tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38610635223437236102024-02-06T19:42:04.881-08:00Tulisan MurtadA collection of great writings from our Infidel and Apostate friends. Read my newspaper, <u><a href="http://paper.li/pulpark">The Pulp Ark Journal</a></u>, and my magazine <u><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/the-pulp-ark-gazette">The Pulp Ark Gazette</a></u>. Come check some nice books from my <u><a href="http://www.scribd.com/kapal_kertas">Scribd</a></u> library.kapal_kertashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15432602860740674586noreply@blogger.comBlogger631125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-6615061328457987772017-01-31T08:31:00.001-08:002017-01-31T08:31:54.970-08:00I’m a Muslim — Ask Me Anything<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/hugh-fitzgerald-im-a-muslim-ask-me-anything-answers-1-6">Hugh Fitzgerald</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/hugh-fitzgerald-im-a-muslim-ask-me-anything" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Last Friday I offered 38 questions</a> to ask those carrying signs proclaiming, “I’m A Muslim — Ask Me Anything.” Here are answers to the first six of those questions.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“M.I.” refers to the Muslim Interlocutor who has invited others to “Ask a Muslim” any questions they may have about Islam. Once the M.I. has answered (or tried, or refused, to), possible responses to him are given below, merely as a guide and not meant to be exhaustive:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What is the meaning of Jihad?</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Jihad” in Arabic means “struggle.” More specifically, it is the central duty of all Muslims, the “struggle” to spread Islam all over the globe until all Unbelievers either convert to Islam or accept the status of dhimmis and pay the Jizyah, or capitation tax. Jihad can take many forms, such as defending Islam from its critics, migrating to foreign soil for the purpose of propagating Islam, demographic conquest, and supporting its growth financially. a central duty of all Muslims. But Jihad’s main meaning involves violence. No <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">major Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrine of armed Jihad. Violent Jihad</strong> is founded on many verses in the Qur’an, but in the Ask-the-Muslim context, have at the ready to quote, especially, the Verse of the Sword: (9:5, “Then when the sacred months are past, slay the idolaters wherever you find them…”).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">M.I. will claim that the “real” meaning of Jihad is something like a “struggle within one’s soul</strong>” to become a better person, or “self-improvement.” He may offer that hadith where it is written that “Upon his return from battle Muhammad said, ‘We have returned from the lesser <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">jihad</em> to the greater <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">jihad’</em> (i.e. the struggle against the evil of one’s soul).” But this hadith is of doubtful authenticity. It does not appear in any of the six <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">sahih sittah</em> (“reliable collections”) of hadith. One Muslim authority speaks for all of them when he writes that “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">this hadith has no source, nobody whomsoever in the field of Islamic Knowledge has narrated it</strong>. Jihad against the disbelievers is the most noble of actions, and moreover it is the most important action for the sake of mankind.” And he concludes that the evidence used as proof that Jihad on the battlefield is Jihad Asghar (lesser Jihad) and Jihad against the desires and Shaitan is Jihad Akbar [greater jihad] are <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">weak if not false hadith</strong>. (Then urge onlookers, who will have been suitably impressed with your response, to google “Lesser Jihad” and “Greater Jihad” to find out more about this canard.)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why are Christians and Jews required to pay the Jizyah to Muslims?</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Jizyah” is the capitation or poll tax that non-Muslims must pay to the Muslim state in order to be allowed to stay alive and practice their faith. It is the main, but not the only disability, inflicted on those non-Muslims who are the ahl al-dhimma, the People of the Pact, or dhimmis. While your Muslim propagandist will argue that the “jizyah” is not now exacted everywhere, it remains a permanent part of Islamic doctrine (and is, in fact, collected in the Islamic State). Remind your listeners that some Muslims in the West, such as Anjem Choudary, gloating over the vast amounts of benefits Muslim immigrants receive, call these benefits “the Jihad seekers’ allowance.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why does it say in the Qur’an that Muslims should not take Christians and Jews as friends, for they are friends only with each other?</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here you hope that your Muslim interlocutor simply denies this passage’s existence altogether. You then quote in full Qur’an 5:51, which is at the ready on your smartphone or on notecards. And to get to the reason for 5:51 (and many other passages of similar import, as 3:28, 3:85, 3:118, 7:44, 9:23 could also be quoted), Muslims are in a state of permanent war – violent Jihad, but Jihad conducted by whatever means, including peaceful ones. To prevent any relapse into Unbelief, to keep the Jihad fervor up, they are taught to distrust, and distance themselves from, all non-Muslims, who are depicted as if in a conspiracy (“they are friends only with each other”) against Muslims. It makes no sense for the “best of peoples” (Qur’an 3:110) to become friends with the “vilest of creatures” (Qur’an 98:6).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">It says in the Qur’an that “there is no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2.256). If there is no compulsion in religion, then why are people who leave Islam threatened with death?</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The M.I. will have no answer to this, except possibly to claim what is being punished is not an apostate’s loss of belief but, rather, with that apostate’s proclaiming that turn to unbelief and thus harming Islam. The implication is that if an apostate does it quietly then there will be no punishment. But you can have ready 4:89: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“They wish that you should reject faith as they reject faith, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of God; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.”</em> 2:217, 9:73-74, 88:21, 5:54, 9:66 are ready examples from the Qur’an and Hadith that make no mention of an apostate only being killed if he makes public his apostasy. Have at the ready as well some of the hadith, as for example these:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sahih Bukhari (52:260) – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“…The Prophet said, ‘If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.’ “</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sahih Bukhari (83:37) – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Allah’s Apostle never killed anyone except in one of the following three situations: (1) A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) (2) a married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought against Allah and His Apostle and deserted Islam and became an apostate.”</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sahih Bukhari (84:57) – [In the words of]<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'”</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To which M.I. has NO reply.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why did the Ayatollah Khomeini lower the marriageable age of girls to 9?</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ayatollah Khomeini was a learned cleric, and he knew that Muhammad, the Perfect Man (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">al-insan al-kamil</em>) and Model of Conduct (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">uswa hasana</em>) had consummated his marriage to little Aisha when she was nine (she was betrothed to him at the age of six). What’s right for Muhammad is right for every Muslim, forever. Hence his eagerness to reduce the marriageable age to that of Aisha. Under the secularizing Shah, of course, the marriageable age of Iranian girls was 18 – for a good Muslim like the Ayatollah Khomeini, that was an abomination. Others, but possibly “not my Muslim friend here,” no doubt feel differently.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Again, NO reply.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What is the surest way for a Muslim to get to Heaven?</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The surest way to Jannah (Muslim Paradise) is by engaging in violent Jihad and dying as a “martyr” while fighting in the path of Allah.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Such people go directly to Paradise,</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Quran (8:15-16) – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“O ye who believe! when ye meet the Unbelievers in hostile array, never turn your backs to them. If any do turn his back to them on such a day – unless it be in a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop (of his own)- he draws on himself the wrath of Allah, and his abode is Hell,- an evil refuge (indeed)!”</em> Not only does Muhammad lay down the principle that a Muslim can serve time in Hell, but they may find themselves there for neglecting to kill unbelievers when directed to do so.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Quran (9:39) – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“If ye go not forth He will afflict you with a painful doom…”</em> It isn’t enough to believe. Muhammad is telling his soldiers (who do not want to fight) that they will be sent to hell if they do not join the battle.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Quran (3:169-170) – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Think not of those who are slain in Allah’s way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord; They rejoice in the bounty provided by Allah<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">: And with regard to those left behind, who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (Martyrs) glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve.</strong>“</em> Martyrs go directly from life to paradise, where they wait for those who must first go through the Day of Judgment.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are other ways to get to Paradise, some not requiring violence. But if he does so, you must come back to those Qur’anic passages, especially 3:169-170, that rank dying in Jihad as the SUREST AND FASTEST way.</span>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b58lHdUt4FA" width="500"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-36055583326001037752017-01-12T08:54:00.001-08:002017-01-12T08:54:53.876-08:0010 Times That God has hit America with a Major Disaster After the U.S. Attempted to Divide the Land of Israel<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.infowars.com/10-times-that-god-has-hit-america-with-a-major-disaster-after-the-u-s-attempted-to-divide-the-land-of-israel/">Michael Snyder</a></span><br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because Barack Obama has cursed Israel at the United Nations, America is now under a curse. Friday’s <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/obama-betrays-israel-at-the-united-nations-is-americas-reprieve-now-over" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="stunning betrayal of Israel at the UN Security Council">stunning betrayal of Israel at the UN Security Council</a> is making headlines all over the planet, but the truth is that what Obama has just done is far more serious than most people would dare to imagine.</span></strong>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over the past several decades, whenever the U.S. government has taken a major step toward the division of the land of Israel it has resulted in a major disaster hitting the United States. This keeps happening over and over again, and yet our leaders never seem to learn. And despite the fact that President-elect Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and prominent members of both parties in Congress strongly urged Obama to veto Security Council resolution 2334, he went ahead and let it pass anyway.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because the United States has veto power on the UN Security Council, nothing can get passed without our support. And it has been the policy of the U.S. government for decades to veto all anti-Israel resolutions that come before the Security Council.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But this time around, it appears that the Obama administration was working very hard behind the scenes to get this resolution pushed through the Security Council before the end of Obama’s term. At least that is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/25/israel-summons-us-ambassador-protest-un-vote-against-settlements/95839814/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="is claiming">is claiming</a>…</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am sure that there will be a tremendous amount of debate about to what extent the U.S. was involved in creating and drafting this resolution, but there is one thing that is exceedingly clear.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ultimate decision as to whether or not this resolution would be adopted was in the hands of one man. Barack Obama knew very well that he had this power, and in the end he ultimately decided to betray Israel.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And now that our government has cursed Israel at the UN, our entire nation will be cursed as a result.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the Scriptures we are repeatedly told that God will bless those that bless Israel and will curse those that curse Israel. When Barack Obama blocked a similar resolution that France wanted to submit for a vote in September 2015, it resulted in America being blessed, and we definitely have been blessed over the past 16 months.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But now that Barack Obama has reversed course and has betrayed Israel, we will most assuredly be cursed. In the days ahead we will see how this plays out, and perhaps we can get some hints about what may happen by reviewing recent history.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There have literally been dozens of instances in recent decades when the U.S. has been hit by some sort of immediate disaster when it has made a move toward the dividing of the land of Israel. The following are ten of the most prominent examples that stand out to me…</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#1</strong> The last time the U.S. government refused to veto an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council was in 1979. On March 22nd, 1979 the Carter administration chose not to veto UN Resolution 446. Four days after that on March 26th, the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed in Washington. As a result of that treaty, Israel gave up a tremendous amount of territory. Two days later, on March 28th, the worst nuclear power plant disaster in U.S. history made headlines all over the globe. The following comes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="from Wikipedia">from Wikipedia</a>…</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#2</strong> On October 30th, 1991 President George H. W. Bush opened the Madrid Peace Conference which brought Israelis and Palestinians together to negotiate for the very first time. In his opening speech, Bush told Israel that <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-real-reason-why-america-has-been-given-a-reprieve" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“territorial compromise is essential for peace”</a>. At the exact same time, “the Perfect Storm” was brewing in the north Atlantic. This legendary storm traveled 1000 miles the wrong direction and sent 35 foot waves slamming directly into President Bush’s home in Kennebunkport, Maine.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#9</strong> In 2005, President George W. Bush (the son of George H. W. Bush) convinced Israel that it was necessary to remove all of the Jewish settlers out of Gaza and turn it over entirely to the Palestinians. According to the New York Times, the very last of the settlers were evacuated on August 23, 2005. On that precise day, a storm that would be given the name “Katrina” started forming over the Bahamas. The city of New Orleans still has not fully recovered from the damage that storm caused, and it ranked as the costliest natural disaster in all of U.S. history up to that time.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The UN Security Council resolution that was passed on Friday is the biggest betrayal of Israel in modern history. As I explained <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/obama-betrays-israel-at-the-united-nations-is-americas-reprieve-now-over" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #194e8e; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">in my last article</a>, I believe that America’s reprieve is now over and all hell is about to break loose in this country.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When Barack Obama blocked the UN Security Council from dividing the land of Israel in September 2015, according to the Word of God we should have been blessed as a nation as a result, and we were blessed.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But now Barack Obama has cursed Israel by stabbing them in the back at the United Nations, and according to the Word of God we should be cursed as a nation as a result.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And as surely as I am writing this article, we will be cursed.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">President Obama is ending his presidency the way he began it – throwing Israel to the wolves. On September 23, 2009, he told the United Nations General Assembly, “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued settlements.” On December 23, 2016, Obama broke with the longstanding practice of both Democratic and Republican administrations to protect Israel from one-sided UN resolutions. He let <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-unsc-resolution-approved-dec-23-demanding-israel-stop-all-settlement-activity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">the UN Security Council pass a resolution</a> declaring that the establishment of settlements by Israel has "no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law." The resolution demands that "Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem." The Obama administration abstained, rather than veto this resolution as it had done with regard to a similar resolution back in 2011. All other members of the Security Council, including the United Kingdom and France, voted for the latest outrage against Israel coming out of a UN chamber. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power shamelessly defended the U.S. abstention as an act to save the so-called “two-state” solution, which Israel’s continued settlements activities were, she said, supposedly jeopardizing. She pathetically reached back to a 1982 statement by then-President Ronald Reagan calling for an end to "the use of any additional land for the purpose of settlements.” In the statement quoted by Ambassador Power, President Reagan said that "the immediate adoption of a settlement freeze by Israel, more than any other action, could create the confidence needed for wider participation in these talks." </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ms. Power quoted Ronald Reagan out of context. In his <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/reaganplan.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">address, Mr. Reagan</a> was referring to a freeze on settlements during a “period of transition,” which would “begin after free elections for a self-governing Palestinian authority” and could prove that “Palestinian autonomy poses no threat to Israel’s security.” He said that “the United States will not support the establishment of an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza,” but suggested instead “self-government by the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in association with Jordan.” </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ambassador Power left out of her out-of-context reference to the Reagan quote the repeated failures of the Palestinians to negotiate in good faith for more than three decades since that time. She failed to note Israel’s voluntary freezing of new settlements and restrictions on existing ones for four years, between 1992 and 1996. The number of <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/osloterr.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">Israelis killed as a result of Palestinian terrorist attacks</a> during that time increased from 34 in 1992 to 56 in 1996, the fifth largest annual total between 1967 and 1996. There were 65 Israeli fatalities from Palestinian terrorism in 1994, smack in the middle of Israel’s settlement freeze.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ambassador Power also failed to note Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and dismantling of all settlements there in Gaza in 2005, for which Israel was rewarded with Palestinian terrorists’ firing of thousands of rockets from Gaza into Israel. Finally, she conveniently skipped over Israel’s moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank during Obama's first term in office. During this moratorium, Palestinian terrorists continued to kill Israelis, including a married couple and two other Israelis who were murdered in their vehicle in a Hamas terrorist drive-by shooting attack in the outskirts of Hebron.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In short, all of Israel’s concrete actions to facilitate a peaceful resolution of the conflict and enable a viable two-state solution have foundered because of Palestinian intransigence and terrorism. Yet the Obama administration decided to do the Palestinians’ bidding and let a resolution heaping blame and condemnation on Israel pass the Security Council.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Still pretending to be a friend of Israel, Samantha Power added in her explanatory remarks that abstention rather than veto of the ant-Israel settlements resolution was a difficult vote for the United States "because of where it's taking place: at the United Nations.” She complained “that for as long as Israel has been a member of this institution, Israel has been treated differently from other nations at the United Nations." She said "such unequal treatment not only hurts Israel; it undermines the legitimacy of the United Nations itself." She was correct in those observations. Nevertheless, the Obama administration compounded the "unequal treatment" of Israel by allowing the anti-Israel settlements resolution to pass.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The resolution focuses almost exclusively on Israeli settlements as "a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace." It pays only lip service to Israel's demonstrable security concerns, and contains only a glancing critical reference to acts of terror and incitement to violence by both sides. It specifically calls out Israel for what the resolution claims was its violation of international law. However, the resolution fails to call out Hamas, which governs territory claimed as part of the “State of Palestine,” for incitement to genocide and using civilian facilities such as schools and hospitals to carry out attacks in violation of international humanitarian law. It also fails to cite Palestinian Authority leaders for their incitement to genocide through such channels as official Palestinian Authority websites, Palestinian Authority-sponsored media outlets and in their educational materials. Incitement to genocide, committed by both Hamas and Palestinian Authority officials, violates the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All that matters to the United Nations and the Obama administration are Israeli settlements. Even there, the resolution mixes apples and oranges. The resolution does not even distinguish between the construction or expansion of arguably illegal outposts east of the Security Barrier, and building within East Jerusalem, which supporters of the resolution presume will automatically be the capital of a new Palestinian state. “By treating all construction as equally problematic, the UN will paradoxically make it harder for future Palestinian, Israeli and American leaders to negotiate,” David Bernstein, President and CEO of The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, said. “It limits their room to maneuver.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Security Council anti-Israel settlements resolution, passed with the Obama administration’s consent, is not technically legally binding, because it was not passed under the provisions of Chapter VII of the UN Charter. The resolution is also not formally characterized as a “decision” of the Security Council adopted for the explicitly stated purpose of “the maintenance of international peace and security.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, the resolution sets down a clear marker that “the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law.” With such an unambiguous declaration, now supported or at least unopposed by all five permanent members of the Security Council and most member nations of the UN, the resolution may be deemed as evidence of “customary international law” on the subject of Israeli settlements activities. Palestinians and their supporters would then be better positioned to cause mischief for Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which the so-called government of Palestine has joined. A “preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine” is currently underway at the ICC. The Palestinians and their supporters may also seek to exploit the Security Council resolution’s finding that Israel’s settlements are in “flagrant violation under international law” to pressure the UN and member states into boycotting the purchases of any products or services remotely connected to firms doing any business in the West Bank or East Jerusalem. Even before the Security Council resolution was passed, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein from Jordan, sought to have the UN's procurement division consider launching what would amount to a blacklisting and boycott of Israeli businesses and international companies with ties to the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already stated that “Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the U.N., and will not abide by its terms.” Fortunately, starting on January 20, 2017, Israel will finally have a friend in the White House who recognizes the difference between a democratic ally and a gang of thugs pretending to be a nation state.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th," tweeted President-elect Donald Trump. One of the first things that he should do upon taking office is to declare that the United States repudiates anything in the Security Council anti-Israel settlements resolution that denies or calls into question the legal validity of Israel’s existing or future settlements activities. He should make clear that any effort by the UN or member states to institute a boycott will result in serious adverse financial consequences to them. And he should announce that the United States will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the undivided capital of the Jewish state, Jerusalem.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Obama pulls a bait-and-switch on anti-Israel Security Council vote</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/311808-obama-pulls-a-bait-and-switch-on-anti-israel-security">Alan M. Dershowitz</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Obama administration pulled a bait and switch in refusing to veto the recent Security Council resolution against Israel. In attempting to justify its abstention – which under Security Council rules has the same effect as a vote in favor – the administration focuses on “new” settlement building, especially in areas deep into the West Bank. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In her <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.761017&source=gmail&ust=1482778928226000&usg=AFQjCNHdAR8MMViQoT35Ztg0_4ESwZFPug" href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.761017" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">speech to the Security Council</a>, Ambassador <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="188171" href="http://thehill.com/people/samantha-power" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline-block; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Samantha Power</a></span>explained the administration’s vote this way: </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Today, the Security Council reaffirmed its established consensus that settlements have no legal validity.... President Obama and Secretary Kerry have repeatedly warned – publically and privately – that the absence of progress toward peace and continued settlement expansion<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em>was going to put the two-state solution at risk, and threaten Israel’s stated objective to remain both a Jewish State and a democracy ... This resolution reflects trends that will permanently destroy the hope of a two-state solution if they continue on their current course.”(emphasis added) </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Likewise Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor, said: </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-netanyahus-choices-led-to-anti-settlement-un-resolution/&source=gmail&ust=1482778928226000&usg=AFQjCNGqQ3Rl0EUSc0uY8kMcayBpOeZHOA" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-netanyahus-choices-led-to-anti-settlement-un-resolution/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Netanyahu had the opportunity</a> to pursue policies that would have led to a different outcome today.... In the absence of any meaningful peace process, as well as in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">accelerated settlement activity</em>, we took the decision that we did today to abstain on the resolution.” (emphasis added) </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In a press release, the pro-Obama advocacy group J. Street <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://jstreet.org/press-releases/j-street-welcomes-us-abstention-unsc-resolution/%23.WGAFQ7GZOXQ&source=gmail&ust=1482778928226000&usg=AFQjCNH-K5Cxs5DpRhjrwlOb2g2jBSiLHg" href="http://jstreet.org/press-releases/j-street-welcomes-us-abstention-unsc-resolution/#.WGAFQ7GZOXQ" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">welcomed America’s abstention</a>, citing a poll showing “that 62 percent of Jewish voters believe the United States should either support or abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Israel to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">stop building settlements in the West Bank</em>.”(emphasis added) </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the media – from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/23/politics/israel-official-rips-obama-un-settlements/&source=gmail&ust=1482778928226000&usg=AFQjCNE1Vymx8Ug8STfjbLyiDEEFDGo8Vg" href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/23/politics/israel-official-rips-obama-un-settlements/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CNN</a>, to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-settlements-un-vote.html?_r%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1482778928226000&usg=AFQjCNHEgGFOgw_S83oTKuXCrVhmOXM0Lw" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-settlements-un-vote.html?_r=0" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New York Times</a>, to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-settlement-censure-back-on-u-n-calendar-1482515573&source=gmail&ust=1482778928226000&usg=AFQjCNFsWKeKiqrSRJm3icoxNwsgw9ikdg" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-settlement-censure-back-on-u-n-calendar-1482515573" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a> – also reported that the resolution was only about the expansion of new settlements. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the text of the resolution itself goes well beyond new building in these controversial areas and applies equally to historically Jewish areas that were unlawfully taken by Jordanian military action during Israel’s War of Independence and liberated by Israel in a war started by Jordan in 1967. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.761030&source=gmail&ust=1482778928226000&usg=AFQjCNHBEEUV7PEmwvzWrPEZy-5U785AOA" href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.761030" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">text of the Security Council Resolution</a> says that “any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem,” have “no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law.” This means that Israel’s decision to build a plaza for prayer at the Western Wall – Judaism’s holiest site – constitutes a “flagrant violation of international law.” If it does then why did President Obama pray there and leave a note asking for peace?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is it really now U.S. policy to condemn Israel for liberating these historically Jewish areas in Jerusalem? Does Obama really believe they should be made <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">judenrein </em>again, as they were between 1949 and 1967?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If so, why didn’t the administration openly acknowledge that it was changing half a century of bipartisan support for Israel’s claims to these sacred areas? If not, why did it not demand changes in the language of the resolution to limit it to new building in disputed areas of the West Bank?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Obama administration can’t have it both ways. It must now declare where it stands on Israel’s right to allow prayer at the Western Wall, access to Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital, and the repair of destroyed synagogues to the Jewish Quarter.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">J Street, as well, has an obligation to its members – many of whom pray at the Western Wall and have deep connections to Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital and the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem – to advise them whether the organization supports Israel's abandoning these Jewish areas until Palestinians agree to a negotiated settlement.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The media, as well, should clarify the impact of the resolution beyond new building in the West Bank, so that all Americans well know what their President supported.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">President-elect <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><a class="rollover-people-link" data-nid="261287" href="http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline-block; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Donald Trump</a></span> and Congress can make it clear that it is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not </em>U.S. policy that all changes “to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem” are in violation of international law. The new president can immediately recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and begin the process of moving our embassy there.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The justification for keeping it in Tel Aviv was not to change the status quo, but that justification no longer exists because this resolution does precisely that: it declares the status quo – the reality on the ground that acknowledges Israel’s legitimate claims to its most sacred and historical Jewish areas – to be flagrant violations of international law. Congress can legislate no funding to implement the Security Council’s troubling resolution.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Islam is a “criminal” ideology which deserves to be ranked with “Nazism, fascism and communism”, is “incompatible with the principles of European law” and, like its totalitarian predecessors, must inevitably be defeated.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So argues Czech lawyer, activist and politician Klára Samková in a hard hitting lecture she delivered earlier this week in the Czech Parliament to an audience including (some rather bemused) ambassadors from Muslim countries – including the Turkish ambassador who, with several others, walked out half way through.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Her speech – translated here by <span class="post-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://motls.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/klara-samkovas-talk-should-we-be-afraid.html?m=1" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #0088bb; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Luboš Motl</a> – is well worth reading because it addresses issues almost never aired in polite circles in Western democracies, which find it convenient to dismiss them as extremist or Islamophobic or needlessly inflammatory.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The law is an intrinsic and inseparable part of the Islamic ideology. It constitutes the core of the content of Islam while the rules claimed to be religious or ethical are just secondary and marginal components of the ideology. From the viewpoint of Islam, the concept of religion as a private, intimate matter of an individual is absolutely unacceptable. However, that’s exactly the principle on which today’s Christianity and the civilizations derived from it rely. It’s the private relationship of an individual towards God which is more or less mediated by one of the churches. Even those members of our civilization realm who consider themselves atheists, i.e. those who claim not to believe in God, automatically extract their attitudes to life from the Christian traditions while these traditions take the form of either folklore or cultural automatisms which makes them share the generally accepted spirit of Europe and both Americas. Again, it’s necessary to remind ourselves that this view is not only unacceptable for Islam but it is also denounced and explicitly named as a crime. Islam rejects the individual conception of faith in God and in a totalitarian way, it forbids all doubts about itself.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is, she goes on, a belief system based on an extremely regressive, joyless view of the world.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam doesn’t share the Enlightenment’s idea of the social progress associated with the future. According to Islam, the good times have already taken place – in the era of Prophet Mohammed. The best things that could have been done have already been done, the best thing that could have been written has already been written, namely the Quran.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rather than working with the world – as Judaism and Christianity, or at least the civilizations that have arisen from them do – Islam is filled with hatred for it.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Judaism, Christianity, and the civilization that arose from them have surpassed this unjustifiable skepticism, this contempt of people for themselves. At the same moment, Islam remained a stillborn infant of gnosis, deformed into a monstrously mutated desire to blend with the Universe again, into a retarded obsessively psychopathic paranoiac vision about the exceptional nature of one’s own path towards the reunification of the essence of one’s devotee with God.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cruelly, this means that Muslims are not brought closer to but further away from God.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This faulty conception also gives rise to the idea penetrating all of Islam about the identification of matter with evil and the contempt for our civilization which is considered materialistic, and therefore intrinsically evil and clashing with God. It’s a genuine tragedy of the Muslims themselves that they have eternally closed their journey to God by pursuing this dead end.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Its vision of humanity is grim and riddled with self hatred.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Which probably explains why Islam isn’t big on either human rights – or scientific progress.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, Islam doesn’t want to be miserable on its own. It wants to take the rest of the world down with it.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam doesn’t respect development, progress, and humanity. In its despair, it is attempting to take the rest of the mankind with it because from the Islamic viewpoint, the rest of the world is futile, useless, and unclean.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This doesn’t make for a particularly cosy relationship with Western liberal democracy. But most politicians and lawmakers, not least in the European Union, are in denial about this.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam and its Sharia law is incompatible with the principles of the European law, especially with the rights enumerated in the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (and Freedoms). How is it possible that our law experts don’t see this conflict? How is possible that they remain silent?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Muslims have got very good at exploiting what they perceive as weakness in the West’s liberal values.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam likes to hide behind the religious mask [for] its permanent, deliberate, and purposeful abuse of the Euro-American legal system and values that the civilizations built upon the Judeo-Christian foundations have converged to. There’s nothing better or more efficient than to abuse the value system of one’s enemy, especially when I don’t share that system. And that’s exactly how Islam behaves. It wants to be protected according to our tradition which it exploits in this way, while it is not willing to behave reciprocally. It relies on our traditions, it claims that the traditions are important, while behind the scenes, it is laughing at us and our system of values.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Europe, they justify their demands on the grounds that Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees them freedom of thinking, conscience, and religious faith. But what they – and many lawyers – don’t appreciate as that this Article is subordinate to the one introduced by Winston Churchill, precisely in order to stop the Convention being refused by totalitarian ideologies.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So far Islam may have made all the running. But it has reckoned without one thing: despite the West’s apparent weakness, the experience of World War II in fact made it tough as nails.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The assumption of the Muslim countries and leaders who have decided to terrorize Europeans by their understanding of the world that the cause of Europe’s inactivity is its weakness, is entirely flawed. Europe has been converging to its opinion and to its world view for the price of tens of millions of human casualties, it has paid by suffering that no Muslim can even imagine.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This will eventually come to a head – and it won’t be pretty.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So it’s in Muslims’ own interests not to go any further down this route.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am using this gathering and call on all Muslims and all countries that claim that Islam is their religion: Stop it. You are on a wrong track. You are on a track that leads away from God. You are on the road of the murderers. Your death won’t get you to Barbelá, to the land of the non-creator God, but to the land of nothingness and nameless uselessness. Nothing will be left out of you and the name of your alleged religion will only be pronounced when people spit out saliva that was mixed with the dust from the road of the successful, happy, and beloved by God people.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Klára Samková delivered this speech at a conference called “Should we be afraid of Islam” organised by <span class="s1" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a lawmaker in ANO (the billionaire Babiš’s populist centrist party), Zdenek Soukup. It took place in the Czech parliament and guests included the ambassadors of Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to Motl:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The speech was generally applauded by almost all Czech commenters at Internet newspapers of all political colors. But she’s not really exceptional, if you get the logic. It’s a speech that she gave, it was tough and sort of nicely constructed. But the underlying ideas are absolutely generically accepted by the Czech society. So she’s been praised to be brave etc. but what she said simply isn’t taboo in our society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">There are various reasons why Czechs are generally more anti-Islamic-immigration than anyone else etc. It’s hard to convey all the correlations and some of them are speculative. But we have the communist experience which made us immune against some cheap propaganda about the social engineering projects and rosy future they will make. Second, in 1938, we were betrayed by the Munich Treaty – this is an indication that the Western capitals sometimes want to decide about our matters without us. So this is similar – instead of the Germans who could spread in all of Europe without limitations in the late 1930s, now it’s the Arabs, and it’s decided in the Western European capitals again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam in its purest form honors and elevates women, we are often told. But does it?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All too often, textual reality (the Quran) matches up with the historical reality of seventh—century Arabia. Gender inequality and oppression in the Quran reflect the culture of seventh century desert nomads. If Allah and Muhammad improved on this patriarchy, then they did not go far enough for a religion with a claim to universality.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here are the top ten rules in the Quran that oppress and insult women.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">10. A husband has sex with his wife, as a plow goes into a field.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Quran in Sura (Chapter) 2:223 says:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like . . . . (MAS Abdel Haleem, <em>The Qur'an</em>, Oxford UP, 2004)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We should make no mistake about this verse. It includes sexual positions. In a footnote to this verse, Haleem says that Muslims in Medina heard from the Jews that 'a child born from a woman approached from behind would have a squint.'</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The hadith are the reports of Muhammad's words and actions outside of the Quran. Two reliable hadith collectors and editors are Bukhari (d. 870), Muslim (d. 875). The hadith come only second in importance and sacredness among the vast majority of Muslims around the world. Since the hadith is explicit, the readers are invited to click <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/008.smt.html#008.3363" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a> and read for themselves, at their own discretion: Muslim nos. 3363—3365. See these parallel hadith <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/060.sbt.html#006.060.050" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a> and <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/060.sbt.html#006.060.051" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We should have no doubt that the husband controlled their sex life. If a woman does not want to have sex, then angels curse her.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. . . 'If a man invites his wife to sleep with him and she refuses to come to him, then the angels send their curses on her till morning.' (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.121" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Bukhari</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4845&search=arlandson" style="background: transparent;">Here</a> is a back—up article, and another is <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_fields.htm" style="background: transparent;">here</a>. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">9. Husbands are a degree above their wives.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Quran in Sura 2:228 says:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. . . Wives have the same rights as the husbands have on them in accordance with the generally known principles. Of course, men are a degree above them in status . . . (Sayyid Abul A'La Maududi, <em>The Meaning of the Qur'an</em>, vol. 1, p. 165)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gender inequality shows up in a theological context. This hadith shows that the majority of the inhabitants of hell are women.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Prophet said, 'I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and <span style="font-weight: 700;">I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women</span>.' (<a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/054.sbt.html#004.054.464" style="background: transparent;">Bukhari</a>, emphasis added; see also these parallel traditions <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.126" style="background: transparent;">here</a> and <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/076.sbt.html#008.076.456" style="background: transparent;">here</a>)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This parallel </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.125" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">hadith</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> explains that the majority of the inhabitants of hell are women because they are ungrateful and harsh towards their husbands. There is no word about the husbands' ingratitude and harshness. See this </span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/11/www.answering%E2%80%94islam.org/Women/in%E2%80%94hell.html" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">article</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> for details on women in Islamic hell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Muhammad was also superstitious (see <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/confronting_satan.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a> and <a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4769&search=arlandson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a> for the evidence).This hadith says that women are part of an evil omen.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I heard the Prophet saying. 'Evil omen is in three things: The horse, the woman and the house.' (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/052.sbt.html#004.052.110" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Bukhari</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More detail can be found </span><a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4887&search=arlandson" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. This </span><a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_inferior.htm" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">article</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> also supports this ninth point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">8. A male gets a double share of the inheritance over that of a female.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The share of the male shall be twice that of a female . . . . (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 311)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For how this religious law works out in early Islam, see hadith </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/080.sbt.html#008.080.728" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/080.sbt.html#008.080.733" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/080.sbt.html#008.080.734" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Malik (d. 795) is a founder of a major school of law. He composed a law book that is also considered a collection of reliable hadith: <em>Al—Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas: The First Formation of Islamic Law</em> (rev. trans. Aisha Bewley, Inverness, Scotland: Madina Press, 1989, 2001). Malik <a href="http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muwatta/027.mmt.html#027.27.1.0a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">writes</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The generally agreed upon way of doing things among us . . . about fixed shares of inheritance (</span><em style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">fara'id</em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">) of children from the mother or father when one or the other dies is that if they leave male and female children, the male takes the portion of two females.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This Islamic law is regressive. In the US, for example, inheritance is divided equally among all siblings, regardless of the gender. No religious law prohibits this from happening. So American secular law fits into a modern context better, where women have more economic opportunities and freedom. This online </span><a href="http://www.xn--lightoflife-2g3fc.com/eng/reveal/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">booklet</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> has a short explanation on women's inheritance 'rights.' Click on Chapter 15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More information can be found <a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4887&search=arlandson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a> and <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_inferior.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And let two men from among you bear witness to all such documents [contracts of loans without interest]. But if two men be not available, there should be one man and two women to bear witness so that if one of the women forgets (anything), the other may remind her. (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 205).</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The foundational reason for having two women witnesses is that one of the women may 'forget' something. This verse goes to the nature of womankind, and implies that a woman's mind is weak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hadith removes any ambiguity about women's abilities in Sura 2:282:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Prophet said, 'Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?' The women said, 'Yes.' He said, '</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">' (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/048.sbt.html#003.048.826" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Bukhari</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, emphasis added)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More information can be found </span><a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4887&search=arlandson" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_inferior.htm" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">6. A wife may remarry her ex—husband if and only if she marries another man, they have sex, and then this second man divorces her.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Quran in Sura 2:230 says:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And if the husband divorces his wife (for the third time), she shall not remain his lawful wife after this (absolute) divorce, unless she marries another husband and the second husband divorces her. [In that case] there is no harm if they [the first couple] remarry . . . . (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 165)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The finally and absolutely divorced couple is not permitted to remarry each other unless she marries another man, they have sex, and he divorces her. Sura 2:230 engenders a divorce on the road to a possible reconciliation. Why have the intervening step of a second marriage and divorce before the first couple can work out their differences and get back together?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To see this tragedy in real life, go to <a href="http://63.175.194.25/index.php?ln=eng&ds=qa&lv=browse&QR=70342&dgn=4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">this</a> question and answer feature at a traditional Muslim fatwa website. Apparently, a Muslim husband pronounced divorce three times, the divorce is final, and now he regrets his decision made in haste and anger. The cleric or scholar says that they are allowed to reconcile only if she follows the Quranic steps of her marrying someone else, consummating that marriage, and then his divorcing her. As for divorce generally,</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This <a href="http://xn--answeringislam-382h.org/Nehls/Ask/ethics.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> analyzes the ethics behind Quranic divorce procedures and contrasts them with the New Testament. This very short <a href="http://www.jamiat.org.za/talaaq.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> at a Muslim website shows concern for the divorce rate in Islam. This short <a href="http://www.jamaat.org/islam/WomanDivorce.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">page</a> at a Muslim website explains divorce. This short <a href="http://www.submission.org/women/divorce.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> at a Muslim website also gives an overview on divorce, under the larger <a href="http://www.submission.org/women/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">section</a> on women.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3530608.stm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">news report</a> says that problems emerge in the modern world during the Islamic divorce proceedings. This <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia%E2%80%94pacific/3100143.stm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">news report</a> says that Malaysia permits 'text messaging' divorce. At this Muslim website an Islamic scholar <a href="http://www.crescentlife.com/psychfaq/muslim_women_divorce_rights.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">answers</a> the question of a Muslim who wrote in about divorce. <a href="http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline%E2%80%94English%E2%80%94Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503544318" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Here</a> is a fatwa (legal decree) on divorce from a Muslim website.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These links can yield only one conclusion: Islamic divorce favors the man.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More detail can be found <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_remarry.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>. This <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Responses/Menj/remarriage1.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> replies to a Muslim polemicist. It analyzes the differences between Christianity and Islam on divorce.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">5. Slave—girls are sexual property for their male owners</span>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Quran in Sura 4:24 says:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And forbidden to you are wedded wives of other people except those who have fallen in your hands [as prisoners of war] . . . (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 319).</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sayyid Maududi (d. 1979), a highly respected traditional commentator and scholar, says in his comment on the verse that is it lawful for Muslim holy warriors to marry women prisoners of war even when their husbands are still alive. But what happens if the husbands are captured with their wives? Maududi cites a school of law that says Muslims may not marry them, but two other schools say that the marriage between the captive husbands and wives is broken (note 44). But why would a debate over this cruelty emerge in the first place? No marriage should take place between prisoners of war and their captives, married or not. In fact, no sex should take place between women captives and their Muslim overlords. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam allows deep immorality with women who are in their most helpless condition. This crime is reprehensible, but Allah wills it nonetheless—the Quran says so. For more information on this Quran—inspired immorality, see this short <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Shamoun/privileges.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a>. See also Suras 4:3; 23:5—6; 33:50; 70:22—30, all of which permit male slave—owners to have sex with their slave—girls. Suras 23:5—6 and 70:22—230 allow men to have sex with them in the Meccan period, during times of peace before Muhammad initiated his skirmishes and wars in Medina.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The hadith demonstrate that Muslims jihadists actually have sex with the captured women, whether or not they are married. In the following hadith passage, <em>Khumus</em> is one—fifth of the spoils of war.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ali, Muhammad's cousin and son—in—law, had just finished a relaxing bath. Why?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Prophet sent Ali to Khalid to bring the <em>Khumus</em> [of the booty] and . . . Ali had taken a bath [after a sexual act with a slave—girl from the Khumus].</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What was Muhammad's response to the person who hated Ali for this sexual act?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Do you hate Ali for this? . . . Don't hate him, for he deserves more that that from [the] </span><em style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Khumus</em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/059.sbt.html#005.059.637" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Bukhari</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/089.sbt.html#009.089.321" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">hadith</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> shows that Muhammad was intimate with his slave—girls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moreover, jihadists may not practice <em>coitus interruptus</em> with the women they capture, but not for the reason that the reader may expect. While on a military campaign and away from their wives, Muslim jihadists 'received captives from among the Arab captives and we desired women and celibacy became hard on us and we loved to do <em>coitus interruptus</em>.' They asked the Prophet about this, and it is important to note what he did not say. He did not scold them or prohibit any kind of sex whatsoever. Rather, he invoked the murky, quirky doctrine of fate:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is better for you not to do so [practice <em>coitus interruptus</em>]. There is no person that is destined to exist, but will come to existence, till the Day of Resurrection. (<a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.137" style="background: transparent;">Bukhari</a>; also go <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/059.sbt.html#005.059.459" style="background: transparent;">here</a> and <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/077.sbt.html#008.077.600" style="background: transparent;">here</a>)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That is, these enquiring Muslims should stop doing </span><em style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">coitus interruptus</em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, but instead go all the way with the enslaved sex objects. Fate controls who should be born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is one thing for some soldiers in any army to strike out on their own and rape women. All armies have criminal soldiers who commit this wrong act. But it is quite another to codify rape in a sacred text.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Silas/femalecaptives.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> quotes the Quran and many hadith passages on sex with prisoners of war. It also analyzes modern Islamic scholars on the topic. They support this practice. In Appendix One, the author answers a Muslim charge that the Old Testament allows this practice. This <a href="http://www.muhammadanism.org/Hadith/Topics/Adultery.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> provides further details on Muhammad's encouragement to his soldiers to 'just do it.' In addition to the two previous links, more information can be found <a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4919&search=arlandson" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a> and <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_slaves.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And if you be apprehensive that you will not be able to do justice to the orphans, you may marry two or three or four women whom you choose. But if you apprehend that you might not be able to do justice to them, then marry only one wife, or marry those who have fallen in your possession. (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 305)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The clause 'marry those who have fallen in your possession' means slave—girls who were captured after a war. Men may 'marry' them because slaves do not incur very much expense, not as much as free women do. This means that the limit on four wives is artificial. Men could have sex with as many slave—girls as they wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maududi paraphrases the verse: 'If you need more than one [wife] but are afraid that you might not be able to do justice to your wives from among the free people, you may turn to slave girls because in that case you will be burdened with less responsibilities' (note 6) (See Sura 4:24).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, Muhammad would not allow polygamy for his son—in—law Ali, because an extra wife would hurt Muhammad's first daughter Fatima, by his first wife Khadija. Fatima was married to Ali.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I heard Allah's Apostle who was on the pulpit, saying, 'Banu Hisham bin Al—Mughira have requested me to allow them to marry their daughter to Ali bin Abu Talib, but I don't give permission, and will not give permission unless 'Ali bin Abi Talib divorces my daughter in order to marry their daughter, because Fatima is a part of my body, and I hate what she hates to see, and what hurts her, hurts me.' (<a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.157" style="background: transparent;">Bukhari</a>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moreover, it seems that Allah gave Muhammad special permission to marry as many women as he desired or take them as slaves or concubines, just as in the pre—Islamic days of ignorance.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Quran in Sura 33:50, a lengthy verse, grants Muhammad wide latitude in his marriages:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">O Prophet, We have made lawful to you those of your wives, whose dowers you have paid, and those women who come into your possession out of the slave—girls granted by Allah, and the daughters of your paternal uncles and aunts, and of your maternal uncles and aunts, who have migrated with you, and the believing woman who gives herself to the Prophet, if the Prophet may desire her. This privilege is for you only, not for the other believers . . . . (Maududi vol. 4, p. 111, emphasis added).</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This verse says that besides those women whose dowery Muhammad paid, he may marry slave—girls—that is, he may have sex with them (see this </span><a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4919&search=arlandson" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">article</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and this </span><a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_slaves.htm" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">one</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> for more information on this Quran—inspired immorality). Maududi references three slave—girls taken during raids, and Mary the Copt, a gift from an Egyptian ruler. Muhammad had sex with her, and there does not seem to be a political need for this. Second, Muhammad may marry his first cousins, and Maududi cites a case in which this happened. Third, if a believing woman offers herself to Muhammad, and he desires her, then he may marry her (Maududi vol. 4, note 88).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hadith <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/089.sbt.html#009.089.321" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">shows</a> that Muhammad was intimate with his slave—girls.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the capstone of these 'special' marriages occurs when Muhammad also marries the ex—wife (Zainab) of his adopted son (Zaid). His son—in—law divorced her with the Prophet standing in the background. In fact, early Islamic sources say that Muhammad catches a glimpse of his daughter—in—law in a state of <a href="http://www.xn--lightoflife-2g3fc.com/eng/reveal/r5405et9.htm#p169" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">undress</a>, so he desired her. Once the divorce is final, Allah conveniently reveals to him that this marriage between father—in—law and daughter—in—law is legal and moral in Sura 33:36—44.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/005.sbt.html#001.005.268" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">hadith</a> says that Muhammad used to visit nine (or eleven) wives in one night. See the parallel hadith <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.006" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>, <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/005.sbt.html#001.005.282" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.142" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>. This <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Q%E2%80%94A%E2%80%94panel/marriage.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> explains why Christians do not accept polygamy. This <a href="http://www.answeringislam.org/Index/index.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">page</a> in an online index explains polygamy. For a more thorough analysis of polygamy in the Quran, go to this online <a href="http://www.xn--lightoflife-2g3fc.com/eng/reveal/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">booklet</a> and click on Chapter 12.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See this <a href="http://muslimhope.com/WhyDidMohammedGetSoManyWives.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> on the number of wives and human sexual property Muhammad allowed himself. <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_polygamy.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Here</a> is yet another article. At the end, it links to more articles on the marriage and divorce of Zainab and Muhammad.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">3. A husband may simply get rid of one of his undesirable wives</span>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Quran in Sura 4:129 says:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is not within your power to be perfectly equitable in your treatment with all your wives, even if you wish to be so; therefore, [in order to satisfy the dictates of Divine Law] do not lean towards one wife so as to leave the other in a state of suspense. (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 381)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maududi provides an interpretation of the verse (vol. 1, pp. 383—84, note 161). He writes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Allah made it clear that the husband cannot literally keep equality between two or more wives because they themselves cannot be equal in all respects. It is too much to demand from a husband that he should mete out equal treatment to a beautiful wife and to an ugly wife, to a young wife and to an old wife, to a healthy wife and to an invalid wife, and to a good natured wife and to an ill—natured wife. These and like things naturally make a husband more inclined towards one wife than towards the other.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This means that wives are the source of a man's inability to treat all of them equally. One is beautiful, while another is ugly. How can Allah demand from a husband super—human strength under changing circumstances in his wives?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In such cases, the Islamic law does not demand equal treatment between them in affection and love. What it does demand is that a wife should not be neglected as to be practically reduced to the position of the woman who has no husband at all. If the husband does not divorce her for any reason or at her own request, she should at least be treated as a wife. It is true that under such circumstances the husband is naturally inclined towards a favorite wife, but he should not, so to say, keep the other in such a state of suspense as if she were not his wife.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maududi says here that the wife should not be suspended between marriage and divorce. If the husband stays with the no—longer desirable wife, then he should treat her fairly and provide for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More detail can be found <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_polygamy.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>. This <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Responses/Menj/remarriage1.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> (see 'the unpleasant truth behind divorce in Sura 4:130') demonstrates that Muhammad wanted to divorce one of his wives because she was overweight and old. Instead of a divorce, she gave up her turn'in the 'rotation'with the Prophet, who gladly agreed with her proposal. See these three hadith <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/047.sbt.html#003.047.766" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>, <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/060.sbt.html#006.060.318" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a> and <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/008.smt.html#008.3451" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">2. Husbands may hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives (quite apart from whether they actually are highhanded).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Quran in Sura 4:34 says:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4:34 . . . If you fear highhandedness from your wives, remind them [of the teaching of God], then ignore them when you go to bed, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">then hit them</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. If they obey you, you have no right to act against them. God is most high and great. (Haleem, emphasis added)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The hadith says that Muslim women in the time of Muhammad were suffering from domestic violence in the context of confusing marriage laws:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rifa'a divorced his wife whereupon 'AbdurRahman bin Az—Zubair Al—Qurazi married her. 'Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah's Apostle came, 'Aisha said, 'I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!' (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/072.sbt.html#007.072.715" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Bukhari</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, emphasis added)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hadith shows Muhammad hitting his girl—bride, Aisha (see rule no. 1, below), daughter of Abu Bakr, his right—hand Companion:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'He [Muhammad] struck me [Aisha] on the chest which caused me pain.' (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/004.smt.html#004.2127" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Muslim no. 2127</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See this </span><a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/beating.htm" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">article</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> for fuller details on wife—beating. It clarifies many translations of the verse. At the end, it has many links to modern interpretations of Sura 4:34 and to arguments for wife—beating today. This </span><a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4256&search=arlandson" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">article</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> is a shorter version. This </span><a href="http://answeringislam.org/Silas/wife%E2%80%94beating.htm" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">article</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, though long, offers a clear analysis of wife—beating, examining the hadith and other early source documents, as well as refuting modern Muslim polemics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This mid—length <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Silas/beating_badawi.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> answers a Muslim defense. This a<a href="http://answeringislam.org/Responses/Osama/women2b.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">rticle</a> is a superb analysis of the subject, giving various translations of Sura 4:34. It cites the hadith and classical commentaries and refutes modern defenses. Finally, this <a href="http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/ArabChristian30907.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> is thorough in examining the Quran and hadith and Muslim polemics.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">1. Mature men are allowed to marry prepubescent girls.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Quran in Sura 65:1, 4 says:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">65:1 O Prophet, when you [and the believers] divorce women, divorce them for their prescribed waiting—period and count the waiting—period accurately . . . 4 And if you are in doubt about those of your women who have despaired of menstruation, (you should know that) their waiting period is three months, and <span style="font-weight: 700;">the same applies to those who have not menstruated as yet.</span> As for pregnant women, their period ends when they have delivered their burden. (Maududi, vol. 5, pp. 599 and 617, emphasis added)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maududi correctly interprets the plain meaning of verse 4, which appears in the context of divorce:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Therefore, making mention of the waiting—period for girls who have not yet menstruated, clearly proves that it is not only permissible to give away the girl at this age but </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">it is permissible for the husband to consummate marriage with her</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. Now, obviously no Muslim has the right to forbid a thing which the Qur'an has held as permissible. (Maududi, vol. 5, p. 620, note 13, emphasis added)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Divorcing prepubescent girls implies marriage to them. So the fathers of prepubescent girls may give them away, and their new husbands may consummate their marriage with them. If Islam ever spread around the world, no one should be surprised if Quran—believing Muslims lowered the marriage age of girls to nine years old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is precisely what happened in <a href="http://www.newint.org/issue165/update.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Iran</a> after the religious revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini. A girl's marriage age was lowered to nine years.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why should this surprise us? After all, Muhammad was betrothed to Aisha when she was six, and he consummated their union when she was only nine.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The hadith says:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. . . [T]hen he [Muhammad] wrote the marriage (wedding) contract with Aishah when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed [sic, consummated] that marriage when she was nine years old. (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.064" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Bukhari</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ; since this is a serious issue, see the parallel hadith </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/058.sbt.html#005.058.236" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.064" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.065" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.088" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.064" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.065" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/008.smt.html#008.3310" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/008.smt.html#008.3311" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hadith demonstrates that Muhammad pursued Aisha when she was a little girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Prophet asked Abu Bakr for 'Aisha's hand in marriage. Abu Bakr said 'But I am your brother.' The Prophet said, 'You are my brother in Allah's religion and His Book, but she (Aisha) is lawful for me to marry.' (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.018" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Bukhari</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">; see this </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/058.sbt.html#005.058.235" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">hadith</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> that shows Muhammad's dream life in regards to his pursuit of little Aisha, and this </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.057" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">one</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and this </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/087.sbt.html#009.087.139" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">one</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hadith recounts the fifty—plus—year—old Muhammad's and the nine—year—old Aisha's first sexual encounter. She was playing on her swing set with her girlfriends when she got the call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. . . [M]y mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, 'Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck.' Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (<a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/058.sbt.html#005.058.234" style="background: transparent;">Bukhari</a>; see a parallel hadith <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/008.smt.html#008.3309" style="background: transparent;">here</a>)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hadith describes Muhammad counseling a Muslim man to marry a young virgin for the extra thrill it gives him to fondle her, and she him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I got married, Allah's Apostle said to me, 'What type of lady have you married?' I replied, 'I have married a matron.' He said, 'Why, don't you have a liking for the virgins and for fondling them?' Jabir also said: Allah's Apostle said, 'Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you might play with her and she with you?' (</span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.017" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Bukhari</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">) See parallel hadith </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/059.sbt.html#005.059.382" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/038.sbt.html#003.038.504" style="background: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hadith describes Muhammad's and Aisha's ill—timed sexual encounters:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Narrated 'Aisha:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Prophet and I used to take a bath from a single pot while we were Junub. During the menses, he used to order me to put on an Izar (dress worn below the waist) and used to fondle me. While in Itikaf, he used to bring his head near me and I would wash it while I used to be in my periods (menses). (<a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/006.sbt.html#001.006.298" style="background: transparent;">Bukhari</a>)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For more evidence on this most outlandish of Muhammad's domestic acts even for seventh—century Arabia, readers should refer to this </span><a href="http://xn--answeringislam-382h.org/Shamoun/prepubescent.htm" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">article</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. This </span><a href="http://xn--answeringislam-382h.org/Responses/Saifullah/aishahage.htm" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">article</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> responds to Muslim defenses of this indefensible Quranic permission. This </span><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/006169.php" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">summary</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of a news reports reveals Pakistan lowering the marriage age to twelve for a girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the political and legal hierarchies in the Islamic world do not seem ready to reform on women's rights. Here is a 1998 <a href="http://www.netiran.com/?fn=artd(988)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">interview</a> with Shirin Ebadi, one of the first female judges in Iran. She correctly sees abuses in Iranian law, which favors men. However, what has been done about these abuses?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Zohreh Arshadi 'was a practising lawyer in Iran prior to her forced exile to Europe. She is currently an advocate in France and is active in human rights and especially of the rights of women. She has been especially active in defence of the rights of women in Iran.' She <a href="http://www.xn--iranbulletin-019f.org/political_islam/punishmnt.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reports</a> on the inequities in Iranian law as it pertains to women:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Though these two examples come from Iran, they could multiply throughout the Islamic world. However, the legal hierarchies understand the cost of reform: abandoning many verses in the Quran and many passages in the hadith, and this they cannot do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A sign of hope? The <a href="http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4778" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Iraqi Constitution</a>, so far, says that 25% of the seats in the Parliament are specified for women. So maybe reform can be strongly encouraged in a fledgling democracy.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But if Islamic nations, especially those who follow sharia (Islamic law) closely, refuse to reform, then the second best strategy must be played out. Islam must never be allowed to impose its sharia system of 'justice' anywhere in the West and around the world. No sharia courts should be permitted outside of the Islamic world. The Quran—the ultimate source of sharia—oppresses women and people generally.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Islamic holy book is too patriarchal and culture—bound to be relevant to the new millennium.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">James M. Arlandson may be reached at <a href="mailto:jamesmarlandson@hotmail.com" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">jamesmarlandson@hotmail.com</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Readers may go to these three sites for other translations of the Quran: <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">this one</a> has multiple translations; <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">this one</a> has three; and <a href="http://www.ummah.net/what%E2%80%94is%E2%80%94islam/quran/neindex.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">this conservative translation</a> is subsidized by the Saudi royal family.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Here</a> is the website for the online hadith.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A good online resource for the historical context of a sura is <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/maududi/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">here</a>, where Maududi provides excellent background material.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If readers would like to see many links to women's issues, they should go to this <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Authors/Arlandson/beating.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> and scroll down to the end. It has modern views in the Islamic world on wife—beating. This <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Women/index.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">webpage</a> has a number of links to women's issues, as well. This is a superb <a href="http://debate.domini.org/newton/womeng.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">overview</a> of the Quran and hadith on women's inferior status in Islam. This online <a href="http://answeringislam.org/Women/place.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">booklet</a> explores the differing ideas in Islam and Christianity on the place of women.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This short <a href="http://ivpress.gospelcom.net/groothuis/doug/archives/000134.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">article</a> reviews Jesus' attitude towards women. This short <a href="http://www.xn--lightoflife-2g3fc.com/eng/reveal/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">chapter</a> has an excellent overview on the differences between Islam and Christianity and women's role in each.</span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-41246525420664704332016-08-28T09:09:00.002-07:002016-08-28T09:09:43.400-07:00On Islamic Violence: Forget the Koran, Look to History<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/08/04/on-islamic-violence-forget-the-koran-look-to-history/">Raymond Ibrahim</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The debate around Muslim violence all too often centers around doctrine—around what the Koran and Hadith (words and deeds of Muhammad) really mean and say. Forgotten in this debate is that Islamic scriptures are unnecessary in determining whether Islam teaches violence and war against non-Muslims.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Consider some <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">facts</em>, attested to by both Muslim and non-Muslim primary historic sources: A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the 7<span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th </span>century, the jihad burst out of Arabia. In just a few decades, Muslims had permanently conquered what was then two-thirds of the Christian world. The heart of the Muslim world today—nations like Egypt, Syria, all of North Africa, Turkey and more—were, in the 7<span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> century, the heart of Christendom.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thereafter it was a continuous war on Christian Europe. Among other nations and territories that were attacked and/or came under Muslim domination throughout the centuries are (to give them their modern names and in no particular order): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Crete, Cyprus, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Belarus, Malta, Sardinia, Moldova, Slovakia, and Montenegro.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Less than three decades after the traditional date of Islam’s founding (622), three of the five original Christian centers (“sees”) founded by the apostles—in Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem—were forever swallowed up by Islam; the fourth, Constantinople, valiantly resisted the Islamic onslaught for centuries, but was finally conquered in the name of Islam in 1453. Though sacked and burned by Muslims as early as 846, only distant Rome—the Vatican, fifth of the ancient Christian sees—remained unconquered.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The few European regions that escaped direct Islamic occupation due to their northwest remoteness include Great Britain, Scandinavia, and Germany. That, of course, does not mean that they were not attacked by Islam. Indeed, in the furthest northwest of Europe, in Iceland, Christians used to pray that God save them from the “terror of the Turk.” This was not mere paranoia; as late as 1627, Muslim corsairs raided the northern Christian island seizing four hundred captives and selling them in the slave markets of Algiers.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nor did America escape. A few years after the formation of the United States, in 1800, American trading ships in the Mediterranean were plundered and their sailors enslaved by Muslim corsairs. The ambassador of Tripoli <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/from-barbary-wars-to-somali-piracy/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e5554e; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">explained</a> to Thomas Jefferson that it was a Muslim’s right and duty to make war upon non-Muslims wherever they could be found, and to enslave as many as they could take as prisoners.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Six hundred years later, in the 14<span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> century, Byzantine emperor Paleologus II told a Muslim scholar: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman — such as the command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Such was the honesty of interfaith dialoguing in former times.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It deserves repeating, by the standards of historiography, the aforementioned historical outline is unassailable, and attested to by both Muslim and European sources, from the traditional beginning of Islam till the modern era.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In short, regardless of what the Koran and other Islamic scriptures really “mean,” for roughly one millennium—punctuated by a Crusader-rebuttal that the modern West is obsessed with demonizing—Muslims waged unrelenting war on the West. And they did and continue doing so <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">in the name of Islam</em>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And therein lies the rub: Today, whether as taught in high school or graduate school, whether as portrayed by Hollywood or the news media, the predominant historic narrative is that Muslims are the historic “victims” of “intolerant” Western Christians. (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/growing-persecution-of-christians-in-islamic-world/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e5554e; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Watch my response</a> to a Fox News host wondering why Christians have always persecuted Muslims.)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here we are, paying the price of being an ahistorical society: A few years after the Islamic strikes of 9/11—merely the latest in the centuries-long, continents-wide jihad on the West—Americans elected (twice) a man with a Muslim name and heritage for president; a man who <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/confirmed-u-s-chief-facilitator-of-christian-persecution/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e5554e; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">openly empowers the same Islamic ideology that Western warriors fought for centuries</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Surely the United States’ European forebears—who at one time or another either fought off or were conquered by Islam—must be turning in their graves.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But all this is history, you say? Why rehash it? Why not let it be and move on, begin a new chapter of mutual tolerance and respect, even if history must be “touched up” a bit?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This would be a somewhat plausible position if not for the fact that, all around the globe, Muslims are <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">still</em> exhibiting the same <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfACr-y4s#t=52" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e5554e; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">imperial impulse</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1621570258&linkCode=as2&tag=uhurnetw-20" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e5554e; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">intolerant supremacism</a> that their conquering forbears did. The only difference is that the Muslim world is currently incapable of defeating the West through a conventional war.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet this may not even be necessary. Thanks to the West’s ignorance of history, Muslims are allowed to flood Europe, so that hardly a day now passes without headlines of Muslim on non-Muslim violence. <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/07/26/eject-western-traitors-beat-islamic-terrorists/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e5554e; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Most recently</a>—or at least as of this writing—Muslims invaded a church in France, forced the priest on his knees, and slit his throat.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All this leads to another, equally important point: If the true history of the West and Islam is being turned upside down, what other historical “truths” being peddled around today are equally false? The narrative concerning Islam’s alleged peacefulness is only being questioned because the world sees Muslims committing violence on a daily basis. But surely there are other nefarious and seditious forces that are intelligent enough not to expose themselves?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the future (whatever one there may be) the histories written about our times will likely stress how our era, ironically called the “information age,” was not an age when people were so well informed, but rather an age when disinformation was so widespread and unquestioned that generations of people lived in bubbles of alternate realities—till they were finally popped.</span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-71731907556458898342016-08-26T18:15:00.001-07:002016-08-26T18:15:31.751-07:00Obama Provides Iran With $1.3 Billion, But Where Did The Money Go?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Why the Obama administration is refusing to say where the funds ended up</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It appears that when it comes to its dealings with the Islamic Republic, the Obama administration’s miscues are boundless. The latest fiasco involves the recent transfer of <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-dept.-cant-say-who-in-iran-got-another-1.3-billion/article/2599905" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">$1.3 billion</a> in taxpayer money to Iran’s mullahs. Both the White House and the State Department are shamefully unable or unwilling to provide the public with any pertinent information concerning the transfer. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At a State Department briefing, spokesman Mark Toner remained opaque and evasive about the transaction and said that he did not know who in Iran received the money. Nor was he able to confirm the method of payment -- check or cash, U.S. or foreign currency. All he was able to disclose was that the funds transferred reflected money -- principle and interest -- owed to Iran from a 1979 aborted arms deal.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An additional $400 million was transferred to Iran last month and was part of an overall payment of $1.7 billion. According to the administration, the monies paid reflected a settlement of Iran’s claims against the U.S. stemming from the 1979 aborted arms transaction. Ironically, the Iranians were not required to pay anything to the 52 American hostages they kidnapped in 1979. Those hostages were held in dungeon-like conditions for 444 days. Like all transactions conducted by the Obama administration, the benefits flow one way.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are several troubling aspects to this story. Though the administration has issued strenuous denials, it is clear that the first installment of $400 million was a ransom payment made to secure the release of Americans held hostage in Iran. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At a briefing in early August, White House spokesman Josh Earnest refused to directly address the following question posed by a journalist; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qnHDYaI6A" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">“would these prisoners have been released if this money had not been paid?”</a> The question was posed on no less than three occasions and required a simple “yes” or “no” response. The shifty Earnest was evasive and refused to provide a direct response. Instead, he offered painfully convoluted explanations that shed light on nothing except for how disingenuous he is.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the State Department briefing, Toner came very close to acknowledging that the $400 million payment was in fact a ransom payment. He stated that while the payment was part of an overall commercial settlement, it was used as “leverage” to ensure that the Americans were released. The White House however, immediately repudiated the State Department’s characterization.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We thought that Obama could stoop no lower after he traded five hard-core Taliban terrorists held at Guantanamo for the deserter and traitor Bowe Bergdahl. We were wrong. The feckless White House is now in the business of disgracefully paying two-bit dictators protection money. Obama can issue all the denials he wants but if it walks like a ransom payment and talks like a ransom payment, it is most likely a ransom payment.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even if we gave the administration the benefit of the doubt, the harm caused by the mere appearance of a ransom payment is incalculable and puts the safety of Americans throughout the world at risk. Somali pirates, Islamic terrorists, the North Koreans and others engaged in the kidnapping business are all watching.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even more disconcerting is the second installment of $1.3 billion to the Iranians. One would think that with such a large transfer of taxpayer money, the recipients and method of payment could be verified. But the administration is being deliberately evasive on this issue because it is cognizant of the fact that the money was likely transferred to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the entity that pulls the strings in the Islamic Republic and is responsible for much of region’s turmoil.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once in the coffers of the IRGC, the hefty sum was almost certainly used to further fuel regional mischief. The IRGC is the entity singularly responsible for propping up Bashar Assad of Syria. It is also a virtual certainty that some of the money was allocated to Iran’s Shia mercenary force in Lebanon, Hezbollah, and it could not have come at a more opportune for the group, which had been suffering from financial distress in recent years. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Obama administration has turned into Iran’s White Knight, saving the Islamic Republic from financial ruin while providing it with a legal pathway to acquire nuclear weapons through the flawed Iran deal. Ironically, Obama, who claims that running the Guantanamo facility is too expensive and drains resources has no qualms whatsoever about transferring $1.7 billion in taxpayer money to America’s most implacable foe. But then again, judging by his foreign policies, it is unclear whether he even considers Iran an enemy.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In one of the great speeches of the 20th century, General Charles de Gaulle on BBC Radio on June 18,1940 spoke to the French people after the government of France had capitulated to Nazi Germany. Optimistically, he argued that France would be able in the future to overcome the enemy by a "superior mechanical force." The fate of the world depended on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hope, de Gaulle said, must not disappear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today, the democratic world must respond to the enemy, radical Islam and Islamist terrorism, with the same force and in the same spirit that de Gaulle embodied. The task has become increasingly difficult and complicated with the changing nature of the threat and the varied massacres and terrorist Islamist attacks. The West has also now become aware of the sophisticated propaganda machine of the jihadist terrorist groups, especially ISIS, whose propaganda spreads on the internet, Skype, Facebook, YouTube, and satellite outlets. Now revelations about one intelligence unit, EMNI, responsible for an external terrorist network, of the secret service of ISIS, is the latest cause for Western concern. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first organized attack on the West came from groups such as al-Qaeda that concentrated on important or symbolic targets. Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 and war on U.S., arguing that the U.S. had massacred Muslim people and supported Israel. To this attack was added the fight against those regimes, including Saudi Arabia, that aided the U.S. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then terrorist groups in different countries attacked "soft targets" – train stations and hotels. More recently, so-called lone wolf jihadists have attacked Jewish museums, night clubs, the promenade of a fashionable seaside resort, in European countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is essential for all defending Western civilization to be aware of the ideology that drives all these different terrorist activities. The rise of Islamist violence and terrorism has illustrated a clash of cultures in the world, not universal agreement on some hypothetical end of history. Muslim societies accepting that "the Koran is our Constitution" are antithetical to Western democracies and the secular rule of law. Glorification of terrorists is incompatible with a system of law and order, however imperfect. The rise of jihadism stems from an extreme form of Islam, not the revenge of Muslim countries for Western colonialism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The problem for the West started in the 18th century in the area of Najd in the Arabian Peninsula, when two men met. One was a religious figure, Abd al-Wahhab, son of an Islamic cleric (juge) who wanted to stop Bedouins from being pagans. The objective was to return to a "pure" Islam, that of the Prophet and his companions. This was the extreme, puritanical, and rigid form of Islamist doctrine. This overlaps with Salafism, which goes back to an even earlier period, the first three generations of Islam, the so-called "Pious Predecessors." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the small town of Diriya, Wahhab in 1744 met Ibn Saud, ruler of the area, and agreed on an arrangement. This was the pact that involved the lowering of taxes on agricultural products and the raising of revenue by a process of jihad and conquest of neighboring cities on one side and religious extremism on the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The alliance of the two men led to conquest of Arabia and the imposition of both centralized administration and the extreme religious point of view on it. The area gradually changed from continual tribal wars in search of spoils to a political center and a dominant Saudi ruling family, and to Wahhabism, an extreme form of Islam, as the dominant form.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At first, Wahhabism was concerned with defense of Muslim countries against "impurity" within them. This meant having a military force, a fanatical sect that included mercenaries. Then grew the emphasis on jihad, the assault of Western systems, that became more urgent with the creation by Hassan al-Banna, a 22-year old teacher, in 1928 in Cairo of the Muslim Brotherhood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was the first important movement that tried to unite activist Muslims to affirm an Islamic identity in the face of British and French colonialism. Therefore, a major objective of Banna was the restoration of the caliphate, a political system that had been abolished by Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1924, to rule over Arab countries. Moreover, that caliphate was to exercise political power, to become politically important, and to reform society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Parenthetically, Banna was the grandfather of Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-born academic, often a spokesperson for the Brotherhood and an extreme critic of Israel. In 2013, he wrote that the overthrow of the Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, Brotherhood leader, was orchestrated by a conspiracy of the U.S. and Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Inherent in the position of the Brotherhood is that the Muslim ruler should be destroyed if he contravenes the divine law. The Brotherhood had tried to assassinate President Gamal Abdel Nasser in October 1954 and succeeded in assassinating President Anwar Sadat on October 6, 1981.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the 1960s, the Brotherhood became even more extreme with the influence of Sayyid Qutb, who emphasized resort to violence and overthrow of bad Muslim governments. It was the teaching of Qutb, who was executed in 1966, that led to Sadat's assassination and to continuing jihadism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the West, the threat of Salafist jihadist terrorism stems from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The opposition to that event was a combination of Saudi and American force, the employment of American money and the CIA, and the recruitment of local fighters by the U.S. and Pakistan. Motives were different. The U.S. was engaged in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The local fighters were liberating territory of an occupied Muslim country. The Taliban was born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Salafists are of various kinds. Some insist on piety, education, and predication; others are more interested in political and nonviolent reforms. The third group, advocates of global jihadism, is what affects the West and Muslim countries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Starting in the fight against regimes of Algeria and Egypt, jihadism spread to Albania and the Caucasus. By late 1990s, global jihad against the West was basis of al-Qaeda. The fall of Saddam Hussein led al-Qaeda to become influential in Iraq. Organized jihadism then became nihilist, with the creation of ISIS in 2006 and the caliphate in 2013, both jihadist and a territorial state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like de Gaulle in 1940 fighting against Nazi Germany, Western leaders, together with Russia, must pluck up courage and fight the evil. It helps to know who the enemy is. The next president of the U.S. must fight from the front, not from behind.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-79234836271302496122016-08-14T08:38:00.000-07:002016-08-18T10:16:46.304-07:00Will Barack Obama Try To Stay In Office If Donald Trump Wins The Election?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/will-barack-obama-try-to-stay-in-office-if-donald-trump-wins-the-election">Michael Snyder</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If Donald Trump wins in November, will Barack Obama leave office and hand over power in an orderly fashion? Normally we would not even have to ask such a question, but these are not normal times. This week, Obama publicly stated that Trump “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/08/02/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-lee-singapore-joint-press" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="is unfit to serve as President">is unfit to serve as President</a>” and that he is “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/08/02/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-lee-singapore-joint-press" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="woefully unprepared to do this job">woefully unprepared to do this job</a>“. In addition, he told the press that Trump “doesn’t have the judgment, the temperament, the understanding to occupy the most powerful position in the world.” If Obama really believes those things are true, would he really just stand aside and hand the keys to the White House to Trump?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Never before have I ever heard a sitting president claim that one of the major party candidates could not function as president. But that is what Obama has just done. The following is an excerpt from a transcript of remarks made by Obama earlier this week that comes <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/08/02/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-lee-singapore-joint-press" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="directly from the official White House website">directly from the official White House website</a>. I have highlighted certain phrases in bold text, because I want you to truly consider the implications of what he is saying here…</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But there have been Republican Presidents with whom I disagreed with, </span><strong style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">but I didn’t have a doubt that they could function as President</strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. I think I was right, and Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on certain policy issues, but I never thought </span><strong style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">that they couldn’t do the job</strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. And had they won, I would have been disappointed, but I would have said to all Americans they are — this is our President, and I know they’re going to abide by certain norms and rules and common sense, will observe basic decency, will have enough knowledge about economic policy and foreign policy and our constitutional traditions and rule of law that our government will work, and then we’ll compete four years from now to try to win an election.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>But that’s not the situation here</strong>. And that’s not just my opinion; that is the opinion of many prominent Republicans.<strong>There has to come a point at which you say, enough</strong>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Earlier today, I came across an outstanding article <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/the-obvious-question-no-ones-asking-obama/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="by Joseph Farah of WND">by Joseph Farah of WND</a> in which he summarized the claims that Obama was making against Trump…</span>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He said Trump would not abide by “norms and rules and common sense.”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He questioned whether he would “observe basic decency” should he reach the Oval Office.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He said he would have been disappointed to lose the elections of 2008 and 2012, but never doubted whether his rivals in those elections, John McCain and Mitt Romney, could function as president or had the knowledge to make government work. “That’s not the situation here,” he added.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He added Trump “doesn’t have the judgment, the temperament, the understanding, to occupy the most powerful position in the world.”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He said he was “woefully unprepared to do this job.”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Obama said Trump lacked knowledge about Europe, the Middle East and other parts of Asia.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is some extremely strong language, and I truly wish one of the reporters at the press conference would have asked one incredibly important follow up question.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Will Barack Obama try to stay in office if Donald Trump wins the election?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In his article, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/the-obvious-question-no-ones-asking-obama/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Joseph Farah raised the same issue">Joseph Farah raised the same issue</a>…</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If no one else will ask the question, I will: “Mr. President, if Donald Trump wins the election to become the next president of the United States, will you willingly and peacefully leave office and cooperate fully with the transition of power the way all of your predecessors in the White House have done in the past?”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It’s a simple question that needs to be asked and answered – given Obama’s highly inflammatory rhetoric over the last week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like Farah, I believe that it is a fair question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If Barack Obama truly believes all of the things he said about Donald Trump, does he also believe that he has a responsibility to keep Donald Trump from taking office?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Absent a major national emergency of some sort, this would be very difficult for Obama to do. But if there were some sort of enormous national crisis between now and next January, Barack Obama could potentially employ some of the extraordinary emergency powers that have been endowed on the office of the president over the past several decades.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is not a single statute, regulation, executive order or presidential directive that contains all of the powers that a president would possess during a major national emergency. Rather, these powers have been layered on top of one another for a very long period of time, and they come from literally dozens of different laws, regulations, court decisions, executive orders and presidential directives.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One document that I would refer you to is <a href="https://www.fema.gov/pdf/about/org/ncp/nspd_51.pdf" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="National Security Presidential Directive 51">National Security Presidential Directive 51</a> which was put into effect during the Bush administration. It is all about “national continuity policy” and it defines a “catastrophic emergency” as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions”.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In such a scenario, the president would have almost unlimited power, and he would wield enormously powerful executive orders <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="such as this one">such as this one</a>. If there was a big enough emergency, the president would potentially be able to declare martial law, suspend elections and essentially become a dictator.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let us hope that we never see such a thing play out in the United States of America.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the moment, there is not much of a threat that Obama will try to stop Trump from taking office because Hillary Clinton has jumped out <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/04/clinton-jumps-big-lead-over-trump-new-national-polls/88268536/" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="to a huge lead in the latest McClatchy-Marist poll">to a huge lead in the latest McClatchy-Marist poll</a>…</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The former secretary of State gained ground in the McClatchy-Marist poll, and Trump lost support. Clinton had the support of 48% of those surveyed, and Trump had 33%. Last month, Clinton had 42% while Trump had 33%.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When third-party candidates are included, Clinton’s lead held strong. She had 45%, and Trump had 31%, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 10% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein had 6%.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the latest <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/nbc-wsj-poll-clinton-jumps-nine-point-lead-over-trump-n623131" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll">NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll</a> found that Clinton is leading Trump by a 47 percent to 38 percent margin.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One thing that I found interesting about both of these polls is that they show two third party candidates gaining ground. The <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/nbc-wsj-poll-clinton-jumps-nine-point-lead-over-trump-n623131" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll">NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll</a> had Gary Johnson with 10 percent support and Jill Stein at five percent.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jill Stein is still behind Johnson at this point, but she is potentially the much stronger candidate. If she starts to catch fire with Bernie Sanders supporters, she could possibly even hit the 15 percent threshold for being invited to participate in the upcoming presidential debates.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And Donald Trump certainly needs something to change about this race, because right now he is really struggling.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But there is a long way to go until November, and as we have seen, anything is likely to happen in this election cycle.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The status of Islam should be clarified if the debate on how to defeat terrorism is ever to bear fruit. Islam, I would argue, is not a religion in the common acceptation of the term as a community of believers dedicated to the loving worship of the Divine, the sanctity of life, and the institution of moral principles governing repentance for sins and crimes, making life on earth a stage toward a higher reincarnation, an ineffable peace, or a confirmatory prelude to eternity in the realm of a righteous and merciful God.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In fact, Islam is an unrepentant politico-expansionist movement clothed in the trappings of religion and bent on universal conquest by whatever means it can mobilize: deception (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">taqiyya</em>), social and cultural infiltration, or bloody violence, as its millennial history and authoritative scriptures have proven. (See Koran 13:41, which is meant literally despite the attempt of apologists to launder its purport: “Do they not see that We are advancing in the land, diminishing it by its borders on all sides?”)</span>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It countenances no separation between church and state, that is, it cannot render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. The scope of its ambition is <a href="http://islamicencyclopedia.org/public/index/topicDetail/id/547" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">khilafil</a>, that is, the establishment of a Caliphate requiring that a state—ultimately a universal state—be ruled by Islamic law. As Muslim scholar <a href="http://www.jaafaridris.com/front-page/biography/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Jaafar Sheikh Idris</a> <a href="http://www.awsg.us/the-truth-about-islam-in-its-own-words/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">explains</a>, “Secularism cannot be a solution for countries with a Muslim majority or even a sizeable minority, for it requires people to replace their God-given beliefs with an entirely different set of man-made beliefs. Separation of religion and state is not an option for Muslims because it requires us to abandon Allah’s decree for that of man.”</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The standard rebuttal that all faiths have at one time or another shown themselves prone to violence and repression misses the essential point. All the major religions have reformed themselves, reducing or eliminating the all-too-human tendency to sanctimonious oppression—and none of these faiths, let us remember, endorsed oppression as a <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">universal</em> creedal or Divine imperative. Such is not the case with Islam, a communion that since its inception in the 7<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">th</span> century has seldom strayed from its sanguinary path of carnage and subdual. Its incendiary prescriptions and commands, as many scholars have noted, are open-ended and contain no “sunset clause.” They are perpetual and mandatory, feeding what essayist Bill Kassel <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/no_secular_option.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">calls</a> “religious-themed barbarism.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Others might argue that world-historical numbers are sufficient to constitute the legitimacy of a belief system. An <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">umma</em> comprising a billion-and-a-half adherents is no trifling matter. Numbers, however, do not in themselves determine what qualifies as an ethically reputable, socially harmonious or spiritually viable religion or political grouping. Nazism and Communism counted in the millions of devout believers, but no reasonable person would consider such covenants as morally justifiable. Not coincidentally, both of these totalitarian movements found a natural home in Islam: Communism in the pan-Arab nationalist movement (see Eric Davis, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2amJVDN" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Memories of State</a></em>, and the purpose of the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Containing-Arab-Nationalism-Eisenhower-Doctrine/dp/0807855081/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1469712194&sr=1-1&keywords=the+eisenhower+doctrine" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Eisenhower Doctrine</a>) and Nazism in a canonical Islam already richly manured with anti-Semitic beliefs and tropes. With respect to the latter, we recall the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem <a href="https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007665" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Haj Amin al-Husseini</a>’s infamous collaboration with Hitler to further the aims of the Axis powers and facilitate the Nazi “final solution” of the “Jewish question.” Islam plainly shares the same septicemic tendencies and imperial ambitions as its two erstwhile political allies, as it does their popular appeal.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam is, consequently, not a “religion of peace,” as our weak-minded and complicit “leaders”—politicians, intellectuals, academics and journalists—tirelessly and tiresomely claim. “Islam is not terrorizing the West because it <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">can</em>,” <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263645/oust-western-traitors-beat-islamic-jihad-raymond-ibrahim" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">writes</a> Raymond Ibrahim, “but because it is being <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">allowed</em> to”—legally as well as sentimentally, we might add. In the name of avoiding so-called slanderous stereotypes and of promoting “diversity,” the powers-that-be refuse to recognize that Islam is, in effect, a triumphalist political theology of conquest and colonial subordination wherever and whenever it manifests itself, and has shown itself to be largely immune to doctrinal retrofitting.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In response to an article I recently posted on PJ Media, titled “<a href="https://pjmedia.com/blog/how-to-defeat-terrorism/?singlepage=true" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">How to Defeat Terrorism</a>,” a number of commenters objected to the litany of harsh measures I proposed to check the depredations of Islam, on the grounds that they violated the provisions of the First Amendment. Among the freedoms it guarantees, the First Amendment specifies that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” If, these skeptics fear, one creates an exception to the Constitution and allows the government to certify what clerics are permitted to preach, such an intervention could be misused in the future against any person or institution the authorities deem unacceptable. This caveat must be acknowledged and taken into consideration, but, as we will see in the ensuing, the issue is not as definitive as it might initially appear.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rebecca Bynum, publisher and managing editor of the <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">New English Review</em></a>, has brilliantly analyzed the doctrinal nature of Islam in connection with the extent and the limits of the First Amendment in her masterful 2011 study <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008625274107" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">Allah Is Dead: Why Islam Is Not a Religion</em></a>. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in examining the theological-and-political orientation of Islam, in particular for anyone who is unclear or apprehensive about the legislative purview of the First Amendment. The fundamental questions Bynum addresses are whether or not Islam “should rightly be classified as a religion, let alone an ‘Abrahamic religion’ or one of the ‘world’s great religions,’” and whether or not the Constitution protects freedom of religion “but only within certain bounds.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An important precedent, she continues, involved the status of polygamy in the Mormon faith, a usage rejected by the federal government, which threatened Utah with military invasion unless it repudiated the practice, <a href="http://billofrightsinstitute.org/educate/educator-resources/lessons-plans/landmark-supreme-court-cases-elessons/reynolds-v-united-states-1878/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">the Supreme Court having ruled in 1878</a> that it is not just to tolerate polygamy in the name of religious freedom. The ruling <a href="http://www.casebriefsummary.com/reynolds-v-united-states/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">read</a>, in part: “The government cannot make laws regarding religion, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">but can reach actions when the principles are a violation of ‘social duties or subversive of good order’.” </strong>The state complied, officially banning polygamy in the territory. As a result, “[T]he Mormon Church now has protection under the religious liberty clause, but it did not while…its members practiced polygamy.” Curiously, although polygamy is permitted in Islam (Koran 4:3, Bukhari 62.2,6), the government has not moved to prohibit it among its Muslim citizens as a violation of moral and religious principle. What’s not good for Mormonism is apparently good for Islam, the historic interpretation of the First Amendment be damned.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Founders, Bynum asserts, “clearly meant to define religion in a Judeo-Christian context.” Islam, however, “is self-segregating, fosters ideas of Muslim supremacy and thereby sows seeds of social discord.” What kind of religion, we might ask, degrades women as second-class citizens, approves anti-Semitism, preaches hatred against “infidels,” sponsors terrorist attacks on an almost daily basis with Koranic warrant, and wishes to impose Sharia, “a parallel legal system based on inequality,” on its Western host countries?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Furthermore, as we have seen, Islam insists on territorial sovereignty and does not distinguish between theology and politics, which is why its definitional status as a “religion” is or should be moot. Its rituals, edicts, directives and precepts impact culture, politics and society as a whole on both the macro and micro levels. Bynum gets to the heart of the matter: “If Islam continues to be classified as a religion and given the full protection and benefits religions receive in America, then we will be helpless to contain it.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Similarly, Charles Moore’s argument in <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/to-beat-islamist-terror-france-must-close-the-gulf-between-church-and-state/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160728_Weekly_Highlights_30_non_subs" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">The Spectator</em></a> concerning terror-embattled France—that “it must close the gulf between church and state”—pertains equally to us. I would modify his statement by suggesting that the gulf should not be closed, as in Islam, but it must certainly be narrowed, which is probably what he meant to say. “[W]hat happens,” he asks, “when, in the name of one religion, men in France enter the temple of another and slit the throat of a priest, as happened this week near Rouen? The historical justification for <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">laïcité </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">[secularism] </em>has been that it is necessary to ensure peace and liberty for believers and unbelievers alike. It does not seem to work in modern France, where the political resistance to the discussion of religion is such that a policy against Islamism [sic] cannot be formulated.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It doesn’t work here either. “Free societies,” <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-europe-helpless-1469488738" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">observes</a> Bret Stephens in <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">The Wall Street Journal</em>, articulating a historically validated truism, “cannot survive through progressive accommodations to barbarians.” In the same vein, Ibrahim <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/07/heres_why_europe_is_plagued_by_islamic_terror.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">alludes to</a> the statistical reality of Islam’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2013/05/28/islams-rule-of-numbers-and-the-london-beheading/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">rule of Numbers</a> (which refers not to the world-wide Islamic census, but to the rise of violence proportionate to Muslim immigration figures): “The more Muslims grow in numbers, the more Islamic phenomena intrinsic to the Muslim world—in this case, brazen violence against ‘infidels’—appear.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I would therefore agree with Bynum that, as historically and scripturally constituted, Islam is not entitled to the protectionist provisions of the First Amendment. Its exclusion would solve the problem of potential abuse of the Amendment’s terms and stipulations. Islam’s tenets and articles of belief, undeniably unjust, tyrannical and socially disruptive in their practical effects and moral implications, should be construed constitutionally inadmissible, in line with the determination of the Supreme Court in its 1878 decision. Indeed, the issue is far graver today than it was a century and a half ago.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bynum’s final chapter furnishes a compendious list of categories that define the true nature of religion, and makes it clear that Islam does not pass muster. As she summarizes, “Just because Muslims are convinced Islam is a religious faith, doesn’t mean the rest of us have to accept it as such under our laws, laws that were meant to foster religions that exalt value, advance morality, nurture the individual, preserve wisdom, promote peace, strengthen the family and have a transcendent purpose.” I can’t but assume that <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/98/145/case.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Chief Justice Waite</a>, who delivered the opinion of the 1878 court, would have concurred.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As Bynum writes in her more recent (2014) <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2amJV6W" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">The Real Nature of Religions</a></em>, “the belief system of Islam is currently the final bastion sustaining war and conquest <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">as a religious obligation</em>” (italics mine). Its spiritual nature and moral vision are antithetical to both the idea and the ideal of a genuine religious communion. On the contrary, its drive and aspiration are khilafil. As a result, I believe it is fair to say that Islam, which she describes as “the duck-billed platypus of belief systems,” is a theological-political hybrid intent on domination—the conversion, taxing (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">jizzya</em>) or annihilation—of the non-Muslim world, defined in Islam as the <a href="http://www.khilafah.com/clarifying-the-meaning-of-dar-al-kufr-a-dar-al-islam/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">Dar-al-Harb</em></a> (House or Land of War). It’s there in the holy books for anyone to read. It’s there in the calls from the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/minbar" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">minbar</em></a> and the <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?noj=1&site=webhp&source=hp&q=khutbah&oq=khutbah&gs_l=hp.3..35i39l2j0l8.588.2421.0.3121.8.8.0.0.0.0.192.1404.0j8.8.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..0.7.1245.0..0i131j0i67.Nl1BZkV3eQc" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">khutbah</em></a> for anyone to hear. It’s there in the diktats of the <a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ulema" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">ulema</em></a> for anyone with the stamina to comb the literature to find. It’s there in the historical annals for anyone to study. It’s there among the bodies of the murdered and the mutilated for anyone, who has the stomach for it, to witness.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To conclude. In the words of the Supreme Court judgment, the “principles” of Islam are a violation of “social duties and good order.” As such, Islam does not merit the legal shelter of the First Amendment. Measures to limit its influence—a halt to unvetted immigration, restrictions on subversive preaching, dead-bolting dissident mosques, de-licensing inflammatory imams, prohibiting the establishment of no-go zones, invigilating Muslim schools, preventing Muslim conversion tactics in prisons, and decreeing Sharia in contravention of common law and incompatible with pluralistic Western democracies—are fully justified.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We can be sure that as things now stand the Democratic Party (like the Liberal Party in my own country) will do nothing of significance to combat the growing demographic weight of Islam and the terror that flows from it—as <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">National Post</em>columnist Rex Murphy <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-by-killing-a-priest-in-france-terrorists-have-clearly-stated-theyre-waging-a-war-on-western-religion" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">says</a>, “The attacks come at such speed…[w]e need a terror spreadsheet”—but will continue to cater to the Muslim voting bloc while engineering the collapse of the classical liberal traditions that have guaranteed our freedoms and prosperity. Progressivism and Islam go hand in hand—until, that is, the day when Islam is strong enough to destroy its collaborator. Refusing to meaningfully resist the Muslim incursion into the body social can lead only to the formation of a dhimmified culture, at which point it may be too late to reclaim our patrimony. Islam is a civilizational enemy that has no business claiming asylum under the aegis of the First Amendment and our political establishment has no business giving Islam a constitutional waiver. If Pope Francis is correct when he <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/07/27/pope-francis-the-world-is-at-war-but-it-is-not-a-war-of-religions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">proclaims</a> that “religions don’t want war,” then Islam is not a religion.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Commenting on the Danish People’s Party’s call to shut down Muslim immigration, American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/07/second_largest_party_in_denmark_calls_for_a_halt_to_muslim_immigration.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">writes:</a> “As the West grapples with the threat of violent jihad, I suspect we will be seeing more consideration of whether Islam is merely a religion or rather a totalitarian political doctrine.” Let’s hope he’s right.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-25279991605369188072016-08-01T10:43:00.001-07:002016-08-01T10:43:53.308-07:00Islam, Sexual Violence, and the West<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/5537/islam-sexual-violence-and-the-west#">Noah Beck</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/5130/the-new-terror-threat-organized-rape" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">mass rape</a> of hundreds of German women mostly by Muslim migrants last New Year's was recently revealed to be far worse than originally acknowledged. Authorities <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/10/leaked-document-says-2000-men-allegedly-assaulted-1200-german-women-on-new-years-eve/" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">now believe</a> that more than 1,200 women were sexually assaulted – more than twice the original estimate of 500. While more than 2,000 men were allegedly involved, only 120 suspects — about half of them recently arrived migrants — have been identified.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20160711/AP/307119863/" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">One explanation</a> for why it took half a year for the full extent of the crime to be revealed is the German police's effort to avoid a public backlash against refugees. But ultimately, Holger Munch, president of the German Federal Crime Police Office, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/10/leaked-document-says-2000-men-allegedly-assaulted-1200-german-women-on-new-years-eve/" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">acknowledged</a> to the German newspaper <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sueddeutsche Zeitung</i> that there is "a connection between the [sexual assaults] and the rapid migration in 2015."</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Denial is not a strategy. Western countries that cherish women's rights must wake up to the fact that many migrants could challenge those values. Most of the mass migration comes from violence-plagued, Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa, where women are second-class citizens <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.578635" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">subject to honor killings</a> and various legal restrictions, and where the local culture often <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261500/islamic-professor-muslims-can-rape-non-muslim-daniel-greenfield" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">condones rape</a>, <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1091.htm" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">encourages wife-beating</a>, and treats women as sexual objects (<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/72_Virgins" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">with 72 virgins promised</a> to Muslim men who reach heaven).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thus, just as the mass migration from the Middle East and North Africa raises the specter of regular Islamist terror on European soil, it also augurs the kind of sexual abuse that those regions have traditionally tolerated. German officials implicitly seemed to acknowledge as much with their laughably impotent campaign to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/01/22/germans-battle-refugee-sex-assaults-with-signs-cartoons.html" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">re-educate migrants using signs</a> that explain acceptable behavior towards women.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Non-Muslim ("infidel") women are especially vulnerable to sexual assault: Christian women are often <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3967/christian-women-degradation-islam" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">abused and denigrated</a> in Islamic societies, as extensively exposed by Raymond Ibrahim, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ATL9ZZQ/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00ATL9ZZQ&linkCode=as2&tag=thelasisr-20" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Crucified Again</i></a><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</i> The Islamic State (ISIS) <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/08/who-are-the-yazidis-and-why-does-isis-want-to-kill-them/" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">regards the Yazidi</a>, another religious minority, as devil worshippers and reportedly enslaved up to 5,000 Yazidi women, subjecting them to rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution and other acts of extreme brutality, like <a href="http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/woman-burnt-alive-by-islamic-state-for-refusing-extreme-sex-act/news-story/46e0b83f698a005ded63b0e8ebdb9a79" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">burning alive a 20-year-old girl</a> "because she refused to perform an extreme sex act."</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Saudi Arabia, arguably the leader of the Sunni Muslim world, has a legal system based on strict <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sharia</i> law, which prohibits women from dressing as they wish or even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywkCrEBcoww" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">driving a car</a>. Saudi rulings are notoriously abysmal when it comes to rape. Last year, a Saudi woman was <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Gang-raped-Saudi-woman-sentenced-to-200-lashes-6-months-in-jail-393193" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">sentenced to 200 lashes</a> after being gang raped by seven men. In 2013, a Saudi preacher who <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/fayhan-al-ghamdi-rapes-and-kills-daughter_n_4062652.html" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">raped, tortured, and murdered his 5-year old daughter</a> was punished with just eight years of prison, 800 lashes, and a $270,000 fine. With such legal norms, it's not surprising that when members of the country's ruling elite travel to the West, their behavior may not change accordingly (last October three women <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/27/saudi-arabia-prince-american-women-sexual-assault-beverly-hills" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">accused a Saudi prince of sexual assault</a> in Beverly Hills). By ironic and tragic contrast, U.S. soldiers stationed in Muslim majority countries are trained to respect local norms to the point that marines stationed in Afghanistan were actually <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/23/marines-taught-to-look-the-other-way-when-afghans-rape-children.html" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">taught to look away</a> if they find Afghanis raping children, a common local practice.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sharia</i> advocates often claim that the Islamic dress code protects women, the brutally unfair treatment of women by Islamists seems driven more by power-hungry male chauvinism and/or sexual insecurity than by any genuine concern for women's welfare, judging from the staggering hypocrisy of its proudest proponents. The <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4706/muslim-scholar-blames-porn-for-jihad" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">9/11 jihadists visited strip clubs</a>, and paid for prostitutes in their motel rooms. Anwar Al-Awlaki, the American-born imam whose sermons continue to attract recruits to jihad, <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/09/13/al-qaeda-terrorist-feared-his-love-of-sex-and-hookers-would-end-him" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">frequented prostitutes</a>. Osama bin Laden had an extensive <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/world/asia/14binladen.html?_r=0" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">pornography collection</a>, and is among the many examples of jihadis <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/02/17/why-are-jihadis-so-obsessed-with-porn/" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">obsessed with porn and prostitution</a> collected by Phyllis Chesler, a CUNY emerita professor of psychology and a fellow at the Middle East Forum.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Between 1997 and 2013, well before the recent mass migration to Europe began, an estimated 1,400 children had been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sexually abused</a> in Rotherham, England, predominantly by gangs of British-Pakistani men.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While that scandal involved mostly "white" victims, an Oxford-educated Pakistani-British woman <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/29/-sp-untold-story-culture-of-shame-ruzwana-bashir" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">revealed</a> her own exploitation, noting that "sexual abuse has been systemically under-reported among Asian girls due to deeply entrenched cultural taboos – obscuring the reality that there is a similarly rampant problem of minority girls being abused by members of their own community."</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A few weeks ago, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/03/foreign-men-blamed-after-mass-sex-assault-at-music-festival-youngest-victim-is-12-years-old/" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Swedish police received 35 complaints</a> from girls aged 12 to 17 who claimed that "foreign young men" sexually assaulted them at a popular music festival.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Soeren Kern, a distinguished senior fellow of the Gatestone Institute, compiled details of <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7557/germany-rape-migrants-crisis" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">dozens of sexual assaults by migrants</a> in Germany during the first two months of 2016, and noted the enabling reaction from "the upside-down worldview of German multiculturalism: Migrants who assault German women and children are simply rebelling against German power structures. Germans who dare to criticize such assaults are racists."</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In contrast to the initial cover-up by German police of the mass rape by mostly Muslim migrants, France's top security official recently spoke with candid alarm about the threat that his country faces. Just two days before the truck-ramming, ISIS-inspired massacre in Nice, Patrick Calvar, chief of the Directorate General of Internal Security, warned members of the French parliamentary commission that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3685561/France-verge-civil-war-sparked-mass-sexual-assault-women-migrants-intelligence-chief-warns.html" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">France is on the verge of a "civil war"</a> that could be sparked by the mass sexual assault of women by migrants.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are remarkable exceptions within Islam itself, such as <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3131511/Sex-Sahara-Striking-photographs-mysterious-Islamic-tribe-women-embrace-sexual-freedoms-dictate-gets-divorce-don-t-wear-veil-men-want-beautiful-faces.html" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">the Tuareg, an Islamic tribe in Africa</a>, where women embrace sexual freedoms, dictate who gets what in divorce, and don't wear the veil because men "want to see their beautiful faces." But how long can the Tuareg's enlightened version of Islam survive in southwest Libya when ISIS is expanding there, or in Mali, Niger and northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram is on the march?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are also brave Muslim reformers trying to improve the way Islam treats women. However, they mostly operate in the West, where they still face death threats; one example is <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/irshad-manji-islams-marked-woman-58908.html" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Irshad Manji</a>. Another, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadela_Amara" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Fadela Amara</a>, founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni_Putes_Ni_Soumises" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Ni Putes Ni Soumises</a>, a group that defends Muslim French girls against the pressures they face to wear the hijab, drop out of school, and marry early without the right to choose their husband. Amara went on to serve in the government of Nicolas Sarkozy, but she, too, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/cmlink/sarkozy-s-leftist-1.243315" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">received death threats</a> for her efforts to liberate Muslim women.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Muslim feminists outside of the West assume far greater risks. Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, who openly expressed her feminist views online, was recently <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2009/10/15/why-honor-killings-happen.html" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">strangled to death</a> by her brother in their family's home, in an "honor killing." Her "intolerable behavior" is what <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/17/pakistan-s-kim-kardashian-drugged-and-strangled-in-honor-killing.html" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">drove him to murder her</a>, he said, because her risqué persona was bringing "dishonor" to the family. There are an estimated <a href="http://hbv-awareness.com/statistics-data/" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">1,000 honor killings per year in Pakistan</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even in the West, few feminists dare to criticize Islam because doing so can <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/09/few-feminists-dare-criticise-islam-the-ones-who-do-should-be-praised-for-their-bravery/" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">invite threats and violence</a>. Absurdly, those brave enough to do so also risk <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/204661/denmark-convicts-iranian-woman-racism-calling-daniel-greenfield" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">being prosecuted for "hate speech."</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Western countries must support courageous Muslim reformers while protecting all women living in their territories from the sexual abuse often encouraged by Islamist culture – whether that abuse is perpetrated by recent immigrants or long-time residents. The survival of the West depends on it.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-12319579691422490022016-07-12T09:43:00.002-07:002016-07-12T09:43:53.510-07:00When Muslims Kill Muslims, They Can Still Act in the Name of Islam<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/07/11/when-muslims-kill-muslims-they-can-still-act-in-the-name-of-islam/">Raymond Ibrahim</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In light of the recent terrorist attacks in Muslim nations, the argument is again being made that, say what they will, the terrorists are obviously not acting in the name of Islam -- a religion which bans the indiscriminate slaughter of fellow Muslims.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet is it that simple?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since the Medieval era, Islamic clerics <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">have justified the killing of other Muslims</strong>-- either intentionally for not being “real” Muslims (e.g., Shias), or unintentionally as collateral damage (the murdered become “martyrs” and receive Islam’s highest paradisiacal rewards) -- in the name of jihad.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moreover, it’s clear that, whenever they can, the jihadis do make an effort to preserve the lives of Muslims. This was the case in the recent terror attack in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On July 1, 2016, six Islamic militants shouting Islam’s ancient war cry opened fire on a bakery in Dhaka, the nation’s capital. The assailants entered the bakery with crude bombs, machetes, and pistols, and took several dozen hostages. In the end, 28 people were killed -- but they were not murdered as indiscriminately as it would seem.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to one survivor <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/572265/news/world/bangladesh-siege-survivor-haunted-by-screams-of-victims" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">speaking</a> on condition of anonymity:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They burst [into] the restaurant firing their weapons and I could hear them shouting “Allahu Akbar.” They took me and two of my colleagues and forced us to sit on chairs, with our heads down on the table. They asked me whether I was a Muslim. As I said yes, they said they wouldn't harm or kill any Muslims. They will only kill the non-Muslims. All the time I prayed to Allah, keeping my head down. Several times I vomited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They said they had no intention of hurting us as we were Muslims.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Similarly, Rezaul Karim -- the father of Hasnat Karim, one of the hostages who spent 10 hours with the gunmen and lived to tell about it -- relayed his son’s experience:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The gunmen were doing a background check on religion by asking everyone to recite from the Quran. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">Those who could recite a verse or two were spared. The others were tortured</strong>.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In fact, the Muslim hostages were treated well and were exhorted to uphold their Islam:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"They (gunmen) did not behave rough with the Bangladesh nationals [i.e., Muslims],” Reazul said, based on his eyewitness son’s testimony: “Rather they provided [Ramadan] night meals for all Bangladeshis.”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to another rescued hostage speaking on condition of anonymity:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Late in the night, they asked us whether we were fasting as it's Ramadan. We said yes and they brought some food for us so we could eat before daybreak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When they realized that troops might storm the building, they came to our room one last time and told us not to tarnish the name of Islam, be a good Muslim and uphold the pride of Islam.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not only are these experiences telling, but separating Muslims from non-Muslims during a jihadi attack is hardly limited to this one incident:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Around 2:30 a.m. on <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/media-news-events/news/3237-libya-gunmen-separated-muslim-workers-from-christians-handcuffed-the-christians-and-drove-away-with-them?utm_source=Supporter+List&utm_campaign=ae4cbe46b0-December_9_NL_20149_9_2014&utm_medium=em" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">January 3</a>, 2015, masked men burst into a housing complex in Sirte, Libya. They went room to room checking ID cards, separated Muslims from Christians, handcuffed the latter and rode off with [13 of] them. According to Hanna Aziz, a Christian who was concealed in his room when the other Christians were seized, “While checking IDs, <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/1727805/islamist-militants-abduct-13-coptic-christians-in-libya-taken-in-middle-of-night/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Muslims were left aside while Christians were grabbed</a> … I heard my friends screaming but they were quickly shushed at gunpoint. After that, we heard nothing.”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These 13 Christians would later appear on video, along with another eight Christians abducted elsewhere, being beheaded on the shores of Libya by ISIS for<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/02/16/coptic-victims-mutter-o-lord-jesus-christ-before-slaughter/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">refusing</a> to renounce Christ and embrace Muhammad.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In October 2012 in Nigeria, Boko Haram Islamic jihadis stormed the Federal Polytechnic College. “[They] separated the Christian students from the Muslim students, addressed each victim by name, questioned them, and then proceeded to <a href="http://m.christianpost.com/news/christian-students-executed-by-boko-haram-in-nigeria-believers-pray-for-change-of-heart-82646/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">shoot them or slit their throat</a>.” They massacred about 30 Christians.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On November 20, 2015, Islamic jihadis seized 170 hostages and killed 20 others in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. Once again: “Some people were freed by the attackers after showing they <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/gunmen-attack-luxury-hotel-mali-capital-hostages-084238110.html?ref=gs" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">could recite verses from the Koran</a>.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On April 2, 2015 in Kenya, gunmen from the Somali Islamic group, Al Shabaab -- “the youth” -- stormed Garissa University, singled out Christian students, and murdered them. Some were beheaded. A total of 147 people were massacred, almost all of whom were Christian.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Joel Ayora, who survived the attack, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/02/africa/kenya-university-attack/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">said</a> gunmen burst into a Christian service, seized worshippers, and then “proceeded to the hostels, shooting anybody they came across except their fellows, the Muslims.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Collins Wetangula said gunmen were opening doors and inquiring if the people inside were Muslims or Christians: “If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot. With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because Kenya is a Christian-majority nation that still has a significant Muslim minority (about 12 percent), it furnishes many examples of Islamic terrorists -- mostly from neighboring Somalia’s Al Shabaab group -- sorting between Muslims and Christians before initiating the carnage:</span><br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 2014, approximately 50 militants from Al Shabaab went on a killing spree in Mpeketoni, a predominantly Christian town on Kenya’s coast. They chanted “Allahu Akbar,” <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/06/christians-targeted-in-massacre-by-al-shabaab-in-kenya/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">killed whoever could not recite verses from the Koran</a>, and went door-to-door asking residents their religion, killing those who answered “Christian.”More than 57 people were killed, including six children of church pastors.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“During a lull in the firing,” of the 2013 attack on a Nairobi mall, that left 67 dead, “the gunmen spoke in Swahili for Muslims to identify themselves and leave.” According to a survivor, “an Indian man came forward and they said,<a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/indian-shot-in-nairobi-terror-attack/1/311235.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">'What is the name of Muhammad's mother?</a>' When he couldn't answer they just shot him.”</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During an early morning raid on quarry workers sleeping in their worksite tents near the city of Mandera, along the Somali border, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/11/al-shabaab-executes-28-non-muslims-in-northern-kenya/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Christians and Muslims were separated</a> before the Christians, thirty-six of them, were beheaded or shot dead.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Al Shabaab attacked a bus and massacred 28 of its Christian passengers, while identifying and leaving unharmed Muslims.</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After abducting a group of traders near the island of Lamu, Al Shabaab militants released three of them, because they were Muslims, but <a href="http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1307802/suspected-al-shabaab-militants-behead-kenyan-driver" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">beheaded the fourth, a Christian</a>.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The phenomenon of Islamic jihadis making an effort to identify and separate Muslims intermingled with non-Muslims before beginning the slaughter is widespread (above examples come from Arab, East Asian, and sub-Saharan African nations) and a clear reminder of who is the true and intended target of jihadi terror -- “infidels.” Though sometimes, surrounding Muslims must make the ultimate sacrifice and become unwilling martyrs of the jihad.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-15486870135254254202016-07-10T05:16:00.000-07:002016-07-10T05:16:15.785-07:00Donald Trump Was Not Wrong About Muslim Immigration<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Islam is not just a religion, but a political movement like Communism. So why can’t we apply political restrictions to Muslims like we did to communists?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Events such as Brexit and increasing terrorist attacks continue to underscore that immigration from majority-Muslim countries will continue to be a dominant political question, yet pundits and politicians continue to treat this concern as impossible to resolve at best, and xenophobic at worst.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On “Special Report with Bret Baier” a couple of months ago, <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/4887716599001/will-new-trump-polls-quell-the-opposition/?playlist_id=933116610001#sp=show-clips" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steven Hayes was appalled</a>and contemptuous at the idea that the United States could apply a religious test to immigrants.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hayes was not alone. It seems to be a tenet of establishment conservatives that applying a religious test is beyond the pale, especially for Muslims. House Speaker Paul Ryan has said, <a href="http://www.kausfiles.com/2015/12/11/no-religious-tests-for-immigration-really/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as written up by Micky Kaus</a>, “Ryan made a point of praising ‘Muslims, the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of whom are peaceful, who believe in pluralism and freedom and democracy and individual rights.’” The entire quote is available <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/12/08/paul-ryan-joins-barack-obama-in-condemning-anti-muslim-bigotry/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">at the<em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em></a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Islam Is a Political Movement</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This shows a stunning naiveté. Islam is far more than just a religion. It is also a political movement with strict rules for how society should be governed. In Islam, there is no separation of church and state, which has implications for our system of government. The Pew Center on Religion and Public Life conducted <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a face-to-face survey</a> of 38,000 Muslims around the world that found “Overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law (Sharia) to be the official law of the land…”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sharia is a system of governance that strictly limits the rights of women, uses draconian punishments for crime (such as cutting off the hands of thieves), and applies the death penalty for homosexuality, rejecting Islam, and a host of other offenses. None of these laws are compatible with the American Constitution and Bill of Rights.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now, the survey suggests caveats aplenty. Muslims in former Communist countries are not so supportive, and Muslims in some secularized countries like Turkey are less likely to support sharia. There are differences of opinion on whether sharia should be applied to criminal cases, or just to family and property disputes. And some significant countries like Syrian and Somalia were not surveyed.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ryan may be right that some Muslims support pluralism, freedom, democracy, and individual rights, but it is hardly a “vast, vast, vast majority.” In fact it is likely a tiny, tiny, tiny minority.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Perhaps the Muslims Ryan has met agree with his standards, but if he has met only assimilated American Muslims, his sample is badly skewed. Also, these are not the people Trump has been talking about. Trump is referring to migrants from many of the countries Pew surveyed. Pew notes that “enshrining sharia as official law is particularly high in some countries with predominantly Muslim populations, such as Afghanistan (99%) and Iraq (91%).”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This means more than 90 percent of potential immigrants from these two countries favor making sharia the law of the land. It would be foolish to think that view will change as soon as they land at JFK. Allowing large numbers of immigrants from those countries into the United States would mean importing a population that has no affection for Western jurisprudence, and in fact is committed to overthrowing it.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We Don’t Need a Religious Test to Bar Immigrants from Certain Countries</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is not primarily a religious issue, but a political one. No country is required to allow entry for people who are committed to overthrowing it. We have faced this situation before with Communism. Members of the Communist or other “totalitarian” parties were <a href="http://www.eb5investors.com/blog/uscis-policy-on-communist-party-membership-and-implication-on-obtaining-a-green-card" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">not allowed to come into this country</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Generally, membership in the Communist Party is a bar to immigration to the United States. According to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) §212(a)(3)(D)(i), any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party, domestic or foreign, is inadmissible.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some exceptions were made for people forced to join the Party to get a job, or young people who joined as teens, but the general rule was absolute. Communists wanted to overthrow the United States, so were not allowed to come here.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Importantly, the great majority of Islamic sharia supporters surveyed do not support violence. The Pew survey reports:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In most countries where the question was asked, roughly three-quarters or more Muslims reject suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians. And in most countries, the prevailing view is that such acts are never justified as a means of defending Islam from its enemies. Yet there are some countries in which substantial minorities think violence against civilians is at least sometimes justified. This view is particularly widespread among Muslims in the Palestinian territories (40%), Afghanistan (39%), Egypt (29%) and Bangladesh (26%).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But is that the standard for admission to America? Most Communist Party members were not going to commit violence, either, but they were dedicated to the overthrow of the American system.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now, much of the media are reporting Trump’s stance has softened. He <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/12/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">recently said</a>his idea to ban Muslim immigration was just a suggestion. But it was never more than that—an idea, a proposal, a suggestion. It may be hard to remember in these days of diktats from the White House, but that is how laws are supposed to be made in the United States: someone has an idea, gives it voice, and it is then criticized and debated until some critical mass of people agree or disagree with it.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Trump has also <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-muslim-ban_us_5771a980e4b0dbb1bbbbb6cc" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">revised his position</a> to focus on immigrants from “terrorist nations,” but that revision misses that many Muslims in European nations are passionate advocates of Sharia. His original stance, that we should apply the ban “until we can figure out what’s going on,” actually makes more sense. Part of that “figuring out” should be a change in the focus from Islam as a religion, to sharia as a political philosophy.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How to make that distinction is a challenge. Obviously the starting place must be examining the beliefs of Muslims. Not all Muslims support enshrining sharia law, but it is doubtful that any non-Muslims do. So if you are looking to prohibit sharia advocates, the Muslim population is a pretty good place to start, especially people from nations with predominantly Muslim populations.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Discernment is not the same as discrimination. We need to be able to discern which applicants for immigration are coming here because they support American values and laws, and which are coming to overthrow those laws. Support for sharia is a pretty good indicator, just as membership in the Communist Party was a good indicator during the Cold War. So we need to develop tools that will provide that information.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once those tools are in place, the ban can be relaxed. These tools will never be perfect, and some people will slip through the cracks, but it is the height of foolishness to pretend, as Ryan does, that the vast, vast, vast majority of potential Muslim immigrants believe in pluralism, freedom, democracy, and individual rights. They do not.</span>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-70988154358135492082016-07-09T07:51:00.000-07:002016-07-09T07:51:23.334-07:00America’s War to Defend Islam<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/americas_war_to_defend_islam.html">Cindy Simpson</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why is America in a war on the side of Islam?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">War is all about taking sides: it involves both fighting against an enemy and defending the target of that enemy. But when political correctness prevents an accurate identification of either side, the line that divides them is blurred, and “winning” becomes an impossibility.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Secretary of State John Kerry was reluctant to even call the present conflict with ISIS a <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2014/09/19/kerry-struggling-war/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">war</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our enemy is one that President Obama has not been willing to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6517/obama-refuses-say-radical-islam-pushes-gun-control-michael-qazvini" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> describe</a> succinctly. Neither, essentially, has Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, who recently admitted his own <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/30/ted-cruz-chews-out-jeh-johnson-over-dhs-purge-of-j/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">disinterest</a> in the issue of accurate descriptions in his department’s <a href="http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3358/See-No-Jihad-Homeland-Insecurity.aspx" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">strategy documents</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But this administration’s conception of the enemy’s target -- the one that we’re supposed to be defending and protecting -- should concern us even more.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Targets worthy of the protection of our armed forces, one would think, should be the United States, our allies, innocent civilians, and the ideas of freedom, liberty and democracy.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A real and dangerous enemy would certainly have those exact targets clearly in its sights.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However when pressed, that’s not the answer given by our leaders. Of course they talk about protecting our citizens, but rarely without placing much emphasis on defending something else entirely.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Back in September of 2014 during Congressional questioning on Obama’s ISIS strategy, Kerry struggled to find the words to assure us that this “war” we are in (“if you care about what you call it”) is against “<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/18/just-watch-john-kerry-struggle-to-respond-when-asked-if-the-u-s-is-at-war-with-the-islamic-state/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">an enemy of Islam</a>.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Similarly, former British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a debate over attacking ISIS in Syria last December, said this: “Far from an attack on Islam, we are engaged in a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/02/david-cameron-syria-debate-isis-britains-duty" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">defense of Islam</a>.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two world leaders, both emphasizing that we are fighting against ISIS, which they repeatedly tell us is not Islamic and is an enemy of Islam, in order to <em>defend Islam</em>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Just imagine if either Kerry or Cameron were to assert that we were at war against an enemy of Christianity and/or to defend Christianity.)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Note the thing neither emphasized as needing defending: our ideology of freedom and liberty against one that recognizes neither. Then again, none of our leaders will admit that Islam with its political manifestation in <a href="http://counterjihad.com/5-true-things-we-know-about-sharia-law" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sharia law</a> represents a dangerous ideological opponent. Nor will the left face the fact that sharia is a “<a href="https://pjmedia.com/blog/see-no-sharia/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">direct mortal threat</a>” to virtually every one of its “values.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead, our leaders assert that Islam is religion of peace and that ISIS does not speak for it, but instead follows a “perversion” and “gross distortion” of Islam. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If so, then do nations with <em>governments</em> that carry out, on a regular basis, human rights atrocities under their Islamic (sharia) laws also pervert Islam?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our supposedly “moderate” partner of Saudi Arabia, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388460/islamic-state-saudi-arabia-andrew-c-mccarthy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">reminds</a> Andrew McCarthy, governs with sharia law. It routinely beheads, stones, flogs, and amputates. “Such cruel -- but not at all unusual -- punishments are designed to enforce a societal system that…degrades and dehumanizes women, while subjecting apostates and homosexuals to death and non-Muslims to systematic discrimination.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These are examples of actions carried out not by “extremists” whom we are told do not speak for Islam, but as a routine matter of sharia law by Islamic governments.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Following <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/the_benghazi_slingshot.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Benghazi</a>, a Center for Security Policy (“CSP”) panel reached this alarming consensus: that the entire Middle East is rapidly unifying and heading toward a strict application of sharia, a totalitarian form of government incompatible with <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0211/west020411.php3#.V3krpTdqeUV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">American ideas</a> of freedom.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Frank Gaffney, president of CSP, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/07/05/house-gop-homeland-security/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">warns</a> that the focus of our efforts must not remain exclusively on terrorism, but on the wider global jihad movement pushed by Sharia-supremacists.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jihad is actually part of sharia law. A participant in the panel, Diana West, in her groundbreaking book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Betrayal-Assault-Nations-Character/dp/1250055814?ie=UTF8&keywords=American%20Betrayal%20paperback&qid=1410378996&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">American Betrayal</a>, noted and thoroughly supported (as have many other experts) this conclusion: “Islamic terrorists are not ‘hijacking’ Islamic law (sharia) when they engage in jihad. On the contrary, they are executing it. Nor are they ‘twisting’ the foundational principles of Islam as codified in each and every authoritative Islamic source. They are exemplifying them.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since sharia is the law of the religion that Obama insists we must protect and defend, <a href="http://spectator.org/34538_obama-knew/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">how he views sharia</a> becomes a valid question.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We know how Obama regards his responsibility regarding Islam. He told us in his early days in office in his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/politics/04obama.text.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Cairo</a> speech that it was “to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 2012 before the UN, Obama said, “the future must not belong to those who <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/read_this_while_you_can.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">slander</a> the prophet of Islam.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Note that according to authoritative Islamic law sources, “slander” <a href="http://dianawest.net/BlogArchive/tabid/56/EntryId/2252/The-Anti-Blasphemy-Anti-First-Amendment-President.aspx" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">includes</a> “anything Muslims perceive to reflect badly on Islam and its prophet, including the truth.”)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Essentially, then, Obama felt it his job as Commander-in-Chief to <em>defend</em> Islam against attacks by negative stereotypes and slander.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Obama repeatedly insists that we are not, nor will we ever be, in a war against Islam. Instead, he has us in a war <em>defending</em> it from words and potential association with terrorists -- and by extension, protecting its political embodiment in sharia law.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But sharia law and our ideas of freedom, liberty and democracy, at a minimum, are <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7562/sharia-law" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">incompatible</a>, if not outright enemies. As Andrew Bostom has noted, <a href="https://pjmedia.com/blog/shocking-polls-show-what-u-s-muslims-think-of-u-s-laws/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">most</a> Americans get this.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So do Muslim terrorists. Ask any Muslim terrorist what or whom they consider their enemy. They would definitely <em>not</em> answer Islam. (That was the part of “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/20/omar-mateen-911-calls-orlando-shooting-fbi-release-isis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Islamic soldier</a>” Mateen’s 911 calls the administration <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/20/krauthammer-under-obama-you-have-to-pretend-radical-muslims-dont-commit-mass-murder/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">tried to censor</a>.)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then ask Muslims around the world whether they “sympathize with the goals or tactics of terrorist groups -- or both.” According to polls summarized by Ben Shapiro, the answer from <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/09/04/myth-tiny-radical-minority/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">more than Obama's “tiny faction”</a> reveals a much different answer than the bromides offered by Obama, Kerry and Cameron. As Raymond Ibrahim has noted, even the Egyptian university that co-hosted Obama’s Cairo speech, Al Azhar, refuses to denounce ISIS as “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/11/18/al-azhar-and-isis-cause-and-effect/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">un-Islamic</a>.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally, ask a Muslim (especially one from a predominately Muslim country) or a Muslim terrorist whom or what they consider an ally. The Muslim (according to reputable <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-full-report.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">polls</a>) would likely answer sharia. So would the Muslim terrorist.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But such facts don’t inform Obama’s war strategy, which appears to consist of: attacking, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sometimes</a>, certain targets of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Obama’s choosing</a>; and along with the assistance of the media complex, Obama has the US defending the prophet of Islam, Islam, and sharia law against negative facts and stereotyping.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Oh -- and somewhere in there our Commander-in-Chief is supposed to be keeping us safe, when instead it feels like he’s “<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2006/08/making_the_world_safe_for_shar.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">making the world safe for sharia</a>.”)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And since sharia <em>is</em> Islamic law, that strategy essentially has the US defending, with both troops and words, our ideological enemy. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Perhaps Kerry is right. This isn’t a “war.” The correct term for voluntarily fighting on both sides, if we care about what we call it, is “suicide.”</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-43567125299000522052016-06-15T09:52:00.002-07:002016-06-22T09:57:12.886-07:00Killing Homosexuals Is Not ISIS Law, It Is Muslim Law<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For nearly 25 years, we’ve been clinging to the fiction that groups such as ISIS are anti-Islamic.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Various reports indicate that the death toll from the jihadist attack overnight at a popular gay club in Orlando may exceed 50 people, with more than 50 others wounded. The terrorist’s identity has been reported: He is Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen and devout Muslim from Fort Pierce, Fla., the son of immigrants from Afghanistan.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The FBI has indicated that Mateen, who was killed in a shootout with police at about 5 <span class="small_caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">a.m.</span>, was an Islamic extremist. Representative Peter King (R., N.Y.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, says the shooter was “trained in the use of weapons.” As we have noted here many times, military training is generally the key that separates competent terrorists from wannabes. But whether actual or would-be jihadists, these Muslims are motivated by Islamic supremacism, the belief that sharia, Islam’s ancient, totalitarian law, must be imposed on society.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Based on all this, there is abundant Washington and media speculation that the attack is “ISIS-inspired.” This is consistent with the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428020/islam-their-very-own-contd-andrew-c-mccarthy" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">bipartisan, government-approved inanity</a> we have been following for a quarter-century, what I often call the political class’s concoction of “<a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/islam-facts-or-dreams/" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">An Islam of Their Very Own</a>.” It goes something like this:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam is a religion of peace, period. End of discussion. “Violent extremist” outfits such as ISIS and al-Qaeda kill wantonly, with no real ideological motivation. ISIS and al-Qaeda are thus not Islamic, but actually <em>anti-</em>Islamic — and if they cite Islamic scripture to justify their atrocities, they are “hijacking” and “perverting” Islam. Because we must see these groups as “anti-Islam” rather than Islam, it is acceptable to call a mass-murder attack “terrorism” only if law-enforcement develops some plausible tie to these groups. Otherwise, if a Muslim is involved, stick with “workplace violence” and the like. Finally when an attack committed by a Muslim is too obviously terrorism to deny, call it “ISIS-inspired,” or “al-Qaeda-inspired,” or “Hamas political resistance,” etc. — but by all means do not, <em>absolutely do not</em>, ascribe it to Islam in any way shape or form.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is idiocy. Will today’s event, the worst mass shooting in American history, help us see that?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We need to consider separately Islam and its sharia law.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are various ways to interpret Islamic scripture in order to attempt to evolve it out of violence. This, of course, does not change the fact that supremacist, fundamentalist Islam is a legitimate, mainstream, virulently anti-Western interpretation of Islam; but it does at least mean that there can be other mainstream versions of Islam that reject violence and Islam’s politico-legal system.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sharia, on the other hand, is basically set in stone. (Or should I say “stoning”?) Even most Islamic reformers acknowledge that it badly needs reform — not that it can be <em>reinterpreted</em>, but that it <em>needs to be changed</em>. Its provisions and especially its draconian punishments were largely fixed a millennium ago.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The mandate that homosexuals be killed is not from ISIS or al-Qaeda. It is from sharia — which draws on Muslim scripture.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I’ve observed several times, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395876/dont-blame-charlie-hebdo-mass-murder-extremism-andrew-c-mccarthy" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">an English version of the classic sharia manual <em>Reliance of the Traveller</em></a> has been endorsed by scholars of al-Azhar University, the seat of Sunni Islamic learning since the tenth century; by the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Muslim Brotherhood think tank that is influential in Washington; and by other influential Islamic governments and commentators. Here is its teaching on homosexuality, found in the chapter on “Enormities” — the most grave offenses:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sec. p17.1: In more than one place in the Holy Koran, Allah recounts to us the story of Lot’s people, and how He destroyed them for their wicked practice. There is consensus among both Muslims and the followers of all other religions that sodomy is an enormity. It is even viler and uglier than adultery <em>[AM: which is punished brutally, including by death]</em>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sec. p17.2: Allah Most High says: “Do you approach the males of humanity, leaving the wives Allah has created for you? But you are a people who transgress” (Koran 26:165-66).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I noted many times, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/312211/huma-abedins-muslim-brotherhood-ties-andrew-c-mccarthy" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi</a> may be Sunni Islam’s most influential living sharia jurist. Here, as reported by the <em>Middle East Forum</em>, is <a href="http://www.meforum.org/646/the-qaradawi-fatwas" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">Qaradawi’s teaching on homosexuality</a>:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The spread of this depraved practice in a society disrupts its natural life pattern and makes those who practice it slaves to their lusts, depriving them of decent taste, decent morals, and a decent manner of living. The story of the people of Prophet Lut (Lot), peace be upon him, as narrated in the Koran should be sufficient for us. Prophet Lut’s people were addicted to this shameless depravity, abandoning natural, pure, lawful relations with women in the pursuit of this unnatural, foul, and illicit practice. That is why their Prophet Lut, peace be on him, told them, “What! Of all creatures, do you approach males and leave the spouses whom your Lord has created for you? Indeed, you are people transgressing (all limits)!” (Koran, 26: 165–166)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The strangest expression of these peoples’ perversity of nature, lack of guidance, depravity of morals, and aberration of taste was their attitude toward the guests of Prophet Lut, peace be upon him. <em>[Here follows a digression on the story of Lot as related in the Koran. ---Eds.]</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Muslim jurists have held differing opinions concerning the punishment for this abominable practice. Should it be the same as the punishment for fornication, or should both the active and passive participants be put to death? While such punishments may seem cruel, they have been suggested to maintain the purity of the Islamic society and to keep it clean of perverted elements.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, there has been no shortage of praise for Ayatollah Ali Sistani, whom the Bush administration frequently lauded as a “moderate” and a supporter of “democracy.” (We critics countered that <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/138351/sistani-moderate-andrew-c-mccarthy" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">Sistani is a fundamentalist sharia-supremacist</a> who supported “democracy” — meaning popular vote — in a Muslim-majority society because that was the most direct, efficient way to impose sharia.) <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/355715/obamas-gay-rights-hypocrisy-andrew-c-mccarthy" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">Sistani is as influential a Shiite sharia authority as there is</a>. As I have previously recounted, when asked, “What is [Islam's] judgment on sodomy and lesbianism?” Sistani replied: “Forbidden. Those involved in the act should be punished. In fact, sodomites should be killed in the worst manner possible.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yup, let it sink in: “killed in the worst manner possible.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The inspiration for Muslims to brutalize and mass murder gay people does not come from ISIS. It is deeply rooted in Islamic law, affirmed by many of Islam’s most renowned scholars. This is why, wherever sharia is the law, homosexuals are persecuted and killed. See, for instance, this 2014 </span><em style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Washington Post</em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> report listing </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/02/24/here-are-the-10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punished-by-death/" style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;" target="_blank">ten Muslim countries where homosexuality may be punished by death</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (Yemen, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, and Iraq — notwithstanding its new, U.S.-supported constitution).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Note, again, that Omar Mateen is the American-born son of immigrants from Afghanistan, where <a href="https://www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org/country-search-post.cfm?country=Afghanistan" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">homosexuality may also be punished by death</a> — notwithstanding American nation-building efforts there for the last 15 years.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I have argued before, while a categorical ban on Muslim immigration would be bad policy, our immigration law must <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428201/trumps-muslim-immigration-ban-should-touch-badly-needed-discussion-andrew-c-mccarthy" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank">distinguish between Islam the religion and Islamism, the sharia-supremacist political ideology</a>, which tends to grow strong support wherever Muslims form a critical mass. There absolutely should be severe restrictions on immigration from countries, regions, and communities (e.g., in Europe) in which sharia standards are de jure or de facto imposed.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The problem with mass immigration from sharia enclaves is not merely that trained terrorists may infiltrate the immigrant population. It is that sharia-adherent, assimilation-resistant Muslims will form sharia enclaves in the U.S., as they have throughout Europe, where young Muslims will be “radicalized” under our noses in the years to come.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the favorite horse of the Muslim Brotherhood. By using guile, deceit (<em>taqiyya</em>), and cunning, the M.B. has <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3672/muslim-brotherhood-us-government" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">infiltrated its operatives</a> into positions of influence in government agencies to “destroy Western Civilization from within.”
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The careful insinuation of Muslim Brothers into positions from which they can exercise influence on U.S. policy began long before the attacks of 9/11, although their success has accelerated dramatically under the administration of President Barack Obama. The massive Muslim Brotherhood organizational network in the U.S., so patiently built up over the decades since that first Oval Office meeting in 1953, eventually gave it a prominence and (false) reputation of credibility that was unmatched by any other Islamic groups, moderate or otherwise. Using a combination of </span><em style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">taqiyya</em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (deceit, dissimulation) and intimidation, the Muslim Brotherhood succeeded not only in making itself the "go-to" authority on all things related to Islam, but in suppressing those who would speak truth about Islam – again, often by persuading the U.S.'s own senior officials to do the job for them: "by their hands".</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the favorite horse of the Saudi royalty. They use petrodollars to set up Islamic enclaves of power <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4600" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">within universities</a>, for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/20/saudi-government-has-vast-network-of-pr-lobby-firms-in-u-s/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">hiring P.R. firms</a>, buying politicians, and <a href="http://www.nysun.com/foreign/saudi-venom-in-us-mosques/8558/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">setting up radical mosques</a> and their madrassas, resulting in isolated communities practicing sharia and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-yousaf-butt-/saudi-wahhabism-islam-terrorism_b_6501916.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">advancing Wahhabism</a>:
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This, of course, is the horse of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and its unseen backers. The threat of radical Islam and its terrorist acts from 9/11 on provide the clout behind the charge of Islamophobia long <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/23/clinton-trump-and-cruzs-anti-muslim-rhetoric-dangerous/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">used by Hillary Clinton</a> in claiming that anti-Muslim rhetoric is dangerously promoting violent jihad. General David Petraeus just got into the act warning of the same consequences in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-petraeus-anti-muslim-bigotry-aids-islamist-terrorists/2016/05/12/5ab50740-16aa-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">op-ed in WaPo</a> entitled “Anti-Muslim bigotry aids Islamist terrorists.” Petraeus claims that criticizing Islam just plays into the hands of ISIS and that we mustn’t enrage Muslims, or they might become radicalized. Here is <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/05/petraeus-calls-for-self-censorship-to-avoid-offending-muslims" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Robert Spencer commenting</a> on the Petraeus op-ed:
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So the upshot of Petraeus’ argument is that we must not say things to which Muslims might object, because this will just make more of them become jihadis. His prescription for minimizing the jihad against the West is for the West to practice self-censorship in order to avoid offending Muslims.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In other words, mustn’t offend the bully, or he might hurt you. As Christine Brim in The Federalist <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/18/why-david-petraeus-really-wants-you-to-shut-up-about-islamism/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">points out</a>, this theme is rampant in the MSM:
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For example, <em>The Mirror</em>: “ISIS wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t Islamophobia”; <em>The Nation</em>: “ISIS Wants You to Hate Muslims”; <em>The Guardian</em>: “Islamophobia plays right into the hands of Isis”; <em>Salon</em>: “After Brussels, far-right Islamophobes are doing exactly what ISIS wants them to do.”</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All four battle horses are ridden with great cunning by both Sunni and Shias, herding the West into the sunset. Meanwhile, U.S. politicians concern themselves with bathroom etiquette.</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Britain, they call it “sex grooming.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the Netherlands, they’re called “Lover Boys.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the phenomenon is the same. A gang of Muslim “Asians” of mostly Pakistani descent seeks out, pursues, chats up and cultivates school girls for sex, turning them into bodies for sale.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A new book is out that the European left is trying its best to ignore. It contains research that blows away the theory, widely reported in the media, that it’s a tiny minority of Muslim men involved in the rape gangs and then only in one British town, Rotherham.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Author Peter McLaughlin argues in his exhaustive study, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Meat-Britains-Grooming-Scandal-ebook/dp/B01BLPTC1U/ref=dp_olp_1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal</a>,” that it’s at least 300 Muslim men who were preying on girls in Rotherham over a 16-year period. And the same type of gangs have been operating in dozens of cities across the United Kingdom, as well as in Muslim areas of the Netherlands and Sweden.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“In 2008 one of the policing agencies having to do with sex trafficking commissioned a 20-minute educational video to be shown to school girls to show how the gangs operate,” McLoughlin told WND. “They hang around schools and malls and use an attractive young man to convince them he wants to be their boyfriend and he gets them to drink and do drugs and then she has sex with him and later his ‘brothers’ and his ‘uncles’ and whomever else he pimps her out to.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That video was never actually shown to the girls, he said. And Britain’s homage to political correctness led police and child-welfare advocates to cover up what was happening for fear of being called racists.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even today, after the media spotlight has finally shined on the problem, there exists an element of denial as to its scope.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“In Britain people just keep talking about Rotheram and 1,400 victims because, to them, it’s just one town,” McLoughlin told WND. “It’s a big number but it’s not a shocking number. When you say it’s multiple towns and between 100,000 and 350,000 victims, it’s just so big you can’t take it in.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Up until four years ago most Brits couldn’t place Rotherham on a map, he said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“That town is completely ordinary. There is nothing unusual about it. It contains 1/250th of the population of the U.K.,” he said. “So there are the equivalent of 250 towns that size and Rotherham also has a slightly lower than average number of Muslim residents.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“So if you do the math: Take 1,400 victims, and that’s a conservative estimate, and multiply 1,400 by 250 and you get 350,000 (victims),” McLoughlin said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“At least 40 towns have been named in this context but that doesn’t mean it’s not going on in far more.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He said Muslims make up 5 percent of the population in Britain but have accounted for 90 percent of the sex-gang convictions.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In one area of northeast England, in and around Newcastle, <a href="http://www.pmclauth.com/articles/operation-sanctuary-the-true-scale-of-the-problem" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">44 men were charged</a>. All but six, possibly seven, were Muslim.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There have been more than 200 convictions so far in cities across the country, but McLoughlin says this likely amounts to less than 1 percent of the Muslim men who were involved.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">S<a href="http://www.pmclauth.com/sentenced/Grooming-Gang-Statistics/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ee list of men convicted and the towns where they committed their rape crimes</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">McLoughlin, an Internet technology specialist by trade, said his interest in the sex-grooming gangs was sparked by a 2004 documentary film “<a href="http://www.annahall.co.uk/?page_id=10" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edge of the City.</a>” It included the stories of two British women whose daughters were being abused by grooming gangs in Bradford, a city in west Yorkshire. The film was immediately labeled “racist” by the BBC and other establishment media.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like many Brits, McLoughlin didn’t believe what he saw in the controversial film. The victims were as young as 10 and 11 years old.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I didn’t believe it was going on until 2009 when someone told me it was happening to their child. In 2010 I met another family,” McLoughlin told WND. “One involved the family’s niece who had been seduced by a Pakistani gang in Chester and in the other case it was a Somali gang in South London. So I had two cases in two different parts of the country that got me started on this.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the first two years starting in 2014 McLoughlin gave away his books to anyone who would read them.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I didn’t want people to say ‘you’re making money off of this,'” he said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then he found a publisher, New English Review, which took on the project last year. The books started rolling off the presses in March.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“And so far we’re seeing absolutely no interest in the book in England,” he told WND. “People are buying it, but there have been no book reviews in any newspapers or periodicals, no requests for interviews from media. It’s a cover-up.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Between 1988 and 2011 there was virtually no mention in the British media of the problem with grooming gangs.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“One of the things that struck me was that people could deny this was going on when there was no information available,” McLoughlin said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the publication of “Easy Meat” the denials are no longer possible.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He said public officials, from police to child welfare agencies, all did their best to make sure no data was collected that would show the pattern of Muslim men raping young girls.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rotherham was the exception, purely by accident.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“One of the things the childcare professionals have done is make sure there is no data,” he said. “And the reason Rotherham has become emblematic and distinct is that Rotherham by accident had a private organization working for the local government called Risky Business. And what it did was ask these victims for details of who was doing these horrible things to them.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The private agency built case files and took them to police.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“And so because of this organization there is data for Rotherham,” he said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Strangely, the offices of Risky Business were broken into and many of their files stolen.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“So there are indications police officers were involved in the pimping out and exploitation of the girls,” McLoughlin said. “One officer who was being investigated died mysteriously in a car crash last year.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With so much information now available, the establishment media and politicians can no longer deny the Rotherham tragedy. Instead, they attempt to minimize it, he said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That doesn’t change the fact that a huge cover-up took place to hide decades of sexual abuse of English school girls.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only one female journalist would write about the Muslim gangs with any semblance of honest journalism and she was accused of being “racist” even though she was a left-leaning feminist, McLoughlin said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“If Rotherham has this problem with 1,400 victims, and that’s a conservative figure, then the local newspaper must have known about it,” he said. “And if the same is true in the other towns, and they all don’t publish anything about it, then it’s like the problem doesn’t exist.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But they can’t claim ignorance now. McLoughlin’s 130,000 words of documentation, photographs, scanned documents and end notes stand as a huge obstacle between the willfully ignorant and the truth.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I think it’s the biggest political scandal in 100 years. I don’t have any children myself and this is the last thing I ever thought I would do is write a book about this subject,” he said. “I work in IT. I didn’t want people to say I was trying to capitalize on this problem so I spent two years writing this book with the purpose of wanting to preserve for future generations the record of what happened.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“It’s such a shocking problem,” he continued. “The idea that a country would welcome immigrants, offer them every sort of benefit and rights, in some ways superior rights to its own citizens, and then to stand by and let them organize the baiting and prostitution of school girls is just outrageous. If we did not know about this and document it you would not believe it.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In fact, rape is deeply ensconced in the Muslim culture dating back to the seventh century and Muhammad himself, a panel of Islam scholars tells WND.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Daniel Akbari, a former top Shariah defense lawyer in Iran before he converted to Christianity and defected to the U.S., is a recognized expert in Islamic honor violence and recently authored a book on the topic, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Honor-Killing-Professionals-Relations-Violence/dp/1496957032" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Honor Killing: A Professional’s Guide to Sexual Relations and Ghayra Violence from the Islamic Sources</a>.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Akbari said Islamic migrants bring a culture to their adopted homelands in the West that is foreign to the Judeo-Christian mindset of female equality.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“These men come from Islamic communities in which any association with females other than unmarriageable kin is prohibited and subject to the Islamic punishment of flogging,” he said. “When these Muslim men immigrate to Western countries where women are free to dress and behave as they wish, they become turbulent.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This “turbulent” behavior is acted out when confronted by Western women who move about freely and dress as they wish.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“For their entire lives these men have been taught that the women who do not wear a hijab and show skin are like whores,” Akbari told WND. “They also assume that only Muslim women who follow sharia rules for women’s dress and conduct, wear a hijab, lower their gaze, do not laugh or eat in public, and do not go out of house without their unmarriageable kin men escorting them deserve respect.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even when the victim of a sexual assault is a Muslim woman, the Shariah court will blame her for the crime if she failed to follow Shariah rules for women’s dress and conduct, Akbari said. And she must have multiple male witnesses to testify on her behalf.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But what about the non-Muslim woman? The Shariah rule is clear, says Akbari.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Merely being a non-Muslim woman provides Muslim men with a legitimate Islamic excuse to justify their sexual harassment,” he said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are exceptions under Shariah for Jewish and Christian women, which the Quran calls “people of the Book,” but those exceptions come with a high price.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Christian or Jewish women who live in lands controlled by Islamic governments are exempted from the rule if they have made a Dhimmi contract with the Islamic ruler promising to respect specific boundaries and limitations on their fundamental rights,” he said.” And they must pay jizya (tax).”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Timothy Furnish, a historian of Islam who authors the <a href="http://www.mahdiwatch.org/id1.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mahdi Watch</a> blog and whose latest book is “Secrets, Lies and the Caliphate: 10 Years of Observations about Islam,” said Islam has a very different view of women than Christianity or Judaism.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Islam perpetuates that men should dominate women in sexual matters culture, as per Sura al-Nisa’ and the examples of Muhammad, who had as many as 11 wives,” Furnish said, citing <a href="http://quran.com/4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quran 4:3</a> and <a href="http://quran.com/4/34" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">34</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Also, the afterlife in Islam holds the sexual ‘houris’ for men, but nothing for women.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The houris (<a href="http://en.europenews.dk/Houri-The-Islamic-Sex-Slave-In-Paradise-78423.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #667286; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">explained here</a>) are jinn-like “sex kittens,” available to Islamic men in the afterlife, Furnish explained.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Do these beliefs lead to rape while Muslim men are living here on Earth?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Not directly,” says Furnish, “But it certainly posits females (both humans and houris) as primarily existing to sexually gratify men, and that can lead Muslim men to see all women that way.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“In seventh century Arabic tribal culture, women were seen as commodities to be bought, sold, or otherwise appropriated as one was able, an attitude that Islam has perpetuated,” writes Davis.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Davis cites the example of Muhammad granting permission to a fellow jihadist to take the slave girl Safiya following the massacre of the Jewish tribe Bani Nadir at a place called Khaibar, as documented by hadith narrator Abdul Aziz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“We conquered Khaibar, took the captives and the booty was collected. Dihya came and said, ‘O Allah’s Prophet! Give me a slave girl from the captives.’ The Prophet said, ‘Go and take any slave girl.’ He took Safiya bin Huyai.”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As it turned out, Muhammad saw Safiya and decided he wanted her for himself.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“The hapless slave girl Safiya appears as little more than a prestigious trophy to be haggled over and traded at the will of the victors,” Davis writes. “It is the same mentality that gave rise to the Muslim rape epidemic that has plagued major cities in Sweden and Norway, in which Muslims routinely attack unveiled women.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Muhammad’s treatment of the slave girl’s husband is even more disturbing — he was tortured with a hot iron on his chest until he told the location of his treasure, then beheaded.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">McLoughlin said the organized seduction of English school girls by Muslim rape gangs has been going on since at least 1988.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I got into it from a position of, well, it’s a story that’s basically being concealed in Britain,” he said. “And I have a feeling it’s being concealed in other countries as well.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The member of Parliament who represents Rotherham, Sarah Champion, has estimated there could be as many as 1 million victims across the U.K.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But McLoughlin sticks with his “conservative” estimate of 100,000 to 350,000 victims.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“There’s an aspect of which I don’t wish to believe it’s a million victims, because it’s too shameful for us as a nation to have allowed something like that to happen,” he said. “We effectively have an army of childcare professionals and police officers — it dwarfs the size of the British army — that has ignored and denied this problem for decades.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even after hundreds of convictions and Parliamentary hearings, there is still not “full honesty” about the subject of grooming gangs in Britain, McLoughlin said.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“And what’s going on in Rotherham now is the state and the media have turned all their attention on this one town, as if this one town is singularly bad, when there’s all kinds of evidence to suggest this is going on in towns across the country,” he said. “We just don’t have the data in the other towns.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After a nasty terrorist attack one can expect to read about how <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslims-san-bernardino-shooting_us_56605bb5e4b072e9d1c4e362" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">unrepresentative</a> of the true doctrines of Islam such acts are. Not infrequently <a href="https://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/13358-cair-releases-spread-love-not-islamophobia-video.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">we are treated</a> to the remarks of an attractive young Muslim woman explaining that Islam is the religion of peace, inclusion and justice for all. Usually we are reassured that Muslims love America and are patriotic, Constitution-supporting citizens. Recently, Republican Muslim Coalition President Saba Ahmed draped in an American flag, proclaimed that she was a proud, patriotic American. After Trump’s misguided remarks that due to terrorist attacks (San Bernardino) Muslims in America needed to wear identification, the <a href="http://www.attn.com/stories/4371/woman-responds-to-donald-trump-muslim-id-proposal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Facebook post</a> of Marwa Balkar went viral:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One is naturally inclined to believe that someone who is a Muslim and is brought up in a Muslin community knows whereof he/she speaks. And that may be quite correct as regards their assessment of the attitudes of their own community. But it does not follow that that they speak with great knowledge of the Koran or Sunnah or of Sharia law. Even less does it follow that they understand the ultimate agenda of the various Islamic front groups in the U.S. that are affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood or the Wahhabi supported fronts of Saudi Arabia. They may be recruited by such organizations to put a nice face on Islam but that hardly means that that is what the ultimate agenda is of such organizations.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a case in point, here is an interesting account of the <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/22/radicalization-isil-islam-sacred-texts-literal-interpretation-column/81808560/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">rude awakening</a> of a Muslim American who grew up in a patriotic Muslim community in Hamtramck, Michigan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a Muslim growing up in the United States, I was taught by my imams and the community around me that Islam is a religion of peace. My family modeled love for others and love for country, and not just by their words. My father served in the U.S. Navy throughout my childhood, starting as a seaman and retiring as a lieutenant commander. I believed wholeheartedly a slogan often repeated at my mosque after 9/11: “The terrorists who hijacked the planes also hijacked Islam.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The point being that in the last analysis the rank and file and acolytes of Islam can be led to believe whatever their handlers at the time find it tactically expedient for them to believe as they are led down road to Islam Uber Alles. In particular, what matters is the real agenda and beliefs of Islam’s front organizations and their leaders. And what is maddeningly incompressible about that is the extent to which the Muslim Brotherhood and the Saudis have been able to dupe U.S. leadership. Hiding behind the Islamophobia ruse, front groups in the U.S. have suckered the Obama administration into believing in the patriotic, constitution supporting sweet face of Islam, here are the real agendas.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the 28 pages excised from the 9/11 Commission’s report? Those pages allegedly document Saudi complicity. Our own government kept those revelations from the American people. Because, even after 9/11, the Saudis were “our friends.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/07/the-muslim-brotherhood-comes-to-the-white-house/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Muslim Brotherhood agenda</a>. </span>The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by Islamic cleric (and Hitler admirer) Hassan al-Banna after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The group seeks as its end-game to install a Sunni Islamic caliphate throughout the world. The explicit goal of the Muslim Brotherhood. as stated by al-Banna, is that given that is the nature “of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.” Both former Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi were members of the Brotherhood. Its current spiritual leader, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, has a knack for bashing Jews and praising Nazis. The Muslim Brotherhood’s motto remains: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet the president continues to regard the various front groups of MB as legitimate organization combating Islamophobia and acting as “rational agents” in the political arena. In fact, he has just had the leaders of the following Islamic front organization over to the White House on Muslim Brotherhood Day: CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations); MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Counci); ISNA (Islamic Society of North America).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All these groups have funneled money to terrorist groups, regard Israel as a terrorist nation and reject the designation of Hamas and Hizb’allah as terrorist groups. And, most importantly, support the imposition of Sharia.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I used to be a feminist, but I gave it up so I could speak out for women’s rights. Even before the “intersectional”, “how many genders are there?” lunacy took over, feminism was filled to bursting with types who think men are misogynists who all secretly want to rape us (this despite the fact that men are among the greatest supporters of women’s rights) and a happily married mother is some kind of traitor.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The kind of people, in other words, who nobody in their right mind could possibly get along with.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While I will always speak out for women to maintain our just civil rights, I do want Sharia Watch to spend significantly more time on freedom of speech (we will run an autumn campaign ‘Islam Kills Free Speech’) and the impact of Islam on children, but before I do, I intend to spend the summer doing something very important – informing the ludicrous feminists of today of something they desperately need to know: Islam Kills Women.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam Kills Women is a joint effort between Sharia Watch UK and Examine-Islam.org It aims to do one thing and one thing only, show the world just why it is that women are treated so utterly appallingly in every Muslim society on earth.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As well as producing articles from various writers and information packs and videos, I will challenge every feminist organisation in Britain to debate me, so that they can attempt to prove me wrong. When they realise that they cannot do this, I invite them to stand alongside me at the culmination of this campaign – a protest rally to be held outside Parliament on August 20th.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam kills women not only physically – although of course it does – but it kills the spirit of far greater numbers. From birth, girls are degraded and humiliated, most often by their own mothers. These girls accept their status and then pass it on to their own daughters in an endless cycle of what can only be described as evil.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Often forced in to marriage, forced to live with domestic violence, and enslaved under a system of ‘honour’, life can be sheer misery for girls unfortunate enough to have been born in to Islam. To top it off, many will have their clitoris cut off so that sex will be painful and they can suffer the further humiliation of incontinence and other side-effects.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All of this, but all of it, is maintained and sustained and justified by Islam. That is a matter of fact. I will prove it right now.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the most contentious is FGM so let me start there. FGM is sanctioned by Islam. Fact. There are several hadiths which justify it. You can read these <a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Female_Genital_Mutilation" style="border: 0px; color: #0088bb; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>, but I shall recount just one which should be enough to ring a few bells: “Abu al-Malih ibn `Usama’s father relates that the Prophet said: “Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women.”’ Ahmad Ibn Hanbal 5:75; Abu Dawud, Adab 167.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While it is true that some Islamic “scholars” have condemned FGM, many others promote it and use hadiths to do so. The Muslim Brotherhood for example <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/mariz-tadros/mutilating-bodies-muslim-brotherhood%E2%80%99s-gift-to-egyptian-women" style="border: 0px; color: #0088bb; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">pushed for FGM</a> when it took over Egypt, and in “moderate” Indonesia, where somewhere between 80 and 100 per cent of girls suffer this mutilation, 100 per cent of women interviewed believed it to be an Islamic obligation. According to ‘Stop FGM Mid East’ the practice <a href="http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/countries/indonesia/" style="border: 0px; color: #0088bb; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">did not exist</a> in Indonesia until the introduction of Islam.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let’s move on to forced marriage. Child marriage is rife in the Muslim world, and it is not, as some suggest, simply a consequence of extreme poverty. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, for example, has endorsed it on Islamic grounds for the simple reason that Mohammed married a sex year old, therefore it must be permissible.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The relevant hadith <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/saudi-grand-mufti-child-marriages-are-ok" style="border: 0px; color: #0088bb; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">is this</a>: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Iran allows the marriage of nine-year-old girls based on these same hadiths, and recent attempts in Pakistan to prevent child marriage were stopped by the Council of Islamic Ideology who deemed it “blasphemous” and “un-Islamic”. The chairman of the council helpfully <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bill-aiming-to-ban-child-marriages-shot-down-in-pakistan-as-anti-islamic-and-blasphemous-a6815576.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088bb; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">explained</a>: “Parliament cannot create legislation that is against the teachings of the Holy Quran or Sunnah.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stoning to death sounds just too terrible to be true. It sounds like something from pre-history that couldn’t possibly be happening today, but it is – in one kind of society only, Islamic society. It is a punishment used almost exclusively on women accused of committing adultery. I say ‘accused’ because that is all it takes, she has no defence.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Remember that under Islamic law, a woman’s word is worth half of a man’s, so if her husband accuses her, her denial is worthless and she will be found guilty on his word alone. This is brilliantly illustrated in the hard-to-watch movie ‘The Stoning of Soraya M’, a true story about the stoning of a young mother in Iran on the word of her husband only; he simply wanted rid of her. Her father and sons joined in with the stoning.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stoning for adultery occurs under Islamic law for a reason that you may by now be able to guess: it was endorsed by Mohammed. There are several Islamic sources to back this up. I will recount just one part of Sahih Bukhari 3:50:885 which reads: Allah’s Apostle said, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, I will judge between you according to Allah’s Laws. The slave-girl and the sheep are to be returned to you, your son is to receive a hundred lashes and be exiled for one year. You, Unais, go to the wife of this (man) and if she confesses her guilt, stone her to death.” Unais went to that woman next morning and she confessed. Allah’s Apostle ordered that she be stoned to death.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Domestic and honour violence can be banded together as I believe they emanate from one verse of the Koran – Sura 4, verse 34, which reads: “Men have authority over women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband’s] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance – [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Could this verse be any clearer? Women must obey and if they don’t, you may use violence against them. This can, and in practice does, justify all kinds of horrors against women. It is very clear that if the men in her family don’t approve of her conduct, they can beat her for it.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have not even scratched the surface. The oppression of women in Islamic countries is by far the cruellest in the world. No other major societies treat their women in this way and that is not an unfortunate coincidence, it is the direct result of these and many other teachings in Islamic scripture.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With all of this evidence in front of them, my challenge to British feminists is this: will you admit the truth in what I have written, and do you want this religion to have more or less influence in countries where women have fought and died for their freedom?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If, like me, you want to see a religion like this have zero influence, will you stand with me and oppose its import via mass immigration as Sharia Watch and Examine Islam intend to do on August 20th?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My guess is that you will not. You will not even respond to my requests, and you certainly won’t have the courage to debate me. You will continue to pretend that the truth is bigotry and that the lie is moral, and you will continue to deny the most pertinent truth about the treatment of women in the Middle East, Africa, and increasingly in Europe – this abhorrent treatment of women has everything to do with Islam.</span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-92232588658905866402016-04-08T11:36:00.000-07:002016-04-08T11:36:22.452-07:00ISIS or Islam: Which Breeds Terrorism?<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">By </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/04/07/terrorism-isis-or-islam/?singlepage=true">Raymond Ibrahim</a></span></span>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">A lie conceals the truth. And hidden truths never have a chance of being acknowledged, addressed, and ultimately ameliorated.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because of this simple truism, one of the greatest lies of our age -- <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/01/14/liars-or-fools-which-govern-america/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">that violence committed in the name of Islam has nothing to do with Islam</a> -- has made an intrinsically weak Islam the scourge of the modern world, with no signs of relief on the horizon.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the latest manifestations of this lie took place in <a href="http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2016/03/28/national/six-killed-over-30-wounded-in-lahores-gulshan-iqbal-park-blast/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Pakistan</a>. On Easter Sunday, a suicide bombing took place near the children's rides of a public park, where Christians were congregated and celebrating the resurrection of their Lord. At least 74 people -- mostly Christian women and children -- were killed. Nearly 400 were injured.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recalled a witness:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was human flesh on the walls of our house.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Who -- or what -- was responsible for this assault? “We claim responsibility for the attack on Christians as they were celebrating Easter,” said Jamaatul Ahraar, a splinter group of the Taliban. In a media statement, the group said it “deliberately targeted the Christian community”:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We had been waiting for this occasion.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">The Taliban is not alone. Look </span><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2013/12/24/christmas-holiday-islamic-horror/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/01/18/a-gruesome-christmas-under-islam/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/02/01/christmas-slaughter-muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2014/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2013/12/25/christmas-in-iraq-dead-christians/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">here</a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"> for examples of similarly lethal </span><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2013/12/25/christmas-in-iraq-dead-christians/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">attacks</a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"> on Christians celebrating Christmas or Easter by other Islamic groups and individuals around the world, who also “had been waiting for this occasion.” </span><a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/655851/ISIS-Islamic-State-Brussels-Easter-attacks-UK" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Even</a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"> “the terror cell that struck in Brussels (</span><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/03/22/an-islamic-apocalypse-in-brussels/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">last month, killing 34</a><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">) was planning to massacre worshippers at Easter church services across Europe, including Britain, intelligence chiefs believe.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even so, connecting the dots and understanding what binds all Islamic terrorist groups is a big no-no for mainstream media.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The problem, we will be told, is the “Taliban,” which “has nothing to do with Islam.” Rather, it’s a finite, temporal, localized problem: defeat it and the problem vanishes.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet meanwhile -- about 5,000 miles west of the Taliban's territory -- in Nigeria, Christians are also under attack. According to a new <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/03/27/u-s-at-easter-ignore-the-muslim-slaughter-of-over-10000-christians-and-destruction-of-13000-churches-in-nigeria/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">report</a>, since 2000 about <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">12,000 Christians have been slaughtered</strong> for their faith and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">13,000 churches destroyed</strong>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Just last </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/radical-islamist-herdsmen-kill-500-nigerian-christians-over-month-villagers-afraid-to-bury-their-dead-159303/#jw5J6KthsXAXMgwL.99" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">month</a></em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">, over </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">500 Christians were butchered</strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">. According to the official narrative, something called “Boko Haram” is responsible. This is another group that defines itself exclusively according to Islam, another group that habitually bombs churches during Christmas and Easter, another group that we are told “has nothing to do with Islam.” Again, this group represents a finite, temporal, localized problem: defeat it and the problem vanishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">About 5,000 miles west of Nigeria, Americans were told that something called “al-Qaeda” attacked and killed 3,000 of their countrymen -- and that defeating that finite group would cease the terror.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Its leader Osama bin Laden was killed, and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2014/11/13/a-dead-caliph-vs-the-hydra-of-jihad/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">victory was proclaimed</a> -- except that an even more savage manifestation, this time called the “Islamic State” (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2014/10/17/the-islamic-state-and-islam/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">it too “has nothing to do with Islam”</a>), arose and has gone further than al-Qaeda could’ve ever dreamed, in <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/03/15/how-u-s-foreign-policy-made-2015-the-worst-year-in-modern-history-for-christian-persecution/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">great part thanks to the Obama administration</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The problem is <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">not</strong> simply that media and decision-makers refuse to connect the dots and insist on treating each of the aforementioned groups as disparate, finite groups with different motivations, none of which is Islam.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">The larger problem is that regular Muslims who are </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">not</strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"> called “Taliban,” “Boko Haram,” “al-Qaeda,” “ISIS,” ad infinitum, </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;">commit similar acts, and much more frequently.</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although the “Taliban” was behind the recent Easter Day massacre, everyday Muslims also discriminate against, persecute, enslave, rape, and murder Christians every day in Pakistan (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/12/27/grim-life-for-christians-in-muslim-pakistan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">click here for a typical month</a>).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Everyday Muslims who <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/01/10/christians-burned-alive-muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2014/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">burned a young Christian couple alive</a> due to unsubstantiated rumors that they had insulted Muhammad. Every day, Muslims regularly rape and sometimes murder Christian girls (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/02/04/the-islamic-rape-and-murder-of-christian-boys/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">and boys</a>) because <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/01/25/pakistan-christian-girls-are-only-meant-for-the-pleasure-of-muslim-men/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">they are subhuman “infidels.”</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those who slaughtered 500 Christians last month in Nigeria were <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">not</strong> “Boko Haram.” They were un-affiliated (but Muslim) herdsmen.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/03/27/u-s-at-easter-ignore-the-muslim-slaughter-of-over-10000-christians-and-destruction-of-13000-churches-in-nigeria/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Likewise</a>, “Northern Muslim political and religious elite are also major actors of targeted violence towards the Christian minority.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although ISIS claimed the Brussels attack, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/03/02/bombed-burned-and-urinated-on-churches-under-islam-muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2015/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">everyday Muslims ban, burn, bomb, and urinate on churches</a>, and as in Pakistan and other Muslim majority nations, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/02/11/the-muslim-mans-sexual-rights-over-non-muslim-women/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">target non-Muslim European women for rape on the basis that they are subhuman “infidels.”</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The media likes covering this horror when terrorist groups are responsible for especially spectacular attacks, because the media can follow with the customary admonition that they “have nothing to do with Islam.” But few dare acknowledge when <em style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">Muslims in general</em> engage in acts of violence and intolerance against non-Muslims.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/03/07/muslims-claim-lions-share-of-christian-victims/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">According to a recent study</a>, Muslims -- of all races, nationalities, languages, and socio-political and economic circumstances, hardly just “terror groups” -- <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">are responsible for persecuting Christians in 41 of the 50 worst nations to live in as a Christian</strong>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These statistics are consistent with a recent Pew poll finding that in 11 countries alone,<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"> at least 63 million </strong>and as many as<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;"> 287 million Muslims support ISIS</strong>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Similarly, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">81%</strong> of respondents to an Al Jazeera poll <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word;">supported the Islamic State</strong>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What “extremist,” “terrorist,” and “militant” groups (that “have nothing to do with Islam”) are doing is but the tip of the iceberg of what Muslims are doing all around the world.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(See “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/12/31/muslims-have-nothing-whatsoever-to-do-with-terrorism-muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2015/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Muslim Persecution of Christians</a>,” reports which I’ve been compiling every month since July 2011. Nonstop violence and carnage is committed by “everyday” Muslims against Christians. Each monthly report contains dozens of atrocities -- any of which, if committed by Christians against Muslims, would receive 24/7 blanket coverage.)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Media aren’t just covering up for Islam by pretending the attacks committed by Islamic groups on non-Muslims “have nothing to do with Islam. “ They also cover up for Islam by failing to report the everyday persecution non-Muslims experience at the hands of everyday Muslims -- Muslim governments (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2016/01/19/hating-americans-is-official-saudi-and-qatari-policy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a99d; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">including the governments of “U.S. friends and allies”</a>), Muslim mobs, and Muslim individuals -- not just Muslim “terrorists.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because of these entrenched lies, the world must continue to suffer from Islamic terror. Not only have these lies allowed countless innocents to be persecuted into oblivion in the Muslim world, but they have allowed the same persecution to enter America and Europe, most recently via mass immigration.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fact remains: an ugly truth must first be acknowledged before it can be addressed and fixed. It may be hard to acknowledge an ugly truth -- that Islam, not “radical Islam,” promotes hate for and violence against non-Muslims -- but anything less will continue to feed the lie and feed the jihad on innocents.</span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-80728324939137187922016-03-31T11:17:00.000-07:002016-03-31T11:17:23.119-07:00Islam Inherently Violent? Absurd!<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262361/obama-islam-inherently-violent-absurd-robert-spencer">Robert Spencer</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Barack Obama is amused.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I’m amused,” he said in <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/obama-doctrine-goldberg-communism-islamism-isis/475833/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">remarks published Tuesday</a>, “when I watch Republicans claim that Trump’s language is unacceptable, and ask, ‘How did we get here?’ We got here in part because the Republican base had been fed this notion that Islam is inherently violent, that this is who these folks are. And if you’ve been hearing that a lot, and then somebody shows up on the scene and says, well, the logical conclusion to civilizational conflict is we try to make sure that we’re not destroyed internally by this foreign civilization, that’s what you get.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where would anyone get the crazy idea that Islam was inherently violent? Well, the day’s headlines might give us that very strong impression, but Obama would tell us (and has told us) that those Muslims who are screaming “Allahu akbar” as they murder non-Muslims are, despite appearances, not really Muslims at all, but just people who have twisted, hijacked, misunderstood the Religion of Peace.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is, true, however, that there are plenty of Muslims who tell us that Islam is inherently violent. Here are a few of them:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Jihad was a way of life for the Pious Predecessors (Salaf-us-Salih), and the Prophet (SAWS) was a master of the Mujahideen and a model for fortunate inexperienced people. The total number of military excursions which he (SAWS) accompanied was 27. He himself fought in nine of these; namely Badr; Uhud, Al-Muraysi, The Trench, Qurayzah, Khaybar, The Conquest of Makkah, Hunayn and Taif . . . This means that the Messenger of Allah (SAWS) used to go out on military expeditions or send out an army at least every two months.” — Abdullah Azzam, co-founder of al-Qaeda, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Join the Caravan</em>, p. 30</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“If we follow the rules of interpretation developed from the classical science of Koranic interpretation, it is not possible to condemn terrorism in religious terms. It remains completely true to the classical rules in its evolution of sanctity for its own justification. This is where the secret of its theological strength lies.” — Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Many thanks to God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to perform the act of Jihad for his cause and to defend Islam and Muslims. Therefore, killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you, responding back to your attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion.” — <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/03/911-defendants-we-ask-to-be-near-to-god-we-fight-you-and-destroy-you-and-terrorize-you-the-jihad-in.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow 9/11 defendants</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Allah on 480 occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfill God’s orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world.” — <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/01/allah-on-480-occasions-in-the-holy-koran-extols-muslims-to-wage-jihad-we-only-fulfil-gods-orders.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">Taliban terrorist Baitullah Mehsud</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Jihad, holy fighting in Allah’s course, with full force of numbers and weaponry, is given the utmost importance in Islam….By jihad, Islam is established….By abandoning jihad, may Allah protect us from that, Islam is destroyed, and Muslims go into inferior position, their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligation and duty in Islam on every Muslim.” — <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/07/times-square-jihad-bomber-explains-it-all-for-you.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">Times Square car bomb terrorist Faisal Shahzad</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“So step by step I became a religiously devout Muslim, Mujahid — meaning one who participates in jihad.” —<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/11/arkansas-jihadist-step-by-step-i-became-a-religiously-devout-muslim-mujahid----meaning-one-who-parti.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">Little Rock, Arkansas terrorist murderer Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“And now, after mastering the English language, learning how to build explosives, and continuous planning to target the infidel Americans, it is time for Jihad.” — <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/in-the-name-of-allah-the-beneficient-the-merciful-nitro-urea-explosive-is-more-powerful-than-tnt.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">Texas terrorist bomber Khalid Aldawsari</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Obama would dismiss all these as “extremists” who are not really Muslim at all and have nothing to do with Islam. Yet one also might get the impression that Islam is inherently violent from the authoritative sources in Sunni Islam, the schools of Sunni jurisprudence (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">madhahib</em>):</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shafi’i school</em>: A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates about jihad that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.” It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral religions.” (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">‘Umdat al-Salik</em>, o9.8).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course, there is no caliph today, unless one believes the claims of the Islamic State, and hence the oft-repeated claim that Osama et al are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority has authorized their jihad. But they explain their actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes “obligatory for everyone” (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">‘Umdat al-Salik</em>, o9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">‘Umdat al-Salik</em> specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until “the final descent of Jesus.” After that, “nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus’ descent” (o9.8).</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, “if the infidels, upon receiving the call, neither consent to it nor agree to pay capitation tax [jizya], it is then incumbent on the Muslims to call upon God for assistance, and to make war upon them, because God is the assistant of those who serve Him, and the destroyer of His enemies, the infidels, and it is necessary to implore His aid upon every occasion; the Prophet, moreover, commands us so to do.” (Al-Hidayah, II.140)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is also taught by modern-day scholars of Islam. Majid Khadduri was an Iraqi scholar of Islamic law of international renown. In his book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">War and Peace in the Law of Islam</em>, which was published in 1955 and remains one of the most lucid and illuminating works on the subject, Khadduri says this about jihad:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law of the International Islamic University in Islamabad. In his 1994 book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Methodology of Ijtihad</em>, he quotes the twelfth century Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd: “Muslim jurists agreed that the purpose of fighting with the People of the Book…is one of two things: it is either their conversion to Islam or the payment of jizyah.” Nyazee concludes: “This leaves no doubt that the primary goal of the Muslim community, in the eyes of its jurists, is to spread the word of Allah through jihad, and the option of poll-tax [jizya] is to be exercised only after subjugation” of non-Muslims.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All this makes it clear that there is abundant reason to believe that Islam is indeed inherently violent. It would be illuminating if Obama or someone around him produced some quotations from Muslim authorities he considers “authentic,” and explained why the authorities I’ve quoted above and others like them are inauthentic. While in reality there is no single Muslim authority who can proclaim what is “authentic” Islam, and thus it would be prudent not to make sweeping statements about what “authentic Islam” actually is, clearly there are many Muslim who believe that authentic Islam is inherently violent.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One might also get the impression that Islam is inherently violent from these Qur’an verses:</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2:191-193: “And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4:34: “Men are the managers of the affairs of women, for Allah has made one superior to the another, and because they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for Allah’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. If they then obey you, look not for any way against them; Allah is All-high, All-great.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4:89: “They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5:33: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5:38: “And the thief, male and female: cut off the hands of both, as a recompense for what they have earned, and a punishment exemplary from Allah; Allah is All-mighty, All-wise.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8:12: “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8:39: “Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s entirely; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror thereby into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9:111: “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9:123: “O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are some tolerant verses in the Qur’an as well — see, for example, sura 109. But then in Islamic tradition there are authorities who say that violent passages take precedence over these verses. Muhammad’s earliest biographer, an eighth-century Muslim named Ibn Ishaq, explains the progression of Qur’anic revelation about warfare. First, he explains, Allah allowed Muslims to wage defensive warfare. But that was not Allah’s last word on the circumstances in which Muslims should fight. Ibn Ishaq explains offensive jihad by invoking a Qur’anic verse: “Then God sent down to him: ‘Fight them so that there be no more seduction,’ i.e. until no believer is seduced from his religion. ‘And the religion is God’s’, i.e. Until God alone is worshipped.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Qur’an verse Ibn Ishaq quotes here (2:193) commands much more than defensive warfare: Muslims must fight until “the religion is God’s” — that is, until Allah alone is worshipped. Ibn Ishaq gives no hint that that command died with the seventh century.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The great medieval scholar Ibn Qayyim (1292-1350) also outlines the stages of the Muhammad’s prophetic career: “For thirteen years after the beginning of his Messengership, he called people to God through preaching, without fighting or Jizyah, and was commanded to restrain himself and to practice patience and forbearance. Then he was commanded to migrate, and later permission was given to fight. Then he was commanded to fight those who fought him, and to restrain himself from those who did not make war with him. Later he was commanded to fight the polytheists until God’s religion was fully established.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In other words, he initially could fight only defensively — only “those who fought him” — but later he could fight the polytheists until Islam was “fully established.” He could fight them even if they didn’t fight him first, and solely because they were not Muslim.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nor do all contemporary Islamic thinkers believe that that command is a relic of history. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to a 20th century Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid, “at first ‘the fighting’ was forbidden, then it was permitted and after that it was made obligatory.” He also distinguishes two groups Muslims must fight: “(1) against them who start ‘the fighting’ against you (Muslims) . . . (2) and against all those who worship others along with Allah . . . as mentioned in Surat Al-Baqarah (II), Al-Imran (III) and At-Taubah (IX) . . . and other Surahs (Chapters of the Qur’an).” (The Roman numerals after the names of the chapters of the Qur’an are the numbers of the suras: Sheikh Abdullah is referring to Qur’anic verses such as 2:216, 3:157-158, 9:5, and 9:29.)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here again, obviously there is a widespread understanding of the Qur’an within Islamic tradition that sees it, and Islam, as inherently violent. And we see Muslims who clearly understand their religion as being inherently violent acting upon that understanding around the world today, in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Israel, Nigeria and elsewhere. We can hope that those who embody the true, peaceful Islam that Obama assumes to exist come forward and work against the Muslims who believe in violence, instead of just issuing pro-forma condemnations. So far we have not seen that. On the contrary, we see reformers threatened and cowed into silence. The Moroccan activist Ahmed Assid condemned violence in Islam’s name and was immediately <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/morocco-muslim-cleric-condemns-violence-in-islams-name-is-declared-an-apostate-and-threatened-with-d.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; word-break: break-word;">declared an apostate and threatened with death</a> by Muslim clerics. If the Ahmed Assids of the world represent the true Islam that is not inherently violent, the message has not gotten through to all too many of their coreligionists.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We may hope it does someday. In the meantime, it is imperative to continue to speak about how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism, so as to alert all people of good will to the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and its motives and goals. This is not indulging in hateful generalizations; it is simply to speak honestly and realistically about a threat all free people face. If we cannot speak about it, it will nonetheless keep coming, and catch us unawares.</span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-4129616311173141662016-03-28T11:07:00.001-07:002016-03-28T11:07:41.024-07:00Islam’s Willing Executioners<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/islams_willing_executioners.html">Ron Jager</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam cannot conceive of itself as a minority in a secular State. Violent Islamists, an active and determined minority of Muslims, refuse integration. In Europe, they not only intend to keep their Islamic identity, but to Islamize the non-practicing and convert by force the natives of the host country that they inhabit. As the Belgian people, and the whole of the Western Europe, wake up to the growing threat of radical Islam, it is clear that the European Union’s comfort-zone has come to an end. The people of Europe are asking themselves, how and why they have so willingly allowed themselves to be blinded to the point of not seeing the proliferation and threat of radical Islam throughout the streets and towns of Europe.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ever since the day of Napoleon's landing upon the shores of Egypt at the very end of the 18th Century bringing the modern era to the Middle East, Islam has been unable to free itself from the shackles of inferiority and self-destructive primal rage that typifies the hatred of Western civilization by modern day radical Islamists.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now is the time to consider what makes an Islamic terrorist so barbaric and so hateful of Westerners that they have no reservations about blowing-up and murdering infants, children, women and men as they go about their daily chores. These terror attacks are reminiscent of the indiscriminate killing of Jews and Christians alike before and during the Holocaust. The Islamic terror wave that stalks Europeans to be murdered for no other reason than their Western identity has its roots in Islamic-Nazi ideologies established during the years prior to the Holocaust in Europe. Yet, rather than expose the similarities between Nazi ideology and the Radical Islamic incitement to murder Europeans, the international media chooses to report on the Islamic terror wave exclusively through the prism of a multicultural-politically correct terminology that refuses to demand of Islam to be accountable and take responsible action against the inherent radicalism that so many Muslim young adults have adopted and identify with.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the Islamic suicide terrorists who blow themselves up, premeditated murder has become a tool for redemption. This current Islamic terror wave can trace its roots to the link between Nazism and the nascent radical Islamic movement during the years prior to World War II. For example, in a Nazi directive of 1943: "The extermination of Jewry throughout the world is the precondition for an enduring peace." Such a statement is remarkably similar, if not identical, to Islamic religious leaders then and now who proclaim at every opportunity that Jews and Christians must be wiped out for Muslims to become Martyrs and reach heaven. A common thread unifies the desire for the total destruction of those that do not accept the Nazi ideology of the past or the Islamist ideology of today; hence the validity of the term Islamo-Nazism. The Nazis spoke of “redemptive anti-Semitism,” namely a form of anti-Semitism that explains all in the world and offer a form of “redemption” by exterminating the Jews. Radical Islamic religious leaders provide the same rationale for murdering non-Muslims: their murder is a bridge that martyrs (Shahid) must cross to reach heaven.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini in Mandatory Palestine played leading roles in inculcating the spirit of Nazism into Muslim consciousness. Nazis found refuge after the end of World War II and continued their activities in exile in the Arab world, mainly Egypt. Academicians throughout the world are aware of the Islamic-Nazi connection knowing the historical consequences of redemptive anti-Semitism and its current manifestation in Islamic thinking and Islam as a religion. Yet, rather than exposing this indisputable historical fact, they lend their support to perpetuate the false belief that Islamic newcomers to Europe can be integrated and accept the norms, values, and principles of Western society. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fact that since 9/11, the hatred of the West has reached truly epidemic proportions in the Islamic world has been also been downplayed or ignored by academicians, politicians, and opinion makers in the media. Overlooked as well in the history books is the fact that about 100,000 European Muslims fought on the Nazi side in World War II. They included two Bosnian Muslim Waffen SS Divisions, an Albanian Waffen SS Division in Kosovo and Western Macedonia, the Waffengruppe der-SS Krim formations consisting of Chechen Muslims from Chechnya, and other Muslim formations in Bosnia-Hercegovina.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islamic Anti-Semitism has long been recognized as the Arab world’s prominent vehicle for the hatred of the Jews. From Islamic academics teaching that Judaism permits murder and rape of non-Jews, to religious leaders teaching that Islam demands the extermination of Jews, Islamic redemptive anti-Semitism is a compelling force driving hatred and terror. Jews are depicted as the archetypal force of evil throughout history. Jews are said to be responsible for all the world’s problems: wars, financial crises, even the spreading of AIDS. In short, Jews are a danger to humanity.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While this paradigm has been used by Nazis before, the Islamists take it a step further, turning the demonization of Jews into the basis for Palestinian denial of Israel’s right to exist and a central component of Islamic thinking and Islamic religious identity. The Anti-Semitic oppression, persecution and expulsions suffered by Jews throughout history are presented as the legitimate self-defense responses of the Nazis then and the Islamic nations of the world today. The ongoing Islamic terror wave in Europe is a testament of the transformation of the Nazis’ redemptive anti-Semitism to an Islamic need to murder innocent non-Muslims for eternal redemption in heaven.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Radical Islam has created a false and deceptive reality that will sooner than later crumble and implode. Over the past five years we have all witnessed how quickly Arab leaders throughout the Middle East have had to flee from their own people due to the eruption of rage and hatred by Muslim believers. The true narrative of the Middle East is that no Islamic state genuinely respects human rights. No Islamic state hosts a responsible media. No Islamic society fully respects the rights of women or minorities, and no Islamic government has ever accepted public responsibility for its own shortcomings. Blame of Jews and the West has become the opiate of the Muslim world.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thus is born the obsessive campaign to demonize and de-legitimize all members of Western societies, Jews and Christians alike. Only by spreading the word and exposing the historically lethal link between Nazism and Islamic terror, the modern torchbearers of redemptive anti-Semitism, can we regain the moral high ground in defending Western civilization against the global tsunami of Islamic terror throughout the world.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-42189372875673267352016-03-22T11:09:00.001-07:002016-03-22T11:09:19.829-07:00Can Christians View Muhammad As A Prophet?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.faithfreedom.org/can-christians-view-muhammad-as-a-prophet/">Ali Sina</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recently, Huffington Post published an article by a certain Dr. Craig Considine, a Catholic who says Muhamad was not only a prophet but “an exceptional person” and “the greatest and most influential human being ever to walk the face of the earth.” He said “Prophet Muhammad brought love, peace, and much more to a part of the world that had little of these things.”</span>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dr. Considine is not alone. There is a bromance between the Catholic Church and Islam that as an ex-Muslim I find disturbing and alarming. I sent this reply to Huffington Post but I do not expect them to publish it. Truth is not in their menu.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The problem is that the above claims are not supported by Islamic scriptures. I was born a Muslim and in my state of ignorance I believed that Muhammad was all the above and more. He was the most perfect human and an example to emulate.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I woke up from that delusional thinking when I read the Quran. While every sura of that books start in the name of Allah the merciful the compassionate, the text of that book portray a ruthless and a bloodthirsty god who enjoins the believers to hate the non-believers, to not take them as friends, to fight them, to be harsh with them, to subdue them, to slay them, and to rape and enslave their women.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While the apologists of Islam claim that the book that repeatedly claims to be a clear book with no doubts in it is misunderstood the voluminous biographies of Muhammad leave no doubt that he was a mass murderer, who raided villages and towns, massacred unarmed men, took their women and children as slaves, and often picked the prettiest and youngest for himself.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Khaibar, a Jewish town to the north of Medina, Muhammad tortured to death the youthful Kinana to make him reveal the whereabouts of his treasure. He was a goldsmith. He placed glowing coal on Kinana’s chest and blinded his eyes with a hot iron rod, and finally beheaded him.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He then sent after Safiyah, Kinana’s 17 year old wife, who was brought to him by Bilal, the first Black Muslim, accompanied by Kinana’s sister. Upon seeing the mutilated corpse of her brother, the young woman began screaming. Muhammad shouted; “take this she devil away from me.” He then rebuked Bilal, “Don’t you have a heart to bring these women to see their loved ones in this state?” Then the prophet of mercy took Safiyah to his tend to rape her on that very night.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While this is only one of hundreds of such stories, there is more to this tragic tale. Kinana and Safiyah were natives of Yathrib. The Jews used to live in that city for 2000 years. In 450 A.D., a great flood destroyed most of Yemen and forced various Arab tribes of the Saba region to migrate to other parts of Arabia. Two tribes, The Khasraj and the Aus went to Yathrib, and the Jews accepted them as refugees.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In just 170 years these refugees outnumbered the indigenous inhabitants. They made a living by working for the Jews and by highway robbery.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rejected by his own people Muhammad turned to a group of Khazraj who had come to pilgrimage in Mecca. He told them that he is the prophet that the Jews were waiting for. But if they were to follow him, he would make them victorious over them. He said that God had ordered him to raid and to rob and if they fought for him they would be enriched beyond their imagination. And in case they were to be killed they would go to paradise where they would recline in the shade under canopies, drinking wine and playing with high bosom fair skinned virgins, while being served by young boys like pearl.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These simple minded Arabs accepted what he told them uncritically. After all they were thieves already. Why not steal in the name of God and reap also the afterlife rewards?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As the followers of Muhammad became wealthier their numbers also grew. Islam was the most profitable business in the country. Arabs could gain wealth and women in this world and be rewarded in the next.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Muhammad knew that victory is in deceit and often said so. He always took his victims by surprise. He fought 78 wars in just ten years after migrating to Yathrib, which he named after himself, Madinat al Nabi (Prophet’s Town). His raids are called ghazwa (raid/ambush/sudden attack) or in modern parlance, terrorism.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Jews however did not convert and Muhammad decided to get rid of them. He banished two of their tribes and massacred the men of the third. Boys’ genitals were inspected and if they had grown pubic hair they were executed with their fathers. The women and children were sold into slavery in exchange for more arms.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Safiya’s father and uncle were among the men that Muhammad beheaded in Medina. She had escaped to Khaibar, only to taste the tyranny of the prophet, the man who according to Dr. Considine brought love and peace, two years later.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These are not baseless allegations. I have read the Quran, all the original books of history of Islam, and most books of hadith. I did not find any love or peace in them. I am offering $50,000 to anyone who can prove me wrong. I go further than that. If anyone can prove me wrong I will surrender myself to Muslims so they can behead me. Everything I said is undeniable truth and I bet my life on it, literally.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Truth is often ugly. But there is no excuse to lie. The majority of Muslims don’t know the truth about their prophet. When they learn the truth they are faced with a dilemma. They must either accept everything and become terrorists or reject Islam altogether.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To be radicalized means to go to the roots. A deepened Muslim is a radicalized Muslim unless he chooses to leave Islam. There is no mystery in how Muslims become radicalized. They read the Quran, the hadith and learn about the life of their prophet.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is no such thing as moderate Islam. There is only one Islam: the Islam of Muhammad and the Quran. The so called moderate Islam is the ignorance of Islam. The less Muslims know their religion the more moderate they are. The more they deepen their knowledge the more radicalized they become.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is no longer possible to keep the masses of Muslims in the dark. The Internet has made knowledge accessible to everyone. The question is which side will win. My hope is that we the apostates win and I urge non-Muslims to stand with us and not with the terrorists. The more you condone Islam the more you encourage terrorism.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While it is true that millions of Muslims are becoming radicalized, millions are also leaving Islam. You don’t hear from us because most of us are in hiding. Many apostates could be killed by their own family if they came out to the light.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We need your help. We can help other Muslims see the truth and realize they won’t be going to any brothel in heaven if they kill you. That Islam is all a big lie; that Allah is no God and Muhammad is no prophet.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What we don’t need are the likes of Dr. Considine. Not only he is ignorant, he is very much confused. Muhammad cursed the Christians for saying Jesus is the son of God.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The core belief of Christianity is based on the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Muhammad denied the crucifixion. He said God tricked the people so that they crucified someone resembling Jesus, who cowardly went in hiding and lived a normal life in anonymity until his old age. Clearly Muhammad Judged the Son of God with his own standard. He was so cowards that he used to wear two coats of mail and hide behind his followers, never fighting in person.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Either Muhammad lied or the Bible lies. How can a Christian claim to believe in both these mutually contradictory beliefs?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When a friend who found Concidine’s article invited him to debate me, he replied “I don’t debate, I dialogue.” Dialogue is conversation between two people. Debate is conversation between two people with opposing views. So basically this gentleman likes to pontificate and not be contradicted. Truth can spark when opposing ideas collide. So much for his interest in truth! Ignorance has a remedy, arrogance does not. I have yet to find a person who likes Islam and has sound reasoning. It is impossible for someone with sound reasoning to become attracted in such an evil faith like Islam. Muslims are born into this demonic cult but even they leave it when they apply their reason. How can one claim to be a Christian and hail also for Muhammad? Is this confusion or taqiyah at work?</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We need you to help us the apostates, and to expose the truth so the moderate/ignorant Muslims can be weaned from this religion of hate and terror and join the family of mankind in amity and love. We need truth, we need honesty, not more political correctness and more lies.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More and more Americans are learning the harsh, terrifying and disgusting truths about Islam. On a whole host of issues, Islam is simply not compatible with Western values, whether it be slavery, rape, social/sexual equality, violence, murder or pedophilia – in all these things Islam lines up against justice and morality.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What makes all of this worse and is the reason that Islam cannot coexist with the Western World is that the religion teaches that anything Muhammad did was right, just and moral. So murdering infidels will always be okay, slavery will always be just, rape (in certain cases) legal, and pedophilia strenuously protected. Why? Because Muhammad took part in all of these things. If they are wrong – then he was wrong…. and that just cannot be.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Are you starting to understand why such backwards practices continue in seemingly “civilized” nations like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, etc.? If any of these immoral behaviors are wrong, then it throws the entire Islamic religion into chaos, and so a large portion of <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/03/muslim-professor-islam-has-no-age-barrier-in-marriage-and-muslims-have-no-apology-for-those-who-refuse-to-accept-this" target="_blank">Islam will ALWAYS defend these heinous and disgusting practices</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example, a religious leader in Bangladesh argued that child marriages should not be banned because that would make Muhammad look bad.</span>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.</span></em>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The influential Muslim website Islamonline.com argued that not only was Muhammad okay with child marriages, but the Qur’an explicitly supported the practice as well.</span>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Noble Qur’an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: “And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women, if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated” [Qur’an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur’an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet entered into a marriage contract with A’isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.</span></em>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Iran the government says that girls can be engaged at any age and married off at nine!</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><em>“Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed.” </em>In fact, the most famous, popular and beloved leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year old girl when he was 28. <em>Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl “a divine blessing,” and advised the faithful to give their own daughters away accordingly: “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house.” When he took power in Iran, he lowered the legal marriageable age of girls to nine, in accord with Muhammad’s example.</em></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This past week, an influential professor and the Director of the <a href="http://muslimrightsmuric.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Muslim Rights Concern</a>, Ishaq Akintola, once again voiced support for the disgusting practices of forced child marriage, or better understood – pedophilia.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Akinotla, <a href="http://www.punchng.com/islam-has-no-age-barrier-for-marriage-muric-director-akintola/" target="_blank">speaking to the online magazine PUNCH</a>, said that age was not a barrier for marriage in Islam. He also argued that “forced marriage” is a misnomer, even if it accurately reflects what is happening when a child as young as 9 is forced to marry a much older man. PUNCH used the story of 14-year old Ese Oruru as the foundation for their discussion. (You can <a href="http://www.bellanaija.com/2016/03/ese-oruru-cries-as-she-recounts-her-kidnap-ordeal-in-1st-full-interview-i-dont-know-how-i-feel-but-i-just-look-calm/" target="_blank">read more about that story here</a>.)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here’s some of what Akintola told PUNCH:</span>
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<strong style="line-height: 1.5;"><em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q. Is child marriage permitted in Islam, looking beyond the case of Ese Oruru?</span></em></strong>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Islam is a complete way of life. As a religion, non-Muslims will have to take Muslims as they are, not as they want them to be. Neither Muslims nor their religion should be judged according to other standards. There will never be any inter-religious understanding so long as non-Muslims continue to measure Muslims and their way of life by Christian, Buddhist or Confucianist yardsticks. <strong>The simple truth is: Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this, particularly since 99.99 per cent of such marriages are conducted among Muslims themselves. If the man is a Muslim and the girl is also a Muslim and the girl’s parents give their approval, what is the business of any non-Muslim in that? It is sheer interference in the affair of Muslims and an attempt to exert undue influence on them</strong>. More often than not, those who interfere in this manner have ulterior motives. It is either for the purpose of smearing the image of Islam or to gain a comparative advantage and score a religious point (for their own faith of course).</span></em>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are not unaware of all these antics, yet we patiently endure them. <strong>Non-Muslims should therefore keep off Muslims’ affairs. Who are non-Muslims to be the judge of Muslims when every religious group has its own failings? This interference often causes unnecessary strain on Christian-Muslim relationship.</strong> Despite the fact that our Christian neighbours sing the hymn ‘I want to be like Jesus…’ repeatedly, they are not behaving like Jesus (peace be upon him). Neither are they following his teachings. There will be peace if they do. But they don’t. Jesus taught Christians to mind their own business and to resist the temptation to judge others. He said, ‘Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure that you give will be the measure you get.’</span></em>
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q. That means your organisation, Muslim Right Concern, supports child marriage?</span></em></strong>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am a Muslim and I support all truly Muslim practices. Our organisation, MURIC, is an Islamic human rights outfit. So naturally we should support all principles of Islam. It promotes Allah-given fundamental human rights as well as Allah-given fundamental rights of all creatures, animals – mammals, invertebrates, birds in the sky, the environment and all natural entities. Everything created by Allah has a right. We promote their rights.<strong>MURIC believes in all Shariah-compliant marriages, regardless of the age of the girl. The sensationalisation of intra-Muslim marriages to the so-called minors is uncalled for and, more often than not, done with hidden malice. For your information, we don’t have what you call ‘child marriage’. We have nikah (Islamic marriage). I affirm clearly, emphatically and unequivocally, that what happens among Muslims is strictly a Muslim affair and should remain so as long as it is Shariah-compliant. Non-Muslims have no right to poke their noses into any religious action taken by Muslims for Muslims. Nikah is a marriage of the Muslims conducted by the Muslims for the Muslims. How the Muslims do it is nobody’s business</strong>. Do we come into the church to criticise the way marriages are conducted? Have Muslims said anything about gay marriages inside churches? That is the Christian way of life and they should stop attempts to impose their lifestyle on Muslims. We will never allow that. It is an attempt to subject Muslims to public ridicule.</span></em>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You cannot hold us in contempt and talk about love. It is sheer deceit. It is hypocrisy. Even Jesus (peace be upon him) called those who ignore their own faults to interfere in other people’s matters, hypocrites. He said, “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’ when there is a log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” So, instead of paying attention to marriages conducted among Muslims, Christians should do something about gay marriages inside churches.</span></em>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When PUNCH turned the conversation to the increasing acts of violence from Muslim terrorists like Boko Haram, Akintola cried foul and argued that the publication was “making a mountain out of a molehill.”</span>
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q. What is the Muslim community going to do about these alleged abductions (like the one in Sokoto)?</span></em></strong>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There you go again! Baseless, clueless, unfounded and untenable allegations; rumours, rumours and rumours! Where you have cases, bring them forward. You cannot turn us into suspects overnight. You know where abduction is rampant. I won’t mention states. Why is the Nigerian press so keen on causing distractions? A whole region has turned abduction into family and tribal business. The Nigerian press looks the other way and starts prying into issues that have nothing to do with abduction.</span></em>
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<strong style="line-height: 1.5;"><em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Q. Abductions of female children for sex slavery and forced marriage have become a trend in the country. What’s the way out?</span></em></strong>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That’s not true. You are making a mountain out of a molehill and I am not under any obligation to answer that kind of question. It is prejudicial. I respect the press and I will continue to cooperate with them but I will not be an accomplice to untruth. Better still, if you must have an answer, the security agencies are the ones who would provide an answer to your question.</span></em>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These responses are interesting, considering the fact that Boko Haram and other Muslim terrorist organizations have kidnapped and sold thousands of people into slavery in recent years. Several hundred of these kidnappings have been widely reported in the international newspapers, and the handful of young girls who have been recovered all attest to the fact that these occurrences are widespread and growing ever more common.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fact of the matter is that Islam is simply not compatible with the modern world. And no condescending liberal platitude will change that fact.</span>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861063522343723610.post-27768130894125567442016-03-04T09:20:00.001-08:002016-03-04T09:20:59.335-08:00The so-called “occupation” began in 1967, but Muslims murdering Jews did not<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By <a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2016/03/03/the-so-called-occupation-began-in-1967-but-muslims-murdering-jews-did-not-paula-r-stern/">Paula R. Stern</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On May 8, 2001, a Palestinian brutally beat to death two 13-year old boys exploring a cave – Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On August 9, 2001, a Palestinian walked into a pizzeria in Jerusalem with a guitar case loaded with explosives and blew himself up, killing 15 people, including 7 children and a pregnant woman. One victim is still unconscious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On Octobr 7, 2004 32 people were murdered in two Sinai hotel resort hotels by Palestinian terrorists who knew that Israelis frequented the hotels. Among the dead, two brothers – Gilad, aged 11, and little Lior, aged 3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On December 5, 2005, Palestinian terrorists attempted to enter a mall in Netanya but blew up themselves and 5 others at the entrance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On March 6, 2008, Rosh Chodesh Adar, eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva were murdered by terrorists who entered the school and opened fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On March 11, 2011, two Palestinian cousins entered the home of Ruti and Udi Fogel. He murdered the couple and killed three of their children, including four year old Elad, whom they stabbed in the heart, and little Hadas, who was only four months old when they butchered her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On October 22, 2014, Chaya Zissel Braun, only three months old, and Karen Mosquera were murdered in a ramming attack at the Ammunition Hill train station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last week, early Friday morning, a 21-year-old terrorist living in El Azariya – a neighborhood in Jerusalem, left his place of employment (a deli in the mall in Maale Adumim), and used an axe to attempt to murder a Jewish guard. The guard has a name, a family. He is Tzvika Cohen. He is 48 years old. He is married to a devoted wife who is staying by his side, praying for his recovery. He has four children including an 8 year old and a 12 year old who is supposed to be celebrating his bar mitzvah in just a few weeks. He has a community that has rallied together to raise thousands of dollars to try to help the family but what they really need is not something we can give them – they need Tzvika, healthy and whole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two days ago, Arab snipers opened fire on a children’s playground. Thankfully, there were no injuries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last night, an Arab mob ambushed two soldiers who had taken a wrong turn. The soldiers were able to escape the mob and were finally extricated safely by a massive force of soldiers rushing in to get them. Their jeep was torched and destroyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes, I’m sure it’s because of the “occupation”…because sheesh, whenever I’m angry and think the world is being unfair, whether I am right or wrong, the first thing I do is pull out my rifle and fire at a playground with children in it, or pick up an axe and start stabbing a father of four children from behind, start up my car and ram it into innocent people. If I see people lost in my neighborhood, of course, I burn their vehicle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It must be because of the “occupation”, right? The “occupation” that began in 1967, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, think again. It was happening before 1967. If it wasn’t, why did Palestinians attack a house and murder a woman and her two children in 1953?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why did they open fire on a synagogue in Shafir in 1956, killing three children and a youth counselor?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why did they murder a member of Kibbutz Beit Guvrin in 1957, and another from Kibbutz Bonen in 1958, and another from Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan in 1959?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And why did they shoot two hikers near Masada in 1959?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Could it be that it was not because of the 1967 “occupation” but because of the 1948 creation of the State of Israel?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Think again. It wasn’t only since 1948. It was happening before that, and if you don’t think so, explain why they murdered 67 people in Hevron, including their peaceful longtime neighbors, 46 yeshiva students and teachers in 1929?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And why did they loot, rape and murder Jews in 1834, in the city of Safed, because…because…because they could?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Perhaps it is only in the land of Israel where Muslims feel threatened and therefore attack Jews?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, that was an interesting idea, but history shows you are wrong…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What of the Allahdad incident in Mashhad, Iran in 1839, when Jews were forced to convert to Islam? Or the destruction of Torah scrolls and the burning of a synagogue in Meshed, also in 1839. There, too, the Jews were forced to convert. And there was another massacre in 1867 in Barfurush – all outside the land of Israel, disconnected except for the fact that the hatred was the same and the victims were of the same religion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 1465, Arab mobs in Morocco slaughtered thousands of Jews, leaving only 11 alive. What happened in 1066 wasn’t because of the “occupation,” just as it wasn’t because of the “occupation” in 1966 and it isn’t because of the “occupation” in 2016. And, on 1066, Muslims murdered an estimated 4,000 Jews in one day. One day…and no “occupation.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, here we have a quick review of a just a few of the man instances covering over 1,000 years of attacks on Jews, killing even more than we are experiencing today, innocent Jews who died at the hands of Muslims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is it REALLY because of the “occupation?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Are you ready for the truth?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What happened in 1066 wasn’t because of the “occupation,” just as it wasn’t because of the “occupation” in 1966 and it isn’t because of the “occupation” in 2016. Tzvika is in the hospital, fighting for his life for one reason. Those children were nearly murdered for one reason. My friend’s car was nearly hit with a boulder thrown at her as she made her way home last night, for one reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then, in 1066 and then, in 1966, and now, in 2016 – there is one and only one reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are Jews. We believe. We live our lives dedicated to our beliefs – in one God, in one land for this one people. And the hatred that drove the Cossacks to burn my grandmother’s synagogue in the Ukraine, and the hatred that drove the Nazis to murder my husband’s grandparents and my great-grandmother and great aunts and all of my father’s family that remained in Russia, and the hatred of the Arabs today, and the hatred we see in France and Germany and England and in the United States – none of it ever had anything to do with “occupation.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We owe it to ourselves, to our children and grandchildren, and to Tzvika, to be honest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is not about the “occupation.”</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13891407122859204228noreply@blogger.com0