Hyderabad journalists beaten and draged for not covering protesters.

HYDERABAD: Over a dozen journalists and policemen were assaulted as rioters during Ishq-e-Rasool protests besieged Hyderabad Press Club and the roads outside it were turned into a battlefield on Friday. The exchange of fire and tear-gas shelling, which started more than 75 minutes after the hostilities, sparked at around 4:15 pm and continued for over three hours. At least six journalists were beaten, dragged and pelted with stones while as many policemen including a DSP and SHO were also roughed up. Two motorcycles, one belonging to a reporter Abdul Qadir and another of cameraman Adnan Zai, were set ablaze while the rioters also ransacked the club’s reception before they were pushed out. The peaceful protests outside the club, which started in the morning, took an ugly turn in the afternoon. A group of protesters, who came in a rally of a religious group, began by shouting at the journalists, complaining that they are not being given proper coverage. In an instant they began hurling abuses and stones at the reporters, cameramen and photographers standing in and outside the club. “They were carping that the media was giving coverage to a particular group of protesters and was ignoring them,” said a photographer who was among the first to be hit by a rock inside the club. The siege forced the journalists to escape from the club by climbing the walls of the adjoining Radio Pakistan and into an alley behind the club. “We are stuck in a cul de sac. The only entrance to the street is blocked by the protesters who are attacking anyone with a camera,” said photographer Farhan Khan before the police action began. The assailants also charged upon the Express News team. “They hit me with batons, kicked me and dragged me on the footpath,” reporter Furqan Rajput said. “They were shouting that I deserved this because the media is an associate of the enemies of Islam.” Rajput was saved by Sunni Tehreek workers. They protected him until he could enter the club whose main gate was locked. A huge table was placed under it to prevent it from breaking. The delayed reinforcement from the police as well as the Rangers allowed the situation to get out of hand. The policemen from Cantt, who were on duty outside the club, fought the protesters as they waited for backup. “Two mobiles from the rangers were on duty at Basant Hall [less than 100 metres away] but they didn’t come until the police controlled the situation,” said Hameedur Rehman, the club’s president. According to him, the Rangers came about three hours late despite directives given by Deputy Commissioner Agha Shahnawaz Babur. By 7 pm the police ran out of tear-gas shells and it took over half an hour before fresh supplies came. Information Minister Sharjeel Memon announced that the government would compensate for the damage. In the evening, the rioters also attacked two wine shops in Saddar. In Kotri town of Jamshoro district eight people were injured, including five who were shot. They were hurt when protesters tried to force some shops to close. Published in The Express Tribune, September 22nd, 2012.

Obama official: Benghazi was a terrorist attack

The Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was in fact "a terrorist attack" and the U.S. government has indications that members of al Qaeda were directly involved, a top Obama administration official said Wednesday morning. "I would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy," Matt Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, in response to questioning from Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) about the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. As for who was responsible, Olsen said it appears there were attackers from a number of different militant groups that operate in and around Benghazi, and said there are already signs of al Qaeda involvement. "We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al Qaeda or al Qaeda's affiliates; in particular, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," he said. The U.S. government just isn't sure yet whether the terrorist attack was pre-planned or whether it was an example of terrorists taking advantage of protests against an anti-Islam film, Olsen said. "It appears that individuals who were certainly well-armed seized on the opportunity presented as the events unfolded that evening and into the morning hours of September 12th. We do know that a number of militants in the area, as I mentioned, are well-armed and maintain those arms. What we don't have at this point is specific intelligence that there was a significant advanced planning or coordination for this attack," he said. His statements go further than those of the White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who said last week that the protests in Cairo and Benghazi were a reaction to the video and not a pre-planned attack. Today, Carney didn't repeat the assertion that the video was solely to blame, but he said again that there is no evidence the Benghazi attack was pre-planned. "What I can tell you is that, as I said last week, as ... our ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday and as I said the other day, based on what we know now and knew at the time, we have no evidence of a preplanned or premeditated attack," Carney said Wednesday. "It is a simple fact that there are in post-revolution, post-war Libya armed groups; there are bad actors hostile to the government, hostile to the West, hostile to the United States. And as has been the case in other countries in the region, it is certainly conceivable that these groups take advantage of and exploit situations that develop, when they develop, to protest against or attack either Westerners, Americans, Western sites, or American sites." Committee ranking Republican Susan Collins (R-ME) declared at the hearing that she believes the attacks were planned well in advance and she referenced information she had received from U.S. intelligence officials behind closed doors. "First, I will tell you that based on the briefings I have had, I've come to the opposite conclusion and agree with the president of Libya that this was a premeditated, planned attack that was associated with the date of 9/11, the anniversary of 9/11," she said. "I just don't think that people come to protests equipped with RPGs and other heavy weapons. And the reports of complicity -- and they are many -- with the Libyan guards who were assigned to guard the consulate also suggest to me that this was premeditated." Collins said she was concerned by the lack of security at the Benghazi consulate, especially since there had been an attack on the mission in June and a more serious attack on the British ambassador's convoy as well. Olsen said the U.S. government was aware of the danger but not of impending attack that killed the four Americans. "So there were reports detailing those attacks and detailing generally the threat that was faced to U.S. and Western individuals and interests in Eastern Libya from, again, armed militants as well as elements connected to al Qaeda," he said. "There was no specific intelligence regarding an imminent attack prior to September 11th on our post in Benghazi." Posted By Josh Rogin

Achtung - Muslim sprecht!!!!

17.09.2012 11 Jahre 9/11: „IZ-Begegnung“ mit Paul Schreyer über Hintergründe und Erkenntnismethoden „Das sind Fähigkeiten, die ans Übermenschliche grenzen“ (iz). Jüngst jährte sich zum elften Mal der Jahrestag des 11. September 2001. Zu sehr wurde das offizielle Bild und seine Deutung im Bewusstsein der Menschen verankert, als dass eine Hinwendung zu alternativen Sichtweisen noch möglich scheint. Über Kritikpunkte an der offiziellen Verschwörungstheorie zu 9/11, Unstimmigkeiten, mutmaßliche Insidergeschäfte und dem Unterschied zwischen Paranoia und realen Machenschaften sprachen wir mit dem Publizisten Paul Schreyer. http://www.islamische-zeitung.de/?id=16097

THE MUSLIMS ARE NOT HAPPY!

They're not happy in Gaza .. They're not happy in Egypt .. They're not happy in Libya .. They're not happy in Morocco .. They're not happy in Iran .. They're not happy in Iraq .. They're not happy in Yemen .. They're not happy in Afghanistan .. They're not happy in Pakistan .. They're not happy in Syria .. They're not happy in Lebanon .. SO, WHERE ARE THEY HAPPY? They're happy in Australia . They're happy in Canada . They're happy in England .. They're happy in France .. They're happy in Italy .. They're happy in Germany .. They're happy in Sweden .. They're happy in the USA .. They're happy in Norway .. They're happy in Holland . They're happy in Denmark . Basically, they're happy in every country that is not Muslim and unhappy in every country that is! AND WHO DO THEY BLAME? Not Islam. Not their leadership. Not themselves. THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN! AND THEN; They want to change those countries to be like.... THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY! Excuse me, but I can't help wondering... How dumb can you get?

Stop Islamic Crimes Against Women. Inform your Congressman that Islam is Unlawful per United States Laws

America has welcomed and cared richly for more immigrants from more countries than all other nations in history - combined. IslamoFascism UnWelcomeBut this unparalleled benevolence has one Condition: If your goal is to subvert U.S. Freedom, Democracy and Egalitarian Justice with an Islamofascist Totalitarian system that demonstrably oppresses, stones and beats women, calls for child bride pedophilia, the wanton murder of female adulterers, critics and defectors and authorizes every Muslim to appoint himself a Mujahideen Jihadi executioner of any infidel as he sees fit - then you are not welcome in the United States and are subject to punitive action as stipulated by numerous UNITED STATES LAWS. Laws make Displaying or Disseminating the Q'uran Unlawful in the United States and render the Q'uran a Seditious and Treasonous Document In order to preserve the lives of its citizens, government officials must weigh potential destruction of human lives and subversion of The Constitution against guarantees of religion, speech and press which, although sacrosanct in America, are not more precious than life itself and must be denied to forces which seek to annihilate them if Western Freedoms are to survive. - adapted from the Annotated First Amendment -Cornell Law School The global spread of Islamic Theocracy, if not arrested with all force, will mean the End of Earth's Golden Age of Liberty and Justice for All in the West. Freedoms we LOSE under Islam Barbaric Sharia Laws of Islam 1. Rule of the U.S. Constitution & Amendments 2. Free Speech 3. Religious Freedom 4. Secular Freedom 5. Sexual Freedoms 6. Freedom of the Press 7. Literary Freedoms 8. Freedoms of Marriage and Divorce 9. A Women's right not to be beaten or stoned 10. A Woman's right to claim inheritance, own property & hold Political Office 11. A Woman's right to hold Clerical Positions 12. Delightful Colorful Feminine Fashions 13. The United States Government 14. Gays Lose the Right to Live and are beheaded 1. Stoning and Beating of Women 2. Execution for Criticism 3. Death Penalty for Apostasy 4. Execution for Blasphemy 5. Death Penalty for Satire 6. Amputating hands & feet for petty crimes 7. Burkha Death Bag Face Censorship 8. Mandatory Prayers & Mosque Attendance 9. Honor Killing / Raping Daughters 10. Execution for Atheism 11. Death Penalty for Adultery 12. Women Beaten for Singing 13. Legal Rape of Wives 14. Women & men must be raped before execution 15. Churches & Synagogues are Forbidden Muslims are obligated to obey, imitate and disseminate to children during their most impressionable formative years, the violent teachings and biography of Mohammad, collectively called the Sunnah, comprising the life and sayings of Mohammad in the Sira and Hadith, along with the Q'uran, a frankensteinish plagiarism of the most brutal laws and barbaric practices of the 7th century. Because Mohammad was illiterate and unable to comprehend the Torah, he was unaware that practices of stoning, eye gouging and amputations were abandoned by the Jews by 30 B.C.. Nevertheless, Mohammad insisted on resurrecting these barbarisms and Muslim countries disgracefully practice them to this day. Since Mohammad is held to be the perfect role model for all Muslims for all time, Mohammad's actions and teachings are a VIRAL MEME powered by "divine authority," convincing Muslims they have a SPECIAL PRIVILEDGE TO KILL AND RULE OVER INFIDELS whose offense to allah is worse then their murder. How this SATANIC MEME plays out is not mysterious as the world watches Muslims all over the world imitating Mohammad's pattern of barbaric sadistic violence that included crucifying, burning people alive, pedophillia, rape, brigandry, robbery, looting, pillaging, murder and constant war. In the clearest most certain terms, the Q'uran and Sunnah well articulate a master plan to subjugate the entire world to Islam through violence, coercion, duplicity and subversion. For a United States President or Representative to not acknowledge these incontrovertible truths or take grave extraordinary measures to combat the Islamic threat to everything America stands for, is dereliction of duty and criminal negligence. For the average citizen, respecting evil is evil and respecting, defending and supporting Islam implicates and makes one complicit in every act of stoning, amputation, beheading and terrorism born of the Islamic plague. If one outrageously claims terrorists bear no resemblance to Mohammad, his first Caliphs, Islamic history or the Q'uran, one hasn't studied Islamic history, read the Q'uran or the Sunnah. Read them now: Q'uotes from Mohammad. Q'uranic Muslims walking in the footsteps of Mohammad, comfort, aid, adhere to, harbor and abet by every means, enemies of the State who plot and execute sabotage, mayhem, violence and deadly terroristic coercion through a global Islamic cartel to which every Muslim in America belongs by their pledge to obey the Q'uran and follow Mohammad's desire to annihilate every non-Islamic form of government. 66 countries and cultures have been annihilated and assimilated by Islam: The UK and U.S. are next. Islam will not quit until every Free Western Light of Democracy is extinguished and replaced with brutal Islamic Totalitarian Theocracy. Listen to Thomas Jefferson express his estimation of Islam: The right was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. - Thomas Jefferson Laws of the United States of America compel our President and America's leaders to acknowledge the threat of Islam and take action to protect America's Freedoms, Democratic Government and People from the Islamic Meme that seeks to DESTROY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES And REPLACE IT WITH A FASCIST INTOLERANT ISLAMIC THEOCRACY KNOWN AS SHARIA LAW. Every time Muslims congregate and advocate, edit, publish or display the Q'uran they break U.S. laws as they conspire to institute Sharia Law. It's time the full force of the laws of Life were levied against the cult of Death. Islamic teachings of violence and treason are no longer welcome in America. America has incredulously looked the other way for too long. Muslims cannot be allowed to continue breaking our laws and plotting our demise by advocating the violent subversion enumerated in the Q'uran and by giving comfort and adherence to enemies of the state with whom the U.S. is at war.

Jailed Indonesian cleric: mimic attacks on U.S. in Libya

One of Indonesia's most notorious hardline Muslim clerics has issued a jailhouse proclamation to his faithful: feel free to mimic the coordinated attacks on America's Libyan embassy in Indonesia. There is still speculation as to whether those attacks, which killed U.S. envoy J. Christopher Stevens, were provoked by the poorly made, anti-Islam "Innocence of Muslims" video posted on YouTube. But Abu Bakar Bashir, a cheerleader for violent jihad still in prison for organizing the 2002 bombings in Bali, is clear in stating that the film must be answered with violent reprisals. In an interview with Indonesian outlet "Voice of al-Islam," according to a translation by the Jakarta Globe, Bashir said that "what happened in Libya can be imitated ... If it is defaming God and the Prophet [Muhammad], the punishment should be death. [There are] no other considerations.” This is, to my knowledge, the most extreme call to violence to come from any Southeast Asian Muslim leader. But there is good news: Indonesian security forces have already cracked down on Bashir's followers with a vengeance and scattered them into fragmented groups. They are probably incapable of mounting such an attack at the time being. Better still is that, for the most part, Southeast Asia's varied Muslim societies have registered their disgust at the film but stopped short of advocating violence. As I wrote earlier this week, the region's mainstream Muslim leaders are largely disturbed that America values one troublemaker's freedom of speech rights over the aggrieved feelings of Muslims worldwide. Still, wild rallies outside American embassies in Indonesia, which have degraded into bloody fighting between Muslim protesters and cops, may continue in days to come. According to the Jakarta Post, protests have scared a U.S. consulate in Medan, a bustling provincial capital, into temporarily closing.

Man Allegedly Behind Anti-Islam Film Slams Protesters

A man who says he was behind the private film sparking demonstrations in the Muslim world is criticizing the protesters.

In an interview with U.S.-government-funded Radio Sawa, the alleged director of the film says his fellow Arabs "have to learn demonstrate peacefully against the issues on which we disagree." He says any allegation the United States government was involved in the making of the movie is "funny and ridiculous" and that "America has nothing to do with the film."

Radio Sawa says the man refused to confirm his identity but that a source who provided the contact information identified him as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.

Several news organizations have linked the inflammatory film, titled "The Innocence of Muslims," to Nakoula, 55, an Egyptian Coptic Christian who lives in California and recently served a prison sentence for bank fraud.

Initially, the film was said to have been produced by a man named Sam Bacile, who told news media he is Israeli-American. A consultant on the film confirmed the name "Sam Bacile" was a pseudonym. There is no record of the film or its producer in Hollywood reference sources.

The man believed to be Nakoula tells Radio Sawa he did not expect the film would cause such strong reactions from the Arab and Muslim world, saying the film's other producers "put my mind at ease." But he also says all the film's advisers were "foreigners who do not know anything about Arabs and have never visited Arab countries."

During a protest over the film outside the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Tuesday, armed militants killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. staff members.

Nakoula says he is saddened by the deaths but that he does not regret making the film. He also rejected allegations made by some of the actors and crew members that they were tricked into making the movie.

When asked if he misled the actors and crew, he said "This is a producer's right. He can put what he wants in the film without consulting the actors... my answer to them is that they do not belong to a professional association."

Translation of Sawa Interview with the film maker of "Innocence of Muslims"

In a telephone interview with Radio Sawa, the man claiming to have made the film that triggered demonstrations in much of the Islamic world says he has no regrets about the project. The following is a translation of the interview that was conducted in Arabic:

Filmmaker: I'm going to tell you the whole truth. All the names mentioned in the media outlets have nothing to do with my real name.

Sawa: So, introduce yourself to the readers and listeners. Who are you?

Filmmaker: I am an Islamic affairs researcher since 1985 or 1986. When I claim things I always provide documentations and proof. I started my researches since I heard about certain events that concern the Muslims.

Sawa: What are the events that prompted you to write about Islam and Muslims?

Filmmaker: The events that took place in Iran when they started to expel the Jews and the people of other faiths out of Iran. The second thing that followed that was Salman Rushdie's book. He was a man who wrote a book that has nothing to do with Islam. The Muslims put a bounty of $5 million to have him killed and I was angered by that. This was an intellectual terrorism.

Sawa: Those events were the reason that prompted you to write about Islam?

Filmmaker: Of course. And by the way, I graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University

Sawa: There are media reports that say that you are the producer of the movie "Innocence of Muslims." are you?

Filmmaker: I am the screenwriter of the movie.

Sawa: Who produced the movie?

Filmmaker: I am not going to disclose the identity of the producer.

Sawa: Some are saying that the United States was involved.

Filmmaker: This is funny and ridiculous. America has nothing to do with the film. What is being said about America being the producer of the movie is not logical at all. It is only a way to find an excuse to blame America. ...The movie was produced in a very primitive way just to deliver a message. Now there are prominent producers and directors who plan to produce other movies.

Sawa: Are you claiming that there are other movies in the pipeline?

Filmmaker: This is what I heard, but can't confirm this.

Sawa: What made you decide to write the script of the movie?

Filmmaker: I wrote a book in 1993 or 1994. The producers liked the book and asked me to write a movie script about it.

Sawa: What was the title of that book?

Filmmaker: I refuse to mention the title of the book because this will reveal my true identity.

Sawa: Some of the actors in the movie claim that you misled them and the original script was not the same as the final product. Is that true?

Filmmaker: Absolutely not. Those actors are not members of a professional acting association and therefore do not have the right to appeal the final product. The producer has the right to change the movie's name or script as he wishes. However, I don't blame them for claiming that they were misled to protect themselves from any harm. All that is owed them is pay for their acting. Nothing else.

Sawa: Did you anticipate the film would cause such strong reactions?

Filmmaker: No I did not expect that, but the producer and director assured me not to worry.

Sawa: How did you feel about the violent reaction in the Islamic world and the death of the U.S. Ambassador in Libya?

Filmmaker: First, the U.S. ambassador's death has nothing to do with the film. The people who did this are thugs and thieves. I have a question for those people: If you are defending the Prophet, why do you steal from embassies? President Sadat said in the past: "Such is an uprising of thugs. America is a victim of injustice in this case. What does the U.S. government have to do with these subjects? If a person anywhere in the world does something, should a government be held responsible? Of course not. We have to learn demonstrate peacefully against the issues on which we disagree. But it seems that Omar Suleiman was right when he said, "We are not yet ready for democracy."

Sawa: After the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, do you regret the making of the film?

Filmmaker: No, I do not regret it. I am saddened for the killing of ambassador, but I do not regret making it.

Sawa: If you had the chance again would you produce the same film?

Filmmaker: I believe that I've done my part. I am no longer a young man. I've decided to retire. That is enough for me.

Sawa: Do you have any kind of security protection given the strong reaction to the movie?

Filmmaker: Absolutely not. Nobody knows my name. I never had any kind of protection and why would I need protection while living a normal life.

Sawa: Dozens of the Coptic organization in Egypt have denounced the movie.

Filmmaker: They have the right to do so, and they have nothing to do with the movie and I have nothing to do with them. I want to say that I did not come up with any information other than what is written in the Islamic books. I added nothing of my own.

Sawa: Have you read the Quran?

Filmmaker: Of course I have read the Quran, the Hadiths and more that 3,000 Islamic books.

Sawa: Do you believe that that only Islam has negative sides? What are your views about Judaism and Christianity, for example?

Filmmaker: I am an average reader about other religions and I can write about Judaism and Christianity if I ever resume writing.

Sawa: I see that you are defending America a lot in our interview? Do you have a sense of guilt for what happened?

Filmmaker: Yes, I feel guilty. America has got nothing to do with this film.

Sawa: Do you have a message to the world that you want to relay through your interview with Radio Sawa?

Filmmaker: Yes. I want the world to watch the movie in its entirety. The duration of the movie is 1.55 hours. Then you can judge for yourselves. I'm now thinking about posting the whole movie on the internet.

Sawa: The US department of State and President Obama denounced that movie.

Filmmaker: President Obama is responsible for the lives of 400 million Americans and he has all the right to say anything and use any means to protect his people. In the end, I would like to relay my condolences to the United States for the death of the U.S. Ambassador and the other Embassy staff.

Cleric Beaten Up By 'Badly Veiled' Woman

"I politely [told] her to cover herself up," said Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti, an Iranian cleric in the city of Shamirzad in Semnan Province, describing a recent encounter with a woman he believed was improperly veiled.

"She responded to me by saying: 'You [should] close your eyes.'"

The cleric, who spoke to the semi-official Mehr news agency, said he repeated his warning to the “bad hijab” woman, which is a way of describing women who do not fully observe the Islamic dress code that became compulsory following the 1979 revolution.

"Not only didn’t she cover herself up, but she also insulted me. I asked her not to insult me anymore, but she started shouting and threatening me," Beheshti said. "She pushed me and I fell to the ground on my back. From that point on, I don’t know what happened. I was just feeling the kicks of the woman who was beating me up and insulting me."

He said he was hospitalized for three days following the attack.

I’m not a supporter of violence, but as a woman who grew up in Iran and was harassed many times for appearing in public in a way that was deemed un-Islamic, I understand the frustration that woman in Semnan must have felt and why she lashed out at the cleric.

(Here are my thoughts on the hijab in Iran.)

For the past 30 years, Iranian women have been harassed, detained, fined, and threatened by the morality police, security forces, and zealots over their appearance. Women have fought back in different ways, including by pushing the boundaries of acceptable dress and criticizing the rules, which apply only to women.

Officially, the hijab is promoted as “protection” for women against evil in society. For many women, however, the hijab feels like a burden, an insult, a limitation of their freedom and an attempt to keep them under control.

Young girls often cite the mandatory hijab as one of the main reasons they want to leave Iran and move to another country. Women being mistreated by the police because of their hijabs have become a common scene on the streets of the Iranian capital and other cities, especially during the hot summer months when the hijab crackdown intensifies.

There have also been cases of women clashing with the morality police, including a number of cases that have been documented by citizen journalists and posted on YouTube.

The situation has led to conflicts between women and religious zealots such as Beheshti, who believe that the Islamic principle of “commanding right and forbidding wrong” makes it their duty to lecture women about their appearance and choice of dress.

Mehr reports that attacks against clerics similar to the one involving Beheshti are not rare. The news agency issued the names of three other clerics, including a representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who have been attacked.

"...Hojatoleslam Seyed Mahmud Mostafavi Montazeri in [a street] in Tehran; Hojatoleslam Farzad Farouzesh, the Friday Prayer leader of Tehran Medical Science University, on the capital’s Shariati Street; a cleric in the Tehranpars region; and Kheirandish, the supreme leader’s representative to Shiraz’s Agriculture University, and...they all have been beaten up for performing their religious duty of [commanding right and forbidding wrong] and in some cases sustained irreparable damages.”

Beheshti says he didn’t file a complaint against the woman who attacked him, despite going through “the worst days of his life.”

According to Mehr, the case is being reviewed by the judiciary. The region’s prosecutor told the news agency that the case is being investigated but wouldn’t give any details. The prosecutor has referred to the case as an incident of a "public beating."

Of course, when the same type of incident is reversed -- a "badly veiled" women beaten in public by police -- it’s simply a necessary enforcement of the dress code.

-- Golnaz Esfandiari

About Shariah Finance - part II.

How is shariah related to jihad?
The mu’amalat part of shariah mandates as a religious obligation, conducting violent jihad against non-Muslims to establish Islam’s rule worldwide in a form known as the caliphate.
How does shariah finance relate to shariah itself?
Shariah finance is indistinguishable from shariah itself, since its followers consider shariah immutable, indivisible, and mandatory for Muslims to follow in all aspects of life. Muslims are not allowed to pick and choose different aspects of shariah to follow. Anyone that infers that shariah finance is something apart from shariah is simply being dishonest. In fact, the main purpose of shariah finance is to promote shariah.
Where is shariah-compliant finance most prominent?
According to the November 2007 edition of The Banker, Iran dominates the world of shariah-compliant finance. Three of the five largest shariah-compliant financial institutions in the world—including the top two—are Iranian. The amount of shariah-compliant financial assets in institutions in Iran is over twice as large as the amount in financial institutions in the world’s second largest shariah-compliant country, Saudi Arabia.
How does shariah finance threaten Americans?
Shariah finance is a threat to Western values, human rights and US national security. Shariah finance has a political objective: to legitimize shariah in the West. Evidence indicates that shariah-compliant finance provides financial support to extremism and terrorism. Shariah-compliant financial institutions employ shariah scholars, many of whom have been shown to be extremists, even to the point of advocating suicide bombing and jihad against America. Among the decisions these scholars make is the donation of 2.5% or more of annual earnings to Muslim charities. Similar to zakat, earnings from investments that are judged to have been unislamic must be purified through donations to charities as well. Given the extremist tendencies of these scholars and the fact that no fewer than 27 charities have been designated as funding terrorism by the US Treasury Department, this presents a hazard which could obviously threaten US national security.
In sum, shariah finance represents a number of potential threats to the US, including possible financing of terrorism and extremist Islamist organizations and movements, infiltrating our financial markets and legitimizing shariah.
Have shariah-compliant financial institutions been tied to terrorism?
There are a number of well-documented cases in which shariah-compliant financial institutions have participated in the financial support of terrorism. For instance, two shariah-compliant banks registered in the Bahamas, Bank Al-Taqwa and Akida Bank, were, according to the US Treasury Department, shell companies actually run out of Italy and Switzerland, whose only real business was laundering money to terrorists. From 1988 until November 2001 when it was designated a terrorist entity by the US government and the UN, Bank Al-Taqwa transferred tens of millions of dollars to HAMAS, Al Qaeda, the PLO, Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA), the Taliban, Egyptian Gama’a al Islamiya and the Tunisian An-Nahda.
In another case, prominent members of the Saudi royal family were co-investors with Osama Bin Laden in the Sudanese Shamal Islamic Bank while several designated terrorists maintained accounts there

About Shariah Finance - part I.

Shariah Finance Watch is a project of the Center for Security Policy‘s program to educate the public and policymakers about the dangers of Shariah. For a more in-depth look at Shariah, see Shariah: The Threat to America, a report by 19 top national security practitioners– including the former Director of Central Intelligence, the former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, and the former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Shariah: The Threat to America is available on paperback and Kindle at Amazon.com.
Below are frequently asked questions about Shariah and Shariah-Compliant Finance, or Islamic Banking.

What is shariah?

Understanding Shariah law is integral to understanding the dangers of Shariah-compliant finance. Shariah law is Islamic law dating back to the 7th century and is today the law of the land in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan and the law under which the Taliban operates.
Shariah law authorities, some of whom are now being paid handsomely by Barclays, Dow Jones, Standard & Poors, HSBC, Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Deutschebank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse and others have the power to dictate Shariah compliance as deemed by “scholarly consensus” on matters of finance, family, penal law, apostasy, and war. Examples of authoritarian Shariah law include: requirement of women to obtain permission from husbands for daily freedoms; beating of disobedient woman and girls; execution of homosexuals; engagement of polygamy and forced child marriages; the testimony of four male witnesses to prove rape; honor killings of those, principally women, who have dishonored the family; death to apostate Muslims who chose to leave Islam; inferior status of non-Muslims, and capital punishment for those who “slander Islam.”
What are some of the risks of shariah-compliant finance?
National Security and Financial Risks: Islamists are attempting to impose Shariah Compliant Finance (SCF) on Western institutions to use our own financial strengths against us. The most serious problem with SCF is that it legitimates and institutionalizes Shariah law (i.e., Islamic law), a theo-political- legal doctrine violently opposed to Western values. With $1 -$2 trillion petrodollars annually looking for an investment home, blind exuberance is driving financial institutions to adopt SCF, without even a minimal baseline for legal compliance. This willful blindness, and lack of both transparency and due diligence may cause SCF to be the next sub-prime crisis, but this time with deadly consequences.
Legal Risks: Western financial institutions which adopt SCF may have criminal and civil exposure to claims of aiding and abetting sedition and the material support of terrorism, securities fraud, consumer fraud, racketeering, and antitrust violations, as well as exposure to tort claims for sedition and terrorism, and for the violation of internationally recognized norms of the law of nations.
Terror Financing Mechanism: SCF as monitored by paid Shariah law advisors to U.S. banking institutions must “purify” certain return on investment (ROI) dollars that do not meet Shariah law standards. This money must be donated to Islamic charities – including some that promote Jihad and support suicide bombing. Investment disclosures state that these profits can be as high as 6% of profits of investments. With $800 billion already in SCF assets, the potential for billions of dollars to be siphoned off for terrorism is real. This would be a serious criminal violation of U.S. law.
Consider this example: Shariah Mutual Funds promote themselves as “ethical funds.” To be Shariah-compliant, they donate “tainted” revenues to Shariah-compliant “charities.” A post 9-11 U.S. investor in a Shariah-compliant “ethical investment” is not told that Shariah law also requires imposing Shariah as U.S. law, execution of gays and female apartheid. Is he a victim of consumer fraud? Is this same post 9-11 investor unwittingly funding terror? The government has shut down the three largest Shariah-compliant charities in the U.S. – the Holy Land Foundation, Benevolence International Foundation, and the Global Relief Foundation – after proving they funded terrorist organizations.The American taxpayer deserves answers to these questions. The Center for Security Policy (CSP) is meeting directly with members of Congress, U.S. regulatory agencies and Wall

ing. Valentin Kusák
chief of AntiMešita o.s. a IVČRN o.s.