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Showing posts with label devout. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Islam - Current Day > Forcible Conversions; Temple Becomes Mosque - Pakistan

Muslims Forcibly Convert 102 Hindus to Islam
and Convert Their Temple into a Mosque
BY FAISAL MALIK

Muslims in Pakistan continue to subjugate minorities; recently they have converted 102 Hindus, men, women and children, to Islam in forced conversions. The Hindus were converted in a town called Golarchi in the Sindh district. Furthermore, the Hindu temple was converted into a mosque and all the idols were destroyed, in order to demonstrate to the Hindus that they are inferior. As the Koran states, it’s the Muslims’ religious duty to get rid of “fitnah” (Surah 8:39), which is “affliction,” “conflict,” or “strife”.

It appears they interpret that as being the authority to abolish all non-Muslim religions.

All of these barbaric practices and the Islamic aim of global domination originates from the Koran and its hatred of non-Muslims. In the past, Jihadis such as Aurangzeb conquered and enslaved Hindus. A great book to read on this subject is Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. The Koran repeatedly states that non-Muslims are the worst of creatures (8:55 and 98:6). The Koran states that Muslims have to “kill the polytheists wherever you find them’’ (9:5). The only way religious groups such as Hindus, Sikhs and others who believe in multiple Gods can live securely in an Islamic state is through conversion to Islam. If they reject an invitation to convert to Islam, then the penalty is death. This is unlike the situation of the People of the Book, such as Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians: polytheists are not given the option of paying the jizya. They only have one option, to convert or face the Islamic zulfiqar (sword) and be beheaded.

Kill or subjugate non-Muslims

Moreover, Islam also commands that Muslims wage war against those who worship idols, because they are the “allies of Satan” (4:76). The message of domination and tyranny within Islam is quite clear. Muslims have to ensure that Islam prevails and that “fitnah” is destroyed. Muslims are rewarded for killing disbelievers, as it is an act of “sunnah,” accepted practice as established by the Koran and the teachings of Mohammed. The aim of Jihad is very clear: its goal is to kill or subjugate anyone who is considered to be opposed to the will of Allah.

Imran Khan 

Meanwhile, in the case of mass conversion and the rape of religious minorities that is all too often perpetrated by Muslims, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been silent. He is a terrorist sympathiser himself: he was allied with the notorious Taliban and referred to Osama bin Laden as a “martyr”. In addition, Imran is also gradually preparing the Pakistani Jihadis to infiltrate and destroy India, in order to complete Mohammed’s prophecy of Ghazwa -E-Hind. Imran Khan supports terrorism himself, but is enraged about heroic freedom fighters such as Geert Wilders drawing a cartoon of Mohammed; Imran is trying to enforce blasphemy laws in Europe. The mentality of the Jihadi is never to compromise in working to fulfill Islam’s aim of global Jihad in order to impose Sharia everywhere. The forced mass conversion of Hindus and other religious minorities is horrific, yet none of the international mainstream media will focus upon or even highlight this barbaric issue, because of political correctness. They don’t want to appear ‘’Islamophobic’’, so there is no outrage against this Jihad.

Pakistan, and some neighbouring areas, are full of devout Muslims who can be triggered into radicalism, and terrorism, at the drop of a hat. There are so many stories on this blog as well as my Child Sex Abuse blog, documenting the madness of Muslims in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in South Asia. 


Monday, September 19, 2016

Quarter of French Muslims Favor Ultra-Conservative Form of Islam

Being an 'ultra-conservative' Muslim most likely indicates that you are easily radicalized. This is not good news for France especially considering the most conservative (read devout) Muslims are under 25. As has been found in Britain, the younger generation Muslims are more devout than their parents. Will this hold true for the next generation? What a scary thought! 

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More than a quarter of French Muslims, mostly aged under 25, support an ultra-conservative form of Islam, including the wearing of the full-face veil, a new survey shows. The majority of people who identify as Muslim support strict French secular laws, however.

The survey of 1,029 people was commissioned by Ifop, and carried out by a liberal think tank, Institut Montaigne.

At least 60 percent of the respondents said girls should be allowed to wear the headscarf in school and college, the survey published exclusively in Le Journal du Dimanche (LJD) weekly found.

Twelve years after headscarves and other religious symbols were forbidden in classrooms, the ban no longer seems to convince Muslims in France, the LJD reported.

Outside of school, 65 percent are in favor of wearing headscarves, and 24 percent support the wearing of full-face veils – the burqa or niqab – banned in public since 2010.

Another finding is that women seem to be more in favor of veils being worn in public than men: only 18 percent of women reject niqabs, against 26 percent of men.

The survey showed that contrary to common stereotypes, French Muslim women are actually more conservative than men. For instance, 56 percent of women said they would agree to attend a mixed swimming pool, compared to 75 percent of men. Eighty-five percent of Muslim women would agree to be treated by a doctor of the opposite sex, compared to 97 percent of men.

Researchers divided French Muslims into three main categories: "completely secular" (46 percent); "proudly Muslim" (25 percent), those who want a greater role for their religion in the workplace, but oppose the burqa and polygamy; and “the ultras” (28 percent), composed of mostly young (50 percent of those said to be younger than 25 years old), “low-skilled,” “inactive and precarious” individuals living on the margins of society. An alarming sign, according to the study’s authors, is that this is a generation effect that does not fade with maturity.

The survey, carried out between April 13 and May 23 this year, also showed that although most of the respondents consider their religion to play an important role in their lives, a third of the Muslims never actually make it to mosques, with only 29 percent attending their mosque on a weekly basis.

France has Western Europe's biggest Muslim population. The study authors estimated the number of French people who identify as Muslim to be smaller than thought, at between 3 and 4 million (5.6 percent of the population aged over 15 and 10 percent of people under 25, according to Ifop).

Can we assume from those numbers that the Muslim population in France has nearly doubled in one generation? If so, one more generation will see close to 20% of French as Muslim. While that may not seem like an awful lot, most Muslims are clumped together in enclaves, most of which are in Paris. 

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhardt Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century. 

Dr Peter Hammond's research, revealed in his book Slavery, Terrorism and Islam, documents the general tendencies of growing Muslim populations in European countries. He writes:

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections.

After reaching 20% (Muslim population), nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues.

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare

These may lean to the conservative since we are seeing these things happen in France and Belgium already. 24% of the population of Brussels is Muslim, many of whom danced in the streets after the attack that killed 32 and injured many more in March of this year. 

In Paris, the Muslim population on the Ile-de-France is closing in on 15%. It is probably higher in some sectors.

What will Europe be like in 12 years when it is 25% Muslim? It won't be fit to live in. And that's in my life-time. What of our daughters and granddaughters just being born? Will they learn to love being invisible under the veil?

Passions have been running high on the beaches of French towns that have introduced the controversial ‘burkini’ ban. Last month, Cannes Mayor David Lisnard ruled that burkinis, a special Muslim swimsuit that covers the entire body, should be banned on the city’s beaches. Public reaction has been divided, with some accusing police of using “Nazi” tactics, and others supporting the move.

At the beginning of August, a “burkini pool party” was canceled in Marseille after the event received threatening comments on social networks. Some of the organizers even reportedly received death threats.

Tensions escalated in France after a number of terrorist attacks rocked the country during the summer.

In late July, two attackers stormed into a church in northern France and slit the throat of an 86-year-old priest, while taking several people hostage.

On Bastille Day in mid-July, a truck plowed through a crowd in Nice, leaving 85 people dead and hundreds injured.

Monday, December 7, 2015

'We feel ashamed': Pakistani Relatives of California Shooter

Pakistani woman Tashfeen Malik, 29, and her husband Syed Farook, 28, gunned down 14 people at a social services centre in San Bernardino, an act praised by Daesh
The happy newlyweds arriving LAX  FBI.Image Credit: AP
Gulf News - Pakistan
KAROR LAL ESAN, Pakistan: Estranged relatives of a Pakistani woman involved in a mass shooting in California spoke Sunday of their shame at her crimes, as former classmates and teachers painted a picture of a quiet, religiously conservative student.

Tashfeen Malik, 29, and her husband Syed Farook, 28, gunned down 14 people at a social services centre in San Bernardino, an act praised by Daesh (the self-styled Islamic State group) who hailed the couple as "soldiers" of its self-proclaimed caliphate.

"Self-styled"? Seems to me that they are a lot like Al Qaeda, Taliban, Boko Haram, and many other literal followers of Islam. They are 'styled' after Mohammed! Everything they do has been modeled by 'the prophet'.

According to her uncle Malik Ahmed Ali Aulakh, who is a former provincial minister, Tashfeen was born in the village of Karor Lal Esan in the central province of Punjab but moved to Saudia Arabia around 1989.

Tashfeen's father Gulzar Malik, an engineer, had grown distant from his family and "he never came back even to attend the marriages of close relatives", added Aulakh.

"We are ashamed and shocked about this act done by our niece - why did she do something so gruesome? We can't believe it," he told AFP.

Malik Omar Ali Aulakh, another of her uncles, added: "We have not kept in touch with Gulzar's family and he avoided contacting us."

A Pakistani intelligence agent told AFP they had conducted a search Saturday of a second family home in the region's main city of Multan, around 130 miles (200 kilometres) northwest of their ancestral village, but found nothing of interest.

An AFP reporter at the scene Sunday afternoon saw a woman wearing a black burqa and green sweater leaving the pink-and-white two-storey house located in a middle-class neighbourhood with a bearded man, both carrying luggage.

A local resident walks past the house of Gulzar Ahmed Malik, the father of
female US shooter Tashfeen Malik, iImage Credit: AFP
"This woman was part of Gulzar Ahmed Malik's family and the man with her was her maternal uncle. They were living in this house and now they have gone somewhere. I don't know where have they gone," said Zulfiqar, a resident of the area.

Devout student
The southern region of Punjab from which Tashfeen hailed has long been associated with Sufism, a mystical form of Islam whose adherents worship with song and dance, attend shrines and devote themselves to historic saints - practices viewed as heretical by more orthodox Muslims.

Indeed, according to Mohammad Jamil, a neighbour of Tashfeen's father, one of Tashfeen's uncles himself was a Sufi devotional singer.

"We don't want Muslims to do such things. Such people should be punished, must be punished," said Jamil of Tashfeen, adding: "She has dishonoured Pakistan."

Pakistan has honour to dis?

It is still not clear where Tashfeen became radicalised, but by the time she returned to Pakistan in 2007 to pursue a degree in pharmacology at the Bahauddin Zakariya University that lasted till 2013, she was devoutly religious and wore a veil, according to former instructors.

"She was not outspoken or ultra-modern but she was religious minded, polite and submissive," said Dr Khalid Hussain Janbaz, chair of the pharmacy department.

There is a dire need to explore the relationship between 'devout' and 'radicalized' Muslims. Was she devout because she was already radicalized; was she radicalized because she was devout? Is there any relationship at all?

A fellow student who requested anonymity told AFP that Malik lived in university accommodation for two years before moving into a house with her mother and another sister, also a student.

"She would often watch religious TV programmes and attended religious lectures," the student said, adding that Malik remained in touch with some of her friends via Facebook, and told one that she was pregnant.

"She preferred to remain in veil or burqa throughout her stay in the university and provided veiled pictures for all her university documents," said the student.

'Don't blame Pakistan'
Pakistan's government Sunday issued a statement condemning the attack, even as its interior minister said Islamabad could not be held responsible.

"We have contacted the US government and assured them we will provide them whatever legal assistance possible, if asked," Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told reporters in Islamabad.

But, he added: "A country or a national or a religion cannot be held responsible for a crime committed by an individual and I appreciate a wise approach adopted by the US administration on the issue."

"An individual", certainly, but 99% of terrorists are Muslim - I think that religion can be held responsible for producing them.