May - islam in the news 2022

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Maulana Mufti Nadeem threatens to gouge eyes and chop hands over ‘blasphemy’ in presence of Police, watch video
5 June, 2022

On June 4, a video of Maulana Mufti Nadeem of Bundi, Rajasthan, went viral on social media in which he threatened to gouge eyes and chop the hands of those who speak against Prophet Mohammad. The controversial statement came in the backdrop of the remarks made by Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma. Maulana Mufti gave the provocative statement in the presence of Rajasthan Police.

The Muslim community had gone to meet the collector on June 3 to submit a memorandum regarding the remarks made by Sharma. While addressing the crowd at Collectorate premises in the presence of Police, Maulana Mufti said, “If the administration says it is not against the law, we will go against the law. If it is against the law, the local administration and the union government must listen… If she has done blasphemy against my master, which she has done, and if someone else does the same, listen carefully… take action against them. If you fail to take action, Muslims will take the matter into their hands.”

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https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/rajasthan-maulana-mufti-threats-nupur-sharma-prophet-muhammad-police-presence/

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Nigerian man burned to death after argument with Muslim cleric
PUBLISHED JUN 5, 2022, 3:56 AM SGT
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ABUJA (REUTERS) - A Nigerian man was burned to death by a mob in the capital Abuja on Saturday (June 4) following an argument with a Muslim cleric, police said.

Josephine Adeh, police spokesman for Abuja, said Ahmad Usman had an argument with an unidentified cleric, which turned violent.

Police who arrived at the scene took him to hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.

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https://www.straitstimes.com/world/nigerian-man-burned-to-death-after-argument-with-muslim-cleric

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France's Islamist Challenge: Burqas, Niqabs, and "Living Together"
by Eelco van Riel
Middle East Quarterly
Summer 2022

Addressing both houses of the French parliament on June 22, 2009—the first such speech by the head of state in one hundred and fifty years—President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that the burqa—an Islamic garment that conceals the face with the exception of the eyes—was "not welcome on the territory of the French Republic." He explained to the gathered delegates,
The burqa problem is not a religious problem; it is a problem pertaining to freedom, to the dignity of women ... It is not a religious sign; it is a sign of enslavement; it is a sign of debasement.

The next day, the National Assembly, the parliament's lower house, approved the creation of a fact-finding commission to study the practice of "wearing the full veil." In January 2010, the commission submitted its report, recommending a ban on face-concealing garments so as to sustain a public space where all French citizens can agreeably "live together"

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https://www.meforum.org/63271/burqas-niqabs-and-living-together

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How Lucknow-educated Chinese cleric lit the first Jihad fire in Xinjiang
PRAVEEN SWAMI
5 June, 2022 10:12 am IST

Two thousand, five hundred kilometres from his home in rural China, just edging into his teens, Hai Weiliang stood on the docks of Kolkata. The light of his faith had led him there, abandoning his voyage home from the Haj pilgrimage, but now he had no idea which way to turn. Finally, a kindly cleric found him a cheap room at an inn near a mosque. Arming himself with a Chinese-to-English conversation book for travellers, Hai began conversing with local seminary students.

Fires would be lit across central Asia as his speech grew less hesitant.

Late last month, new evidence emerged on the brutal incarceration of thousands of Xinjiang residents at China’s internment centres, set up to stamp out religion-fuelled secessionism. Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan felt compelled to use repression against resurgent Islamist networks, whose lethal reach extends from the Ferghana valley to Europe’s heartlands.

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https://theprint.in/opinion/security-code/how-lucknow-educated-chinese-cleric-lit-the-first-jihad-fire-in-xinjiang/981990/

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Nigeria: ‘Gunmen’ storm Church in Ondo, kill over 50 Christians gathered for Sunday prayers and kidnap priest amid rising Islamic insurgency
6 June, 2022

At least 50 people, including women and children, were massacred during a Sunday Mass gathering at a Church in Ondo state, south-west Nigeria. The details about the unknown ‘gunmen’ aren’t known. As per reports, the armed men entered St Francis Catholic church in Owo during Sunday service. Reportedly, they also fired into the congregation and kidnapped a priest and other people who were attending the Church as per eye-witnesses.

There has been an increase in violence, especially Islamic insurgency across Nigeria in recent months. While the number of those killed in the Sunday massacre is not known, reports say that even children were killed in the same. Nigerian President Buhari said that the country will not give in to ‘evil and wicked people’ and Ondo state governor Rotimi Akeredolu said that the attack on Christians was ‘vile and Satanic attack’.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/nigeria-church-attack-christians-massacred/

****The media narrative is that Muslims are always and in every circumstances victims, and that Christians are white oppressors. Stories of this kind don’t fit their narrative and are actually ignored by the mainstream media*****

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Shakedown in Michigan After Muslim Woman Had to Remove Hijab for Mugshot
Mon Jun 6, 2022
Robert Spencer

As far as Michigan’s Oakland County Times is concerned, this was all about a Muslim woman being robbed of her dignity and having that dignity restored by means of a monetary settlement (the amount of which remains discreetly undisclosed). So all’s well that ends well, but there is more to this case than just dignity lost and restored: the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has once again demonstrated that it has mastered the art of the shakedown.

The lost-and-found dignity in question was that of Helana Bowe, a hijab-wearing Muslim woman who was pulled over for a routine traffic stop on 8 Mile Road in Ferndale, Mich., in October 2021. According to the Times’ report, she was “subsequently arrested,” although the Times does not bother to explain why. After all, people who are stopped for speeding or running a red light and the like are usually given a ticket and sent on their way. But for some undisclosed reason, Helana Bowe was taken to the station and booked, and that’s where her troubles really began.

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/shakedown-michigan-after-muslim-woman-had-remove-robert-spencer/

*****I don't care who it is if your having your mugshot taken, your face needs to be exposed*****

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Jammu & Kashmir: Man booked for posting video justifying fatal attack on TV artist Amreen Bhat
TN National Desk
Updated Jun 5, 2022

Baramulla: Days after the killing of TV artist Amreen Bhat in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam, a man was booked on Saturday for posting a video justifying the same. The man, identified as Md. Irfan Bhat is a resident of Takiya Wagoora in Baramulla. In the video that he uploaded on his YouTube channel, Md. Irfan Bhat went on to say that those who followed Amreen Bhat on social media and otherwise were equally 'sinful.'

According to Budgam police, Md. Irfan Bhat was booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) for 'spreading hate' by uploading a video on YouTube justifying the killing of TV artist Amreen Bhat. The act of uploading the said video has not only caused alarm and fear amongst people in the performing arts field but also their family members. This act also amounts to supporting terrorism besides having the tendency to make more people vulnerable to such attacks, police said.

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https://www.timesnownews.com/india/jammu-kashmir-man-booked-for-posting-video-justifying-fatal-attack-on-tv-artist-amreen-bhat-article-92016210

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73 percent of Turks want to live in secular and democratic Turkey
Saturday June 04 2022 02:43 pm

Some 72.9 percent of Turks want to live in a secular and democratic Turkey, according to a newly conducted poll by Metropoll Research.

The results of the survey were shared by the company head Özer Sencar on Twitter.

When asked “What kind of country would like to live in?”, 72.9 percent of the survey respondents answered “secular and democratic,” while 18.5 percent said “conservative and authoritarian.” Some 8.5 percent did not give a response.

Some 72.9 percent of Turkish citizens demand to live in a “secular and democratic” country, according to a new poll. This percentage was 58 percent for AKP voters, while it was 75 percent for MHP voters.

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https://www.duvarenglish.com/73-percent-of-turks-want-to-live-in-secular-and-democratic-turkey-news-60902

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Attacks against Erdoğan equal attacks against Turkey, says Erdoğan
Jun 05 2022 05:36 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: Jun 05 2022 06:01 Gmt+3

The real target is Turkey for all those who put down Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) or its chairman President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself, the president said, speaking at the closing ceremony of AKP’s 30th consultation and evaluation meeting.

“Whoever is attacking this brother of yours in this world is in truth attacking Turkey itself,” Erdoğan said.

There is a group of people who tell all sorts of lies about Erdoğan and his AKP, and another that is “ready to believe all lies told about my person, the AKP and our cadres”, the president said.

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https://ahvalnews.com/recep-tayyip-erdogan/attacks-against-erdogan-equal-attacks-against-turkey-says-erdogan

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Qatar, which had given citizenship to MF Hussain after painting nude Hindu Goddesses, gets upset at alleged blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad in India
5 June, 2022

On 5th June 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar summoned the Indian ambassador to Qatar to officially condemn the comments by BJP spokespersons on Prophet Muhammad. The statement added that the Qatar government welcomes the statement issued by BJP distancing itself from the comments and suspending the leaders who had made comments on the Prophet.

However, this stand of the Qatar government against blasphemy has reminded netizens of Qatar granting citizenship to India’s controversial painter MF Hussain after he painted nude paintings of Hindu Goddesses. Reminding people of Qatar’s double standards, comedian Nitin Gupta tweeted, “MF Hussain made nude paintings of Hindu Goddesses. Qatar granted him citizenship. Nupur Sharma quoted facts about Muhammad from Hadith. Vishwagurus bent over backward to appease Qatar!”

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https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/qatar-mf-hussain-nupur-sharma-india-naveen-kumar-jindal/

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'Boo Hoo, Poor You': UK Muslims Throw Tantrum Over 'Blasphemous' Film (Video)
 Amy Mek
June 6, 2022

The goal of the left and Islam is to force all of the world’s people to submit to their ideology.

Muslims in the UK protested a film held in Blackburn that is said to provoke ‘Shia and Sunni tensions. It is alleged that the film makes a mockery of the “Prophet” Muhammad’s six-year-old child bride Aisha and his other companions. As a result, the film has been banned in several Islamic countries. Muslims in the UK hope to follow Muslim countries’ lead, ban free speech, and have the movie shut down.

British-made, The Lady of Heaven is directed by Eli King and written by Muslim cleric Yasser Al-Habib. Filming began in 2019, and the production was delayed due to the Covid pandemic.

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https://rairfoundation.com/boo-hoo-poor-you-uk-muslims-throw-tantrum-over-blasphemous-film-video/

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n Agra, Shahi Jama Masjid Mosque committee’s chairman booked for threatening lawyer
PTI
AGRAJUNE 05, 2022 16:59 IST

The Agra police have booked the chairman of Shahi Jama Masjid’s management committee here over a purported audio clip in which he allegedly threatens a lawyer who claimed that expensive idols taken from a temple were buried under the mosque premises.

Mathura-based lawyer Mahendra Pratap Singh had recently sent notices to the Archaeological Survey of India and the Centre claiming that the idols of Keshav Dev temple of the Uttar Pradesh district were buried under the staircase of Sahiba Begum Masjid in Agra’s Shahi Jama Masjid complex by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb when he allegedly destroyed the temple in 1670, and sought their recovery.

Agra Senior Superintendent of Police Sudhir Kumar Singh said, “A case has been registered against the chairman of the Intezamia Committee at Sahi Jama Masjid Jahid alias Pappu at Mantola police station for giving a provoking statement and making it viral on the internet.”

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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/in-agra-shahi-jama-masjid-mosque-committees-chairman-booked-for-threatening-lawyer/article65496887.ece

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Hyderabad gang rape case: Waqf board leader’s car was taken to a farmhouse, was wiped clean to destroy evidence, say reports
6 June, 2022

The Hyderabad police are collecting evidence on the rape incident that happened on the night of May 28th in the city’s Jubliee Hill area. As per reports, the accused had tried to destroy evidence of the crime by cleaning the white Innova car, in which the 17-year-old girl was raped. Notably, the names of kins of an All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MLA and a TRS leader have appeared in connection with the gang rape.

The police have invoked Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code (causing the disappearance of evidence of the offence or giving false information to screen the offender) against the accused.

However, despite the accused’s best attempts, the investigators still managed to gather some crucial evidence after examining the recovered red Mercedes and Toyota Innova for close to three hours on Sunday. Notably, the police had recovered the Toyota Innova, the second car used in the crime, on June 4. The first car, a red Mercedes was seized earlier.

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https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/hyderabad-gang-rape-minor-mercedes-innova-waqf-board-aimim-trs-cleaned-destroy-evidence/

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“White women are not allowed here”: In Italy, 6 girls between 16 and 17 years old were sexually assaulted on a train by about 30 migrants
June 5, 2022

Girls aged 16-17 report being groped and taunted by dozens of North African young men on the Verona-Milan train.

“Why did no one intervene at the station and on the train? Neither the train staff nor the police. We parents were far away, we called the emergency number 112, but no one came, even though our daughters were in danger, trapped in a carriage, at the mercy of a maniacal gang. They were attacked by about 30 people, they felt terrible, one of the girls had a panic attack. And we were sticking to the phones after their calls for help, trying (in vain) to achieve an “intervention”.(…) Il Giorno

A day that was supposed to be a pure fun day turned into a nightmare for six girls returning from Gardaland by train. The girls, four of whom live in Milan and two in Pavia, were all between 16 and 17 years old and were on board regional train 2640, which left from Peschiera del Garda in the province of Verona and was supposed to take them back to Milan after a day at the amusement park. As IlGiorno.it reports, the girls were allegedly harassed and sexually abused by about 100 North Africans for a long time and in a serious manner.

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https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/06/05/ici-les-femmes-blanches-ne-sont-pas-admises-en-italie-6-jeunes-filles-de-16-a-17-ans-ont-ete-agressees-sexuellement-dans-le-train-par-une-trentaine-de-migrants/

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Suspected Islamists kill at least 18 in east Congo attack
By:Reuters Erikas Mwisi Kambale
Published: Jun 6, 2022

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Suspected Islamists killed at least 18 people in a village raid in eastern Congo on Sunday night, local sources said, while fighting resumed with the M23 rebel group in a neighbouring province.

Fighters believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed residents and burned down houses in the village of Otomabere, in Irumu territory, Ituri province, said a witness, a local chief and a local human rights group.

Congolese army spokesman Jules Ngongo confirmed the ADF attack without giving a death toll, and said Congolese forces were in pursuit of the assailants.

The ADF is a Ugandan militia that moved to eastern Congo in the 1990s.

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https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/suspected-islamists-kill-at-least-18-in-east-congo-attack-1024276