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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (12391)	2/7/2006 4:48:29 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 32591

Darren....Gotta love them Russians..... Moscow museum to exhibit Mohammed cartoons MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- upi.com A Moscow museum has announced it will exhibit the entire series of cartoons of Mohammed that have caused riots throughout the Islamic world. Yury Samodurov, director of the Sakharov Museum and Public Center, said on Russian television that the center was ready to organize a public exhibition of the cartoons satirizing the founder of Islam that originally were published in a Danish newspaper, Pravda.ru reported Monday. "We must show the whole world that Russia goes along with Europe, that the freedom of expression is much more important for us than the dogmas of religious fanatics," Samodurov said. The exhibition reportedly will open in March. Lawyer Yury Shmidt has said he will invite French philosopher Andre Glucksmann and French novelist Michel Houellebecq to the opening ceremony to read lectures about the threat of Islamic fundamentalism. In 2003 the Sakharov Museum outraged many Russian Orthodox believers with the art exhibit "Be Careful -- Religion," which many felt was insulting to their beliefs.

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (12391)	2/7/2006 5:14:55 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 32591

And this... This has gotta pi** off radical islamists who are rioting now even more. UK cleric jailed for incitement to murder By Nikki Tait and Jimmy Burns Published: February 7 2006 news.ft.com Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Egyptian-born Muslim cleric, was on Tuesday jailed for seven years after being found guilty on a string of race hate and terrorism-related charges, including incitement to murder in speeches to his followers. Sentencing the cleric at the Central Criminal Court in London, Mr Justice Hughes said that his views had caused “real danger to the lives of innocent people in different parts of the world” and helped created an atmosphere “in which to kill has become regarded by some as...a moral and religious duty in pursuit of perceived justice.” The judge added: “No one can now say what damage your words may have caused. No one can say whether your audience, present or wider, acted on your words”. The trial has been one of the most high-profile terrorism-related cases to reach the English courts in recently - partly because of the attention paid to the Muslim cleric by the tabloid newspapers who have pilloried him for years. Mr Hamza, a former iman at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, was expelled from there by the Charity Commission three years ago, but continued his extremist preaching on the pavement outside. The Hamza case also came to trial as debate over the contentious religious hatred bill reached its zenith - with critics of the proposed legislation pointing to the Hamza trial as evidence that fresh laws were superfluous. After Tuesday’s verdicts and sentencing, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain said: “Abu Hamza was allowed to bask in the limelight by our media...However, whether he was actually inciting violence was always a question for the jurors to answer. We respect their verdicts”. Mr Hamza had been charged on nine counts under the Offences Against the Person Act, in which he was accused of soliciting others to murder Jews and non-Muslims. Much of the evidence was based around videotapes of the cleric’s addresses to followers, seized by police two years ago. He also faced four charges under the Public Order Act of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour; one charge of possessing threatening, abusive or insulting recordings; and one charge of possessing an “encyclopaedia of Afghan Jihad”, with information likely to be use in terrorism. On Tuesday, after two and a half days’ deliberation, the jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts on 11 of the 15 counts. But they found Mr Hamza not guilty in respect of three of the “soliciting to murder” counts, and one of the charges involving threatening words or behaviour. Mr Justice Hughes sentenced the cleric to seven years on the soliciting to murder counts, and from 21 to 3 1/2 years on the remaining counts. All sentences will be served concurrently. Mr Hamza’s conviction is now likely to pave the way for an extradition fight with US authorities, who first sought his deportation to the US on separate terrorism-related charges - including allegations of support for al-Qaeda and conspiring to take hostages - two years ago. This process was put on hold while the UK charges were pursued, and the Old Bailey jury was not told of the US allegations. Mr Hamza’s lawyers are now expected to argue that there should be no question of extradition until the cleric has served his sentence in the UK and all appeals against the conviction are exhausted. Police sources said afterwards that they believed Mr Hamza had “clearly been an influential figure who was capable of influencing young people”. The Metropolitan Police also revealed for the first time on Tuesday that they had had found hundreds of forged identity documents, three blank firing weapons and nuclear biological suits when they raided the Finsbury Park mosque in early-2003. Richard Reid, the so-called “shoe bomber”, who is serving a life sentence in the US for trying to detonate a bomb on a transatlantic passenger flight, is amongst those who is known to have visited the mosque.