Terror probes turn up an even more zealous brand of Islamic militancy

Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

Religion News Blog : Terror probes turn up an even more zealous brand of Islamic militancy

An ultra-radical Islamic ideology mixing zealot-like devotion and holy war creed is drawing more scrutiny in anti-terrorist probes from the Middle East to Europe � with increasing indications that its base on the fringes of Islamic extremism could be widening.

In existence since the 1960s, al-Takfir wa al-Hijra has offered intellectual inspiration to al-Qaida and other militant groups. But authorities now worry about followers becoming more aggressive with recruitment and retaliation against perceived foes of Islam, such as Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

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Terrorists raise cash online, expert says

Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

SR.com: Terrorists raise cash online, expert says

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Chuck Peterson, Paz acknowledged that he has some of the same materials that were identified in court posted on his own Web site.

Those include �The Intifada and the New Tartars,� a searing anti-Israel lecture given by extremist Saudi Sheikh Safar Alhawali, for which Al-Hussayen helped arrange a three-hour live Internet broadcast. Paz said the lengthy anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-American diatribe has since been published as a book.

�I downloaded it from the Internet, from Alhawali’s Web site,� he said.

But Paz said he posts extremist material, including graphic pictures he downloaded from an Islamist Web site, for use by researchers around the world � not to advocate their content.

�They do not appear here on Islamist Web sites,� Paz said.

�No, they appear on your Web site,� Peterson responded. �Yes,� Paz said.

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Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands.

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Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

Islam becoming weekend affair, The Milli Gazette, Vol.5 No.15, MG109 (1-15 Aug 04)
Religion, for most of the baby-boomers, my contemporaries, has become a weekend thing, where offering Friday prayers means absolution from everything that is required of a Muslim. One only needs to drive around town on a Friday to find traffic jams on the streets housing the fashionable, mostly air-conditioned mosques, yet the same mosques witness fewer, if any, visitors during morning prayers.

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