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by Peter Martino
• August 4, 2014 at 5:00 am
Immigration
has not led to integration, as the multiculturalists have wished, but to
intimidation.
It is time
to draw the line and stand with Israel against terrorism.
A
view of the apartment building in Amsterdam where Leah Rabinovitch lives.
After hanging an Israeli flag, she was subjected to stone-throwing, a
death threat and a firebombing. (Image source: AT5 News video screenshot)
When the Turkish neighbors of Leah Rabinovitch, a Jewish woman in
Amsterdam, adorned their apartment with a Palestinian flag, she did the
same with an Israeli flag. Leah lives in a neighborhood where 48% of the
population is of non-Western origin – many of them Muslims. Stones were
thrown through her windows, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at her balcony
and an anonymous letter was put in her letter box. "Hitler will be
back. Death to the Jews," it said.
by Irfan Al-Alawi
• August 4, 2014 at 4:30 am
Rather than
recognizing and naming the Wahhabi radicalism that inspires ISIS,
governments and the media across the globe have blamed the ISIS eruption
on local Iraqi politics and described it as a product of nebulous
"Sunnism."
Yet Sunni
theologians in the Ottoman Empire and India denounced Wahhabism as a form
of apostasy for its accusations that Sunni Sufi Muslims are allegedly
"apostates." Paradoxically, that is, the accusers of apostasy
were declared to be apostates.
The
wreckage of the destroyed Shrine of Jonah, in Mosul, Iraq.
On July 24, as reported by media around the world including the
London Guardian, members of the so-called "Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria" (ISIS), which now calls itself simply the
"Islamic State," blew up the tomb and shrine of the prophet
Jonah in Mosul.
Iraq's second-biggest city, Mosul has been occupied by ISIS since
the first week of June. Muslim believers were ordered to leave the shrine
before it was destroyed.
Jonah, known as Yonah in Judaism and Yunus in Islam, is a
significant figure in the theologies of all three Abrahamic religions.
The Shrine of Jonah was erected at an archeological site believed to date
from the eighth century B.C.E. [Before Common Era].
The previous day, ISIS had leveled the thirteenth century mosque of
Imam Yahya Abu al-Qassim, just west of Mosul, according to the website Iraqi
News.
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