Day: July 22, 2018

FORMER UK PM DAVID CAMERON LECTURES DONALD TRUMP: IT IS “WRONG TO PROJECT TERRORISM AS CHRISTIANITY-ISLAM CLASH”

FORMER UK PM DAVID CAMERON LECTURES DONALD TRUMP: IT IS “WRONG TO PROJECT TERRORISM AS CHRISTIANITY-ISLAM CLASH”
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/07/former-uk-pm-david-cameron-lectures-donald-trump-it-is-wrong-to-project-terrorism-as-christianity-islam-clash; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Former British prime minister David Cameron said today it was wrong to project terrorism as a clash between Christianity and Islam and called for a strategy to wipe out the extremist forces.
Cameron was pontificating to Donald Trump, since it “appeared to him from US President Donald Trump’s comments that he viewed terrorism as a clash between Christianity and Islam.” This is the extent of Cameron’s strange allegation against Trump: that it “appeared to him”; he couldn’t point to anything Trump has actually said in order to substantiate his claim.
Despite what might appear to Cameron, like it or not, the global jihad is in part focused upon subjugating Judeo-Christian democracies under the hegemony of Islamic law. Islamic expansionists have declared war on Christianity, on apostates, on Israel, on Zionists, and indeed on every religion and doctrine that does not align with the Sharia.
If Cameron is looking for someone to whom to direct his advice, it should be Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who — in his quest to revive the Ottoman Empire — has in fact declared the “coming war between the cross and the crescent.” Erdogan has also meddled in Europe’s business, accusing the EU of starting “a new battle between Islam and Christianity following a ruling permitting employers to ban headscarves.”
Cameron, meanwhile, has stated:
Islam is a religion, observed peacefully and devoutly by over a billion people. Islamist extremism is a political ideology, supported by a minority.  At the furthest end are those who back terrorism to promote their ultimate goal: an entire Islamist realm, governed by an interpretation of sharia.
Vast Christian persecution, the murder of apostates, the content of the Islamic fiqh, the supremacist foundation of the Sharia, and the expansionist goals of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Muslim Brotherhood all seem to have escaped the attention of David Cameron.
Cameron’s attempts to enhance his stature by playing both sides of the political divide is worsening his already degraded reputation. While he defends Islamic doctrine, he has also warned about “swarms of migrants” and about immigration threatening the UK’s future. Cameron has already earned himself the reputation of being “a historic and disastrous failure.” He is no one to be advising Trump.
“‘Wrong’ to project terrorism as Christianity-Islam clash, says Cameron,” Business Standard, July 19, 2018:
Former British prime minister David Cameron said today it was wrong to project terrorism as a clash between Christianity and Islam and called for a strategy to wipe out the extremist forces.
Cameron, the Conservative Party leader who was the prime minister of Britain from 2010 to 2016, said it appeared to him from US President Donald Trump’s comments that he viewed terrorism as a clash between Christianity and Islam.
“Listening to Trump makes me feel that it is a clash between Christianity and Islam. It is wrong,” Cameron said at an interactive session organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) here.
According to Cameron, it was, indeed, a clash within Islam – between the civilised ones who want to practice their faith peacefully and those who had taken a radicalised and perverted view of the religion.
The former British prime minister said: “Terrorism did not surface only in the Middle East. It also surfaced in Afghanistan, Pakistan and even in India and Britain”….

UK: FRANKLIN GRAHAM’S FESTIVAL OF HOPE ADS BANNED OVER GRAHAM’S “ISLAMOPHOBIC” COMMENTS

UK: FRANKLIN GRAHAM’S FESTIVAL OF HOPE ADS BANNED OVER GRAHAM’S “ISLAMOPHOBIC” COMMENTS 
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:


Church leaders in Blackpool have criticised what they describe as an “astonishing” 


decision to ban bus adverts promoting an evangelistic event which will see Franklin 


Graham preach a gospel message……In an open letter, the church leaders said: 


“Because the Christian community is also a customer, we hope Blackpool Transport 


will listen to our public feedback as well, and not show what appears to be a potential 


bias against Christians.”



Blackpool Transport banned the ads for the Franklin Graham Lancashire Festival of Hope because Graham has previously condemned homosexuality, and because he has made “Islamophobic” comments such as “Islam has declared war on the world.” Truth be told, Graham understands what the global jihad is about.



Lancashire has a bad reputation when it comes to Islamic issues: the Lancashire Police won the “diversity champion of the year” award at the British Muslim Awards; a Sharia court in Lancashire handed down a sentence approving of honor killing; and Islamic leaders in Lancashire called on Muslims to boycott school meals after a ban on non-stunned halal meat in schools.







“Church leaders label Franklin Graham bus ad ban ‘bias against Christians,'” by Marcus Jones,Premier UK, July 13, 2018:





Church leaders in Blackpool have criticised what they describe as an “astonishing” decision to ban bus adverts promoting an evangelistic event which will see Franklin Graham preach a gospel message.



The Lancashire Festival of Hope leadership team say it’s a “travesty” that Blackpool Transport chose to remove them.



The company had said it came to the decision after listening to public feedback.



A number of people had taken to social media to claim that Franklin Graham would be preaching hate and homophobia at the event which is due to take place at the city’s Winter Gardens in September.



In an open letter, the church leaders said: “Because the Christian community is also a customer, we hope Blackpool Transport will listen to our public feedback as well, and not show what appears to be a potential bias against Christians.”



A number of MPs have raised concern about his visit to Blackpool fearing he will repeat previous statements condemning homosexuality and Islam.



But speaking to Premier earlier this year, Graham said: “I’m not coming to preach hate, I’m here to preach about a saviour – Jesus Christ who can make a difference in our lives if we put our faith and trust in him.”



The church leaders say they are seeking a meeting with Blackpool Transport and have urged Christians not to complain but to act in a positive nature by praying…..





			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA CONDEMNS ALL “RELIGIOUSLY INSPIRED VIOLENCE”, IGNORES JIHAD VIOLENCE
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						





PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA CONDEMNS ALL “RELIGIOUSLY INSPIRED VIOLENCE”, 



IGNORES JIHAD VIOLENCE 



BY MATEEN ELASS




republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:



The 223rd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA met last month in St. Louis. As I reported in a previous blog, one of the overtures of particular interest to me on their agenda dealt with interfaith relations. Known as Overture 7-1, it was approved as amended by the General Assembly on Wednesday, June 20th. Among the seven directives of this overture was number 2, the final version of which reads: “Condemn all religiously inspired and motivated violence, prejudice, discrimination, and hate speech.” As I commented in the earlier blog, passage of this overture would keep the PCUSA extremely busy, especially with regard to the actions of the Islamic world. Perhaps the denomination will open up a new ministry dedicated to this new directive, appropriately named the Office of Condemnation.



It has been almost a month since the close of the General Assembly, and I have checked the official news organizations of the PCUSA to track the denomination’s obedience to this new directive. As of yet, there have been no condemnations of religiously inspired and motivated violence, violence, prejudice, discrimination, and hate speech. That does not mean, of course, that such things have not occurred around the world, just that the PCUSA is not attuned to obvious existence, especially with regard to the Muslim world. To be of help, I have cataloged a representative sample of the types of activities since June 20th which should have triggered an official PCUSA response:



Discrimination:


    

  • On 7/8 Iran sentenced a young woman to 2 years imprisonment and 18 years probation (she must keep silent or else) for protesting the mandatory nature of the hijab.
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  • During Ramadan, a Sikh teenager at the Islamic University of Science and Technology in Kashmir was systematically pressured to convert to Islam and observe Ramadan; when she complained after being stabbed by two masked men, the Muslim Vice-Chancellor dismissed the harassment claims, arguing that her classmates were “only joking.”
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  • On 7/6, there was a public mass flogging of “suspected prostitutes” in Indonesia’s Muslim-dominated Aceh province.
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  • On 6/27, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) revealed that it was imposing the Muslim jizya tax on the Assyrian Christian town of Ankawa in the province of Irbil, simply because its inhabitants were Christians, not Muslims.
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  • In the country of Kyrgyzstan, officials recently ordered a church of Muslim converts to close or face the consequences.
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  • Rampant discrimination against females within Islam is reflected in the high rate of female genital mutilation (FGM) practiced (and supported by Shari’a law). The British government recently reported that there is a religiously-based act of FGM committed every two hours on average among its population — the vast majority of these mutilations take place in immigrants’ home countries where they return specifically for this reason.
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  • Fulani Muslim militants have systematically targeted Christian citizens in Nigeria for ethnic cleansing. So far in 2018, some 6,000 have been massacred.
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Hate Speech:


    

  • A recent internal survey of 100 mosques in “moderate” Jakarta found that 41 of them were “radical,” meaning that their typical messages included “hate speech, calls for the establishment of a caliphate, and a negative portrayal of other faiths.” If this is true in a country touted for being moderate in Islamic practice, what might that imply for more conservative Muslim countries?
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  • In June, Dutch politician Geert Wilders announced that his Freedom Party will be holding a “draw Muhammad” cartoon contest soon to highlight the need for vigilance over the right of free speech. He has since received many public and private death threats. Pakistani hardline politician Khadim Hussain Rizvi, upon hearing of this, publicly declared, “If they give me the atom bomb I would remove Holland from the face of the earth before they can hold a competition of caricatures….”
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  • On 7/5 the official Palestinian Authority TV station publicly lauded as heroes the mutilators and executioners of Israeli soldiers captured in 2000. Imprisoned for years now by the Israelis, these individuals are being praised as “giants of endurance.”
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  • On his 79th birthday (7/17) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared his intention once again to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. “…[T]he fabricated Zionist regime will be eradicated,” he promised.
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Prejudice:


    

  • In early July, Pakistan’s first Sikh police officer, Gulab Singh, was attacked in his home by Muslim officials who removed his turban, unwound his hair and then dragged him from his home by his hair, disrespecting his faith and pressuring him and his family to leave the country.
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  • On July 5 it was reported that a joint declaration (produced by a British Muslim) condemning anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred sought the signatures of both Muslim and Jewish leaders in France. Interestingly, all the Jewish leaders supported the declaration, but no French Muslim leader was willing to sign the document.
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  • In late June, a Dutch Muslim named Hussein Jamakovic sent an email to four major news sites in Holland with the wish, “May you get cancer, you filthy, far-right cancer Jews.” This mindset while not always voiced, is not far below the surface in many Muslim circles.
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  • On June 25, three Arab Muslims were sentenced in Sweden for a December 2017 firebomb attack on a synagogue in Gothenburg. The court concluded, “The crime…had a hate motive.” Some nine other masked men were involved in the attack, but could not be identified, and so escaped prosecution.
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  • Five African nations (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Nigeria and Sudan) are regularly in the news for slave-trafficking. Evidence of prejudice is found in the fact that the slaves are overwhelmingly dark-skinned, and the slave-owners are principally light-skinned Arab Muslims.
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Violence:


    

  • On 6/24, over 150 villagers were massacred by Muslim Fulani members of the militant group Miyetti Allah (which I’m told means “We are grateful to Allah”).
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  • On 6/26, the Taliban issued a public statement justifying violent jihad on theological grounds, countering criticisms that their observance of Islam is aberrant.
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  • As of 6/27, UNHCR estimates that Boko Haram attacks within the last decade have displaced some 1.9 Nigerians internally, as well as another half million plus in neighboring states.
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  • On 7/3, the bombing of a Sikh community in Jalalabad, Afghanistan left 19 dead. The Islamic State claimed responsibility and offered this warning: “Leave for India or convert to Islam.”
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  • On 7/6, seven family members returning from a wedding celebration near Diyala were stopped by an Islamic State patrol and machine-gunned to death.
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  • On 7/8, ten “Syrian refugees” were arrested in Berlin for attacking a man wearing a Star of David.
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  • On 7/10, 50 villagers in Adamawa, Nigeria, were slain by Miyetti Allah. Likewise, the next day, members of the same terrorist group massacred 42 others in the town of Taraba.
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  • On 7/13, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the midst of a political rally taking place in Mastung, Pakistan. The blast killed 149 and injured 186. Radical Muslims see man-made political parties as an affront to Allah, who has already determined the right pattern of government and its application.
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  • On 7/14 in Kabul, Afghanistan, another bomber struck a rural development agency, killing 7 and injuring 15.
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  • On 7/16, jihadists invade the village of Injagalane, Mali, and mow down at least 14 fleeing residents.
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  • Yesterday, in Ajiram, Afghanistan, a suicide bomber sent by the Islamic State attacks a rival mosque during a funeral, killing 22 mourners and injuring another 23.
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As I indicated above, all of these events by no means exhaust the list of violence, prejudice, discrimination and hate speech fomented by members of the Muslim world in the name of Islam over the last thirty days. Why do we see such a disproportionate amount of hatred and violence perpetrated by Muslims against others? The answer is that violence and hatred against unbelievers and “unfaithful Muslims” are endorsed by Allah and his messenger in Islam’s holiest revelatory sources. Though the average Muslim today rejects these commands to hatred and violence, those who are most zealous for a return to the Islam of Muhammad believe that the path of violent jihad is the way to Allah’s blessing.



Read the rest here.



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