Latest Bin Laden Offer

Latest Bin Laden Offering Most Desperate and Controversial to Date

by liyakhath ali khan

Advertisement for latest Osama Bin Laden video from radical Islamist terrorist website Washington, DC (Rotters) - Osama bin Laden warned in his latest DVD release, available for purchase from terrorist websites, that Al Qaeda would be stepping up its threats of attacks both in Europe and in the United States in response to offensive cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed republished by Danish newspapers. Bin Laden threatened to bring attacks also to the heart of America, targeting what he described as "your center of decadence" by infiltrating and threatening collegiate spring breaks nationwide. "Clearly we are witnessing some degree of desperation on the part of Al-Qaeda leadership," stated Ben Pensive, the head of US supported IntelCenter, a group tasked with monitoring militant websites worldwide. "Al-Sahab, al-Qaeda's media and PR wing, has become quite sophisticated with it's video editing and marketing skills. We were surprised at how well al-Qaeda has been able to maintain what appears to be a growing trend in female suicide bombers, and now , perhaps, we have some answers as to how they've accomplished this." The DVD was made public simultaneously just yesterday on thousands of jihadist websites worldwide, and is offered for the price of €29.95. The advertisement claims that the price, including shipping and handling, would be waived for anyone signing up for a 1 year tour of duty and subsequent training in the mountains of Pakistan. The validity of the disk is currently being assessed by the CIA, and initial analysis suggests that this is indeed the work of the elusive and now buff terrorist mastermind. The video apparently highlights lighter moments and frivolity from the front lines of al-Qaeda's war on the US. It is predominantly composed of scenes calculated to attract young Muslim women, including a controversial mud-hut wrestling party. At the conclusion of the video, bin Laden issues a chilling death threat aimed specifically at Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Frances. In the rambling condemnation, bin Laden accuses Frances of disrespect for women worldwide, and cautions his Girls Gone Wild franchise against further searches through their archives in an attempt to find a rumored lesbian encounter between recently revealed prostitute Ashley Alexandra Dupre and his own niece, Wafah Dufour, which reportedly occurred two years ago.

Hijab

Hijab wearers blame crime, not clothes

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Urfa Masood and Tasneem Chopra of the Fitzroy-based Islamic Women's Welfare Council call comments linking the hijab to sexual attacks 'abhorrent'.

A SENIOR Muslim leader's suggestion that women who failed to wear the hijab were "inviting" sexual attacks was "abhorrent" and grounds for his resignation, representatives of Muslim women say.

Urfa Masood, 28, vice-chairwoman of the Fitzroy-based Islamic Women's Welfare Council of Victoria, said she backed yesterday's call by the Islamic Council of Victoria for Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali to resign his position.

Ms Masood said: "I was appalled by the comment. Sexual violence is a terrible crime to be inflicted on a woman and to blame it on the woman is just not an acceptable attitude."

Like the council's chairwoman Tasneem Chopra, Ms Masood was wearing a hijab and said the cleric's suggestion that it was a protection against rape was "rubbish".

"I don't think any of us put on the hijab saying 'now I am going to be safe, no one will rape me'. It is simple a matter of taste.

"Sexual violence knows no ethnic, no race, no religious bounds," Ms Masood said.

Ms Chopra said the sheikh's linking of the hijab to protection against sexual crimes was "totally disingenuous in that he completely ignored the incidents of sexual violence perpetrated from within the Muslim community". She said all women are susceptible to sexual violence in their homes.

"The attire of women is not the issue. It is the criminal behaviour and inclination of men who perpetrate those crimes that is the issue at large." Ms Chopra said she was heartened that at a time when the sheikh's comments could have driven a wedge between the Muslim and the wider community, they had been strongly rebuffed by the vast majority of Muslim commentators, both men and women.

"The average Muslim realises that these are not comments that represents Islam, and certainly don't represent Muslim Australia," she said.