http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sunni/ en-us Fri, 17 May 2013 21:59:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3020817/posts Betrayal in Benghazi The combat code of the US Military is that we don’t abandon our dead or wounded on the battlefield. In US Air Force lingo, fighter pilots don’t run off and leave their wingmen. If one of our own is shot down, still alive and not yet in enemy captivity, we will either come to get him or die trying. Among America’s fighting forces, the calm, sure knowledge that such an irrevocable bond exists is priceless. Along with individual faith and personal grit, it is a sacred trust that has often sustained hope in the face of terribly... Fighter Pilot Friend http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3020817/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 21:59:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020798/posts Al-Hamad, who is Wahhabi (extremist Sunni) and harbors a sectarian hatred for Alawite and Shiite Muslims, said he has another gruesome video of his killing a government soldier from the Alawite faith. “Hopefully we will slaughter all of them [Alawites]. ... Human Rights Watch (HRW), which validated the video, released a report on May 13 identifying al-Hamad as a well-known commander responsible for the recent cross-border shelling of a Shi‘ite Lebanese village that killed two. The organization called on the U.N. Security Council to refer the Syria situation to the International Criminal Court to ensure accountability for all war crimes... Ahlul Bayt News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020798/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 20:29:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403376/posts Coiffed, groomed and impeccably suited, Mithal al-Alusi cuts an imposing figure at this trendy hotel. In the empty bar lounge, he makes himself at home to a breakfast of fresh fruit, strong coffee and a constant flow of cigarettes. The leader of the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation is in town to promote his vision for a new Iraq and accept an accolade from an unlikely sponsor – the American Jewish Committee – who honored him with a Moral Courage award at their annual dinner last week. His act of courage was an attempt to break Iraq's long-standing taboo... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403376/posts#comment Sun, 15 May 2005 02:55:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018549/posts Anjem Choudary and his fellow protestors can be seen fighting with what was reported as other Muslim groups on London's Edgware Road. ... Protestors marched with hard-line Salafist placards and flags, many of which read, "Support Jund Al Sham". ... The protestors were marching in opposition to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who they are known to deplore for his Alawite religion. Protestors also took up the cause against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah, who they deem as "Shia Enemies of Allah" for their Shi'ite Muslim backgrounds. The protestors are thought to be hard-line Salafists, who have... The Commentator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018549/posts#comment Sun, 12 May 2013 20:08:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018282/posts The recent months have seen a considerable increase of tension between Sunnis and Shi'ites in Lebanon, to the extent that there is growing fear of a confrontation between the two sides – especially between the Shi'ite Hizbullah and Sunni Salafi elements. On February 27, 2013, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki – both of them Shi'ites – expressed concern that a sectarian war might break out in the region, including in Lebanon.... ..... The sectarian tension in Lebanon has expressed itself in several violent incidents. The severest of them occurred on March 17, 2013, when four... MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018282/posts#comment Sat, 11 May 2013 20:41:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011164/posts Police in Canada said Monday that two men suspected of plotting to derail a passenger train were guided by Al Qaeda elements in Iran, but the statement surprised many experts who study terrorism in the Middle East and Iran. “It frankly doesn’t compute for me,” said Barbara Slavin, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. "If there is any link, I would think it was extremely tangential." Iran and Al Qaeda have frequently had chilly relations, according to Slavin and other experts. Iran is majority Shiite, while Al Qaeda is firmly Sunni. In Syria, Al Qaeda has jumped into the... la times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011164/posts#comment Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:29:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003697/posts Yet another Islamic cleric recently made it permissible for the Islamic fighters waging a jihad in Syria—politely known as “the opposition”—to rape the nation’s women. Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni, a Jordanian of origin who earlier lived in Damascus, Syria for 17 years, posted a YouTube video last week where he said he was preparing to issue a “legitimate fatwa” making it legal (in the eyes of Islam) for those Muslims fighting to topple secular president Bashar Assad and install Sharia law to “capture and have sex with” all non-Sunni women, specifically naming Assad’s own sect, the Alawites, as well as... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003697/posts#comment Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:24:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003196/posts The draft penal code bill has been amended to include punishments as prescribed in the Quran, such as amputation for theft. ... The committee’s chairperson, MP Ahmed Hamza, told Sun Online the new draft penal code will require amputating persons convicted of theft, while a person convicted of apostasy (renouncing Islam) will also face punishment. Minivan News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3003196/posts#comment Tue, 2 Apr 2013 05:27:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998913/posts In Russia, most analysts, politicians and ordinary citizens believe in the unlimited might of America, and thus reject the notion that the US has made, and continues to make, mistakes in the [Middle East]. Instead, they assume it’s all a part of a complex plan to restructure the world and to spread global domination,” writes Fyodor Lukyanov ... It’s instructive to view ourselves through a Russian mirror. The term “paranoid Russian” is a pleonasm. “The fact is that all Russian politicians are clever. The stupid ones are all dead. By contrast, America in its complacency promotes dullards. A deadly miscommunication... PJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998913/posts#comment Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:03:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2986858/posts On Tom Trento’s radio show today, former FBI agent, John Guandolo, who wrote the first Muslim Brotherhood training manual for the FBI, outs John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for CIA Director, as having converted to Islam while working in Saudi Arabia. (Embedded video: Fast forward to 11 minute mark and watch til the 52 min mark) BareNakedIslam http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2986858/posts#comment Sat, 9 Feb 2013 15:40:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2979486/posts Thousands of Sunnis rallied Friday in western and central Iraq, denouncing the Shiite-led government’s policies they claim sideline their sect and saying that recent concessions by the authorities are not enough. The protests—the fourth Friday in a row of rallies in Sunni parts of the country—come as tensions are rising among Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian groups, threatening to plunge the country into more instability. … Sheik Hassan al-Samarie, one of the organizers of the Samarra rally, said the Sunnis there are disappointed by the slow response of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government in fulfilling their demands. “We are fed up... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2979486/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:00:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2975927/posts A 15-year-old girl in the Maldives whose stepfather is accused of repeatedly raping her and killing the resulting baby risks being flogged for “fornication” with another man under the nation’s strict Islamic law. In the course of inquiries into the rape case, police investigators say they unearthed evidence of the girl having had consensual sex with another man, which is an offence in the Indian Ocean holiday destination, a police source said. Women, including minors, having consensual sex outside marriage can be charged in the Maldives, where convicts can be publicly flogged. Minors receive the punishment when they reach 18,... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2975927/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jan 2013 04:13:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2966228/posts 'There are numerous Revolutionary Guard cells' inside borders Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is alive and well in the U.S. and the country’s law enforcement officials ignore them at their peril, according to former U. S. Air Force officer Steven O’Hern. O’Hern says that the Revolutionary Guard, long an influential factor in the radical Islamic regime in Iran, does most of its surveillance and intelligence gathering through its proxy force, Hezbollah, considered by many to be a terror group. “In the United States, the Revolutionary Guard uses more than one approach. Hezbollah operatives and sympathizers are present in large numbers in many... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2966228/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957829/posts The Bashar al-Assad rule in Syria has come under heavy fire from people who believe that the regime must quit over its atrocities. But any attempt by the US-led West to impose a replacement will backfire soon India’s oil-rich western neighbourhood, extending from the Arabian Sea to the Bosporus, is engulfed in conflicts arising from sectarian and civilisational rivalries, aggravated by the meddling of external powers. With an arsenal of over 100 nuclear weapons, Pakistan is today witnessing a period of internal strife, largely arising from the pernicious role of its military establishment and tensions across its disputed borders with... The Pioneer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957829/posts#comment Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:57:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951219/posts SNIPPET: "Indonesian anti-terror police, Densus 88 secure a terror suspect's house during a raid in Mojosongo, Solo in Central Java. Indonesian police have arrested 11 members of an Islamic group allegedly planning attacks on American diplomatic missions, a spokesman says." SNIPPET: "The group had planned to hit the US embassy and a US consulate, as well as a building near the Australian embassy in the capital Jakarta that houses the office of American mining giant Freeport-McMoran, police said. Police said they were from a new outfit called HASMI, the Sunni Movement for Indonesian Society, and explosives and a bomb-making manual... (AFP) via FRANCE24.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951219/posts#comment Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:17:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2943633/posts Horror - Child left dead on Syrian sidewalk Catholic Online-Oct 4, 2012 The civil war which has wracked Syria has taken its toll on civilians with somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 casualties. Observers believe ... Catholic.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2943633/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:14:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2940414/posts Sunni Muslim 'Extremists' Committed 70% of Terrorist Murders in 2011 cnsnews.com › News Aug 3, 2012 – The report says that in 2011, a total of 10,283 terrorism attacks across the world killed 12,533 people. Terrorism also is blamed for 25,903 ... By Edwin Mora August 3, 2012 (CNSNews.com) - Sunni Muslim terrorists committed “about 70 percent” of the 12,533 terrorist murders in the world last year, according to a report by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The information comes from the 2011 NCTC Report on Terrorism, which is based on information available as of March 12, 2012. “Sunni extremists... CNS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2940414/posts#comment Fri, 5 Oct 2012 02:17:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2932458/posts OBAMA AND IRAN'S URANIUM William Bigelow It seems as if the Obama Administration’s animus toward Israel and its plans for Israel’s destruction are moving swiftly toward completion. ....snip... Step Three: Obama's has armed Iraq with 36 new US F-16I Block 52 interceptor combat aircraft. Because Obama retreated in Iraq, President al Maliki, a Shiite sympathetic to Iran, now rules Iraq. Obama has even expedited delivering 18 F16IQs to Iraq at the start of 2013. And here’s the kicker: a WikiLeak document claimed that "Iran has assassinated 180 Iraqi pilots." This paves the way for al-Maliki to form a fully Shiite... Breitbart - Big Peace http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2932458/posts#comment Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:51:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2926252/posts Saudi security forces have arrested a man who figured on a list of 23 wanted people for causing trouble in the mostly-Shiite Qatif district ... Confrontations have intensified recently between police and protesters from the Sunni-dominated kingdom's marginalised Shiites -- estimated at about two million and mostly concentrated in Eastern Province. A policeman and an armed protester were killed in clashes in early August, as a security patrol came under heavy gunfire from four armed rioters on motorbike in Qatif, the interior ministry said. Two Shiite protesters were killed in July, triggering attacks on government buildings in Qatif... Qatif witnessed... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2926252/posts#comment Tue, 4 Sep 2012 00:56:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920142/posts Beyond the hatred, the racism and the anger, there’s a certain irony surrounding Al-Quds Day, commemorated this weekend internationally and to its shame — in Toronto. The event was founded by the Ayatollah Khomeini, and is an overwhelmingly Shiite Islam event. Anybody who knows Islam will understand that the Shiites are despised in most of the majority Sunni world. They were treated as second-class citizens in Lebanon, they are murdered in Pakistan, they are thought as being, golly, even worse than the Jews in Syria, and there aren’t any in Egypt because Saladin killed them all. So spare me the... torontosun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920142/posts#comment Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:02:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2919289/posts Gunmen on Thursday pulled 20 Shiite Muslims from a bus and shot them dead in northwestern Pakistan, the second such incident in six months AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2919289/posts#comment Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:18:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2909188/posts Fresh off three wars, Obama is looking to dive headlong into a fourth war in Syria. Even as Islamists are wreaking havoc across Mali, enforcing Sharia law and committing atrocities using weapons looted from the fall of Libya, the administration responsible for that disaster is looking to do it all over again.Obama’s program of regional change, whether implemented by military means as in Libya or by political pressure as in Egypt, has led to local and regional chaos, instability and the empowerment of Islamist groups ranging from Al-Qaeda to the Muslim Brotherhood. The coverage of the latest UN Security Council... Front Page News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2909188/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:12:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2892623/posts ISLAMIC GENOCIDESome of highlighted mass casualties by (political) Islam in course of the last century, from 1915 and on (updated June, 2012) Casualties: 2,700,000 Chritians - (1915-1923) by Ottoman-Empire Muslim Turkey. 750,000 Assyrians, 500,000 Greeks and 1.5 million Armenians.[1] Nature: 1.) Ethnic cleansing.[2] 2.) Islamic Jihad.[3] Casualties: close to 27,000. In Israel between 1920-2012, at the hands of Arab/Muslims. 24,526 Israelis/Jews killed, 35,356 injured, and 1,967 Arab "Palestinians" killed by other Arab "Palestinians."[4] Nature: roots and motivation: the genocide campaign[5][6][7][8] began (mainly) in the early 1920s by the supreme Islam leader, the pan-Arab Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, motivated by both:... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2892623/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:50:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2889989/posts When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead. Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2889989/posts#comment Thu, 31 May 2012 19:25:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2858236/posts BRUSSELS -- An ax-wielding arsonist burst into a Shiite Belgian mosque Monday, killing the imam and destroying much of the building in an attack local Muslims tipped as the work of Sunni extremists. Police said the man, detained after mosque personnel trapped him inside the building, apparently used fuel to set fire to the Rida mosque near Brussels' international rail hub, killing 46-year-old father-of-four Abdallah Dadou. The victim, who died of smoke inhalation, was described by worshipper Abdel Adouzeyneb, a 39-year-old real estate agent, as "a person who was loved by everybody -- he was open, well integrated, smiling and... AFP / NEWSCORE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2858236/posts#comment Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:46:12 GMT