Islam in the new August to December

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The Economist draws ire for calling women in Arab countries fatter
8 August, 2022

On July 28, The Economist published a report on the Body Mass Index (BMI) gap between the genders in Middle Eastern and African countries, for which it has been receiving criticism. In the report, the author suggested that the women in these regions often do not get a chance to indulge in physical work or sports, which leads to obesity. On the contrary, men in these countries enjoy sports, do labour-extensive work and go out frequently, shedding calories.

The Economist, which is a British weekly newspaper, is on the receiving end of criticism because of its report titled “Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world”. Twitter user Sarah Mahmoudh said, “It is absolutely appalling and shameful that the West is being fed by this orientalist, sexist nonsense regarding Middle Eastern women. As an Arab woman who has lived in an Arab country, I do not feel represented but rather degraded. The Economist needs some serious reform!”

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https://www.opindia.com/2022/08/economist-ire-arab-women-fatter/

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Israel warns Gazan civilians to flee to safety 4 minutes before Israel destroys a terror target
Itamar Marcus 
Aug 8, 2022

No country fighting a war protects enemy civilians as much as Israel. When Israel finds a strategic terror target that has been placed in the middle of civilians, as Palestinian terror organizations usually do, Israel’s priority whenever possible is to warn the civilians nearby before destroying the terror target.

The following is a recording of the conversation between an Israel Security agent and a Gazan resident yesterday, Aug. 6, 2022, coming while Palestinian Islamic Jihad was launching hundreds of rockets and missiles at Israeli civilians. As can clearly be heard, the Israeli agent is warning the Gazans that Israel is about to destroy the terror building, and confirming that all the Palestinian civilians had left the target area before Israel bombed.

Text of recording of the Israeli Security Agent warning a Gazan resident to get all civilians to safety, during the Israel – Islamic Jihad conflict, Aug. 6, 2022

More at
https://palwatch.org/page/31871

*****And yet the mainstream media blames Israel for the deaths of those who were killed by the rockets from Gaza that fell on innocent civilians*****

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Suspected jihadists kill at least 21 in north Mali attack
09/08/2022 - 01:04

At least 17 soldiers and four civilians were killed Sunday in an attack in a strategic border zone between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, Mali’s army said.

Some 22 troops were injured while nine other soldiers are missing, the army said late Monday, adding that the toll could still rise.

The army had blamed the attack on “terrorists” in an earlier announcement late Sunday, using the term it typically uses for jihadists.

More at
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20220808-at-least-17-killed-in-clashes-with-isis-militants-in-mali

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Afghanistan likely will be 'incubator for Islamist extremism' for years
by Victor I. Nava
August 09, 2022 02:05 AM

The former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on Monday that the Taliban-run country is likely destined to be an "incubator for Islamist extremism" for years to come.

Retired Gen. David Petraeus, who led U.S. forces in Afghanistan from June 2010 through July 2011, wrote in an op-ed for the Atlantic on Monday about the United States's failures in Afghanistan up to and including the Biden administration's withdrawal from the country in August of last year. Petraeus noted that while there were better alternatives to withdrawal, the U.S. "underachieved in Afghanistan" and "made significant mistakes" over the 20 years of occupation of the country.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/petraeus-afghanistan-incubator-islamist-extremism

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METROIslamic police confiscate 384 bottles of alcohol in Jigawa
Published on August 8, 2022
By Khaleel Muhammad

Jigawa State Hisbah Board has seized 384 bottles of alcohol in Kazaure Local Government.

This was contained in a press statement signed by the command’s spokesman, Muhammad Sale Korau on Monday.

He said the personnel, while on patrol led by the state commandant Ibrahim Dahiru, succeeded in apprehending the alcohol on the route from Katsina to Kazaure town.

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https://dailypost.ng/2022/08/08/islamic-police-confiscate-384-bottles-of-alcohol-in-jigawa/

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Convicted Islamic terrorists ‘refusing’ to be deradicalised in UK prisons
09 August 2022 - 11:21
Aden-Jay Wood

Convicted Islamic terrorists are refusing to be deradicalised in UK prisons, an investigation has revealed.

The investigation, carried out by chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor, found that almost all Islamic terrorists being held in separation units at UK prisons “refused to take part in purposeful activity”.

The report said that prisoners at the units, which are used to stop people radicalising others, are not willing to take part in education sessions.

More at
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/convicted-islamic-terrorists-refusing-to-be-deradicalised-in-uk-prisons/350309

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British 19-year-old sentenced for attacking rabbi with brick
Aug 8, 2022, 10:37 PM

A British teenager was given a 43-month prison term for attacking a rabbi with a brick in May 2021.

Souraka Djabouri, 19, will serve out the term in a youth offenders institution after pleading guilty to brutally assaulting a rabbi in Chigwell, England, the UK Jewish News reported.

The teenager pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm without intent, theft and aggravated criminal damage, admitting to hitting Rabbi Rafi Goodwin in the head with a brick. The attack happened after Rabbi Goodwin stopped while driving to avoid hitting a pedestrian who walked out from behind a parked van onto the road.

More at
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/357853

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Afghan man kills 10 in Iran over 'personal differences'
Aug 08, 2022

An Afghan man has been arrested on suspicion of killing 10 people in a stabbing attack in Iran over "personal differences", state media has reported.

The attack took place in the south-eastern Kerman province on Sunday.

The suspect was arrested by police as he attempted to leave the province on Sunday evening.

More at
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/iran/2022/08/08/afghan-man-killed-10-in-iran-over-personal-differences/

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'State couldn't care less that Jewish heritage sites are being destroyed'
08-09-2022 12:16

Two weeks ago, settlers of Judea and Samaria woke up to an astonishing sight. Only several days after they began tracking illegal activity by the Palestinian Authority to take over Sebastia, and the thousand-year-old archeological site was already destroyed.

Aerial footage taken from a drone showed Palestinians setting the area on fire, burning twigs to clean – as they claim – the area. Even if the damage was not done deliberately, it is a painful blow nevertheless as the entire site went up in flames.

Sebastia is, perhaps, a place that most represents Judea and Samaria, because right next to it, at an abandoned train station, began Jewish settlement efforts in the 1970s.

More at
https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/08/09/jewish-heritage-sites-are-being-destroyed-and-the-state-couldnt-care-less/

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Misuse of funds: UK agencies launch probe against Pakistani charity organizations
NAEEM HANIF
3 days ago

The agencies in the United Kingdom have started probing into misuse of funds by Pakistani charity organizations for political purposes, SAMAA TV reported on Sunday.

Sources said that the UK’s National Charity Commission (NCC) and National Crime Agency (NCA) have launched a probe against the charity foundations of Pakistan.

The investigation is being done to ascertain if these organizations misused charity for political purposes in Pakistan.

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https://www.samaaenglish.tv/news/40014179/misuse-of-funds-uk-agencies-launch-probe-against-pakistani-charity-organizations

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Lebanese TV captures Islamic Jihad rocket misfire live, averts camera
August 9, 2022

During a live broadcast on Aug. 7, Lebanon’s Mayadeen TV caught a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket misfiring and coming down in a Gaza neighborhood. The correspondent can be heard telling the cameraman to avert the camera.

The correspondent can be heard in the video, a translated version of which was posted by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Monday, stating that rockets are being launched toward the sea, “maybe towards the gas fields.”

One of the rockets can then be seen straying off course, veering away from the coastline and impacting in a populated area.

"Please, turn the camera away, turn the camera upwards,” Mayadeen TV correspondent says after the rocket impacted in a Gaza neighborhood

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https://www.jns.org/lebanese-tv-captures-islamic-jihad-rocket-misfire-live-averts-camera/

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Muslim Men Likely Targeted and Killed in New Mexico, Police Say
By Reuters
Aug. 5, 2022

The murders of three Muslim men in New Mexico's largest city in the past nine months were likely linked and they appear to have been targeted for their religion and race, police said.

Two members of the same mosque were shot dead in Albuquerque in the last ten days and there is a "strong possibility" their deaths are connected to the November killing of an Afghan immigrant, according to a city police official.

In all three cases victims were ambushed and shot without warning, city police said.

More at
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-08-05/muslim-men-likely-targeted-and-killed-in-new-mexico-police-say

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Nigeria arrests men suspected of deadly church attack
August 09, 2022, 8:12 AM

ABUJA, Nigeria -- The suspected gunmen who killed dozens of worshippers during a church service in southwestern Nigeria in June have been arrested, Nigeria's top military officer said on Tuesday, two months after the attack which shocked many in the West African nation.

“We have arrested those behind the dastardly act in Owo,” General Leo Irabor, Nigeria's Chief of Defense Staff, said in a meeting with local media, according to the Abuja-based Daily Trust newspapers.

Neither Irabor nor the police who confirmed the arrest to The Associated Press provided further details into the development. The Nigerian general however said investigations are still ongoing and “in due course, the world will see them and others who are behind other daring attacks in the country.”

More at
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigeria-arrests-men-suspected-deadly-church-attack-88143748

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Blast in Yemen kills Iranian, Lebanese military advisers
August 9, 2022 at 12:05 pm

At least six Iranian and Lebanese military experts are believed to have been killed yesterday in two explosions in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, where the de-facto Houthi-led government is based.

Dozens from the Houthi forces also died in the blast, which was reportedly caused by a failed ballistic missile launch. An attempt to launch another missile triggered a second explosion in a nearby arms depot.

According to Yemeni websites, the failed ballistic missile attacks were carried out from the Al-Hafa military base which is used by the Houthi-allied army.

More at
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220809-blast-in-yemen-kills-iranian-lebanese-military-advisers/

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Traffickers offer migrants, refugees ‘summer sale’ to cross English Channel
August 09, 2022 15:37

LONDON: People traffickers smuggling migrants across the English Channel are offering a “summer sale” to people wanting to reach the UK, promising safe passage and that “the French won’t stop you.”

The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday that traffickers are advertising trips across the Channel for as little as £1,500 ($1,815) on social media, with talk of limited intervention from French authorities and unusually good weather contributing to an uptick in numbers attempting the journey.

The UK has seen a steady increase in people making the dangerous Channel crossing over the past year, with many coming from Syria and Iraq, but in particular from Afghanistan, following the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021.

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https://www.arabnews.com/node/2139256/world