Author Archives: Yossarian

Guess who’s back

In the category of exceedingly unwelcome news, Anwar al-Awlaki appears to be back and spreading his hatred on the Islamic Awakening forum, which is popular with extremists. Islamic Awakening user AbuSulaiman has recently posted this on the forum: new Fatwa from Sh. Anwar From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM subject: Fwd: Fwd: [...]
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Hasan in 2007: “Offensive Islam is the Future”

The Washington Post has obtained a copy of a slideshow presented by Major Hasan to US military doctor colleagues in June 2007. Rather than speak about medical topics, as he was supposed to, he lectured on Islam, suicide bombings and threats the US military would face if it continued to fight in Muslim majority countries. [...]
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The Israel Lobby?

Peter Oborne’s Dispatches programme was on last night, preceded by the Guardian article and comment piece and Opendemocracy pamphlet (pdf) which were released to coincide with the programme. I have been avidly following the inevitable online wranglings which ensued. The CST’s response is certainly one of the best, particularly this gem of a detail: There is another, [...]
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Anwar al-Awlaki: “Maybe Nidal was affected by one of my lectures”

Unfortunately for those who previously backed Awlaki (but say that he must have recently changed from being a fluffy friend of all to fire-breathing jihadist preacher without anybody noticing), in his first interview since the Fort Hood attacks, the Yemeni-American preacher has revealed that it was under his influence that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was [...]
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Death Threats, Part Of An “Exclusively Political Method”

Global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) likes to claim that it is devoted to an “exclusively political method” which is non-violent. Even though HT would be happy to see the deaths of millions and its ideology and strategy has been well documented by my Spittoonite comrade Houriya (not least in the excellent, but somewhat prosaically [...]
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Islamists set terms in war on jihad

Swapan Dasgupta has an interesting article in The Pioneer today. He explores the differences between the recent case of Major Nidal Malik Hasan and that of the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards 25 years ago. The saga of an armed custodian of military power turning roguish, whether out of stress or conviction, is not [...]
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Anwar al-Awlaki And His Online Supporters

It has been widely reported that, since his disgusting statement in support of Major Hasan’s actions in Fort Hood, the blog belonging to Anwar al-Awlaki has been taken down. Who by is still unclear, but one detail has gone unreported. Yesterday, this message was posted: website coming back online Assaalmu’alaykum all The website will be back to normal [...]
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The Saudi-isation of Pakistan

A Pakistani magazine article from earlier this year. Soldiers, policemen, factory and hospital workers, mourners at funerals and [...]
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Another Connection Between Awlaki and Major Nidal Malik Hasan

They are both, apparently, a tad sex-starved. But where Hasan stuck to legal strip-joints, Awlaki prefers prostitutes. Yet more evidence of the links between them? Probably not, but it’s always worth noting the dubious personal morality of the ostentatiously pious.
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Awlaki Responds to Fort Hood Shooting

First the Spittoon brought you the news that the darling of Cageprisoners, East London Mosque, City University‘s Islamic Society and others too, Anwar al-Awlaki, had, in the past, been the imam for the Fort Hood murderer, Major Nidal Hasan. A connection which also linked him to two of the 9/11 hijackers, for whom Awlaki has [...]
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