MURDERING MUSLIMS IN AMERICA - THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA - BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA COMMISSIONER BARBARA SHARIEF

GET THESE FUCKING MUSLIMS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!

Muslim Congressional Candidate Featured at Event Sponsored by Islamist Outfit ICNA

Barbara Sharief builds political profile by participating with group harboring death squad leader.

Thu Aug 19, 2021 

Joe Kaufman

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Joe Kaufman is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative. He was the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Republican Nominee for U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23).

In January 2011, Broward County, Florida Commissioner Barbara Sharief’s name was listed as a speaker at a conference sponsored by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), on ISNA’s conference schedule. When this author questioned her participation at an event put on by a radical Muslim group – ISNA was co-founded by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian and had been named by the US government a co-conspirator in the financing of Hamas – Sharief claimed she had rejected the request to speak at the conference and said she had “no idea” why her name was attached to it. Today, Sharief cannot speak at enough Islamist events.

Sharief, while still a Broward commissioner, is currently running for US Congress, in the Democratic Primary of the 2022 special election to replace Alcee Hastings, who was recently deceased. Since announcing her candidacy, Sharief has become a regular at functions sponsored and hosted by Muslim groups associated with terrorism. On August 8th, Sharief was the “Special Guest” at an event sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), not to be mistaken for ISNA. The event – a giveaway of cheap backpacks and school supplies to children – seemed innocuous. However, when it comes to ICNA itself, nothing is innocuous.

ICNA is the American arm of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), South Asia’s largest Islamist group. ICNA has spent 30-plus years harboring Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, a former death squad leader allegedly responsible for the murder of 18 individuals. In July 2014, ICNA co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in Downtown Miami. In March 2000, ICNA asked its followers to provide “material support” to Chechen militants linked to al-Qaeda. The Public Relations and Government Affairs Coordinator of ICNA Relief USA, Ammar Ahmed, once joked about threatening to blow up a school. And ICNA continues to promote domestic violence against women on its Why Islam (WI) website.

At the ICNA event, Sharief was photographed with Rasheed Mahamad, the Assistant Secretary of the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA). In July 2010, Muhamad’s AMANA was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for posting what the ADL called a “venomous” anti-Semitic video, featuring David Duke, on AMANA’s official website. Mahamad devotes a large part of his social media to Fadi Kablawi, the imam of the North Miami Islamic Center (NMIC). This past December, Kablawi referred to Jews as “the lowest of the lowest.” In March 2018, Kablawi told his congregation that the FBI considers him to be a member of ISIS.

On August 6th, two days prior to the ICNA affair, Sharief spoke at the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR). Facing the audience, along with her, was ICBR co-founder Bassem Alhalabi. Alhalabi was a former assistant to and co-author of publications with Sami al-Arian, and in June 2003, he was charged by the US Commerce Department with illegally shipping a $13,000 thermal imaging device to Syria. ICBR fellow co-founder, Syed Ahmad, was a website designer for Hamas. In October 1999, ICBR posted a violently anti-Semitic essay on its website, referring to Jews as “enemies” and speaking of a day when Muslims will “fight the Jews and kill them.”

At the ICBR event, Sharief was photographed with Chief Operating Officer of ICNA Relief and Secretary of ICNA Florida Abdul Rauf Khan. The two have been photographed, at a number of her recent events. Khan is an avid fan of Louis Farakhan and has used his social media to target Jews and gays. In July 2014, Khan promoted on Facebook an anti-Semitic video labeling comedian talk show host Bill Maher, “Zionist Jew Bill Maher.” In April 2018, Khan posted the anti-gay propaganda piece, Why is it haram to actively be gay? It was produced by a media outlet that openly supports Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HT), a group that calls for gays to be put to death.

In June, Sharief was interviewed by Shafayat Mohamed, the imam of the Darul Uloom mosque, located in Pembroke Pines. In July, she spoke at the mosque. Darul Uloom has been a haven for high-profile terrorists. “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla was a student of Mohamed’s at Darul Uloom, and now-deceased al-Qaeda commander Adnan el-Shukrijumah was a prayer leader there. Mohamed, himself, was thrown off a number of community boards for his public vitriol against homosexuals. In February 2005, Darul Uloom published an article written by Mohamed, titled ‘Tsunami: Wrath of God,’ claiming that gay sex caused the 2004 Indonesian tsunami.

Also in June, the Muslim community hosted a town hall meeting for Sharief. Ironically, the moderator for the event, Khurrum Wahid, was the same moderator for the ISNA event she refused to speak at, over a decade earlier. Wahid is the National Chairman of Emgage Action, an Islamist group that attempts to disguise its sinister goals as political advocacy. Wahid, as well, has been an attorney for many of the high-profile terrorists that the US government has prosecuted, including members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and reportedly, Wahid himself was placed on a federal terrorist watch list in 2011.

In a poll that was conducted last month to see which Democrat candidates vying for Hastings’ seat were the most popular with Democrat voters, Sharief scored a close second, in a field of nine candidates (As of this writing, eleven Democrat candidates have qualified). Most likely, given the demographics of this congressional district, the winner of the November 2, 2021 Democratic Primary will be the next representative. And given Sharief’s courtship and participation with the radical Muslim community, her winning this seat should and must be seen as a threat to our nation

After Biden Admin Warns of "Strongly Worded" Letter on Women's Rights, Taliban Kill Woman for Not Wearing a Burqa

Wed Aug 18, 2021 

Daniel Greenfield

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Yesterday, Biden's UN Ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said that there was "a very strongly worded press statement" expecting "the Taliban to respect women's rights."

While the Taliban had been prepped by the Qataris to say a lot of the right things, including claiming that they'll respect the rights of women within the very narrow boundaries of Islamic law, they apparently killed a woman for not wearing a burqa.

Even as Afghanistan's resurgent Taliban pledged to respect "women’s rights" in a propaganda blitz Tuesday, fighters from the group shot and killed a woman in Takhar province after she went out in public without a burqa.

And in Kabul, Taliban vehicles packed with armed militants were recorded on video patrolling residential areas for activists and government workers. Gunshots can be heard as they accelerate down the street.

Longtime Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid held his first news conference Tuesday to state that the extremist group would honor women’s rights -- within sharia law

What the Taliban's official mouthpieces and even its leaders say doesn't matter all that much. 

The Taliban is a Potemkin village. A lot of its fighters appear to actually be foreign Jihadists. (Again, something our intelligence agencies and military and NSC people should have been on. If there was a major flow of foreign fighters, as locals have reported, why were we not tracking it?) They're going to follow their own orders. And many of the so-called Afghan Taliban are their own militias with their own leaders who don't necessarily take orders and certainly not from Taliban press conferences. And the Taliban are fine with that.

Before and after 9/11, the Taliban tried to use plausible deniability to avoid any responsibility. They're still playing the same old game.

Report: Taliban Killing People Found with Bibles on Their Phones

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KATHERINE HAMILTON

17 Aug 20210

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The Taliban is killing people in Afghanistan they find with copies of the Bible on their mobile phones, a Christian non-profit denounced on Tuesday.

The Taliban, a radical Islamist terrorist organization, seized leadership of the country on Sunday after surrounding the nation’s capital, Kabul, prompting former President Ashraf Ghani to flee. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan until 2001, when the United States invaded the country, and established a brutal regime that regularly persecuted political dissidents, religious minorities, women, and anyone considered to be violating Islamic law, or sharia.

According to SAT-7, an organization that broadcasts Christian programs to churches and Christians in the Middle East and North Africa, the Taliban is using “spies and informants” to persecute the Christian minority in the country.

“We’re hearing from reliable sources that the Taliban demand people’s phones, and if they find a downloaded Bible on your device, they will kill you immediately,” said SAT-7 North America President Dr. Rex Rogers told Religion News Service. “It’s incredibly dangerous right now for Afghans to have anything Christian on their phones. The Taliban have spies and informants everywhere.”

Other Christian nonprofits and ministries that specialize in assisting persecuted Christians around the world have been sounding the alarm as well, emphasizing the ruthless nature of Taliban leadership. A Christian contact of one Release International partner described the situation as “dire” in a report published Monday. Release International is a Christian ministry that also assists persecuted Christians around the world.  

“Our brothers and sisters in Christ are telling us how afraid they are. In the areas that the Taliban now control girls are not allowed to go to school and women are not allowed to leave their homes without a male companion,” said Micah, a name assigned to him to protect his identity.

Even without the Taliban in power, Afghanistan was the second most dangerous place for Christians to practice their faith, behind North Korea, according to the 2021 version of Open Doors’ World Watch List. Open Doors is a non-profit that monitors Christian persecution and aids its victims. The U.S. State Department similarly described the now-former Afghan government as extremely hostile to Christians.

A Taliban fighter (R) searches the bags of people coming out of the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

In its 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom, the State Department documented widespread death threats against Christians — most commonly from family members — and from officials. Christians in Afghanistan were forced to practice their faith underground and meet with small groups to worship.

Christians also faced significant legal persecution under the U.S.-backed government. Apostacy, the “crime” of renouncing Islam for a different faith, was punishable by death, imprisonment, or confiscation of property. Anyone who preaches another religion is subject to the same punishment. After conversion to a different religion, an individual was given three days to recant before they face punishment for apostasy.

“According to Sunni Hanafi jurisprudence, which the constitution states shall apply ‘if there is no provision in the constitution or other laws about a case,’ beheading is appropriate for male apostates,” the report states, “while life imprisonment is appropriate for female apostates, unless the individual repents.”

The State Department estimated Christians and other minority religious groups made up 0.3 percent of the population, adding that no reliable estimates of the Christian community exist.

Now that the Taliban has seized power again after a 20-year war, Christians who were already being forced to conceal their beliefs for fear of retribution are reportedly being targeted and murdered for their faith.

Afghan university students torch an upside-down cross, along with U.S. and Israeli flags during a demonstration against Israel and the U.S. in Nangarhar province at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on November 26, 2012. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)

“Secret believers in Afghanistan are especially vulnerable. Prior to Taliban rule, they already had a very difficult time living out their faith, as they had to keep it secret from their families for fear of being shunned, or worse, killed,” said Brother Samuel, Open Doors Field Director for Asia.

“Now that the Taliban is in power, their vulnerability increases tenfold. It would be almost impossible to be a follower of Jesus in this country,” Brother Samuel continued. “We are monitoring the situation, but this is the time for us to ask God to have mercy not only on His people but on this country as a whole.”

The Taliban is infamous for monitoring the social practices of local populations and imposing ruthless punishments based on their interpretation of Islamic Law, or what observers call a “parallel system of justice,” according to the U.S. Department of State’s 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom.

Open Doors noted that though the Taliban has promised a “more modern and reformed approach to government,” fear remains as to how it will impose sharia in the coming days and weeks. 

“With the collapse of the government, the expansion of extremism, food shortages and the raging pandemic, Afghanistan needs urgent prayer from the global Church right now, more than ever,” the organization said.

Where Are the Gays?

While the Taliban prepares to execute gays, Western gay-rights groups focus on “gender-reassignment surgery.”

Wed Aug 18, 2021 

Bruce Bawer

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Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

In the last couple of days, as the Taliban consolidated its position in the Afghan capital, I had to go all the way to New Zealand to find an English-language gay news website which acknowledged that this lightning reconquista wasn’t exactly a great development for gay Afghans.

Under the headline “Taliban Plan to Crush Gay Men to Death as they Close in on Capturing Afghanistan,” the Gay Express reminded readers that during the years of Taliban rule (1996-2001), adulterers were executed, thieves subjected to amputation, girls over 10 denied schooling, movie theaters closed, Western TV and music banned, women forced into burkas, and men ordered to wear beards.

In what seems a strict violation of the unwritten rule of Western gay media - i.e. never to say anything positive about the U.S., and especially about Republican governments in the U.S. - the Kiwi website noted that “[w]hile homosexuality has always remained illegal in Afghanistan, laws making it punishable by death were repealed when the United States invaded in 2001.”

But that, warned the website, will surely be reversed, given Taliban judge Gul Rahim’s recent assurance, in an interview with Bild (Germany), that gays, under a new Taliban regime, would be “crushed to death by toppling walls.”

But that story was, as noted, an outlier in the gay Anglosphere. When I turned from the Gay Express to other sites, I found nary a word about the Taliban’s grim plans.

At Pink News (UK), the highlighted stories concerned the firing of a gay teacher by a Christian school in Sydney, Australia; a ban on Pride flags at another school in Newburg, Oregon; and the loss of a lawsuit by Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts-and-crafts stores, which had refused to let M-to-F transsexuals use its ladies’ rooms. 

At the Advocate, the picture was much the same, with scream headlines about some C-list television actress who supposedly challenges stereotypes by being a lesbian Asian-American; about the teenage child of Enimem, who has come out as “genderfluid and bisexual”; and about a ruling by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services that “gender affirmation surgery for legal minors” is “child abuse.” (Hurrah, by the way.)

Finally, at Gay Times (UK), the top news items were largely about celebrities you never heard of coming out as “queer” - which these days, of course, doesn’t necessarily mean gay. Or, for that matter, mean anything much at all. There was also a breaking story about allegations of lip-synching on a drag show on British TV.

Great journalism there, boys and girls.

Nor was there anything about gays in Afghanistan at the website of Human Rights Campaign, the nominal gay-rights organization - now basically a trans lobby - whose sleazy history of “whor[ing] itself out” to Clintons, Obamas, and other Democratic politicians was illuminatingly outlined by Daniel Greenfield in an article on August 12.

Of course all this silence on gays in Afghanistan is in perfect accord with the unwritten rules regarding crimethink in the year 2021. If somebody dares to suggest that, say, Rachel Levine, Biden’s transsexual assistant health secretary, isn’t the most womanly of women, it’s a story deserving of scare headlines about anti-queer bigotry in post-Trump America.

But if judges in Afghanistan are having walls constructed so that they can be dropped on gay men - well, that’s their culture.

These gay news websites are staffed by woke types who’ve taken courses in this or that kind of “studies.” They know what they’re supposed to think - and what they’re never, ever supposed to say. And they know the jargon.

So they know that it’s not “the job of the white man,” as the postmodern scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has instructed them all, apropos of Western efforts to alleviate gender oppression and sex slavery in the Third World, “to save the brown woman from the brown man” - or, by the same token, to save the terrified brown gay man from a whole bunch of violent brown straight men.

(Never mind that Spivak herself, who was born in Calcutta and has had high-profile professorships at Cornell, Cambridge, and Columbia, seems to have been saved by white university administrators from what would otherwise have been a very obscure academic career in India.) 

Thanks to people like Spivak, properly educated gays in L.A. and New York and London know that to so much as voice concern about the impending massacre of gays in Afghanistan is racist, Islamophobic, and postcolonialist.  

When Donald Trump was president, he put Ric Grenell, his acting director of intelligence, in charge of an exceedingly ambitious - and exceedingly estimable - effort to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. The queer media and queer activist establishment heaped scorn on the initiative.

How could they do otherwise? To support Grenell’s work would have been to support Trump, whom they’d worked so hard to depict as a gay-hater. (Or, rather, an LGBT-hater - the only real evidence for which was his unwillingness to cheer the idea of transsexuals in the military.)

Also, Grenell frankly admitted that the worst antigay laws are in Muslim countries - an inconvenient truth that belied the queer nomenklatura’s preposterous doctrine that gays and Muslims are allies in victimhood.

Raging about Trump’s border wall? Terrific. But criticizing Taliban judges who want to drop walls on gays? No way.

But most of all, the whole enterprise was, in their view, a vulgar, verboten exercise in cultural condescension. How dare Trump and Grenell, after centuries of Western imperialism, imply that they held any moral high ground in relation to the Muslim world! How dare Don and Ric, as male members of the white race - “the cancer of human society,” as Susan Sontag once called it - presume to issue behavioral diktats to people of color?

No, deep down these shallow, self-centered professional gays in the Western world don’t care a whit about what happens to their “brothers” in Afghanistan or anywhere else that they themselves aren’t likely to visit. And they’re not impressed by campaigns to help them. What impresses them are empty, patronizing pro-gay gestures of the kind that the Obama administration - and now the Biden people - have specialized in: flying Pride flags at embassies, lighting the White House up in rainbow colors.

It’s sad. These well-connected gays could’ve followed up the same-sex marriage victory by looking abroad - looking, in short, beyond their own self-interest - and using their influence to help the poor sons of bitches in places like Afghanistan to win at least a fraction of the right to pursue happiness that they themselves enjoy.

But unlike Trump and Grenell, who are profoundly serious men, these are very silly people. In place of a moral compass, they have rainbow-flag Speedos and t-shirts bearing the Human Rights Campaign logo. And this summer, chances are that while they’re partying it up in Provincetown, Fire Island, and Miami Beach, walls will be falling - far, far away - on gay men in cities from Kabul to Kandahar.