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Europe
Switzerland is the Most Contemptible Among the Enemies of Islam:
An article charging that Switzerland is the “most contemptible among the enemies of Islam” was recently disseminated across several jihadist and password-protected al-Qaeda affiliated forums. The document, originally authored by Colonel Doctor Muhammad al-Ghanam, the former Director of Legal Investigations in the Egyptian Ministry of Interior and a political refugee in Switzerland, explains the alleged false guise of Swiss neutrality, not only on a political level, but on a personal level in light of al-Ghanam’s own experiences.

Switzerland is branded one of the “most dangerous links in the ‘international pact of the cross’,” due to its continued participation in the occupation of Iraq, cooperation with the “current renegade regime” in Egypt, and applying pressure on Turkey because of its government has become half-Islamic. Al-Ghanam avers that the Swiss neutrality is a mere façade that allows it to conceal its “crusading face” and penetrate Muslim society to collect intelligence. Further, from his own experience with the “aggressive and tyrannical behavior” of the Swiss, the author alleges that a forceful attempt was made upon him to infiltrate al-Qaeda groups, that he refused, and he was subsequently arrested under “some pretext.” He states: “freedom of opinion is nothing but a war against Islam.”

Concluding the article, al-Ghanam repeats his condemnation of the Swiss government, and reminds Muslims to beware of Switzerland, “your contemptible enemy hiding behind false claims of neutrality, making war on your religion without your knowledge. However, the Swiss will not slip away with their crimes against Islam and Muslims: "The day we strike the big stroke, we will avenge."

The article received hundreds of views on the message boards, where many members expressed their gratitude for opening their eyes to the Swiss. Two such responses: “We attack it soon and know that they are enemies of Islam and Muslims” and “It’s not Switzerland only
 but it’s the entire Europe and in fact, it’s all the Jews, Christians, and the non-believers,” are such an example of the members’ views.
Posted by: Groluns Snoluter6338 || 09/10/2005 15:03 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We (the west) are waiting. Like most allenist very long on talk and seething, low on actual actions. Totaly afraid to show their true face, false persons who will burn in hell according to their very own belief system.

Pin pricks against us and we land on them like a ton of bricks if we can finally. Always pressure against their necks, the smart ones live in fear of us now. We are coming for them and they will die.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom || 09/10/2005 20:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I LOVE Chocolate!
Posted by: Frank G || 09/10/2005 20:36 Comments || Top||

#3  ?
Posted by: ? || 09/10/2005 21:35 Comments || Top||

#4  99 Tears

You ask, we answer.
Posted by: .com || 09/10/2005 21:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Another reason to love Switzerland (we used to visit Zürich regularly when I lived in Germany).

Along with Paradeplatz and Sprüngli. Ahhhhhhh. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/10/2005 22:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Plus the entire population is armed and trained in the use of their arms...
Posted by: Seafarious || 09/10/2005 23:07 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Islam, democracy and politics in Indonesia
Posted by: DanNY || 09/10/2005 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another bad link.

Working link here.
Posted by: DanNY || 09/10/2005 7:32 Comments || Top||


Neither secular nor theocratic? Try `laicite'
Posted by: DanNY || 09/10/2005 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Huh? Link-check, plz...
Posted by: .com || 09/10/2005 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  .com's all over this til he found it wasn't "lactate"
:-)
Posted by: Frank G || 09/10/2005 1:20 Comments || Top||

#3  I googled it..Frog terminology for secular gubmint, but protects bla bla.

/got milk...no.
Posted by: Red Dog || 09/10/2005 1:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Isn't that a French school or something? :)
Posted by: gromky || 09/10/2005 2:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Laicite is a French word. While similar don't mix it with secularity. In fact it is more militant atheism who takes its time (its proponents were notorious atheists) instead of being in ahurry like in Soviet Union. On pretext of laicite were many catholic congragations expelled, most catholic schools closed (and made illegal for cities to fund them), hospitals cleansed of their nuns acting as nurses, carreers of catholic officers were slowed (the price was paid in blood during WWI) and funding was cut off from church (who was also deprived from most of its possesions. It took its time but the goal was reached: France is today a largely atheistic country (at least between the French proper) and it really strikes when you see people who still go to church: at least 80% of white hair ie in twenty years christianism will have disappeared from France. The goal all along of laicite.
That has been the goal all along.
Posted by: JFM || 09/10/2005 4:07 Comments || Top||

#6  The Australian media keeps telling me next month is Breast Awareness Month, but doesn't explain why I can't be aware of breasts for the rest of the year.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/10/2005 4:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry for the bad link, it changed from last night when I posted it.

New Link here.
Posted by: DanNY || 09/10/2005 7:29 Comments || Top||

#8  JFM: The Catholic Church in France, like in Mexico and South America, couldn't resist playing politics and enriching itself at the public trough. It should come as no surprise when those people had had enough and decided to dispense with Papal mummery.

Much of the fault lies not with the Church proper, but mostly with the Jesuit order, which just made it a habit to embrace the most loathsome of secular dictatorship in the hope of some pragmatic advantage.

In fact, how the Catholic Church around the world is treated today is based on the behavior of the various religious orders as long as 500 years ago. You can look at the various orders and their "territories", and see an exact correlation with how people who live there regard the Church today.

Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan, and the other major orders, each left their fingerprints on different societies. And as you sew, so shall you reap.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/10/2005 11:18 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks & Islam
Britain now faces its own blowback
Britain now faces its own blowback
Intelligence interests may thwart the July bombings investigation
Posted by: john || 09/10/2005 19:50 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:



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