| Pro-Mubarak Egyptian singer accuses Pepsi, Coke of being behind revolution Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:27 PM PDT From Al Ahram: Crooner and music composer Amr Mostafa prompted a flurry of activity on social media after making a host of particularly odd comments on the January 25 Revolution and its instigators.
The once-popular artist is convinced that some renowned global companies were behind the triggering of the 18-day revolt, citing the slogans of these corporations as evidence.
During an interview on Mehwar TV, Mostafa referred to one of Pepsi's advertising campaign slogans that reads "Express your opinion; who can match you?" saying it was actually a hint dropped by the American company to reveal in a witty manner that it had a hand in the Egyptian uprising.
He also accused Coca-Cola of being involved in the same plot, as he interpreted its slogan "Delivering 125 Years of Happiness" as a reference to the revolution's date, 25-1-2011.
British telecommunications company Vodafone was also on Mostafa's list, thanks to its slogan "The power is in your hands."
Mostafa, who turned out to be one of the most loyal disciples of toppled president Hosni Mubarak and is on the artists' blacklist, as a result, told TV host Riham Saied in a confident tone: "All the American companies represent the revolution. When you say 'Express your opinion, who can match you?' what does that have to do with some beverage?
"Are they trying to say that they were behind the revolution? When you say 125 years, what's that supposed to mean? When I travelled abroad they told me there is no such thing; so are they trying to refer to the day the revolt began? And what does 'The power in your hands' mean?" he said without mentioning the companies' names.
During the same show, Rasd, Mostafa stirred up more controversy by saying that the word "want" in Arabic is originated from Hebrew, trying to cast doubts over the famous chant "the people want to bring the regime down," which was repeated quite frequently during the revolution. The article goes on to note that Egyptians are rightly making fun of him for these ridiculous assertions. 
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| UNRWA suspends operations in Jenin Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:18 PM PDT From Ma'an: UNRWA announced on Thursday the suspension of its operations indefinitely in the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp beginning Friday.
The organization called the step "regrettable" and said it came in response to "continued threats to our employees and staff in the area" without elaborating on the nature of the threats.
The statement added that suspension of its operations includes relief and social services. An employment assistance office and the office of its refugee camp manager will also close.
UNRWA said it could not offer services to refugees amidst an atmosphere of "violence and threats," adding that UNRWA employees and its facilities became unsafe in light of these threats. This is a natural result of having generations of people raised to expect everything should be provided to them for free, combined with a culture that praises violence. For some reason the Western reaction has consistently been to reward this behavior. Which is reason #3764 why real peace is impossible in this generation. 
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| Beirut "work accident" victims were from Hezbollah Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:04 PM PDT From AFP earlier: Two men were killed in a Beirut parking lot on Thursday when explosives they were handling detonated, a police official told AFP.
"Two people were killed in the blast that took place in a parking lot, near a commercial centre in Antelias," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity and referring to a Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital.
A passerby was also wounded in the explosion, he added.
A witness said he saw rescuers carrying away from the site a man whose arm and leg had been torn off.
A pool of blood could be seen on the ground in the parking lot, where several cars were damaged. Army and police forces immediately rushed to the site and cordoned off the area.
The official identified the two victims as Ihsan Dia and Hassan Nassar, and said they were handling explosives when the blast occurred.
"They were either holding the bomb or had explosives strapped to their bodies when the blast occurred," he said. "Their bodies were torn apart.
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said the two victims had been seated in a car in the parking lot, adding that one of them was the owner of the vehicle. It turns out that the 'splodeys are Hezbollah: New TV quoted on Thursday security sources as saying that the two men who died in the Antelias bombing earlier in the day were Hezbollah members.
"The two men intended to cause commotion in the Christian regions of Beirut," the sources added.
Al-Manar TV denied the "allegations" of the sources, but did not refute that the victims' surnames indicate that they might be affiliated with Hezbollah. But don't call Hezbollah a terrorist organization. It makes them angry, and who knows what they will do when they are angry? 
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| Hezbollah MP describes plan to destroy Israel Posted: 11 Aug 2011 11:59 AM PDT From MEMRI: Following are excerpts from an interview with Hizbullah MP Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Walid Sakariya, which aired on ANB TV on August 7, 2011.
Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Walid Sakariya: Iran is the country most hostile to Israel, but Iraq serves as a buffer between Iran and the Palestine front – from the days of Saddam Hussein and until the US military presence in Iraq. Iran supports the forces of confrontation: Hamas, Hizbullah, and Syria.
If, following the US withdrawal, Iraq becomes a bridge linking Iran to Syria, the Iranian forces could cross Iraq and arrive in Syria, in order to participate in a direct war on the Golan front.
In that case, Israel would not be fighting Hizbullah alone. It would be fighting Hizbullah, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. This is the so-called "Shiite Crescent" that they fear. Since Iran dominates this [axis], the Arab countries refer to it as the "Shiite Crescent."
If Hizbullah has 5,000 missiles and can destroy some targets in Israel, the equation will completely change when Syria and Iran join the war. You will have the strategic superiority and a force large enough to pulverize Israel, even if this war costs you hundreds of thousands of martyrs – not just 1,000 or 2,000. You will enter this war with a population mass exceeding 100 million.
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If Syria, as a confrontation country, fails, America and the Zionist enterprise will be victorious.
Interviewer: Syria is that important...
Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Walid Sakariya: Of course. But if Syria is victorious as a confrontation country, Israel will come to an end. There are military balances. Hizbullah can defeat Israel, but it cannot abolish it. If Syria enters a war with Israel, it may be able to regain the Golan, but it will not be able to liberate Haifa and Tel Aviv.
However, Hizbullah, Syria, Iraq, and Iran will constitute a force that is militarily superior to Israel and will destroy it. They will wage a war and might even suffer hundreds of thousands of martyrs – because Israel might use the nuclear weapon in order to survive – but nevertheless, this war will put an end to Israel. To some people, this is just more proof that Israel has to work harder and offer more in order to bring peace. (Or, that always fun alternative - that peace should be imposed by the US.) Either way, clearly Israel must do more to make the Arab world happy! (h/t Yoel) 
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| Iranians arrested for - a water fight Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:49 AM PDT A Tehran water gun fight, with consequences, that took place on July 29th. From Radio Free Europe: Yet again, a number of young people have been arrested in the Iranian capital.
Their crime: engaging in a water fight.
The evidence: water guns and bottles.
The accusations against them: violating Islamic principles and norms.
It sounds absurd, but sadly it's the reality in the Islamic Republic of Iran where, among other things, having a bit of fun can also land one in prison.
The young women and men had gathered last week in a Tehran park, ironically named the Garden of Water and Fire, and splashed water at each other.
The event, planned and organized on Facebook, had reportedly attracted around 800 people. Pictures of the event show happy girls and boys soaked with water, carrying colorful water guns.
They weren't chanting opposition slogans or protesting against the government, but they were having a good time in public, which can be seen to challenge state-enforced codes of conduct. Their photos were shared on websites, blogs, and social media.
Many praised them for their creativity, for managing to organize the event, and also for having fun, which is not always easy in Iran.
Not everyone was happy, though. Conservative websites used the "incriminating" photos to accuse the young people of immorality and corruption.
On July 31, Tehran's police chief, Hossein Sajedinia, said a group of young Tehran residents were arrested for splashing water at each other. Sajedinia warned that the police would act against others who disrupted "public order and security." He provided no details on the number of arrests.
One parliament deputy, Mousa Ghazanfarabadi, said the organizers of the event were trying to distance the youth from Islamic principles and the values of the Islamic republic. Another lawmaker, Hossein Ebrahim, called on the judiciary to take action against similar events. It looks like they had a lot of fun before the police moved in. 30 were arrested; all of them have now been freed. 
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| Bar Refaeli is a dirty girl Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:48 AM PDT Israeli model Bar Refaeli tweeted yesterday from the Dead Sea: *muddy* but feels good!! DEAD SEA- if you haven't been... well, sucks for you! Click to see entire photo.
Click to see entire photo.
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| PalArab leader threatens US if it vetoes PalArab state Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:58 AM PDT I have previously discussed " the diplomacy of fear," where Arabs and Muslims will threaten huge uprisings unless they get their way - a time tested formula since at least 1877. Today, Marwan Barghouti gets in on the threats. from AFP: A Palestinian leader jailed in Israel has warned Washington that vetoing a Palestinian state at the United Nations would spark huge regional protests, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported Wednesday.
Marwan Barghouti, a leading member of the dominant Fatah party convicted of organising attacks against Israelis during a revolt that started in 2000, gave an interview to MENA through his lawyer from an Israeli prison.
"Voting against the Palestinian state would be a historic, deadly mistake in the record of US President Barack Obama, in whom there was hope for change," he said of Palestinian plans to ask the United Nations for state recognition.
Washington, which has failed in its efforts to mediate peace between the Palestinians and Israel, will veto the proposal if it reaches the UN Security Council.
"Such a veto will be confronted by millions-strong protests throughout the Arab and Muslim world, indeed throughout the whole world," Barghuti was quoted as saying. Arabic accounts have him saying that a veto would signal the end to Washington's role in the region. His threats and rhetoric were far more extreme than was quoted by AFP: [He said] the use of Washington's veto would be an example of "international terrorism" and the United States should reconsider its position on this matter, because the veto will not be directed against the Palestinians only, but against all the Arab nation and its against all the Islamic nation and its against the four-fifths of humanity, which supports the establishment of a Palestinian state. Of course, when westerners capitulate to such threats then they become more effective, and in a few years we would be hearing that unless mosques are taller than churches in every town the Muslim world will rise up and protest. 
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| Crown Heights and the NYT: The must-read article of the day Posted: 11 Aug 2011 07:48 AM PDT The Jewish Week published an incredible piece by Ari L. Goldman about how the New York Times refused to report the facts of the anti-semitic Crown Heights riots of 1991 and instead relied on its own, trusted memes: ...When I picked up the paper, the article I read was not the story I had reported. I saw headlines that described the riots in terms solely of race. "Two Deaths Ignite Racial Clash in Tense Brooklyn Neighborhood," the Times headline said. And, worse, I read an opening paragraph, what journalists call a "lead," that was simply untrue:
"Hasidim and blacks clashed in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn through the day and into the night yesterday."
In all my reporting during the riots I never saw — or heard of — any violence by Jews against blacks. But the Times was dedicated to this version of events: blacks and Jews clashing amid racial tensions. To show Jewish culpability in the riots, the paper even ran a picture — laughable even at the time — of a chasidic man brandishing an open umbrella before a police officer in riot gear. The caption read: "A police officer scuffling with a Hasidic man yesterday on President Street."
I was outraged but I held my tongue. I was a loyal Times employee and deferred to my editors. I figured that other reporters on the streets were witnessing parts of the story I was not seeing.
But then I reached my breaking point. On Aug. 21, as I stood in a group of chasidic men in front of the Lubavitch headquarters, a group of demonstrators were coming down Eastern Parkway. "Heil Hitler," they chanted. "Death to the Jews."
Police in riot gear stood nearby but did nothing.
Suddenly rocks and bottles started to fly toward us and a chasidic man just a few feet away from me was hit in the throat and fell to the ground. Some ran to help the injured man but most of us ran for cover. I ran for a payphone and, my hands shaking with rage, dialed my editor. I spoke in a way that I never had before or since when talking to a boss.
"You don't know what's happening here!" I yelled. "I am on the streets getting attacked. Someone next to me just got hit. I am writing memos and what comes out in the paper? 'Hasidim and blacks clashed'? That's not what is happening here. Jews are being attacked! You've got this story all wrong. All wrong."
I didn't blame the "rewrite" reporter. I blamed the editors. It was clear that they had settled on a "frame" for the story. The way they saw it, there were two narratives here: the white narrative and the black narrative. And both had equal weight. There can be no better description of media coverage of Israel than reading about how the Times covered the 1991 pogrom. Truth is not the objective in today's media - "even-handedness" is. Arab anti-semitism is downplayed or, more often, ignored. Daily, we see Arab leaders making it clear that the ultimate objective of a Palestinian Arab state is really the destruction of the Jewish state, but that does not get publicized. An entire population that cheers terror attacks gets swept under the rug. Instead, we see absurd stories where people who would be considered extremists in any other context are now dubbed to be moderate - because there happen to be other people who are even more extreme. And it all happens because the all-knowing editors at key newsrooms have decided that they have a "frame" and nothing that extends outside those boundaries can be reported. Editors and publishers will not report stories as they really are, warts and all. Instead, they choose only the news that fits their frames. By doing that, they think they have proven their point, since most of the world will never see the pesky facts that don't fit the memes. They are not reporting the news - they are twisting facts into how they believe the news should be. The most charitable explanation is that this is a supreme form of laziness - to write stories that everyone has already seen before. But it is more than that. It is a reflection of the political and social beliefs of the editors and reporters and publishers, beliefs that they are proselytizing under the guise of "news." Some things cannot and should not be reported in an even-handed way. Sometimes both sides of the story do not deserve equal weight. Sometimes there is a right and a wrong. Goldman notes a grotesque equivalence in the Times between the tragically killed Gavin Cato and the victim of hate Yankel Rosenbaum. Perhaps most troubling was an article written in the midst of the rioting under this headline: "Amid Distrust in Brooklyn: Boy and Scholar Fall Victim." The article compared the life of Gavin Cato, the 7-year-old boy killed in the car accident that spurred the riots, and the life of Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, who was stabbed to death later that night. It recycled every newspaper cliché and was an insult to the memory of both victims, but, again, it fit the frame.
"They did not know each other," the article said. "They had no reason to know… They died unaware…." In the eyes of the Times, the deaths were morally equivalent and had equal weight. Yet ten years later the New York Times wrote something far more sickening, in its profile of a female suicide bomber and one of her victims: The suicide bomber and her victim look strikingly similar.
Two high school seniors in jeans with flowing black hair, the teenage girls walked next to each other up to the entrance of a Jerusalem supermarket last Friday.
Ayat al-Akhras, 18, from the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, was carrying a bomb. Rachel Levy, 17, from a neighborhood nearby, was carrying her mother's shopping list for a Sabbath eve dinner.
The vastly different trajectories of their lives intersected for one deadly moment, mirroring the intimate conflict of their two peoples. At the door of the supermarket, Ms. Akhras detonated the explosives, killing Ms. Levy and a security guard, along with herself.
...The daughter of a refugee family originally from the Gaza Strip, Ms. Akhras grew up in Dheisheh, a grim warren of alleys and tightly packed dwellings that house 12,000 people on the southern edge of Bethlehem.
She was the 7th of 11 children, living in a bare third-story apartment down one of the camp's narrow streets.
Despite the violence and turmoil of the past 18 months, Ms. Akhras stuck to a steady routine, her relatives said. Every morning at 7 o'clock, she would leave home for the half-hour walk to school at the neighboring village of Artas. She would return home in the afternoon and devote herself to homework and housework: cooking, ironing, doing the laundry.
A top student with superior grades, she was preparing for graduation exams in a few months and planned to study journalism at a West Bank university, said her father, Muhammad Akhras, a construction foreman. ''She studied all the time,'' said a brother, Fathi Akhras.
On Sept. 1, 2000, she became engaged to Shadi Abu Laban, a tile layer from Dheisheh. They were to be married in August.
Ms. Levy was also preparing for graduation exams. Her specialty in school was photography, and she recently completed a final photo project whose theme was water: pictures of a waterfall, a street puddle, a pond. See how human the terrorist is? She's just like her victim - high school student, dedicated daughter, studious, serious! She's just as human as her victim, who tragically happened to be where this wonderful bomber decided to blow herself up. This is the end result of such disgusting dedication to false memes. And the New York Times is hardly the only newspaper that distorts news through the lens of its almighty memes. 
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| "Israeli airspace a prison" Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:48 AM PDT From Alaa Tartir in Ma'an: On a recent journey from Ramallah to London -- of course through the compulsory Amman route as the West Bank is not allowed an airport -- I experienced a new form of Israeli detention, this time in Israeli airspace.
It was an unpleasant experience, as passengers were forbidden from fulfilling basic human needs such as using the toilet, receiving food or water, or moving between seats to chat with friends.
I am fully aware that the denial of these basic human needs does not compare with the everyday violations of human rights that the Palestinians suffer on the ground due to the Israeli occupation, or with other violations of human rights in the wider region.
But, while traveling, I was puzzled by a simple question: How many people from all over the world are imprisoned everyday in Israeli airspace?
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On my flight back to London, I sat in the front row opposite the crew manager.
Early on in the flight, the pilot announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are now entering Israeli airspace and due to security requirements, all passengers must remain seated with their seat belts fastened until a further notice."
I looked at the crew manger at that point and said: "I am in an urgent need to use the toilet, can I please use it?"
While I felt like a pupil asking his teacher in the classroom for permission to use the bathroom, she told me confidently, "Sorry sir, this is not allowed at the moment, please wait and hold it."
I tried again, and she refused once again.
When I asked why, she told me "Due to the rules and regulations."
I asked which "rules and regulations," and after some hesitation, she said she truly didn't know but "We have been told that if any passenger moves that will be a threat to the Israeli security."
As a passenger, I felt I deserved a satisfactory reason why using the toilet presented a threat to Israel's security. I asked how she felt about this "plane arrest" for herself and the passengers she flew with to Amman.
As she blushed, the passenger next to me introduced himself as an American Jew and said: "So the government of Israel is also arresting us, the Jewish people."
I tell this story for illustrative reasons: my concern is that these airlines accept Israel's demand to "arrest" their passengers and deny their basic human rights.
How do the global civil aviation regulations allow Israel to apply this pressure? Why don't the stakeholders confront this policy? Why does the international community allow it?
I want to illustrate that the occupation follows us all, not just Palestinians, who try to fly freely.
There was a similar article in the Jordan Times a couple of years ago, blaming "the usual Israeli arrogance." (Interestingly, it mentions that some flights ignore people who walk about at the time.) Of course, neither writer bothers to do a modicum of research to find out why these restrictions might be in place. They are interested in bashing Israel, not in doing reporting. And their audience certainly doesn't want to know whether any of these restrictions are anything but Israel acting like a bully for no reason. There is indeed a rule that Israel requests passengers sit down while in Israeli airspace. And the reason is simple: fears of a 9/11 style attack. From The Telegraph, December 2009, which discussed restrictions on flights to and from the US at the time due to fears of specific terrorist activity: Up to 25,000 people were caught up in the disruption at British airports on Sunday as airlines scrambled extra staff to cope with demands from US authorities which were kept deliberately "unpredictable" to wrong-foot terrorists.
The most stringent restrictions came as aircraft entered US airspace, with passengers confined to their seats for the last hour of their flight, banned from having access to books, newspapers or even blankets or pillows.
The clampdown came as airlines around the world responded to new rules from the US Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) in the wake of the Detroit bombing attempt.
The restrictions imposed for the final hour are similar to anti-hijacking rules already in place on flights to Israel.
"Once you are within 200 miles of Israeli airspace, passengers have to sit down," one pilot said.
"The idea is that it makes it possible to scramble fighter jets and escort the plane in.
"If you do try to move in the last hour, it does draw attention to you." Since Israel is obviously the top target for terrorists, and one whose security posture is always at the level that the US was in December 2009, the 30-minute requirement of staying in one's seats does not seem so absurd anymore. But don't tell that to Alaa Tartir. He isn't interested in the truth. His point is to get everyone to be upset that Israeli "occupation" affects even people who aren't Palestinian Arab. 
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| Ramadan in Europe Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:45 AM PDT At Hudson-NY, Soeren Kern gives a rundown of how Europeans are accommodating their Muslim residents on Ramadan, and how their Muslims are demanding more. Excerpts: In Norway, the Oslo-based Imam Syed Farasat Ali Bukhari told the Norwegian state television channel NRK that any Muslim not fasting during Ramadan should be beheaded. He made the comments shortly after asking the government for permission to open a private Islamic school for 200 pupils in the Ammerud neighbourhood of Oslo. The government subsequently denied his request.
In Spain, where an estimated 95 percent of the country's 1.5 million Muslims are observing Ramadan this year, hundreds of municipal and provincial governments have issued special instructions to help non-Muslims avoid offending Muslims during Ramadan.
Ignoring the advice, a municipal councillor in the Barcelona suburb of Sant Adrià del Besós was attacked by a Muslim mob on August 7 while trying to photograph an illegal mosque in the town.
Meanwhile, a court in Tarragona on August 2 absolved a local imam who had been sentenced to one year in prison for forcing a 31-year-old Moroccan woman to wear a hijab head covering. The imam had threatened to burn down the woman's house for being an "infidel" because she works outside of the home, drives an automobile and has non-Muslim friends. But the Socialist mayor applied political pressure to get the ruling overturned to prevent "a social conflict."
Also, the Taliban issued a statement saying: "Most Islamic battles, like the conquest of Spain, were fought during Ramadan. So, we can conclude that the month of Ramadan has an astonishing place in the history of Islamic jihad."
Also in Germany, the television channel RTL2 launched a special service for Muslim viewers during Ramadan, letting them know when to begin and end the daily fast. "You can theorize all you like about integration, but we wanted to send a clear signal," said Carsten Molings, chief of marketing at the channel.
In Berlin, Özcan Mutlu, a Turkish member of the Berlin House of Representatives, was charged with assault after allegedly starting a fight after a Turkish sausage seller insulted him for ordering a currywurst during Ramadan.
In Sweden, the Social Democrats have called for turning Ramadan into an official Swedish holiday. "Almost all of our public holidays, except for Midsummer and May 1st, have a Christian religious connection. Sweden is today a multicultural society, and it is worth looking at how it can be done," Social Democrat Party secretary Carin Jämtin told the centrist Svenska Dagbladet daily newspaper. I found these sports-related vignettes especially interesting (I changed the order): In Germany, the Central Council of Muslims said Islamic professional football players were not obliged to fast during Ramadan, ahead of the regular season that resumed on August 5. "The professional player can make up the fasting days during periods when there is no match and in that way show his respect for God and the holy month of Ramadan," council president Aiman Mazyek said in a statement.
A dispute over the issue in Germany began when the second-division team FSV Frankfurt gave three Muslim players an official warning in October 2009 for fasting during Ramadan and failing to inform their managers. After much debate, Islamic scholars at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo concluded that an exception to the strict Ramadan fasting rules could be made for professional players so their performance would not be compromised.
The 2012 London Olympics have been plunged into controversy by the discovery that the Games will clash with Ramadan. The clash will put Muslim athletes at a disadvantage as they will be expected to fast from sunrise to sunset for the entire duration of the Games. In 2012, Ramadan will take place from July 21 to August 20, while the Olympics run from July 27 to August 12. About 3,000 Muslim competitors are expected to be affected. Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission, said: "They would not have organized this at Christmas. It is equally stupid to organize it at Ramadan. It shows a complete lack of awareness and sensitivity." Even though this video linked to in the article was not produced during Ramadan, it is worth watching: Following are excerpts from a statement by London Islamist Abu Waleed, which was aired on the internet.
Abu Waleed: "What is the nightmare on Downing Street? The nightmare on Downing Street, my dear brothers, is when the door of 10 Downing Street is kicked down by one monotheist, and the Caliph walks in and establishes the shari'a....The nightmare on Downing Street, my dear brothers, is when one monotheist pulls a rope, and raises the banner of 'There is no god but Allah' above the Big Ben. The nightmare on Downing Street is when one monotheist flies a helicopter all the way to the top of the Big Ben. He removes those numbers, and replaces them with Arabic numbers. That is the nightmare of Downing Street, my dear brothers.
"As you all understand, we, as Muslims, are not those types of coconut-chocolate moderate Muslims – the ones who bow their heads down to the government. Rather, we are the ones who want to work for the sake of Allah, to establish the manifestation of Islam, and make sure that David Cameron comes on his hands and knees, and give us the jizya – yeah, that's right – and cover up all the women and put a niqab on their faces, including Queen Elizabeth and Kate Middleton, the whore, the fornicator." 
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| Work accident! Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:58 AM PDT From Ma'an: A member of Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed on Wednesday night in an explosion in his Rafah home, southern Gaza.
The body of Ali Nayef, 20, from Yabna refugee camp was taken to Abu Yousef An-Najjar hospital, local witnesses told Ma'an. The Al Qassam Brigades website calls it an "accident." Usually they say that it was in the course of a "jihad mission" but perhaps the neighbors would be upset if they admit that they are doing chemistry experiments in their own homes. Despite the accidental nature of his timely demise, he is still regarded as a "martyr." 
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