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A key Islamic supremacist mantra is "Islam will dominate" (see pictures here, here and here), and therefore the analysis by Steen Raaschou, editor of snaphanen.dk, is very precise. Translated from Snaphanen.dk, February 1, 2012: "A new term: Dominance crime":

The perpetrators take the victim's cell phone or a little cash, but many of these robberies are completely ridiculous when considered as property crimes. The victims are often beaten, in spite of their willingness to give their belongings to the robber. These robberies are actually harassment. There are also no traditional explanations for the many cases of stone-throwings against cars from bridges, 'meaningless' violence, vandalism and arson or the attacks on fire service and police.

We must understand the phenomena properly: this kind of crime is mainly designed to establish or demonstrate superiority. And it is stemming from a culture whose primary concept of 'power' is identical with 'violence,' and whose only hope of being able to dominate in the West is to use violence. It's guerrilla warfare.

Part of the problem is that the phenomenon has not had a name, and therefore I propose that all these types of crimes, whose main purpose is other than the superficial (robbery, arson, violence), must be called: dominance crime.

"This will happen whether they like it or not."

Yet we constantly hear from Muslim spokesmen in the West that only greasy Islamophobes misunderstand to such a degree that they would think that any Muslim has any plans to conquer and Islamize any Western states. How the Egyptian Muslim cleric Ali Abu Al-Hasan became a greasy Islamophobe they have not yet deigned to explain.

"Egyptian Cleric Ali Abu Al-Hasan: In Several Decades, 'Europe Will Become a Single Islamic State,'" from MEMRI, January 6 (thanks to Inexion):

Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered by Egyptian cleric Ali Abu Al-Hasan, which aired on Al-Hekma TV on January 6, 2012:

Ali Abu Al-Hasan: With the [Muslim] emigration [to Europe], and the unwillingness to get married and have children [among the Europeans]… A hundred of people there are succeeded by eighty, and ten years later, those eighty will be succeeded by sixty, and those sixty will later be succeeded by forty, and those forty will become ten a decade later, and twenty years later, not a single one of them will be left!

Europe has realized this. After a while, Europe will become a single Islamic state, which will know nothing but "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger." This will happen whether they like it or not. This is the decree of Allah. Islam is coming!

Dabah "Debbi" Almontaser sent me this tweet a few hours ago, hoping I'd get a DWI on this New Year's Eve. No such luck, Dabah, but it is revealing in its open hatred from an Islamic supremacist who ordinarily strikes a pose of "peace" and "tolerance" and pretends that those who are fighting for freedom and equality of rights are "bigots" and "hatemongers" -- when actually it is only she and her comrades who fit that definition.

Almontaser later removed this tweet, thereby revealing that it embarrassed her, but alas, I had already retweeted it and thus was able to get the screenshot above. Those who may be unfamiliar with her may be interested to know that Dabah Almontaser was the principal of Khalil Gibran Academy, the Arabic public school in New York City, until she endorsed the "initifada," the violent jihad against Israel. Later she appeared at a demonstration in favor of a Muslim Brotherhood mosque in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The Muslim Brotherhood is dedicated in its own words to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within."

Yet despite these unsavory and traitorous ties, Dabah Almontaser has the ear of the political elites in New York -- while this vile hatemonger wishes evil upon freedom fighters.

Happy New Year, Dabah. May there be justice for you and for all of us in 2012.

The constitution defines Malays as Muslims in one fell swoop (Article 160 (2)). For a Christian to criticize Malay supremacism as enshrined in Article 153 is to criticize Islamic supremacism. Therefore, this Christian leader is in trouble twice: for defying his second-class status as a non-Malay, and all the more for defying his second-class status as a non-Muslim.

"Christian Malay leader could be charged with sedition," by Michael Ireland for Assist News Service, December 30 (thanks to Twostellas):

An evangelical Christian leader in Malaysia may face charges of sedition following a statement he made about a section of the country's constitution this past weekend.

TheMalaysianinsider.com reports Datuk Ibrahim Ali, leader of the Perkasa movement, saying that in order to safeguard national security, Malaysian authorities must charge with sedition those who question Article 153 of the constitution - as he claims Christian leader Rev Dr Eu Hong Seng did on Christmas Day.

"We demand the government use the Sedition Act on anyone who makes statements like this from now on and charge them in court," the Perkasa chief told reporters December 27.

Ibrahim Ali was referring to a statement made on Saturday by National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF) chairman Eu, who likened Article 153 to "bullying" for only protecting the rights of one group.

According to the newspaper story, Article 153 of the Malay Constitution states that it is the king's responsibility "to safeguard the special position of the Malays and natives of any of the States of Sabah and Sarawak and the legitimate interests of other communities in accordance with the provisions of this Article".

Calling Eu's statement "irresponsible provocation", Ibrahim said use of the Sedition Act would deter further attempts to question the provision and preserve racial harmony.

Disputing the article would only lead to civil strife as it was part and parcel of an established social contract that could not be amended without consent from the Malay rulers, he said.

The Malay rights leader also cautioned Christians against repeating statements similar to Eu's in light of past controversies like the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) raid earlier this year, as this would only give the impression that Christians wished to make enemies of Muslims.....

"Freedom of speech means you can curse the prophet, and democracy will protect you."

Cartoon Rage from a Muslim spokesman who must be some kind of Islamophobe.

Video thanks to Answering Muslims.

Merry Christmas!

Video thanks to Inexion.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 — For Catholic Malaysians, Putrajaya’s latest pick of a Malay-Muslim principal to head the prestigious SMK Convent Bukit Nanas (CBN) underscores a worrying trend to disregard the Church’s contribution and rights in the country.

Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur Tan Sri Murphy Pakiam waded this week into a growing row between the 112-year-old school’s Catholic owners and the Ministry of Education (MOE) after its new principal Datin Seri Zavirah Mohd Shaari’s surprise arrival at its doorstep.

“The appointment of the principal of CBN is not only contrary to the government policy of maximum consultation but has given the impression that it is the government’s strategy to take over the mission schools in total disregard for the status, ethos and special character of mission schools, especially CBN,” Pakiam (picture) said in a statement published earlier this week in Catholic paper The Herald.

He was appealing to Education director-general Datuk Seri Abdul Ghafar Mahmud to reconsider the ministry’s decision and pick a suitably qualified person nominated by the school owners under the Infant Jesus (IJ) Sisters order. The school is considered among the top convent schools in the country.

The case comes on the heels of a recent drama over the police’s extra conditions for carolling permits on two South Klang churches less than two weeks ago.

Earlier this year, right-wing Malay-Muslim groups triggered a national uproar over persistent rumours that churches are on a campaign to convert their own and pushing unfounded allegations of a secret political plot to install a Christian prime minister in the next general election.

Christians say such issues are an attempt to erode their religious rights in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

Erode the rights of Christians? Who's doing the 'eroding', exactly, and why are they doing it?

CBN, which has produced notable personalities such as Bersih 2.0 chief Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan and former International Trade Minister Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, is one of 60 convent schools in Malaysia, Sister Rosalind Tan told The Malaysian Insider.

Tan is the mother provincial of the IJ Sisters and the person in charge of the order’s administration in the country.

She related that the school’s board of governors were taken aback when Zavirah reported for duty last week because there was no prior notice from the Education Ministry.

The previous head, Ann Khoo, retired last month. 

Tan said this was not the first time the ministry had acted without consultation, saying the issue had been going on for decades.

She said the order, as the school’s rightful owners, had a responsibility to ensure the school head abided by its founding ethos even though the operations were now managed by the federal government.

“We have no qualms about race or religion of the principal posted to our mission schools,” she said in an interview this week.

She said that Zavirah was not school’s first lay principal, or the order’s first non-Christian school head; but expressed disappointment that its nominees had been sidelined by the ministry.

“What we want are principals who know what the mission school is and stands for,” she stressed.

In his statement, Pakiam highlighted that Zavirah had not been on a list submitted by the mission school authority.

He said the decision breached a previous government policy in the 1970s for “maximum consultation” with Christian mission schools nationwide in a revised report by the Royal Commission on the Teaching Services, West Malaysia.

The metropolitan archbishop added that former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who was the education minister in 1976, had repeated and affirmed the pledge in 1998 in a trip to Kota Kinabalu, to consult mission school authorities over the choice of school heads and teachers.

The Malaysian Insider understands there are over 400 Christian mission schools nationwide.

Catholics, who make up nearly one million of the country’s 28 million total population, have founded more than 250 such schools, including Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s alma mater, St John’s Institution, which neighbours CBN.

And a very merry Christmas to all.

I tried to tell you. Among the many noteworthy aspects of this article is the fact that the Copts know full well that Sharia means denial of rights to women and non-Muslims. Only in the West, where no one knows anything about Sharia, can deceptive Islamic apologists get away with claiming that Sharia is nothing in particular, but rather a sprawling multiplicity that cannot be pinned down to any specifics.

"Islamist parties' electoral success in Egypt has Copts worried," by Jeffrey Fleishman for the Los Angeles Times, December 11:

Reporting from Cairo—Fears and worries murmur like prayers beneath the hammered crosses of the Church of the Virgin Mary.

"The whole country will collapse," says Shenouda Nasri.

"I'm trying to get my family out," says Samir Ramsis.

"This is the Islamists' time," says George Saied.

A caretaker sweeps the stones, a woman slips into a pew. But these days Egypt's minority Coptic Christians are finding little serenity. Islamist political candidates, including puritanical Salafis, are dominating parliamentary elections. Sectarianism is intensifying and the patriotic veneer that unified Egyptians in overthrowing longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak is threatened by ultraconservative Muslim clerics whose divisive voices had been suppressed by the state for decades.

"Our goal is to achieve an Islamic caliphate with Islamic sharia rules," Mohamed Zoghbi, a hard-line Salafi preacher, said this year on TV. "If Egypt becomes a caliphate, then the Middle East and Arab countries will follow our path. All Muslim youth should strive and die to build this caliphate even over their own bodies."...

"The Islamists have been unleashed," says Nasri, a pharmacist hoping to follow the lead of tens of thousands of Copts who have left Egypt this year. "You're talking about no rights for women. No rights for Coptic Christians. They'll make us more of a minority. It'll be like living centuries ago."

Coptic Christians make up 10% of Egypt's population of 82 million. They have coexisted in relative peace with Muslims for centuries, but even before the overthrow of Mubarak, they endured increasing deadly attacks on churches, including a bombing in Alexandria and incidents of arson in Cairo and other cities.

Copts have felt further isolated as radical screeds have echoed from mosques since Mubarak's rule was brought down by a popular rebellion in February that included secularists, Islamists and communists.

Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members were jailed under the former president. But as the "Arab Spring" burgeoned early this year, the once-outlawed Brotherhood, which for decades built a network of social and religious programs, quickly became the nation's most potent political force. It has attempted to calm secular Egyptians and the West by emphasizing democracy and civil rights as it moves to gradually expand Islam throughout the government while addressing the country's economic turmoil, poverty and neglected institutions.

But the Salafis, who had been apolitical for decades, are demanding an immediate debate on religion and saying the new constitution must be interchangeable with the Koran. Relying on satellite TV and money from the Persian Gulf, the resurgent fundamentalists epitomize Egypt's startling political upheaval. They show little concern for compromise or diplomatic sound bites. One of their groups, Gamaa al Islamiya, renounced violence long ago but its candidates are a link to the coarse sectarian voices that led to the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and terrorist attacks.

Wagdi Ghoneim, a popular ultraconservative Muslim preacher, fled Egypt's police state years ago. He has lived in the United States and the gulf, transmitting audio and televised speeches that resonate in Cairo's slums and outlying villages. He couldn't be more clear on where he stands.

"There's nothing called democracy. Democracy is built on the basis of infidelity," he says. "The Crusader Christians are a minority and we can never equate a minority's rights with the majority's.... How can they ask for the same rights as ours?"...

"I was born in Cairo," he says. "But as a Christian I no longer feel like a whole citizen. I just want to go someplace where I can be respected."

He straightens his blue and yellow tie, brushes the sleeves of his pressed shirt. He fears that Salafis will forbid the building of churches and impose more Islamic education in schools.

"Everyone is afraid, not just Copts," he says. "People working in tourism, banking, antiquities. No one knows what the Islamists will do. The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to calm things. They're talking about tolerance. But we still have to be afraid. They have little political experience."

Dalia Mogahed is Obama's Islamic supremacist adviser on Muslim affairs; for details on her promotion and whitewashing of Sharia, see here. She also cooked survey data on Muslim beliefs and attitudes to create faux-"moderates" out of America-hating Muslim hardliners.

Reza Aslan is an adolescent Islamic supremacist pseudo-moderate -- details here.

Both Mogahed and Aslan, along with their dupes and useful idiots, seem to think that Lowe's must be forced to advertise on the deceptive and misleading All-American Muslim show. Hip hop impresario Russell Simmons apparently thinks the same thing, as Pamela Geller details here.

Their idea that businesses must be controlled and forced to advertise where they do not wish to is patently un-American, and for Mogahed and Aslan, a hint of what their ideal society would look like: an authoritarian Sharia state.

"Muslim TV show loses advertisers," by Matt Lacy for the Greeley Gazette, December 11:

The new show All-American Muslim does not appear to be the hit TLC and Muslim groups had hoped it would be. Several sponsors have pulled their advertising from the show after complaints from customers.

All-American Muslim is a reality show that attempts to show that Muslims living in America are no different than everyday Americans in their lifestyles choices.

The show revolves around five Muslim families living in Dearborn, Michigan. A press release describing the show says “Each episode offers an intimate look at their customs and celebrations, as well as the misconceptions, conflicts and differences they face outside-and within-their own community.”

Some groups have expressed concern that the show is simply an attempt to present a white-washed version of Islam.

The Florida Family Association sent out a letter encouraging its members to contact advertisers on the show, urging them to pull their support.

“The Learning Channel's new show All-American Muslim is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law. The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.”

“One of the most troubling scenes occurred at the introduction of the program when a Muslim police officer stated ‘I really am American. No ifs and or buts about it.’ This scene would appear to be damage control for the Dearborn Police who have arrested numerous Christians including several former Muslims for peacefully preaching Christianity,” the letter said.

The Gazette previously reported on how police in Dearborn arrested Christians attending an Islamic family event that was open to the public for simply engaging in dialogue with others about Christianity.

According to David Wood, one of the men arrested, they were not passing out any type of religious literature, but simply talking to people who engaged them in conversation. For this, they were arrested for disturbing the peace.

The city had earlier passed a ban on handing out Christian literature near the festival.

The FFA says that 65 companies they targeted with e-mails did not advertise on the program again. Some of the companies include 3M, Airborne Vitamin, Capital One, Campbell’s Soup, Conagra, JC Penny, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Sonic and McDonalds.

Pamela Geller, an Islam analysis said the real danger is the perspective it attempts to put on Islam.

“The danger is, it's misleading. The Muslims portrayed in the show are free to choose their path. That is the beauty of living in a free society. But so many aren't, not only in Muslim countries, but here in America,” Geller said. “Who speaks for Jessica Mokdad who lived not far from where this show is taping? Mokdad was honor murdered by her stepfather, Rahim Alfetlawi, for 'not following Islam'. That happened in the same city that refuses to run my freedom bus ads. The ads were designed to help girls like Jessica. Despite our free speech victories in the Detroit court, Mokdad was honor murdered the week my ads were supposed to run.”

The freedom bus ads provide help for individuals leaving Islam who are afraid for their safety.

Robert Spencer, Executive Director of Jihad Watch echoes Geller’s concerns, noting that while not all Muslims are extremists, the violent element within Islam is glossed over.

“The problem people have with Islam is its teachings of violence against and the subjugation of unbelievers. The problem is not with every Muslim person. It is with the supremacist ideology and the fervent believers in those noxious doctrines of warfare and subjugation," he said.

The [Hamas-linked] Council on American Islamic Relations, which was an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case involving funding to terrorist groups, said those supporting the campaign are showing their Islamophaobia.

CAIR’s Executive Director, Nihad Awad, said “This fear-mongering campaign, by targeting any manifestation of pluralism in America, sums up what Islamophobia is all about in our society today.”

Awad went on to say that “advertisers who seek to reach the tolerant majority of consumers should not pander to those who promote religious and ethnic hatred.”

Therefore they should not pander to Hamas-linked CAIR.

This was another protest in need of a "Thank You for Proving Our Point" sign. Indeed, just last weekend, a rally against "extremism" in Tunisia was attacked by "Islamist" stone throwers.

"Protesters calling for religious tolerance attacked with stones, threatened with death," by JJ Robinson for Minivan News, December 10 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Police are investigating a violent attack on a ‘silent protest’ calling for religious tolerance, held at the Artificial Beach to mark Human Rights Day.

Witnesses said a group of men threw rocks at the 15-30 demonstrators, calling out threats and vowing to kill them.

One witness who took photos of the attacked said he was “threatened with death if these pictures were leaked. He said we should never been seen in the streets or we will be sorry.”

Among those injured in the attack was Ismail ‘Khilath’ Rasheed, a controverisal blogger whose website was recently blocked by the Communications Authority of the Maldives (CAM) on the order of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs.

Rasheed suffered a head injury and was rushed to Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH).

“They started hitting us with bricks. They were aiming at our heads – we could tell they were serious and wanted to kill us,” Rasheed told Minivan News from hospital. “I was taken on a motorcycle to IGMH, but I could see them behind me still hitting my friends.”

Police Sub-Inspector Ahmed Shiyam said police attended the scene after the attackers had departed, and were currently investigating the cause of the violence. No arrests had yet been made, he added.

The protesters, calling themselves ‘Silent Solidarity’, had earlier issued a press release stating that their intention was to “make the Maldives and the international community aware of the rising religious intolerance in the Maldives, and to condemn the Constitutionally endorsed suppression of religious freedom. We also denounce the increasing use being made of Islam as a tool of political power.”

“Silent Solidarity will be protesting against discrimination of all races, gender, sexual preferences and religious beliefs and supporting freedom of thought and expression. In our silence, we speak volumes,” the group’s statement said.

The Maldives has come under increasing international scrutiny following an apparent rise in religious intolerance.

Several monuments gifted to the Maldives by other SAARC countries during the recent summit in Addu have been defaced or stolen on the grounds that they are idolatrous. Islamic Minister Dr Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari has condemned the monuments while the opposition has hailed the vandals as “national heroes”.

Protests also erupted last month after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay spoke in parliament calling for the government and the judiciary to issue a moratorium and debate on flogging as a punishment for extra-marital sex....

Spreading hate and lies to captive audiences

Please contact Mercersburg Academy, a coed boarding high school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; this Monday, December 12, Islamic supremacist Reza Aslan is delivering the "Schaff Lecture on Ethics and Morals" -- a unfortunate choice, given the intellectually dishonest and deceptive Aslan's demonstrably unethical behavior over the years.

Even worse, the lecture notice says: "This is a required event for Mercersburg students and faculty."

One of the most unfortunate aspects of the politically correct straitjacket that binds contemporary public discourse is that deceitful mediocrities and intellectual flotsam and jetsam like Reza Aslan, who aren't capable of independent thought or of defending their own positions except with lies and scorn, are lauded and lionized by the clueless and compromised elites, solely because they parrot currently fashionable opinions.

Aslan poses as a modern, moderate Muslim, and fools many; in reality, however, he is a Board member of the president of the George Soros-funded National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a powerful Iranian lobbying group in Washington. Arash Irandoost of the Pro-Democracy Movement of Iran calls NIAC chief Trita Parsi "an intellectually dishonest regime apologist and an unofficial and unregistered lobbyist for the Iranian regime." According to Irandoost, "Trita Parsi contributes to the regime's agenda and serves the interests of those in power in the Islamic Republic of Iran, not the Iranians, nor the Iranian-Americans."

And the Progressive American-Iranian Committee says that when NIAC received funding for various projects from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), "NIAC's projects were approved and welcomed by the Iranian regime." NIAC coordinated its work inside Iran with Hamyaran, a "government initiated agency incepted [sic], initiated, founded and managed by the Iranian regime." NIAC even lobbied the U.S. Congress to "stop appropriating funds for independent democratic movements and NGOs that were not under Hamyaran or regime's control."

It is no surprise in light of Aslan's NIAC connection that he has tried to pass off Iran's genocidally-minded President Ahmadinejad as a liberal reformer. He has called on the U.S. Government to negotiate with Ahmadinejad himself, as well as with Hamas -- that is, with two of the most barbaric and murderous adherents of Sharia.

Aslan has even praised the jihad terror group Hizballah as "the most dynamic political and social organization in Lebanon," as well as the Jew-hating, women-hating, kuffar-hating Muslim Brotherhood, which is dedicated in its own words to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within." Aslan wrote: "The Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing." If, in 1932, someone had written that "the National Socialist Party will have a significant role to play in post-Weimar Germany, and that is a good thing," he would have rightly been called a Nazi sympathizer.

Aslan has also spoken at events sponsored by the Muslim Students Association, a Brotherhood group, and at an event co-sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and moderated by the notorious Edina Lekovic, the Muslim Public Affairs Council flack whom Steve Emerson caught lying on national television, denying she was editor of a Muslim student publication that praised Osama bin Laden as a great mujahid. Emerson produced copies of the rag showing Lekovic's name on the masthead as editor on the very same page on which the praise for Osama appeared.

Why should the students of Mercersburg Academy be forced to listen to this lying Islamic supremacist? Please contact Mercersburg's Head of School, Douglas Hale, and politely and courteously ask him either to cancel the Aslan lecture or to allow equal time to a speaker with a pro-freedom perspective. I am confident that if Mercersburg Academy officials had known about Aslan's abject inability to defend his positions intellectually and his many ties to jihadists and Islamic supremacists, they would never have scheduled him to speak in the first place.

Douglas Hale
Head of School
Phone: 717-328-6113
Email: haled@mercersburg.edu

You may also wish to contact:

M. Deborah Rutherford
Associate Head of School, Spanish
Phone: 717-328-6115
Email: rutherfordd@mercersburg.edu

Ruth Roper
Assistant to the Academic Dean
Phone: 328-6147
Email: roperr@mercersburg.edu

Eugenio Sancho
Academic Dean, Spanish
Phone: 717-328-6326
Email: sanchoe@mercersburg.edu

SHAH ALAM: The Human Rights Party (HRP) has denounced yesterday’s demolishment of a Hindu temple in Glenmarie and demanded from the Selangor government an acre of land for a new temple.

S Thiagarajan, a pro-tem central executive committee member of the party, said Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim must take “full responsibility” for the violation of the Sri Muneswarar Temple by the Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) and make amends by granting the acre of land.

He said he learned of the destruction when a local resident telephoned him while it was going on. The caller told him 30 police and MBSA officers were using sledgehammers to carry out the demolition.

“A Malay haji sprinkled something around the shrine and then some 10 uniformed enforcement officers started the ruthless act,” he told FMT.

He added that six Hindu deities were smashed into pieces.

“The Hindu devotees there could not stop the bloodletting; they were blocked by policemen,” he said.

“This is a clear cut case of the city council violating Article 11 of the Federal Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion, and Article 8, which provides of equality before the law and equal protection before the law.

“We demand that the state government allocate one acre of land to the temple committee to build a new temple.”

He also said the state should grant permanent land titles for all Hindu temples in Selangor so that “such flagrant acts of transgression” would not recur.

Al-Zahhar must be some kind of Islamophobe. Everyone knows that only greasy Islamophobes think that there is any clash of civilizations between the West and Islam, or that the Arab Spring is ushering in an Islamic ascendancy in North Africa and the Middle East. "Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: Western Civilization 'Will Not Be Able to Withstand the Great and Glorious Islam,'" from MEMRI, October 28:

Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, which aired on Al-Quds TV on October 28, 2011:

[...] Today, we emphasize that our plan is not confined to the liberation of Palestine. The Islamic nation in its entirety will bring a smile to the faces of all the people in the world, and will wipe the tears from the eyes of all human beings. Our plan is the cure for all the maladies of this Western civilization, which knows only to contain or kill, to control or destroy, to clash with people or to contain them.

This civilization will not be able to withstand the great and glorious Islam, with its great humane platform.

[…]

The Arab nation has begun to reap the fruits of the hot Arab spring. Yesterday, the Islamists won in Tunisia, tomorrow, they will win in Egypt, and then in Libya, until Islam, which rules in accordance with the Koran, will prevail throughout the land.

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." -- Qur'an 9:29

Under heavy pressure from the European powers, the Ottoman Empire abolished the payment of the jizya, which is the cornerstone of the system of dhimmitude, in the 1850s. But even the secular Turkish state found a way to reestablish it under another name. As the Islamization of Turkey continues to advance, eventually this pretense will no longer be needed.

Meanwhile, how many of the learned analysts who invoke Turkey as a prime example of Islamic moderation (even though Kemalist Turkey was established by means of active and conscious restriction of political Islam) know that in secular Turkey non-Muslims pay a special tax from which Muslims are exempt, just as is directed in the Qur'an?

"Non-Muslim minorities protest wealth tax, expect apology," by Ilyas Koç for Today's Zaman, November 10 (thanks to Twostellas):

Victims of the discriminatory wealth tax, who are all non-Muslim minorities, demand an apology from the state 69 years after legislation was passed by Parliament on Nov. 11, 1942, requiring non-Muslims to pay a much higher rate of tax to the state.

Many well-known families in Turkey are among the victims. One such victim is the prominent Turkish Jewish businessman Hayim Alaton, the father of Alarko Holding’s executive board chairman İshak Alaton. Hayim Alaton was sent to Aşkale in the province of Erzurum to perform manual labor because he had failed to pay two separate taxes imposed on him.

Within the scope of wealth tax payment requirements, 1,229 non-Muslims were sent to Aşkale via the Haydarpaşa railroad station in İstanbul to perform the jobs assigned to them.

İshak Alaton and a group of his friends have stated that they will visit the Haydarpaşa railroad station on Nov. 11 in order to keep the memories of this tragic incident alive. He will be accompanied by lawyer Cem Murat Sofuoğlu, Professor Serap Yazıcı, Professor Ergun Özbudun and others.

KUALA LUMPUR: Appeal letters have been sent, appointments have been set.

Now, devotees of two temples in Cheras are seeking divine intervention to spare their place of worship from being demolished.

The temples are in the path of the Klang Valley My Rapid Transit line.

About 500 devotees held special prayers at the Xian Fa Chinese temple in Kg Landasan Keretapi here yesterday.

“On Oct 6, the Federal Territories Land Office sent the Xian Fa Chinese and the Buddhist temples at Kg Landasan Keretapi eviction notices,” said MCA Bukit Jalil Resort chairman Chew Yin Keen at a press conference yesterday.

“They were told to move out by November before their temples are demolished,” he said.

“I have told the land office that it cannot demolish any place of worship without providing a replacement location,” he said, pointing out that Deputy Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk M. Saravanan had stated this before.

“There is a plot behind the temple large enough to build five or six temples,” Chew said.

“Perhaps, the temples can be relocated there.”

Buddhist temple committee member Lee Mun Yoong said the temple had been in existence for 70 years.

He said they had moved to the current location when their previous site in Cheras was taken over to house the Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium.

Xian Fa Chinese temple committee member Yap Chee Kong said they could not afford to build a new place of worship even if they were asked to move.

He suggested that the Government readjust the track alignment so that the temple would not be affected.

“Our temple has been here since 1976,” said Yap.

“Since the MRT alignment is only in its planning stage, perhaps they can still consider changing it.”

Last week, Land Public Transport Commission chairman Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar said the commission would not accept any more complaints on the MRT final alignment and urged the public to refer to MRT Co instead.

Harmonic convergence in Libya, too

The Leftist/Islamic Supremacist Alliance generally manifests itself as Leftist Useful Idiots doing the bidding of their Islamic Supremacist masters. And maybe here we are again. "Islamic Awakening Has Reached Americans," from the Ahlul Bayt News Agency, October 18 (thanks to Twostellas):

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Hamid Reza Taraqqi, international affairs deputy of the Islamic Coalition Party added that the Islamic Awakening movement changed the mind of American and European people, making them aware of the real roots of economic and political crises in the west.

He referred to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and said in the wake of the recent developments in the Middle East, people in the US realized that the world’s economic problems originate from injustices done by economic cartels and big corporations.

Islam emphasizes that people’s money should not be in the hands of a few wealthy and based on a Hadith by Imam Reza (AS), one of the signs of anti-Divine governments is accumulation of people’s wealth in the hands of a few, Mr. Taraqqi noted, adding this is happening in the West where the wealth of the majority is in the hands of a minority.

He said when western nations saw how the Islamic awakening rid nations in the Middle East of their tyrant governments, they, too, decided to uproot the main reason behind their problems and troubles.

Taraqqi also highlighted the role of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in disclosing the nature of western governments and their dependence on Zionism and big corporations.

When I started warning last winter that Islamic supremacists were in the best position to take advantage of the uprisings in Tunisia (and Egypt), most people were drinking the mainstream media Kool-Aid about a new birth of democracy and freedom. One commenter here at Jihad Watch asserted that "these revolts are spontaneous outbursts against the ruling elite. There is not one shred of evidence of any Islamist involvement." Another's scorn was intense: "You are taking advantage of the ignorance of your readers to spoon feed them this nonsense about jihad in tunisia [sic] while the Tunisian people are clamoring for democracy and freedom."

These comments are indicative of a tendency: Islamic supremacists generally charge their opponents with "ignorance" and treat them with arrogance and contempt, even when those upon whom they are heaping contempt are correct, and even when the Islamic supremacists know that they are correct.

And so on this yet again: I tried to tell you.

"Tunisia Islamists set for big election gains," from AP, October 16 (thanks to all who sent this in):

(AP) TUNIS, Tunisia — As the land that launched the Arab Spring heads into historic elections next week, all eyes are on the long-repressed Islamists — and whether a big victory for them will irrevocably change this North African nation and inspire similar conservative movements around the region.

Many fear that despite vows to uphold democracy, Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda Party is bent on imposing a theocracy that would roll back hard-won secularism and women's rights. Others see an opportunity to bring a moderate form of political Islam into the Arab world — one styled after the successful ruling party in thriving Turkey.

The Ennahda Party was brutally crushed by overthrown dictator Ben Ali in the 1990s, a policy tacitly approved by Western powers wary of militant Islam. Now, in the Oct. 23 election, it is set to become the largest party in the assembly that will write the nation's new constitution — largely because it is the best-organized force in the country.

Unlike many Islamist groups in the region, Ennahda has explicitly pledged to champion democratic values and women's rights, but its secular critics warn the party has a secret agenda to impose hardline Islam.

These fears have been inflamed by the appearance of new ultraconservative groups known as Salafists that have attacked movie theaters and TV stations for showing material they say denigrates Islam.

"Ultraconservatives" don't generally attack movie theaters and TV stations for showing material they say denigrates Islam.

Once in power, many warn, Ennahda would swiftly seek to put its Islamist stamp on this tourist-friendly nation of 10 million. Tunisia's post-independence 1956 personal status code was unique in the Middle East and outlawed polygamy, mandated the woman's approval to get married and set limits on the man's power to divorce. It also declared men and women to be equal in terms of rights and citizenship.

In January, Tunisians stunned the world with a monthlong popular uprising that overthrew a seemingly entrenched dictator, inspiring similar revolutions across the Middle East....

"We finally get to see whether an Islamic party outside Turkey can be democratic," said Alexander.

Finally!

This is clearly just another attempt to force American workplaces to change the way they operate in order to accommodate Muslims, once again reinforcing the principle that where Islamic law and practice and American law and practice conflict, it is American law and practice that have to give way.

Safoorah Khan asked for "almost three weeks of unpaid leave" so that she could go on the hajj. She wrote that "based on her religious beliefs, she could not justify delaying performing hajj," although since a Muslim has his or her entire lifetime to perform the hajj, it's unclear what would have made it impossible for her to justify delaying doing so -- was she in imminent danger of death?

If she wasn't, there was no reason why she had to go on the hajj at that time. And since the Islamic calendar is a lunar one with a year of 355 days, the time to perform the hajj moves by ten days every year. All she had to do was wait until the time for the hajj fell during summer vacation, and then there would have been no problem.

But instead, she demanded three weeks of leave. Yet three weeks of leave, even unpaid, out of the school year is a significant chunk of time -- after all, the school year is only about nine months long. So she is essentially demanding to keep her job despite being away for nearly a tenth of the time during which the job is to be performed.

Now Obama's Justice Department, ever accommodating to Islamic demands, is forcing the school district to make a big payout to her. And you can be sure there will be more cases like this one. Said Khan: "I’m glad that we settled and I hope this does set a precedent...I hope this helps people and their employers to accommodate Muslims and their requests." Oh, it certainly will. This is a classic stealth jihad case. For a full explanation of the agenda here, see Pamela Geller's new book Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

See Creeping Sharia's report here. "Woman wins right to Mecca trip," by Tina Sfondeles for the Chicago Sun-Times, October 13 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

A Muslim woman has won her fight against a west suburban school district after being denied unpaid leave to go on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced it settled Safoorah Khan’s religious discrimination lawsuit against the Berkeley School District, forcing the district to pay $75,000 in lost back pay, compensatory damages and attorneys’ fees.

The district also will have to develop a policy accommodating religions consistent with the Civil Rights Acts to ensure something similar will not happen again.

Khan, a teacher at MacArthur Middle School, requested an unpaid leave of absence in December 2008 to perform hajj — a pilgrimage required by Islam — but was told she had to choose between her job and her religious beliefs. She resigned.

“I’m glad that we settled and I hope this does set a precedent,” Khan said. “I hope they realize that hajj means a lot to Muslims and there will be more and more people taking the trip. I hope this helps people and their employers to accommodate Muslims and their requests.”

According to the settlement, the district must also provide mandatory training on religious accommodations to all board of education members and school supervisors.

Khan, now 30, says she went to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the year she resigned.

“It’s required once in our lifetime at the earliest opportunity you can get,” she said.

Pino: Immoral

In Muslim countries, non-Muslims must respect Islamic law. In non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims must respect Islamic law. Got it? Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places, and an update on this story: "Saudi Arabia arrests Colombian soccer player over religious tattoos," by Tim Hinchliffe for Colombia Reports, October 11:

A Colombian soccer player was arrested in Saudi Arabia Monday for displaying religious tattoos.

Colombian-born Juan Pablo Pino was arrested by the Saudi moral police after customers in a Riyadh shopping mall expressed outrage over the sports player's religious tattoos, which included the face of Jesus of Nazareth on his arm.

Saudi Arabia is one of the most conservative countries in the Muslim world, and according to one of the country's most respected clerics, Nayimi Sheik Mohammed, Saudi law prohibits tattoos, no matter what their form, and every player has to abide with these rules.

Memo to Colombia Reports: "conservatives" don't generally arrest people for having tattoos of Jesus on their arms.

The cleric went on to stress the importance of respecting the status of "Sharia" (Islamic law) and that the tattoos must be covered at all times.

Pino, who plays in the Saudi league, has expressed "deep sorrow" for his actions and said he respects the laws of the country. He was released from custody when a team delegate arrived and discussed the matter with the police.

A similar event occurred in Saudi Arabia last year when a Romanian player kissed the tattoo of a cross he had on his arm after scoring a goal, which also caused public outrage.

Perhaps they thought that they could force the issue if they acted in sufficient numbers:

"The workers had been repeatedly told they needed to clock out and that the 34 suspended workers had not complied."

"... it's not about pay — break time is paid time — but to ensure that workers were staying within the 10-minute time slots, which has been a problem."

"Muslim workers who clocked out were not suspended."

Hertz has tried to make reasonable accommodations, and they have a business to run that depends on efficiency and reliability. But note the false dichotomy implied by the spokesman below: either the drivers are allowed to break the rules as they see fit, or their families will starve.

"Hertz suspends praying Muslim shuttle drivers," by Lornet Turnbull for the Seattle Times, October 7:

In the three years she's worked as a shuttle driver for Hertz at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Zainab Aweis, had always taken time out of her shift each day to pray.

An observant Muslim, she prays five times a day — with one, sometimes two of those prayer times falling during her shift.

"That was the one benefit of the job," the 20-year-old said.

On Friday, she and 33 other drivers — all of them Somali Muslims — were suspended indefinitely from their jobs after they took religious breaks to pray while at work without first clocking out.

A spokesman for Teamsters Local 117, which represents the workers, said it is trying to get the workers back on the job.

Both the company and the union late Thursday said they were waiting to hear back from the other.

While the drivers were allowed two, 10-minute breaks during their work shifts during which they could pray, Teamsters officials said managers had agreed in negotiations that workers would not have to clock out and in, though the contact itself does not address the matter.

And the workers and their union said Hertz had previously not required that workers clock out for prayer. The union said it has filed an unfair-labor-practices complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against Hertz for failing to notify the union in advance of what it called a policy change.

But Hertz said the rules aren't new; that it had been trying for some time to enforce the terms of an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settlement it reached with the workers two years ago that required them to clock out.

A Hertz spokesman said the workers had been repeatedly told they needed to clock out and that the 34 suspended workers had not complied.

"We felt it was reasonable for our Muslim employees who need to pray a couple times during the workday to clock in and clock out," said Rich Broome, spokesman for Hertz.

Broome said it's not about pay — break time is paid time — but to ensure that workers were staying within the 10-minute time slots, which has been a problem.

He pointed out that Muslim workers who clocked out were not suspended.

On Wednesday, a few dozen people from area labor and faith organizations protested on behalf of the workers outside the Hertz counter at the airport, waving signs saying, "Respect me, Respect my religion."

The Teamsters represents about 79 drivers at Hertz — about 70 percent of whom are Muslim — earning between $9.15 and $9.95 an hour. They receive no health benefits, vacation or sick leave.

Aweis said she was not aware the rules had changed until she arrived at work on Friday and managers told her and six other women who were about to pray that several other workers had been sent home that day for praying.

"He said, 'If you guys pray, you go home,' " Aweis recalled.

"I said, 'Is that a new rule?' And he said, 'yes.' "

They prayed anyway, she said, contending that managers stood over them taunting and disrupting them.

"I like the job," Aweis said. "But if I can't pray, I don't see the benefit."

Income?

Mohamed Hassan, of the Somali Community Services Coalition, said the workers cannot afford to be away from their jobs. "They need to pay rent and buy food for their children."

I tried to tell you. Islamic Tolerance Alert from the glorious new Egypt of the Arab Spring: "Attacks against Coptic churches, part of a plan to expel Egypt’s Christians," from Asia News, October 5 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Cairo (AsiaNews) – Recent attacks against Coptic churches in Merinab (Aswan) and Elmadmar (Sohag) are part of a strategy promoted by Saudi Arabia to use its petrodollars to bring the country under a radical Islamic regime, sources in Cairo told AsiaNews. The latter are fearful of a mass exodus by Egypt’s minority Christians.

On Sunday in Merinab (Aswan, Upper Egypt), more than 3,000 Muslims, incited by their local imam, set fire to the local Coptic church after they accused Christians of building it without a permit.

Islamic law (Sharia) forbids Christians to build new churches.

On Monday, a group of Muslims in Elmadmar, (Sohag province, Upper Egypt) tried to tear down Saint Mary Church, but were repulsed by police sent to rescue the Christian community. However, none of the attackers were arrested....

Sources say Egypt’s military is powerless against attacks by Salafis who use money and promises to turn people in the poorest regions of the country against Christians.

The extremist group is spreading across the Middle East, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Iraq, and Lebanon.

Salafis are taking advantage of the region’s instability to get caretaker governments to impose their ideology based on Sharia and Islam’s supremacy on other religions.

According to a recent report cited by the Assyrian News Agency (Aina), about 100,000 Christians have already left the country since Mubarak’s fall.

“The figure is an exaggeration,” sources told AsiaNews, “but many Copts are indeed leaving the country. In Upper Egypt, but also Cairo and Alexandria, many parish churches lay empty. People are afraid and believe that if the Muslim Brotherhood wins, there will be no place for Christians in the country.” (S.C.)

Here yet again we see dhimmi authorities responding to Islamic supremacist demands by effectively imposing Sharia restrictions upon non-Muslims. An update on this story. "Ohio's response to Muslim lawsuit over prison meal preparation riles state pork industry," by Andrew Welsh-Huggins for the Associated Press, October 5 (thanks to Twostellas):

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A decision by Ohio officials to remove all pork products from prison menus in response to a lawsuit by Muslim inmates is not sitting well with the state's pork producers and processors.

Both promise action of their own, including a possible counter lawsuit, to address what they consider an unfair and illogical decision.

"We really think it's not in the best interest, frankly, of the whole prison system," said Dick Isler, executive director of the Ohio Pork Producers Council. "It seems like we're letting a small group make the rules when it really isn't in the best interest of the rest of prisoners."

Pork is inexpensive and nutritious and compares well with other lean meats, he said.

Ironically, the inmates' lawsuit doesn't involve pork at all; it demands that non-pork meats like beef come from animals slaughtered according to Islamic law. But the prisons system responded by simply removing pork as an option altogether.

Assistant prisons director Steven Huffman has spoken with Isler, but the system isn't changing its mind, spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said Wednesday.

She said she couldn't comment on the lawsuit specifically, but said removing pork assures that inmates' religious practices aren't jeopardized by pork coming into contact with other food during preparation....

In a federal lawsuit, death row inmate Abdul Awkal complains that the state is restraining his religious freedoms by not providing meals prepared according to Islamic law, known as halal, while at the same time supplying Jewish prisoners with kosher meals.

Awkal, joined by a second inmate not on death row, says the vegetarian and non-pork options aren't good enough. The inmates say food must be prepared in specific fashion, such as ensuring that an animal is butchered by slitting its throat and draining its blood, to conform to Islamic beliefs.

Prison guidelines for Muslim inmates already provided that meals will be "free of all pork and products containing or derived from pork."...

Hassan and Ali: contempt for U.S. law

She doesn't recognize the authority of American law, only Islamic law. So her intentions in the United States are subversive only. "Minn. woman facing Somalia terror case arrested," by Amy Forliti for the Associated Press, October 3 (thanks to Block Ness):

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota woman accused of funneling money to a terrorist group in Somalia was handcuffed and removed from a courtroom Monday when she refused to stand for the judge hearing the case.

Amina Farah Ali, 35, was taken away as jury selection was to begin. Ali and another defendant, Hawo Mohamed Hassan, are accused of raising thousands of dollars to fund the movement of fighters and money from the U.S. to Somalia.

Ali's attorney, Dan Scott, said she declined to stand on religious grounds, but Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis ordered marshals to arrest her. Davis had issued an order last week that all parties would follow the rules of courtroom decorum after Ali refused to stand at an earlier hearing....

Ali and Hassan maintain their innocence, saying they were collecting money and clothing for refugees. But prosecutors allege the women went door-to-door and held teleconferences to solicit donations for the fighters. In one of those recorded calls, investigators allege, Ali said to "forget about the other charities" and focus on "the jihad." In others, both women speak with the leader of a militia allied with al-Shabab, and Ali gets updates on the fighting....

The other night I watched a British documentary about the Ground Zero mosque controversy (for which I was interviewed, and in which I appear) that portrayed Sharif El-Gamal as a good-hearted schlub who was trying to do a good deed and ended up getting beset by cynical sharpies like Pamela Geller and me. Anything about his criminal past, his glorification of physical violence, his numerous shady financial dealings? Of course not! That wouldn't fit the narrative! But in reality, the man behind the Islamic supremacist Ground Zero Mosque is an Islamic supremacist thug: "Mosque falls short," by Andrea Peyser in the New York Post, September 26:

“We don’t know what they’re really going to do. They’ve said they wanted to do a lot of things,’’ said a board member who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation. Still, he confessed to being weary of the fight.

“It’s been emotionally and physically draining. After the anniversary [of 9/11] passed, I have to distance myself from it.’’

“I don’t trust this guy as far as I can throw him,’’ said another board member, concerned about El-Gamal’s long rap sheet, another thing you’ll never read about in the Times.

El-Gamal has been busted at least seven times since 1990 for DWI and disorderly conduct, and charged with failing to pay more than $200,000 in taxes. Most recently, in 2005, El-Gamal was arrested for assaulting a man who sublet an apartment from his brother, punching the guy and breaking his nose and cheekbone. El-Gamal at first said he didn’t hit the man, but WCBS/Channel 2 discovered records that show El-Gamal conceded “his face could have run into my hand.’’

I tried to talk to El-Gamal and give him a chance to turn me around to the sunny face of Islam. He refused. Can you blame him?...

Looks as if they had quite a diverse crowd at their "opening"

Crocodile tears. If El-Gamal were in earnest about allaying people's concerns, he would be talking to 9/11 family members now. And he would have accepted our invitation to come to our forum on the Ground Zero Mosque at CPAC last February. And he would not be aiding and abetting the ongoing campaign of defamation and vilification of opponents of the triumphal mosque at Ground Zero. "GZ Islamic center boss: We blew it," by Erin Calabrese and Tim Perone in the New York Post, September 22:

The controversial Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero opened to the public for the first time last night with a photography exhibit -- as its developer said he regretted not consulting with families of the 9/11 victims earlier.

“We made incredible mistakes,” Sharif El-Gamal said as the Park51 Islamic community center welcomed visitors to an exhibition featuring pictures of New York children of more than 160 ethnicities.

“The biggest mistake we made was not to include 9/11 families,” El-Gamal said.

“We didn’t understand that we had a responsibility to discuss our private project with family members that lost loved ones.”

If you didn't understand it then, you understand it now. And in light of that understanding, you should abandon this project. Yet you are not doing so. Now, why is that? (As if we didn't already know the answer.)

About 150 people attended last night’s exhibit and there were no protests.

They got international press coverage for this sham "opening," which wasn't actually an opening at all, as Muslims have been praying in that building for years, and they have not broken ground on their mosque, as they had originally planned to on September 11, 2011. (Daisy Khan and others affirmed that, but it went down the memory hole when it proved politically damaging.)

And they drew 150 people -- far fewer than those who came from all over the U.S. and Europe and made it past the police mazes and roadblocks on September 11 to attend our AFDI/SIOA 9/11 Freedom Rally, and yet that got no coverage at all. Now, why is that? (As if we didn't already know the answer.)

El-Gamal said he hopes that people who don’t want the center and prayer space so close to where the 9/11 attacks occurred will now see what it’s all about.

“There’s tremendous excitement with this opening,” he said.

“Park51 is about bringing people together.”

Except those who stand in its way, whom they are determined to destroy.

What a surprise. In this case the Muslims appear sure that the French will ultimately bend to their will. And why not? They have so many times before. "Muslims defy outdoor prayer ban in France," from Newscore, September 16:

PARIS -- Hundreds of Muslims defied a French ban on outdoor prayer -- which came into force Friday --and took to the streets and sidewalks of Paris to pray.

The French government announced Thursday it was banning praying outside, with officials pledging to enforce the ban from Friday.

But 200 Muslims ignored the ban and prayed on the streets in the neighborhood of La Goutte d'Or, Le Parisien newspaper reported.

French interior minister Claude Gueant said he had nothing against Islam but wanted it out of the public eye because France was a secular state.

He added, "Street prayers must stop because they hurt the feelings of many of our compatriots who are shocked by the occupation of the public space for a religious practice."

Although officials would persuade people to pray in mosques, Muslims who continued to pray in the street would be arrested, Gueant warned.

The ban angered French Muslim leaders who said Muslims only prayed outdoors because of a lack of space in mosques in France....

The Turkish-born Professor Yisrael Chanatoglu speaks about Turkey's plan to reestablish the caliphate. "Video: Expert in Knesset - PA Part of Global Jihad," from Arutz Sheva, September 8:

"Islam intends to conquer the world, It is already doing so through immigration to France, England and more slowly to the rest of the Western world. The threats to march on communities in Judea and Samaria on September 20th and the recognition bid at the UN are all part of this global Jihad", says Professor Yisrael Chanatoglu of the Association of Professors for a Strong Israel....

Read it all.

Here is an occasion for a study in contrasts. Time will tell who is behind this act of supremacist vandalism and violation of federal law, whether it was a student, a teacher, a parent, visitor, or a staff member. But imagine if the shoe were on the other foot in Saudi Arabia.

This act should become a "teachable moment" for the students at this school. There should be an unapologetic lesson in what the flag stands for and the respect it deserves and is afforded by law. One hopes that daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance is not also an issue. "Fury as elementary school lowers American flag... and replaces it with Saudi Arabian one," from the Daily Mail, September 5 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Parents of children at an elementary school in Colorado are furious after the American flag was lowered at the multi-cultural school and replaced with a Saudi Arabian flag.

As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, someone at Bauder Elementary School in Fort Collins appears to have lowered the American symbol while raising that of the Muslim country in its place.

Not just any Muslim country's flag, but one which has the Islamic profession of faith, and conventionally, a sword printed on it.

The flag is thought to have initially been hung at the school as one of many posted around the site in recognition of the various nationalities represented by the young students.

The school's principal insisted the flag was not raised by a member of staff in order to disrespect the American flag - and said the American flag immediately was returned to its prominent position when the issue came to his attention.

But parents argue the display was a direct violation of federal law, which states: 'No other flag or pennant should be placed above, or, if on same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America.'

They argue it's the result of the effect a growing Muslim population is having on the area.

A photograph of the Saudi Arabian flag was taken by a concerned local and first posted on the Greeley Report blog.

We realise this is an extremely sensitive time with us getting close to the 10th anniversary of 9/11,' the school's principal, Brian Carpenter said.

'Bauder Elementary School serves a diverse international population of students. As a means of recognising the varied nationalities of students, flags from the students’ respective countries fly within the school’s center lobby.

'The American flag always sits highest in the centre of a window alcove with the other nation flags being tilted from a lower position.'

He insisted no one at the school had created the display and added: 'The American flag is very important to us and this country so we treat it with respect."

Sept 3 — As controversy surrounding a church raid by the Selangor religious authorities drags on, a Facebook campaign backing the raid has drawn the support of over 23,000 people.

The Facebook page titled “1,000,000 umat Islam sokong JAIS & Hasan Ali cegah MURTAD” (1,000,000 Muslims support Jais & Hasan Ali to prevent apostasy) was created on August 6, three days after the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) disrupted a charity dinner at the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) a month ago on August 3.

The administrators of the Facebook page claimed that impoverished Malays have secretly joined church activities after Christian churches had extended help to them.

“In fact, this underground movement is growing throughout the country, including Kelantan and Terengganu,” said the administrators on the page.

Jais has said that it “inspected” the evangelical church — based in Petaling Jaya — after acting on a complaint that participants at the dinner were trying to convert the 12 Muslims present at the function to Christianity. Proselytising Muslims is against the law in Malaysia.

Selangor executive councillor Datuk Hasan Ali has said that the words “Quran” and “pray” were used in the presence of Muslims there, claiming that this was part of the authorities’ evidence of Christians proselytising to Muslims.

The contentious raid has escalated religious conflict between Muslims and Christians in the country, with Malay newspapers highlighting allegations of Christians trying to convert Muslims through welfare work.

Characterizing this tension as 'religious conflict' between Muslims and Christians is erroneous. While Muslims constantly imagine dastardly 'infidel' conspiracies behind every rock and tree that plot against Islam, it is in fact Muslims who oppress, discriminate against and persecute largely passive religious minorities (Christians, Hindus, etc).

Influential cleric Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin, however, said recently that Muslims should take care of their own poor, instead of accusing Christians of proselytising when churches helped needy Muslims.

The Facebook page — which has a profile picture of a figure on a horse holding a flag with the words “Soldiers of Allah” below — has 23,736 “likes” at the time of writing.

“The report on (Jais’s) investigative visit to DUMC on August 3 was completed on August 4. Why is the full report being delayed until the end of September? Should the issue of apostasy in Selangor be silenced?” asked the page administrators on the Facebook wall.

Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said last Tuesday that Jais would complete a report on its raid by the end of September.

The Selangor hearing working group recently met Jais and representatives from NGO Harapan Komuniti — which organised the dinner at DUMC — in a bid to resolve the debacle that has incensed Muslims and Christians against the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) administration.

An investigation which of course sees no need (at least up to this point) to actually talk to the church that organized the dinner in the first place.

Harapan Komuniti — which helps AIDS patients and impoverished single mothers — has said it featured prayer, religious songs and a quiz on Islam at its dinner, but denied it was aimed at converting the Muslims present.

A Facebook group promoting apostasy among Muslims titled “Murtads in Malaysia and Singapore” recently stirred controversy after TV1 allegedly linked the group to Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders last Saturday.

The DAP has demanded that the government sack those responsible for airing the state television channel’s report, pointing out that TV1 did not verify such information with PR leaders who purportedly supported the online group.

“TV1 either were too ignorant to know, or did not want to know the fact that the “add to group” function in Facebook is such that you cannot prevent a group administrator from adding you to any group,” said DAP publicity chief Tony Pua.

DAP, or Democratic Action Party, is the only majority 'infidel' political party in Malaysia, and it is locked into an uncomfortable alliance with a pious Islamic party known as PAS that opposes the ruling coalition. TV1 is a Malaysian TV channel owned and operated by Malaysia's (nominally moderate) ruling party UMNO, whilst the government minister that sanctioned the 'inspection' is from PAS. As I've tried to point out before, this is a distinction without a difference, as both parties are equally committed to the Islamic supremacist agenda.

"Tolerance" and "respect" are to be a one-way street where Islamic supremacism holds sway. Any sense of reciprocal duties implies an equality of responsibility which could detract from the subjugated status of unbelievers. And that's clearly just... intolerable. "Muslim extremists against movie that promotes tolerance and dialogue," by Mathias Hariyadi for Asia News, August 29:

Jakarta (AsiaNews) – The Islamic Defender Front (FPI), an extremist Muslim organisation, is promoting a protest campaign against SCTV, a Jakarta-based private TV station, for scheduling “?”, a movie deemed offensive to Muslims that was directed by a young talented filmmaker, Hanung Bramantyo. Even though, the movie tells a story about tolerance and respect between Indonesia’s various religious groups, the FPI and other Islamist groups say it “pollutes the morality” of Indonesian Muslims.

Jakarta FPI leader Habib Salim Alatas warned the SCTV management that thousands of Muslims would join to demonstrate in front of the TV station should it broadcast the movie Monday night.

Released in April, “?” was recently attacked by the Indonesian Ulema Movement (MUI), which issued a fatwa ordering Muslims not to see it because of its misleading content and its suggestion that there is another ‘God’ beside the one recognised and worshipped within Islam.

By banning it, they have made it an instant object of curiosity and given the movie far more notoriety than if they had opted to ignore it.

Filmmaker Hanung Bramantyo has called on TV executives not to give in to extremist pressures because doing so would mean accepting a patent violation of freedom of expression.

The FPI is not new to threats. In recent weeks, FPI extremists attacked members of the Ahmadi community, a sect viewed as heretical by mainstream Muslims, in Makassar (southern Sulawesi).

In a similar incident, Muslim extremists attack street vendors in Bandung (West Java) for selling alcoholic beverages.

In the recent past, human rights activists have slammed the Indonesian government for doing nothing against extremists.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been especially targeted for criticism because of his failure to take decisive action to stem the rise of Islamists, who are now able to make any claim they want.

Now, just before the end of Ramadan and Idul Fitri on Tuesday, extremists want to censor TV broadcasting.

Here is yet another example of an oft-repeated phenomenon: whenever there is any problem, declare that it was caused by rebellion from Allah, and that the only remedy is more Islam. This is a recurring feature of Islamic history, and it leads to ever-increasing fanaticism and violence.

"Root cause of ills is deviation from Islam: JI," from The Nation (Pakistan), August 29 (thanks to Twostellas):

LAHORE – Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hasan has said that the root cause of all the ills confronting the country is deviation from Islam, the corrupt rulers and the promotion of evils in the society.

Pakistan had been achieved for building up a model Islamic state for the entire world but the rulers pushed the country in the opposite direction and the whole nation was facing the consequences, he said while addressing the congregation at the Mansoora mosque following the completion of the Holy Quran in Taraweeh.

Syed Munawar Hasan said that Islam is a complete code of life but the Muslims today are facing disgrace and ignominy due to drifting away from the Quran.

SHAH ALAM: Umno senator Ezam Mohd Nor said he has to come to the defence of Islam and will wage war against those who tarnish the religion, including burning online news portals.

He also warned Muslim staff of Malaysiakini and Malaysian Insider not to become agents for infidels.

Wait, what could get the 'peaceful' Muslims riled up enough to 'wage war'?  Of course, it's those treacherous infidels. As for how one 'burns' an online news portal, this is not really spelled out by the senator. But would these peaceful moderate Muslims be willing to burn down real buildings, along with the people inside? With all the churches that have been targeted by arson attacks in Malaysia in recent years, we should already know the answer to this question. 

“Don’t be a (Brutus) for the infidel’s agenda. You can find employment elsewhere,” Ezam said after claiming that these portals showed strong stance against the JAIS action at the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC).

“We give you a last warning. If you don’t stop, we’ll burn,” said Ezam, a former ally of Anwar Ibrahim.

And any ensuing violence that results because of this explicit threat will, of course, be entirely the fault of the 'infidels'.

He also extended his threat to the Muslims who abet the non-Muslims in conversions out of Islam.

“We have no choice but to wage war to protect the Muslim faith,” said Ezam in front of 500 fellow Muslims at the compound of the Selangor state mosque in Shah Alam.

On a similar note Ezam told dozens of reporters that Muslims have no issues with non-Muslims.

“We have a problem if the Menteri Besar pawns Islam for votes,” he said in reference to Selangor Menteri Besar, Khalid Ibrahim.

“We have a problem if Shah Alam MP pawns Islam,” Ezam added, and extended his warning to Selangor’s Christian exco members- Teresa Kok, Elizabeth Wong, Ronnie Liu and Xavier Jayakumar.

“We have problems with infidels who convert Muslims,” he said.

Jihadists employ a variety of means of warfare to create a vacuum of stability and security for which they will claim Sharia is the only solution, because it is the only one they will allow. In this case, anarchy is already present, and they are encouraging its growth because they see in it an opportunity to peddle their wares. "In online forums, Islamic militants urge rioters in Britain to topple government," from the Associated Press, August 10 (thanks to Twostellas):

CAIRO — Militant online forums are abuzz with calls to Muslims in Britain to launch Internet campaigns in support of the British rioters and to urge them to topple the government.

Dozens of contributors on Wednesday suggested Muslims in Britain should flood social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, with slogans and writings inciting the British youth to continue rioting.

One contributor says the rioters should adopt slogans similar to those used by Arab protesters during the uprisings in the Middle East this year.

“The people want the killer of Mark Duggan punished” is suggested — a reference to the British man whose death sparked the riots.

Sow chaos, and sell Sharia as the antidote to the disorder, or fitna:

Another contributor says an Internet media attack is very important and that “chaos is useful to militants in London.”

The latest turn in the JAIS-DUMC [Damansara Utama Methodist Church] debacle reads: 1988 state law allows JAIS to act against non-Muslims

(Bar Council chief) Lim said there were four existing state Islamic legislation that give the authorities wide powers to act on religious matters, namely:

• Enakmen Jenayah Syariah (Selangor) 1995 [Shariah criminal enactment]
• Enakmen Ugama Bukan Islam, 1988 [Enactment for religions other than Islam]
• Administration of the Religion of Islam (State of Selangor) Enactment 2003; and
• Syariah Criminal Procedure (State of Selangor) Enactment 2003.

How wide-reaching are such powers? Well.

The Selangor’s Non-Islamic Religions (Control of Propagation Amongst Muslims) Enactment(The second enactment in the list), which outlines offences deemed as acts of proselytisation by non-Muslims towards Muslims, grants the religious authorities powers to launch investigations and arrest individuals without producing a warrant.

That’s you they’re talking about, proselytisers!

Some offences include the persuasion or incitement of Muslims to convert, to receive instructions or to participate in any activity for the benefit of any non-Islamic religion; if non-Muslims communicate with a Muslim for the purpose of subjecting the latter to any speech on a non-Islamic religion; if a person uses certain prohibited words to describe any belief pertaining to any non-Islamic religion, and others.

Otherwise known as de facto syariah supremacy.

Take a gander at some of the comments below the article and you will find those who insist on forbidding non-Muslims to weigh in on the matter even though the syariah enactments affect non-Muslims.

But, really, all this isn’t news. From the Pact of Umar, circa 7th Century, a peace accord between the Caliph Umar and Syrian Christians:

We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries, Churches, convents, or monks’ cells, nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims.

Wonder why permits to build churches is one of the hardest things to come by in Malaysia—let alone having one that resembles a church, or display any loud-and-proud Christian symbols?

We shall not manifest our religion publicly nor convert anyone to it. We shall not prevent any of our kin from entering Islam if they wish it.

Proselytisation: A one-way journey since the 7th century.

We shall not seek to resemble the Muslims by imitating any of their garments, the qalansuwa, the turban, footwear, or the parting of the hair. We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their kunyas.

We shall not engrave Arabic inscriptions on our seals.

I’m sure using ‘Allah’ in Malay [language] Bibles counts as an offence [link added] in this case.

We shall not display our crosses or our books in the roads or markets of the Muslims.

We shall show respect toward the Muslims, and we shall rise from our seats when they wish to sit.

You get the idea. Such a relationship survives until this day, thanks to the dhimma who continue to aid and abet such master-servant relationships (MCA [Malaysian Chinese Association, one of the dhimmi auxiliaries to Malaysia's ruling party] gave its thumbs-up to impose the 1988 enactments). Ignorance is to some quarters, indeed, bliss.

A Head Elder, Senior Pastor Ambrouse Linang who is also the Secretary-General of the Association of Churches in Sarawak expressed shock at the continuation of the Christian attacks, commenting that it made nonsense of [Prime Minister] Najib's recent high-profile visit to the Vatican.

“Paranoid is the word. It has become a norm for some Muslim to over-react over rumors or hearsay. This government used to say Muslims all over the world are being persecuted. Look at us Christian, are we not being persecuted in our own country?"

Christian parish council member, Ding worried about the Christians' freedom of worship in Malaysia. “It appears to be getting worst by the year. A wise government unites its entire people, not divide them. It is time for Christian to rise and pray together for a better government and for a better country, not a government which is so bent on making the races suspicious and scared of each other,” she said.

Several Islamic groups have united in support of the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) raid on a church in Petaling Jaya last Wednesday which has sparked an outcry.

Muslim Organisations in Defence of Islam (Pembela) leader Dr Yusri Mohamed said today that Jais did not “storm”, “raid” and “barge” into the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) as portrayed in the media.

“Based on information obtained from Jais, the reason for inspection was to see if there were Muslims present during the function and to make sure there was no derogation of Islam,” Yusri told reporters here.

“The operation was carried out in accordance to principles and provisions of existing law.”

What exactly is considered to be 'derogation' here? The fact that Muslims are in a church, receiving aid from Christians? And of course the thuggish action the inspection such as that carried out by religious police is legal and never a derogation of any kind, permitted by laws that were written by Muslims. As the principles and provisions of existing Malaysian law are written in order to maintain Islamic supremacy in perpetuity, what is the moral worth of such laws? What is the use of following an unjust law in an unjust system that guarantees the supremacy of Islam?

PETALING JAYA: Selangor state exco member Datuk Hasan Ali of PAS has defended Wednesday night's raid by the State Religious Department (JAIS) [religious police] on the Damansara Utama Methodist Church.

"We found evidence of proselytisation towards Muslims," he said in a statement Thursday.

"We carried out the raid after receiving information that there were Muslims who attended a breaking-of-fast event at the church.

"In the early part of the event, a person was quoted saying the words 'Quran' and 'pray' in the speech," he added.

It was reported earlier Thursday that JAIS officials, accompanied by police, had raided the church during a thanksgiving dinner being held at its rented premises over suspicion that Muslims were present.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 — The Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) has called on all Malaysians to lend support and object to what it called the authorities’ breach of their constitutional right to assemble freely, after it was raided by Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) officials and the police last night.

In a statement today, DUMC’s senior pastor Daniel Ho related how a group of 20 to 30 of Selangor’s religious police had entered its rented premises at the Dream Centre in Petaling Jaya late last night without a warrant and intimidated invited guests, including Muslims, at its private dinner celebration.

They have subjected all guests at the Thanksgiving Dinner to undue harassment,” he said, noting that not all the enforcement group were in uniform and had failed to produce a copy of the complaint when asked for the reason for the raid.

Ho stressed that the dinner was non-religious in nature but held to celebrate the work of non-profit organisation Harapan Komuniti in helping women, children, HIV/AIDS sufferers and victims of natural disasters.

“We call on all Malaysians not to condone this breach of freedom of assembly and association as provided by provided Article 10 of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, but to live in mutual trust and love, to promote peace, harmony and unity in the true spirit of 1 Malaysia,” he said.

Pastor Ho, you think the constitution that you revere contravenes the laws of Allah as (supposedly) codified in Shariah? You think '1Malaysia' means equality of infidel and Muslim? Think again.

The full commercials start at around 1:00 into the video. Even before one considers the Islamic supremacist aspect of the ad campaign, they are in howlingly poor taste. Each one has a different message, telling non-Muslims not to be loud, eat in public, or wear "revealing" clothing, while singling out the Chinese minority population through the use of an over-the-top obnoxious main character.

On the other hand, they couldn't use a Malay person, because the constitution defines Malays as a Muslim people, and doing so might offend someone who counts in their ordering of society. "Malaysia's 8TV pulls 'racist' Ramadan adverts," from BBC News, August 3:

A Malaysian TV channel has withdrawn a series of public-service messages about the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, after viewers complained they were racist.

One of the adverts showed an ethnic Chinese girl acting in a rude manner towards Muslims, followed by a message saying: "Do not be loud or obnoxious."

In another of the adverts the girl is wearing a vest-top and is told: "Do not wear tight and revealing clothes."

The station, 8TV, apologised for any "inconvenience or uneasiness" caused.

"It is with much regret that there were misinterpretations in the PSA [public service announcement] that were meant to serve only as a message of respect for the Ramadan month," the channel said in a message on its Facebook page.

"The message was not meant to offend anyone, race or creed in any way. This is an honest mistake involving a very small amount of humour that was misinterpreted which led to concerns."

The station, which aims largely at Malaysia's sizeable Chinese minority, pulled the messages from its schedules and also moved quickly to delete them from video-sharing websites.

Its Facebook page was inundated with critical messages.

One web user, Jules Yap, said the channel had shown "disgusting, arrogant behaviour".

"Can't believe how arrogant the higher-ups in 8TV are, coming out with a defensive, insincere 'apology' which at the same time blames the viewers for misinterpreting the offensive PSA ads, when the ads are clearly in poor taste," he said.

Boon Hun said: "Gosh, you keep using the word misinterpretations, like it's our fault!"

Ethnic Chinese make up about one quarter of Malaysia's population.

They often complain of being discriminated against by the country's laws, which give ethnic Malays preferential treatment.

The Bumiputra system. More on that can be found here.

Everybody knows that only greasy Islamophobes intent on inciting violence believe that any Muslim has any interest in "subduing the world." Sheikh Ahmed Kayemba must be a greasy Islamophobe. "Uganda People News: LC3 chairman calls on girls to get married," from UGPulse, July 25 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

He who gets a man or woman to marry pleases Allah, the LC3 chairperson for Katwe Butebo division in Masaka, Sheikh Ahmed Kayemba has said.

Kayemba who was yesterday speaking at an introduction ceremony in Kalagala village in Masaka said that he feels irritated when girls refuse to get married and decide to engage in prostitution.

Sheikh Kayemba says that the Koran teaches that girls have to get married, produce children and subdue the world.

Kayemba, who says he has 23 children so far, has also encouraged his fellow Muslims to produce as many children as possible.

Malaysia's civil court has refused a woman permission to leave Islam to avoid being jailed for apostasy.

Kamariah Ali, 60, says she should not be tried under Islamic law because she is no longer a Muslim.

She follows the Sky Kingdom sect, known as the teapot cult because it built a giant teapot to symbolise its belief in the healing purity of water.

But judges ruled that only Malaysia's Islamic courts could decide on the case because Ms Kamariah was born a Muslim.

Malaysia's Islamic courts have authority over only Muslims - the rest of the population are not bound by their rules.

The BBC's Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur says Ms Kamariah's case is one of a growing number of legal challenges brought by those caught between the Islamic authorities and the civil courts.

Ms Kamariah had asked the civil courts to declare her freedom to worship, as guaranteed by the [Malaysian] constitution.

As it turns out, any 'guarantees of freedom' made by Muslims or Muslim nations mean very little indeed.