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Australia: Muslim cabbies recruiting for jihad

Jul 16, 2007 6:09 pm By Robert Spencer

Recently in a major American city I had another Wahhabi cab driver, with the distinctive Wahhabi beard. He didn’t offer me any DVD’s, but he did spend the ride proselytizing, and showed great curiosity as to where exactly I lived, which was one detail I was not all that disposed to tell him. Anyway, in Australia, some of that gentleman’s coreligionists who also drive cabs are much bolder.

“Muslim taxi conversions,” by Paul Anderson in the Herald Sun (thanks to all who sent this in):

TAXI authorities have condemned an Islamic recruiting drive by some of Melbourne’s Muslim cabbies using propaganda-style DVDs featuring radical preacher Sheik Khalid Yasin.

Three DVDs, two featuring Sheik Yasin, have been handed to the Herald Sun by an unwitting cab driver after a night trip.

The pro-Islamic discs were handed over in what appeared to be a sales pitch.

A controversial cleric, Sheik Yasin’s past outspoken visits to Australia have concerned security agencies and the Federal Government.

The DVDs given to the Herald Sun, with titles including Death . . . Your Time Is Up! and What Do You Really Know About Islam? feature Sheik Yasin preaching.

Meanwhile, the Victorian Taxi Directorate wants to stop this in order to protect…the cabbies:

The Victorian Taxi Directorate and police sources have condemned the practice of cabbies handing religious material to passengers.

It contravenes regulations and police say it could lead to violence against cabbies.

“The directorate is concerned with any driver conduct which may cause offence to the public,” a VTD spokesman said in a statement.

“The VTD will investigate all complaints lodged through our feedback and complaints service, and strongly encourages passengers to lodge complaints when they are unhappy or concerned with the service they have received.”

Two of the three discs given to the Herald Sun name Sheik Yasin as executive director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, dedicated to “conveying the message”.

“In the past 10 years, the ITI has delivered more than 5000 persons to Islam and an additional 1476 since the September 11 attacks,” the DVDs say.

“Sheik Yasin delivered a lecture in Saudi Arabia in 1994, which resulted in 43 persons accepting Islam on that very night.”

In one of the DVDs, Sheik Yasin says: “Let me for a moment introduce you to death so you know his name, know his characteristics.

“You will feel him. You will smell him. You will taste him. You will touch him.”

Tu-quoque Alert:

In another, the Malcolm X-inspired preacher says: “Many of you have heard or you’ve been told that Muslims are terrorists, fanatics, heretics, extremists, murderers and hostage takers.

“In some cases that is true . . . but let us be objective.

“Have not Jews and Christians also done those things, and are they not also doing those things? Yes, they are.”…

Yes, I’ll never forget the day those Christian terrorists flew those jetliners into those high-rise office buildings.

Victoria Police would not officially comment on the issue, saying unless the DVDs were inciting violence it appeared no crime was being committed….

Sheik Yasin, a US-born preacher, has visited Australia on several occasions and lectured Islamic community groups and universities.

He gained notoriety in Australia by announcing on TV it was God’s will homosexuals be executed, and husbands could beat their misbehaving wives.

In 2005, Sheik Yasin wanted to set up a TV channel to convert Aborigines to Islam.

He also claimed the September 11 attacks were not the work of al-Qaida, and there was no such thing as a Muslim having a non-Muslim friend.

Australian politicians have called for the cancellation of his visa so he cannot come back.

There’s a start. But what about all the cabbies?

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