Category: General

“Islam Is Not the Problem” 

So say a bunch of American Muslim leaders in response to the horrors unleashed by Boko Haram.

And that’s true enough–if, that is, you also believe that Islam had nothing to do with 9/11, and it has nothing to do Hamas, Hezbo, Islamic Jihad, etc., etc., etc. (Scaramouche)

To his credit he didn’t mention Breivik, the KKK and Tim McVeigh:

Baltimore Muslim leader says Islam doesn’t justify abduction — doesn’t mention sex slavery passages of Qur’an

“Faheem Younus is the Baltimore president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA and a senior fellow at the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics at the University of Baltimore.” Here he offers a reassuring piece, starting off with a petty and gratuitous little slap at Pamela Geller and me, claiming that Boko Haram, that is, the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, is misunderstanding Islam and misinterpreting the Qur’an. He says categorically that “nothing in Islam, today or 1,400 years ago, justifies the abduction of any human being, let alone innocent girls rejects “kidnapping young girls and threatening to sell them into sexual slavery.” He offers one verse to support this idea: “And when the girl-child buried alive is questioned about, for what crime was she killed?” (81:9-10). To this he adds a hadith that depicts Muhammad saying: “If a daughter is born to a person and he brings her up, gives her a good education and trains her in the arts of life, I shall myself stand between him and hell-fire.”

Neither of these passages, unfortunately, are precisely on point. Boko Haram is not burying these girls alive. And the statement attributed to Muhammad only insists that girls be educated. Boko Haram, however, is not against all education, but only Western education that is not Qur’an-based.

Continue reading Ahmadiyya Muslim Spokesturd Blames Kony For Boko Haram Slave Raids

Thanks to EoZ and Carl in J’lem

Israel seals Syrian border over escalating clashes

The Quneitra Crossing on Israels’ Syrian border near the Golan Heights was closed due to an escalation in fighting between Bashar-al-Assad’s regime and opposition forces.

The Israeli authorities earlier announced an increase in its military presence in the area after Al-Nusra Front captured the Syrian side of the crossing, which is near the long-disputed area under Israeli occupation, Golan Heights.

Syrian “rebels” want to ally with Israel

What could go wrong? We all know that da Joooz were behind al Qaeda all along, right?

My how the world has changed. Here’s a Syrian rebel appealing to ally with Israel.  —Read the whole thing

Resistance Verboten, Dhimmies Submit

Priest who encourages Christians to enlist in IDF stripped of his role– It remains to be seen if any Christian leaders of other denominations will criticize this heavy handed interference by Palestinian Arab churches into Israeli clerics and churches.

Fatah, the ‘moderate’ terrorists

• Fatah’s terror wing says it won’t give up its weapons

Israel is the most extraordinary collective achievement of the Jewish people in thousands of years.

 It is the embodiment of the dreams, faith, blood, sweat and tears of the Jewish people today and throughout time in both spiritual and physical terms.–A sad Independence, Caroline Glick

Camel Urine?

• Saudi cleric says Islamic medicine cures MERS, AIDS, leukemia

 Sock-puppet

A week ago, Martin Indyk was the ‘unnamed‘ source for a report blasting Israeli ‘settlement building’ for the failure of the ‘peace process.’ On Thursday night, he made his criticism explicit. And on Friday night, an unnamed Israeli official blasted Indyk back for being a hypocrite.

“Indyk comes and blames others without speaking about his own responsibility for the current impasse,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.

“(It is) difficult to point to any significant contribution that he (Indyk) had made to the process,” he added.

Most Israeli Jews disagree with Indyk.

Ignorance of Radical Islam’s History Is Death

Islam is always ‘radical’.

Boko Haram and the Failure of Obama’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy

Never knew the Obummer had a ‘counter-terrorism strategy’.

Boko Haram and the History of Child Rape in Jihad  by PHYLLIS CHESLER

Europe Boycotts Britain in Eurovision as ‘Bearded Lady’ Wins Song Contest

Weard.

Totally ignorant and extremely disappointing:

• Darrell Issa Shows Ignorance of Islam in Donnelly-Kashkari Spat over Shariah

PJ Media:

Sharia: Hiskett Diagnosed Nigeria’s—and the World’s—Islam Problem, in 1993

We want to reiterate that we are warriors who are carrying out Jihad (religious war) in Nigeria and our struggle is based on the traditions of the holy prophet. We will never accept any system of government apart from the one stipulated by Islam because that is the only way that the Muslims can be liberated. We do not believe in any system of government, be it traditional or orthodox, except the Islamic system which is why we will keep on fighting against democracy, capitalism, socialism and whatever. We will not allow the Nigerian Constitution to replace the laws that have been enshrined in the Holy Qur’an, we will not allow adulterated conventional education (Boko) to replace Islamic teachings. We will not respect the Nigerian government because it is illegal. We will continue to fight its military and the police because they are not protecting Islam. We do not believe in the Nigerian judicial system and we will fight anyone who assists the government in perpetrating illegalities.

—Boko Haram statement of “principles,” 2011

Boko Haram, whose Arabic nom du guerre translates as “Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad,” is merely a traditionalist Islamic restoration movement whose overriding ambition remains the enforcement of Sharia, as inspired by their early 19^th century jihadist forbears under Us(u)man [Uthman] dan Fodio.

Mervyn Hiskett, the late (d. 1994), widely recognized authority on the history of jihad and Islamization in sub-Saharan Africa, wrote an updated Preface (dated September, 1993) to the 2^nd edition of his biography of the early 19^th century jihadist Usuman (Uthman) dan Fodio (d. 1817), The Sword of Truth.

Continue reading Ignorance is deadly

Update:

The most astonishing example of the don’t-mention-Islam phenomenon – Nafeez Ahmed in The Guardian:

The kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala, by the militant al-Qaeda affiliated group, Boko Haram, has shocked the world.

But while condemnations have rightly been forthcoming from a whole range of senior figures from celebrities to government officials, less attention has been paid to the roots of the crisis.

Instability in Nigeria, however, has been growing steadily over the last decade – and one reason is climate change. 

UPDATE

No, don’t mention that Boko Haram is an Islamist group and don’t criticise those who refuse to. Otherwise some radio presenter will imply you’re just a you-know-what:

Hiding behind his wife’s skirt. Obama is MIA.

Mooch addressed the country in what is usually president’s weekly address to the nation, delivering the weekly address for the first time since Hussein Obama took office. “Her invention” came as the disastrous consequences of  Obama’s failed foreign policy and jihad denial continue to unfold. – Pamela Geller

Somali pirates love Dutch hospitality

“Life is good here,” said one of the defendants, named Sayid, about his experience in a Dutch jail.

 Daniel Greenfield:  Somali Pirates Shoot at Dutch Soldiers, Ask for Asylum

Story below the fold.

In other news:

Obama regime continues to flood the Bible Belt with thousands of Islamic headbangers

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are leading the effort in the Senate.

The legislation would enable Afghan interpreters who have been approved for resettlement to immigrate with parents, siblings and adult children who can independently demonstrate that they are in danger.  Those criteria also applied to Iraqi interpreters.

Continue reading Life is good

It’s not just the devout Muslims in Nigeria who are kidnapping Christian girls: “Rate of Christian girls abducted and attacked by extremists on the rise in Egypt,” By Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News, April 18, 2014 Young Christian women are facing a greater risk of being kidnapped by extremists, tortured, and even forced to convert to […]READ MORE –Pamela Geller

•  ‘I’d Rather Die Running’: Schoolgirls Who Escaped Boko Haram Speak
• Report: US Ignored Nigeria’s 2013 Request for Aid to Combat Boko Haram
• Hillary Clinton Protested Designation of Boko Haram as Terrorist Group

Nigeria ramps up search for missing girls

Search for schoolgirls stepped up as Nigeria’s military denies reports it had advance warning of an attack on Chibok. (al Jizz)

Muslim scholars ‘condemn’ their own religion:

Nigeria’s army has stepped up the hunt for hundreds of schoolgirls, abducted last month by rebel group Boko Haram, in an attack condemned globally including by US first lady Michelle Obama.

The country’s Defence Headquarters said on Saturday that two divisions of the military were now stationed in the border regions close to Chad, Cameroon and Niger to work with other security agencies.

Related:

• Ingraham: Hillary’s Boko Haram Hashtag Hypocrisy
• Islam’s Role in Boko Haram’s Kidnapping of Schoolgirls — on The Glazov Gang–Scholar of Islam, Dr. Mark Durie, connects the dots between a monstrous Jihadist…

At least 10 army search teams were trying to track down the girls in the remote far northeast, border guards were on high alert and the air force had so far flown at least 250 sorties.

Continue reading Nigeria pretends to do something about abducted Christian sex slaves

Strangely, you don’t see this in the U.S. media.

Protesters burn a US President Barack Obama effigy during an anti-US protest near Malacanang palace in Manila on April 28, 2014.

Mooch Obama Gives Weekly Address on Kidnapped Nigerian Girls – DOES NOT MENTION Boko Haram or Islam (GWP)

Moonbattery:

Beware of false prophets. A Marxist redistributor legalising theft is toxic for the Catholic church.

Having It Is Sinful

Anthony de Jasay*

Early Christianity was essentially a church of and for the poor and the oppressed. However, it did not seek to rouse them against the rich and the oppressor. Instead, it offered solace by the promise of a life after death, a life of infinitely greater worth, greater reward for the righteous, and greater punishment for the unrepentant sinner than anything the brief passage of earthly existence might bring. In life after death, the first will become the last and the last the first. The rich will find it harder to enter Paradise than the camel to pass through the eye of the needle. Thus will divine justice be done. In this vale of sorrow, charity was due to the suffering poor and the sick, but revolution was not the message of religion. St Peter’s Church was ultimately concerned only with the spiritual and not, or hardly at all, with the temporal.

Continue reading A Pope Concerned With Other Peoples Money?

MEMRI TV, Iranian Official Azghadi:

The Westerners Are Barbaric Criminals Who Understand Nothing But Force

Just another da’wa bitch:

• Islamophobia: why do so many young men hate Muslim women?

Discredited Liar Fiyaz Mughal OBE Loses Libel Fight Over Telegraph Piece He Claimed Branded Him a “Muslim Extremist” –

• Geller: what is so extraordinary about this is that this vicious liar was funded by the government –

Bill Maher: ‘Islam Is The Problem’

Video below the fold, because it starts automatically.

Continue reading Yes, Islam is inherently violent, and the entire religion is at war with us…