That same Friday evening, hundreds of Muslims held an open-air prayer service, weaving around city hall. They had prayer rugs and were following special prayers during Ramadan. But they weren’t only praying. They used the occasion to propagandize for Gaza and rant and slander and defame Israel, while Hamas has reached the sixth month in which 130 Israeli hostages are still being held in Gaza, in underground tunnels, enduring unspeakable terror, torture, and rape.
Jamaal Bowman Defends Decision To Feature Prominent Anti-Semite, Cop Killers on Middle School ‘Wall of Honor’
Cynthia McKinney, Assata Shakur 'have complicated biographies,' Bowman spokeswoman says
New York Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman is defending his decision to glorify a prominent anti-Semite and two cop killers on a "Wall of Honor" at the middle school he led, with his campaign saying those figures "have complicated biographies" and should still be taught to children.
As principal of Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, Bowman in 2014 curated a "Wall of Honor" that featured former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.), Assata Shakur, and Mutulu Shakur—all of whom Bowman said "played a major role in moving our society … toward a world of freedom, justice, and equality," according to a HuffPost report. Years before Bowman established the wall, in 2009, McKinney attended a Holocaust denial gathering in London, where she praised anti-Semitic leaders and writers. Assata Shakur was convicted for the first-degree murder of a New Jersey state trooper in 1973, while Mutulu Shakur led a group of armed robbers who killed a guard and two New York police officers in 1981.
Now, Bowman says his inclusion of those figures on his "Wall of Honor" is nothing to criticize, with his campaign even contending that the lives of McKinney, Assata Shakur, and Mutulu Shakur should be taught to American schoolchildren.
"It is correct that many leaders in the Black liberation movement … have complicated biographies," Bowman spokeswoman Sarah Iddrissu told Huffpost. "It is completely baseless, and a rhetorical tool of the far-right, to insinuate educating students on major figures of Black American history is serving to promote hateful or divisive rhetoric or actions."
"Suppressing the education of Black history only serves to enable violence against Black people," she concluded.
The ordeal marks yet another controversy for Bowman, who is facing a difficult primary campaign against Westchester County executive George Latimer.
Bowman in January attended a New York City panel discussion titled, "Palestine Oct. 7th and After." Bowman took the mic at the panel to gushingly introduce Norman Finkelstein, an anti-Israel author who celebrated Hamas's massacre as a "heroic resistance" that "warm[ed] every fiber" of his soul. Bowman said he was "starstruck" by Finkelstein and other anti-Israel panelists "because I watch them all the time on YouTube." After the comment prompted criticism, Bowman said he was "unaware" of Finkelstein's comments.
Just weeks later, the Daily Beast unearthed a poem Bowman published to his personal blog, which suggested the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks were a false flag operation used by the U.S. government to wage war in the Middle East. "Allegedly/Two other planes/The Pentagon/Pennsylvania/Hijacked by terrorist/Minimal damage done/Minimal debris found/Hmmm…" Bowman wrote in one stanza. He also served as principal of Cornerstone Academy at the time.
The poem may explain Bowman's affinity for McKinney, who in 2002 suggested then-president George W. Bush knew about the Sept. 11 attacks in advance and allowed them to happen so his father could make money. McKinney went on to post a photo to social media that blamed Jews for the attacks. Her father similarly blamed Jews when McKinney lost her congressional seat in 2002.
"Jews have bought everybody. Jews. J-E-W-S," he said.
Bowman, who did not return a request for comment, has lagged behind Latimer in fundraising. As of Dec. 31, he holds just $631,000 on hand, compared with Latimer's $1.3 million.
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Rrrrracist! Baltimore Mayor Says His 'Purpose in Life' is to Make White People 'Afraid'
Folks, you don’t have to like it, but some people are just racist a**holes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is one of them.
So it should come as no surprise that he would join MSNBC’s resident racist Joy Reid in telling us how he really feel about white people. Both Reid and Scott intimated that when white people criticize the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Marxist religion what they really want to say is the N-word.
Scott then went on to say that his “purpose in life” is to make white people “afraid.”
“Me being at my position means that their way of thinking, their way of life, of being comfortable while everyone else suffers is going to be at risk, and they should be afraid because that's my purpose in life,” black supremacist Mayor Scott said.
Related: Boston's Black Clergy Demand $15B In 'Reparations' From City, 'White Church'
Just a question here, and excuse me for using logic, but how can one claim victimhood while simultaneously also claiming to be an aggressor towards a segment of people based on the color of their skin who you say are your oppressors?
Only Marxist activists, like Scott, can come up with that level of dumb-assery and believe it makes sense.
One thing we know for sure, if you’re white in Baltimore, get out. Your mayor wants you to live in fear.
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Moral Midgets Cook Up a War Crime
Just days ago, NSC spokesman John Kirby assured the world of the administration’s “unwavering support” for Israel in its fight for survival. President Biden authorized an arms transfer to Israel, including 1,800 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 500 MK-82 500-pound bombs, and 25 F-35A fighter jets. Days later, following tragic drone strikes in which seven World Central Kitchen ("WCK") workers perished, the president
...made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers," according to a White House readout of the call. "He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel's immediate action on these steps.
Citing fake casualty reports generated by Hamas and lies about restricted aid into Gaza, Nancy Pelosi and 37 leftist Democrat Congress members signed a letter to the president and Secretary of State Antony Blinken stating, “we believe it is unjustifiable to approve these weapon transfers until the investigation into the airstrike is concluded … And we again urge you to ensure that any future military assistance to Israel, including already authorized transfers, is subject to conditions to ensure it is used in compliance with U.S. and international law.”
All this is pretext by an administration that has released billions to Iran, the country that funds the proxy war from Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen against Israel, and which has done everything it can to hamstring Israeli forces from responding.
The unfortunate death of the WCK team is hardly rare. The Israeli government responded more quickly and completely than we have during similar incidents, and it doesn’t take a genius to see the Democrats playing to that significant portion of their base, which has revealed itself as deeply antisemitic.
War is Hell
The investigation of the incident revealed that a gunman was seen atop a WCK vehicle earlier, and another was suspected nearby. (It appears that this is normal going with Hamas-posted gunmen at food depot drops.) The logos on the WCK vans were invisible by night to infrared monitoring, and the officers in charge did not follow procedures, procedures set by a military that successfully has done everything possible to minimize incidental civilian casualties in circumstances where the enemy’s cynical plan is to use those civilians as shields.
Khaled H. Zakariah, a native Egyptian with 14 years of experience in national security and counter-terrorism, points out a significant number of accidental killings of civilians by militaries, including ours, and notes that, if the U.K. and U.S. stopped selling arms to countries responsible, “we would stop manufacturing or buying arms for OUR OWN military, which has repeatedly killed civilians by mistake in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere.”
Here’s his list of similar war zone accidents:
- Khair Khana wedding Afghanistan, 2008 – 47 civilians, including women and children
- Al-Adaala Camp Bombing Sudan 1998 -- (number of civilians killed unknown)
- Al-Majalah Airstrike, Yemen 2009 -- 41 civilians, including women and children
- Bola Boluk Airstrike, Afghanistan 2009 -- 27 civilians
- Sanaa Funeral Hall Strike, Yemen 2016 -- at least 140 people were killed and more than 500 injured
- Mansoura Airstrike, Syria 2017 -- deaths of at least 150 civilians,
- Amran Airstrike, Yemen 2015 -- at least 30 civilians killed
- Ghaziabad, Afghanistan, 2008 -- deaths of at least 90 civilians
Most recently, under the Biden administration, in 2021, a U.S. drone strike in Kabul killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children. The U.S. responded that it was a “tragic mistake” and no one responsible was punished.
By contrast, Israel has achieved the lowest ratio of civilian casualties in the history of urban warfare. Israeli Defense Force chief Herzi Halevi reprimanded the head of IDF Southern Command, the Division 162 commander, and the Nahal Brigade commander. He also fired the Nahal Brigade commander’s chief of staff.
Martha MacCallum asked John Kirby why the U.S. was treating the WCK incident so much differently than it did the Kabul casualties and got back the response of a professional weasel:
Kirby answered, “Well, look, these are events that happened three years apart, two different geographic locations, two different countries, two different sets of circumstances, two different types of threat[s] that were being evaluated, and [two completely] different militaries that were involved, with two different chains of command. So, I think we’ve got to be careful comparing both events too closely. We, too, had an independent investigation, Martha, of that incident, and that independent investigator found that there was no need for personal accountability to be had, but did find that the U.S. military needed to make some systemic changes, procedural changes in how we looked at intelligence and acted on that intelligence. The Israelis, similarly, have said the same thing about this event this week with the WCK strike, that they’re going to make some systemic changes. Now, we’re glad to hear that and we’re going to be watching to see what those changes are and how they can put them into effect. But these are two different events.”
MacCallum then cut in to say, “They’re not that different though, John… This was a trigger moment, it appears, for the White House, because, obviously, the momentum has been building to take a harder line against Israel and their tactics, but this was the event that really pushed things over the edge. And so, why is it so different, in terms of what Israel carried out, in the midst of war -- and these aid workers, and my heart breaks for them, as it does for the seven children who were with this man underneath this Hellfire missile -- but the aid workers know that they are in a war zone and that they are taking a tremendous risk, at risk of their own safety.”
Kirby responded, “Yeah, well, first, again, two different incidents. I understand that there [are] similarities here. But it would be, I think, imprudent to try to compare two things that happened three years apart in two different conflicts. That said, the Israelis have said that they made a mistake here. They have come clean about what happened, and we’re going to be looking at their report to see what we think of it as well. And they said that they’re going to improve. They need to improve the de-confliction processes with the aid workers, and that’s going to be important going forward.”
Here are some differences Kirby missed -- Kabul is thousands of miles away from us; Gaza is next door to Israel. Gazans just engaged in the most brutal deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians, and Hamas, the instigator of those attacks, is widely supported by the civilians there. Hamas has indicated great joy at Biden’s remarks, continues to state it will not relent on attacking Israel, and, in fact, after Biden’s remarks, resumed missile attacks on Israel from Gaza.
After the administration’s untoward criticism and the Democrat congressional letter, Hamas turned down yet another Israeli ceasefire offer, and Israel found and retrieved yet another Hamas hostage who had been killed while in captivity.
Words are insufficient to convey my utter disgust at Biden, Kirby, Pelosi, the Squad, and those media that publish Hamas propaganda -- moral midgets all.
Muslim prayer in the American public square
Muslim persecution of the Jews is not the end game. It always starts with the slander and defamation of Jews, but only ends when a Muslim majority is created in a targeted city. Obviously, that means that non-Muslims of other religions must be bullied and denigrated too.
Thus, a Muslim majority is achieved by the Muslims making life so uncomfortable for persons of other faiths, including Christians and Hindus, that they leave the area. This Muslim majority then morphs into a world within a world where Sharia Law governs, police dare not enter, and the area is termed a “no go zone,” such as those found in Menlo, Sweden, and parts of Dearborn, Michigan. In other words, non-Muslims do not enter -- it isn’t safe.
In September 2011, after putting up with Muslim prayer services on busy Paris streets, France effectuated a ban on these crowded open-air services because the practice had snarled traffic and kept passersby and shoppers from the affected streets. The deleterious economic effects were immense. That ban, however, did not cover similar sidewalk takeovers then occurring in Marseille
Muslims used their prayer mats and bodies to intimidate passersby and hijack a good portion of the public square.
In London, England, the practice of Muslim street prayer, predominantly in the Soho area, has not been banned, but is currently being litigated.
However, it is important to note that other aspects of public Muslim practices have been banned in many Western European countries.
France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Norway have banned the wearing of the burqa in public. Parts of Italy and all of Switzerland have banned the wearing of the hijab in public.
What appeared to be an unsettling foreign problem has jumped the Atlantic, invading America with a concomitant rise in anti-Semitism, personal attacks on American Jews and synagogues, and has resulted in a dangerous foothold in many American cities, with accompanying thuggish, disruptive behavior. Recent examples are the pro-Palestinian demonstration in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, and the two nights of vandalism at a prominent synagogue (where the author is a congregant) in the Main Line outside of Philadelphia.
It would be prudent for all Americans to remember that Muslims attacking Jews is just their first step. The real goal is Islamic global hegemony. One only has to inspect the myriad extant Muslim countries to confirm that not only are they devoid of Jews, not many Christians remain either.
A phenomenon known as Islamic controlled “no go” zones is steadily growing in Philadelphia. A stealth and increasingly overt Islamic takeover is occurring in Philadelphia and suburban area public school systems, libraries, and universities. The area was shocked when it popped out into the open with the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestinian Writes symposium which was an anti-Israel advertisement disguised as a literary symposium. This takeover includes pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel/anti-Semitic rhetoric.
On Good Friday afternoon, March 28, 2024, a Christian Easter parade wove through the streets of Philadelphia. It was a celebration without any negative remarks against any other religion. It was televised and covered in print.
That same Friday evening, hundreds of Muslims held an open-air prayer service, weaving around city hall. They had prayer rugs and were following special prayers during Ramadan. But they weren’t only praying. They used the occasion to propagandize for Gaza and rant and slander and defame Israel, while Hamas has reached the sixth month in which 130 Israeli hostages are still being held in Gaza, in underground tunnels, enduring unspeakable terror, torture, and rape.
Is this what America is becoming? Is this what America wants? A public call to prayer five times a day where public streets are hijacked, non-Muslims are belittled? The schools and libraries teaching and practicing only Islam? More American cities becoming no-go zones?
One can only hope not.
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STOP PLAYING TO MUSLIM BARBARISM.
Lawsuit: NYC to Pay $17.5 Million After Muslim Women Forced to Remove Hijabs for Mugshots
New York City has agreed to pay a whopping settlement after a pair of women claimed their rights were violated when they were forced to remove their hijabs for mugshots.
A hijab is not a full-body garment. It covers only the hair and neck.
The city said it will fork over the $17.5 million settlement, which still needs approval from Judge Analisa Torres of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the New York Times reported Friday.
The case surrounds a 2018 class-action lawsuit involving a pair of Muslim women identified as Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz.
“Damages from the settlement, which total just over $13 million once administrative costs and lawyers’ fees are deducted, will be split among the thousands of people who are expected to file eligible claims,” the Times report continued:
Ms. Clark, who was arrested on a violation of an order of protection in Manhattan in 2017, said she “wept and begged to put her hijab back on” while standing in Police Headquarters at One Police Plaza with the head scarf around her shoulders, according to the complaint.
Ms. Aziz, who was also arrested on a violation of an order of protection, said she had a similar experience eight months later when she was arrested in Brooklyn. She sobbed as she “stood with her back to the wall, in full view of approximately one dozen male N.Y.P.D. officers and more than 30 male inmates,” the complaint said.
“Each woman received a $60,000 settlement,” Breitbart News said, adding, “In Islam, it is considered sacrilegious to remove the headscarf of a Muslim woman by force. It is typical for only a Muslim woman’s husband or her family members to see her without her headscarf.”
A BBC report from February highlighted three Iranian women who are defying their country’s theocratic government by leaving their homes in the capital of Tehran without wearing head coverings.
One of the women, identified as 20-year-old Donya, said, “It’s very scary. Because they can arrest you any minute and fine you. Or torture you with lashes. The usual penalty if you’re arrested is 74 lashes.”
Global Female Genital Mutilation Cases Soar to 230+ Million
Cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) top 230 million worldwide and show no sign of slowing down, UNICEF said in a report released Friday, citing a dramatic increase of 15 percent since 2016 with most cases being reported in Africa.
FGM can include partial or total removal of the clitoris as well as the labia minora, and suturing of the vaginal opening to narrow it, in the incorrect belief the cut can control women’s sexuality and make them more likely to be obedient to religious and social restrictions.
The practice has been known to cause fatal bleeding or infections, and can also have long-term consequences such as fertility problems, childbirth complications, stillbirth and painful sexual intercourse, AFP reports.
“It is indeed bad news. This is a huge number, a number that is bigger than ever before,” said Claudia Coppa, lead author of the report released to coincide with International Women’s Day.
The AFP report sets out Africa is home to the most number of FGM cases with more than 144 million, ahead of Asia (80 million) and the Middle East (six million), according to the survey of 31 countries where the practice is common.
File/In this photograph taken on February 20, 2017, toddler Salsa Djafar cries as a healer conducts a circumcision, in Gorontalo in Indonesia’s Gorontalo province. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty)
“We’re also seeing a worrying trend that more girls are subjected to the practice at younger ages, many before their fifth birthday,” UNICEF chief Catherine Russell said in a statement.
“That further reduces the window to intervene. We need to strengthen the efforts of ending this harmful practice.”
The report also showed that four in every 10 survivors live in conflict-torn countries with high population growth rates, claiming political instability disrupts efforts prevent the practice and provide support to victims.
“Ethiopia, Nigeria and Sudan account for the largest numbers of girls and women who have undergone female genital mutilation in conflict-affected countries,” the report said.
FGM is usually carried out on young girls between infancy and the age of 15, most commonly before puberty starts.
In 2012 the U.N. passed a resolution to ban it but for the most part the globalist organization has been ignored.
Kurdish-Iranian woman whipped 74 times for not wearing hijab
As she was flogged, Roya Heshmati chanted "in the name of woman, in the name of life, the clothes of slavery are torn..."
A Kurdish-Iranian woman named Roya Heshmati was whipped 74 times after a photo of her was published a few months ago in which she was seen not wearing a hijab in Tehran, Iranian human rights activists reported on Saturday. Heshmati has been an outspoken critic of the Islamic regime’s hijab law.
In an account of the flogging shared by the Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw, Heshmati stated that upon entering the court where the flogging was to take place, she removed her hijab. Although both her lawyer and an employee advised her to put on her headscarf “to avoid trouble,” she recalled that she “came specifically for the lashes, and I would not yield.”
The officer carrying out the flogging told her to put on the hijab, but she refused, even after he threatened to whip her severely and add another 74 lashes to her sentence. “I maintained my stance and did not wear the hijab,” stressed Heshmati.
Eventually, two women came and forcibly placed a scarf on her head, eventually handcuffing her to keep the scarf on.
Heshamti described the room where the sentence was carried out as containing a bed with handcuffs and iron bands welded to both sides, as well as an iron device resembling a large easel which also had handcuffs and an iron binding in the center. “It resembled a fully-equipped medieval torture chamber,” said Heshmati.
Heshmati wrote that she quietly chanted, “In the name of woman, in the name of life, the clothes of slavery are torn, our black night will dawn, and all the whips will be axed... ” as the whipping was carried out. She added that she ensured that her pain was not perceived by those present and that she removed the headscarf as soon as she left the room.
“Inside the judge’s chamber, he acknowledged discomfort with the case but insisted on its implementation. I chose silence. He suggested living abroad for a different life; I affirmed our commitment to resistance, emphasizing the universality of this country. He insisted on legal adherence, and I urged the law to fulfill its role while we persist in our resistance,” wrote Heshmati.
Maziar Tatai, Heshmati’s lawyer, stated that Heshmati was originally arrested and had her phone and laptop confiscated for publishing a picture of herself without the hijab, according to Entekhab, an Iranian reformist news site recently blocked in Iran for criticizing the government.
Tatai added that the Iranian judiciary changed the charges placed against Heshmati several times throughout the process, including charges of “propaganda against the regime,” “being in the streets without a religious hijab,” “harming public modesty,” “producing vulgar content,” and “encouraging people to commit corruption.”
HESHMATI SPENT several days in jail and was issued a prison sentence which was later reduced.
Tatai noted that Heshmati’s flogging took place on Mother’s Day in Iran, marked on the birthday of Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and the husband of Ali, the first Shia Imam.
The Mizan News Agency, affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, confirmed that Heshmati had been whipped 74 times but stressed that she was not convicted for not wearing a hijab and was instead convicted of “promoting promiscuity” on the streets of Tehran after having received money from an organized movement abroad.
In another recent case, Zeinab (Bahar) Khonyabpour was sentenced to two years in prison for publishing photos in which she was not wearing a hijab, according to the Iranian HRANA human rights organization.
Iran intensifies enforcement of hijab laws
Despite temporarily relaxing enforcement of hijab laws after protests swept Iran in 2022 following the killing of Mahsa Amini, Iranian officials have since renewed their crackdown on women not wearing hijab, introducing new measures, including the use of surveillance cameras to enforce hijab laws.
Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman, was arrested by “morality police” officers in Tehran in mid-September of 2022 for allegedly incorrectly wearing her hijab, with her family saying that she was beaten by the officers in the van that brought her to the police station. Amini collapsed at the station and later died at the hospital.
Amini’s death sparked intense nationwide demonstrations, commonly referred to as the “Woman, Life, Liberty” (“Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” in Kurdish) protests, which continued in full strength for months on end.
On Saturday, Mohammad Dehghan, the vice president for legal affairs under Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, addressed a new bill promoted in the past year by the Iranian government that would intensify the penalties for not wearing the hijab, telling Iran’s IRNA news agency that the bill was given to the parliament by the judiciary, meaning the parliament could not make any major changes to the bill.
Dehghan added that the bill was presented in light of the protests that swept Iran in 2022.
The vice president added that the government had attempted to “dilute” the bill somewhat but was unable to do too much due to it being a bill originating in the judiciary. The bill was sent to the parliament, which made further changes before forwarding it to the Guardian Council, which is tasked with approving any laws passed by the parliament.
The bill has been under review since, with the Guardian Council reportedly presenting numerous objections to the bill.
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