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by Salim Mansur
• June 19, 2014 at 5:00 am
These
crises have fostered on the part of the Muslim Brotherhood and its
followers a reluctance to examine any internal causes for their malaise,
and has created a culture of denial that by now is part of the Muslim
culture and history. It makes us Muslims refuse to take responsibility
for our role in history, leading to a pathological proclivity to blame
others -- especially the Jews -- for misfortunes that are really of our
own making.
The idea
that the sins of one generation, or one individual, might be visited upon
another is explicitly rejected in the Quran by the following words:
"And no bearer of burdens shall be made to bear another's
burdens." [35:18] Muslims who accept the idea of abrogation use this
for their own narrow, or bigoted, interests that neither their own logic
not the universal message of the Quran warrants.
Just as a
few drops of lemon juice curdle a bowl of milk, so Judeophobia sanctioned
by the Quran and the Prophet would mean that Islam as a religion of mercy
is a falsehood. Mercy is, in fact, the most important of the many
attributes of Allah (God) referred to by Muslims. That Islamists have
proven to be most unmerciful illustrates just how far they have strayed
from God's message as revealed in the Quran.
Islamists
have shredded their "thin veneer of Islam" and displayed their
"jihad" as a neo-pagan belief in a capricious tribal god
governing a cult of violence. It was from such a pagan belief that
Muhammad sought to lift the Arabs of the desert by having Islam bear the
universal message of belief in one God, merciful and compassionate; but
it is precisely this pagan cult of tribal violence that Islamists have
resurrected or which , it might be said, they never really renounced.
The
role of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, as Hitler's
collaborator in importing European anti-Semitism into the Middle East, is
well documented.
"In Islamic society hostility to the Jew is
non-theological." — Bernard Lewis, The Jews of Islam.
The contemporary resurgence of post-Shoah anti-Semitism in
Europe is an indisputable reality.1 It rides on, or is fuelled
by, the even more menacing spread of global Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism
– driven by anti-Jew and anti-Israeli hatred, packaged as religiously
sanctioned by clerics. These include Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the
Qatar-based leader of the Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt, and the
clerically based political leadership of the Islamic Republic in Iran.
Discussing it, therefore, requires questioning to what extent it is
traceable to the Quran and the life of Muhammad, and to what extent it is
imported from the West and symptomatic of the deep-seated civilizational
crisis within the Muslim world.
by Soeren Kern
• June 19, 2014 at 4:30 am
"The
challenges are in terms of giving evidence, particularly where the
perpetrators may be those who are close to them i.e. family members, and
the coercion and pressure that they may be subjected to in terms of withdrawing
[the complaint]." — Aisha Gill, University of Roehampton.
The number
of children who called ChildLine (free, 24-hour phone counselling for
young people) over concerns that they could be forced into marriage
nearly tripled in 2013. About one-quarter of those who contacted
ChildLine were aged 12 to 15.
"Families
pay bounty hunters [to track down the victims of forced marriage who try
to run away]. We have cases where the family paid more than £100,000
[€125,000; $170,000] to track someone down and kill them." — Diana
Nammi, Director of the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organization
(representing women from the Middle East, North Africa and south Asia).
An
image from the video "Right to choose: Spotting the signs of forced
marriage - Nayana", produced by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth
Office.
A new law has come into effect in England and Wales that makes it a
crime to force people into an unwanted marriage.
Advocates of the law say it represents a benchmark shift in thinking
because—after decades of kowtowing to multicultural sensitivities—British
policymakers now view forced marriage as a gross violation of human
rights rather than a socially acceptable cultural difference. They also
say the law will create a deterrent effect because many perpetrators will
fear criminal prosecution.
Skeptics counter that the new law is retrograde and will drive
victims underground due to fears that family members will be criminalized
and sent to prison.
The new law, which entered into effect on June 16, makes forced
marriage a self-standing criminal offense in England and Wales (the law
does not extend to Northern Ireland and will be introduced in Scotland at
a later date) and is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
by Denis MacEoin
• June 19, 2014 at 4:00 am
The
"Muslim patrols" that try to take over a borough of London and
impose Shari'a law on non-Muslims give Westerners the sense that we are
not wanted in our own country.
Some
Muslims may want to restrict the lives of women. But should we actually
be encouraging such behaviour?
British
Muslims, many waving the black flag of jihad, hurl insults and abuse at
soldiers returning from Afghanistan in 2010, in London.
There are between 44 and 56 million Muslims in Europe. About 19
million, or 3.7%, live in the 27 countries of the European Union, which
has an overall population of over 503 million. A mere 2.5 million Muslims
live in the United States, much the same as in the UK. These numbers are
not in themselves a problem, but when incomers fail or refuse to
integrate, friction and divisions split the society. In my youth in
Northern Ireland, it was unthinkable for a Catholic to marry a Protestant
or vice versa. Today, only about 10% of marriages are mixed. There is
still a long way to go, but the ban on mixed marriages, like the
insistence on separate schooling (which continues), contributed to a
fragmented society that erupted in violence in 1968 and through the long
years of "the Troubles" that followed.
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