http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trop/ en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:42:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382714/posts Radical American Muslims support attack on U.S. military base and other terrorist attacks. From CNN. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382714/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:42:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382218/posts U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known, if anything, about Hasan by the... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382218/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:45:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381421/posts The soldiers at Fort Hood had it coming, says a radical Muslim in Queens who travels to mosques around the city spreading anti-American hate and has sent a "Get Well Soon" message to the major behind the Texas massacre. "An officer and a gentleman was injured while partaking in a pre-emptive attack," Yousef al-Khattab wrote on his Web site, called "Revolution Muslim." "Get well soon Major Nidal. We love you." In the twisted logic of al-Khattab, who was born Jewish in New Jersey and converted to Islam in 2004, the 13 slain and 38 wounded Army victims gunned down by... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381421/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:27:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380406/posts SILVER SPRING, Maryland (AFP) – Islam is "not responsible" for the bloodbath at an army base in Texas where Muslim-American army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down 13 people, the prayer leader at the mosque where the officer regularly worshipped said Friday. "We offer our condolences and prayers to the families that have a person who died," said Imam Mohammed Abdullahi over loud-speakers that carried the weekly Muslim prayer to several hundred worshippers gathered at the mosque. "Islam is not responsible," he stressed. Many of the worshippers who had come to the mosque in this suburb of Washington knew... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380406/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:09:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379846/posts The suspect, a Virginia Tech graduate and one-time Vinton resident, was shot but survived at Fort Hood, Texas. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of shooting 12 people to death and wounding 31 others at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, was the son of Roanoke merchants and restaurateurs, lived in Vinton and graduated from Virginia Tech. Hasan was born in Arlington to Palestinian immigrants from near Jerusalem who later settled in Vinton. Neighbors on Vinton's Ramada Road remembered him as a "studious" boy who went by "Michael." While his brother Eyad -- "Eddie" -- would play football with... The Roanoke Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379846/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:49:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379776/posts The negative spiritual and intellectual consequence of believing two mutually exclusive concepts is "cognitive dissonance." Our interaction as a society with Islam is a direct cause of "cognitive dissonance" for us as individuals and as a culture.  Resolution of the contradiction requires the rejection of one of the concepts as false. If we continue to ignore our cognitive dissonance about Islam the consequences are dire: we will lose our civilization. Islam is much more than a religion; it is a complete civilization that includes politics (caliphate), jurisprudence (Sharia law), war (jihad), and a deliberately misleading "religion of peace." The doctrine... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379776/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:35:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379658/posts Al Siddiq, president of the Islamic Center of Waco, followed the unfolding news of the Fort Hood tragedy anxiously, as a veteran of the U.S. Army himself, as a friend of some Muslim soldiers currently stationed at the Central Texas post and as a Muslim who has become wary of backlash. Siddiq said the Muslim Islamic community is very concerned that the shooter on Fort Hood was a Muslim because Muslims tend to get all thrown into the same category. Since 9/11, Siddiq said, when an individual Muslim acts stupid, it affects the entire Islamic community. The concern is backlash... Waco Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379658/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:41:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379179/posts The Council on American-Islamic Relations sent out its usual roundup Tuesday of news stories alleging the mistreatment of Muslims in America. There was a story critical of the FBI harassment of Muslims in Queens, N.Y., in the wake of the arrest of a suspected terrorist. Another story concerned calls for an investigation into an FBI shooting that left Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah dead. There were also notices of CAIR banquets. There was no story about Noor Faleh Almaleki. Her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, has been arrested for running down his 20-year-old daughter, as well as the mother of her... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379179/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:55:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377477/posts RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday. International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public. Roiders http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377477/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:33:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376480/posts Christian critical of Islamization of society, Orthodox church jailed without charges. A Coptic Christian blogger in Egypt entering his second year of prison without charge is being pressured to convert to Islam in exchange for his freedom... On Oct. 3, 2008, Hani Nazeer, a 28-year-old high school social worker from Qena, Egypt and author of the blog “Karz El Hob” (“Love Cherries”), was arrested by Egypt’s State Security Investigations (SSI) and sent to Burj Al-Arab prison. Although police never charged him with any crime, Nazeer has been detained for more than a year under Egypt’s administrative imprisonment law. Gamel Eid,... CDN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376480/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:23:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376226/posts A MAN has told how he was pulled over and viciously kicked in the head in an unprovoked attack as he walked home through Savile Town. Robert Dyson, 45, of Ouzelwell Crescent, Thornhill Lees, was on his way home at 11pm last Friday when he was assaulted in Savile Road, near the playground. Labourer Mr Dyson was set upon by two Asian youths, who were with another Asian man and two white girls. Mr Dyson suffered nasty cuts to his nose and left ear which needed 27 stitches. He will be scarred for life. The Press has previously reported how... The Press Newspaper http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376226/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 02:44:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375726/posts EVERETT, Wash. - A 61-year-old man accused of beating his brother to death in Lynnwood told Snohomish County sheriff's detectives it was an honor killing to avenge an insulting remark. Mehdi M. Matin says more than 20 years ago his brother uttered words about his bride-to-be so terrible the wedding was called off. Both men are from Afghanistan. Matin was visiting his brother Monday when he repeated the remark. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375726/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 05:47:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375477/posts SNIPPET: "SUSPECTED Islamic insurgents shot and killed two people and wounded three others in a bomb blast in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority south, police said. Gunmen broke into a house in Yala province and shot dead a 16-year-old Buddhist girl, also wounding her 29-year-old husband, they said.... More than 3900 people have died in shootings, bomb blasts, beheadings and crucifixions since a separatist insurgency erupted in Thailand's southern provinces bordering Malaysia in January 2004." (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) via JIHAD WATCH.org (A http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375477/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:38:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375090/posts As reported last week by Campus Watch, Dalia Mogahed, appointee to President Obama's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, and co-author, along with Georgetown University's John Esposito, of Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, appeared (by phone) earlier this month on the UK-based Islam Channel television program "Muslimah Dilemma" (view here and read the complete transcript here.) Ibtihal Bsis, the show's host, is a member of the Islamist group Hizb ut Tahrir; Mogahed's fellow guest, Nazreen Nawaz, is the group's national women's media representative.... Campus Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375090/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:46:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374146/posts Kinderen voor Kinderen (Children for Children), the children's choir of public broadcaster VARA, has composed a song in which Islam is praised... In the song, 'Allah Akbar' is chorused 27 times. "The Dutch are in this way humiliated," declares PVV MP Martin Bosma. "The multi-culturalists have no shame any more. The multicultural faith is at death's door in society, but on subsidised public television, it is still alive and kicking." On Tuesday evening, the choir sung its 2009 CD on TV, among which was the Islam song. According to Bosma, the slogan 'Allah Akbar,' which forms the refrain, is "a... Netherlands Info Services http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374146/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:16:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372499/posts ‘Moderate’ Islamist group had long suspected woman in Puntland was Christian. Three masked members of a militant Islamist group in Somalia last week shot and killed a Somali Christian who declined to wear a veil as prescribed by Muslim custom... Members of the comparatively “moderate” Suna Waljameca group killed Amina Muse Ali... in her home . Ali had told Christian leaders that she had received several threats from members of Suna Waljameca for not wearing a veil, symbolic of adherence to Islam. She had said members of the group had long monitored her movements because they suspected she was a... Compass Direct http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372499/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:06:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370407/posts Stone-throwing Arab youths wounded three policemen on the Temple Mount on Sunday as Jerusalem police, firing water cannons and stun grenades, raided the holy site in a bid to quell repeated bouts of rioting. Police stormed the compound twice; the first time was in response to Arab youths who pelted officers with rocks and poured oil on them. Later Sunday morning, about 100 Arab youths renewed rioting at the Temple Mount, after which Border Police and regular policemen raided the site again, using stun grenades to disperse the rioters. Police were attempting to completely clear the compound of worshippers. Officers... haaretz.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370407/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:37:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2366805/posts In thinking about women's rights, sharia law, or Islamic law, doesn't typically come to mind.Yet, according to a survey conducted by Dalia Mogahed, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and appointee to President Obama's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the two are closely intertwined. Her survey alleges that a majority of Muslim women believe sharia law should either be the primary source or one source of legislation in their countries, while viewing Western personal freedoms as harmful to women.The survey's findings appear in the book, Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims... Campus Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2366805/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364762/posts A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly whipping women for wearing bras that they claim violate Islam as they are 'deceptive'. The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday. The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra. If they are found wearing , they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said. Al Shabaab, which seeks to impose a strict interpretation... Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364762/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:25:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364620/posts German police are investigating a chilli sauce to determine whether it was so spicy that it was capable of causing grievous bodily harm when used in an attack. Police took a sample of the sauce from a kebab stand in Bremen's central train station after a kebab salesman threw it into the eyes of a customer during a fight over napkins. "Legally, the question of whether the spiciness of the kebab sauce constituted 'normal' or grievous bodily harm must be addressed," local police in the northern city said on Friday. news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364620/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:27:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364427/posts A poster featuring a Muslim woman in a chador surrounded by minaret towers that resemble missiles is causing outrage in Switzerland ahead of a referendum next month on whether to ban mosques from having minarets. The campaign is proving so controversial that even some die-hard members of the country's far right are uncomfortable with it. Wangen bei Olten has already been lost. The small Swiss municipality at the foot of the Jura Mountains has become home to a minaret. The Christians in the village fought hard to prevent it -- they collected signatures, lodged official complaints, spoke publicly against it... Der Speigel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364427/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:18:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352127/posts LONDON– A campaign warning girls not to stash or carry guns for their boyfriends was launched by London police Wednesday. The hard-hitting adverts, which are aimed at 15 to 19-year-olds of African and African Caribbean heritage, are designed to combat a worrying growth in the number of young women being arrested and convicted of possessing weapons. "This year's campaign has been designed to tackle an emerging and concerning trend," "Sadly, young women have always been involved in carrying and storing firearms," said Claudia Webbe, chairman of Trident's Independent Advisory Group. "We are deeply concerned, however, that this involvement seems to... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352127/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 01:49:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360129/posts A teenage girl was raped four times by a gang who took pictures of the abuse on their mobile phones. The 16-year-old victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was attacked in the attic room of a house in Rochdale on 28 May 2008. The girl's mother called her mobile phone after noticing she was missing from their home, only to hear the cries of her daughter on the end of the line. Her four attackers, aged 17 to 20, pleaded guilty at Bolton Crown Court. The girl had gone to the house after being called on her mobile.... BBC NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360129/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:42:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358193/posts "Muslim in Washington, DC: "I'm not scared to die! I will kill you! I will blow people up and the Metro!"" SNIPPET: ""Three blocks of Wisconsin Avenue Northwest were cleared of cars and pedestrians. Adjacent buildings and restaurants were evacuated..." "DC Security Scare Becomes Federal Case," by Bob Barnard for MyFoxDC, October 8 (thanks to Heidi): WASHINGTON, D.C. - A man who was arrested in a security scare in Northwest D.C. on Tuesday night threatened to blow up the Friendship Heights Metro station, according to a criminal complaint in the case. It was a chaotic scene Tuesday night in Friendship... (MyFoxDC) via JIHAD WATCH.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358193/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:45:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350908/posts Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Monday he can't think of any reason he would stop the execution of Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for the October 2002 killing spree that left 10 dead in the nation's capital, Virginia and Maryland. "I know of nothing in this case now that would suggest that there is any credible claim of innocence or that there was anything procedurally wrong with the prosecution," Kaine said on his monthly call-in radio show on WTOP. Kaine said he would review Muhammad's petition for clemency when he... , Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350908/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:35:19 GMT