Al-Masry Al-Youm goes inside the Brotherhood’s torture chambers

Mohamed El-Garhi

Al-Masry Al-Youm spent three hours Wednesday night in a Muslim Brotherhood torture chamber at the presidential palace. The central chamber was located at the gate of the palace in front of Omar bin Abdel Aziz Mosque on Merghany Street. The chamber was cordoned by iron barriers and Central Security Forces, who only allowed this reporter access after a colleague from Misr 25 satellite channel, owned by the Brotherhood, intervened.

Police officials in uniform were present inside the chamber, as were plainclothes officers from the Nozha police station. Fifteen Brotherhood members were also present, supervised by three bearded men who decided who should be there. They could order anyone out of the room.

Opposing protesters were brought to the chambers after being detained by Brotherhood members, who beat them and tore their clothes. The chambers were informal and it was unclear how many there were; when someone was detained, a chamber would be established anywhere near a building.

The kidnappers would take the detained person’s ID card, mobile phone and money before beginning “investigations,” which included intervals of beating to force the confession that he or she is a “thug.”

The interrogators would then ask their captive why they had taken to the street, if they had received any money for protesting, and if they belonged to Mohamed ElBaradei’s Constitution Party, Hamdeen Sabbahi’s Popular Current or the dissolved National Democratic Party of Hosni Mubarak.

If the detainee denied affiliation, the torturers would intensify beatings and verbal abuse. They also documented the interrogations on a mobile phone camera and contacted the Misr 25 TV channel to name the detainees as thugs.

After a while, a captive would be transferred to a central chamber, where a Brotherhood lawyer would hand his or her ID card and personal belongings to a senior police officer, who was the head of the “investigations department” in the chamber. Some Brotherhood members claimed that they found weapons on the detainees and had handed them over to Nozha police officers.

This reporter heard detainees screaming inside the chamber. One pleaded, “I’m a bearded sheikh… It’s Safwat Hegazy who will restore my rights. I’m a friend of all sheikhs.” A bleeding man cried, “I’m an educated person. I have a car. Do I look like a thug?” A severely beaten detainee, who said he was from Sayeda Zeinab, was accused of being affiliated with former Parliament Speaker Fathi Sorour.

Some of the detainees were not able to respond to the questions the Brotherhood interrogators screamed at them because of their physical state. Some were bleeding profusely and severely fatigued, but were not given medical assistance, only offered bottles of water to drink.

The senior police official and other policemen asked the three Brotherhood leaders to help them secure the transfer of 10 detainees to the Nozha police station so they would not be attacked again by Brotherhood protesters outside the chamber. Once a group of detainees was taken away, another was brought in.

Next to the central chamber, another three people were detained inside asecurity station attached to the palace gate on Ahram Street. This area is not under the control of the Brotherhood, which has handed over these detainees to the police. Other detainees remain in the torture chambers without being transferred to security forces.

There was blood visible on the pavement outside the chambers. Some Brothers covered it with dust to try to hide it, but some of it remained visible.

Should America fear Islam?

Listen and learn what a common defense is of Islam from Islamofascists and Muslims. The blatant lies from the Muslims is noteworthy. Especially modern Muslims, like Resa Aslan, who have never even lived under Sharia and who have been accused of being a closet gay man who would face persecution and execution under Islam, tend to defend an ideology that has a proven to possess (in)human rights record unparallelled in the rest of the world. The perpetration of this ideology continues wherever Muslims immigrate. And this is proven again and again.

 

 

 

Exiled leader of Hamas returns to Gaza Strip for first time in 45 years in move set to anger Israel

• Khaled Meshaal, 56, hails moment as his ‘third birth’

• Set to address mass rally in Gaza City tomorrow night

• Survived assassination attempt by Israel 15 years ago

By Steve Robson

PUBLISHED: 14:14, 7 December 2012 | DailyMail

The exiled political leader of Hamas Khaled Meshaal kissed the ground as he returned to the Gaza Strip today for the first time since he left the West Bank 45 years ago.

He was forced to leave the West Bank for Kuwait following the Six Day War in 1967 aged just 11.

His visit comes after days of bloody conflict between Israel and the Palestinians ended in a ceasefire.

Prayers: Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal kisses the ground upon his arrival to the Gaza Strip

Long awaited return: Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, left, with senior politician Ismail Haniyeh, right, after he arrived at the Gaza Strip today for the first time in 45 years

In a move that underscored the Islamist group’s growing confidence, Mr Meshaal declared the moment is ‘third birth’.

Mr Meshaal considers his ‘second birth’ the moment he survived an assassination attempt in Jordan in 1997 and his ‘first birth’ his actual birth in 1956.

He became Hamas’s political leader in exile after the assassination of Sheikh Yassin by Israel in 2004.

In a statement to the media he said: ‘I consider this moment my third birth, and I pray to God that my fourth birth will be the moment when all of Palestine is liberated. Gaza has always been in my heart.’

During a three-day trip, he is expected to visit the home of military commander Ahmed Jabari, whose death sparked the offensive last month.

A huge rally is set to be held tomorrow to mark the 25th anniversary of Hamas and ‘victory’ in the recent conflict with Israel.

Hamas, considered a terrorist organisation by the US and the EU, has governed the Palestinian Territories since 2007.

Growing confidence: Mr Meshaal’s visit is seen by political commentators as a sign of increasing belief by Hamas leaders that the party is gaining international legitimacy

Mr Meshaal is expected to address the ongoing negotiations with the rival Fatah movement to form a national government of unity in the Palestinian Territories.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who rules the West Bank since Hamas forced out the faction in 2007, endorsed a plan to reconcile the factions last year.

Mr Meshaal told Reuters ahead of his Gaza visit that ‘there is a new mood that allows us to achieve reconciliation’.

Hamas feels it has growing international support following the eight-day war with Israel which left 170 Palestinians and six Israelis dead.

Mr Meshaal, who helped negotiated the ceasefire, believes his position has been strengthened by the involvement of the US and Egypt.

‘Israel always violates agreements but Israel will be condemned if it doesn’t abide by this written agreement under Egyptian sponsorship and US presence,’ he told Reuters last week.

‘The world witnessed it,’ he said.

Armed men lined up in Gaza today to greet the 56-year-old whose ear was injected with poison by Mossad agents in Amman in 1997 before Jordan made Israel hand over the antidote.

Mouin Rabbani, an expert on Palestinian affairs, said: ‘It is a very welcome poke in the eye of Israel.

‘It is a significant visit that shows Israel’s position in Gaza has further weakened to the extent that the leader of the organisation it went to war with last month and it tried to murder can now visit Gaza with the trappings of an official visit.’

UK: Muslim teens make up 20% of total youth jails in the country – and numbers are rising

Number one again. Wherever there is Islam, there is derangement. The Muslim youth population in the UK is less than 1% yet they make up 20% of the entire youth prison population.

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Proportion of young Muslim men in youth jails rises by more than a quarter as one in five offenders say they follow faith

• Proportion of youth offenders in custody from black and minority ethnic communities also rose slightly to 42 per cent

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 02:59, 7 December 2012 |

The proportion of young Muslim men in youth jails in England and Wales rose by more than a quarter last year, figures showed today.

One in five males (21 per cent) in young offender institutions identified themselves as Muslim in 2011/12, compared with 13 per cent in 2009/10 and 16 per cent in 2010/11, the annual review of children and young people in custody showed.

The proportion of youth offenders in custody from black and minority ethnic communities also rose slightly to 42 per cent, from 39 per cent in 2010/11, according to the report by the chief inspector of prisons.

(File photo) The proportion of young Muslim men in youth jails in England and Wales rose by more than a quarter last year, figures showed today

The study, published jointly with the Youth Justice Board, showed the total number of young people in custody fell by 14 per cent last year.

Some 1,543 teenagers, aged 15 to 18, were held in YOIs by the end of 2011/12, compared with 1,822 the previous year. Around half (53 per cent) of young men said that it was their first time in custody.

Now 231 young offender places have been decommissioned to reflect the decreasing size of the population.

More…

• Sister of two brothers who plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange jailed for having Al Qaeda terror manual on her mobile phone

Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, has now called on young people’s perceptions of their experiences in custody to help shape youth justice policy.

He voiced concern that the proportion of young people who had felt unsafe at some time in custody had risen from 27 per cent in 2010/11 to 32 per cent last year.

A quarter (25 per cent) of young men said they had been victimised by another young person at their establishment and 23 per cent said they had been victimised by a member of staff.

Figures published by the Youth Justice Board showed the total number of young people in custody fell by 14 per cent last year. Pictured is Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution, London

Only 56 per cent of young men felt that they would be able to tell someone they had been victimised and just 28 per cent felt it would be taken seriously if reported.

Meanwhile, almost a third of the young people surveyed (30 per cent) said they had previously been looked after by a local authority.

Mr Hardwick said the figure was ‘depressingly high’ and ‘reflected the over-representation of children from care in almost every indicator of disadvantage for decades’.

The study was based on the experience of 926 young men in eight male establishments and 25 young women in three female establishments in which they were held from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012.

‘Children in custody are amongst those with the very greatest needs and and their safety and welfare is our highest priority.’

YJB chair Frances Done

Mr Hardwick said: ‘It might have been expected that reductions in the number of young people held and changes to the custodial estate would have led to changes of similar significance to young people’s perceptions of their experience in custody.

‘In fact, it is striking how little has changed and that may cast doubt on the assumption that, as the population decreased, it would include a greater concentration of young people with a serious offence background and major problems.

‘Young people’s own perceptions of their experience in custody, their hopes and concerns, should be an important part of the evidence that shapes the future of the youth justice custody estate and youth justice policy.

‘These annual surveys provide an important resource for tracking these perceptions and identifying progress made and work still to be done. The voice that comes through these statistics is largely realistic but hopeful – and should not be ignored.’

YJB chair Frances Done said: ‘Children in custody are amongst those with the very greatest needs and and their safety and welfare is our highest priority.

‘We commission this report each year to help us to identify the progress made and areas which need further improvement.

‘Our overriding objective is to ensure that whilst in custody children are kept safe, supported to address their offending behaviour and helped to lead successful lives on release.

‘We will review the findings of this report and work with our secure establishments to ensure that they are taken into account in all aspects of their work.’

Andrew Neilson, Director of Campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: ‘The increase in the proportion of boys in custody who describe themselves as Muslim mirrors a trend also seen in the adult prison population.

‘It only emphasises the need for the government to carry out detailed research into why this trend is happening.’

 

 

Bangladesh: Muslim children maimed so they earn more as beggars

Mutilated by gang who set out to maim him so he’d earn more as a beggar, the seven-year-old boy whose story is all too common in Bangladesh

• The young child was surrounded by four men in Bangladesh who tied him up, and cracked open his head with a brick

• Sliced his chest and belly in an upside down cross and chopped off his penis

• Attack said to be retaliation for argument his father had with one of the men

• ‘Beggar mafia’ is becoming more common in South Asian countries

• Shown in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, in which a child in Mumbai, India, is intentionally blinded so he could bring in more money

By Jill Reilly

PUBLISHED: 14:49, 7 December 2012 |

 

A seven-year-old boy was grabbed from the street by strangers to maim him so he would elicit more sympathy working for them as a beggar.

But when he recognised the men from his area and told them he would report them to his father, they decided to torture him, cutting off his penis and leaving him for dead on the streets of Bangladesh.

In some South Asian countries, the prevalence of ‘beggar mafias’ is becoming increasingly common.

Butchered: The seven-year-old’s attackers drew ab upside down cross on his chest as well as slitting his throat

 

The practice was portrayed in the 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire, in which a child in Mumbai, India, is intentionally blinded so he could bring in more money.

The tragic story was uncovered by CNN’s Freedom Project – they named the child, who can not be identified, as Okkhoy, the Bengali word for ‘unbreakable.’

The horrific attack on Okkhoy unfolded in late 2010, just a few days before the Muslim festival of Eid, when three local children lured the trusting child out of his home with the promise of a lolly.

Brutal: One of the attackers grabbed a brick and Okkhoy lost consciousness after he was struck over the head

 

It was then a group of neighborhood men grabbed him and pulled him into an alley, binding his hands and feet.

‘They tied me up and told me they’d force me to beg,’ said Okkhoy.

But their hope to maim Okkhoy turned into a plan to kill him after he told the men that he recognised them and he would tell his father.

One of the attackers grabbed a brick and Okkhoy lost consciousness after he was struck over the head.

They then set about carving up his body, slashing his throat and slicing his chest and belly in an upside down cross.

Butchered: Okkhoy nearly died from blood-loss after his attackers slit his throat and left him for dead

 

In a final brutal act, his attackers chopped off his penis and his right testicle.

Okkhoy was dumped by the side of a warehouse – his attackers intended to come back later and dump him in the river.

But his mother, who had gone looking for her missing child, stumbled across his blood-soaked body.

‘I barely recognized him; he was so stained with blood,’ shes said.

She carried her young son’s body to the side of the main road where she was met by Okkhoy’s father Abed, who had been alerted by a neighbor.

‘It felt like the sky fell on me,’ he said.

Hero: Dr Reddet examines the young boy’s head in Maryland after he was flown over for treatment

 

‘As a father, there is no greater pain in the world than knowing that you could not protect your child.’

Okkhoy spent three months in a Dhaka hospital, but doctors were unable to do much to repair the severed organ.

Abed reported the attack to police, but was shocked to discover it had already been covered and the police would not investigate.

A man, who pretended to be Okkhoy’s uncle, had told police that his nephew was attacked by two boys in a playground spat.

Hope: During surgery in the U.S. doctors managed to rebuild the young boy’s butchered genitalia

 

A judge also refused to help, but by sheer coincidence human rights lawyer, Alena Khan was in the courthouse and felt compelled to publicise the horrifying case.

As the founder of Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation, she contacted a local television station and the story garnered so much publicity the high court was forced to ask authorities to launch an inquiry.

Within days, the Rapid Action Battalion rounded up five suspects and charged them with attempted murder.

‘The boy started arguing with us and I hit him on his head with a brick,’  said one of the men in a televised confession.

‘After I hit him on the head, he fell to the ground. Then (one of the men) said to cut off his penis, and I cut it off. After that, (someone else) cut his chest and belly. Then (a third person) held his head and slit his throat,’ he said.

Philanthropy: U.S. businessman Aram Kovach, from Ohio, heard the story on CNN and decided to fund a trip for Okkoy and his family to travel to America for treatment

At the trial, according to prosecutors, it emerged that the gang maimed at least five other children to get money for begging.

The gang kept the children confined for months in tight spaces or even in barrels and deprived them of food and then send them out to beg, according to one of the men who confessed.

Okkhoy’s father believes the attack was payback after he had a confrontation with one of the men at a tea stall.

Authorities continue to look for four others who they claim are part of the same ‘beggar mafia’ gang.

To ensure Okkhoy and his family stay safe, they were placed in a battalion compound, but his father remained concerned about his son’s ability to father children.

Publicised: The practice was portrayed in the 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire, in which a child in Mumbai, India, is intentionally blinded so he could bring in more money

But then U.S. businessman Aram Kovach, from Ohio, heard the story on CNN and decided to fund a trip for Okkhoy and his family to travel to America for treatment.

John Gearhart, the director of pediatric urology at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland decided to waive his fee and help Okhkoy.

Although the surgeons were initially concerned they would not be able to reconstruct Okkhoy’s genitalia, they found it was less-damaged than originally thought on the operating table.

They were to move the urethra – the tube used for urination – to the tip of Okkhoy’s penis, so he would no longer have to urinate through a tiny hole the doctors in Bangladesh had created.

And his father’s concerns about having grandchildren was abated after Redett’s team used skin from Okkhoy’s thigh for the shaft of the penis and tissue from his inner cheek lining to create the tip.

The success of the operation means that Okkhoy will be able to have sensation and the organ will continue to grow as Okkhoy gets older.

Now Okkhoy’s ambition for the future is to become a doctor and help other people who have been inured.

A CNN Freedom Project documentary, ‘Operation Hope’ can be seen on CNN International at the following times:

Saturday 8 December at 0900 GMT and 2000 GMT; Sunday 9 December at 0200 GMT and 1000 GMT and Monday 10 December at 0300 GMT

 

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the mentor of the Muslim Brotherhood, is plotting Islamic Super-State

The Arab world should turn their eyes on Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi for answers as to why their countries are being inflamed with the Arab winter trying to topple despots with extremists. al-Qaradawi has been called the most influential Islamic cleric in the world.

Over the past year, he’s used his clout to promote the so-called “Arab Spring”.

For al-Qaradawi, the rise of radical Islamic governments across the Middle East and North Africa means a giant step towards his vision of a united Islamic super-state — or caliphate — governed by sharia law.

The 86-year-old Egyptian native pushes this agenda through his website, IslamOnline, and his top-rated Al-Jazeera program, titled “Sharia and Life,” which reaches tens of millions of Muslims each week.

“Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is more than just an ideologue. He is also a strategist,” Middle East expert Walid Phares told CBN News.

Phares, author of the book The Coming Revolution, says al-Qaradawi sets the tone for the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide.

“We’re talking about a Lenin here — a jihadi Lenin who controls the flow of the ideology but also gives the nod with regards to general strategic direction,” Phares said.

“He’s the mentor today for the Muslim Brotherhood,” he added. “And the MB’s today are about to take over in at least 3 to 4 countries in the Middle East. “

Just one week after protests forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak out of power, al-Qaradawi returned to his homeland following a 30-year exile.

He led Friday prayers for a crowd of over 1 million in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where he called for Muslims to re-conquer Jerusalem.

Phares compared it to the Ayatollah Khomenei’s return to Iran in 1979.

“Qaradawi came to Egypt to change the Arab Spring into a Caliphate Spring,” Phares told CBN News.

Al-Qaradawi’s fatwas — or religious rulings — have endorsed the killing of U.S. troops in Iraq and suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.

He has shown a special animosity towards Jews — and not just those living in Israel.

During a 2009 sermon he raged, “Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people…Do not spare a single one of them…Count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.”

Egyptian dissident Cynthia Farahat of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. told CBN News that Westerners who call al-Qaradawi a moderate ignore his words.

“Genocide. That’s the main message: genocide,” Farahat said.

“He (Al-Qaradawi) went as far as saying he wants to kill Jews with his own hands – with his own bare hands while sitting on his wheelchair,” she said.

Yet according to a recent report in The Hindu, one of India’s largest daily newspapers, the Obama administration is using al-Qaradawi as a mediator in secret negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban.

An Obama administration official told CBN News the report is not accurate.

The administration has acknowledged, however, that it is engaged in dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties.

Al-Qaradawi has ambitions beyond the Middle East. He says Muslims will one day conquer America and Europe as well — not overnight, but gradually, through immigration and proselytizing.

Sweden: Insane Islamist Abdirizak Waberi is sitting in the Parliament ranting about Islamic rights

The dumbest country in the world is topping the charts once more in their extreme dhimmitude stupidity that passes all rime and reason and puts their future in a massive security risk.

Imagine having in the US congress or UK parliament occupied by a member like Ayatollah Kohmeini, who superimposed extreme Islamic ideologies on Iran?

Sweden has allowed this to happen.

Abdirizak Waberi, a backward Islamic Muslim with the intelligence level of a bedouine desert camel, has been sitting in the Swedish parliament since 2010. We couldn’t make this up even if we wanted to. The Swedish political reasoning has died out somehow. Waberi needs to immediately be removed from all political duties, and be deported. His ideology is in extreme violation to the core human rights principles in the Western world all together and he and his ilk have no place in a modern society. Waberi supports extreme Sharia and wants Swedish society to bend and approve of Sharia principles and even expresses a dream of a future Islamic state in the country.

Abdirizak Waberi admires and respects the Muslim Brotherhood adviser, mentor and cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been called the most influential Islamic cleric in the world. Over the past year, he’s used his clout to promote the so-called Arab Spring. For al-Qaradawi, the rise of radical Islamic governments across the Middle East and North Africa means a giant step towards his vision of a united Islamic super-state — or caliphate — governed by sharia law.

People, throw him out of the country! Modern society is not created for backward medieval mindsets to alter it and weaken it. The Western world cannot bend to ideologies of human slavery, extreme animal cruelty, murder of apostates, genital mutilation, terrorism, conquest of other nations, assault, rape and murder of non-Muslims, horrific violence against women, sodomy of infants – all in accordance to “the will of Allah” and the wishes of a warlord.

People who support this kind of ideology need to be removed once and for all.

Muslim jihad savagery and rivalry spread and infect Australia, make life hell for locals

Sydney’s violent wild, wild west

Mark Morri
The Daily Telegraph
December 07, 2012 12:00AM

SHOOTINGS, extortion and general violence is so out of control in south-west Sydney that residents and children are seeking medical help for post-traumatic stress disorders.

Gangs from opposing religious sects are also extorting money from restaurants in the area with at least three premises fire-bombed or shot at in the past few weeks.

Police have confirmed they have set up a special taskforce to investigate the shootings.

“There are a number of shooting incidents at restaurants in the Bankstown area we are looking at,” said Detective Superintendent Debbie Wallace, head of the Middle Eastern Crime Squad.

“Victims of these types of crimes are very reluctant to come forward, naturally because of the fear,” Supt Wallace said.

She confirmed that in some cases religion is used by those making the threats.

“We need people to come forward and tell us before we can take action.”

Earlier this year police arrested three men on blackmail offences after they allegedly used threats to force the owner of Juicylicious in Bankstown to sell his business well under market the market price.

“If people report threats then we can investigate them and also protect them.”

One group made up of Muslim men contacts restaurant owners and says they “don’t want their type” – a Shia – operating in the area and try to intimidate them into handing over their business.

“They then offer to buy the business for a fraction of its worth, when they are turned down they get threatened on the phone. If they continue to resist they find there business targeting in other ways. Like being shot at or fires,” said one business operator.

Dr Jamal Riffi, a general practitioner and one of the most respected Muslim leaders in the area said he was seeing an increasing number of patients who were suffering anxiety from being extorted.

“I have patients who have small businesses who are being intimidated and extorted on a weekly basis,” he said.

“It is the worst I have ever seen it. Some of these men are hiding behind their religion, saying they are Muslims and have a right to do what they are doing. That is wrong. They are criminals threatening people in their own community.”

An angry Dr Riffi, who has a good relationship with police in the area and on the Middle eastern gang squad, said it was time the police hierarchy and politicians did something seriously about the problem.

“Politicians from both sides come out to the south-west, even the local members, eat a bit of homous and tabouli and then leave without addressing the problems.”

His patients at his Belmore practice are his eyes and ears of the community.

“This is the worst I have seen it in this area since I arrived in Australia in 1984. Even when Michael Kannan and his gang were running wild it was different,” he said.

“They knee-capped other gangster and did most of their violence in Kings Cross.”

Now he said young couples are too frightened to open businesses.

“One restaurant opened recently and was doing very well soon after opening. Then a fire destroys the place,” he said.

“No one is saying exactly what happened but all the business people are talking about it as extortion.

“I have patients who tell me it is better to pay, especially at the moment because the festive season is the most profitable and they can’t afford to have any trouble.”

“But we have to stand up to thses guys or else they will take over completely.”