May - islam in the news 2022

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Indonesian preacher denied entry to Singapore says he will not give up trying to visit
Saifulbahri Ismail
21 May 2022 04:03PM (Updated: 21 May 2022 07:08PM)

SINGAPORE: An Indonesian preacher who was denied entry to Singapore on Monday (May 16) said he will not give up trying to visit Singapore, describing the country as Malay land similar to Riau where he is from.

In a YouTube video on Wednesday, Abdul Somad Batubara said people in Riau see Singapore as part of their land because Singapore was part of the Temasek Malay kingdom.

"To say that I'm tired of going to Singapore is the same as saying I'm tired of going to Minangkabau. This is because Singapore is a Malay land. My grandmother has brothers, children and grandchildren who live in Singapore,” he added.

More at
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indonesia-preacher-abdul-somad-batubara-denied-entry-singapore-youtube-video-comments-2697786

*****Frankly I wouldn't trust him, he is a radical hateful preacher for islam*****

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Women-only phone kiosks installed in Saudi Grand Mosque
May 21, 2022 14:05
Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor

Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s General Presidency of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque has announced that special phone stations for female worshipers have been provided inside the grand mosque.

The women-only phone kiosks aim to ease the performance of rituals inside the grand mosque and provide female worshippers answers to their inquiries.

Dr. Noura bint Hillel Al Dhuwaibi, Vice President for Scientific, Intellectual and Women’s Guidance Affairs at the Grand Mosque, clarified that the service is available 24\7 and dedicated for women worshippers only to maintain their privacy and facilitate the performance of rituals inside the mosque. It is also provided in several languages by experts in Sharia.

More at
https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/women-only-phone-kiosks-installed-in-saudi-grand-mosque-1.88028535

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France: The mayor of Marignane to take the initiative to ban Islamic clothing in swimming pools
May 21 2022

He wants to prevent the burkini from finding its way into his city’s swimming pools. After Éric Piolle’s mayoralty in Grenoble gave the green light to allow Islamic swimming costumes in public pools, some politicians are already taking the initiative to prevent the phenomenon from spreading. This also applies to the mayor of Marignane, Éric Le Dissès. On Friday May 20, he passed a municipal council resolution for a burkini ban in the municipal swimming pools of the municipality in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône. In a statement reported by La Provence on Saturday May 21, the mayor of Marignane recalled that the ban also applied to “Bermudas, shorts and the like”: “Only swimming costumes are allowed”, he reminded.

More at
https://medforthgotcha100/france-the-mayor-of-marignane-to-take-the-initiative-to-ban-islamic-clothing-in-swimming-pools/

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Soyinka wants National Mosque Imam sacked over blasphemy comment
NURUDEEN SHOTAYO
 May 22, 2022 9:54 AM

The deceased, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto State, was gruesomely murdered by a mob following accusation of blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.

Reacting to the dastardly act, Imam Maqari claimed that there are some red lines in Islam which must not be crossed, adding that if issues of blasphemy against the prophet are not addressed by the authority, the Muslims would do so themselves.

Soyinka has now accused the Islamic cleric of instigating his followers to take laws into their hands in the name of religion.

More at
https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/deborah-soyinka-wants-national-mosque-imam-sacked-over-blasphemy-comment/r0w8dbt

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Afghanistan: Policing faces, bodies and beards on Kabul streets
Secunder Kermani - BBC News, Kabul
Sat, May 21, 2022, 4:03 PM

In their long white gowns, the inspectors of the Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue look more like food safety inspectors than "moral police".

But they're at the forefront of attempts to mould a new, more "Islamic" identity in Afghanistan, in keeping with the group's hard-line views.

Their role seems broad. During their last visit to a multi-storey shopping centre in Kabul a few months back, shopkeepers remembered the inspectors checking whether products were past their expiry date, as well as instructing them to remove posters featuring women's bodies.

Many of the images, however, still appeared to be up when the inspectors returned earlier this week, accompanied by the BBC.

More at
https://news.yahoo.com/afghanistan-policing-faces-bodies-beards-230310740.html

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Family of missing Lina Sardar Khil, 3, being stalked and harassed with conspiracy theories: report
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News
May 21, 2022 3:00pm

The family of missing Texas toddler Lina Sardar Khil is being stalked and harassed with conspiracy theories during public search parties, according to local reports.

Khil was abducted on Dec. 20, 2021, while she was at a playground

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/family-of-missing-lina-sadar-khil-3-being-stalked-and-harassed-with-conspiracy-theories-report

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Pakistani family’s murder shocks small-town Texas
Anwar Iqbal
Published May 22, 2022 -  Updated about 15 hours ago

WASHINGTON: A Pakistani-American man estranged from his wife and four-year-old daughter allegedly shot them and his mother-in-law in a small Texas town before turning the gun on himself, police said.

The local police have not yet disclosed their names but the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), which arranged their janaza prayers, identified the victims as Sadia Manzoor, her daughter Khadija Mohammad, and mother Inayat Bibi. The alleged shooter was only identified by his last name, Mohammad. They were laid to rest in the ISGH Muslim Cemetery in Waller, Texas.

“Please keep sister Sadia, her daughter and mother in your prayers and we ask that Allah give her father and other surviving family members patience to cope with this great loss,” ISGH said in a brief statement. The family lived in a Houston suburb called Spring, Texas, which is under the jurisdiction of Harris County Police.

More at
https://www.dawn.com/news/1690870/pakistani-familys-murder-shocks-small-town-texas

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Nigeria: Blasphemy - Muric Demands Arrest of Pastor in Osun
22 MAY 2022
Daily Trust (Abuja)
By Abbas Jimoh, and, Ahmed Mohammed
The Osun State Chapter of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the security agencies and well-meaning Nigerians to act on the alleged misdemeanours of one Pastor Akintaro Joshua Ojo, over his recent utterances, which are capable of plunging Osun State and the entire South West Nigeria into chaos and religious war.

The MURIC Chairman, Osun State Chapter, Dr. AbdulAzeez Ademokoya, said Saturday in a statement that few days into mourning Deborah Samuel, whose brutal killing MURIC condemned, a pastor by name Akintaro Joshua released an audio tape insulting Allah, Islam, the Qur'an, and Prophet Muhammad, an effrontery more dangerous than one could imagine and which no sane Muslim can stomach.

He said that Akintaro did not only "release his rancorous and venomous audio" but went ahead to include his two mobile numbers.

More at
https://allafrica.com/stories/202205220238.html

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Pakistani-Spanish sisters killed for ‘honour’ in Gujrat
Police say Aneesa Abbas and Arooj Abbas were lured back from Spain to Gujrat and shot on Friday night
May 21, 2022

GUJRAT:
Punjab Police were on Saturday investigating the murder of two Pakistani-Spanish sisters as an "honour killing", a brutal patriarchal practice that sees women put to death for bringing "shame" on their families.

A spokesperson for Punjab Police said Aneesa Abbas, 24, and Arooj Abbas, 21, were seeking separation from their husbands and were lured back from Spain to Gujrat where they were strangled and shot on Friday night.

Both the sisters, residents of Nathia village of Gujarat district, returned Pakistan from Spain on May 19, 2022, along with their mother Azra Bibi.

More at
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2357678/pakistani-spanish-sisters-killed-for-honour-in-gujrat

*****Honor killings are nothing more than plain old fashioned murder***** 

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‘The internet is not safe for us’: Atheists are afraid online as Pakistan violently cracks down on digital blasphemy.
Kunwar Khuldune ubgone19 Kunwar Khuldune ubgone19
Posted on May 20, 2022   Updated on May 20, 2022, 11:08 am CDT

Noor Khan Baloch* is a digital rights activist and professional from Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s volatile Balochistan province. As a Pashtun-Baloch woman, Noor personifies the intersection of many identities that are marginalized in the country, and she has actively sought to address the multipronged power imbalances in the digital sphere. However, there’s a major part of her identity that she can neither strive to safeguard, nor unveil: atheism.

“As an atheist I fear that if I post something on Islam, someone will lodge a police complaint, or I’ll become the target of a mob,” Noor said to the Daily Dot. “I’ve stopped expressing my own views online because even condemnation of killings over blasphemy, or criticizing the law, can be fatal.”

Pakistan is one of 32 Muslim-majority countries with harsh penalties for blasphemy, apostasy, or atheism, and one of 12 that punishes these “crimes” with death. As a result, Pakistani atheists, agnostics, and other dissenters of Islam are fast losing their safe spaces online, which they had built to dodge the institutionalized threats engulfing them. 

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https://www.dailydot.com/debug/pakistan-digital-blasphemy-laws/

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Islamic Society of North America Called Out for Fomenting Violence Against Jews
One of the nation’s foremost Islamic organizations is encouraging Jew-hate.
Mon May 23, 2022
Robert Spencer

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is one of the largest and most respected Muslim organizations on the continent. Politicians routinely fawn all over it. But it is also easily one of the most sinister Islamic organizations in the West ISNA manifested its truly evil agenda once again recently, when it issued a statement denouncing “Israeli violence against Palestinian worshipers” without, not surprisingly, bothering to notice that those “worshipers” were actually Islamic jihadis who were stockpiling stones and other material to use as weapons in attacks against Israeli civilians.

On May 5, one group finally called out ISNA, which continues to enjoy mainstream acceptance and wield considerable influence in the corridors of power in Washington. The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), which represents “over 2000 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in matters of American public policy,” called on ISNA to “retract its statement issued April 16 entitled, ‘ISNA Condemns Israeli Violence Against Palestinian Worshipers.’ CJV pointed to numerous factual errors in the statement which, taken together, could easily be characterized as promoting a false narrative, encouraging antisemitism and even fomenting violence.”

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/islamic-society-north-america-called-out-fomenting-robert-spencer/

*****Robert Spencer knows a lot more about islam then I do, he can break down the suras better as well as the qur'an*****

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Nigeria’s Christians are under attack, but does the West care?
19 May 2022, 6:51am

The victim was a Christian student named Deborah Samuel, from Sokoto in the north west of the country. Samuel's 'crime', for which she paid with her life, was to have allegedly posted a ‘blasphemous’ comment on a WhatsApp group against the prophet Mohammed.

Even in a nation riddled by decades of ethnic and religious conflict where thousands of Christians have been killed, the incident has sparked uproar. But this outrage has mostly been confined to Nigeria itself; much of the Western world turns a blind eye to the horrors unfolding in Africa.

In the last year, more Christians have been killed for their faith in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world combined. In 2021, at least 6,000 Christians died for their religion; eight in ten were Nigerians, often at the hands of jihadists.

More at
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/nigeria-s-christians-are-under-attack-but-does-the-west-care-

*****Under Trump's term as President, he took a stance against Christians being killed. Yet under Biden's watch, more Christians have been killed then under any other President*****

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The Blatant Hypocrisy of Islamic Apologias
Straining at gnats while swallowing camels.
Mon May 23, 2022
Raymond Ibrahim

An Arabic-language video of a Muslim cleric addressing how terrorists “misuse” Islamic scriptures to justifying killing non-Muslims is an ideal example of the hypocrisy of Muslim apologias.

During his sermon, Sheikh Samir Hashish—who was addressing the bombings of Coptic churches in Egypt, which have left hundreds dead over the years—said that those Muslims who attack churches and kill infidels often cite a sahih hadith (a statement attributed to Muhammad and deemed authentic), where the prophet said, “A Muslim must not be killed on account of a kafir [a non-Muslim, or infidel].” After saying that the hadith does not justify the outright slaughter of non-Muslims, Hashish elaborated:

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/blatant-hypocrisy-islamic-apologias-raymond-ibrahim/

*****Yet, Sheikh Samir Hashish is under fire for making this comment from islam*****

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‘I thought he was an antelope’ – Hunter arrested for shooting Imam deadPublished on April 26, 2022
By Wale Odunsi

The Police in Osun have arrested a hunter for the death of an Imam, Adegun Yusuf.

The 78-year-old Islamic cleric was a resident of Alaguntan village in Orile-Owu, Aiyedaade Local Government Area.

The suspect claimed that he mistook the deceased for an antelope, NAN reports.

More at

https://dailypost.ng/2022/04/26/i-thought-he-was-an-antelope-hunter-arrested-for-shooting-imam-dead/
*****I'm sorry he is dead but, some how this brings to mind a scene from "Hot Shots" where Mailman, he is mistaken for a deer*****

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Damascus blasts Erdoğan ​​plan for return of one million refugees
May 20 2022 09:22 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: May 20 2022 09:41 Gmt+3

The government of Syria has rejected plans by Ankara for the return one million Syrian refugees to a “safe zone” on the border, Al Arabiya reported on Friday, citing Syrian state media.

Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that his government is working on a new project to facilitate the voluntary return home of some 1 million Syrian refugees living Turkey, marking a change in tone on Ankara’s long-held migrant policy. The Turkish leader said his government would build housing and local infrastructure in the war-torn country.

Erdogan’s “cheap statements” reveal his regime’s “aggressive games against Syria and the unity of its land and people,” Al Arabiya cited the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying in a statement on state-run news agency SANA.

More at
https://ahvalnews.com/syria/damascus-blasts-erdogan-plan-return-one-million-refugees

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