![]() |
![]() |
|||||||||||
|
News from the BBC:
Britain's top Jewish body has apologised for branding a Muslim charity a "terrorist organisation".In an out-of-court settlement, the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it should not have described Interpal in these terms.
London-based Interpal, which raises millions for Palestinian causes, had launched a libel action against the Board, due in the High Court next year.
The board has now published a retraction and apology on its website.
In the statement, the Board said it had reached a settlement with Interpal in relation to a September 2003 article on its website which referred to "terrorist organisations such as Hamas and Interpal".
Does Interpal really deserve an apology, however? Even the BBC includes this caveat at the end of their article:
The row with the Board of Deputies began after the US Treasury Department accused Interpal of being part of the European "funding network" for Hamas, the largest militant Islamist organisation in the Palestinian territories involved in suicide bombings.
Hmmm..alright, so the Treasury Department at least thinks Interpal is a money front for Hamas (see their press release). And just last month, the UK Independent reported that Israeli prosecutors had provided documents showing that millions of Euros had been funnelled through Interpal to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, including the family of the bomber who killed 15 Israelis inside a Sbarro pizza shop in 2001.
There's more. In 2000, American and German investigators arrested Sheikh Mohammad Ali Hassan al Moayad, a Hamas fundraiser who spent his spare time sending cash and arms to Al-Qaeda. During the investigation, Sheikh Moayad showed receipts for tens of thousands of dollars made out to Interpal to a FBI informer, so as to prove that he could "get money to the jihad." Additionally, Saudi organizations such as the International Islamic Relief Organization and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth also funnelled millions of dollars through Interpal, destined for unknown Palestinian coffers. Whats more, Interpal founder Ibrahim Hewitt once admitted that Interpal money could have "possibly" made its way to Hamas, but not to its "military wing."
It seems, considering all the available evidence indicating Interpal's perfidy, that the BDBJ's apology is more of an attempt to avoid Interpal's charges of libel than a realistic assessment of the group's obvious terroristic intentions. Chalk up another victory for lawsuit-happy terrorist organizations.
Posted by Patrick at December 29, 2005 10:03 AM
Print this entry
| Email this entry
| Digg this
| del.icio.us
Like a blushing debutante, Jihadists (aka "terrorists") are inching out from behind the blue velvet curtain... announced, received, and legitimized, at long last.
MOSLEMS WILL BONE YOU MOSLEMS WILL CLONE YOU MOSLEMS WILL OWN YOU
"First I'd like to say thank you to the BBC and Le Monde and the New York Times for their commitment and invaluable assistance. It's been a struggle, but we art now part of the world community on an equal footing. Thank you all (sniff). Our only cause is world peace. You all will *so* pleased at the many great surprises we have in store for you. You'll see; you'll find out. We Moslems accept this recognition with pride and purpose."
MOSLEMS WILL BONE YOU MOSLEMS WILL CLONE YOU MOSLEMS WILL OWN YOU
The fact that they would kill or conquer us all? Well, that's just their portfolio. Every group has its emphasis, and Global Sharia happens to be theirs. Can't hold their religion against them, now can you.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at December 29, 2005 11:06 AM
Acting toward Muslims with kindness and Christian charity: a tragic account
I write this brief account of my Coptic Egyptian family and the result of their kindness to Muslims to enlighten some of the kindly people on this forum to the danger of kindness to Muslims. Also, I am fed up by infidels on this board advocating on behalf of Muslims in the name of fairness, civility, and humanity. Moreover, as humans we learn more from stories than from abstract concepts, facts and figures which lack a human dimension.
I come from what was once considered a very wealthy family. My Great Great grandfather owned hundreds of acres of fertile land in Upper Egypt in which he grew cotton in the first years of the twentieth century. He was a kind old man, a devout convert to the Anglican faith from his native Coptic Orthodoxy. He was extremely generous and he gave to anyone who asked him without paying attention to the needy person’s religion. One day, a so called Muslim friend, a man who speculated in cotton on the cotton exchange and lost enormous amounts money which he owed to the exchange and his creditors, came to my kindly ancestor and asked him to sign a paper to guarantee his obligations or he will be ruined. He just needed time to set his affairs in order, or so he said. My grandfather trusted the man and felt sorry for him and his family, so he signed. Later, the Muslim man liquidated his assets and faked a backdated transfer to his family. My kindly Great Great Grandfather was left holding the Muslim man’s huge debts; his assets and all his earthly possessions were seized and sold in auction for pennies on the dollar, gobbled up by his “Muslim friends”. He lost his huge compound built by Italian architects and every last piece of his possessions. He was forced to move into a mud brick single story house and lived in abject poverty until his death. Yes, without exaggeration, from nearly a palace into a mud shack. He believed that he was acting as a Christian and bearing his cross in life like Job of old. His saintly wife never blamed him for his foolishness. It took his Grandchildren decades to claw themselves out of the hole that their grandfather have placed them in, working hard with honesty and perseverance until they became somewhat wealthy. However, some of them never learned from the stupidity of their ancestor and repeated his mistakes because they wanted to act like Christ. They handed their land to Muslim sharecroppers who were expelled from their village by a powerful Muslim clan. They were ragged refugees with children, so a relative of my grandfather gave them a small house in the front of the enclosed plaza inhabited by the extended family, becoming the only Muslim neighbors. That foolish relative died and his children died soon after… The once wretched Muslim family grew rich and powerful over the years, and they seized the vacated houses and lands of my distant relatives and tore them down and built a massive house. Over the years, they showed their true colors, becoming increasingly belligerent toward their Christian neighbors, making their life a living hell. The fact that they owe everything to the charity of Christian benefactors did not temper their Islamic hostility, but in fact it made it stronger because of the inferiority complex that they have. One time they shot my elderly grandfather in the shoulder with a shotgun and he miraculously survived. My uncle and his boys have the tragic fate of constantly battling the Muslim neighbors and their friends, which is a hanging death sentence on their heads.
In conclusion, with all due respect to Jesus Christ and his pacifist teachings, and all the kindly Christians working to elevate the suffering of Muslims, kindness to Muslim is the height of stupidity because to be kind to them is to be unkind to one’s descendents and the truly innocent victims of Islam who deserve the kindness, but alas, they get none. To take vipers to your breast is to invite a fetal venomous bite.
at December 29, 2005 12:29 PM
Have Mercy -- a harrowing story -- one which has no doubt been repeated millions of tims throughout Islam's reign on earth... Though Muslims aren't the only humans who cave into avarice and deception, I am unaware of any other institutionalized belief system besides Islam which codifies this type of behavior, and fiercely sanctions it...
My knowlege of Islam wasn't solidified until the atrocities of 9/11 -- but as an avid reader of history, I have always wondered exactly what forces brought various former world powers and first class cultures to devastation... In the New World, theories abound to explain the downfalls of Aztec and Mayan cultures, from the advent of diseases brought by old world conquistadors to their addictions to human sacrifice or abuse of delicate ecosystems...
But in the "cradle of civilization" -- the region around Iraq, and extending out in nearly concentric waves, Islam is all that seems to remain where former magnificence once was the rule -- Persia, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Byzantium, et al...
Like a white shark eating machine, a plague of locusts, or sea urchins devouring a magnificent reef, Islam spreads its hateful tendrils and rips up, mangles, and destroys former glories...
It is clear to me now that Islam is nothing short of the ruination of humanity, and the antithesis of everything I hope for in the future... It must be destroyed as we would any evil malignancy...
Posted by: jsla
at December 29, 2005 1:19 PM
"Like a white shark eating machine, a plague of locusts, or sea urchins devouring a magnificent reef, Islam spreads its hateful tendrils and rips up, mangles, and destroys former glories..."
-- posted by jsla
So. What do the Moslems do after they take over the world. What they gonna do for fun then?
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at December 29, 2005 2:27 PM
Dhimmi Britain always rules in favor of Muslims against Jews, the Jewish Group simply knew that despite being in the right they didn't stand a chance against Muslims in a British Court so settled before they lost.
This case simply shows that Dhimmi Britain needs to make a choice fast.
Hand over the country to Islam and Shariah, or put the foot down and say any terrorist is going to be shot, anyone supporting terrorism is going to be jailed, anyone who makes pro-terrorist speeches will be ostracized, and any immigrant who supports terrorism can go back to his country of origin.
Posted by: Druze
at December 29, 2005 2:28 PM
jsla:
Your post is music to my ear. An infidel growing up without a background in Islam who truly understands and articulates in the most eloquent fashion the plague of Islam is something very special. The simple fact of the matter is that the average westerner has no concept of Islam... How could he or she without the benefit of knowledge or firsthand experience in this climate of political correctness. God bless you for your very eloquent post.
at December 29, 2005 2:35 PM
What do the Moslems do after they take over the world. What they gonna do for fun then?
They will slaughter each other as they have done througout history.
The Best way to deal with Islam is to use the divide and rule tactics of the British, to prompt them to turn on one another.
Better to have one hundred sects of islam fighting each other for supremacy , thus exhausting them of the strength to attack us.
The Unification of the sand arabs states under the work of Lawrence has resulted in the mayhem that faces us today.
And of course The Iraq war and its tripartite struggle is saving the west from some terrorist attacks .
Unfortunately due to our own idiocy, the future of terrorism is from the home grown terrorist and this is something that our democracy is not eqiuped to handle.
at December 29, 2005 8:43 PM
I never thought that I would see the day when Jews would apologize for being right about Muslims!!! They were right about these Islamofeces and backed off. I hope that this is part of a stratigic plan. The money trail says that Interpal is helping to finance Hamas and is also linked to al Qeada. But yet just to save face, British Jews have cowtowed to the court of the pc crowd and popular opinion. Freedom and justice takes a back seat to cowardice and appeasment. The liberals and the Islamofeces win again!!!
Posted by: Ironman Hondo
at December 30, 2005 2:05 PM
Ironman Hondo, you say "But yet just to save face, British Jews have cowtowed to the court of the pc crowd and popular opinion."
Harsh. Libel actions are geared in favour of the plaintiff; they even have juries, which civil cases otherwise always lack. It makes sense to settle. Everyone knows the libel laws in the UK encourage those claiming defamation to try and get an action here rather than in, say, the US, where there is much less chance of success. We have read here about situations involving Saudi high-ups sueing, and thus suppressing scholars critical of them.
On top of that, the dhimmi and PC crowd will always support the poor downtrodden Muslim, especially where it is a case involving Jews. You cannot imagine how much Jews are hated in England (and other European countries). Recall that it is for a jury to decide; a judge might be less prejudiced. Even if the Board had a strong case, I think they are wise to settle and even apologise. We know the apology is not sincerely meant after all!
Posted by: philiph35
at January 1, 2006 5:57 PM


(Note: The Comments section is provided in the interests of free speech only. It is mostly unmoderated, but comments that are off-topic, offensive, slanderous, or otherwise annoying stand a chance of being deleted. The fact that any comment remains on the site IN NO WAY constitutes an endorsement by Jihad Watch or Dhimmi Watch, or by Robert Spencer or any other Jihad Watch or Dhimmi Watch writer, of any view expressed, fact alleged, or link provided in that comment.)