Canada - Raheel Razza Dons burka as Disguise to Expose Calipahte Aficionados Hizb Ut Tahrir.

Canada - Raheel Razza Dons burka as Disguise to Expose Calipahte Aficionados Hizb Ut Tahrir.HT: Scaramouchee.

"The meaning of Jihad being a duty of sufficiency is that we initiate the fighting of the enemy even if he did not attack us. If the Muslims failed to initiate the fighting at any given time, they would all be sinful."

 Ms. Razza went to a recent HT event in Mississauga and was shocked by what she found:

It was incomprehensible that they were hosting a meeting in Canada. Media inquiries received wishy-washy answers, as in, "We can't really do anything unless there is proof of violence." Further, as the HT meeting was scheduled to take place on a weekend, it was apparently of no particular interest to the media.

Were they really planning to establish a Caliphate even in the West? As a woman alone would arouse suspicion, my husband accompanied me. I pulled out the burqa I had imported from Afghanistan earlier in the year for a play. It would perhaps be the first and last time I adjusted a burqa around my body and even part of my face, with just my eyes showing – and dark glasses, and my husband in traditional Pakistani garb.

The heavily guarded community center in which the meeting was held was gender-segregated -- men and women separate. Most of the attendees were young converts, who had brought their children. When my husband sat with crossed legs, he was told that is not the Islamic way, so he immediately uncrossed them, in order not to attract attention.
Organizations such as HT are careful how they operate; their speakers are known for saying one thing in English and another in their own language. That way they can instill hardcore ideas and an ideology without being accused of using hate speech. At this meeting the message was clear: It is incumbent on every Muslim living in a non-Muslim land to impose sharia law; to work towards an Islamic state, and to convert people as is their mandate. According to the HT website, "The meaning of Jihad being a duty of sufficiency is that we initiate the fighting of the enemy even if he did not attack us. If the Muslims failed to initiate the fighting at any given time, they would all be sinful."

This by the way is totally against the teaching of the Quran, which advises Muslims to follow the laws of the lands in which they live. One young man in the audience asked who the Caliph would be, and was told it would be from among them.

I left the meeting trembling, partly with anger and partly with fear: anger because I saw a straightforward attempt to hijack our freedoms and, by turning them against us, to impose sharia; fear because my fellow Muslims are allowing our faith be hijacked from us -- into the hands of theocrats and thugs...

I'm afraid that, much as I admire her, Raheel is the one who has misinterpreted the Quran's teachings. Which helps explains the enduring appeal HT and other supremacist outfits, and why moderate voices--like Raheel's--are so infrequently heard.

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• Michele Bachmann'I Have a Spine Made Out of Titanium'.(DerSpiegel).Michele Bachmann, a darling of the Tea Party movement in the US, voted against President Barack Obama's budget compromise last week. She spoke with SPIEGEL about the need to cut spending, the US involvement in Libya and her fight for principles.

SPIEGEL: Why was it a mistake to intervene in Lybia?

Bachmann: The Obama doctrine now says that President Obama will use our United States military for humanitarian purposes. He went into Libya for humanitarian purposes. Since that time, we have seen murders and riots break out in Syria, and a number of people have been killed in Syria. So does that mean that our United States military should also intervene in Syria and get involved in that conflict? It would take very little for the United States to be involved in multiple efforts all across the world. The fact is we simply do not have the resources to do that.Read the full interview here.

• Malaysia to Send 66 Muslim Schoolboys to Anti-Gay Camp For Being “Too Effeminate”.Malaysian authorities have sent 66 Muslim schoolboys whom they consider effeminate to a four-day camp where they will receive counseling on masculine behavior.The education director of a northeastern state in this Muslim-majority country says the measure is meant to help prevent the teens from potentially becoming gay or transvestites.Gay rights advocates criticized the effort Tuesday and called it a sign of homophobia.Education official Razali Daud says the boys reported Monday for what is officially being called a “self-development course” after their schoolteachers identified them as students who displayed effeminate mannerisms.Razali says it the first program of its kind in Terengganu state, which is known for religious conservatism.Pang Khee Teik, co-founder of a Malaysian sexual rights awareness group, dubbed the camp “outrageous”.“If we don’t do anything to stop the rot of homophobia… I worry it may get worse,” he told Associated Press.Rights for gay people in Malaysia are currently not recognised and acts such as sodomy (both homo and heterosexual) are illegal.Hmmm.......welcome to A.D. 620?Read the full story here. 

• Upton Expanding Investigation Into Industry Groups And Unions Secret Meetings With White House Prior to ObamaCare Passage. (DailyCaller)House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton is expanding his investigation into the meetings between special interest groups and the Obama White House that set the stage for the passage of Obamacare, sending document requests to 12 industry groups and unions that played a key role in the negotiations.In April 18 letters to the groups, Upton asks for extensive details and documents about each organization’s interactions with the White House in regards to the health care law.The requests come as the Obama White House has so far declined to provide its documents about the meetings.At issue are special deals struck between interest groups and President Obama to either garner the support of major industry sectors or soften their criticism of the health care law.In one major instance, the pharmaceutical drug sector agreed to back the legislation as long as the costs to that sector did not exceed $80 billion. The drug sector eventually spent over $100 million on television advertisements touting the law.The industry groups and unions subject to Upton’s request are AARP, AFL-CIO, AdvaMed, AFSCME, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Business Roundtable, Federation of American Hospitals, PHRMA, and SEIU.Hmmmm.......Let Obamacare die by a thousand cuts?Read the full story here.

• Michigan: County Prosecutors Seeking Court Order to Stop Koran-Burning Pastor From Protesting Outside Dearborn Mosque.(Freep) — Concerned about a potential outbreak of violence, Wayne County prosecutors have filed a complaint in court that seeks to compel Florida pastor Terry Jones, who oversaw the burning of a Quran last month, not to rally outside an Islamic center in Dearborn this week.Jones told the Free Press he intends to come to Dearborn this Friday with others to protest against sharia and jihad, Islamic ideas that he said threaten the U.S.Walid also said that the court filing inaccurately tries to “equate the actions of zealots in Afghanistan with Muslim-Americans in Dearborn,” which he described as a peaceful community that would not harm Jones. The court action, considered rare, is called in the filing a "verified complaint to institute proceedings to prevent crime."But Dearborn police and Wayne County prosecutors are trying to convince him that showing up at the Islamic Center of America would endanger his life and public peace. In the court filing, prosecutors and Dearborn police note that Jones has received numerous death threats and a $1.2 million bounty on his head by leaders of Jamaat-ud Dawa, a cover organization for the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. Dearborn and Wayne County authorities also note that Friday happens to be Good Friday and that the Islamic Center is next to several churches. And so if Jones and his followers were to protest, they argue, it could create enormous problems for Christian worshippers to enter and leave the churches for Good Friday services. A spokesperson for Terry Jones was not immediately available to comment today, but Jones has told the Free Press he wants to come to Dearborn to help preserve the U.S. Constitution and ensure that Islam does not dominate non-Muslims.Hmmmm..... "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." the First Amendment.Read the full story here.

• American teacher claims she's detained 457 days against her will.(ArabNews).RIYADH: An American woman who came to Riyadh on a teaching contract has alleged her sponsor detained her in the Kingdom against her will for at least 457 days as of Sunday.“Today is the 457th day that I’ve been held against my will, 13 days longer than the Iranians held Americans between 1979 through to 1981,” Trina Flowers, a teacher from Dulles, told Arab News on Sunday.“I arrived in Saudi Arabia on Oct. 22, 2009, to teach English to university students through a private company in a program undertaken on the initiative of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah mandated to the Ministry of Higher Education.“However, almost immediately after my arrival, I realized that the company was in no way capable of dealing with Western people in a humane manner. I wanted to leave Saudi Arabia. Things went from bad to worse.”She said when she received her visa from the Saudi Embassy in Washington, it stated her employer was King Saud University (KSU).“When I came to Riyadh, I was sent to Najran University,” she added, pointing out that she had never even been to KSU. She strongly believes her sponsor deliberately deceived her since her arrival.The saga started when Flowers refused to renew her visit visa after she realized that it was illegal to work in the Kingdom with such papers.“As soon as I was made aware that none of the teachers would be given proper work visas, I wanted to return to the United States as quickly as possible. Therefore, I refused to renew my visa and told my company that I wanted to leave Saudi Arabia immediately,” she said. “How can such a company bring teachers on visit visas that are renewed every 90 days to work since it is against the labor regulations? Why did the proper Saudi government authorities do nothing when I went to them to file complaints?”The company was supposed to fly her out at 6:15 a.m. on Jan. 15, but it failed to provide a driver or escort to finalize the exit procedures.“They ignored all my attempts to get them to fly me out the following week before my visa expired. I made a number of attempts to give the company the opportunity to redress their crimes and human rights violations. Instead, I was subjected to harassment, threats and even attempts to abduct me in the middle of the night,” Flowers said, adding that she was denied medical care and practically starved to death.At present, the hotel where the teacher has been staying in Riyadh has asked her to vacate her room since her sponsor has withdrawn tenancy of the room. It has warned her that the power supply to the room will be disconnected if she fails to leave.“Now I am penniless and homeless,” Flowers said.“The company lied, threatened and harassed me, left me with no resources whatsoever, and yet they claim it's my fault. I've broken the law and I'm a criminal and they're not responsible?” she said.She said she feels that all this happened due to a human resources officer’s personal vendetta against her.“The company owes me both compensatory and punitive damages for their human rights violations and crimes against me,” Flowers said, recalling that three Western women provided her food after she placed an online advertisement to teach English in exchange for food.Arab News attempted to contact the human resources officer, but there was no response.Read the full story here.

• “One Shock” Away from World Food Crisis.(Bloomberg).World Bank President Robert Zoellick said the global economy is “one shock away” from a crisis in food supplies and prices.Zoellick estimated 44 million people have fallen into poverty due to rising food prices in the past year, and a 10 percent increase in the food price index would send 10 million more people into poverty. The United Nations FAO Food Price index jumped 25 percent last year, the second-steepest increase since at least 1991, and surged to a record in February.Food price inflation is “the biggest threat today to the world’s poor,” Zoellick said at a press conference following meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. “We are one shock away from a full-blown crisis.”“For most commodities, stocks are relatively low,” he said. “You have one other weather event in some of these areas and you really take a danger zone and start to push people over the edge.”Zoellick said he opposes export bans that nations use to depress local commodity prices for their citizens, lifting costs for consumers in other countries.Farmers in Russia, once the second-biggest wheat exporter, are planting the fewest acres in four years, in part because a government export ban kept prices low, a Bloomberg survey of producers, traders and analysts showed last month. India, the largest grower after China, is mulling lifting an export ban in place since 2007 as harvests may reach a record for a fourth straight year, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said this month.Economic growth “is leveling off after a post-crisis recovery,” Zoellick said. “The question now is whether it’s strong enough to reduce unemployment, particularly in developed countries. Inflation is up in developing countries, and this could lead to overheating or asset price bubbles.”Read the full story here.

• CAN: Charity that aided Muslim countries sent $15M to Hamas.(TheStar).Nearly $15 million of Canadian charitable donations were sent overseas to groups the taxman has labelled terrorist organizations, according to a federal audit obtained by the Toronto Star.The audit states that International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy Canada (IRFAN-Canada) used "deceptive fundraising" to support Hamas.The Canada Revenue Agency announced its decision to revoke the status of the Mississauga-based charity last week. A lawyer for IRFAN-Canada said the charity has appealed the decision."Canada Revenue Agency's position is really built on a pillar of sand," said Naseer Syed.However, a CRA report states that "IRFAN-Canada is an integral part of an international fundraising effort to support Hamas." Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by Canada, the U.S., the European Union and Israel.IRFAN-Canada created promotional videos that the CRA said "demonize Israel, characterize the Arab-Israeli conflict as a religious war, appeal for all Arab and Muslim nations to join in the struggle against Israel and glorify martyrdom."But Syed said the CRA overstated the political content.The CRA said IRFAN-Canada has damaged the integrity of the Canadian charity system.The audit found that the charity redistributed more than $580,000 raised for disaster relief projects to sponsor programs in the West Bank and Gaza. Donors had earmarked donations to specific disasters, including the 2004 tsunami, the 2006 South Asia earthquake, the 2006 Indonesia earthquake, the 2007 Bangladesh cyclone, the 2008 Burma cyclone, the 2008 Pakistan earthquake and the 2008 Indonesia earthquake.However, Syed said some of those funds have already been spent on their designated disaster relief while the rest will remain in IRFAN-Canada's general bank account until suitable projects are selected.The audit also found that the charity failed to maintain proper records. The records the charity did provide for the audit period were often an "after-the-fact paper exercise" that showed it distributed $19 million in Canadian funds and $17 million in gifts-in-kind for projects outside Canada during that period.The audit established that $13 million of the gifts-in-kind were transferred to organization with ties to Hamas.Stockwell Day raised the charity's alleged link to Hamas in Parliament when he was an opposition MP in 2004. He asked the Liberal government to investigate.Day referenced a Privy Council report sent to Prime Minister Jean Chretien in 2000 that listed Povrel Jerusalem Fund for Human Services (JFHS) as a Canadian group with links to terrorist organizations.The audit suggests that JFHS and IRFAN-Canada were consolidated in 2001. under the leadership of Rasem Abdel-Majid. The report states the consolidation was concealed, "leading us to consider the strong possibility that this exercise was intended to circumvent the CRA's refusal to grant JFHS registration as a charity."Syed said IRFAN-Canada was formed independently and later acquired some assets from JFHS.Though the IRFAN-Canada is no longer a charity, it still operates as a not-for profit organization.Hmmmm.......Hurry,hurry ....declare them a state?Read the full story here.

• Europe's Anti-Islamic Parties on the Move.(DanielPipes).Elections in Finland today saw the True Finns Party (PS) win 39 out of 200 seats in parliament, a huge increase over its 1 parliamentary seat in 1999, 3 in 2003, and 5 in 2007. In percentage terms, they went from 1, 2, and 4 percent of the vote to 19 percent.This surge typifies the enormous strides by right-wing insurgent parties which typically emphasize such issues as immigration, cultural continuity, multiculturalism and Islamification.For a graphic of where such parties now stand across Europe, see the helpful graphic, "Europe's Right Turn," published by Der Spiegel just before the Finnish election.To generalize: Anti-Islamic sentiments are now outpacing Islam in Europe.Hmmmm......."CHANGE"?Read the full story here.

• HT:SultanKnish.Muslims Are Not a Minority.The most persistent myth of the Western Dhimmi narrative is that Muslims are a minority and must receive special protection and accommodation. But Muslims are not a minority. There are 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims worldwide, outweighing Catholics as the next largest religious faction at 1.1 billion and Hindus at 1 billion. They are still a minority of the overall population in Western countries, but a demographically trending majority.In the UK more people attend mosques than the Church of England, that makes Muslims the largest functioning religious group there. Mohammed was the most popular baby name last year, ahead of Jack and Harry. In France, in this generation, more mosques have been built than Catholic churches and in southern France there are already more mosques than churches. Mohammed-Amine is the most popular double name, ahead of Jean-Baptiste, Pierre-Louis, Leo-Paul and Mohammed-Ali. In Belgium, 50 percent of newborns are Muslim and empty Belgian churches are being turned into mosques. The most popular baby name is Mohammed and of the top 7 baby names, 6 were Muslim. A quarter of Amsterdam, Marseilles and Rotterdam and a fifth of Stockholm is already Muslim. The most popular baby name in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam and The Hague is... Mohammed. Europe's Muslim population doubled in the last generation, and is set to double again. By 2025, (a decade and a half away), a third of all births in the EU will be Muslim. The demographic writing is already on the wall. A third of Muslims in France and Germany are teenagers or younger, as compared to a fifth of the native population. A third of Muslims in the UK and Belgium are under 15 versus a fifth of the native population. Counting all age groups, they're a minority. But in generational demographics, Muslims are swiftly becoming a majority.Muslims in America and Europe are still numerical minorities, but they act like majorities. And they are doing everything they can to become majorities. Treating them like minorities is a mistake, that Europe has already come to regret and that we are only beginning to learn the folly of. Muslims can either be a minority or a majority. If they choose to act like a majority, imposing their culture, religion and worldview on others-- then they should be treated like one.Hmmmm.......Majority rules?Read the full story here.

• Belarus - West Puzzled by Lukashenko's Clampdown on Weak Opposition.(DerSpiegel).Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko no longer leaves the house without Kolya, his favorite son, the product of an extramarital affair with a personal physician he got rid of long ago. The six-year-old boy has been by his side during government talks, corporate visits and an audience with the pope in Rome. Kolya was with his father once again last Monday, April 11, hardly two hours after the bomb attack in Minsk's Oktyabrskaya metro station. They stood together holding hands -- both dressed in black, both with somber demeanors -- on a train platform that was still covered in blood. There, they laid red carnations in silence to commemorate the 13 people who died.

Lukashenko is a lonely man, which explains his demonstrative displays of affection for his son. But since he's also a consummate actor and demagogue, he has devised a political role for his son. He knows that people are touched when they see a strong man with a young boy on his hand. It makes them think his main priorities are order and stability.But what kind of order does he represent? Late Wednesday, Lukashenko told his people that the calm situation in Belarus "had lulled us to sleep." But this time, he continued, officials from the KGB, the country's security service, had done a "brilliant" job in tracking down the men who perpetrated the metro station attack and getting them to confess. The alleged culprits are a lathe operator and an electrician from the provinces.

"Holy cow!" wrote one Belarusian blogger. "After being arrested at 9 p.m., they admitted to several attacks in recent years -- down to the really small ones -- by 5 a.m. They must be using some really cutting-edge interrogation techniques! Is Belarus about to face another 1937, when the show trials were held in Moscow against suspected regime opponents?"That can't be ruled out, although there are indications that the suspected assailants had no political motives. Lukashenko has already announced that he will impose the "strictest order and organization possible" and that the police regiments brought into the city would remain there for the time being. He also said that the all the "gibberish about democracy one wants to impose on us" was absurd and that the people who ordered the bombing -- and who inspired it -- should be sought out in the "fifth column."By "fifth column," Lukashenko means the opposition. Indeed, the president has directed all his scorn at the opposition since the presidential elections held on Dec. 19, 2010. After the autocrat supposedly won 79.7 percent of the vote, most of the opposition candidates joined tens of thousands of demonstrators outside the main government building to protest against suspected electoral fraud and to demand that Lukashenko step down.

Security forces brutally suppressed the demonstration, injuring at least 100 people and arresting some 700. Once it was over, the president boasted that his forces had "reinstated order in seven and a half minutes."Immediately after the demonstration, Lukashenko locked up seven of the nine presidential candidates who had run against him. Two of them are still being held. Although the seven others have been released, they are either being held under house arrest or have been forced to agree to help the KGB. One former candidate, who has since found refuge in the Czech Republic, reports that KGB officers abused and humiliated him.The mills of justice are now grinding relentlessly. Several of the December 19 demonstrators have already been sentenced to between three-and-a-half and four years in prison, and the former presidential candidates are about to face trial. As one Western diplomat put it, the trials will be part of a "general reckoning with the opposition."The West has responded by severing ties with Belarus. To protest against the treatment of regime opponents, the EU banned 177 Belarusian politicians, judges, prosecutors and journalists from entering EU territory. In response, Lukashenko made it clear that Western visitors would not be welcomed in Belarus.Lukashenko has even bad-mouthed German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle as a "fairy" and claimed that Westerwelle had offered him support when he and Poland's foreign minister had visited Minsk before the election. If "people want to try to frighten us with sanctions, no problem" he said, adding that Belarus would become "the Chechnya of the West."

Is it possible that Lukashenko himself is behind the metro attack? Though it's highly unlikely, the explosions certainly did come at a curious moment, when all the country's problems seem to be piling up. Lukashenko has always known how to turn such situations to his own advantage. He is the most agile of all post-Soviet politicians. And as one biography of him published in Moscow puts it, Lukashenko has succeeded with impunity in "creating a closed society right in the middle of Europe." But now he has become a hostage of his own system, and one that cannot survive without constantly searching for new enemies.Hmmmm......."Лукашенко в День дурака уехал в колхоз"Read the full story here.

• And now for something completely different.From Israeli Shores with Love: A Floating Knight Rider.Meet the Silver Marlin, an 11-meter unmanned surface vessel that’s currently residing in Haifa harbor. It’s built by Elbit Systems, whose American offshoot is manning the showroom floor on Monday at the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space confab just outside Washington. It’s just your standard autonomous robot boat, armed with a .50-caliber machine gun, maneuvering around buoys in a harbor thanks to its package of electro-optic sensors and 360-degree panoramic cameras.So, um. The Knight Rider of boats? “That’s exactly right,” says retired Rear Adm. Mark Milliken, a vice president for Elbit’s U.S. branch.Simpsons nerds will recall that Bart gets disillusioned with the seafaring Kitt when he realizes the show’s writers lazily sneak in fjords or inlets to the plots so it can fight crime. The Silver Marlin isn’t as contrived in its relevance: coastal defense; or protecting an offshore oil rig; or, say, placement “in front of a small flotilla,” Milliken says. (Before you ask: the vessel’s been in development for about two and a half years, he explains, well before last year’s Gaza flotilla incident.)Elbit wants to convince the U.S. Navy of the virtues of its robo-boat for other missions, too: launch from a Littoral Combat Ship to protect against small-boat “swarming” threats to the Navy’s close-to-the-coast tactics. Or even counterpiracy. While the Silver Marlin can operate autonomously, a satellite downlink to a control station puts it in remote control mode. Which is what you want, Milliken notes, when you’re talking about firing a weapon at a hostile craft.Might not be such a hard sell: the Navy’s been experimenting with the concept of drone vessels for years, and particularly with an eye toward thwarting pirates. Its long-range research division, the Office of Naval Research, reconfigured existing boats to turn them into drones. Send ‘em into maritime danger without fear they’ll be blown up. “So long as there’s not a human on board,” Milliken says, “I’m not so concerned with survivability.”Hmmmm..........Tora , Tora?Read and see the full story here.