All Muslims Are Not Terrorists, But All Terrorists Are Muslims

[Robert]

I keep hearing rumors that Islam is a religion of peace, still waiting for clarification on that one......


Suicide bomber kills Afghan official By NOOR KHAN, Associated Press Writer
55 minutes ago



KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing Helmand province's deputy governor and five other people, officials said.


The bomber struck while people were praying inside the mosque in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal said.

Helmand's deputy governor, Pir Mohammad, was killed in the blast, said Nisar Ahmad, a provincial health official.

The blast killed five other people and wounded 18 others, seven seriously, Andiwal said.

Andiwal said Mohammad had just arrived from a meeting at the nearby compound of the Helmand governor.

"After finishing his meeting, the deputy governor walked to the mosque for prayer," Andiwal said. "As they were praying, the bomber detonated his explosives."

The mosque's prayer leader was also killed, he said.

Haji Ikramullah, a witness who was on his way to pray at the mosque when the blast shook the ground, said he saw dead bodies inside and wounded people crying in pain.

Taliban regularly attack Afghan officials as part of their attempts to weaken the control of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai's government.

Helmand, the center of the world's opium and heroin production, is focus of intense clashes between militants and British, American and Afghan government forces.

The mosque blast happened hours after another suicide bomber in a car targeted an Afghan army bus in Kabul, killing one civilian and wounding four other people, officials said.

The blast shattered the bus windows and badly damaged a passing taxi in Kabul's Taimani neighborhood, said police officer Jan Agha. A soldier was among the wounded.

A series of attacks last year targeted buses carrying Afghan security forces, a key element of U.S. efforts to beat back the insurgency gripping the country's south and east.

In September a suicide bomber blew himself up in an army bus in Kabul, killing 28 soldiers and two civilians. In June a bomb ripped through a bus carrying police instructors in Kabul, killing 35 people.

Last year was Afghanistan's most deadly since the ouster of the Taliban in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001. More than 6,500 people — mostly insurgents — died in the violence, according to an Associated Press count of figures provided by local and international officials.

In eastern Nuristan province, militants beheaded four road construction workers and dumped their bodies on the side of the road Wednesday, said deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Daoud Nadim.

The four were kidnapped 10 days ago while working on a road project in Kamdesh district, Nadim said.

In Kabul, hundreds of people demanded the release of an Afghan journalist who was sentenced to death last week after he was found guilty of insulting Islam.

The demonstrators from the small, secular Solidarity Party rallied in front of the United Nations office in support of 23-year old Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, who was sentenced by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing to journalism students a report he had printed off the Internet.

The article asked why Islam permitted men to have four wives but women could not have multiple husbands.

Kaambakhsh has appealed his conviction.

International human rights groups have condemned the sentence but Afghanistan's upper house of parliament welcomed the ruling and criticized "international interference" in the matter.

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by Robert

Until I get an answer.

It's a rhetorical question; you know you're not going to get an answer.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by FailingEnterpriseAdmin

It's a rhetorical question; you know you're not going to get an answer.

OK, I'll ask it differently: Hello ?????, do you believe that Islam is a religion of peace?

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by Robert

OK, I'll ask it differently: Hello ?????, do you believe that Islam is a religion of peace?

I think everyone "wants peace". It's just that most people add qualifiers that put their goals for peace in conflict with others ("we want peace, but with us on top"). I've heard Islam does tend to have a strong focus on being capable and successful warriors, and I believe it was Samuel P. Huntington who caused some controversy by pointing out that "Islam has bloody borders". I think it's safe to say that most people think peace is so important that they're willing to fight for it, which means that just about anyone can be just about as aggressive as they'd like while still claiming to want "peace".

But none of this has anything to do with your actions here. You keep wandering around on this discussion board, hoping to bump into someone who isn't already familiar with your whole act, so you can put on this fake show of curiousity and confusion and pretend to be genuinely asking the question "But I thought Islam was the religion of peace?". We regulars have seen you do it a half dozen times already and it's really getting tiresome. Could you please move on to the next act of your absurd conservative whack-job kabuki play?

I'm just askin'...

[Dom182]

All religions are purportedly for peace. It is the radicals interpret their religion for violence. Just look at the Crusades if you need proof of that. Think about where terms such as "go old testament on your ass" comes from.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by FailingEnterpriseAdmin

I think everyone "wants peace". It's just that most people add qualifiers that put their goals for peace in conflict with others ("we want peace, but with us on top"). I've heard Islam does tend to have a strong focus on being capable and successful warriors, and I believe it was Samuel P. Huntington who caused some controversy by pointing out that "Islam has bloody borders". I think it's safe to say that most people think peace is so important that they're willing to fight for it, which means that just about anyone can be just about as aggressive as they'd like while still claiming to want "peace".

But none of this has anything to do with your actions here. You keep wandering around on this discussion board, hoping to bump into someone who isn't already familiar with your whole act, so you can put on this fake show of curiousity and confusion and pretend to be genuinely asking the question "But I thought Islam was the religion of peace?". We regulars have seen you do it a half dozen times already and it's really getting tiresome. Could you please move on to the next act of your absurd conservative whack-job kabuki play?

I'm just askin'...

It's okay ?????, I knew you didnt want to answer that one :)

[Robert]

washingtonpost.com

I know most of you reading this are shedding a tear for this vermin. Take comfort in the fact that he gets to meet 72 virgins now. And I bet he requests American girls.




Report: Top al-Qaida Commander Killed
One al-Qaida's top commanders in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi was killed in Afghanistan, a Web site used by militant groups said Thursday.






By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 31, 2008; 4:21 PM

Abu Laith al-Libi, one of al-Qaeda's most senior commanders, was killed in Pakistan on Monday, Western officials said today.

The officials declined to comment on whether Libi's death was related to a reported U.S. missile strike, launched from an unmanned Predator aircraft, that killed at least a dozen people Monday in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.

U.S. officials had offered a bounty of $200,000 for Libi, who used a nom de guerre and whose true name was not known. He had been identified by U.S. officials as having orchestrated the 2007 bombing of the U.S. base in Bagram, Afghanistan, during a visit by Vice President Cheney. Cheney was not injured, but 23 people were killed in the attack.

Libi fought Soviet troops in Afghanistan and was jailed by Saudi Arabian officials for two years for covert activities there. He was also believed to have organized an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi in the mid-1990s.

His death was first reported by al-Ekhlaas, a Web site often used by Islamic militants for announcements. The site carried a banner about his death, according to the Washington-based SITE Institute, which monitors such Web postings. "As the banner was posted on Ekhlaas by a webmaster of the forum, it seems as if the announcement of his death has been confirmed to the forum administrators," a SITE report said.

The SITE report quotes a posting on al-Ekhlaas by the al-Fajr Media Center, a radical Islamic news outlet linked to al-Qaeda. The al-Fajr statement says that Libi was "martyred" in the land of the "Muslim Pakistan" and that his death shows that Islamic leaders are fighting with their troops.

The Western officials confirming his death said that Libi, born in the Libyan city of Tripoli and believed to have been in his early 40s, was among the top half-dozen al-Qaeda officials and was active as a battlefield commander in attacks against U.S. and NATO forces in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

He is also believed to have taken part in planning recent attacks against Western-related targets in Pakistan.

Libi also was featured in videos released by the militants. Last spring, al-Sahab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, identified Libi as a bearded man accusing Shiite Muslims of fighting alongside U.S. troops in Iraq, the Associated Press reported. He also appeared last November in a video with al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri.

Libi was the primary interlocutor between the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and al-Qaeda, which last November announced they had joined forces. But Western officials believe he has been at or near Osama bin Laden's side since at least the late 1980s, when bin Laden and Pakistan-based Afghan mujaheddin fought the Soviets in Afghanistan.

His death is seen as a major success for the U.S. military, which has been increasingly challenged in Afghanistan and the Pakistani border region by both al-Qaeda and resurgent Taliban forces.

[Robert]

Women 'tricked into suicide blasts'

Feb 1 10:51 AM US/Eastern
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Two women suicide bombers who have killed nearly 80 people in Baghdad were Down's Syndrome victims exploited by al Qaida.

The explosives were detonated by remote control in a co-ordinated attack after the women walked into separate crowded markets, said the chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad General Qassim al-Moussawi.

Other officials said the women were apparently unaware of what they were doing in what could be a new method by suspected Sunni insurgents to subvert toughened security measures.

More than 70 people died and scores were wounded in the deadliest day since the US "surge" of 30,000 extra troops were sent to the capital this spring.

In the first attack, a woman detonated explosives hidden under her traditional black Islamic robe in the central al-Ghazl market. The weekly bazaar has been bombed several times since the war started but recently had re-emerged as a popular place to shop and stroll as Baghdad security improved. At least 46 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.

The second woman then struck a bird market in a predominantly Shiite area in south-eastern Baghdad killing up to 27 people and wounding 70.

The attacks shortly before the weekly Islamic call to prayer resounded across the capital were the latest in a series of violent incidents that have been chipping away at Iraqi confidence in the permanence of recent security gains.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said the attacked were committed by terrorists motivated by revenge and "to show that they are still able to stop the march of history and of our people toward reconciliation."

Police initially said the bomb at al-Ghazl market was hidden in a box of birds but realised it was a suicide attack after finding the woman's head, an officer said.

At least four other suicide bombings have been staged by women since November, all in the volatile Diyala province north-east of the capital.

[Robert]

Mentally Retarded Women Used in Bombings

[Dom182]

There's only one thing I can say to this.

Motherfuckers!