[Former Dodger]

Good post Angkor.

PROP PING!...something we have all wondered about...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Czar]

"But the recent arrests in Canada have raised questions about to what extent Muslims in Canada and other Western countries who are not engaging in terrorist plotting actually disapprove of such plotting – and how many passively allow it to continue under their noses either out of fear or because the ideological kinship between them and the plotters is closer than most Western authorities would like to believe."

The only questions are, like this one, rhetorical. Anyone with any sense at all already knows the answer.

[Fred Nerks]

UK and world news

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/


Jihad is 'Muslim obligation'Dec 20 2005

A lawyer defending al Qaida-linked suspects standing trial for the 2003 suicide bombings in Istanbul told a court that jihad, or holy war, was an obligation for Muslims and his clients should not be prosecuted.

"If you punish them for this, tomorrow, will you punish them for fasting or for praying?" Osman Karahan -- a lawyer representing 14 of the 72 suspects -- asked during a nearly four-hour speech in which he read religious texts from an encyclopedia of Islam.

The November 2003 blasts targeted two synagogues, the British Consulate and the local headquarters of the London-based HSBC bank, killing 58 people.

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straight form the horse's (A$$) mouth.