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| 2007-08-06 |
| By Robert Spencer Excerpts: After a police raid Friday at Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, bakery employee Devaughndre Broussard admitted to murdering Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post. Bailey was writing a series of investigative articles about the Bakery – and that’s why, according to police, Broussard killed him. ... Chauncey Bailey, moreover, is not the first person in the United States to have been murdered by a Muslim who didn’t like what he said. That distinction may belong to Rashad Khalifa, an unorthodox interpreter of the Qur’an who was murdered in Tucson, Arizona, in January 1990 – probably by a member of the jihadist group Jamaat al-Fuqra. But Bailey’s is still a singular case. Much more common has been the practice of trying to intimidate critics into silence through legal threats. ... Nor is CAIR alone among Muslims in its efforts at legal intimidation. Billionaire Saudi financier Khalid bin Mahfouz has sued journalist Rachel Ehrenfeld and others for libel in the U.K., where the libel laws favor plaintiffs. Ehrenfeld’s offense? In her book Funding Evil, she wrote that bin Mahfouz was involved in funding Hamas and al Qaeda. Bin Mahfouz denied that he had knowingly given any money to either. And Cambridge University Press has, in response to another libel suit filed by bin Mahfouz, just removed from circulation and destroyed all unsold copies of Alms for Jihad by Robert Collins and J. Millard Burr, because the book made essentially the same allegations. But France’s foreign intelligence agency has recently revealed that as long ago as 1996 Mr. bin Mahfouz was known as one of the architects of a banking scheme constructed for the benefit of Osama bin Laden – and that both U.S. and British intelligence services knew this. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #7 Are you assuming OBL (Satan's henchman) has already had had his library card cancelled, Z? I pretty much have to. The prick was such a media whore that there's just no way in hell he could have brought himself to stay out of the spotlight for this long. It's just as likely that rumors of him being in Pakistan are being spread to counter the negative effects of his absence or death. There is the additional fact that in high context Muslim societies the personal role played by emperor thugs like bin Laden is absolutely critical to maintaining the momentum of radical movements. Bin Laden knows this damn well and would have continued to make personal appearances in order to energize his minions. He has not and that speaks volumes. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-06 18:22 |
| #6 Are you assuming OBL (Satan's henchman) has already had had his library card cancelled, Z? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-08-06 17:44 |
| #5 Top 24 "hit" list? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-08-06 17:42 |
| #4 Spot on, Zen! Meloves that list. One for the record book, I'd say. Not that I'd condone wetwork, or anything *wink*! |
| Posted by: BA 2007-08-06 17:22 |
| #3 Muslims Silence Critics 1. Ayman al-Zawahiri 2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 3. Ayatolla Kahmeini 4. Mullah Muhammad Omar 5. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir (Bashir) 6. Moqtada Sadr, 7. Abu Hamza al-Masri, 8. Mullah Krekar (AKA: Abu Sayyid Qutb), 9. Khaled Meshal 10. Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah 11. Ismail Haniya 12. Mohammed Abbas 13. Yusuf al-Qaradawi 14. Tariq Ramadan 15. Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali 16. imam Omar Bakri Mohammed 17. imam Abdel-Samie Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa 18. imam Sheikh SyeSyed Mubarik Ali Gilani 19. Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal 20. Sheik Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi 21. Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar 22. Prince Sultan Ibn Abd al-Aziz 23. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz 24. Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz "Silence" this list Muslims over a few weeks time and you would hear the entire Islamic world STFU for a good spell. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-06 12:29 |
| #2 Of course the media has closed the information gates on the reporters and media people assassinated in Iraq by the 'insurgents'. What circle in hell awaits the NYT people who betray even their own 'brothers' in the profession rather than report, with the same level of glee that they reserved for Abu Ghraib, that AQ has targeted Iraqi media critical of Islamic terrorism. If it were American media people kidnapped, killed or wounded in Iraq, we'd get all day, all night coverage. Have they hit the hundred killed or missing in Iraq yet? Why should we be surprise the radical think this will work here? Betcha it'll be old news by next week. Buried. However, the message is delivered. Teach us how to treat you by your response. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-08-06 11:29 |
| #1 Muslims Silence Critics Except at Rantburg. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-08-06 10:09 |