Bharat Rakshak

Tasawer Islam added: 'The only person that I can think would have something against him is someone to do with his work.

'It will be someone who controls these powers 'Jinns'. They have to go through a lot of effort to attack someone with Jinns and if he has exorcised someone then they have to go through all the trouble again.

'They appear ordinary on the street but in the darkness of night that's what they do.'

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a nuclear engineer who was one of three Pakistani scientists arrested last week because of their suspected connections with the Taliban, is an expert on nuclear weapons production, but also a fundamentalist Muslim with unorthodox scientific views, scientists familiar with the Pakistani scientific circles said today.

During more than 30 years in Pakistan's nuclear program, he pioneered construction of plants to produce enriched uranium and plutonium for Pakistan's small but growing arsenal of atomic weapons. But as a subscriber to a brand of what is known to practitioners as ''Islamic science,'' which holds that the Koran is a fount of scientific knowledge, Mr. Bashiruddin Mahmood has published papers concerning djinni, which are described in the Koran as beings made of fire. He has proposed that these entities could be tapped to solve the energy crisis, and he has written on how to understand the mechanics of life after death. …………………..

New York Times

David Cameron will today expose some of Britain’s leading universities as havens for Islamist fanatics as he announces a new legal duty for colleges to stop extremists targeting students.

The Prime Minister will name and shame the universities that regularly give platforms to hate preachers who are determined to undermine British values. They include King’s College London as well as Queen Mary University and SOAS.

In total, some 70 events involving Islamist preachers were held on campuses last year.

Mr Cameron will tell colleges they must stop giving fanatics “the oxygen they need to flourish”.

The Government’s Extremism Analysis Unit has concluded that there were at least 70 events held on campuses last year that involved hate preachers. Queen Mary, King’s College, SOAS and Kingston University held most events, the unit said.

It is the first time the Government has detailed those institutions who most regularly host fanatics.

Speakers included the homophobic preachers Haitham al-Haddad, Dr Uthman Lateef and Imran Ibn Mansur.

Hamza Tzortzis, who has called for an Islamic state and expressed his hostility towards Western values, and Dr Salman Butt were also highlighted.

ArmenT wrote:BBC News article on the Badaber air base attack.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34287385

Interestingly, the first pic of the soldiers deployed shows them using Chinese made AK type 56. No MARPAT camo seen either.

svenkat wrote:from the above pee pee cee article

Militants have killed at least 16 worshippers at a mosque inside an air force base in Peshawar, officials say.

The gunmen stormed a guard post and then entered the Badaber air base and attacked a mosque at the site, Major General Asim Bajwa said.

Surasena wrote:

Orthodoxy defeats immunisation
ABDUL LATHEEF NAHA

"I have more trust in Allah than in doctors. When you trust doctors more than God, it is perfidy,” asserts Abdul Rahman, a madrasa teacher in Tirur, after a Malappuram child succumbed to diphtheria on Thursday.

This is no surprise in this district, where a worrying re-emergence of diphtheria is putting at risk considerable swathes of its population who still stubbornly shun immunisation and vaccination for supposedly religious reasons. On Thursday, 12-year-old Ameeruddin of Kondotty, who lived in a local orphanage died at the Government Medical College in Kozhikode. He was just one among the thousands of non-immunised children in the district. Over a dozen Malappuram children are now under observation for suspected diphtheria, and three more have been confirmed to have it.

By the latest official count, Malappuram has 23,912 out of 342,657 children below the age of five in the district, the highest in the State, kept out of all immunisation efforts.

That apart, official data also says more than one out of every three children aged between 5 and 10 – or a whopping 36 per cent – growing up in the district never had any immunisation. That leaves them vulnerable to everything from tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis-B, meningitis, measles, and polio myelitis. It is not that they had no access to immunisation. Too many of them were deliberately denied immunisation by their own parents or kin.

Two locally powerful and orthodox groups have been traditionally leading a stiff resistance to immunisation.

These include a large section of families owing allegiance to the Sunni faction led by Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliar, and families of hard core Jama’at-e-Islami followers.

With the diphtheria debate now throwing up questions, Jama’at-e-Islami leader Shaikh Mohammed Karakunnu told The Hindu that to immunise the children or not was a question of “personal choice and freedom’’ of the people, and claimed that his organisation has not issued an official call to boycott all immunisation efforts. “We have not issued any such directive,” he said.

The Kanthapuram Sunni group too claimed a similar stance. Although no religious groups or leaders have officially opposed immunisation, none of them has made a call to the community to vaccinate their children, either.

“It is hard to convince the opposers, who claim themselves to be educated,” says the District Medical Officer, V. Ummer Farook.

Even the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second largest constituent of the State’s ruling coalition with a near-complete political monopoly hold over Malappuram, has yet to do anything substantial, apart from its Late leader Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal and his younger brother Syed Sadiqali Shihab Thangal consenting to inaugurate a couple of oral polio vaccine drives earlier.

IUML district general secretary P. Abdul Hameed said that his party was now thinking of launching a campaign supporting immunisation. “It has now become the need of the hour,” he said.

There are also others who are not convinced, and for reasons apart from the religious. “We do not oppose immunisation per se. But we are against using children for experimental purposes,” says Mohammed Jaseel, spokesperson for the Institution for Homoeopaths Kerala (IHK).

Dr. Jaseel says a section of homoeopaths were opposing immunisation as vaccination was still being done for already eradicated diseases. “Naturally they suspect commercial interests to be behind mass immunisation,” he said.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/k ... 663971.ece

Admin note: highlighted a few parts you might have left out in inadvertently

September 15, 2015Special Dispatch No.6159
Iraqi Columnist: Why Aren't Muslim Clerics Calling For Jihad Against ISIS?

In his July 9, 2015 column, titled "Why Won't They Declare Jihad Against ISIS? Secularists and Infidels Are More Zealous for Islam than the Sheikhs," in the Arabic internet daily Raialyoum.com, Kurdish-Iraqi columnist Anas Mahmoud Al-Sheikh Mazhar harshly criticized Muslim clerics for their apathy and silence in the face of ISIS and its actions, and wondered whether they should not declare jihad and struggle against the organization in light of the dangers it posed. He added that Muslim clerics should be ashamed of themselves, particularly considering that foreign politicians and armies have rushed to defend Islam from ISIS. The following are excerpts from his column:[1]

The Muslim Clerics' Silence In Face Of ISIS Actions Is Incomprehensible

"In the past, we were accustomed to seeing clerics ascend to mosque pulpits and launch their lofty sermons with attacks on the mistaken policies and actions of the politicians in their countries... All the preacher had to do was to raise his voice and shout, and the worshippers and listeners would moan and cry 'Allah Akbar' after every word emerging from his throat. Thus, the measure of a preacher's skill was his ability to attack government policy. Preachers would compete vigorously amongst each other, and the leading mosques were those that frequently dealt with politics and attacked [politicians].

"This 'fashion' continued until ISIS emerged and took over large swaths of the [Middle East] region. Then, as though ordained by fate, these voices fell silent. Their interest in politics waned, and religious matters took up more of their sermons – and not only in the mosques. The clerics and preachers filling the TV channels [also] dealt mainly with the life and times of the Prophet [Muhammad], with religious laws and affairs, and with questions concerning the afterlife and its horrors, to the point where viewers must have felt that they were living in an entirely different world.

"In light of the circumstances in the region, and in light of the plot against Islam being carried out by extremist organizations that have twisted this tolerant religion and replaced it with one consumed by murder, slaughter, floggings, and chopping off of hands, we see Islam's sheikhs and clerics living in enviable peace and complacency, paying no heed to the perplexed Muslims, who by now are confused about their faith and no longer know right from wrong.

"How can clerics who consider themselves zealous about their religion remain silent as the grave, in light of the events in the region and the acts against Islam that these organizations are committing? Could it be that we are wrong and that the true Islam is the one that ISIS preaches? If this is Islam, why be ashamed to admit it[?] And if it is not, why are they refraining from telling the truth?

"Some may say that most Muslim clerics have expressed anti-ISIS positions. This is true, but can such a grave problem be addressed merely with [weak] verbal opposition, without a serious and determined stand that reflects this opposition? We have seen clerics conduct major popular campaigns against matters that are trivial, to say the least, and devote all their time and resources to [these matters]. But faced with the problem of twisting the religion, they settle for [mere] verbal objections, and provide them only when directly asked to do so.

"It is strange that some of the 'sheikhs of Islam' encouraged the Arab peoples' enthusiasm to topple their rulers during the Arab Spring – issuing fatwas calling for jihad against them, even though the Arab rulers' crimes did not compare to despicable crimes of ISIS. Over the decades [of their rule,] tyrannical Arab regimes did not distort Islam the way ISIS has over the past three years. It is also strange that some sheikhs were enraged when the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt was ousted, since it is at best a political group or faction. These sheikhs described those who made this change [the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood regime] as infidels who have left Islam, and even incited the Egyptian people against their new government and declared jihad against it – yet they are silent in light of the actions of these terrorist organizations who are trying to topple Islam as a religion, not just some party or group. Doesn't the danger posed by ISIS require them to declare jihad against it?"

Shame On You For Remaining Silent In Light Of The Dangers Of ISIS – While "Infidels" Protect Us

"There are three possible explanations for their silence in light of the phenomenon and behavior of ISIS:

"One – the sheikhs and preachers of Islam are cowards and dare not speak the truth, fearing that extremist organizations will kill them, leading them to act in contradiction to their [own] sermons, which encourage telling the truth even at the cost of one's life.

"Two – they [believe] in their hearts that this is Islam, and are [therefore] pleased by the actions of these extremist groups and believe in them. Therefore, regimes and security mechanisms should treat these sheikhs like any other terrorist, and apply the terrorism laws to them.

"Three – their regimes are involved in the actions of ISIS and they are unable to disobey their leaders. Therefore they follow these leaders at the expense of the truth, without feeling that the responsibility is on their shoulders as clerics. This makes them hypocrites.

"If we give the clerics the benefit of the doubt, and choose the first option – i.e. that they are motivated by fear, even though this is a shameful option – we say to them: Shame on you for standing by and playing blind, deaf, mute, and dumb – while armies, nations, and peoples that you have termed infidels rush to defend us and our religion, even if they are also defending themselves. It is shameful that the European politicians [whom you call] 'infidels' come out to purge the Islamic arena of this extremist ideology, and that secular Arab artists [whom you call] 'murtadoun' [apostates] criticize ISIS actions that deviate from the straight path – while you hide behind mosque pulpits and utter not a sound, as though it does not concern you.

"You wretches... Have you no shame?"

Endnote:
[1] Raialyoum.com, July 9, 2015.

Election Stunt Or Genuine Change ? Donald Trump Softens His Stance on Muslims

In what would appear as a sudden departure from his earlier stance, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Saturday Muslims are ‘great people.’

“I love the Muslims. I think they’re great people,” Trump said, while responding to a question whether they were a threat to the United States.

In what would appear as a sudden departure from his earlier stance, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Saturday Muslims are ‘great people.’

“I love the Muslims. I think they’re great people,” Trump said, while responding to a question whether they were a threat to the United States.

Read: Trump considers getting ‘rid of’ Muslims when president

As Trump addressed high school students at their homecoming in Iowa, one student challenged his earlier comment where he had said he would consider getting ‘rid of’ Muslims. The student said she considered Muslim-Americans to be an important part of the country and asked whether the Republican presidential front-runner would consider having a Muslim in his cabinet or on his ticket. ”Oh, absolutely,” Trump responded. “No problem with that.”[*]

Appearing unusually subdued, Trump advised students to stay away from alcohol and drugs and encouraged them to pursue professions they felt passionate about. The crowd was a mixture of supporters as well as opponents. Taylor Donner, a senior at Urbandale High School who attended Trump’s speech said he was a fan. But there were others who were supporting different candidates including Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

arun wrote:Exposure to Mohammaddenism while doing further studies in Australia despite being raised Hindu, influences daughter of a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army to attempt to join Mohammadden terrorist outfit, Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIL aka IS.

Parental vigilance seems to have paid off here with the young women prevented from joining the Mohammadden Terrorist outfit IS and is now also being provided counseling:

Dad’s tip-off stops Hindu girl from joining IS

Aditya_V wrote:

arun wrote:Exposure to Mohammaddenism while doing further studies in Australia despite being raised Hindu, influences daughter of a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army to attempt to join Mohammadden terrorist outfit, Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIL aka IS.

Parental vigilance seems to have paid off here with the young women prevented from joining the Mohammadden Terrorist outfit IS and is now also being provided counseling:

Dad’s tip-off stops Hindu girl from joining IS

I suspect her indoctrination was easy as her education system, social ecosystem and Bollywood made her easily pickings for indoctrination in Australia. ...........{Snipped}............

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday opened one of the biggest mosques in Europe, warning against the lure of jihadists as the government frets over its citizens fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas were the guests of honor at the unveiling of the 20,000-square meter mosque in the Russian capital. “This mosque will become an extremely important spiritual center for Muslims in Moscow and the whole Russia,” Putin said in a televised speech.“It will be a source for education, spreading humanist ideas and the true values of Islam.”The turquoise-domed mosque can host over 10,000 worshippers and is one of the largest in the country that will help to serve Russia's estimated 20 million Muslims.The $170 million (150 million-euro) project, which took a decade to complete, caused controversy over the destruction of an earlier mosque that stood on the site.Moscow -- which has battled an Islamic insurgency in its volatile southern Caucasus region -- is worried about the pull of extremist groups, especially ISIS jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq. Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev last week estimated that some 1,800 Russian citizens are fighting for the radical group.Putin in his speech lashed out at jihadist groups for their “attempts to cynically exploit religious feeling for political ends.”“We see what is happening in the Middle East where terrorists from the so-called ISIS group are compromising a great world religion, compromising Islam, in order to sow hate,” he said.Putin was later set to meet Erdogan for talks that were expected to focus on the Syrian conflict, as the West frets about a buildup of Russian forces in the war-torn country.

arun wrote: I think I may have understood your comment on Bollywood though I must say that could be an easily mistaken conclusion as I practically never watch Bollywood films. My presumption then is that your comment is built on the disproportionately large presence of Mohammaddens in the film industry with a seemingly never ending procession of male stars going by the surname Khan conditioning Hindu women to fall easy prey to Love Jihad not only because of Bollywood glamorising Mohammadden actors in reel life. That these same Mohammadden actors in real life have indulged in Love Jihad with a Hindu wife to show as trophy is a bonus as it were. Have I somewhat got it?

Your comment on role of the education system and social ecosystem, has however eluded me.

My research team and I examined randomly selected 50 films from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and 2000s and 2010s. We developed a list of movies in those decades and selected two to three movies per letter to finalise a list of 50 films per decade.

We noted the significant presence of stereotypicality in these films with respect to religion and caste: In nearly 78% of the movies promiscuous women had a Christian name; 58% of the corrupt politicians in films had a Hindu brahmin last name; and, 62% of the corrupt businessman in films had a vaishya last name.

Eighty-four of the Muslims in films were shown as strongly religious and honest (even when they are shown in the film as engaged in crime) and 88% of the films presented kshatriya last-name individuals to be courageous. Nearly, 74% of the films presented Sikhs as laughable.

In addition, we examined 20 Bollywood movies that had Pakistan as the setting. In 18 of those films, Pakistanis were projected as welcoming, courteous, open-minded and courageous.

The Ansarullah Bangla Team (ATB), a militant group which has been blamed for a series of murders of secular writers in Bangladesh, has published a hit list of bloggers and activists around the world, threatening to kill them.

The list, issued in a statement on the Internet, includes mostly expatriate Bangladeshis— nine from the U.K., seven in Germany, two in the U.S., one in Canada and one in Sweden.

The ABT has published the list after several of its leaders and activists were arrested by the Bangladesh police, including the outfit’s acting chief Muhammad Abul Bashar, in connection with the murder of bloggers.

“Cancel the Bangladeshi citizenship of enemies of Islam and [Muslim religious] education, atheists, apostates, unbelievers, anti-Islamic ... bloggers, agents of India ... otherwise they will be killed wherever they can be found in the Almighty’s world,” the ABT said in the statement.

British newspaper The Guardian reported that the U.K.-based bloggers of Bangladeshi origins named on the list have approached the police in London and elsewhere following its publication.

A number of bloggers said they have reasons to be alarmed with the new list, but added that threats would not stop them from writing. The ABT leader, Bashar and his two associates were arrested earlier this month in Dhaka for their alleged involvement in the killing of Bangladeshi-American secular blogger and science writer Avijit Roy.

The police have recently charged several ABT operatives and organisers for the murder of a 27-year-old blogger, Washiqur Rahman, in March this year in Dhaka. Rahman’s death came just weeks after Avijit Roy was murdered in the capital city in February. Roy’s U.S.-based widow, also a blogger, who narrowly escaped the brutal attack on her husband, is among those named on the new list.

The British media said the exact origin of the list is unclear, while some have doubted if it is an official statement from the ABT in Bangladesh. Bangladesh police believe the ABT is close to the Ansar ul-Islam, which is part of al-Qaida in south Asia. Al-Qaida had earlier praised violent operations by the ABT and hailed activists charged with the murder of bloggers as “lions of the international community”.

Secular bloggers and writers in Bangladesh have become targets of extremists elements since 2004 when a respected Dhaka University professor, Humayun Azad, was brutally attacked. He later died.

In February 2013, ABT activists hacked to death Ahmed Rajib Haider, another secular blogger who was an organiser of ‘Shahbagh youth protest’, demanding maximum penalty for the 1971 war criminals.

In May this year, Ananta Bijoy Das was hacked to death by assailants in the northeast Sylhet. The latest victim is Niloy Neel, who was murdered in Dhaka. Another blogger The Bangladesh government has recently urged the bloggers to maintain “a limit” in their writings so that religious sentiments of the people are not affected.

arun wrote:IED Mubarak demonstrated on Eid al Adha day as apparent Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion motivated sectarian violence continues unabated. Two Suicide bombers suspected to belong to Sunni Mohammadden terrorist outfit Islamic State, attack Shia Mohammadden Mosque in Yemen on Mohammaddenism’s religiously significant day of Eid al Adha aka Bakrid, killing 25.

The frequency and lack of any meaningful Mohammadden outrage at the attacks by Mohammaddens on Mohammadden places of worship resulting in the killing of worshippers, leads me to conclude that Mohammadden protests at the demolition of a derelict Mosque built by demolishing a Hindu place of worship that killed nobody, namely Babri Masjid, should be dismissed as nothing more than manufactured outrage to support the theme of Mohammadden “victimisation”. Practice followed by adherents of Mohammaddenism in Mohammadden majority countries, going by frequency of occurrence, and the lack of meaningful protest by Mohammaddens about these events, clearly indicates that destruction of own religious places of worship leading to the killing of worshippers is not a taboo activity in Mohammaddenism.

Since I have not come across a single instance over the past decade of a Buddhist blowing up a Buddhist place of worship, Christist blowing up a Christist place of worship, Confucian blowing up a Confucian place of worship, Jew blowing up a Jewish place of worship, Jain blowing up a Jain place of worship, Parsi blowing up a Parsi place of worship, Sikh blowing up a Sikh place of worship, Shinto blowing up a Shinto place of worship or Taoist blowing up a Taoist place of worship, I have been compelled to conclude that this deviant behaviour is a uniquely Mohammadden practise:

Deadly blasts hit Yemen mosque at start of Muslim holiday

Besides the above mentioned attack, there have been at least 3 other Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religious motivated attacks of Mosques this month alone.

Yemen Mosque Attack September 02 in which 28 were killed:

IS claims deadly bomb attacks on Yemen Shia mosque

Air Force Base Mosque attack of September 18 in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan which killed 17:

Taliban kill 17 in mosque at Pakistani airbase

Maiduguri, Nigeria Mosque attack of September 20:

B’Haram killed 54 in Maiduguri mosque attacks – Police

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