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Europe's Boys of JihadLA Times, April 02, 2005By Sebastian Rotella, Times Staff Writer

PARIS - The case file of the French homeboys who joined the Iraqi jihad contains astartling photo.

It's the mug shot of Salah, the alleged point man in Damascus, Syria, who authoritiessay arranged for guns and safe passage into Iraq for extremists from Paris. Salahhas a serious expression beneath a short Afro-style haircut. He looks as if he'sposing, reluctantly, for a middle school yearbook.

When Salah left for Damascus with the jihadis last summer, he was 13 years old.

"He's just a little kid!" exclaimed Ousman Siddibe, a leader of Good Boys of Africa,an African-French community association in Paris' Riquet neighborhood. "We havesome husky guys around here, but he's not one of them. And he's got an innocentface."

Salah, the son of African immigrants, remains a fugitive two months after police herebroke up the alleged terrorist cell. His ody ssey is a drastic example of a trend,investigators say: Not only are Islamic extremists in Western Europe radicalizingfaster, they are also younger than ever.

"The trajectory is changing," said Marc Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and a former CIA officer. "Extremism is now appealing toyounger and younger people."



Before the Sept. 11 attacks, the thousands of militants from around the world whoflocked to Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, and to the wars in Chechnya an d Bosnia-Herzegovina, were mostly in their 20s and 30s. In his book profiling 172 jihadis of that era, "Understanding Terror Networks," Sageman found a median age of 26, as"most people joined the jihad well past adolescence."

In the aftermath of Sept. 11 and the Iraq war, however, the process of radicalizationhas spread and speeded up. At an age when angry teens in Los Angeles drift intostreet gangs, some of their peers in Europe plunge into global networks that sendthem to train, fight and die in far -off lands.

"Iraq is the motor," said a senior French anti -terrorism official, who asked to remainanonymous for security reasons. "It's making them all go crazy, want to be shaheed[martyrs]. The danger of suicide attacks in Europe and the United States increasesas you have younger guys who are fervent and easily manipulated."

Along with longtime resentment and alienation experienced by some in immigrantcommunities, technology such as computers and Arabic-language satellite TV plays

a major role in molding militants earlier, European officials say. Internet sites andchat rooms have become a virtual sanctuary, widening access to propaganda andtraining materials for an emerging "second generation" of extremists.

"This generation of young kids are far more Internet-focused than guys who are only10 years older," Sageman said.

Last year, a group of young Internet enthusiasts was charged with unleashingterrorism in the Netherlands: the killing of filmmaker Theo van Gogh and a plot toassassinate politicians. Police captured Jason Walters, 19, in a raid that left him andthree officers wounded. His 17-year-old brother was also jailed.

Walters' Internet chats reveal a casual, adolescent cold -bloodedness, according toexcerpts published in the Dutch media. A spokesman for the AIVD intelligenceservice, the leading Dutch anti-terrorism agency, confirmed that the transcripts wereauthentic.

In an Internet conversation on Sept. 28, 2003, Walters joked about beheading theDutch prime minister and bragged about a monthlong training session at an Afghanterrorism camp. The son of a Dutch mother and American father said he had fooledhis family into thinking he was in Britain.

He urged his chat partner, "Galas03," to join him on a future trip. "They will tr ain you

how to use guns," Walters wrote, using the name "Mujaheed." "I can assemble anddismantle a Kalashnikov blindfolded."

"Is shooting difficult?" Galas03 asked.

"No way, man, it is not that hard," Walters responded. "I even had to roll over with apistol and then shoot and that went all right, praise Allah."

Walters became radicalized at about 16, investigators say. Fellow suspect Samir



Azzouz, 18, was equally precocious. Azzouz was first detained in 2002 in Ukraine enroute to joining Muslim combatants in Chechnya, AIVD spokesman Vincent vanSteen said.

Iraq has become the new Chechnya, a promised land of jihad, for many militants inEurope. The Iraq war played a central role in radicalizing Salah, the fugitive middle -

schooler from Paris, and his homeboys, according to interviews with investigators,defense lawyers, youth counselors and friends.

Salah's family declined to be interviewed for this article. French authorities have notmade public his last name because of legal restrictions on ide ntifying minors,particularly criminal suspects.

Salah was born in France to a large family of immigrants from Mali. He grew up inRiquet, a neighborhood that seems more hopeful and less grim than the concretehousing projects outside Paris that are bast ions of extremist networks.

The family lives in a ground-floor apartment across the street from the north bank of

the La Villette basin: an urban waterway alive with boats, bridges and bike paths.Gray-haired Frenchmen play boccie by a tree -lined promenade named for the actorsYves Montand and Simone Signoret.

Riquet is on the northeastern edge of Paris in the 19th arrondissement, or district,whose population runs the ethnic gamut: Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians, Asians,Orthodox Jews, Turks and a large concentration of immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

The area is socioeconomically diverse as well. Crime and low-income housingabound, but gentrified sections attract the French equivalent of yuppies. Salah livednear a kosher pizzeria and a cafe/bi ke shop that offers bicycles and repairs as wellas espresso and hot chocolate.

Salah's Muslim family was attached to its religion and homeland. His older brotherswould go back to Mali for extended stays. Salah was calm and focused and becamevery religious about the age of 12.

"After 9 p.m., you'd find him and his crew at the mosques, not on the street," saidBakary Sakho, 25, a founder of Good Boys of Africa who knows Salah's family well."He didn't have trouble with the police. He was a young, serio us Muslim. He did hisfive prayers a day. He wore the traditional vestments at the mosque, but around theneighborhood he wore jeans and basketball shoes like everybody else."

Salah told people he was determined to be an imam, friends and judicial source ssay. When Salah and his longtime neighbor, Chiakhou Diakhabi, decided this year tostudy at a Koranic school in Syria, their parents were pleased. Diakhabi, a son of Senegalese immigrants, found religion after years of scrapes with the police.

Many African and Arab families in Riquet, and elsewhere in France, seerediscovering Islamic heritage as a calming, stabilizing experience that keeps kids off the street.



"The parents thought it was a good idea," Sakho said. "Being an imam, that meansdiscipline. For these families, a Koranic school in Syria was a big deal - like auniversity."

The 19-year-old Diakhabi had a strong influence on Salah. Their fathers are close

friends, and the families live in the same apartment complex.

In France and other European countries, adolescents from Muslim familiesincreasingly turn to rigorous practice of Islam, often a badge of cultural identity for second- and third-generation youths from immigrant families who feel marooned inWestern society. Youth counselors and friends didn't think Salah had become anaggressive extremist.

Nonetheless, it was unusual for the boy to spend so much time with youths in their late teens and early 20s.

"There are other kids his age who become very religious, boys and girls," Sakho

said. "But not to the point of leaving school and going to a foreign country."

Salah and Diakhabi became followers of Farid Benyettou, an Algerian -French streetpreacher. He was a fixture at the Addawa Mosque on narrow Tanger Street in anarea dominated by drab high-rises and industrial compounds.

A weather-beaten building without a minaret or ornamentation, the mosque is one of the largest in Paris, attracting as many as 1,500 worshipers on Fridays. Its leadershave not been linked to the alleged extremists.

In other terrorism cases around Europe, accused ringleaders were in their 30s or 40s. They were exiled ideologues of the Muslim Brotherhood from Syria or Egypt,battle-scarred North African veterans of Afghanistan, Bosnia or Chechnya.

Benyettou was 23 when he was arrested here in January. His look was more raggedRasta than mean mujahedin: thick glasses, unruly long curls spilling out of histurban, high-top gym shoes beneath his robes. His main street credential was havinga brother-in-law who was arrested for extremist activity here in 1998.

Benyettou allegedly formed an autonomous cell, bringing together friends from highschool and soccer fields. He taught religion and Arabic at his apartment about fiveblocks from Salah's middle school, using the classes to screen and groom about 20disciples. In 2003, the group participated in protests against the Iraq war and last

year protested a French law banning Muslim head scarves in public schools.

Their behavior at the antiwar marches drew the in terest of the intelligence division of the national police, whose agents snapped surveillance photos as a dozen youthsknelt behind Benyettou in sidewalk prayer sessions.

As the group evolved, the youths spurned girlfriends and adopted rigorous Islamiclifestyles and ideas. Prosecutors allege that the youths discussed potential violencein France; defense lawyers see little evidence of that. Both sides agree they were



obsessed with Iraq.

"Benyettou would talk to them about Abu Ghraib [prison], the abuse of Muslims, andsay, 'What are you going to do about it?' " said Dominique Many, a lawyer for asuspected jihadi. "He was like a little guru who claimed to know the sacred texts. Andhe convinced them that the texts said it was their duty to go to Iraq to fight for the

cause."

Last spring and summer, at least eight members of the group departed for Damascus, the Syrian capital. Several enrolled at a Koranic school there.

Syria is popular with young European Muslims hoping to study religion or Arabic,because it is cheaper to live there than in Egypt or Saudi Arabia. Syria is also a hubof smugglers and operatives of the Iraq insurgency: a gateway to jihad. Koranicschools in Damascus have become steppingstones and cover stories for Iraq -boundmilitants.

The circumstances of Salah's departure are murky. It's not clear if his intended

destination was Iraq. Investigators and friends say his parents gave him permissionto travel to Damascus and study there. Salah went to Syria in July with neighbor Mohammed Ayouni, 22, whose whereabouts are also unknown.

"Somebody had to manipulate Salah, had to influence and help him," said Siddibe of Good Boys of Africa, which tries to steer teenagers away from crime, drugs andextremism. "A little guy like that is going to be a lot more vulnerable."

There have been reports that Salah tried to enter Iraq and was turned back by Syrianborder authorities. But French law enforcement officials could not confirm that.

By the time he turned 14 in October, Salah had become streetwise in Damascus,say police, who describe his role in the cell as handling logistics for jihadis passingthrough from Paris.

Some think the authorities have exaggerated Salah's role.

"To call him an intermediary in Syria, and to call this a netw ork, is to exaggerate whatwas a crude, improvised group with little structure or connections," said VincentOllivier, a defense lawyer.

But after French police arrested Thamer Bouchnak, a 22 -year-old from Riquet, inJanuary on the eve of a flight to Syr ia, he identified Salah as the operative expected

to meet him at the Damascus airport and arrange for lodging, guns and passage toIraq. Bouchnak spent three weeks at the Koranic school last summer and apparentlyhad met Salah there.

"The kid was the one who knew where to find the smugglers to cross them into Iraq,"said Many, Bouchnak's lawyer. "He was the one who was going to help them buy AK-47s."

Unlike five Dutch suspects in the Van Gogh case who allegedly trained at secret



Pakistani and Afghan camps, the preparation in Paris was minimal: exercisesessions in the wooded Buttes-Chaumont Park, perfunctory consultation of weaponsmanuals.

"No training," said a senior French intelligence official, whose agency does notpermit him to be quoted by name. "These are guys who go to get themselves blown

up. Once they arrive at the destination in Iraq, they are very quickly preparedbecause the insurgents need fighters."

The network may have been crude, but several recruits attained their goal. One 19 -year-old Riquet homeboy died in a suicide car bombing in Iraq last summer.

Two others, ages 19 and 24, were killed in combat in the Sunni Triangle west andnorth of Baghdad. During the battle to retake Fallouja in November, U.S. troopscaptured Diakhabi, Salah's longtime neighbor, and a 22-year-old from theneighborhood. Another member of the group is in a Syrian jail.

And Salah? His trail stops at the Koranic school in Damascus. He is wanted in

France on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activity.

The jihadi homeboys have become the talk of the streets here. Not a good sign,Sakho said, at a time when global conflicts stir youthful imaginations, when kids growup faster than ever.

"There are kids in this neighborhood who admire them for making a name for themselves," he said. "We don't want them to become heroes."

July 16, 2005 Anger Burns on the Fringe of Britain's Muslims By HASSAN M. FATTAH LEEDS, England, July 15 - At Beeston's Cross Flats Park, in the center of this nowembattled town, Sanjay Dutt and his friends grappled Friday with why their friendKakey, better known to the world as Shehzad Tanweer, had decided to become asuicide bomber.

"He was sick of it all, all the injustice and the way the world is going about it," Mr.Dutt, 22, said. "Why, for example, don't they ever take a moment of silence for all theIraqi kids who die?" Note: Muslim suicide bombers are murdering children in Iraq not Americans. "It's a double standard, that's why," answered a friend, who called himself Shahroukh, also 22, wearing a baseball cap and basketball jersey, sitting nearby. "I



don't approve of what he did, but I understand it. You get driven to something likethis, it doesn't just happen." Note: Western Muslims are showing empathy to Muslim murderers. To the boys from Cross Flats Park, Mr. Tanweer, 22, who blew himself up on a

subway train in London last week, was devout, thoughtful and generous. If theyunderstood his actions, it was because they lived in Mr. Tanweer's world, too.

Note: Devout Muslims are suicide bomber murderers. They did not agree with what Mr. Tanweer had done, but made clear they shared thesame sense of otherness, the same sense of siege, the same sense that their community, and Muslims in general, were in their view helpless before t he whims of greater powers. Ultimately, they understood his anger.

Note: Western Muslims are showing empathy to Muslim murderers. The news that four British-born Muslim men from neighborhoods around Leeds weresuspected of carrying out the bombings in London has made the shareddissatisfaction of boys like these and the creeping militancy of some young BritishMuslims an urgent issue in Britain. Note: Steering Muslim youth away from the Qur¶an must be a priority. The bombers are an exception among Britain's 1.6 million Muslims. But their actionshave highlighted a lingering question: why are second -generation British Muslimswho should seemingly be farther up the road of assimilation rejecting the country inwhich they were born and raised?

Speak to young Muslims like Mr. Dutt and his friends in Leeds, or to others like Dr.Imram Waheed, 28, and Farouq Khan, 32, two Islamic activists living in Birmingham,another Muslim population center, and the answers seem clear. Each expresses thegrievance in his own way, but the root is nearly the same.

They say they are weary of liberal Muslim leaders and British politicians who promisechanges. They see them backing policies against the Muslim world in general, fromIraq to the Middle East to Afghanistan, and promising relief from economic distressand discrimination. Still, Britain's Muslims have languished near the bottom of societysince their influx here in the 1950's.

Note: The Muslim world is stuck in ignorance. "I know what people don't understand - it's how terrorists could have been born inthis country," Shahroukh said. "But my point is, why not?"

A recent poll commissioned by The Guardian found that 84 percent of Muslimssurveyed were against the use of violence for political means, but only 33 percent of Muslims said they wanted more integration into mainstream British culture. Almosthalf of those surveyed said their Muslim leadership did not represent their views.



Note: 16 percent of British Muslims favor violence to achieve domination. Note: 67 percent of British Muslims reject western English culture.

The grievances of the boys of Cross Flats Parks have not propelled them towardpolitical action. But Dr. Waheed, a practicing psychiatrist, and Mr. Khan, a

documentary filmmaker, are acting on their alienation.

Both men, eloquent, better educated and better off than most in their community, arealso among the more politically motivated. They have embraced one of the moreconservative, if not militant, Islamic movements in Britain today - Hizb ut-Tahrir, or Party of Liberation.

Note: Educated British Muslims have rejected western English culture. The party's stated goal is to rebuild the Caliphate - the Muslim state dissolved withthe fall of the Ottoman Empire - to displace corrupt dictators in the Muslim world, andto instill Islamic mores and Islamicize almost every aspect of daily life.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. The group has drawn about 10,000 member s to its recent annual meetings, itsmembers say, and includes chapters abroad in places like Uzbekistan. It is acontroversial movement, even among British Muslims, and its members havebecome emblematic of the shift of Muslims born in Britain to more con servative andoutspoken expressions of their faith. Note: British Muslim youth are being drawn toward death and destruction. In interviews earlier this week in Birmingham, where they were born and bred, Dr.Waheed and Mr. Khan described the group's struggl e as one for the very identity of Muslims in Britain.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. "For our parents, the attention was focused on getting a job and building a life here,"Mr. Khan said. "My generation had to go through more of a thinking process todiscover who we are, our Islamic identity."

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. What makes the message of conservative movements especially compelling, Dr.Waheed, Mr. Kahn and others say, is that they articulate the fundamental anger of many British Muslims that more mainstream movements seem incapable or unwillingto discuss. Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship.



That anger stems not merely from unhappiness with the situation of Muslims inBritain, but also solidarity with what they see as the aggressive and unjust treatmentof Muslims abroad, and not least from Britain's part in the war in Iraq.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. For instance, at a small meeting hall in Birmingham last Sunday, Dr. Waheed, whonow serves as the group's spokesman, and about 100 other members, discussed theLondon bombings. Unlike most Muslim groups, which have been seeking to reachout to other communities and stem the fallout of the bombings, this gathering wasdecidedly unsympathetic.

Note: British Muslim youth are being drawn toward death and destruction. "We know that the killing of innocents is forbidden," Dr. Waheed said. "But we don'tsee two classes of blood; the blood of Iraqis is just as important to us as Englishblood." He emphasized that they in no way condoned the bombings. "But when youunderstand things from that perspective, why should we condemn the bombing?" Note: Muslim suicide bombers are murdering children in Iraq not Americans. Dr. Waheed is ethnically Pakistani, but British in everything from his clothing style tohis goatee. He said he was a model student, captain of the cricke t team and amongthe top in his class.

But like many Muslims in this part of Britain, he has felt divided from non-Muslims.He married in his mid-20's and has a child. His brother-in-law is a member of theparty, and his father-in-law has joined, too.

He sees Muslim political leaders basically as sellouts, beholden to the Britishgovernment, and Britain's Muslims as so cowed that they choose silence.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. He recalled one day, in particular, when the chairman of Birmingham's centralmosque stood up to condemn the killing of Ken Bigley, a hostage taken in Iraq lastyear who was murdered, apparently by a group loyal to Abu Musab al Zarqawi.

"I remember the hypocrisy of it," Dr. Waheed said, "Then several older people inwhite beards stood up as well and said, 'Why did you not do anything when the Iraqwar began?' " Note: Many British Muslims favored Saddam Hussein over democracy. Another turning point occurred when he watched a BBC Panorama program aboutBritain's Muslims aired in the summer of 1993. "It was a very harsh, Islamiphobicprogram about Muslims in ghettos, mistreating their women and similar things," hesaid. Note: Muslim culture favors the harsh treatment of women.



His nerves rattled, he chanced upon a leaflet from Hizb ut -Tahrir discussing mediapropaganda against Islam. "I met with members of the group and became convincedon an intellectual level of what the party was doing," he said. "Most other s wanted usto stay in mosque - change ourselves as individuals, they said, but don't stand up asa community. Some asked us to stay out of politics." Note: Islam is a religion of intolerance with devout Muslims becomingterrorists. That prescription was exactly the wrong one, Dr. Waheed felt.

Mr. Khan's path was different. Unlike Dr. Waheed, who grew up religious, Mr. Khanwas not particularly observant, the son of an upper-middle-class doctor who hadcome to Britain from Pakistan to study medicine and then stayed on. The spark for his activism was the war in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf war. Note: Western non-Muslim armed forces saved Bosnian Muslims from

destruction. Note: Many British Muslims favored Saddam Hussein over democracy. "Watching the news every day and watching people being killed every day got me tothink," he said. "It made me start to think of my own identity and who I was, and itbecame especially important during the first gulf war, when Britain sent troops to Iraqand they were all very jingoistic and xenophobic." Note: Devout Muslims don¶t realize that murder is wrong. Then he happened upon a Hizb ut-Tahrir member canvassing for the party, and

everything clicked, he said.

"I could see the logic," he said. "It was the situation in the Musl im world in terms of killings, massacres and the realities of what our governments are doing to them."

Note: Islam is a religion of intolerance with devout Muslims becoming

terrorists. Like the militant socialist movements of the 1960's, the group promise s action,change and a well-packaged set of ideals. It provides a team and a sense of belonging. It publishes books with recommendations on how to live a better Muslimlife. It actively proselytizes within the Muslim community.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. Officially, the party is against the use of violence. It calls on members to use their minds to argue their stands, Dr. Waheed says. But its talk often comes perilouslyclose to incitement, say mainstream Muslim leaders, who say they ultimately bear the brunt of the group's attacks.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship.



In previous years, the members have taken to crashing other Muslim communitymeetings and drowning out speakers. They have taken imams to task and debatedpoliticians in the media. Some Muslims accuse them of harassment, death threatsand instilling fear of retribution in their communities.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islam ic style dictatorship. In recent days, politicians have called for curbs on the movement's activities. Suchefforts, Dr. Waheed said, are a "clear attempt to blur the margins between politicalIslam and violence." Note: Their goal is to replace English cul ture with Islamic style dictatorship. "They want to say that Hizb ut-Tahrir is violent," he said. "We are not undergroundand we're not looking to recruit people. We're just looking for awareness."

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. He acknowledged the group's ways were more "controversial" a decade ago, butadded that much has changed since. "Maybe some of the means and styles at thosetimes could have turned people away, but we have moved on significantly ," he said.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. Even in Leeds, where Muslims have struggled to co-exist with white Britons, Hizb ut-Tahrir's activists have vied for control of some mosques, community leaders say.They are not always welcome, and the group has not enjoyed much success here,despite the grievances of young men like Mr. Dutt and his friends.

Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship.

"They're too far over the top," Mr. Dutt said. "They talk about the Caliphate, when wehave our own problems here." Note: Their goal is to replace English culture with Islamic style dictatorship. Jonathan Allen contributed reporting for this article.

Goebbels and the Jihadist Youth April 11th, 2006 The Big Lie as propaganda device has a long and dishonorable history, gulling ontocomplacency those who prefer to avoid unpleasant worries. The Nazi propagandistGoebbels was its most notable practitioner, but for sheer numbers and histor icalroots, no other group can match the efforts of jihadist Muslims, with their religiously -sanctioned practice of deceiving infidels to protect the faith.



Al-Jazeera aired on March 24, 2006, a rather chilling, one -sided ³dialogue´ betweenrepresentatives of Arab and Danish student organizations who met in Damascus,ostensibly to discuss the violent worldwide Muslim reactions following publication of the Muhammad cartoons by the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten. Video clips and awritten transcript of this event are available through the Middle East Media ResearchInstitute (MEMRI).

Ahmad Al-Shater, Chairman of the Arab Students Union, and his Sudanese StudentUnion colleague ³Muhammad,´ were unremittingly truculent in their presentations,which melded classic taquiyya (sanctioned dissimulation of Islamic doctrine to³protect´ the faithful), or sheer ignorance, Muslim Jew -hatred, and a Goebbels-likedistortion of contemporary events, including the requisite conspiratorial Judenhass(Jew-hatred). Al-Shater began by stating that it was the nefarious ³Zionists´ and ³imperialists´ whohad deliberately misrepresented Islam by wrongfully associating the religion withterrorism. He asserted categorically: According to the Islamic religion, even in times of war, it is for bidden to uproot a tree,it is forbidden to kill a woman, it is forbidden to kill a child, it is forbidden to destroywells« It is forbidden to fill wells with earth« Water wells« It is forbidden to harmhuman life, it is forbidden to destroy a church, it is forbidden to attack a religiousbelief« Classical Islamic doctrines on jihad war , and more importantly the actual practice of jihad campaigns in accord with this theory, put the lie to Al -Shater¶s uninformed or deliberately taquiyya-laden assertions. Al-Shater¶s basic contention that ³it isforbidden to attack a religious belief´ is patently absurd ²the archetypal proto-jihadcampaigns of Muhammad himself imposed Islam and Islamic suzerainty upon thepagans, Jews, and Christians of ancient Arabia, and continue to provide the rationalefor aggressive jihad imperialism to this day.

For example, Muhammad, according to a summary of sacralized Muslim sources,

..waited for some act of aggression on the part of the Jews of Khaybar, whose f ertilelands and villages he had destined for his followers«to furnish an excuse for anattack. But, no such opportunity offering, he resolved in the autumn of this year [i.e., 628], on a sudden and unprovoked invasion of their territory. Ali (later, the fourth ³Rightly Guided Caliph´, and especially revered by Shi¶iteMuslims) asked Muhammad why the Jews of Khaybar were being attacked, since

they were peaceful farmers, tending their oasis, and was told by Muhammad hemust compel them to submit to Islamic Law. The renowned early 20th centuryscholar of Islam, David Margoliouth, observed aptly:

Now the fact that a community was idolatrous, or Jewish, or anything butMohammedan, warranted a murderous attack upon it .



Moreover, this canonical hadith (from Sahih Muslim Book 019, Number 4324), whichfurther incorporates a Koranic verse (K 59:5), states clearly that Muhammad alsosanctioned the destruction of the trees (i.e., date palms) of infidel foes:

It is narrated on the authority of µAbdullah that the Messenger of Allah (may peace beupon him) ordered the date-palms of Banu Nadir to be burnt and cut. These palms

were at Buwaira. Qutaibah and Ibn Rumh in their versions of the tradition haveadded: So Allah, the Glorious and Exalted, revealed the verse (K59:5): ³Whatever palm-tree you cut down or leave standing upon its roots, It is by Allah ¶s command,and that He may abase the transgressors´ And with only minor points of internal disagreement, the consensus amongst all four major schools of classical Sunni Islamic jurisprudence contradicts each claim madeby Al-Shater. The Hanafi jurists Abu Yusuf (d. 798), Shaybani (d. 803/805), andShaikh Burhanuddin Ali of Marghinan (d. 1196), state:

[Abu Yusuf]²It seems that the most satisfactory suggestion we have heard in thisconnection is that there is no objection to the use of any kind of arms against the

polytheists, smothering and burning their homes, cutting down their trees and dategroves, and using catapults. [Shaybani]²The army may launch the attack [on the enemy] by night or by day andit is permissible to burn [the enemy] fortifications with fire or to inundate them withwater. [Shaikh Burhanuddin Ali of Marghinan] ²in the Traditions«the Prophet plunderedand despoiled the tribe of al -Mustaliq by surprise, and he also agreed with Asamahto make a predatory attack upon Qubna at an early hour, and to set it on fire, andsuch attacks are not preceded by a call«If the infidels, upon receiving the call [to

Islam], neither consent to it nor agree to pay capitation tax, it is then incumbent onthe Muslims to call upon God for assistance, and to make war upon them, becauseGod is the assistant of those who serve Him, and the destroyer of His enemies, theinfidels, and it is necessary to implore His aid upon every occasion; the Prophet,moreover, commands us so to do. And having so done, the Muslims must then withGod¶s assistance attack the infidels with all manner of warlike engines (as theProphet did by the people of Ta¶if), and must also set fire to their habitations (in thesame manner as the Prophet fired Baweera), and must inundate them with water and tear up their plantations and tread down their grain because by these meansthey will become weakened, and their resolution will fail and their force be broken;these means are, therefore, all sanctified by the law. The Hanbali jurist, Ibn Qudama (d. 1223) concurs, and both he and Ibn Taymiyya (d.1328), also a Hanbali, elaborate on the issue of when killing women and childrenmay in fact be allowed: [Ibn Qudama]²It is permitted to surprise the infidels under cover of night, tobombard them with mangonels [an engine that hurls missiles] and to attack themwithout declaring battle (duµa¶). The Prophet attacked the Ba nu Mustaliqunexpectedly, while their animals were still at the watering -place; he killed the menwho had fought against him and carried off the children into captivity. It is forbidden



to kill children, madmen, women, priests, impotent old men, the infirm , the blind, theweak-minded, unless they have taken part in the combat.

[Ibn Taymiyya]²As for those who cannot offer resistance or cannot fight, such aswomen, children, monks, old people, the blind, handicapped, and their likes, theyshall not be killed, unless they actually fight with words [e.g. by propaganda] and

acts [e.g. by spying or otherwise assisting in the warfare]. Some [ jurists] are of theopinion that all of them may be killed, on the mere ground that they are unbelievers,but they make an exception for women and children since they constitute propertyfor Muslims.

Averroes (d. 1198), the renowned philosopher and scholar of the natural sciences,who was also an important Maliki jurist, outlines some of the (rather trivial) points of controversy: Opinions vary as to the damage that may be inflicted on their property, such asbuildings, cattle, and crops. Mlik allowed the felling of trees, the picking of fruits andthe demolishing of buildings, but not the slaughter of cattle and the burning of date-

palms«According to Shfi, dwellings and trees may be burnt as long as the enemyhave the disposal of fortresses. The Shafi¶i jurist Al-Mawardi¶s (d. 1058) opinion confirms the prevailing consensusviews: The amir [leader] of the army may use ballistas and catapults when besieging theenemy, for the Messenger of Allah«set up a catapult against the inhabitants of Ta¶if.He may also destroy their homes, make night raids against them and cause fire. If,moreover, he reckons that by cutting their date -palms and their trees down it willserve to weaken them, such that they are overcome by force or are compelled to

make a peace agreement, then he should do so; he should not, however, act in thisway if he does not see any such benefit in it«. It is also pe rmitted to block off thesupply of water to them, or to prevent them from using it, even if there are womenand children amongst them, as it is one of he most potent means of weakening themand gaining victory over the, either by forcer or through a treaty . If a thirsty personamongst them requests a drink, the amir may either give him to drink or refuse him, just as he has the option of killing him or letting him live. Even the writings of the much lionized paragon of mystical Sufism and Shafi¶i juristal-Ghazali (d. 1111)²who, as noted by the esteemed scholar W.M. Watt, has been³«acclaimed in both the East and West as the greatest Muslim after Muhammad«´²underscore how these practices were normative: one must go on jihad (i.e., warlike razzias or raids) at least once a year«one mayuse a catapult against them [non-Muslims] when they are in a fortress, even if among them are women and children. One may set fire to them and/or drownthem«One may cut down their trees«One must destroy their useless books.Jihadists may take as booty whatever they decide..



Ibn Hudayl, a 14th century Granadan author of an important treatise on jihad,explained how these allowable methods facilitated the violent, chaotic jihad conquestof the Iberian peninsula, and other parts of Europe: It is permissible to set fire to the lands of the enemy, his stores of grain, his beasts of burden ± if it is not possible for the Muslims to take possession of them ± as well as

to cut down his trees, to raze his cities, in a word, to do everything that might ruinand discourage him«[being] suited to hastening the Islamization of that enemy or toweakening him. Indeed, all this contributes to a military triumph over him or to forcinghim to capitulate. And these repeated attacks, indistinguishable in motivation from modern acts of jihadterrorism, like the horrific 9/11/01 attacks in New York and Washington, DC, and theMadrid bombings on 3/11/04, or those in London on 7/7/05, were in fact designed tosow terror . The 17th century Muslim historian al-Maqqari, explained that the paniccreated by the Arab horsemen and sailors, at the time of the Muslim expansion in theregions subjected to those raids and landings, facilitated their later conquest: Allah thus instilled such fear among the infidels that they did not dare to go and fightthe conquerors; they only approached them as suppliants, to beg for peace. The essential pattern of the jihad war is captured in the classical Muslim historian al -Tabari¶ s recording of the recommendation given by Umar b. al -Khattab (the second³Rightly Guided Caliph´) to the commander of the troops he sent to al-Basrah (636C.E.), during the conquest of Iraq. Umar reportedly said: Summon the people to God; those who respond to your call, accept it from them, butthose who refuse must pay the poll tax out of humiliation and lowliness. (Koran 9:29)If they refuse this, it is the sword without leniency. Fear God with regard to what

you have been entrusted.

By the time of al-Tabari¶s death in 923, jihad wars had expanded the Muslim empirefrom Portugal to the Indian subcontinent. Subsequent Muslim conquests continued in Asia, as well as Eastern Europe. Under the banner of jihad, the Christian kingdomsof Armenia, Byzantium, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, and Albania,in addition to parts of Poland and Hungary, were also conquered and Islamized bywaves of Seljuk, or later Ottoman Turks, as well as Tatars. Arab Muslim invadersengaged, additionally, in continuous jihad raids that ravaged and enslaved Sub -Saharan African animist populations, extending to the southern Sudan. When theOttoman Muslim armies were stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683, over amillennium of jihad had transpired.

These tremendous military successes spawned a triumphalist jihad literature. Muslimhistorians recorded in detail the number of inf idels slaughtered, or enslaved anddeported, the cities, villages, and infidel religious sites which were sacked andpillaged, and the lands, treasure, and movable goods seized.

And once again, despite Mr. Al-Shater¶s ignorance or disingenuous denial, thissanctioned but wanton destruction, resulted in: the merciless slaughter of non -combatants, including women and children; massive destruction of non -Muslim



houses of worship and religious shrines ²Christian churches, Jewish synagogues,and Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Buddhist temples and idols; and the burning of harvestcrops and massive uprooting of agricultural production systems, leading to famine.Christian (Coptic, Armenian, Jacobite, Greek, Slav, etc.), as well as Hebrew sources,and even the scant Zoroastrian, Hindu and Buddhist writings which survived theravages of the Muslim conquests, independently validate this narrative, and

complement the Muslim perspective by providing testimonies of the suffering of thenon-Muslim victims of jihad wars.

Al-Shater also spewed forth this lying invective²180 degrees divorced from reality²which included a frank ³burning of the Reichstag´ reference to mosque destructionconsidering the recent bombing of the revered Shi¶ite ³Golden Mosque´ in Sam arra²a striking contemporary event, but also just another manifestation of over amillennium of Muslim sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shi¶a:

Those who try to pin the blame for terrorism on the Muslims, headed by the leader of international terrorism, America, and by Zionism and imperialism, are killing our children in Palestine and Iraq on a daily basis, as you can see. They are destroying

schools. They are destroying churches and mosques. They violate our honor. Theyrape women and slit open the stomachs of pregnant women. The bitter irony is that in stark contrast to Al -Shater¶s mendacious slurs against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, or Israeli forces in Gaza, Judea or Samaria, it is modern jihad campaigns which have been fraught with the atrocities heenumerates. A few prominent examples include: the Ottoman massacres of theBulgarians in 1876 and larger genocidal slaughters of the Armenians at the close of the 19th century, through the end of World War I; the Moplah jihad against thehapless Hindus of South India in 1921; the massacres of Assyrian Christians by Araband Kurdish Muslims near Mosul in 1933; and the recent genocidal jihad wagedagainst Southern Sudanese Christians and Animists by the Arab Muslim Khartoumgovernment, primarily during the last decade of the 20th century.

American correspondent Januarius A. MacGahan recorded these observations fromBatak, July-August, 1876 during his investigation of the Bulgarian massacres:

The number of children killed in these massacres is something enormous. They wereoften spitted on bayonets, and we have several stories from eye -witnesses who sawlittle babes carried about the streets, both here and at Otluk -kui, on the point of bayonets. The reason is simple. When a Mahometan has killed a certain number of infidels, he is sure of Paradise, no matter what his sins may be«the ordinaryMussulman takes the precept in broader acceptation, and counts women and

children as well. Here in Batak the Bashi -Bazouks, in order to swell the count,ripped open pregnant women, and killed the unborn infants . As we approachedthe middle of the town, bones, skeletons, and skulls became more numerous. Therewas not a house beneath the ruins of which we did not perceive human remains, andthe street besides were strewn with them.

Lord Kinross described the slaughter of the Armenian community of Urfa inDecember, 1895, one of a series of brutal massacres committed by the OttomanTurks between 1894 and 1896, as follows:



Cruelest and most ruinous of all were the massacres at Urfa, where the ArmenianChristians numbered a third of the total population. Here in December 1895, after atwo-months siege of their quarter, the leading A rmenians assembled in their cathedral, where they drew up a statement requesting Turkish official protection.Promising this, the Turkish officer in charge surrounded the cathedral with troops.Then a large body of them, with a mob in their wake, rushed th rough the Armenian

quarter, where they plundered all houses and slaughtered all adult males above acertain age. When a large group of young Armenians were brought before a sheikh,he had them thrown down on their backs and held by their hands and feet. Th en, inthe words of an observer, he recited verses of the Koran and ³ cut their throats after the Mecca rite of sacrificing sheep .´ When the bugle blast ended the day¶s operations some three thousand refugeespoured into the cathedral, hoping for sanctuary. But the next morning ± a Sunday ± afanatical mob swarmed into the church in an orgy of slaughter, rifling its shrines willcries of ³Call upon Christ to prove Himself a greater prophet than Mohammed.´ Thenthey amassed a large pile of straw matting, whic h they spread over the litter of thecorpses and set alight with thirty cans of petroleum. The woodwork of the gallery

where a crowd of women and children crouched, wailing in terror, caught fire, and allperished in the flames . Punctiliously, at three-thirty in the afternoon the bugle blewonce more, and the Moslem officials proceeded around the Armenian quarter toproclaim that the massacres were over. They had wiped out 126 complete

families, without a woman or a baby surviving , and the total casualties in thetown, including those slaughtered in the cathedral, amounted to eight thousand

dead.

Vahakn Dadrian recounted the harrowing details of the slaughter of 6400 Armenianchildren, young girls, and women from Yozgad, described in Reverend K. Balakian¶seyewitness narrative of the World War I period (1914 -1920), Hai Koghota (The Armenian Golgotha). The victims were left by their Turkish captors at a promontorysome distance from the city. Then,

To save shell and powder, the gendarmerie commander in charge of this largeconvoy had gathered 10,000-12,000 Turkish peasants and other villagers, andarmed with ³hatchets, meat cleavers, saddler¶s knives, cudgels, axes, pickaxes,shovels´, the latter attacked and for some 4 -5 hours mercilessly butchered thevictims while crying ³Oh God, Oh God´ (Allah, Allah). In a moment of rare candor,this gendarmerie commander confided to the priest -author, whom he did not expectto survive the mass murder, that after each massacre episode, he spread his littleprayer rug and performed the namaz, the ritual of worship, centered on prayer, witha great sense of redemption in the service of Almighty God. J. J. Banninga, an American graduate of the Western Theological Seminary, spentforty-two years in India, serving for 25 years as head of the Union TheologicalSeminary at Pasumalai in South India. His analysis of the 1921 Moplah (i.e., Muslimsof Arabic and Hindu descent living in the Malabar district of South India) jihad ²oneof many periodic outbreaks of Moplah fanaticism ²included these harrowingdescriptions:



«the Hindu population fell easy prey to their (i.,e., the Moplah) rage and theatrocities committed defy description«The tale of atrocities committed makes sadreading indeed. A memorial submitted by women of Malabar to Her Excellency theCountess of Reading mentions such crimes as wells filled with mutilated bodies ,pregnant women cut to pieces, children torn from mother¶s arms and killed,husbands and fathers tortured, flayed, and burned alive before the eyes of

their wives and daughters; women forcibly carried off and outraged ; homesdestroyed; temples desecrated«not less than 100 Hindu temples were destroyedor desecrated; cattle slaughtered in temples and their entrails placed aroundthe necks of the idols in place of garlands of flowers; and wholesale looting .No fiendish act seems to have been too vile for them to perpetrate. «There were, during the rebellion, many cases of forced conversion fromHinduism to Mohammedanism. There was a double difficulty about restoring thesepeople to their old faith. In the first place there is a severe penalty resting on anyMohammedan that perverts«and in the second place there is really no door savebirth into Hinduism. On August 11, 1933, less than a year after British withdrawal from the region, the³new´ Iraqi armed forces, aided by local Arab and Kurdish tribesmen, began thewholesale massacre of Assyrians in the Mosul area (Simel, Dohuk). Before the endof August, 1933, 3000 Assyrians were murdered, and thousands more displaced. Anexample typical of the carnage was described in a contemporary chronicle believedto have been written by Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII, a Cambridge University graduateand Patriarch of the Church of the East:

The inoffensive population was indiscriminately massacred, men, women andchildren alike, with rifle, revolver and machine gun fire. In one room alone, eighty -one men from the Baz tribe, who had taken shelter« were barbarously massacred.Priests were tortured and their bodies mutilated. Those who showed their Iraqinationality papers were the first to be shot. Girls were raped and women violated and made to march naked before the Arab army commander. Holy books were usedas fuel for burning girls. Children were run over by military cars. Pregnant women

were bayoneted. Children were flung in the air and pierced on to the points of bayonets. Those who survived in the other villages were now exposed day andnight to constant raids and acts of violence. Forced conversion to Islam of men andwomen was the next process. Refusal was met with death. Sixty five out of ninetyfive Assyrian villages and settlements were either sacked, destroyed or burnt to theground. Even the settlements which existed from the year 1921 and who had noconnection in any way with the trouble were wrecked and all prope rty looted by Iraqarmy and tribesmen. The intrepid Dr. John Eibner made 20 visits to the Sudan during decade of the1990s, reporting on the recrudescence of jihad slavery. The Arab Muslim dominatedKhartoum government established an overtly jihadist Popular Defense Force, whichfurther incorporated local Arab militias. Their jihad depredations targeting theChristian and Animist tribes (principally the Dinkas of northern Bahr al -Ghazal,together with the black African Nuba tribes of southern Kordofan) slaughtered,displaced, and enslaved tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands at a time. Duringthe spring of 1998 alone, more than 300,000 persons were displaced, while the total



number killed and enslaved remained unknown. These Dinka victims ²women andchildren²shared the fate of the Nuba, as described by Eibner: Some Nuba captives end up as chattel slaves but the overwhelming majority aredeported to concentration camps elsewhere in Sudan, where they serve in slave -likeconditions. The children are sent to militant Qur¶anic schools, while the women are

sent out to work without pay as day laborers on farms and in private homes. Sexualabuse is rife. Al-Shater¶s conspiracy mongering (the publication of the Danish cartoons was yetanother act of the ³cabal´), and gross distortions of Islamic doctrines and historywere complemented by his lionization of Holocaust deniers Roger Garaudy andDavid Irving (whose name he could not recall²³He relies on documents. I cannotrecall his name, but he is a great English intellectual, a university professor, whorefuted the Holocaust.´), as well as the viscerally anti -American and AntisemiticBritish politicians George Galloway and Ken Livingston.

The briefer presentation of Al -Shater¶s colleague, Sudanese Student Union

Chairman ³Muhammad´ included raw Muslim Judenhass, threats to Danish soldiers,and equally mendacious assertions of U.S. murderousness in Iraq ²compared, withearnestness, to the putatively ³light casualties´ inflicted on the Iraq is duringSaddam¶s 30-year reign of domestic terror.

I¶d like to tell you that harming the Prophet is not a new thing. One thousand four hundred years ago, the Jews tried to kill him in Al-Madina. In our religion, harmingthe Prophet is where we draw the line. We are prepared to die to prevent this««Asyou know, Bush killed 110,000 people in Iraq, while Saddam did not kill even onethird of this figure. Saddam did not kill even 30,000 people throughout his rule. Iwould like to welcome you on this visit, because the image of Denmark and theDanish people has become very negative in the Arab and Islamic world. Inconclusion, I would like to say that tomorrow America will pass a resolution in theU.N. Security Council calling for international military interv ention in Sudan. Amongthese forces, obviously, there will be Danish forces. I would like to inform you thatbecause the Sudanese people are so angry over this affront, they will kill the Danishsoldiers before they kill the others. He may be invoking an oral tradition, preserved in the hadith, for this uniquelyIslamic motif of Jew hatred (Bukhari- Volume 3, Book 47, Number 786), whichmaintains that the perfidious Jews caused Muhammad¶s protracted, excruciatingdeath from poisoning.

Narrated Anas b. Malik: A Jewess brought a poisoned (cooked) sheep for theProphet who ate from it. I continued to see the effect of the poison on the palate of the mouth of Allah¶s Apostle The rest of Sudanese Student Union Chairman ³Muhammad´ statements speak for themselves. And what were the responses of the Danish Student Delegation Head to his Musliminterlocutors, the Chairmen of the Arab Students and Sudanese Student Unions?



«as a representative of the Danish youth and not a representative of thegovernment, I cannot explain to you why the Danish government has notapologized«And another important question, in your last very concrete questionsabout« could a Danish newspaper have made drawings of the Holocaust or denyingthe Holocaust. And the answer to that question is yes. There¶s no law in Denmarkpreventing a Danish newspaper from making drawings of the Holocaust. These muted, largely non-sequitur responses by the Head of the Danish StudentDelegation are a tangible product of the ³Eurabian ethos´, which Bat Ye¶or warned,pervades Western European academic and political institutions. The very ³ cartoondialogue´ itself was but a microcosm of the larger Euro-Arab Dialogue process and adistressing illustration of the most craven dhimmitude that parent institution hasengendered, threatening, as Bat Ye¶or notes, the very foundations of Westernsociety: This Eurabian ethos operates at all levels of European society. Its countlessfunctionaries, like the Christian janissary slave -soldiers of past Islamic regimes,advance a jihadist world strategy. Eurabi a cannot change direction; it can only use

deception to mask its emergence, its bias and its inevitable trajectory. Eurabia¶sdestiny was sealed when it decided, willingly, to become a covert partner with the Arab global jihad against America and Israel. A mericans must discuss the tragicdevelopment of Eurabia, and its profound implications for the United States,particularly in terms of its resultant foreign policy realities. Americans shouldconsider the despair and confusion of many Europeans, prisoners of a Eurabiantotalitarianism that foments a culture of deadly lies about Western civilization. Americans should know that this self-destructive calamity did not just happen, rather it was the result of deliberate policies, executed and monitored by ostens iblyresponsible people. Finally, Americans should understand that Eurabia¶scontemporary anti-Zionism and anti-Americanism are the spiritual heirs of 1930sNazism and anti-Semitism, triumphally resurgent.

Andrew G. Bostom is the author of The Legacy of Jihad .

Muslims Pervert Their Own ChildrenBy Dave Gibson (07/17/2006)

In order to understand a culture, you must examine how that culture views and treatstheir most vulnerable of citizens--their children. Most Americans could not imaginethe horror of out-living their child, it is widely accepted that it is the worst experi enceone could endure. However, what would seem to be a universal emotion does nothold true amongst scores of Arab Muslims. Many Muslims view their children asnothing more than walking bombs. An Egyptian children's show recently touted thefact that suicide bombing is in fact a Muslim family value.



Muslim cleric Sheik Muhammad Sharaf Al-Din said during a recent episode of achildren's show appearing on the Egyptian Al -Nas network: "We want mothers whoteach their sons Jihad, the love of Allah and his me ssenger, sacrifice for the sake of Islam." The Sheik had just finished reading a story depicting Muhhamed's triumphover a Jewish woman. After taking a phone call in which a Muslim boy namedRuqaya voiced his hatred of Jews, the Sheik began shouting "Allah Akbar!" Al-Din

went on to say: "The Jews are the people of treachery, betrayal, and vileness."

A June 15 episode of the same show which is hosted by Muhammed Nassar of theEgyptian Ministry of Religious Endowment, encouraged young children to becomemartyrs for Islam and kill "infidels." Nassar addressed his young audience by saying:"Let's listen to a very beautiful story to learn about the courage of a child, and how,when a child is brought up in a good home, and receives proper education in faith,he loves martyrdom, which becomes like an instinct for him. He can never give it up."

Last year in Lebanon, a hate-filled claymation film was produced by Hezbullah. Theshort movie directed at children portrayed Jews as greedy peddlers in an openmarket, selling on the Sabbath. The Jews were later turned into pigs and monkeys

by Allah and cast into the Red Sea for their crimes.

A children's cartoon which appears on Iranian television, tells the tale of a"bloodthirsty" Israeli army officer named Ariel, who i s claimed to "have no mercy, noteven for children." Of course, the Palestinians are shown as purely innocent victimsof murdering "Zionists." The animated adventure ends with Palestinian childrenfulfilling their destiny by lobbing grenades at Israeli sol diers.

Evidently, the constant indoctrination of Muslim children is working. The Middle EastMedia Research Institute obtained a video of a young Muslim girl (who looks to beabout six years old) announcing on Saudi Arabia's Iqra TV: "We don't want peacewith the Jews." The little girl who was being interviewed, was asked her opinion as towhy the Israelis commit so much evil. The little darling proclaimed: "Because theyare Jews, villains, dogs. You see? That's why. She went on to say: "The Jews --wewill drive them out of their homes!"

We have known for many years that multitudes of Muslim parents send their childrenaway to madrassas, where these four and five year old children memorize the Quranand learn an incredible hatred for Jews and Christians. Th ey are taught that thegreatest accomplishment they could ever achieve is to kill an Israeli or an American.

Mothers of suicide bombers are hailed as heroes in the Muslim world and givenspecial status. These women even receive financial rewards by groups such as

Hezbullah (It is widely known that Saddam Huessein provided $25,000 to thefamilies of Palestinian suicide bombers.) and are frequently featured on Muslimtelevision shows. Considering the slave-like status of women in the Muslim world,the only way Muslim men would ever honor a woman is if she allows her son to blowhimself to bits for Allah.

It is obvious that our Muslim enemies place no value on human life, not even for thelife of their own children. It is also obvious that most of us cannot t ruly fathom the evilthat we are now facing. Muslims are brainwashing their children to become hate -



filled murderers.

Most of us want the very best for our children. We want them to become successfuland happy adults. While we love to see them graduate, m arry, get good jobs, andprovide grandchildren, the urge to keep them safe is the strongest of all of our wishes. It may be impossible for an American to understand how someone could

encourage their child to kill himself in a murderous explosion. However, until wewake up to this horrible fact...we will never defeat this enemy.

This war cannot be won with surgical strikes nor with U.N. resolutions. We arefacing-down evil incarnate and only total and ruthless war can save humanity fromIslam.

Disbanded Militant Youth Group in Somalia Support Al-QaidaMessage By Alisha RyuMogadishu05 January 2 007 In Somalia, an alleged message from Osama bin Laden's deputy urging Somalis tolaunch an Iraq-style guerrilla war against Ethiopian forces there is being takenseriously by a now mostly-disbanded group of militant Somali youths known as theShaabab. In an interview with VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu in Mogadishu, oneformer Shaabab member warns that he and many of his colleagues are stillcommitted to waging a holy war against Ethiopia. The audiotaped message, allegedly by al -Qaida's number two leader, Ayman al -

Zawahri, appeared Friday on a Web site used by Muslim extremist groups.

The message urged Somalis to use guerrilla tactics, including suicide attacks androadside bombings, against thousands of Ethiopian troops, backing up interimgovernment forces, in Somalia.

Many Somalis in the capital interviewed by VOA acknowledged that Ethiopia is stillconsidered an enemy and their presence is creating tension. But they also lamented al-Zawahri's call for violence, saying Somalia, which sufferedthrough more than 15 years of factional fighting, does not need any more instability.

But a local hard-line Islamist, who identifies himself only as Hassan, tells VOA thatthere are many well-trained members of the militant Shaabab group ready to heedal-Qaida's call. Hassan, 27, is a former Shaabab member, who fought in recent Islamist battlesagainst Ethiopian and government troops. Shaabab, whose members are believed tonumber more than 1,000, was organized earlier this year by Adan Hashi Ayro, a top



Somali Islamist military commander, who had received terrorist training in Afghanistan.

Hassan says he probably would not volunteer for suicide missions, but he would doall of the other things he was trained to do, such as constructing and plantingroadside bombs and launching hit-and-run attacks. He says he and other members

of the Shaabab would not stop until all Ethiopians left Somalia. Hassan disputes Somali Interior Minister Hussein Aideed's contention that some3,500 Islamist fighters are still organized and hiding in Mogadishu, waiting to re -startthe war. Hassan says when Islamist leaders, including Ayro, fled the capital on December 28,most Islamist fighters simply went back to their clans. Shaabab members who werenot part of Ayro's inner circle, stayed in Mogadishu and effectively self -dissolved.

He says the Shaabab no longer meets and has no weapons. But he says if theremaining members here can find another sponsor like Ayro, they could become aradical fighting force again very quickly.

For two weeks in late December, Christian -led Ethiopia provided troops and massivefirepower in defense of the country's U.N. -backed interim government againstIslamist forces.

Several senior Islamist leaders, who are believed to have ties with al -Qaida andother terrorist organizations, were chased out of their strongholds and are now inhiding near Somalia's border with Kenya. On Friday, Ethiopian and government troops battled a t least 600 Islamist militiamen

in the area, while U.S. Navy war ships patrolled the coast to keep militants fromfleeing by sea.

Islamic 'Bugs Bunny' programme 'spreadsextremism'

An Islamic television station is using a Bugs Bunny lookalike in a progr amme for children, who vote whether to chop off his hands when he breaches Sharia law.

July 23, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk Assud the rabbit vows to "kill and eat Jews" and glorifies the maiming of "infidels" onthe Palestinian children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers.



In one episode, Assud admits stealing money and is seen begging for mercy after young viewers and parents phone in demanding to cut off his hands as punishment.

At that point, Saraa, the 11 -year-old presenter, intervenes and rules that the bunnyshould only have his ears severed because he has repented.

The rabbit, played by a costumed actor, is one of the main characters on the showbroadcast in Gaza by the al-Aqsa channel, which is otherwise known as Hamas TV.

Religious leaders in Britain, where the channel can be viewed via satellite, criticisedthe programme, amid fears British children could be affected by the radical Islamicmessage.

The Association of Muslim Schools, which represents Britain's 143 Muslim schools,said it was opposed to any shows that incite violence.

Dr Mohamed Mukadam, the association's spokesman, said: "It goes without sayingthat any programme which promotes the killing or injuring of human beings is wrong.

"Regardless of religion, shows that incite or inspire others to inflict violence of anykind should be condemned.

"Such shows are against the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed, and we wouldurge people of all ages not to watch them."

Set up as a regional station prior to the Palestinian elections in January 2006, the al - Aqsa channel now airs on a satellite slot and has a substantial following across the Arab world.

Tomorrow's Pioneers was first aired in April 2007, and features young host SaraaBarhoum and her co-host, a large costumed animal.

The show originally featured a character called Fa rfur who resembled Mickey Mouseand urged children to fight against the Jewish community and form a world Islamicstate.

Farfur was later replaced by a bumble bee called Nahoul, who told viewers to "followthe path of Islam, of martyrdom and of the Mujahi deen".

He was 'martyred' earlier this year and replaced by Assud, who tells children in hisfirst episode: "I, Assud, will get rid of the Jews, Allah willing, and I will eat them up."

In a discussion with 11-year-old host Saraa Barhoum, the young viewers are referredto as 'soldiers'.

Assud asks Saraa: "We are all martyrdom-seekers, are we not?"

"Yes, we are all ready to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of our homeland," shereplies.



The phone-in show accepts calls from children as young as nine on top ics about lifein Palestine.

In an episode aired on July 11, Assud is seduced by Satan into stealing money fromhis father - an offence forbidden in Sharia law.

Host Saraa is then seen asking the studio audience what the rabbit's punishmentshould be.

Viewers, including parents and children, phoned in demanding that his hands shouldbe severed to teach him a lesson.

After taking several calls, Saraa asks the children: "Do you think we should go aheadand chop off Assud's hand now?"

The terrified rabbit slumps to his knees and pleads: "No, no Saraa, I'm begging you."

In the end, Saraa - acting as judge and jury - rules that his ear should be cut off instead, but this was not shown on the programme.

During an episode aired in February, Assud vows to kil l and eat all Danish peopleover the cartoon images of the Prophet Mohammed which appeared in Danishnewspapers.

He pledges to assassinate the illustrator and Saraa also agrees that she wouldmartyr herself for the cause of Palestine.

Saraa, who has seven brothers and sisters, was invited to host the show after entering a singing competition.

Last year she defended the programme, insisting it was not responsible for spreading extremism.

She said: "We are not terrorists. We do not support terrorism. We a re normal people,but we are defending our homeland.

"The Israelis hit next door to my house with a shell. I was wounded on my feet andmy little brother Youssef was wounded in the legs.

"We, as Muslims, are against suicide bombers. We are against the de ath of civilianson all sides. We are only the enemy of those who took our land and kill us every

day."

The show is regularly translated and posted online by The Middle East MediaResearch Institute, an independent media monitoring group based in the Unit edStates.

The al-Aqsa channel was unavailable for comment.

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