its 40,000 prayer leaders - also known as imams - in an effort to counter militant Islam. Details of the plan were revealed in the influential Saudi newspaper Al- Sharq al-Awsat. The plan is part of a wider programme launched by the Saudi monarch a few years ago to encourage moderation and tolerance in Saudi society. The ministry of religious affairs and new centre for national dialogue will carry out the training, the paper said. The centre was created five years ago to disseminate a moderate interpretation of Islamic tradition. There is growing awareness in... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989203/posts#comment Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:08:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980401/posts BAGHDAD — After almost five years of war, many young people in Iraq, exhausted by constant firsthand exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach. In two months of interviews with 40 young people in five Iraqi cities, a pattern of disenchantment emerged, in which young Iraqis, both poor and middle class, blamed clerics for the violence and the restrictions that have narrowed their lives. “I hate Islam and all the clerics because they limit our freedom every day and their instruction became heavy over... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980401/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:27:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932527/posts NAJAF — Shia and Sunni religious leaders met in Najaf Tuesday to discuss peace and unity in Iraq. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the top-ranking Shia cleric in Iraq, hosted the meeting, calling for an end to the sectarian violence that has plagued the country. Leading Sunni religious figures also attended, including Sheikh Khalid al-Mullah of the Sunni Muslim Scholars Association. "Multi-National Force - Iraq applauds these religious leaders, who are reaching across sectarian lines to end the bloodshed," said Rear Adm. Greg Smith, MNF-I spokesman. Smith added that, while there have been other meetings between clerics and religious scholars from... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932527/posts#comment Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:29:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751288/posts The Pakistani authorities have confirmed the American findings that the imams of three mosques arrested on November 15 in Boston happen to be the close relatives of the founder of the deadly Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who now heads the Jamaatul Daawa. Pakistani interior ministry sources said that the three Boston-based imams — Hafiz Muhammad Hannan Hafiz Muhammad Masood and Hafiz Mohammad Hamid — are close relatives of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. The sources said they have informed the American authorities that while Hafiz Muhammad Masood and Hafiz Hamid happen to be the real brother of Saeed, Hafiz Muhammad Hannan is... DILIGENT MEDIA CORPORATION http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751288/posts#comment Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:54:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890625/posts WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2007 – Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr’s recent call for a halt to all militia violence in Iraq is a “welcome development,” a Multinational Force Iraq official said during a briefing in Baghdad today. “The Multinational Force Iraq joins the government of Iraq in welcoming Sadr’s publicly articulated commitment to peace,” said Navy Rear Adm. Mark I. Fox, communications division chief for Multinational Force Iraq. “If implemented, Sadr’s order holds the prospect of allowing Iraqi security and coalition forces to intensify their focus on al Qaeda in Iraq and protecting the Iraqi population.” A disruption in... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890625/posts#comment Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:12:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875630/posts Finsbury Park: Inside the British Jihad [Killing non Muslims for no reason & restore the Caliphate] http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3205&cid=3&sid=74 Pratik Chougule - 8/4/2007 Stepping off the subway at Finsbury Park, the change in scenery could not have been more acute. Just an hour earlier, I had been awed by the grandeur of Big Ben, towering over the British Houses of Parliament. It is the symbol of the England in our history books: a beacon of liberty, tolerance, and stability. Finsbury Park is different. Small shops and ragged apartments line the streets of this working class area of North London. More pronounced than... Global Politician http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875630/posts#comment Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:57:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835433/posts When Your Doctor is a Muslim: Medical Terrorism Comes to America By Debbie Schlussel www.debbieschlussel.com May 17, 2007 Sometimes--so many times--diversity is not what it's cracked up to be. Just ask Joseph Applebaum. Well, you could ask him. But you won't get an answer. He's dead. And he's dead because he was a Jew, and his doctor is a Muslim and grad of "Ayman Al-Zawahiri" Medical School. But Applebaum wasn't denied treatment for being a Jew in Egypt. Or elsewhere in the Muslim world. It happened right here on U.S. soil. In Chicago. As Muslim doctors continue to flood into... debbieschlussel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835433/posts#comment Thu, 17 May 2007 23:42:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815577/posts Mayor Bloomberg is being asked to dismiss from the city's Commission on Human Rights the lawyer involved in a lawsuit that could discourage ordinary citizens from reporting what they believe to be suspicious activity. In a letter sent to Mr. Bloomberg on Monday, an assemblyman of Queens, Rory Lancman, said Omar Mohammedi's position on the human rights commission undermines efforts to encourage New Yorkers to act as the eyes and ears of law enforcement. Mr. Bloomberg made Mr. Mohammedi a commissioner for the human rights commission in 2002. As a private attorney, Mr. Mohammedi is representing a group of imams... The New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815577/posts#comment Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802177/posts Iran's clerics critical of top leader TEHRAN, March 16 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is facing increased criticism from his country's political and religious authorities. Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, a close associate of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, criticized Ahmadinejad for "unnecessarily spurring international enmity" toward Iran, the Washington Times reported. "We must bear in mind that not everyone is our enemy," Ayatollah Sanei told the Kargozaran newspaper. "Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system." The newspaper said unelected clerics hold ultimate authority in Iran. Former CIA official Graham Fuller says the "upper echelons" of... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802177/posts#comment Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:29:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1778040/posts The FASCISM in Mainstream Islam, even in Western UK http://www.dafka.org/NewsGen.asp?S=4&PageID=1489 UNDERCOVER MOSQUE-A MUST SEE A look into a "moderate" Mainstream Mosque, what "normal Muslim clerics" preach... :::::::::::::::::::::::: I am tired of the MSM's PC preaching to us about "most of Muslims are moderate". 1) Why do normal clerics preach fascism? 2) Why do "normal Muslims" elect and choose fascist leadership? (Bin Laden's popularityy even in those "friendly" Arab nations, "Palestinian" Arabs voting for Hamas, Hezbollah, choosing/backing those clerics). 3) Have we seen any outrage by Muslims over Islamists' crimes in the name of Islam? (Briggite of AmericanCongressForTruth tells of a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1778040/posts#comment Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:10:59 GMT