— AP/CBS: “Men were Cooperating with Government Authorities in South-Central Afghanistan”
— “Police say militants have beheaded six Afghans for cooperating with government authorities.”
— “Juma Gul Hamit, police chief of Uruzgan province in south-central Afghanistan, says the men were beheaded Thursday near the provincial capital of Tarin Kot.”
— “Hamit defended the victims, saying they were not involved in any anti-government activities.”
Category: Bin Ladenism
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Afghanistan: Extremist Taliban Take Credit for Suicide Bombing Against Americans
— Voice of America reports: “Taliban militants are taking credit for separate attacks that killed eight Americans and one Afghan inside a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, as well as four Canadian soldiers and a journalist in the south.”
— “The Taliban said the suicide attack in eastern Khost province Wednesday was carried out by a man wearing an Afghan national army officer’s uniform. He was able to detonate an explosive vest near the base’s gym.”
— New York Daily News reports: “The attack marks the worst loss of life for the U.S. in Afghanistan since October.”
— “The Taliban also took responsibility for a roadside bomb that left four Canadian soldiers and a journalist in their unit dead. Both attacks occurred Wednesday.”
— “Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the attacker at the CIA base in Khost Province was a ‘well-dressed’ officer in the Afghan army.”
— ” ‘This deadly attack was carried out by a valorous Afghan army member when the (CIA staff) were busy gaining information about the mujahedin,’ he said, using the Arabic word for a military force of warriors engaged in a jihad.”
— BBC: Afghanistan: CIA workers killed by ‘Afghan soldier’
— FOX News reports: “It was unclear how the bomber at U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman at the edge of Khost city was able to circumvent security. Khost is the capital of Khost province, which borders Pakistan and is a Taliban stronghold.”
— “But an Afghan official in Khost said the U.S. has hired about 200 Afghans to help with security at the base. They are usually deployed on the outer ring of its walls, although some work inside, the official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.”
— Afghan suicide bomber ‘kills four CIA agents’ after attacking base
Jordan: Father’s Jail Sentence Reduced in “Honor Killing” of 17 Year Old Daughter Murdered for Being Rape Victim
— AFP reports: “Jordan jails man for 10 years over ‘honour killing’ ”
— “A Jordanian court sentenced a 61-year-old man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of killing his teenage daughter last year to ‘defend his honour,’ a judicial official said.”
— ” ‘In 2008, the 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped by a group of men, who are currently on trial,’ the official told AFP.”
— ” ‘But the father suspected that his daughter was involved in a sexual relationship with one of the men. He shot her dead before handing himself in to police, claiming he wanted to defend his honour.’ ”
— ” The court initially jailed the father for 15 years, ‘but decided to reduce the sentence after the man’s family urged leniency,’ he said, adding the murder took place in Ein Basha, outside Amman.”
— “In a separate case, a court commuted the death sentence of a man to 10 years in jail for strangling his married sister to death in 2007 ‘because he suspected the girl was involved in prostitution,’ in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, an official said.”
— “The official declined to elaborate.”
— “Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called ‘honour’ cases a court sometimes commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim’s family urges leniency.”
UK: Egyptian Muslim Woman, Christian Man Beaten in “Honor Violence” – Threatened with Death if Charges Brought
— Islington Gazette: Police’s honour killing pledge
— “An honour killing must never be allowed to happen in Islington – say detectives who discovered that a couple were threatened with death for having a forbidden relationship.”
— “The 25-year-old Egyptian Muslim woman and her 21-year-old Greek Orthodox boyfriend were allegedly assaulted by her family for their secret love affair.”
— “Police believe the woman was first beaten up by her father and brother until she revealed her boyfriend’s identity.”
— “The boyfriend was allegedly then bundled into a car, beaten up and taken to his girlfriend’s family home in Holloway.”
— “There they were threatened with death if they had any further contact.”
— “But charges have never been brought over the incident in June last year because no-one was willing to give evidence.
— “While a murder has never happened in Islington, police have revealed the borough has experienced four cases of ‘honour-based violence’ in the last year.”
Chicago: Hizb ut-Tahrir America Promotes Extremism As Solution to Pakistan Violence, Poverty
In the Chicago suburb of Lombard on December 20, 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) held a recruitment event to promote its anti-democracy views, with the focus of this event by claiming that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is not sufficiently “Islamic” enough for Hizb ut-Tahrir’s goals of creating “Islamic states” in building a global aliphate.
Three days before the HTA Lombard event, Hizb ut-Tahrir published an “open letter to the Ulema of Pakistan” calling for the Pakistan people to overthrow their government, and “uprooting the agent government,” and stating “the Ulema should issue a Fatwa for the expulsion of America from the region.” In this December 17 press release, Hizb ut-Tahrir further claimed that “America has planned to shift the blame of her crimes towards the Muslims…”
This message was conveyed to new American recruits in the Chicago area by Hizb ut-Tahrir America in a “lecture given by Abu Baseer.” Baseer spoke to a group of approximately 40 individuals, with women once again segregated in the back of the Lombard community building facility.
In the Lombard government-managed facility, Abu Baseer told new Hizb ut-Tahrir America recruits not to trust Christians and Jews as “allies,” stating that it was against Allah’s will. Abu Baseer also denounced “the Kafir” (“infidel”) stating that the “sanctity of Muslim blood is greater… than the sanctity of the Kafir.” (The next day, December 21, Hizb ut-Tahrir America posted an article stating that schools for other religions, such as Jews, would only be permitted for “Dhimmis” accepting a state of servitude.)
Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s Abu Baseer described the circumstances in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as one where that nation has suffered from a Pakistan government that is “bombing Muslims and burning innocent females and children alive.” He used this as the emotional centerpiece of his argument as to why extremism was necessary to end the “corruption” in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Abu Baseer provided a pro-extremist spin on the July 2007 confrontation between the Pakistan government and the extremist jihadists who took over the Lal Masjid (“Red Mosque,”) using it as a base for extremists who held children hostage and killed Pakistan soldiers, as reported by the New York Times, London Times, Dawn News, and others. Abu Baseer did not tell new recruits how Lal Masjid was not used as a place of worship, but as a extremist armory of “machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, ammunition, antitank mines, unexploded suicide vests and a crate of petrol bombs”, anti-aircraft weapons, nor does he mention that it was extremists that “booby-trapped the compound.” He didn’t mention that the Lal Masjid mosque was used to try to shoot down planes. He didn’t mention about the letters found there from Al-Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri providing direction. He did not tell American recruits how extremists held boys and girls hostage at Lal Masjid from their Muslim parents, were not allowed to leave, and how the extremists shot one father who dared to pick up his son. He did not tell American recruits how the Pakistan government pleaded for the Lal Masjid jihadists to release the hostage children to safety.
Nor did Abu Baseer tell new Hizb ut-America recruits that it was in fact a Lal Masjid Violent Extremist who spilled “Muslim blood” as reported in the London Times that “transformed from a seat of religious learning to an inferno by the suicide bomber who detonated his charge as the Pakistani commandos stormed the Red Mosque compound.” All the new American recruits for the extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir were told is that it was the Pakistan government “burning innocent females and children alive,” inciting hatred against the Pakistan government as “un-Islamic.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s Abu Baseer used a showman’s countdown of a litany of “symptoms” of Pakistan’s problems, war, violence, poverty, describing “the Pakistani government bombing Muslims,” claims that Pakistani people were “bombed indiscriminately from the air,” describing the “Pakistan economy in shackles,” stating that “to get billions of dollars of aid, Pakistan has to agree to draconian measures… to increase poverty in the country,” Abu Baseer kept stating that all these were merely “symptoms,” not the “cause” of Pakistan’s problems. Abu Baseer got at least one audible “wow” from his audience when describing the suffering of the Pakistan people, which he blamed on the Pakistan government not being sufficiently “Islamic,” and described myriad imagined “plots” by America to take over Pakistan, including blaming President Barack Obama.
Abu Baseer claimed that “America wants to invade and occupy Pakistan for itself,” imagining a U.S. plot “to control the gateway to Southeast Asia” and “immense energy resources” and an imagined U.S. plot to create a “major front against America’s competitors like China and Russia,” viewing the “war on terror” as a “proxy war” intended to “partition Pakistan.” Never criticizing the Taliban, Abu Baseer claimed that the violence in Pakistan was not the result of terrorists, but was coordinated by the Pakistan government and U.S. contractor Blackwater. Abu Baseer claimed that U.S. contractor Blackwater is planning activities for inside Pakistan to “destabilize the country,” with Blackwater agents working to “make others look bad” using the “same devious practices used to create chaos in Iraq.” Abu Baseer claimed that “Pakistan rulers are providing all support to U.S. in this bloodbath” and that “the government is declaring every bomb blast a suicide blast to exonerate the [Pakistan] secret service and secret agencies like Blackwater…”
Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s Abu Baseer claimed that all of Pakistan’s problems, like those of Iraq and other nations, had the same “cause” – the failure to adopt what Hizb ut-Tahrir America calls an “Islamic state.” Hizb ut-Tahrir’s “Islamic state” has been clearly defined in the past with its rejection of democracy, rejection of liberty, rejection of women’s rights, rejection of religious freedom, and calls for the “death penalty” for “traitor” apostates who leave Islam.
Abu Baseer continued to attack democracy at the Lombard event as well, claiming that democracy was part of “British colonial law” designed to subjugate the Pakistan Muslim population, and stating that democracy is something “other than what Allah” demands, which will result in continued “injustices towards the people.” Abu Baseer denounced the current “system of ruling” in Pakistan, stating that “a fair system can only come from Allah” – and that “system of Islam… an Islamic state” is required. Regarding democracy in Pakistan, Abu Baseer stated that Muslims must “replace [such] systems altogether” and that with its population and nuclear weapons that Pakistan would be more powerful if it became a true “Islamic state.”
Abu Baseer stated that there would be “great punishment” against the Pakistan army, and claimed that the rulers of Pakistan “have violated the command of Allah.” Their greatest crime, in Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s views, was Abu Baseer’s view on “security alliances.” Abu Baseer told the Lombard event audience “all you who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians for your allies, they are but allies to one another, and whoever allies themselves with them becomes one of them” and that “Allah does not prize such evil doers.”
The crowd concluded the event with a chant of “Allahu Akbar.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir Pakistan’s manifesto calls for all male children at age 15 to get military “Violent Extemism training” (page 37).
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) contacted the Lombard government and law enforcement authorities regarding Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s past calls for the “death penalty” for those who leave Islam as “traitors,” and urged them to contact federal authorities. No response was received on this issue. In addition, R.E.A.L. also contacted the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division on Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s pattern of upremacist threats against others civil rights. No response has yet been received on this issue.
The anti-democracy international Hizb ut-Tahrir organization has a long history of making death threats both in the U.S. and around the world. In Bangladesh in November 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir was reported as having threatened to murder a university vice chancellor who sought to prevent professors who promoted hate at a Bangladesh university. At the beginning of December 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia called for stonings and whippings as the answer to addressing the AIDS disease.
Muslims such as Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), reject the anti-democratic message of Hizb ut-Tahrir as a “Violent Extremist indoctrination group.” In AIFD’s comments regarding Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s July 2009 event in the Chicago Oak Lawn suburb, AIFD stated that:
“Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamist network that is committed to creating an Islamic Caliphate that spans the globe. The organization is banned in Germany and Russia as well as several Arab countries and targets Muslim children between the ages of 9 and 18. Many compare their efforts to organizations like the Hitler Youth. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is counted among their alumnus.”
Dr. Jasser stated that “Hizb ut-Tahrir preaches an ideology that calls for the destruction of the principles that America is founded on.”
BBC television broadcast on its Panorama television show on the Hizb ut-Tahrir, interviewing a British “influential Muslim figure” who stated about Hizb ut-Tahrir to BBC: “I believe that if Hizb ut-Tahrir are not stopped at this stage and we continue to let them to politicize and pollute the youngsters’ minds and other gullible peoples minds, that what will happen in effect is that these terrorism acts and these suicide bombings that we hear going on around us in foreign countries, we will actually start seeing these incidents happening right outside our doorsteps.”
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters to drop the burden of the hate of extremism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
Other R.E.A.L. Postings on Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Anti-Democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir Promotion at Indonesian-Govt Sponsored Event
Hizb ut-Tahrir Using Twitter to Promote Anti-Democracy Message
Hizb ut-Tahrir America Says “Dhimmi” Schools Permitted for Jews, But Nothing Like Today’s Schools
Pakistan: “Hizb ut-Tahrir turn on the charm in Pakistan”
Chicago: Extremist Group Conspires Against Rights
UK: British School Linked to Hizb ut-Tahrir Funding Restored
Chicago: Anti-Democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir Group Event in Lombard, IL on December 20
World AIDS Day: Hizb ut-Tahrir Calls for Stonings, Whippings, Islamic Caliphate
National Post Describes Anti-Jewish Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Growth on College Campuses
Bangladesh: Anti-Freedom, Extremist Group Hizb ut-Tahrir Threatens to Murder University Official
UK: Hizb ut-Tahrir Anti-Democracy Extremist Group Schools Receive Government Funding
White House Adviser Joins UK Interview with Anti-Democratic Hizb ut-Tahrir Group
Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir Event Promoted with Beheaded Statue of Liberty
UK: Press Reports of “Furious Residents” over Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir Conference
Canada: Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) Extremist Group to Meet in Govt-Managed Community Center
Chicago’s Moment of Freedom: Chicagoans Stand Up for Freedom Challenging Hizb ut-Tahrir
July 19 – Chicago: R.E.A.L. Pro-Freedom Protest to Challenge Hizb ut-Tahrir America Conference
Germany – Gulsum Semin “Honor Killing”: Father Gets Life in Prison
German court gives father life jail for honour killing of daughter — Gulsum Semin
— DPA reports: “A German court imprisoned a Kurdish man, 50, for life on Tuesday for ordering the “honour killing” of his own daughter after being told she had lost her virginity. A son and an Azeri friend lured the 20-year-old woman, Gulsum, to a lonely country road near the Dutch border, throttled her with a rope and clubbed her to death, inflicting horrific injuries to her face.”
— “The state court at Kleve sentenced Gulsum’s brother, 20, to nine and a half years in youth prison, just short of the maximum youth sentence of 10 years. He and the victim were two out of three triplets. He had confessed to the killing after he was arrested.”
— “His helper, 37, was jailed for seven and a half years.”
— “Judges said they were convinced the only motive to murder Gulsum had been that she was no longer a virgin and had secretly undergone an abortion.”
— “They said they were also convinced the father of 10, who denied the murder, had ordered his son to kill the sister.”
— “The trio were accused of jointly murdering her in March.”
— “Gulsum had rebelled against the family’s Muslim-oriented rules and after suffering several beatings at home, requested help from German social workers. They arranged for her to live in an apartment, but she later moved home to her family again.”
Germany: ‘Honour killing’: father beat daughter in face with club — Gulsum Semin
Deutsche Welle: German court hands down life sentence in honor killing
EuroNews – Video and Text: Kurdish father jailed for daughter’s ‘honour killing’
— Lawyer of victim’s brother Hans Reinhardt says that killer “was bound by a value system that allowed no option” other than murdering Gulsum Semin
— Report in German – Berliner Umschau
Nigeria: Bauchi Violence and Killings After Islamic Sect Kala Kato Confrontations
Nigeria: “Death toll from Nigeria clashes climbs to 70”
— AFP reports: ” The clashes erupted Monday between suspected members of a radical Islamist sect and security forces.”
— “The Kala-Kato sect, also known as Maitatsine, has been present in several Muslim-dominated states in northern Nigeria for decades.”
— “It led religious uprisings in 1980 and 1992 which claimed thousands of lives in the northern cities of Kano and Yola.”
— BBC: Nigeria police in deadly clash with sect in Bauchi
— “At least 38 people have died in clashes between security forces and members of a religious sect in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi.”
— “The dead were mainly from a group calling itself Kala Kato. Two soldiers and a policeman were also killed.”
— “The fighting came after local people told authorities they were alarmed by open-air preaching by sect members.”
— “Such preaching was banned in the state after an uprising by another sect, Boko Haram, earlier this year.”
— “Hundreds of people were killed in the subsequent fighting across northern Nigeria.”
— “The BBC’s Caroline Duffield reports from Lagos that Kala Kato is a non-conformist Muslim sect made up of poor tradesmen, labourers and other working people.”
— “Some residents in Zango, just south of the city of Bauchi, have said that in recent days the mood of their preaching had become aggressive.”
— “The violence there began on Sunday morning. After some initial shooting the security forces retreated, before returning in greater numbers.”
— “Members of the group had armed themselves with machetes and cutlasses, and appeared ready to fight armed police and soldiers, she adds.”
— “A spokesman for the Bauchi state governor said the local military had been deployed, though other accounts spoke of a feared police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.”
— “The Associated Press news agency cited Bauchi state official Mohammed Maigari as saying sect members had gone on the rampage to demand the release of their leader.”
— “The sect leader had been arrested in connection with the killings of several Boko Haram members, AP reported.”
— Nigeria’s The Vanguard Reports: “2 soldiers, 6 others die in fresh Bauchi violence”
— “At least eight people were killed in Bauchi today as another Islamic religious sect, Kalo-Kato struck in Zango area throwing the state capital into pandemonium. The sect was demanding the release of its leader said to have been arrested by security agents.”
— “Among those reported killed were two soldiers and two security operatives who were among those deployed to quell the uprising as well as four children said to have been burnt when their house was torched by the rampaging Kalo-Kato sect members.”
— “The rampaging sect members dominated by youngsters of between 10 and 15 years torched some houses and attacked anyone who dared to stand in their way. The sect is said to be claiming link to the Maitasine sect of the 1980s.”
— “A resident of the area said they sensed trouble when the preacher of the sect during today’s morning prayers started denouncing other Islamic sects as infidels and condemning the action against the Boko Haram sect members when according to him, ‘they were preaching the truth.’ ”
— “An eyewitness, Kamal said the sect members descended on a listener who challenged the preachers before they went wild attacking anyone in sight and burning houses.”
— “Speaking to Vanguard on phone, Special Assistant to Governor Isa Yuguda on Media Affairs, Sanusi Mohammed said the situation has been brought under control.”
— ” ‘The problem was caused by some religious extremists fighting among themselves. It was not an inter-religious thing and it happened in Zango area and did not spread beyond there because government reacted promptly to bring it under control.’ ”
— ” ‘The situation is now calm and we have been calling on people not to panic or start relocating to barracks as is usually the case when things like this happen’, he said.”
— “Spokesman of the Bauchi State Police Command, Mohammed Barau also told journalists that the situation was under control and that a combined team of regular and anti-riot policemen have been deployed to the area.”
London Times: Nigeria: extremists unleash new ‘terror’
— “A desperate text arrives suddenly from the Rev Yanusa Nmadu, director of CSW Nigeria.
— “‘Bauchi boils again as a Muslim sect known as the Kalikato-Maitastene unleash terror on all those that do not belong to their sect,’ he says. ‘Reports reaching CSW Nigeria says there are deaths already including some members of the security agencies. We urge all to pray.'”
Nigeria: Christian Group Seeks Plot to Bomb Churches Probed
— Nigeria’s The Vanguard Reports: “Plateau PFN wants alleged plot to bomb churches probed”
— “Jos — The Plateau State Chapter of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has called on the state government and security agencies to investigate alleged plans by some people to bomb churches in the state.”
— “Chapter Chairman, Rev. Sam Alaha, made the call at a press conference, yesterday, saying since previous crises in the state were preceded by similar rumours, necessary action should be taken to forestall any threat to the fragile peace in the state.”
— “He said the alleged plans to bomb some churches had been accompanied by the rumoured importation of mercenaries from neighbouring countries to be used to execute the plan.”
— “The body said it could not wave off the rumours because similar ones in the past had resulted in innocent citizens being caught napping when the miscreants struck.”
— “According to the PFN, ‘in February 2002, there was a rumour that the Jos Ultra-Modern Market would be burnt. Nothing was done and one day we all woke up to find the market in ruinous flame. In November 2008, rumour again filled the air that some miscreants had perfected plans to use the occasion of the local government elections in the state to wreak havoc on the good people of the state. Again, when nothing was done, they struck. That is why we cannot treat the present rumour as mere speculation.’ ”
— “Alaha called for vigilance from the state government, security agencies and the people to avoid being taken by surprise again, adding that special attention should be paid to known trouble spots.”
— December 11, 2008 – Compass: Nigeria – Six Pastors Killed, 40 Churches Razed in Jos Violence
— “As smoke clears, mayhem ignited by Muslim attacks leaves 25,000 people displaced.”
— “The murderous rioting sparked by Muslim attacks on Christians and their property on Nov. 28-29 left six pastors dead, at least 500 other people killed and 40 churches destroyed, according to church leaders.”
Egypt – BBC Report: “Egypt’s Coptic Christians battle for ID cards”
Pakistan: Christians Celebrate Christmas Under Threat of Attack
— “No Christmas decorations brighten the tent camp sheltering Christians left homeless by the worst violence against minorities in Pakistan this year. Instead, there is a pervasive sense of fear.”
— “The Christians have received cell phone text messages warning them to expect a ‘special Christmas present,’ they say, and are terrified of their tents being torched or their church services being bombed.”
— ” ‘Last year I celebrated Christmas full of joy,’ said Irfan Masih, cradling his young son among the canvas shelters and open ditches of the camp. But now ‘the fear that we may again be attacked is in our hearts.’ ”
— ” ‘They are threatening us, (saying) ‘We will again attack you and will not let you out of homes, we will burn you inside this time,’ he said.”
— “It was the fires that most traumatized Gojra’s Christian Colony, a neighborhood in the heart of this Punjabi city about 220 miles (354 kilometers) southwest of Islamabad. In early August, hundreds of Muslims rampaged through the dirt streets, looting and torching homes as panicked residents tried to flee and thick black smoke rose into the air.”
— “Eight Christians died — seven of them from one family trapped in a burning home.”
— ” ‘We are going to celebrate Christmas in sorrow because the whole family is hurt by this,’ said Almas Hameed, whose father was shot dead during the riots. His wife, two of his children and members of his brother’s family all burned to death.”
Human Rights Day – Pakistan Christian Congress Address and Video