links for 2010-02-08

• FOXNews.com – Brennan Fed Up With Politics Played Over Christmas Day Bomber
  President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser expressed frustration with Washington on Sunday, saying Republicans are playing politics on national security and making ignorant allegations about the investigation into the Christmas airliner plot.
  Saying congressional Republicans are using a "500-mile screwdriver" to criticize the administration about its response to the failed attack in Detroit, Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan said the GOP is motivated by partisan purposes and second-guessing the case.
  (tags: Brennan Christmas_Day Christianity John_Brennan US Pantybomber Obama Abdulmutallab)
• Elder of Ziyon: Iranian leader calls Israel's destruction "imminent"
  "I am very optimistic about the future of Palestine and believe that Israel is moving on the precipice of wane and demise, and God willing its annihilation is for sure," Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement Ramadan Abdullah Shallah here in Tehran.
  (tags: Israel Islamic_Jihad Ramadan_Abdullah_Shallah Iran)

UK: Generation Jihad

BBC:

The views of Rizwan Ditta and Bilal Mohammed, two young Muslims born and brought up in Halifax, West Yorkshire, will be anathema to the vast majority of the British people including many British Muslims.

Ditta claims: "You can go to any [Muslim] youth on the street and say, ‘Do you believe in Jihad?’ and he’ll say ‘Yes’. ‘Do you believe that al-Qaeda is a terrorist movement?’ He’ll say, ‘No’."

Bilal says: "The Western world is not letting anyone live in peace. It’s the West who are at war with everyone."

The two are close friends. Both received prison sentences for possessing material likely to be useful to terrorists, most of it downloaded from the internet.

Ditta was sentenced to four years and Mohammed to two. Both had pleaded guilty.

…They were released last year and are now out on licence with strict conditions. Both are unrepentant.

Mohammed says that he was welcomed home with flowers and presents. He claims that none of the Muslim community views him as a terrorist.

"They gave me support and comfort, saying everything is alright. Don’t worry, you didn’t do anything."

Very important point… The community supports terrorism, youths feel they are actually supported by that terrorism, so they don’t feel repentant and they consider they are actually right.

Turkey: European Court rules Religion ID, against Human Rights

Well, who on earth wouldn’t have thought it was?

A European court on Tuesday (Feb. 2) ordered Turkey to remove the religious affiliation section from citizens’ identification cards, calling the practice a violation of human rights.
Religious minorities and in particular Christian converts in Turkey have faced discrimination because of the mandatory religion declaration on their identification cards, which was enforced until 2006. Since then, citizens are allowed to leave the “Religion” section of their IDs blank.
The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) “is a good thing,” said Zekai Tanyar, president of the Turkish Protestant Alliance, citing prejudices against Christian converts.

If someone leaves that “section” blank, it’s because he is not a Muslim, so the effects would be just as bad as if he/she were actually writing it down.