Dutch Muslims Offer to Guard Coptic Churches

A Protection Racket
Our regular reader and commenter Sagunto sends this interesting update on the Coptic Church Hit List situation in Holland. We reported in last night’s news feed that Al-Qaeda is threatening Coptic churches in the Netherlands, but Sagunto has even more from one of today’s Newspapers. He says: Just this morning I read about a remarkable initiative by three major Muslim organizations, to “protect” these churches. I’d liken this protection to the kind of “protecti...

Calls for Peace, Tolerance in Cairo
Hundreds of Christians peacefully marched on Tuesday evening to a cathedral in Cairo, protesting the New Year’s Day bombing of the Church of Two Saints in Alexandria. Pope Shenouda III , head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, called on Christian youth to cease protesting and to adopt non-violent means of achieving their goals. He noted that some of the rallies protesting the attack had been joint affairs between Christians and Muslims. In the dense neighborhood of Shubra, joint Christian-Mus...

Anti-Christian Drumbeat Loud Before Attack on Egyptian Church
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 Cairo (AP) - In the weeks before the New Year's Day Suicide bombing of an Egyptian church, al-Qaida-linked websites carried a how-to manual on "destroying the cross," complete with videos on how to build a bomb and the locations of churches to target -- including the one that was attacked. They may have found a receptive audience in Alexandria, where increasingly radicalized Islamic hard-liners have been holding weekly anti-Christian demonstrations, filled with ven...

Al-Qaeda sites ID'd attacked church
CAIRO — In the weeks before the New Year’s Day Suicide bombing of an Egyptian church, al-Qaida-linked websites carried a how-to manual on "destroying the cross," complete with videos on how to build a bomb and the locations of churches to target — including the one that was attacked. They may have found a receptive audience in Alexandria, where increasingly radicalized Islamic hard-liners have been holding weekly anti-Christian demonstrations, filled with venomous slogans again...

Copts on global Christmas alert after Egypt bombing
By William Maclean, Security Correspondent London | Wed Jan 5, 2011 8:42am EST London (Reuters) - Coptic Christians around the world are on alert for possible copycat attacks ahead of their Christmas on Friday after Islamist radicals hailed a deadly church bombing in Egypt apparently inspired by al Qaeda. Coptic communities point to messages on websites maintained by Islamist Extremists calling for attacks on Coptic churches in various countries and a surge in sectarian anti-Christian rhetori...

Anti-Christian drumbeat loud before Egypt attack
CAIRO - In the weeks before the New Year's Day Suicide bombing of an Egyptian church, al-Qaida-linked websites carried a how-to manual on "destroying the cross," complete with videos on how to build a bomb and the locations of churches to target — including the one that was attacked. They may have found a receptive audience in Alexandria, where increasingly radicalized Islamic hard-liners have been holding weekly anti-Christian demonstrations, filled with venomous slogans against the...

Bozell Column: War In the Mideast -- On Christians
Our national media elite reviewed 2010 with great sorrow for how America has besmirched itself in the eyes of the world with its “seething hatred” of Muslims. CBS anchor Katie Couric announced on her Internet show that there wasn't enough evaluation of“this Bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide” which was “so misdirected, and so wrong -- and so disappointing.” Couric even embarrassed herself by suggesting "Maybe we need a Muslim version of The ...

War in the Mideast On Christians
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 By L. Brent Bozell III Our national media elite reviewed 2010 with great sorrow for how America has besmirched itself in the eyes of the world with its “seething hatred” of Muslims. CBS anchor Katie Couric announced on her Internet show that there wasn't enough evaluation of “this Bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide” which was “so misdirected, and so wrong -- and so disappointing.” Couric even embarrassed herself by suggesting "Ma

War in the Mideast -- on Christians
Our national media elite reviewed 2010 with great sorrow for how America has besmirched itself in the eyes of the world with its "seething hatred" of Muslims. CBS anchor Katie Couric announced on her Internet show that there wasn't enough evaluation of "this Bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide" which was "so misdirected, and so wrong -- and so disappointing." Couric even embarrassed herself by suggesting, "Maybe we need a Muslim version of 'The Cosby Show.'" A ridiculous idea -- unless ...

Egypt church bomb hints at al Qaeda gaining toehold
By Marwa Awad Cairo | Wed Jan 5, 2011 9:49am EST Cairo (Reuters) - Remains of a bomb used in a church bombing resemble devices used in blasts in 2009, according to security sources, and analysts said this hardened indications al Qaeda-inspired Militants may be winning a toehold in the country. The possible link reinforces the view that such Militants may be winning recruits as the government sidelines moderate Islamist voices such as the Muslim Brotherhood, analysts said. Egypt suspects an al...

2011: Israel & Hamas Will Go To War
The question that remains is how severely the Obama Administration will criticize Israel and how hard it will attempt to prevent Israel from finally destroying Hamas. All one has to do is scan late December's headlines to know that the battle lines have already been drawn for 2011. Hamas and Israel will either go to war (again) in the next twelve months or there will be a sharp escalation in Hamas attacks on Israel. Whenever Israel goes to war it fights a two-front war. In addition to armed ...

Coming Soon: Jane Fondas Burqini Workout DVD
The Malaysian national news agency, Bernama, has shown a more irenic side of Islam, reporting on Dec. 31 that "Islam does not prohibit any activity, including aerobics, to be carried out in the compound of a Mosque as long as such activities do not contravene Syariah [Sharia] principles, PAS [Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party] spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat said. He said it should not be a problem for either Muslims or non-Muslims to conduct any activity outside or inside the mosque. ...

Hamas Group CAIR Pushes for Islamic Law (Sharia) in Indiana
There is no more radical, extreme system of governance than Islamic law (Sharia). Indiana is proposing a bill that would ban sharia. I pray that they vet the language of the bill with legal experts on sharia (ie David Yerushalmi), so that they don't lose on a technicality. The Oklahoma ban was brilliant but poorly worded and had 70% of voters approving of it -- it is clear that American People understand the Islamic threat to our constituional republic. Check out the media's Muslim pro...

Coincidence?
Friday night's car bombing at a Coptic Church in Alexandria, Egypt was no coincidence. In the weeks before the New Year's Day Suicide bombing of an Egyptian church, al-Qaida-linked websites carried a how-to manual on "destroying the cross," complete with videos on how to build a bomb and the locations of churches to target — including the one that was attacked. They may have found a receptive audience in Alexandria, where increasingly radicalized Islamic hard-liners have been holding weekly ...

Lebanese political party: Egypt church bombing part of "hellish plotcrafted in the Zionist-American Greater Middle East project"
We are hearing this so often, it is clearly a line that some group has settled upon and sold to the rest. "Lebanese Political Party: 'The Alexandria Bombing Was an American-Zionist Production,'" from Translating Jihad, January 4: [...] (Link to original Arabic.) Lebanese Popular Congress: The Alexandria Bombing Was an American-Zionist Production alintiqad.com, 3 Jan 2011 The Lebanese Popular Congress opined that "the wicked Terrorist bombing which targeted Christian worshipers in the Churches...

Afghanistan: Islamophobes open fire in mosque, killing four no, wait
Actually, it was Islamic Jihadists again, oddly enough. "Gunmen open fire in Mosque of Afghan capital, killing four," from Arab Times, January 4 (thanks to Twostellas): Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan 3, (Agencies): Gunmen opened fire in a Mosque northwest of the Afghan capital, killing four civilians, while a fifth was killed in a bombing outside a butcher's shop in the western part of the country, officials said Monday. The shop in Herat supplies meat to the Afghan army, and officials think the bom...

Gaza Two Years Later: 23 days of my life
My first semester at IUG, the Islamic University of Gaza, was quite intense; different life style, freshman zeal, new faces, new troubles, architecture major, and most significantly >> war.  My first final exam - Applied Physics - was scheduled to be on the 27th of December.  As usual, I was hardly prepared and I was actually wishing they’d postpone it! Yeah, I ended up regretting that one. The exam was meant to be held at 11:30 am, so I left the house at ...

Egypt sees Qaeda link to blast; Europe warns Copts
By Marwa Awad Cairo | Tue Jan 4, 2011 2:03am EST Cairo (Reuters) - Egypt is screening people who arrived recently from countries where Al-Qaeda is known to recruit after early findings suggested the Militant network was behind a New Year's church bombing, security sources said. In Europe, authorities said they were pursuing threats against Coptic churches there, after militants said they would attack the Egyptian Christian denomination both in Egypt and among its diaspora communities. A suspe...

Al-Aqsa Foundation: "The Zionist occupation has designated millions of dollars to Judaize occupied Jerusalem"
More antisemitic Conspiracy paranoia: "Al-Aqsa Foundation Accuses Israel of Attempting to Judaize Mosques," from Translating Jihad, January 5: More anti-semitic fearmongering in Palestine, this time from the al-Aqsa Foundation, which was named a specially-designated global Terrorist by the Treasury Department for its ties to Hamas. (See original Arabic here.) Zionist Plans Accelerated for Judaizing Jerusalem Mosques and the Wailing Wall almoslim.net, 4 Jan 2010 The Zionist occupation recentl...

Bozell Column: War In the Mideast -- On Christians
Our national media elite reviewed 2010 with great sorrow for how America has besmirched itself in the eyes of the world with its “seething hatred” of Muslims. CBS anchor Katie Couric announced on her Internet show that there wasn't enough evaluation of“this Bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide” which was “so misdirected, and so wrong -- and so disappointing.” Couric even embarrassed herself by suggesting "Maybe we need a Muslim version of The ...

Morocco breaks up al-Qaida-linked terrorist cell
Morocco's police have broken up a Terror Cell led by a member of al-Qaida's North African branch that was setting up a base in the disputed Western Sahara, the official news agency MAP said. Police dismantled a 27-member cell and discovered three weapon caches in Western Sahara, said the MAP news agency, which published a statement from the Interior Ministry late Tuesday. The report said the cell was planning Suicide Bomb Attacks against police and bank robberies to finance its activities. Moroc...

Morocco says holding member of Al Qaeda in Maghreb
By Zakia Abdennebi RABAT | Wed Jan 5, 2011 7:22am EST RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco said it had arrested a member of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) among 26 others who planned to attack security services and rob banks using weapons they hid in an area of the disputed Western Sahara. Quoting an Interior Ministry statement, official media said Moroccan security forces recently broke up the 27-member cell and had discovered weapon caches in Amghala, an oasis located in the disputed Western S...

There's no neutrality in the war on terror
Dr. Walid Phares argues that the recent Suicide bombing in Stockholm shows that attempts to remain neutral in the War on Terror are doomed to failure. Until Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly’s explosive belt went off prematurely in Stockholm last month, Sweden was the poster child for Isolationism in the war on terror. While Abdulwahab’s bomb failed to achieve his desired result, it did obliterate the myth that nations can remain neutral to global Terrorism. Abdulwahab’s failed attack typifie

Oops: Russians Say START Treaty Covers Antimissile Defense Systems
They told us the START Treaty couldn't wait - it had ot be signed in the Lame Duck session. And the Obama Administration insisted that passing the START Treaty would not impact the US antimissile defense systems. Turns out, Obama and other proponents of the treaty were dead wrong ... the Russian Parliament announced this week that the START Treaty includes limitations on the US antimissile defense systems. [...] The Russian lawmakers insist that all the chapters of the treaty including the pream...

Pakistani governor murdered for opposing blasphemy law was killed by member of 'moderate' Muslim group
(AKI/DAWN) "Pakistan: Punjab Governor's assassin 'linked to Islamic group":The Pakistani Elite Force guard who on Tuesday shot dead Punjab governor Salman Taseer is said to be associated with 'Dawat-i-Islami', a non-political and non-violent religious group close to a moderate Sunni Muslim sect. Taseer's self-confessed killer, Mumtaz Qadri, was associated with the moderate Barelvi sect, according to one his colleagues. The Barelvis originated in India in the 19th century to defend traditional Is...