Some Muslims, especially those who claim to be our community leaders, seem to take offence at anything and everything they disagree with. Whether it is asking for the beheading of an Indian woman, Nupur Sharma, who merely read verbatim from the Islamic scriptures, or demanding a ban on the U.K. movie The Lady of Heaven, that depicts the life of Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad, they seem incapable at times of civilized and rational debate.
The West has been terrorised into silence
Art and Islam often seem like oil and water. Other times, they behave like matches and gasoline.
It is hard to believe that more than 30 years have passed since Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses — longer ago than the fall of the Berlin Wall. I also experienced the combustion created when art meets Islam, back in 2004.
ISIS bride Shamima Begum is said to be ‘very frightened’ that she will be executed if found guilty of terrorism offences.
The 22-year-old, whose British citizenship was removed in 2019, is reported to be facing the prospect of being prosecuted after officials requested an investigation into her links to ISIS, also known as Islamic State.
Offending a small minority is no justification for censoring a film
Protesters have spent the last week calling for a film to be pulled from cinemas in the UK. These were not blue-haired students upset over a new Dave Chappelle biopic, but Muslim activists calling for Cineworld to remove what they labelled a “blasphemous” film.
PFLP-tied “Canadian” Khaled Barakat complained that Hezbollah, Hamas and PFLP were seen by Canada as terrorist organizations.
Canada’s list of terrorist organizations should be abolished, said Khaled Barakat — The subject of controversy in Canada for his alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization — at the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) in Canada’s 5th assembly at the Ottawa city-owned Foster Farm Community Centre on June 3.
“It has to be abolished,” Barakat said at the event. He complained that Hezbollah, Hamas and PFLP we officially recognized by Canada as terrorist organizations.
“Canada is listing Palestinians and Arab organizations on the so-called terrorist list,” he said.
London: The UK government on Saturday dismissed a Muslim cleric from his role as an official adviser, accusing him of fomenting protests against a new film about the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed.
Alleging “The Lady of Heaven” is blasphemous, Muslim groups protested outside UK movie houses this week, forcing the world’s second-largest cinema chain to cancel all screenings.
Cineworld’s announcement came after Qari Asim, an imam and lawyer in the northern English city of Leeds, posted on Facebook on Monday that the film had “caused much pain and hurt to Muslims”.
Last Sunday, June 5, 2022, Islamic terrorists stormed St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo State, Nigeria, and massacred more than 50 Christians who were peacefully worshipping their God. Videos, according to one report, “showed church worshippers lying in pools of blood while people around them wailed.”
As terrible as this massacre might seem, it is just the proverbial “tip of the iceberg”: over the years, Muslims have assaulted, shot up or torched countless churches in Nigeria.
Terrorists seek to divide—to scare, to hurt, to break. They fail when we choose unity. They fail when we choose light over darkness—when peaceful justice prevails over anger and fear. And in April, in a ninth-floor federal courtroom in northern Virginia, light, and justice won.
The Alexandria courtroom provided the setting for the much-anticipated so-called “Beatles” terrorism trial, which saw British Islamic State member El Shafee Elsheikh, otherwise known as Jihadi Ringo and captured in early 2018 by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), tried on eight counts, ranging from hostage-taking to conspiracy to providing material support to terrorists. His co-defendant, Alexanda Kotey, had earlier pled guilty. Both had been extradited to the United States in 2020 after the U.S. government agreed to remove the possibility of the death penalty.
By giving in to those protesters, the elites have shown that they do not consider British Muslims to be ‘like us’.
Let’s do a little thought experiment. Imagine that, this week, a group of hardline Christian conservatives started protesting outside cinemas up and down the country, demanding that a ‘blasphemous’ film be banned. What do you think the response would be? They would be rightly ridiculed by politicians and commentators from across the political spectrum. They would be told in no uncertain terms that, no, we do not live in a theocracy and, yes, they should kindly piss off. And if the protesters doubled down, if they carried on intimidating cinema workers and patrons, if they started making thinly veiled threats even, the authorities would step in to keep the protests peaceful and stop activists shutting screenings down by force. Because in a liberal, secular society you do not allow religious bigotry and mob rule to override freedom of expression.
New Delhi: Suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma, at the centre of the ‘blasphemy controversy’ that has caused some unease in India’s diplomatic relationships across West Asia, is being publicly shunned by her party. However, she has found a spokesperson in one of Europe’s most polarising political figures.
Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who has long advocated a ban on the Quran and action to limit Muslim immigration, has made multiple appearances on Indian media, in Sharma’s support.
“I support Nupur Sharma because I believe that nobody should be punished or apologise for speaking the truth. We might like it, we might dislike it, but she spoke the truth about Muhammad,” said Wilders in an interview to India Today Wednesday.
The decision to prosecute a recent attack on a Mississauga mosque as a terrorism offence is an unusual step that may be difficult to prove in court, terrorism experts say.
Proving that 24-year-old Mohammad Moiz Omar committed a terror offence when he allegedly attacked worshippers at the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre earlier this year will require prosecutors to argue a complex and “rarely used” clause in the Criminal Code. That clause, which has been in place since 2001, “essentially requires proof of a political or religious motive and attempts to intimidate a population,” said Kent Roach, a University of Toronto law professor and policing expert.
Still no info on what exactly has given police cause to make the terrorism case.
Where is the police to safeguard the public against this intimidating mob? Why is the UK police so scared of Islamists and political Islam?! pic.twitter.com/FyamENyktb
— Potkin Azarmehr (@potkazar) June 9, 2022
(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 7 – Italian police on Tuesday made 14 arrests in an anti-terror raid on a Pakistani cell operating in Italy and other European countries, judicial sources said.
The cell was allegedly linked to a wider network called the Gabar Group, itself linked to Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, the 27-year-old Pakistani man who attacked the former offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris in September 2020, wounding two people with a cleaver.
Mahmoud went to Charlie Hebdo’s former offices to punish them for re-publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohamed for which 12 people were killed there in January 2015.
He did not know that the magazine had moved in the meantime.
Imam Qari Asim says The Lady of Heaven is ‘derogatory’ and backs those who are protesting for screenings to be cancelled
One of the figures agitating for cinemas to cancel a film accused of “blasphemy” is the Government’s adviser on Islamophobia, The Telegraph can reveal.
Cinema chain Cineworld was forced to cancel screenings of The Lady of Heaven, about the Prophet Mohammed’s daughter, after venues showing the historical epic were picketed by hundreds of Muslim demonstrators.
It has emerged that one of the figures lobbying for screenings to be cancelled is Imam Qari Asim, an independent government advisor on Islamophobia, who has branded the film “derogatory”.
How many police would there have been if this was EDL or if Tommy Robinson was there? @pritipatel UK police is a disgrace and a joke pic.twitter.com/pisTrq6bOv
— Potkin Azarmehr (@potkazar) June 9, 2022
“It amazes me. It really amazes me. I would like to know what the City of Ottawa thinks it is doing,” Josh Korn told me. The 70-year-old retired software engineer and active member of Ottawa’s Jewish community is not alone in wanting to know why a man identified by Israeli intelligence as a high-ranking member of a notorious Palestinian terrorist group was allowed to give a speech in a city-owned facility last week.
This should not “amaze” anyone. Preach multicult and diversity? Import a backwards death cult and coddle it beyond all reason? Reap what you sew.
Palestinian TV Host Dina Al-Assi Praises Japanese Red Amy Terrorist Kozo Okamoto, Who Participated in the 1972 PFLP Lod Airport Massacre in Israel: A Great Model, Arigato! #terrorism #Palestinians #Japan #Lebanon pic.twitter.com/cyEEdQcjwr
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) June 9, 2022
This graffiti was found on a wall near Toronto’s York University.
This type of intimidation is driving Jewish students across North America to hide their identity. pic.twitter.com/zqaWTWkdvG
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) June 9, 2022
