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ISLAMIC STATE MURDERS 40 COPTS IN EGYPT

New Ways of Responding to Extremist Islam
by Giulio Meotti/Gatestone Institute

• “According to one estimate, 10−15 percent of the world’s Muslims are Islamists. Out of well over 1.6 billion, or 23 percent of the globe’s population, that implies more than 160 million individuals.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in her new book, The Challenge of Dawa.
• That was Ronald Reagan’s major achievement in his long war against the Soviet Union: presenting communism as a joke — exposing the lies of the Soviet regime, exposing the misery under which its people were living, and explaining why Western values were preferable to Communist ones. This is exactly what the West, Hirsi Ali explains, should be doing with radical Islam.
• Western civilization is a humanist vision in which Christianity integrated Jewish wisdom, Greek philosophy and Roman law, thereby giving Western culture its distinctive character: freedom of speech and of the press, equal justice under law, the primacy of the individual, separation of religion and state, freedom of religion and from religion, property rights, sexual equality, an independent judiciary, and independent education, among other values. This is what radical Islam wants to destroy. That is why terrorists are attacking our churches, the State of Israel and why they are subverting democracy to turn it into Islamic law, sharia.

Jihad is spreading violence — and succeeding. “Of the last sixteen years,” notes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her new book, The Challenge of Dawa, “the worst year for terrorism was 2014, with ninety-three countries experiencing attacks and 32,765 people killed.”

“The second worst was 2015, with 29,376 deaths. Last year, four radical Islamic groups were responsible for 74 percent of all deaths from terrorism: the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Boko Haram, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. Although the Muslim world itself bears the heaviest burden of jihadist violence, the West is increasingly under attack”.

Hirsi Ali’s research, supported by the Hoover Institution, is a summary of the war on terror since the extremist Muslim attacks on the United States in September 2001:

“Since 9/11, at least $1.7 trillion has been spent on combat and reconstruction costs in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The total budgetary cost of the wars and homeland security from 2001 through 2016 is more than $3.6 trillion. Yet in spite of the sacrifices of more than 5,000 armed service personnel who have lost their lives since 9/11, today political Islam is on the rise around the world”.

Continue reading Hirsi Ali: the West is “obsessed” with terror and this makes it blind to the broader threat, dawa, outreach

Raymond Ibrahim

Why history is one of the best antidotes to Muslim apologetics.

Cat Stevens was called Yusuf Islam when he supported a fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie to be killed

Rowan Dean, The Courier-Mail

“NOW, I’ve been crying lately, thinkin’ about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating, why can’t we live in bliss?”

It was a good question back in the ’70s, and just as pertinent today, with children being gassed to death in the hellholes of Syria.

The man posing the question in his hit song Peace Train was English singer-songwriter Steven Demetre Georgiou.

Handsome, a multicultural pin-up boy, Steven was half Greek, half Swedish and wrote melodic pop songs that could make The Beatles weep.

Continue reading DownUnder, Ayaan is the baddie and Yusuf Islam is the hero….

Jihad Watch News First:

37 killed in twin bomb attacks at churches in Egypt

Blasts Islamic terrorists at Egyptian Coptic churches kill 37

This is  CAIRO — Two explosions at Coptic churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday left at least 31 people dead and injured dozens of others as a day of worship in the besieged Christian community turned to destruction and carnage. The first blast ripped through St. George’s …Read More…from the New York Times….

Sweden:

Stockholm truck jihad attacker was known to have “extremist sympathies” and was ordered deported, but wasn’t

Until Swedish authorities, and authorities all over the West, get serious about wanting to protect their people, attacks like this one will become more and more common.

THIS is the face of the man suspected of driving the truck that smashed through crowds, killing four in Stockholm. Rakhmat Akilov, 39, was arrested by Swedish police in the wake of the fatal attack that included one Brit killed.

Sweden: Muslims throw stones at police officers arresting Stockholm jihad attack suspects

“Swedish anti-terror police – including a Muslim officer praised by colleagues – are pelted with STONES while arresting Stockholm attack suspects near migrant district Trump called a ‘no-go zone,’”

UK’s Theresa May offers to work together with Swedish PM against “extremist attacks”

This is rich. The Prime Minister of one country with a disastrous counter-terror policy offers to help the Prime Minister of another country with a disastrous counter-terror policy fight against terrorism — or, in their parlance, “extremism,”

Khalid Masood served as link man for radical mosque

The Westminster killer was public contact for the website of a centre that urges Muslims to take up arms

What a surprise!  Didn’t they tell us that no one knew him?

It was a simple rack of leaflets that gave away the role of the Westminster attacker in one of Britain’s most hardline mosques.

Khalid Masood was a public contact person for calltoislam.com, until last week the main website of the Luton Islamic Centre mosque.

Masood’s name, a phone number that The Sunday Times has confirmed as his, and the calltoislam.com web address appear on stickers attached to leaflets on display at the mosque. One of the leaflets was picked up from the mosque’s lobby by a reporter for this paper.

France expels grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder

France expels Swiss Islamist preacher Hani Ramadan, says he posed a threat to public order.

Ramadan, brother of Tariq Ramadan and whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, was arrested in Colmar, eastern France, while attending a conference, the report said.

Why did they even bother? There are thousands just like him in France…..

More below the fold…. Continue reading Westminster Killer Played Key Role at Islamic Center, Mosque…

Will we send cruise missiles into Islamic State bases in Egypt? No, that wasn’t on Obama’s to-do list, which is apparently guiding Trump’s foreign policy at this point. The U.S. Embassy issued the usual pro forma condemnation, which accomplishes nothing except manifest the virtue of the one issuing it. Genuine action against those Muslim groups that have decimated the Christian populations of the Middle East is unlikely to be forthcoming. (RS)

Update: Death toll now up to 28

At least 13 people have been killed in an explosion at a church in northern Egypt, state media say.

The blast targeted St George’s Coptic church in the city of Tanta in the Nile Delta.

A number of television channels said at least 40 people had been injured in the Palm Sunday attack.

The cause of the explosion is not yet known but Egypt’s Christian minority has often been targeted by Islamist militants in recent years.

Provincial governor Ahmad Deif told the state-run Nile channel: “Either a bomb was planted or someone blew himself up.”

A search is under way for any more explosives which could be in the vicinity.

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Image captionCairo’s Coptic Cathedral was damaged by an explosion in December

Violence against Coptic Christians has risen in recent years, especially since 2013, when the military overthrew the elected president and launched a crackdown against Islamists.

Continue reading Church bombed in Nile Delta: is Trump going to bomb Egypt now?

Robert Spencer explains:

The Huffington Post must be getting nervous that too many people are discovering the truth about what Islamic texts really say. Thus they have given three Islamic apologists space to explain that the hadith in which Muhammad is depicted as prophesying that Muslims will bring on the end times by killing Jews wholesale is really quite benign and nothing to worry about at all.

Here is the fullest version of the hadith, which appears many times in shorter forms in the two hadith collections that Muslims consider most reliable, Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim:

“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 6985)

To whitewash that is a tall order, and the results in the HuffPo are predictably meager. The thrust of the argument below is that the text refers only to the unrighteous Jews, not the righteous ones. Oh, okay. What the HuffPo doesn’t tell you, however, is that while the Qur’an promises Paradise to the Jews (2:62), it also says that the “unbelievers among the People of the Book,” a group that includes the Jews, are “the most vile of created beings” and are headed for hell (98:6). How can those two statements be reconciled? Very easily: the Jews who are righteous and will be saved are those who accept Muhammad as a prophet and become Muslims, and the Jews who are hellbound are those who remain Jewish. As the Tafsir al-Jalalayn explains: “Before his arrival they had all agreed to believe in him when he would come; then those who disbelieved in him from among them became envious of him.”

So the HuffPo is publishing a slyly dishonest piece that is endorsing the traditional Islamic idea that Jews have to convert to Islam to be saved. When will they publish explanations of problematic bits of Jewish or Christian scripture? Don’t hold your breath; hell hasn’t frozen over yet.

“The ‘Jew Killing Hadith’ And The Myth of An Antisemitic Genocide In Muslim Scripture,” by Nazir Khan, Omar Suleiman, and Justin Parrott, Huffington Post, March 30, 2017:

A Jordanian cleric visiting Canada recently misleadingly cited a hadith without context or explanation, which rightly triggered condemnations from the Muslim community as well as numerous headlines around the world. A hadith is an oral report transmitted from the Prophet Muhammad, and can be incredibly complex as one needs to evaluate all the chains of transmission of a particular statement recorded in a hadith in order to arrive at an appropriate conclusion of what the particular hadith is actually talking about. In this case, a single phrase was cited, one describing rocks and trees calling out to Muslims, “There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”

Continue reading PuffHo whitewashes Muhammad prophecy that Muslims will commit genocide of Jews

Never forget : the real problem is “Islamophobia”. Making Muslims fearful causes jihad, so Christians must not wear crosses, Jews must not wear kippas…. these things make Muselmaniacs so fearful that they have to resort to violence. Deal with it, kaffir. That’s the way of the future.
One Greek community leader, Rev George Capsis, has gone so far as to warn Christians not to wear overt religious symbols when they are travelling though Muslim enclaves of southwestern Sydney.

Miranda Devine

WHILE we constantly are lectured about Islamophobic violence, despite little evidence of its existence, there is official silence about its flip side: religiously motivated attacks on Christians.

One Greek community leader, Rev George Capsis, has gone so far as to warn Christians not to wear overt religious symbols when they are travelling though Muslim enclaves of southwestern Sydney.

But last Tuesday afternoon, 30-year-old Greek Orthodox Christian, Mike, discovered too late the risks of wearing a large cross outside his clothing while travelling on the train from Campsie to Bankstown with his girlfriend.

He says he was minding his own business talking on his mobile phone, when four young men of Middle Eastern appearance allegedly violently ripped the crucifix off his neck, and stomped on it while swearing “F*** Jesus” and referring to “Allah”.

He says they punched him and kicked him in his face, back and shoulders during the attack which began about 3pm, just after the train left Belmore station.

When his girlfriend tried to defend him, two Arabic-speaking women also allegedly hit and kicked her.

Continue reading Sydney: #I’ll ride with you goes badly wrong for Greek priest who wears cross on train

Merkel government says there is no need to regulate Islamic organizations in Germany

The proposal was for a registry of mosques and the monitoring of Islamic sermons. Obviously there is no need for such measures! What could possibly go wrong?

“German government rejects conservatives’ call for Islam law,” Associated Press, April 3, 2017:

The German government says there’s no need for new legislation to regulate Islamic organizations in the country.

Members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union party have called for a ban on foreign funding of Islamic organizations, and for Muslims to get statutory rights to pastoral care from an imam in prisons and hospitals.

Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday that such a law was “a non-issue” at the moment and noted that religious freedom is guaranteed by the German constitution….

A recent report by public broadcaster ARD found that the Islam preached in some mosques is more conservative than in many Muslim countries.

Death of free speech: Germany approves bill imposing massive fines for online “hate speech” and “fake news”

“German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that the companies offering such online platforms are responsible for removing hateful content. He said the new bill would not restrict the freedom of expression, but intervene only when criminal hatred or intentionally false news are posted.”

What is “criminal hatred”? Clearly what German authorities mean is not just incitement to violence, but opposition to their suicidal policies regarding Muslim migration: “the issue” of this online censorship “has come to the fore amid the recent influx of migrants to Germany, which has sparked a backlash among some Germans including a rise in online vitriol.” German authorities apparently define “vitriol” as including any opposition to the Muslim migrant influx, no matter how reasoned, and to their supine attitude regarding jihad terror: Facebook and Twitter have already blocked 90% of their daily referrals from Jihad Watch, and the site is blocked by many Internet service providers in the UK and Europe. The government of Pakistan says that Facebook is doing its bidding and removing content that violates Sharia blasphemy laws.

More pictures here.

While German justice in some cases is conspicuously lax with criminal offenders, it treats others with implacable harshness. And the German press is jubilant about the enforcement: German Internet Hater Jailed.

Continue reading →  (Gates of Vienna)

Continue reading Germany: no need to regulate Islamic organisations; lets crack down on Free Speech instead…

We now expect after every Islamic terrorist attack to hear the disclaimer that it had nothing to do with Islam, and that the peaceful message of Islam was “hijacked” by the terrorists. The Western world is by now becoming inured to the slaughter of innocents by Muslim madmen. And more often than not, the victims of this slaughter are Muslim. That this is happening under the gaze of an insouciant Western world says everything about why Muslim fundamentalists are invigorated and believe a universal Islamic caliphate is a tangible objective. But it says even more about how delusional the Western world is for believing that the encroachments upon our democratic freedoms was not a direct consequence of accommodating the Islamic supremacists who walk among us.–Robert Spencer: making things appear what they are not.

“I never thought that something would happen in Sweden, but then suddenly it happens”…

Jihad happens when you plant Mohammedans among civilised people.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Stockholm’s usually vibrant city centre was eerily silent on Friday evening with restaurants, bars and cinemas shuttered and streets emptied hours after a truck ploughed into a crowd outside a department store, killing four people and injuring 15.

Stockholmers appeared to be following police advice to stay indoors and avoid crowded areas, with a number of normally-bustling city streets deserted.

The attack occurred just before 3:00 pm (1300 GMT) when a beer truck slammed into the corner of the bustling Ahlens store and the popular pedestrian street Drottninggatan, above ground from Stockholm’s central subway station.

The initial scene was chaotic.

After emergency responders rushed to the scene, several bodies could be seen lying on the ground covered with orange blankets. Shattered glass was scattered on the ground near a large blood stain on the asphalt.

In other news:

“Palestinian” rams car into Israeli soldiers, killing one and injuring another

A billboard in Nazareth called for vehicular jihad attacks against Israel. Mahmoud Abbas’ “moderate” Fatah has also called for such attacks.

“Israeli soldier killed in Palestinian car ramming in West Bank: army,” Reuters, April 6, 2017:

The Israeli military said a car driven by a Palestinian deliberately rammed two Israeli soldiers, killing one and injuring the other, in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

“West Bank” is PC speak for Judea and Samaria, a term invented to delegitimise Jewish claims to their ancient Jewish homeland.