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.
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.
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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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