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Bin Laden Supports Genocide Against Muslims | TPMCafe

Posted on April 25th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism.

According to Jentleson, Bin Laden in his attempt to be the Che Guevara of the Muslim world, actually supports the genocide against Muslims such as in Darfur.

Bin Laden Supports Genocide Against Muslims | TPMCafe
Bin Laden Supports Genocide Against Muslims

By Bruce W. Jentleson
That’s what this morning’s headline should have been, instead of “Bin Laden Says West is Waging War Against Islam, and Urges Supporters to Go to Sudan” (New York Times) and “Bin Laden Warns of Long War, Accuses West of Acting as ‘Crusader’” (Washington Post). It’s a given that the Bush administration will replay its tape about Bin Laden being “on the run” and that we’re “on the advance”. And that John Kerry will again wind through the chutes and ladders of Tora Bora. But our major newspapers also sticking to the same script? It’s not surprising but it is disappointing. How about some outrage from the progressive community?

Genocide is being committed against Sudanese Muslims, and Bin Laden is calling for jihadists to go to Sudan to fight any effort the West might make to stop this mass killing of Muslims. If a UN multilateral peacekeeping force ever does get sent, while some NATO and U.S. forces also may be involved, it’s likely based on other UN peace operations that most of the troops will be from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Jordan. So Bin Laden’s defense of the Muslim world amounts to killing Muslim peacekeepers seeking to protect Muslim people who’ve already suffered over 400,000 deaths, with over 2 million left as refugees and thousands raped, largely because they are Muslims. The “logic” is breathtaking.

I’m on record on America Abroad and elsewhere about the counterproductivity of the Bush global war on terrorism strategy. But its failures, excesses, outrages and the like don’t negate the fact that Bin Laden is a totalitarian. He needs to be called as such. And action needs to be taken in Darfur. This is an issue which makes John Ikenberry’s point in his recent post about the challenges being more than just about what the Bush administration has and hasn’t done. Enough of these genocide “yet agains” — we’ll never have much claim to being any sort of genuine international community if we don’t get to “never again”.

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Bin Laden Supports Genocide Against Muslims | TPMCafe

Posted on April 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

According to Jentleson, Bin Laden in his attempt to be the Che Guevara of the Muslim world, actually supports the genocide against Muslims such as in Darfur.

Bin Laden Supports Genocide Against Muslims | TPMCafe
Bin Laden Supports Genocide Against Muslims

By Bruce W. Jentleson
That’s what this morning’s headline should have been, instead of “Bin Laden Says West is Waging War Against Islam, and Urges Supporters to Go to Sudan” (New York Times) and “Bin Laden Warns of Long War, Accuses West of Acting as ‘Crusader’” (Washington Post). It’s a given that the Bush administration will replay its tape about Bin Laden being “on the run” and that we’re “on the advance”. And that John Kerry will again wind through the chutes and ladders of Tora Bora. But our major newspapers also sticking to the same script? It’s not surprising but it is disappointing. How about some outrage from the progressive community?

Genocide is being committed against Sudanese Muslims, and Bin Laden is calling for jihadists to go to Sudan to fight any effort the West might make to stop this mass killing of Muslims. If a UN multilateral peacekeeping force ever does get sent, while some NATO and U.S. forces also may be involved, it’s likely based on other UN peace operations that most of the troops will be from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Jordan. So Bin Laden’s defense of the Muslim world amounts to killing Muslim peacekeepers seeking to protect Muslim people who’ve already suffered over 400,000 deaths, with over 2 million left as refugees and thousands raped, largely because they are Muslims. The “logic” is breathtaking.

I’m on record on America Abroad and elsewhere about the counterproductivity of the Bush global war on terrorism strategy. But its failures, excesses, outrages and the like don’t negate the fact that Bin Laden is a totalitarian. He needs to be called as such. And action needs to be taken in Darfur. This is an issue which makes John Ikenberry’s point in his recent post about the challenges being more than just about what the Bush administration has and hasn’t done. Enough of these genocide “yet agains” — we’ll never have much claim to being any sort of genuine international community if we don’t get to “never again”.

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Top-x.nl :: Laat je stem horen!

Posted on April 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).

Wat het waard is? Weet ik niet. De vraag is wat mensen onder vrijheid verstaan. Daar lijkt dit onderzoek meer informatie over te geven, dan over de vraag of mensen zich vrij voelen.

Top-x.nl :: Laat je stem horen!
Uitslag: Vrijheid
25 april 2006

Hoe vrij voelen jullie je? Op straat voelt bijna de helft van jullie zich niet vrij om te zeggen wat je wilt. Mogen ouders bepalen met wie je omgaat? Nee, dat mag niet, zegt 61 procent. Mag je oerwoudgeluiden maken in het stadion? Ja, de helft zegt dat dat mag. Bekijk ook de andere uitslagen van de enquête over vrijheid, ingevuld door ruim 4200 panelleden.

‘Vrij zijn, ik wil alleen maar vrij zijn…’
Meer dan 16 procent van jullie voelt zich niet of nooit vrij in ons land. Onder moslimjongeren is dat 27 procent. Niet iedereen is altijd overal vrij om te zeggen wat je denkt. Op school kan 67 procent van de leerlingen dat en op straat geldt de vrijheid van meningsuiting maar voor 47 procent van de ondervraagden. Van de moslimjongeren vindt 89 procent vrijheid van godsdienst belangrijker dan vrijheid van meningsuiting. Van alle anderen is 22 procent het daarmee eens.
Ik mag toch alles zeggen?
Je mag anderen niet beledigen zegt 72 procent. Op de vraag of je mag zeggen dat de islam een achterlijke godsdienst is, zegt 35 procent ja en 61 procent nee. Mag je zeggen dat homoseksualiteit gewoon een ziekte is? Ja, vindt 25 procent en nee zegt 71 procent. Oerwoudegeluiden maken i het stadion mag wel vinden de meeste, 51 procent. Bekijk hier de uitslagen!
‘Die komt er bij ons thuis niet in!!’
Jongens zijn stelliger in hun uitspraken dan meiden. Ze vinden het belangrijker om te kunnen zeggen wat zij willen. En ze zijn volgzamer dan de jongens. Mogen ouders jou verbieden een relatie te hebben met iemand die zij niet zien zitten? Dat mogen ouders, zegt 32 procent van de jongens tegen 24 procent van de meisjes. Van de jongens vindt 31 procent dat de leraar het dragen van hoofddoekjes mag verbieden tegen 18 procent van de meisjes.

Alle uitslagen op de website van Top-x.nl

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Expatica's Belgian news in English: Judiciary 'regrets' blaming North Africans

Posted on April 25th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News.

Expatica’s Belgian news in English: Judiciary ‘regrets’ blaming North Africans
Judiciary ‘regrets’ blaming North Africans

25 April 2006

BRUSSEL — Federal police and the Brussels public prosecution office regret that in the aftermath of the murder of teen Joe Van Holsbeeck an accusing finger was initially pointed at the North African community in Belgium.

However, the judicial director of the federal police, Glenn Audenaert, congratulated police on Tuesday for the results thus far from the investigation into the Brussels Central station murder.

“We think it is very regrettable that shortly after the murder the North African community was immediately accused, certainly now that it appears the culprits were not from that community,” Audenaert said.

“I must point out though that the federal police never said
that the suspects were definitely North Africans”.

That terminology was used by the Brussels public prosecution office. Spokesman Jos Colpin apologised and said the suspects were publicly identified by the prosecution as North Africans based on the first witness statements.

“Nearly every statement talked about North Africans or culprits of North African origin,” Coplin said.

But both the prosecution and federal police spokesmen agreed that police services had performed commendable work.

Audenaert said railway police sat through more than 200 hours of security camera footage to find usable images of the suspects, local police from the six Brussels zones deployed extra officers and federal officers also performed well.

The judicial director also thanked school teaching staff in the Francophone education system for displaying responsibility and assisting police inquiries.

“It is partly thanks to them that we have found the culprits. We also thank everyone who gave us useful information. A lot of people know what civil responsibility is,” Audenaert said.

[Copyright Expatica News 2006]

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Expatica’s Belgian news in English: Judiciary ‘regrets’ blaming North Africans

Posted on April 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Expatica’s Belgian news in English: Judiciary ‘regrets’ blaming North Africans
Judiciary ‘regrets’ blaming North Africans

25 April 2006

BRUSSEL — Federal police and the Brussels public prosecution office regret that in the aftermath of the murder of teen Joe Van Holsbeeck an accusing finger was initially pointed at the North African community in Belgium.

However, the judicial director of the federal police, Glenn Audenaert, congratulated police on Tuesday for the results thus far from the investigation into the Brussels Central station murder.

“We think it is very regrettable that shortly after the murder the North African community was immediately accused, certainly now that it appears the culprits were not from that community,” Audenaert said.

“I must point out though that the federal police never said
that the suspects were definitely North Africans”.

That terminology was used by the Brussels public prosecution office. Spokesman Jos Colpin apologised and said the suspects were publicly identified by the prosecution as North Africans based on the first witness statements.

“Nearly every statement talked about North Africans or culprits of North African origin,” Coplin said.

But both the prosecution and federal police spokesmen agreed that police services had performed commendable work.

Audenaert said railway police sat through more than 200 hours of security camera footage to find usable images of the suspects, local police from the six Brussels zones deployed extra officers and federal officers also performed well.

The judicial director also thanked school teaching staff in the Francophone education system for displaying responsibility and assisting police inquiries.

“It is partly thanks to them that we have found the culprits. We also thank everyone who gave us useful information. A lot of people know what civil responsibility is,” Audenaert said.

[Copyright Expatica News 2006]

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Reuters AlertNet – Bin Laden words raise Saudi reform debate tensions

Posted on April 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Reuters AlertNet – Bin Laden words raise Saudi reform debate tensions
Bin Laden words raise Saudi reform debate tensions
24 Apr 2006 16:47:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Andrew Hammond

RIYADH, April 24 (Reuters) – An unprecedented verbal attack by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Saudi liberals will raise the temperature in a tense debate over reforms in his native Saudi Arabia, analysts and activists said on Monday.

Bin Laden said some Arab intellectuals were “scorning religion” and singled out Saudi Labour Minister Ghazi Algosaibi by name, according to the Web site of Al Jazeera television.

The attack is seen as a new tactic for the militant whose followers have waged a violent campaign against the Saudi government since 2003.

Al Qaeda analyst Faris bin Houzam said the comments by bin Laden, who has been in hiding since the September 11 attacks on U.S. cities in 2001, could lead to attacks on liberal writers.

“This is a sign to his supporters to target these people, and thus we could enter a new wave for al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia,” he said.

Al Jazeera television, which aired parts of an audio tape by the Saudi-born militant on Sunday, published more of his remarks on its Web site www.AlJazeera.net.

“Bin Laden attacked ministers including Saudi Labour Minister Ghazi Algosaibi, writers and journalists in Saudi Arabia and some (other) Gulf countries, accusing some of them of being unbelievers and apostates…,” the site said.

It quoted the al Qaeda leader as saying: “The heretics among us are mocking our religion and our Prophet, therefore be fearful of God, satisfy Him and do not seek opinions about killing these heretics.”

TAPPING ANTI-WEST SENTIMENT

The reference to Algosaibi echoed an Internet article by a Saudi Islamist activist — Mohsen al-Awajy — in March, which accused a clique of liberal advisers, including the minister, of influencing King Abdullah.

Awajy, who was detained by police for more than a week over the article, said bin Laden wanted to tap into widespread anger at secular reformers who are seen as pro-Western at a time when anti-West sentiment is strong over the U.S. invasion of Iraq and support for Israel.

“It is a fertile period for anyone to talk about this agenda. Anyone who attacks liberals and secularists is a hero. I think bin Laden picked up on this and waved his wand to mobilise more sympathisers,” he told Reuters.

Turki al-Hamad, a liberal writer attacked on one Internet forum on Monday as a “heretic”, said bin Laden was worried about the advance of reforms since the king came to power last year.

Women are an increasing presence in public life, senior officials have expressed hope women may be allowed to drive cars, and the authorities are trying to soften Saudi’s hardline version of Islam in education, media and mosques.

“For bin Laden to throw himself into the current struggle in Saudi Arabia is serious. But it is a recognition that they (liberals) are having an influence and that there are changes in Saudi Arabia,” al-Hamad said.

He said it was too early to say whether the diatribe against reformers would put their lives in danger. “We need time to absorb what he said.”

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