Posted on 05/21/2004 10:31:14 AM PDT by veronica
The Islamic website Oumma.com was wiped off the Internet for over ten days following an attack by hackers, announced its chief editor Said Branine.
The website posted on its forum an anti-Semitic fatwa, a religious writ, allegedly from the Al Azar University of Muslim theology in Cairo, sent in by a "Muslim web surfer". The fatwa listed the "twenty fundamental faults" of the Jews as enumerated in the Koran. The forum is moderated after the texts are posted, explained Branine, and the incriminated message was erased only four hours after it was put on line.
In remained however on the Islamic website long enough to be spotted by a French reporter with the weekly newsmagazine Marianne. She wrote an article wondering whether the posting of such material was consistent with the site's declared goal of "promoting dialogue between religions".
Hours before Marianne was even printed, Oumma.com went under the fire of an unprecedented attack of hackers, said Branine. Millions of requests were sent out to the Oumma server, triggering the well-known "Denial of service" answer. "We tried to switch service providers, but the hackers were really too strong," said Branine. "Our site is bothering lots of people because of our freedom of speech," went on the site's editor who was very careful not to incriminate anyone for the wrongdoing.
Friday, following a report on the hackers' attack in the leftist daily Liberation, the site was reachable again.
Oumma.com was created in 1999. It boasts a membership of 120,000 web surfers and over 10 million hits per month. A constant propaganda tool against Israel in general and its "bete noire" Ariel Sharon in particular, Oumma.com is the mouthpiece of Tariq Ramadan, an Islamic new wave extremist theologian and a proven anti-Semite. Ramadan, grandson of Hassan al Banna, the founder of the Islamic Brotherhood, is the darling of the French-speaking left and the guru of the young Muslim generation. Soft spoken, good-looking and neatly dressed, Ramadan is being used by the Leftists as a gateway to the otherwise non-politicized Muslim youths.
He outraged some French intellectuals when he wrote on Oumma.com that when it comes to the Middle-East conflict, French philosophers are driven by their community affiliation rather than by their brains. All the listed writers were supposed to be Jews. One was not. Pierre-Andr Taguieff, the non-Jew, wrote back that in Ramadan's mind, one had to be Jewish to support Israel.
French law forbids to list people according to their religion or race or creed. Ramadan was accordingly sued by anti-racist organizations.
The self-promoted modern Ramadan was also caught off base when it was revealed that he refused to condemn the stoning of adulterous women. In his latest book, he pronounced himself for a "moratorium" on the issue.
Wow. What a frickin' tragedy.
C'mon, let's go get some snowcones...
It was probably Germans or Americans that did it...
It IS a tragedy - they came back UP.
HA HA
Alright rack Hackers LOLOLOL!
Who care what French think of Hackers
Hey not everybody surrender HELLO Froggys
If they come back up, bring down again, after all, it is a war on all fronts.
The dialogue is intended to be one way.
Like wolves & sheep discussing lunch!
ping :)
Actually your everyday French citizen has totally had it with Islam. Especially with the brand brought over there by Algerian immigrants, who for some reason feel they are owed certain favors (many muslims in many nations feel the same way about their respective governments). The hatred for Islam in France has reached levels that in the US would probably be called 'xenophobia' or maybe even (if the Arab anti-defamation league got involved) 'racist' or such crap. There is deep resentment toward Islam by your average Frenchman ....and while Chirac may want to look the other way that is not the case everywhere.
Oh, and some of the legislation passed (like the whole not wearing the hijab thing) passed in France overwhelmingly. Hence, I would not be at all surprised if French hackers did this. Even frogs can only take that much murky muck ....and if you think Michigan is interesting try having hundreds of thousands of Algerian muslims, many having fanatical flavors of Islam, living around you.
"Allahu Fubar!"
Not entirely a bad thing. It means more target practice. : )
ROTFLOLWTIME! Outstanding. Simply outstanding.
I'll bet the Arabs are easy hacking...
Yiddeshe kopf in action.
>>"Allahu Fubar!"<<
Okay, this has to be good. What does that mean?
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