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To this day, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Nigeria all enforce the death penalty for blasphemy. Others, such as Turkey and Syria, jail those who insult Islam and/or Muhammad. There is no freedom of speech or religion in Islam.
Frenzied mobs can also be found in countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh, which execute “blasphemers” in the streets.
Those who killed Jahangir for insulting Islam proved him correct in his unfavorable views about Islam.
Kushtia City, মোঃ সাকিবুল হাসান, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
Bangladesh spiritual leader killed by mob over ‘insult to Islam’
Mob violence in Bangladesh leaves self-proclaimed spiritual leader Shamim Reza Jahangir dead after attack in Kushtia. Incident linked to alleged blasphemous remarks highlights rising religious tensions since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, with police launching an investigation.
A spiritual leader was beaten to death by a mob in Bangladesh on Saturday (Apr 11), officials said. This is the latest violence fuelled by religious tensions in the country. Muslim-majority Bangladesh has seen a sharp rise in religious intolerance and mob violence since the 2024 uprising that toppled the government of former premier Sheikh Hasina. The religious leader has been identified as Shamim Reza Jahangir, believed to be in his 60s, died from his injuries after hundreds of people stormed his residence in Kushtia district. Jahangir thrashed him with sticks, said chief administrative official Touhid bin Hasan, according to AFP. The mob reportedly angered after an old video of the man resurfaced online on Friday. It allegedly showed him claiming that those who wrote the Quran were illiterate and those who read it were worse off.
“Sensing that something might happen, police went to the spot, and the administration tried their best. But an angry mob of more than 200 people attacked his residence,” bin Hasan said. Jahangir was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead. Police sources told AFP that Jahangir had been briefly arrested in 2021 for making comments that angered villagers….
BREAKING: Hungary's new PM has REJECTED the EU's migration pact:
"We will still not join the pact. We will actually reinforce the border further to protect Hungary and broader Europe. We will find a way to stop the EU's daily fine."
The globalists thought they'd won.
The stats for Germany are grim and likely similar to those in other Western countries as well, particularly those that flung their doors open to unvetted mass immigration.
In the face of 1400 years of Islamic history, barbaric Sharia law, surging global antisemitism, Christian persecution, and no matter what other recurring evidence, leftists will remain in denial. They will link arms with Islamic supremacists and celebrate “diversity” as they continue to deny the danger of the Sharia in free societies.
Germany was an open-door society for unvetted immigration. As far back as 2018, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that anti-Semitism was coming to the country from “refugees or people of Arab origin.” Her statement didn’t budge leftists in their determination to flood Europe with Muslim migrants.
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Almost half of young Muslims in Germany hold Islamist attitudes, study finds
Almost one in two, or 45.1 percent, of Muslims in Germany under the age of 40 hold Islamist attitudes, according to Germany’s Radicalization Monitoring System and Transfer Platform. MOTRA is run by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
MOTRA researchers revealed last month that almost half of younger Muslims in Germany hold latent or manifest Islamist-leaning views, which means they feel drawn to Islamism, prefer Sharia law over the constitution, and hold antisemitic prejudices.
Breaking this down, the researchers found manifest Islamist attitudes – meaning their radicalization toward Islamism is already evident and pronounced – to be most widespread among Muslims under 40, at 11.5%.
MOTRA found 33.6% to have latent Islamist views, where the inclination toward Islamism exists, but the radicalization is not yet openly visible. These combine to make 45.1%.
On Friday, German Parliamentary State Secretary Christoph de Vries (CDU) told Die Zeit newspaper that his party is “very concerned about this.” De Vries also cited a separate worrying figure:Antisemitism is four times as widespread among young Muslims as in the population as a whole.
Asked what had driven the rise in Islamist views, de Vries said that Islamist influencers, present in social networks and gaming platforms, have caused a surge in such views. He also said the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel’s Gaza border communities on October 7, 2023, was a “driver for Islamism as a whole.”…
Whereas it should have been the opposite!
45% for people under 40 means it will be a majority in another generation. But that seems to be quite acceptable to the German government and media.
This is not the first time the French company Lefarge was found to be financing jihadists. Jihad Watch reported in 2022 that the company was embroiled in almost the exact same scandal. Lefarge pled guilty to paying out millions to the Islamic State group “to keep a plant operational in Syria — at a time when the militant group was engaged in torturing kidnapped Westerners — and agreed to pay roughly $778 million in penalties.”
At the time, the U.S. Justice Department accused Lefarge of “turning a blind eye to the conduct of the Islamic State, negotiating a revenue-sharing agreement with the militant group as it was acquiring new territory and as Syria was mired in a brutal civil war.”
After Lefarge’s guilty plea “in federal court in Brooklyn,” it agreed “to criminal fines of $90.78 million and a forfeiture of $687 million.”
Lefarge was well known to French political and law enforcement authorities, and even to the U.S. Justice Department, so how could it have found an opportunity to offend again? Read more about the case HERE to find out how deep Lefarge’s connection to jihad terror went.
The case is chilling. Although the current presiding judge levied a heavy fine and prison sentences for Lafarge’s financing of jihad groups in Syria, she concluded that “these payments took the form of a genuine commercial partnership with [ISIL].” It was to save the business as well as anyone associated with it who had no knowledge of its dealings.
Money talks, and that is how the jihad continues to grow and infiltrate. Lefarge didn’t learn in 2022, and it will likely continue its dealings under suspect protections.
Partnering with jihadists isn’t a new or unusual phenomenon. No one pretends, for instance, that Muslim Brotherhood-supporting Qatar hasn’t been highly influential in America’s academic institutions. The Muslim Brotherhood encourages jihad by the sword as a duty for all Muslims, and as a higher calling. To lock arms with it in business with the Muslim Brotherhood is reprehensible and harmful to Western interests.
While Lafarge stands out as being particularly reprehensible given its willful cooperation with the Islamic State, there are plenty of other Western institutions who also aid the jihad. Some do it for votes, and some for institutional cash flow.
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French court rules cement giant Lafarge guilty of funding Syria ‘terrorism’
A French court has found cement group Lafarge guilty of financing “terrorism” through its Syrian subsidiary, fining the company and jailing its former CEO.
The Paris court ruled on Monday that Lafarge had paid protection money directly to ISIL (ISIS) and other armed groups and breached European sanctions to operate in northern Syria during the country’s civil war in 2013-2014. The case is just the latest of several concerning the company’s conduct during the conflict.
The court ordered Lafarge to pay a fine of 1.12 million euros ($1.32m), and for 30 million euros ($35.1m) worth of its assets to be confiscated. An additional fine was levied for having disregarded international sanctions. The ruling can be appealed.
Eight former Lafarge employees were found guilty of financing “terrorist” organisations, including former CEO Bruno Lafont, who was sentenced to six years in jail. His lawyer has said that he plans to appeal.
The company’s former deputy managing director, Christian Herrault, was sentenced to five years in jail. Other former employees were handed fines and sentences ranging from one to seven years.
The presiding judge, Isabelle Prevost-Desprez, said the payments made by Lafarge helped to strengthen groups that carried out deadly attacks in Syria and beyond….
