May - islam in the news 2022

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Meet the Islamic scholars taking on Islamism
HANNAH BALDOCK
19th June 2022

This year marks the five-year anniversaries of the Manchester Arena bombing and the London Bridge attack. These two Islamist atrocities alone accounted for the deaths of 44 people.

Since 2017, Islamist terror attacks have shown no signs of abating. Two were killed in the London Bridge stabbings of 2019. Three were killed in a knife attack in Reading in 2020. And last year David Amess MP was stabbed to death at his constituency surgery.

One of the biggest contributors to the ongoing carnage is the lack of a compelling counter-narrative to Islamist ideology within Muslim communities.

More at
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/19/meet-the-islamic-scholars-taking-on-islamism/

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Syrian migrant blames rape of 8-year-old step-daughter on alcohol, claims ‘she’s older than that in her head’
June 16, 2022
editor: REMIX NEWS
author: THOMAS BROOKE

A Syrian migrant on trial in Belgium for the rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter has offered in mitigation the defense that it was the first time he had ever consumed alcohol and that he had been seduced by the girl who he claimed is “older than that in her head.”

The Dinant criminal court heard how the accused, who had arrived in Belgium from Syria back in 2019, had allegedly raped his stepdaughter between January and March 2021 at their family home in the municipality of Doische.

Authorities became aware of the sexual offense when the 8-year-old stepdaughter, who remains anonymous, became pregnant.

More at
https://rmx.news/crime/syrian-migrant-blames-rape-of-8-year-old-step-daughter-on-alcohol-claims-shes-older-than-that-in-her-head/

*****This guy, (step-father is full of it......... an 8 year old girl.......... he needs to be locked up for a long time*****

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'Jihadists' Kill More Than 100 Mali Civilians In 3 Days
By AFP - Agence France Presse
June 20, 2022

More than 100 civilians have been killed over the past three days in neighbouring towns in central Mali in attacks blamed on jihadists, local officials and a senior government official said Monday.

The killings took place in Diallassagou and two nearby villages, Diaweli and Dessagou, in central Mali, a longtime hotbed of Sahelian violence.

An elected official speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons told AFP that the violence was continuing Monday.

More at
https://www.barrons.com/articles/jihadists-kill-more-than-100-mali-civilians-in-3-days-01655746207

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Muslims Urged to Crack Down on Yoga, It's Not Allowed in Islam
21 June, 2022

As the World celebrates International Yoga Day on Tuesday, Islamists all over the social media are miffed with this ancient Hindu practice taking centre stage. With arguments like ‘Yoga is Shirk’, and ‘Yoga is not Islamic’, Islamists on Twitter have taken it upon themselves to urge Muslims not to follow this practice.

Major pushback against Yoga could be seen in the Maldives when India’s High Commission’s Cultural Centre organised International Yoga Day Celebrations in the Island nation. Apart from disrupting the actual event, Islamists from the country could be seen on Twitter flagging the event as ‘anti-Muslim’. Agitated with ‘Muslims’ being invited to the event (where everyone irrespective of their religion was invited) a Twitter user said that Yoga is Shirk and that the event is being held to humiliate Islam.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/islamists-international-yoga-day-shirk-muslims/

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US Navy reports ‘unsafe’ encounter with Iran’s Guards in Strait of Hormuz
By AP and TOI STAFF
Today, 8:49 am

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A US Navy warship fired a warning flare to wave off an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat coming straight at it during a tense encounter in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, officials said Tuesday.

The incident on Monday involving the Guard and the Navy comes as tensions remain high over stalled negotiations over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers and as Tehran enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels under decreasing international oversight.

Meanwhile, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Iran now plans to enrich uranium through a second set of advanced centrifuges at its underground Fordo facility amid the standoff.

More at
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-navy-reports-unsafe-encounter-with-irans-guards-in-strait-of-hormuz/

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How teacher ‘sexually assaulted’ nine children – Nurse
ByAgency Report 
June 20, 2022

A nurse, Oluchi Nwoke-okoi, on Monday told an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how an arabic teacher, Farouk Adam, allegedly fingered his nine Islamic pupils, aged seven to 13 years.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Adam is facing a nine-count- charge bordering on sexual assault.

Mrs Nwoke-okoi, a registered nurse and midwife, while being led in evidence by the state prosecutor, Olufunke Adegoke, said she was a staffer of Women At Risk Foundation (WARIF) and had 15 years experience in midwifery.

More at https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/538251-how-teacher-sexually-assaulted-nine-children-nurse.html

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Palestinians facing LGBTQ discrimination to receive special work visas
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF   
Published: JUNE 21, 2022 04:08

The need for work visas for Palestinians from the LGBT community who were persecuted in the PA territories was discussed by The Committee for Foreign Workers, headed by MK Abtisam Maraana, on Monday.

The hearing took place after the state informed the High Court that the permit that allows accommodation in Israel for "welfare needs" based on claims of intimidation, now also includes the possibility of working in Israel.

At the beginning of the discussion, the committee's chairman, MK Maraana, welcomed the state's decision to grant a sweeping work permit to Palestinians who have suffered violence in the PA territories.

More at
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-709948

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Imam Declares Jews 'Offspring of Pigs and Monkeys', Vows 'Non-Muslims' Will Be Conquered (Video)
 Amy Mek
June 20, 2022

In a sermon, the Malmö imam Basem Mahmoud called Jews “offspring of pigs and apes.” Now he is being charged with incitement against a people. Mahmoud denies the crime and says that he was only reading the Koran.
“When one reads the Koran, one cannot change anything,” states Mahmoud.

In October of 2020, Imam Basem Mahmoud gave a sermon in his mosque in Malmö that was hostile to Christians as well as anti-Semitic. He accused Christians, Jews, Shia Muslims, and police authorities of conspiring with each other in a “snakes’ nest” — synagogue — against faithful Muslims.

The imam talks about “the great battle” when all non-Muslims will be forced to submit themselves to Muslims and prays to Allah that the Islamic God will defeat or destroy Christians and Jews.

More at
https://rairfoundation.com/imam-declares-jews-offspring-of-pigs-and-monkeys-vows-non-muslims-will-be-conquered/

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Switzerland: Racial discrimination and fraud committed by Muslim preacher
June 20 2022

The trial of the controversial preacher Abu Ramadan began on Monday at the regional court in Biel (Canton of Berne). The prosecution accuses him of racial discrimination and fraud.

The Libyan is defending himself against a conviction for racial discrimination and fraud. In court, he rejected the prosecution’s accusations.

According to the indictment, Abu Ramadan allegedly incited hatred against people on the basis of their religion or ethnicity as a lay preacher in the Ar’Rahman Mosque in Biel on July 7, 2017. He is said to have targeted Jews, Christians, Hindus, Russians and Shiites.

The 68-year-old Libyan criticised that only one of his sermons had been scrutinised and that individual passages had been taken out of context.

More at
https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/bern/719367220-biel-prediger-abu-ramadan-wegen-rassendiskriminierung-vor-gericht

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Pakistan-origin Australian woman murdered with an axe by her father-in-law in Sargodha while her father watched
21 June, 2022

A Pakistan-origin Australian woman named Sajida Tasneem was brutally hacked to death by her father-in-law, Mukhtar Ahmad in Karachi, Pakistan. Tasneem was allegedly gagged and then hit on the head with an axe, leading to her death. The incident reportedly occurred on June 11 at the home she shared with her in-laws near the city of Sargodha in Pakistan. Her father Sher Muhammad Khan was a witness to the brutal act.

Mukhtar Ahmed, according to reports, was enraged by the prospect of Sajida Tasneem, an engineer by profession, returning to Australia with her children. He is said to have killed her after the two got into an argument about the same.

Sher Muhammad Khan, Tasneem’s father, who was a witness to the incident, told The Guardian, that his daughter’s father-in-law Mukhtar Ahmad had taken away Tasneem’s passport after the latter got into an argument with him about her desire to relocate back to Australia to give her children a better education.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/pakistan-origin-australian-woman-murdered-with-an-axe-by-her-father-in-law-in-sargodha/

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Fury at police force that looked the other way while 1,400 girls were abused by Asian gangs as victims blast report that found NO officers have been sacked despite 260 complaints
By  TOM PYMAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:08 EDT, 22 June 2022

A Rotherham survivor said today she was 'disgusted' after a report into the scandal revealed almost 50 police officers all kept their jobs despite looking the other way as 1,400 girls were abused, trafficked and groomed.

The long-awaited investigation by the police watchdog - which took eight years to publish and cost £6m - found officers in South Yorkshire 'failed to protect vulnerable children' following a series of offences carried out between 1997 and 2013.

A total of 47 current and former officers were investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) - but none were fired, despite 265 separate allegations being made by more than 50 complainants. 


The IOPC's investigation catalogued how children as young as 12 were seen as 'consenting' to their abuse by officers, who were told to prioritise other crimes.

More at
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10941619/The-damning-verdict-police-failed-Rotherham-victims.html

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Saudi man accuses housemaid of 'sorcery' against family
‘All family members fell sick a day after she left house'
Published:  June 22, 2022 14:22
Ramadan Al Sherbini

Cairo: A Saudi man has accused a foreign housemaid of having exercised sorcery against his family during her two-year employment, local media reported.

The man returned the Indonesian woman to a labour-hiring firm in the capital Riyadh due to the suspected misconduct.

“All family members fell sick a day after she had left the house,” the man was quoted by the Saudi news portal Al Marsd as saying.

“Now there are three girls suffering from pains in their tummies,’’ he added.

More at
https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/saudi-man-accuses-housemaid-of-sorcery-against-family-1.1655893657824

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‘There is still blatant homophobia’: LGBT people in Qatar say they’re ‘ruled by fear’
By Josh Layton
Tuesday 21 Jun 2022 11:51 am

While the outward image of the Qatar World Cup is one of pristine stadiums and lavish hosting, the daily reality of life for LGBTQ+ people remains an existence in the shadows.

The tournament has been touted by the wealthy Gulf state as a place for everyone, although the rainbow flag is unlikely to fly inside the eight arenas.

David Beckham has lent his global appeal to the host country and, by the time the first game kicks off in November, hundreds of millions of people worldwide will be watching FIFA’s showpiece.

More at
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/21/lbgt-people-in-qatar-reveal-how-they-are-ruled-by-fear-16693835/?ico=tag-post-strip_item_3_news

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Earthquake in Afghanistan claims 920 lives, tremors in Pakistan
 By Karthikeya
Updated: Wednesday, June 22, 2022, 16:28 [IST]

At least 920 people were killed and more than 600 injured in the earthquake in Afghanistan, authorities said. Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6 temblor that struck Paktika province, but it comes as the international community largely has left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country last year amid the chaotic withdrawal of the US military from the longest war in its history.

More at: https://www.oneindia.com/international/earthquake-in-afghanistan-pakistan-at-least-920-dead-3423683.html

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Pakistan horror: Newborn baby beheaded, head left inside Hindu woman’s womb by govt hospital staff in Sindh province
21 June, 2022

On Sunday, June 19, the staff of the government-run Rural health centre (RHC) in the Sindh province in Pakistan reportedly cut off a newborn baby’s head and left the severed head in the mother’s womb, putting the woman’s life in jeopardy.

The woman was identified as 32-year-old Hindu woman from Bheel community. She was rushed to a neighbouring hospital in Mithi, but there were no medical facilities available to treat her. Her family eventually took her to Jamshoro’s Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), where the newborn’s severed head was removed from the mother’s womb, saving her life.

Professor Raheel Sikander, who heads the gynaecology unit of LUMHS told the media, “The Bheel Hindu woman, who belongs to a far-flung village in Tharparkar district, had first gone to a Rural Health Centre (RHC) in her area but with no female gynaecologist available, the inexperienced staff caused her immense trauma.”

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/pakistan-newborn-baby-head-cut-off-left-inside-womb/