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

arun · Post by **arun** » 01 May 2015 09:07

Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion based sectarian discrimination.

October 2012 report titled “On Being Shia In Saudi Arabia : A Survey Looking Into The Lives Of Saudi Arabia’s Second Class Citizens” by Bayan Perazzo of the Washington DC based Institute For Gulf Affairs:

On Being Shia In Saudi Arabia : A Survey Looking Into The Lives Of Saudi Arabia’s Second Class Citizens

arun · Post by **arun** » 01 May 2015 09:26

Saudi Arabia institutionalizes Mohammadden religion based sectarian differences by insisting sectarian identity of those seeking visas for performing the obligatory Hajj pilgrimage, be disclosed:

“Saudi Arabia will not entertain any Hajj application from aspirants that fail to specify whether the applicant is a Shia or a Sunni.”

From Express Tribune:

New Hajj application asks: ‘Are you Shia?’

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 01 May 2015 22:23

From the following, Pakistan flags waved at separatist Geelani's rally in J&K

how can people make up such stuff in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary...

I say this to our Hindu and Christian brothers: Islam teaches us that we must never discriminate with others on the basis of profession, region, class, language, and so on

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 03 May 2015 07:05

http://www.journalnow.com/opinion/colum ... ab6f5.html

The point here isn’t that one Abrahamic religion’s charitable efforts are better than another’s. The point is simply that they all try. And yet the nameless masses of Muslims who donate to charity (and, at least in Britain, donate at higher rates than Christians and Jews), and the many who drop everything when calamity strikes somewhere in the world, are not the image many Americans have when they think of Muslims. Maybe it should be.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 03 May 2015 09:14

From Lal Masjid

Meet the Next Generation of Terrorists Who Support ISIS .... “What do you want to be when you grow up?” “A mujahid.”

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 03 May 2015 09:54

Terrorist Group Boko Haram Has Killed More Than 10,000 People in Nigeria...last year alone

arun · Post by **arun** » 03 May 2015 11:20

Mohammaddens execute Non-Mohammadden Yazidi captives in Northern Iraq:

Islamic State 'executes 300 Yazidi hostages in Iraq'

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 04 May 2015 06:02

Interesting bait and it seems some people took the bait...

Multiple shootings, possible bomb at AFDI/Jihad Watch free speech event in Texas - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/05/shooting-possible-bomb-at-afdijihad-watch-free-speech-event-in-texas.html/#sthash.omXqQNyi.dpuf

also Cop. Two Suspects Shot Outside 'Draw Muhammad' Contest in Texas

saip · Post by **saip** » 04 May 2015 22:39

A traffic officer working after hours as security for the event and armed only with a service pistol killed both men, who were wearing body armor and carrying assault rifles, Garland Police Department spokesman Joe Harn told reporters Monday.

My that is great shooting under fire. The cop deserves a medal.

Garland, TX Mohammed Drawing Contest Shooting

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 05 May 2015 00:27

Harn declined to call the incident a terror attack, saying the motive was still under investigation.

"We don't know their intent, other than that they were willing to pull up and shoot police," Harn said.

really...

the convert has a history it seems

In 2011, Simpson was convicted of making a false statement involving international and domestic terrorism and sentenced to three years of probation, court records show.

arun · Post by **arun** » 05 May 2015 06:40

Anindya wrote:Interesting bait and it seems some people took the bait...

Multiple shootings, possible bomb at AFDI/Jihad Watch free speech event in Texas - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/05/shooting-possible-bomb-at-afdijihad-watch-free-speech-event-in-texas.html/#sthash.omXqQNyi.dpuf

also Cop. Two Suspects Shot Outside 'Draw Muhammad' Contest in Texas

Mohammadden Terrorist attack on Mohammad cartoon drawing contest in Texas, sees link to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan emerge. One of the Mohammadden Terrorists shot dead, Nadir Hamid Soofi, studied in Islamabad and may even be a citizen of the Islamic Republic:

One of the Texas attackers was a Pakistani: Report

Falijee · Post by **Falijee** » 05 May 2015 20:46

French far-right mayor slammed for counting Muslim children

MONTPELLIER:
A French mayor backed by the far-right National Front was accused of racism on Tuesday after using the names of school children in his town to decide how many were Muslim.

But Robert Menard, mayor of Beziers in the south of the country, said his administration had used lists of pupils’ names to decide how many were Muslim, and claimed the figure came to 64.6 per cent.

Comment: According to the Deen , this town should now be re christened as Darul Islam; in a few decades, the whole country will fall in that category !

Multatuli · Post by **Multatuli** » 06 May 2015 17:58

Texas gunman had happy childhood in Pakistan but struggled in U.S.

Nadir Soofi, a gunman shot dead after opening fire at a Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, was a popular schoolboy in Pakistan but struggled to adjust to the United States after moving there as a teen, friends said on Tuesday.

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Friends in Pakistan, who studied with Soofi at the elite International School of Islamabad, were stunned to discover that police had identified him as was one of the attackers.

"When he was in Islamabad, he had a great life. His mom was an American who taught art at the school, he was in plays, popular with girls," said one of Soofi's best friends at school.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/ ... mesticNews

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 07 May 2015 01:40

Difficult to read, but this is nothing that is un acceptable to even relatively modern Is;lamic societies, see below...

The pre teen sex slaves of the Islamic State

Kuwaiti activist recommending sex slavery...
Kuwait: “Female political activist” calls for legalizing sex slavery to protect men from “adultery or corruption”

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 07 May 2015 03:10

There Are 13 Countries Where Atheism Is Punishable by Death

The countries that impose these penalties are Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. With the exception of Pakistan, those countries all allow for capital punishment against apostasy, i.e., the renunciation of a particular religion. Pakistan, meanwhile, imposes the death penalty for blasphemy, which can obviously include disbelief in God.

interactive map gives a good, broad, overview of which countries punish apostasy and blasphemy by death (black), with prison time (red), or place legal restrictions on (non-)religious speech and thought (yellow):

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Tuvaluan · Post by **Tuvaluan** » 07 May 2015 07:52

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ar ... olumn.html

This column is instructive in creating a false equivalence between people drawing muhammad's portraits and guys with assault rifles trying to kill them for drawing.

The former Manhattan socialite proves it almost any time she opens her mouth, and she proved it yet again by organizing an art contest to determine who could produce a cartoon about the prophet of Islam — knowing that many Muslims consider this to be sacrilege.

Now two people are dead.

It's one of those awful moments when there is no one to root for on either side.

Does this cretin Christopher Knight and his soulmate Christine Fair not see the obvious -- the two terrorist mofos are dead because they chose to use assult rifles instead of banners and posters and hanging around outside the venue. These "liberal" tools are actually feeling awful that these two jihadi scumbags died....I guess this Christopher Knight would have felt a lot better if those two had taken out some of the people drawing cartoons first. WTF is this insanity where violent religious bigots who kill others for drawing stuff are actually justified? More power to those who insult this insanity called religion.

Christopher Knight seems to be a bit iffy on the concept of free speech.

The Muhammad Art Exhibit at the Curtis Culwell Center featured a contest for the best caricature of the prophet, complete with a $10,000 top prize. Entries rose to the level of junior high school notebook doodles pumped out by pimply, insecure adolescents.

They included images of the prophet impaled on a pencil; sporting a beard filled with teeming snakes; juggling severed heads while riding a unicycle; and, defecating and urinating on the Koran while sporting a toilet-paper turban.

At least the pimply-faced adolescents are not cowardly wankers like christopher knight and his ilk -- the US constitution promises to defend free speech, and jihadis like to intimidate, and the adolescents refuse to be intimidated, unlike the likes of Christine Fair and Christopher Knight and the faux-liberals who seem to think respecting religions is more important than speaking your mind.

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 09 May 2015 04:18

Tajikistan Considers Ban on Arabic Names
Things could get awkward with a president whose name is derived from that of the fourth caliph, Imam Ali.

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By Catherine Putz
May 09, 2015

Tajikistan’s ongoing attack on expressions of Islam in the country continues. In past weeks, we’ve heard stories about forced beard shavings and more than a few comments on how (and in what colors) Tajik women should dress.

Now, parliament is considering a law that would forbid parents from registering baby names that sound “too Arabic.” RFE/RL’s Farangis Najibullah previously reported on the proposed amendments to the country’s civil-registry laws in April. This week Eurasianet‘s David Trilling highlighted a May 4 Interfax report quoting Jaloliddin Rahimov, the deputy head of the Justice Ministry’s department of civil registry, as saying that “after the adoption of these regulations, the registry offices will not register names that are incorrect or alien to the local culture, including names denoting objects, flora, and fauna, as well as names of Arabic origin.”

Eurasianet gets right to the irony:

The effectiveness of such measures might be debatable. Besides, the name bill casts such a wide net that, if taken literally, it could catch the country’s biggest fish: the president [Emomali Rahmon]. Emomali is a version of Imam Ali, Prophet Muhammad’s son-in-law, the fourth caliph for Sunnis and the first imam for Shia Muslims.

Central Asia has grappled with names for some time. From the ashes of the Soviet Union, regional leaders attempted to forge national identities that were separate from Russia and each other. Many dropped Russian-sounding names — Rahmon dropped the -ov from his surname in 2007. Interestingly, Najibullah reported in 2010 that Islamic names were the new fad in Tajikistan, paired with a rise in piety. Seems the fad has gone too far.

An essay published today on Eurasianet helps conceptualize what’s happening in Tajikistan. For a country where Islam is the majority religion, it sure seems difficult to be a Muslim. Sebastien Peyrous, a research professor at George Washington University, outlines in his essay the roots, role, and results of Central Asia’s state religious affairs committees. He says that despite Islam’s historical and cultural importance, “the ruling classes in Central Asia do not conceal their wariness of religion, tending to see faith as a competitor to state ideology.” They therefore keep religion under state control via “modified Soviet-era instruments.”

While these committees are intended to serve as a bridge between the state and religious populations, they are also designed to serve as a “bulwark against perceived fundamentalist and violent movements.” This mismatch leads to mismanagement as “believers who attend an unregistered mosque, a Baptist group, or Jehovah’s Witnesses denounced for ‘overly virulent proselytism’ tend to be lumped together with extremely minor movements that indeed favor radical and violent political Islamism.”

Peyrous issues the same warning many Central Asia watchers have: that in trying to exert absolute control over religion these committees undermine public trust in the state and may engender the very same extremism they are intended to deter.

http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/tajikist ... bic-names/

Multatuli · Post by **Multatuli** » 09 May 2015 22:53

Four Egyptian teenagers face trial for 'insulting Islam' - by making fun of ISIS

* Teenagers could face up to five years in youth detention centre for the clip
* Their teacher, 42, who filmed them faces a jail term of up to seven years
* Group were arrested last month and have been in prison cells ever since
* Film shows them imitating an ISIS beheading, and kneeling to pray

Four Egyptian teenagers and their teacher have been detained for poking fun at ISIS in a harmless video.

The teenagers, aged between 15 and 16, could face up to five years in a youth detention centre, while their teacher faces a potential jail term of up to seven years.

The group were arrested last month and have been stuck in police holding cells ever since.

During a faith-based excursion in February, Gad Younan, 42, allowed the boys to shoot a video on his mobile phone in their hotel room.

In the clip, the boys appear to mock the terrorist organisation by kneeling on the ground to pray hysterically and by imitating a beheading.

After filming the lighthearted video, Mr Younan misplaced his phone's memory card and it was picked up by a Muslim neighbour in Al-Nasriyah village in Upper Egypt.

Following the discovery of the video, a group of Muslims filed a complaint with police. Younan was then arrested and charged.

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Mina Thabet, a Coptic activist and researcher of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms told Fox News: 'They are some kids who decided to have fun in a private place..

'They were on a trip with their teacher, but somehow rumour got out that they'd thrown down the Koran, and had insulted Islam, so that led to their arrests.'

He added: 'They used some words that are used in Muslim prayers, but they are in no way being disrespectful to Islam.'

More than 2,000 Muslims then marched through Al-Nasriyah and neighbouring villages, attacking Coptic Christian homes and businesses.

Ashraf Salah, the owner of a computer repair shop, told Cairo-based Coptic newspaper, Watani: 'They were chanting slogans against Christians and Christianity. They were chanting: "With our souls and blood, we will defend you, oh Islam! We will not leave you; we will take revenge for you!"

'They were pelting Christian homes with stones, pounding threateningly on doors and windows, attacking shops owned by Coptic Christians.

'They destroyed the door of my shop and they destroyed a photo studio owned by the father of one of the boys.

'For three days we were living in terror and panic. We stayed in our homes and our children didn't go to their schools.

Frightened and bullied, the parents of the boys handed them over to the police on April 9 while one of them fled to Egypt's western resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

But rather than quelling the anti-Christian fervour, the Muslims continued to protest and there were reports Christian students had been sent home from local schools after receiving death threats.

A reconciliation meeting in the village helped defuse some of the tensions, but a judge this week denied the boys leave to take their end of year exams.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -ISIS.html

KJo · Post by **KJo** » 10 May 2015 02:31

^____ what a sad religion Islam is. Must be awful to live always looking for people backstabbing

hanumadu · Post by **hanumadu** » 12 May 2015 18:15

No solidarity with Bangladesh's Charlie Hebdos?

That headline was chillingly repeated on Tuesday as news reports started coming in that 32-year-old Ananta Bijoy Das, a bank employee in Sylhet in Bangladesh, was killed on his way to work. Das used to write for Mukto Mana, a blog on “science, rationalism, humanism and freethinking,” whose founder Avijit Roy was hacked to death in February, the first of this year’s macabre toll of Bangladeshi bloggers. Roy, who was based in the US, was murdered when he visited Dhaka. His wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, who was also with him, suffered head injuries and the loss of her thumb. Next on the hit-list was Washiqur Rahman, 27, again killed in broad daylight, on his way to work. Joining them now is Das, killed by machete-wielding masked men, 500 metres away from his office in Sylhet city, according to Al Jazeera.

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 12 May 2015 22:17

KJo wrote:^____ what a sad religion Islam is. Must be awful to live always looking for people backstabbing

Saudi and Egypt together have pushed Islamic Brotherhood to murder Syrians, in current anti-Syria war. That is why anyone who makes fun of ISIL becomes a target, as of now.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 15 May 2015 02:56

Pew Poll Analysis: A Billion Muslims Want Sharia Law

with 1.6B Muslims, even if 10% of them were radical, that’s 160 million people: about half of the total US population. But in looking closer at their survey, I’d put the number closer to 25%.
My analysis focused only on the questions about Sharia law: (1) Should the law of the land be Sharia law?; and (2) should that apply to everyone, including non-Muslims? Pew asked question (1) in countries that account for about a billion Muslims, and question (2) in countries that account for about 830 million. If you accept their results in just the countries they surveyed, we learn that:

— 70%, or 700 million Muslims out of the billion represented by Q1 of their survey, want Sharia law to be the law of the land;

— 32%, or 266 million Muslims out of the 840 million represented by Q2 of their survey, want to force it upon everyone.

I don’t know about you, but I’d say that alone represents over a quarter billion “radical” Muslims, with only just over half (53%) of their total population accounted for by the survey.

But we can make reasonable (and conservative) assumptions about the rest of them, and the results are even scarier. I extrapolated Pew’s results in each region (e.g., Central Asia) across the whole region, using the smallest percentages that they found for the countries in the region they did survey. The lower-bound estimates I get for the world Muslim population are as follows:

— 63%, or just under a billion Muslims, want Sharia law;
— 38% of those Muslims, or about 370 million, want to force it on everyone.

That’s 24% of all the Muslims in the world that are, by my definition at least, radical. And that’s more than the population of the US and Canada put together.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 15 May 2015 03:04

From 1.6 Million Immigrants from Predominantly Muslim Countries Since 9/11 - See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/05/1m-immigrants-from-muslim-countries#sthash.4LfAoKMB.dpuf

a large portion of this new wave of immigration comes from volatile countries such as Iraq, Iran, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. And don’t forget about Somalia, the source of much of our recent troubles with homegrown terror, particularly in the Minneapolis area

Over 866,000 green cards have been issued to Indian nationals over the same period of time. This is obviously conjecture, but if it’s assumed that 13.4% of immigrants from India are Muslim – commensurate to their share of India’s native population – that would add another 116,000 Muslim immigrants to the overall tally.

The overall numbers track closely with Pew’s estimates of 100,000 new Muslim immigrants per year, almost twice the level of the previous decade. It is also 10% of our annual immigrant population. At that rate, the Muslim population in the U.S. is expected to double by 2030 and triple by 2050.

member_19686 · Post by **member_19686** » 15 May 2015 03:26

A FATWA FROM SHIA SCHOLAR THAT ISMAILI IS KAFFIR

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 15 May 2015 05:58

Anindya wrote:There Are 13 Countries Where Atheism Is Punishable by Death

The problem I have with "maps" such as these is that they take western societal standards (in any area) as "good and right" and compare the rest of the world with themselves. For that reason India, let alone Pakistan or Somalia also comes out looking bad. This is actually an aspect of Western Universalism and not some impartial judgement of right and wrong.

Just like Shias maim themselves in Muharram the west heaps praise upon itself by such means and tells those who read "You need to be like us"

Going to cross post..

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 15 May 2015 13:07

The common threat to non-muslim religious processions that pass through muslim majority areas - Italy & India.

Italy: Muslims disrupt Catholic procession with insults and threats

On Sunday morning, a group of young Muslim immigrants interrupted a Catholic procession in honor of the Virgin Mary with verbal insults, shouting, and threats as the group passed in front of the Islamic Cultural Center in Conselice, a small town in lower Romagna.

In predominantly Catholic Italy, the month of May is dedicated to the traditional processions carrying a statue or image of the Madonna, usually accompanied by the singing of hymns and praying of the rosary.

The Marian procession is a tradition in Conselice, and every year, the faithful gather at the Piazza Foresti and then proceed along a number of streets including the Via Dante Alighieri, which also passes in front of the Islamic Cultural Center. On Sunday, after the 9:30 a.m. Mass, a group of 100 faithful, including several small children preparing to receive their first Holy Communion, began the procession as usual.

Apparently understanding the procession to be a provocation, a group of Muslim youth from the Islamic Center began hurling verbal abuse and threats at the passing procession.

According to an eyewitness, “During the slow procession of the sacred image, some kids on the ground floor of the building of the headquarters of the Attadamun Islamic Cultural Center began shouting a kind of chorus like ‘Get out of here’ and ‘Go away from here.’”

The participants, especially the children, were reportedly stunned and confused; they halted the procession before regrouping and hurrying past the Center.

After receiving complaints from members of St. Martin’s parish, the mayor of Conselice, Paola Pula, met with representatives of the Attadamun Islamic Cultural Center on Tuesday morning.

Following the meeting, the Islamic Center prepared a formal letter of apology and delivered one copy to the mayor and another to the members of the parish.

In a statement, the mayor said that “the incident, even if it concerns the behavior of minors, is intolerable and must not be underestimated.” She also said the youth involved have been reprimanded by representatives of the center.

and in Nadia...

The Conspiracy - Nadia Riot

On Sunday, 3rd May, 2015 at around 12 noon, a group of Hindu schedule caste and schedule tribe farmers of Nauda village of Juranpur panchayat in Nadia district of West Bengal were going to Jamalpur Baba Sthan (The land of Lord Shiva) situated at Burdwan district in West Bengal. The devotees were playing drums, bugles, flutes, other religious musical instruments and were carrying along with flowers, fruits and other ritual belongings to offer Puja at Baba Sthan. All the devotees were on fasting, as fasting is an integral part of this Puja.

On the way from Juranpur to Jamalpur there is a place called Flood Centre – the place where flood affected people takes shelter. While passing by the Flood Centre, the devotees were suddenly attacked by a group of Muslims without any provocation. It seems that they were doing some suspicious work & got disturbed with the sound of bugles, drum & flutes. This Muslim group started hurling bombs on the devotees; however the devotees could manage to escape from the place alive.

On Monday, the very next day, i.e on 4th May 2015, these devotees were returning from Baba Sthan to their own village Nauda Juranpur, after offering their Puja. All of them were very tired due to their journey and for day long fasting. At around 9 am, huge number of local Muslims started shooting bullets from a mosque, which is adjacent to the above mentioned Flood Centre, without any provocation on these Hindu devotees. Another group of Muslims who were not the denizens of that locality (obviously they are Bangladeshi Citizens better call them Jamaats), started bombing on them from the Flood Centre, it continued for more than 3 hours.

Hearing the sound of bombing and firing 12 Hindus from Chhutipur, a nearby village came to rescue them, but they failed. Three members of a family were gunned down. Some women were also shot. Many others were injured and fell down on the road. Some of them had been chopped and stabbed by the Muslim people. The Muslim group burnt 35 houses of the Hindus and more than one hundred cows, calves, ducks, hens, goats and other domestic animals were killed. The Muslims robbed cows, calves and buffaloes which were grazing on the field. Before burning the houses they robbed all the households, cash, jewellery, and other valuable goods.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 15 May 2015 16:43

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religio ... -door.html

Peregrine · Post by **Peregrine** » 15 May 2015 22:35

Britain to announce new laws on Islamic extremism

British Prime Minister David Cameron was to announce new laws to combat "poisonous Islamist ideology" Wednesday in his first major policy announcement since winning last week's general election.

His centre-right Conservative government is to include a new law to "defeat extremism" in its legislative programme which will be announced to parliament by Queen Elizabeth II on May 27.

Britain's strategy on Islamist extremism has been in the spotlight for months since Islamic State (IS) executioner "Jihadi John" was identified as Mohammed Emwazi from London and a string of young people left Britain to fight for the IS group in Syria.

Cameron is to say Britain has been "passively tolerant" for too long and will vow to "turn the page on this failed approach," according to his office.

The new measures are expected to go further than under the last Cameron-led administration because their former coalition partners, the centrist Liberal Democrats, blocked some measures.

The legislation is set to include new banning orders for "extremist organisations" seen as responsible for radicalisations and restrictions on people deemed extremists who seek to enter Britain.

The government will also get powers to close premises "where extremists seek to influence others", and there would be new powers against charities which divert funds towards groups labelled extremist and terrorist.

"We will introduce legislation to combat groups and individuals who reject our values and promote messages of hate," Home Secretary Theresa May is to say, according to Cameron's office.

The measures were set to be unveiled at the first meeting of the National Security Council under Cameron's new government.

The Muslim Council of Britain umbrella group criticised the government's approach to the issue earlier this year, calling for more consultation with Muslim communities.

"Rather than relying on a premise of a conveyor belt from conservative and non-violent extremism to violent extremism that lacks credence, a fresh approach is required," its secretary-general Shuja Shafi wrote in March.
Cheers

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 17 May 2015 11:26

Peregrine · Post by **Peregrine** » 21 May 2015 02:27

Almost a third of UK school pupils believe 'Muslims are taking over our country', study claims

Almost a third of schoolchildren believe that Muslims are "taking over our country" according to the largest study of its kind carried out in the UK.

A survey of almost 6,000 children aged 10 to 16 across England found that negative attitudes towards migrants and Muslims were widespread among school pupils.

The data, based on questionnaires sent to more than 60 schools across the UK by charity Show Racism the Red Card (SRTRC) between 2012 and 2014, also found that 60 per cent of children questioned believed "asylum seekers and immigrants are stealing our jobs".

The survey's results come shortly after Labour MP Tristam Hunt's embarrassing encounter with a schoolchild, who told the shadow education minister that he would vote Ukip because he would "like to get all the foreigners out of the country".

SRTRC chief executive Ged Grabby said the results demonstrated more needed to be done to combat far-right extremism and cautioned what message younger people were taking from the media.

"This survey shows that this is fuelled by a totally distorted view of the number of immigrants and Muslims living in the UK," he told The Guardian.

Of the 5,945 children survey across England, 49 per cent agreed with the statement that migration was out of control or not being managed properly.

University of Manchester professor Hilary Pilkington cautioned that the results were "not evidence of widespread racism among young people" but instead an indication of "anxiety - often based on inaccurate information".

41 per cent of children did not think that "Muslims are taking over England" and just under half (47 per cent) thought that relations between Muslims and non-Muslims were poor.

But Dr Paul Jackson from the University of Northampton, who also worked on the research project, was pessimistic - despite acknowledging some young peoples' "gap between the reality and perception on issues".

He said: "The subsequent levels of hostility towards these groups is very worrying and is something that we, as a society, need to take seriously."

Cheers

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 21 May 2015 04:53

Praying for the success of rape... shariah compliant rape - who invents this kind of stuff?

Boko Haram militants raped hundreds of female captives in Nigeria

"The sect leaders make a very conscious effort to impregnate the women," said the Borno governor, Kashim Shettima. "Some of them, I was told, even pray before mating, offering supplications for God to make the products of what they are doing become children that will inherit their ideology."

The militants have openly promised to treat women as chattel. After Boko Haram militants kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok last year, the group's leader called them slaves and threatened to "sell them in the market."

"We would marry them out at the age of 9," the leader, Abubakar Shekau, said in a video message soon after the girls were abducted, prompting the global "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign. "We would marry them out at the age of 12."

arun · Post by **arun** » 23 May 2015 07:25

Green on Green Intra Mohammadden religion based sectarian violence in Mohammaddenism’s birth place, Saudi Arabia, sees Sunni Mohammadden group Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIL suicide bomb Shia Mohammaddens praying at a mosque on the Mohammadden Sabbath of Friday.

Given the presence of “Islamic” in their group name, surely Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIL would have been aware of their Mohammadden co-religionists frequent proclamation that Mohammaddenism is “The Religion of Peace” and thus refrain from the dastardly crime of killing co-religionists praying at a place of worship on the day of their own faiths Sabbath:.

Saudi Arabia: 20 people killed after suicide bomber strikes Shia mosque : Isis claims responsibility for explosion at mosque in al-Qadeeh village in east of kingdom during Friday prayers

arun · Post by **arun** » 23 May 2015 07:35

The pull of hatred for Non-Mohammadden’s and other sect Mohammaddens was so strong that an Indian origin Mohammadden, Anis Abid Sardar residing in London, thought nothing of travelling to Iraq to help killings by making bombs.

Indian-origin cabbie jailed for murdering US soldier in Iraq : DNA

arun · Post by **arun** » 23 May 2015 08:21

X Posted from the Sunni-Shia Relations thread (Ckicky)

The Elephant in the Room of Mohammaddenism as a fueller of violence in different area of the world yet again provided camouflage by obliging Non-Mohammaddens. Battle for supremacy between the two main Mohammadden sects has nothing to do with Mohammaddenism according to Yaroslav Trofimov, correspondent of the Wall Street Journal:

Sunni-Shiite Conflict Reflects Modern Power Struggle, Not Theological Schism

arun · Post by **arun** » 23 May 2015 09:05

Samir Khalil Samir, an Egyptian-born Christist Cleric of the Catholic sect and Jesuit sub-sect who is currently acting rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, comments on the 33-minute audio message, of fellow Abrahamic leader of Mohammadden terrorist group Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIS, Abu Bakr Al Baghadi:

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s message is very shrewd because it corresponds to the expectations of a part of the Islamic world. Certainly, Salafi groups, which seek to roll back society to the style and practices of Muhammad’s, will be happy about it and will say: Finally, we find the true Islam!

It should be noted that when talking about emigrating (hijrah), Baghdadi was referring to Muhammad’s migration from Makkah to Madinah, what we call "’hegira’", which marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar world (from 622 AD), i.e. the beginning of the Islamic era.

This migration represents the transition from a peaceful Islam to a bellicose Islam. In Makkah, Muhammad never made war, but seeing that his message was not getting through and that few people bothered to listen to him, and that in fact, his life was at risk, he sent a group of his followers to Ethiopia, a Christian country that was willing to accept him. Instead, he went to Madinah.

There he began to preach and a year later, he began to fight, first against the Makkans, then against the tribes, in order to convert them.

Muhammed won all these wars. Most tribes in Arabia ended up following him. However, they did so because he was a military chief not a religious leader.

Evidence for this lies in the fact that when Muhammad died around 634 AD, many tribes broke away, refusing to fight and pay taxes. As a result of this, the new caliph, Abu Bakr, declared war on them and force them to return to Islam.

They refused, saying that they had made a pact with Muhammad, not with Islam. However, Abu Bakr defeated them and forced them to come back to Islam.

It is interesting that this new "caliph" chose Abu Bakr as his name and that he wants to launch a holy war around the world, to subjugate everyone to Islam.

His call is meant to rekindle an idea that is deeply embedded in Islam, namely: let us all go through our hijrah, let us leave behind all those who want an Islam of peace, and let us move to the true Islam that conquered Arabia first, then the Middle East, then the Mediterranean. This would be the last phase of the prophet’s struggle through his new envoy.

All this is highly symbolic.

Currently, some reports indicate that IS is losing support, that several young men, after arriving in Syria and Iraq to fight, have tried to quit and are now languishing in IS prisons.

Baghdadi’s message then is an attempt to mobilise further Muslims in order to gain the support of more committed young people.

His call will almost certainly shake up Muslim Salafis, whose model is primitive Islam. They take as a model Islam’s first generation, and this will convince many Muslim traditionalists to become Salafis and fight.

Faced with such call to arms, what can be done?

A military fight might be necessary, but it will not be decisive. Military actions will reduce the violence, shed less blood, push back IS, but the movement will continue because it is part of Islam.

The only solution is a radical reform to the internal reading of Islamic history.

When al-Baghdadi says that "Islam was never a religion of peace," he is exaggerating. Islam also had periods of peace. To say that Islam is only war is also a mistake.

Islam is both war and peace. And it is high time for Muslims to re-examine their history.

It is also important to note that the Islamic war is not comparable to the Crusades: The Crusades were at best a limited war to save Jerusalem and the holy sites; it was not a total holy war inspired by the Gospel.

By contrast, war in Islam is always holy if it is made to expand the boundaries of Islam or recover Islamic lands.

From here:

For Al-Baghdadi, Islam is a religion of war, a shrewd message according to Father Samir

arun · Post by **arun** » 23 May 2015 09:38

Alleged comment by Mohammadden cleric belonging to a Sunni Sufi sect ie: Tijaniyya sect, deemed blasphemous and resulting in another group of Allahu Akbaring Mohammaddens burning down a Mohammadden religion based aka "Shariah" Court in Kano in Nigeria:

Sharia Court Burnt as Protest Hits Kano over Alleged Blasphemy

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 24 May 2015 03:43

While sex slavery does happen outside the islamic world - such open support is rare...

Arab men flock to refugee camps to buy little Syrian girls

Zakir Naik who reaches 100 million Muslims, defends sex slavery

and of course a few days ago Isis: Saudi Arabia awards top prize to cleric Zakir Naik who condones sex with female slaves

but we also have the concept of Jawari proposed and supported here :

Men should be allowed sex slaves and female prisoners could do the job - and all this from a WOMAN politician from Kuwait

Salwa al Mutairi argued buying a sex-slave would protect decent, devout and 'virile' Kuwaiti men from adultery because buying an imported sex partner would be tantamount to marriage.

Mutairi claimed: 'There was no shame in it and it is not haram' (forbidden) under Islamic Sharia law.'

She gave the example of Haroun al-Rashid, an 8th century Muslim leader who ruled over an area covered by modern-day Iran, Iraq and Syria and was rumoured to have 2,000 concubines.

Mutairi recommended that offices could be opened to run the sex trade in the same way that recruitment agencies provide housemaids.

She suggested shopping for prisoners of war so as to protect Kuwaiti men from being tempted to commit adultery or being seduced by other women's beauty.

'For example, in the Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives,' she said.

'So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait. Better than to have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations.'

Her unbelievable argument for her plan was that ‘captives’ might 'just die of hunger over there'.

She insisted, 'I don’t see any problem in this, no problem at all'. Mutairi said free women must be married with a contract but with concubines 'the man just buys her and that’s it. That’s enough to serve as marriage.'
Mutairi said that during a recent visit to Mecca, she asked Saudi muftis – Muslim religious scholars – what the Islamic ruling was on owning sex slaves. They are said to have told her that it is not haram.

The ruling was confirmed by 'specialized people of the faith' in Kuwait, she claimed.

'They said, that’s right, the only solution for a decent man who has the means, who is overpowered by desire and who does not want to commit fornication, is to acquire jawari.' Jawari is the plural of the Arabic term jariya, meaning 'concubine' or 'sex slave'.

One Saudi mufti supposedly told Mutairi: 'The context must be that of a Muslim nation conquering a non-Muslim nation, so these jawari have to be prisoners of war.'

Multatuli · Post by **Multatuli** » 24 May 2015 13:28

ISIS take 'prettiest virgins' as sex slaves and burned one alive for refusing extreme perverted acts

The terror group strips girls naked, conduct virginity tests, and send them to slave auctions after they have attacked their villages, often killing their husbands, fathers and brothers

ISIS terrorists are picking out the “prettiest virgins” from the women they capture and sending them to their Syrian stronghold to be sex slaves, according to a UN expert.

And there are horrific reports about the fate of the brave women who resist the murderous terrorists - including one victim who was burned alive for refusing to perform “extreme sexual acts”.

Zainab Bangura, the special representative of the UN secretary general on sexual violence, has travelled to Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan and spoken to women who have endured sexual violence at the hands of militants, particularly women of the Yazidi minority.

She spoke of how the terror group strips girls naked, conduct virginity tests, and send them to slave auctions after they have attacked their villages, often killing their husbands, fathers and brothers.

Fierce haggling usually breaks out at slave auctions, where the girls are sold naked.

ISIS leaders are the first to choose, followed by the fighters, Ms Bangura said.

Bidders often take three or four girls and then sell them on a few months later once they are bored of them, she told Middle East Eye.

"We heard of one girl who was traded 22 times and of a ISIS leader who had written his name on the girl’s hand to show that she was his “property”, the UN envoy said.

Some of the terrified women are so desperate to escape their ordeal that they use their headscarves to hang themselves.

As a result, the rapists of ISIS banned women from wearing headscarves in some areas.

Ms Bangura also spoke about a girl who had been burned alive after refusing to carry out the extreme sexual acts demanded by her sick “owner”.

Women are promised to fighters as a recruitment tool and the terror group raise funds through trafficking, prostitution and ransoms.

Sexual violence is also used to displace populations, to punish, humiliate and demoralise dissenters, to extract information for intelligence purposes and to dismantle communities, she added.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ar_twitter

AUSTRALIA: Sydney mosque auctions off black flag of ISIS to fund an even bigger Islamic jihad training center

http://www.barenakedislam.com/

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 24 May 2015 17:57

A comment published in the NYT:

Fair questions.

An atheist friend who lived around the globe said Islam leaves a trail of ignorance & poverty. The reason is built into to Islam's DNA.

A non-theological explanation for the creation of Islam (& rapid growth) was to make the world safe for Mohammed. He was orphan in a society based upon blood vendetta law. For a time he was protected by distant kin but without that anyone could murder him without penalty. In Mecca Mohammed worked to create a tribe with him on top based on belief instead of ethnicity. Forced out of Mecca he and his band moved to Medina. Without income they fell to banditry. The booty attracted converts. The deal was join and share in the booty, pay extortion tax, or die. Apostasy=death. In essence he ran Medina like a Mafia. This combo created a pyramid org that grew exponentially.

The other tribes based on kin couldn't grow faster than reproduction, Islam could. Once it became clear Islam would not be vanquished it was inevitable that it would grow & subsume the others. Recognition of this creates incentive to join as the earlier one joins the higher on the expanding pyramid one is placed.

The subsequent Islamic empire was built on banditry, raiding & extortion. No interest in development or education, they never governed well. Agriculture productivity fell as did populations. Conversion reduced extortion revenues. Thus once growth ended the Islamic states (not religion) broke up fairly quickly. Contain Isis & it will do the same.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 26 May 2015 02:16

How ISIS expands - some infographics

also Here’s What A Recent Poll Said - widespread support for ISIS according to AlJazeera arabic poll