Jihad, a Muslim's Destiny: The Muslim Brotherhood
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| Adil Charkaoui's speech to kill the Jews has drawn broad condemnation from politicians
like Premier François Legault and groups like the Centre for Israel and
Jewish Affairs. (Adil Charkaoui/X) |
"An Explanatory Memorandum for the Muslim Brotherhood's Goals in North America."
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means."
"The
Ikhwan ['brotherhood'] must understand that their work in America is a
kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the western
civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their
hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's
religion is made victorious over all other religions."
"It
is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and
wherever he lands until the final hour comes and there is no escape from
that destiny."
The Muslim Brotherhood
"Canada's
permissive environment, shaped by a fragile national identity, a
culture of victimhood, vote-bank politics, and unchecked immigration,
has made it the ideal incubator for Islamist expansion."
"[Canada
has] become 'ground zero' for their soft-power operations, from
campaigns to criminalize 'Islamophobia' to the indoctrination of
children under the banner of 'anti-Palestinian racism'."
Joe Adam George
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| Muslims pray outside McGill University's Roddick Gate during
pro-Palestinian protest in Montreal Monday October 7, 2024 on the one
year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. (John Mahoney / MONTREAL
GAZETTE) |
The
Muslim Brotherhood and its many associated arms well established in
Canada as Muslim-Canadian groups whose purpose is to advance 'human
rights', the protection of the Muslim-Canadian population of several
million from criticism under threat of being labelled 'Islamophobic' in a
greater society that shrinks from being thought of as 'racist' has
infiltrated every level of society and government. Sitting in municipal
chambers, on school boards, as directors in national public
institutions, and among the professorial class in academia, advance a
narrative of Muslim rights.
The
installation of Islamic Sharia will once again crop up as the Muslim
demographic increases. Muslim groups, particularly those who associate
their activities with the 'Palestinian cause', feel entitled to express
their hatred toward a much smaller demographic of Canadian Jews by
amassing mobs of anti-Israel, pro-Hamas agitators who have for the past
several years since the Palestinian terrorist orgy of sadistic savagery
in southern Israel on October 7/23, marched through city streets
chanting 'globalize the intifada', 'Jews back to Europe', 'Final
Solution', and 'From the river to the sea'.
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| Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in downtown Montreal in October
2023. In November, Montreal police received a complaint about speeches
made during those demonstrations. (Danielle Kadjo/Radio-Canada) |
In
the process demonizing Israel as a 'genocidal' nation intent on
exterminating Palestinians when it is the Palestinians who have for
generations launched attacks against Israel and Jews, while Israel is
left defending its population, against those portraying themselves as
pitiable victims of Israeli aggression. The CEO of the Canadian Museum
for Human Rights, originally established with a focus on the Holocaust,
has decided to mount a permanent 'Nakba' exhibit, damning the creation
of Israel, grieving the 'catastrophe' it brought to Palestinian
ambitions to own the geography of Judean ancestral land. Isha Khan, the
CEO, assures that the exhibit will undergo the strictest adherence to
the museum's human rights goal.
While
the American Congress and Senate are working toward blacklisting the
Muslim Brotherhood and its arms like the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR), Canada's Liberal government tolerates Islamist
'pro-Palestinian' marches through Jewish neighbourhoods, hostile
gatherings of Islamists in front of Jewish old-age homes, parochial
schools, and synagogues that intimidate and threaten Canadian Jews.
Pro-Palestinian encampments on university grounds that targeted Jewish
students saw no action from any level of Canadian government to protect
Canadian Jews.
That
inaction led to criminal assaults against Jewish institutions and
private businesses that were vandalized, fire-bombed and shot at. Public
gatherings of Muslims for group prayer sessions, shutting down traffic
and access to the public have been tolerated, as 'expressions of free
speech and religion', while the very fact of that kind of 'occupation'
is an Islamic expression of conquest of the public sphere. Canada's
political, cultural and educational institutions have been subjected to
entryism by Muslim jihadists using the soft-touch approach to
insurgency.
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Muslim prayer in front of a Montreal church Screenshot |
Groups
like Hamas and Hezbollah, members of the Iranian IRGC, are present in
Canada representing the ideologies of jihad and terror, and official
Canada does nothing to deter their presence, nor their criminal
activities in money-laundering funds from criminal activities. The
Brotherhood was described by a member of the European Parliament as "a clear and present challenge to European values" whose response was "to persuade the European Commission to change its policy and stop all contributions to Islamist organizations".
Ward
Elcock, formerly director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
(CSIS) testifying on terrorist organizations that raise funds in
Canada, warned Canada "cannot become, through inaction or otherwise, what might be called an unofficial state sponsor of terrorism",
back in 1998. For the past ten years and counting, the government of
Canada has been invested in appeasing Islamist terror, taking statements
and accusations levelled against the State of Israel by the Palestinian
terrorist group Hamas as credible.
Slowly
and surely the Muslim Brotherhood's silent stealth within Western
countries, establishing itself as a legitimate voice of reasonable
accommodation for the religion of peace as the true face of Islam -- as
opposed to the murderously violent Islamist jihadists ravaging Africa,
making incursions into Latin America, and roiling the Middle East, where
most countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Jordan
ban the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization -- has gained it
a solid footing of trust, only now beginning to fray. But not yet in
Canada.
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| Pro-Palestinian protesters at the corner of Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue in Toronto, Nov. 2, 2025. (Credit: Lila Sarick) |
Labels: 'Islamophobia', Anti-Zionist Hate Groups, Canadian Government, Institutional Infiltration, Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia, Threats to Canadian Jews
This, Too, Is Culture Affirmed by Islamic Hadiths
Child Marriage in the Qur'an
- It is clear the verse 65:4 is given as a command to be followed (Jussive mood).
- The verse itself refers to those women who did not menstruate(in all
of past time until the present time), which can include children or
girls before puberty or attainment of menarche (first period).
Therefore, the exact translation of this portion of
Quran 65:4 is
"Not menstruated yet" (
لَمْ يَحِضْنَ ). In Arabic, the menstruating process is called HAIDH (
حيض ). It is possible to turn this noun into its verb form. Like we do it with menstruation, "menstruate" is YAHIDH (
يَحِض ). But it is LAM (
لَمْ ) that appears before YAHIDH and the NA (
نَ ) associated with YAHIDH and this puts Islamic apologists in a quandary because it cannot have any other meaning than
“Not menstruated yet”. This is the appropriate English translation.
This verse 65:4 should be read as a continuation of Qur'an 33:49.
If a woman who has not been used for sex should not have to observe any
Iddah at all, as mentioned in 33:49, what is the reason for the
prescribed Iddah for those women who have not yet menstruated? This is a
clear indication marrying pre-pubescent girls and having sex with them
is sanctioned by the Qur'an.
The phrase found in Qur'an 65:4 as "Wallaee Lam Yahidhna" is sometimes mistranslated by
apologists. Exact meaning of the phrase is available in Tafsirs (Quran interpretations).
The Noble Qur'an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a
divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated,
saying: "And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women -
if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those
who have not menstruated" [Qur'an 65:4]. Since this is not negated
later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl.
The Qur'an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what
the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is
true that the prophet (PBUH) entered into a marriage contract with
A'isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her
until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.
Is it permissible to restrict the age at which girls can marry?
Submitted by Ahmad, IslamOnline, December 24, 2010
WikiIslam
"Day by day, the numbers are increasing of families selling their children."
Lack of food, lack of work, the families feel they have to do this."
Mohammad Naiem Nazem, human-rights activist, Badghis, Afghanistan
"[Parwana] was cheap, and her father was very poor and he needs money."
"She will be working in my home. I won't beat her. I will treat her like a family member."
Qorban, 55, Afghan buyer of 9-year-old Afghan girl
"We are eight family members. I have to sell to keep other family members alive."
"This is your bride [Qorban]."
"Please take care of her -- you are responsible for her now, please don't beat her."
Abdu Malik, father of 9-year-old Parwana
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| The moment Parwana Malik, 9, is sold as a child bride. Image / CNN |
The
purchaser of this 9-year-old girl speaks of her working in his home.
The agreemnt of the sale was valued at several t housand dollars; the
exchange was a mixture of sheep, land and cash. Parwana, Qorban said,
would be in the care of his wife, treated like one of his own children.
Bought as a slave, to be worked as a slave, and without any doubt, to be
a child-bride. This is a wealthy man by Afghan standards, he owns a
vehicle, he is able to afford to buy a slave child who he will also use
as a sex slave.
The
little girl's father spoke of desperate straits in the displaced
persons camp he and his family live in, with the diminishing of foreign
donors' generosity in humanitarian support leaving them adrift, since
the Taliban overtook the legally elected government of the Republic of
Afghanistan to re-introduce in its stead the Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan. Child sex slavery is customary in many Islamic countries,
considered legal under Sharia interpreting both the Koran and the
Hadiths.
The
sale of his 9-year-old little girl was not the first; Abdu Malik had
previously sold Parwana's 12-year-old sister months earlier. Living in
the Badghis camp for the displaced for four years, his family survived
on his meagre wages as a labourer along with humanitarian aid. Both have
since disappeared; he can no longer find work, even travelling to
another nearby town in the rural district. His story is by no means
rare, repeated time and again with families under duress.
Parwana
held herself back, unwilling to move toward the man who now claimed her
as his property. Like any normal child she yearned to remain with her
family. But she was no longer any normal child, but a child owned by a
stranger who had designs on her future. The man, considerably older than
her own father, white-bearded and firm about his rights to ownership,
grasped her arm and led her from her home. She must go with him, however
reluctantly, to his waiting car.
Other
destitute families have their own stories to tell in an atmosphere of
dashed hopes with the United Nations warning that before long 97 percent
of the population would be living below the poverty line. The Taliban's
emirate is a broken country. Itself an acknowledged terrorist group, it
must grapple with other Islamist fundamentalist groups whose dedication
to cold and deadly Islamist conquest is more brutal than its own;
Islamic State in Khorasan Province and al-Qaeda alongside. The country's
economy has entirely floundered.
Afghans face a "tsunami of destitution"
in the words of the UN, requiring $200 million monthly in international
aid to avoid starvation and catastrophe. The nations that could once be
relied upon to financially support the government that the Taliban had
cowed into submission through its constant deadly raids, bombings,
attacks on the country's national police, its military and on its
foreign aid presence, have no intention of giving financial support to
the Taliban via financing life for its desperate population.
In
Qala-i-Naw, capital of the western province of Badghis, Sabehreh, 25,
ws responsible for the food she had bought for her family on credit at a
grocer's. She faced prison by the Taliban for failing to repay the
businessman. Finally it was agreed that Sabehreh's thre-year-old
daughter Zakereh's betrothal to the grocer's four-year-old son would
defray her debt. A far more humane solution to a seemingly intractable
economic trap than what had befallen 9-year-oldParwana.
"I'm not happy to have done that", said Sabehreh, "but we had nothing to eat or drink. If this continues, we'll have to give up our three-month-old".
In neighbouring Ghor province, Ibrahim was preparing to sell his
ten-year-old daughter Magul, to a 70-year-old man as the only way open
to him to pay off his family debts. $2,700 had been borrowed from a
neighbour. Ibrahim had been arrested and threatened to by imprisonment
in a Taliban jail. Selling his daughter to repay the loan was his only
option.
Labels: Afghanistan, Buying Afghan Girls, Child Brides, Hadiths, Islam, Pre-Pubescent Slaves, Sharia
Shielding Inhumane Punishment From Western Notice
"We will minimalize press coverage and conduct it [caning, whipping] inside prisons. Right now it's in front of the mosque, right after Friday prayers."
"I think the national government is right that we have to do something [to prevent bad international press coverage]."
Vice Governor Nova Iriansyah, Aceh, Indonesia
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| A Muslim woman is caned in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on October 17, after
she was found guilty of breaking sharia law - pertaining to bans on
intimacy between unmarried people
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Six couples in Aceh province, Indonesia, which practices Islamic Sharia law, were found guilty of not observing the law that unmarried couples must not touch one another, kiss, hug, hold hands, even appear together in public standing in close proximity. On the occasion of this woman's caning she screamed repeatedly expressing the pain she felt at her discipline in a public spectacle of shame and punishment for failing to respect Sharia law.
She was flogged 23 times and each fresh application of the cane caused her physical anguish and psychological trauma. She collapsed on the stage where this took place and was taken to hospital.
This was a public spectacle. People were invited to come along and witness this woman's shame. One might think it doubtful that anyone cheered on the proceedings. It did represent an opportunity for the leading mullahs to demonstrate to the public that such unforgivable sins will not be tolerated. That there is no compassion to be extended toward those who assault public morality and disregard the dictates of Koranic culture. And because it was a public spectacle it was witnessed by foreigners. Who took photographs and wrote of what they witnessed.
Those stories were widely reported in the Western press. And while in Indonesia it may be perfectly normal for such discipline to take place, its Medieval cruelty is not admired in the West. So it created a sensation of disbelief and disgust among Western readers of reports of Islamic brutality against citizen Muslims in the world's most populous Muslim nation. This is clearly not the kind of public relations coup that Indonesia's leaders appreciate. And so, although the punishment will continue, it will no longer be approved as a public spectacle. That spectacle took place in 2016.
And there was a repeat, for another crime perpetrated by Indonesians against Islam that has come to wider public attention, in 2017. This time it was two Indonesian men whose forbidden sexual encounter with one another aroused the rage of the religious leaders in that most Islamicly conservative province, Aceh. Accused in May of having sex with each other, they were each sentenced to 85 lashes to take place in public. Muslim homosexuals exercise enough caution not to be caught out. Evidently not on this occasion.
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| BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – Two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province
were publicly caned dozens of times Tuesday for consensual gay sex, a
punishment that intensifies an anti-gay backlash in the world’s most
populous Muslim country and which rights advocates denounced as
“medieval torture.” Still from video |
Aceh, one of the poorest in the country, is a semiautonomous province located on the island of Sumatra. It had been granted the right to establish Sharia law and imposed a fundamentalist version of Islam's legal code. It also has a new governor who is concerned with the province's economic future. Aceh has some of Indonesia's largest oil reserves and there are concerns that their reputation will suffer because of these public floggings, putting off those who might invest in the province.
On caning days huge crowds gather as convicts are publicly beaten. After the caning of the two young gays, the governor is considering privatizing such events, to aid investment.
Not that 'illicit' sex is the only crime for which public whipping is decreed. In Aceh punishment for gambling, drinking alcohol, punishment women who wear tight clothing and men who skip Friday prayers also rank high on the punishment index. Such offences are not to be lightly overlooked. Society must be protected from such perpetrators.
And, in fact, the
crowd did react in a manner surprising to civilized minds, by shouting out insults and cheering as the men, aged 20 and 23, were
whipped, wincing with obvious pain. Within the throngs of
spectators many took delight in filming the event with their cellphones. A team of five robed, hooded enforcers took turns meting out the punishment, relieving one
another after every 20 strokes for one of the men and 40 for the second.
"What they have done is like a virus that can harm people's morals. This kind of public punishment is an attempt to stop the spread of the virus to other communities in Aceh", piously commented Sarojini Mutia Irfan, a female university student witnessing the caning, satisfied that it represented a necessary deterrent to unacceptable public behaviour, evidently not believing that what is done in private has little to do with the public.
But now, a movement is afoot, in the interests of persuading investors that Aceh is not as backward as they may feel, given the mode of criminal punishment imposed upon those who fall afoul of Islamic custom and its social contract. At the same time, in neighbouring Malaysia, another Muslim nation, a law was passed permitting the holding of public canings for the edification and entertainment of Malaysian faithful. This will alter the current practise of caning conducted in private, often in prison yards, away from crowds.
Labels: Crimes, Indonesia, Justice, Punishment, Sharia
Secular Indonesia's Shariah Law
"They're not brave enough to say anything [even though] a silent majority [of Indonesians in the Acehnese Provincial Legislature feels the government has gone too far in permitting Sharia Law to prevail]."
"The discotheques would close at 3 a.m. But at 3 a.m. if we weren't satisfied yet, we'd go to the beach, and from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. we'd play disco music with no problem [in the 1990s]."
Irwan Johan, vice speaker, Acehnese Provincial Legislature
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Members of the Aceh government and the Aceh police destroy illegal alcohol seized in Banda Aceh, Indonesia March 7, 2016.(Photo: HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK, EPA)
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That was then, this is now. Not all that many years later, but a wholesale change in social, religious values. Indonesia is the world's largest, most populous Muslim-majority country. This nation of 190 million Muslim citizens prided itself on its secular-type of democracy with a Muslim flavour. It was and is not like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Gulf States, a kingdom, nor was it or is it a theocracy like Iran, nor yet a tyranny or dictatorship like Iraq and Syria. Its model was more like Turkey before it became Islamist.
But that is the trajectory that Indonesia seems headed toward; a greater Islamism with Sharia Law instituted on a gradual basis. In Aceh Province, however, full-blown Sharia is now the norm, and the discotheques that Mr. Irwan recalls with such fondness from his youth could no more flourish in this new fundamentalist environment than could Disneyland.
In fact, it is the first area in northern Sumatra that transformed itself into an established Sharia Law environment in Indonesia, irrespective of the nation's secular Constitution. Now, if a discotheque presumed to open for business, it would be raided and summarily shuttered, its proprietor arrested for unIslamic activity insulting to Muslim values. Since 2001 women must dress modestly, alcohol is strictly prohibited and various offences are punishable through public whipping.
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| In total, three Acehnese couples were sentenced to receive public lashes
for violating Sharia law in a brutal new crackdown in the region
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Indonesia's central government acceded to Aceh's request to launch Sharia. The central government mindful of the need to instill calming waters over separatist inclinations in the area, gave its blessing. Sharia police now conduct surprise raids wherever they feel unIslamic behaviour may be carrying on; anywhere from hotel rooms to beaches, in search of immorality to be shut down and violators arrested.
Other regions of the country evincing their own interest in Sharia-based laws now look to Aceh to provide a template for their own aspirations. Leaving those Indonesians concerned about the nation's departure from secularism to worry about the alarming realities that are changing the country's social compact and laws. Over 442 Sharia-based laws have been introduced in the nation since 1999, at a time that the capital Jakarta endowed the provinces and districts with powers enabling them to make their own laws.
Local officials in Aceh are proud that they represent the tip of the spear introducing Sharia to the nation.
"They look at how we facilitate an atmosphere of religiosity", conceded Syahrizal Abbas, head of the Department of Shariah for Aceh, himself considered a moderate. Under his direction the version of Shariah practised in Aceh is gentler than the Wahhabist form in Saudi Arabia since Aceh's accepts female leaders where Saudi does not.
In the capital, Banda Aceh, Illiza Sa'adddin Djamal is the first female mayor the city has ever had. Women's rights activists supported her in the polls with the hope that she would be a moderating influence, a progressive leader, only to discover that she became an enforcer of the conservative moral code practised in Aceh. She has issued nighttime curfews for women, persisting in dispersing events considered by her to represent contradictions of Sharia values.
A fundamentalist cleric, leader of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front, Rizieq Shihab's speech in Banda Aceh proceeded as he spoke, inviting a response from the crowd:
"When Islam first came to Indonesia it entered through Aceh, correct?" "Correct!" roared the crowed right back at him.
"Aceh is a model for the entire Indonesian nation. It must become the locomotive for the movement to apply Shariah law throughout Indonesia. Agreed?"
"Agreed!" enthused the crowd uproariously.
A large crowd gathered
to watch religious officers deliver the sentence of lashes. Aceh has
become increasingly conservative in recent years and is the only one in
Indonesia implementing Sharia law
Labels: Indonesia, Islam, Sharia
Sharia Discreetly Introduced in Montreal
"We never supported the project. No project was presented to us."
"Since it's causing so much controversy, there's no reason to put more oil on the fire. We told him, 'We don't want any presentation. You can do it somewhere else'."
"You cannot promote a project based on shared customs and values and faith and all that. That's not going to fly."
"We need to build bridges with Quebec society. We are Quebecers. We live in Quebec."
"We came here because we made a choice."
Mohamed Yacoub, co-chairman, management committee, Islamic Community Centre of South Shore, Brossard, Quebec
"Right now we're putting everything on hold."
"If somebody wants to come and live in the [proposed Muslim housing] community and provoke some reactions that maybe she did not expect, she will have to adjust."
Nabil Warda, promoter, suburban Montreal Muslim housing development
The "she" to whom Mr. Warda refers is roughly put, any female, Muslim or non-Muslim who may live or even pass through the housing complex he is contemplating building for the Muslim community which will be regulated under Sharia law, so that should anyone want to drink alcohol, he/she may, but only within the inner confines of their home, unseen by other scandalized members of the community. Even though alcohol consumption is forbidden by Sharia law, this exception will be generously made in recognition that the people concerned live in a democratic country where choices and equality reflect the way of life.
As for any women insufficiently grounded in Sharia law which exhorts Muslim women to behave and dress modestly, as Mr. Warda would have it, any women who might be impudent enough to think that wearing shorts and a halter top regardless of the season and the weather, would have to think twice; her presence would be unwelcome within the housing complex. The Koran may be silent on the topic of niqabs and burqas but they would represent the garments of preference for Muslim women as far as Mr. Warda is concerned.
The proposed project met with immediate condemnation by the provincial and municipal governments when it was revealed through a
Radio-Canada program segment. The provincial premier planning to advise his municipal leaders that such a permit to proceed with a Muslim-restricted colony or ghetto would be refused. Initially, the man whose proposal and intent it represented -- Mr. Warda -- responded by stating it was his intention to proceed irrespective of the controversy that has arisen.
Dario Ayala/Postmedia/File Brossard in the foreground with part of Montreal's skyline on the other side of the Champlain Bridge
He had planned to circulate information about the proposed housing project at the local mosque, and to elicit from mosque habitues their opinions, along with prospective buyers. Mr. Warda advanced his reason for building such a suburban ghetto being that Sharia law does not permit the paying of interest on bank loans for mortgages. Instead, what Sharia law does promote is the bank buying the property, selling it to those living in it, taking a profit which Sharia law recognizes as having been 'earned'. As though semantics of interpretation makes interest illegal and profit legal.
Following the initial news of the rejection of his proposal and the reaction of the Brossard mosque, mosque authorities have since refused to permit Mr. Warda to promote his proposed project through their auspices; he will as a result have to hold his promotion and feedback from prospective buyers at some other venue. In response, Mr. Warda repeated his original assertions that women would not be permitted to walk about the project "half-naked"; that anyone wearing sexually provocative garments would be banned.
Screengrab The
website for the Islamic Community Centre of South Shore in Brossard has
received hate messages despite having nothing to do with the proposed
housing development for Muslims.
Mr. Yacoub has described hate messages being posted on the mosque's website "non-stop". The concern that protesters would be drawn to the venue of such a public meeting about the proposed Muslim housing plan represented yet another reason why the mosque withdrew its auspices from the proposed real estate project.
Which project, according to Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, discriminated against non-Muslims, leading the National Assembly to pass a unanimous motion denouncing the very idea of such a real estate project which cannot, in consideration of Quebec norms and values, be based on
"religious or ethnic segregation".Labels: Immigration, Islamism, Quebec, Sharia, Social-Cultural Deviations
Medieval Acts of Savagery
"Iran executed about 700 people in the first six months of 2015, an
average of three people every day and the final execution count might
top 1,000 by the end of the just concluded year."
Amnesty International Report
"Iran’s staggering execution toll for the first half of 2015 paints a
sinister picture of the machinery of the state carrying out
premeditated, judicially sanctioned killings on a mass scale."
"If the Iranian authorities maintain the horrifying execution rate we
are likely to see the figure crossing the 1,000 mark by the year’s end. It raises additional concerns in a
country like Iran where trials are blatantly unfair."
Said Boumedouha, deputy director, Amnesty International for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
The Islamic Republic of Iran has truly distinguished itself in its capital punishment rate of vengeance against people whose crimes are so beyond the pale of forgiveness that they must die to satisfy the state. The acceleration of state executions goes hand in glove with the installation of a more moderate, reasonable government, mind, under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
But who can fault the theocratic state? It has, after all, a religion whose precepts must be upheld, and in so doing they bring honour and glory to both Iran and its state religion, Islam. Executions take place when people engage in criminal offences of which drug trafficking is one. Executions were also mandated for those from among ethnic and religious minorities for committing the unpardonable sin of
"fighting against religion"
and of course for
"corruption on the earth."
And since any decent God-fearing nation cannot have any encouragement of such dire offences, it stands to reason that those who insult Islam must die. Under Sharia law after all, the Koran demands no less of its faithful. And then there is also the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sunni-majority leader of the Middle East under whose auspices the hallowed cities of Mecca and Medina are entrusted.
Like Shia-majority Iran, Saudi Arabia too takes measures to ensure state security and that no insults to Islam occur. Iran's Revolutionary Guard stated that Saudi Arabia was guilty of a
"medieval act of savagery" that would lead to the monarchy's
"downfall". This condemnation in honour of the latest Saudi executions that snapped the heads of Shiites in the umma to attention when it included the death of a Saudi Shiite cleric critical of the House of Saud.
While Saudi Arabia's numbers on the death penalty do not equal those of its political/ideological/religious adversary Iran, it too dedicates itself to committing criminals to death by traditional means such as beheading, hanging, firing squad, and of course biblical crucifixion, including of minors who have the gall to insult Islam.
The world seems to find all of this rather boring however; it's when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant flaunts its beheadings and crucifixions through publicity-seeking videos that aid in its conscripting of jihadis that the global community exhales disgust; Saudi Arab is usually more discreet about its executions and their style of commission.
But it did awaken controversy last week when it revealed that no fewer than 47 miscreants were executed in one day, mostly Sunnis involved with al-Qaeda, although to be sure a few were also executed accused of giving insult to Islam. And then of course there are those who paid the ultimate penalty for plotting criminal actions against the state.
One of whom was a Shiite cleric of some renown whose execution Iran leaped upon as a personal pain although Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was equally critical of the Iranian regime as he was of the Saudi one.
Still, the opportunity to heap fault on its nemesis could not be bypassed allowing Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the chance to warn of
"divine revenge" to be visited upon the House of Saud. Riyadh reciprocated by accusing Tehran of supporting "terrorism" which of course is true, just as it is true that Saudi Arabia does the same only seen through its lens of righteous defense of Sunni Islam against heretical Shiite Islam.
They neither will take up arms against one another, although or perhaps because both are magnificently well armed with the latest munitions and war machines that technology has devised and oil money can buy. Instead, they work out their divine hatred against one another through a slaughter taking place in Syria between a minority Alawite-Shiite regime and the majority Sunni Syrians who depose the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
And while the world is absorbed reading a bout the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the execution of a Saudi youth who at age 17 in 2012 was arrested for taking part in a public protest also took place. He was the young nephew of the cleric. Saudi authorities felt it useful to destroy his life because of his vexatious uncle and the fact that they cannot tolerate that kind of public, social insubordination.
His penalty was a kind of double-execution: he was to be publicly beheaded, his body crucified and left out in public for three days as a final gruesome humiliation.
He did not, it seems, lose hope. Perhaps because he couldn't quite get his mind around the absurd cruelty of ending the life of a boy whose only crime was to agree with his uncle that the repressive human rights abuses practised by the Saudi regime represented a state crime, and one to be challenged.
For their troubles, both uncle and nephew have now been silenced.
"I will get out", Ali Mohammed al-Nimr claimed from prison.
"And if I die, I've lived a happy life".
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| Capital punishment: Ali Mohammed al-Nimr (pictured) was arrested for
taking part in an anti-government protest and sentenced to death in May
2014
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Labels: Human Rights, Iran, Islamism, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, Social Dysfunction
Public Entertainment
Sharia law as practised in the Islamic Republic of Iran is pure biblical-era vengeance,
"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth". It represents raw barbarism. All the more so that the state has institutionalized that barbaric vengeance as a public display where the public can gather and is invited to gather, to witness the execution of a human being. Iran has the distinction after China of executing the second highest number of people as state-sanctioned punishment for misdeeds.
China enjoys the additional fillip of being known for harvesting organs
(for surgical-medical transplantation) of those that the state executes for their crimes. A practise it has no intention of stopping, even after the covert enterprise has become public knowledge and an international shaming. To practise an outlawed religion like Falun Gong in China is considered a crime against the state punishable by long prison sentences and sometimes death.
Iran, on the other hand, incarcerates, tortures and executes some of its citizens for the very same reason; practising a forbidden religion like Baha'i, disowning Islam and choosing to practise Christianity under Sharia law merits a death sentence. Capital punishment in Iran is merited by committing murder, rape, child molestation, sodomy, drug trafficking, armed robbery, kidnapping, terrorism and treason.
Since Iran is a major supporter of terrorism through its proxy militia Hezbollah, it is only what it perceives as 'terrorism' freely interpreted from opponents of the state that would be included under the systems of law and crime and punishment. Iran's threat to the world order is well enough known, through its determination to illicitly produce nuclear weapons that would fit neatly on its intercontinental ballistic missiles.
A young man known as Bilal had killed another man when they were both 17 during a street brawl in a northern town of Nour seven years ago. Charged with the murder of Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, Bilal was sentenced to death. Under Sharia law, a death sentence can be lifted if the family of the person accused of murder can offer enough money to exempt the person who committed the crime from that ultimate punishment.
Within Iran a wide variety of Iranians respected as artists, soccer players and coaches, and the residents of the town where the murder took place, all attempted to convince the family to pardon Bilal and to accept the blood money offered by his parents. It was all to no seeming avail. Abdollah's mother was embittered by the tragedy of a loss of another son years earlier through a vehicle accident, leaving her and her husband with no sons.
Bilal just happened to be a student of the father of the young man he had killed during the fight. An episode of a popular sport program on Iranian state television had pleaded with the Hosseinzadeh family, and particularly Abdollah Hosseinzadeh's father who had been a former soccer player of some repute, to forgive Bilal. To no avail. Samereh Alinejad, the mother of Abdollah had said in an interview she intended to resist all pressure.
She informed the
Shargh newspaper that her son had appeared to her in a dream, asking her to forgive his killer. Even so, she had determined she would not relent. When Bilal was led blindfolded to the site of his execution in the town square, he was placed on a chair on the gallows, the noose placed around his neck, while he sobbed in anguish. That was when Samereh Alinejad slapped his face, then forgave him. She and her husband removed the noose from the young man's neck.
This
picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday,
April 15, 2014, shows Samereh Alinejad, right, and her husband
Abdolghani Hosseinzadeh, left, removing the noose from the neck of
blindfolded Bilal, who was convicted of murdering their son Abdollah
Hosseinzadeh in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal was pardoned by
the victim's family moments before being executed.
Arash Khamoushi, ISNA/AP
And Bilal's mother hugged the dead boy's mother in delirious gratitude. He has spent seven years in prison, awaiting the completion of his death sentence. Now commuted from that death sentence through a change in mind by the mother of the boy he had killed when he was himself a boy, his family's blood money offering to save his life means he is now destined to continue serving a sentence for that bloodshed, in jail.
What can one say for a society labouring under the fundamental tribal-clan ancient punishments meting out death for death, other than cruel and unusual punishments reflect a cruel and unusual religion's set of laws that institutionalize state murder for punishable offences receiving far less harsh penalties elsewhere in the world. A society that makes a public spectacle of taking a life. A society where money can in effect, buy back a life.
Labels: Crime, Human Relations, Iran, Islamism, Justice, Sharia
Islamists Mobilize Non-Muslims to Undermine Constitution
The 'American Law for Amn falsely portrayed by Islamists as anti-Islam and racist.
By Ryan Mauro
Wed, February 12, 2014
Shoulder-to-Shoulder, an interfaith coalition allied with the Islamic Society of North America, is
mobilizing its
supporters against state legislation that stops foreign law from
superseding the Constitution. The Islamists’ non-Muslim allies are
helping frame it as an unnecessary, bigoted initiative that threatens
all people of faith.
The coalition is holding a
webinar on
February 27. The announcement correctly notes that current legislation
does not mention Shariah, though it is covered under the terminology of
“foreign law.” Seven states have passed such bills since 2010.
Shoulder-to-Shoulder’s description makes it sound like the
legislation is a ban on foreign law influencing judges’ decision
altogether. It states:
“Most religious laws that influence these contracts (like Jewish
Halakha, Catholic Canon law, or Islamic Shariah law) were not developed
within the United States and would be considered foreign law under such
legislation. While anti-Muslim sentiment is still the motivating factor
behind these laws, Americans of every faith should be concerned about
their impact on religious freedom.”
This is an easily refutable misrepresentation of the bills, based on the
American Laws for American Courts draft
legislation. It does not ban religious contracts like those mentioned
by Shoulder-to-Shoulder, nor is it a blanket ban on foreign law. It only
applies when there is a conflict between the U.S. Constitution and
foreign law in court and it victimizes no one, especially not Muslims
because Muslim-Americans are benefactors of it.
A
2011 study found
50 cases where Shariah or foreign law based on Shariah influenced the
court case. The American Public Policy Alliance has a
list of 10 cases where a Muslim-American party objected to the role of Shariah. The summary is as follows:
“In cases 1-3, the Appellate Courts upheld Shariah law; in cases 4-7,
the Trial Courts upheld Shariah, but the Appellate Courts reversed
(protecting the litigant’s constitutional rights); in cases 8-10, both
Trial and Appellate Courts rejected the attempts to enforce Shariah
law.”
Click to see which states have passed the ban, which are pending and which are states to follow.
ALAC is sometimes criticized as unnecessary and driven by
unsubstantiated paranoia. It is hard to imagine that an American judge
would ever rule give foreign law precedence over American law. The
American Public Policy Alliance
explains that the bill fixes a troublesome loophole:
Most states merely state that foreign laws and judgments
that violate the state’s “public policy” shall not be recognized. But
the courts consistently rule that the state legislature has the
responsibility to articulate clearly what the state’s public policy
actually is.
The ALAC website points out the hypocrisy of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations. In
response to
business dress codes enforced on Muslim-American women in France, CAIR
communications director Ibrahim Hooper unwittingly supported the
rationale behind ALAC.
“A discriminatory dress code
implemented in France does not supersede American laws protecting the
religious rights of American citizens,” he said. He said CAIR is
“defending American law from foreign intrusion.”
The
American-Islamic Forum for Democracy supports ALAC-type
bills because it has seen how Shariah has affected Muslims in Europe.
The bills’ purpose is not to pre-empt a hypothetical situation. It’s a
reaction to what is actually happening right now.
A
2010 study found that Shariah courts in the United Kingdom
lack accountability,
to say the least. There are not clear standards for appointing judges
and monitoring proceedings and rulings often conflict with British law.
For example, British courts’ first priority is the interest of the
child. Shariah courts rule that children automatically go into the
custody of the father after a certain age.
The British Justice Ministry
investigated Shariah courts and had to end give up because of a lack of cooperation from the court staffs.
The misrepresentations by Shoulder-to-Shoulder stem from its relationship with the
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a U.S.
Muslim Brotherhood
entity and unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land
Foundation. The Foundation was another Brotherhood entity that was shut
down for financing Hamas. This isn’t six degrees of separation: The Holy
Land Foundation operated
within ISNA, according to a
2009 ruling by a federal judge.
ISNA
said on
its website last month that it “founded” Shoulder-to-Shoulder to
counter increasing bigotry against Muslims. Elsewhere on its website,
ISNA
saysit
“helped convene” the coalition of 28 religious organizations. Whichever
way it is worded, the point is that Shoulder-to-Shoulder is largely a
product of ISNA.
And who is the ISNA official leading its interfaith campaign and,
therefore, its work with Shoulder-to-Shoulder? Former Secretary-General
Sayyid Syeed, who is seen in
The Grand Deception documentary saying in 2006, “Our job is to change the constitution of America.” His current
job title at ISNA is National Director of ISNA’s Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances.
That is the organization and individual that Shoulder-to-Shoulder works with. And
Shoulder-to-Shoulder is just one example of how non-Muslims are being rallied to the cause.
The ALAC-inspired bills will not roll back religious freedom. Non-Muslims should read about the bill from the
original source before following the lead of ISNA and its interfaith coalition.
Labels: Islamism, Sharia, United States
Imposing Serene Order
"I think his majesty feels the need for Shariah law is more pressing now because of changes in our society.
"Many Bruneians study abroad, especially in the U.K., and they experience things there and bring them back with them. We are seeing more cases of unmarried pregnant women, of adultery, drinking and drugs. Even the divorce rate is rising."
Diwa, Bruneian lawyer
Well, certainly that would never do. There must, of necessity, be a stop put to that kind of thing. Licentiousness, the casting aside of cultural, religious and social standards of moral behaviour. And so, one of the world's wealthiest men -- thanks to the avails of an oil-rich geology -- has stated that beginning in the spring of 2014, his population must accommodate themselves to strict observance of traditional Sharia law.
Like it or not. And it does challenge the imagination to think that anyone might think fondly of a penal code whose punishment for adultery is death by stoning. Rather a harsh public condemnation of illicit social behaviour. Let alone theft punishable legally by amputation by the sword. And drunkenness meriting 40 lashes with a rattan cane. Death, amputation and torment as a cure for malfeasance.
Presumably, such punishment will apply to the entire Bruneian population, not only the 70% of the country of 400,000 who are Muslim, but all others as well. Critics of the announcement by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah have called upon Britain, as a close ally of Brunei as a former protectorate, to indicate its displeasure over the situation.
The question is, might British Prime Minister David Cameron prefer to give it a pass? After all human rights abuses are common in Sri Lanka, yet this is where the Commonwealth summit will be taking place next month, and there has been no word of any intention on the part of Mr. Cameron to give it a pass, as Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done, on the basis of upholding Commonwealth standards of respect for human rights.
So, while Mr. Cameron is being criticized for his intention to attend the Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka, he is also being pressed for a condemnation of Brunei's draconian imposition of laws consider barbaric by the standards of Western democracy.
"London has a very important role in trying to get the sultan to reconsider this drastic move to a criminal Shariah system", emphasized the deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division.
Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, right, and Queen Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha at the pre-wedding ceremony yesterday - September 2012
The sultan himself has a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters from three marriages. Last year one of his daughters was married in a sumptuous setting in the sultan's 1,700-room palace. Serial marriages and a casual attitude toward monogamy appears quite permissible under Sharia. Evidently the greater the number of offspring, the more successful the pairing and the adherence to the covenant that holds sex to be indulged only for procreation.
Sultan
Haji Hassanal Bolkiah led a ceremony ahead of today's wedding, where
daughter Princess Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah was dressed in lavish silks
and prepared for today's service
However, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's word is law in the country. He is not only head of state and prime minister, but finance minister and defence minister of his oil-rich kingdom as well. He has little tolerance for opposition political parties or any kind of social or political dissent. As one of the world's wealthiest men he pays for a British Army garrison comprised of one thousand soldiers to aid him in defending his rule.
Which, it would seem, makes Britain rather complicit in the situation. British mercenary militias? Brunei can hardly be held as a den of iniquity, even without the imposition of Sharia. Alcohol and cigarettes are illegal. There are no nightclubs in the country, there are but a few cafes where people can loiter and make a visual nuisance of themselves.
There are, however, four cinemas where people can be entertained. Disney comes to mind.
Labels: Brunei, Human Relations, Human Rights, Islam, Sharia
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