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		<title>To Kill a Kafir &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Edward L. Dalcour takes us into the heart of Qur'anic darkness. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> and joined by author and lecturer <strong>Dr. Edward L. Dalcour.</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Dalcour came on the show to discuss <strong>To Kill a Kafir, </strong>explaining Islam&#8217;s true teachings on &#8220;freedom&#8221; of religion. The discussion occurred within the context of <strong>Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System</strong>, in which Dr. Dalcour unveiled the nightmare spawned by Islamic &#8220;theocracy.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode in which guest-host <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> interviews <a href="http://www.markdurie.com/"><b>Dr. Mark Durie</b></a>, a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p>Dr. Durie came on the show to discuss <strong>Islamic Human Sex-Trafficking, </strong>explaining why ISIS&#8217;s new sex-slave pamphlet references Islamic texts.</p>
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		<title>Islamic Literary Sources: What They Are &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholar of Comparative Religion Anthony Rogers explains the theological materials that Muslims base their beliefs on.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart </strong>and joined by Scholar of Comparative Religion<strong> <strong><b>Anthony Rogers</b>.</strong></strong></p>
<p>Mr. Rogers discussed <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: What They Are, </strong>focusing on the theological materials that Muslims base their beliefs on.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode, also with <strong>Anthony Rogers</strong>, in which he discusses <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: Their Application</strong>, revealing a religion&#8217;s teachings and their earthly incarnations.</p>
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		<title>“Extremism” in Islam: Tiny or Large? &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Bill Warner applies the scientific method to the study of Islamic texts.  ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Dr. Bill Warner, </strong>a scientist who has studied Islam since 1970. He has used the scientific method in the study of Islamic texts and has made its doctrine easy to understand. As an example, he had produced a Koran that anyone can read and understand. Visit his site at <a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/">politicalislam.com</a>.</p>
<p>Dr. Warner joined the show to discuss <strong>“Extremism” in Islam: Tiny or Large? </strong>He applies the scientific method to the study of Islamic texts and reveals how Sharia compliance defines a way to gauge civilizational &#8220;extremism&#8221; that goes beyond beheadings:</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with<strong> Dr. Mark Christian</strong>, the President and Executive Director of the <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith Institute</a>. He is the son and nephew of high ranking leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in his home country of Egypt. A former Islamic Imam who converted from Islam to Christianity, he dedicated his life and work to the proposition that “the first victims of Islam are the Muslim themselves.”</p>
<p>Dr. Christian discussed <strong>Islam’s Assault on Women’s Sexuality, </strong>analyzing the misogynist texts of Islam and their earthly incarnations:<span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Islam’s Assault on Women’s Sexuality"><br />
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		<title>You Can’t Reform Islam Without Reforming Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The Top 10 Qur’an Verses to Understand ISIS &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. David Wood unveils the Islamic State's Islamic inspirations. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Dr. David Wood</strong>, host of the Trinity Channel’s live talk show, “Jesus or Muhammad?” He has been in more than 40 public debates with Muslims and he runs the website <a href="http://www.answeringmuslims.com/">AnsweringMuslims.com.</a></p>
<p>He came on the program to discuss: <strong>The Top Ten Qur’an Verses to Understand ISIS:</strong></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with<strong> Dawn Perlmutter</strong>, the Director of the <a href="http://www.princetonwebserver.com/SIG/">Symbol Intelligence Group</a> and one of the leading subject matter experts (SME) in symbols, symbolic methodologies, unfamiliar customs and ritualistic crimes. She designed and developed Jihad-ID, a symbolic database of the signs, symbols and identifiers of global jihad.</p>
<p>Ms. Perlmutter came on the show to discuss <strong>Why ISIS Beheads, </strong>taking us into the dark world of Jihad’s key tactic and signature. She also discussed &#8220;How Beheading Raises Islamic State Street Cred,&#8221; &#8220;The Fear of Naming the Enemy,&#8221; &#8220;Beheading Videos as a Propaganda Tool,&#8221; and much, much more:</p>
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		<title>Why ISIS Beheads &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dawn Perlmutter, an expert on Jihadist psychology, takes us into the dark world of Jihad’s key tactic and signature.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by<strong> Dawn Perlmutter</strong>, the Director of the <a href="http://www.princetonwebserver.com/SIG/">Symbol Intelligence Group</a> and one of the leading subject matter experts (SME) in symbols, symbolic methodologies, unfamiliar customs and ritualistic crimes. She designed and developed Jihad-ID, a symbolic database of the signs, symbols and identifiers of global jihad.</p>
<p>Ms. Perlmutter came on the show to discuss <strong>Why ISIS Beheads, </strong>taking us into the dark world of Jihad’s key tactic and signature. She also discussed &#8220;How Beheading Raises Islamic State Street Cred,&#8221; &#8220;The Fear of Naming the Enemy,&#8221; &#8220;Beheading Videos as a Propaganda Tool,&#8221; and much, much more:</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with <strong>Dr. David Wood</strong>, host of the Trinity Channel’s live talk show, “Jesus or Muhammad?” He has been in more than 40 public debates with Muslims and he runs the website <a href="http://www.answeringmuslims.com/">AnsweringMuslims.com.</a></p>
<p>He came on the program to discuss: <strong>The Top Ten Qur’an Verses to Understand ISIS:</strong></p>
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		<title>The Battle Over Islam on the Streets of L.A. &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Lionheart shares his experience of engaging Muslims about their religion on 3rd St. Promenade.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by<strong> Louis Lionheart, </strong>a Christian preacher who engages in open-air debates, dialogues and evangelism on 3rd. Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Ca. For information on his ministry visit his web site: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/louis.lionheart?fref=ts">TruthDefenders.com.</a></p>
<p>Louis came on the show to discuss &#8220;<strong>The Battle Over Islam on the Streets of L.A.</strong>,&#8221; sharing his experience of engaging Muslims about their religion on 3rd St. Promenade:</p>
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<p>Mark came on the show to discuss &#8220;Fighting the Culture War,&#8221; emphasizing why Conservatives need more filmmakers, songwriters and novelists instead of political lecturers.</p>
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		<title>‘Jinn’ &#8211; Supernatural Thriller versus Real Life Horror</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 04:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are all references to Islam scrubbed from a new film about an Islamic reality? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kj.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222828" alt="kj" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kj.jpg" width="360" height="239" /></a>Spoiler alert &#8211; The film ‘Jinn’ from Exxodus Pictures, written and directed by Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad and starring Ray Park, Dominic Rains, Serinda Swan, Faran Tahir and William Atherton opened on 4-4-14. Promoted as a supernatural thriller, movie goers in the U.S. can now add Jinn to Vampires, Zombies, Poltergeists and other manifestations of evil spirits /creatures depicted in horror films. The film was supposed to &#8220;introduce the accurate mythological concept of the jinn to western audiences&#8221;.  Instead it presents a multicultural version of what a large segment of the world&#8217;s population regard as real, tangible beings that significantly affect their lives. For millions of Muslims around the world jinn exist and are experienced as real among both the illiterate and the educated.  Jinn are an integral part of Islamic theology. Jinn are mentioned in the Quran and the prophetic tradition and are described as actual, intelligent life forms. The Quranic message itself is addressed to both humans and jinn.  Michigan born Director Ahmad portrays jinn as if they are also found in Judaic and Christian theology. In fact the entire film never once mentions Muslims, Islam or the Quran.</p>
<p>The main character Shawn (Dominic Rains), an orphaned automotive designer, and his new wife Jasmine (Serinda Swan) live in present day Ann Arbor, Michigan. They are haunted by jinn as the result of a curse that has plagued his family for generations.  Aided by Gabriel (Ray Park), a good jinn, Father Westhoff (William Atherton), a priest and Ali (Faran Tahir), a shackled mental patient, Shawn uses his customized muscle car, the Firebreather, to elude the jinn, protect his family and save the world from evil. The car designed by Director Ahmad was created for the sole purpose of this film and is the first vehicle in motion picture history available to the public for purchase. Several of the 50 limited editions, produced as exact replicas of the vehicle in the movie, sold before the film debuted. The Firebreather, a modified Camaro SS with a V8, Edlebrock E-Force Supercharger System 599 horsepower engine that resembles a classic Pontiac Firebird is arguably the best part of the film.</p>
<p>Director Ahmad accurately portrays the phenomena associated with the concept of jinn. In the film jinn shape shift to black smoke and feral creatures, are made of fire, can fly, have super strength, possess people, haunt homes and inhabit caves, sewers and graveyards. Symbolically, evil Jinn dwell in ritually unclean places because they are intrinsically impure, signifying contagious evil, intensifying the inherent primal fears associated with defilement of Islamic purity. The film also accurately depicts an Islamic mystical practice known as chilla, a 40 day ascetic ritual that is used to summon and control jinn. The main character Shawn wears a taweez, an Islamic protective amulet, although it is not identified as such in the film.</p>
<p>In general, evil jinn are characteristically similar to the Western concept of demons and ghosts, while good jinn have attributes similar to the Western concept of guardian angels. Evil jinn are often believed to haunt people and places while good jinn can protect, empower and assist humans in many ways. Director Ahmad inaccurately equated the Islamic concept of Jinn with the Christian conception of angels and demons. This serious error resulted in portraying a cathedral as sacred space, interpreting a passage in the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel as a description of jinn and depicting a priest instead of a Muslim cleric as the guardian of sacred knowledge and keeper of the holy sword to battle the jinn.</p>
<p>In real life Muslim exorcists who practice Quranic medicine are the only individuals qualified to expel jinn. Muslims around the world believe that jinn cause illness, depression, health, wealth, natural disasters, war, and all mundane and inexplicable phenomena.  The most common belief is that evil jinn are spiritual entities that can haunt, enter and possess people exercising supernatural influence over them. For this reason physical or mental illness is often attributed to being cursed, haunted or possessed by jinn and can only be cured through Islamic healing. The popular practice of spiritual healing through Quranic medicine, specifically exorcism, is known as Ruqyah.  Since millions of people believe in Jinn, there are hundreds of professional exorcists who perform Quranic healing around the world. Islamic spiritual healers must be pious individuals who consider themselves to be an instrument of Allah, invoke Allah’s help and utilize the Quran or a phrase of Allah in Arabic to invoke His protection. Most of the treatments typically involve recitations from the Quran to remove black magic curses and to evict jinn. Many healers are fraudulent but nonviolent. Unfortunately, many other Quranic exorcisms involve sexual abuse, torture and violent atrocities that are much more of a horror film than the jinn creatures in this fictional thriller.</p>
<p>In the film ‘Jinn’, the character Ali has been shackled to the floor of a mental institution for 20 years because he failed his chilla ritual and the jinn took control of him. In Afghanistan and Pakistan it is a common practice of chaining the mentally ill, who are believed to be possessed by Jinn, to shrines. This is a version of the chilla ritual in which they are chained by their foot to a wall in a shrine cell for 40 days to ritually exorcise the Jinn. In Saudi Arabia a 29-year-old man was chained in a basement apartment in Mecca for more than six years because his father believed he was possessed by jinn.</p>
<p>In the film Shawn fights the jinn by reciting verses, using a sacred dagger to repeatedly stab them and submerging the jinn in a fountain of holy water. The same methods are commonly used in Islamic exorcism rituals. Many men, women and children accused of Jinn possession are subjected to exorcisms that involve violent assaults. Quranic exorcisms are performed by Muslim clerics, healers and family members throughout the world, including  Western countries, and involve atrocities that are far worse than any of the violence  depicted in the film. Many Jinn exorcisms entail ritualistic torture including beatings with sticks, the use of hot knives, submersion in water, burnings, disembowelments and other mutilations often resulting in death. The torture is justified by the belief that the Jinn need to be beaten out of the person. The use of water and fire are purification rituals to expel evil Jinn. If the person cries out in pain it is believed that it is the jinn reacting to the pain and not the person. Some exorcists believe that a person’s organs can be possessed and must be removed.</p>
<p>The reality of belief in jinn is stranger and more violent than fiction. On December 16, 2010, in East London, Shayma Ali, 36, stabbed her four year old daughter 40 times and cut out her liver while Quranic verses played in the background. She was convinced that the child was possessed by an evil Jinn. On July 8, 2009 in Birmingham, England,  21 year old Naila Mumtaz was murdered by her in-laws and husband when they attempted to drive out an evil Jinn spirit. Naila was six months pregnant when she was assaulted, smothered and suffocated during the exorcism. On October 10, 2009 in Antwerp, Belgium, 18 year old Layla Hachichi died of severe burns after a Moroccan exorcist poured boiling hot water on her for three days during an exorcism ritual. Her parents hired the Quranic healer because they attributed Layla’s lesbianism to being possessed by devils. In Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2012 an Emirati father and his girlfriend tortured his 8 year old daughter Wudeema to death and injured her 7 year old sister Meera to exorcise jinn from their bodies.  For six months they beat, burned and tortured the girls with cigarettes, an iron, electric prods and poured hot water on their bodies. These are just a few examples of the dozens of ritual killings that occur during jinn exorcisms.</p>
<p>Director Ahmad was born and raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan to parents who migrated from Pakistan in the early 1980’s. Some of the worst atrocities committed during jinn exorcisms occur in Pakistan. In July 2011 an exorcist was arrested in Ghakhar Mandi , Pakistan for torturing a 16 year old boy during an exorcism. The boy’s muscles were damaged when hot blades and knives were used to force Jinn demons to leave his body. In December, 2012 in Mansoorabad, Pakistan, an exorcist was arrested for torturing a 19 year old mentally challenged man to death and beating his twin brother to exorcise jinn from their bodies. All of these incidents and many more occurred while ‘Jinn’ the movie was in production.</p>
<p>Islamic exorcisms resulting in the victim’s death are ritual killings. Exorcisms are another manifestation of Islamic ritual murder. The film was publicized as ‘the secret that half the world has been keeping’.  The real secret is that exorcisms, similar to honor killings, Jihadist murder and beheadings are justified by Islamic theology. If writer Director Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad really wanted to give horror fans something they had never seen before he should have just made a documentary of the ritual atrocities performed in jinn exorcisms. Instead he equated jinn to Christian conceptions of angels and demons and scrubbed any reference to Islam from the film. As a savvy business man he understood that exposing any of the real life horrors of Islam would provoke protests, censorship and prevent any sequels. Check out the car, skip the film.</p>
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		<title>The False Dichotomy: Moderate Muslims vs. Radicals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Qur'an is not open to interpretation. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/islam-will-dominate-the-world.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222642" alt="islam-will-dominate-the-world" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/islam-will-dominate-the-world-450x319.jpg" width="315" height="223" /></a>The liberal mainstream media has long portrayed a picture of moderate (&#8220;good&#8221;) Muslims versus extremist Muslims. This narrative has been institutionalized in the thinking of Western Muslim scholars, who advocate for Islam as well. This has led to the thought that Islam is an ideology and religion of peace, because a majority of Muslims fall in the category of moderate or good Muslims.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If we analyze this dichotomy in depth, we can see how this understanding of Islam develops. Besides analytical and theoretical frameworks, I will also draw on my own experience growing up in the Muslim world.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We were taught in school that the Qur&#8217;an has descended, word for word, from the creator Allah, through Muhammad. This is accepted throughout the entirety of the Islamic word. If we take this speculation as accurate information of Islam, then every Muslim is supposed to follow Allah’s verses exactly in order to be a good Muslim and to be considered a representative of the real ideology and religion of Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Secondly, if we take the assertion that the Qur&#8217;an is made up of Allah’s words as being true, then Qur&#8217;anic verses should be followed for eternity, as long as human beings exist in this universe. No changes are allowed to Allah’s rules and words because Allah, as Muslims say, is perfect and his knowledge is absolute. As a result, his words cannot be relative and every word he utters or reveals should apply in any time of human history.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In fact, even Muhammad himself repeatedly said that two things a Muslim should follow are the Qur&#8217;an (words of Allah) and the Hadith (Muhammad’s teachings). </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Considering this information and based on these standards, a true Muslim, who represent the real Islam, should be the one who follows and obeys Allah’s words (from the Qur&#8217;an) completely.  As a result, anyone who ignores some of the rules is not, and cannot be, considered a reflection of Islam, a good Muslim, or even a Muslim. Accordingly, Allah’s words and rules are not a basket of vegetable to choose from, meaning that one cannot obey some orders and disregard others.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Following this reasoning, it is clear that the whole dichotomy of good Muslims vs. extremist Muslims, as portrayed by the mainstream media, must be altered. By this definition, real, true, and good Muslims who represent Islam are people such as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini (the founder of Iran’s political theocracy), Osama Bin Laden, Hassan Nasrullah (the leader of Hezbollah), Ayman Alzawaheri, Hasib Hussein, Mahmoud Ahmadinjead, and the like, because they follow the Qur&#8217;an and Allah’s social and legal rules word for word. All these people, who have committed crimes against humanity, will be considered to be the real Muslims, representing the actual ideology of Islam, the Qur&#8217;an, Allah’s words, and Muhammad’s teachings, because they follow the rules of Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">To give you a concrete example, during a speech I gave that criticized the underlying philosophy and ideology of Islam and that argued that Islam is not a religion of peace, a young American-British Muslim man stood up and responded by interrupting. Some of his points, which echoed what other Western Muslims usually state, were that Islam is the religion of peace, millions of Muslims like him do not commit those violent acts, and that they represent Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When he finished, I asked him if he believed that he should beat his wife after she disobeys him one time, two times or three times. He said no. Then I conveyed to him that one cannot be representative of the true philosophy and ideology of Islam, a good or real Muslim, if he or she doesn’t follow Allah’s words stated in Qur&#8217;an.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Allah specifically says, &#8220;Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.” (Qur&#8217;an 4:34)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A real and “good” Muslim, who represent the ideology of Islam, would follow Allah’s words in Qur&#8217;an regarding this specific rule. Therefore, he or other Muslims like this young British-American man cannot introduce themselves as a real reflection and representation of Islamic ideology or speak on behalf of Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This verse is not open to interpretation. It clearly says what a man must do with a disobedient wife. I cannot imagine that this verse can have another meaning than what it exactly states. Many Muslims use the interpretation card to legitimize and defend Islam and call themselves the real reflection of Islamic ideology. Growing up in Islamic societies, I am aware that many Muslims in the West or East have not even read Allah’s words in the Qur&#8217;an completely, and are not following the real Islam. (A blessing that they have not read it and that they are not following the real Islam!)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The underlying reason for considering people such as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama Bin Laden, Hassan Nasrullah, Ayman Alzawaheri, Hasib Hussein, Mahmoud Ahmadinjead, and others as the real image of Islam is that these people follow Allah’s verses and orders word for word. They also have hundreds of thousands of followers who consider them as the true Muslims. If Muhammad was alive, these people would be considered the real spokespeople for Islam, the best, true, and real Muslims, for following Allah’s rules exactly. So what about other Muslims?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Other Muslims who obey some of the verses and disregard others cannot be called good Muslims, representatives of Islamic ideology, or even true followers of Islam, based on the Qur&#8217;an and Muhammad’s teachings. Therefore, they cannot in fact, represent any categories. Every word of Allah should be obeyed.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These people who call themselves the representatives of real Islam are in fact a representative and reflection of certain socio-political, socio-economic and cultural traditions mixed with some glimpses of Islamic teachings, not the real truth of Islam. Their identity and character is a mixture of these aforementioned qualities rather than the actual ideology of Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This means that those Western Muslim scholars — who claim that Islam is a religion of peace and that people like Khamenei, Khomeini, Bin Laden and the like, are not true Muslims— cannot introduce themselves as representatives of real Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Usually, when a terrorist or suicide attack by a Muslim occurs, a women is raped and forced to marry the rapist, a woman is stoned for having sex with another man (namahram), a woman is beaten for disobeying her husband or father, the Western Muslim scholars who were born, raised, or educated in the West excitedly point out that the majority of “Muslims” do not conduct these acts and people who carry out these acts are minimal. As a result, they argue that those few people cannot represent Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But the paradox is that those people who commit such inhumane and brutal acts are the actual Muslims who represent the real Islam because they follow Islam, Allah’s words, the Qur&#8217;an, and Muhammad’s principles word for word. The rest of Muslims are the ones who do not represent real Islam and its truth. In other words, for Muhammad and Allah, those Muslims who commit such criminal acts will be considered totally good Muslims because they obey the rules stated in Qur&#8217;an in full detail.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Muslims argue that Allah’s words in the Qur&#8217;an are open to interpretation. Below are some samples of Allah’s words that are not open to any interpretation. A real Muslim, and a representative and reflection of real ideology of Islam, should follow and full-heartedly accept these social rules word for word. Otherwise, he or she cannot claim that they represent the truth of the ideology of Islam, Muhammad, and Allah.</span></p>
<p><em><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Execute Those Who Wage War Against Allah and His Messenger:</b></em></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter” (Qur&#8217;an 5:33).</span></p></blockquote>
<p><em><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Men Can Marry Four Wives:</b></em></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice” (Qur&#8217;an 4:3).</span></p></blockquote>
<p><em><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Men Can Have Sex with Captives:</b></em></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee; and daughters of thy paternal uncles and aunts, and daughters of thy maternal uncles and aunts, who migrated (from Makka) with thee; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her;- this only for thee, and not for the Believers (at large); We know what We have appointed for them as to their wives and the captives whom their right hands possess;- in order that there should be no difficulty for thee. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful&#8221; (Qur&#8217;an 33:50).</span></p></blockquote>
<p><em><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">A Man Can Marry Wife of Adopted Son:</b></em></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Allah has not made for any man two hearts within him; nor has He made your wives whose backs you liken to the backs of your mothers as your mothers, nor has He made those whom you assert to be your sons your real sons; these are the words of your mouths; and Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the way&#8221; (Qur&#8217;an 33:4).</span></span></p></blockquote>
<p><em><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">A Woman Inherits Only Half as Much as a Man Does:</b></em></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Allah enjoins you concerning your children: The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females; then if they are more than two females, they shall have two-thirds of what the deceased has left, and if there is one, she shall have the half; and as for his parents, each of them shall have the sixth of what he has left if he has a child, but if he has no child and (only) his two parents inherit him, then his mother shall have the third; but if he has brothers, then his mother shall have the sixth after (the payment of) a bequest he may have bequeathed or a debt; your parents and your children, you know not which of them is the nearer to you in usefulness; this is an ordinance from Allah: Surely Allah is Knowing, Wise&#8221; (Qur&#8217;an 4:11).</span></p></blockquote>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Fight with Those Who Do not Believe in Islam</b></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.&#8221; (Qur&#8217;an 9:29)</span></p></blockquote>
<p><em><b>Witness Testimony of a Woman Is Half of That of a Man in Court:</b></em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;O you who believe! when you deal with each other in contracting a debt for a fixed time, then write it down; and let a scribe write it down between you with fairness; and the scribe should not refuse to write as Allah has taught him, so he should write; and let him who owes the debt dictate, and he should be careful of (his duty to) Allah, his Lord, and not diminish anything from it; but if he who owes the debt is unsound in understanding, or weak, or (if) he is not able to dictate himself, let his guardian dictate with fairness; and call in to witness from among your men two witnesses; but if there are not two men, then one man and two women from among those whom you choose to be witnesses, so that if one of the two errs, the second of the two may remind the other; and the witnesses should not refuse when they are summoned; and be not averse to writing it (whether it is) small or large, with the time of its falling due; this is more equitable in the sight of Allah and assures greater accuracy in testimony, and the nearest (way) that you may not entertain doubts (afterwards), except when it is ready merchandise which you give and take among yourselves from hand to hand, then there is no blame on you in not writing it down; and have witnesses when you barter with one another, and let no harm be done to the scribe or to the witness; and if you do (it) then surely it will be a transgression in you, and be careful of (your duty) to Allah, Allah teaches you, and Allah knows all things&#8221; (Qur&#8217;an 2:282).</p></blockquote>
<p><em><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">A Man Can Marry Girls Who Have Reached Puberty Age or Have Not Reached Yet. (As Muhammad married Aisha before puberty age):</b></em></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Such of your women as have passed the age of monthly courses, for them the prescribed period, if ye have any doubts, is three months, and for those who have no courses (it is the same): for those who carry (life within their wombs), their period “is until they deliver their burdens: and for those who fear Allah, He will make their path easy.&#8221; Qur&#8217;an 65:4</span></p></blockquote>
<p>These are only a few examples of Allah’s words, which are not open to interpretation, according to the definition of the religion and its explicitly set eternal rules.</p>
<p>In sum, my argument is that those real and good Muslims and representatives of the philosophy of the religion are those who follow the Qur&#8217;an, Allah’s words. If they do not agree with some of these rules and do not wholly follow them, they are not good Muslims and they cannot represent the real truth of Islam. In fact, based on Muhammad’s teachings and the Qur&#8217;an, if a person does not believe in one of the previous verses or any of Allah’s words, he cannot call himself a Muslim.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And finally, as long as the ideology of Islam, as long as the Qur&#8217;an exists and is considered to be the words of Allah, people like Osama Bin Laden will resurface in human history and ideology of Islam, Allah’s words in the Qur&#8217;an will create such criminals, real and good Muslims, who represent the true ideology and philosophy of Islam.</span></p>
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		<title>Islamist Group in America: We’ll Impose Sharia on Christians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hizb ut-Tahrir’s blunt website statement.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/HizbTahrir.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-199298" alt="HizbTahrir" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/HizbTahrir.jpg" width="300" height="347" /></a>Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group so radical that the Muslim Brotherhood won’t even touch it, lives and breathes in America. Part of the reason it’s a fringe group in the U.S. is because it is mostly honest about its objectives. For example, one of its websites <a href="http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/the-khilafah/non-muslims/16139-what-are-the-rights-and-responsibilities-of-christians-within-the-islamic-state">answers</a> a question about the status of Christians in an Islamic State by frankly admitting that Sharia is imposed upon them and other non-Muslims.</p>
<p>“Everyone who carries the citizenship of the [Islamic] state enjoys the rights and is bound by Shari’ah obligations,” the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT) website says.</p>
<p>The article later reiterates that the Islamic state “implements Shari’ah upon all of those who carry the Islamic citizenship whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims…”</p>
<p>Of course, Islamists view this as a great aspiration, otherwise they wouldn’t believe in it. The article extols the fairness of Sharia-based governance. The “basic needs” of all Muslims and non-Muslims are guaranteed, income is redistributed and health care and education are free. Non-Muslims can even be appointed to administrative positions and file official complaints if they are abused by authorities, at least in a way that isn’t consistent with Sharia.</p>
<p>The description sounds swell to those that don’t notice the important caveats.</p>
<p>Non-Muslims have religious freedom, as long “as they are within the general system.” Non-Muslims’ attire and diet are regulated according to their own religions, as long as they are “within that which the Shari’ah rules have permitted.”</p>
<p>The HUT article, written by a spokesman in Lebanon, becomes vaguer when discussing the more sensitive issues. It was written in English for a non-Muslim audience, after all.</p>
<p>On the question of Muslims who abandon the faith, it explains, “The rule of the apostate is applied upon those who have apostatized from Islaam if they are apostates.” That means execution, but that isn’t exactly the loveliest word you want to use when promoting your ideology.</p>
<p>HUT then glosses over the other aspects of Sharia law:</p>
<p>“The state implements the rest of the Shari’ah rules and all remaining Islamic Shari’ah matters in regards to the [transactions], punishments, testimonies, ruling and economic systems amongst others upon everyone. The implementation of these matters is the same in regards to Muslims and non-Muslims alike…”</p>
<p>Jihad is required for the Muslim population of this Islamic State, and non-Muslim participation in this jihad is encouraged. HUT says, “Jihad is an obligation upon the Muslims and training is compulsory” for anyone over the age of 15.</p>
<p>Military service is mandatory for Muslims and is optional for non-Muslims. However, non-Muslims must fight “under the banner of the Muslims” and not as a separate unit and cannot participate in a war against Muslim rivals. It’s okay for Muslims to kill other Muslims in war, but it is not okay for non-Muslims to kill Muslims in war.</p>
<p><em>HUT repeatedly declares its commitment to non-violence but, again, there are important exceptions. </em><em></em></p>
<p><em>“</em>[W]henever the disbelieving enemies attack an Islamic country it becomes compulsory on its Muslim citizens to repel the enemy. The Hizb ut-Tahrir in that country are part of the Muslims and it is obligatory upon them to fight the enemy and repel them. Wherever there is a Muslim amir who declares jihad, the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir will respond in their capacity as Muslims in the country where the general call to arms was proclaimed,” HUT’s website <a href="http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/index.php/EN/def">explains.</a></p>
<p>When its conferences in America receive negative attention, HUT is quick to point out that it isn’t trying to transform the country into a Sharia-based state. Like other Islamists, this sweet-sounding proclamation of innocence is conditioned upon ability. Its <a href="http://hizb-america.org/index.php/aboutus/faqs">FAQ section says:</a></p>
<p>“In non-Muslim countries like the United States, Hizb ut-Tahrir works to cultivate a Muslim community that lives by Islam in thought and deed, whereby adhering to the rules of Islam and preserving a strong Islamic identity. The party does not work in the West to change the system of government, but works to project a positive image of Islam to Western society and engages in dialogue with Western thinkers, policymakers and academics.”</p>
<p>In other words, Sharia is only appropriate for Muslim-majority countries, so a Sharia-based America is a long-term goal but not a present task. HUT uses the U.S. as a launching pad to lead the worldwide Muslim community and achieve a resurrected Caliphate that can overpower the U.S.</p>
<p>“Hizb ut-Tahrir is determined to work within the Ummah in order to implement Islam and achieve its objective by endeavouring to gain the leadership of the Islamic Ummah so that she could accept it as her leader, to implement Islam upon her and proceed with it in her struggle against the Kuffar and in the work towards the return of the Islamic State as it was before, the leading superpower in the world,” <a href="http://english.hizbuttahrir.org/index.php/about-us">its website says.</a></p>
<p>This isn’t any different from the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood strategic memo</a> that called for using the U.S. to establish a base<i> “<em>which adopts Muslims’ causes domestically and globally,” ultimately resulting in “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers.”</em></i><em></em></p>
<p><em>The criticism of HUT by Zaid Shakir, a popular Islamist imam in America who </em><a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/popular-us-imam-replace-constitution-sharia">preaches that the U.S. Constitution is inferior to Sharia</a>, is illuminating. He tells Muslims <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/us-muslim-college-founder-against-vilifying-radical-islamic-group">not to &#8220;vilify&#8221; HUT</a>. His disagreement with the radical group is limited to its criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood and its overconfidence in the Caliphate to solve all of the Muslim world’s problems. This light treatment of HUT stands in sharp contrast to <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/imam-zaid-shakir-marine-barracks-bombing-not-terrorism">his treatment of America.</a></p>
<p>On June 21, the founder of HUT in Chicago <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7288.htm">declared in Jordan</a>, “Let Britain, America, and the entire West go to hell, because the caliphate is coming, Allah willing.” Shockingly, the Argosy University-Chicago uses him as an adjunct professor and he is a Visiting Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.</p>
<p>On July 12, a HUT spokesperson led a rally on the Temple Mount and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/imam-temple-mount-let-america-be-destroyed">declared on videotape</a>, “Allah is greater! Let America be destroyed!” and “Listen, Obama, we are a nation that does not bow down, and the Caliphate will return!”</p>
<p>An official from the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&amp;id=8699880">describes</a> HUT as a “very marginalized group, a very fringe group.” Even a HUT spokesman in Illinois admits, “[W]e understand that our ideas are not mainstream.”</p>
<p>That does not mean HUT should be forgotten about. It has a major international network that holds large rallies around the world. It even held a 1,000-strong <a href="http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=60435">pro-Caliphate demonstration</a> in the Ukraine. Its <a href="http://hizb-america.org/">website</a> lists branches in the U.S., Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, Palestine, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Morocco.</p>
<p>HUT has expansive resources, it just hasn’t chosen to invest them heavily in America…yet.</p>
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		<title>The Lost Verses of the Quran</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore Shoebat]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why, in old books on Islam, are there references to verses in the Quran which cannot be found in today’s copies?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/theodore-shoebat/the-lost-verses-of-the-quran/quran22/" rel="attachment wp-att-170443"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-170443" title="Quran22" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Quran22-380x350.jpg" alt="" width="380" height="350" /></a>Is the Quran of today, the same as it was when it was first written? Muslims says that it is. But there is evidence to suggest that the reality is otherwise. In old books on Islam that I have acquired, I have found references to verses in the Quran which cannot be found in today’s copies.</p>
<p>For example, female circumcision, a notorious evil which has been inflicted on millions of girls throughout the Muslim world, is said not to be in today’s Quran, nor in the Hadith (the word of Muhammad). This is true, but only in regards to the versions which we have. John of Damascus who was <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/19/the-lost-verses-of-the-quran/#">writing</a> in the eight century A.D., one of our earliest writers on Islam, wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>He [Muhammad] made it a law that they be circumcised and the women, too (1)</p></blockquote>
<p>The Renaissance author Riccoldo da Monte di Croce wrote in the early 14th century a refutation on the Quran, in which he references Islamic verses which are quite obscure today. Croce is not someone to ignore as non-authoritative, since he learned fluent Arabic, and lived in Iraq as a missionary where he spoke with numerous Islamic teachers. (2) He writes that in the Surah of the Cow in the Quran, Muhammad</p>
<blockquote><p>seems to condone sodomy in men and women … though their successors cover this up with more honourable statements (3)</p></blockquote>
<p>De Croce also records a very bizarre and grotesque story in the Quran, in which Noah is told by Allah to worship the anus of an elephant while in the ark. As Noah observes this command, the elephant defecates and from the manure comes a pig. As the swine sniffs the fecal matter, a mouse arises from it. (4)</p>
<p>Also, the same author records that in the Quran there is an apocalyptic prophecy which states that Allah will destroy every living thing, including all of the angels, accept for Adriel [Uzrael], the Angel of Death. Allah will command Adriel to commit suicide and then he will declare, “Where are the governors and rulers of the world?” Upon this, everything on earth will rise up again. (5)</p>
<p>So the next time you hear Muslims talk about how well preserved the Quran is, and how it has been the same from the time of Muhammad, keep in mind that the version you see today is not necessarily what was written in it originally.</p>
<p><strong>Theodore Shoebat is the author of the book, <em>For God or For Tyranny</em>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>References:</strong></p>
<p>(1) John of Damascus, Heretics, 101, trans. Frederic H. Chase.</p>
<p>(2) See Ensis’ introduction to his translation of Croce’s Refutation of the Koran, p. iii.</p>
<p>(3) Croce, Refuation of the Koran, ch. i, p. 12, trans. Londini Ensis</p>
<p>(4) Croce, Refutation of the Koran, ch. ix, p. 60, trans. Londini Ensis.</p>
<p>(5) Croce, Refutation of the Koran, ch. ix, p. 60, trans. Londini Ensis.</p>
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		<title>Blazing Qur&#8217;ans and the Deception of Muslim Contrived Indignation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meir-Levi]]></dc:creator>
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<p>In February of this year, American troops burned copies of the Qur’an at an army base in Afghanistan.  Western media were immediately abuzz with the Muslim response: massive riots causing the deaths of dozens of local Afghans, a <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/05/world/asia/afghanistan-unrest/">Taliban revenge suicide attack</a> on US troops, car bombs, an Afghan policeman enraged by Qur’an burnings murders two US officers, Afghan soldiers turn on US troops and shoot two, Taliban suspends talks with the USA, and  in an incendiary anti-American speech Afghan president Karzai calls America “a demon” comparable to the Taliban. At least 40 die and hundreds are injured.</p>
<p>The event spawned three (count’em, three!) parallel and separate <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/world/asia/koran-burning-in-afghanistan-prompts-3-parallel-inquiries.html?pagewanted=all">legal inquiries</a>. The soldiers <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/looking-luke/2012/mar/6/burning-koran-changing-bible-politics-religion/">may be disciplined</a>;  but according to Congressman Allan West’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/congressman-allen-west/when-tolerance-becomes-a-one-way-street-it-leads-to-cultural-suicide/306311656088535" target="_blank">interpretation of the events</a>,  prisoners were writing extremist messages to one another in the pages of the Qur&#8217;ans, thus effectively <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/05/world/asia/afghanistan-unrest/">desecrating them according to Muslim practice.</a> And the incident provides <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-quran-burning-in-afghanistan-is-indication-that-now-is-time-for-us-to-transition-out/2012/03/06/gIQAEFO4uR_story.html">support for Obama’s call for a pre-election pull-out</a> from Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Last year’s <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2011-03-21-quran-burning-florida_N.htm">Qur&#8217;an burning incident in Florida</a> had similar effects. A publicity hungry <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/florida-pastor-terry-joness-koran-burning-has-far-reaching-effect/2011/04/02/AFpiFoQC_story.html">pastor threatens to burn Qur&#8217;ans</a> and riots break out across the Middle East; followed by <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576244782887423062.html">murder and mayhem and destruction and endless anti-American propaganda</a>.  But we respond with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nigel-barber/burning-the-quran-put-peo_b_844174.html"> cringing misplaced deference</a>, as General Petraeus <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263790/no-more-dhimmitude-andrew-c-mccarthy">ignores the murderous Muslim mobs</a> and instead condemns the Florida preacher.</p>
<p>Similarly, in 2005 massive riots and destruction of property erupted in much of the Arab world <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Quran_desecration_controversy">when the provocation was the mere accusation</a>, unsupported by objective evidence, of desecration of a Quran by American personnel at Guantanamo.</p>
<p>The explosion of the <a href="http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/%7Eregier/papers/arab-street-published.pdf">“Arab Street”</a> when a Quran somewhere in the world may have been desecrated is not a new phenomenon.  It recurs with suspicious frequency and nearly cookie-cutter responses.  This phenomenon raises three questions:</p>
<p>Is it effective for ou<a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/03/newt-gingrich-barack-obama-quran-burning-apology/1">r Commander-in-Chief to burst into paeans of groveling apology</a>, hand wringing, and self-deprecating <em>mea culpas</em>, and press for <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/23/us-afghanistan-korans-obama-idUSTRE81M13W20120223">changes in American military strategy</a> and foreign policy?</p>
<p>Why is there not a word from anyone in the west about the galactic hypocrisy of Muslim furor for an inadvertent error, when <a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/looking-luke/2012/mar/6/burning-koran-changing-bible-politics-religion/">1,400 years of Muslim history are characterized by Muslim assaults</a> on Christians and the Christian Scriptures, not to mention desecrations of Jewish sacred sites and scriptures and the mass murder of Jews?</p>
<p>Why does no one raise the issue of the mass hypocrisy of Muslims world-wide who are silent as adherents desecrate Islam with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%27a%E2%80%93Sunni_relations">endless reciprocal violence of Sunni and Shiite,</a> Iranian and Azeri, Alawite and Syrian, blowing up entire mosques, killing thousands of innocent Muslims, and burning thousands of copies of the Qur&#8217;an &#8212; not to mention killings at weddings, funerals, and other religious events.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy">Danish “Cartoon Intifada”</a> of 2005-6 may provide answers to these questions.<strong></strong></p>
<p>Cartoons using Muslim imagery were published first by Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper in September, 2005.<a title="" href="#_edn1">[1]</a>  A few Muslim Imams in Denmark were upset. Then the cartoons were republished on October 17 on<a href="http://i1.tinypic.com/nfik52.jpg"> the front page of El-Farg</a>, a major Egyptian newspaper, with provocative headlines about the west deprecating the Prophet Mohammed; but still no outrage. <a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Eemcd/Israel_RentARiotABCS.htm">Only after a summit meeting in Mecca in December</a> did the Muslim world go ballistic about the cartoons.  What happened <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy">at that meeting?</a></p>
<p>First a Palestinian Muslim Arab Imam living in Copenhagen, Ahmad Abu Laban, and some friends took copies of the cartoons to Muslim leaders in the Middle East.  <a href="http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/1030-Rent-A-Riot-ABCs.html">Knowing that the original cartoons were not really very derogatory,</a> they created a few really repulsive ones and told their Arab interlocutors at Mecca that all had been published in the Danish press.</p>
<p>The result was an astonishing uproar in the Muslim world.  Three months after the fact came the riots and mob attacks, vandalism, murders, arson, boycotts of European goods, thousands of Muslim demonstrators in London waved posters proclaiming “<a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Eemcd/Israel_RentARiotABCS.htm">EXTERMINATE THOSE WHO MOCK ISLAM” and “BE PREPARED FOR THE REAL HOLOCAUST</a>”, and the editor of France-Soir was fired for reprinting the drawings.  Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the publication, and protesters set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1156609,00.html">The Egyptian Ambassador to Denmark</a> proclaimed: “The government of Denmark has to do something to appease the Muslim world!&#8221;   You have sinned! You must repent and show contrition, or else!</p>
<p>In a later publication, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2006/02/34737/">El-Farg editors explained the whole farce</a> to the world. In <a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Eemcd/Israel_RentARiotABCS.htm">opportunistic hindsight they wrote</a> that &#8220;…It would have been better that this [current] holy war against Denmark (i.e., the cartoon intifada) been launched during the holy month of Ramadan (October, 2005) …This irrelevant….timing is but a sign that this violent response to the cartoons is politically motivated by Muslim extremists in Europe and the so-called secular governments of the Middle East.”</p>
<p>Obviously, the Mecca conference had recognized the real value of the cartoons: the spark to ignite a new and more global intifada in order to draw the West’s attention away from other embarrassing Middle East issues, and to teach the West a lesson about the price of offending Muslim delicate sensibilities. By February, 2006, 100,000 Muslims were prepared to “Vent Anger in London at Cartoon Protest.”<a title="" href="#_edn2">[2]</a></p>
<p>Now, why would they want to do that?<a title="" href="#_edn3">[3]</a>  There are several reasons.</p>
<p>The Arabs of the Palestinian Authority (PA) had just voted Hamas into power, but the European Union would not subsidize the PA if the money would go to Hamas. The cartoon intifada put the EU on the defensive, made all Muslims appear the victims of European racism, and make the EU too embarrassed and guilty to withhold its contributions.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dutch court is forced to compare Mein Kampf and the Quran in the Wilders trial. ]]></description>
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<p>What started as a trial against Geert Wilders for alleged Islamophobia has nearly turned into its opposite: a historical case about the message of the Quran. The Amsterdam court trying the controversial Dutch politician is now preoccupied with the question of whether this book, sacred to more than a billion believers, can be compared to one of the most vile publications in the history of Western civilization—Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;Mein Kampf.&#8221; What could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>In his writing and speeches, Mr. Wilders has found these two works to be similar in terms of their anti-Semitism and incitement to hatred, and has thus called for a publishing ban on the Quran similar to the one in place for &#8220;Mein Kampf.&#8221; This is what triggered Mr. Wilders&#8217;s prosecution for discriminatory and insulting remarks against Muslims and Islam. The Dutch politician, though, denies having insulted Muslims. He insists his focus is on radical Islam and the Quran, which he considers to be not only a religious text but also a political pamphlet encouraging Muslims to discriminate against and, if necessary, kill Jews, Christians, apostates and other unbelievers. That&#8217;s why Mr. Wilders claims the right to criticize and condemn Islam.</p>
<p>Following complaints brought by mostly Muslim and radical leftist activists, Amsterdam&#8217;s district attorney in 2008 at first found no legal basis for prosecuting Mr. Wilders. Prosecutors were forced to change course only after an activist appeals court last year ordered Mr. Wilders&#8217;s prosecution—basically condemning the politician before any trial could even begin and before Mr. Wilders had a chance to defend himself. The court&#8217;s unusual intervention illustrates the Dutch confusion about the conflict between two essential rights: the right to free speech and the right to protection from discrimination.</p>
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<p>According to polls, Mr. Wilders&#8217;s Freedom Party, a libertarian-conservative movement with populist tendencies, is currently the most popular political party in the Netherlands. If elections were held today, Mr. Wilders would be a serious contender for the position of prime minister. Mr. Wilders&#8217;s detractors are mistaken if they think a conviction would hurt him politically. The trial is a win-win situation for him: If the court rules to restrict Mr. Wilders&#8217;s right to free speech, many Dutchmen will interpret this as an effort by the politically correct establishment to limit the growing strength of the Freedom Party, which would widen its appeal to many voters. If, on the other hand, the prosecution fails to prove that Mr. Wilders has purposely insulted Muslims because of their religion, Mr. Wilders&#8217;s views will be seen as vindicated. Again, he will gain politically.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575026532718536518.html">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hanevy Ould Dahah, who is now being held in Mauritania&#8217;s Dar Naim prison, is an unlikely dissident. Half-Arab and half-African, he was marked as a child to become a cleric, memorizing the Quran by age nine and studying at ultra-conservative academies. Some of his former classmates now lead Mauritania&#8217;s Salafist movement; Hanevy might have been [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hanevy Ould Dahah, who is now being held in Mauritania&#8217;s Dar Naim prison, is an unlikely dissident. Half-Arab and half-African, he was marked as a child to become a cleric, memorizing the Quran by age nine and studying at ultra-conservative academies. Some of his former classmates now lead Mauritania&#8217;s Salafist movement; Hanevy might have been one of them.</p>
<p>I met Hanevy, now 34, for the first time last year, and I asked him about why he broke with the Islamists as an 18-year-old. He expressed disgust with the government&#8217;s and elite society&#8217;s tolerance of slavery. He also recounted the horror of witnessing a massacre of black Africans, a minority in Mauritania. The corrosive impact of his country&#8217;s dictatorship and religious extremism, he explained, stunted society. Instead of a radical cleric, he became a reformer committed to secular democracy.</p>
<p>In 2007, Hanevy seized upon a unique opportunity. The fall of a 20-year dictatorship and presidential elections suggested that the time was ripe for new democratic experiments. He launched Taqadoumy.com (Arabic for &#8220;progressive&#8221;), a news portal in Arabic, French and English featuring investigative journalism unparalleled in the Arab world.</p>
<p>Despite limited resources, Hanevy recruited a team of reporters and was soon running the country&#8217;s most-read news site—the local equivalent of the Drudge Report or the Huffington Post. Taqadoumy fearlessly exposed scandals and corruption, attracting thousands of readers with photos and documents providing hard evidence for sensational scoops.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703906204575027462093163750-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwMjEwNDIyWj.html">An Ex-Islamist Needs U.S. Support &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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<p>Today, while Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas, radical Muslims will be gathering in Atlanta, Georgia for the beginning of their annual hatefest. The irony of this cannot be overstated, as the group sponsoring the event, ICNA, and its followers openly denounce Christians and propagate material cursing and calling for violence against Christians.</p>
<p>ICNA or the Islamic Circle of North America was created nearly 40 years ago as the American affiliate to the <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35581">terror-related Jamaat-e-Islami</a> (JI), the Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan. But while JI has focused the majority of its faith-based ire on Hindus, the religious groups of choice for ICNA’s attacks have primarily been Jews and Christians.</p>
<p>One of the main functions of ICNA is the spread of Islam. The group does this via its <em>dawah</em> or religious outreach program, Why Islam (WI). Too many times, though, ICNA’s religious outreach is used as a venue <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/WI_statements_2009.html">for the worst of bigotry</a>. Common targets include Jews, Americans, Israelis, homosexuals, fellow Muslims and Christians. The following quotes are presently found on WI’s web forum discussing the latter:</p>
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<li>“First of all, muslims do not believe in the G-d of the corrupted Bible, but we do believe in Allah… Anyone who says ‘la ilahe ilallah’ (there is not god but Him)… is guaranteed with eternal life in heaven… Abt penalty, there is no penalty to be done for our sins. This is [sic] wat u christians made up!!”</li>
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<li>“[T]he Americans don&#8217;t care about their Allies&#8230; Even though, speaking Islamically, they are our enemies and not allies&#8230; no Kaffir can be an Ally to a Muslim against a Muslim&#8230; Like Allah says in the Quran, Baqarah 2, ‘Never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with you&#8230; till you follow their religion’&#8230; [T]hey are not friends of anyone besides themselves&#8230; their friendship is an illusion.”</li>
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<li>“[T]he Christ that Christians believe will come before the Rapture is actually the anti-Christ who the Zionist-Jews will think to be their promised-Messiah… Most Christians don&#8217;t know this. They live in their capsule of ignorance that is hardened by the western main-stream media… [T]heir greed and covetousness for consumption is likened only with Satan in the Bible.”</li>
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<p>These statements are horrific on their own, but what makes the situation even worse is that the moderators for the group have used similar – even worse – rhetoric themselves, defending Hamas and discussing committing violence against American troops.</p>
<p>Why Islam is not the only entity comprising ICNA. The organization also encompasses a youth group, an educational facility, a multimedia division, a magazine, and a number of smaller local chapters. One of the chapters, the Southern California office (ICNA-SC), uses religious materials <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/ICNA-SC.html">to propagate hatred and violence against non-Muslims</a>.</p>
<p><em>Hadiths</em> for Muslims are vital, as they are only second to the Quran in importance with regard to Islamic religious texts. ICNA’s versions of the <em>Hadiths</em> contain rabidly anti-Christian bigotry. A current example of this is from a <em>Hadith</em> book entitled <em>Malik’s Muwatta,</em> found within ICNA-SC’s online library. It states, “May Allah fight the jews and the christians. They took the graves of their Prophets as places of prostration. Two deens shall not co-exist in the land of the Arabs.”</p>
<p>On its website, ICNA-SC has many other hate manuals as well. One, entitled <em>Priorities of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase,</em> is written by the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. In <em>Priorities,</em> al-Qaradawi lauds Hamas as being “steadfast” and “brave.” In the text, al-Qaradawi also talks about his belief that Christians should give up their rights and be ruled by Islam. He writes, “Christians and other religious groups will not come to any harm if they give up their right so that their Muslim compatriots may rule themselves by their religion and effect the laws of Allah in order to gain His Grace.”</p>
<p>Another of ICNA’s chapters, its Atlanta, Georgia office, this weekend beginning today, will be celebrating its annual function, featuring its normal list of extremist speakers. It’s a major event for ICNA, as the organization is advertising it atop its national website. The theme for this year is ‘Save Family – Save Society.’</p>
<p>In reality, society needs to save <em>itself</em> from ICNA.</p>
<p>The above quotes are only a small illustration of the bigotry that is spread by ICNA against Christians (and others). And so it is ironic, if not offensive, that ICNA would use Christmas to launch its hateful affair.</p>
<p>While ICNA desecrates Christianity this day, its leaders and members will thrive off of the goodwill of a generous American public that is ignorant of ICNA’s sinister goals and terror-related history. Hopefully the government will be giving us all the best Christmas present we could ask for – an investigation leading to ICNA’s closure.</p>
<p><strong><span id="ctl00_PageContent_lblBio">Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.com/">Americans Against Hate</a> and the founder of <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/cw/">CAIR Watch</a>.</span></strong></p>
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