Islam in the News 2022

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Qur’an
A new annotated Qur’an that belongs in every sensible citizen’s library.
Thu Apr 28, 2022
Bruce Bawer

The fate of the Western world has been bound up with Islam ever since that religion was founded - but its impact has been especially dire during the last few decades of mass immigration and large-scale terrorism. It’s obviously important, then, for people in the West to know as much as possible about Islamic values and beliefs. But where to find the facts, and how to know that they really are the facts? The Islamic Studies departments of universities, which are staffed almost entirely with devout believers and other apologists, won’t give you the real dope. Neither will most online resources or the overwhelming majority of the books on the subject issued by the large corporate publishers. One might assume that the solution lies in reading the Qur’an - but the English-language editions aimed primarily at non-Muslim readers are notoriously unreliable: the most problematic passages are routinely translated in such a way as to minimize the problems, and the editors, in their introductions, footnotes, and other apparatus, systematically put the most benign interpretations on everything.

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/robert-spencers-koran-bruce-bawer/

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Female graduate student behind Pakistan university attack: Report
Suicide bomber who killed three Chinese teachers was herself a teacher who had enrolled for a master’s degree months before the attack.
27 Apr 2022

A female suicide bomber who has killed three Chinese teachers in Pakistan was herself a teacher who had enrolled for a master’s degree months before the attack, carried out on behalf of separatist rebels, says a Pakistani official,

The blast detonated by the 30-year-old woman on Tuesday blew up a minivan outside University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language and cultural centre, killing her, the three Chinese teachers and a Pakistani driver.

More at
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/27/female-graduate-student-behind-pakistan-university-attack-report

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Israel will not discuss Temple Mount with Jordan after incitement – official
By LAHAV HARKOV 10 hrs ago

Israel will not hold discussions with Jordan about the status quo on the Temple Mount in the coming weeks in light of Amman’s incitement against Israel, a senior Israeli diplomatic official said on Thursday.

The official referred to Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh’s praise for Palestinians who physically attack Israelis amid rioting on the Temple Mount, and spoke after Jordan submitted a paper to the US calling for Israel to relinquish control of the holy site.

More at
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/israel-will-not-discuss-temple-mount-with-jordan-after-incitement-official/ar-AAWGbrw

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Punjab: Guru ki Sarai allegedly converted to mosque by intimidating a Sikh family in Patiala, situation tense as Hindu organisations protest
28 April, 2022

A controversy erupted in Rajpur in Patiala district of Punjab, after allegations that Guru Ki Sarai was converted into a mosque. Hindu organizations have alleged that the building was taken over by intimidating a Sikh family and later converted into a mosque. On the other hand, the Muslim community has claimed that the mosque has been located at the place for over 75 years, and only renovation work has been done.

According to a News Nation report, the Hindu community claimed that a Sikh family had lived at that place since before the partition. The family took care of the Guru Ki Sarai. Later, the family was intimidated by the members of the Muslim community, and they acquired the place. After some time, a mosque was built at that place.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/04/guru-ki-sarai-converted-to-mosque-by-intimidating-sikh-family-in-patiala/

*****This is just one of the ways favored by islam, the other being threatened by death*****

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Former University Of Alabama Student Receives Prison Sentence For Hiding Financing To Al Qaeda
By Binitha Jacob
04/28/22 AT 5:38 AM

Aformer University of Alabama student was given a prison sentence of more than seven years for concealing the transmission of funds to Al-Qaeda.

Alaa Mohd Abusaad, 26, was sentenced Wednesday to 90 months behind bars, federal prosecutors said.

The former college student was arrested in 2018 for speaking to an undercover FBI employee about sending money to terrorist fighters. She pleaded guilty to a charge of concealing terrorism financing in 2019, according to New York Post.

More at
https://www.ibtimes.com/former-university-alabama-student-receives-prison-sentence-hiding-financing-al-qaeda-3488412

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NY state math tests fall during Ramadan, a fasting period, upsetting Muslim families
By Amy Zimmer, Reema Amin
Apr 27, 2022,

For observant Muslims, the holy month of Ramadan is filled with fasting, prayer, and community. This year’s holiday overlapped with the state math tests administered to New York’s third- through eighth-graders from April 26-28, upsetting some families whose children are fasting from before sunrise to sunset.

They don’t want to see a repeat next year, when the state testing period will again likely fall during Ramadan.

At least one Queens principal told her Muslim students they could take makeup tests after several of them became “quite concerned about having to take exams at this time,” recounted state Rep. Zohran Mamdani of Astoria. But Mamdani is incensed that it falls on individual school leaders to figure out how best to support their students who are fasting.

More at
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/27/23045341/ny-state-math-tests-ramadan-upsetting-fast-muslim-families

*****Yeah, they will always demand for themselves (muslims) but, they will not give in to demands from others*****

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An inmate is beaten up in French prison for not obeying Ramadan. “It is an everyday reality. Some don’t eat pork anymore because they are pressured”
Aparticularly worrying weekend in Perpignan prison, where several riots took place. The Ufap Unsa Justice union continues to denounce overcrowding in prisons at record levels.
April 27 2022

One of the most overcrowded prisons in France, the Perpignan prison has seen an increase in violence and various incidents for several months. This weekend, the tension has risen even further as a result of prison overcrowding, which has become unsustainable, claims Pierre Grousset, local secretary of the Ufap Unsa Justice union.

More at
https://medforthgotcha100/an-inmate-is-beaten-up-in-french-prison-for-not-obeying-ramadan-it-is-an-everyday-reality-some-dont-eat-pork-anymore-because-they-are-pressured/

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Israel Gave Honorary Plaque to Jerusalem Mufti Hours Before He Spoke at an Event with Nasrallah, Haniyeh
By David Israel
27 Nisan 5782 – April 28, 2022

Sheikh Ekrima Sa’id Sabri, 83, who was appointed by Yasser Arafat in 1994 to serve as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine (the stint ended in 2006) spoke on Tuesday at a virtual conference alongside senior terrorists from around the world, including Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. Islamic Jihad top thugs were also on hand.

So far, not such a big deal – Sabri is not the first and won’t be the last anti-Semitic Jerusalem Mufti who collaborates with Jew-haters. Here’s the thing, though: according to Hakol Ha’Yehudi, only a few hours before the all villains Zoom, this former Mufti was giving a speech at a school in eastern Jerusalem run by the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Jerusalem Municipality’s Education Dept.

More at
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/israel-gave-honorary-plaque-to-jerusalem-mufti-hours-before-he-spoke-at-an-event-with-nasrallah-haniyeh/2022/04/28/

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Germany: Syrian Jew-hater gets off with a judicial caution for the second time
Musaab A. A. had posted a crime scene photo of a massacre of a Jewish settler family in the West Bank (three dead) on Facebook in 2017. With the comment: “Blessed Feast of Sacrifice.” Accompanied by a red heart emoji.

Four years passed before the then 20-year-old refugee from Aleppo (Syria) had to answer to the district court in 2021. But “due to delays in maturity caused by his flight history” he got off with a warning under juvenile criminal law at the time.

“Too little”, the senior public prosecutor from the “Hate Crime Centre” found and appealed in December 2021. Especially since the accused showed no remorse. He also gave the newspaper photographer the finger after the end of the trial.

More at
https://medforthgotcha100/germany-syrian-jew-hater-gets-off-with-a-judicial-caution-for-the-second-time/

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As elements from the USA pontificate to India, American Islamist body CAIR says discrimination against Muslims in the USA increased by 9%
28 April, 2022

The Islamist organisation – Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has recently claimed that discrimination against Muslims in the United States increased by nine per cent in 2021.

In a recently released report titled “Still Suspect: The Impact of Structural Islamophobia”, the controversial Islamist body Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has said that there has been a rise in discrimination against Muslims living in the United States.

CAIR identifies itself as a Muslim civil rights organisation in the United States that claims to protect ‘civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims’.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/04/cair-american-islamist-body-discrimination-increased-in-america-against-muslims/

*****And CAIR said this would happen under Trump's administration but, it didn't happen*****

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Video 'Allah brought Jews to Palestine so we could finish them off'
Islamic Jihad leader calls on Arab states to provide 'Palestinian resistance' with advanced weapons so they can 'do their work for them.'
MEMRI
28.04.22 09:33

Video only

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/326559

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Kafir!
Islam’s hateful and ugly word for all non-Muslims.

Wed Apr 27, 2022
Raymond Ibrahim

The popular Egyptian daily newspaper and website al-Masry al-Youm (“the Egyptian Today”) recently published a fatwa titled “What Is the Ruling on Selling Food to Infidels during the Daylight [Hours] of Ramadan?”  The fatwa concluded that, no, it is not permissible for Muslims to sell food, even if the purchaser and consumer is a non-Muslim.

As discussed here, because the daily newspaper that published this fatwa, al-Masry al-Youm, has long been seen as a progressive, reformist newspaper—one that thrives on exposing and combatting Islamist intolerance—its readership, which includes not a few Coptic Christians, responded in uproar.  Hours later, the online version of the paper deleted the fatwa, suspended its editor, and issued an apology.

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/kafir-raymond-ibrahim/

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Palestinians Find the Aid Cupboard is Bare
The good times for the Palestinian Authority are over.
Wed Apr 27, 2022
Hugh Fitzgerald

The Palestinians were once the favored recipient of foreign aid, as billions of dollars were heaped upon them every year from so many the donors – the United States, Western European countries, and the Gulf Arab states. But since 2014, there has been a steady, precipitous drop in that aid, and now, so far in 2022, there has been no foreign aid coming in for the P.A at all. A report on the colossal drop in aid is here: “Foreign cash aid to Palestinian Authority so far this year: $0,” Elder of Ziyon, April 21, 2022:

Estephan Salameh, who is the advisor to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas for aid coordination, says that no foreign countries have paid a red cent so far this year of their pledges to help the Palestinian budget.

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/palestinians-find-aid-cupboard-bare-hugh-fitzgerald/

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Janjaweed Militia Massacres Over 150 in Darfur, Sudan
HEADLINEAPR 25, 2022

In Sudan, the United Nations has received reports that between 150 and 200 people have died in western Darfur after a group of armed men attacked the village of Kreinik on Sunday. Thousands of people were displaced, and homes and shops were burned down. One group, the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced in Darfur, put the death toll at 168. 

More at
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/25/headlines/janjaweed_militia_massacres_over_150_in_darfur_sudan

Also The Guardian has more information
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/26/janjaweed-militia-blamed-for-attacks-that-left-at-least-200-dead-in-darfur

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Ilhan Omar Finds a New Way to Attack Freedom of Speech
Forget America's real crisis and focus on "Islamophobia."
Fri Apr 29, 2022
Robert Spencer

War in Ukraine, an essentially nonexistent Southern border, out-of-control inflation, rising crime, deep societal divisions, and what does the de facto leader of the Democrat Party, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Islamabad), who can always be counted on to have her finger on the pulse of the American people, decide to tackle? Why, “Islamophobia,” of course. Come on, man! Is there something more important that she could be focusing on? “Islamophobia” is, after all, a free speech issue. The only problem is that Omar is on the wrong side.

During Omar’s recent visit to Pakistan, she made sure to visit Pakistan’s just-replaced former prime minister Imran Khan, whose Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party proudly tweeted Wednesday: “US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) called on @ImranKhanPTI in Bani Gala. They discussed Islamophobia & related issues. Ilhan Omar expressed her admiration for Imran Khan and his work for Muslims globally.”
That was significant in light of the kind of work Imran Khan has been doing for Muslims globally. For years, he has been campaigning for the West to adopt Sharia blasphemy laws and restrict the freedom of speech under the guise of prohibiting “Islamophobia."

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/ilhan-omar-finds-new-way-attack-freedom-speech-robert-spencer/