May - islam in the news 2022

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Two Jewish asylum seekers in Germany to be returned to Iran? 
Uzay Bulut
03.06.22 07:09

Two siblings from Iran who claim to have proof that they are halakhically Jewish and who have sought asylum, first in Sweden and then in Germany, are anxiously awaiting their threatened deportation to Iran, where they say they will face execution.

Pourya, 31, and Tala Heydariaref, 34, left Iran in October 2019 and arrived in Sweden on tourist visas. Their initial goal was to move to Israel from Sweden. That plan, however, failed when they did not receive a positive response from the Jewish Agency for Israel for reasons unknown to this writer. They thus had to apply for political asylum in Sweden on grounds that they have no freedom of religion in Iran.

Pourya claims: “We are Jewish from our mother's side and we believe in Judaism. We couldn't follow our beloved religion in Iran because our father was Muslim and according to Sharia of Islam that Iran practices, anyone who has a Muslim father has to follow Islam. And if not, they will get executed. So we decided to leave Iran to live as free individuals as Jews.”

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/354345

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Alleged gang-rape of woman on moving train sparks anger in Pakistan
By Rhea Mogul, Sophia Saifi and Azaz Syed CNN
Updated 0824 GMT (1624 HKT) June 2, 2022

(CNN)The alleged gang-rape of a woman on a moving train has sparked anger in Pakistan, putting the spotlight on the South Asian nation's poor record with women's rights.

Three men -- one of them a ticket checker -- have been accused of raping the woman, a 25-year-old mother of two, as she traveled from the city of Karachi to Multan in Pakistan's Punjab province last week, according to Pakistan's Railway Ministry. It added the attack took place after the men asked her to move to a carriage with air conditioning.
The three men have been arrested on suspicion of rape, according to a police report seen by CNN.

Salman Sufi, the head of the Prime Minister's Strategic Reforms Implementation Unit, told CNN Thursday that the government had ordered railway operators to improve the safety of women on trains, with measures including CCTV cameras in common areas, emergency buttons in cabins, and patrols by women police officers.

More at
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/02/asia/pakistan-gang-rape-train-intl-hnk/index.html

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Muslim Call to Prayer Arrives to Minneapolis Soundscape
By Associated Press
June 1, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The chant in Arabic blasted from rooftop loudspeakers, drowning out both the growl of traffic from nearby interstates and the chatter and clinking glasses on the patio of the dive bar that shares a wall with Minneapolis’ oldest Somali mosque.

Dozens of men in fashionably ripped jeans or impeccably ironed kameez tunics rushed toward the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque. Teens clutched smartphones, and some of the older devout shuffled in with the aid of walkers from the high-rise complex across the street where thousands of Somalis live.

This spring Minneapolis became the first large city in the United States to allow the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, to be broadcast publicly by its two dozen mosques.

More at
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-06-01/muslim-call-to-prayer-arrives-to-minneapolis-soundscape

*****I wonder if these loud speakers are disturbing the peace?? I know my peace would be disturbed if they woke me up*****

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Video Evidence Proves Israel Not at Fault for Violence at Shireen Abu Akleh’s Funeral
By Itamar Marcus
June 1, 2022

Palestinian Media Watch has examined the broadcasts on official Palestinian Authority TV and Al Jazeera prior to and during the May 13 funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed on May 11 in a firefight between Palestinian terrorists and Israeli soldiers. This examination confirms the Israeli version of the events that led to the violence. Videos of Israeli police who hit some of those who carried the coffin on their shoulders were disseminated around the world to make it seem as if the Israel Police interfered with the funeral. In fact, the exact opposite was the case. It was a Palestinian mob that hijacked the funeral and Israeli police were forced to intervene and ensure the funeral was held as Akleh’s family had planned.

Anton Abu Akleh: At 2:00 pm, Allah willing, the body will set out from the French Hospital on Highway 1 (i.e., by hearse) to the Jaffa Gate, to the Greek Catholic Church next to the Jaffa Gate. There the burial prayer will be held for her soul. Afterwards we will set out from the church by foot to the [Mount] Zion Cemetery of the Greek Catholic Church.

It is clear from all this that it was the Palestinian mob that prevented Abu Akleh’s funeral from progressing to the church by hearse as the family wanted. It was the mob that took the body without authorization, which forced Israeli police to intervene and return the body to the hospital by force. Once returned, the body was transported to the church in a hearse under Israeli protection according to plan.

More at
https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/video-evidence-proves-israel-not-at-fault-for-violence-at-shireen-abu-aklehs-funeral/

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Nuclear Iran NOT an "Acceptable Risk"
by Peter Vincent Pry
May 31, 2022

*President Biden is defunding nuclear weapons critical to U.S. national security, such as the SLCM-N and B-83. He is also still seriously considering abolition of U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and is doing nothing to accelerate desperately needed modernization of the U.S. nuclear deterrent -- despite increasing nuclear threats from Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.
*Unlike North Korea, whose overt pursuit of nuclear weapons is used for atomic diplomacy and blackmail, Iran's nuclear weapons program is clandestine and may remain covertly secret -- because Iran plans actually to use its "Islamic bomb."

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), comprising largely former, mostly Democrat administration foreign policy and defense officials, in a new study — "Risk and Responsibility: Managing Future Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction Threats" — tries to sell the notion that Iran armed with nuclear, biological and chemical offensive weapons will be an acceptable risk. CNAS is a source of staff and "expertise" to the Biden Administration. Unfortunately, their idea is preposterous.

More at
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18568/nuclear-iran-risk

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Islamic Antisemitism Drives the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Mark Durie
Middle East Quarterly
Summer 2022

An underestimated, unappreciated, and oft-denied driver of the Arab-Israeli conflict is Islamic religious antisemitism. How deeply entrenched is this religious bigotry, and can it prevent, or slow down, the nascent reconciliation between Israel and the Arab world?

Some might question whether it is justifiable to speak of "Islamic antisemitism" and view this charge as a slur on the name of one of the world's great faiths, followed by close to two billion people. Yet the numerous passages in Islam's canonical sources (the Qur'an and Sunna) that depict the Jews as a warmongering, cowardly, and treacherous lot have played a key role in the perpetuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as evidenced among other things by the outpouring of antisemitic hate speech during and after the May 2021 Hamas-Israel war.

More at
https://www.meforum.org/63274/islamic-antisemitism-drives-the-arab-israeli-conflict

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Former Birmingham mosque worker charged with sexual offences
June 2 2022

A former agency worker at a Birmingham mosque has been charged with rape and other sexual offences against boys, police have said.

West Midlands Police said Said Daauud's alleged offences happened over the past few months and involved four boys.

One of the charges, assault by touching, is alleged to have taken place at the mosque, which cannot be named for legal reasons.

The other offences are alleged to have happened elsewhere, police said.

More at
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-61666282

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Kwara Reopens Baptist School After Four-Month Closure, Says Islamic Headcoverings Allowed
JUN 02, 2022

The Kwara State Government has announced the reopening of Oyun Baptist High School, Ijagbo, for students after about four months of closure over the use of hijab by female Muslim students.

The state government had closed the school on Thursday, February 3, 2022, saying it “condemns the flagrant act of discrimination against anyone, especially children, on religious grounds.”

“Such discrimination will not be tolerated in any public-owned institution in the state,” it had added.

More at
http://saharareporters.com/2022/06/02/hijab-crisis-kwara-reopens-baptist-school-after-four-month-closure-says-islamic

*****The next thing you know will be Oyun Baptist High School having to teach the qur'an, in place of the Bible*****

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'Osama Bin Laden is my guru': UP official puts terrorist's photo in office
Sanjay Pandey, DHNS,
JUN 01 2022

The official, identified as Ravindra Prakash Gautam, the sub-divisional officer (SDO) at Nawabganj town in the state's Farrukhabad district, about 250 kilometres from Lucknow, had so much liking for Laden that he installed the terrorist's picture in ...

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https://www.deccanherald.com/national/osama-bin-laden-is-my-guru-up-official-puts-terrorists-photo-in-office-1114341.html

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Iran And Russia Expand Energy Ties Amid Ukraine War
By Simon Watkins
Jun 02, 2022, 5:00 PM CDT

Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Alexander Novak, headed a high-level delegation to Iran last week, with the Kremlin-orchestrated invasion of Ukraine still in full swing. According to Iran’s Petroleum Minister, Javad Owji, part of Russia’s US$5 billion funds for Iranian energy, agricultural, and transport projects has now been allocated, and the two countries plan to increase their annual trade to a minimum of US$40 billion by 2025. Crucially from the West’s perspective, though, and from the perspective of any new ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, or colloquially ‘the nuclear deal’) between Iran and the U.S., Owji highlighted that this significantly increased cooperation between Tehran and Moscow will also encompass the financial and banking sector, oil, gas, petrochemicals, and nuclear energy. He added that the two sides have also now agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in their own currencies.

More at
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Iran-And-Russia-Expand-Energy-Ties-Amid-Ukraine-War.html

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McDonald's Knowingly Served Muslim Family Bacon, Complaint Says
Mark Pratt
June 1, 2022

Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a discrimination complaint on the woman’s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

“It is commonly known that Islam forbids Muslims from eating pork,” the complaint says. “McDonald’s employees willfully added bacon to the complainant’s food in an effort to offend, humiliate, and cause distress to complainant and her young children.”

More at
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mcdonalds-knowingly-served-muslim-family-bacon-complaint-says/2736435/

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'Kidnapped in Iraq': Christian aid worker recounts his 66-day abduction by Islamic militants
Report
ISIS
France
 2022-06-02 08:30

Shafaq News/ A French former Catholic school teacher has opened up about the torturous conditions he faced while being held hostage by Islamic militants for two months while serving a Christian humanitarian effort in Syria, something he felt God had called him to do.

In 2014, Alexandre Goodarzy became alarmed at reports of Christian oppression in the Middle East and responded by joining the relief group SOS Christians of the Middle East in Syria. He traveled to the country in 2015 to assist persecuted Christians in the region ranked as one of the worst when it comes to tolerance of Christianity.

As a history and geography teacher, Goodarzy told The Christian Post he first heard of SOS Christians — known in French as SOS Chrétiens d'Orient — from one of his students.

More at
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/Kidnapped-in-Iraq-Christian-aid-worker-recounts-his-66-day-abduction-by-Islamic-militants

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UPDATE: The perpetrator is Syrian – Muslim guardian of public morals threatened women in Vienna, Austria: they should wear headscarves
June 3, 2022

At the Vienna Praterstern railway station on Thursday evening, an Austrian citizen (19) threatened and insulted three girls aged 15 to 18. They were told to dress more modestly and put on a headscarf. The “guardian of public morals” chased the three young women from the underground station Praterstern to Schwedenplatz. There he pulled out a knife, kicked them and put one of the victims (17) in a headlock. The women then called the police.

The man was extremely aggressive towards the police officers. A small amount of cannabis was seized from the suspect during the arrest. The Austrian, who was known to the police, was arrested and charged with suspicion of dangerous threat, attempted bodily harm and violation of the Narcotic Substances Act. The victims suffered no physical injuries as a result of the incident.

More at
https://exxpress.at/sittenwaechter-bedrohte-frauen-in-wien-sie-sollten-kopftuch-tragen/

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France: Syrian refugee Hussein Ahmed goes on trial for the rape and murder of 24-year-old Johanna Blanes, who was found naked in a tunnel – His lawyer invokes the cultural difference between Syria and France
June 3, 2022

The first day of the tunnel murder trial focused on analysing the personality of the accused. Hussein Ahmed presents himself as “helpful, friendly, empathetic”. “Impulsive, lying and manipulative”, the experts attest to him.

(…) He claims to own a “very nice house” in Syria. He is homeless and housed in a communal building with other Kurds. He even forges his ex-wife’s identity papers when the couple arrives in France with their two children in 2016. She is only 15 years old. He claims she is 22.

(…) For the defence, lawyer Frédéric Dutin regrets that “his social environment is limited to his ex-wife and her statements”, an ex-wife who incidentally denounces rapes committed by the accused. Addressing the jury, he continues: “The crux of this trial is the cultural difference between Syria and France and the background of this displaced migrant.”

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https://medforthgotcha100/france-syrian-refugee-hussein-ahmed-goes-on-trial-for-the-rape-and-murder-of-24-year-old-johanna-blanes-who-was-found-naked-in-a-tunnel-his-lawyer-invokes-the-cultural-difference-between-syria-and/

*****There is no difference, rape is rape and murder is murder, Hussein Ahmed is using this as an excuse*****

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Almost 2 gang rapes happen every single day in multicultural Germany, and cases more than doubled in just 3 years
May 31, 2022
editor: REMIX NEWS
author: JOHN CODY

Not only are gang rape cases growing at a shocking rate in Germany, but new data shows that almost every second gang rape suspect does not have German citizenship.

The information has come to light after Alternative for Germany (AfD) member of parliament, Stephan Brandner, requested the German government release statistics on gang rapes. It shows that in 2021, 677 gang rapes occurred, and suspects were identified in 462 cases.

In 2018, there were around 300 such gang rapes, which means there has been an over 120 percent increase in just a matter of three years.

More at
https://rmx.news/article/almost-2-gang-rapes-happen-every-single-day-in-multicultural-germany-and-cases-more-than-doubled-in-just-3-years/