Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Surprise, surprise: Lockerbie bomber disappears

When the craven dhimmi Brits freed him for oil, they should have seen this coming a mile off. "Mystery as Lockerbie bomber goes missing from home and hospital," by Martin Fletcher, Tim Reid and Angus Macleod in The Times, December 16
The Lockerbie bomber appeared to have gone missing last night after he could not be reached at his home or in hospital.

Libyan officials could say nothing about the whereabouts of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, and his Scottish monitors could not contact him by telephone. They will try again to speak to him today but if they fail to reach him, the Scottish Government could face a new crisis.

Under the terms of his release from jail, the bomber cannot change his address or leave Tripoli, and must keep in regular communication with East Renfrewshire Council.

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic and relatives of the 270 people who died in the 1988 bombing expressed anger about al-Megrahi's disappearance. Richard Baker, Labour's justice spokesman in the Scottish Parliament, said the whole affair was turning into a shambles and putting Scotland's reputation at risk. "This flags up just how ludicrous it is that East Renfrewshire Council, a local council thousands of miles away from Libya, is responsible for supervising al-Megrahi's conditions of licence," he said....

Relatives of the victims were furious in August when Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, released al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds because he was expected to die of prostate cancer within three months.

On Sunday evening The Times called at the bomber's home in suburban Tripoli. A policeman sitting on a plastic chair outside was asked to deliver a message to al-Megrahi. He spoke no English, but indicated that al-Megrahi was not there.

The next day The Times visited the Tripoli Medical Centre where al-Megrahi was treated soon after his return to Libya. The receptionists said that he had left the hospital some time ago.

Back at al-Megrahi's home, there was no sign of activity. One of three security officers sitting in a grey Mercedes car outside said: "They've all gone." He refused to elaborate.

Alerted by The Times, Jonathan Hinds of East Renfrewshire Council tried to telephone al-Megrahi at his home yesterday. He spoke to a Libyan man who said al-Megrahi was too ill to speak to him.

Mr Hinds has called al-Megrahi every other Tuesday since August, and has always been able to speak to him. Yesterday was not one of the regular Tuesdays, so al-Megrahi would not have been expecting a call.

"We will continue to attempt to call Mr Megrahi tomorrow and will then consider the situation," a council spokesman said. If there were grounds for suspecting al-Megrahi was breaching the terms of his release, "we would report that to the Scottish Government and it would be up to them to decide what action to take"....

Even so, Bill Aitken, the Scottish Conservative justice spokesman, called for an immediate investigation.

He said: "This is outrageous and there will be intense anger that Britain's biggest mass murderer appears to be able to disappear."...

Uh, yeah.

With thanks to JihadWatch




Monday, October 26, 2009

Scottish police review Lockerbie case

SCOTTISH police are re-examining the evidence surrounding the 1988 Lockerbie bombing as they seek new suspects in connection with the attack that killed 270 people.

They said detectives are reviewing the case to establish who might have acted with Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

The former Libyan agent was freed from a Scottish jail on compassionate release in August after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He insists he is innocent but dropped his appeal against conviction prior to his release.

"Now that Mr Megrahi has decided to abandon his appeal against conviction, a further review of the case is under way in respect of others who acted with him in the murder of 270 people," said Patrick Shearer, chief of Dumfries and Galloway Police.

He added: "The work that is being undertaken is the latest in a series of reviews which have formed part of an investigative strategy in keeping with our determination to pursue every possible lead."

Megrahi, 57, was convicted in January 2001 at an extraordinary Scottish court convened in the Netherlands, but has always maintained his innocence.

His release and return to Libya was strongly opposed by the United States, where many of the victims had lived.

A spokeswoman for the Crown Office prosecuting authority in Scotland said there was “no question” of re-opening the case against him.

"The open case concerns only the involvement of others with Megrahi in the murder of 270 people and the Crown will continue to pursue such lines of inquiry that become available," she said.

"The trial court accepted the Crown's position that Mr Megrahi acted in furtherance of the Libyan intelligence services and did not act alone."

Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the BBC the investigation "was not formally closed and that's why it's wholly appropriate if there are grounds for taking new steps, that they should be taken."

The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported that four detectives were now working full-time on the case to follow up any new potential leads.

Jean Berkley, whose 29-year-old son Alistair died in the attack as he flew to New York to see his parents for the Christmas holidays, welcomed the news.

"It has to be encouraging that there is some kind of taking a fresh look,” the 79-year-old told AFP, adding: “We have to try to keep them to that."

Despite this, she and other relatives continue to demand a full public inquiry into who planned the bombing and why, and put this request to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a letter on Friday.

"We are still calling for an inquiry because there seem to be so many unanswered questions," Berkley said.

However, a spokesman for Brown's Downing Street office said: "It is our belief that nothing can be gained from a public inquiry."




Monday, September 21, 2009

Lockerbie Bomber's Online 'Appeal' Condemned by Scottish Officials

The Lockerbie bomber’s online publication of legal documents that he says clear his name has been condemned by Scotland’s law chief as well as victims’ families.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was released last month from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, has set up a Web site detailing an abandoned attempt to appeal his conviction for the 1988 bombing of Pan AM flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Scotland’s Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini on Sunday deplored the move, accusing al-Megrahi of seeking a "retrial by media." And the mother of one of the victims described it as an "unnerving" act of propaganda.

Al-Megrahi has always protested his innocence over the bombing that killing 270 people — mostly Americans.

He abandoned a second appeal against his conviction when the Scottish government allowed him to return to Libya after he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer.

Click here to read more on this story from the Times of London.

Source: FoxNews




Friday, September 18, 2009

Anti-Muslim extremists plan Scots protest

By David Leask
ANTI-MUSLIM extremists linked with serious unrest in England are planning a major demonstration in Glasgow, it has emerged.

The English Defence League (EDF) aims to take to the streets of Scotland's biggest city on Saturday, 14 November, sparking major safety concerns among police and council insiders.

The organisation, which denies it is racist and insists it is only against Islamic militants rather than all Muslims, has set up a wing north of the Border called the Scottish Defence League.

An EDF rally in Birmingham erupted into violence this summer, prompting scores of arrests. Supporters are understood to have links with far-right groups and football hooligans. Some have been seen making Nazi salutes.

Communities Secretary John Denham this month raised fears of a return to 1930s fascism when he compared some far-right groups to Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts. The Scotsman understands that the EDF – or its purported Scottish wing – has still to ask for permission to march through Glasgow.

A spokesman for Glasgow City Council yesterday said "any application would be considered". However, senior officials at the authority, which has the power to ban marches on police safety advice, would be keen to block any demonstration that is deemed likely to lead to violence.

Strathclyde Police were unavailable for comment last night.

Some city leaders fear that the EDF could spark counter-demonstrations from Glasgow's still highly mobilised left groups and from city Islamists.

"We think these guys (the EDF] want to see pictures of people in Union Jack T-shirts with blood on their heads," said one.

"We are not going to let that happen in Glasgow.

"If they are coming up here looking for a fight – there is no way they are going to get it. The police know how to deal with these guys."

The Glasgow demonstration was announced on the Facebook website this week. Some 132 people have already said they will attend.

The time and place of the rally have still to be settled. Any attempt to approach sensitive areas, such as Glasgow Central Mosque, would present serious public safety problems, city insiders confirmed to The Scotsman.

EDF supporters south of the Border have been seen parading with placards against the building of new mosques.

The Scottish Islamic Foundation yesterday said it would be organising a public meeting within the next seven days to work out how it should respond to extreme anti-Islamic groups crossing the border.

The group's chairman, Asif Ahmed, said: "This is time for Scotland to once again show we will not be divided by extremists. We have faced worse and come through it.

"The last time Glasgow was tested was at the 2007 airport attack. What we saw then was all strands of society coming together for a remarkable show of solidarity in George Square.

"We'll be working again to make sure that the numbers peacefully opposing extremism will far outstrip that of the haters."

Manchester City Council has sought help from the Home Office to find ways of banning an EDF march scheduled for its streets next month.

H/T Gramfan




Saturday, September 5, 2009

British government admits trade a factor in Megrahi release

TRADE deals with Libya played a "very big part" in Britain's decision to include the Lockerbie bomber in a prisoner transfer deal with Tripoli, a Government minister acknowledged in an interview.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper that trade and an oil exploration deal between BP and Libya were factors in deciding whether to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi eligible for transfer to a prison back home.

However, his spokesman insisted Megrahi's release was not agreed because any possible transfer was always subject to a veto by the Scottish authorities.

Asked if trade and oil were part of the discussions, Straw said: "Yes, a very big part of that. I'm unapologetic about that... Libya was a rogue state. We wanted to bring it back into the fold.

"And yes, that included trade because trade is an essential part of it and subsequently there was the BP deal."

Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of a plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie which killed 270 people, was released last month on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill.

Scotland rejected a prison transfer for Megrahi. Yet London has been forced to deny allegations that it struck a deal with Libya to free him in return for improved trade ties.

Documents released this week show Mr Straw initially opposed including Megrahi in the prison transfer agreement due to opposition from Scotland - but changed his mind, citing "wider negotiations" with Tripoli.

At the time, talks on the ratification of a huge oil deal between BP and Libya had become bogged down.

The $US900 million ($1.07 billion) deal was ratified in January 2008 shortly after Mr Straw's change of mind.

Libyan Foreign Minister Musa Kusa said in an interview that trade had nothing to do with Megrahi's release.

"You should not do an injustice to the British government," he told The Times from Tripoli.

"It was nothing to do with trade. If we wished to bargain we would have done it a long time ago."

BP said on Friday it had lobbied Britain to speed up the agreement with Libya to improve business relations, but denied pressing for Megrahi to be released.

Source: The Australian





Saturday, August 29, 2009

Lockerbie bomber backs call for inquiry

Lockerbie
August 29

THE man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people said he would co-operate with a fresh public inquiry and provide documents he has.

Former Libyan agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the bombing, told Scotland's Herald daily the victims' families deserved to know the truth about Pan Am flight 103, which crashed into the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988.

Scotland freed Megrahi, 57, last week on compassionate grounds after eight years in jail because he is dying of cancer.

His release, and his rapturous reception on his return to Tripoli, has dismayed the US Government which lost 189 citizens in the bombing.

"I support the issue of a public inquiry if it can be agreed," Megrahi told the newspaper.

"In my view, it is unfair to the victims' families that this has not been heard. It would help them to know the truth. As I said, the truth never dies.

"If the UK guaranteed it, I would be very supportive. I would want to help Dr Swire and the others with the documents I hold." Read more here ...





Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Compassion for a Mass Murderer
This week, it was Scotland's turn to shame the West.

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By Dennis Prager

Whenever I think that some Western country or institution has reached a low point, shortly thereafter, sometimes the very next week, another Western government or institution proves me too optimistic.

Last week, it was the news that the Yale University Press will not allow any picture of Muhammad to appear in its forthcoming book on the Muhammad cartoons controversy. Not only will Yale not print the cartoons that are the subject of the book, Yale will not print any picture of Muhammad, no matter how respectful, no matter that a believing Muslim drew it, and no matter how long ago it was drawn.

This week, it was Scotland's turn to shame Western civilization. And though it seemed impossible to outdo Yale, Scotland has.

The Scottish government released Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the one person convicted in the mass murder of 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988.

As the Chicago Tribune noted in an editorial appropriately titled "Scotland's Shame," at al-Megrahi's 2001 trial, the Scottish prosecutor pointed out that "four hundred parents lost a child, 46 parents lost their only child, 65 women were widowed, 11 men lost their wives, 140 lost a parent, seven lost both parents." Read more ...

Source: FPM

Monday, August 24, 2009

Scottish Govt may topple over Lockerbie bomber

PanAm 103

By Barbara Miller

The Government of Scotland could fall as a result of its decision to free the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

First Minister Alex Salmond has confirmed he will resign if he loses a no-confidence motion called over the move.

The hero's welcome given to Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi on his arrival back in Libya has infuriated the United States, with the FBI, top military brass and President Barack Obama all joining in the criticism.

And there are political knock-on effects south of the Scottish border too.

There have been widespread accusations that the release was linked to trade ties between the UK and Libya.

Of the 270 people killed when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie 21 years ago, 189 of them were American.

And since Megrahi walked free last week the US has voiced its displeasure over the move in the strongest terms.

Top US military commander Admiral Mike Mullen says he is appalled by what he called a political decision. Read more here ...

Source: ABC Online





Friday, August 21, 2009

Barack Obama condemns Lockerbie Bomber's release

Al-Megrahi arrives in Libya to a hero's reception next to Colonel Gaddafi's son
By Ben Bailey

President Barack Obama led the US in voicing condemnation over the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.

Mr Obama said the decision by the Scottish Government was a "mistake" and called on Libya to immediately place Megrahi under house arrest in his home country.

His comments reflected the anger held by many American families who lost loved ones in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Of the 270 victims of the terrorist attack, 189 were from the US.

The release of the man convicted over the atrocity yesterday was met by disbelief by some in America.

Many could not understand how the Scottish justice system could show compassion for Megrahi, freeing him to live out the remaining weeks of his life in his homeland.

Susan Cohen, of New Jersey, who lost her 20-year-old daughter, Theodora, in the bombing, said: "I think it's appalling, disgusting and so sickening I can hardly find words to describe it."

Likewise Kara Weipz, also of New Jersey found it difficult to contain her anger. Her 20-year-old brother Richard Monetti was among the American victims.

"I don't understand how the Scots can show compassion. It is an utter insult and utterly disgusting," Ms Weipz said.

Cable news channels showed footage of Megrahi's homecoming in Libya, complete with cheering crowds, in a move that further angered those who lost loved ones.

Criticism of the Scottish decision came from the highest level. Read more ...

Source: The Evening Standard

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Muammar Gaddafi’s New York visit angers families of Lockerbie victims

PanAm 103
The nose section of the Pan Am Boeing 747 in a field at Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988
after it was blown apart while flying from London to New York.
Two hundred and seventy lives were lost

Families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have expressed shock and outrage that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, is to visit New York, the destination of the doomed Pan Am Flight 103.

The UN has disclosed that Colonel Gaddafi, who is blamed for the bombing of the aircraft in 1988 and loss of 270 lives, will address the 192-nation General Assembly in New York.

The newly released UN schedule calls for Colonel Gaddafi to speak directly after President Obama on the opening day of the annual session on September 23, raising the prospect of a second encounter between the two.

The trip will be Colonel Gaddafi’s first visit to the US after decades of conflict between Washington and Tripoli and 11 years of UN sanctions on Libya. It follows his recent rehabilitation on the international scene, which culminated in a 40-minute meeting with Gordon Brown and a handshake with Mr Obama at the G8 summit in Italy this month. Read more here...

Source: Times Online



Sunday, March 1, 2009

Scottish forces ordered to give priority to crimes against Muslims

Newspaper
Scottish Daily Mail 28-02-09
By Dean Herbert

Police in Scotland have been ordered to give special priority to crimes where the victims are Muslim.

In a move that last night sparked a fresh row over political correctness, a senior officer revealed that the race and religion of a victim has now become a crucial factor in how police respond to crime.

Inspector Tom Galbraith, of Lothian and Borders Police’s diversity unit, told a conference on tackling terrorism that it was important to stop Scottish Muslims feeling “vulnerable” in case they were driven towards radicalism.

Mr. Galbraith said the force encouraged officers to consider the religious or ethnic backgrounds of victims to assess their needs in dealing with hate crimes.

He said that both an attack and a perceived lack of action by police could turn Islamic youths into future terrorists.

Mr. Galbraith also revealed that police officers, Special Branch and BAA security staff were being given special lessons about Islamic culture after Muslims complained that being questioned when entering the country about whether they pray and attend mosques was offensive to their faith. Read more ...

Source: The Frozen North

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Imams to help police in bid to keep young Muslims away from gang culture

Imams
By David Leask

A NEW weapon will be unveiled this week in the war on teenage gangs: Muslim Imams.
Scotland on Sunday can reveal that several Islamic clerics will join police and youth workers in an innovative new scheme to wean young Muslims away from trouble.

The Imams – most Scottish-born – will take to the streets starting this week, target

ing a dozen teenagers believed to be on the edge of the embryonic Asian gang culture on Glasgow's Southside.

Their allies, including workers from Youth Counselling Services Agency (YCSA), a support group for young Asians, reckon the clerics will be able to command more respect from youngsters than other professionals, including the police.

They will launch their programme just days after the first serious youth disorder in Pollokshields, home to Scotland's biggest Muslim community, since last summer. Four Asians – three young men and a youth – were last week charged with assault after an alleged attack on white men when a snowball fight reportedly escalated into serious violence. Read more ...

Source: Scotsman

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Scottish Islamic Foundation tightens stranglehold over Scottish Muslims

Scotland
By Ibn al-Waleed

In the last year the Scottish Islamic Foundation has made great strides towards becoming the Scottish version of the Muslim Council of Britain – albeit inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood rather than Jamaat-e-Islami.

Osama Saeed, the SIF’s founder, has so far persuaded the Scottish National Party to give the group almost £400,000 of public funds. In return, Saeed has promised the SNP that – given enough money – he can persuade Scottish Muslims to embrace Scottish Nationalism and turn their backs on Labour – the traditional recipient of Scottish Muslims’ votes.

What the Scottish government may have overlooked is that Osama Saeed, a former member of the Muslim Association of Britain, is a committed Muslim Brotherhood activist who will shamelessly use public money to promote his own bigoted form of Islamism. Read more ...

Source: Harry's Place

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Scotland: Scouts adopt Islamic pledge

Scotland
Boy Scouts in Dundee will be able to pledge allegiance to ‘Allah’ and drop the traditional oath to God and Queen, says the Scout Association in Scotland.

The Association has given its backing to starting Dundee’s 45th troop which will specifically target Muslim boys.

In the oath Muslim recruits will be able to replace the name ‘God’ with “Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful”, and pledge to honour “the country in which I am now living” instead of the Queen.

The Scout Association is already open to all faiths and Muslim boys are currently part of existing troops, but according to the Association they are aware of some who might be opposed to the traditional pledge. Read more ...

Source: The Christian Institute

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Doctor guilty of Glasgow airport attack

Scotland
Wednesday December 17, 2008

A 29-year-old Iraqi doctor has been found guilty by a London court of trying to murder hundreds of people in failed attacks on a London nightclub and Glasgow airport last year.

Bilal Abdulla was also found guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions while his co-defendant Mohammed Asha, 28-year-old Jordanian neurologist was found not guilty of both offences.


Police discovered two Mercedes-Benz cars loaded with gas cylinders petrol and nails outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub off London's Piccadilly Circus on June 29 last year.

The next day a Jeep carrying a similar deadly cargo was crashed into the front of the main terminal at Glasgow airport in Scotland in an apparent suicide attack.

The failed attacks in the UK led to Mohammed Haneef a 27-year-old Indian doctor being arrested at Brisbane airport about to fly to India and a controversial case that finally collapsed and saw the doctor released.

Source: SkyNews Online

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Friday, November 21, 2008

All inmates eat halal chicken in Scots jail - because 7 of them are Muslims

Polmont Jail
Polmont Jail: Risk of pandering to political correctness
By Rod Mills

PRISON chiefs are defying an official report and serving halal meat to an entire young offenders institute to avoid upsetting a handful of Muslim inmates.

Managers at Polmont run the risk of being accused of pandering to political correctness. It is thought they are buying in chicken from a halal supplier to avoid being accused of religious discrimination.

But the chickens – which have their throats cut to satisfy Islamic law – are required by only seven young men.

Last year a report by Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons forced bosses to cut back on sourcing all of its meat from halal butchers due to the small numbers of Muslims. Read more ...

Source: Daily Express

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Court mulls releasing Lockerbie bomber

Lockerbie
November 06, 2008

LOCKERBIE, Scotland: A court will consider tomorrow whether to release the Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing on bail because he has cancer.

The hearing has been scheduled after a lawyer for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet Al-Megrahi, 56 - behind bars for downing a transatlantic airliner over Scotland in 1988 killing 270 people - said Al-Megrahi has advanced prostate cancer.

The Crown Office, which handles prosecutions in Scotland, confirmed the hearing but made no further comment. Such applications are usually decided on the day, but a spokesman declined to speculate on when a ruling could be made.


Al-Megrahi is serving life with a minimum term of 27 years in a Scottish prison for blowing up Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on the night of December 21, 1998.

His lawyers have applied for his release on bail pending an appeal, which is not expected until next year.

The father of one of the victims, who has criticised the slow appeals process, backed Al-Megrahi's provisional release.

“The man has reportedly got months to live,” said Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the bombing and who became a spokesman for the Lockerbie victims' families in the years following the tragedy.

“My personal feelings are that to force him to remain segregated from his family and his five children for the short remaining time that he may have before him would amount to exquisite torture,” he told the BBC last week.

Source: The Australian

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

House of Lords challenges Sharia law

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THE HOUSE of Lords on Friday described the Islamic legal code Sharia as ’wholly incompatible’ with human rights legislation, a comment that could spark an outcry among Muslims in the United Kingdom.

The Upper House of the British Parliament has drawn sharp attention to the conflict between Sharia and the UK law, calling the Islamic legal code ’wholly incompatible’ with human rights legislation.

The controversial remarks came amidst a debate in Britain over the appropriateness of incorporating Sharia courts into the UK’s legal system, a move advocated by figures including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams and Lords Phillips, the new senior Law Lord.

The comments in the House of Lords came today as it considered the case of a woman who, if she was sent back to Lebanon, would be obliged under Sharia law to hand over custody of her 12-year-old son to a man who beat her, threw her off a balcony and on one occasion, attempted to strangle her.

The woman was seeking asylum in the UK to avoid the provisions of Sharia law that give fathers or other male family members the exclusive custody of children over seven.

In the most high-profile UK criticism of the family law provisions of Sharia law so far, the Lords stated that these provisions breached the mother’s rights to family life and the right against discrimination and were severely disruptive to the child.

The minister for community cohesion, Sadiq Khan, a Muslim said recently that Sharia courts risked entrenching unequal bargaining power between the sexes.

Sharia courts have been delivering judgements in the UK since last year and currently operate in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry and Manchester, with plans to expand into Scotland.

Source: Merinews

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

UK Muslims stage protest over being questioned at airports

Passport
Protesters accuse the authorities
of "psychological torture"
By Robert Spencer

"Psychological torture." Come on. If these demonstrators had any concern at all for preventing another terrorist attack in the U.K., they would accept the inconvenience of questioning as the price of preserving British society. I myself am often singled out for extra screening, and while it can be annoying, I would never term it "psychological torture" -- I am glad to see security personnel doing their jobs.

And then Mohammad Asif affects high dudgeon at Afghans being asked to become "informers and spies"! You would think that he and the people he represents would be honored at being asked to join the war effort against those they themselves would call hijackers of their religion. I am about to go out to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I know what I will find there: large numbers of angry Muslims pretending that I am fabricating the jihad terror threat and the textual grounds within the Qur'an and other Islamic texts that jihadists point to in order to justify their actions. They will loudly complain about the bare suggestion that some Muslims might be waging a jihad against the West. But ask them to join, then, in the defense of the West, and they'd be as outraged as these protesters in Scotland. Read more ...

Source: Jihad Watch

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Row over £215k 'terror-link' festival

Mohammed Sawalha
Sawalha is alleged to have links to terrorist group Hamas
By Iain Harrison

Alex Salmond agreed to hand over £215,000 for an Islamic festival in Scotland following a meeting with a former military commander of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Documents obtained by The Sunday Times reveal Salmond approved the grant following the meeting between culture minister Linda Fabiani and Mohammed Sawalha, who is alleged to have directed terror operations in the West Bank.

The meeting, in January, was also attended by Osama Saeed, founder of the Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF) and an SNP activist who is expected to contest the Glasgow Central seat at the next Westminster election. Sawalha was invited to take part in the meeting to discuss the funding of IslamFest in Glasgow next year.
Scotland
The event, being organised by the SIF, is modelled on London’s IslamExpo, run by Sawalha. IslamExpo was boycotted by UK ministers earlier this year because of its links to Hamas.

The £215,000 Scottish government grant for the Islamic festival was given to the SIF, which has so far received £415,000 of taxpayers’ money. Sawalha, president of the British Muslim Initiative, was named in US court documents as a leading militant in the early 1990s “in charge of Hamas terrorist operations within the West Bank”.

The documents alleged he met two “conspirators” accused of laundering millions of dollars to finance the group’s activities. In 2006, the BBC’s Panorama accused him of directing funds to Hamas’s armed wing. Read more ...

Source: The Sunday Times
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