Day: November 18, 2018

 
 “FORGIVE YOUR ENEMIES”?
WHAT ABOUT BIBLICAL SELF DEFENSE?

 

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Why does this keep happening? One survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam.
The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for
sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right
hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet,
tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to
bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more
suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah
Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women
do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may
be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.

“Man strips naked in street, rapes old woman,” ANSA, November 15, 2018:

(ANSA) – Ortona, November 15 – A 20-year-old Somali man
stripped naked in the street and raped an elderly woman who was sunning
herself on a beach in the Abruzzo town of Ortona on Thursday, local
sources said.
The man was said to be have a protected status as immigrant.
The attacker first slammed the woman’s head against some large rocks
and then forced her to submit to sexual violence, the sources said….
“I was afraid he wanted to kill me, but luckily I managed to break
free,” said the 68-year-old at a hospital where she was treated for cuts
and bruises and severe concussion.

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He wrote an apology letter, and so all is well. What could possibly go wrong?

“Germany: No punishment for man who stabbed someone six times over ‘handshake problem,’” Voice of Europe, November 16, 2018:

Fahim A. a young man gets off scot-free once more. This time for stabbing a man in the back six times in 2017.
The man was already well known to police for two ongoing drug
offences as well as theft in 2014 and 2015, yet these had no weight on
the judgment by the court in Frankfurt.
“Even though we don’t live in Brazil there are also people here, who attack your honour, insult your sister and look at her.”
In May 2018 the court gave him another warning and anti-aggression
training for stabbing a man in the back six times because of a refused
handshake in April 2017.
The only reason his victim was not too seriously injured was a thick leather jacket he was wearing at the time.
The court decided because Fahim A. wrote his victim a four page
apology letter by hand and promised not to go outside the house with a
knife anymore punishment wasn’t necessary….

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What could possibly go wrong? It’s a religion of peace!

“‘It could certainly radicalise someone’: Muslim imam discovers
Sharia law book preaching jihad and hostage taking in Melbourne airport
Islamic prayer room,” by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail Australia, November 15, 2018:

A Muslim imam has discovered a Sharia law book advocating
jihad and hostage taking in Melbourne international airport’s Islamic
prayer room.

Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi, a Shia imam who campaigns against Islamic
extremism, saw the Arabic language book shortly before boarding a
flight.

The Adelaide-based Shia religious leader and author made a video of
himself flicking through the index, which featured references to jihad,
‘taking hostages at war’ and taxing ‘infidel’ non-Muslims.
Shortly before boarding his flight, he told Daily Mail Australia a
fundamentalist Sunni Islamic law book had the potential to ‘certainly
radicalise someone’.
‘It can turn a regular traveller or a frustrated, vulnerable
traveller into an extremist,’ he said, shortly after midday on Thursday.
‘It goes against national security.’
Sheikh Tawhidi said that while the book of Islamic jurisprudence was
possibly planted by an activist, Melbourne airport needed to ‘take
action’.
Several hours later, Melbourne Airport tweeted to Sheikh Tawhidi to
confirm they had removed the Arabic language book, Fiqh us-Sunnah, by
Egyptian Sunni Islamic scholar As-Sayyid Sabiq.
‘Thanks for your message. We have a publicly accessible multi-faith
prayer room open to travellers of various religions,’ it said.
‘The book has been removed for assessment of its suitability.’
The book about the practices of the Prophet Mohammad was authored by a
prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Sunni Islamist group
campaigning for a global Islamic caliphate….

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“The death toll could reach as high as 100,” but this attack will get
little international attention. The international media is much more
concerned with trying to find incidents of “Islamophobia.”

“At least 42 dead in cathedral attack in Central African Republic,” Catholic News Agency, November 16, 2018:

Alindao, Central African Republic, Nov 16, 2018 / 04:05
pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At least 42 people have died in an attack Thursday
on the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Alindao, in the Central African
Republic, according to local reports.

At least one priest was among those killed in the Nov. 15 attack.
Some unofficial estimates have said the death toll could reach as high
as 100. Many of the people killed were refugees sheltering at the
Church.
The CAR has suffered violence since December 2012, when several bands
of mainly Muslim rebel groups formed an alliance, taking the name
Seleka, and seized power.
In reaction to the Seleka’s attacks, some Central Africans formed
self-defense groups called anti-balaka. Some of these groups, mainly
composed of Christians, began attacking Muslims out of revenge, and the
conflict took on a sectarian character.
According to reports from Aid to the Church in Need, ex-Seleka forces
attacked the cathedral, reportedly in retaliation for a Muslim who was
killed the day prior by anti-balaka.
The priest killed in the attack was vicar general of the diocese,
Abbe Blaise Mada. Aid to the Church in Need added that some reports have
said second priest, Father Celestine Ngoumbango, was also killed, but
this has not been confirmed.
Houses in the neighborhood were also looted and burned.
Many Catholic churches in the country provide refuge to Muslims and
Christians alike fleeing violence, included churches in the Diocese of
Bangassou, some 140 miles to the east of Alindao, where several Catholic
institutions have taken in displaced Muslims who face violence at the
hand of anti-balaka.
Anti-balaka killed more than 100 Muslims in Bangassou in May 2017
before United Nations peacekeepers intervened, and since then the city’s
Petit Seminaire Saint Louis has been home to about 1,600 displaced
Muslims. Another 2,000 Muslims have taken refuge at St. Peter Claver
Cathedral in Bangassou….

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• UK government moving from appeasement of Islamic extremists to collusion with them, while intensifying suppression of dissent.
• UK government renews and deepens ties with Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Muslim Council of Britain.
• Church of England engages in misguided interfaith dialogue with Islamic extremists.

Introduction
Since the end of the Second World War, and in the past 20 years in
particular, British society has undergone an historically unprecedented
transformation due to mass immigration. The speed and extent of the transformation, its negative economic and social consequences, and the fact it never had a democratic mandate, has contributed to a more divided Britain. Many difficulties have been confronted and surmounted
with a variety of immigrant and immigrant-descended communities, yet
when it comes to elements within the UK’s burgeoning Muslim population
(which increased 75% between 2001-2011 [p. 22/80]), the problems can seem intractable.
The fracture line most prone to splitting in multicultural Britain lies between Muslims struggling with (or against) integration — often for religious reasons — and the white working-class communities which have borne the brunt of their country’s imposed transformation. Many Muslims fear so-called Islamophobia (a term both arbitrarily defined and employed), while UK authorities enthusiastically pursue supposed Islamophobes. However, public concerns regarding Islamic terrorism and extremism, demographic upheaval, grooming gangs and a variety of imported Muslim intra-communal socio-cultural problems (including female genital mutilation [FGM], ‘honour violence’, polygamy and forced marriage), seem typically treated with kid-gloves by all branches of the UK establishment. FGM, for instance, although illegal since 1985, has seen zero prosecutions despite one case being reported every hour. Moreover, there are now state-funded specialist clinics
in the UK which address FGM’s health complications. From a certain
angle, the appeasement of the practice seems to have blurred into
something approaching collusion with it.
This specific instance in the public health sector of appeasement
becoming more like collusion is part of a pattern being witnessed across
all branches of the UK establishment. For the sake of avoiding social
upheaval in the short term (and therefore amassing it in the long term),
the UK establishment’s tendency is to side with sections of Britain’s
Muslim population. The flip side of this is that the government has
turned against the broader population, which manifests in an
increasingly draconian approach to dissenting voices, such as Tommy Robinson. For instance, the UK government has renewed and deepened ties with the suspected Muslim Brotherhood front, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). Ties were severed in 2009 after former MCB Secretary General, Daud Abdullah, signed the Istanbul Declaration,
which called for violence against UK armed forces. Despite this — or
perhaps because of the MCB’s potential to generate violence — Prime
Minister Theresa May now presides over a rapprochement with them. She
knows very well who she is getting involved with, because she was Home
Secretary when the still largely censored Jenkins Report was released in 2015 and therefore had full access to it. Along with the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and Islamic Society of Britain (ISB), the report cites the MCB as an organisation with Muslim Brotherhood affiliations.
According to the Jenkins Report, “aspects of Muslim Brotherhood
ideology and tactics, in this country and overseas, are contrary to our
[UK] values and have been contrary to our national interests and our
national security”. Denounced in December 2016 by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (headed by MP Crispin Blunt), the Jenkins Report and its warnings were countered with a more favourable picture
of the Muslim Brotherhood, which now seems to be the preferred approach
of the UK government. This switch is despite the Brotherhood having
been marked as a global threat by the US Subcommittee on National Security, despite it being proscribed as a terrorist organisation in several countries, and despite its branch, Hamas, being overtly terrorist. Furthermore, the Brotherhood is the ideological root of Al Qaeda and Islamic State and works globally to subvert and Islamify societies
via infiltration of the organs of state and other public bodies, such
as media and charities. It shares the goal of a global caliphate with
the Sunni jihadists it has spawned, and only differs from them in its
general preference for gradualism over revolutionary violence.
In Western democracies, by publicly rejecting political violence and posing as moderates, the messaging of Muslim Brotherhood operatives can be seductive for politicians and establishment figures
eager to hold together their fragmenting societies and find a bulwark
against terrorism. However, the risk of reaching-out to “Islamists” who
wish to engage in/with democracy is that it increases the potential for
infiltration — and this is the weakness of the rapprochement strategy Leiken and Brooke
argued for in 2007. This misguided strategy was favoured by the Obama
administration and now seems to have been adopted by Theresa May’s
government. Forging links with Muslim Brotherhood affiliates, and
appeasing their demands in the hope it lessens jihadist terrorism,
offers only false hope. Non-violent “Islamists” and jihadists implicitly act in concert,
forming a pincer movement to Islamify society by subversion and
intimidation respectively. The appeasement of political Islam by
governments across Western Europe is transforming the continent against
the will of vast numbers of its citizens and is effectively in collusion
with the “Islamist” agenda — yet jihadist violence persists. The
strategy is not working.
The UK government is now crossing the line from appeasement to
collusion by bringing the MCB in from the cold. If its members are
indeed Muslim Brotherhood operatives, they are wolves in sheep’s
clothing who subscribe to the Brotherhood motto: “Allah is our
objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our constitution.
Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
This is a call to theocratic jurisprudence and holy war is at least
implied — it is also arguably treasonable according to section 3 of the
UK’s 1848 Treason Felony Act.
What follows is the first in a series of articles examining
‘Islamist’ influence and infiltration into the various branches of the
UK establishment: Church, Monarchy, Military, Security Services, Police,
Prison Service, Judiciary, Legislature, Civil Service, state media and
banking/corporate interests.
It is perhaps appropriate to begin with the Church of England, given
the overwhelmingly religious motivations of Islamic extremists.
Moreover, the weakness of Christianity as a cultural force in Europe
seems a fundamental aspect of the continent’s crisis in confidence. It
has been observed by commentators such as Melanie Phillips that the decline of Christianity has left a moral and spiritual vacuum
ready to be filled by a more self-assured belief system. It is within
this context that the Church of England is ingratiating itself to
extremists Muslim clerics, fulfilling Christopher Hitchens’ prophetic
warning that the West’s own ecumenical and multiculturalist priesthood
will “hold open the gates” for a resurgent and expansionist Islam.
Part 1: The Church of England
The UK’s state religion is the Church of England and as such is a
centuries-old branch of the political establishment. Now largely bereft
of political power, it nonetheless still exerts some soft-power in terms
of moral influence in British public life. Headed by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Justin Welby, the Church of England has a track record of
interfaith dialogue with extremist Muslims.
A former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, advocated the absorption of aspects of Sharia law
into UK legislation. Some Muslim groups supported Williams in this, for
instance, the Rochdale-based Ramadhan Foundation, an educational and
welfare body. They said Williams’ advocacy was “testament to his attempts to understand Islam and promote tolerance and respect between our great faiths”. The same foundation has a history of making outlandish and delusional comments, including referring to Israel as “the new Hitler”.
Williams also made the claim at a 2014 conference organised by the
supposedly integrationist and progressive Islamic Society of Britain
(ISB), that Islam is rejuvenating British values. However, according to The Muslim Brothers in Europe: Roots and Discourse (p. 65), ISB is one of several movements which “have their ideological roots in the activism of Sayyid Qutb and Maulana Mawdudi,” two key founders of modern jihadism. The “offensive jihad”
of Al Qaeda and Islamic State — their holy war for Islamic
world-domination — is in no small measure the result of Qutb and
Mawdudi’s promotion of extremist teachings and violence.
As well-meaning liberals, Williams and Welby engage in interfaith
dialogue aiming for a “draw” — they aim for the common ground of
understanding among equals. However, Islamic supremacists enter such
dialogue with the aim of “winning” — as religious exclusivists, it could
not be otherwise, whether they are honest about it or not. Moreover,
 as Samuel Westrop has noted, “honorable activities do not only attract those with honorable intentions”, and the involvement of extremists poisons the entire interfaith exercise — extremists such as Inter Faith Network members, Jamiat Ulama e Britain (JUB), who are “directly affiliated”
with Pakistani seminaries that have close ties to the Taliban. The
error of the interfaith template is therefore similar to the equally
misguided attempt to engage “Islamists” in the democratic process. 
Islam, in the purist 7th century form, advocated by the Muslim
Brotherhood and others, is a totalitarian theocratic system and
therefore sees democracy as haram. For “Islamists”, engaging with the democratic process is only a means to the end of destroying it from within.
Welby has, in recent years, made numerous pointless attempts at
dialogue with those for whom dialogue has a foregone, supremacist
conclusion. In 2016, he welcomed Muhammad Naqib ur Rehman
to Lambeth Palace to counter “the narrative of extremism and
terrorism”, despite Rehman having openly praised acts of terror in
Pakistan. In July 2018, Welby hosted the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Shaykh
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyeb, for the “Emerging Peacemakers Conference”. Given the conference title, it is grimly ironic that this is the same al-Tayyeb who in 2015 refused to condemn Islamic State
as un-Islamic. Welby, in his capacity as an amateur scholar of Islam
compared to al-Tayyeb, contradicted this a year later with his claim
that ISIS had “nothing to do with Islam”. Al-Tayyeb also considers apostasy punishable by death and, as head of Al-Azhar, the world’s foremost Sunni university, is party to both incitement against Egypt’s much-persecuted Coptic Christian minority and the promulgation of Sunni jihadism’s ideological underpinning.
Concerning UK-based “Islamists”, Welby visited the Hamas-linked Finsbury Park mosque after Darren Osborne’s 2017 vehicular ramming attack. Ignoring the fact that it was a Hamas-linked mosque which had been the victim of a style of attack favoured by Hamas, Welby went on to honour its “hero imam”, Mohammed Mahmoud, at the 2018 Lambeth Awards.
Mahmoud’s award was for having prevented violence — he protected
Osborne from an angry Muslim mob in the direct aftermath of the attack.
However, Mahmoud’s association with alleged former Hamas military commander, Finsbury Park mosque trustee Mohammed Sawalha,
was discretely overlooked. From Welby’s actions, we can surmise that he
was either naively content with, or unwilling to question, the mosque’s
2017 explanation that it was “unaware” of Sawalha’s background and status as a Hamas politburo member.
Welby has done much work in the interfaith field with his “friend”, MCB Assistant Secretary General, Ibrahim Mogra. Although moderate in his public pronouncements, Mogra regularly re-tweets posts from the “extremist” advocacy group, Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), and, as a senior MCB member, is formally linked to many who have openly supported the likes of Bin Laden and Hamas. Furthermore, Mogra has promoted “Islamist” narratives within the British education system by writing a Teacher Handbook
on Islam. The handbook includes justifications for amputation
punishments, violent jihad, polygamy, slavery and — casting doubt on
Mogra’s interfaith work — Islamic supremacist thinking.
It is therefore reasonable to conclude that Archbishop Welby is
willingly blind to Islamic extremism and is actively covering for it,
for instance, with the false-equivalency that “many faiths, not just Islam” have a problem with radicalisation. Moreover, Welby asserts that it is an irrational “fear of Muslims” among the public which is tearing British society apart, rather than Islamic extremism, which he downplays by warning against “hysteria”.
Furthermore, he claimed the number of young Muslims travelling to Syria
to fight for Islamic State and other jihadist groups was “extraordinarily small” — it was approximately 800 (including family members). The UK now faces an ongoing severe terror threat from the around 400 fighters who have returned, adding a combat-hardened core to the pool of up to 35,000 potential jihadists
already in the country. For Welby, the public is not to believe its
lying eyes that it is his interfaith partners who sow the ideological
seeds which sprout into sectarian apartheid and acts of terror.  This “gaslighting”
of the British public, as shall be further illustrated in this series
of articles, is ubiquitous across British public life — the primary
problem of Islamic extremism is fearfully overlooked and the secondary
response of public concern is derided as delusional or bigoted.