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Sweden sentences woman for taking child to IS area in Syria
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-syria ... 611c55df5e
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The Lund District Court said the woman, who was not named, took the child to an area “where there was war and an environment characterized by the violent ideology of the Islamic State group.”
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New Zealand, Australia quarrel over Islamic State suspect
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-austr ... d4b9818344
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The leaders of New Zealand and Australia were engaged in a bitter fight Tuesday over which country will inherit an alleged Islamic State militant who at one point held citizenship in both nations.

The 26-year-old woman and two children were detained when they tried to illegally cross from Syria into Turkey, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Monday. The woman was identified only by her initials, S.A.
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Ardern said the woman had lived in Australia for most of her life and had traveled to Syria on her Australian passport.

“We believe Australia has abdicated its responsibilities in relation to this person and I have personally made that point to Prime Minister Morrison,” Ardern said in an unusually blunt statement.
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“We do not want to see terrorists who fought with terrorism organizations enjoying privileges of citizenship, which I think they forfeit the second they engage as an enemy of our country,” Morrison said. “And I think Australians would agree with that.”
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For the past two years, Turkey has been stepping up efforts to send home foreign fighters, saying the country shouldn’t be seen as a hotel for Islamic State militants.
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Time and time people have tried to malign islamists by refusing to understand the book and Aisha. For decades, this was being called as islamist grooming in UK but UK govt found no such direct connection.

Islamists also have rights to follow their own rules and laws. The islam clearly doesn't see these acts as a crime. pakistani islamists are as pure as they get when it comes to following islam. Nothing but islamophobia from Greeks here. They need to educate their citizens about islam and what's allowed in islam and what's not.
Concerns rise as men of Pakistani origin found sexually assaulting women in Greece with alarming frequency
https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/number- ... in-greece/
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Alleged Islamisation of Judiciary: One billion lies can’t quench light of Islam, NSCIA tells CAN - Vanguard News
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/04/icy ... tells-can/
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has slammed the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, over its outcry and claim that the recent shortlisting of 13 Muslims for 20 Justices for the Appeal Court positions was an attempt to Islamise the judiciary.

The apex Islamic body said one billion calumnies by CAN, unleashed against Muslims cannot extinguish the light of Islam in the country.

NSCIA also noted that Christianity preaches love, honesty, sincerity, tolerance, good neighbourliness and kindness, among other virtues, and therefore, CAN should desist from blackmail and bigotry.
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“The unassailable truth is that Justices of the Court of Appeal (JCAs) are 70 but the North with 19 states has 34 while the South with 17 states has 36.

“The cacophony of Christian marginalisation that constitutes the singsong of CAN is a blatant lie, a deliberate distortion and a devilish strategy of shedding crocodile tears or crying while flogging Muslims with barefaced oppression and systemic repression in Nigeria.

“Though religion preaches love, honesty, sincerity, tolerance, good neighbourliness and kindness, among other virtues, CAN has succeeded in creating a Nigerian version of Christianity, which is anchored on morbid hatred, undisguised dishonesty, caustic insincerity, religious intolerance, perennial hostility and outright wickedness.
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“As far as those who run the affairs of CAN are concerned, Nigeria may as well descend into war since in their demonic calculations, they will dominate Muslims with the support of their foreign friends and turn Muslim lands to a vast wasteland as obtainable in some Muslim-majority countries.
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“It is in this respect that Muslims in Nigeria and the South in particular are warned to be circumspect in being dragged into the ethnic debate of some phantom states to be created out of Nigeria by some irredentist agitators.

“Behind the mask of ethnicity that the propagandists wear to deceive the unwary is a religious agenda to obliterate Muslims from the socio-political life of the entire South where hijab would be criminalised and the courts of law would be disobeyed at will by the so-called elite, as being witnessed in Kwara state.
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“The statistics would be helpful as it would reveal the states of origin and religious affiliations of the Nigerian workforce. Muslims can no longer tolerate the psychological terrorism of those whose stock-in-trade is a campaign of calumny and bigoted propaganda anytime a Muslim happens to be at the helm of affairs in Nigeria.

“This is the way forward at this time as the vilification of Muslims by CAN can only be redressed by publishing the statistics and letting the world know who is marginalising who.”
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There are lot more islamic countries. All have wiped out or in process of wiping out minorities. Turkey is twin sister of pakistan.
CDPHR releases human rights report of 7 neighbouring countries, raises concern over vanishing population of Hindus
https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/cdphr-r ... countries/
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The reports, especially of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan highlight the miserable condition of minorities like Hindus and Sikhs whose population has been dwindling consistently in these Islamic nations. Forced conversion, denial of basic rights, restricted freedom to practice religion and abductions and killings of minorities have plagued the neighbouring nations.
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Blasphemous islamic peace. Let there be fear and there will be peace.
Nigeria: Islamist mob chanting Allahuakbar set man on fire for committing blasphemy
https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/nigeria ... lahuakbar/
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Islamist mob sets man ablaze amidst chants of Allahu Akbar

On Tuesday morning, the whole town gathered at one place and then ambushed the police station. At that time, Ruwa was in his prison cell. The cops were highly outnumbered by the Islamist mob, who then took the matter into their own hands. The victim was first escorted out of his prison cell and pelted with stones. While unleashing violence, the Islamist mob continued to raise the slogan of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ The stoning continued until Ruwa lay motionless. The mob then doused his body with petrol and car tyres and set him on fire in front of his elderly mother.
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are you guys also observing that,

now more frequently than ever, while watching videos on Youtube -
1. zakir naik's ad comes up for dawaa crap
2. ketto shows only muslim mother crying for her terminally ill child asking for money
3. oneummah website asks for charity

???
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Yes I also observed the increased dawaa and other advertisements of muslim causes lately. I wondered why.
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Persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh

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chetonzz wrote:are you guys also observing that,

now more frequently than ever, while watching videos on Youtube -
1. zakir naik's ad comes up for dawaa crap
2. ketto shows only muslim mother crying for her terminally ill child asking for money
3. oneummah website asks for charity

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this is getting very annoying now
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https://www.dharmadispatch.in/amp/story ... ssion=true

What the Sufis Really Said: In Their Own Words
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Sandeep Balakrishna
13th Mar, 2020 at 1:57 PM

One of the more enduring myths…actually a dense blanket of wool, which over the last century, has invaded the minds of and partially blinded the cultural and civilisational vision of Sanatanis is a hoax called sufism and variants thereof. It has been one of the more lasting successes of the Original Hoax: the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb. As with such cases, it is the Hindus who have, and who continue to gorge on it like it’s some spiritual version of eating copious kilograms of Haleem. This class of Hindus have even adopted the annual ritual pilgrimage to the Ajmer Dargah with a piety that would surprise the arch bigot and cow-slaughterer Moinuddin Chishti. Few can equal the feverish enthusiasm of such Hindus for self-inflicted, gruesome halaldom.

Then there’s the other class of Hindus, naïve and genuine in their stainless faith in the Unqualified Paramatman who takes on infinite forms. This faith is towards inexpressible sanctity as both the means and an end in and by itself, most visible in their Tirtha-Yatras, Pushakaras, Kumbh Mela, etc. It is this that makes the Sanatana culture unparalleled. And it is precisely this that the snake-oil salesmen of a ghostly cult have exploited with great success most notably in Tamil Nadu . Sufism is merely a softcore version of the same ghostly cultish tactics only with a far longer history in Bharatavarsha.

REALITY OF THE SUFIS
Yet, not everybody were fooled from that period in history till the present day as well. The history of the Sufi cult simply doesn’t tally with their tall and phoney claims to being something akin to the Hindu Yogic Sampradayas, for example. The biggest evidence for this phoniness are the words of the Sufis themselves: copious amounts of oral and written accounts. The cloak of reclusiveness and piety of Sufis did prove an effective subterfuge that hid their bloodthirsty fanaticism from the public eye. However, history shows that almost without exception the more renowned Sufis acted in these capacities, both singly and a varying mix of the following:

1. As reconnoitring agents in powerful Hindu kingdoms. Most notably, the early Sufis with their garb of wandering mystics, implanted themselves in the Chalukya kingdom of Gujarat and from its sprawling coastline, sent intelligence to sultans in foreign lands whose invasion they eagerly awaited.

2. As spiritual and theological advisors to various Muslim kings in the medieval era.

3. As a powerful, behind-the-scenes political power that had enormous influence over the nobility in the courts of these sultans.

4. As advocates of some of the most bigoted, cruel and oppressive measures against Kaffirs. Some of these Sufis whose Dargahs Hindus visit today were instrumental in passing some of the most appalling and savage “laws” so that these Kaffirs could be more effectively persecuted in peacetime.

The inimitable Sita Ram Goel—whose presence the Sanatana civilization misses so deeply in these troubled times—provides perhaps the most accurate backdrop to the topic, characteristically, mincing no words.

When the armies of Islam rode roughshod over the Hindu homeland, the swordsman of Islam was very likely to relax and retreat from callous carnage after some time. He was likely to get satiated after the first few rounds of slaughter and pillage, or feel some sympathy for fellow human beings, or balk at the destruction of beautiful temples and monasteries, or turn away from burning the sacred and secular literature of non-Muslims, or acquire respect for the spirituality and culture of a people who had behaved so differently from his own comrades-in-arms. It was the Mullah and the Sufi who would not let him relax. They threatened him with hell if he tried to turn away from the work assigned by Allah.
BLOOD-SOAKED LITERATURE ABUSING INFIDEL HINDUS
Without further ado, let’s look at some quick examples of their pious words. For those wishing to do deeper research on this topic, a list of reading material has been provided in the Reference section at the end of this essay.

Credit for compiling most of the Sufi literature available in India till the mid 18th century goes to the unvarnished bigot, Shah Waliullah Dehalwi who is shamelessly described in our textbooks as a “reformer.” After the Mughal empire sputtered to a quick extinction after Aurangzeb’s death, Waliullah began writing anxious, frenetic letters to Ahmad Shah Abdali to invade India and reestablish the might of The Only True Faith here. The Wikipedia entry on this Hanafi fanatic is a classic model of whitewashing. The late Sri H.V. Seshadri’s classic work, The Tragic Story of Partition has a valuable account of Waliullah’s appalling mindset and even more horrific writing.

Between the mid-14th century up to the 18th century, an inordinate number of madrasas and khanqahs spurted all over, including southern India and quickly became the centres from where Sufis wrote and disseminated copious tracts of piety. There was nothing spiritual about their piety. We turn to Sita Ram Goel again for a sample:

Many Hindus have been misled, mostly by their own soft-headed scholars, to cherish the fond belief that the Sufis were spiritual seekers, and that unlike the Mullahs, they loved Hindu religious lore and liked their Hindu neighbours. The Chishtiyya Sufis in particular have been chosen for such fulsome praise.
Chishtiyya, derived from its founder, Moinuddin Chisthi of the Ajmer dargah fame. This is what a Muslim scholar writes about Chisthi the pious Sufi:

In Indian Sufism anti- Hindu polemics began with Muin al-din Chishti. Early Sufis in the Punjab and early Chishtis devoted themselves to the task of conversion on a large scale. Missionary activity slowed down under Nizam al-din Auliya, not because of any new concept of eclecticism, but because he held that the Hindus were generally excluded from grace and could not be easily converted to Islam unless they had the opportunity to be in the company of the Muslim saints for considerable time.
Chishti's DargahChishti's Dargah
Here are some samples of the piety exuded by Ahmad Sirhindi, the great Sufi. (Emphasis added)

It is said that the Shariat prospers under the shadow of the sword (al-Shara‟ tahat al-saif). And the glory of the holy Shariat depends on the kings of Islam.

Islam and infidelity (kufr) contradict one another. To establish the one means eradicating the other, the coming together of these contradictories being impossible…The glory…consists in the humiliation and degradation of infidels and infidelity. He who honours the infidels, insults Islam. Honouring (the infidels) does not mean that they are accorded dignity, and made to sit in high places. It means allowing them to be in our company, to sit with them, and talk to them. They should be kept away like dogs.

The abolition of jizyah in Hindustan is a result of friendship which (Hindus) have acquired with the rulers of this land. What right have the rulers to stop exacting jizyah?

If the infidels pray, they will surely seek the intercession of their idols, which is taking things too far. A wise man has said that unless you become a maniac (dîwãnah) you cannot attain Islam.

Ram and Krishna whom Hindus worship are insignificant creatures, and have been begotten by their parents. Ram could not protect his wife whom Ravan took away by force. How can he (Ram) help others?

Before that kãfir [the extraorindary sacrifice of the Sikh Guru Arjun Deva] was executed this recluse [meaning Ahmad Sirhindi] had seen in a dream that the reigning king had smashed the skull of idolatry. Indeed, he was a great idolater, and the leader of the idolaters, and the chief of unbelievers. May Allah blast him!

For fuller details of such gems, please consult the source work given in the References section. Next, we have some more gems from the selfsame Shah Waliullah from whom “Sir” Syed Ahmad Khan took great inspiration. The following are some excerpts from Waliullah’s letter to the Afghan savage, Ahmad Shah Abdali who he invites to invade Hindustan in order to reestablish the might of Islam.

The presence of the kings of Islam is a great blessing from Allah… Every (Muslim) king got mosques erected in his territory, and created madrasas. Muslims of Arabia and Ajam (non-Arab Muslim lands) migrated from their own lands and arrived in these territories. They became agents for the publicity and spread of Islam here. Up till now their descendants are firm in the ways of Islam… [Now] the country of Hindustan has passed under the power of non-Muslims. In this age, except your majesty, there is no other king who is powerful and great, who can defeat the enemies, and who is farsighted and experienced in war. It is your majesty’s bounden duty (farz-i-ain) to invade Hindustan, to destroy the power of the Marhatahs, and to free the down-and-out Muslims from the clutches of non-Muslims. Allah forbid, if the power of the infidels remains in its present position, Muslims will renounce Islam… May you acquire plunder beyond measure, and may the Muslims be freed from the stranglehold of the infidels.
This is just a fraction of a whole body of such Sufi literature, which drips with the choicest obscenities against the infidel Hindus and their religion of darkness. Shah Waliullah’s swearwords against Hindus are especially noteworthy for the level of violence they contain. He singles out the Marathas, the Jats and the Sikhs for this “special treatment.”

In our own time, even well-meaning Hindus need to read these horrific accounts before trying to equate Sufism with Yogic schools. And stop blindly praising the “mystic” Sufi “music” or whatever.

REFERENCES
Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them: Volumes 1 & 2: Sita Ram Goel

Muslim Separatism: Causes and Consequences: Sita Ram Goel

The Tragic Story of Partition: H.V. Seshadri

Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: S.A.A. Rizvi

Maktûbãt-i-Imãm Rabbãnî: Ahmad Sirhindi

Shãh Walîullah Dehlvî ke Siyãsî Maktûbãt: K.A. Nizami
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I highly recommend this article by in former Indian former muslim. It is well articulated and describes similarities between liberals and Islamists.

https://www.newsweek.com/i-left-islam-l ... on-1586128
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Elitism among Indian Muslims: Caste, Power, Privilege and Inequality

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Austrian Muslims to sue Kurz government for controversial Islam map
https://www.wionews.com/world/austrian- ... map-388354
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Officially called the “National Map of Islam”, the listing names locations of at least 620 mosques, Muslim associations and officials with foreign connections.
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Austrian Muslims to sue Kurz government for controversial Islam map
https://www.wionews.com/world/austrian- ... map-388354
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Officially called the “National Map of Islam”, the listing names locations of at least 620 mosques, Muslim associations and officials with foreign connections.
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Wonder how woke the Austrians are compared to their German cousins. Good to see another initiative to sensitize the populace on creeping Islamization, from a liberal-conservative party in the West.
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Author who visited Muslim mosques across Britain reveals 'no go areas' for white men
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... e-men.html
British towns that are no-go areas for white people: Muslim author's study of mosques reveals children 'attacked for being white', parents making families live under Taliban-like rules and women who can't leave home without permission
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White men being jumped by Asians.

Must be those hindoo basterds out to prove they are not so meek.

Even the Daily Mail dare not use the word Muslim or the term Pakistani.

Let me tell you if a Hindu youth tried to do that, he would be thrashed by the whites and then again when he got home.
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Real Islam.
Kerala’s Vishnu Dev Radhakrishnan has been jailed in Saudi Arabia on ‘blasphemy’ charges, his family pleads for help
https://www.opindia.com/2021/06/keralas ... y-charges/
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darshan wrote:Real Islam.
Kerala’s Vishnu Dev Radhakrishnan has been jailed in Saudi Arabia on ‘blasphemy’ charges, his family pleads for help
https://www.opindia.com/2021/06/keralas ... y-charges/
What options does the GoI have? Do we hold Saudi scum that the Saudis want?
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In such cases publicity is not good. Back channel contacts are best way to get deportation of suspects.
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They do have a religion and Mr. Fine it's not fine to insult animals. Absolutely anti animal stance here. PETA should have found this to be insulting.
Florida State Rep Randy Fine Calls Terrorists What They Are: ‘Animals’
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/0 ... e-kaufman/
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Today, however, it seems that, even if you are critical of the terrorist groups themselves, you will be branded with “Islamophobia.” That is what Florida State Representative Randy Fine has discovered, as he is being attacked by Islamist groups for the language he has used, in response to recent terrorist acts perpetrated by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
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State Representative Fine reacted strongly to the terrorist attacks with unapologetic language. He referred to the terrorists as “animals.” He tweeted, “Proud to stand with my colleagues, both Republicans and Democrats, in condemning the Islamic terrorism coming out of Gaza. I fully support Israel using maximum force to punish these animals. #NoMercy.”
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And while Representative Fine used strong language in discussing the recent Mid East conflict, as he is obviously passionate about the issue, the groups that are attacking him for it are the real promoters of bigotry and violence, as much of their existence is based on bigotry and violence. In reading the statement put out by the Islamist groups and further statements put out by CAIR, the members of the Jewish Caucus should understand that the goal of these groups is not to stop hatred and terror. It is only to silence those who speak out against them, the Islamist groups.
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#islam
Honour killing of Pakistani girl in Italy: Victim’s cousin arrested in France, parents who fled to Pakistan and two other missing accused wanted by police
https://www.opindia.com/2021/06/cousin- ... -to-italy/
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Ikram Ijaz is among the suspects behind murder of 18-year-old girl Pakistani girl Saman Abbas, and the concealment of the body. It has been suspected that she was killed and buried by her family for refusing to marry her cousin. According to the Italian police, the teenage Pakistani girl’s parents Shabbar and Nazia, together with uncle Hasnain and cousins Nomanulhaq and Ijaz, allegedly strangled her and buried her in the fields near her home.
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The American Mosque: More Suburban, Less Conversion
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/ ... -ispu.html
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The now mostly suburban Muslims also “tithe” similarly to their Christian neighbors.

Including contributions toward operating expenses and the obligatory zakat charitable giving to the poor, the survey calculated average mosque income to be $317,140, compared to a calculated average church income of $311,782.
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Richardson just hopes white Americans don’t get in the way.

“Muslims in the US tend to view Christianity as the ‘White Man’s Religion,’” he said. “While world missions has effectively come to our doorsteps, the credibility of the Christian witness has significantly diminished as evangelicals have become more politicized and nationalistic.”

The American mosque, meanwhile, is multicultural. Only 4 percent are composed of a single ethnicity or nationality (defined in the survey as 90 percent of attendees); however, 3 out of 4 do have one ethnic group that “dominates the mosque.” Overall, 39 percent of American Muslims are South Asian, 28 percent are Arab, 16 percent are African American, 8 percent are African, and 9 percent are other ethnicities (such as Turkish and Iranian).
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And as mosques have institutionalized in the US, authority is shifting to a board. The imam is now the “leader” of only 30 percent of US mosques, down from 54 percent in 2010.

The paid imam, however, is trending American. While only 22 percent are US-born, this is an increase from 15 percent in 2010. Overall, 32 percent of imams were born in the US, with 47 percent of these being African American. (ISPU notes that 51 percent of US Muslims were born outside the US.)

But as Muslims increasingly resemble America, they are finding more localized resistance. A new question in the 2020 survey revealed that over the past 40 years, 28 percent of mosques faced “significant resistance” when they sought zoning board permission to build, move, or expand their house of worship.

In the last decade, it increased to 35 percent.
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Muslim characters virtually missing in top films: 'The data doesn't lie,' Riz Ahmed says
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 619583002/
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After analyzing 200 movies from the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom between 2017 to 2019, a USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report found that only 19 of those projects included at least one Muslim character who spoke one word or more throughout the movie.

While Muslims make up 24% of the global population, they made up less than 2% of the films researched, meaning out of 8,965 speaking characters in 200 movies, 144 were Muslim. Of the 144 Muslim characters, about 34 were Muslim women.
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“The erasure of Muslim characters is particularly notable in animation, where not one of the animated movies we examined featured a Muslim character,” co-author said Dr. Stacy L Smith. “Paired with the finding that only seven Muslim characters were children, popular movies send a strong message to children that Muslims do not belong and are not worthy of inclusion in storytelling."
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In response to these findings, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative teamed up with the Pillars Fund to create The Blueprint for Muslim Inclusion, which is a set of recommendations for the entertainment industry to combat the lack of inclusion of Muslim characters. "Sound of Metal" actor Ahmed also teamed up with Pillars Fund to create the Pillars Artist Fellowship for Muslim creatives awarding fellows with $25,000 and career support.
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^^ How many non-Muslim characters in movies made in Muslim-majority countries?
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Hilton isn't a Chinese company. All Islamists have gone silent.
China Demolishes Mosque In Xinjiang, Gives Contract To Hilton To Build Luxury Hotel On The Land
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/china-dem ... n-the-land
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sanjayc wrote:^^ How many non-Muslim characters in movies made in Muslim-majority countries?
The Paikhanis usually potray Hindus as dregs of their society through their mainstream media.
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Let’s not question lack of reciprocity. Let us not ask for answers to what it means to call someone a kafir. Or why every mullah in every mosque during every Friday service calls for the conversion or killing of Christians, Jews or idolaters. This query has been publicly posed now by Tarik Fatah. Traditionally in India, it was considered hitting below the belt.


Of course, lest we be accused of islamophobia.

It is possible that Christians have been unaware of these practices but I do not think that is any longer the case. Some have a Stockholm syndrome, most would prefer to let sleeping dogs lie.

Whatever the proximate reason, the lack of a reckoning demonstrates the vast progress of Christians since the crusades.

The problem with Jews is they are too few. The problem with Hindus, that they are too many. That is they have the comfort of numbers.
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Hajj stands cancelled as Saudi Arabia decides to allow only citizens and residents: Details
https://www.opindia.com/2021/06/hajj-ca ... s-details/
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On June 12, Saudi Arabia had announced that Hajj 2021 would be a relatively smaller gathering limited to 60,000 pilgrims. It further added that only citizens and residents of Saudi Arabia would be allowed for Hajj due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020 as well, the pilgrimage was limited due to the pandemic. Only as few as a thousand people were selected to take part in the pilgrimage. Reportedly, every year over 2 million Muslims performs Hajj. Most Muslims perform it only once in their lifetime. According to their belief, it wipes clean past sins.
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vijayk wrote:
You can count on Austrians to do the most radical things, I hope he goes beyond Macron in acting against Islamists.
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There is nothing called "Islamophobia" anywhere. It was a term founded by Islamists and left liberals to give guilt feeling to those who are really and validly worried about a real threat.

May I request a review of name of this forum/thread be considered.
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Exactly. The word 'phobia' denotes an irrational fear of something, like black cats or the number 13 or walking under a ladder etc. There is nothing irrational at all, about the heartfelt concern about Islamism and Islamic terrorism. Particularly with India, which has experienced horrific Islamist violence on its own soil for years. There is a genuine fear about the loss of freedom, if not life.
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Political Islam aims to Replace 'One Nation Under God' to 'One Nation Under Allah' in the US Pledge of Allegiance?
https://www.ibtimes.sg/one-nation-under ... ical-58213
A Fairfax County School in Virginia shot to limelight after its only Muslim board member Abrar Omeish stoked controversy for saying to graduating students that they need to remember 'jihad' and be prepared to enter a world full of ''racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, white supremacy".
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Surprisingly, without the permission from the school authorities, the student leader began reciting the U.S pledge of allegiance at the graduation ceremony and the phrase where it says 'One Nation Under God' was deliberately changed to 'One Nation Under Allah' making the management feel uncomfortable.
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Republicans and conservatives came down heavily over the usage of the term 'One Nation Under Allah' claiming America's Judeo-Christian values are being highjacked by the far left and 'political Islam' is taking refuge under their wings to alter the country's fabric and culture.
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''Even many Muslims find restrictions under strict Islam troubling. There are many Iranians and Pakistanis and Afghanis lining up to try and live in America. But we don't have a lot of Americans lining up to go live in Iran or Pakistan or Afghanistan,'' he wrote.
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^Capitalize on it with One nation under Lord Shiva and One Nation under Lord Buddha statements based on one's religious believes.
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Damn it. Stop exposing Google and other people's algorithms that have biases. Some Islamophone fed in Quran to this neutral network which is not allowed. There are many many different types of islamists.

There are reasons why nothing regarding Allah or Quran is allowed. Repeat after me. I'll not train any neutral network with Quran. Human neural networks are an exception.

Certain case associated with SDRE effect and limped and very short saffron wasn't tried. There is no way that they will ever walk into a bar.

One Nation Under Allah.
Two Natural-Language AI Algorithms Walk Into A Bar..
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/rob ... st-content
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Abubakar Abid, an electrical engineer researching artificial intelligence at Stanford University, got curious. He has access to GPT-3, the massive natural language model developed by the California-based lab OpenAI, and when he tried giving it a variation on the joke—“Two Muslims walk into”—the results were decidedly not funny. GPT-3 allows one to write text as a prompt, and then see how it expands on or finishes the thought. The output can be eerily human…and sometimes just eerie. Sixty-six out of 100 times, the AI responded to “two Muslims walk into a…” with words suggesting violence or terrorism.
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Abid, James Zou and Maheen Farooqi write in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence that they tried the same prompt with other religious groups—Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and so forth—and never got violent responses more than 15 percent of the time. Atheists averaged 3 percent. Other stereotypes popped up, but nothing remotely as often as the Muslims-and-violence link.
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All non Hindustani speakers MUST learn the language for the edification this will bring.....HAhahhahhaahahaaaahhHH :rotfl:
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“Islamic left alone. The left now wake up: just more Saman cases”
https://www.italy24news.com/News/85036.html
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The Democratic Party and Enrico Letta preferred to gloss over the Saman case. How do you explain it?

«Because up to now the Democratic Party has always maintained that Islam should not be criticized. And it must always be accepted and in any case. With this attitude it has subscribed to an absolutely inappropriate cultural relativism ».

But why does a party that claims to be progressive and champion of women’s rights remain in the tow of obscurantist Islam?

“It is the consequence of cultural relativism. We intervene harshly if an Italian citizen is verbally harassed, but we do not intervene on the bloody facts suffered by Muslim women within families and communities here in Italy. In fact, the left has made us second-class citizens. Our body is not central to the feminist struggles of the left ».

You also criticize the stereotype of the hijab or the tendency of the media to turn to veiled Muslim commentators.

“It is a reality that also emerged in the Saman case. The media prefer to talk to women dressed up according to the canon of the hijab while the faithful who do not wear the veil are not listened to, valued and recognized. This is discrimination. While the so-called Islamophobia is condemned, Muslims who are not aligned with the stereotype of the veiled woman are discriminated against ”.
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My driver for polyclinic visits is an Algerian muslim. Wallah he is trying his best to convert me. Am having fun.
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rsingh wrote:My driver for polyclinic visits is an Algerian muslim. Wallah he is trying his best to convert me. Am having fun.
Done that before. You can get more pleasure by asking innocent looking axe questions from his own explanation.
Behave as if you are hearing if for the first time. If you want to give some bad feed back about the peaceful religion, don't give it directly, relate it to the real behavior of Faakistan.(setting up the stereotyping)

Make him think that you are not curious. That way he will put more effort and drain himself.
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