polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 11^th, 2014 at 8:31am:

What does it mean then, to have a PhD in Islamic studies from the Islamic university of Baghdad?
That he is a Foucauldian post-structuralist queer theorist or that he is a doctor of Islamic studies?

the fact that muslims will never tolerate the quran being altered because it is the divine word of God.

Claims Australians executed prisoners in WWI engagement

Thursday 11 September 2014

One hundred years ago today, Australians took part in one of the first engagements of World War One, the Battle of Bitapaka in Papua New Guinea. Now a recently discovered eyewitness account appears to confirm rumours of Australian soldiers executing prisoners there.

New claims have emerged about the execution of German and Papua New Guinean prisoners by Australian servicemen during Australia’s first WWI battle, which occurred on this day 100 years ago.

Six Australians, one German soldier, and 30 Papua New Guinean policemen were officially listed as killed when the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed near the town of Rabaul, in what was then German New Guinea on 11 September 1914.

The Australian forces were sent to New Guinea to destroy the German telegraph station at a place called Bitapaka.

For years, there have been rumours of executions by the Australians after the battle of Bitapaka, and now an old tape recording of a witness appears to confirm them.

The eye witness, an elder in the village of Kabakaul, said he saw the Australians come ashore, and he described the execution of two white men and a number of native police.

‘Then a big man of war said “fire” and they all died,’ said the man identified on the tape as Bob, speaking in the Tok Pisin language. ‘They shot all the men who were lined up on one side. Only one boy was alright, a young boy such as this, he ran away. So they all died and the trench they dug was full with dead bodies.’

The recording was made in the 1960s by a plantation owner Ian Purvis, who was living near Rabaul.

His wife Irene found the tapes when she was sorting through boxes after Purvis died.

‘He knew a lot about the history of the place and was interested in all these things and was keen to make some record of it,’ said Mrs Purvis.

‘The man he spoke to he referred to as Old Bob, and of course he was pretty old then, and I'm not sure of his age, but as a young boy he witnessed everything that went on.’

Old Bob, the elder from Kabakaul Village, describes seeing the Australian soldiers come ashore and march towards the German trenches on the Bitapaka Road.

During the battle, a German Sergeant Ritter was captured, but afterwards rallied some local police and resumed the fight, killing one Australian and wounding a number of others.

Official accounts say that Ritter was killed during that fight, but Bob, told Mr Purvis he was executed afterwards, along with the native police.

‘They tricked the German police boys,’ Bob told Ian Purvis in the interview, translated from Tok Pisin. ‘They said “there’s no more war” and asked them to come forward.’

‘The English stood on one side and they stood on the opposite side [with] the two white men that I spoke about before, a police officer and Mr Ritter. The two white men and all the police boys, the English shot them. Their bodies filled the hole; the two white men lay there with them. Later, they took the white men’s bodies to Rabaul, but the police boys remained there.’

Melbourne historian David Howell says he has heard reports that Sergeant Ritter and the police were executed for trying to continue the fight after surrendering.

‘I wasn't aware a second white person being killed by Bond, but that’s not to say it didn't happen. There is still plenty of research to be done on this subject.’

In all, six Australians are listed as being killed in the battle of Bitapaka on the 11th of September 1914: Able Seaman John Courtney, Able Seaman William Williams, Able Seaman Harry Street, Able Seaman Robert Moffatt, Lieutenant Commander Charles Elwell and Captain Brian Pockley. Three days later, on September 14, the Australian submarine AE1 vanished off Rabaul with the loss of all hands.

Officially, one German soldier and 30 native police are listed as being killed in the battle of Bitapaka.


http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/claims-of-australian-war-...

It is true that Islam permits, in some circumstances, executing enemy soldiers, but so too does the Geneva Conventions which the Australian Government is a signatory to.

Run out by themselves?
Did Mossad scare them out of Arab countries?

David Irving the other night would only confirm that its "10s" of Australians. So who knows where News ltd is getting their figures from. It is also incorrect to say (as some media have) that all 60/100/150 are fighting for ISIL. Most are fighting for ISIL enemies like Al Nusra.

Why should islam be any different? The majority of sunni scholars reject Baghdadi's version of islam and his declared caliphate - fact. Baghdadi therefore becomes relegated to the "loony fringe" category, and therefore laughed out of court - just like the holocaust deniers.

Nonsense Brian, FD's just asking the question - he means nothing by it.

Sometimes I question is just a question you know.

Just a tiny minority.

Palestinian Areas. A poll in 2011 showed that 32% of Palestinians supported the brutal murder of five Israeli family members, including a three-month-old baby. In 2009, a poll showed that 78% of Palestinians had positive or mixed feelings about Osama Bin Laden. A 2013 poll showed 40% of Palestinians supporting suicide bombings and attacks against civilians. 89% favored sharia law. Currently, 89% of Palestinians support terror attacks on Israel.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/04/myth-tiny-radical-minority

“Some 11,000,000 Muslims have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, or 0.3 percent, died during the sixty years of fighting Israel, or just 1 out of every 315 Muslim fatalities. In contrast, over 90 percent of the 11 million who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.”

http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/staggering-statistics-on-muslims-...

http://chromatism.net/bloodyborders/mapsumma.htm