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Islam’s ‘Public Enemy #1? – National Review
Though he is little known in the West, Coptic priest Zakaria Botros — named Islam’s “Public Enemy #1” by the Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid — has been making waves in the Islamic world. Along with fellow missionaries — mostly Muslim converts — he appears frequently on the Arabic channel al-Hayat (i.e., “Life TV”). He has famously made of Islam “ten demands” whose radical nature he uses to highlight Islam’s own radical demands on non-Muslims.
The result? Mass conversions to Christianity — if clandestine ones. Islamic cleric Ahmad al-Qatani stated on al-Jazeera TV a while back that some six million Muslims convert to Christianity annually, many of them persuaded by Botros’s public ministry…the new media — particularly satellite TV and the Internet (the main conduits for Life TV) — have made it possible for questions about Islam to be made public without fear of reprisal. It is unprecedented to hear Muslims from around the Islamic world — even from Saudi Arabia, where imported Bibles are confiscated and burned — call into the show to argue with Botros and his colleagues, and sometimes, to accept Christ.
Ebadi says Arab-style revolt certain soon in Iran – Reuters
Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Wednesday an Arab-style popular revolt would come soon to her country, driven by poverty and the fierce oppression of critics by its Islamic rulers. The lawyer, who has been travelling around the world to urge foreign governments to freeze assets of Iranian leaders and bar them from entry, said the economic situation in her country was dire.
“Saudi Islamic Scholar Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif: The Day Is Coming When Islam Will Rule the World Again – Jihadwatch
Shocker: Australian senator gets death threats for criticism of Islam as a “totalitarian, political and religious ideology” – Jihadwatch
Former CIA chief warns: U.S. ‘at war’ with Shariah – WorldNetDaily
Tells CPAC it’s not ‘Islamophobic’ to resist spread of Muslim law. “We have to understand that we are in a war here – certainly with the terrorists; certainly with Al Qaida; certainly with Hamas and Hezbollah,” Woolsey said. “We’re also at war, with no choice of our own, with those who want to, over the long run, impose Shariah [Islamic law] upon us.
“And it is one of the toughest fights we have ever had or will have,” he continued, “because Americans are used to religious liberty and not criticizing one another’s religions.”
Among other things, Dr. Woolsey declared there is currently:
“The establishing of a world-wide caliphate-theocratic dictatorship of the world;
“The Brotherhood practices takia, or lying to infidels with grace and ease.”
“We are, with the Muslim Brotherhood and the drive for jihad, looking at something that is roughly parallel to the efforts of the communists in the 1950s and ‘60s.”
The mob & after – DavidWarrenOnline
The ayatollahs continue to imprison, torture, and hang leaders of the Iranian uprisings, but this is hardly reported.
A Frightful Democracy: The Egyptian revolution’s leaders have an illiberal agenda By Stanley Kurtz – EPPC
What if the fundamental terms of our debate over Egypt’s revolution are wrong? The leadership of the revolution is dominated by an anti-American coalition of hard-leftists and Islamists called Kefaya. Kefaya is a coalition of Communists, socialists, Islamists, and nationalists in the tradition of Egypt’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who advocated an “Arab socialism.”
The Voice of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood By Alexander Smoltczyk – Spiegel
Muslim televangelist Youssef al-Qaradawi. He says what the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt thinks. The Al-Jazeera television network has been broadcasting Qaradawi’s program “Shariah and Life” every Sunday for the past 15 years. Critics see Qaradawi’s caution as nothing but a ruse. “Caution is the watchword,” writes Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, referring to the tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood. According to Ramadan, its leaders know that “now is not the time to expose itself.”
Egypt Gets Its Khomeini By Barry Rubin – American Thinker
One of Qaradawi’s initiatives has been urging Muslims to settle in the West, of which he said, “that powerful West, which has come to rule the world, should not be left to the influence of the Jews alone.” He contends that the three major threats Muslims face are Zionism, internal integration, and globalization. To survive, he argues, Muslims must fight the Zionists, Crusaders, idolaters, and Communists. Have no doubt. It is Qaradawi, not bin Ladin, who is the most dangerous revolutionary Islamist in the world, and he is about to unleash the full force of his power and persuasion on Egypt.
The dangers of Sharia loom over Egypt’s future by Lawrence Solomon – National Post
In Egypt, the ends that democracy would bring are more likely death, submission and the pursuit of jihad, as defined by the country’s Muslim Brotherhood. Most Egyptians — three-quarters of its overwhelmingly Muslim population, public opinion polls say — want “strict imposition of Sharia law” and a larger proportion wants policies that most in the West would view as human rights abuses — 82% would stone adulterers and 84% want the death penalty for Muslims who leave their faith.
Does Genocide Await Egypt’s Copts? by Gary Bauer – Human Events
The Obama administration has repeatedly said it supports giving the Muslim Brotherhood, the Middle East’s oldest Islamic extremist movement, a seat at the table in a post-Mubarak Egyptian government. Whether Egypt is soon ruled by this terrorist group, or whether it simply descends into anarchy, it looks increasingly likely that Egypt is fast approaching a tipping point of violence against its Christians.
Egypt: 4000 Muslims chanting “Allahu akbar” torch church, attack Christian homes – Jihadwatch
“The father of the Muslim woman was killed by his cousin because he did not kill his daughter to preserve the family’s honor, which led the woman’s brother to avenge the death of his father by killing the cousin. The village Muslims blamed the Christians.” A curfew has been imposed on the 12,000 Christians in the village.
Kill all the Christians, local imam tells villagers – Voice of the Copts
A Muslim mob in a village south of Cairo last weekend attacked a church building and burned it down, almost killing the parish priest after an imam issued a call to “Kill all the Christians,” according to local sources.
Egypt’s Reformer? – National Post
Throughout the Muslim Middle East, Christians under persecution have been fleeing for decades. In some Muslim countries, the religious cleansing of Christians is near complete. The Christian population of Syria, 33% in 1920, is now down to 10%. Turkey’s 15% in 1920 is at 1% today. Iran’s Christian population is at 0.4%, Gaza’s is at 0.2%. Egypt’s Coptic Christians, though they too have been mercilessly persecuted over the decades, stand out in stark contrast.
Lies, damned lies and multiculturalism By Salim Mansur – Toronto Sun
British Islamic schools caught beating children – Jihadwatch
Will Multiculturalism End Europe? by Pat Buchanan – Townhall
Multiculturalism has “totally failed,” says German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “State multiculturalism has had disastrous results,” says Britain’s David Cameron. Is multiculturalism a failure in France? “My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure,” says President Nicolas Sarkozy. Ex-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has declared multiculturalism a failure in Spain, saying it divides and debilitates Western societies.
Only in Canada and the U.S., it seems, is the issue still in dispute. Yet these European leaders are not leading anyone. They are far behind the people, and their belated appreciation of the idea of national identity is but a product of political panic.
Time to change tune on official multiculturalism – Calgary Herald
UK: Muslims slash teacher’s face and fracture his skull “for teaching other religions to Muslim girls.” Gary Smith was not proselytizing; he was just teaching a world religions course.
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who has become symbol of violence against women in Pakistan – Asia News
Power games behind suicide of raped Christian girl – Asia News
The girl, aged 14, was raped by nine men a year ago. The police arrested a local committee to which the girl’s father had turned to seek justice. The tribal ruling provided for the payment of a sum to the family. The parish priest jailed for having mediated, rapists still at large.
Obama Administration Official Urges Cable Companies to Carry Al-Jazeera – American Thinker
AL Jazeera is filled with anti-American propaganda. It is also awash in anti-Semitism. The material broadcast stokes terror and violence.
FBI: Muslim Brotherhood deeply rooted inside U.S. – WorldNetDaily
Staff investigators with the House and Senate intelligence committees say they are probing the domestic security threat posed by the radical Muslim Brotherhood and, specifically, whether Brotherhood operatives have penetrated the U.S. government.
Shockingly, federal court documents reveal that virtually every major Muslim organization in America is a front group for the Brotherhood. They also show that its U.S. network has raised millions of dollars for Hamas, al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.
Rep. King: Radical Muslim Hearing ‘Essential’ – NewsMax
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King warns radicalization is coming from within the Muslim American community — because terror groups such as al-Qaida know it’s the best way to strike at the United States — and his upcoming hearing is absolutely essential as he will have family members testify on how their children have been turned against America.
Thomas Aquinas on Islam – CatholicVote.org
…in the case of Mohammed. He seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh goads us. His teachings also contain precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. . . he perverts almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them into fabrications of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law. It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity.