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All Cultures Are Not Created Equal:Islam and It’s Propagandists,the Muslim Brotherhood

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As this article from Europe News makes obvious,Islam has a low view of women and girls. The fact that forced marriages are taking place in Great Britain should be a source of shame to British politicians. But then again,they are debating whether marriage should include homosexuals.

Britain’s Multicultural Nightmare

Gatestone Institute 5 April 2012
By Soeren Kern

 

More than 400 children were subjected to forced marriage in Britain during the past year, including a five-year-old girl who is believed to be the country’s youngest victim of the practice.

The statistics were provided by the British government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) as part of an ongoing effort to create a law that would criminalize forced marriage in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The custom is already illegal in Scotland.

Overall, the FMU said it gave advice or support related to nearly 1,500 cases of forced marriage during 2011, although experts say the vast majority of forced marriages in Britain go unreported.

Most of the instances of forced marriage in Britain involve Muslim families from South Asia, particularly Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Many of the cases involve Muslim children who are taken abroad by their parents and forced to marry against their will. Forced marriages often involve kidnapping, beatings and rape.

Prime Minister David Cameron has compared the practice of forced marriage to modern day slavery and has said people should not “shy away” from addressing the issue because of “cultural concerns.” A new law outlawing the practice is currently being drafted and could be in place by the end of 2012.

Separately, more than 65,000 women and girls in England and Wales have been the victims of female genital mutilation, and another 24,000 girls under the age of 15 are believed to be at a high risk, according to a London-based non-profit group called Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development.

Rest of the article here – http://europenews.dk/en/node/53542

The United States is starting to experience the effects of Muslim/Sharia culture too. The stories are sad,predictable,and generally glossed over by the MSM.

From Vlad Tepes -

1. UTSandiego:

Records hint Iraqi woman’s death not a hate crime

EL CAJON — Search warrant records obtained Wednesday in the beating death of an Iraqi-American woman show a family in turmoil and cast doubt on the likelihood that her slaying was a hate crime.

Shaima Alawadi

Shaima Alawadi — Photo courtesy of Al Arabiya News

Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five, was apparently planning to divorce her husband and move to Texas when she was killed, a family member told investigators, according to the court documents.

The records obtained at El Cajon Superior Court also reveal Alawadi’s 17-year-old daughter, Fatima Alhimidi, who called 911 to report the attack, was distraught over her pending arranged marriage to a cousin.

A search of Fatima’s cellphone records shows that while she was being interviewed by investigators hours after the attack, someone sent the teen a text message that read, “The detective will find out tell them (can’t) talk,” the affidavit states.

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And there is the fact that the current administration is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood.

From Pam Geller’s blog -

Obama’s MB coup is official. It is what I was warning of for years, even prior to Obama’s winning the 2008 presidential race.

Before Obama was elected to the highest, more powerful office in the world, he was commiserating with Muslim Brotherhood-tied operatives. During the presidential race in August 2008, Obama’s “Muslim Outreach Adviser,” Mazen Asbahi, was forced to resign because of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. This was all documented in my book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America.

Obama invited Ingrid Mattson, the first woman president of the Muslim Brotherhood group, the Islamic Society of North America, to make the national prayer at his inauguration. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security was meeting with American Muslim Brotherhood groups in February 2010.

Back in June of 2009, very early in Obama’s infamous presidency, he did the unthinkable. He invited the then-banned Muslim Brotherhood supremacist group to hear his apology speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. The enemedia ignored it, pretended it wasn’t happening, but the rational among us were floored and worried – rest of the article – http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/04/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-goes-to-the-white-house.htm

What do they believe ? Here is an excerpt from an excellent article-

The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday saw excerpts of the text, compiled by Palestinian Media Watch founder Itamar Marcus and analyst Nan Jacques Zilberdik.
They detail the Brotherhood’s objectives of advancing the global conquest of Islam and reestablishing the Islamic Caliphate, the public and private duties of jihad and the struggle Muslims must wage against Israel.
The full text, translated by PMW, will be posted Wednesday on the organization’s website, Palwatch.org.
“The Islamic ummah,” it says, referring to the supranational community of Muslims, “can regain its power and be liberated and assume its rightful position which was intended by Allah, as the most exalted nation among men, as the leaders of humanity.”
Elsewhere, it exhorts Muslims, “Know your status, and believe firmly that you are the masters of the world, even if your enemies desire your degradation.”

Marcus spoke to the Postabout what he views as the danger of downplaying the Brotherhood’s ideology, or expecting it to moderate its objectives after being allowed into the political process. The movement differs from international terror groups like Al-Qaida, he said, only in tactics, not in its goals.
Marcus cited passages in the text that urge Muslims to wage jihad only when circumstances are ripe.
“The Brotherhood is not rushed by youth’s enthusiasm into immature and unplanned action which will not alter the bad reality and may even harm the Islamic activity, and will benefit the people of falsehood,” Mashhur wrote.
“One should know that it is not necessary that the Muslims repel every attack or damage caused by the enemies of Allah immediately, but [only] when ability and the circumstances are fit to it.”
Jihad is the Way explicitly endorses the reinstatement of a worldwide Islamic regime.

Rest of the article – http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=207415

Finally,take note of the warning sounded by Frank Gaffney -

As Egypt lurches toward the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, one way or another – by “an orderly transition to democratic rule” (asHillary Rodham Clinton delicately puts it), through violent overthrow or simply through the demise of the ailing 82-year-old president – much is unclear. One thing that should not be is that the Muslim Brotherhood is our enemy, and whatever role it plays in Egypt’s future will be to our detriment.

Such clarity is readily available because the Brotherhood (MB or, in Arabic, Ikhwan) has told us as much. Consider, for example, the mission statement for the MB found in one of its secret documents, titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.”

“The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” Read the rest here – http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/31/the-muslim-brotherhood-is-the-enemy/?page=all

Afghanistan:Where Smiles and Knives in the Back are Normal

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Trying to bring democracy to a seventh century Islamic mindset is impossible. Putting numerous limitations(via the White House) on our military is self defeating, and the results are predictable and tragic. Here is an excerpt from an excellent column by the Sultan of Knish,aka Daniel Greenfield. BTW,he has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center,a ridiculous group that masquerades as a human rights organization. I suppose they thought Daniel’s writings were so voluminous and profound he must be a Think Tank. The irony is that the SPLC is the real hate group.

 

The Blood Price of Afghanistan – http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 07:35 PM PDT

The alleged attack on Afghans by an American soldier in Kandahar, where 91 soldiers have been murdered last year alone, is already receiving the full outrage treatment. Any outrage over the deaths of those 91 soldiers in the province will be completely absent.

There will be no mention of how many of them died because the Obama Administration decided that the lives of Afghan civilians counted for more than the lives of soldiers. No talk of what it is like to walk past houses with gunmen dressed in civilian clothing inside and if you are fired at from those houses, your orders are to retreat.
Air strikes are for days gone by. The American soldier in the ISAF is expected to patrol and retreat, to smile and reach out to Afghans while they shoot him in the back. After risking his life to hold back the Taliban, he is expected to take it calmly when his government announces that it is trying to cut a deal with the Taliban. As he waits out the final months until withdrawal, seeing his friends lose their limbs and their lives, knowing that the enemy has won, that he has been betrayed and is being kept senselessly on the front line for no objective except the diplomatic position of a government that hates him, that is taking away his health care, his equipment and his job; how does he feel?
The Panjwai district, where the shootings happened, are the cradle of the Taliban. Smiling civilians plant IED’s and children serve as lookouts. Obama’s Surge pushed hard into Panjwai and the Taliban pushed back. American soldiers were caught in the middle, dying for a handful of dusty towns where the inhabitants took their presents and shook hands with them, and then shot at them from cover.
The Montreal Gazette tells us that Belanday, one of the villages where the shootings took place, was a model village. What it omits is that Belanday was a key Taliban base, the houses were used for IED factories and it served as a transit route on the way to Kandahar City. The model village concept was supposed to change all that, but it didn’t change the sympathies of the local population.
All of that doesn’t matter though. The feelings of the men and women sent into the heart of the beast don’t matter. Only the eternally tender sensibilities of Muslims do. When Muslims kill us because we disposed of Korans that they marked up, we are at fault. When we kill them we are also at fault. This is the modern Catch 22 of the military which requires officers who have only one skill, sensitivity to Muslim feelings, and soldiers who die to keep the peace among their killers.
The life of an American soldier is worth less than a Muslim’s feelings. Under Islamic Sharia law, the blood price for a non-Muslim was only a third that of a Muslim. At Islam’s homicidal Wal-Mart, you could kill three Christians for the price of a Muslim. And we have cut prices even further by placing the feelings of a Muslim above the life of a non-Muslim. Read the rest here – http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

 

 

All hail Caesar our Commander in Chief -

(Fox News) — An American flag with President Obama’s image in place of the stars flew over a Florida county’s Democrat headquarters long enough to enrage local veterans who called the altered banner “a disgrace.”

Lake County Democratic Party officials took down the flag, which flew just below a standard Old Glory on the flagpole outside headquarters in Tavares following complaints by local veterans. But merely taking it down wasn’t enough for several local veterans, who said they fought for the flag Betsy Ross made famous, not one with a politician on it.

“It’s absolutely disrespectful,” Jim Bradford, a 71-year-old veteran who participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion told FoxNews.com. “It’s totally ridiculous. To put somebody’s picture there, to me, it’s a disgrace to do that.”

Bradford, an organizer with the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park in Leesburg, Fla., snapped photos of the flag and distributed them to fellow veterans and friends. By late afternoon, he and several other veterans delivered a copy of the federal flag code to Nancy Hurlbert, chairwoman of the Lake County Democratic Party.

Update on Islam and American Dhimmitude

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As Iraq and Afghanistan fall apart,political correctness in the U. S military continues to run amuck. From Diana West -

 

Pentagon Exalts Koran Over Constitution

MAR10

Written by: Diana West
Saturday, March 10, 2012 3:50 AM

Conclusion? No, it’s the end.

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Almost exactly one year ago, I came across the ISAF website headline, “The Religious Importance of the Qu’ran,” I wrote:

As a well-known sucker for the religious importance of the “Qur’an” — I prefer “Ko-ran,” with Texas inflection — I just had to click and see.

The caption tells us so-and-so holds his prayers beads during a March 2010ribbon-cutting ceremony on an electrification project in the Farah Distriction, quoting Mr. So-and-So as saying: “If we have electricity … we can turn on our lights, and read the Koran.”

What comment is appropriate here? “The jaw drops”? “The universe spins”? We must go beyond shock to assess the advanced state of psycho-masochism the US military has now attained under the suicidal ideology of COIN, a belief system of unparralleled arrogance that actually believes that a scheme of sticks and carrots, at a staggering cost of blood (limbs, skull shards) and unrecoverable treasure, is adequate to remake Muslim Man in Petraeus’s Image.

But the joke is on the COINsters. For what is happening is that it is they who are remaking themselves. In seeking to win Islamic hearts and minds, a lynchpin of the non-military, social-work basis of the COIN strategy, they have themselves become de facto followers of Islamic law, and they are spreading it to our troops.

The rest here – http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2057/Pentagon-Exalts-Koran-Over-Constitution.aspx

 

The conflict between fundamental freedoms and Sharia Law is nothing new. For a bit of a historical perspective check out Andrew Bosmtom’s article –

In 1876, U.S. consul to Turkey Horace Maynard (above) understood—and articulated—the irreconcilability between Islam’s Sharia despotism, and Christian aspirations for “..an earlier and superior title to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Rest of the article here –

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/03/04/sharia-vs-freedom-circa-1876-an-american-diplomats-clear-perspective/

 

In light of the fact that the Obama administration has been bending over backwards in abject prostration toward Mecca,the following article says what the President should be saying -

Christians are being attacked, dispossessed, exiled and murdered all over the Middle East, and their churches, shrines and religious paraphernalia are being burned and destroyed throughout the region, all at the hands of Islamists (followers of Islam) acting in the name of Islam. Except for Israel, Christians in every single country and area in the Middle East, including Gaza and the West Bank, live in fear and trepidation and face constant heavy-handed persecution, subjugation, degradation and the threat of death.

 

The Islamic world acting in the name of Islam is trying to remove Christians and Christianity from the land and is well on the way to success. In another generation or two, Christians will be almost entirely gone and so will most of the physical evidence that they were ever there to begin with. Religious cleansing is going on throughout the Middle East, and Christians are being cleansed by Islamists acting in Islam’s name and according to its imperatives.

This is nothing new, of course, not to anyone who knows anything about Islam and history anyway. It has been going on since Islam first came on the scene and is no different today than it ever was. Hatred and disgust of Christians has been a basic, intrinsic, fundamental part of Islam from the very beginning and Islam has a 1,400-year record of treating them absolutely abominably, of viewing them as inferior beings who are less than human. It’s not just that they are held in low regard. They are held in no regard at all, and therefore Islamists can treat them with impunity with no fear of consequences under Sharia, Islamic law. In fact, Islam mandates and demands that Islamists view them and treat them the way they do. It is the will of Allah as expressed to Muhammad, and is entrenched in the Koran and as such Islam leaves Islamists no choice in the matter. There are terrible consequences for not obeying the will of Allah, but none for doing what he commands, for obeying him and carrying out his commandments.

Rest of the article here – http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/45173?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Domestic Violence in Islam

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From Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch,an expose of an attempt to whitewash the domestic violence problem inherent in Islam- http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/the-islamic-solution-to-stop.html

Huffington Post enables beating of women: publishes whitewash of Qur’an’s justification for domestic abuse

“Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. If they then obey you, look not for any way against them; God is All-high, All-great.” — Qur’an 4:34

The three-million-dollar campaign of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to whitewash Sharia and fool Americans about its nature began in earnest yesterday. Is this nonsensical article part of it? Is ICNA paying Qasim Rashid and/or the HuffPo to retail these soothing deceptions? We may never know the answers to those questions, but it is certain that if Qasim Rashid were an anti-jihad, pro-freedom writer, the mainstream media would be all over him asking questions about his funding and his backers. Whoever Rashid’s may be, certainly this farrago coalesces neatly with ICNA’s “war is deceit” Sharia whitewash effort.

“The Islamic Solution to Stop Domestic Violence,” by Qasim Rashid in the Huffington Post, March 5:

Critics incorrectly allege that Islam command’s husband’s to beat their wives, often citing the Quran verse 4:34. Unfortunately, like any Muslim man who harms his wife, critics miss the keen wisdom in verse 4:34 that actively pre-empts domestic violence.In Virginia, I provide pro bono legal support to victims of domestic and sexual violence. Virtually all of our clients are female. Every nine seconds — nearly 10,000 victims daily — a woman in the United States is abused. In America, domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women, more than car accidents, muggings and rape — combined. Would those who blame Islam for domestic violence also blame Christianity every nine seconds?…

Domestic violence is found in every culture and every nation, among people of every religion. The difference in Islam, which Rashid is busy trying to obscure, is that Qur’an 4:34 gives the practice divine sanction. Christianity doesn’t teach that God commands that a man should beat his disobedient wife. No other religion does, either. No other culture teaches such a thing. In every other context, domestic violence is considered a crime. In Islam, it is a husband’s prerogative according to the words of Allah himself.http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/the-islamic-solution-to-stop.html

 

From the comments section a reader reminds us of other Islamic texts that show that there has always been a pattern of abuse within Islam itself.

It is also true that no Jew or Christian is able to cite Biblical justification for domestic violence. The same is hardly true of core Islamic texts. The Qur’an, Hadiths, and Sira all condone wife-beating. The “Prophet” himself beat his wives, including his favorite wife, young Aisha.

Qur’an (38:44) – “And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with it, and do not break your oath…” [Allah telling Job to beat his wife]
From the Hadith:

Bukhari (72:715) – A woman came to Muhammad and begged her to stop her husband from beating her. Her skin was bruised so badly that she it is described as being “greener” than the green veil she was wearing. Muhammad did not admonish her husband, but instead ordered her to return to him and submit to his sexual desires.

Bukhari (72:715) – “Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women’” This is Muhammad’s own wife complaining of the abuse that the women of her religions suffer relative to other women.

Muslim (4:2127) – Muhammad struck his favorite wife, Aisha, in the chest one evening when she left the house without his permission. Aisha narrates, “He struck me on the chest which caused me pain.”

Muslim (9:3506) – Muhammad’s father-in-laws (Abu Bakr and Umar) amused him by slapping his wives (Aisha and Hafsa) for annoying him. According to the Hadith, the prophet of Islam laughed upon hearing this.

 

A case study from the Netherlands -

http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu

2. Women and Value Clashes
The position of women in the Muslim world in contrast to Dutch women is constantly cited as an
example of fundamental differences. Many Dutch people see Muslim women to be as much the
victims of radical Muslim men as they are. In other words, ―there is a consensus in Dutch
Society, that Muslims do not treat women or children as they should treat them; more exactly,
they treat them as they should not treat them.‖

Approximately nine out of ten native Dutch
people believe that Muslim men dominate their women.

The headscarf, of course, represents
a physical manifestation of this clash of values. In fact, Philip Jenkins points out that it is ―a key
marker of religious and cultural difference.‖
Objectively, there can be many different reasons
why women choose to express their faith in this way, but these are seldom mentioned.
The position of Muslim women was propelled into the spotlight by the release of the film
Submission by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Theo Van Gogh. Ayaan Hirsi Ali appeared on television for
the first time in August 2004 on Zomergasten
in the wake of a great amount of public interest.
The film is essentially a graphic commentary on domestic violence in Muslim communities, with
the protagonists asserting that such acts are justified by the Qur‘an. It has been critiqued for
being ―first and foremost striking in its unimaginative resonance with the visual imagery of
Orientalism… the spoken texts refer to a more academic form of Orientalism that sees people‘s
lives as determined by Islam.‖

Contrary to Hirsi Ali‘s expectations, few Muslim organizations
in the Netherlands responded with any vehemence to the film at first. There was also a very
limited reaction from the target group, Muslim women themselves.

The response eventually arrived in the form of the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, at which point the film became the
subject of fierce debate. The widespread outrage and the direct threats posed to her life pushed
Ayaan Hirsi Ali into hiding. She is no longer active in the Dutch political scene, but still remains
a key figure in any discussion of women‘s rights issues in the Netherlands today.
Hirsi Ali frequently cites examples from her upbringing in a strictly religious Somali family as
part of her campaign against the repression of women in Islam. She is famous for declarations
such as ―to be a Muslim woman is to be born for the pleasure of men,‖
and had censured Islam‘s ―gender apartheid.‖ In 2003, she joined the right-wing People‘s Party of Freedom and
Democracy (VVD) and subsequently became a member of Parliament.

She began to be even more vocal in her opposition to the treatment of women in Islam, focusing her broadsides more
plainly on Islam itself, making statements such as ―Muhammad is, by our Western standards, a
perverse man.‖

This uncritical rhetoric that attacks Islam and purports to stand up for the rights
of Muslim women all in one breath is precisely the form of dialogue that this essay takes a
position against.
It should be noted that Hirsi Ali failed to take into account a number of considerations when
she was carrying out her campaign. For one thing, Muslim women are often part of a
marginalized economic group. A simple statistic demonstrates that the average annual income
for Native Dutch households is €20,000, compared to €13,000 for Moroccan households and
€13,600 for Turkish households.
Furthermore, only 36 percent of Muslim women participate in
the labour market in the Netherlands. This means that oftentimes immigrant women do not have
access to education and opportunities that would allow them to counter these types of
stereotypes. Interestingly, there are definitely some signs that Muslim women are becoming
more active in speaking out about their opinions of Islam and their position in relation to it.

Stories of Life: Domestic violence

The following article was written by Marij Uijt den Bogaard , a former social worker working for the Antwerp municipality. She was fired after writing reports warning about radicalization in the Muslim community. The article originally appeared on Brussels Journal in Dutch.

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Fatima looks embittered.
‘You’re so naive,’ she says, ‘tell that to the marines, that goes for you!”
Fatima is a good story-teller, and the subject is the meaning of marriage in traditional Islam; she talks about overcrowded refuge homes with an ever growing representation of her sisters, Muslim women, escaping the violence and severe conflicts inside families. The women are homeless and end up in refuge homes; where they now make up 53% of the inhabitants.
A Muslim background often plays an important role in violence and severe conflicts inside ‘immigrant’ families, as a result of the Muslim notion of marriage in traditional Islam. According to Fatima Muslim marriage for most immigrant women is a final destination. And this is nothing more or less than a business contract. It entails a certain number of rights and duties, for the husband as well as for the wife, she explains. Children are part of this contract.
Women coming here (the Netherlands) via marriage, grew up in villages with a traditional way of living. Existence knew in the homelands little stimuli for development. No luxury or comfort. Women come to our country because of the difference in prosperity, away from the futureless villages.
For Muslims marriage is obligatory. Thus, if it comes to marriage, then preferably with a man who can offer a leather 3-piece suite, car and washing-machine. So they come and marry, have children, as part of the contract, an arranged marriage. They are not accustomed to think for themselves. Where should they have learned that? Everything is fixed in advance for women in the traditional Islamic village life. Survival depends upon development of qualities like obedience to the parents, Koran and later the husband, performing one’s obligations.
From birth to death others regulate her life. Love? That will come later, when children are born. Or not, and then mothers see children as a burden, an inevitable part of the contract. In a loveless marriage upbringing is limited to giving primary care. In traditionally arranged marriages, concluded only for economic reasons, this is too often the case. Primary care means clothes, food and shelter. Affection and giving an education is not included.
As long as the whole family behaves inside its own subgroup , the virtual village in Antwerp North, Borgerhout or other suburbs requiring “particular attention” (aandachtwijk), where many import-brides from traditional villages land, all is well. There’s a taboo about problems like violence inside traditional Islamic families. Everyone knows about it, “you” as well as “we”, Fatima says.
Is the above mentioned story about an Islamic marriage and its connection with domestic violence stigmatizing? Do I want to insult? No, this description of the situation of women from Turkish and Moroccan origin comes from the many Fatimas I have talked to during my fieldwork in one of the area’s for special attention. Their sisters overcrowd the refuge homes, just like the situation is in the Netherlands. Through often arranged marriages, blinded by the leather 3-piece suite, Fatima’s sisters land here in Flanders. Within our Flemish cities there are several virtual villages where the prevailing opinions and life patterns are the same as those in the Rif mountains or in the Turkish countryside.
The Fatima’s never learned there to stand up for themselves, or to insist on equal rights. Self-determination does not exist. Islam decides what is the role and duty or protection of a women. Her life and the quality of her life is dependent on her husband and nothing can change that, not even in Borgerhout of Antwerp North. The husband rules over her right for self determination. He decides whether she may or may not go out, and that also goes for getting a driving license or making a trip to the other side of the town. Her freedom is for him to decide. And how about it, if Fatima wants more?
Then, sooner than in a Flemish family, physical violence may occur. Because Islam opens it up for interpretation, leaves the possibility open. And it is allowed by her direct social environment.
Does this mean that every Muslim husband beats his wife? No, of course not, but it does mean that a little to many Muslims do. Refuge homes are overcrowded! It also means that Muslims justify this as allowed by the Prophet, Koran, imam and Islam. Whenever they address Flemings or the media, spokesmen of the Muslim condemn this, of course. But this does not mean that they urge revision of sexist texts of the Koran within their own subgroups. Nor preventive campaigns are organized against violence on women by immigrant moderates. Read the rest here – http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/search?q=domestic+violence+in+islam

 

Certainly domestic violence is a problem in every country. For example,Theodore Dalrymple has documented the severity of domestic abuse in the government housing of London. The issue within Islam is the fact that those who mistreat their wives use the words and example of their prophet Mohammed. If Mohammed was the perfect man,then he sets the example for Muslim males to follow.

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The Muslim Persecution of Christians: A Never Ending Tale of Bloodshed and Western Apathy

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A friend sent me a link to the following article- it is a must read. There is a worldwide persecution of Christians who live in Muslim countries and not a peep out of the President. The mainstream media will not cover the constant atrocities and will not hold the jihadist groups accountable for their actions. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an atheist (last time I checked),so when she points out the “conspiracy of silence” the alarm is being raised by one who is not even a Christian believer.

There is a long history of Islamic persecution of Jews and Christians. It started with Mohammed and has continued wherever Muslims are in power.

 

CHICAGO, February 15, 2012— One of the bedrock principles of America is religious freedom. People have an unalienable right to openly and publicly practice their faith or not.

All are protected, accepted and respected.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote in her Newsweek article, that there is a “conspiracy of silence” over mass religious persecution of Christians in Muslim nations. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.

It is more than a conspiracy of silence. It is a conspiracy of political and media apathy. There is no political or journalistic will to continually publicize and condemn religious persecution by extremist Muslims or Islamic dictatorships.

This silence and apathy create an implied consent for religious persecution. Rest of the article here – http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/middle-class-guy/2012/feb/15/islamic-religious-persecution-goes-unnoticed-video/

 

 

 

Another article pointing out the same trend of persecution -

An international report found that Muslim nations make up nine out of the top ten countries where Christians face the “most severe” persecution. In response to these findings, a Vatican spokesman said that “Among the most serious concerns, the increase in Islamic extremism merits special attention. Persons and organizations dedicated to extremist Islamic ideology perpetrate terrible acts of violence in many places throughout the world: the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria is but one example. Then there is the climate of insecurity that unfortunately in some countries accompanies the so-called “Arab spring”—a climate that drives many Christians to flee and even to emigrate.”

Categorized by theme, January’s batch of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed in alphabetical order by country, not severity of anecdote.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/10/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012/

 

If you would like to learn more,check out Robert Spencer’s book -

Muslim Persecution of Christians [Kindle Edition]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0058P4PHG?ie=UTF8&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&qid=1330288082&sr=1-1

 

Muslim Persecution of Christians

And one more book by Andrew Bostom – shows that Jihad is not recent,not localized,and never stops.

Book Description

Publication Date: July 10, 2008

This book reveals how, for well over a millennium, across three continents – Asia, Africa, and Europe – non-Muslims who were vanquished by jihad wars, became forced tributaries (called dhimmi in Arabic), in lieu of being slain. Under the dhimmi religious caste system, non-Muslims were subjected to legal and financial oppression, as well as social isolation. Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time into English, are presented, making clear that jihad conquests were brutal, imperialist advances, which spurred waves of Muslims to expropriate a vast expanse of lands and subdue millions of indigenous peoples. Finally, the book examines how jihad war, as a permanent and uniquely Islamic institution, ultimately regulates the relations of Muslims with non-Muslims to this day. Scholars, educators, and interested lay readers will find this collection an invaluable resource.

 

The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslimshttp://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Jihad-Islamic-Holy-Non-Muslims/dp/1591026024/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330289591&sr=1-1

The Istanbul Process,and A Reminder to Pray for Those Who Are Being Persecuted

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The Obama Administration continues to push Islam-why ? The President does not call on Muslim countries to stop the persecution of Jews and Christians ,he will not take a firm stance against Iran with an embargo that has real teeth,and he continues to undercut Israel. The fact that this administration supports the Istanbul Process should be a major wake up call to anyone who believes in freedom of speech.

 

From the Stonegate Institute -

The explicit aim of the Istanbul Process — currently backed by the Obama administration — is to make it an international crime to criticize Islam.

A Muslim fundamentalist group is organizing a conference focused on turning Austria and other European countries into Islamic states.

The “Caliphate Conference 2012” will be held on March 10 in the Austrian town of Vösendorf, situated just south of Vienna. The main theme of the event will be “The Caliphate: The State Model of the Future.”

The conference is being organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir [Party of Liberation], a pan-Islamic extremist group that seeks to establish a global Islamic state, or caliphate, ruled by Islamic Sharia law.

Hizb ut-Tahrir — which is banned in many countries, including Germany, but is free to operate in Austria — is virulently opposed to Western capitalism and democracy and seeks to extend the future caliphate to Europe and the United States.

According to a promotional video (in German) for the conference, “the Islamic Caliphate is the only social and political system that has the right solutions to the political, social and economic problems of humanity.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir has been banned from holding a similar conference in Belgium that had been scheduled for March 4. The group also organized a Caliphate Conference in Amsterdam last July, 2011, and well as a year earlier inChicago in June, 2010.

Analysts say the open nature of the conference in Vienna indicates that Hizb ut-Tahrir is enhancing its recruiting efforts among European Muslims.

According to Steven Emerson, a leading authority on Islamic extremist networks, Hizb ut-Tahrir is emulating the three-stage process by which Muslims established the first Islamic caliphate after the death of the Islamic Prophet, Mohammed, in the year 632.

During the first stage, Hizb ut-Tahrir builds a party by cultivating a small number of supporters to engage in recruitment and propaganda. In the second stage (which Hizb ut-Tahrir is now entering in Europe and the United States), the group educates Muslims in order to recruit a larger group of people to join Hizb ut-Tahrir and support its revolution. Finally, having won the support of Muslims, Hizb ut-Tahrir moves to establish a Sharia-ruled Islamic government.

While Muslims are busy working to Islamize the West from within, they simultaneously insist that Westerners should not be allowed to criticize these efforts.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a group of 57 Muslim countries that purports to be the collective voice of the Muslim world, sponsored an anti-Islamophobia symposium in Brussels on February 15 and 16, 2012.

The first-of-its-kind event was entitled “Smearing Islam and Muslims in the Media,” and was “aimed at establishing information mechanisms to face up to the slanderous campaigns against Islam in the media.”

The workshop was part of the so-called Istanbul Process, an aggressive effort by Muslim countries to make it an international crime to criticize Islam.

The explicit aim of the Istanbul Process is to enshrine in international law a global ban on all critical scrutiny of Islam and Islamic Sharia law.

Based in Saudi Arabia, the OIC has long pressed the European Union and the United States to impose limits on free speech and expression about Islam.

But the OIC has now redoubled its efforts and is engaged in a determined diplomatic offensive to persuade Western democracies to implement United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) Resolution 16/18, which calls on all countries to combat “intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of … religion and belief.” (Analysis of the OIC’s war on free speech can be found here and here.)

 

Rest of the article here – http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2866/caliphate-conference

 

A timely reminder from a friend on the importance of remembering our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted-

 

Definitions:

· Restricted Nation – This includes situations where Christians are kept from obtaining bibles or other Christian literature by government policy or practice. Also included are government-sanctioned ordinances where Christians are harassed, imprisoned, killed, or deprived of their possessions or liberties because of their faith in Jesus.

· Hostile area – This includes large areas in nations where governments consistently attempt to provide protection for the Christian population, but Christians are victims of violence because of their witness.

Christians throughout the world in restricted and hostile countries know well the great cost and actual implications of Jesus words to His disciples…

 

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. (John 15:18-20)

 

Teachings about a pre-tribulation rapture may offer some sort of temporal comfort to some, but Christians in North Korea, Colombia, India, China, Indonesia, Iran, Sudan, and dozens of other countries are presently suffering and proving that “through much tribulation we shall enter into the kingdom of God.”

What’s my point? We who are privileged (or maybe cursed… “only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven”) to be American’s should understand that while the knife is at our brothers throat in other countries it is our duty to…

 

1. Remember them

· VERSE: Remember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also. (Hebrews 13:3)

· QUESTION: How often during the day, week, month, year do we contemplate the reality of God’s persecuted church?

2. Pray for them

· VERSE: Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. (Acts 12:5)

· QUESTION: How often during the day, week, month, year do we pray for God’s persecuted church?

 

Pray for Youcef Nadarkhani and his family

· An Execution Order has been issued for Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani

 

· Sentenced to death for becoming a Christian and departing Islam and refusing to recant

· He has a wife and a 9 year old and a 7 year old.

· Illegally Imprisoned, 863 days

· Could be pardoned if he would recant or affirm that Mohammad is God’s prophet

 

You can read about Youcef Nadarkhani here…

http://aclj.org/Nadarkhani

When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed. (Revelation 6:9-11)

Want to discover more about the persecuted?

http://www.persecution.com

An Orwellian Veil of Silence: The United States Government and Islam

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Here is a post from a Christian brother whom I respect very much. He does solid research,and when he says that -

the government of the United States has become an ally of the radical Islamic Movement, under the careful guidance of Muslim Brotherhood agents in the US. The first victims of this alliance are secular and liberal activists all across the Middle East, whose bodies are being broken and voices silenced because of official American engagement with and support for the cause of radical Islam.

He has research and observations to back it up. Mark Drurie – http://markdurie.blogspot.com/

For years now I have been visiting the US regularly, and usually make my way to Washington DC, where I have had many opportunities to meet with journalists, politicians, lobbyists and other experts who are paying attention to the course of Islam in the US. These conversations, and a whole host of reports from a wide variety of sources, including White House official statements, have made it obvious to me that there is increasing trend for US government agencies to align with and empower radical Muslim agendas. At the same time, American elites are being cowed into silence. If anything, they seem less capable of critiquing radical Islam than they were a decade ago. An Orwellian veil of silence through control of public discourse is being pulled over eyes of many in the Land of the Free.
To put it bluntly, the government of the United States has become an ally of the radical Islamic Movement, under the careful guidance of Muslim Brotherhood agents in the US. The first victims of this alliance are secular and liberal activists all across the Middle East, whose bodies are being broken and voices silenced because of official American engagement with and support for the cause of radical Islam.
I was discussing this observation with friends who had made their way to Australia from the former Soviet Union decades ago. Their comment was: “In Russia we just called people like that saboteurs.” They were referring to the present US administration. This view may seem absurd, but the evidence is clear enough.
In the light of these troubling thoughts, I was startled to come across the following recent article by Essam Abdallah, a prominent Egyptian liberal intellectual. He claims that radical Islam is winning in the Middle East because of carefully targetted support for the Islamic Movement by the US.
Interested readers may also wish to follow the commentary – and follow upcoming discussion of this issue – at the Investigative Project. Other articles http://markdurie.blogspot.com/-

 

From Doug Ross- (added 2-19-2012)-http://directorblue.blogspot.com/

Dan from NY:

A sobering thought: The legacy media’s decision to protect Obama at all costs means they are willfully keeping the American public in the dark, suppressing vital information and debate about the steady growth of the Islamists’ influence over Obama’s foreign policy and his administration in general. We should thank Heaven for the work-around made possible by the Internet. If we can keep the regulators’ hands off, it may eventually save us. But if Barack Hussein Obama gets another four years to tinker with our nation, gornischt helfen, nothing will save us.

A note from Investigative Project on Terrorism Executive Director Steven Emerson:

Please take the time to read this very important story written by a courageous Egyptian liberal intellectual about the Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood lobbies in Washington and the Obama Administration’s secret collaboration with these pro-terrorist, anti-Western, anti-women, anti-American and anti-Semitic organizations. This is one of the most important articles I have read in years.

It was just revealed two days ago that FBI Director Mueller secretly met on February 8 at FBI headquarters with a coalition of groups including various Islamist and militant Arabic groups who in the past have defended Hamas and Hizballah and have also issued blatantly anti-Semitic statements. At this meeting, the FBI revealed that it had removed more than 1000 presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices around the country that was deemed “offensive.” The FBI did not reveal what criteria was used to determine why material was considered “offensive” but knowledgeable law enforcement sources have told the IPT that it was these radical groups who made that determination. Moreover, numerous FBI agents have confirmed that from now on, FBI headquarters has banned all FBI offices from inviting any counter-terrorist specialists who are considered “anti-Islam” by Muslim Brotherhood front groups.

The February 8 FBI meeting was the culmination of a series of unpublicized directives issued in the last three months by top FBI officials to all its field offices to immediately recall and withdraw any presentation or curricula on Islam throughout the entire FBI. In fact, according to informed sources and undisclosed documents, the FBI directive was instigated by radical Muslim groups in the US who had repeatedly met with top officials of the Obama Administration to complain, among other things, that the mere usage of the term of “radical Islam” in FBI curricula was “offensive” and ‘racist.” And thus, directives went out by Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Mueller to censor all such material. Included in the material destroyed or removed by the FBI and the DOJ were powerpoints and articles that defined jihad as “holy war” or presentations that portrayed the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization bent on taking over the world—a major tenant that the Muslim Brotherhood has publicly stated for decades.

 

 

As the Obama administration continues it’s weak kneed response to the Iranian push for nuclear weapons,it is worth reminding ourselves of the evil of the Iranian government. Amil Imani is an Iranian who no longer lives in Iran,and thus can speak the truth about what is happening over there.

http://amilimani.com/

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Rape is a cruel violation of a helpless victim. In addition to the physical torment involved, rape reduces the victim to subhuman status. Under the barbaric rule of the Mullahcracy in Iran, however, sexual assaults have become instruments of policy for extracting false confessions, satisfying the boundless sadisms and sexual perversities of the jailers, punishing the helpless victim and leaving each of them with a sense of dehumanization. These horrors keep playing out, unabated, in the streets, prisons and dungeons of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Read the rest of this entry »

http://amilimani.com/

 

As the Weekly Standard points out -

Even the Los Angeles Times notices that President Obama has gone soft on Iran:

Despite the Obama administration’s vows to cripple Iran with economic sanctions, it is leaders in Congress and Europe who have seized the lead in the West’s long-running campaign to punish Tehran for its suspected nuclear weapons program.
In recent months, the toughest moves to deter Iran from pursuing its presumed nuclear ambitions have come from a bipartisan group in Congress and European allies, especially Britain and France. The White House at first resisted these steps before embracing them as inevitable.
The administration has imposed dozens of sanctions on Iran since 2009, but it has carefully calibrated their effect. Officials fear that too powerful a blow to the world’s third-largest oil exporter could cause an oil price increase, damaging the global economic recovery, undermining international support for the sanctions campaign and creating political trouble in an election year.

Rest of the article – http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-goes-soft-iran_630065.html

Even the liberal Guardian in Great Britain has noticed that sanctions are bound to fail against Iran -

Officials in key parts of the Obama administration are increasingly convinced that sanctions will not deter Tehran from pursuing its nuclear programme, and believe that the US will be left with no option but to launch an attack on Iran or watch Israel do so.

The president has made clear in public, and in private to Israel, that he is determined to give sufficient time for recent measures, such as the financial blockade and the looming European oil embargo, to bite deeper into Iran’s already battered economy before retreating from its principal strategy to pressure Tehran.

But there is a strong current of opinion within the administration – including in the Pentagon and the state department – that believes sanctions are doomed to fail, and that their principal use now is in delaying Israeli military action, as well as reassuring Europe that an attack will only come after other means have been tested.

Rest of the article – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/17/us-officials-iran-sanctions-military-action

Obama’s Middle East policies are undermining our ally Israel,undercutting what few Muslim moderates exist,and emboldening our enemies,including the Iranian mullahs.

Lastly,some subtle sarcasm from Weasel Zippers – http://weaselzippers.us/

Good News: Syrian Rebels Flying Black Al-Qaeda Flag…

We’ve also seen the al-Qaeda flag openly flown in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt.

A piece of footage in an Al-Jazeera English segment showing Free Syrian Army fighters showed a black-and-white flag similar (but not the same) as that used by the Islamic State of Iraq and Somalia’s Al-Shabab. The footage also shows a banner reading, “Al-Bara’ bin Malik Brigade,” named after a prominent Companion of the Prophet Muhammad who is renowned for his bravery and military prowess. This historical personage is popular. Al-Qa’ida in the Land of the Two Rivers (Iraq) named its martyrdom brigade after him

The Obama Administration:Willfully or Ignorantly Blind to the Nature of Islam ?

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The parable of the blind

U.S. National Intelligence Director Cites Muslim Brotherhood As Bulwark Against Al-Qaeda- http://globalmbreport.org

 

 

 

In his statement for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appears to endorse the concept Muslim Brotherhood involvement in the Mideast political process will serve as some kind of bulwark against Al-Qaeda and other such groups. He writes:

If, over the longer term, governments take real steps to address public demands for political participation and democratic institutions—and remain committed to CT efforts—we judge that core al-Qaeda and the global jihadist movement will experience a strategic setback. Al Qaeda probably will find it difficult to compete for local support with groups like the Muslim Brotherhood that participate in the political process, provide social services, and advocate religious values. Nonviolent, pro-democracy demonstrations challenge al Qaeda’s violent jihadist ideology and might yield increased political power for secular or moderate Islamist parties.

In February 2011, author and former Wall Street Journal reporter Ian Johnson published an article titled “Washington’s Secret History with the Muslim Brotherhood” in which he reviews the history of the US relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood and should serve as a cautionary note regarding the policies implied above. The piece begins:

As US-backed strongmen around North Africa and the Middle East are being toppled or shaken by popular protests, Washington is grappling with a crucial foreign-policy issue: how to deal with the powerful but opaque Muslim Brotherhood. In Egypt, the Brotherhood has taken an increasingly forceful part in the protests, issuing a statement Thursday calling for Mubarak’s immediate resignation. And though it is far from clear what role the Brotherhood would have should Mubarak step down, the Egyptian president has been claiming it will take over. In any case, the movement is likely to be a major player in any transitional government.Journalists and pundits are already weighing in with advice on the strengths and dangers of this 83-year-old Islamist movement, whose various national branches are the most potent opposition force in virtually all of these countries. Some wonder how the Brotherhood will treat Israel, or if it really has renounced violence. Most—including the Obama administration —seem to think that it is a movement the West can do business with, even if the White House denies formal contacts.If this discussion evokes a sense of déjà vu, this is because over the past sixty years we have had it many times before, with almost identical outcomes. Since the 1950s, the United States has secretly struck up alliances with the Brotherhood or its offshoots on issues as diverse as fighting communism and calming tensions among European Muslims. And if we look to history, we can see a familiar pattern: each time, US leaders have decided that the Brotherhood could be useful and tried to bend it to America’s goals, and each time, maybe not surprisingly, the only party that clearly has benefited has been the Brotherhood.

Read the rest here.

 

Report: Taliban poised to retake Afghanistan following NATO withdrawal

It won’t be the Afghan government that fills the security vacuum. As became the template for the decade to follow in other countries, the U.S. greatly underestimated the Afghan population’s support for the Taliban, for Sharia, and for jihad for the sake of imposing it. That is in large part because the U.S. greatly underestimated the content of Sharia, accepting a sugar-coated, vapor-ware Sharia — what is at best an academic, drawing-board conception of what Sharia, could, would, or should be according to agenda-driven apologists, and at worst an outright lie — as what it really has been in practice all these centuries.

“Taliban “poised to retake Afghanistan” after NATO,” by Hamid Shalizi and Mirwais Harooni for Reuters, February 1:

KABUL (Reuters) – The U.S. military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western policy after a costly war.Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, confirmed the existence of the document, reported on Wednesday by Britain’s Times newspaper and theBBC.

But he said it was not a strategic study.

 

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that prior to any negotiations, confidence building measures must be completed, putting pressure on Washington to meet demands for the release of five Taliban in U.S. custody.

The hardline Islamist movement also said it had no plans to hold preliminary peace talks with Afghanistan’s government in Saudi Arabia, dismissing media reports of talks in the kingdom.

The U.S. military said in the document that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) security agency was assisting the Taliban in directing attacks against foreign forces.

Reasserting control over the country would be more difficult a second time for the
Taliban, however, with Afghan police and soldiers expected to number about 350,000 beyond 2014 and some foreign troops likely to remain, including elite forces.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/

Obamic Change You Can Count On,Saudi Totalitarianism,and Epigenetic Keys

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Four more years of this ??

Obama Economic Record November 2011

Saudi Security Forces Arrest 42 Ethiopian Christians For Praying…HT-http://weaselzippers.us/2011/12/18/saudi-security-forces-arrest-42-ethiopian-christians-for-praying/

The Wahhabi crime fighters strike again.

Washington, D.C. (December 17, 2011) — International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Saudi security forces arrested 42 Ethiopian Christians at a prayer gathering in Jeddah on Thursday. The location of the detained Christians is unknown.

On December 15, Saudi police and security officers raided an evening prayer meeting at the home of an Ethiopian Christian in the Al-Safa district of Jeddah. Those attending the service were reportedly beaten and threatened before being arrested.

“Security officials broke [into] the house and captured . . . beat and threatened them for death. . . They divided the men and the women and they are torturing them [in prison],” an Ethiopian and Eritrean Christian immigrant community living in Europe wrote in an urgent appeal for help to the ambassadors of European embassies in Riyadh on Friday.

Two Ethiopian fellowships in Saudi Arabia informed ICC that they will temporarily postpone services until the situation calms. Christians in Saudi Arabia, most of who enter the country as foreign workers, are not allowed to practice their faith openly. Saudi police have been known to raid private worship gatherings in homes, arrest and deport congregants, and confiscate Christian materials, including Bibles.

Respect !!

 

By the way,for all of you in the Tampa,Florida area,here is a heads up for what looks like a great conference –

 

 

For more information – http://www.apologetics.org/

Dhimmis in the West Curtail Freedom of Speech

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Winston writing, Part 1, Chapter 7.

The ruling elites have redefined the right to the freedom of speech as to what fits their politically correct agenda. Criticizing Islam doesn’t fit the agenda so the criticism becomes a crime.Here are some articles that illustrate the extent of the problem.

My name is Paul Derengowski, and I was hired by Tarrant County College in 2008 to teach Great World Religions, Bible History I & II, and Introduction to Philosophy.

On November 8, 2011, I gave the second of a two-part lecture on Islam, as I’ve been doing Spring, Fall, and sometimes twice in the Summer, dealing with Islamic history and doctrine, and more particularly Muhammad’s move to Medina. A question had been raised by two Muslim students in the previous the lecture concerning the sources I used to discuss the raid at Nakhlah. At the start of the second lecture I provided my sources (The Life of Muhammad by Haykal and the Qur’an), which included reading Sura 2:216-217. That is when all hell broke loose.

Both Muslim students, for an hour, berated me, my sources, and my credentials. When other students in the class attempted to ask questions or make comments, then the Muslim students would interrupt them as well. Finally, toward the end of the class period, a student made a comment on how “scary” the person of Muhammad seemed to be. That’s when the male Muslim blurted out “you ought to be scared,” and then bolted for the door in a fit of outrage. I subsequently filed a campus police report on him out of concern for the safety of students and myself. The female followed suit as well, claiming later in a libelous email she passed around unbeknownst to me—that is, until one of the students forwarded the diatribe to me later—that she was not going to sit there and listen to me slander her religion, even though all I did was quote from Islamic sources.

Rest of the article here- http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/muslim-students-threaten-force-resignation-of-prof-who-quoted-from-islamic-texts.html

 

In Great Britain the problem is even worse. An article by Daniel Greenfield recounts the Emma West saga -

The Prisoner

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:43 PM PST

Few other places turn out dystopian fantasies quite like the United Kingdom and if the United States has never quite become the chrome skyscraper and flying car utopian wonderland of its utopian fantasies, with its ubiquitous cameras and DNA banks, the United Kingdom seems well on the way to its dystopian destination.

 

1984, The Prisoner and V for Vendetta are all a train ride away nowadays. Say the wrong thing and you can expect to be wearing a prison suit and nominated for a national run on Two Minute Hate.
Towards the end of last month, the UK launched a nationwide manhunt or woman hunt, in coordination with online activists, Labour politicians and the police to bring the most feared criminal in the islands to justice. The lady, whose last name is appropriately enough West, will be spending Christmas in prison away from her three children. Her crime was to engage in some abrasive taunts with the denizens of the New Britain complete with obscenities and be videotaped doing it.
West was hunted down, tips were solicited from the public, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour opposition, who always manages to wear the face of a well-meaning idiot, retweeted the “important appeal” to track down a woman who was threatening the nation by shouting on a tram that the Poles, Nicaraguans and Blacks should go back where they came from.
Needless to say the charming fellows from Hizb-Ut-Tahir, Islam4UK, Muslims Against Crusades or their associated groups rarely have to spend Christmas or Eid in prison no matter how many poppies they burn or how many slurs they shout. Anjem Choudary is not likely to touch off any morality mobs on Twitter. The same people who desperately sought Emma would sneer at the Daily Mail mentality for even acknowledging good old Anjem.
And around a week or so later the very generous Judge Robert Brown freed four Muslim women who beat a native British woman senseless while shouting racial slurs at her, judging that it was only their inexperience with alcohol that led them to misbehave. The Romans used to say In Vino Veritas, but in New Britain if you’re Muslim and drunk you get a free pass on assault.

Rest of the article here – http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

In an ominous move,the Obama administration is playing footsie with an Islamic group that loves to curtail criticism of Mohammed and Islam.

 

From Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch-

Irony meter melts into a puddle; White House janitorial staff working overtime as Obama admin to welcome OIC to discussion on “tolerance”

When fascism comes to America, it will be waving a “Co-Exist” bumper sticker and telling you to “be nice.”

Which is more disturbing: the notion that the administration is overrun with gullible idealists lost in politically correct fantasies, or that they know exactly what they are doing? Either way, the outcome threatens to be disastrous.

While the Organization Formerly Known as the Organization of the Islamic Conference, long committed to crushing free speech, suffered a setback in achieving an international ban on “religious defamation” (or defamation for me, but not for thee) in March, the Obama administration has gone in hook, line, and sinker for the OIC’s game.

Hillary Clinton announced her intentions to coordinate a meeting on religious “defamation” and “stereotyping” in July. At a meeting she co-chaired with the OIC’s secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the OIC, US, and EU agreed to “take concrete steps” to combat “intolerance” and “negative stereotyping.” The measure is supposedly taken in the name of all religions, but would be used as a club by the OIC with which to beat other nations into submission against criticism of Islam. But Clinton also said in mid-July that she believes the US and OIC can come to an agreement on “tolerance.”

The White House is now gearing up for the next round. Even if the OIC does not get exactly what it wants just yet, it will have moved the ball down the field toward the goal line by having its agenda dignified with a response other than “No. We’re on to you, and we refuse to play along.” “Obama Administration Welcoming Islamic Group to Washington for Discussion on ‘Tolerance’,” by Patrick Goodenough for CNSNews, December 9: Rest of the article here – http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/irony-meter-melts-into-a-puddle-white-house-janitorial-staff-working-overtime-as-obama-admin-to-welc.html

Just a few examples of what is happening. It would help if we would start thinking about important issues. One of those important issues is whether we have a real relationship with the Lord.

13But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says

“Awake, O sleeper,

and arise from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you.

15Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.(Ephesians 5:13-15)