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- Soeren Kern: France: New
Anti-Terrorism Law Takes Effect
- Judith Bergman: Surprise! Study
Shows Islamic Terrorism is Islamic
by Soeren Kern • October 31, 2017
at 5:00 am
- The new law
authorizes prefects to order the closure of mosques or other
places of worship for a period of up to six months if
preachers are deemed to express "ideas or theories"
that "incite violence, hatred or discrimination, provoke
the commission of acts of terrorism or express praise for such
acts."
- French police and
intelligence services are surveilling around 15,000 jihadists
living on French soil, Le Journal du Dimanche reported
on October 9. Of these, some 4,000 are at "the top of the
spectrum" and most likely to carry out an attack.
- Of the 1,900 French
jihadists fighting with the Islamic State, as many as
one-fifth have received as much as €500,000 ($580,000) in
social welfare payments from the French state, Le Figaro
revealed on October 26.
Pictured:
Police patrol the Champs-Élysées in Paris after a terrorist attack
on April 21, 2017, in which one police officer was killed and
another wounded. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron has formally signed
a new counter-terrorism law which gives prefects, police and
security forces wide-ranging powers — without the need to seek
prior approval from a judge — to search homes, place people under
house arrest and close places of worship. The measure also
authorizes police to perform identity checks at French borders.
The new law, adopted by the French Senate on October
18, makes permanent many of the previously exceptional measures
imposed under a two-year-old state of emergency, which was
introduced after the jihadist attacks in Paris in November 2015.
That state of emergency was slated to expire on November 1.
by Judith Bergman • October 31,
2017 at 4:00 am
- Although the
internet evidently did play a role in the radicalization
process, the study showed that face-to-face encounters were
more important, and that dawa, the proselytizing of
Islam, played a central role in this process, as the men
themselves became missionaries for Islam.
- The third factor was
the establishment of a "them and us" distinction
between the radicalized men and the rest of the world,
especially the belief that the West is an enemy of the Muslim
world. The distinction also involved a rejection of democracy
and a commitment to the establishment of a caliphate governed
by sharia law, which the men want to bring about either
through dawa (proselytizing) or violence (jihad).
- "The Islamic
State is a byproduct of Al Azhar's programs. So can Al Azhar
denounce itself as un-Islamic? Al Azhar says there must be a
caliphate and that it is an obligation for the Muslim world.
Al Azhar teaches the law of apostasy and killing the apostate.
Al Azhar is hostile towards religious minorities, and teaches
things like not building churches, etc. Al Azhar upholds the
institution of jizya [extracting tribute from
non-Muslims]. Al Azhar teaches stoning people. So can Al Azhar
denounce itself as un-Islamic?" — Sheikh Muhammad
Abdullah Nasr, scholar of Islamic law, graduate of Egypt's Al
Azhar University, explaining why it refused to denounce ISIS
as un-Islamic, 2015.
In 2015,
Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt -- a prestigious institution
that educates mainstream Islamic scholars -- refused to denounce
ISIS as un-Islamic. (Image source: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons)
Western leaders insist that Islamic terrorism has
nothing to do with Islam. Evidence to the contrary appeared again
this week from Mohamad Jamal Khweis, an ISIS recruit from the
United States who said in a 2016 interview with Kurdistan24,
"Our daily life was basically prayer, eating and learning
about the religion for about eight hours." Khweis was
sentenced to 20 years in prison on October 27 for providing
material support to ISIS, according to CBS News.
As early as 2001, immediately after 9/11, then-President
George W. Bush gave a speech in which he claimed that in the United
States, the terrorist acts in which over 3,000 people were killed
"violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith" and
that "Islam is peace".
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