Islamist Wave 2013 - Overview & Updates

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Niccolo and Donkey
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Egypt's Salafist al-Nour party wields new influence on post-Morsi coalition

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Angocachi
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51 Brotherhood Demonstrators Shot Dead in Street Massacre - Islamists shooting at and killing regime forces

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/rCvGd7K5HWM

A deadly shooting at the site of a sit-in by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo, demanding the reinstatement of ousted President Mohamed Morsi , has left dozens of people dead.

The Egyptian health ministry said at least 51 people had been killed and more than 300 injured in the incident early on Monday morning.

Egypt's interim administration has expressed "deep regret" for those killed in violence in Cairo on Monday, it said in a statement carried on the state news agency.
The transitional administration also said it had formed a judicial committee to investigate the events. The statement called on protesters not to approach any military or "other vital installations".
Mohamed Mohamed Ibrahim El-Beltagy, a Brotherhood MP, described the incident during dawn prayers after police had stormed the site, as a "massacre".


About 500 people were also reportedly injured.

A doctor told Al Jazeera that "the majority of injured had gunshot wounds to the head".

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Gehad Haddad, a spokesman for Muslim Brotherhood, said that at around 3.30 in the morning, army and police forces started firing at sit-in protesters in front of the Republican

Guard headquarters in Cairo.

“We have people hit in the head, we have bullets that exploded as they entered the body, cluttering organs and body parts” said Haddad.

“Every police force in the world understands how to disperse a sit-in. This is just a criminal activity targeting protesters.”

However, the military, which has set up checkpoints around Nasr City, said a "terrorist group" was responsible, adding that two officer had also been killed.

In a press conference held in Cairo on Monday, Hany Abdel Latif, Egypt's interior ministry spokesman, said that "the Egyptian police is the force of the people. They are operating for all the Egyptian people,

with all their affiliations."

"The Egyptian security forces are working to safeguard the freedom of the Egyptian people following the January 2011 revolution," said Abdel Latif, adding that the police and security apparatus will not

protect any particular regime, not "the former, the existing, or the upcoming".

"The Egyptian police is out of the political equation. It can not be part of any political process in any way, shape or form," said Abdel Latif.

Speaking at the same press conference, military spokesman Ahmed Ali blamed the violence on protesters who attacked the Republican Guard headquarters and defended the actions of the security forces,

saying that the acted in self-defence against armed men attacking them from various locations, including rooftops.


Calls for an 'uprising'


Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called for an "uprising" in the country and asked the "international community to stop the "massacres" in the aftermath of last week's military coup.

The Freedom and Justice Party, the religious group's political arm, demanded "an uprising by the great people of Egypt against those trying to steal their revolution with tanks”.

The party, which had the highest number of seats at the parliament before the coup of last week, urged "the international community and international groups and all the free people of the world to intervene

to stop further massacres [...] and prevent a new Syria in the Arab world."

Dozens have died and more than 1,000 people have been injured in street clashes between supporters and opponents of Morsi in the aftermath of the military coup on Wednesday.

Also on Monday, Egypt closed down the Cairo headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, saying weapons were found inside it.

The latest violence further raised political tensions, even as the country's interim leadership struggled to find a consensus on who should be the prime minister.

The Salafist Nour Party announced it was suspending its participation from talks over new government in protest against Monday's fatal shootings.

Earlier reports said interim president Adly Mansour was leaning toward appointing centre-left lawyer Ziad Bahaa Eldin as prime minister after members of the Nour Party expressed concern at an earlier

suggestion that the job could go to Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei .

But some Nour Party members expressed concern that the candidates had political affiliations.

Younes Makhyoun, Nour's leader, told Reuters news agency: "Both are from the same party, the National Salvation Front, this is rejected. I fear it would be going from one exclusive approach to another,"

referring to accusations that the Brotherhood tried to monopolise power.

Meanwhile, popular Salafist preacher Yaser Borhamy told Al Jazeera that he has nothing against Bahaa eldin, but that he "would rather have someone who does not belong to a political party - a pure

technocrat if such thing exists," said Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid.

She said others from Nour had been seen on local media channels saying they approve of Bahaa Eldin.
AFP reported that the prime minister would be named on Monday, quoting the interim president's adviser.

Nour has agreed to the the army's roadmap for the political transition, giving the military Islamist support for an overthrow rejected by Islamist parties aligned wtih Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.

Unlike Nour, the Muslim Brotherhood has said it would have no part in the military-backed political process.

The army has denied it staged a coup , saying instead it was merely enforcing the will of the people after mass protests on June 30 calling for Morsi's resignation.

The pro-Morsi camp is refusing to budge until its leader is restored, and Egyptian state TV reports that some of the 200 supporters of Morsi arrested earlier on Monday have been released.
Longface

There is no such thing as a bastard in Islam. A Muslim's son is an equal free Muslim and every man will try to get as many as he can. That's why many kings and generals were half-arab through the first Fatehs(Tarik ibn Ziyad as an ex).

Regardless of its effect on women after paganism, Islam is terrible. It's preposterous to consider a religion that allows fathers to marry their pre-pubescent daughters to old men as good for women. Nevertheless the husband is allowed to have sex with the child, save fucking her will cause physical damage.

The statement that Niqab is utilised to protect people from adultry, desire...etc is false since only Muslim women were allowed to wear it. Even Omar beat up a slave for wearing hijab, and all his slaves were bare breasted (the Awra of a slave is from the navel to the knees). Niqab is only a way for Muslims to control and protect their women.

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The State Department’s Arabic outreach team spoofed an al-Qaeda video


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/qiUL17zX3D0

In the war for Middle Eastern hearts and minds, the U.S. Digital Outreach Team is on the virtual front lines: debating America’s critics on Twitter, commenting on Arabic message boards and generally engaging with anyone they can reach. But that outreach appears to have crossed a new line: spoofing al-Qaeda propaganda videos on an official State Department YouTube channel .

The above video, published in late May, shows al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri delivering a speech to “Muslim brothers everywhere.” But from the opening title, it’s clear something’s a little off: “Alert! It is best to consume carbonated beverages with this material,” it says, according to a translation for The Washington Post by Jennifer Tobkin , an Arabic language specialist at George Washington University. An edited voiceover, meant to sound like al-Zawahiri, then says:
Greetings, Muslim brothers everywhere and especially in Syria. In spite of all the unrest and my jihad duties in the lines of conflict and on the battlefield, [I am] far from Syria. (clears throat) Nevertheless, I wanted to speak to you today to clarify a very important matter that affects your lives and how we will control your destiny, uhhh, I mean your future, especially since today al-Qaeda has the opportunity to take the banner of oppression, tyranny, and killing from Bashar al-Assad … ​
It gets weirder from there: A somewhat clunky montage shows brightly garbed dancers spinning in front of Zawahiri. A closing credit asks viewers to follow the Engagement Team on Facebook , where they post translated press releases, crude Photoshopped illustrations of Zawahiri and other militants and — inexplicably — a photo of the 8-year-old Boston bombing victim Martin Richard, which prompted a long exchange about the impact of American policy on children in the Muslim world. A press officer confirmed that all of these accounts do, in fact, belong to the State Department.
The Digital Outreach Team is fairly transparent about its activities — as evidenced by that closing credit. According to an Associated Press article from April, a month before the Zawahiri spoof went online, the team consists of roughly 50 native Arabic, Punjabi, Somali and Urdu speakers. It’s grown considerably since January 2009, when a State Department bulletin listed only 10 team members; it’s been around, per the bulletin, since November 2006.
The team runs Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channels, and it tangles with commenters on popular Arab news and discussion sites, always identifying themselves as State Department employees and using their real names. In 2012, they had 7,000 online engagements, reports the AP, up from 2,000 in 2009. The idea is to “explain U.S. foreign policy and to counter misinformation” through the power of Diplomacy 2.0, says the State Department bulletin.
The program’s success is difficult to gauge. A 2012 study of the program, published in The Middle East Journal, concluded that engagement did little to change the tone of anti-American conversations. In a sample of several hundred forum posts, users were more likely to ridicule or refute the Outreach Team than engage with it. Only 4 percent of posts expressed positive views of the team, and a sliver more — 4.8 percent — expressed positive views toward U.S. foreign policy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...abic-outreach-team-spoofed-an-al-qaeda-video/

Beirut bombing targets Hezbollah and its Syrian mission


A car bomb exploded in the Hezbollah -controlled southern suburbs of Beirut today in a further indication that Syria ’s civil war is bleeding across the border into Lebanon and stoking already strained relations between Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites.

More than 50 people were wounded when the bomb packed inside a Renault Rapide van exploded mid-morning in the bustling Bir al-Abed neighborhood of southern Beirut. While the attack was roundly condemned across the political spectrum in Lebanon and there was no immediate claim of responsibility, some Hezbollah opponents insinuated that it was a result of the Shiite group's role in Syria, fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad 's regime against the rebels.
Saad Hariri, a Sunni leader and former Lebanese prime minister, urged Lebanese to avoid "being lured into wars that will only bring more schism to Lebanon."
The bomb – estimated by Hezbollah sources at 66 pounds of explosive – smashed glass for several blocks and cracked walls in nearby tower blocks. The explosion, which was heard across much of Beirut, set alight several vehicles and sent thick black clouds of smoke billowing into the air.

"I was on my way to work when I heard a loud explosion in the next street," says Ali Qanso, owner of a cafe. "We knew this was coming. We expect more bombs. We are in a war."
Hezbollah gunmen and Lebanese troops quickly cordoned off the scene while firemen doused the flames and police prepared to examine the six-foot-deep crater. Curious sightseers stepped gingerly across the slippery carpet of shattered glass on the pavements and streets.
“A return to such acts is a reminder of the black days experienced by the Lebanese in the past,” Michel Suleiman, the Lebanese president, said in a statement.
Ali Ammar, a Hezbollah parliamentarian, said that the bombing was conducted by supporters of the “American-Zionist project.” He said the attack bore ”Israeli fingerprints.”
Intentions unclear

It is the first car bombing in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut since 2004, when a Hezbollah military official was killed in an attack believed to have been carried out by Israel.
Beirut’s southern suburbs are densely populated and consist of tall apartment blocks and narrow streets often teeming with pedestrians. But the placing of the bomb in a relatively large car park off the main road rather than parking it on the side of a busy street may have been an attempt by the perpetrators to minimize casualties. Local Hezbollah men on the scene of the blast theorized initially that the bomb was intended to serve as a warning rather than to reap a large number of casualties. There were no fatalities and the majority of injuries were from flying glass.

On the other hand, a well-placed security source said that a second car bomb was discovered in the vicinity of the explosion and was safely defused by the Lebanese army. It was not possible to immediately corroborate the information, but if confirmed it would suggest the first bomb may have been intended to draw a crowd which would then have fallen victim to a second car bomb.
Anticipation of a car bomb attack in southern Beirut has been running high for months. At night, Hezbollah personnel routinely mount small checkpoints to monitor traffic, and patrol the streets in the early hours of the morning with bomb-sniffing dogs. Hezbollah also conducted a census last year of all Syrians living in southern Beirut, checking their identities, places of employment, home addresses in Beirut, and where they live in Syria.
Preserving the 'axis of resistance'

Hezbollah’s combat role in Syria burst into the open in May, when the party led a 17-day assault against the rebel-held town of Qusayr five miles north of the border with Lebanon. Since the town was taken on June 5, Hezbollah has deployed alongside Syrian troops in Homs and areas near Damascus.
The Assad regime is a key ally of Hezbollah and Iran, forging an “axis of resistance” to confront Western and Israeli interests in the Middle East . Hezbollah justifies its intervention in Syria on the basis that Israel and the West are using radical Sunni militants to topple the Assad regime and weaken the partnership. Hezbollah’s leadership has warned that if Assad falls, Lebanon would be at risk from “Takfiri” Sunni militants who view as apostates anyone that does not share their austere interpretation of Islam.
Still, Hezbollah’s role in Syria has stirred tensions in Lebanon, much more so than the hundreds of Lebanese Sunnis who have joined the ranks of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) or actively support the rebels in a logistical capacity. Lebanese Sunni resentment against Hezbollah has been on the rise for several years due to the Shiite party's political influence, backed by its formidable military might. That resentment has been greatly exacerbated by the sectarian dynamics of the Syrian civil war.
The FSA has condemned Hezbollah’s intervention in Syria and repeatedly threatened to attack the party in Lebanon. Although Louay Mokdad, a spokesman for the FSA, told Lebanon’s An Nahar newspaper that the rebels condemned the Bir al-Abed car bomb explosion, he also said that the Assad regime and Hezbollah leadership were “directly or indirectly” responsible.
Mainly Sunni opponents of Hezbollah also argue that by taking a role in Syria, Hezbollah risks allowing the Syrian conflict to spread into Lebanon. Syrian rebel groups have repeatedly fired rockets into Shiite-populated areas of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon as recently as yesterday, when two Katyusha rockets struck an area near the town of Hermel. Suspected Hezbollah militants also have been targeted by roadside bombs in at least three separate incidents in the Bekaa Valley and earlier this week, two Lebanese soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded while they were investigating an earlier blast that was thought to have targeted a Hezbollah vehicle.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Midd...bing-targets-Hezbollah-and-its-Syrian-mission

The numbers of women who convert to Islam is testament enough that it's better for them. That Arab Muslim women approve of Sharia in equal proportion to Arab Muslim men is yet another testament.
Niccolo and Donkey
Mike
I find it hard to wrap my head around this. Let me get this straight: The US State Dep't is keeping fifty individuals with valuable foreign language skills on the payroll to do what... cobble together 4chan-style spoof videos, and engage in idle Internet chitchat with random strangers whose opinions are already hardened - identifying themselves as US gov't employees no less? I have to assume that part of the job of these guys is collecting intelligence, though it's hard to see how that is being accomplished here.
Longface
The growth of muslims in Europe is due to higher birth rates. There are more apostates than converts, and most converts leave the religion within few years. More than 200,000 muslims left Islam in the UK, about 2 million in Russia, and about 6 millions every year in Sub-Saharan Africa.

http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-co...slam-in-uk-theres-also-apostates-2646584.html
http://zeenews.india.com/Zee-Exclusive/2007-02-06/352375news.html
http://www.webcitation.org/query?ur.../story/139/story_13903_1.html&date=2011-09-18
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=356823#356823
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/05/six_million_african_muslims_le.html
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=513
Angocachi
Longface

These websites are silly 'Obama is a Muslim' sites.

But we weren't talking about conversion rates or the growth of Islam. I only cited its appeal to non-Muslim women and the support Arab Muslim women show for Sharia as a proof that women exposed to the religion generally give it a thumbs up rather than claim it oppressing. It's Femen types and gay Westerners who insist it is 'bad for women' because they can't ride the dick parade and turn slut into a term of endearment.
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Angocachi
The State Department is paying Muslims to troll the internet. Perhaps rogues states are paying white men to troll on their behalf.