Whose Islam?

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Who's your dhimi...?

Syria crisis: ISIS imposes rules on Christians in Raqqa
27 February 2014

A jihadist group in Syria has demanded that Christians in the northern city of Raqqa pay a levy in gold and accept curbs on their faith, or face death.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) said it would give Christian residents "protection" if they agreed to the list of conditions. The announcement came in a statement posted online. Correspondents say ISIS is trying to implement an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in areas it controls.

Raqqa, seized by ISIS last year, was the first provincial capital to be completely in the hands of rebels.

'Risking the sword'

The directive from ISIS, citing the Islamic concept of "dhimma", requires Christians in the city to pay tax of around half an ounce (14g) of pure gold in exchange for their safety.

It says Christians must not make renovations to churches, display crosses or other religious symbols outside churches, ring church bells or pray in public. Christians must not carry arms, and must follow other rules imposed by ISIS (also known as ISIL) on their daily lives.

The statement said the group had met Christian representatives and offered them three choices
- they could convert to Islam
- accept ISIS' conditions
- reject their control and risk being killed.

"If they reject, they are subject to being legitimate targets, and nothing will remain between them and ISIS other than the sword," the statement said. A group of 20 Christian leaders chose to accept the new set of rules, ISIS said.

Raqqa was once home to about 300,000 people, with less than 1% Christian, according to AFP news agency. Many Christians fled after ISIS started attacking and burning churches. The group has been accused of serious abuses in the areas it controls.

Raqqa has seen fierce violence between ISIS and rival groups fighting the forces of President Bashar al-Assad. More than 2,000 people are believed to have been killed since Western-backed and Islamist groups attacked ISIS strongholds in early January.

BBC news Middle east - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26366197

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Robert Spencer on Islamic Apartheid
...with moronic hecklers embarassing themselves

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Pamela Geller on Islamic Apartheid and honour killing
...with moronic hecklers embarassing themselves

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Nonie Darwish on "Islamic Apartheid" and apostates

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Former slave - Simon Deng and "Islamic Apartheid" & Sudan

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Europe's Trojan horse strikes again
Boaz Bismuth

Charles Martel (whose surname means "hammer") is a hero in France, most famous for his victory in the Battle of Tours in 732 C.E. Near the city of Poitiers, Martel's forces blocked the invading Muslim army that was surging north from Spain.

Some 1,400 years later, the Muslim threat has returned to Europe. This time, however, the threat is not coming from the other side of the border. Jihadist fighters today have European passports, and are a Trojan horse hitting Europe from the inside.

The terrorist attacks in Toulouse and Brussels are examples of this new threat hanging like a cloud over France and its neighbors. For the longest time, Europe buried its head in the sand. Perhaps today it is waking up -- although it is uncertain. Charles Martel, suffice it to say, is turning in his grave, not in the least because for many of the new Europeans he is not considered a hero at all.

There are many similarities between Mehdi Nemmouche, who was arrested on Friday, and Mohammed Merah, also of Algerian descent, who murdered three Jewish children and a teacher in cold blood at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2013.

They both share a jihadist profile. Both left home to fight in the name of jihad -- Merah in Afghanistan, Nemmouche in Syria. They both returned to France and sought to continue their al-Qaida manufactured jihad at home. They are a new and dangerous breed of "returning citizens."

Upon their return to France, Nemmouche and Merah found a new prey -- the Jewish community. It is frightening to think that there are hundreds more who fit the same profile in Europe today, walking around freely.

Without noticing, during the era of European Union peace and brotherhood, and of massive immigration and political correctness that changed the face of the continent, Europeans now finds themselves on the front lines against the jihadists living in their midst. And the Jews are positioned in the forward outpost, the first to take fire. It is hard to say there were no warning signs.

Who among Europe's leaders today can promise that Brussels will be the last terrorist attack against Jews? Just a reminder: Following the Toulouse attacks, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in France tripled. Merah became a hero to many Muslim youngsters. We can assume that Nemmouche will have the same effect and inspire others to take similar action.

French President Francois Hollande's comments on Sunday, vowing that the republic would fight the French jihadists, are most welcome. Nemmouche's arrest is also welcome, and will put an end to all the conspiracy theories out there. We must also remind ourselves, again, that the majority of the large Muslim community in Europe is not jihadist, and that many simply seek to make an honorable living -- but we must also say loud and clear that Merah and Nemmouche sprouted from this same community, and they are not alone. The Muslim community in Europe must also join the fight against jihadists.

The cases of Nemmouche today and Merah yesterday need to set off the alarm bells for French security agencies as well. How can these radicalized young men, who were supposed to be under close surveillance, manage to fly under the radar and perpetrate such murderous attacks? In France today there are some 770 young men like this who have returned to France from Syria and another 250 who have returned to Belgium. Every one of these individuals is a potential terrorist. Their numbers, by the way, are expected to grow. There are an additional 2,700 young European men currently fighting alongside the Syrian rebels against Bashar Assad. One day they will return home, and they, too, will seek new prey. According to figures provided by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, the number of Europeans who have fought in Syria stands at around 13,000.

French and Belgian authorities, currently cooperating with one another, will now try to retrace Nemmouche's path. Some people will undoubtedly try appealing and explaining that this was a case of a young man from a small northern town, who was raised in difficult conditions, slipped into a life of crime and tried finding meaning in life. Here, too, Europe must re-examine its failed immigration policies, which have brought jihadist terrorism to the continent and have also revitalized, in a major way, the far-right political parties.

It is amazing to think that in Belgium, where the most recent attack occurred, a political party named "Islam," which calls on instituting Shariah law in the country, operates freely and legally. It is difficult to believe that only five people in Belgium's entire security apparatus, as was revealed to me Sunday by a senior Belgian source, are responsible for the entire issue of keeping tabs on jihadists returning from Syria. And to think that in 2012 Belgium had already begun examining the potential threat posed by these returning residents. The attack in Brussels could have been prevented, had they taken the threat seriously.

The civil war in Syria has become a ticking time bomb, and the West is apparently on its way to losing on all fronts. Assad is still in power, and the rebels are continuing their fight in Europe.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27776743

A moderate cleric killed by? others who were likely radical.

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Khaled Sharrouf posted the pictures on Twitter on Friday

His friend Mohamed Elomar is seen holding up severed heads

Both men fled Australia for Syria in December last year

They are fighting for terror group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Sharrouf has been taunting Australian police on social media

By Mail Foreign Service

Published: 00:53 GMT, 25 July 2014 | Updated: 09:34 GMT, 25 July 2014

With sunglasses tucked into his shirt, an Australian terrorist smiles as he holds up two decapitated heads for the camera in Syria.

Sydney born boxer Mohamed Elomar casually poses with the severed heads in photos posted on Twitter by his friend, convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf.

Another image, uploaded on Friday, shows the heads of alleged Syrian solders being impaled on metal railings.



Like something out of the 18th century, the heads were left on show in a sickening display that aims to cause terror and fear.

The photos were uploaded by terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, alongside disgusting tweets such as 'bucket full of heads any1 in aus want some organs please dont be shy to ask I would love to assist u with body parts [sic]'.

His disturbing rant continued 'few more heads how lovely bludy amazing stuff abuhafs u keep cutting those infidel throats but the last 1 is mine! [sic]'

(good to see radical jihadis embracing Twitter)

Elomar and Sharrouf, who spent time in jail for his part in a foiled plot to blow up targets in Sydney and Melbourne, are believed to be fighting with terror group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).



They are thought to have flown to Syria together late last year after Sharrouf fled the country on his brother Mustafa's passport.


Meanwhile, Elomar's wife Fatima, 29, appeared in court in Sydney on July 8 charged with 'preparing for incursions into a foreign state with the intention of engaging in hostile activities'.


On Thursday night Attorney General George Brandis's spokesman told The Australian that 'if real, these photos are evidence of serious crimes against Australian law and possible war crimes.'

Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Attorney General's office for further comment.



Sharrouf, also a former Sydney resident, last week taunted Australian police via his social media account, boasting that he would 'slaughter' Australians.

The jihadist is currently in the Middle East fighting with the extremist group after he evaded authorities in December.

The tweets came as the nation's Director General of Security David Irvine revealed 'tens of people' had already returned to Australian shores from fighting alongside suspected terrorist organisations.



Fatima Elomar hides under a burqa as she emerges from the Downing Centre court complex with her lawyer Zali Burrows (right) and four children after appearing on terrorism related charges

On July 14, Sharrouf fired off a tweet to the AFP and Australians, saying: 'you cowards I am running to my death I want martyrdom thats [sic] why I am blessed u rock spiders'.

Just half an hour earlier, he claimed 'Australia belongs to the muslims not infidels like you' as well as boasting of his evasion of police.

'u can't stop and trust me if I wanted to attack aus I could have easily,' Sharrouf said.

He also added: 'I love to slaughter [Australians] & ALLAH LOVEs when u dogs r slaughtered'.

These threatening tweets are part of a more disturbing picture of Sharrouf painted by his Twitter account.

Some of the content is so graphic that Daily Mail Australia has chosen not to publish the posts.

Speaking to media on Thursday, Attorney-General George Brandis said engagement with the Islamic community was an important strategy 'to keep Australia free from terrorism'.

'The imams who are faith leaders, who are influential and respected opinion members in their communities, are integral to our goal to saving young men - it is almost always young men - in their communities from being radicalised,' he said.

Director General of Security and ASIO chief David Irvine added a majority of the 60 Australians they were aware of fighting with Islamic radicals were siding against the government with Al-Qaeda off-shoots.

'We have some tens of people that have already returned [from the Middle East], we have probably another 150 we're looking at here in Australia who have inclinations to support those two extremist movements,' he said.

When asked if the ones who had returned to Australia were being actively monitored, Mr Irvine said 'I'm not saying anything further'.



Sharrouf's account is littered with photos of him posing with weapons and military trucks as well as a young child brandishing a rifle

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z38sTVTmy3

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Killing women and children is never acceptable. Unless they post something you don't agree with on Facebook. Then have at er...

Woman, girls killed over 'blasphemous' Facebook post

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani mob killed a female member of a religious sect and two of her granddaughters after a sect member was accused of posting blasphemous material on Facebook, police said Monday, the latest instance of growing violence against minorities.

The dead, including a seven-year-old girl and her baby sister, were Ahmadis, who consider themselves Muslim but believe in a prophet after Mohammed. A 1984 Pakistani law declared them non-Muslims and many Pakistanis consider them heretics.

Police said the late Sunday violence in the town of Gujranwala, 220 km (140 miles) southeast of the capital, Islamabad, started with an altercation between young men, one of whom was an Ahmadi accused of posting "objectionable material".

"Later, a crowd of 150 people came to the police station demanding the registration of a blasphemy case against the accused," said one police officer who declined to be identified.

"As police were negotiating with the crowd, another mob attacked and started burning the houses of Ahmadis."

The youth accused of making the Facebook post had not been injured, he said.

Resident Munawar Ahmed, 60, said he drove terrified neighbours to safety as the mob attacked.

"The attackers were looting and plundering, taking away fans and whatever valuables they could get hold of and dragging furniture into the road and setting fire to it... Some were continuously firing into the air," he said.

"A lot of policemen arrived but they stayed on the sidelines and didn't intervene," he said.

The police officer said they had tried to stop the mob.

Salim ud Din, a spokesman for the Ahmadi community, said it was the worst attack on the community since simultaneous attacks on Ahmadi places of worship killed 86 Ahmadis four years ago.

Under Pakistani law, Ahmadis are banned from using Muslim greetings, saying Muslim prayers or referring to his place of worship as a mosque.

Accusations of blasphemy are rocketing in Pakistan, from one in 2011 to at least 68 last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. About 100 people have been accused of blasphemy this year.

Human rights workers say the accusations are increasingly used to settle personal vendettas or to grab the property of the accused.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2014/ ... 36201.html

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Somali Woman Killed for Refusing to Wear Veil (American Feminists Silent, as Usual)

BBC—Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say.

Ruqiya Farah Yarow was killed outside her hut near the southern Somali town of Hosingow by gunmen belonging to the al-Shabab group, they say.

The militants had ordered her to put on a veil, and then killed her after returning and finding she was still not wearing one, the relatives said.

An al-Shabab spokesman denied the group had killed the woman.

Al-Shabab does not fully control the area where she was living, he added.

Relatives, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals, told the BBC that Mrs Yarow was killed at about 07:30 (04:30 GMT).

She was shot twice and died instantly, they added.

She is survived by her husband and children, the relatives said.

Al-Shabab, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, imposes strict rules of behaviour, including dress codes for men and women.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28564984

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Life Under Isis: Robbery, Sex Slaves, and Headless Bodies in the Street


Isis militants stand on a pile of confiscated cigarette cartons, before setting fire to them

The Islamic state of Iraq and Syria, known to the world as Isis, took control of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on 13 January, after fighting fierce battles against the Ahrar al-sham movement and Jabhat al-Nusra. Isis' leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, promptly imposed an Islamic Caliphate, and his men began imposing their own draconian laws.

The militants ordered mandatory school curriculum changes, and closed the universities. Women were ordered to wear the Niqab and forbidden from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a brother, husband or father. Everyone was required to attend prayers, with markets and shops being forced to shut down during the prayer times. Smoking was banned across the city. Anyone who violated any of these laws faced, indeed continues to face, immediate arrest.

Baghdadi and his mob took advantage of the weakness of religious faith among Raqqa's parents, declaring themselves to be the saviours of the people come to oversee the fulfilment of God's laws on earth through the Islamic Caliphate. However, in reality, their actions denigrate Islam; some of them directly contradict the religion's teaching. This is what raised the ire of residents in the province of Raqqa.

Look, for example, at the way the militants repressed people's personal freedoms and trampled on their livelihoods by closing cafes and shops where men and woman may come into contact. This is illegal, and an abuse of Islamic teachings. Then there is the way people have been ordered to pay 'taxes' under the pretext of funding civic services. We see almost nothing of these so-called services in many places.

"I am an employee at the power company and I stopped working after the entry of the Islamic State," says Raqqa resident Om Salma. "My desk has been seized and I was expelled from my place of work. Then the Islamic state ordered the people to pay money in return for providing electricity and water to the people; the FSA [Free Syrian Army] previously provided all these services for free".

Day after day within Raqqa, voices coalesce in condemnation of Isis and their shameful actions. One of the most hated acts has been the recruitment of children under 13 years old to fight in the Syrian civil war; children are brainwashed by Isis leaders while they are at the Mosque, and given $100 each as a bounty to fight, perpetuating and exacerbating the culture of violence.

In the months since their coup, Isis have displaced a large number of Raqqa's non-Muslim residents, including Christians, Kurds and Armenians. Their homes were seized and given to foreign fighters coming from Arab countries and the wider world to fight in Syria.

Ahmed Ali, a 28-year-old from Raqqa, told me that "after the entry of Daash [a local name for Isis], the city became unbearable to live. This was once the city of freedom, or "the capital of liberation" as activists have called it. People had been living in absolute freedom and the city was open for all religions before the entry of Daash. When they came, the conditions became reversed. "
Raqqa food queues
Women and children standing in queues waiting for food(Zaid Al Fares)

Meanwhile, women have faced an ever-more terrifying ordeal. Many are simply grabbed on the street and kidnapped by the militants, condemned to being used as a sex slave or even being forced to marry a member of the Isis clan.

Maisaa, 22, says: "We have become afraid to leave our house for fear of prosecution. If we wish to marry foreigners, we can be kidnapped; recently six girls were kidnapped and we do not know what their fate will be.

"They [Isis] are degrading the teachings of Islam. They have imposed the Niqab on us and prevented us travelling outside the city without the presence of a male guardian, a 'Muharram', from the family.

"Their activities have recently prevented me from giving my university exams in the city, after the closure of schools and universities. The organization may end up closing all schools and universities and starting a primary school of their own teachings, where they will introduce a book called 'Jihad' for children under the age of 13. This is clearly a major intellectual and social risk to children."

Hospitals in ruins
“'We are afraid to leave our house - they are degrading Islam'”
Maisaa, Raqaa resident

When they took control of Raqaa, Isis took control of all the hospitals and health centres as well, and these are falling into disrepair. Ordinary citizens can now only go to the national "government hospital", and this does not have the capacity to handle a huge volume of cases; recently, the hospital's dialysis machines and incubators stopped working. The militants have refused to allow humanitarian aid to enter Raqqa, under the pretext that "they are from the infidels".

"Recently they dismissed the hospital director and appointed a person no older than 18 to replace him" says Dr Hassan Mouhamed, 45.

Meanwhile, many militants live lavishly, despite the obvious hypocrisy this entails. Anyone who disagrees with them, or highlights their abhorrent actions, is punished in the most brutal way possible.

"The Islamic State is punishing the Syrian people under the pretext of religion and cutting them off from almost everything" said local activist Abu Muhammad, 25. "In Raqqa you see lines of people in front of the relief kitchens because of the severity of poverty, while elements of the organisation eat the best types of foods and boast about themselves and their 'Caliphate' on social networking sites.

"We launched a campaign called 'Raqqa Slaughtered Silently' to reveal to the world the vile behavior of Isis in our city. After the launch of the campaign a large number of activists were arrested just because of they are our friends and they support us on the web.

"They executed an activist working for the Sham network named Moataz Bellah Ibrahim. And they have grabbed my home, and the homes of many of the activists in Raqqa.

"I can say that our people in Raqqa city are under the rule of a terrorist organization, who cut heads from bodies and keep them hanging in the streets, simply to terrorise the people of the city."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/life-under-isi ... et-1459147

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A few months ago Michelle Obama tweeted this picture:



They are coming back Michelle. With a bang. And where is your outrage now?

This is murder. I'm going to see my MP tomorrow to complain. I'll just have to stand in line behind the Hamas supporters.

Boko Haram Mass Abduction: Fears Chibok Girls Being Used as Suicide Bombers

Fears are growing that Boko Haram terror group is using the 220 girls it abducted in Chibok last April as suicide bombers.

Speculations come as two students were killed and eight were injured in a suicide bombing at a university in Kano, northwest Nigeria. Information Nigeria reported the suicide bomber was a girl.

Thirteen people were later killed as two women blew themselves up in two mosques in the town of Potiskum, Yobe State.

The same day, Nigerian authorities arrested two suspected Boko Haram members travelling with a 10-year-old girl who was carrying explosives.

According to local daily Punch, two female suicide bombers struck in different parts of Kano killing and injuring many people while Muslims had gathered together to celebrate Eid, the end of Ramadan.

A woman also blew herself up at a petrol station in northern Nigeria killing three people. Another suicide bomber struck in a supermarket; nobody was killed.

A 15-year-old girl was reported to have blown herself up near a temporary university site with five police officers suffering minor injuries.

Members of the #BringBackOurGirls group, created after the Chibok girls were abducted, fear the girls are being forced by the terrorists to carry out suicide attacks.

Former education minister Oby Ezekwesili urged the Nigerian government not to "move on," as the Chibok girls may be "indoctrinated or coerced into being used as suicide bombers".

"This new trend and serial pattern of female suicide bombers surely should particularly worry us," she said.

"Female suicide bombers are again and again becoming the trend and our Chibok girls are still in the enemy's den. It worries me stiff. Are we thinking? Our Chibok girls really need to be rescued from the clutches of evil."

The Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) urged the government to investigate the identity of the female suicide bombers.

"In the event that these female suicide bombers are identified to have been the same kidnapped girls, then the government should immediately deploy all resources and strategies to bring to an end, once and for all, this shameful scenario, since the military have repeatedly stated that they are aware of the whereabouts of the kidnaped Chibok girls," the organisation said.

Political blogger Japheth Omojuwa suggested that Boko Haram might be using the girls for suicide attacks, to save its members for combat.

Who are Boko Haram?

Boko Haram – which translates from Hausa into 'Western education is forbidden' - wants to impose sharia law in Nigeria.

The militants, currently led by Abubakar Shekau, are known for targeting civilians and government members who oppose the Islamisation of the country.

The group carries out its attacks primarily in northern Nigeria, where three states – Borno, Yobe and Adamawa - have been under a state of emergency since May.

Violence linked to the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in an estimated 10,000 deaths between 2002 and 2013.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/boko-haram-mas ... rs-1459183

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From the "Nothing to See Here" and "this could never happen here" files....

Muslims Hack Off Christian Man's Head After Forcing Him to Deny Jesus Christ and Salute Mohammed as 'Messenger of God'

A Christian man in Syria recently had his head brutally hacked off by Islamic militants after being forced to deny his faith and salute Mohammed as "the messenger of God".

The incident was caught on video for the world to see and broadcast as a warning to "everyone like him".

In the video that was posted to YouTube with translated captions, the helpless Christian man is surrounded by armed militants wearing masks and he is heard reciting as instructed: "There is no God but God and I testify that Mohammed is the messenger of God."

An apparent leader in the group of militants is then heard instructing the group: "No one will shoot him now, do you understand? He will not be killed by shooting because it is merciful for him."

"He will be beheaded because he is Kaffir, non-Muslim, sided [with] the government and was not praying at all. Everyone like him will have the same end, beheading," said the militant.

A militant armed with a machete then grabs the defenseless man by the hair and begins to cut his head from his body as the group cries "Allahu Akbar…there is no God but God."

The 2014 report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom highlights Syria among several countries where being a Christian can be extremely hazardous due to terrorist and extremist Muslim threats.

[WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO, click here]

"Extremist groups and terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida and ISIL, also are perpetrating egregious religious freedom violations. They espouse violence and the creation of an Islamic state with no space for diversity, and have carried out religiously-motivated attacks and massacres against Alwaite, Shi'a, and Christian civilians," explained the document in highlighting conditions in Syria.

"NGO's report that several different anti-regime opposition groups have established Shari'ah courts in areas they control. Recently ISIL, a terrorist organization not aligned with the internationally-recognized opposition, announced that the approximately 3,000 Christians in Raqqa province must either face death, convert to Islam, or be treated as dhimmis (non-Muslim citizens of an Islamic state) who must pay a tax for their 'protection' and obey serious restrictions on their religious practices," it continued.

The report further noted that Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church and Bishop John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church are still missing since they were kidnapped by unknown assailants in the Northern province of Aleppo in April 2013.

Some 13 nuns and three workers from a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Christian village of Maaloula, who were kidnapped by the al-Nustra Front in late November 2013, were finally freed on March 9, 2014.

Al-Nusra took over Maaloula in September 2013 and their fighters reportedly attacked Christian homes killing at least a dozen people, and burning down a church. Those who remained were forced to convert to Islam according to the report.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/musli ... od-124300/

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The Arabic writing on the wall: Europe learns the hard way

It takes courage to speak out against the threatening presence of Islam in today’s world. And it takes courage to defend those who have the courage to speak out.

Eight years ago, after Benedict XVI gave his controversial Regensburg address, most European commentators were shamefully timid in their response. Most refused to raise their heads above the parapet, preferring the coward’s option of not making any response at all. In the light of this continuing cowardly silence, it is timely to remind ourselves of the ugly face of Islamic fundamentalism.

At the darkened heart of radical Islam is what Bishop Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester, has called a “dual psychology … of victimhood, but also the desire for domination.” In my own homeland numerous new mosques have sprung up across the country, many of which are being staffed by fundamentalist clerics. Such extremism seems to flourish in the pluralistic climate of so-called multiculturalism and has contributed to the alienation of so many young Muslims from the society into which most of them have lived all their lives.

The alienation works in both directions with many Britons feeling alienated from their self-ghettoised Muslim neighbours. In a recent poll, one in five Britons stated their belief that “a large proportion of British Muslims feel no sense of loyalty to this country and are prepared to condone or even carry out acts of terrorism” and more than half of those polled considered Islam a threat. These frightening figures caused the writer and historian Niall Ferguson to conclude, with characteristic candour, that a terrorist attack could be “the trigger for the next English civil war.” Since Ferguson also stated that he suspected a terrorist attack as being “bound to happen … sooner or later,” he was effectively saying that England has a loaded weapon pointed at its head, with the trigger poised.

The polarization of British society into mutually antagonistic factions has forced even the most dyed-in-the-wool pluralists to concede that multiculturalism has proved a dismal and destructive failure. Ruth Kelly, a senior member of Tony Blair’s last government, suggested in the days before she chose to leave the political arena for a career in banking, that the multi-cultural experiment “may have resulted in a more fractured society,” thereby uttering a truth that would have been considered an unmentionable blasphemy in Labour Party circles until recently. (Since Ms. Kelly is a member of Opus Dei, and is therefore, presumably, a tradition-oriented Catholic, her rise through the ranks of the feminist-fuddled ranks of the Labour Party has always been a mystery to me. Perhaps the refreshing sanity of her rebuttal of her own party’s long-standing dogma might have something to do with the deeper creed to which she adheres.) Heralding what appeared to be a revolutionary u-turn in her government’s thinking she called for an “honest debate” on “integration and cohesion”: “We have moved from a period of near uniform consensus on the value of multiculturalism to one where we can encourage that debate by questioning whether it is encouraging separateness.” This is almost Orwellian in its doublethinking convolutions: multiculturalism, the battle cry of anti-racist egalitarians, is now seen as apartheid! The comrades must be getting a little confused by the political somersaults they are being asked to perform.

Nor was multiculturalism the only longstanding Labour Party dogma that Ms. Kelly attacked. Addressing the thorny subject of mass immigration, she argued that to discuss the subject was not being racist. This must have come as a big surprise to most of her comrades, not least because the Labour Party has effectively stifled all debate on the subject of immigration for half a century on the grounds that questioning the wisdom of large-scale immigration was “racist.”How many more eyebrow-raising revolutionary revelations can the comrades be expected to take?

Even stranger than the sight of members of the Labour Party coming to their senses is the sight of Hollywood actors speaking words of prophecy. John Rhys-Davies, the actor who plays Gimli the Dwarf in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, spoke with ominous potency on the deeper meaning of Tolkien’s epic: “I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged, and if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization.” Then, with that gift of “applicability” which Tolkien himself proclaimed was the way in which his work should be read in relation to events in the world, Mr. Rhys-Davies drew some sobering conclusions. As with the civilization of men in Middle-earth, our own Western civilization was in a “precarious” state because of a “collapse” in population. “Western Europeans are not having any babies,” he lamented.

“There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe which nobody wants to talk about,” he continued, “that we daren’t bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well … By 2020, fifty per cent of the children in Holland under the age of eighteen will be of Muslim descent.” This combination of declining European birth-rates, coupled with large-scale Muslim immigration, constitutes not so much a racial threat as a threat to western culture, he concluded.

“There is a change happening in the very complexion of Western civilization in Europe that we should think about at least and argue about,” he said. “If it just means the replacement of one genetic stock with another genetic stock, that doesn’t matter too much. But if it involves the replacement of Western civilization with a different civilization with different cultural values, then it is something we really ought to discuss … True democracy comes from our Greco-Judeo-Christian Western experience. If we lose these things, then this is a catastrophe for the world.”

The ultimate lesson to be gleaned from rational criticism of the irrational nature of Islam, such as that offered in Benedict XVI’s perennially relevant Regensburg Address, and the violent reaction to such rational criticism by Muslims the world over, is to be found in these words by Mr. Rhys-Davies, who is veritably a Giant in Dwarf’s clothing.

Europe has learned its lesson the hard way and it is doubtful whether she will ever recover. If the United States is to avoid the fate of Europe, which seems destined to become Eurabia unless she can be re-evangelized with the Christian culture of life, it must heed the hard lessons and avoid the mistakes of multiculturalism and prevent any future mass migration of non-Christians into North America. We have been warned. We have seen the Arabic writing on the wall.

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Hamas Encourages Suicide Bombers to Dress as Orthodox Jews
Shocking new videos from Hamas, PA glorify suicide bombings and murdering Israeli women and children.

Hamas terrorists have been encouraged to dress up like ordinary Orthodox Jews, according to Palestinian Media Watch, to carry out suicide attacks on Israeli civilians.

Hamas repeatedly broadcasted a video encouraging the attacks, as well as the disguise, according to the watchdog group.

The Hamas video glorifies a terrorist dressing up in a black hat, black Hassidic coat or bekishe, and tzitzit - and fully decked with long peyot or sidelocks and a beard - before arming himself with explosives.

In addition, an official Palestinian Authority (PA) TV network broadcast a poem glorifying suicide bombing, specifically in Gaza. The text reads:

"She [Gaza] wraps her waist with mines and explodes,
It is neither death nor suicide.
It is Gaza's way to declare its right to life

She scratched the enemy's face
And repelled them from satisfaction with time,

because time in Gaza is something else

In Gaza the enemy could be victorious
The high sea could be victorious on an island.
They may cut down all her trees; they may break her bones
They could plant tanks in her children's chests and women's bellies and throw her into the sea, sand or blood
But she will never repeat the lies or say "yes" to the invaders;

she will continue to explode
It is neither death nor suicide.
It is Gaza's way to declare its right to life."

The accompanying video glorifies killing Israeli women and children.

Suicide bombers and kidnappers often are instructed to dress as Jews, in order to blend in with local population undetected before committing a terror attack.

One prominent example of this strategy is the 2001 Sbarro's suicide bombing, whereby terrorist Ahlam Tamimi dressed up as an Israeli university student to help bomber Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri enter the restaurant undetected. The bombing killed 15 people and wounded over 130.

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