You may be right about another attack Mike;
But will it occurr in North America or in Australia?? I just read that
Australia is acting tough towards Muslims of fundamentalist nature.
This was forwarded to me without citing reference to the source by a
friend.
CANBERRA.....Australia
: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were
told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted
radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day
after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia
at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his
ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown.
Treasurer
Peter Costello hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave
the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state
and
its laws were made by parliament. "If those are not your values, if
you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then
Australia is not for you," he said on national television. "I'd
be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing
people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the Islamic
law,
that this is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law,
independent courts, democracy! , and would prefer Sharia law, and have
the opportunity to go to another country which practices it, perhaps,
then, that's a better option," Costello said. Asked whether he meant
radical clerics would be forced to leave, he said those with dual
citizenship could possibly be asked move to the other country.
Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that Muslims who
did not want to accept local values should "clear off".
"Basically, people who don't want to be Australians, and they don't
want to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they
can
basically clear off," he said. Separately, Howard angered some
Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spies monitoring
the nation's mosques.
Joe
Michael Redler wrote:
Considering that the administration has only given lip service
to protect us from a situation for which they are partially
responsible, another attack hasn't occurred (IMO) because they don't
want it to occur - yet.
I believe some predictions that an attack will occur at a time
and place of their choosing. I also believe that any appeal made by
radical Muslim organizations have two mutually exclusive objectives in
an attempt to influence the "infidels":
** They want their appeal to be ignored so that the aftermath of
an attack will include (more) resentment toward the federal government.
** They want "the infidels" to believe the appeal and feel safe
by expressing an interest in dialog which might present additional
opportunities for attack.
Bin Laden has absolutely nothing to loose by making such an
appeal.
I have been strongly against nearly all of the federal
government's foreign policy decisions over the past...well...for a
really long time. However, that doesn't make me any less aware
of Islam's turn to launch a "crusade/inquisition/jihad" and the
radicals' ambition to kill every man, woman and child outside of their
religion (according to their interpretation of Islam).
Let's hope that the radical Muslims are not as successful as
their Christian counterparts were (and from which we are still
influenced) and that the cycle of "holy wars" comes to an end.
Religious wars have haunting similarities:
"A statue in a Spanish cathedral showing St James
slicing the heads off Moorish invaders..."
Mike
This
is bizzare -- at least if you pay too much attention to US
government media.
"It was not my intention to talk to you about this, because those wars
are definitely going our way. But what triggered my desire to talk to
you is the continuous deliberate misinformation given by your
President [George] Bush, when it comes to polls made in your home
country which reveal that the majority of your people are willing to
withdraw US forces from Iraq. We know that the majority of your people
want this war to end and opinion polls show the Americans don't want
to fight the Muslims on Muslim land, nor do they want Muslims to fight
them on their (US) land."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/593298A0-3C1A-4EB4-B29D-EA1A9678D922.htm
Thursday 19 January 2006, 18:39 Makka Time, 15:39 GMT
Bin Laden had not been heard from since December 2004
In an audio tape broadcast on Aljazeera, Osama bin Laden has warned
that al-Qaida was preparing an attack very soon, but also offered
Americans a "long-term truce".
"The new operations of al-Qaida has not happened not because we could
not penetrate the security measures. It is being prepared and you'll
see it in your homeland very soon," the voice attributed to bin Laden
said, apparently addressing Americans.
But the voice on the tape, which appeared to be aimed at the American
public, also offered a truce: "We do not mind establishing a long-term
truce between us and you."
The tape, broadcast on Thursday but dated to December last year, comes
after a year of silence from the al-Qaida leader.
"This message is about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and how to end
those wars," it began.
"It was not my intention to talk to you about this, because those wars
are definitely going our way.
"But what triggered my desire to talk to you is the continuous
deliberate misinformation given by your President [George] Bush, when
it comes to polls made in your home country which reveal that the
majority of your people are willing to withdraw US forces from Iraq.
Americans want peace
"We know that the majority of your people want this war to end and
opinion polls show the Americans don't want to fight the Muslims on
Muslim land, nor do they want Muslims to fight them on their (US)
land.
"The new operations of al-Qaida has not happened not because we could
not penetrate the security measures. It is being prepared and you'll
see it in your homeland very soon"
Osama bin Laden
"But Bush does not want this and claims that it's better to fight his
enemies on their land rather than on American land.
"Bush tried to ignore the polls that demanded that he end the war in
Iraq.
"We are getting increasingly stronger while your situation is getting
from bad to worse," he told the US, referring to poor US troop morale
and the huge economic losses inflicted by the war.
"The war in Iraq is raging and the operations in Afghanistan are
increasing."
Truce offer
"In response to the substance of the polls in the US, which indicate
that Americans do not want to fight Muslims on Muslim land, nor do
they want Muslims to fight them on their land, we do not mind offering
a long-term truce based on just conditions that we will stick to.
"We are a nation that Allah banned from lying and stabbing others in
the back, hence both parties of the truce will enjoy stability and
security to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, which were destroyed by war.
"In response to the substance of the polls in the US, which indicate
that Americans do not want to fight Muslims ... we do not mind
offering a long-term truce based on just conditions that we will stick
to"
Bin Laden
"There is no problem in this solution, but it will prevent hundreds of
billions from going to influential people and warlords in America -
those who supported Bush's electoral campaign - and from this, we can
understand Bush and his gang's insistence on continuing the war."
Addressing Americans again, he said: "If your desire for peace,
stability and reconciliation was true, here we have given you the
answer to your call."
Bin Laden, who had not been heard of since a 27 December 2004
audiotape in which he anointed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most
wanted man, as al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, also said his network was
winning the war against the US.
"I would like to tell you that everything is going to our advantage
and the number of your dead is increasing, according to Pentagon
figures."
Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy, said in a September videotape
that his leader was still alive and leading the jihad against the
West.
Aljazeera
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