Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis (9-8-2014)

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Ohio Man Charged With Providing Material Support to Terrorist



An Ohio man who allegedly sympathized with ISIS and trained with another terrorist group in Syria has been arrested by federal authorities after returning and looking to launch attacks in the U.S. homeland, the Justice Department announced today.

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 23, of Columbus, left the United States in April 2014 for the purpose of training and fighting with terrorists in Syria, according to the Justice Department. He had become a naturalized citizen only two months earlier.

Mohamed wanted to join ISIS and he previously posted ISIS propaganda online, but he has been charged with providing material support to al Nusrah, an Al Qaeda affiliate operating in Syria, according to the Justice Department.

Once in Syria, terrorists trained him in shooting weapons, breaking into houses, using explosives and engaging in hand-to-hand combat, charging documents allege. A radical cleric then instructed him to return to the United States and commit an act of terrorism, the documents say.

Mohamud returned to the United States in June 2014 with a plan to attack a military facility or a U.S. prison, according to the charging documents.

“Mohamud talked about doing something big in the United States,” the documents say. “He wanted to go to a military base in Texas and kill three or four American soldiers execution style.”

When Mohamud left for Syria, his brother was already there fighting with terrorists, but his brother has since been killed, according to the Justice Department.

Mohamud was initially arrested in February on state charges. A federal grand jury has now indicted him for attempting to provide and providing material support to terrorists, one count of attempting to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and one count of making false statements to the FBI.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-man-charg ... d=30367493
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hanumadu wrote:This is rich. They are seeking refuge in a christian country but kill 12 people because they are christians. Islam just doesn't cease to amaze me.
In that they are no different to Christians:
To get a picture of this, we may start with the case of the southern Indian province of Cerapāda (roughly modern Kerala). In 1502-1503 CE the Portuguese marauder Vasco da Gama was visited by Kerala Syrian Christians from Kodungallur. These Christians had been living there for centuries, having been given shelter by the Cera rulers. They imitated many Hindu practices such as pūjā and the infantile rite of annaprāśna. When they met Gama, they offered him a red wooden staff with silver ends and three silver bells on it as a ceremonial indication of their accepting the overlordship of the Portuguese king Manuel. They proposed an alliance with the Portuguese marauders on the basis of their shared faith against the Hindus under whose refuge they had so greatly prospered.

Further, four Syriac bishops Mar Jaballaha, Mar Denha, Mar Jacob and Mar Thomas wrote a letter to the Portuguese calling them their brethren, expressing their wish to bring spices to them, and seeking the support of the “King of the Christians” against the pagans. Ironically, the first Syriac Christians to reach India were fleeing the Zoroastrian Sassanian emperors, who clamped down on them for aiding their enemy, the Christian Byzantine Empire, from within. After being provided refuge by the Hindu rulers for long, they now turned against them, even as they had done earlier against the Iranians. This happened right after their first ever contact with the alien Portuguese, who ironically were to eventually declare their own church as being full of heresies.

http://indiafacts.co.in/abrahamic-ideol ... l-loyalty/
Burmese Christians set up shop as "refugees" in India while John Dayal will testify against Hindus in USA.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/world ... icule.html
Book by Slain Charlie Hebdo Editor Argues Islam Is Not Exempt From Ridicule
In a book finished just two days before his death and published Thursday, Mr. Charbonnier defends his newspaper, which had been criticized for publishing provocative caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the years before the attack.

The book, “Open Letter to the Fraudsters of Islamophobia Who Play Into Racists’ Hands,” argues that all religions, including Islam, are fair game for ridicule in secular Republican France. The weekly newsmagazine L’Obs published excerpts from the book this week.
Warming to his theme that the fight against Islamophobia had backfired, he argued that a misplaced fight against Islamophobia led by white elites had stifled free speech and paradoxically encouraged the mistreatment of Muslims by singling out their religious identity.

“If tomorrow all the Muslims of France convert to Catholicism or abandon all religion, that would change nothing to racist discourse: These foreigners or French citizens of foreign descent will still be singled out as responsible for all problems,” Mr. Charbonnier wrote. He added that “being afraid of Islam is most likely stupid, absurd and many other things, but it isn’t a crime.”
In the 120-page book, which does not contain any new caricatures, Mr. Charbonnier criticized the media, politicians and some civil society groups for what he called “disgusting white, left-wing bourgeois paternalism.”

“By virtue of what twisted theory is humor less compatible with Islam than it is with any other religion?” he wrote. “Saying Islam is not compatible with humor is as absurd as claiming Islam is not compatible with democracy or secularism.”
In keeping with the spirit of Charlie Hebdo, the book does not shy away from harsh jabs at religion. “The problem is neither the Quran nor the Bible, sleep-inducing, incoherent and badly written novels,” Mr. Charbonnier wrote. The problem, he said, is the faithful who read the holy books “like instructions for assembling Ikea shelves.”
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Islam is a peaceful and non-violent religion!

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Migrant Muslims throw Christians overboard during boat journey to Italy

Italian police arrested a group of migrants for allegedly throwing 12 Christians overboard and killing them during a sea journey from Libya, CNN reported on Thursday.

According to the report, the Muslim suspects from Mali, Senegal and the Ivory Coast, threw 12 the Christian passengers, who hailed from Nigeria and Ghana, overboard during the dangerous journey by rubber boat to the Italian coast. All those who were thrown overboard were killed.

Palermo police reported that attempts were made to throw more people overboard, but they "strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain," according to Palermo police.

The Italian navy intercepted the rubber boat and transferred the passengers onto a Panamanian-flagged ship, which arrived in Palermo on Wednesday. Arrests were made shortly thereafter.

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^--- Islam forbids killing, so it never happened. If anyone was killed, it was not done by Muslims. YYY conspiracy onlee. :roll:

(typical Islamic reaction)
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5 Australian Teens Arrested in ISIS-Inspired Anzac Day Plot

http://time.com/3827466/anzac-day-austr ... isis-plot/
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Islamic Terrorism Hits 23 Countries in 30 Days
The countries afflicted in the last 30 days are:

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, CAR, Chad, DRC, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda and Yemen.

During this 30-day period from mid-March to mid-April 2015, the results of the violence are over 2000 dead and nearly as many injured, all from Muslim terrorism specifically. These are not crimes where the perpetrator just happened to be Muslim, but pure savagery committed out of Islamic piety.

UPDATE: Some of the attacks from that 30-day period were not yet added to the list. The final numbers are even worse: 25 countries hit in 30 days resulting in nearly 2800 dead and 2400 injured. Some of those injured may later end up on the list of fatalities.

The two extra countries were Cameroon and Italy.
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Two incidents of decapitations in Africa carried out by Mohammadden groups.

Agence France Presse reports that a Uganda based Mohammadden militia, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), indulges in Mohammadden terrorist’s groups perennial favourite activity and beheads 5 in an attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

‘Ugandan Islamists’ behead at least five in DR Congo

AFP also reporting that Nigeria based Mohammadden terrorist group Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad aka Boko Haram, also indulges in Mohammadden terrorist’s groups perennial favourite activity and kills 19, the majority of whom were decapitated in an attack in Cameroon:

Boko Haram attack Cameroonian village

Continuing with Africa while moving away from decapitations, Reuters reports that Mohammadden terrorist group al-Mourabitoun admits responsibility for suicide attack targeting United Nation Peacekeeprs in Mali:

Islamist group claims attack on U.N. peacekeepers in Mali

Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon and Mali. That is a large swath of Africa with which Mohammadden Terrorism is linked with.
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Flames are spreading from north deep into central Africa.
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Mohammadden majority locality of Grangetown in the city of Cardiff in Wales plastered with posters urging Mohammaddens not to vote as “None have the right to legislate except Allah” and that “Democracy is a system whereby man violates the right of Allah".

Against the background of an acute deficit of Democracy in Mohammadden majority countries, I guess it was only a matter of time before this pernicious belief found an echo in a Mohammadden majority locality in the UK. Events in Wales could also explain the reason behind penchant for boycotting elections in Jammu & Kashmir by adherents of Mohammaddenism:

Muslims urged to abstain from voting because 'democracy violates the right of Allah' : CONTROVERSIAL posters urging Muslims to turn their backs on the ballot box because "none have the right to vote but Allah" have been plastered across the city of Cardiff.
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some misguided sikh elements in India do not realize nor appreciate the exalted position that this small courageous and exceptionally loyal minority community currently holds in India and in her history and her Armed Forces from the past many centuries.

Even though some of them may not consider themselves as part of us, we always consider ourselves as part of them for what we owe.
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arun wrote:Mohammadden majority locality of Grangetown in the city of Cardiff in Wales plastered with posters urging Mohammaddens not to vote as “None have the right to legislate except Allah” and that “Democracy is a system whereby man violates the right of Allah".

Against the background of an acute deficit of Democracy in Mohammadden majority countries, I guess it was only a matter of time before this pernicious belief found an echo in a Mohammadden majority locality in the UK. Events in Wales could also explain the reason behind penchant for boycotting elections in Jammu & Kashmir by adherents of Mohammaddenism:

Muslims urged to abstain from voting because 'democracy violates the right of Allah' : CONTROVERSIAL posters urging Muslims to turn their backs on the ballot box because "none have the right to vote but Allah" have been plastered across the city of Cardiff.
Wow .. immigrant breed in west takes the cake in radicalization. Wonder where Europe is heading for the coming decades.
The wafer thin chance they still had in maintaing world power status, will be eroded by these over-cultured citizens.
Few decades back Europe used to prop up like the civilized guye worrying about radicalization and terror in rest of the world.
Few decades later, tables would be turned.
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From ICN - Independent Catholic News
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=27239
"Exploring the future of Christian Muslim relations - Jesuits Among Muslims discuss their life and mission"
Victor Edwin, who teaches Islam and Christian Muslim relations at Vidyajyoti, Jesuit school of theology in India's capital Delhi, in his presentation noted that the observers of Indian Islam caution that there is an increasing radicalisation of Indian Muslims about which they, the Muslims, themselves are wary of. One should remember that Indian Muslims are largely associated with Barelvi tradition. This Sufi flavoured tradition co-exists with Deoband Theological School that is influenced by wahhabi ideology. Wahhabism, a revivalist movement initiated by Abd al Wahhab [d. 1792], draws inspiration from a medieval theologian Ibn Taimiya and an early jurist Ibn Hanbal. Their co-existence, many sociologists and thinkers affirm, made Indian Islam dynamic and syncretic. However, the destruction of the Babri Masjid in 1992 by Sangh Parivar right-wing radicals radicalised both Hindus and Muslims.

Many groups of Indian Muslims argue that this radicalisation should be confronted and resolved within the democratic setup and the secular ethos of India. Some others, also committed to the secular nature of India, feel that Indian state is not sincere about her Muslim citizens. They seek political action through civil societies and groups. There are other Muslims: sections of clerics, people of revivalist schools and some sections of western educated Muslims, who not only doubt the capacity of the Indian state to resolve the problems of Muslims in India but suggest that practice of pure Islam can redeem Muslims and thus Islam. It is said that among this third group Wahhabi tendencies take roots.

Focusing his attention on Islam in India, Edwin said that this religion has taken roots in soil of India for the last few centuries and absorbed a number of elements that are 'Indian' in nature and thus Islam has taken myriad forms of Islamic expression that are both loyal to the context and the text. He emphasised that it is by preserving this plurality and diversity within Islam that one can successfully stem any radicalisation.

Father Joseph Kalathil's beautiful faith-based narrative is the story of an initiative to build Social Capital to bond the peoples of Pakistan and India with the aim to bring union of minds and hearts among the people. He told his listeners that he gained clarity that 'people to people contact' will help mitigate and slowly remove prejudices from our minds and hearts and that will help us to get closer to one another. With such an insight, the following programmes were drawn up, which were launched in Lahore in collaboration with the Apostolic Carmel Sisters (ACs), the Jesuits, the youth and with some of the priests and Faithful of Lahore Archdiocese with tacit approval of the Bishop of Lahore. In such a short time of 11 days of which 4 were holidays, he addressed over 800 senior students of 7 schools, over 40 teachers and 100 catechists all of whom showed their very encouraging and tremendous enthusiasm for building friendship and peace between Pakistan and India and they assured him of their full support. He further said: "When I went to Lahore, I took with me 35 letters from the students of four schools and I brought 90 letters from the students of Lahore. The Bishop Sebastian Shaw and the Vicar General Fr. Andrew Ansari of Lahore Archdiocese, knowing what it means to build friendship between Pakistan and India, were very happy to welcome me with such a noble mission, assuring me of their full support. I also met a few NGOs and a couple of trade unions and the Director of Caritas Pakistan. All of them were very happy to hear about the move to build friendship and peace between Pakistan and India. I realise that children are the hope and joy and I am sure they will initiate peace".
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Six Minnesota men charged with conspiring to support Islamic State

(Reuters) - U.S. authorities have charged six Somali-American young men from Minnesota with planning to join Islamic State and fight for the militant group in Syria, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota said on Monday.

The six, all U.S. citizens, were part of a larger group of friends and relatives that had been conspiring for the past 10 months, many trying multiple times to leave the country, U.S. prosecutors alleged.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/ ... PV20150420


Al-Shabaab bombs UN workers in Somalia

The militant group al-Shabaab has bombed a minivan carrying staff to a United Nations office in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia, with nine people confirmed dead.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/a ... in-somalia


Islamic State: Ethiopia says Christians shot and beheaded in Libya video were its citizens

Ethiopia says the 30 Christians shown being shot and beheaded in Libya on a video purportedly made by Islamic State militants were its citizens.

The video, in which militants call Christians "crusaders" who are out to kill Muslims, showed about 15 men being beheaded on a beach and another group of the same size being shot in the head in a patch of scrubland.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-21/i ... ns/6407774


Spokesman: Alabama woman left to join Islamic State group

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — A spokesman for a Muslim couple in Alabama on Monday said their 20-year-old daughter fled a Birmingham suburb to join Islamic State extremists in Syria after being recruited via the Internet.

http://news.yahoo.com/alabama-woman-lea ... 17558.html
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Pbuh was a cat person and had condemned dogs as Haraam.
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Latest barbaric video from ISIS shows black-clad executioner force three men on to their hands and knees before beheading them in street – after he is filmed SHARPENING his sword for the grisly act

Three men accused of being agents of the Syrian government have been executed in a shocking new video, Islamic State has claimed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -them.html
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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malay ... -of-valour
PETALING JAYA, April 22 — For years, two non-Muslim houses of worship in Taman Medan avoided the controversy that befell a neighbouring church that was forced by residents to remove its cross, by shunning open displays of their faith.

Instead, they go about their worship without the usual trappings of their respective religions, out of caution over how the overwhelmingly Muslim community may view these.

One local church, the Petaling Jaya Church of Christ (PJCC), said it does not display overt symbols of the faith or conduct open displays of its activities.
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At a Hindu temple a short distance away, priest N. Bala from India told Malay Mail Online that the need for non-Muslim religions to be discreet was a reality in Malaysia.
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A_Gupta wrote:http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malay ... -of-valour
At a Hindu temple a short distance away, priest N. Bala from India told Malay Mail Online that the need for non-Muslim religions to be discreet was a reality in Malaysia.
Wish we could export Gandhi and the assorted swamijis who preach Ahimsa in India to Malaysia so they can tell the local Hindus that Islam means peace....
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Matter of time before a.cleansing happens. Penang Tamils might need to seek shelter in india.
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Inder Sharma wrote:Pbuh was a cat person and had condemned dogs as Haraam.
Pussy cat person exactly!
http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-c ... es-137416/

The Critics of Islam Were Right: An Apology
The critics of Islam are right. Islam is intrinsically, alarmingly violent, hateful and oppressive on a scale greater than all other major religions combined. To say that radical Islamists are motivated to commit atrocities and embrace oppression based on religious doctrine is the understatement of the century.I, like most defenders of Islam, was ignorant, naïve, and in denial. I wrongly assumed all holy books have enough good messages to offset the bad. I wrongly assumed that, like Jesus, Muhammad promoted peace, love, and non-violence. I wrongly assumed criticism of Islam equates to criticism of all Muslims.While I apologize to those wrongly labeled Islamophobes, my biggest apology is owed to Muslims. Muslims have needlessly suffered under oppressive Islamic religious and political doctrines as thousands of uninformed smearests like myself rushed to judge and silence critics of Islam. By not acknowledging the Islamic link to radical violence and hate, smearests have unwittingly allowed it to spread. The smearests, denialists, and the naïve have, unknowingly, turned their back on moderate Muslims and a reformed, peaceful Islam.We who have carelessly thrown around the Islamophobe label including Glen Greenwald, Reza Aslan, and Karen Armstrong should lower our heads in shame and guilt. Few things are as morally depraved as attacking someone who criticizes Islam (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) rather than attacking the Islamic apostasy and blasphemy laws teaching Muslims they should kill her. We must now live with the knowledge that we've abandoned and betrayed our principles. Though we claim the mantle of human rights, free speech and equality, we lack the courage of our convictions when it offends someone. We make the cowardly lion look like Churchill.
Labeling every critic of Islam an Islamophobe has seriously diminished the smearests credibility. By grouping valid critics of Islam with bigots we water downed the meaning of Islamophobe and appear cruel and repressive of free speech.Criticizing the Quran and Muhammad is not criticizing or stereotyping the Muslim minority just as criticizing The Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith is not criticizing or stereotyping the Mormon minority. When people criticize the Mormon holy book or prophet, rightfully, there is no attempt to shield Mormonism from criticism or smear the critics as Mormonophobes.No religion, book, prophet, law, or God, no matter how sacredly held by the follower, is exempt from criticism. No religious belief or doctrine receives preferential treatment in a free society. Either all religions, books, and prophets are open to criticism or none are. We either live in a free society or tyrannical one.

Islam is a manmade religion (emphasis on the man part) and like all manmade religions, has serious moral shortcomings and requires rigorous criticism. Rather than self-censoring and abiding by Islamic blasphemy laws, we should be defending the importance of free speech, encouraging Islam to purge itself of blasphemy laws, and demonstrating the benefits free speech can bring to Islam.
But by no means take my word for it. You owe it to yourself to do your own research and see if you too find a connection between Islamic teachings and Islamic violence and hate. I challenge everyone, especially smearests, to read the Quran, biographies of Muhammad, the history of Jihad, and the political ideology of Islam.Perhaps you too will notice the Quran's recurring theme of hating non-believers and the desert like absence of loving and inclusive passages to offset the vile and violent ones.Perhaps you too will notice how Muhammad's violent life mirrors that of members of the Islamic State and that it would be dangerous for any person to follow in Muhammad's footsteps.
It would be one thing if Islamic doctrines said Muslims should love non-Muslims and love their enemy. It would be one thing if the prophet Muhammad preached non-violence. It would be one thing if Islamic Laws supported equality for women, minorities, freedom of expression, and valued human rights. It would be one thing if the Quran taught the golden rule.It is because they do the complete opposite that I am now speaking out.
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The faithful are standing erect in the most unlikely of places 8)

'Sharia compliant' sex shop to open in Mecca selling halal sex products

A "sharia compliant" sex shop is reportedly set to open in Mecca selling halal products and toys.

El Asira, an erotic brand originating in Amsterdam, is branching out to Islam's holiest city in Saudi Arabia, visited by millions of Muslims a year on the "hajj" pilgrimage.

Founder Abdelaziz Aouragh announced his ambition last year but now the shop is almost ready to open, Morocco-based website Alyaoum24 reported.

Muslim clerics and Saudi sheikhs have reportedly been consulted to ensure the business complies with local laws and customs.

"The products we're putting on the market have nothing to do with blow-up dolls or vibrators," Mr Aouragh told the AFP news agency.

"It's not about the sex act, it's what's going on around it. Our products increase the atmosphere and heighten feelings of sensuality."

Women's freedoms are severely restricted in Saudi Arabia and Islamic codes of behaviour and dress are strictly enforced but El Asira says it strives to lead to "more admiration and love for women" by improving marital relationships.

Its website describes all products as "sharia compliant" and claims they can "provide a deeper meaning to sexuality, sensuality and even spirituality".

Everything sold online and in the brand's shops has been deemed "halal", meaning they are permissible according to Islamic law.

"All our products are maintaining the integrity, pure humanity and ethics inherent with the sharia," the website says. :rotfl:

The company, launched in the Netherlands in 2010, specializes in sensual oils and is backed by German adult company Beate Uhse.
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Planned act of Intra-Abrahamic violence in France averted owing to Mohammadden Terrorist plotting to attack Christist place of worship, shooting himself.

Besides the abortive attack on a Christist place of worship, the Mohammadden Terrorist has been implicated on the basis of ballistic and DNA evidence in the murder of a women on Sunday near Paris.

AFP via Yahoo:

France foils church attack after suspect shoots self in leg
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X Posted from the “Turkey News, discussions” thread.

Tomorrow will mark the passage of 100 years since the start of the genocide carried out by Mohammadden’s targeting fellow Abrahamic Christists in Armenia.

To mark this deplorable act of Mohammadden Genocide, CNN carried this report :

8 things to know about the mass killings of Armenians 100 years ago
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Principal at Islamic school denies ex-teacher's claim girls are banned from running because it could 'cause them to lose their virginity'
A principal at an Islamic school in Australia has denied banning female students from running at sporting events because he believed it could cause them to lose their virginity.
A former teacher at the Al-Taqwa College in Victoria sent a letter to education ministers this week claiming girls were prevented from taking part in a running competition and had not been allowed to participate in a 2013 and 2014 cross-country district event, according to reports by Fairfax Media.

Comment: Australian government should start a probe into any foreign funding at that institution
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Islamic Terrorism: Why There Is None in Japan
Officially, immigration to Japan is not closed to Muslims. But the number of the immigration permits given to the applicants from Islamic countries is very low. Obtaining a working visa is not easy for adepts of Islam, even if they are physicians, engineers and managers sent by foreign companies that are active in the region. As a result, Japan is “a country without Muslims”.
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ISIS: Pregnant girls aged 9 having secret abortions after being raped by twisted Islamic State militants

Traumatised children are some of 216 people from the Yazidis religious minority community who were kidnapped at gunpoint last year

Doctors are performing illegal abortions on pregnant girls as young as nine who were kidnapped and raped by twisted Islamic State fighters.

The traumatised children are from the Yazidis religious minority community, it is estimated some of 40,000 them were taken at gunpoint by ISIS thugs in August last year.

Thousands of girls and women torn from their homes in Iraq were raped, tortured, forcibly married and enslaved.

Now many of the traumatised victims have now found their way back to their families in Kurdistan; battered, broken, humiliated and several of them pregnant.

.....

One of the youngest victims who fell pregnant is a 9-year-old girl, according to Canadian-based aid worker Yousif Daoud.

He told the Toronto Star: "This girl is so young she could die if she delivers a baby.

"Even a caesarian section is dangerous. The abuse she has suffered left her mentally and physically traumatised.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... -9-5587288
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From thus illuminating report...Taliban rape suicide bomber before sending for attack
Last year a group of Taliban gang-raped cows in Joram District of Badakhshan province.
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Muslim man says his $32,000 student loan interest ‘against Islam’
“I am offering to pay off the original amount I owe,” Amir graciously offered. As for the rest, he wants his creditors to acknowledge that his “awareness and conditions have changed” since he accepted the loan and since he has “been learning more” about Islam.
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Comment: Why use the "crutch" of Islam to get off your obligations!! Interestingly, full name and his origins not mentioned !
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X Posted from the STFUP thread:
g.sarkar wrote:http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nepa ... 32868.html

After experiencing major devastation and loss of lives in the April 25 earthquake, Nepal is left with an unsavoury taste in the mouth when it received packets of 'beef masala' as part of the relief package from Pakistan.

Since the majority-Hindu country treats cows as sacred and there is a blanket ban on slaughtering the animal, the development has the potential of triggering diplomatic acrimony between the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries.

Indian doctors at Kathmandu's Bir Hospital told Mail Today that packets of 'beef masala' were sent by Pakistan on Tuesday as part of relief aid to the temblor survivors. These doctors - drawn from Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital, Safdarjung Hospital and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) - are members of a 34-member medical team sent to Nepal for treating the survivors.

"When we reached the airport to collect the food items from Pakistan, we found packets of ready-to-eat meals, including packets of 'beef masala'. There were other food items too," Dr Balwinder Singh told Mail Today.

Perplexed, the doctors chose to have food from a hotel instead. "We did not touch the Pakistani aid," Dr Singh said......"

Gautam

A shameful instance of the breathtaking Mohammadden religion fuelled disregard for the religious sensibilities of Non-Mohammadden “Dhimmi’s”.

In the middle of a humanitarian disaster the Islamic Republic of Pakistan shows contempt for Non-Mohammadden Dhimmi’s by using aid to wound religious sensibilities which in the instant case is seeking to feed beef to Hindu’s in Nepal!
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Multatuli wrote:ISIS: Pregnant girls aged 9 having secret abortions after being raped by twisted Islamic State militants

Traumatised children are some of 216 people from the Yazidis religious minority community who were kidnapped at gunpoint last year

Doctors are performing illegal abortions on pregnant girls as young as nine who were kidnapped and raped by twisted Islamic State fighters.

The traumatised children are from the Yazidis religious minority community, it is estimated some of 40,000 them were taken at gunpoint by ISIS thugs in August last year.

Thousands of girls and women torn from their homes in Iraq were raped, tortured, forcibly married and enslaved.

Now many of the traumatised victims have now found their way back to their families in Kurdistan; battered, broken, humiliated and several of them pregnant.

.....

One of the youngest victims who fell pregnant is a 9-year-old girl, according to Canadian-based aid worker Yousif Daoud.

He told the Toronto Star: "This girl is so young she could die if she delivers a baby.

"Even a caesarian section is dangerous. The abuse she has suffered left her mentally and physically traumatised.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... -9-5587288
This is possibly what many Indians and what happenned in 1926 Moplah riots,1947 East and West Pakistan, 1971 BD and 1990 Kashmir recently and over 1000 years over much of India which has been swept under the carpet.

Why can't some Femmists who love Pakis in India be treated to this Pakistaniyat.
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Difference between 'Hindoo-ism' and abrahamism..

http://www.newindianexpress.com/columns ... 789656.ece
Lesson for Arab World in India's Lead in Tolerance and Peaceful Coexistence
By Khalaf Al-Harbi

I am writing to you from India, the land of wonders. Right now, I am in Mumbai which was once the farthest place travelers on the Arabian Sea dreamed of reaching.

Huge waves of humans fan out in all directions and fill the city’s streets. A river of sheepish eyes will look at you, immediately recognise that you are not a local and then try to figure out where you are from.

In Mumbai, luxurious building towers neighbour tin slums and such contradictions are an entertaining game which, despite the efforts of numerous thinkers, cannot be explained but only experienced.

In India, there are more than 100 religions and more than 100 languages. Yet, the people live in peace and harmony. They have all joined hands to build a strong nation that can produce everything from a sewing needle to the rocket which is preparing to go to Mars.

I must say that I feel a bit jealous because I come from a part of the world which has one religion and one language and yet there is killing everywhere.

No matter how the world speaks about tolerance, India remains the oldest and most important school to teach tolerance and peaceful co-existence regardless of the religious, social, political or ethnical differences.

The stereotypical picture of India in the minds of many of us is linked to poverty and backwardness. This is a totally false picture which has nothing to do with reality.

It is a picture which was created by our extreme judgment of things. When we were poor before the era of oil, the picture of India in our minds was linked to richness and civilisation but immediately after our financial conditions improved, we converted India’s picture to one of poverty and backwardness.

If we had any sort of wisdom, we would never have been occupied by India’s richness or poverty.

Rather, we would have been impressed by India’s immense ability to contain and respect the conflicting ideologies and thoughts so that people would flood the streets without any feeling of fear or anxiety.

If we took all the Arabs and placed them in India as part of a grand experiment, they would not make up any recognisable majority. They would, instead, dissolve in a fearless human ocean. Their nationalistic trends and sectarian extremism would also dissolve with them and they would realise that nothing in the world can justify the killing of their brothers and sisters in humanity.

India is one of the largest and oldest democracies in the world. It had never known huge differences in religions or races. The country does not disdain its poor people nor hate its rich citizens. It is a nation which is proud of Gandhi and the British colonialists at the same time.

The Indian people are distinguished in many ways. They are great people. Nobody can deny this fact except the envious or the ungrateful.

The only problem with the hypothetical trip of the Arabs to India is that they may contaminate the Indians and remind them of their religious and ethnical differences. The Arabs may be able to convince the Indians that their religious and racial disparities may be enough of reason to kill each other.

This article was originally published in the Saudi Gazette. The views expressed are personal.
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^^Anyone surprised by the timing?

Nevertheless, a positive and rather heartfelt view it seems.
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Aditya_V wrote: Why can't some Femmists who love Pakis in India be treated to this Pakistaniyat.
what's feminists (i assume that's what u were thinking) got to do with this? :shock: :-?
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Yeah, just imagine what a 100% Islamic India would look like. There would be 20-30 nations, divided up by region, language, sects, all constantly at war with each other. Think middle east but to power 10.
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Indian Express reports that Intra-Abrahamic religion based disagreement in Kerala which resulted in a group of Mohammaddens chopping off the hand of a Christist on grounds the Christist insulted Mohammaddenism’s Prophet, sees the Mohammaddens perpetrators being found guilty.

Hope stiff punishments will be handed down by the Court when sentencing takes place so as to convey the message that Mohammadden religion fuelled violence will not be tolerated whatever the provocation:

NIA court holds 13 guilty of chopping Kerala professor’s hand
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The only problem with the hypothetical trip of the Arabs to India is that they may contaminate the Indians and remind them of their religious and ethnical differences. The Arabs may be able to convince the Indians that their religious and racial disparities may be enough of reason to kill each other.


Certainly not just Arabs.

An remarkablepiece that was allowed in Saudia.
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sanjaykumar wrote:The only problem with the hypothetical trip of the Arabs to India is that they may contaminate the Indians and remind them of their religious and ethnical differences. The Arabs may be able to convince the Indians that their religious and racial disparities may be enough of reason to kill each other.i]ertainly not just Arabs.
An remarkablepiece that was allowed in Saudia.

Paki in panic rushed to comment on article citing K, Jihad, Saat Lakh troops Blah bla bla.
They felt the first sting by Saudi .
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