Category Archives: Islam

1. In Britain in 2015 you can be jailed for singing a song. Where’s the anger?

(I don’t have the words. So I will have to sing it instead)

Imagine living in a nation so authoritarian you could be locked up simply for singing a song that the authorities disapproved of. Well, if you’re one of spiked’s many UK-based readers, you don’t have to imagine it – you already live there. Last week in Glasgow, a man was sentenced to four months in jail for the crime of singing a state-decreed ‘offensive song’. Yes, that thing us Brits love to be sniffy about when it’s done by the Saudis or Putin – the cruel or unusual punishment of people just for saying something or singing something – is now being done right here in the UK, in the twenty-first century.

The man in question is Scott Lamont, a 24-year-old fan of Rangers FC, which draws most of its support from Scotland’s Protestant communities. It has an infamous rivalry with Glasgow’s other globally recognisable football team, Celtic FC, most of whose fans come from Scotland’s Catholic, Irish-tinged communities. On 1 February, when Rangers were playing Celtic at Hampden Park, Lamont sang one of the fanbase’s favourite songs as he walked along a street to the game. The song was ‘The Billy Boys’, an old sectarian loyalist ditty first sung by Glasgow’s razor gangs in the early twentieth century and later adopted by Rangers fans as a way of riling their Celtic rivals. The song starts ‘Hello, hello, we are the Billy Boys’, and contains the line ‘We’re up to our knees in Fenian blood’.

2. One of Vlad’s readers was kind enough to send in a translation of a comment left under an earlier post. It reads thusly:

Distinguishing between an ideology and its vectors is not pertinent. No muslims means no Islam, however comprehensive the knowledge that those not of the muslim faith might acquire about Islam or its followers.

If we admit that Islam is at war with the rest of the world, we must have enough intellectual rigour to acknowledge that muslims are also our enemies. Unless we do so, we are helpless.

We must of course distinguish between armed jihadists, peaceful apologists, terrorists and water-bearers.But we will have no chance of winning or to even just survive in an acceptable manner if we do not make it adamantly clear that muslims, and we mean all muslims, even and especially those who condemn extremism, are our enemies, our mortal enemies.

original text:
Alain Jean-Mairet says:

(Thank you N)

3. Daylight: The Story of Obama and Israel

(This is worth the half hour to watch)

4. Qasem Exirifard: Iran university fires physics professor as his ‘feminine’ voice unsuitable

(Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. -Napoleon)

Dr Qasem Exirifard lost his job after a university committed decided that his ‘feminine’ voice could lead to ridicule in the classroom(Facebook)

An Iranian physics professor has been fired after he was told that his “feminine” voice prevented him from communicating effectively with his university students.

Dr Qasem Exirifard, 40, was dismissed by the Khajeh Nasir Toosi university after the academic committee decided that his voice could lead to ridicule in the classroom, the Guardian reported, citing the Shargh newspaper.

“I was disqualified, why? Because I have a high-pitched voice, what they [the university] call a feminine voice,” Exirifard was quoted as saying. “They said I would not be qualified to communicate scientific contents to students because they said my voice was effeminate.”

5. Leftists/anarchists riot in Germany

6. Israeli elections take dramatic turn as official tally gives Likud sweeping victory

Thank you Shabnam, M., UK Pete, Buck, Richard and all who sent in material.

1. Tommy Robinson on policing double standards.

(An interesting excerpt from TR’s speech at Oxford Union on their ownYT channel)

2. Women with vaginal piercings to be classed as having suffered female genital mutilation says Department of Health

(Classic contemporary UK government new-think. In order to remove stigma from islam for things uniquely islamic, spread the horror around to other groups. So now, an 11 year old who is held down and had her genitalia removed so she cannot feel sexual pleasure or much much worse, the total excise of her visible aperture in the name of islamic conformity is now equivalent to a woman freely and of her own choice ornamenting herself, usually for the enhancement of sexual pleasure. Much like how they are now blaming changes in institutional diets etc. on Jews as well as muslims)

Women with vaginal piercings are to be classed as victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), health chiefs have said.

Under new NHS rules to be introduced next month, any woman whose labia or clitoris has been pierced must be recorded as suffering FGM, a procedure which is illegal in the UK.

The mandatory reporting regulations were sent to medical staff by the Department of Health, which said it is would start classifying the piercings ‘within an abusive context’.

It means that even women who have consented to the piercing for cosmetic reasons will be deemed as a potential victim of crime. Those responsible for carrying out the piercing could also be implicated for committing a criminal offence.

(Photo utterly unnecessary)

3. Lawyer for Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Bin Laden is shot dead months after receiving death threats from Taliban militants 

Suspected Taliban gunmen have brutally murdered a Pakistani former lawyer who represented the doctor that helped the United States track down Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Senior police officer Shakir Khan said unidentified assailants shot and killed Samiullah Khan Afridi this morning in the northwestern city of Peshawar before fleeing the scene.

Although the Pakistani Taliban have not yet claimed responsibility, they are considered the most likely candidates for an attack that took place close to the border with Afghanistan, in the terrorist organisation’s heartland and just over 100 miles from Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound.

4. Tachikawa teen ‘inspired by Islamic State’ held for trying to kill goat

A teenager in the Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa, apparently inspired by online video footage of recent gruesome killings of Japanese nationals by the Islamic State extremists, was arrested in February after attempting to kill a goat as “practice” for his plan to kill someone, police said.

According to sources at Tachikawa Police Station, the third-year junior high school student, whose name has been withheld because he is a minor, allegedly crept into a Tachikawa elementary school facility at about 1 a.m. Feb. 15 with the aim of killing a goat kept there.

(While at this level the scale remains extremely small, islam has managed at a large scale to renormalize horrific behaviour and savagery, in terms of what shocks, that the world has not believed possible since the 1400s.)

5. Saudi Arabia: No bargaining on Islamic rules

The Saudi Council of Ministers on Monday reemphasized that the fundamentals of Islam being followed by about 1.5 billion Muslims around the world are not subject to any bargaining.

The weekly session of the Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman at Al-Yamamah Palace here, also underscored that the Islamic Shariah guarantees fair equality between men and women and it allows no discrimination against women.

The Cabinet made the remarks in the backdrop of the recent statement by the Swedish foreign minister offending the Kingdom and its Shariah-based judicial system.

In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency following the session, Minister of Culture and Information Adel Al-Turaifi said the Cabinet reiterated its condemnation of the Swedish minister’s statement.

(This story is of serious importance despite the misdirection on equality of women)

6. As suspected, SUN News Network was lost to Canadian viewers thanks to what can only be said after analysis to be a highly partizan Liberal party government regulatory agency called, the CRTC. This is no surprise to those of us who gave it thought. But its great to have the facts and figures.

7. High Court judge bans 16-year-old British-Libyan boy from travelling abroad after TWO of his brothers died fighting jihad in Syria

8. Danish People’s Party: Help Muslims leave Islam

(It is amazing how long it has taken for someone to take this approach. The obviously correct one)

The anti-immigration Danish People’s Party has called for a national programme that would help Muslims leave Islam.

Danish People’s Party (DF) spokesman Martin Henriksen wants to see the Danish state step in and offer help to Muslims who want to leave the religion but feel bullied into staying.

“We unfortunately have seen many examples of someone wanting to leave Islam but having a hard time doing it or not daring to do it because they fear reprisals from certain groups within the Muslim communities of Denmark. This is a way in which we can begin doing something about it,” Henriksen told Politiken.

Henriksen stressed that the programme would not be proactive but would rather only help those who reached out for assistance.

9. It appears that Bibi won the election in Israel and the government should look pretty much the same as it did. This according to Tundra Tabloids who is following it closely. The Arab parties got more seats than before as they formed one block however.

10.  State Dept. has no record of Mrs. H. Clinton signing the agreement of separation

Thank you M., Buck, Tundra T.,

1. The Iranian regime, properly called, “The Islamic Republic of Iran” (Obama is the only US leader ever to call it that) is applying genuine islamic principles to fight the Islamic State, which is using the same principles to fight them. This video is graphic

(Shabnam also inform us from a reliable source that million copies of Khamenei’s ” Letter to World Youth” were distributed in India by local Hezbollah, inviting Indians to convert to Shi’ism. Article on letter here)

2. Sunni muslims destroy stuff they identify with “polytheists” (which could be Shiia muslims or Catholics or whoever they pretend are polytheists)

3. Michael Welner does quite a good interview on the motivations of Islam, the Islamic State and people who bugger off to go join it. He clearly gets it although he comes at it from the POV of a psychiatrist, which I believe he is)

4. Carleton University is having its ‘muslim awareness week’ this week. Here is the Facebook page. For those near the university that want to ask questions about Islam from an organization tied to pretty much every atrocity islam has perpetrated in North America in one way or another for the past good long time, this is your chance.

The focus this week is on ‘mercy’. What they likely won’t say, is that in islam, mercy means that their god won’t screw you over as badly as he could, which is more awful than you can imagine.. All scales start at zero and work downwards from there in islam.

5. Meanwhile in Iraq, Islamic State launches an attack in the green of night

(Looks like someone gave them night vision tech)

6. UK to announce results of Muslim Brotherhood Review ‘as soon as possible’

The UK government plans to release the long-awaited conclusions of its review of the Muslim Brotherhood “as soon as possible,” the UK Home Office has told Ahram Online.

The review’s conclusions are to be made public “alongside the government’s new counter-extremism strategy,” a Home Office spokeswoman has confirmed.

In April last year, UK prime minister David Cameron ordered an internal government review into the Muslim Brotherhood.

The objective was to review the “philosophy, activities, impact and influence on UK national interests, at home and abroad, of the Muslim Brotherhood and of government policy towards the organisation.”

It took the review team, led by Sir John Jenkins, former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, until July 2014 to finish its work.

But, about eight months later, the government still has not released the review’s final report.

The government has informed the House of Commons [the UK parliament] that concerned departments are considering “broader policy questions emerging from the review.”

7. Finnish MPs threatened by jihadi who left for Islamic State. He specified a few MPs who are known to be resistant to islamic penetration. The threats are segments of koran, 9:5 and 9:29

8. Islamic scholars in Indonesia push for death penalty for sex abuse and gay and lesbian ‘crimes’

9. Obama Removes Iran from Terror List, Praises it for Fighting Terrorism

An annual report delivered recently to the US Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, removed Iran and Hezbollah from its list of terrorism threats, after years in which they featured in similar reports

In describing Iran’s regional role, the report noted the Islamic Republic’s “intentions to dampen sectarianism, build responsive partners, and deescalate tensions with Saudi Arabia,” but cautioned that “Iranian leaders—particularly within the security services—are pursuing policies with negative secondary consequences for regional stability and potentially for Iran.

Thank you Shabnam, M., Don C. Tundra T., Richard, and many people who are not inkisted because I built up a 10 item post starting yesterday afternoon and off and on through the night and hit publish and for the second time the whole post vanished along with the drafts of it and it was lost. But thank you for sending in the links, I will try and find them again for this post. There is a story about a guy who had what looks like a panic attack on an aircraft and was removed from it. Personally I don’t think there is anything there but here is the video for anyone who wants to see it. Also, here is an interesting comment that was left under this post in a Swiss Counter-Jihad blog. I will post the comment in French. Perhaps someone can offer a good translation in the comments.

Alain Jean-Mairet says:
17 mars 2015 at 10 h 39 min

Il n’est pas pertinent de distinguer entre une idéologie et ses vecteurs. Pas de musulmans, pas d’islam. Quelle que soit par ailleurs la profondeur de la connaissance que des non-musulmans peuvent acquérir à son ou leur sujet.

Si nous admettons que l’islam est en guerre avec le reste du monde, nous devons trouver la rigueur intellectuelle nécessaire pour admettre que les musulmans sont nos ennemis aussi. Avant, nous serons désarmés.

Bien sûr, il faut distinguer entre les jihadistes armés et les apologistes pacifiques, entre les terroristes et les simples porteurs d’eau. Mais nous n’aurons aucune chance de l’emporter ou seulement de survivre convenablement sans poser, une bonne fois pour toutes, que les musulmans, tous les musulmans, même voire surtout ceux qui condamnent l’extrémisme, sont nos ennemis. Mortels.

1. Unfortunately named but popular cheese in Australia marked halal INSIDE the
the packet

2. Greek bailout crisis: Athens threatens to seize German assets ‘as compensation for Nazi war crimes’

1. HAPPENING NOW: Police in Tel Aviv estimate about 100,000 people participating in a pro Likud rally in Rabin square

2. Ebola: US evacuates 10 aid workers from Sierra Leone

On Friday it was announced that a US aid worker back from Sierra Leone had tested positive and was being treated in hospital near Washington DC.

The evacuees may have been in contact with the Ebola patient and are being flown back on non-commercial transport.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said none were currently showing Ebola symptoms.

They will stay in voluntary isolation for a 21-day incubation period. If any start to show symptoms they will be taken to one of three hospitals which are equipped to deal with Ebola cases.

3. Russia Was Ready for Crimea Nuclear Standoff, Putin Says

“We were ready to do that,” Putin said when asked in a documentary film about Russia’s takeover of Crimea aired Sunday on state television if the Kremlin had been prepared to place its nuclear forces on alert. The Russian leader said he warned the U.S. and Europe not to get involved, accusing them of engineering the ouster of Russian-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. “That’s why I think no one wanted to start a world conflict.”

More here and a trailer?

(When the West is weak it feels the vulture’s beak)

4. IRAQ – TIKRIT – Video – Large stash of Saudi & Yemen ammo & rockets uncovered by ISF in liberated ISIS area east of Tikrit –

(I suspect there is more significance in the above story than I grasp right off the handle. Perhaps Richard or a geopolitical observer can explain in the comments)

5. Germany: PEGIDA hold rally in Villingen-Schwenningen

6. CBC – Sunday Scrum: PM’s anti-women comments

(CBC says Prime Minister Harper is exploiting a harmless minority, meaning muslims)

7. Saudi nuclear deal raises stakes for Iran talks

WASHINGTON — As U.S. and Iranian diplomats inched toward progress on Tehran’s nuclear program last week, Saudi Arabia quietly signed its own nuclear-cooperation agreement with South Korea.

That agreement, along with recent comments from Saudi officials and royals, is raising concerns on Capitol Hill and among U.S. allies that a deal with Iran, rather than stanching the spread of nuclear technologies, risks fueling it.

Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal, a member of the royal family, has publicly warned in recent months that Riyadh will seek to match the nuclear capabilities Iran is allowed to maintain as part of any final agreement reached with world powers. This could include the ability to enrich uranium and to harvest the weapons-grade plutonium discharged in a nuclear reactor’s spent fuel.

Several U.S. and Arab officials have voiced concerns about a possible nuclear-arms race erupting in the Middle East, spurred on by Saudi Arabia’s regional rivalry with Iran, which has been playing out in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen in recent months.

(Radioactive glass ashtrays could become a collectors item in that Franklin Mint sort of way in a few short years)

Thanks Wrath of Khan, M., Richard, and many more and more to come.

1. An article in the Toronto Sun worthy of our attention. On the Prime Minister, Islamic dress codes and leftist complicity with totalitarian and misogynistic islam.

Ignorant” has got to be one of the most misused words today. An ignorant person is someone who is uninformed, missing some key information.

Not someone who holds an opinion that you don’t share.

Are the people who support banning the niqab during citizenship oaths ignorant? For some, sure. It could be a knee-jerk position they’ve latched onto without much reflection. But – memo to the politically correct! – it’s also possible to oppose the niqab from an informed and educated position.

I’ve read the Qur’an multiple times. I’ve done the crash course in Islamic history and jurisprudence. I routinely chat with Muslims, both supremacists and liberal. Heck, I even watched Lawrence of Arabia as a kid.

So when I argue that wearing the niqab is a pretty bad choice to make and that the government is completely right to insist women remove it during citizenship oaths, I’m not saying that out of ignorance.

2. Did Cage director train Jihadi John? MoS uncovers new evidence that links apologists for ISIS butcher to his desert weapons camp 

(A Gomer Pyle moment indeed)

The director of a human rights group which sparked outrage after it called Jihadi John ‘a beautiful young man’ may have been involved in training him at a camp run by militants in Syria.

A Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered evidence that appears to place Cage director and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg at the same Syrian training camp as Mohammed Emwazi – the real name of Jihadi John – in late 2012.

Emwazi later joined Islamic State (ISIS) and began the murderous campaign which has seen the beheading of five Western hostages.

A photograph of Cage director and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg appears to place him at the same Syrian training camp as Mohammed Emwazi – the real name of Jihadi John

3. Nigeria: Boko Haram bomb factory uncovered in troubled northeast

(Video at site is about the merger of Boko Haram and the Islamic State)

(CNN)Nigerian troops discovered a Boko Haram bomb factory this week after they seized a northern town from the extremists, the military said.

The factory was tucked inside a fertilizer company in Buni Yadi town in Yobe state, according to officials.

Islamist fighters took over the town in August, one of many seized in the troubled northeast. Troops have battled the militants for months to regain control, and said they recaptured it last week.

Militants planted explosive devices along the highway on their way out, which delayed the soldiers’ advance. Four soldiers were killed during the operation.

4. Relative of accused rapist in Finland gives the finger to the victim and her culture

5. Islamic State fighters in Libya battle militia near Sirte

Fighting has been raging in Libya between Islamic State (IS) fighters and a militia alliance from the west of the country, near the city of Sirte.

A spokesman for militia brigades told the BBC that two of their men had been killed in the clashes.

Jihadists affiliated to Islamic State seized government buildings and a state radio station in Sirte last month.

Their main base is in eastern Libya where the elected government and army have battled extremists for months.

6. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy claims that mosque not a religious place and therefore not deserving of protection as such.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has sparked off a massive controversy by saying that mosque is not a religious place but is merely a building that can be demolished any time.

Swamy made these controversial statements in a programme at Guwahati. Swamy’s comments have attracted condemnation from all political parties. Even Assam BJP has disassociated themselves from Swamy’s remark.

According to HT, Swamy gave the “example” of mosques demolished for construction of roads in Saudi Arabia. The controversial leader said, “A mosque is not a religious place. It is just a building. It can be demolished any time. If anyone disagrees with me on this, I am ready to have a debate on the issue. I got this information from people of Saudi Arabia”. He stoked another controversy by claiming all Indian Muslims were Hindus.  He repeated the controversial comments again on Saturday.

(Pretty hard to argue with perfect logic and ample evidence)

Thank you M., UK Pete, Wrath of Khan, and for great comments by many many more.

More to come shortly.

1. ISIS wants to ‘blow up’ White House, Big Ben and Eiffel Tower, spokesman says in audio message

(Well some people say its a great thing when you really know what it is you want to do in life)

The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham wants to “blow up your White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower,” its official spokesman said in an audio message Thursday that claimed the ultraviolent extremist group had expanded its reach into West Africa.

AFP/Getty ImagesAbu Muhammad al-Adnani in 2012

In his first speech in two months, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani accepted a pledge of allegiance from the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram and listed the cities “we want,” from Paris and Rome to Jerusalem and Kabul.

The 28-minute Arabic-language audio, translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, appeared to be an attempt to rally ISIS fighters and intimidate international audiences amid setbacks in Iraq.

Al-Adnani was also capitalizing on the recent decision of Boko Haram, notorious for its indiscriminate bombings and kidnappings of girls, to align itself with ISIS. He called it “a new door opened by Allah” and directed jihadists to West Africa.

(The real headline is that the Boko Haram is now a part of the IS and subservient to Al Baghdadi. This is significant indeed)

2. ISIS spokesperson: We want Paris and Jerusalem

(Well when you put it like that it seems almost rude not to give it to them!)

The ISIS spokesperson directed several threats towards Jews and Christians, saying they faced two options: “Convert to Islam or pay the ultimate price when your armies are expelled from Muhammad’s peninsula, from Jerusalem, and all Muslim lands.”

He warned that if Jews and Christians choose a third way – and insist on their current path – they will soon regret their choice and be unable to stop the surge to the caliphate. “The Jews and the Crusaders are scared and weak,” said al-Adnani.

3. Children who are whipped until they learn the Koran: Muslim girls and boys lashed for making a mistake or just not reciting loudly enough in Chad refugee camps

(“yada yada wuzza wuzza no compulsion in religion etc etc…”)

Children as young as three are being lashed at a Muslim refugee camp in Chad for not reciting the Koran loud enough.

A teenager with a leather whip teaches the holy text to around 30 boys and girls who fled sectarian violence from neighbouring Central African Republic.

The cruel tutor whips the children for not being enthusiastic enough, losing attention for just a moment or even making a small mistake.

On Wednesday, a small boy too young to speak was struck in the eye by a strike meant for another girl.

The class continued to sing as his anguished cries echoed through the room – inspiring a moment of tenderness from the oppressive teacher who tended to the youngster’s injury.

Punished: A three-year-old boy cries uncontrollably after his religious teacher in a Chadian refugee camp accidentally struck him in the eye – but many of his classmates have been punished intentionally for not reciting the Koran loud enough

4. ‘Informants’ forced on their knees and beheaded in latest ISIS video which sees Islamist butchers justify their savagery as ‘revenge’ for military operations in Syria and Iraq

Murdered: Militants claim the eight men were informers, engaged in military operations against ISIS

The slickly edited video – which appears to take inspiration from violent video games, complete with sickening ‘player profiles’ of each of the doomed men – is thought to have been shot in the Euprhates, which covers Syria and Iraq.

The men, who are both Iraqi and Syrian, are led by their murderers out of a van onto a derelict piece of land, where they are forced to kneel in a row.

The captors, armed with what look like meat cleavers, stand behind their victims.

5. Someone om TV says a few things which are true about jihadism.

6. Germany reverses headscarf ban for grade school teachers.

7. Muslim prayers in Church of England parish

Dozens of Muslims took part in the “Inclusive Mosque” event at St John’s church, Waterloo in central London, in what is thought to have been the first time a full Islamic prayer service has been held within the Church of England.

The vicar, the Rev Canon Giles Goddard, a prominent liberal cleric, joined in the event, reading a passage from the Bible and inviting the congregation to give thanks to “the God that we love, Allah”.

Canon Goddard, described the service, on Saturday, as “very moving” and said it was simply an expression of the church’s desire to offer people a “place to pray”.

Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, oX AO and many others. More to come shortly.

1. Another muslim antisemitic diatribe. Not to inform but to indicate consistency in this and volume of production. It is not an aberration of islam but a central dogma. This time from a muslim preacher in Australia.

2. Greece says Germany owes it compensation for WWII occupation

(European Union grows closer to either irrelevance or a back door totalitarianism.)

3. Nigel Farage would axe ‘much of’ race discrimination laws

UKIP would scrap much of the legislation designed to prevent racial discrimination in work, party leader Nigel Farage has said.

He was speaking in a Channel 4 documentary to be shown next week.

Downing Street said his comments were “deeply concerning”, while Labour branded them “shocking”.

Mr Farage told the BBC his remarks, recorded last autumn, had been “wilfully misinterpreted”, saying he was talking about nationality not race.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme he said he was making the point that employers should be able to discriminate in favour of British workers.

4. Nigel Farage: British Muslim ‘fifth column’ fuels fear of immigration

5.  PJ Media offers a buffet table of muslim scholars and authorities offering advice on how to kill or otherwise abuse homosexuals. Just in case there was any doubt about the link between islam and that practice.

6. A moderate muslim in Australia shows how moderate islam is done. By stealing millions in tax dollars and giving it to your own family museum which is of course, a museum of islam in Australia.

7. Obama’s Surrender to Iran

It is becoming increasingly clear that Obama’s agenda in the Middle East is to help the Islamists regain the land they once controlled but lost in 1924 with the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

The Arab Spring was not a movement to replace ruthless dictators with democratic governments. It was an Islamic movement to replace secular governments with Islamic ones.

8. USA: Imam Who Called for Death of Ayaan Hirsi Ali Is Prison Chaplain

An Egyptian born Imam who has publically supported the death penalty for those who choose to leave Islam has since been hired by the Department of Justice to teach Islam in prisons.

Fouad al-Bayly, the Imam of the Islamic Center of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, said in 2007 that Ayan Hirsi Ali, a Somalian women’s rights activist and fierce critic of Islam, deserves to die for her public attacks on the faith.

9. CAGE’s Asim Qureshi on BBC This Week

Thank you Richard, M., UK Pete, Oz-Rita, Sam Harris’s list, and many more who I may have lost track of as it was an unusually busy day.links

An article about Iran offering to negotiate peace between the executive and the GOP was apparently a joke by the New Yorker. It was under humour. These days it is very hard to tell the difference. Jokes of logical extremes for example, have either already happened in reality or become a data point for the other side. Apologies if anyone was misled.

links 1. New Israel Fund Received More than $1M from US State Department

US directly involved in million-dollar MEPI program – which organizes ‘strikes and protests’ from the Arab community.

Leftists, Arabs protest over ‘Judaization’ of Sheikh Jarrah (illustrative)

Gilli Yaari/Flash90

The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization known as SHATIL, have received more than $1 million from the State Department under a program designed to create political change, reform, and activism in the Middle East. The government program, Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), has extended more than $600 million in grants to political and social activists and reformers in 18 Middle East countries, mainly with unstable or challenged political environments in need of democratic improvement. “MEPI supports organizations and individuals in their efforts to promote political, economic, and social reform in the Middle East and North Africa,” according to the agency’s official self-description.

2. China says Muslim Uighurs have joined Islamic State group

BEIJING — Chinese officials said Tuesday that members of the country’s Muslim Uighur ethnic minority have gone overseas to fight with the Islamic State group, which controls sections of Syria and Iraq, and returned to take part in plots at home.

Authorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, will strengthen their crackdown on terrorism and extremism as a result, regional representatives said at a discussion on the sidelines of China’s legislature.

3. Swedish FM says Saudis blocked her speech at Arab League

Wallstroem: The explanation we have been given is that Sweden has highlighted the situation for democracy and human rights and that is why they do not want me to speak.Middle East Online

Blocked

STOCKHOLM – The Swedish foreign minister accused Saudi Arabia of blocking her speech at an Arab League meeting Monday due to her stance on human rights in the region, Swedish media reported.

“The explanation we have been given is that Sweden has highlighted the situation for democracy and human rights and that is why they do not want me to speak,” Foreign Minister Margot Wallstroem told news agency TT in Cairo.

“It’s a shame that a country has blocked my participation.”

An Arab diplomat confirmed that Riyadh had stopped the Swede from making her opening speech.

Wallstroem had been invited as an honorary guest to the Arab ministers’ meeting in praise of her government’s decision to recognise Palestine in October.

4. 10,000 Europeans could be waging jihad by year-end: France PM

“There are 3,000 Europeans in Iraq and Syria today. When you do a projection for the months to come, there could be 5,000 before summer and 10,000 before the end of the year,” Valls told French television channel iTele.

“Do you realise the threat that this represents?” he asked.

He said there were around 1,400 people who were either already in these conflict zones, who had come back from there or who were planning to go.

“There have already been nearly 90 French people who have died out there with a weapon in their hand, fighting against our own values,” Valls said.

5. Newly-released video of Boston Marathon bombing

6. Trey Gowdy: Remember Hillary Flying to Libya, Device in Hand? ‘We Have No Emails from That Day’

Thank you WTD., DP111, Don C., M., UK Pete and all More to come later today.

I wonder if anyone notices that the whole, ‘meet a muslim‘ and ‘coexist’ programs and ‘multi faith outreach’ were 100% and utterly unnecessary before muslims came and started killing everyone all over the place and wrecking all of our stuff.

1. Christmas fire that gutted Swedish mosque was caused by islamophobic racist deep-fryer.

An apartment in Eskilstuna was evacuated after a room used as a mosque was set on fire. Photo: Pontus Stenberg

The fire that gutted the Dawa mosque in Nyfors, in Eskilstuna, on Christmas Day, was caused by an overheated deep-fryer, reports the Eskilstuna-Kuriren, citing police sources.

(More here at The Local)

2. Murdered Charlie Hebdo Staff Named ‘International Islamophobe Of The Year’

Charlie Hebdo has been named 2015 International Islamophobe of the year, despite many of its staff having been killed by Jihadists in January. The annual ‘award’ was given by Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a British group that claims to campaign against terrorism.

According to the Muslim website5Pillars the award was given to Charlie Hebdo because of its “continual stoking of Islamophobic sentiment by caricaturing Muslims as terrorists and ridiculing their beliefs.”

It continued: “Charlie Hebdo’s repeated mocking of Muslims is part of a culture of hate that is intended to marginalise, further alienate and further endanger a community that has effectively been ‘otherised’ in much the same way that Jews were in Nazi Germany.”

(For Muslims, death is too good for em!)

3. Ideology links Ottawa, Paris, Copenhagen attacks, says French envoy 

OTTAWA – The gunmen who launched attacks in Ottawa, Paris and Copenhagen are all linked to the broader Islamist terrorist movement in Iraq and Syria, says the French ambassador to Canada.

That’s the case, argued Nicolas Chapuis, even if the attackers did not have any direct contact with the each other or the broader leadership of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.

“The so-called lone wolves that we have witnessed in Ottawa, Paris, Copenhagen are all united by this ideology of destruction,” Chapuis said in a recent interview.

“This is linked — a very strong link. And we need to tackle the root of the problem.”

4. Germany: PEGIDA March through central Dresden

5. Abbott: Australia ‘sick of being lectured’ on migration

(At last. Now that someone has pointed out that the Emperor is naked, and for that matter has a staggeringly bad complexion, maybe other nations can point out the obvious right and need to determine who gets to come in and who gets to live there)

It comes after the special rapporteur on torture said some aspects violated the convention against torture.

Australia detains all asylum seekers who arrive by boat, holding them in offshore processing camps.

Rights groups have criticised conditions on Manus Island, where asylum-seekers are held.

In a new report to be tabled to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, the rapporteur, Juan Mendez, investigated allegations of torture and abuse in more than 60 countries.

In Australia, he highlighted some cases where the authorities had failed to provide adequate detention conditions, end the detention of children, or prevent escalating violence and tension at Manus Island.

6. Bill Whittle: The Leader of the Free World:

7. Very important story about arrests in France of 4 people connected to the Charlie Hebdo slaughter.

Here, in this link to Australian news, they explain that a French police woman who converted to Islam was part of the plot which murdered a dozen staff at Charlie Hebdo and in the same attack, Jewish people at a grocery store. She also worked with the military.

Europe 1 radio reported that one of those detained was a policewoman posted at Rosny-sous-Bois just outside Paris who converted to Islam two years ago.

She was suspended from her duties in early February.

She was detained along with her boyfriend, a man said to have been close to Coulibaly and who is also wanted on separate drug charges.

Phone records indicate he was in close proximity to Coulibaly shortly before the attack on the supermarket.

Now check the CBC version of this same story. Notice what they utterly fail to include in the story.

(Truly outrageous even if it is 100% predictable and consistent with whatever that thing is the CBC does instead of reporting on the news)

8. Peshmerga fighters blow up IS vehicle full of explosives.

(This may be one of the few times the word, ‘suicide bomber’ is used correctly)

9. World’s largest dog show sees multiple poisonings of prize dogs. 

(While many news sites are reporting on it, none are mentioning that this show takes place in Birmingham, a very muslim area, and that muslims often poison dogs and that this show has lots and lots of muslim employees who likely would have access to the areas where the dogs might pick up something and eat it)

Daily Mail:   NBC: Telegraph

10. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Fox News. Egypt’s president discusses America’s role in fighting terror

(A true leader and a profoundly brave and principled man)

Thank you M., Richard, Yucki, Wrath of Khan, CB Sashenka and all. More to come very soon.