Twenty-four Muslims from across Germany formally passed their imam training at the country’s new Islamkolleg Deutschland in the northwestern city of Osnabrück on Saturday.
The graduates, who included men and women, received their first certificate of completion after attending a two-year part-time course.
“This is a historic day,” said the chairman of the Islamkolleg’s board of trustees, former German President Christian Wulff during a press conference.
A Swedish man faces trial this week on charges of incitement to racial hatred for the burning of a copy of the Islamic Quran in what could become a precedent-setting case, as prosecutors have been reluctant to pursue charges against Quran-burning protesters in the past.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is responsible for a long list of crimes against humanity, including genocide, slavery, child abduction, human trafficking, drug dealing and, of course, terrorism.
Canada welcomes ISIS terrorists back with open arms. What’s wrong with a little mass murder and slavery anyway?
Authorities claim it’s just too darned hard to dig up evidence against ISIS members.
I guess he didn’t get @karinagould’s memo about not making this a partisan issue. Not to mention, if you thought this would make him think twice about making careless and dangerous comparisons to Nazis? Think again. pic.twitter.com/BjipFUWIaw
— Jacqui Budden (@JacquiDelaney) September 28, 2023
New York State taxpayers have handed over $23 million to a number of divisive Islamist groups over the last ten years, including one institution banned in the United Arab Emirates as a terrorist organization, according to state funding reports obtained by Focus on Western Islamism. The funds came from several state agencies, but primarily from New York’s Department of Education.
“This information is shocking. It’s unbelievable that New Yorkers’ tax dollars are going to groups that preach and advocate hatred. Not one penny should go to them,” former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind told FWI. Hikind served in the legislature for 36 years and founded Americans Against Antisemitism in 2019. “I will call on the governor to stop this,” he said.
h/t Kiki9
Quebec mother bringing government to court over decision not to repatriate her from Syria
A Quebec mother of six who is being held in Syria is bringing the government to court over its decision not to repatriate her to Canada.
The woman and her children are among many foreign nationals being held in Kurdish-run camps for suspected ISIS members and their families.
The government agreed previously to repatriate the children but decided earlier this year not to repatriate the mother, citing security concerns.
In Germany, a Syrian migrant tried to kill a snack bar employee, stabbing him in the neck. There was nothing unusual about that: there has been, during the last few years, a wave — a decuman — of murderous attacks by Muslim migrants throughout Europe. But this one was noted because the German police tried, yet again, to hide the criminal’s nationality from the public.
Whether it is Islam, climate or immigration: the costs of freedom of expression can be enormous.
When a taxi driver, after dropping him off at home, said “now I know where you live” to the famous Tagesschau journalist Constantin Schreiber it was time to stop. He will no longer comment on Islam. Schreiber won’t say anything more. He will be like the three little monkeys: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”
“I won’t write any more books on the subject, I will refuse requests from talk shows, I won’t do it again,” Schreiber told Zeit editor Giovanni di Lorenzo. Schreiber had written investigations and criticized sermons in mosques and Koranic schools. On August 29, during a conference at the University of Jena, Schreiber had a cake thrown in his face by left-wing activists. “I don’t want that negativity in my life”, says Schreiber, whose book about a Muslim woman who is about to become chancellor in 2050 caused a sensation. It deals with the “creeping Islamization of Germany”. Since I won’t talk about Islam anymore, Schreiber says, some might “celebrate and open bottles of sparkling wine.”
The Government needs to take a stronger stance in preventing the imposition of dress codes on Muslim women, a think tank has said.
A new report by Policy Exchange discusses how Islamist groups have ‘weaponised’ discussions surrounding religious clothing in the UK and beyond, potentially limiting the freedom of choice for Muslim women.
The think tank emphasised how public fear of Islamophobia can lead to conservative groups stifling open debate about religious attire in the UK, even though women in many Islamic countries are protesting against the hijab’s imposition as an oppressive garment.
Can you imagine a similar staement made by a Canadian MP or organization?
Back in 2015, I watched a one-minute video of Muslims connected to the Islamic State (“ISIS”) breaking crosses inside and from atop churches. Because the video had for some days been going viral on Arabic social media, I, in an effort to bring Westerners up to speed with Muslims—to show them the same things Muslims around the world were watching—uploaded it onto YouTube.
A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the five defendants charged over the 9/11 attacks is not fit to stand trial in a death-penalty case.
The defendant Ramzi bin al-Shibh has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, associated psychotic features and a delusional disorder.
His lawyer has long claimed his client was “tortured by the CIA”.
Al-Shibh was scheduled to face pretrial proceedings on Friday.
Islamists are “weaponising” claims of Islamophobia to shut down debate on head scarves and veils, a think tank has found.
A new report by Policy Exchange suggests that freedom and debate to discuss Islamic head scarves and face coverings is being denied by Islamic extremists.
The comments were made in a report by Sir John Jenkins, who spent 35 years in the British Diplomatic Service and was a former Ambassador to Burma, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia, as well as HM Consul-General in Jerusalem and Special Representative to the National Transitional Council.
A woman in Indonesia has been jailed for two years after saying an Islamic prayer before eating pork in a viral TikTok video.
The video showed Lina Lutfiawati, who has more than two million followers, saying a brief prayer that translates to “in the name of God” before eating a piece of crispy pork skin.
In 2018, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims proposed the first working definition of Islamophobia in the UK. In its report, Islamophobia Defined, it stated that ‘Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness’.
On Sunday, The Washington Post ran an editorial by Allan Lengel, detailing “accusations of betrayal” in a small Michigan community known as Hamtramck, after the city council enacted a ban… prohibiting the display of Pride flags on city property.
Germany’s secret political police were weaponized against those considered “Islamophobes” by the Home Secretary.
Sigrid Herrmann (SPD) is an expert on political Islam and publishes the blog “Islamism and Society,” where she provides well-founded reports on the main actors and activities of radical Islam in Germany. Herrmann helped reveal the connections between the “charitable organization” Islamic Relief, the Muslim Brotherhood and its Gaza affiliate, Hamas.
Islamic Relief is banned in Israel and the UAE for its terror ties, but was funded by the German government, advertised by German public broadcasters and supported by major German political figures such as President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Bundestag Vice-President Aydan Özoguz, until Herrmann’s revelations in 2021, when they had to shelve the collaboration.
