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The FBI is covering up evidence that Israel intelligence, working closely with rogue U.S. and other foreign intelligence units, is responsible for 9/11 World Trade Center implosions and other acts of terrorism against the United States.

Newsman Jim Galloway, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (reprinted in The Austin American-Statesman, November 25, 2001, pg. A-11), reported that of the 1,100 foreigners arrested by the FBI for suspicion of involvement in the September 11 incidents, 100 were Israeli Jews.

This news article by reporter Jim Galloway was run in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Austin American-Statesman.

Five of the Israelis, say Galloway, were arrested after “Angry witnesses had seen the five atop a building across the harbor in New Jersey apparently laughing and clowning, and photographing themselves in front of the burning towers.” The Israelis had set up a video camera and tripod and they filmed the entire 9/11 terror attack—with both aircraft smashing into the twin towers and the buildings later tumbling down. The intent, obviously, was to proudly document the Mossad’s handiwork so that Israelis big-wigs back in Tel Aviv and elsewhere could later gleefully view the horror from the comfort of their arm chairs.

One of the five Israelis had assumed a first name of Omer, which is close to the Arabic name Omar. Another had a German passport in addition to his Israeli passport. A third had an international flight booked to Thailand for September 13—two days after the highjackings. Yet another of the five Israelis was discovered by the FBI to be a former paratrooper, assigned to an elite Israeli defense forces unit.

Two more Israeli Jews were arrested in a truck on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania, near the site of the crash of American Airlines flight 93. A box cutter like the ones used in the airliner highjackings was found in their truck along with other incriminating evidence.

Dummy Moving Company

FBI investigators discovered that most of the 100 men detained were part of an Israeli intelligence unit operating out of New Jersey, near where the Anthrax letters were mailed. What appeared to be a dummy, front company, Urban Moving Systems, of Weehawken, N.J., had been set up and claimed to be “employer” for all of the detained Israelis. The men, most with bogus or expired travel documents, were able to travel freely by truck throughout the U.S.A.

According to the news report, after the arrests an FBI SWAT team raided the New Jersey warehouse of the Urban Moving Systems operation and seized and carried away a dozen computer hard drives and files.

Behind the scenes, the Israeli government jumped through hoops to get the men released and the FBI investigation shut down. Members of the Israeli parliament called on “friends” in the U.S. Congress. The Mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Ohmert, personally called New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and asked him to intervene.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials desperately tried to paint the incident as a “mere mistake”—just some silly young men clowning around, unconnected to an official intelligence group. “That’s why the five laughed at the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings,” says Mayor Ehud Ohmert. “They were just being immature and irresponsible.”

A War Brewing

Power of Prophecy has learned that a war broke out inside the FBI between the FBI agents conducting the investigation and their higher-up, politically-connected superiors. The higher-ups warned that the Israeli thing is “too hot”—an “explosive political volcano.” But the lower-level agents weren’t buying it. They maintained that the arrested Israeli Jews held the key to the whole September 11th debacle.

“These Israeli guys knew what was coming down,” says one embittered FBI veteran. “We would be fools if we let them just fade away into the sunset and pretend they weren’t involved.” Apparently, these FBI agents were told to back down and shut up.

Who Benefits?

U.S. Intelligence analysts point out how much the nation of Israel has benefited from the September 11th attacks. For over a year, Israel had been widely criticized in the U.S. and in the Western world for its brutal suppression of the Palestinians. Israeli uniformed soldiers, tanks and helicopter gunships were regularly shown on the international TV news in heated exchanges with Palestinian youths armed with nothing more than stones and sticks. Israeli tanks bulldozed Palestinian farms and homes, and humanitarian groups complained that captured Palestinians were being tortured and abused in Israeli prison cells. A U.N. conference focused on Jewish racism, aggression, and discrimination.

But after September 11, sentiment changed dramatically. Sympathy for the Palestinian cause evaporated. The Arabs were universally portrayed as the evil-doers, the “bad guys.” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stated, “Now we and the Americans are in the same fight.”

The blaming of radical Islamic terrorists for the horrible crimes was the best thing that’s happened for Israel in years. Now the American people are, once again, solidly in the pro-Israel camp, and “Palestinians be damned!”

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The Obama Administration's Department of Homeland Security recently swore in two devout Muslims in senior posts.

Arif Alikhan -- a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).

 Was it not "Devout Muslim men" that flew planes into U.S. buildings 9 years ago? Was it not a Devout Muslim who killed 14 at Fort Hood?

And now the building of not just a mosque, but an Islamic Training Center near Ground Zero! The Imam is radical and blames 9-11 on the United States!
Even though we are for religious freedom, why should someone be against a Mosque at Ground Zero? Strangely enough, let's look at the Qur'an:

1. Read Sura 18:21 and you will know WHY Muslims insist on building a mosque over Ground Zero (they also built mosques, as symbols of victory, over Spanish churches in Cordoba and Seville and Segovia, and Agia Sophia in Constantinople)
2. Kill Non-Believers. Sura 9:5, 9:3, and 9:29 of the Koran effectively commands Muslims to kill the non-believers
3. Democracy and Imposing Sharia Law. Sura 5:48 makes it clear that Muslims do not accept the manner by which men choose to rule themselves (i.e. a Constitution, laws, Democracy), but that the Muslims must rule over us "in accordance with God's revelations to you" (i.e. to the Muslims). This Sura puts them in direct opposition to the Constitutions of all Western Countries.

Please SELECT HERE to FAX every Congressman to STOP the Mosque building at Ground Zero! Your DONATION to the KNIGHTS will directly go to our national campaign to inform, put pressure on legislators, media ads, communication with leaders, and much more to heighten the awareness of the grave danger that is confronting us and the United States Constitution...against Sharia Law.
Here is what their Qur'an says about:

4. Jews and Christians. Sura 5:51, 5:54, and 5:60 label Jews and Christians as "pigs and monkeys"
5. The Qur'an Supersedes All Previous Scripture. Sura 5:48 and 5:57 establish that the Qur'an supersedes all previous scripture (i.e. including the Bible and the Torah)
6. Later Verses of the Qur'an Supersede Earlier Ones (Sura 5:48). This means that the last Suras are what govern a devout Muslim and NOT the early ones. The latter ones are the ones calling for the killing of Jews and Christians.

In fact, you might also want to note that Sura 5 and 9 are among THE LAST THREE SURAS written. There are 114 Suras in all. To a devout Muslim, these commands are clear. We live in dangerous times.
On September 17 we celebrate Constitution Day in the US. Our Constitution is very much under open and surreptitious attack by the forces of Islam.
A resurgent Islam is threatening us not only abroad, but inside the borders of America.
The controversy surrounding the building of a giant mosque and Islamic community center at Ground Zero is but a mere manifestation of the insensitivity and organized campaign of Islam to change America. The families of the 9-11 victims deserve much respect---building an Islamic mosque near their death spot is NOT "respect"!
Please SELECT HERE to FAX every Congressman to STOP the Mosque building at Ground Zero! Your DONATION to the KNIGHTS will directly go to our national campaign to inform, put pressure on legislators, media ads, communication with leaders, and much more to heighten the awareness of the grave danger that is confronting us and the United States Constitution...against Sharia Law.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in 1928 in Egypt and pursues an Islamic fundamentalist agenda, has been actively trying to subvert the U. S. way of life for decades.

In November 2008 a Federal Court for the Northern District of Texas found the defendants guilty of raising $ 12 million in donations from trusting Americans to the Holy land Foundation. Holy Land Foundation turned out to be a front for collecting and sending money to Hamas, an organization based in Gaza and classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

During the trial, a vast array of secret documents of the Muslim Brotherhood came to light, which the defendant acknowledged as original. They laid bare the Brotherhood's use of "front" civic organizations. One of the documents produced and acknowledged as original was an "Explanatory Memorandum" authored by Mohamed Akram, and dated May 22, 1991. The memorandum calls for the Muslim faithful in America to engage in "a kind of Jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilizations from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house..."

It refers to the need to present "Islam as a civilization alternative" and states that "It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad..." The Federal Judge on this case was so outraged by the evidence presented that he ordered the list of 302 Unindicted Co-Conspirators to be published on the Court's web site. You can still find it there today on the Internet.

Europe is slowly, but steadily, being Islamized!
Are YOU prepared to allow the same to happen in the United States?
Please SELECT HERE to FAX every Congressman to STOP the Mosque building at Ground Zero! Your DONATION to the KNIGHTS will directly go to our national campaign to inform, put pressure on legislators, media ads, communication with leaders, and much more to heighten the awareness of the grave danger that is confronting us and the United States Constitution...against Sharia Law.
Our Order and its predecessor going back to the 11th century AD, always
made protection of Christians and our Judeo-Christian culture its main purpose. Will you help us with your contribution, so that we can help those in the United States who can raise awareness of the danger confronting us and our Constitution?

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Will you help us with your contribution so that we can continue to perform a function in support of Christianity that started almost 1,000 years ago?
Will you help us with your contribution so that we can oppose the building of a mosque at Ground Zero?
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This is extremely serious. It's not just about ONE mosque being built near the 9-11 catastrophe, it is about Sharia Law not stopping until they overtake each and every government on this earth. That is what their own Qur'an orders them to do! Thank you so very much for your concern. Thank you for taking time to genuinely care about this world-ALTERING situation that we are confronted with. I pray that you, too, will have the compassion of Christ,

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P. S. Please be informed so you know the real Enemy that you are facing. That's why it is so very important for our national campaign to WARN not just individuals, but especially those who are in power. Thank you for deeply caring about your country, especially as we celebrate CONSTITUTION DAY on September 17th!
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America's Holy Crusade against the Muslim World.

America's Holy Crusade against the Muslim World. By Michel Chossudovsky

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20818

Global Research, August 30, 2010

We have reached a decisive transition in the evolution of US military doctrine. The "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) directed against Al Qaeda launched in the wake of 9/11 is evolving towards a full-fledged "war of religion", a "holy crusade" directed against the Muslim World. US military dogma and war propaganda under the Bush administration, was predicated on combating Islamic fundamentalism rather than targeting Muslims. "This is not a war between the West and Islam, but .. a war against terrorism." So-called "Good Muslims" are to be distinguished from "Bad Muslims":   "The dust from the collapse of the twin towers had hardly settled on 11 September 2001 when the febrile search began for "moderate Muslims", people who would provide answers, who would distance themselves from this outrage and condemn the violent acts of "Muslim extremists", "Islamic fundamentalists" and "Islamists". Two distinct categories of Muslims rapidly emerged: the "good" and the "bad"; the "moderates", "liberals" and "secularists" versus the "fundamentalists", the "extremists" and the "Islamists"." (Tariq Ramadan, Good Muslim, bad Muslim, New Statesman, February 12, 2010) In the wake of 9/11, the Muslim community in most Western countries was markedly on the defensive. The "Good Muslim" "Bad Muslim" divide was broadly accepted. The 9/11 terrorist attacks allegedly perpetrated by Muslims were not only condemned, Muslim communities also supported the US-NATO invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, as part of a campaign directed against Islamic fundamentalism.  The fact that the 9/11 attacks were not instigated by Muslims has rarely been acknowledged by the Muslim community. Al Qaeda's ongoing relationship to the CIA, its role as a US sponsored "intelligence asset" going back to to the Soviet-Afghan war is not mentioned. (Michel Chossudovsky, America's "War on Terrorism"  Global Research, Montreal, 2005) Since the early 1980s, Washington has covertly supported the most conservative and fundamentalist factions of Islam, largely with a view to weakening secular, nationalist and progressive movements in the Middle East and Central Asia. Known and documented, the fundamentalist Wahhabi and Salafi missions from Saudi Arabia, dispatched not only to Afghanistan but also to the Balkans and to the Muslim republics of the former Soviet republics were covertly supported by US intelligence. (Ibid) What is often referred to as "Political Islam" is in large part a creation of the US intelligence apparatus (with the support of Britain's MI6 and Israel's Mossad).   The Ground Zero Mosque Recent developments suggest a breaking point, a transition from "the war on terrorism" to the outright demonization of Muslims. While underscoring the freedom of religion, the Obama administration is "beating the drums" of a broader war against Islam:   “As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country... This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable." (quoted in Obama Backs Ground Zero Mosque; Iranian Link Questioned, Israel National News, August 15, 2010) Beneath the political smokescreen, the distinction between "Good Muslims" and "Bad Muslims" is being scrapped. The proposed Ground Zero mosque is allegedly being funding by "the radical rogue Islamic state of Iran ... as the United States is stepping up sanctions on the regime in retaliation for its support of terrorism and what is feared to be an illegal nuclear-weapons development program." ( Ground Zero mosque developers refuse to outright reject funding from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - NYPOST.com, August 19, 2010) The rising tide of xenophobia, sparked by the proposed Ground Zero mosque and community center, has all the appearances of  a PSYOP (Psychological Operation) which contributes to fomenting hatred against Muslims throughout the Western World. The objective is to instil fear, rouse and harness citizens' unbending support for the next stage of America's "long war", which consists in waging "humanitarian" aerial attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, portrayed by the media as endorsing the terrorists. While "all Muslim are not terrorists", all terrorist attacks (planned or realized) are reported by the media as being perpetrated by Muslims. In America, the Muslim community as a whole is being targeted. Islam is described as a "religion of war". The proposed mosque and community center are being heralded as "violating the sanctity of Ground Zero".  "..opening a mosque at Ground Zero is offensive and disrespectful to the city and the people who died in the attacks. The project is “spitting in the face of everyone murdered on 9/11.” (Plan to build mosque at Ground Zero angers New Yorkers ,National Post, May 17, 2010) "Homegrown Terrorists" The arrests on trumped up charges, as well as the show trials of alleged "homegrown" Islamic terrorists, perform an important function. They sustain the illusion, in the inner consciousness of Americans, that "Islamic terrorists" not only constitute a real threat but that the Muslim community to which they belong is broadly supportive of their actions: "[T]he threat increasingly comes not from strangers with rough English and dubious passports. Instead, it resides much closer to home: in urban townhouses, darkened basements -- anywhere with an Internet connection. Homegrown terrorism is the latest incarnation of the al-Qaeda threat." How terror came home to roost, Ottawa Citizen, August 27, 2010, report on an alleged homegrown terrorist attack in Canada) From a process of selective targeting of Muslims with radical tendencies (or allegedly associated with "terrorist organizations"), what is now unfolding is a generalized process of demonization of an entire population group. Muslims are increasingly the object of routine discrimination and ethnic profiling. They are considered a potential threat to national security. The threat is said to be "much closer to home", "within your neighborhood", in other words what is unfolding is an all out witch-hunt reminiscent of the Spanish inquisition.      In turn,  Al Qaeda is described as a powerful multinational terrorist organization (possessing WMDs) with subsidiaries in a number of Muslim countries: Al Qaeda is present (with corresponding acronyms) in various geopolitical hotspots and war theaters: -Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) (comprised of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Jihad of Yemen), Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia (Jamaah Islamiyah), Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen in Somalia, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, etc. At no moment is the issue of atrocities committed against several million Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan considered a terrorist act by the occupation forces. The American Inquisition A "war of religion" is unfolding, with a view to justifying a global military crusade. In the inner consciousness of many Americans, the "holy crusade" against Muslims is justified. While President Obama may uphold freedom of religion, the US inquisitorial social order has institutionalized patterns of discrimination, prejudice and xenophobia directed against Muslims. Ethnic profiling applies to travel, the job market, access to social services and more generally to socila mobility. The American Inquisition as an ideological construct, which is, in many regards, is similar to the inquisitorial social order prevailing in France and Spain during the Middle Ages. The inquisition, which started in France in the 12th century, was used as a justification for conquest and military intervention. (See Michel Chossudovsky, 9/11 and the "American Inquisition", Global Research, September 11, 2008). The arrests, trials and sentences of so-called "homegrown" terrorists" (from within America's Muslim community) on trumped up charges sustain the legitimacy of the Homeland Security State and its inquisitorial legal and law enforcement apparatus. An inquisitorial doctrine turns realities upside down. It is a social order based on lies and fabrications. But because these lies emanate from the highest political authority and are part of a widely held "consensus", they invariably remain unchallenged. And those who challenge the inquisitorial order or in any way oppose America's military or national security agenda are themselves branded as "conspiracy theorists" or outright terrorists. Beyond the process of inquisitorial arrests and prosecution, which outdwarfs the Spanish inquisition, an expedient extrajudicial assassination program sanctioned by the White House has been launched. This program allows US special forces to kill American citizens and suspected homegrown terrorists:: "A shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing"? (See Chuck Norris, Obama's US Assassination Program? "A Shortlist of U.S. Citizens specifically Targeted for Killing"?,. Global Research, August 26, 2010) The objective is to sustain the illusion that "America is under attack" and that Muslims across the land are complicit and supportive of "Islamic terrorism". The demonization of Muslims sustains a global military agenda. Under the American inquisition, Washington has a self-proclaimed holy mandate to extirpate Islam and "spread democracy" throughout the world. What we are dealing with is an outright and blind acceptance of the structures of power and political authority. America's holy crusade against the Muslim World is an outright criminal act directed against millions of people. NEW BOOK FROM GLOBAL RESEARCH Special OfferThe Global Economic Crisis Michel Chossudovsky Andrew G. Marshall (editors)

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Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:4AM GMT 2 119   15   By Wayne Madsen There has not been one documented incident of FEMEN or their colleagues targeting any Jewish institution, although they claim they are trying to emancipate women from male-dominated religious institutions. Orthodox Jewry represents one of the most misogynistic sects in the world, yet it has escaped from harassment from FEMEN and its ilk.” Related Interviews: 'West wages war against spirituality' ‘Anti-Islam film, false flag operation’ The neo-conservative/Christian evangelical political alliance in the United States is fond of using the term “Judeo-Christian” to describe the political philosophic underpinnings of the United States. However, as churches in Israel, Palestine, Russia, and Europe, as well as mosques throughout the world come under attack by arsonists, graffiti artists, and vandals, it is important to point out that it is the Christo-Islamic tenets that are under attack by Israel and those who serve Israel’s interests. Israeli right-wing Orthodox Jewish settlers have exacted what is called “price tag” vengeance against Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land by attacking churches and mosques. The radical Jews claim that Christian and Muslim places of worship will continue to be vandalized as a “price tag” for attempts to bring about a fully-recognized Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The settlers and many members of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government are in lock-step with the settlers who want to see the West Bank fully incorporated into Israel as “Judea and Samaria,” with the Arab population of Muslims and Christians expelled. The latest vandalism by Jews against a church involved the stoning attack of the St. George Romanian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. The attack on the church came as Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean was visiting Israel. Netanyahu raised suspicions about his involvement with the church attacks by refusing to meet with the Romanian foreign minister and personally apologize for the Jewish attack on the Romanian church. A week prior to the attack on the Romanian church, Jewish vandals spray painted “Jesus son of a whore” and “price tag” on the Roman Catholic Franciscan Order convent adjacent to the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. And the previous month, Jewish vandals struck again, spray painting “Jesus is a monkey” on the walls of the Trappist monastery in Latrun and trying to set fire to the monastery’s door. Last February, Jewish vandals painted “Death to Christians” and “We will crucify you” in Hebrew on a Baptist church in Jerusalem. The attacks on the churches follow years of Orthodox Jews in east Jerusalem spitting on Christian clergymen on the streets. A number of mosques were vandalized by Jewish occupiers in the West Bank. When fifteen American church leaders representing the Methodist, Lutheran, United Church of Christ, the National Council of Churches, and other churches sent a letter to the US Congress calling for the United States to reexamine US military aid to Israel, the Israeli Lobby erupted in anger. Among the Israeli chorus condemning the Christian leaders were the American Jewish Committee, the Rabbinical Assembly, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. These Jewish lobbying groups were either silent or sheepishly condemnatory over the Jewish attacks on Christian churches in Israel and the occupied territories. Reverend Pierbattista Pizzaballa, a Vatican official in the Holy Land, likened the attacks on the churches to the release of the “Innocence of Muslims” movie trailer on YouTube. The film blasphemously portrays Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). It is clear that the Zionist game plan is to launch attacks on Christians and Muslims. Typical of Zionist tactics, the true financiers behind the anti-Muslim movie were masked with blame cast upon Egyptian Coptic right-wing activists in the United States. However, the fingerprints of Jewish-owned and operated Hollywood were all over the film’s production and distribution. According to RT, the Russian television news network, in Russia and Ukraine, FEMEN-linked protest groups funded by Jewish benefactors, including hedge fund tycoon George Soros and the Brooklyn-born publisher of the Kyiv Post Jed Sunden, have chain sawed crosses and committed acts of hooliganism inside churches. One such gang, the feminist group FEMEN, offered $188 to anyone who cut down a cross. There were reports of crosses being chain sawed across Russia and Ukraine. The FEMEN group videotaped a large cross erected by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church being toppled in a park in Kyiv. Three female punk rockers with the group “Pussy Riot” were convicted of hooliganism for conducting an anti-Christian demonstration laced with profanity at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. FEMEN protesters disrupted services at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. FEMEN activists have staged chainsaw beheadings of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pope Benedict XVI, and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill I. FEMEN activists also staged a lewd protest at the famous Hagia Sofia Mosque in Istanbul. There has not been one documented incident of FEMEN or their colleagues targeting any Jewish institution, although they claim they are trying to emancipate women from male-dominated religious institutions. Orthodox Jewry represents one of the most misogynistic sects in the world, yet it has escaped from harassment from FEMEN and its ilk. It is clear that Zionist Jewish money is behind the attacks on Christianity and Islam in the Holy Land and in Europe. The Zionist media has largely succeeded in driving a wedge between Christianity and Islam. However, as Christians wake up to who their real enemies are, the gulf between the followers of Jesus and Mohammad may disappear as more and more Christian leaders have grown tired of their religion being attacked by the modern Pharisees consisting of Netanyahu’s government, the illegal settlers, and Jewish financiers and media moguls. WM/HSN Wayne Madsen is a Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs. He is the author of the blog Wayne Madsen Report. In 2002 he suggested to the Guardian newspaper that the United States Navy had aided in an attempted overthrow of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez. In 2003 he said that he had uncovered information linking the September 11 attacks to the government of Saudi Arabia as well as to Bush administration. In 2005, he wrote than an unidentified former CIA agent claimed that the USS Cole was actually hit by a Popeye cruise missile launched from an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine. More Press TV articles by Wayne Madsen

HOW ISLAMOPHOBIA CAME TO THE BRITISH ISLES

HOW ISLAMOPHOBIA CAME TO THE BRITISH ISLES

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 World history from an Islamic perspective
Terminology

Readers are advised to use Islamic terminology if they are to really understand historical events properly.

CE Christian Era/Current Era
Crusades: Acts of Institutionalised (State-sponsored)
International Religious Terrorism. This involved gross
human rights violations, mass genocide, crimes committed against humanity including murder, rape, sodomy and every conceivable torture has been done to the victims of the Christian Era. Victims have included Christians themselves, Pagans, Muslims, Slavs, Irish, Africans, etc.
 
Iberian Peninsula
Today known as Portugal and Spain. These two countries did not exist when the Muslims / Moors ruled the Iberian Peninsula. Spain is only five centuries old whereas the Moors had a presence in the Iberian Peninsula for over eight centuries.

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 “Thus We have made you into a just Ummah so that you can be WITNESS against other nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves.”
Quran 2:143

'And thou seest many of them vying with one another in sin and transgression and their devouring of illicit gain. Verily evil is what they do'
Quran 5:62

'Why do not the rabbis and the priests forbid their evilspeaking and their devouring of illicit gain ? Verily evil is their handiwork'
Quran 5:63

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CONTENTS PAGE

CONTENTS PAGE....................................................................................................5
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS........................................................7
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................10
ISLAMOPHOBIC ISLES.......................................................................................11
THE GROWTH OF DAR AL-ISLAM.................................................................14
THE GROWTH OF DAR AL-KUFR...................................................................15
PREPARING FOR THE CRUSADES................................................................19
CRUSADING CLERICS ........................................................................................22
WILLIAM THE BASTARD...................................................................................25
1066: NORMAN CRUSADE OF THE BRITISH ISLES..............................27
THE NORMAN SUBJUGATION OF ENGLAND............................................31
WOMEN ...................................................................................................................36
FRENCH LANGUAGE...............................................................................................37
CATEGORY FRENCH WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.............................38
THE NORMAN CHURCH IN BRITAIN ......................................................................40
INSTITUTIONALISED FEUDALISM................................................................43
ACADEMIA...............................................................................................................47
MILITARY .................................................................................................................47
ADMINISTRATION....................................................................................................48
INDUSTRY ................................................................................................................48
HONOURS................................................................................................................49
ARTS/MEDIA ..........................................................................................................50
SPORTS ....................................................................................................................50
CHRISTMAS............................................................................................................50

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"So what do you do for a living?" the activist asked me. He was an American Christian, an ordained minister and leader of an interfaith peace organization. I was attending a conference organized by his group. "I produce Islamic videos and programs, particularly for children," I replied.
"Oh. Doesn't Hamas produce programs for children, too?" he asked.
I was stunned. This exchange occurred shortly before the Hamas victory in the recent Palestinian elections. What floored me though was that this man associated what I do for a living with a group considered terrorist by the American government. It is clear that the ugly tentacles of Islamophobia have penetrated places where Muslims have normally felt safe from it. An interfaith gathering is the last venue I'd expect these comments.
I was representing the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago as it's chair, and he knew that pretty well. It's a federation of more than 55 mosques and Islamic organizations serving 400,000 Muslims from the region.
The Danish cartoon affair - Europe's latent Islamophobia comes to life
The latest example of Islamophobia comes from Denmark and Europe, not the United States. By now, we've all seen and read about the protests against 12 deeply offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.
What is critical to know is that it was not some random cartoonist drawing one cartoon and an editor who decided to publish it. Rather, a neo-con newspaper chose to commission artists to draw these images that depict the Prophet as a terrorist. These cartoons were not an ignorant mistake. The intent was to insult and inflame. The concept of respect and honor among Muslims is well-known. So is the potential risk of incitement, especially after knowing what happened when the Muslim world came to know about some American soldiers disrespecting the Quran last year.
The Danish embassy in Lebanon has been torched, the country's flags burned, death threats have been issued and some protesters have been killed as a result of police firings.
But well before these dramatic images that must have made editors salivate for their sensational qualities made the news, Muslims in the Muslim world and abroad launched peaceful, lawful protests for four months against the cartoons that would have made Martin Luther King Jr. proud.
Danish Muslims wrote letters of protest. They were ignored. Eleven Muslim ambassadors in Denmark asked to meet with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He refused to do so. A grassroots boycott of Danish products was launched in the Middle East. That got some attention, but not much until Danish businesses realized how much of their $1 billion business in the region was at stake.
The cartoons were printed in September 2005. In September, October, November, December and almost all of January, the Muslim opposition to the cartoons was characterized by peaceful demonstrations of love for the Prophet and restrained protests of how he was being denigrated.
Arrogant Response to Peaceful Protests
When newspapers in Norway, Germany and France, in their Islamophobic frenzy, decided to republish the cartoons in the name of "freedom of expression," the scale of anger and protest widened. What started off as peaceful opposition spiraled out of control.
Now, the situation was out of the hands of Muslims who had made serious attempts to resolve the issue peacefully. They had tried their utmost, but to no avail. From this point onwards, all kinds of people, including those with little knowledge of Islamic rules that forbid harm to foreign emissaries in Muslim lands, had upped the ante. The torching of embassies is wrong. So is stepping on and burning the symbols of Danish pride, their flag. It is Haram and a sin in Islam.
Unfortunately, some Iranian newspapers have commissioned the drawing of anti-Semitic cartoons in protest. This is a disgusting form of retaliation that deserves absolute condemnation. It will neither help fight Islamophobia, nor elicit any understanding about why Muslims are upset about the Danish cartoons. The conflic has hit a new low with this move.
But the world media, always in search of dramatic images of death and destruction, lapped up the anger and violence with glee. There was little coverage of the peaceful response of the Muslim community to these cartoons in the initial days after their publication. There were no calls for death, there was no fire involved or images of screaming bearded and Hijabed Muslims. Just peaceful bearded and Hijabed Muslims. Yawn. The media was bored.
When it comes to Muslims, everything goes
Would the media outlet which commissioned and printed these cartoons, as well as those which reprinted them, call for artists to develop grotesque anti-Semitic caricatures to prove that they have the freedom to do so? Of course not. The French even have laws to punish anti-Semitic "speech" and "writings."
The current cartoon affair is not about freedom of expression, it's about Islamophobia.
Islamophobia is real
Islamophobia, or the fear and hatred of all things relating to Islam and Muslims, has become an acceptable form of racism. A sympathetic Jewish lawyer who was representing a Palestinian client in Chicago pre-9/11 said something telling to me in this regard: "Muslims are the new N…ers of America. If you will not fight for yourself, no one will."
He's right. But Muslim complaints about Islamophobia continue to be dismissed. More than one fourth of all American Muslims surveyed by more than one public opinion organization stated that they have personally experienced Islamophobia or know someone who has. Over 200,000 American Muslims have been subjected to some kind of law enforcement activity since 9/11. At least 15,000 Muslims have been detained or arrested since that tragedy. Over 16,000 were either deported or are in the process of deportation. The Council on American-Islamic Relations annually issues reports about the state of Muslim civil rights in the United States. Harrowing tales of anti-Muslim discrimination on the job, at schools, stores, restaurants and on the streets fill these publications. The case of Capt. James Yee is a disturbing example of how American Muslims even in positions of authority and respect must endure Islamophobia publicly at the hands of our own government. It is due to Islamophobia fanned by government policies and a media frenzy that a majority of Americans continue to hold negative opinions of Islam and Muslims. And a few thousand bin Laden terrorists contribute to authenticate this negative image. Forty-four percent of Americans queried in a Cornell national poll favor curtailing some liberties for Muslim Americans.
Over half of schoolchildren in the Australian city of Victoria view Muslims as terrorists, and two out of five agree that Muslims "are unclean", a survey has revealed. Islamophobia is older than 9/11 and is based on ongoing ignorance
The fear and hatred of all things Islamic can be traced much farther back than 9/11. Edward Said's landmark book "Orientalism" outlined how European colonial masters viewed their Muslim subjects with disdain and disgust. This attitude continues to characterize the discipline today. That view of Muslims as bloodthirsty, misogynist and violent savages persists. It is furthered by Bernard Lewis, America's top Orientalist, and his neoconservative students, a number of whom are the architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
In the 1980s, funding was cut throughout the United States for programs that attempted to understand other peoples and nations. With the fall of the former Soviet Union in 1991 and the establishment of America as the world's sole superpower, a fair amount of arrogance towards the rest of the world pervaded America's dealings with other countries and continues to do so.
The barring of Yusuf Islam in 2004 and Tariq Ramadan in 2005 from the United States are examples of how we are not only closing our borders to Islam but opening them to Islamophobia. Even worse, we are closing our minds. As Diana Eck, President of the American Academy of Religion wrote in the Boston Globe on February 2, 2006 about the Ramadan case, "Denying us face-to-face access to scholars and theologians who contribute to critical reflection on the religious currents of our world is an intolerable impoverishment of the academic enterprise." The Academy is currently suing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff for barring Ramadan entry into the US. Islamophobia harms all of us
In my four interfaith interactions in the last two months, I have met a whole lot of very nice people. But I was surprised to find at almost each event I attended, one or two Islamophobic people who seemed to have a high dose of Fox News in their system. I listened to them and prayed for them instead of responding to them.
Like racism and anti-Semitism, Islamophobia hurts all of us. In America, it is eroding our civil liberties. In Europe, it is further isolating minority communities and inflaming latent xenophobia. It is perpetuating the neocon wish for a "clash of civilizations" at a time when no country in the world, Muslim or not, can afford it politically, economically or otherwise. Just ask the Danish dairy industry how Islamophobia has hurt its business.
Islamophobia is responsible for torture. Islamophobia is responsible for the grave misunderstandings that only serve to perpetuate hatred and demonization. Perhaps we need to learn from Canada, where hate speech is banned despite the guarantee of free speech in the country's constitution.
Islamophobia is today's accepted form of racism. It will require Muslims to fight hard against it. Muslims are neither solely responsible for its creation, nor will they be able to fight it on their own. It is a collective responsibility for all bridge-builders of the world.
Let us today take a stand to end all kinds of fear and hatred of "the other."

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Cinquante chrétiens iraniens interpellés le jour de Noël

Posted on 30 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

 

Selon des informations reçues mardi dernier par Mohabat News et diffusées ce jour, une cinquantaine de chrétiens, dont un pasteur des Assemblées de Dieu,  réunis dans une maison privée située au nord de Téhéran pour célébrer Noël, ont fait l’objet d’une descente d’une quinzaine de policiers en tenue et d’officiers des services de sécurité. Devant le nombre imprévu des fidèles, les policiers n’ont pu les transférer dans des centres d’interrogatoire, mais se sont contentés de leur faire remplir sur place un questionnaire pré imprimé où on leur demandait leur identité complète, le numéro de leur carte d’identité, leur adresse courriel et page facebook avec les mots de passe, pourquoi ils reconnaissaient Jésus-Christ, leurs relations avec d’autres “églises à la maison”, les voyages à l’étranger qu’ils avaient faits récemment et des informations sur les chrétiens qu’ils y avaient rencontrés, leurs principes religieux, pourquoi ils avaient abandonné l’islam, leurs opinions sur le régime de la république islamique d’Iran et sa politique étrangère… Une fois ces questionnaires collectés, la police a procédé à la confiscation de leurs téléphones portables : ils pourront les récupérer sur convocation de commissariats de police… où, bien sûr, des interrogatoires plus “personnels” se poursuivront !

Source : Mohabat News

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L’Église d’Iran confirme la réincarcération du pasteur Youcef Nadarkhani

Posted on 30 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

Je dois à la sollicitude d’un lecteur (merci P.-A. E.) le texte – malheureusement non daté mais hier publié sur le blogue Eleutherie – du communiqué officiel de l’Église d’Iran confirmant la réincarcération du pasteur Youcef Nadarkhani qui apparient à cette congrégation. Le voici.

Le Conseil National de l’Église d’Iran confirme la réincarcération, le jour de Noël, le 25 décembre du pasteur Youcef Nadarkhani.

En effet, Suite à un mandat d’arrêt et une convocation des autorités carcérales, le pasteur Youcef Nadarkhani s’est présenté le 25 à la prison de Lakan, près de la ville de Rasht.

Selon les juges et à la connaissance des avocats, aucune nouvelle charge ne serait retenue contre lui. Il s’agirait pour lui de s’acquitter des formalités pénitentiaires qui auraient dû précéder sa libération.

Il est à regretter qu’encore une fois le Pasteur Nadarkhani n’ait pas pu célébrer Noël avec les siens.

La situation du pasteur Nadarkhani est emblématique du vécu des chrétiens iraniens depuis plusieurs années. Aussi tenons-nous à exprimer nos préoccupations par rapport à la détérioration des droits des minorités en République Islamique d’Iran.

Nous espérons que conformément à la Constitution Iranienne et aux textes internationaux auxquels l’Iran adhère, les autorités islamiques pourront accorder pleinement droit de cité à l’expression de la diversité des croyances et des religions en Iran.

Source : Eleutherie

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Incendie criminel d’une crèche en Alsace

Posted on 30 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

 

Un lecteur (merci L. C.) me signale à l’instant un article paru hier dans le quotidien Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, nous informant de l’incendie criminel d’une crèche très populaire à Uffholtz en Alsace…

La crèche de Noël qui traditionnellement sert de point de ralliement aux spectateurs du festival d’arts de rue « Les fenêtres de l’avent » se déroulant chaque année du 1^er au 24 décembre à Uffholtz a pris feu vers 0 h 30 dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi.

Située le long de la rue du Ballon, cette construction éphémère, fruit d’innombrables heures de travail de la part des bénévoles de cette manifestation accueillant chaque année des milliers de spectateurs, aura résisté moins d’une semaine après la fin du festival avant qu’une main malintentionnée ne vienne précipiter sa disparition du paysage villageois. Grâce à leur rapide intervention, les sapeurs-pompiers du corps local ont maîtrisé l’incendie, mais la crèche malheureusement a été partiellement détruite par les flammes. Chaque jour durant la manifestation, elle servait de point d’accueil au public et de départ vers le spectacle du soir donné dans un endroit différent du village.

Source : Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace

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41 chrétiens arrêtés en Arabie Saoudite pour avoir « fêté Noël »

Posted on 30 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

Encore une magnifique illustration de la “R.A.T.P.”…

« La police religieuse saoudienne a fait une descente dans une maison de la province d’al-Jouf et arrêté plus de 41 invités pour “complot en vue de célébrer Noël”, selon une déclaration de la police publiée mercredi soir.

Cette descente est la dernière d’une série de mesures de répression contre les résidents qui seraient une menace pour les lois religieuses strictes du royaume.

L’hôte de la réception présumée de Noël serait un diplomate asiatique dont les invités comprenaient 41 chrétiens ainsi que deux musulmans [un] Saoudien et [un] Égyptien. L’hôte et les deux musulmans auraient été en état d’ébriété. Les invités auraient été référés aux “ autorités compétentes”. On ne sait pas s’ils ont été libérés.

Le royaume, qui ne reconnaît aucun autre culte que l’islam, interdit les célébrations chrétiennes en public mais demeure ambigu sur les célébrations dans les maisons privées. Le Grand mufti d’Arabie saoudite, cheikh Abdel Aziz Ben Abdallah, avait condamné les “invitations aux célébrations de Noël et aux marriages”.

Un membre du Conseil supérieur des savants islamiques d’Arabie saoudite, le cheikh Mohammed al-Othaimin, a récemment interdit de transmettre des vœux aux “hérétiques” pour Noël et les autres fêtes chrétiennes. »

Source : Al-Akhbar (English) – Traduit par Le Poste de Veille (Québec)

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Les efforts des communistes chinois pour contrer l’évangélisation dans le monde étudiant

Posted on 30 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

 

Grâce à Églises d’Asie, nous constatons ce qui est au fond une terreur des communistes chinois : l’évangélisation du monde estudiantin. Le Comité central du parti s’en est ému l’année dernière et a pondu une énième instruction pour tenter de contrer l’influence des étudiants étrangers auprès de leur condisciples chinois… Le fait que ce document confidentiel nous soit parvenu est, en soi intéressant.

Datée du 15 mai 2011 mais connue à l’étranger depuis quelques jours seulement, une directive du Comité central du Parti communiste chinois donne instruction aux universités chinoises de renforcer la surveillance dont font l’objet les étrangers, étudiants comme enseignants, afin de contrer toute velléité de leur part visant à propager le christianisme.

Révélée le 18 décembre dernier par l’ONG China Aid, basée aux États-Unis, et relayée le jour même par le Washington Post, le document a pour titre « Propositions pour se préparer à contrer l’utilisation par les étrangers de la religion pour infiltrer l’enseignement supérieur et diffuser le christianisme sur le campus ». Long d’une dizaine de pages, présenté comme le « Document 18 », il a été préparé par les instances supervisant les affaires religieuses, la sécurité publique et l’éducation supérieure du gouvernement chinois. China Aid précise que 8 330 copies seulement en ont été imprimées pour être distribuées à un niveau relativement élevé du Parti et des administrations provinciales.

A la lecture de ce document, on comprend que les autorités chinoises estiment que « les étrangers » utilisent les échanges universitaires, les études hors de Chine d’étudiants chinois ainsi que l’enseignement en Chine des langues étrangères ou encore les actions caritatives comme autant d’occasion de « répandre la religion » au sein de la jeunesse chinoise. « L’intensité de l’infiltration va croissant », peut-on lire dans le document qui dénonce l’origine majoritairement « américaine » de cette infiltration. « Vous ne devez pas sous-estimer l’ampleur des dégâts et les effets à long terme d’un tel phénomène et vous devez prendre des mesures coercitives pour y mettre fin », est-il spécifié.

Parmi ces mesures figure un renforcement de l’étude des dossiers de demande de visas pour les étrangers soupçonnés de pénétrer en Chine à des fins religieuses, de même qu’il est demandé de vérifier les éventuels liens que les organisations caritatives ou les ONG entretiennent avec des institutions à caractère religieux. Il est aussi demandé au ministère de l’Éducation de mettre à la disposition des universités une base de données recensant les organisations religieuses actives sur les campus chinois. Au sein des universités, l’administration doit veiller à contrer l’influence que les étrangers peuvent avoir sur les étudiants, en menant « des entretiens approfondis en tête-à-tête » avec ces derniers. Quant aux enseignants et aux étudiants étrangers qui s’entêteraient dans leur prosélytisme, leur expulsion hors de Chine doit intervenir sans délai.

Selon le Washington Post, depuis la diffusion de ce « Document 18 », plusieurs universités, telles l’Université agricole du Nord-Est dans la province du Heilongjiang ou l’Université de Chongqing, ont renforcé leur arsenal réglementaire visant à prévenir les « infiltrations religieuses ». Mais comme l’écrit le quotidien américain, il est difficile de savoir si ces universités ne font que se conformer superficiellement à une directive venue d’en haut ou si elles ont réellement renforcé leur contrôle sur les étrangers présents sur leurs campus.

Selon des statistiques chinoises, 290 000 étudiants étrangers étudient actuellement en Chine (dont 23 000 Américains). Les chiffres manquent quant au nombre de professeurs étrangers mais celui-ci se monte à plusieurs milliers, voire dizaines de milliers. Les universités chinoises ont en effet très largement recours à ce qu’elles appellent des « experts étrangers » qui ont pour mission principale d’enseigner leur langue maternelle aux étudiants. Il est de notoriété publique que ces dernières décennies, à la faveur de l’ouverture de la Chine, des Églises chrétiennes, notamment de la mouvance évangélique et pentecôtiste américaine, ont saisi cette occasion pour envoyer certains de leurs membres sur les campus chinois.

Dans ce « Document 18 », si c’est bien l’expression jidujiao qui est utilisée (laquelle désigne le christianisme en général), la référence aux États-Unis laisse à penser qu’il s’agit essentiellement du protestantisme évangélique ou pentecôtiste, lequel, de fait, se montre particulièrement actif sur les campus universitaires. La présence catholique sur les campus, remarque un ancien « expert étranger », existe bel et bien, mais s’exerce de manière « plus discrète ».

Ce même « expert étranger » estime que le « Document 18 » ne comporte pas en soi d’éléments nouveaux. Depuis bien des années, tout enseignant étranger engagé sur un campus chinois doit signer un contrat par lequel il s’engage à ne pas faire preuve de « prosélytisme ou de toute activité nuisible au peuple chinois ». S’agissant du contenu des enseignements dispensés, cet expert signale que les enseignants étrangers sont amenés à présenter leur culture d’origine, « ce qui, dans le cas des Occidentaux, rend difficile le fait de ne pas expliciter les fondements chrétiens ou judéo-chrétiens de la culture européenne ». Face à des étudiants qui n’ont pour s’informer sur le christianisme, pas d’autres ouvrages dans les bibliothèques universitaires que ceux de la critique marxiste des religions, les enseignants étrangers doivent faire preuve de « créativité pédagogique ».

Interrogé par l’agence UCAnews, des prêtres et des étudiants catholiques chinois relativisent la portée du « Document 18 ». Responsable de la pastorale des jeunes dans un diocèse de Hebei, le P. Joseph [pseudonyme] estime que l’on ne peut attendre autre chose du gouvernement que ce genre de texte. « Mais les autorités devraient réaliser que de nos jours, il est impossible de contrôler les pensées des gens, sauf à revenir à une époque sans télévision ni Internet. » L’écho est le même chez cet étudiant du Zhejiang qui hausse les épaules : « Le régime communiste n’a-t-il pas toujours agi ainsi ? Nous y sommes habitués. » Dans le Shandong, un autre étudiant doute de voir les directives du Comité central appliquées réellement sur le terrain ; un tel document « ne fait que refléter l’immaturité de la politique religieuse du gouvernement », analyse-t-il. Dans le Gansu, un jeune responsable d’un groupe d’étudiants catholiques interroge les véritables intentions du gouvernement : « Selon la loi, tout citoyen âgé de plus de 18 ans est libre de choisir sa religion. Pourquoi alors s’en prendre de manière spécifique aux chrétiens ? C’est de la discrimination antireligieuse dirigée contre les Églises [chrétiennes]. Le gouvernement devrait plutôt produire des documents s’intéressant aux problèmes psychologiques des étudiants et ouvrir les yeux sur les avortements que subissent les étudiantes ou bien sur la fréquence des suicides sur les campus. »

Source : Églises d’Asie

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Les effigies de Marie et de Joseph décapitées à Fréjus

Posted on 29 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

Profanations et vandalismes antichrétiens se poursuivent même pendant le temps de Noël. Dernière en date de ces malfaisances : Fréjus, dans le Var…

Où se niche la bêtise humaine ! Deux santons [ce sont plutôt des effigies], des figurines d’environ un mètre de haut représentant Marie et Joseph, disposés devant l’office de tourisme de Fréjus, ont été décapités durant la nuit de jeudi à vendredi. Personne n’a rien vu, rien entendu. Mais, au matin, toutes les personnes présentes étaient choquées.

Les deux santons, comme une vingtaine d’autres, avaient été installés par l’association de maintenance des traditions La Miougrano de Fréjus. Une démarche qui, chaque année, fait plaisir tant aux croyants qu’à ceux qui ne le sont pas.

Le vice-président de La Miougrano, Gérard Ceppi, était hier particulièrement remonté : « Ces petites figurines de bois, juste avant de perdre leur tête, auront-elles, comme le fit Danton à Samson, le bourreau de la Révolution, demandé : « Montre ma tête au peuple, elle en vaut bien la peine » ? Non, Marie et Joseph n’auront rien demandé, car cette décapitation s’est faite en catimini, dans la honte, loin de toute vue ! »

Et d’évoquer l’âme noire de ceux qui ont pu commettre un tel acte. « Est-ce dans un but de blasphème ? Erreur, le blasphème est un acte de foi. On ne blasphème que ce en quoi l’on croit, le reste, on l’ignore. C’est une ânerie, une bêtise, de la débilité ! J’espère au moins que les auteurs de ce vandalisme aux petits pieds auront pris beaucoup de plaisir à ces décapitations… »

Et Gérard Ceppi de promettre de se remettre au travail pour fabriquer deux nouveaux santons de Marie et Joseph, « afin que, l’année prochaine, ces mêmes abrutis, ou d’autres, puissent assouvir leur incommensurable bêtise et casser pour le plaisir de casser ».

Le curé de Fréjus, le père Matthias Warowny, ne pouvait comprendre un tel geste et estimait que c’était une « regrettable dégradation ». Mais, absent de sa paroisse hier, il préférait connaître tous les détails du dossier avant de faire une déclaration.

Plus prolixe, le père Don Bruno, de Saint-Raphaël, estimait que « ce n’est pas bien. Spontanément, j’aimerais savoir si c’est le vandalisme d’un ado attardé ou un acte contre la religion. En ce moment, le catholicisme est montré du doigt. On peut tout imaginer… »

A Fréjus, on perd parfois la tête. Mais, dans ces conditions, c’est de très mauvais goût. Il restait à espérer que les yeux froids des caméras de surveillance aient pu distinguer les agissements des coupables. Ce ne semblait pas être le cas hier soir.

Source : Var Matin

Posted in Brèves | Tagged Destructions de symboles chrétiens, France (Var) | 6 Comments

Syrie : un entretien vidéo avec Mère Agnès-Mariam de la Croix

Posted on 29 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

 

 

Cette religieuse carmélite est franco-libanaise, mais elle réside depuis dix-huit ans en Syrie où elle a fondé le monastère Saint-Jacques le Mutilé et la Maison d’Antioche. La große presse, surtout la dite française, n’a eu de cesse depuis le début des événements en Syrie et le parler franc de la religieuse de tenter de la discréditer la présentant, ni plus ni moins, comme un agent de la propagande du régime syrien… Mère Agnès-Mariam de la Croix a pourtant un discours apaisé et raisonnable, mais c’est un discours vrai qui dit les choses comme elles sont et non pas comme nous les présentent les médias. Je l’ai moi-même interrogé, avec deux amis complices, pour une séquence d’une cinquantaine de minutes qui sera diffusée dans mon “Libre Journal” sur Radio Courtoisie le jeudi 10 janvier prochain. Je vous propose de la voir et de l’entendre dans un reportage du blogue Le Cercle des Volontaires…

Source : Le Cercle des Volontaires

Posted in Document, Vidéos | Tagged Agnès-Mariam de la Croix (Mère), Cercle des Volontaires (blogue), Syrie | 1 Comment

N’oubliez pas de présenter vos vœux de Noël au Président !

Posted on 29 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

C’est le portail Riposte Catholique qui nous le suggère et nous explique (avec drôlerie et tristesse à la fois) pourquoi il faut le faire. Nous sommes toujours dans l’octave (pour les catholiques, c’est Noël tous les jours depuis le 25 décembre et pendant toute cette semaine). Alors, faites-le : présentez vos vœux de Noël au Président Hollande ! C’est ici…

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Le tweet offensant pour les chrétiens d’un ministre du gouvernement Ayrault

Posted on 29 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

 

Membre du Parti Socialiste et ancien député, Michèle Delaunay est devenue le 16 mai 2012 ministre délégué « chargée des personnes âgées et de l’autonomie » du gouvernement Ayrault. Voici le tweet indigne  qu’elle a rédigé hier après avoir entendu Michel Serres sur France Inter (merci à T. M. !) :

 

Posted in Brèves | Tagged France (gouvernement), Michèle Delaunay (ministre), Offenses contre les chrériens | 30 Comments

Menaces hindouistes contre les chrétiens du Karnataka

Posted on 29 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

 

 

C’est la quarantième agression hindouiste enregistrée contre les chrétiens dans l’État indien du Karnataka ! Mercredi dernier, 26 décembre, le groupe extrémiste hindou Bajrang Dal s’en est pris à la paroisse catholique Stella Maris de Kalmady (district d’Udipi) au motif que le curé de cette paroisse, le Père Alban D’Souza, avait le 8 décembre précédent, jour où les catholiques célèbrent l’Immaculée Conception, apposé sur son église une grande bannière montrant la Vierge Marie sous son titre indien de Notre Dame de Velankanni (de la santé) révérée chez les catholiques locaux en raison d’apparitions depuis le XVIe siècle. La bannière entendait aussi célébrer le 25^ème anniversaire de la fondation d’une chapelle précisément dédiée à Notre Dame de Velankanni, laquelle est visitée régulièrement par des Indiens non chrétiens. Les hindous ont considéré cette image offensante pour leur religion et ont obtenu de la police qu’elle intervienne pour la faire déposer. Ce qui s’est produit…

Source : Asia News

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L’attaque sanglante contre une église de Yobe au Nigéria, est bien imputable au Boko Haram

Posted on 28 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

 

Cela est désormais confirmé par un témoin de cette abomination. Ce sont bien les islamistes du Boko Haram qui ont tué six chrétiens la nuit de Noël à Yobe.

On en sait un peu plus sur l’attaque de l’église de Yobe au Nigeria. Même la féérie de Noël n’a pas pu calmer les ardeurs de la secte islamique Boko Haram, soupçonnée d’avoir perpétré cet attentat au cours de la messe de minuit le 24 décembre.

Un survivant de l’attaque a confirmé au site nigerian Sahara Reporters que les hommes armés qui ont attaqués l’église dans le nord du Nigéria, causant six morts dont le prêtre avant d’incendier le bâtiment, étaient bel et bien de Boko Haram.

 «Nous étions tous réunis dans notre église pour la messe de minuit. Peu après le début de la messe, nous avions entendu des tirs sporadiques à l’intérieur de l’église. Nous étions paniqués et n’avions nulle part où aller. Ils ont encerclés le bâtiment et lorsque nous sortions ils tiraient sur nous. Certains d’entre nous, ont survécu par miracle avec des blessures par balles», rappelle-t-il.

Le témoin qui a été joint par téléphone par Sahara Reporters de l’hôpital où il est actuellement en soins a donné les indications qui lui ont permises de reconnaître la marque Boko Haram.

« Ils criaient Allahou Akbar. Certains d’entre eux parlaient haoussa et arabe, et disaient qu’ils allaient tous nous tuer pour donner l’exemple. Et que tant que nous ne cesserions pas, ils n’arrêteraient pas de nous attaquer et nous tuer. Nous nous sommes cachés dans la brousse, alors que nous entendions les cris des personnes qui ont été pris au piège », explique-t-il.

Source : SlateAfrique

Posted in Brèves | Tagged Assassinats de chrétiens, Boko Haram, Nigeria | 8 Comments

Crèche annulée de Surgères : vers une affaire nationale ?

Posted on 28 décembre 2012 by Daniel Hamiche

 

Le mécontentement est loin de s’apaiser sur la décision ridicule du maire de Surgères – avec, peut-être, l’aval du curé – d’avoir annulé la crèche vivante de Surgères pour déférer à ce qui n’était même pas une exigence de la Fédération de la Libre pensée 17, mais une simple remarque… Un lecteur (merci B. A. !) me signale un nouvel article paru dans Sud Ouest aujourd’hui même, intitulé « Polémique à Surgères : fallait-il interdire la crèche vivante ? ». Le voici…

[sous titre] La décision du maire de Surgères de supprimer la crèche surprend et la position des libres penseurs est critiquée.

« Je suis tombé sur le dos quand j’ai lu ça ! » En vacances dans le Jura, le maire de Châtelaillon, Jean-Louis Léonard, a été surpris, hier, de découvrir dans Sud Ouest la décision de son homologue surgérien, Philippe Guilloteau.

Ce dernier a en effet décidé, samedi dernier, d’annuler la crèche vivante dans sa commune, à la suite d’un courrier des libres penseurs de Charente-Maritime. Ces militants l’interpellaient sur l’organisation « d’un symbole catholique » dans un lieu communal : les halles de la ville.

Or, à Châtelaillon, cela fait six ans que le maire et le curé annoncent en même temps la crèche vivante, devenue un vrai événement dans cette commune, située au sud de La Rochelle. « Près de 500 personnes chaque soir et, plus encore, le dernier soir cette année », confirme le directeur de la station balnéaire, Jean-Christophe Mercorelli.

« Je vous assure que l’on n’a pas 500 personnes qui viennent prier et que le curé ne bénit personne », préfère en sourire Jean-Louis Léonard, assumant son choix. Il reconnaît avoir eu des courriers l’interpellant sur ce mélange des genres. « Je les ai envoyés paître », assure l’ancien député.

Un choix que n’a pas fait son collègue de Surgères « pour éviter la polémique », nous indiquait-il, avant-hier soir, et obtenant semblait-il le résultat inverse. Sur le site Internet, sudouest.fr, ce sujet était parmi les plus lus, et même le plus débattu, hier, par les internautes. Plus de 230 commentaires – très divisés – étaient même postés, la plupart était critique vis-à-vis de la Libre pensée, jugée trop « rigide ».

Pas de quoi rassurer le curé de Surgères, à l’origine de cette idée, qui appelait au calme. « Je respecte cette association des libres penseurs mais je regrette cette issue, observe-t-il simplement. Car cela provoque les extrêmes. »

La crèche vivante était « une proposition du conseil pastoral, visant à impliquer les enfants dans l’organisation de cette crèche », regrette le père Mickaël, arrivé à Surgères il y a trois ans. Près de 120 enfants, qui s’étaient retrouvés, vendredi soir, pour répéter, avaient été réunis par le catéchisme et l’aumônerie. « C’est d’abord dommage pour eux », raconte le prêtre, désireux, comme le maire, de ne pas polémiquer. Et l’homme d’Église de préférer se consoler avec le repas servi le lendemain aux plus pauvres et aux personnes isolées. « Une organisation œcuménique, un vrai Noël, assure le curé. Quand on organise ce genre de manifestation, on n’est pas là pour convertir le public. »

Source : Sud Ouest

Posted in Brèves | Tagged Crèches interdites, France (Charente-Maritime) | 21 Comments

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RACISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA STILL WELL AND ALIVE IN THE ENTIRE WEST! 
ILFORD RECORDER

South Woodford mosque’s expansion appeal thrown out

11:35 16 June 2015

Ajay Nair

Images of South Woodford Mosque which were handed to Redbridge Council

A mosque has suffered further set back in its bid to expand after an appeal was dismissed.

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The appeal against Redbridge Council’s decision, lodged by Liquat Khan of Qurani Murkuz Trust in Mulberry Way, South Woodford, came after the authority rejected plans to demolish the community centre for it to be replaced by a three-storey building.
The proposed building comprised of a prayer room, community hall and four flats on the second floor.
The appeal was turned down by the planning inspectorate on the grounds of the new building’s effect on the character and appearance of the area.
The report on the South Woodford Community Centre Mosque admits the current building “is of no great design merit” and that a new building would be of a “better design”.
It also states: “However, from certain viewpoints looking from the south its bulk and height, combined with its plot coverage, would make it appear over-dominant and intrusive seen in conjunction with the much smaller scale neighbouring residential development.”
The document stated that the Trust’s attempts to scale down plans, by lowering the building’s roof height for instance, were “insufficient”.
It added: “It is concluded that the proposed development would detract from the character and appearance of the surrounding area.”
Despite the report also concluding that the development would not harm neighbours’ living conditions with regards to privacy and quashing concerns about increased traffic as a result of the development, it found that the issue of its effect on the area’s appearance was “decisive”.
Cllr Gwyneth Deakins, who voted against the plans, said: “It’s not about it being a mosque, it would be the same if it was a shop or a block of flats.
“It’s the right decision. Unfortunately, what they wanted was just too big and it was turned down because it was out of proportion.”