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To: lorne who wrote (4554)	2/10/2007 8:11:58 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

And here is China and islam. China executes Muslim ‘extremist’ Jane Macartney in Beijing February 10, 2007 timesonline.co.uk China has executed a Muslim activist for attempting “to split the motherland” and possessing firearms and explosives. The death by firing squad of Ismail Semed was criticised by human rights groups, who claimed that there was insufficient evidence to justify the sentence. Semed, an ethnic Uighur, was deported from Pakistan in 2003 and convicted two years later. During his trial he said that he had been forced to sign a confession. He was executed on Thursday in Urumqi, capital of the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, northwest China. Semed’s wife, Buhejer, told Radio Free Asia that she had been informed only on Monday that her husband was to be executed and she was allowed to see him briefly that day. She said: “It was only for ten minutes, we didn’t have too much time to talk . . . Previously, he had said his leg hurt, and his stomach hurt, and other parts of his body hurt, and that he needed medicine.” He told her to take care of their son and daughter and to make sure they received a good education. She said: “When the body was transferred to us at the cemetery I saw only one bullet hole, in his heart.” The charge of attempting to split China stemmed from the allegation that Semed was a founding member of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, outlawed by Beijing as a terrorist group. Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs account for 8 million of the 19 million people in Xinjiang and have taken part in several uprisings against Chinese rule. Nicholas Bequelin, a Hong Kong-based China researcher for Human Rights Watch, said: “The death penalty was widely disproportionate to the alleged crimes . . . his trial did not meet minimum requirements of fairness and due process. We don’t think there was sufficient evidence to condemn him.” The exile group, the World Uighur Congress, also said the prosecution had presented no credible evidence for a conviction. It said: “His trial, like most Uighur political prisoners’ trials, was not fair.” China has waged a campaign in recent years against what it says are violent separatists and Islamic extremists attempting to set up an independent “East Turkestan” in Xinjiang, which shares a border with Afghan-istan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia. Semed had previously served two prison sentences for taking part in an uprising in 1990 in the town of Baren in which 22 people were killed. Uighurs said the clash was instigated by the Government’s closing of a mosque, while Chinese police said locals were trying to establish an Eastern Turkistan republic. He fled to Pakistan after a Chinese government crack-down in 1997 that was prompted by violent protests in Yining, near the Kazakhstan border. Two other Uighurs who testified against Semed were also executed. The courts in Urumqi are currently considering the case of another Uighur activist accused of terrorism. Hussayin Celil fled China in the 1990s and travelled last year to Uzbekistan, where he was detained and then extradited to China on terrorism charges. Divided past Xinjiang — or East Turkestan — has been part of China periodically, with the latest “occupation”, as many of the Uighurs see it, beginning in the 18th century. The Uighurs claim that thousands of years of history separate them from China Much of their culture is shared with the nearby Turkic nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan — whom they refer to as West Turkestan They developed their own script, before adopting Arabic after conversion to Islam in the 10th century For a brief period in the early 20th century parts of the region reportedly declared independence In 1949 Uighars comprised 96 per cent of the Xinjiang population. They are now outnumbered by the Chinese

To: lorne who wrote (4554)	2/11/2007 11:51:46 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Respond to of 20106

It will only get worse before it gets better. I would suppose there are those that are so convinced in their PC beliefs that they would still cling to them as the knife enters their throats...

To: lorne who wrote (4554)	2/11/2007 11:55:05 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Five in court over kidnap plot (Muslim Soldier) The Times ^ \| 2/11/07 \| Sean O’Neill timesonline.co.uk Stringent security was in force around a Central London court-house yesterday as five men charged over an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a British soldier appeared before a judge. The suspected terrorists were driven from Birmingham, where they were arrested last week, in a convoy of police vehicles. Last night a sixth man was charged following the raids in Birmingham. West Midlands Police said that Basiru Gassama, 29, from Birmingham, will appear before Westminster magistrates today. Yesterday armed police stood guard around the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court during the brief appearance of the five before District Judge Daphne Wickham. In the dock, the men were flanked by eight security guards. A bail application on behalf of one was refused and all the defendants were remanded in custody. They were taken at high speed to Belmarsh high-security prison in southeast London. They are scheduled to appear again at the Old Bailey on February 23. Sue Hemming, head of the Crown Prosecution Service counter-terrorism division, gave details of the charges in a public statement before the court hearing. She said that she had “carefully examined and assessed the evidence against each individual” before authorising charges under the Terrorism Act 2000 and the Terrorism Act 2006. One man, Parviz Khan, 36, was specifically charged with the alleged kidnap plot. The indictment stated that between November 2006 and January 2007 he “engaged in conduct to give effect to his intention to kidnap and kill a member of the British Armed Forces”. He was also accused of intending to supply equipment to assist others to commit terrorist acts, and of involvement in funding terrorism. Another of the defendants, Amjad Mahmood, 31, was charged with failing to disclose information about a terror attack being planned by Mr Khan and others. Miss Hemming made clear that the alleged terrorist incident was “the one relating to the kidnap of the soldier”. Mr Mahmood and three other men — Mohammed Irfan, 30, Zahoor Iqbal, 29, and Hamid Elasmar, 43 — were also charged with intending to supply money or other property for use in terrorism and entering into a financial arrangement to support terrorism. It is understood that all of the charges relate to the alleged plot to kidnap a Muslim soldier, behead him on film and post the footage on the internet. Miss Hemming said that Sir Ken MacDonald, QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, had been closely involved in the decision to charge the suspects. They were among nine people arrested in Birmingham on January 31. One man remains in custody at a police station in Coventry and another was freed, bringing to three the number of people to have been released without charge. Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw, of West Midlands Police, said that “extraordinary progress” had been made in the investigation, but emphasised that it was continuing. “To date we have seized over 4,500 exhibits, which include computers, mobile phones and documents.” Mr Shaw said that extensive media coverage of the arrests had strained community relations in the West Midlands. Contact officers had been appointed to keep all of the families of those arrested informed, and community leaders were also being kept in touch with developments. Mr Shaw said: “We have seen real leadership from all sections of the community, who have not only supported us, but have also publicly supported our search for the truth. Mohammad Naseem, chairman of the Birmingham Central mosque, urged the Muslim community to remain dignified and calm. He said: “We are all on the same side. Nobody supports terrorism in the community. As long as the process is open and transparent, we have no complaints.” In a separate investigation, an Islamist radical charged with encouraging terrorism in a speech marking the anniversary of the July 7 bombings is to be freed on £50,000 bail today. Abu Izzadeen, 31, a convert to Islam who was born Trevor Brookes and came to prominence as leader of the Saved Sect, was granted bail yesterday but could not make arrangements to meet all the bail conditions in time to be released last night. He has been charged in connection with a speech that he delivered on July 2 last year at a community centre in Birmingham.

To: lorne who wrote (4554)	2/11/2007 11:59:38 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

2 French police face pre-riot charges [DHIMMI ALERT!] AP via Yahoo News ^ \| Thu Feb 8, 2007 \| VERENA VON DERSCHAU news.yahoo.com PARIS - A judge in the Paris suburb of Bobigny has charged two police officers in connection with the 2005 electrocutions of two teens whose deaths sparked three weeks of rioting in France, officials said Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT The two officers were charged Wednesday for "non-assistance to people in danger," which carries up to five years in prison and a maximum $97,400 fine, judicial officials said on condition of anonymity in line with policy. The decision came more than 15 months after Zyed Benna, 17, and Bouna Traore, 15, were killed as they hid from police in a power substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. The Oct. 27, 2005, electrocutions triggered riots that raged through housing projects in troubled neighborhoods with large Arab and black populations. France's suburbs remain plagued by poverty, discrimination, tensions between youth and police and a sense of alienation from French society. An internal police review of the electrocutions, released in December, faulted police officers for their handling of the incident. The report confirmed the officers had been chasing the teens before they were killed, which the Interior Ministry and police had initially denied. The report said officers should immediately have notified French energy company EDF that the youths were hiding in the power station. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ....

To: lorne who wrote (4554)	2/12/2007 7:04:12 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Suspected Islamic Militants Warn Barbers Newsday ^ \| 2/12/07 \| HABIBULLAH KHAN newsday.com KHAR, Pakistan -- Suspected Islamic radicals have issued a Taliban-style warning to barbers in a Pakistani border town not to shave off or cut their customers' beards, saying it offends Islam, residents said Monday. Pamphlets with the warnings were found at several shops in Inayat Kalay in Pakistan's Bajur tribal region near the Afghan border, said Bacha Khan, a barber in the market town. "Barbers! Correct yourselves," said the handwritten, Pashto-language notes, one of which was obtained by The Associated Press. (Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ....