one thing white christians will certainly never understand is that every day i swallow 90% of the things i want to say about my own community because while my criticisms are valid they also can be so easily misinterpreted and become weapons in the hands of white supremacists. and that means that important, essential discussions are not happening, or they are happening behind closed doors between people who already agree with each other, never actually furthering the debate. and this doesn’t just break my heart; it makes me blind with rage and frustration because i look around me and we are running in vicious circles. and even typing out this post i am speaking around the subject. i am not overly fond of privilege discourse but it sure is a privilege to be able to loudly and brashly talk shit about your own people. even at my angriest i can’t, i choke on the words. so i just have to sit with it. all the anger and the sadness and the love
Since the horrific killing of Samuel Paty in Conflans, the French government has been trying to revive its fortunes with a drive for national unity. But behind calls to defend free speech, the government is launching an extraordinary offensive of Islamophobia and reaction. Now the national education minister has suggested that anyone who denounces Islamophobia should be seen as part of the camp of “Islamo-leftists”, guilty of intellectual complicity with terrorism.
The murder of Samuel Paty, a history teacher at Conflans Saint Honorine school, has aroused strong emotions. Teachers have complained for years that they feel isolated and exhausted; they were profoundly shocked by the event, which only seemed to reinforce those feelings.
In the country at large, widespread horror and shock have strengthened the government’s call for national unity.
Thus Emmanuel Macron spoke of the importance of “unity” against “those who cultivate hatred of the other”, of “Islamists that would steal our future”. The president made a very ideological speech at the Sorbonne, invoking the legacy of figures like Jaurès, Victor Hugo, and Louis Pasteur: “In France… the lights [of the Enlightenment] will never go out.”
It’s important to know that hijab is banned in schools in most of the european countries, such as france, belgium, switzerland etc. Millions of girls have to take their hijab off everyday in order to have access to education, and I am one of them. Please spread this as much as possible, it has become so normal here that I feel like a fool for even mentioning it, but I’m pretty sure it goes against the human rights. This senseless law has been on since 2004 and pretends that all the students have to be “equal” and it is prohibited to show that you belong to any religion, any religious sign must be set aside. However, most of us have to take our hijab off in schools where you can clearly see a christmas tree or a christian cross. “Yeah but it’s not the same”, they say. Tell me about double standards. I pray for days when we don’t have to chose between religion and education.
This, but don’t read the notes. It’s all just French people and/or Catholics going “I’m totally not racist or antisemitic, it’s just that I think that Xmas, a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, is secular, whereas a Muslim or Jew wearing a hijab or kippah is somehow forcing their religion on me by existing in public.” LOL
{أُريت النار، فإذا أكثر أهلها النساء يكفرن قيل: أيكفرن بالله؟ قال: يكفرن العشير، ويكفرن الإحسان ، لو أحسنت إلى إحداهن الدهر ثم رأت منك شيئا قالت: ما رأيت منك خيرا قط}.
[صحيح بخاري :29ص104].
العشير: الزوج.
لا إله إلا الله … كنت أقرأ يوما في صحيح البخاري … فاستوقفني هذا الحديث … نعم … لقد أدهشني هذا الحديث … بعد ذلك … تأملت واقع بعض نساءنا فوجدت أن حالهم ينطبق عليه هذا الحديث … يا الله … لقد خشيت على والدتي من النار … لقد خشيت على أخواتي وأقاربي من النار … لقد خشيت على نساء المسلمين من النار … بعد هذا التأمل ! قرأت هذا الحديث مرّة ومرتين وثلاثة بل حفظته ، ثم نقلته لأهلي … فقلت لم لا أنقله لأخواتي المسلمات من أجل تذكيرهم ونصحهم حتى لا يكن من أهل النار …
أيتها المرأة الغالية !!
أرجوا أن تقرئي هذا الحديث الآن *
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لعلكِ فهمتي ما يقصد هذا الحديث *
أختي المسلمة / … الآن … أعيدي شريط الذكريات من المواقف التي أنكرتي فيه إحسان زوجكِ أو أبيكِ أو أحد إخوانِك …
سواء كان ذلك ( أي الجحود ) مشافهة ً معهم ** أو كان ذلك عن طريق سماعة الهاتف مع زميلاتك ** أو كان ذلك مع والدتك ، وأخواتك ** أو كان ذلك عن طريق معاملتك السيئة مع والد أو والدة زوجك ، أو أبناء إخوانك ** أو كان ذلك عن طريق التعامل السيئ مع أي فردٍ منهم ** أو أو أو … أرجوا أن تتذكري … وتتأملي في أحوالك … لا تستعجلي … لا تستعجلي … إذا تذكرتي وانتهيتي …
فأرجوا أن تعيدي قراءة حديث الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم …
أيها الغالية … أنتِ تريدين الجنة ولا شك في ذلك …
فما هي لمساتكِ بعد هذا الحديث …
أولا ً / استغفري الله وتوبي إليه ، واعلمي أن هذا دين العدل ، ودين الرحمة ، ودين المحبة … توبي إلى الله عز وجل توبة صادقة لا رجعة فيها … فيا حسرة من كانت النار مسكنها بسب جحودها لإحسان لزوجها أوإحسان غيره … نعم قد تكوني من الصالحات وقد تكوني من الداعيات لكن قد تكوني مبدعة في فن الجحود وإنكار الجميل …
ثانياً / عودي نفسك على الإحسان لزوجك مهما بدر منه ، وأيضا ربّي نفسك على عدم الجحود سواء كان ذلك لله عز وجل ، أو للزوج أو للمخلوقين … ولقد دعتني للخلاف عشيرتي.. … ..فعددت قولهم من الإضلال إني امرؤٌ فيَّ الوفـــــاء سجيـة.. … .وفعــال كل مهـذب مفضـال
ثالثاً / أشكري زوجك على أفعاله الحسنة ، وذكريه بما فات من معروفه الذي قدّمه لكِ ، أو قدّمه لأهلِك ، فالرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول( من لا يشكر الناس لا يشكر الله ) ، وأيضاً لا تنسي أبيكِ ومن له حقٌ عليكِ … ويقول الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم ( من أعطي عطاء فوجد فليجز به ، ومن لم يجد فليثن ، فإن من اثنى فقد شكر ، ومن كتم فقد كفر ، ومن تحلى بما لم يعطه كان كلابس ثوبي زور ) صححه الألباني
رابعا / إذا كان زوجك أو أحد أقاربك له صفات ذميمة ، أو تعامل سيئ ، أو أنكر لكِ جميلا فقابلي ذلك بالصبر والإحسان … فالجميل كإسمه، والمعروف كرسمه، والخير كطعمه …
خامسا ً / ابتعدي عن كثرة الجدال … لأن ذلك قد يفضي أثناء غضبك إلى الجحود والنكران … فالحبيب صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول ( أنا زعيم ببيت في ربض الجنة لمن ترك المراء وإن كان محقا ) .
سادسا / لا تتفنني في زخرفة الخيال لديك بأهمية تأديب الزوج بهذا الأسلوب… وأن الرجال لا ينفع معهم إلا ذلك … ولكن كوني امرأة صالحة منصفة …لا تجرح مشاعر زوجها ولا تنكر إحسانه …
أختي المسلمة /
بعد قراءتك وفهمك وحفظك لهذا الحديث … لا تلبسي النظارة السوداء عندما يسود الخلاف بينكما ، فما يقع فيه بعض النساء من الخلاف الطبيعي بين الزوجين يجعل بعضهن تلبس هذه النظارة فلا ترى كل شيء على كيانه …. فتجدها تخفي الحسن من أفعال ذلك الزوج ، وتظهر القبح …
و ما ينجر عليه بعض النساء من الجحود والنكران هو أن كل امرأة تبدأ تعرض لصديقاتها ذلك فتقول زوجي عصبي ( وهو إنسان له أخلاقه الحسنة لكنه غضب في أحد الأوقات ، فعلقت المرأة هذا الموقف على جميع محاسنه) .
أو أن تقول زوجي بخيل (لأنه رفض لها طلب غير مقتنع فيه أو لم يتيسر له مبلغ هذا الطلب آنذاك ومع ذلك يؤدي النفقة الواجبة واللوازم التي ينبغي أن ييسرها) . أو غير ذلك من الأمثلة حيث تعلق بعض النساء موقف سلبي في حياة الرجل على مواقفه الإيجابية في حياته كلها …
أختي المسلمة / القناعة كنز لا يفنى … فاقنعي بالقليل يأتيك الكثير ولا يملأ فم ابن آدم إلا التراب … وتذكري عاقبة الغيبة فما سمعنا ولا قرأنا في كتاب الله ولا في سنة رسول الله شيئا يبيح ويحلل غيبة الزوج أو غيبة الرجال . واعلمي أن الظلم ظلمات …
هذا ما أردت الإشارة إليه ، وإلا فمجرد قراءة هذا الحديث والتمعن فيه يكفي الكثير والكثير مما كتبت ومما لم أكتب …
علوم الفلك والتنبؤ وعلوم الأبراج ومواقع النجوم والكواكب
او ما يسمي بالعلوم الوهميه
المقطع دا مهم جداً للناس اللى مؤمنه بالابراج و علوم الابراج و الحظ و التاروت و الكلام دا و بيجبلك مبررات ان دا علم و حاجات الخزعبلات دى التى لم ينزل الله بها من شيء
خبائث الطبيعه كل يوم تتسلق علينا بأفكار شيطانيه لا يجرؤ الشيطان نفسه على طرحها او النقاش بها .. حتى الشيطان نفسه عندما قيل له اسجد و رفض حين رد بأدب على رب العزة و قال:
This is my list of sundown towns and regions known for racism in Canada. It is in no way complete, and I will continuously add to it as people submit more entries to me via dm/ask/submission.
If you know of a place that I have not yet included, please reach out and let me know!
Based on my research, this is the only existing list of sundown towns in Canada. I am compiling this in the interest of safety for racialized people.
Allah’s Messenger (S) said: “The good deeds that will reach a believer after his death are: knowledge which he learned and then spread; a righteous son whom he leaves behind; a copy of the Qur'aan that he leaves as a legacy; a mosque that he built; a house that he built for wayfarers; a canal that he dug; or charity that he gave during his lifetime when he was in good health. These deeds will reach him after his death.” Sunan Ibn Mäjah 242
“The Islamic financial system is the only one in the world that has not been affected by the American real estate crisis, if there is a collapse, it is the only one that will survive. The reason is that the Islamic financial system is not involved in illegal and unethical dealings. Sharia even forbids investing money in products on the basis of usury and making money for money from money.” She said @lorettanapoleoni H/T @3sat #economy #america #i̇slam #islamicquotes #islamic #islamophobia #islampost #islamicposts #islamicart #islamdaily #islamdini #economics https://www.instagram.com/p/CHFVOR3nHAPfp9-fM0ZVhbckHi0oSF7bRhD8dc0/?igshid=1fri3gqnfitr0
The level of evil it is to shoot a Palestinian journalist in the head, falsely claim you didn’t do it, and then send the military to attack her funeral, the mourners, and forcefully rip the Palestinian flag off her coffin. It’s monstrous.
ID: Tweet one by Yara Alafandi @/ AfandiYara reads: Israeli police forcing a Palestinian woman to take off her hijab because it’s the same colours as the Palestinian flag and you’re still arguing that Israel isn’t an apartheid state? #Shereen_Abu_Aqleh
Tweet two by disorientalist @/ princessmlokhia reads: Colonizers in Hebron took the collective Palestinian mourning for Shireen as a chance to sieze a new building in the city. Look at them, bold and pathetic. When we say Israel is a settler-colony we mean it in the most literal sense.
I am writing to you because it has gotten just that bad. I have found myself telling too many people about the advice given to me years ago by the late composer Herbert Brun, a German Jew who fled Germany at the age of 15: “be sure that your passport is in order.” It’s not enough to laugh at Donald Trump anymore. The rhetoric about Muslims has gotten so nasty, and is everywhere, on every channel, every newsfeed. It is clearly fueling daily events of targeted violence, vandalism, vigilante harassment, discrimination. I want you to know that it has gotten bad enough that my family and I talk about what to keep on hand if we need to leave quickly, and where we should go, maybe if the election goes the wrong way, or if folks get stirred up enough to be dangerous before the election. When things seem less scary, we talk about a five or a ten year plan to go somewhere where cops don’t carry guns and hate speech isn’t allowed on network television. And if you don’t already know this about me, I want you to know that I was born in this country. I have lived my whole life in this country. I have spent my entire adult life working to help the poor, the disabled and the dispossessed access the legal system in this country. And I want you to know that I am devoutly and proudly Muslim.
I am writing this in response to a non Muslim friend’s question about what she can do. Because there is much that can be done in solidarity:
If you see a Muslim or someone who might be identified as Muslim being harassed, stop, say something, intervene, call for help.
If you ride public transportation, sit next to the hijabi woman and say asalam ‘alaykum (That means ‘peace to you.’). Don’t worry about mispronouncing it; she won’t care. Just say “peace” if you like. She’ll smile; smile back. If you feel like it, start a conversation. If you don’t, sit there and make sure no one harasses her.
If you have a Muslim work colleague, check in. Tell them that the news is horrifying and you want them to know you’re there for them.
If you have neighbors who are Muslim, keep an eye out for them. If you’re walking your kids home from the bus stop, invite their kids to walk with you.
Talk to your kids. They’re picking up on the anti-Muslim message. Make sure they know how you feel and talk to them about what they can do when they see bullying or hear hate speech at school.
Call out hate speech when you hear it—if it incites hatred or violence against a specified group, call it out: in your living room, at work, with friends, in public. It is most important that you do this among folks who may not know a Muslim.
Set up a “learn about Islam” forum at your book club, school, congregation, dinner club. Call your state CAIR organization, interfaith group or local mosque and see if there is someone who has speaking experience and could come and answer questions about Islam and American Muslims for your group. They won’t be offended. They will want the opportunity to do something to dispel the nastiness.
Write Op Eds and articles saying how deplorable the anti-Muslim rhetoric has gotten and voice your support for Muslim Americans in whatever way you can.
Call your state and local representatives, let them know that you are concerned about hate speech against your Muslim friends and neighbors in politics and the media, that it is unacceptable and you want them to call it out whenever they hear it, on your behalf.
Out yourself as someone who won’t stand for Islamophobia, or will stand with Muslims—there is an awful lot of hate filling the airways, and there are an awful lot of people with access to the media and/or authority stirring the pot about Muslims. Please help fill that space with support instead. Post, write, use your profile picture or blog to voice your support.
Ask me anything. Really. Engage the Muslims in your life. Make sure you really feel comfortable standing for and with your Muslim friends, neighbors, coworkers.
I can tell you that in addition to the very real threat to their civil and human rights that Muslims are facing, we are dealing with a tremendous amount of anxiety. While we, many of us, rely on our faith to stay strong, we are human. This is not an easy time. What you do will mean everything to the Muslim Americans around you. Thank you for reading and bless you in your efforts. Share freely.
TW// Donald Trump, patriarchy, sexism, misogyny, violence.
The beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency marks the beginning of an open war on all women in America. Whereas before, the patriarchy attempted to conceal their sexism, it is now totally open. The only option left to us is to RESIST, by any means necessary.
I’m not interested in your insistence on “non-violence” or “reasoned debate.” You don’t have conversations with people who disagree with your basic human rights, who disagree with your right to live, who deny your very soul. Let me repeat, for those who didn’t get it: YOU DO NOT DEBATE WITH PEOPLE WHO DENY YOUR HUMANITY. My humanity WILL NOT BE DENIED!!
If violence is necessary to force your opinion on others, then do it. We are right, we are on the right side of history, and that gives us the right to impose our beliefs on the racists, misogynists, sexists, Islamophobes, xenophobes, and anyone with the privilege to benefit from these systems of oppression that now dominate Western society.
TAKE YOUR “COOPERATION” AND “DEBATE” AND GO FUCK YOURSELF.
I’m not fucking interested. My opinions and rights will not be denied.
The words of this Hadith (saying of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) is sufficient to explain what I see in this world. However, I’m not the only one who feels disturbed by the negativity against Islam that has unfurled.
By the way, it’s not only Muslims who are affected by this world’s chaos and disorder; it’s people of other faiths too; they’re experiencing torture and would like some…
So I was on Facebook recently and saw a post claiming that, “Islam has carried out more than 100,000 terrorist attacks against Americans since 9/11” with no citations what so ever.
Looking at the Facebook group that posted this, I assumed from the fact their profile picture is a stock image of an interracial couple inside of a snipers cross-hairs with the caption “Race mixing and Liberalism is a mental illness but we have the cure” that most people would be able to see this group isn’t the most trustworthy source but despite that, the post had hundreds of upvotes and comments. Not from Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists but from average people.
I saw dozens of comments from people like Susan (A retired school teacher and grandmother from Indiana) who responded by talking about how the liberal media refuses to even acknowledge Muslims are a problem despite them killing thousands of Americans every day and how when Obama finally dies the lord Jesus will send him to hell for him helping cover up the evil deeds of Muslims.
Or people like Gary (A small business owner and NRA member from South Carolina) Who responded to the graph by making a long incoherent rant where he talked about how when he was a kid during Vietnam the liberals tried so hard to go after our soldiers calling them rapists and baby killers and just because they didn’t like the methods didn’t mean someone had to them and because they did what they did we won the war and the Vietnamese realized they could never take over America so they didn’t try and bring the fight to the US.
His post then goes on to argue that we need to put someone with balls in the white house who will let soldiers do what they did in Vietnam and when that happens the terrorism will stop.
Now its very frighting that people like Gary who not only for some reason believe that the U.S won the Vietnam war (which they didn’t) and who thinks that the Vietnamese wanted to take over the United States (which they didn’t) but also ontop of that thinks the reason the US won the war is because U.S soldiers raped women and murdered children and that if the U.S started committing war crimes again the terrorism would stop.
I looked more into Facebook and found other lists that actually do go through all the Islamic terrorist attacks. Yet these lists will cite things like:
Nation of Islam member robbing a convenient store in 1975
as a terrorist attack. Or
Turkish man who was in prison for bank robbery in New York stabbing a prison guard in 1981
as an “Islamic terrorist attack on law enforcement.”
Going through these lists more many of the examples they give just didn’t happen. They will give a name or a description of an event or a location or a date and when I google the info I don’t find any results for it being real or in many cases it did happen but the perpetrator wasn’t even a Muslim.
Some of these lists all of which are poorly put together and without any real citations circulating on Facebook and other known Islamophobic websites have even been republished by actual news sources such as WorldNetDaily to the response in the comment sections of paranoid delusional rants by people who use obscure biblical passages and sources of Islamic text to falsely claim Muslims truly worship Satan and Islam translate directly into “the religion of the devil”
So I decided to go through the list starting with the World Trade Center bombings in 1993 and create a coherent list of all the successful Islamic terrorist attacks which resulted in at least 1 death that occurred on US soil.
I found soon after that it didn’t take long to make this list. Due to the fact that since 9/11 there have only been 9 successful Islamic terrorist attacks.
2016 Orlando Night Club Shooting
2015 San Bernardino Shooting
2015 Chattanooga, TN Military Shooting
2014 Oklahoma Beheading
2013 Boston Marathon Bombing
2009 Little Rock Shooting
2009 Fort Hood Shooting
2006 Seattle Jewish Federation Shooting
2002 Los Angeles Airport Shooting
Before 9/11
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Looking more into this I decided to do the same research but on terrorist attacks committed by Right Wing Extremists in the same time frame to see how many terrorist attacks they committed which resulted in one or more casualties.
I found they committed 43 successful terrorist attacks
2015 Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooting
2015 Lafayette Shooting
2015 Charleston Church Shooting
2014 Las Vegas Police Ambush
2014 Kansas Jewish Center Shooting
2014 Blooming Grove Police Shooting
2012 Tri-State Killing Spree
2012 St. John’s Parish Police Ambush
2012 Sikh Temple Shooting
2011 Pacific Northwest Killing Rampage
2011 FEAR Militia
2010 West Memphis Police Shootings
2010 Carlisle, PA Murder
2010 Austin, TX Plane Attack
2010 Florida Sovereign Citizen Police Ambush
2009 Minutemen American Defense Hispanic Slayings
2009 Okaloosa County, FL Police Gun Range Attacks
2009 Brockton, MA Black Targeted Shooting Rampage
2009 Pittsburgh Police Shootings
2009 Holocaust Museum Shooting
2009 George Tiller Assassination
2009 Flores Murders, Pima County, AZ
2009 Brockton, MA Murders
2008 Knoxville, TN Church Shooting
2004 Tulsa OK, Bank Robbery
2003 Abbeville, SC right-of-way shootout
2001 Anthrax Attacks
Before 9/11 but after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
2000 Pittsburgh, PA Racially Motivated Spree Killing
So I decided to look at another country with a significantly higher Muslim Population.
Canada which has well over a million Muslims who make up 3% of its population and instead of doing a small 20 year timeline I decided to look into the entire history of the country to get the most accurate results.
Number of Terrorist Attacks in Canada by motive.
Freedomites:
Number of terror attacks: 300+
Number of injuries: 6
Number of deaths: 3
Quebec Nationalists:
Number of terror attacks: 64
Number of injuries: 29
Number of deaths: 12
Fenians:
Number of terror attacks: 10+
Number of injuries: 37
Number of deaths: 32
Communist:
Number of terror attacks: 10
Number of injuries: 100+
Number of deaths: 0
Sikh:
Number of terror attacks: 7
Number of injuries: 6
Number of deaths: 324
Christian:
Number of terror attacks: 7
Number of injuries: 3
Number of deaths: 1
Environmental:
Number of terror attacks: 6
Number of injuries: 0
Number of deaths: 0
Armenian Nationalists:
Number of terror attacks: 3
Number of injuries: 1
Number of deaths: 2
Anarchist:
Number of terror attacks: 3
Number of injuries: 10
Number of deaths: 0
Feminist:
Number of terror attacks: 3
Number of injuries: 0
Number of deaths: 0
Islamic:
Number of terror attacks: 2
Number of injuries: 2
Number of deaths: 2
Financial:
Number of terror attacks: 1
Number of injuries: 0
Number of deaths: 52
Pro-America:
Number of terror attacks: 1
Number of injuries: 47
Number of deaths: 3
Anti-conservative:
Number of terror attacks: 1
Number of injuries: 4
Number of deaths: 0
Jewish:
Number of terror attacks: 1
Number of injuries: 1
Number of deaths: 0
So to put this into comparison there are half the number of followers of Sikhism in Canada than Islam.
Yet Sikhs have killed 162 times more people in the name of their religion than Islam has in Canada alone.
Despite this, no one is calling for Sikhs to be deported by the millions.
Now to the people out there saying,
You only look at terrorism, what about all the other crimes muslims commit!
Well lets look at a few places around the world:
The first place I’m going to look at is the city with the highest Muslim population in the United States, Dearborn Michigan.
Dearborn has a population of around 100,000 people half of which are of Arab Decent.
Lets look at other cities in the United States with the same population but instead of being populated by Muslims lets look at cities populated by White Christians.
Billings, Montana is a city with a population of around 100,000 people same as Dearborn. 90% of these people are white.
And the city has such a small Muslim population that there isn’t even a mosque in it.
Just in case that one example was an outliar I looked up a few cities with the same population as Dearborn to compare the crime rate
Dearborn MI
3 Murders
35 Rapes
Sandy Springs GA
6 Murder
40 Rapes
Billings MT
10 Murders
72 Rapes
Pueblo CO
10 Murders
152 Rapes
West Palm Beach FL
15 Murders
45 Rapes
I could keep going but I think you get the point.
These examples aren’t cherry picked either. I got them by searching a list of cities by population on Wikipedia just picking the cities next to Dearborn that had around the same population all of them had higher crime rates as anyone can check.
Yet Dearborn Michigan despite having more Muslims living there than anywhere else in the US is below the average national crime rate.
And statistically speaking 64% of the people reading this right now are more at risk where they are live currently than if they moved to Dearborn and surround themselves with Muslims.
Chances of being a victim of crime:
In Dearborn 1 in 275
In Michigan 1 in 234
But forget about the U.S lets look at cities outside of America. Last time we looked at Canada lets look at the U.K this time.
Birmingham has one of the largest Muslim populations in England.
But the fact of the matter is its true that they did.
In 2015 there was 15 murders in Amsterdam
In 2013 there was 22 murders in Amsterdam
In 1998 there was 65 murders Amsterdam
The higher the Muslim population has been getting in Amstredam the lower the murder rate gets.
But how can that be?!?! Multiculturalism is a failure just look at the rape rate in Sweden! What about all those Muslims raping children? I read about on Brietbart and infowars!
Well even if it wasn’t for the fact that many news headlines about Muslim Refugees raping and killing people are fake.
And when I mean fake I mean literally Infowars and breitbart just outright reported lies.
Such as the time them (along with many other right wing news outlets) reported the story about Syrian Muslim refugees gang raping a little girl in Idaho.
And no, none of the right wing news sites ever apologized for spreading false info or even redacted the stories. They still have them up on their site without even acknowledging it was proven to be false.
Reasons like this are probably why so many media watchdog groups and committees into the ethics of journalism have time and time again ranked Brietbart as one of the most dishonest journalist outlets ever created. And when I say ever created they get a lower ranking than North Korean State Run Propaganda Media.
But for the stories that are true where it turns out a Muslim did kill someone or molest a child, even though these cases are rare they still do happen. The only thing the media never talks about is how they happen at a lower rate than the native born population.
The only difference when a Muslim refugee molests a child and when a Catholic Priest does the same thing. Is that when the Muslim does it you don’t see the Catholic Church covering it up.
“If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.”
“If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.”
“You may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance.”
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.”
“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”
“If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away.”
Punishing Women for Being Raped
Promoting Sexual Slavery
Stoning Gays
Stoning Witches
Murdering Infidels
These seem like quotes from a barbaric stone age death cult right?
Well you would be correct because these quotes are from the Bible. The same book the Republicans want to use to govern the country.
But the difference between Christians and Muslims is Christians don’t follow those quotes and would never do that! They don’t have child brides or commit honor killing or any of those evil Muslim things!
Even in places like Brazil it was a big problem until recently. Men could be acquitted for murdering their wives up until 1991 on the basis of them digracing their honor, and because of that you would see 800 recorded murder honor killings in a year. Even after the laws were changed, lower courts still ignored the ruling of the Supreme Court and acquitted people like Joao Lopes for a double homicide.
But women in Somalia aren’t allowed to drive
The idea of showing the treatment of women in Somalia as proof that Islam is evil makes as much sense as showing the treatment of women in the Congo as proof that Christianity is evil.
Lets look at a Muslim nation that isn’t torn by war as see how they treat women:
Kyrgyzsta is a landlocked country located in Central Asia with a population of 5 million people. In this country close to 9 out of every 10 people are Muslims.
In 2010 after large opposition protests caused the President to resign the Muslim majority population voted and elected Roza Otunbayeva as the country’s new leader. Roza Otunbayeva is not only a woman but an atheist.
Why is it that in Kyrgyzsta and Somalia they both read the same holy book The Qur'an but in one country an Atheist woman would be stoned and in the other elected president.
It’s probably the same reason why in both Italy and the Congo they read the same holy book The Bible but in one an Atheist woman would be stoned and in the other elected president.
But still why is the middle east so war torn to begin with? Why can’t you get your stuff together and stop oppressing women?
The same thing that changed Latin America to make it a violent cesspool of Drug Cartels.
The same thing that changed Southeast Asia that allows the rise of anti-government rebels.
The United States government came into the region, overthrew their democratically elected leaders and replaced them with Islamic extremist dictators who would sell oil for a cheap price, and denounce the Soviets.
The Middle East didn’t even have Muslim countries before. They were secular nations where people elected leaders.
In Saudi Arabia the monarchy the country has is literally only 60 years old. They didn’t have a King before that they had a President.
All of these countries were democracies none of which were run under Shihara Law before the CIA came in and put an Islamic Extremist Dictator in charge.
And this isn’t like a conspiracy on the level of “The US was responsible for 9/11.” It is just a common fact. You can read about it on Wikipedia even. The CIA openly backed and put the groups in power. They would fund drug lords. Remember that picture up there of those women fighting in the Afgan Army?
At that point in the countries history the leader of it was a man who liked the Russians a lot more than he liked the Americans.
Before these coups there wasn’t widespread terrorism. Look at Syria in 1948 and look at America. One of those countries had groups of religious extremists going around dragging people from their homes and lynching them solely because of their race.
Those religious extremists were the K.K.K and that country was America.
Look at Afghanistan in 1985 and look at Ireland. One of these countries had groups of paramilitary religious extremists kidnapping and murdering innocent people. Bombing hospitals and public places, killing dozens at a time.
Those religious extremists were the IRA and that country was Ireland.
There isn’t even a counterpart to compare the groups to because none existed in these countries. No one was doing these things before the CIA got involved.
But like you said the CIA did the same thing in Latin America and Africa and South East Asia. So why is it only Muslim countries who become terrorists? Why don’t those countries have terorrism?
That would mean 60% of the Muslim majority nations on earth do not rank in the top 50 countries for terrorism.
Yet 100% of the top Hindu majority nations do.
But back to the main point of this post:
Islam isn’t causing terrorism.
If it did, you would expect to see Muslims in Canada reading the Qur'an and bombing buildings
You would expect that back in the 60s Syria would of had terrorists doing the exact same thing they are doing now.
You would expect Muslims in Kyrgyzsta not voting for a woman as President.
And most of all you would expect that if it did cause terrorism there would be more terrorism and violence in Muslim countries as opposed to the opposite which is the case if you compare Muslim communities in the west with non-Muslim communites and compare the Middle East with 99% population Christian nations in Central Africa.
So what is the reason for terrorism then?
The reason for terrorism is there being nothing to stop it.
If anyone has watched Walking Dead or Mad Max or any post apocalyptic movie then you understand the idea of those raving bands of killers and rapists going around doing whatever they want because there isn’t anyone to stop them.
Now if we put that into a real life scenario what happens is you get ISIS, you get the The Lord’s Resistance Army and the Catholic Drug Lords in Honduras with their own Patron Saints and the Atheistic Rebels murdering missionaries in Thailand for being Christians and so on…
And always these polls are never Primary Sourced or Peer Reviewed. How about we look at some actually well established and cited polls.
Here is one such example below:
Some people think that for the military to target and kill civilians is sometimes justified, while others think that kind of violence is never justified. Which is your opinion?
Muslim
Depends: 0%
Sometimes justified: 21%
Never justified: 78%
Protestant
Depends: 0%
Sometimes justified: 58%
Never justified: 38%
Catholic
Depends: 2%
Sometimes justified: 58%
Never justified: 39%
Jewish
Depends: 3%
Sometimes justified: 52%
Never justified: 43%
Mormon
Depends: 3%
Sometimes justified: 64%
Never justified: 33%
No religion/Atheist/Agnostic
Depends: 0%
Sometimes justified: 43%
Never justified: 56
Keep in mind that the question was not asking about “collateral damage” but rather targeting civilians.
Gallup analysis suggests that one’s religious identity and level of devotion have little to do with one’s views about targeting civilians. According to the largest global study of its kind, covering 131 countries, it is human development and governance - not piety or culture - that are the strongest factors in explaining differences in how the public perceives this type of violence.
While the majority of world citizens agree that military attacks targeting civilians are never justified, a decade after 9/11, there is a wide range in the level of support for this view. A clear majority in Asia and MENA find military attacks against civilians unacceptable. This is not surprising considering the acute conflicts raging in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East.
In contrast, regionally, residents of the U.S. and Canada are most likely to say that military attacks against civilians are sometimes justified. Americans are the most likely population in the world (49%) to believe military attacks targeting civilians is sometimes justified, followed by residents of Haiti and Israel (43%).
One of the most cited anti-Muslim statics I see was performed was done by Pew Forums in 2013.
Now this poll and many like it have been picked apart by numerous people for the lazy methodology and lack of diversity in the countries they poll.
And I could show those detailed arguments or compare the surveying they did to basically if a group of researchers went to a single small town in Texas and polled 10 people on social issues. Then used that to claim, “9 out of 10 Americans are against gay marriage.” but I’m just going to explain this in the exact terms of what happen.
In 2013 Pew Forums put out ads in the local newspapers in either a single city or either the top two or three largest cities in the country, for 39 different countries. These ads basically said, “Are you a Muslim and you wanna make 10$? Then come out to the offices of this survey polling company we subcontracted to get data for us and fill out forums for 6 hours then you can get your 10$.”
And in each one of these countries between 500 and 1,500 people showed up for that 10$ and 4 hours into filing out the surveys when they got to the question on page 243 where it said, “Do you think all non Muslims should be killed? Yes or no?” around 1/3 of them just checked the yes box.
That does not mean that 1/3 of Muslims think the 6 billion non-Muslims alive should be killed.
I find it especially ironic though that same people who are touting methodology like this to justify bigotry are the same people who try and debunk the surveys that claim ¼ women have been victims of sexual assault as “feminist propaganda.”
Now if you do find polls that are well cited saying:
X% of Muslims in this country want Sharia Law
Then I would encourage you to find out what percent of Christians in that country want Biblical Law.
Because if its the United States the number would have to be over 57% to beat the Republicans.
I wrote a piece for the BuzzFeed Community Summer Challenge and I would really appreciate the support of just clicking the link. The post is my first attempt at a movie review/sarcastic and honest criticism of Arab American stereotypes.
Conservative pundit Tomi Lahren, who many are calling a Kellyanne Conway in training, posted a series of vicious tweets. Many viewers, who noted that this year’s ceremony was a statement on diversity and inclusivity, saw Lahren’s comments as ignorant and they were happy to let her know that her opinion didn’t need to be part of Oscars.
Let’s be more than simply sad about or sympathetic for those now dead or injured in Orlando. We need solidarity over and above sympathy.
We need to dig to answer these questions:
How does it make perfect sense that a “security guard” is also a terrorist?
How does it make perfect sense that a murderer shot down BY police loved taking selfies in NYPD shirts?
How is it that a man spurred to violence in the face of male-male love can also be spurred to violence in the face of heterosexual love (c.f. his assault of his ex-wife)?
How does it make perfect sense that a secular and intolerant Islamaphobic discourse will be the right-wing, homophobic Christian’s response to this act of homophobic violence?
What kind of disavowal must happen here?
How do we figure that the security offered by more guns will remedy the insecurity highlighted by gun violence?
These contradictions aren’t very hard to work out, but we continue to sit back, aghast, and shocked by what we see. This perpetual naivete is perhaps best summed up by that Onion article on another mass shooting, the headline of which reads “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”
Or maybe Susan Sontag said it the best:
“Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood. No one after a certain age has the right to this kind of innocence, of superficiality, to this degree of ignorance, or amnesia.
— Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Maturity will mean working out these ostensible contradictions, realizing how each pole in these oppositions is implicated and necessary to its other. This is, of course, what queer theory does every day.
Let’s be more than simply sad about or sympathetic for those now dead or injured in Orlando. We need solidarity over and above sympathy.
We need to dig to answer these questions:
How does it make perfect sense that a “security guard” is also a terrorist?
How does it make perfect sense that a murderer shot down BY police loved taking selfies in NYPD shirts?
How is it that a man spurred to violence in the face of male-male love can also be spurred to violence in the face of heterosexual love (c.f. his assault of his ex-wife)?
How does it make perfect sense that a secular and intolerant Islamaphobic discourse will be the right-wing, homophobic Christian’s response to this act of homophobic violence?
What kind of disavowal must happen here?
How do we figure that the security offered by more guns will remedy the insecurity highlighted by gun violence?
These contradictions aren’t very hard to work out, but we continue to sit back, aghast, and shocked by what we see. This perpetual naivete is perhaps best summed up by that Onion article on another mass shooting, the headline of which reads “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”
Or maybe Susan Sontag said it the best:
“Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood. No one after a certain age has the right to this kind of innocence, of superficiality, to this degree of ignorance, or amnesia.
— Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Maturity will mean working out these ostensible contradictions, realizing how each pole in these oppositions is implicated and necessary to its other. This is, of course, what queer theory does every day.
So basically earlier today, a mob of extremist muslims set a Chipboard factory in Jhelum on fire, with people still inside it because its being by Ahmediya community members. Amazing, we are the same people who are wishing bad for all the western community which us adopting a similar behaviour in west against muslims, Islamophobia basically where they accuse muslims of terrorism, a bigger and worse crime to me, however we don’t look at what’s in our own state? Ahmediyaphobia, where we accuse them of Blasphemy, with no proofs in hand, where are we headed?
Hend Amry is just one of many women utilizing social media to fight back against Islamophobia. She can be found on Tumblr - under the handle @libyaliberty - offering witty critiques of “Arab” stock photos gone terribly wrong.
OnTwitter, she has gained tons of retweets and likes for her insights, ranging from jokes about Princess Leia, responses to bogus statements by Bill Maher, and the hashtag #HowToStopAMuslimPresident - a humorous take on presidential candidate Ben Carson’s comments that he would be “uncomfortable” with a Muslim in the White House.
