The hit and run driver in Cardiff.

It is interesting that a man can be charged with murder now, and likely 13 other counts of attempted manslaughter etc. not to mention the alleged beatings he gave people in between running them over in Cardiff using a steering-wheel-lock-bar, and still not be named or described or shown.

I get now, well sort of, how the law no longer names someone arrested like they always did till recently to protect the innocent. I think they always should have done that and not when the names of the suspects became under the protection of political correctness but nonetheless I get it. But now they can actually arraign someone with murder and still not release the names?

Of course, we in the counter-jihad are suspicious. Is this yet another example of government shielding Islamic and Muslim reputations from acts of jihad? Is it another religious Muslim run Amok in the name of Islam? No way to know. For all I know this was a classic white Welshman who had a fight with his wife and one too many drinks and overdue bills and lost it outright and went on a spree.

Perhaps the government is trying to cause the general public to be embarrassed on the Islamic issue by waiting till we are all sure he was one, then releasing the name of Taffy Leek-Jones to show us all what racists we are just because we extrapolated on the staggeringly obvious. So I shall not speculate. I will trust that some Welsh journalist will have the raw integrity to do their damn job and report on who this man was, and what he claims his motive was for this act of violence.

In the meantime, I suggest, for no particular reason, that people take a moment and read the material at the following link. Wikipedia, Al Qeada’s Inspire Magazine Fall issue 2010. I’m not saying that these 2 things are connected or anything. I just don’t feel like making two separate posts.

Russia kills 49 Islamist militants in North Caucasus

Russian security forces have killed 49 Islamist militants and captured 30 others in a series of coordinated raids in the strife-ridden North Caucasus region, the country's top anti-terrorism agency claimed on Sunday.

Russian security forces have been fighting Muslim gunmen in the region more than a decade ago Photo: AP

At least nine leaders of the insurgency – which is being waged across the region in an attempt to set up an Islamic caliphate – were said to have been killed and a bomb-making factory was discovered.

The National Anti-terrorism Committee (NAK) did not say over what period the raids were carried out in a statement released to Russian news agencies.

"A series of coordinated measures allowed for the suppression of the activity of a number of odious leaders, members of bandit groups and accomplices and allowed for a significant disruption of the bandits' supply system," the statement said.

If the figures are true, they are a reminder of the ongoing vitality of the insurgency on Russia's southern perimeter, which grew out of separatists' battles for the independence of Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s.

NAK said that among other strikes it had "neutralised" four leaders of the insurgency in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkariya who were allegedly responsible for killing a judge, two Federal Security Service operatives and numerous policemen.

More than 90 insurgent camps or bases were destroyed and 26 arms caches were discovered across the North Caucasus, the agency claimed.

Thirty improvised explosive devices, 100kg of explosives, 109 weapons, 530 mines, shells and grenades and 19,000 units of ammunition were confiscated.

Russian security forces have been fighting Muslim gunmen in the region since full scale-scale battles between the army and separatists ceased more than a decade ago. The insurgents are thought to number less than a 1,000 men but have launched devastating terrorist attacks on the Russian heartland.

In 2010, two "Black Widow" suicide bombers from Dagestan killed 40 people in twin attacks on the Moscow metro. Another 37 people died when a bomber from Ingushetia struck the city's Domodedovo airport last year.

The Kremlin began a programme of economic support for the region in an attempt to cut off recruitment to the extremists, but human rights groups say security forces still torture and kidnap suspects, forcing young people into joining the insurgency. There has also been increasing tension between the militants and local Sufi Muslims.

In a report on the conflict published last week, the International Crisis Group concluded: "To succeed in conflict resolution, Russia needs to design and implement a long-term comprehensive approach joining ethnic policies, intra-confessional dialogue, institution building and reintegration of ex-fighters."

Sharia-Medicine. Egyptian Clinic Treats People with Camel Urine Per Prophet's Advice

A recent Egyptian TV program showed how Islamic Sharia law's many prescriptions do not merely clash with modern-day concepts like free speech and religious freedom, but even with medicine and science.

On September 16, popular TV persona Wael El-Ibrashi hosted Dr. Zaghlul al-Naggar, a prominent Islamic thinker and Chairman of Egypt's Committee of Scientific Notions in the Quran, on the topic of medical science and Islam.  Inevitably the idea of drinking camel urine as a form of therapy—first proposed in the 7^th century by Muslim prophet Muhammad—came up.

Not only did Dr. Naggar promote this practice, but he made the staggering announcement that right now in Egypt a medical center in Marsa Matrouh actually specializes in treating people with camel urine, all in accord with the prophet's advice.

Other Egyptian thinkers joined the show via satellite, including Khaled Montaser (who earlier exposed the Islamic world's "inferiority complex").  At one point, while delineating how science and medicine work, Montaser reminded that urine is where all the body's toxins are carried out, asking "so, shall we drink it for health?" Naggar simply responded with arrogance: "I am older than you and more learned than you: you are not going to teach me; I will teach generations of people like you."

Staunch secularist Sayyid al-Qemany—whose strong support for rationalistic thinking and the separation of religion and state caused Egypt's Islamic establishment to pronounce him an apostate infidel—also joined the show via phone, deploring the very idea that drinking camel urine could heal people.

Referring to Naggar's announcement that there is a clinic specializing in treating people with camel urine as a "catastrophe" that only indicates how far Egypt has sunk,  Qemany called on Egyptian health officials to verify if such a medical center truly exists, saying this is a serious issue involving the health of Egypt's citizenry.

Naggar tried to defend the "salutary benefits" of camel urine by arguing that European pharmacies produce a medicine that contains female urine (possibly a reference to HCG).  Qemany  replied that such medicines are not based on drinking crude urine but are synthetic, exclaiming, "does this mean I should go drink my wife's urine?!"

An exasperated Qemany concluded by offering a compromise.   He suggested that Nagger, whose PhD is in geology, should lead an expedition to Mecca and Medina and somehow try to extrapolate the urine of Muslim prophet Muhammad, and use that to heal people instead of camel urine, sarcastically adding, "surely the urine of the prophet—peace and blessings upon him—is better than camel urine?"

Dr. Naggar simply shook his head, saying such talk was inappropriate.

In fact, both ideas—drinking camel urine and drinking Muhammad's urine—are traced to the prophet's own words, and, accordingly, are aspects of "Sharia-medicine."  In a canonical tradition, Muhammad once told some men who were sick "to drink the milk and urine of camels, and they recovered and grew fat," that is, they were healed (more information on this practice can be found in a modern-day fatwa in the English language aptly titled "The Benefits of Drinking Camel Urine.")

Likewise, Egypt's Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa, once wrote that drinking Muhammad's urine was considered "a great blessing.

All of this sheds light on the totalitarian nature of Sharia law, which treats, not just the Quran, but canonical hadiths, or traditions and sayings of Muhammad—which is where both urine-drinking ideas appear—as sacred and not to be questioned.  Saudi Arabia's highest Islamic authority until he died in 1999, Sheikh Bin Baz, held that the earth was flat and that all scientific evidence otherwise was a "Western conspiracy," simply because Quran 18:86 claims the sun sets in a pool of mud, suggesting that the earth is flat.

The greater lesson for non-Muslims is that, if Islam's most prominent thinkers—the many ulema, muftis, sheikhs, and "Islamic thinkers" like Naggar himself—tenaciously cling to Islam's teachings even when they defy objective science (not to mention grossly defame Islam), surely they must cling to those other ironclad teachings that deal with "subjective" matters, from freedom of religion and freedom of speech, to hostility, jihad, and subjugation for the infidel.

At one point in the debate, Qemany made this connection when he likened the mentality that would give sick people camel urine to drink, to the mentality that attacked U.S. embassies and killed people.  In both cases, blind obedience and/or fanaticism is at work—and all to Muhammad's words, which advocated drinking camel urine for health no less than they banned mockery of the prophet.

Some very disturbing moments from NYC Muslim day ‘parade’

Russia warns NATO to stay away from Syria

Moscow sends message to West, Gulf Arabs not to intervene militarily in Syria; report: Assad tours Aleppo, orders city “cleansed.”

Photo: REUTERS

MOSCOW – Russia told NATO and world powers on Tuesday they should not seek ways to intervene in the Syrian war or set up buffer zones between rebels and government forces.

The statements from Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov was one of Moscow’s most specific warnings yet to the West and Gulf Arab leaders to keep out of the 18-month-old conflict.

In our contacts with partners in NATO and in the region, we are calling on them not to seek pretexts for carrying out a military scenario or to introduce initiatives such as humanitarian corridors or buffer zones,” Gatilov said, according to the Interfax news agency.

Russia and China have vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions condemning Syrian President Bashar Assad and blocked attempts to impose sanctions on the country or intervene more directly in its conflict.

Syria’s neighbor Turkey has floated the idea of setting up “safe zones” inside Syria to protect civilians but that would also have to be approved by the Security Council.

Gatilov urged restraint between Syria and NATO-member Turkey, one of Assad’s harshest critics. Ankara has repeatedly complained of artillery and gunfire spilling over its border and last week it signaled it would take action if there was a repeat of a mortar strike on its territory from inside Syria.

“We believe both Syrian and Turkish authorities should exercise maximum restraint in this situation, taking into account the risings number of radicals among the Syrian opposition who can intentionally provoke conflicts on the border,” Gatilov was quoted as saying.

Assad gives orders to ‘cleanse’ Aleppo

Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar Assad visited the city of Aleppo to take a first-hand look at the fighting between government forces and rebels, a Lebanese paper said on Tuesday. The report also claimed that Assad has ordered 30,000 more troops into the battle.

Al-Diyar newspaper, which is known for its pro-Assad stance, said the president had flown by helicopter at dawn from the presidential palace in Damascus to Aleppo. It did not specify what day the trip started but said that Assad was still in Aleppo. The visit was decided on after reports that the situation in the city, Syria’s largest and its commercial center, had become very serious.

“President Assad ordered units 5 and 6, estimated to be 30,000 soldiers and 2,000 personnel carriers, to move from Hama to Aleppo and to attack any occupied areas of Aleppo province from the Turkish border,” it said. The paper said that Assad gave orders that Aleppo must be “cleansed” during the visit.

Reuters was unable to independently verify the report.

Rebels mounted a new offensive last week to seize the city, which was until July firmly under Assad’s control. They claim to hold most of the Old City but are struggling to hang on to their positions in the face of heavy artillery fire.

The rebel forces are in the east and Assad’s forces in the west of Aleppo. Fires started by the combat have gutted the historic market in the Old City, a world heritage site.

Opposition activists say 30,000 people have been killed in the 18-month-old anti-Assad uprising, which has grown into a full-scale civil war.

Man punched during robbery by a group of four Muslim men

A man was punched in the face during a robbery in Tameside. 

It happened near the Methodist Church on Trafalgar Square in Ashton-under-Lyne at about 8.50pm on 20 September 2012.
The man, 25, was walking to a shop when he was approached by a group of four Muslim men. One of the offenders demanded his mobile phone but when he refused to hand it over, he was punched in the face.
The other three men then searched his pockets and stole his Blackberry and a small amount of cash before running off.
They were described as being Muslim and wearing dark clothing. Three were said to be of a medium build while one was of a stocky build. Some of the group were thought to be wearing white trainers.
The victim sustained some swelling to his cheek as a result of the attack.
Police Constable Donna Eastwood, from the Volume Crime Team at Ashton, said: “This man was set up for no reason whatsoever – he was attacked and robbed and subjected to a quite nasty ordeal just so these thieves could steal his mobile phone.
“This sort of attack could have happened to any one of us – it just so happened this man was the unfortunate victim – so we need to find the offenders because clearly they have no qualms about targeting innocent people.
“I would therefore ask anyone who has information about this robbery to come forward and help us find those responsible.”
Anyone with information should call police on 0161 856 5813 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

Man robbed on way home from work by two black men

Detectives are appealing for information after a man was robbed as he walked home from work in Loughton.

The victim was walking along a footpath between Loughton station and Roding Gardens at about 10.10pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 when he was grabbed from behind by one man and punched in the face by another.

The man was then pushed into bushes where the two robbers took his bag containing an Apple iPod, headphones, clothing and other small items. They also grabbed a Samsung Galaxy mobile telephone.

The victim, who is in his late 20s, suffered cuts and bruises but did not need hospital treatment after being checked over by paramedics.

The robbers were both described as being black and aged in their 20s. One was about 6ft 2in and of medium build with stubble on his face. He was wearing black or grey woollen gloves and a dark green or black hoodie or coat and dark coloured jeans.

The second man was about 5ft 8in and of smaller build. He was also wearing a hoodie.

Any witnesses or anyone with information about the two men should contact DS Becky Young at Harlow Target Offender Team on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.