300 movie

War epic "300", a gory Hollywood hit about the Greco-Persian wars, has enraged Iranians. According to the Iranians, the film portrays their ancestors as "bloodthirsty savages."

At a time of mounting tension between the US and Iran, over the latter's nuclear program, the press has united in denouncing the film as "psychological warfare" against Tehran.

AB

If the shoe fits...

Fatah Al Islam

The chief of a small Palestinian Islamist group has denied allegations that it is linked with the Al Qaeda terror network and that it was responsible for deadly recent bombings in Lebanon.

"Our movement is not allied with any regime, nor with any organization on earth," Fatah Al Islam leader Shaker Abssi was quoted as saying in Friday's edition of L'Orient Le Jour daily.

Earlier this week, a Lebanese government official said that members of an Al Qaeda-linked Palestinian splinter group had admitted carrying out the February 13 deadly Lebanon bus bombings.

Lebanese interior minister Hassan Al Sabeh and police chief General Ashraf Rifi also said this week that Fatah Al Islam was an alias for Fatah-Intifada, a radical Palestinian group that they said works closely with Syrian intelligence.

Sabeh said that four Fatah Al Islam members carrying Syrian nationality had been arrested and a fifth wanted suspect was still at large.

Fatah Al Islam swiftly denied any involvement and accused the government of preparing an offensive against the dozen or so camps in Lebanon, which house more than half of the country's nearly 400,000 Palestinian refugees.

Abssi, who is holed up with armed supporters in the Nahr Al Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon warned that "if an offensive is launched against us, our response will be fierce."

And he challenged the authorities to present proof of the group's involvement in last month's bombing.

"Since the birth of our movement was announced, we have been under tight surveillance by the security services," he said. "I challenge them to prove that we have had any encounters with the people that are accused or that they are really part of our movement."

Abssi denied accusations by Syrian interior minister Bassam Abdel Majid that the Palestinian militant has been jailed in Syria because of links with Al Qaeda and for planning terrorist attacks.

"I was jailed in Syria, but not over links with Al Qaeda as he has claimed," Abssi said.

"I was jailed because I was accused of having planned to carry out an operation in the [Syrian] Golan [territory occupied by Israel], as well as of having carried and smuggled arms into Palestine [Israel]," he said.

MET

Thick as shit

Taken from 'a report' on Indian muslims.

54.6 percent of Muslims in rural areas and 60 percent in urban areas have never attended schools compared with the national average of 40.8 percent in rural areas and 19.9 percent in urban areas. Only 40 percent of the Muslims in urban areas get modern education and among them 3.1 percent are graduates and 1.2 percent are post graduates. Among the Muslim girls, only 32.8 percent go to schools and nine percent of them reach secondary level. It is highly pathetic that 60 percent of urban Muslim women cannot read and write, the report pointed out.

Now why am I not surprised?

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Where have you gone?
Has someone pulled the plug?

'La Voix des Opprimés' or 'Voice of the oppressed' was a French Islamic Extremist forum.
It was hacked less than a month ago (here), it now appears to be offline.

It's back up...pffft