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Iran: Christian Convert Released After 180 Days In Evin Prison

04/30/2012 Leave a comment

Mohabat News – “This Christian convert who had been arrested by plain clothes security authorities in his house was released after 6 months in custody under certain conditions. During this time he was subjected to interrogation and accused of evangelism.

According to reporters of Iranian Christian news agency, Mohabat News, Fariborz Arazm, a Christian convert, was conditionally released after six months imprisonment in notorious Evin prison.

After his arrest, Mr. Arazm was held in Rajaei-Shahr prison of Karaj but after some time officials transferred him to Evin prison for further interrogation.

News sources told Mohabat News that a court announced he was charged with being in contact with missionaries and also of promoting the Christian faith among Iranian Muslims.

Eventually, Mr. Arazm was conditionally released on April 11 after six months of uncertainty in Evin prison.

Three other Christian converts were also named in Mr. Arazm’s case and their arrests had been planned as well. However, they left Iran before security authorities could arrest them.” Read more.

Israel: Arabs Target 20 Jewish Children At Hebron Playground With Huge Building Blocks And Rocks Intended To Kill

04/30/2012 Leave a comment

Ask any pro-Palestinian leftist how something as inhumane as this could ever possibly happen, and they’d tell you that the ‘religion of peace’ had nothing to do with it. Of course not. These good folks weren’t out looking for an extra helping of fertilizer in order to sow even more seeds of hate. They have enough of that as it is. The innocent Palestinians were simply thinking ahead, preparing a pre-emptive assault against those evil little non-human Jewish children before they had the chance to grow up and defend themselves. These acts of hate are the fruits of their labour, but a Day is coming when they will truly reap what they have sown …

Ezekiel 35:1-3a,6b, “The word of the LORD came to me: ‘Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir; prophesy against it and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir … I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.'”

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu – “Hevron Arabs targeted 20 Jewish children in a playground Saturday night with huge building blocks and rocks intended to kill.

The children in the Beit Hadassah neighborhood escaped the attacks without injuries, but by the time security forces arrived, the Arab attackers had escaped.

The onslaught originated from the rooftops of two houses occupied by Arabs next to Beit Hadassah.

One resident said that there have been several similar incidents in the past several years, but Saturday night’s attack represented ‘a sharp escalation in the size of the blocks thrown’ at the children. Arabs also tried to strike the Jewish children with foreign objects, including a steam iron.

The resident added that the houses next to the neighborhood have been vacant for years, but recently have been occupied by hostile Arabs, encouraged by anarchists to go to the rooftops and cause provocations against Jewish neighbors.” Read more.

US Deploys F-22 Raptor Fighter Jets Near Iran, Iranian Admiral: ‘We Can Move A Vessel Within Three Miles Of NYC’

04/29/2012 Leave a comment

By JohnThomas Didymus – “An official of the Iranian military said last week that the country’s navy has the ability to move a naval vessel within three miles of the East Coast of the United States.

Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, speaking on Tuesday to students of the University of Yazd, Iran, at the anniversary of a failed U.S. military operation in April 24, 1980 (‘Operation Eagle Claw’), said that ,’The power of our naval forces is such that we have a presence in all the waters of the world and, if needed, we can move to within three miles of New York.’

The U.S. launched ‘Operation Eagle Claw’ in 1980 to rescue American hostages held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

The top ranking naval officer added: ‘The Americans’ only tool to rule the world is their naval dominance of the Persian Gulf, and they will face any other power that threatens their status.’

The Daily Caller reports that a Pentagon official reacted to Fadavi’s claim on Friday. He said: ‘You should ask the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps what their plans are. We support freedom of the seas and encourage all countries to follow international laws.’

Daily Caller speculates that Iran could use a commercial vessel sailing under the flag of another country to approach the American shoreline to strike. The website notes that Iran possesses the capability to launch ballistic missiles from a ship.” Read more.

‘US deploys F-22 Raptor fighter jets near Iran’ – “The US has deployed several F-22 Raptor fighter jets to an allied base less than 320 kilometers (200 miles) from Iran, FOX news reported Friday. The F-22, produced by Lockheed Martin, is the US’ premier fighter jet, boasting stealth technology and specializing in air-to-air combat. It has not yet seen combat. The US Air Force has strongly denied that this deployment represents a show of force against Iran or is in anyway related to a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the report stated. Instead, the move is part of a route deployment and ‘security cooperation with regional partners.'” Read more.

Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Uses ‘Fatwa’ To Disguise Nuclear Intentions

04/29/2012 2 comments

By Bob Maginnis – “New evidence indicates Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wants nuclear weapons and he created a religious-based ruse to deceive the world into joining new talks. The leader intends to use those talks to buy more time to harden his weapons program, prevent an attack, and persuade world powers to lift sanctions.

Six world powers—the U.S., U.K., France, China, Russia and Germany—fell for the ayatollah’s ruse at exploratory talks held in Istanbul, Turkey April 16. Saeed Jalili, the ayatollah’s ‘personal representative’ at the talks, cited the supreme leader’s fatwa—an Islamic order declaring possession of a nuclear weapon to be ‘a sin’—to deceive the ‘six’ into believing Iran is serious about resolving its disputed nuclear program. The ‘six’ took the bait and new talks begin May 23 in Baghdad.

But the supreme leader seeks nuclear weapons in spite of his false fatwa. A just unveiled 2009 internal International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document summarizes a conversation with then Iran’s president, Ayatollah Khamenei. The ayatollah explained ‘During a [1984] meeting …the spiritual leader Iman Khomeini had decided to reactivate the nuclear program.’ Khamenei served as president 1981-89 before becoming Iran’s current supreme leader.

President Khamenei explained ‘This [possessing nuclear weapons] was the only way to secure the very essence of the Islamic revolution from the schemes of its enemies … and to prepare it for the emergence of Imam Mehdi [messiah],’ who would bring the world under Islamic rule. Khamenei also said ‘that a nuclear arsenal would serve Iran as a deterrent in the hands of God’s soldiers.’

The ayatollah’s words, other than the false fatwa, and actions support his 1984 view that a nuclear arsenal is needed to Read more…

Nigeria: Suspected Islamists Gun Down At Least 16 Christians During Worship Service

04/29/2012 1 comment

The Globe and Mail – “Gunmen attacked church services on a university campus Sunday in northern Nigeria, using small explosives to draw out and gun down panicking worshippers in an assault that killed at least 16 people, officials said.

The attackers targeted an old section of Bayero University’s campus where religious groups use a theatre and other areas to hold worship services, Kano state police spokesman Ibrahim Idris said. The assault left many others seriously wounded, Mr. Idris said.

‘By the time we responded, they entered (their) motorcycles and disappeared into the neighborhood,’ the commissioner said.

After the attack, police and soldiers cordoned off the campus as gunfire echoed in the surrounding streets. Abubakar Jibril, a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency, said security forces refused to allow rescuers to enter the campus. Soldiers also turned away journalists from the university.

Andronicus Adeyemo, an official with the Nigerian Red Cross, said a canvas of local hospitals and morgues showed the attack killed at least 16 people. A number of people suffered injuries, though the aid agency did not immediately have an exact figure, Mr. Adeyemo said.

No group immediately claimed responsibility. However, Mr. Idris said the attackers used small explosives packed inside of aluminum soda cans for the assault, a method previously used by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram.” Read more.

Full Documentary: Rumors Of War III (Video)

04/27/2012 2 comments

The Obama Administration has officially concluded that the “War on Terror” is over. But only those suffering from a severe cerebral contusion will consider this a change they can believe in. If Obama and his liberal sock puppets wish to continue defending the indefensible, they’ll serve nothing other than to put the nation and the people they’ve been entrusted to protect at risk, for while America’s “War on Terror” is officially over, the war of terror against the West rages on …

Eric Stakelbeck, CBN News Terrorism Expert: “What we’ve seen since late 2010 is an arc descend upon the Middle East and North Africa. We’ve gone from largely secular dictatorships to radical Islamic dictatorships throughout the region, and for the first time — in, say, half a century at least — we’re hearing talk about the re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate, which is a union, an Islamic “Superstate” united militarily, economically, politically — every Muslim nation acting as one all-powerful voice to take on Israel, and take on the West, and speaking loudly in particular at the U.N.”

Reza Kahlili: Fmr. CIA Agent and Fmr. Iranian Revolutionary Guard: “You cannot have a democratic system under Islamic government. That’s not possible because Islam itself — it’s totalitarian ideology — it does not allow for you to have another opinion or to have a policy against Allah’s will. And this is very clear in the Qur’an, so within any Islamic government you cannot have democracy, you cannot have free will, you cannot have freedom of speech, [you cannot have] freedom of press, and the laws are strictly the laws of Sharia Law.”

Russia: Prominent Muslim Lawyer Promises To ‘Cover Russia In Blood’ and Turn Moscow Into ‘A Second Dead Sea’ If Sharia Law Is Not Implemented

04/27/2012 1 comment

IANS – “Police in the Russian capital said on Wednesday they will examine a video in which a prominent Muslim lawyer pledges to ‘cover Russia in blood’ if the authorities refuse to establish courts to implement Islamic law.

‘May be you are foreigners here, and this is our home. We will set our rules, whether you want this or not,’ Dagir Khasavov, a lawyer and aide to an upper house committee chairman, said in an interview with the REN TV channel.

‘Any attempts to stop this will result in blood. We will turn the city (Moscow) into a second dead sea,’ he was quoted as saying.

Russian Chief Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin condemned Khasavov’s statement.

Geidar Dzhemal, head of an influential group called Islamic Committee, said there might have been a ‘misunderstanding’.

Sergei Mitrokhin, co-head of the liberal Yabloko party, wrote on Twitter that he would ask prosecutors to bring extremist charges against Khasavov.

Khasavov recently announced plans to establish an international Muslim union to be governed by a system of Shariat courts.

Orthodox Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin warned against ‘restricting the Islamic community in living by their own rules’ but said it was unacceptable to ‘impose these rules on others outside your community’.” Source – DNA.

Denmark: Three Muslim Men Arrested For Planning Terror Attack, Illegal Possession of Automatic Weapons

04/27/2012 Leave a comment

Translated by Nicolai Sennels, via Jihad Watch – “The Police Intelligence Service (PET) has arrested three people on Friday April 27th in connection with a investigation of terrorism. The arrests occurred at two addresses in Copenhagen, and searches in connection with the arrests are being conducted at several locations in the Copenhagen area.

The Police Intelligence Service (PET) writes in a statement:

‘Those arrested have been provisionally charged with illegal possession of automatic weapons and ammunition, but they are also suspected of having been in the process of preparing a terrorist act,’ it said.

The arrested are a local 22-year-old Jordanian national, a resident 23-year-old Turkish national and a 21-year-old Danish citizen residing in Egypt. They will be presented in the Copenhagen City Court within the next 24 hours. PET does not wish to disclose further details in the matter, nor whether the men will be presented in court Friday or Saturday.

In another case, four men are currently charged with an attempt of terrorism against Jyllands-Posten / Politiken Hus (famous for having published the renowned Mohammed drawing by Kurt Westergaard).

The four deny that they had planned a terror attack shortly before the New Year in 2010 against JP / Politiken Hus in Copenhagen. They were all arrested on December 29th 2010, and are presently in the Court of Glostrup.” Read more (Danish).

Italy: ‘Religion of Peace’ Convert Arrested For Suspected Terror Links, Connected To Suspect Who Planned To Blow Up Synagogue

04/27/2012 Leave a comment

JTA – “ROME (JTA) – An Italian convert to Islam arrested for suspected links to terrorism was connected to a suspect who planned to bomb Milan’s main synagogue.

Andrea Campione, 28, who worked in a picture frame factory, was arrested in the Adriatic seacoast town of Pesaro on Monday during an anti-terrorism crackdown in several cities. Authorities said Campione was associated with Mohamed Jarmoune, a Moroccan man arrested last month on suspicion of plotting an attack on Milan’s main synagogue.

Reports said Campione had a Moroccan girlfriend and was apprehended as he was about to leave Italy for Morocco.

Investigators, who said Campione disseminated jihadist material, seized his computer and other digital material. They said that Campione had sent Jarmoune and others links to Internet sites containing information on how to carry out terror attacks.” Source – JTA.org.

IDF Chief: Israel, Other Nations Have Prepared Their Armed Forces For Potential Strike Against Iran

04/27/2012 1 comment

Associated Press – “Israel’s military chief said Thursday that other countries have readied their armed forces for a potential strike against Iran’s nuclear sites to keep Tehran from acquiring atomic weapons.

Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz did not specify which nations might be willing to support or take direct action against Iran. Still, his comments were one of the strongest hints yet that Israel may have the backing of other countries to strike the Islamic Republic to prevent it from developing nuclear arms.

‘The military force is ready,’ Gantz said. ‘Not only our forces, but other forces as well.’

‘We all hope that there will be no necessity to use this force, but we are absolutely sure of its existence,’ he told The Associated Press, adding that he was not speaking on behalf of any other nation.

Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, and that it does not aim to develop atomic weapons.” Read more.

Flashback: Iran: When the Entire World is Armed With Nuclear Weapons, it is Permissible for Iran to Use These Weapons as a Counter-Measure – “‘The spiritual leaders of the ultra-conservatives [in Iran] have accepted the use of nuclear weapons as lawful in the eyes of shari’a. Mohsen Gharavian, a disciple of [Ayatollah] Mesbah Yazdi [who is Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s spiritual mentor], has spoken for the first time of using nuclear weapons as a counter-measure. He stated that ‘in terms of shari’a, it all depends on the goal.’… [T]he IraNews news agency published recent remarks by Mohsen Gharavian regarding the nuclear issue. Gharavian is a lecturer at the religious schools of Qom, and is a disciple of [Ayatollah] Mesbah Yazdi. In his recent remarks, he said for the first time that the use of nuclear weapons may not constitute a problem according to shari’a. He further said that ‘when the entire world is armed with nuclear weapons, it is permissible to use these weapons as a counter-[measure]. According to shari’a, too, only the goal is important…’” Read more.

‘Complete Destruction’: Iranian Security Forces Destroy Christian Church, Cemetary

04/27/2012 1 comment

By Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife Middle East Service – “TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)– Iranian security forces have destroyed a 200-year-old Christian cemetery in southeastern Iran after they earlier used bulldozers to remove an historical church in the area, Iranian Christians said in comments monitored by BosNewsLife Thursday, April 26.

The cemetery attack, discovered this month in Kerman province, is no isolated incident. Iranian Christians said that ‘all the crosses have been taken out of the ground’ at another historical British cemetery in the southwestern port city of Bushehr, near the site where Iran develops a controversial nuclear facility.

The burial ground had also been used by the Christian Armenian minority of Bushehr but now seems to approach ‘complete destruction’, said Iranian Christians with close knowledge about the situation.

There was no immediate comment from Iranian officials on the situation in Busher.

CULTURAL HERITAGE

Christian news agency Mohabat News said however it had obtained comments from Mohammad Mehdi Afzali, public relations chief of Iran’s Cultural Heritage organization, in which he admitted that the ‘destruction’ of the Kerman cemetery.

Afzali reportedly said the removal of graves was part of attempts by his group and local authorities to ‘release lands’ in the areas of Ghal’e-Dokhtar and Ghal’e Ardeshir around a historical castle in eastern hills.” Read more.

Sudan: Recent Islamist Mobs Organized By Local ‘Religion of Peace’ Sheikh, ‘Muslims In This Area Must Gather In Front Of The Infidels’ Church And Destroy Them’

04/27/2012 Leave a comment

Compass Direct News – “JUBA, South Sudan, April 26 (CDN) — Christians faced increased hostilities in Sudan over the past few weeks, culminating in an attack on a Christian compound in Khartoum by a throng of Muslim extremists armed with clubs, iron rods, a bulldozer and fire.

Breaking down the compound wall with a bulldozer, the assailants on Saturday (April 21) set fire to the Gerief West Bible School and the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) building; they also damaged three other places of worship and other buildings in the same compound, sources told Compass by telephone. Also damaged were a clinic, a home for the elderly, classrooms and living quarters.

‘What happened could not be imagined – it was terrible,’ said the Rev. Yousif Matar, general secretary of the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church synod. ‘They burned all furniture of the school and the church as well.’

Following a fiery call by hard-line Muslim sheikh Muhammad Abdel Kareem on Friday (April 20) to a crowd of more than 500 to destroy ‘the infidels’ church,’ he led the attack the next day, sources said.

‘Tomorrow at 8 a.m., Muslims in this area must gather in front of the infidels’ church and destroy them,’ Kareem told the crowd, according to Compass sources.

The next morning, according to Christian support organization Open Doors, authorities held the mob back about a kilometer from the compound, but the assailants dispersed and found their way back early in the afternoon.

‘Police at the compound stood back and did nothing to prevent the mob from vandalizing the compound,’ Open Doors stated in a press release. ‘There was no cordon around the Bible school or church, as some have stated in other media reports.'” Read more.