REALLY JOE???
[T]oday, around the world, we’re seeing so many Muslims being targeted with violence. No one, no one should discriminate against oppressed or be oppressed for their religious beliefs…. Muslims make our nation stronger every single day, even as they still face real challenges and threats in our society, including targeted violence and Islamophobia that exists.
Antisemitic Attacks Reach Record High Under Joe Biden
Antisemitic attacks reportedly reached a record high in the U.S. in 2022 — the second year of President Joe Biden, who ran for office based on promises to fight antisemites and other extremists.
Union Station in Washington, DC, is vandalized with a Swastika on January 29, 2022, two days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
New figures released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) — a left-leaning organization run by former Obama administration official Jonathan Greenblatt — show that there were nearly 3,700 known antisemitic incidents in the U.S., 111 of them violent.
The ADL said:
In 2022, ADL tabulated 3,697 antisemitic incidents throughout the United States. This is a 36% increase from the 2,717 incidents tabulated in 2021 and the highest number on record since ADL began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979. This is the third time in the past five years that the year-end total has been the highest number ever recorded.
Incidents increased in each of the major Audit categories: antisemitic harassment increased 29% to 2,298; antisemitic vandalism increased 51% to 1,288 and antisemitic assaults increased 26% to 111. The vast majority of antisemitic assaults (107 out of 111) were perpetrated without the use of a deadly weapon. There was one fatality. Notably, visibly Orthodox Jews were targeted in 53% of the assault incidents nationally. This year, no assaults perpetrated against the Jewish community resulted in mass causalities.
The dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents in 2022 in almost all categories cannot be attributed to any one cause or ideology. Significant surges in incidents include high volume increases in organized white supremacist propaganda activity (102% increase to 852 incidents), K-12 schools (49% increase to 494 incidents) and college campuses (41% increase to 219 incidents), as well as deeply troubling percentage increases in attacks on Orthodox Jews (69% increase to 59 Incidents) and bomb threats toward Jewish institutions (an increase from eight to 91 incidents).
Antisemitic incidents were highest in New York and California, where there are large Jewish communities — and which are governed by left-wing Democrats who pride themselves on their commitments to tolerance.
Biden launched his campaign in April 2019 by claiming he was motivated to run by neo-Nazi riots in Charlottesville, which he falsely claimed that Trump had praised. He also compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
The 46th president promised to unite the nation — but then inflamed tensions by attacking Republicans as extremists. His administration also adopted a more hostile approach to Israel than the Trump administration.
The Biden administration recently held a summit on antisemitism, chaired by Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, but excluded conservative Jewish groups, such as the Zionist Organization of America, from attending.
The ADL is generally considered an authoritative source on the subject of antisemitic attacks, though it has also exaggerated in some years, notably when it included hoax bomb threats as real antisemitic incidents in a 2018 report.
At the time, Greenblatt and the ADL strongly implied that President Donald Trump was to blame for a rise in antisemitism, though the phenomenon began in the latter years of President Barack Obama’s presidency.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Biden on Ramadan: We ‘Honor Muslim Communities…That Have Been Part of the American Story Since Our Founding’
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden marked the beginning of the month of Ramadan on Wednesday by issuing a statement in which he noted that Muslim communities “have been part of the American story since our founding.”
"During this holy month, we also honor Muslim communities across our nation that have been part of the American story since our founding,” said Biden.
“From science and technology, to arts and academia, to law and medicine, to business and government, and beyond—Muslim Americans continue to strengthen our nation’s diverse tapestry generation after generation,” he said.
“So today, let us join together across cultures and faiths and renew our commitment to creating a more equal, more just, more tolerant, and more compassionate nation,” said Biden.
Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic year, is observed by Muslims with fasting and prayer.
Here the full text of President Biden’s statement on Ramadan:
President Joe Biden: “Today, Jill and I extend our best wishes to Muslim communities across the country and around the world as they begin the Islamic holy month of Ramadan—a time of fasting, renewal, charity, worship, and growth.
“During this sacred time of reflection, the United States also reaffirms our support to Muslim communities suffering hardships and devastation. We will continue to stand with the people of Turkiye and Syria—who have lost many loved ones during the recent devastating earthquakes—and with the people of Pakistan, who are rebuilding their lives following last summer’s floods. Today especially, we remember the universal human right to practice, pray, and preach our faiths peacefully and openly. And together with our partners, the United States stands in solidarity with Muslims who continue to face oppression—including Uyghurs in the People’s Republic of China, Rohingya in Burma, and other Muslim communities facing persecution around the world.
“During this holy month, we also honor Muslim communities across our nation that have been part of the American story since our founding. From science and technology, to arts and academia, to law and medicine, to business and government, and beyond—Muslim Americans continue to strengthen our nation’s diverse tapestry generation after generation. So today, let us join together across cultures and faiths and renew our commitment to creating a more equal, more just, more tolerant, and more compassionate nation.
“To my fellow Americans observing Ramadan, and to Muslims around the world: Ramadan Kareem—we wish you a blessed and peaceful Ramadan.”
A Terrorist’s Best Friend
Who is the greatest supporter of Palestinian terrorism?
A few days ago marked the 21st anniversary of the suicide bombing in which our son, then 7, and I were wounded. There is no greater supporter of Palestinian terrorism than the U.S. government.
At 4:20 pm on March 21st, 2002, a Palestinian policeman detonated himself on King George Street in downtown Jerusalem. The bomber was brought to Jerusalem by two women and sent from Ramallah by an officer in the Palestinian Authority intelligence service. I have written about the bombing and its aftermath previously. A New York jury found the PA and the PLO guilty of the attack and awarded us over $100 million in trebled damages. After multiple appeals, our case goes on today, nearly 20 years after it was filed.
The United States ostensibly fights terrorists throughout the world. Yet, it is the U.S. that is the single greatest contributor to Palestinian terror, more so than Iran, Syria, or other “terror” states. Let’s look at an attack that occurred last week. David Stern, a former US Marine living in the settlement of Itamar, was shot in the head in his car in the Palestinian town of Huwara. Stern returned fire and made his way to a checkpoint before being taken to a hospital. The U.S. ambassador, Tom Nides, duly noted that Stern was a U.S. citizen and, like many others, asked for prayers for his recovery. Nides did not condemn the attack or the attacker. Why would he? Nides and many in Washington see the Palestinians as a wronged people and terror is in their minds a fair tactic for redressing historical wrongs and fighting a “right-wing” government currently running Israel. I wrote to Ambassador Nides last May to tell him that a senior Palestinian minister had been actively involved in our attack. I asked that he and his colleagues refrain from meeting someone involved in the attempted murder of civilians, including two American citizens. Not only did I not receive a response, the same fellow, Hussein al-Sheikh, was allowed into the US and met with Tony Blinken.
And as to Tony Blinken, after we and nine other families won our lawsuit in 2015 in the southern district of Manhattan, the U.S. State Department filed a statement of interest asking the judge to go easy on the appeal bond for the Palestinian Authority. They claimed that too high a bond would end the PA and lead to anarchy. Who signed that statement? None other than under-secretary Tony Blinken. The PA bought Abu Mazen a plane for $55 million the week after the judge agreed to the State Department request to reduce the bond from $700 million to $10 million.
Two weeks ago, a cousin of mine living in Israel called to ask for advice. Having been in a terror attack and having navigated the system, we have become a resource at times for others. This cousin had four young children at a bus stop two months ago when a bomb exploded there. One boy was hit in the head with shrapnel and all four were traumatized by the experience. They refuse to get on a bus to go to school. My cousin said that she had been contacted by the U.S. embassy and by the FBI. I was happy to hear that the red-white-and-blue was proactive in reaching out to her, but I told her not to get her hopes up with respect to the FBI. There have been well over 200 terror attacks in and around Israel in which a U.S. citizen has been killed or injured. The Republican Study Group actually used to keep a running list of such attacks during the Second Intifada. The FBI is legally required to open a file for any American injured or killed in an overseas terror incident. And they do open such files. How many terrorists have been indicted? I know of one. How many have been extradited? Zero?
Obviously the same for prosecution and incarceration. I have spoken to people in the FBI and at the Department of Justice, and they have no shortage of excuses—the Israelis get first dibs, the Israelis don’t share all of the evidence, there is some agreement between Israel and the U.S. not to try the same terrorist on the same charges in different countries, lack of access to the prisoners, and more. All of this might be true, but if the U.S. wanted someone, they would get him or her. The U.S. has more than a handful of levers it can use to get the Israelis to cough up any terrorist desired, but the problem is that there is no desire. The U.S. does not want to prosecute these cases and Israel is more than happy to oblige.
Each year, except for a few during the Trump years, the U.S. sends hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority. Much of this money is used to pay the salaries of Palestinian terrorists in Israeli jails; the guys from our attack have made a fortune while in jail. The Taylor Force Law was supposed to address these payments, but the U.S. government has just ignored it. Even if the monies were reduced, whatever the U.S. sends simply frees up other monies to support terrorists and their families. The U.S. is one of the largest supporters of the Palestinian terror enterprise and this fact has been true for every administration of late—both Republican and Democrat. The monies not taken during the Trump years were the result of a law that would have made the Palestinians agree to be tried in cases like ours in the U.S.: it was the PA that did not want the money, not Trump’s Arabist State Department refusing on principle to send money to the bad guys.
The U.S. talks a good game about fighting global terror. U.S. troops are in multiple hot spots around the globe to fight ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other Islamic terrorist organizations. But for all of the U.S. efforts, the U.S. still is a major provider of funds to the Palestinian Authority, who was found guilty on all counts in a federal courtroom for its role in wounding and killing American victims. Tom Nides can’t condemn Palestinian terror; it would be like someone condemning Google while holding a lot of Google stock. The U.S. continues to endanger Israeli and U.S. citizens by supporting a terror body that glorifies the murder of innocent civilians. Every year we remember the day in which we were injured and thank G-d for our recoveries. We will continue to fight the terrorists in court and in any way we can. I wish that our leaders in Washington could say the same.
Palestinians Funneled Hundreds of Millions to Terrorists, State Dept Report Reveals
Biden administration remains intent on restarting aid to Palestinians
The Biden administration privately confirmed to Congress last week that the Palestinian Authority has continued to use international aid money to reward terrorists but said the finding won't impact its plans to restart funding.
In a non-public State Department report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the administration said the Palestinians spent at least $151 million in 2019 on its "pay-to-slay" program, in which international aid dollars are spent to support imprisoned terrorists and their families. Financial statements further indicate that at least $191 million was spent on "deceased Palestinians referred to as ‘martyrs.’" Despite this practice, which violates U.S. law and prompted the Trump administration to freeze aid to the Palestinians, the "Biden-Harris Administration has made clear its intent to restart assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza," according to the report.
It remains unclear how the Biden administration will restart American aid without violating a 2018 bipartisan law known as the Taylor Force Act, which prohibits the U.S. government from resuming Palestinian aid until the payments to terrorists are stopped. The latest report on the matter is likely to rankle pro-Israel lawmakers in Congress who see the payments as a gift to the Palestinian government as it continues to sponsor terrorism and foment anti-Israel hatred.
A spokesman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a primary backer of the Taylor Force Act and proponent of continuing the freeze of Palestinian aid, told the Free Beacon the Biden administration is currently planning to skirt American laws barring taxpayer dollars from reaching the Palestinian government.
"Congress correctly and overwhelmingly passed the Taylor Force Act to limit assistance to areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority, because the Palestinian Authority just shifts fungible resources to pay terrorists," the spokesman said. "Sen. Cruz is concerned that in the rush to elevate the Palestinians and downgrade the U.S.-Israel relationship, the Biden administration is looking for ways to circumvent the restrictions on American taxpayer dollars going to those areas in ways that will benefit the Palestinian Authority."
The State Department admitted it was "unable to certify" to Congress that the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization are complying with the Taylor Force Act, primarily because they have "not terminated payments for acts of terrorism to any individual, after being fairly tried, who has been imprisoned for such acts of terrorism and to any individual who died committing such acts of terrorism, including to a family member of such individuals," according to the report.
The Palestinian government continues to fund the "pay-to-slay" program, the State Department confirmed in the unclassified March 18 report. A classified version of the report with "additional information on the amount the PA is believed to have transferred to" terrorists during 2019 also was produced by the State Department. Those figures, which likely stand at more than $155 million in 2020 alone, could galvanize a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers to publicly oppose the Biden administration’s efforts to resume Palestinian aid.
Currently, "plans for [resuming] this assistance are being developed, and the resumption of assistance to the West Bank and Gaza, including any assistance for the PA using [fiscal year] 2020 funds, will be fully consistent with applicable requirements under U.S. law," the administration claims in the report without explaining exactly how it will legally execute that plan.
Another private State Department memo outlining the Biden administration’s efforts to increase diplomacy with the Palestinian government indicates that U.S. aid dollars will start flowing again at the end of March or early April, according to a copy of that memo recently leaked in the press.
In addition to paying terrorists and their families, the State Department determined the Palestinian government has "not taken proactive steps to counter incitement to violence against Israel." Thus, the U.S. government also could not certify for Congress that the PA has made good on repeated promises to end incitement and recommit to peace negotiations.
The report highlights contradictory statements by PA president Mahmoud Abbas made throughout 2020 promising to pursue peace and also continue terror operations against Israel. Moreover, "incitement to violence and glorification of terrorism occur in public statements and social media posts by PA officials and politicians, in official media broadcasts and social media outlets, and in school textbooks," according to the report.
Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group, recently determined the Palestinian government spent around 3.2 percent of its total 2020 budget, or $155 million, on the "pay-to-slay" program. Many of these payments were obscured by the PA, which funneled some $300 million to the PLO so that it could continue payment to terrorists in violation of U.S. law.
MUSLIM NEO-FASCISM IN AMERICA
Ilhan and Imran's Incredible Islamophobia Intimacy
A shared campaign to destroy the freedom of speech.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-muslim-threat-to-america-ilhan-and.html
It’s Muslim Roulette. Even the most “moderate” and “peaceful” Muslims can, out of the blue, commit the most obscene acts of violence, but with no prior warning signs. These Muslims may not act outwardly any different than they have before, but internally, they began to take Islam seriously. And the more serious a Muslim takes Islam, the more potentially dangerous he or she is. Here’s what I mean by Muslim Roulette:
A is A. Islam is Islam. There is no such thing as “Good” Islam or “Bad” Islam. Islam is a totalitarian religion, while Muslims are individual human beings who may or may not practice Islam faithfully. There are active Muslims and passive Muslims, the faithful and the unfaithful, the submitted and the un-submitted in Islam, but there is no obvious way to tell the difference between them, which has its benefits for Muslims who are committed to spreading Islam by any means necessary. Mohammad said “War is deceit” and practiced this, and Muslims have followed their leader in using deception against non-Muslims from the first days of Islam to today. When Islam, the very antithesis of peace, is sold to us by Muslims and their useful idiots as being the very definition of peace, and actually gains traction, that would have made Goebbels blush.
Biden: 'So Many Muslims Are Targeted With Violence' and 'Oppressed for Their Religious Beliefs'
Complaining about fake violence against Muslims while ignoring real violence by Muslims.
Fri May 6, 2022
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Day by day, it seems that the ruling class and their media mouthpiece are dedicated to one principle: find problems where none exist and ignore real problems that are in desperate need of attention.
Consider the words of U.S. President Joe Biden, spoken during Eid al-Fitr with Muslims at the White House on May 2. He said:
[T]oday, around the world, we’re seeing so many Muslims being targeted with violence. No one, no one should discriminate against oppressed or be oppressed for their religious beliefs…. Muslims make our nation stronger every single day, even as they still face real challenges and threats in our society, including targeted violence and Islamophobia that exists.
Now, let’s briefly parse these surreal claims:
[T]oday, around the world, we’re seeing so many Muslims being targeted with violence.
Where are the statistics for this claim? Rather, what we’re used to seeing is Muslims targeting non-Muslims with violence. According to one tally, for example, during just this last Ramadan, or basically the month of April 2022, Muslims launched 177 terror attacks “in the name of Islam” that murdered 1,086 people. Again, that’s just during one month—Islam’s “holiest” month. The same tally finds that there were zero attacks and zero deaths by non-Muslims operating under the name of their religions.
No one, no one should discriminate against oppressed or be oppressed for their religious beliefs.
Of course, everyone agrees with this—except, apparently, the one group that Biden was speaking to and presenting as “oppressed,” namely, Muslims: systematic discrimination and oppression are endemic to the Muslim world, and that’s because systematic discrimination and oppression are integral parts of the religion of Islam and codified in sharia.
If you’re a non-Muslim, you are openly treated as inferior and with fewer rights. That’s if you’re lucky; otherwise, you’re outright persecuted and possibly killed for your faith. As a recent report found, 360 million Christians around the world are persecuted for their religious identity—and the overwhelming majority of that persecution occurs in Muslim nations. In fact, the persecution Christians experience in 39 of the worst 50 nations is due to Islam. Yet never a word about this from Biden. Instead:
Muslims make our nation stronger every single day, even as they still face real challenges and threats in our society, including targeted violence and Islamophobia that exists.
While one can point to several ways Muslims potentially make the U.S. weaker every day—from terror attacks and violent crimes to engaging in propaganda and subverting the nation from within—it would be useful to explain one reason as to how “Muslims make our nation stronger every single day.” Sure, it sounds nice, but some concrete examples, please.
As for Biden’s complaint about “targeted violence and Islamophobia that exists,” as seen, whatever that may be, it is a tithe of the targeted violence that Muslims launch on others.
As for the “Islamophobia that exists”—and which has existed since Islam was born, for obvious reasons—it is simply a manifestation of the fact that more and more people are learning the truths of Muhammad’s creed, despite the talking points of Biden and the rest.
EGYPT: THE MUSLIM BARBARIAN STATE
Two niqab-wearing women assaulted and forcefully cut the hair of a Christian woman on the metro Sunday, the third such reported incident in two months, raising fears of a growing vigilante movement to punish Egyptian women for not wearing the veil in public…. [T]he assaulters called the Christian woman, who is 28 years old, an “infidel” and pushed her off the train, breaking her arm.
Egypt: Muslim Pharmacist Berates, Slaps Christian Woman
Her hair was uncovered during Ramadan.
Wed May 4, 2022
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article is reprinted from Coptic Solidarity.
A Muslim man berated and beat a Coptic Christian woman because she entered his establishment with her head uncovered during Ramadan in Egypt.
According to the Apr. 27, 2022 Arabic language report, Nevin Sobhi, a 30-year-old married mother, went to her local drugstore to pick up some medication for her young son, who accompanied her. On entering, she noticed that the head pharmacist, Dr. Ali Abu Sa‘da, was giving her “the evil eye.” Before long, what was in his eyes reached his tongue: he launched into a loud and “hate-filled tirade” against her for daring to enter his store during Ramadan without any head covering and while wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.
It should be noted that Ali was aware that Nevin was Christian and, therefore, not obligated to observe Ramadan’s rules. When the Copt told him as much, he responded with a violent slap to her face. When the startled woman responded with shock and anger, he slapped her again—all while her scared, young son cried.
Nevin ran outside, “in a state of collapse, crying and incapable of absorbing the shock.” She contacted her family, and they went to the local police station to report the incident. There, Nevin received what she called her “third slap.” According to the Christian woman:
Inside the police station, I was surprised by attempts and pressure to conciliate. The perpetrator’s lawyer steered the writing of the report [in a manner] that contradicted reality, and they forced me to sign the report which contained statements from the pharmacist’s lawyer without taking my statements. […] We were especially shocked to see the report said that “the pharmacist is a friend of the family, who was just bantering and joking around with Mrs. Nevin, because he is close to the family.”
Continued the woman: “I was so shocked; it was as a third slap to me—that such a radical character could emerge victorious, even as I lose my rights as an Egyptian woman!”
Criticism for and even violence against those who do not outwardly conform to the strictures of Ramadan—even if they are non-Muslims and therefore exonerated—is common throughout the Islamic world.
Some days before this incident, for example, a video surfaced of a woman in hijab yelling at and hitting Coptic girls in a bus for not being properly veiled. Muslim women have even been known to cut off—sometimes clandestinely other times not so clandestinely—the uncovered hair of Christian women. To quote from a report,
Two niqab-wearing women assaulted and forcefully cut the hair of a Christian woman on the metro Sunday, the third such reported incident in two months, raising fears of a growing vigilante movement to punish Egyptian women for not wearing the veil in public…. [T]he assaulters called the Christian woman, who is 28 years old, an “infidel” and pushed her off the train, breaking her arm.
That said, such killings would certainly be much more frequent -- especially following Friday mosque prayers, when the believers are regularly riled against the hated “infidels” -- were they not outlawed and punished by the state.
On April 7, 2022, in Egypt, a Muslim man lunged at and viciously stabbed a Christian priest thrice in the neck with a knife; Fr. Arsenius Wadid died soon thereafter. Although the murderer was instantly apprehended by passersby -- the crime was committed on a crowded street -- Egyptian authorities initially tried to do what their Western counterparts often do: portray the murderer as “insane,” an aberration of society.
MUSLIM NEO-FASCISM IN AMERICA
Ilhan and Imran's Incredible Islamophobia Intimacy
A shared campaign to destroy the freedom of speech.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-muslim-threat-to-america-ilhan-and.html
It’s Muslim Roulette. Even the most “moderate” and “peaceful” Muslims can, out of the blue, commit the most obscene acts of violence, but with no prior warning signs. These Muslims may not act outwardly any different than they have before, but internally, they began to take Islam seriously. And the more serious a Muslim takes Islam, the more potentially dangerous he or she is. Here’s what I mean by Muslim Roulette:
A is A. Islam is Islam. There is no such thing as “Good” Islam or “Bad” Islam. Islam is a totalitarian religion, while Muslims are individual human beings who may or may not practice Islam faithfully. There are active Muslims and passive Muslims, the faithful and the unfaithful, the submitted and the un-submitted in Islam, but there is no obvious way to tell the difference between them, which has its benefits for Muslims who are committed to spreading Islam by any means necessary. Mohammad said “War is deceit” and practiced this, and Muslims have followed their leader in using deception against non-Muslims from the first days of Islam to today. When Islam, the very antithesis of peace, is sold to us by Muslims and their useful idiots as being the very definition of peace, and actually gains traction, that would have made Goebbels blush.
Mosque Family Night with Alleged Wife Abuser Hassan Shibly
The women-hating hypocrites at the Southeast Texas Islamic Society.
Tue May 3, 2022
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).
Unless they were being hidden in a room far from the event, there appears to be no women at last month’s Family Night, at the Beaumont, Texas mosque. That may be a good thing, though, because they may not have been too thrilled about who the mosque had invited to speak at it, ex-CAIR leader Hassan Shibly. It was little over a year ago that Shibly was accused by his then-wife of domestic violence against her in front of their children, and the accusation was taken seriously enough to result in Shibly resigning from CAIR. Why would the mosque welcome such a toxic individual to speak at a family event? Why would they allow him to speak at all?
Much like CAIR, itself, Shibly is a Muslim extremist, whose targets are Jews and Israel. He has described Hezbollah as “basically a resistance movement” and “absolutely not a terrorist organization” and the Hamas Holy Land Foundation (HLF) charity as “humanitarian aid providers.” He used Facebook to laud Palestinian jailed terrorist Marwan Barghouti as a “hero” and tweeted that “Israel and its supporters are enemies of God.” In May 2021, he tweeted a graphic that repeated “Israel is an illegitimate apartheid terrorist state” two dozen times, and posted a brutally anti-Semitic video on Instagram, calling on Israeli Jews to “go back to Europe.”
In December 2020, Shibly’s then-wife, Imane Sadrati, created a GoFundMe page asking for donations, claiming that she suffered physical and mental abuse at the hands of Shibly and that Shibly cut off funds from her. She said, “[W]hen I was 9 months pregnant with my first born, my marriage became volatile and abusive. What I assumed was ‘just a disagreement’ turned into screams. What would have been annoying remarks suddenly became violent blows… My husband hurt me mentally, emotionally and physically behind closed doors and openly in front of my children… I need your support to put an end to domestic violence in my home!”
On a 911 call to police that took place days prior to the publishing of the GoFundMe page and that was made public by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), Sadrati alleged that Shibly, who has spent a significant part of his life on the federal terrorist watchlist, threatened to kill her and stated, “He’s been beating me for 12 years.” According to court documents, during one purported incident, Shibly “twisted Sadrati's arm, slapped her and shoved her against a wall.”
Other allegations have surfaced regarding Shibly, including that of ‘secret marriages’ (outside of his legal marriage to Sadrati) and sexual harassment of CAIR co-workers. One former CAIR colleague of Shibly’s, Samantha Bowden, who held the position of CAIR-Florida Communications Director, posted the following on her Facebook page: “HASSAN SHIBLY IS A PERVERT, ABUSER, AND MANIPULATOR, AND I STAND AS A WITNESS TO ALL OF THIS BEHAVIOR… HE’S A MONSTER & NEEDS TO BE ISOLATED FROM PUBLIC ACCESS TO PEOPLE.”
On March 25, 2022, The Southeast Texas Islamic Society (STIS), a.k.a. Jamia Masjid Beaumont, brought Shibly in as a guest speaker for its ‘Family Night Dinner.’ It was only a couple months before that Shibly gave a fundraising appeal for the American Youth Academy (AYA), in Tampa, Florida (and advertised another AYA talk, days before). AYA is a children’s school founded by former Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) North American leader Sami al-Arian. Helping Shibly at the AYA event was Hatem Fariz, a colleague of al-Arian’s and fellow member of PIJ. Both Fariz and al-Arian were convicted of providing material support to terrorists.
Speaking along with Shibly, at the Family Night, was STIS imam and resident fashionista Yasir Usmani. Usmani, who previously served as Youth Director of Darul Uloom Texas and who is proud of his Pakistani heritage, refers to the controversial South Asian group Tablighi Jamaat, which has been banned by a number of nations, “Tablighi friends.” He also labeled India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, “terrorist Modi” and the Indian government, “the infidel government of India.” This month, Usmani voiced and produced videos containing anti-Semitic Islamic tropes, including that Allah turned Jews into “apes” and that Jews have “earned wrath upon wrath.”
One of the coordinators for the event was local Lamar University professor and frequent speaker at STIS, Khalid Hamza. Hamza was denied tenure at a previous school, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), for allegedly “misstating his qualifications on his resume” and “unprofessional behavior.” Hamza was co-founder of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR). Other ICBR founders consisted of Hamas web designer Syed Khawer Ahmad and ex-assistant to Sami al-Arian, Bassem Alhalabi. Hamza used a Texas A&M University internet forum to defend al-Arian and portray reports of al-Arian’s involvement in terrorism as media “poisoning people’s minds.”
Given Shibly’s recent wife abuse scandal, it was an interesting choice for STIS to bring him in as a speaker – and on family night, yet! This is especially the case, when the mosque and its leadership have cynically attempted to create the (false) impression that they honor women. On their social media, one can find such messages as: “The Best Of You Are Those Who Are Best To Their Women”; “Treat your WIFE The way you want your DAUGHTER To be Treated”; “Mother is the blessing that no one can replace”; and “MEN ARE THE PROTECTORS AND MAINTAINERS OF WOMEN.”
When Shibly came to speak, all of the leaders of STIS – STIS Chairman Azam Ali, STIS President Tahir “Tony” Ashrafi, and STIS Imam Yasir Usmani – lined up to have their photos taken with him. Ashrafi stated about the Shibly event, “Today we had Brother Hassan Shibly give a khutba at Jamia Masjid’s Family Night! It was a wonderful event… Thank you to Brother Hassan Shibly for joining us and speaking at our event!”
In truth, STIS cares nothing about safeguarding women or about the allegations that Shibly abused his wife, just as it has no issues with the fact that Shibly has associated himself with a Hamas-related group like CAIR or PIJ-linked entities like AYA and Hatem Fariz. STIS President Ashrafi alluded to this, when he posted on his Facebook page a graphic with the following message aimed at women, like Imane Sadrati, who speak out: “DON’T TALK BAD ABOUT YOUR HUSBAND. TO ANYONE. EVER.”
STIS is another radical Muslim institution which has no problem with inviting an alleged domestic abuser, bigamist and harasser of women to address their adherents on a ‘Family Night.’ The mosque’s embrace of Shibly implies a tacit acceptance and approval of all the behaviors he is accused of. Instead of becoming persona non grata, Shibly is considered a celebrity in Islamist circles. This reveals the inherent misogyny and total hypocrisy permeating their extremist ideology and makes a mockery of the family values they claim to be promoting.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
How the Koran Calls for the Murder of Christians
On April 7, 2022, in Egypt, a Muslim man lunged at and viciously stabbed a Christian priest thrice in the neck with a knife; Fr. Arsenius Wadid died soon thereafter. Although the murderer was instantly apprehended by passersby -- the crime was committed on a crowded street -- Egyptian authorities initially tried to do what their Western counterparts often do: portray the murderer as “insane,” an aberration of society.
Due to a combination of public outcry (primarily from the Copts themselves), the testimonials of seventeen eyewitnesses, and even the murderer’s own coherent responses -- to say nothing of the fact that of all the people he could have “randomly” murdered he targeted the one openly professing his Christian faith by wearing a large crucifix around his neck -- prosecution finally confirmed that he would be tried as sane and cognizant of his actions.
Why both Westerners and non-Westerners constantly seek to portray Muslim murderers of non-Muslims as “insane” should be clear by now: the alternative -- that Islam somehow promotes such behavior -- would open a massive can of worms that no one wants to deal with.
But can one really say that Islam promotes even the unprovoked slaying of a Christian clergyman, Fr. Arsenius, who was peacefully engaged in a public charitable activity with the youth of his church when he was slaughtered?
Three Koran passages would seem to answer this question in the affirmative: 1. “Kill the polytheists wherever you find them (9:5); 2. “Fight the leaders of disbelief [kufr] (9:12); 3. “When you meet the disbelievers, strike [with your blades at their] necks (47:4).
Consider how these three verses apply to the current case: A Muslim man comes across a “leader of disbelief” -- that is, a clergyman, a visible representative of Christianity, as demarcated by the cross around Fr. Arsenius’s neck. It did not matter that he came across him on an open and crowded street, since Allah also commands the believers to “kill the polytheists” -- and Islam categorizes Christians as polytheists due to the Trinity -- “wherever you find them.” Finally, the murderer took his deity’s advice by striking directly at the neck, the jugular, which he repeatedly stabbed with a knife.
Should this rather straightforward interpretation still seem farfetched or not “nuanced” enough, keep in mind that Muslims recite the aforementioned three and many more hate-filled and violent Koran verses every single day; these scriptures are highlighted, praised, and expounded in countless books, on countless televised programs, and all throughout the mosques of the world, especially Egypt’s. In other words, these verses are ingrained in the minds of pious, observant Muslims.
Even so, one may object that, if such verses are so influential, why aren’t there more such attacks? Such an observation can only be made by someone whose information is exclusively derived from “mainstream media” sources: random attacks on “infidels” are actually quite common -- not a few of them featuring knife stabs to the neck.
In Egypt alone -- where a Coptic clergyman once complained that attacks on Christians happen “every two or three days” -- a murder nearly identical to that of Fr. Arsenius took place in 2017: then, a Muslim man wielding a butcher’s knife was seen and videotaped chasing a Coptic bishop in broad daylight; when he finally cornered him, the Muslim repeatedly stabbed the Christian in his neck and head, murdering him. Finally, to underscore that his handiwork was religiously (Islamicly) motivated, the murderer used the bishop’s own blood to draw a cross on his forehead.
Further confirming that this killer was motivated by Koran verses such as those cited above, neighbors said that he had recently “begun praying in the street, shouting loudly and calling Christians infidels.” As for motive, one report explained that “he had decided to kill any Coptic priest, purchased a dagger, and lay in wait for one to pass by, in a street leading to the local church.”
“Lay in wait for one to pass by” sounds awfully similar to Koran 9:5, which counsels the faithful to “capture them, besiege them, and lie in wait for them on every way.”
There are other such examples. In 2013, Coptic priest Mina Cheroubim was shot dead as he left his church in al-Arish, Egypt. A botched attempt occurred in 2020: while traveling to his church in Alexandria, a Coptic priest was ambushed and “nearly murdered” by a Muslim parolee. According to the report, “the parolee, nicknamed Kareem Madi, has a history of attacking Christians -- especially women and girls.”
Such murderous assaults are hardly limited to Coptic clergymen who, as the saying goes, wear their faith on their sleeves. Everyday Christians are also targeted and killed in what Egyptian media present as “random attacks” (with the only constant being the religion of the murderers, Islam, and the religion of their victims, Christianity).
As just two examples, in 2020 a Muslim man crept up behind a Christian woman walking home with groceries, grabbed her hair, pulled her head back, and slit her throat with a knife. Two days later, another Muslim man went for the jugular of a Christian man with a box-cutter; he only managed to sever an ear. On being questioned concerning his motive, this Muslim confessed that he did not know the Copt, but that he simply “hates Christians.” There are many more such examples from Egypt; see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
The reader may still protest: if the Koran teaches the outright butchery of infidels, “wherever you find them,” and if at least ten percent of Egypt’s population is Christian, shouldn’t there be many more -- indeed, daily -- murders? The answer to this seeming conundrum is simple enough. Though the Egyptian constitution is heavily based on Islamic sharia law, Egypt is still a modern state -- meaning that the random killing of an “infidel” is strictly prohibited. As such, it appears that only the most pious -- or as they are often portrayed, the most insane -- are willing to accept the negative consequences of literally enacting the hate-filled and violent verses of their holy book, which include long or even life prison sentences.
That said, such killings would certainly be much more frequent -- especially following Friday mosque prayers, when the believers are regularly riled against the hated “infidels” -- were they not outlawed and punished by the state.
Raymond Ibrahim, author of the new book, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.
Why Do Muslim ‘Victims’ Celebrate the Victimization of Others?
The disturbing tale of how Palestinians find “inspiration”.
Tue May 3, 2022
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Speaking on the first day of Ramadan, April 1, 2022, Mahmoud al-Habbash, the Supreme Sharia Judge of the Palestinian Authority, extolled the jihads waged by the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, during Ramadan:
How was this month [of Ramadan] in the life of Prophet [Muhammad]? … Did the Prophet spend Ramadan in calmness, serenity, laziness, and sleepiness? Far be it from him… The Prophet entered the great Battle of Badr [624] during Ramadan... Also in the month of Ramadan, in the 8th year of the Hijra [629-630], the Prophet and the Muslims conquered Mecca.... Ramadan is … a month of Jihad, conquest, and victory.
This is hardly the first time leading Palestinians invoke the early history of jihad in connection to Ramadan. During last year’s Ramadan, on April 16, 2021, Al Jazeera published an article by ‘Adnan Abu ‘Amar, “head of the Political Science Department at the University of the Ummah in Gaza,” explaining how Palestinians find “inspiration” in various jihads throughout Islamic history, “prominent among them the raid of Badr, the conquest of Mecca, the conquest of al-Andalus [Spain], and the battle of the pavement of martyrs [the Battle of Tours].”
Those who understand the true nature and motivation of these battles and conquests must wonder: Why are Palestinians, who present themselves as victims of land-grabbing Israeli oppressors, praising and finding inspiration in the land-grabbing oppressors of history? After all, in all of these military engagements, the Muslims were the aggressors: they invaded non-Muslim territory, butchered and enslaved its inhabitants, and appropriated their lands—and for no other reason than that they were “infidels,” non-Muslims.
The battle of Badr was occasioned by Muhammad’s raids on non-Muslim caravans; the conquest of Mecca was simply that, the conquest of a non-Muslim city; the conquest of al-Andalus is a reference to the years 711-716, when Muslims invaded and slaughtered countless thousands of Christians in Spain and torched their churches; and the battle of Tours is, of course, where the Muslim invasions into Western Europe were finally halted in 732.
That Palestinian elements are constantly praising the unjustified conquests of others is hardly uncommon. On May 29, Hizb al-Tahrir—the “Liberation Party”—often holds large, outdoor events near al-Aqsa mosque to commemorate the anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople (May 29, 1453). After all the takbirs (chants of “Allahu Akbar”) had subsided at one of these events, Palestinian cleric Nidhal Siam said:
Oh Muslims, the anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople brings tidings of things to come. It brings tidings that Rome will be conquered in the near future, Allah willing…. [Moreover,] Islam will throw its neighbors to the ground, and its reach will span across the east and the west of this Earth. This is Allah’s promise, and Allah does not renege on his promises.
The Palestinian cleric and assembled throng then repeatedly chanted, “By means of the Caliphate and the consolidation of power, Muhammad the Conqueror vanquished Constantinople!” and “Your conquest, oh Rome, is a matter of certainty!”
Again, the question must be emphasized: why are the Palestinians—who, when speaking to the international community, present themselves as an oppressed people whose land is unjustly occupied—finding inspiration in and seeking to emulate those who oppress and steal the lands of others?
If anything, shouldn’t the Palestinians be sympathizing with, say, the Christians of Spain, whose land was occupied, and they themselves brutalized by the occupiers, namely, the Muslim invaders from North Africa?
Similarly, if, as they claim, the Palestinians are an oppressed people whose land was stolen, shouldn’t they sympathize with the Christians of Constantinople, rather than Muhammad the Conqueror, an unsavory pedophile who invaded and conquered the ancient Christian city, while subjecting its indigenous inhabitants to all sorts of unspeakable atrocities?
As for Rome, what does it have to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict that it, too, deserves to be conquered? Absolutely nothing—except that, since the conquest of Constantinople, Islam has seen Rome as the symbolic head of the Christian world, and therefore in urgent need of subjugating; or, to quote the Islamic State, “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah… [We will cast] fear into the hearts of the cross-worshipers.”
Perhaps most telling is Palestinian cleric Siam’s claim (delivered to thundering applause) “that Islam will throw its neighbors to the ground, and that its reach will span across the east and the west of this Earth.” In other words, no non-Muslim is safe from the sword of jihad—including those who live countless leagues away from and have nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Surely all this must seem surreal when placed in context? How can Palestinians present themselves as a conquered and oppressed people whose land was stolen—while, in the very same breath, praising former and hoping for future conquests, replete with oppression and land grabbing from other peoples, only because they were/are non-Muslim?
And that is the grand lesson: when all is said and done, Islamic notions of “justice” are based on a simple dichotomy: whenever Muslims conquer, slaughter, subjugate, and steal land—that is just; whenever they have to live under “infidel” authority, that is unjust. Hence the virulent hatred for Israel.
A Palestinian Imam’s Genocidal Prayer
Will there be any consequences for calling for "the extermination of the evil Jews?"
Tue May 3, 2022
The Palestinian Authority likes to present itself as the “moderate” face of the Palestinian “resistance.” Unlike Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the PA does not itself conduct terror attacks. But it does encourage terror attacks by others. First, it continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on its “Pay-For-Slay” program, whereby it provides generous stipends to imprisoned terrorists, and to the families of terrorists who were killed in carrying out their attacks. Congress in 2018 passed the Taylor Force Act, that requires the American government to cease to provide aid to the PA as long as the “Pay-For-Slay” program continues.
Second, the PA honors terrorists by naming schools, streets, plazas, sports competitions, and more, after them, thereby keeping them fresh in the collective memory of the Palestinians, presenting them as exemplars to be emulated by the young.
Now the PA has reminded us – and one hopes the Bidenites are paying close attention – that it is perfectly happy to promote those who call for the “extermination” of Jews. Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about this yesterday, and another report on this can be found here: “Palestinian Authority TV Airs Imam’s Call for ‘Extermination of the Evil Jews’: NGO,” Algemeiner, April 24, 2022:
As Jerusalem saw escalating clashes last week between Palestinian rioters and Israeli police, Palestinian Authority TV aired an imam’s call for the “extermination” of Jews, an Israeli media watchdog said Sunday.
The prayer led by a Palestinian imam was broadcast on PA television on April 17, according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), as rioting continued on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
“Grant us victory over the infidels,” the imam said, according to a PMW translation. “Allah, delight us with the conquest and liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Allah, make us among the first to enter, the conquerors, the worshippers, and those calling out ‘Allahu Akbar’ inside [the mosque] to You, Master of the Universe.”
“Allah, delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews, O Master of the Universe, and [the extermination] of their hypocritical supporters who have evil in their hearts,” he continued.
The Ramadan prayer was delivered at the Al-Ain Mosque in El-Bireh, near Ramallah.
PMW said it had notified the Israel Police of the footage for its “explicit incitement to murder,” and also called for the arrest of the head of PA TV and the Palestinian Broadcast Corporation.
Comment:
The Ramadan prayer of the imam at the Al-Ain Mosque, calling for the “extermination “ of the Jews, is blood-curdling, but even worse is the fact that the “moderate” PA then chose to broadcast it on the PA’s television. Thus it endorsed, and helped to spread, the annihilationist sentiment of the unidentified imam, who calls not for an end to Israel’s “occupation,” or even for “Israel to disappear,” but for all Jews, everywhere on earth, to be killed. Watch it here....
Such a prayer could not have been broadcast on Palestinian television, one suspects, without the knowledge, and approval, of those at the very highest level of the PA government –the PA’s Prime Minister, Muhammed Shtayyeh, and its President-for-Life Mahmoud Abbas.
The Biden Administration has been treating the PA with kid gloves. It had promised the PA that it would re-open the “consulate to the Palestinians” in Jerusalem, and the only reason it has not done so is that the Bidenites must have discovered, to their chagrin, that according to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963), the “receiving” state where the consulate is to be opened must give its permission, and both Prime Minister Bennett and Foreign Minister Lapid have made clear they will never provide that permission. Biden has als promised to permit the PLO office in Washington, that the Trump Administration had closed,tro re-open. And the Bidenites have, despite the Taylor Force Act, gone ahead and provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the PA that the Trump Administration had halted, even though the “Pay-For-Slay” program continues unchanged..
The Bidenites should read the transcript of the imam’s exterminationist prayer, as broadcast so enthusiastically on the PA’ TV. Better yet, a redoubtable member of Congress, appalled at the Bidenites’’ attempts to appease Mahmoud Abbas and the PA, should read out the imam’s prayer on the Senate or House floor,, and demand to know what consequences, if any, the PA will suffer from having allowed such a “prayer” for the mass murder of Jews to be spread far and wide on its own television station.
Here’s what one would like to hear from, say, a Senator – both Republican Ted Cruz, and Democrat Robert Menendez, come to mind as candidates:
“The Palestinian Authority now receives hundreds of millions of dollars annually from American taxpayers. This aid has been given, despite the fact that the PA continues its “Pay-For-Slay” program, that both rewards past, and incentivizes future, terrorism. Vast sums are spent by the PA through its “Pay-For-Slay” program on these terrorists and their families . The Taylor Force Act was passed by Congress in 2018 to end all American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until the PA ceases paying stipends through the Palestinian Authority Martyr’s Fund to individuals who commit acts of terrorism and to the families of deceased terrorists.
“But the infamous “Pay-For-Slay” program continues, and yet American aid has not stopped. We have a right to ask – “what gives”? What precisely is the rationale offered by the Biden Administration for ignoring both the letter and spirit of the Taylor Force Act? Does it believe that some kinds of aid are not prohibited underTaylor Force? If so, could the Administration tell us in detail what aid can still be given to the PA , while the “Pay-For-Slay” program continues,: and not violate Taylor Force?
“Furthermore, what is the Administration doing about the PA’s honoring of terrorists by naming schools, streets, plazas, and sports competitions after them? Such memorializing of terrorists is meant to keep them fresh in the collective memory, and induce young Palestinians to emulate them. Has the Administration raised this issue with the PA? If not, why not?
“And now we come to the latest outrage: the broadcasting on the PA television station, of the recorded sermon given by an imam at a mosque in El-Bireh, next to Ramallah, the capital of the Palestinian Authority. Here is part of what the imam said in his Ramadan prayer that the PA TV found so inspiring that it chose to broadcast to its audience:
“Allah delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews,” he prayed, and then called for the extermination of those he called “their[the Jews’] hypocritical supporters who have evil in their hearts.
“Grant us victory over the infidels..Allah, delight us with the conquest and liberation of the AlAqsa Mosque. Allah, make us among the first to enter, the conquerors, the worshippers, and those calling out ‘Allahu Akbar’ inside [the mosque] to You, Master of the Universe. Allah, delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews, O Master of the Universe, and [the extermination] of their hypocritical supporters who have evil in their hearts,” he beseeched God.
“The Palestinian Broadcast Corporation chose to broadcast this explicit incitement to murder Jews – not Israelis alone, but all Jews, the “evil Jews.” Will the Biden Administration demand tha the PA fire – or better still, arrest –the head of PA TV, Khaled Sukkar, and the head of the Palestinian Broadcast Corporation, Ahmad Assaf? Will it threaten to withhold aid if its demands are not met?
“Or does the Biden Administration think that such broadcasting of calls for genocide need not have consequences? We have a right to ask for answers."
There. That should do it. Let the flustered Bidenites scramble to formulate a suit
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