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

[KJo]

Wouldn't be surprised if UP's SP govt had a hand in this chweet development...

Step 2: Declare this area to be part of ISIS Caliphate and impose Shariah and forbid Kafirs from entering (behead them if they do).

[hanumadu]

^^^What that means is 2 miles around that apartments is a no go area. Real estate around that complex will be crashing soon.

[arun]

Head of Egypts Al-Azhar, an institute which Sunni Mohammaddens consider as one of the highest seat of learning of their religion, says that the Mohammadden Terrorists belonging to the “Islamic State” aka IS were “criminals” serving a “Zionist” plot to “destroy the Arab world.”

Why do Mohammaddens not take responsibility for the Mohammadden religion motivated violence that pervades Mohammadden majority countries and at the earliest opportunity attempt to lay the blame for this Mohammadden religion motivated violence at the credulity straining doorstep of other religions?

Al-Azhar calls Islamic State 'criminals' serving a 'Zionist' plot to destroy Arab world

[Aditya_V]

Yeah, Kind of like Teesta Svetalnad blaming Hindu Gods for ISIS acts in her tweet.

[wig]

Beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff was ‘sold by moderate Syrian militants to ISIS’

The family spokesman of Steven Sotloff — the American journalist who was beheaded by ISIS recently — has told CNN that "moderate militants", who kidnapped him in Syria, sold him to the Islamic State (ISIS).

On Monday, Barak Barfi, on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" programme, said, "For the first time, we can say Steven was sold at the border. Steven's name was on a list that he had been responsible for the bombing of a hospital ... This was false, activists spread his name around."

"We believe that these so-called moderate rebels that people want our administration to support, one of them sold him probably for something between $25,000 and $50,000 to ISIS, and that was the reason he was captured," Barfi told Cooper crediting what he called "sources on the ground".

The west, led by the US had been aiding the "moderate" militants in Syria to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

ISIS released a video last Tuesday showing the beheading of Sotloff, which was later confirmed as authentic by US officials. Sotloff is the second US journalist to be beheaded by ISIS after James Foley.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 106794.cms

[member_28714]

Beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff was ‘sold by moderate Syrian militants to ISIS’

The family spokesman of Steven Sotloff — the American journalist who was beheaded by ISIS recently — has told CNN that "moderate militants", who kidnapped him in Syria, sold him to the Islamic State (ISIS).

On Monday, Barak Barfi, on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" programme, said, "For the first time, we can say Steven was sold at the border. Steven's name was on a list that he had been responsible for the bombing of a hospital ... This was false, activists spread his name around."

"We believe that these so-called moderate rebels that people want our administration to support, one of them sold him probably for something between $25,000 and $50,000 to ISIS, and that was the reason he was captured," Barfi told Cooper crediting what he called "sources on the ground".

The west, led by the US had been aiding the "moderate" militants in Syria to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

ISIS released a video last Tuesday showing the beheading of Sotloff, which was later confirmed as authentic by US officials. Sotloff is the second US journalist to be beheaded by ISIS after James Foley.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 106794.cms

Thats Karma at her most eloquent self - Bitch.

[JE Menon]

^^^Indeed... Now I would like to pull an I told you so, which is not something I do often (in fact can't remember doing it on BRF) but do recall when this whole crapshoot in Syria started, very few thought Assad would hold on... Some of us on BRF did think so and provided reasons even, if memory serves... Look who's still in power now, and quietly chatting with all and sundry - even those gunning for his head a few years ago. A worthy successor to Hafez his father.

[A_Gupta]

http://www.jesusandmo.net/2014/07/30/2396/

[Prem]

http://www.worldbulletin.net/muslim-wor ... m-accounts
US banks closing down Muslim accounts

Banks in the U.S. have been sending letters to their American Muslim customers telling them that their accounts will soon be closed.
There has been no explanation as to why certain Muslims have been targeted, but it seems that accounts of organizations with links to Iran, Kuwait and Syria are being singled out.
However, it is not just Muslim organizations being targeted, but individuals as well.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Florida businessman Sofian Zakout, who runs the American Muslims for Emergency and Relief Inc., had both his personal and business accounts closed at Chase Bank shortly after opening a new account.Zakout, whose charity has helped a wide range of people from the victims of Hurricane Katrina to the needy civilians caught up in the Syrian civil war, told the Los Angeles Times, “I'm not going to be quiet. I don't want to see this happening to anyone again.”
The newspaper also reported that a Kuwaiti dentist based in Minneapolis had an application to open a bank account at TCF Bank rejected last summer, with no reason offered.A Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) attorney has submitted a complaint to the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, but a Justice Department spokeswoman said the issue was a matter for banking regulators, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."The bureau takes seriously any allegations of discrimination in the consumer financial marketplace and is committed to ensuring consumers have fair and equal access to credit," she said, adding "We cannot confirm or comment on whether any investigation is ongoing."CAIR Executive Director Dawud Walid said that the organization's Michigan chapter is now considering a lawsuit against the banks.

[Rony]

Philippines govt caved into islamist demands for a "autonomous state" ( sharia state in reality) in Muslim dominated Southern Philippines.

Philippines' Aquino asks Congress to enact Muslim autonomy law

Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday asked Congress to swiftly enact a law creating a Muslim autonomous area in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic state, a crucial step in ending nearly five decades of conflict.

...the deal under which the main rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), has agreed to disband and surrender weapons in exchange for powers over the economy and society in the Bangsamoro area.

Rebel leaders are expected to govern the new autonomous area during a brief transition period until elections in May 2016, in which the MILF will take part, transforming the guerrilla group into a political party.

The law creating an autonomous government to replace an existing Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao island, which the president described as a failed experiment, was a product of 17 years negotiations and months of drafting.

Under the deal, the Bangsamoro autonomous will have self-rule over an expanded area with wider powers to impose taxes and fees on permits and licenses.

[KLNMurthy]

Management of Savagery

Another link which loads more quickly

This book is all the rage nowadays, with focus on West Asia. It also has some observations about India. We should become familiar with this book, as it seems to be a textbook for what is to come:

Among the strangest examples of the administrations of savagery is what Shaykh Abd Allah `Azzm related about the one hundred Muslim men who controlled a mountainous region between what is known as Italy and France today. They imposed what resembles the jizya on the regions that surrounded it and this state of affairs continued for some time.
Likewise, among the movements which established administrations for savagery (or rather developed from them) and united the various regions that were governed for a period of time by what resembled a state was the movement of al-Imam al-Sayyid. (This movement)
renewed the call of tawhid and jihad in the Sunni ““square”” in the region of India, Kashmir, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Despite the short life of this movement, which lasted from the beginning to the middle of the nineteenth century, it has had a widespread effect up to the present time. The actions against the enemies of God and their leaders, the English, are considered a source of inspiration for jihad movements in Kashmir, India, and Afghanistan. Perhaps the (greatest) extent of its residual effects was the powerful impact it had on the separation of Pakistan from India in the middle of the twentieth century, regardless of the extent of the deviation of the (subsequent) Pakistani government, which reaped the fruit of the jihad. The Afghani men of jihad still seek inspiration from the example of the life of that Imam, and why not –– he knew the mountains of Afghanistan and they knew him.

In a previous article, I mentioned that the reality of the peaceful method which many nonviolent [kaff al-ayd, lit. ““restraining the hands””. A variation of this phrase is used in the Qur’’an to refer to Muslims who were reluctant to fight for the sake of Islam. Cf. Q 4:77] groups advocate is taken from the method known as the method of Gandhi. Some of the intellectuals of these groups even openly espouse that, attempting to revive the method of Gandhi as a modern example of the life of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the Meccan stage. Exalted is the religion of God above their lies and falsehood.
One of those who claim understanding denied that his reformist current resembles that of Gandhi, stating: ““One can have doubts about the mujahid movements to the extent that its
method resembles the method of the Irish Red Army (!)26 because this army adopts armed resistance. (!)””
Perhaps this impostor and many readers will be surprised that the response to him is that his remarks about the mujahid movements are correct to a certain extent (with some reservations)!
So that we can resolve the ambiguity which is exhibited by this response, this was the article: In the beginning, the aforementioned article aimed to demonstrate that the nonviolent movements which follow the method of Gandhi followed a method that contradicts universal laws and which will not achieve the goals they are striving for and that the method of Gandhi which contradicts the (universal laws) is not what put the affairs of state in India in his hands or in the hands of his party and is not what defended it from the horror of the English. The reality is that the law which pushed the English to relinquish control to Gandhi was the jihad which the Muslims undertook in India and the armed resistance which some of the other factions undertook, factions which sought the downfall of the English for close to two centuries of continual resistance; whenever they sank, they returned even more fiercely, without losing hope, until the patience of the English was exhausted, a fact which forced them to submit the keys of the countries peacefully to a man who was famous on account of the nature of his personality. Their interests were preserved for them after they left India and the non-establishment of a Muslim state in those regions was guaranteed. This is one explanation for what happened. According to the other explanation, (the withdrawal from India) was a link of the chain of leaving the colonies and turning them over to movements whose leaders or those around them were collaborationist. Determining which explanation is more probable would take a long time to explain and divert us from our subject.
Therefore, people of sound mind agree and are certain that the movement of Gandhi did not violate (universal) law and no new law appeared on its basis which humanity had not known (previously). [In other words, Gandhi's movement of nonviolent resistance did not violate the universal law which states that power is obtained through armed struggle because his movement was not the real reason for the departure of the British from India.] (They are also certain) that setting up states and establishing (them) can only be on the basis of power and the law of repulsion. Even the democratic states were established after wars that destroyed everything until one side was victorious over the other. Then, the victors came to an agreement on this form of political order. This depiction is from real life.

[Rony]

As Caliphates Compete, Radical Islam Will Eventually Weaken

Summary

The rise of the Islamic State will inspire other jihadist groups to claim their own caliphates and emirates. In the long run, the extremism of these contrived dominions and the competition among them will undermine the jihadist movement. However, before that happens, the world will witness much upheaval.

Analysis

In a 52-minute video that surfaced in late August, Abubakar Shekau, the head of Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram, spoke of an Islamic State in northeastern Nigeria. The statement came two months after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the chief of the transnational jihadist movement in Syria and Iraq, declared the re-establishment of the caliphate, renaming the group the Islamic State. Though likely inspired by the Islamic State, Boko Haram is not simply mimicking its more powerful Syrian-Iraqi counterpart; it is taking its cue from the Nigeria-based Sokoto Caliphate, which was established in the early 1800s and existed for almost a century until Britain gained control of the region.

The Caliphate's Role in History

According to classical Muslim political theorists, there can be only one caliphate for the entire Muslim global community, or ummah. In practice, though, there have been rival claimants to authority and even competing caliphates throughout the history of Islam. In our July 1 analysis on the subject, Stratfor explained not only how multiple emirates and sultanates emerged independently of the caliphate but also that there were rival caliphates -- for example, the Abbasid in Baghdad (749-1258), Umayyad in the Iberian Peninsula (929-1031) and Fatimid in Cairo (909-1171).

These medieval-era caliphates were not just the byproduct of geographical constraints facing the original caliphate but also heavily shaped by political and religious rivalries and political evolution. These dynastic empires were the building blocks of the Muslim world, not unlike the wider international system of the time. For this reason, they endured for centuries until Europe's geopolitical push into the Muslim world in the 18th century.

In the past two centuries, the medieval caliphates, emirates and sultanates have been replaced by nation-states. Though artificially created and weak, these modern Muslim polities are unlikely to be swept away by radical Islamists seeking to re-establish caliphates and emirates. Although nationalism was initially a European import into the Arab/Muslim world and continues to face competition from religious and tribal identities, it is well established in the public psyche.

This can be seen in the organization of most Islamists along national lines. Most Islamists, who are aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood or some variant of it, embrace the nation-state and should not be conflated with the minority of radical Islamists and jihadists who seek to eliminate national boundaries and return to a romanticized notion of the past. Still, caliphates and emirates have emerged because of the failures of the modern Muslim nation-states to create democratic systems and, more broadly, to provide a viable political economy for their citizens -- a failure that radical Islamist forces have deftly exploited.

Deficiencies in Modern Caliphates

Radical Islamists are able to capture the imagination of the economically disadvantaged youth who understand neither politics nor Islam. The most successful jihadist entity in terms of capturing territory, the Islamic State, rose in part because of rare circumstances related to the regional geopolitical struggle between the Shiite and Sunni camps in the Middle East. However, as is evident from the international alignment of forces against the Islamic State, the transnational jihadist movement faces severe challenges moving forward.

In addition, its ultra-extremist policies and behavior are further alienating the Islamic State from the Muslim world. Al Qaeda's denunciation of the Islamic State as a deviant force underscores the competition it faces from within the jihadist movement. Furthermore, there is an entire constellation of radical Islamists beyond al Qaeda that does not accept the Islamic State's claim to a caliphate. These Islamists will seek to form their own caliphates or emirates in the same battle spaces. Meanwhile, other groups operating in different parts of the Muslim world seek to form their own caliphates.

An important concept in this context is that of the leader of the faithful, or emir al-momineen, which was the title given to the second caliph of Islam, Omar bin al-Khattab (579-644). Since then, this title has become synonymous with that of the caliph. In the contemporary age, Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar assumed the title in the 1990s, when the movement ruled most of Afghanistan. Decades earlier, Morocco's constitution conferred this title upon the country's monarch.

Morocco's king only claims leadership of the country's Muslim majority. Likewise, the Afghan Taliban's status as a nationalist jihadist force meant that Mullah Omar only claimed leadership of the Muslims of Afghanistan. Al-Baghdadi's move to declare himself caliph of all the Muslims of the world therefore challenges the authority of the emirates and dynastical or republican regimes in the Islamic world.

The Fate of Jihadists and Caliphates

In the distant future, radical Islamism will likely lose its appeal because of two broad factors. First, the attempt to create caliphates and the associated difficulties of governance will force many radical Islamists to opt for pragmatism and become relatively moderate. Second, opposition from fellow Muslims also learning about politics and governance will give them less room to operate.

Yet, while this modern phenomenon of competing caliphates, emirates or Islamic states will only further weaken jihadist groups, the idea of the caliphate remains an unresolved matter. Muslims have long accepted that the notion does not connote a single state for the ummah; instead it symbolizes pan-Muslim cooperation in the form of a supra-national regime such as the European Union. This remains a desirable goal, as is evident from the Organization of Islamic Conference which, though anemic, remains intact.

Still, these developments will be the outcome of a multigenerational struggle. Until then, the social, political and economic problems of the Arab/Muslim world, along with sectarian strife, geopolitical rivalries and the interests of outside powers (especially the United States and the West), will sustain the conditions in which violent extremists thrive. Thus, radical Islamism will remain a threat globally -- and especially for Muslims themselves -- for decades.

[Peregrine]

13 Years After 9/11, Anti-Muslim Bigotry Is Worse Than Ever

Americans view Muslims far worse today than right after 9/11. Some of this is Muslims’ own fault. But the hate-mongering sure isn’t.

On 9-11, I didn’t watch the World Trade Center collapse on television like most people. I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless on 8th Street and Sixth Avenue in lower Manhattan.

Images from that day are still seared in my mind. The South Tower buckling. A sobbing woman running by. An NYPD police car racing uptown covered in debris. A crystal blue sky.

Once we learned that Al Qaeda was responsible for the attack, I knew there would be a backlash against Muslim and Middle Eastern Americans. But what I could’ve never predicted was that, 13 years later, my fellow Americans would view Muslims far worse today than in the months after 9/11.

The numbers tell a distressing tale. In October 2001, an ABC poll found that 47 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Islam. By 2010, that number had dropped to 37 percent.

And today, alarmingly, only 27 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Muslim Americans. This last poll is the most concerning because it shows how my fellow Americans see my Muslim friends, colleagues and even me—because I’m Muslim.

How did we get to this place? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself over and over.

There are a few key factors. Undisputedly the horrible acts committed by radical Muslims have had a big impact. In the last year alone we’ve seen the Boston marathon bombing, the Boko Haram kidnappings of school girls, and now ISIS rampaging through Iraq and Syria.

Another reason is that many Americans tell me they don’t see Muslims publicly condemning these terrorists. They want to be convinced that the radicals are truly the exception and not “true Islam.”

Of course, condemning terrorism and getting media coverage for it are two different things. A grisly beheading results in days of media coverage. Muslim leaders holding a press conference denouncing terrorism, which they have done extensively in response to ISIS, will result in two to three minutes of media coverage on cable news, if they’re lucky.

Just last week an Oklahoma State Representative wrote on his official Facebook page that Christians should be “wary” of Muslim Americans because they are planning to kill Christians.
Making our efforts more challenging is that we are a small minority group, compromising only 1 to 2 percent of the nation. Unsurprisingly, a recent Pew poll found that more than 60 percent of Americans don’t even personally know a Muslim.

If you only see news stories that present Muslims in a negative light, and you have no personal connection to Muslims to offer a counter narrative, I can understand why many hold negative views of us.

Compounding this issue is that there are few positive images of Muslims or Muslim Americans in American entertainment media. In fact, the exact opposite is true as Hollywood has made millions furthering the worst image of Muslims. And I can tell you first hand as someone who has pitched film and TV shows that would depict Muslims in a positive light, there’s little appetite in Hollywood for such projects.

But there’s something else causing this. And it’s something truly despicable. There are people who intentionally stoke the flames of hate against our community.

Some do it because they simply detest/fear anyone who doesn’t pray or look like them. For some, Muslim bashing is their career. They make a living writing books and giving lectures about how Muslims want to destroy America.

And then there are the politicians, almost exclusively Republicans, who gin up hate of the “other” for political gain. The anti-sharia law measures passed in states like Florida and North Carolina are a prime example.

The proponents of these laws will demonize Muslims while making the case for these measures. Yet they publicly admit there are zero instances of Muslims trying to impose Islamic law in their respective states. For example, Florida State Senator Alan Hays conceded as much but argued the anti-Shaira law legislation was needed as a “preemptive measure,” similar to when your parents would “have you vaccinated against different diseases.”
And worse, we have seen unmitigated hate spewed by some Republicans that could inspire hate crimes. For example, just last week Oklahoma State Representative John Bennett wrote on his official Facebook page that Christians should be “wary” of Muslim Americans because they are planning to kill Christians. Not only did Bennett refuse to apologize for his comments, the Oklahoma state Republican chair defended Bennett.

What a difference from the words President George W. Bush offered our nation in the days after 9/11. Bush, with World Trade Center still literally smoldering, visited the large Islamic Center in Washington D.C. and denounced those who were demonizing Muslim Americans: “Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don’t represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.”

Bush added: “America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect.”

So what’s the future for Muslim Americans? Will we see even more hate crimes against Muslims? And Sikhs, whom many misidentify as Muslims? These numbers have spiked in recent years. And just last week my friend Linda Sarsour, a hijab-wearing civil rights activist, was attacked on the streets of New York City by a man who shouted that he wanted to behead her and then chased her into traffic. Thankfully, Linda was not injured and the assailant, a white male, was arrested.

Will we see an even higher number of employment discrimination claims filed by Muslim Americans? Currently over 20 percent of the claims filed with the EEOC are from Muslims, even though we compromise just 2 percent of the country.

I want to be optimistic. I want to be able to say in a few years it will be better. But I don’t know if that’s true.

What I can say with confidence is that American Muslims are not going anywhere. Yes, we will denounce those who commit horrible acts in the name of our faith to make it clear their actions don’t represent us. However, our focus is pursuing our American dream just like every other American. We will become doctors, deli owners, teachers, parents, and maybe even one day, President of the United States. But most of all we will become "Kufr Killing Terrorists".

And what I can also say to the bigots is that we will continue, together with the good people who stand with us, to fight your efforts to demonize and marginalize us simply because of our faith. We won’t do that because it’s demanded of us as Muslims, we will do that because it’s demanded of us as Americans.
Cheers

[Shanmukh]

British Female Jihadis are running ISIS brothels that keep Yezidi women imprisoned, raped.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/br ... is-4198165

By Russel Myers
Members of the all-women al-Khanssaa Brigade in Raqqa, Syria, are running brothels for Islamic State murderers

British female jihadis are running brothels full of women kidnapped and forced into sex slavery by Islamic State militants.

It is understood they are members of an ultra-religious IS ‘police’ force tasked with looking after girls captured from the Yazidi tribe in Iraq.

As many as 3,000 Iraqi women have been taken captive in the last two weeks by the terror group.

Sources suggest that members of the all-women al-Khanssaa Brigade in Raqqa, Syria, are running brothels to satisfy the fighters’ desires.

One said: “These women are using barbaric interpretations of the Islamic faith to justify their actions.

“They believe the militants can use these women as they please as they are non-Muslims.

“The Yazidi people are being ethnically cleansed, and their women are being subjected to the most brutal treatment.

“It is the British women who have risen to the top of the Islamic State’s sharia police and now they are in charge of this operation.

"It is as bizarre as it is perverse.”

A report obtained by the Daily Mirror from researchers at think tank MEMRI – the Middle East Media Research Institution – confirms ethnic sex slavery is taking place on a massive scale.

The report states: “During its takeover of large parts of northern Iraq the IS captured many Yazidi villages, and reportedly took many Yazidi women to be sold and used as sex slaves.”

Researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation suggest up to 60 British women have gone to Syria for jihad.

Sources have revealed some of these women have emerged as key figures in the al-Khanssaa brigade and are enticing dozens more to leave their families and join them.

Aspiring doctor Aqsa Mahmood, 20, who fled her Glasgow home last November, is understood to be part of the brigade.

She said she wanted to behead Christians with a “blunt knife”.

ISIS may be the most successful experiment in multiculturalism. Jihadis from all over the world are working together seamlessly. We should send a note of thanks to the Brits for helping this occur.

[Anindya]

A good set of data about Islam's habitual tendencies towards violence:

9/11 and Jihad Terror: A Legacy of Over 13 Centuries—Not 13 Years

There is just one historically relevant meaning of jihad despite the surfeit of contemporary apologetics. Dr. Tina Magaard—a Sorbonne-trained linguist specializing in textual analysis—published detailed research findings in 2005 (summarized in 2007) comparing the foundational texts of ten major religions. Magaard concluded from her hard data-driven analyses:

The texts in Islam distinguish themselves from the texts of other religions by encouraging violence and aggression against people with other religious beliefs to a larger degree [emphasis added]. There are also straightforward calls for terror. This has long been a taboo in the research into Islam, but it is a fact that we need to deal with.

For example, in her 2007 essay “Fjendebilleder og voldsforestillinger i islamiske grundtekster” [“Images of enemies and conceptions of violence in Islamic core scriptures”], Magaard observed,

There are 36 references in the Koran to expressions derived from the root qa-ta-la, which indicates fighting, killing or being killed. The expressions derived from the root ja-ha-da, which the word jihad stems from, are more ambiguous since they mean “to struggle” or “to make an effort” rather than killing. Yet almost all of the references derived from this root are found in stories that leave no room for doubt regarding the violent nature of this struggle. Only a single ja-ha-da reference (29:6) explicitly presents the struggle as an inner, spiritual phenomenon, not as an outwardly (usually military) phenomenon. But this sole reference does not carry much weight against the more than 50 references to actual armed struggle in the Koran, and even more in the Hadith.

Consistent with Magaard’s textual analysis, the independent study of Australian linguist and renowned Arabic to English translator, Paul Stenhouse, claimed the root of the word jihad appears forty times in the Koran. With four exceptions, Stenhouse maintained, all the other thirty-six usages in the Koran, and in subsequent Islamic understanding to both Muslim luminaries—the greatest jurists and scholars of classical Islam—and to ordinary people, meant and means, as described by the seminal Arabic lexicographer, E. W. Lane: “He fought, warred or waged war against unbelievers and the like.”

[Anindya]

China sentences three to death, one to life in jail, for knife attack that left 31 dead

The attack on the railway station, in which 141 people were also wounded, shocked China, signaling that tensions between the nation’s ethnic Uighur minority and Han majority were spreading outside the Uighur homeland of Xinjiang.

The defendants’ ethnicities were not mentioned, but all had Uighur-sounding names and listened to court proceedings through headphones, presumably providing simultaneous translation into their language.

An upsurge in Xinjiang-related violence, which Beijing says is inspired by a combination of separatism and Muslim religious extremism, has prompted the authorities to tighten already suffocating controls in the region, including over Islamic religious practice.

Chinese authorities have said the group responsible for the Kunming attack was trying to leave the country “to join jihad” abroad but when prevented from doing so had hatched a plot to carry out a terrorist attack within China.

According to the Kunming court's microblog, the attack was planned at a hair salon in the city of Gejiu, not far from the Vietnamese border, with the group making black jihadi flags and watching videos made by overseas Islamist extremist groups.

The three men, Iskander Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasayn Muhammad, were sentenced to death for organizing and planning the attack. But they apparently decided to renew their bid to flee China and were arrested at the border two days before the attack.

After losing contact with the three men, five other members of the group went ahead with the attack, the court heard. Four were killed on the spot, while the fifth, Patigul Tohti, a woman, was injured and arrested. The court said Tohti could not be sentenced to death because she was pregnant at the time of her detention.

A SWAT police officer told China Central Television that he had arrived on the scene in March to see people pinned to the ground as attackers slashed them with knives.

"I fired a warning shot and told them to put the knives down, but they charged toward me," he said, adding that the person nearest him was dressed in black with his face covered. “When he was about one meter from my gun, I saw the knife was about 60 to 70 centimeters long, and I shot him down. The other four people weren't stopped by this and kept running toward me, wielding their knives, so I shot them too."

...

But, it is always someone else's fault for such terrorism:

“Under a hopeless situation where they could not leave the country and at any time faced the threat of arrest, China should take the main responsibility for promoting policies of hostile repression that triggered this incident,” Dilxat Raxit, Munich-based spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, said in an e-mailed statement.

[Rony]

Aren't there some Indians who went to middle east to fight on the side of ISIS ? Looks like they missed that

[Muppalla]

Question folks:
I learnt yesterday that Muslim women cannot go to heaven at all. All they can go is only hell per Quran/hadiths. I am not sure then why so many motivated Mohortamas joining ISIS etc.

[Dipanker]

British Female Jihadis are running ISIS brothels that keep Yezidi women imprisoned, raped.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/br ... is-4198165

By Russel Myers
Members of the all-women al-Khanssaa Brigade in Raqqa, Syria, are running brothels for Islamic State murderers

British female jihadis are running brothels full of women kidnapped and forced into sex slavery by Islamic State militants.

It is understood they are members of an ultra-religious IS ‘police’ force tasked with looking after girls captured from the Yazidi tribe in Iraq.

As many as 3,000 Iraqi women have been taken captive in the last two weeks by the terror group.

Sources suggest that members of the all-women al-Khanssaa Brigade in Raqqa, Syria, are running brothels to satisfy the fighters’ desires.

One said: “These women are using barbaric interpretations of the Islamic faith to justify their actions.

“They believe the militants can use these women as they please as they are non-Muslims.

“The Yazidi people are being ethnically cleansed, and their women are being subjected to the most brutal treatment.

“It is the British women who have risen to the top of the Islamic State’s sharia police and now they are in charge of this operation.

"It is as bizarre as it is perverse.”

A report obtained by the Daily Mirror from researchers at think tank MEMRI – the Middle East Media Research Institution – confirms ethnic sex slavery is taking place on a massive scale.

The report states: “During its takeover of large parts of northern Iraq the IS captured many Yazidi villages, and reportedly took many Yazidi women to be sold and used as sex slaves.”

Researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation suggest up to 60 British women have gone to Syria for jihad.

Sources have revealed some of these women have emerged as key figures in the al-Khanssaa brigade and are enticing dozens more to leave their families and join them.

Aspiring doctor Aqsa Mahmood, 20, who fled her Glasgow home last November, is understood to be part of the brigade.

She said she wanted to behead Christians with a “blunt knife”.

ISIS may be the most successful experiment in multiculturalism. Jihadis from all over the world are working together seamlessly. We should send a note of thanks to the Brits for helping this occur.

If you think about it, it is actually diametrically opposite of multiculturalism. There culture is a very narrow interpretation of Sharia laws within Islam. These are the most narrow minded people on the whole planet. All the "Brits" and the "Americans" and "Canadians", and the "Aussies" and the "Europeans" are mostly Arabs and Pakis, Somalians immigrants from these nations.

[A_Gupta]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/opini ... erham.html
The England That Is Forever Pakistan
Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham
By SARFRAZ MANZOOR
SEPT. 15, 2014

An enlightening breeze of modernity needs to blow through those pockets of England that remain forever Pakistan.

[anupmisra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/opini ... erham.html
The England That Is Forever in Pakistan

Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham

An enlightening breeze of modernity needs to blow through those pockets of England that remain forever in Pakistan.

There! Corrected it.

[Rajagopal]

A plot to randomly behead "kafirs" was today disrupted in Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/201 ... 090174.htm

It has come too late for a innocent student in New Jersey. He was randomly killed to avenge killings of muslims. Google "Brendan Tevlin Murder".

This is the next stage of Islamic madness that will take place in our streets. If the governments do not ban Islam *now*, it will be too late.

Ban Islam. Save mankind.

[Hari Seldon]

^^Rajagopal bhai,

banning malsi ain't a possibility in Des, now or ever.

The first concrete steps to banning it will come from a country wit little to lose - like Iceland, maybe - floated as a trial balloon and then slowly copied by small places here and there that are comfy with their oil supply.

IMO< RUssia will be the first big country to try that, should the tiny countries, tax havens and other such places establish a feasible precedent. Only. We'll be last, after Pak or KSA, if ever.

[member_22733]

Any exclusivist "people of the book" type cults should be banned in any form for a truly "multicultural society" to survive. Malsi was the brophets way to capture a truly secular economy using politics and religion.He had no other goals.

The malsi followers of the brophet are nothing but automatons running on that agenda. Which has now morphed into whatever fartwah the local mullah passes on Friday afternoon.

Christianity is no different either. It was used by the Roman elites to screw over everyone else. They meet on Sunday to decide who will burn in hell for worshiping an idol or praying in a different way.

[anupmisra]

Iranians sentenced to 91 lashes for Pharrell 'Happy' video

Here's the offensive video Happy We are from Tehran

[arun]

Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden Religion motivated killing sees Dean of Islamic Studies of Karachi University gunned down in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

KU Islamic Studies Dean gunned down in Karachi

Despite being Dean of Islamic Studies of Karachi University, Dr. Shakeel Auj, was deemed by the “More Pure” in the “Land of Pure” to number among the “Less Pure” and had a religious edict aka fatwa declaring him Haji Bull Cutlet aka Wajib-ul-Qatal.

Dr. Shakeel Auj’s Sunni Mohammadden sectarian identity was seemingly not enough to prevent him getting bull cutleted on his way to an Iranian Shia Mohammadden organized religious event:

Fatwa was issued against Dr Shakeel Auj

[shiv]

Islam and incest

Nowadays the Internet is full of articles that point out how incest and child sex are permitted in Islam. For this reason, I deliberately searched for and selected Islamic sources on the net on the topic of incest

http://muslim-academy.com/incest-from-t ... rspective/

According to Qur’an, marriages are prohibited with your daughters, your mothers, your sisters, the sisters of your mothers, the sisters of your fathers, the daughters of your brothers and sisters, your nursing mothers, the mothers of your wives, the girls who nursed from the same mother as you, the daughters of your wives with whom you have consummated the marriage – if the marriage has not been consummated, you may marry the daughter. The women who were married to your genetic sons are also prohibited. Conclusion: In accordance with Qur’an, a person will be subjected to severe punishment if he has illegal intercourse with his sister. Islamic scholars interpret incest as a crime in the category of Hiraba. Incest can be prosecuted in the same manner in Islamic law as in cases of rape. Islam considers incest as an extremely unforgivable sin, and the punishment is same as that of fornication. Islam condemns sexual relations with a mahram to such a scale that it considers it worse than rape of strangers or unmarried women - See more at: http://muslim-academy.com/incest-from-t ... iaruM.dpuf

Contrary to this, I have this news from Indonesia
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/archive/ ... ariah-law/

An incestuous relationship between a brother and sister in sternly religious Aceh is the newest unconventional relationship to test the limits of the province’s Shariah law, which fails to consider the possibility, authorities there said.

The incestuous relationship was discovered when it was revealed that a child born to 30-year-old Y.W. was fathered by her 34-year-old brother, M.N.

Muddasir, the head of Southwest Aceh’s Public Order Agency (Satpol PP), said that the siblings are residents of a remote village in Susoh subdistrict. He said that M.N. was single, while Y.W. was a divorcee with two children.

Since the birth of the child, the siblings have been under protection of their local village head to protect them from reprisals from angry neighbors.

But the case has left local Shariah authorities in a quandary.

“We are really confused because there are no rules in qanun Shariah [Shariah bylaw] that discuss incest,” Muddasir said.

“We can’t marry them because they’re blood related and according to Islamic Shariah, they have to be stoned to death, but there are no legal grounds in Aceh to condone that,” he said.

The incestuous siblings were outed to village officials by a man who said he loaned the pair funds to have the baby delivered.

The brother and sister were originally taken to the police, but were released due to a lack of laws regarding incest.

Some detail here
http://rumcrook.wordpress.com/2010/12/1 ... s-a-given/

One might think that verse 4:23 specifically prohibits a man from marrying (that is, to have sex) with his biological daughter. However, this may not be so. Hashim Kamali, one of the most eminent scholars of Islamic Jurisprudence and currently the Professor of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at International Islamic University Malaysia writes:

An example of the zanni in the Qur’an is the text which reads, ‘prohibited to you are your mothers and your daughters’ (al‑Nisa’ 4:23). The text is definitive in regard to the prohibition of marriage with one’s mother and daughter and there is no disagreement on this point. However, the word banatakum (‘your daughters’) could be taken for its literal meaning, which would be a female child born to a person either through marriage or through zina, or for its juridical meaning. In the latter sense ‘banatukum’ can only mean a legitimate daughter.

The jurists are in disagreement as to which of these meanings should be read into text. The Hanafis have upheld the first of the two meanings and have ruled on the prohibition of marriage to one’s illegitimate daughter, whereas the Shafis have upheld the second. According to this interpretation, marriage with one’s illegitimate daughter is not forbidden as the text only refers to a daughter through marriage. It would follow from this that the illegitimate daughter has no right to inheritance, and the rules of guardianship and custody would not apply to her. (Hashim Kamali, pp. 21‑23)

Note: The Qur’an scholars divide the Qur’anic verses into two classes: qati—definitive, no speculation and zanni—speculative. Even the eminent Sharia expert Professor Hashim Kamali admits that the Qur’an is ambiguous. (Hashim Kamali, p. 33.)

This will be a bombshell to the Muslims. Hashim Kamali testifies that at least one sect of Islam (that is, Shafi) allows a Muslim man to marry his biological daughter and have sex with her if the daughter has been born illegitimate.

We may wonder how a Muslim man could have an illegitimate daughter since in Islam all sex out of marriage, except sex with one’s sex-slaves, is forbidden. Let us ponder on the following situations:

A Muslim unmarried man has sex with a Muslim unmarried woman.
The woman gives birth to a daughter. Because of their Zina, both of them receive one hundred lashes. The punishment over, they depart—going their own way, or they decide to marry, but the daughter remains illegitimate. When the daughter turns eight or ten the biological father marries his daughter.

This incestuous marriage is allowed by the Shafi rule, according to professor Kamali. If they are Hanafi or other sect the father may not marry the illegitimate daughter.

A Muslim unmarried man (of Shafii sect) has sex with a Kafir woman. She gives birth to a daughter. The father receives the Islamic lashing. The woman may go scot free depending on which Islamic country she resides, because in some Islamic countries non‑Muslims are exempt from Sharia laws. The illegitimate daughter lives with her mother. When the illegitimate daughter turns eight or more she becomes halal for her biological father. He marries his biological daughter.

[arun]

X Posted from the "Oppression Of Minorities In Pakistan" thread.

Green on Green Intra Mohammadden religion motivated sectarian attack on mosque belonging to minority Shia / Shiite sect of Mohammaddenism by co-religionist of majority Sunni sect of Mohammaddenism. Particular instance of violence resulted in Shia Mosque aka Imambargah in Rawalpindi being torched and one body found on its roof:

Target killings: Fear, tension grip Raja Bazaar after fresh wave of violence

This latest round of Green on Green Intra Mohammadden religion motivated sectarian killings appears to be a reaction to the killing of Sunni Mohammadden Cleric Mufti Amanullah:

Targeted: Taleemul Quran official shot dead

[ramana]

Add Shah Jahan to the mix.

[arun]

Attempt to sneak in Mohammadden religious law ie: Shariah into sports correctly thwarted. Qatar’s womens basketball team rightly disqualified for insisting on wearing Mohammadden dress on court. If Mohammaddens find dress code in sports event abhorrent, they are free to stop participating in that game. Mohammaddens need to be firmly told that the Non-Mohammadden world is not obliged cave in to religion fuelled Mohammadden demands :

Qatar forfeit basketball game in hijab row

[arun]

Mohammadden Cleric, one Maulana Mehdi Hasan who previously offered Islamic headgear to our Prime Minister Mr. Narender Modi allegedly describes Navratri as “festival of devils”. A case of comment being quoted out of context or something deliberately wounding ?:

Hasan, a resident of Rustampura in Thasra taluka of Kheda district, had shot into limelight when he tried to put a skull cap on then chief minister Narandra Modi's head during the latter's Sadbhavna fast in 2011.

VHP is reportedly angry over an interview given by Hasan to a local Gujarati newspaper in which he is quoted as saying that Navratri is the "festival of devils as rapists and drunkards use to participate in it".

The interview was published on Saturday.

Cleric Maulana Mehdi Hasan calls Navratri 'festival of devils', arrested

[uddu]

The pious Timesnow chap was shouting at the top of the voice about the injustice done to the Maulana on his right cheek.

[arun]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan another Mohammadden religion motivated act of violence sees Policeman shoot and wound "blasphemer" similar to the case where Governor of Pakistan occupied Punjab Province Salman Taseer was shot dead aka Bull Cutletted by his Police body guard Malik Mumtaz Qadri.

British man jailed for blasphemy wounded in Pakistan jail

By Katharine Houreld

ISLAMABAD Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:25pm IST

(Reuters) - A Pakistani policeman on Thursday shot and wounded a 70-year-old British man with a history of mental illness in the jail where he is on death row for blasphemy, his lawyers said.

Muhammad Asghar, from Edinburgh, was arrested in 2010 and sentenced to death in January after a disgruntled tenant presented letters he had written saying he was a prophet.

Blasphemy is punishable by death in Muslim-majority Pakistan.

A constable shot Asghar in jail in Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, his lawyers said without elaborating.

Web Link:

Reuters

[Peregrine]

Islamic terror: Raids across London, Anjem Choudary held

LONDON: Radical preacher Anjem Choudary is reportedly among nine arrested in London raids on suspicion of 'encouraging terrorism' on Thursday.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Counter Terrorism Command have arrested nine men on suspicion of being a member of a proscribed organisation, supporting a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 11 and 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and encouraging terrorism contrary to Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006.

The men aged 22 years to 51 years were arrested in London. They have all been taken to police stations in central London and remain in custody.

A number of residential, business or community premises are being searched as part of the investigation in London.

Eleven in east London, one in west London, one in north west London and five in south London were searched on Thursday morning. One residential address is also being searched in Stoke on Trent.

Scotland Yard said "These arrests and searches are part of an ongoing investigation into Islamist related terrorism and are not in response to any immediate public safety risk".

Al-Muhajiroun is understood to be the banned organisation in question. The group became a proscribed Islamist organisation in 2010.

Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, who were both jailed earlier this year for killing Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, were both seen at demonstrations organised by al-Muhajiroun.

Britain last month raised its international threat level to the second-highest level of "severe", meaning an attack is considered highly likely.

Cheers

[arun]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan another Mohammadden religion motivated act of violence sees Policeman shoot and wound "blasphemer" similar to the case where Governor of Pakistan occupied Punjab Province Salman Taseer was shot dead aka Bull Cutletted by his Police body guard Malik Mumtaz Qadri.

British man jailed for blasphemy wounded in Pakistan jail

By Katharine Houreld

ISLAMABAD Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:25pm IST

(Reuters) - A Pakistani policeman on Thursday shot and wounded a 70-year-old British man with a history of mental illness in the jail where he is on death row for blasphemy, his lawyers said.

Muhammad Asghar, from Edinburgh, was arrested in 2010 and sentenced to death in January after a disgruntled tenant presented letters he had written saying he was a prophet.

Blasphemy is punishable by death in Muslim-majority Pakistan.

A constable shot Asghar in jail in Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, his lawyers said without elaborating.

Web Link:

Reuters

X Posted from the "Oppression Of Minorities In Pakistan" thread.

Hat Tip, Peregrine.

Turns out the pious Mohammadden Policeman went after two in his Haji Bull Cutlet spree and one was a fellow Abrahamic Christist Cleric.

Christian Pastor Accused of Blasphemy Killed in Pakistan Jail:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani police officer shot two men in jail on Thursday, killing one accused of blasphemy and wounding another condemned to death on the same charge, lawyers and an activist said. Christian pastor Zafar Bhatti was killed and 70-year-old Briton Muhammad Asghar, who has a history of mental illness, was wounded in the attack in Rawalpindi. ……………….

NBC News

[A_Gupta]

The would-be reformer:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1132974/the-ri ... tual-rebel

[wig]

Woman 'beheaded' in Oklahoma by colleague-Alton Nolen allegedly beheaded a co-worker after being fired from his job where he had recently tried to convert people to Islam

A woman has been beheaded in an Oklahoma food processing plant by a sacked employee who had allegedly tried to convert his colleagues to Islam.


Alton Nolen, 30, walked into the Vaughan Foods plant plant in Moore Oklahoma and decapitated Colleen Hufford, 54, with a knife and then attacked a second women, Traci Johnson, 43.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ahoma.html

[arun]

Mohammadden Terrorists arrested in Spain’s North African enclave city of Melilla and in the Moroccan city of Nador :

Spain and Morocco Arrest 9 in Terror Cell

[pankajs]

Fox News ‏@FoxNews 9h

Alarming posts from #Moore, #Oklahoma suspect’s Facebook page. Tune in to #KellyFile.

[anupmisra]

Excellent debate (two year old)