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Pressure 'on moderate Muslims'
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17188943-29277,00.html ^ | November 09, 2005

Posted on 11/08/2005 3:23:46 PM PST by Eurotwit

AUSTRALIA'S Muslims are concerned pressure on terrorists has been extended to those who merely opposed the country's involvement in the Iraq war, an Islamic political party said today.

Wassim Doureihi, a spokesman for the Islamic political party Hizb Ut Tahrir, said yesterday's arrests of 17 people in Melbourne and Sydney were just part of the wider picture for Australian Muslims. "The viewpoint from the Muslim community is that the pressure on the Muslims is not necessarily restricted to those that may otherwise be engaged in terrorist activities," Mr Doureihi told Channel 9.

"We see the pressure on Muslims ... they started with so-called terrorists then went to extremists and radicals and even the moderates.

"Then we saw the attack upon the mosque, we saw the attack on the Islamic schools and we saw the attack upon the Islamic head scarf.

"John Howard, Tony Blair and George Bush – we saw their evil ideology.

Advertisement: "This is part of a concerted effort to put pressure on Muslims. It's not necessarily just restricted to terrorist activity." Mr Doureihi said the wider pressure on Muslims was affecting them.

"This is one of a sequence of events," he said.

"There are significant pressures being placed upon the Muslim community and those pressures are there because anyone who adheres to political Islam, anyone who wants to account the government for the injustices perpetrated abroad, are being pressured into silence, acquiescence."


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; hizbuttahrir; islam; jihad; moderatemuslims; rop; trop; virus; wot

1 posted on 11/08/2005 3:23:47 PM PST by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit

Leprechauns and unicorns report similar experiences.


2 posted on 11/08/2005 3:24:29 PM PST by thoughtomator (Alito Akbar)
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To: Eurotwit

There are no moderate Muslims.

If there were, we would have seen them taking a public stand against the insanity in Denmark, France, England and Germany.


5 posted on 11/08/2005 3:32:51 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
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To: Eurotwit

"This is part of a concerted effort to put pressure on Muslims. It's not necessarily just restricted to terrorist activity." Mr Doureihi said the wider pressure on Muslims was affecting them.

Until these self-described "moderate" Muslims (assuming there is such a thing) start not only denouncing terrorism and terrorists but actively participating in stopping them, they deserve the "pressure."


6 posted on 11/08/2005 3:33:52 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: Eurotwit

Wow out of 50 million the two of them that are moderate must feel pressure.


7 posted on 11/08/2005 3:46:10 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: Eurotwit; Fred Nerks
Another side of the story:

Australian Muslims called to arms (by Hizb ut Tahrir)

November 06, 2005

AN inflammatory pamphlet urging Muslims to oppose Western governments was handed out at a major Islamic festival in Melbourne yesterday.

The flyer, distributed at a family carnival to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan in Preston, bore the name of the fundamentalist group Hizb ut-Tahrir - which is banned in Britain and Germany...

...The pamphlet said Muslims overseas had "heroically resisted" invasion and "inflicted the most humiliating lesson on supposed superpowers"...

In August Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said he had no evidence that Hizb Ut-Tahir had breached current laws, but he was already reviewing the rules for declaring a terrorist organisation after elements of the group called for attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan, Iran, the US and Israeli interests...

"Ally yourselves with those who work day and night to confront this war against Islam," the pamphlet says in what was virtually a call to arms...


8 posted on 11/08/2005 3:54:36 PM PST by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
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To: Eurotwit
PS, via Jihadwatch:

'Terror groups in race to bomb Australia'

The race is on, and it ain't no soap-box derby. From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Kemaste:

Two rival extremist groups were in a race to mount the first terrorist atrocity on Australian soil, a court heard today...

...It was suggested that the two loosely-affiliated groups had been in competition to carry out a major attack. Police said that although the target had not been specified, preparations were in their final stages....


9 posted on 11/08/2005 3:58:59 PM PST by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
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To: Eurotwit

Moderate muslims? What are moderate muslims? Either they are on your side and with you or they are the enemy.


10 posted on 11/08/2005 4:01:15 PM PST by Continental Soldier
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To: Eurotwit

Uh,Wassim?
Open your Koran- you know, the one written by the bloodthirsty pedophile incarnation of Satan? Look for the parts that say ' kill, behead,destroy all that will not yield to Islam'- yeah, THOSE parts. The ones you have to believe and defend if you're Muslim.
THAT is evil! Your CULT is evil- and therefore I, and many others, will consider all who identify with it evil.EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU. And you'll never change my mind.
I look at your women in their shrouds and see mind-numbed slaves. I look at your children and see future terrorists and barbarians; and if asked to choose whose children I want to see grow to maturity, it isn't yours.

PRESSURE in Australia? If they're letting one mosque stand you have it too good.


11 posted on 11/08/2005 4:02:55 PM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: USF

Yesterday's headlines. Things are heating up. Only one motor vehicle burned in the street so far, one journalist beaten up in front of a courthouse.

12 posted on 11/08/2005 4:09:47 PM PST by Fred Nerks (The media isn't mainstream it's the ENEMY! The enemy enemy ENEMEDIA!)
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To: USF
Meet the slimebag our police arrested yesterday.
13 posted on 11/08/2005 4:14:18 PM PST by Fred Nerks (The media isn't mainstream it's the ENEMY! The enemy enemy ENEMEDIA!)
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To: Eurotwit

MODERATE MUSLIMS.

14 posted on 11/08/2005 4:18:33 PM PST by SIDENET ("IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!")
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