May - islam in the news 2022

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Islamists Have a Lobby, White Supremacists Do Not — Guess Which the Feds are Targeting
By J.M. Phelps
June 27, 2022

If the Biden Administration is to be believed, the American people need to worry about the threat of terror attacks perpetrated by white supremacists but can ignore the threat of Islamist violence perpetrated by U.S. citizens. That’s exactly what the White House did in a “comprehensive” report about domestic terrorism issued on June 15.

Released with some fanfare, the text makes repeated references to white supremacists and militias but says nothing about the threat of jihadi attacks by U.S. citizens. The word “Muslim” appears once in the text — in a sentence listing Muslims, Jews and homosexuals as potential victims of violence. (The word “Islam,” by the way, appears nowhere in the document).

More at
https://islamism.news/2022/06/27/islamists-have-a-lobby-white-supremacists-do-not-guess-which-the-feds-are-targeting/

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Opinion piece
Why won’t CAIR condemn an anti-Semitic BDS map? The answer is obvious.
It’s because CAIR opposes Israel's existence.
June 27, 2022

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank asked that simple question last week after the normally publicity-mad Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told him it had nothing to say about a Boston BDS organization’s promotion of a “mapping project” that has been condemned as anti-Semitic and possible incitement to violence.

The interactive map posted online earlier this month “mapped” the addresses of dozens of Jewish institutions and organizations in Massachusetts. Its stated goal was “to reveal the local entities and networks that enact devastation, so we can dismantle them. Every entity has an address, every network can be disrupted.”

More at
https://www.jns.org/opinion/why-wont-cair-condemn-an-anti-semitic-bds-map-the-answer-is-obvious/

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Anti-Semitic activist campaigned with multiple Democrats over the past year
BY MIKE WAGENHEIM
June 27, 2022

An anti-Israel activist who shared a number of social media posts with anti-Semitic content has campaigned with multiple Democrats over the past year.

Mahel Abdel Qader has come under fire for repeatedly promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. In 2017, he shared a graphic that included the names of dozens of Jewish members of Congress, implying that they have a dual loyalty to Israel and the United States. The Daily Caller reported that, in 2018, Qader shared an anti-Semitic video that claimed Jews are “satanic” and control the media. The video also dipped into Holocaust denial, questioning whether six million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. It also claimed that Jews aren’t actually Jewish, but rather invented their historical claims to Israel.

More at
https://www.jns.org/anti-semitic-activist-campaigned-with-multiple-democrats-over-the-past-year/

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Germany: Raid against Islamist organisation “Caliphate State”
June 28 2022

Araid against members of the banned association “Caliphate State” has been underway in six federal states since the morning. In Hesse, twelve searches took place.

The raids against the so-called “Caliphate State” have been going on since 6 a.m. According to the investigators, 47 search warrants were executed, twelve of them in Frankfurt, according to hr information. The Rhineland-Palatinate State Office of Criminal Investigation, which is in charge of the investigation, will give details in the course of the afternoon.

More at
https://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/durchsuchungen-in-frankfurt-razzia-gegen-islamistische-vereinigung-kalifatsstaat,razzia-kalifatsstaat-100.html

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The Surprising Success of the Truce in Yemen
By Peter Salisbury and Alexander Weissenburger
June 28, 2022

Just a few months ago, the war in Yemen looked like one of the most intractable conflicts in the world. After seven years of brutal fighting, the country had disintegrated into a patchwork of increasingly well-armed rival groups backed by an array of outside powers, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). None of the actors involved in the conflict—the Houthi rebels who control Sanaa, Yemen’s capital; the numerous Yemeni groups battling the Houthis on the ground; Yemen’s internationally recognized government; or the Saudi-led coalition that backs the government—appeared willing to make the compromises needed to end the conflict. With Yemeni cities under siege, Sanaa’s airport shuttered to commercial flights, and the government and coalition limiting the flow of fuel into the Houthi-held Red Sea port of Hodeidah, a vital trade conduit, the population was facing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Severe fuel shortages rocked Houthi-controlled areas, and a collapse in the value of the national currency was rendering food unaffordable in the parts of the country under the government’s nominal control. The UN and other mediators seemed to have few options for breaking the stalemate.

More at
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/yemen/2022-06-28/surprising-success-truce-yemen

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Sharia court jails woman for changing ex-husband’s visitation dates with children
Ronnie Bergmann and Noah Lee
2022.06.27

Starting Monday, a Malaysian single mother of three is spending a week behind bars for rescheduling her ex-husband’s visitation dates with their children, a move considered contempt of court under Islamic law which governs Muslim families in the country.

Emilia Hanafi, the former wife of a businessman from a wealthy Malaysian family, surrendered to the Kuala Lumpur Sharia Court on Monday morning and was sent to a women’s prison in Selangor state.

“I am disappointed because I have to go to prison because of this injustice. I tried to sort this out via judicial review, but my stay application was rejected. The court wanted to hear from both parties instead and the date was set for July 20,” she said in a Sunday Instagram post.

More at
https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/malaysian/mother-jailed-06272022170015.html

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'Not fit’: Ex-Melbourne imam who married off 14-year-old girl loses bid to officiate marriages
June 28, 2022 - 8:57PM

A former imam who officiated the wedding of a 14-year-old girl to a man 20 years her senior has been deemed an unfit and improper person to solemnise marriages, a tribunal has upheld.

Ibrahim Omerdic was convicted in 2017 of solemnising an invalid marriage after conducting a wedding ceremony between the girl and a 34-year-old man in Melbourne.

At the time of the marriage in 2016, he was the Imam of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Islamic Centre in Noble Park and authorised under the Marriage Act to solemnise marriages.

More at
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/not-fit-exmelbourne-imam-who-married-off-14yearold-girl-loses-bid-to-officiate-marriages/news-story/c3dec3d3c934cf3eb1367e43e6adc09a

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Bomb alert at jihadist trial in Graz, Austria – The court suspects sympathisers of the jihadist behind the threat
June 27 2022

The trial of the Islamic hate preacher Mirsad O. and three followers was supposed to take place today at the Graz Criminal Court. On Monday morning, however, there was a bomb threat. The court suspects sympathisers of the jihadist behind the threat.

There was a bomb threat in the Graz Criminal Court on Monday morning in connection with a jihadist trial. The trial was interrupted, the courtroom was cleared and searched by a special team.

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Bomb alert at jihadist trial in Graz, Austria – The court suspects sympathisers of the jihadist behind the threat
The trial of the Islamic hate preacher Mirsad O. and three followers was supposed to take place today at the Graz Criminal Court. On Monday morning, however, there was a bomb threat. The court suspects sympathisers of the jihadist behind the threat.

There was a bomb threat in the Graz Criminal Court on Monday morning in connection with a jihadist trial. The trial was interrupted, the courtroom was cleared and searched by a special team.

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Sangli mass murder: Occultist Abbas arrested for poisoning a family to death, ‘secular’ media gives a Hindu spin by calling him ‘Tantrik’
28 June, 2022

The so-called secular media has long worked to water down heinous crimes, especially when the accused belongs to the minority community. By calling a Muslim occultist, who reportedly poisoned nine members of the Sangli family a ‘Tantrik’, many renowned media outlets like Aaj Tak, News 18, Hindustan Times and The Indian Express on Tuesday proceeded to give this incident a Hindu spin as well.

In general parlance, the ‘Tantrik’ is a practitioner of the “tantra vidya“, and is mainly associated with Hinduism, leading to a perception that a Hindu individual committed the crime.

On June 20, nine members of the same family namely Dr Manik Vanmore (49), a veterinarian and Popat Vanmore (52), an art teacher, their mother, wives, and four children of the two couples, were found dead inside their house in Maharashtra’s Sangli.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/sangli-mass-suicide-case-media-outfits-pass-off-muslim-occultist-as-hindu-tantrik/

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Iranians Falsely Claim Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo is ‘Anti-Zionist’
PhotoShopped fabrications from anti-Semitic media propagandists.
Tue Jun 28, 2022
Hugh Fitzgerald

We are all familiar with Muslims falsely attributing antisemitic sentiments to great men of the past, such as Benjamin Franklin. The “Franklin forgery” is a classic anti-Semitic canard that falsely claims that American statesman Benjamin Franklin made anti-Jewish statements during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It has found widening acceptance in Muslim and Arab media, where it has been used to criticize Israel and Jews. It was supposedly delivered as a speech by Franklin, warning of the danger of admitting Jews to the United States:

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/iranians-falsely-claim-soccer-star-cristiano-hugh-fitzgerald/

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Syria civilian death toll over 306,000 since 2011 - UN
By REUTERS   
Published: JUNE 28, 2022 11:51

The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011 in what it said was the highest estimate yet.

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https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-710591

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New damage to Hagia Sophia – Marble floor is broken By
Panagiotis Savvidis
 2 mins ago

New images of damage to the Hagia Sophia has caused outrage and anger, this time due to a cleaning machine being used inside the cathedral-turned-mosque breaking the marble floor.

With the headline: “Marbles were broken in Hagia Sophia”, Cumhuriyet talks about: “Endless martyrdom of Hagia Sophia” due to the new damage.

“The destruction continues in Hagia Sophia, which has been turned from a museum into a mosque. The historic marbles were broken in many places by the heavy machine used to clean the marbles,” the newspaper notes.

More at
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/06/28/new-damage-to-hagia-sophia/?amp

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Who cares when the PA violates human rights?
 By  Nitsana Darshan-Leitner 
Published on  06-29-2022 10:46

Over the past decade, the Palestinian Authority has poured considerable energy into "branding" itself internationally as a "champion of human rights" and a victim of Israeli human rights violations. Among other things, after it was granted "non-member observer state" status by the United Nations General Assembly, the PA joined a host of international conventions pertaining to human rights, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the "Torture Convention"). Its goal in signing these conventions was two-fold: Establish the PA's status as a state, and more importantly, to use these as a tool with which to bludgeon Israel.

The PA's use of these international forums, however, is cynical and manipulative. The one motivation it lacks is any true intent to comply with and respect human rights. Anyone looking at the human rights situation in the Palestinian Authority will see an appalling reality, with torture in Palestinian prisons being just one example of its egregious violations of basic human rights. The situation for women, children, homosexuals, and minority groups in the PA is even worse. According to Palestinian law, a husband is allowed to rape his wife. Women are forced to marry the rapist who impregnated them. Homosexuals are brutally persecuted and so-called "honor killings" are still prevalent. These and many other injustices are commonplace in the Palestinian Authority and are met with leniency by the authorities.

More at
https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/no-one-cares-when-the-pa-violates-human-rights/

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Religion of Peace activists slit the throat of a Hindu tailor
29 June, 2022

On 28 June 2022, social media websites were awash with a gut-wrenching video of a Hindu man, Kanhaiya Lal, being beheaded by two Islamists for supporting former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma after religious zealots, instigated by Mohammed Zubair, targeted her for her remarks on Prophet Muhammad.

In the horrific crime that has emerged following the Nupur Sharma controversy, it has been learnt that the incident took place near the Bhoot Mahal on Maldas Street in Udaipur. The victim who is a tailor and proprietor of Supreme tailors was killed in broad daylight amidst the hustle-bustle on the adjoining road. The Udaipur Police rushed to the scene after the enraged merchants in the surrounding area complained of the inhumane incident.

In the video posted by Delhi BJP politician Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, it could be seen that one Muslim man entered the victim’s shop as a customer while the other was possibly shooting the video. While the tailor was taking the man’s body measurements, he grabbed his neck and attacked him from the back. After this, the man started hitting the tailor, with the victim pleading with him to let him go.

More at
https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/kanhaiya-lal-beheading-why-apologists-islamists-do-not-want-videos-of-brutal-killing-be-shared/

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Favorite BDS Group Mourns an ISIS Terrorist
 Jun 29, 2022
Daniel Greenfield

When Baraa Lahlouh, an Islamic terrorist, was recently buried, he was draped in what the Agence France-Presse (AFP) misleadingly described as "a flag showing the seal believed to have been used by Islam’s Prophet Mohamed".

The wire service neglected to mention that it was more specifically the ISIS flag.

The Associated Press, as documented by CAMERA, distributed photos of the burial while neglecting to describe the ISIS flag. Along with burying a terrorist, they buried the lede.

More at
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/rep-rashida-tlaibs-favorite-bds-group-mourns-isis-daniel-greenfield/