“Kiss My Feet!” - Islam’s Demand of Jews and Christians
“Kiss My Feet!” - Islam’s Demand of Jews and Christians
Why does one find the same Muslim behavior in regions that differ widely in both time and space?
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Few things are as reliably consistent as Muslim behavior—particularly the sort we are regularly assured has “nothing to do with Islam.” Otherwise, why does one find the same “disquieting” behavior in regions that widely differ in both time and space?
Consider this new report:
A 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate, while a five-year-old boy was allegedly called a “Jewish cockroach” and repeatedly hounded in the school toilets by his young classmates.…The older boy’s act of kissing another student’s shoes, under threat of being swarmed by several other boys, was filmed, photographed and shared on social media [image above]….One of the boys who watched on was later suspended for five days for assaulting the Jewish student in the school locker room.
What caught my eye was this foot kissing business: I’ve been reading The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, an Englishman (d.1747) who wrote of his experiences as a slave in Morocco; and only last night I came across a reference to European slaves being compelled to kiss their Muslim master’s feet.
Sultan Muley Ismail—who enforced sharia and regularly prayed—went one step further: Slaves were required to “pull off their shoes, put on a particular habit they have to denote a slave, and when they approach him fall down and kiss the ground at his horse’s feet.” Those not conforming to such abject behavior—the “lucky” ones—instantly lost their heads; the rest were slowly tortured in ways that beggar belief.
Surely (it may be protested) this is a mere reflection of premodern Oriental despotism, with no special connection to Islam—certainly not to what the aforementioned Jewish boy was compelled to do?
Unfortunately, the parallels go above and beyond feet kissing. For example, just as the Muslim persecution of Christians is one of the worst (though unmentioned) human rights tragedy of the modern era, so too does it permeate Pellow’s narrative. As he and other chained English slaves were marched to the sultan, “We were met and surrounded by vast crowds” of Muslims, “offering us the most vile insults, and they could scarcely be restrained from knocking us on the head.”
As the Muslim mob beat them, to the acquiescence of the guards herding them, they were “calling on us Caffer Billa Oarasole, which signified in English that we were ‘Hereticks,’ and knew neither God nor Mahomet.” (More literally, kuffar bi-Allah wa rasoulahu, “rejecters of Allah and his messenger.”)
One of the sultan’s sons pressured Pellow to convert to Islam. At first, the Muslim prince tried to bribe him, so that, “if I would [embrace Islam], I should have a very fine horse to ride on, and I should live like one of his best esteemed friends.” When, day after day, Pellow continued to decline the “invitation” to Islam—he “was thoroughly resolved not to renounce my Christian faith, be the consequences what it would”—the frustrated Muslim emir declared, “Then, prepare yourself for such torture as shall be inflicted on you, and the nature of your obstinacy deserves.” Thereafter Pellow was imprisoned and savagely tormented—with whip, iron, and fire—for months.
Aside from the obvious hate, forced conversion, and slaughter that Christian minorities regularly experience today throughout the Muslim world—see my “Muslim Persecution of Christians” reports which I’ve been compiling every month since July 2011—one need look no further than to the otherwise limited Australian vista for another recent parallel.
A couple weeks before the Jewish student’s abuse, James Michael Waugh, 28, an Australian convert to Islam was arrested for making posts saying, “I’m going to kill every single one of you dog polytheist c—…. [E]very coward dog church in Canberra…. I’ve bought a scimitar and intend to cut their heads off in my front yard as reprisal.”
Pellow and other European slaves in Africa were regularly called “Christian dogs”—including before they were decapitated by scimitars. This characterization of subhuman “infidels” as animals remains a fixture of today, and for the same reason. Indeed, another persecuted Jewish pupil in Australia, aged 5, was called a “Jewish cockroach.”
One can go on and on: just as the modern Australian convert to Islam instantly became a hater of Christians, so too did many “renegades”—that is, Europeans inclined to criminality who apostatized to Islam—exhibit extreme hate for and terrorized their former coreligionists along the coasts of Europe, as Pellow’s and other accounts makes clear.
Such is the great irony: even in the minutest of details, and whether in word or deed, the negative behavior that Muslims exhibit today has a long and unwavering paper trail, one that crosses centuries and continents.
The only difference—the only discontinuity—between now and then is how the West responds. The Australian school where the Jewish boys were abused would not admit that an ideological factor motivated their persecutors. As for the Australian convert to Islam turned Christian-hater, he has “since been diagnosed with a delusional disorder.”
The disconnect is evident in other ways: whereas Muslims have long forced non-Muslims under their power to kiss their feet, both figuratively and literally, today the man who holds an office that for centuries spearheaded Europe’s staunch resistance to Islam—the Catholic pope—willingly prostrates himself before and kisses Muslim feet.
Note: For many more examples of continuity between past and present Muslim behavior, see author’s book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, which CAIR did everything it could to prevent the U.S. Army War College from learning about.
ICNA’s Violent Islamist Relations in Kashmir
ICNA’s Violent Islamist Relations in Kashmir
The 'American arm' of Jamaat-e-Islami.
On September 22nd, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to the stage with President Trump, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. 50,000 attendees, including this author, watched in awe, as Modi told of the changes that have taken place in India: changes to India’s economy and infrastructure, changes to Indian hygiene, and changes to how India deals with the terrorists in Kashmir. This last subject drew the most emotions and not just inside the arena, but outside as well, as busloads of protesters took to the streets decrying human rights violations in Kashmir. Yet, the group leading the demonstration has numerous links to the terrorists.
Kashmir or more properly Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is a state located in India. However, Article 370 of the Indian Constitution gave a special status to Kashmir, granting autonomy to those residing in the state and disallowing non-citizens of Kashmir the ability to purchase property within the state. As a result, the Muslim-majority of Kashmir, which stands today at around 70%, was protected and others were rendered second-class citizens. This special status was always deemed a temporary one; though, for decades, Indian authorities have been reluctant to alter it. That is, until now.
In August, following action in both houses of Parliament, Indian President Ram Nath Kovind declared the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370. For years, discrimination and terrorism against Kashmir’s non-Muslim minorities have engulfed the region, forcing people to flee their homes. This has been a fully legitimate concern, but it seems not enough of a concern for radical Muslims, who have used the issue as an excuse to voice their outrage. One such group, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), has organized rallies around the US calling for 360 to be reinstated. The group’s motives for doing so are tainted by their ties to the terrorists.
Since its founding in September 1968, ICNA has served as the American arm of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), South Asia’s largest Islamist group. In fact, as first reported by this author, ICNA shares its logo with JI’s student group, Bangladesh Islami Chatrisangsta (BICS). As a result of ICNA’s relationship with JI, ICNA has had numerous associations with terrorists and terrorist financing.
In September 1971, members of BICS established al-Badr, JI’s then-militant wing and the group responsible for the 1971 genocide committed during Bangladesh’s War of Independence. A top death squad leader from the war, Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, would later become Secretary General of ICNA. In November 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced Khan to death (in absentia) for the torture and murder of 18 individuals during the war. At the time, Khan was residing in New York, and without an extradition treaty with Bangladesh, he remains there and, according to his LinkedIn profile, is currently employed by ICNA as an imam for the group.
The Al-Khidmat Foundation (AKF) is the main charitable apparatus of JI. For years, ICNA has coordinated with AKF for projects overseas and continues to do so to this day. In August 2006, JI announced on its website that AKF had taken a delegation to the then-Damascus, Syria home of then-global head of Hamas, Khaled Mashal. The delegation presented Mashal with $100,000. As stated by JI, Mashal thanked the delegation for the money and assured the group that Hamas would continue to wage “jihad” against “the Zionist yoke.” At the time of the transaction, ICNA was a partner to AKF and topped the list of donors on AKF’s website.
JI giving money to Hamas is no surprise. Both groups are key parts of the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, JI held a rally in Karachi, featuring Hamas leader Mashal live via telephone and JI members dressed as Hamas militants. Much like his statements to the Damascus delegation, Mashal thanked the crowd and vowed that Hamas will “continue its jihad against the USA and Israeli army.” Leading the rally were JI Chief (Ameer) Sirajul Haq and JI Karachi Chief Naeem ur Rehman. Prior to the rally, Rehman tweeted a photo of himself holding a sign “SUPPORT HAMMAS” and declaring, “I support Hammas. Do you?”
JI’s Rehman is also involved with Kashmir-based Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), which, like Hamas, is found on the US State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). In August 2016, Rehman held a press conference with HM Chief Syed Salahudeen, who himself has been named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. (SDGT), to mourn the death of HM Commander Burhan Wani, who was killed by Indian security forces one month earlier. According to HM’s now-defunct website, at a February 2017 rally, Rehman said Wani’s “martyrdom… provide Kashmir movement with a new life” and “Kashmir would be liberated through Jihad only.”
In October 2017, ICNA’s overseas relief apparatus, Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD), announced the establishment of what it called a “comprehensive rehabilitation center and neurological diseases hospital in Karachi.” In its announcement, HHRD stated that Rehman, who was then-Chief of Al-Khidmat Karachi, a.k.a. Al-Khidmat Welfare Society (AKWS), pledged his group’s support for the project and said that his group’s volunteers would assist HHRD “in Karachi and entire Pakistan.”
Nearly two decades ago, HHRD signed a working agreement with Al-Khidmat Karachi. It states the following: “Helping Hand/ICNA Relief is a division of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)… Helping Hand and Al-Khidmat Welfare Society (AKWS) have entered into an agreement to work jointly for the welfare and development of the deprived masses of Pakistan. According to this agreement signed in November 2000 AKWS will be representing Helping Hand in Pakistan in all its humanitarian activities.”
Today, one finds the Helping Hand logo right on the homepage of Al-Khidmat Karachi’s website.
With regard to al-Khidmat, ICNA appears to have no problem working with a group that associates with terrorists and terrorist organizations. However, ICNA also has no problem working with terrorist groups, themselves.
In December 2017, HHRP arranged a function held in Timergara, Pakistan reportedly to recognize World Disability Day. Participants included two representatives from the Al-Khidmat Foundation, Yaqub ur Rehman and Inayat ur Rehman, as well as the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) Timergara Chief Qari Rehmatullah. In November 2010, the State Department designated FIF as a terrorist organization, labeling FIF an “alias” of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks and the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing on India’s Armed Forces in Kashmir.
At ICNA’s rallies for Kashmir, ICNA has been claiming that India is practicing “state terrorism” with regard to its dealings in Kashmir. As this author has shown, this is the utmost in hypocrisy, as ICNA is: linked to terrorist groups, including financially; harbors terrorists, as in the case of Ashrafuz Zaman Khan; and works directly with terrorist groups, as in the case of FIF. As such, ICNA should be considered a threat to national security and should be banned from operating inside America and globally.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
Muslim Stabbed and Killed 4 French Cops in Paris HQ Attack
Muslim Stabbed and Killed 4 French Cops in Paris HQ Attack
Every time a Muslim terrorist attack takes place in Europe, they build a false narrative and wait as long as they can before releasing the vital piece of information. That's been once again the case with the latest Muslim terror attack which took the lives of 4 French cops.
A deaf civilian police worker who had recently converted to Islam was shot dead in Paris today after murdering four colleagues with a ceramic knife following a 'dispute over working with female colleagues'.
As usual, nothing to do with Islam. Just workplace violence.
Michael Harpon, 45, caused the bloodbath in the French capital's historic Police Prefecture, next door to Notre Dame Cathedral.All were repeatedly stabbed by Harpon, who had worked in the IT department at the Prefecture since 2003, in the worst loss of French police lives in a single day since World War II.Harpon had recently been reprimanded by his female boss over his refusal to interact with women, Actu17 reported.Within hours of the attack, anti-terrorist officers had raided Harpon's flat in an apartment block at Gonesse, a suburb some 12 miles from the scene of the attack.Harpon originally attacked three male officers in two offices on the first floor of the Prefecture, and then took his knife to two females – one died, and another was seriously injured.
Just workplace violence. Nothing to do with Islam.
Video: Raymond Ibrahim’s Islam/Christianity Lecture at CPAC
Video: Raymond Ibrahim’s Islam/Christianity Lecture at CPAC
Shillman Fellow enlightens conservative heavyweight organization on Muslim persecution of Christians.
On September 13, Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, spoke at CPAC-West in Reno, Nevada. His 25-minute presentation, which follows, was titled “The Persecution of Christians: Past, Present, and Future”:
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