And they'll likely still be looking for dawah opportunities in jail, unless they are prevented from doing so. "Arrested Muslims had prayer group plan," by Cormac O'Keeffe for the Irish Examiner, March 12 (thanks to Twostellas):
Some of the seven Muslims arrested as part of an international probe into an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks had planned to set up an extremist prayer group in Waterford to radicalise other Muslims, gardaí believe.
Investigators are understood to be increasingly hopeful of bringing charges against a number of those arrested, either at the end of their detention period or in the months ahead.
Four computer specialists from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation are working around the clock in Waterford city examining computers and other items seized from the homes of those arrested.
Gardaí said the results of this examination should be known in a number of days and that this will largely determine whether charges can be brought and when.
The seven - four men and three women - were arrested by armed gardaí on Tuesday in Waterford and Cork following a lengthy Garda investigation based on information provided by US intelligence agencies.
Five of the seven suspects - three Algerians, one Libyan and one Palestinian - had their periods of custody extended on Wednesday night on application to the courts for a further three days.
Two others - a Croat and a US citizen - had their detention periods extended for three days yesterday morning.
They can all be detained for up to seven days under the Criminal Justice Act 2007. Officers are expected to go to the courts on Sunday for a further two days' extension.
All seven were brought to court under tight security for secret hearings.
Reporters and photographers were barred.
Gardaí had the suspects and associates under surveillance for four months.
Investigators suspect that three of those arrested - an Algerian, Croatian and Libyan - were at "similar levels" in the group.
They believe the group's main players were trying to set up their own prayer room in Waterford city to "try and bring in others". Detectives believe the suspects did not consider the local mosque to be radical enough.
Garda sources have confirmed the arrests are linked to the prosecution of American woman Colleen LaRose over an alleged plot to murder Mr Vilks. The woman, who went by the online name of "Jihad Jane", visited Ireland last September for two weeks when she met some of those arrested.
Gardaí are examining if the suspects intended to provide logistical support and false documentation for the alleged plot. Gardaí are also investigating possible involvement in the murder itself, but are not sure yet.
The computer experts are examining internet downloads on the computer and other documentation seized. Much of this is in Arabic and gardaí have contracted a company that provides interpretation services to the Gardaí to assist.
Detectives are receiving a "level of co-operation" from the suspects, but sources said they are "no fools".
"Prayer room", eh?
http://www.pi-news.net/2010/03/nobelpreis-chefjuror-stellt-sich-hinter-lars-vilks/
German: "Nobelpreis-Chefjuror stellt sich hinter Lars Vilks"
Nobel Prize juror (Prof. literatur Peter Englund from Sweden) stands behind Lars Vilks
Here's the "situation in Cork", according to the Cork Mosque Fund Raising Project:
http://corkmosquefundraising.wordpress.com/the-situation/
It sounds as though the Muslim population is Cork is growing fast. The latest scheme is to take over a Christian church to serve as their mosque.
An Irishman who immigrated to America many years ago and who lives in my neighborhood told me back in November that he didn't understand why Muslims should be admitted into Ireland. He knew enough to know that Christians can't go to Muslim lands and preach their faith to Muslims and build their houses of worship, and yet Muslims can come to Ireland, America and other Western lands and preach all they want and build mosques aplenty. This was all wrong he said. Not fair. Not right. Of course, I agreed with him and told him a few things about Islam (e.g., death for apostasy) and Mohammed (e.g., bedding a nine-year old girl) which he didn't know and which just solidified his distaste for the Mohammedan world and added to his puzzlement as to why Muslims were ever allowed to immigrate to the West in the first place.
That happened 10 years ago near my old home in Dublin. There a Presbyterian(?) Chapel now has a crescent on its roof.
I'm sure, gravenimage, you'll share my sentiment that Muslims in Ireland have wrong written all over it.
FredMk wrote:
That happened 10 years ago near my old home in Dublin. There a Presbyterian(?) Chapel now has a crescent on its roof.
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Ugh. Is it the Donore Presbyterian Church? It is a beautiful building, constructed in the 1860s in the style of a 13th-century English church.
The first Mosque and Islamic Centre in Ireland was built in Dublin on Harrington Street in 1976. Saudi Arabia was a big contributor. In 1981 Kuwait sponsored a full time Imam for the Mosque.
Just a few years later, they started to outgrow the mosque, and started a second campaign to collect donations in order to establish an even bigger mosque. In 1983 they took over the church on South Circular Road.
Wikipedia has a picture, a traditional Irish church—emblazoned with Muslim script:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Mosque
According to the 2006 Irish census, there are 32,539 Muslims living in the Republic of Ireland. representing a 69.% increase over the figures for the 2002 census (19,147). In 1991, the number of Muslims was below 4000.
Now, the Republic of Ireland has a population of almost 4.5 million, so the Muslim population is still comparatively small—but it growing fast.
"Now, the Republic of Ireland has a population of almost 4.5 million, so the Muslim population is still comparatively small—but it's growing fast."
That's the deliberate Demographic Jihad for you.
We can't go there and build churches, but they can come here and build "mosques aplenty," as Wellington put it. How could we, how can we, be so dumb as to permit this deliberate infiltration to happen?
Muslims in Ireland is a tragedy.
As it is becoming in Europe, so it appears to be happening here in the US of A. Just a matter of time. I heard in a generation or two, Europe will be awash with Islam, for the most part.
Islam: The religion of peace....as in a graveyard.