May - islam in the news 2022

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Hezbollah members get life sentences for killing Lebanese prime minister
MOLLY QUELL
June 16, 2022

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — A special appeals chamber of a United Nations tribunal sentenced two men to life in prison on Thursday for the 2005 assassination that killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon gave both Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Hassan Habib Merhi the maximum penalty for their roles in the suicide bomb attack which killed Hariri and 22 others as his convoy drove along a seaside road in Beirut.

“The attack terrorized not only the direct victims but more generally the people of Lebanon,” Presiding Judge Ivana Hrdlickova said when reading the verdict. The men were found guilty in March of committing a terrorist act and murder.

More at
https://www.courthousenews.com/hezbollah-members-get-life-sentences-for-killing-lebanese-prime-minister/

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Exclusive: Oberlin’s Iranian Prof Boasted of His Utility to Tehran
By Susannah Johnston
June 16, 2022

When students return to Oberlin College in Ohio in early September, some of them will be taking classes from religion professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who has been accused of helping to cover up a mass-murder while serving as a diplomat for the Islamic Republic of Iran in the late 1980s.

Oberlin administrators have accepted Mahallati’s denials, but they now have more to consider than his guilt or innocence in the alleged coverup. In light of his ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran, they have good reason to question his real agenda at Oberlin. Is he using his position at the school to promote peace and friendship and an honest understanding of Islam, or is he a shill for the Iranian regime?

More at
https://islamism.news/2022/06/16/exclusive-oberlins-iranian-prof-boasted-of-his-utility-to-tehran/

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LGBTI+ Pride picnic canceled after being targeted
17 June 2022, Friday 17:48

A picnic that LGBTI+ university students planned as part of LGBTI Pride Month activities in Istanbul University Beyazıt Campus was targeted by some religious groups today (June 17).

A crowd chanting "Takbir, Allah-u Ekber" (Allah (God) is the greatest) and "Beyazit is ours and will remain ours" gathered in front of the university campus and threatened the LGBTI+s.

The group also chanted slogans of hatred against the LGBTI+s.

After that, the vegan picnic, which was planned by the İstanbul University Equality Society - BÜLGBTİ+, has been canceled due to security concerns.

More at
https://m.bianet.org/english/minorities/263467-lgbti-s-picnic-canceled-after-being-targeted

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Afghanistan's non-violent resistance against the Taliban is led by women who risk torture and detention: 'Fear is everywhere'
Sarah Al-Arshani and Edris Lutfi
June 17 2022

When the Taliban came to power last summer, Wahida Amiri couldn't sit quietly.

She, alongside other women, gathered and staged protests in Kabul and other cities — a move that would lead to her capture, interrogation, and subsequent fleeing from Afghanistan to neighboring Pakistan.

Amiri told Insider that women were fighting "to get our rights and bring justice back to our country."

In retaliation, the Taliban abducted and killed female protesters. Many demonstrations even turned violent, with Taliban fighters firing shots in the air or spraying tear gas. Women have also mysteriously disappeared.

More at
https://www.insider.com/women-are-leading-afghanistans-non-violent-resistance-against-taliban-2022-6

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An inconvenient truth about Muslims and homosexuality
A.S. Ibrahim
June 14, 2022

Idrissa Gana Gueye, who plays soccer for the well-known Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, came under fire last month for refusing to wear a jersey with a rainbow-colored number as part of his team’s support of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. Gueye, a native of Senegal, is a devout Muslim, and he chose not to play in the match against Montpellier because of his religious beliefs.

“I support Idrissa Gana Gueye,” declared Senegalese President Macky Sall, also a devout Muslim. “His religious convictions must be respected.” Others from the West African Muslim-majority country also defended the player. In Senegal, homosexuality is considered a deviant act against nature with offenders punished with one to five years in prison.

If Gueye were a Christian, Western liberals would have portrayed his religion as malicious, intolerant, and the most irrelevant and unwelcoming belief system of our day. They would have swiftly hammered him with accusations of bigotry, homophobia, and other buzzwords recently added to the English language.

More at
https://wng.org/opinions/an-inconvenient-truth-about-muslims-and-homosexuality-1655203911

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American Islamists Push Blasphemy Narrative in India's Prophet Controversy
by Abha Shankar
IPT News
June 17, 2022

Deadly riots broke out in several Indian cities June 10 over perceived blasphemous remarks by a spokeswoman for India's ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Enraged Islamist mobs burned posters and hanged effigies of Nupur Sharma after Jummah prayers over her controversial remarks on Islam's prophet Muhammad.
But rather than denouncing this over the top, hate-filled reaction to the controversy, American Islamists are fueling it by playing up their time-tested Islamist victimization rhetoric.

Sharma's exact words during a prime time television program are difficult to find. Videos of her remarks have been taken down and news reports refer to the controversy without quoting the specific comments. They involved Muhammad's marriage to Aisha, who was a child bride.

The reaction was swift and reverberated throughout the country.

More at
https://www.investigativeproject.org/9189/american-islamists-push-blasphemy-narrative-in

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British Columbia imam continues to deliver antisemitic sermons
17.06.22 23:02

A Victoria, British Columbia imam has continued to deliver extreme antisemitic sermons to followers in the city, even after videos of his hateful rhetoric were published by a watchdog organization, according to B’nai Brith Canada.

Younus Kathrada, the head of an organization called Muslim Youth of Victoria, was recently exposed yet again by MEMRI TV “pray[ing] for Allah to bring annihilation upon the criminal and plundering Jews.”

In a previous May 2021 video posted by MEMRI, Kathrada said that Muslims’ “enmity towards the Jews is just and sensible” and said, “Oh Allah, give strength to Islam and Muslims to humiliate the infidels and the polytheists.”

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355108

*****As time grows closer, Satan's minions grow bolder*****

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A sex worker kept a Quran in her room in Lagos and was murdered for that
Deep Dive
June 14, 2022
YNaija

You would think Nigeria is becoming tolerable in cases of faiths, but it seems to be getting worse. And, thanks to the internet, we can see people for who they really are.

Another human being and Nigerian citizen, Hannah Saliu, reportedly a sex worker, has been lynched for allegedly keeping the Quran in her room, at Alaba Rago, Ojo LGA, Lagos, Punch reports.

The deceased was killed after a disagreement with a man who patronised her for sex.

The report says the man reportedly paid Saliu ₦1,000 for her services, but after he left the room, the deceased discovered that her ₦5,000 was missing.

https://ynaija.com/a-sex-worker-kept-a-quran-in-her-room-in-lagos-and-was-murdered-for-that/

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3 CJTF members killed as ISWAP abducts humanitarian workers in Borno
AUTHOR: Samad Uthman
JUNE 18, 2022 2:20 PM

Three members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) have been reportedly killed in an attack by suspected members of the Islamic State in West African Province (ISWAP) at the residence of humanitarian workers in Monguno, Borno state.

During the attack, TheCable learnt that the insurgents reportedly abducted three humanitarian employees of Damuli Investment Limited.

According to an intelligence source who spoke to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, the insurgents carried out the attack on Monguno LGA around 9pm on Friday.

More at
https://www.thecable.ng/3-cjtf-members-feared-dead-as-iswap-abducts-humanitarian-workers-in-borno/amp

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Terrorists join ‘toolkit’ gang after AltNews’ Mohammad Zubair triggers Islamists globally over Nupur Sharma’s remarks on Prophet Muhammad
19 June, 2022

Days after dreaded terror organisation Al Qaeda issued threats of terror attacks in India over ex-BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s comments on Prophet Muhammad on a debate in Times Now, Islamic State has claimed that they carried out terror attack on a Gurudwara in Kabul, Afghanistan, as reaction to her statements.

Surprising, not the terror attack, but the reason behind it. Because this is not the first time the Islamists in Afghanistan have attacked Gurudwaras and targeted Sikhs. Much so because in October 2021, soon after Islamist group Taliban took over Afghanistan, they had asked Sikhs to either leave or convert to Islam if they want to live. In the recent attack, it appears like Nupur Sharma and her remarks on Prophet Muhammad were just an excuse to carry out terror attack on religious minorities in Afghanistan and put the blame on Sharma.

It is worth noting that Nupur Sharma’s comments have been deliberately highlighted and given a disproportionate focus by a certain gang after AltNews cofounder Muhammad Zubair dog-whistled and called what was written in the Islamic scriptures ‘hate speech’.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/terrorists-altnews-zubair-nupur-sharma-times-now-debate-prophet-muhammad/

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PA reporter for Iranian agency beaten by PA security forces
Elad Benari, Canada
17.06.22 23:45

A Palestinian Arab reporter working for an Iranian news agency was briefly abducted, beaten and threatened by Palestinian gunmen after covering the violent dispersal of an Islamist student demonstration earlier this week, The Associated Press reported on Friday.

The Tasnim news agency said the men forced the reporter, Samer Khuaira, into a car at gunpoint on Tuesday, beat him and threatened him. The men said his coverage harmed the Palestinian Authority and the Fatah movement that dominates it, Tasnim said. He was released around a half hour later.

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355109

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Netizens Slam Mandana Karimi For Twerking In A Burqa, Call Her Out For Making Fun Of Hijab
Jun 18, 2022, 12:18
Trishna Das

Lock Upp season one contestant Mandana Karimi has grabbed the attention for a controversial video on social media. The actress, who enjoys a massive fan following on social media shared a fun video on June 17 wherein she can be seen dancing and  while wearing a Burqa. The video was from a special shoot.

However, her twerking video seems to have landed her in some deep trouble as netizens are fuming over the same.

More at
https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/celebs/netizens-slam-mandana-karimi-twerking-in-burqa-being-muslim-making-fun-of-hijab-572530.html

*****I have no idea what twerking is and I have a feeling I don't need to know*****

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Al-Azhar calls for countries to enact laws criminalising Islamophobia
Ahram Online
Thursday 16 Jun 2022

The AOCE stated on its official Facebook page that it is making this call in response to increased hate speech against Islam and Muslims in many European societies.

According to a report by the nongovernmental organisation Brandeilig.org, 768 attacks on mosques in Germany were recorded between January 2014 and June 2021, an average of one attack every two days.

Moreover, according to the AOCE, the report stated that 83 Islamophobic crimes were recorded in Germany during the first quarter of 2022, in which five people were injured.

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https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1234/468110/Egypt/Foreign-Affairs/AlAzhar-calls-for-countries-to-enact-laws-criminal.aspx

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Terrorists get creative, try to blame Kabul Gurudwara attack on Nupur Sharma’s remarks; have earlier carried out multiple terror attacks targeting Sikhs
19 June, 2022

The Islamic State terrorists have become creative and are now putting the blame of carrying out attack on the Gurudwara in Kabul on ex-BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s statements on Prophet Muhammad. A report in Tribune says that on the Telegram channel of one of the affiliates of local branch of the terror group Islamic State claimed that the said terror attack was in response to Nupur Sharma’s statements on Prophet Muhammad a month back. At least two people died and seven sustained injuries in the terror attack in the Taliban-ruled country.

However, this is not the first time the terrorists have targeted the Sikh places of worship. In March 2020, armed terrorists had attacked a Gurudwara in Shor Bazar Area of Afghanistan killing Twenty-eight people. The Islamic State had claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist ‘Abu Khalid al-Hindi’ was identified as an Indian National who was responsible for the attack in order to avenge the supposed ‘plight of Muslims in Kashmir’.

In October 2021, Taliban, having ousted the elected government, forcibly entered a Gurudwara and threatened the worshippers. Sikh community had back then urged India to raise an SOS.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/kabul-gurudwara-afghanistan-sikhs-nupur-sharma-comment/

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Christian Family Targeted by Mob in Turkey
06/17/2022

Turkey (International Christian Concern) –  CCTV video footage shows several Muslims attacking an Assyrian Christian family in Turkey’s Mardin village. After the attackers beat the family with sticks, they set their wheat fields on fire. The Yilmaz family members are the only remaining Christians living in the area, and the attack occurred at the end of Sunday service on June 5. 

According to reports, approximately 50 Muslims were involved in the attack. The incident took place on the same day that priests traveled to the village to lead mass and inaugurate the Mor Gevargis Church after restoration work began in 2015. The church had reportedly been closed for 100 years, a timeline which means that the church was impacted by the genocide against Christians in Turkey during the early 20th century. 

The family told Asia News, "They threatened us, saying that they would not allow us to live in the village. But we are not scared. We will continue to stay here.”

More at
https://www.persecution.org/2022/06/17/christian-family-targeted-mob-turkey/