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by Denis MacEoin
• August 3, 2016 at 5:30 am
- The West that
jihadists now terrorize has allowed itself to be weakened. A
combination of political correctness, fear of giving offense, fear
of combat, and a reluctance to upset illusory stability has led to
an incredible series of opportunities for the jihadists.
- We have dropped
our guard and turned away. Not because we have no security forces.
We do. But because we often are not looking at the right things: the
texts and sermons that prefigure radicalisation.
- "[T]he
Noble Quran appoints the Muslims as guardians over humanity in its
minority, and grants them the rights of suzerainty and dominion over
the world in order to carry out this sublime commission. ... We have
come to the conclusion that it is our duty to establish sovereignty
over the world and to guide all of humanity to the sound precepts of
Islam and to its teachings..." — Hassan al-Banna, founder of
the Muslim Brotherhood.
Pope Francis (right), recently said that "I am
not speaking of a war of religions. Religions don't want war," and
"I believe that it's not fair to identify Islam with violence. It's
not fair and it's not true." Hassan al-Banna (left), founder of the
Muslim Brotherhood, wrote that "the Noble Quran appoints the Muslims
as guardians over humanity in its minority, and grants them the rights of
suzerainty and dominion over the world in order to carry out this sublime
commission."
On the morning of July 26, a priest serving mass, an elderly man of
85, Father Jacques Hamel, was butchered before his altar by one of two
knife-wielding devotees of the Islamic State. His killer slit his throat
and might very well have proceeded to behead him, as is the wont of many
jihadi executioners. The followers of a faith that honours murderers as
martyrs (shuhada') created a martyr for quite another faith.
In both Greek and Arabic, the terms "martyr" and shahid
mean exactly the same thing: "a witness". Father Hamel was the
latest in a long line of Christian martyrs who have been slain by men of
violence, supposedly in order to attest to the sole truth of their faith.
Many Muslim martyrs have died in much that way, but even more have given
their lives while waging war (jihad) to conquer territories for Islam.[1]
by Lubna Thomas Benjamin
• August 3, 2016 at 4:00 am
- "I believe
in Jesus Christ who died on the cross for the sins of mankind. What
did your Prophet Mohammed ever do to save mankind?" — Asia
Bibi, the words for which she is on death row, for
"blasphemy."
- Mobs attacking
blasphemy victims in Pakistan know that nothing will happen to them.
- According to a
recent report, "Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan" published by
the Center for Research and Security Studies, 247 blasphemy cases
were registered between 1987 and 2012; 52 of the people involved
were killed extrajudicially.
- The history of
Pakistan is filled with hatred and intolerance toward the people who
raise their voices against the blasphemy laws: Salman Taseer, the
former governor of Punjab Province, and Shahbaz Bhatti, the federal
Minister of Minority Affairs, were murdered for supporting Asia Bibi
and protesting the blasphemy laws.
Asia Bibi and two of her five children, pictured prior
to her imprisonment on death row in 2010 for "blasphemy."
For the first time since her arrest in 2009, Asia Bibi saw a sign of
hope on July 22, when the Supreme Court of Pakistan gave her permission
to appeal the death sentence she was served twice: first by the High
Court in 2010 and again in 2014. She is, however, still waiting for
justice.
Asia Bibi, 50, and a mother of five, was accused of blasphemy in
June 2009 by her coworkers in a dispute over bowl of water. They told her
that, as she is a Christian, she could not drink water from the same bowl
as they were. The argument that ensued led to an angry mob assaulting
her, and her arrest on the charge of "blasphemy" -- that she
allegedly had uttered derogatory remarks about the Islamic Prophet
Mohammad.
Bibi became the first woman to be sentenced to death for blasphemy
in Pakistan. Since her arrest, her family has also faced threats which
have forced them to move to an undisclosed location.
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