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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>
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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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		<title>Only Muslim Schoolchildren Lives Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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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>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Edward L. Dalcour takes us into the heart of Qur'anic darkness. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> and joined by author and lecturer <strong>Dr. Edward L. Dalcour.</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Dalcour came on the show to discuss <strong>To Kill a Kafir, </strong>explaining Islam&#8217;s true teachings on &#8220;freedom&#8221; of religion. The discussion occurred within the context of <strong>Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System</strong>, in which Dr. Dalcour unveiled the nightmare spawned by Islamic &#8220;theocracy.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Imam Joe Biden Schools an Infidel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But Ayaan Hirsi Ali declines to argue with the vice president. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/6a00d83451c36069e20168eb9dbef6970c.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-247267" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/6a00d83451c36069e20168eb9dbef6970c.jpg" alt="6a00d83451c36069e20168eb9dbef6970c" width="301" height="271" /></a>The courageous ex-Muslim human rights activist <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-real-war-on-women/article/2556984"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ayaan Hirsi Ali</span></a> recently recounted that at a speech in Washington not long ago, she met Vice President Joe Biden. Biden seized the opportunity to tell her that “ISIS had nothing to do with Islam.” Hirsi Ali politely disagreed, whereupon Biden began a lesson in the teachings of the Religion of Peace: “Let me tell you one or two things about Islam.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Hirsi Ali didn’t hear much of Imam Joe’s Islamic wisdom: “I politely left the conversation at that. I wasn’t used to arguing with vice presidents.”</p>
<p>This wasn’t just Joe being Joe, saying another foolish thing that, if he were a conservative Republican, would have ended his political career in an avalanche of ridicule long ago. For in confronting Hirsi Ali and assuming he knew more about Islam than she does, Biden was reflecting what virtually every policymaker in Washington believes – on both sides of the aisle.</p>
<p>Even though Ayaan Hirsi Ali was raised a Muslim in a Muslim country, and educated in Islam from an extremely early age, and despite the fact that Joe Biden has almost certainly never opened a Qur’an, Biden was sure that what she said about Islam must be wrong – it just had to be. Why? Because her opinion of the religion was negative, and the possibility that such a view could have any merit whatsoever is inconceivable in Washington circles. Those who hold it <i>must</i> be ignorant.</p>
<p>It’s almost certain that Biden would never have confronted Karen Armstrong in a similar way. If Biden is familiar with what Armstrong says about Islam, such as her world-historically ridiculous claim that “Muhammad eventually abjured violence and pursued a daring, inspired policy of non-violence that was worthy of Gandhi,” he would no doubt warmly approve and even applaud. This would not be because Armstrong has done more formal study of Islam than has Hirsi Ali – she hasn’t. <span style="color: #222222;">Nor would it be because Imam Joe himself made a careful and judicious examination of Islamic texts and teachings, and came to the reasoned conclusion that Armstrong’s representation of Islam was more accurate and true to the </span><i style="color: #222222;">ding an sich</i><span style="color: #222222;"> than Hirsi Ali’s.</span></p>
<p>On the contrary, Biden would favor Armstrong’s Islam over Hirsi Ali’s solely and wholly because the former confirms his view of the world and appears to bear out what he wishes were true, and the latter does not. This is likewise the stance of all of Biden’s colleagues in the Obama Administration. John Kerry, like Biden, confidently takes a stand on what he believes Islam is all about, based not on any study of his own or anyone else, but on what he wishes is true and hopes is true.</p>
<p>Indeed, on these fantasies are based numerous foreign and domestic policies. <span style="color: #222222;">The idea that new Israeli concessions will end the Palestinian jihad against Israel and make possible a two-state solution with Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace is based on a determined refusal to consider the possibility that the Palestinians really mean the jihadist rhetoric that they pump out endlessly on official Palestinian Authority and Hamas airwaves about destroying Israel utterly.</span></p>
<p>The idea that stable, secular, Western-oriented republics could ever have been constructed in Afghanistan or Iraq was based on a refusal to confront what Sharia really is and to study the degree to which the populations in both countries were attached to it. Ultimately, the United States oversaw the adoption of Constitutions in both countries that enshrined Sharia as the highest law of the land – something that would never have been done had not Washington policymakers been listening to smooth apologists who assured them that Sharia was benign and completely compatible with republican government and Western principles of human rights.</p>
<p>Those policymakers are still entrenched, despite their abysmal track record. There is no accountability for them, for those who would hold them accountable believe in the same fantasies that led to the policy errors. Joe Biden’s interaction with Ayaan Hirsi Ali played out with dreary predictability: it was inevitable that Biden would think his fantasies and wishful thinking to be defensible, established fact, and unthinkable that he would regard the judgment of a Somali ex-Muslim woman with unconscious ethnocentric and chauvinistic paternalism: <i>she is just wounded by her anomalous experiences</i>, he might have thought to himself, while Joe Biden – Joe Biden! – man of the world, savvy political thinker, diplomat, statesman, and humorist, would gently and affably set her straight, and introduce her to the pluralistic open-mindedness that are the hallmarks of what make us great in the West.</p>
<p>That open-mindedness, that openness to non-Western cultures and people, the linchpin of the multiculturalist imperative, is what Biden and Kerry treasure so much and are trying to protect when they assure the world that Islam is a religion of peace and that those who commit violence in its name are violating its core principles. But even as they preen about their open-mindedness, Biden and Kerry and the rest are actually quite close-minded. When he heard Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak, Biden had an opportunity to hear truths that existed outside of his habits of thought. A truly open-minded person would have adjusted his thinking to fit reality.</p>
<p>Instead, Biden placed himself in the preposterous position of attempting to lecture an ex-Muslim, someone who had once revered the Qur’an and studied it deeply, about the true tenets of Islam. In this latest exercise in making himself ridiculous, Biden is a symbol of the entire Western world, staking its life and future on fantasy and wishful thinking. In response to his foolish nonsense, Ayaan Hirsi Ali was polite. If they ever encounter Biden face to face, those pious believers in Islam who know that what she says about their religion is accurate, and hate her for revealing it, will be substantially less so.</p>
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		<title>Boca Mosque Targets Jews, Christians and the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 15 years of bigotry and violence.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/icbr.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-245687" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/icbr.png" alt="icbr" width="300" height="300" /></a>For the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR) some things have changed and some have stayed the same. The center went from a storefront, where it began, to a nearly 30,000 square foot mosque. That was a huge change. It has also lost a number of imams along the way, a couple of whom have been charged with crimes. Many of the faces still remain, though, and so does the hate that was exhibited when the center was established over 15 years ago.</p>
<p>ICBR started as a result of an effort by the Muslim Student Organization (MSO) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and FAU Professor Bassem Alhalabi, who helped create the MSO. The founding directors of the center included three persons: Alhalabi, travel agency owner Khalid Qureshi, and then-FAU student Syed Ahmad, who was also a website designer for Hamas in Gaza.</p>
<p>Alhalabi, prior to getting his job at FAU, was an assistant to Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian, while they were together at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa.</p>
<p>Today, two out of the three, Alhalabi and Qureshi, are still directors at the mosque.</p>
<p>From October 1999 through September 2001 – roughly three years – the website of ICBR had an essay prominently posted on it, entitled ‘Why can’t the Jews and Muslims live together in peace?’</p>
<p>The essay stated, “<a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/ICBR_and_AMANA_Articles_About_Jews.htm">There cannot be harmony between Jews</a> &#8211; who are usurpers and aggressors, who have oppressed and persecuted others… Jews are people of treachery and betrayal; it is not possible to trust them at all… As the Muslims and Jews are enemies residing in opposing religious and doctrinal camps, it is not possible for them to be brought together unless one is made to submit to the other by force… [Muhammad] said, ‘You will fight the Jews and will prevail over them, so that a rock will say, O Muslim! There is Jew behind me, kill him!’”</p>
<p>The imam of the center at the time, Ibrahim Dremali, claimed that the essay appearing on the center&#8217;s website was the result of hackers, even though much of the other material that had been on the site was derived from the <a href="http://islamqa.info/en/1098">same place that the essay came from</a>, the violently anti-Semitic IslamQA.com.</p>
<p>Dremali’s rendition of the facts were contradicted by then-Spokesman for ICBR, Dan McBride, a Muslim convert who said that the only reason why they took the essay off the site was because they received numerous complaints about it.</p>
<p>Today, there is a new imam leading the mosque, Fathi Kalfi, but the rhetoric coming from him and another ICBR official shows that absolutely nothing regarding the center’s bigotry towards others has changed.</p>
<p>On the ICBR website, there is currently a section which allows one to listen to speeches given by the Islamic center’s leaders to the center’s congregants. The first page is for Fathi Kalfi, ICBR’s present imam. In his speech titled ‘Fitns after Prophet (pbuh) and Abu Baker (ra),’ he incorporates an anti-Semitc and anti-Christian message, in order to make a point about what is taking place in Syria.</p>
<p>Kalfi says, “Damascus – used to be the capitol of every Muslim from Yemen to Andalusia [Spain] to Heng [China]. All of them, the capitol was Damascus, so it has a special place in the hearts of believers. Today, it’s controlled by Batiniyah Nusairiyah [sect of Shiah Islam]… Batiniyah have the same steps; they have the same direction – the same goal. You know what’s their goal? Destroy Islam… Bathiniyah, Ibn Taymiyyah [an Islamic scholar] said they are worse than Jews and Christians. So their goal is to destroy Islam – kill the Muslims and occupy their land… But Allah al-Jenna will not let them, Inshallah, because they will be defeated soon.”</p>
<p>In a second speech, Kalfi rails against the West and complains about Muslims who adopt or admire anything coming from the West, even if it is something positive. In his ‘Fitns &amp; Situation of Muslim Uma,’ he states, “Brothers and sisters, Muslims live in a time of fitn, temptations, religious innovations, time of myths and deviation. What made it worse, brothers and sisters, is the advancement of the West, especially in the worldly matter, which led some Muslims to get influenced by that and they started to glorify or embrace anything that comes from the West, either it’s good or bad.”</p>
<p>Kalfi later speaks about an end of time conspiracy, where Muslims will war against the West. If the imam were saying these things from overseas as a member of Isis or al-Qaeda, it would make more sense. But Kalfi is spewing his hate from Boca Raton, Florida, a symbol in America of Western affluence and containing a sizeable Jewish population.</p>
<p>Another page on ICBR contains the speeches of Mounir Bourkiza, the General Manager at Garden of the Sahaba Academy, ICBR’s children’s school. In his speech to the congregants, titled ‘Major Shirk,’ he states that Christian belief is “nonsense.”</p>
<p>Bourkiza says in the speech, “Or as the Christians believe… They apply the same characteristics of the creation of a human to Allah al-Jenna. They say Allah is the father and he has a son and all this kind of nonsense.”</p>
<p>Most probably due to past infractions, which included a link from the ICBR website to a site raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, ICBR has taken the step of placing a disclaimer on its website’s ‘About Us’ page. What is both interesting and ironic is that the mosque put, at the end of the disclaimer, a statement regarding anti-Semitism. It reads, “It must be clear that ICBR condemns Anti-Semitism whether it originates from Muslim, or any other sources.”</p>
<p>Evidently, ICBR does not condemn anti-Semitism enough, because the mosque’s own imam actively spreads anti-Semitism, and the mosque is so proud of it that it moved to place the anti-Semitic content on its website for everyone to listen to. And not only has the imam targeted Jews, but both he and the GM of the ICBR children’s school have targeted Christians as well.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Kalfi has spoken out against the entire West, where he happens to reside, which only adds to the disturbing nature of his statements, as his words can incite listeners to commit hateful and violent acts on our own shores.</p>
<p>One former ICBR congregant who appeared to have been influenced by the extremism of ICBR is Dr. Rafiq Sabir. Today, Sabir is serving out a 25-year prison sentence for swearing allegiance to and providing material support to al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>No one can use the excuse now that the ICBR website has been hacked, because the hate statements presently found on it were made by those representing ICBR themselves, making the disclaimer seem more an exercise in deception than transparency.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<title>The British Royal Family and the Islamist Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are British Royals committed to defending the homeland? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/prince-charles.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245325" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/prince-charles.jpg" alt="prince-charles" width="338" height="278" /></a>Four men aged 19-27 were arrested by British police on Thursday, November 6<sup>th</sup>, for allegedly planning a terror attack in London against Queen Elizabeth during the Remembrance Day ceremony that took place on Friday, November 7th.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">The terrorists were seized by the police following months of surveillance and police were said to be interrogating the suspects – who are thought to have hatched a plot to assassinate the Queen with a knife.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">England, of course, under Prime Minister Cameron is a leader in tolerance and respect for Islam and even allows Sharia Law-governed “no-go” areas. After the ISIS beheading of British citizen David Haines, Cameron was quoted as feeling the need once again, just as after every terrorist murder, to emphasize that such terrorism was not done by the “religion of peace”:  <span style="color: #101010;">&#8220;They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people… they boast of their brutality… they claim to do this in the name of Islam, that is nonsense, Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="color: #101010;">In my book, <i>Tolerism: The Ideology Revealed </i>(Mantua Books, second edition), I discuss how the endless tolerance of the intolerant illiberals endangers us all if these intolerants take power and end all tolerance.  Britain has quite an ambivalent relationship with Islam and especially those who commit violence, or otherwise attack British historic liberties and freedoms, for the purpose of conquest and a jihadist caliphate.</p>
<p><span style="color: #101010;">Britain, of course, had its own version of 9/11, t</span>he July 7, 2005 London bombings (often referred to as 7/7)  which were a series of coordinated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack"><span style="color: #0433ff;">suicide attacks</span></a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_London"><span style="color: #0433ff;">central London</span></a>, which targeted civilians using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_London"><span style="color: #0433ff;">public transport system</span></a> during the morning rush hour.</p>
<p>As well as the four bombers, 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more were injured.</p>
<p>So, when threats were discovered against the Queen, British police and armed forces took the matter seriously and thwarted the proposed attack.    It all brought to mind, however, just how the British have related to radical or militant Islam, or Islamism, however you term it.</p>
<p>In view of the recent thwarted attempt against the Queen, perhaps, we should take a look at the views of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne. Is there anything that should concern us?    Has he become what I call a “tolerist” – one whose tolerance of evil seems to have been exacerbated by terrorism; that is, do we have another case where we see terrorism being successful in creating <i>more </i>tolerance and more submission to the demands of radical Muslims both inside and outside Britain, with every terrorist attack?</p>
<p>The royal wedding between Prince William and the beautiful Kate Middleton on April 29<sup>th</sup>, 2011, seemed, to many, a turning back in time to when the British monarchy really mattered, and Britain itself mattered.   The Queen herself, resolute in her dedication to duty and country, with a mother who had lived to 101, seemed to be ready to carry on for years to come.</p>
<p>The striking young couple and the 85 year old monarch, brought the monarchy into a perhaps unexpected place of honour and excitement in a Britain, beset by economic problems and social tensions relating to its increasing Islamic population. The very popularity of the young couple and the elderly monarch made the public’s disdain of William’s father and Elizabeth’s son, Charles, all the more apparent. It prompted me to research a bit about Prince Charles and his views.</p>
<p>Charles was the one who was mostly famous for ditching the popular and beautiful Diana for the plain and somewhat unappealing Camilla. An eccentric, seemingly in search of a cause in life, his interest in architecture and the environment was about to come into fashion again, when he made the turn in his career which seems somewhat puzzling:  his interest in promoting the cause of Islam.</p>
<p>In this, he might be seen by his critics as taking after no one so much as his eccentric uncle Edward, the Nazi sympathizer who abdicated the throne to marry the divorced American Wallace Simpson.</p>
<p>In both cases, it did not help that the public was not at all enthralled with the choice of woman.   Neither did the uncle or the nephew appear to be a strong and ideal candidate to lead the British  people (even though the monarchy’s power is symbolic only) in a time of crisis in world affairs – with the Nazis in Edward’s time, and with Radical Islam, terrorism, and attempts to create a new caliphate to include Europe, in Charles’ time.</p>
<p>Charles seemed to latch onto the defence of Islam as his pet project and his standing in the Islamic world increased accordingly, at least until Islamist demands, as they do invariably, start to increase with every step of tolerance.</p>
<p>By the time of William’s engagement, polling showed an overwhelming majority of the British public believed Prince Charles should make way for his eldest son and allow him to be the next king.</p>
<p>The story of Charles’ infatuation with Islam was not followed closely by the press, but here are the basics:</p>
<p>The grand mufti of Cyprus has said: &#8220;Did you know that Prince Charles has converted to Islam. Yes, yes. He is a Muslim. I can&#8217;t say more. But it happened in Turkey. Oh, yes, he converted all right. When you get home check on how often he travels to Turkey. You&#8217;ll find that your future king is a Muslim.”</p>
<p>Assuming that Charles remained a member of the Church of England, however, he made many worrying statements that seemed to go above and beyond wishes for peaceful relations:</p>
<p>1. Charles made several strong public statements endorsing Islam as the solution to the spiritual and cultural ills of Britain and the West. In 1989, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, a British citizen, for blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad in his novel <i>The Satanic Verses. </i>Charles did not defend Rushdie&#8217;s freedom of speech, but reacted to the death decree by reflecting on the positive features that Islam has to offer the spiritually empty lives of his countrymen.</p>
<p>2. Similarly, in the matter of the riots after the publication of cartoons about Mohammed, Prince Charles again took the Muslim side:   The Times of London reported that in front of an audience of more than 800 Islamic scholars at Cairo&#8217;s Al-Azhar University, Charles made a &#8220;serious, impassioned 30-minute speech&#8221; that &#8220;The recent ghastly strife and anger over the Danish cartoons shows the danger that comes of our failure to listen and to respect what is precious and sacred to others. In my view, the true mark of a civilised society is the respect it pays to minorities and to strangers.&#8221;   He of course made no comments on how minorities are treated in Muslim countries.</p>
<p>3. Back in March 2000, Prince Charles visited the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/743894.stm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islamia Primary School</span></a> in North-West London. This, Britain&#8217;s first state-funded Muslim school, was founded and is headed by Yusuf Islam (a.k.a. Cat Stevens), an Islamist who threatened Salman Rushdie&#8217;s life during the <i>Satanic Verses</i> controversy and has since been banned from entering the United States. The Prince told the children: &#8220;You are ambassadors for a sometimes much misunderstood faith. I believe that Islam has much to teach increasingly secular societies like ours in Britain.</p>
<p>4. The idea that Christians and Jews must learn from Islam became a recurring theme from Charles:   “Islam can teach us today a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is poorer for having lost. At the heart of Islam is its preservation of an integral view of the Universe. Islam-like Buddhism and Hinduism refuses to separate man and nature, religion and science, mind and matter, and has preserved a metaphysical and unified view of ourselves and the world around us. . . . But the West gradually lost this integrated vision of the world with Copernicus and Descartes and the coming of the scientific revolution. A comprehensive philosophy of nature is no longer part of our everyday beliefs.”</p>
<p>5. In a speech at the Foreign Office Conference Centre at Wilton Park in Sussex on December 13, 1996, he called on Islamic pedagogy and philosophy to help young Britons develop a healthier view of the world.   Praising Islamic culture in its traditional form for trying to preserve an &#8220;integrated, spiritual view of the world in a way we have not seen fit to do in recent generations in the West,&#8221; he went on to say:  “There is much we can learn from that Islamic world view in this respect. There are many ways in which mutual understanding and appreciation can be built. Perhaps, for instance, we could begin by having more Muslim teachers in British schools, or by encouraging exchanges of teachers. Everywhere in the world people want to learn English. But in the West, in turn, we need to be taught by Islamic teachers how to learn with our hearts, as well as our heads. The results of this study will help Westerners to rethink, and for the better, our practical stewardship of man and his environment-in fields such as health-care, the natural environment and agriculture, as well as in architecture and urban planning.”</p>
<p>6. As noted by Gordon and Stillman, “Prince Charles of Arabia”, <i>The</i> <i>Middle East Quarterly, </i>September, 1997, Charles took steps to give Islam a special status. He set up a panel of twelve &#8220;wise men&#8221; (in fact, eleven men and one woman) to advise him on Islamic religion and culture.  This caused much talk, especially as the group was reported to have met in secret. Some noted that no comparable body exists to inform the crown prince about other faiths practiced in his future realm.</p>
<p>7. To Charles, it was Islam that can best implement his cherished environmentalism: In an hour-long speech on &#8220;<a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=News&amp;id=22350511"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islam and the Environment</span></a>&#8221; at Oxford University&#8217;s Sheldonian Theatre on behalf of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, reported Rebecca English of the<i> Daily Mail</i>, &#8220;the heir to the throne argued that man&#8217;s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions &#8211; but particularly those of Islam.&#8221; He &#8220;spoke in depth about his own study of the Koran which, he said, tells its followers that there is &#8216;no separation between man and nature&#8217; and says we must always live within our environment&#8217;s limits.&#8221; He also said:  “The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason &#8211; and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us. Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation.”  He did not comment on the environmental aspects of Islamic harvesting of its vast oil wealth, nor the environmental aspects of suicide bombing and other violent acts of Islam as it implemented Jihad at its every border.</p>
<p>8. In 2007, after watching ten whirling dervishes perform at a cultural centre in Turkey, Charles stated:  &#8220;Whatever it is, it seems to me that Western life has become deconstructed and partial.&#8221; The East, on the other hand, he went on, had given us &#8220;parables of the soul.&#8221; He also cited the Koran and Hadith.</p>
<p>9. Among the many titles borne by the British sovereign is &#8220;Defender of the Faith,&#8221; a reference to the fact that the monarch heads not only the government but also the Church of England. But the prince had reservations about this title. In a June 1994 television documentary he declared his preference to be known as &#8220;Defender of Faith&#8221; rather than &#8220;Defender of the Faith,&#8221; which prompted then Prime Minister John Major to quip, “it would be a little odd if Prince Charles was defender of faiths of which he was not a member.’</p>
<p>10. We note that in 2004, the Sultan of Brunei awarded Charles a $50,000 prize chosen by an international jury set up by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for his contribution to understanding Islam in the West, being the first non-Muslim to receive the prize.  Some years earlier, at a private dinner with prince Charles in May 1997, Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia announced a donation by King Fahd of $33 million to Oxford University to construct a new Centre for Islamic Studies at Oxford, a gift designed &#8220;to establish Islamic studies at the heart of the British education system.&#8221;</p>
<p>11. Finally, it appeared that Charles made dozens of trips to Muslim countries (Turkey being a special favourite), but when invited to visit Israel (no member of the Royal Family has made an Official Visit to Israel), Charles’ advisors were quoted in a 2007 story in Israel’s <i>Ha’aretz </i>newspaper as saying that there was &#8220;no chance&#8221; the prince would ever visit Israel &#8211; so as not to boost Israel&#8217;s international image.  One famous trip of Charles was the eight day tour of the U.S. in 2005 where he tried to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam because he thought that the United States had been too intolerant of the religion since September 11. The Prince voiced private concerns over America&#8217;s &#8220;confrontational&#8221; approach to Muslim countries and its failure to appreciate Islam&#8217;s strengths.</p>
<p>However, Charles&#8217; efforts to promote Islam did not do his mother any good in Al-Qaeda&#8217;s eyes. The organization&#8217;s number two, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1869849,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ayman al- Zawahiri</span></a>, called Queen Elizabeth II &#8220;one of the severest enemies of Islam&#8221; and blamed her for what he called Britain&#8217;s &#8220;crusader laws.&#8221; In addition, he criticized British Muslims who &#8220;work for the pleasure of Elizabeth, the head of the Church of England&#8221; and ridiculed them for saying (his words, not theirs): &#8220;We are British citizens, subject to Britain&#8217;s crusader laws, and we are proud of our submission . . . to Elizabeth, head of the Church of England.&#8221;   Such was the attitude towards a woman Ruler who failed to “submit” to Islam, in contrast to her son who knew how to plead Islam’s case.</p>
<p>Moreover, there was an earlier plot to assassinate his mother, the Queen.   In 2007, Al-Qaeda plotted to kill the Queen during her state visit to Uganda.  Security services foiled the plot, which involved hiding inside two vans belonging to the Ugandan Broadcasting Corporation and setting off bombs, as the Queen came to Kampala on an official visit in November.</p>
<p>Lately, the world has been stunned by the violence and murder and torture of religious minorities by the brutal Islamists of ISIS – beheadings, rapes, mass killings.   And it has finally dawned upon people that Christians, as well as Yzedis, Kurds and Jews, are being targeted by Islamists.</p>
<p>And so, Prince Charles woke up: After the release of a new report which concludes that Christians are the “most persecuted religious minority” in the world and that Muslim countries dominate the list of places where religious freedom is most under threat, Prince Charles was forced to speak out.</p>
<p>Muslim leaders have a duty to warn their own followers about the “indescribable tragedy” of the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11027065/Video-shows-scale-of-Yazidi-suffering-on-Iraqs-Mount-Sinjar.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">persecution of Christians in the Middle East</span></a> and around the world, the Prince of Wales has insisted.</p>
<p>He said that faith leaders must ensure their followers respect believers in other faiths “rather than remaining silent.” But again Charles espoused a supposed role of Defender of (all) Faith(s), rather than the monarchy’s historic role as Defender of the (Christian) Faith.</p>
<p>While emphasizing the importance of his own personal Christian faith, he also signalled that he saw his role as to “defend” followers of other faiths including Islam.</p>
<p>Britain’s “future as a free society” depends on recognizing the “crucial role” played by people of faith, he said.  “First and foremost, rather than remaining silent, faith leaders have, it seems to me, a responsibility to ensure that people within their own tradition respect people from other faith traditions.</p>
<p>Prince Charles is to be praised for noting that:  “Sadly, in many other countries, an absence of freedom to determine one’s own faith is woven into the laws and customs of the nation.”</p>
<p>But even this modest criticism of Islam, in the context of a speech emphasizing that he sees himself as a Defender of all religions, including Islam, was too much for some British Muslim leaders:   Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said: &#8220;Prince Charles is somebody who is deeply respected in the Muslim community and he is absolutely right about Christians being oppressed &#8211; but the point is when innocent Iraqis were being killed by British bombs Prince Charles was quiet silent.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would like him to have spoken about Muslims being oppressed in a stronger way.&#8221;</p>
<p>And so in the context of the increasing number and influence of Muslims in Britain, we must scrutinize the words of the man next in line for the throne. And we note, that after showing such extreme tolerance, and much advocacy for Islam, Prince Charles is still criticized for making comments about ISIS and the murder of Christians.</p>
<p>For those of us in Britain (or myself in Canada, a member of the British commonwealth), it is apparent that the Queen remains a target for Islamist terrorists even as her son, the heir apparent, leans over backwards to compliment the religion of Islam and seeks to “Defend” it as well as the Monarchy’s (Church of England) Christianity. Whether his actions are naïve and foolish “tolerism” or an example of moderation and peaceful dialogue, only time will tell.</p>
<p><b><i>Howard Rotberg</i></b><i> is a Canadian writer with a special interest in ideologies, values, and cultures.   His latest book is </i>Tolerism:  The Ideology Revealed (Second Revised Edition, 2013).  <i>He is founding president of publishing company Mantua Books.</i></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rooted in faith or rooted in Hamas?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cair.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244934" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cair-450x187.jpg" alt="cair" width="303" height="126" /></a>On the night of Saturday, November 8, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of CAIR held its 20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Banquet at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It was fitting that two out of three of the event’s featured speakers have been associated with terrorism, as 20 years ago CAIR was founded as a main component of a Palestinian terrorist enterprise inside the United States.</p>
<p>CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been in existence for 20 years &#8212; since June 1994 &#8212; when it opened up its national headquarters in Washington, D.C. The group was established as being a part of the American Palestine Committee, an umbrella organization run by then-global Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, who was based in the U.S. at the time and who now operates out of Egypt as a spokesman for Hamas.</p>
<p>The other members of the umbrella included a Hamas financing wing, Holy Land Foundation (HLF); a Hamas propaganda wing, Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); and a Hamas command center, United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), which was then led by Ahmed Yousef, who later left the U.S. for Gaza to become Senior Political Adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya.</p>
<p>The founding and current National Executive Director of CAIR is Nihad Awad. Just prior to co-founding CAIR, Awad held the position of Public Relations Director for the IAP. As the propaganda wing of Hamas, the IAP had been involved in distributing Hamas terrorist videos and publishing vehemently anti-Jewish and anti-Israel materials, including the Hamas charter in different languages.</p>
<p>Only months before the creation of CAIR, Awad announced his support for Hamas.</p>
<p>Under Awad’s leadership, CAIR has had a number of representatives cited for terrorist-related activity. CAIR officials have been convicted and imprisoned for terror-related crimes and/or deported from the United States. As well, during Awad’s tenure, CAIR has been cited <em>itself</em>. In 2007 and 2008, amidst two federal trials, the U.S. government named the group a co-conspirator in the raising of millions of dollars for Hamas. The individuals who had been indicted for the trials (CAIR was named an “unindicted co-conspirator”) were found guilty of all charges.</p>
<p>This past Saturday night, Awad was not at his home base in D.C. Instead, he was speaking at a banquet for CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) chapter. San Francisco was the home of CAIR’s first regional U.S. chapter, established not long after CAIR National was established, hence the California group celebrating its <em>20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary</em>.</p>
<p>A second featured speaker at the Saturday banquet was Siraj Wahhaj, the imam of the At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn, New York. Wahhaj frequently speaks at CAIR sponsored events. Indeed, Wahhaj previously sat on CAIR’s National Board of Advisors.</p>
<p>Wahhaj has been associated with terrorism far beyond his involvement with CAIR.</p>
<p>In 1995, much like CAIR’s trials, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial he was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack &#8212; the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman &#8212; whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>Wahhaj has recently taken up the cause of speaking at functions for and doing fundraising for rabid anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.</p>
<p>Also speaking at the banquet was Nihad Awad’s San Francisco counterpart, Executive Director of CAIR-SFBA Zahra Billoo. Billoo has made a number of extremist statements in the past. She has written that “one amazing reason to get married” is to “raise fighters” (children) to attack the nation of Israel. She wrote that to celebrate Columbus Day is “the same as having Jews celebrate Hitler and the Holocaust.” She refers to U.S. troops as “scum.”</p>
<p>Billoo proudly announced on her blog that her younger brother, Ahmed, was quoted in an article in the <em>Los Angeles Jewish Journal</em> &#8212; an article that discusses in length about how her brother supports suicide bombings. Billoo wrote that she, herself, had thoughts of committing suicide, after she viewed a pro-Israel advertisement on a San Francisco train.</p>
<p>On her Twitter account, Billoo boasted that her CAIR event was sold out, and the pictures taken at it do <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/SFBA_Nihad_Awad_11-8-2014.jpg">show a full house</a>. This is a frightening indication that many Muslims in America appear to support and approve of CAIR’s agenda. Certainly given the amount of information available about the speakers at the event, one would be hard pressed to believe that the attendees weren’t at least somewhat aware of CAIR’s terror-related background.</p>
<p>While CAIR has attempted to present itself as a Muslim civil rights organization, the individuals involved with CAIR reveal that the group is cynically exploiting this designation.</p>
<p>The title of CAIR’s weekend event was ‘<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/SFBA_Rooted_in_Faith_11-8-2014.jpg">Rooted in Faith</a>,’ but one has to question what type of faith would have radical luminaries who are associated with terrorism representing it.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<title>Christians ‘Losing Everything’ to Islam</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggles with the relentless “Hound of Jihad.”]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/iraq-christian-afp.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244877" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/iraq-christian-afp-450x337.png" alt="iraq-christian-afp" width="359" height="269" /></a>Originally published by the </i></b><span style="color: #0433ff;"><b><i><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4857/christians-losing-everything">Gatestone Institute</a></i></b></span></p>
<p><i>“I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things”—</i>Philippians 3:8</p>
<p>When St. Paul wrote the above in his letter to the Christians of Philippi, he and the early church were being persecuted (Paul was eventually executed in Rome).  While today’s Western Christians still quote his words in the context of their daily struggles, an increasing number of Christians around the world, especially the Muslim world, are still literally losing absolutely everything for their faith.</p>
<p>In Uganda, matters have gone from bad to worse to murderous. The plight of Hassan Muwanguzi, for instance, a Muslim convert to Christianity—whose initial sacrifices are recorded in <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"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam&#8217;s New War on Christians</i></span></a> (page 131)—far from abating, has only gotten worse.</p>
<p>After earning a university degree in Islamic law and then, in 2003, when he was in his early 20s, converting to Christianity, his family immediately threw him out of their home. “Enraged Muslims” beat him. Later that same year, his wife left him and he lost his job as a teacher at Nankodo Islamic School, near Pallisa.</p>
<p>This was just the beginning.  Picking up the pieces of his life and moving on, he eventually opened a Christian school, Grace International Nursery and Primary School, near Muslim-majority Mbale.  Accordingly, “The Muslims have tried to use all kinds of threats to make me close the school—first they used witchcraft,” said Hassan. “This did not work, so then they tried to discourage Muslims from bringing their children to the school, saying that the school was converting Muslim children to Christianity by teaching Christian Religious Education.”</p>
<p>When all else failed, in 2011 an Islamic teacher, Sheikh Hassan Abdalla, filed a false charge claiming that Hassan had “defiled” the sheikh’s young daughter. Together with his fellow Muslim countrymen, the Islamic cleric filed a case at the chief magistrate’s court.  Hassan was subsequently arrested and incarcerated for three weeks.</p>
<p>But because Sheikh Abdalla, his accuser, repeatedly failed to appear in court to testify, Hassan was released.  In his words:  “The judge found out it was a false accusation, hence the case was dropped.  I had been subjected to humiliation, but I forgave them for the sake of my Christian outreach in the area.”</p>
<p>The <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/07/mulinde-other-converts-from-islam-in-uganda-struggle-to-recover/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">next Islamic attack</span></a> came a few months after Hassan was acquitted.  First, the owner of the land where Hassan had built his Christian school denied ever having sold it, leading to a court order to close down the school in May, 2012.  This incurred great losses on Hassan.   The month after, in June, the Christian convert’s home was burnt down by three Muslims:</p>
<blockquote><p>I and my family escaped from the house by grace, but if it had not been so, then by now we would be no more….  This attack was mobilized by Muslim sheikhs, imams and family members after hearing that I had converted to Christianity after studying and completing university with a degree in Islamic law.</p></blockquote>
<p>Less than a year later, on March 31, 2013, Hassan was hospitalized in Mbale after an aunt who had called a “family gathering” slipped some insecticide in his tea.  According to Hassan:</p>
<blockquote><p>After eating and taking tea, I started feeling stomachache, then I realized that she was the one responsible for it—and I believe she did not do it alone, since they have been hunting for me directly and indirectly, because when I left them and converted to Christianity it pained them so much….  The reason they want to kill me is very clear—it is because of being a convert to Christianity; above all, to them it is like I brought shame by converting, as a [former] sheikh. But to God the Almighty Father, this was His plan for me to expand His Kingdom.</p></blockquote>
<p>According to the doctor who treated him, when Hassan arrived at the hospital, he had already vomited, “looked confused with slurred speech” and his “vision was getting very poor,” so that “he could not even recognize the friend who brought him in.?</p>
<p>During the family meeting, when he first began to feel ill, he telephoned a local Christian leader who advised him to leave secretly: “I knew if he were to mention to them that he was getting sick, they would harm him more,” said Bishop Kinyewa.</p>
<p>Now, most recently, on June 16, 2014, four Muslim men barged into his home with one shouting, “Today we shall kill you—you have been a trouble-maker and are not respecting our prophet’s religion.”  The “apostate” fled into a room, thinking they would not hurt his young daughter, Grace Baruka.  But then he heard the 12-year-old girl’s cries, as the Muslim invaders were strangling her.</p>
<p>When he came out of the room they seized him:  “They hit me with a blunt object, and I fell down.  I just woke up and saw neighbors surrounding me while wailing, saying that my daughter is in critical condition.”  Neighbors took Grace to a clinic but she was declared dead upon arrival.  “I am regretting why I survived the poisoning,” said Hassan.  God could have allowed me to die. My daughter has died, and I am now mourning for her death as well [as] have pain all over my body.”</p>
<p>While Hassan’s ongoing experience with the relentless “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-hound-of-jihad/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hound of Jihad</span></a>” speaks for itself, the reality is that countless Christians around the world—both Muslim converts and born Christians—are quietly “losing everything” at the hands of Muslims, whether family members, “local Muslims,” Islamic regimes and courts, or Islamic terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>According to a human rights activist who recently visited the Christians fleeing the Islamic State’s advance into Mosul, “People are severely traumatized: <a href="http://www.opendoorsuk.org/news/stories/iraq_141031.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">they have lost everything</span></a>. Often they are fleeing for the second, third or even fourth time.”  One Iraqi Christian man, lamenting his ongoing struggles and sounding like Hassan, told her: “Sometimes I wish my parents had never brought me into the world.”</p>
<p>From one end of the Muslim world to the other, Christians are suffering persecution.  <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/we-need-your-head-muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2014/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Not one month goes by</span></a> without several attacks on churches, many—for example in Nigeria and Kenya—resulting in large casualties; not one month goes by without several attacks on Christians accused of apostatizing from Islam or “blaspheming.”</p>
<p>Last week a pregnant Christian mother of four and her husband, falsely accused of burning pages of the Koran, were beaten by a Muslim mob and <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/11/islamist-mob-in-pakistan-kills-christian-couple-accused-of-blasphemy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">throw into a kiln, a fiery oven</span></a> at a brick factory, where they were roasted alive; and the world recalls the plight of Meriam Ibrahim, another Christian wife and mother who, while also pregnant, was imprisoned in Sudan and sentenced to receive 100 lashes followed by execution on the charge of apostatizing from Muhammad’s religion.  Although she has been freed, Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American, is still being held in prison in Iran for apostasy and practicing his Christian faith. His case was apparently not even raised by the Americans negotiating with Iran on its nuclear weapons program.</p>
<p>As tragic as the story of Uganda’s Hassan Muwanguzi is, he is only one of countless Christians and other minorities living under, and losing everything to, Islam.</p>
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		<title>Severely Distorted Thinking about the Temple Mount</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rabbi-yehuda-glick-3.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244422" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rabbi-yehuda-glick-3.jpg" alt="rabbi-yehuda-glick-3" width="310" height="253" /></a></strong>Jewish presence in the land of Israel goes back more than 3,000 years.  Jews prayed for millennia, while separated from the land, to be able to return.  Once they did return, the people sacrificed in order to build and protect the land.</p>
<p>And now, the Jew who is passionate about Jewish rights and Jewish attachment to the land is viewed as a “radical right winger,” a troublemaker.</p>
<p>The world at large certainly sees matters this way:  If only nationalist Jews would relent already, then Israel could reach an agreement with the Palestinian Arabs and there could be peace. But the fanatic and troublesome right-wingers keep getting in the way.</p>
<p>The reason that Jews who seek Jewish rights are seen as troublemakers is because the Arabs tend to negotiate by way of violence and threats.</p>
<p>A tendency towards violence is inherent in the Arab Muslim culture.  We are not looking at a modern phenomenon, but at a situation that has persisted for centuries.  We see it in the way children are treated in this society, and the fact that it is considered permissible if not necessary sometimes to kill women for the sake of family honor.  It is well known among those who deal with these issues that terrorists who kill Jews then mutilate their bodies.  Relief and satisfaction derive from gruesome expressions of violence?</p>
<p>The true roots of deep Muslim Arab anger, expressed via overt violence, are not “the occupation” or the lack of a Palestinian state.  Social scientists find it in such things as sexual abuse of young boys (also common in the culture); this perpetuates violence as the boys grow up angry.</p>
<p>But now the situation is being exacerbated by Palestinian Arab leaders, so-called, who use this tendency towards violence for political gain, inciting their people rather than seeking to reduce tensions in the street. They are manipulating the crowds. For the Muslim Arab culture that is so prone to violence is also an honor/shame culture.  The perception that they have been “dissed,” treated with disrespect, foments anger and then violence.  And the messages being delivered by the likes of Mahmoud Abbas to the Palestinian Arabs is precisely this: that they are being treated with disrespect by Israel.</p>
<p>This culture is not big on compromise, either. To compromise is to forgo part of what you are entitled to, and this diminishes your honor.</p>
<p>What happens then is that the Jew who seeks his or her rights is seen as “causing” Arab riots and attacks. How much more peaceful it would be, if only these Jews would stop insisting on things that irritate the Palestinian Arabs.   Sounds crazy/unreasonable/simplistic, but that indeed is what is happening.  Palestinian Arabs, who are collectively bullies, are being broadly embraced anyway.  Either their violence is perceived as justified, or it is simply deemed wise to give them what they want to keep them quiet.</p>
<p>It is particularly important to deal with this issue now because Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who speaks for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, endured an attack on his life in Jerusalem last Wednesday and faces a long struggle for recovery. Since he was shot, he has been referred to again and again in the media as “far right,” “radical” and more.  No one says, “Well, he deserved it.”  But implicit is the notion that if only he, and others like him, were less passionate about the Temple Mount there would be less Palestinian Arab anger.  People like Rav Yehuda are seen as stirring the unrest.</p>
<p>But this has precious little to do with who Yehuda Glick really is:</p>
<p>Invariably, his friends and family say he is a gentle, non-confrontational soul, who would be delighted for good relations with Muslims.</p>
<p>He calls the Temple the House of Prayer for All Nations. This concept is built into Jewish tradition: In the days to come, all monotheistic religions are to have a share in the Temple to be built on the Mount one day.  Isaiah 56:7 – “…for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”</p>
<p>While he doesn’t back down from Jewish rights he readily explains this vision, describing the possibility that the Muslim Dome of the Rock could be retained as part of the Temple, if the Muslims would be peaceful and share in an effort to cooperate.</p>
<p>And he has been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lHbxbDN8V4&amp;feature=youtu.be">filmed</a> joining in a prayer session with Arabs at the Mount.</p>
<p>Some radical extremist!</p>
<p>When Israel liberated the Old City and the Temple Mount in 1967, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a very foolish – a very bad &#8211; decision.  He turned to the Muslims in charge on the Mount – the Wakf or Muslim Trust &#8211; and told them that they would continue to manage day to day affairs there.</p>
<p>The worst of what he did was to rule that there would be no Jewish praying on the Mount, so as to not upset the status quo there.</p>
<p>It is not at all certain that Dayan’s motivation in doing this was proper, and it is clear that, as he was not a religious Jew himself, he saw the Mount more as a site of historical interest than one of on-going religious concern.  But we can give him the benefit of the doubt in this respect: he probably didn’t understand Muslim Arab mentality or how matters would evolve.</p>
<p>Over the years Jews have petitioned for the right to pray on the Mount.  This issue was last brought before the High Court in 2006, at which point it was said that only if “there is concrete information about actual danger to life” should Jewish praying be forbidden.  But ultimately, the matter was left in the hands of the police, who prefer preventing Jewish prayer so that it is not necessary to send in reinforcements to contend with Arab rioting.</p>
<p>But how outrageous that in the Jewish state, where the rights of all religious groups are protected, it should be impossible for Jews to pray in the place that is holiest to Jews.</p>
<p>Over the last few years, there has been movement by Muslim groups to libel Israel, in order to arouse the people: The totally fallacious claim that Jews are about to destroy the Al Aksa Mosque on the Mount has been put out regularly.</p>
<p>But now it has gotten much worse: there is a battle cry that the Mount is totally the heritage of the Muslims and that Jews have no business setting foot on it.  Declared Abbas just days ago:</p>
<blockquote><p>“It is our sacred place, al-Aksa [mosque] is ours, this Noble Sanctuary [as Muslims refer to the Temple Mount] is ours. They have no right to go there and desecrate it.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Abbas put out calls to “protect” the Mount from Jews. And then, when it was closed to everyone for a day, after the attempted assassination of Yehuda Glick, he called for a “day of rage,” because Muslims may never be prevented from entering the Mount for any reason.  This unleashed additional violence – with the throwing of pipe-bombs at police and much more in eastern Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods on Friday night and Saturday.</p>
<p>Palestinian Media Watch has reported that last week, before the conference on the Temple Mount, at which Yehuda Glick spoke:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;[F]ormer PA Prime Minister and PLO Executive Committee member Ahmed Qurei (Abu Alaa) issued a press release in which he condemned ‘the danger’ of the conference organized by Glick and warned of ‘extremist biblical plans encouraging settlers and extremist Jews to carry out large-scale invasions of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and calling on the entire Jewish nation to invade the Mosque.’ He also stated that Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are ‘undergoing one of the most dangerous periods since the beginning of the Israeli occupation’ and that it necessitates ‘immediate intervention.’&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>At the same time, there has been a growing sense of outrage among religious Jews that prayer on the Mount is not permitted.  Members of the Jewish Home party have been advancing legislation that would allocate different periods of time and different areas for Jewish and Muslim prayer on the Mount.  This proposal, which is altogether fair and equitable, is modeled after the pattern of shared praying time for the Machpela [Cave of the Patriarchs] in Hebron.</p>
<p>It will not succeed at this point, however, because Prime Minister Netanyahu will block it.  His rallying cry has been one of calling for “restraint” and maintaining “the status quo” on the Temple Mount.</p>
<p>To Israelis, he is saying that he will not permit the advancement of legislation for praying on the Mount, and to Arabs, that he will not permit the co-opting of the Mount by Muslims in a way that excludes Jews.</p>
<p>It is easy to understand Netanyahu’s unease.  Now even the Arab League has weighed in with threats.  Arab League deputy chief Ahmed Ben Hilli has called on Arabs and the international community “to put a stop to these practices by the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem. Touching Jerusalem will lead to results with untold consequences.”  But these are only threats.  The Arab states have enough on their plates to contend with, without throwing their weight around on this issue.</p>
<p>However, we must be honest and recognize that the time of the “status quo” has already come to an end. Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, Director of the Temple Institute, says the Mount “has become a stronghold of Islam. The Arabs get tons of money just to have a presence there and intimidate Jews who dare to ascend the Mount.”</p>
<p>Unless the Jewish presence on the Mount is strengthened, Israeli influence will continue to diminish, with consequences that are unthinkable.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, it is the Muslim Wakf that is in control on the Mount, at least theoretically. And it is a Jordanian Wakf (not a PA Wakf).  The Jordanians have a role in what is going on.</p>
<p>Their peace treaty with Israel notwithstanding, they participate in threats, and have done everything in their power to diminish Israeli influence on the Mount. King Abdullah has just declared that he will work against “Israeli unilateralism” in Jerusalem and there have been mumblings about Jordan breaking its peace treaty with Israel over these matters.</p>
<p>King Abdullah is shaky on his throne.  He is contending with a host of radical forces at his border, thousands of Syrian refugees inside of his border, and pressure from Palestinian Arabs. Thus he plays it in a manner that he believes will best protect him.</p>
<p>And, consequently, Netanyahu has always done a very careful balancing act with Jordan. It is in the Israeli interest that the king should not fall.</p>
<p>With all of this said, however, it is instructive to consider the text of the 1994 Peace Treaty Agreement between Israel and Jordan. With regard to this issue, it says (emphasis added):</p>
<blockquote><p>ARTICLE 9</p>
<p>PLACES OF HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE</p>
<p>1. <em>Each party will provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance</em>…</p>
<p>2. In this regard, in accordance with the Washington Declaration, Israel respects the present special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem. When negotiations on the permanent status will take place, Israel will give high priority to the Jordanian historic role in these shrines. (This has to do with Israel not giving the PA priority on the Mount.)</p>
<p>3. <em>The Parties will act together to promote interfaith relations</em> among the three monotheistic religions, <em>with the aim of working towards religious understanding</em>, moral commitment, <em>freedom of religious worship, and tolerance and peace</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not only does this not give Jordan great power on the Mount, it would seem that Jordan has been severely remiss in meeting its responsibilities.  Freedom of access to places of religious significance?  Freedom of religious worship?  Well, now.</p>
<p>Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Habayit Hayehudi) has it right:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I hear the Jordanians are threatening the peace agreement and [I] wonder if they have forgotten the Six Day War and the years in which King Hussein leaned on Israel. The Temple Mount and Jerusalem are under Israeli sovereignty just as Amman is under the absolute rule of Jordan. They should internalize this fact.”</p></blockquote>
<p>THIS is the sort of talk we need to hear more of from the Israeli government.</p>
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		<title>UK: Child Sex Exploitation Now the &#8216;Norm&#8217;</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang1.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244193" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang1-450x281.png" alt="UKMuslimrapegang" width="318" height="199" /></a>The UK’s <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/30/child-sexual-exploitation-norm-greater-manchester-ann-coffey-report?CMP=twt_gu"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Guardian</span></a> reported Wednesday that “sexual exploitation of vulnerable children has become the social norm in some parts of Greater Manchester,” and the denial and obfuscation about what is really causing this problem is thicker than ever.</p>
<p>In the very same sentence in which it broke this terrible news, the Guardian stated that this phenomenon is “fuelled by explicit music videos and quasi-pornographic selfies, an MP has warned.” The MP in question, former social worker Ann Coffey, has issued a report on the sexual exploitation of children in Britain that she said would “make painful reading for those who hoped that Rochdale was an isolated case.”</p>
<p>It was in Rochdale that <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9239126/Rochdale-grooming-trial-gang-convicted-for-sex-trafficking.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a group of Muslims were involved in a large-scale sex trafficking ring</span></a> involving young non-Muslim girls. Coffey is right: there is already abundant evidence that it was not an isolated case, as <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">1,400 British non-Muslim children were gang-raped</span></a> and brutalized by Muslims in the British city of Rotherham alone, and there are numerous other documented cases in Britain of Muslim sex trafficking and rape gangs, of which the victims were non-Muslim girls.</p>
<p>Why has this been happening, and on such a massive scale? According to the Guardian, it’s all because social workers and others in positions of authority just don’t like troubled young people: “Coffey said police, social workers, prosecutors and juries are often inherently (albeit unconsciously) prejudiced against vulnerable teenagers – perhaps explaining why, out of 13,000 reported cases of major sexual offences against under-16s in the past six years in Greater Manchester, there have been only 1,000 convictions.”</p>
<p>Social workers, prosecutors, and juries are inherently prejudiced against vulnerable teenagers? With that, Coffey could win the prize for the most preposterous evasion offered this year to try to exonerate Islamic doctrine from responsibility for the evils done by those who act upon that doctrine – although she will, as in every year, face stiff competition.</p>
<p>In reality, social workers are not prejudiced against vulnerable teenagers; they’ve dedicated their lives to aiding people such as vulnerable teenagers. No, what social workers, in the U.S. as well as in Britain, are prejudiced against is being called “racist.” In Rotherham, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">British officials</span></a> “described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.”</p>
<p>And what were the ethnic origins of those perpetrators? Wednesday’s Guardian report doesn’t mention it (which in itself is telling), but <a href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/west-midlands-police-report-reveals-7948902"><span style="color: #0433ff;">75%</span></a>, and probably more (since it is so politically unacceptable to report such things) of these rape and sexual exploitation gangs are “Asian,” which is British Newspeak for “Muslim.” Despite the continuing horror of these revelations, the British continue to take all this with equanimity, for to resist it would be “racist” and “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>If Ann Coffey and others who are horrified at these rape gangs and the exploitation of children really want to stop this practice, sooner or later they are going to have to stop kidding themselves and their supporters, and confront the politically correct elites who hurl such charges at anyone who ventures any criticism of Islam and Muslims. For the unpleasant truth is that these rape gangs have become “the norm” in all too many cities in Britain because Muslims are taking seriously material from the Qur’an and Sunnah that justifies those practices.</p>
<p>According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general, as does this passage. “Certainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive, and they who turn away from ill speech, and they who are observant of zakah, and they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed” (Qur’an 23:1-6).</p>
<p>The rape of captive women is also sanctioned in Islamic tradition:</p>
<blockquote><p>Abu Sirma said to Abu Sa’id al Khadri (Allah he pleased with him): 0 Abu Sa’id, did you hear Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) mentioning al-’azl? He said: Yes, and added: We went out with Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the expedition to the Bi’l-Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them, for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing ‘azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid conception). But we said: We are doing an act whereas Allah’s Messenger is amongst us; why not ask him? So we asked Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born. (Muslim 3371)</p></blockquote>
<p>The twentieth-century Qur’an commentator Maulana Bulandshahri explains the wisdom of this practice, and longs for the good old days when Muslims took sex slaves (days that appear now to have returned):</p>
<blockquote><p>During Jihad (religion war), many men and women become war captives. The Amirul Mu’minin [leader of the believers, or caliph -- an office now vacant] has the choice of distributing them amongst the Mujahidin [warriors of jihad], in which event they will become the property of these Mujahidin. This enslavement is the penalty for disbelief (kufr).</p></blockquote>
<p>He goes on to explain that this is not ancient history:</p>
<blockquote><p>None of the injunctions pertaining to slavery have been abrogated in the Shari’ah. The reason that the Muslims of today do not have slaves is because they do not engage in Jihad (religion war). Their wars are fought by the instruction of the disbelievers (kuffar) and are halted by the same felons. The Muslim [sic] have been shackled by such treaties of the disbelievers (kuffar) whereby they cannot enslave anyone in the event of a war. Muslims have been denied a great boon whereby every home could have had a slave. May Allah grant the Muslims the ability to escape the tentacles of the enemy, remain steadfast upon the Din (religion) and engage in Jihad (religion war) according to the injunctions of Shari’ah. Amen!</p></blockquote>
<p>This is by no means an eccentric or unorthodox view in Islam. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/05/egyptian-shaykh-jihad-is-solution-to.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declared in May 2011</span></a> that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that as they waged jihad warfare against infidels, Muslims would take slaves. He clarified what he meant in <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-shaykh-al-huwayni-when-i-want-sex.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a subsequent interview</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>…Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels. Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars–there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.</p>
<p>When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name milk al-yamin, “that which your right hands possess” [Qur’an 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a wali. All scholars agree on this point–there is no disagreement from any of them. [...] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.</p></blockquote>
<p>Right around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti activist and politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">also spoke out</span></a> in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.</p>
<blockquote><p>…A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth. I brought up (this man’s) situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?”</p>
<p>The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.”</p>
<p>“Is this forbidden by Islam?” I asked.</p>
<p>“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not–she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”</p></blockquote>
<p>While the savage exploitation of girls and young women is an unfortunately cross-cultural phenomenon, only in Islamic law does it carry anything approaching divine sanction. Here is yet another human rights scandal occasioned by Islamic law that the international human rights community and the mainstream media cravenly ignore. And even when the devastation that this practice has caused is staring them in the face, British officials tell themselves and the public that it’s all because social workers don’t like teenagers.</p>
<p>As Britain descends into madness, we can only hope its demise will serve as a cautionary tale for other countries in the West.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243077" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang-450x281.png" alt="UKMuslimrapegang" width="344" height="215" /></a><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist">1,400 British non-Muslim children were gang-raped</a></span> and brutalized by Muslims in the British city of Rotherham, in accord with the Qur’anic allowance for the sexual enslavement of infidel women that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/islamic-state-says-sex-slavery-is-justified-under-islamic-law"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Islamic State has pointed to</span></a> in order to justify its exploitation of captive Yazidi and Christian women. But no airstrikes were called in Rotherham; rather, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">British officials there</span></a> “described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” And now four years of key and highly incriminating files have gone missing.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rotherham-child-sex-abuse-files-4432671"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Mirror</span></a>, “Professor Alexandra Jay, who wrote the bombshell report revealing <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/child-abuse"><span style="color: #0433ff;">1,400 young girls were abused</span></a> in the town over 15 years, said minutes from key meetings have disappeared. Rotherham Council was slammed in her report for ignoring the scandal and its leader and chief executive have both since resigned.”</p>
<p>These files almost certainly contain damning material about how British officials wouldn’t move against the rape gangs for fear of being stigmatized as “racists” and “Islamophobes.” But those officials are still in positions of power and influence in Britain, and so these missing files are unlikely ever to be recovered.</p>
<p>If anyone in Britain has the courage actually to search for them, has he or she checked <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/who-is-response-for-muslim-rape-gang-scandal-nick-lowles-fiyaz-mughal-co"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nick Lowles</span></a>’s office? The people who have the most to lose here are people like Lowles, the leader of the far-Left group with the Orwellian name “Hope Not Hate,” who for years smeared anyone and everyone who spoke out against these Muslim rape gangs as “racist,” “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.” The Muslim rape gangs went unreported, unprosecuted, and in general unstopped because of organizations like Hope Not Hate, and others such as Faith Matters and Tell Mama, that waged relentless war against anyone and everyone who spoke out about these issue.</p>
<p>(Incidentally, when these groups led the campaign to ban Pamela Geller and me from entering Britain, one of the events we had discussed going to was a rally against the rape gangs. And despite smearing us as hatemongering equivalents of British jihadist Anjem Choudary, Lowles, when <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/audio-robert-spencer-on-the-bbc-takes-on-left-fascist-nick-lowles-and-discusses-the-quran-with-an-im"><span style="color: #0433ff;">challenged on the BBC</span></a>, could not come up with a single “hateful” statement I have ever made in 13 books, hundreds of articles, and over 40,000 blog posts.)</p>
<p>Meanwhile, search for “<a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/?page=search&amp;q=grooming"><span style="color: #0433ff;">grooming</span></a>” (these gangs are usually called “grooming gangs” in the British media) at Hope Not Hate’s site, and you will see that a significant percentage of the articles mentioning this practice are attacking those who are calling attention to it and protesting against it.</p>
<p>Who, then, is responsible for the religion-based mass gang-rape of British girls? The British Left — in particular the “anti-hate” crusaders Lowles and Matthew Collins of Hope Not Hate, Fiyaz Mughal of Faith Matters and Tell Mama, and their friends, supporters, and allies.</p>
<p>The lives of 1,400 girls are ruined today because of these men. If Britain were even close to being a sane society today, these people would be being subjected to scorching criticism, and there would be a thorough public reevaluation of how much the Left’s alliance with Islamic supremacism and smear campaign against foes of jihad terror has harmed the nation and its people.</p>
<p>But Britain is not a sane society today, and these sinister individuals — Lowles, Mughal, and the rest of them — will continue to wield their considerable power and influence there. Or at least they will until they have outlived their usefulness to those whom they have aided, like the Communists in Iran who helped the Ayatollah Khomeini come to power, only to discover that what the “Islamophobes” had been saying about the pious cleric was all true.</p>
<p>And so when British society dissolves into daily bloodshed and civil war, as it almost certainly will when British officials finally say no to any further appeasement and accommodation of Islamic supremacists, and those supremacists take umbrage, the thieves of these Rotherham files (as well as Lowles, Collins, Mughal and all their accomplices) can congratulate themselves that they were never, not even for a second, “racist.”</p>
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		<title>Religious Freedom Under Attack in the Muslim World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many Meriams in Sudan and around the globe.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #202021;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Meriam-Ibrahim_2986677b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242824" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Meriam-Ibrahim_2986677b-397x350.jpg" alt="Italy Mideast Sudan" width="343" height="303" /></a>Originally published by the <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4763/muslim-persecution-christians-may-2014">Gatestone Institute</a></em></p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The deplorable state of religious freedom in the Islamic world came to the fore in May when news of the arrest, imprisonment, and death sentencing of a pregnant Christian wife and mother on the accusation that she had left Islam for Christianity reached the world.  On May 15, Meriam Ibrahim of Sudan was sentenced to flogging followed by hanging for apostasy after she repeatedly refused to convert to Islam.</p>
<p>During her 6-month imprisonment with her one-year-old son by her side, she gave birth to another child.  The baby girl was reportedly <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10938264/Meriam-Ibrahim-My-baby-is-disabled-because-I-gave-birth-with-my-legs-chained.html">born with disabilities</a> due to the harsh conditions of the prison cell she was delivered in and because her “apostate” mother was still shackled with chains when she gave birth to her.</p>
<p>However, because Meriam Ibrahim’s plight made it to the mainstream media, international outcry was heard all around the world, prompting Sudan to release her in June.</p>
<p>Prior to her release, Islamic clerics were often sent to her cell where they repeatedly pressured and threatened her with death to convert to Islam.  In a recent interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News, Ibrahim said: “My faith was the only weapon that I had in these confrontations with imams and Muslim scholars because that’s what I believe.  Faith means life. If you don’t have faith, you’re not alive.”</p>
<p>When Kelly asked her why she didn’t simply do what the clerics wanted and convert to Islam in the interest of freedom, Ibrahim <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/15/sudanese-christian-woman-sentenced-to-death-says-had-god-by-her-side/">replied</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>If I did, that would mean I gave up.  It’s not possible because it’s not true.  It’s my right to follow the religion of my choice.  I’m not the only one suffering from this problem.  There are many Meriams in Sudan and throughout the world.  It’s not just me; I’m not the only one”….  With regard to the situation of Christians, this is a well-known fact that they live under difficult circumstances and they are persecuted and treated harshly.  They are afraid to say they are Christian out of fear of persecution.  Sometimes imprisoned Christians with financial difficulties are told that the government will pay off their debts if they convert to Islam….  If you are a Christian and you convert to Islam it will become hard to leave Islam because if you do so you will be subjected to the death penalty.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ibrahim’s story is in fact the <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/sudan-mothers-case-tip-of-the-iceberg-on-islamic-persecution/">tip of the iceberg of Muslim persecution of Christians</a>.  The fundamental difference, the reason she was eventually released, is that the mainstream media reported her story—a story which countless untold Christians throughout the Islamic world experience daily.</p>
<p>Some, far from released, are killed for being Christian and refusing Islam.  Thus, around the same time the world was hearing about Ibrahim’s plight, a prominent, <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/05/key-leader-of-somalias-underground-church-slain/">underground church Christian leader was killed by Muslims from the al-Shabaab group</a> in Somalia.<strong> </strong> “Sadness and grief has befallen our community when our dear brother Abdishakur Yusuf was mercilessly murdered in Mogadishu by unknown gunmen,” said a local source: “He was found outside his house lying in a pool of blood… He was shot in the head multiple times, so that his face is barely recognizable.” <strong> </strong>Yusuf leaves a widow and three children, ages 11, 8 and 5.</p>
<p>Weeks before this, al-Shabaab Muslims publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin after discovering they were Christians.  According to local sources, the Islamists “called residents to the town center to witness the executions of the 41-year-old mother, Sadia Ali Omar, and her 35-year-old cousin, Osman Mohamoud Moge.”  Before slaughtering the two women, an al-Shabaab member announced, “We know these two people are Christians who recently came back from Kenya—we want to wipe out any underground Christian living inside of <em>mujahidin </em>[jihadi] area.”  The two daughters of one of the women, ages 8 and 15, “were witness to the slaughter,” sources said, with the younger girl screaming and shouting for someone to save her mother.</p>
<p>In the context of Meriam Ibrahim, many Americans wondered why the Obama administration was not saying or doing much, even though her toddler that was imprisoned with her was an American citizen from his father’s side.  Speaking of Ibrahim’s ordeal, Sen. Ted Cruz <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=news&amp;id=1474">said</a>:  “There is urgency, a dire need for U.S. leadership.  President Obama should speak out publicly and call upon the government of Sudan to free Meriam Ibrahim. Sec. of State John Kerry should speak out loudly and forcibly and call up on.”</p>
<p>Members of Congress are increasingly urging Obama to speak up on behalf of persecuted minorities throughout the Islamic world.   A few weeks earlier, human rights activists criticized the president for not addressing the plight of Christians and other minorities during his talks with leaders in Saudi Arabia, where Christianity is banned.</p>
<p>According to the Washington-based <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.persecution.org/2014/03/29/president-obama-silent-on-religious-freedom-in-saudi-arabia/">International Christian Concern</a> advocacy group, Obama did not “publicly broach the subject of religious freedom” during talks on March 28 with Saudi King Abdullah, despite a letter from some 70 members of Congress urging him to “address specific human rights reforms” both in public and in direct meetings with Abdullah and other officials.</p>
<p>“This visit was an excellent opportunity for the president to speak up on an issue that affects millions of Saudi citizens and millions more foreign workers living in Saudi Arabia,” said Todd Daniels, ICC’s Middle East regional manager, adding that it was “remarkable that the president could stay completely silent about religious freedom” despite pressure from Congress “to publicly address the issue, as well as other human rights concerns, with King Abdullah…”</p>
<p>Another story appearing in May further highlighted the U.S. government’s indifference.  A Christian teenage girl told of how Boko Haram in Nigeria came to her household and slaughtered her father and brother <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/christian-teen-whose-dad-brother-slain-boko-haram-was-denied-us-visa">because they refused to convert to Islam</a>.  After abusing her, they tied her up and left her in a state of shock between the two corpses.  Emmanuel Ogebe, the human rights attorney who helped Peters come to the United States, said that visa requests filed on Peters’ behalf were denied “multiple times” in 2013 with the State Department citing no family ties in the U.S. as the reason. After legal appeals, she was finally allowed to come to the United States and testified in congress last April after Boko Haram abducted 300 schoolgirls, including her cousin, from her village.</p>
<p>Similarly, about a month earlier, the United States Institute for Peace brought together the governors of Nigeria’s mostly Muslim northern states for a conference in the U.S., but the State Department <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/u-s-blocks-christian-governor-from-nigeria-peace-talks/">blocked</a> the visa of the region’s only Christian governor, an ordained minister, citing “administrative” problems.</p>
<p>The rest of May’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"><strong>Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches</strong></p>
<p><strong>Iran</strong>: Plainclothes security authorities <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=8527:a-number-of-christian-converts-arrested-at-easter-service&amp;catid=36:iranian-christians&amp;Itemid=279">raided an Easter service in a house-church</a> in southern Tehran, arresting and hauling off all those in attendance.  Neighbors said that security authorities were “very disrespectful to those in the house-church as well as to the neighbors.”</p>
<p><strong>Malaysia</strong>: Two Catholic nuns in the Muslim-majority nation “were viciously attacked on the grounds of the Church of Visitation in Seremban in what is believed to be a robbery attempt early this morning,” reported the <em>Malaysian Insider</em>.  Sister Juliana Lim was hospitalized in critical condition and on a respirator, while Sister Mary-Rose received treatment for various injuries.  “Both nuns from the Infant Jesus Convent, were left bruised, bleeding and in shock following the attack, said Fr Chan in his Facebook posting, adding: ‘As I anointed them [two nuns], tears streamed down my face. I couldn’t help it. How wicked it is to do this to our nuns, who have given their whole life to God.’”  In response, the Council of Churches of Malaysia said: “The <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/two-catholic-nuns-viciously-attacked-on-church-grounds#sthash.kjHNEm0p.dpuf">voices of antagonism and hatred have been on the increase in the country</a> and it would be no surprise if the attack on the nuns were not conspired by those out to cause inter-religious conflict in the country.”</p>
<p><strong>Nigeria</strong>: <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/05/boko-haram-kills-at-least-29-christians-in-gwoza-area-nigeria/">Seven churches were attacked and 29 Christians slaughtered.</a>  On Sunday, May 25, during worship service, Islamic terrorists from Boko Haram<strong> </strong>killed 21 Christians of a congregation of the Church of Christ in Nations in Gwoza town.  The next day Boko Haram Muslims burned down six more churches and slaughtered eight more Christians in the area.</p>
<p><strong>Palestinian National Authority</strong>:  St. George’s Orthodox Church in Bethlehem was attacked by Muslims during its annual St. George’s Day services on May 6, leaving one Christian stabbed, several injured, and the building damaged. According to <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/05/church_in_beit_jala_attacked.html">Leila Gilbert</a>, “Some local Muslims either tried to park a car too close [to] the church and/or tried to enter the church during a service honoring St. George—the initial instigation isn’t clear. But when the intruders were asked to leave, one of them stabbed a Christian man who was outside the church serving as a guard. He was hospitalized. Several then started throwing stones at the church. 7 or 8 Christians were injured and some physical damage was done—broken windows etc. The police didn’t show up for an hour.”</p>
<p><strong>Tanzania</strong>: <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Church-premises-in-Tanzania-targeted-in-two-separate-attacks.html">Two churches were attacked</a>.  As Christians were gathered for overnight prayers in the Assemblies of God church, around 80 Muslim men armed with arrows and knives attacked the church building while shouting “death to apostates.” They set fire to the church, leaving its interior in ruins, and then went looking for its pastor, a Muslim convert to Christianity, presumably to slaughter him.   Separately, a homemade explosive device in a plastic bag left inside the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania exploded in the face of a female worker who found it, causing serious injuries to her face and legs and leaving her in critical condition.</p>
<p><strong>Turkey: </strong>At least one Turkish church was labeled <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/05/church-website-blocked-as-porn-in-turkish-parliament-legislator-says/">“pornographic” and blocked</a> from computers at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, prompting one legislator to demand an investigation.  When asked, the speaker for the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) said it was likely a technical glitch, but Aykan Erdemir, the legislator who discovered it, said “I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some malicious intent.”  Umut Ṣahin, general secretary for Turkey’s Association of Protestant Churches, said the ban was “horrible…  It’s a shame.  It really pains us at having this kind of accusation when we have a high moral standard.”</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Muslim Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytization</strong></p>
<p><strong>Egypt</strong>: A Coptic Christian teacher, Bishoy Camille, was <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=1122&amp;A=14367">sentenced to four years</a> in prison and fined 10,000 Egyptian pounds.  He was found guilty of sharing cartoons of Islamic prophet Muhammad on Facebook, which prompted Muslim riots against the Copts.</p>
<p><strong>Iran</strong>: A May report by Morning Star News said that “Iran’s secret police and Revolutionary Guard are subjecting Christians to a continuing wave of arrests, and increased torture and brutal beatings, in an effort to crush the house-church movement, activists said.  Human rights activists confirmed that there has been a noticeable increase this month in the number of reported assaults against Christians imprisoned in Iran. The assaults, which are taking place against converts who lead house churches, are meant to send a message to Christians in the country, said a Middle East Concern (MEC) researcher who focuses on Iran.”  On May 5, for example, internal security agents arrested Silas Rabbani, a leader with the Church of Iran in Karaj. Rabbani, a former Muslim, has been <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/05/iran-steps-up-campaign-of-terror-against-house-churches/">“informally charged” with apostasy and was accordingly beaten while in custody</a>.  “He was then transferred to Gohardasht Prison, also known as Rajai Shahr, where the torture has continued.”</p>
<p><strong>Kenya</strong>: Three weeks after converting to Christianity, Hassan Hussein Mohammed, a 26-year-old former Muslim, was severely beaten in a mosque.  Although he was training to become a Muslim leader, he met some Christians, discussed religion, and eventually converted.  According to Morning Star News, “Mohammed later went to the mosque only to collect his identification papers, but leaders ordered him to stay and conduct evening prayers. After some hesitation, he agreed. A voice within, he later told church leaders, told him not to lead the prayers, and when he tried to say them his mind blanked. He then admitted that he had accepted ‘Isa,’ Jesus. <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/05/convert-from-islam-in-kenya-beaten-arrested/">Those in the mosque beat him with a blunt object, kicked him and struck him until he was unconscious</a>, he told church leaders. When he regained consciousness a few minutes later, he said, ‘I am ready to die for Isa, and I forgive you for what you have done to me.’”  He managed to escape, but after news of his conversion spread, Mohammed began receiving threatening phone messages and texts.  One said: “You will regret why you left the prophet’s religion.”</p>
<p><strong>Pakistan</strong>: When a Muslim religious leader discovered that four Christians, a married couple, and two women, were <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Sindh,-four-Christians-arrested-for-distributing-religious-materials-31121.html">handing out Christian pamphlets</a>, he immediately informed police who arrested the Christians, taking them away from a growing crowd of angry Muslims.  According to Fr. Arshad John of the Archdiocese of Karachi, who is engaged in the protection of minority rights: “The claims that the religious minorities are free to practice and preach their religion, is clearly evident from this act. Although the act of distributing the religious material and preaching in such areas is not very wise, in the past such cases have produced unfortunate results. We pray for the group and hope they will be released soon.”  Separately, the Pakistan Christian Post reported that Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress, was concerned about a recent example of double standards concerning the implementation of blasphemy laws.  He said that when any Muslim commits blasphemy on electronic media watched by millions, he or she is <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=4862">pardoned after a simple apology note</a>, but when a Christian or Ahmadiyyia community member is accused of blasphemy by one Muslim wittiness, then he faces death sentence even if he swears that he did not insult the name of prophet Muhammad:  “All Christian victims of blasphemy laws after arrests have publically denied committing blasphemy but not any court or complainant have pardoned them but when a Muslim cleric or any Muslim very openly defiles name of Prophet Mohammad then uproar of Islamic decrees appear to Pardon these Muslims.”</p>
<p><strong>Sudan</strong>: In the town of al-Gadarif on Sudan’s eastern border with Ethiopia, another Christian woman, much like Meriam Ibrahim, <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/05/second-woman-in-jail-for-alleged-apostasy-as-meriam-ibrahim-gives-birth-in-prison/">was incarcerated on the accusation that she had apostatized from Islam</a>.  Immigration/Citizenship arrested Faiza Abdalla, 37, when she responded to officers’ questions about her religion that she was Christian.  They immediately arrested her based on her Muslim name.  (Her family had converted to Christianity before she was born but kept their former name.)  As happened with Meriam Ibrahim and others, a court went on to annul Faiza’s marriage to her husband, a lifelong Catholic from South Sudan, on grounds that she had committed “adultery” by allegedly having left Islam and married a Christian.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Dhimmitude: Generic Hostility, Abuse, and Discrimination</strong></p>
<p><strong>Egypt</strong>: Lawyers of a Muslim man who attacked Christian properties and persons—<a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/05/lawyers-press-for-insanity-defense-in-killing-of-christian-woman-in-egypt/">stabbing one Coptic woman to death</a>—maintain that he is innocent by reason of insanity, even though psychiatric evaluations found him sane and fit to stand trial.  Last February, Mahmoud Mohamed Ali went on a violent rampage, attacking three Christians with a knife. His intended victim, a male Coptic pharmacy clerk, fought him off, and Ali fled.  Next, Ali stabbed Demian, a Coptic shopkeeper in another Christian-owned pharmacy, severing an artery in her neck; she fell to the floor bleeding to death. Soon after, Ali stabbed a female Coptic high school student, who barely managed to escape with her life.  But according to Morning Star News: “Confirming fears of human rights activists who said attorneys for Mahmoud Mohamed Ali would use a tactic that has freed other Muslims from punishment for premeditated, religiously motivated murder, the lawyers are challenging results of the evaluation.”  Some Islamic teachings state that <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-racism-muslim-blood-superior-to-infidel-blood/">the life and worth of a Muslim is greater than that of an “infidel”</a> and so they should not be punished, or should receive the minimum punishment when they kill non-Muslims.  Egyptian human rights activist Osama Wagdy said the “insanity” plea is a tactic commonly used in Egypt by those who have violently targeted Christians: “They are pretending, because that is how they get out of cases…  Nobody thinks he is mentally ill. He went from one place to another knowing what he was doing and told one of the victims, ‘You deserve it.’”  Separately, five “<a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.el-balad.com/931468">unidentified persons</a>” kidnapped a Coptic Christian pharmacy owner at gunpoint in Sohag, Upper Egypt. Soon <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.el-balad.com/931468">after Friday mosque prayers</a>, a car pulled up in front of the pharmacy and opened fire on it before the assailants raided it and drove off with the kidnapped owner, one Mr. Marcos, a 52-year-old Copt, at gunpoint.</p>
<p><strong>Eritrea</strong>: Five Christians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/05/eritrea-again-persecutes-christians-of-officially-recognized-faith/">were arrested</a> after their church announced that they were set to be ordained for pastoral ministry. “The arrests clearly show how even government recognized churches, namely the Catholic, [Eritrean] Orthodox [Church] and Evangelical Lutheran churches, are not free from government control,” said an Open Doors source on condition of anonymity.  “The arrest of these pastoral candidates reminds us of one of the greatest challenges churches in Eritrea face….  Due to the constant turnover of pastors due to arrest or threats, continuous and biblically consistent pastoral care for Christians is hampered.”  A further “1,500 Christians are languishing in prison for their faith.”  In 2010, an estimated 3,000 Christians were incarcerated for their faith; most were held in shipping containers in desert camps and others in underground cells; some were tortured to death while others perished in the desert trying to escape.</p>
<p><strong>Germany</strong>:  A Turkish man being treated in a hospital attacked his nurse because there were too many crosses on the wall.   According to Mainpost, a German publication (as translated by Nicolai Sennels for <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/germany-sick-turk-attacks-hospital-nurse-because-too-many-crosses-on-wall">Jihad Watch</a>),  “A 34-year-old went to St. Joseph Hospital early on Saturday morning due to a ‘gastro-intestinal flu.’ Suddenly he refused to be treated, because he thought there were too many Christian crosses on the wall.  Because of the crosses, the man started insulting the nurse, calling her a bitch, fascist, and the like. Then the man, according to police report, also started becoming physically aggressive. The hospital called the police. The officers seized the man in front of the hospital and checked him.”</p>
<p><strong>Pakistan</strong>: Five Christian families that, according to Agenzia Fides, were “kidnapped and enslaved by their Muslim employers” in the Punjab were released after nearly three decades of slavery.  After the release, one of the families told their suffering: they were victims of forced labor and were treated as slaves for over 25 years. One of the women, Safia Bibi, began working at the furnace along with her husband, Anwar Masih, right after her wedding. When their nine children were old enough they also started to work in the same place. They lived in the factory complex with no toilets and often did not receive compensation.  If they tried to leave their job, they were beaten and tortured, left days without food. In 2013, Safia’s husband died due to illness and weakness, and no doctor was called. Her children could not attend his funeral—nor go to prayer meetings or celebrate Christmas—because they were forced to work. Nasir Saeed a human rights activist said: “<a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35725-ASIA_PAKISTAN_5_Christian_families_kidnapped_and_enslaved_by_employers_have_been_released#.VAnu6vldVqU">It is sad to see that even in the 21st century slavery continues to exist in Pakistan</a>. The owners of furnaces are often wealthy and influential and are rarely prosecuted. The workers, often Christian, work a life in slave-like conditions to pay their debts, that last generations. Sometimes they are sold from one furnace to another. The government is aware of the situation, but has never taken serious measures.”</p>
<p><strong>Turkey</strong>: According to ANSamed, “Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government plans to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sofia Basilica into a mosque in the afternoon and evening and a museum in the morning. The historical monument, which draws millions of tourists every year, will have the Byzantine [Christian] frescoes covering its walls cast into shadow by ‘dark light’ so as to avoid offending Islam.  The government would thus like to turn what is today seen as a symbol of Christianity back into a place of worship for Muslims, as it was after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.”   <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/christendoms-greatest-cathedral-to-become-a-mosque/">A campaign to turn the Hagia Sofia back into a mosque has been brewing for quite some time now</a>, raising alarm among Christian communities in the east. Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I said that “we and all other Christians will oppose it.”  And Athens called it an “<a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2014/05/08/turkey-hagia-sofia-to-become-half-mosque-and-half-museum_d6e3e0d2-ec16-4516-8916-15e767deed6f.html">insult to the religious sensibilities of millions of Christians</a>.”  Even so, the Islamist party submitted a formal motion in parliament to transform Hagia Sofia into a mosque.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>About this Series</strong></p>
<p>The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1)    To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2)    To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who “offend” Islam; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam;  theft and plunder in lieu of <em>jizya</em> (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed <em>dhimmis</em>, or third-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination thereof.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to Indonesia in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
<p><strong>Previous Reports</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2014/">April, 2014</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/obama-administration-suppresses-talk-of-muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2014/">March, 2014</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/christians-most-persecuted-group-in-world-muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2014/">February, 2014</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/becomes-chief-enabler-of-christian-persecution-muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2014/">January, 2014</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/they-are-slaughtering-us-like-chickens-muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2013/">December, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/u-s-chose-to-stay-silent-on-muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2013/">November, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/" target="_blank">October, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/" target="_blank">September, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2013/">August, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2013/">July, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013/">June, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013/">March, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/" target="_blank">November, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/" target="_blank">October, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012/">September, 2012 </a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></li>
<li><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2011/" target="_blank">July, 2011</a></li>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Enza Ferreri]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rotherham-abusers_3018211b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241631" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rotherham-abusers_3018211b-450x280.jpg" alt="Rotherham-abusers_3018211b" width="350" height="218" /></a>The umpteenth case of child sex abuse in Britain perpetrated by Muslims, the <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dennis-prager/1400-english-girls-raped-by-multiculturalism-1/">Rotherham abuse case</a></span>, has understandably left the self-proclaimed “progressives” and multiculturalists in disarray. The Leftist media outlets are on the defensive but still trying to maintain their ground.</p>
<p>Their best weapons are to distract public attention by diverting it to whatever has not been committed by Muslims, and the use of double standards, of which the most shocking example is the differential treatment of Muslims versus the Catholic Church.</p>
<p>The same people, assorted Leftists and secularists, who immediately jumped to the conclusion that all Catholic clergymen are either directly involved in paedophile abuse or in its cover-up are now bending over backwards to deny any connection between the Muslim grooming and sex-slavery gangs and Islam.</p>
<p>An article in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/01/rotherham-child-sex-abuse-difficult-questions"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The Guardian</i></span></a> by Slovenian Marxist psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, included by <i>Foreign Policy</i> in its 2012 list of Top 100 Global Thinkers (no less), seems to condemn but in fact displays this behaviour. Deceitfully entitled “Rotherham child sex abuse: it is our duty to ask difficult questions,” it covers just about everything but Rotherham – and generally Muslim &#8212; child sex abuse.</p>
<p>The word “Muslim” appears twice, “Islam” once, “Islamophobic” once, “Catholic” three times (the same number as “priests” and “racism”), plus assorted uses of “Christian” and “Christianity”.</p>
<p>It doesn’t talk about Islam at all, except to briefly mention women’s second place within it, but immediately prevents the reader from dwelling on the subject too much: “Without blaming Islam as such (which is in itself no more misogynistic than Christianity)…”</p>
<p>The most ironic part of the piece is where Žižek blames his comrades for doing the same thing as he does:</p>
<blockquote><p>The left exhibited the worst of political correctness, mostly via generalisations: perpetrators were vaguely designated as “Asians”, claims were made that it was not about ethnicity and religion but about the domination of men over women, plus who are we – with our church paedophilia and Jimmy Savile – to adopt a high moral ground against a victimised minority.</p></blockquote>
<p>The double standard in this kind of coverage and comment is so gigantic that it’s better described as a total reversal of the truth.</p>
<p>We have on one hand Muslim paedophile and sex-slave gangs who act <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/there-is-link-between-islam-paedophilia.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in total accordance with Islam</span></a> on many levels. To begin with, Muhammad, the model man for all Muslims worthy of the name, gave the good example by marrying a 6-year-old, Aisha, and consummating their marriage when she was 9. He also owned sex slaves. Both sex with underage, even pre-menstruating, <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/065-qmt.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">girls</span></a> and <a href="http://islamqa.info/en/10382"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex slavery</span></a> – both relevant to the Rotherham case &#8212; are permissible in Islamic Scriptures and law. Even today, child marriage is <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Contemporary_Pedophilic_Islamic_Marriages"><span style="color: #0433ff;">commonly practised</span></a> in the Muslim world.</p>
<p>In fact, <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/434512/underage-victims-to-stop-child-marriages-state-needs-to-step-in/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in Pakistan</span></a> – the country of origin of most of the UK child groomers or their families –</p>
<blockquote><p>according to UNICEF, <b>child marriages accounted for 32 per cent of all marriages</b> in the country from 1987 to 2005…</p>
<p>Around 100 million girls are expected to enter into child marriage in the next decade. [Emphasis added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>Pakistan has or has had the world record for paedophilia-related Internet searches, such as <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/12/data-shows-pakistan-googling-pornographic-material/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">&#8220;child sex video.&#8221;</span></a> Child molestation in <a href="http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/lahore/30-Jul-2010/paedophilia-in-punjab-reaching-alarming-levels"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Punjab</span></a>, a region of Pakistan where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_(Pakistan)"><span style="color: #0433ff;">97.21%</span></a> of the population is Muslim, has reached alarming levels, and “68 percent [of] girls and 32 percent [of] boys have been the victims of paedophilia.”</p>
<p>Add to all this the contempt which Muslims have for white women, considered as “easy meat” due to the way they dress and their drinking habits, and you can easily see that the disproportionate representation of Muslims among those convicted for child rape, grooming of girls for sex, and child prostitution in the UK – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pge53WOIcrY&amp;ytsession=EhszDM1qfM7jYVMu2LBvv1FhdpQ3mcibbmlAvqgkSWW93HAaDoq3I-ABmSd-pr5nO9_5jZYrWat3b7cIi0MdWRwn6g4x6IJuaOBHRezVaHz3zOK_PZj2MiOBuSbRd2y3cXjjpLvbzNDtkGMduDs1cHw9JtJ93wo86J4I1nfbLJeFGiiHhWl-eIzLrH_JwQ5yuYiMtla6XbbxkAIQkZojMn9ni3cZ0tXX7wtjdKSbn-w6s0-gYB7_yy5paIJUt6WqaS3ugA6VzLfxR_98mRukBJPeT0FEKHgZ_RcjYtHHj37skGo9QKYU9rpzOkrKjICt5op_vkCqfq0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">91%</span></a>, while Muslims are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom"><span style="color: #0433ff;">4-5%</span></a> of the total population – is not coincidental.</p>
<p>The arguments for linking the epidemic of paedophile rings in Britain with its Muslim immigrant population are strong, solidly founded and well-reasoned. The bias and distortion of the facts are on the part of those who deny them, contrary to all evidence.</p>
<p>We then have on the other hand an extensive media treatment, that lasted for a very long time, of the Catholic Church as a hotbed of paedophilia, vigorously connecting it to its preaching, including chastity, whereas in fact the overwhelming majority of sex offenders have wives or girlfriends.</p>
<p>In reality, research on the subject shows exactly the opposite of the Left&#8217;s claims. These are the main findings in the USA: Catholic priests who ever abused minors are less than 2%, the same figure for Protestant clergy is 2-3%, and most of the abusers are not clergy or staff, but Church volunteers; the figure for rabbis within organised Judaism is 2-3%.</p>
<p>In secular institutions the abuse is <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/lies-about-catholic-church-abuse-scandal.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even more widespread</span></a>.</p>
<p>The most reasonable conclusion is that the Catholic Church, far from being especially connected to paedophilia – which it condemns &#8212; has itself partly succumbed to the ethos of our age, although greatly less than other institutions dealing with children.</p>
<p>While the Left was caught unaware, the British political Right and its warnings about the dangers of Islam have been vindicated by the Rotherham outrage. The UK public, in the middle, may be – ever so slightly – waking up to the reality of the “religion of peace”.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29204170"><span style="color: #0433ff;">BBC</span></a> says:</p>
<blockquote><p>Islamic State extremism and the Rotherham abuse scandal are fuelling a far-right backlash in the UK, one of the Home Office&#8217;s most senior advisers on right-wing extremism has said…</p>
<p>But the Institute for Strategic Dialogue claims the government must engage more with the far right.</p></blockquote>
<p>After what former Rotherham MP <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11059643/Denis-MacShane-I-was-too-much-of-a-liberal-leftie-and-should-have-done-more-to-investigate-child-abuse.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Denis MacShane</span></a> admitted:</p>
<blockquote><p>Perhaps yes, as a true Guardian reader, and liberal leftie, I suppose I didn’t want to raise that too hard…</p>
<p>[I] should have done more to investigate child abuse…</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe “liberal leftie,” “Guardian reader” and “multiculturalist” should finally become dirty words, insults of the same grade as “fascist”?</p>
<p>Saturday 20th September the English Defence League (EDL) held a demonstration in Downing Street in front of the Prime Minister’s residence over this scandal, which I attended.</p>
<p>I had never been to an EDL demo before. Yes, they are working class, heavily tattooed, and &#8212; with their flag waving, slogan chanting and raucous singing &#8212; closely resembling beer-drinking football fans in appearance and behaviour. But they are decent folks doing their bit in a legal and peaceful way for their own country and all ours, for the survival of Western civilisation. Their courage and commitment are unfortunately not widely matched in the general population.</p>
<p>The EDL&#8217;s bad reputation in the public perception is largely due to the kind of media reporting we are well used to. In the same way as Christians being slaughtered all over the Islamic world is for the media equally-balanced &#8220;sectarian violence,&#8221; and Israel&#8217;s reaction to Hamas rockets is &#8220;indiscriminate bombing of civilians,&#8221; so the throwing of stones and bottles at EDL crowds by the Leftist thugs of UAF (Unite Against Fascism, an offshoot of the Socialist Workers Party) becomes for the BBC and mainstream press &#8220;clashes between the UAF and the English Defence League.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just witness this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5oXAhA9xCA"><span style="color: #0433ff;">ABC News report</span></a> in which the “hate next door” in the title incongruously doesn’t refer to radical Islam, but to the EDL that tries to protect us from it.</p>
<p>The leader of my party, Liberty GB, Paul Weston, looking at some litter from the food and drinks consumed by the 400-500 people attending the demonstration, tidily kept in a corner, pointed out to me how you never see that at events organised by the “liberals,” where garbage is left all over the place.</p>
<p>Liberty GB is considering fielding as a candidate in Rotherham at the 2015 British Parliament elections a former Muslim who converted to Christianity.</p>
<p>Paul Weston gave a brilliant, passionate <a href="http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6575-cameron-is-a-traitor-paul-weston-at-downing-street-20-09-2014"><span style="color: #0433ff;">speech</span></a> in front of the Prime Minister’s residence, culminating in “Cameron, you&#8217;re a liar and you&#8217;re a traitor!”</p>
<p>From the pen (a cage would have been better) in which the police wisely kept them, the only contribution to the subject of the Rotherham child-grooming gangs coming from the “counterdemonstration” of the UAF was &#8220;Nazi scum!&#8221; which is more or less their only &#8220;argument&#8221; against the critics of Islam.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>The Glazov Gang&#8217;s </strong>special 2-part series with <strong>Gavin Boby</strong> of the <a href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/">Law and Freedom Foundation</a> about Muslim rape gangs in the UK and how the Left facilitated their barbaric crimes against helpless young girls:</em></p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<title>The War at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2014 04:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ali-Muhammed-Brown.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ali-Muhammed-Brown-445x350.jpg" alt="Ali-Muhammed-Brown" width="267" height="210" /></a>As the Islamic State beheads a third hostage and the world recoils in horror and <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-beheaded-aid-workers-brother-says-islam-not-to-blame">reassures</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/cameron-on-islamic-states-claim-to-be-islamic-nonsense-islam-is-a-religion-of-peace">itself</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-muslim-leaders-demand-that-cameron-call-the-islamic-state-the-un-islamic-state">that</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/australian-pm-high-terror-alert-not-about-religion">all</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/when-is-an-islamic-state-not-islamic">this</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/catholic-cardinal-mccarrick-embraces-islam">has</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-historian-bill-maher-is-wrong-we-cant-blame-islamic-state-on-islam">nothing</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/us-terror-expert-islamic-state-not-bound-by-the-structures-of-traditional-islamic-warfare">to</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/obama-the-islamic-state-is-not-islamic">do</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/kerry-islamic-states-hateful-ideology-has-nothing-do-with-islam">with</a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/australia-police-raid-islamic-bookstore-two-muslims-face-terror-charges-official-says-this-has-got-nothing-to-do-with-islam">Islam</a>, it is useful to remember that jihad activity continues in the United States – although hardly anyone notices amid the rush to dissociate Islam from the mounting violence committed in its name and in accord with its literal teachings.</p>
<p>Take, for example, a Muslim from Seattle, Ali Muhammad Brown. <a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2014/08/20/seattle-double-murder-suspect-ali-muhammad-brown-fourth-homicide/14324141/">KING 5 News</a> reported that Brown is “currently in jail on $5 million bail for the alleged murder of a college student in late June.” He has “already been charged with gunning down two men at 29th and King Street in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood on June 1.” And he is “now the prime suspect in a fourth homicide.”</p>
<p>The report noted laconically in its fifth paragraph, without elaboration, that “multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation say Brown told police he carried out the murders because he was on a jihad to kill Americans.” <a href="http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/08/accused_serial_killer_says_livingston_teens_murder_was_vengeance_against_us.html">NJ.com added</a>, also deep in its story on Brown’s murders: “Prosecutors say Brown is a devout Muslim who had become angered by U.S. military intervention in the Islamic world, which he referred to as ‘evil.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/08/accused_serial_killer_says_livingston_teens_murder_was_vengeance_against_us.html">That report also noted</a>: “Ali Muhammad Brown said he considered it his mission to murder 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin as an act of ‘vengeance’ for innocent lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran. ‘All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.’” This is a reference to the Qur’an: “We ordained therein for them: ‘Life for life, eye for eye, nose or nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal’” (5:45).</p>
<p>New York radio host Todd Pettengill, host of WPLJ’s “The Todd Show,” <a href="http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/09/radio_host_livingston_teens_murder_evidence_that_domestic_terrorism_is_already_here.html">said</a> that Brown’s murder of Tevlin was evidence that “domestic terrorism is already here.” Pettengill declared: “It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people.”</p>
<p>Pettengill is right. Domestic terrorism is indeed already here. And it was here before Ali Muhammad Brown went on his killing spree. Another Muslim from Seattle, Musab Mohamed Masmari, was <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/07/31/masmari-sentence-to-10-years-in-prison-for-neighbours-arson">sentenced on July 31</a> to ten years in prison for pouring gasoline onto a stairway in a famous gay nightclub, Neighbours, and setting the stairway on fire last New Year’s Eve, when the club was crowded. If the fire had not been put out – the carnage would have been great.</p>
<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said: “One of Masmari’s close associates was interviewed by investigators and reported that Masmari confided in him that he ‘burned a gay club’ and that he did it because ‘what these people are doing is wrong.’” In <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/friend-said-gay-club-arson-suspect-may-be-planning/ndPpr/">another report from February</a>, we learn that an informant told the FBI before this attack that Masmari could be planning “terrorist activity,” and that he had “opined that homosexuals should be exterminated.”</p>
<p>This incident should have been the impetus for a national discussion of violent Sharia enforcement in the U.S., and an examination of what could be done to stop Sharia vigilantism. Instead, the mainstream media largely ignored the obvious motive; in this report, it is discussed as “homophobia,” with no hint that this was one of the first incidents of violent Sharia enforcement in the U.S.</p>
<p>There are many more recent domestic terrorism cases as well. In mid-June, a Tampa Muslim named Sami Osmakac was convicted of plotting to bomb a Tampa bar and then blow himself up in a jihad-martyrdom suicide attack in another crowded area of the city. <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/jury-starts-deliberating-sami-osmakac-terrorism-case/2183695">Osmakac said of non-Muslims</a>: “We will go after every one of them, their kindergartens, their shopping centers, their nightclubs, their police stations, their courthouses and everything until we have an Islamic state the whole world.” Shades of “slay them wherever you find them” (cf. Qur’an 2:191; 4:89; 9:5).</p>
<p>Then there was<b> </b>Ahmed Abassi, who, according to the <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/03/tunisian-man-gets-plea-deal-for-amtrak-terror-plot/">New York Post</a>, wanted to derail a New York-to-Toronto Amtrak train. He also discussed with another jihad terrorist “a plot to release bacteria in the air or water to kill up to 100,000 people.” He was also, according to Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara, plotting to “commit acts of terror and develop a network of terrorists here” in the U.S.</p>
<p>Abassi could have gotten fifty years in prison, but he “avoided terrorism charges by pleading guilty in Manhattan federal court to lying on his visa application and to immigration officials when asked why he flew to the United States in 2013.” Consequently, he could soon be a free man. What could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>And let’s not forget Mufid Elfgeeh, a Muslim businessman from Rochester, New York. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-accused-plotting-kill-troops-191419361.html">AP</a> reported on June 2 that Mufid Elfgeeh “bought two handguns and the silencers as part of a plan to kill members of the U.S. armed forces returning from war as well as Shiite Muslims in western New York.”</p>
<p>AP, as anxious as Barack Obama or David Cameron to absolve Islam of responsibility for the evils done in its name, explained that Elfgeeh (like Ali Muhammad Brown) was plotting to kill troops “as vengeance for American actions overseas.” So why did he want to kill Shi’ites as well? As vengeance for Iran being a bitter enemy of his bitter enemy, the U.S.? Obviously Elfgeeh is a Sunni Islamic jihadist who wants to kill members of groups that he considers to be enemies of Islam. But AP will never tell you that.</p>
<p>The war is not just in Iraq and Syria (and Nigeria, and Thailand, and the Philippines, and Afghanistan, and Israel, and Egypt, and on and on). It is in the United States already. That war is the Islamic jihad against the West and the free world. There will be many more men like Ali Muhammad Brown and Musab Mohamed Masmari in the United States in the coming years. Actions like theirs will one day, not too long from now, be a more or less daily occurrence in the United States. But no need to be concerned: just remember, when things get really hot, that <i>all this has nothing to do with Islam</i>.</p>
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		<title>Beheading Infidels: How Allah ‘Heals the Hearts of Believers’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic State traces its most gory and sadistic practices straight to Allah and Muhammad.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/taliban-sword-11052007.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240748" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/taliban-sword-11052007.jpg" alt="taliban-sword-11052007" width="282" height="229" /></a>To understand why the Islamic State not only decapitates its “infidel” captives, but also mutilates and mocks their corpses—and all to sadistic laughter—one need only turn to the Koran and deeds of Islamic prophet Muhammad.</p>
<p>The Koran exhorts believers to “Fight them [those who oppose Islam], Allah will torment them with your hands, humiliate them, empower you over them, and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts” (Koran 9:14-15).</p>
<p>As usual, to understand the significance of any Koran verse, one must turn to the <i>sira</i> and <i>hadith</i>—the biography and anecdotes of Muhammad, respectively—for context.</p>
<p>Thus we come to the following account concerning the slaughter of ‘Amr bin Hisham, a pagan Arab chieftain originally  known as “Abu Hakim” (Father of Wisdom) until Muhammad dubbed him “Abu Jahl” (Father of Stupidity) for his staunch opposition to Islam.</p>
<p>After ‘Amr was mortally wounded by a new convert to Islam during the Battle of Badr, Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, a close companion of Muhammad, saw the “infidel” chieftain collapsed on the ground.  So he went to him and started abusing him.  Among other things, Abdullah grabbed and pulled ‘Amr’s beard and stood in triumph on the dying man’s chest.</p>
<p>According to <i>Al-Bidaya wa Al-Nihaya</i> (“The Beginning and the End”), Ibn Kathir’s authoritiative history of Islam, “<span style="color: #0433ff;">After</span> that, he [Abdullah] cut his [‘Amr’s] head off and bore it till he placed it between the hands of the Prophet. <i>Thus did Allah heal the hearts of the believers with it</i>.”</p>
<p>This, then, is the true significance of Koran 9:14-15: “Fight them, Allah will torment them with your hands [mortally wounding and eventually decapitating ‘Amr], humiliate them [pulling his beard], empower you over them [standing atop him], and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts [at the sight of his decapitated head].”</p>
<p>The logic here is that, pious Muslims are so full of zeal for Allah’s cause that the only way their inflamed hearts can be at rest is to see those who oppose Allah and his prophet utterly crushed—humiliated, mutilated, decapitated.  Then the hearts of the believers can be at ease and “healed.”</p>
<p>This is surely one of the reasons behind the Islamic State’s dissemination of gory videos and pictures of its victims: the new “caliphate” is trying to heal the hearts of every believer inflamed for the cause of Allah.</p>
<p>If this sounds too farfetched, consider the following picture of a decapitated “infidel” from the Islamic State’s websites.  The Arabic caption to the left says “healing for hearts”—a clear reference to the aforementioned Koran verse:</p>
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<p>Koran 96:15-16 also alludes to the fate of ‘Amr and offers more context applicable to the Islamic State: “No! If he does not desist, we will surely drag him by the forelock—a lying, sinning forelock.”</p>
<p>According to al-Alusi’s <i>tafsir</i>, or exegesis, after Abdullah placed his foot on the dying foe of Islam, ‘Amr opened his eyes and recognized him.  The once proud chieftain lamented that he was being killed by a common “goat herder,” to which Abdullah replied, “Islam elevates and nothing is elevated above it.”  He then sheared his head off.  “But he could not carry it, so he made holes in the ears and put thread through them and dragged the head to the prophet.  Then Gabriel, peace be upon him, came laughing and saying, “O prophet, you got an ear and an ear—and the head between for a bonus!”</p>
<p>Based, then, on the treatment of ‘Amr bin Hisham (AKA “Abu Jahl”) as recorded in Islam’s core texts—Koran, hadith, sira, and tafsirs—all sadistic acts being carried out by the Islamic State were in fact committed by the earliest Muslims and all to the complete approval of Muhammad (and apparently the “angel” Gabriel, too).  They include:</p>
<p>•Beheadings and mutilations (e.g., holes in ears of ‘Amr)</p>
<p>•Humiliation and gestures of triumph (feet on chest of fallen victim, dragging his body, or head, on the ground)</p>
<p>•Laughter, mockery, and celebration (for the hearts of the believers are now “healed”)</p>
<p>Indeed, along with the “healing for hearts” image above, consider some other pictures taken from the Islamic State’s websites and how well they conform to the above accounts describing the slaughter of ‘Amr#:</p>
<p>Note how in the following four pictures, to demonstrate that the enemies of Islam have been brought low, as Koran 9:14-15 promised, Islamic State members make it a point to place their feet atop their fallen corpses, most of which were first decapitated.  Note also how the ubiquitous black flag of Islam is always raised above the fallen “infidels”—a reminder that “Islam elevates and nothing is elevated above it,” as Abdullah told ‘Amr, with his foot on his chest, before beheading him.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240735 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed2-450x271.jpg" alt="unnamed2" width="450" height="271" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed31.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240739 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed31-450x274.jpg" alt="unnamed3" width="450" height="274" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed4.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240740 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed4-450x241.jpg" alt="unnamed4" width="450" height="241" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed5.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240741 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed5-450x301.jpg" alt="unnamed5" width="450" height="301" /></a></p>
<p>Note the jocularity in the following picture—reminiscent of the “angel” Gabriel laughing and joking about the mutilated head of ‘Amr.  (If Allah’s angel finds such human carnage amusing, shouldn’t Allah’s jihadi servants as well?)</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed9.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240742 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed9-262x350.jpg" alt="unnamed9" width="262" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>The following picture is reminiscent of how ‘Amr’s head was treated: mutilated and dragged on the ground.  In this case, it is a decapitated body that is being degraded:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed8.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240743 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed8-450x315.jpg" alt="unnamed8" width="450" height="315" /></a></p>
<p>The next two pictures are of especial interest because they actually use the relatively arcane Arabic word <i>haz </i>(bottom left-hand corner), which literally means “to make an incision,” to describe the beheading of Islam’s enemies.  The standard Arabic word for “cut” generally used to describe a beheading is <i>qata‘</i>.  That the word used (<i>haz</i>) is the same word found in the early jihad literature is no coincidence and indicative of the source of inspiration: Islam’s scriptures.</p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed6.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240744 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed6-450x259.jpg" alt="unnamed6" width="450" height="259" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed7.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240745 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed7-450x248.jpg" alt="unnamed7" width="450" height="248" /></a></p>
<p>In short, not only are the members of the Islamic State closely patterning themselves after Muhammad—whom Koran 33:21 exhorts believers to emulate in all ways—but even in the most sadistic of details are they finding support in their prophet.</p>
<p>Nor should it come as any surprise that Muslims are aware of these accounts from early Islamic history.  After all, the near hagiographic Battle of Badr, including the story of ‘Amr’s slaughter, is routinely glorified worldwide in mosque sermons, on Islamic satellite stations, and in Islamic texts.  It is a source of great pride.</p>
<p>Thus when young Muslims express their anger and frustration at the state of affairs of the Islamic world, their clerics council them to go to the jihad in Iraq and Syria and decapitate themselves an infidel—which, according to the Koran, should “heal their hearts.”</p>
<p>(Perhaps that’s why one former British rock star and convert to Islam <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739006/Revealed-How-middle-aged-mother-two-Kent-used-girl-rock-band-reinvented-jihadi-threatening-behead-Christians-blunt-knife.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is so eager to decapitate Christians</span></a>?  Perhap that’s why a jihadi savagely pulled out and <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/13/303319/syria-rebel-cuts-eats-soldiers-heart/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bit into the heart</span></a> of a fallen Syrian soldier—to heal his own heart by sating his rage against Allah’s “enemies”?)</p>
<p>Such Muslims join the jihad, and not only do they decapitate, but they mutilate, humiliate, and laugh at the disgraced enemies of Allah—in perfect emulation of the Islamic glory/gory stories they grew up on.</p>
<p>This is the true cult of jihad which few non-Muslims can begin to comprehend—and little wonder, considering that their political leaders, professors, and media continue to babble foolishly about how Islam is the “religion of peace.”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another month, another endless list of atrocities.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pic_giant_011814_SM_The-US-and-Christian-Persecution.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240628" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pic_giant_011814_SM_The-US-and-Christian-Persecution.jpg" alt="pic_giant_011814_SM_The-US-and-Christian-Persecution" width="315" height="262" /></a>Originally published by the </i><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4666/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution">Gatestone Institute</a>.</i></span></p>
<p>From one end of the Islamic world to the other, the abduction and rape of Christian girls at the hands of Muslims—both terrorists and laymen—was a dominant theme in April.</p>
<p>On Easter Sunday Morning, for instance, <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Punjab:-clan-gang-rapes-seven-year-old-Christian-and-kidnaps-father-to-stop-him-reporting-them-30906.html">four Muslim men raped a 7-year-old Christian girl</a> named Sara in a Punjabi village.  Last reported, the child was in an intensive care unit in “critical.” According to Asia News, “the police, instead of arresting the culprits, helped the local clan to kidnap the girl’s father; Iqbal Masih was taken and hidden in a secret place to ‘force the family not to report the story, to reach an agreement with the criminals and to avoid a dispute of a religious background.’”</p>
<p>According to a human rights lawyer involved in the case: “Such cases are <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35620-ASIA_PAKISTAN_A_7_year_old_Christian_Girl_raped_on_Easter_Sunday">frequent</a>: abuse against women and girls by Muslim men are examples of how the minorities in Pakistan live under constant fear of persecution. We believe that many cases of violence go unreported.”  Similarly, a new report appearing in April by the Solidarity and Peace Movement—a coalition of NGOs, associations and institutions including the “Justice and Peace” Commission of the Pakistani Bishops—<a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35548-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Every_year_thousands_of_Hindu_and_Christian_girls_kidnapped_and_forced_into_Islamic_marriage_new_Report">confirmed</a> that “an estimated 700 cases per year involve Christian women, 300 Hindu girls.” Even so, “the true extent of the problem is probably much bigger, since many cases are not reported.”  (<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/the-rape-and-murder-of-pakistans-christian-children/">Click here</a> for a better understanding of the extent of this tragedy.)</p>
<p>The biggest story, however, came from Nigeria, where the Islamic terrorist organization known as Boko Haram abducted nearly 300, <a href="https://barnabasaid.org/Over-200-schoolgirls-kidnapped-from-Christian-town-in-Nigeria.html">mostly Christian</a>, teenage schoolgirls.  The group justified its actions in Islamic terms; its leader <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/05/world/africa/nigeria-abducted-girls/index.html">declared</a> on video that “I abducted your girls. I will sell them on the market, by Allah….There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell.”</p>
<p>The so-called mainstream media, which <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/how-the-media-whitewashes-muslim-persecution-of-christians/">generally downplays</a> or ignores Boko Haram’s terror campaign, actually reported on this particular atrocity, prompting Western authorities—who are much more accustomed to, and comfortable with, pretending these sorts of things don’t exist—to respond in awkward, hypocritical and, in a word, foolish, ways.</p>
<p>Thus, Secretary of State <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nigeria-accepts-us-help-to-rescue-girls-kidnapped-by-boko-haram-too-late/">John Kerry</a>, saying the U.S. had been in touch with Nigeria “from day one” of the crisis, asserted “I think now the complications that have arisen have convinced everybody that there needs to be a greater effort.  And it will begin immediately. I mean, literally, immediately.”</p>
<p>It is not clear whom Kerry was referring to when he said “convinced everybody”—unless he was referring to himself.  After all, there might not have been any need for “greater effort,” the need to act “immediately. I mean, literally, immediately” had Kerry only let the Nigerian government do its job one year ago, when they were waging a particularly strong and successful offensive against Boko Haram in the very same region that the schoolgirls were recently kidnapped.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obama-administration-calls-for-the-human-rights-of-jihadi-murderers/">Back then</a>, in May 2013, soon after Nigerian forces killed 30 Boko Haram members, Reuters reported that “U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a strongly worded statement [to the Nigerian president] saying: “We are … deeply concerned by credible allegations that Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations, which, in turn, only escalate the violence and fuel extremism” from Boko Haram.</p>
<p>As for Kerry’s predecessor, Hillary Clinton, who publicly bemoaned the lot of the kidnapped girls—<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hillary-s-state-department-refused-to-brand-boko-haram-as-terrorists.html">saying</a> it’s “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible”—when she was Secretary of State and in a position to help offer “the fullest response possible” she repeatedly <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hillary-s-state-department-refused-to-brand-boko-haram-as-terrorists.html">refused</a> to designate Boko Haram as a “foreign terrorist organizations,” despite the countless atrocities it had already committed, despite the fact that under her tenure Boko Haram had <a href="http://www.kkms.com/11666938/">boasted</a> it would “strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women,” and despite urging from the CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and several congressmen and senators.</p>
<p>Her logic was once voiced by her husband, former U.S. president Bill Clinton.  Back in February 2012, Clinton declared that “inequality” and “poverty” are “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/clinton-blames-jihad-on-poverty/">what’s fueling all this stuff</a>”—a reference to Boko Haram’s terror—and warned the Nigerian government that “It is almost impossible to cure a problem based on violence with violence.”</p>
<p>The rest of April’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><b>Muslim Slaughter of Christians</b></p>
<p><b>Afghanistan</b>: <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/32723-afghan-christians-mourn-americans-killed-at-hospital">Three Americans were shot and killed</a> at a Kabul hospital funded by an American Christian charity.  The murderer was a policeman employed as a security guard at the hospital.  The Taliban have claimed responsibility for similar attacks this year, but issued no comment.  Those killed were a doctor and a father and son visiting the hospital. “As they were walking out of the hospital, the security guard opened fire on them, killing three and wounding another one,” said the Interior Ministry.  The attack comes amid growing attacks against Christians and Westerners in the country. Three weeks earlier, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, 48, was killed and reporter Kathy Gannon, 60, wounded while they were sitting in the back of a car in the east of the country.  Also in March, a gunman shot dead Swedish journalist Nils Horner, 51, outside a restaurant in Kabul.</p>
<p><b>Central African Republic</b>: Father Labbe Christ Formane Willbona was slaughtered by Muslim herdsmen believed to be close to the Islamic rebel organization, Seleka.  Local security sources reported that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/centra-african-republic-islamic-jihadists-murder-catholic-priest-mutilate-corpse">the corpse was mutilated before being buried</a>.</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: A Coptic Christian teacher in Marzouk prep school in Minya province <a href="http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=1085&amp;A=13791">was shot in the head</a> by a student belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood.  Eyewitnesses said that the student was caught smoking in class and was reprimanded. Apparently he decided to show his “infidel” teacher his place, and so shot him in the head while he was returning home. <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35640-AFRICA_EGYPT_Sectarian_clashes_in_Assiut_Two_Christians_killed">Two more Christian Copts were killed</a> due to, according to Agenzia Fides, “sectarian clashes” which broke out in villages near Asyut over land disputes between a Coptic family and local Muslims. On the same day of the Coptic funeral, a young Coptic entrepreneur, Mohsen Morris, was also kidnapped near Asyut. The kidnappers extracted a ransom of 250,000 Egyptian pounds from his family.</p>
<p><b>Libya</b>:  Three more Coptic Christians—all cousins—were targeted in post “Arab Spring” Libya.   One was <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/three-egyptian-cousins-go-to-libya-none-comes-back-alive/">slaughtered</a> and brought back to Egypt to be buried in a Coptic cemetery; another was carried back home in an ambulance, half dead with a bullet lodged in his skull; another cousin disappeared and is believed to have been killed by Islamic militants.  Islamic enmity for Christians has been expressing itself regularly in Libya after the U.S. supported “Arab Spring” came there: Christians—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/three-american-teachers-slaughtered-for-christian-faith-in-muslim-world/">including Americans</a>—have been <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/">tortured</a> and killed (including <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/09/two-egyptian-christians-slain-in-libya/">for refusing to convert</a>) and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/hatred-of-christians-unleashed-in-libya/">churches bombed</a>. It’s “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/open-season-on-christians-in-libya/">open season</a>” on Copts, as jihadis issue a reward to Muslims who find and kill Christians. This was not the case under Gaddafi.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: A Muslim security guard is accused of <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/family-of-christian-shot-dead-in-pakistan-doubts-suicide-claim/">murdering a Christian worker who refused to convert to Islam</a>.   According to Morning Star News,<b> “</b>Sunny Masih, a father of two, was working as a cleaner at a branch of Bank Islami under construction on Nisbat Road in Lahore. On Wednesday morning (April 16), the bank security guard informed police that Masih had shot himself in the forehead with a pump-action shotgun that the guard had left unattended before going to the washroom. The guard, Omar Farooq, of Khushab District in central Punjab Province, told police that Masih ‘looked depressed’ when he arrived at the bank.”  However, all close family members insist that Sunny was, far from depressed, lively and happy.  According to the father, “On April 15, my son told me that Farooq [the guard] had mocked his Christian faith and had asked him to ‘embrace’ Islam. He told my son, ‘You are a good-looking boy, and I don’t like to see you sweeping floors and cleaning the washrooms. If you embrace Islam, I’ll connect you with people who will take good care of you, provide you with a decent job and even get you married into a wealthy Muslim family.’”  Sunny told Farooq that he was satisfied with his Christian faith, and that he should stop nagging him. “My son told me that when he snubbed Farooq, the guard had threatened him that he would have to face the consequences for refusing the <i>Dawaat</i> [an invitation to accept Islam] said the grieving father. I took the matter lightly and told my son not to worry, as being Christians we have to face such people every second day. I told Sunny to avoid discussing religion with Farooq even if he brought up the matter and keep distance from him, and everything would be alright. Little did I know that my son would end up in a mortuary a day later.” According to a Christian activist involved in the case, Sunny “was hit on the forehead just above his eyes, and his skull and brain were completely blown away by the impact at point blank range.  The doctor said he found it hard to believe that Masih could have shot himself in the head with a big weapon such as a shotgun. This is what we want the police to find out, but instead they are trying to cover up the matter. We believe the police are showing bias in its probe because it involves a ‘righteous Muslim’ who was trying to convert a Christian.”</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>: Frans van der Lugt—a 76-year-old Jesuit priest from the Netherlands who had established a community center and farm near the city of Homs where he had worked for over forty years for the betterment of people with disabilities and for Christian-Muslim harmony—was <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27155474">shot dead</a> in the garden of the community center.  After the Islamist-led siege of Homs, the priest continued to care for the sick and the hungry. In early 2014 he made a number of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQHg6ivGPg">YouTube videos</a>, asking the international community to help the besieged city.  Yet he chose to remain in Homs, struggling with the daily bombings and the lack of food, until he was slain.</p>
<p><b>Uganda</b>: The teenage daughter of a Muslim man managed to attend one church service after converting to Christianity before <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/muslim-in-uganda-kills-daughter-for-leaving-islam-sister-says/">her father killed her</a>. Abdul Hakim Ibanda severely beat his 17-year-old daughter and her 19-year-old sister with a blunt instrument after learning that they had attended a church service on April 6.  The surviving sister said, “On Sunday morning we arrived at the United Believers Church…  After prayers we then went to church, where the pastor introduced us to the church and that we were new members of the church. The church faithful were cheerful to receive us.”  However,</p>
<p>local Muslims who saw them enter the church immediately reported it to the father. He gathered a group of 32 “youths” to attack the church but the mob was eventually dispersed without incident.  When the girls returned home, the father, described as “furious,” began questioning and eventually beating them with a blunt object, killing the girl.  According to the pastor of the majority-Christian nation, where Muslims make some 11.5 percent, “The girl [surviving sister] is still traumatized as a result of the death of her sister and needs prayers and counseling.”<i> </i> Said the girl: “I know I cannot go back to my father because I have become a Christian.  I am grateful to the church for welcoming me and taking me as their child. I now have a new home.”</p>
<p><b>Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches</b></p>
<p><b>Austria</b>: After reportedly listening to Muslim chants, a man, known only as Ibrahim A., went on a church vandalizing spree, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/vienna-muslim-vandalizes-four-churches-after-listening-to-islamic-chants">desecrating four churches</a>.  According to the Vienna Times, “the attack left Lazaristenkirche with all of its statues and side altars largely destroyed as well as statues damaged at St. Stephen’s, the Breitenfeld church in Josefstadt and the Neuottakring church in Ottakring.” The Archbishop of Vienna described the attack on churches as “so far the worst act of vandalism in my time as Archbishop….  I am shocked by the devastation in the churches.  I hope that the perpetrator or perpetrators did not know what they were doing.”  Ibrahim A., 37-years-old, was caught in the act of vandalizing St. Stephan’s but was released at the time because police did not realize it was one of many attacks that that had been carried out that day. Police have since been unable to find him.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>:  According to AP, “Witnesses and an official say <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2593552/Catholic-church-north-Nigeria-set-aflame.html">angry Muslim youths set ablaze a Catholic church</a> and tried to destroy an attached school in northern Nigeria over an alleged insult to the Prophet Muhammad.  Witness Tukur Musa says soldiers on Monday stopped the mob from setting ablaze the school in Funtua town in Katsina state, but they arrived too late to save St. Rita Catholic Church.  He says the town was in an uproar about an examination question last week which they considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. They reported the matter to district authorities. When no action was taken, young Muslims attacked.  Deputy Police Superintendent Aminu Abubakar Saddiq confirmed the church was burned and school damaged but said no one was injured.  Religious strife [code for “Islamic supremacism”] is common in central and northern Nigeria.”  Also, during early Easter Sunday morning, unknown gunmen, later attributed to the Islamic terrorist organization, Boko Haram, launched an attack on the Christian-majority regions of Taraba State.  <a href="http://www.spyghana.com/police-and-boko-haram-massacre-over-150-dead/">The Christian Church of Nigeria was burned down</a>, as well as many Christian homes. Some 15 corpses were seen littered on the streets.</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>:    Gregorios III Laham, Greek-Melkite Catholic patriarch of Antioch, visited some of the dozens of Christian churches hit by Islamic rebels, particularly those in the historic town of Ma‘aloula, where the Christian inhabitants still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus, and where some were executed for refusing to convert to Islam.   (<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19118">Click here</a> for several pictures of the types of desecration that churches undergo if they fall into the hands of the Islamic terrorists.  In St. Mary’s Greek Catholic Church alone,  icons had their faces scratched out, church pews broken, statues of the Virgin Mary and Christ smashed, and Bibles burned.)  In the prelate’s words: “An apocalyptic spectacle presented itself. Other churches have been destroyed in Syria, but I have never seen anything like this. I cried and I sought in vain a moment of solitude to pray. I am heartbroken.  Ma‘aloula's four historic churches were hit. Our parish church, dedicated to Saint George, is riddled with bullets. The convent’s dome was damaged in two places. The walls were ripped open by cannon fire. Some parts of the convent is in danger of collapsing and must be rebuilt. The icons are scattered on the floor, dirty, or stolen. It is currently completely uninhabitable.”  The patriarch further described the wanton destruction of churches as a “war crime.”</p>
<p><b>Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism</b></p>
<p><b>Malaysia</b>: An Islamic organization known as Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia <a href="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/now-muslim-group-complains-of-malay-language-in-easter-pageant">accused a Christian church of trying to evangelize to Muslims</a>, simply because they used Bahasa Malaysia, the national language, for an Easter pageant.  The organization’s website said that while freedom of religion for non-Muslims was guaranteed by the Federal Constitution, the open use of Bahasa Malaysia to promote the event outside the church compound was an abuse of this liberty.  The organization also called on Muslim officials “to closely monitor this Easter Musical.”  It further declared that “the notion of Easter was against Islam.”  In Malaysia—which is regularly portrayed in the West as an example of a moderate Muslim nation—any attempt to promote religions other than Islam is illegal.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: Eight days after a court in Lahore sentenced <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/03/attorneys-rights-groups-blast-death-sentence-for-christian-in-pakistan/">Sawan Masih</a>, a Christian man, to death for allegedly insulting Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, another illiterate Christian couple in Punjab Province was <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/christian-couple-in-pakistan-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy/">sentenced to death</a> for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages.  Along with Asia Bibi, a wife and mother incarcerated since 2010, the number of Christians on death row in Pakistan for blaspheming Islam and/or its founder is now four.  Also, a Muslim landlord <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/32729-pakistan-christian-worker-beaten-for-observing-easter">almost beat to death</a> his Christian tenant and employee, Saleem Masih, for observing Easter.  According to Mushtaq Gill, a Christian activist and lawyer, because Saleem took time off to observe Easter, “the landlord became furious and beat him severely. He was eventually rescued and saved by some other villagers, otherwise he could have been beaten to death.”  Gill added that many other Christian field workers “are forced into bonded labour, denied minimum wages and harassed and implicated in fake cases if they try to resist the oppression of their influential masters.” As for Mushtaq Gill, the Christian lawyer who is representing the aforementioned Christians, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35508-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Threats_to_the_lawyer_who_defends_Christians_accused_of_blasphemy">he is facing death threats</a>.  In his own words: “On April 2, a stranger came to the Lahore Court and warned me that I might be attacked or involved in some fake criminal cases or even killed.” Nor are such threats limited to “extremists,” as he received information that he could also be expelled and barred from practicing law.  Said Gill: “What am I supposed to do, stop? Psalm 118 says: ‘The Lord is with me, I have no fear of anything. What can man do to me?’ My other colleagues and I have been threatened and attacked several times by strangers because of our work for human rights in Pakistan. But we are not afraid. We know that we could be killed because we support the campaign for the abolition of the blasphemy law. But this will not close our mouth and will not stop our work on human rights. The Lord tells us to have courage.”</p>
<p><b>Uganda</b>: Muslim relatives of a convert to Christianity <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/convert-from-islam-in-uganda-former-sheikh-says-muslim-relatives-poisoned-him/">tried to poison him to death</a>.  Hassan Muwanguzi converted to Christianity in 2003.  Soon thereafter, his wife left him and he was fired from his job as a schoolteacher.  Most recently, he was hospitalized after an aunt put insecticide in his tea.  According to Hassan: “After eating and taking tea, I started feeling stomachache, then I realized that she was the one responsible for it—and I believe she did not do it alone, since they have been hunting for me directly and indirectly, because when I left them and converted to Christianity it pained them so much.  The reason they want to kill me is very clear—it is because of being a convert to Christianity; above all, to them it is like I brought shame by converting…” During the family meeting, when he started to feel ill, he telephoned a local Christian bishop, who advised him that he should leave secretly. “I knew if he were to mention to them that he was getting sick, they would harm him more,” said Bishop Kinyewa.</p>
<p><b>Uzbekistan</b>: Christians are being prevented from burying their dead in the state cemeteries of the Muslim-majority nation.  There have been three known cases so far this year. Most recently, the family of Gayrat Buriyev, who died on 9 April, was told by officials<i>, </i>“The cemetery is state property, but is under the management of the local mosque, and if the imam is against the burial then it will not take place.”<i> </i>And the local imam said he was “acting in accordance with sharia law,” even though Uzbekistan is officially a secular state. The imam also cursed the family for being Christians, calling them “<a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christians-blocked-from-burying-dead-in-state-cemeteries-in-Uzbekistan.html">unclean and defiled infidels</a>.”  Although they took the matter to local authorities, officials refused to intervene, siding with the imam.  (According to Islamic teaching, being buried next to an “infidel” could cause the Muslim corpse to suffer the “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/jihad-martyrdom-and-the-torments-of-the-grave/">torments of the grave</a>.”)</p>
<p><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1)    To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2)    To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who “offend” Islam; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam;  theft and plunder in lieu of <i>jizya</i> (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed <i>dhimmis</i>, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination thereof.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to Indonesia in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
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<p><em>Don't miss <strong>Raymond Ibrahim</strong> on <strong>The Glazov Gang</strong> discussing</em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations."><em><strong> ISIS's Islamic Inspirations</strong>:</em> </span></p>
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<p><b>Previous Reports on Muslim Persecution of Christians</b>:</p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/obama-administration-suppresses-talk-of-muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2014/">March, 2014</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/christians-most-persecuted-group-in-world-muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2014/">February, 2014</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/becomes-chief-enabler-of-christian-persecution-muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2014/">January, 2014</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/they-are-slaughtering-us-like-chickens-muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2013/">December, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/u-s-chose-to-stay-silent-on-muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2013/">November, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/">October, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/">September, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2013/">August, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2013/">July, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013/">June, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013/">March, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/">November, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/">October, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012/">September, 2012 </a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></p>
<p>•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2011/">July, 2011</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How U.K. authorities abetted the abuse of hundreds of children by Muslim child rape gangs. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/or.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240315" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/or.jpg" alt="or" width="314" height="235" /></a>For the despicable protectors of political correctness and multiculturalism, the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089"><span style="color: #1255cc;">systematic</span></a> sexual abuse of 1,400 girls over the course of a decade and a half &#8212; including some as young as 11 years of age &#8212; was the lesser of two evils that occurred in Rotherham, England. In a stunning testament to the bankruptcy of both ideologies, a researcher who blew the whistle on this appalling scandal more than a decade ago was <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11069178/Rotherham-researcher-sent-on-diversity-course-after-raising-alarm.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sent</span></a> to an &#8220;ethnic and diversity course&#8221; by child protection authorities after she revealed the ethnic identity of the abusers.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The revelation emerged in a segment of <i>Panorama</i>, a current-affairs program broadcast by the BBC that produced a report on the scandal. The researcher, a person from the United Kingdom’s Home Office who wished to remain anonymous, explained that she began encountering victims while working at Risky Business, a youth outreach organization set up by the Council, aka the local government. &#8220;The workers in that project were the only people that those young people trusted, that they were telling the complete story to,&#8221; the researcher <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-29012571"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> <i>Panorama</i>’s Alison Holt. &#8220;And some of the stories that I heard very early on were just so graphic that I don&#8217;t think I will ever forget them. I was collecting data on who the perpetrators were, what cars they were using, their grooming methods, their offending methods, and what I was also collecting, was information on professional responses.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In 2002, the researcher documented that 270 young girls had been exploited in 2001. In the course of sharing her findings with the Council, she unwittingly violated a PC taboo: she revealed that the chief perpetrators of the abuse were men from the British Pakistani community.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The response of the Council was shocking. &#8220;They said you must never refer to that again, you must never refer to Asian men,&#8221; she revealed. &#8220;And [the] other response was to book me on a two-day ethnicity and diversity course to raise my awareness of ethnic issues.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It gets worse. The researcher says she submitted her report to the Home Office and the Rotherham Council on a Friday. On either Saturday or Sunday, someone entered the offices of Risky Business where the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/02/rotherham-abuse-researcher-diversity-course_n_5750560.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">backup data</span></a> on her report were stored and took it. The researcher believes it was an inside job because there was no evidence of a break-in. &#8220;They&#8217;d gained access to the office and taken my data, so out of the number of filing cabinets there was one drawer emptied and it was emptied of my data. It had to be an employee of the council,&#8221; she contended. Adding insult to injury, the report was never published and according to Holt, &#8220;the council even tried unsuccessfully to get the researcher sacked.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“I was subjected to the most intense personal hostility,” the researcher revealed. “There were threats made from a range of sources. I’ve never seen back-covering like it, and I still feel extremely angry about that.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is likely that certain aspects of her report drove the efforts to suppress it. One chapter noted the &#8220;alleged indifference towards, and ignorance of, child sexual exploitation on the part of senior managers&#8221; along with her contention that responsibility for the exploitation was &#8220;continuously placed on young people&#8217;s shoulders rather than with the suspected abusers.&#8221; &#8220;Had this report been treated with the seriousness it merited at the time by both the police and the council, the children involved then and later would have been better protected and abusers brought to justice,&#8221; the 2002 draft added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Prof. Alexis Jay, who wrote an independent report on the scandal, <a href="http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_inquiry_cse_in_rotherham"><span style="color: #1255cc;">The Independent Inquiry Into Child Exploitation in Rotherham, 1997-2003</span></a>, paints a devastating picture of determined ineptitude, noting that more than a third of the children affected were &#8220;previously known to services because of child protection and neglect.&#8221; He describes the &#8220;appalling nature&#8221; of the abuse these children endured. &#8220;They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated,&#8221; he reveals. &#8220;There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The response by officials was equally appalling. Jay cites their &#8220;collective failures&#8221; despite &#8220;growing evidence&#8221; that child sexual exploitation (CSE) was occurring in Rotherham. He further notes that senior managers &#8220;underplayed&#8221; the problem and Police gave the CSE cases &#8220;no priority,” often treating the victims &#8220;with contempt&#8221; and &#8220;failing to act on their abuse as a crime.&#8221; He goes on to note that three separate reports from 2002, 2003, and 2006, known to both the Police and the Council &#8220;could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham,&#8221; further explaining that the 2002 report written by the whistleblower was &#8220;effectively suppressed because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Martin Kimber, chief executive of Rotherham Borough Council, accepted the findings in Jay&#8217;s report, but claimed to know nothing about the alleged break-in at Risky Business. &#8220;The alleged &#8216;raid&#8217; on the Risky Business office is not something that I am aware of and having made appropriate checks within the council, I am unable to find anyone who recognises this series of events as they have been presented to us,&#8221; he said in a released statement. &#8220;Similarly, I have been unable to find any reference within the Alexis Jay report to the alleged incident and have no other independent means of corroborating the allegations that are being put forward. If further information is made available which enables me to do so, I would be happy to look into it.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">South Yorkshire Police have promised to bring the perpetrators to justice, and have increased the number of investigators on the case from 10 to 45. &#8220;A number of large-scale investigations looking at historical and current sexual offences in Rotherham are ongoing and involve a large number of victims,&#8221; it said in a statement.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">All well and good, but it can&#8217;t make up for the concerted effort to suppress this atrocity and the overriding reason for doing so. &#8220;Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so,&#8221; Jay’s report states.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">British Parliament member Simon Danczuk, who is calling for a mandatory reporting law that would make officials criminally liable for failing to report child abuse, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/31/Lessons-learned-from-Rotherham-Simon-DanczukMP"><span style="color: #1255cc;">confirms</span></a> that assessment, noting that senior managers believed &#8220;political correctness and cultural sensitivity was more important than shocking criminal behavior,&#8221; and thus they were more interested &#8220;in ticking boxes in diversity training than protecting children.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One is left to wonder if there is a lower depth to be plumbed than the suppression of child rape by the adherents of political correctness and multiculturalism. And make no mistake: at the heart of both concepts is the determined suppression and/or vilification of anyone who dares to defy these utterly bankrupt shibboleths. Bankrupt shibboleths that produce real victims. &#8220;I was a child and they should have stepped in,&#8221; a woman called &#8220;Isabel&#8221; to protect her identity, told <i>Panorama</i>. &#8220;No matter what&#8217;s done now&#8230; it&#8217;s not going to change that it was too late, it should have been stopped and prevented.&#8221;</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-09-at-1.03.34-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235958" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2014-07-09-at-1.03.34-PM-448x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-07-09 at 1.03.34 PM" width="284" height="222" /></a>Glenn Greenwald and his fellow jihad-enabling “journalist” Murtaza Hussain on Wednesday published <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a major exposé</span></a>, “Under Surveillance: Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On,” about Muslim leaders who are being spied upon by the FBI and the NSA. The thrust of the article is that each one is as pure as the day is long, with the one sin of opposing U.S. government policies.</p>
<p>The idea, of course, that opposing U.S. government policies from the Left will get you placed under surveillance these days is beyond ridiculous: Obama’s IRS is targeting conservative groups, not Leftists, and claiming that “right-wing extremists” are a terror threat, with nary a word about genuinely violent Left-wing extremist groups such as the Occupy movement and others.</p>
<p>And so it is no surprise that Greenwald and Hussain make their case by glossing over the genuine reasons why the FBI and NSA have placed these men under surveillance — surveillance which, if it is still going on at this point, is sure to end now as a result of this article. The article highlights these five men, glossing over the very real reasons why surveillance is justified:</p>
<p>• Faisal Gill, a longtime Republican Party operative and one-time candidate for public office who held a top-secret security clearance and served in the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush;</p>
<p>• Asim Ghafoor, a prominent attorney who has represented clients in terrorism-related cases;</p>
<p>• Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor of international relations at Rutgers University;</p>
<p>• Agha Saeed, a former political science professor at California State University who champions Muslim civil liberties and Palestinian rights;</p>
<p>• Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country….</p>
<p>Regarding Faisal Gill, Greenwald and Hussain write:</p>
<blockquote><p>…After leaving the Navy, Gill worked as a consultant for the American Muslim Council, which was founded by the political activist Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi to encourage participation by American Muslims in the political process. A Republican since high school, Gill joined the Bush Administration in the aftermath of 9/11, eventually moving to the White House Office of Homeland Security, where he briefly worked with Richard Clarke and obtained a top-secret security clearance. After roughly a year, he joined the Department of Homeland Security as a senior policy adviser, where he was cleared to access sensitive compartmented information, a classification level reserved for some of the nation’s most closely held secrets.</p>
<p>In 2003, al-Amoudi was arrested for participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and for illegal financial transactions with the Libyan government, crimes for which he eventually pleaded guilty. Because Gill’s name had turned up in al-Amoudi’s papers, he was investigated by DHS security officials and asked not to report to work pending the outcome. He told investigators that he had met al-Amoudi only three or four times and didn’t work closely with him during his time at the American Muslim Council. After passing a polygraph test, Gill says, he was told by DHS that he was “good to go” and returned to work.</p></blockquote>
<p>Greenwald and Hussain here establish the pattern of their entire piece: they leave out crucial details of the background of each of their supposed innocent victims of surveillance, thereby obscuring why they were put under surveillance in the first place. Faisal Gill worked as a consultant for the American Muslim Council. He says that he only met Alamoudi a few times and didn’t work closely with him.</p>
<p>Very well. But Greenwald and Hussain don’t mention that, according to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1311"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Discover the Networks</span></a>, the plot to assassinate Abdullah involved “two U.K.-based <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211"><span style="color: #0433ff;">al Qaeda</span></a> operatives,” and that he “ultimately pled guilty to, and was <a href="http://bigpeace.com/teamb/2010/10/27/muslim-brotherhood-penetration-of-the-us-government-a-case-study/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">convicted</span></a> of, being a senior al Qaeda financier who had funneled at least $1 million into the coffers of that terrorist organization.”</p>
<p>So here is Faisal Gill, who was a consultant for a group founded and headed by a confessed senior al Qaeda financier. He hardly knew him — fine. He was cleared of any wrongdoing — fine. But is it not possible that Alamoudi or someone connected to him might try to contact Faisal Gill, and win this upstanding American patriot over to their side, or try to use him in some way? Is there not, then, a case for placing Faisal Gill under surveillance, given his association with a senior jihad terror financier?</p>
<p>Also, would Greenwald and Hussain be enraged if the FBI and NSA placed under surveillance someone who had worked as a consultant for a group headed by a senior Ku Klux Klan financier, even if the consultant had been cleared of any wrongdoing? I doubt it. Nor should they be.</p>
<p>Likewise with Asim Ghafoor:</p>
<blockquote><p>In 2003, the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi charity, hired Ghafoor after its U.S. assets were frozen by the Treasury Department over claims that it funded terrorist operations. The government alleged that there were “direct links” between the U.S. branch of the charity and Osama bin Laden. Al Haramain had previously been represented by some of the biggest and most prestigious American law firms, including the D.C. powerhouse Akin Gump. Ghafoor’s work with Al Haramain led him to other controversial clients, including Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden who was the subject of FBI and CIA surveillance for years, as well as the government of Sudan.</p></blockquote>
<p>This would seem to be enough in itself to keep Ghafoor under surveillance, in case one of his jihad terrorist clients gave out information that could stop a jihad terror attack. But there is more. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=896"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Discover the Networks</span></a> notes that “Asim Ghafoor was a political consultant, spokesman, and public relations director for the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6355"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Global Relief Foundation</span></a> (GRF), which the U.S. government shut down in December 2001 because of the organization’s ties to terrorism….GRF is not the only organization with ties to terrorism with which Ghafoor has been involved. While he was with GRF, Ghafoor was also the spokesman for Care International. The December 6, 2002 <i>Wall Street Journal </i>reports: ‘Records indicate close ties between [Care International] and the Boston branch of Al Kifah Refugee Center, the Brooklyn branch of which was named by prosecutors as the locus of the 1993 conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center.”</p>
<p>Greenwald and Hussain don’t mention any of that, of course. And their inclusion of Hooshang Amirahmadi is just bizarre. Greenwald and Hussain note that he “does not self-identify as a Muslim and describes himself as an atheist.” So why is he included in a piece entitled “Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On”? Apparently Greenwald and Hussain couldn’t find enough Muslim leaders whom they could even with the remotest plausibility portray as innocent victims of unwarranted surveillance, so they figured an Iranian atheist was close enough.</p>
<p>If a foe of jihad terror were that careless of the facts, Greenwald and Hussain would be among the first to pounce.</p>
<p>Unlike in the other cases, with Agha Saeed, all the information needed to see why surveillance was deemed warranted is in the Greenwald/Hussain piece:</p>
<blockquote><p>The only notable public controversy involving Saeed occurred in 2000, two days after the American Muslim Alliance announced its endorsement of Bush. <i>The New York Daily News </i><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/israel-foes-give-hil-50g-muslim-group-backs-palestinian-force-article-1.881893"><span style="color: #0433ff;">attempted to demonize a $50,000 donation</span></a> the group made to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign by highlighting Saeed’s support for the right of Palestinians to armed resistance against occupation if peaceful means fail—a right affirmed in a series of resolutions by the United Nations General Assembly.</p>
<p>Yielding to pressure, Clinton quickly condemned the remarks and announced that she was returning the donation. Her GOP opponent, Rick Lazio, attacked her for receiving “blood money” and criticized her and her husband for having invited Muslim-Americans who opposed the Middle East peace process to the White House.</p></blockquote>
<p>“Saeed’s support for the right of Palestinians to armed resistance against occupation if peaceful means fail—a right affirmed in a series of resolutions by the United Nations General Assembly.” The fact that the UN endorsed the “Palestinian” jihad is hardly a ringing affirmation of its moral rectitude, and in any case, the groups that pursue “armed resistance against occupation” are jihad terror groups such as Hamas, Hizballah, and Islamic Jihad. Saeed supports this “armed resistance,” so he may be in contact with some of the leaders or members of such groups, and surveillance could reveal something that could be used to stop their jihad terror attacks against civilians. So here again, surveillance is warranted.</p>
<p>Turning to Nihad Awad, Greenwald and Hussain write:</p>
<blockquote><p>…“I’m outraged as an American citizen that my government, after decades of civil rights struggle, still spies on political activists and civil right activists and leaders,” says Awad. “I’m really angry that despite all the work that we have been doing in our communities to serve the nation, we are treated with suspicion.”</p>
<p>The bulk of CAIR’s work is devoted to protecting the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans. (Full disclosure: <b>Glenn Greenwald, a co-author of this story, has given paid speeches before CAIR’s regional affiliates</b>.) The group frequently provides legal counsel to those who believe their rights have been infringed, and litigates constitutional challenges to state and federal laws. Awad says he is particularly incensed about the surveillance given the close cooperation that CAIR has provided the U.S. government in <a href="http://fl.cair.com/page/antiterrorism"><span style="color: #0433ff;">denouncing violent extremism</span></a>. “The government knows very well that I am not a foreign agent,” he says.</p>
<p>Despite its political moderation and relationship to federal law enforcement agencies, CAIR became a primary target of hardline neoconservatives after 9/11. In 2007, the Justice Department named the group as one of more than 300 “unindicted co-conspirators” in its controversial prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, then the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., which was eventually convicted of providing material support to Hamas. The Justice Department later attempted to justify its inclusion of CAIR by referring to wiretap evidence showing that in 1993, a Palestinian advocacy group that prosecutors believed was linked to Hamas met in a Philadelphia hotel and talked about founding CAIR. In 1994, Awad voiced public support for Hamas—before the group’s campaign of suicide attacks against civilians and subsequent placement on the State Department’s terrorist list in 1997.</p>
<p>“I do not support Hamas,” Awad says today, pointing out that the group was not involved in terrorist activities at the time he made the statement. “It was not on the list of organizations that sponsor or conduct terrorism by the State Department. And when the organization took those acts, CAIR has condemned it, repeatedly.”…</p></blockquote>
<p>Very well. So Awad supported Hamas in 1994, but in 1997, when it was placed on the State Department’s terrorist list, he stopped supporting it. <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hamas.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Here</span></a> is part of the old Hamas website’s “glory record” of attacks against Israelis – the terrorist organization’s own record of its murderous actions. Here are some of Hamas’ self-described exploits from before 1994, when Awad made his statement about supporting Hamas:</p>
<blockquote><p>3. Boureen Operation: The militant Hamdan Hussein Al:najar, a member of Hamas, killed the Israeli settler Ya’coub Berey using a big rock as his weapon. The militant was shot down as a martyr after he had ambushed an Israeli patrol using the dead settler’s weapon….</p>
<p>6. Bus No. 405 Operation: Militant Ahmed Hussein Shukry, a member of Hamas, was able to lead an Israeli soldier to a secluded place in Tel Aviv where the militant hit the soldier with a chisel and killed him on 8 September 1989. The following day, the militant got on bus No. 405 and stabbed the driver to take over the bus; however, the passengers were able to stop the militant….</p>
<p>12. Keryat Youval Operation: The militant Mohammed Mustafa Abu Jalala stabbed four Israelis and injured another at a bus station in Keryat Youval in Jerusalem before he was arrested by the Israeli forces.</p>
<p>13. Askalan Road Operation: While driving a taxi, the militant Jameel Ismail Al:baz, a member of Hamas, ran over a group of Israelis waiting on this road on 19 July 1991….</p>
<p>15. Shailou Operation: A military group belonging to Al Qassam Brigades attacked an Israeli bus carrying some settlers on their way to Tel Aviv to participate in demonstrations organized by the extremist party Likud against the peace process. The bus was completely destroyed; two Israelis were killed and five more were injured….</p>
<p>17. Eid Al-maskhara Operation: The militant Ra’ed Al:reefy attacked an Israeli crowd in Jaffa on 17 March 1992. He was able to kill 2 and injure 21 Israelis who gathered to celebrate Eid Al:maskhara, also known as Al:boureem.</p>
<p>18. Beit Lahya Operation: On the third anniversary of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s arrest, a group belonging to Al Qassam Brigades attacked an Israeli settler at Beit Lahya and shot him down then withdrew safely….</p>
<p>21. Carlo Factory Operation: Four militants belonging to Al Qassam Brigades broke into a citrus packing factory (Carlo) near Nahal Oaz at 2:30 p.m. on 25 June 1992. Three militants stabbed two Israelis while the other was guarding….</p></blockquote>
<p>So Greenwald and Hussain claim that Awad only supported Hamas “before the group’s campaign of suicide attacks against civilians” began. Yet on Hamas’s own website at the time Awad expressed his support for the group was a celebration of the murders of civilian Ya’coub Berey; the civilians on the bus to Tel Aviv; the civilians in the crowd in Jaffa; and the civilian at Beit Lahya; as well as the stabbings of the driver of bus No. 405, the Israelis at the bus station in Keryat Youval, and the citrus packers, as well as the victims of cabbie Jameel Ismail al-Baz.</p>
<p>Also, when Awad says that he and CAIR do not support Hamas today, it should be recalled that in March 2004, when Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin was killed by Israel, CAIR condemned his killing — without ever mentioning that Yassin was the mastermind and director of suicide killings for Hamas: “We condemn this violation of international law as an act of state terrorism by Ariel Sharon’s out-of-control government. Israel’s extra-judicial killing of an Islamic religious leader can only serve to perpetuate the cycle of violence throughout the region. The international community must now take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence.”</p>
<p>The way they deal with Awad is typical of the dishonesty of the entire Greenwald/Hussain piece. But it will no doubt accomplish its purpose: the ending of surveillance of these and other Muslim leaders, the further weakening of counter-terror operations in general, and the increased endangering of Americans.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/saba-ahmed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235242" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/saba-ahmed-1024x537.jpg" alt="saba-ahmed" width="294" height="154" /></a>During a recent Heritage Foundation event on Benghazi’s unanswered questions, Brigitte Gabriel, President of Act! for America, proclaimed that the peaceful majority have been irrelevant to history’s outcome when tyrannists have had the power and motivation to destroy freedom. But a Muslim audience member whose question prompted Brigitte’s comments, insists she’s not irrelevant.</p>
<p>On June 16, 2014, The Benghazi Accountability Coalition, spearheaded by Ginni Thomas, held a half-day seminar with a series of speakers to raise issues regarding unanswered questions about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of four American patriots at Benghazi.</p>
<p>Brigitte Gabriel was one of three speakers on the first panel. During Q&amp;A, a hijabbed Muslim woman standing in back of a packed audience complained, “Salam Alechim, peace to you all. We portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there are 1.8 billion followers of Islam. We have 8 million plus Muslim Americans in this country and I don’t see them represented here.” She asked how the jihadist ideology can be fought with weapons and stressed the need to bring Muslims to the table in order to solve the problem.</p>
<p>After one panelist asserted that nobody on the panel thinks all Muslims are the problem, Brigitte responded to the question. She noted in her emphatic and dynamic voice how interesting it was that the panel had not discussed Islam or Muslims, but the murder of those at Benghazi and yet the questioner asked about Islam out of context. “Of course not all [Muslims] are radical, but it’s 15 &#8211; 25% according to all the world’s intelligence, which equals 180 – 300 million people dedicated to the destruction of western civilization.” Brigitte went on to explain that we should worry about the radicals because it is they who kill, behead and massacre. Throughout history it was the radicals that drove the agenda and “the peaceful majority were irrelevant”. This was true in Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, China, and pre-World War II Japan. Additionally, on September 11, 2001, it took only 19 hijackers out of 2.3 million Arab Muslims living in the U.S. to bring America to its knees and kill almost 3000 Americans. “I’m glad you are here” Brigitte said, “but where are the others speaking out?”</p>
<p>Additionally, Brigitte pointed out that instead of showing concern about Benghazi, the questioner took the limelight to make a point about peaceful, moderate Muslims. “It is time we take political correctness and throw it in the garbage where it belongs!” The woman replied “as a peaceful American Muslim, I would like to think I’m not that irrelevant.” Moderator Chris Plante, jokingly asked “[W]ho is head of the Muslim peace movement?” to which the woman replied “I guess it’s me right now” and the audience applauded.</p>
<p>So who is was the Muslim woman in the audience and is she irrelevant?</p>
<p>As it turns out, the woman’s name is Saba Ahmed and she was not just some innocuous audience member who happened to show up at a Heritage Foundation event.</p>
<p>Saba was born in Pakistan and moved to Portland Oregon at age 12. She has numerous academic degrees and a particular interest in protecting the Islamic Ummah from America’s “useless wars.” She feels so passionately about this that while in Portland, she became very active in Democrat politics for years, even making an unsuccessful bid for congress in 2012. As a candidate, her priority was to bring home all American troops and cut military spending. “There is no need for them to be in foreign countries”… “Drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan are hurting our long term national security and will come back to haunt us.”</p>
<p>After obtaining less than ½ percent of the vote, Saba switched her registration to Republican. But her ideology hadn’t changed. She marched in Occupy Portland, which had a large anti-Israel component, and was a featured speaker. She argued that the Muslim world hates America and therefore America should change her policies. She explained that Muslims in foreign countries are suffering as a result of U.S. policies and don’t have a voice. “We are their voice here in the United States”, she proclaimed.</p>
<p>Despite claiming to be Republican, she was banned from the Oregon Tea Party and the Washington County Republicans, not for her “Islamic views” as she claims, but for false accusations of death threats.</p>
<p>Saba made an appearance at Glenn Beck’s 9/12 meeting in Oregon, and while clinging onto a Koran, proclaimed that her faith is all she has. In TV interviews with Sean Hannity and others, she refuses to denounce any portion of Sharia law, arguing instead that “there are good and bad things everywhere.” She dodges, deflects and avoids addressing the human rights violations and tyranny committed in the name of Islam. When she’s unable to duck a question, she always has an excuse. Hannity, for example, asked Saba if she would denounce the law in Saudi Arabia that disallows women outside the home without being accompanied by a male relative. Saba replied, “I wouldn’t feel comfortable going outside alone in parts of Afghanistan. I wouldn’t want to.” Yet, she whines that, “especially in America, it’s a very harsh environment [for Muslims] due to the bias.”</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, Saba denies the right of Israel to have its current boundaries and argues that the boundaries for Israel after 1948 have caused “division among people all around the world.” And in an interview, when confronted with the fact that there’s nothing in Christianity comparable to Islamic terrorism, she replied, “[T]he United States Military and CIA are the most well-funded Christian organizations that regularly conduct crimes against humanity all around the world. Currently we are killing and murdering people in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq. etc. with our drones, missiles, bombs, etc. What is the practical difference between a soldier who kills and an Al-Qaida operative the kills??? Both in God’s eyes are taking sacred life…”</p>
<p>Yet, as someone who insists she is against all killing, Saba still has ties to Mohamed Mohamud, a Somali born Islamic terrorist who attempted to bomb a Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon in 2010. She even showed up at his trial to provide him support. When a mosque was torched in response to the bomb attempt, Saba blamed the U.S. government for “inciting violence” and warned, “[W]e will take very serious action – politically and legally – against the government for this.”</p>
<p>It’s no wonder coming from a woman who has attended CAIR’s Iftar dinner and was a member of the Islamic Society of Greater Portland (an outgrowth of ISNA). Both CAIR and ISNA are Muslim Brotherhood affiliates, whose mission is to destroy western civilization from within. They were also unindicted co-conspirators in the largest terror financing trial in the history of the United States.</p>
<p>Saba claims that she was Co-Chair of the Oregon Muslims Citizens Alliance, which, if it exists, has no website and appears to have had no activities except one “cancelled” event, which research confirms was never planned to begin with.</p>
<p>Saba has interned for Democratic politicians including Governor Ted Kulongoski, Senator Leahy and Representative Earl Blumenauer. She currently has an LLC or at least a website which appears to represent an LLC. According to blogger Ernest Dell, originally the website indicated that Saba Ahmed, LLC represented a global investment and intellectual property research service, with its corporate office in Portland, Oregon and its research center in New Delhi, India. The site stated that the company had a high end financial research team comprised of experts on a variety of asset classes, and provided services to investment banks, equity firms, asset management firms, financial advisory firms, and additionally had an “intellectual property team” that serviced law firms, in intellectual property firms, in-house IP corporate counsels.</p>
<p>Now Saba states that her LLC is a firm from which she lobbies Congress to stop all wars, claiming “expertise” in national security matters, despite any objective training or experience. The current site indicates no employees other than Saba and lists no clients. And despite her Republican registration, she is seeking a political appointment with the Obama Administration. Though insisting that she’s in “discussions” toward this end, there is no evidence that the interest is mutual or that it is anything more than Saba expressing her self-aggrandizing desire to land a plumb political position.</p>
<p>Brigitte Gabriel never denounced the peaceful majority of any country when she asserted their irrelevance. Clearly, what she meant is that the focus needs to be on the problem. And the problem is always the radical minority who may have less numbers, but has the power to undermine freedom and security.</p>
<p>Saba appears to be worming her way into politics, not to represent Americans or U.S. interests, but to represent the Muslim world. She says she doesn’t want to be irrelevant, but given her pro-Sharia apologetics and her advocacy for peace at the cost of freedom, let’s hope that she is.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Western civilization really successful because of Islam?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Burqa.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-234848" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Burqa-255x350.jpg" alt="FRANCE BURQA" width="255" height="350" /></a>My dear friend Ali Sina mentioned in his most recent article that a Muslim professor, Hossein Askari, believes that Western nations lead the World in &#8220;Islamic values&#8221; and that most Muslim nations practice the least Islamic values. I have heard such nonsense before from some Muslims, some of whom were my relatives. I will never forget the strange look on my Christian American husband&#8217;s face when an elderly Muslim man visiting from Egypt told him: &#8220;You are such a fine young man, you have the character of a true Muslim.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is not unusual for Muslims to describe non-Muslims whom they perceive as good as having &#8220;Islamic values.&#8221; Many Christians in Egypt have to suffer hearing comments by Muslims such as: &#8220;You are so good, you must convert to Islam, you have the character of a true Muslim.&#8221;</p>
<p>How can educated Muslims professors make ridiculous claims like that Ireland “leads the world in Islamic values as Muslim states lag”? Islamic logic, in that case, says, if Irish people have noses, eyes, arms and legs like Muslims then they must be Muslim. This twisted logic wants to hide the truth: that many Muslims no longer want to live under Islamic values, but since that is considered apostasy in Islam, the only way out is to claim life in the land of the Great Satan is really equal to living the true Islamic life.</p>
<p>Muslims are trained to adjust reality to Islamic propaganda; thus everything good must come from Islam and everything bad comes from the Kafir non-believer. So it is Islamic logic to believe that if Christians are good then they must be Muslim, but they just don&#8217;t know it yet.</p>
<p>The Muslim dilemma about the West gets more complicated when over 70% of Muslim youth are desperately trying to leave the Muslim world to immigrate to Western nations. Many Muslims are stunned, disappointing and filled with envy when they compare infidel and Islamic nations and discover that infidels have achieved what Muslims could only dream of. Such an awakening by Muslims flies against the Islamic propaganda that has indoctrinated generations into believing that Islam is the solution.</p>
<p>So if Islam is the solution, how come Muslims are happier in the West? Simple: Muslims discovered what the West failed to understand about their own values; According to Muslims, it is Islamic values &#8212; so &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; anyway.</p>
<p>Islam has trained the Islamic mind to solve any contradictions with the goal of making sure that Islam looks good at any cost. In other words, reality has to adjust to Islamic teachings. Muslims must never admit that Western success is attributed to the Judeo-Christian value system. That is why Muslim professors on American college campuses claim that Western cultural success is due to Islamic and not Biblical values, and that the US Constitution is Sharia compliant.</p>
<p>This is nothing new for Islam, Mohammed himself claimed that Christianity and Judaism, which preceded Islam by thousands of years, are in fact Islam, but have just been corrupted. Mohammed started by linking himself to the Abrahamic line in order to get legitimacy and after that he discredited the Jews and Christians as apes, pigs and enemies of Allah. Mohammed taught his followers that Abraham, Jesus, Moses etc., all are in fact Muslims and have Islamic values.</p>
<p>Because of Islamic Sharia&#8217;s severe and humiliating punishments, Muslims had to mold their thinking to never venture outside the Islamic mental box. Muslims who are brave enough to think critically for themselves will easily find Islamic values, summed up in Sharia, to be the antithesis of Biblical values.</p>
<p>Mr. Askari, like many devout Muslims, refuses to judge Islam by its fruits that are exploding all around the world. Instead of graciously giving credit where it is due &#8212; to the fruits of the Bible &#8212; he chose to slap Western culture in the face by shamelessly teaching that Western nations&#8217; success is due to Islamic values. Amazing, that sounds exactly like Mohammed.</p>
<p>This line of thought fits perfectly with the jihadists who are hell bent on violently converting the West to Islam. But the smart stealth jihadist Muslims choose to leave violent jihad to others, and would rather tell the American people that everything good is Islamic and that the corrupted values of the Bible could not have resulted in the fruits of Western success.</p>
<p>Askari probably feels that the poor Western citizens just don&#8217;t know what Islam already knows, but are unaware that the West is practicing Islamic values more than Muslims themselves.</p>
<p>Most Muslims are unaware that it is Muslim culture that heavily borrowed from the Bible. Muslims often say &#8220;don&#8217;t go to bed angry&#8221; but are unaware that this is a Biblical value and not a Quranic value. They say &#8220;Salamu Alaykum&#8221; and respond by saying &#8220;Alaykum El Salam&#8221; but are unaware that they have borrowed this from Jews&#8217; &#8220;Shalom Aleikhem&#8221; and the response &#8220;Aleikhem Shalom.&#8221; They say that Islam is a religion of peace when in fact Islam advocates war and relentlessly urges its followers to die in war while killing the enemies of their Allah.</p>
<p>The so called &#8220;moderate Muslims&#8221; who advocate that the US Constitution is Sharia compliant, are dangerous because they are stealth jihadists who have no loyalty to the US Constitution and what America is all about. Their loyalty is to the Islamic agenda of the establishment of the Khalifate. The religion of Mohammed has produced millions of people who think like Askari who are constantly struggling with a severe case of ethnocentrism.</p>
<p>Western nations so far have based their way of life on Judeo-Christian values of the Bible; a book outlawed by Islam under penalty of death. It is time for American college campuses to get rid of Muslim teachers who under the guise of research are advocating Islam 101.</p>
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