He is a Russian national. Was he vetted when he came to the United States? Of course not — not in any effective way, anyway. That would have been “Islamophobic.”
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A Sacramento man is accused of attempting to provide financial support to a foreign terrorist organization, the United States Department of Justice announced on Friday.
A federal grand jury on Thursday returned a single-count indictment against Murat Kurashev, 34, who is also a Russian national, according to Attorney McGregor W. Scott of the DOJ’s Eastern District of California.
Kurashev allegedly tried to provide financial support to terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is based in Syria….
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There is an extremely important point about the spiritual war raging all about us right now, and it is this: It occurs in the material world. What happens on earth matters, or, as St. Thomas Aquinas puts it, matter matters.
The problem with so many people in this spiritual war is that they play it out as if it is only spiritual and just say, “Whatever happens, happens. I’ll just pray.” Catholics of such mind retreat into piety, fooling themselves that faith without corresponding works is a perfectly fine, holy approach.
Nothing could be less Catholic. That rationale is for cowards. But over in the Protestant world, a similar mentality occurs: It’s called “quietism,” and it’s the notion that the material world doesn’t really matter — all you have to do is just pray and remain quiet.
In fact, this entire thought process actually began and flows out of a flawed understanding of Scripture and theology, going back centuries in Protestantism. Catholic sacramental theology embraces both matter and spirit; it does not reject one in favor of the other.
And because the seven sacraments have very tangible, material aspects to them, Protestantism, with its core anti-material mentality, rejects some or even all of them, dismissing God’s saving actions through matter in time and space. Think about this: Loads of Protestants think the only thing you have to do to achieve salvation is simply make some spiritual act of faith and, from there on out, everything is cool.
You’re saved regardless of your actions. Well, to drive home our point, those actions always occur in the material world, whether it’s adultery, lying, robbing a bank, refusing to vote or rationalizing going and voting for a child killer, it’s always expressed in the material reality.
We use our bodies, the same bodies that will be resurrected on the last day and reunited to our souls. Because of that resurrection of the material body, it is insufficient to think that somehow your soul can be pure even though it used your body to commit sins. And regardless of all that, you and your sinful body just get to waltz into Heaven because at some moment 40 years earlier, you blurted out at some random altar call “The Lord Jesus is my Savior,” and then went about sinning with that body of yours in the material world, thinking all your sins are somehow “covered”?
Well, what about your adding to the blotting out of the goodness of the material world with your body? Doesn’t that matter? What kind of a crazy, disordered theology is that?
Jesse Romero is our guest this week on Church Militant’s Mic’d Up, where we get into a deep discussion about the consequences in the political and moral order of disregarding the material reality we live in.
It’s a fascinating discussion about how all this plays out in our day-to-day lives, how just one little incorrect (and perhaps innocent) misunderstanding of theology can have a massive impact in the material order, which means politics, laws and how you are allowed to live your daily life.
So please join us and watch this week’s Mic’d Up, and share it with your friends. It’s a Church Militant Premium show, which means you have to have a Premium account, but that’s only $10 a month.
However, that same Premium account that allows you to view Mic’d Up also allows you to view thousands of other episodes of multiple Premium programs touching on a vast array of theological topics for your enrichment — which is especially helpful in this time of spiritual war.
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Another anti-Israel appointment from the Biden Administration. Zionist Organization of America recently stated that the Biden administration “has made the worst group of appointments to cabinet positions with respect to US-Israel relations ever” and is “mainstreaming Jew-hatred at home.”
Another Jew-hater in the demented segregationist’s cabinet.
President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top State Department position played a key role in assembling a book on the nefarious influence of the “Israel lobby” while working for an organization that promoted claims about Jewish media control and dual loyalty to Israel.
As a staffer at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Uzra Zeya compiled research for a book that argues that “the Israel lobby has subverted the American political process to take control of U.S. Middle East policy” by establishing a secret network of “dirty money” PACs that bribe and extort congressional candidates into taking pro-Israel positions. Zeya, a former U.S. diplomat who was nominated for undersecretary for civilian security, democracy, and human rights, worked for the Washington Report and its publishing group, the American Educational Trust, in 1989 and 1990. The news outlet is staunchly anti-Israel and has published articles questioning the national loyalty of American Jews and opposing taxpayer funding to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Zeya’s work for the Washington Report and American Educational Trust raises questions about her views on Israel and could become an obstacle during her confirmation hearings. Biden’s recent hiring moves on foreign policy and conflicting statements from staffers have made it unclear how his administration plans to approach Israel policy issues. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki recently declined to denounce the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, contradicting statements condemning the movement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Biden’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the Washington Free Beacon recently reported. Biden also tapped anti-Israel activist Maher Bitar for a top intelligence post and is reportedly considering Matt Duss, an outspoken critic of Israel, for a State Department position.
Sean Durns, a research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, called the Washington Report a “fringe organization” that has “published content with anti-Semitic themes,” including claims that the Mossad was behind the JFK assassination and the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Organizations like the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs have a history of propagating fringe and sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and I think it’s absolutely fair for questions to be raised in any sort of potential hearings,” said Durns.
Zeya did not respond to a request for comment sent through her nonprofit the Alliance for Peacebuilding. The White House also did not respond to a request for comment.
Zeya was listed as one of the staffers who helped compile the research for the American Educational Trust’s 1990 book Stealth PACs: How Israel’s American Lobby Took Control of U.S. Middle East Policy, according to the acknowledgments section.
In a section titled “Jewish Power in the Formulation of U.S. Middle East Policy,” the book claims that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee gives American Jews secret marching orders on how to vote and which candidates to support financially.
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The family is the building block of society. It is the wellspring and training ground of future generations. It is the natural setting where the virtues are learned: piety, morality, prudence, frugality, decency, etiquette and every good thing for our youth. As the family goes, so goes society. It is precisely for this reason that the family has found itself under full-fledged radical assault in the past half-century.
If radicals succeed in rending asunder the family, in re-educating our kids, they will have won the culture. This is why Vladimir Lenin boasted, “Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.” The primary vehicle that radicals have used to undermine the family is feminism. It is a bald-faced lie that the purpose of feminism is to achieve “equal rights” for women. That’s merely the party line fed to the ignorant and the bitter. The animating purpose for feminism has always been the overthrow of the “patriarchy,” the headship of men in society and, particularly, in the family.
It is a little-known fact that, even as far back as the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention (the coming-out party for “first-wave” feminism), the attendant bluestockings declared, “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her,” and that “In the covenant of marriage, [the wife] is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master.” Empowering women legally and politically is, for feminists, but a mere means to end patriarchy.
Once the rightful leaders of the family, fathers, are deposed, radicals know that they will be free to remake the family into an arm of their apparatus, or at the very least to dismantle it as a bastion of the old order. Like Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, radicals fear nothing as much as the righteous, broad-shouldered man.
However, patriarchy will not lightly be cast off. It has been willed by God from the beginning of creation. This is the reason why Adam had authority over Eve (as evidenced by him naming her), even prior to the Fall, in the state of original justice. It’s why God empowered Abraham, Noah, Moses, Aaron, and Joseph to guide his people. It’s why Christ selected twelve men to be the princes of his Church. It’s why there continues to be, as a matter of Christian doctrine, an all-male priesthood. It’s the reason why, throughout human history, “There is not, nor has there ever been, any society that even remotely failed to associate authority and leadership in suprafamilial areas with the male” [Steven Goldberg, Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance (Chicago: Open Court, 1993), 15].
A rebellion against patriarchy is a rebellion against God himself — it’s a rebellion against the order and intelligibility of the universe. As with other failed systems like Marxism, when man attempts to set aside human nature, the consequences are dire. For years, feminists have been attempting to subvert marriage and family life in an attempt to disrupt patriarchy. They have tasted a great deal of success in their endeavor. No-fault divorce has become the law of the land, yielding a marital attrition rate of about 50%. Abortion, which “frees” women from maternal duties, is legal and rampant, producing 57 million human casualties in the United States alone since 1973.
Contraception, another insulator against the chief gift of marriage, children, is virtually ubiquitous, with 98% of sexually active women having used a contraceptive method at some point. Feminists have also taken to attacking motherhood, shaming housewives for being “lazy” and “unambitious” and pressuring them to take up needless glamor-careers for the sake of “empowerment.” Currently, 70% of women have abandoned minor-age children in exchange for careers outside the home, delegating mothering duties to disinterested nannies and sterile day-care centers.
As Pope Pius XII once lamented, when the mother is absent from the home, it becomes “desolate for lack of care,” with members “working separately at different hours in different parts of the city and hardly ever meeting one another, not even for the principal meal or for the rest at the end of the day’s work, much less for family prayers.” Even in many otherwise-functional, traditional marriages, the wife (contrary to scripture — e.g., Titus 2:5, 1 Peter 3:1–7 — and reason) has usurped her husband’s authority and headship over the family, resulting in a de facto leadership vacuum. Hen-pecked, uxorious men are now the rule.
Like Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, radicals fear nothing as much as the righteous, broad-shouldered man.Tweet
The foregoing feminist machinations have produced wages of the most fetid sort. The culture has quickly become crass and despondent. Drug-addiction, pornography, violence and crudity abound. Mass shootings, which are almost always perpetrated by young men from broken homes, are now routine. Of a recent sample of 56 school shooters, a scant 10 were raised in a home with both biological parents. Studies show that “a father’s absence increases antisocial behavior, such as aggression, rule-breaking, delinquency and illegal drug use — especially among boys” [John C. Goodman, “Are Liberals at Fault for the Breakup of the Family?” Forbes, March 16, 2015.
Since 1999, the general suicide rate has increased by 33% in the United States. However, the female suicide rate has increased by 53% to the male’s 26%. For people between the ages of 10 and 24 years old, the suicide rate increased by 56% in the 10-year span between 2007 and 2017. What’s more, kids raised in a single-parent home are more than twice as likely to commit suicide as their peers raised in traditional homes. Even without poring over facts and figures, one can palpably sense that we’re living in a time of general Western malaise — an unseen specter has long haunted us, sending a frisson down the spine of society.
Feminism has failed to deliver even on its empty promises to women. In their paper “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers analyzed women’s happiness trends between 1970 and 2005. To the surprise of many, they discovered that despite women’s newfound “liberation” and “progress,” female contentment scores decreased every decade from the time the survey was administered. In other words, despite a spate of new legal rights and protections, women are less happy than they were in the “dark days” of widespread housewifery. In 1960, women’s self-reported happiness was greater than that of men. By 2005, men were the happier sex. It’s clear that we’ve been sold a defective product.
Central as it is to the health of the culture at large, the family simply cannot be overlooked as the primary locus of the battle for the soul of society. Thus, if the retrograde is to rescue society from the clutches of radicals, he will have to do so by purifying and reinvigorating the family, the most noble and ancient of institutions. This necessitates that we discredit and decisively reject the saccharine hemlock of feminism and its contumacious rebellion against patriarchy.
Men, rise up and grasp firmly the mantle of leadership in your homes. Insisting on wielding your God-given scepter of authority isn’t bullying — it’s your sacred duty. Hold fast to your wedding vows; love your wives; teach your kids diligently; but flee from any temptation to cede your rightful authority, giving way to a practical matriarchy. If we diligently attend to our families, providing for them, educating them, loving them, guiding them and growing them, in one generation we will have taken back control of the culture from the deviants who have long plotted its demise.
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She also supports the removal of the Houthis from the terror list. Surprised?
Actually, there is a surprise here. She says: “We have to look at this serious and devastating situation and do everything we can to hold the Chinese government accountable for this genocide that is taking place before our eyes.”
Most Muslim leaders have been quiet about the Chinese treatment of the Uighurs, preferring to focus their efforts on the weaker and more vulnerable West. And it’s extremely unlikely that China Joe’s handlers will challenge China — in fact, he just defended China’s treatment of the Uighurs. Will a split open up in the leftist camp over China?
“U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar: Biden Administration Should Support Referral Of Israeli Officials To The ICC; U.S. Should Hold Chinese Government Accountable For Genocide Of Uyghur Muslims,” MEMRI, February 12, 2021:
U.S. House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who serves as vice chairperson of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed her support for the independence of the ICC and said that Israel and senior Israeli officers, who are accused of war crimes, should be referred to the ICC. She made these remarks in an interview with Al-Araby TV (Qatar) that aired on February 12, 2021. Omar said that Muslims should not just be a part of the administration in America, but they should also run for the office of president of the United States and take leadership roles in the country. Omar added that she welcomes the willingness of the current administration to cancel the designation of certain groups, such as the Houthis, as terrorists and to “restore some order and normalcy in regard to who belongs on that list [of terrorist organizations].” She also said that the Chinese government must be held accountable for the “genocide” against Uyghur Muslims and suggested that the U.S. might play its role like it did in Rwanda, Bosnia and “even in World War II with the Holocaust.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar: “We have certainly not seen high official appointment of Muslims by the Biden Administration, but there are a number of Muslims who are part of this administration. This is something we will have to continue to push for, in order to make sure that the Muslims remain an important part of the social fabric in the United States. They should not just be a part of the administration – but Muslims should also run for president, and take leadership roles in this country.”
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Interviewer: “The new Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Biden administration would not return the U.S. embassy from Jerusalem, to which it was transferred by Donald Trump, and that this administration would continue to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. What has changed, then, from the Trump Administration?”
Omar: “It doesn’t currently seem like a lot will be changed, but there will be an opportunity for us to push for the United States to stand for its values and principles.”
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Interviewer: “Should the Biden Administration support the referral of Israeli officials accused of committing war crimes to the ICC?”
Omar: “I do [support this]. It is also really important for us to remember that the international courts play an important role in rendering justice for people who are not getting justice within their borders. The U.S. should not delegitimize the ICC and the things it must do. It is shocking that the legitimacy of the ICC is something that is being questioned. Their ability to investigate, probe, and render justice is being undermined here in the U.S.”
Interviewer: “Will you demand that the Biden Administration and the State Department support the referral of Israel to the ICC?”
Omar: “I have. This is an important call and we all must guarantee that the ICC remains an independent body. It is an international court that has the authority and the ability to investigate and render justice for people who are denied justice within their borders. No sovereign state should stop the ICC from doing what they should do.”
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Interviewer: “Do you support the removal of the Houthis from the terror list?”
Omar: “The last administration took a lot of actions, including the designation of certain groups as terrorist. We welcome the willingness from this administration to reverse course, cancel these decisions, and restore some order and normalcy in regards to who belongs on that list.
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“It is definite that the genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in China is something that deserves serious attention from this administration. It also deserves the attention of every single person who is against the massive human rights violations in the world.
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“The United States can play a huge role [in this regard]. As you know, the U.S. played a huge role in regards to the Rwanda genocide, it played a huge role in regards to Bosnia, and even in World War II with the Holocaust. We have to look at this serious and devastating situation and do everything we can to hold the Chinese government accountable for this genocide that is taking place before our eyes.”
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Does the Vatican really think that this will increase harmony and mutual respect between Muslims and Christians? Vatican top dogs should consider a statement of the Muslim Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb:
“The chasm between Islam and Jahiliyyah [the society of unbelievers] is great, and a bridge is not to be built across it so that the people on the two sides may mix with each other, but only so that the people of Jahiliyyah may come over to Islam.”
Dialogue, in other words, is all too often for the Islamic side a means of dawah, Islamic proselytizing, not a genuine discussion. In the Qur’an, the Virgin Mary gives birth to Jesus, but it is stated that he is not the Son of God (19:35), not divine (5:17), and was not crucified (4:157), and thus could not be and is not the savior and redeemer of the world. Do these Vatican officials really think that their Muslim interlocutors will discard what the Qur’an tells them and move closer to the Christian view? Or are they discarding the Christian view of Mary (and hence of Jesus) themselves, so as not to offend their “dialogue” partners? Almost certainly.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Vatican to organize conference promoting Mary as ‘model for faith’ for both Christianity and Islam,” by Jeanne Smits, LifeSite News, February 16, 2021:
February 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — “Mary, a model for faith and life for Christianity and Islam:” is the title of an upcoming series of online webinars presenting Our Lady as a bridge between Catholicism and Islam organized, among others, by the Pontifical Academy of Mary (Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis or PAMI).
Starting on February 18, ten weekly conferences will be given jointly by Catholic and Muslim speakers who will seek “dialogue, knowledge and cooperation” regarding themes such as “Mary, a woman of faith,” “God who is love and faith,” prayer, purity, hospitality and non-violence, fasting and penitence, fraternity and citizenship.
The Franciscan pontifical University of Rome, the “Antonianum,” is another co-organizer of the event through its Duns Scot Chair of Mariological Studies as well as the International Islamic-Christian Marian Commission and the Grand Mosque of Rome and its Islamic Cultural Center of Italy.
The Italian weekly Famiglia Christiana presented the event in the light of the Abu Dhabi declaration, illustrating its article on Saturday with a photo of Pope Francis signing the Human Fraternity Document together with Imam al-Tayyeb of the Al-Azhar University of Cairo.
Quoting at length from the Document, Gian Matteo Roggio commented: “The course of these webinars is therefore aimed at active, free, conscious, solidary and popular participation in the opening of this space of intersection, interconnection, hospitable reception, thus meeting the explicit requests of Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azahr, the noble Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayyeb.”
Readers of Famiglia Christiana in Italy are being asked to believe this: “The figure of Mary, a Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman, belongs by right and by fact to the path, the processes and the experiences that contribute to the generation of such an educational path, which makes a positive and confident wager on the embrace between generations and on a new politics and economy, where countries do not need to build their identity on contempt and on systematic negation, whether overt or covert, of the other and of others: an identity, that is, at the expense of the dissimilar and ready to identify in the other the cause of all the ills, failures, limitations and problems that instead have their multiple causes elsewhere. Belonging to these three religious and multi-cultural worlds (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), the figure of Mary is in itself a pressing and constant invitation to intersect and interconnect these same worlds, even making them a model of plural coexistence where the boundaries of each are made to allow communication, passage, exchange; and not to be closed, according to the many figures of exclusion that have, as their fruit, the culture, psychology, politics and economics of war, hatred and inhumanity.”
In the same grandiloquent style, Roggio added: “The webinars will end during the month of Ramadan with ‘the dates of Mary’ in the Conference Hall of the Great Mosque of Rome (health situation permitting): in memory of what is stated in the Holy Quran (Sura 19,22-26), namely that after giving birth near the trunk of a palm tree, she was called by the newborn child who told her ‘Do not be sad […] shake the trunk of the palm tree towards you and it will drop fresh and ripe dates on you. So eat them,’ a meal of friendship and fraternity will be shared once the sun goes down, as a tangible pact of alliance for the service to the common good of all, no one excluded, in obedience to the ‘understanding of the great divine grace that makes all human beings brothers’ (Document on human brotherhood for world peace and common coexistence).”
Roggio, the author of these very pro-Islamic lines, is not simply a journalist, he is a member of the religious order, the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette. He studied Mariology at the Pontifical Academy of Mary and is now a professor at the same institution. Roggio will be giving the lecture on “God who is love and mercy” on February 25, together with Islamic theologian Shahrzad Houshmand Zadeh, who teaches at the Gregoriana Pontifical University.
Roggio’s words therefore clearly express the spirit of the coming Islamo-Christian webinars: a spirit of profound relativism and misleading equation between the Catholic faith and Muslim beliefs.
The real question is this one: is the Virgin Mary whom we Catholics honor as the Mother of Jesus, only Son of God and the Word Incarnate, the same person as the woman named “Miriam” by the Quran? Is her son, Îssa, the Quranic equivalent of Jesus? He would then be a “Jesus” who could not in any way be the Son of God, because, the Quran proclaims, such an idea is “something monstrous” and that “it is not fitting for the Most Merciful to have a son.”…
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He taught other Muslim Afghans how to behave against women – then he himself raped a colleague on the night shift- empowered by Leftists, Democrats, feminists who say nothing but work to import more rape jihad.
The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says:
“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59)
The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified. (source: Robert Spencer)
This behavior is justified in the Qur’an. Islamic scholar Robert Spencer explains:
“Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah.” — Qur’an 24:13
Because of the Qur’an-derived stipulation that sexual crimes can only be established by the testimony of four male Muslim witnesses, along with the Sharia provision that women’s testimony is not admissible in cases involving sex, it is not at all unknown that women are in prison for being victims of rape: their own charge against the perpetrator becomes self-incriminating when he refuses to confess and there are not four witnesses.
In Islamic law, it is normal: the seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex slaves is sanctioned in the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have paid their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses of those whom Allah has given you as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general. The Qur’an says that a man may have sex with his wives and with these slave girls: “The believers must win through, those who humble themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in deeds of charity; who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or whom their right hands possess, for they are free from blame.” (Qur’an 23:1-6)
A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has previously said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking the Qur’an. And the victim of an Islamic State jihadi rapist recalled: “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God…He said that raping me is his prayer to God.”
The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.
In this case, victim was eight years old. This could possibly have been because the perpetrators’ reverence for Muhammad led them to think of children as sexual objects. Islamic apologists in the West routinely deny that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and go through all sorts of contortions to deny the evidence of the texts, but the fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world, even by the directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) in once-“moderate” albeit now rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey, most clearly shows their dishonesty. The Diyanet wouldn’t approve of child marriage if it weren’t Islamic, as it explains in its own defense. And child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.
“Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria
“There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law. The law in many countries permits girls to marry only from the age of 18. This is arbitrary legislation, not Islamic law.” — Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, Iraqi expert on Islamic law
There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” — Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council
Taught other Afghans “how to behave” against women – then he himself raped a colleague on the night shift
Published 16 February 2021 at 14.08
Domestic. A 24-year-old Afghan man is today sentenced by the Court of Appeal for having raped a colleague in the home care service during a night shift. The man previously worked at an HVB home where he was responsible for teaching other so-called refugee children Swedish rules and how to behave towards women.
The 24-year-old called the criminal charges “pure conspiracies” – until he learned of “certain forensic findings”. Then he claimed instead to have masturbated and had mutual intercourse with the woman in the office.
He also told of a dream he had that “a mouse or rat has entered my clothes and eats on my penis”.
However, the district court did not believe that explanation and sentenced the Afghan to two years in prison. And now the Court of Appeal has upheld the verdict.
The Afghan, who himself came to Sweden as an “unaccompanied refugee child”, previously worked at an HVB residence in Timrå. In a local tenant magazine, he was highlighted in 2016 and told how he was responsible for teaching other Afghans about how it works in Sweden, what rules apply and “how to behave” towards women. He explained that for many it came as a shock to come to Sweden and realize that women have rights.
On 11 August 2020, a rape was committed in the home care service’s premises on Gröndalsvägen in Tumba. During a night shift, a woman was raped orally, vaginally and anal by a male colleague. It all took place in an office, which was used by the staff for coffee and rest.
During a break at work, the woman fell asleep on a sofa in the office. She woke up to the man lying between her and the back of the sofa.
“She explained at once that she was not going to have sex with him, but he hugged her harder and harder. He said, ‘Don’t say that.’ “He put his body weight on her. She was lying on her back. In vain she tried several times to push him away with all her might. She finally gave up”, it is stated in the minutes of the verdict.
The woman was new to the job and at first did not dare to tell what had happened. It therefore took three weeks before she made a report. It was only after entrusting herself to a co-worker, who had reacted to the changing mood between the man and the woman in the workplace, that she informed her boss.
The police report was made on September 4 and on September 8, the 24-year-old was arrested.
Police secured DNA evidence
At first, the man denied the crime and claimed that no sexual intercourse had taken place. He called the charges against him “pure conspiracies” – until he realized that the police could have secured DNA evidence.
Then he began to change his story. In an attempt to explain why his semen could be on the spot, he claimed that the woman had undressed naked, asked for a massage and made approaches.
– She has touched me all over my body and you can investigate that she has touched me all over my body. She has touched me in intimate parts, he stated.
He is said to have found the woman’s behavior “unacceptable”, but still been “sucked, inflamed and hot” by her alleged approaches – to then have fallen asleep in the middle of it all and woke up with his underwear and work pants pulled down to half her thighs. He believed that the woman could have “done something” while he slept.
He also said he masturbated in the office a few nights before the rape.
“A rat eats on my penis”
During an interrogation, the Afghan suddenly wanted to tell a story.
– What happens when I sleep, I sleep deeply and dream that a mouse or rat has entered my clothes and eats on my penis. And then I wake up and scream and take off all my clothes.
However, he could not answer whether he had this dream during the night in question.
After being prosecuted, he wanted a supplementary hearing to be held. He then gave a new version of the course of events and claimed that he and the plaintiffs had carried out two voluntary intercourses, both initiated by the woman. That he had not told this before would be due to “that he was shocked and scared and already had a bad experience with the police. He was also afraid of the plaintiff’s boyfriend who threatened to kill him. He also has a wife and a newborn child; the situation was sensitive ”.
Receives minimum sentence and avoids deportation The
district court found that the woman’s story won “considerable support from another investigation” and sentenced the 24-year-old for rape. The sentence was two years’ imprisonment, but the sentence could have been longer.
The fact that the woman was exposed to the crime at her workplace can be seen as an aggravating circumstance, and the district court held that a longer prison sentence had been justified. Two judges also wanted to see the sentence extended by six months, but since the prosecutor did not demand a longer sentence, the sentence was two years, which is the minimum for rape.
The man must also pay damages of SEK 115,000 to the woman.
No request for deportation was made, which means that the Afghan may remain in Sweden after serving his sentence.
The Court of Appeal rules
After the verdict, the man wanted to replace his public defender with the left-wing lawyer Viktor Banke. However, the district court found no factual basis for this request, which was thus denied.
The 24-year-old appealed the verdict and today the Court of Appeal announced that the district court’s verdict is upheld.
Unaccompanied refugee children
The convict is a citizen of Afghanistan. He came to Sweden as an “unaccompanied child” and was registered in 2011 in Timrå. Today he lives in Järfälla. He states that he is married, but with the Swedish Tax Agency he is registered as unmarried.
Undervisade andra afghaner i “hur man beter sig” mot kvinnor – sen våldtog han själv kollega på nattpasset
Publicerad 16 februari 2021 kl 14.08
Inrikes. En 24-årig afghan döms idag av hovrätten för att ha våldtagit en kollega i hemtjänsten under ett nattskift. Mannen jobbade tidigare på ett HVB-hem där han ansvarade för att lära andra så kallade flyktingbarn svenska regler och hur man beter sig sig mot kvinnor.
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24-åringen kallade brottsanklagelserna för “rena konspirationer” – tills han fick vetskap om “vissa forensiska fynd”. Då påstod han sig istället ha onanerat och haft ömsesidiga samlag med kvinnan på kontoret.
Han berättade också om en dröm han haft om att “en mus eller råtta har gått in i mina kläder och äter på min penis”.
Tingsrätten trodde dock inte på den förklaringen och dömde afghanen till två års fängelse. Och nu har hovrätten fastställt domen.
Afghanen, som själv kom till Sverige som “ensamkommande flyktingbarn”, arbetade tidigare på ett HVB-boende i Timrå. I en lokal hyresgästtidning lyftes han år 2016 fram och berättade hur han hade ansvar för att lära andra afghaner om hur det fungerar i Sverige, vilka regler som gäller och “hur man beter sig” mot kvinnor. Han förklarade att det för många blev en chock att komma till Sverige och inse att kvinnor har rättigheter.
Den 11 augusti 2020 begicks en våldtäkt i hemtjänstens lokaler på Gröndalsvägen i Tumba. Under ett nattskift våldtogs en kvinna oralt, vaginalt och analt av en manlig kollega. Det hela skedde på ett kontor, som användes av personalen för fika och vila.
Under en rast på jobbet somnade kvinnan på en soffa på kontoret. Hon vaknade av att mannen låg mellan henne och soffryggen.
“Hon förklarade på en gång att hon inte tänkte ha sex med honom, men han kramade henne allt hårdare. Han sade: ‘Säg inte så.’ Han lade sin kroppstyngd på henne. Hon låg på rygg. Förgäves försökte hon flera gånger trycka bort honom med all sin kraft. Hon gav till slut upp”, står det i referatet i domen.
Kvinnan var ny på jobbet och vågade först inte berätta vad som hänt. Det dröjde därför tre veckor innan hon gjorde en anmälan. Det var först efter att ha anförtrott sig till en arbetskamrat, som hade reagerat på den förändrade stämningen mellan mannen och kvinnan på arbetsplatsen, som hon informerade sin chef.
Polisanmälan gjordes den 4 september och den 8 september häktades 24-åringen.
Polisen säkrade DNA-bevis
Till en början nekade mannen till brott och hävdade att inget sexuellt umgänge hade förekommit. Han kallade anklagelserna emot honom för “rena konspirationer” – tills han fick klart för sig att polisen kunde ha säkrat DNA-bevis.
Då började han ändra sin historia. I ett försök att förklara varför hans sperma kunde finnas på platsen påstod han att kvinnan hade klätt av sig naken, bett om massage och gjort närmanden.
– Hon har rört mig över hela kroppen och ni kan utreda att hon har rört mig över hela kroppen. Hon har rört mig på intima delar, uppgav han.
Han ska ha funnit kvinnans beteende ”oacceptabelt”, men dock blivit ”sugen, påtänd och varm” av hennes påstådda närmanden – för att sedan ha somnat mitt i alltihop och vaknat med kalsongerna och arbetsbyxorna neddragna till halva låren. Han menade att kvinnan kunde ha ”gjort något” medan han sov.
Han sade sig dessutom ha onanerat på kontoret några nätter innan våldtäkten.
”En råtta äter på min penis”
Under ett förhör ville afghanen plötsligt berätta en historia.
– Det som händer när jag sover, sover jag djupt och drömmer om att en mus eller råtta har gått in i mina kläder och äter på min penis. Och då vaknar jag och skriker och tar av mig alla kläderna.
Han kunde dock inte svara på om han haft denna dröm under den aktuella natten.
Efter att åtal väckts ville han att ett kompletterande förhör skulle hållas. Han gav då en ny version av händelseförloppet och påstod att han och målsäganden hade genomfört två frivilliga samlag, båda initierade av kvinnan. Att han inte berättat detta tidigare, skulle bero på ”att han var chockad och rädd och hade sedan tidigare dålig erfarenhet av polisen. Han var också rädd för målsägandens pojkvän som hotat att döda honom. Han har också en fru och ett nyfött barn; situationen var känslig”.
Får minimistraff och slipper utvisning
Tingsrätten fann att kvinnans berättelse vann ”beaktansvärt stöd av annan utredning” och dömde 24-åringen för våldtäkt. Påföljden blev två års fängelse, men strafftiden kunde ha blivit längre.
Att kvinnan utsattes för brottet på sin arbetsplats kan ses som en försvårande omständighet, och tingsrätten menade att ett längre fängelsestraff hade varit motiverbart. Två nämndemän ville också se straffet förlängt med sex månader, men eftersom åklagaren inte yrkat på längre strafftid blev påföljden två år, vilket är minimum för våldtäkt.
Mannen ska också betala ett skadestånd på 115.000 kronor till kvinnan.
Det gjordes inget yrkande om utvisning, vilket innebär att afghanen får vara kvar i Sverige efter avtjänat straff.
Hovrätten fastställer
Efter domen ville mannen byta ut sin offentlige försvarare mot vänsteradvokaten Viktor Banke. Tingsrätten fann dock ingen saklig grund för denna begäran, som därmed nekades.
24-åringen överklagade domen och idag meddelade hovrätten att tingsrättens dom står fast.
Ensamkommande flyktingbarn
Den dömde är medborgare i Afghanistan. Han kom till Sverige som ”ensamkommande barn” och folkbokfördes 2011 i Timrå. Idag är han bosatt i Järfälla. Han uppger sig vara gift, men hos Skatteverket är han registrerad som ogift.
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ANN ARBOR, MI – Rick Beaudin, a celebrated community booster, tireless volunteer and successful realtor in the town of Pinckney, Michigan, learned the hard way that publicly stating “All Lives Matter” will get you fired. Beaudin was fired by Joseph DeKroub, the owner of Re/Max Platinum real estate company after having worked for his company for over 20 years.
Beaudin’s offense? On June 11, 2020, after seeing on a community Facebook page that Black Lives Matter (“BLM”) planned a protest in Pinckney, he responded from his personal Facebook page: “Can’t we all just promote in Pinckney That All Lives Matter?”
DeKroub fired him the next day to appease BLM—even though he had often touted Beaudin as one of the best promoters of his company. Sadly, the owner he had loyally served for years swiftly fired him because he was concerned about possible retaliation from BLM mobs and boycotts.
As a result, the Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan teamed up with James K. Fett, a prominent civil rights attorney to push back on the “cancel culture” which had victimized Beaudin. On February 4, 2021, Fett filed a four-count civil action on Beaudin’s behalf in the Livingston County Circuit Court. The Defendants include an Unknown Associate of Black Lives Matter, Re/Max of Michigan, Re/Max Platinum and its owner, Joseph DeKroub (you can read the entire complaint linked below).
Rick Beaudin’s “All Lives Matter” post places him in good company. Black leaders like U.S. Republican Senator Tim Scott and Ben Carson, the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 2016 GOP presidential candidate, see nothing wrong with the phrase all lives matter.
Senator Scott, South Carolina’s first black senator since Reconstruction, said this on CNN’s “The Situation Room”:
“If it causes offense that I say, ‘all lives matter’ – black lives, white lives, police officers, jurists, all of us, even politicians, all of our lives matter – if that is somehow offensive to someone, that’s their issue not mine.”
Doctor Ben Carson as a 2016 presidential candidate, said:
“Of course, all lives matter – and all lives includes black lives…. We have to stop submitting to those who want to divide us into all the special interest groups and start thinking about what works for everybody.”
Black Lives Matter (“BLM”) is a political movement that started in response to the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, accused of murdering 17-year-old African American Trayvon Martin. The co-founder of BLM, Patrisse Cullors, has publicly admitted that she and co-founder Alicia Garza, are “trained Marxists.”
BLM has many faces: a Marxist revolutionary group that seeks to overthrow our government, a Twitter hashtag, and a political rallying cry. Whatever its form, BLM uses every opportunity to inflame racial tensions and incite anti-American and anti-police violence. Astonishingly, despite BLM’s murky organization and affiliations, some of America’s largest businesses have donated millions to BLM including Amazon, Microsoft and Gatorade.
Clearly, “All Lives Matter” is meant as a unifying term that promotes racial equality. Rick Beaudin had every reason to be concerned about a BLM protest in Pinckney. It has been involved in scores of riots across the Nation involving deaths, injuries, looting and the destruction of businesses estimated at between 1 to 2 billion dollars.
Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center, observed that, “BLM is a Marxist organization, virulently anti-Jewish and anti-American which seeks to incite race wars, chaos, and mob violence. Its purpose is to destroy America by destroying her Judeo-Christian values and constitutionally protected right to free speech.”
Continued Thompson, “Just last week about 100 BLM protesters converged on Manhattan, New York in a defund the police demonstration which turned violent, injuring two police officers and resulting in 11 arrests. Last year, May 30, 2020, in Fairfax, a Los Angeles community, BLM members vandalized 5 synagogues, three Jewish schools and looted Jewish businesses. They chanted “F**k the police and kill the Jews.”
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He called Xi. He called Putin. But it’s clear now: Biden’s handlers intend to put immense strain on the U.S.-Israel alliance over the next four years. Trump was the most pro-Israel president since the founding of the modern state of Israel, and all he got for it were accusations of anti-Semitism. Biden’s handlers are clearly laying the groundwork for a massive betrayal of a nation that is on the front lines of the global jihad and has been a loyal ally, and he will be hailed as a great friend of Israel.
“Biden Makes History: First President in 40 Years to Punt on Contacting Israel,”
President Joe Biden is the first American leader in 40 years not to contact Israel’s leaders as one of his first actions in the White House, setting up what could be four years of chilly relations between America and its top Middle East ally.
Biden has already phoned multiple world leaders, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping, but during his 23 days in office has yet to speak with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu—making Biden the first president in modern history to punt on bolstering U.S.-Israel relations during his initial days in office. Every president going back to at least Ronald Reagan in 1981 made contact with their Israeli counterpart within a week of assuming office, according to a review of news reports.
Congressional foreign policy leaders slammed Biden’s Netanyahu snub, prompting a flurry of questions for White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who has declined to disclose when or if Biden will call the Israeli leader. Psaki also said on Friday the White House would not list Israel as a U.S. ally when asked about the relationship during her daily press briefing.
Modern presidents going back to Reagan made calls or overtures to Israel during their first days in office, sending a message the United States would continue to stand for the Jewish state’s security. Biden’s diplomatic slight comes as Israel faces encroaching terrorist threats and the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran. He also has hired several individuals with a background in anti-Israel activism, including Maher Bitar, a top White House National Security Council official who spent his youth organizing boycotts of the Jewish state. The State Department’s Iran envoy, Robert Malley, also has been a vocal critic of Israel….
President Barack Obama, who faced criticism from Republicans for policies they branded anti-Israel, called the Jewish state’s leaders on his first day in office. Obama also called Palestinian leaders that day, laying the groundwork for that administration’s failed bid to foster peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
President Donald Trump not only called Netanyahu but made the historic decision to invite him to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2017, two days after he took the oath of office….
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I spoke with two former Israeli Ambassadors to the United states about who forms foreign policy and what that policy would look like based on the past record of Biden’s picks.
Watch my interviews Ambassadors Yoran Ettinger and Danny Ayalon speaking from their personal experiences.
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Religions shouldn’t be considered responsible for the misdeeds of their followers, right? That has been the consistent establishment media line on Islam since 9/11, and before that, and it has been enshrined in public policy on both sides of the Atlantic and become axiomatic in the West’s approach to terrorism.
But wait. Issac Bailey is a columnist and a professor of Public Policy at Davidson College in North Carolina. He writes in Newsweek:
“If Christianity can convince so many to follow a man like Trump almost worshipfully—or couldn’t at least help millions discern the unique threat Trump represented—what good is it really?”
So now apparently the followers of a religion do reflect on the religion itself – if the religion is Christianity, and the evil follower is Donald Trump.
Bailey explains: “I’m struggling to hold fast to my Christianity—because of Donald Trump. Not exactly Trump himself, though, but the undying support of the self-professed Christian pro-life movement that he enjoyed. My faith is in tatters because of that alliance. And I am constantly wondering if I am indirectly complicit because I dedicated my life to the same Jesus the insurrectionists prayed to in the Capitol building after ransacking it and promising to kill those who didn’t do their bidding.”
Faith in tatters! Heavens to Betsy! Yet this poor lost soul Issac Bailey is manifesting confused thinking in all sorts of ways. Trump is not and never claimed to be the leader of a Christian sect. Millions of people didn’t support Trump because of Christianity, but because of the policies he stood for and implemented.
He is an academic, after all, and so it’s no surprise that Bailey’s thinking gets even more confused than that. On December 6, 2020, he tweeted:
“In the aftermath of 9/11, some Americans warned politicians would use that horrific event to pass laws that stifled freedom and targeted Muslims. They were right. That’s what’s being referred to here. Beheadings should not be used to target Muslims and excuse racism.”
He is setting up a straw man here, as no decent person wants to “target Muslims” or “excuse racism.” Anyway, his point is that jihad terror should not have been considered to reflect poorly on Islam and thereby lead to this alleged “targeting” of Muslims. But if he can say that Trump is so evil that he is struggling with his Christianity because many Christians support Trump, why doesn’t the same reasoning go for Islam? Issac Bailey does not write and likely never would dream of writing something like this: “If Islam can convince so many to follow a man like Osama bin Laden or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi almost worshipfully—or couldn’t at least help millions discern the unique threat they and others like them represented—what good is it really?”
To say such a thing would be “Islamophobic,” and it is easy to get the impression from his published writings that Issac Bailey, like the overwhelming majority of his professorial colleagues, would assiduously avoid any appearance of “Islamophobia.”
Bailey’s confusion on these issues goes back years. In 2015, he wrote:
For awhile now, I’ve been asking people a simple question.
If the terrorist organization ISIL is Islamic, and represents something profound about that faith, does the same standard apply to Christianity and the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan?
I haven’t gotten many good answers, or any direct ones, actually.
I’ve usually posed the question to people who most adamantly believe that because ISIL said it is adhering to its faith, the group’s members must be true Muslims.
“Islam is right there, in their name!” they shout.
That clarity of conviction disappears when talk turns to the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a group that had long operated in South Carolina, inflicting terror on black residents, those who supported them and others deemed undesirables.
All right. But it is unclear which point of view Bailey himself favors. Does he think the KKK is un-Christian, or does he think that the Islamic State is un-Islamic? It seems likely that he wants to shame Christians by making them admit that the Klan is Christian, yet here again, it is virtually certain that he would never dare to ask “what good is it really” about Islam under any circumstances.
The academic environment all over the country today, and in Europe as well, is anti-Christian and pro-Islam. Most academics are all too willing to make the leaps of logic necessary to sustain this perspective. And when we see the recent graduates of American colleges and universities out rioting for socialism and increasing racial polarization, the effect that deep-thinking professors such as Issac Bailey have on their hapless charges is all too obvious.
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Now that the winter of Leftist/Islamic censorship is upon us in a big way, Amazon has removed her book from sale, so as not to offend those who must not be offended, and to stick to offending those who can and must be offended with impunity. This is done at least in part because those who must not be offended might kill you, while those who must be offended will not. Now, I don’t agree with my old friend that Islam is not a religion, but I am not being churlish or fastidious to point that out. I believe that ideas should be evaluated on the basis of whether and to what extent they correspond to and elucidate reality. Ideas should be discussed freely and accepted or rejected on their merits. But the totalitarian fascists of Amazon believe that the ideas they have judged to be beyond the pale must not be heard, and since they have an effective monopoly on the book business, when they drop a book, it will indeed for the most part not be heard.
Now that they have begun dropping Islamocritical books, expect more of this. After all, who on the Left will raise a voice for the freedom of speech? Not Old Joe. Not Kamala-in-Waiting. Not Old Joe’s handlers. Not Schumer or Pelosi or AOC or Ilhan Omar. Not a soul. The fascists are emboldened. It has been nice knowing you all, but it’s clearly coming to an end. Soon the only way you’ll be able to hear dissidents will be via whispers and furtive handovers of shoddily printed material, by the few who have the courage to continue to dissent when the darkness that is descending has finally enveloped us completely. I hope to see you there.
“Amazon Cancels Allah is Dead,” by Rebecca Bynum, New English Review, February 9, 2021:
Cancel culture progresses one burned book at a time.
My book, Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion, has been removed from the Amazon website. Therefore I’m re-posting a talk I gave on the subject that nicely summarizes the book:
Good Evening. I’m here to talk about a subject no one wants to discuss – religion. Many people in our post-Christian society (especially journalists) are afraid of it, misinformed about it and ignorant of the most basic theological concepts. And our theologians are often too specialized in their work to be able to discuss religion in its broadest outlines or our Churchmen are often soo concerned with finding common ground that they gloss over and ignore the theology of Islam….
It looks as if Kuwait has another surprise to offer regarding its prominent personalities. The incident this time arose with the singer Ibtisam Hamid, who just announced that she had converted to Judaism, causing another shockwave at the social media in general and in Kuwait in particular.
On the other hand, Kuwaiti blogger May Al-Eidan revealed that the prominent Kuwaiti Sheikh Ahmed Al-Qattan has called for the imposition of the apostasy punishment, which carries a death sentence.
In her “Instagram” account, May Al-Aidan has published the video of Basma Al-Kuwaitiya and commented on it by saying that “she is an Iraqi citizen but born in Kuwait.”
It has been reported that Basma’s mother is actually Kuwaiti, while her father is Iraqi, which explains why in most Islamic countries only men can grant citizenship to their children.
In the Egyptian blogosphere, a blogger confessed he couldn’t sleep after watching that video. In his video, Nasser Hikaya even hinted that the singer’s announcement would create a rift within the region. “They are playing a trick here because of the normalization, I will prove that to you.”
He pinned comment on his YouTube account apologizing for his anger and insults towards Kuwaiti singer, “Sorry for my excitement, but I am a man who is jealous of his country and his religion.”
In a video posted on social media, the singer announced her conversion to Judaism. “I am Ibtisam Hamid, also known as Basma Al Kuwaiti, from Kuwait. I announce here leaving Islam, the religion of hypocrisy and terrorism that degrades, oppresses, and violates women, and does not give them their full rights. I proudly announce my embrace of the Jewish religion and declare my opposition and my non-affiliation to the Al-Sabah regime, the oppressive, corrupt, and unjust regime that rejects normalization [with Israel], freedom of religion, and freedom of opinion. [ I announce neither loyalty nor affiliation [to Kuwait or Islam].
BBC’s Arabic program “Trend” presented an interview with the singer in which she revealed that Kuwait issues Travel Documents to individuals not recognized as Kuwaitis yet who were born and have lived in Kuwait for many years.
Basma the Kuwaiti also announced that she has not started yet the process of conversion to Judaism, yet she “believes in it as her faith.”
Earlier this year, a Kuwaiti journalist announced that he was giving up Islam and converting to the Christian faith in a video clip. Mohammad Al Moamen, the son of one of Radio Kuwait’s founders, almost caused a social media explosion while hiding outside Kuwait.
It is indisputable that the developments of the last decade due to the rise of ISIS reflect the true nature of Islam, which explains the increasing instances of conversions among Muslims to other religions in that region.
On the other hand, this leads to more extreme religiosity and fanaticism, leading to more persecution of religious minorities.
COLUMN BY
SAMIR A. ZEDAN
Samir A. Zedan is a former Senior Counter-Terrorism Analyst at the US Department of State, and a former Development Outreach and Communication Specialist at USAID/Iraq. He has contributed to hundreds of articles published in major media outlets with assignments in the Palestinian Areas, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Europe.
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Suicidal self-hatred continues to sweep the West. Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic jihadis in Pakistan in 2002, has suffered a great deal, and it is perhaps churlish and uncharitable to venture any critical word at all. But it isn’t she I am criticizing. It is the general tendency, the felt need or the unspoken imperative, to take all possible opportunities to exonerate Islam of all connection to crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. One can never solve a problem by pretending it doesn’t exist. But that is exactly what we are doing.
The 19th anniversary of Daniel Pearl’s murder was Monday, and on Wednesday, Mariane Pearl published an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “My husband’s killer could go free in Pakistan. Despite the injustice, I still have hope.” It began: “Almost two decades ago, the people of Pakistan sent me messages expressing sadness and anger at the murder of my husband, Daniel Pearl, in their beloved country. Danny was 38 years old and the Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief for South Asia. “I am a Muslim and this, my friend, is not Islam,” one wrote. My favorite message read: “Your husband had a great smile . . . a happy mixture of Pope John Paul and Dean Martin.”
It is certain that Mariane Pearl received numerous messages after the murder of her husband. The one that she and/or the Post chose to give first mention, however, was “I am a Muslim and this, my friend, is not Islam.”
The first question that springs to mind about this is: Why this message? Why is cleansing Islam’s image the number one priority?
The second question is: Why is this always asserted but never explained? Daniel Pearl was made to state that he was a Jew in a video, where he likely read a statement the jihadis had prepared for him: “My name is Daniel Pearl. I am a Jewish American from Encino, California USA. I come from, uh, on my father’s side the family is Zionist. My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We’ve made numerous family visits to Israel. Back in the town of Bnei Brak there is a street named after my great grandfather Chaim Pearl who is one of the founders of the town.” Then he was beheaded.
In a hadith that Muslims consider authentic, Muhammad is depicted as saying:
“The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 6985)
And the Qur’an says:
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (47:4)
In light of all that, it is unfortunate that Mariane Pearl’s interlocutor apparently did not explain how the killing of Daniel Pearl was not Islam, how the jihadis who killed him were transgressing Islamic tenets, or how the passages of the Qur’an and Hadith that seem to allow for such behavior actually have some other meaning or can be interpreted in a benign manner.
In the article, Mariane Pearl describes how it all happened, and how a Muslim who was the chief of the counter-terrorism unit in Karachi offered his help. Mariane Pearl jokes in response to kindness from this man and his wife: “Stop being so nice. How am I ever going to hate you guys?” That is the choice as most people see it today: one must either hate Muslims, or pretend that Islam is a religion of peace. But in reality, the fact that Islam teaches warfare against unbelievers does not mean that every Muslim will believe this to be an imperative or practice it. It doesn’t mean that no Muslims will be kind to unbelievers. But to believe that such kindness precludes the possibility that Islam does teach this warfare is to be willfully blind. And that’s where we are as a society.
The third and easiest question to answer is: Would the Washington Post ever print an explanation of the Islamic justification for the murder of Daniel Pearl, even if such a story included statements by Muslim spokesmen in the West offering differing interpretations of the passages in question? And the answer is, Not on your life! Not only is the Post, and all the rest of the establishment media as well, dedicated indefatigably to whitewashing and obfuscating the ideological roots of jihad terrorism; it is also determined to pretend that there isn’t even a question about those roots: they lay, according to the Post and its colleagues, in “racism” and “Islamophobia,” not in Islamic texts and teachings, and anyone who suggests otherwise is a racist “Islamophobe” himself.
The victory of “Islamophobia” propaganda has been so complete that the elites don’t even consider it remotely necessary even to address the arguments of those whom they smear as “Islamophobes,” or to acknowledge that they have any arguments at all. The only problem with all this is that the jihad, motivated by Islamic texts and teachings according to numerous statements of jihadis themselves, is not going to go away for all this pretending that it doesn’t exist.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jihad Watchhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJihad Watch2021-02-11 08:01:302021-10-07 20:33:50Daniel Pearl’s Widow Highlights Message She Got About His Murder: ‘This is Not Islam’
