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Sydney man Bilal Khazal was charged today over terrorism activities. He was later granted bail during a brief court appearance. Australian Federal Police (AFP) said the 34-year-old, who allegedly published documents inciting terrorism on the internet, was charged with one count of collecting or making documents likely to facilitate terrorist acts. He was arrested outside his home at Lakemba, in Sydney's south-west, this morning. The AFP said Khazal the first person to be charged with the offence since the introduction of Commonwealth counterterrorism legislation in 2002. The AFP said a number of documents and a computer hard drive were seized...

Moslem cleric in England says killing non-Moslems is OK By: John Russell | Source: IRN NEWS May 27, 2004 5:29PM EST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A leading Muslim teacher in the United Kingdom is telling his followers that the killing of non-Moslems is in accordance with Islamic teachings. Shiek Abu Hamsa of the notorious Finsbury Park Mosque in London has been videotaped telling his congregation that, “If a Kafir (that is a non-Moslem)is walking by you and you catch him he’s booty (that is a slave), you can sell him in the market. Most of them are spies. And even if they don’t...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a four-part series of exerpts from Endgame: The Bluepring for Victory in the War on Terror, by Thomas McInerny and Paul Vallely. SAUDI ARABIA The House of Saud is now locked in a fight for its life against Islamist terror. On May 12, 2003, al-Qaeda struck in Riyadh, killing twelve people in suicide car bomb attacks. In the fall of 2003, terrorists struck again in Riyadh, attacking a compound in which foreign workers, many of them Lebanese Christians, were killed and wounded. Another worrisome aspect of this attack was that some of the...

MOHAMMED, JESUS AND NICK by a Thoughtful Conservative Friend You mention that the topic on Free Republic for the past few days has been the Nick Berg Abu Ghraib “retaliation” murder. As Islam preaches “an eye for an eye,” you’d think the six Muslim captors would have stripped Nick Berg, tied him to a bunk, and covered his head with a pair of women's panties! Instead, this video is the most brutal thing I’ve ever seen. They mercilessly roll Nick onto his stomach while a practitioner of the "Religion of Peace" jumps on his back with his knee, and another...

Editor's note: In the light of the recent feeding frenzy in the press over some Mujahideen warriors who got their feelings hurt, it is apparent that many Americans don’t “get it” that we are in a war for our survival.  The article that follows is a corrective, particularly in light of the prison scandal and the unseemly and self-destructive hysteria over it. The prisoners being made into victims in the prison abuse debacle in Iraq were captured with guns in their hands in Iraq trying to kill our soldiers.  They are apocalyptic Muslim warriors/terrorists who live to die while killing...

MERRY CHRISTMAS...IF THAT'S HALAL I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone Merry Christmas, or Happy Hanukkah, or just Happy Holidays. I am spending the holidays with my family, so I do not know how much blogging I will be able to do. I have to admit that I have never told them about me converting to Islam, or even that I have any particular interest in it. I'm too ashamed--well, maybe not ashamed, but I have no real desire to know their reactions to it, when I know how little they think of Islam. Much of it...

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERFriday, April 30, 2004 · Last updated 7:19 a.m. PTAdviser: Thai violence from movementBy SUTIN WANNABOVORNASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BANGKOK, Thailand -- Surging violence in Thailand's Muslim south is the work of a growing but still shadowy movement that wants to carve a separate Islamic homeland out of the mainly Buddhist nation, officials said Friday.Gen. Kitti Rattanchaya, the south's top security adviser, said the movement has enlisted hundreds of fighters ready to sacrifice themselves. He said some were trained abroad "at religious schools," but he did not give the location."The target of this terrorist organization is separatism and the establishment...

The nation of Israel is a nearly sixty year old sore spot in the present-day Middle East, it costs American taxpayers a lot of money to support (billions per year), it's the focus of dispensational Christian theology, but ... Israel can take care of itself. Really. All the US has to do is say "sic 'em" and walk away. The US has a major problem with its role in the present world conflict because it has a religious underpinning in Islamic theology that has again reared its head. The Ottoman Empire was not defeated in 1918, at the end of...

Anyone who has flown since September 11 has experienced the heightened security put into place as a result of the attacks. Most of us have adjusted to the new realities. And we’re not the only ones adjusting. The people responsible for the heightened security—al Qaeda—have also adjusted. After September 11 officials stepped up their scrutiny of people seeking to enter the United States bearing passports from Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries. While civil libertarians and Muslim-American groups protested, al Qaeda adapted. As Robert Leiken of the Nixon Center wrote in the New Republic, Osama bin Laden is replacing Muslim...

ON APRIL 17, two American women were killed by a Jordanian in Kosovo. With all media eyes focused on Iraq, little notice has been taken of their sacrifice, yet Kim Bigley, 47, of Paducah, Ky., and Lynn Williams, 48, of Elmont, N.Y., apparently fell as casualties in the war on terrorism. Like the American contract employees murdered this month in Falluja, and the American journalist executed in Pakistan in 2002, and the American missionary killed in the Philippines in 2003, these women had voluntarily traveled to a dangerous Muslim-majority region to do constructive work. They were members of a U.N....

The message from the 9/11 hearings is that we're a bit slow in connecting the dots — about 25 years too slow. It was Feb. 1, 1979, when the dark side of Islam stepped off a plane from Paris in Iran. After 14 years in exile, Muslim cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had come triumphantly home to establish his revolutionary "reign of virtue," an Islamic theocracy designed to cleanse a nation of what Khomeini called "Westoxification," the poisonous influences of Western culture. With no delay, Khomeini urged a jihad against "the Great Satan" and supported the storming of the American embassy...

Guerrillas chop ears of village elders, warn people against voting By Indo-Asian News Service Jammu, Apr 21 (IANS) Separatist guerrillas chopped off the ears of two village elders in Jammu and Kashmir to warn people against voting in the general election, police said. The grisly incident occurred in a remote and hilly village in Udhampur district, about 150 km north of here. The guerrillas abducted village elders Hajji Amma Kala and Missruddin from Kalwa village late Tuesday evening and chopped off their ears after severely beating them. The militants then took the elders back to Kalwa and showed their chopped...

Four young British Muslims in their twenties - a social worker, an IT specialist, a security guard and a financial adviser - occupy a table at a fast-food chicken restaurant in Luton. Perched on their plastic chairs, wolfing down their dinner, they seem just ordinary young men. Yet out of their mouths pour heated words of revolution. "As far as I'm concerned, when they bomb London, the bigger the better," says Abdul Haq, the social worker. "I know it's going to happen because Sheikh bin Laden said so. Like Bali, like Turkey, like Madrid - I pray for it, I...

France Expels Imam Who Said Koran Allows Wife-Beating, AFP Says By Alex Morales April 20 (Bloomberg) -- French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin will immediately expel to Algeria an imam who said that wife-beating is allowed by the Koran holy book, Agence France-Presse reported, citing a ministry statement. Abdelkader Bouziane, an Algerian who preaches in Venissieux near the French city of Lyon, was detained today after midday, the agency said. Judicial proceedings may be taken against him, AFP said, citing the ministry. Bouziane said in an interview with Lyon Mag that ``beating your wife is authorized by the Koran,'' according...

A rebel group in the besieged Iraqi town of Falluja has threatened to target Christians and destroy churches. The group called on Pope John Paul and the United Nations to stop the U.S. siege, Al Arabiya television reported. It was not clear if this is the same group holding Japanese hostages in Iraq. The group threatened to destroy churches in return for U.S. attacks on mosques, assassinate or kidnap priests, and target Christians if killing of Muslims did not stop, Al Arabiya said.

Quotes by Hamas Leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi Sat Apr 17, 4:02 PM ET By The Associated Press Recent quotes from Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who was assassinated Saturday by Israel. AFP Slideshow: Mideast Conflict "We knew that Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam and Muslims. America declared war against God. Sharon declared war against God and God declared war against America, Bush and Sharon. ... The war of God continues against them, and I can see the victory coming up from the land of Palestine by the hand of Hamas." — Last month, after the...

Abdel Aziz Rantisi, leader of the Hamas terror organization, was killed in an operation by Israeli security forces. Rantisi, one of the founders of Hamas in the Gaza strip, was responsible for the Hamas terror policy and promoted the carrying out of deadly terror attacks. Rantisi, 56, was recently chosen to head the Hamas organization, replacing Ahmed Yassin. Rantisi took part in establishing the terrorist policy of the organization and also served as its main spokesperson. He played a key and active role in inciting to carry out terror attacks. Rantisi was one of the six founders of the Hamas...

On the dust-blown plains of central Iraq, Qawliya had long held a notorious reputation as a haven for prostitution, drug dealers and gun runners - until the village was reduced to rubble and its population driven from their homes. The attack that destroyed Qawliya was launched by the Mahdi Army militiamen of Moqtada al-Sadr, the young clerical firebrand who has become the voice of anti-American discontent for many of the country's Shia Muslim majority. It was this brutal display of Mahdi Army muscle last month - combined with the increasing power wielded by its Islamic sharia law courts - that...

Here is the full text of an enormously important paper that was presented by Ibn Warraq at a panel discussion on "Apostasy, Human Rights, Religion and Belief" held at the the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva on April 7, 2004. Ibn Warraq, of course, is the outstandingly courageous author of "Why I am not a Muslim" and the editor of "The Origins of the Koran; The Quest for the Historical Muhammad"; "What the Koran Really Says"; and "Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out".The very notion of apostasy has vanished from the West where one would...

Nearly all Islamic intellectuals and leaders advocate terrorism, asserts an Arab columnist. Khaled Kishtainy, writing in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, says talk of "love and peace in Islam" is just a cover for violence, reports the Middle East Media Research InstituteThe columnist, of Iraqi origin, says Islamic terrorism has "many roots and causes, and much has already been written about this. But I have personal input on this matter." "I place on the Islamic intellectuals and leaders of Islamic organizations part of the responsibility for [this phenomenon] of Islamic terrorism, as nearly all of them advocate violence, and...