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		<title>Islamic Law: Girls Can Be Married Even &#8216;In The Cradle&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between Sharia and common decency reaffirmed once again.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/174549556.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248426" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/174549556-415x350.jpg" alt="BAHRAIN-RELIGION-ISLAM-RAMADAN" width="309" height="261" /></a>Originally published by </i><i><a href="http://www.vieinter.com/themiddleeast/islamic-law-girls-can-be-married-even-if-they-are-in-the-cradle/">Veritas International Enterprise</a>.</i></p>
<p>Muslim attempts at “reformation” <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-reformers-forever-talking-the-talk-never-walking-the-walk/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">continue to be limited to words not actions</span></a>.  A few days ago, efforts to set a minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia “<a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-grand-mufti-says-no-opposition-to-underage-marriage-1.1429882"><span style="color: #0433ff;">received a blow</span></a> after the Grand Mufti said there was nothing wrong with girls below 15 getting married.”</p>
<p>Two years earlier, the justice ministry began pushing for setting a minimum age in the Arabian kingdom.  According to Gulf News, “It submitted an integrated study on the negative psychological and social effects of underage marriages to religious scholars and requested a fatwa that sets a minimum age.”</p>
<p>However, the <i>ulema</i>—the “religious scholar,” the learned ones of Islamic law—responded by totally ignoring the request.  Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority, its Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, shrugged the whole matter off by saying “There is currently no intention to discuss the issue.”  In other words, case closed.</p>
<p>Although the brief Gulf News report focuses on the age 15, going back to earlier reports when the justice ministry began bringing this issue up, one discovers that the issue at stake is full-blown pedophilia.</p>
<p>Back in 2011, for example, Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, issued a fatwa <a href="http://alwatan.kuwait.tt/ArticleDetails.aspx?Id=124848"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asserting</span></a> that there is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”</p>
<p>Appearing in Saudi papers, the fatwa complained that “Uninformed interference with Sharia rulings by the press and journalists is on the increase”—likely a reference to the justice ministry’s advocacy—“posing dire consequences to society, including their interference with the question of marriage to small girls who have not reached maturity, and their demand that a minimum age be set for girls to marry.”</p>
<p>Fawzan insisted that nowhere does Sharia (or Islamic law) set an age limit for marrying girls: like countless Muslim scholars before him, he relied on Koran 65:4, which discusses marriage to females who have not yet begun menstruating (i.e., are prepubescent) and the fact that Muhammad, Islam’s role model, married Aisha when she was six or seven, “consummating” the marriage—or, in modern/Western parlance, <i>raping</i> her—when she was nine.</p>
<p>The grand point of the Saudi fatwa, however, is not that girls as young as nine can be married, based on Muhammad’s example, but rather that there is no age limit whatsoever.  The only question open to consideration is whether the girl is physically capable of handling her “husband.”  Fawzan documented this point by quoting <a href="http://www.sifatusafwa.com/en/hadeeth/1037-sharh-sahih-al-bukhari-li-ibn-battal-449h.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ibn Battal’s authoritative exegesis of Sahih Bukhari</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The ulema [Islam’s scholars and interpreters] have agreed that it is permissible for fathers to marry off their small daughters, even if they are in the cradle.  But it is not permissible for their husbands to have sex with them unless they are capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the men.  And their capability in this regard varies based on their nature and capacity.  Aisha was six when she married the prophet, but he had sex with her when she was nine [that is, when she was deemed capable].</p></blockquote>
<p>Fawzan concluded his fatwa with a warning: “It behooves those who call for setting a minimum age for marriage to fear Allah and not contradict his Sharia, or try to legislate things Allah did not permit.  For laws are Allah’s province; and legislation is his exclusive right, to be shared by none other.  And among these are the rules governing marriage.”</p>
<p>Once again, case closed.</p>
<p>Fawzan, of course, is not <a href="http://islamqa.com/en/ref/22442"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the</span></a> <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3023.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">first</span></a> to insist on the legitimacy of <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Pedophilia"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pedophilia in Islam</span></a>.  Nor is this just some theoretic, abstract point; the lives of countless young girls are devastated because of this teaching.  Recall, for instance, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415871/Yemeni-child-bride-8-dies-internal-injuries-night-forced-marriage-groom-40.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">8-year-old girl who died</span></a> on her “wedding” night as her “husband” raped her; or the 12-year-old who <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemeni-12-year-old-dies-while-giving-birth-to-a-stillborn-1.539240"><span style="color: #0433ff;">died giving birth to a stillborn</span></a>; or the 10-year-old who made headlines by <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/10/marriage_saudi_arabiastyle_1.asp"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hiding </span></a> from her 80-year-old “husband.”</p>
<p>Finally, it should be borne in mind that Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz—the highest Islamic authority in the land of Islam’s birth—not only dismisses calls to place an age restriction for marriage, but is the same Grand Mufti who called for the destruction of all Christian churches on the Arabian Peninsula (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/saudi-mufti-destroy-churches/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">as first reported here</span></a>).</p>
<p>The consistency makes perfect sense.  After all, in the eyes of non-Muslims, or “non-believers,” Sharia law is nothing less than a legal system built atop the words and deeds of a seventh century Arab, whose behavior—from pedophilia and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muhammad-and-islams-sex-slaves/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex-slavery</span></a> to war mongering and plundering to destroying non-Muslim places of worship—was very much that of a seventh century Arab.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Edward L. Dalcour unveils the nightmare spawned by Islamic "theocracy."]]></description>
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		<title>Did Muhammad Approve of Torture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Ahmadi Muslim whitewashes the Prophet.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247438" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/behead.jpg" alt="behead" width="331" height="251" />Did Muhammad approve of torture? For Ahmadi Muslim leader Qasim Rashid, the answer is “no” – a “no” so unequivocal that Rashid holds up Muhammad as an example for the U.S. – newly sullied, in his view, by the just-released torture report – to follow in its treatment of prisoners of war.</p>
<p>This all sounds like a mainstream media dream: a moderate Muslim invoking Muhammad to rebuke the U.S. for its torture practices. The only problem with this gloriously multicultural scenario is that Qasim Rashid is a relentlessly disingenuous writer. Previously he has whitewashed <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/fox-news-publishes-piece-whitewashing-jihad-violence-and-proselytizing-for-ahmadi-islam">the reality of jihad violence</a> and Sharia oppression; dissembled about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/taqiyya-about-taqiyya-in-the-washington-post.html">the Qur’an’s sanction of deception of unbelievers</a>; lied about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/wapo-do-critics-actually-read-the-koran-uh-yeah.html">the presence of violent passages in the Qur’an</a>; lied about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/the-islamic-solution-to-stop.html">the Qur’an’s sanction of beating disobedient women</a>; lied about <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/08/huffington-post-whitewashes-sharia.html">the nature of Sharia</a>; and <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/03/us-muslim-calls-for-restrictions-on-free-speech-at-event-hosted-by-obama-appointee.html">called for limitations on the freedom of speech</a> and expression to outlaw behavior and speech some Muslims may find offensive. When challenged about the “facts” he has presented, he (like virtually all other Islamic supremacists) responds with furious ad hominem contempt, but no substance.</p>
<p>But he tells the mainstream media establishment what it wants to hear and fosters the complacency and ignorance of non-Muslims regarding jihad terror, and so his abject inability to defend his preposterous claims is of no import: he continues to be given a platform all over. Here he takes advantage of the controversy over the just-released torture report to claim that Muhammad rejected torture — while cynically refraining from mentioning all the evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>In “5 Lessons From Prophet Muhammad to Stop Torture” in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-rashid/5-lessons-from-prophet-mu_b_6302084.html">Huffington Post</a> (of course) last Wednesday, Rashid claimed:</p>
<blockquote><p>…Were the world to adopt Muhammad’s example of compassion, tolerance, and civility, such a torture report would not exist, because torture itself would not exist.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, because Muhammad would never have approved of harsh interrogation techniques, would he? Well, let’s see: Muhammad’s earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq, records that when Muhammad was trying to determine whether or not his favorite wife, Aisha, was guilty of adultery, he asked a slave, Burayra: “So the apostle called Burayra to ask her, and Ali got up and gave her a violent beating, saying ‘Tell the Apostle the truth.&#8217;” (Ibn Ishaq 734) Muhammad is not recorded as having rebuked Ali for violently beating this woman.</p>
<p>Nor was that an isolated incident, as we shall see.</p>
<p>Rashid continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>Here are five lessons the CIA, ISIS and humanity at large can learn from Prophet Muhammad on how to stop torture.</p>
<p><strong>1. Stop engaging in pre-emptive war</strong></p>
<p>Prophet Muhammad forbade pre-emptive war, all forms of terrorism, violently revolting against a government no matter how unjust, and even went to the extent of forbidding civil disobedience lest it lead to violence.</p></blockquote>
<p>All forms of terrorism? But Muhammad is reported as having said: “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror…” (Sahih Bukhari 4.52.220). One may argue that he didn’t mean modern-day terrorism, but given the other incidents that I will recount in this article, the claim that he forbade “all forms of terrorism” is fanciful in the extreme.</p>
<p>While not mentioning that hadith or the Qur’an verse telling Muslims to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60), Rashid plows on:</p>
<blockquote><p>When Muslims faced incessant and brutal persecution in Mecca from 610-620, Muhammad forbade any violent or incendiary response to the governing authorities. He offered his companions three options — remain and bear the persecution, try to change laws through peaceful argumentation, or leave.</p>
<p>Many Muslims left — some to Abyssinia where they sought and received refuge under the righteous Christian King Neghus. Others left to Medina, where they forged a peaceful alliance with the Jews and soon established a unified secular state governed by the Charter of Medina. Fighting was then only permitted in self-defense once Muslims were pursued and attacked, just as the <a href="http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?submitCh=Read+from+verse%3A&amp;ch=22&amp;verse=40">Qur’an 22:40</a> allows: “Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged — and Allah indeed has power to help them.” Once in defensive war, the Qur’an only permits killing active combatants, as elaborated next.</p></blockquote>
<p>Rashid omits all mention of the Qur’an’s teaching on offensive fighting. Ibn Ishaq explains the progression of Qur’anic revelation about warfare. First, he explains, Allah allowed Muslims to wage defensive warfare. But that was not Allah’s last word on the circumstances in which Muslims should fight. Ibn Ishaq explains offensive jihad by invoking a Qur’anic verse: “Then God sent down to him: ‘Fight them so that there be no more seduction,’ i.e. until no believer is seduced from his religion. ‘And the religion is God’s’, i.e. Until God alone is worshipped.” The Qur’an verse Ibn Ishaq quotes here (2:193; cf. also 8:39) commands much more than defensive warfare: Muslims must fight until “the religion is God’s” — that is, until Allah alone is worshipped.</p>
<p>The great medieval scholar Ibn Qayyim (1292-1350) also outlines the stages of the Muhammad’s prophetic career: “For thirteen years after the beginning of his Messengership, he called people to God through preaching, without fighting or Jizyah, and was commanded to restrain himself and to practice patience and forbearance. Then he was commanded to migrate, and later permission was given to fight. Then he was commanded to fight those who fought him, and to restrain himself from those who did not make war with him. Later he was commanded to fight the polytheists until God’s religion was fully established.”</p>
<p>In other words, he initially could fight only defensively — only “those who fought him” — but later he could fight the polytheists until Islam was “fully established.” He could fight them even if they didn’t fight him first, and solely because they were not Muslim.</p>
<p>Nor do all contemporary Islamic thinkers believe that that command is a relic of history. According to a 20th century Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh ‘Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid, “at first ‘the fighting’ was forbidden, then it was permitted and after that it was made obligatory.” He also distinguishes two groups Muslims must fight: “(1) against them who start ‘the fighting’ against you (Muslims) . . . (2) and against all those who worship others along with Allah . . . as mentioned in Surat Al-Baqarah (II), Al-Imran (III) and At-Taubah (IX) . . . and other Surahs (Chapters of the Qur’an).” (The Roman numerals after the names of the chapters of the Qur’an are the numbers of the suras: Sheikh ‘Abdullah is referring to Qur’anic verses such as 2:216, 3:157-158, 9:5, and 9:29.)</p>
<p>As an Ahmadi, Rashid may reject this understanding of the Qur’an and jihad, but it does exist, and he must know it exists. To ignore it entirely and give the impression that it doesn’t exist is cynical and deceptive.</p>
<p>And his cynicism and deceptiveness don’t end there. He continues:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>2. Stop justifying collateral damage</strong></p>
<p>Drone strikes, indiscriminate bombing, and collateral damage have each sadly become part of the American military experience. Prophet Muhammad categorically condemned any act of violence in which civilians, property, or places of worship were harmed.</p>
<p>Following Muhammad’s guidance, <a href="http://www.alislam.org/topics/khilafat/abubakar.html">Abu Bakr the first Khalifa</a> commanded to the Muslim army about to embark on battle,</p>
<p>“O people! I charge you with ten rules; learn them well… for your guidance in the battlefield! Do not commit treachery, or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy’s flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.”</p>
<p>As history’s first major figure to condemn collateral damage in word and in deed, Prophet Muhammad demonstrated a high precedent that even the most advanced nations today cannot match. Today’s leaders can end the war atrocities engulfing our world by following Muhammad’s example of justice and compassion.</p></blockquote>
<p>Collateral damage: “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” (Muslim 4321)</p>
<p>There is still more. Rashid says:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>3. Stop indefinite detention for POWs</strong></p>
<p>The Afghan and Iraq wars are long over. Yet, America continues to maintain numerous POWs in Guantanamo Bay, and likely in other undisclosed locations. Prophet Muhammad categorically condemned this practice. After permitting Muslims to only fight in self-defense, the Qur’an 47:5 next commands Muslims to release POWs immediately as war comes to an end.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, Qur’an 47:5 says: “Soon will He guide them and improve their condition.” That is not in any clear sense a command to release POW’s immediately as war comes to an end. Ibn Abbas in his commentary on this verse explains: “He will give them success to perform righteous deeds (and improve their state) and improve their condition and intention; it is also said that this means: He will save them in the Hereafter and improve their state and accept their works on the Day of Judgement.” To whom is Ibn Abbas referring? Not to prisoners of war, but (according to his gloss on 47:4) to “those who are killed in obedience of Allah on the Day of Badr, referring here to the prophetic Companions.” Ibn Kathir interprets the verse in a similar way, without any reference to freeing prisoners of war at the end of the war.</p>
<p>Without mentioning this anomaly, Rashid goes on:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maintaining POWs well after the war has ended creates distrust and animosity among allies and enemies alike, and is beneath the standard of a civilized country. Rather than usurp human rights with indefinite detention, rather than provide propaganda material to extremists, rather than violate its own Constitution and international law, we should all learn from Prophet Muhammad’s example, and justly release POWs.</p>
<p><strong>4. Stop mistreating POWs</strong></p>
<p>POWs, during and after the war must be treated with the dignity all human beings deserve. Historian Sir William Muir well records how Prophet Muhammad commanded his companions to treat POWs:</p>
<p>The Refugees had houses of their own, received the prisoners with kindness and consideration. “Blessings on the men of Medina!” said one of these in later days: “they made us ride, while they themselves walked afoot; they gave us wheaten bread to eat when there was little of it, contenting themselves with dates.” It is not surprising, therefore, that some of the captives, yielding to these influences, declared themselves Believers, and to such their liberty was at once granted. The rest were kept for ransom. Such as had nothing to give were liberated without payment; but a service was required… To each were allotted ten boys, to be taught the art of writing; and the teaching was accepted as a ransom.</p>
<p>Mind you, this was at a time in Arabia when Muslims captured during battle suffered the fate of torture and death. Yet, in response, Muslims demanded the ransom of education, fed POWs with their own food and sheltered them with their own shelter. Once war ended, Muhammad immediately released all POWs. This is how he brought lasting peace to a former Arabian wasteland engulfed in constant war.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mistreating POW’s: “When Muhammad saw Hamzah he said, ‘If Allah gives me victory over the Quraysh at any time, I shall mutilate thirty of their men!’ When the Muslims saw the rage of the Prophet they said, ‘By Allah, if we are victorious over them, we shall mutilate them in a way which no Arab has ever mutilated anybody.” (Al-Tabari, vol. 7, p. 133; cf. Ibn Ishaq 387)</p>
<p>And: “Anas reported: Eight men of the tribe of ‘Ukl came to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and swore allegiance to him on Islam, but found the climate of that land uncogenial to their health and thus they became sick, and they made complaint of that to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: Why don’t you go to (the fold) of our camels along with our shepherd, and make use of their milk and urine. They said: Yes. They set out and drank their (camels’) milk and urine and regained their health. They killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. This (news) reached Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he sent them on their track and they were caught and brought to him (the Holy Prophet). He commanded about them, and (thus) their hands and feet were cut off and their eyes were gouged and then they were thrown in the sun, until they died.” (Sahih Muslim 4131)</p>
<p>Rashid concludes with a dishonest coup de grace:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>5. Stop justifying torture</strong></p>
<p>Nothing justifies the torture the CIA meted out to those 119 human beings. Indeed, in response to those arguing safety, the report concludes that America was not made any safer as a result of these barbaric practices. This was just one among many reasons Prophet Muhammad categorically forbade torture.</p>
<p>For example, as recorded in Sahih Muslim, “Hisham ibn Hakim passed by some people in Syria who had been made to stand in the sun and had oil poured over their heads. He asked, “What is this?” It was said,</p>
<p>“They are being punished for not paying taxes.” Hisham said: I heard Prophet Muhammad say: “Verily, Allah will torture those who torture people in this world.” Likewise, Jabir ibn Abdullah reported that Prophet Muhammad commanded: “Do not torture the creation of Allah the Exalted.”</p>
<p>Indeed, <a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/books/TheBlessedModelAndCaricatures.pdf">Prophet Muhammad’s compassion extended beyond humans</a> as he also specifically forbade torturing animals, declaring, “A woman was punished because of a cat she had imprisoned until it died; thus, she entered Hellfire because of it. She did not give it food or water while it was imprisoned, neither did she set it free to eat from the vermin of the earth.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad, according to Islamic tradition, didn’t just justify torture. He ordered it: “Kinana b. al-Rabi`, who had the custody of the treasure of B. al-Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (T. was brought) to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kinana, ‘Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?’ he said Yes. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr b. al-Awwam, ‘Torture him until you extract what he has,’ so he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud.” (Ibn Ishaq 515).</p>
<p>After his tour de force of disingenuousness, Rashid concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is not a lack of intelligence, but a lack of morality that permitted this barbaric act of torture to occur at all. The CIA, ISIS, and indeed the world at large can learn volumes about compassion, justice, mercy, and morality from Prophet Muhammad, the man who successfully <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw3R8xc1TQ0">brought peace to a warring world</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>The world is warring all over today because of Muhammad’s teachings. It is a peculiar lack of morality that would create this deceptive piece, with its calculated omissions and frankly false conclusion. If Rashid is asked about this post, he will sneer that it is not peer-reviewed; he will not answer any of its substantive refutations of his dishonest claims. He cannot do so — both because the traditions about Muhammad don’t bear out his claims, and because of his own intellectual and moral dishonesty.</p>
<p>Qasim Rashid apparently doesn’t want the world to know that Muhammad commanded and approved of torture. He wants people to think that he forbade it. The effect of this will be to foster ignorance and complacency about the jihad threat. The blood of the next victims tortured by Islamic jihadists will cry out to Qasim Rashid from the ground on which it is spilled.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, Hirsi Ali didn’t hear much of Imam Joe’s Islamic wisdom: “I politely left the conversation at that. I wasn’t used to arguing with vice presidents.”</p>
<p>This wasn’t just Joe being Joe, saying another foolish thing that, if he were a conservative Republican, would have ended his political career in an avalanche of ridicule long ago. For in confronting Hirsi Ali and assuming he knew more about Islam than she does, Biden was reflecting what virtually every policymaker in Washington believes – on both sides of the aisle.</p>
<p>Even though Ayaan Hirsi Ali was raised a Muslim in a Muslim country, and educated in Islam from an extremely early age, and despite the fact that Joe Biden has almost certainly never opened a Qur’an, Biden was sure that what she said about Islam must be wrong – it just had to be. Why? Because her opinion of the religion was negative, and the possibility that such a view could have any merit whatsoever is inconceivable in Washington circles. Those who hold it <i>must</i> be ignorant.</p>
<p>It’s almost certain that Biden would never have confronted Karen Armstrong in a similar way. If Biden is familiar with what Armstrong says about Islam, such as her world-historically ridiculous claim that “Muhammad eventually abjured violence and pursued a daring, inspired policy of non-violence that was worthy of Gandhi,” he would no doubt warmly approve and even applaud. This would not be because Armstrong has done more formal study of Islam than has Hirsi Ali – she hasn’t. <span style="color: #222222;">Nor would it be because Imam Joe himself made a careful and judicious examination of Islamic texts and teachings, and came to the reasoned conclusion that Armstrong’s representation of Islam was more accurate and true to the </span><i style="color: #222222;">ding an sich</i><span style="color: #222222;"> than Hirsi Ali’s.</span></p>
<p>On the contrary, Biden would favor Armstrong’s Islam over Hirsi Ali’s solely and wholly because the former confirms his view of the world and appears to bear out what he wishes were true, and the latter does not. This is likewise the stance of all of Biden’s colleagues in the Obama Administration. John Kerry, like Biden, confidently takes a stand on what he believes Islam is all about, based not on any study of his own or anyone else, but on what he wishes is true and hopes is true.</p>
<p>Indeed, on these fantasies are based numerous foreign and domestic policies. <span style="color: #222222;">The idea that new Israeli concessions will end the Palestinian jihad against Israel and make possible a two-state solution with Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace is based on a determined refusal to consider the possibility that the Palestinians really mean the jihadist rhetoric that they pump out endlessly on official Palestinian Authority and Hamas airwaves about destroying Israel utterly.</span></p>
<p>The idea that stable, secular, Western-oriented republics could ever have been constructed in Afghanistan or Iraq was based on a refusal to confront what Sharia really is and to study the degree to which the populations in both countries were attached to it. Ultimately, the United States oversaw the adoption of Constitutions in both countries that enshrined Sharia as the highest law of the land – something that would never have been done had not Washington policymakers been listening to smooth apologists who assured them that Sharia was benign and completely compatible with republican government and Western principles of human rights.</p>
<p>Those policymakers are still entrenched, despite their abysmal track record. There is no accountability for them, for those who would hold them accountable believe in the same fantasies that led to the policy errors. Joe Biden’s interaction with Ayaan Hirsi Ali played out with dreary predictability: it was inevitable that Biden would think his fantasies and wishful thinking to be defensible, established fact, and unthinkable that he would regard the judgment of a Somali ex-Muslim woman with unconscious ethnocentric and chauvinistic paternalism: <i>she is just wounded by her anomalous experiences</i>, he might have thought to himself, while Joe Biden – Joe Biden! – man of the world, savvy political thinker, diplomat, statesman, and humorist, would gently and affably set her straight, and introduce her to the pluralistic open-mindedness that are the hallmarks of what make us great in the West.</p>
<p>That open-mindedness, that openness to non-Western cultures and people, the linchpin of the multiculturalist imperative, is what Biden and Kerry treasure so much and are trying to protect when they assure the world that Islam is a religion of peace and that those who commit violence in its name are violating its core principles. But even as they preen about their open-mindedness, Biden and Kerry and the rest are actually quite close-minded. When he heard Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak, Biden had an opportunity to hear truths that existed outside of his habits of thought. A truly open-minded person would have adjusted his thinking to fit reality.</p>
<p>Instead, Biden placed himself in the preposterous position of attempting to lecture an ex-Muslim, someone who had once revered the Qur’an and studied it deeply, about the true tenets of Islam. In this latest exercise in making himself ridiculous, Biden is a symbol of the entire Western world, staking its life and future on fantasy and wishful thinking. In response to his foolish nonsense, Ayaan Hirsi Ali was polite. If they ever encounter Biden face to face, those pious believers in Islam who know that what she says about their religion is accurate, and hate her for revealing it, will be substantially less so.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A religion's teachings and their earthly incarnations. ]]></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> <strong>Anthony Rogers.</strong> </strong></strong></p>
<p>Mr. Rogers joined the show to discuss <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: Their Application,</strong> revealing a religion&#8217;s teachings and their earthly incarnations.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Part I</strong> of this discussion with<b> Anthony Rogers</b>, in which he 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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		<description><![CDATA[Truth-tellers try to get Americans off the couch to protect western civilization. ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <em>The Counter Jihad Coalition</em> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Counter-Jihad-Coalition/647048938742800">here</a> and contact them at: <span data-reactid=".1.0.0">CounterJihadCoalition@gmail.com. </span></strong></p>
<p>While Islam is waging a bloody battle across the entire world, instead of calling out their atrocities most of the media chooses to punish the people trying to warn the world about Islam. Freedom Fighters like Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney, and Brigitte Gabriel are continuously denigrated for simply telling the truth.</p>
<p>Regardless of 9/11/01 and 9/11/12, and despite the fact that Americans are being beheaded by ISIS, if you dare suggest that the Islamic State is getting their killing orders directly from the Quran you are called ‘intolerant’ and ‘Islamophobic’. Meanwhile, ISIS is becoming more and more popular on social media and posters saying ‘ISIS is Here’ were seen in the original Ferguson riots.</p>
<p>So if no one is allowed to warn people about the violence of Islam, how will we be prepared when they try to accomplish their goal of taking over America?  You take it to the streets–and that is exactly what a group called the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Counter-Jihad-Coalition/647048938742800" target="_blank">Counter Jihad Coalition</a> is doing, evangelizing at a popular outdoor mall known as the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California.</p>
<p>According to <strong>Samira Tamir</strong> of the LA chapter of <em>ACT for America</em>, the Promenade has become a very popular shopping area for Muslims in the area with bearded men and women wearing full hijabs–so each weekend, the CJC sets up a table with pamphlets and they tell people about Islam using direct quotes from the Quran.</p>
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<p>Of course, their presence isn’t welcome with many 3rd Street Muslims.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamie.glazov">Dr. Jamie Glazov</a>, who spends many weekends at the Promenade, has been instrumental in bringing attention to the <em>Counter Jihad Coalition</em>’s work. This episode of <a href="http://jamieglazov.com/">The Glazov Gang</a> below features <a href="http://jamieglazov.com/2014/09/29/the-battle-over-islam-on-the-streets-of-l-a-on-the-glazov-gang/" target="_blank">Louis Lionheart</a> of <a href="http://truthdefenders.com/">TruthDefenders.com</a>, who works alongside the CJC on 3rd to tell the truth about Islam. As can be seen in the video, he was physically attacked by a Muslim woman at the Promenade after telling a crowd about the true nature of Mohammed&#8217;s marriage to 9-year-old Aisha:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">In the<em> Glazov Gang</em> episode below, CJC President <strong>Steve Amundson</strong> talks to Jamie about why he began his public outreach teaching people about Sharia and more:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">In this <em>Glazov Gang</em> episode below, guest-host <strong>Nonie Darwish</strong> talks to <strong>Samira Tamer</strong>, L.A. ACT Chapter Leader, about the Islamic Supremacism’s totalitarian presence on the streets of L.A.:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">And in this video, <strong>Dr. Jamie Glazov</strong> is seen quoting directly from the Quran to Muslims who still challenge the “context” of Mohammed’s violent words:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">To learn more about the <em>Counter Jihad Coalition</em>’s work, visit their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Counter-Jihad-Coalition/647048938742800">Facebook Page</a>. And you can watch episodes of the weekly webTV show <em>The Glazov Gang</em> at <a href="http://jamieglazov.com/">JamieGlazov.com. </a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And in case you missed it, here is my interview with <strong>Dr. Glazov </strong>after he appeared on a fiery episode of the <strong>Sean Hannity Show</strong>:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>See Marc Langsam&#8217;s photo album of the Counter Jihad Coalition in action on 3rd St. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mlangsam/media_set?set=a.944423765573122.1073741848.100000165216463&amp;type=3">here.</a></strong><br />
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		<title>The Real War on Women</title>
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<p>A day or two before Americans sat down to turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan – President Obama’s best friend in the Middle East, a man who has made it <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/09/there-is-no-moderate-islam.html">abundantly clear</a> how he feels about moderate Islam and who has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/29/turkey-women-laugh_n_5630416.html">warned</a> that women shouldn’t laugh in public – further endeared himself to feminists everywhere at a summit hosted by an Istanbul-based women’s group when he <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-women/">declared</a> that a woman cannot do every job that a man can do because “it is against her delicate nature.” He dug the hole deeper for himself by <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkish-president-equality-between-men-and-women-is-against-nature-9879993.html">claiming</a> that Islam dictated motherhood to be the primary role of women. However, he insisted that his government has always supported equal rights for women and always would.</p>
<p>If that’s true, then perhaps his government could turn its attention to the <a href="http://m.clarionproject.org/news/turkey-epidemic-murders-women-seeking-divorce">epidemic</a> of honor murders being committed against Turkish women, many of whom were murdered for seeking to divorce their husbands. Last month in Istanbul, a young mother in the middle of divorce proceedings was <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/woman-murdered-by-husband-in-istanbul-.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=73418&amp;NewsCatID=341">stabbed to death </a>by her husband in front of their child. Her murder is the latest of 287 cases documented by a Turkish human rights and advocacy group known as “We Will Stop Women Murders.”</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/19/turkish-women-divorce_n_6133470.html">reported by <em>Huffington Post</em></a>, the numbers are up from 238 last year, including the slaying of a 30-year old mother of two seeking a divorce. Her abusive husband simply walked into the hair salon where she worked and stabbed her to death without a word. This was after having abused her, forcing a miscarriage, and holding her hostage in their home.</p>
<p>Despite its modern reputation, Turkey has some of the highest levels of violence against women in Europe (as well as some of the lowest levels of <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/eu-urges-members-to-stop-stalling-with-turkey-1412764978">female participation in politics</a> and education). Rights activists claim that violence against women has skyrocketed since 2003 when the Islamist AKP party came into power. According to the Turkish Ministry of Justice, from 2003 until 2010, there was a 1,400 percent increase in the number of murders of women.</p>
<p>“The AKP government came under harsh criticism after the release of this information,” <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/turkeywomenmurder.html">says Pinar Tremblay</a>, a Turkish journalist. “So in a last-ditch effort to save its reputation, [after 2010] it started altering the numbers.” The government simply did not report on thousands of women who were murdered, Tremblay says.</p>
<p>She puts forth three reasons why have the numbers increased so dramatically. First, the value of women in Turkish society has always been low, but it has sunk even lower in the ten years under the AKP. Second is the notion of honor; Turkish society traditionally blames the woman for a variety of offenses to honor such as seeking a divorce, and the harm done to a man’s reputation is considered a partial or complete justification for murder. As the Freedom Center’s own Robert Spencer <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/09/does-islam-justify-honor-killings">writes</a>, “No passage in the Koran discusses honor killings, but Muslim clerics justify them and secular Muslims either do not punish them or pass laws to mitigate punishment for them. With this, Muslims make honor killings a part of Islam.”</p>
<p>The third reason is leniency in punishment for honor violence. “If the murderer behaves properly, he can receive amnesty in a year or two,” says Tremblay. “This leniency feeds from the fact that a woman’s life is worthless in Turkey and encourages other murderers. Indeed, there have been police reports that perpetrators have Googled possible punishments they might receive before killing their woman,” she added.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in India, TV presenter and actress Gauhar Khan was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/12/01/tv-presenter-assaulted-for-showing-to-much-skin-report-says/?intcmp=features">assaulted</a> last week by an audience member who thought her clothing bared too much skin. “Being a Muslim woman, she should not have worn such a short dress,” the man <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrified-tv-presenter-attacked-live-4726226">reportedly said</a> when arrested for assault.</p>
<p>But Khan’s slap on the cheek was a slap on the wrist compared to Bollywood actress Veena Malik, who was <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/pakistan-sentences-bollywood-actress-to-26-years-in-prison-for-marriage-scene-depicting-the-prophet-muhammads-daughter-130370/"><span><span><span>sentenced</span></span></span></a><span><span> to 26 years in prison for blasphemy by Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court for appearing in a televised wedding scene based on the marriage of the Muslim prophet Muhammad’s daughter. Depictions of Muhammad are considered blasphemous under Islam. Malik has been a target of Islamic fundamentalists ever since a 2011 <span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MyoBmGF_g"><span><span>video interview</span></span></a></span> in which she boldly lashed out at a mufti’s disapproval of her un-Islamic dress and behavior.<span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>The </span></span></span>court also convicted Malik’s husband and the host of the show which aired the offending scene. Both were sentenced to 26 years in jail as well, and all three will have to pay an additional fine of nearly $50,000, surrender their passports and sell their properties. “The malicious acts of the proclaimed offenders ignited the sentiments of all the Muslims of the country,” the court order read, “and hurt their feelings, which cannot be taken lightly and there is need to strictly curb such tendency.” </span></span></p>
<p>Such mistreatment of women isn’t limited to Islamic territories. In England (although some could argue that England itself is now an Islamic territory), news broke last week that thirteen Somali men were <a href="https://bbc1.azurewebsites.net/news/uk-england-bristol-30095960">convicted</a> of a string of child sex abuse crimes in Bristol, and one of the convicted told the court that sharing girls for sex “was part of Somali culture” and “a religious requirement.” To <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/uk-muslim-rape-gang-member-says-raping-girls-a-religious-requirement">quote</a> Spencer again, “The savage exploitation of girls and young women is, unfortunately, a cross-cultural phenomenon, but only in Islamic law does it carry divine sanction”:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general. The rape of captive women is also sanctioned in Islamic tradition.</p></blockquote>
<p>The rape of captive women is the ongoing nightmare currently faced by the thousands of Kurdish and Yazidi women <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=21795">enslaved</a> by the Islamic State. The practice “accords with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality,” as Spencer <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/uk-muslim-rape-gang-member-says-raping-girls-a-religious-requirement">noted</a> in relation to a female Kuwaiti politician who <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html">spoke out</a> in favor of the sexual slavery of non-Muslim women.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the Western media, the focus on the oppression of women is reserved for such idiocy as the “unattainable” <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/disney-princess-real-waistline_n_6076634.html">waistlines on Disney princesses</a>. Now that’s a <em>real</em> war on women.</p>
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		<title>Dr. Bill Warner on &#8220;Measuring Extremism in Islam&#8221; &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Sharia compliance defines a way to gauge civilizational "extremism" that goes beyond beheadings.]]></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>Measuring Extremism in Islam</strong>, illuminating how Sharia compliance defines a way to gauge civilizational &#8220;extremism&#8221; that goes beyond beheadings:</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a doctor from Egypt, let me share my first-hand experience with Islamic female genital mutilation.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/aslan.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244689" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/aslan-450x299.jpg" alt="aslan" width="313" height="208" /></a>Academic darling <a href="http://rezaaslan.com/">Reza Aslan</a> has once again veered from scholarship into advocacy on behalf of his once-renounced, now <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-book-that-changed-reza-aslans-mind-about-jesus/278410/">reaffirmed</a> religion of Islam. Responding to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60">Bill Maher’s</a> recent comments on Islam, Aslan has engaged in his trademark distortion of statistics and reality to make the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzusSqcotDw">claim</a> that female genital mutilation (<a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/">FGM</a>) is not a Muslim problem, but rather simply a “central African” problem.</p>
<p>He goes further, claiming that Muslim-dominated nations have records on women’s rights and empowerment that are barely shy of the most liberal of western Democracies. What Mr. Aslan fails to acknowledge, (willfully, I would say) is that Islamic law and tradition itself puts the lie to his nonsensical claims for Islamic women’s lib.</p>
<p>Mohammed wasn’t one to leave much to chance. Islam is a system of total control over the conduct of all aspects of daily life. From hygiene to sex, there is an instruction from Mohammed on the proper Allah-approved method of accomplishing these functions, and unfortunately for Mr. Aslan’s version of a free-spirited female paradise sort of Islam, the strictures outlined by the Prophet are quite often somewhat more restrictive than, say…prison.</p>
<p>The primary argument behind all of Aslan&#8217;s mewling apologia is that Islam doesn&#8217;t dictate behavior to its adherents &#8211; an assertion that is laughable at best.  He cites the fact that millions of Muslims do not wear the hijab or burqa, or practice the orthodoxy of Koranic Islam. Not following the rules, however, is not the same as there being no rules at all.  For Aslan&#8217;s argument to be correct, then the source of these behaviors would have to have originated outside of Islam – norms and traditions imposed upon them, or adopted by them as a cultural thing.</p>
<p>Aslan’s example of FGM among other groups than Muslims fails to convince when you look a bit deeper into the origin of these traditions. Many of the more recent adoptees of the practice did so after living in proximity to Muslim practitioners who repeatedly described their Muslim women as more virtuous than all other women because of their “circumcision.”</p>
<p>Over many centuries, non-Muslim women were described as and treated as “whores,” leading to a gradual adoption of the practice of FGM by neighboring peoples as a means of elevating their women in the eyes of the dominant Muslim culture of the time. FGM spread because it was a Muslim practice, promoted by Muslim behavior, not due to some spontaneous occurrence of local origin.</p>
<p>Islam has a long and tortured history of treating women as a tool of men, or perhaps more telling, as a means of production. <em>&#8220;Your wives are as a tilth [soil] unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will…&#8221;</em><strong> – </strong>Quran 2:223. In Islam, women are a place to plant seed. Period.</p>
<p>Aslan’s fellow traveler, Palestinian activist Rula Jebreal, made the point in spite of herself when she described her own departure from the typical path of a Muslim woman. Jebreal wrote “As a woman, you don’t have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East—very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.” This comes from the daughter of the Imam of the al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>After her mother committed suicide, Jebreal&#8217;s father sent her (along with her sister) at the age of 5 to live in an orphanage. Her big break came when the Italian government gave her a scholarship as part of a program to save girls from the orphanage. Ironically, considering her present hectoring of the West, after being ditched by her parents, it took a predominantly Catholic Western Democracy to enable her path to achievement. What a Palestinian success story.</p>
<p>Concerning Aslan’s assertions that FGM specifically, and the mistreatment of women more generally, are not outlined in the Koran, therefore aren’t Islamic, is yet another example of his penchant for distorting reality, to present a circus mirror view of his religion.</p>
<p>Perhaps Mr. Aslan should have spent some time with me in the hospital in Cairo when I treated hundreds of these mutilated women every year for the often dangerous side effects of what Mr. Aslan describes as a “central Africa” thing. As an OB-GYN in the most prestigious hospital in Egypt, I can attest to the fact that FGM is most certainly a commonplace practice in Islam.</p>
<p>While I treated people from all walks of life, my hospital catered to the elite of Egyptian society, the leaders of government and industry, well-educated and cosmopolitan people who practiced FGM at the same rate as the lower classes of Cairo.</p>
<p>There are four major forms of FGM that are common in Islam. One involves sewing a woman’s vagina shut entirely. Of course the woman’s husband will have the vagina opened from time to time, to facilitate impregnation and childbirth, after which the highly liberated and entirely free woman is immediately returned to her surgically chaste state.</p>
<p>Seriously Mr. Aslan… can you think of more damning proof that Islam indeed views its women in much the same way a farmer views his land? Tilth indeed.</p>
<p>Just because the Koran doesn’t spell it out doesn’t mean it isn’t part of Islam. For example, the Koran makes no mention of the hijab, (aside from Mohammed forcing his wives to wear it because their “exposure” was creating jealousy in him) but no sane person would argue that the hijab is not part of Islam.</p>
<p>The particular behaviors Aslan disclaims, such as FGM or similar subjugation of women, are in fact deeply rooted in Islam, in that they are directives from the Prophet himself.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;If anyone has intercourse with his wife when she is menstruating, or has intercourse with his wife through her anus, he has nothing to do with what has been sent down to Muhammad.&#8221;</em> — Narrated by Abu Hurairah, Book of Divination and Omens, Sunan Abu Dawood, 3895</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Allah is not shy to tell you the truth: do not have intercourse with your wives in the anus.&#8221; </em>—Narrated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musnad_Ahmad_ibn_Hanbal">Ahmad</a>, 5/213</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Make love to your wife from the front or the back, but avoid the anus and intercourse during menstruation&#8221;</em> — Reported by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musnad_Ahmad_ibn_Hanbal">Ahmad</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunan_al-Tirmidhi">Sunan al-Tirmidh</a>i</p>
<p><em>&#8220;If you find someone doing the deed of the people of Lot, </em>[sodomy]<em> then execute the doer and the one to whom it was done.&#8221;</em> – reported by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd-Allah_ibn_Abbas">Ibn Abbas</a>, Book of Legal Punishment, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunan_al-Tirmidhi">Sunan al-Tirmidhi</a>, Book 17, Hadith 40 [Number 1456], Hasan</p>
<p>Islam is a carefully crafted mechanism of control, dictating not only behavior, but responses to behaviors as well. While the Western world has long condemned the practice of keeping harems of concubines as being sexist and exploitative, Islam still teaches that men may keep as many concubines as they wish.</p>
<p>There is no explicit concept of rape within marriage in Sharia; a wife is deemed to have accepted conjugal relations as part of the marriage contract. She can only refuse when she is fasting, menstruating, undergoing post-natal discharge, or while on Hajj or Umrah. So why the big deal about sex at “that time of the month?”</p>
<p><em>“It is an illness; therefore keep aloof from the women during the menstrual discharge and do not go near them until they have become clean; then when they have cleansed themselves, go in to them as Allah has commanded you; surely Allah loves those who turn much (to Him), and He loves those who purify themselves.”</em></p>
<p>This isn’t an outlier teaching. This isn’t something you only find at the Islamic equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church; this is mainstream Islamic doctrine, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09UfqCxVFLs&amp;feature=youtu.be">taught</a> in mosques all around the world.</p>
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		<title>A Lesson on Free Speech and Sharia in Knoxville</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stunning defeat for CAIR in an unlikely place. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/lk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244243" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/lk-450x137.jpg" alt="lk" width="279" height="85" /></a>A recent legal victory by <a href="http://freedomxlaw.com/">Freedom X</a> upheld the right of private citizens to discuss openly sharia law at a Knoxville, Tennessee, high school. “This is a victory for free speech,” Freedom X’s President <a href="http://freedomxlaw.com/board-of-directors-2/">William J. Becker</a> rightly explained, in yet another instructive example of Islamists seeking to subvert the United States Constitution’s First Amendment.</p>
<p>A local Knoxville chapter of <a href="http://www.actforamerica.org/">ACT! for America</a> began the case by arranging an April 24 evening town hall at <a href="http://www.knoxschools.org/farraguths">Farragut High School</a> (FHS). The event featured Dr. <a href="http://www.cspipublishing.com/">Bill French</a>, Center for the Study of Political Islam founder under the pen name Warner, and <a href="http://vimeo.com/93287215">Matt Bonner</a>, regional director of the <a href="https://www.crescentproject.org/">Crescent Project</a>, a Christian evangelization ministry for Muslims. They intended to address the encroachment in America of sharia, vaguely described in one online <a href="http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2014/04/anti-islam_event_cancelled.html">report</a> as “Islamic laws governing worship and lifestyle.” Becker correctly clarifies that “Sharia is incompatible with our constitutional and legal protections” in numerous ways.</p>
<p>Both local and national Muslims groups, however, greeted the event with harsh opposition. <a href="http://tntoday.utk.edu/2013/03/12/muslim-youth-minister-unique-position/">Abdel Rahman Murphy</a>, a Muslim chaplain at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, emailed then FHS principal <a href="http://elps.utk.edu/ed_admin/Reflective%20Essays%20-%20Field%20Award/Reflective%20Essay%20-%202001%20Michael%20Reynolds.pdf">Mike F. Reynolds</a> on April 8 requesting the event’s cancellation. The town hall flyer had “kind of an aggressive tone,” Murphy <a href="http://www.wate.com/story/25220254/upcoming-event-at-high-school-as-some-muslims-on-edge">argued to reporters</a>. “Feel free hosting” the event “anywhere else by renting out a banquet hall,” Murphy added, “but to host it at a public place…is not comfortable for the rest of us.”</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.cair.com/">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a> (CAIR), a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/172">radical</a> faux civil rights group and an unindicted terrorism financing <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1854/doj-cairs-unindicted-co-conspirator-status-legit">coconspirator</a>, also objected. An April 11 CAIR <a href="https://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12446-cair-welcomes-cancellation-of-anti-muslim-event-in-tenn-school.html">news release</a> publicized a letter by CAIR National Communications Director <a href="http://www.cair.com/about-us/cair-national-board-and-key-staff/ibrahim-hooper-communications-director.html">Ibrahim Hooper</a> to FHS the previous day that “vilifies…French, Bonner and ACT! for America” with a “false attribution” of “anti-Muslim hate” refuted by Becker’s complaint. “We support the First Amendment right to free speech—even…hate speech used by these speakers,” Hooper argued. The “need for a safe and inclusive learning environment,” though, makes a “school…not the proper setting.”</p>
<p>Principal Reynolds’ April 10 letter to Knox County Schools Superintendent <a href="http://kcs.farragutis.schoolfusion.us/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=47850&amp;SID&amp;printable=TRUE&amp;SID&amp;portrait_or_landscape=portrait">James P. McIntyre, Jr.</a> shared Hooper’s sentiments. “Groups promoting hate rather than tolerance” would have the event “serve as a public forum for harassment and bullying practices that contradict the open-minded, academic discussion we seek to…foster at” FHS, Murphy wrote. The event would generate “little positive press or educational benefit,” yet “polarize our community” when “deemed ours by association.” Concerns of “potential backlash” and “future security threats” from “retaliation of opposing groups” existed. These “expressed concerns…about…disruption” from an event unsuitable for “a safe, healthy and comfortable learning environment” caused McIntyre to rescind ACT!’s invitation in an April 11 letter to its Knoxville chapter leaders.</p>
<p>A Knoxville school official was “happy to announce” ACT!’s uninviting. Hooper boasted of the school’s decision, arguing that “this event in a public school would send an implicit message of endorsement for the bigoted views of the speakers.” Knoxville schools must “remain a safe place for all students,” concurred <a href="http://acotn.org/about-us/staffboard/">Remziya Suleyman</a> from the Tennessee-based Muslim organization, American Center for Outreach.</p>
<p>The Knoxville ACT! chapter’s president John Peach held the event in a <a href="http://freedomxlaw.com/fx-sues-tn-school-district/">church</a>, not seeking other public venues for fear of another cancellation. “Sharia is not well-understood and we wanted to inform the public” as “concerned Americans,” Peach said. An “American…should” not “be afraid to speak out on public matters in a public forum.”</p>
<p>Peach noted that Muslim groups such as the Saudi-backed <a href="http://www.meforum.org/603/islamisms-campus-club-the-muslim-students">Muslim Students Association</a>, meanwhile, could openly operate unopposed at the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus. “If it’s right for Muslims to host events in tax-funded public facilities, then what is wrong with a group of citizens wanting the same,” he asked. “This is a great example of what Sharia Law is doing to America.”</p>
<p>On August 4<sup>th</sup>, Peach and French with Becker as counsel sued the school district for violating his First Amendment constitutionally protected rights. “It is unfortunate we have to educate the educators,” Becker stated in filing the lawsuit to coincide with the school year opening, but the First Amendment’s “freedom of speech…distinguishes America from Muslim nations.” “CAIR and other terror-affiliated groups are exploiting our laws,” Becker analyzed, “to erode…freedom of speech…part and parcel of a greater plan” for an “Islamic caliphate.” “Unfortunately…as Muslim activists play the victim card,” this trend will grow, even though blasphemy laws are unconstitutional.</p>
<p>Because “litigation would have been futile,” Becker rejoiced, the school’s attorneys settled just 21 days after his filing. An “undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome” the “hazardous freedom” that “is the basis of our national strength,” the 1969 United States Supreme Court <a href="http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1968/1968_21"><em>Tinker v. Des Moines School District</em></a> decision cited by Becker held. In addition to paying plaintiff attorney fees and costs, a new school district policy states that “[a]pproval for use of school buildings and property will not be withheld based upon the content of the message or viewpoint of the applicant.”</p>
<p>As with a prior June 2014 Chicago CAIR lead <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/16/Council-on-American-Islamic-Relations-Seeks-to-Undermine-the-Land-of-the-Free">protest</a> involving another instance of ACT! using public facilities for an anti-Sharia program, America’s First Amendment protections have stopped those who would inhibit open discussion of Islam. Vague “hate” or “disruption” claims have not silenced indirectly in America speech censored directly in majority-Muslim countries or “multicultural” sensitive Europe. The Knoxville case, a precedent that will not remained unnoticed, has shown groups like CAIR that Americans will not hesitate to defend free speech under assault even in the land of the free.</p>
<p><em>This article was commissioned by </em><a href="http://www.legal-project.org/"><em>The Legal Project</em></a><em>, an activity of the </em><a href="http://www.meforum.org/"><em>Middle East Forum</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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		<title>Willful Blindness to Global Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim discusses Islamic State, the U.S., and much more on Secure Freedom Radio.]]></description>
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<p style="color: #202021;">PART 1: <a style="color: #cf0000;" title="Download: Ibrahim One" href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/podpress_trac/web/189561/0/09192014_Seg1_Ibrahim_web.mp3"><img src="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/audio_mp3_button.png" alt="" /></a></p>
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<li>How ISIS plays into the bigger picture of global jihad</li>
<li>America’s willful blindness to the fact that to defeat an enemy, one must know the enemy</li>
<li>The American far-left’s apologist-position towards radical Islam</li>
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<p style="color: #202021;">PART 2: <a style="color: #cf0000;" title="Download: Ibrahim Two" href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/podpress_trac/web/189561/1/09192014_Seg2_Ibrahim_web.mp3"><img src="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/audio_mp3_button.png" alt="" /></a></p>
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<li>Defensive versus offensive jihad in Shariah doctrine</li>
<li>Comparing ISIS and Al-Qaeda</li>
<li>The consequences of ISIS declaring an Islamic Caliphate</li>
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<p style="color: #202021;">PART 3: <a style="color: #cf0000;" title="Download: Ibrahim Three" href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/podpress_trac/web/189561/2/09192014_Seg3_Ibrahim_web.mp3"><img src="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/audio_mp3_button.png" alt="" /></a></p>
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<li>President Obama’s misleading remarks about the connection of jihadist terrorism to Islam</li>
<li>The long history of Christian persecution in the Muslim world</li>
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<p style="color: #202021;">PART 4: <a style="color: #cf0000;" title="Download: Ibrahim Four" href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/podpress_trac/web/189561/3/09192014_Seg4_Ibrahim_web.mp3"><img src="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/audio_mp3_button.png" alt="" /></a></p>
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<li>Recommendations for future U.S. policies to combat the global jihad</li>
<li>Lessons learned from the American strategy that defeated the communist ideology of the Soviet Union</li>
<li>Problems with the labels put on those who question the radical aspects of Shariah law</li>
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		<title>Living in a Sharia Enclave in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 04:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Y. Kerry Sara]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lessons I learned from my personal nightmarish experience. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sharia-Law-in-America.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240752" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sharia-Law-in-America-450x337.png" alt="Sharia-Law-in-America" width="268" height="201" /></a>The United States and Western Europe are confronting the increasing threat of their citizens traveling to the Middle East to join the worldwide Islamic jihad. Over the past few months, numerous news reports have shed light on disaffected citizens from America and Britain joining the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or other terrorists groups and leaving to train and fight in the Middle East. ISIS is adept at using social media to correspond with Western nationals from Europe and North America predisposed to radicalization.</p>
<p>Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, the ISIS militant filmed beheading American journalists Steven Sotloff last week and James Foley three weeks ago, is a former British citizen.  Abdel Bary is one of up to 500 Britons believed to have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight with Islamist groups.</p>
<p>Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha &#8212; a man born and raised in Florida &#8212; carried out a suicide bomb attack in Syria in May of this year.  Before he completed his terror strike, Abu-Salha came back to America on his United States passport.  Later, he appeared in a video released by Al Qaeda showing him destroying his passport and leaving a disturbing message for America: &#8220;We are coming for you.&#8221;</p>
<p>In late August, two men from the Minneapolis, Minnesota region &#8212; Abdirahmaan Muhumed and Douglas McAuthur McCain &#8212; were killed fighting with ISIS in Syria.  Before Muhumed left America to join ISIS, he was employed at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport refueling commercial airliners.  He also had a security clearance, giving him access to sensitive areas of the airport.  Douglas McAuthur McCain was a high-school classmate of Troy Kastigar, a Muslim convert, who was killed fighting with Islamic militants in Somalia in 2009.</p>
<p>The latest report of a person to leave the U.S. and travel to Syria to fight for ISIS is of a 19-year-old Somali woman from St. Paul, Minnesota.</p>
<p>Many Americans believe that the effort by Islamic militants to recruit young men and women from the United States and Western Europe to fight on behalf of fundamentalist Islam is a recent phenomenon.  However, I have personally watched many troubled people be targeted by Islamic radicals since I was a child.  My experience has given me an up-close and personal look at Americans who, whether they realize it or not, are offering aid and comfort to the enemy in cities and towns all across our country.</p>
<p>When I was a child, my mother rejected traditional values and morality to join the counter-cultural movement of the 1970’s. Soon after I was born, my mother changed her name from Annette to a completely Islamicized name.  I was unlucky when it came to fathers and father figures.  My biological father abandoned my mother right after I was born.  Like many poor inner-city African Americans, I know very little about my father.</p>
<p>After revolving around the fringes of the radical left in Buffalo, New York – my mother converted to Islam and joined an Islamic cult.</p>
<p>The leader of the cult established a polygamous “family” of 5 women and all of their children by means of an evil blend of Islam, left-wing ideology and street-level pimp philosophy.  He formed this “family” to satisfy his lust and greed.  In his position as head of the household, he used Islam&#8217;s advocacy of polygamy to convince my mother and four other women to live with him in one two-story home together.</p>
<p>The cult leader, my mother, and the other women in the house manipulated Islamic principles to allow for physical and sexual abuse of the women and children.  All of the adults were physically, verbally and emotionally abusive toward the children.  The leader physically and sexually exploited everyone.</p>
<p>After my mother left the cult she met and subsequently married another Muslim man.  He was a street hustling ex-con.  My mother allowed him to be physically violent towards me and my siblings.  I distinctly remember that he, my mother and the Muslims in Buffalo at the time praised the efforts of the Iranian terrorists who took fifty-two American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days during President Jimmy Carter&#8217;s term in office.</p>
<p>After President Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the members of the Islamic community that we belonged to turned to extremism.  They supported the political power of the Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as well as those who resisted the economic sanctions against Iran and any normalization of relations with the West.</p>
<p>My mother divorced her husband in the early 1990s. She eventually married the leader of a Muslim Mosque in Buffalo, New York. He was also an ex-con and parlayed his criminal past into a job as a prison imam. As a leader in the Islamic community, he would engage in public speeches and publish many writings on religion, politics and society.</p>
<p>All of this Muslim man&#8217;s speeches and writings were highly critical of American society, culture, our system of law and the United States government. Philosophically, this mosque leader would promote Sharia law and the commandments mandated by Islam over the United States Constitution and any oaths of allegiances that would require Muslims to support or defend the country.  This theoretical outlook is consistent with all of the imams and Muslim leaders that I have been exposed to.</p>
<p>I remember that I would wonder how the various Islamic leaders really felt about their U.S. citizenship.  Because many members of the American Islamic community view Western society and culture the same way as Muslims in the Middle-East &#8212; as heretical and idolatrous &#8212; Muslim leaders in America often go to great lengths to criticize the United States.  I observed this same attitude among the Muslims that I encountered while I was a member of the United States Army.  I would question how all of the Muslim military members truly viewed their oath to protect the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.</p>
<p>Given what I have observed of those fascinated by the message of radical Islam in the black community and the military, I can only conclude that many Muslims have the same goals as Nidal Malik Hasan: they want to expand the Islamic caliphate to Western Europe and the United States.  Hasan is, of course, the former United States Army officer who fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009.</p>
<p>All of the Muslims that were around me when I was young &#8212; including members of my own family &#8212; supported the hard-line viewpoints and medieval thinking of the most extreme elements of the worldwide Islamic movement.  When I was a child I remember that I was constantly confused by the support that I witnessed for the forced veiling of women and the willingness to treat females and children as property to be used and abused at the whim of the men that surrounded us.</p>
<p>Why are so many citizens in the United States and Western Europe so willing to convert to Islam and adopt its religious values of violence and repression?  Many of the people around me when I was a child looked to radicalism out of social frustration.  They thought that they could find the solution to their failed lives through common cause and contact with international terrorists and tyrants.</p>
<p>However, the main driving forces pushing so many Westerners to jihad are the toxic ideologies of Islam and social radicalism.  Many jihad converts lead lives of social prestige and privilege.  They come from families that give them every financial advantage for success. But still they turn to fanaticism.</p>
<p>Prospective jihadists from Western European countries see joining the worldwide Islamist movement as an ideological response to America and its international allies.  It is an extension of the logic that my mother and other social radicals had in the 1960s, &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. They have hatred for<span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="zw-portion">the </span><span class="zw-portion">Western system, </span><span class="zw-portion">so they turn to communalism, decadence and support for terrorism.</span></p>
<p class="spacer-para" style="color: #000000;">However, the only thing that the jihadist traitors from the West are achieving is personal exploitation in one form or another by the leaders of the worldwide jihad.  They also generate death, spread emotional pain to their families and shame the communities that they originate from.</p>
<p>The Muslim community in America has been devoting significant resources to the media in an effort to convince the public that there is a strong moderate social influence in Islam that is opposed to the threat that radical jihadists present to Western civilization. But my experience living under a nightmare version of Sharia law in America and the contemporary threat of large numbers of young Americans trained by Muslim extremists to return home and commit acts of terror blows a serious hole into the logic of that line of thinking.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Freedom X&#8217; Takes on CAIR</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth-tellers about Sharia refuse to stand down. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fg.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238323" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fg-450x314.gif" alt="fg" width="222" height="155" /></a>A lawsuit has been filed in Tennessee by <a href="http://freedomxlaw.com/faith-freedom/">Freedom X</a>, a nonprofit law firm that specializes in First Amendment issues. <em><a href="http://freedomxlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/01-main.pdf">John Peach vs. Knox County Schools</a></em> alleges that Knox County School officials and Superintendent Jim McIntyre <a href="http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/group-opposing-sharia-law-sues-knox-county-schools-for-event-cancellation_58827612">canceled</a> an April after-hours presentation at Farragut High School that was to center around Sharia Law and its increasing acceptance in the United States due to complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). “Public officials, and that includes public school officials, violate the free speech clause of the First Amendment whenever they censor speech merely because it offends someone,” said William J. Becker, Jr., Freedom X’s president and general counsel. “Unfortunately, we are seeing this trend grow as Muslim activists play the victim card.”</p>
<p>The lawsuit was filed on behalf of John Peach, director of the Knoxville chapter of <a href="http://www.actforamerica.org/index.php/learn/about-act-for-america">ACT! for America</a>, a group founded by Lebanese immigrant Brigitte Gabriel. Act! for America describes itself as a &#8220;non-partisan, non-sectarian organization whose mission is to give Americans concerned about national security and terrorism a powerful, organized, informed and mobilized voice.”</p>
<p>Apparently giving Americans that voice doesn’t sit well with CAIR. Prior to the event, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper sent a <a href="https://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12446-cair-welcomes-cancellation-of-anti-muslim-event-in-tenn-school.html">letter</a> to Farragut High School Principal Michael Reynolds insisting that the scheduled speakers— Dr. Bill French, aka Bill Warner, an expert on Islam and the Koran, and Matt Bonner, Knoxville chapter director of the Crescent Project, a Christian group that engages in Muslim evangelization—were “bigots.” Hooper further claimed that the event itself</p>
<blockquote><p>will be viewed as having the endorsement of school officials and has the potential to promote bullying and to create a hostile learning environment for Muslim students. It may also serve to create a negative impression of Islam and Muslims in the minds of students of all faiths.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hooper then claimed he supported the First Amendment right to free speech,</p>
<blockquote><p>even the kind of hate speech used by these speakers—but believe, because of the need for a safe and inclusive learning environment, that a school is not the proper setting for such an event. I therefore respectfully request that you review district policies to determine whether you (sic) high school is an appropriate venue for a potentially hate-filled program.</p></blockquote>
<p>After receiving Hooper’s letter, a school official told CAIR that &#8220;Farragut High School does not support this event, nor do we share the presenters’ views.” Soon after, the invitation was rescinded.</p>
<p>Knox County Superintendent Jim McIntyre explained the decision. “The primary purpose of our school facilities is to provide a safe, healthy and comfortable learning environment for our students,“ he <a href="http://counterjihadreport.com/2014/04/">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;When other uses of the facility begin to impinge on or interfere with the administration’s ability to provide a suitable education atmosphere, it is necessary for us to reconsider that use.”</p>
<p>That CAIR has any political traction whatsoever is a testament to what Freedom X describes as “creeping Sharia.” In a June 2009 <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1425.pdf">ruling</a> arising from the 2008 trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), during which five HLF official were convicted of 108 counts of abetting terrorist organizations, Judge Jorge Solis revealed that CAIR had ties to Hamas. &#8220;The government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, with NAIT, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and with Hamas,” it stated. Solis agreed with CAIR that his ruling should have remained sealed based on Fifth Amendment protections, but he refused to remove references to CAIR from the trial record. &#8220;CAIR&#8217;s status as a co-conspirator is a matter of public record,” he explained.</p>
<p>In an unfortunate twist in the story, the Internet media group <a href="http://lp.prweb.com/ps/g/brand-se?cid=70180000000pIvN&amp;prwcampaigncode=psg_brand_2013&amp;ps_campaign=prweb-brand-search&amp;ps_adgroup=prweb&amp;pkw=prweb&amp;mkwid=shaonqxeZ&amp;pcrid=44541689095&amp;pmt=e&amp;gclid=CMKL7uzQgcACFcZQ7AodKFEA1Q">PRWeb</a>, an organization that boasts of having a network of 30,000 journalists and the ability to get stories featured on “major local and national news sites,” has attempted to suppress this information about CAIR. When Becker sought to get the story of Freedom X’s lawsuit disseminated to a wider audience, and included the published references of CAIR’s ties to Hamas in his press release, PRWeb refused to run it.</p>
<p>Emails from August 4  and 5 provided to Frontpage by Becker reveal that PRWeb informed Freedom X that their press release had been &#8220;put on hold” because the website&#8217;s editors had determined that it &#8220;appears to be intended to exact personal revenge or harm a person or group” and that CAIR’s association with Hamas “did not contain attribution.” On August 5, another email from PRWeb indicated that Becker had in fact provided attribution, however, PRWeb nonetheless informed Becker that the press release had to be revised to remove &#8220;potentially harmful material:”</p>
<blockquote><p>Please strike the following from your press release:</p>
<p>&#8220;CAIR, which is affiliated with Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization (see Order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in United States v. Holy Land Foundation (04-CR-0240) <a href="http://www.%20investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1425.pdf ">found here</a> and published on 07/01/09. Since 10/8/1997 Hamas has been classified by the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization), has a practice of complaining about events critical to Islam in order to silence speakers, something the complaint alleges the organization didi (sic) in this case,&#8221; Becker said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Speaking with Frontpage, Becker noted the irony of an organization dedicated to disseminating information demanding the same “sanitization” that CAIR demands. &#8220;Playing directly into the hands of the censors” prevents the public from being properly informed, Becker noted.</p>
<p>To add insult to injury, PRWeb elected to publish a press release from CAIR that denounced the ACT! For America Knoxville chapter and vilified scheduled speaker Bill French. This leaves little question that PRWeb&#8217;s censorship was not done to avoid &#8220;potential harm&#8221; but out of an animus toward Freedom X and its client.</p>
<p>As the case filing explains, Becker seeks to “protect and vindicate fundamental Constitutional rights,” because the defendants have “adopted and enforced an unconstitutional policy that restricts protected speech in a public forum.” It also seeks a “permanent injunction enjoining the enforcement of Defendants’ Speech Restriction.” Becker also wants “nominal damages,” attorney fees and expenses.</p>
<p>The lawsuit was timed to coincide with the beginning of the new school year. “We have a lesson to teach the teachers,” Becker explained.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The First Amendment protects speech some might not want to hear but school officials are sworn to uphold the Constitution and to allow it. They were tricked into censoring American citizens wanting to exercise the freedom of speech that distinguishes America from Muslim nations.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Becker deserves credit for giving the defendants the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps a better term than “tricked” might be “capitulated,” much in the same manner as that of Brandeis University president Frederick Lawrence who shamefully rescinded an honorary degree that was offered to Somali-born women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. CAIR was part of the mob who pursued that recision, with CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad <a href="https://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12444-cair-welcomes-brandeis-universitys-withdrawal-of-honor-for-islamophobe-ayaan-hirsi-ali.html">referring</a> to Ali as an &#8220;anti-Muslim bigot” with &#8220;hate-filled and extremist views.”</p>
<p>Becker sees the bigger picture. “Muslims in America led by CAIR, which is affiliated with Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization, are exploiting our laws to erode everyone else’s freedom of speech,” he warned. “It’s part and parcel of a greater plan to eventually make us into an Islamic caliphate.”</p>
<p>Courageous truth tellers like Freedom X and John Peach are determined to prevent that from happening &#8212; opposition from public school educators and the mainstream media notwithstanding.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world’s worst slave state, a heroic anti-slavery activist comes second in a presidential election.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/biram-dah.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235738" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/biram-dah-362x350.png" alt="biram-dah" width="294" height="284" /></a>While the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls into slavery by the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, received abundant media coverage, and deservedly so, the mainstream media regrettably failed to bestow similar attention on an equally newsworthy and globally important anti-slavery story occurring simultaneously nearby in Mauritania.</p>
<p>In a national election last June, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a West African country like Nigeria, re-elected President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a former army general, to a second five-year term with 81.94 percent of the vote despite accusations of extensive voter fraud. The dubious distinction of a Third-World ruler getting himself re-elected dictator is, unfortunately, nothing new. But what distinguished markedly this particular Mauritanian election from previous ones was Aziz’s main opponent, Biram Ould Dah Abeid, a remarkable and fearless Mauritanian anti-slavery activist whose <em>Radicals For Global Action (RAG) </em>party came second.</p>
<p>“We are the only ones to have a different ideological position,” said Dah Abeid in an interview with <em>Le Courier de Sahara</em>. “We are fighting against slavery, against racism, against government waste and against corruption. The true opposition, it’s us!”</p>
<p>Though largely unknown in the Western general public, Dah Abeid was recognized in 2013 by the United Nations (UN) as one of of the world’s foremost abolitionists, receiving the prestigious UN Human Rights Prize from Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon last year in New York. Reflecting his human rights stance and his <em>Le Journal de Sahara</em> statement, Dah Obeid’s <em>RAG</em> ran on an anti-slavery, anti-racism, anti-corruption platform in the recent election. Dah Abeid himself is the son of a slave; his father was freed by his grandmother’s master, but his grandmother and uncles remained slaves.</p>
<p>“I am from the servile community of Mauritania that makes up 50 percent of the population,” said Dah Abeid in a speech at the UN Human Rights Summit in Geneva earlier this year. “Twenty percent of the 50 percent have been born as property of other men. We were inherited by other people.”</p>
<p>And Mauritania is direly in need of such dauntless slavery opponents. Through his own research, Dah Abeid believes his country possesses the highest number of chattel slaves in the world, to which he estimates 20 percent of his country’s 3.3 million people belong (Most observers admit, however, that an exact number is difficult to determine).</p>
<p>Mauritania’s slaves are black and their owners are Arabs or Berbers, called “whites,” who constitute about 20 percent of the population and almost all of the political, business and military elite class that controls the country. Like most other Mauritanians, both slaves and masters are Muslim, enmeshed in a cruel, life-destroying institution that dates back centuries in Mauritania, with some slave families remaining trapped in this evil for generations.</p>
<p>“This is a state racism that has become institutionalised, that has caused pogroms, purges, bloody purges, murdering of the black population, of different groups like the Wolof (a black African people)…” Dah Abeid said in his Geneva speech.</p>
<p>Dah Abeid belongs to the Haratin class, an oppressed group of people composed of freed slaves and their descendants, while members of black African groups, like the Wolof, form another 20 percent of Mauritania’s population. But all “free” black Mauritanians suffer discrimination based on race and live in what Dah Abeid calls “sub-citizenship.” Some “free” black Mauritanians’ slave origins can be identified in their names, like Dah Abeid’s, whose last name is Arabic for “slave.”</p>
<p>“The proverbs of our masters say that the difference between a slave and one who is freed is the distance which separates the tail of a cow from the ground. In Mauritania, our cows have very long tails,” Dah Abeid said in a <em><a href="http://slate.com">slate.com</a></em> interview.</p>
<p>In 2013, indicating the extent of the slavery tragedy in Mauritania, Global Slavery Index ranked the country number one in the world for its prevalence there. Slavery was abolished in Mauritania in 1981 and criminalized in 2007, but only one person has ever been convicted and jailed for owning a slave. Local and foreign observers of Mauritania’s human rights situation generally regard these decrees as having been made solely for foreign consumption. The slavery situation remains the same despite government denials that only “vestiges” remain.</p>
<p>However, Dah Abeid, a constant thorn in the ruling Arab-Berber class’s side regarding slavery, used Global Slavery Index’s announcement to “congratulate” in a sarcasm-laden speech his government’s winning “the trophy and the title of the first slave state in the world.”</p>
<p>“We (anti-slavery activists) have been working towards the re-foundation of a Mauritania without masters and servants but, once again, you have beaten us,” he said. “We will never stop complimenting you on this enviable place on the international stage that you have managed to achieve, after a hard fight, for our country…Your leader, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz deserves to be re-elected in the first round of the presidential election in 2014…”</p>
<p>With other members of the Mauritanian anti-slavery group <em>Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) </em>he founded in 2008, Dah Abeid has undertaken several public actions to embarrass the government into freeing slaves and to abolish slavery. In 2011, for example, he and several others staged a protest demonstration to obtain a ten-year-old slave girl’s freedom from her mistress. The Mauritanian government reacted accordingly for a pro-slavery regime. It didn’t arrest the mistress under its 2007 law and free the girl but rather punished the protesters with jail terms.</p>
<p>In 2012, Dah Abeid and other IRA activists staged a sensational (for Mauritania) anti-slavery protest on a Friday outside a mosque. There, Dah Abeid symbolically destroyed a copy of the Sharia law code used by Mauritania’s ruling class to justify slavery. According to the eminent scholar of Islam, Bernard Lewis, “…the institution of slavery is not only recognized but is elaborately regulated by Sharia law.”</p>
<p>Dah Abeid said he made sure he first removed the pages referring to the Koran and those containing the names of the Prophet Mohammad and Allah before carrying out this provocative and symbolic act. The anti-slavery activist does not believe Sharia is divine law, as more fundamentalist Muslims do, saying it is simply outdated codes drawn up during Islam’s Middle Ages.</p>
<p>“In the Constitution of Mauritania, they are the primary source of law. But it completely contradicts the letter and spirit of the actual Quran, which is in its nature egalitarian,” he said.</p>
<p>The government reaction to the anti-Sharia demonstration was as overwhelming as it was barbaric. Dah Obeid’s home was violently raided and he and other anti-slavery activists were imprisoned and tortured. But due to the international outcry, President Aziz had him released from jail. A Sharia court, however, declared Dah Abeid an apostate and he is currently under sentence of death.</p>
<p>“There were TV programs transmitted that talked about how I was going to be hanged…,” he said. “And they said on television we will kill him, like we kill a cat.”</p>
<p>But Dah Abeid says what disturbed him the most about this grisly affair was the silence of “ambassadors of democratic countries” who “did not speak up about freedom of speech and worship.”</p>
<p>Dah Abeid and other Mauritanian anti-slavery activists have been arrested, imprisoned and tortured multiple times. Both his anti-slavery group and political party were banned almost the moment they were announced. Dah Obeid’s non-violent protest activities, sense of justice and self-sacrifice for the most powerless in his country remind one of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela, who, Dah Obeid says, is his role model. Fittingly, both Mandela and King were previous recipients of the same UN human rights award bestowed on Dah Abeid. But Dah Abeid’s struggle is probably fraught with more obstacles, since he is confronted with an established slave system, backed by Sharia law, and a slave-owning political class that supports both.</p>
<p>So it is all the more remarkable, and probably unprecedented, that the son of a slave, under sentence of death and heading a banned party, ran in a presidential election against the incumbent representative of his country’s slave-owning class. Despite the alleged voter fraud, <em>RAG </em>still managed to receive 8.72 percent of the vote. The other three presidential candidates all received under five percent. Some opposition parties boycotted the election to protest expected voting irregularities.</p>
<p>“If these elections were held under normal circumstances, I would get between 35 and 40 percent of the vote,” said Dah Abeid after the election.</p>
<p>Jeremy Keenan, a professorial research associate at the School of Africa and Oriental Studies at the University of London and author of several books on Africa, agrees. Before the election, Keenan wrote that “Mauritania’s elections under President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz are neither free, fair nor transparent.”</p>
<p>“If all Haratin (freed black slave class) and blacks were registered on the voters role, which they are not, and if Mauritanian elections were 100 per cent free and fair, which they are not, and if all Haratin-blacks voted on racist-ethnic lines, which is conceivable, then Biram Dah Abeid would be president,” wrote Keenan.</p>
<p>The mainstream media’s neglect regarding Dah Abeid and the Mauritanian election story is all the more curious when one considers the story’s heroic nature as well as its far-reaching implications that could eventually end the suffering of hundreds of thousands of enslaved black African Mauritanians, whose same sad fate the young Nigerian women are now experiencing. Already, Dah Abeid’s and <em>IRA’s</em> efforts are reported to have led to the release of two thousand slaves.</p>
<p>And that, definitely, is news worth reporting.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Prof: West Leads the World in &#8216;Islamic Values&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ali Sina]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hossein Askari's intriguing analysis on why no Muslim countries represent Muslim values. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/rtr1j5cw.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234440" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/rtr1j5cw-450x346.jpg" alt="rtr1j5cw" width="277" height="213" /></a>Are non-Muslim countries more Islamic than Muslim countries? That is what Hossein Askari, an Iranian-born professor of International Business and International Affairs at George Washington University, believes. Askari says Ireland “leads the world in Islamic values as Muslim states lag.” After studying 208 countries and territories he found that the top countries in both economic achievement and social values are Ireland, Demark, Luxembourg and New Zealand. Britain also ranks in the top ten.  The first Muslim-majority nation is Malaysia ranking at 33, while the only other state in the top 50 is Kuwait at 48.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Askari then concluded that the Quran’s teachings are better represented in non-Muslim societies than in Islamic countries, which, he believes, have failed to embrace the values of their own faith in politics, business, law and society.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Askari said Muslim countries use religion as an instrument of state control.  “We must emphasize that many countries that profess Islam and are called Islamic are unjust, corrupt, and underdeveloped and are in fact not ‘Islamic’ by any stretch of the imagination,” Askari asserted.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“Looking at an index of Economic Islamicity, or how closely the policies and achievements of countries reflect Islamic economic teachings &#8211; Ireland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Singapore, Finland, Norway, and Belgium round up the first 10.”  Askari added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Askari said:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">If a country, society, or community displays characteristics such as unelected, corrupt, oppressive, and unjust rulers, inequality before the law, unequal opportunities for human development, absence of freedom of choice (including that of religion), opulence alongside poverty, force, and aggression as the instruments of conflict resolution as opposed to dialogue and reconciliation, and, above all, the prevalence of injustice of any kind, it is prima facie evidence that it is not an Islamic community.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">If Askari were right the solution would be simple. To get rid of corruption, oppression injustice and inequality in Islamic countries, which according to Askari are not Islamic values, we could encourage Muslims to leave Islam and follow the lead of non-Muslim countries.  It appears that the more a country is Islamic the more it lacks “Islamic values.” Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan that are more Islamic are also more oppressive.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But of course Askari is wrong. In Islam the unbelievers are not equal to believers.  “<i>Is he, then, who is a believer like one who is disobedient? They are not equal</i>.” <sub>(Q. 32:18) </sub>In Islam men excel over women. <sub>(Q. </sub>4:34<sub>)</sub></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Also Islam honors the institution of slavery.<sup> (Q 33:50, 23:5) </sup> Dawud reports a hadith <sup>(14:2692) </sup>of a slave of Ibn Umar who ran away to the enemy and when Muslims overpowered them Muhammad returned him to Ibn Umar. Dawud says that this slave was not distributed (as a part of booty) among the rest of the captives who were also reduced to slaves.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for freedom of religion, the Quran says “No religion other than Islam will be accepted from anyone.” <sup>(Q. 3:85)</sup> The argument that Islam is tolerant because the verse 2:256 says there is no compulsion in religion is a fallacy. This verse has nothing to do with tolerance. According to Islamic sources, the Jews of Medina had adopted and raised the orphaned children of Arabs and these children had embraced Judaism. When Muhammad expelled the Jews from their city the relatives of these children (now adults) wanted to prevent them leaving but in loyalty to their adopted parents they preferred to go. The matter was brought to Muhammad who said, if they want to go let them go, “there is no compulsion in religion.” Of course if they wanted to stay they had to convert to Islam.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Askari’s argument that the prevalence of corruption, oppression and injustice in a society is prima facie evidence that it is not Islamic is absurd.  Governments are either democratic or dictatorial. Corruption and oppression are more likely in dictatorships.  In democracies, people have the power to remove corrupt governments, unless they are so ignorant that they are easily deceived, which is not the fault of democracy. In democracy, laws are made by people. Islam does not recognize the laws made by people.  The laws are made by God and the ruler, as the executioner of divine law, is not accountable to the people. And as long as he adhered to the Islamic law no one is allowed to criticize or oppose him, even if he is unjust.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Muhammad said, “If Allah has on Earth a caliph who flays your back and takes your property, obey him; otherwise die holding onto the stump of a tree.” <sub>[Dawud 35: 4232]</sub> So much for freedom and justice!</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The 18<sup>th</sup> century Muslim scholar Shah Waliullah on the Obediene of the Caliph wrote,</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">The Prophet has said: “Hearing and obeying is an obligation of every Muslim, whether he likes the command or dislikes it, as long as he is not commanded to commit a sin. If he is commanded to commit a sin, then he absolved of the obligation to hear and obey.” [Sahih Muslim.]</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(I say): Since an <i>imam</i> is installed for two kinds of public weal, by which religious and political affairs are regulated, and since the Prophet was sent for their sake, and the <i>imam </i>is the Prophet’s deputy and an executor of his mission, therefore, obedience to the <i>imam</i> is indeed obedience to the Prophet. And disobedience to him would be tantamount to disobedience of the Prophet except when he commands to commit a sin. For then it would be evident that obedience to him is no longer in obedience to God, and in that event, he would cease to be a deputy of God’s Prophet. This is why the Prophet said: “Whoever follows an <i>amir</i>, he indeed follows me, and whoever disobeys an <i>amir</i>, he indeed disobeys me” [Sahih Muslim].  <sub>[Shah Wali Allah, </sub><i>Selection from Hujjat Allah al-Balighah</i><sub>, English Translation, 2006, pp. 116-117]</sub></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">As for economics, something Khomeini said, “is for the donkey,” Islam has very little to offer. Bukahri <sub>(3:39:541)</sub> reports Muhammad saying, “There is no house in which these (agricultural) equipment enters except that Allah will cause humiliation to enter it.” The reason Muhammad disparaged agriculture is because he wanted to encourage his companions to earn their living through jihad. He said that is the best bargain and he who strives hard for Allah’s cause with their wealth and in persons will reap the rewards. <sub>(Q. </sub>6:11<sub>)</sub></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The irony is that Muslims can see something is wrong with their societies, but can’t see its cause. Western countries are not prospering because they have embraced Islamic values. How delusional is this thinking? They are prospering because they drew a clear line between religion and state, and have embraced secularism. Muslims can’t do such a thing.  Islam is more than a religion. It is primarily a political system.  It is totalitarian as it controls all aspects of the life of the believer. Muhammad was not just a prophet but also a dictator.  His successors also ruled with undisputed authority.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If Islamic countries are dictatorial, unjust, oppressive and backwards we should look for the cause of it in the values that they espouse. Their failure is evident even to them. But instead of acknowledging the problem they keep digging their heads deeper in the sands of denial. Isn’t it time to wake up?</p>
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		<title>Sharia Rights or Human Rights: The Case of Meriam Ibrahim</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amani Gayed]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hj.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233512" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hj-450x253.jpg" alt="hj" width="309" height="174" /></a>The Sudanese Criminal Court’s death sentence upon a 27-year-old pregnant woman, Meriam Ibrahim, who was found guilty of leaving Islam, has gained very wide publicity. Her plight has attracted the strongest condemnation from the world’s top politicians, and hundreds of thousands of people around the world have signed petitions for her release.</p>
<p>It is striking that those condemning Meriam Ibrahim’s death sentence are demanding her release, but they are not demanding the abolition of the legal code that found her guilty of apostasy and adultery in the first place.</p>
<p>The Sudanese Government – not unlike many Western governments, who are permitting Sharia principles and Sharia courts to become entrenched within their legal systems – is simultaneously endorsing two approaches to human rights, the one contradicting the other: Islamic Sharia Law and the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/">Universal Declaration of Human rights</a>.</p>
<p>The Sudanese Government – like other Islamic governments, Islamic communities in the West, and many Islamic non-governmental organizations – have been given a free pass to move freely between the two opposing sets of rights, according to whatever suits them best.</p>
<p><strong>Who’s confused? </strong></p>
<p>Sudan is an Islamic State, which has embedded Islamic Sharia Laws in its legal framework. At the same time, Sudan is a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These two sets of rights are fundamentally opposed to each other in the way they view and understand rights and freedoms.</p>
<p>In response to the overwhelming media coverage of Meriam’s case, a Sudanese official at the Sudanese embassy in London reassured the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27651483">BBC</a> that Sudan is committed and will comply with its commitment to protect freedom of religion. Of course he was referring to principals of human rights as understood and accepted in the West.</p>
<p>Back in Sudan it was another story. Meriam was sentenced to death by a Sudanese Criminal Court which found her guilty of apostasy from Islam under article 126 of the <a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=241802">1991 Sudanese Criminal Law Act</a>. This reads:</p>
<blockquote><p>126 (1) Every Muslim who advocates the renunciation of the creed of     Islam, or who publicly declares his renouncement thereof by an express   statement or conclusive act, shall be deemed to commit the offense of     apostasy.</p>
<p>‪(2) Whoever commits apostasy shall be given a chance to repent     during a period to be determined by the court; if he persists in his     apostasy, and is not a recent convert to Islam, he shall be punished     with death.</p>
<p>‪(3) The penalty provided for apostasy shall be remitted whenever the apostate recants apostasy before execution.</p></blockquote>
<p>According to Sharia law, and contrary to the principles of the UDHR, Meriam has no choice but to be a Muslim, because Sharia law mandates that <a href="http://www.elazhar.com/feqhux/2/24.asp">every child born to a Muslim parent is a Muslim</a>. A child must follow Islam if one of his/her parents is a Muslim or converts to Islam, because, according to Sharia Law, Islam is the superior religion over all other religions. In Meriam’s case she was born to a Muslim father, so, according to Sudanese Islamic Law, she cannot choose to become a Christian, despite what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says.</p>
<p>The same court, using the same Act, also found Meriam guilty of the offence of adultery under article 145b, and sentenced her to a flogging under article 146b, which states:</p>
<blockquote><p>Article (145): Adultery</p>
<p>1. There shall be deemed to commit the offence of adultery:</p>
<p>(a) Every man who has intercourse with a woman without a legitimate marriage;</p>
<p>(b) Every woman who allows a man to have intercourse with her without a legitimate marriage.</p>
<p>2. Intercourse is deemed to be completed when the whole head of the penis, or its equivalent, enters inside the vagina.</p>
<p>3. A marriage is not legitimate when its legitimacy is not determined and settled [by Islamic jurists].</p>
<p>Article (146)</p>
<p>1. Whoever commits the offence of adultery shall be sentenced to:</p>
<p>(a) Death by stoning when legitimately married;</p>
<p>(b) 100 lashes when not legitimately married.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Sudanese official in the Sudanese embassy in London would have been fully aware of Sudanese Criminal Law, under which Meriam was found guilty of apostasy and adultery, but he chose to play the Universal Declaration of Human Rights card in an attempt to reduce tensions with the West.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Moderate&#8221; Sharia Laws?</strong></p>
<p>The Western governments that allow Sharia principles (Islamic finance, Islamic schools, halal certified food, Islam-compliant inheritance, Islam-compliant marriage) are displaying harmful ignorance. Sharia Law is a single legal code which determines crimes, offences, punishments, finance, <em>halal </em>and <em>haram</em>, and so on. The fundamental principles which determine the value and the rights of women in Sharia Law in matters of inheritance, marriage, finance, and education are the same principles which determine her rights in respect of apostasy and adultery.</p>
<p>The London Sudanese embassy official thought to cause confusion by referring to Western understandings of human rights. Western leaders have themselves embraced and partnered with such confusion by condemning the death and flogging of an adulterer apostate in Sudan, while at the same time accepting principles of sharia law into their countries’ legal systems. They should have known better, for whether the issue is Islamic finance, halal food, inheritance issues, apostasy, or adultery, Islamic schools in the UK, USA, Australia, France, or Germany can only teach the same fundamental principles which brought a 27-year-old mother of two to death row and earned her a flogging, for the ‘crimes’ of leaving Islam and marrying a Christian man.</p>
<p>Islamic Sharia law follows a set of values which do not change. The Sharia legal texts that the Sudanese criminal court judge consulted are sold in Islamic bookstores all over the Western world. The same principles that brought Meriam to death row are taught to Western Muslim children in Islamic schools all over the Western world.</p>
<p>To the Western leaders I say this: Millions of Muslims came to the West seeking refuge in genuine principles of human rights. They were seeking freedom and justice. Please do not hand them back to the oppression of the Islamic Sharia!</p>
<p><em>Amani Gayed practiced law in Sudan, and is now based in Sydney, Australia.</em></p>
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		<title>No U.S. Consular Service for Meriam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 04:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faith J. H. McDonnell]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/meriam-in-prison-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233495" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/meriam-in-prison-2.jpg" alt="meriam in prison 2" width="252" height="348" /></a>On YouTube there is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXRuAaCVlY&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEVXRuAaCVlY%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded&amp;has_verified=1">video</a> of the punishment for adultery that will soon be meted out to Sudanese Christian Dr. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim unless the United States government <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/15/Pregnant-Woman-to-Be-Executed-for-Leaving-Islam-After-Giving-Birth-State-Dept-Idle">intervenes</a> on her behalf. But some disturbing information revealed by Meriam’s husband, Daniel Wani, a naturalized U.S. citizen, suggests that “not leaving behind” this wife of an American citizen may not even be contemplated by the Obama Administration without strong pressure from caring advocates.</p>
<p>The video, featuring a terrified young Sudanese woman being whipped in front of onlookers at a Khartoum police station is so disturbing that it has been age-restricted by YouTube. Even her distress anticipating the flogging looks physically painful itself. Meriam has already had weeks to anticipate her upcoming flogging. She is to receive 100 lashes for her marriage to a South Sudanese Christian. Because the Shariah court in Khartoum considers her a Muslim, it does not recognize her marriage to Wani.</p>
<p>Meriam’s suffering will not end with the agony of lashes. That punishment will be followed within two years’ time by her execution for apostasy. The delay is because the court will wait until her newborn baby, Maya, has been weaned. Meriam will then be killed, according to Shariah, for the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/faith-j-h-mcdonnell/christian-woman-married-to-u-s-citizen-sentenced-to-death-in-sudan/">crime</a> of refusing to renounce her faith in Jesus Christ and “revert” to Islam.</p>
<p>While waiting to be hanged, Meriam, 27, is shackled to the wall of the Omdurman Women’s Prison, along with her 20 month-old son, Martin. On May 27, when she <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/27/American-Citizen-Born-in-Sudanese-Prison-Now-the-Clock-is-Running-Down-for-Her-Mother">gave birth</a> to Maya, she was <a href="http://juicyecumenism.com/2014/06/04/faith-mcdonnell-the-release-of-christian-meriam-ibrahim-sudan/">forced</a> to endure labor on a filthy floor while still in leg irons, according to her distressed husband. Now, nursing Maya keeps her from the gallows, but she is not even permitted to nurse her baby and care for her toddler in peace. She has to <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/faith-j-h-mcdonnell/the-release-of-meriam-ibrahim/">suffer</a> the continuous visits of Muslim clerics, attempting to pressure her into conversion.</p>
<p>Current photos of the gaunt inmate Meriam holding baby Maya are shocking after viewing photos of Meriam as Daniel’s beautiful bride. Traded-for-Taliban-terrorists Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl looks in the pink after his five years with Islamists (in spite of President Obama’s excuse for negotiating a deal with the devil being concern for the soldier’s health), compared to Meriam’s deteriorating appearance after just five months in Islamist captivity.</p>
<p>Where are the President’s grand gestures to rescue this young Christian wife of an American? Will President Obama be Meriam’s knight in shining armor, as he has been for Bergdahl?</p>
<p>Sadly, there is no evidence of any planned intervention by the Obama Administration for Meriam and her children. And since Meriam’s sentencing there has been no public statement in her defense coming from that direction. There have, however, been vigorous condemnations from British Prime Minister <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/31/barbaric-david-cameron-urges-sudanese-government-to-overturn-death-sentence-of-meriam-ibrahim-4745592/">David Cameron</a>, former U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMASprhLIPA&amp;feature=youtu.be">Mukesh Kapila</a>, Archbishop of Canterbury <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10867220/Sudanese-woman-Meriam-Ibrahim-sentenced-to-death-for-apostasy-to-be-freed.html">Justin Welby</a>, and other international leaders.</p>
<p>Wani, a biochemist who has lived in Manchester, New Hampshire since 1998, revealed that while officials from the British and Canadian Embassies and from the European Union have all expressed sympathy and been “incredibly helpful,” the officials at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum have been “entirely unhelpful.” This information has deeply concerned British advocacy organization <a href="http://www.csw.org.uk/home.htm">Christian Solidarity Worldwide</a> (CSW), which has been in ongoing consultation with Daniel and his legal team.</p>
<p>The U.S. Embassy’s neglect began in September 2013 when Meriam, Daniel, and little Martin were all arrested. Daniel’s attorney, Mohamed Mustafa Elnour, (an extremely courageous man – as is the whole legal team) told CSW that the Embassy did not answer Daniel’s call to their direct line for consular assistance or offer any consular aid to wheelchair-bound Wani, who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy. He was held by the Sudanese government for 12 hours before posting bail. Daniel also asked the Embassy for help when there was an attempt to kidnap Martin. Again, there was no response from the Embassy.</p>
<p>After his release, Daniel again sought help at the US Embassy to defend Meriam, but the Embassy told him that they couldn’t help him since Meriam was not a U.S. citizen. They suggested he hire an attorney and “deal with it through the Sudanese legal system,” which means, apparently, that the U.S. Embassy has more respect for Shariah than for the rights of a U.S. citizen.</p>
<p>Of this circumstance, CSW says:</p>
<blockquote><p> <em>It is important to note . . . that Daniel also stood accused by the courts of ‘converting a Muslim woman in order to marry her’, in violation of national law. His passport was confiscated and he was barred from travelling by the Sudanese authorities until May, when the courts accepted that he genuinely believed Meriam to be a Christian at the time of their marriage. The failure of the US Embassy to provide consular assistance to a US citizen who was facing such serious charges, along with the fact that his wife and child were imprisoned through this period, is indefensible.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>In addition to their unwillingness to help Daniel with the legal battle, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum has refused to register Meriam and Daniel’s children as U.S. citizens unless Daniel provides DNA evidence of paternity for both Martin and newborn Maya. Daniel began the process of registering Martin as a U.S. citizen earlier this year. He informed CSW that at an interview with Embassy staff he was “told verbally” that Martin “fulfilled all the requirements.”</p>
<p>With that assurance, Daniel paid the processing fee and initiated an application for Martin’s U.S. passport. When he next presented himself at the Embassy to submit his son’s birth certificate and the payment for the passport, he was instructed to meet with an official called “Candy.” (It seems odd and somewhat condescending that all of the Embassy officials with whom Daniel and his attorneys met were only identified to him by their first name.)</p>
<p>Daniel told CSW that the tone of the interview with Candy was “very aggressive,” and “more like an interrogation.” She asked Daniel about Meriam’s degree from Sudan University, but he refused to answer that question because of Meriam’s legal case going on in the Khartoum court. In response, the Embassy suspended the application for U.S. citizenship/passport for Martin saying that “Daniel had not proven that he knew his wife well.” They told him that they would not resume the process unless Daniel provided DNA evidence of a genetic link.</p>
<p>CSW notes that the U.S. State Department’s own <a href="http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/legal-considerations/us-citizenship-laws-policies/citizenship-and-dna-testing.html">website</a> says “DNA testing is the only biological testing method currently accepted by the Department to establish a biological relationship. However, due to the expense, complexity, and logistical delays inherent in parentage testing, genetic testing generally should be used only in the absence of sufficient other evidence (documentation, photos, etc.) establishing the relationship.”</p>
<p>Daniel provided his and Meriam’s marriage certificate, the birth certificates listing him as the father, as well as family photos, to “establish the relationship.” Certainly the U.S. Embassy should consider the incarceration of both children in a Sudanese prison as complex enough of a reason to accept the already sufficient evidence that Daniel has provided in documentation and photos. In addition, if the State Department had provided a spousal visa for Meriam to travel to the United States with Daniel soon after their wedding when he had applied for it, none of these other encounters would have been necessary.</p>
<p>At Daniel and Elnour’s most recent meeting at the U.S. Embassy on June 2 they met with “Kate” and “Chris.” Attorney Elnour described the meeting as “antagonistic, with Daniel fighting for his family and the Embassy staff being totally unhelpful.” The Embassy still insists on DNA evidence that Martin and Maya are Daniel’s children even now that it knows that if Meriam is executed her children will be given to the same Muslim relatives who had her arrested. They offered no assistance to Daniel, but had him sign a “Privacy Waiver” that allows the State Department to respond to questions from Congress and the media about the case.</p>
<p>Ann Buwalda, immigration attorney and director of Christian human rights group Jubilee Campaign, <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=37816a94-3562-4057-b1c1-f1b47fa15fb5&amp;c=8af0dec0-3318-11e3-a461-d4ae5275509e&amp;ch=8b451940-3318-11e3-a4f0-d4ae5275509e">called</a> the Embassy’s demand that Daniel produce a DNA test “a reprehensible display of obstruction and contrary to mandates of U.S. immigration law.” In an email blast to <a href="http://jubileecampaign.org/">Jubilee Campaign</a> supporters, Buwalda said that the group’s Netherlands office has produced a <a href="http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1000817942364-524/2014+JCNL-+Rapport+Meriam_EN.pdf">report</a> showing how the verdicts given in Meriam’s case contravene international law and even Sudanese law.</p>
<p>Unlike the Administration, the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/20/Senators-Call-for-Asylum-for-Imprisoned-Christian-While-State-Dept-Demands-DNA-Test">U.S. Congress</a> is attempting to help Meriam in a number of ways. Members have introduced and even already passed resolutions in both Houses. But all of these efforts need to be unified, sending the same message and asking for the same thing. If advocates for this beleaguered family want Congress to take most efficient and reliable path to saving Meriam and her children and assisting Daniel, Buwalda has several recommendations.</p>
<p>First, representatives and senators should be pressed to personally call the U.S. State Department to protest the outrageous requirement of DNA testing, to demand the immediate issuance of U.S. passports to Martin and Maya, U.S. citizen children, and to request the U.S. Consulate to issue Meriam an emergency travel document called a <a href="http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1000817942364-528/US+DOS+Foreign+Affairs+Manual+Significant+Public+Benefit+Parole.pdf">Significant Public Benefit Parole</a>. Second, Buwalda said that Congress should be urged to pass a Private Bill granting immediate U.S. citizenship to Meriam Yahya Ibrahim. Finally, advocates should write to the Sudan Embassy to demand that Sudan release Meriam immediately since there is no legal basis for her conviction.</p>
<p>The definition of a consul includes “assisting his or her government’s citizens in a foreign country.” Sadly, neither consul nor government is assisting this U.S. citizen and his family in a foreign country. But hundreds of thousands of Americans and people around the world are outraged by the plight of Meriam, Daniel, and their children. They must be the consuls. They must use their voices, their advocacy, and their influence to assist a fellow U.S. citizen, to reunite him with his wife and children, to save Meriam.</p>
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		<title>The Release of Meriam Ibrahim?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Khartoum regime's charm offensive.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mi.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-226740" alt="mi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mi-371x350.gif" width="371" height="350" /></a>The Government of Sudan is attempting a public relations outreach (a.k.a. “charm offensive”). Khartoum has been stung by the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635074/FIRST-PICTURE-The-American-toddler-held-brutal-Sudanese-jail-pregnant-mother-sentenced-hang-Christian.html">reaction</a> of the international community to its <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/faith-j-h-mcdonnell/christian-woman-married-to-u-s-citizen-sentenced-to-death-in-sudan/">treatment</a> of Sudanese Christian mother Dr. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, incarcerated in a Khartoum prison with her 20-month-old son, Martin, and as of May 27, 2014, with her <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/27/American-Citizen-Born-in-Sudanese-Prison-Now-the-Clock-is-Running-Down-for-Her-Mother">newborn daughter</a>, Maya.  Khartoum’s charm offensives – in which the ruling National Congress Party officials <a href="http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110118221448/v__/images/a/a6/V_2009_Serpent-s_Tooth_S02E02_Anna_eating_large_rat.jpg">assume</a> a humane veneer, declaring their commitment to peace, always – usually are reserved for the U.S. State Department and Foreign Service personnel, naïve Christian peacemakers, and others afflicted with willful blindness. This tactic of pleasant conversation over cups of cardamom-spiced coffee, cloaking genocide in diplomacy and cultural diversity, has enabled the regime to survive for decades.</p>
<p>The Meriam Ibrahim Offensive began just days after the shocking ruling of Judge Abbas al Khalifia that Dr. Ibrahim be hanged for apostasy. The Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC released a <a href="http://www.sudanembassy.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1073:the-case-of-mariam-is-neither-religious-nor-political-it-is-legal&amp;catid=13:news-and-events&amp;Itemid=207">statement</a> to assuage the concerns of those who heard of the death sentence. In that zany way in which President Omar al Bashir’s government lies and tells the truth simultaneously, the statement declared that “The Case of Mariam is neither religious nor political, it is Legal.” (It omitted the fact that the legal case against Ibrahim is <i>Islamic</i> law, the Shariah. Both Ibrahim’s marriage and her religious faith violate the Shariah.) The statement also reaffirmed the Government of Sudan’s commitment to human rights and freedom of belief, and very prettily thanked “all those who have raised their concern and sympathy on this issue.”</p>
<p>But the international community did not fall for this typical Sudanese diplomacy, not when it comes to shackling a pregnant mom and a toddler to a prison wall to wait for her eventual flogging and hanging. Most rational people around the world do not hear Meriam’s story and think “Oh, a law violator! She must be punished!”</p>
<p>Instead, the world sees the plight of a courageous Christian woman, who has refused to renounce her faith. It sees a little boy shackled in prison with his mother because the Sudanese government will not allow his Christian father to have custody of a child they consider to be Muslim. It sees a tiny baby girl, in squalid, disease-ridden conditions. The world sees a loving husband and father, Daniel Wani, a South Sudanese Christian who made a good life in a new country, and became an American citizen and a biochemist. They see himWani now, separated from his family, suffering from muscular dystrophy, bereft. And so <a href="http://touchstonemag.com/merecomments/2014/05/sudanese-christian-sentenced-death/">protest letters</a> and <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/sudan-more-half-million-call-free-pregnant-woman-sentenced-death-her-religious-choice-lawyers-l">petitions</a> condemning Ibrahim’s apostasy sentence continue to land at the Massachusetts Avenue doors of the Sudanese Embassy, and to also wing their way to Khartoum, in spite of the Sudanese government’s efforts to reduce a family tragedy to a “legal issue.”</p>
<p>Therefore, as of Saturday, May 31, the Khartoum regime has gone into a second phase of its charm offensive, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644796/Sudanese-woman-facing-barbaric-death-sentence-marrying-Christian-FREED-U-turn-authorities.html">hinting</a> coyly that Ibrahim may soon be released. Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary Abdelah Al-Azrak told <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/31/us-sudan-deathsentence-idUSKBN0EB0T720140531?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=worldNews">Reuters News Service</a> that government authorities in the country are “working to release” Ibrahim “through legal measures.”</p>
<p>Al-Azrak also told <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27651483">the BBC</a> that Sudan &#8220;guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman.&#8221; Oddly, Ibrahim’s team of attorneys, nor her husband had not been advised of this development before the foreign ministry spoke the news agencies, nor have they been contacted since. <i>The Daily Mail</i>, which has provided some of lead reporting on Ibrahim’s treatment <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644796/Sudanese-woman-facing-barbaric-death-sentence-marrying-Christian-FREED-U-turn-authorities.html">revealed</a> that her lawyers “do not believe the offer is genuine, and is a ploy to silence the growing outcry.”</p>
<p>Speaking to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10867220/Sudanese-woman-Meriam-Ibrahim-sentenced-to-death-for-apostasy-to-be-freed.html"><i>The Telegraph</i></a><i> </i>on May 31, Ibrahim’s attorney, Elshareef Ali Mohammed said,</p>
<blockquote><p>“It’s a statement to silence the international media. This is what the government does. We will not believe that she is being freed until she walks out of the prison.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Hopefully, the United States and other Western nations that are putting pressure on Khartoum will not be gullible either. Too often, the U.S. government has trusted the promises and declarations of Khartoum, and while the U.S. has acted according to the “carrots” it has promised the Sudan government for good behavior, the regime has failed to honor its promises. Whether the U.S. has offered any incentives to Khartoum to release Ibrahim is not known, but her imprisonment has drawn international outrage. It would seem possible that Khartoum has felt the sting and decided that the approval of the world for pardoning Ibrahim outweighs the approval of the hard-core Islamists who want her dead. As attorney Mohammed <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10867220/Sudanese-woman-Meriam-Ibrahim-sentenced-to-death-for-apostasy-to-be-freed.html#source=refresh">said</a>, “It shows our campaign to free Meriam is rattling them. We must keep up the pressure.”</p>
<p>While the world community, members of the U.S. Congress, and the British government – including both Prime Minister David Cameron and the Foreign Office, put pressure on Khartoum, the regime continues its shameless pressure on Ibrahim to renounce her Christian faith and convert to Islam. <i>The Daily Mail </i><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644796/Sudanese-woman-facing-barbaric-death-sentence-marrying-Christian-FREED-U-turn-authorities.html">quoted</a> a spokesperson from the US-based Sudan Justice Center who said that “they have been promising Meriam money and security if she becomes a Muslim.” According the Center, Muslim clerics spend almost the whole day in her cell, telling her to give up her Christian faith. “They have said they will protect her and her family if she does what they want.”</p>
<p>In addition, <i>The Telegraph </i><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10867220/Sudanese-woman-Meriam-Ibrahim-sentenced-to-death-for-apostasy-to-be-freed.html">reported</a> that the Bashir government recently sent some 10 employees of the state-controlled press to see Ibrahim, photograph her, and publish a series of articles claiming that she was actually a practicing Muslim.</p>
<p>“They wrote that she prayed five times a day and read the Koran – which is totally not true,” Ibrahim’s attorney Mohammed told <i>The Telegraph</i>. “She didn’t want to talk to them but did not have the right to say no. They took photos and filmed her, and she did not like the photos. She asked them to delete the photos, but they said no.” Then they further tormented her by showing her their articles published in the government-owned <i>Hikayat</i>, <i>Al Dar</i>, <i>Al Sudani</i>, and<i> Al Intibaha</i>. <i>Al Intibaha </i>is owned by the uncle of President Bashir. Mohammed said that Ibrahim was very upset by this and that the attorneys were angry “because it could influence the court of appeal.”</p>
<p>If Ibrahim should be released, continued pressure is needed to ensure her safety and that of her children &#8212; both American citizens by virtue of Wani – and the safety of her husband and attorneys. Pressure is also needed on the other player in the matter, the U.S. State Department, to obtain the spousal visa that rightfully belongs to Dr. Ibrahim, or alternately, political asylum.</p>
<p>Wani’s pleas to the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum were ignored not once, but three times. The State Department needs to be reminded that little Maya joins brother Martin as what must surely be the youngest American citizens incarcerated in a Sudanese prison. Maya probably also holds the dubious honor of being the only American citizen <i>born</i> in a Sudanese prison – and definitely the only American citizen born in a Sudanese prison to a mother who was <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642655/Mother-facing-death-penalty-marrying-Christian-forced-birth-legs-shackled-Sudanese-jail.html">kept in shackles <i>during labor</i></a>.</p>
<p>Advocates will not relax the pressure on the Khartoum regime to halt the draconian implementation of Shariah law under which most of the people of Sudan are suffering. The treatment of this little family by the regime is not unusual. Christian persecution, Arab imperialism, slavery, and genocide which demonstrate the hypocrisy of the National Congress Party Government of Sudan’s claim that it is committed to “all human rights and freedoms of beliefs” span the length and width of the country. Khartoum is currently waging genocidal war in at least three regions of Sudan – the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile State, and Darfur. In the space of four days, May 27-30, the Sudanese air force <a href="http://nubareports.org/safbombs/">dropped 55 bombs</a> on Kauda town in the Nuba Mountains. On May 1 it <a href="http://nubareports.org/sudan-targets-only-hospital-in-nuba-mountains/">bombed</a> the only hospital in the Nuba Mountain war zone for two days in a row. And the regime is similarly waging violent jihad in Blue Nile State and Darfur.</p>
<p>Ibrahim’s situation has been a microcosm of both the abuse of human rights perpetrated by Sudan, and of U.S. foreign policy in response to that situation. There have been valiant efforts, particularly by members of Congress, and there has been neglect and apathy. But the plight of Meriam Yahya Ibrahim has put a face, actually four faces, on Sudan’s human rights abuses and enabled people around the world to witness the personal rather than theoretical implications of Shariah.</p>
<p>Is it possible that this growing, massive awareness will not only result in the kind of push needed to pressure the U.S. government to demand Dr. Ibrahim’s freedom, but also result in the kind of ongoing push required for it to no longer fall for Khartoum’s charm offensives and to take actions needed so desperately in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile State, Darfur, and everywhere that the Sudanese government is violating human rights?</p>
<p><em>Faith J. H. McDonnell directs the </em><a href="http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=226"><i>Institute on Religion and Democracy’s</i></a><em> Religious Liberty Program and Church Alliance for a New Sudan and is the author of</em> <a href="http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=383">Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children</a> <em>(Chosen Books, 2007).</em></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Enza Ferreri]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ukip.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226734" alt="ukip" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ukip-450x253.jpg" width="315" height="177" /></a>After an <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/enza-ferreri/earthquake-in-the-u-k/">earthquake</a>, we gather the pieces hurled and scattered all over the place by the magnitude of the event, put them together and reconstruct. This is precisely the situation Britain finds itself in after last week&#8217;s momentous elections.</p>
<p>The big question in British politics now is who is going to win the 2015 General Elections for the British Parliament, which will produce the majority to form the new government.</p>
<p>The local and European elections were much anticipated and the outcome has been analyzed at length. The elections are supposed to give an idea of the next occupant of 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister’s residence.</p>
<p>But the new four-main-party-system that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has introduced by storm makes these predictions much more complicated. UKIP has been the nightmare of pollsters and number crunchers, who admit defeat in appraising the current situation &#8212; and more importantly, admit that predicting the future will be much more difficult.</p>
<p>Without UKIP, it would be relatively easy to forecast next year’s results. If, as is often the case, on May 22 the incumbent party in government had fared badly and the opposition well, it would be seen as a sign that it’s time for the usual reversal of roles between them.</p>
<p>But now the Labour Party in opposition, although electorally performing better than the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats in the government coalition, has also hemorrhaged a stream of votes to UKIP. Therefore its percentage in the polls is not much higher than the Tories, which does not indicate a safe Labour victory in 2015.</p>
<p>On the other hand, most votes for UKIP have come from the Conservatives (Prime Minister David Cameron’s party). This means that these two parties of the Right will be forced to share votes in the General Elections as well, thus reducing the Tories’ chances to win. But by how much we don’t know, because a certain number of people who voted for UKIP at the European Elections won’t do so when it comes to electing the UK Parliament and deciding the next Prime Minister.</p>
<p>It may seem appropriate to choose UKIP, a party that is largely one-issue (leaving the European Union) at the Euro polls, but from the national government many voters, albeit sympathetic to party Leader Nigel Farage’s views, want something more. These voters are interested in a wide range of issues that affect their lives, such as the economy, education, health, crime, welfare, housing, employment, and so on. It’s difficult to know how many will desert UKIP for the Tories next year.</p>
<p>The three main parties, Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats &#8212; often placed in the same bracket and derisively called “LibLabCon” to indicate that what they have in common is much more significant than their differences, giving the electorate no real choice – likely do not understand the message of the recent election.</p>
<p>In order to do so they would have to change what they are to become something completely different. All their aims and policies are predicated on carrying on as usual, offering the country more of the same, the only difference being in degree. Yesterday it was recognition of same-sex civil unions, today the law on same-sex marriage. Today it’s <a href="http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6389-winchester-churchill-quotation-gets-liberty-gb-leader-paul-weston-arrested">racist to quote Churchill’s anti-Islam</a> words, tomorrow it will be racist to describe a pet as “a black cat with a bit of white.”</p>
<p>Incidentally, many votes were lost by the Conservatives to UKIP because of the Tory Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s insistence on making homosexual marriage legal.</p>
<p>All the three main parties are egalitarian and strict followers of political correctness. They vilify people for legitimate concerns over where the country is headed, explicitly or implicitly calling them names. They never stop to wonder whether people might be right; at most they express sympathy, understanding and “concern” for how people feel, not so subtly implying that those feelings are irrational and based on false perceptions, whereas reality is what the business of politics is all about so those feelings should be disregarded.</p>
<p>The following voter account sums up the <a href="http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2014/05/ukip-elections-and-messaging.html">reasons why many voted UKIP</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Despite all of this, I will vote UKIP at the Euro-elections, and there are two main reasons for this: first, that I wish to carry the message, very strongly, to the LibLabCon alliance that they do not have a right to be in government, they do not have a right to power—something that Labour and Conservatives have, I think, utterly forgotten (leading inexorably to a corruption almost as total as the Republicans and Democrats in Washington).</p></blockquote>
<p>Some pundits frequently note that UKIP’s voters are mostly men, over 50 and blue collar. Implicit in this announcement is the view that such demographics should say a lot about UKIP, specifically how bad it must be if it attracts predominantly people of this despicable sort.</p>
<p>It’s reminiscent of the media in the US and elsewhere, which at the time of the presidential elections were highlighting how Mitt Romney was disproportionately preferred by men, with the same ominous implications of backwardness and “uncoolness.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/john-cleese-london-is-no-longer-english.html">London is not part of the UK</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> any more, due to its strong immigrant and Muslim presence, and is becoming increasingly so, was confirmed once again by the last vote pattern.</span></p>
<p>London is the only region where UKIP is still struggling, whereas Labour is doing fine. Immigrants in general and Muslims in particular tend to vote for the Labour Party, which has opened wide the doors of the country to them when in government, is overgenerous in its welfare policies for everyone, and is favorable to Islam to the point of distraction.</p>
<p>This is only one of several cases in which the <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/politics-and-islam-in-dhimmi-europe">Muslim vote has shaped European politics</a> in recent times. In some cases it’s proved decisive: the analysis of various groups’ votes showed that, without Muslims in France, former French President Nicholas Sarkozy would have won &#8212; the election of socialist Francois Hollande as President was <a href="http://galliawatch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/is-it-really-end.html">determined by the followers of Islam</a>.</p>
<p>What does the future hold for UKIP and for Britain?</p>
<p>The UKIP will try to get its first Member of the British House of Commons elected this June 5 to fill the seat of <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">MP Patrick Mercer, who recently resigned</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p>European UKIP representatives, including Farage, have said that at the General Elections of 2015 they&#8217;ll target and concentrate their efforts particularly on those constituencies where they already have councillors or have done well in the local elections. They say that this has been the successful strategy of the Lib Dems, who have been in a similar position of being outsiders in the past.</p>
<p>In the long term, Farage aims to repeat the destruction of Canada’s Conservative Party two decades ago, when the rebel Right-wing Reform Party, that many compare to UKIP itself, caused another political earthquake.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638377/Now-I-destroy-Tory-party-In-crowing-interview-Nigel-Farage-reveals-quit-politics-hes-got-UK-EU.html">interview with the <i>Daily Mail</i></a>, Farage said that a Canadian-style Tory meltdown “could happen” in Britain. Canada’s century-old ruling Conservative Party was destroyed overnight in the country’s 1993 election by the populist, low-tax Reform Party, which had been called “racist, sexist and homophobic,” some of the epithets thrown at UKIP, along with the “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” that PM Cameron used for UKIP supporters. According to Farage:</p>
<blockquote><p>The split in Canada’s Centre Right enabled the Liberals, Canada’s equivalent of our Labour Party, to take power.</p>
<p>But after ten years of infighting, the Reform revolution succeeded. The Canadian Alliance, a merger of Reform with the ruins of Canada’s old-style Tories, led to former Reform official Stephen Harper becoming Prime Minister in 2006.</p></blockquote>
<p>Farage compared attacks on himself to those on Reform Party leader:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘They called him a Right-wing extremist, a nutter, away with the fairies, he’ll never get anywhere and what happens? They won one by-election, a schoolmistress way out West, who resisted every bribe and temptation to rejoin the Conservative Party.</p>
<p>‘Now you have a Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, who was first elected on a Reform ticket, as were half the Cabinet.</p>
<p>‘Don’t think this can’t happen here. The public want something different. We are catalysing a big change in British politics on fundamental issues that have been brushed under the carpet and ignored by a completely out-of-touch career political class for too long.’</p></blockquote>
<p>In all this euphoria, we mustn’t forget UKIP’s limitation, first of all that the party’s not opposed to Islam. In fact, it even has British parliamentary candidates who openly advocate Sharia law, like <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10221430/UKIP-MP-candidate-supports-sharia-law-including-cutting-off-thieves-hands.html">Dean Perks</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sharia law, in my opinion, works as a prevention. And prevention is better than cure. If you think you&#8217;re going to get your hands chopped off for pinching something, you won&#8217;t pinch it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>A UKIP council candidate who tweeted that Islam is &#8220;evil&#8221; was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27268747">suspended from the party</a>. Farage distanced himself from his own immigration spokesman, Gerard Batten, who had proposed a special code of conduct in the form of a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/05/nigel-farage-ukip-mep-batten-muslim-code-conduct">charter calling on Muslims to accept equality</a>, reject violence and accept the need to modify the Quran, which Muslims had to sign. And in public speeches the UKIP leader is careful to limit his <a href="http://edgar1981.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/nigel-farage-ukip-speaks-to-london-jews.html">comments on Islam</a> to politically correct ones.</p>
<p>Even more tellingly, <a href="http://join.ukip.org/JoinOnline.aspx?type=1">membership of UKIP is forbidden</a> to current or even previous members of the English Defense League and other groups who are outspoken on the Islamisation of Britain and dare hinder it.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>This isn&#8217;t just <a href="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/use-of-guide-dogs-must-follow-city-by-laws-says-deputy-minister">an issue in Malaysia</a>. Muslim taxi drivers in the UK and US have been caught refusing service to the disabled because their religion hates dogs.</p>
<p>Mohammed commanded the killing of all dogs, or only black dogs, according to various views. According to an Islamic Hadith, &#8220;Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman.&#8221;</p>
<p>Donkeys, unlike dogs and women, are the only one of the three that Muslims tolerate in public. And so blind people are running into problems with Malaysia because of its Supremacist Muslim majority. (via <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/">Blazing Cat Fur</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>Department of Islamic Development (Jakim) director-general Datuk Othman Mustapha pointed out that touching dogs was considered haram under Islamic law, and hence it was inappropriate to use guide dogs, especially in public areas, because of the Muslim majority.</p>
<p>“Muslims may accidentally brush against dogs, and dogs and their fur are unclean under Islamic tenets,” he said.</p>
<p>Othman said Muslims were particular about their personal hygiene as it was a fundamental concern in the Islamic religion.</p>
<p>“Islamic beliefs and practices cannot be taken lightly according to personal feelings and reasons,” he said.</p>
<p>“They must be in accordance with teachings of the Quran, Sunnah, Ijma, and Qiyas that are valid.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Blindness is not a personal reason. But under Islamic Supremacism, Islam&#8217;s hatred for drugs trumps Steven Chan&#8217;s need for a guide dog. This is why there can be no such thing as moderate Islam.</p>
<p>Even when there is no actual violence taking place, Islam&#8217;s <a href="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/ong-it-wont-be-easy-to-implement-hudud-in-multi-racial-country">Supremacism makes it innately discriminatory</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>It won’t be easy to implement ‘hudud’ in this country where Muslims and non-Muslims are living together, said former MCA President Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.</p>
<p>“Of course certain quarters advocating the implementation of ‘hudud’ laws will argue that this is only applicable for Muslims but at the end of the day, the implementation is certainly going to affect everybody’s life and is not only for Muslims.”</p>
<p>“Our country has been using secular policies. It doesn’t mean that we tend to turn a blind eye to the reality that Malaysia is a Muslim majority country,” he told reporters after a press conference on “Advocating For Guide Dogs’ Right To Be Allowed To Be At Public Facilities” here today.</p></blockquote>
<p>And that&#8217;s an important point. Even when Islamic law is supposedly only limited to Muslims, it ends up excluding everyone else. Including the blind. Who have to accommodate the dictates of a 7th century illiterate warlord&#8217;s dictates.</p>
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