Islamists devastate Berlin in name of Allah. We have a huge problem in Europe that needs to be solved very soon. Do you agree?
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Friday, July 14, 2023
Islam - Current Day > Taliban Punish Sweden for Freedom of Speech; Burnt Quran thrown in front of German mosque
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Islamic Madness spreads from Pakistan to Afghanistan
Taliban suspends all Swedish activities in Afghanistan
over Qur’an burning
JUL 13, 2023 8:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
One could argue that the Taliban is “radical,” but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already stated that Turkey has nothing that contradicts Taliban beliefs. Plus, it isn’t only the Taliban that is enraged over the Qur’an burning in Sweden.
Reaction from the Taliban came after the Organization of Islamic Cooperation “stressed the need for taking steps to prevent future desecration of the Quran.”
You know, if this was the 14th century and there were only 30 copies of the Quran in existence, one could almost understand the hysteria. But Islam can print off a thousand copies a day, and probably do. The Quran is only holy to Muslims. It is absurd to think that non-Muslims would treat it as holy.
From millions of protesters in Pakistan and other protests across the Islamic world to global Islamic condemnations and calls for action, and now, the punishment of Swedes in Afghanistan, the goal is to put so much pressure on infidels that they submit to Sharia blasphemy laws, at the expense of their rights and freedoms.
Taliban Suspend Swedish Activities in Afghanistan Over Quran
by Ayaz Gul, Voice of America, July 12, 2023:
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — The Taliban on Tuesday ordered the suspension of all Swedish activities in Afghanistan because of the public burning of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, at a protest in Sweden last month.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has also condemned the “Islamophobic” act, but it noted that Sweden has a “constitutionally protected right to freedom of assembly, expression and demonstration.” The reaction came after the intergovernmental Organization of Islamic Cooperation stressed the need for taking steps to prevent future desecration of the Quran.
On June 28, an Iraqi national resident in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, tore and burned a copy of the Quran outside the largest mosque as Muslims celebrated Eid al-Adha worldwide. The incident sparked outrage and condemnation in Islamic countries.
“The Islamic Emirate suspends Sweden’s activities in Afghanistan for granting permission to insult the Quran and the Muslim faith,” the Taliban said, using the official name for their government in Kabul.
According to the statement, the order will remain effective “until they [Sweden] apologize to the Muslims for this heinous act.” The Taliban called on other Islamic nations to “reconsider” their relations with the Swedish government over its “blasphemous” act….
Freedom of speech, European laws, will all have to bow to the Quran within a few years. Either that, or the Quran, itself, will have to be outlawed. Muslims will always tend to follow the Quran above national laws. European capitals will come to realize that one day, and then all hell will break loose.
Germany: Qur’an burned, thrown out of moving vehicle outside mosque
JUL 14, 2023 9:00 AM
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
The intense reaction of multitudes across the Muslim world (including the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) demonstrates the expectation that free societies can and will be pressured into conforming to Islamic blasphemy laws. Most recently, the UN Human Rights Council passed a Pakistani resolution calling for action against “hatred of religion” (a.k.a. offense to Islam). Now it’s backfiring. More specifically:
The resolution calls for the “review” of Western laws and calls on Western nations to “plug gaps that may ‘impede the prevention and prosecution of acts and advocacy of religious hatred.’”
Islamic leaders globally continue to condemn a Qur’an burning while turning a blind eye to the widespread persecution of Christians in Islamic countries. But how well is this strategy working, as the Muslim world and the West stand at a crossroads?
Many people recognize the danger of submitting to Sharia blasphemy tenets, and so the pressure that is being put on Western societies may well backfire.
Quran burnt, thrown from moving vehicle outside mosque in Germany
Anadolu Agency, July 10, 2023:
Quran was burned and thrown from a moving vehicle in front of a mosque in southwestern Germany, the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) confirmed Monday.
The incident happened in front of the Mimar Sinan Mosque in the town of Maulbronn, located in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, from a moving vehicle.
Osman Adıbelli, director of the mosque association, said the incident took place on the night of Saturday, July 8.
“After the incident, when we reviewed surveillance footage of our mosque, we saw that an object was thrown in front of the mosque from a vehicle on the main street. Around 4:45 a.m. (0245GMT), our congregation members who came for morning prayers noticed a burned Quran at the entrance of the mosque,” he explained.
Adıbelli said they have filed a criminal complaint over the incident and added: “Due to the reflection of the headlights of the vehicle approaching the front of the mosque we do not know the license plate number or how many individuals were involved in the attack.”…
I would rather the German police spend their time investigating the rape of young German girls by migrants than looking for someone who burned a book, which isn't even against the law.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Authoritarianism Takes Double-Punch in South America Set-back
Paraguay congress building set ablaze after contentious vote
By Daniel Uria
Protesters in Paraguay set fire to part of a congressional building after 25 senators voted to amend the constitution to allow President Horacio Cartes to seek re-election after his single five-year term. Photo by Andres Cristaldo/EPA
UPI/Reuters -- A congressional building in Paraguay was set ablaze during a protest after a secret senate vote to allow President Horacio Cartes to seek re-election.
Flames covered part of the congressional building as protesters vandalized offices and targeted police vehicles in the capital city of Asuncion on Friday night.
"I didn't expect to witness something like this," speaker of the lower house, Hugo Velázquez, said. "I am calling for harmony."
Firefighters arrived at the scene to extinguish the flames and riot police fired rubber bullets at the crowd. Some protesters were injured.
Paraguay signed a new constitution in 1992 which placed a system of checks and balances on the executive office and limited the president to a single five-year term, following the 35-year brutal dictatorship of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner.
"A coup has been carried out. We will resist and we invite the people to resist with us," said Senator Desiree Masi from the opposition Progressive Democratic Party.
The protests erupted after a group of 25 senators began holding "parallel sessions" to amend the constitution to allow Cartes to seek re-election following the end of his five-year term.
The unrest coincides with a rare high-level international event in the landlocked South American country. Thousands of businessmen and government officials descended on Asuncion this week for the Inter-American Development Bank's annual board of governors meeting.
While Paraguay long suffered from political uncertainty, the soy and beef-exporting nation has been attracting investment in agriculture and manufacturing sectors in recent years as Cartes offered tax breaks to foreign investors.
A senate meeting scheduled to be held on Saturday was canceled following the protests and the damage to the congressional building.
Venezuela reverses decision to remove
National Assembly's power
By Daniel Uria
Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice announced it had reversed its decision to strip legislative power from the country's National Assembly on Saturday. EPA/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ
UPI -- Venezuela's Supreme Court announced it will return legislative power to the National Assembly on Saturday.
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice said it had removed certain parts of a judgment that took over the National Assembly's legislative power after government leaders urged it to review the decision and citizens staged daily protests.
The court issued a 20,000-word ruling on Wednesday stating the TSJ or an agency it chose would assume the National Assembly's duties.
On Friday, Venezuela's chief prosecutor, Luisa Ortega, expressed "great concern" about the measure, which she said violated the constitution.
Vice-President Tareck El Aissami also pleaded with the Supreme Court to examine the decision which was viewed by some as a "coup."
"We urge the supreme court to review the decisions... in order to maintain institutional stability and the balance of powers," El Aissami said.
President Nicolas Maduro promised dialogue to end the issue and appeared on national television Saturday to announce an agreement had been reached.
"We've reached an important agreement to solve this controversy," he said.
In other words he received enough credible threats as to be scared for his life! Maduro has to go and go quickly or Venezuela might never recover from the damage he is doing.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Backlash From the Brutal Murder and Burning of Afghan Woman
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| Islam's invisible women pray invisible prayers at Afghan shrine |
Last month a furious mob turned on Farkhunda, 27, beating her in broad daylight and setting her body ablaze on the banks of the Kabul River after an amulet seller, whom she had castigated, falsely accused her of blasphemy.
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| Demonstrators rally in front of the Kabul supreme court on March 24, 2015, to protest against the savage lynching of Afghan woman Farkhunda |
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| Women carry the coffin bearing the body of Farkhunda, who was savagely lynched by an angry mob on the banks of the Kabul River, in central Kabul on March 22, 2015 |
"Down with ignorance" has been a familiar chant at protests denouncing her killing, which has prompted public sentiment to turn against Kabul's "healers" peddling amulets, talismans and good luck charms.
"Not every man who wears a turban is a religious scholar," Daiulhaq Abid, Afghanistan's deputy minister for religious affairs, told reporters.
Of course, there is far more at play here beside women's rights - I don't see that as an issue in Farkhunda's murder; or superstition. The real issue seems to have been overlooked, and that is the instant madness that came upon the crowd at the mere suggestion that someone burned the Quran. It takes a very small spark to cause Islamic insanity to explode into a massive eruption. That is the issue that western liberal governments fail to understand in relation to their immigration policies.
Abid said his investigation revealed that the amulet seller falsely accused Farkhunda -- a graduate in Islamic studies -- of burning the Koran as her anti-superstition advocacy had been driving away his customers.
Many of Kabul's divine healers went underground even before Abid's ministry launched an unprecedented crackdown in the wake of Farkhunda's killing, shutting down their shops and evicting them from roadside markets.
Padlocked stores and vacant roadside stalls have become a familiar sight in the meandering and congested lanes of Murad Khani in Kabul's Old City, one of several hubs where spiritual healers have thrived for decades.
The backlash highlights the angst of a post-Taliban generation in Afghanistan -- where nearly two-thirds of the population is under 25 -- that is often torn between conservatism and modernity as the country rebuilds itself after decades of war.
"Farkhunda's death brought a revolution," women's rights activist Belqis Osmani told AFP.
"It shocked everyone, awakened everyone. It warned the traditional-minded people that a new generation is emerging -- a generation that is more educated and open-minded. They are more liberal and they don't fall for tricks of fake mullahs," she said.
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Ahmad Jawad, a 37-year-old Kabul resident, said the "Justice for Farkhunda" movement marked a rare battle in Afghanistan against pervasive ignorance.
"I once went to a traditional healer because I was in love with my cousin and wanted to marry her. He gave me some perfume and paper amulets. He instructed me to sprinkle perfume on the amulets and burn them," he told AFP.
"I did that for a week and everyone around me got a headache because of the bad smell. I couldn't marry my cousin in the end, and realised that my ignorance had been exploited for a charlatan's monetary gain."
But the backlash seems to be limited to urban centres such as Kabul. Just a two-hour drive outside the capital, in the village of Shakar Dara, it is business as usual.
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| An Afghan religious healer (R) writes amulets for his clients at his home in the Surkh Rood district of Nangarhar province |
Baba Sahib, in his 60s, sat at the edge of a shrine, surrounded by stacks of amulets, charts with Arabic verses and photocopies of what he called "talismans for all problems".
Traditional healers are much-revered in the deeply conservative countryside, where illiteracy remains rampant.
Several decades of war have destroyed infrastructure in Afghanistan, with rural denizens having little or no access to conventional health services.
Many are forced to rely on healers for a variety of problems -- from debilitating maladies and infertility to finding stolen items and uniting lost lovers. Frequently help is sought despite warnings by religious clerics that such practices are at odds with Islamic doctrines.
Since the 2001 US-led invasion that toppled the Taliban government, the United States and other foreign donors have invested millions of dollars in Afghanistan's public health system.
But most government hospitals are still bedevilled by poor quality of care, scarcity of equipment and pervasive corruption.
As the midday sun rose, a trickle of village clients called on Baba Sahib to seek remedies for health ailments, relationship issues and to ward off "evil spirits".
For a turbaned village elder who complained about a severe headache, he offered the same paper amulet he offered to another client worrying about memory loss.
"Wrap it in a white cloth and then in a red cloth, and then tuck it into your turban. Your headache will go away," Baba Sahib said.
The elder kissed the amulet and turned back, looking hopeful.
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