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Abdullah Badawi, Malaysia's prime minister, "says a huge chasm has opened between the West and Islam, fuelled by Muslim frustrations over Western foreign policy," according to the BBC, in a story about the Mohammed caricatures. The Beeb claims that Abdullah is "promoting a moderate form of Islam," but his anti-democratic actions prove otherwise. Au contraire, Mr. Abdullah, it is your seething, Muslim masses that are the cause of this "chasm." Again, the BBC: As he spoke at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, thousands protested outside at Western cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. ... "Long live Islam. Destroy Denmark. Destroy Israel. Destroy...

by Mark Finkelstein February 6, 2006 - 07:50 Score one for Today's Matt Lauer. Interviewing New Mexico governor and former UN ambassador Bill Richardson on the subject of the Muslim rioting in response to the Mohammed cartoons, Matt asked a question that was as unexpected as it was perspicacious. Meanwhile, Richardson offered the instinctive Democratic national security response: bring on the UN! Richardson described the very grim situation in the Muslim world: "I've never seen the situation so dire with with the threats from Iran, the victory of Hamas, the escape of Badawi in Yemen. This is a very dangerous...

JFK Screeners Find Bomb Residue, Let Man Go Man Released After Positive Explosives Test At JFK Image Scott Weinberger Reporting Save It Email this Article Email It Print this Article Print It (CBS) QUEENS A man's sneakers tested positive for explosives at JFK airport. The sneakers were confiscated, but the man walked free. However, federal screeners didn’t tell any member of law enforcement what happened for days. The man used the name Gamal Badawi with U.S. immigration officials last Friday at JFK airport. At the time, authorities were unable to use the computerized system that takes a visitor's fingerprints and...

Steven Stalinsky is the director of the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute. We missed his August 10 New York Sun column on the bogus terrorism fatwa issued by CAIR and friends. Stalinsky's column was "CAIR & Co.'s Fatwa" (subscribers only). The column remains timely for its exposure of CAIR's modus operandi (in the added italics), most recently deployed in connection with Michael Graham: A much-heralded Fatwa or Islamic religious ruling "against terrorism" was issued on July 28 by Muslim academics in America and Canada. The edict was signed by 18 scholars from the Fiqh Council of North America and...

Dr Zaki Badawi joined other faith leaders in condemning the London bombings. British Muslim leader Sheikh Dr Zaki Badawi has said he has been refused entry to the US without explanation. The head of the Muslim College said he flew from London to New York to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York but was turned back. Dr Badawi said he was detained for six hours on Wednesday and that immigration staff were "very embarrassed". US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had information indicating Dr Badawi was "inadmissible". Spokeswoman Janet Rapaport said that when problems arose...

British Muslim leader denied U.S. entry ROBERT BARR Associated Press LONDON - One of Britain's most senior Muslim leaders said Thursday he was denied entry to the United States without explanation, nearly a week after the deadly subway and bus attacks in London.A U.S. agency spokeswoman said customs agents had information that Dr. Zaki Badawi was "inadmissible," but she could not elaborate.Badawi, head of the Muslim College, had been invited to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., where he planned to give a talk under the title "The Law and Religion in Society."But Badawi told The Associated Press...

Introduction The Iraqi daily Al-Mada ("Horizon") was the first newspaper to publish a list of 270 individuals and organizations that benefited from oil vouchers granted to them by the regime of Saddam Hussein.(1) The intention of the grant was either to allow the recipients to sell the vouchers to intermediaries for a quick profit or to buy the oil themselves at discounted prices. It was assumed that the vouchers would permit their ultimate bearer to purchase Iraqi oil at a sufficiently discounted price as to leave a margin of profit to the voucher beneficiary, the intermediary, the oil company which...

South-East Asia has not destroyed regional terror group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) but it is winning the war on terrorism, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says. "The war on terror in South-East Asia, I think we are winning that war," he said. "Not completely but we are watching very very carefully and we believe that soon we should see no more threats." Mr Abdullah says it is tough to predict when a total victory could be declared as some members of JI, seen as the regional wing of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, are still operating out of Indonesia....

Yemen has re-arrested two militants, suspected of masterminding the bombing of a US warship in October 2000. Jamal al-Badawi and Fahd al-Qusaa are accused of planning the attack which killed 17 on the USS Cole. The two men were detained after a shoot-out, when security forces stopped their car in Abyan province. The pair are the last of 10 escapees to be recaptured, after a prison break-out last May which was an embarrassment to the Yemeni authorities. Mr Badawi is the highest-profile detainee in Yemen and, like most of the other suspects in the USS Cole case, he is believed...

Malaysia's 'Gentler' Leader Gets Strong Mandate, Trounces Islamists By Patrick Goodenough/ CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief March 22, 2004 Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - A resounding victory for Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in Malaysian elections has dealt a significant blow to the country's radical Islamic party. By drawing a line under the Mahathir Mohamad era, it also clears the way for a less prickly relationship between Kuala Lumpur and Washington. Unofficial results in Sunday's election gave the ruling coalition, dominated by Abdullah's United Malays National Organization (UMNO), a healthy majority in the federal parliament, and also ended opposition Parti...

Malaysian company being investigated for role in supplying nuclear technology to Libya, police say KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- A Malaysian company controlled by the son of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is being investigated for possibly supplying machine parts bound for Libya's nuclear weapons programs, the national police chief said. Inspector General of Police Mohamed Bakri Omar said Scomi Precision Engineering Sdn. Bhd., or SCOPE, a subsidiary of Scomi Group Bhd., built centrifuge components that international intelligence agencies say were headed for Libya late last year. Centrifuges are used to enrich uranium for a variety of purposes, including...

Suspects in USS Cole Attack Escape Prison Friday April 11, 2003 12:20 PM SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - Yemeni authorities were hunting for 10 of the main suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole after they escaped from prison Friday, officials said. The fugitives, including chief suspect Jamal al-Badawi, had been jailed in the port city of Aden since shortly after the destroyer was bombed, killing 17 American sailors. Officials at Aden's governor's office would not say how the men escaped early Friday. But they quoted intelligence sources as saying security forces were out in force in a major...