Islam and violence – Page 256

Islamist Terrorism Is Winning In The West

The new Islamist attempt to assassinate Salman Rushdie reminded me that years ago, the Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad told Rushdie, at a 30th-anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa ordering Rushdie’s assassination, “30 years ago, there was a Salman Rushdie in the world, today there is at least one Salman Rushdie in every Islamic country, not to mention those in Western countries.”

In 2012, Al-Qaeda published a list of critics of Islam as “most wanted” targets for assassination. Networks of Islamist websites today call for the assassination of extensive lists of infidels and “apostates” around the world. Some have already been killed, others silenced, and almost all live under police protection.

That’s a very long list.

by Blazingcatfur•August 29, 2022August 29, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Da Vinci Code Attacked the Wrong Religion … But it got some things right.

The attack on Salman Rushdie reminds us once again of the difference between Islam and other religions. In response to the publication of The Satanic Verses, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death fatwa in 1989 against Rushdie which resulted in attacks on two translators, one publisher, and a massacre at a hotel in Turkey.

Thirty years after the issuance of the fatwa, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made it clear that the fatwa was still in effect; and two weeks ago, a Muslim man heeded the call and attacked Rushdie as he was about to deliver a talk at an event in Chautauqua, New York. Rushdie was stabbed 15 times and severely wounded.

by Blazingcatfur•August 29, 2022August 28, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

We are still in denial about radical Islam

Even the savagery of the ‘ISIS Beatles’ is already being forgotten.

On 11 September 2011, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, there was a mass brawl outside a pub in Marble Arch in London. A bunch of boozed-up members of the English Defence League had a run-in with Muslim youths. It was depicted as typical EDL ugliness. As one eye-witness described it to the Evening Standard, the ‘EDL guys’ were drinking outside the pub ‘when a large group of Muslims walked past’. The EDL thugs ‘started hurling racist abuse at the Muslims, who took offence’. ‘[The Muslims] got angry’, the eye-witness said, ‘and were yelling back’. Things escalated and two EDL members were stabbed.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2022August 28, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Massachusetts Woman originally from Afghanistan fatally shoots three male relatives before killing herself

A Massachusetts woman shot her brother-in-law, his father, her own dad and herself to death after she publicly accused the first man of physically abusing her sister for years while the other two – along with additional relatives – stood idly by, according to authorities and a chilling social media post that offers an apparent motive for the violence.

The gruesome saga began with a Facebook post published on the afternoon of 23 August in which Khosay Sharifi recounted how her sister has been choked, slapped, kicked, punched in the face and cursed out by her husband of 14 years.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2022August 28, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's war on women, Islamization of the West

Europe’s Twilight: Christianity Declines, Islam Rises

French writer André Malraux said it: “A civilization is everything that gathers around a religion”. And when one religion declines, another takes its place.

Sarcelles, Saint-Denis, Mulhouse, Nantes, Chambéry, Strasbourg, La Rochelle… The impressive images of stadiums full of Muslim faithful, who arrived from all over France for the feast of Eid Al Kabir, seventy days after the end of Ramadan. In Saint-Denis, the city where the kings of France rest; in Nantes, the city of the Dukes of Brittany; in Strasbourg, the city of the cathedral and seat of the European Parliament, in Mulhouse, in the heart of Alsace.

“In forty years, France has become the Western European nation where the population of Muslim origin is the most important,” wrote Vatican Radio. “It is not difficult to hypothesize that we are now close to Islam overtaking Catholicism.” What if the overtaking has already taken place?

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2022August 28, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Writers shouldn’t submit to Islamists

We must stifle our fears about Rushdie

Christians of convenience are nothing new. As early as the second century, the sect-hopping Peregrinus milked Christians for money and fame, until they found out he was eating food sacrificed to pagan idols. But there is something shocking about the “Catholic revival” driven by downtown New York scenesters — that is, the phenomenon of attractive, highly social ketamine enthusiasts saying they are Catholic.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2022August 27, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Taliban say they’ve not found body of al Qaeda leader

KABUL, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The Taliban have not found the body of Ayman al-Zawahiri and are continuing investigations, group spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday, after the United States said they killed the al Qaeda leader in an airstrike in Kabul last month.

by Blazingcatfur•August 26, 2022August 26, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Islam, Islam and violence, USA, WTF?

Naming Rotherham the ‘Children’s Capital of Culture’ is a sick joke

The council’s scandalous failure to tackle grooming gangs is in danger of being forgotten.

In 2025, a town in the UK will become the first ever ‘Children’s Capital of Culture’. Many people will be more than a little shocked to learn that, of all the towns in Britain, the government has chosen Rotherham for the role – the south Yorkshire town at the centre of Britain’s decades-long grooming-gangs scandal. Between 1997 and 2013, an estimated 1,400 girls in Rotherham were sexually abused by gangs of predominantly Pakistani men. All while the local authorities turned a blind eye.

by Blazingcatfur•August 24, 2022August 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Muslim Rape Gangs, UK, WTF?

Canada’s spy agency concerned Afghanistan will increase the risk of religiously motivated extremism in Canada: docs

Canada’s domestic spy agency warned the government in October that the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan could increase the risk of religiously motivated extremism in Canada, documents reviewed by Global News suggest.

Additional newly released documents also suggest Canadian government officials were caught off guard by the speed of the Taliban’s takeover last summer, although the terrorist organization’s resurgence was seen as a foregone conclusion by Canadian intelligence officials as early as May 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2022August 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Iranian State Media Features American Prof With a New Theory on Rushdie Stabbing: The Jews Did It

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been engaging in a bit of damage control since the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, affectionately known as “The Butcher of Baghdad,” is set to come to New York to address the United Nations, and the Iranians don’t want to make the possibility that Old Joe Biden’s ultra-woke handlers would ban him from entering the country any less remote than it is now. And so Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Monday: “We categorically deny” any connection to the attack. “No one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2022August 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Pakistani Doctor Pleads Guilty to Terror Charge in Minnesota

ST. PAUL, Minn.—A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge, more than two years after he was arrested for telling paid FBI informants that he pledged his allegiance to the ISIS terrorist group and that he wanted to carry out lone wolf attacks in the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2022August 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Today in History: Islam Swallows Up the Western World After the Battle of Yarmuk

Today in history, on Aug. 20, 636, arguably the single most consequential battle between Islam and the West took place — that of Yarmuk. Occurring just four years after the Muslim prophet Muhammad had died, not only did the military engagement decide whether the Arabian creed thrives or dies; it became a chief source of inspiration and instruction for jihadis throughout the centuries, right down to the Islamic State. And yet very few in the West are even aware of the Battle of Yarmuk’s existence — much less how it motivates contemporary Islamic terrorists.

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2022August 20, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

Salman Rushdie and the racism of shielding Muslims from offence

Those who want to treat Islam differently to all other faiths see Muslims as lesser citizens.

First the horror, then the silence. It’s been a week since Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage in New York, the 33-year-old fatwa finally catching up with him, and the mood is strangely muted. There have been some powerful defences of free speech in the media and statements of solidarity with Rushdie, who is still in a hospital bed nursing life-changing injuries. But in general our political and cultural elites have managed only limp, anodyne or oddly delayed interventions – in Labour leader Keir Starmer’s case it took him a full day to say anything about the attempted murder of a fellow knight of the realm. Meanwhile, the culture warriors – those wont to downplay the threat of Islamist extremism and dismiss free speech as a racists’ charter – are keeping remarkably schtum.

by Blazingcatfur•August 21, 2022August 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West

Forget Free Speech: Rushdie’s Fatwa Is Winning

“Salman Rushdie is a champion of free speech, bravely standing up for Western ideals when so many shy away from the fight. If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end… I know all too well the threat Islamism poses. After I came out as an apostate, I was forced into a bubble of protection that still surrounds me to this day. I have 24-hour security. I still receive death threats. My friend, the sweet, vulgar, brilliant Theo Van Gogh was murdered simply for making a film with me. His attacker used a knife to stab a letter into Theo’s chest: it said that I would be next”.

That is how Ayaan Hirsi Ali reacted to the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York.

by Blazingcatfur•August 21, 2022August 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Father who spied on al-Qaida accuses Edinburgh school of discrimination

One of the UK’s leading private schools is under investigation after being accused of discrimination against the daughter of one of the west’s most important spies, a former al-Qaida bomb-maker credited with saving thousands of lives.

Aimen Dean, who spied for British intelligence inside the terrorist network for eight years, has made a formal complaint against St George’s School in Edinburgh, claiming it singled out his five-year-old daughter because other parents feared he was a security risk.

Dad went public with his undercover work. I can understand the concern of other parents.

by Blazingcatfur•August 21, 2022August 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Al Qaeda, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West