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Form the Sydney Morning Herald (11-16-2006): “Mohammed Sidique Khan, one of the four apparent suicide bombers who attacked London on July 7, condemned British Muslim leaders on a video aired for the first time on Tuesday. In the clip shown on Britain’s Channel 4 television, Khan urged British Muslims to take part in jihad - “holy war” or “spiritual struggle” - and accused “so-called community leaders” of being “content with their Toyotas and their semi-detached houses”. Khan, widely regarded as the ringleader of the group that killed 52 commuters and injured about 700, has previously been seen on video blaming the British public for the July 7 attacks on the capital’s transport network. In the latest extract, followed by a message from al-Qaeda’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Khan said: “Jihad is an obligation on every single one of us, men and women, and by staying at home you are turning your backs on jihad, which is a major sin.” He added: "Our so-called scholars today are content with their Toyotas and their semi-detached houses. "They tell us ludicrous things like ‘You must obey the law of the land.’ How on earth did we conquer lands in the past if we were to obey this law? By Allah, these scholars will be brought to account. “If they fear the British Government more than they fear Allah, then they must desist in giving talks, lectures and passing fatwas and they need to stay at home - they’re useless - and leave the job to the real men, the true inheritors of the Prophet [Mohammed].”
From Arab News (11-14-2005): “The controversial case of Muhammad Al-Harbi, a Saudi high school teacher accused of mocking religion, came to a surprising end on Saturday. Al-Harbi was sentenced to three years in prison and 750 lashes — 50 lashes per week for 15 weeks. The lashes are to be given in the public market in the town of Al-Bikeriya in Al-Qassim. A number of 12th Grade students, along with some teachers from the same school, filed a lawsuit a year-and-a-half ago against Al-Harbi. He was accused of mocking Islam, favoring Jews and Christians, preventing students from performing ablutions. He was also charged with studying witchcraft. At the time, he was a chemistry teacher at Al-Fowailiq High School in the town of Ein Al-Juwa in Al-Qassim.
From Aljazeera.Net (11-16-2005): “Suspected Muslim separatists have stormed two houses in a southern Thai village and opened fire on the families with assault rifles, killing nine people and injuring nine others. About 10 armed men on Wednesday entered the homes in the Rangae district of Thailand’s Narathiwat province and killed four men.”
From Iran Focus (11-16-2005): An organisation set up by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is holding a rally in a provincial centre in north-east Iran on Tuesday as part of a nationwide drive to recruit volunteers for “martyrdom-seeking” operations, Iran Focus has learnt. The event, dubbed “Palestinian intifada and martyrdom-seeking”, will be staged on the campus of the Industrial University of Shahroud. The keynote speaker will be Mohammad-Ali Samadi, the spokesman for the “Headquarters to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement”. Samadi is a senior officer of the Revolutionary Guards and his organisation is run by the IRGC in an effort to recruit potential suicide bombers. Organisers of the rally said the representative of the militant Palestinian group, Hamas, in Iran, Abu Othmama, will also speak at the rally. “This event is part of a series of events that we have named ‘Daughters of the Olive’, and in addition to Tehran, similar rallies have already been held in Tabriz and Bushehr”, a local organiser told Iran Focus. A film on “martyrdom-seeking operations” is planned to be shown at the gathering and a debate will be held regarding the guidelines for suicide operations from both Sunni and Shiite Islam’s perspectives and their impact on “the enemy”, the source added. Earlier this month, radical fanatics signed up for suicide operations in Tehran to mark the end of the month of Ramadan. Samadi said that 40,000 volunteers for suicide bombing operations had already enlisted to attack targets on the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.”
From The Age.Com (11-16-2005): “Mothers convicted of inciting their children to kill in the name of Allah may face life imprisonment, according to a terror law expert. Secretly recorded conversations produced in evidence in a Sydney court this week showed that terror suspects were allegedly told by their spiritual leader to ask their mothers for permission to wage jihad.”
From The Nation (11-14-2005): “This is the beginning of the war!” a French Muslim boy called out in the middle of the recent riots in Le Blanc Mesnil, just north of Paris.
From Arab News (11-14-2005): “The controversial case of Muhammad Al-Harbi, a Saudi high school teacher accused of mocking religion, came to a surprising end on Saturday. Al-Harbi was sentenced to three years in prison and 750 lashes — 50 lashes per week for 15 weeks. The lashes are to be given in the public market in the town of Al-Bikeriya in Al-Qassim. A number of 12th Grade students, along with some teachers from the same school, filed a lawsuit a year-and-a-half ago against Al-Harbi. He was accused of mocking Islam, favoring Jews and Christians, preventing students from performing ablutions. He was also charged with studying witchcraft. At the time, he was a chemistry teacher at Al-Fowailiq High School in the town of Ein Al-Juwa in Al-Qassim.
From Aljazeera.Net (11-16-2005): “Suspected Muslim separatists have stormed two houses in a southern Thai village and opened fire on the families with assault rifles, killing nine people and injuring nine others. About 10 armed men on Wednesday entered the homes in the Rangae district of Thailand’s Narathiwat province and killed four men.”
From Iran Focus (11-16-2005): An organisation set up by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is holding a rally in a provincial centre in north-east Iran on Tuesday as part of a nationwide drive to recruit volunteers for “martyrdom-seeking” operations, Iran Focus has learnt. The event, dubbed “Palestinian intifada and martyrdom-seeking”, will be staged on the campus of the Industrial University of Shahroud. The keynote speaker will be Mohammad-Ali Samadi, the spokesman for the “Headquarters to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement”. Samadi is a senior officer of the Revolutionary Guards and his organisation is run by the IRGC in an effort to recruit potential suicide bombers. Organisers of the rally said the representative of the militant Palestinian group, Hamas, in Iran, Abu Othmama, will also speak at the rally. “This event is part of a series of events that we have named ‘Daughters of the Olive’, and in addition to Tehran, similar rallies have already been held in Tabriz and Bushehr”, a local organiser told Iran Focus. A film on “martyrdom-seeking operations” is planned to be shown at the gathering and a debate will be held regarding the guidelines for suicide operations from both Sunni and Shiite Islam’s perspectives and their impact on “the enemy”, the source added. Earlier this month, radical fanatics signed up for suicide operations in Tehran to mark the end of the month of Ramadan. Samadi said that 40,000 volunteers for suicide bombing operations had already enlisted to attack targets on the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.”
From The Age.Com (11-16-2005): “Mothers convicted of inciting their children to kill in the name of Allah may face life imprisonment, according to a terror law expert. Secretly recorded conversations produced in evidence in a Sydney court this week showed that terror suspects were allegedly told by their spiritual leader to ask their mothers for permission to wage jihad.”
From The Nation (11-14-2005): “This is the beginning of the war!” a French Muslim boy called out in the middle of the recent riots in Le Blanc Mesnil, just north of Paris.
