MILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being poured into financing terrorist propaganda, it emerged last night.

Some of the cash is even being used to fund school textbooks which teach children in Palestine to worship violence and hate all non-Muslims.


The money has also been spent on school books praising the “insurgents” killing British troops in Iraq, a report revealed.


Tories and Jewish leaders expressed outrage at the revelations and called for an urgent investigation into how the Palestinian Authority has used £47.5million in British aid over the past year.


Shadow Foreign Office Minister David Lidington said he was “disturbed” by the findings of the TaxPayers’ Alliance report. He added: “It is imperative that future generations are taught a message of reconciliation and mutual understanding.


“I have contacted both the Palestinian representative in London and the United Nations Relief Agency to discuss the issues the TaxPayers’ Alliance has raised.”


Former Tory home security spokesman Patrick Mercer said the way the money was being used was “grotesque”.


“It worries me deeply that taxpayers’ money is being used, quite improperly, for destructive purposes,” he said.


“While aid needs to be directed to the needy, its abuse for terrorist purposes is grotesque.”


Former Labour MP Lord Janner said the report was “concerning”.


Lord Janner, a previous President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, added: “It’s vital that Palestinian children are not indoctrinated with anti-Jewish and Israel hatred.”


But the report, by analyst Matthew Sinclair, says that British aid “is helping to fund ‘hate education’ and promote violence.” It gives examples of programmes on the Palestinian Authority’s official TV station.


One sermon on November 10, 2006, proclaimed: “We want to kill the Jews. Kill them one by one, make their children orphans and their wives widows.”


Another attacked anyone who refused to become a Muslim. It said: “God’s enemies are the enemies of the religion! Count them and kill them.”

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All the details from Jihad Watch:

"We were the first white American Christians to speak on a Friday afternoon at the Khartoum mosque. That happened, not because we're so good looking, but because we built bridges of respect," said Siljander in November 2007. That comes from a very illuminating article in which he describes his evolution from a born-again Christian who aggressively proselytized among Muslims to a Christian apologist for Islam who sees no contradictions between what the Bible and the Qur'an say about Jesus.

Is he still building those bridges?

"AP: Former Congressman, U.N. Delegate Indicted as Part of Terrorist Fundraising Ring," from AP:

WASHINGTON — A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists.

A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying — money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development....

UPDATE: Here's an interesting article from 2005:

Edinburgh Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies - Special Lectures 2005

Dr. Mark Siljander will present two lectures this week, in a series entitled “The place of Muslim-Christian dynamic in international negotiations”.

[...]

Ambassador Siljander is a student of several languages, including Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and has spent over ten years studying the Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

These experiences have led him to develop what he describes as “a unique paradigm for the peaceful resolution of conflict that has been successfully applied in several challenging areas of the globe”.

Unique indeed!

In 1996 he received the 1996 Mohandas K. Gandhi International Peace Award, for “...recognition of his courageous statesmanship in international reconciliation.”

Congressman Siljander is affiliated academically with the Edinburgh Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies.

As Robert said in his article Republicans understand jihad better. Indeed and CAIR doesnt like it. So they have started the website http://www.cair2008election.com/ for the elections. On one section of the site they highlight what they call "anti-Muslim" rhetoric of the candidates. Lets take a look at one of the comments they consider "anti-Muslim".CAIR makes it even more clear that they dont want anything done about Islamic terrorism.

First they attack Huckabee when he said:

"Radical Islamic fascists have declared war on our country and our way of life. They have sworn to annihilate each of us who believe in a free society, all in the name of a perversion of religion and an impersonal god."

Clearly Huckabee was not talking about all Muslims with this comment. He was saying that he believes that radicals have perverted Islam. Yet CAIR trys to say this comment was somehow talking about all Muslims. You can read the rest of the comments here.

This is a great article by Robert Spencer over at Human Events.

Among the biggest differences between the Republican and the Democratic presidential candidates is their judgments of what began on September 11, 2001, and why. In last Saturday’s ABC News debates, according to Investor’s Business Daily, the Republican candidates “referred to terrorists and terrorism as ‘Islamic,’ while also citing radical ‘Islam’ as the problem, no less than 22 times.”

The Republican candidates seem more terrified of labeling the source of terrorism correctly than they are of what terrorists could do. All were anxious to avoid the giving the impression that they thought that jihad terrorism represented a problem within Islam. Mike Huckabee even spoke of “the radical Islamic faith” and said that the enemy was “not all Islam, and that’s what’s very important. This isn’t an Islamic problem. This is a jihadist problem. This is an Islamo-fascism problem.”

Huckabee didn’t explain how a problem involving jihad, a central principle within Islam, could not be at least in some way an Islamic problem, but his intention – to divorce peaceful Muslim individuals and entities from so-called “radicals” – was all too clear. Similarly, Giuliani described the “Islamic terrorism threat against us” as having to do with “the way they’ve perverted their religion into a hatred of us.” He offered no explanation for why the adherents of this “perverted” Islam are so many, and why peaceful Muslims have mounted no large-scale opposition to their challenge.

Nonetheless, the candidates’ awareness of the nature of the threat was refreshing. Countering Ron Paul’s contention that if the U.S. military had no presence in Muslim countries, the jihad would disappear, Huckabee also explained that the jihadists “believe that they must establish a worldwide caliphate that has nothing to do with us other than we live and breathe and their intention is to destroy us.” Mitt Romney likewise chided Paul: “Well, unfortunately, Ron, you need a thorough understanding of what radical jihad is, what the movement is, what its intent is, where it flows from. And the fact is that it’s trying to bring down not just us, but it’s trying to bring down all moderate Islamic governments, Western governments around the world, as we just saw in Pakistan.” He also spoke of “a battle that is going on within the world of Islam, of radical, violent jihadists trying to bring down all moderate Islamic people and nations and replace them with a religious caliphate.”

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BEIRUT, Lebanon - An explosion targeted a U.S. Embassy vehicle Tuesday in northern Beirut, killing at least three Lebanese and injuring an American bystander and a local embassy employee, U.S. and Lebanese officials said.

The blast, which damaged the armored SUV and several other vehicles, took place just ahead of a farewell reception for the American ambassador at a hotel in central Beirut.

No Americans were in the car, which was carrying two Lebanese employees of the embassy, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in Washington.

There were conflicting accounts of the death toll, with the State Department, from information provided by the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, saying four people had been killed and Lebanese authorities saying that only three had died.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the bombing a "terrorist attack."

"The United States will, of course, not be deterred in its efforts to help the Lebanese people, to help the democratic forces in Lebanon, to help Lebanon resist force and interference in their affairs," she told reporters in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

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An update on this story:

A video containing an unspecified threat to Austria was posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube on Tuesday following anti-Islamic remarks by a hitherto unknown far-right Austrian politician.

Police said they were still evaluating the video, but had offered the Graz- based activist, Susanne Winter, personal protection after she denounced Islam's prophet and Muslim men in general as "child molesters".

Winter had accepted the added protection following her remarks at the weekend, said a spokesman for the interior ministry, Rudolph Gollia.

He said the government's anti-terrorism office was "still in the process of evaluating" the video. Nevertheless, there appeared no reason to increase security in Austria for the time being, Gollia added.

The video, lasting four minutes and 48 seconds, contained coverage of a speech Winter made at the traditional New Year's congress of the populist far-right FPOe party on Sunday.

Winter is the FPOe's candidate for the upcoming municipal elections in the southern city of Graz.

The video then showed pictures of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, and warned: "Look, Susanne, something like this could happen to your country and you are responsible."

"It was a mistake for you to take on ... Allah's warriors," the video said in German.

In her remarks on Sunday, Winter had described Mohammed as a "child molester" who wrote the Koran "during epileptic fits".

In a separate interview with the tabloid daily Oesterreich on Monday, Winter continued her tirade, speaking of a "tsunami of Muslim immigration" that threatened to engulf Western Europe.

And she alleged that "child abuse by Islamic men is widespread."

The comments, which were quickly slammed by Austria's mainstream political parties and religious leaders, are currently being investigated by public prosecutors to ascertain whether they constitute incitement to racial hatred.

Incitement to racial hatred is a crime punishable with up to two years' imprisonment in Austria.

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A group of alleged militant Islamists has gone on trial in Belgrade, Serbia, accused of terrorism offences.

The 15 men are charged with running terrorist training camps and plotting assassinations inside Serbia.

Most of them were arrested last year near Novi Pazar, the main town in the southern region of Sandzak, where there is a Muslim majority.

Prosecutors say the group was planning to attack a police station and murder a Muslim cleric.

Prosecutor Jovica Jovanovic said the defendants had close ties with fellow Islamists in neighbouring countries, as well as Saudi Arabia and Austria.

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Female Muslim leader Aziza Abdel-Halim, who accused Islamic clerics of hushing up abuse to protect male members of their mosques, is planning a coalition of men and women to raise awareness about domestic violence.

Community leaders yesterday warned that victims were being held captives in their own homes by abusive husbands and in some cases reporting to Islamic social services with broken arms, cuts and bruises.

Sister Abdel-Halim, a senior member of the Howard Government's Muslim advisory board and president of the Muslim Women's National Network Australia, said the coalition would be formed this year to lobby the Government for assistance.

"There's wife beating, there's children beating," she said. "Some of them go to the extent of forbidding the woman to leave the house.

"It is a real problem. And as long as people keep hushing it up and sweeping it under the carpet or whatever, nobody knows about it, nobody is prepared to do anything about it, even the imams."

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Glenn is a well intentioned guy I believe. He has done a great job exposing jihadist especially In his special "Exposed: The Extremist Agenda". But he seems to believe that Islam is essentially peaceful and that jihadist have hijacked Islam. I have heard him many times compare violent passages in the Quran to violent passages in the Bible as being equal. There is one big problem with this where are the Christians quoting Bible in order to justify violence? On top of that the Bible doest not contain open ended commands to violence like the Quran. Robert Spencer has pointed out before how Glenn is dead wrong on Islam. In his new book an Inconvenient Book he says I have read the Koran and can tell you that I unequivocally believe that Islam is a religion of peace". All I can say is he must have ignored alot of the Quran in order to say that.

More recently last week while discussing the murder of the 2 girls in Texas by their Muslim dad he said it could not be called an honor killing. Even though the girls great aunt said it was. He also mad a comment saying that he didnt understand how that this Muslim man married a Christian woman and then killed his daughter if he was such a radical. So lets see Glenn says he has read the Quran but yet he has no idea why a Muslim man would marry a non-Muslim. Clearly Glenn is once again clueless about what the Quran even says on this issue.

Taking a look at the Quran and searching a few Islamic websites you find out that Muslim men are allowed to marry Christian women.

Women from the people of the book, that is Jewish and Christian women are lawful (in marriage) for Muslim men (Al-Maaidah 5: 5); and

Polytheist (Mushrik) men and women are unlawful (in marriage) for Muslim men and women (Al-Baqarah 2: 221).

So there is the answer to your question Glenn the man was totally living within the laws of Islam in marrying this Christian woman.

An update on Greet Wilders film. Greet has already had death threats over this film. Now this from radical group Hizb ul-Tahir who is allowed to operate openly in the Netherlands. Thanks to Islam In Europe for this.

The upcoming anti-Koran film of Geert Wilders is leading to much agitation and threatening language in the Islamic community. The vanguard of opposition is formed by Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT), a movement working secretly, with an almost military hierarchy. Its followers recently spread a pamphlet calling to defend the "Noble Koran" and they are calling for an end to offending Muslims. "If this film will be released, then it's WAR!"

The Turk Okay Pala functions as the leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Netherlands: "Who knows what will happen soon," he says this week, "The people won't take this any more."

Pala and his party members launched recently the campaign "Stop the slandering of Islam" and collected thousands of expressions of support on the internet. If it's up to Pala, minister Ter Horst (Internal Affairs) will soon get the petition. Then she'll get to see on behalf of the cabinet what one signer wrote: "What you need is a serious bomb attack".

The emotions are running high by supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Mehmet wrote in the petition: "Hell will break out. Be warned." Nassira writes: "May Allah break the neck of Geert Wilders and the people who help him." And Hayat asks: "Didn't they learn a lesson from what happened with Theo van Gogh?"

The security service AIVD, under the jurisdiction of Ter Horst, follows up on HUT since the movement can form a danger for the democratic state. Wilders had called for a ban on them in the past, but the cabinet replied on September 2005 that the HUT is not developing anti-democratic or violent activities in the Netherlands, as far as is known.

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Teresa Malof knew she wasn't in Kentucky anymore when a cleric issued a fatwa against her secret Santa gift exchange.

Malof proposed the idea at the King Fahad National Guard Hospital, where she has worked for more than a decade. It was supposed to be discreet, but rumors were whispered amid veils and hijabs that the lithe, blond nurse, raised on farmland at the edge of Appalachia, was planning to celebrate a Christian tradition in an Islamic kingdom that forbids the practicing of other religions.

"Even though I'm a Muslim too, I like to celebrate the holidays and have gift exchanges," said Malof, a convert to Islam who is married to the son of a former Saudi ambassador. "But word got out and the religious people came with a fatwa [or edict] against the Santa party. My husband was having a heart attack. He was worried I'd be in a lot of trouble."

For American women married to Saudi men, such is life in this exotic, repressive and often beguiling society where tribal customs and religious fervor rub against oil wealth and the tinted-glass skyscrapers that rise Oz-like in the blurry desert heat. This is not a land of the 1st Amendment and voting rights; it is a kingdom run by the strict interpretation of Wahhabi Islam, where abayas hang in foyers, servants linger like ghosts, minarets glow in green neon and, as a recent court case showed, a woman who is raped can also be sentenced to 200 lashes for un-Islamic behavior.

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This is good. Read it all here:

On Wednesday January 4, 2006 a black mother gave evidence at an inquest. At Southwark Coroners Court in southeast London, Ruth Marriott spoke of the last days of her son Adrian Marriott. He had been an accountancy student, but was also a gang member, belonging to the Peel Den Crew. He had been shot five times in the head on June 8, 2004, a few weeks before his 21st birthday. His body was found in parkland off Barrington Road in Brixton.

52-year old Ruth Marriott told the inquest: "We heard the shooting. We heard gun fire. The thought did strike me that Adrian could be involved, but it was a fleeting thought. Then we heard from police the following evening what had happened. Adrian was told on the Sunday prior to his death that he would be killed if he did not become a Muslim by the Wednesday, which was the day he died."

John Sampson, the coroner, asked if her son had taken the threat seriously. She answered: "I do not think he did." Sampson later declared that Adrian Marriot had been unlawfully killed.

Ruth Marriott had last seen her son on the day before he died. She said: "He was happy. He was pestering me to order something for him out of my catalogue. He liked music and football, but Adrian was very much a family man. He also loved his dog. They would go out together regularly to the park that he died in."

The gang that had ordered Adrian Marriott to convert to Islam is called The Muslim Boys. Until the killing its ascendancy had passed mainly unnoticed by the media. The Muslim Boys were viewed as just another of the many gangs that operated in south London, with names such as the Stockwell Crew, the Peel Den Crew, Mad Crew or Mad4T, the SMS (South Man Syndicate, also known as South Man Dem) and PDC (Poverty Driven Children). The police took the threat of the Muslim Boys more seriously. When Adrian Marriott's funeral took place in Brixton, the ceremony was guarded by armed police.

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I wonder if this same thing would have happened if he would have had some not so kind words for Christianity. Of course it wouldn't have. Every religion can be criticized except Islam.

Vienna - Remarks by a right-wing politician denouncing Islam and accusing the Prophet Mohammed of having been a paedophile provoked widespread outrage in Austria on Monday, with authorities investigating whether they constituted hate speech.

Susanne Winter, a candidate for the Freedom Party in local elections in Graz in south-eastern Austria, said on Sunday that Mohammed's marriage to a 6-year-old girl would make the prophet a 'paedophile in today's system.'

Speaking at a rally, Winter demanded that Islam should be 'thrown back where it came from, beyond the Mediterranean Sea.'

Winter later justified her attacks. 'There is widespread child abuse by Muslim men,' she was quoted as saying by the newspaper Oesterreich.

'Why can't I say this? That has nothing to do with hate speech. We want neither Austrian nor foreign paedophiles. I did not want to incite hatred, or offend a religious community,' she said.

Austria's authorities were investigating whether Winter's remarks constituted incitement to hatred, a spokesman from the prosecutor's office said. If found guilty, Winter could face up to two years in prison.

Politicians from all other factions sharply denounced Winter's remarks and called for her resignation.

Muslim representatives in Austria criticized the remarks. Omar al- Rawi, a spokesman for Austria's Muslim community, slammed the lack of respect shown by the right-wing politician.

Attacks against Islam had reached a level that 'made one's stomach turn,' al-Rawi said.

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This story is a little out of the norm for my site but I just couldnt help but post this...
Rumor has it that Britney Spears is going to convert to Islam for boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. I find this a little unbelievable but who knows this is a crazy world we live in.
This via News Of The World

But SHE was telling pals how much she's in LOVE with Ghalib, 35 and that she plans to MARRY him and convert to his faith, ISLAM.

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Meanwhile, unsuspecting Britney has told friends she is prepared to embrace Islam to spend her life with Ghalib.


Incredibly, one of his relatives told us: "Although his father has disowned him, there is still a way back—if Britney became a Muslim and they got married."

UPDATE: Britney having Scientology marriage????
Ok this makes no sense... This via Daily Express:

BRITNEY SPEARS has told family and friends she intends to marry her paparazzo lover Adnan Ghalib in a Scientology marriage ceremony.

UPDATE: Times Of India reports she maybe moving to Pakistan.


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So this guy attended terrorist training camps and is now seeking a visa for Britain. hmmm.

Osama Bin Laden's son has applied for a British visa so he can live in Britain with his wife.

Omar Bin Laden, 26, who admits attending terror training with the Al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, has been interviewed with his wife Jane Felix-Browne, 52, by British Embassy officials in Cairo, where he is currently living.

The couple plan to set up house in Jane's £550,000 home in Moulton, Cheshire, have a child through a surrogate mother and work as "peace activists".

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I have been very busy relocating but now IM BACK!

I thought it would be beneficial for us to examine each presidential candidate and there views on Islamic terrorism:

Hillary Clinton:
Well Robert Spencer has already wrote a great piece at Jihad Watch about Hillary. He shows that there is basically no mention anywhere on Hillarys website about what she would do about "terrorism" yet alone Islamic terrorism. Steve Emerson has pointed out that Hillary has met on many occasions with terrorist sympathizers. World Net Daily reported that Hillary has accepted campaign money from groups suspected of terrorist connections. They also reported that terrorist in the Middle East would welcome Hillarys presidency.

I really have no idea what Hillary plans to do about terrorism at all. All she has said is that she wants to get out of Iraq and give us government health care. I have yet to see anywhere where she says how she will protect our nation from jihadist.

Just as this Article points out Democrats seem to be clueless about what jihad even is.

Barack Obama:
Barack does have a section on this website here for homeland security. The problem is he never really addresses terrorism at all. Instead all we get is how he would protect nuclear plants and the water supply. There is not a single mention of Islamic terrorist that want to take over America.

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