On Monday morning in India, a disturbing video surfaced online and held the nation spellbound for hours. In CCTV camera footage, a man could be seen stabbing a girl repeatedly, picking up a boulder and smashing her face until he ensures that she is dead. The accused stabbed the girl 20 times with a sharp knife; at one point, the blade got stuck into her skull. Not one person in the capital city of the world’s most populous country could stop this enraged man, who committed this barbaric act in the middle of a busy lane.
The blood-curdling act took place on the night of Sunday, May 28, in Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy area. The victim was a 16-year-old Hindu minor, Sakshi, while the accused was a 20-year-old Muslim man, Sahil. Is it necessary to highlight the religions of the people involved in this crime? Yes, absolutely, and we will explain why.
Reports suggest that the two were in a “relationship.” They fought on the evening of the incident, which ended with this chilling crime committed in full public view. Police arrested the accused from Bulandshahr in the adjoining state of Uttar Pradesh.=
The accused wore a kalawa (a sacred thread worn by Hindus) on his wrist and a rudraksha necklace (again, a Hindu accessory). When the news broke, media reports only carried the man’s first name, Sahil, a name in India that does not make one’s religion clear. It was not before evening that the full name and identity of the accused were made public and included in the media reports. Even the Chief Minister of the national capital avoided referencing the accused’s identity in his tweet. Clearly, the accused had tried to present himself as a Hindu, and the “secular” institutions of the country tried their best to hide his religious affiliation.
A popular narrative about India’s current social and political situation is that Muslims are being victimized in this majoritarian state. Had there been an ounce of truth in these sinister claims, would a Muslim man have the nerve to kill a Hindu minor girl in the middle of a busy street?
For 75 years, the Indian government has handled the Muslim community with kid gloves in secular India. Politicians have showered them with rights and perks no other minorities got. This leniency eventually led to the rise of Islamic jihadists and supremacists in the country.
These fanatical Muslims know that they can get away with any crime, and that a brigade of apologists for Islam disguised as intellectuals will stand up in their defense. These “intellectuals” present themselves as journalists, columnists promulgating fake narratives of Muslim victimhood in India on international platforms, radio jockeys, actors, writers, historians, and even judiciary members. Politicians throw themselves at their feet because they vote as a bloc, unlike the fragmented Hindu community.
Indian politicians have awarded Mohammad Afroz, one of the most brutal rapists in India’s history, with cash, sewing machines and a new identity so that he can start a new life. This rapist killed his victim by inserting a rod in his victim’s genitals and pulling out her intestines. Today, he works as a cook in some households, perhaps with young girls.
In 2022, a Supreme Court judge cancelled the death sentence of Mohhamad Firoz, who had been convicted of rape and murder. The high court scrapped the 2014 judgment passed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, quoting British novelist Oscar Wilde’s axiom, “every sinner has a future.” Firoz was convicted for the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl. What future could he have, and how safe would his existence make the future of an average Indian child playing at a park?
In November 2022, Delhi police arrested 28-year-old Aftab Amin Poonawallah for the gruesome murder of his Hindu live-in partner, Shraddha Walker. Aftab had allegedly killed her in May, chopped her into pieces and stored her in his refrigerator for months. When this story broke, the usual apologists rushed to contradict his religious affiliation by claiming he was a Parsi. These claims didn’t last long, as during the polygraph test, the accused confessed: “No regret even if hanged, will get hoors in Jannat.”
Accused in the recent case, Sahil Khan also admits that he has “No regrets.” These cold-blooded jihadis have perfected the art of slaughter and never have any regret for the monstrous crimes they commit. Between the murder of Shraddha in May 2022 and Sakshi in May 2023, there have been numerous other killings of Hindu girls at the hands of their Muslim friends, lover or husband. Some make it to the headlines; others are shoved under the rug so as to protect those who share the religious affiliations of these murderers.
When one tries to discuss these incidents, term them “Love Jihad,” make informative movies to educate young girls, the Islamic lobby in India leaps to dismiss their efforts as propaganda against the ever-so-hapless Indian minority. They work to further this narrative tirelessly, until the next Hindu girl is found lying dead in a pool of her own blood on a random Indian street.
Newborn baby Muhammads are taking Western Europe by storm — with Berlin being the latest target. According to a May 8, 2023 report,
[t]he first name Mohammed has gained popularity in Germany in the past year. ... In Berlin, Mohammed was the most popular first name for boys in 2022. Last year he had ranked third. ... In Bremen, the first name Mohammed has moved up from third place to second place. ... In Hesse, too, the name of the Muslim prophet is on the rise. There he fought his way from eighth to third place.
This trend is occurring all throughout Western Europe. Muhammad is the most popular name in the United Kingdom; in major Belgian cities — including Brussels, the E.U. capital; in Oslo, the capital of Norway; and in the Netherlands' largest cities, including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht.
This is to say nothing of other Arabic/Muslim names, which are also topping the charts of newborn baby names. According to a 2015 report, in the UK,
[t]here is a surge in Arabic names generally, with Nur a new entry in the girls' top 100, jumping straight to number 29, and Maryam rising 59 places to number 35. Omar, Ali, and Ibrahim are new to the boys' top 100.
Even in the United States, in 2019, Muhammad made the list of top 10 baby names. "Arabic names are on the rise this year," the BabyCenter said, "with Muhammad and Aaliyah entering the top 10 and nudging Mason and Layla off."
All this may seem innocuous enough. After all, what's in a name?
On the other hand, because more numbers equate with more power and influence, many Muslims see their progeny as their contribution to the jihad — the ancient "struggle" to make Islam supreme.
A video from last year of Muslims and Danes quarreling in Denmark makes this clear. In the video, one Muslim man can be heard yelling the following words to a Dane:
We have five children, you only have one or two. In 10 to 15 years there will be more Pakistanis than Danes in this country! ... The Danes are five million, soon you'll be exterminated. Look at the Swedes, look at the Norwegians, look at the Finns, man! We are multiples [of] millions, man!
The clamorous Muslim goes on to accuse Europeans of preferring bestiality to marriage — hence their dearth of children. Soon other Muslims chime in. One says, "I just got married and will also have five children." Others start yelling about how the Danes' "mothers will be pregnant again," because their mothers and sisters are "whores" (who presumably sleep around with the Muslims). Others chant, "This isn't Denmark anymore, this is Paki-land," repeated several times: "We are taking over your country."
This kind of thinking has a long pedigree. "We have 50 million Muslims in Europe," Moammar Gaddafi said back in 2006, before more realistically adding, "There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe — without swords, without guns, without conquest — will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades."
Ongoing reports and polls suggest that this long cherished Muslim dream may not be so far-fetched. Thus, in the United Kingdom, "Muslim hate fanatics plan to take over Britain by having more babies and forcing a population explosion," a report revealed back in 2008: "The swollen Muslim population would be enough to conquer Britain from inside." Two years later, "[e]stimates in 2010 showed that Europe had 44 million Muslims."
One Pew report found that one out of every three people on Earth is set to be a Muslim by 2070. Another Pew report says the Muslim population of Europe is set to triple by 2050 — just when all those baby Muhammads are coming of age.
In Germany, about 20 percent of the population is set to be Muslim by 2050. Considering that the average Muslim man is more zealous over his way of and purpose in (Islamic) life than the average German male, 20 percent may well be enough for an Islamic takeover of — or at least mass havoc in — Germany.
Incidentally, this "baby jihad" can be achieved with either Muslim or non-Muslim (infidel) women. As an example of the latter, a Muslim imam was videotaped saying that, because European men lack virility, their women seek fertility among Muslim men:
We will give them fertility! We will breed children with them, because we will conquer their countries! Whether you like it or not, you Germans, Americans, French, and Italians and all those akin to you [Western people] — take in the refugees. For soon we will call them [and their Western-born sons] in the name of the coming caliphate! And we will say to you, "These are our sons."
Similarly, the diary of Patrick Kabele, an African Muslim man who was living and arrested in Britain for trying to join the Islamic State — his primary motive being to purchase a nine-year-old sex slave — had references that only like-minded Muslims would understand: in an effort, as the aforementioned imam said, to use European women as incubators and "breed children with them," Kabele noted that he had been "seeding some women over here, UK white," adding, "I dont [sic] kiss anymore." (Unlike straightforward mating, kissing is deemed an intimate act, and Muslims, in keeping with the doctrine of "love and hate" (or al-wala' w'al-bara') must always hate non-Muslims — even when copulating with or married to them.
This same strategy is being used in the Muslim world against Christian minorities. Unlike in the West, however, where women freely give themselves to Muslims, Christian minorities are seized and seeded by Muslim men.
Even so, Muslim women remain the primary incubators for this demographic jihad — and many of them see it as their obligation. A Christian Eritrean volunteer and translator, who worked in migrant centers in Germany and was often assumed to be Muslim by the migrants, once confessed that "Muslim migrants often confide in her and tell her about their dislike towards Christians" and that "a number of the Muslim migrants she has spoken to have revealed a hatred for Christians and are determined to destroy the religion." How they plan on doing this is telling:
Some women told me, "We will multiply our numbers. We must have more children than the Christians because it's the only way we can destroy them here."
Not that many Western Europeans seem to care; some are even glad to see their own kind die off and be replaced by Muslims — such as Dr. Stefanie von Berg, who exulted before the German parliament:
Mrs. President, ladies and gentlemen. Our society will change. Our city will change radically. I hold that in 20, 30 years there will no longer be a [German] majority in our city. ... And I want to make it very clear, especially towards those right-wingers: This is a good thing!
From here one understands the true root of the immediate problem — and, as usual, it is not so much Muslims as it is perverse elements dispersed throughout the West. Having turned its back on its founding faith and Judeo-Christian principles, a moribund culture — typified by nihilism; hedonism; cynicism; and, accordingly, dropping birth rates — simply has little worth living for and gives way to a more zealous one.
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan was victorious in the second round of voting in the Turkish election last month. In the first round of voting, neither Erdogan nor his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the opposition CHP (Republican party established by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk) received the required 50% of the votes to win outright. Erdogan’s triumph though, was hardly a surprise. He has subjugated the Turkish media and the Judiciary to his will, the military and the police have likewise been under his control, and many of his critics languish in prison. Still, the election this time showed that many Turks, particularly the young and the educated in urban centers voted for his challenger. They yearn for more freedom, a liberal democracy, and a functioning economy.
Erdogan has presented himself as the guardian of Sunni-Islam, and the protector of Turkish nationalism. For most Turks, especially in rural Turkey, and in the poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Turkey’s major cities, Erdogan’s messages resonated, and they clearly identified with his claims. Now, the younger generation of Turks will have to wait in order to see a change in their country. The 69-year-old Erdogan is not in the best of health and might perhaps retire or pass on.
Early polls gave Kilicdaroglu a clear advantage, but in the actual first round of voting (Sunday, May 14, 2023) Erdogan received 49.5% of the votes to 44.9% for the opposition leader Kilicdaroglu. In the second round (May 28, 2023) according to the state-owned Anadolu news agency, Erdogan received 52.91% of the votes.
Erdogan (and his AK party) has become Turkey’s longest serving leader with over 20-years in power. He has transformed modern Turkey from a secular state to a near Islamist state. He left his office as Prime Minister to assume the Presidency with increased powers that he arrogated to himself. Previously the presidency was more of a ceremonial position, and Erdogan filled it with potent power. Erdogan turned Turkey’s semi-democracy into an autocracy.
Kilicdaroglu’s election platform promised a democratic reset, a return to a parliamentary system of government, and an independent judiciary, which Erdogan subverted to crack down on dissent. Kilicdaroglu also pledged to return Turkey to a more orthodox economic policy and restore the independence of the central bank.
Erdogan’s Turkey lacks checks and balances that can protect the people from arbitrary rule. His critics contend that his government has muzzled dissent and eroded civil and human rights. He has mobilized the state apparatus to promote his candidacy, which was meant to ensure that he will ultimately win elections. Erdogan’s economic policy of low interest rates while inflation in Turkey stands at 43.68% currently, has contributed to the Turkish lira’s drastic depreciation.
On foreign affairs, Erdogan established closer ties with Russia while his relationship with the US and the European Union has deteriorated. Erdogan’s Turkey has brokered a deal between Russia and Ukraine for the resumption of Ukrainian wheat exports from the Black Sea. In recent years, Erdogan has worked to improve relations with former regional foes, including Israel, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, ostensibly to stimulate trade and thus improve the ailing Turkish economy. In the meantime, Saudi Arabia had deposited $5 billion in Turkey’s central bank to shore up its depleted foreign currency reserves.
Erdogan’s relationship with NATO has been difficult. Turkish soldiers have served in peacekeeping missions in the past, in various war zones. More recently, however, Turkey has defied NATO and the US by purchasing military equipment from Russia, including the S-400 missile defense system. Earlier this year, Erdogan refused to vote for the entry of Finland and Sweden as NATO members. Emre Peker, former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and current director of the Eurasia Group concluded that Erdogan “will continue to play an important, but uncomfortable role from a western perspective.”
US President Joe Biden would clearly have preferred Erdogan’s rival Kilicdaroglu, to win the election. As a measure of the Biden administration’s unhappiness with Erdogan, the Turkish president has not been invited to the White House since Biden took office. US Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, has previously denounced Erdogan’s dealings with Putin. Menendez pondered in a New York speech whether “Turkey after the election will be a NATO ally, we always wanted it to be, or will it be in turmoil?”
Erdogan’s AK (Justice and Development Party) has had a tense relationship with the Jewish state. Erdogan, posing as the leader of the Sunni-Muslim world, and dreaming of reviving the Ottoman glory has been seeking to burnish his Islamist credentials, including the backing of the Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza, and hosting its leaders in Turkey. In May 2010, the relationship between Erdogan’s Turkey and Israel reached it’s lowest point. The Islamist Turkish group IHH, supported by Erdogan, organized a flotilla of ships led by the Mavi Marmara. It set out to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt, to prevent Hamas from importing arms (rockets in particular) in which to bomb Israeli civilian centers. The Turks on the Marmara attacked Israeli naval commandoes set to stop the ship. Israelis were attacked with knives and crowbars, killing 9 Turks in the melee.
Turkey’s economic vows forced Erdogan to reconsider his relationship with Israel. Israeli tourists make up a significant factor in Turkey’s tourism revenue. Israel too has economic and strategic interest in continuing its rapprochement with Erdogan, albeit, not at the expense of its relationship with Cyprus and Greece. Jerusalem is aware of the fact that in dealing with Erdogan it must employ the Talmudic dictum: ‘respect him and suspect him’.
Erdogan has prioritized strengthening Turkey’s relations with Middle Eastern states, including Israel. Israel’s aiding of Turkey during its recent devastating earthquake earned Jerusalem extra credit, and earlier this year Erdogan warmly welcomed Israeli President Herzog on his visit to Turkey. During the election campaign, Erdogan refrained from using Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians as a rabble-rousing tactic, which is a positive sign of a seemingly moderating Erdogan.
Gonsul Tol, director of the Turkey program at the Middle East Institute had this to say about what to expect from Erdogan in the near future, “Usually, when autocrats face more instability at home, they tend to pursue a more unpredictable anti-Western nationalist foreign policy.” Hopefully, Erdogan’s domestic economic problems will keep him out of troublemaking abroad.
Joseph Puder, a freelance journalist, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Taskforce for America and Israel (ITAI). He is a regular contributor to Frontpage.
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