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Kirmukarmu kirjoitti: Su Elo 14, 2022 11:47 pmHyvällä lykyllä tosiaan, jopa mahdolliset yllyttäjät saavat elinkautiset.

"EI OLE TEMPPU eikä mikään kannattaa sellaisen sananvapautta, jonka kanssa olet samaa mieltä tai jonka mielipiteitä pidät yhdentekevinä. Sananvapauden puolustaminen alkaa siitä, kun ihmiset sanovat jotakin mielestäsi sietämätöntä."

Suunnilleen näin kuuluu yksi maailmankuulun kirjailijan Salman Rushdien lukuisista sananvapautta koskevista lainauksista.

Se kiteyttää sananvapauden olennaisen idean ja ihanteen:

Jokaiselle ihmiselle kuuluu vapaus omiin mielipiteisiin, mukaan luettuna oikeus olla muiden kanssa eri mieltä – ja oikeus sanoa omat mielipiteensä ääneen.

SANANVAPAUS on vuosikymmenten ajan ollut Rushdielle itselleen sananmukaisesti elämän ja kuoleman kysymys, sillä Iranin uskonnollinen valtiojohto langetti hänelle 1980-luvun lopulla kuolemantuomion tulkittuaan romaanin Saatanalliset säkeet jumalanpilkaksi.

Julma ja järjetön kuolemantuomio oli perjantaina hilkulla täyttyä, kun häikäilemätön puukkomies hyökkäsi Rushdien kimppuun luentotilaisuudessa Yhdysvalloissa.

Puukottaja haavoitti kirjailijaa vakavasti, mutta samalla tapaus muistuttaa äärimmäisellä tavalla myös sananvapauden herkästä haavoittuvuudesta – ja sanojen ja tekojen erosta.


Vaikka Rushdien kiistelty ja kiitelty romaani ärsytti eniten jyrkän linjan muslimeja, ja vaikka perjantaisella puukottajalla on lehtitietojen mukaan yhteyksiä ääri-islamiin, sananvapaus on alati uhattuna muuallakin kuin muslimimaailmassa.

Sananvapauden ja muiden yhteiskunnallisten vapauksien tilaa eri maissa arvioiva yhdysvaltalainen Freedom House -tutkimuslaitos luokittelee vain kolme maata maailmassa täysin vapaiksi.

Suomi, Ruotsi ja Norja ovat laitoksen mukaan sataprosenttisin tasapistein maailman kolme vapainta maata, joissa kansalaisten vapaudet toteutuvat laajemmin kuin missään muualla.

VAPAUDEN MITTARIT ovat kuitenkin suhteellisia, ja maiden välisessä vertailussa vapaimpien maiden vähemmistö näyttää sitä vapaammalta mitä kattavammin ja mitä kovemmin ottein Kiinan, Venäjän, Afganistanin ja vaikkapa Iranin kaltaiset maat rajoittavat omien kansalaistensa vapauksia.

Freedom Housen vapausarvioiden perusteella yli puolet maapallon väestöstä elää maissa, joissa sananvapaus ja muut kansalaisvapaudet toteutuvat vain osittain tai eivät lainkaan.

Vaikka Suomi on maailman ahdasmielisiin ja mielivaltaisiin komentomaihin verrattuna poikkeuksellisen vapaa yhteiskunta, ei meilläkään ole aihetta tai varaa luulla vapauksiamme itsestään selviksi.

Sananvapautta on meilläkin syytä kaiken aikaa vaalia, sillä mielipiteen ja sanomisen vapaus on vapaan yhteiskunnan perusta. Jos se pettää, tilalle tulee tyrannia – niin kuin Salman Rushdie on varoittanut.

sikakoira kirjoitti: Ma Elo 15, 2022 12:56 am https://www.is.fi/paakirjoitus/art-2000009003458.html
Pääkirjoitus: Sananvapautta on Suomessakin alati vaalittava

"EI OLE TEMPPU eikä mikään kannattaa sellaisen sananvapautta, jonka kanssa olet samaa mieltä tai jonka mielipiteitä pidät yhdentekevinä. Sananvapauden puolustaminen alkaa siitä, kun ihmiset sanovat jotakin mielestäsi sietämätöntä."

Suunnilleen näin kuuluu yksi maailmankuulun kirjailijan Salman Rushdien lukuisista sananvapautta koskevista lainauksista.

Se kiteyttää sananvapauden olennaisen idean ja ihanteen:

Jokaiselle ihmiselle kuuluu vapaus omiin mielipiteisiin, mukaan luettuna oikeus olla muiden kanssa eri mieltä – ja oikeus sanoa omat mielipiteensä ääneen...

Tästä onkin sitten hyvä pitää pieni hiljainen hetki ja muistella vaikkapa Ilja Janitskinia taikka niitä muita lukuisia "vääriä aatteita" kannattavia henkilöitä joita on viimevuodet vainottu.

Iltalehti kirjoitti:J.K. Rowling sai hyytävän uhkauksen Twitterissä – Twitterin mielestä uhkaus ei rikkonut sääntöjä, poliisi tutkii

Twitterin alkuperäisen vastauksen mukaan J.K. Rowlingin henkeä uhannut viesti ei rikkonut yhteisösääntöjä. Uhkailijan tili on sittemmin jäädytetty.

Atte Lehtonen
Tänään klo 1:14

Kirjailija J.K. Rowling on saanut tappouhkauksen Irania tukevalta islamistilta Twitterissä sen jälkeen, kun Rowling osoittanut tukensa puukotetulle Salman Rushdielle. Twitter ei alun perin suostunut toimenpiteisiin uhkauksesta, sillä sen mukaan islamistin viesti ei rikkonut yhteisösääntöjä.

Rowling oli kauhistellut Rushdien puukotusta Twitterissä ennen uhkausta.

– Kauhistuttava uutinen. Voin todella pahoin. Anna hänen olla kunnossa, Rowling twiittasi.

Kommenttikentässä islamilaisen ääriliikkeen jäsen Meer Asif Aziz jätti Harry Potter -kirjailijalle hyytävän viestin: ”Älä huoli, sinä olet seuraava.”

Kotipaikakseen Pakistanin Karachin ilmoittanut Aziz kuvaili itseään Twitterissä opiskelijaksi ja aktivistiksi. Muissa yhteyksissä hän on antanut tukensa Rushdien puukottajalle ja toivonut tuhoa Israelille.

Rowling ilmiantoi Azizin uhkauksen Twitterin ylläpidolle, josta kuitenkin vastattiin, ettei Aziz rikkonut sääntöjä.

– Tarkistettuamme saatavilla olevat tiedot, tulimme tulokseen, että ilmoittamasi sisältö ei rikkonut Twitterin sääntöjä. Arvostamme apuasi ja rohkaisemme sinua ottamaan yhteyttä uudelleen, jos havaitset mahdollisia sääntörikkeitä, Rowlingin jakamassa Twitterin vastauksessa sanotaan.

Skloddi kirjoitti: Ma Elo 15, 2022 1:14 am Kuten asianajaja Lois Tompros salaliittoteoreetikko Alex Jonesin miljoonaoikeudenkäynnissä vastikään osuvasti sanoi: "The basic idea … is that speech is free, but lies you have to pay for" eli vapaasti suomentaen "sana on vapaa, mutta valehtelusta tulee maksaa".

Pätee niin edesmenneeseen Janitskiin kuin kaikkiin muihinkin valheiden levittelijöihin - myös Suomessa.

VonBiden kirjoitti: Su Elo 14, 2022 11:08 pm Käsittääkseni tuo Fatwa on peruttu jo 10vuotta sitten

Fatwa never rescinded
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The bounty over Mr Rushdie's head remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62532200

While fatwas can be revised or revoked, Iran's current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who took over after Khomeini has never done so.

“The decision made about Salman Rushdie is still valid,” Khamenei said in 1989. “As I have already said, this is a bullet for which there is a target. It has been shot. It will one day sooner or later hit the target.”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... t-88332346

But hopes of Iran lifting the fatwa proved over-optimistic. Bounties on his head offered by various religious groups topped £5 million, and in 2005, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s current Supreme Leader, confirmed that the fatwa remained in place.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... issued-33/

Ali Khamenei, who succeeded Khomeini as supreme leader in 1989, has repeatedly reaffirmed the fatwa. In 2017, for example, he was asked: “Is the fatwa on the apostasy of the cursed liar Salman Rushdie still in effect?” His response: “The decree is as Imam Khomeini issued.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... il-regime/

Khomeini issued the original 1989 fatwa, or religious edict, because he considered Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses, blasphemous. The Ayatollah died four months later. According to the New York Times, former president Mohammad Khatami declared in 1998 that the fatwa had ended. But this was challenged by religious authorities at the time who argued that it could only be rescinded by an Ayatollah. In 2005, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who succeeded Ruhollah Khomeini, confirmed the opinion of the religious authorities. The edict against Rushdie was and continues to be valid.
https://daily.jstor.org/was-the-fatwa-a ... hdie-real/

Because a fatwa is only an opinion, Khomeini's fatwa was countered by that of the mufti (official expounder of Islamic law) of the Sunnis, Dr. Tantawi, the Grand sheikh of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the citadel of Islamic learning. Tantawi agreed that publication of The Satanic Verses constituted blasphemy and apostasy — it was ‘lies and figments of the imagination’ about Islam . . . [and] insulting distortions of Islamic history. But Tantawi disagreed with Khomeini’s interpretation of the law regarding repentance and held that the death sentence could be annulled. Most importantly, he asserted that no Muslim could be sentenced without the due process of a full and fair trial, the purpose of which would be to establish Rushdie’s intentions in writing the book.

Furthermore, very serious jurisdictional issues undermined the validity of the Khomeini fatwa. Islam distinguishes between the dar-al-Islam, the countries of Islam, and the dar-al-harb, the land outside of Islam. For Sunni Muslims, Islamic law is applicable within the dar-al-Islam but not outside of it; Shiite Muslims hold it is applicable outside. For Sunnis, Muslims who have emigrated outside the dar-al-Islam are considered to have withdrawn from the force and protection of sharia. According to the Al-Azhar opinion, sharia law is simply inapplicable to Muslims like Rushdie who have emigrated to non-Muslim countries. Thus, Khomeini was going beyond his appropriate role as legal commentator and, in acting as a judge, he was ultra vires.

The Salman Rushdie Affair: Apostasy, Honor, and Freedom of Speech
M. M. Slaughter
Virginia Law Review Vol. 79, No. 1 (Feb., 1993), pp. 153-204
https://doi.org/10.2307/1073409
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1073409 (s. 175-177)

Although the authorities in all Muslim countries acknowledged the alleged blasphemy of The Satanic Verses, some did oppose Khomeini's edict. Not surprisingly, the Iraqi government felt no qualms about attacking it. President Saddam Hussein observed that "murder and incitement to murder is more harmful to Islam and Muslim than Salman Rushdie's tendentious and sinister book." The Egyptian foreign minister, 'Ismat 'Abd al-Majid, blamed Khomeini for creating the problem, and held that "Khomeini had no right to sentence Rushdie to death."

Several individual voices from the Arab countries also criticized Khomeini. In an act of singular bravery, Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in literature, called Khomeini's threat an act of "intellectual terrorism." Understandably, Muslims resident in the West felt freest to speak out. The chairman of the Imams and Mosque Council in Britain, Zaka Badawi, offered his own house as an asylum to Salman Rushdie.
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Note that the Iranian leaders speak of "the West," or "global arrogance," for they do not believe that British intelligence acted alone in putting Rushdie up to the job; as ever, it worked hand-in-glove with its big brother, the United States. An Iranian government statement referred to the book as a "provocative American deed" and called Rushdie "an inferior CIA agent." As the interior minister, Mohtashemi, put it, "the book's author is in England, but the real supporter is the United States."
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https://www.danielpipes.org/186/the-aya ... d-the-west

sikakoira kirjoitti: Ma Elo 15, 2022 12:56 am Tästä onkin sitten hyvä pitää pieni hiljainen hetki ja muistella vaikkapa Ilja Janitskinia taikka niitä muita lukuisia "vääriä aatteita" kannattavia henkilöitä joita on viimevuodet vainottu.

"Suudelkaamme sen käsiä, joka repi veitsellä Jumalan vihollisen kaulan" – Iranin tiedotusvälineet ilakoivat Rushdien puukotuksesta

Iran kiistää roolinsa kirjailija Salman Rushdiehen kohdistuneessa iskussa ja väittää kirjailijan olevan itse vastuussa, ylittäessään kirjoituksissaan islaminuskoa koskevan rajan, kertoo Guardian.
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Yhdysvaltain ulkoministeri Anthony Blinken sanoi sunnuntaisessa lausunnossaan syyttävänsä Irania väkivaltaan kannustamisesta Rushdieta kohtaan.

– Iranin valtiolliset instituutiot ovat yllyttäneet väkivaltaan Rushdieta vastaan sukupolvien ajan, ja valtioon sidoksissa olevat tiedotusvälineet iloitsivat hiljattain hänen murhayrityksestään, Blinken sanoi.

– Tämä on halveksittavaa, hän jatkoi.
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– Emme pidä tässä hyökkäyksessä ketään muuta, kuin Salman Rushdieta ja hänen kannattajiaan syyllisyyden ja jopa tuomitsemisen arvoisena, [Iranin ulkoministeriön tiedottaja Nasser] Kanaani sanoi viikoittaisessa lehdistötilaisuudessaan.

Kanaani sanoi Rushdien altistaneensa itsensä kansan vihalle ja raivolle loukkaamalla islamin pyhiä asioita ja ylittämällä yli 1,5 miljardin muslimin rajat.

Iranin tiedotusvälineet iloitsivat iskusta
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– Bravo tälle rohkealle ja velvollisuudentuntoiselle miehelle, joka hyökkäsi luopiota ja turmeltunutta Salman Rushdieta vastaan New Yorkissa, kirjoitettiin Iranilaisen lehden pääkirjoituksessa.

– Suudelkaamme sen käsiä, joka repi veitsellä Jumalan vihollisen kaulan, kirjoitus jatkui.
https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/suu ... ta/8488630

Ajatollah Khomeini 14.2.1989 kirjoitti: The author of The Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur'an, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Muslims to execute them wherever they find them.
https://www.danielpipes.org/186/the-aya ... d-the-west

Khomeini called on Muslims to act quickly against Rushdie and promised martyrdom to whoever carried out the sentence. The president of Iran, Seyyed 'Ali Khamene'i, characterized Khomeini's statement as "an irrevocable dictum."
https://www.danielpipes.org/186/the-aya ... d-the-west

"I would like to inform all the intrepid Muslims in the world that the author of the book entitled ‘Satanic Verses’ ... as well as those publishers who were aware of its contents, are hereby sentenced to death," Khomeini said in February 1989, according to Tehran Radio.

He added: "Whoever is killed doing this will be regarded as a martyr and will go directly to heaven."
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... t-88332346

Iran pelkää kirjailijan puukotuksen mahdollisia seurauksia mutta haluaa samalla salamurhata yhdysvaltalaisia huippu­poliitikkoja
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Iranin lausunnot eivät välttämättä ole luotettavia.
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”Vaikuttaa siltä, että puukottaja on vain [sic] radikalisoitunut fundamentalisti, joka kokee uskonnolliseksi velvollisuudekseen toteuttaa fatwa ja tappaa Rushdie”, [Helsingin yliopiston Lähi-idän tutkimuksen professori Hannu] Juusola arvioi.
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https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000009005078.html

However, the hardline Kayhan newspaper, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, wrote:

“A thousand bravos ... to the brave and dutiful person who attacked the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie in New York," adding, “The hand of the man who tore the neck of God's enemy must be kissed”.
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The Khorasan daily carried the headline: “Satan on the way to hell”.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/irans-har ... 022-08-13/

Distraught mother of alleged Iranian sympathizer accused of trying to murder Salman Rushdie says her son returned home as religious zealot after a month-long trip to the Middle East
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[Hadi] Matar was born in the US to Lebanese parents who emigrated from the southern border town of Yaroun, a stronghold of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah.

He grew up and went to school in Cudahy, California, before his mom divorced his father Hassan Matar in 2004, her ex-husband returning to the Middle East while she moved to New Jersey for a fresh start.

It was on a trip to Lebanon in 2018 to visit his father that Hadi changed from a popular, loving son to a moody introvert, according to Silvana [Fardos, the mother of Hadi Matar].

'The first hour he gets there he called me, he wanted to come back. He stayed for approximately 28 days but the trip did not go well with his father, he felt very alone,' she told DailyMail.com.

'I was expecting him to come back motivated, to complete school, to get his degree and a job. But instead he locked himself in the basement. He had changed a lot, he didn't say anything to me or his sisters for months.

'I couldn't tell you much about his life after that because he has isolated me since 2018. If I approach him sometimes he says hi, sometimes he just ignores me and walks away.

'He sleeps during the day and wakes and eats during the night. He lives in the basement. He cooks his own food.'

Silvana also detected that her son was becoming more religious and he would criticize her for not giving him a strict Muslim upbringing.

He barred her from entering his basement abode which is directly under the $700,000, four-bed home where she lives with his twin sisters, aged 14.

'One time he argued with me asking why I encouraged him to get an education instead of focusing on religion. He was angry that I did not introduce him to Islam from a young age,' Silvana added.

Matar was understood to be using a fake drivers license under the name Hassan Mughniyah when he committed the botched assassination.

The current leader of Hezbollah is named Hassan Nasrallah while one of its most notorious commanders was called Imad Mughniyeh. It listed his address as an apartment in West New York, New Jersey, but the unit's owner told DailyMail.com she had never heard of either Matar or Mughniyeh.

Matar never had a job, never had a girlfriend but did join a local boxing gym three months ago - before abruptly cancelling his membership last week.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tions.html

Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect ‘Had Contact With Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’

Intel officials told VICE World News Hadi Matar had been in contact with members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. There’s no evidence Iran was involved in organising the attack.

The 24-year-old man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie had been in direct contact with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on social media, European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials told VICE World News.

Hadi Matar has been charged with attempted murder after Rushdie, 75, was repeatedly stabbed on stage ahead of a speaking event in Chautauqua, New York, on Friday. On Sunday, Rushdie’s son Zafar Rushdie said that his father was in a critical condition and had sustained “life changing” injuries, but had been taken off a ventilator and had been able to speak.

A NATO counter-terrorism official from a European country said the stabbing had all the hallmarks of a “guided” attack, where an intelligence service talks a supporter into action, without direct support or involvement in the attack itself.

“Close scrutiny needs to be paid to his communications,” said the NATO official, who was not authorised to speak on the record. “More investigation will reveal more information on the exact nature of the links.”

There’s no evidence Iranian officials were involved in organising or orchestrating the attack upon Rushdie. Security officials who confirmed the social media contact would not elaborate on the nature of the communications because investigations are ongoing. They would not disclose who initiated the contact, when it took place, or what was discussed.

A Middle Eastern intelligence official said it was “clear” that at some point prior to the attack, Matar had been in contact with “people either directly involved with or adjacent to the Quds Force,” referring to the Revolutionary Guard’s external operations force.

“It’s unclear the extent of the involvement, if this was a directly supported assassination attempt or if it was a series of suggestions and directions in picking a target,” said the official, who could not speak on the record for diplomatic reasons.
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“A 24-year-old born in the United States did not come up with Salman Rushdie as a target on his own,” the Middle Eastern intelligence official said. “Even an avid consumer of Iranian propaganda would have some difficulty finding references to Rushdie compared to all the other, modern enemies, designated by the regime.”

Matar’s family hail from the South Lebanese town of Yaroun, an area deeply sympathetic to Iran and its local proxy Hezbollah.

There's no indication thus far that Matar had joined the group or received military training on visits to Lebanon. On Saturday, Hezbollah officials asked local journalists to stop visiting the village, according to local media reports.

“Most of the families in Yaroun support the resistance, there is no question of this relationship,” said a mid-level Hezbollah commander from a nearby village that cannot be named for security reasons. “But this boy has nothing to do with Hezbollah, we don’t know him and do not want to be drawn into international intrigues involving people we don’t know.”

A senior Lebanese security official said the US had requested additional information on the possibility of Matar’s travels to Lebanon in an effort to determine if he had received military training from Hezbollah, which maintains a powerful military training infrastructure in both Lebanon and neighbouring Syria.
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The Middle Eastern intelligence official said that a handful of Quds Force members taking the chance to inspire and direct an attack would not require high level approval from the Iranian regime, where the internal security forces from the Revolutionary Guard Corps and military intelligence are often open rivals, directed by political factions.

They said that since the death in 2008 of Imad Mughniyeh – a Hezbollah commander who directed external operations – there had been a “certain sloppiness” in Iranian and Hezbollah operations.

“There seems to be a process where individual members of various agencies plan and activate their own operations, like the recent Bolton thing, where Iranian guys are offering money to hitmen, acting like John Wick is a real thing,” the official said, referencing an indictment unsealed last week that accused a member of the Quds Force of attempting to pay $300,000 to assassins he believed worked for a Mexican drug cartel to target former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qxvz/ ... nary-guard

An American Terrorist
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In a later e-mail, [Dawud] Salahuddin insisted that there was nothing “murderous” in his killing of [Ali Akbar] Tabatabai. “It was an act of war,” he wrote, and a religious duty. “In Islamic religious terms, taking a life is sometimes sanctioned and even highly praised, and I thought that event was just such a time.” Some interpretations of Islamic law allow for killing when it is seen as a way to protect the Muslim community, and Salahuddin seems to have appropriated this view for his own ends. He was, by his own description, an “angry and alienated” African-American with “a good dose of rage with the American establishment.” He told me that if the opportunity to kill Tabatabai had not come along, he is sure that he would have done something else like it, or something on an even larger scale. “I was primed for violence, and I thought about cratering the White House a quarter century before Al Qaeda did,” he wrote to me. “It would be accurate to say that my biggest aspiration was to bring America to its knees, but I didn’t know how.”
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Sometime in the early seventies, Salahuddin began visiting high-security prisons and jails in Washington and its environs. His purpose, he said, was to bring the message of Islam to black inmates. The police suspect that these visits were part of a recruitment effort, possibly paid for by Iran. “The inmates got a twenty-five-cent tour of Islam, but the visits were to find recruits for political activities and violence,” a police source told me.
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In May of 1975, Salahuddin met Said Ramadan, an Egyptian lawyer and Islamic scholar, who was the guest speaker at a prayer service at the Islamic Center, a large mosque on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington. Ramadan, the founder and head of the Centre Islamique, in Geneva, had been living in exile in Switzerland since the nineteen-fifties. Salahuddin describes Ramadan, who was his adviser and spiritual guide until his death, in 1995, as “the international point man for the Muslim Brotherhood.” (The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, was, according to Salahuddin, the inspiration for almost every militant group in the Muslim world. Ramadan’s father-in-law was its founder.)
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The man who recruited him to kill Tabatabai, Salahuddin told me, was “someone in Washington” who was “passing along instructions” from the Iranian government. (...) Salahuddin said that he was given “a chunk of cash” (actually, five thousand dollars) and five weeks to get the job done.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002 ... -terrorist (July 28, 2002)

The list was originally published in a 2013 edition of Inspire, al-Qaeda's leading English-speaking magazine, under the heading "Wanted, dead or alive for crimes against Islam."

The updated list began surfacing on Twitter within hours of the Paris attack [2015], shared by Twitter accounts commonly used for al-Qaeda propaganda.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/charlie ... 2k97z.html

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author and activist
• Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist
• Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
• Carsten Juste, Danish journalist and former Jyllands-Posten editor
• Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
• Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (spelled Girt on the hit list)
• Terry Jones, US pastor
• Morris Sadek, US lawyer and activist (spelled Swadiq on the hit list)
• Molly Norris, US cartoonist

Later, the list was enlarged to include Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier and 11 additional victims of the Paris terror attack on Charlie Hebdo. Al-Qaeda called for additional deaths following the assault.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5986969/sa ... e-updates/