Australian Government to spend millions to fight spread of Wahhabism

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency , The Australian Government will be earmarking millions of dollars to check the spread of extremist Wahhabis who are far from Islamic thought but kill innocent people in the name of Islam. The measure comes as part of a Federal Budget package to boost national security.

The Federal Budget to be announced on Tuesday is especially significant as it comes in an election-year. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Government is focusing on strengthening national security to appease Australian citizens.

There has been heightened concern over the security issue following a deluge of asylum-seekers who manage to enter the country unintercepted.

In view of these concerns, the Government will announce “preventative” measures to counter the growth of radical terrorist cells across Australia, The Daily Telegraph reports.

The Government will implement its programmes carefully in order to avoid demonizing the Muslim community and the new measures will tackle potential spread of extremism in the nation’s jails, the paper said.

The Budget is expected to outline a national scheme, with religious classes and better contact between inmates and their families. This could minimize interactions that could potentially lead to the formation of radical Wahhabis caucuses, it added.

Wave of Iraq attacks kills many Shia Muslims

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency , An apparently co-ordinated series of attacks targeting security forces and a Shiite mosque in Iraq killed 31 people on Monday in the worst violence to hit the country in more than a fortnight.

The bloodshed began in Baghdad where shootings with automatic weapons against six police or army checkpoints in eastern and western sectors of the city accounted for seven of the dead, an interior ministry official said.

Two other policemen died in three bombings in south and west Baghdad.

“The attacks started at 6:30 am (0330 GMT) and ended around 8:00 am (0500 GMT),” the official said, noting that nearly all of the wounded were security personnel.

A double bomb attack near the mosque in Suwayrah, 60 kilometres (37 miles) southeast of the capital, killed 11 people and wounded 70, a police lieutenant told AFP.

There were also four bomb attacks on houses in and around the former Sunni insurgent bastion of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, three of which were owned by security officials. Police and a doctor at Fallujah hospital confirmed a total of four people had been killed and 11 injured in the attacks.

Seven other people were killed in separate attacks near the main northercity of Mosul, in Iskandiriyah south of Baghdad, and near Tarmiyah, north of the Iraqi capital.

Monday’s death toll was the highest since April 23, when 58 people were killed in series of bombings in Baghdad and western Iraq, days after the government said Al-Qaeda was on the run.

There were around 20 attacks in total on Monday.

Major General Qassim Atta, a security forces spokesman in Baghdad, said the attacks appeared to be coordinated

Wedding issue puts young generation into a sticky situation

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency , Arak, Iran — Hujjatul Islam mohsin qara’ti addressing to Friday congregational prayer of Arak told: due to severity of families on both sides, wedding issue has changed into a critical situation for our youth.

He while stating that education should not be an obstacle for right time wedding of boys and girls in the society he said: wedding is a necessary and more important than education and parents should not disallow their children from the marriage compulsorily.

Central province due to its strategic position and connection with Qom and Tehran is a very significant province and stands first in industry, agriculture, and productive land and its culture and science, Hujjatul Islam Qara’ti continued.

Worthy to note: nowadays, hujjatul Islam mohsin qara’ti travelled to central province to deliver his lectures about Quran.

Baghdad, Iraq — Ammar al-Hakeem, the leader of the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) bloc, met on Sunday with Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah at the al-Sayf Palace in the Kuwaiti capital city and discussed political developments in Iraq as well as bilateral relations.

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency , Baghdad, Iraq — Ammar al-Hakeem, the leader of the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) bloc, met on Sunday with Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah at the al-Sayf Palace in the Kuwaiti capital city and discussed political developments in Iraq as well as bilateral relations.

“During the meeting the two sides reviews current developments and future vistas as well as means to further bilateral relations to the interests of both the Kuwaiti and Iraqi peoples,” according to a statement published on Hakeem’s Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) web site as received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Hakeem had started a visit to neighboring Kuwait on Saturday (May 8).

His meeting with the Emir of Kuwait was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Mohammed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah and Minister of State for Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali al-Jarrah al-Sabah

OIC meeting in Turkey to discuss Israeli damages in holy city

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency, The second extraordinary meeting of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)-member states (PUOICM) will take place in Istanbul on Monday.

Turkey’s Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin will preside the meeting at Istanbul’s Conrad Hotel.

Sahin held bilateral talks with Yemeni Parliament Speaker Yahya al-Raee, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and Syrian Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Al Abrash in Istanbul on Sunday.

Parliament speakers from 14 countries, deputy parliament speakers from 6 countries and parliamentarians from 8 countries will be in attendance at the meeting.

Israel’s damaging the holy structure of Jerusalem by opening new settlement units will top the agenda of the meeting.

Parliament Speaker Sahin, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Parliamentary Union of the OIC Secretary-General Mahmut Erol Kilic and OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will make opening remarks of the meeting.

Established in 1969, OIC is an international organization with 57 member states from the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkans, and South America. The Parliamentary Union of the OIC member states was established in Iran in 1999 and its headquarters is situated in Tehran.

Shia Muslim cleric: Ireland under the attack of Al-Qaeda extremists

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency, EXTREMIST Wahhabis influenced by al-Qaeda are taking a hold in Ireland and some of these young adults are becoming influential in the country’s universities, the Muslim religious leader of a Dublin mosque has warned.

Imam Ali Al-Saleh, who runs the Shia mosque in Dublin’s Milltown, said fundamentalist Wahhabis who sympathise with al-Qaeda were living in Ireland and and that the recent arrest of a group of Wahhabis in Waterford and Limerick was proof of this.

“I think there is a problem with extremists in Ireland. Ireland is being used as a safe haven. We were not surprised over the arrests in relation to the plot in Sweden,” Dr Al-Saleh told the Sunday Tribune.

“Many extremist Wahhabis came to Ireland as asylum seekers. They are raising their children as extremists and these children have now grown into adults. There is now a problem in Ireland with extremists getting involved in university student societies. This is of concern.

These youths can be easily brainwashed. There are so many websites dedicated to extremism and so many speeches being made that influence these young people. It is a very hot atmosphere. We are warning people not to get involved.”

Dr Al-Saleh added that, as well as extremist Wahhabis who have been raised in Ireland, many middle-Eastern students are also arriving in Ireland to study.

“Al-Qaeda have used Ireland as a base. I think the most dangerous are the parents who raise their children as fanatical extremists. I have children in primary and high school. They tell me what they say about Osama bin Laden. They tell us their youth praise Osama bin Laden.”

“The reaction of extremists can be very harsh. There have been al-Qaeda leaders in Ireland – they have since been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Dr Al-Saleh said it was important to acknowledge Wahhabi extremism in Ireland but he is aware that some other imams do not agree with his views. “In Ireland we have this problem and we need to tackle it. By acknowledging it, I am defending Islam. To deny it is not accusing Islam, it is accusing extremists.”

Islam is now the second biggest faith in Ireland after Christianity with approximately 32,000 Muslims living here. Imam Ali Al-Selim, chairman of the Irish Council of Imams and head of the Sunni mosque in Dublin’s Clonskeagh, said he did not believe there was a problem with extremists Wahhabis in Ireland.

“We are an integrated part of Irish society here. Nothing has happened to show us there are radical Wahhabis who call themselves as Muslim in Ireland. We as Muslims condemn all violence whether it’s against Muslims or non-Muslims,” he said.

Wave of Iraq attacks kills many Shia Muslims

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Ahlul Bayt News Agency , An apparently co-ordinated series of attacks targeting security forces and a Shiite mosque in Iraq killed 31 people on Monday in the worst violence to hit the country in more than a fortnight.

The bloodshed began in Baghdad where shootings with automatic weapons against six police or army checkpoints in eastern and western sectors of the city accounted for seven of the dead, an interior ministry official said.

Two other policemen died in three bombings in south and west Baghdad.

“The attacks started at 6:30 am (0330 GMT) and ended around 8:00 am (0500 GMT),” the official said, noting that nearly all of the wounded were security personnel.

A double bomb attack near the mosque in Suwayrah, 60 kilometres (37 miles) southeast of the capital, killed 11 people and wounded 70, a police lieutenant told AFP.

There were also four bomb attacks on houses in and around the former Sunni insurgent bastion of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, three of which were owned by security officials. Police and a doctor at Fallujah hospital confirmed a total of four people had been killed and 11 injured in the attacks.

Seven other people were killed in separate attacks near the main northercity of Mosul, in Iskandiriyah south of Baghdad, and near Tarmiyah, north of the Iraqi capital.

Monday’s death toll was the highest since April 23, when 58 people were killed in series of bombings in Baghdad and western Iraq, days after the government said Al-Qaeda was on the run.

There were around 20 attacks in total on Monday.

Major General Qassim Atta, a security forces spokesman in Baghdad, said the attacks appeared to be coordinated.