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‘…. Dr Hadad said it was important for the public to understand Muslims were the biggest targets of IS attacks.
“Last week it was Manchester, this week it was Baghdad — similar venues, where families and young children are at leisure, and if nothing is done about it then this diseased ideology will just carry on spreading,” she said.
“The vast majority of ISIS attacks do in fact target Muslims, that is what is crucial to inform everyone, that Muslims are the biggest victims of ISIS and this ideology has as much to do with Islam as the KKK and Nazism has as much to do with Christianity.”‘
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-31/melbourne-girl-killed-in-is-terrorist-attack-in-baghdad/8574680
“Dr Hadad said it was important for the public to understand Muslims were the biggest targets of IS attacks.”
As a piece of logic this is absurd.
Husband beats third wife and attacks groomed underage kufar girl. Ergo, Islam is great.
A need for protection: Canada eases asylum process for more refugees (middleeasteye, May 30, 2017)
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/need-protection-canada-eases-asylum-process-more-refugees-357687018
” Asylum seekers from Yemen and Egypt will soon be able to have their claims processed without a formal hearing, after an amendment to the expedited processing list formally comes into force on Thursday.
Ottawa announced in early May that it would allow nationals from four foreign countries – Egypt, Yemen, Afghanistan and Burundi – to have access to an expedited process when applying for refugee or protected person status in Canada.
On 1 June, the four countries will join a list that already includes Syria, Iraq and Eritrea.
The expedited country list aims to recognise that conditions in certain countries, including but not limited to armed conflict, may “require a faster processing” time, explained Petra Molnar, a migration researcher…”
To the contrary! They need not shorter processing time but much longer time! Big strategic mistake, Canada…
US probing NJ town over mosque denial as another town settles (middleeasteye, May 30, 2017)
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-probing-nj-town-over-mosque-denial-another-town-settles-1736303215
“The US Department of Justice has opened an investigation on a New Jersey city’s rejection of a planned mosque, a spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
The US Attorney’s office in New Jersey, in conjunction with members of the department’s civil rights headquarters in Washington, DC, is examining whether officials in Bayonne, New Jersey, properly denied plans to build a mosque, according to Matthew Reilly, a spokesman for the office.
The Bayonne Muslims, the group seeking to construct the mosque, filed a federal lawsuit against the city last week.
News of the federal probe came on the same day that another New Jersey municipality, Bernards Township, agreed to pay $3.25 million to resolve allegations by the US government and a Muslim group that the town illegally rejected plans for a mosque.
The agreement between Bernards, which is located about 48 km west of New York City, and the US Department of Justice will allow the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to build a new prayer facility.
Federal law prohibits local governments from imposing an undue burden on religious exercise through land use regulations.
Bernards’ governing body voted 4-1 last week to approve settling separate lawsuits filed last year by the Justice Department and by the Islamic Society, but the terms of the deal were made public only on Tuesday.
The town did not admit any wrongdoing under the agreements.
The Justice Department complaint said the town’s planning officials deliberately set out impossibly strict requirements that the Islamic Society could not meet, after members of the public raised objections based on anti-Muslim bias.
The Islamic Society spent four years seeking approval, including 39 separate hearings.
“We look forward to welcoming people of all faiths and backgrounds to our mosque,” said Mohammad Ali Chaudry, president of the society.
A spokesman for the town, Michael Turner, said in a statement: “The township maintains that the denial of the planning board was based on accepted land use criteria only.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations in New Jersey welcomed the Bernards Township settlement.
“Several New Jersey Muslim communities have been targeted by local anti-Muslim opponents to new mosque construction who attempted to hide their bigoted intentions behind zoning technicalities,” CAIR-NJ Executive Director James Sues said in a statement.
He added that anti-Muslim bias in Bernards Township was clear.
“We hope this case sends a message to other communities that freedom of religion is a guaranteed constitutional right, and that the Muslim community is prepared to rigorously defend its rights,” Sues said.
The Justice Department also hailed the settlement.
“Federal law protects people of all religious communities from discrimination and unlawful obstacles when they seek to build a place of worship,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler said in a statement. “Through this agreement, the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge and its members will be able to build a mosque and exercise the fundamental American right of freedom of worship.”
Bernards Township will pay $3.25 million in damages and legal fees to the Islamic Society. The law firm that represented the Islamic Society, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, said it would donate the fees it receives in the settlement to charity.
Patterson Belknap also represents the Bayonne Muslims.
The US government has other pending lawsuits against localities over denials of mosques, including in Bensalem, Pennsylvania; Des Plaines, Illinois; and Culpeper County, Virginia.
In February, Sterling Heights, a Detroit suburb, settled a similar lawsuit by the Justice Department after the city rejected a proposed mosque following a Islamophobic objections by residents.”
Video: Women Fight with Knives in Casablanca During Ramadan (Graphic Footage) (moroccoworldnews, May 30, 2017)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/05/218211/video-women-fight-knives-casablanca-ramadan-graphic-footage/
“A shocking posted on Youtube shows women in a market in Lahraouyine, southern Casablanca, engaging in a brutal blade fight.
The footage is quite graphic, as the fighting women manage to hit each other with the deadly weapons.
The five-minute-long also shows men armed with blades rushing to scene. One of them hits another woman with his blade.
Moroccans generally refer to violent or angry behavior during Ramadan, when Muslims are expected to be on their best behavior, as “Tramdina”. The phenomenon is explained by some people’s inability to cope with deprivation of food, water and cigarettes, which results in wild reactions during daily interactions.”
Large quantities of ‘Jihadist drug’ seized in France for the first time (thelocal, May 30, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170530/large-quantity-of-jihadist-drug-seized-in-france
“French customs officials said Tuesday that they had intercepted 135 kilogrammes (300 pounds) of Captagon, dubbed the “jihadists’ drug”, at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport this year, a first for France…”
First results of Sweden’s asylum age assessment tests (thelocal, May 30, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.se/20170530/first-results-of-swedens-asylum-age-assessment-tests
“Three in four of those asylum seekers subjected to a new method of medically assessing their age by examining their teeth and knee joints have so far been found to be older than 18.
The national forensic medicine agency (Rättsmedicinalverket) began to carry out the tests earlier this year.
They are designed to make age assessment during the asylum process more accurate, after the migration authority was criticized for failings in assessing the correct age of some refugees claiming to be underage.
The agency has so far received around 4,200 requests from the Migration Agency and has completed assessments of the ages of a total of 581 people. It is only asked to carry out the tests in cases when the person’s age is in question.
The test results in 442 of these 581 cases “suggest that the person examined is 18 years or older”, according to Rättsmedicinalverket. Of these, 430 were men and 12 women.
Its experts also found that five of the test results, all women, “possibly suggest that the person examined is 18 years or older” and that in 134 cases (133 males and one female) the examination “possibly suggests that the person examined is under 18”.
The method of medical age assessment consists of taking X-rays of wisdom teeth, and MRI scans of knee joints, which are then analyzed by dentists and radiologists.
The Migration Agency stressed the figures did not show that asylum seekers who lie about their age represent the majority of applicants, as the tests are only carried out in cases where it believes existing evidence is not enough.
“If all unaccompanied minors had undergone a medical age evaluation then the results would likely have been different,” Daniel Salehi, a manager at the agency, told Swedish newswire TT. He said the result would then have been the opposite, that most unaccompanied children are indeed under the age of 18.
Over 35,000 asylum applications were made by lone refugee children in Sweden during 2015, followed by 2199 in 2016.”
Swedish Border Police: 65 Moroccan Asylum Seekers Used False Documents (moroccoworldnews, May 30, 2017)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/05/218169/swedish-border-police-65-moroccan-asylum-seekers-used-false-documents/
“Sixty-five Moroccans have applied for asylum in Sweden with false documents, reports Swedish news website Svenska Dagbladet (SvD).
False identities are a major problem with Moroccan asylum seekers in Sweden, says the site, adding that, based on a memo issued by the border police, out of a total of 77 Moroccan nationals who recently arrived in Sweden, 65 were proven to have false documentation. Additionally, out of 50 who claimed to be underage, only two were found to be minors.
In the first four months of 2017, 7,272 applied for asylum in Sweden, while 2016 saw a total of 28,939 applications.
The memo says that border police in Sweden have for the first time been able to compare the identities of the persons to be deported and fingerprints that the person left at home, noting that many have forged documents coming to the border without documentation, providing the police with fake names and birth dates…”
The Smothering of Femininity in Ramadan (moroccoworldnews, May 30, 2017)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/05/218214/the-smothering-of-femininity-in-ramadan/
“Ramadan, the holy month during which Muslims everywhere embark in a spiritual journey to strengthen their bond with God, can be a bit of a clothing dilemma for Muslim women.
The sacred month comes with many rules and changes, from the schedule of prayers, the adequate behaviors to adopt, the do’s and don’ts, to the right dress code to obey.
Islam has set up a particular dress code for Muslim women. Modesty is key, and showing off your body, sometimes even your hair, is frowned upon. In Ramadan, this particular rule seems to be doubly enforced.
For Hayat El Ouahrani, a professor of Sharia Law at the University of Fes, “Ramadan is like doing your prayer. You should not eat, you should not drink or look around.” The professor explained to Morocco World News that, during the holy month, “you are standing before Allah. So you have to pay careful attention to your daily behavior, including how you dress.”
Women’s clothing has been the subject of many fatwas throughout history. Ramadan or not, Muslim Ulemas always had an opinion on what women should and should not wear. What is so controversial about it? The answer to that question often rubs feminists and Westerners the wrong way.
First of all, the way women are perceived in Islam is very particular. “If you walk down the street with your hair flowing down your back, your skin glowing under the sun, your attractive figure in full display, you’ll be fruit of temptation to fasting men,” explains El Ouahrani.
Men: the key to decipher Islam’s perception of women. “Women are asked to cover themselves for a reason. It is not out of discrimination or oppression as many would think. It comes from a place of love,” the professor goes on.
“Allah wanted to protect women when he recommended the Hijab, protect them from the ravenous gazes of men, from temptation and from sin,” she adds.
El Ouahrani stresses however that it is still a matter of choice. “No woman should be forced to do something she doesn’t want to. If she doesn’t want to wear the hijab, it is her fundamental freedom and no one has the right to intervene with it.”
However, this freedom according the professor comes with consequences, mainly “fitnah.” The Arabic word fitnah bears the meaning of trial, discord, affliction, temptation and civil war, and any other strife “that ruptures the community’s unity and pits Muslim against fellow Muslim.”
In this context, the word is used to refers to women as temptation. The professor quotes one of the Prophet’s hadiths saying: “I have not left behind me any fitnah more harmful to men than women.” So is it more that men are weaker in their nature and get easily tempted, or that it’s women which causes men to fall into fitnah against their will?
To answer this question, El Ouahrani quotes God in the Holy Qur’an: “Made beautiful for mankind is the love of desires for women and offspring, of hoarded heaps of gold and silver, of branded horses, cattle and plantations.”[3:14]
“Although the Quran speaks elsewhere of such things in a positive manner, as blessings for which people should be grateful, here they are spoken of seductively in terms of objects which men lust over, crave and covet,” the professor explains.
Unsurprisingly, women top the list.
“Ramadan holds a special position in every Muslim’s heart. It is a month of worship and meditation when the gates of heaven are open to every believer. But it is also a month of challenge and discipline, where Muslims test their faith and limits,” El Ouahrani explains. “Fasting is not starving yourself from food. It is abstaining from the lusts of dunya, and keeping away from temptations, the biggest of which is the sin of flesh.”
Blessing, temptations, trial, sin— all words used to refer to women. This harsh terminology raises many questions.
“In Islam, the feminine form which is desirable, alluring and sensuous, shouldn’t be made to appear so in the public sphere. It’s not just the objectifying male gaze that demeans or threatens women; sometimes some women need saving from their own intemperate selves,” further explains the professor.
Ramadan is the occasion to break out from a world “awashed with sin, porn and over sexualisation of women,” El Ouahrani says. “I am well aware that such wisdom is unlikely to be received with openness nowadays, especially in a time where notions of modesty, decency and respectability with regard to how women and men should interact are viciously twisted.”
“Many feminists shout out misogyny and sexism when Islam suggests a modest and dignified way of being lady like, especially when we talk about how women should dress.”
But for El Ouahrani, modesty is not just about clothing. “It’s about how one behaves, carries themselves. It’s about the heart’s purity and its attachment to Allah.”
In Morocco, Ramadan is not just a religious celebration. It is a deeply rooted cultural one that comes with specific traditions that reflects the unique Moroccan culture. “These principles (modesty) have been engraved in our Moroccan culture, which while being a conservative and Muslim one, is also known for being flexible and moderate.”
“If certain outfits are to be avoided, this does not prevent women from adorning themselves with their best clothes,” explains El Ouahrani.
Admittedly, the professor says that “Ramadan is an opportunity for Muslim women to make themselves beautiful while being subject to certain conditions.”
Conditions. Dress code. Rules. It appears that the Muslim holy month comes with many more limitations for women than for men.”
“First of all, the way women are perceived in Islam is very particular. “If you walk down the street with your hair flowing down your back, your skin glowing under the sun, your attractive figure in full display, you’ll be fruit of temptation to fasting men,” explains El Ouahrani.”
These savages.