More bloody Hamas heroes. From the BBC, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
Palestinian militant group Hamas has released a video showing two Britons it says it used for a suicide bombing a year ago.Londoner Asif Hanif, 21, killed three people and injured 55 by blowing himself up in Tel Aviv, last April.
Omar Khan Sharif, 27, of Derby, is thought to have fled after explosives strapped to his body failed.
Hamas released the video on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the killing of leader Ibrahim al-Maqadma.
Stark message
One of the Islamist organisation's military leaders and founders, al-Maqadma died in an Israeli helicopter missile attack on a car in Gaza city.
Hanif blew himself up in a beachfront pub called Mike's Place, and Sharif's body was later found washed up on an Israeli beach.
It is the first time a suicide bomber has recorded a video, explaining his motivation in detail. Usually, bombers read a few verses from the Koran.
In the video, released on Monday, the pair are shown brandishing assault rifles and calling on God to punish Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush.
In a statement released with the video, Hamas's military wing said the bombing had been a message to Israel that the group "has many options to fight against you as long as you are occupying your land and committing massacres against our people".
And it called al-Maqadma an international figure whose death merited an international response.
In the video, Sharif delivers a tirade in English against Israel.
He says: "Muslims are being killed everyday. It is an honour to kill one of those people [Jews]."
Hanif, from Hounslow, west London, calls on Muslims everywhere to be "people of action".
Sharif, who was married, says he visited a farm destroyed during an Israeli incursion in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia.
He asked: "What are we doing, as Muslims, to help?"
Hanif delivers a traditional speech of Koranic verses, and the men pray in a Gaza flat.
The video's release comes a day after Israeli troops killed 14 Palestinians in a raid of a Gaza Strip refugee camp.
These muslims are internationalists; they seem to show no allegiance to the country the live in. To call them Britons is a disgrace to real Britons -like me.
Many Muslims state that Islamic tenets MUST supersede any national aspirations. (The silent aren't voicing what they know to be true.) Thus, it is unreasonable to EXPECT any kind of state loyalty from them. They will always act to undermine the state until the Caliphate returns.
Beware, Westerners. we are foolish to trust these people. They want lands, fortunes, souls, or our heads on a platter.
racist/nutjob alert.....
Uh Oh.......Prince Joey's back....beware all who are sensible....
Hey.. Joey welcome back to the light....
Joey is only able to come up with slurs. Logical argument eludes him.
I keep wondering why we encourage their 'semi-smart bombs' (As a person who murders others by detonating themselves, while admirable in the Darwin Awards sense of removing themselves from the gene pool... CAN'T be all THAT bright.)
by playing and feeding into the subculture with airtime and bandwidth? It's even worse than voting for politicians, Jeez, all it does is encourage them.
Just a thought anyway.
Tim,
These mass murderers don't need encouragement to kill, and if they do, there are plenty of jihadi websites where they trade the latest bomb recipes.
This site is for the rest of us, who are concerned about what they are doing, and want to share information. Forewarned is forearmed, as it were. Hiding our heads in the sand is no longer an option. These people are trying their best to kill us, and sites like this are a defensive resource. Mr Spencer is merely filtering relevant stories from the mass media, he isn't writing them.
How does one measure success during times of war?
Well, one way would be to ask the question: What is more likely to get you killed in muslim lands, being pro-American or signing on with a local radical islamic cell? Certainly, the answer is quite depressing. Radicals have no fear of identifying themselves as extremists, the fact that its happening in every major British city is cause for rethinking the strategy to date. Could you imagine what would have happened in 1941 if you ran around London screaming for herr hitler.
We're losing, and badly. When your enemies aren't afraid of you, just imagine what "friends" are thinking.
This struggle is with an adversary that does not define victory or defeat with normal Clausewitzsian conventions. I know some are reacting quite negatively to certain posters on the theory that their viewpoints are extreme or indiscriminately brutal.
But ask yourselves this question, how do you kill an Idea? If anyone can deny the calculus of logic in that question, please illuminate the rest of us benighted posters. I think that while some may seem to be inarticulate, in a visceral sense they perceive the inevitable outcome of this conflict.
Joey- Islam is not a race, it's an ideology, an idea that promotes persecution of the rest of us through the institution of dhimmitude. We that do not want to convert or become dhimmis will not be silenced. Obviously you believe that tolerance means silence and acceptance of Islam, hook line and sinker. I don't think so. Tolerance in Islam is only tolerant "under Islam," or, as you put it. Islamic tolerance = dhimmitude. Not on your life.
Bob,
I don't think we are losing, actually. At least, in America. The arabs have hated the west since the birth of Islam, and that is not going to change. But success is not a popularity contest.
How many non-muslim countries have the Islamists claimed? None. After a big terrorist attack in Europe (it is inevitable according to the experts), even Europeans will fight back, even if only in the area of immigration control.
What is the future of the arab lands? They are at their peak production of oil, and still their citizens generally live in terrible conditions. Oil is nonrewable, and what else has the Middle East produced that the world will buy? Absolutely nothing.
Who has power, and by power I mean economic and/or military? Today, America. In the future America will still be a player, along with China, India, maybe Brazil and Russia. I don't see any Islamic countries being added to this list.
I don't think we have to defeat an idea, because Islam is already a failed idea. It defeats itself, forever. The rest of the world advances while Islamic lands stagnate. Even Israel, a recent creation, is years ahead of its neighbors in terms of education, human rights, economic growth, etc. We win.
Basil neatly summarizes Bernard Lewis' posit in What Went Wrong.
Choke off the oil revenues (which will rapidly occur once the States gets serious about going off-oil), and islam will sink into the mire.
(Parenthetically, is it only me, or is anyone else heartened that Daimler-Benz is importing the Smart car, while both GM and Toyota are selling micro cars here in Canada. Incrementally, glacially, arab oil revenues are diminished with 50 mpg cars).
With the possibility of falling oil revenues, it isn't much of a stretch to understand WHY Islamic desert dwellers might be interested in moving into more fertile lands. Otherwise they will wither away. WWIII is about the acquiring of scarce resources as well as a religious war. Human capital is the most important resource. An army of dhimmis doing their bidding and their lands and goods to boot.
Bobnoxious, you can kill an "Idea." You kill it by defeating it's adherents and discrediting its ideology. German Naziism and Soviet Communism are good examples. And remember, our enemy does damage to itself among the sane observers worldwide with every act it undertakes. In the end, the Idea will be defeated for a simple reason: it offers nothing but death, darkness and oppression.
Next time I see a muslim I'm gonna ask them what do they want to be when they blow up.
As bob noticed earlier,it is extremely dificult to kill and idea...butnot impossible.
Another poster answered,and very apropriately at that, communism and nazism were also ideas that we faught and we defeated.
There is ,however a significant difference between the way we conducted our war against communism or nazism and the way we conduct this one....
This one is a war against a much more dangerous enemy,for the simple reason it is not localized in one particular country,but has spread its tentacles throughout the western world.
This one is a war for wich we are ill prepared,for we are too civillized for our own good...we haven`t even clearly stated who the enemy is,yet.
We will realy start to fight this war properly,only after we will aknowledge the fact that the enemy is ISLAM.
Only after we will tell the world what the muslims have been saying all along,that their goal is world domination and nothing less.
True,the islamists have not claimed any non-muslim country so far,but they have massively infiltrated all european countries,the US,Australia,Canada,South-East Asia,Africa and lately South America...
One way or another they will strike to reach their goal of submitting all these countries to Islam,either by sheer demographics,by politics ,by religion or by force.
TAKE NO PRISONERS!
Adela,USA.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/14/egypt.islam/
Fastest-growing religion
The second-largest religion in the world after Christianity, Islam is also the fastest-growing religion. In the United States, for example, nearly 80 percent of the more than 1,200 mosques have been built in the past 12 years.
Some scholars see an emerging Muslim renaissance as Islam takes root in many traditionally Christian communities.
Islam has drawn converts from all walks of life, most notably African-Americans. Former NAACP President Benjamin Chavis, who joined the Nation of Islam recently, personifies the trend.......
nuff said!!!!
Please, Saif, your argument for the nation of Islam has no weight to it, due to it being regarded as a sect and unorthadox by mainstream muslims.
May be this is where some statisticians get their erroneous conclusions from? - the inclusion of those, who even muslims wouldn't wouldn't consider as muslims, in to their figures.
http://www.muhajabah.com/noi.htm
(Incase you dont believe me)
Saif,
As i said, many groups claim to be the fastest growing religion. But there are no empirical studies to back the claim (a CNN report from 97 is not a study). Personally, I doubt that any of the larger religions could be the fastest growing, due to the rule of large numbers (look up the rule). If you can post a real link, please do.
Ye gads people - what's important here is that these b#stards have got half their message across via the medium. When a report ends with this ...
"The video's release comes a day after Israeli troops killed 14 Palestinians in a raid of a Gaza Strip refugee camp."
... and doesn't put anything into context or depth, well - they win again. It's not the fact that we don't agree with them - it's the fact that the press gets others to think "maybe they were right".
Shut the international mouth piece down!
Nation of Islam? And I thought this Saifood guy was gonna name off something credible...Nation of Islam is a cult....in an imaginary war with the U.S. Goverment, who they think consists of all white people......They are ridiculous. They, like CAIR, are Ameriphobes.
Anyone that looks to them for guidance is asking to be led down the path of misguided foolishness.
Now....nuff said
D.C.
I love you people. Fuck Israel & Fuck VS. Fuck Sharon and FUcking Bush the two mather fuckers. Thay sucks us and we fuck tham!!! Palestina will winn moslims will winn and joeden will die whet VS.