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The Hindu thing - is that just because Islam has a 'border' with Hinduism in the east?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Muslims-told-challenge-jihadists-online/2007/09/12/1189276801480.html
Australian Muslims could go online and challenge those promoting violent jihad in a bid to tackle growing radicalisation, a new study suggests.
The study by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said Australia, like other western nations faced the problem of a rising number of young disaffected Muslims.
These young Muslims could be persuaded to adopt a militant and violent version of Islam and perhaps resort to terrorist attacks.
The study said Australian security authorities faced the difficult task of identifying self-radicalised cleanskins, individuals not on any police or security service watch list and with no links to known militant groups, but who identified with Islamism and proceeded rapidly to jihadist violence.
"Such leaderless subversion does not necessarily require meetings with other terrorist operatives or training at an overseas camp, but can take place via the internet or through access to a spiritual sanctioner," ASPI said.
To counter this threat other nations have developed a range of strategies aimed at identifying extremists, engaging with the Muslim community and encouraging its commitment to the wider community.
Australia, with a population of 340,000 Muslims, is also developing such policies.
Saudis not stopping terror: US official
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Saudis-not-stopping-terror-US-official/2007/09/12/1189276770085.html
Despite six years of promises, Saudi Arabia has failed to pursue wealthy individuals identified as sending millions of dollars to al-Qaeda, the US official in charge of tracking terror financing says.
"If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia," Stuart Levey, the under secretary of the Treasury, told American network ABC.
Also, there is an interesting article on the front page of edition 58 (can't find the direct link):
http://www.pf.uq.edu.au/prop-press.html
The author claims that contrary to the impression you get online, Oman has personal freedoms - far more than the author experienced in western countries merely a generation ago.
'Reward' for death of Swedish artist
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Reward-for-death-of-Swedish-artist/2007/09/16/1189881320035.html
Stakes were raised after a reward was posted for the death of a Swedish artist and editor of a newspaper that recently printed a caricature of Islam's Prophet Mohammed depicted as a dog.
The leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq, an insurgency group held responsible for several acts of violence, put a $US100,000 reward on the head of Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
"From this day on we call for spilling the blood of the cartoonist who dared to denigrate the prophet's position," said an audio statement carried by the Islamist al-Hesbah website on Saturday.
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