May - islam in the news 2022

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Iran caught off guard by surging economic protests
The rulers hoped unrest wouldn't start until summer, when water shortages and rising prices synergize. Will this affect nuclear deal? Op-ed.
Potkin Azarmehr, Steve Emerson
24.05.22 06:00

Iran's rulers are alarmed at the prospect of nationwide mass protests and unrest as the hot summer months approach. Prices of some basic goods like bread, dairy products and chicken skyrocketed as much as 300 percent overnight. Already there have been nightly protests against the price rises and mismanagement of the economy in the oil rich province of Khuzestan. Protests are spreading to neighboring provinces.

Last week, a leaked audio file from a senior Iran state TV executive demonstrated the depth of the regime's concern. "The country is going through an exceptional situation, the soaring prices, frustration with the officials and so on," Alireza Habibi tells producers and presenters. "... But we should try to calm the public's anxieties, not incite it further .... Don't go and make programs highlighting these problems. This is not the time for making such programs. Wait till things calm down."

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328081

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US Pakistani Man shot 3 Family Members over Divorce Row
May 22 2022

A US Pakistani man shot his wife, mother-in-law and his four-year-old daughter before taking his own life.

The four bodies were discovered in an apartment in Houston, Texas, on May 19, 2022, after the suspected gunman failed to appear for work.

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez explained that the couple were “going through the divorce proceedings”.

More at
https://www.desiblitz.com/content/us-pakistani-man-shot-3-family-members-over-divorce-row

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German man shot and killed by group of six foreigners during fairground chaos
The foreigners fatally shot a 40-year-old man who was not involved in the preceding dispute
May 24, 2022
editor: REMIX NEWS
author: JOHN CODY

At the opening day of a fair in the German city of Lüdenscheid, individuals from a group of six men who were described as “foreign-looking” opened fire, killing one man.

The man reportedly shot to death was a 40-year-old individual who was uninvolved in the initial dispute. The victim was transported to the hospital, but despite efforts to save his life, the man was declared dead.

The incident began as a dispute between a group of young men of “Southern appearance” and a 16-year-old at the traditional Steinert festival on Saturday evening. The attackers surround the youth, and a scuffle ensued. Although the situation calmed down, the group met the teenager again half an hour later, but this time the teenager’s father was present.

More at
https://rmx.news/article/german-man-shot-and-killed-by-group-of-six-foreigners-during-fairground-chaos/

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Brides of the Quran: Cloistered to their room to safeguard property
IMTIAZ ALI
about 5 hours ago

Women being “married to the Quran” is a custom that has been practiced in different parts of Pakistan for decades. The abusive practice is particularly widespread in the southern province of Sindh, where many feudal lords have married members of their family, including daughters and sisters to the holy book.

Their ultimate aim with the practice is to ensure that these women forfeit their inheritance rights in property and other wealth.

Once “married to the Quran” these women are cloistered to their residences, they are neither allowed to leave their homes nor can they wear new clothes.

One such ‘Bride of the Quran’ has shared her story with SAMAA TV.

The woman said she was quite young when her father passed away. Her brothers, however, did not wish dissolve the family-owned property.

More at
https://www.samaaenglish.tv/news/40009340/marriage-to-quran-victim-speaks-up-on-samaa-tv

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Taliban Leader Backs Girls' Right To Education But Wants Them To Only Learn Sharia Lessons
Written By
Riya Baibhawi
May 23 2022

A senior Taliban leader has advocated for women’s right to education, saying that it is right based on Islamic culture and values. Sher Mohammad Abbas Shanikzai, on Sunday, said that it was the responsibility of the government to provide a safe education to females. His remarks came days after the Sunni Islamist government issued a diktat barring girls from attending school after sixth grade.

“Women can’t even ask for their inheritance. They are deprived of the right to education. Where will women learn Shariah’s lessons? Women make up half of Afghanistan’s population,” he said at an event marking the death anniversary of former leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. Shanikzai backed his stance by asserting that women should also be provided with all their rights based on Islamic culture and values.

At the event, he also slammed the small budget for development in economic sectors and also said that due to the economic challenges, people were forced to leave the country. “We don’t have a chair in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), we don’t have a chair in the United Nations and we don’t have a political office in Europe,” he said. Prices of all commodities, including the essentials, have skyrocketed in recent weeks.

More at
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/taliban-leader-backs-girls-right-to-education-but-wants-them-to-only-learn-sharia-lessons-articleshow.html

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Islamic State executes 20 Christians as warning to believers
Staff writer 
21 May 2022 | 11:01 AM

The so-called Islamic State has released a video showing the execution of 20 men said to be Christians.

The video was released to the terrorist group's Amaq news channel.

The BBC Monitoring service said the executioners were from the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) and that the captives came from Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria.

IS called the executions a warning to "Christians around the world" and said that "jihadists will be at war with them ... till the end of times".

The video shows the men divided into three groups and shot dead by four masked militants.

More at
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/islamic.state.executes.20.christians.as.warning.to.believers/138641.htm

∆∆∆∆∆My prayers are with the families of these martyrs. Thankfully we know those who are martyred for their faith in Jesus Christ will rise again when He calls us to our true home in heaven. In fact, all who have died will be the first to rise and then those of us who are living will rise to join them∆∆∆∆∆

*****Sadly those who will go though tribulation will not find it easy when the angels open the scrolls, trumpets and bowls judgements*****

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Turkey threatens new ethnic-cleansing invasion of Syria
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN   
Published: MAY 24, 2022 23:33
Updated: MAY 25, 2022

Turkey has threatened a new invasion of Syria similar to the ones in October 2019 and January 2018 that resulted in the widespread ethnic cleansing of Kurds, Yazidis and other minorities.

In comments this week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara was planning a new military operation. This could result in demographic change, as Turkey has vowed to return Syrian refugees, who are mostly Arabs, to the “safe zone” it wants to create.

In the past, Ankara’s invasions led to Kurds and other minorities being persecuted and forced to flee and extremist groups taking hold in Turkish-run areas.

More at
https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-707608

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Nigeria: Muslim mob burns shops and houses in anger after it fails to locate another Christian woman to lynch over blasphemy allegations
24 May, 2022

On Monday, an enraged Islamist mob went on a rampage and set fire to over a dozen commercial and residential properties after they failed to nab a 40-year-old Christian lady whom they wanted to lynch over the charges of alleged blasphemy.

The incident was reported from a town in Warji, Bauchi where the violent mob was upset over a message that was posted by the Christian lady on social media. The message was deemed offensive to Islam and was declared as an act of ‘blasphemy’.

Barely two weeks after Deborah Samuel was killed in Sokoto over alleged blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad (SAW), some youths in Katangan Wargi, headquarters of Warji Local Government Area of Bauchi State have launched a manhunt for another Christian lad

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/nigeria-muslim-mob-burns-shops-houses-in-anger-after-they-could-not-kill-another-christian-woman-over-blasphemy-allegations/

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Cyberbullying of critic of Islam Mila: The accused are given sentences ranging from 3 months suspended to 4 months in prison by French court
May 24, 2022

Amore than expected verdict. Six men and women who had been tried in April for hate messages and calls for murder against Mila, a young woman who had been harassed online since her polemical video criticising Islam in 2020, were sentenced on Tuesday May 24 by the Paris Criminal Court to prison terms ranging from three months suspended to four months. Among them were three mothers who had been investigated last September by gendarmes from the Central Office for Combating Crimes against Humanity, Genocide and War Crimes (OCLCH), Le Parisien reported.

Melinda D., mother of two children, who had already been convicted several times for theft, fraud and driving without a licence, was only convicted for threatening to kill. The other five defendants were convicted of felonious stalking.

More at
https://medforthgotcha100/cyberbullying-of-critic-of-islam-mila-the-accused-are-given-sentences-ranging-from-3-months-suspended-to-4-months-in-prison-by-french-court/

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Germany: Gunman from the funfair caught – It is a Syrian asylum seeker
 May 25, 2022

Three days after the shooting at the funfair, the suspected shooter is in custody: The Lüdenscheid District Court issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday afternoon for premeditated manslaughter against the boy, who is only 16 years old.

The investigators assume that the Syrian shot indiscriminately into the crowd on Saturday, when he fled with five acquaintances after a quarrel. In the process, a fairgoer (40) from Gummersbach, who had been hit in the spleen, died. According to the current state of investigation, the Sudanese was an uninvolved random victim.

He later died of internal bleeding – that he had been hit by a bullet was only revealed during the autopsy on Sunday.

More at
https://medforthgotcha100/germany-gunman-from-the-funfair-caught-it-is-a-syrian-asylum-seeker/

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Intra-Arab Apartheid, Palestinian Authority style.
David Singer
24.05.22

The appointment of a new Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Authority territories 'occupied' since 1967 – Francesca Albanese – serves to highlight the anti-Israel bias that dominates the United Nations (UN), to its eternal shame.

Albanese was appointed Special Rapporteur by the UN Human Rights Council in March 2022 - taking up her role on 1 May 2022.

Albanese’s mandate as Special Rapporteur derives from Resolution 1993/2 passed by the UN Committee of Human Rights on 19 February 1993:

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328106

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IN ARABIC (BUT NOT ENGLISH), BBC, SKY NEWS BLAME ISRAEL FOR ABU AQLEH’S KILLING
by CAMERA Arabic
May 24 2022

(All translations, emphases and in-bracket remarks are by CAMERA Arabic unless otherwise specified)

Five Western Arabic-language media outlets – Sky News Arabia, France24 Arabic, Independent Arabia, Vice Arabia and Euronews Arabic – have falsely claimed, as if it’s a fact, that the “Israeli military” was responsible for the killing of Aljazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqleh in Jenin, and have failed to issue corrections.

However, English versions of the same outlets have correctly refrained from determining the identity of the shooter. (The coverage of BBC Arabic and AP’s Arabic Twitter account was also highly problematic.)

More at
https://camera-uk.org/2022/05/24/in-arabic-but-not-english-bbc-sky-news-blame-israel-for-abu-aqlehs-killing/

*****Yet anyone who has seen the full video knows better, the police went in to protect several muslims, while muslims started beating Jews and muslims*****

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Pakistan ex-cricketer ubgone19 Afridi bats in favour of Yasin Malik, convicted of terrorism and secessionist activities in Kashmir
25 May, 2022

As the National Investigative Agency demands the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the former Pakistan cricketer ubgone19 Afridi has come out in support of the terror convict, seeking UN intervention in the matter.

Characterising Malik as a “freedom fighter” of “Kashmir’s struggle”, Afridi painted Malik as a victim of “fabricated charges” even though he had pleaded guilty to all charges levelled against him.

“India’s continued attempts to silence critical voices against its blatant human rights abuses are futile. Fabricated charges against #YasinMalik will not put a hold to #Kashmir‘s struggle to freedom. Urging the #UN to take notice of unfair & illegal trails against Kashmir leaders,” Afridi tweeted.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/pakistan-cricketer-ubgone19-afridi-bats-in-favour-of-terror-convict-yasin-malik/

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Islamic State Terrorists Kill More Than 70 People In 72 Hours In Nigeria
May 25 2022

Terrorists belonging to Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) killed 30 men in a revenge attack days after their top commanders were killed in military air strikes in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state.

Militia leaders speaking to news agency AFP said that the terrorists seized the men from Mudu village of Nigeria’s Dikwa earlier on Saturday.

A militia leader, Babakura Kolo told AFP, that most of the men were slaughtered by the ISWAP but many who tried to flee were shot.

Kolo who is stationed in Maiduguri said that the men were metal scrap scavengers who were in the area in search of burnt vehicles which are now common in villages in northern Borno following the Islamist violence in the region.

More at
https://www.news18.com/news/world/islamic-state-terrorists-kill-more-than-70-people-in-72-hours-in-nigeria-5243575.html

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PA religious council emphasizes ban on selling land to Jews
Maurice Hirsch, Adv. 
May 24, 2022

Apartheid in South Africa started already in 1913, when the South African government passed the Natives Land Act. According to this law, black South Africans were prohibited from buying or renting land in 93% of South Africa. This law was one of the foundation stones of the later adopted official policy.

When compared to the PA approach to selling land to Jews, the Natives Land Act, seems almost positive.

At a recent meeting of PA Supreme Fatwa Council, led by PA Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories and Supreme Fatwa Council Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the PA reiterated that Palestinians selling land to Jews is not only a criminal offence but also forbidden according to Shari’ah law:

More at
https://palwatch.org/page/31549