Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (8819)	7/10/2007 5:01:05 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 20106

"better to advance the jewish agenda than to be a part of the plan to exterminate the jews." The Jewish/Zionist psychosis of an anti-Semite under every rock, a Hitler behind every world leader, and a Moslem or Arab hiding under every Jewish bed. Are you sure your name is not Alan Dershowitz instead of Izzy Schmeetz?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (8819)	7/11/2007 5:44:18 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Nigeria's Top Muslim Leader Denies Calling for Jihad; Says 'I Love Christians' Christian Post ^ \| 11th July, 2007 christianpost.com Nigeria’s top Muslim leader said that he meant no harm against Christians when he urged a Muslim group last week to counter Christian evangelism by spreading Islam. Alhaji Saad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto and spiritual leader of Nigeria’s 70 million Muslims, clarified to African journalists meeting in his palace last weekend that he was quoted out of context and that he never meant any violence against Christians, according to Nigeria-based Daily Champion newspaper Monday. “I am not a violent person. Islam is not a violent religion and we had no intention of calling for a jihad; not in the least,” Abubakar asserted on Friday, according to Daily Champion. “Here in Sokoto, I have maintained a cordial relationship with Christians …. We truly love Christians and do not hold anything against them,” he maintained. Early last week, during a meeting of Northern Traditional Rulers (emirs), the sultan raised concerns about growing Christian evangelism in the West African country and called for increase Muslim evangelism. “The rise of secularism and the increasing activities of western evangelical organizations have made it all the more urgent that the message of Islam shall be heard loud and clear and the Jama’tu Nasil Islam (JNI) must play a leading role in this endeavor,” the Nigerian Muslim leader had said. Abubakar, in addition to holding the title of Sultan of Sokoto, is also the president general of the Muslim group JNI. The Sultan’s comments were criticized by some as divisive and could potentially instigate extremists to attack Christians. “The statement is unfortunate, coming from somebody who is highly placed like the sultan,” responded the secretary general of the Northern Christian Association of Nigeria, Elder Saidu Dogo. CAN is the umbrella group of Nigeria’s Christian organizations. “You see while the past and present governments have been trying to forge an inter-religious tolerance among us, this statement from the sultan is very unfortunate,” Dogo said. The Muslim leader’s comment comes to a country with deep Christian-Muslim tension. Several months ago, a Christian teacher was brutally killed and then set on fire by her Muslim students who falsely accused her of desecrating the Koran. Moreover, two days after the teacher’s murder an evangelical church in the same town was burned. Nigeria, the most populous African nation with 140 million people, is near evenly divided between Muslims in the North and Christians in the south. Despite the rapidly growing Nigerian church, Christians still face persecution in Nigeria by Muslim extremists.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (8819)	7/14/2007 3:13:46 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Lebanon : Fatah al-Islam fires rockets into civilian areas The Daily Star (Lebanon) ^ \| 07/14/2007 \| Hani M. Bathish dailystar.com.lb BEIRUT: In a unexpected escalation in fighting at Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, Fatah al-Islam militants fired on Friday at least 15 107mm Katyusha rockets at towns surrounding the camp. A Lebanese Army statement said random rockets fired from inside the camp left one civilian dead and several others wounded. An army source told The Daily Star that between seven and nine rockets had been fired at intervals towards Minyeh, Arqa, Beit Hadara and Deir Ammar Friday morning, wounding at least three civilians. "It looks like they found these rockets abandoned inside the camp and are using them, hopefully they don't have many of them," the source said. The National News Agency reported another seven rockets landed in Qa'brin and the surrounding areas Friday evening, an area seven kilometers from the camp. The army confirmed that two Lebanese Army soldiers had died in fresh fighting on Friday: Corporal Ali Awad Kanaan, born 1980; and Corporal Arkan Kamal Akl, born 1985. The deaths brought the total number of soldiers killed to 92. Clashes Friday centered around the Safouri and Saasaa neighborhoods inside the camp. The army surrounded a group of militants in a shelter in Safouri, cutting them off, as soldiers continued to advance on all fronts, supported by artillery which pounded militants in the southwestern sector of the camp. The army statement said soldiers have taken control of several buildings inside the camp that had been used by Fatah al-Islam snipers. Army engineers are working to clear the buildings of mines and booby-traps, and clear blocked roads in the camp, the statement said. The army source said booby-traps have slowed progress: "They have booby trapped everything, dynamite is everywhere." The National News Agency reported that one rocket that landed in the town center of Deir Ammar, east of the camp, slightly wounded two residents, Khaled Khodr Eid and Khadija Ahmad Eid. The rocket also damaged two vehicles, a Mercedes owned by Nabil Eid and a BMW owned by Fouad Eid. Three rockets also struck Minyeh. Two landed in an orange grove while another set a car on fire. Retired General Elias Hanna told The Daily Star on Friday that the militants' escalation will not affect the final outcome of the conflict. "Its not an escalation in the military operational sense," Hanna said. "They could have fired them out of desperation or for their psychological impact." He said what is clear is that Fatah al-Islam still has "the minimum of a command structure" with at least one man in control that allows them to keep fighting. "What the army is doing is softening the ground. They are either preparing for the final battle or they are using a salami or artichoke strategy, taking small chunks of the camp at a time, which is more likely," he said. Hanna said the attack on civilians would rally the people even more behind the army because it shows the militants are nothing more than terrorists. Eight weeks of fighting in the North have left local residents weary and the Lebanese Army more determined to end the Fatah al-Islam phenomenon in any way possible. Since fighting broke out on May 20, 216 people have been killed. Stepping up pressure to force militants to surrender, the army used tanks and artillery to bombard the camp on Friday. Militants responded with sniper and rocket fire. The army statement called the militants' refusal to allow their families to leave the camp "inhumane."