Late last year, soon after the earthquake in PoK and Kashmir, I wrote an article about my fears that funds being generated for earthquake relief will find their way into “jihadi coffers”.
I offered a mass of evidence to support this and concluded that:

If nothing else, these amounts would ensure that the Lashkar will continue to operate on its own for at least several years (possibly a decade). There is also the possibility that the Lashkar will �inflate� its looses to attract more funding from the Islamic charities and the Gulf …

Came across this yesterday:
7 Myths About Islam By Timothy R. Furnish http://hnn.us/articles/16536.html
Dr Furnish is an Assistant Professor specializing in Islamic History and the author of �Holiest Wars�: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden (Praeger, 2005).��
Some excerpts:
One of the few positive effects of 9/11 has been renewed American interest in Islam and the Middle East. Unfortunately, much of the information disseminated in the media about those topics is ignorant and misleading�.There are in particular seven myths about Islam and Islamic history that have been repeated so often in the …

I belong to a generation�brought up to believe that there was no more authoritative source of news in the world than the BBC.
As a student and for many years later, I cultivated a habit of listening to BBC – later watching it on TV and then migrating online -�depending on its news-site for coverage of international news and important events.
Like hundreds of other concerned and politically-conscious Indians, I picked up this news report��on 2nd August about�Tony Blair’s speech in Los Angeles talkin of the “Arc of Extremism”. It resonated very …

I wish… ��:-(
Reality is that even if we have the proof, the leadership does not have the guts to actually do something about it..
Things have come to such a pass that the Home Minister actually admits the government’s inability to stop SIMI from its subversive and terrorist activities since Law and Order is a “state subject”!
In the meantime, the “peace process” continues as Shri Saran meets his Pakistani counterpart� in Dhaka. Have we lost all sense of shame and outrage?
Sometimes, it actually feels that we are all�watching “Bharat Mata” being …

I missed the most important bit:
Blair links Kashmir crisis to Islamic extremism
RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL
LONDON: A furious political row has erupted over British PM Tony Blair\’s decision to link the Kashmir dispute and Chechen fighting with the conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and West Asia — which he described as part of an over-arching “arc of (Muslim) extremism” across the world.
Just hours after he called for the West to totally rethink its strategy on the war on terror, Blair’s critics said it was wrong to link regional territorial disputes such as Kashmir …

Just picked this rediff report.�It suggests that a large part of financing for LeT and Jaish etc comes from UK. The amounts are in several millions of pounds (one report says upto $15m).
 
To anyone who has been/lived in UK, this would not be news. Yesterday’s Sunday Times reports how videos urging Muslims to kill all infidels are circulating in Britain (“Videos of hate flout curbs on Islamists“).
 
 

Came across this extraordinary article yesterday by someone called K Sidharth in which he says:�
�It cannot be excluded that yesterday�s atrocity in Mumbai was organized or facilitated by agents provocateurs working for one of India�s intelligence agencies.� (sic)�
Unfortunately (or fortunately?), I did not copy it in full and the article has since been yanked from the main site (Error 404). �
Note to myself � next time I see something like this, copy and paste the article in full.�
If anyone reading this has seen the article elsewhere, please email …

A robust analysis that highlights�the role of SIMI in these attacks
Date:12/07/2006
A tragedy foretold
Praveen Swami

It could take months to identify the perpetrators of the Mumbai bombings, but the recent past holds some clues.

TUESDAY’S MURDEROUS terror bombing in Mumbai was a tragedy foretold. A least half-a-dozen Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat ul-Jihad Islami cells planning major operations in western India had been interdicted since January: one, sooner or later, was certain to penetrate India’s police and intelligence defences.
Investigators have already begun work that could led them to the perpetrators of the single …

Very well written:
On terrorism and Islam
By MICHAEL COREN

Golly, am I relieved. Because until I heard the various statements from assorted politicians, journalists, police chiefs and religious leaders, I assumed that the 17 Muslim men arrested last weekend for alleged connection with acts of murderous terrorism might in some way have been inspired by Islam.
But no. Apparently Islam has nothing at all to do with it and all religions are made up of good and bad people and produce their own share of extremists. In fact, according to those who shape …

An extremely well-articulated article by Diana West, writing in the Op-Ed section of the Washington Times on how the US’ reluctance to call the “War on Terror” for what it really is – “War against Islamic Terror” can have serious long-term consequences.
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A war that isn’t
By Diana West
Published June 16, 2006
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Discussing the war on “terror” has been endlessly awkward. Terror � like blitzkrieg, sneak attack or even disinformation � is a tactic not an enemy. But in our politically correct era, we dwell on the tactic, never defining the enemy. Drop …