Islam, mosques in Canada and assessing the threat: Links 1 for Nov. 25 – 2015

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1. PMO sent out security alert a few days before Montreal attack

(I would think that could be a link between the attackers and the Islamic State)

2. CONGO – Up to 80 people killed by suspected Ugandan rebels in Congo.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Suspected Ugandan ADF-NALU rebels have killed between 50 and 80 people in attacks near the eastern Congolese town of Beni, slitting the throats of many of their victims, local sources and witnesses said on Friday. […]

(According to Global Security.org, the ADF ‘Rebels’ is made up of Ugandan opposition forces, supported by the Government of Sudan, which fought the Government of Uganda. The ADF was formed in the late 1990s. According to the UN, most of its members are Islamists who want to establish Sharia law in Uganda. This Ugandan Muslim rebel group has conducted limited activities in Uganda and DR Congo. The Allied Democratic Forces, originally a Ugandan based insurgency, now operates in eastern DRC and is listed as a terrorist organization. This was omitted from the original news report at the link at #2)

**UPDATE on same story***

Ugandan Rebels Kill at Least 100 in Neighboring DRC

“The attackers slit the throats of most of the victims, including women and children, aid and military officials said.”

3. A teenaged girl in the UK marries an 80 year old muslim, converts to Islam and gets a face full of acid for her trouble.

Link to Mirror version of the story here

4. ‘Women are not equal to men… it is against nature to put them on an equal footing’: Turkish president stuns crowd at women’s rights conference

(I could say a lot about this and I’m pretty confident that one of our commenters will. But it might be good to remember that in fact men and women are not equal, but must be considered equal in the eyes of the law and of equal value as persons. Islam takes advantage of the fact of the inequality of the genders in order to create systemic unfairness and inequality in law. We cannot win by pretending, for example, that men can have babies but if we throw all our resources into preserving the narrative that they can, or that Islam is a religion of peace, hijacked by a few radicals, we can lose this war pretty quickly)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has set off a new controversy, declaring that women are not equal to men and accusing feminists of not understanding the special status that Islam attributes to mothers.

Addressing a meeting Monday in Istanbul on women and justice, Erdogan said men and women are created differently, that women cannot be expected to undertake the same work as men, and that mothers enjoy a high position that only they can reach.

He said: ‘You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. Their constitution is different.’

5. Inside an Ottawa Mosque’s ‘fight to avoid radicalization’

(I really like and admire Tarek Fatah and consider him to be a genuine and good friend of Canada and the Enlightenment. But continuing to ignore the threat doctrine of core Islam means losing the war against the sharp end of the muslim spear. One question about the video. If half the congregation was ready to stand up and declare the murderer of the Canadian Soldier in Ottawa a ‘Martyr’, how many of the remaining half agreed but didn’t want to say so publicly. Its notable that NONE of the remaining half walked out or did anything meaningful about the half that did call him a martyr.)

According to Mostefa, Luqman Abdunnur stood up in the middle of the room and called Bibeau a shaheed, which in Arabic means “martyr.”

“I’m not exaggerating that half of the congregation stood up, the reaction was so negative from the congregation – we were scared that they might assault him,” he said.

6. After further examination and one of the commenters looking into the collection of video clips of the guy who made the rock to the head video which I posted yesterday, I’m now content it was a demonstration of a special effect. When you watch it frame by frame the rock isn’t lit right and it never really appears to be near the guy who pretended to be hit by it. Also the Allahu Ackbar cry seemed more mocking than religious, so much the better. Also his other clips all appear to be demonstrations of special effects. Apologies to the kids who did this for my assumption. One might argue that is what Youtube was actually for. Developing film skills.

Thank you C.B. Sashenka, M., and many others who sent in links. More to come including the testimony of Tarek Fatah at Parliament on the issue of ‘radicalization’ recently, which is very very good.

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  4. Re #4, Erdogan’s pronouncement on women: There’s a real misunderstanding here that “equal” means “the same.” It doesn’t: equal means having equivalent rights before the law and in society – although the individuals might differ in characteristics such as intelligence, wealth, strength, health, abilities, etc. Erdogan bases his narcissistic and mysogynistic assessment of women (whom he sees as falling below his self-assessed primacy as a male) on the biological characteristics of women. He equates the female’s ability to give birth with a “delicate nature.” Ask any woman who has gone through pregnancy and labour how “delicate” a process she feels that is. Add to that the fact that many pregnant women are already mothers, often working outside the home, even labouring in the fields, and ask them how delicate they feel their situations to be.

    In Turkey it used to be common (and it likely still occurs) for a wife to carry the family’s burdens and walk several paces behind her husband. I doubt any consideration was given for pregnancy. It’s usual to see in the village streets women burdened under loads of firewood, or working in the fields, while the men of the village congregrate in the male-only tea shops. Women there suffer from social inequality and discrimination – but their “delicacy” isn’t much in view. The bias against females is slowly changing but Erdogan’s Islamist government is intent on turning the clock back. His fear of women’s equality speaks volumes about his own inner state.

    Erdogan does women no favours by calling them “delicate.” It’s a back-handed compliment with an ulterior motive. No thanks, Mr. Erdogan.

  5. Iran to receive remaining $4.2bln of frozen assets

    TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran would receive the remaining $4.2bln of its frozen assets, which was agreed in the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) cut by the country and the six major world powers in November 24, 2013.

    Based on the JPA, $11.2bln of Iranian blocked funds should be released in three phases, $4.2bln of which were released in the first phase in eight installments from February 1st to July 20th, the Iranian students’ news agency reported.

    $2.8bln of Iranian blocked assets were paid in the second phase in six installments from August 1st to November 23rd, with the last two installments are being paid.

    Iran and the Group 5+1 ( five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany decided to extend the negotiations for another 7 months on November 24. Based on the deal, the remaining $4.2bln of Iranian frozen assets would be released as well.

    The final portion would be paid to Iran in six months, with $700mln for each month, although the exact timing is still unclear.

    http://theiranproject.com/blog/2014/11/25/iran-to-receive-remaining-4-2bln-of-frozen-assets/