Monday, 20 May 2013

Desperately Seeking Peaceful Islam


America is desperate to find un-Muslim-like allies among the world’s Muslims. That is, Muslims who believe as Americans do that no particular religion should have the upper hand in politics and government.

Alas, the Pew Research Foundation polls keep revealing that this search is a chimerical quest. 

The Pew polling regularly reports overwhelming support in the “Muslim world” for the rule of Sharia, Islamic law, and for Islam-dominated policy and government.

Which inevitably means that Muslim nations are going to be suspicious of, if not hostile to, U.S. notions of what constitutes Islamic extremism.

This perhaps is why President Obama avoids using the modifier “Islamic” when referring to extremism, even extremism obviously based on interpretations of Islam. He perhaps believes such references would be counterproductive. (Perhaps he’s right, perhaps not.)

Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes has a mantra that goes: “Extreme Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution.” Problem is, our notion of “moderate” may bear little resemblance to the notions prevalent in Muslim countries.

What if Muslims endorsed a particular religious perspective for Christians in American — Gnosticism, say? Not only would there likely not be a rush to embrace is, there would likely be a stampede to condemn it — and demands that Muslims mind their own damn business.

At last, however, American politicians of both parties and all ideological stripes — ranging from House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on the left to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell on the right — believe they’ve found what America has long been looking for. They’ve latched onto a group they’re eager to certify as acceptable Muslims — Muslims who reject violence and Islamic triumphalism and support separation of church and state.


They’re known as “Ahmadi Muslims.” And with both sides of the aisle rallying to their cause, CIA and State Department funds no doubt will be flowing to them in torrents — or maybe already are. Demands are reverberating that the State Department take firm measures to condemn repression of the Ahmadis.

So the Ahmadis are Peaceful, ... but are they Muslims?



See the whole blog post on this topic: http://blog.creed26.com/2011/06/ahmad... 
- This video is a brief investigation of the question "Are Ahmadis Muslim?" 
This video is a response to the accusation that Nabeel Qureshi was never a Muslim, 
and it sheds light on the issue from an informed outsider's perspective.

Shiah and Sunni Scholars Debate Infallible Entrance to Paradise



Holy Sh#T ... or Something like that!

Russia: Freedom Fighters Celebrations Put on Hold!!!


Moscow - A possible terrorist attack in Moscow was thwarted after Russian counter terrorism agents raided a home containing the suspects.
The suspects are reportedly Russian citizens, and are said to have received training in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.
An unnamed official speaking of the arrests and plot, said that the suspects were planning to target central Moscow, with the investigation ongoing before more information is released.
The raid on the suspects home turned violent, with at least two of the suspects killed in a shootout, and a third being apprehended.
The Russian capital has been previously hit by attacks, mainly by Chechen rebels. In 2011 the capitals airport was struck by a suicide bomber, killing 37 people, and injuring 173.
And In 2010, Moscow's metro system was struck by two female suicide bombers, leaving at least 40 dead, with over a hundred wounded.

MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russian police killed two suspected militants and detained another in a special operation outside Moscow on Monday, preventing a terror attack in the capital, the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAK) said.
The special operation took place in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo in the Moscow Region, NAK said.
“The militants were besieged in the course of a special operation, but opened fire after they were asked to surrender. Two of them were killed and another detained as a result of a rapid shootout,” NAK said in a statement adding that one policemen was wounded in the operation.
The suspects were Russian citizens who had returned from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, where they underwent special training in preparing terror attacks, NAK said

Swedish Police: Learning How To Be Israeli

Sweden:

Israel: 

Such A Peaceful Place!
It's Not Our Fault:
 ... The Police Called Us Monkeys and Niggers!

Youths rioted in northern Stockholm on Sunday night, setting fire to cars and throwing rocks at police, in what is believed to be a protest against the fatal police shooting of a machete-wielding man in the suburb last week.
"At 10pm we sent out staff to an address in Husby," explained Lars Byström of the Stockholm police to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

IN PICTURES: See the damage from the Husby fires

"My colleagues were met by young people who threw stones at them. It continued with a couple of violent riots and extensive damage."

The riot kicked off when young people set fire to cars in Husby, a suburb in the far north of Stockholm. Witnesses claim at least 100 vehicles in the area were in flames. Another fire was lit in a nearby garage, resulting in the evacuation of the apartment block. Around 50 residents were taken care of and sheltered in buses that were on hand.

The local shopping centre was also vandalized, and three police officers were injured in the fracas. Police estimate that the riots involved somewhere between 50 and 60 youths.


El Shabab: You Live By The Sword and ...



NAIROBI, Kenya: Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight standoff, a police official said yesterday.
Following a tip, investigators raided the apartment where the couple was staying in the Githurai Kimbo area on the outskirts of Nairobi Saturday evening and ordered them out of their house, said Boniface Mwaniki, the head of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit. The couple refused to surrender, threw grenades and used their eight-month-old baby as a human shield, said Mwaniki.
Police fired tear gas repeatedly into the house, said a resident of the building. The baby was removed from the house unconscious and two grenades were found in the house, said Augustine Nthumbi, the officer in charge of the Githurai Kimbo.
The incident highlights the threat of Islamic extremist violence in Kenya.
The man killed was Kenyan national Felix Otuko, who was suspected of carrying out two grenade attacks in October 2011 — the first of a string of grenade and gun attacks in Kenya, said Mwaniki of the police anti-terrorism unit.
Mwaniki said Otuko was a member Al-Shabab cell with another Kenyan national Elgiva Bwire Oliacha, also known as Mohammed Seif, who is serving a life sentence in jail for grenade attacks in Nairobi on Oct. 24, 2011 which killed one person and injured 20 others.