The H-Files, 2nd installment cont.
CONTINUED from the 1389 Counterjihad blog -- the second installment of "The H-Files":
Since 1992 the GIA have been linked to terrorist attacks throughout Europe, with a particular disdain for France, the country's former colonial ruler and a major supporter of the present regime.
Since announcing its campaign against foreigners within Algeria in 1993, the GIA has killed more than an hundred expatriates in the country.
The GIA is probably most associated with the hijacking of an Air France flight to Algiers in December 1994.
The GIA is listed on the United States' roster of foreign terrorist groups.
Algerian expatriates, many of whom reside in Western Europe, provide both financial and logistic support. Furthermore the Algerian government has accused Iran and Sudan of supporting Algerian extremists.
Some experts say that GIA leaders may have had contact with Osama bin Laden while fighting in the 1979-89 Afghan war. Bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network does include some Algerians.
European authorities have arrested Algerian militants suspected of being al-Qaeda operatives plotting attacks on European cities.
http://www.iifhr.com/Research/Terrorism%20Program/Groupes%20Islamistes%20Armees.htm
For almost three decades, women have been a particular target of fundamentalist violence and oppression; in recent years, the fundamentalist's attacks have amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity, directed against women and the civilian population.
In the case of Algeria, the fundamentalist insurgency -- dedicated to implementing the institutionalization of extreme discrimination against women -- a form of gender-apartheid -- presents one the greatest "difficulties affecting the degree of fulfillment" of gender equality.
Because of the traditional and slow-to-change state-centered approach of the international human rights community and the tendency (at least before the Taliban took power in Afghanistan) to see the violations of women's human rights as mere "private" or "cultural" matters, the international community has largely ignored the fundamentalist campaign of violence and atrocities.
In particular, fundamentalists attacked feminist activists, female university students, women workers in state owned factories, and single women living without a male relative which qualifies under the law as a guardian (¡walii). In the late 1980's, arson attacks against single women resulted in the death of a child.
In 1984, the fundamentalist scored a substantial political victory in pressuring the State to enact a highly regressive family code which essentially treats women as minors
The Islamic fundamentalist group FIS sought to impose discrimination amounting to gender-apartheid through both legal means and through threats of force. They decreed, for example, the separation of boys and girls in the schools, men and women on buses, and in some workplaces.
the fundamentalists formed additional armed groups, such as the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which systematically attacked civilians asa method of war, in particular women who deviated from their religiously prescribed roles.
The first group of civilians assassinated, raped, and otherwise tortured by the armed groups were female relatives of members of the security forces, police, and government. In 1993, the fundamentalists then began to assassinate and threaten feminists, journalists, artists, foreigners, intellectuals, other professionals and any visible member of civil society who represented an alternative vision to the FIS ideology.
The armed groups also regularly abducted young women from the streets, neighborhoods and houses and held them in camps as sexual and domestic slaves (called mutaa marriages).
The fundamentalists posted communiqués promising death to ordinary women who did not follow their dictates --such as unveiled women, hairdressers, working women and single women. In a number of cases, they carried out these threats.
* * *
The armed Islamist groups of Algeria also regularly abducted young women from the streets, neighborhoods and houses and held them in camps as sexual and domestic slaves (called mutaa marriages).
The fundamentalists posted communiqués promising death to ordinary women who did not follow their dictates --such as unveiled women, hairdressers, working women and single women. In a number of cases, they carried out these threats.
In 1994-1995, the attacks on civilians became even more indiscriminate. The armed groups bombed public places causing unprecedented casualties. In 1997, particularly in connection with Ramadan, they began to massacre whole villages, resulting in large numbers of casualties, disproportionately women and children.
In the 1970's Islamists in universities attacked students who supported a non-islamists agenda -- in particular women who refused to abide by the islamists' notion of their proper role and behavior. Specifically, women students were attacked for their political activism and their forms of dress. Such attacks included throwing acid on female students
The attack on women received broader attention when, in late 1989, islamists staged campaigns against and burned down the homes of women who were not living with a male relative.
The example of one case:
on June 5th, 1989, the local authority of the town received a petition, with 197 signatures, calling for their neighborhood to be cleared of the presence of three women who were considered to have “inappropriate” lifestyles. They threatened these women. They mobilized groups of young boys to harass the women daily. When these 'undesirables' did not leave the community, a group of ten men decided to take action. On June 21, 1989 during the night, they decided that fire was the only way to 'purify' the neighborhood ....
"Oum Ali" was a 34 year old woman, recently divorced, living alone with seven children. Abandoned by her husband before the divorce, illiterate, and without a job, she was the poorest of the poor, because under Islamic Law Family Code 52, neither she nor her children are protected - they do not receive any financial support ....
The fundamentalists accused her of prostitution, they accused her of making the neighborhood impure, of affecting the morality and the religiousness of the Muslims, and the spiritual health of the town...
In the middle of the night on June 22, 1989, the fundamentalists burned her house down, and her handicapped three year old died in the fire.
Thirteen men were arrested and the fundamentalists demonstrated in favor of the men. They did not deny the crime, but felt it was justified.
.
.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5531
Norman Golb
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-klinghoffer121902.asp
Since 1992 the GIA have been linked to terrorist attacks throughout Europe, with a particular disdain for France, the country's former colonial ruler and a major supporter of the present regime.
Since announcing its campaign against foreigners within Algeria in 1993, the GIA has killed more than an hundred expatriates in the country.
The GIA is probably most associated with the hijacking of an Air France flight to Algiers in December 1994.
The GIA is listed on the United States' roster of foreign terrorist groups.
Algerian expatriates, many of whom reside in Western Europe, provide both financial and logistic support. Furthermore the Algerian government has accused Iran and Sudan of supporting Algerian extremists.
Some experts say that GIA leaders may have had contact with Osama bin Laden while fighting in the 1979-89 Afghan war. Bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network does include some Algerians.
European authorities have arrested Algerian militants suspected of being al-Qaeda operatives plotting attacks on European cities.
http://www.iifhr.com/Research/Terrorism%20Program/Groupes%20Islamistes%20Armees.htm
For almost three decades, women have been a particular target of fundamentalist violence and oppression; in recent years, the fundamentalist's attacks have amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity, directed against women and the civilian population.
In the case of Algeria, the fundamentalist insurgency -- dedicated to implementing the institutionalization of extreme discrimination against women -- a form of gender-apartheid -- presents one the greatest "difficulties affecting the degree of fulfillment" of gender equality.
Because of the traditional and slow-to-change state-centered approach of the international human rights community and the tendency (at least before the Taliban took power in Afghanistan) to see the violations of women's human rights as mere "private" or "cultural" matters, the international community has largely ignored the fundamentalist campaign of violence and atrocities.
In particular, fundamentalists attacked feminist activists, female university students, women workers in state owned factories, and single women living without a male relative which qualifies under the law as a guardian (¡walii). In the late 1980's, arson attacks against single women resulted in the death of a child.
In 1984, the fundamentalist scored a substantial political victory in pressuring the State to enact a highly regressive family code which essentially treats women as minors
The Islamic fundamentalist group FIS sought to impose discrimination amounting to gender-apartheid through both legal means and through threats of force. They decreed, for example, the separation of boys and girls in the schools, men and women on buses, and in some workplaces.
the fundamentalists formed additional armed groups, such as the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which systematically attacked civilians asa method of war, in particular women who deviated from their religiously prescribed roles.
The first group of civilians assassinated, raped, and otherwise tortured by the armed groups were female relatives of members of the security forces, police, and government. In 1993, the fundamentalists then began to assassinate and threaten feminists, journalists, artists, foreigners, intellectuals, other professionals and any visible member of civil society who represented an alternative vision to the FIS ideology.
The armed groups also regularly abducted young women from the streets, neighborhoods and houses and held them in camps as sexual and domestic slaves (called mutaa marriages).
The fundamentalists posted communiqués promising death to ordinary women who did not follow their dictates --such as unveiled women, hairdressers, working women and single women. In a number of cases, they carried out these threats.
* * *
The armed Islamist groups of Algeria also regularly abducted young women from the streets, neighborhoods and houses and held them in camps as sexual and domestic slaves (called mutaa marriages).
The fundamentalists posted communiqués promising death to ordinary women who did not follow their dictates --such as unveiled women, hairdressers, working women and single women. In a number of cases, they carried out these threats.
In 1994-1995, the attacks on civilians became even more indiscriminate. The armed groups bombed public places causing unprecedented casualties. In 1997, particularly in connection with Ramadan, they began to massacre whole villages, resulting in large numbers of casualties, disproportionately women and children.
In the 1970's Islamists in universities attacked students who supported a non-islamists agenda -- in particular women who refused to abide by the islamists' notion of their proper role and behavior. Specifically, women students were attacked for their political activism and their forms of dress. Such attacks included throwing acid on female students
The attack on women received broader attention when, in late 1989, islamists staged campaigns against and burned down the homes of women who were not living with a male relative.
The example of one case:
on June 5th, 1989, the local authority of the town received a petition, with 197 signatures, calling for their neighborhood to be cleared of the presence of three women who were considered to have “inappropriate” lifestyles. They threatened these women. They mobilized groups of young boys to harass the women daily. When these 'undesirables' did not leave the community, a group of ten men decided to take action. On June 21, 1989 during the night, they decided that fire was the only way to 'purify' the neighborhood ....
"Oum Ali" was a 34 year old woman, recently divorced, living alone with seven children. Abandoned by her husband before the divorce, illiterate, and without a job, she was the poorest of the poor, because under Islamic Law Family Code 52, neither she nor her children are protected - they do not receive any financial support ....
The fundamentalists accused her of prostitution, they accused her of making the neighborhood impure, of affecting the morality and the religiousness of the Muslims, and the spiritual health of the town...
In the middle of the night on June 22, 1989, the fundamentalists burned her house down, and her handicapped three year old died in the fire.
Thirteen men were arrested and the fundamentalists demonstrated in favor of the men. They did not deny the crime, but felt it was justified.
.
.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5531
Norman Golb
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-klinghoffer121902.asp
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