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According to a Divehi language report by Niumatolla Idris in the
Maldives’ biggest newspaper
Haveeru,
there is a Maldive connection to the recent Islamic assault on the
Indian city of Mumbai.
Haveeru refers to Indian intelligence
services and an article by Parveen Swami in the Indian magazine
Frontline
as its sources.
A senior Lashkar-e-Toiba operative, Faisal Haroun planned
to smuggle arms into India with the help of Malé-based
Maldive citizen Ali al-Shaam, the report added. Haveeru
does not make it clear if Ali al-Shaam is a native Maldivian,
a naturalised Islamic terrorist of foreign descent or simply someone
given a Maldive passport of convenience. Despite its claim to
being a one hundred percent Muslim country, the Maldives has so
far avoided being identified with other Islamic terror-sponsoring
countries. For that reason, Maldive passport holders do not face
terrorism profiling when visiting non-Islamic countries.
It was also reported that al-Shaam collaborated with Haroun on
acquiring an arms storage facility on an uninhabited island in
the Maldive archipelago. There are close to a thousand such islands
with easy boat access to major Indian ports. The Maldives’
closest neighbours are India in the north and the British Indian
Ocean Territory (BIOT) in the south. Diego Garcia, the site of
a top secret United States military facility is in BIOT.
A Maldive national, Ibrahim Fauzi, was one of the Islamic terror
suspects captured in Pakistan and detained in Guantanamo Bay.
Islamic terrorists have been infiltrating Maldive mosques, urban
areas and villages since late 1978. They have managed to force
nearly four in every ten Maldive women into the Islamic burugaa
veil in a climate that averages at 30 degree Celsius heat and
95 percent humidity. Up until now Maldive women took pride in
their patriotism and did not give in to the burugaa, which is
seen as a foreign piece of apparel.
Currently there are some Maldive islands that are outside the
administrative control of the Maldive authorities. The inhabitants
of these islands have pledged allegiance to the cause of worldwide
jihad instead of the Maldive republic. They are committed to killing
non-Muslims and the establishment of the Islamic caliphate everywhere
in the world. An armed standoff with government police on one
of those islands, Himendhoo in Ari Atoll some months ago resulted
in arrests but the offenders were let of lightly by the former
Gayoom dictatorship, at the behest of brotherly Islamic countries.
During Ramadan 2007, Islamic terrorists detonated a bomb in a
park in Malé outside the city’s main mosque. Although
there were no casualties, it was aimed at killing non-Muslim tourists,
some of whom were seriously injured. The bombing coincided with
the anniversary of the Battle of Badr, one of Mohamed’s
early assaults on the non-Muslims of his own tribe in Mecca. The
main perpetrators of the bombing were allowed to flee the Maldives
to Pakistan and those who were apprehended were let off lightly.
In August the Maldives ratified a new constitution which, the
world is persuaded to believe, is democratic. Maldives international
human rights commitments are not fully addressed in this constitution.
It disenfranchised and denaturalised non-Muslim Maldivians for
the first time. Not a single member of parliament cast a dissenting
vote against that particular constitutional clause, including
members of the currently ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP).
One of the first acts of the new MDP-led government that assumed
office in November was to block web access to Christian web sites.
According to a report by Ibrahim Mohamed in Minivan
News, a Divehi language Christian web site www.sidahitun.com
is the main target of this censorship.