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To: longnshort who wrote (1429)	9/23/2006 8:32:52 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20106

Hmmm, I think you can make THAT statement about any religion. The fanatics are ***holes. Those who believe and just live their lives and try to use their religion to improve it are mostly OK.

To: longnshort who wrote (1429)	9/23/2006 11:51:47 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Pakistan : Youth’s ‘martyrdom’ inspires Charsadda locals Daily Times, Pakistan ^ \| September 24, 2006 \| Javed Afridi dailytimes.com.pk PESHAWAR: Qari Fazle Amin from a small village in Charsadda district has become the talk of the town after reportedly blowing himself up in Afghanistan. “He, who went to Afghanistan to kill kafirs (infidels)?” asked a nine-year-old boy from Akhun Zafar Baba village in the Shabqadar area, 25 kilometres north of Peshawar, when Daily Times inquired about Amin’s house. “Did you know him?” the boy asked. Amin was one of eight boys of the locality who went missing in Afghanistan some time ago and the third to have reportedly conducted a suicide bombing in that country. The news of Amin’s “martyrdom” reached his village on September 17 and thousands of people including Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leaders have visited his house since and offered fateha for him. Amin’s father Maulvi Aleem, who is a prayer leader in the nearby Aranda village, said Amin had sought his permission to go to Afghanistan, but he did not allow him. Aleem, however, prayed that God may accept his son’s “sacrifice”. He said that Amin had gone to Rawalpindi in April to find a job, but he did not return. “I received a message in June this year that Amin has been killed in Afghanistan, but it was wrong,” Aleem said. “Amin was misguided by Aminullah of the nearby village, who too blew himself up in Afghanistan,” he added. Aleem was delivered the message of his son’s death by a group of some 20 men unknown to him. “Amin conducted a successful suicide attack against the enemy in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on August 28,” Aleem quoted the men as telling him. “I have no more details of his death,” he said in a choked voice, adding, ”I don’t have his body . . . , no grave, no funeral, nothing.” Aleem said his son was a Hafiz-e-Quran and took little interest in worldly affairs. “I had to end his engagement after he refused to get married. He said he would have 72 wives in heaven.” Aleem said that Amin had refused to work with his cousin in a shoe factory because “his cousin did not offer prayers regularly”. “This is how he was and all my attempts to change him failed,” he said.

To: longnshort who wrote (1429)	9/23/2006 11:55:46 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Police to brief Muslims before terror raids (U.K. national suicide) The Times (London) ^ \| September 24, 2006 \| Abul Taher timesonline.co.uk Police have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests. Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid. Members will be security vetted and will have to promise not to reveal any intelligence they are shown. They will not have to sign the Official Secrets Act. The first panel, expected to consist of four people, will be set up initially in London. Tomorrow representatives from police forces across England and Wales will decide whether to make the scheme national. Muslim groups have welcomed the move, which is understood to be backed by Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner. This week the Association of Chief Police Officers will discuss with MI5 and the Home Office whether to reveal to the panel intelligence information from the security service. The idea came from the Metropolitan police and the Muslim Safety Forum (MSF), which works for better police-Muslim relations. It has been under discussion for two years and came to the top of the agenda after a police raid in Forest Gate, London, in June, in which a man was shot. Police were acting on a tip-off about a bomb. None was found. Azad Ali, chairman of the MSF, said: “The major concern that came to us from Muslims was that the intelligence was flawed — the raid was on assumption and nothing else. This will allow independent scrutiny of intelligence.” The police and the Crown Prosecution Service have sometimes been criticised for being over-cautious about tackling Muslim extremism. Last week Abu Izzadeen, a radical cleric who has so far escaped prosecution despite seemingly inciting terrorism, gained entry to a closed meeting in east London and heckled John Reid, the home secretary. It has now emerged that Izzadeen apparently urged Muslims to wage holy war in Britain in an internet video downloaded by several thousand users from websites that closed down two months ago. The sites were linked to the Saved Sect, of which Izzadeen was leader and which has now been banned and disbanded. In the video he told his audience: “In the UK no fighting takes place yet, but don’t be fooled, the time will come to you brothers . . . fighting is so close at hand.” He adds: “You prepare yourself now and when the hard time comes you are ready to defend yourself; you are ready to die for the sake of Allah.” David Corker, a partner in the London law firm Corker Binning, which has dealt with terrorism cases, said of the video: “There is enough material there for him to be considered for prosecution.” Izzadeen, 34, did not respond to requests for comment this weekend. ***************************************** Another nutty article from Britain: More Muslim police officers needed in London 6/24/2005 7:00:00 AM GMT Source: BBC More Muslim police officers are needed in London to reflect the city's population, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair said. Sir Ian said that there were about 300 officers in the Muslim Police Association but noted that he wanted "as many as I can get". He also tried to defend the rise in the stop and search of Muslims, claiming that it was less than 10 times per day of London's 700,000 Muslims. The government targets state that 25% of Met officers must be non-white by 2009. Currently the proportion is around 7%, although ethnic minorities amount to about 17% of all new officers. Sir Ian said: "What I really need is more Muslim police officers. "If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short." However, sir Ian said that the Met cannot reach the target easily. Some white male recruits are waiting for more than three years to join the force as ethnic minority and women applicants are prioritized.