Facts about diabolical Palestinian Hamas

Facts about the Hamas of the Palestinians:
Genocide goal - Caliphate - Anti All Non Muslims

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GENOCIDE

Hamas: The final objective: the destruction of the State of Israel



Osama Hamdan : We [i.e., Hamas] are preparing for a confrontation [with Israel ], not only in preparation for Israeli aggression, because the entity is founded on aggression, but because the final goal of the resistance 8 is to wipe this entity off the face of the earth . This goal necessitates the development of the resistance's until the entity has been destroyed.





Note : Osama Hamdan's terminology is similar to that of Iranian president Ahmadinejad and other senior Iranian figures, who repeatedly state that Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth.

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/osama_hamdan0807e.htm

israelinsider: Briefs: Hamas representative justifies suicide bus ...21 Aug 2007 ... According to Hamdan, most of Israel's inhabitants came from abroad ... of the resistance is to wipe this entity off the face of the Earth. ...

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Briefs/11908.htm

Myths & Facts Online - Arab/Muslim Attitudes Toward IsraelOsama Hamdan, Hamas Representative in Lebanon Al Manar and Al Aqsa TV, ... Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world. ...

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/Arabattitudes.html

On August 6, Osama Hamdan, Hamas's representative in Lebanon told al ... goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity [Israel] off the face of the Earth. ..

http://www.aetherometry.com/External/caroline_glick/2007-08-23_The_rise_of_the_fantasists.pdf

The Genocidal Hamas Charter
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-littman092602.asp

As Hamas seeks international recognition by softening its tone in English, in Arabic it continues the calls for genocide of Jews. ...

http://pmw.org.il/Bulletins_Apr2007.htm

CALIPHATE

Wanted: a caliphate - Haaretz - Israel News - Hamas ran on one ticket and used a single name: the Change and Reform List. It used the same name in the general elections. "We vote however we want,"

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=661486&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

Towards a global caliphate :: Damian Thompson - [ Traducir esta página ]24 Aug 2007 ... The goal of a worldwide caliphate is emerging as an increasingly ... is actually a member of HAMAS, that group who wants to 'eradicate' all ...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2007/08/24/towards_a_global_caliphate

Over 10,000 Palestinians Attend West Bank Rally to Restore Islamic Caliphate

A crowd of more than 10,000 Palestinians Saturday heard denunciations of the PA leadership in the West Bank as infidels at a Liberation Party rally on the sports field of the Quaker-run Friends School in Ramallah.

The party calls for re-establishing the caliphate, or Islamic state, across the Muslim world.

"The caliphate is coming," read a large poster on the wall of the field.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/11/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Islamic-Movement.php

The Caliphate is Coming

By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

FrontPageMagazine.com Tuesday, January 31, 2006

To Mousa Abu Marzuk, Deputy Chief of Hamas’ Political Bureau in Damascus, HAMAS’ triumph is an important springboard towards the establishment of the Caliphate ­– a global Islamic state, where life would be dictated by the Shari’a.

In a statement Abu Marzuk made on January 26, following HAMAS’ sweeping victory of the Palestinian legislative elections, he said that HAMAS, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), is reaping the fruits of its efforts over the last six decades. It was established in Palestine in 1936 - not in 1987, as most mistakenly think. Since then, the movement, according to Abu Marzuk, has carried out its political, social agenda, including Dawa (Prosetylization) and Jihad.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9446CA77-BD91-4D8B-8AA6-00FCC2F0F8CA

ISLAMOFASCISM - ANTI ALL NON MUSLIMS

Terror leaders describe America bound by Islam - Yasser Hamad, a cleric and a Hamas leader in the northern West Bank, .... The under-reported story of Christian persecution in the Middle East as told by ...

www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58529

Gaza Strip! - Persecuted Christians

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=13291&pst=961409

Muslim persecution will drive Christians out of ...Palestinian territories...

http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/04/4069

Hamas' Christian convert: I've left a society that sanctifies terror

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007097.html

'Christians must accept Islamic rule' - Israel News, 19 Jun 2007 ... "I expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to ...

http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3414753,00.html

Hamas Charter - Christian Action for IsraelIsraeli: The 36 article Charter of Hamas was apparently drafted by some heads of .... "And the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor with Christians, ...There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad... Under the shadow of Islam... Islam, Christianity and Judaism.. Safety and security can only prevail under the shadow of Islam...

http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/hamas.html -

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Aid Worker's Death Brutal Reminder of Jihadi Extremism

Aid Worker's Death Brutal Reminder of Jihadi Extremism
"We must remember
that these men have a ruthless plan for the world in the form of a theocratic
Islamic caliphate. In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan we saw a glimpse of their
utopia: women degraded, freedom denied and followers of other brands of Islam
exterminated." -- Faith J.H. McDonnell, Director of IRD's Religious Liberty
Programs

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/597668352.html

Tags: Caliphate, Islam, Islamofascism, radical Islam, World Domination

More on Islamists' goal of Global Islamic Repressive CALIPHATE

More on Islamists' goal of Global Islamic Repressive CALIPHATE

What Do the Terrorists Want? [A Caliphate]
http://www.meforum.org/article/pipes/2798

Barack Obama: The terrorists are at war with us. The threat is from violent extremists... the threat is real. They distort Islam. They kill man, woman and child; Christian and Hindu, Jew and Muslim. They seek to create a repressive caliphate. To defeat this enemy, we must understand who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for.
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/08/01/the_war_we_need_to_win.php

Al-Qaeda & the Muslim Brotherhood: United by Strategy... For the Muslim Brotherhood, Islam cannot be separated from governance... the vision for an Islamic caliphate...
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369939

The Pope is Sorry. Muslims Terrorists Are Not, DEBKAfile’s Islamic observers comment that the threat of Muslim anger exploding into violence ... will become the capital of the “world Islamic caliphate. ...
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1212

...the Muslim Brotherhood... seeks to establish an Islamic Caliphate...
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386

Al-Qaida... Current goal is to establish a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world by working with ...
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ladin.htm

BBC NEWS World.. Monday - Caliphate, Catholics ...An Islamic Caliphate would be a nation for Muslims, and all non muslims would be ..... muslims who believe that terrorism is the way to make the caliphate ...
http://blogs.bbc.co.uk/worldhaveyoursay/2007/08/post_12.html

Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami: An Updated Perspective
The Party refuses to take an active role in the militant Jihad against "infidel" Muslim leaders prior to the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate. ...
http://www.ict.org.il/apage/5204.php

There are still dozens of Islamic terrorists in Indonesia, ... Moslems eager to support the establishment of a world-wide Islamic government (the Caliphate. ...
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/indones/articles/20070819.aspx

Hizb ut-Tahrir: An Emerging Threat to U.S. Interests in Central AsiaThe model for Hizb is the "righteous" Caliphate, a militaristic Islamic ... Over 10000 members are active in Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, and Indonesia...
http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/BG1656.cfm

Over 10,000 Palestinians Attend West Bank Rally to Restore Islamic Caliphate:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/11/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Islamic-Movement.php

http://divestfrompalestine.blogspot.com/2007/08/over-10000-palestinians-attend-west.html


Terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan... if Uzbek allegations of the Hizb ut-Tahrir's involvement in the bombings are confirmed...terrorist attack. The group claims to be nonviolent, but its ultimate goal is still jihad against kafr (non-believers), the overthrow of existing political regimes and their replacement with a caliphate (khilafah in Arabic), a theocratic dictatorship based on the Sharia (religious Islamic law).
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FC31Ag01.html

Russia names 'terrorist' groups,
Volatile Chechnya remains a security headache for Russia
Russia has published a list of 17 groups it regards as "terrorist organisations", including al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taleban.
Among those on the Russian list is Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Muslim group which wants an Islamic Caliphate across Central Asia and the Middle East. It is also targeted by the authorities in Uzbekistan.
The list also includes: the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Party of Turkestan, the Congress of the Nations of Ichkeria and Dagestan, Jamaa al-Islamiya and the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5223458.stm


German raids target Islamic group

German police confiscated items during the raids
German police have raided hundreds of addresses in an operation targeting suspected Islamic militants.
The searches were aimed at suspected members of the Caliphate State group, one of a number of groups banned after the 11 September attacks in the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3309427.stm

BBC NEWS UK Key to proving Hamza's hate, Caliphate (khilafa) - the dream of a global Islamic caliphate, ... Jihad - Obligation to fight a holy war against enemies of Islam, including terrorism ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4670906.stm

They want to extend an ideological caliphate that has no concept of liberty ...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/11/bush.transcript/index.html

Israeli citizens have endured brutal acts of terrorism and constant fear of attack since ..... Islamic terrorists, the caliphate that's going to be set up. ...
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/19/cnr.04.html

This caliphate would be a totalitarian Islamic empire encompassing all current and .... Listen to the words of Hezbollah's leader, the terrorist Nasrallah, ...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060905-4.html

The predominantly Sunni Muslim goal of an Islamic caliphate ...
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/17326.html

Bakri is a firm believer in an Islamic caliphate, a Muslim state, stretching over much of the world. Spiritually and ideologically, he has much in common with Osama bin Laden.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/24/schuster.hezbollah/index.html

Islamo-Fascism...stating such groups want to dominate the world under an oppressive ‘caliphate’. ...
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=FDD13E54-41C7-4C89-A482-58159E9435A5

Islamo-Fascism Denial...
Hamas: The Hamas Charter sets out its Islamic mission as global: "Its spatial dimension extends wherever on earth there are Muslims, who adopt Islam as their way of life; thus, it penetrates to the deepest reaches of the land and to the highest spheres of Heavens. . . . By virtue of the distribution of Muslims, who pursue the cause of the Hamas, all over the globe, and strive for its victory, for the reinforcement of its positions and for the encouragement of its Jihad, the Movement is a universal one." Universal in what way? The Palestinian Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi exhorted believers in 2002 "Oh beloved, look to the East of the earth, find Japan and the ocean; look to the West of the earth, find [some] country and the ocean. Be assured that these will be owned by the Muslim nation, as the Hadith says . . . 'from the ocean to the ocean.'"
... according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, "At the 7th annual MSA West Conference held at the University of Southern California in January 2005, a former MSA UCLA member, Ahmed Shama stated, 'We want to restore Islam to the leadership of society...We are trying to establish that system of government, of Islamic governance, and to the helm of life in all walks of life. In short, we want to make the word of Allah (swt) supreme in every single aspect of life...The end goal of everything that we're talking about is the reestablishment of the Islamic form of government..." He added: "The only justification -- the only justification -- that Muslims have to live in this country is da'wah. I say it again. It might be controversial...The only obligation that we have living in this country is da'wah...The end goal of everything I was talking about is the establishment of, the reestablishment of, Islamic form of government.
http://www.aina.org/news/2007102311299.htm

Israel, Hezbollah and the Wider Geo-political-Religious Terrain

Israel is on the front line in a global struggle for the future of civilization. Afghanistan and Iraq are other fronts in World War IV; this is a total war on a global scale.[13] If the United States and Israel do not prevail, civilization will plunge into a dark night of barbarism exceeding anything Adolph Hitler envisioned for a world dominated by the Third Reich.

At its essence World War IV is a religious war. Islamist Jihadists whether Sunni or Shi’ite, are committed to establishing a global caliphate with Islam as the world’s only religion, a world without Israel, indeed without Jews. In this new world, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and atheists would face two choices: conversion to Islam or slavery. Anyone who stands in the way will be liable for extermination. If this enemy obtains weapons of mass destruction, given the totality of their war aims, they will use them.
http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=2580

The MSM would want us to think that everyone loves the Hezbollah. ... Muslims that want to kill us and turn the world into one great big Islamic Caliphate. ...
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/08/everyone_loves.php

The uncomplicated answer is that no matter what we do, policy-wise, we will remain infidels with gigantic bull's-eyes on our backs unless we renounce our capitalistic ways, destroy our churches and synagogues, outlaw our pluralistic religious society, convert to a radical Islamic theocracy and join the global jihad en route to a worldwide caliphate.
We are in this war for the long haul whether we like it or not. The only question is whether we intend to fight it or roll over in shameful appeasement until we are in a much weaker position to fight at such time as even the appeasers realize we have no other choice.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51384

Palestinians back caliphate over politics - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/27/wpal127.xml

Hamas reiterates goal of world domination by Islam - annihilation ...The PA sources further asserted that senior Fatah and Hamas terrorist leaders, as well as senior security officials from Egypt and Israel, know many details ...
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2790

["Palestinians":] Wanted: a caliphate - Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=661486&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

The official said Hamas seeks to create an "Islamic caliphate" in Gaza and ...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56174

[Hamas' war on Spain too] HAMAS’ children magazine, Al Fateh’s call to return Seville “to the hands of ... their targets to include the rest of the Caliphate – beginning with Spain. ...
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C26F5EA1-0FCF-4373-AB50-D10D9CD99677

Tammy Bruce: Gaza Not Enough; Hamas Demands Return of Seville, Hamas demands return of Seville in internet children's magazine ... Not only Spain. The Caliphate of 750 encompased parts of North Africa, Greece, Italy, ...
http://tammybruce.com/2006/01/gaza_not_enough_hamas_demands.phpID=20726

Spain is a prime target for the jihad because Andalus was an important part of the medieval Islamic caliphate. Even a children’s magazine published by Hamas ...
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1672

Robertson endorses Giuliani, explains, "To me, the overriding issue before the American people is the defense of our population from the bloodlust of

Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani on Anti-Terror Cred
Earlier today, the Reverend Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani for president, showing that the former mayor was able to win over an influential Christian conservative leader. Robertson explained, "To me, the overriding issue before the American people is the defense of our population from the bloodlust of Islamic terrorists.... We need a leader with a bold vision who is not afraid to tackle the challenges ahead."

http://gothamist.com/2007/11/07/pat_robertson_e.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/us/politics/07cnd-robertson.html?pagewanted=print

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So today it's "Blackwater" gate?

Today, CNN's Jack Cafferty at the Hughes' resignation with the immunity for those connected in the 'Blackwater' case.

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So today it's "Blackwater" gate?

What's that? another excuse why the Islamic world doesn't like us?

Jack, Let us give you an inside secret, the agitators are by 2 forces:one is the Arab media [that has a "thing" about the west no matter what we do], the other one is blind hateful Islamic Imams [that could care less about a 'Blackwater' or any other 'waters', and more about a global Islamic Caliphate Emopire].

Did you see any change in the hatred of that world when Israel gave away it's Gaza-land to the Palestinians? yes sure, the response was so typical, in fact, most of them immediately voted for the racist Jihadi Hamas pro-genocide.

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Verdict on Madrid bombing - attack organized by Arab immigrants recruited young Muslims for al-Qaeda training camps, to impose sharia law

Verdict on Madrid bombing - attack organized by Arab immigrants recruited young Muslims for al-Qaeda training camps, to impose sharia law

Spanish
Court to Deliver Verdict in Madrid Train Bombing Case

The attackers were assembled by a group of Arab immigrants who
recruited young Muslims for al-Qaeda training camps and were seeking to impose
sharia law in ...


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=a6OX1U4VoJWM&refer=europe

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Caliphate - Indonesia, Bali bombers say ready for firing squad

Bali bombers say ready for firing squad

By Heri Retnowati REUTERS

4:34 a.m. October 29, 2007

BATU PRISON, NUSAKAMBANGAN,

Indonesia – The three Indonesians sentenced to die for the 2002 Bali blasts, which killed more than 200 people, say they are ready to be executed and their only regret is that Muslims died in the attack. [...]

The two blasts on Bali's Kuta strip on Oct. 12, 2002, one at Paddy's Bar, the other at the Sari Club, killed 202 including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesian citizens, and devastated the resort island's tourist industry.

[...]

SCARING FOREIGNERS

The attacks, blamed on Southeast Asian Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), were intended to scare away foreigners so that Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, could eventually become part of a larger Islamic caliphate

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20071029-0434-indonesia-militants-.html

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Islamofascism rooted in theocratic Islamic jihadism seeks to destroy, annihilate every last one of us, wants to establish a complete Islamic theocracy

Huckabee warns fight with terror won't end in draw
'This is a war (on Islamofascism) someone will win and someone will lose'

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Posted: October 18, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


Editor's Note: This is the sixth in WND's planned series of one-on-one interviews with each candidate for the office of president. Today former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warns the battle against terrorism will not end in a draw.

By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com



Former Gov. Mike Huckabee

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://www.mikehuckabee.com//), a candidate for the GOP nomination for president, is warning that the war on terror will not end in a draw.

"There's no peaceful co-existence, there's no accommodation, there's no naïve nonsense that if we leave them alone they leave us alone. This is a war someone will win and someone will lose," he told WND (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58178) during an exclusive one-on-one interview.

"Whoever perseveres and whoever has the strongest will, will in fact win and that's why we can't give up," he said.

He was responding to WND's question about the likelihood of another terrorist attack similar to 9/11 on U.S. soil.

"There's almost an inevitability, not just a possibility," he said. "It will happen again. And it'll happen because we face an enemy that is not a nation-state that can be contained within borders and boundaries, because their war is not about borders and boundaries.

"Islamofascism is rooted in a theocratic Islamic jihadism that seeks to destroy and annihilate every last one of us. It wants to establish a complete Islamic theocracy across the world and for that to happen it means our culture has to be completely snuffed out," he said.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58183

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Washington's Double Vision: al-Qaida, Iran and Global Islamo-fascism

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Washington's Double Vision: al-Qaida, Iran and Global Islamo-fascism

Paul Rogers

The United States needs to keep the focus on al-Qaida while targeting Iran. It isn't easy.

There's no escaping Iraq. Two incidents in recent days bear heavily on the unending conflict in that country. More broadly, they reveal how the United States administration's definition of its "war on terror" (or "long war") reflects entrapment in a way of thinking that requires it constantly to press the real world into the service of a partisan, dangerous, and self-defeating ideology.

First, the four coordinated truck-bombings of 14 August 2007 which targeted the Yezidi religious minority in northern Iraq inflicted the largest death-toll of any single incident - more than 400 - since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Second, the US's indication that it intends to designate Iran's 150,000-strong Sepah-e-Pasdaran-e-Enghlab-e-Islami (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, or Pasdaran) as a "foreign terrorist organisation" entails more than an escalation of rhetoric: it has serious practical implications for the relationship between Washington and Tehran, and adds a further element to an already polarised atmosphere where the possibility of military action against Iran cannot be ruled out (see Helene Cooper, "U.S. Weighing Terrorist Label for Iran Guards", New York Times, 14 August 2007).

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps

Iraq's storm

The devastating human cost of the assault on the Yezidis in Nineveh province has rightly been the main focus of attention in its immediate aftermath. On a political level, its motivation may not be so straightforward as pure sectarian hostility towards a supposedly heretical sect. Rather, it almost certainly forms part of a wider political agenda to limit Kurdish control of some of the key oilfields of northern Iraq. The Mosul district in particular is central to this objective (see Patrick Cockburn, "Desperate search for survivors among Yazidi homes destroyed by bombers", Independent, 16 August 2007)

Search for survivors following the Ninevah truck bombing

This presents a problem for US forces, whose intensive concentration on the "surge" strategy in Baghdad and other selected areas means that are no longer present in large numbers in Mosul; this makes it easier for formerly Baghdad-based insurgents to regroup and operate elsewhere. But if the vulnerability of communities such as the Yezidi to insurgent attack in such circumstances is thereby exposed, it would be wrong to conclude by default that the surge in Baghdad itself is working.

The reality is that even in the greater Baghdad area the insurgency continues. The day of the Yezidi attacks, 14 August, was marked by lesser-reported incidents in the capital or its vicinity: the destruction of a major bridge on the Baghdad-Mosul road, the loss of a US helicopter (with five service personnel killed), and - an extraordinary incident - the kidnap of several oil-ministry staff (including a deputy minister) by around fifty uniformed gunmen in seventeen ostensibly official vehicles.

How does the George W Bush administration respond to this pattern of events? Both it and American military leaders have been quick to blame the al-Qaida movement (in the form of its putative Iraqi affiliate) for the Yezidi attacks at least; and the president and his chief allies maintain an unbending view of the Iraq insurgency in general as an almost entirely al-Qaida operation.

Washington's narrative of the core role of al-Qaida in Iraq may retain considerable have domestic value in its ideological presentation of the Iraq war as part of the wider response to 9/11. The problem is that it then comes into tension with the fact that the main current challenge to United States forces in Iraq comes from Shi'a militias, whom Washington sees as sponsored or supported by Tehran. Indeed, some US military sources see the militias as presenting the most severe long-term threat (see "Iraq's high summer", 9 August 2007); for example, General Raymond Odierno has said that in July 2007, no less than 73% of all attacks in Iraq were launched by Shi'a militias rather than the al-Qaida movement or Sunni nationalist insurgents.

Sh'ia militia

Indeed, a big part of the military surge has actually been the attempt to curb the power of these militias (see Gareth Porter, "US 'surges', soldiers die, Blame Iran", Asia Times, 16 August 2007). The Bush administration's determination to highlight the al-Qaida connection partly explains why this aspect of US strategy has not been widely reported. At the same time, the need to sustain the momentum of antagonism towards Iran means that the Shi'a militias are a useful card to deploy in a verbal barrage that is notably increasing.

Iran's windfall

There's no escaping Iran. What is particularly problematic for Washington is an unforeseen geopolitical effect of its war in Iraq: that Iran, the most significant remaining member of the original "axis of evil" has seen regimes to its east and west (the Taliban's Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's Iraq) terminated - yet Tehran has been able but to relate more closely with the successor regimes in both states, even though these are supposedly pro-American.

This readiness to make friends with the United States's allies in no way modifies the Bush administration's view that Iran remains its main state enemy, one moreover that is tainted by endorsement of and participation in "terrorist" activity.

This is a viewpoint that has been expressed at official level on many occasions before the "naming" of the Revolutionary Guards; to take but one example, a press release of 5 September 2006 entitled "In Their Own Words: What the Terrorists Believe, What They Hope to Accomplish, and How They Intend to Accomplish It" cites the main al-Qaida leaders, but (as Nick Ritchie has pointed out) also refers four times to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad under a sub-heading that reads, "The Terrorists On Their Absolute Hostility Towards America".

In this light, the signalled branding of the entire Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organisation is both a continuation and an extension of existing charges against Tehran and its leading state organisations, in particular that the guards have directly aided insurgents in Iraq through the provision of training and weapons.

Again, the move may not be all it seems. The US decision may in part be motivated by an effort to "bounce" both the US's allies and the United Nations Security Council into agreeing tougher sanctions against Iran. Moreover, it comes at a time of real concern in Washington at the manner in which Iran is seeking to capitalise on its geopolitical windfall by soliciting its neighbours.

The three-day visit to Tehran by Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in August 2007 (his second in a year) is awkward for the US government; not least, it contributes to the political chaos in Baghdad by alienating further the leading Sunni political representatives who have resigned from the government (a situation which the Shi'a-Kurdish deal announced by Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, on 16 August is unlikely to reverse).

Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki (left) greeted by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his first visit to Tehran

On the other side of its border, President Hamid Karzai has - even before the visit to Kabul of his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 14 August - spoken favourably of the cooperation between the two countries, of Iran's substantial reconstruction aid which benefited Afghanistan's western provinces, and of Iran's (albeit increasingly reluctant) hosting of huge numbers of long-term refugees from Afghanistan's wars.

Putting reality together

How does the Bush administration manage to make an intellectually coherent case for a need to keep both al-Qaida and Iran in its sights? Some of the more radical elements of the neo-conservative fringe in Washington ingeniously make the case the Tehran regime and al-Qaida are two sides of the same threat; but this is hard to argue for at a level deeper than ideological convenience.

In such circumstances, the most reliable standby is the mechanistic, Manichean view of the "war on terror" as propagated by some of the unreconstructed but still influential elements around the White House (see "The world as a battlefield", 9 February 2006).

After 9/11, the war was directed very largely against the Taliban hosts of the al-Qaida movement in Afghanistan, notwithstanding some early efforts byconservative opinion-formers to include Iraq. But in the first half of 2002, two key speeches by George W Bush expanded the entire remit of this war.

First, his state-of-the-union address on 29 January 2002 identified North Korea, Iran and Iraq as the much-vaunted "axis of evil", arguing that their pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and support for terrorism made these regimes unacceptable in a civilised world. Second, his speech at the West Point military academy on 1 June 2002 emphasised America's right to pre-empt future threats.

In the five and a half years since - a period of spreading conflict in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, and persistent al-Qaida attacks - the "war on terror" has metamorphosed into an even wider "long war against Islamofascism". This embraces a host of suspects: al-Qaida itself; the Taliban; Islamist militias in Pakistan, Somalia, north Africa, Thailand and the Philippines; all the differing insurgent groups in Iraq; Hamas in Palestine; Hizbollah in Lebanon; and now the Revolutionary Guard in Iran.

This crude and simple worldview bears little relation to reality. What is more important, however, is its political potency. The George W Bush administration may be trapped by a fantasy of power and control that is ever farther out of reach; but as the presidential and congressional elections of 2008 approaches, it is likely to use the enormous resources at its disposal to project this fantasy to the American people with undiminished vigour.

Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. He has been writing a weekly column on global security on Open Democracy since 26 September 2001. This article appeared at Open Democracy on August 16, 2007. His latest book is Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control. Published at Japan Focus on August 17, 2007.

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What is "Islamo-fascism"?

What is "Islamo-fascism"?

Jul 20, 2007
Bahman Aghai Diba - Persian Journal
Islamo-fascism is a new name but the concept has a long history. It is clearly a combination between the ways of looking at Islam, with the policies of the fascist regimes of the twentieth century in Europe.

(1) Although there are serious discussions about the exact meaning and extent of fascism

(2), and the roots of the term

(3) most of the sources agree that some characteristics are common in all fascist regimes such as:

1- Love of war and the acute need of the foreign enemies that can be accused of all shortcomings

2- Military rule.

3- Lack of tolerance and respect to other ideologies

4- Disrespect of human rights

5- Authoritarian or totalitarian regime6- Demagogic tactics to rally the support of people7- Using zealots and paid lackeys for putting pressure and even elimination of opponents.8- Feeling of having a divine mission9- The arrogance of believing in the superiority of one particular ideology (their own) over all others.We can find all of these characteristics in the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

1- Love of war: There is no limit in fighting against the infidels in the ideology of the ruling regime in Iran. There is no distinction between the military and civilian population. Every person of the un-Islamic world is enemy.
The people are divided to those of us and those of the others. The Muslims that do not cooperate with the regime of Iran are from the others. Mullah Khomeini, the so-called founder of the Islamic republic in Iran, always called the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) that resulted in killing of millions of people in Iran and Iraq and devastation of the two countries a God given blessing. The administration of Iran under the presidency of Ahmadinejad, claims to revive the legacy of Mullah Khomeini and for the same reason they are very interested to start same kind of war in the region.

2- Military rule. The regime of Iran has been heavily relying on the military elements who are indoctrinated by the ruling Mullahs. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards used to have many sensitive posts in Iran and in the last two year or so (especially since the administration of Ahmadinejad was installed in Iran by the rigged elections), they have taken many civilian posts.

3- Lack of tolerance and respect to other ideologies- the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been promoting the religious intolerance. The freedom of expression for all groups has been violated and the mass media are under the strict control of the regime. Under the new administration in Iran the extent of intolerance towards all religious and non-religious groups are increased.

4- Disrespect of human rights- The principles of the Human Rights as mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Civil and Political; and the Convention on the Social and Economic Rights are all considered as tools of expansion of the Western cultures and they are rejected as such. Killing of the violators of the Islamic rules is permitted by God. The women are not equal with men. Democracy is void. The population of the states, even in the Islamic states is not entitled to decide about their fate. The religious leaders decide what is good for the people. Arts, educational institutions, cultural activities, music, literature, painting, sculpturing, and so on must only are in the service of the Islamic tenets as defined by the religious authorities. There is no freedom of assembly, press and expression, the people rally in the streets when the officials say so and they demand whatever the religious leaders have defined. Religious and other minorities are not supported and there is clear contradiction between Islam and the universal standards of the human rights. Almost all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights are seriously violated by the Islamic Regime of Iran. The most important cases are: the violation of women's rights (the regime of Iran is not ready to accept the equality of men and women and as such it has refused to adhere to the UN International Convention of the Elimination of all kind of Discrimination against women), violation of the fundamental freedoms for the minorities in Iran (including the Baha'is), violation of the fundamental freedoms of the Iranian people, mistreatment of the political prisoners, and denying the rule of law.

5- Authoritarian or totalitarian regime- the regime of Iran is openly enemy of democracy. The Mullahs of Iran have made it clear time and again that they do not believe in the role of people in determining their own destiny. Ayatollah Khazali, a prominent member of the Iranian Constitutional Assembly (called Majles Khobreghan or Council of Islamic Experts) has said: "...what is the meaning of the people's demands? Who are the people to demand something? The people should only implement the rules of Allah."

(4) Also, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, the Head of Imam Khomeini's Educational and Research Institute, has said: "...the legitimacy of the Supreme Leader comes from the infallible Imams, not from the people."

(5) Khomeni had said: "...do not listen to those who speak about democracy. These are enemies of Islam. Anyone who wants a republic is our enemy…did you create this revolution to become like Swiss? We break the poisonous pens of those who talk about nationalism, democracy and similar things..." Also, Dr. Ali Shariati, the great demagogue and fabricator of the Islamic hallucinations, and at the same time, the biggest ideological backbone of the Islamic revolution in Iran has said: "leadership can't be the result of common people's votes. It can't come out of the corrupt masses of the people. Imam is the directly responsible for the policy of the society and he has direct leadership in economy, army, culture, foreign and domestic policies..." He adds in another source (Shiitism, a comprehensive party) : "It is necessary to have blind obedience. This is the real meaning of emulation in Shiitism. The same applies to the deputy of the Imam...a person that does not know his Imam, is like a sheep that has lost its Shepard."

6- Demagogic tactics to rally the support of people- the street demonstrations have become the standard method of the Iranian Islamic regime to show the will and demands of the people. However, it is clear that no rally or demonstration is held in Iran unless all of its arrangements (including the slogans and the resolutions) are defined by the government. The staged demonstrations are manned by the groups that get special privileges from the regime and in many cases the demonstrators do not know the subject of demonstration before they get to the pre-determined places.

7- Using zealots and paid lackeys for putting pressure and even elimination of opponents- the zealots that are trained to attack the opponents are an active part of the governmental apparatus of the Islamic regime in Iran. The religious thugs attack the gathering of the people, enter the houses and places of business and bother the people. They attack the speakers in the places that are not approved by the regime and the women that have not observed the Islamic code of dress. 8- Feeling of having a divine mission- it is one of the most important features of the Islamic regime in Iran that it thinks it has a divine mission to change the world order. The followers of the Hidden Imam in Iran think that he is going to appear and conquer the whole world and they should make themselves ready for the war in the army of the Hidden Imam

(6) The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that it has a divine mission to fight the Western culture and impose policies that it considers to be Islamic.9- The arrogance of believing in the superiority of one particular ideology (their own) over all others- the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran believes in the supremacy of the version of Islam practiced by the Iranian Mullahs as the best arrangement for the whole world. For the same reason, Ahmadinejad had asked President Bush to have a free televised discussion with him about which system (the Western liberalism or the Islamic regime as practiced in Iran) was good to be the world order.

(7) The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the Western way of life is corrupt. The regime of Iran is seriously thinking that the Western democracies are going to fall, as the USSR fell, and one of these days the Islamic regime will get a chance to introduce its role in the global level. It does not believe in validity of any arrangement with the "Western" infidels and all of the agreements with the West are temporary and subject to abrogation as soon as the Islamic power gets the possibility to do so. For the same reason they want to get nuclear weapons.
A look at the regime of Iran reveals that all of these elements are clearly present in those government and politics of the present regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran and it very much deserves to be included under the title of Islamofacist regimes.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamofascism It is mentioned in this source that: "Islamofascism is neologism and political epithet used to induce an association of the ideological or operational characteristics of certain modern Islamist movements with European fascist movements of the early 20th century, neo-fascist movements, or totalitarianism. Organizations that have been labeled "Islamofascist" include Al-Qaeda, the current government of Iran, the Taliban, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah..."

(2) http://www.remember.org/his.root.what.html, dated 27 Sept. 1992. In this source, Chip Berlet describes: "...fascism and Nazism as ideologies, involve, to varying degrees, some of the following hallmarks:

1- Nationalism and super-patriotism with a sense of historic mission.

2- Aggressive militarism even to the extent of glorifying war as good for the national or individual spirit.

3- Use of violence or threats of violence to impose views on others (fascism and Nazism both employed street violence and state violence at different moments in their development).

4- Authoritarian reliance on a leader or elite not constitutionally responsible to an electorate.

5- Cult of personality around charismatic leader.

6- Reaction against the values of modernism, usually with emotional attacks against both liberalism and communism.

7- Exhortations for the homogeneous masses of common folk...8- Dehumanization and scapegoating of the enemy...

9-the self image of being superior form of social organization beyond socialism, capitalism, and democracy..."

(3)http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=1100008822, dated 20 August 2006. in this source, Roger Scruton has mentioned: "...the term Islamofascism was in introduced by the French writer Maxine Rodinson (1915-2004) to describe the Iranian revolution of 1978….the word has therefore caught on, not least because it provides a convenient way of announcing that you are not against Islam, but only against its perversion by the terrorists...."

(4)http://www.iranian.com/News/2000/June/khaz.html, dated 08/27/2006, speaking for the congregational prayer.

(5)http://news.gooya.com/politics/archieves/2006/09/052663print.php, dated 09/10/2006

(6) the role of Hidden Imam in the history band politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/printer_15612.shtml, dated 03/13/2006

(7)http://news.gooya.com/politics/archieves/2006/09/052609print.php, dated 09/07/2006

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