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		<title>Islamic Law: Girls Can Be Married Even &#8216;In The Cradle&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between Sharia and common decency reaffirmed once again.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/174549556.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248426" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/174549556-415x350.jpg" alt="BAHRAIN-RELIGION-ISLAM-RAMADAN" width="309" height="261" /></a>Originally published by </i><i><a href="http://www.vieinter.com/themiddleeast/islamic-law-girls-can-be-married-even-if-they-are-in-the-cradle/">Veritas International Enterprise</a>.</i></p>
<p>Muslim attempts at “reformation” <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-reformers-forever-talking-the-talk-never-walking-the-walk/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">continue to be limited to words not actions</span></a>.  A few days ago, efforts to set a minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia “<a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-grand-mufti-says-no-opposition-to-underage-marriage-1.1429882"><span style="color: #0433ff;">received a blow</span></a> after the Grand Mufti said there was nothing wrong with girls below 15 getting married.”</p>
<p>Two years earlier, the justice ministry began pushing for setting a minimum age in the Arabian kingdom.  According to Gulf News, “It submitted an integrated study on the negative psychological and social effects of underage marriages to religious scholars and requested a fatwa that sets a minimum age.”</p>
<p>However, the <i>ulema</i>—the “religious scholar,” the learned ones of Islamic law—responded by totally ignoring the request.  Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority, its Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, shrugged the whole matter off by saying “There is currently no intention to discuss the issue.”  In other words, case closed.</p>
<p>Although the brief Gulf News report focuses on the age 15, going back to earlier reports when the justice ministry began bringing this issue up, one discovers that the issue at stake is full-blown pedophilia.</p>
<p>Back in 2011, for example, Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, issued a fatwa <a href="http://alwatan.kuwait.tt/ArticleDetails.aspx?Id=124848"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asserting</span></a> that there is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”</p>
<p>Appearing in Saudi papers, the fatwa complained that “Uninformed interference with Sharia rulings by the press and journalists is on the increase”—likely a reference to the justice ministry’s advocacy—“posing dire consequences to society, including their interference with the question of marriage to small girls who have not reached maturity, and their demand that a minimum age be set for girls to marry.”</p>
<p>Fawzan insisted that nowhere does Sharia (or Islamic law) set an age limit for marrying girls: like countless Muslim scholars before him, he relied on Koran 65:4, which discusses marriage to females who have not yet begun menstruating (i.e., are prepubescent) and the fact that Muhammad, Islam’s role model, married Aisha when she was six or seven, “consummating” the marriage—or, in modern/Western parlance, <i>raping</i> her—when she was nine.</p>
<p>The grand point of the Saudi fatwa, however, is not that girls as young as nine can be married, based on Muhammad’s example, but rather that there is no age limit whatsoever.  The only question open to consideration is whether the girl is physically capable of handling her “husband.”  Fawzan documented this point by quoting <a href="http://www.sifatusafwa.com/en/hadeeth/1037-sharh-sahih-al-bukhari-li-ibn-battal-449h.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ibn Battal’s authoritative exegesis of Sahih Bukhari</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The ulema [Islam’s scholars and interpreters] have agreed that it is permissible for fathers to marry off their small daughters, even if they are in the cradle.  But it is not permissible for their husbands to have sex with them unless they are capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the men.  And their capability in this regard varies based on their nature and capacity.  Aisha was six when she married the prophet, but he had sex with her when she was nine [that is, when she was deemed capable].</p></blockquote>
<p>Fawzan concluded his fatwa with a warning: “It behooves those who call for setting a minimum age for marriage to fear Allah and not contradict his Sharia, or try to legislate things Allah did not permit.  For laws are Allah’s province; and legislation is his exclusive right, to be shared by none other.  And among these are the rules governing marriage.”</p>
<p>Once again, case closed.</p>
<p>Fawzan, of course, is not <a href="http://islamqa.com/en/ref/22442"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the</span></a> <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3023.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">first</span></a> to insist on the legitimacy of <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Pedophilia"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pedophilia in Islam</span></a>.  Nor is this just some theoretic, abstract point; the lives of countless young girls are devastated because of this teaching.  Recall, for instance, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415871/Yemeni-child-bride-8-dies-internal-injuries-night-forced-marriage-groom-40.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">8-year-old girl who died</span></a> on her “wedding” night as her “husband” raped her; or the 12-year-old who <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemeni-12-year-old-dies-while-giving-birth-to-a-stillborn-1.539240"><span style="color: #0433ff;">died giving birth to a stillborn</span></a>; or the 10-year-old who made headlines by <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/10/marriage_saudi_arabiastyle_1.asp"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hiding </span></a> from her 80-year-old “husband.”</p>
<p>Finally, it should be borne in mind that Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz—the highest Islamic authority in the land of Islam’s birth—not only dismisses calls to place an age restriction for marriage, but is the same Grand Mufti who called for the destruction of all Christian churches on the Arabian Peninsula (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/saudi-mufti-destroy-churches/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">as first reported here</span></a>).</p>
<p>The consistency makes perfect sense.  After all, in the eyes of non-Muslims, or “non-believers,” Sharia law is nothing less than a legal system built atop the words and deeds of a seventh century Arab, whose behavior—from pedophilia and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muhammad-and-islams-sex-slaves/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex-slavery</span></a> to war mongering and plundering to destroying non-Muslim places of worship—was very much that of a seventh century Arab.</p>
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		<title>Glazov Gang&#8217;s 2014 Episode of The Year: Geert Wilders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A titan and courageous truth-teller crystallized the only way the West will be able to preserve itself.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Geert.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248392" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Geert-450x272.jpg" alt="Geert" width="309" height="187" /></a><strong>[</strong><a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf"><strong>Subscribe</strong></a><strong> to <em>The Glazov Gang</em> and </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><strong>LIKE</strong></a><strong> it on </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><strong>Facebook.]</p>
<p></strong></a>This year’s<strong> Glazov Gang 2014 Episode of the Year Award</strong> goes to two special episodes &#8212; each of them joined by a stellar titan who is on the front-lines of the culture and terror war courageously defending our civilization&#8217;s freedom.</p>
<p>One of the winning episodes was with<strong> Geert Wilders,</strong>  the founder and leader of the “Party for Freedom” — which is currently the fourth-largest party in the Dutch parliament. Mr. Wilders is best known for his brave stance against, and truth-telling about, Islam. He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Death-Islams-Against-West/dp/1596987960" target="_blank"><em>Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me</em></a>.</p>
<p>We are honored to present the episode,<strong> <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">“The West’s Battle For Freedom,” </span></span> </strong>below. We will run the other Glazov Gang 2014 episode award winner in our next issue.</p>
<p>The Glazov Gang team also extends special thanks to all of our guests, viewers and supporters and wishes all of them a happy, healthy and successful new year.</p>
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		<title>The Top Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxes of 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faking “Islamophobic” hate crimes is a big business.]]></description>
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<p>On Christmas morning, a man drove up to the Islamic Cultural Center in Fresno, threw rocks through the windows, and then entered the center and destroyed things inside. The local ABC outlet, KFSN, <a href="http://abc30.com/news/fresno-police-calling-islamic-cultural-center-burglary-a-hate-crime/451696/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported Friday</span></a> that “Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says it is clear the incident is a hate crime which is why the FBI is also investigating this case.” But <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/27/4303923_suspect-identified-in-fresno-islamic.html?rh=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">on Saturday</span></a>, it turned out that the incident was not an “anti-Muslim hate crime” at all: the vandal was <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/27/4303923_suspect-identified-in-fresno-islamic.html?rh=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Asif Mohammad Khan, a Muslim</span></a>. The destruction at the Islamic Cultural Center in Fresno was yet another in a long series of fake hate crimes designed to prop up the fiction that Muslims in the U.S. are routinely targets of discrimination and harassment.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/27/4303923_suspect-identified-in-fresno-islamic.html?rh=1">According to Khan’s sister Samia,</a></span> the vandal is (like the recent French attackers who screamed “Allahu akbar” while trying to kill infidels) mentally ill. She also said that he was a devout Muslim who prayed five times daily. Dyer revealed that Khan had in recent days written that Osama bin Laden was the most inspirational person in his life. Dyer explained that Khan’s vandalism of the mosque “was not geared towards the Islamic community, it was not geared to the Islamic faith or any of those things and was simply to get back at a few people at the center who had belittled him and in his eyes bullied him.”</p>
<p>Dyer and other law enforcement authorities were extremely unlikely to consider it as they investigated Khan’s crimes, but the Hamas-linked <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=154325C2-EF71-48FD-B33C-B5A584CFB8CF"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Council on American-Islamic Relations</span></a> (CAIR) <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023204.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">and</span></a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023150.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">other Muslims</span></a> have on many occasions in the past not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. CAIR and other groups like it want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat.</p>
<p>This has happened many times in 2014. Here are five of the most egregiously manipulative examples:</p>
<p><b>1. The Saleh and Akbar viral video.</b></p>
<p>In October, the Muslim bloggers Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar released a video entitled “Racial Profiling Experiment.” It showed the duo in Western clothing, coming to blows in front of an indifferent NYPD cop. In the second part of the video, they pass by the same cop in Muslim garb, arguing mildly – only to be harassed and frisked by the same policeman.</p>
<p>The video went viral. The Huffington Post hysterically proclaimed that it offered a “small glimpse into the ugly world of racial profiling.” Hamas-linked CAIR called for an investigation. But then it turned out that the whole thing had been staged. <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/NYPD-racial-profiling-hoax-video-675432"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The Smoking Gun</span></a> called the video a “cynical and duplicitous attempt to capitalize on New York City’s documented racial profiling problems.”</p>
<p><b>2. The German mosque arson.</b></p>
<p>Another “Islamophobic” hate crime took place in Germany in February, when there was an arson attack at the Central Mosque in Cologne. But in October, a Muslim who had been held in a psychiatric ward ever since he had been arrested (as the mainstream media and law enforcement officials have now apparently agreed that all Muslims who commit acts of violence are mentally ill) <a href="http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2014/10/10/mosque-arson-in-germany-turk-confesses-to-attacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">confessed</span></a> to having set the fire.</p>
<p>“I wanted to make a clear sign,” the arsonist explained. “Because<b> </b>they treated me badly at the Koran school. It has always hurt me.” He also had tried to burn down two other mosques; it wasn’t reported whether or not he had been to Qur’an school and been treated badly in all three. But until he was apprehended, his arson attacks provided rich material for the “Islamophobia” mythmakers.</p>
<p><b>3. The burned Qur’ans in Dearborn.</b></p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.pressandguide.com/articles/2014/06/17/news/doc5399f810f0f03443588853.txt?viewmode=fullstory">Last June</a></span>, after three burned Qur’ans were found in front of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, the mosque’s imam, Sheikh Husham Al-Husainy met with lawyers to discuss his proposal for a statute criminalizing the desecration of holy books. “We want all of the religions to cooperate with us,” he declared, “to bring respect to the word of God, whether the Quran, Bible, or Torah.”</p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/news/id_9053/Iraqi-American-man-arrested-while-burning-Quran-in-Dearborn.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">as it turned out</span></a>, the Qur’an barbecuer was none other than a Muslim named Ali Hassan Al-Assadi. Al-Husainy opined that al-Assadi was (surprise, surprise) “mentally unstable.” Crazy or not, the discovery that al-Assadi had burned the Qur’ans threw a large monkey wrench into al-Husainy’s plans to use the incident as the cornerstone of his campaign against the freedom of expression.</p>
<p><b>4. The Montclair State University attack.</b></p>
<p>Combine the relentless Muslim striving for victimhood with the cult of victimhood on college campuses these days, and even non-Muslims get into the faked hate act. Last April at Montclair State University in New Jersey, a student claimed that three white men in jeans and hoodies assaulted him. They called him an “Islamic terrorist.”</p>
<p>MSU police began an investigation, only to find that the whole incident was a hoax: a student named Navjoat Aulakh had filed a false report. Aulakh may not even be a Muslim. His full name is Navjoat Singh Aulakh; “Singh” is a name closely associated with Sikhs. The Aulakhs are a Jat clan from the Punjab area, and while many Jats are Muslims, the name Singh here suggests that this young man is himself a Sikh. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/navjoat.aulakh"><span style="color: #0433ff;">His Facebook page</span></a> gives no sign that he cares about much of anything but sports and babes, but apparently he does have some significant political concerns. If he is a Sikh, this would by no means be the first time that Sikhs have served as useful idiots for the Islamic supremacist victimhood posturing enterprise. Sikhs even stood with Hamas-linked CAIR to call for the allowance of hijabs on an amusement park go-kart ride that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/2010-muslima-dies-as-hijab-caught-in-go-kart-axle-2014-cair-demands-hijabs-on-go-karts"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had already seen one Muslima killed as her hijab was caught in the axle</span></a>.</p>
<p>In this case, a Sikh apparently tried to aid the false Muslim victimhood narrative. And failed.</p>
<p><b>5. The Shaima Alawadi murder.</b></p>
<p>Last April in El Cajon, California, an Iraqi Muslim named Kassim Alhimidi was <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/www.10news.com/news/kassim-alhimidi-found-guilty-in-beating-death-of-wife-shaima-alawadi-041714"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found guilty</span></a> of murdering his wife, Shaima Alawadi, after she had told him that she wanted a divorce.</p>
<p>Before Alhimidi was arrested, this murder was widely reported as an “Islamophobic hate crime”: a note was found by Alawadi’s body that read, “Go back to your country, you terrorist.” Leftists and Islamic supremacists made a great deal of this, claiming that the murder was the work of an “Islamophobe” who hated Shaima Alawadi for wearing a hijab. They even staged a campaign, “One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi.”</p>
<p>Reza Aslan, the celebrated author of <i>Zealot</i>, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/california-muslim-guilty-of-killing-wife-whose-murder-was-blamed-on-islamophobia"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bashed out a sub-literate tweet</span></a> blaming Pamela Geller and me for the murder: “If a 32 year old veiled mother is a terrorist than [sic] so am I you Islamophobic fucks Gellar [sic] Spencer et. [sic] al. Come find me.” This tweet indicated how much mileage the “Islamophobia” propaganda machine thought it could get from the Alawadi murder in its efforts to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror.</p>
<p>Yet it was another fake hate crime. And since the mainstream media remains so uncritical about Muslim claims of having been victimized, there will be many more in 2015.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world heard about the Peshawar school attack, but many attacks on Christian schools go unreported by MSM.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/4973928-3x2-700x467.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248284" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/4973928-3x2-700x467-450x300.jpg" alt="4973928-3x2-700x467" width="321" height="214" /></a>Earlier we looked at “<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/how-western-media-enable-islamic-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">how Western mainstream media enable Islamic terrorism</span></a>,” specifically by employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, territorial disputes—not Islam.</p>
<p>Another strategy that recently came to the fore consists of highlighting Islamic terror attacks that target other Muslims.  The logic here is clear:  How “Islamic” can such Islamic groups be if they attack and kill fellow Muslims?  In other words, whatever the motivation, it surely cannot be Islam, since those being killed are themselves Muslims.  This suggests that the terrorists themselves cannot be true Muslims since Muslims are generally forbidden by Islam to kill other Muslims (caveats exist).</p>
<p>A recent example of this is the December 16 Taliban attack on an army public school in Peshawar, where 145 people were killed, the majority being schoolchildren age 18 and under.   This incident was reported all over the mainstream media, and rightfully so.</p>
<p>Yet this begs the question: why do similar attacks, when directed at non-Muslims—especially Christians—rarely if ever get the same sort of media coverage?</p>
<p>For example, in <a href="https://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/47-youngsters-killed-at-Christian-school-in-Nigeria-while-Christians-in-Mubi-forced-to-flee-after-Boko-Haram-renames-it-City-of-Islam.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nigeria</span></a> on November 10,</p>
<blockquote><p>A suicide bomb attack in a Christian secondary school in the town of Potiskum in Yobe state, north-eastern <a href="https://barnabasfund.org/US/Our-work/Our-current-projects/BF-Project-Countries/Nigeria.html?"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nigeria</span></a>, has killed at least 47 people on Monday as the students gathered for morning assembly. Boko Haram is thought to be behind the blast, having carried out several attacks on schools giving a Western-style education. Translated from Hausa, Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden” of which this latest school attack is a stark reminder.</p></blockquote>
<p>Earlier in the year in Nigeria “Boko Haram claimed the lives of <a href="http://www.romereports.com/pg155924-nearly-60-students-at-christian-school-killed-in-boko-haram-attack-in-nigeria-en"><span style="color: #0433ff;">59 students</span></a> at a Christian school &#8230;  Some 50 men ambushed the school, then beat and shot staff and students. Once finished, they set fire to the buildings, with many students still inside. It&#8217;s the fourth attack of its kind since May of last year.”</p>
<p>On October 1 in Syria, at least 41 Alawite children—all under 12—were <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=b6wwv3c5aa80706194262ab5ce81131ace25c#bookmark=http://www.fides.org/en/news/36468-ASIA_SYRIA_Massacre_of_children_in_Homs_three_Christians_kidnapped_in_the_province_of_Hassake"><span style="color: #0433ff;">killed</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The massacre was one of the most severe in terms of children who died since the beginning of the conflict in Syria. According to official Syrian sources, a car bomb and a suicide bomber caused two explosions when the children came out of school, in the suburb of Akrameh inhabited mainly by Alawites, with the targeted intention to cause the highest number possible of deaths among children of the same religious community to which the Assad family belong.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here is the testimony of an eyewitness to another Islamic attack on a Christian school in Syria, where 12 people—mostly children—were <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/43540-god-is-here-but-i-am-getting-so-tired-syrian-christian-mother-mourns-killing-of-children-from-bombings"><span style="color: #0433ff;">killed</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I want to tell you about Tuesday. It was a terrible day. We cried and prayed all day. Tuesday they were bombing Bab Touma, the old city of Damascus. A lot of Christians live there. There is also a Christian school—a private one. We know a lot of people in that school. Some children from our area also go to school there. When those kids went to school on Tuesday, gathered at the square like they always do, a mortar fell in their midst. Some friends passed by the school and saw that parents and teachers were carrying their wounded children out of the school, dripping with blood. They saw them running to the hospitals in panic. For me, as a mother and a teacher, I can hardly bear to imagine what these people must be going through right now.  Twelve people lost their lives in that school, most of them children from the elementary school. Many more of them have lost arms and legs or have other injuries.</p></blockquote>
<p>As for Islamic attacks on Christian schools that do not lead to casualties, these are quite common.  Thus, on November 5 in Bangladesh, hundreds of Muslims, some armed with knives and machetes, attacked a Christian school.  <a href="https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2014/11/article_3500298.html/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">They</span></a> torched its library, burned Bibles and hymnals, and committed other wanton acts of violence.  According to a source, “A wave of panic swept through the school and traumatized everyone. Many students became sick in the following days.”  The reason for this particular attack?  <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/islamists-project-islams-worst-traits-onto-christians/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muslim projection</span></a>: a rumor started that the Christian school was converting Muslim students to Christianity.</p>
<p>How many of those Western people who could not help but hear about the Peshawar attack—considering its widespread coverage—also heard about these Islamic attacks on schools some of which also took large numbers of children lives?  Not very many, I would wager.</p>
<p>The reason, again, is obvious: reporting Muslims killing Muslims does not contradict the mainstream media’s narrative but ostensibly enforces it.  For—so the simple logic goes—Muslims who kill fellow Muslims cannot be “real” Muslims to start with, and must in fact be, as Western politicians habitually characterize them, mere “criminals.”</p>
<p>Thus, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan issued a <a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?adbid=545215646309416960&amp;adbpl=tw&amp;adbpr=66369181&amp;cid=social_20141217_37458137&amp;id=123838"><span style="color: #0433ff;">statement</span></a> condemning the Peshawar attack, adding, “The barbaric actions of the Taliban illustrate their lack of value for human life and lack of respect for the Islamic faith. These attacks only prove their selfish desire for power and willingness to murder to reach their self-serving goals.”</p>
<p>On the other hand, it is more difficult for the media to dissemble the motives of Muslims who intentionally target and kill “the other”—outnumbered and defenseless “infidel” minorities—simply because <i>they are</i> “the other.”</p>
<p>Whether small numbers or large—whether <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/islam-built-on-the-blood-of-christian-martyrs/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">four children decapitated for refusing to renounce Christ</span></a> or whether <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syria-ignored/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the largest massacre of Christians in Syria</span></a>—Muslim persecution of Christians will rarely if ever get MSM coverage, for it <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/why-christian-persecution-is-islams-achilles-heel/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">throws a wrench</span></a> in the media’s narrative that Islamic violence is a product of anything and everything but <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-ultimate-source-of-islamic-hate-for-infidels/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islamic hate for non-Muslims</span></a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2014 05:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<blockquote class="content_preface"><p>&#8220;You have a cross on… Do you know what we do to people like you?&#8221; — Muslim in Denmark.</p>
<p>Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way into the church, cut [the pastor], his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the building on fire&#8230; We only found the charred remains of the three of them in the morning. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any traces of Christianity in the town.&#8221; — Eyewitness account, Nigeria.</p>
<p>Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Muslim persecution of Christians in September started making prominent appearances not just in the Islamic world, but also in the West—in America, Australia and Europe.</p>
<p>In the United States, in Columbus, Indiana, three churches were vandalized on the same night. The words most frequently sprayed were &#8220;Infidels!&#8221; and &#8220;Koran 3:151.&#8221; The verse from the Koran states, &#8220;We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve [or "infidels"] for what they have associated with Allah [reference to Christian Trinity] of which He had not sent down [any] authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Father Doug Marcotte of Saint Bartholomew&#8217;s Catholic Church, one of those vandalized, said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of bad stuff being done in the name of Allah and so when people see this happening in Columbus, whether that was truly the person&#8217;s intent or there&#8217;s something else going on, it makes people nervous. It makes people upset. It makes them scared.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in Australia, AAP reported that &#8220;Church-goers in Sydney&#8217;s west have been left shaken after a stranger shouted death threats from a car bearing the Islamic State flag. The car drove past Our Lady of Lebanon Church at Harris Park on Tuesday and witnesses claim it had a flag similar to those brandished by Islamic State jihadists hanging out the window.&#8221; A church official said the people in the car threatened to &#8220;<a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/sydney-church-our-lady-of-lebanon-targeted-by-isis-threats/story-fncynjr2-1227062189328">kill the Christians&#8221; and slaughter their children</a>: &#8220;They were strong words and people were scared of what they saw.&#8221; Witnesses saw a flag outside the window with the words, &#8220;There is only one god and Muhammad is the prophet.&#8221; And as happens frequently in Muslim-majority nations, police security was later dispatched to patrol the Harris Park church while hundreds partook of the mass inside.</p>
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<p>In Denmark—2013&#8242;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/denmark-happiest-country_n_4070761.html">happiest country in the world</a>&#8220;—Christians of Middle Eastern backgrounds continued to experience &#8220;harassment, verbal attacks and in some cases direct violence from Muslims,&#8221; reports TV2, especially in Muslim-majority areas, such as Nørrebro. One Christian, &#8220;Jojo,&#8221; born in Denmark of Lebanese parents, shared her experiences. Once when sitting in her parked car, several Muslims surrounded it, harassing her about her Western attire. When one of them noticed she was wearing a cross, he said &#8220;Well, you have a cross on—then <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/denmark-christians-flee-muslim-dominated-areas-they-tell-me-i-ought-to-be-stoned-to-death">you are also a Christian f***ing whore</a>. Do you know what we do to people like you? Do you know what we do to people like you? You get stoned [to death].&#8221;</p>
<p>Another Christian woman of Iranian background recounted how she and her son are harassed on the Muslim-majority block where they live—and where she stands out for not wearing a <i>hijab</i>, the Islamic veil: &#8220;My son is being called everything. I get called all sorts of things. Infidel. Filthy Christians. They tell me I ought to be stoned to death. My son was beaten at the bus stop. He was called pig, dirty potato (Muslim slang for Danes), and that &#8216;you and your mother should die.&#8221;&#8216;</p>
<p>Islamic dreams of conquering Europe were prevalent. A senior analyst in Spain warned that, because Islamists see the Iberian peninsula as being &#8220;under Spanish and Portuguese occupation,&#8221; <a href="http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2014/09/05/jihadists-want-al-andalus-back-spanish-terrorism-analyst_966e7c8a-6480-4a28-b4e1-7a63eabf2d51.html">greater risk of terrorism exists there</a> than in other Western areas. Because Iberia—or, in Arabic, Al-Andalus—was under Islamic domination for centuries, many Muslims consider it part of the Islamic world, or Dar al-Islam, which needs to be reconquered, no less than Israel, also seen as occupied Islamic territory.</p>
<p>More pointedly, in the Islamic State [IS], in a lengthy message partially addressed to the &#8220;crusaders&#8221;—a reference to the West—some members declared, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-we-will-conquer-your-rome-break-your-crosses-and-enslave-your-women-by-the-permission-of-allah">We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah</a>.&#8221; Members of the IS also invoked a statement attributed to Muhammad, that Constantinople would be conquered before Rome—and it was, in 1453. The implication was that the Eternal City of Rome would be next.</p>
<p>Around the same time, Rome responded by rejecting a motion to name a street after the late Oriana Fallaci, a veteran journalist who had once written that, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/rome-nixes-naming-street-after-oriana-fallaci-because-she-wrote-that-the-muslim-world-is-attempting-to-conquer-the-west">the Muslim world is attempting to conquer the West in the name of Islam</a>.&#8221; In explaining their decision, local politicians described Fallaci&#8217;s writings as containing &#8220;religious hatred,&#8221; or &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Canada, while 80 special Muslims went to the trouble of attending a Muslim rally on behalf of persecuted Christians, sadly, another rally, an extremist Al Quds Day Anti-Israel Hate Fest, drew approximately 6,000 participants.</p>
<p>The rest of September&#8217;s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Muslim Attacks on Churches</b></p>
<p><b>East Jerusalem</b>: <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/attacks-on-church-in-east-jerusalem-grow-more-intense/">A Christian church was attacked numerous times</a>: On September 29, young Muslim men, with ties to a Palestinian militant group, wired shut the door of the Living Bread Church and sprayed a gaseous substance at those inside. An earlier gas attack had already occurred on September 17. Hours before the second attack, someone threw a rock through one of the windows of the church, and the day before that, Sunday, September 28, a Palestinian and others assaulted a church member as he was emptying trash into a dumpster outside the church.</p>
<p>On Sept. 21, a Palestinian militant, without warning, ran up behind a church leader, Karen Dunham, and knocked her to the pavement: &#8220;This guy charged me as fast as he could,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He came up behind me and just slammed into my back, and I fell and I hit the ground. My face is bruised. There&#8217;s bruises on the side of my cheek, on my face, on my head, on my knee, cuts on my head, and my wrist was fractured.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: A Christian priest in Egypt appealed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to intervene on behalf of yet another church being threatened by &#8220;religious extremists.&#8221; So far, local authorities have done nothing. Four years ago, the Coptic Church of St. Abram in Shubra al-Khaima received a permit to build an additional building. During those same four years, seven &#8220;thugs&#8221;—in the <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/2910-egypt-muslim-mob-prevents-coptic-church-building">words of the report</a>—have prevented it from being built. The &#8220;thugs&#8221; had mobilized local Muslims to threaten and demonstrate against the church. &#8220;The priest lamented that &#8216;after suffering many long years&#8217; they finally managed to acquire the permit to build, but then the next obstacle presented itself in the person of the aforementioned seven &#8216;thugs&#8217; who constantly harass, and incite Muslim mobs, against the church, whenever it tries to exercise its right to build the services building. Islamic law forbids the building of new churches or the renovation of existing churches.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Iraq</b>: Islamic State militants &#8220;<a href="http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2014/09/25/isis-blow-up-tikrits-green-church_9ac1fb14-0ae6-417d-a4cc-b20cf9eddef2.html">completely destroyed</a>&#8221; the ancient Green Church in Tikrit. They packed the church with explosives and detonated them &#8212; <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20140925012701.htm">completely destroying the ancient church</a>, which belonged to the Assyrian Church of the East. Almost from the time it was built in the seventh century, when Islam overran Iraq, the church had been attacked, ransacked, and destroyed by Muslim rulers and others, but was restored on the orders of Iraq&#8217;s late President Saddam Hussein in the 1990s.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: Many more churches and a Christian university, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/bible-college-churches-shut-down-as-boko-haram-claims-territory-in-ne-nigeria/">Kulp Bible College</a>, were forced to shut down as a result of the advances of the Islamic jihadi group, Boko Haram. In one instance, a pastor reported that &#8220;Boko Haram violence has been getting worse every day, and our members are fleeing the area by the thousands. Recent attacks in Borno and Adamawa states where our churches are located have seen Boko Haram take over the Army base. As a result, about 350 Christians have been killed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Separately, in Kaduna state, where &#8220;Muslim Fulani assailants seem driven to rid the area of Christianity and use the land to graze their cattle,&#8221; according to church leaders, 46 Christians, including two pastors, were slaughtered in raids. According to an eyewitness,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Suddenly we heard sounds of gunshots around our village. The pastor was still in the pastorate when the Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way onto the church premises. They cut him, his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the house on fire. The three of them were burned to ashes in the living room of the pastorate. We only found the charred remains of the three of them the following morning&#8230;. The gunmen then came onto the church premises and began shooting. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any trace of Christianity in the town.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although Muslim Fulani have historically had property disputes with Christian farmers, Christian leaders say attacks by the herdsmen constitute <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/two-pastors-among-46-christians-killed-in-kaduna-state-nigeria/">a war &#8220;by Islam to eliminate Christianity&#8221; in Nigeria</a>.</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>: In the latest incident of a nearly two-year wave of church demolitions, closures and confiscations, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/sudan-shutters-500-member-church-in-khartoum/">security agents padlocked a 500-member church building</a>, the Sudan Pentecostal Church [SPC] in Khartoum. The church also houses the Khartoum Christian Center (KCC). &#8220;The church is concerned that the building might be sold by the government, which renders more than 500 worshippers to have no place for worship,&#8221; a source told the <i>Morning Star News</i>. The Islamist government appears to be seeking any pretext for closing churches, sources said. In this instance, the space for the church was originally designated as &#8220;office space.&#8221; But, as one source asked, &#8220;How do you close a church building that has been in operation for 20 years in the name of the church being meant for offices?&#8221; The church has a deed showing that it owns the building and property &#8212; a situation that raises the question of the government&#8217;s right to sell it.</p>
<p>On June 30 bulldozers <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/06/sudanese-authorities-demolish-another-church-building/">demolished</a> the Sudanese Church of Christ in the Thiba Al Hamyida area of North Khartoum as church members watched, while security personnel threatened to arrest them if they tried to block the bulldozers, church members said.</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>: The <a href="http://armenianweekly.com/2014/09/21/der-zor/">Islamic State destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church</a> in Der Zor, seen as the &#8220;Auschwitz&#8221; of the Armenian Genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished in Der Zor and the surrounding desert during the genocide. In the summer of 1916 alone, more than 200,000 Armenians, mostly women and children, were massacred by Ottoman Turks. Armenia&#8217;s foreign minister issued a statement calling the church&#8217;s destruction a &#8220;horrible barbarity,&#8221; and referred to the Islamic State as a &#8220;disease&#8221; that &#8220;threatened civilized mankind.&#8221; The church was built in 1989-90 and consecrated a year later. A genocide memorial and a museum housing the remains of the victims of the genocide were also located in the church compound. Thousands of Armenians from Syria and neighboring countries gathered at the memorial every year on April 24 to commemorate the genocide.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Pakistani Rape and Dhimmitude</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36439-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Christian_girl_raped_the_perpetrators_film_the_violence#.VIXqaDHF9qU">Four young Muslims gang raped a 15-year-old Christian girl</a> and filmed it. The girl&#8217;s father, although he was threatened against filing a complaint, went to police, who confirmed the existence of a video that corroborates the violence. The video will apparently be introduced as evidence against the youths. A lawyer, Mushtaq Gill, issued a statement that, &#8220;Many Christian girls continue to be victims of sexual assault by young Muslims, who go unpunished&#8221; and that, &#8220;in this case there is also a video, flaunted as a trophy.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36280-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Two_Christian_women_abducted_forced_to_convert_to_Islam_and_marry_Muslim_men#.VIXv9zHF9qU">Two Christian women were abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men</a>. Lawyer Mushtaq Gill said, &#8220;A Christian girl, Sairish, forced to marry a Muslim in 2009, in her heart never abandoned the faith and continued to pray to Jesus Christ even after her marriage. After a few years she found the courage to rebel against the situation and run away&#8230;. Her life is now in danger because if she declares herself Christian, Muslims may accuse her of apostasy and the punishment would be death.&#8221; Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.</li>
<li>Another Christian family fled their hometown, Lahore, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36318-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Christian_family_flees_to_save_their_daughters_from_forced_conversion_to_Islam#.VIXuVzHF9qU">to save their daughters from forced conversion to Islam</a>. According to the Justice and Peace Commission, the two sisters, aged 12 and 8, were studying in public schools, where learning to recite the Koran is mandatory. Apparently, because the girls recited the <i>shehada</i>, the Islamic declaration of faith, &#8220;an Islamic cleric, the father of a student stated that these girls had become Muslims and thus needed to be taken from their Christian parents and entrusted to adult Muslims.&#8221; The parents pulled their daughters out of school, but then the headmaster and other Muslim teachers &#8220;warned the parents to send them back to school, offering the family financial aid regarding the school fees.&#8221; The parents quit their jobs and fled the region.</li>
<li>Police arrested 15 Christians and booked 45 other members of the minority community under the blasphemy law <a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/world/15-christians-held-in-pakistan-under-blasphemy-law.html">for allegedly desecrating Muslim graves</a> in a village in Punjab province. According to the AP, &#8220;The case was registered after a local cleric filed a complaint alleging that the Christians had desecrated over 400 Muslim graves to occupy the land in Chak village in Faisalabad, about 150 kilometres from Lahore.&#8221; Rights groups said it was a spurious charge meant to prevent the Christians from acquiring the land. In fact, the accusations were <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36294-ASIA_PAKISTAN_False_accusations_of_blasphemy_later_withdrawn_against_31_Christians_in_a_Punjab_village#.VIXvWzHF9qU">later proven false</a>.</li>
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<h3 align="center">Dhimmitude: Islamic Discrimination Against Christianity</h3>
<p><b>Egypt:</b> Iman Sarofim, a 39-year-old Christian mother of five, returned home to her family <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36441-AFRICA_EGYPT_The_Coptic_woman_who_had_disappeared_returns_home_she_did_not_convert_but_had_been_kidnapped#.VIXqsTHF9qU">after being kidnapped</a>. Initially it was believed that she had voluntarily converted to Islam and fled her family to be with a Muslim man. The woman contacted the family from Suez, where she had been brought by the kidnapper. The return of the woman was celebrated by neighbors and relatives in the city of Gabal al-Tir. Her disappearance had been the cause of clashes between Copts and police, who believed the narrative that she had voluntarily left. In retaliation, police officers entered the homes of dozens of Coptic families and violently arrested dozens of Christians. Separately, Ehab Karam, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36416-AFRICA_EGYPT_Kidnappings_continue_to_the_detriment_of_the_Copts_a_dentist_kidnapped_killed#.VIXrhzHF9qU">a Coptic dentist, was killed</a> after he was abducted by unknown persons, most likely for ransom. The kidnapping of Copts for ransom has evidently become a regular part of life in Egypt for Christians, particularly in Upper Egypt. Last February, for instance, police dismantled a crime network that for months had been organizing kidnappings, robberies and extortion against the local Coptic community. &#8220;Unfortunately,&#8221; said the Coptic Catholic Bishop of Assist, Kyrillos William, &#8220;the phenomenon continues and there are no signs of improvement. Police operations are episodic and ineffective, they are unable to solve the problem.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Iraq:</b> The Islamic State decreed that <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36336-ASIA_IRAQ_The_school_year_in_the_Islamic_Caliphate_the_teaching_of_Syriac_and_Christian_names_of_schools_have_been_abolished#.VIXuDTHF9qU">all schools in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain</a> which bore Christian names, some since the 1700s, must be changed. Also, the teaching of the Syriac language and culture and Christian religious education has been abolished. Reports indicate that the Islamic State took these moves &#8220;in order to erase all traces of cultural and religious pluralism in the conquered areas and turn schools into propaganda tools of jihadist ideology among the new generations.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Saudi Arabia</b>: In the Eastern Province city of Khafji, &#8220;religious police,&#8221; or agents from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christians-detained-by-Saudi-religious-police-in-raid-on-private-home.html">raided a house where at least 27 Christians</a>, mostly expatriates from various Asian nationalities, were gathered. The Christians, including children, were accused of practicing Christianity in a house church, and were arrested and detained overnight. Authorities also confiscated musical instruments and copies of the Bible. The house had been placed under surveillance after a citizen reported that his Indian neighbor had converted his home into a Christian church. After witnessing a large number of individuals enter the home, officers raided the house. The only religion allowed to be practiced in public in Saudi Arabia is Islam. In the land of the prophet, no public places of worship for non-Muslims are permitted to exist.</p>
<p><b>Turkey:</b> According to the Armenian magazine,<i> Agos</i>, many of the primary and secondary education books being used for the current school year still <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36339-ASIA_TURKEY_In_school_books_Christian_communities_portrayed_as_tools_of_foreign_powers_against_the_Ottoman_empire">describe the Armenians and other Christian communities as enemy forces</a> at the service of foreign powers, including Russia and England, after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. One eighth-grade history book tries to whitewash the Armenian genocide, which is portrayed as a &#8220;necessary deportation,&#8221; never as a massacre.</p>
<p><b>Uzbekistan</b>: Security forces reportedly raided the home of Pastor Stanislav Kim in Chirchik, 20 miles northeast of Tashkent, the capital. They detained 11 teenagers and three adults, who had gathered there for a volleyball game, and questioned them for more than four hours before releasing them. Officials also searched the pastor&#8217;s home and <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/33773-uzbekistan-prosecuting-pastor-son-for-unregistered-activity">confiscated a New Testament, a Bible, several other Christian books</a>, more than 100 slides of hymns, as well as some computer equipment. Voice of the Martyrs, which says there are at least 65 unregistered congregations scattered throughout Uzbekistan, said in a statement, &#8220;Please pray that this pastor and his son will not face fines, but will soon be acquitted of any perceived wrongdoing. Ask God to strengthen each believer who was present during this unwarranted raid so that they will not give in to governmental intimidation and pressure, but instead be emboldened to serve our Lord faithfully.&#8221;</p>
<p align="center"><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>While not all, or even most, Muslims are involved, persecution of Christians is expanding. &#8220;Muslim Persecution of Christians&#8221; was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month.</p>
<p>It documents what the mainstream media often fails to report.</p>
<p>It posits that such persecution is not random but systematic, and takes place in all languages, ethnicities and locations.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/"><i>Raymond Ibrahim</i></a> <i>is author of</i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20">Crucified Again: Exposing Islam&#8217;s New War in Christians</a> <i>(published by Regnery in cooperation with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).</i></p></blockquote>
<p><b>Previous reports</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4927/raping-beheading-faithful">August, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4846/muslim-persecution-christians-july">July, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4817/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june">June, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4763/muslim-persecution-christians-may-2014">May, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4666/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution">April, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4400/obama-muslim-persecutions">March, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4365/christians-most-persecuted">February, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4312/muslim-persecution-christians-january">January, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4252/slaughtering-christians">December, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4170/us-silent-muslim-persecution-christians">November, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4093/slaughter-in-muslim-lands">October, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4065/september-horror-christians-islam">September, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4050/christians-middle-east-august">August, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3967/christian-women-degradation-islam">June, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3904/nigeria-christians-murdered">May, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3875/christian-suffering-under-jihadi-extremism">April, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3760/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013">March, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3673/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013">February, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3641/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013">January, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3577/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012">December, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3566/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012">November, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3485/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012">October, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3421/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012">September, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3318/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">August, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3318/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3203/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3135/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3065/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3033/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2949/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2834/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2733/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2676/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2585/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2491/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september">September, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2401/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></li>
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<p>Nabil el-Shukri is the administrator and the acting imam at the Alazhar School for children, PK – 8th Grade, located in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Tamarac, Florida. He has been with the school, since it was incorporated in September 2008. While he is married with a child, today he no doubt feels quite lonely, as he has lost yet another piece of his radical Muslim family.</p>
<p>On a raid in the tribal district of South Waziristan, which began Friday, December 5<sup>th</sup> and ended the following day, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/06/world/asia/pakistan-al-qaeda-death/">al-Qaeda Commander Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah was killed</a> and confirmed dead by the Pakistani military. According to a resident from the area, he had been living there for two weeks, after having been forced out of North Waziristan during a military operation against militants <em>there</em>.</p>
<p>While with al-Qaeda, Adnan had quickly climbed ranks to reach the lofty position of head of external operations, a title once possessed by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. In that capacity, he had been indicted by a federal grand jury for his role in the 2009 terrorist plot to blow up New York City&#8217;s subway system. At the time of his death, he was 39 years old, born in 1975 to a mother who was merely 16 years of age and a father who was 47.</p>
<p>Adnan had been on the radar of the intelligence community, since he abruptly left town in May 2001. Two years later, his father told the <em>Associated Press</em> that the reason Adnan had left was because he disliked the American lifestyle and was offended by women who wore skimpy clothing.</p>
<p>The father, Gulshair Muhammad el-Shukrijumah, had spent much of his life as a missionary for the Saudi Arabian government. In 1986, he was sent to Brooklyn, New York to head a mosque, Masjid Nur al-Islam. He also had involvement with another mosque that was located only blocks away, Masjid al-Farooq, the home for many of those involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>Gulshair was a translator for the spiritual leader of the attack, the ‘Blind Sheikh’ Omar Abdel-Rahman. As well, during the federal trial concerning the attack, Gulshair was a chief/character witness for Clement Rodney Hampton-El, the individual who was believed to be the one who taught the terror cell how to build the bomb used in the attack. Hampton-El was one of the congregants at Gulshair’s mosque.</p>
<p>In a photo taken at Gulshair’s Brooklyn mosque, which was uploaded to the internet by his son Nabil, Gulshair is pictured reading with two young boys. Behind him, on the blackboard, it is written, “The human being is under the oppression of the kuffar [unbelievers, non-Muslims].”</p>
<p>In 1995, Gulshair moved himself and his family to Miramar in South Florida, where the Saudis once again set him up with a mosque to run. That mosque, Masjid al-Hijrah, has the dubious distinction of being named the No. 2 biggest “Sanctuary of Terror” by author Paul Sperry in his book <em>Infiltration</em>. At this mosque, Gulshair counseled the likes of convicted terrorist “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla, who also had dealings with Gulshair’s son, Adnan.</p>
<p>When the subject of his son’s terrorist activity became too hot, Gulshair was released from his duties as imam of al-Hijrah. He did not have to wait long to find a new job, though, as he was soon taken on as a director at the Shamsuddin Islamic Center, located in North Miami Beach. The mosque had recently moved across the street from its original location, at the same address as the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), a group run by Shukrijumah family friend Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, who was an advisor to the mosque.</p>
<p>Zakkout previously had been the Vice President of the Health Resource Center for Palestine (HRCP), a now defunct Hamas-related group run out of Deerfield Beach, Florida. Earlier this month, Zakkout posted on his Facebook page a photo of late PLO leader Yasser Arafat <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Sofian_Zakkout-Ahmed_Yassin_Yasser_Arafat.jpg">embracing late Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin</a>.</p>
<p>In June 2004, Gulshair el-Shukrijumah died at the age of 74, following a series of strokes claimed to have been brought on by news related to his oldest son, Adnan.</p>
<p>With both his older brother and father gone, Nabil el-Shukri has been left as the elder male figure in the radical Shukrijumah household. The question is will things be different with him than were with his two predecessors. The answer is probably no.</p>
<p>El-Shukri’s MySpace page is currently locked and restricted from public view. No longer can anyone go on it to see <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/NabilShukrijumah_MySpace.htm">graphics of jihadis brandishing rifles</a> and al-Qaeda black flags or photos of killed U.S. troops. However, his Facebook and YouTube pages are entirely open for scrutiny, and what is found on them is also very disturbing.</p>
<p>On his Facebook site, el-Shukri posted different items associated with the Muslim American Society or MAS, including a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Nabil_el-Shukri_MAS.jpg">MAS produced video, titled ‘Bassem is Trying.’</a></p>
<p>Last month, it was widely reported that MAS was named a terrorist organization by the UAE, on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women. The National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar, is a proponent of suicide bombings and has previously served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net.</p>
<p>In January 2010, El-Shukri posted on his Facebook site a video, titled ‘The Arrivals pt.47 (The Free Human),’ which includes the following anti-Semitic rant from Islamic scholar Imran Hosein:</p>
<p>“What’s the new money that Israel will use to enslave mankind, the way the United States used the dollar? … It will be electronic money. And the strange thing – the dangerous thing – about electronic money is it is controlled by the banking system around the world, and the Jews control the banking system. That’s not an uncharitable statement… That’s the truth. We said that Israel is about to wage a big war. They prepared for this, when the Israeli Mossad and the CIA attacked America on September 11 and put the blame on us, us Muslims.”</p>
<p>In another video el-Shukri posted, titled ‘The Arrivals pt.26 (The Antichrist / Dajjal is Here),’ the same Imran Hosein describes a Satanic conspiracy between Britain, the United States and Israel. The video includes an image of the anti-Semitic fraud <em>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em>, and states that “9/11 was an inside job.”</p>
<p>El-Shukri has not been shy about voicing his own fanatical views. He has a YouTube page, where he has uploaded a number of extreme speeches he has delivered in front of a mosque congregation. In one speech he posted in February 2010, titled ‘Al-Dajjal (Anti-Christ),’ he discusses his belief that, if Muslims try to become “moderate,” they are rejecting the Islamic religion and, instead, listening to the “Dajjal” or Devil.</p>
<p>He states: “We have to understand that we have to train ourselves – what is acceptable in this dunya [world]? Have we compromised our religion of Allah SWT? How much of our din [religion] has been compromised by this dunya? What is the definition of a moderate Muslim? &#8230; A moderate Muslim does not accept the Caliphate [Islamic rule]. A moderate Muslim wants to live under democracy – abolish the Caliphate. A moderate Muslim does not want the Sharia Law.”</p>
<p>Nabil’s radical views appear to be very much in line with that of his father and older brother. As well, his life seems to mimic Adnan’s. Both Nabil and Adnan had cell phone businesses. They both were involved in website design. They both attended classes at Broward College (Nabil is still attending classes there). And they both lectured in Islam, like their dad.</p>
<p>In December 2006, more than two years after the death of his father, Nabil el-Shukri wrote the following message on the MySpace page he created for Gulshair: “As Salaam Alaikum Dad, you’re still living among all of us, will see you later but not that much later.”</p>
<p>What does “not that much later” mean?</p>
<p>Given Nabil’s radical Islamic preoccupations and family history, these four words imply something very sinister which does not portend well for the future. His present, however, as administrator and acting imam of the Alazhar School is also cause for alarm, as he has been handed a forum to indoctrinate impressionable young minds with his toxic Islamist agenda and ideology.</p>
<p>In a June 2011 video interview with al-Hikmat, the media group run by the Darul Uloom mosque located near the home of the Shukrijumahs, where a number of al-Qaeda, including at least one of the 9/11 hijackers, had come to pray, el-Shukri called himself a “role model” for the Alazhar kids.</p>
<p>Question: What kind of parents would wish for their children to have a role model such as this? Those who keep their kids in this school are giving their tacit approval to the extremism that is represented by el-Shukri and his family’s lineage.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow explains the "Hydra of Jihad" and Western blindness. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hydra.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248028" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hydra.jpg" alt="hydra" width="301" height="226" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center, was recently interviewed on Reel Talk with Audrey Russo.  Topics ranged from Joe Biden’s ISIS failures to the “Hydra of Jihad,” to Islam’s influences on non-Muslims throughout history.  <a href="http://www.audreyrusso.com/Raymond_Ibrahim_1114_intro.mp3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Click here</span></a> to listen to the 25-minute interview.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the Islamic references in the Islamic State's new "rulebook."]]></description>
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<p>Dr. Durie came on the show to discuss <strong>ISIS&#8217;s Sex Slave Pamphlet</strong>, explaining the Islamic references in the Islamic State&#8217;s new &#8220;rulebook.&#8221;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Leftist and Islamic supremacist demonization of the police bears bitter fruit.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247986" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc-450x331.jpg" alt="627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc" width="326" height="240" /></a>When Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley murdered NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu as they ate lunch in their patrol car last Saturday, the only people who could possibly have been surprised were those who have not realized how assiduously Leftist and Muslim activists have worked – long before the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner &#8212; to demonize the NYPD and law enforcement in general. The advent of the killer was only a matter of time.</p>
<p>It has been only lightly reported that Brinsley was a Muslim, and generally when it has been mentioned, it has been dismissed as a motive in favor of his statements about wanting to kill police officers to avenge Garner and Brown. But these two motivations – revenge for the perceived racist killings of two black men and Brinsley’s Islamic faith – are not mutually exclusive. Brinsley’s Facebook page featured a photo of the Qur’an open to the eighth chapter, where Allah exhorts the believers to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60).</p>
<p>Brinsley may have thought, what better way to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah than to kill a couple of infidel, racist police officers? Investigative journalist Patrick Poole found an additional sign of Brinsley’s attachment to Islam on his Facebook page, where Brinsley wrote at one point that he was heading to “Al-Farooq Tomorrow inshallah.” <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/20/did-cop-killer-ishmael-brinsley-visit-terror-tied-brooklyn-mosque/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Poole notes</span></a>: “If this reference by the cop killer was from Brooklyn (which is hard to discern since his Instagram account has been taken down), it may indicate that he was going to visit Masjid Al-Farooq in Brooklyn.”</p>
<p>Explains Poole:</p>
<blockquote><p>Al-Farooq’s long history of terror support goes back more than 20 years, when the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was hatched by members. One imam from the early 1990s, when Al-Farooq was a hub of the nascent Al-Qaeda and was hosting Al-Qaeda co-founder Abdullah Azzam, was Fawaz Damra, who was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070715000536/http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/061804akron.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged, convicted and later deported</span></a> for lying to immigration officials about his terror ties when he applied for U.S. citizenship.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, Muslim activists in New York City – with willing help from their Leftist allies &#8212; have long cultivated a sense of grievance, claiming that they have been unfairly singled out for NYPD surveillance and monitoring. At an October 2011 hearing about the New York Police Department’s counter-terror activities in Muslim areas, New York City Councilman Brad Lander <a href="http://www.onislam.net/english/news/americas/454221-ny-police-grilled-over-muslim-surveillance.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asserted</span></a>: “It looks like we are targeting Muslim neighborhoods and communities. That’s not good for us. We have people out there who are partners who feel the trust is betrayed.”</p>
<p>New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the NYPD programs, saying, “What we’re doing is following leads.” His critics were not mollified. In February 2012, <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2012/02/hamas-cair-devout-muslims-protest-nypd-homeland-security-self-defense-against-jihad-in-america.html/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muslims in New York held a massive protest</span></a> against the NYPD. Many protesters were holding printed signs with slogans designed to enhance Muslims’ feelings that they had been targets of NYPD prejudice and discrimination: “FIRE Ray Kelly!”; “Stop NYPD Ethnic, Racial and Religious Profiling”; “Stop Entrapment and Surveillance Without Warrants”; “Muslims Demand Equal Rights”; and “NO to a Police State!” A handwritten sign held by a woman in a hijab foreshadowed the charges widely made against the NYPD after the death of Eric Garner: “GOOD BYE RACIST RAY!”</p>
<p>“Racist Ray”’s days were numbered in October 2013, when, according to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/16/de-blasio-tells-muslims-hell-end-broad-nypd-spying-if-elected/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CBS NewYork</span></a>, “Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio told a group of Muslim supporters Wednesday that they won’t have to live in fear of being under constant surveillance if he’s elected mayor.” Linda Sarsour, head of the Muslim Democratic Club, was pleased: “People are tired of a mayor,” she asserted, “that unequivocally stands behind the (police) commissioner and says that everything we’re doing is right.”</p>
<p>De Blasio warmly embraced Sarsour, which in itself was telling, as Sarsour is a rabidly anti-Semitic Islamic supremacist who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/rabidly-antisemitic-islamic-supremacist-who-said-nothing-is-creepier-than-zionism-is-frequent-white.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has said that “nothing is creepier than Zionism” and equated it with “racism.”</span></a> She is also a frequent visitor to the Obama White House, and has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3791/more-radicalism-from-another-white-house-guest"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CIA agent — part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam</span></a>. She is a practiced exploiter of the “hate” smear against foes of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, and has never apologized for <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/oops-islamic-supremacist-activist-whines-about-islamophobia-using-alawadi-case-just-as-it-was-reveal.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">using the Islamic honor murder of Shaima Alawadi to spread lies about the prevalence of hate crimes against Muslims in America</span></a>.</p>
<p>When he became Mayor, de Blasio moved swiftly, <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/nypd-muslim-surveillance-unit-disbanded/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dismantling</span></a> the legal NYPD Muslim surveillance program in April 2014 – thereby validating the Muslim activists’ claims that the program was racist, discriminatory and unjust. But the end of this program did not end the Muslim and Leftist sense of grievance, which was only fueled by the Brown and Garner incidents. Leftist and Muslim groups continued to fuel the perception that police were “racist” and “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/hamas-linked-terror-org-cair-to-muslims-lady-liberty-says-shhhh"><span style="color: #0433ff;">repeatedly</span></a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/hamas-linked-terror-org-cair-discourages-muslims-from-talking-to-fbi"><span style="color: #0433ff;">exhorted</span></a> Muslims to contact a lawyer and the nearest CAIR office if contacted by the FBI, and to “Know Your Rights” and say as little as possible. CAIR would, of course, hotly deny that they have given this advice to Muslims to protect those engaged in terror activity from detection and prosecution, but then the only other alternative is that CAIR wants Muslims to believe that law enforcement officials are engaged in an ongoing campaign to entrap and persecute innocent Muslims.</p>
<p>That message, of course, coincides perfectly with that of race-baiters such as Al Sharpton, who have labored so long to foster among black Americans the same idea. In Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, these dual and interrelated grievances came together, and two policemen are dead. There will be more.</p>
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<p>Four years ago I was taken to court in the Netherlands on hate-crime charges. After a trial that lasted almost two years, I was finally acquitted. But the case cost me a lot of time and energy that, as an elected politician, I would rather have devoted to my parliamentary work.</p>
<p>Now, just as my Party for Freedom (PVV) is taking the lead in the polls and the Dutch government is facing serious political difficulties, the public prosecutor is again bringing me to court, this time for asking my party supporters, during a PVV electoral meeting in March, whether they want more or fewer Moroccans in the country.</p>
<p>This question needs to be understood in proper context.</p>
<p>In the Netherlands, as in many other Western European countries right now, problems arise when Muslim immigrants refuse to assimilate and integrate into the wider community. In our case I referred specifically to the Moroccans not because I have anything against them generally but because they are one of the largest immigrant groups here and are overrepresented in our crime and welfare statistics.</p>
<p>Moroccans are suspects in violent robberies 22 times as often as indigenous Dutch. Between 1996 and 2010, more than 60% of the Moroccan male youths born in 1984 had at least once been suspected of a crime, a rate three times as high as their indigenous counterparts. Meanwhile, 14% of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 64 is dependent on welfare, compared with 9% for the Turks and 3% for the indigenous Dutch. According to Dick Schoof, the Dutch national coordinator for counterterrorism and security, Moroccans also account for three-quarters of all Dutch Muslims who leave for Syria to wage jihad.</p>
<p>The Dutch often refer to this problem as the “Moroccan issue.” If instead the Americans were the largest group of immigrants refusing to assimilate in the Netherlands, we would no doubt be referring to it as “the American issue.”</p>
<p>For almost a decade, my party has proposed three measures to address this issue. First, we want an end to immigration from Mulslim countries. Second, we want to expel all criminals of foreign nationality and, for those offenders who have dual nationality, deprive them of their Dutch citizenship, sending them back to the country of their other nationality. Third, we want to encourage the voluntary repatriation of non-Western immigrants.</p>
<p>These three measures don’t target any particular ethnic group, but given the demographics in our country it would immediately entail the presence of fewer Moroccans. Hence my question: “Do you want more or fewer Moroccans?” I never advocated that all Moroccans should leave. Nor do I object to every Moroccan. The decision to prosecute me for insulting an ethnic group and inciting hatred and discrimination is preposterous.</p>
<p>The prosecutor’s decision can’t be seen as being anything but politically motivated, especially when he has refused to prosecute two leading politicians of the governing Labor Party, Diederik Samsom and Hans Spekman, for similar statements on Moroccans. Mr. Samsom said that Moroccans have an “ethnic monopoly” on street crime, while Mr. Spekman said that Moroccans who don’t abide by the law have to be “humiliated in front of their own people.”</p>
<p>Polls have indicated that more than 43% of Netherlanders agree with me. I was thus expressing the feelings of millions in my country. In a democracy, a public debate about important political issues, such as “the Moroccan issue,” shouldn’t be restricted by criminalizing the expression of certain problems and policy proposals.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, political debate is now being increasingly restricted, not just in the Netherlands but across many European countries. Laws limiting freedom of expression, including the freedom of political debate, are introduced to protect subjective rights such as the right of certain groups to not feel offended, preventing the open discussion of pressing problems like those that arise from large-scale immigration across Western Europe. The unwillingness to address such problems is leading to the growth of parties, similar to my own PVV, in many other Western countries.</p>
<p>And existing laws are being applied ever more vigorously. Earlier this month, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the existing Dutch penal laws not only criminalize incitement to hatred and discrimination but also “incitement to intolerance.”</p>
<p>I don’t believe in political self-censorship. During the past 10 years, I have drawn attention to the problems that Dutch citizens experience related to integration, immigration and the Islamization of our society. And I have paid, and continue to pay, a very high price for it. For more than a decade now I have lived under constant police protection because I am on the death list of several Islamist terror groups. However, I will never let anyone silence me, no matter the consequences. My voters have elected me to express their concerns, and that is what I will do.</p>
<p>Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd. Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won’t lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution. This prosecution, moreover, is also dangerous. People will begin to lose their trust in the democratic process. Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner. I wish the Dutch public prosecutor had been wise enough to see that.</p>
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		<title>Do We All Believe in the Same God?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Stephen M. Kirby]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reflection on what Allah say in the Koran about Jews and Christians.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bible_quran.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247929" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bible_quran.jpg" alt="bible_quran" width="263" height="150" /></a>A commonly heard claim is that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in “the same God.” These are comforting words and of great assistance to those wishing to engage in interfaith dialogues and tri-faith ventures. But is this true? To answer that question, let’s look at what is said and taught about Jews and Christians by Allah, the god of Islam, and Muhammad, Allah’s prophet. We’ll start with the Koran.</p>
<p><strong>The Koran</strong></p>
<p>Muslims believe the Koran is the infallible, timeless and perfect word of Allah. So what does Allah say in the Koran about Jews and Christians?</p>
<p>To set the stage, Allah states that the only religion acceptable to him is Islam (e.g., 3:19 and 3:85). And Allah states that Islam is to be made superior over all other religions, even if the non-Muslims don’t like it (e.g., 9:33, 48:28, and 61:9).</p>
<p>Allah states that he is angry with the Jews, and the Christians are misguided in their beliefs (1:7). In fact, Allah curses the Jews and Christians (9:30). He states that the Jews and Christians are among the worst of creatures who “will abide in the fire of Hell” (98:6), while Muslims are the best of creatures (3:110 and 98:7). He forbids Muslims from being friends with Jews and Christians (5:51). Instead, Allah commands Muslims to fight the Jews and Christians until those Jews and Christians pay the <em>jizyah</em> (protection tax), with willing submission and feeling themselves subdued (9:29).</p>
<p>Allah specifically states that the Jews are among the worst enemies of Islam (5:82).</p>
<p>Allah states that Christianity is a false religion. Allah says that Jesus was not crucified, but it only appeared so (4:157-158). Allah states that he took Jesus bodily into paradise and made one of Jesus’ disciples look like Jesus; it was that disciple who was crucified. So Muslims who know their religion look at a crucifix or a painting of the Crucifixion and see an imposter hanging on the cross. And of course, if there was no Crucifixion, there was no Resurrection. So Islam teaches that Christianity is based on a fraud.</p>
<p>Allah also states that those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God commit the one unforgiveable sin in Islam, <em>Shirk</em> (e.g., 4:48 and 4:116). In fact, Allah curses Christians specifically for this belief (9:30) and says that those who so believe will go to Hell (e.g., 3:151 and 5:72-73).</p>
<p><strong>Muhammad</strong></p>
<p>Islam teaches that Muhammad spoke for Allah (4:80), and Allah commands Muslims to obey Muhammad (59:7). And Muhammad is considered the timeless standard by which Muslims should conduct themselves (33:21). So what did Muhammad have to say?</p>
<p>He said Jews and Christians are worth only half as much as a Muslim,<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>and he gave the following advice about what to do when meeting Jews and Christians:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.</em><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad said that the Jews were grave robbers,<sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> and he said,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, &#8216;O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.</em><sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad said that on the Day of Resurrection, mountains of sins would be removed from the backs of Muslims and put onto the Jews and Christians.<sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup> Muhammad even said that Jews and Christians would take the place of Muslims in Hell.<sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup></p>
<p>And on his death bed Muhammad said:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.</em><sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>These are timeless commands and statements from Allah and Muhammad, and Muslims are not allowed to disagree with them (33:36).</p>
<p>So if Allah is God and the Koran consists of statements and commands from Allah, if Muhammad spoke for Allah, and if Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in that same God, then Jews and Christians believe in and worship a God who hates and curses them, orders Muslims to fight them, and condemns them to Hell simply because they are not Muslims.</p>
<p>Either we are talking about a pagan god of multiple, compartmentalized personalities, or the claim that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God is theological nonsense.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p>[1] Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah Al-Qazwini, <em>Sunan Ibn Majah</em>, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab, Vol. 3 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), No. 2644, p. 521.</p>
<p>[2] Abu&#8217;l Hussain &#8216;Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, trans. Abdul Hamid Siddiqi, Vol. 6 (New Delhi: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), No. 2167, p. 439.</p>
<p>[3] Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah Al-Bukhari, <em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Vol. 4 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Book 60, No. 3452, p. 413.</p>
<p>[4] <em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 2926, p. 113.</p>
<p>[5] <em>110 Ahadith Qudsi: Sayings of the Prophet Having Allahs Statements</em>, 3<sup>rd</sup> ed., trans. Syed Masood-ul-Hasan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2006), No. 8, titled <em>Superiority of the believers in the Oneness of Allah and the punishment of Jews and Christians</em>, pp. 19-20.</p>
<p>[6] <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, Vol. 8, No. 2767R1, p. 269.</p>
<p>[7] <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, Vol. 5, No. 1767, p. 189.</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on Islam and the West&#8217;s Paralysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow discusses Islamic aggression and what the West must do about it. ]]></description>
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		<title>How Western Media Enable Islamic Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same lies and distortions shielding Islam “over there” have come “over here.”]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247776" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819-450x300.jpg" alt="la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819" width="315" height="210" /></a>If the West is experiencing a rise in the sort of terror attacks that are endemic to the Islamic world—<a href="http://www.wthr.com/story/26416131/2014/08/31/3-columbus-churches-vandalized-with-graffiti-overnight"><span style="color: #0433ff;">church attacks</span></a>, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslims-sexually-enslaving-children-a-global-phenomenon/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex-slavery</span></a> and <a href="http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/isis-plot-to-behead-people-on-uk-streets-disrupted-after-police-arrest-four-islamic-terrorists-in-london/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beheadings</span></a>—it was only natural that the same mainstream media that habitually conceals such atrocities, especially against Christians and other minorities under Islam, would also conceal the reality of jihadi aspirations on Western soil.</p>
<p>As The <a href="http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5433/australia_tragicomic_west_stresses_danger_of_islamophobia"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Commentator</span></a> reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he level of the [media] grovelling after the tragic and deadly saga in Sydney Australia over the last 24 hours has been astounding.</p>
<p>At the time of writing, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30490696"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the lead story on the BBC website</span></a> is of course about that very tragedy, in which an Islamist fanatic took a random group hostage in a cafe, ultimately killing two of them.</p>
<p>He did this in the name of Islam. But you wouldn&#8217;t get that impression if you started to read the BBC&#8217;s lead story, which astoundingly managed to avoid mentioning the words Islam, Islamic, Islamist, Muslim, or any derivations thereof for a full 16 paragraphs. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/world/asia/sydney-australia-hostages.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The New York Times</span></a>, which led by calling the terrorist, Man Haron Monis an &#8220;armed man&#8221;, waited until paragraph 11.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/15/sydney-siege-ends-police-storm-lindt-cafe-hostages-run-out"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Guardian&#8217;s main story</span></a> &#8211; whose lead paragraph simply referred to a &#8220;gunman&#8221; &#8212; you had to wait until paragraph 24.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d have blinked, you&#8217;d have missed it.</p>
<p>….</p>
<p>In the wider media, reports about Muslim fears of a &#8220;backlash&#8221; have been all but ubiquitous.</p></blockquote>
<p>If these are the lengths that Western mainstream media go to dissemble about the Islamic-inspired slaughter of Western peoples, it should now be clear why the ubiquitous Muslim persecution of those unfashionable Christian minorities is also practically unknown by those who follow Western mainstream media.</p>
<p>As with the Sydney attack, media headlines say it all. The 2011 New Year’s Eve Coptic church attack that left 28 dead appeared under vague headlines: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/world/middleeast/04egypt.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“Clashes grow as Egyptians remain angry after attack,”</span></a> was the <i>New York Times</i>’ headline; and “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/01/AR2011010102697.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Christians clash with police in Egypt after attack on churchgoers kills 21</span></a>” was the <i>Washington Post</i>’s—as if frustrated and harried Christians lashing out against their oppressors is the “big news,” not the unprovoked atrocity itself; as if their angry reaction “evens” everything up.</p>
<p>Similarly, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> partially told the story of an Egyptian off-duty police officer who, after <a href="http://www1.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Egypt-Christian-shot-dead-and-several-others-injured-in-train-attack_311526616347.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">identifying Copts by their crosses</span></a> on a train, opened fire on them, killing one, while screaming “Allahu Akbar”—but to exonerate the persecution, as caught by the report’s headline: <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/01/egypt-eyewitness-claims-train-attacker-did-not-target-copts-state-media-say.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“Eyewitness claims train attacker did not target Copts, state media say.”</span></a></p>
<p>A February 2012 NPR report titled “<a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/02/25/147370689/in-egypt-christian-muslim-tension-is-on-the-rise"><span style="color: #0433ff;">In Egypt, Christian-Muslim Tension is on the Rise</span></a>,” while meant to familiarize readers with the situation of Egypt’s Christians, prompts more questions than answers them: “In Egypt, growing tensions between Muslims and Christians have led to sporadic violence [initiated by whom?]. Many Egyptians blame the interreligious strife on hooligans [who?] taking advantage of absent or weak security forces. Others believe it’s because of a deep-seated mistrust between Muslims and the minority Christian community [what are the sources of this “mistrust”?].”</p>
<p>The photo accompanying the story is of angry Christians holding a cross aloft—not Muslims destroying crosses, which is what prompted the former to this display of Christian solidarity.</p>
<p>Blurring the line between victim and oppressor—recall the fear of “<a href="http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2014/12/new-fbi-hate-crime-stats-another-blow-to-islamist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Muslim backlashes</span></a>” whenever a Muslim terrorizes “infidels” in the West—also applies to the media’s reporting on Muslim persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>A February 2012 <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-17169935"><span style="color: #0433ff;">BBC report</span></a> on a church attack in Nigeria that left three Christians dead, including a toddler, objectively states the bare bone facts in one sentence.  Then it jumps to apparently the <i>really</i> big news: that “the bombing sparked a riot by Christian youths, with reports that at least two Muslims were killed in the violence. The two men were dragged off their bikes after being stopped at a roadblock set up by the rioters, police said. A row of Muslim-owned shops was also burned…”</p>
<p>The report goes on and on, with an entire section about “very angry” Christians till one confuses victims with persecutors, forgetting what the Christians are “very angry” about in the first place: nonstop terror attacks on their churches and the slaughter of their women and children.</p>
<p>A <i>New York Times</i> report that appeared on December 25, 2011—the day after Boko Haram bombed several churches during Christmas Eve services, leaving some 40 dead—said that such church bombings threaten “to exploit the already frayed relations between Nigeria’s nearly evenly split populations of Christians and Muslims…”  Such an assertion suggests that both Christians and Muslims are equally motivated by religious hostility—even as one seeks in vain for Christian terror organizations that bomb mosques in Nigeria to screams of “Christ is Great!”</p>
<p>Indeed, Boko Haram has <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nigeria-boko-haram-torch-185-churches-captured-towns-borno-adamawa-1468763"><span style="color: #0433ff;">torched 185 churches</span></a>—to say nothing of the countless Christians beheaded—in just the last few months alone.</p>
<p>Continuing to grasp for straws, the same NYT report suggests that the Nigerian government’s “heavy-handed” response to Boko Haram is responsible for its terror, and even manages to invoke another mainstream media favorite: the poverty-causes-terrorism myth.</p>
<p>Whether Muslim mayhem is taking place in the Islamic or Western worlds, the mainstream media shows remarkable consistency in employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, territorial disputes—not Islam.</p>
<p>As such, Western mainstream media keep Western majorities in the dark about the Islamic threat, here and abroad.  Thus the “MSM” protects and enables the Islamic agenda—irrespective of whether its distortions are a product of intent, political correctness, or sheer stupidity.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to Robert Spencer’s keynote speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Robert Spencer: </strong>This a momentous occasion actually, because I&#8217;ve decided to take this opportunity as I stand before so many patriots and lovers of freedom to announce my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. Now, you might think this is a joke and of course it is. I have no political experience, I&#8217;ve never held elected office, never even run for office. I have no organization, no staff and no money. I am not now and have never been a member of the Washington establishment. In other words, I&#8217;m just the man for the job.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a serious point that I&#8217;m making here. The point is that the problem is not Barack Obama. The problem is not the Democrats. Barack Obama and the Democrats are just symptoms of the problem. The problem is an entrenched Washington establishment that keeps failing again and again and yet it keeps on applying the same failed solutions to problems. Presidents come and presidents go, but this establishment is forever and no matter how many times its remedies fail, it keeps on applying them without an ounce of self-reflection.</p>
<p>What we need is a massive housecleaning. What we need is a genuine outsider elected with a mandate to do this housecleaning, to really open up the windows in the State Department and let in the sunlight and clear out all these failed ideas that are doing nothing less than leading this nation into disaster.</p>
<p>The entrenched establishment is operating, of course in all areas but I&#8217;m going to concentrate on foreign policy because if we don&#8217;t stop making some of the major foreign policy mistakes that we are making, then we won&#8217;t have to worry about domestic policy before too long.</p>
<p>Chief among these is the millions that we are showering upon the Palestinians and the so-called peace process. Obama of course blames Israel for failing to make peace and blames the failure of peace talks on the so-called settlements in the West Bank and gives the impression that he believes or wants us to believe that if this settlement construction is stopped then peace will ensue and everything will be okay.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just one word to show that that is obviously howlingly false and that one word is Gaza. We heard this song before. In 2005, we were told that the occupation was the problem and if Israel withdrew from Gaza the Gazans would pursue peace. Mortimer Zuckerman spent $14,000,000 to buy the greenhouses that the Israelis had constructed in Gaza in order to give them to the Palestinians so they would have gainful employ. The Palestinians gratefully received the greenhouses and immediately gutted them and converted them into weapon smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza to get weapons to Hamas.</p>
<p>Obama and John Kerry want us to withdraw, want Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria, that is the West Bank, and they say the same things that we heard about Gaza. This will bring peace. This time, this withdrawal from this occupation, this is the one that&#8217;s going to do it and everything that will happen after that will be the result of the good benefits that come from this occupation. In other words, it will take the wind out of the Jihadi sails all together.</p>
<p>We saw that this didn&#8217;t work and yet keep trying it again. Why would the establishment of a Palestinian state now after the Muslims rejected it in 1948, rejected it in 2000, rejected many other times, why is it going to bring peace now? How could it when the goal of Israel&#8217;s total destruction which Hamas has repeatedly and recently reiterated still remains? Why would another Israeli withdrawal accomplish what the others never have?</p>
<p>And of course, Israel is not the only victim of our fantasy-based policy making. Another one is us, the American taxpayer. Another false assumption that is the basis of policy after policy is that poverty causes terrorism. Late in 2013 the U.S. and Turkey announced what they call the global fund for community engagement and resilience and John Kerry said that this will provide more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment into Jihad groups.</p>
<p>Now look, we just saw on the news this morning another beheading of the U.S. hostage, Peter Kassig, Abdul-Rahman Kassig, whose conversion to Islam did not save him because he was still considered as a military veteran to be an American Crusader. The people who beheaded him, the people who were standing there in that video and issuing warnings to the United States and the free world, they were considering themselves to be the warriors of the law. They were considering that they were at the vanguard of a global revolution that will bring the law of God to the world and defeat the enemy infidel powers. Do you really think that if we gave them an opportunity to say, “Welcome to McDonald&#8217;s, may I take your order please,” that they would give it all up? That they would turn away from what they think is a glorious struggle in which they are the soldiers of God for a job at Walmart? It&#8217;s not going to happen. This is just going to be more hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain.</p>
<p>Not only that, but study after study has shown that terrorists are actually better educated and wealthier than their peers. Just yesterday the news came that another doctor from the UK fled the country and has joined the Taliban. He&#8217;s a doctor. He was well off, even with the socialized healthcare system in Britain. But nonetheless he went to Jihad.</p>
<p>Beyond the waste of money, our foreign policy is characterized these days by an appalling incoherence. Take Obama on Syria. The president of course has long wanted to take out Bashar Assad, but he&#8217;s been stymied by the fact that the only significant opposition to the Assad regime are, of course, Islamic Jihadis. The so-called vetted moderates. Some of the vetted moderates last year ransacked churches and drove Christians out of their homes in three Syrian towns. But now Obama is actually pursuing the strategy of removing Assad because he thinks that Assad is causing the Jihadi recruitment. So if we take out Assad then the Islamic State will melt away. We won&#8217;t even have to fight it. The raison d&#8217;être for the terrorists will be gone. Now he actually thinks this despite the fact that the Islamic State has made it clear that they don&#8217;t intend to stop with toppling Assad but they want to control not only all of Syria, but all of Iraq as well as Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan and continue on after that. And so, the main problem with this idea is this. If he removes Assad he creates a power vacuum. What is the force that is the only one in position to take advantage of that power vacuum? The Islamic State. And so what he&#8217;s saying is in order to defeat the Islamic State we have to give the Islamic State what it wants and let it win. This is insane. And this is the policy of the United States government.</p>
<p>Now, this is all part of the idea that if we bring democracy to the Middle East, then peace will once again ensue, and so the United States decided to pursue a policy of toppling the dictators that we had previously supported in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein of course was first to go, and then Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, Gaddafi in Libya. Of course, he was never a friend of the United States, but the idea was the same. That if these people were gone and the people in those countries had self-determination, then they would establish Western-style secular republics and once again there would be peace. Instead, of course there&#8217;s been chaos. The people that Barack Obama turned out to be supporting in Egypt and Libya were Muslim Brotherhood. They are in Syria as well. They did not want to establish western style secular republics but Sharia regimes. They did do so in Egypt for a year and they so alienated their own people that 30 million took to the streets and toppled them at that point. And yet, this policy is still in place and we are still pursuing it.</p>
<p>So, when I get to the Oval Office on January 20, 2017, and I promise never to put my feet on the desk, I will begin to sweep away all this and implement new policies.</p>
<p>First of all, no more aid, no more U.S. aid, not a penny to countries that engage in Sharia oppression. Just recently a Muslim mob murdered a Christian couple accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. And a Pakistani Christian leader called on Obama to make U.S.A. to Pakistan contingent upon the repeal of Pakistan&#8217;s blasphemy laws by which so many innocent people have been victimized, brutalized, murdered. Of course Obama ignored it but he should not have ignored it. He should have implemented it immediately and gone farther than that. There should be no more aid to any country or group that allows for or advocates the Sharia oppression of women and non-Muslims and that curtails the freedom of speech in accord with Islam&#8217;s prohibition on criticism of Islam.</p>
<p>And as for the Palestinians, they should get nothing at all, nothing, until they stop the genocidal incitement on Palestinian TV, teach their children that Israel must exist, that they have a right to that land, that it&#8217;s their land and that they must live peacefully with the Israelis. There is appalling genocidal incitement on Palestinian TV on a regular basis and it&#8217;s funded by us. This has to stop.</p>
<p>My second executive order will be to require that government intelligence and law enforcement agencies speak honestly and tell the truth about the threat we face. Of course, we know, as Geert Wilders reminded us yesterday, that immediately after a Jihad plot or a Jihad attack these days, Barrack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron in the UK, a host of other leaders rush to the airwaves to tell us this has nothing to do with Islam. Well, they have nothing to do with rationality and common sense. And the problem is that this fantasy kills people. In Fort Hood the superiors of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ford Hood Jihad murderer. They knew that he was in touch with Anwar al-Awlaki, the Jihad leader in Yemen. They knew that he himself was preaching Jihad and frightening his coworkers by preaching it. What did they do? Did they reprimand him? Did they fire him? Did they demote him? Did they prosecute him? No, they promoted him and praised him and said U.S. troops can learn a lot from him about Islam. And you know what? They did. But the lesson has still not been learned and the unreality still prevails.</p>
<p>Also, the Boston Marathon. The FBI disregarded, as Michele Bachmann told us yesterday, disregarded intelligence it received from the Russians about the bombers. The Russians said they were Jihadis. Right around this time, the FBI on orders from the Obama administration was removing all mention of Islam and Jihad from counter-terror training materials and had fired people who trained FBI members, including me, about the motives and goals of the Jihadis. And so they were being taught that Jihad is a benign spiritual struggle that ought to be encouraged. The Russians said this guy, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is a Jihadi and they probably thought, oh how nice, and didn&#8217;t do a thing. And so more people were killed and some people were maimed for life and it is the result of this unreality.</p>
<p>We also have to end the exaggerated deference being paid toward mosques and the fact that the Islamic Society of Boston, which was not only where the Tsarnaev brothers went, but where you saw the Jihad video yesterday that Michele had, and that video was produced by a member of the Islamic society of Boston. Aafia Siddiqui went there. She&#8217;s serving 86 years for plotting to murder American soldiers in the name of Islam and Jihad. Tarek Mehanna went there. He&#8217;s doing 17 years for aiding al Qaeda, and the mosque itself was founded by Abdurrahman Alamoudi who is now in prison for funding al Qaeda. And yet the only time the FBI had been there was for outreach. Outreach. In other words, reassuring Muslims that the U.S. government is not Islamophobic. People are dying because of these things.</p>
<p>I will likewise as president call upon Muslim groups to renounce the aspects of Sharia that contradict constitutional freedoms. The U.S. government should call upon advocacy groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations to renounce in a sincere and genuine manner any intention at any point in the future to replace the U.S. Constitution with Sharia. And to implement in American mosques and Islamic schools, in a transparent and open way that is easily able to be inspected, programs to teach against this understanding of Islam that these groups ostensibly reject but have done nothing to counter. Did you know that the United Arab Emirates is more realistic about this threat right now than the United States? The UAE is cracking down on Muslim Brotherhood groups, and yesterday it listed as terrorist organizations a number of Brotherhood-linked groups around the world, including the Council on American Islamic Relations. Meanwhile, CAIR is meeting with FBI agents and with administration officials and is the go-to group for the mainstream media about Islamic issues. The UAE knows better.</p>
<p>Coming to an abrupt end on January 20, 2017 will also be all U.S. government cooperation with such groups and with any groups linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. As Wilders said yesterday, we also have to end immigration from Muslim countries into the United States. This is a simple matter of national security. It will of course be condemned as racism, but the harsh reality is that you cannot tell peaceful Muslims from Jihadis in any discernible manner. And so it is simply ridiculous and suicidal to continue to import whole communities of Muslims from hot Jihad areas like Somalia and Syria and Pakistan into the United States and drop them down into American communities. The strife has already begun in those communities and it&#8217;s going to get worse.</p>
<p>We need to reconfigure our internal alliances, which are based on old and outmoded cold war models. I mean, for example, we&#8217;re depending on Turkey to do so much to aid in the fight against the Islamic State, and yet the Turkish government has actually refused when John Kerry asked them to stop the oil sales by the Islamic State, which is financing their Jihad, the Turks said no. And the Turks are allowing ready passage of Jihadis through Turkey into the Islamic State and from the Islamic State through Turkey into Europe. And ultimately, no doubt into the United States.<br />
And finally, we must begin a Manhattan Project to find new sources of oil and viable and new energy sources so that we end our foreign policy dependence upon states that aid and support Jihad. And of course, this means all of the options that are available. Offshore drilling, pipelines from Alaska and Canada, fracking, concerted research to find alternatives to petroleum. This should have been done on September 12, 2001, and every day we don&#8217;t do it is another day we lose that we could have started to turn this thing around.</p>
<p>And for the truth to prevail, there&#8217;s one more thing above all that we have to fight against. It&#8217;s a stronger enemy than the Islamic Jihadis, and stronger than Russia and China. And that is, of course, the entrenched culture that comes from the left, the culture of self-hatred that denigrates everything American and exalts the most inveterate America haters as heroic and underdogs striving valiantly against brutal behemoths like Israel. That entrenched culture is the foremost obstacle to our defense against Jihad terror, and it&#8217;s a never-ending tale of obfuscation about a genuine threat and slander of those who call attention to it. And we need to call upon the educational establishment to reject the revisionism and self-hatred that dominates textbooks today and more and more comes out every day about this. And to teach that Western civilization and culture are seriously threatened and worth defending. Islamic Jihadis are counting upon and calculatingly employing the rhetoric of inclusion and multiculturalism to gain for themselves <span style="color: #404040;">entrée</span> into highest levels of influence in the United States government, in the media, as well as the final edit of discussion on these issues in American textbooks. We have to demand a stop to this, relearn our own history, value it and teach it to our own children, teaching them to revere and not find new ways to deride those who built the political and legal institutions of this country.</p>
<p>Since I&#8217;ll never get a chance actually to deliver an Inaugural Address, I&#8217;ll end with an excerpt from the one I had prepared: We do not seek war with Muslim nations. If war is brought to us however, we will defend our nation, our allies, our freedom and our families. We will not be subjugated. We will never be subjugated. This is a different kind of war from the wars we&#8217;ve fought in the past. It is an ideological war and a war fought by believers in certain ideas rather than by soldiers from particular nations. And so we will, therefore, fight this new kind of war in a new kind of way. No nation of the world will be a friend to the United States if it holds the beliefs that led to the heinous attack on this nation on 9/11 and others after it. I invite and call upon the Muslims of the world to choose a society based on the principles of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights before the law of which the United States has been the foremost exponent. And make no mistake, we will defend those principles and we will prevail. Thank you.</p>
<p>Question over here? Richard?</p>
<p><strong>Questioner: </strong>First of all, I want to let you know that you have five pledged delegates from the new Red State of Illinois.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> The bandwagon is moving!</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Okay. The description before by Mike Finch of what groups are comfortable and where our people might be comfortable, there is a group within the Republican Party that wouldn&#8217;t be comfortable here. That&#8217;s the Grover Norquist wing which accomplished some serious infiltration during the Bush administration and David, really, and his organization, were the first to point that out and make that an issue. I would make a serious suggestion which is you draft what you have, put it in the form of a statement and provide that to all the potential Republican candidates for president and let&#8217;s see who&#8217;s serious about this issue.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you, Richard. You know, that&#8217;s actually the idea of my framing it in this way. I&#8217;m hoping that these things, it seems to me this is just common sense matters of policy that should have been implemented right after 9/11 and I would hope that some candidates will have the courage to take them on. Yes, sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Good morning, Robert.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Good morning, Mr. Cutler.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Thank you so much, sir. I just want your forbearance instead of asking a question, just a fast comment. You were talking about the Tsarnaev brothers. And you know, yesterday I spoke about immigration. What most people don&#8217;t know &#8212; and this is why I&#8217;m so concerned about the single-minded focus on the Southwest border &#8212; the Tsarnaev brothers apparently committed fraud when they applied for political asylum. Yet their sister was first arrested about one month ago for threatening, it seems to be a family pattern, of blowing up her ex-boyfriend. Now, this isn&#8217;t lowhanging fruit. This is fruit in the basket. Why in the world were these folks still out and among us when they could have all been rolled up for having committed apparent fraud.</p>
<p>What I want people to understand is that if we don&#8217;t go after the integrity of the immigration system, not only admitting them, but providing political asylum and other abilities to embed themselves, we&#8217;re in deep trouble.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> So what I suggest is don&#8217;t limit it to the Southwest border, folks. Think of immigration as a system and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;ve got to hammer the politicians. Don&#8217;t let them give you the copout of just looking at the border. They need to address the entire system. And thank you for indulging my comment.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you. I couldn&#8217;t agree more. That&#8217;s extraordinarily important. The refugee resettlement program, which heavily favors Muslim communities and brings, as I said, whole communities and puts them in the middle of American towns and cities. That has nothing to do with the Southern border at all. It&#8217;s a matter of people flying in to the country by the sanction and invitation of the immigration service and the State Department and so on. And this has to be addressed.</p>
<p>Yes sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Ken Abramowitz. Thank you for your comments. You didn&#8217;t mention anything about Iran. Iran has promised to kill everyone in America. Death to America. Death to America. Do you see any non-military solution to the Iranian situation?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> A military solution to the Iranian situation would be very difficult.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Do you see a non-military solution?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Oh, a non-military solution. No. I think that the strategy that the Israelis are apparently pursuing of strange accidents happening to Iranian nuclear scientists and strange technical failures at Iranian nuclear plants is very good and I hope that it continues on a larger scale. Militarily it would be very difficult to go into Iran. It&#8217;s a lot more formidable than Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan. And of course, now, with the impossible rules of engagement that the military is saddled with and the weakness of the military as has been explained here at this point after 13 years of war, it would be very difficult to get involved in Iran at this point. But I do think that there are other ways and ultimately will probably need to bomb some of the nuclear facilities as well.</p>
<p>Yes ma&#8217;am.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> So much of what&#8217;s happening with the Jihadis is related to social media and my question is does anybody have the authority to require this social media to shut down and is that a good idea in your opinion?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Does any &#8212; I didn&#8217;t hear.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Does anybody have the authority to request that the social media shut this down and in your opinion is that a good idea?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a good idea. I know that they are recruiting in social media and in Facebook and Twitter you can see Islamic State supporters and, of course, I was just this morning working on Jihad Watch and saw the video of the beheading readily there. You Tube took it right down, but it was up at another site and I&#8217;m not sure that this should be stopped. Because I&#8217;m a strong advocate of freedom of speech in general but, this is not really a matter of freedom of speech, it is propaganda from an enemy during wartime. The problem is that I&#8217;m afraid that if you say to Facebook and Twitter that you need to stop the accounts of extremists, that they&#8217;ll stop mine. And those of people like us, rather than those of the Islamic State and other Jihadis. If we had a sane society and a sane group of people at the head of those organizations then it might be different, but not in the present climate.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Does Islam exist without Jihad and Sharia?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Islam does not exist without Jihad and Sharia. There has never been a form of Islam that did not include the teaching that Muslims must fight against non-Muslims and impose Islamic law upon them and Islamic law denies them basic rights. There is no sect, no school of law, no understanding of Islam that has ever been in history that did not teach that. And so the idea that this is a tiny minority of extremists who have twisted and hijacked the teachings of the religion is absolutely false on the face of it.</p>
<p>Yes sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> As we have a head of the CIA who is a self-admitted Muslim, do we have a Muslim in the White House?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, you know, the head of the CIA is not actually a self-admitted Muslim. He is apparently a Muslim. John Guandolo, who was an FBI agent for many years, he says that when he was in the Bureau it was an open secret and it was well known that Brennan had converted while he served in Saudi Arabia. But Brennan has never actually publically addressed this either to confirm or deny it. And there was a story in, I believe, the <em>New Yorker</em>, a lengthy story about our counter terror apparatus a few years ago that identified a high level counter terror official as a convert to Islam, and that&#8217;s probably Brennan, but he has not openly admitted this. In any case, is Barack Obama a Muslim? I don&#8217;t know. He doesn&#8217;t answer my emails or return my calls. But I can tell you that, of course, in terms of Islamic law he is a Muslim because his father was a Muslim and his stepfather was a Muslim. He himself says that he got in trouble for making faces during Quran class. In one of his autobiographies he says this. In Quran class. In Indonesia you only went to Quran class if you were a Muslim. The Christians didn&#8217;t go to Quran class. Later on, of course he joined Reverend Wright&#8217;s church and during the 2008 campaign somebody called Reverend Wright&#8217;s church and said I&#8217;m a Muslim but I&#8217;d like to join your church. Is it okay? Can Muslims be members of your church? And they said, oh yes, absolutely.</p>
<p>And so, the thing is, ultimately though we do not know what Barack Obama&#8217;s personal beliefs are and I&#8217;m not sure he has any except for certainly Marxism and socialism. But there&#8217;s no doubt that everything about his foreign policy has been in line with the Muslim Brotherhood agenda, every aspect of it. And you can say, well no, he killed Bin Laden and al-Awlaki. Well sure. The Muslim Brotherhood has a different strategy.   They do not generally pursue violence. They won the election in Egypt and took power. They didn&#8217;t bomb everything in Egypt and take power. It was a difference of strategy however, not of goal. And everything about the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s goal to bring Islamic law to various countries, Barack Obama has aided. So, whether he&#8217;s doing that because he is himself a Muslim or just because he thinks that Islamic law is a good thing for societies and that seems to be clear. I don&#8217;t think it makes really a difference in terms of his policies.</p>
<p>Yes ma&#8217;am.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> When Hillary runs do you think it&#8217;s a good idea that our side would introduce her connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, Huma Abedin, that whole section and would that be a beneficial route to take against her?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, the first way I&#8217;ll answer that is to say that if the Republicans bring up Hillary&#8217;s connections to the Brotherhood and Huma Abedin&#8217;s connections to the Brotherhood during the campaign, it will backfire on them and they will be denounced as racists and bigots and hate-mongers  and so on. And so that is never going to happen. But what does need to happen in a larger sense is that there needs to be a general challenge to the idea that any talk about this is racism and bigotry and hatred and we have to stop tolerating it on the right. And all too often we do and people in the Republican establishment, they&#8217;re either with Grover Norquist as has been said and Grover Norquist is tied to the Brotherhood, or they are too afraid because they don&#8217;t want this controversy and they don&#8217;t want these charges of racism and bigotry so they&#8217;re too afraid to touch this issue. But that comes with a high price. As I said before, people are being killed because of our refusal to confront this issue honestly and so if we do not take it on, then it is only going to make things worse in the long run. It has to be confronted sooner or later.</p>
<p>Yes sir</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Good morning. Thank you very much for that very informative presentation.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> I come here to learn a lot more than what I get from other places, but as I listen to your presentation, why isn&#8217;t this the same as what happened to our country regarding communism which started slowly and Congress finally had open hearings to bring it the forefront of the American people? Why don&#8217;t we have something like that now? Because it seems to me the only way to get the Americans on board is to get Congress to have open hearings. Now certainly there are going to be those on the left that disagree and those on the right that are going to be different, but this is not different to me than communism but for one thing. These are groups that are not attached to countries. Communism was. So why not have open hearings in Congress to bring it to the American people?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, the answer is because it actually is a lot like the communist threat in the sense that the left was in terms of the communist threat and is in terms of the Jihad tied in with the enemy. And you know, you say there were congressional hearings and of course there were. But then, after that came the demonization of every opposition to communism as McCarthyism. And that persisted until the Berlin wall fell. And I remember all the time I was growing up and until I was 27 when it fell, knowing that fierce opponents of communism were stigmatized in the American mainstream and demonized and David Horowitz knows that very well from his own experience.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> But that&#8217;s the boldness of leadership. That&#8217;s the boldness of a Michele Bachmann. People like her that can do that.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Yeah. Well, we don&#8217;t bold have leaders now.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> And once you have a people that take [inaudible] of the world who give this after and don&#8217;t hear the demonization and characterization.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I couldn&#8217;t agree more. We need them. We do not have them. I hope that such leaders will emerge. But the sophistication of the propaganda apparatus to demonize and stigmatize anyone who speaks out about this threat and to marginalize them in the mainstream, it is much more sophisticated now than it was even during the Cold War. And so, I think that&#8217;s one of the reasons why these leaders have not emerged. That it is just political suicide to take on this problem. Pamela Geller and I had a conference at CPAC a few years ago that we called Jihad: The Political Third Rail. You know, the third rail in the New York subway is the one if you touch it you die. And that&#8217;s how most of our politicians regard this. But I do believe that&#8217;s wrong. They should not be playing this game and letting these people get away with this. We need a Reagan. I hope he emerges.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> We have time to make one more question? How about Sandy Usher up front.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> There it is.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Oh. Thank you. Robert, I liked the idea over here of you putting it in a bulletin point. So in putting it on your web site so that I can download it and pass it around.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I will.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> And I also want to tell everybody let&#8217;s pass it around. We&#8217;ve heard it. Let&#8217;s get it out there. We don&#8217;t have those bold leaders. And I send loads of Christmas cards every Christmas. I never send one without some bullet point information. There&#8217;s too much ignorance going on out there. That stamp costs a lot of money. I want to make it worthwhile. And, Robert, even you dear Robert, use the word mistake. This is no mistake, it&#8217;s design.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Oh yes. Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Yes. Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> It&#8217;s a mistake in application but I have no doubt that it is on purpose. And actually Thomas Patrick brought this up a couple days ago in the same connection. I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s here now, but in any case, the fact is that during the 2008 campaign Barack Obama was seen reading The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria, and he was very much engrossed in the book. He was carrying it to one airplane to wherever else he was going with his finger in his place. He wasn&#8217;t going to miss a minute in reading this book. Now, I don&#8217;t know if you know the book, but The Post-American World is about how if we want world peace, we have to weaken America, militarily, politically and economically and bring it down to the level of all the other countries and not have any super powers in the world and then there will be peace.</p>
<p>When Pamela Geller and I wrote the book The Post-American Presidency about Obama in 2010, we were arguing that that was the strategy he was pursuing, the Post-American World strategy to weaken America in order to bring about this chimera of world peace. And I think we&#8217;ve been abundantly proven correct in the four years since then.</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
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		<title>Jihadist Child-Sacrifice – on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unveiling the mindset of the Islamic terrorists who killed over 130 children in Peshawar. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Pesh.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247614" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Pesh-450x311.jpg" alt="Pesh" width="294" height="203" /></a><strong>[</strong><a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf"><strong>Subscribe</strong></a><strong> to <em>The Glazov Gang</em> and </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><strong>LIKE</strong></a><strong> it on </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><strong>Facebook</strong></a><strong>.]</strong></p>
<p>In the recent <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pakistan-school-massacre/pakistan-school-attack-taliban-militants-kill-more-140-peshawar-n269011">Taliban terror attack</a> against a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Islamic terrorists killed more than 130 children. The atrocities include the beheading of children and the Taliban dousing a teacher with gasoline, burning her alive in front of her students who were forced to watch.</p>
<p>The horrifying nature of this latest Taliban atrocity serves as yet another reminder of infanticide and child sacrifice being key ingredients of Islamic terror. The long and grotesque record of Hamas’ and Arafat’s child-killing machines serves as a morbid testament to that phenomenon.</p>
<p>To shed light on why Islamic Jihadists target children, Frontpage is running <em>The Glazov Gang’s </em>special two-part series with<em> <strong>Dr. Anna Geifman</strong>, </em>the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Orders-Terrorism-Revolutionary-International/dp/0275997529">Death Orders</a> and one of the world’s leading experts on child-sacrifice by death cultures.</p>
<p>In this special series, Dr. Geifman delivers a profound analysis on <strong>Hamas and Terrorists’ Child Sacrifice, </strong>explaining why Islamic terrorists — and totalitarians in general — target children. Though her main focus is on Hamas as well as on Soviet terror, her analysis gives us a profound insight into the infrastructure of the Taliban mind and how its savagery against children in a Pakistani school satiates its yearnings.</p>
<p>Dr. Geifman’s research unveils the true nature not only of the Islamic death culture, but of all death cultures, and explains why they sacrifice their enemy’s children — as well as their own.</p>
<p>See both interviews below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<title>Europe Should Learn Ethiopia’s ‘Islam Lesson’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another example of “Islam’s Rule of Numbers.”]]></description>
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<p>Yet another Christian church was destroyed by Muslims in Ethiopia—this time by local authorities.</p>
<p>Heaven’s Light Church, which served some 100 evangelical Christians, was demolished last November 28.  The church had stood and functioned in the Muslim-majority city of Harar for five years.  In the days preceding the destruction, officials forcibly removed the church’s exterior sign and warned believers not to worship there, citing complaints by a local Muslim.  Officials further told church members who had previously congregated at the church “not to gather under what remains of the church building.”  Accordingly, Christians are now meeting in homes of individual believers.</p>
<p>Prior to the demolition of the church, when some Christian leaders protested, they were illegally detained, released only after community members, “outraged by the wrongful detentions,” called “for their immediate release,” reported <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2014/12/01/local-officials-destroy-evangelical-church-in-muslim-majority-area/">International Christian Concern</a>, a rights advocacy group <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/34160-ethiopia-destroys-evangelical-church-building-100-christians-forced-underground">supporting</a> the Christians:</p>
<p>These are no isolated incidents, explained ICC, adding that it had documented “numerous ongoing land rights battles between churches and their local governments across Ethiopia.”</p>
<p>In many cases, ICC said, “churches have been operating peacefully for decades on land given to them by now-deceased former congregants.”</p>
<p>However efforts by local majority Muslim populations to “eliminate the public presence” of churches resulted in the forceful closure, destruction and demolition of several church buildings in recent years, according to ICC investigators.</p>
<p>[…]</p>
<p>ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa, Cameron Thomas, accused Ethiopia of violating the rights of devoted Christians. “Corrupt officials willing to defend their religion [Islam] rather than the laws they’ve sworn to uphold, are violating Christians’ rights by forcibly closing, destroying and demolishing churches across Ethiopia,” the official said.</p>
<p>If this is the treatment Christian churches receive by Muslim officials and politicians—“sworn to uphold” the rights of every citizen, not just Muslims—one can imagine the treatment churches receive by Muslim mobs.  One example suffices:</p>
<p>In 2011, after a Christian was accused of desecrating a Koran, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/24/thousands-christians-displaced-ethiopia-muslim-extremists-torch-churches-homes-2057387870/#ixzz2SSF8T1xb">thousands of Christians were forced to flee their homes</a> when “Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes” in a Muslim-majority region in western Ethiopia.  At least one Christian was killed, many injured, and anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 displaced.  Around the same time, in another area that is 90% Muslim, “all the Christians in the city woke up to find notes on their doors warning them to convert to Islam, leave the city or face death.”</p>
<p>For those few Western observers who live beyond the moment and have an interest in the “big picture”—the world bequeathed to future generations—it is well to reflect on the question of numbers in the context of Ethiopia.  As Jonathan Racho, another official at <a href="http://www.persecution.org/">ICC</a>, earlier said, “It’s extremely disconcerting that in Ethiopia, where Christians are the majority, they are also the victims of persecution.”</p>
<p>That Muslims are an otherwise peaceable minority group in Ethiopia, but in enclaves where they represent the majority, they attack their outnumbered Christian countrymen, suggests that Muslim aggression and passivity are very much rooted in numbers.  This reflects what I call “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islams-rule-of-numbers-and-the-london-beheading/">Islam’s Rule of Numbers</a>,” which holds that,<b> </b>wherever and whenever Muslims grow in number—and thus in strength and confidence—so too does Muslim intolerance for “the other” grow (<a href="http://www.meforum.org/3757/islam-rule-of-numbers">video explanation here</a>).</p>
<p>This naturally has lessons for the West, especially European nations like Britain and France that have a significant and ever-growing Muslim population—and where <a href="http://diversitymachtfrei.blogspot.ca/2014/08/france-muslim-smashes-up-historic.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">church attacks</span></a> and <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/05/22/uk-soldier-beheaded-near-barracks-by-man-who-praised-allah-after-cleaver-attack/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even</span></a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-woman-beheaded-in-broad-daylight-by-machete-wielding-muslim-police-rule-out-terrorism"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beheadings</span></a> are now taking place.</p>
<p>By way of final illustration, the reader is left with the story of Islam’s entry into Ethiopia, one of the oldest Christian civilizations.  According to Islamic tradition, in 615, when the pagan Quraysh were persecuting Muhammad’s outnumbered followers and disciples in Arabia, some fled to Ethiopia seeking sanctuary. The Christian king, or “Negus” of Ethiopia, welcomed and protected these Muslim fugitives, ignoring Quraysh demands to return them—and thus reportedly winning Muhammad’s gratitude.</p>
<p>Today, 14 centuries later, when Islam has carved itself a solid niche in Ethiopia, accounting for 1/3 of the population, Muslim gratitude has turned into Muslim aggression—not least a warning to Western states.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247519" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992-450x318.jpg" alt="EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992" width="344" height="243" /></a>The hostage saga in Sydney ended in <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/second-group-of-five-hostages-emerges-from-sydney-cafe/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dramatic fashion</span></a> yesterday as Australian police and SWAT teams stormed a downtown café after a 16-hour standoff with armed hostage taker, Man Haron Monis. Monis, identified as a Muslim cleric with a criminal record that included sexual assault and accessory to murder, was killed during the operation as were two hostages, identified as a male and female in their 30s.</p>
<p>Monis, an Iranian national, requested refugee status and asylum in Australia in 1996 and sought to repay Australia’s benevolence by engaging in a vituperative letter-writing campaign directed at the families of fallen Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan. The letters, in which Monis expresses opposition to the war in Afghanistan, refers to the fallen soldiers as “pigs” and compares them to Hitler. Australian authorities <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/547043/Sydney-cafe-gunman-on-bail-alleged-violent-offences"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged him</span></a> with “using a postal or similar service to menace, harass or cause offense [sic]” for which he received a relatively mild sentence of 300 hours of community service.</p>
<p>Australian police ought to be commended for their efficiency and professionalism in quickly subduing the terrorist and preventing more bloodshed, yet the incident raises more questions than it answers. How was a man with such a shady past, with no viable means of supporting himself, who was charged with such serious crimes, allowed to walk on bail and why was his refugee status not revoked? These are questions that the Australian justice system and immigration authorities will have to grapple with in the coming days.</p>
<p>More problematic is how the Australian government will seek to label this incident. Monis’s former lawyer sought to distance his ex-client from any connection to Islamic terrorism, noting that Monis’s actions reflected those of a “random individual” and were not reflective of a “concerted terrorism event or act.” His lawyer’s comments will surely be echoed by Australia’s Muslim community as well as its multiculturalist amen corner.</p>
<p>But the facts of this case dictate other, more malevolent conclusions that point toward radical Islam. Monis was a radical Islamist who espoused the ideologies of the Islamic State. During the hostage standoff, he issued demands that demonstrated unyielding devotion to Islam. He insisted that authorities provide him with an ISIS flag and that the government officially label the incident an ISIS attack. Monis also forced his terrified victims to display an Islamic <span style="color: #0433ff;">shahada </span>flag in both the window of the café and in the numerous <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2874985/He-says-eye-eye-runs-dies-Hostage-reveals-terrifying-demands-Sheikh-killed-Lindt-Cafe-terror-crisis.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">videos</span></a> released of hostages relaying messages.</p>
<p>Australia has not been immune from the scourge of radical Islam currently sweeping across multicultural Europe. It is a liberal democracy that unwittingly plays host to radical Islamists who have taken advantage of Australia’s liberal democratic character to advance their pernicious schemes.</p>
<p>On September 18, Australian security forces <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/world/asia/australia-terror-arrests/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thwarted</span></a> a plan by Australian Muslims to kidnap and behead Australian citizens in public and drape their bodies in an Islamic State flag. And on December 15, Australian authorities <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/15/two-sydney-men-charged-funding-australians-fighting-isis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged</span></a> two Muslim terrorists with providing funding for Australian Muslims seeking to fight with ISIS.</p>
<p>Monis was not a lone wolf as some would have us believe. There comes a point when collectively, so-called lone wolf attacks must be viewed as coordinated strikes, actively encouraged by fundamentalist ideologies. Those who claim otherwise, who refuse to acknowledge the obvious and absurdly label these attacks as acts of “<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/ted-cruz-video-makes-compelling-case-for-awarding-purple-heart-to-fort-hood-terror-victims/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">work place violence</span></a>” or “random acts of violence,” are being disingenuous and placing politics above the needs of national security.</p>
<p>Whether it is a shooting spree at Fort Hood, a beheading in Woolwich, a bloodbath at a Jerusalem synagogue or, as in this case, a hostage standoff and murder, these incidents and countless others too numerous to mention, represent nothing short of an attack on Western civilization. The attackers may not have known each other but were nevertheless inspired and guided by the same radical Islamist ideology, an ideology that seeks to dominate, subjugate and restore Islam to the same standing it experienced some 1,000 years ago.</p>
<p>This radical ideology easily spreads like a virus through 21<sup>st</sup> century mediums like Facebook and Twitter but also finds home in the mosques and madrassas of the Middle East and the West where Muslim clerics routinely call for the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/western-indifference-to-the-palestinian-culture-of-hate/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">murder of Jews</span></a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadPZpP-DdI"><span style="color: #0433ff;">annihilation of Western civilization</span></a>. Unfortunately, many in the West, in the name of multiculturalism and tolerance, have preferred to ignore this malevolence and have allowed it to metastasize like a malignant cancer.</p>
<p>So long as Western governments continue to bury their collective heads in the sand, fail to draw the necessary conclusions and take decisive action, we can unfortunately expect more future tragedies like that which just occurred in Sydney.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247438" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/behead.jpg" alt="behead" width="331" height="251" />Did Muhammad approve of torture? For Ahmadi Muslim leader Qasim Rashid, the answer is “no” – a “no” so unequivocal that Rashid holds up Muhammad as an example for the U.S. – newly sullied, in his view, by the just-released torture report – to follow in its treatment of prisoners of war.</p>
<p>This all sounds like a mainstream media dream: a moderate Muslim invoking Muhammad to rebuke the U.S. for its torture practices. The only problem with this gloriously multicultural scenario is that Qasim Rashid is a relentlessly disingenuous writer. Previously he has whitewashed <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/fox-news-publishes-piece-whitewashing-jihad-violence-and-proselytizing-for-ahmadi-islam">the reality of jihad violence</a> and Sharia oppression; dissembled about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/taqiyya-about-taqiyya-in-the-washington-post.html">the Qur’an’s sanction of deception of unbelievers</a>; lied about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/wapo-do-critics-actually-read-the-koran-uh-yeah.html">the presence of violent passages in the Qur’an</a>; lied about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/the-islamic-solution-to-stop.html">the Qur’an’s sanction of beating disobedient women</a>; lied about <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/08/huffington-post-whitewashes-sharia.html">the nature of Sharia</a>; and <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/03/us-muslim-calls-for-restrictions-on-free-speech-at-event-hosted-by-obama-appointee.html">called for limitations on the freedom of speech</a> and expression to outlaw behavior and speech some Muslims may find offensive. When challenged about the “facts” he has presented, he (like virtually all other Islamic supremacists) responds with furious ad hominem contempt, but no substance.</p>
<p>But he tells the mainstream media establishment what it wants to hear and fosters the complacency and ignorance of non-Muslims regarding jihad terror, and so his abject inability to defend his preposterous claims is of no import: he continues to be given a platform all over. Here he takes advantage of the controversy over the just-released torture report to claim that Muhammad rejected torture — while cynically refraining from mentioning all the evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>In “5 Lessons From Prophet Muhammad to Stop Torture” in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-rashid/5-lessons-from-prophet-mu_b_6302084.html">Huffington Post</a> (of course) last Wednesday, Rashid claimed:</p>
<blockquote><p>…Were the world to adopt Muhammad’s example of compassion, tolerance, and civility, such a torture report would not exist, because torture itself would not exist.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, because Muhammad would never have approved of harsh interrogation techniques, would he? Well, let’s see: Muhammad’s earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq, records that when Muhammad was trying to determine whether or not his favorite wife, Aisha, was guilty of adultery, he asked a slave, Burayra: “So the apostle called Burayra to ask her, and Ali got up and gave her a violent beating, saying ‘Tell the Apostle the truth.&#8217;” (Ibn Ishaq 734) Muhammad is not recorded as having rebuked Ali for violently beating this woman.</p>
<p>Nor was that an isolated incident, as we shall see.</p>
<p>Rashid continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>Here are five lessons the CIA, ISIS and humanity at large can learn from Prophet Muhammad on how to stop torture.</p>
<p><strong>1. Stop engaging in pre-emptive war</strong></p>
<p>Prophet Muhammad forbade pre-emptive war, all forms of terrorism, violently revolting against a government no matter how unjust, and even went to the extent of forbidding civil disobedience lest it lead to violence.</p></blockquote>
<p>All forms of terrorism? But Muhammad is reported as having said: “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror…” (Sahih Bukhari 4.52.220). One may argue that he didn’t mean modern-day terrorism, but given the other incidents that I will recount in this article, the claim that he forbade “all forms of terrorism” is fanciful in the extreme.</p>
<p>While not mentioning that hadith or the Qur’an verse telling Muslims to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60), Rashid plows on:</p>
<blockquote><p>When Muslims faced incessant and brutal persecution in Mecca from 610-620, Muhammad forbade any violent or incendiary response to the governing authorities. He offered his companions three options — remain and bear the persecution, try to change laws through peaceful argumentation, or leave.</p>
<p>Many Muslims left — some to Abyssinia where they sought and received refuge under the righteous Christian King Neghus. Others left to Medina, where they forged a peaceful alliance with the Jews and soon established a unified secular state governed by the Charter of Medina. Fighting was then only permitted in self-defense once Muslims were pursued and attacked, just as the <a href="http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?submitCh=Read+from+verse%3A&amp;ch=22&amp;verse=40">Qur’an 22:40</a> allows: “Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged — and Allah indeed has power to help them.” Once in defensive war, the Qur’an only permits killing active combatants, as elaborated next.</p></blockquote>
<p>Rashid omits all mention of the Qur’an’s teaching on offensive fighting. 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.” The Qur’an verse Ibn Ishaq quotes here (2:193; cf. also 8:39) commands much more than defensive warfare: Muslims must fight until “the religion is God’s” — that is, until Allah alone is worshipped.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Nor do all contemporary Islamic thinkers believe that that command is a relic of history. 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.)</p>
<p>As an Ahmadi, Rashid may reject this understanding of the Qur’an and jihad, but it does exist, and he must know it exists. To ignore it entirely and give the impression that it doesn’t exist is cynical and deceptive.</p>
<p>And his cynicism and deceptiveness don’t end there. He continues:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>2. Stop justifying collateral damage</strong></p>
<p>Drone strikes, indiscriminate bombing, and collateral damage have each sadly become part of the American military experience. Prophet Muhammad categorically condemned any act of violence in which civilians, property, or places of worship were harmed.</p>
<p>Following Muhammad’s guidance, <a href="http://www.alislam.org/topics/khilafat/abubakar.html">Abu Bakr the first Khalifa</a> commanded to the Muslim army about to embark on battle,</p>
<p>“O people! I charge you with ten rules; learn them well… for your guidance in the battlefield! Do not commit treachery, or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy’s flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.”</p>
<p>As history’s first major figure to condemn collateral damage in word and in deed, Prophet Muhammad demonstrated a high precedent that even the most advanced nations today cannot match. Today’s leaders can end the war atrocities engulfing our world by following Muhammad’s example of justice and compassion.</p></blockquote>
<p>Collateral damage: “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” (Muslim 4321)</p>
<p>There is still more. Rashid says:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>3. Stop indefinite detention for POWs</strong></p>
<p>The Afghan and Iraq wars are long over. Yet, America continues to maintain numerous POWs in Guantanamo Bay, and likely in other undisclosed locations. Prophet Muhammad categorically condemned this practice. After permitting Muslims to only fight in self-defense, the Qur’an 47:5 next commands Muslims to release POWs immediately as war comes to an end.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, Qur’an 47:5 says: “Soon will He guide them and improve their condition.” That is not in any clear sense a command to release POW’s immediately as war comes to an end. Ibn Abbas in his commentary on this verse explains: “He will give them success to perform righteous deeds (and improve their state) and improve their condition and intention; it is also said that this means: He will save them in the Hereafter and improve their state and accept their works on the Day of Judgement.” To whom is Ibn Abbas referring? Not to prisoners of war, but (according to his gloss on 47:4) to “those who are killed in obedience of Allah on the Day of Badr, referring here to the prophetic Companions.” Ibn Kathir interprets the verse in a similar way, without any reference to freeing prisoners of war at the end of the war.</p>
<p>Without mentioning this anomaly, Rashid goes on:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maintaining POWs well after the war has ended creates distrust and animosity among allies and enemies alike, and is beneath the standard of a civilized country. Rather than usurp human rights with indefinite detention, rather than provide propaganda material to extremists, rather than violate its own Constitution and international law, we should all learn from Prophet Muhammad’s example, and justly release POWs.</p>
<p><strong>4. Stop mistreating POWs</strong></p>
<p>POWs, during and after the war must be treated with the dignity all human beings deserve. Historian Sir William Muir well records how Prophet Muhammad commanded his companions to treat POWs:</p>
<p>The Refugees had houses of their own, received the prisoners with kindness and consideration. “Blessings on the men of Medina!” said one of these in later days: “they made us ride, while they themselves walked afoot; they gave us wheaten bread to eat when there was little of it, contenting themselves with dates.” It is not surprising, therefore, that some of the captives, yielding to these influences, declared themselves Believers, and to such their liberty was at once granted. The rest were kept for ransom. Such as had nothing to give were liberated without payment; but a service was required… To each were allotted ten boys, to be taught the art of writing; and the teaching was accepted as a ransom.</p>
<p>Mind you, this was at a time in Arabia when Muslims captured during battle suffered the fate of torture and death. Yet, in response, Muslims demanded the ransom of education, fed POWs with their own food and sheltered them with their own shelter. Once war ended, Muhammad immediately released all POWs. This is how he brought lasting peace to a former Arabian wasteland engulfed in constant war.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mistreating POW’s: “When Muhammad saw Hamzah he said, ‘If Allah gives me victory over the Quraysh at any time, I shall mutilate thirty of their men!’ When the Muslims saw the rage of the Prophet they said, ‘By Allah, if we are victorious over them, we shall mutilate them in a way which no Arab has ever mutilated anybody.” (Al-Tabari, vol. 7, p. 133; cf. Ibn Ishaq 387)</p>
<p>And: “Anas reported: Eight men of the tribe of ‘Ukl came to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and swore allegiance to him on Islam, but found the climate of that land uncogenial to their health and thus they became sick, and they made complaint of that to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: Why don’t you go to (the fold) of our camels along with our shepherd, and make use of their milk and urine. They said: Yes. They set out and drank their (camels’) milk and urine and regained their health. They killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. This (news) reached Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he sent them on their track and they were caught and brought to him (the Holy Prophet). He commanded about them, and (thus) their hands and feet were cut off and their eyes were gouged and then they were thrown in the sun, until they died.” (Sahih Muslim 4131)</p>
<p>Rashid concludes with a dishonest coup de grace:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>5. Stop justifying torture</strong></p>
<p>Nothing justifies the torture the CIA meted out to those 119 human beings. Indeed, in response to those arguing safety, the report concludes that America was not made any safer as a result of these barbaric practices. This was just one among many reasons Prophet Muhammad categorically forbade torture.</p>
<p>For example, as recorded in Sahih Muslim, “Hisham ibn Hakim passed by some people in Syria who had been made to stand in the sun and had oil poured over their heads. He asked, “What is this?” It was said,</p>
<p>“They are being punished for not paying taxes.” Hisham said: I heard Prophet Muhammad say: “Verily, Allah will torture those who torture people in this world.” Likewise, Jabir ibn Abdullah reported that Prophet Muhammad commanded: “Do not torture the creation of Allah the Exalted.”</p>
<p>Indeed, <a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/books/TheBlessedModelAndCaricatures.pdf">Prophet Muhammad’s compassion extended beyond humans</a> as he also specifically forbade torturing animals, declaring, “A woman was punished because of a cat she had imprisoned until it died; thus, she entered Hellfire because of it. She did not give it food or water while it was imprisoned, neither did she set it free to eat from the vermin of the earth.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad, according to Islamic tradition, didn’t just justify torture. He ordered it: “Kinana b. al-Rabi`, who had the custody of the treasure of B. al-Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (T. was brought) to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kinana, ‘Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?’ he said Yes. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr b. al-Awwam, ‘Torture him until you extract what he has,’ so he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud.” (Ibn Ishaq 515).</p>
<p>After his tour de force of disingenuousness, Rashid concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is not a lack of intelligence, but a lack of morality that permitted this barbaric act of torture to occur at all. The CIA, ISIS, and indeed the world at large can learn volumes about compassion, justice, mercy, and morality from Prophet Muhammad, the man who successfully <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw3R8xc1TQ0">brought peace to a warring world</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>The world is warring all over today because of Muhammad’s teachings. It is a peculiar lack of morality that would create this deceptive piece, with its calculated omissions and frankly false conclusion. If Rashid is asked about this post, he will sneer that it is not peer-reviewed; he will not answer any of its substantive refutations of his dishonest claims. He cannot do so — both because the traditions about Muhammad don’t bear out his claims, and because of his own intellectual and moral dishonesty.</p>
<p>Qasim Rashid apparently doesn’t want the world to know that Muhammad commanded and approved of torture. He wants people to think that he forbade it. The effect of this will be to foster ignorance and complacency about the jihad threat. The blood of the next victims tortured by Islamic jihadists will cry out to Qasim Rashid from the ground on which it is spilled.</p>
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