Clearing the fog of perception about Islam links 1 on Jan. 25 – 2015

1. Aussie Khaled Sharrouf teaches sons to torture girls after he rapes them

SYDNEY’S Islamic State butchers Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar have been accused of buying, raping and torturing Yazidi slave girls in Syria and teaching their young children how to torture the girls.

One woman has described how Sharrouf’s children threatened to behead them and film their deaths.

“(They) said that they would make a video while cutting off our heads,” the woman, who says she was bought as a slave by Sharrouf told the ABC’s 7.30 Report last night.

 

2. BBC Names people charged with sexual slavery as well as specifically states their ethno-cultural background.

(How very curious. None of them are muslim though. Sucks to be a Gypsy mass rapist and pimp of child sex slaves I guess.)

3. Islamic State propaganda video showing life is all bread and production.

Actual hidden camera footage showing what life is really like in the Islamic State

4. Obama Will Not Attend 70th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation

(Someone needs to write a book of things Obama didn’t go to. The US general who was killed in Afghanistan, that was another thing the White House did not attend)

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will represent the United States at the 70th anniversary ceremony for the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Tuesday—rather than President Barack Obama or Vice President Joe Biden—while other countries are slated to send their heads of state.

Tuesday’s ceremony will likely be the last major anniversary where a significant number of survivors of the Nazi camp are present. About 300 are expected to attend, and most of them are in their 90s or older than 100. Nazi authorities killed 1.1 million people at the camp, mostly Jews, which was liberated by the Soviet army in January 1945.

5. Hardline Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia protest at French embassy

6. Imam at mosque where Lee Rigby’s killers worshipped sues the BBC for calling him an ‘extremist who encourages religious violence’

A hardline imam at a mosque where the killers of soldier Lee Rigby worshipped is suing the BBC, saying it described him as an ‘extremist’.

Shakeel Begg, 37, is taking legal action after presenter Andrew Neil said on the Sunday Politics Show that the imam had praised jihad as ‘the greatest of deeds’.

Mr Begg, head of the Lewisham Islamic Centre in South-East London, is demanding libel damages and that the BBC doesn’t again call him an ‘extremist’ who ‘encourages religious violence’.

Hardline imam Shakeel Begg, 37, is suing the BBC saying it described him as an 'extremist' 

Thank you M., Buck, Yucki, Richard, UK Pete and many more for the links and tips. I wish there was a way of knowing if the fog was clearing on public perception of islam but i’m pretty sure governments want to keep that information tightly controlled in order to increase it as a general rule.

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10 Replies to “Clearing the fog of perception about Islam links 1 on Jan. 25 – 2015”

  1. Boko Haram crisis: Militants attack key city of Maiduguri (BBC, Jan 25, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30972534

    “Fighters from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have launched an attack on the key city of Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria.

    Fierce fighting was reported on the outskirts. The military is carrying out air strikes, and a curfew is in place.

    Maiduguri is home to tens of thousands of people who have fled Boko Haram attacks and was visited on Saturday by President Goodluck Jonathan.

    Another Boko Haram attack was reported in Monguno, north of Maiduguri.

    Boko Haram, which means “Western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language, launched guerrilla operations in 2009 to create an Islamic state…”

  2. Egypt: Protests marking uprising leave 16 dead (BBC, Jan 25, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30974291

    “At least 16 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters across Egypt, officials said.

    One policeman was among the dead and dozens of protesters were also injured, health officials confirmed.

    The clashes follow the death of an activist in a march in Cairo on Saturday.

    The protests were staged to mark the fourth anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising, which toppled long-time leader Hosni Mubarak.

    Security in major cities was tightened ahead of the anniversary, and key locations in Cairo were blocked off.

    Dozens of people were killed in similar protests last year….”

  3. Libya’s Ansar confirms chief’s death (BBC, Jan 25, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30971915

    “Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia has confirmed that its leader Mohammad al-Zahawi has died.

    In a statement, the group said “we mourn the death of the emir”, without giving further details.

    His death is thought to have resulted from wounds sustained in a battle with Libyan government troops in the eastern city of Benghazi last October.

    The group is blamed for the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, in which the US ambassador was killed.

    Three other Americans also died….”

  4. American Sniper film ‘behind rise in anti-Muslim threats’ (BBC, Jan 25, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30972690

    “The release of the film American Sniper has led to an increase in threats against Muslims in the US, according to an Arab-American civil rights group.

    The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has written to director Clint Eastwood and star Bradley Cooper.

    Their film is based on US soldier Chris Kyle’s service in Iraq from 2003-09.

    The ADC said a “majority of the violent threats we have seen over the past few days are result of how Arab and Muslims are depicted in American Sniper”.

    The organisation, which describes itself as the largest Arab civil rights organisation in the US, said it had collected “hundreds of violent messages targeting Arab and Muslim Americans from movie-goers”, mainly from Facebook and Twitter.

    The letter asked Eastwood and Cooper to speak out against such messages “in an effort to reduce the hateful rhetoric”.

    “Your visibility, influence, and connection to the film would be a tremendous force in drawing attention to and lessening the serious dangers facing the respective communities,” ADC president Samer Khalaf wrote…”

  5. Officials Say Bombings Kill 15 in Iraq’s Capital, Baghdad (abcnews, Jan 25, 2015)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/officials-bombings-kill-iraqs-capital-baghdad-28462132

    “A string of bombings ripped mainly through commercial areas in Iraq’s capital Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

    The deadliest attack took place in Baghdad’s Bab al-Sharji area, where a bomb went off outside a small restaurant, killing seven civilians and wounding 22, a police officer said. Another bombing in the central Sibaa area killed three civilians and wounded 11, he said.

    At night, a bomb blast targeting a patrol of anti-militant fighters, known as Sahwa, killed three Sunni fighters and wounded two others in the southern Baghdad’s suburb of Arab Jabour.

    The Sahwa are made up of Sunni militiamen who joined U.S. troops in the fight against al-Qaida during the height of Iraq’s insurgency in 2007 and 2008.

    Also, police said a bomb explosion on a commercial street in Baghdad’s southern district of Abu Dashir, killing two people and wounding 12 others.

    Health officials confirmed the casualty figures from all attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information….”

  6. Obama: Counterterrorism Operations in Yemen Not Affected (abcnews, Jan 25, 2015)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/obama-counterterrorism-operations-yemen-affected-28462875

    “President Barack Obama defended his counterterrorism strategy in tumultuous Yemen Sunday, as influential lawmakers from both parties suggested the U.S. may need to turn to special operations forces to root out terrorists from the Middle Eastern nation and elsewhere in the region.

    Obama, who is traveling in India, said U.S. operations against a dangerous al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen would not stop because of the country’s political vacuum. In his first public remarks on Yemen since the country’s American-backed president and Cabinet resigned after rebels seized the capital last week, the president rejected the notion of moving away from the current drone-based campaign to a heavier footprint on the ground.

    “We’ll continue to try to refine and fine-tune this model, but it is the model that we’re going to have to work with,” Obama said during a joint media appearance with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The alternative would be massive U.S. deployments in perpetuity, which would create its own blowback and cause probably more problems than it would potentially solve.”

    In a direct challenge to Obama, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that more special operations forces in particular may be necessary in Yemen and elsewhere….”

  7. Talks in Yemen Between Political Parties, Rebels Break Down (abcnews, Jan 25, 2015)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemens-shiite-rebels-disperse-protesters-capital-sanaa-28462650

    ” Talks between Yemeni political parties and the Shiite rebels who occupy the capital have broken down, with several main factions calling for renewed protests against the rebels.

    An official with the leadership of a party present at the meeting says the Islamist Islah party pulled out of the Sunday talks along with the Socialist and Nasserite parties.

    The official says the group rejects dialogue with the rebels, known as Houthis, and calls for peaceful protests against them.

    The parties also demand the release of a group of 11 activists and journalists the Houthis detained earlier in the day.

    Officials with the office of U.N. envoy Jamal Benomar say he is continuing efforts to forge an agreement between Yemeni political forces.

    All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information otherwise.”