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11yo Muslim student threatened to behead teacher at Berlin
primary school, teacher says
11 Nov, 2020 17:54
FILE PHOTO © Getty Images / Maja Hitij
The head teacher of a primary school in Spandau, Berlin has told German media that an 11-year-old Muslim pupil threatened to behead his teacher after defending the murder of Samuel Paty in France.
Karina Jehniche, the head of the school, told Der Tagesspiegel that fellow students were stunned when they heard the pupil tell his teacher “I’ll do the same with you as the boy did with the teacher in Paris.”
The pupil was also allegedly involved in an earlier shocking incident during a minute’s silence in memory of Paty. The 11-year-old reportedly told a fellow student that it was “OK” to kill someone “who had insulted the prophet.”
An imam who was present reportedly immediately spoke to the child, and the school sent him home after a conversation with his parents.
The news comes a week after officials in France said that children as young as eight were under investigation for defending Paty’s murder at memorial services. Across France, according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, 66 inquiries were opened into alleged support of terrorism following the teacher’s murder.
French teacher Samuel Paty was murdered by a Chechen Islamist extremist in a suburb north of Paris on October 16, after he had shown cartoon depictions of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson about free speech. The perpetrator was shot and killed by police shortly afterwards.
Paty’s death sparked a major clampdown by the French government on Islamist extremism, and President Emmanuel Macron came out in defense of the publication of the Mohammed cartoons.
Several Muslim countries, particularly Turkey, have been critical of France and other European nations for refusing to denounce the cartoons, which they believe are blasphemous.
France, for all its struggles to reach liberté, égalité, fraternité, does not want to regress to the dark ages by a religion that is stuck in the 1st Millenium. Beheading does not belong in a civilized society.
Berlin should send this boy and his parents back to whatever God-forsaken country they came from. There should be no place in Europe for such attitudes.
Muslims shouldn’t marry non-Muslims & can only do so after seeking official permission, rules Russian Islamic body
11 Nov, 2020 13:55
Russian Muslims are prohibited from interfaith marriage, unless given permission by the local mufti. This follows a ruling by the Council of Ulema, which concluded that marriages with Jews and Christians are inadmissible.
The Council of Ulema is a group of clerics and scholars, part of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia.
Although passed in November 2019, the council's theological decision was only published online this week. The conclusion states that marriages with “representatives of the people of the book [Jews and Christians]” are only possible with agreement from the local mufti.
According to the published document, the council believes that “interfaith marriages are characterized by the emergence of a number of problems,” including difficulties with raising children in the spirit of the Islamic faith, and the likelihood that the marriage will lead to the child not becoming a Muslim.
May be OK for Muslim men, but not for women
Following the decision, believers willing to marry from outside the faith can receive permission, but only under certain conditions. In particular, the body decided that non-Muslim women willing to “follow the precepts of the Holy Quran” can wed a Muslim man. However, it is unacceptable for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man, regardless of his views and beliefs.
On Wednesday, Salah Haji Mezhiev, the mufti of the majority-Muslim Chechen Republic, noted that the prohibition is not controversial, and is something “everyone knows” is forbidden.
Despite the Council’s theological conclusion, in practice, marriages between Russian Muslims and Christians are likely to continue. According to Roman Silantyev, an Islamic expert, there are four schools of law in Sunni Islam, and just three of them prohibit interfaith marriage. The one which doesn't have this rule, Hanafi, is the most popular in Russia.
“It turns out that the theological conclusion of the Spiritual Administration of Russia contradicts the school to which almost all their believers belong,” Silantyev said. “The late Valiulla Yakupov [deputy mufti of Tatarstan], he had a Christian wife, and a number of Muslim leaders have wives who have not changed their religion.”
Islam is the second biggest religion in Russia, behind Orthodox Christianity.
Several injuries following attack at non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
during Remembrance Day ceremony
11 Nov, 2020 11:30
© AFP
Several people were injured in a suspected grenade attack during a Remembrance Day ceremony held at a non-Muslim cemetery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning.
Representatives from several countries were at the cemetery when the attack took place. An unnamed Greek official told Reuters that four people had been injured. However, the Mecca governorate authorities said just two people – a Greek consulate employee and a Saudi security guard – were harmed in the incident.
“The embassies that were involved in the commemoration ceremony condemn this cowardly attack, which is completely unjustified,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. They called on the Saudi authorities to “shed as much light as they can on this attack, and to identify and hunt down the perpetrators.”
French Senator Damien Regnard tweeted a message of support for those injured in the blast. “All my support to our compatriots in Saudi Arabia and in Jeddah,” he wrote.
The consulate reportedly cautioned French nationals living in Saudi Arabia to exercise “maximum vigilance” in the aftermath of the attack. “In particular, exercise discretion, and stay away from all gatherings and be cautious when moving around,” the statement, issued to French residents in Jeddah, reads as cited by the media.
The attack comes just 12 days after a knife attack at the French consulate in Jeddah, on the same day three people were killed in an Islamist terrorist attack in Nice. The French embassy in the UAE and consulate in Dubai issued a joint statement after the attack advising French residents to maintain vigilance.
France has faced escalating tensions with the Muslim world in recent weeks. In mid-October, a school teacher was beheaded near Paris after he showed cartoons of Prophet Mohammed to his students. President Macron endorsed the caricatures and proclaimed a crackdown on “radical Islam.” This stance caused uproar in Muslim countries.
Austria’s Leader Seeks Crackdown on Islamist Terrorism After Attack
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced a set of legislative proposals that would make it easier to keep terrorists behind bars, close mosques and clamp down on funding for terrorists.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of Austria during a news conference this week in Paris.
Credit...Pool photo by Michel Euler
By Melissa Eddy, NYT
Nov. 11, 2020, 5:42 p.m. ET
BERLIN — Austria would allow courts to extend the sentences of convicted terrorists and it would establish a new criminal offense for people who “create the breeding ground” for terrorism, as part of a package of legislative proposals announced a week after an Islamic State sympathizer killed four people in Vienna.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced the tough new proposals on Wednesday after meeting with his cabinet in the Austrian capital, Vienna, a day after he held talks with President Emmanuel Macron of France and other European Union leaders to coordinate efforts across the bloc to crack down on Islamist terrorism.
“We will do everything to protect the population,” Mr. Kurz said. The legislative package will be put before Parliament for approval before the end of the year.
France and Austria have both been attacked recently: Last week in Vienna, a 20-year-old previously sentenced to prison for trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State fatally shot four people. In France last month, a Tunisian man fatally stabbed three people in Nice, and an 18-year-old Chechen refugee beheaded a teacher in the Paris suburbs.
Unlike Mr. Macron, whose government launched a broad crackdown in response to the attacks, leading to widespread hostility against France in the Muslim world, Mr. Kurz, a conservative, had initially responded with conciliatory words that sought to defuse tensions. He stressed that “extremists and terrorists” — not “all those belonging to a religion” — should be the target of Austrians’ anger.
But on Wednesday, Mr. Kurz insisted that it was not enough to mourn the two men and two women who were killed in the heart of Vienna’s old city on Nov. 2 and help the 22 others who were injured. He said the authorities needed wider-reaching abilities to prevent terrorists from carrying out attacks and root out those who support them.
Among his proposals: Allowing courts to continue imprisoning people who have completed sentences for belonging to a terrorist organization, if judges determine those people are still radical and could pose a threat. Those released from prison would continue to be monitored electronically.
“Especially those who have already served a prison sentence can pose a massive threat to our security, as was dramatically demonstrated by the attack last week,” Mr. Kurz said, referring to the young man who had been released early from prison after completing a “de-radicalization” program, but went on to plan and carry out the attack in Vienna.
“This is a major intervention, but in my view a necessary step to minimize the threat risk,” Mr. Kurz said.
Additionally, any dual nationals found guilty of supporting terrorism will have their Austrian citizenship revoked. The Vienna attacker was a citizen of both Austria and North Macedonia.
While the law is aimed at stopping Islamist terrorists, it would also apply to other extremists, including neo-Nazis, said Werner Kogler, the vice chancellor and a member of the Greens party.
Austria would also create a new criminal offense that would allow the authorities to move against individuals who are not active members of a terrorist organization, but who “create the breeding ground for them,” the chancellor said.
The measure would make it easier for the authorities to close places of worship and introduce a register allowing them to track imams preaching hate or extremism.
Other measures include tightening existing laws on symbols and associations to include those linked to terrorist groups, and allowing the authorities to halt the financial flow to terrorist groups.
I really like Kurz. He may be the best leader in Europe right now.
Susanne Raab, Austria’s minister for culture, said the measures were aimed at those who are opposed to “our values” and want “to divide our society,” not at Islam as a religion or the many Muslims who practice it peacefully.
“This clear separation between extremist Islamism and the religion is very important,” she said.
Radical Islamist Political Party Puts $62k Bounty on Pakistani Christian
John Paluska | ChristianHeadlines.com
Contributor | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Faraz Pervaiz, a Christian activist in Pakistan, fled the country after defamatory photos, caricatures and statements of and by him and his father went viral on social media in 2014.
According to The Christian Post, Muslim extremists began to target Pervaiz after he spoke out about Christians’ homes being pillaged and robbed.
International Christian Concern reports that before fleeing the country, Pervaiz challenged the politics and theology of Islam by leading protests.
Because of his activism, in 2015, the Tahreek-e-Labbaik political party placed a $62,000 bounty on Prevaiz’s head. The bounty would be increased to $124,000 the next year.
Radical Muslims also made a video calling on every family in Pakistan to find and kill Pervaiz. Part of the campaign that threatened his life included a video doxing his location. It was for this reason he had to flee to Thailand with his family.
Now, posters offering a $62,800 reward and asserting that Pervaiz will be beheaded if he is found, have been distributed around Karachi, Pakistan, UCA News reports.
According to The Christian Post, this has led to Pervaiz being attacked. The activist reports being attacked by four Muslims at a grocery store.
The Pakistani government has also sided against Pervaiz. In 2017, the government filed a blasphemy case against him.
According to Pervaiz, this was the first time the government had officially filed a blasphemy case against a citizen of Pakistan, despite the country being known for having the most blasphemy lockups of any country in the world.
"I am in a situation where we are helpless here,” Pervaiz explained in a phone interview with The Christian Post. “Actually, it’s not the fault of UNHCR. This is the fault of my people, my Christian community. They are not taking any serious measures for our safety,” he said.
According to persecution watchdog Open Doors USA, Pakistan is the fifth-worst country for Christian persecution.
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