A controversial sheikh who condemned a video by an Islamist extremist group justifying domestic violence had himself argued husbands had a right to sex with their wives.
Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman, president of the Australian National Imams Council, is the first name on a list of 34 prominent Muslims who slammed a Hizb ut-Tahrir video featuring two women making the case for domestic violence.
However, last year he delivered a sermon at Lakemba, in Sydney’s southwest, arguing men reportedly had ‘authority’ over their wives.
He has since denied arguing men had a right to demand sex with their spouses.
Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman delivered a sermon saying husbands could demand sex from their wives
Muslim women explain how men should hit their wives Sydney primary school teacher Reem Allouche (left) told the women’s arm of hardline Islamist political group Hizb ut-Tahrir that men are permitted to hit women with sticks
Libya is the main gateway for people attempting to reach Europe by sea [File: Ismail Zitouny/Reuters]
Hundreds of African refugees and migrants passing through Libya are being bought and sold in modern-day slave markets before being held for ransom or used as forced labour or for sexual exploitation, survivors have told the UN’s migration agency.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday that it had interviewed West African migrants who recounted being traded in garages and car parks in the southern city of Sabha, one of Libya’s main people-smuggling centres.
Refugees in Libya: ‘Smugglers have lost all humanity’
People are bought for between $200 and $500 and are held on average for two to three months, Othman Belbeisi, head of the IOM’s Libya mission, said in Geneva.
“Migrants are being sold in the market as a commodity,” he said. “Selling human beings is becoming a trend among smugglers as the smuggling networks in Libya are becoming stronger and stronger.”
The refugees and migrants – many from Nigeria, Senegal and The Gambia – are captured as they head north towards Libya’s Mediterranean coast, where some try to catch boats for Italy.
AUSTRALIA: Muslim Women Discuss Controversial Quran Passage Regarding Marital Discipline April 08
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
DON’T believe the Muslim apologists. The Koran really does instruct men to beat wives who don’t obey.
Prominent imams and celebrity Muslims are misleading us in their panic over a Hizb ut Tahrir video showing two Muslim women demonstrating just how men should do that hitting.
The Koran says no such thing, they claim, but it does and the Department of Social Services has sponsored another video in which an imam explains one of the rules: don’t hit the face.
That’s right. Sheik Ayman Malas of Cabramatta Mosque, in a video of Muslim clerics denouncing domestic violence, actually explains in Arabic: “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said do not abuse the face.”
It shows the desperation of our political class to believe the best of Islam that it doesn’t even hear what an imam says in government propaganda.
That same desperation now drives politicians to join prominent Muslims in attacking the women behind the Hizb ut Tahrir video. They’d rather blame these women than admit the real problem is the Koran — the word of the Prophet Mohamed.
In West Yorkshire, dozens of men and women face charges of rape, trafficking with intent to engage in sexual exploitation, sexual activity with a child, child neglect and child abduction.
The defendants – 24 of which are from Huddersfield – were charged after girls as young as 11 were raped and sexually abused.
The cases involving the 27 men and two women were heard in a specially dedicated courtroom at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court today.
They face numerous allegations including rape, trafficking with intent to engage in sexual exploitation, sexual activity with a child, child neglect, child abduction, assault, supply of class A drugs, and possession and making of indecent images of children.
The charges against the defendants are historic, dated between 2004 and 2011, and relate to 18 female victims.
The offences were committed in the Huddersfield area and are alleged to have taken place when the victims were aged between 11 and 17.
They were charged after police launched a series of raids across West Yorkshire known as Operation Tendersea.
They questioned 120 girls about alleged abuse over the seven-year period and 16 provided evidence which led to the defendants’ arrests.
Of the defendants charged, 34-year-old Amere Dhaliwal of Holly Road in Thornton Lodge, faces 54 charges including 21 of rape.
Two women, Shahnaz Malik, 55, of St Anne’s Avenue in Ainley Top, and Naveeda Habib, 38, of Prince Wood Lane in Birkby, face charges of child neglect.
Concerns over systematic child sexual abuse in the area were first raised nearly a decade ago. The defendants are next due in court on May 11
The following essay by the Syrian-German Islamic reformer Bassam Tibi was originally published by Die Welt. Many thanks to Brunhilde for the translation:
Young men who bring a culture of violence with them
by Bassam Tibi
The events in Cologne were just a prelude: Many Arab migrants bring very misogynistic social values to Germany. That makes it almost impossible for them to be integrated. A guest commentary.
Is there any connection between the attacks on New Year’s Eve in Cologne and the situation in Syria? The answer is: Yes, there is a connection and the common denominator is violence against women.
Many of my German discussion partners do not seem to understand the violence that is directed against women in a oriental patriarchal culture. In the orient, a woman is not considered an entity, but an object of a man’s honour. The violation of a woman is not viewed only as a sexual act and crime against the woman herself, but more as an act of humiliation of the man to whom she belongs.
In this barbaric war in Syria, that completely erroneously is called a “civil war” (no citizens, but rather ethno-religious collectives, are fighting each other in it), the Shiite-Alawite soldiers of the Syrian army rape women of the Sunni opposition as a method of warfare.
With rape, these Alawites are seeking to dishonour the men of the Sunni opposition. The Sunni “rebels” for their part do the same with Alawite women. It is a war of all against all with women as pawns.
Cologne was not an isolated case
As a Syrian from Damascus, I am astonished at the ignorance and naïveté of the Chancellor and her defence minister, who believe that they can end the war with conferences in Geneva and Munich. But this war should be categorized as a “protracted conflict” that will be with us for many years. It is a type of war that I call “an irregular not state-run war.”
Among the war refugees, there are not only victims of violence but also many perpetrators, and even numerous Islamists. Added to that is the fact that these predominantly young men aged 14 to 20 bring with them the culture of violence, including against women, from the Near East to Germany. New Year’s Eve in Cologne is just a demonstration of that, and no isolated case as our politicians like to pretend in order to downplay the significance of the matter.
Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.
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This covenant indicates pretty clearly that Jews have the right to practice their religion on the spot that is the undisputed holiest place in Judaism.
The Jordanian government on Thursday condemned the “storming of Jewish extremists” of the Temple Mount under the protection of Israeli police so they wouldn’t be lynched.
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The Minister for Media Affairs, government spokesman Mohammad Momanim, said in a press release that Jordan “strongly condemns these provocative acts that offend the sanctity of the holy place and the feelings of Muslims all over the world and we call on the Israeli authorities to stop it immediately.”
So the “feelings of Muslims” are more important than Jews having the basic human right to visit their holiest spot – let alone pray there.
Momani urged the international community to pressure Israel to adhere to fictional obligations to keep Jews off the Mount.
He condemned and rejected the actions of “Jewish extremists” and said that their quiet strolls are a “mockery of the importance of continued calm and an abuse of international efforts to re-launch serious negotiations between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinians.”
Here you can see those terrible “Jewish extremists” doing their storming this week. Prepare to be shocked at how provocative they are.
At the same time, Muslims erected a banner celebrating the founder of Hamas Sheikh Yassin on the Temple Mount.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Livonia, Michigan is known as Little Palestine. The Detroit suburb is famous for its anti-Israel meetings. You could go hear Mustafa Barghouthi, Omar Barghouti and Ali Abunimah without taking a long drive.
It’s also known for its shady doctors.
Dr. Murtaza Hussain was busted for letting unlicensed employees diagnose patients and write prescriptions. Dr. Waseem Alam and Dr. Hatem Ataya pleaded guilty in the nation’s largest Medicare fraud case totaling $712 million in false billings centering on Shahid Tahir, Muhammad Tariq and Manavar Javed’s Livonia medical firms. But what was going on at one Livonia clinic was far worse than the theft of millions. Anyone passing by at the right time could hear the screams of little girls.
We think of horrors like female genital mutilation as a terrible thing that happens over “there.” But as the implacable tide of Muslim immigration swept across Europe, “there” became the United Kingdom.
England recorded 5,700 cases of FGM in less than a year. France has jailed 100 people for FGM. An estimated 50,000 women in Germany have undergone FGM with a 30 percent boost due to the rise of Islamic migration in the last several years. In Sweden, it’s 38,000. And now, as American towns and cities are reshaped by Muslim migration, “there” is now right here. The terrible practice is in America.
Hizb ut-Tahrir domestic violence video denounced by Muslim leaders
If caught, Islamo-spokesturds resort to the usual BS about “English understanding” and the old “out of context” gobbledygook:
“You’re taking a revelation from God and you’re trying to apply an English understanding of that particular verse as a standalone verse, which is not what any scholar would do.
“You’re talking about how it applies in the everyday life of a woman, so what you’re trying to do is take an isolated verse and quote it out of context of where it’s supposed to be embedded in a holistic understanding … of male and female relationships in the Koran.” …
As bad as this is, there is an even darker side to the story: Under sharia law, the second husband is under no obligation to give his wife a quick divorce – allowing him to keep her as his virtual sex slave for as long as he wishes.
If one asks how all of this jibes with British law, the answer is that it does not.
The UK-based NGO, Muslim Women’s Network, penned an open letter — with 100 signatories — to the British government and Home Affairs Select Committee demanding that the Sharia Council be investigated to determine whether its practices adhere to British law. In response, the Sharia Council declared the letter to be “Islamophobic” and accused the Muslim Women’s Network of being an anti-Muslim organization.
It is British law, not sharia, law that protects Muslim individuals and couples, as it does any other citizen. Contrary to what apologists for this travesty say, the plight of Muslim women should be treated as an issue of human rights.
Haitham al-Haddad is a British shari’a council judge, and sits on the board of advisors for the Islamic Sharia Council. Regarding the handling of domestic violence cases, he stated in an interview, “A man should not be questioned why he hit his wife, because this is something between them. Leave them alone. They can sort their matters among themselves.” (Image source: Channel 4 News video screenshot)
The most recent scandal surrounding the sexual exploitation of Muslim women by Islamic religious leaders in the UK is yet further proof of the way in which Britain is turning a blind eye to horrific practices going on right under its nose.
A BBC investigation into “halala” — a ritual enabling a divorced Muslim woman to remarry her husband by first wedding someone else, consummating the union, and then being divorced by him — revealed that imams in Britain are not only encouraging this, but profiting financially from it. This depravity has led to many such women being held hostage, literally and figuratively, to men paid to become their second husbands.
In a fatwa session posted online, Kuwaiti sheikh Othman Al-Khamis cited the Quranic verse pertaining to wife-beating, and said: “The beatings must not be hard. It is more of a psychological beating, the purpose of which is to humiliate the wife.” He further explained that “he shouldn’t break her bones, and he shouldn’t beat her on the face.” A video of his statements was posted on his YouTube channel on January 31.
“Sadly, you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home.”– Gillian Triggs, HR & SJW on half a million of taxpayer dollars.
Sweden identifies truck attack suspect
Tim Blair, The Daily Telegraph, April 10, 2017
LOOKING back, it’s almost quaint how united we all were following the slaughter of 3000 people in the US on September 11, 2001. In those simpler days, it was universally agreed that we might just have a problem with Islamic extremism.
The only holdouts were so-called 9/11 truthers, who simultaneously believed that then-president George W. Bush was a simpleton yet also capable of pulling off the greatest conspiracy in history. There are still some who insist Bush and his evil minions somehow loaded the World Trade Center towers with explosives and then set in train the events leading to 9/11.
Run a Google search on “controlled demolition” and prepare to enter a parallel universe of absolute madness. Among normals, however, the cause of 9/11 was clearly apparent: a bunch of crazed Osama bin Laden devotees took over four passenger jets and aimed them at targets throughout the US.
This was understood across the political spectrum. Leftist Christopher Hitchens, for example, had this to say a couple of months after 9/11: “I should perhaps confess that on September 11 last, once I had experienced all the usual mammalian gamut of emotions, from rage to nausea, I also discovered that another sensation was contending for mastery.
Police work at the scene after a truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm on April 7. AFP
“On examination, and to my own surprise and pleasure, it turned out be exhilaration. Here was the most frightful enemy — theocratic barbarism — in plain view … Other and better people were gloomy at the prospect of confrontation. But I realised that if the battle went on until the last day of my life, I would never get bored in prosecuting it to the utmost.”
Hitchens continued the fight until his death 10 years later. But something strange has happened among many of his fellow leftists, and indeed throughout the community of civilised nations. Despite some 30,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since, at a rate of more than five per day, the world is now less inclined to face reality than it was 16 years ago.
The modern fashion is instead to turn away from reality and then applaud your own decency and virtue.
In Australia, one alleged media organisation will, these days, actually omit information about a murderous terrorist’s appearance if it hints at a fondness for Islam.
“I won’t go into reports about what the man identified by eyewitnesses as carrying a gun was wearing or what he looked like,” The Guardian’s Calla Wahlquist wrote in her coverage of Curtis Cheng’s shooting in 2015. She was referring to news that Cheng’s killer, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, had been wearing black robes.
A police officer patrols on April 8, the day after the attack in Stockholm. AFP
Police at the University of Texas at Dallas say they’re searching for the person who dumped several copies of the Quran in campus toilets. Why are police searching for the pranksters or Muslim hoaxers? What law was broken under American law? We do not live under sharia law (Islamic law). Police are calling the incident “shocking” and “unusual.” “Shocking”? Are the policemen devout Muslims? I find it shocking that the police would call this shocking. What is “shocking” about books in a toilet? When did police at the University of Texas convert to Islam?
The website and social media accounts of Britain First have been hacked and the group’s far-right supporters warned that they had better “stop being racist to Muslims” or they will die.
Chechnya: Muslim clerics call for “retribution” against journalists who revealed persecution of gays
“’It is obvious to us that this resolution is pushing religious fanatics to massacre journalists,’ said Novaya Gazeta’s editorial board.”
Yes. Specifically, Islamic jihadists.
When have you ever heard Jewish or Christian clerics, cheered on by an enthusiastic crowd of 15,000, calling for “retribution” against anyone? Yet moral equivalence allegations abound.
“Novaya Gazeta: Religious leaders encourage retaliation against journalists at Grozny mosque meeting,” Novaya Gazeta, April 14, 2017:
The newspaper Novaya Gazeta has urged the Russian government to respond to calls for retaliation against journalists voiced, the editors claim, by Islamic theologians in Chechnya on April 3.
Karzai doesn’t like it when infidels send Talibandits to the virgins:
The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai angrily reacted at the US forces move for dropping ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on the hideouts of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan.
“I vehemently and in strongest words condemn the dropping of the latest weapon, the largest non-nuclear #bomb, on Afghanistan by US military,” Karzai said in a Twitter post.
No Escape: Escaping abuse, Saudi Dina Ali was handed back to her abusers
“My name is Dina Ali and I’m a Saudi woman who fled Saudi Arabia to Australia to seek asylum,” she said in one video, adding she feared violence from any relatives who came to bring her back home.