Islam and violence – Page 282

Nearly half of French Jews hide religious symbols, finds AJC study on anti-Semitism

An increasing number of French Jews believe that anti-Semitism is widespread in their country, according to a new survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee.

According to the study, conducted in late 2021, 85 percent of Jews said that anti-Semitism is widespread. That number is up nearly 20 points from a similar survey conducted just two years earlier that found 67 percent of French Jews said Jew-hatred was widespread.

Further, 73 percent of Jews have been victims of anti-Semitism. While the vast majority of incidents were derogatory remarks, some 20 percent of the reported incidents were labeled as “physical violence.”

That’s how diversity and multicult work!

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2022February 10, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left, France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

I did not kill anyone, says main suspect in Paris attacks trial

Salah Abdeslam, giving evidence for first time, says he did not ‘inflict so much as a scratch on anyone’

The main surviving suspect on trial over the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris took the stand for the first time on Wednesday, telling a court that he had never killed or wounded anyone and was not a danger to the public.

Salah Abdeslam is suspected of being a member of a group of jihadists who carried out a coordinated series of bombings and shootings across the French capital that left 130 people dead and hundreds of others injured.

Called to be cross-examined for the first time in the marathon trial, he said: “I did not kill anyone and I did not injure anyone. I didn’t inflict so much as a scratch on anyone. It’s important for me to say this.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2022February 9, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

CAIR Doubles Down on ‘Illegal Surveillance’ Charges

The Islamist group has expanded its bogus accusations and is asking the Department of Justice to investigate its critics.

Ever since the Ohio headquarters of the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) went public in December with accusations that Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) was illegally surveilling the Ohio Muslim community, CAIR has driven the public narrative with the assistance of a gullible and ignorant media.

Like a fox demanding an investigation of the henhouse, CAIR sent a letter to the Department of Justice on January 31, calling for it to “launch an investigation to determine whether Steve Emerson or IPT broke any federal civil rights statutes or criminal laws by targeting the Muslim Community.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2022February 9, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

How are Gulf countries coming to terms with their history of slavery?

Modern slavery is still widespread in the Arab states of the Gulf region, where millions of migrant workers are forced to work under grueling conditions with little or no pay.

The“kafala” system, for example, a practice still common across much of the region’s countries, allows employers to hire unskilled workers from places like Africa and South Asia. In return, workers give up their passports and the possibility to leave the country or change jobs without permission from their employers.

But the region’s record of benefiting from forced labor isn’t a recent development. Traditional slavery, where people were kidnapped and sold as slaves far from home, was still legal and practiced in large parts of the Gulf region as late as the 1970s.

by Blazingcatfur•February 9, 2022February 9, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and slavery, Islam and violence

Violent clashes over hijab ban in southern India force schools to close

The Indian state of Karnataka has shut its schools for three days after the regional government backed schools imposing a ban on hijabs, leading to widespread protests and violence.

The issue began in January, when six female Muslim students staged a weeks-long protest after they were told to either remove their headscarves or stop attending class at a government college in the district of Udupi.

Last week, other colleges in the state began to enforce bans after some Hindu students, backed by rightwing Hindu groups, protested that if hijabs were allowed in classrooms, they should be allowed to wear saffron shawls. Saffron is the colour that has become commonly associated with Hindu nationalism.

by Blazingcatfur•February 9, 2022February 9, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", India, Islam, Islam and violence

UK: ‘Jihadi’ Imam, who supported Al-Qaeda terrorist Aafia Siddiqui and murder of Salman Taseer, allowed to open nursery school

A radical Islamic cleric by the name of Muhammad Asim Hussain has been granted permission to operate a kindergarten for children by the education regulator in the United Kingdom, reported Daily Mail. This is despite the fact that Hussain had openly expressed his support for Pakistani Al-Qaeda terrorist Aafia Siddiqui and the murderer of former Pakistani Governor Salman Taseer.

by Blazingcatfur•February 9, 2022February 9, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Appalling video shows Iranian man carrying wife’s head after ‘honor killing’

A shocking video captured an Iranian man grinning as he walked through the streets clutching the severed head of his 17-year-old wife — whom he decapitated in an “honor killing,” according to a report.

The gruesome footage shows Sajjad Heydari strolling through a neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, on Saturday with Mona Heydari’s head in one hand and a blade in the other, East2West News reported.

by Blazingcatfur•February 8, 2022February 8, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Honor Killings, Honor Violence, Islam, Islam and violence, WTF?

Two suspected British Islamic State recruits seized by Taliban at border

Two suspected Islamic State recruits, one of them carrying a British passport, were seized by the Taliban when they tried to slip into Afghanistan last autumn through its northern border, the Guardian can reveal.

The men, who were carrying more than £10,000 in cash, military fatigues and night-vision goggles in their bags, were arrested after a tipoff from Uzbekistan, according to a Taliban source with knowledge of the operation.

“There was one passport from England and one from another country in Europe,” said the source. He discussed the men’s capture at the border crossing of Hairatan on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to journalists.

by Blazingcatfur•February 8, 2022February 8, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Rape of Britain

Tommy Robinson delivers a stunning documentary on Muslim rape gangs.

On May 25, 2018, Tommy Robinson was standing outside the courthouse in Leeds, England, microphone in hand, reporting live on the trial of several Muslims for child rape, when, without prior warning, he was arrested for breach of peace, hustled into a van, and, within the space of four hours, tried, convicted, and sentenced to thirteen months’ incarceration – not, curiously enough, for breach of peace but for contempt of court. Conveyed tout de suite to the prison in Kingston upon Hull, he spent much of the next year and a half in and out of lockup, undergoing physical and psychological torment while behind bars and the rankest of forensic malpractice while at the so-called bar of justice.

by Blazingcatfur•February 8, 2022February 7, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Does European Multiculturalism Threaten Women’s Rights?

Somali-born writer Aayan Hirsi Ali sees Dec. 31, 2015 as a turning point in Europe’s fraught relationship with multiculturalism. On that date, 1,500 men, mostly newly arrived asylum seekers of Arab and North African backgrounds, converged on downtown Cologne, where thousands of Germans had gathered to welcome in the New Year. The men mobbed together to entrap and sexually assault women and girls, often stealing their wallets and mobile phones in the process. In the months that followed, 661 women and girls reported being separated from their male companions and being pushed inside “hell circles” of young men who groped them without regard to their age, appearance or circumstances. Some women said they were pinned to the ground for 30 minutes of continual assault.

On New Year’s Day, the Cologne police issued a statement that the evening had been largely peaceful. An outpouring of reports on social media left the authorities–and the media–no choice but to discuss the attacks publicly and release information on the background of the assailants.

by Blazingcatfur•February 7, 2022February 5, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", "Multiculturalism", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Will France Wake Up and Defend Her Freedom – or Not?

“What else do you need to wake up and understand that we have to defend ourselves?”, asked the late Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci.

We should be worried about Europe. It is the cradle of European culture, especially France. Henry James, in The Ambassadors, writes about France as the epitome of civilization, as the “eldest daughter of the Church”. Now, however, France’s churches are being burned, demolished and abandoned, and its adherents sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. France’s Jews, “the canaries in the coalmine”, are being physically attacked and leaving their country. Since 2000, more than 60,000 have fled.

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2022February 6, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The scandalous failure to tackle grooming gangs

Local authorities are more concerned with protecting their reputations than protecting vulnerable children.

A report published this week by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has confirmed what some of us have known for some time – that the UK is failing to address the widespread sexual exploitation of children.

Six case studies were chosen for the Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised Networks investigation report: Tower Hamlets, Bristol, Swansea, Durham, St Helens and Warwickshire. The report claims that police forces and local councils are still failing to properly identify and investigate grooming gangs, and they consistently underestimate the true scale of organised networks of abuse.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2022February 4, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

‘All-American girl’ turned jihadist denied bail

A woman from Kansas once known as a doe-eyed “all-American girl” will remain in custody before facing terrorism charges for allegedly leading a female Islamic State fighting squadron.

Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, is accused of training children as young as six to use machine guns and planning to commit “violent jihad”.

She was denied bail after appearing in court in Virginia on Thursday.

She faces decades in prison.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2022February 4, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

British ISIS Beatles ‘turn supergrass and reveal masterminds behind European terror attacks’ ahead of US trial

Two of the British ISIS ‘Beatles’ reportedly turned supergrass and revealed the masterminds behind European terror attacks while awaiting trial in the United States.

Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are said to have given up the information to US secret service interrogators after their 2018 capture in Syria.

They also revealed details of who ordered the kidnap and torture of Western hostages, according to French publication Mediapart.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2022February 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Biden says IS leader killed during US raid in Syria

ATMEH, Syria (AP) — The leader of the violent Islamic State group was killed during an overnight raid in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, President Joe Biden said Thursday.

The raid targeted Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who took over as head of the militant group on Oct. 31, 2019, just days after leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a U.S. raid in the same area. A U.S. official said he died as al-Baghdadi did, by exploding a bomb that killed himself and members of his family, including women and children, as U.S. forces approached.

He is also known as Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2022February 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, USA