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Maldives: Group ordered to suspend activities for “slandering Islam” in report noting Friday sermons teaching hate

Oct 21, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

A glimpse into the future of the West, including the United States. “The government said last week that there is widespread public condemnation of the report because of ‘content slandering Islam and Prophet Mohamed.’ The report examined school text books for each grade on how Islam is taught and how some Friday sermons allegedly incited hate and intolerance. It also said more than 90 percent of people interviewed supported the implementation of flogging, stoning to death, death penalty and amputations as punishments in the Maldives.”

You think this kind of thing only happens over on the other side of the world, in countries that aren’t as free as the United States? Think again. Even now, people who point out that Islamic law supports the implementation of flogging, stoning to death, death penalty and amputations as punishments, and who note that many Friday sermons incite hate and intolerance, are derided as “anti-Muslim bigots.” Left-fascists pressure venues into canceling them, virtue-signaling Democratic Party politicians denounce in the newspapers, and cowardly Republicans quake in their boots and acquiesce to the demonization. What do you think this picture is going to look like in five years? Ten? Anti-jihad organizations will be shut down by the government, as here. Then what?

“Maldives investigates activist group for ‘slandering Islam,'” by Krishan Francis, Associated Press, October 17, 2019

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The head of a Maldivian activist group said Thursday that police have contacted her as part of an investigation into a report published by her organization that has been accused of slandering Islam.

The Maldives government ordered the Maldivian Democracy Network to suspend its activities a week ago because of its 2016 report on religious radicalization in the Indian Ocean archipelago state. The group’s executive director, Shahinda Ismail said that the report has been on the group’s website for three years.

“I have been contacted by police. They wanted to have my address because they want to send me summons,” Ismail said by telephone from Germany where she is studying. She said police asked her to present herself for an inquiry within 14 days of receiving the summons….

The government said last week that there is widespread public condemnation of the report because of “content slandering Islam and Prophet Mohamed.”

The report examined school text books for each grade on how Islam is taught and how some Friday sermons allegedly incited hate and intolerance. It also said more than 90 percent of people interviewed supported the implementation of flogging, stoning to death, death penalty and amputations as punishments in the Maldives….

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  1. Emilie Green says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 8:33 am

    This is another example of the conflicted Muslim. On the one hand Muslims proudly proclaim and perpetuate the cruel black-and- white teachings of Mohammad and Islam’s holy texts such as flogging, stoning to death, death penalty and amputations as punishments. But on the other they are deeply embarrassed by them because they are at great variance with Western, Christian values.

    But why the embarrassment?

    If these Muslims are so sure, so confident of Islam’s values, these Muslims would be pleased that others, even non- Muslims, are helping these values become even more widely known.

    But that’s not the reaction, is it? What’s shown is an incredible brittleness, a defensiveness, of a system so at odds with human nature and innate human decency.

    • Glyn david says

      Oct 22, 2019 at 4:21 am

      Just like when you may talk with them and question their belief…it does not take very much at all to see the hate build in their eyes

  2. Jaladhi says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 8:47 am

    What a fragile “religion”?? Muslims are always worried about slandering Islam and Mo. Mind it its Mo and not Allah they care about!! Talk about brain washing and brain dead there is no better example than wht we see from Muslims!!

  3. revereridesagain says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 9:16 am

    Since when has it been possible to “slander” the “Prophet Mohamed”?

    • mortimer says

      Oct 21, 2019 at 12:17 pm

      In Sharia, ‘slander’ means saying something truthful that a Muslim doesn’t like. Talking about Islamic terrorism is something Muslims do not like, so that is ‘slandering Islam’. Muslims do not want Mohammed’s amoral and opportunistic character to be discussed. Sharing true facts about Mohammed from the primary source texts of Islam is called ‘slander’ in Sharia or more exactly ‘mentioning something impermissible’.

      You are thinking in terms of Common Law. Muslims considered your legal system invalid. See my explanation below.

  4. somehistory says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 9:59 am

    Because the report was not praising the hate, was not bragging about the hate and was not endorsed or written by an imam, cleric, or other *leader* in this beast from satan…the truth is not acceptable.

    moslims are taught to lie. They lie to protect themselves from prosecution…”mental illness,’ etc….they lie to further the goals of islam…’peace, family harmony, better world, etc.”….and for any other circumstance they see the need to lie. But when they are preying in their barracks, preaching and hearing sermons, the ugly truth comes out.

    islam is a religion of hate and lies, murder and rape…with a thin skin, because it comes from the thin-skinned demon, satan the devil. He is said to “transform himself into an angel of light.” This transformation is to hide his evil from those repelled by evil. moslims must ‘hide’ their evil when revealing it repels others not enamored by evil.

    Unless an imam, cleric, or other moslim leader, academic, etc. tells this Truth, it is “slander” …only to moslims and their supporters…and is unacceptable because it is seen as critical of islam and its fake prophet.

    And ‘o’ announced to the entire world from the podium at the U.N…..the fake prophet can be slandered…and those who do must die ( cutting off the future of a person means death to that one.)

  5. Infidel says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 10:16 am

    I’m rooting for climate change global warming so that those islands end up underwater maybe as a coral reef some day, and that the people of these islands – who by law MUST BE Muslim, sleep cozily w/ the fishes

  6. mortimer says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 11:18 am

    JW readers should remember that ‘SLANDER’ in Islam is different from what it means in Common Law.

    ‘Slander’ in Common Law means saying something false that defames another person; the truthfulness of a comment is an absolute defense against the charge; things and dead people are not included under ‘slander’.

    ‘Slander’ in Islamic language means sharing any TRUE fact a Muslim DOES NOT WANT others to know. The truthfulness of a comment is NOT a defense under Sharia, if the comment is ‘IMPERMISSIBLE’ under Sharia; dead Muslims and things are covered by Sharia ‘slander’.

    Sharia law permits Muslims to take revenge if someone says anything that causes them to have hurt feelings or ‘lose face’. Sharia law implicitly support crimes ‘in the name of honor’.

    Muslims take a collective revenge when someone says something TRUTHFUL ABOUT ISLAM that Muslims do not wish anyone to know (e.g. Mohammed’s pedophilia, necrophilia, slaughter of unarmed women and children, womanizing, enslaving black people, racism, etc.)

    • elee says

      Oct 21, 2019 at 11:25 am

      +1. Hey folks, beware, everything has a different meaning in Islam. When a Muslim says peace, it sounds so universal, so inoffensive, who could disagree…….till he learns what peace means in Islam. Its a demented Orwellian world they live in. They had been refining their doublethink for ages before Stalin hit upon a pale imitation.

    • Janice Mermikli says

      Oct 22, 2019 at 6:37 am

      “Collective revenge” – true. It reminds me of the same system of punishment meted out to Jews in Nazi Germany. Sippenhaft (or Sippenhaftung) is what they called it.

  7. elee says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 11:19 am

    Do we still have gunboats? Does anyone seriously think these people dont mean to harm us, our liberties and our institutions, to the limit of their abilities? Does anyone find himself missing HM Navy?>

    • Janice Mermikli says

      Oct 22, 2019 at 6:41 am

      I’m not sure whether we still have gunboats. I do think these people mean to harm us, our liberties and our institutions when and if they can. Yes, I do miss the Royal Navy as it once was – strong to defend both our island and the world.

  8. Goofy says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    The only thing that Islam and the current Western society appear to share is the curse of political correctness, which leaves no room for truth. Do we want to live in such a society?

  9. Angemon says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 1:54 pm

    Maldives investigates activist group for ‘slandering Islam

    People have rights, ideologies don’t. If they want to go down that route, check what the quran says regarding Judaism and Christianity – now that’s slander.

    • Janice Mermikli says

      Oct 22, 2019 at 6:43 am

      True, or (more correctly) libel, as it is in writing.

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