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In this mailing:
- Soeren Kern: A Month of Islam
and Multiculturalism in France: June 2017
- Majid Rafizadeh: Deny the
Holocaust, but Don't Question Sharia?
- Amir Taheri: Trump Kicks the
Iranian 'Can' Down the Road
by Soeren Kern • July 23, 2017 at
5:00 am
- "I
am in fundamental disagreement with these left-wing people who
do everything to dissociate fundamentalism from Islam. Islam
has been radicalized for fifty years. On the Shiite side,
there was Imam Khomeini and his Islamic revolution. In the
Sunni world, there was Saudi Arabia, which used its immense
resources to finance the spread of this fanaticism of
Wahhabism. But this historical evolution took place within
Islam and not outside. When the people of the Islamic State
attack, they do it by saying 'Allahu Akbar.' So how can we
then say that this has nothing to do with Islam? It must be
stopped." — Sir Salman Rushdie, author of the novel The
Satanic Verses, who has been hunted to be killed by Muslim
extremists for nearly 30 years.
- Residents
of the Paris suburb of Mée-sur-Seine complained that a mosque
was blasting prayers on outdoor loudspeakers well beyond
midnight each night during Ramadan. Mourad Salah, a local
Muslim leader, said the city council was to blame for the
noise because of its failure to provide Muslims with a larger
mosque: "The ball is in the mayor's court. Until we have
a place of prayer worthy of the name, with a greater capacity,
things will be difficult."
- An
online petition — "Women: An Endangered Species in the
Heart of Paris" — accused Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo of
allowing a large swathe of the city to become a no-go zone for
women. Every night, hundreds of migrants from Africa and the
Middle East line the pavements to form an intimidating
gauntlet for women walking from the Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est
railway stations to their homes, the petition said. Shouts of
"bitch" and "dirty whore" are common.
A
policeman stands guard near Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France,
on June 6, 2017, after Farid Ikken, a 40-year-old Algerian,
attempted to murder a police officer at the site. (Photo by Pascal
Le Segretain/Getty Images)
June 1. Saber Lahmar, a 48-year-old Algerian who has
lived in Bordeaux since his release from Guantánamo Bay in 2009,
was charged with "terrorist association" and placed in
pre-trial detention. He is suspected of providing financial,
logistical and doctrinal aid to French jihadists who were planning
to travel to Iraq and Syria. Lahmar was arrested in Bosnia in 2001
after being accused of plotting to bomb the American embassy in
Sarajevo. In November 2008, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon
ordered Lahmar to be released from Guantánamo because there was
insufficient reason to hold him. In December 2009, Robert C.
Kirsch, a lawyer at the firm of WilmerHale, which represented
Lahmar in federal court, said: "We are grateful for the
courage and generosity of the French people and government, and for
the ongoing effort by President Obama... which will now give Mr.
Lahmar a chance to rebuild his life in France."
by Majid Rafizadeh • July 23,
2017 at 4:30 am
- Why
is it encouraged, even praised, to deny the unimaginable
suffering that millions went through during the Holocaust, but
if anyone dares to question Sharia their lives are in danger?
- If
you dare even to joke about Islam, your punishment can range
from torture, long terms of imprisonment, to swift death
sentences, either judicial or from mob violence.
- "They
have created a myth in the name of the Holocaust and consider
it above God, religion and the prophets," — Former
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Iranian state
television.
Former
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that his Holocaust
denial was his biggest achievement. Pictured: Then-President
Ahmadinejad speaks at Columbia University in New York City, on
September 24, 2007. (Photo by Stephen Chernin-Pool/Getty Images)
If you grew up between Iran and Syria, as I did, you
would have lived underneath the iron rule of dictators such as
Bashar Assad, Ayatollah Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani. In addition to the fear and oppression they
maintained over their people, all of these rulers appeared to have
another "tradition" in common They are all deny the
Holocaust.
It was common to hear from whoever worked for the
Iranian regime that the Holocaust did not exist. Despite the
mountain of clear facts before them, they chose, and continue to
choose, not only to believe that the Holocaust was a fabrication,
but to spread this belief to their people.
by Amir Taheri • July 23, 2017 at
4:00 am
Then US
Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Iranian Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2014,
during negotiations that led to the drafting of the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). (Image source: US State
Department)
Over the past six months, in one way or another,
President Donald Trump has kicked several of the cans inherited
from Barack Obama down the road.
After several attempts at abolishing it, the
so-called Obamacare has been kicked into legislative oblivion. Obama's
policy of courting the Castro brothers has been slightly modified
but not scrapped. The Paris Climate Accord has been verbally
dismissed but not definitely buried, if only because it won't
become binding until 2020.
The latest can to be kicked down the road is the
so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the curious
press release which enumerates things that Iran must do about its
controversial nuclear project in exchange for the temporary
suspension of sanctions.
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