France has suffered a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks since 2015, some sophisticated attacks involving multiple attackers armed with firearms and suicide vests, some cruder but occasionally still extremely deadly attacks involving attackers using vehicles or simple tools like knives and hammers.
CAIR Doubles Down On Firing of Mohammed Art Teacher
“I’m 23 years old. I have never once seen an image of the prophet”
The backlash against Hamline University’s firing of an art teacher who had showed Shiite pictures of Mohammed at the behest of the Muslim Students Association and CAIR has made its way to art historians, PEN and the New York Times.
MPAC broke from CAIR and issued a condemnation of the firing. CAIR however is doubling down.
Aram Wedatalla, who is the head of Hamline’s Muslim Student Association, said she was blindsided by an image of the Prophet Muhammad presented in her World Art class at Hamline last fall.
“I’m 23 years old. I have never once seen an image of the prophet,” said Wedatalla fighting back tears during a press conference held Wednesday at the Minneapolis headquarters of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN).
The class had been given a trigger warning and had been told well beforehand that this was going to happen.
Aram Wedatalla remained in class, played the victim and then rallied a lynch mob to target a Latina professor.
CAIR-MN executive director Jaylani Hussein said most Muslims around the world oppose the public display of images of the Prophet Muhammad. To show the image of the Prophet, said Hussein, is deeply offensive. And he called that violation of the prohibition an act of Islamophobia. And he said it doesn’t matter that the instructor warned students before she showed the image.
“In reality a trigger warning is an indication that you are going to do harm,” he said.
Jaylani Hussein is really doubling down here. But not surprising after Hussein’s previous Hitler analogies.
Except his claim is that the MSA head was forced to endure a Mohammed painting that she could have avoided by leaving is Islamophobia and causes harm.
Hussein is avoiding the fact that Shiites do depict Mohammed. The Muslim Brotherhood fronts are demanding that Americans enforce the Sunni sharia and accusing a professor of Islamophobia for showing Shiite art. This is theocratic gibberish that liberals are rejecting and even wokes are staggering under.
CAIR is clearly stating that anything that its sect of Islam opposes is ‘Islamophobic’. And that’s giving the game away.
Lopez Prater said she didn’t mean to offend anyone. And she included advanced notice in the course syllabus.
“This course will introduce students to several religious traditions and the visual cultures they have produced historically,” reads a copy of the syllabus Lopez Prater provided to MPR News.
“This includes showing and discussing both representational and non-representational depictions of holy figures (for example, the Prophet Muhammad, Jesus Christ, and the Buddha). If you have any questions or concerns about either missing class for a religious observance or the visual content that will be presented, please do not hesitate to contact me.”
If Aram was so shocked and offended, why did she even take the class?
1. She was lazy and paid little attention.
2. This was a deliberate Islamist provocation to show off their power while playing the victim. Now it’s backfiring.
Wedatalla said whether intended or not, the classroom display caused her pain.
“It just breaks my heart that I have to stand here to tell people that something is Islamophobic and something actually hurts all of us, not only me,” she said.
Clearly, it doesn’t “hurt all of us”. All the whining in the world won’t change that. What Wedatalla is really saying is that Shiites aren’t Muslims. That’s effectively what Hussein is also saying. That’s far more revealing of their place in the Islamic theological spectrum than anything else.
And the woke victimhood theater will only change so much of that. CAIR lost this round. And it’s come closer to exposing what it is to liberals than it has in over a decade.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
ISIS Bride Wanted to See Americans Killed, But Hey, Now She Misses Alabama
This would be a heartwarming human interest story but for a few terrifying details.
A down-home gal from Alabama wants to come home, and who could blame her? This would be a heartwarming human interest story were it not for just a few inconvenient details: Hoda Muthana left Alabama to join the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, and she can’t return because she was stripped of her American citizenship. But she is making a new appeal to come back now, and her attorney is claiming (how did you guess?) that she is a victim, and thus the red carpet should be rolled out for her.
The Associated Press reported Monday that Hoda Muthana, who “ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20, joined the Islamic State group and had a child with one of its fighters says she still hopes to return to the United States, serve prison time if necessary, and advocate against the extremists.” Muthana currently resides in the Roj detention camp in Syria, and claims in a new interview that she was “brainwashed by online traffickers into joining the group in 2014 and regrets everything except her young son, now of pre-school age.” Muthana declared, “If I need to sit in prison, and do my time, I will do it. … I won’t fight against it. I’m hoping my government looks at me as someone young at the time and naive.”
Sure. But whoever “brainwashed” Muthana did a thorough job, as she once urged Muslims in the United States to “go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood,” that is, the blood of non-Muslims. Among the many hair-raising things she wrote on social media was “Terrorize the kuffar [non-Muslims] at home.” And, “Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc Day parades Kill them.”
Muthana also wrote: “We have men (and women!) who love death as ardently as you love your lives! I was watching an American documentary on a battle in Afghanistan and the Americans are such cowards. Crying and shaking on the battlefield and saying, ‘our aim is to get everyone home where they belong.’ While our men’s aim on the battlefield is to reunite with our Lord. Our honor is in jihad, either victory or shahadah [Islamic martyrdom]. These men cry for their lives while we cry for our death (shahadah)!”
Charming indeed. But AP reports that Muthana “now says her phone was taken from her and that the tweets were sent by IS supporters.” Well, maybe, but it isn’t as if she suddenly found herself in ISIS domains by chance and against her will. She was, according to AP, “raised in a conservative Muslim household in Hoover, Alabama, just outside Birmingham. In 2014, she told her family she was going on a school trip but flew to Turkey and crossed into Syria instead, funding the travel with tuition checks that she had secretly cashed.” Her actions were so egregious that the Obama administration, of all people, took the unusual step of revoking her American citizenship in 2016.
Now, however, Muthana is playing the victim card for all it’s worth: “Even here, right now,” in the refugee camp, “I can’t fully say everything I want to say. But once I do leave, I will. I will be an advocate against this. I wish I can help the victims of ISIS in the West understand that someone like me is not part of it, that I as well am a victim of ISIS.” Her attorney, Hassan Shibly, claims that it is “absolutely clear that she was brainwashed and taken advantage of.” Shibly added, “She was absolutely misguided, and no one is denying that. But again, she was a teenager who was the victim of a very sophisticated recruitment operation that focuses on taking advantage of the young, the vulnerable, the disenfranchised.”
Disenfranchised? How’s that again? Hoda Muthana was disenfranchised in the United States? Was she barred from voting? Barred from holding certain jobs, or from entering certain areas? Was she a second-class citizen in some way? Of course not. Shibly’s charge is hysterical and baseless, and of course he did not bother to explain what he meant. He didn’t have to. He was just repeating the words that he knows work among American Leftists. And they very well may work again this time, and soon send Hoda Muthana back to her sweet home Alabama.
Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest books are The Critical Qur'an and Who Lost Afghanistan?. Follow him on Twitter here, and like him on Facebook here.
France has suffered a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks since 2015, some sophisticated attacks involving multiple attackers armed with firearms and suicide vests, some cruder but occasionally still extremely deadly attacks involving attackers using vehicles or simple tools like knives and hammers.
“Allahu Akbar”: Mohammed Stabs 6 on French Train
Another day, another Jihad.
Another day, another Jihad. It hasn’t been that long since the Muslim machete attack in Times Square. Or the arrest of Iranian brothers in Germany collecting ricin for biological warfare.
Now there’s news from France.
Six people were stabbed Wednesday at Gare du Nord in Paris by a man immediately overpowered by the police on the spot. The facts took place around 6:45 a.m. in the station, located in the heart of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at a busy hour…
Six people were injured, including one seriously, by stabbing, Wednesday Gare du Nord in Paris by a man immediately overpowered by the police on the spot, we learned from a police source and from the Paris prosecutor’s office. The facts took place shortly before 6:45 a.m. in the station, located in the heart of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at a busy hour.
According to some witnesses at the scene, the defendant shouted “Allah Akhbar” during the attack. An element that the investigators of the criminal brigade are checking, by cross-checking the hearing of witnesses and victims. At this stage, the police officers who intervened said they had heard remarks made in Arabic, without however being able to confirm what certain witnesses had precisely reported.
Like a lot of Muslim ‘sudden Jihad’ incidents, this appeared to involve a refugee who was being expelled from the country. And who arrived in Europe as part of the massive mass migration.
And who was already known to authorities, but who weren’t allowed to expel him.
The man who injured several people with knives this Wednesday, January 11 at the Gare du Nord (Paris) was subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since the summer of 2022, Le Figaro learned from sources. consistent. According to our information, the suspect – who did not have identity documents on him at the time of his arrest – is a 22-year-old Libyan known by several identities. This individual who arrived in France in 2019 was confused by his fingerprints. This petty delinquent, on file for theft, was housed in Seine-Saint-Denis. He made several passages in prison, marked in particular by an escape, tells us a police source.
According to information from Europe 1, the suspect, on whom no paper was found, said in the morning that he said he was Algerian. He said his name was Mohamed Amine M., a name unknown to the police and he was born, according to his statements, on April 14, 1991. He would therefore be 31 years old. However, the attacker would have given a false identity. Passed to the file, his fingerprint returned to five aliases with different dates of birth.
The conviction of the police is that he is Libyan with an Obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since September 2022. Nevertheless, the real identity of the suspect will probably never be 100% certified, given that he does not there is no exchange channel with Libya for the identification of its nationals. This is also one of the reasons why France does not deport a national to Libya.
That seems like a very good reason to deport Libyans. But this is the same old story with the same consequences.
Another day, another Jihad. It hasn’t been that long since the Muslim machete attack in Times Square. Or the arrest of Iranian brothers in Germany collecting ricin for biological warfare.
Now there’s news from France.
Six people were stabbed Wednesday at Gare du Nord in Paris by a man immediately overpowered by the police on the spot. The facts took place around 6:45 a.m. in the station, located in the heart of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at a busy hour…
Six people were injured, including one seriously, by stabbing, Wednesday Gare du Nord in Paris by a man immediately overpowered by the police on the spot, we learned from a police source and from the Paris prosecutor’s office. The facts took place shortly before 6:45 a.m. in the station, located in the heart of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at a busy hour.
According to some witnesses at the scene, the defendant shouted “Allah Akhbar” during the attack. An element that the investigators of the criminal brigade are checking, by cross-checking the hearing of witnesses and victims. At this stage, the police officers who intervened said they had heard remarks made in Arabic, without however being able to confirm what certain witnesses had precisely reported.
Like a lot of Muslim ‘sudden Jihad’ incidents, this appeared to involve a refugee who was being expelled from the country. And who arrived in Europe as part of the massive mass migration.
And who was already known to authorities, but who weren’t allowed to expel him.
The man who injured several people with knives this Wednesday, January 11 at the Gare du Nord (Paris) was subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since the summer of 2022, Le Figaro learned from sources. consistent. According to our information, the suspect – who did not have identity documents on him at the time of his arrest – is a 22-year-old Libyan known by several identities. This individual who arrived in France in 2019 was confused by his fingerprints. This petty delinquent, on file for theft, was housed in Seine-Saint-Denis. He made several passages in prison, marked in particular by an escape, tells us a police source.
According to information from Europe 1, the suspect, on whom no paper was found, said in the morning that he said he was Algerian. He said his name was Mohamed Amine M., a name unknown to the police and he was born, according to his statements, on April 14, 1991. He would therefore be 31 years old. However, the attacker would have given a false identity. Passed to the file, his fingerprint returned to five aliases with different dates of birth.
The conviction of the police is that he is Libyan with an Obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) since September 2022. Nevertheless, the real identity of the suspect will probably never be 100% certified, given that he does not there is no exchange channel with Libya for the identification of its nationals. This is also one of the reasons why France does not deport a national to Libya.
That seems like a very good reason to deport Libyans. But this is the same old story with the same consequences.
Daniel Greenfield
Knifeman Gunned Down After Stabbing Six at Paris Railway Station During Rush Hour
A knife-wielding man has been hospitalised by police gunfire after going on a stabbing spree in the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris, France.
Details of the Paris mass stabbing are scanty at present, with Gérald Darmanin, France’s Minister of the Interior, saying the attacker was “rapidly neutralised” by law enforcement after he began stabbing people at around quarter to seven on Wednesday morning, The Telegraph reports.
“At 6:42, the first acts were described. At 6:43, the police used their administrative weapon after his passage of violence,” Darmanin said in comments quoted by the Associated Press.
“Without the extremely rapid intervention, there would surely be deaths,” the Frenchman added.
Reuters has claimed that the officer who took down the attacker was in fact off-duty and on his way home following a night shift.
French police cordon off an area at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station, after several people were wounded by a man wielding a knife on January 11, 2023. The man was arrested by police at the station, which serves as a hub for trains to London and northern Europe, after they opened fire and wounded him, said a police source, who asked not to be named. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)
France has suffered a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks since 2015, some sophisticated attacks involving multiple attackers armed with firearms and suicide vests, some cruder but occasionally still extremely deadly attacks involving attackers using vehicles or simple tools like knives and hammers.
However, as of the time of publication, a terrorist motive for the Wednesday stabbing spree had not been confirmed, with Interior Minister Darmanin suggesting the attacker did not say anything during the attack — jihadist often carry out their attacks to cries of “Allahu akbar!” — and did not have any identity papers on his person.
A physical description of the knifeman does not appear to have been issued, beyond the fact that he was male.
French police stand guard in a cordonned off area at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station, after several people were wounded by a man wielding a knife on January 11, 2023. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)
Car Jihadist Who Ran Over New Yorkers Pleads Guilty to Serving Allah
"He still believes it was Allah’s will that he do what he did".
In 2019, Sayfullo Saipov as the Uzbek immigrant who ran over people in New York City near Ground Zero while shouting, “Allahu Akbar” was quite clear about his motive.
Speaking through an interpreter for about 10 minutes, Saipov said the decisions of a U.S. court were unimportant to him. He said he cared about “Allah” and the holy war being waged by the Islamic State…
“The orders issued here have nothing to do with me,” Saipov told Judge Vernon Broderick through an Uzbek interpreter. “I am following orders of Allah.”
Everyone seems to be giving up on arguing that Saipov is suffering from airborne PTSD, debts or mental illness. So the lawyer is trying an interesting courtroom strategy.
“And as we sit here today, he still believes that, he still believes the ISIS messaging and he still believes it was Allah’s will that he do what he did,” Saipov’s attorney David Patton said.
Saipov has pleaded not guilty in federal court to 28 counts, including eight counts of murder, 18 counts of attempted murder and other terrorism charges in connection with the deadliest terror attack in New York since 9/11.
The attorney called Saipov’s actions “senseless,” adding, “There is no excuse for what he did and we will not offer one to you.”
“He did it because he had become immersed in a world of ISIS messaging online and social media in chat groups, hours and hours of audio and video material and other material. And he had become convinced that it was a religious obligation for him to commit a martyrdom attack,” Patton said.
Not guilty of killing infidels, but guilty of obeying Allah.
So he’s a victim of social media? Videos are not going to convince a large number of people that their religion tells them to kill people if it doesn’t.
ISIS recruits Muslims by accurately quoting the teachings of Mohammed. Saipov’s actions were another of the thousands of points in the Jihad which is operating and claiming lives all over the world.
He’s clear about that, but even his lawyer seems to be confused.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Muslim Thug in NYC Attack On Jewish Man to Get Slap on the Wrist
“If I could do it again, I would do it again.”
The only surprising part of the story is that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is even prosecuting anyone aside from mass murderers and people who are accused of racism out of context viral videos.
You may remember this story from last year.
A Jewish man was attacked Thursday in the Diamond District, as pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters clashed in Times Square.
The clash was strictly one-sided.
Police said a group of five to six men attacked the 29-year-old victim around 6:30 p.m. on Broadway near West 49th Street.
“My whole face… felt like it was on fire for hours,” Joseph Borgen said.
“They were macing me for like a minute straight,” he said. “Kicked me, punched me, beat me with crutches, hit me with flags.”
He says he’s bruised all over and has a concussion.
The attack was condemned by public officials. One of the arrested thugs made no secret of his guilt.
The Brooklyn man accused of beating a Jewish man in a hate attack in Midtown proclaimed from his jail cell that he would “do it again,” prosecutors said on Saturday.
“If I could do it again, I would do it again,” he told one of his jailers, according to a prosecutor at Awawdeh’s Saturday arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. “I have no problem doing it again.”
Awawdeh, who has at least one open case in Brooklyn for allegedly speeding and running a red light in March, was charged with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing, aggravated harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
The Midtown attack was a hate crime, the Manhattan assistant district attorney told Paek, adding Awawdeh called Borgen a “dirty Jew” and said, “F–k Israel, Hamas is going to kill all of you.”
Looks like he’ll get the chance.
Raina Raskin at the New York Sun reports that, “The Manhattan district attorney’s office is taking heat for offering a plea deal for an alleged assailant in a brutal 2021 beating of a Jewish man. The office confirmed to the Sun that it has offered a plea deal to Waseem Awawdeh that would land him in jail for just six months for his alleged role in the assault of Joseph Borgen. The deal would give Mr. Awawdeh a six-month prison stay in exchange for a guilty plea on charges of second-degree attempted assault with hate motives.”
This is a videotaped assault in which the defendant bragged that he would do it again. Why is there even a plea deal? Is Bragg’s office worried that they’re going to get a conviction under these circumstances?
Except that plea deals and diversions are being handed out like candy in typical fashion by pro-crime prosecutors.
Mr. Awawdeh is being charged with second-degree attempted assault as a hate crime. The deal could reduce his punishment for the crime from a potential of seven years in prison to six months in jail, with five years of parole.
“This Office does not tolerate antisemitic attacks and will continue prosecuting hate crimes vigorously, using every tool at our disposal to address hate,” a representative of the district attorney’s office said, noting that prosecutors from the DA’s hate crimes unit offered the “appropriate” plea deal “based on the facts, available evidence and varying levels of culpability.”
Seems very “vigorous” to me.
But intersectionality states that Awawdeh is a victim and Joseph Borgen is the oppressor. Isn’t that the whole premise of Islamic terrorism?
If Awawdeh gets a slap on the wrist, whom will he attack next?
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism
Muslim Brotherhood Blasphemy Cops on a Minnesota Campus
A Latina art teacher, a Shiite painting of Mohammed, and tolerance theocracy.
The decision by Hamline University to purge a minority art teacher for showing a Shiite painting of Mohammed has traveled from the outskirts of a few blogs, and a student paper of the small private college in St. Paul, to art sites, a PEN condemnation and finally the New York Times.
Erika Lopez Prater, an adjunct at Hamline, showed a Persian painting of Mohammed to her class. Aram Wedatalla, a president of the Muslim Student Association, objected. The MSA rallied to denounce her, along with its advisor, Nur Mood: the college’s Assistant Director of Social Justice Programs. The Latina professor was dumped and condemned as an Islamophobe. Jaylani Hussein, CAIR-Minnesota’s director came in to hold a session on Islamophobia. The MSA and CAIR have both been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
When a religion professor pointed out that Muslims have different views on paintings of Mohammed, Hussein described such Muslims as “extremists” and argued that, “You can teach a whole class about why Hitler was good.”
The New York Times then describes how “Ms. Baker, the department head, and Dr. Everett, the administrator, separately walked up to the religion professor, put their hands on his shoulders and said this was not the time to raise these concerns”.
After years of ridiculing warnings that an alliance with Islamists would require them to enforce sharia law, liberals did just that at Hamline University. And this time their targets weren’t white men, but a minority woman and Shiite Muslim paintings.
Minnesota liberals have embraced diversity. And sometimes diversity requires purging a Latina academic trying to teach students about Islamic art because she used works from the Shiite side of the spectrum, rather than the Sunni one that the Muslim Brotherhood belongs to.
One of the paintings comes from Rashid al-Dīn: a Jewish man who converted to Shiite Islam. His motives like those of the vast majority of converts was to avoid persecution and get ahead. The painting, like most Islamic pictoral art, is objectively terrible and could be improved on by a moderately talented six-year-old. The only reason Islamic art is ever taught is for diversity.
Islam was quickly tossed into everything after September 11 as a show of tolerance. Muslims, formerly obscure, became ground zero for diversity. A market for Islamic art heated up. Despite hard strictures against religion in the workplace, corporations and government offices felt the need to virtue signal with a show of support for Muslims. That meant posters with women wearing hijab and a lot of Koranic calligraphy in places that would never display a Bible.
Many Muslims were not happy to see Islamic scriptures displayed in ‘filthy’ places. Muslim groups had previously accused everything from a Nike sneaker to an ice cream swirl, and any set of curves, of blasphemously containing Allah’s name. They were enraged to see it being offered up for tattoos or hanging in the bathroom of a urologist’s office.
Islamists were never interested in “diversity”. What they wanted was for everyone to respect Islamic laws. In the name of tolerance, liberals became theocrats and Islamists used the grammar of diversity to eliminate any diversity. Confronted with objections, Hamline’s Islamists resorted to equating Shiite pictures of Mohammed with Hitler or the ‘N-word’.
Liberals, who accepted the premise that tolerance requires theocracy, are unable to navigate the issue. The New York Times interviewed a Persian Shiite professor at Duke who explained that he loves and shows pictures of Mohammed all the time. Yet the entire article never uses the terms, “Sunni” or “Shiite” or suggests that there are sectarian differences at work.. After having taken it on themselves to impose Islamic theocracy, they are reluctant to adjudicate it.
And yet, unlike Mohammed cartoons, what happened at Hamline University shows that the intersectional enforcement of Islamic theocracy alongside Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and Planned Parenthood requires more than just banning criticism of Mohammed, but even suppressing other Islamic doctrines in favor of the supremacy of Sunni Islamists.
Anything else is a hate crime.
Hamline University’s social justice administration purged a Latina art teacher because she dared to show works from the Shiite canon which offended Sunnis linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Liberals found it very easy to support Islamic supremacism when it was a matter of banning conservative protesters from burning the Koran or mentioning that Mohammed was a child molester. But that was just the camel’s nose creeping into the tent. The rest of the camel requires that America be reordered thoroughly in line with Islamic law in every possible detail.
While liberals see a distinction between a defaced Koran, a Charlie Hebdo cartoon of Mohammed and a Shiite painting of Mohammed, to the Muslim Brotherhood there is no difference. And the Democrat political establishment and the leftist cultural affiliates that surrendered to the Brotherhood’s front groups have to decide where to draw the line.
Islam has been in a state of perpetual civil war for most of its existence. Muslim civil wars have killed far more people in the last decade than all our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And we’ve imported that civil war into America.
That’s not just idle talk or conspiracy theories. The worst series of Muslim murders in America were carried out by an Afghan Sunni targeting Afghan Shiites in Albuquerque. Importing Islam doesn’t just mean machete attacks in Times Square, it also meant three teens who were arrested in November for plotting to kill everyone in a Shiite mosque in Chicago.
The leftists who got into bed with Sunni Islamists thought that all they had to do was make Americans defer to Islamic theocracy, but getting schoolchildren to visit mosques or convincing our leaders to ban criticism of Islam was the easy part. The hard part is doing what the Muslims themselves were never able to do for any real length of time: maintain a unified theocracy.
Hamline University had a lot more Sunnis than Shiites. Its Islamic student organization is the MSA. And the leadership found it expedient to accept Sunni Islamic theocracy and denounce Shiite depictions of Mohammed. Nationally, liberals are less comfortable with that bargain. PEN has denounced Hamline and the New York Times awkwardly suggests it’s a complex issue.
It’s complex, but not in a way that the media or their party are willing to discuss or accept.
Islamists repeatedly tell us that there is “only one Islam”. What they really mean is that there’s only one Islam that they will accept. Sunnis, with their superior numbers and Muslim Brotherhood organizations financed by oil money, dominate. And it is now our job to help them enforce that “one Islam” in America. Sharia means that we are their religious police.
Intersectionality has outsourced the enforcement of Islamic theocracy to social justice groups, campus administrators, corporations, government offices and all the woke institutions.
Wokeness is sharia. That is the awkward reality playing out at Hamline which brought in its first black president, who denounced academic freedom for permitting the display of Mohammed art, where Islamists were appointed to administer social justice, and now faces a liberal backlash.
But the backlash carefully avoids the central issues, especially the conflation of theocracy with tolerance, which is at the heart of the post 9/11 dirty deal that liberals made with Islamists.
Until they’re ready to rethink that deal, they’ll have to enforce Islamic law in America.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
AT ANY COST EXCEPT TO GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN!
Latinos make up 18.5% of the population, but they are estimated to be 46% of gang members. Gangs are responsible for 13% of all murders, 48.9% of violent crimes, 42.9% of property crimes, and 39.9% of drug sales.
The Right Sees a Border Crisis; The Left Sees a Border Opportunity
At Biden’s press conference last Thursday about border security and enforcement, conservatives probably hoped to hear about clamping down on the illegal immigration that enriches Mexican cartels while killing Americans, jeopardizing their safety, or wreaking havoc in border communities. Instead, they heard how Biden will make it easier to be a legal immigrant.
To achieve that goal, he’ll abuse the status of immigration parole more than he already does to bypass refugee and immigrant quotas. He’s also rewriting the criteria to make it easier to be a refugee. In one year, he is granting legal immigration status to an additional 380,000 people, and countless more will have an inside track because they have a U.S. anchor. Incredibly, the left complained that Biden wasn’t doing enough for immigrants, while the right questioned what was being done to help the American people and restore rule of law.
If you didn’t hear him say all that, that’s because, as always, the devil is in the details—and the details are stunning.
The Biden administration has announced that it will make it easier for citizens of Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua to be paroled in the United States because the U.S. will, in future, automatically accept 30,000 people per month from these four countries. This is on top of the government having already allotted 24,000 parole process spots in October for Venezuelans.
Determining eligibility for parole is arbitrary, but it is supposed to be done on a case-by-case basis, not granted based on someone’s nationality. A person who is subjectively judged to have an urgent need for humanitarian assistance or a person who offers significant public benefits to the United States can qualify.
“Significant” is a bit of a gimmick because the significant benefit for the United States typically accrues to a single citizen, noncitizen, or family living in the United States. However, once someone is paroled, there are special programs in place to facilitate paroling family members under the age of 21 who are still in Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua. These additional parolees are not counted in the monthly quota.
Image: Illegal aliens swarming the southern border. YouTube screen grab.
Although the administration has said people from these countries who do not apply for parole will be turned back at the border, something that caused alarm to the left, that’s just a smokescreen. That’s because people from places other than Cuba can immediately qualify for a different status—Temporary Protection Status (TPS).
TPS is granted to people from certain countries where humanitarian assistance is deemed appropriate. It’s another subjective criterion. TPS is granted for 18 months, but it can be renewed indefinitely. Many TPS immigrants have been here for over 10 years. In July 2022, it was estimated that 343,000 Venezuelans in the United States are eligible for TPS, and 393,255 people from Central America and Haiti are TPSers are already residing in the United States.
Biden said all these people will be vetted. Really? Good luck getting data from our friends in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and the dysfunctional state of Haiti. But fear not; the government has a Plan B. Candidates can personally attest to their own good character and the absence of addictions and certain diseases.
Do you know how good our vetting process was with Afghan refugees? After these parolees—not refugees—arrived, 31 Afghan refugees were found to have red flags. The Department of Homeland Security could only locate three of the 31. Another 50 “indicated potentially significant security concerns.” This meant their fingerprints were found on improvised explosive devices, and they were known or suspected terrorists.
The administration also plans that, in both 2023 and 2024, it will accept 20,000 refugees from the Caribbean and Central America, a number allegedly triple the number currently eligible. They are classifying people from these countries as refugees when most are not.
Someone who is a refugee or asylum seeker technically qualifies because he or she cannot return to the home country because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to the person’s race, membership in a particular social group, political opinion, religion, or national origin. Asylum is not given to poor people tired of crime and violence. It couldn’t be. Billions would literally seek asylum in the United States.
Nonetheless, the administration is classifying as refugees poor people who are understandably tired of the crime and violence in their broken nations. You can hear people from dozens of countries that experience a lot more crime and violence asking for equal treatment. Being a refugee in the United States is like winning the lottery for a poor person.
Since Biden came to office, the numbers being let in under the premise of being legitimate asylum seekers are astronomical. As of December 2022, 1,565,966 people were living in the United States waiting for an asylum hearing.
People with an asylum court hearing are about 60% likely to show up for their hearing, which should be no surprise because most are rejected, which means they will be asked to undergo voluntary deportation. No-shows and voluntary deportees often join the ranks of other illegals.
Between January 2021 and December 31, 2022, illegal immigrants increased by an estimated 1.28 million. Based on the asylum backlog, it looks like we probably have another 800,000 soon-to-be illegals.
Last Thursday, the left went crazy because Biden claimed he will clamp down on the farcical “asylum process.” They know that asylum is central to the expanding population of illegals. That Biden is disappointing his base this way may be because his administration is acknowledging that it has allowed so many ostensible “asylum seekers” into the United States to wait for a hearing that even the administration realizes it’s gotten out of hand.
Tripling the cap on the number of refugees from the Caribbean and Central America also relies on the administration’s five-card Monty trick for counting refugees. Did you know the United States only accepted 24,500 refugees in 2022? The 68,000 Afghan “refugees” who came in were counted as parolees, and the same was done for 82,000 Ukrainians.
Unaccompanied minors (under 21) are another parlor trick to hide numbers. They are immediately designated as refugees, but they are not counted as refugees. Under Biden, over 274,000 unaccompanied minors have been processed, of whom 92% were from Central America. (Between 2014 and 2017, the total was 3,092.) A 2015 study showed that criminals sponsored 12% of the minors, including human traffickers.
In 2021, 66% of the unaccompanied minors were males, and 72% were 15–17 years old. The average age of a gang member is 17-18. How many of the new admissions will join gangs or work for cartels is unknown because post-release follow-up is optional. Latinos make up 18.5% of the population, but they are estimated to be 46% of gang members. Gangs are responsible for 13% of all murders, 48.9% of violent crimes, 42.9% of property crimes, and 39.9% of drug sales.
TPS, parole, and fake refugee status are all end runs around the “normal” immigration quotas and vetting process. In 2021, more “temporary” immigrants became citizens than new arrivals.
The Biden administration is also committed to addressing the problem of drug smuggling, although everyone was light on details. For example, Biden explained,
Since August of last year, Customs and Border Patrol have seized more than 20,000 pounds of deadly fentanyl. That’s enough to kill—kill as many as 1,000 people in this country.
Really? Well, no. Biden’s administration might be doing more if its members knew that 20,000 pounds of fentanyl are enough to kill every American. In 2021 alone, lesser amounts of fentanyl killed about 71,000 Americans.
But where the administration really was light on details was the claim that “We’re going to get these [border]communities more support.” Then again, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris aren’t concerned with addressing the border crisis, including overwhelmed border communities, increased crime, and Americans dying from drug overdoses. They’re too busy recruiting future Democratic voters.
JOE BIDEN = PERPETRATED OF THE GREATEST INVASION IN WORLD HISTORY!
President Biden's mass migration crisis has bestowed such fabulous riches upon these criminal organizations that traditional drug trafficking is no longer the only prize worth dying for. Nowadays, Mex cartels are battling one another for control of an illegal immigrant smuggling boom. And the bonanza of illicit gains from it are being spent on growing and arming the ranks of the cartels' paramilitary armies - creating a economic and national security threat to the U.S. Todd Bensman
The large U.S. population of illegal immigrants helps to push down wages for Americans, push disadvantaged workers out of the labor force, reduce corporate investment in technology and training, and spike corporate sales and profits. The large population also shifts the U.S. politics from a focus on Americans’ jobs and wages, and then towards a politics focused on business demands and the 1950’s claim by elites that the United States is a diverse “nation of immigrants,” not a cooperative nation for all Americans.
Paris Police Express Concern over Soaring Number of Crimes Committed by Minor Migrants
Paris police are concerned over the growing problems with allegedly underage migrant criminals, who, despite being a small population, account for a significant source of many crimes in the French capital.
Around 2,000 supposed minor migrants, many of which are debated to be underage, live on the streets of Paris and have been behind a disproportionate number of crimes in the city in recent years, including 30 per cent of burglaries, 44 per cent of pickpocketing and 32 per cent of robberies with violence in 2020.
The Paris police prefecture has expressed concerns about the rise of minor migrant criminality in the city, noting that in 2016 minor migrants represented just three per cent of burglaries and had reached 29 per cent by 2020, a tenfold increase, the newspaper Le Parisien reports.
The Directorate for the Judicial Protection of Young People (DPJJ), an agency of the Ministry of Justice responsible for juvenile justice, said that criminal minor migrants represent around ten per cent of the total number of minor migrants in France.
Criminal minor migrants are mostly associated with thefts, and usually target people with mobile phones, jewellery, bank cards and other items. They also often rob shops, such as grocers, clothing shops, and pharmacies.
Some are also said to be addicted to drugs and can become violent, carrying knives and sometimes, even firearms.
The Paris police are not the first to sound alarms over minor migrant criminality. In 2021, French Senator Henri Leroy, a former police officer, stated that most of France’s major cities were affected by underage migrant crime.
“Just look at the panorama of delinquency. There is a worrying increase which seems exponential. The number of minor migrants was 30,000 in 2015 and 60,000 in 2018, and the associated problems are increasing at the same rate,” Senator Leroy said.
“In Bordeaux, 40 per cent of delinquency is attributable to them, and the proportion was 24 per cent two years ago. The problem grows and threatens to infiltrate all sections of delinquency, trafficking, banditry… We need to stop this bleeding,” he added.
Algerian Illegal Tries to Strangle His Baby Son After Being Refused Residency
An Algerian illegal migrant tried to strangle his four-month-old child to death after he was refused residency in France, putting a rope around the child’s neck in front of the child’s mother.
Thirty-four-year-old Mohammed F. was arrested in the commune of Cenon, a suburb of the city of Bordeaux, at the town hall after appearing while his former partner was having her identity papers renewed.
A police source claimed that the Algerian put a rope around the neck of the four-month-old baby, his son, who was with the man’s partner at the time.
He then pulled the baby by the foot violently and was restrained by staff at the town hall before he could tighten the rope he had put around the infant’s neck, the newspaper Le Figaro reports.
The illegal migrant is said to have been in a relationship with the mother of the child but she had left him around a month before the child was born.
Police say the North African wanted to kill his child and then himself because he was angry about not being granted residency and benefitting from possible residency linked to the birth of his child.
The incident comes just months after another Algerian migrant was arrested for the rape and murder of another child, a 12-year-old named Lola.
As with Mohammed F., this Algerian was also an illegal immigrant and even subject to a deportation order, meaning they should not have been in France at the time of the murder.
The case sparked a national discussion on deportation orders and how the French government under President Emmanuel Macron has followed through with deporting only a very small number of those handed deportation orders.
According to one French media source, the government had deported less than ten per cent of illegals with deportation orders during the pandemic years, and even prior to the pandemic just 12 per cent of ordered deportations were actually carried out.
Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson(at)br
Germany Arrests Iranians Suspected of Plotting Chemical Attack
German police on Sunday arrested two Iranian brothers after receiving a tip from U.S. intelligence that the men could be plotting a chemical attack.
In an overnight raid northwest of Dortmund, police arrested the brothers, aged 32 and 25. The older brother was the primary suspect in the investigation, according to the Düsseldorf prosecutor's office, and allegedly was preparing an attack using the deadly substances cyanide and ricin.
The alleged motive for the attack was Islamic extremism, though it is unclear what the target would have been, and prosecutors did not find the toxic substances during their initial search of the apartment.
While the German prosecutor said there was no indication that the Iranian government was involved in the alleged plot, the news of the brothers' arrest comes as the regime has been implicated in several international plots, including the attempted kidnapping of journalists in the United States.
The primary suspect was living in Germany as a refugee, according to the prosecutor. His brother "was convicted previously of attempted murder," CBS News reported.
Police foiled the brothers' alleged plot five years after arresting a Tunisian man and his wife who also planned a chemical attack. The couple was found guilty of planning a ricin attack on behalf of the Islamic State.
islamic sharia law still floats along under the American surface
After 9/11, the West discovered that the Muslim world imposes its blasphemy laws on Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Every few years, they remind us, sometimes with blood and sometimes without, that sharia’s proscription on images of Mohamed applies to everyone. The latest example of this “sharia for all” philosophy happened at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where a professor was just fired for showing pictures of Mohamed in a class about Islamic art.
Most Americans didn’t pay much attention to Islamic strictures before 9/11. Sure, there was Khomenei’s famous 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie for daring to write about Mohamed in The Satanic Verses. Rushdie spent the next three decades living under guard. (On August 12, 2022, a Muslim fanatic finally got through the barriers and stabbed Rushdie almost to death.)
After 9/11, when people understood just how violent Islam could be, there was a debate in the West about whether non-Muslims should be bound by Islam’s restrictive (and murderous) blasphemy laws. A convincing argument in favor of “respect,” was learning that the sharia death penalty for blasphemy applied not only to heretical Muslims but to everyone.
In 2004, a Muslim fanatic knifed to death Theo van Gogh, the Dutch film director. His sin? He criticized how Islam treats women. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, his partner in making a film critical of that treatment, has lived under armed guard ever since.
Image: Hamline University, the unlikely home of sharia, by McGhiever . CC BY-SA 3.0.
By 2005, the question of whether the West should self-censor out of “respect” for Islam had reached such a pitch that Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten decided to make a statement about free speech and the free press. On September 30, 2005, Jyllands-Posten published 12 editorial cartoons satirizing Mohamed, whom Muslims identify as a prophet and the perfect man.
The Muslim world that had relocated to the West went insane, engaging in blood-thirsty protests across Europe (that is, they literally called for blood). Protests in Muslim-majority countries were even more violent, leading to 250 or so deaths. Meanwhile, the cartoonists had to go into hiding. Hiding wasn’t limited to Europeans.
In 2010, when Trey Parker and Matt Stone had death threats made against them for drawing Mohamed in a South Park cartoon, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris created a cartoon celebrating “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” to urge people not to be cowed. Instead, nobody drew Mohammed (they were cowed), and Molly Norris went into hiding, never to be seen again.
After a few years of peaceful self-censorship, Charlie Hebdo, a leftist French publication, satirized Mohamed. On January 7, 2015, Muslims slaughtered 12 people in Charlie Hebdo’s offices and, as a bonus, also slaughtered four Jewish people at a kosher supermarket. Then, in November, as a continuation of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Muslim terrorists went to war against Paris, murdering 130 people.
And that brings us to 2023 in St. Paul, Minnesota, where a professor teaching the history of Islamic art (some of which is dazzlingly beautiful) got fired for daring to include pictures of Mohamed, all of which were drawn in the Muslim world. Despite warning her students in her syllabus and on the day of the class that Mohamed would figure in the artwork, one Muslim woman got her knickers in a twist, and adjunct professor Erika López Prater was out of a job:
Despite the warnings, Aram Wedatalla, a senior in the class complained to administrators about the imagery the day after the images were shown and gathered support from Muslim students who were not in the class, which resulted in Prater not being welcomed back at the school.
Wedatalla, who is also president of the Muslim Student Association, told the campus outlet the Oracle, “I’m like, ‘This can’t be real.’ As a Muslim, and a Black person, I don’t feel like I belong, and I don’t think I’ll ever belong in a community where they don’t value me as a member, and they don’t show the same respect that I show them.”
Fayneese Miller, Hamline’s Black president, agreed with Wedatalla, so Prater, despite showing a ridiculous amount of respect and sensitivity to Muslim students, lost her job for blaspheming a faith she doesn’t practice.
Ironically, before Khomenei’s reignition of censorship, Muslims had for centuries painted beautiful images of Mohamed. You see, the issue isn’t painting Mohamed. The issue is the Muslim world’s ability to silence people, whether because they’ll be murdered, forced into hiding, or done out of a job. By doing so, Muslims successfully prove time and again that the West is subordinate to Islam.
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY OVER THERE?
Mohammed Faces Terrorist Charges for Attack on Vegas Solar Plant
"Mohammad is accused of ramming through a fence and setting the car on fire."
Authorities are still searching for a motive.
A man is facing terror-related charges after police said he rammed his car through a gate at a solar plant outside Las Vegas and set his car on fire, disabling the huge facility, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.
Around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Las Vegas Metro police responded to the solar plant on U.S. 93 north of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, sources told the 8 News Now Investigators. Employees at the plant said they found a car smoldering in a generator pit.
The driver, later identified as Mohammad Mesmarian, 34, is accused of ramming through a fence and setting the car on fire. The car is registered out of Idaho, documents said.
Power grid attacks are becoming an emerging trend. I’m only surprised that it took this long.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left an
‘Repent to Allah’: Machete-Wielding Times Square Attacker Is an Islamic Extremist
The machete-wielding assailant who wounded two police officers in Times Square on New Year's Eve was motivated by Islamic extremism, according to reports.
Law enforcement officials told the New York Times and the New York Post on Monday that Trevor Bickford pleaded with his family to "repent to Allah" and "accept Islam," according to an entry in a diary found on him after the attack. Officials say the 19-year-old, who recently converted to Islam, was placed on the FBI's terrorism watchlist after expressing a desire to fight in Afghanistan alongside Islamic militants.
Bickford, who carried out the assault hours before the new year, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and attempted assault for each police officer he injured, officials say. He could also face terrorism charges.
The machete-waving Muslim apparently waited until the officers were isolated from bystanders before striking, according to the Times. In his diary, Bickford also referred to law enforcement, as well as his brother who serves in the U.S. military, as the "enemy."
Officers Paul Cozzolino and Louis Iorio both suffered head injuries but have since been released from the hospital. A third officer, Michael Hanna, subdued Bickford, shooting him in the shoulder.
The Maine native left his home state in December and arrived in New York City on Saturday to carry out the attack. Shortly after leaving home, his family alerted authorities of his plans to venture to the Middle East, which prompted an FBI investigation.
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D.), who won election in 2021 thanks to a $1 million donation from the left-wing billionaire George Soros, is waiting for Bickford's arraignment hearing to announce charges in the case, according to a spokeswoman for Bragg's office.
The assault comes just months after the brutal stabbing of the novelist Salman Rushdie by another Islamic extremist in New York State. The knife-wielding assailant, who stabbed the British-American writer a dozen times, told the Post from his jail cell that Rushdie had "attacked Islam" and that he felt "respect" for former Iranian supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini, who in 1989 issued a fatwa over Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses.
Victims of Terrorism Sue Biden Admin for Sending Taxpayer Aid to Palestinians
Victims of Palestinian terror attacks are suing the Biden administration for awarding nearly half a billion dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds to the Palestinian government, which allegedly uses these funds to pay convicted terrorists and their families.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Tuesday by American victims of Palestinian terror attacks and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), alleges the Biden administration is in violation of federal law for resuming U.S. aid to the Palestinian government, according to a copy of the lawsuit exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The Trump administration froze these funds due to the Palestinian government’s financial support for terrorists as part of a program known as pay-to-slay.
The plaintiffs, led in the suit by the America First Legal Foundation, a watchdog group composed of lawyers, are asking the court to halt the Biden administration’s Palestinian aid program over charges it is sustaining the pay-to-slay program in violation of a 2018 law known as the Taylor Force Act. That law—named after an American who was killed in 2016 by a Palestinian terrorist—bars all U.S. payments to the Palestinian government until it halts the terrorist payment program.
The State Department, which is named as a defendant in the suit, has formally determined in congressional notifications that the Palestinian government pays terrorists and incites violence against Israel. Now, a court must determine if U.S. aid payments should be stopped for violating federal law.
Force’s family is also listed as a plaintiff in the case, along with Jackson and Sarri Singer, who survived a Palestinian suicide bombing in 2003.
"I am committed to doing everything in my power to get the accountability these families so richly deserve as we work to make sure U.S. taxpayer-funded terrorism never happens again," Jackson told the Free Beacon. "President Trump showed tremendous leadership when he signed the Taylor Force Act into law and ended taxpayer support for the Palestinian Authority’s terrorist activities. Joe Biden’s decision to reverse course knowing full well blood is on his hands as a result is unconscionable."
Stuart and Robbi Force, Taylor’s parents, said in a statement that President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are "dishonoring the memory and legacy of a good man, and ignoring the citizens of the United States who understand that taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund the killing of innocent civilians."
The lawsuit centers on the Biden’s administration’s decision to resume U.S. aid even as the State Department determines the pay-to-slay program has continued, disclosures that were first made public by the Free Beacon reveal.
The Palestinian government "continued payments to Palestinian prisoners who had committed acts of terrorism, as well as the families of so-called ‘martyrs’ who died while committing acts of terrorism," the State Department affirmed in a non-public report to Congress earlier this year.
The Palestinian government has provided an estimated $1.5 billion to convicted terrorists and their families from 2013 to 2020, according to information contained in the lawsuit. As much as $15 million per month is being paid into the pay-to-slay fund as of 2020, according to Palestinian officials quoted in regional news outlets.
While the bulk of U.S. funds are channeled through a Palestinian economic support program that primarily benefits non-governmental groups operating in the region, the lawsuit alleges this fund is a tactic to skirt the Taylor Force Act.
The administration is "intentionally laundering Economic Support Fund grants and awards through non-governmental organizations that are in fact or by operation of ‘law-by-decree’ Palestinian Authority affiliates or instrumentalities," the suit says.
The State Department maintains that all aid to the Palestinians is consistent with U.S. law.
"The Biden administration is strongly opposed to the prisoner payment system and has consistently engaged the Palestinian Authority to end this practice," a State Department spokesman told the Free Beacon in October. The U.S. Agency for International Development's "assistance in the West Bank and Gaza is implemented consistent with U.S. law."
Julie Strauss, senior counsel at the America First Legal Foundation, told the Free Beacon the administration knew that resuming Palestinian aid would prompt a "massive infusion of U.S. funds [that] has led to a correspondingly massive increase in the frequency and lethality of Palestinian terrorism."
The lawsuit, she said, "seeks to protect Taylor Force's memory and the rule of law by stoppi
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