THE
U.S. TAX DOLLAR SUPPORTED MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” IS NOW
CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus.
La Raza Founder - Kill the Gringos (José Angel
Gutiérrez)
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA
“The Race”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group called
"The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing
identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have
succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual
conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose
name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a
group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential
candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream
ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The
unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that
abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
Here
are 15 things you should know about "The Race":
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses
for illegal aliens.
14."The Race" demands in-state tuition discounts
for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens
and law-abiding legal immigrants.
13. "The Race" vehemently opposes
cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal
authorities.
12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on
the southern border.
11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
10. "The Race" opposed the state of
Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to
illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
8. "The Race" bitterly protested
common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
7. "The Race" has consistently opposed
post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre,
Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is
to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S.
English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to
preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
"The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised
the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding
the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has
permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a
racist nation out of the American West."
4. "The Race" is currently leading a
smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called
for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off
the airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut
up their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race"
president Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be
tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment
rights."
3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic
nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8
million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in
Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez
Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los
Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White
water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of
collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain …
ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of
life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
2. "The Race" has perfected the art of
the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy
-- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian
Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the
contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the
meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we
don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would
not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
The
fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza.
*
ALIEN
NATION: Secrets of the Invasion
May
2006 – ALIEN NATION: Secrets of the Invasion – Why America's government invites
rampant illegal immigration
It's
widely regarded as America's biggest problem: Between 12 and 20 million aliens
(MOST SOURCES SUGGEST THERE ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY NEARLY 40 MILLION ILLEGALS
HERE NOW) – including large numbers of criminals, gang members and even
terrorists – have entered this nation illegally, with countless more streaming
across our scandalously unguarded borders daily.
The
issue polarizes the nation, robs citizens of jobs, bleeds taxpayers, threatens
America's national security and dangerously balkanizes the country into
unassimilated ethnic groups with little loyalty or love for America's founding
values. Indeed, the de facto invasion is rapidly transforming America into a
totally different country than the one past generations have known and loved.
And
yet – most Americans have almost no idea what is really going on, or why it is
happening.
While
news reports depict demonstrations and debates, and while politicians promise
"comprehensive border security programs," no real answers ever seem
to emerge.
But
there are answers. Truthful answers. Shocking answers.
In
its groundbreaking May edition, WND's acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine
reveals the astounding hidden agendas, plans and people behind America's
immigration nightmare.
Titled
"ALIEN NATION," the issue is subtitled "SECRETS OF THE INVASION:
Why government invites rampant illegal immigration." Indeed, it reveals
pivotal secrets very few Americans know. For example:
Did
you know that the powerfully influential Council on Foreign Relations – often
described as a “shadow government" – issued a comprehensive report last
year laying out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North
American economic and security community" with a common "outer
security perimeter"?
Roughly
translated: In the next few years, according to the 59-page report titled
"Building a North American Community," the U.S. must be integrated
with the socialism, corruption, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada.
"Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada. As Phyllis Schlafly reveals in this issue of Whistleblower:
"This CFR document asserts that President Bush, Mexican President Vicente
Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin 'committed their governments' to
this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.
The three adopted the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America'
and assigned 'working groups' to fill in the details. It was at this same
meeting, grandly called the North American Summit, that President Bush pinned
the epithet 'vigilantes' on the volunteers guarding our border in
Arizona."
The
CFR report – important excerpts of which are published in Whistleblower – also
suggests North American elitists begin getting together regularly, and
presumably secretly, "to buttress North American relationships, along the
lines of the Bilderberg or Wehrkunde conferences, organized to support
transatlantic relations." The Bilderberg and Wehrkunde conferences are
highly secret conclaves of the powerful. For decades, there have been
suspicions that such meetings were used for plotting the course of world events
and especially the centralization of global decision-making.
Did
you know that radical immigrant groups – including the League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational
Fund (MALDEF), the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and the
National Council of La Raza (La Raza) – not only share a revolutionary agenda
of conquering America's southwest, but they also share common funding sources,
notably the Ford and Rockefeller foundations?
''California
is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of
MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave." And MEChA's goal
is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this
organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona,
California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. So why would the
Rockefeller and Ford foundations support such groups? Joseph Farah tells the
story in this issue of Whistleblower.
Why
have America's politicians – of both major parties – allowed the illegal alien
invasion of this nation to continue for the last 30 years unabated? With
al-Qaida and allied terrorists promising to annihilate major U.S. cities with
nuclear weapons, with some big-city hospital emergency rooms near closure due
to the crush of so many illegals, with the rapid spread throughout the U.S. of
MS-13, the super-violent illegal alien gang – with all this and more, why do
U.S. officials choose to ignore the laws of the land and the will of the people
to pursue, instead, policies of open borders and lax immigration enforcement?
The
answers to all this and much more are in Whistleblower's "ALIEN
NATION" issue.
Is
there hope? Or is America lost to a demographic invasion destined to annihilate
its traditional Judeo-Christian culture, and to the ever-growing likelihood
that nuclear-armed jihadists will cross our porous borders and wreak
unthinkable destruction here?
There
most definitely is hope, according to this issue of Whistleblower. Although
most politicians of both major political parties have long since abdicated
their responsibility for securing America's borders and dealing effectively
with the millions already here illegally, there are a few exceptions – most
notably Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo.
May's
Whistleblower includes an exclusive sneak preview of Tancredo's forthcoming
blockbuster book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and
Security." In an extended excerpt, Whistleblower presents Tencredo's expert
and inspired analysis of exactly how to solve the nation's most vexing problem.
Muslim Brotherhood, Islamists Have ‘Infiltrated’ Swedish Political Parties Since 1980s, Claims Academic
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Academic Sameh Egyptson has claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups have been systematically infiltrating Sweden’s political system since the 1980s.
Penning an opinion piece for Swedish newspaper Expressen, Mr Egyptson, a researcher in interreligous relationships at Lund University, believes that the Egypt-founded Muslim Brotherhood is attempting to bring forward an Islamic agenda in the West by using democratic systems, in Sweden specifically through the Islamic League in Sweden (IFiS) and Sweden’s Muslim Council (SMR).
Sweden Election: Prosecutor Considers Alleged Votes For Building Permits Mosque breitbart.com/london/2018/09…
“In my studies and research documents, I found that Islamists already negotiated with political parties in the 1980s about voting in elections. A report in Arabic written by Sweden’s Muslim Council (SMR) 2001 described a historical chapter that not many people know about,” he wrote, quoting the document as saying:
SMR collaborates with IFiS to establish an Islamic political group to co-operate and coordinate with the Swedish parties to educate political cadres. These cadres will mingle with the parties and fight for the Muslim minority’s rights through these parties.
Mr Egyptson, who was born into a Coptic Christian family in Egypt, adds: “For us who come from the Middle East this is not a surprise. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood managed to infiltrate two of the three parties that are the inheritors of [former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel] Nasser’s Arab Social Union, both the Liberals and Social Democrats.”
Sweden Election: Social Democrat Candidate Claims Islamic Law More Important than Swedish Law breitbart.com/london/2018/09…
In an interview with Dagen on Wednesday, Mr Egyptson said that Islamism had begun to influence the country’s political agenda, noting that “there are special laws for Muslims, Muslim schools, gender separation, and more.”
He then claimed to have been in contact with members of the Muslim Brotherhood who told him how they had influenced politics in Sweden through “our brother in the defence committee” — referencing a “moderate” member of the Rikstag.
“They could say this to me because they thought I was a Muslim,” he explained.
One of the examples the academic gives of “political Islam” placing candidates into Swedish politics is of the former minister for housing and urban development, Green Party member Mehmet Kaplan, who resigned from the government’s cabinet in 2016 after photographs of him dining with members of Turkish ultranationalists, including the neo-fascist Grey Wolves, exposed his links to extremism.
Another is Omar Mustafa, the former chairman of the IFiS, who was elected to the left-wing Social Democrats’ party board but was forced to resign seven days later in April 2013 after disclosure of his alleged relationship to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as for inviting known anti-Semites to a conference and for his views on women and gay people.
Swedish Left-Wing Party Takes Action over ‘Islamised’ Youth Wingbreitbart.com/europe/2018/11…
Asked by Dagen how it was possible for the MB to have “infiltrated” Swedish politics, when the fundamentalist Islamic group claims not to have contacts in Sweden, the author, who recently published the book Holy White Lies: Muslim Brotherhood in the West – Case Sweden, said, “It’s white lies,” explaining how he discovered in 1999 that Muslim representatives in Egypt claiming to engage in ‘religious dialogue’ spoke differently to Western visitors than they did to the Christian Egyptians.
“There was no religious dialogue, it was white lies,” said Mr Egyptson said.
The author and academic warned Swedish parties to “investigate the infiltration of Islamists and return to their ideological values. For each new disclosure, the parties lose confidence. Among the losers we find, in particular, the Muslim voters who do not agree with the Islamists.”
In September. Breitbart London reported that a candidate for the Social Democrats was removed from the national list ahead of Sweden’s federal elections for saying that Islamic law was more important than Swedish law.
The Social Democrats had also been warned to take action over its “Islamised” youth wing after it emerged that members from its migrant-populated no-go zones expressed views on LGBT matters that conflicted with the party’s progressive position.
‘Justice
Democrat’ Ilhan Omar Argued Against Bill on Female Genital Mutilation
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/21/justice-democrat-ilhan-omar-opposed-law-to-ban-female-genital-mutilation/
Ilhan Omar, the newly-elected U.S. representative from Minnesota’s 5th
congressional district, and a member of the left-wing “Justice Democrats,”
argued against a 2017 bill in her state that increased penalties for female
genital mutilation.
When Muslims Rape European
White Women, Whose Fault Is It?
Human rights organizations including Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch accused authorities in Saudi Arabia on
Tuesday of torturing and sexually abusing some of the country’s most
high-profile dissidents and human rights activists.
“QURAN SAYS KILL PEOPLE LIKE YOU. WE WILL KILL
YOU.”
‘Justice
Democrat’ Ilhan Omar Argued Against Bill on Female Genital Mutilation
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/21/justice-democrat-ilhan-omar-opposed-law-to-ban-female-genital-mutilation/
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Ilhan Omar, the newly-elected U.S. representative from Minnesota’s 5th
congressional district, and a member of the left-wing “Justice Democrats,”
argued against a 2017 bill in her state that increased penalties for female
genital mutilation.
Omar is being celebrated as one of the first two Muslim women
elected to Congress, and a member of a new cohort of young, “progressive” and
“diverse” representatives who purportedly represent the future of the
Democratic Party.
welcome to the future of the democratic
party
Yet Omar’s stance on female
genital mutilation (FGM) is anything but “progressive.”
In
2017, she questioned a bill in the Minnesota State House against the
practice, making it “a felony for parents to subject their daughters to the
procedure and calls for loss of custody and prison terms from five to 20 years,
depending on the extent of the injuries,” as well as “increas[ing] penalties
for those who perform the procedure,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
While
she agreed that the practice was “heinous,” and ultimately voted for the bill — contrary to
at least one report — Omar claimed that FGM
should not be singled out by a new law, and that parents should be charged
under existing laws. She was quoted in local news as
arguing: “I don’t want us to create laws because we want to get into the media
and because we want a flashy headline.” She also reportedly opposed removing
victims from their parents’ custody, according to Alpha News.
The
issue came to the fore Tuesday after a federal judge in Michigan tossed out federal criminal
charges against a group of Muslim defendants who had carried out FGM on young
girls, ruling the federal ban unconstitutional. The state laws against the
practice are valid, but the federal law overstepped constitutional boundaries,
the judge ruled.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is
a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the
co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of
a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Update: While she argued against the bill, Omar ultimately voted
for it. The article has been updated to reflect that fact.
MUSLIMS ARE THE GODLESS
CULT OF MURDER, RAPE AND HATE
November 21, 2018
When Muslims Rape European
White Women, Whose Fault Is It?
European
women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men. Such is the latest
position – the latest apologia – being offered by those dedicated to
exonerating undesirable Muslim behavior, particularly in the context of
accepting more Muslim migrants into the West.
On
October 14, seven Muslim migrants raped a
teenage German girl in a park, after drugging her at a disco in
Freiburg. (At least she survived; in a similar case that occurred a
week earlier in Italy, the drugged rape victim was left
murdered.) Bernhard Rotzinger, the police chief of
Freiburg, responded bysaying,
"We cannot offer citizens an all-risk insurance [against crime], but I can
advise this: Don't make yourself vulnerable by using alcohol or drugs."
Similarly,
after mobs of Muslim migrants sexually assaulted as many as one
thousand women on New Year's Eve 2016 in Cologne, Germany, the
city's mayor, Henriette Reker, called on
the women, the victims – not their male rapists – to make changes: "The
women and young girls have to be more protected in the future so these things
don't happen again. This means they should go out and have fun, but
they need to be better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming
up. For this, we will publish online guidelines that these young
women can read through to prepare themselves."
Such
advice against alcohol, drugs, and reckless behavior would be more respectable
had it not been made under duress. As it is, it is a
cop-out. Or, as a November 8 report discussing
the aforementioned rape in Freiburg puts it, "[t]he focus on prevention is
a good thing, but also shows how German authorities and media barely hold the
migrant crisis responsible for the disaster that is unfolding in
Germany. Political correctness has caused officials to put the blame
for the criminal acts on the women instead of Merkel's guests."
These
are hardly the first times officials "put the blame for the criminal acts
[of Muslim men] on the women." Nor is this phenomenon limited
to Germany. For instance, after a 20-year-old Austrian woman waiting
at a bus stop in Vienna was attacked,
beaten, and robbed by four Muslim men – including one who
"started [by] putting his hands through my hair and made it clear that in
his cultural background there were hardly any blonde women" – police
responded by telling the victim to dye her hair:
At
first I was scared, but now I'm more angry than anything. After the
attack they told me that women shouldn't be alone on the streets
after 8pm. And they also gave me other advice, telling me I
should dye my hair dark and also not dress in such a provocative way. Indirectly
that means I was partly to blame for what happened to me. That is a
massive insult.
Likewise,
Unni Wikan, a female professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo
in Norway, insists that
"'Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these
rapes,' because Muslim men found their manner of dress
provocative. The professor's conclusion was not that Muslim men
living in the West needed to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite:
'Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt
themselves to it.'"
So
much for the feminist claim that women are free to dress and behave as
promiscuously and provocatively as they want – and woe to any man who dares
cite this as justifying his sexual aggression. Apparently, this
feminist refrain does not apply to Muslim men.
But
perhaps the greater irony of all these excuses is that, from the very start of
Islam 14 centuries ago, European women – even chaste nuns – have always been
portrayed by Muslims as sexually promiscuous by nature.
This
is easily discerned by examining medieval Muslim perceptions – and subsequent
treatment – of European women, as documented throughout Sword
and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (see
American Thinker review here). Consider
Muslim views concerning neighboring Byzantine women, who came to represent all
European or Christian women to Islam.
As
one Western academic of Muslim origin (rather euphemistically) explains:
The
Byzantines as a people were considered fine examples of physical beauty, and
youthful slaves and slave-girls of Byzantine origins were highly valued. ...
The Arabs' appreciation of the Byzantine female has a long history
indeed. For the Islamic period, the earliest literary evidence we
have is a hadith (saying of the Prophet). Muhammad is said to have
addressed a newly converted Arab: "Would you like the girls of Banu
al-Asfar [the yellow (haired?) or pale people]?"
Muhammad's
question was meant to entice the man to join the Tabuk campaign against the
Romans and reap its rewards – in this case, the sexual enslavement of
attractive women. In other words, as "white-complexioned blondes, with
straight hair and blue eyes," to quote another academic, Byzantine women
were not so much "appreciated" or "highly valued" as they
were lusted after. (All quotes in this article are sourced from and
documented in Sword
and Scimitar.)
Any
sense of compliment ends there. Muslims habitually portrayed
Europe's Christian women, as contemptible and corrupt infidels, beginning with
those they first encountered in neighboring Byzantium, as sexually promiscuous
by nature – perhaps simply to support the fantasy that they were eager to be
sexually enslaved. Thus, for Abu Uthman al-Jahiz (b. 776), a
prolific court scholar, the females of Constantinople were the "most
shameless women in the whole world"; "they find sex more enjoyable"
and "are prone to adultery." Abd al-Jabbar (b. 935),
another prominent scholar, claimed that "adultery is commonplace in the
cities and markets of Byzantium" – so much so that even "the nuns
from the convents went out to the fortresses to offer themselves to
monks."
For
all these reasons and more, European women, typified by neighboring Eastern
Roman women, became Islam's "beautiful femme fatale who makes men lose
their self-control," as Nadia Maria el-Cheikh, author of Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs,
explains:
Our
[Arab-Muslim] sources show not Byzantine women but writers' images of these
women, who served as symbols of the eternal female – constantly a potential
threat, particularly due to blatant exaggerations of their sexual
promiscuity. In our texts, Byzantine women are strongly associated
with sexual immorality[.] ... While the one quality that our [Muslim] sources
never deny is the beauty of Byzantine women, the image that they create in
describing these women is anything but beautiful. Their depictions are, occasionally,
excessive, virtually caricatures, overwhelmingly negative.
Such
fevered fantasies – which "are clearly far from Byzantine reality" –
existed only in the minds of Muslim men and "must be recognized for what
they are: attempts to denigrate and defame a rival culture. ... In fact, in
Byzantium, women were expected to be retiring, shy, modest, and devoted to
their families and religious observances. ... The behavior of most women in
Byzantium was a far cry from the depictions that appear in Arabic sources."
Clearly,
little has changed some 1,400 years after the founding of Islam: European women
continue to be seen as naturally promiscuous and thus provoking Muslim men into
raping them.
Thus,
in the United Kingdom, a Muslim man explained to a British woman why he was
raping her: "you
white women are good at it." Another Muslim man
called a 13-year-old virgin "a
little white slag" – British slang for "loose, promiscuous
woman" – before raping her.
In
Germany, a group of Muslim "refugees" stalked a 25-year-old woman,
hurled "filthy" insults at her, and taunted her for
sex. They too explained their logic to her – "German
girls are just there for sex" – before reaching into her blouse
and groping her. A Muslim man who almost killed his 25-year-old
German victim while raping her – and shouting "Allah!" – asked
afterward if
she enjoyed it.
In
Austria, an "Arabic-looking man" approached a 27-year-old woman at a
bus stop, pulled
down his pants, and "all he could say was sex, sex, sex,"
prompting the woman to scream and flee.
In
Australia, a Muslim cabbie groped and insulted his female passengers, including
by saying, "All
Australian women are sluts and deserve to be raped."
In
short, the ancient Islamic motif concerning the alleged promiscuity of European
women is alive and well – irrespective of the latter's behavior – and continues
justifying the Muslim rape of Western women.
Yet,
even in this, Islam can turn to those "progressive," godless elements
that dominate Western society for cover. For, just as "the
Left" has worked long and hard to portray Islamic intolerance, violence,
and terrorism as the West's fault – because of the crusades, because of
colonialism, because of cartoons, because of Israel, because of freedom of
speech – it now adds "because of Western promiscuity" to the list of
reasons that "provoke" Muslims to behave like Muslims.
(For many more examples of Muslims sexually objectifying Western
women throughout history, see the author's new book, Sword
and Scimitar.)
Reports: Saudi Authorities
Tortured and Sexually Abused Human Rights Activists
21 Nov 2018203
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Human rights organizations including Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch accused authorities in Saudi Arabia on
Tuesday of torturing and sexually abusing some of the country’s most
high-profile dissidents and human rights activists.
According to detailed testimony published
by Amnesty International, “activists were repeatedly tortured by electrocution
and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly,” leading to one of
the victims repeatedly trying to take her own life:
In one reported instance, one of the
activists was made to hang from the ceiling, and according to another
testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual
harassment, by interrogators wearing face masks.
According to the testimonies
obtained, the human rights defenders were unable to walk or stand properly, had
uncontrolled shaking of the hands, and marks on the body. One of the activists
reportedly attempted to take her own life repeatedly inside the prison. Prison
authorities in Dhahban Prison have also reportedly warned detained activists
against disclosing any accounts of torture or prison procedures to family
members.
This testimony was also corroborated by “informed sources” who spoke with Human Rights Watch,
who reported on similar cases of torture and sexual abuse:
The reports allege that torture by
Saudi authorities included administering electric shocks, whipping the women on
their thighs, and forcible hugging and kissing, Human Rights Watch said today.
The sources were concerned that they and the activists would suffer reprisals
if the women were identified publicly.
The sources say that masked Saudi
interrogators tortured the women during the initial stages of interrogation,
but it was unclear whether they were seeking to force the women to sign
confessions or merely to punish them for their peaceful advocacy. Following the
interrogations, sources said, the women showed physical signs of torture,
including difficulty walking, uncontrolled shaking of the hands, and red marks
and scratches on their faces and necks. At least one of the women attempted to
commit suicide multiple times, the sources said.
The Saudi government has held the
activists in the Dhahban prison on the western Red Sea coast since May,
following a crackdown on
women’s rights campaigners charged with trying to “destabilize” the
Kingdom and supposed links with “suspicious” entities working outside the
country.
The women were principally
campaigning for the establishment of equal women’s rights in the face of Crown
Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s reforms to various aspects of Saudi’s religious
law, which include allowing women
to drive cars.
On Wednesday, the Saudi government
strongly denied all
allegations of torture, claiming the activists were subject to the “standard
judiciary process.”
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s
judiciary system does not condone, promote, or allow the use of torture.
Anyone, whether male or female, being investigated is going through the
standard judiciary process led by the public prosecution while being held for
questioning, which does not in any way rely on torture either physical, sexual,
or psychological,” a Saudi official said.
The Islamic kingdom has come under
growing international condemnation in recent weeks following the murder of
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s embassy in Istanbul last month. Principal
suspects in the case include members of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman’s inner circle, although he has denied any connection to the killing.
On Tuesday, President Donald
Trump confirmed that
the U.S. would not pursue the allegations against the country involving
Khashoggi further for fear of jeopardizing business and security relationship,
despite growing criticism of the country’s appalling human rights record.
“It’s a very simple equation for me.
I’m about making America great again and I’m about America first,” Trump said
in his statement. “We may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of
Mr. Jamal Khashoggi. In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia. They have been a great ally in our very important fight against Iran.”
“QURAN SAYS KILL PEOPLE LIKE YOU. WE WILL KILL
YOU.”
Not much attention is
paid to the rising Islamic influence in Scotland. Aside from the Glasgow
Airport attack, there hasn't been much in the way of terrorism. And so it's
flown under the radar.
The likes of Osama Saeed and Hamza Yousaf are the
SNP's new defenders of Scottish values. Osama Saeed was also a Scottish
National Party candidate and an adviser to Prime Minister Salmond.
Osama Saeed, named one of Scotland's Top 100 thinkers and
opinion formers, wrote an article for The Guardian championing the
return of the Caliphate. "A restored caliphate," Osama explained,
"is entirely compatible with democratically accountable
institutions." It would be just like the EU, except its leader would be
called a Caliph, its law would be Sharia and if the US and Britain are really
sincere about helping Muslims, they should support the restoration of the
Caliphate.
In an astoundingly short time, the Scottish National Party has
gone from collaborating with Nazis, to collaborating with Islamists. Its talk
of Scottish values has become a farce. SNP candidate Humza Yousaf took his oath
of allegiance in the Scottish Parliament in Urdu. Jahangir Hanif became
known as the Kalashnikov Councilor over a video of him firing an
AK-47 in an armed camp in Pakistan. And the SNP has funneled hundreds of
thousands of pounds to the Scottish Islamic Foundation
Paigham Mustafa and his family have been offered protection
by police after several fundamentalists branded him a
"Kafir", which means disbeliever, and issued death threats.
Mustafa claims to be living under a fatwa issued in 2001 by 15
imams in Glasgow after he published a series of articles questioning mosque
teachings. The married father of three later published his book The Quran:
God's Message to Mankind, his interpretation of the central religious text of
Islam.
Last week, a letter written by Mustafa questioning the practice
of fasting during Ramadan was published and subsequently posted on Facebook.
In a series of threatening messages under the post, one critic
said: “Shut up or else you will get your head chopped off … shut up or else you
will be beheaded … shut up you Kafir dog … you will get beheaded … we will kill
you kafir.”
A separate message sent privately by another critic said: “Quran
says kill people like you. You deserve to be killed. We will kill you.”
Another post by a third critic warned: “Don’t talk about Islam
you Kafir. Remove this post Kafir. Or else you will get killed like Rashad
Khalifa.”
Mustafa fears he will be targeted by fundamentalists in the UK
and compared himself to Asad Shah, who was stabbed to death in a
religiously-motivated murder in Glasgow in 2016. Shah’s killer, Tanveer Ahmed,
said Shah had “disrespected the messenger of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad”.
No place is safe. No
place is immune. Not when the doors to migration are open.
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