Monday September 20, 2010
LifeSiteNews News Briefs – Islamisn
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Compiled by Steve Jalsevac
ISLAM
The Muslim Next Door – American Thinker
Fifteen months ago, a moving van pulled in next door. A man came out of the house. I crossed the yard to introduce myself and welcome him to the neighborhood. He looked Middle Eastern and spoke with a slight accent. (My automatic profiling instinct concluded “possible Muslim.”) He called his wife, “Noor,” to come outside
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/the_muslim_next_door.html
Catholic Cardinal: “I Cannot Say, ‘Don’t Embrace The Qur’an’” – CNS
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Catholic archbishop emeritus of Washington, told CNSNews.com that if “someone sees the Gospel as the truth of God’s presence in our world, that person should embrace the Gospel.” He also said that if a person “sees the Qu’ran as proof of God’s presence in the world, then I cannot say, ‘Don’t embrace the Qu’ran.’”
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/72393
Muslims will become majority in Europe, senior Vatican official warns – Telegraph
European Christians must have more children or face the prospect of the continent becoming Islamised, a senior Vatican official has said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7986528/Muslims-will-become-majority-in-Europe-senior-Vatican-official-warns.html
Catholic priest urges European Christians to fight off Islam by having babies – New York Daily News
Father Piero Gheddo, an Italian missionary priest, said Wednesday he believes a declining birth rate among Europeans combined with a rising tide of Muslim immigrants could mean that Islam will soon dominate Europe
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/09/08/2010-09-08_catholic_priest_urges_european_christians_to_fight_off_islam_by_having_babies.html?print=1&page=all
ISLAMISM
Video – Mosque Shock: School Rocked by Field Trip Vid of Kids Bowing to Allah
The video was taken inside the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center – Boston’s controversial Saudi-funded mega-mosque – during a Wellesley Middle School social studies trip to the mosque, ostensibly taken to learn about the history of Islam first-hand. Yet the video reveals that the students are being blatantly mis-educated about Islam. When the mosque first opened in 2009, the organization wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe accusing the mosque’s leaders of being extremists, linking them to groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
Some of the young boys can be seen prostrating to Allah while shoulder-to-shoulder with Muslim men. However, only male students were given the opportunity to participate — the female students and female chaperons had to watch from a distance:
https://www.theblaze.com/stories/mosque-shock-school-rocked-by-field-trip-vid-of-kids-bowing-to-allah/
Conflicting Information about Mosque School Trip
News of sixth grade boys praying to Allah on a public-school field trip to a mosque this spring in Wellesley, Massachusetts broke yesterday (see the video here). And now, the statements of the school‘s superintendent and the mosque’s leader aren’t adding up, according to conversations with the video’s producer and an Islamic expert.
https://www.theblaze.com/stories/conflicting-statements-abound-in-mosque-prayer-shocker/
Video – Raging, Hating Islamists Confront Pope Benedict/Crowd
Chant “Burn Benedict burn”
https://en.gloria.tv/?media=99441
The Shariah Threat to America – American Thinker
Under shariah, Muslim unbelievers are labeled apostates and warned to repent; if they do not, they are murdered. Non-Muslims, called infidels, are given the following choices: convert, agree to live under an apartheid-like system as a subjugated second-class resident called ahl al-dhimma, or be prepared for the violent death of jihad.
FACT ONE: The shariah doctrine which calls for the murder of apostates and jihad against the infidels is not some perversion of a peaceful Islamic law.
FACT TWO: U.S. law enforcement, intelligence, military, and political authorities have not as of yet conducted a serious study and analysis of shariah as the common enemy threat doctrine.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/the_shariah_threat_to_america.html
Muslim Mob Attacks A Church, Other Muslims Help Repair It
In a rare gesture of religious co-existence, a group of Muslims repainted and repaired the church attacked in Punjab amid rumors of Qur’an desecration in the United States. “The Muslim community themselves came and whitewashed the church, repairing everything that was burned,” says an official of the Catholic Church in Punjab. The group also replaced the doors, ceiling fans and bought new benches for the church, according to Father Peter Kavumpuram, public relations officer of Jalandhar diocese.
https://www.persecution.org/2010/09/16/muslim-mob-attacks-a-church-other-muslims-help-repair-it/
Officials Awaken to Forced Marriage, Conversion of Pakistani Girls
Christian girls throughout the Islamic world are being abducted and trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation and coerced into domestic servitude. Equally shocking is that Muslim men are offered financial incentives when they marry a Christian girl – a technique designed by Islamic fundamentalists to convert young girls to Islam forcefully. Recent investigations have revealed frightening information exposing the criminal phenomenon of forced Islamization of Christian girls which is occurring on an alarming scale. Most forced marriages are accompanied by physical abuse and sexual violence.
https://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/11638059/
France’s Senate Passes Ban on Burqa and Niqab
https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2010/09/frances-senate-passes-ban-on-burqa-and.html
UK Islamist Says Like-minded U.S. Groups Expanding
Anjam Choudary, a British radical Islamist, says the influence of radical Muslims is expanding in America where “…they are calling for jihad on the strees of New York”
https://www.persecution.org/2010/09/07/interview-uk-islamist-says-like-minded-u-s-groups-expanding/
U.K.: Muslim parents arrested for honor killing of daughter who balked at arranged marriage to cousin– Jihad Watch
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/09/uk-muslim-parents-arrested-for-honor-killing-of-daughter-who-balked-at-arranged-marriage-to-cousin.html
What is moderate Islam? WSJ panelists mostly have no clue – Jihad Watch
For the moment, there does not seem to be much prospect of a moderate Islam in the Muslim world. This is partly because in the prevailing atmosphere the expression of moderate ideas can be dangerous–even life-threatening. Radical groups like al Qaeda and the Taliban, the likes of which in earlier times were at most minor and marginal, have acquired a powerful and even a dominant position.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/09/the-wsj-asked-anwar-ibrahim.html
Iran’s revenge: Syria and Hizballah join to sink Israeli warships – Debka
https://www.debka.com/article/9011/
Waters Diverted, Christian Village Flooded On Purpose
https://www.persecution.org/2010/08/31/waters-diverted-christian-village-flooded-on-purpose/
US Intel: Tehran pushes Hizballah hard to attack Israel – Debka
https://www.debka.com/article/9002/
The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage by Michelle Malkin – Human Events
https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38938
OBAMA AND ISLAM
Pakistani plea: Make Obama Supreme leader of Muslims – WorldNetDaily
Prez urged to offer Eid prayers at WTC site on 9/11 anniversary. The newspaper reported Durrani called its offices and argued the Muslim world was in “dire need” of a supreme leader and that the position would earn Obama the exemplary titles of what Durrani termed “Mullah Barrack Hussain (sic) Obama,” or “Allama Obama.”
https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=201385
Obama Prays, “Allah is Supreme” – Eagle Forum
Rush Limbaugh reminded us of Obama’s statement quoted in the New York Times that the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth” and that he recited it with a first-rate Arabic accent. The translation of the prayer call is “Allah is supreme. Allah is supreme. Allah is supreme. I witness that there is no god but Allah.”
https://www.eagleforum.org/column/2010/aug10/10-08-27.html
GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
A Muslim Against the Ground Zero Mosque
The mosque at Ground Zero, if constructed, will become a permanent liability for Americans — and for American Muslims even more.
https://www.aina.org/news/2010091014559.htm
The Real Moderate Islam: Media Ignore Muslim Opposition to Ground Zero Mosque
To hear the network news shows report it, much of the opposition to the Ground Zero mosque stems from a fear of Islam. But in reality, there are many prominent Muslims who have spoken out against the location of the Ground Zero mosque – only to be ignored by the evening news shows.
During the past month, the evening news programs on ABC, NBC and CBS have featured quotes from Muslim Ground Zero supporters nine times, many of whom described opposition to the mosque as “bigoted” or “Islamophobic.” In contrast, from July 22 to Aug. 22 only one evening show gave air time to a Muslim who is opposed to the Ground Zero project. Critics of the mosque such as first Muslim Miss USA, Dr. Zhudi Jasser and the director of Al-Arabiya were ignored by the news shows. Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah, two Canadian Muslim Congress board members, wrote a column for the Ottowa Citizen arguing that the Ground Zero mosque was deliberately provocative.
https://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2010/20100824153049.aspx
Imam: Handling of Islamic center plan a matter of national security – CNN
The religious leader behind plans to build an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York’s ground zero said Wednesday night that America’s national security depends on how it handles the controversy. “If we move from that location, the story will be the radicals have taken over the discourse,” Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on “Larry King Live.” “The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack.” But some critics decried his assessment.
https://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/09/new.york.islamic.center.imam/index.html?hpt=T1
Tax dollars for Ground Zero Imam by Jason Mattera – Human Events
You and I are funding the State Department to purchase and distribute copies of Feisal Abdul Rauf’s book, What’s Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West. Only in the left’s strange world does it make sense to support Imam Rauf as a goodwill spokesman for the United States while he’s busy trashing the United States. They’re promoting a book that faults America for stirring up conflict with Muslims, brags that America is “Sharia compliant,” and makes excuses for suicide bombings.
https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38691
Who Is The Man Behind The Ground Zero Mosque? – CBS
Developer Of Community Center Has Lengthy Record, With Numerous Arrests Dating Back To 1990
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/30/who-is-the-man-behind-the-ground-zero-mosque/
Mega-mosque imam skips court date for squalid slums he owns in New Jersey, while his lawyer reminds us Union City’s “worst landlord” is a “man of peace” – Jihad Watch
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/09/mega-mosque-imam-skips-court-date-for-squalid-slums-he-owns-in-jersey-while-his-lawyer-reminds-us-un.html
Profile: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the NYC Islamic center – CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/08/imam.feisal.abdul.rauf.profile/index.html
Ground Zero Mosque Developer: Mosque Could Accommodate 1,000 Worshippers – Weekly Standard
https://weeklystandard.com/blogs/ground-zero-mosque-developer-mosque-could-accommodate-1000
Ground Zero mega-mosque Imam Rauf boasts that he wrote Obama’s June 2009 Cairo speech – Jihad Watch
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/08/ground-zero-mega-mosque-imam-rauf-boasts-that-he-wrote-obamas-june-2009-cairo-speech.html
Is This Why Bloomberg Champions Ground Zero Mosque? – WorldNetDaily
Some critics are questioning whether Bloomberg’s unpopular decision to back the controversial mosque project may be colored by his billion-dollar financial software, news and data company’s decision to build a hub in the United Arab Emirates and North Africa. “When his company is doing poorly worldwide except in the Middle East, it couldn’t have been hard for Bloomberg to see on which side his bread was buttered,” Spencer charged.
https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=197833
Ron Paul Backs “Ground Zero Mosque,” Splitting with Son Rand – CBS
https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014453-503544.html
Archbishop Dolan and Gov. Paterson have ‘productive conversation’ about NYC mosque – CNA
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-dolan-and-gov.-paterson-had-productive-conversation-about-nyc-mosque/