On October 12th, 2002, Muslims detonated three bombs on the island of Bali in Indonesia, killing 202 people.  The majority of victims were from Australia, but 22 nationalities were represented among the dead.

The first bomb was carried into a crowded nightclub around 11pm in a backpack.  It was fairly small, and had the effect of forcing the group out onto the street, where the second bomb, a massive truck bomb, destroyed several buildings on the block.  The third bomb was an ineffectual bomb outside the U.S. Embassy that killed no-one, but that was packed with excrement.

The bombing was carried out by members of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI); but before you join the Bush Administration in another no-known-ties-to-Al-Qaeda deep sigh of relief, Jemaah Islamiyah is linked to Al Qaeda.  A week after the Bali bombing, Osama Bin Laden released an audio tape saying that the bombing was in retaliation for Australia's involvement in the war in Afghanistan, and for their role in the independence of East Timor.

The leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Bakar Bashir, was arrested and convicted for the bombing.  He was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years, but that was reduced to two years due to good behavior.  He was released to crowds of cheering supporters in 2005.  He was emboldened by his short sentence, and has resumed his role as "spiritual" leader of JI.  In a 2007 sermon, he compared tourists in Bali  to "worms, snakes and maggots", and said of non-Muslims, "God willing, there are none here, if there were infidels here, just beat them up. Do not tolerate them."

Riduan Isamuddin (aka Hambali) was captured in "restive" southern Thailand in a joint operation between Thai police and the CIA.  He is currently being held in Guantanamo Bay.  The Indonesian government requested his extradition, but the U.S. is reluctant to comply, due to the lenient treatment given to Bashir.

Other members of Jemaah Islamiyah were convicted for the bombing, and three were sentenced to death.  Bashir has warned of "severe retribution" if the death penalty is ever carried out.

Some, such as rabid anti-U.S. author Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa, claim that the Bali bombing was a conspiracy by the CIA, Indonesian intelligence agency (BIN), and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).  According to this view, the CIA organized the Bali bombing in order to rally Australian opinion in the "Global War or Terror," and to allow the U.S. to continue their scheme for a global hegemony.  The opinion that the U.S. was behind the Bali bombing (and 9/11, and other jihad attacks) is the majority opinion in Dar al-Islam.  And it pains me greatly to say it, but it is probably true that even in the U.S., more people believe in a secret government conspiracy than believe in the historically-proven concept of Islamic jihad.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Oct 11: Washington D.C. Beltway Snipers
Oct 10: Charles Martel wins Battle of Tours
Oct 9: Battle of Karbala (Death of Husayn)
Oct 8: "Palestinian" pro-Osama Bin Laden rally
Oct 6: Assassination of Anwar Sadat

On October 11th, 2002, Kenneth Bridges, a Black Muslim, was shot and killed by the "Beltway Snipers," two Black Muslim men, in the Washington D.C. area.

John Allen Muhammad, née John Allan Williams, is a convert to Islam, who joined the Nation of Islam in 1997.  When the 9/11 attacks occurred, he commented that it "should have happened a long time ago."  He expressed an extreme hatred for Jews, and prayed for the destruction of Israel. He was a former member of the U.S. Army; he was not the last Muslim member of the Army to use his training to kill kufirs.

His accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was an illegal immigrant from Jamaica who converted to Islam, apparently after coming into contact with Muhammad.

Kenneth Bridges was a father of six from Philidelphia, and a graduate of Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  He was a social activist who created his own line of health and beauty products for blacks, with the assistance of Louis Farrakhan.  Bridges attended Farrakhan's "Million Man March", which coincidentally John Allen Muhammad also attended as a member of the NOI security detail.  On the day of his shooting, Bridges had signed a $1 million business deal.  He was shot in the head as he filled his car at a gasoline station.

Muhammad and Malvo traveled around the Washington, D.C. area in a sedan that had been modified to have a sniper's hole in the trunk (boot).  They would pull over, shoot a victim, then drive away.  On one day alone, they shot and killed five people:

• James Buchanan was shot while mowing the grass.
• Premkumar Walekar was shot while filling his taxi at the gas station.
• Sarah Ramos was shot while sitting on a bus bench, reading a book.
• Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera was shot while vacuuming her car at a gas station.
• Pascal Charlot was shot while walking alongside the road.

Muhammad and Malvo killed at least 13 people before their capture.  Their plan was to terrorize the kufirs in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, by showing them that they were not safe at any time or any place, even when engaged in the most mundane and harmless activities.  They then planned to extort $10 million from the U.S. government.

During the manhunt for the "Beltway Sniper," F.B.I. profilers predicted that it would be a young white man, possibly a white-supremacist, in his 20's, with a gun collection and a love of hunting.  Even as witnesses came forward to say they saw a dark-skinned man or men, those reports were brushed off by law enforcement, with explanations that the lighting was bad, or "adrenaline" had affected their judgement.  Muhammad and Malvo were pulled over at least two times by the police during their spree, but since police were looking for a 20-year old white male with a gun collection, they were let go.

When they were caught and put on trial, Malvo spent much of his time in the courtroom drawing pictures, including:

• a self portrait shouting, "Allah Akbar" in the cross hairs of a gun scope.
• a self portrait as a sniper, with the word, "Jihad".
• a portrait of Saddam Hussein with the word, "Inshallah".
• a portrait of Osama bin Laden, with the words, "Servant of Allah".
• a portrait of Malvo and Muhammad, with the words, "We will kill them all. Jihad."
• a drawing of the burning World Trade Center, with the words, "Allah Akbar", and "Jihad."
• a quotation from the holy, holy Qur'an: "Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you and slay them wherever ye catch them."

Muhammad was sentenced to death, and Malvo was sentenced to life in prison without parole.  Most people do not know that the Beltway Snipers were Muslims, and that their crimes were motivated by the religious teachings of Islam.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Oct 10: Charles Martel wins Battle of Tours
Oct 9: Battle of Karbala (Death of Husayn)
Oct 8: "Palestinian" pro-Osama Bin Laden rally
Oct 6: Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Oct 3: Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu

On October 9th, in the year 680 AD, the intra-Islamic Battle of Karbala pitted the forces of Mohammad's grandson Husayn ibn Ali against the forces of the Umayyad Caliph, Yazid.  The defeat and death of Ali and his followers is celebrated by Shi'a as Ashoura, a day of self-flagellation.

As mentioned earlier following the Battle of Siffin, Ali ibn Abi Talib (leader of what came to be known as the Shi'a) was assassinated in a mosque, during prayer, by a Muslim assassin using a poisoned dagger.  His son Husayn ibn Ali took over the mantle of Shi'a leadership.

The Sunni Umayyad Caliph, Yazid, sent his troops to chase down the Shi'a, from Medina to Mecca to Kufa to, finally, Karbala, in modern Iraq.  As in the Battle of Siffin, the actions and words of the day resonate to the present day for the Shi'a.  They know the names of the participants, what they said, how they felt, how and when they died.  As in the Battle of Siffin, with it's account of a brave warrior asking for a glass of milk during battle, there is a beverage-related story that is inspiring, moving, and most of all, hilarious.

Abbas ibn Ali [brother of Husayn ibn Ali] continued his advance into the heart of [Sunni Umayyad] ibn Sa'ad's army. He was under heavy shower of arrows but was able to penetrate them and get to the branch leaving heavy casualties from the enemy. He immediately started filling the water skin. In a remarkable and immortal gesture of loyalty to his brother and Muhammad's grandson he didn't drink any water despite being severely thirsty. He put the water skin on his right shoulder and started riding back toward their tents. Amr Saad ordered an outright assault on Abbas ibn Ali saying that if Abbas succeeds in taking water back to his camp, we won't be able to defeat them till the end of time. A massive enemy army blocked his way and surrounded him. He was ambushed from behind a bush and his right hand was cut off. Abbas put the water skin on his left shoulder and continued his way but his left hand also cut off from wrist. Abbas now held the water skin with his teeth. The army of ibn Sa'ad started shooting arrows at him. One arrow hit the water skin and water poured out of it. Abbas ibn Ali turned his horse back in to ibn Sa'ads forces because he does not want to go back without water and arrow's started hitting his chest and Abbas fell off his horse and called his brother just before his death.

"'Tis but a flesh wound.  Come back and fight, you cowards." - Monty Python

I've read some pretty zany stories in Shi'a lore, but nothing compares to a talking, jumping 6-month old baby who takes an arrow to save dear old dad.  This story offers a very spooky window into the mindset of Muslims, and lays waste to the notion that "we are all the same,"  "we all share the same beliefs."

When nobody was left in Imam Hussain's camp, Imam Hussain cried for help by saying, "Is there anyone who can help me?" Hearing this call, Imam Hussain's six-month-old baby dropped himself from the cot, saying "LABAIK", meaning I am at your service. Imam Hussain only realized and came to know about this when he heard the women crying and wailing. He went to the tent and asked his sister Zainab what was the reason for them to cry and she said that after hearing his call for help Ali Asghar had dropped himself from his cot. He then asked Abdullah Alradea's mother to dress Ali Asghar up in new clothes because he wanted to take him to the battlefield so that he could ask some water for his child, and he was about to meet with Allah so he needed to look his best. Abdullah Alradea's mother handed him over to Imam Hussain. Imam Hussain then took Ali Asghar towards the enemy camp. After getting near the enemy camp he cried out, "Is there anyone who can give some water to my thirsty child?" When no one came forward he again pleaded and said, "OK, if you think that I will drink the water then fine, I will put my son down on the burning sand anyone who wants to give him water can come forward and do so." Imam Hussain put his son down on the burning sand and waited ... but no one came forward. He then picked him up and Imam Hussain told him to open his mouth and show his tongue; even if you just had some nice cold water and if you stuck out your tongue then you would need water right away. Ali Asghar started to roll over his tongue over his lips to convey to Yazeed's army that he really was thirsty. [Ed.: Or that he was seeking another way out of his predicament.] Seeing this, many in Yazeed's army started crying, but the commander of the army, Omar Ibn Saad, was unfazed by it. He sent for his best archer, Hurmula, and ordered him to take aim and shoot an arrow in Ali Asghar's direction. He took aim and launched an arrow, but it missed; he shot again, and it also missed; and then he shot a third time, and that missed as well. Then Omar said, "You are my best archer; why can't you kill the child who is lying still?" Hurmala answered, "His mother is watching from the tent and I can see that if I kill this child then I will go to hell." But with the money in mind, Hurmala shot his 3-pronged arrow, the kind used to kill horses. When Hurmala shot the arrow then Ali Asghar saw that it would hit Imam Hussain, so Ali Asghar jumped and the arrow pierced his throat, killing him instantly. The arrow end came out and attached itself, along with Ali Asghar, to Imam Hussain's arm.

So anyways, the Sunnis killed Husayn, beheaded him, stuck his head on a pike, trampled his body with horses until nothing was left, and so on and so forth.  His male followers were all killed, and their wives and daughters were taken as sex slaves, per the holy, holy Qur'an.

This is how Muslims treated Muslims (including the grandson of Mohammad), from the very earliest days of the founding of Islam.  This is the peace that emanates from the Religion of Peace™.  And by the way, what happened to the men involved in the killing of Husayn?  Although Allah was powerless to save Husayn, He was able to miraculously kill every one of Husayn's killers, after making them suffer.  Some excerpts:

• The man who had shot an arrow at Imam Hussain and had stopped him from drinking water, had been sent by Allah the Almighty a terrible thirst which could not be quenched, no matter how much water he drank.  He was always restless with thirst.  Eventually his stomach burst thus meeting his death.
• Ibn Ziyad was severely tortured to death.  His head was similarly placed in front of Mukhtar Saqfi on the same spot as the Imam Hussain's head was placed in front of him (Ibn Ziyad), and his lips were similarly prodded with a stick.
• Umaro bin Al-Hahhah who was one of those who presented Imam Hussain's head to Ibn Ziyad was haunted with thirst.  When he fell down because of his thirst and heat, he was killed.
• Malik bin Bashir who made away with Imam Hussain's cap had both his hands and feet cut off and was then thrown into the open, and he died in extreme desperation.
• Hakim bin Tufail who had shot an arrow at Imam Hussain was captured alive and made a target.  Arrows were thrown at him in such a number that he became like a sieve and died.
• Zaid bin Rifadh had thrown an arrow at Abdullah, the son of Imam Hussain's nephew Muslim bin 'Aqil, ... he (Abdullah) saved his face by covering it with his palm.  The the arrow pierced through the palm and penetrated into his forehead thus fixing his palm to his forehead.  Zaid bin Rifadh was arrested.  Firstly, he was stoned and then shot with arrows.  Whilst still alive, he was thrown into fire.
• A man from the Bani Daram tribe picked up Imam Hussain's sword.  He became a leper and died because of that.

Peace, peace, peace.  Nothing to see but peace here, folks.  Move along.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Oct 8: "Palestinian" pro-Osama Bin Laden rally
Oct 6: Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Oct 3: Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu
Oct 1: Systemic mass murder in Indonesia
Sept 30: Mohammad al-Dura Hoax

On October 10th, 732, the Christian forces of Charles Martel defeated the Sunni Umayyad Muslim forces of Abdul Rahman al Ghafiqi in France at the Battle of Tours, ending Muslim attempts to conquer Europe.

Though some modern historians, such as Bernard Lewis, deny the significance of the battle and the defeat of the Muslims, this battle stands as one of the most important battles in the history of the Western world.  Edward Gibbon described the battle as "an encounter which would change the history of the whole world.”

An anonymous Arab historian described the battle:

The Moslems smote their enemies, and passed the river Garonne, and laid waste the country, and took captives without number. And that army went through all places like a desolating storm. Prosperity made those warriors insatiable. At the passage of the river, Abderrahman overthrew the count, and the count retired into his stronghold, but the Moslems fought against it, and entered it by force, and slew the count; for everything gave way to their scimitars, which were the robbers of lives. All the nations of the Franks trembled at that terrible army, and they betook them to their king Caldus [Charles Martel], and told him of the havoc made by the Moslem horsemen, and bow they rode at their will through all the land of Narbonne, Toulouse, and Bordeaux, and they told the king of the death of their count. Then the king bade them be of good cheer, and offered to aid them. . .

To repeat, Muslim invaders had conquered and destroyed the cities of Narbonne, Toulouse, and Bordeaux in France, in the 700's AD.  This was only decades after the death of Mohammad, and 360 years before the First Crusade.  Muslims fought an offensive war with the religious goal of overrunning the Christian stronghold of Europe.  In their wake, the Muslims killed as many kufirs as possible, burned the churches, and divided the plunder amongst themselves,in accordance with the teachings of the holy, holy Qur'an.  To continue the Muslim account of the battle:

[Charles Martel] came upon them at the great city of Tours. And Abderrahman and other prudent cavaliers saw the disorder of the Moslem troops, who were loaded with spoil; but they did not venture to displease the soldiers by ordering them to abandon everything except their arms and war-horses. And Abderrahman trusted in the valour of his soldiers, and in the good fortune which had ever attended him. But such defect of discipline always is fatal to armies. So Abderrabman and his host attacked Tours to gain still more spoil, and they fought against it so fiercely that they stormed the city almost before the eyes of the army that came to save it; and the fury and the cruelty of the Moslems towards the inhabitants of the city were like the fury and cruelty of raging tigers. [...]  The Moslem horsemen dashed fierce and frequent forward against the battalions of the Franks, who resisted manfully, and many fell dead on either side, until the going down of the sun. Night parted the two armies: but in the grey of the morning the Moslems returned to the battle. Their cavaliers had soon hewn their way into the center of the Christian host. But many of the Moslems were fearful for the safety of the spoil which they had stored in their tents, and a false cry arose in their ranks that some of the enemy were plundering the camp; whereupon several squadrons of the Moslem horsemen rode off to protect their tents. But it seemed as if they fled; and all the host was troubled. And while Abderrahman strove to check their tumult, and to lead them back to battle, the warriors of the Franks came around him, and he was pierced through with many spears, so that he died. Then all the host fled before the enemy, and many died in the flight. . . .

Charles got the nickname "Martel" (the hammer) for his victory over the Muslims at the Battle of Tours (also known as the Battle of Poitiers), and for his subsequent victories that expelled the Muslims from France.  The keys to his victory at Tours were:

• Waiting until his forces could be gathered and treaties made, uniting the French and the Germanic tribes against the Muslim invaders.  The delayed response caused the Muslims to become over-confident.
• By staying off the main roads, Martel was able to use stealth to move his forces into place.
• Martel carefully chose the time and place of battle, positioning his troops at the top of an incline, with trees providing cover from Muslim calvary charges.
• The Christian troops were well trained, well disciplined, and well equipped.  They were among the first infantry to be able to withstand a calvary charge.

In the days before we decided that "we are all the same," and "we all share the same universal [Judeo-Christian] values," and "all religions are the same,"  and before modern re-historians decided that an invasion of French Aquitaine by the Umayyad Muslims would have been preferable to being ruled by the Germanic Franks, in other words, before we went insane, this is what historians had to say about the Battle of Tours:

"[The Battle of Tours] must ever remain one of the great events in the history of the world, as upon its issue depended whether Christian Civilization should continue or Islam prevail throughout Europe." - Godefroid Kurth

 "[T]he arm of Charles Martel saved and delivered the Christian nations of the West from the deadly grasp of all-destroying Islam." - Friedrich Schlegel

"[I]t was a struggle between East and West, South and North, Asia and Europe, the Gospel and the Koran; and we now say, on a general  consideration of events, peoples, and ages, that the civilization of the world depended on it." - M. Guizot and Mme. Guizot de Witt

"[T]here was no more important battle in the history of the world." - Hans Delbruck

“[The Battle of Tours] decided that Christians, and not Muslims, should be the ruling power in Europe.” - John Henry Haaren

"The victory gained was decisive and final, The torrent of Arab conquest was rolled back and Europe was rescued from the threatened yoke of the Saracens." - Louis Gustave and Charles Strauss

Edward Gibbon, famous for his criticism of Christianity and Judaism in his work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" in 1776,  famously wrote, that if not for the victory at Tours:

"Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet."

Today, there are two large mosques in Oxford, and criticism of Mohammad and Islam are on the verge of being banned in our universities and in our societies in general.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Oct 9: Battle of Karbala (Death of Husayn)
Oct 8: "Palestinian" pro-Osama Bin Laden rally
Oct 6: Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Oct 3: Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu
Oct 1: Systemic mass murder in Indonesia

Additional coverage of this story.  From AP:

WASHINGTON - The situation in Afghanistan now is the worst since the U.S.-led invasion of 2001 and the country is in danger of a "downward spiral" into violence and chaos, according to an intelligence report draft.

A 'downward spiral' into violence and chaos, or a resumption of the status quo?  Is today's violence and chaos different than that of 642AD to 1219AD, when wave after wave of Muslim conquerors from Arabia and Persia swept over Afghanistan?  The Khorasani were conquered by the Ghaznavid, who were conquered by the Ghurids, who were conquered by the Persian Safavids, who were conquered by the Turkish Seljuks, who were conquered by the Khwarezmids.

Or is today's violence and chaos different than that of the Mongol invasion of 1219AD to 1500AD?  Or during the fracturing of Afghanistan into tribal fiefdoms that were absorbed by various warring Islamic empires in 1500AD to 1700AD?

Maybe they're referring to a more modern history, starting with the civil war in 1919 to 1929, or maybe the tribal warfare between the Ghilzai and the Durrani and the Uzbek tribes in 1929 to 1973, or the corruption and famine of the Daoud republic of 1973 to 1978, or the Soviet invasion in 1978 to 1992?

When exactly in Afghan history, other than when kufirs came in and put guns to the heads of the various tribes to temporarily stop them from killing each other, like now,  has there been anything other than violence and chaos?  And why exactly should we care about our "good friends," the Afghans, who supported, protected, and trained Al Qaeda?

The nearly completed National Intelligence Estimate, the work of 16 intelligence agencies, says Afghanistan's deterioration has accelerated alarmingly in past two months. Bush administration officials say privately that Afghanistan is now the single most pressing security threat in the fight against terrorism.

Single most pressing?  Not Pakistan, where the Taliban and Al Qaeda are currently based, and where they currently have nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles?  Not Iran, who are currently funding, supplying, and training Shi'a militias who kill U.S. troops in Iraq (not to mention the destruction of formerly multi-ethnic Lebanon)?  Not Saudi Arabia, whose petrodollars fuel the worldwide jihad, and who also supply the theological impetus and religious justification?  Afghanistan?  Really?

"We are doing a review to look to see what more we can do," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters Thursday. "We are looking to see where some of the strengths are and how we can support those strengths and also how we can help the Afghans when there are weaknesses."

A senior U.S. commander with recent experience in Afghanistan characterized the situation as "stagnant" rather than deteriorating.

"We're not making progress. And we're not making progress because of a lack of capability in the government and because the Taliban have a safe haven from which to plan, train, and launch attacks into Afghanistan," said the commander, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive material.

We're not making "progress", according to Judeo-Christian values of tolerance, peace,  forgiveness, equality, and innovation, because Afghanistan is besotted with Islam, the religion that mandates eternal warfare against the non-Believers, something that a couple more battalions of kufir soldiers are not going to change.  The Afghan government lacks capability because, among other reasons, they represent the law of men, as opposed to the law of Allah, and therefore lack legitimacy by Afghan standards.

A second military commander, who read the draft of the intelligence report, said it warns that action is needed quickly to prevent Afghanistan from heading into the "downward spiral." The secret report is expected to be completed mid-November and some conclusions could change.

Military figures show that Afghanistan has become far more dangerous for American troops than Iraq. More than twice as many Americans have died in Afghanistan than in Iraq since May, even though there are more than five times the number of U.S. troops in Iraq.

If the troop levels were reversed (as Obama wants), the death rates would reverse as well.  Jihadis will focus their attack on our weakest flank, not the strongest.  Simple, elementary tactics.

The White House has accelerated a review of how to reverse the security slide and shore up Afghan President Hamid Karzai's struggling government. Heading the review is Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, President Bush's deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gen. David Petraeus, fresh from Iraq and tapped to head U.S. Central Command, which oversees both war zones, was in Washington on Thursday to discuss the situation. [...]

So, should we (U.S. voters) support John McCain, with his promise to stay in Iraq for as long as it takes, no matter what the cost?  Or, should we support Barack Obama, with his promise to take troops out of Iraq and reposition them in Afghanistan, while "negotiating" with Iran?  Tweedledum, or Tweedledumber?

On October 8th, 2001, less than a month after the September 11th attacks in the U.S., 2 "Palestinians" were shot and killed during a pro-Osama Bin Laden rally in Gaza.

The day of the September 11th attacks, news photographers filmed scenes of "Palestinians" celebrating and handing out candy.  The PLO/PA threatened to expell any news organizations that broadcast the film, and threatened to kill any photographer who released their photos or video.

Some clips from East Jerusalem slipped through the censors, but the main celebrations in Ramallah and Nablus (where thousands participated) were dutifully locked away and/or destroyed by the major news agencies, and we have only the descriptions by eyewitnesses.

The PLO/PA, concerned by the possible loss of financial and diplomatic support from the U.S., reacted by expelling foreign reporters, and by threatening "Palestinian" stringers who remained.

The ever compliant Western media and politicians, insistent that "we are all the same," "we all want the same things," and "it's only a few radical extremists," denied and downplayed the spontaneous outbursts of joy following the attacks.

Palestinian analyst Ghassan Khatib was quoted by the AP in response to Osama Bin Laden's statement justifying the 9/11 attacks as retaliation for the "suffering" of the "Palestinians":

"The statement that represents average Palestinians and their feelings about bin Laden's speech is to respond: `Leave us alone.'"

A rather tepid and self-centered response to mass murder in their name.

The festivities continued, until on October 8th in Gaza, thousands of "Palestinians" marched in support of Osama Bin Laden.  Muslim police, knowing that there would be no international outcry, no U.N. sanctions, if they shot "Palestinians", killed two.

The following day, the PLO/PA ordered the Gazan Islamic University and Al Azhar University to close, and continued the ban on foreign reporters from entering Gaza, in an attempt to mitigate the feared public-relations disaster.  Yasir Arafat and the PA needn't have worried, as there is literally nothing they could do to upset their status as saintly victims in the eyes of Western media and governments.

Note that there is no inconsistency from the Muslim point of view between on the one hand celebrating the 9/11 attacks as symbols of Muslim power in striking back at the Great Satan, and on the other hand blaming the attacks on the Jews.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Oct 6: Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Oct 3: Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu
Oct 1: Systemic mass murder in Indonesia
Sept 30: Mohammad al-Dura Hoax
Sept 29: Cervantes, jihad survivor

On October 6th, 1981, president Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt was assassinated by his own troops during a military parade.  Nine other people in the stands were killed by the assassins.

Sadat took part in the 1952 coup that overthrew King Farouk, which was partly motivated by the defeat of the Egyptians in 1948 by the Israelis.  Following the humiliating defeat by Israel in the Six Day War in 1967, the Israelis made a diplomatic offer to return Gaza to Egypt and the Golan Heights to Syria, in return for peace agreements, and to begin negotiations to define Israel's border with Jordan.  In response, the Arab Summit issued the "three no's" policy: "no peace, no recognition, and no negotiation."

Instead, Sadat planned and carried out the Yom Kippur War against Israel in 1973, in coordination with Syria and Iraq.  The surprise attack on the holiest holiday eve of Yom Kippur was chosen by the Muslims intentionally.  It also marked the beginning of Ramadan, a holy holiday for Muslims, though obviously in that case "holy" does not infer "peaceful", as Muslims regularly fight wars during Ramadan.

After some early victories in the sneak attack, Egypt's top generals such as Saad El Shazly warned against continuing the offensive, but Sadat ordered the attack to continue.  The tide turned, and the result was another humiliating rout of Egyptian forces.

In 1979, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin signed a peace treaty following the Camp David Accords with President Jimmy Carter, for which they both won the Nobel Prize (as did that other well-known peace advocate, Yassir Arafat, in 1994).  In response, the other Arab nations expelled Egypt from the Arab League and from the Islamic Conference. Muslims expressed their displeasure in time-honored fashion, as enraged crowds rioted and threatened Sadat with violence, burning buses and buildings, and destroying nightclubs.

In February 1981, rumors began to circulate about a possible coup attempt.  Sadat rounded up the usual suspects: communists, feminists, homosexuals, intellectuals, and Coptic Christians.

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman wrote the fatwa approving the assassination, in accordance with mainstream Islamic principles.  In a very precisely timed operation, during a military parade celebrating the Yom Kippur War, the assassin troops pulled in front of the review stands just as Mirage jet fighters flew overhead, distracting the crowd.  The assassins threw grenades, and then began shooting at the review stands.  Some of the assassins rushed to the stands to get a better shot.  Despite this occuring during a military parade, with literally thousands of Egyptian troops on hand, and with Sadat surrounded by bodyguards, the assassins were able to continue firing unhampered for several minutes.

Sheikh Abdel-Rahman, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and other Egyptian jihadis were arrested for their participation in the murder, but this being Dar al-Islam, they were set free just a few years later.  Abdel-Rahman was later arrested in the U.S. for planning the first bombing of the World Trade Center, and al-Zawahiri went to Afghanistan and joined up with Osama bin Laden.

We criticize our leaders for advocating war;  they criticize (well, actually, they murder) their leaders for advocating peace.

And now, let us close with some words of wisdom from Anwar Sadat, Nobel Peace Prize winner:

"Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people."

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Oct 3: Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu
Oct 1: Systemic mass murder in Indonesia
Sept 30: Mohammad al-Dura Hoax
Sept 29: Cervantes, jihad survivor
Sept 27: Emir of Kuwait begs UN for help

On October 3rd, 1993, the Battle of Mogadishu began.  The two-day battle was depicted in the movie, "Blackhawk Down."

Somalia is 99.95% Sunni Muslim nation, and with an ongoing violent jihad in progress, that percentage is growing.  The cathedral of Mogadishu was built in 1928, and destroyed by Muslims in 1992.  In the 1970's there were still Christian schools, but they were shut down by the Muslim government and the teachers were expelled.  The few remaining Christians continue to be routinely targeted for murder to this day, including in April 2008, David Abdulwahab Mohamed Ali who was gunned down when he identified himself as a Christian to Muslim clerics.

Mohammed Siad Barre was a devout Muslim, who came to power in 1969 after the assassination of Somalia's second president, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, by a jihadi.  Siad Barre supported the Muslim clerics, but he attempted to limit their involvement in politics, and to create a separation between the religious and the secular.

Siad Barre believed that his concept of "scientific socialism" was in accordance with the Qur'an.  He also passed laws giving women equal rights to inheritance, in direct contradiction to the teachings of the Muslim prophet Mohammad.  And so, in January 1991, his government was overthrown and he fled the country.  The country descended into chaos and anarchy as warlords vied for control of a patchwork quilt of tribal territories.  Foreign aid workers sent in supplies of food, which the warlords confiscated as infidels' booty, and sold to Somalia's neighbors to raise money to purchase more weapons.

Under the first President Bush, the U.S. sent in troops to protect aid workers bringing food to the starving people of Somalia.  A year later, President Clinton modifed the role of the troops, to encompass building a "national reconciliation" among disparate tribes that had been at war for millenia, and to bring democracy to Somalia.

The Muslim warlords did their best to harrass and interfere with the nation-building work of the foreign infidels.  On June 5th, 1993, 24 Pakistani UN troops were killed and their bodies mutilated and skinned.  On October 3rd, 1993, the U.S. tried to capture the associates of the most powerful warlord, Mohammed Farah Aidid, to force him to the bargaining table.

Unbeknownst to the U.S. military or intelligence agencies, Osama Bin Laden had formed al Qaeda in 1988, and moved his base of operations to nearby Sudan in 1991.  It wasn't until eight years after its founding, in 1996, that the U.S. made mention of al Qaeda.  In 1992 and 1993, al Qaeda members trained the troops of Mohammed Farah Aidid and coordinated an attack with him.  Al Qaeda members involved in the Somali operation included:

• Maulana Masood Azhar, a Pakistani associate of OBL in his days in Waziristan. 
• Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, Al Qaeda military commander
• Mohammed Atef, Al Qaeda military commander
• Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, who provided the rocket launchers for the operation
• Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
• Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah
• Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah
• Saif al-Islam al-Masri (captured in the Republic of Georgia in 2002)
• Abu Talha al-Sudani

The U.S. troops were walking into a jihadi ambush, and they had no concept of what that was.

Two Blackhawk helicopters were shot down during the mission.  Swarms of Muslim militias quickly surrounded the trapped and injured U.S. soldiers.  The heavily armed Somali population, including women, joined in the fracas.  Women and children acted as human shields for the militias, preventing the chivalrous Americans from shooting back.

Through heroism and self-sacrifice, the majority of the U.S. troops were able to fight their way out of the city and back to their base.  The Pakistani troops under the control of the U.N. were reluctant to assist in the rescue of the Americans, and slow to respond on that day.  In the weeks and months that followed, the U.S. pulled all of its troops out of Somalia, and allowed the Somali people to forge their own destiny without the irksome interference of the kufirs.

I remember hearing of the events at the time, with no mention of the "I" word or the "M" word in the media's coverage, and wondering what insanity could motivate people to kill those who were trying to prevent their starvation.  Why would it be more important to expell aid workers and peacekeepers than to accept the aid and begin to try to build a better life?  It made no sense.  Unfortunately, I've learned alot since 1993, we all have, and God help me, with a long-overdue education in Islamic concepts and history, it's starting to become clear.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Oct 1: Systemic mass murder in Indonesia
Sept 30: Mohammad al-Dura Hoax
Sept 29: Cervantes, jihad survivor
Sept 27: Emir of Kuwait begs UN for help
Sept 26: Battle of Ganja in Russia

In breaking politics-makes-strange-bedfellows news:

According to Gawker.com, Larry Flynt has finished filming of his as-yet-untitled Palin-lookalike porn movie.

User submissions include "Drill, Baby, Drill", and "The Russians are Coming".

No word on whether the male star resembles Joe Biden.

Today on the campaign trail in Reno, NV, Senator Obama said: 

"There will be time to punish those who set this fire, but now is the moment for us to come together and put the fire out."

Senator Obama should know that the conviction rate of those who set fires is less than 1%.

And the conviction rate of extremely wealthy and politically connected Wall Street CEO's and investment bankers who commit large-scale fraud is much less than that.

Much less.

On October 1st, 1965, in Indonesia Suharto took over control of the country from Sukarno, after 6 top military leaders were assassinated the previous day.  Under Suharto, Muslim groups began killing non-Muslims throughout 1965 and 1966, with over 500,000 people murdered.  According to a CIA report, "In terms of the numbers killed the anti-PKI massacres in Indonesia rank as one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century."

During WWII, Indonesia (then Dutch West-Indies) under Sukarno fought on the side of the Japanese Axis forces.  At the end of the war, Indonesia declared its independence, with Sukarno serving as the first president.  Sukarno was Sunni Muslim, but encouraged a secular form of government;  he also developed leanings toward communism, to the dismay of the U.S. and U.K.  By the 1960's, Indonesia's parliament was split between the secular Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and Islamic fundamentalist parties.

Suharto was an army general serving under Sukarno.  Like Suharto and most Indonesians, he was also a Sunni Muslim.  On the night of September 30th, 1965, a group of top generals in the Indonesian army kidnapped and killed 6 other top generals in a coup attempt.  The motivation and composition of the coup members remains murky.

One theory is that there was a planned CIA coup to overthrow Sukarno to prevent the communists (the PKI)  from gaining power;  the coup members pre-emptively killed the generals who were planning to overthrow Sukarno.  The coup members were all close associates of Sukarno, and he willingly went with them to their stronghold in the hours after the murders took place.

Another theory is that Suharto was part of the coup attempt, but switched sides to Sukarno for personal political reasons.

The official version is that the coup members were communists.

Regardless, in the hours after the coup attempt, Suharto took control of the military, and the rebel forces mainly fled or surrendered.  After a brief battle, the coup was over.  The coup was blamed on the PKI.  Suharto accused all generals who were loyal to Sukarno of being communists, and they were quickly purged from power.  Suharto now had defacto control of the country.  The PKI was banned, and its members were rounded up and executed without trial.

Muslim militia groups, with the blessing of Suharto's government, fanned out across the country and begin the massacre of anyone accused of being "communist" (ie. anyone resisting the imposition of sharia law in Indonesia).  As in Uganda in the 1970's, the property of (non-Muslim) ethnic-Chinese citizens was confiscated and appropriated by the Muslim militias, and the former-owners were killed. On the Christian islands of Nusa Tenggara, Christian clergy were murdered by the Muslim militias.  Hindu-majority Bali was also heavily targeted.

In accordance with the teachings of the holy, holy Qur'an, the method of killing was usually cutting the throat of the victims with swords, often including beheading.  The victims' bodies were dumped in rivers, which at some points became clogged with cadavers.  At least 500,000 people were killed, with some estimates as high as 3 million.

Two Muslim groups were prominently involved.  Muhammadiyah (followers of Mohammad) is a Sunni group that is tied to the National Mandate Party.  Nahdlatul Ulama is a Sunni group that is directly involved in politics.  Both groups declared that the killings were "holy war," and openly justified the killings in religious terms.

Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon all supported the overthrow of Sukarno and the killing of the PKI, due to Cold War fear of communism.  Presidents Nixon and Ford's support of Suharto and the Islamic militias that committed unimaginable mass murder (including the last vestige of Christianity in East Timor in the 1970's and 1980's) stands as a particularly egregious blunder in U.S. foreign policy.

Little attention is paid today, either within Indonesia or outside, to the hundreds of thousands of murders that took place in Indonesia, and even less attention is given to the religious motivation driving it.  Like Darfur or Armenia, when Muslims are committing the mass murders, the world sheepishly looks the other way.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Sept 30: Mohammad al-Dura Hoax
Sept 29: Cervantes, jihad survivor
Sept 27: Emir of Kuwait begs UN for help
Sept 25: Assassination of Aqila al-Hashimi in Iraq
Sept 24: Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi

On September 29th, 1547, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born near Madrid, Spain, or as the Muslims refer to it, Al-Andalus.  Cervantes was not a Muslim, as the "Moors" (Muslim invaders) had been driven back out of Spain a few generations before his birth.  Cervantes' connection to Islam would come later in his life, when he battled, and when he was taken prisoner by, Muslim pirates.

Cervantes joined the Spanish army at the age of 23, and fought against the Turkish Ottoman Caliphate in the Battle of Lepanto.  In this naval battle, the fleet of the Christian Holy League decisively defeated the Muslims, ending the Islamic invasion of Europe, and curtailing Islamic slave-raiding in southern and central Europe.  In the battle, Cervantes was badly injured, and permanently lost the use of his left hand.

After finishing his military service, he began the sailing journey back to Spain, when he was captured by Islamic Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean Sea.  He was taken to Algiers, where he served as the slave of Benedikli Hasan Pasha for five years, until the Christian Trinitarian friars paid his ransom.

Just as Eskimos (Inuit) supposedly have a multitude of words for types of snow, Muslims have a multitude of words for types of slaves.  Cervantes was a Saqaliba, which is a transliteration of Greek "Sklavinoi", for "Slavs".  It specifies slaves taken from Italy and Spain, and refers to their light skin tone.  Saqaliba served as servants, eunuchs, craftsmen, and soldiers, and were highly prized by their Muslim captors for their relatively high level of education.  They were similar to the Mamluks, who were also white slaves taken from the Caucusus and conscripted as soldiers.

According to Robert Davis, over 1 million Europeans were taken as slaves by Muslim slave-raiders between 1530 and 1780.

This paper by James William Brodman gives some detailed description of Islamic slave-raiding in Europe, and contains some quotes describing the conditions of the lives of the slaves:

Bougie and the other western ports became crowded with captives, the roads rang with the noise of their chains, especially when the unfortunates, bound with irons and chains, poured out of their quarters to work at their daily tasks.  (Ibn Khaldun, Muslim scholar and historian)

Muslim emirates armed and sent forth their fleets with the sole intention of capturing kufirs' booty:

They arrived by surprise and took off all they could get their hands on; they also attacked the ships of the infidels [i.e., the Christians], very often seizing them and returning with them filled with booty and prisoners.  (Ibn Khaldun)

Treatment of the slaves was harsh:

For he who has been captured by the Saracens is led to Lérida bound in iron chains, and afflicted with hunger and thirst and various sufferings, and is at last to be imprisoned as a slave.  (Bishop Gaufred)

And yet modern revisionists such as Harold Cox and Edward Rothstein (h/t Hugh Fitzgerald) have the audacity to re-interpret Cervantes' work as being pro-Islamic, based on some very unconvincing and unsound reasoning.  Imagine the outcry if revisionists attempted to claim that black slaves in America enjoyed slavery and admired their slave-owners, based on a literary device that Frederick Douglass used in one of his books.

His ransom paid to the Muslim warlords, Cervantes returned to Spain where he served in the government and began his literary career.  His most famous novel was Don Quixote de la Mancha, the story of a confused and naive man who sets off on a series of journeys to uphold an idealized and childish version of chivalry, to rescue non-existent damsels in non-existent distress, and to save persons who are not actually in need of saving.  All his "good deeds" end in failure and humiliation, in a story not without some resonance today.  Don Quixote regains his sanity and lucidity before his death, and spends time philosophizing about deception and self-deception.  Will the modern Don Quixote, with his Iraqi Light Unto the Islamic Nations project, regain his sanity?  The answer is irrelevant at this point.  It's too late, we'll be paying for his follies for the rest of our lives.

As for Cervantes, he continued his writing, finishing The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda just four days before his death at the young age of 68.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Sept 27: Emir of Kuwait begs UN for help
Sept 25: Assassination of Aqila al-Hashimi in Iraq
Sept 24: Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi
Sept 23: Gulf Air Flight 771
Sept 22: Iran-Iraq War

On September 30th, 2000, Mohammad al-Durrah was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers as he crouched with his father behind a large cement culvert.

Except that it was all a hoax.

Numerous "Palestinian" "reporters" were present and recording events at the Netzarim Junction on that day.  Highly edited snippets of the film provided by "Palestinian" "reporter" Talal Abu-Rahma showed a man and a boy hiding behind the culvert pipe.  They appeared agitated and fearful.  At some point, someone apparently fired a weapon at the wall behind them.  There was then an image of the boy laying almost motionless next to his father, at which point the France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin claimed that the boy was dead, intentionally shot and killed by the Israelis.

Muslims around the world, including Osama Bin Laden, used the iconic image of Mohammad al-Durrah to justify their jihad attacks.

But nowhere on the tape do we see al-Durrah's death;  at the end of the tape, he is seen playfully peeking out from behind his fingers to look at the cameraman, long after he has been pronounced dead.  Nowhere is any blood seen, on either father or son, or the walls or the ground.  Nowhere is either of them seen actually being hit by any bullets. All we have to rely on is the word of the "Palestinian," Talal Abu-Rahma, about what happened that day, and he has already been caught in numerous inconsistencies and prevarications.

Eight years later, France 2 has defied numerous calls to release the complete raw footage, even ignoring a direct court order.  The few who have been allowed to see the entire tape say that it does not show the death of Al-Durrah, contrary to the claims of Talal Abu-Rahma and France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin.  What the tape does show is staged scenes of "Palestinians" feigning injury.  What it does show is "Palestinians" laughing and relaxed as phony "battles" take place for the benefit of the "reporters" while passersby nonchalantly go about their lives.

Footage from other networks on the scene that day confirm the fakery.  This and other cases of "Palestinian" manipulation of the media have spawned a phrase, "Pallywood."  An entire industry exists to manufacture anti-Israeli propaganda, and our media falls for it, hook, line, and sinker.  Not only do they give a patina of respectability to the propagandists, the major news organizations actively protect the "Palestinian" "news makers" from any scrutiny.  Richard Landes documents their deception:

Pallywood
Pallywood II: Al Durah: The Birth of an Icon
Pallywood III: Icon of Hatred
Pallywood Strikes Again

From the burning tire dump, to the phony rocket attack on a Red Cross ambulance, to green-helmet man, to the wailing woman who keeps losing her house to the Zionist terrorists, there has been a litany of hoaxes perpetrated on us.

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Sept 29: Cervantes, jihad survivor
Sept 27: Emir of Kuwait begs UN for help
Sept 25: Assassination of Aqila al-Hashimi in Iraq
Sept 24: Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi
Sept 23: Gulf Air Flight 771
 

Financial institutions on the island of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia are reporting a dramatic and sudden increase in foreign investments.   Finance Minister Louis Pitmag said today in the city of Gagil outside the capitol of Colonia, "We've seen a one-thousand-fold increase in foreign currency exchange since the recent downturn in the global economy.  Investors are looking for a safe hedge in an uncertain market, and apparently see our currency as their safest investment."   Masons at the local mint have been working around the clock to try to keep up with demand.  Gagil said, "We want investors to know that the Rai is a solid, durable investment.  It is also almost immune from the threat of theft or embezzelment."

On September 27th, 1990, Jabir al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the emir of Kuwait who was deposed by Saddam Hussein's invasion, spoke before the UN General Assembly in NY.  His emotional speech was meant to encourage the world's nations to join the coalition to reverse Iraq's invasion.  Here are some quotes from his speech:

[...] The crisis of Kuwait is a manifold tragedy, whose dire consequences affect not only Kuwaitis but other peoples as well. In fact, it has jeopardized stability in the world, especially in the Gulf region.

How was the invasion of Kuwait a tragedy for anyone other than the Kuwaitis?

[...] For we have never seen in contemporary post World War Two history a country that overran a sovereign independent state, a member of the United Nations, and then sought not only to annex it by brutal force but also to erase its name and entire entity from the world political map and wipe out the parameters of its national identity as defined by its institutions and its political, economic and social structures. All of this, Mr. President, has taken place as we approach the end of the twentieth century!

An ironic statement, given Dar al-Islam's ceaseless attempts to obliterate the nation of Israel from the face of the earth by brutal force.  They erase its name and entire entity by referring to Israel as "the Zionist entitiy", and by destroying the archaelogical evidence at the Temple Mount.  Their maps of Muslim "Palestine" do not include even the slightest fragment of a remaining Jewish Israel.  They attempt to wipe out Israel's national identity by insisting on the "right of return" of legions of Arab Muslims who have no ties to the land.  All of this in the twenty-first century, Mr. President!

[...] The aggression by the Iraqi regime [one Muslim nation] against the State of Kuwait [another Muslim nation] which resulted in occupation and the Iraqi vicious attempts to annex Kuwait in flagrant violation of all charters, norms of conduct and treaties....

One day, the kufirs may not be so quick to step in and resolve intra-Islamic warfare at great cost, in money and in lives, to themselves.

[...] This Iraqi regime has invented false pretexts and untenable claims against my peaceful and peace-loving country.

We'll come back to "invented false pretexts" shortly.

[...] Iraq was bent on sweeping through the entire territory of Kuwait, violating its sovereignty and violating the sanctity of Kuwaiti citizens' lives and property. As a consequence, rape, destruction, terror and torture are now the rule of the day in the once peaceful and tranquil land of Kuwait. Hundreds of thousands of Kuwaiti citizens along with nationals of various other countries who were our guests have been made homeless and many of them have had their life saving robbed. Hundreds have lost their lives. Others have been held hostage. Indeed, at this very moment, an intense campaign of terror, torture and humiliation continues unabated in that dear land. We receive daily reports of massacres and continuing systematic armed looting and destruction of state assets and individual property.

How is Kuwait different from all the other nations suffering the "rape, destruction, terror, and torture" that is justified by Islamic texts, such as in Sudan, Israel, Thailand, Russia, and many, many, others?

Two years have now elapsed since I made an initiative from this rostrum calling for the cancellation of foreign debts under the burden of which numerous countries suffer enormously. In point of fact, these countries have fallen victim to a host of factors that not only thwarted any prospect for their economic prosperity but also generated mounting pressure on them. Though some measure of progress has indeed been made in this area, the magnitude and scope of the problem continue to pose a grave threat to the lives of millions of human beings, a threat that in all likelihood may undermine world peace and stability. The long standing academic argument that economic stability and political stability are closely interlinked is perhaps as valid and timely now as it has ever been. Along these lines, it would be advisable for us all to review the conclusions of the United Nations-sponsored Conference on the Problems of the Least Developed Countries, held in Paris earlier this month, in order to appreciate better the weight of the problem and the urgency it has assumed with a view to making tangible headway towards an effective remedy in the interest of all mankind. In this spirit, Kuwait, for its part, has decided, in line with our previous proposal regarding this issue, to write off all interests on its loans. In addition, Kuwait will consider with the poorest nations arrangements regarding the principal of its loans with a view to easing the burden of their debts.

This paragraph, putatively showing how concerned the Kuwaitis are with the poor of the world, is actually a reference to one of Saddam's main motivations for invading Kuwait:  the $65 billion debt that Iraq owed to Kuwait after the Iran-Iraq War.  After refusing to forgive the debt for years, now that Saddam has invaded and deposed him, he's willing to forgive the debt to get his old job back.  Quite the humanitarian.

The devastating consequences of the aggression against Kuwait and its civilian population with its repercussions on the stability and security of the entire Gulf region, together with its ripple effects on world stability, as we have clearly seen, have been far-reaching indeed. They have already had adverse effects on long-standing crucial issues we had always hoped the world community would eventually resolve satisfactorily. I have in mind the problem of the Palestinian people and the tragedy of the occupation of the Southern part of our sister state, Lebanon.

Yes, the "Palestinians" were so close to peacefully compromising with Israel, until Saddam's invasion of Kuwait destroyed those chances.  Riiiight.  Nice try at trying to somehow involve the Jews in this purely intra-Islamic war. 

Together, we will join hands in concert and harmony to secure our development and progress. This will be a fulfillment of God's promise as rendered in the following verse:
"O ye who believe, If you will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, And plant your feet firmly."
(Surah 47, Mohammad, Verse 7.) And whose word can be truer t