Category Archives: Islam
Bishop of Imola: “Muslims have honour or go away”
Tommaso Ghirelli Bishop of Imola: “Muslims, be men of honour or go away.”
From the Nuovo Diario Messaggero: “We ask for the Muslims amongst us to take a stand against the persecutions and the violence. Otherwise they should have the courage to distance themselves from our land.”
Mohammed Sabir, president of the Islamic House of Culture of Imola, has decided to postpone any public announcement until the 11th September, the day of the commemoration of the victims of the attack on the Twin Towers of New York, regardless of the announcements of condmenation of ISIS by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia.
Thank you Par0 for the translation. H/T M for the video.
Dad, I’m sorry to say that I can no longer defend your religion
An original translation from SIMONXML
From Volksrandt:
OPINION – Ferdows Kazemi – 09/14/14, 09:00
Open letter ‘Now the evil of your faith is taking over the world, it’s your turn to resist those who will not spare their own brothers,” writes Ferdows Kazemi in an open letter to her father.
Dear Daddy,
Over the last two weeks I have been teaching the daughter of your brother Dutch. As you know, she has to become naturalized before she is finally reunited with her husband in the Netherlands. She’s a sweet girl and above all very eager to learn, like many girls in Iran. She can already say short sentences.
She asked our daughter, in Dutch: “Do you have a children’s book for me?” I was proud of her that she had only been here for two weeks and already could speak a complete and correct sentence. And even prouder that she asked for a book. Admittedly, a children’s book – just like I started 21 years ago – but a book.
favorite song
Last week I let her hear a song, my favorite Dutch song with the lyrics. She had to listen and fill in the missing words in the text. Stef Bos sang “Daddy … and you believe in God. So you’re going to heaven. And I believe in nothing. So we will never meet again after death, never again after death”.
It does not matter how often I hear this song. This part of the text still touches me. Your cousin did not notice that I had tears in my eyes. She was busy filling in the holes in the text.
Dear Daddy, you believe in God and his Prophet Mohammad and I believe in nothing. I had already lost touch with your God and his prophet by my 21st. So, we grew apart; we do not understand each other. We did this without losing each other. You still pray that God forgives me for my wickedness, because you do think I am a good person.
And I have always loved you, despite my dislike of your God, because I think you’re a good man. But Daddy before your God forgives me for my wickedness, you must forgive me that I do not need forgiveness. I’m sorry to say that I can no longer defend your religion. I can no longer downplay so many crimes that your fellow believers in the world commit. “Can you explain so many crimes committed by Westerners in the name of civilisation”, would be your answer. No dad, I have no explanation for that either. But you know that I have always fiercely opposed that. I have never downplayed it. Now the evil of your faith is taking over the world, it’s your turn to resist those who will not even spare their own brothers and sisters. Continue Reading →
Child exploitation still on ‘industrial scale’ in Rotherham | Channel 4 News
H/T M
Islamic fasting during pregnancy harms childrens’ IQ and health
By: Nicolai Sennels, psychologist
It is well known that inbreeding among Muslims are wide spread and pose a serious risk to the childrens’ IQ and mental and physical health. At least 25 percent of Turks, 45 percent of the Arabs and 70 percent of Pakistanis are born from blood-related parents, typically first-cousin marriages (often through many generations).
The religiously sanctioned practise of inbreeding is not the only a danger to Muslims’ intelligence and mental and physical health. Islamic fasting, Ramadan, is also potentially harmful for the offspring’s cognitive abilities, as research concludes that the risk of low IQ-problems almost doubles if the mother fasts during the first periode of her pregnancy. It increases the risk of adult disability with 20 percent.
Islamic fasting during pregnancy is “the norm”
Islamic scholars differ in their view on fasting during pregnancy. The most common opinion seems to be that if the mother fear for her child, she should delay the fasting until after birth.
But the risk of harming one’s unborn child is not the only fear, many Muslim mothers have. Pregnant Muslim mothers also have responsibility for preserving family honor and may also not feel strong enough to be the only fasting person in the family, once she has given birth and has to make up for the missed fasting days.
In spite of any possible religious and medical advises, research show that a majority of Muslim women fast during pregnancy, as summarized by Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder:
“Pregnant women who request an exemption from fasting are expected to ‘make up’ for the fasting days missed during pregnancy after delivery. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this may discourage pregnant women from seeking the exemption since they may be the only member of the household fasting [Hoskins, 1992, Mirghani et al., 2004].1 Mirghani et al. [2004] noted: ‘Most opt to fast with their families rather than doing this later’:636.
In addition, some Muslims interpret Islamic Law as requiring pregnant women to fast. For example, the religious leader of Singapore’s Muslims held that: ‘a pregnant woman who is in good health, capable of fasting and does not feel any worry about herself or to her foetus, is required and expected to fast like any ordinary woman’ [Joosoph and Yu, 2004].2 Furthermore, since fasting during Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam and is a central part of the culture of the Muslim community, many women fear a loss of connection with the community or would feel guilty about not observing Ramadan [Robinson and Raisler, 2005].
As far as we are aware, comprehensive data on Ramadan fasting during pregnancy do not exist. Various surveys of Muslim women suggest that fasting is the norm. For example, of the 4,343 women delivering in hospitals in Hamadan, Iran in 1999, 71% reported fasting at least 1 day, ‘highlighting the great desire of Muslim women to keep fasting in Ramadan, the holy month’ [Arab and Nasrollahi, 2001]. In a study in Singapore, 87% of the 181 Muslim women surveyed fasted at least 1 day during pregnancy, and 74% reported completing at least 20 days of fasting [Joosoph and Yu, 2004]. In a study conducted in Sana’a City, Yemen, more than 90 percent fasted over 20 days [Makki, 2002]. At the Sorrento Maternity Hospital in Birmingham, England, three quarters of mothers fasted during Ramadan [Eaton and Wharton, 1982]. In a study conducted in Gambia, 90
percent of pregnant women fasted throughout Ramadan [Prentice et al., 1983]. In the US, a study of 32 Muslim women in Michigan found that 28 had fasted in at least one pregnancy and reported that 60-90 percent of women from their communities fast during pregnancy [Robinson and Raisler, 2005].”
A study by Robinson and Raisler found that “Ramadan fasting is important to Muslim patients, including pregnant women.” in the USA.
Consequenses of fasting during pregnancy
Almond, Mazumder and Ewijk concludes that, just like other kinds of malnutrition or lack of nutrition during pregnancy, “…exposure to Ramadan during an especially sensitive developmental period exerts meaningful and persistent effects on human capital accumulation.”
With “especially sensitive developmental period,” the three authors mean that exposure to Ramadan fasting is most harmful to the development of the fetus in the first trimester, especially the third month of pregnancy. “Human capital” implies intelligence and different kinds of cognitive abilities, especially those important for creating value within a society.
(Data chart from the ?study by Almond, Mazumder and Ewijk. As can be seen, Muslims score significantly lower than any other student group when it comes to school grades, and higher than any other group when it comes to qualifying for free school meals (offered to children from low income homes)).
News items 3 for Sept. 11 – 2014
1. Last night John Counsell had his ‘ask the Pastor’ segment on CFRA as he does Wed. nights. It got interesting around half way through when he read a few quotes from the Koran to demonstrate that the problem with Islam may actually be Islam.
(Out of job? That’s all they want? That is starting the bar a little low isn’t it? So will they be happy if he just doesn’t get his whole Christmas bonus? I would suggest starting with ‘Hang the bastards’ and settle for years and years in jail)
A victim abused by Rotherham paedophiles who also murdered her sister has today confronted embattled police chief Shaun Wright and demanded his resignation.
Sarah Wilson, who was abused by Asian attackers for five years from the age of 11, berated the man at the centre of the child sex scandal for refusing the leave his £85,000-a-year job.
Miss Wilson’s younger sister, Laura, died in the UK’s first white honour killing carried out by an Asian boyfriend. She was 17 when she was stabbed and dumped in a canal by killer Ashtiaq Ashgar.
4. Daniel Pipes seems to believe that The Islamic State is 100% Islamic.
In a televised address on how to address the Islamic State this evening, President Barack Obama declared the organization variously known as ISIS or ISIL to be “not Islamic.”
In making this preposterous claim, Obama joins his two immediate predecessors in pronouncing on what is not Islamic. Bill Clinton called the Taliban treatment of women and children “a terrible perversion of Islam.” George W. Bush deemed that 9/11 and other acts of violence against innocents “violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith.”
None of the three has any basis for such assertions. To state the obvious: As non-Muslims and politicians, rather than Muslims and scholars, they are in no position to declare what is Islamic and what is not. As Bernard Lewis, a leading American authority of Islam, notes: “It is surely presumptuous for those who are not Muslims to say what is orthodox and what is heretical in Islam.”
5. Iraq: Iraqi Army capture 18 year old Saudi IS militant
6. CIA: Islamic State group has up to 31,500 fighters
WASHINGTON (AP) — A CIA spokesman says a new intelligence assessment estimates that the Islamic State group can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria, up from a previous figure of 10,000.
The new assessment is based on a review of intelligence reports from May to August. It is larger than the 20,000 figure being used by many outside experts.
7. Kerry says we are not at war with ‘ISIL’ (ISIS really. For some reason the Obama admin are the only people using the name ISIL to refer to The Islamic State, the proper name for this group and this territory at the moment.
I think I will still do another post tonight as there is quite a bit more worthy material.
Thank you Bains, M., Richard, TL., and everyone else who was thoughtful enough to send in material.
The Islamic State: What has changed in the relationship between Islam and the world?
On the first day of Eid Al-Fitr 2014, the newly minted Islamic State released a well produced, highly polished and well planned out video detailing its philosophy, its ambition, the means it was using to achieve its ends, and a thorough and detailed connection between the horrifying actions it took, mass slaughter, destruction of ancient sites sacred to millions and the Islamic ideology which demand that these actions be taken.
The video was pulled from Youtube within hours of its publication due to the last third of it, which show mass killing and desecration of the dead and dying. However this killing was not random or ‘gratuitous’ from the point of view of the Islamic State. It was part of a highly methodical overall plan for making the area, and ultimately the world, purely Islamic.
There are some aspects of the video however that cannot be understood for its intended meaning without some expert explanation as many terms and ideas and Koranic references are used which the non-Muslim lay-person will likely not understand, and which are crucial to get the full impact of this video. And it is a video which everyone should both see, and understand if one wishes to understand what Islam really is, and what it has in store for the world should it get the opportunity.
The video below has four experts who all agreed to watch the Islamic State video and describe what it is they felt that the rest of us need to know in order to understand properly what it is they are seeing.
Special thanks to:
Christian Zeitz
Bill Warner for agreeing to assist with this project.
May I present this video which I hope will serve as a Rosetta Stone for the Islamic State.
Eeyore for VladTepesBlog
The Islamic State video can be viewed here at Pajamas Media or Here at Vlad Tepes. The PJ Media instance is a higher definition version.
At a later date I will include the four complete videos of each participant. as all of them had a great deal of extremely valuable analysis and insight on this video and what it means. Deciding what to keep for the above edit was easy. But deciding what to cut was excruciating.
Islam and the West: Links 3 for Sept. 7 – 2014
1. Germany won’t tolerate ‘Sharia police’
The German government has strongly criticized nightly patrols in the city of Wuppertal by men calling themselves “Sharia police.” The 33-year-old behind the patrols claimed that their goal was only to raise attention.
Conservative members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition put forward a united front at the weekend against recent developments in the city of Wuppertal. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said civilians wearing uniforms bearing the logo “Shariah police” could not simply start patrolling German streets.
(Please see this video)
2. British jihadis in Iraq and Syria should be encouraged to come home, says former MI6 chief
British jihadis in Iraq and Syria should be encouraged to return home, a counter-terrorism expert said today. Richard Barrett, a former MI6 global counter-terrorism director, said repentant fighters must know ‘there is a place for them back at home’. His comments come after it was revealed some UK jihadis fighting in Syria want to come home after becoming disillusioned with the conflict.
Mr Barrett, 65, told The Observer: ‘Many of the people who have been most successful in undermining the terrorist narrative are themselves ex-extremists.
(He assumes that is what they are. I would argue they are wanting to create terror in the UK)
(Video at site of jihadi flag auctioned for $2500.00 Aus. Dollars in mosque)
A FLAG used by Islamic State terrorists responsible for thousands of murders across Iraq and Syria, including the execution of two Western journalists, has been auctioned at a Sydney mosque packed with families and young children.
Disturbing footage of the sale is being shared among Australian teenagers, some of whom appear to have been radicalised by the extreme violence associated with the outlawed Islamic State, and its black and white flag featuring the Shahada.
4. Brussels museum shooting suspect ‘beheaded baby’
(This video is also about that man I believe)
Ex-hostage says French jihadist accused of killing four at Brussels Jewish Museum ‘tortured prisoners’ and claimed to have raped and killed young mother before beheading her baby
A court drawing of Mehdi Nemmouche from June 2014 Photo: BENOIT PEYRUCQ/AFP/Getty
2:33PM BST 07 Sep 2014
A freed French hostage held with David Haines has said one of his kidnappers took a perverse pleasure in torturing Syrian prisoners, and had boasted of how he had raped and killed a young mother before beheading her baby.
5. Nicolai Sennels on RT today. I have been reliably informed that much of what he said was redacted. But the video is still worth the watch.
Thank you Bains, M., Yucki and all who sent in materials.
US ally and moderate Syrian rebel leader.
Eretz zen – July 2014 -Meet Jamal Maarouf, Syria’s Most Moderate Rebel Leader Supported by the US Govt
Jamal Maarouf, the leader of the so-called “Syria’s Revolutionary Front” (SRF) is considered by the West as the most moderate rebel leader. This interview sheds a light on the man that claims to the Independent to be not willing to fight al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra – his allies with whom he conducts joint operations – because it is not his problem, but a month later portrays himself to al-Aan pan-Arab TV station as someone who opposes extremists. His fight against the “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) is based on conflict of interest, where even al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra is fighting alongside him against ISIL because of shared interests.
He confirms during the interview that his group has received American aid and weaponry such as TOW missiles. He also confirmed that he had sent several men from his group to attend training sessions by US special forces.
H/T M
A post full of horror: Links 1 Sept. 3 – 2014
2. FOX Kelly file on the 2nd message to America
3. Good video in the president’s inaction post briefing. Watch this please.
5. Today is full of White House mock-outrage and determination to deal effectively with the Islamic State. Please temper any enthusiasm with the non-staged revelations of yesterday as you see above. The timing is quite a coincidence though isn’t it?
Thank you whuptdue, M., Maria J., and others who sent in materials. We all know the famous Chinese curse. But I think this will be the Taiwanese one. ‘I think this might be an interesting week’.
Islam, terror and child sex slavery: Links 2 for Sept. 1 – 2014
1. There is a reason people should listen to the elderly. They usually have little to lose by telling the truth
2. This thing in Pakistan is starting to look a lot like a full bore islamic coup.
Pakistan is a nuclear state, thanks to some idiots at the US state Dept. and the UN. It might be time to actually have a strategy in case Islamic groups get ahold of these nuclear weapons. More Islamic than the ones that have them now I mean.
3. Paris flats explosion leaves seven dead
(Authorities say that this was caused by a weather balloon that reflected light from Venus due to cloud formations which made people think there was an explosion but really that building was never there and if you want proof, wait a day or two and it won’t be and you can see for yourself! Unsurprisingly, the Daily Mail has more actual information in less words than anyone else)
***CORRECTION *** The Daily Mail article appears to be another explosion from 10 years ago. The DM archives articles in an odd way and always shows today’s date. I was too quick on the draw when I was google searching to try and find out what the neighborhood was like where the recent gas leak-non gas leak explosion was. If anyone does find out, please leave a link!
4. Abuse scandal is a ‘vastly wider issue’ than Rotherham | Channel 4 News
5. An interesting collage of clips on Saudi attitudes towards the Islamic State and the threat to the West
6. Paul Weston on the current media blitz on the vast vast sexual slavery rings in the UK by Muslims of non-Muslim girls
Thank you M., ML., Maria J., and all. More to come.
the wall of reformers: victim of vandalism
Translation by Bear:
From this website out of Switzerland
Monday night, an individual defiled a monument in bastions park with a crow bar. he says he has acted out of religious conviction.
the defiler was photographed in action
“a small voice would of told him that he had to break The Wall of the Reformers” explained Sylvain Guillaume-Gentil speaker for the Geneva police.
monday, late afternoon, an individual originally from Bangladesh aged 26 was surprised by tourists doing a rather bizarre task. “I was escorting a segway tour for two Americans explains Winfried Boeing, a guide from Citywheels when i saw a man armed with cold chisel and a stone trying to remove pieces of the wall.
‘I called the police’. during this interval a spanish tourist attempted to take down the man to the floor but he managed to escape. Finally police arrived and arrested him at place neuve”
The police confirms that the individual was detained by some “stunned tourists”. The young men whom according to the police used a crow bar explained his gesture was due to religious convictions “of antichrist (Translator: Possibly Anti-Christianity) type” and has been detained at the post of of police de Rive. “The mess is minimal, details Sylvain Guillaume-Gentil. “No complaints have been brought forth so far.” If any, the charges could be made within the next few days. There is up to three months to act. The identity of the defiler has been revealed but has not been put at the disposal of the public ministry. there is no doubt about his mental health. We can estimate him penally responsible for his actions
H/T M
The US free-falls into dhimmitude
This is frankly, stunning to me. But is 100% consistent with a brief few paragraphs I wrote a week or so ago (Item 5 in this post) about the process of slipping into dhimmitude in a way unique to Islam.
In essence the process goes like this:
1. Muslims reasonably ask for the right to bring their own food to communal eating places.
2. Muslims demand that non-muslims not make food available at all which are especially offensive to them such as pork or products from pigs.
3. Muslims demand that the only food which is available at all is specifically the food tailored for islamic religious purposes and anyone caught with food that is not so consecrated and prepared will be asked either not to eat at all, or be removed from the premises as we saw last week in the UK.
and now we have a 4.
No mention of non halal foods can be made in public such as advertising of pork and so on.
It is quite possible that had this advertiser not complied with the complaints of one muslim woman, there would be some kind of community cohesion charge against him or Eric Holder would be outside his restaurant making speeches about what a racist he is.
Gates of Vienna has this to say:
Please do not underestimate the importance of this. While this story isn’t as sexy as bombs going off and people being killed or ritually dismembered, the effect of it is identical. This is the end game muslims work for by doing terrorism. To force us to comply with any and all islamic demands by any random muslim even, and perhaps especially, if it means a radical departure from our own laws, culture and constitutionally declared rights.
Please recognize that this is an important story.
Eeyore for Vlad.
VICE News on Iraq: Part 6 on the Islamic State
I haven’t watched this all yet, but from the first minute or so, it appears to be highly worthy of seeing.
Spain.
There are suddenly many sites talking about the renewed interest in the islamic conquest of Spain. Long time readers of this site will know that on many occasions we have posted videos of Bin Laden among others specifically calling for the retaking of Spain as Islamic ruled lands with such ferocity one may have thought he was talking about Israel till he named it as ‘Al-Andaluz’. It is important to understand that muslims operate on a proprietary set of ethics and rules and even for that matter, the meaning of common words. One of those is the notion of sovereignty. They believe that all the world is destined to be ruled by muslims under sharia. However there are special cases where there is more urgency for some lands than others.
These would include areas which are within the zone generally believed to be Islamic, or, ‘Dar Al Islam’, and are not ruled by muslims. This would primarily be Israel but also Iran as its not a Sunni country and Shiia are often viewed as a kind of apostate, and perhaps Saudi Arabia, as while it is zealously islamic the rulers themselves are hedonists (in a different way than jihadis are) and not religious ‘scholars’ (jihadis).
The second case are areas that were once ruled by Muslims and now are not. These lands posses a special urgency as Islam teaches that once an area has been ruled under sharia it is always muslim land in perpetuity and so natural sovereignty in their view, falls to them and with that, a special obligation to retake that land for Islam.
As Spain was under the brutal and genocidal boot of Islam for man centuries before the Reconquista, they view it as naturally Islamic and now that the Caliphate has been declared, pressure to make that happen will likely also take place.
The reason this site has repeatedly raised this point is because many feel that the problem is Israel. That if the existence of Israel ended, the problems between muslims and the rest of the world also would end. This is simply not the case. The priorities would just shift and Spain will be the next target for Islamic aggression and demands for conquest. Those who wish to see Spain, for example, remain Spanish should redouble their efforts to support Israel even for the selfish motive of making sure the front lines of the war on Western civilization remain on that side of the Mediterranean.
However it would appear that war on Spain may happen concurrently.
One thing we can watch out for as a sign of it, would be the ceasing of the parades celebrating the Spanish victory over its muslim oppressors that take place every year.
When you see that end, you will know the process is underway.
Eeyore for VladTepesBlog
Thank you M. for the video. Anyone wishing to post videos of Spanish parades celebrating the defeat of the muslims (Moors) in the comments, please do so.