May - islam in the news 2022

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Pilot comes under fire for supporting killing of Deborah
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha
May 15, 2022

A pilot identified as Captain Jamil Abubakar has come under fire for a statement he made via his Twitter handle, defending the killing of Deborah, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education accused of passing unflattering comments about Prophet Mohammed on campus.

His tweet reads: “In Islam, we respect the Injil, Taura, Zabur, we were never taught to disrespect any of the book, or any of the prophets from Adam to Muhammad SAW and the Quran. The punishment for blasphemy is death In most religions including Christianity. Respect people’s religion, it’s simple”

This statement however did not sit well with people, especially aviation experts and stakeholders who raised concerns on how the pilot’s opinion show a personality that could threaten safety of passengers.

More at
https://businessday.ng/news/article/pilot-comes-under-fire-for-supporting-killing-of-deborah/

*****I hope y'all noticed he said in Christianity we kill people for blasphemy, he is completely wrong!! Christians don't kill people for blasphemy and Muslims sure don't respect any other religion besides islam*****

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Muslim Mob Beats, Stones, Torches a Female Christian Student in Nigeria
Apparently she “blasphemed” against Muhammad.
Tue May 17, 2022
Raymond Ibrahim

Last Thursday, a Muslim mob beat, stoned, and then burned the body of a female Christian student in Nigeria.  She was apparently accused of “blasphemy.”

A brief video clip shows a massive fire against a wall, where the hapless woman was likely driven to and cornered in, and Muslims jumping around it and crying “Allahu Akbar.”  One man, dressed in traditional Muslim attire, triumphantly jabbers while waving around a box of matches—perhaps the same used to ignite the “blasphemer.”

The Christian girl had apparently challenged a group of Muslim students spreading Islamic propaganda, thereby rousing their ire in a nation where Christians are being purged in a genocide (and where just two days ago 29 other Christians were hacked to death by Muslims).

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/muslim-mob-beats-stones-torches-female-christian-raymond-ibrahim/

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How mocking Hindu Gods is a free hit but speaking about Prophet Muhammed results in death
18 May, 2022

‘It was a Mistake’ – is what all it took for Journalist Saba Naqvi to get away with her casual exercise in Hinduphobia. Naqvi had shared an obnoxious meme stating it as a WhatsApp forward on Twitter. When the news of the Shivling being found in the disputed Gyanwapi structure came, India’s left intelligentsia got themselves an opportunity to ridicule the ‘false gods’ of the heathen Hindus.

For them, the only reality is the Mosque. That is the only truth they subscribe to. The only principle Islamic propagandists like Saba Naqvi adhere to is defending their religion and ideology, at all costs. And if reality serves a different picture, an engagement with the fact without ridicule, mockery, and denial doesn’t go far away. Earlier, Naqvi had tweeted an image comparing a Shivlinga with that of a reactor at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai.

Saba Naqvi, Islamists mock Hindu Gods after the discovery of Shivling at Gyanvapi structure

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/saba-naqvi-mocks-shivling-gyanvapi-how-it-is-par-for-course-for-liberals-to-ridicule-hindu-gods/

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Burkina Faso: Armed Islamists Kill, Rape Civilians
Army, Militia Respond with Summary Executions, Enforced Disappearances
May 16 2022

Armed Islamist groups and government security forces and militia in Burkina Faso are committing increased abuses against civilians as the conflict there intensifies and widens, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burkina Faso government, which took power in a January 2022 coup, should better protect civilians from attack and ensure that government forces respect human rights.

Armed Islamist groups that began attacking Burkina Faso in 2016 have become increasingly abusive, carrying out hundreds of killings, summary executions, rapes of civilians, and widespread pillaging. Also since 2016, government security forces and militias engaged in counterterrorism operations have allegedly unlawfully killed hundreds of civilians and suspected Islamist fighters, fueling recruitment into armed groups. The fighting has forced 1.8 million people from their homes, most from the Sahel and Centre-Nord regions of the country.

“Armed Islamist groups are demonstrating day after day their profound disregard for the lives and livelihoods of civilians,” said Corinne Dufka, Sahel director at Human Rights Watch. “Government forces and associated militias must scrupulously uphold international human rights and humanitarian law and desist from killing in the name of security.”

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https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/05/16/burkina-faso-armed-islamists-kill-rape-civilians

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Rioters attack Christian sites over arrests in Nigeria
16 MAY 2022 · 18:05


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https://evangelicalfocus.com/world/16820/rioters-attack-christian-sites-over-arrests-in-nigeria
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Rioters upset over the arrest of two Muslims in connection with the killing of a Christian college student in Sokoto, Nigeria attacked three church buildings and looted and damaged Christian-owned shops on  May 14, sources said.

Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, a 200-level student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, the capital of Sokoto state, was beaten, stoned to death and her body set on fire on Thursday May 12 after she was falsely accused of blaspheming the prophet of Islam because she had refused to date a Muslim, sources said.

Following the arrest of two Muslim suspects, Muslim rioters started bonfires and damaged the Holy Family Catholic Cathedral, St. Kevin’s Catholic Church and an Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) building in Sokoto, area residents said.

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https://evangelicalfocus.com/world/16820/rioters-attack-christian-sites-over-arrests-in-nigeria

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Just arrived in France from Lampedusa, a “refugee” rapes a tourist
May 16 2022

Awoman of English nationality was raped in the street in the Le Port district of Nice on Wednesday morning. The main suspect of the assault was subsequently arrested.

The crime took place shortly after 5am on Wednesday May 11 in the Le Port neighbourhood. A woman of English nationality was leaving Place Garibaldi. She is followed by a man who rapes her at Rue Arson 5.

The national police alerted the Nice Metropolitan Police’s Urban Surveillance Unit (CSU), which succeeded in tracing the path of the victim and the attacker until the rape, thanks to the city’s cameras, which also captured the heinous act.Nice-Matin.

More at
https://medforthgotcha100/just-arrived-in-france-from-lampedusa-a-refugee-rapes-a-tourist/

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Once Again, London Has an Islamist-Run Borough
By
Sam Westrop
May 11, 2022

The United Kingdom’s local elections at the beginning of May were dramatic. Across Britain, much was made of the fact that the ruling Conservative Party lost almost 500 council seats in the wake of scandal and sleaze. Meanwhile, endless hours of analysis on the BBC have been dedicated to Northern Ireland, where Sinn Fein, the political offshoot of the IRA, achieved a majority for the first time.

But it is in the London borough of Tower Hamlets where more focus should perhaps be placed. The Islamist-linked Aspire Party has just won a sweeping victory. It now controls a majority 24 of the 45 seats available, with the party’s founder – Islamist activist and fraudster Lutfur Rahman – now the mayor.

This is not Rahman’s first stint in charge of this important London borough. He served as mayor from 2010 to 2015, initially as a representative of the Labour Party. His tenure was marked by widespread Islamist extremism, cronyism and outright corruption – all exposed by expertly-conducted documentaries and investigations from mainstream British media, although largely ignored or downplayed by police and national politicians.

More at
https://islamism.news/2022/05/11/once-again-london-has-an-islamist-run-borough/

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There’s no evidence Jean-Claude Van Damme is Muslim
16 MAY 2022

An image shared widely on Facebook claims the actor and martial artist Jean-Claude Van Damme said the following: “After I converted to Islam, I did not get any job offer from directors…But this is not important. I believe that I got the right role in the Cosmos test. I have never been regretful even for once, because I believe in Allah.”

We could find no evidence that he ever said this. Online searches for the whole alleged quote and parts of it only surface other posts making the same claim.

We often see quotes wrongly attributed to celebrities, and other prominent figures like politicians, as part of our work fact checking online misinformation.

More at
https://fullfact.org/online/jean-claude-van-damme-muslim/

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25 Muslim League workers get life imprisonment for siblings’ murder
17th May 2022 06:32 AM

PALAKKAD:  The Palakkad Additional District and Sessions Fast Track Court on Monday sentenced 25  Muslim League members of Kallankuzhi to life imprisonment for killing two brothers belonging to the AP Sunni faction in 2013.

They were directed to pay a fine of Rs 50,000 each to the family of the deceased by Judge T H Rajitha.
There are 27 accused in the case. Fourth accused Cheenan Hamzappa died during the trial, while a case is also pending in the Juvenile Court against one of the accused who was a minor at the time of the crime.
The court declared all accused persons guilty on May 11.

Brothers Kunhi Hamza, 48, and Noorudheen, 42, of Pallath house were killed by the accused on November 20, 2013.  The duo’s eldest brother Kunhu Mohammed, 66, was seriously injured in the incident and later became one of the main witnesses in the case.

More at
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2022/may/17/25-muslim-league-workers-get-life-imprisonment-for-siblings-murder-2454390.html

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The five community leaders squeezed into a rattletrap Mercedes-Benz and braced themselves for a daunting mission. They were going to meet the jihadist militants who had made their lives unbearable.
May 16 2022

The purpose of the meeting was to secure the release of a well-known teacher, snatched by jihadists in a village beneath the sandstone cliffs that cut through central Mali – the country’s epicentre of violence and displacement.

But when the leader of the five – a village chief and farmer fed up with years of conflict in his district of Koro – stepped forward to take back the teacher at a gathering point in the bush, he found himself unable to hold back tears.

More at
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2022/05/16/Mali-militants-dialogue-Koro-jihadists

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Wine shop attacked by terrorists in J&K's Baramulla, TRF claims responsibility
May 2022

SRINAGAR: A group of terrorists hurled a grenade inside a newly-opened wine shop in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla in which four employees of the wine shop got injured and one among them is said to be serious.

Around 8.10 PM, 2 terrorists riding on a bike stopped near the newly-opened wine shop at Dewan Bagh in Baramulla. The pillion rider wearing a burka walked to the window of the wine shop and hurled a grenade inside the said wine shop through the porthole window and thereafter fled away on the bike from the spot.

In this attack, 04 employees of the said shop received splinter injuries. All the injured were immediately shifted to a nearby hospital. However, one among the injured identified as Ranjit Singh, who is the son of Kishan Lal and a resident of Bakra Rajouri, succumbed to his injuries.

More at
https://zeenews.india.com/jammu-and-kashmir/wine-shop-attacked-by-terrorists-in-jks-baramulla-trf-claims-responsibility-2464672.html

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Singapore denies entry to Muslim 'hate' preacher
Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta
May 18, 2022 09:04 AM

An Indonesian Muslim cleric has been denied entry into Singapore because of “extremist and segregationist teachings” that target other religions, including Christians.

Abdul Somad Batubara, who boasts a large online following in Indonesia, was stopped and refused entry at Singapore’s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal on May 16 after arriving from Batam in Indonesia’s Riau Islands with his family.

He and his group were sent back to Batam the same day.

In a short video posted on his YouTube channel on May 17, he said his visit was for a holiday, not for religious purposes.

More at
https://www.ucanews.com/news/singapore-denies-entry-to-muslim-hate-preacher/97308

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Controversy as French city Grenoble allows women to wear 'burkinis' in swimming pools
By Euronews  with AFP 
17/05/2022 - 20:07

The French city of Grenoble has formally allowed Muslim women to wear burkinis, or swimming costumes covering the whole body, in public pools.

Members of the municipal council narrowly approved the new rules during a meeting on Monday despite political opposition.

After a tense debate, there were 29 votes in favour of the measure, with 27 councillors voting against and two abstentions.

France's interior ministry has stated that it will block the move, which contradicts French laws on secularism and the "neutrality of public service"

More at
https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/16/grenoble-allows-women-to-wear-burkinis-in-public-pools-despite-political-opposition

*****Ewwwwww, that is so unhealthy, who knows what germs are in those burkinis*****

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France: High school students walked out of music class because their teacher played them a Beatles song during Ramadan
May 16 2022

Agroup of students at a collège in the centre of the rose city of Toulouse walked out of music class because their teacher played them a Beatles song during Ramadan. They were reprimanded by the headmistress, who made a report to the headmaster’s office.

The music education teacher plays a Beatles song to investigate the structure of the piece. A pupil stands up and refuses to continue following the lesson on the grounds that he is not allowed to listen to music during Ramadan. He leaves the room, followed by seven other students, “not all of whom are of the Muslim faith and who followed their classmate out of peer pressure rather than religious conviction,” explains Mostafa Fourar, the headmaster of the Toulouse academy.

More at
https://medforthgotcha100/france-high-school-students-walked-out-of-music-class-because-their-teacher-played-them-a-beatles-song-during-ramadan/

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Boy, 13, arrested on suspicion of sharing Islamist terrorist material
His home was searched by police
By Margaret Davis (PA)Steven SmithNetwork Content Editor
11:32, 18 MAY 2022

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of sharing Islamist terrorist material. The teenager was held in west London on Tuesday by officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) before being released on bail until mid-June.

He was arrested on suspicion of the dissemination of terrorist material and his home was searched. The arrest comes against a backdrop of growing concern about the radicalisation of young people.

Head of the CTC, Richard Smith, said: "While it is still very rare for such a young person to be arrested for a terrorism offence, in recent times we have seen a worrying increase in the number of teenagers being drawn into terrorism. This particular investigation remains ongoing, but more broadly, we work closely with a whole range of partners to try and protect and divert young, vulnerable people away from extremism and terrorism.

More at
https://www.essexlive.news/news/uk-world-news/boy-13-arrested-suspicion-sharing-7096514