The moment the car struck the pedestrians in Manchester city centre

Running down non-Muslims, it's how they celebrate Eid, doncha know?

"Video: Man found guilty of attempted murder after city centre hit-and-run" Manchester Evening News, October 3, 2013, (thanks to The Religion of Peace)

Aqab Hussain

A motorist who ploughed into a group of revellers and left a blind man brain damaged is facing a lengthy stretch in prison after being found guilty of four charges of attempted murder.

Aqab Hussain used his Vauxhall Corsa as a ‘lethal weapon’ after his night out celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid took a violent turn.

CCTV captured the 21-year-old driving the wrong way down Princess Street in Manchester city centre before striking partially-sighted Michael Ward and two of his friends, Paul Hulme and Martin Harris, at the junction of John Dalton Street.

Mr Ward, then 28, from Bolton, was scooped up on the bonnet before being ‘deposited’ at the side of the road by the veering car. He was injured so severely that he was in intensive care for twenty days and spent around four months in a high dependency unit.

Meanwhile, Mr Hulme suffered fractures to his right leg after being 'flipped into the air', while Mr Harris suffered only minor injuries. A fourth member of Mr Ward's group, Thomas Mallanphy, narrowly escaped injury after stepping back from the road, Mr Hussain's Manchester Crown Court trial heard.

 

 

Hussain, of Gateshead Close, Rusholme, denied four charges of attempted murder in the trial but was found guilty by a unanimous jury after three-and-a-half hours of deliberation.

The victims were targeted after being the 'aggressors' in a brief street fight with Mr Hussain's group in Albert Square in the early hours of August 21 last year.

Earlier that evening, both groups of men had been enjoying a night out at Silk’s Gentlemen’s Club at Lloyd Street. But after leaving the lapdancing venue, a member of Hussain’s group was punched in a scuffle with someone from Mr Ward’s group.

After the warning ‘just watch’ – Hussain staged the hit and run, described as 'despicable' by prosecutor Ian Metcalfe.

After sustaining multiple skull fractures, a blood clot and bruising on the brain, Mr Ward had to have a piece of his skull removed and lost the use of his right arm.

The defendant, who was linked to the incident by a trail of circumstantial evidence, quickly left the country for Pakistan but was arrested at Manchester Airport six weeks afterwards.

After being found guilty Hussain was remanded in custody by Judge Robert Atherton and is now expected to be sentenced on October 31.

The Crown Prosecution Service has welcomed the verdict. Rachael Pavion, District Crown Prosecutor for CPS North West, said: “Aqab Hussain used his car as a weapon, he sought revenge by driving at speed deliberately at the four men with a clear intention to kill.

“After he struck his victims, he drove from the scene and showed complete disregard for the harm he had caused.

"Eye witnesses, together with CCTV and forensic evidence helped to prove that he was the driver of the vehicle that had collided with the victims. The CPS has worked closely alongside the police to piece all the evidence together and present a strong case to the jury, who have today accepted the prosecution case and delivered a guilty verdict. As a result, Aqab Hussain has been brought to justice and he must now take responsibility for his dangerous actions.”

     

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Murdered in their beds.

Last weekend, e devout Muslim group, Boko Haram, gunned down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories, and torched classrooms. Boko Haram means "Western education is sinful" or literally, "Books bad."

Well over 12,000 Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria. Despite the daily attacks from this Muslim group, Boko Haram, Obama continues to refuse to designate them a terrorist group. But he designates Republicans in Congress "extremists."

And remember, "islamophobia" is the problem. That's the takeaway about this worldwide genocidal movement.

Nigeria: Yobe Attack - Death Toll Rises to 65 By All Africa.com (thanks to The Religion of Peace)

Yobe State Specialist Hospital yesterday received 15 more corpses of students killed by suspected Boko Haram members during an attack on the College of Agriculture in Gujba local government area of Yobe State. The corpses were in addition to about 50 bodies earlier brought to the hospital's morgue two hours after the attack by the sect members.

A hospital ambulance conveyed 12 bodies while students provided security escort to the hospital. Dead bodies were picked from the surrounding bushes.

A source from the hospital told LEADERSHIP that, apart from the 50 students killed in the attack, 15 more corpses of students were brought to the hospital. "We collected 49 on Sunday and today another 15, bringing the total death toll to 64. And the fact is that we did not take into account bodies recovered in the bush, and our people are still in the morgue for received corpses," he said.

Speaking on the injured students, the source said, "I cannot tell you the exact number of the injured in yesterday's attacks. I am certain that many students were brought here, Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital, Damaturu, for treatment, while now we have 64 bodies of the students at the hospital morgue for further identification by the hospital authorities and parents."

Eighteen students of Government Secondary School, Mamudo, were killed by the same Boko Haram gunmen on July 6, 2013, while the Buni-Yadi attacks of last Thursday claimed the lives of three persons, including the wife of a police officer.

Nigeria beefs up school security after attacks: sources

After Islamists killed 40 students in a dormitory attack, Nigerian authorities are taking measures to improve security around schools, including stepping up patrols and putting armed soldiers outside them and guarding school buses.

Government sources told Reuters on Monday that the move is aimed to restore confidence in the Western style schools that have been scenes of bloody massacres by Boko Haram militants fighting for an Islamic state, and who are seen as the main security threat to Africa's top oil producer.

A presidency source told Reuters President Goodluck Jonathan met senior security aides late on Sunday to discuss how to respond to the latest deadly shift in tactics by the insurgents.

"In the meeting they decided to provide special security cover for schools in the northeast and some other places prone to possible attacks," the source, who was present but who declined to be named, said.

"The president is not happy ... He directed security chiefs to work out a new strategy so this doesn't happen again."

Gunmen stormed an agricultural college in Gujba area of Yobe State, in northeastern Nigeria, on Sunday, dragging students out of their beds and shooting them dead - the latest evidence that a military offensive against Boko Haram since May has so far failed to quell the north's worsening violence.

     

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Caving to the demands of subversive Muslim Brotherhood groups in America whose stated goal is "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within" .......

The latest eruption stems from the NYPD's monitoring of Muslims, where they eat, study and worship as part of its counterterrorism efforts.

In February, civil rights lawyers filed papers seeking a court order barring further surveillance of Muslims without evidence of crimes and a court-appointed auditor to oversee police activities that were "flagrant and persistent".

The police measures directed at Muslims violate the Handschu decree "because they're not rooted in the fact that there's a criminal predicate", said plaintiff attorney Paul Chevigny. "They're rooted in the fact that the subjects are Muslims."

The city has countered by claiming that it closely observes the Handschu guidelines when making decisions about how to fight terror. A city lawyer, Peter Farrell, told the judge on Tuesday that the department launches investigations based on evidence of legitimate threats, not religion.

"It's undeniable that New York City remains at the center of the threat by Islamists who have been radicalized to violence," he said.

The hearing was expected to last most of the day on Tuesday. It was unclear when the judge would rule.

"Handschu" refers to lead plaintiff Barbara Handschu in a case that included 1960s radical activist Abbie Hoffman among its plaintiffs. The 1985 court settlement set strict time limits for investigations, imposed rules on the kinds of records police could keep and created a three-person body to oversee such investigations.

The civil rights lawyers filed the latest motion following a series of stories by the Associated Press that revealed the NYPD intelligence division infiltrated dozens of mosques and Muslim student groups and investigated hundreds.

     

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Perhaps Obama is funding this "rebel" too. 

Danish Jihadi Fighting In Syria Tweets His Experiences In Jihad – Traveling To Europe And Back To Syria, Meeting Other European Foreign Fighters MEMRI, October 3, 3013

On April 8, 2013, a Twitter account belonging to a Danish jihadi who describes himself as "A stranger. Currently fighting in Syria, to make the word of Allah the highest!" began tweeting. The account has tweeted nearly 1,600 times and as of this writing, it has 1,235 followers.

 

Following is a summary of the jihadi's tweets, in which he focuses on his hatred of the West, Jews, and Shi'ites; admonishes Muslims for not adhering to their faith; discusses his desire to travel to Syria (including fundraising to build a bakery there); and, ultimately, recounts his travels to Syria via Turkey and his experiences fighting against the Syrian army there. He also describes meeting jihadis from around the world, including from European countries such as Germany, Albania, The Netherlands, Sweden, Russia, Britain, Norway, and Denmark.

The account is currently still active, with the user tweeting his day-to-day activities as a jihadi and conversing with other Twitter users.

Click here to read the full report

     

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The race is on. VOTE!

Cage match #2: Favorite iOTW Blogger

UPDATE: THANK YOU (with 68% of the vote!) Beating that snake is particularly rewarding.

     

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Say what? Is he off his meds here? The left and its unions have always trafficked in strikes and the threat of strikes. That's what they do. I expect the activist enemedia to report these remarks as if they had the brilliance of Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

Jim Simpson sent this:

In his unguarded minutes, or perhaps more to the point, when he doesn't have his handlers, scripts and teleprompters with him, Obama reveals what a grossly incompetent, mindless idiot he really is. Trying to draw an analogy between the government shutdown – which of course he blames Republicans for – Obama tells workers that if they shut down the factory, they’d be fired.

We need not repeat that this corrupt administration has empowered unions to strike, engage in economic sabotage and violence and obstruct the political process like no other time in history.

     

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Increasingly in the West, non-Muslims must subordinate their rights to Islamic supremacists, as prescribed under Islamic law. This is nothing new in Muslim countries, where religious minorities are oppressed, persecuted and many times slaughtered. But this repugnant observance of the sharia is now spreading in Western societies, and non-Muslims increasingly are victims of the capricious whims of vengeful Muslims wielding the sharia like a club.

"Christian worker seeks ruling to challenge 'anti-Islam' dismissal" Christian Legal Centre, Octboer 3, 2013 (thanks to Janet Mefferd)

A Christian woman who worked at Heathrow airport is seeking to challenge her unfair dismissal which was prompted by false claims that she was "anti-Islam". 

Nohad Halawi needs an Employment Appeal Tribunal to rule that she has employment rights before she can go on to challenge the nature of her dismissal. Her case will be heard by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London tomorrow (04 OCTOBER).

Nohad Halawi worked at a beauty counter in Heathrow Terminal 3 for over ten years and was a valued member of the team. However, she was unable to continue working there after management withdrew her airside pass, something which is required for anyone working at duty free.

The events leading up to Nohad’s dismissal began when she had a conversation with a colleague and commented on his character, saying that he was a “man of God”. This was misheard by a Muslim colleague to be a criticism of Islam.

Despite the fact that the issue was resolved by Nohad’s manager, another Muslim colleague started spreading rumours that Mrs Halawi was “anti-Islam”, which ultimately led to her airside pass being suspended and then withdrawn, which meant she was no longer allowed to work at the airport. Nohad was disadvantaged throughout the investigation process and her side of the story was ignored by her managers.

A judge at an employment tribunal ruled in June 2012 that Mrs Halawi was not employed despite significant evidence to the contrary. This meant that she effectively had no employment rights, even though her work was controlled by two companies (World Duty Free and Caroline South Associates).

She was therefore unable to challenge the unfair circumstances of her dismissal. In order for Mrs Halawi to do this, she is seeking a ruling from the Employment Appeal Tribunal that she does have employment rights. Her case will be heard in London tomorrow (04 OCTOBER).

Christian Legal Centre is supporting Mrs Halawi.

Andrea Minichiello Williams, CEO of Christian Legal Centre, said:

“The circumstances of Nohad’s dismissal have got to be challenged. In order for this to happen we need a recognition from the judge that she has employment rights.

“Although at this point we are only dealing with the issue of employment rights, there are bigger issues on the horizon. There is a deference shown to Muslims in the workplace which is not shown to Christians.

“Nohad was effectively dismissed on the basis of false claims against her which were not properly dealt with or investigated. The nature of the accusations also suggests that there is a security risk at Heathrow – one of the biggest ports of entry into the UK. The case needs to progress so that these issues can be dealt with.”

     

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"If I did not accept Islam, they would beat me, burn my house, and evict me from the society. Their threats chilled me to the bone. That is why I pretended to accept Islam, but faith in Christ is the wellspring of my life. Now I am no longer a Muslim; I am a Christian."

But, remember, according to the Islamic groups in the USA, there is no compulsion in Islam. In fact, that is all it is -- the most brutal compulsion on the face of the earth.

"Bangladeshi Christians told to close church, convert to Islam" Christian Today, October 3, 3013

A local government official in central Bangladesh has halted the construction of a church, forced Christians to worship at a mosque and threatened them with eviction from their village unless they renounce their faith.

The Tangail Evangelical Holiness Church in Bilbathuagani village, Tangail district, about 100 kilometres north of Dhaka, was created Sept. 8 by a group of about 25 Christians who had been meeting secretly for three years.

However, local council chairman Rafiqul Islam Faruk joined around 200 demonstrators September 13 to protest against the start of the building of the church.

The following day, the Christians were summoned to his office. More than 1,000 Muslims waited outside, following an announcement at all local mosques to gather at the chairman's office.

Ordered to embrace Islam

Mokrom Ali, 32, told World Watch Monitor he was forced to accept Islam.

"The chairman and the imams of the mosques interrogated me for accepting Christianity. They asked me why I had become a Christian. It is a great sin to become a Christian from Islam," Asli said. "If I did not accept Islam, they would beat me, burn my house, and evict me from the society.

"Their threats chilled me to the bone. That is why I pretended to accept Islam, but faith in Christ is the wellspring of my life. Now I am no longer a Muslim; I am a Christian."

Mojnu Mia, 31, told World Watch Monitor he was also forced to accept Islam against his will.

"The chairman and the imams asked me what my religion is. I said I was a Christian. Then they threatened to beat me and evict me from the village unless I recanted my faith in Christianity," Mia said.

"They had browbeaten me into accepting Islam. I accepted it only to get out from that predicament. But later, I embraced Christianity by swearing a confession in the court.

"The chairman came to know that I became a Christian again, by affidavit. He threatened that it would not be possible to practise Christianity in that area. If I stick to this religion, I must leave this place.

"The chairman is clipping the wings of our faith. I do not know how long we can grin and bear it. We want religious freedom. We want to practise our religion freely."

Eight Christians agreed to return to Islam since Sept. 14, under the chairman's orders. The chairman and his associates had already beaten some of those Christians three years ago for accepting Christianity.

'They were derailed'

Local chairman Faruk told World Watch Monitor that some Christians had been acting against Islam, due to their incorrect interpretation of the Qur'an.

"The Imams and other elders of the society called them for rectification because of their aberrant behaviour. They were derailed, so we tried to put them on the right track," he said.

"Eight people who had deviated came back to Islam. We are trying to bring back others. To change a religion, a person needs to swear his or her name, and should inform a local magistrate. If the magistrate permits, then he or she can change religion. But what they are doing is completely wrong."

World Watch Monitor asked Faruk if he would protest if any of those people filed an affidavit with the court re-affirming their Christianity.

Faruk said there would be "huge pressure from the society against it. As a representative of the local people, I cannot go against the public sentiment."

The chairman warned the Christians not to resume the construction of the church, saying it was anti-Islamic.

The Bangladesh constitution grants every citizen the right to profess, practise or propagate any religion. Every religious community or denomination has the right to establish, maintain and manage its religious institutions.

Rev. Mrinal Kanti Baroi, the group's leader, told World Watch Monitor they had tried to show the constitution's clause on religious freedom to the chairman, to no avail.

"We took one copy of the constitution to the chairman and other elders of the society, but they did not listen to us and did not want to see it," Baroi said.

On September 15, members of the congregation wrote a letter to the district administrative chief, requesting safety and protection.

Deputy commissioner Anisur Rahman of Tangail district told World Watch Monitor that necessary steps had been taken to ensure their safety and security.

A plea for harmony

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been leading a secular government in the Muslim-majority country since 2009, on Sept. 3 called upon her countrymen to work together to protect the communal harmony "being nurtured in the country for thousands of years". She made her remarks after inaugurating reconstructed Buddhist temples, which had been damaged and burnt by criminals in September 2012.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom removed Bangladesh from its Watch List after the victory of Sheikh Hasina's Awami League in the 2008 general election. Her centre-left party is considered to promote secular policies and to be favourable toward minority rights. Her announcement to implement religious freedom reforms was another cause for Bangladesh to be removed from the Watch List.

Of Bangladesh's 154 million people, Sunni Muslims constitute 90% and Hindus 9%, according to the 2001 census. The remaining 1% is mainly Christian and Buddhist

     

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Just when you thought they couldn't get any more evil:

ASIA/PAKISTAN - After the bombs, atrocities against Christians, organ trafficking concerning victims of Peshawar" Fides.org, October 1, 2013 (thanks to Filip)

Read this excellent letter:

Muslims harvesting human organs, not so much Jews.

PAKISTAN: After the bombs in the church of All Saints in Peshawar shuck killed dozens of Christian believers, Christians say they are "horrified" by the rumors that link the bombs in Peshawar to the vast problem of organ trafficking by. Muslims who have stolen the bodies of victims to exploit them for the illegal organ trade. "If this were true, it would mean that there are criminals who are taking advantage of the suffering of Christian victims in a truly blasphemous and sacrilegious manner", notes Fr. Mario Rodrigues, a priest of Karachi.

KOSOVO:The United Nations knew about organ trafficking in postwar Kosovo as early as 2003.Organ trafficking took place from 1999 to 2000, immediately after Kosovo's NATO-backed independence war.
Senior commanders of the  Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) obtained and trafficked organs out of Kosovo and Albania.
The victims were mostly Serbian men, but also included young women from other Eastern European countries.

On the other hand consummate Jewhater Liberal  Democrat Peer Jenny Tonge got fired back in 2010 for her Jewhate-too-far comments regarding Jews harvesting organs in Haiti:"Baroness Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat lawmaker in Britain, has been fired from her position as party health spokesperson for urging a probe into claims that Israel Defense Forces soldiers harvested organs in Haiti following last month's earthquake, the Guardian reported on Saturday."

So no organ harvesting in Haiti by Jews and not in Palestine either despite what a leading Swedish newspaper reported in 2009 after 'journalist' Donald Boström wrote that Israeli soldiers are abducting Palestinians in order to steal their organs:
"They plunder the organs of our sons," read the headline in Sweden's largest daily newspaper, the left-leaning Aftonbladet, which devoted a double spread in its cultural section to the article.

The report quotes Palestinian claims ( natch) that young men from the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by the Israel Defense Forces, and their bodies returned to the families with missing organs.

"'Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors,' relatives of Khaled from Nablus said to me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin as well as the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, who all had disappeared for a few days and returned by night, dead and autopsied," writes author Donald Boström in his report.

During a later visit to Israel, Bolstrom admitted he had no proof for his story.  Thus another Jewhate lie was destroyed- but not before it went half way round the world

Can't see the 'Muslims harvesting human organs' in the Guardian or on the BBC.  WONDER WHY?

Sincerely

Elliot Davis

 

     

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Yesterday I ran part one of an interview I did with The Washington Times concerning Zionism. If you missed it, you can read it here. It is going to run in four parts. Today part two was published. The repugnant, anti-Jewish views expressed by political columnist Allan C. Brownfeld are front and center in the article. Perhaps write Joseph Cotto feared being targeted by anti-ssemites and Israel haters as being a puppet of the "Jewish lobby." 

"Should American Jews care about Israel?" Joseph Cotto, Washington Times Communities, October 3, 2013,

Photo: plus.google.com

Thursday, October 3, 2013 - The Conscience of a Realist by Joseph Cotto

The question of Zionism’s role in twenty-first century America continues to press itself.

While many of those with extreme political ideologies speak of Zionism in heated terms, it has a fairly simple definition: The desire for a Jewish state, the continued support of that state, and policies which encourage Jewish emigration to said state.

This state is Israel.

Over the last several years, free birthright trips to Israel for American Jews have become quite popular. These trips build sympathy for Zionism. What can be said about them?

“Since its founding in 1999, the Birthright Israel program has sent more than 260,000 young Jews from around the world to Israel at a cost of more than $600 million,” explains Allan C. Brownfeld, publications editor at the American Council for Judaism. His longstanding group has opposed ethnocentric Jewish politics since its founding in the 1940s.  

“The goal,” he continues, “in the words of co-founder Charles Bronfman is ‘the selling of Jewishness to Jews.’  His partner in founding Birthright, Michael Steinhardt, who describes himself as an atheist,  says that identification with Israel is ‘a substitute for theology.’”

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Later, Brownfeld remarks that “Birthright seeks to tie its participants not to Judaism, but to Israel, which it proclaims to be their ‘homeland.’  

“What would we think if other religious groups sponsored trips for their young people which urged them to identify with and emigrate to another country?  It is as if the Episcopal Church or the Presbyterian Church, concerned about declining membership, sent young people to England or Scotland to rejuvenate their faith.  If they did, one supposes, they would expect them to return home and join local churches–-not emigrate.”

Pamela Geller, one of America’s most vociferous Jewish political pundits, disagrees: “I love [Birthright Israel trips]. Why shouldn’t American Jews come to know and love their ancestral homeland?”

Beyond Birthright Israel, the line between Jewish religious ethics and an Israeli national identity has become blurred in American politics. What is going on here?

“The Israeli government,” Brownfeld tells, “sadly, has never recognized that Jewish Americans are very much at home and are not ‘Israelis in exile.’  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly called upon American Jews to make a ‘mass aliya’ (emigration) to Israel.  No other foreign government argues that millions of Americans, because of their religion, are in”exile” in the United States and that their “real” homeland is that foreign country.  

“While we wish Israel well and hope for a lasting peace in the Middle East, we believe that Israel should content itself with being the government of its own citizens.

“Some Jewish groups, in our view, have engaged in a form of idolatry by placing Israel, rather than God, at the center of Jewish life.  For religious organizations to be engaged in political activity, such as promoting military attacks upon Syria and Iran, is to dangerously confuse the realm of religion and politics.  

“It has corrupted Judaism.  As one of the leading Jewish theologians and philosophers of the 20th century, Abraham Joshua Heschel (who accompanied Martin Luther King 50 years ago at the March on Washington) said:  ‘Judaism is not a religion of space and does not worship the soil.  So, too, the State of Israel is not the climax of Jewish history, but a test of the integrity of the Jewish people and the competence of Judaism.’”

Geller challenges the question itself: “Are you saying that support for Israel has become part and parcel of Jewish religious ethics? I disagree. Look at the overwhelming percentage of Jews who voted for Obama, despite his career-long identification with foes of Israel. And on the other side, isn’t the overwhelming evangelical support for Israel a refutation of the idea that Zionism is merely a Jewish issue?”

Irrespective of one’s views on these issues, both Birthright Israel and Israeli identity among diaspora Jews speak to the heart of concern over sociocultural assimilation.

Brownfeld believes that there really isn’t much to fear.

“In a free and open society such as ours, religion is part of an open marketplace of ideas,” he says. “If Judaism is relevant and meaningful, it will retain members, and attract new ones.  Some Jewish groups express concern about the growth of inter-faith marriage and some have even called it a ‘silent holocaust.’  

“This is an unfortunate response to the challenges of living in freedom, as if the ghetto walls of medieval Europe were preferable because they kept the group together.  Judaism is moving toward being more open and welcoming, which is a good thing, although this subject is not the focus of the ACJ’s attention.”

Geller has a quite different perspective.

“Israel was founded by non-religious Jews,” she begins. “Sociocultural assimilation is a problem but has never been absolutely correlated to anti-Zionism. Many Jews are concerned about sociocultural assimilation; are sociocultural assimilation and a love of freedom mutually exclusive? 

“The orthodox betrayers of Jews and Israel, the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta, are hardly assimilated, but they still work with Israel’s enemies who want a new genocide of the Jews. Neturei Karta stand with ‘Palestinians’ calling for annihilation of Israel. They have gone to Iran and met with the former President of the Islamic Republic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for “the cancer” of Israel to be ‘wiped off the map.’

“There is nothing Jewish or righteous about these imposters in Jewish garb.”

     

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The irony is so thick here, it's hard to know where to start. I have been banned in Britain for my principled dedication to freedom and equality for all before the law. But apparently Cameron and the Home Secretary worried that my opposition to religious apartheid, gender apartheid, creed apartheid, misogyny might upset savages like those in the article below (who are free to speak in London).

And if that wasn't enough, here in the US, the gay community condemned our AFDI ads highlighting the Muslim oppression of gays under the sharia. Madness.

Throw Gays from a Mountain' Imam to Speak at Conference Gay Star News, 03 October 2013 | By Omar Kuddus (thanks to Religion of Peace.com)

He defended his statements in a video reply.

Brunel University had come under fire for allowing the homophobic Muslim preacher to speak at an event  but at the last minute the event was cancelled because of fears of violent protests.

Abdul Hakeem Quick who has also endorsed the death penalty for homosexuals is also a guest speaker.

Quick in an interview for Voice of Islam broadcast on New Zealand television in 2003, told viewers that AIDS was caused by the ‘filthy practices’ of homosexuals; homosexuals were dying from AIDS and ‘they want to take us all down with them’ and that the Islamic position on homosexuality is ‘death’.

He also said: ‘Muslims are going to have to take a stand [against homosexuals] and it’s not enough to call names.’

Ustadh Murtazah Khan is another preacher who advocates violence against gay people and listed as a speaker.

He has been filmed attacking women for wearing perfume, in support of sharia values and talking about harsh Sharia practices such as flogging.

In an interview about homosexuality Khan also called for gays to be hurled from a mountain

He said: ‘Now what is the punishment? According to the Bible, excuse me, this is a Christian country. Read the history of this country. Christian country. According to the Bible, the Bible says the person should be thrown down from a mountain and then stoned on top of that.

‘That’s what Isa [Jesus] told you people. But they teach “no, you’re homophobic”. And those Christians who stand up against this abominable action, which goes against humanity, then they’re fundamentalists like us as well then.

'I’m not homophobic. I believe in a natural way of life. I’m repeating you what your Bible tells you. In the hadith you find, “You find the people doing the action of Lot, kill the one who does the action and the one the action is being done to.”’

The campaign group Hope Not Hate have contacted the center to outline their concerns about these anti-gay views to ask them if such individuals should be speaking in their establishment.

They state they 'believe it is important to be consistent' in their opposition to hate speech: ‘Just as we would speak out against right-wing homophobes, so too must we voice our opposition to those in any community or faith who vocalise violence and even death against others.’

The event’s Facebook page shows only 64 confirmed guests and 39 ‘maybes’ but another 3,388 have been invited.

- See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/throw-gays-mountain-imams-speak-london-conference031013#sthash.UXlEuKqh.dpuf

     

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The refusal by the  politcal elites to address the problem -- the ideology -- leaves us more vulnerable. From the September 11th Muslim terrorists, or the underwear bomber, or the Muslim doctors behind the failed jihadi attack on the main terminal at Glasgow Airport, or the US major at Fort Hood, etc. -- it's not the wallet of the Muslim that is of consequence, but his/her piety. 

Kerry: potential jihad terror recruits need "more economic opportunities," launches new global counter-terror fund

Study after study has shown that jihadis are wealthier and better educated than their peers. But we keep throwing money at the problem. The recipients, however, just think of it as jizya, the money that non-Muslims must pay the Muslims as per Qur'an 9:29, and continue waging jihad. "Kerry: Potential Terror Recruits Need ‘More Economic Opportunities,’" by Patrick Goodenough for CNS News, September 30 (thanks to Robert Spencer):

(CNSNews.com) – Launching a new global counter-terror fund, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke of the importance of “providing more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment” – although much research has debunked the notion of a link between poverty and Islamist terrorism.

At a meeting in New York Friday of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), Kerry and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu unveiled a $200 million initiative designed to leverage public and private funding in support of what the GCTF calls “countering violent extremism” (CVE) efforts.

The aim of the first-of-its-kind fund, known formally as the “Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resilience,” is to support local communities and organizations to counter extremist ideology and promote tolerance.

“It’s about challenging the narrative of violence that is used to justify the slaughtering of innocent people,” Kerry told the meeting of ministers from the 29 countries making up the GCTF.

But alongside the ideological issue Kerry also raised the notion of economic factors.

“Getting this right isn’t just about taking terrorists off the street,” he said. “It’s about providing more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment. In country after country, you look at the demographics – Egypt, the West Bank – 60 percent of the young people either under the age of 30 or under the age of 25, 50 percent under the age of 21, 40 percent under the age of 18, all of them wanting jobs, opportunity, education, and a future.”

Researchers have noted that some of the most prominent jihadist terrorists over the past decade or more, far from being driven by desperation and a lack of economic opportunity, are educated members of their societies.

Osama bin Laden was the son of a billionaire businessman, Ayman al-Zawahiri is a physician and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has an engineering degree.

A similar pattern was evident in south-east Asia, where key members of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network were well-educated men.

In a study of Singapore’s experience in combating radical ideology over the 2001-2011 decade, researchers from the country’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies observed that they included Yazid Sufaat, a Malaysian former army captain and businessman (who in 2000 provided lodging in Kuala Lumpur to two of the 9/11 hijackers and was later involved in a foiled Singapore bomb plot).

Others were JI bomb expert Azahari Husin, a university lecturer in Malaysia with a doctorate in engineering, killed in 2005; wanted JI fugitive Zulkifli Abdul Hir, a U.S.-trained engineer; Noordin Mohammed Top, a university graduate who became Indonesia’s most-wanted terrorist until killed in 2009; and other JI figures who hold degrees or engineering diplomas.

According to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, “Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.”

One of the authors of the RAND report, Darcy Noricks, also found that according to a number of academic studies, “Terrorists turn out to be more rather than less educated than the general population.”

“Education can encourage terrorism in several ways,” he wrote. “One is that schools may be used simply as convenient recruiting hubs or, in some cases, even as ‘mobilizing structures’ with the right mix of youth, insulation from social control, and opportunities.

“Another is that schools may propagate violent ideology and expand the context in which the use of violence is considered appropriate and desirable.”

The GCTF itself recognizes to some degree that the poverty-terror link is questionable. A document on “good practices” for CVE, adopted by the forum on Friday, notes that “research has rejected the thesis that poverty begets violent extremism,” although it adds that “the gap between the expectations and reality of an individual’s socioeconomic status can be a condition conducive to violent extremism.”

It adds, for instance, that extremists may offer financial payments to individuals or their families.

When President Obama first took office, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the bloc of mostly Muslim-majority states, sent him an open letter attributing terrorism both to “political injustice” – citing the Palestinian issue – but also to “deprivation, poverty [and] despair.”

In earlier years, Obama himself is on record as making the terrorism-poverty link....

 

     

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