Mar 07 2008

al-Qaeda’s War On Islam Continues

Published by at 1:53 pm under All General Discussions,Iraq

al-Qaeda is at war with Europe, the US and the Arab/Muslim community, the latter being a clear indication that Arab Muslims are fighting for the future of Islam and their enemy is al-Qaeda. This is evident to all but the most jaded liberals as demonstrated by the bombings today in Baghdad, which clearly show who al-Qaeda is at war with by who they massacre:

A twin attack in central Baghdad’s commercial district which the US embassy on Friday blamed on Al-Qaeda killed at least 68 people, making it the second deadliest assault in Iraq this year.

The roadside bomb, followed by a suicide attack, ripped through Al-Atar Street in the Karada neighbourhood on Thursday evening.

In addition to the dead, 154 people were wounded, an interior ministry official said on Friday, adding that among the casualties were several women and children who had been cut down by the blasts while shopping.

Why are Muslim women and children out shopping a threat to al-Qaeda? Because al-Qaeda has lost the hearts and souls of Arab Muslims and must punish them for daring to part company with al-Qaeda. There were little to no security forces in the area, few if any Americans. The attack was a signal from the Islam Fascists to follow al-Qaeda or die. That is what fascists do – they rule through violence and oppression.:

“Such indiscriminate mass violence demonstrates that Al-Qaeda in Iraq will spare no effort, however brutal, to attempt to re-ignite sectarian strife in Iraq,” the embassy said in a statement released Friday.

An interior ministry official said the attack was coordinated to inflict maximum casualties.

“First a roadside bomb went off and as people and police gathered to rescue the victims, a suicide bomber blew himself up amid the crowd,” he said.

The worst attack this year was on February 1, when bombings in the capital’s bird market killed 100 people.

How anyone could propose leaving Iraq to Bin Laden’s butchers is beyond me. How could any sane liberal who claims a vow to the concept of human rights and opposition to violence could say now is the time to run away and leave Iraqis to be massacred is so un-American it boggles the mind.

And the last thing America should do is make these massacres credible by doing what Bin Laden and his thugs want – for us to turn tale and leave. Innocents are being killed and we can protect them from being slaughtered in huge numbers. We cannot stop all attacks, but we can limit al-Qaeda’s blood letting to a very large degree. We cannot run from Iraq and embolden al-Qaeda and Hamas and Hezbollah by demonstrating violence works. We cannot make credible acts of atrocities like this.

al-Qaeda is losing and lashing out in all its fascist hate. And like any wounded and cornered animal it will inflict harm on its way to meet Allah for its crimes against humanity and Islam. As the Muslim world sees up close the true al-Qaeda we must stand firm and show the Muslim world the stronger and alternative. Or else the blood will truly start to flow like a river in the ME.

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2 Responses to “al-Qaeda’s War On Islam Continues”

  1. Soothsayer says:
    March 7, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Al-Qaida – al-Schmeida!! Al-Qaida was never a potent force in Iraq, and their “defeat” does not make Iraq more likely to emerge from the chaos. More troubling than al-Qaida is what has happened to the circumstance of women in Iraq since the US invasion:

    Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career.

    Former dictator Saddam Hussein maintained a relatively secular society, where it was common for women to take up jobs as professors, doctors and government officials. In today’s Iraq, women are being killed by militia groups for not conforming to strict Islamist ways.

    Basra police chief Gen. Jalil Hannoon told reporters and Arab TV channels in December that at least 40 women had been killed during the previous five months in that city alone.

    “We are sure there are many more victims whose families did not report their killing for fear of scandal,” Gen. Hannoon said.

    The militias dominated by the Shia Badr Organisation and the Mehdi Army are leading imposition of strict Islamist rules. The Shia-dominated Iraqi government is seen as providing tacit and sometimes direct support to them.

    The Badr Organisation answers to the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the Shia bloc in the Iraqi government. The Mehdi army is the militia of anti-occupation Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

    Women who do not wear the hijab are becoming prime targets of militias, residents both in Basra and Baghdad have told IPS in recent months. Many women say they are threatened with death if they do not obey.

    “Militiamen approached us to tell us we must wear the hijab and stop wearing make-up,” college student Zahra Alwan who fled Basra to Baghdad told IPS last December.

    Graffiti in red on walls across Basra warns women against wearing make-up and stepping out without covering their bodies from head to toe, Alwan said.

    “The situation in Baghdad is not very different,” Mazin Abdul Jabbar, social researcher at Baghdad University told IPS. “All universities are controlled by Islamic militiamen who harass female students all the time with religious restrictions.”

    Jabbar said this is one reason that “many families have stopped sending their daughters to high schools and colleges.”

    In early 2007 Iraq’s Ministry of Education found that more than 70 percent of girls and young women no longer attend school or college.

    Several women victims have been accused of being “bad” before they were abducted, residents have told IPS in Baghdad. Most women who are abducted are later found dead.

    The bodies of several have been found in garbage dumps, showing signs of rape and torture. Many bodies had a note attached saying the woman was “bad”, according to residents who did not give their names to IPS.

    Similar problems exist for women in Baquba, the capital city of Diyala province, 40 km northeast of Baghdad.

    “My neighbour was killed because she was accused of working in the directorate-general of police of Diyala,” resident Um Haider told IPS in January. “This woman worked as a receptionist in the governor’s office, and not in the police. She was in charge of checking women who work in the governor’s office.”

    Killings like this have led countless women to quit jobs, or to change them.

    “I was head of the personnel division in an office,” a woman speaking on condition of anonymity told IPS in Baquba. “On the insistence of my family and relatives, I gave up my position and chose to be an employee.”

    Women’s lives have changed, and women are beginning to look different across most of Iraq. They are now too afraid to wear anything but conservative dresses — modern clothes could be a death warrant. The veil is particularly dominant in areas under the control of militias.

    Women are paying a price for the occupation in all sorts of ways.

    “Women bear great pain and risks when militants control the streets,” Um Basim, a mother of three, told IPS in Baquba recently. “No man can move here or there. When a man is killed, the body is taken to the morgue. The body has to be received by the family, so women often go alone to the morgue to escort the body home. Some are targeted by militants when they do this.”

    Confined to home, many women live in isolation and depression.

    “Women have nowhere to go to spend leisure time,” Um Ali, a married woman in Baquba, told IPS. “Our time is spent only at home now. I have not travelled outside Baquba for more than four years. The only place I can go to is my parents’ home. Housekeeping and children have been all my life; I have no goals to attain, no education to complete. Sometimes, I can’t leave home for weeks.”

    In northern Kurdish controlled Iraq, ‘honour killings’ continue. In the ancient tradition of ‘honour killing’, the view is that a family’s honour is paramount. As of last December, at least 27 Kurdish women were murdered on suspicion of having had ‘illicit’ affairs in the previous four months, according to Youssif Mohamed Aziz, the regional minister of human rights.

    Iraqi women are not spared U.S. military prisons either. In December, Iraq’s parliamentary committee for women’s and children’s affairs demanded the release of female detainees in Iraqi and U.S.-run prisons.

    According to Nadira Habib, deputy head of the parliamentary committee, there are around 200 women detained in the Iraqi run al-Adala prison in Baghdad. Habibi says there are presumably women in U.S.-run prisons too. “But no one knows how many female detainees are now in prisons run by U.S. forces as they always refuse requests from our committee to visit them.”

    As the central government remains essentially powerless, and religious fundamentalism continues to grow across Iraq, it appears that the plight of Iraqi women will get worse.

    Thanks again, George.

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  2. WWS says:
    March 7, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    In a long string of brain-dead posts, that has to be the most idiotic non-sequitur you’ve ever made. Al-Qaeda murders dozens of women and children violently, but that doesn’t count because the US hasn’t eliminated Islam from Iraq?

    “Women have nowhere to go to spend leisure time,”

    And that’s what you think is the most serious problem in Iraq today?
    What, have you quit taking your lithium again?

    Of COURSE Islam has a problem with the way it treats women. Of COURSE this is going to take years and decades to get better – the problem has been around for 1400 years, it didn’t just begin yesterday. Are you now channelling Ann Coulter when she said that the only way to rely fix the middle east was to forcibly convert everyone to Christianity? And that it’s George Bush’s fault that he hasn’t???

    Oh wait, I can hear it coming – everything was so nice and peachy and civilised and western when Saddam was in power, he was so wise and benevolent. Forget how Uday and Qusay used to take a hot iron and brand every woman they slept with so that every man in the future would know they’d had them. Forget all the women caught up and killed by the secret police, or gassed, or starved. Just go on believing that life in Iraq before 2003 was a wonderful Golden Age where nothing bad ever happened to anyone, anytime.