May - islam in the news 2022

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Iran will ‘avenge’ killing of Revolutionary Guards colonel, president vows
Raisi says there’s ‘no doubt the hand of global arrogance can be seen in this crime,’ employing a term often used to refer to Israel and the US
By TOI STAFF and AGENCIES
Today, 10:19 am 

Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday.

Col. Hassan Sayad Khodayari was shot dead Sunday outside his home by assailants on motorcycles, in a killing Iran blamed on “elements linked to the global arrogance,” its term for the United States and its allies including Israel.

It was the most high-profile killing inside Iran since the November 2020 murder of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

“I insist on the serious pursuit (of the killers) by security officials, and I have no doubt that the blood of this great martyr will be avenged,” Raisi said. “There is no doubt that the hand of global arrogance can be seen in this crime,” he added, echoing what the Guards said the previous day.

More at
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-will-avenge-killing-of-revolutionary-guards-colonel-president-vows/

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In English, a child victim of Israeli aggression. In Arabic, a heroic fighter and martyr.
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Elder of Ziyon

The official Wafa news agency said:

A Palestinian teenager was killed and another one injured early this morning by the Israeli occupation forces during an Israeli army raid of Jenin city, north of the occupied West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health.

It said Amjad Fayed, 17, was killed and another one, 18-years-old, was seriously injured during the raid.

An Israeli military force stormed Haifa Street in Jenin sparking confrontations with residents during which Israeli soldiers fired live bullets at the Palestinians killing one and injuring another, who was reported in critical condition at a local hospital.

More at
https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/05/in-english-child-victim-of-israeli.html

*****The cropped photo doesn't show Amjad holding a gun, which you can see in the original picture*****

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Movie Based on Serial Murder of Iranian Prostitutes Ali Abbasi’s ‘Holy Spider’
By Stephanie Bunbury
May 22, 2022 9:06am

Sometimes it hardly matters whether we know a story is based on truth or not. Watching Ali Abbasi’s thunderously damning Holy Spider, on the other hand, it drives a wedge into your mind knowing that a serial killer really did terrorize the Iranian holy city of Mashhad in the early 2000s, that he killed 16 street prostitutes, that there were police who conspired to help him escape and that there were people in Iran — a lot of people, he keeps assuring his family — who were on the murderer’s side. He was doing God’s work.

Swedish-Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s last film was the unclassifiable Border, a fable about outcasts and aliens in which an unfortunately grotesque Swedish customs official turns out to be a troll. Border won the prize for the best film in Cannes sidebar section Un Certain Regard in 2018. Holy Spider is in the festival competition — nominally a step up from UCR’s ranks of newcomers and experimentalists — and is ostensibly a more conventional kind of film, a crime thriller in which a courageous, driven young female reporter (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) unpacks the scandal nobody in power wants to touch. Reduced to one line, it sounds like a rerun of a dozen thrillers. Holy Spider never feels like a safe genre choice, however. Quite the opposite. It crackles and glistens with anger.

More at
https://deadline.com/2022/05/holy-spider-film-review-ali-abbasi-cannes-1235030037/

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Fact Check: Did Catholic priest convert to Islam after waking up from coma?Social media users are claiming that a Catholic priest converted to Islam after waking up from a one-year coma. They are sharing a screenshot of a Hindi newspaper to substantiate their claim.12:00:23 pm - May 23, 2022
Sabya Singh

Hyderabad: Social media users are claiming that a Catholic priest converted to Islam after waking up from a one-year coma. They are sharing a screenshot of a Hindi newspaper to substantiate their claim.

Fact Check

The claim is false.

NewsMeter searched on the web using relevant keywords and found a tweet from 'Utusan Online' news website. It confirmed that the report of a priest embracing Islam after waking up from a coma was a hoax.

'Utusan Online' shared a link to their clarification article about this story in the tweet. It said the 'World News Daily Report' website about a Catholic priest converting to Islam after being in a coma for 17 months was false.

More at
https://m.newsmeter.in/article/fact-check/fact-check-did-catholic-priest-convert-to-islam-after-waking-up-from-coma-695760

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"Children Would Never Become Doctors, Engineer Till Madrassa Will Be In Mind": Assam CM
Aleesha Sam
23 May 2022 8:45 AM GMT

Himanta Biswa Sarma Sarma said children will not be willing to go to a madrassa if they are told that they won't be able to become a doctor or engineer after studying there.
Children Would Never Become Doctors, Engineer Till Madrassa Will Be In Mind: Assam CM
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who opposes madrassa education for children, said on Sunday that schools should provide modern education so that pupils can choose to pursue anything in the future and that religious education can be provided at home.

He claimed that anyone entering a religious organization should be of legal age to make their own decisions.

More at
https://hwnews.in/national/children-would-never-become-doctors-engineer-till-madrassa-will-be-in-mind-assam-cm-1353175

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BJP worker arrested for allegedly killing 65-year-old man in Islamophobic attack
Scroll Staff
Yesterday · 08:15 am
Updated Yesterday · 01:40 pm

The Madhya Pradesh Police on Saturday arrested Bharatiya Janata Party worker Dinesh Kushwaha, who was seen assaulting a 65-year-old man with mental illness on video, The Indian Express reported.

The man, identified as Bhawarlal Jain, was later found dead in the Neemuch district.

The video shared on social media showed Kushwaha repeatedly slapping Jain and asking him about his identity. Kushwaha was seen asking him if his name was Mohammed and demanding his Aadhaar card.

More at
https://scroll.in/latest/1024475/bjp-worker-arrested-for-allegedly-killing-65-year-old-on-suspicion-of-being-muslim

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Muslim man pushes 90-year-old Jewish neighbor to his death in France
By  Neta Bar 
Published on  05-23-2022 12:42

According to a report by the local Jewish newspaper Tribune Juive, René Hadjaj was pushed to his death from a 17th-story window in the residential building where he lived.

According to Le Progres, a local newspaper in Lyon, police believe Hadjaj and his neighbor had been embroiled in a dispute. While Hadjaj was wearing a kippah at the time of his death, police are not treating the murder as an antisemitic crime, according to the newspaper's report.

Despite police claims, Jewish community members are up in arms over the similarities in the case to the murder of Sarah Halimi, who was murdered when her Muslim neighbor threw her off her apartment balcony while shouting "Allah Akhbar" and "I killed the devil."

More at
https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/05/23/muslim-man-pushes-90-year-old-jewish-neighbor-to-his-death-in-france/

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Man Shouting Allahu Akbar Kills Female Security Guard at Qatar Embassy in Paris
By Jacob J
On 5/23/22

A security guard at the Paris embassy of Qatar has been killed in an apparent terror attack. A man screaming 'Allah Akbar' forcibly entered the Qatari embassy premises close to Champs-Élysées on Monday morning and beat the guard to death, according to reports.

The identity of the attacker is not revealed yet. According to local reports, the 40-year-old attacker was already known to the police and was taken into custody.

More at
https://www.ibtimes.sg/man-shouting-allahu-akbar-kills-security-guard-qatar-embassy-paris-64759

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Muslim Sleeper cells in the Sunshine State
Adina Kutnicki
23.05.22 16:24

It is not for nothing that Florida is affectionately dubbed the "Sunshine State." This is so because of the (mostly) lovely weather conditions, as well as the laid-back lifestyle. Atop it lies another attractive lure - the non-existent personal state income tax. It is an added incentive for all financial brackets. And, having Governor DeSantis at the helm makes living there that much more welcoming.

Even so, in light of the devastating fire at Chabad in Tallahassee (the evening of May 7, 2022), it behooves examining what, more likely than not, went down - never mind what officialdom and compliant media types will proclaim.

Over the years, and up to this day counterterrorism contacts in Florida (throughout the U.S., too) uncover trail upon trail of terror plots. Due to expertise in Islamic jihad, this writer is part of the hunt to expose key terrorists.

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328037

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True Dialogue with Islam
Its wages and benefits.
Tue May 24, 2022
Raymond Ibrahim

When the Vatican and Pope Francis announce, as they often do, that they are engaged in interfaith dialogue with leading Muslims, what exactly are they conveying to the world?  What are they accomplishing?

The answer to these questions is the difference between what true interfaith dialogue is—namely, an excellent thing that acknowledges and tries to overcome complications—and what most modern day interfaith dialogue amounts to: soothing but false panaceas that serve only to suppress, leaving complications to fester and metastasize beneath the surface.

As an example of the latter, consider the “historical” document signed by Pope Francis and his Muslim counterpart, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Al Azhar.  Far from even hinting that Islam has any connection to all the terror and havoc caused in its name, the document pins all the blame on “incorrect interpretations of religious [Muslim] texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride.”

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/true-dialogue-islam-raymond-ibrahim/

*****Is it possible this is a prelude to the One World Religion in Revelation?? That's food for thought*****

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Germany: Because a gay man discussed Islam, presumably Muslims beat him up
May 23 2022

Two men beat up a 31-year-old man from Bremen in a pub on the Rembertiring on Sunday afternoon. According to the police, the sexual orientation of the victim was the trigger for the attack.

The 31-year-old was allegedly talking about religion with a friend of the same age and a 28-year-old girlfriend in a fast food restaurant on Rembertiring. Two men at the next table overheard the conversation.

More at
https://www.butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/hassverbrechen-staatsschutz-rembertiring-bremen-100.html

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10 years after allegedly orchestrating an attack on an Israeli diplomat in India, Iranian Colonel assassinated outside his Tehran home
24 May, 2022

Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was shot dead outside his home in Tehran on Sunday, 22nd May 2022. Khodaei, a member of the shadowy Quds Force of IRGC, was killed in his car, a Kia Pride, outside his home by 2 unidentified people on a motorcycle.

Following his assassination, Israeli media has shared that he was the alleged mastermind behind a car bombing targeting an Israeli diplomat in the Indian capital New Delhi back in 2012.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/iran-irgc-quds-force-israel-khodaei-new-delhi-tehran/

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Arab students wave PLO flags at Ben Gurion University
'I am embarrassed,' says Beersheba mayor, after Ben Gurion University releases statement defending anti-Israel demonstration.
Israel National News
23.05.22 14:26

Arab students held an anti-Israel demonstration at Ben Gurion University in Beersheba Monday, to mark ‘Naqba Day’, lamenting Israel’s establishment in 1948.

The demonstration received approval from school administrators, who defended the students’ right to freedom of expression, adding that it would promote diversity and encourage Jewish students to meet their non-Jewish peers.

“Two days after the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, we saw how our campus is inclusive towards male and female students from all of Israeli society, with people who hold a wide range of views and opinions,” the university said in a statement.

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328026

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Saudi airline hails first flight with all-female crew
The flight operated by flyadeal was from Riyadh to the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah
Published:  May 21, 2022 21:51

Riyadh: An airline in Saudi Arabia has completed the country's first flight with an all-female crew, officials said Saturday, framing it as a milestone for women's empowerment in the conservative kingdom.

The flight operated by flyadeal, budget subsidiary of flag carrier Saudia, was from the capital Riyadh to the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on Thursday, flyadeal spokesman Emad Iskandarani said.

The "majority" of the seven-member crew were Saudi women, including the first officer, but not the captain, who was a foreign woman, Iskandarani said.

More at
https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/saudi-airline-hails-first-flight-with-all-female-crew-1.1653155877131

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Switzerland: Fired Egyptian heart surgeon threatens to kill hospital workers
May 23 2022

The Zurich District Court on Monday sentenced a paediatric heart surgeon to a fine for multiple threats. The 45-year-old had threatened staff members of the children’s hospital with death.

For the court, it was established that at a mediation session in 2019, sentences were uttered that “made everyone present feel uncomfortable afterwards”, as the judge put it. These statements had affected all the aggrieved parties’ sense of security.

The heart surgeon therefore received a fine of 80 daily fines of 30 francs for multiple threats, conditional on a probationary period of two years. The sentence is not yet legally binding. The doctor can still appeal to the higher court.

Those present, including members of the management of the children’s hospital, all said that they had been threatened with death by the previously dismissed doctor. Among other things, he had announced that he would get justice, but that he would “not get his hands dirty”.

More at
https://medforthgotcha100/switzerland-fired-egyptian-heart-surgeon-threatens-to-kill-hospital-workers/

*****Clearly this doctor has come close to breaking the Hippocratic Oath.
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not", nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.*****
From Wikipedia Bob