Islamism - 6

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Islami news from Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th March:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoonprotests/...2028520,00.html
<b>Cartoon protester guilty of encouraging murder (UK)</b>
Followers of the Religion of Peace hold placards stressing the 'Peace' aspect:
<img src='http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2007/01/05/toon1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story....jectid=10427669
<b>(Italian) Reporter in hands of ruthless Taleban general</b>

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story....jectid=10427716
<b>Madrid train bombers may have had more help, police say</b>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4714101.stm
<b>Tariq Ramadan - Islamic militant or revolutionary?</b>
Oh what a touch question. Let's answer that:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/ar...006_09.php
See sections
- <b>Fitzgerald: Keep Tariq Ramadan out</b> (Well said. Someone who's not a dhimmi, for a change)
- <b>New info on Tariq Ramadan's ties to jihad terror groups</b>
the last contains this bit, for instance:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Moreover, a 2001 Swiss intelligence memo said: "brothers Hani and Tariq Ramadan coordinated a meeting held in 1991 in Geneva attended by [al Qaeda leader] Ayman Al Zawahiri and Omar Abdel Rahman," the imprisoned planner of the 1993 World Trade Center attack.

Spanish judge Balatasar Garzon, meanwhile, reported Ramadan's "routine contacts" with Algerian Ahmed Brahim, the alleged financial chief of Al Qaeda and financier of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

In 1995, when the Algerian Armed Islamist Movement, (AIM) perpetrated several terrorist attacks in Paris, French interior minister, Jean Louis Debre, barred Ramadan from France based on his links to AIM."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->And yet in the meantime, the same Tariq Ramadan is getting 200,000 Euro a year for his guest professorship in islam (in madarsa and terrorist studies, one must assume) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands - see post 118.
Guess what he's going to do with these funds.


Following are related to islamic countries:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Reports claim Iranian general defected to the west
Former minister vanishes from Istanbul hotel.
Thu, Mar 8, 2007 13:00<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2028881,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Defection or abduction? Speculation grows after Iranian general goes awol in Turkey</b>

· Former minister vanished from Istanbul hotel
· Fingers pointed at Mossad and anti-Tehran rebels

A former Iranian deputy defence minister and Revolutionary Guard general has disappeared in Istanbul, amid reports that he has defected to the west and counter-claims from Tehran that he has been abducted.

Iranian police alleged that Ali Reza Asgari had been kidnapped by "western intelligence services" from a hotel in Istanbul last month. But the police did not explain what he had been doing in Turkey, other than saying he had flown there after a similarly unexplained visit to Syria.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0...43,00.html
<b>Turkey pulls plug on YouTube over Ataturk 'insults'</b>

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Not dealing with islamic countries, but (at least partially) caused by increasing islamism:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/stor...2028270,00.html
<b>Text messages to remind illegal immigrants to leave UK</b>

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs...2028271,00.html
<b>SMS alerts to remind foreigners to renew visas</b>