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“Rotterdam teacher in hiding after online threats in dispute over ‘blasphemous’ cartoon,”
DutchNews.nl, November 5, 2020
Emmaus College, Rotterdam
ANP Police in Rotterdam are investigating online threats made against a teacher who had hung a cartoon commenting on the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 on his classroom notice board.
According to the NRC, the drawing had hung on a classroom notice board for some five years but it was not until the school – which has Catholic roots – held a memorial for murdered French teacher Samuel Paty, that it became a contentious issue.
Sources at the Emmauscollege told the paper that the situation in the school had soured after some teachers started discussions about the cartoon of Mohammed which had led a radical Muslim to murder Paty last month.
Then, the paper said, a group of girls demanded the teacher remove the picture from the notice board because, they said, it was blasphemy.
Despite the teacher’s explanation – that the cartoon was not of Mohammed but of a terrorist – the dispute continued on social media.
Police told the NRC that direct threats were made against the teacher, and that they were taking them very seriously….
The NRC says that more teachers at the school, which focuses on pre-college and pre-university streams, no longer feel safe and, according to its sources, the teacher in question has gone into hiding.
MPs and ministers on Thursday were united in their outrage, with education minister Arie Slob saying it is ‘completely unacceptable’ that teachers are put under pressure because they teach about the value of freedom of speech. The intimidation of teachers will not be tolerated in any way whatsover, Slob said. ‘We will take tough action against it.’
Meanwhile, over 100,000 people have signed a petition set up by imam Ismail Abou Soumayyah, which calls for insulting Mohammed to be made a criminal offence.
FBI releases 2015 attack plan of radicalized California university student who stabbed 4 on campus
Associated Press, November 18, 2020
MERCED, Calif. – A troubled California university freshman who burst into a classroom in 2015, stabbing four people before police shot him dead, planned to praise Allah while slitting the throats of classmates and use a gun taken from an ambushed officer to kill more, according to records released by the FBI.
Still, records released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Daily Beast publication include a chilling, handwritten 31-step plan for the Nov. 4 attack with names of people to target.
The plan included putting on a balaclava at 7:45 a.m. and saying “in the name of Allah” before stepping into his classroom and ordering students to use zip-ties he provided to bind their hands.
Mohammad also planned to make a fake 911 distress call to report a suicidal guy and wait for police outside the classroom before ambushing from behind “and slit calmly yet forcefully one of the officers with guns.”
He planned to take a gun from an officer and kill classmates before making another fake distress call to 911 to report the shootings. Step 26 was to read the Quran until he heard sirens, and then “take calm shot after shot” with the gun as authorities arrive….
…investigators said the perpetrators were influenced by the Islamic State group, but not directly connected to it. Families said they had no clue of their relatives’ radicalization.
That's even more frightening than if they were aware of his radicalization. He was radicalized and no-one noticed! How can that be if the whole family wasn't radicalized?
“Deaf-mute Christian girl subjected to 5-man gang-rape and torture for 2 months, due to police negligence and local Muslim community acceptance of the crime,”
British Pakistani Christian Association
November 16, 2020
Earlier this year, on 16th March 2020, BACA reported on the dithering police that failed to take action after a 17-year-old Christian teenager who is both deaf and mute, was kidnapped from her home, then forcibly married to a Muslim neighbour under a sham Islamic marriage.
Police at Sanda Police Station, Lahore failed to take action despite registering a First Information Report (FIR) 405/2020 on 17th March, in which they listed the crime of kidnap of a minor – though at the time no suspects were identified.
Several attempts to garner a police response by Komal’s parents failed to start any investigation. In fact, it was only two months later on 17th March 2020, when a local MP Tariq Gill got involved that police initiated a trace on the last call received from Komal by mother Rubina (45 yrs), just before Komal went missing.
During the investigation two suspects were identified Ali Mubashir and Mohammed Azeem who had had been before the home of Komal at around the time she went missing. Local police called Mr Azeem’s telephone number and got through and he agreed to meet for questioning, but then absconded and become non-traceable for the duration of the two months with Mr Mubashir.
Then on Good Friday (10th April) a call was received by the mother of Komal, Rubina (44 yrs) who heard strange mutterings on the phone that sounded like her daughter. She reported this to the police who began a trace on the number.
Two weeks later the trace identified a man named Kashif Ghulam Rasool, who was also a local neighbour and a search began for the fugitive. Unfortunately his phone was now switched off and he had also been found to have absconded.
On 12th of May 2020, Rubina Patras filed a subsequent bian (statement) and nominated 5 persons involved in the abduction of her daughter Komal. The subsequent bian stated that on 16th March 2020, close relatives of Rubina Patras, Mubarik Masih and Saleem Masih witnessed a distressed Komal sobbing in a van along with five unknown men.
Through discussions with local neighbours it soon became very clear who the five men were because they had all disappeared from the community at the same time that Komal disappeared. So Rubina was able to inform local police of community suspicions that Muhammed Azeem, Mubashir Ali and Ali Abbas were involved in the kidnapping. One man was still unidentified.
On identification of the culprits, police raided the home of Muhammad Azeem on 24th May and through interrogation they were also able to arrest Mubashar Ali and Ali Abbas, who were in the same house located in Deepalpur, District Okara. The men denied any knowledge of Komal’s whereabouts but police kept them in their custody.
Following further searches for Kashif at his home, the paternal uncle of Kashif turned up at Sandha Police Station on 5th June. and brought Komal before the police. He informed police that the teenager was legally married and produced a sham Islamic marriage certificate, a forged birth certificate that stated Komal was 18 years of age (the legal age of consensual marriage). The uncle also brought a certificate of conversion to Islam. He told the officers that Komal would be allowed to speak to her parents, but under no circumstance should she be returned to the family. She was the property of Kashif who was her legal husband and after the meeting Komal should be returned to him.
Following the orders of Kashif’s uncle the police invited the parents of Komal, Patras Masih (55 yrs) and Rubina to meet with their daughter. The parents said that Komal was in an obvious distressed state and wept while she communicated in sign language with them. She informed the parents she loved them, that she wanted to return to them and longed for their protection and that she had been regularly raped by a gang of 5 Muslim men. When the parents demanded for their daughter to be returned to them, police denied them permission to take her with them. Member of Provincial Assembly, Tariq Gill who had visited the police with the family demanded for her release and a further police investigation.
On 6th June 2020, Komal was required to attend the Health Department of the Government of the Punjab and underwent a medical examination by Dr. Tauqir Asifa. In her medical report she confirmed the physical and sexual abuse of Komal and identified significant wounding on her right forearm and multiple scars were found on the left foot.
Later the same day, Komal went to the District Education Officer (Special Education) Lahore, to meet with a government officer who understood sign language a statement was thus derived at via Tahir Hussain Gazzi. It is listed that Komal said:
“I was cleaning the floor of my house at around 1:30 pm.
“Suddenly Kashif Ghulam Rasool and her mother Raqiya came and dragged me out of my house by my arm. I’m deaf-mute so I could not make any noise to catch attention of family members.
“They took me into a car and drove me to the other side of the River Ravi.
“On 19th March they took me to Jamia Nameea Lahore and was converted to Islam, Kashif made me do it. Kashif Ghulam Rasool forced me to marry him.
“After that my husband took me to different places to avoid arrest by the police and he often beat me.”
On the same day, Kashif his mother Raqiya applied for pre-arrest bail in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Lahore, Ch. Zulfiqar Ali. Without any hesitation the Muslim judge granted bail to both of them against the surety bonds of 30,000 PKR each. Raqiya had been very friendly to the family of Komal and had been helping in the investigation, much the same as the caretaker involved in the Soham Murders in the UK. During police investigation she flatly denied being involved in the kidnap, despite being recognized by Komal and her phone number being called during the kidnap of Komal. Oddly she even the parents of Komal when they visited her house on discovering her number was listed in Kashif’s mobile. She later that evening beat Komal too because she had made calls that would later lead to her arrest.
Some time later, Qari Muhammad Saeed of Dar-Ul-Aloom Jamia Naeemia, Lahore, gave a statement to the police that on the 19th of March Komal was converted to Islam and legally married. In a statement to Investigation Officer (IO) Ibrar Hussain, he said:
“This conversion took place by writing Qalma Tayba on a paper.
“Komal was brought to me for conversion. Komal told me through signs that she can read and write and so I wrote Qalma Tayba on a piece of paper for her.
“Komal followed me in writing Qalma Tayba on another piece of paper and in this way Komal entered into Islam.”
Patras Masih has spoken with BACA about the poor policing they suffered, he said:
“The Investigation report presented by IO Ibrar Hussain clearly favored the culprits. In his report he took statements from Muslims in the house that my daughter was repeatedly raped.
“They stated that Komal seemed very happy and content in her marriage and denied other men entered the house.
“Instead of doing a fair investigation and recording the facts he recorded these false statements as true. This delayed the return of my daughter and led to more beatings and rapes and has slowed down the process of justice.”
In the office of Deputy Inspector General of Police Lahore, an application was filed to reinvestigate the matter by MPA Tariq Gill. The application was denied by the office however, BACA’s solicitor Sumaira Hussain who is leading this case will be seeking an investigation into police conduct through the courts.
A protest was held in front of Lahore Press Club when the biased and despicable police negligence that led to an extension of the torturous treatment towards Komal. To reduce community anxiety and to bring an end to the protest DSP Javed Sadiq of Central Investigation Agency confirmed to the parents of Komal that from now on a fair investigation will ensue, after calling them to his office on 4th November 2020.
Komal is with her family in a secret place while she is recovering from a very brutal and violent attack.
Sweden: Islamic dress code protected under law / Muslim veil ban illegal
Ahlul Bayt News Agency
November 16, 2020
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Skurup municipality, whose clothing policy specifically prohibits Islamic headwear at preschools and primary schools, has found itself on a collision course with the Discrimination Ombudsman.
The Swedish Discrimination Ombudsman (DO) has weighed in on the debate involving the acceptance of religious headdresses in public places.
In ruling that the Skurup municipality’s ban on “the headscarf, burqa, niqab, and other clothing intended to hide students and staff” is incompatible with the Discrimination act, the ombudsman confirmed that the Islamic dress code is thus protected under the law.
“When the inspection is now completed, the DO makes the assessment that even though the policy, according to its wording, affects all clothing that hides students and staff in the municipality’s preschools and primary schools, the purpose is precisely to ban religious clothing. This means that the application of the policy in relation to people bearing such garments will be related to their religion or beliefs”, the ombudsman’s office said in a press release.
Deputy discrimination ombudsman Martin Mörk emphasised that “with the exception of situations where such clothing affects a student’s or employee’s objective conditions to carry out an educational element or a task the ban constitutes direct discrimination related to religion and other beliefs”.
“If you accept that women have to cover their faces, what are you going to accept tomorrow? Do you also intend to accept polygamy, child marriage et cetera?”, Sweden Democrat Lars Nyström wondered during the debate.
This is probably the right call by the ombudsman, however, it's another boost for far-right terrorists who think the government has thrown Sweden to the dogs.
Le Bouscat: new death threats inscribed on the facades of two schools
Translated from “Le Bouscat : de nouvelles menaces de mort inscrites sur les façades de deux collèges,” by Audrey Dumain, France Bleu, November 16, 2020:
Concern is growing in two schools in the town of Bouscat, near Bordeaux. The Sainte-Anne school was again the target of death threats. The same inscription discovered last week reappeared this Sunday on its facade: “You are all dead”.
Less than 500 meters from this establishment, another school, the Jean Moulin school, was also targeted by threats on Monday, according to prosecutors. Inscriptions referred to the assassination of Samuel Paty: “You are all dead, you are all dead. Samuel Paty. Allah Akbar”.
Prosecutors indicate that a new investigation has been opened for the tags concerning the Jean Moulin school. An investigation for “support for terrorism” and “death threats” is entrusted to the departmental security.
Investigations are also continuing after the new threats in Sainte-Anne. So far, no one has been arrested.
ISIS claims responsibility for Kabul attack after over 20 rockets hit Afghan capital, killing 8
21 Nov, 2020 14:41
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on Afghanistan’s capital that left eight dead and several dozen injured, nearly three weeks after it carried out a rampage at Kabul University.
Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said that a total of 23 rockets hit targets across Kabul.
At least one rocket landed in an office inside the capital’s diplomatic quarter, but it did not explode, according to reports.
In total, eight people were killed and 31 others were injured.
The Taliban denied any links to the attack. Hours later, Islamic State issued a statement taking responsibility for the barrage.
The attack came just hours before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was set to meet with Afghan and Taliban negotiators in Qatar, in the hopes of restarting stalled peace talks.
The rocket barrage is just the latest in a series of deadly strikes carried out by Islamic State in the country. At the start of November, IS killed 22 people after gunmen stormed Kabul University.
I'm confused! Does ISIS want American troops to stay in Afghanistan? Very curious!
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