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Omar Bakri gets invited to a necktie party

From people.co.uk

Exiled hate preacher Omar Bakri faces death by hanging after being found guilty of training Al Qaeda terrorists. The 51-year-old Muslim cleric, who fled Britain in 2005, yesterday revealed plans to appeal to a Beirut court which convicted him.

From a hideout in Lebanon he said he was innocent of teaching Muslims to use machine guns, adding: "I don't even know what one looks like." He will send a lawyer to represent him at a sentencing hearing next month..

But don't get TOO excited Dr. Rusty over at Jawa has this detail (complete w/ Hammer time):

But the Lebanese really can't be looking all that hard for him. We know he's in Tripoli -- the home base of al Qaeda in Lebanon -- and he continues to carry on correspondence with his followers from his "secret hideout" -- his house.

Will the UK allow Moussawi in after denying Geert Wilders?

That is the question, my friend. 

Moussawi is slated to speak on the topic of political Islam at a a conference at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies on March 25 but he was granted a visa to speak previously at Islamist rallies in February 2008.

"Senior civil servants and police officers are among those who will pay up to £1,890 to attend the event, which is intended to improve understanding of radicalism." (Editor's note:  Why do we want to understand radicalism?  Why not just eradicate it for crying out loud.)

More about the program can be found here. 

Other events at the school include such scintillating topics as:  Ecologically based foods and household food strategies in urban southwest China and then there's this golden chestnut, 'Representing Iraqi Women: moving beyond media stereotypes' and 'Stepping Razor: Black Internationalism, Empire, and the Specter of the Muslim in the Age of Obama'. How about my personal favorite?   Four Howlers and a Humdinger (Editor's note: I wonder if the International Grant Director at Comic Relief knows that Artists in the Pakistani region of Swat are fleeing to escape threats from the Taliban?)

From The Telegraph.

Campaigners from the Centre for Social Cohesion have pledged to seek an arrest warrant for Dr Ibrahim Moussawi, an Islamic extremist, who is due to visit Britain this March.

The think-tank said the Home Office would be "beyond hypocrisy" if it allowed Dr Ibrahim Moussawi into Britain just weeks after barring Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician, because of his alleged anti-Muslim views.

Dr Moussawi is a spokesman for the Lebanese-based militant group Hizbollah, the military arm of which is banned in Britain as a terrorist organisation.

He has allegedly called Jews "a lesion on the forehead of history" and said of Israel: "Pain is the only language that the enemy understands."

Douglas Murray, director of the CSC, has written to Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, warning her that he will instruct lawyers to seek an arrest warrant for Dr Moussawi if he is allowed into the country. The think-tank has already sought advice from barrister Paul Diamond, an expert in religious affairs law, on using war crimes legislation and a legal precedent from 2004 to seek, independently, an arrest warrant from a magistrate.

Mr Murray said: "This is the deepest hypocrisy, in fact, it is worse than hypocrisy on behalf of the British government.  The government clearly do not have a grip on this. Britain is still a place where terrorists and terrorist supporters can come to incite and recruit." 

But members in good standing of the Dutch Parliament cannot. 

Another speaker at the event is extremist Dr Kamal Helbawy, a former spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, the group said to have inspired Al Qaeda.

But back to Dr. Moussawi.  It looks to me like the fix is in...I will be surprised it he is denied access to the country.

From Xinhua.net.

Spokesman for the Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah, Ibrahim Moussawi, said Friday that Britain's decision to engage in direct talks with Hezbollah's political wing is a step in the right direction, local Elnashra website reported.

    "This political revision is a step in the right direction," Moussawi said, adding that the party is waiting to see how this announcement will be put into practice.

    Britain's government spokesman John Wilks told As-Safir daily published on Friday that the decision adopted to engage in direct contact with Hezbollah's political wing was aimed at "encouraging Hezbollah to stay away from violence and play a constructive, peaceful and democratic role in Lebanon."

'Nuff said.

Australia: Violence flares over race movie...

Guess which 'race'?

From the BBC.

A film set during the race riots that hit Australia four years ago has been pulled from cinemas in Sydney after fights broke out during screenings.

"The Combination" centres on tensions between gangs of Australian Lebanese and white youths in Sydney's western suburbs in 2005. It was pulled by one of Australia's cinema chains, Greater Union, after violence flared outside two cinemas.  The Australian Film Syndicate (AFS) called the move "unprecedented".

Greater Union said it had cancelled screenings of the film in all four of its Sydney cinemas after violent incidents in its suburban Parramatta cinema on Thursday and Saturday nights.  "Maintaining the safety and security of our staff and patrons is our main concern and priority," Greater Union general manager Robert Flynn said in a statement.

AFS managing director Allanah Zitserman said Greater Union's decision to pull the critically-acclaimed film was "devastating for everyone involved, especially for the audiences". She said in a statement: "Although we do not support the decision by Greater Union to pull the film from its NSW sites we respect and understand their position."

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The film can still be seen at other cinema chains in New South Wales state, as well as cinemas in other Australian cities.

The excuses are already being made - mustn't alarm the sheeple, after all...  The manager has never pulled a film before -although, he has pulled them from cinemas in the middle East.  And now the movie is about 'gangs'.  Wasn't I just wondering out loud why the religion o'peace seems to just be made up of mobbed up thugs?  Gah!  Assaults not linked to 'gang film'.

The cinema chain alleges a security guard was assaulted in Parramatta on Thursday after asking a patron to put out his cigarette during a screening.

Security at the complex was doubled to eight the following day, but an usher was assaulted as a fight broke out during the film's credits on Saturday night.

"It's very, very disappointing for me," the film's writer and lead, George Basha, said yesterday. "It doesn't glorify violence … The film is about love. It's about choices. It's about family. It's about honour."

Greater Union's general manager of operations, Robert Flynn, could not recall another instance where a film has been pulled in Australia because of violence at a cinema.  "I ran our Middle East operations for six years," he said. "And I have pulled films in the Middle East."

Last night, the company was unable to articulate what exactly concerned them about the film - whether its content was believed to have incited the violence, or whether it was drawing an audience predisposed to violence.

"It was a decision by management based on our staff," Mr Flynn said.

"At this stage we have merely suspended the screenings until we can actually get a debrief from all staff involved. I'm standing with one now and I'm looking at his swollen jaw."

Police said the film did not cause the violence. There was nothing in the incident reports to suggest it did. No one has been cautioned or charged.

"The alleged incidents do not seem to be the result of any film," a spokesman said last night. "Police attended a minute [after the brawl was reported] with no sign of anyone fighting. There were just people leaving."

Here's an example of the propaganda being put out by the Live Leb or Die Muslim gangbangers.

Lebanon: Demonstrators storm US Embassy.

They're 'leftist' groups according to MSNBC...
well, now they're wet and crying 'leftists'.

From MSNBC:

Lebanese youths from leftist groups protesting Israel's ground attack on the Gaza Strip, react on Sunday as police forces use water hoses to stop them from arriving at the U.S. Embassy in the northern suburb of Aukar,Lebanon.

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Lebanese police first used water hoses to try to push about 250 demonstrators away from the U.S. Embassy. But when that didn't work, they fired tear gas, said Lebanese security officials.

No one was injured and the crowd dispersed, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Later in the day, thousands of supporters of Hamas and Lebanon's Islamic Group held a sit-in outside the U.N. building in central Beirut. Dozens of riot police stood guard.

"This battle will end a (peace) settlement forever. This battle will show who are the men. Are they those who kiss (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert ... or those who carry their blood on their hands," Hamas' representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, told the crowd in an apparent reference to Palestinian leaders who hold talks with Israel.