An older article (below), but one that is relevant again regarding the current trial of the Holy Land Foundation -- M. Finkelstein
Rod Dreher: What the Muslim Brotherhood means for the U.S.
Memo lays bare group's plans to destroy U.S. from within[The 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document captured by the FBI is archived (along with English translation) at http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/HLF/Akram_GeneralStrategicGoal.pdf]
11:17 AM CDT on Sunday, September 9, 2007
"Our strategy is this," President Bush said last month. "We will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America."
He was talking about jihadists, of course. And Mr. Bush is behind the curve. The president apparently missed the smoking-gun 1991 document his own Justice Department introduced into evidence at the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas. The FBI captured it in a raid on a Muslim suspect's home in Virginia.
This "explanatory memorandum," as it's titled, outlines the "strategic goal" for the North American operation of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). Here's the key paragraph:
The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.
The entire 18-page platform outlines a plan for the long haul. It prescribes the Muslim Brotherhood's comprehensive plan to set down roots in civil society. It begins by both founding and taking control of American Muslim organizations, for the sake of unifying and educating the U.S. Muslim community – this to prepare it for the establishment of a global Islamic state governed by sharia.
It sounds like a conspiracy theory out of a bad Hollywood movie – but it's real. Husain Haqqani, head of Boston University's Center for International Relations and a former Islamic radical, confirms that the Brotherhood "has run most significant Muslim organizations in the U.S." as part of the plan outlined in the strategy paper.
The HLF trial is exposing for the first time how the international Muslim Brotherhood – whose Palestinian division is Hamas – operates as a self-conscious revolutionary vanguard in the United States. The court documents indicate that many leading Muslim-American organizations – including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Muslim American Society – are an integral part of the Brotherhood's efforts to wage jihad against America by nonviolent means.
The Muslim Brotherhood is an affiliation of at least 70 Islamist organizations around the world, all tracing their heritage to the original cell, founded in Egypt in 1928. Its credo: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." Sayyid Qutb, hanged by the Egyptian government in 1966 as a revolutionary, remains its ideological godfather. His best-known work, Milestones, calls for Muslims to wage violent holy war until Islamic law governs the entire world.
According to a 2004 Chicago Tribune investigation, establishing the Brotherhood in the United States has been a 40-year project that has worked mostly underground – even beneath the notice of many Muslims. Richard Clarke, the former top U.S. national security official, told the Senate in 2003 that the Muslim Brotherhood is the common thread linking terrorist fundraising schemes in the United States – which likely explains why so many mainstream American Muslim organizations were named by the feds as "unindicted co-conspirators" in the HLF trial.
Is this just alarmist paranoia? Not at all.
This matters because high-profile organizations with roots explicitly in the Muslim Brotherhood have successfully established themselves in a paramount position to define Islam in America according to a radical politicized model. And they've done so without the American public having the slightest idea about their real agenda. Indeed, the Bush administration is unwittingly helping the Islamist cause by including their leaders in public events, thus conferring them legitimacy. On Labor Day weekend, the same Department of Justice that's presenting evidence of the ISNA's involvement with radical Islam at the Dallas trial sponsored a booth at – wait for it – ISNA's national convention in suburban Chicago.
Look, no rational person believes America is going to exchange the Constitution for a caliphate. Rational people aren't the point. As the London subway bombings showed, even a tiny cell of committed radicals can kill a lot of people. Mustafa Saied, an American Muslim who left the Brotherhood, told the Tribune that he worried about the radicalism the Brotherhood inculcated in its membership here. "With the extreme element," he said, "you never know when that ticking time bomb will go off."
As long as they commit no crimes, CAIR, ISNA and the other Brotherhood-related groups have the right to advocate for their beliefs. But they don't have the right to escape critical scrutiny, and they deserve informed opposition. Courageous Muslims like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy are sounding the alarm about radical Islam's stealth takeover of U.S. Muslim institutions. Why are the news media ignoring this? Fear of being called Islamophobic?
This has got to stop. Six years after 9/11, we're still asleep. Islamic radicals have declared war on us – and some are fighting here in what looks like a fifth column. Read their strategy document. It's there in black and white, for those with eyes to see.
Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist. E-mail him at rdreher@dallasnews.com.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The identification, in this article by the AP, of ultraconservative Islam with intolerance is a step forward.
Ultraconservative Islam on rise in Mideast
Critics worry that Salafists will crowd out more tolerant version of Islam
The Associated Press Sat., Oct. 18, 2008 [excerpts]
CAIRO, Egypt - The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping center, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young, bearded tech salesmen close up shop and line up in rows to pray together.
Business grinding to a halt for daily prayers is not unusual in conservative Saudi Arabia, but until recently it was rare in the Egyptian capital, especially in affluent commercial districts like Mohandiseen, where the mall is located.
But nearly the entire three-story mall is made up of computer stores run by Salafis, an ultraconservative Islamic movement that has grown dramatically across the Middle East in recent years.
The rise of Salafists has critics worried that their beliefs will crowd out the more liberal and tolerant version of Islam long practiced in some Middle East countries, particularly Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. They also warn that its doctrine is only a few shades away from that of violent groups like al-Qaida — that it effectively preaches, "Yes to jihad, just not now."
Extreme end
In the broad spectrum of Islamic thought, Salafism is on the extreme conservative end. Saudi Arabia's puritanical Wahhabi interpretation is considered the forerunner of modern Salafism.
Salafist groups are gaining in numbers and influence across the Middle East. In Jordan, a Salafist was chosen as head of the old-line opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood. In Kuwait, Salafists were elected to parliament and are leading the resistance to any change that would threaten traditional Islamic values.
The gains for Salafists are part of a trend of turning back to conservatism and religion after major political movements like Arab nationalism and Democratic reform failed to fulfill promises to improve the lives of average people. Egypt has been at the forefront of change in both directions, toward liberalization in the 1950s and '60s and back to conservatism more recently.
Its preachers often glorify martyrdom and jihad — or holy war — but always with the caveat that Muslims should not launch jihad until their leaders call for it. The idea is that the decision to overturn the political order is up to God, not the average citizen.
Contrasts with Islam
Critics warn that Salafis could easily slide into more violent, jihadist forms. In North Africa, some already have — the Algerian Salafi Group for Call and Combat has allied itself with al-Qaida and has been blamed for bombings and other attacks. Small pockets of Salafis in northern Lebanon and Gaza have also taken up weapons and formed jihadi-style groups.
"I am afraid that this Salafism may be transferred to be a Jihadi Salafism, especially with the current hard socio-economic conditions in Egypt," says Khalil El-Anani, a visiting scholar at Washington's Brookings Institution.
A dozen satellite TV channels — most Saudi-funded — are perhaps the most effective way Salafism has been spread. They feature conservative preachers, call-in advice shows and discussion programs on proper Islamic behavior.
Numerous Salafist mosques in Cairo are packed on Fridays, the day of weekly communal prayers. Outside downtown Cairo's Shaeriyah mosque, a bookstall featured dozens of cassettes by Mohammed Hasaan, a prolific conservative preacher who sermonizes on the necessity of jihad and the injustices inflicted on Muslims.
'Not a good thing'
Critics warn that the governments are playing with fire, saying Salafism creates an environment that breed extremism. Al-Qaida continues to try to draw Salafists into jihad, and the terror network's No. 2, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, praised Salafists in an Internet statement in April, urging them to take up arms.
"The Salafi line is not that jihad is not a good thing, it is just not a good thing right now," said Richard Gauvain, a lecturer in comparative religion at the American University in Cairo.
The Salafis' talk of eventual jihad focuses on fighting Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq, not on overthrowing pro-U.S. Arab governments denounced by al-Qaida. Most Salafi clerics preach loyalty to their countries' rulers and some sharply denounce al-Qaida.
Egypt, with Saudi help, sought to rehabilitate jailed Islamic militants, in part by providing them with Salafi books. Critics say the regime of President Hosni Mubarak sees the Salafists as a counterbalance to the opposition Muslim Brotherhood.
A broader understanding of how "intolerant" Islam feeds jihadism should help Americans understand that (a) not every Muslim is intolerant, and (b) that sharp criticism of the growth and pervasiveness of jihadi Islam is not an attack on every Muslim, much less on every American Muslim. -- Mark Finkelstein
Ultraconservative Islam on rise in Mideast
Critics worry that Salafists will crowd out more tolerant version of Islam
The Associated Press Sat., Oct. 18, 2008 [excerpts]
CAIRO, Egypt - The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping center, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young, bearded tech salesmen close up shop and line up in rows to pray together.
Business grinding to a halt for daily prayers is not unusual in conservative Saudi Arabia, but until recently it was rare in the Egyptian capital, especially in affluent commercial districts like Mohandiseen, where the mall is located.
But nearly the entire three-story mall is made up of computer stores run by Salafis, an ultraconservative Islamic movement that has grown dramatically across the Middle East in recent years.
The rise of Salafists has critics worried that their beliefs will crowd out the more liberal and tolerant version of Islam long practiced in some Middle East countries, particularly Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. They also warn that its doctrine is only a few shades away from that of violent groups like al-Qaida — that it effectively preaches, "Yes to jihad, just not now."
Extreme end
In the broad spectrum of Islamic thought, Salafism is on the extreme conservative end. Saudi Arabia's puritanical Wahhabi interpretation is considered the forerunner of modern Salafism.
Salafist groups are gaining in numbers and influence across the Middle East. In Jordan, a Salafist was chosen as head of the old-line opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood. In Kuwait, Salafists were elected to parliament and are leading the resistance to any change that would threaten traditional Islamic values.
The gains for Salafists are part of a trend of turning back to conservatism and religion after major political movements like Arab nationalism and Democratic reform failed to fulfill promises to improve the lives of average people. Egypt has been at the forefront of change in both directions, toward liberalization in the 1950s and '60s and back to conservatism more recently.
Its preachers often glorify martyrdom and jihad — or holy war — but always with the caveat that Muslims should not launch jihad until their leaders call for it. The idea is that the decision to overturn the political order is up to God, not the average citizen.
Contrasts with Islam
Critics warn that Salafis could easily slide into more violent, jihadist forms. In North Africa, some already have — the Algerian Salafi Group for Call and Combat has allied itself with al-Qaida and has been blamed for bombings and other attacks. Small pockets of Salafis in northern Lebanon and Gaza have also taken up weapons and formed jihadi-style groups.
"I am afraid that this Salafism may be transferred to be a Jihadi Salafism, especially with the current hard socio-economic conditions in Egypt," says Khalil El-Anani, a visiting scholar at Washington's Brookings Institution.
A dozen satellite TV channels — most Saudi-funded — are perhaps the most effective way Salafism has been spread. They feature conservative preachers, call-in advice shows and discussion programs on proper Islamic behavior.
Numerous Salafist mosques in Cairo are packed on Fridays, the day of weekly communal prayers. Outside downtown Cairo's Shaeriyah mosque, a bookstall featured dozens of cassettes by Mohammed Hasaan, a prolific conservative preacher who sermonizes on the necessity of jihad and the injustices inflicted on Muslims.
'Not a good thing'
Critics warn that the governments are playing with fire, saying Salafism creates an environment that breed extremism. Al-Qaida continues to try to draw Salafists into jihad, and the terror network's No. 2, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, praised Salafists in an Internet statement in April, urging them to take up arms.
"The Salafi line is not that jihad is not a good thing, it is just not a good thing right now," said Richard Gauvain, a lecturer in comparative religion at the American University in Cairo.
The Salafis' talk of eventual jihad focuses on fighting Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq, not on overthrowing pro-U.S. Arab governments denounced by al-Qaida. Most Salafi clerics preach loyalty to their countries' rulers and some sharply denounce al-Qaida.
Egypt, with Saudi help, sought to rehabilitate jailed Islamic militants, in part by providing them with Salafi books. Critics say the regime of President Hosni Mubarak sees the Salafists as a counterbalance to the opposition Muslim Brotherhood.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
FBI Witness: CAIR is a front group for Hamas
Tue, Oct 07, 2008 Dallas Times
The FBI took a new slap at the Council on American-Islamic Relations today at the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.
FBI Special Agent Lara Burns was going over more transcripts from the Philadelphia meeting -- the 1993 gathering of Holy Land officials and Hamas sympathizers that the government contends was meant to brainstorm ways to downplay the Foundation's extremist ties -- when talk turned to a passage from defendant Shukri Abu Baker.
He is quoted on the wiretap transcript talking about how it would be beneficial to have more traditional, secular American organizations to help spread the Islamist message.
He and others envisioned an "alternative" organization "which can benefit from a new atmosphere, one whose Islamic hue is not very conspicuous," he said according to the transcript.
Prosecutor Barry Jonas asked Burns whether any groups formed after the Philadelphia gathering fit this mold. "CAIR," she said.
CAIR is one of about 300 unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case, and testimony has shown that its founder, Omar Ahmad, and current executive director, Nihad Awad, both participated in the Philadelphia meeting...
(h/t solomonia.com)
You can examine evidence here.
Tue, Oct 07, 2008 Dallas Times
The FBI took a new slap at the Council on American-Islamic Relations today at the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.
FBI Special Agent Lara Burns was going over more transcripts from the Philadelphia meeting -- the 1993 gathering of Holy Land officials and Hamas sympathizers that the government contends was meant to brainstorm ways to downplay the Foundation's extremist ties -- when talk turned to a passage from defendant Shukri Abu Baker.
He is quoted on the wiretap transcript talking about how it would be beneficial to have more traditional, secular American organizations to help spread the Islamist message.
He and others envisioned an "alternative" organization "which can benefit from a new atmosphere, one whose Islamic hue is not very conspicuous," he said according to the transcript.
Prosecutor Barry Jonas asked Burns whether any groups formed after the Philadelphia gathering fit this mold. "CAIR," she said.
CAIR is one of about 300 unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case, and testimony has shown that its founder, Omar Ahmad, and current executive director, Nihad Awad, both participated in the Philadelphia meeting...
(h/t solomonia.com)
You can examine evidence here.
News from eyewitness in Akko.
Dear friends
I just came home from Akko municipality. I wanted to give something to the education department and there were around 10 screaming Arabic women outside- The Islamic movement expected the TV to come to this place and they want everyone to hear the Arabs.
When they saw me ,they start beating me and as I saw the TV camera I was passive and did not move. Then I told those women that we had better have coexistence in our city but this made the Arab lady more crazy and she and the other women said terrible things about the Jews.
The TV camera took shots of the scene and then the Arab woman pulled my hair, another one threw stone at me and screamed that she does not want coexistence, she wants to kill all the Jews. I looked at the camera and asked her to say it again to the TV.I do hope that the TV will show it around the world.
Efrat
Dear friends
I just came home from Akko municipality. I wanted to give something to the education department and there were around 10 screaming Arabic women outside- The Islamic movement expected the TV to come to this place and they want everyone to hear the Arabs.
When they saw me ,they start beating me and as I saw the TV camera I was passive and did not move. Then I told those women that we had better have coexistence in our city but this made the Arab lady more crazy and she and the other women said terrible things about the Jews.
The TV camera took shots of the scene and then the Arab woman pulled my hair, another one threw stone at me and screamed that she does not want coexistence, she wants to kill all the Jews. I looked at the camera and asked her to say it again to the TV.I do hope that the TV will show it around the world.
Efrat
Friday, October 10, 2008
Kristallnacht in Akko, 2008
Kristallnacht 2008 -- Akko, Israel
A first-hand account from a resident of Akko.
Akko is in the Western Galilee, our Partnership with Israel (P2K) region. The writer is a gentle soul we know through our work with P2K. We trust her account of the circumstances implicitly.
This is horrible. Not in our lifetime?
Please reach out to our friends and colleagues in the Western Galilee at this crucial time. Messages to the author can be forwarded to her via our e-mail address: jcrc@dmjfed.org
-- M.Finkelstein, JCRC Des Moines.
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Dear Friends [from Efrat in Akko],
I decided to translate a letter that I sent to my friends in Israel at the end of Yom Kippur because I want you to know what really happened in Akko-Yom Kippur-2008. Unfortunately the media do not tell the whole truth and I think that it is important for you to know:
"I am writing to you this letter after returning from a shocking walk in the streets of Akko at the end of Yom Kippur or shell we call it "The crystal night" in Akko:
Dozens of Jewish cars are broken and glass is all over, all the Jewish stores in the main street of Akko are glass broken and things were stolen from the inside of them- not even one policeman is around!! A lot of young Arab children are calling towards me-" Itbach elyahud" which means kill the Jews. Not even one Arabic store is damaged and the glass is all over. [empahsis in the original letter - editor]
This is the result of a very organized active of the Islamic movement in Akko and this is how it began:
At Yom Kippur night, after Kol Nidrey, we always use to go out to the empty roads and meet with friends. The street near my home was very crowded and I can say that all the kids were outside, the elder people were outside and it seems like every other Yom Kippur.
Around 11 pm, we heard a lot of screaming and we saw a car driving very fast in between the people and one child from Tali's school got hurt. We were sure that
we have a terror act like in Jerusalem and as there was no policeman around we have to stop the driver. When the driver came to a parking lot he finally stopped and people tried to catch him but he ran upstairs to an Arabic family who leaved near by.
Suddenly came 8 Arabic policeman who tried to calm down the people but another Arabic car came in driving like a crazy and it was a miracle that no one got hurt.
Young Jewish kids who were very angry that the Arabs did not respect Yom Kippur and drove with their car to the Jewish neighborhood start throwing stones and did not behave very nice.- The policemen just stood there and did nothing!
Meanwhile the Imams of the mosques (who get salaries from the Israeli government to be the Arabs rabbis) activate there mosques speakers ,which were put there
on behalf of the Israeli government for prays, to call their people to come and hurt the Jews.
About 200 young Arabs who hid their faces, with axes and sticks in hands start gathering near the Jewish neighborhood. The Jewish people heard the Imams calling for Jihad for two hours, they saw the Arabs coming, they called the police .but as in the police station there were only Arabs policemen there was no respond!
Two hours and the police did nothing- can you explain a thing like that?
My friend who leaves near the Arabs gathering place, saw how they destroyed her two cars and then the came to her house shouting: kill the Jews, kill the Jews.
She begged for the police to come but- no respond! The Arab policemen who were in charge at that night did not respond. She called other police stations in the near by city but- no respond! Not even one policeman wanted to take responsibility to the situation because they know that at the end , if you do something against the Israeli Arabs you will be guilty.
My friend was in life danger and at last she entered with all her family to her home shelter and closed the door, praying that they will not be killed.
Around 1AM those Arabs started the Pogrom- they did not miss one Jewish car and destroyed all of them- the Arab policemen were behind them in the car doing nothing!
Around 4 AM they left our neighborhood.
All of this happens in Israel today , not in the Independence war!
My mother who grew up in Haifa told me similar stories form her experience in Haifa at the 40th and it seems that nothing has changed- The Arabs continue their cruel behavior which does not seems as believing in coexistence!(by the way, they also destroyed the mechanism of my coexistence clock too)
We are in war in Akko and this is an example of what we can expect to be in all Israel.
Can you believe that the Islamic movement had the guts to arrange such an activity in our Yom Kippur?
My great grandfather was the Gabai of the Jewish Synagogue in Nirenberg and he was hurt in the crystal night- I can not believe that I went through a similar experience today in Israel. Israel was established to be a safe place for the Jews- Is it still a safe place for us? We want a democratic country; do the Arabs understand what Democracy is?
And now some facts: We have a wonderful mayor (Shimon Lankry) who developed Akko in an amazing way and in the coming election he was supposed to win and get most of the Arabs votes. The Islamic movement was in trouble and in order to change the situation they decided to use the weapon of hate!
I think that sheikhh Zakur, the leader of the local Islamic movement , who is a member of the Israeli Knesset should be in jail!
I think that we should find the leaders of those who activate the Pogrom and put them in jail ! I think that it is time for all the Jews to be together and understand that we only have each other. The Islamic power is against us in Israel and around the world"
Efrat
A first-hand account from a resident of Akko.
"A lot of young Arab children are calling towards me-'Itbach elyahud' which means kill the Jews." -- Efrat S.
Akko is in the Western Galilee, our Partnership with Israel (P2K) region. The writer is a gentle soul we know through our work with P2K. We trust her account of the circumstances implicitly.
This is horrible. Not in our lifetime?
Please reach out to our friends and colleagues in the Western Galilee at this crucial time. Messages to the author can be forwarded to her via our e-mail address: jcrc@dmjfed.org
-- M.Finkelstein, JCRC Des Moines.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Friends [from Efrat in Akko],
I decided to translate a letter that I sent to my friends in Israel at the end of Yom Kippur because I want you to know what really happened in Akko-Yom Kippur-2008. Unfortunately the media do not tell the whole truth and I think that it is important for you to know:
"I am writing to you this letter after returning from a shocking walk in the streets of Akko at the end of Yom Kippur or shell we call it "The crystal night" in Akko:
Dozens of Jewish cars are broken and glass is all over, all the Jewish stores in the main street of Akko are glass broken and things were stolen from the inside of them- not even one policeman is around!! A lot of young Arab children are calling towards me-" Itbach elyahud" which means kill the Jews. Not even one Arabic store is damaged and the glass is all over. [empahsis in the original letter - editor]
This is the result of a very organized active of the Islamic movement in Akko and this is how it began:
At Yom Kippur night, after Kol Nidrey, we always use to go out to the empty roads and meet with friends. The street near my home was very crowded and I can say that all the kids were outside, the elder people were outside and it seems like every other Yom Kippur.
Around 11 pm, we heard a lot of screaming and we saw a car driving very fast in between the people and one child from Tali's school got hurt. We were sure that
we have a terror act like in Jerusalem and as there was no policeman around we have to stop the driver. When the driver came to a parking lot he finally stopped and people tried to catch him but he ran upstairs to an Arabic family who leaved near by.
Suddenly came 8 Arabic policeman who tried to calm down the people but another Arabic car came in driving like a crazy and it was a miracle that no one got hurt.
Young Jewish kids who were very angry that the Arabs did not respect Yom Kippur and drove with their car to the Jewish neighborhood start throwing stones and did not behave very nice.- The policemen just stood there and did nothing!
Meanwhile the Imams of the mosques (who get salaries from the Israeli government to be the Arabs rabbis) activate there mosques speakers ,which were put there
on behalf of the Israeli government for prays, to call their people to come and hurt the Jews.
About 200 young Arabs who hid their faces, with axes and sticks in hands start gathering near the Jewish neighborhood. The Jewish people heard the Imams calling for Jihad for two hours, they saw the Arabs coming, they called the police .but as in the police station there were only Arabs policemen there was no respond!
Two hours and the police did nothing- can you explain a thing like that?
My friend who leaves near the Arabs gathering place, saw how they destroyed her two cars and then the came to her house shouting: kill the Jews, kill the Jews.
She begged for the police to come but- no respond! The Arab policemen who were in charge at that night did not respond. She called other police stations in the near by city but- no respond! Not even one policeman wanted to take responsibility to the situation because they know that at the end , if you do something against the Israeli Arabs you will be guilty.
My friend was in life danger and at last she entered with all her family to her home shelter and closed the door, praying that they will not be killed.
Around 1AM those Arabs started the Pogrom- they did not miss one Jewish car and destroyed all of them- the Arab policemen were behind them in the car doing nothing!
Around 4 AM they left our neighborhood.
All of this happens in Israel today , not in the Independence war!
My mother who grew up in Haifa told me similar stories form her experience in Haifa at the 40th and it seems that nothing has changed- The Arabs continue their cruel behavior which does not seems as believing in coexistence!(by the way, they also destroyed the mechanism of my coexistence clock too)
We are in war in Akko and this is an example of what we can expect to be in all Israel.
Can you believe that the Islamic movement had the guts to arrange such an activity in our Yom Kippur?
My great grandfather was the Gabai of the Jewish Synagogue in Nirenberg and he was hurt in the crystal night- I can not believe that I went through a similar experience today in Israel. Israel was established to be a safe place for the Jews- Is it still a safe place for us? We want a democratic country; do the Arabs understand what Democracy is?
And now some facts: We have a wonderful mayor (Shimon Lankry) who developed Akko in an amazing way and in the coming election he was supposed to win and get most of the Arabs votes. The Islamic movement was in trouble and in order to change the situation they decided to use the weapon of hate!
I think that sheikhh Zakur, the leader of the local Islamic movement , who is a member of the Israeli Knesset should be in jail!
I think that we should find the leaders of those who activate the Pogrom and put them in jail ! I think that it is time for all the Jews to be together and understand that we only have each other. The Islamic power is against us in Israel and around the world"
Efrat
Jews and Arabs rioted in the mixed Jewish-Arab Israeli city of Akko over Yom Kippur. 10/10/2008 www.jta.org
The riots started Wednesday night when an Arab man drove through the Jewish sector of the city and was confronted by Jewish youths who said he was deliberately desecrating the holiday by driving, smoking and playing loud music. The ensuing riots between Jewish and Arab youths resulted in extensive damage to property throughout the town in northern Israel.
Acre clashes briefly renewed (Friday) as Jews enter eastern quarter 1010/08
Islamic Jihad, PRC call on all Palestinians to take to streets in solidarity with Akko Arabs
Ali Waked ynetnews.com
The Islamic Jihad movement called on Friday for Palestinians to take to the streets in solidarity with the Arabs of Akko and Arabs in Israel, in general, "due to the racist aggression and brutality of the occupation and the bullying of the settlers."
"The extreme Jewish attacks and the crimes of the settlers during recent days are a manifestation of the brutality of the occupation and its racism, in Akko and in other Palestinian villages in occupied Palestine," said the group's spokesman Walid Hilam.
He called on Akko's Arab residents to continue to fight and remain unified in the fact of aggressive behavior and to hold on to their lands in the face of an alleged Zionist plot to relocate them, as occurred in 1948.
"What is happening is a predecessor to a third intifada, which the Palestinians living within Palestine that has been occupied since 1948 will lead, because of the consistent aggression against them, their homes and their lands and the policy that keeps them oppressed," he said.
Abu Abir, the spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), also referred to the riots in Akko, saying that "the attacks on Palestinians in Akko demonstrate the distress of the Zionists and demonstrate that the next battle will be across all areas of Palestine."
"This struggle shows that Palestine that was conquered in 1948 was never separate from the Palestine of 1967. We are all one people, we are all against the occupation, and we are all fighting to free Palestine. All of Palestine," he added.
The riots started Wednesday night when an Arab man drove through the Jewish sector of the city and was confronted by Jewish youths who said he was deliberately desecrating the holiday by driving, smoking and playing loud music. The ensuing riots between Jewish and Arab youths resulted in extensive damage to property throughout the town in northern Israel.
Acre clashes briefly renewed (Friday) as Jews enter eastern quarter 1010/08
Islamic Jihad, PRC call on all Palestinians to take to streets in solidarity with Akko Arabs
Ali Waked ynetnews.com
The Islamic Jihad movement called on Friday for Palestinians to take to the streets in solidarity with the Arabs of Akko and Arabs in Israel, in general, "due to the racist aggression and brutality of the occupation and the bullying of the settlers."
"The extreme Jewish attacks and the crimes of the settlers during recent days are a manifestation of the brutality of the occupation and its racism, in Akko and in other Palestinian villages in occupied Palestine," said the group's spokesman Walid Hilam.
He called on Akko's Arab residents to continue to fight and remain unified in the fact of aggressive behavior and to hold on to their lands in the face of an alleged Zionist plot to relocate them, as occurred in 1948.
"What is happening is a predecessor to a third intifada, which the Palestinians living within Palestine that has been occupied since 1948 will lead, because of the consistent aggression against them, their homes and their lands and the policy that keeps them oppressed," he said.
Abu Abir, the spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), also referred to the riots in Akko, saying that "the attacks on Palestinians in Akko demonstrate the distress of the Zionists and demonstrate that the next battle will be across all areas of Palestine."
"This struggle shows that Palestine that was conquered in 1948 was never separate from the Palestine of 1967. We are all one people, we are all against the occupation, and we are all fighting to free Palestine. All of Palestine," he added.
Monday, October 6, 2008
NATO Chief: UN unlikely to stop Iran Voice of America, October 6, 2008
The Reuters news agency today quotes NATO secretary general as saying he is concerned the Security Council is incapable of further sanctions [on Iran, to deter its military nuclear advancement.] The news agency says Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a meeting in Evian, France, that he has doubts the world can stop Iran from striving to get a bomb.
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Fatwa: Saudi women must cover one eye
Sheikh says women’s modesty laws not stringent enough, revelation of both eyes causes ‘corrupt behavior, conflicts with Islamic principles’
BBC News, October 3, 2008 Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan, an ultra-conservative cleric who is said to have wide influence among religious Saudis, said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
The Reuters news agency today quotes NATO secretary general as saying he is concerned the Security Council is incapable of further sanctions [on Iran, to deter its military nuclear advancement.] The news agency says Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a meeting in Evian, France, that he has doubts the world can stop Iran from striving to get a bomb.
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Fatwa: Saudi women must cover one eye
Sheikh says women’s modesty laws not stringent enough, revelation of both eyes causes ‘corrupt behavior, conflicts with Islamic principles’
BBC News, October 3, 2008 Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan, an ultra-conservative cleric who is said to have wide influence among religious Saudis, said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
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