Islamic Virtual Ummah

Posted on November 29th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Public Islam, Young Muslims.

Islam-Online Web Site – Your Source To The World Of Islam! Communication Center

Many researches and scholars consider the internet as the real reason for the flourishing of the so called “Islamic Virtual Ummah”, what do you think?

Islam on the Internet: Progress or Radicalization?

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A jihadist�s journey

Posted on November 29th, 2004 by .
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization.

A jihadist�s journey
How a young Saudi transformed into a religious soldier ready for martyrdom on the streets of Fallujah

A middle class Saudi’s evolution into a jihadist determined to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and ultimately die in Fallujah in April.

1. Fahd (not his complete name) lives in the city of Hael in northern Saudi Arabia.

2. He goes to Riyadh in mid-2000 to attend a religious school .

9. In February 2004, he returns to Fallujah, where on April 11 he is killed.
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From civic activist to alleged murderer

Posted on November 29th, 2004 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

MSNBC – From civic activist to alleged murderer

AMSTERDAM – “Hello, dear readers,” wrote the cheerful new contributor in the March 2002 issue of a local newsletter. He introduced himself as a volunteer staff member of a community center in a western suburb of Amsterdam dominated by working-class Moroccan immigrants.

Two and a half years later, Dutch police say, the same man gunned down Theo van Gogh on a street in Amsterdam, stood over the Dutch filmmaker’s body and calmly slit his throat with a black-handled butcher knife. The killer then impaled a five-page letter to the victim’s chest that pledged that Islam would “drive evil back to its dark hole using the sword.”

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A civil war on terrorism

Posted on November 29th, 2004 by .
Categories: Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues.

Economist.com | Charlemagne

The Dutch security services are taking no chances because three weeks ago Theo Van Gogh, a prominent Dutch film-maker who had made a movie attacking Islam’s attitude to women, was murdered on the streets of Amsterdam. And this was not any old street killing. Mr Van Gogh was dragged from his bike, shot six times and his head was nearly sliced off by an Islamic radical, who then impaled a five-page letter attacking the enemies of Islam on the chest of his dying victim. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch politician of Somali Muslim origin who was repeatedly threatened in the letter, is also in hiding and, unlike Mr Wilders, has not re-appeared in parliament. Other prominent politicians and even some journalists now have permanent armed protection. �You’re nobody as a columnist unless you have an armed guard,� jokes one eminent Amsterdamer.

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