August 10, 2008 at 11:16 pm (Miscellaneous)
As I mentioned here, I have created a new blog and now…it is complete…Mister Pee’s Pony Express, unclogging the world with the sharp end of a toilet plunger.
TJB will now remain strictly to the topic of Islam and global spread of Islamic jihad. MPPE will cover all other topics of interest to me including politics, religion, pop culture, movies, books, culture and more.
August 10, 2008 at 4:50 pm (Islam Against Christians)
Two different articles posted at Jihad Watch, both detailing the reponses of Christians to Islamic bullying and oppression. Very, very interesting. Take a look:
ROME) - Italy’s top prelate Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco has denounced a Euro MP in the anti-immigration Northern League for his anti-Islamic views, press reports said Saturday.
The Bishop of Genoa and president of the Italian episcopal conference voiced his “total disapproval” of Euro MP Mario Borghezio’s vow to “defend Christianity against profanation by Islam” made in a church in the northern port on Friday.
The Euro deputy made his call at a rally of League members to protest against a city council plans to hold interfaith prayers in the church, a former hospital of the Knights of Malta in the 13th century.
Accompanied by dozens of people waving the League’s flag, Borghezio gained entry to the building by waving his Euro deputy’s card. He then swore to “continue the fight of the Knights of the Order of Malta to defend Christianity.”
Cardinal Bagnasco condemned Borghezio for making his statement in a church, which he said was “solely a place for prayer and worship,” the Corriere della Sera said.
The Northern League scored an unexpected success in general elections in April, taking eight percent of the votes and securing four ministerial posts in the right-wing government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Second, the Freedom Fighter version
Jakarta (AsiaNews) - More than 3,500 Christians have protested in Jayapura, the capital of Indonesian Papua, against the introduction of sharia, Islamic law, in the region.The demonstration of a few days ago was organized by the Indonesian Christian Communication Forum, and took place to the cry of “Papua Pancasila, yes. Papua Syariat Islam, no!”. Pancasila, literally “the five basic pillars”, is the official ideology of the state founded on modern democratic principles like freedom of expression and of religion. Recently in Jakarta there has been talk of introducing sharia in Indonesia. The Christians of the province object that Papua enjoys special legal autonomy, which would prevent the introduction of such law without local approval.
The demonstrators went to the offices of the provincial government, where Tedjo Suprato (who is standing in for the governor Barnabas Suebu, a Catholic, in Mexico on official business) reassured them that Islamic law will not be adopted in Papua….
Which Christian–or person of good will–are you? A Dhimmi or a Freedom Fighter?
August 10, 2008 at 4:36 pm (Islam Against Christians)
For a change, a wonderful tale of a journey from darkness (which is what Islam is, in every way imaginable) to light. This article is mind-blowing. Rarely do we hear any ex-Muslims speak out as strongly, and with no buttered words like Masab is doing here.
[H/T to Cappie from PM]
Top Hamas leader’s son converts to Christianity
by Ethan Cole, Christian Post
Posted: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 9:22 (BST)The son of a top Hamas leader has converted to Christianity and prays some day his family will also accept Jesus Christ as their saviour, according to an Israeli newspaper.
Masab Yousef, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, revealed for the first time in an exclusive interview with Haaretz newspaper that he has left Islam and is now a Christian. Prior to the interview’s publication last Thursday, Yousef’s family did not know of his faith conversion even though he is in regular contact with them.
“[T]his interview will open many people’s eyes, it will shake Islam from the roots, and I’m not exaggerating,” said Yousef, who now resides in the United States. “What other case do you know where a son of a Hamas leader, who was raised on the tenets of extremist Islam, comes out against it?”
Yousef, who is now 30-years-old, was first exposed to Christianity eight years ago while in Jerusalem, where out of curiosity he accepted an invitation to hear about Christianity. Afterwards, he became “enthusiastic” about what he heard and would secretly read the Bible every day.
“A verse like ‘Love thine enemy’ had a great influence on me,” Yousef recalled. “At this stage I was still a Muslim and I thought that I would remain one. But every day I saw the terrible things done in the name of religion by those who considered themselves ‘great believers’.
“I studied Islam more thoroughly and found no answers there. I re-examined the Koran and the principals of the faith and found how it is mistaken and misleading.”
But with Christianity, Yousef said he could understand God as revealed through Jesus Christ. He said he could talk about God and Jesus for days, but Muslims are not able to say anything about God.
“I consider Islam a big lie,” said Yousef. “The people who supposedly represent the religion admired Mohammed more than God, killed innocent people in the name of Islam, beat their wives and don’t have any idea what God is.
“I have no doubt that they’ll go to hell. I have a message for them: There is only one way to paradise – the way of Jesus who sacrificed himself on the cross for all of us.”Four years ago, Yousef decided to convert to Christianity but did not let his family know. He still helped his father with his political activities, and his father only knew his son had Christian friends.
“I felt responsible. It was better for me to be there rather than a gang of fools who would poison his mind,” Yousef explained. “I tried to understand those people, their thoughts, in order to change them from inside by means of a strong person like my father, who admitted to me in the past that he does not support suicide attacks.”
Yousef described his father as a moderate Hamas leader.
But even before his encounter with Christianity, Yousef had already become disenchanted with Hamas and Islam after being imprisoned at the age of 18 years old for heading a youth Islamic movement at his high school.
He described the Hamas leaders he met in prison as people with “no morals” and “no integrity”, although they hide their corruption better than Fatah party members.
“Nobody knows them and how they operate as well as I do,” Yousef said, recalling how the family of Hamas members killed by Israel were forced to beg for financial assistance while the leadership “abandoned” them and “wasted” tens of thousands of dollars a month only on security for themselves.
“Then (in prison) I understood that not everyone in Hamas is like my father. He’s a nice, friendly man. But I discovered how evil his colleagues are,” Yousef said. “After my release I lost the faith I had in those who ostensibly represented Islam.”Hamas is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Israel, and many Western countries. The group has publicly vowed to destroy Israel.
Now Yousef, the eldest son of Sheikh Yousef, says he “admires” Israel.
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You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas,” Yousef stated. “Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death.”He denounced the “entire” Palestinian society as one that “sanctifies death and the suicide terrorist.Yousef highlighted that Hamas was the first to use suicide bombers as weapons against civilians.
“In Palestinian culture a suicide terrorist becomes a hero, a martyr. Sheiks tell their students about the ‘heroism of the shaheeds (martyr)’.”
“They (Hamas) are blind and ignorant. It’s true, there are good and bad people everywhere, but Hamas supporters don’t understand that they are led by a wicked and cruel group that brainwashes the children and gets them to believe that if they carry out a suicide attack they’ll get to paradise,” he said.
The Muslim-turned-Christian says he does not think Islam will survive for more than 25 years because the truth about Islam will be exposed given the mass communication available in the modern age.
Article from Christian Today:
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/top….anity/21157.htm
I pray that he is right about Islam not lasting as the truth comes out. In the mean time we still have a big fight of culture and ideology ahead of us. Islam won’t go quietly into the night in any case. And Masab may need a new passport and identity after this.
August 10, 2008 at 3:09 pm (Miscellaneous)
I’m currently building a new blog to be called Mister Pee’s Pony Express. I’m pretty excited about it. This is a blog where I will post on news and current events and various other things of interest to me, but totally NOT related to Islam or jihad. I will be removing all the off-topic [OT] items from Talkin’ Jihad Blues and re-posting the best ones at Mister Pee’s. I hope that you will check in there some time.
I realized that I needed to stop posting OT items here at TJB because this blog was never intended for anything but Islam-related news and information-sharing. Since I love to talk/write about current events and just about anything that’s in the news or interesting, unique or curious I need an outlet for that, too.
I will post here again and let everyone know when Mister Pee’s Pony Express has come to full completion.
August 8, 2008 at 7:03 pm (1)
Dear Mohammedan Employees of Tysons,
Nanny-nanny boo-boo.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/08/tyson-foods-reinstates-labor-day-holiday/
Now, you will need to use your *personal day* benefits for your special little Muslim outings. Just like the Catholics and the Jews do it for theirs. And have been for YEARS. All over the country. Without bitching and moaning and screaming about their “rights”.
P.S.
I’m very happy with the outcome. I think Muslims as well as people of all religions should have a way to take off of work for their holy days. But, not at the expense of a precious and teasured American holiday. And not at the expense of fairness to other employees. Using a personal paid holiday is an excellent solution for all. As I have said before, if it’s fair and it will make the employees happy, then companies should make these gracious gestures. Because happy employees make a strong workforce. And this is a good thing.
August 6, 2008 at 1:55 pm (Islam Against Christians)
Tags: islam and christians
And Muslims have the nerve to lie and say there is no compulsion in religion. Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars.
Forcing Islam on a person is not necessarily done with the blade of a sword. It’s pretty hard to say no to a religion that takes away every element of your own religion. Very difficult for persecuted Christians to be firm in their Faith after years and years of this abuse. That’s why so many have given up and just submitted over the centuries. And then it only takes one or two generations to forget that they ever were Christians in the first place. In this way, Christians lose their Faith twice: first by force and then secondly by being robbed of their ancestral heritage. I can only imagine how exhausting–emotionally, mentally and spiritually–it must be to have to be on your toes and looking over your shoulder every second of the day, never knowing when you have your home searched and razed, be fired from a job, hauled in and out of jails, and being subjected to humiliation and even torture. Only the very strongest of human beings can endure it.
Saudi Arabia to Deport 15 Christians
August 4, 2008The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Saudi Arabia is deporting 15 Christians on Tuesday, August 5th, for holding private worship meetings in a house in the city of Taif.
On Friday, April 25, twelve Saudi Arabian police raided a house where 16 Christians were holding a prayer meeting. The first officer to enter the house after breaking down the main gate pointed a pistol at the Christians and ordered them to hand over their resident permits and mobile phones. The other 11 police followed quickly and started searching the entire house. They confiscated an electronic drum set, an offering box with 500 Saudi Riyal in it ($130), 20 bibles, and a few Christian books.
The police initially accused the Christians of preaching the Bible and singing. They later changed the charge to holding a “dance party” and collecting money to support terrorism.
During the raid, the police mocked, questioned and harassed the Christians for four hours. Then they took them to a police station where the head of the station interrogated them. The head of the police then wrote down their “statements” in Arabic and forced the Christians, who are immigrants and not able to read or write Arabic, to sign the statements.
After the interrogations, the Christians were incarcerated and held incommunicado. After three days, the Christians were finally released on April 27, 2008 at 8 PM.
Upon release, one of the Christians permanently departed the country. The others, thinking that their ordeal was over, went back to their daily lives and work but soon received letters demanding that they leave the country immediately.
The arrested Christians are hard working people who came to Saudi Arabia to improve their lives and to contribute to the economic growth of the country. The Saudi officials’ decision to deport them for practicing their faith is despicable.
The decision to deport them runs contrary to recent attempts to portray the kingdom as a beacon of reconciliation among Christians, Muslims, Jews and others. Three weeks ago, Saudi Arabia hosted an interfaith conference in Madrid, Spain. During the conference that took place from July 16-19, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called for reconciliation among various religions.
Jeff King, ICC’s President, said, “Deporting Christians for worshipping in their private homes shows that King Abdullah’s speech is mere rhetoric and his country is deceiving the international community about their desire for change and reconciliation.”
August 6, 2008 at 1:15 pm (Islam in Africa)
Tags: islam africa
I’ve often said, in response to liberal pansies who excuse Islamic violence against the West on being “poor and frustrated” and “bad Western policies” and “Western decadence”, that even if the Muslims had no non-Muslims left in the world to fight, they would still not have peace. The radical Muslims claim that when Islam dominates the whole earth there will be peace. This is a lie. Without non-Muslims, Muslims would simply turn against each other. Thanks to the teachings of their cult, and the brainwashing by their imams that teach Muslims hatred and bigotry from the cradle, they simply don’t know how to live without exorting to bullying and thug tactics. Like bullies on the playground, they invent conflicts by prodding and harassing, and resolve these conflicts with pushing, shoving and eventually real physical violence. We have seen it over and over and over. One could say Muslims are wired for conflict. Not by direct fault of their own, for all human beings are created by God to love and to be loved, but the brainwashing of Islam has made them irrational and incapable of peaceful co-existence…even with each other.
Mauritania army stages coup; junta takes charge
By AHMED MOHAMED, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes agoThe attacks prompted French organizers to canceled the 2008 Dakar Rally, a famous transcontinental car and motorcycle race that brought pride and foreign currency into the country.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Army officers staged a coup in Mauritania on Wednesday and detained the president and prime minister, overthrowing the first government to be freely elected in the desert country in more than 20 years.
The coup in Africa’s newest oil producer took place after the president and prime minister fired the country’s top four military officials.
A brief announcement read over state television said the new “state council” will be led by presidential guard chief Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. It gave no other details.
President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was being held by renegade soldiers at the presidential palace in Nouakchott, according to presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba. Soldiers also detained Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waqef, he said.
State radio and television went off air and witnesses said soldiers were deployed throughout the capital. No violence was immediately reported.
Straddling the western edge of the Sahara desert, Arab-dominated Mauritania, with a population of 3.4 million, has been wracked by more than 10 coups or attempted coups since independence from France in 1960.
While most of its people live on about $5 a day, oil reserves were discovered in Mauritania in 2006.
Abdallahi’s civilian government took control from a military junta, which seized power in a 2005 coup and stepped down after 2007 elections.
No official reason was given for firing the military officials, announced early Wednesday. Among those fired was army chief staff Gen. Mohamed Ould Sheikh Mohamed. [MV: Should have seen that coming.]
In recent weeks, lawmakers have accused Abdallahi of corruption and poor governance, and 69 of the country’s 95 parliament members called for his resignation.
Lawmaker Mohammed Al Mukhtar told the Arab satellite television station Al-Jazeera by telephone that many people were supporting the takeover attempt. He described the government as “an authoritarian regime” and asserted the president had “marginalized the majority in parliament.”
The U.S. embassy urged Americans in Mauritania “to exercise extreme caution to assure their safety. They should remain at home or where they are for the rest of the day” and avoid crowds.
Spokesman Romain Nadal said France’s Foreign Ministry was in contact with French embassy officials in Nouakchott and that measures have been taken to protect the safety of French citizens living there.
The bloodless 2005 coup, when Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall seized power, was widely popular, for many Mauritanians had grown tired of the 21-year rule of former dictator Maaoya Sid’Ahmed Ould Taya.
Although no junta members ran in the 2007 election, there have been rumors that some in the military were unhappy at being barred from the race. Newspapers also carried stories linking several of the 19 presidential candidates to Taya, now living in exile.
Al-Qaida linked terror groups have also been active in the country, which is one of only three Arab League nations to recognize Israel. Mauritania blamed the 2007 Christmas Eve slaying of four French tourists on a terror group allied with al-Qaida.
August 6, 2008 at 12:23 pm (Freedom Fighters)
Tags: Freedom Fighters
I want to start highlighting some great sites, blogs and organizations out there that are doing their great part of fight the onslaught of Islamism through news, commentary and information-sharing. The first one up is Americans Against Hate, founded and directed by Joe Kaufman. AAH doesn’t focus solely on Islamic activities, but since Islam is the most hate-mongering group on the planet right now, it’s fair to say that AAH spends a good amount of time on them. And thank God they do.
About Americans Against Hate
Founded in August of 1998, Americans Against Hate (AAH) is a civil rights organization and terrorism watchdog group, whose goal is to be an active voice against those that spread bigotry and violence. While there are others that claim to do the same - and at times they do - far too many times they are suspiciously silent. Americans Against Hate was formed to fill that void.There is no question that our focus has changed, since the events that occurred on September 11, 2001. Now, more than ever, there is a need for an organization such as ours… to speak out against hatred, even when it is politically incorrect to do so, even when it entails criticisms aimed at certain religious sects.
For far too long the free world has sat back and ignored the violent hatred that was growing within undemocratic nations. We therefore unequivocally support our government’s - and any other willing government’s - war on terrorism.
While we understand that hate has been around since early in man’s existence, we look forward to the day when our organization will be unnecessary and irrelevant, when the world’s inhabitants can truly live in peace with one another. Until then, we will do our best to live up to our name, as Americans Against Hate.
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About Joe Kaufman
Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of Americans Against Hate and the founder of CAIR Watch. He is also an investigative journalist for Frontpage Magazine and the spokesperson for the Terror-Free Oil Initiative. In September of 2003, Joe was invited by Florida Speaker of the House Johnnie Byrd to give expert testimony in front of law enforcement and government representatives at a forum on terrorism and homeland security. Joe has spoken at the conferences of the Intelligence Summit, America’s Truth Forum and Hadassah, and he was the keynote speaker for Islamofascism Awareness Week at UCLA in October of 2007. Joe has been featured on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC and has appeared on numerous local and national television and radio talk shows.
August 6, 2008 at 11:19 am (Islam Against Christians)
Tags: islam and christians
Non-Islamic prayer, that is. I noticed this same thing when His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI visit the Hagia Sophia. He was told ahead that non-Muslims are not allowed to perform any outward signs of prayer while inside “the mosque” (which isn’t a true mosque; it’s a stolen Christian basilica). He was not even allowed to make the sign of the Cross over himself as is the tradition of Catholics to do even before silent prayer.
by: Michael Medved
After Israel unified Jerusalem in the Six Day War of 1967, the government foolishly granted Islamic authorities – the Waqf—exclusive control of the Temple Mount. This means that when Jewish or Christian visitors want to connect with the holiest spot of Jewish history, where both Temples once stood, they must submit to the rules of fanatical Islam. When my listener tour of Israeli recently toured the Temple Mount, “minders” from the Waqf followed our every move, confiscating hymnals, bibles, even notebooks, and warning visitors of potential arrest if they dared to pray or recite scriptural verses. It’s possible to visit Christian cathedrals and offer prayers from other traditions, or enter Jewish synagogues and pray or meditate according to your conscience. Only Islamic authorities, even at a Jewish holy site, feel profoundly threatened even by quiet prayers they don’t control.
August 4, 2008 at 5:48 pm (Miscellaneous)
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