Great idea, Khamenei. After all, why should Infidels bear all the burden? From GulfNews, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Tehran/Cairo: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called yesterday on Muslims worldwide to provide money to the Palestinians during his talks with the Islamic radical Hamas movement, state television reported."We must make a plan so all Muslims will be able to supply the Palestinians with a yearly financial aid package," Khamenei told Hamas' political leader Khalid Masha'al.
"This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world," Khamenei said.
He lauded Hamas for not moderating its fierce resistance to Israel after its upset victory in Palestinian elections last month. "The Hamas positions are fundamental and right," he said, praising Palestinians for electing the Islamic party. "The Palestinian people voted knowing it meant choosing resistance and fighting the Zionist regime."...
Masha'al knows what Western governments and media seem determined to deny.
In Cairo, the Muslim Brotherhood said it is launching a worldwide donation campaign for a Hamas-led Palestinian government.The pledge by the Brotherhood comes as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice started yesterday a Middle East shuttle to caution regional powers against giving money to a Hamas-led government. The United States and Europe, the world's two largest donors to the Palestinians, said they will not provide funding directly to the Palestinian National Authority if Hamas heads the government....
Also yesterday foreign ministers from several Arab countries were to meet in Algiers to examine a plan to send about $50 million a month to PNA. A final decision is not expected until Arab summit next month in Khartoum.
But plenty of Westerners are still ready with the jizya:
Sweden's state-run aid group yesterday pledged more than five million euros in additional aid to the Palestinian territories.
I thought the U.S. said we would go after any rogue Nation that funds terrorists???????
Does this shoe not fit??????????
Never a dull moment with islam.
Let's see how long they finance this lot.
Awww, their very own welfare state. Heartwarming!
No Western politition will upset the Swiss no matter what they do, after all, thats where they bank their arab "donations" for favours received.
Imli:
I presume you meant their own "warfare state". Iran's economy is a disaster (see Harry's Place blogspot re: transit workers' strike in particular and the inability of the mullahs to rebuild Bam three years after it was devastated by earthquakes). However, the mullahs can always find money for developing nuclear weapons techonology and funding Hezbollah.
SORRY ABOUT LENGTH BUT WHEN I READ THIS I HAD TO CUT AND PASTE IT. SHOULD BE SHOWN TO ALL WHO APPEASE.
'Whoever insults the one true Church deserves to be killed.' (News report)
David Aaronovitch
“EUROPE MUST LEARN to live in and with the world, not to dominate it, nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous. Any continent that has inflicted such brutality on the world over a period of 200 years has not too much to be proud of, and much to be modest and humble about.” Martin Jacques, The Guardian, on the cartoons row.
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe . . .
From a Reuters report, Rome, some time around now
The Vatican has protested in “the strongest possible terms” against the publication in paperback of Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. Cardinal Loopi, of the Office of the Defence of the Faith, condemned the book for defaming Catholicism and, in its suggestion that Jesus Christ was married, of heresy. “We demand that the book be destroyed and that the author be punished,” said Loopi, “otherwise we cannot be held responsible for how Catholics throughout the world may react.”
Excerpt from a speech by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor
Merkel: “The affront to the honour of the one true Church is in fact an affront to the worship of God, and to the seeking of truth and justice, and an affront to all the prophets of God. Obviously, all those who harm the honour of the one true Church . . .”
Crowd: “Death to Dan Brown.
Death to Dan Brown.
Death to Dan Brown.
Death to Dan Brown.”
From the Paris correspondent of al-Jazeera
A Lyons priest today offered half a million euros and a top-of-the-line Toyota as a reward to anyone who killed Dan Brown or any executive of the Da Vinci Code publishers, Jonathan Cape. Speaking to a 1,000-strong crowd gathered after Mass outside the church of St Marie-la-Vierge, Fr Jules Monbiot announced that the offer was “a unanimous decision by all bishops that whoever insults the one true Church deserves to be killed, and whoever will take this insulting man to his end will get this prize”.
News stories in al-Ahram (Cairo)
Bookseller shot dead in Poland, by teenager shouting: “For God, and the Pope!”
Ten killed in Lisbon Dan Brown riots, when police opened fire on mob ransacking the Canadian Embassy. “We thought he was Canadian,” says riot leader.
Violence in northwest London as Jews go on rampage against Holocaust denial in Muslim countries. Kebab restaurants and curry houses ablaze from the Finchley Road to Edgware.
Iranian and Syrian embassies and consulates attacked in 20 cities worldwide. Iranian Embassy destroyed in Canberra. Australian Government describes violence as “regrettable, but understandable”.
Speech by Angela Merkel, about the convening of an international conference in Berlin to “investigate” Islam
“We propose the following to the Muslims: if you are not lying, allow a group of neutral, honest researchers to come to Mecca, and to talk to people, examine documents and let people know the findings of their research about the Muhammad myth. You have even prevented your own scholars from researching this issue. They are allowed to study anything except for the Muhammad myth. Are these not medieval methods?”
Reuters report from Berlin
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel today caused alarm in diplomatic circles when she called for the Netherlands to be ‘wiped from the face of the earth’.” She went on, “The establishment of the Dutch regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Catholic world.”
Summary of an article in French government newspaper, Le Monde
The Netherlands may have created the avian flu virus in order to damage the economies of Europe, and cleverly planted it first in the Far East to divert attention away from the real plan.
Angela Merkel on German attempts to produce a nuclear weapon
“Those who oppose us should be grateful that our people has acted nobly towards you so far, and has been patient. We want to remain patient. Don’t make us lose our patience. The peoples have awakened. The world of Christendom has awakened. Do not make us reconsider our policies.”
Reuters reports from Munich
Fr Rudiger Schlitz, the assistant to the head of the Catholic Church in Germany, has said that it is doctrinally permissible for nuclear weapons to be used. “When the entire world is armed with nuclear weapons, it is permissible to use these weapons as a counter-measure. According to church law, only the goal is important . . .”
Al-Jazeera News. Mark Seddon reporting . . .
These are the pictures of Our Lady’s Church in Shoreham, following the explosion in which 31 parishioners died, along with the suicide bomber, who is believed to belong to the majority Anglican community. This is the fourth such bomb attack on a Catholic church in the last two years.
Statement from Human Rights Watch . . .
Calling on the Italian authorities to order an immediate, independent investigation into the violent suppression of an apparently peaceful demonstration by Seventh Day Adventists in Naples on February 13, 2005. Hundreds of demonstrators, including women and children, were injured when police and armed militia from the Catholic Enforcement League broke up the protest, apparently using excessive force, and as many as 1,200 protesters are believed to have been arrested. A year later 200 of those detained are still being held without trial.
Report from al Quds-al-Arabi
Finland. Mr X, a local celebrity and Muslim, was exhumed after his funeral and given a Christian burial, despite his widow’s objection that he had not been to Church since he was a child, and had converted to Islam at the age of 15. A church court had considered the case following a complaint from a local Lutheran preacher, and ruled that Mr X should be treated as a Christian.
Excerpts from Amnesty International Report for 2006
In Newcastle, England, a special court sentenced a Gateshead woman to be burnt to death for witchcraft. Betty Spencer, 53, was immolated in front of a crowd that had gathered in the Newcastle United football stadium. It was the sixth such execution since the year 2000.
In Idaho a teacher was killed and three of his pupils badly injured when militia members of the “Party of Christ”, who object to girls being educated on the same premises as boys, fired into a packed schoolroom.
And finally, the good news . . .
From hiding, somewhere in Pakistan, Dan Brown apologises to the Judaeo-Christian world for the publication of The Da Vinci Code, promises to donate the proceeds from all his books to any charity nominated for the purpose by Opus Dei and undertakes to become a monk in a silent order at a monastery atop a high mountain in the Apennines.
If Islam is a nation with a population and a territory, then it ain't a religion.
Hey Waterdragon,
nice point, and what is the difference between 'r' and 'l' nowadays anyway, eh? :>
But $600m per year to keep the place ticking over is not all that much for the Islamists to cough up.
The interesting effect will be that the Palestinians will find that their new masters will actually insist on them doing as they are told, or else.
Somehow I've a feeling that we will see the first Palestinian sucide bombings against Palestinians within a year.