This is all Shahindha said on Twitter that caused her life to be threatened for “blasphemy,” along with threats to throw her out of the country:
“Religions other than Islam exist in this world because Allah allowed for it. No other religion would exist otherwise, is it not?”
Amid upheaval over Shahinda’s comment about the acceptance of other faiths, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs issued a public statement ordering citizens to not advocate for any other faith but Islam.
If this sounds familiar, it should. Although not as overt, this is what is unfolding in the West under the guise of “Islamophobia” drives that aim to punish criticism of Islam, putting it above all other faiths.
Now police are investigating Shahindha, when they should be investigating those who are threatening her life. This is precisely the kind of human rights abuse that Westerners are ignoring, and instead jumping on the “anti-Islamophobia” bandwagon in bowing down to Islam.
As stated correctly by Shahindha:
“Human rights defenders have always been labelled as anti-Islamic or as Western agents to wipe out Islam.”
The worst part is that with wide open immigration, Ismail’s comment now applies to the West, where oppressive Sharia norms have now become a presence. Treasonous leaders, who not only implement suicidal immigration policy, but who also partner with Islamic supremacists/Muslim Brotherhood proponents are eroding Western freedoms and facing no consequences, escaping happily on the backs of taxpayers.
“Maldives activist ‘fears for life’ amid blasphemy investigation”, Pakistan Today, January 1, 2018:
MALÉ: A prominent human rights activist in the Maldives has said that she has received several death threats over an alleged anti-Islamic Twitter post, that has also prompted a criminal investigation.
Shahindha Ismail, executive director of Maldives Democracy Network (MDN), told Al Jazeera that anonymous accounts on Twitter and Facebook have been calling for her death, after a newspaper article and religious scholars accused her of advocating for secularism in the Sunni Muslim state.
“I do not feel safe in the Maldives and I fear for my life,” she said on Sunday.
The furore over Ismail’s post began on December 20, when she responded to a speech by President Abdulla Yameen, in which he had vowed to crack down on what he said were domestic and international efforts to propagate faiths other than Islam in the Maldives.
“Religions other than Islam exist in this world because Allah allowed for it. No other religion would exist otherwise, is it not?” Ismail said on Twitter.
Her post prompted threats, with one Twitter user, referring to Ismail, saying: “I’m one of hundreds who will cut people like that to pieces.” That post has since been deleted.
Several comments on Facebook reviewed by Al Jazeera also called for attacks on Ismail and said she should “be thrown out of the country”.
Islam is the official religion in the Indian Ocean archipelago of 400,000 people.
On December 28, amid the furore, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs issued a statement urging Maldivians to refrain from “nonsensical talk that advocates for any faith other than Islam in the Maldives”.
Hours later, the police announced that it had launched an investigation against Ismail.
Several ruling party politicians, including Majority Leader Ahmed Nihan, thanked the police for the probe.
A police spokesman said Ismail was being investigated under the Religious Unity Act, which criminalises actions that may lead to religious strife in the Maldives.
It carries a prison sentence of up to five years.
“Police have announced an investigation against me while ignoring the open threats against me on social media,” said Ismail.
“Human rights defenders have always been labelled as anti-Islamic or as Western agents to wipe out Islam,” she added. “Too many of us have been attacked, disappeared and murdered for any of us to be safe anymore.”
A liberal blogger was stabbed to death earlier this year in the Maldives’ capital, Male, after he lodged a police complaint over death threats against him, also for alleged secular and anti-Islamic views.
Ismail has previously criticised law enforcement agencies for inaction over attacks against liberal and moderate voices, which also include the disappearance of a journalist in 2014 and the killing of a parliamentarian in 2012. Both of these cases remain unsolved.
Police Superintendent Ahmed Shifan said he was uncertain if Ismail had filed any complaints.
“We assure you, however, if we can identify a potential threat, then we will launch an investigation,” he told Al Jazeera.
‘PROFILING AND INCITEMENT’:
Rights groups have previously criticised the country’s government for using new laws and criminal cases to silence, among others, human rights defenders and civil society groups.
A vocal critic of Yameen’s human rights record, Ismail said threats against her “escalated” after the pro-government tabloid Vaguthu Online published a news article headlined, “Shahindha has indirectly called for other faiths in the Maldives.”
The article prompted an outcry from some religious scholars.
In a Facebook post, one railed against what he called the spread of secularism in the Maldives and called on Ismail to repent, while the religious conservative group Jamiyyath Salaf called for action against those who mock Islam.
The MDN, which Ismail heads, said it was “appalled” that the police have chosen to investigate the content of her Twitter post rather “than those who have openly called to kill and behead her”.
Ismail said she believed the outcry over her tweet was “part of the same trend of extensive profiling and incitement” that preceded previous physical attacks on the blogger, journalist and parliamentarian.
RichardL says
I was vacationing on the Maldives in the mid-80s and a few years ago a plane to Sri Lanka stopped there. On the airport I only saw full blown salafis. islam doing its work. I just couldn’t believe how much the country had changed in thirty years.
CRUSADER says
Bill Maher and Fox News’s Muslim feminism:
How Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Nomani embrace the soft Islamophobia of Western expectations
— article by Nathan Lane
(Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative….
“The Islamophobia Industry.”)
https://www.salon.com/2015/07/13/bill_mahers_favorite_muslims_how_aayan_hirsi_ali_and_asra_nomani_embraced_the_soft_islamophobia_of_western_expectations/
Hannity loves their criticism of Islam, NPR their personal triumph. But two voices must not define modern Muslims.
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….. Some Sad Commentary from Salon …..
mike9a says
The cult would not exist a minute longer if there was no death threats for leaving or criticizing Islam! If one improperly blink with its eyes is offensive to some “learned” two brain cells imam. Just try to read the hate manual.
mortimer says
“If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.” – Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi
The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Mike and Mortimer.
J D S says
The only way Islam ever existed in the past and exists today is FEAR.
If not for FEAR Islam would have gone under not long after it was started…note..”started” Islam the Religion of FEAR.
cornelius says
Friends, here’s a song I wrote and recorded about the honor-killing of Amina and Sarah Said. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of their death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzAIfzw2ubg
mike9a says
Thank you for the song and reminder.
Terry Gain says
Very good Cornelius. Could you use your talent to write lyrics for Imaine There’s No Islam.
Terry Gain says
Imagine no typos!
gravenimage says
Thank you so much, Cornelius! Deeply touching.
I have been anticipating hearing your song about them for some time.
For those not familiar, the talented Cornelius also did a tribute to Robert Spencer:
“Robert Spencer, Here’s to You”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/robert-spencer-heres-to-you
cornelius says
Thanks so much for the accolades Graven. You’re a sweetheart.
I sent the song to Robert as a submission to JW. He obviously decided not to feature it. Can’t deny I was disappointed, but I’m sure he had his reasons.I’m not about to start second-guessing our fearless leader.
CRUSADER says
Jihad Watch not only needs to inspire break-out groups in communities nation-wide,
to discuss matters, but also to have a talent show to discover who can showcase the best arguments and expressions. All about freedom of speech, and reason of thought.
Kudos!!!!
CRUSADER says
Cornelius, mucho apreciado ~
Can you post a song for Brigitte Gabriel, of ACT FOR AMERICA ??!!!???
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JawsV says
It’s a dumb question to begin with. One, there is no Allah, two, all other religions existed BEFORE Islam so there’s no point to the question. Allah is Muhammed and so has nothing to do with Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism etc. That she actually thinks there’s an Allah is the problem.
Jack Diamond says
There is how the rest of the world thinks and understands reality and then there is Planet Islam.
The position of Islam is that the only religion recognized by Allah, at all, is Islam (Qur’an 3:19) and to even desire a religion other than Islam will never be accepted of anybody (3:85). In Sahih Muslim you have “the whole earth has been declared unto me a mosque.” The Qur’an makes it clear that all humans are born Muslim and are renegades if they are not Muslims, despised by Allah, including all the Biblical prophets who “bow their will to Allah, in Islam” from Abraham to Moses to Jesus (2:136). This is a zero-sum game in which Islam claims all the marbles and gives no legitimacy to anything else (the entire earth has been declared a mosque, not just a part of it).
Islam does not accept other faiths and when it has the upper hand, has little or no tolerance. In fact, Allah demands the blood of the disbelievers and the sure path to his Paradise is through the shed blood and severed heads of the hated disbelievers. His devouring extends to demanding the lives of apostates. True Muslims submit to this human sacrifice system and that’s why Shahindha Ismail fears for her life after only pointing out the obvious.
Allah is indeed capricious in the Qur’an. He is the best of deceivers and under no compunction to behave with any consistency. It is Allah who creates the deception of Jesus dying on the cross, thus creating the very false religion (Christianity after Jesus) he claims to hate. The Qur’an says Allah himself leads people astray (to fill up Hell) and yet he hates them for being led astray by him and wants them punished (by Muslims in this life).
This is why Muslims are told, with good reason, not to ask questions of Allah or Muhammad.
Sura 5:101 “Believers! Do not ask questions about things which if made plain and declared to you, may vex you, causing you trouble.”
Sura 5:102 “Some people before you did ask such questions, and on that account they lost their faith and became disbelievers.”
Another reason it is useless to debate, argue, or try to reason with a slave of allah and why Islam is “as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog” while at the same time characterized by “this fearful fatalistic apathy.”
gravenimage says
But only Muslims are going to threaten her for such dumb questions.
J D S says
YES! There is no allah….I don’t care if allah in Muslim language means God…… and as long as Muslims continue to believe that the word allah represents the one and only God that created EVERYTHING, the allah that Satan put in the mouth of muhammad , then they are bound for the Lake of Fire. and the only way they can prevent that is to repent, turn their backside to Islam and accept that Islam is a religion of FEAR and that they are held there by FEAR Fear that they and their kin will be killed if they leave islam and that is a proven FACT. It’s in the book!!!
MFritz says
Another one of those corrupt hellholes where islam “shows” its tolerance towards other cultures, religions… and opinions.
gravenimage says
Six years ago, Muslims in the Maldives destroyed their entire heritage of Buddhist art:
“It begins: Muslims in Maldives smash Buddhist statues in National Museum”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/02/it-begins-muslims-in-maldives-smash-buddhist-statues-in-national-museum
Jaladhi says
Islam’s biggest enemy is the “truth about Islam”. That is why Muslims are ready to kill anybody who tells the truth about Islam. Spread the truth about Islam and Muslims and see how long this criminal cult will survive!
Singh the Sikh says
The country has gone to the Muslims. Only for Muslims. Others make way or move out. Which country is ripe for takeover next? Any guesses?
elee says
Islam: thug of religions, religion of thugs.
mortimer says
Defending human rights has NOTHING… NOTHING to do with Islam.
mortimer says
The Maldives Government is enforcing the PACT OF OMAR, but is not admitting they are doing so.
Sam says
COME ON NOW. ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE!!!! REGARDLESS EVERYTHING. RIGHT?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
She is not right activist(if at all she existe), but à promoter filthy mithraist Christian value of savagery in muslim Maldives so that woman Will appear half-naked líke monkeys. Look at her, she now turns ugly unlike beautiful Maldives ladies.
Let her go to filthy mithraist Christian West where she could have sex líke pigs producing horrible bad smells and her filthy mithraist Christian boyfriend insert his hard foreskin into her. Idiot !!
AleX says
@ Ibrahim itace mohamet
Bearing the name of mohomet filthy paedophile ”prophet’ is a clear indication of child abuse your parents performed when naming you. Mohomet is to be carried by you for your entire life.
Good luck with that.
Champ says
Once again the revolting “ibrahim itace muhammed” shares his FILTHY mind for all to see, and revealing the ugly truth about islam.
gravenimage says
We see how unhinged Ibrahim itace muhammed is at even the passing mention that other faiths be allowed to exist without violence against them.
Does he have any problems with his coreligionists threatening to murder Shahindha Ismail over her tolerance of others? I doubt it.
Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says
You filthy mouth little punk YOU, I WASH IT OUT WITH SOAP & MAY GOD NOT GIVE YOU REST IN JESUS’ NAME! At least until YOU COME TO YOUR SENSES! “COME & GET ME YOU DIRTY RATS”!!! I WILL SPEW YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH!!! This is to Ibrihim Ithaca, whatever…
CRUSADER says
Mr Irritates reminds me of those misguided Muzzies who go to Dr M’s blog to learn how to spit hatred:
Dr M (Islamist) blogspot —>
spilling filth on distinguished pioneers who carry the torches of liberty and illumination, such as:
Geert Wilders as “Zionist neo-Nazi charlatan”….
Christopher Hitchens as a “deserving cancer victim”…..
Asra Nomani as a “manipulative Zionist whore”…..
etc…
http://drmaxtor.blogspot.com/2009/07/five-years-later-asar-nomani-is-still.html
HORRID STUFF
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LR says
Ibrahim…Oh, I do love it when you post…It gives me a good laugh…
This beautiful lady is correct…If everything is of Allah’s will, then Allah allows all these other religions to exist.
gravenimage says
Maldives: Human rights activist gets death threats from Muslims after charges she committed blasphemy
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I hope she stays safe.
gravenimage says
Logic is un-Islamic.
Timothy Micheal McAlee, Sr. G.eD. says
Islam, is Not a Religion of Peace! It is a Religion of Deception & Death! And “little allah” is Not GOD, he is the Devil himself, a lying, stealing, killing machine! And these Muslim fanatics, who believe “little allah”, will Reward them with 72 Virgins are so Wrong! Mohammad was a Dyslexic & misread the Quran! It says, “with 27 Virgins will I reward You, Butt You won’t know, if they are Male, or female, until you get here Suckers “!!!
The True Religion & The One True GOD, is the GOD, of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, the GOD, of Israel & the GOD, of the Prince of Peace, Yeshuah Homochiech, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who was, who is & who is to come again & every eye shall see him & every knee shall bow & every tongue shall confess, that Jesus Christ, is King of kings & Lord of lords! How You can change Your heart, from a heart stone to a heart of flesh, follow me: John 3:16, says, “GOD, so loved the World, that HE gave HIS ONLY BEGOTTON SON, that who-so-ever, believer on Him, shall NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE!!! Read it, Believe it & except The Lord Jesus as your Lord & Savior & asking GOD for HIS FORGIVENESS IN PRAYER & REPENT OF YOUR SINS & You will be a new creature with eternal LIFE!!! I hereby place a hedge of protection around Ismail & a legion of GODs Holy Angels encampted around her for protection, in the precious Name of Jesus Christ. AMEN
Champ says
Amen, Timothy!!! I wholly agree!!!
FYI says
The true Biblical God(the Judeo-Christian version)of Moses and Jesus Christ subscribes to the Two chief commandments which are found in Judaism and Christianity.
“The whole law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets depend on these 2 chief commandments”
Matthew 22 v 40
The entire contents of the Bible and the whole basis of Christianity and Judaism depend on this:that God,ultimately is a tolerant God of Love.
This tolerance allows for different religions:why else would there be so many world religions?
This is NOT the case with allah{=the gross misrepresentation of the true God} who COMPLETELY MISSED the supreme laws of God because nowhere in islam or in the koran is there any mention of The 2 Chief Commandments!
This islamic koranic error creates a FALSE image of the true God as a tyrant and an intolerant entity, full of hate,only caring about his precious muslims.
What a ridiculous caricature of the Good God!
allah is a hate-filled god……
allah is linguistically challenged,theologically illiterate,violently anti-Semitic and apparently doesn’t understand Biblical Prophecy{hint:it’s on the side of Israel..}
SK says
This tweet is neither mockery nor an attack on their belief system.
Georg says
How regrettable that people as happy and smart as she have to live under the yoke of Islam.