In a previous Winds of War report, we noted that Thailand has one of the world’s worst terrorism problems: over 600 deaths in less than two years as a result of Islamofascist terrorism. Focus by the media? Hard to find, except for scattered articles in places like TIME Asia (Nov. 29/04: Buddhists Under Siege). Faithful Winds of War readers will have followed our continuing coverage, but I thought it was time to up the profile a bit.

Anyway, we have more beheadings and murders by Muslim terrorists there… and of course, the Associated Press won’t call them that. Their moral cowardice surpasseth all understanding. Or decency.

UPDATE: A recent news report puts the figure over 720. This is a casualty counter worth paying attention to. Note esp. this passage: “I don’t see a motive such as personal conflict. He was mute and his wife was also mute, so it’s just part of the campaign of unrest,” police Lieutenant Colonel Sakarin Bumpensamai of Bannang Sata told AFP. These people are evil. Call them by their name.

Welcome! This briefing will be looking hard at the dark places the mainstream media sometimes seem determined to look away from, to better understand our declared enemies on their own terms and without illusions. Our goal is to bring you some of the top jihadi rants, idiotarian seething, and old-school Jew-hatred from around the world, leaving you more informed, more aware, and pretty disgusted every month. This Winds of Change.NET HateWatch briefing is brought to you by Lewy14, and zorkmidden of Discarded Lies. Past briefings and posts on related topics can be found here. Entil’zha veni!

HIGHLIGHTED TOPICS

• Religious Hate: Freedom House report on Saudi religious hate; Saudi indoctrination in Germany; Saudi cleric: The Jews and Christians are enemies of God; A horrific murder of a 13-year-old Kuwaiti girl by her father; New preacher at Finsbury Park Mosque; in Pakistan, new cases of violence and torture against Christians; persecution of Assyrian Christians continues in Iraq; a young man with Down’s syndrome was used as a suicide bomber in Iraq; Rabbi: God caused tsunami to punish nations not supporting Israel; Christian “Reconstructionists”.

• Idiotarian Seethings: Dutch schools ban students from displaying the flag as not to anger Muslim minorities; Bombed Israeli bus: rally and counter protest at UC Irvine; Rounding up Ward Churchill; Terrorist’s lawyer convicted of terrorism.

• Race and Culture: European Roma are still facing discrimination and harassment; violent anti-Semitic attacks reaching alarming levels in Britain; London mayor calls a Jewish journalist “a concentration camp guard”; honour crimes in the E.U.; Kuwaiti article slanders Franklin, Jews; Neo-Nazis play victim, Wagner; American Nazi Party “adopts a road”; PA TV still advocating destruction of Israel.

• A Hopeful Note: An Iranian professor suggests educating Muslims about the Holocaust will help achieve peace in the Middle East; a Yemeni judge engages in theological dialogue with terrorists with some surprising results.

HAARETZ: 117 U.S. victims of terror in Israel sue Arab Bank

The Jordan-based Arab Bank has been hit by a massive lawsuit filed by Americans whose family members were killed or injured in terror attacks in Israel. No less than 117 plaintiffs are lining up against the bank, which has a branch on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue.

The plaintiffs joined an earlier suit pursued by 30 families of terrorism victims. One new name on the list is the family of Matthew Parsons, who was killed in October 2003 when a roadside bomb exploded near Beit Hanun as he was guarding an American convoy. Another family joining the lawsuit is that of Abigail Litle, who was killed in the terror attack on Bus 37 in Haifa.

The plaintiffs claim that Arab Bank illegally funneled dollars from various Islamic charitable foundations and others to known terrorist organizations. Recipients of the financing allegedly included Hamas, the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, say the plaintiffs.

Welcome! This briefing will be looking hard at the dark places most mainstream media seem determined to look away from, to better understand our declared enemies on their own terms and without illusions. Our goal is to bring you some of the top jihadi rants, idiotarian seething, and old-school Jew-hatred from around the world, leaving you more informed, more aware, and pretty disgusted every month. This Winds of Change.NET HateWatch briefing is brought to you by Lewy14. (Email me at my handle “hatewatch” here at windsofchange.net). Past briefings and posts on related topics can be found here. Entil’zha veni!

HIGHLIGHTED TOPICS

• Religious Hate: Chicago Trib on Pakistani madrassas; Takfiris hate everybody; Iranian Martyr recruitment; Jihad shirkers didn’t get the memo; Jihadis’s force Dutch MP into hiding; Hamas in pictures; U.S. Hamas supporter carries tune, money; Widespread support for Hamas agenda?; Sudanese sheik claims Fallujah taken for Israel; Wahabis in Russia.

• Idiotarian Seethings: Turkish Parliamentarian cries “genocide”; Hizbullah TV retains French TV license; Students discuss anti-Semitism in France; Hostile climate at Columbia; Art show presents Palestinian “truths”; Al-Jazeera – terror channel? Frum “served” by CAIR Canada.

• Race and Culture: Dehumanization of women in Islamic culture; The Muslim view from Britain; Anti-Palestinian hatred on Imus.

• A Hopeful Note: Arab journalists write in support of Iraqi elections; Al-Jazeera and Zionists share a laugh.

The Ugandan government is one of many that have joined the US-led global war on terror, keen to be seen on the right side of Washington.

But the aid dollars it has been rewarded with have gone hand in hand with escalating conflict between government forces and rebels - as well as soaring poverty. Critics say Uganda is an example of Western donors increasingly viewing aid as a means of fighting terrorism, rather than addressing the day-to-day needs of poor people.

Uganda, one of a number of countries jostling to sign up for the US-led ‘war on terror’, has been rewarded by Washington with a golden hello. Now critics are accusing the US and other donor countries of linking development aid with the war on terror and making matters worse for ordinary Ugandans.

Critics say the increase in aid dollars have gone hand-in-hand with rising conflict in the north and soaring poverty. And in October the United Nations called the situation in northern Uganda the most neglected humanitarian crisis in the world.

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It’s one thing to note that Islamism has a strong strain of Arab cultural imperialism in its philosophy, another thing to read a first hand description from someone experiencing this in their country. Rantburg has an article from Esam Sohail on BangladeshWeb, detailing the process of Arab cultural imperialism in Bangladesh. Once there, click the title to get the original article.

While you’re reading, recall Armed Liberal’s past articles discussing the idea of modern Islamism as a fusion of intolerant Islamic doctrines with Western totalitarian ideologies and methods. The Bangladeshi modus operandi of modern-style political correctness, selective violence, a radical wing of shock troops, and institutional takeover did not escape my attention. It’s a familiar pattern, and it doesn’t come from the Qu’ran.

Bangladesh has had a growing problem with jihadi Islamists for several years now. For more in-depth background, see the 2002 article Championing Islamist extremism, and the July 2003 PDF file Extremist Islamist Consolidation from the Institute of Conflict Management in New Delhi. Sohail’s experiences are not projection, nor are they coincidence.

Time to talk about the dark side of discovery. In January 2004, Georgetown’s Acumen Jounral of Life Sciences ran an article by Mark Williams called Biowarfare: The Looming Threat [PDF excerpt | full version in HTML, no pictures]. The descriptions by former Soviet researchers re: pathogens they have already engineered are chilling, and the article is worth a read for that background alone:

“If the scenario was plague plus Venezuelan equine encephalitis, for instance, the first symptom would be plague itself, and the victim’s fever would be treated with something as simple as tetracycline,” said Dr. Popov. “But that tetracycline would itself be the factor inducing expression of a second set of genes, which could be a whole virus or a combination of viral genes.”

Were there, I asked, any limits for such recombinant pathogens? “Essentially, the combinations are unlimited,” Dr. Popov explained matter-of-factly. If the combination is plague-Ebola, treatment with tetracycline could trigger an Ebola gene that remained dormant until that point. A recombinant agent could first be introduced into a target population using an aerosol. Then victims would enter other major population centers, fall ill, and become walking Ebola bombs. “It’s ugly,” he added. “But the person who suggested this in 1987 got promoted.”

Now consider this excerpt in light of an Islamist ideology that preaches suicide-murder, demands the subjugation of all non-Muslim peoples, and continues to search for new and better weapons - even as the difficulty of engineering bioweapons continues to fall.

We’ve run a number of articles on bioterrorism here before…. [Read the Rest]

A followup article to one mentioned in a previous item has appeared at WomensWallStreet.com (link to followup), by Annie Jacobsen. Writes Jacobsen, regarding the response to her first article:

By Thursday morning, that number had again multiplied ten-fold. It felt like the shampoo commercial from my youth: they told two friends, then they told two friends, then they told two friends. We sat in the WWS offices reading through your emails, taking stock of what you had to say. As the afternoon went on, the number of people reading the article continued to increase and the telephone was ringing off the hook.

However, there is much more here than simply an “Oohh! Did we hit a nerve, or what?” Notes Jacobsen:

Since publishing the first article, I have received dozens of emails from people in the airline industry, including flight attendants, captains and pilots, some of whom I have also spoken with on the telephone. As of Sunday morning, to my knowledge, WWS had received no emails from anyone in the airline industry suggesting that the incident described in my first article did not happen.

Cheers…

Annie Jacobsen, a writer for WomensWallStreet.com, wrote an account of what happened during a domestic flight she and her family took a couple of weeks ago from Detroit to Los Angeles. An excerpt:

After seeing 14 Middle Eastern men board separately (six together, eight individually) and then act as a group, watching their unusual glances, observing their bizarre bathroom activities, watching them congregate in small groups, knowing that the flight attendants and the pilots were seriously concerned, and now knowing that federal air marshals were on board, I was officially terrified.

Observations regarding official policies currently in place to counter the terrorist threat in the skies over the U.S. are peppered in the piece.

MAARIV: Terror victims sue The Arab Bank

Six families of terror victims have instigated a massive $875 million lawsuit against The Arab Bank, one of the Arab world’s major financial institutions. In the lawsuit, filed at the end of last week to the New York Federal Court, it was argued that the bank helped finance terror in Israel and the territories.

In the past, terror victims filed claims against the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and other organizations. However, in most cases these bodies claimed diplomatic immunity and refused to appear in court. This time the claim is against a commercial institution, which also has a branch in New York.

The plaintiffs, six American families of terror victims, argue that Saudi Arabian money is transferred to the Arab Bank branch in Madison Avenue in New York, and converted to US dollars. From there, it is then wired to 15 branches in the West Bank and Gaza, which then distribute it to the families of suicide bombers, victims of the Intifada, and to the families of Palestinian prisoners. $40 million has so far been allocated in this fashion.

According to the suit, enormous sums of money collected from donors in Saudia Arabia were converted to dollars at the New York branch of the bank, and then transferred to Ramallah and Gaza. From there, it rapidly reached the hands of suicide bombers and their families. “We have evidence that the bank not only knew what it was doing, but also laundered funds to forward to the terror organizations”.

From UPI:

While all fingers in Spain are pointing at the Basque separatist movement ETA as the perpetrators of Thursday’s atrocious train bombings that left some 186 dead and 600 wounded, the attacks carry all the markings of al-Qaida and its jihadi affiliates.

For starters the Brussels-based World Observatory of Terrorism, an independent think tank affiliated with the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, points to five major reasons that cast doubt on the involvement of ETA.

First, ETA generally warns Spanish authorities moments before launching their attacks in which civilians are likely to be harmed. This, obviously, was not the case on Thursday.

Second, ETA traditionally targets representatives of the government or the administration, such as policemen, the military, magistrates or even journalists who oppose them.

Third, ETA customarily selects “symbolic” targets, such as military barracks and administrative buildings. Although ETA’s largest attack to date was in 1987 against a supermarket in Barcelona that killed 21 people, this was the exception rather than the norm.

Fourth, ETA always claims its attacks. Following any ETA bombing, ETA militants call in a claim to Spanish authorities. This failed to happen this time.

Fifth, ETA has never in the past carried out multiple attacks. According to some sources, at least 10 bombs were detonated almost simultaneously on Thursday.

On the other hand, these murderous attacks bear the traditional hallmark of al-Qaida: multiple bombs detonating a few seconds apart and programmed to cause the largest possible number of human casualties.

Winds of Change.NET has a complete briefing on the recent anti-warblogger cyber-attacks which brough down command-post.org, and many other sites besides. In addition to offering a compilation of tips and resources for dealing with DoS and DDoS cyber attacks, we've also got some analysis from Dan Darling that points the finger at one of al-Qaeda's Malaysian affiliates, and warns that this may be just a testing of the waters.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lawsuits blaming airlines, the Port Authority and the Boeing Co. for injuries and deaths in the September 11 terrorist attacks can proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

The defendants had argued that the suits should be dismissed because they had no duty to anticipate and guard against deliberate and suicidal aircraft crashes and because any alleged negligence on their part was not the cause of the deaths and injuries.

In his 49-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the World Trade Center property, "has not shown that it will prove its defense of governmental immunity as to negligence allegations made by WTC occupants."

The judge also said the evidence he had seen does not support Boeing's argument that the invasion and takeover of the cockpit by the terrorists frees it from liability.

Cross-posted to Electric Venom.

Morocco's Islam has been moderate and its ancient Jewish community has been treated relatively well, but Moroccan Jews have mixed feelings after the bombings last week.

The bombings at a Jewish social club, a Jewish cemetery, a Jewish-owned restaurant and a hotel popular with Israeli tourists was a blow to the prestige of the regime of King Mohammed VI, whose extensive security network had guaranteed the safety of Jewish sites during the U.S. war against Iraq. His predecessors on the throne protected Jews during World War II and during the 1991 Gulf War. . . . Though Moroccan Jewry traditionally boasts about the tolerance of Moroccan society and close ties with Muslim neighbors, the increasing influence of Muslim fundamentalists has increased tension in the Jewish community.

ZAMBOANGA CITY - Villagers angry over a spate of Moro rebel attacks raided a small Moro settlement in northern Mindanao, leaving one girl dead, a military report said Thursday.

The armed villagers from the predominantly Christian town of Maigo attacked the Moro settlers on the edge of the town last Sunday, burning three thatch houses and leaving a six-year-old girl dead.

The attack was apparently in retaliation for similar raid by the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Maigo in April where the rebels occupied parts of the town and looted homes, the military added.

Russian-born American physician Dr. Daniel Branovan organized an international conference on "Doctors against Terrorism."

Some 100 people attended the conference at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, including victims of terror attacks and their relatives, local politicians and about 50 physicians who volunteered to treat terrorism victims overseas or in the United States.

A dozen countries — Israel and republics of the former Soviet Union — have expressed interest in having their wounded citizens treated by Branovan’s nondenominational organization, he said.