Are there any peaceful muslim nations?

Sydney’s Muslim community rallies in Lakemba in response to terror attacks that rocked Paris

SYDNEY’S Muslim community has been urged to not turn the other cheek to “insults” and “attacks” on Islam and the prophet Muhammad.

In response to the terror attacks that rocked Paris last month, 1000 Muslims gathered in Lakemba last night.

Members of the crowd waved provocative signs that proclaimed “Je suis Muslims” — mimicking a phrase used in support of slain workers of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo — and chanted a promise to protect Muhammad and their faith....

Some of those present handed out cartoons of a dog urinating on the grave of the Charlie Hebdo workers gunned down in their Paris office by Islamic extremists earlier this month.


...Mr Badar said that would not be considered appropriate by Allah. He said Muslims should not accept or embrace the freedom of speech preached by the West and urged those present to reject it.

‘Rise as one’ call to Sydney rally of Muslims

HIZB ut-Tahrir leaders last night urged a crowd of about 500 in Sydney’s Lakemba to rise as one to defend­ the name of the prophet Mohammed, extolling them to reject the West’s concept of freedom of speech as a “smokescreen” to oppress Muslims.

Organisers warmed up the audience with a series of chants including “rise, Muslims, take a stand, defend the prophet hand in hand” and “the prophet that you defame, Allah will protect his name”.

One speaker, Sufyan Badar, told the crowd it had gathered not as a reflection of freedom of association, but as a “response to the command of Allah”.

“Freedom is the smokescreen ... a political tool to oppress Muslims,” he said.

Hundreds killed as Nigerian troops and Islamic extremists clash

IN fierce fighting that killed more than 200 combatants, Nigerian troops clashed with Islamic extremists who attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in north-eastern Nigeria, from three fronts.

At the same time the insurgents continued scorched-earth attacks on villages some 200 kilometres to the south in Adamawa state, slitting throats of residents, looting and burning homes and abducting dozens of trapped women and children, according to Vandu Kainu and other escaping survivors...

Boko Haram has denounced democracy and wants to make an Islamic state of Nigeria, whose population of about 170 million is divided almost equally between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south...

Many British Muslims Put Islam First

The recent homegrown plot in Britain to blow up transatlantic flights will intensify the fear that the country's 1.6 million Muslims are rejecting political tolerance and free speech for a violent, radicalized version of Islam. There is a real concern that British Muslims do pose a threat to that country and its traditional values. So how prevalent are such radical views among British Muslims?

Some answers are provided by the most comprehensive survey to date of Muslim opinion in Britain. The results from NOP Research, broadcast by Channel 4-TV on August 7, are startling.

(summarised)
- "hardcore Islamists" constitute 9% of the British Muslim population.
A slightly more moderate group is composed of "staunch defenders of Islam." This second group comprises 29% of the British Muslim population. Individuals in this group aggressively defend their religion from internal and external threats, real or imagined. (my note: total 38% of Britains Muslim Population)

- 45% say 9/11 was a conspiracy by the American and Israeli governments
almost 25% OF British Muslims believe that (the London tube bombings) were justified because of British support for the U.S.-led war on terror.

- 33% of British Muslims would prefer to live under Sharia (Islamic religious) law than under British law

- 28% hope for the U.K. one day to become a fundamentalist Islamic state

- 33% of British Muslims believe that Western society is decadent and immoral and that Muslims should seek to end it.

- 68% support the arrest and prosecution of those British people who "insult Islam.

- When asked if free speech should be protected, even if it offends religious groups, 62% of British Muslims say No, it should not.

Yeah, you're a ******* liar. And a repulsive bigot.

The BBC and Islam: Let the children be raped
Between the liberal-Left BBC and the hopeless British police who have internalised far-Left neo-fascist political correctness, little children are being raped and then blamed for being raped because the rapists are Muslim

Prince Charles fears there will be “very, very few” Christians left in the Middle East

PRINCE Charles says he fears there will be “very, very few” Christians left in the Middle East after the turmoil wracking the region.

The heir to the British throne, who is on a trip to the region, told the BBC that the plight of Christians persecuted by Islamic extremists was “a most agonising situation,” though it was important to remember they were just one persecuted minority among many around the world...

I'm one of those people that don't mind other people holding different opinions to me - so Izzy, CI, and all others are welcome to post their views.

Sydney terror raid: Two men arrested, hunting knife and flag seized

THE two men arrested in terror raids yesterday had been living in a small granny flat at the back of a share house in Fairfield, where neighbours today spoke of their disbelief.

Omar Al-Kutobi, 24, and Mohammad Kiad, 25, were arrested at the flat on Riverview Rd, Fairfield about 4pm yesterday by the Joint Counter Terrorism Taskforce after a receiving information that an attack was imminent.

Police allege the pair had armed themselves with a machete and large hunting knife and were due to carry out a terror attack yesterday before police swooped...

A number of items were seized in the raids including a machete, a hunting knife, a home-made flag representing terrorist organisation IS and a video which depicted a man talking about carrying out an attack.

IS beheadings: Christian Copts killed in Libya

...The graphic video showing 21 Egyptian Christians being beheaded in Libya as a “message signed with blood to the nations of the cross”.

“We will conquer Rome,” one of the executioners warns after committing the bloody act.

“The sea you have hidden Osama bin Laden’s body in, we will mix it with your blood”...

8.12. (Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels, "Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes."

47.4. So, when you meet (in fight Jihad in Allah's Cause), those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives). Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e. free them without ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islam), until the war lays down its burden. Thus [you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam (i.e. are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire) or at least come under your protection], but if it had been Allah's Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost,

In all our conversations, both men proved unfailingly polite. They patiently answered our questions, determined for us to see their point of view: for them, America is an immoral country at war with Muslims...

...We asked them if they would consider carrying out an execution by beheading.

"This is the Islamic way of execution and we will do only that which please Allah," replied Abu Anwar. "It means cutting off the necks of the enemies of Islam then we are more than happy to do it.

Car bomb hits insurgency-plagued southern Thailand; 13 hurt

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — Thai police say suspected Muslim insurgents have detonated a car bomb that wounded 13 people and damaged buildings in a southern city.

Police Col. Manit Yimsaai says the bomb was hidden in a pickup truck that was parked in front of a karaoke bar in a commercial district in Narathiwat province.

He said the explosion Friday wounded two soldiers and 11 civilians, one of them seriously.

Manit says the bomb also damaged rows of restaurants and shops in the predominantly Buddhist neighborhood.

Narathiwat is one of the three Muslim-majority southern provinces in Buddhist-dominated Thailand.

More than 5,000 people have been killed in the region since an Islamic insurgency erupted in 2004.

Muslim insurgents launch 50 attacks in Thailand's deep south

Muslim insurgents fighting for a separate state in Thailand's deep south launched 50 bomb and arson attacks over the weekend, killing three members of the security forces as violence in the troubled region intensifies...

The only Muslims whose lives "don't matter"
are the ones killed by other Muslims.