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<blockquote class="content_preface"><p>&#8220;You have a cross on… Do you know what we do to people like you?&#8221; — Muslim in Denmark.</p>
<p>Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way into the church, cut [the pastor], his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the building on fire&#8230; We only found the charred remains of the three of them in the morning. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any traces of Christianity in the town.&#8221; — Eyewitness account, Nigeria.</p>
<p>Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Muslim persecution of Christians in September started making prominent appearances not just in the Islamic world, but also in the West—in America, Australia and Europe.</p>
<p>In the United States, in Columbus, Indiana, three churches were vandalized on the same night. The words most frequently sprayed were &#8220;Infidels!&#8221; and &#8220;Koran 3:151.&#8221; The verse from the Koran states, &#8220;We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve [or "infidels"] for what they have associated with Allah [reference to Christian Trinity] of which He had not sent down [any] authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Father Doug Marcotte of Saint Bartholomew&#8217;s Catholic Church, one of those vandalized, said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of bad stuff being done in the name of Allah and so when people see this happening in Columbus, whether that was truly the person&#8217;s intent or there&#8217;s something else going on, it makes people nervous. It makes people upset. It makes them scared.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in Australia, AAP reported that &#8220;Church-goers in Sydney&#8217;s west have been left shaken after a stranger shouted death threats from a car bearing the Islamic State flag. The car drove past Our Lady of Lebanon Church at Harris Park on Tuesday and witnesses claim it had a flag similar to those brandished by Islamic State jihadists hanging out the window.&#8221; A church official said the people in the car threatened to &#8220;<a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/sydney-church-our-lady-of-lebanon-targeted-by-isis-threats/story-fncynjr2-1227062189328">kill the Christians&#8221; and slaughter their children</a>: &#8220;They were strong words and people were scared of what they saw.&#8221; Witnesses saw a flag outside the window with the words, &#8220;There is only one god and Muhammad is the prophet.&#8221; And as happens frequently in Muslim-majority nations, police security was later dispatched to patrol the Harris Park church while hundreds partook of the mass inside.</p>
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<p>In Denmark—2013&#8242;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/denmark-happiest-country_n_4070761.html">happiest country in the world</a>&#8220;—Christians of Middle Eastern backgrounds continued to experience &#8220;harassment, verbal attacks and in some cases direct violence from Muslims,&#8221; reports TV2, especially in Muslim-majority areas, such as Nørrebro. One Christian, &#8220;Jojo,&#8221; born in Denmark of Lebanese parents, shared her experiences. Once when sitting in her parked car, several Muslims surrounded it, harassing her about her Western attire. When one of them noticed she was wearing a cross, he said &#8220;Well, you have a cross on—then <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/denmark-christians-flee-muslim-dominated-areas-they-tell-me-i-ought-to-be-stoned-to-death">you are also a Christian f***ing whore</a>. Do you know what we do to people like you? Do you know what we do to people like you? You get stoned [to death].&#8221;</p>
<p>Another Christian woman of Iranian background recounted how she and her son are harassed on the Muslim-majority block where they live—and where she stands out for not wearing a <i>hijab</i>, the Islamic veil: &#8220;My son is being called everything. I get called all sorts of things. Infidel. Filthy Christians. They tell me I ought to be stoned to death. My son was beaten at the bus stop. He was called pig, dirty potato (Muslim slang for Danes), and that &#8216;you and your mother should die.&#8221;&#8216;</p>
<p>Islamic dreams of conquering Europe were prevalent. A senior analyst in Spain warned that, because Islamists see the Iberian peninsula as being &#8220;under Spanish and Portuguese occupation,&#8221; <a href="http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2014/09/05/jihadists-want-al-andalus-back-spanish-terrorism-analyst_966e7c8a-6480-4a28-b4e1-7a63eabf2d51.html">greater risk of terrorism exists there</a> than in other Western areas. Because Iberia—or, in Arabic, Al-Andalus—was under Islamic domination for centuries, many Muslims consider it part of the Islamic world, or Dar al-Islam, which needs to be reconquered, no less than Israel, also seen as occupied Islamic territory.</p>
<p>More pointedly, in the Islamic State [IS], in a lengthy message partially addressed to the &#8220;crusaders&#8221;—a reference to the West—some members declared, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-we-will-conquer-your-rome-break-your-crosses-and-enslave-your-women-by-the-permission-of-allah">We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah</a>.&#8221; Members of the IS also invoked a statement attributed to Muhammad, that Constantinople would be conquered before Rome—and it was, in 1453. The implication was that the Eternal City of Rome would be next.</p>
<p>Around the same time, Rome responded by rejecting a motion to name a street after the late Oriana Fallaci, a veteran journalist who had once written that, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/rome-nixes-naming-street-after-oriana-fallaci-because-she-wrote-that-the-muslim-world-is-attempting-to-conquer-the-west">the Muslim world is attempting to conquer the West in the name of Islam</a>.&#8221; In explaining their decision, local politicians described Fallaci&#8217;s writings as containing &#8220;religious hatred,&#8221; or &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Canada, while 80 special Muslims went to the trouble of attending a Muslim rally on behalf of persecuted Christians, sadly, another rally, an extremist Al Quds Day Anti-Israel Hate Fest, drew approximately 6,000 participants.</p>
<p>The rest of September&#8217;s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Muslim Attacks on Churches</b></p>
<p><b>East Jerusalem</b>: <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/attacks-on-church-in-east-jerusalem-grow-more-intense/">A Christian church was attacked numerous times</a>: On September 29, young Muslim men, with ties to a Palestinian militant group, wired shut the door of the Living Bread Church and sprayed a gaseous substance at those inside. An earlier gas attack had already occurred on September 17. Hours before the second attack, someone threw a rock through one of the windows of the church, and the day before that, Sunday, September 28, a Palestinian and others assaulted a church member as he was emptying trash into a dumpster outside the church.</p>
<p>On Sept. 21, a Palestinian militant, without warning, ran up behind a church leader, Karen Dunham, and knocked her to the pavement: &#8220;This guy charged me as fast as he could,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He came up behind me and just slammed into my back, and I fell and I hit the ground. My face is bruised. There&#8217;s bruises on the side of my cheek, on my face, on my head, on my knee, cuts on my head, and my wrist was fractured.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: A Christian priest in Egypt appealed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to intervene on behalf of yet another church being threatened by &#8220;religious extremists.&#8221; So far, local authorities have done nothing. Four years ago, the Coptic Church of St. Abram in Shubra al-Khaima received a permit to build an additional building. During those same four years, seven &#8220;thugs&#8221;—in the <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/2910-egypt-muslim-mob-prevents-coptic-church-building">words of the report</a>—have prevented it from being built. The &#8220;thugs&#8221; had mobilized local Muslims to threaten and demonstrate against the church. &#8220;The priest lamented that &#8216;after suffering many long years&#8217; they finally managed to acquire the permit to build, but then the next obstacle presented itself in the person of the aforementioned seven &#8216;thugs&#8217; who constantly harass, and incite Muslim mobs, against the church, whenever it tries to exercise its right to build the services building. Islamic law forbids the building of new churches or the renovation of existing churches.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Iraq</b>: Islamic State militants &#8220;<a href="http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2014/09/25/isis-blow-up-tikrits-green-church_9ac1fb14-0ae6-417d-a4cc-b20cf9eddef2.html">completely destroyed</a>&#8221; the ancient Green Church in Tikrit. They packed the church with explosives and detonated them &#8212; <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20140925012701.htm">completely destroying the ancient church</a>, which belonged to the Assyrian Church of the East. Almost from the time it was built in the seventh century, when Islam overran Iraq, the church had been attacked, ransacked, and destroyed by Muslim rulers and others, but was restored on the orders of Iraq&#8217;s late President Saddam Hussein in the 1990s.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: Many more churches and a Christian university, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/bible-college-churches-shut-down-as-boko-haram-claims-territory-in-ne-nigeria/">Kulp Bible College</a>, were forced to shut down as a result of the advances of the Islamic jihadi group, Boko Haram. In one instance, a pastor reported that &#8220;Boko Haram violence has been getting worse every day, and our members are fleeing the area by the thousands. Recent attacks in Borno and Adamawa states where our churches are located have seen Boko Haram take over the Army base. As a result, about 350 Christians have been killed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Separately, in Kaduna state, where &#8220;Muslim Fulani assailants seem driven to rid the area of Christianity and use the land to graze their cattle,&#8221; according to church leaders, 46 Christians, including two pastors, were slaughtered in raids. According to an eyewitness,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Suddenly we heard sounds of gunshots around our village. The pastor was still in the pastorate when the Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way onto the church premises. They cut him, his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the house on fire. The three of them were burned to ashes in the living room of the pastorate. We only found the charred remains of the three of them the following morning&#8230;. The gunmen then came onto the church premises and began shooting. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any trace of Christianity in the town.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although Muslim Fulani have historically had property disputes with Christian farmers, Christian leaders say attacks by the herdsmen constitute <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/two-pastors-among-46-christians-killed-in-kaduna-state-nigeria/">a war &#8220;by Islam to eliminate Christianity&#8221; in Nigeria</a>.</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>: In the latest incident of a nearly two-year wave of church demolitions, closures and confiscations, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/sudan-shutters-500-member-church-in-khartoum/">security agents padlocked a 500-member church building</a>, the Sudan Pentecostal Church [SPC] in Khartoum. The church also houses the Khartoum Christian Center (KCC). &#8220;The church is concerned that the building might be sold by the government, which renders more than 500 worshippers to have no place for worship,&#8221; a source told the <i>Morning Star News</i>. The Islamist government appears to be seeking any pretext for closing churches, sources said. In this instance, the space for the church was originally designated as &#8220;office space.&#8221; But, as one source asked, &#8220;How do you close a church building that has been in operation for 20 years in the name of the church being meant for offices?&#8221; The church has a deed showing that it owns the building and property &#8212; a situation that raises the question of the government&#8217;s right to sell it.</p>
<p>On June 30 bulldozers <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/06/sudanese-authorities-demolish-another-church-building/">demolished</a> the Sudanese Church of Christ in the Thiba Al Hamyida area of North Khartoum as church members watched, while security personnel threatened to arrest them if they tried to block the bulldozers, church members said.</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>: The <a href="http://armenianweekly.com/2014/09/21/der-zor/">Islamic State destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church</a> in Der Zor, seen as the &#8220;Auschwitz&#8221; of the Armenian Genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished in Der Zor and the surrounding desert during the genocide. In the summer of 1916 alone, more than 200,000 Armenians, mostly women and children, were massacred by Ottoman Turks. Armenia&#8217;s foreign minister issued a statement calling the church&#8217;s destruction a &#8220;horrible barbarity,&#8221; and referred to the Islamic State as a &#8220;disease&#8221; that &#8220;threatened civilized mankind.&#8221; The church was built in 1989-90 and consecrated a year later. A genocide memorial and a museum housing the remains of the victims of the genocide were also located in the church compound. Thousands of Armenians from Syria and neighboring countries gathered at the memorial every year on April 24 to commemorate the genocide.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Pakistani Rape and Dhimmitude</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36439-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Christian_girl_raped_the_perpetrators_film_the_violence#.VIXqaDHF9qU">Four young Muslims gang raped a 15-year-old Christian girl</a> and filmed it. The girl&#8217;s father, although he was threatened against filing a complaint, went to police, who confirmed the existence of a video that corroborates the violence. The video will apparently be introduced as evidence against the youths. A lawyer, Mushtaq Gill, issued a statement that, &#8220;Many Christian girls continue to be victims of sexual assault by young Muslims, who go unpunished&#8221; and that, &#8220;in this case there is also a video, flaunted as a trophy.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36280-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Two_Christian_women_abducted_forced_to_convert_to_Islam_and_marry_Muslim_men#.VIXv9zHF9qU">Two Christian women were abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men</a>. Lawyer Mushtaq Gill said, &#8220;A Christian girl, Sairish, forced to marry a Muslim in 2009, in her heart never abandoned the faith and continued to pray to Jesus Christ even after her marriage. After a few years she found the courage to rebel against the situation and run away&#8230;. Her life is now in danger because if she declares herself Christian, Muslims may accuse her of apostasy and the punishment would be death.&#8221; Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.</li>
<li>Another Christian family fled their hometown, Lahore, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36318-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Christian_family_flees_to_save_their_daughters_from_forced_conversion_to_Islam#.VIXuVzHF9qU">to save their daughters from forced conversion to Islam</a>. According to the Justice and Peace Commission, the two sisters, aged 12 and 8, were studying in public schools, where learning to recite the Koran is mandatory. Apparently, because the girls recited the <i>shehada</i>, the Islamic declaration of faith, &#8220;an Islamic cleric, the father of a student stated that these girls had become Muslims and thus needed to be taken from their Christian parents and entrusted to adult Muslims.&#8221; The parents pulled their daughters out of school, but then the headmaster and other Muslim teachers &#8220;warned the parents to send them back to school, offering the family financial aid regarding the school fees.&#8221; The parents quit their jobs and fled the region.</li>
<li>Police arrested 15 Christians and booked 45 other members of the minority community under the blasphemy law <a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/world/15-christians-held-in-pakistan-under-blasphemy-law.html">for allegedly desecrating Muslim graves</a> in a village in Punjab province. According to the AP, &#8220;The case was registered after a local cleric filed a complaint alleging that the Christians had desecrated over 400 Muslim graves to occupy the land in Chak village in Faisalabad, about 150 kilometres from Lahore.&#8221; Rights groups said it was a spurious charge meant to prevent the Christians from acquiring the land. In fact, the accusations were <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36294-ASIA_PAKISTAN_False_accusations_of_blasphemy_later_withdrawn_against_31_Christians_in_a_Punjab_village#.VIXvWzHF9qU">later proven false</a>.</li>
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<h3 align="center">Dhimmitude: Islamic Discrimination Against Christianity</h3>
<p><b>Egypt:</b> Iman Sarofim, a 39-year-old Christian mother of five, returned home to her family <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36441-AFRICA_EGYPT_The_Coptic_woman_who_had_disappeared_returns_home_she_did_not_convert_but_had_been_kidnapped#.VIXqsTHF9qU">after being kidnapped</a>. Initially it was believed that she had voluntarily converted to Islam and fled her family to be with a Muslim man. The woman contacted the family from Suez, where she had been brought by the kidnapper. The return of the woman was celebrated by neighbors and relatives in the city of Gabal al-Tir. Her disappearance had been the cause of clashes between Copts and police, who believed the narrative that she had voluntarily left. In retaliation, police officers entered the homes of dozens of Coptic families and violently arrested dozens of Christians. Separately, Ehab Karam, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36416-AFRICA_EGYPT_Kidnappings_continue_to_the_detriment_of_the_Copts_a_dentist_kidnapped_killed#.VIXrhzHF9qU">a Coptic dentist, was killed</a> after he was abducted by unknown persons, most likely for ransom. The kidnapping of Copts for ransom has evidently become a regular part of life in Egypt for Christians, particularly in Upper Egypt. Last February, for instance, police dismantled a crime network that for months had been organizing kidnappings, robberies and extortion against the local Coptic community. &#8220;Unfortunately,&#8221; said the Coptic Catholic Bishop of Assist, Kyrillos William, &#8220;the phenomenon continues and there are no signs of improvement. Police operations are episodic and ineffective, they are unable to solve the problem.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Iraq:</b> The Islamic State decreed that <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36336-ASIA_IRAQ_The_school_year_in_the_Islamic_Caliphate_the_teaching_of_Syriac_and_Christian_names_of_schools_have_been_abolished#.VIXuDTHF9qU">all schools in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain</a> which bore Christian names, some since the 1700s, must be changed. Also, the teaching of the Syriac language and culture and Christian religious education has been abolished. Reports indicate that the Islamic State took these moves &#8220;in order to erase all traces of cultural and religious pluralism in the conquered areas and turn schools into propaganda tools of jihadist ideology among the new generations.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Saudi Arabia</b>: In the Eastern Province city of Khafji, &#8220;religious police,&#8221; or agents from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christians-detained-by-Saudi-religious-police-in-raid-on-private-home.html">raided a house where at least 27 Christians</a>, mostly expatriates from various Asian nationalities, were gathered. The Christians, including children, were accused of practicing Christianity in a house church, and were arrested and detained overnight. Authorities also confiscated musical instruments and copies of the Bible. The house had been placed under surveillance after a citizen reported that his Indian neighbor had converted his home into a Christian church. After witnessing a large number of individuals enter the home, officers raided the house. The only religion allowed to be practiced in public in Saudi Arabia is Islam. In the land of the prophet, no public places of worship for non-Muslims are permitted to exist.</p>
<p><b>Turkey:</b> According to the Armenian magazine,<i> Agos</i>, many of the primary and secondary education books being used for the current school year still <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36339-ASIA_TURKEY_In_school_books_Christian_communities_portrayed_as_tools_of_foreign_powers_against_the_Ottoman_empire">describe the Armenians and other Christian communities as enemy forces</a> at the service of foreign powers, including Russia and England, after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. One eighth-grade history book tries to whitewash the Armenian genocide, which is portrayed as a &#8220;necessary deportation,&#8221; never as a massacre.</p>
<p><b>Uzbekistan</b>: Security forces reportedly raided the home of Pastor Stanislav Kim in Chirchik, 20 miles northeast of Tashkent, the capital. They detained 11 teenagers and three adults, who had gathered there for a volleyball game, and questioned them for more than four hours before releasing them. Officials also searched the pastor&#8217;s home and <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/33773-uzbekistan-prosecuting-pastor-son-for-unregistered-activity">confiscated a New Testament, a Bible, several other Christian books</a>, more than 100 slides of hymns, as well as some computer equipment. Voice of the Martyrs, which says there are at least 65 unregistered congregations scattered throughout Uzbekistan, said in a statement, &#8220;Please pray that this pastor and his son will not face fines, but will soon be acquitted of any perceived wrongdoing. Ask God to strengthen each believer who was present during this unwarranted raid so that they will not give in to governmental intimidation and pressure, but instead be emboldened to serve our Lord faithfully.&#8221;</p>
<p align="center"><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>While not all, or even most, Muslims are involved, persecution of Christians is expanding. &#8220;Muslim Persecution of Christians&#8221; was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month.</p>
<p>It documents what the mainstream media often fails to report.</p>
<p>It posits that such persecution is not random but systematic, and takes place in all languages, ethnicities and locations.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/"><i>Raymond Ibrahim</i></a> <i>is author of</i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20">Crucified Again: Exposing Islam&#8217;s New War in Christians</a> <i>(published by Regnery in cooperation with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).</i></p></blockquote>
<p><b>Previous reports</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4927/raping-beheading-faithful">August, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4846/muslim-persecution-christians-july">July, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4817/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june">June, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4763/muslim-persecution-christians-may-2014">May, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4666/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution">April, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4400/obama-muslim-persecutions">March, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4365/christians-most-persecuted">February, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4312/muslim-persecution-christians-january">January, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4252/slaughtering-christians">December, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4170/us-silent-muslim-persecution-christians">November, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4093/slaughter-in-muslim-lands">October, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4065/september-horror-christians-islam">September, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4050/christians-middle-east-august">August, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3967/christian-women-degradation-islam">June, 2013</a></li>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new important histories look at Hitler’s fascination with Islam and Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey.]]></description>
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<div class="story-category">Both Hitler and Himmler had a soft spot for Islam. Hitler several times fantasized that, if the Saracens had not been stopped at the Battle of Tours, Islam would have spread through the European continent—and that would have been a good thing, since “Jewish Christianity” wouldn’t have gone on to poison Europe. Christianity doted on weakness and suffering, while Islam extolled strength, Hitler believed. Himmler in a January 1944 speech called Islam “a practical and attractive religion for soldiers,” with its promise of paradise and beautiful women for brave martyrs after their death. “This is the kind of language a soldier understands,” Himmler gushed.</div>
<p>Surely, the Nazi leaders thought, Muslims would see that the Germans were their blood brothers: loyal, iron-willed, and most important, convinced that Jews were the evil that most plagued the world. “Do you recognize him, the fat, curly-haired Jew who deceives and rules the whole world and who steals the land of the Arabs?” demanded one of the Nazi pamphlets dropped over North Africa (a million copies of it were printed). “The Jew,” the pamphlet explained, was the evil King Dajjal from Islamic tradition, who in the world’s final days was supposed to lead 70,000 Jews from Isfahan in apocalyptic battle against Isa—often identified with Jesus, but according to the Reich Propaganda Ministry none other than Hitler himself. Germany produced reams of leaflets like this one, often quoting the Quran on the subject of Jewish treachery.</p>
<p>It is not surprising, then, that there are those today who draw a direct line between modern Jew-hatred in the Islamic world and the Nazis. A poster currently at Columbus Circle’s subway entrance proclaims loudly that “Jew-hatred is in the Quran.” The poster features a photograph of Hitler with the notoriously anti-Jewish Mufti al-Husaini of Palestine, who is erroneously labeled “the leader of the Muslim world.” The truth is considerably more complex. The mufti made himself useful to the Nazis as a propagandist, but he had little influence in most Muslim regions. Few Muslims believed Nazi claims that Hitler was the protector of Islam, much less the Twelfth Imam, as one Reich pamphlet suggested.</p>
<p>The Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda no doubt attracted many Muslims, as historian Jeffrey Herf has documented, but they balked at believing that Hitler would be their savior or liberator. Instead, they sensed correctly that the Nazis wanted Muslims to fight and die for Germany. As Rommel approached Cairo, Egyptians started to get nervous. They knew that the Germans were not coming to liberate them, but instead wanted to make the Muslim world part of their own burgeoning empire. In the end, more Muslims wound up fighting for the Allies than for the Axis.</p>
<p>Hitler’s failed effort to put Muslim boots on the ground still stands as the most far-reaching Western attempt to use Islam to win a war. Such is the judgment of David Motadel, the author of a new, authoritative book, <em><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724600" rel="external">Islam and Nazi Germany’s War</a> .</em> Motadel’s detailed and fascinating explanation of how and why the Nazis failed to get Muslims on their side is a must-read for serious students of World War II, and it has an important message as well for our own policy in the Middle East.</p>
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<p>To grasp why the Nazis had such high hopes for Muslim collaboration—and why their hopes failed—we need to go back to the great war that made Hitler the fanatical monster he was. One hundred years ago, a few months into World War I, Germany looked like it might be in trouble. The German offensive had failed to break through at Ypres after a month of bloody fighting. The waves of German soldiers stumbling through no-man’s land slowed to a stop. The kaiser’s army was exhausted, and its commanders suddenly realized that the quick Western Front victory they had dreamed of was impossible. Meanwhile, Russia was massing troops around Warsaw, and the tsar had just declared war on the Ottoman Empire.</p>
<p>There was one bright spot, though. On Nov. 11, 1914, the highest religious authority of the Ottoman caliphate, Sheikh al-Islam Ürgüplü Hayri, issued a call for worldwide jihad against Russia, Britain, and France. Suddenly, the Great War was a holy war. Surely, the Germans dreamed, Muslims would join their side en masse and turn the tide of battle.</p>
<p>In the early years of World War I the German Reich caught Islam fever: Muslims became the great Eastern hope against the Entente. Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the German general staff, planned to “awaken the fanaticism of Islam” in the French and British colonies, making the Muslim masses rise up against their European masters. <a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/141788/hitler-jews-oppenheim" rel="external">Max von Oppenheim</a> , the German diplomat and orientalist, described Islam as “one of our most important weapons” in his famous position paper of October 1914. Oppenheim wanted to spark a Muslim revolt stretching from India to Morocco that Germany could use for its own purposes. Germany just needed to get the message across, Oppenheim insisted: Russia, Britain, and France were the oppressors of Muslims, whereas the Germans would liberate them.</p>
<p>The German strategy didn’t work. Instead, Britain and France won the game when they capitalized on the Arab uprising against a crumbling Ottoman Empire. T.E. Lawrence, rather than the kaiser, inspired the Arabs. After the war, Britain and France sliced up the Middle East pie between them in the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916.</p>
<p>Germany tried once again to mobilize Islam in WWII. Astonishingly, in 1940 Oppenheim, at that point 80 years old, championed the same plan that had failed so badly in the previous war. Even more surprising, Hitler and Himmler warmly embraced the part-Jewish Oppenheim’s idea: They too thought that Islam would help bring about a Nazi triumph.</p>
<p>“German officials would always refer to global Islam, to pan Islam,” Motadel told me over the phone from his home in Cambridge, England, where he is Research Fellow in History at the University of Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius College. The Nazis spoke of the Muslims as a “bloc” that could be “activated” against the British, the French, and the Soviets. Their belief that Islam was monolithic led them to ignore differences of region, sect, and nationality, which helped to ensure the failure of their efforts.</p>
<p>As Motadel documents, those efforts were indeed considerable. Germans sought out imams who would issue fatwas for their side, and they told their soldiers to be especially careful of religious sensibilities when traveling through Muslim territory. They gave special privileges to Muslims who joined the Wehrmacht: The Nazi leadership even allowed them to follow Muslim dietary laws. Astonishingly, German forces in the East permitted Muslims to practice both circumcision and ritual slaughter, proving more liberal on these two issues than many Europeans are today. At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the Germans murdered many Muslims because they were mistaken for Jews: They didn’t realize that Muslims were also circumcised. But Berlin soon corrected the error and cautioned troops in the East to make sure to treat Muslims with respect, since they were Germany’s potential allies. In December 1942 Hitler decided he wanted to recruit all-Muslim units in the Caucasus. He distrusted Georgians and Armenians, but the Muslims, he said, were true soldiers.</p>
<p>The Germans assumed that the Muslim world would naturally flock to the Nazi banner, since Muslims like Germans knew that Jews were the enemy, and since Germany was offering them freedom from France, Britain, and Russia. But for the most part, they were wrong. Muslims only embraced the Nazi cause in places where they were desperate to arm themselves against local persecutors, the Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Balkans. In most of the Muslim world, Hitler failed to attract a large following.</p>
<p>North Africa was a miserable failure for German recruitment. “230,000 Muslims fought for the Free French against the Axis from North Africa,” Motadel pointed out to me in our interview, far more than those who enlisted with Germany. The Germans had their millions of leaflets, but they were not the only propagandists in the field. “The Free French mobilized them with anti-colonial rhetoric. The British and French were the ruling powers; they had much more control over propaganda.”</p>
<p>The East was much more favorable than North Africa to the German recruitment drive. The Muslims of the Caucasus and the Crimea had many reasons to choose Germany over Stalin’s Soviet Union. “In the East the Muslim population had really suffered under Stalin, economically and religiously,” Motadel remarked to me. They had nothing to lose, they thought, by siding with “Adolf Effendi.” The Crimean Tatars took a notorious place among Germany’s most loyal and ruthless battalions, fighting both in the East and, near the end of the war, in Romania. The Tatars made the wrong choice: Stalin mercilessly deported many of them to his gulags after the war.</p>
<p>In the Balkans many Muslims turned to Germany in the middle of a brutal civil war, fleeing the rampages of the Croatian Ustase. The infamous all-Muslim Handžar battalion of the SS, organized in the Balkans late in the war, committed many atrocities. In Serbian areas, noted one British officer, the Handžar “massacres all civil population without mercy or regard for age or sex.”</p>
<p>The Nazis made sure, with few exceptions, that the Nuremberg laws could be applied only to Jews, not to those other Semites, the Arabs, nor to Turks and Persians—which paradoxically allowed certain communities of Jews in Muslim regions to also survive the Shoah. In Crimea, two puzzled officers of the Wehrmacht, Fritz Donner and Ernst Seifert, reported on “Near Eastern racial groups of a non-Semitic character who, strangely, have adopted the Jewish faith,” while also noting that “a large part of these Jews on the Crimea is of Mohammedan faith.” What to do? In the end the Reich ruled that the Karaites, traditionally seen as a Turkic people, could be spared, while the Krymchaks should be murdered as Jews, though both these Crimean tribes followed Jewish law. In the northern Caucasus, the Nazis decided that the Judeo-Tats, a tiny Torah-observant island in a sea of Muslims, had only their religion in common with Jews. In effect, they became honorary Muslims and were saved from death. The Karaites were close to the Muslim Crimean Tatars, and the Judeo-Tats also had deep ties to their Muslim neighbors. It was their supposed affinity to Islam that saved the lives of these observant Jews. In these cases the Nazi wish to cultivate the Muslim world even affected to a small degree their anti-Semitic policy—to the Jews’ advantage.</p>
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<p>Hitler cultivated many parts of the Muslim world, but he was fanatically enthusiastic about only one country: Turkey (the Nazis officially decided in 1936 that the Turks were Aryans). Stefan Ihrig’s brilliant new book <em><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674368378" rel="external">Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination</a> </em> demonstrates convincingly that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s conquest of Turkey was the most important model for the Nazis’ remaking of Germany, far more so than Mussolini’s 1922 March on Rome, which is usually cited as Hitler’s main inspiration. Turkey had taken control of its destiny in manly fashion, in proud defiance of the international community—if only Germany would do the same! So argued many on the German right, including Hitler, during the 10 years between Atatürk’s victory and the Nazi seizure of power.</p>
<p>The victorious Entente had vastly curtailed Ottoman territory under the Treaty of Sèvres after WWI, just as the Treaty of Versailles shrank German territory. But the new nation of Turkey threw off the victors’ shackles and, after Mustafa Kemal (later renamed Atatürk) marched from Ankara westward, the Turks won the right to a homeland in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The Weimar Republic’s newspapers obsessively celebrated the Turks’ victory and endorsed their claims to the disputed region of Hatay (the Turks’ Alsace-Lorraine), portraying the Turks as more advanced than the Germans, trailblazers on the path to strong nationhood. “If we want to be free, then we will have no choice but to follow the Turkish example in one way or another,” the right-wing military man and journalist Hans Tröbst announced in the newspaper <em>Heimatland</em> in 1923. Nearly every item in Hitler’s playbook can be found in such Weimar-era endorsements of Atatürk: All Turkey had mobilized for the war; strong faith in their leader had saved them.</p>
<p>Ihrig argues that the Turkish treatment of minorities, both under Atatürk and earlier, was the true precursor for Hitler’s murderous policy in the East. Those “bloodsuckers and parasites,” the Greeks and Armenians, had been “eradicated” by the Turks, Tröbst explained in <em>Heimatland</em>. “Gentle measures—that history has always shown—will not do in such cases.” The Turks had achieved “the purification of a nation of its foreign elements on a grand scale.” He added that “Almost all of those of foreign background in the area of combat had to die; their number is not put too low with 500,000.” Here was a chilling endorsement of genocide, and one that surely did not escape Hitler’s eye. Shortly after his articles appeared, Hitler invited Tröbst to give a speech on Turkey to the SA.</p>
<p>From 1923 on, Hitler consistently praised Atatürk in his own speeches as well. Berlin, like Istanbul, was cosmopolitan and decadent. Munich, site of Hitler’s beer-hall putsch, was the place for a German “Ankara government.” When Hitler seized power in 1933 his <em>Völkischer Beobachter</em> cited Atatürk’s victory as the “star in the darkness” that had shone for the beleaguered Nazis in 1923, after the putsch’s failure. Turkey was “proof of what a real man could do”—a man like Atatürk, or Hitler.</p>
<p>The Third Reich produced many idolizing biographies of Atatürk. Six years after the Turkish leader’s death, in late 1944, a delusional Hitler was still dreaming of a postwar alliance between Turkey and Germany. He never got his wish. During the war, Turkey, as a neutral power, kept its distance from the Nazis until it finally declared war against Germany in February 1945.</p>
<p>In Turkey, criticizing Atatürk can still get you three years in jail, though the country’s increasingly <a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/37048/fantasia" rel="external">unhinged</a> President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke the law himself last year when he called Atatürk a drunkard. While Erdogan wants to reverse his predecessor’s program for secularizing Turkey, he appears to be imitating Atatürk’s extravagant cult of personality along with his habit of demonizing his enemies. But while Atatürk disdained Hitler’s anti-Semitism, Erdogan is obsessed with Jews. The 2014 Gaza operation, he has <a href="http://forward.com/articles/202423/turkey-leader-slams-israel-attack-on-gaza-as-more/" rel="external">remarked</a> , was worse than anything Hitler ever did, and the Israelis have been committing “systematic genocide every day” since 1948. Perhaps if Erdogan had been in power in the 1940s, the Nazis would have found the Muslim ally they so desperately sought.</p>
<p>Weaponizing Islam has often been a temptation for the United States, just as it was for Germany. In its battle against Moscow, Washington recruited Islamic leaders after WWII, most famously Said Ramadan, a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood. The United States even smiled on Saudi Arabia’s funding of radical Islamist organizations, hoping that religion would serve as a bulwark against Soviet Communism. Then the Muslim Brotherhood killed U.S. ally Anwar Sadat, and its follower Ayman al-Zawahiri became, along with Osama Bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaida. We supported the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, until the Mujahedeen turned into the Taliban.</p>
<p>We are still trying to turn the Muslim world to our own purposes, but this time by supporting Shiite against Sunni. In addition to courting Erdogan, President Barack Obama hopes to make use of Iran as a stabilizing regional force. In his most recent personal letter to Ayatollah Khamanei, Obama seems to have made a promise: We will repeal sanctions, fight against ISIS, and preserve the rule of Iran’s client Bashar al Assad as long as Iran agrees to a deal on nuclear weapons. But what will the United States get in return? In the best-case scenario—which is far from assured—Iran’s bomb-making abilities will be hindered by the deal they sign. But even an Iran without the bomb cannot be relied on to make the Middle East less conflict-riven, unless we are aiming at the kind of stability famously mocked by Tacitus: They make a desert and call it peace. Iranian actions speak for themselves: support for Hezbollah, with its hundred thousand weapons aimed at Israel, and support for Assad, who has massacred his people endlessly and thrown massive numbers of them into concentration camps. Anyone who looks at the Syrian defector “Caesar” ’s <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/31/syrian-defector-assad-poised-to-torture-and-murder-150-000-more.html" rel="external">photographs</a> of the thousands of starved, mutilated bodies produced by Syria’s bloodthirsty optometrist-in-chief, which are now on permanent exhibition at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, a few blocks from the White House that has refused to grasp their meaning, will ask the same question: Don’t these Arab bodies, resembling so exactly the bodies of Jews at Auschwitz, have the same call on our conscience?</p>
<p>One thing is certain: If Khamanei and Rouhani are given a larger role in the Middle East, they will not serve U.S. interests, nor those of the majority of Muslims. They will serve their own interests, which are inimical to ours. We still have not learned the major lesson of 20th-century history so adeptly conveyed by Motadel and Ihrig: Western leaders who try to get Islam on their side through propaganda and favors will be unpleasantly surprised.</p>
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<p style="color: #202021;">News recently emerged that Russia was banning key Islamic scriptures—including Sahih Bukhari—on the charge that they promote “exclusivity [supremacism] of one of the world’s religions,” namely Islam; or, in the words of a senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan Ruslan Galliev, “a militant Islam” which “arouses ethnic, religious enmity.”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">If Sahih Bukhari, a nine-volume hadith collection compiled in the 9th century and seen by Sunni Muslims as second in importance only to the Koran itself is being banned for inciting hostility, where does that leave the Koran?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">After all, if <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/is-russia-banning-islam/">Sahih Bukhari contains pro-terrorism</a> statements attributed to the prophet of Islam and calls to kill Muslims who leave Islam, the Koran, Islam’s number one holy book itself is full of intolerance and calls for violence against non-believers. A tiny sampling of proclamations from Allah follows:</p>
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<li>“I will cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, so strike [them] upon the necks [behead them] and strike from them every fingertip’” (Koran 8:12).</li>
<li>“Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (Koran 9:29).</li>
<li>“Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them—seize them, besiege them, and make ready to ambush them!” (Koran 9:5).</li>
<li>“Fighting has been enjoined upon you [Muslims] while it is hateful to you” (2:216).</li>
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<p style="color: #202021;">That Islam’s core texts incite violence and intolerance has many ramifications, for those willing to go down this path of logic.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">For example, as I <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-religious-defamation-laws-would-ban-islam/">argued more fully here</a>, although Muslims around the world, especially in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), continue to push for the enforcement of “religious defamation” laws in the international arena, one great irony is lost, especially on Muslims: if such laws would ban movies and cartoons that defame Islam, they would also, by logical extension, need to ban the religion of Islam itself—the only religion whose core texts actively defame other religions.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Consider what the word “defamation” means: “to blacken another’s reputation” and “false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel,” are typical dictionary definitions.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">What, then, do we do with Islam’s core religious texts—not just Sahih Bukhari but the Koran itself, which slanders, denigrates and blackens the reputation of other religions?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Consider Christianity alone: Koran 5:73 declares that “Infidels are they who say God [or “Allah”] is one of three,” a reference to the Christian Trinity; Koran 5:72 says “Infidels are they who say God is the Christ, [Jesus] son of Mary”; and Koran 9:30 complains that “the Christians say the Christ is the son of God … may Allah’s curse be upon them!”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Surely such verses defame the Christian religion and its central tenets—not to mention create hostility towards its practitioners.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">In short, the argument that some Islamic books should be banned on grounds that they incite segregation and violence is applicable to the Koran itself, which unequivocally defames and creates hostility for unbelievers, that is, non-Muslims.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">That said, in the “real world” (as it currently stands), the very idea of banning the Koran—believed by over a billion people to be the unalterable word of God—must seem inconceivable.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">For starters, whenever Muslims are pressed about the violent verses in the Koran, they often take refuge in the argument that other scriptures of other religions are also replete with calls to violence and intolerance—so why single out the Koran?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">To prove this, Muslim apologists almost always point to the Hebrew Scriptures, more widely known as the “Old Testament.”  And in fact, the Old Testament is replete with violence and intolerance—all prompted by the Judeo-Christian God.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The difference between the violent passages in the Koran and those in the Old Testament (as more <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-islam">comprehensively explained here</a>) is this: the Old Testament is clearly describing historic episodes whereas the Koran, while also developed within a historical context, uses generic, open-ended language that transcends time and space, inciting believers to attack and slay nonbelievers today no less than yesterday.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Thus in the Old Testament God commands the Hebrews to fight and kill “Hittites,” “Amorites,” “Canaanites,” “Perizzites,” “Hivites,” and “Jebusites”—all specific peoples rooted to a specific time and place; all specific peoples that have not existed for millennia.  At no time did God give an open-ended command for the Hebrews, and by extension their Jewish descendants, to fight and kill all “unbelievers.”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">To be sure, Muslims argue that the verses of the Koran also deal with temporal, historical opponents, including the polytheists of Mecca, and to a lesser extent, the Byzantine and Sassanian empires.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The problem, however, is that rarely if ever does the Koran specify who its antagonists are the way the Old Testament does.  Instead, Muslims were (and are) commanded to fight the “People of the Book,” which Islamic exegesis interprets as people with scriptures, namely, Christians and Jews—“<em>until</em> they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (9:29) and to “slay the idolaters <em>wherever</em> you find them” (9:5).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The two Arabic conjunctions “until” (<em>hata</em>) and “wherever” (<em>haythu</em>) demonstrate the perpetual and ubiquitous nature of these commandments: There are still “People of the Book” who have yet to “feel themselves utterly subdued” (especially all throughout the Americas, Europe, and Israel) and “idolaters” to be slain “wherever” one looks (especially Asia and sub-Saharan Africa).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">In fact, the salient feature of almost all of the violent commandments in Islamic scriptures is their open-ended and generic nature: “Fight <em>them</em> until there is no more chaos and [all] religion belongs to Allah” (Koran 8:39).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">This fact will ensure that as long as the Koran proliferates and is read as God’s literal word, its readers will continue to exist in a dichotomized world, themselves versus the rest.</p>
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		<title>Peace With Islam in Our Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslims see peace as the end of the West.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/koran-kalashnikov-500x332.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245976" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/koran-kalashnikov-500x332.jpg" alt="koran-kalashnikov-500x332" width="340" height="263" /></a>Abdallah Bulgasem Zehaf-Bibeau, the crackhead turned Jihadist spawned by the mating of a Canadian immigration official and a Libyan Muslim Jihadist, just wanted peace.</p>
<p>He <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/canada-jihad-murderer-there-cant-be-world-peace-until-theres-only-muslims"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told a co-worker</span></a>, “There can’t be world peace until there’s only Muslims.” Then he tried to usher in peace, the Islamic way, by opening fire near the Canadian parliament.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in Israel a reporter interviewing Arab Muslim settlers in Jerusalem found that they too wanted peace. On their terms.</p>
<p>“Yes we want peace,” one of them said, “but peace means no Jews.”</p>
<p>When negotiating peace with other cultures it’s a good idea to make sure that the words you are using mean the same thing. Most Muslims and Westerners want peace. But to Westerners peace means co-existence. To Muslims, peace means the end of your existence.</p>
<p>Ideas carry heavy cultural baggage. Peace in the West summons up images of Armistice Day, of the Christmas Truce of WW1 in which French, German and English soldiers could share meals and play soccer together. It carries with it the subversive idea that both sides realize the war isn’t worth fighting.</p>
<p>Such a subversive idea has no place in Islam. The Jihad is at the heart of Islam. To question the holy war is to also question the faith. When war is religion then peace through setting aside war is heresy.</p>
<p>The Western idea of peace is a wholly alien one to Islam. In Islam, peace does not come from men transcending their differences, but from destroying men who think and live differently. That is the function of the religious police of our allied “moderate Muslim” countries who seek out the practice of other religions and other ways of living in places like Saudi Arabia and suppress their practitioners.</p>
<p>Islamic peace does not come from diversity, from accepting the existence of other nations, religions and peoples, but from unity through Islam and eliminating as many differences as possible. If Islam is the source of peace, then all that which is “not Islam” is the cause of war.</p>
<p>Kill the Jews. Kill the Christians. Then there will be peace.</p>
<p>The Islamic idea of peace was aptly expressed by Zehaf-Bibeau and our anonymous Jerusalem Jihadist. It is not based on a recognition of the humanity of one’s fellow man, but on a rejection of their humanity.</p>
<p>As Mohammed curtly put it in missives to the leaders of non-Muslim countries in the region, “Aslim, Taslam.” Convert to Islam and you’ll have peace. The same message has been dispatched by Muslim leaders today to popes and presidents. It’s a message of peace on the only terms that Islam allows.</p>
<p>Islam is the religion of peace. For there to be peace, Islam must be supreme. Within the Islamic worldview, conflict is caused by the existence of dissent. The only way to achieve peace is by forcing the submission of every human being to the correct strain of Islam. “Moderates” may agree to let Jews and Christians live as inferior second-class citizens if they submit to Muslims. “Extremists” will skip straight to raping and beheading them. And once that ugly business is done, there will be peace.</p>
<p>Or there will be peace once the “moderates” and “extremists” have finished killing each other, once the Sunnis and Shiites have finished beheading each other, and once every single Muslim has finished slaughtering every other Muslim who in any way dissents from his understanding of Islam.</p>
<p>That’s the brand of peace we’re seeing in Iraq and Syria today. Or the peace process between Israel and the Arab Muslims who were rebranded as “Palestinians” because it made them seem like a local flavor.</p>
<p>Islam rejects the idea that mutual empathy should transcend conflict. Instead it believes that war should transcend humanity. Or as the Koran puts it, “Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not.”</p>
<p>The Western tradition is biased toward the peace of co-existence. It applies the logic of armistice toward all areas of life leading to the championing of multiculturalism and immigration. Its siren song is John Lennon’s<i> Imagine</i> with its call for an end to borders, nations, religions and property. Its ideal of peace comes from the end of structure and separation between people.</p>
<p>The Islamic idea of peace however affirms a structure and separation based on the Koran. It believes that there will be peace when everyone is forced to live within the strictures of Islam. And therefore there can be no genuine peace with non-Muslims who do not submit to Islam.</p>
<p>These two incompatible notions of peace continue to collide. Imagine if French soldiers had clambered out to sing and play soccer only to be gunned down by German soldiers who had a fundamentally different idea of peace. This was actually how WW2 was shaped as the victorious side played by outdated rules while Nazi Germany, Japan and the USSR shifted to a thoroughly totalitarian mentality.</p>
<p>Munich was a disaster because Hitler was not the Kaiser. The other side was no longer willing to play by any rules, even in diplomatic negotiations, or to accept anything short of total victory. The Allies were forced to match their enemies in a ruthless war that saw entire cities destroyed.</p>
<p>The Nazis and Communists were the products of years of indoctrination that taught them to see opponents as less than human and peace as being obtainable only through their destruction. Japan, which had a longer history of dehumanizing outsiders, proved to be an even tougher nut to crack.</p>
<p>Islam has a history of over a thousand years of continuously dehumanizing non-Muslims and identifying peace and their enslavement as one and the same. It is impossible to live in peace with Muslims who think that there can be no peace as long as non-Muslims continue to live independent lives.</p>
<p>In the Muslim worldview, war happens because non-Muslims exist. War is caused by the infidel, the disbeliever and the Muslim hypocrite who does not truly commit to the practice of Islam. The Jihad purifies the world of non-Muslims; it eradicates the “moderate” Muslims who have been compromised by Western culture. It is a war of extermination against the un-Islamic.</p>
<p>When Westerners propose peace, Muslims reject them as hypocrites for speaking of peace, but refusing to accept the only religion that can bring peace. They feel no obligation to honor any peace agreements since peace can only come from Islam and the Western rejection of Islam proves our deceitfulness and bad intentions. This dynamic is inherent in the Koran and the entire history of Islam.</p>
<p>Islam does not obtain peace through peace, but through war. It seeks a world without conflict by killing anyone who might disagree with its totalitarian ideology.</p>
<p>Proposing the peace of co-existence to an ideology to which peace means its own supremacy is a foolish and deranged act.  Our outreach to the Muslim world does not lack for a common language, but for common ideas. Both sides may speak of peace, but for one side peace really means war.</p>
<p>Languages are not only made up of words, but of values. It is not enough to bring a dictionary to a negotiation if the two parties are reading from different moral and ethical traditions. Just because we translate “Salaam” as peace and agree that we both want peace does not mean that we have the same idea of what peace is.</p>
<p>The West sees peace as living side by side with Muslims. Muslims see peace as the end of the West.</p>
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		<title>The Islamization of Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslims are Islamizing Jerusalem with the blood of little girls.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pl.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243965" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pl.jpg" alt="pl" width="286" height="193" /></a>Chaya Zissel Braun was murdered on her first trip back from the Western Wall where the indigenous Jewish population of Israel continues to pray in the shadow of the shrine established there by the Muslim conquerors from which the racist Muslim settlers rain down rocks on the Jewish worshipers.</p>
<p>The three-month old baby girl died when a Muslim terrorist rammed a car into a crowd hurtling her into the air and headfirst onto the pavement. Her death did not take place in isolation. It was not caused by a tiny minority of extremists. Her blood was spilled on the street for the Islamization of Jerusalem.</p>
<p>The Islamization of Jerusalem is an international cause. It does not just come out of Gaza City or even Ramallah. Nor Doha or Istanbul. The politicians and diplomats of every major country demand the Islamization of Jerusalem. When they talk about a Palestinian State with its capital in Jerusalem what they are really demanding is the restoration of the Muslim ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem in 1948.</p>
<p>They demand it with words and boycotts, but the Muslim settlers on whose behalf they cry for the Apartheidization of Jerusalem are writing their murderous demands with the blood of little girls.</p>
<p>The baby girl was murdered to Islamize a city. She died as the Israeli soldiers had died reunifying Jerusalem after the Arab Legion had ethnically cleansed the Jewish population and as ordinary Jerusalemites had died at the hands of Jordanian snipers searching the city for Jewish and Christian targets. The victims of those years of Muslim occupation included Yaffa Binyamin, a 14-year-old girl sitting on the balcony of her own house, and a Christian carpenter working on the Notre Dame Convent.</p>
<p>Like Chaya, I was born in Jerusalem. Like Yaffa, I lived in a building targeted by Muslim snipers. But the Six Day War had ended the reign of <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Jerusalem_Divided.html?id=I09YcIEto08C">Muslim snipers over the city</a>. The building where my parents made their home had been cheap once because living there could mean instant death for anyone looking out of a window at the wrong time. The liberation and reunification of Jerusalem had made it a place where Jewish children could play on balconies and Christians could repair churches without being murdered.</p>
<p>Under Muslim occupation, while Jordanian snipers were cold-bloodedly murdering their children, the Jewish residents living under fire couldn’t so much as put up an outhouse without being reported to the UN for illegal construction. In one case a UN observer organization held four meetings to discuss an outhouse for local Jewish residents before condemning Israel for illegal construction.</p>
<p>It did not however condemn Jordan when one of its soldiers opened fire on a train wounding a Jewish teenage girl.</p>
<p>Muslim outrage over Jewish outhouses mattered more than the Muslim murder of Jewish children. It still does. Today the State Department calls the murder of that little girl a traffic incident while warning that Jews living in Jerusalem will end any possibility of peace.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton spent 45 minutes shrieking at Netanyahu over the phone after a planning committee allowed new housing in Jerusalem to advance to the public comment stage, and told the media that the proposal that Jews live in a part of Jerusalem that she believes should belong to Muslims is “insulting” to the United States.</p>
<p>The latest firestorm exploded over <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/9-Jewish-families-move-into-Jerusalems-Arab-Silwan-neighborhood-379275">seven Jewish families moving</a> into homes that they had bought legally in an area from which Jews had been ethnically cleansed by racist Muslim violence in the twenties and thirties. Earlier the State Department and White House had warned that Israel was alienating “even its closest allies” by proposing to build houses on Airplane Hill, a place mainly known for having an Israeli plane crash there during the Six Day War that had formerly hosted temporary housing for Russian and Ethiopian immigrants.</p>
<p>Meanwhile when Chaya was murdered, the State Department urged “all sides to maintain calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of this incident.” It wasn’t as if anything important had happened. Just an Israeli-American baby murdered in pursuit of their shared goal of Islamizing Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Secretary of State John Kerry did not call President Abbas, the unelected president of the PLO’s Palestinian Authority, to berate him when one of his advisers <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/palestinian-authority-presidents-advisor-murderer-of-3-month-old-american-israeli-baby-is-heroic-martyr/">called the murderer of that child</a> a “heroic martyr”. Hillary Clinton did not come out of retirement to shriek at him over the phone when his party suggested that the killer would be receiving his 72 virgins in paradise.</p>
<p>If only something more important had happened than a presidential advisor to an Obama-backed terror state calling the murderer of an American child a hero; like planning for new housing “advancing”.</p>
<p>No one objects when Muslim settlers build houses in Jerusalem or anywhere else. But the objections pour in when the indigenous Jewish population builds so much as a house or an outhouse.</p>
<p>What we are talking about here is not peace, but ethnic cleansing. In 1948, the Jews were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem to Islamize the city. Their synagogues were blown up by the Muslim occupiers. Their tombstones were used to line the roads traveled by the racist Muslim settlers.</p>
<p>“For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter,” Abdullah el-Talal, a commander of the Muslim invaders, <a href="http://www.mererhetoric.com/2009/07/19/netanyahu-to-obama-actually-were-going-to-keep-letting-jews-build-homes-in-jerusalem/">had boasted</a>. “Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews&#8217; return here impossible.”</p>
<p>In his memoirs he wrote, “I knew that the Jewish Quarter was densely populated with Jews who caused their fighters a good deal of interference and difficulty…. Only four days after our entry into Jerusalem the Jewish Quarter had become their graveyard. Death and destruction reigned over it.”</p>
<p><a href="http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&amp;source=gale&amp;idigest=e00c570417b0eb514f1a6e98f0db297d&amp;prodId=GIC&amp;userGroupName=king46652&amp;tabID=T002&amp;docId=A284678294&amp;type=retrieve&amp;contentSet=IAC-Documents&amp;version=1.0">Life magazine published photos</a> of the atrocity writing that, “Muslim censors, not only in Palestine but in   neighboring Arab countries which have major communication outlets, tried for a fortnight to keep the news from leaking out.”</p>
<p>The Life photographer who took the photos was sentenced to death by the Arab High Committee.</p>
<p>This ethnic cleansing is what Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have been defending. The Islamization of Jerusalem is the thrust of all the peace plans put forward.</p>
<p>The entire phony “Palestinian” narrative in which the regional Sunni Arab Muslim majority that is busy slaughtering Christians, Kurds, Shiites acts as if it’s the victim because its racist ethnic cleansing plans were frustrated when its Jewish victims fought back and won.</p>
<p>The Muslim occupiers have added insult to injury by pretending to be the indigenous population to aid in their attempts at displacing the indigenous Jewish population through terror and lies.</p>
<p><a href="http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&amp;source=gale&amp;idigest=e00c570417b0eb514f1a6e98f0db297d&amp;prodId=GIC&amp;userGroupName=king46652&amp;tabID=T002&amp;docId=A284678294&amp;type=retrieve&amp;contentSet=IAC-Documents&amp;version=1.0">Abdullah el-Talal</a> said, “I have seen in this defeat of the Jews the heaviest blow rendered upon them, especially in terms of morale, since they were evicted   from the Western Wall and from the Jewish Quarter, for the first time in fifteen generations.”</p>
<p>Every politician denouncing Jews for building houses in Jerusalem, but not Muslims doing the same thing is endorsing Abdullah’s genocidal vision and all the terrorism that goes with it.</p>
<p>The murder of little girls like Chaya Zissel Braun does not take place in a vacuum. The Islamizers of Jerusalem gain confidence when they see that the international community stands behind their demands. In 1920, racist Muslim settler mobs in Jerusalem had chanted &#8220;Mohammed&#8217;s religion was born with the sword&#8221;, “Death to the Jews” and “the government is with us” as Muslim policemen under British colonial rule had joined with them in the rape and murder of the indigenous Jewish population.</p>
<p>Too many governments still stand with those who wave the sword of Mohammed and cry death to the Jews. They encourage them, defend their agenda and issue weak rebukes when blood is spilled in the name of Islamizing Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Those politicians who endorse the Islamization of Jerusalem cannot escape responsibility for the crimes of the Islamizers.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam hasn’t changed because Muslims don’t want it to.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/quran1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243476" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/quran1-450x253.jpg" alt="quran" width="320" height="180" /></a>Every few years the debate over reforming Islam bubbles up from the depths of a culture that largely censors any suggestion that Islam needs reforming.</p>
<p>But Islam does not exist apart from Muslims. It is not an abstract entity that can be changed without changing its followers. And if Islam has not changed, that is because Muslims do not want it to.</p>
<p>Mohammed and key figures in Islam provided a template, but that template would not endure if it did not fit the worldview of its worshipers. Western religions underwent a process of secularization to align with what many saw as modernity leading to a split between traditionalists and secularists.</p>
<p>The proponents of modernizing Islam assume that it didn’t make the jump because of Saudi money, fundamentalist violence and regional backwardness. These allegations are true, but also incomplete.</p>
<p>If modernizing Islam really appealed to Muslims, it would have taken off, at least in the West, despite Saudi money and Muslim Brotherhood front groups. These elements might have slowed things down, but a political or religious idea that is genuinely compelling is like a rock rolling down a hill.</p>
<p>It’s enormously difficult to stop.</p>
<p>Muslim modernization in the West has been covertly undermined by the Saudis and the Muslim Brotherhood, but for the most part it has not been violently suppressed.</p>
<p>It suffers above all else from a lack of Muslim interest.</p>
<p>Muslims don’t spend much time fuming over a progressive mosque that allows gay members or lets women lead prayers. Such places occasionally exist and remain obscure. They don’t have to be forcibly shut down because they never actually take off. The occasional death threat and arson might take place and the average ISIS recruit would happily slaughter everyone inside, but even he has bigger fish to fry.</p>
<p>The best evidence that Muslim modernization has failed is that even the angriest Muslims don’t take it very seriously as a threat. The sorts of people who believe that Saddam Hussein was a CIA agent or that Israel is using eagles as spies have trouble believing modernizing Islam will ever be much of a problem.</p>
<p>They know instinctively that it will never work. Instead Muslims are far more threatened by a cartoon mocking their prophet for reasons that go to the heart of what is wrong with their religion.</p>
<p>Islam is not an idea. It is a tribe.</p>
<p>Talking about reforming the words of Islam is an abstraction. Islam did not begin with a book. It began with clan and sword. Even in the modern skyscraper cities of the West, it remains a religion of the clan and the sword.</p>
<p>The left has misread Islamic terrorism as a response to oppression when it is actually a power base. It is not the poor and downtrodden who are most attracted to the Jihad. Instead it is the upper classes. Bin Laden wasn’t a pauper and neither are the Saudis or Qataris. Islamic terrorism isn’t a game for the poor. It becomes the thing to do when you’re rich enough to envy the neighbors. It’s a tribal war.</p>
<p>To reform Islam, we can’t just look at what is wrong with the Koran or the Hadiths. We have to ask why these tribal calls for violence and genocide, for oppression and enslavement, appealed to Muslims then and why they continue to appeal to Muslims today.</p>
<p>The modernizers assume that Western Muslims would welcome a reformation of Islam. They are half right. The reformation that they are welcoming is that of the Wahhabis trying to return it to what it was. It’s hard to deny that ISIS touches something deep within Muslims. The gay-friendly mosques don’t.</p>
<p>Understanding Islam only in terms of the Koran makes it seem as if Muslims are unwillingly trapped by a tyranny of the text, when the text is actually their means of trapping others into affirming their identity.</p>
<p>There is no reforming Islam without reforming Muslims. The reformers assume that most Muslims are ignorant of their own beliefs, but even the most illiterate Muslim in a village without running water has a good grasp of the big overall ideas. He may hardly be able to quote a Koranic verse without stumbling over it, he may have added local customs into the mix, but he identifies with it on a visceral level.</p>
<p>Its honor is his honor. Its future is the future of his family. Its members are his kinfolk. Like him, it ought to have been on top; instead it’s on the bottom. Its grievances are his grievances.</p>
<p>The rest is just details.</p>
<p>The progressive diverse mosque is the opposite of this tribal mentality. It is the opposite of Islam. Its destruction of the tribe is also the destruction of the individual. The Western Muslim who already has only a shaky connection to the culture of his ancestral country is not about to trade Islamic tribalism for anonymous diversity. Islam tells him he is superior. The progressive mosque tells him nothing.</p>
<p>Whether he is a Bangladeshi peasant watching soccer matches on the village television or a Bangladeshi doctor in London, it is the violent, racist and misogynistic parts of Islam that provide him with a sense of worth in a big confusing world.</p>
<p>That is how Islam was born.</p>
<p>Islam began in uncertain times as empires were tottering and the old ways were being displaced by strange religions such as Judaism and Christianity, when its originators mashed bits of them together and then founded their own crazy wobbly murderous empire built around a badly plagiarized religion.</p>
<p>It was horrible and terrible for everyone who wasn’t a Muslim man, but it worked.</p>
<p>Islam is less of a faith and more of a set of honor and shame responses. It’s a cycle of oppression and victimhood. It’s the assertion of identity by people who see themselves as inferior and are determined to push back by making themselves superior. The responses are familiar. We saw it in Nazi Germany as the defeated nation became a master race by killing and enslaving everyone else.</p>
<p>But it’s not those at the bottom most driven by such dreams. It’s the desert billionaires who have money, but no culture. It’s the Western Muslim doctor who still feels inferior despite his wealth. It’s a merchant named Mohammed with a lot of grudges who claims an angel told him to kill all his enemies in Allah’s name.</p>
<p>It’s Islam. And it’s Muslims.</p>
<p>The things that we believe, bad or good, reflect the bad or good inside us. When Muslims support killing people, it’s simplistic to assume that they are robotically following a text and will follow any other text slipped in front of their faces, instead of their passions and values. Religions may make people kill, but it starts when people make religions kill.</p>
<p>The good devout Muslim may kill because the Koran tells him to, but he would not do so if the Koran’s justifications of violence did not speak to him on a deeper level. The Nazis were following orders, but they wouldn’t have followed them if Nazism didn’t connect with their fears, hopes and dreams.</p>
<p>The text is only half the problem. The other half is in the human heart.</p>
<p>Reforming Islam is not a matter of crossing out certain words and adding others. Religions carry a powerful set of values that appeal to people on a deep level. To change Islam, we would have to understand why its ugliness still speaks to Muslims. To change it, we have to change them.</p>
<p>When we talk about reforming Islam, what we are really talking about is reforming Muslims.</p>
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		<title>Not Destroying the Islamic State &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish points to the taboo truth of why we don't see "moderate" Muslim armies killing ISIS terrorists. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Nonie Darwish</strong>, the author of <em>The Devil We Don&#8217;t Know</em>.</p>
<p>Nonie came on the show to discuss <strong>Not Destroying the Islamic State</strong>, analyzing why Obama does not really want to defeat ISIS and why we don&#8217;t see any &#8220;moderate&#8221; Muslim armies killing ISIS terrorists <strong>(starts at 14 minute mark)</strong>.  The dialogue was preceded by Nonie focusing on <strong>Tricking and Dividing the Muslim World</strong>, shedding light on the best strategies to confront and outsmart our enemy in the terror war.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t miss the <em>Glazov Gang</em>&#8216;s second episode this week with <strong>Steve Amundson</strong>, the founder and leader of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Counter-Jihad-Coalition/647048938742800"><em>Counter Jihad Coalition</em></a>. Steve discussed <strong>The Counter Jihad Coalition Hits the Streets of L.A.</strong>, sharing his group’s “public outreach” effort about Islam on 3<sup>rd</sup> St. Promenade:</p>
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		<title>1,400 Child Victims of Muslim Rape Gangs Discovered in Rotherham, UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[....While authorities and child protection services turned a blind eye to avoid being called "racist."]]></description>
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<p>A <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11057647/Rotherham-sex-abuse-scandal-1400-children-exploited-by-Asian-gangs-while-authorities-turned-a-blind-eye.html">horrifying news report</a> in <em>The Telegraph</em> has confirmed that 1,400 children were discovered as victims of Muslim rape gangs and prostitution rings in Rotherham, UK, while authorities and child protection services turned a blind eye in order to avoid being called &#8220;racist.&#8221;</p>
<p>Daniel Greenfield&#8217;s blog at <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/the-point/"><em>The Point</em> </a>deals with this shameful, outrageous and terrifying story: &#8220;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/uk-police-arrested-parents-trying-to-stop-muslims-from-raping-their-children/">UK Police Arrested Parents Trying to Stop Muslims from Raping their Children</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>On this occasion, Frontpage is re-running <em>The Glazov Gang&#8217;s </em>special 2-part series with <strong>Gavin Boby</strong> of the <a href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/"><em>Law and Freedom Foundation,</em></a> on this horrifying reality of Muslim rape gangs in the UK and how the Left is facilitating their vicious and barbaric crimes against helpless young girls. The series crystallizes why the horrible details emerging about the discovered 1,400 children victims in Rotherham was a Muslim crime the Left allowed to occur.</p>
<p>In <strong>Part I</strong>, Boby shares his battle against &#8220;<em>Muslim Rape Gangs in the U.K.&#8221; </em>and in <strong>Part II</strong>, he discusses his report on this horrifying phenomenon, <a href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Easy-Meat-Multiculturalism-Islam-and-Child-Sex-Slavery-05-03-2014.pdf"><em>‘Easy Meat,</em></a>&#8216; and takes us &#8220;<em>Inside the World of Muslim Rape Gangs&#8221;:</em></p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<title>Obama Delivers Empty Rhetoric About ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enemy isn’t exactly quaking in its boots.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239297" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/obama-450x329.jpg" alt="obama" width="278" height="203" /></a>President Obama took time out from his busy social schedule to present a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/20/statement-president">statement</a> Wednesday afternoon on the ISIS (or ISIL) beheading of a kidnapped American photojournalist. It was unsurprisingly full of empty rhetoric without any reference to <em>action</em>.</p>
<p>He began by announcing that “the entire world is appalled” by the murder of James Wright Foley – or as Obama referred to him repeatedly and familiarly, “Jim” (this has to be the first speech by Obama in which he referred to someone else more often than himself). Foley’s murder was “an act of violence that shocks the conscience of the entire world.” I don’t believe the President of the United States is authorized to speak for the entire world, but in any case there <em>is</em> a significant portion of the world that not only wasn’t shocked but has no conscience about the butchering of infidels, and that’s the problem that needs to be addressed.</p>
<p>But first, Obama eulogized Foley: “Jim was a journalist, a son, a brother, and a friend.” Such an intimate, even maudlin statement would be entirely suitable among friends and relatives at a funeral service but is frankly unworthy of a presidential announcement to the world. But Obama wasn’t done expressing his unconvincing grief: “All of us feel the ache of his absence. All of us mourn his loss.” Apparently Obama mourns by heading straight to the links for another round of golf, because that’s what he did immediately after he delivered this statement.</p>
<p>“We keep in our prayers those other Americans who are separated from their families,” he continued. Like U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who remains jailed in Mexico and has been separated from his family since late March? Keeping him in one’s prayers is a nice gesture but is no substitute for the President of the United States actually lifting a finger to bring that Marine home, something Obama hasn’t done.</p>
<p>He moved on to address the monsters behind Foley’s beheading and countless other sick atrocities. “Let’s be clear about ISIL,” said Obama, although we know by now that anytime Obama declares that he’s going to be clear about something, he’s just posturing at sounding authoritative. He acknowledged that “they have rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children, and subject them to torture and rape and slavery.” Then he purposefully notes that they have murdered Muslims by the thousands and “target Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering them when they can for no other reason than they practice a different religion.”</p>
<p>Yes – a religion <em>different from Islam</em>, but Obama didn’t make that connection. Instead, he declared that “ISIL speaks for no religion.” No? The <em>Islamic</em> State speaks for no religion? “Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” His language here is disingenuous, because of course Muslim fundamentalists have a different definition of “innocent” from ours, and they have never had a problem slaughtering less orthodox Muslims. “No just God would stand for what they did yesterday&#8230; ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings.”</p>
<p>He’s correct about that last part, and that the ideology is “nihilistic,” but he never says what that ideology <em>is</em>, only that it’s “bankrupt.” Is it bankrupt if it’s gaining adherents daily who are fanatically committed to the elimination of Western civilization? Obama claims that this undefined “ideology” has nothing to offer but “endless slavery to their empty vision, and the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior.” No argument there, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to implode on its own for lack of true believers. Too many feel that Islam has a very compelling vision, and that it is Western freedom that enslaves.</p>
<p>“People like this ultimately fail,” Obama declared with unfounded optimism. “They fail, because the future is won by those who build and not destroy.” Oh? Where is this guarantee written in stone? Because in the real world good doesn’t always win; history belongs to “the strong horse,” as bin Laden once put it, and right now ISIS and their ilk are far more confident than we are about to whom the future belongs. Of one thing we can be certain: the forces of evil and annihilation <em>will</em> win if “those who build” don’t get their civilized ass in gear and eradicate this nihilistic “ideology.”</p>
<p>And yet ultimately, Obama’s statement mentioned not a single action item, only pompous rhetoric: “The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans, anywhere, we do what’s necessary to see that justice is done.” Is there anyone here and abroad who still believes that America under Obama relentlessly protects and seeks justice for her citizens? Need I mention Benghazi?</p>
<p>Obama went on to urge the governments and people of the Middle East to unite in “a common effort to extract this cancer, so that it does not spread. There has to be a clear rejection of these kinds of nihilistic ideologies.” Yes, there has to be, but what is the President of the United States going to do to ensure that? “One thing we can all agree on is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century.” ISIS begs to differ. They believe it is America that has no place in the 21st century.</p>
<p>Before rushing off to the golf course, Obama closed with the vague promise “to confront this hateful terrorism and replace it with a sense of hope and civility. We will do everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.”</p>
<p>ISIS’ boastful response? “We will drown you in blood.”</p>
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		<title>The Fate of the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either it will become Christian again or it will become Muslim.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/burqa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239258" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/burqa-450x281.jpg" alt="burqa" width="264" height="165" /></a>It&#8217;s all very simple. We can&#8217;t fight Islam in the West without fighting the enablers of Islam in the West, namely the Leftists.</p>
<p>And, since the Left has many different and separate aspects, we have to fight against each one of them. Secularism, environmentalism, global warming alarmism, homosexualism, militant feminism, sexual relativism, multiculturalism, anti-Christianity, Islamophilia, post-nationalism, and internationalism are just as important targets to attack as Marxist economics, the expropriation of the capitalist class (or, in its modern reincarnation, redistribution of wealth), and the dictatorship of the proletariat.</p>
<p>Neglecting any of these fronts is like fighting a war leaving a battleground to the enemy, like fighting on the western front and leaving totally undefended the eastern one.</p>
<p>Secularism and atheism are certainly the first lines of important wars.</p>
<p>A secularist West will always lose to Islam, because it will have enough compassion, tolerance and self-restraint from violence that are the remnants of its Christian heritage, but it will have lost the ideals, the passion and certainty of fighting for a just cause that were once part of Christianity and have disappeared with its erosion.</p>
<p>Two quotes here serve as epigrams. Robert Spencer wrote in his great work &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985151/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1596985151&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=VIUQ2BVVVC5BLDYE">Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn&#8217;t</a>&#8220;: “People who are ashamed of their own culture will not defend it.” And Dennis Prager said during one of his radio broadcasts, “Only good religion can counter bad religion.”</p>
<p>Some people claim that there won&#8217;t be a religious revival in Europe because we are past believing in God. That this is not true can be seen by the high &#8211; and increasing – number of Westerners who convert to Islam. Many of them give as a reason for their <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/uk-converts-to-islam-on-rise.html">conversion</a> the need for absolutes, boundaries and well-defined status.</p>
<p>A journalist writing for <em>The Spectator</em> on this subject explained why she is Catholic:</p>
<blockquote><p>But above all, I like the moral certainties. I don’t mind the dogma one bit. I would rather dogma and impossible ideals than confusion and compromise. In that sense, I do identify with those who choose Islam over the way of no faith, or a seemingly uncertain faith, like the woolly old C of E.</p></blockquote>
<p>William Kilpatrick, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158617696X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=158617696X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=IPTTMC4C6AVOIXI3">Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</a> – a book I thoroughly recommend reading &#8211; writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Brian Young&#8217;s friends said he was troubled by the decadence of Western society. David Courtrailler&#8217;s lawyer said, “For David, Islam ordered his life.” These are the sorts of reasons ordinary converts to Islam give. A common refrain from converts is that Islam provides a complete plan for life in contrast to the ruleless and clueless life offered by secular society. As Mary Fallot, a young French convert, explains, “Islam demands a closeness to God. Islam is simpler, more rigorous, and it&#8217;s easier because it is explicit. I was looking for a framework; man needs rules and behavior to follow. Christianity did not give me the same reference points.” If you look at the convert testimonials on Muslim websites, they echo this refrain: Islam brings “peace”, “order”, “discipline”, and a way of life that Christianity and other religions fail to offer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Human beings will never be past the need for believing in something bigger than themselves, because that need is part of the human mind.</p>
<p>Today the Christian religion is being replaced by the worship of the Goddess earth, New Age beliefs, the cult of celebrities (not coincidentally sometimes called &#8220;idols&#8221;), a blind faith in science, in chance as the creator and motor of the universe and in the absence of God.</p>
<p>And, last but not least, by Islam, which is increasingly filling the vacuum left by Christianity.</p>
<p>It is not surprising that Western people who feel a spiritual need may embrace Islam more easily than Christianity, when the latter has been the butt of constant attacks, denigrations and ridicule for a very long time, increasing since the 1960s, while the former is continually &#8212; albeit seriously mistakenly &#8212; praised as a religion of peace, tolerance and great wisdom.</p>
<p>Christian clergy is often criticized, sometimes rightly and sometimes not. But we tend to forget that clergymen are human beings, with all their imperfections. They too have been subjected to many decades of Leftist indoctrination and brainwashing. Even they, by the mere fact of living in this society, have been influenced by its insanity.</p>
<p>We can expect guidance from our leaders, yes, but rather than castigating them we should make the first steps.</p>
<p>A clear direction was given by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy.</p>
<p>As early as 30 September 2000, before 9/11, when very few in the West even thought of worrying about Islam, he delivered a very <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/04/enza-ferreri-either-europe-will-become-christian-again-or-it-will-become-muslim">forward-looking speech</a>, which included this premonition:</p>
<blockquote><p>In an interview ten years ago, I was asked with great candor and with enviable optimism: “Are You among those who believe that Europe will either be Christian or cease to exist?” I think my answer then may well serve to conclude my speech today.</p>
<p>I think – I said – that either Europe will become Christian again or it will become Muslim. What I see without future is the “culture of nothing”, of freedom without limits and without content, of skepticism boasted as intellectual achievement, which seems to be the attitude largely dominant among European peoples, all more or less rich of means and poor of truths. This “culture of nothingness” (sustained by hedonism and libertarian insatiability) will not be able to withstand the ideological onslaught of Islam, which will not be missing: only the rediscovery of the Christian event as the only salvation for man – and therefore only a strong resurrection of the ancient soul of Europe – will offer a different outcome to this inevitable confrontation.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, neither “secularists” nor “Catholics” seem to have so far realized the tragedy that is looming. “Secularists”, opposing the Church in every way, do not realize that they are fighting against the strongest inspiration and the most effective defense of Western civilization and its values of rationality and freedom: they might realize it too late.</p></blockquote>
<p>An effect of the decline of Christian faith in Europe has been the strong decrease in birth rates, that are now below the population replacement level (the replacing – and then some &#8212; is done by Muslims). Why have babies when you feel that you don’t have anything valuable to pass on to them?</p>
<p>I remember a time when my friends and contemporaries of child-bearing age (but childless) were saying to me things to the effect that there was no point – indeed it was a crime to engage &#8212; in bringing people into this terrible world. This is the talk of faithless despair, no hope in this or another world, lack of belief.</p>
<p>Militant atheists à la Richard Dawkins have not really given enough thought to the long-term consequences of their ideas, which we are beginning to see.</p>
<p>And of which we are reminded whenever, for example, we read in the news of doctors and missionaries who die of Ebola while assisting affected patients for Christian charities. Not many atheist charities are involved in that work.</p>
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		<title>Obama: Islamic State “Speaks For No Religion&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ObamaKenya.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-239205" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ObamaKenya.jpg" alt="ObamaKenya" width="300" height="180" /></a>The imam Obama has spoken: “ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” Yet Islamic law mandates death for heretics and apostates, and that is what the Islamic State jihadis consider their Muslim victims to be. Also, the Qur’an teaches: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). James Foley was certainly an unbeliever, and one from a state with which the Islamic State considers itself to be at war — thus they did not consider him innocent.</p>
<p>Obama excuses and apologizes for Islam every time a jihadist atrocity affects the U.S. in some way. He would do far better to confront the Islamic State’s Islamic justifications for its actions and call on Muslims in the U.S. and elsewhere to teach against these understandings of Islam that they ostensibly reject. But he never does that, and apparently has no interest in doing it.</p>
<p>“Transcript: President Obama’s remarks on the execution of journalist James Foley by Islamic State,” <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-remarks-on-the-execution-of-journalist-james-foley-by-islamic-state/2014/08/20/f5a63802-2884-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>, August 20, 2014:</p>
<blockquote><p>President Obama delivered the following remarks in Martha’s Vineyard on the beheading of American journalist James Foley by the militant group Islamic State. Transcript courtesy of Federal News Service.</p>
<p>PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody.</p>
<p>Today, the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group ISIL. Jim was a journalist, a son, a brother and a friend. He reported from difficult and dangerous places, bearing witness to the lives of people a world away.</p>
<p>He was taken hostage nearly two years ago in Syria, and he was courageously reporting at the time on the conflict there. Jim was taken from us in an act of violence that shocked the conscience of the entire world. He was 40 years old, one of five siblings, the son of a mom and dad who worked tirelessly for his release. Earlier today, I spoke to the Foleys and told them that we are all heartbroken at their loss and join them in honoring Jim and all that he did.</p>
<p>Now, Jim Foley’s life stands in stark contrast to his killers. Let’s be clear about ISIL. They have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery. They have murdered Muslims, both Sunni and Shia, by the thousands. They target Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering them when they can, for no other reason than they practice a different religion.</p>
<p>They declared their ambition to commit genocide against an ancient people. So ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day. ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings. Their ideology is bankrupt. They may claim out of expediency that they are at war with the United States or the West, but the fact is they terrorize their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty vision and the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior.</p>
<p>People like this ultimately fail. They fail because the future is won by those who build and not destroy. The world is shaped by people like Jim Foley and the overwhelming majority of humanity who are appalled by those who killed him. The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans anywhere, we do what’s necessary to see that justice is done and we act against ISIL, standing alongside others. The people of Iraq, who with our support are taking the fight to ISIL must continue coming together to expel these terrorists from their community. The people of Syria, whose story Jim Foley told, do not deserve to live under the shadow of a tyrant or terrorists. They have our support in their pursuit of a future rooted in dignity.</p>
<p>From governments and peoples across the Middle East, there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so that it does not spread. There has to be a clear rejection of this kind of nihilistic ideologies. One thing we can all agree on is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century. Friends and allies around the world, we share a common security and a common set of values that are rooted in the opposite of what we saw yesterday. And we will continue to confront this hateful terrorism and replace it with a sense of hope and civility.</p>
<p>And that’s what Jim Foley stood for, a man who lived his word, who courageously told the stories of his fellow human beings, who was liked and loved by friends and family. Today, the American people will all say a prayer for those who loved Jim. All of us feel the ache of his absence. All of us morn his loss. We keep in our prayers those other Americans who are separated from their families. And we will do everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for. May God bless and keep Jim’s memory. And may God bless the United States of America.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Time for Europe’s Jews to Pack Up and Leave?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 04:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why normative Jewish life in Europe is unsustainable.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/europe-anti-semitism.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-234077" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/europe-anti-semitism.jpg" alt="europe-anti-semitism" width="250" height="200" /></a>The May 24, 2014 terrorist attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum that killed four people (including an Israeli couple) has spurred serious discussions about European anti-Semitism in European capitals and at the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels. The jihadist killer was a French Muslim of Arab North African extraction, named Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, who spent over a year in Syria, and had links with radical Islamists.</p>
<p>Earlier, in 2012, a horrible murder of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France committed by Mohammad Merah, a jihadist, North-African Arab Muslim, points to a pattern. Both Merah and Nemmouche had a history of petty crime, were radicalized in jail, and both were in touch with jihadists abroad, Merah in Afghanistan, and Nemmouche in Syria.</p>
<p>The leniency in which European authorities treat the radicals among their Muslim minorities has encouraged violence against Jews. Whether it is colonial or white guilt, fear of Islamic terror, or of being accused of Islamophobia, the EU tolerance, learned following the Holocaust, has been misdirected. Instead of protecting the victims of intolerance &#8211; the Jews &#8211; EU authorities are more interested in cultivating their radicalized jihadist Muslim constituents, regardless of the consequences.</p>
<p>In November, 2003, the European Union&#8217;s racism watchdog group, the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia, shelved a report on anti-Semitism which it had commissioned earlier from a Berlin-based research group. The center&#8217;s staff apparently objected to the study&#8217;s definition of anti-Semitism, which included some anti-Israeli rhetoric, and to its conclusion that Muslims and pro-Palestinian activists were largely responsible for anti-Jewish vandalism and violence. Yet the Commission saw nothing wrong with publishing a survey claiming that Israel was seen by Europeans as the greatest threat to world peace.</p>
<p>Gabriel Schoenfeld’s book “The Return of Anti-Semitism” (Encounter Books, 2005) documented the anti-Israel backlash that has often taken the form of physical attacks on Jews, including beatings of Jewish children in schools, assaults on Jews wearing religious garb in the streets, and vandalism against Jewish cemeteries and synagogues. But there is also the question of what Schoenfeld regards as a more “genteel” anti-Semitic bias perpetrated by progressive intellectuals. By depicting Zionism as a racist or imperialist creed, these progressive intellectuals are seeking to undermine the legitimacy of Israel, and holding it responsible not only for Palestinian suffering but also for Islamic terrorist attacks on the West.</p>
<p>The greatest threat to Jews in the West now comes from an unholy alliance of leftists and Islamists. The new anti-Semitism in the West, as Schoenfeld put it, usually begins with hostility toward Israel, but it does not stop there. By identifying prominent Jews as “Zionists,” and casting doubt on their allegiance to their native countries, and by attributing to them disproportionate power and influence, the new anti-Semitism has grown to monstrous proportions while cloaking itself in a mantle of political correctness.</p>
<p>The rise of anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews in Europe, and the simultaneous victories of fascist parties (France’s National Front, Greece’s neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, Hungary’s Jobbik Party, to name a few) in the recent European parliamentary elections, has prompted many European Jews to consider abandoning the continent where Six Million European Jews were murdered during WWII, better known as the Holocaust.</p>
<p>A 2012 survey on anti-Semitism conducted by the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) reveals that <a href="http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2013-discrimination-hate-crime-against-jews-eu-member-states_en.pdf">66%</a> of Jewish respondents (5847 Jews surveyed) said that anti-Semitism in Europe is increasing, particularly on the Internet. Two thirds of the respondents consider anti-Semitism to be a problem across the eight EU Member States surveyed (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Sweden and the UK). 76% of the respondents also believe that the situation has become more acute and that anti-Semitism has increased in the country where they live over the past five years. In the 12 months following the survey, close to half of the respondents worry about being verbally insulted or harassed in a public place because they are Jewish. Furthermore, 66% of parents of school-aged children worry that their children could be subjected to anti-Semitic verbal insults or harassment at school or en route, and 52% worry that they could be physically attacked with an anti-Semitic motive while at school or en route. In the past 12 months, over half of the survey’s respondents (57%) heard or saw someone claim that the Holocaust was a myth or that it has been exaggerated.</p>
<p>Simon Heffer, a British journalist who edits the <em>Daily Mail’s RightMinds</em> section, suggested last week (June 6, 2014) that Britain should offer asylum to European Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in continental Europe. He wrote, “Britain may have been shamefully slow in the Thirties to grant <a href="http://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2014/06/top-uk-editor-says-britain-should-grant.html">asylum</a> to Jews fleeing Hitler, but we should warmly welcome here those who are now seeking a new home.” He added that, “The shocking murder of four people at the Brussels’ Jewish Museum last week by a French Islamic extremist reflects an increase in anti-Semitism in Europe, and above all, in France, where there is a large Muslim population.”</p>
<p>Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, presenting the results of a study on worldwide anti-Semitism in 2013, on April 27, 2014 declared that “Normative <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Kantor-Amid-increasing-anti-Semitism-normative-Jewish-life-in-Europe-is-unsustainable-350545">Jewish life</a> in Europe is unsustainable.” Kantor asserted that “Jews do not feel safe or secure in certain communities in Europe.”</p>
<p>In a June, 2004 interview with the Jerusalem Post while on a visit to Israel, French-Jewish Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld suggested that French Jews should pack their bags and get out. He pointed out that “One of the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2004/06/25177/">lessons</a> of the Holocaust is that even if you want to fight against a wave of anti-Semitism, the best thing is to leave if you can.”</p>
<p>Things are unlikely to get better for Jews living in Europe. High unemployment, the result of economic stagnation, and the continued arrival of hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants from Africa and the Middle East can only mean the continued scapegoating of the Jewish diminishing minority. The growing electoral power of the Muslim community throughout Europe, and the political bonding between far-left and far-right parties with the Muslim community bodes ill for Jews. The failure of European societies to integrate the Muslim community cannot be ignored as a factor in producing anti-Jewish violence. The EU Member States policies that condemn Israel’s defensive measures against Palestinian terrorism, and the boycott of Israeli products, provide a backwind for both the Islamists and their allies in the far-left and far-right, and an excuse for violent anti-Jewish hate speech that ends up with deadly action. The media in the EU states has likewise been one-sided and biased in its coverage of Israel.</p>
<p>The EU must launch a widespread educational program that will instill the values of tolerance, empathy, and non-violence. Political-correctness is meaningless without a comprehensive coeducational campaign that will explore the common values shared by all religions. School children, both native French and immigrants, must be taught the history of anti-Semitism and the lessons of the Holocaust. And, last but not least, a fair and balanced presentation of Middle East realities is a prerequisite for a behavior change.</p>
<p>While the EU governments and politicians are busy conducting surveys, and at the same time pandering to their radicalized Muslim minorities, normative Jewish life in Europe is slowly disappearing, and for some, it is time to pack up and leave.</p>
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		<title>The Week Europe Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 04:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Widlanski]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And why Jews are leaving. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/po.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226709" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/po-450x253.jpg" alt="po" width="315" height="177" /></a>You may not have noticed, but, over the weekend, Europe died.</p>
<p>&#8220;The First World&#8221; basically succumbed to a long illness. It gave up the ghost as an economic force, as a culture and even as a continental political entity.</p>
<p>Here are two very different signs:</p>
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<li>&#8220;Anti-Europe&#8221; politicians swept to power in the European Union (EU) parliament on a crest anger at leftist EU bureaucrats who built up layers of regulation of daily life that are unpopular with millions of people;</li>
<li>A well-trained terror squad murdered four people in Brussels, the seat of the EU—only the latest episode of Jew-hatred in Europe&#8217;s greatest cities. from London, Paris, Toulouse, Marseilles, Copenhagen</li>
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<p>&#8220;Oh don&#8217;t worry about the Fascists and Right-wingers who won one small election, and don&#8217;t get alarmist about one incident of extremism,&#8221; say the feel-good crowd, but they are fooling themselves and trying to fool others.</p>
<p>The anti-EU vote in the European Parliament elections is not just a passing phase, and it is not just an eruption of  &#8220;fascist,&#8221; &#8220;nativist&#8221;  or &#8220;right-wing&#8221; emotions.</p>
<p>There is significant anti-EU feeling among responsible and intelligent people in many countries in Europe—people who have seen years of fat-cat EU politicians living in a  fantasy world  of statist theories that leave economic and social chaos.</p>
<p>Greece—a country that endlessly rewards incompetence and then gets bailed out—is a prime example.  Some Greeks get 14 monthly salaries in 12 months.</p>
<p>Official unemployment continues to rise in most European countries—England, France and even Germany—but the real  joblessness has climbed over 20-percent in countries like Spain.  Meanwhile, people in England, France and Germany no longer want to pay pensions for slack workers in Greece and Spain.</p>
<p>Frail European economies and the falling value of the Euro currency are not as disturbing as the collapsing values on the streets of London, Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Brussels.</p>
<p>Europe&#8217;s core cities  have become quite uncomfortable areas if you are not a Muslim immigrant. They are dangerous &#8220;no-go-zones&#8221; if you are visibly Jewish.</p>
<p>Slick salesmen coined the phrase &#8220;buy now, pay later,&#8221; and Europe is now paying.</p>
<p>Europe bought cheap manpower, importing young men from Pakistan, Morocco, Turkey to make up for the loss of European men in two bloody world wars.  It was acceptable as a short-term policy, but Europe got addicted to cheap Muslim labor.</p>
<p>Europe made this worse with its very low birth rates, then sped up the import of Muslims laborers, without educating them about European values and history. These men kept to the edge of society, becoming bitter: good recruits for crime and terror.</p>
<p>Then the EU tried to buy the affections of the young immigrants and their second-generation families with big welfare programs. But you cannot buy love or loyalty.</p>
<p>Many of the Muslims felt un-British, un-French, un-Swedish. They could speak the language, but they had no appreciation of living in a mixed modern society.</p>
<p>Instead, many Muslim immigrants reverted to the authoritarianism of their home cultures and their tribal values. Extremist Muslim preachers&#8211;dispatched years ago to the West by Saudi money—grabbed the chance to turn the disaffected Muslim workers into a crop of jihadis.</p>
<p>The first target of the jihadis today, like the first target of fascists and Nazis in the 1930&#8242;s, is the Jews. Jews are an easy target  and popular target.</p>
<p>But Jews are also a weather vein and a lightning rod. They tell us which way the wind is blowing, and they tell us a storm is coming. Jews are the default choice for hatred whether it is Hitler, Stalin or Osama Bin-Laden.</p>
<p>And the Jews have noticed. Jews are leaving Europe, and Europe will regret it. Nations  that welcome Jews get richer in many ways. (Check out the Nobel Prize list.) Countries that evict or kill their  Jews—whether the Spain of the Inquisition or the modern Arab states—get poorer.</p>
<p>The synagogues in Europe are mostly empty. Many of the Jewish sites in Europe are really memorials or museums, but it is Europe that will itself be just a memory.</p>
<p>Yes, it will take a few years, but it really happened this week.</p>
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		<title>IRA Demands Investigation of Pastor Who Compared Muslim Migrants to IRA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 17:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-protestant-preachers-remarks-about.html">I&#8217;m not sure why Sinn Fein</a> is complaining. They see the IRA as a good thing. They see Muslim migration as a good thing. Why would they <a href="http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/i-ll-go-to-prison-for-my-beliefs-says-hate-row-pastor-1-6074409">complain about comparing the two</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a potential hate crime after an evangelical Protestant preacher compared &#8220;cells&#8221; of Muslims in Britain to the IRA.</p>
<p>“In Muslim lands Christians are persecuted for their faith. Their homes are burned, their churches destroyed and hundreds of them literally have given their lives for Christ in martyrdom.&#8221;</p>
<p>Speaking on the BBC’s Stephen Nolan show, Pastor McConnell said he was raising awareness of the plight of a 27-year-old Christian in Sudan who faces the death sentence. The woman, who is the daughter of a Muslim man and is married to a Christian, was condemned for “apostasy” by a court.</p>
<p>The pastor added: “But the British Government, and the so-called watery clergymen, close their eyes to this evil that persists in our midst. It is called by our critics ‘the language of hate’.</p>
<p>“Enoch Powell was a prophet and he told us the blood would flow in the streets and it has happened. Fifteen years ago Britain was concerned of IRA cells. Right throughout the nation they done a deal with the IRA because they were frightened of being bombed. Today a new evil has arisen – there are cells of Muslims right throughout Britain.”<br />
Sinn Fein&#8217;s Mr McGuinness said police should hold a thorough investigation into the senior pastor&#8217;s comments. &#8220;Coming in the wake of a recent spate of disgraceful racist attacks against families in parts of Belfast and elsewhere, such inflammatory comments only serve to fuel hatred.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The attacks, according to the story, apparently consisted of two cases of graffiti. Or as the IRA would call, &#8220;kid stuff&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p>Pastor McConnell said: “I do not teach my people to have hate policies or to go and hurt people – definitely not.”</p>
<p>“Anybody that comes to our church sees the love that is in our church and the welcome in our church, sees the kindness in our church.</p>
<p>“We have helped people from Islam. We have helped them financially, we have helped them in other ways. We are not against them but we are against what they believe.</p>
<p>“If they had their way, I believe we would be persecuted even in Northern Ireland and particularly in Britain.”</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the public of Northern Ireland is fed up with all this stuff, when we have to treat everyone like cotton wool, and yet the people we are treating like cotton wool, in other lands wouldn’t let us breathe – wouldn’t give us a drink of water.&#8221;</p>
<p>“I will wait and see what the police say to me. I am prepared and if they put me in jail I will go to jail, but I will not retract what I have said,” he added.</p></blockquote>
<p>McConnell is actually wrong about the water part. Here&#8217;s what the Koran says will happen to non-Muslims in hell.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;As for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; and boiling water will be poured down on their heads, Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted.&#8221; (Koran 22)</p></blockquote>
<p>And if they run out of skin, Allah is going to make more skin. Because that&#8217;s the kind of homicidal serial killer he is.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every time their skins are roasted through We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment.  Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted in Might and Wise.” (Koran 4)</p></blockquote>
<p>Much like Hannibal Lecter.</p>
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		<title>Israel at 66: Not a Pariah, Not Isolated</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 04:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the future of the Jewish State remains bright.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lhg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225090" alt="lhg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lhg-450x306.jpg" width="315" height="214" /></a>As the modern state of Israel turned 66 this week, it is important to realize that, despite the dreary predictions to the contrary, Israel is not a pariah state, nor is it isolated.  However, voices inside and outside of Israel continue to espouse their gloom and doom forecast that failure of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians will increase Israel’s pariah status and/or lead them into isolation.  Yet, we don’t need to search very far to find those voices and examine what constituency they represent &#8211; since Tzippi Livni, Israel’s Justice Minister and chief negotiator, repeatedly makes this assertion.</p>
<p>She has said, “<a href="http://en.alalam.ir/news/1556638">peace negotiations</a> are the wall stopping the wave [of international boycott pressure],” and in 2013, “we are at the <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-may-face-isolation-if-peace-agreement-not-reached/">last minute</a> before isolation.”  In <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/kadima-leader-livni-israel-can-save-itself-from-global-isolation-1.294704">2010</a>, “Israel is becoming isolated from the world,&#8221; and indicted PM Netanyahu <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/livni-to-netanyahu-with-you-in-power-israel-is-a-pariah-state-1.264081">saying</a>, &#8220;since you took control, Israel has become a pariah country in the world.”</p>
<p>These statements, and other similar pronouncements, are never supported with data or backed up with facts.  However, Livni, other ‘friends’ of Israel and like-minded pundits believe that these types of statements, combined with pictures of fringe groups around the globe supporting BDS, is enough to scare the public into buying into their vision.</p>
<p>But, is Israel really isolated?  Even more so, what is the nature of the isolation which Livni, Kerry and others speak about?  They certainly haven’t elaborated on what they mean since their pronouncements lack factual support.   A country might be considered isolated when most other countries sever relations with them for an extended and indefinite period of time.  This might include a cessation of economic, diplomatic, cultural ties and/or an arms embargo.  This might also be coupled with UN Security Council sanctions (not to be mistaken for UNGA condemnations which carry absolutely no weight).  Since policymakers have made statements warning of isolation, it is important to refute those claims, lest they spread.</p>
<p>Prior to his visit to Israel in 2013, senior Chinese Communist Official in charge of information, media and culture, Liu Qibao, discussed <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Opening-a-new-chapter-in-the-China-Israel-relationship-329263">Chinese-Israel relations</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our bilateral relationship has grown robust and mature over the past 21 years of diplomatic relations…exchange of visits between senior officials is frequent…trade and economic ties grow fast. China is now Israel’s largest trading partner in Asia…Cooperation in science and technology is fruitful. Cultural and people-to-people exchanges are more and more active…China-Israel relationship will undoubtedly embrace a bright future.</p></blockquote>
<p>Throughout the whole interview the Israeli-Arab conflict was not mentioned once.  And while there might be calls for boycott and divestment in Israel China not only hasn’t joined those calls, but is also going ahead with the <a href="http://www.dw.de/china-seeks-strategic-foothold-in-israel/a-17507052">Red-Med</a> project to build a railroad from Eilat to Ashdod.</p>
<p>Israel-Indian ties also continue to grow stronger.  Israel is India’s second largest supplier of <a href="http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/india-israel-defense-cooperation/">arms </a>after Russia with bi-lateral arms trade over the last decade estimated at $10 billion.  <a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-12/news/30619683_1_unforgettable-leaders-bilateral-ties-israeli-president">India’s foreign minister</a> Krishna visited Israel in 2012, and the visit of the <a href="http://www.tlvfaces.com/indias-military-chief-concludes-visit-israel/">Chief of Staff</a> of India’s army, Maj. Gen. Bikram Singh, to Israel in March, 2014, focused on joint cooperation.  Israel currently has more than <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/16/the-future-of-the-india-israel-relationship.html">27 agricultural projects</a> with India and will be sponsoring more than 100 post-doctoral scholarships for Indians in Israel.  Additionally, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/india-2014-elections-narendra-modi-israels-best-friend-south-asia-1561837">Narendra Modi</a>, head of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), and likely the next Prime Minister of India, has long courted political and economic ties with Israel.</p>
<p>Both India and China, as Professor Efraim Inbar <a href="http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/MSPS99Eng.pdf">wrote</a>, “treat the Jewish State with reverence as they see in it a similar old civilization that reached remarkable achievements.”</p>
<p>Russia is very interested in Israel’s high-tech and especially its UAVs.  [President] <a href="http://english.dohainstitute.org/release/ca69e135-b737-40ce-b72c-58e0ff50787a">Putin</a> has already visited Israel twice and the last four Israeli Prime Ministers, as well as Shimon Peres, FM Lieberman and Defense Minister, Ehud Barak have all been to Moscow in their official capacity.  In 2010, Russia and Israel signed an agreement for <a href="http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15455.php">bilateral cooperation</a> in industrial scientific-research and design-experimental work, and the following year, Israel and Russia agreed to expand <a href="http://voiceofrussia.com/2011/03/28/48091534/">space cooperation</a>, and joint cooperation in the sciences and nanotechnology continue.</p>
<p>In Central Asia, Israel has strong relationships with Kazakhstan, with whom they entered into an <a href="http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/01/21/kazakhstan-is-latest-central-asian-state-to-sign-defense-accord-with-israel/">agreement</a> for defense exports and joint cooperation in January, 2014.  Azerbaijan, neighboring Iran, is a country with good economic and political relations with Israel, whose <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-03-030513.html">foreign minister</a> visited Israel last year. It has even been speculated that Israel might use Azerbaijan airfields to attack Iran.</p>
<p>“Praise to Allah and Israeli doctors” is a phrase that could be commonly heard in Nukus, the capital of Karakalapakstan (an autonomous republic in Uzbekistan), where a few years ago, <a href="http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutTheMinistry/Events/Pages/Recent%20MASHAV%20activities%20in%20Uzbekistan%20Dec%202006.aspx">Israeli surgeons</a> restored eyesight to 150 people who were either blind or had a severe cataract condition.  In <a href="http://www.gmfus.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files_mf/1342636966Laruelle_IsraelCentralAsia_Jul12.pdf">Uzbekistan</a>, Israel also has programs in medical training, agriculture and high-tech.  The <a href="http://www.gmfus.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files_mf/1342636966Laruelle_IsraelCentralAsia_Jul12.pdf">GMF foreign policy report</a> summarized the relationship saying, “even though they consider Palestinian claims legitimate, the Central Asian states hope for Israel’s increased involvement in the region, especially in terms of state and private trade, and growing security oriented cooperation in the arms and high technology sectors.”</p>
<p>South Korea, whose sees in itself many geo-political similarities with Israel, also has a prosperous relationship with Israel.  Trade between Israel and South Korea is approximately $2.5 billion annually. Additionally, the interactions between the two countries include <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Strategic-dimensions-of-Israel-S-Korea-relations">security cooperation</a>, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/South-Korea-sees-Israel-as-partner-in-security-and-peace">economic ties</a>, technology cooperation, and exchanges between policy institutes.   Recently, the Korea-Israel High-Tech Network <a href="http://usasearch.dainfo.com/Industries_KR_IL_Companies/Template1/Pages/StartSearchPage.aspx">website</a> was launched, which will facilitate connections and the creation of joint ventures between Israeli and South Korean companies.</p>
<p>While Europe might be Israel’s toughest arena, they also have many friends there.  Just last month, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/A-common-destiny-Strengthening-relations-between-Israel-and-Europe-340259">24 leading European Parliamentarians</a> from eleven European countries, including five deputy speakers met with their Israeli counterparts to find out how they can support Israel in the European arena.  On the website of the Polish embassy in Israel, the <a href="http://telawiw.msz.gov.pl/en/bilateral_cooperation/">bi-lateral relations page</a> is titled: “Extraordinary Cooperation Between Poland and Israel.” The article goes on to mention that in 2011, Israel and Polish relations were upgraded to the highest possible government-to-government dialogue.</p>
<p>When David Cameron visited Israel last month, he <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26526096">rejected</a> all calls for boycotts to Israel saying, “Britain opposes boycotts…Delegitimising the state of Israel is wrong. It&#8217;s abhorrent. And together we will defeat it.”</p>
<p>In addition to all of the above, Israel’ most important friend and ally remains the United States.  Yet, even its relationship with the United States, only started to blossom during President Eisenhower’s second term when he began to see Israel as a strategic asset, instead of a liability.  As this perspective shift happened, Eisenhower’s rhetoric concerning territorial compromises to the Arabs began to abate.  The following anecdote epitomizes the solid foundations of US-Israel relations.  In <a href="http://data.statesmanship.org.il/site/2014/US%20aid%20to%20Israel%20new.pdf">May 1998</a>, it was reported that President Clinton had issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Netanyahu to cede certain territories to the Palestinians. Congressman from all sides of the aisle came out swinging condemning the White House,  called the administration&#8217;s initiative absolutely outrageous and extortion.  Other Congressman remarked that regarding the peace process Congress is on Israel’s side, ‘come what may’, and that no matter what pressures the administration applies to Netanyahu, the Israeli leader is on firm ground with Congress.</p>
<p>So, given the strong ties Israel has with many countries, what isolation are Kerry and Livni talking about?  Many of Israel’s relationships with countries worldwide are built on foundations of mutual interest, not capricious, erratic diplomatic support.  One wonders if John Kerry’s statements concerning isolation are a self-fulfilling prophecy, and for Livni, they speak of her frustration at not being received warmly in her favorite European capitals.</p>
<p>Abba Eban, in his book <i>Personal Witness</i>, mentions that as the new President of the Weizmann Institute he was always looking for new initiatives. In 1960, he organized the “Rehovot Conference on the Role of Science and Technology in Developing States.” The purpose of the conference was to organize periodic encounters between leaders in science and technology and those who determine the policies of new states.  Eban believed that science could help accelerate the development of new states, and that the scientists could be challenged to tackle some of the real problems facing society, thus creating a reciprocal advantage.</p>
<p>When Eban proposed the conference, one could truly say that Israel was isolated.  During the greater part of the 1950s the only world leader to visit Israel was the Prime Minister of Burma, U Nu, as most heads of state looked to safeguard their interests in the Arab world, and hence avoided visiting Israel. However, Eban writes, the conference drew, “prime ministers, foreign ministers, economic ministers, directors of development, and leading educators from thirty countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, together with heads of UN specialized agencies, representatives of leading United Nations bodies, renowned scientists and Nobel Laureates.”</p>
<p>The response to the conference was so overwhelming that Prime Minister Ben Gurion, in a speech to the Knesset, wondered how a private citizen (Eban) was able to bring more leaders of states and Nobel Prize winners to Israel than any of the government ministries.  Golda Meir, in her autobiography, remarked that the Rehovot Conference was something of a breakthrough in Israel’s international relations. In Eban’s own words, “The Rehovot Conference helped to take Israel out of diplomatic isolation.”</p>
<p>International relations are driven by common interests, projects, and reciprocal advantages that countries can provide to each another.  Diplomats who think that international relations is based only on cocktail parties, empty slogans, and joint press conferences where government ministers take turns embellishing on their countries “common values and aspirations” have missed the boat.</p>
<p>Israel is not a pariah, nor is it isolated.  Attempts by its own Ministers or by those who pose as friends of Israel to make such a claim is deplorable and self-serving.   As Israel’s economic strength continues to rise, so will its standing worldwide, and as more countries join the war against radical Muslims, Israel will be more sought out.  The future for Israel remains bright!</p>
<p><i>Gideon Israel is a research analyst for Sohlberg Consulting and </i><i>the</i><i> author of a comprehensive policy paper on the </i><a href="http://data.statesmanship.org.il/site/2014/US%20aid%20to%20Israel%20new.pdf"><i>US aid to Israel</i></a><i>.  </i></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pic_giant_122413_SM_Persecution-at-Christmastime1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216840" alt="pic_giant_122413_SM_Persecution-at-Christmastime" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pic_giant_122413_SM_Persecution-at-Christmastime1.jpg" width="307" height="240" /></a>Open Doors USA recently released its widely cited <a href="http://www.worldwatchlist.us/?utm_source=opendoorsusa.org&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=wwl&amp;utm_content=homepage-banner">2014 World Watch List</a>—a report that highlights and ranks the 50 worst nations around the globe persecuting Christians.</p>
<p>The one glaring fact that emerges from this report is that the overwhelming majority of Christian persecution around the world today is being committed at the hands of Muslims of all races, languages, cultures, and socio-political circumstances: Muslims from among America’s allies (Saudi Arabia) and its enemies (Iran); Muslims from economically rich nations (Qatar) and from poor nations (Somalia and Yemen); Muslims from “Islamic republic” nations (Afghanistan) and from “moderate” nations (Malaysia and Indonesia); Muslims from nations rescued by America (Kuwait) and Muslims claiming “grievances” against America (fill in the blank __).</p>
<p>A common denominator, a pattern, exists, one that is even more extensive than Open Doors implies. <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/37-muslim-nations-persecuting-christians/">According</a> to that organization’s communications director, Emily Fuentes, “of the 50 worst nations for persecution, 37 of them are Muslim,” or 74%.</p>
<p>In fact, while this number suggests that the other 13 countries making the top 50 are not Muslim—for example Kenya and Ethiopia—those doing the persecution there are.</p>
<p>In other words, those persecuting Christians in 41 of 50 nations are Muslims; that is, a whopping 82% of all persecution around the globe is being committed by the adherents of Islam—sometimes in Christian majority nations; for example, the Central African Republic which, after the 2013 Islamic takeover, now ranks #16, “severe persecution” (the Christian-majority nation did not even appear in the previous year’s top 50).</p>
<p>As for the top ten absolute worst nations, where, according to the 2014 World Watch List, Christians suffer “extreme persecution,” nine—that is, 90%—are Muslim.  (Indeed, <a href="http://www.worldwatchlist.us/?utm_source=opendoorsusa.org&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=wwl&amp;utm_content=homepage-banner">Open Doors’ global map of Christian persecution</a> can easily be confused with a <a href="http://site.muslimclothing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/World_Muslim_Population_Map.png">global map of the Islamic world</a>, with the exception of China (ranked 37, “moderate persecution”) and some sporadic countries dominated by crime and godless tyranny (Columbia, North Korea, etc.)</p>
<p>Similarly, a recent Morning Star News report <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/01/morning-star-news-top-10-persecution-stories-of-2013/">listing</a> 2013’s ten most horrific anecdotes of Christian persecution around the world finds that nine out of ten—again, 90%—were committed at the hands of those professing Islam.</p>
<p>Still, considering that the 2014 World Watch List ranks North Korea—non-Islamic, communist—as the number one worst persecutor of Christians, why belabor the religious identity of Muslims?</p>
<p>Here we come to some critically important but blurred distinctions.   While Christians are indeed suffering extreme persecution in North Korea, these fall into the realm of the temporal, the aberrant, even.  Something as simple as overthrowing the North Korean regime would likely end persecution there almost overnight—just as the fall of Communist Soviet Union saw religious persecution come to a quick close.</p>
<p>In the Islamic world, however, a similar scenario would not alleviate the sufferings of Christians by an iota.  Quite the opposite; where dictators fall—Saddam in Iraq, Mubarak in Egypt, Qaddafi in Libya, and ongoing attempts to oust Assad in Syria—Christian persecution rises.</p>
<p>The reason for this dichotomy is that Christian persecution by non-Muslims (mostly communists) is often rooted to a temporal regime or ideology.  Conversely, Muslim persecution of Christians is perennial, existential, and far transcends this or that regime or ruler.  It is part and parcel of the history, doctrines, and socio-political makeup of Islam—hence its tenacity; hence its ubiquity.</p>
<p>Still, the significance of all this is often overlooked.  Thus, “Dr. David Curry, CEO and president of Open Doors USA, told The Blaze ‘Not every circumstance is the same. For example, in North Korea, you have a quasi-Stalinist government that is the most difficult place to call yourself a Christian on the planet — and has been for the last 12 years,’ he noted.  But while North Korea’s government is the real culprit, in places like Iraq, ‘roving extremist groups’ are waging attacks against Christians, while government officials are seemingly powerless to stop the carnage, he explained.”</p>
<p>True; but atheistic Stalinism/communism is a relatively new phenomenon—about a century old—and, over the years, its rule (if not variants of its ideology) has greatly waned, so that only a handful of nations today are communist.</p>
<p>On the other hand, “roving extremist groups” (also known in other contexts and countries as “Islamists,” “terrorists,” “mujahidin,” “mobs,” “radicals,” “people-with-grievances,” etc.) attacking and killing “infidel” Christians have been around since the dawn of Islam.  <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/">It is a well-documented, even if suppressed, history</a>.</p>
<p>To further understand the differences between temporal and existential persecution, consider: Russia, once a staunch Orthodox Christian nation, led the communist movement and persecuted its own Christians; yet today, a century later, it is becoming more orthodox again, prominent among Western nations for <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/russian-patriarch-to-obama-syrias-christians-nearing-extermination/">showing support for persecuted Christians</a>.</p>
<p>North Korea—where its leader, Kim Jong-Un, is worshipped as a god and the people are shielded from reality, including outside their borders—seems to be experiencing what Russia did under the Soviet Union and thus living in a delusional state.</p>
<p>But if the once mighty USSR could not persevere, surely it’s a matter of time before tiny North Korea’s walls also come crumbling down, with the resulting religious freedom that former communist nations have experienced. (Tellingly, the only countries that were part of the USSR that still persecute Christians are Muslim, such as Uzbekistan, ranked #15, “severe persecution,” and Turkmenistan, ranked #20, also “severe persecution.”)</p>
<p>Time, however, is not on the side of Christians living amid Muslims; quite the opposite. Since the 7<sup>th</sup> century, when Islam came into being, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-historical-reality-of-the-muslim-conquests/">Muslims have been invading and conquering Christian lands</a>, so that more than half of the territory that was once Christian in the 7<sup>th</sup> century—including all of North Africa and the Levant—are today the heart of the “Muslim world.”</p>
<p>Muslim persecution of Christians exists in 41 nations today as part of a continuum that started nearly 14 centuries ago.  As I document 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"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians</i></a>, the very same patterns of Christian persecution prevalent throughout the Muslim world today are often identical to those from centuries past.  The facts speak for themselves.</p>
<p>A final consideration: North Korea, the one non-Muslim nation making the top ten worst persecutors list, is governed by what is widely seen as an unbalanced megalomaniac (hence the “aberrant” persecution); conversely, the other nine nations are not dominated by any “cults-of-personalities” and are ruled under a variety of governance, including parliamentarian democracies (Iraq), republics (Maldives, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen), Islamic republics (Afghanistan, Iran),  and monarchies (Saudi Arabia).</p>
<p>The common denominator is that they are all Islamic nations.</p>
<p>Thus, long after North Korea’s psychotic Kim Jong-Un has gone the way of the dodo, Islam will still be here and—short of a miraculous “reformation”—still treating Christians and other “infidels” like it did for centuries.</p>
<p>Confronting this understandably discomforting and better-left-unsaid fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, however, while some are willing to point out that Christians are being persecuted around the Muslim world—<i>why</i> that is the case, <i>why</i> 82% of the world’s persecution is committed by Muslims from a variety of backgrounds and circumstances—is the great elephant in the room that few wish to address.  For doing so would cause some long held and cherished premises of the modern West to come crashing down.</p>
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		<title>Germany&#8217;s Sharia No-Go Zones</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Harrod]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disturbing reality Western media ignore. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/f5fb0eabefc48b7b9aaedb1aa38f647b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210244" alt="f5fb0eabefc48b7b9aaedb1aa38f647b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/f5fb0eabefc48b7b9aaedb1aa38f647b-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>“To mark No Go Areas, that is to say law-free areas with high danger potential, is nothing unusual,” <a href="http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/Taten-statt-Phrasen-article1177916.html" target="_blank">Rüdiger Franz of Bonn, Germany’s General Anzeiger (GA) newspaper wrote</a>, as travel guide entries for cities such as Detroit, Istanbul, Johannesburg, or Mogadishu show.  Considerable controversy, however, ensued after a language school posted an Internet No Go Area map of Bonn and environs, drawing ongoing, often unwelcome attention to the problems Germany’s once serene former capital faces from newly arrived Muslim immigrants.</p>
<p>The No Go map at the website of the <a href="http://www.steinke-institut.de/institut.htm" target="_blank">Steinke Institut</a> (SI) language school’s Bonn branch first drew significant public interest at the conservative German website <a href="http://www.pi-news.net/2013/07/wo-man-in-bonn-besser-nicht-hinzieht/" target="_blank">Politically Incorrect</a> (PI) with a July 18, 2013, entry. Attention only grew in the following weeks with an “unexpectedly large echo” of about 50 Bonn residents contacting SI with approval, queries, and criticism, as an <a href="http://www.nogoareas.de/nogobonn.htm" target="_blank">SI Internet statement</a> at the beginning of September noted.</p>
<p>SI explained therein the school’s emphasis on teaching German as a foreign language to students “from the entire world.”  The No Go map resulted “exclusively” from some 250 such students reporting in the last six years “extremely negative experiences”  in various Bonn neighborhoods, with over 80% of the reports agreeing upon the map’s red-marked problem zones.  SI elaborated that these “negative experiences” entailed harassment of women, theft, robbery, break-ins, assaults, and insults.</p>
<p>In contrast to the suspicions of “some concerned callers” at SI, these experiences had no “Neo-Nazi context.”  Rather, “above all” East Asian and East European students “had made pertinent experiences with adolescents, who almost exclusively seem to have an immigration background.”  A landlord from Bonn’s Bad Godesberg (BadGo) suburb confirmed in an <a href="http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/bad-godesberg/Warnhinweise-loesen-lebhafte-Diskussion-aus-article1177743.html#plx1117388483" target="_blank">October 23, 2013, GA article</a> that many of her young renters suffered harassment from immigrants, particularly women, for “supposedly too short skirts and the wearing of shorts.” SI teaching personnel, many of whom “themselves live in these same city areas and are very often themselves connected with a partner with an immigrant background,” likewise agreed with the students, SI noted.  On the other hand, the “overwhelming majority of the language students had a thoroughly positive impression of the German and/or as German perceived citizens of Bonn and confirm therefore the image of Bonn as a tolerant and cosmopolitan city.”</p>
<p>For each red zone on SI’s map, SI sought confirmation in the media and linked many of these articles to the statement.  A <a href="http://www.pi-news.net/2013/10/neues-von-den-bonner-no-go-areas/" target="_blank">subsequent PI entry</a> criticized that SI “did not trust itself to name clearly what special kind of immigrants are responsible” for a “negative Germany image” among “peaceful and diligent foreign German learners.” Yet the linked “gruesome news reports” allowed an “unbiased observer” to surmise that the criticisms “all somehow had something to do with the I-word,” namely Islam.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/beuel/50-Taten-gemeldet-Jugendbande-in-Beuel-weiter-aktiv-article1030152.html" target="_blank">April 16, 2013, GA article</a>, for example, noted in general that Bonn area “investigators and judges no longer conceal” that “more than 90% of all youth criminality is perpetrated by youth with an immigration background.” An earlier <a href="http://www.express.de/bonn/sie-nennen-sich--bad-go--die-gruselkinder-von-bad-godesberg,2860,624094.html" target="_blank">August 30, 2007, article</a> in a regional boulevard paper, meanwhile, discussed the “Bad Go” gang in BadGo comprised of young adolescents “mostly from Arab families.” During a television report about the gang, one of the youths had discussed Hezbollah and how “you only come into paradise when the Israelis fight against you…and you then kill them…holy war, so to speak.”</p>
<p>A subsequent <a href="http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article4993393/Vom-schicken-Diplomatenviertel-zur-No-Go-Area.html" target="_blank">October 27, 2009, article</a> in Germany’s conservative Die Welt newspaper elaborated BadGo’s development from a “pretty city area” to “tough streets” as one of the “crass consequences” of the capital’s move from Bonn to Berlin.  Although Die Welt rejected equivalency with the Bronx, Berlin’s Neukölln, or notorious Paris suburbs, nonetheless “‘BadGo’ had become for many a ‘NoGo.’”  Die Welt described a “new conflict” in BadGo in which “immigrant children, who see themselves as disadvantaged losers, take up position against elite offspring from well-to-do homes.” One anonymous 17-year-old college preparatory student, for example, discussed avoiding BadGo where “Kanaken” (a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanake" target="_blank">German derogatory term</a> for South Europeans, Turks, and other majority-Muslim peoples) lie in wait to mug.</p>
<p>In particular, <a href="http://www.mueller-muench-web.de/uber-mich/" target="_blank">Ingrid Müller-Münch</a>, the author of a <a href="http://www.mueller-muench-web.de/2009/10/zwei-welten-protokolle-aus-einer-stadt-im-wandel-emons-verlag-2009/" target="_blank">2009 book on BadGo</a> discussed by Die Welt, described at the book’s homepage a gang assault upon a preparatory school summer pre-graduation party.  Gang members suddenly emerged from cars and assaulted celebrating seniors in a public park with baseball bats, knives, and crowbars, taking cellphones and money while leaving behind bruises.  Rather than an “isolated incident,” this attack is one of several in which “pre-graduation parties are downright stormed and messed up.” Graduating seniors accordingly fear publicly announcing their parties.</p>
<p>In this environment, Die Welt reported, “immigrant youth gangs, whose tone is determined by Gangsta Rap and Kanaken-German and who proudly name themselves ‘foreigners,’ want to profile themselves with violence.” “What is mostly treated as a taboo is clearly spoken here” among the individuals interviewed by Die Welt:  “Youth with an ‘immigrant background’ are—in their own estimate—more violence prone than Germans.  The German hierarchy of law and values is not recognized.” As one 19-year-old of Syrian-Kurdish background stated, “I do not say that the Germans are weak, but they are not confident like the foreigners to punch away &#8230; They only go to their parents and say, that guy hit me.”</p>
<p>The “city picture portrays the chasm,” as retired diplomats and ministerial officials, along with other individuals of means, continue to live in BadGo.  “The wife of an ex-diplomat shares the pedestrian zone with a veiled Muslim or a Moroccan in traditional caftan.  Not far from Gründerzeit villas there are shops like from the Orient, döner, and trash.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nogoareas.de/nogobonn_zuschriften.htm" target="_blank">Individual emails and phone calls to SI</a> only further confirmed the media reports.  By October 26, 2013, SI had recorded ten positive phone calls in response to the No Go map, opposed to 11 negative calls, but 129 positive emails to 6 negative.  SI posted online email extracts with permission of their authors and their initials.</p>
<p>One G.G. condemned the “absolute scandal”  that “certain population groups” rejected the “rules of a peaceful communal life.”  F.O. likewise referenced the “same group of persons” and F.K. wrote of “Germans and foreigners fearing (certain) foreigners.”  G.G. distinctly contrasted these immigrants living in “parallel societies” and enjoying “evidently the particular protection of the multi-culti faction in Bonn” with the “curiosity and politeness” of SI’s foreign students.</p>
<p>Reflecting comments by G.G., F.W. criticized that “critical consideration of ‘problems’ with ‘foreigners’ is politically avoided as much as possible” due to accusations of “rightwing thinking” and “populism.” C.H. likewise complained of such a taboo with respect to a “certain group of persons” that “always causes more and disproportionately many problems.” Yet D.W. condemned as “treason against one’s own people” and “extremely criminal” that “in Germany it may no longer be warned against dangers if these come from certain cultural circles.”</p>
<p>Foreigners such as T.C. confirmed that Bonn’s No Go areas concerned not just Germans.  T.C. wrote of his two nieces visiting from the home country suffering sexual harassment during a walk through BadGo.  The BadGo landlord N.R. similarly wrote of a “very nice” and “super integrated” Turkish married couple that simply could not accept their neighborhood environment after a half-year of renting.  N.R.’s only prospective purchaser for a BadGo dwelling was also an “investor from the Orient” who demanded a 20% price rebate.</p>
<p>Not everyone, though, approved of SI’s map.  BadGo’s district mayor, <a href="http://www.cdu-godesberg.de/asf/?link=persoenlich" target="_blank">Annette Schwolen-Flümann</a>, for example, considered the map in an <a href="http://www.cdu-godesberg.de/asf/?link=aktuell" target="_blank">October 22, 2013</a>, letter “not constructive for objectively and sensitively informing foreign guests about the circumstances in our city.” “In Bonn you can go everywhere,” <a href="http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/Steinke-Institut-warnt-mit-Karte-vor-Strassengewalt-article1177109.html?&amp;i=0" target="_blank">police spokesperson Daniela Lindemann concurred</a> while noting a Bonn decrease in crime since 2012, “generalization does not do justice to reality.” More ominously, an anonymous caller who claimed to be an influential city official threatened to remove SI from the city list of immigrant integration course contractors, although SI had abandoned these courses in 2009.</p>
<p>Himself an immigrant of unspecified origins, SI director <a href="http://ef-magazin.de/autor/david-schah" target="_blank">David Schah</a> responded to these criticisms in an <a href="http://www.nogoareas.de/nogobonn_pressemitteilung_2013_10_28.htm" target="_blank">October 28, 2013, press release</a>.  Schah rejected Stamp’s demand for the map removal given support from the “overwhelming majority” of Bonn citizen responses that often described the map as a “symbol for the discrepancy between public and officially published opinion concerning the security situation in Bonn.” With respect to aiding “rightwing…populists,” the press release noted that ignorance of an “evidently widespread insecurity feeling” among citizens would lead to “their revenge at the ballot box.”</p>
<p>Schah in short advocated an unhindered discussion of immigration’s many, sometimes problematical facets in Bonn.  As Bonn and the rest of Europe show, such discussions are desperately needed.  Rather than experiencing a trouble-free post-Cold War “End of History” in a united global village of peace and prosperity, Germany’s former capital indicates the various culture clashes to come as peoples of differing means and mores come closer together.</p>
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		<title>The Western Left’s Fatwa Against Muslim Liberals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 04:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karima Bennoune delivers a stunning telegram to progressives about their betrayal of the Arab Left.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/fatwa1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-208078" alt="fatwa1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/fatwa1.jpg" width="300" height="300" /></a>Since September 11, the alliance between the Saudi and Muslim Brotherhood front groups and the Western Left has become ubiquitous. It’s impossible to read a paper or watch the evening news without encountering representatives of both groups delivering the familiar homilies about foreign policy, the tiny minority of Muslim extremists and the infinite Muslim moderates victimized by Islamophobia.</p>
<p>At first glance Karima Bennoune’s<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Fatwa-Does-Apply-Here/dp/0393081583"> <i>Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here</i> </a>appears to fit seamlessly into that mold. Bennoune is a University of California professor and former Amnesty International activist writing a book billed as a tale of how moderate Muslims are resisting Islamic fundamentalism. But Bennoune’s book is really something else; it’s a telegram for the Western left from the forgotten Arab left.</p>
<p>The Western left has abandoned its Arab stepchildren. It has found it convenient to forget that all the Arab Communists, Trotskyites, Socialists and assorted intellectuals of the left ever existed.  But that did not mean that the Arab left stopped existing.</p>
<p>The backlash against Morsi caught Western liberals by surprise because it did not fit a region they had compressed in their minds into American puppets and Islamic populists. It was a leftist formula that ironically did not take into account the local left. The Western left still refuses to deal with the events in Egypt as anything but a military coup; completely disregarding the populist muscle from the Arab left.</p>
<p>The Hitler-Stalin pact between the Western left and the Islamist organizations turned the Arab left into non-persons who are ignored unless they play into the Western preconceived narrative about Islam.</p>
<p>Karima Bennoune understands that and <i>Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here</i> is carefully packaged in the moderate Muslim formula. Bennoune speaks of people of “Muslim Heritage” to maintain appearances, but the bulk of her heroes and heroines are as secular as her. What she is really writing about is the social struggle between the Arab Left and its Islamists allies and enemies.</p>
<p>If Bennoune occasionally sounds like a Western conservative, denouncing the Western left for drinking the “multicultural Kool-Aid”; it’s because they both share a common enemy in the Islamic populism funded by Saudi oil money and championed by Muslim Brotherhood front groups that is overrunning the West and the Middle East.</p>
<p>The alliance that Bennoune describes as the liberal “tactical alliance with the Muslim right against the Western right wing” is the background to her book. It’s that audience of Western liberals who have issued their own Fatwa against the Arab left whom she is trying to reach with personal stories of the struggle against the imposition of Islamic law; including her own story and the story of her father.</p>
<p>Karima Bennoune is a talented writer and if <i>Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here </i>follows a familiar enough formula from countless other books about the region, she is taking her liberal readers beyond Malala territory and showing them Muslim women who reject the Hijab and Muslim men who reject much of what passes for Islamic law, and if her Muslim men and women are about as religious as many of her readers, that should only make them easier to relate to as she guides Western college students into rejecting the Islamist narrative.</p>
<p>It’s that narrative, that the imposition of Islam is a human right rather than an atrocity, that Muslim women want to veil, that Muslim terrorism is a reaction to American foreign policy, that Bennoune is really trying to challenge by attacking it with personal narratives and the struggle of entire societies.</p>
<p>Western liberals are always on the lookout for books that will make them see the world in a whole new way and <i>Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here </i>certainly performs that function, but<i> </i>what the University of California professor is really trying to do is deprogram liberal readers who have absorbed too many trite lectures on Islamophobia from Muslim Brotherhood activists.</p>
<p>Outwardly <i>Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here </i>may be packaged to fit into the moderate Muslim narrative, but inside it often becomes as direct and abrasive as its title. “Fundamentalism will not win, even if they say, ‘Allahu akbar’ all day long,” she quotes her mother as saying. “Who will be Muslim after they have killed everyone?” another woman says even more directly to the point.</p>
<p>Moments like these crystallize<i> Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here</i> as a book about resistance. Beneath the familiar pattern of travelogues and interviews, is the same spirit of defiance projected by women like Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Firoozeh Bazrafkan. It’s doubtful that Karima Bennoune would want to be included in that list, if only because it would mean abandoning any influence she has on the left.</p>
<p>And yet that abandonment may be inevitable. The Western left seems far more interested in Hassan Rouhani  than in Marjane Satrapi. It is far more interested in talking about discrimination against Muslim women who wear Hijabs than about the Muslim discrimination of women being forced to wear Hijabs.</p>
<p>Bennoune writes passionately and well, but few in the Western left want to hear anything bad about fundamentalism unless it involves the Tea Party. As compelling as her narrative is, it will never be able to compete with the latest novel about a Muslim girl dealing with Islamophobia in America.</p>
<p>The Soviet Union cut the Arab left off, trading them for ties with Arab strongmen like Nasser. Now, just when the Arab left was hoping its hour had come, the Western left traded the strongmen for the Islamists. And that is a bitter pill to swallow.</p>
<p>In the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram, Nabil Shawkat wrote that “the next global cultural clash is not going to be between the West and Islam. It is going to be between Western liberals (friendly to the Islamists) and Eastern liberals (unfriendly to the Islamists).”</p>
<p>While his assumption of a global clash between the Eastern and Western lefts may be exaggerated, Egypt has shown that a clash between the two can have global consequences.</p>
<p>The Egyptian left and the Western right found common ground over the Morsi takeover as Egyptian protesters brandished Tea Party photoshops of Obama in turban and beard while American conservative columnists quoted Egyptian accusations about his collaboration with the Brotherhood.</p>
<p>It would be premature to imagine the Western right and the Arab left coming together the way that the Western left and the Islamists have. And yet it’s not inconceivable. The liberal split over Communism transformed the landscape of American politics. A split over Islam on the left could have equally serious political consequences.</p>
<p>The Western left has ostracized liberal critics of Islam as thoroughly as it once suppressed liberal critics of the USSR. The treatment meted out to Richard Dawkins shows that even for its notables, criticism of Islam is a red line that may not be crossed.  Those politically correct fatwas from the ayatollahs of Georgetown and the London School of Economics carry far more force than most Muslim fatwas.</p>
<p>Karima Bennoune’s <i>Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here</i> not only challenges the fatwas of Islam, but also the politically correct fatwas of the Western left.</p>
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		<title>Does the Hijab Increase Academic Performance for Girls?</title>
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<p>Loony Muslim convert Lauren Booth who is still desperately trying to get someone outside Gaza or Iran to pay attention to her has fastened onto the case of a Muslim school funded with tax monies which forced girls to sit in the back and forced them and female faculty to wear Hijabs.</p>
<p>I have no idea why the <a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2013/10/brits-should-cover-up-their-daughters.html">Sunday Times had the poor judgement</a> to give her a platform&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Booth said Muslim schools in Manchester, where she now lives, had a “refreshingly modest dress code” which, she argued, could boost girls’ academic success and improve their emotional well-being.</p></blockquote>
<p>How well is that academic success working?</p>
<p>Muslim students in the <a href="http://www.let.osaka-u.ac.jp/seiyousi/vol_4/pdf/vol_4_article04.pdf">UK perform worse than</a> any other group.</p>
<blockquote><p>In his latest book, British Muslims and State Policies, published in 2003, he shows that the majority of Pakistani Muslims show lower educational achievement as compared to whites or Indians</p></blockquote>
<p>While Muslim girls do perform better than Muslim boys, that has little to do with Hijabs. It&#8217;s a common pattern among some minority groups, including African-Americans.</p>
<p>It simply means that the male half of the group is failing to even bother to make an effort.</p>
<p>But if this is in the UK. If we apply the actual cultural and religious practices of the Muslim world, the picture reverses itself with female illiteracy.</p>
<p>In the UK, Pakistanis do poorly academically, but Pakistani girls still do better than Pakistani boys. But now let&#8217;s look <a href="http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/know_sharing/grassroots_stories/pakistan_2.shtml">at how that would work living in a Muslim country</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Official statistics released by the Federal Education Ministry of Pakistan give a desperate picture of education for all, espcially for girls. The overall literacy rate is 46 per cent, while only 26 per cent of girls are literate. Independent sources and educational experts, however, are sceptical. They place the overall literacy rate at 26 per cent and the rate for girls and women at 12 per cent, contending that the higher figures include people who can handle little more than a signature</p></blockquote>
<p>This is girls education on Islam. And this is what Booth is really advocating.</p>
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		<title>Top Muslim Authority Unwittingly Equates Jihad with Terrorism</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Koran-book.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207536" alt="Koran-book" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Koran-book.jpg" width="264" height="185" /></a>A recent Arabic article appearing in Egypt’s <a href="http://www.ahram.org.eg/News/932/4/230167/%D9%82%D8%B6%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1/%D9%87%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%87%D9%80%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AC%D9%80%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%9F.aspx"><i>Al Ahram</i></a> newspaper titled “Is Terrorism Jihad?” written by Islamic law expert Dr. Abdul Fatah Idris offers important lessons—from the fact that jihad <i>does</i> involve subjugating non-Muslims to why the Western mentality is still incapable of acknowledging it.</span></b></p>
<p>Idris, professor and chairman of Al Azhar University’s Department of Comparative Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Sharia Law, is a well-reputed legal scholar.  He begins his article by defining terrorism and quoting several international bodies that, in his words</p>
<blockquote><p>define terrorism as an act of violence or threat of violence coming from an individual either on his own volition or in participation with other individuals.  It targets people or organizations or places or means of transportation or the general public in order to threaten or cause injuries or deaths of the people or simply to cripple the effectiveness of international organizations or to cause the loss or damage of those places or properties or to tamper with transportation to interfere in the friendly relations between countries or between the inhabitants of several countries or to extort concessions from some countries.</p>
<p>The conspiracy to commit or to intend to commit or to participate in the committing or to incite the general public to commit the aforementioned crimes constitutes the crime of international terrorism.  The first clause of the Geneva Convention which was adopted by Suppression of Terrorism Conference held in Geneva in 1937 defines terrorism as a criminal act directed against a specific nation with the aims of creating a state of terror in the minds of specific people or a group of people or the general public.</p></blockquote>
<p>Idris also mentions how “the Islamic Research Academy, in its report issued on November 4<sup>th</sup>, 2001, defines terrorism as terrorizing <i>innocent</i> people and the destruction of their properties and their essential elements of living and attacking their finances and their persons and their liberties and their human dignity <i>without right</i> and spreading corruption throughout the land” [emphasis added].</p>
<p>Note that, although he quotes from several international bodies, it is only the “Islamic Research Academy” that includes words like “innocent” and “without right,” both of which clearly leave much wiggle room to exonerate terrorist acts committed against those perceived as <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islam-and-innocence/">not being “innocent”</a> or who it <i>is</i> a right to terrorize, which according to many Muslims, includes the West.</p>
<p>At any rate, in the context of the Muslim Brotherhood’s recent terrorist attacks throughout Egypt—including the destruction of over 80 Christian churches—Idris goes on to agree that</p>
<blockquote><p>It is therefore correct to define what happened recently [in Egypt] as terrorism and it cannot be called, as some have done, a jihad or <i>ribat</i> in the path of Allah, for the difference between them is vast.  Terrorism is a crime, both according to Sharia and the law; and all international conventions consider it a crime and call on all people to fight against it through all means.</p></blockquote>
<p>Up until this point, Idris defines and agrees with the international definition of terrorism, and portrays the actions of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (whom he never names) as terrorism.</p>
<p>So far so good.</p>
<p>However, Idris immediately makes a complete reversal in his follow-up sentences:</p>
<blockquote><p>But jihad in the path of Allah, <i>to make his word supreme, spread his religion</i>, defend the honor of the Islamic nation [umma], and respond to the aggression against Muslims all around the earth—this is jihad: <i>when a Muslim fights an infidel without treaty to make the word of Allah Most High supreme, forcing him to fight or invading his land, this is a permissible matter according to the consensus of the jurists.  Indeed, it is an obligation for all Muslims</i>.  Now if the deeds of the jihad—<i>including fighting the infidels and breaking their spine through all possible means</i>—are permissible according to Sharia, then it is impossible to define those acts as terrorism, which Sharia-based evidence has made illegitimate. A large gap exists between them [jihad and terrorism].  And there is no connection between what is obligatory [jihad] and what is forbidden [terrorism]. [italics added for emphasis]</p></blockquote>
<p>At this point, the befuddled Western reader may be at a loss to understand how, exactly, jihad—“according to the consensus of the jurists,” no less—is different from the aforementioned definitions of terrorism.</p>
<p>What’s needed here is for the non-Muslim to try to transcend his epistemology and think, for a moment, like an observant Muslim, especially in the context of two points:</p>
<p>1. According to Islamic doctrine, jihad, as Idris asserts, <i>is</i> an obligation for Muslims (offensive being communal, defensive being individual).  As this expert of Islamic jurisprudence states:  “But jihad in the path of Allah, <i>to make his word supreme, spread his religion</i>…  this is jihad: <i>when a Muslim fights an infidel without treaty [e.g. dhimma pact] to make the word of Allah Most High supreme, forcing him to fight or invading his land…</i>”</p>
<p>2. In Islamic thinking, even offensive jihad—including “breaking [the infidels’] spine through all possible means”—is seen as something of an altruistic affair, for the good of the world.  More to the point, the ends justify the means.</p>
<p>Taking these two points together—(1) Allah commands Muslims to wage jihad and (2) it is good for all concerned, a means to a glorious end, i.e., “making Allah’s word supreme”—how can Muslims classify jihad as “terrorism,” even when, from a non-Muslim perspective, it seems identical to the international definitions of terrorism that Idris himself delineated and agreed with?</p>
<p>In short, jihad is not terrorism simply because Allah<i> says so</i>—even if the two, back in the real world, are identical.  In the words of Idris: “Now if the deeds of the jihad—including fighting the infidels and breaking their spine through all possible means—are permissible according to Sharia, then it is impossible to define those acts as terrorism.”</p>
<p>Three final thoughts:</p>
<p>1. Next time you wonder why “moderate” Muslims rarely if ever condemn the terrorism habitually committed in the name of their religion, you’d do well to remember Idris’ article and rationale.</p>
<p>2. Regarding what jihad <i>really</i> is, who do you think is more authoritative—a Sharia law instructor at the Islamic world’s most prestigious university, writing in Arabic to fellow Muslims, or, say, a Karen Armstrong writing best-selling fluff pieces about a benign and “misunderstood” Islam to a naïve Western public?</p>
<p>3. Why was Idris’ article left unreported?  Imagine the international outrage that would spark if a Christian theologian wrote in the <i>New York Times</i>—which is what <i>Al Ahram</i> is equivalent to in Egypt—that “it is an obligation” for Christians to wage “holy war” on non-Christians and “fight or invade his [non-Christian] land” to “make Jesus’ word supreme”?</p>
<p>And so we come back full circle to the lamentable fact that, while Islam’s commands are black and white, so easily ascertained and visible to all, the West still cannot accept reality—thanks in great part to its own endless assortment of liars, fools, and traitors.</p>
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