In other news:
Australia’s busiest airport shutdown after bomb-threat by machete-wielding, “Middle-Eastern” “Arabic” man: “Terrorism was ruled out.” Yes, when living in the era of the irrational and the absurd, sharia trumps terrorism.
You can’t identify the enemy if you aren’t allowed to speak its name. That’s why the Bølsheviks try to censor the word ‘Bølshevik’.
The Internet once seemed poised to utterly destroy the establishment media. In an era where everyone with a phone and a social media account could reach an audience of millions, the need for professional journalists gatekeeping information seemed pointless.
Yet journalists have savagely fought back against the social media companies that once threatened to displace them. Today, one angry email from a left-wing journalist is enough to get a tech giant to frantically manipulate its algorithms — or even create manual blacklists — to appease them.
The journalists at BuzzFeed have become masters of this tactic. Recently, they launched an investigation into “misinformation” and “hyper-partisan” content on YouTube. A day after the publication of BuzzFeed’s report, YouTube announced it would adjust its algorithms to tackle “misinformation”. The outlet led the media pressure campaign to have Alex Jones booted from Twitter. Anti-censorship comedian Michael Meecham (aka “Count Dankula”) says it was BuzzFeed that made YouTube demonetize his channel, effectively firing him. (Continued below the fold.)
In related news, this is investigative journalism at its best:
Thanks to Vlad Tepes
Continue reading Who controls the fake news media complex & the ministry of truth?
Mark Durie
Linguist and theologian Mark Durie has written a brilliant new book: The Qu’ran and its Biblical Reflexes. (I interviewed him here.)
No, he concludes: the Koran was almost certainly not written when, where and how Muslims traditionally believe. Its Arab dialect, its geographical and historical references and carbon dating of its earliest copies suggest it was created earlier in an area closer the abandonned city of Petra than at Mecca or Medina.
In fact, the Koran does not even mention the creation of Muhammed, long worshipped as the Prophet, or actually the “Messenger”, who dictated it to his followers. Indeed, the Koran names Muhammed just four times, and the reference may just be a title: “Praised One”.
What’s more, the very earliest copies of the Koran do not mention Mohammed at all.
In any case, concludes Durie, the Koran is inconsistent with the biographies given of Muhammed in the sacred Hadith, or sayings of the Prophet, the first of which was not written until 150 years after his death.
Durie also dismantles the popular claim of apologists that Muslims and Christians just worship the same God, given that the Koran, too, mentions God, Moses, Abraham, Noah, Lot, Heaven, Hell, Satan and even Jesus – although this Jesus is not God’s son, and his mother is the sister of Moses.
Durie shows that while some of the characters of the Christian Bible have been borrowed, the Christian theology has not. Even the meanings of some of the most important of the borrowed words has been changed, so that Messiah in the Koran has come to be interpreted by some Muslim theologians as meaning simply that Christ had flat feet. (Durie quotes a former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia on this point.)
The God in the Koran turns out be very much a creation of Arab society at the time – a God who shows compassion rather than love, and who orders rather than makes deals or a “covenant” with his people. Durie notes that Allah considers humans as “slaves”.
Crucially, midway through the Koran, the “Messenger” – with his followers getting impatient with waiting for Allah to punish their enemies – hears Allah change his message. Once Allah had hurged tolerance, but now he tells the Messenger that Muslims may be instruments of his justice on earth. They may kill unbelievers for him – in commands that haunt the modern world. No longer need they leave future punishment of unbelievers to their God.
Durie’s book is meticulously researched and footnoted, and been praised already by scholars in Australia and abroad.
HERE is my all-to-brief Sky News interview with Mark Durie.
And here are some excerpts from Durie’s book:
Even the barest outline of the life of Muḥammad — that is, that someone called Muḥammad was the Messenger figure in the Qur’an, which was sent down to him first in Mecca and then Medina — is difficult to reconcile with contemporary historical sources and the Qur’an’s own internal evidence.
The Qur’an itself has scant information on Muḥammad, only mentioning him by name (written as m-ḥ-m-d) four times (Q3:144; Q33:40; Q47:2; Q48:29), but this word could also be an epithet meaning “praised one.”…
The name Muḥammad is also mentioned surprisingly rarely in contemporary non-Muslim sources until well into the second Islamic century, and when Muḥammad first appears, it is not in reference to a religious leader….
There is no physical evidence that Mecca existed at the time of Muḥammad. It is also striking that recurring place names in the Qur’an, Thamūd, Madyan (Midian), and Ād, all refer to localities well to the north of Mecca and Medina. Another issue is the observation in Q37:137–38 that the Qur’an’s audience can pass by the remains of Lūṭ’s [Lot’s] people in the morning and by night. The Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is associated with the region around the Dead Sea… The Qur’an again implies its audience was closer to the Dead Sea than to northern Arabia when it says “the people of Lūṭ are not far from you” (Q11:89)…
Another type of evidence which points away from Mecca to the Southern Levant is the dialect in which the consonantal skeleton or rasm of the Qur’an was recorded…. This implies that the Qur’an was originally recited in the Arabic of settled areas in the Southern Levant…
Muḥammad was active as a messenger from 570 to 632 CE, and the text of the Qur’an was reportedly standardized under Uthman between 650 and 655 CE. If the Islamic account of the standardization of the Qurʾa￣ n were true, we should expect extant manuscripts to date from no earlier than 650 CE…
In the Great Mosque of Ṣanʿa￣ ʾ in Yemen, a cache of manuscripts was found behind a wall during renovations in 1972… Two leaves dated from 543–643 CE, one from 433–599 CE, one from 603–662 CE, and one from 388–535 CE… All these dates are too early to accord with the traditional account of Muḥammad’s life, who was reported to have commenced receiving Qur’anic revelations in 610 CE… Folios of the manuscript 1. or. fol. 4313, of the Berlin State Library, has been dated to 606–652 CE…
These dates are startling… Multiple instances carbon dating results cannot be reconciled with the dating of the life of Muḥammad, let alone the Uthmanic recension: the outer limit of some dates finish even before Muḥammad’s prophecies commenced.
This is a must-read, and not just for scholars of Islam. Buy it here.
Pope Praise UAE as ‘Land of Human Brotherhood’…
Pope Francis is worse than a $20 dollar whore when it comes to Islam…
Chants of “Death to Israel” as Iran Marks 40 Years of ‘Revolution’…
Hussein Obama thought they were nice people…
Pope Francis starts a three-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday, the first for a leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the Arabian Peninsula.
The pontiff will attend the Global Conference on Human Fraternity at the behest of the UAE’s leadership, which has proclaimed 2019 the “Year of Tolerance”, a move scorned by human rights activists.
Hundreds of Saudi women flee the conservative kingdom every year and run away to Western countries over allegations of domestic abuse and oppression back home. One popular destination is the UK, where dozens seek asylum every year. Hanan Razek met two people who explain how they risked everything to flee from Saudi Arabia. Produced by: Dina Demrdash, Fahima Abdularahman (BBC, Jan 30, 2019)
Rep. Tlaib Requests Taxpayers Fund Her Anti-Semitism
None of the left wing mob who attacked this innocent Australian, who was peacefully carrying our flag on Australia Day were charged. This is madness.
That’s not nice….
“The defendant (El Chapo) would call the youngest of the girls his ‘vitamins’ because he believed that sexual activity with young girls gave him life,” the court document revealed.
Mexico’s most famous drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, regularly paid $5,000 to have girls as young as 13-years-old drugged and brought to him for sexual intercourse, court records allege.
Calls for the assassination of several major figures in the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), including detailed instructions on how to do so, have been found on a web platform linked to Antifa far-left extremists.
The post was made on the infamous “Indymedia” web platform that has long been used by far-left extremists in Germany and called for the murder of several AfD MPs, including co-chairs Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel, Tichys Einblick reports.
Under the title ‘The AfD and the election campaign!’ the post calls on Antifa members to examine the dates of AfD public appearances and study maps of venues to escape once they have finished their assassination.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have designated Antifa as domestic terrorists: https://capitalresearch.org…
and https://www.independent.co….
One has to then wonder why no Antifa events are ever interfered with, and why so few Antifa members are arrested? Are they being used by another agency?
UK Councils adopt an agreed list of examples of Sharia violations (under the guise of islamophobia): It is nothing less than the imposition of Islamic law, the most brutal and inhumane legal system on the face of the earth.
The illustration below, from Le Salon Beige, shows some of the candidates who claim to be running as GJ’s in May. However, you can see that they are not patriots:
Ingrid Levavasseur, nurse’s aide by profession, voted for Emmanuel Macron; Marc Doyer, business leader by profession, supported Macron in 2017, ran for a seat in the National Assembly on Macron’s party, and still works for the party in the department of l’Oise; Brigitte LaPeyronie, lawyer and city councilor in Nandy, is also a cadre in the UDI party, a centrist group and definitely not pro-Marine Le Pen. Worst of all, an Armenian immigrant to France, Hayk Shahinyan, former member of the Young Socialists, is the campaign manager of this bogus “Gilets Jaunes” party aided and abetted by Bernard Tapie, notorious French entrepreneur, known world-wide for his multiple activities and numerous convictions on various charges of fraud. He is now ill and facing death, so possibly he wants to enjoy his last hurrah?
The Gilets Jaunes themselves, the real Gilets Jaunes, vehemently protest this appropriation of their movement by opportunistic forces. In a press communiqué they state that their movement belongs to no one, that each decision must be approved by an absolute majority, that they have nothing to gain by presenting candidates to the EU elections, that they are a-political, and that anyone who votes for the candidates on this ballot are in fact voting for Macron.
RT – ‘Bad joke?’ Macron says he’s a Yellow Vest too
One hardly remembers reading about the ‘2018 Christmas market shooting’ ……the fake news media doing a marvellous job hiding actual news from the masses again!
PARIS (AP) – A French judicial official says three people detained over the investigation into the Christmas market attack in Strasbourg that left five dead have been handed preliminary terrorism charges.
The judicial official, who isn’t authorized to speak publicly about the investigation, wouldn’t name the three, who were arrested on Tuesday in Alsace, along with another two suspects who were freed without being charged the next day.
The judicial official on Saturday wouldn’t confirm French media reports that they are suspected of helping the gunman obtain the weapon he used to carry out the December 2018 assault.
The alleged killer, Cherif Chekatt, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. He died in a shootout with police two days after the Dec. 11 attack.
Why are so called riot police in jeans?
Doctors Say Number of Serious Injuries Inflicted on Yellow Vests Unprecedented
PARIS (Reuters) – Several thousand “yellow vest” protesters marched through Paris and other French cities on Saturday on the 12th weekend of action against the government, despite opinion polls pointing to a recovery in President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity.
French president Emmanuel Macron has claimed that the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement has been largely hijacked by up to 40-50,000 “ultra militants” from the far-right and far-left in France.
An additional theme for this weekend’s Yellow Vest march is calling for an end to police violence against their movement. Let’s see how the police respond.
Earlier this week President Macron received several journalists at the Elysee Palace and told them his thoughts on the Yellow Vest movement, saying he thought that the movement, which goes into its twelfth weekend of protests this Saturday, had been hijacked by the ultra-left and the far-right, Paris Match reports.
Macron defined the group as a “social and political movement without a fixed claim, without a leader, outside of business and which has undergone several mutations.”
“If being a Yellow Vest means that we are in favour of our work paying more and parliament working better then I am a Yellow Vest,” Macron said, allegedly grinning as he did so.
While he praised some aspects of the movement Macron went on to claim that it had been hijacked by “40- to 50,000 ultra militants who want the destruction of institutions,” adding both the far right and far left have been able to do so due to the “mutation” of the movement on social media platforms.
The latest on the protests is at: https://www.oann.com/french…
These rioters and protesters are fanatically determined to have poor Asia Bibi’s blood for her supposed “blasphemy,” despite her acquittal by the Pakistani Supreme Court. When have we see thousands of Muslims protesting against jihad terror and Sharia oppression? Right, never. “Dozens detained as police use batons, tear gas to disperse violent TLP protest in […]
UK: Press regulator to issue guidelines for reporting on Islam that won’t “impinge right to criticize or challenge” |
Yeah, sure they won’t. OK, show of hands, people: how many of you believe that IPSO’s new guidelines for reporting on stories involving Islam and Muslims will not actually impinge upon the right to criticize Islam or challenge Islamic teachings? How many of you actually believe that IPSO will not act as part of the […]
The Soros-funded propaganda smear machine Center for American Progress fires staffers for leaks about UAE influence |
The Center for American Progress is the extraordinarily well-funded mendacious and subversive hard-Left organization that published a highly deceptive and misleading report on “Islamophobia,” a neologism designed to intimidate people into fearing to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression. The CAP is antisemitic as well. And now we see why: it’s on the payroll of […]
A shocking statement was made by a United Nations official Christiana Figueres at a news conference in Brussels.
Nothing “shocking” about this statement at all. These UN creeps have been saying these things all along without being called out on it.
Figueres admitted that the Global Warming conspiracy set by the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which she is the executive secretary, has a goal not of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but to destroy capitalism. She said very casually:
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
A direct result of this:
Australian Justice Desmond Fagan says that “Muslims should publicly denounce ‘belligerent’ verses of the Koran that have been used by Islamic extremists to underpin terrorism.” He said this “while jailing two terror-plotters.” This judge is on the right track.
But now Muselmaniacs spring into action:
An Australian judge who said Muslim leaders should publicly denounce “belligerent” verses of the Koran has been warned not to offer Islamic scriptural guidance.
Grand Mufti of Australia Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed said Muslim leaders would “never, ever, ever” disavow verses of the Koran while president of the Australian Muslim Women’s Association Silma Ihram said that it was not appropriate for a judge to delve into religious scripture interpretations.
There you have it. Muselmaniacs telling our judges to shut up and to submit to Mohammedan mores.
Both spoke the day after Justice Desmond Fagan said lethal messages derived from “hostile passages” of the Koran were not effectively countered by suggestions from “various quarters” that the verses had been “cherry picked” or that Islam was an “interpretive religion” of peace.
No, because Islam is not to be ‘interpreted”, it is to be taken straight up, undiluted.
More below the fold.
Reminder:
1•Taqiyya (Shi’a) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
2•Kitman: deceit by omission.
3•Tawriya: deceit by ambiguity.
4•Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not having to observe all the tenets of Shari’a).
5•Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden).
6•Darura: the temporary suspension of Shari’a to make Moslem migrants appear ‘moderate’.”
It comes days after New Delhi deported five Rohingya to Myanmar amid concerns from rights group
This is all fraudulent BS. These people are Bengali Mohammedans who invade the surrounding countries because Bangladesh has been impoverished by Islam. India needs to ship them right back to their Islamic paradise.
Dozens of Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh from India, days after New Delhi deported five members of Myanmar’s minority Muslim community amid concerns from rights groups, officials said.
Continue reading Aussie Judge Makes Koranimals Throw Hissy Fits
Almost a million illegal aliens are living in Libya and ready to leave for Europe, the country’s internationally-backed leader has said.
Fayez al-Sarraj explained that only a small proportion of migrants hoping to use Libya as a transit country on their way to rich EU nations were being held in camps, after Austria’s far-left president blasted conditions at the facilities, commenting that the situation there was “to put it mildly — far from satisfactory”.
“My personal opinion is that under these circumstances, refugees shouldn’t be sent there at the moment,” Alexander Van der Bellen told the Libyan premier on Monday.
More below the fold.
Brussels is opening legal pathways for migrants “who want to come” says European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, declaring that Europe has a “clear need” for mass migration from Africa.
Italian efforts to block migrant boats from Africa is a “betrayal” of Europe and of its citizens, EU Parliament boss Antonio Tajani has alleged, insisting Brussels must put in place a permanent mechanism which would spread third world migrants throughout the bloc.
Ahead of a visit to the Aosta Valley, a region of Italy home to a number of ski resorts, the ‘centre-right’ politician branded it “unacceptable” that EU nations had chosen to “turn away from what is happening in the Mediterranean”.
“In so doing, they betray the European project and citizens’ expectations. Immediately approve the accord on mandatory distribution voted by the European Parliament,” stated Tajani, according to reports from the news wire service, ANSA, on Tuesday.
Traitors like Antonio Tajani do not deserve a kangaroo court. They should be hanged on the next tree or drowned in the next river without any fuzz. But the EUSSR traitors are determined to continue flooding Europe with third world savages. More below the fold.
In other news:
“Any book that hurts religious sentiment and disrupts communal harmony is prohibited.”
Saudi women are stepping on the face veils some are made to wear in the conservative kingdom and posting it on social media with the hashtag “the niqab under my foot”.
The campaign marks the latest protest against strict dress codes for women in Saudi Arabia, who are required to wear abayas – loose, all-covering robes – in public and in most of the country to cover their hair and faces.
More of the same:
Saudi women are protesting strict dress codes by wearing their abayas inside-out
Young woman arrested for ‘immodest clothes’ in viral video released by Saudi authorities
Meanwhile, back in Oz:
Clementine Ford resigns from Nine newspapers, issues social media plea for financial support
