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EUROPE SURRENDERS TO THE MUSLIM OCCUPATION THEY INVITED - Germany Celebrates its First Arabic Language Street Sign
Germany Celebrates its First Arabic Language Street Sign
Leftward-leaning German politicians have lauded the decision to erect the nation’s first street sign in Arabic script as a “a symbolic expression of social inclusion.”
This month, the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital of Düsseldorf has begun exhibiting the name of Ellerstrasse in Arabic letters: شارع إلَرْ.
Touted as a campaign to underscore the diversity and international flair of Düsseldorf, the Arabic street sign has been placed in Oberbilk, a district with a particularly large number of people with Moroccan roots.
According to a decision by the city’s “integration council,” there will eventually be bilingual street signs in ten different places around the metropolis.
The councilor for Oberbilk, Green party politician Samy Charchira, said the new sign bespeaks a symbolic expression of “social inclusion,” showing that people identify with their district and the diversity of its residents.
The more people do that, the more social responsibility they can assume, he said.
The politician also said that the sign holds up for admiration and gratitude the many “people, families, and tradespeople with a Moroccan and Maghrebian background” who have “helped to build” Germany for several generations.
Moroccan Consul General Lalla Loubna Ait-Bassidi and chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Aiman Mazyek, similarly praised the move.
“I am grateful that integration is being expressed in a way that people from 20 Arab nations can read and understand,” Ait-Bassidi said. “The sign symbolizes that the migrants are recognized and it stands for the diversity of Düsseldorf, one of the most diverse cities in North Rhine-Westphalia.”
“Düsseldorf shows diversity and shows respect for immigrant Germans,” wrote Mazyek on Twitter.
Marking the four-year anniversary of the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand in which 51 people were killed and 40 injured, Germany’s Muslim community is doubling down on its determination to combat “Islamophobia,” which includes criticism of Islam. The Central Council of Muslims (ZMD) “called for a more determined stance against Islamophobia, saying Muslims continue to experience prejudice, hate crimes and discrimination in their daily lives.”
Germany: Muslims Call for ‘Islamophobia Commissioner’ and ‘Determined Stance’ to Stop Criticism of Islam
Are “Islamophobia” and anti-Semitism really the same?
Marking the four-year anniversary of the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand in which 51 people were killed and 40 injured, Germany’s Muslim community is doubling down on its determination to combat “Islamophobia,” which includes criticism of Islam. The Central Council of Muslims (ZMD) “called for a more determined stance against Islamophobia, saying Muslims continue to experience prejudice, hate crimes and discrimination in their daily lives.”
Aiman Mazyek, the president of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, stated:
The anniversary of Christchurch mosque attacks painfully reminds us that stirring up prejudices and hatred against Muslims do not stop at words, but they can be carried into action…..This also makes it clear that we have to take a much more determined stand against Islamophobia in our society, even if it sometimes hypocritically portrayed as the criticism of Islam.”
Note how this opportunist uses the Christchurch massacre to try to shut down criticism of Islam, framing it as “hypocritical” in his attempt to tar such criticism as “Islamophobic.”
One needs to remember that Islamic supremacists, not peaceful Muslims, are the topic of any discussion about threats to Western free societies, and so scrutinizing their doctrine is imperative.
The only way to stop the relentless attack on the freedom of expression is to completely reject the term “Islamophobia” and replace it with the term “anti-Muslim bigotry,” which would make it clear that criticism of Islam and opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression are not included.
Britain serves as an important case study regarding the “Islamophobia” subterfuge. In 2019, a definition of “Islamophobia” was presented by an All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” The broadness of this definition is obvious; it leaves wide latitude for Islamic supremacist groups to fill in all blanks. It is noteworthy that the vice-chair of this All-Party Parliamentary Group is Labour Party MP Naz Shah, who once retweeted that “victims of Muslim rape gangs should shut up for the good of diversity.”
In May 2019, the UK government wisely made a U-turn and refused to adopt the broad working definition of “Islamophobia.” Then nine months ago, the same government dismissed Imam Qari Asim, who had served as an official adviser on “Islamophobia,” “after he supported protests against a film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad that has caused a backlash.” One can see in Asim’s actions the encroachment upon the freedom of expression that is involved in actions against “Islamophobia.” In November 2022, the UK government dropped altogether any plans to use the official definition of “Islamophobia.”
In Canada, the Toronto District School Board, with help from the National Council of Canadian Muslims, also broadly defined “Islamophobia,” as “fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture,’” prompting concerns from B’nai Brith that “the broad definition could lead to students or staff being punished for expressing dislike for the Republic of Iran’s persecution of LGBTQ people or restrictions placed on women in Saudi Arabia.” Keep in mind that Iran is the world’s leading Shia country, while Saudi Arabia is arguably the world’s leading Sunni country.
Agenda-driven individuals and groups often compare “Islamophobia” with antisemitism when advancing the “Islamophobia” agenda. In 2019, Aiman Mazyek weighed in with his idea for an “Islamophobia” commissioner, as he pointed out “the recently appointed anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein.” That same year, Abdul Samad Yazidi, secretary-general of Germany’s Central Council of Muslims (ZMD), stated:
Anti-Semitism is unacceptable in society and attacking and inciting Muslims is also unacceptable. We reject any part of German society being threatened, be they Jews, Muslims, blacks, women or homosexuals.
Indeed, no one should be attacked based on his or her race, religious beliefs, gender and personal choice. Yet the two cannot be compared. “Islamophobia” does not simply aim to end bigotry against Muslims. This differentiates the term from antisemitism. “Islamophobia” also endeavors to stamp out scrutiny of Islam. Conversely, the battle against antisemitism does not aim to end any criticism of Judaism. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) also states that “criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.”
Jewish doctrine is not under a microscope in discussions about antisemitism, and for good reason. There are no blasphemy tenets in Judaism that cause people to be hunted down and murdered for “blasphemy.” There is no push by Jews to obliterate Muslim states. Jews don’t preach conquest or have documents on how to deceive and subvert infidel societies, akin to the Muslim Brotherhood memorandum about its goals in North America. There is no long list of Jewish “unindicted co-conspirators” in terror funding cases. There is no genocide perpetrated by Jews. There are no Jewish rape gangs. There are no synagogues in the West that are linked to terrorism. There is no abuse of women sanctioned by Judaism for being uncovered or for any other reason. You don’t hear Jewish rabbis preaching about beating their wives, or calling Muslims or anyone else pigs and monkeys. You don’t see Jews wildly protesting in the streets and chanting death to Muslim countries, or hunting down publications and journalists for criticizing Israel. No one is scared to insult Jewish prophets lest they get beheaded. You don’t see Jews tearing apart the fabric of free societies because of their “hurt feelings,” despite the unfair attacks against them at the United Nations, etc.
So it should be clear why one should not compare the ancient hatred of Jews (antisemitism) to criticism of Islam (“Islamophobia”).
It’s telling to see some Muslim groups witness widespread human rights abuses and fail to condemn them, while blaming critics who defend the victims. Muslim lobbies do not treat the attack and murder of infidels and the treatment of women in Sharia states with the same concern that they have for the Christchurch attack. Does anyone wonder why?
The more Islamic supremacists are appeased, the more brazen they become. Several weeks ago, Open Doors got its turn to be dragged over the coals, smeared and discredited in Germany for its reports about Christian persecution in Islamic countries and territories, when a member of Germany’s parliament, Jürgen Braun, proposed the creation of an International Day Against the Persecution of Christians. Open Doors documents the savagery of jihad groups, as well as the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries such as Iran and Pakistan. It was only a matter of time before Open Doors came under attack, given the goal of Islamic supremacists to stop any light being shed on Sharia-inspired human rights abuses.
In 2020, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) announced plans to help French Jews go to Israel, citing the increase in violent anti-Semitism and France’s “surrendering to jihad.” That same year, the President of the Confederation of Jews in France stated that “in a few decades, there will be no Jews in France.” Due to violent Islamic antisemitism, Jews were leaving. Was the WZO and the President of the Confederation of Jews being “Islamophobic?” In 2018, even Angela Merkel openly admitted that anti-Semitism was coming to the country from “refugees or people of Arab origin.”
Jihadists are undeniably driven by Islamic texts. The leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an Islamic scholar, and upon his death was afforded full religious rites according to Islamic custom. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that Turkey “has nothing that contradicts the Taliban’s beliefs.” Erdogan also aims for a revived Ottoman Empire, that is, a caliphate. Yet Islamic supremacists seek to hide all knowledge of Sharia expansion, subversion and murder as they wield the “Islamophobia” subterfuge to claim victimhood.
Now the Central Council of Muslims (ZMD) in Germany is once again callingfor the German government to “appoint a commissioner to combat Islamophobia.”
Mazyek called on the German government to take concrete steps to address the problem, and reiterated the Muslim community’s demand to appoint a commissioner to combat Islamophobia.
Canada already has an “Islamophobia czar,” whose appointment received considerable backlash, especially from the French province of Quebec. Germany and other Western countries are sinking under an Islamic supremacist agenda that violates the guarantees of freedom in Western societies. The fear of Islamic lobbies leads to appeasement and the endangerment of the cornerstone of free societies, freedom of expression, yet ironically, those same lobbies decry any fear of Muslims.
Christine Douglass-Williams is Associate Editor of Frontpage, regular writer for Jihad Watch, a nine-time award-winning journalist, past Canadian government appointee to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Office of Religious Freedom; author of "The Challenge of Modernizing Islam" and "Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam".
Sweden is the country where, a few weeks ago, the Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan set fire to a Qur’an, sparking the usual outrage among Muslims worldwide. Now the Muslims in Malaysia have decided to help persuade the Swedes that they should reconsider having allowed this (which, in fact, they have already done), by sending them a gift of 20,000 Qur’ans translated into Swedish. The Malaysians are convinced that now that the Swedes will have had a chance to read, in their own language, that eloquent, splendid, never-to-be-surpassed text of the Holy Qur’an, they will realize the sheer wonderfulness of Islam and be just as outraged that anyone would set fire to it. They may also be hoping that some Swedes may even convert to Islam as a result. It’s touching, in a way, this faith expressed by the Muslims in Malaysia, who think that reading the Qur’an cannot help but persuade Western Infidels to end their Islamophobia, and even cause some of them to embrace Islam. The story of the 20,000 Qurans that Malaysians intend to distribute in Sweden is provided here: “Malaysia to send 20,000 translated Qurans to Sweden,” by Miabell Mallikka, Scandasia, February 28, 2023:
Malaysia has set aside more than $2 million American dollars to fight Islamophobia. The money goes to translating and printing the Quran in several languages and distributing copies internationally.
Out of the 2 million copies, 20,000 will be shipped to Sweden. This is due to Rasmus Paludan, a far-right [Danish] politician, who publicly burned the Quran in Sweden last month during a protest.
The plan is meant to create a better understanding of Islam, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim told reporters after the International Forum on Islamophobia. An event held on Monday, Feb. 27, in the capital Putrajaya.
“We will print 20,000 in Swedish – and other languages too – for the purpose of better understanding,” he told reporters.
Anwar said the translations, publication and distribution will show wisdom and maturity in the face of unnecessary attacks on Islam.
The “wisdom and maturity” is shown by responding to Rasmus Paludan’s burning of the Qur’an not by threatening him with death or even murdering him – which so often in the past has been the response to presumed blasphemy or mockery of or attacks on Islam (see how Muslims have dealt with Theo van Gogh, Lars Vilks, the dozen cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo) — but by providing free Qur’ans, in all the main languages of the Infidels. These devout Muslims think that once Swedish have a Qur’an, they can read and refer to, they will cease to be alarmed about Islam. For who could read the beautiful words of the Holy Qur’an and not be swayed?
Joachim Bergström, Swedish ambassador to Malaysia, welcomed Anwar’s announcement.
“I am personally delighted that this important text will be more accessible in my native country and in Europe,” Bergström told BenarNews.
Joachim Bergström have spent many years living and working in the Muslim world. Between 2016 and 2021 he worked as Sweden’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia.
“I am convinced that knowledge and dialogue are the way to promote understanding and peace,” Bergström added.
Joachim Bergstrom is a kind of Swedish John Esposito, who like Esposito has spent his working life among Muslims and has come to sympathize with them and with their religion, becoming a Defender of the Faith – that faith being Islam. He identifies with Muslims, and parrots their claim of widespread “islamophobia,” a charge which is meant to shut down all criticism of the faith. Bergstrom claims he is “personally delighted” that 20,000 Swedish-language Qur’ans will now be made available, for free, in Sweden. This is the way, he says, to “promote understanding and peace.” The Swedes cannot help but recognize the truth and beauty of the Qur’an, and will be ashamed that they ever defended the troublemaking Islamophobe Rasmus Paludan, who, in the guise of upholding the right to free speech in Sweden, was simply trying to wound Muslims in the very depths of their being by setting fire to the Qur’an.
Are the Malaysians right? Will sending 20,000 Qur’ans in Swedish translation so move their Swedish readers that they will see Islam, and Muslims, in a new light? Will some perhaps even convert to the One True Faith? That’s the expectancy and hope of the Malaysians. I think they have got it exactly wrong. It is the ignorance of the Qur’an that has led Westerners to be insufficiently alarmed about the Muslim migrants now in their midst. Knowledge of the Qur’an’s contents will not soften, but harden, the Swedes’ antipathy toward Islam. Just imagine how Swedish Infidels will react upon learning that in the Qur’an, Muslims are described as the “best of peoples” (3:110), while non-Muslims are described as the “most vile of created beings” (98:6). There is no possibility of explaining away those two verses, or convincing anyone of sense that they do not really mean what they say.
It won’t any longer be possible for Muslim apologists to claim to Swedish readers that the Qur’an is a book of peace and tolerance. After all, the Swedes — or the 20,000 of them who are provided with the Swedish-language Qur’ans — will have read, and remembered because their virulent contents would certainly have startled them, such verses as 2:191-193, 3:151, 4:89, 8:12, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, and 98:6.
How do you explain all that away to Swedes who no longer need depend on Muslim apologists who soften the meaning of the verses, claiming that they have to be “contextualized,” which meant that they were never meant to apply to all people for all time, but applied only to non-Muslim enemies of the 7th century? A true reading of the Qur’an shows that these verses were not directed only at Infidels of a certain time and place, but to all Infidels, everywhere, and for all time.
Imagine a Swedish reader who reads these verses commanding Muslims to behave in a certain way toward Infidels:
2:191: “And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter.”
3:151: “We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve because they ascribe partners to Allah, for which no justification has been revealed. Their dwelling is the fire, and wretched is the dwelling place of the wrongdoers.”
4:89: “They wish that you would disbelieve even as they disbelieve, that you may be on the same level. So do not choose friends from them until they migrate in the way of Allah, if they turn back, then take them and kill them wherever you find them, and choose no friend or helper from among them.”
8:12: “When your Lord inspired the angels, I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then strike the necks and strike their fingertips.”
8:60: “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others beside them whom you do not know. Allah knows them. Whatever you spend in the way of Allah, it will be repaid to you in full, and you will not be wronged.”
9:5: ”Then, when the sacred months have passed, kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and besiege them, and prepare for them every ambush. But if they repent and establish prayer and give alms, then leave their way free. Indeed, Allah is forgiving, merciful.”
9:29: “Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”
47:4: “Now when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks until, when you have subdued them, then make fast the bonds, and afterward either generosity or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. That, and if Allah willed, he could have punished them, but so that he may test some of you by means of others. And those who have been killed in the way of Allah, he does not make their actions useless.”
98:6: “Indeed, the unbelievers among the people of the book and the idolaters will remain in the fire of Gehenna. They are the most vile of created beings.”
It will be much more difficult for Muslim apologists to convince Swedes of the “real meaning” of the Qur’an; they will now be able to read and understand the verses above (and there are many others equally offensive and threatening toward Infidels), that the Qur’an is a book of peace, rather than what in truth it is – a handbook of war. How salutary it would be if those Malaysians were to send to Sweden not 20,000 Qur’ans, but two million. The more the Infidels can read the Qur’an for themselves, without relying on the misleading paraphrases of the apologists, the more accurate will be their understanding of the text. And that, in turn, should increase their alarm over the Muslims whom, out of ignorance, they have allowed to settle by the millions in their midst.
In fact, why stop with translating the Qur’an in Swedish? Why can’t ex-Muslims translate into the two dozen languages of Europe the most important ahadith – the acts and sayings of Muhammad –-and excerpts, too, from Ibn Ishaq’s biography of the Prophet, so that both could be published in the same pamphlet, in a press run of half-a-million?
Wouldn’t it be useful for Europe’s non-Muslims to learn that Muhammad said “I have been made victorious through terror” and “War is deceit,” as reported in Sahih Bukhari? Shouldn’t they also be provided with the hadith in Bukhari that recounts Muhammad’s marriage to little Aisha when she was six years old and tells us, too, that he consummated that marriage when Aisha was nine and he was fifty-four? That is not something Muslims want Infidels to know, which is exactly why it should be included in that possible pamphlet. Nor do Muslims want Infidels to know about Muhammad expressing a wish that “someone would rid me” of three people who had refused to accept Islam and had mocked him in verse. The three were a woman poet, Asma bint Marwan, a 90-year-old Jewish poet, Abu ‘Afak, and still another Jewish poet and community leader, Ka’b bin al-Ashraf. All three were murdered, one after another, by dutiful followers of Muhammad who were hoping thereby to win his favor.
Of course, we already have in English, the world’s lingua franca, exactly the Qur’an English speakers need, with copious glosses on the meaning of difficult verses. It is The Critical Qur’an of Robert Spencer. If you haven’t yet read and studied it, you are urged to do so now. You won’t regret it.
THE (REALITY) OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY:
Anti-Semitic, open borders for cheaper labor and funded by criminal banksters… and these pols are making vast fortunes sucking the blood of America!
We must not let them cheat their way to power over the rest of us. Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need to take a look at themselves and at what they have become. It's not a pretty picture. What they have become threatens to destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are doing it on purpose. They have nothing but contempt for the US as founded and for those of us who love this country. PATRICIA McCARTHY – AMERICAN THINKER
“Then we suffered the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-, Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the electorate. His close personal relationship with the likes of his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no secret. Obama was open about his goals. He told us he was out to "fundamentally transform America" and the world.” ALAN BERGSTEIN
“There is a deep racist and anti-Semitic disease in the leadership of the Democrats. As Senator Cory Booker brings his hatred for the Jewish State to the Senate, he should be asked whether he agrees with his hero, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist we must take a lesson from Hitler”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
New York Jury Spares ISIS Terrorist of Death Penalty for Truck Attack
Convicted New York City truck attack terrorist Sayfullo Saipov will not face the death penalty after a New York federal jury on Monday failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the death sentence.
Saipov was convicted in late January for the Halloween 2017 terrorist truck attack that killed eight people and wounded 12 others on the Hudson River Bike Path, marking New York’s deadliest terrorist attack since September 11, 2001.
Saipov drove a Home Depot rental truck onto a bicycle path but stopped only after he crashed into a special-needs school bus. He was heard shouting, “Allahu Akbar,” as he exited the truck.
After authorities fired shots at Saipov, he was taken to a hospital, where he reportedly smiled when describing the attack and asked to fly the Islamic State’s (ISIS) flag in his room.
Although a jury convicted him of all 28 counts in the indictment, they had to reach a separate unanimous verdict for federal authorities to impose the death penalty. Still, Saipov will spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of release in lieu of the death penalty.
The crashed vehicle used in what is being described as a terrorist attack sits in lower Manhattan the morning after the event on November 1, 2017, in New York City. Eight people were killed and 12 were injured on Tuesday afternoon when suspect 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, a legal resident from Uzbekistan, intentionally drove a truck onto a bike path in lower Manhattan. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
United States Attorney Damian Williams issued the following statement after the jury declined to impose the death penalty:
On October 31, 2017, Sayfullo Saipov stole eight innocent lives – and devastated the lives of many more – in a horrendous terrorist attack. This evil act was fueled by Saipov’s allegiance to ISIS, an allegiance which Saipov proudly maintained after the attack and up through his trial. Today a jury has declined to authorize the death penalty for Saipov, and accordingly the defendant will be subject to a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
During last week’s closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Houle told the jury Saipov deserved the death penalty for his “unremorseful slaughter of innocent civilians,” ABC News reported.
“Murder is always terrible but when the defendant made the choice to murder multiple people he exposed himself to a harsher punishment,” Houle said. “He stole eight lives.”
However, Saipov’s defense attorney David Patton claimed the jurors had “an awesome responsibility and power” in determining the fate of Saipov’s life and argued it was “not necessary” for him to die. Patton also urged the jury to let Saipov “die in obscurity, not as a hero, not as a martyr.”
“It is not necessary to kill Sayfullo Saipov, not for our safety or anyone else’s and not to do justice,” Patton said. “In this case, we are asking you to decide that meeting death with more death is not the answer.”
Although New York outlawed capital punishment in 2004, the death penalty remains available in federal courts. However, New York has not carried out the death penalty for a federal case since 1953, when convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed.
Conservative radio host Mark Levin slammed the Democrat Party for “tolerating” antisemitism, saying the left would sooner call former President Trump a white supremacist than address its own history of Jew-hatred.
On his Fox news show, Life, Liberty & Levin, the TV host on Sunday highlighted a speech by Nation of Islam cult leader and rabid antisemite, Louis Farrakhan, in which he attacked the Jewish people but praised members of the so-called Squad, Reps Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“Jewish power has all of our people the knowledge, wisdom, and talent afraid. But just look at what these people control. And every door that leads to power, they have a sentinel on watch. Somebody has to take on the synagogue of Satan. And here we are. What good is your vote if the man you voted for has to go to somebody that you never elected? Behind the door to get instructions. And the Jews have become wealthy just by loaning money, charging you interest and the stranglehold the Jews have on this government,” Fox News cited Farrakhan as saying at the Saviors Day event.
Farrakhan has a “significant impact” on the Democrat Party, Levin said, and called out President Joe Biden for not condemning the speech or Farrakhan.
“Is there a reason Joe Biden didn’t condemn this? Is the reason Kamala Harris didn’t condemn this? Is a reason why nobody at the White House has mentioned it? Is there a reason why the Washington press corps blows this off? Yeah, there are reasons for this,” he said.
He went on to note that Farrakhan was invited to the Congressional Black Caucus for lunch on Capitol Hill.
“Why did they invite this man? Because the Democrat Party has a problem,” the host argued.
Citing an article from Kevin Williamson at the National Review, he said Democrats have a “minor socialist problem.” Williamson wrote:
They have a major problem in the form of Jew-hating weirdos. Prominent among them, the Reverend Louis Farrakhan of the so-called Nation of Islam. Farrakhan has been out and proud, Jew-hating weirdo for many decades. But Democrats still feel the need to make gestures of obeisance before him. Anti-Trump leaders such as Tamika Mallory or Linda Sarsour of the Women’s March, have embraced Farrakhan and courted his favor. Barack Obama came a-calling in 2005 when he was ramping up his political career. The Congressional Black Caucus has consulted him. Bill Clinton stood alongside him at Aretha Franklin’s funeral, implicitly elevating the cult leader. California Democrats Barbara Lee, now wants to be a senator, and Maxine Waters attended Farrakhan’s public events, and Obama administration veteran, Eric Holder, posed for a picture with him.
Farrakhan is an anti-Semite. About that there is no real debate. Eric Holder. Maxine Waters. Others who confer status and influence on Farrakhan and his gang. Maybe they aren’t anti-Semitic. They certainly are collaborators.
Levin charged the Democrats with unbridled hypocrisy, accusing Biden of racism.
“This effort to try and turn conservatism into the KKK, into neo-Nazi ism is really amazing, especially considering the history of the Democrat Party and its embrace of the KKK and slavery and segregation and Jim Crow. Despite its history of filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, despite its current president, Joe Biden being a racist and segregationist early in his career opposing public school integration, calling it a jungle,” he said.
Antisemitism is quickly spreading, Levin continued, and it’s becoming “very, very ugly.”
“The President of the United States is saying almost nothing about any of this. The Democrat leadership is tolerating anti-Semitism.”
Lawmakers Mum As Ticketmaster Doles Out Tickets For Farrakhan Hate Rally
The ticketing giant hated by Taylor Swift fans and everyone else who has ever tried to buy concert tickets is now under fire from Jewish activists for selling tickets to a Louis Farrakhan event in which the minister defended Adolf Hitler and predicted another Holocaust against Jews. But many of Ticketmaster's biggest critics on Capitol Hill don't seem to care.
Ticketmaster, which charges service fees on each ticket it sells, raked in money selling tickets to Farrakhan's annual Saviours' Day conference in Chicago last weekend. During his speech at the event, Farrakhan assailed the "stranglehold that Jews have on this government" and claimed "Jewish power is what has all of our people of knowledge and wisdom and talent afraid."
The event was met with crickets on Capitol Hill, with almost no one in Congress speaking out against Ticketmaster for making money off of the Farrakhan event. The reaction is a stark contrast to lawmakers' response when Ticketmaster bungled sales last year for Taylor Swift's much-anticipated concert tour. That fiasco was in the news cycle for weeks and led to a Department of Justice investigation as well as a Senate hearing. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say Ticketmaster and its parent company, LiveNation, have a monopoly over the ticket industry, leading to price-gouging and a failure to crack down on automated scalping.
"Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in [sic]," wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in a Twitter post in November. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.), now the chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter to Ticketmaster last year raising concerns about its practices, while Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) called on the Department of Justice to investigate. None of their offices responded to a request for comment on Ticketmaster's Farrakhan sales.
Only Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.)—who also spoke out about the Taylor Swift debacle—weighed in on the Farrakhan controversy when contacted by the Washington Free Beacon.
"It is extremely concerning that Ticketmaster is choosing to use its platform to elevate and promote a well-known anti-Semite. The targeting of the Jewish people has gone on far too long and must stop," she said.
Entertainment industry leaders and Jewish groups had urged Ticketmaster to drop the Farrakhan event from its sales platform, but Ticketmaster did not waver. The Anti-Defamation League also sent a letter to Ticketmaster on Friday to "note that the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviors’ Day event regularly serves as a platform to amplify this hate and bigotry." The group said it was not calling on the company to halt ticket sales.
The event came as anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States. Hate crimes against Jews have surged in majorcities, while celebrities like Kanye West and Kyrie Irving have promoted anti-Jewish conspiracy theories on social media. Farrakhan during his speech praised West as a "very great brother" and "genius."
"Ye broke into the fashion industry, that’s controlled by Jews," said Farrakhan. "Don’t be mad with them. They’re in every avenue that leads to power."
"Somebody has to take on the synagogue of Satan, and here we are," he said. "We cannot let them take the country."
Farrakhan criticized Jews who use the phrase "Never Again" when discussing the Holocaust.
"You can say that to men, but you can’t say that to God. Because the Bible says, behold, the day cometh that shall burn—as a what?—as an oven. And those who do wickedly, He will slay them."
"God is not unjust; when he kills you, you know you deserved it," he added.
Farrakhan also defended the Nazis by citing an argument he supposedly heard from a Jewish rabbi on TV.
"Usury is what has made [the Jews] strong. I heard a Jewish rabbi, maybe about six weeks ago, he came on television talking about Adolf Hitler," said Farrakhan. "And he said Hitler was right. He said Hitler went against usury and Hitler attacked pornography that the Jews had put on the Germans."
Farrakhan and his group, the Nation of Islam, promote numerous conspiracy theories about Jews, including that Jews control the government, the media, and global financial institutions.
Last week, a group of entertainment industry leaders sent a letter to Ticketmaster CEO Michael Rapino calling on the company to drop the sales of the Farrakhan event and citing the preacher’s long history of anti-Semitism.
India: Muslim Leader Claims the Country Will Be Under Islamic Rule Within Twenty Years
From political leaders to business people, Muslims have a roadmap.
Some Muslims appear angry with the crackdown of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of the Indian state of Assam upon illegal madrassas (Islamic seminaries), as well as upon the child marriage rackets of some Muslim leaders. Reacting to the latest incidents in the state during a public meeting, a prominent Muslim leader, Badruddin Ajmal, boasted that Muslims would establish Islamic rule in India within 20 years. “After 20 years,” said Ajmal while addressing a public meeting held after his party meeting in the Dabaka area of the Nagaon district of Assam, “India will be governed by boys and girls belonging to the Muslim community.” Ajmal is the chief of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF); since 2009, he also holds a seat in Lok Sabha, the parliament of India, from Dhubri.
Various sources have confirmed that the Islamic organization led by AIUDF and the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) plan to set up numerous training and career education institutions for Muslim students that would produce large numbers of Muslim officers in the Indian Administrative Services (IAS), the India Police Services (IPS), and allied services in state cadres. These organizations would also support the education and training of engineers, doctors, advocates, and business entrepreneurs from their community that would help establish an Islamic regime in India in an institutionalized way.
Although Hindus dominate the primarily white-collar professions, they will be dependent on the Muslim population for the basic needs of life, and the presence of Sharia-compliant Muslims in the administrative ranks will further the revision of laws so that they favor Muslims.
The fact that there are institutions that support free training for Muslim students who are preparing for administrative services is well known. Young Muslims are opting for this route in order to get a share of administrative power. Some Muslim-owned corporations use funds from their welfare trusts to provide scholarships to Muslim students. From political leaders to business people, the Muslims have a roadmap to an Islamized India, and many of them are collectively following this path while the majority slumbers. Hence, when a Muslim leader such as Badruddin Ajmal asserts that he sees Islamic control of India in 20 years, the state machinery shouldn’t just laugh it off and dismiss it as wishful thinking.
It is said that the Islamic outfit also plans to capture and influence Indian social systems through love jihad (luring gullible Hindu women into relationships with Muslim men, forcing them to convert to Islam, and killing them or forcing them to commit suicide if they refuse), population jihad (giving birth to a large number of children per couple while people of other religions generally limit themselves to two), land jihad (capturing land nationwide and claiming it under the authority of the Waqf Board), and conversion as four tools to neutralize the control of Hindus in India.
The halal industry has successfully penetrated the Indian markets, and with a scarcity of choices, non-Muslims are made to consume halal products. Almost every eatery and restaurant serves dishes made with halal meat. The retailers selling raw meat take pride in declaring that they exclusively sell halal meat, even in Hindu-majority cities and towns. Markets are full of halal-certified spices and grocery items that are not even meat products. The market now has halal-certified make-up brands promoted by Hindu influencers. Most Hindus remain unfazed by all this and are shelling out money for their own destruction.
This is not the first time that Badruddin Ajmal has courted controversy for his outrageous comments. A few months ago, he said that Hindus “should follow Muslims and get their children married at an young age. Get the boys married at 20-22 and the girls at 18-20 and see how many children are born.” His comments attracted sharp criticism from BJP MLA Diganta Kalita. The leader of the Congress, Debabrata Saikia, filed a complaint against Ajmal, accusing the latter of targeting the Hindu community. Saikia also claimed that the AIUDF chief’s comments had triggered disharmony or enmity towards Hindus, especially Hindu women of India.
Apart from the above, Ajmal has incurred several charges of promoting enmity between different groups and doing things that are prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony. He is also accused of criminal intimidation, cheating, and other malicious acts that appear to have been intended to provoke outrage among those who oppose him.
Terror in Tel Aviv: Three Israelis Shot by Palestinian Terrorist
Three Israelis were shot and wounded by a Palestinian terrorist while sitting in a cafe in downtown Tel Aviv on Thursday night.
Two of the victims remained in critical condition on Friday morning. The third was listed as being in moderate condition.
The terrorist, identified as Mutaz Salah al-Khawaja from the Palestinian town of Ni’lin, was shot and killed by security forces at the scene. He was known to the police as having affiliations with the Hamas terror group and had previously served time in an Israeli prison twice for owning and using illegal weapons.
Hamas released a statement calling the attack a “a natural response to the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Jenin.”
Al-Khawaja recorded a video hours before Thursday’s attack, calling for jihad and saying that he wished to die as a martyr.
On Friday morning, the terrorist’s father was arrested. IDF soldiers mapped al-Khawaja’s home ahead of its expected demolition, a policy Israel says deters attacks.
Security measures are taken on the Dizengoff Street after a shooting leaves at least three injured in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 09, 2023. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“I saw a terrorist and I hid,” an eyewitness told the Ynet news site. “I saw policemen running towards the corner of the building. A firefight broke out between them. He came and they neutralized him.”
The shooting came amid ongoing protests against the government’s plans for judicial reform. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai called on anti-government protesters to leave the area to allow police to secure it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broadcast a brief message from an official visit to Rome.
People stand at the scene after a shooting attack near a cafe at Dizengoff Street. At least three Israeli civilians were injured by gunshots. (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)
“There has been another terror attack in the heart of Tel Aviv tonight. We send, first of all, our hopes and our wishes for the speedy recovery of the wounded, and we strengthen the security forces and the police who are fighting terrorists this night and every night,” he said.
“We will continue to build our nation and deepen our roots, and to build our common future as brothers and sisters.”
Hamas released a statement calling the attack a “a natural response to the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces in [Judea and Samaria] and Jenin.”
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