COVID Killing the Classroom: The Virus Is Making Homeschooling Go Viral

COVID Killing the Classroom: The Virus Is Making Homeschooling Go Viral

BY SELWYN DUKE

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/covid-killing-the-classroom-the-virus-is-making-homeschooling-go-viral/;

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

What happens when you’ve long been reliant upon a sub-par service, but then find out you can perform it better yourself? If you answer that you ditch the service, now you know the reason for one often welcome, COVID-19-inspired societal change: a surge in homeschooling.

Homeschooling has long been gaining in popularity. Numbering only about 850,000 in 1999, there were approximately two million homeschooled children in America five years ago and an estimated 2.5 million in the spring of 2019, with a growth rate of two to eight percent per year, according to recruitment service Mark in Style.

That is, until the virus made it go viral. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau told us in March that the rate of households homeschooling their children more than doubled during the six-month period from March to September 2020, rising from 5.4 percent to 11 percent.  

More striking still, black American households led the way, with their homeschooling rate rising during this period from 3.3 percent to 16.1 percent.

Moreover, now that the ice has been broken and these parents have shed the mass-schooling illusion, most might have said goodbye to the education cartel forever.

The Associated Press reported on this issue Monday, admitting that “some parents are grateful” for the coronavirus-inspired homeschooling transition. The outlet mentions how the parents it spoke to cited religious or “special needs” reasons as inspiring their educational endeavor — and that some mentioned how schools were “flawed,” a description trivializing what studies have shown is the main homeschooling motivation: academic indoctrination.

Relating one mother’s testimonial, the AP writes, “‘That’s one of the silver linings of the pandemic — I don’t think we would have chosen to home-school otherwise,’ said Danielle King of Randolph, Vermont, whose 7-year-old daughter Zoë thrived with the flexible, one-on-one instruction. Her curriculum has included literature, anatomy, even archaeology, enlivened by outdoor excursions to search for fossils.”

As another example, “Arlena and Robert Brown of Austin, Texas, had three children in elementary school when the pandemic took hold,” relates the AP, citing one of the new homeschooling black families. “After experimenting with virtual learning, the couple opted to try home-schooling with a Catholic-oriented curriculum provided by Seton Home Study School, which serves about 16,000 students nationwide.”

“‘I didn’t want my kids to become a statistic and not meet their full potential,’ said Robert Brown, a former teacher who now does consulting,” the AP further wrote. “And we wanted them to have a very solid understanding of their faith.”

Unfortunately, the Browns don’t reflect every black American homeschooling family. That is to say, the AP also cites those using something called the National Black Home Educators (NBHE) curriculum, which, the outlet informs, “provides content for each academic subject pertaining to African American history and culture.” This does, of course, sound highly racialized.

Nonetheless, the phenomenon does again illustrate the China virus-fired homeschooling boom — with the AP telling us that the NBHE had “about 5,000 members before the pandemic and now has more than 35,000” — and the children thus educated are still likely receiving better instruction than the government schools provide.

What the AP doesn’t present are examples of indoctrination-wary parents who’ve opted to homeschool; this is perhaps because Big Media and Big Education are ideological fellow travelers, and substantive criticism of the schools would equate to criticism of the AP itself.

More straightforward about its anti-homeschooling antipathy is British paper the Independent; it wrote Tuesday that the “number of children being homeschooled could soon become a serious problem,” citing “religious zealotry” as an issue. But there has been no recent Western rise in “religious” zealotry (save the Islamic variety); on the contrary, we’ve been losing our faith. But there has been a rise in opposition to “secular” zealotry. Parents aren’t suddenly having a Road to Damascus moment; they’re reacting to a pseudo-elite culture that’s becoming overtly hostile to the Christian faith — and, put differently, to the Truth itself.

And the truth is that even many “secular” parents are recoiling at today’s schools’ full-throated leftism. As the Daily Caller reported in 2019, “Classroom Indoctrination Is Causing a Rise in Homeschooling.” Arlena echoed this last year, pointing out that “educators” don’t represent the people they serve.

“Among English teachers, there are 97 Democrats for every three Republicans,” the site related, “with the proportion being even more one-sided among health teachers, with 99 Democrats for every one Republican.… Among high school teachers overall, there are 87 Democrats for every 13 Republicans.”

This is reflected in the “teaching” (twisting?), with students encouraged to go out and protest “climate change” and support neo-Marxist group Black Lives Matter, and being accosted with mental monstrosities such as sexual devolutionary perversion and Critical Race Theory (along with masking and the rest of COVID Ritual). In fact, 2020 could be called the year when Big Education jumped the shark of schooling surreality.

This brings us to a common but laughable anti-homeschooling claim: that many children thus taught will receive a sub-par education. But while no education is highly preferable to soul-killing miseducation (“First, do no harm…”), this is hardly the homeschooling reality. As Mark in Style relates:

  • Homeschoolers score 15% to 30% higher on tests than public-school students. 
  • Homeschooling erases racial disparities in academic achievement.
  • Homeschooled students perform four grade levels above average.
  • Homeschooled children engage in 5.2 activities outside the home.

(I am curious as to what two-tenths of an activity is.)

One activity they don’t usually engage in, however, is immersion in things such as Hate America First 101, Introduction to Soul Destruction, Sexual Perversion 2.0, and How to Become a Dummy for Dummies.

If the education cartel is upset about losing “customers,” or, as some would say, captives, they’ve no one but themselves to blame.

CDC Director Walensky Lies About Kids, Contradicting CDC’s OWN DATA

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky

CDC Director Walensky Lies, Contradicting CDC’s OWN DATA

BY SELWYN DUKE

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/cdc-director-walensky-lies-contradicting-cdcs-own-data-to-encourage-child-abuse/;

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

Rochelle Walensky lied about how kids died — and more children will suffer as a result.

Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), perhaps trying to justify the administration's position that children will probably have to wear masks at school in the fall, recently stated that COVID-19 is notably deadlier to kids than is the flu. The problem is that the CDC bigwig’s claim was contradicted by an interesting source: the CDC.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported on this last night, stating that

Walensky is an actual doctor.… She went to Harvard. She’s never been elected to anything, but in a pandemic like this, her word is law. It’s more powerful than anything Congress produces. She’s her own federal agency. In fact, on a continuum, she sits somewhere between king and God. So read carefully as Rochelle Walensky tells you that COVID is killing twice as many children as influenza. 

“I think it’s really important for people to understand that this is not a benign disease compared to other diseases our kids see,” Walensky could be heard stating in a clip Carlson played (video below; relevant portion begins at 10:05). “If you look at the mortality rate of COVID, just this past year for children, it’s more than twice the mortality rate that we see in influenza in a given year.”

The problem is that unless Walensky is profoundly ignorant of her own CDC’s data and what attentive laymen have known for more than a year, her claim is a lie.

The Truth: “From 2019 to 2020, according to the CDC, a total of 124 children died of COVID. From 2020 to 2021, 213 children died of COVID. By comparison, influenza killed more than 400 children just last year,” Carlson related. “In fact, that was not an aberration. Influenza has killed far more children than COVID has in each of the past five years. It’s not even close.”

This isn’t some esoteric fact. I’ve long cited a study out of Newcastle University in London showing what data the world over reflect: that the flu is at least twice as dangerous to children under 10 as is the China virus. A good example is the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which claimed 675,000 American lives — many of them young. This is more than two million when adjusted for today’s population.

In fact, insofar as diseases go and according to BusinessTech, influenza is history’s fifth-greatest killer (50 million deaths), behind malaria, tuberculosis, smallpox, and plague.  

On July 12, New York’s Intelligencer further illustrated the irrationality of fearing the threat SARS-CoV-2 poses to children. “Over the course of the pandemic, 49,000 Americans under the age of 18 have died of all causes, according to the CDC,” the site wrote. “Only 331 of those deaths have been from COVID — less than half as many as have died of pneumonia. In 2019, more than 2,000 American kids and teenagers died in car crashes; each year, according to some estimates, about a thousand die from drowning.”

So if you’re going to mask and/or vaccinate kids for fear of The Virus™, then you’d surely better keep them far away from water and autos.

What’s more, “In a recent report, the CDC itself acknowledges it could be vastly over-reporting the number of children who are dying from COVID,” Carlson also related last evening. “The CDC report states that, when considering everyone who died of COVID, roughly 2.5% of those who died had a co-existing medical condition unrelated to their deaths. But for children under the age of 18, that number is dramatic — over 35% of children who died from COVID had what the CDC calls an ‘unrelated medical condition.’”

“In other words, more than a third of children … listed on the official records as dying from COVID had comorbidity that the CDC assures us cannot possibly be connected to COVID,” Carlson continued. “But it appears, upon closer examination, the comorbidities might in fact be related to the deaths of those children.”

It may be obvious why Walensky and others tell this bold China virus/influenza lie and why Big Media aid and abet them: You can’t justify masking and vaccinating children if people know that COVID is considerably less dangerous to them than a disease most of us sneeze at.

And some cities have actually reinstituted school mask mandates; the Biden administration, as mentioned earlier, has recommended such; and authorities have even pushed to get youths vaccinated. Below is a video of Walensky doing so just last month.

(Moreover, it was just announced that vaccines will be “available” for children under 12 late this year.)

This is child abuse. Studies have shown that masks offer little to no benefit when prescribed for the general population. Yet the costs appear great, with strong indications that masks can become as pathogen-laden Petri dishes on people’s faces and that wearers may be inhaling unhealthful plastic microparticles from them; furthermore, a study found that after just three minutes of wearing-time, children were inhaling carbon dioxide at up to six times the acceptable adult level.

As for vaccines, youths have suffered medical complications and even death after taking them; for example, 13-year-old Jacob Clynick passed away just three days after receiving his second China virus injection. Does taking such risk over a disease that imperils kids less than does the flu make any sense?

No, and this explains all the lies. But what should be the consequence for a person who thus deceives? We can already say that the health authorities lied and children died. They, not the January 6 defendants, should be brought up on serious charges.

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CDC confesses: Vaccines are failing, the vaxxed can be super-spreaders, demands return to mask mandates for everyone, including the vaxxed 

BY MIKE ADAMS

SEE: https://naturalnews.com/2021-07-29-cdc-confesses-vaccines-are-failing-the-vaxxed-can-be-super-spreaders.html;

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

(Natural News) Via the words of the CDC’s own director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the official narrative on vaccines and covid has just self-destructed. While in March of this year, Walenksy had publicly promised that vaccinated people could not spread the virus and infect others, this week she publicly stated that vaccines are failing, and that vaccinated people may now carry higher viral loads than unvaccinated people, contributing to the spread of covid.

Even Yahoo News, which typically shills for Big Pharma, could not sugarcoat the devastating narrative shift, reporting:

The CDC updated its guidelines on Tuesday to recommend masks indoors, even for vaccinated people.
The Delta variant makes it easier for vaccinated people to transmit the virus, the CDC said.
Vaccinated and unvaccinated people infected with Delta may have similar viral loads.

USA Today was so alarmed by the CDC confession that they tried to memory hole their own reporting which cited NBC News. In a panic, USA Today scrubbed this sentence from their story:

NBC News, citing unnamed officials aware of the decision, reported it comes after new data suggests vaccinated individuals could have higher levels of virus and infect others amid the surge of cases driven by the delta variant of the coronavirus.

The CDC is currently hiding these data from the public, by the way, most likely because they know that once the data are revealed, any remaining shred of their pro-vaccine narrative will spontaneously collapse.

CDC “confession” just obliterated all the promises made to the vaccinated… now they are slowly realizing they’re the doomed super-spreaders

In making these public statements, the CDC just admitted that the entire promise that vaccinated people were immune to covid and couldn’t spread it to others just unraveled. Immediately, the CDC demanded that the entire nation revert to neanderthal mask mandates, even for those who have been “fully vaccinated.”

It begs the question: If the answer isn’t vaccines but rather just wearing masks, then why does America need the CDC in the first place? And since masks actually don’t work to block viral particles that are orders of magnitude smaller than the gaps in the mask threads, then how can masks stop them?

And if vaccines aren’t working, then what’s the use of vaccine passports?

This is all an open admission that the CDC has no tools against covid and that the last 18 months of pro-vaccine promises were nothing but lies and propaganda. Even worse, the entire medical establishment has suppressed the only legitimate solution to this pandemic, which is natural immunity, which can only function effectively when combined with good nutrition and proper supplementation. Yet the one-size-fits-all medical cult system that dominates society today can only see pharmaceuticals and vaccines as possible answers, never nutrition or natural immunity. Therefore, the CDC has nothing left to offer America other than blind obedience to their quack science lies.

But it’s even worse: CDC director just admitted the vaccines will soon be obsolete

If you can imagine it, the situation is actually far worse than what’s been covered here so far. In her public confessions this week, CDC director Walensky also admitted that covid is “just a few mutations away” from rendering all existing vaccines completely obsolete. She added:

The largest concern that I think we in public health and science are worried about is the virus and the potential mutations. We have a very transmissible virus, which has the potential to evade our vaccines in terms of how it protects us from severe disease and death…

So then, as any rational person might ask, what is the point of taking vaccines in the first place? This is even more alarming when you realize that vaccine-induced “immunity” is now documented to start fading after six weeks. And once the vaccine fades, people become more vulnerable to infections, compared to the unvaccinated or those with natural immunity. That’s why in California right now, the highest count of new covid-19 cases are being recorded in counties with the highest vaccination rates.

Similarly, in pushing for another moneymaking racket of “booster shots,” vaccine companies are now openly stating that their own vaccines stop working after a few months, hence people will need booster shots to keep the vaccine profits flowing.

Actually, it’s worse still: The vaccinated people are the “super-breeders” of covid variants, too

Not only are vaccinated people now the super-spreaders, it also turns out they’re the “super-breeders” of vaccine variants. As vaccine scientist Geert vanden Bossche explains: (emphasis ours)

…[M]ass vaccination promotes natural selection of increasingly vaccine immunity (VI)-escaping variants in the vaccinated part of the population. Taken together, mass vaccination conducted on a background of high infectivity rates enables more infectious, increasingly VI-escaping variants to expand in prevalence. This evolution inevitably results in inclining morbidity rates in both, the non-vaccinated and vaccinated population and precipitates the emergence of circulating viral variants that will eventually fully resist vaccine-mediated immunity (VMI). This is why mass vaccination campaigns should not be conducted during a pandemic of a highly mutable virus, let alone during a pandemic of more infectious variants (unless transmission-blocking vaccines are used!). It is critical to understand that a rapid decline in viral infectivity rates that is not achieved by natural infection but merely results from expedited mass vaccination campaigns will only delay abrupt propagation of emerging, fully vaccine-resistant viral variants and hence, only delay the occurrence of a high wave of morbidity and mortality.

The “high wave of morbidity and mortality,” it seems, has only just begun.

Dr. Robert Malone warns of “worst-case scenario” and cites first evidence showing Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) now emerging

Over the next 12 months or so, we are likely going to see a wave of post-vaccine deaths that mirrors the wave of people obtaining vaccines earlier this year. Even Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology, warns that the CDC’s admission is essentially a confirmation that Antibody-Dependent Enhancement effects have begun.

In a recent interview with Steve Bannon on War Room Pandemic, Dr. Malone (who is fully pro-vaccine, by the way), stated:

This is exactly what you would see if antibody-dependent enhancement were happening… Pfizer protection is waning at six months. Those who received Pfizer, that are now in the waning phase, seem to be getting infected. This exactly what you would anticipate is the window of greatest susceptibility to antibody-dependent enhancement, in this long tapering phase as the vaccine response declines.

The government is obfuscating what’s happening here. What seems to be rolling out the worst-case scenario where the vaccine in the waning phase is causing the virus to replicate more efficiently than it would otherwise, which is what we call ADE.

When one of the world’s leading pro-vaccine scientists — the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology — steps forward and says the covid vaccines now represent a “worst-case scenario,” it’s probably worth paying attention.

I cover all this in much more detail in today’s eye-opening Situation Update podcast via Brighteon.com:

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Find a new podcast (plus amazing interviews with experts) each weekday at:

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SEE ALSO: 

Tipping Point - Vaccine Mandates and Medical Privacy

Rumble — Part 1 of Chris Boyle's interview with Rep. Chip Roy on vaccine privacy

 COVID Killing the Classroom: The Virus Is Making Homeschooling Go Viral

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/covid-killing-the-classroom-the-virus-is-making-homeschooling-go-viral/

 

PayPal, MasterCard, banks act against dissenters from Leftist agenda, including foes of jihad terror

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/paypal-mastercard-banks-act-against-dissenters-from-leftist-agenda-including-foes-of-jihad-terror;

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

What’s coming has been absolutely clear for quite some time. And it’s coming fast now. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you. And they will.

“Second Class Citizens: The 5 Stages of Financial Blacklisting,” by Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, July 27, 2021:

After years of censoring conservatives without admitting to political bias, PayPal appears to have formally abandoned political neutrality, entering into a partnership with the far-left Anti Defamation League (ADL) and law enforcement to track and suppress the activities of the alleged far right.

Breitbart News first sounded the alarm on the rise of financial blacklisting in 2018, an opinion which was then shared by liberal organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Since then, progressive activists have launched well-funded campaigns aimed at payment processors, and credit card companies, aimed at cutting the political right off from payment and banking services — essentially an effort to reduce them to the status of second-class citizens.

Here were some key stages on the road to financial blacklisting.

1. Crowdfunding Sites Target Conservatives 

The first sign that conservatives were going to be financially blacklisted came in 2015, when GoFundMe — a major platform for raising small donations online — shut down a fundraiser on its platform for a Christian bakery in Washington State, which was facing a large fine due to its refusal to serve a gay wedding. Later examples of conservative crowdfunding campaigns being shut down include Kickstarter’s decision in 2018 to ban a fundraiser for Swedish academic Ann Heberlein over her book examining the correlation between mass immigration into Sweden and a steep rise in sexual assaults in that country between 2012 and 2017.

2. Patreon cracks down on independent creators

Patreon, a service that allows people to charge recurring subscription fees, was once the gold standard in an ecosystem of online creators that sold content directly to their fans without going through any third party. Its descent into political bias became widely apparent in 2017, when it banned independent journalist Lauren Southern in 2017 over her work documenting left-wing NGOs smuggling immigrants into Europe via the Mediterranean. In the following two years, reportedly under pressure from credit card companies, it would purge even more conservative and independent creators, including the British critic of progressivism Carl Benjamin. In response to Benjamin’s ban, top Patreon earners Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin announced plans to boycott the platform.

3. Mastercard and Discover blacklist Islam critics Robert Spencer, David Horowitz 

The theory that Patreon was banning creators due to pressure from credit card companies attracted some more evidence in late 2018, when Visa and Mastercard cut off payments to David Horowitz’s Freedom Center. Horowitz later had the service restored, but Islam critic Robert Spencer reported that he too was blacklisted by Mastercard, blaming it on pressure from far-left activists. In 2020, Visa also blacklisted Gab, the free speech friendly social network that offers users an alternative to the far-left content moderation of mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter….

Social media giants’ Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism classifies Jihad Watch as ‘violent extremism’

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/social-media-giants-global-internet-forum-to-counter-terrorism-classifies-jihad-watch-as-violent-extremism;

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

This is pure libel. We have never advocated or approved of any violence or any illegal activity of any kind. And if we are “extremist,” so is the U.S. Constitution, for we are trying to defend the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. But with these groups, there is no discussion, no appeal, no opportunity offered to defend oneself or argue one’s case. They will be shutting us down soon, and I may go to prison or worse, but remember: if that happens, it will be for no crime. It will be wholly and solely for enunciating truths that the elites prefer to hide. Not only can they not truthfully charge me with any criminal activity; they can’t even show that anything I say is inaccurate. But they have all the power, and they mean to shut down dissent, and that means our days here are numbered.

“Terrifying: The Big Tech Overlords Target Right-Wing ‘Terrorism,'” by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media, July 28, 2021:

Back in 2017, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube founded the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). GIFCT shares terrorism data among Big Tech companies, enabling them to flag and remove terrorist content. On Monday, GIFCT announced that it significantly expanded the types of extremist content in its database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias. However, the research behind the database cites the far-left smear factory the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and brands one of the SPLC’s conservative targets a “violent extremist” group.

GIFCT’s database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list, largely focused on content from radical Islamist groups like the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban, Reuters reported. Yet on Monday, the forum announced that it would add white supremacist attacker manifestos and other publications and links flagged by the U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. GIFCT will use URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, and neo-Nazis.

Using GIFCT, the Big Tech companies share “perceptual hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services.

On Monday, GIFCT announced that it would include three new hashed categories:

  1. Manifestos from terrorist and violent extremist attackers in PDF form;
  2. Terrorist publications that use specific branding and logos for the organization in PDF form; and
  3. URLs identified by Tech Against Terrorism as where specific terrorist content exists that are often shared and amplified on other platforms

This expansion came after GIFCT spent six months engaging “a wide range of experts on expanding the reach and impact of our hash-sharing database’s taxonomy in order to respond to terrorist content online across the ideological spectrum.”

“We believe that our work must be complementary and mutually-reinforced with human rights and fundamental freedoms, starting with the material we recognize as terrorist content online,” the Big Tech organization declared. “This six-month project resulted in a compilation report from international experts that will help shape and inform our strategy for thoughtful, deliberate, and practical broadening of our taxonomy framework over time.”

Yet it appears GIFCT’s team of “experts” included the scandal-plagued Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which smears mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as “hate groups,” putting them on a “hate map” with the Ku Klux Klan. Former employees have described the “hate map” as a con to bilk donors by exaggerating hate. An attempted terrorist opened fire at the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., attempting to kill everyone in the building and smear a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich into the faces of his victims. He told the FBI he used the SPLC’s “hate map” to target FRC.

Despite this history, the GIFCT report justifying the new policy references the SPLC’s reporting on the Oath Keepers and notes the SPLC’s “hate group” list as an option for a list of terrorist organizations. The report notes the difficulty of “maintaining a list of terrorist and violent extremist actors that is objective, global in scope, and updated in real time,” and notes that “no such expanded designation list is currently available, although there are a number of non-governmental lists, such as those compiled by… civil society actors like the Southern Poverty Law Center.”

Considering the Oath Keepers’ involvement in the Capitol riot — and the involvement of other organizations the SPLC targets, such as the Proud Boys — it may make sense for GIFCT to target this group. However, the GIFCT list of organizations promoting “violent extremism” includes another organization on the SPLC’s “hate group” list that has no connection with the Capitol riot.

Among examples of “violent extremism,” alongside Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and antifa, the GIFCT report lists JihadWatch, a non-profit dedicated to combatting radical Islam. JihadWatch, run by PJ Media’s Robert Spencer, does not advocate violence in any way. Rather, it highlights the disturbing history of Islam and the connections between that history and the terrorist motivations of groups like the Islamic State.

The presence of the SPLC in GIFCT’s report, and the suggestion that JihadWatch is a kind of “violent extremist” group do not bode well for conservatives on the internet….

UK Muslim publication says Christian stabbed at Speakers’ Corner ‘is known for insulting the Prophet’

Christian evangelist Hatun Tash was stabbed today at Speakers' Corner in London. Hatun is a vocal critic of Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran, as well as a prominent defender of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and she was wearing a Charlie Hebdo shirt when she was attacked.

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/uk-muslim-publication-says-christian-stabbed-at-speakers-corner-is-known-for-insulting-the-prophet;

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

This is just painting a large target on Hatun Tash’s back.

Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira in which Muhammad orders the murders of people who have insulted him.

These include Abu Afak, who was over one hundred years old, and the poetess Asma bint Marwan. Abu Afak was killed in his sleep, in response to Muhammad’s question, “Who will avenge me on this scoundrel?” Similarly, Muhammad on another occasion cried out, “Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?” One of his followers, Umayr ibn Adi, went to her house that night, where he found her sleeping next to her children. The youngest, a nursing babe, was in her arms. But that didn’t stop Umayr from murdering her and the baby as well. Muhammad commended him: “You have done a great service to Allah and His Messenger, Umayr!” (Ibn Ishaq, 674-676)

Then there was Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf. Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad
bin Maslama answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).” Muhammad responded: “You may say it.” Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Sahih Bukhari, volume 5, book 59, number 369)

Likewise, the popular website Islam QA called for death for blasphemers, using both Qur’an and Hadith to make its argument. “The scholars are unanimously agreed,” the site explains, “that a Muslim who insults the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) becomes a kaafir [unbeliever] and an apostate who is to be executed. This consensus was narrated by more than one of the scholars, such as Imaam Ishaaq ibn Raahawayh, Ibn al-Mundhir, al-Qaadi ‘Iyaad, al-Khattaabi and others.”

“Police searching for assailant who stabbed ex-Muslim Hatun Tash,” 5Pillars, July 28, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Police are still searching for an assailant who stabbed the ex-Muslim Islamophobe Hatun Tash at Speakers’ Corner in London on Sunday.

Tash, 39, was stabbed several times while she was wearing a Charlie Hebdo T-Shirt and was “preaching the Gospel” to Muslims, but is said to be fine after receiving medical attention.

The assailant fled the scene as some of the other 30 people there confronted him/her. The knife used in the attack was recovered.

Tash, who is of Turkish origin, is known for insulting the Prophet (pbuh) and desecrating the Quran. She often goes down to Speakers’ Corner to debate and confront Muslims from her evangelical Christian perspective.

Hatun Tash leads DCCI ministries, which says it exists to defend Christ, critique Islam and preach the Gospel to Muslims using apologetics and polemics….

Detective Superintendent Alex Bingley, from the Central West Command Unit, which covers policing in Westminster, said: “This was clearly a very distressing incident for the woman involved and officers have spent time with her, whilst she was being treated for her injury, to get an account of what happened.

“We know that this assault was witnessed by a number of people, many of whom captured it on their phones. I would ask them, if they have not already done so, to contact police.

“We remain in the early stages of our investigation and are working hard to trace the person responsible. I would ask people not to speculate on the motive for the attack until we have established the full facts.”…