Muslim soldiers in Cote d'Ivoire beat transgender sex workers: "He said, 'in the Qur'an it says that when you kill a homosexual you go to heaven'"

These soldiers quote the Qur'an to justify brutalizing and beating people, and no one says anything. We quote the Qur'an in an AFDI showing how Muslims use the Qur'an to justify violence, and the media outcry is intense.

Note also the use of the word "savage" to describe one of these beatings. Will Mona Eltahawy spray-paint the offices of the Mail and Guardian?

"Scourge of violence against transgender sex workers in Cote d'Ivoire," from the Mail and Guardian, December 10 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Transgender sex workers in the Cote d'Ivoire have increasingly become the target of violence since President Alassane Ouattara came into power.
It seemed like a case of simple blackmail. Late one night last month, two cars carrying around 10 soldiers pulled up to a group of prostitutes in Abidjan's Vallon neighbourhood and began demanding bribes.

To save themselves, some of the women in the group approached the soldiers and told them what they knew would divert their attention: they pointed to a sex worker cowering among them who goes by the street name of Raissa. And they sold her out.

The soldiers cornered her, stripped her and discovered her secret: Raissa, who requested that her real name not be used out of fear for her safety, is not a woman at all, but rather a man dressed as one.

They savagely beat her with their belts. Such scenes have become routine since the Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire assumed control of Abidjan in April 2011 at the end of a five-month conflict to oust ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and install his elected successor, Alassane Ouattara.

In interviews with the Associated Press, five victims and activists say transgender sex workers have been regularly stripped and beaten.

Sexual violence In the most extreme case, those dressed as women who were discovered to be men were held overnight at military camps and raped with Kalashnikov rifles, they say. Others charge their heads were shaved with broken beer bottles.

Raissa said she has endured three attacks during which she's been stripped, beaten and forced to beg for her life as soldiers threatened to shoot her. "With the rage that's in their eyes, you never know when they'll stop," she said.

"It's hard to talk about the first time or the second time because it's just happened so many times," said a transgender sex worker who goes by the street name, Sara. "No one has escaped the army."...

Victims said they immediately noticed a difference under Ouattara compared to the Gbagbo years, when such abuses were not nearly as extreme or widespread.

Ouattara signed a decree creating the FRCI in March 2011, and it was composed primarily of members of the New Forces rebel group, which used to control Côte d'Ivoire's predominantly Muslim north.

Victims almost uniformly attribute the attacks to the fact that many soldiers in the new army are Muslim.

During one attack in Abidjan's Zone 4 district in July, Raissa said a soldier invoked the Quran in justifying the violence.

"He said, "in the Qur'an it says that when you kill a homosexual you go to heaven,'" she recalled....

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miriam rove | December 13, 2012 8:59 AM | Reply

Kill the homos go to haven, rape and sodomize a 9 year old girl go to haven, kill the infidel go to haven, kill the jews go haven, blowup innocent people go to haven damn!!! did I miss anything?
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salah | December 13, 2012 9:21 AM | Reply

"Raissa...is not a woman at all, but rather a man dressed as one."

Are you sure of the name...Raissa? are you sure it's not...Muhammad?

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/transvestite-muhammad-mahomet-le.html

gravenimage | December 13, 2012 9:42 AM | Reply

Muslim soldiers in Cote d'Ivoire beat transgender sex workers: "He said, 'in the Qur'an it says that when you kill a homosexual you go to heaven'"
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The same is said about murdering Jews:

"Kill a Jew – Go to Heaven"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/01/sharansky-pa-promotes-genocide.html

Consider a creed where the main criteria for getting into paradise is *murder*.

Contrast—I will not cite scripture here, but here is a popular Western "Heaven or Hell" quiz. The questions are all about sharing and doing the moral thing, even when it is difficult:

http://www.quizrocket.com/heaven-or-hell

This on-line quiz—as silly as it might be—comes solidly from the Judea-Christian tradition.

Exactly so. Infidels noticing how violent the Qur'an is—and daring to say so—is considered "Islamophobic". Madness.

"Scourge of violence against transgender sex workers in Cote d'Ivoire"
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And note, while the single largest religion in the Ivory Coast is indeed Islam—by a hair—Christians and animists together make up a majority of the population. (Islam 38.6%, Christian 32.8%, African indigenous 28%).

But this is enough for Muslims to beat their victims and threaten their lives in the streets.

Transgender sex workers in the Cote d'Ivoire have increasingly become the target of violence since President Alassane Ouattara came into power.
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And why should that be? He sounds like a plausibly civilized fellow—an economist who was educated at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. But he is also a devout Muslims, which explains it all...

Ivory Coast's previous president, Laurent Gbagbo, was Roman Catholic. Ouattara may or may not have won the election, but he seized power regardless last year.

What did our own idiot politicians have to say about this? This, from CNN in April of last year:

U.S. President Barack Obama applauded news of the latest developments in Côte d'Ivoire and CNN quoted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as saying Gbagbo's capture "sends a strong signal to dictators and tyrants.... They may not disregard the voice of their own people".
...

This sounds like so much of the rhetoric around the Islamist "Arab Spring"...

Then last month this great democrat (sarc/off) sacked his own government over a bill that would have acknowledged wives as co-heads of their households with their husbands. As a good Muslim, he quashed that pretty fast.

The soldiers cornered her, stripped her and discovered her secret: Raissa, who requested that her real name not be used out of fear for her safety, is not a woman at all, but rather a man dressed as one.

They savagely beat her with their belts. Such scenes have become routine...
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Well, sure—who cares about something like blackmailing prostitutes when you can threaten and beat tranvestites? God, I hate Islam.

In interviews with the Associated Press, five victims and activists say transgender sex workers have been regularly stripped and beaten.

Sexual violence In the most extreme case, those dressed as women who were discovered to be men were held overnight at military camps and raped with Kalashnikov rifles, they say. Others charge their heads were shaved with broken beer bottles.
................................

It is perfectly Halal to rape homosexuals and tranvestites—pious Muslims don't believe that this is in itself homosexual behavior. And why? Because it is not submissi9ve behavior, and—perhaps even more important—it is *not consensual*. Rape is always condoned in Islam.

Raissa said she has endured three attacks during which she's been stripped, beaten and forced to beg for her life as soldiers threatened to shoot her. "With the rage that's in their eyes, you never know when they'll stop," she said.
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No, indeed. Next time, they might well beat her to death...

"It's hard to talk about the first time or the second time because it's just happened so many times," said a transgender sex worker who goes by the street name, Sara. "No one has escaped the army."...
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And this is *the army*. Where is Barack Obama to natter on about how Ivory Coast is so democratic now?

Victims said they immediately noticed a difference under Ouattara compared to the Gbagbo years, when such abuses were not nearly as extreme or widespread.

Victims almost uniformly attribute the attacks to the fact that many soldiers in the new army are Muslim.
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Here are some more horrors from Ivory Coast since the Muslim takeover. These from last year:

"Muslims to Christians: 'We're coming for you'"

http://www.wnd.com/2011/05/301389/

"Christian Brothers crucified by Ouattara forces in Ivory Coast"

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/christian-brothers-crucified-by-muslim-forces-in-ivory-coast.html

There are many, many more stories like these...

Kepha | December 13, 2012 1:41 PM | Reply

Why call Raissa "she" when he was quickly discovered to be a man in drag?

This news story is nothing but a case of the disgusting beating up on the sordid. But I wonder when non-Muslim Ivoirians will be pushed into revolt?

dumbledoresarmy replied to comment from Kepha | December 13, 2012 8:02 PM | Reply

Kepha

would *you* approve of the stripping naked in public, and the beating, and the raping with the barrel of a rifle, of a man in drag?

If you were in a Muslim majority country, and such a person - known to you to be non-Muslim, too - came to you asking for help because the Muslims were going to beat, rape and possibly kill him, what would you do?

Would you allow that person to hide in a cupboard or under the bed?

Or would you refuse help, on the grounds that they *deserved* to be beaten, sodomised with a rifle barrel, and possibly killed out of hand?

Suppose you lived in a majority Msulim country, and had a close kinsman or woman whom you knew to be 'gay' or transvestite.

Would you dob them in or even personally hand them over to the sharia assassins, knowing that they would be tortured and executed?

dumbledoresarmy replied to comment from gravenimage | December 13, 2012 8:11 PM | Reply

Gravenimage

I was going to point out that Ivory Coast/ Cote d'Ivoire is not in fact a Muslim-majority country, but you got there first.

"And note, while the single largest religion in the Ivory Coast is indeed Islam—by a hair—Christians and animists together make up a majority of the population. (Islam 38.6%, Christian 32.8%, African indigenous 28%)."

Here's the latest stats from the CIA world factboo, re religious percentages in that country:

"Muslim 38.6%, Christian 32.8%, indigenous 11.9%, none 16.7% (2008 est.)

and it adds this very, very revealing - and damning - note:

"note: the majority of foreigners (migratory workers) are Muslim (70%) and Christian (20%)".

In other words: masses of Muslims migrated - that is, invaded and colonised - and have now, even before attaining an absolute majority, *taken over* the army and the government.

Hegira: Immigration Jihad.

As discussed in a recent book, 'Modern Trojan Horse: the Islamic Doctrine of Immigration', of which there is a review and summary here:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_hijra.html

August 16, 2009
The Hijra
By Janet Levy

Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration
By Sam Solomon and Elias Al Maqdisi
ANM Publishers, 2009.

Combine that with the 'case study' provided by ex-Muslim Patrick Sookhdeo in his book 'Islam and Britain' and in the much more dense and wide-ranging 'Faith, Power and Territory', and we see that what the Muslims are doing and have done in Cote d'Ivoire is what they are doing...worldwide...everywhere that they are moving in numbers into what have been, historically, non-Muslim lands.

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