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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Islam - Current Day > Sheer Horror - Saudis Massacre Ethiopians; Herder cuts off farmers hand in Nigeria; Pakistan to compensate Christians for Islamic Hysteria

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Saudi forces fire guns, explosive weapons, killing

hundreds of Ethiopian refugees at Yemen border

Globalist leaders swung open their countries’ doors to multitudes of economic Muslim migrants, causing violent crime to surge, adding strain to their economies and threatening their national security. This also led to a rise in antisemitism. Muslim countries, however, while infamous for screaming “Islamophobia” to keep infidels in line and prevent them from scrutinizing or insulting Islam, have been silent about a method employed by Saudi Arabia to stop genuine refugees from Ethiopia from entering the country. The Saudis are shooting them, “at close range and firing explosive weapons at groups.” Take note: this violence isn’t coming from al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the like, but from Saudi Arabia, now exposed as looking a good deal more like Iran than many suspect in this era of its “modernizing” crown prince.

“Saudi security forces have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers attempting to cross the country’s border with Yemen.” And this isn’t new:

Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers have been tortured, injured or killed by Saudi Arabian border guards at the Yemen-Saudi border. At least hundreds have been killed trying to make this crossing between March 2022 and June 2023.

14-year-old girl describes her bone-chilling experience:

We were fired on repeatedly. I saw people killed in a way I have never imagined. I saw 30 killed people on the spot. I pushed myself under a rock and slept there. I could feel people sleeping around me. I realized what I thought were people sleeping around me were actually dead bodies. I woke up and I was alone.

How barbaric, and from a country that sells an image of being “civilized” and “reforming” to the world. A 20-year-old Ethiopian woman also describes the sheer horror as the Saudis attacked resting migrants:

The Saudis picked us up from the detention center in Daer and put us in a minibus going back to the Yemen border. When they released us, they created a kind of chaos; they screamed at us to “get out of the car and get away.” They trapped us into the same lane, they didn’t want us to spread out in case we tried to go back to Saudi I think, and this is when they started to fire mortars – to keep us into the mountain line, they fired the mortar from left and right. When we were one kilometer away, the border guards could see us. We were resting together after running a lot…and that’s when they fired mortars on our group. Directly at us. There were 20 in our group and only ten survived. Some of the mortars hit the rocks and then the [fragments of the] rock hit us…The weapon looks like a rocket launcher, it had six “mouths,” six holes from where they fire and it was fired from the back of a vehicle – it fires several at the same time. They fired on us like rain.

When I remember, I cry… I saw a guy calling for help, he lost both his legs. He was screaming; he was saying, “Are you leaving me here? Please don’t leave me.” We couldn’t help him because we were running for our lives. There are several people who lost their body parts…

Where is the outcry from the United Nations? Where is Black Lives Matter?

Meanwhile, by way of contrast, on August 10, Israel Hayom reported: “More than 200 Israelis and Ethiopian Jews were rescued from war-torn northern Ethiopia.” Israel also launched the dangerous Operation Moses in 1984 in order to return thousands of Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan. As the Washington Institute reported:

As planeloads of Ethiopian Jews poured into Israel, the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) undertook an emergency campaign to raise between $60 million and $100 million for the resettlement of Ethiopian Jews in Israel.

But Israel gets the absurd label of “apartheid“?

In 2016, Turkey was also shooting at asylum seekers to keep them out. In 2018, Turkey was again shooting at refugees to keep them out. And in 2021, Turkey fortified over 600 miles of its land border with walls to keep out Afghans.

As Sharia slowly but surely invades the West, an appalling principle has taken deep root: to criticize Islam or cast it in any light other than as a “religion of peace,” much less to insult Islam, is “Islamophobic” and always unacceptable. “Islamophobia” has become the priority to be cracked down upon, not abuse and persecution of human beings that is justified under Sharia, and not the Sharia encroachment upon once truly free and human rights-advocating Western societies.



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Nigeria: Muslim cuts off Christian farmer’s hand

for asking him to move his cattle away from his farm


AUG 21, 2023 8:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER


“As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is mighty, wise.” (Qur’an 5:38)

Now if that verse was in play in this case, how was Jeremiah Yan a thief? Abdulrahman Kaila may have considered Yan a thief for complaining that Kaila’s cattle were destroying his farm. The earth belongs to Allah. Yan, as an infidel, has no right to any part of it. Kaila, as a Muslim, has a right to any part of it that he chooses except that which is owned by another Muslim. So by complaining, Yan was essentially stealing Kaila’s land.




Herder Arrested For Cutting Off Plateau Farmer’s Hand After Asking Him

To Move Cattle Away From Farm

Sahara Reporters, August 18, 2023:

The Plateau State Command of the Nigerian Police Force has said it arrested a herdsman identified as Abdulrahman Kaila for cutting off a farmer’s hand in the Lakushi community in the Shendam council area of the state.

A video of the incident seen by SaharaReporters on Friday shows a middle-aged man whose name was yet to be ascertained holding his severed hand.

He is overheard in the video telling some men that a Fulani herder cut off his hand because he asked him (herder) to move his cattle out of his farm.

The farmer who was seen bleeding profusely was then advised by the two men to go to the hospital for treatment while they report the incident to the police.

Meanwhile, an Intelligence gathering organisation, Eons Intelligence, disclosed on Friday that the herder had been arrested by the police.

The organisation which took to its Twitter handle to announce the arrest, gave the name of the victim as Jeremiah Yan.

The organisation wrote: “The operatives of Plateau State Police Command on 17th August 2023 arrested one Abdulrahman Kaila, a herder over cutting off a farmer’s hand on his farmland in Lakushi community, Shendam LGA, Plateau State.

“The information available indicated that the suspect had an altercation with the victim, Jeremiah Yan, on the issue of grazing cattle on his rice farming which resulted in cutting Jeremiah Yan’s hand on his farmland.”…

He quoted the suspect to have said during interrogation: “I was grazing when the farmer stopped me and asked me to go back as the area where I was grazing is a rice farm.

“When I got back, he complained that his farm was destroyed by the cattle. I then pushed the cattle and before you know it, we started quarrelling. While we were quarrelling, I didn’t know how I cut off his hand. I did it out of my wish.”

"I did it out of my wish." Can someone explain what that means?

Plateau State, Nigeria



Pakistan offers compensation to Christian homeowners after religious riot


By A.L. Lee
 
Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Pakistan's government will offer financial compensation to Christians whose homes were damaged or destroyed in a religious riot last week.

Punjab chief caretaker minister Mohsin Naqvi joined provincial ministers, several secretaries, senior officials and local commissioners for the unusual prayer service at the AEC Church at Isa Nagari on Sunday in Jaranwala before meeting to announce the aid.

It was the first time the government had ever held a meeting at a house of worship and was widely seen as an extraordinary moment of comity between the Muslim-dominated state and the Christian community.

Naqvi posted a statement to Twitter, expressing "solidarity with our Christian brethren," and included a photograph of Islamist government leaders standing shoulder to shoulder with Christian parishioners in a show of "unity and inclusivity," he said.

A prayer was held before Naqvi moved into official government proceedings, vowing the state would pay equivalent of about $24,000 to individuals to cover property losses after a mob set fire to churches and homes in a majority Christian enclave last Wednesday due to allegations of blasphemy.

The rampage happened in the east of the country, on the outskirts of the industrial city of Faisalabad, where it was rumored that the Koran had been desecrated.

No deaths were reported, but at least four churches were burned, and as many as a dozen religious buildings were damaged as the angry mob ransacked the city.

Four days after the uprising, government officials arrived in the province in an attempt to reconcile after the episode left the Christian community "deeply pained and distressed," according to religious leaders who witnessed the attacks.

Naqvi said two damaged churches were repaired within 72 hours, while on Sunday he ordered the swift reconstruction of another two facilities, including the Association of Evangelical Churches of Pakistan.

The compensation funds to homeowners would be available within about 48 hours, he said.

Naqvi called for the perpetrators of the riot to be arrested and punished, before he and Cabinet ministers visited several sites around Jaranwala, including a campground at Daanish School, where the nation's leaders met with families who fled the violence.

Vice President Sen. Sherry Rehman led a separate delegation to Jaranwala, where she called the incident an embarrassment to the nation.

"What transpired in Jaranwala on Aug. 16 has not only saddened Pakistanis but has also left Muslims across the globe in a state of deep regret," she said. "The scenes we witnessed are heart-wrenching. Today, on behalf of the Peoples Party leadership and its workers, I stand here to extend our unwavering support and solidarity to the people of Jaranwala. This attack is not only on the Christian community but also on the reputation and sovereignty of Pakistan."

On the day of the riot, police rounded up more than 100 suspects in the disorderly crowd and arrested two local Christian residents for violation of blasphemy laws after a particular Koran had its pages defaced and torn out before the book was found discarded near a Christian colony.

Blasphemy is a life-or-death matter in Pakistan, with insults toward Islam or Islamic figures punishable by execution under a strict 1980s law that arose from the British colonial period to punish those who disparage the dominant religion.

About 96% of Pakistan's population is Muslim.



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