The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
Is Cleveland diverse enough yet?
“Cleveland man charged for making harassing voicemails left at Jewish houses of worship in January,” by Justin Madden, Cleveland.com, April 18, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS — A Cleveland man was charged Tuesday for harassing voicemails left at two local Jewish houses of worship in University Heights and Mayfield Heights earlier this year, police said.
Abdulrahman Abukhalil, 23, was charged with two counts of harassing communications, according to a University Heights police report.
Investigators arrested Abukhail [sic] Tuesday. He was later charged and taken to University Heights Police Department Jail. Abukhail [sic] was released on a $500 bond, police said.
The voicemails were left January 19 and January 20 at the Heights Jewish Center Synagogue in University Heights and Temple Israel Ner Tamid in Mayfield Heights, police said.
Two messages were left at HJCS that were threatening and graphic, police said….
Strangerinastrangeland says
Is the bail amount sufficient to compel the Defendant to appear for trial? To deter the Defendant from further criminal acts? To protect the public from Harm? No, no and no.
b.a. freeman says
‘course not! U gotta understand, they’re *brown* people, and they’re just reacting badly because the evil european nations were so brutal. we *have* to let them act out, and there isn’t anything to worry about. *trust* the State, they’re the experts, and we’re just common scum from the stupid stinking masses who aren’t smart enough to be hard-core leftists!
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and the left calls *other* people racist.
Robin Schultz says
Wholeheartedly AGREE!!!! $500,00????
Frank Anderson says
Stranger. . ., “you gotta understand” that unless he has a previous record or did anything to turn those threats into action, and unless the prosecutor made a believable pitch (argument) for higher bail, that is about what a harassment charge brings for pre-trial and pre-conviction bail. Now let him miss a court date. Or let him do something else while on bail; then it will go much higher, if he can get out of jail at all. He, and all of us in the US, are *presumed* innocent until proven guilty “beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty” in a court of law by properly obtained evidence, and all the other things (“Basic Constitutional Rights’) that are required for a conviction. He cannot have bail turned into a pre-conviction fine. In many places, if he is allowed to “bond” out, instead of filing a cash bond or property in the full amount, he can get out for about 10 percent of the set amount from a bondsman, who then either delivers him to court or pays the bond in full, recovering it from anybody who guarantees the bond.
There are situations that I would argue to be at least assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder where lazy law enforcement officials pass off as harassment to get out of doing their jobs. Figure a day in jail costs the city more or less a hundred dollars. Plus, if he has special requirements for food, medication or medical treatment, the city is stuck for those bills too. I once defended a man who would bankrupt the city for his confinement for the sentence imposed after a righteous and lawful conviction. The city begged me to appeal to get him out of jail. While the judges, prosecutors and officers all got paid for their time; I never got paid a dime for that work. As long as governments are more concerned with buying votes with “goodies” the only place to cut is law enforcement; quite like our national war between the “welfare” state and the defense budget. So, people who belong in jail after a righteous conviction and sentence walk out to do more harm. Are they “rehabilitated” or “deterred” or “civilized”? Not likely. Any wonder I retired?
b.a. freeman says
golly gee, i wonder why the threatening messages weren’t released?
could it be … because they would confirm that islam is a poisonous arab supremacist cult bent on yet another shoah?
na-a-ahhh… couldn’t be …
somehistory says
threatening and graphic
Intent comes first; then the crime. He likely thought he could get away with the threats long enough to carry out the acts.
Out on bail, a chance for the actions?
Rarely says
“Harassing voicemails?” Must be one of those moderate muslims we keep hearing about.
Moshe says
This story is deeply puzzling. The Cleveland Jewish community, its Federation and forward-thinking Rabbinic leadership have been at the vanguard to promote inter-faith dialogue. Many of its leading citizens have endorsed generous proposals for Land for Peace and promoted inter-faith summer camps to bring American Jewish youth to meet Palestinian Arabs in beautiful scenic settings.
Few or no community leaders endorsed the candidacy of the current President.
There is no logical reason for these appalling threats.
Frank Anderson says
Moshe (Moses), on the contrary, there is 1400 years of islam teaching hatred of Jews and promoting their murder. Interfaith dialogue between Christians and Jews is a great idea. Both agree on everything I can see except the 2 issues of the divinity of one human and the slavery of guilt. Islam is totally contrary to everything Jews teach. Jews who seek dialogue with islam are doing the same thing as Jews who collaborated with Hitler (knowing full well the murderous intentions of both), with the delusion that would save them from the Holocaust. If you can get off dead center, ignorance and fantasy to read what islam teaches, you might also see how islam promotes lying, murder, slavery, mutilation, child abuse, theft, invasion. [islam is not capitalized intentionally]
One of the first books I would beg you to read is our host’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades. Right after that is Mark Gabriel’s The Unfinished Battle: Islam and the Jews. Muslims are taught at every prayer every day of their lives to hate and kill Jews. Islam is defined from the beginning as perfect, final, unchangeable and complete. To think there is a moderate islam is self-deception that prevents facing reality.
The great, in my opinion, Jewish psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl described the “delusion of reprieve” which he discovered in the death camps of WWII. He survived to write a beautiful, descriptive and concise book titled Man’s Search for Meaning. Unlike Frankl, we have a chance to avoid the new death camps that islam intends for all non-believers. Hitler and Himmler treasured Islamic recruits to the SS who were famous for their brutality and willingness to die in service to the Nazi’s. After the war one of Hitler’s favorite killers, Otto Skorzeny, took up with, trained and directed muslim terrorists against Jews in Israel and elsewhere. To this day Mein Kampf is a best seller in Islamic countries. Until you and your fellow ostriches get your heads out of the sand and learn the true nature of islam, you are just waiting to take your place in the next Holocaust that is part and parcel of the goal of islam. That makes me sad because I have the strongest and most serious devotion to Judaism, even though it is not returned. I wish better for you than you wish for yourself. “Those who cannot remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them.” Jorge Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905). “To LIFE”.
gravenimage says
What a load of tripe from the always absurd “Moshe”. Of course, Muslims don’t care how much their victims appease them.
kouldb says
Who cares. They’re as bad as each other. With both thinking they’re the chosen ones. Destined to rule over the world. Both hate white people. Especially white men. They both belong in the seventh century. Neither the Muslims, nor the Jews are friends of Europe or the west. Anyone who imagines they are is seriously deluded. The Jews are no more victims than are the Muslims.
dumbledoresarmy says
Absolute nonsense.
Morally equating Judaism with Islam is… only possible for a moral imbecile.
No sensible person who has read the Bible and the Islamic trilogy (Quran, Sira, Hadiths) would equate the two belief systems. They are different and not only different but *antithetical*. The God of Israel liberates; the god of Islam *enslaves*. The God of Israel is a covenant-keeper, no matter what, and a lover of truth, demanding truth and integrity; the ‘god’ of Islam is praised for being a deceiver and trickster, and encourages its followers to lie and deceive.
Judaism encourages self-critique, self-discipline, self-examination. ISlam… is the exact opposite, its shame-honor culture combined with its amoral adoration of brute force produces a culture of lies, of lying to oneself and lying to others.
Israel is manifestly NOT the same kind of place as the Muslim hell-pits surrounding it… and that is not a coincidence, it has to do with founding ideas, with what people believe about god and about humanity and the relationshp between them.
As for Jews being not friends of ‘the west’… if the Jews (and that includes the writers, nearly all of them Jewish by ethnicity and upbringing, who produced the Gospels and the Epistles) had never written and preserved the book we call the Bible, that which we today know as ‘the west’, in the form that it has had for centuries, would simply not exist, period. I am *glad* that I do not live in the sort of world that my pre-Christian pagan northwest European forebears inhabited; I am *glad* that I am not in thrall to the old gods of that world; but the *only* reason I am not still in that world, is… Yehoshuah of Nazareth. Who was what he was: the son of a Jewish woman, a member of the tribe of Yehudah, of the House of Israel.
Frank Anderson says
DDA, a masterpiece of contrast between the religions of life and death. Thank you.
gravenimage says
*Fine post*, Dumbledore’s Army.
gravenimage says
The nasty kouldb wrote:
Who cares. They’re as bad as each other. With both thinking they’re the chosen ones. Destined to rule over the world. Both hate white people. Especially white men.
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What a load of tripe. There is nothing in Judaism that says this, nor are Jews murdering and oppressing Gentiles. Muslims certainly do this to Infidels, though.
More:
They both belong in the seventh century.
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Uh…right. That’s why Israel is a civilized democracy, and why there are so many Jewish Nobel Prize winners…sarc/off.
Note that kouldb is unable to cite anything at all that backs up this calumny.
More:
Neither the Muslims, nor the Jews are friends of Europe or the west. Anyone who imagines they are is seriously deluded. The Jews are no more victims than are the Muslims.
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In other words, we should abandon Israel and the Jews to Muslim genocide. What a vicious piece of work. *Ugh*.
Dexter Wilson says
As the Muslim numbers increase, this will become a large problem in the US. As i have said Islam is totally incompatible with a Democratic-Republic as we have.
gravenimage says
True, Dexter.
gravenimage says
Cleveland: Muslim charged for making harassing voicemails left at Jewish houses of worship
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No surprise here. Glad this Muslim thug is being charged.