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by Nonie Darwish
• January 31, 2017 at 6:00 am
- The interviewer
seemed shocked to hear that I do not have any Arab or Muslim friends
who are protesting President Trump's ban, and that many immigrants of
Islamic origin support the ban and are fed up and embarrassed by what
jihadists are doing.
- The lesson
America needs to know is that the West is not doing Muslims a favor by
constantly treating them as children who should be shielded from
reality. They hungry for the truth: that their educational system and
mosque preaching are full of incitement, are abhorrent, hate-filled
and the foundation upon which violent jihad is built.
- Muslims need to
know that the world does indeed have a justifiable and legitimate
concern about Islam and actions done in the name of Islam by Muslims.
- Muslims need to
look at themselves in the mirror and see the world from the point of
view of their victims. Instead, the West is sacrificing its culture,
values, laws, pride and even self-respect.
- It might
compassion that leads the West to take in millions of Muslim refugees
but it is reckless compassion. Do Westerners question the motivation
of Islamic theocracies as to why ultra-rich Arab nations are sending
us their refugees but taking in none?
- Some "tough
love" is urgently needed if Muslims are to be motivated to change
and reform.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order
restricting immigration, January 27, 2017. (Image source: Reuters video
screenshot)
Early this morning an Arabic radio station in the Middle East called
asking my opinion about President Trump's ban on refugees and citizens of
seven Muslim nations. The radio host, who sounded angry over the ban, was a
Christian Arab. She was surprised to hear that I supported the ban and
think that it should have taken place the day after 9/11.
She then asked me if I knew any Arab American activist who was against
the ban because she wanted to interview someone against the ban. She seemed
shocked to hear that I do not have any Arab or Muslim friends who are
protesting the ban, and that many immigrants of Islamic and Middle East
origin support the ban and are fed up and embarrassed by what jihadists are
doing.
by Thomas Quiggin
• January 31, 2017 at 5:00 am
- The 2008 Holy
Land Relief terrorism funding criminal trial resulted in multiple
convictions and was touted as the one of the largest terrorism
financing trials in American history. Expectations were high that the
2008 trial would be followed by further trials involving the listed
unindicted co-conspirators such as CAIR USA and the Islamic Society of
North America.
- However, with the
appointment of Eric Holder as the U.S. Attorney General in 2009, all
further actions on this file appear to have been frozen. Holder would
later speak at a conference supporting one of the unindicted
co-conspirators.
- It is not clear
if the ongoing criminal investigation focuses only on those
individuals leading IRFAN at the time of its delisting as a charity
and listing as a terrorism entity, or if the investigation also
includes those who helped found IRFAN. This may be an important
distinction, as the Canada Revenue Agency stated that IRFAN was
deliberately created and designed to circumvent Canadian
terrorism-funding rules.
- It appears
possible that the Trump Administration will crack down on Islamist
extremist groups in the USA. This would likely have a spill-over
effect into Canada and Europe, though greater attention to border
security and issues of funding terrorism.
The emblem of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its founder,
Hassan al-Banna.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz last week submitted legislation to designated
the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization.
Cruz (R-TX) earlier had a bill in the Senate which would not only ban
the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. but also three of its front groups:
Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) USA, Islamic Society of North
America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). These
American-based front groups have corresponding chapters or organizations in
Canada as well.
by Denis MacEoin
• January 31, 2017 at 4:30 am
- Secularism may be
accepted in a Christian society but it can never enjoy a general
acceptance in an Islamic society." — Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
- The acceptance of
a legislation formulated by humans means a preference of the humans'
limited knowledge and experiences to the divine guidance: "Say!
Do you know better than Allah?" (2:140).... For this reason, the
call for secularism among Muslims is atheism and a rejection of Islam.
Its acceptance as a basis for rule in place of Shari'ah is downright
riddah [apostasy]...." — Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
- We Muslims
believe that Allah is the sole Creator and Sustainer of the Worlds....
If they do not [observe His injunctions and to judge according to
them], then they commit kufr [unbelief], aggression, and
transgression." — Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
- There have never
been any effective democracies in the Islamic world.
- The idea that
human beings can replace God as legislators is obnoxious to classical
Islamic thought and to modern Islamist convictions. Men and women do
not choose how to live: God has been there first.
- Several of the
ECFR's own pronouncements indicate an unwillingness to compromise with
European norms.
- "The
Shari'ah is for all times to come, equally valid under all
circumstances. The Muslim insistence on the immutability of the
Shari'ah is highly puzzling to many people, but any other view would
be inconsistent with its basic concept." — Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Image source: MEMRI video screenshot)
The European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR) plays an important
role in the Fiqh al-'Aqalliyyat ("Jurisprudence for
Minorities") world. It is now based in Dublin, having been founded in
London in 1999 by the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe. Apart
from issuing fatwas (principally those of leading Muslim Brotherhood
ideologue, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi), it aims to supervise the education in
Europe of local imams, to bring together Muslim scholars living in Europe,
to resolve issues that arise on the continent (and UK) while operating with
strict respect for shari'a law (which implies there should be no
compromise), and to establish itself as an approved authority wherever
Muslims live as minorities. This latter aim would suggest that the ECFR
might one day possess an authority that would override that of local and
national shari'a councils, and its members would expect to be the first and
perhaps only voice to which parliaments and parliamentary bodies would lend
an ear in their deliberations on how to treat their Muslim minority
communities.
by Heshmat Alavi
• January 31, 2017 at 4:00 am
- The solution is
clear. Nearly two dozen former senior American government officials
hand-delivered a letter to President Donald Trump urging his
administration to work with the Iranian opposition: Iran's exiled
resistance, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Concessions provided to Iran by U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary
of State John Kerry were troubling, even among those who supported the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Cash from Washington to Tehran for the release of Americans held in
Iran came first. Second was Kerry advocating in Iran's favor to provide the
mullahs access to the U.S. banking system. Third came America's top
diplomat cajoling businesses to open shop in Iran.
Alongside these measures came a trend of passivity and neglect. The
Obama administration chose not to respond to Iran's missile tests, ongoing
support for terrorism, atrocious human rights record and the Syria genocide
it did nothing to stop or even alleviate.
Most recently, Iran violated yet again an obligation to limit its
heavy water storage to less than 130 metric tons. And the Ayatollahs are
continuing their production, evidently feeling good after their excess
amount was purchased by Washington.
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