Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Says French Veil Ban Beginning Of Dangerous Battle

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Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Says French Veil Ban Beginning Of Dangerous Battle




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French media is reporting on comments by the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood in which they call the French ban on full face veils “the beginning of a dangerous battle.” According to an AFP report:





The Muslim Brotherhood of Jordan on Monday slammed a French ban on women wearing full face-face veils in public, calling the measure the ‘beginning of a dangerous battle’. Hammad Said, head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, said the ban ‘was contrary to the human rights principles’ that France takes pride in. ‘We see (in this ban) a neo-crusading attitude towards Muslims in the world, which constitutes the beginning of a dangerous battle,’ he told AFP. ‘This decision attacks Islam and Muslims worldwide.’ Said labelled the measure a ‘violation of a fundamental right’, arguing that ‘if women are allowed to undress at the beach, they should also be allowed to cover up and wear the niqab’. The new law, which affects women who wear full-face veils such as the burqa or the niqab, came into effect Monday and represents the first of its kind to be enforced in Europe. French officials estimate that only around 2,000 women, from a total Muslim population estimated at between four and six million, wear the full-face veils that are traditional in parts of Arab world and South Asia.



The Islamic Action Front (IAF) is generally considered to be the political wing of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. The current leader of the IAF is Secretary-General Ishaq Farhan a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, one of the three foundersof the IAF, and a former education minister and senator. Mr. Farhan is also listed as a director of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), founded in the U.S. in 1980 by important members of the Global Muslim Brotherhood who wished to promote the “Islamization of Knowledge.” IIIT was associated with the now defunct SAAR Foundation, a network of Islamic organizations located in Northern Virginia that was raided by the Federal government in March 2002 in connection with the financing of terrorism. In 2000, Mr. Farhan was denied entry to the U.S. after having had his visa revoked in the prior year without informing him. The New York Times reported at that time that unidentified American diplomats called Mr. Farhan a “moderating force” and that he “as kept a distance from the vociferous opposition to peaceful relations with Israel.” However, in 2003 a media report said that the IAF had “declared a jihad in favor of Iraq and Palestine if the US attacks Iraq.”





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GlobalMB @ April 11, 2011

U.K.: Two Candidates For Welsh Assembly Arrested For Burning Quran

Madness.  Insanity.

From Jihad Watch:


U.K.: Two candidates for Welsh assembly arrested for burning Qur'an







Their party affiliation is immaterial to this, the central question: Would they have been arrested for burning a Bible? A Bhagavad-Gita? A Torah? A Talmud? The Analects of Confucius? The Tao Te Ching?



Why not? Absurdities lie on either end of the spectrum of enforcement: either admit there is a double standard and the Qur'an is protected unlike any other book, or exhaust resources protecting all religions' holy writ from physical desecration, from the most ornate King James Bible to a paperback copy of Dianetics.



Or, simply respect the right to free speech, which is hollow when the possibility of causing offense is ruled out, and all the more so when only one group is protected above all others. "BNP candidate Sion Owens faces 'Koran burn' charge," from BBC News, April 10:



A BNP candidate for next month's Welsh assembly elections has been charged with a public order offence, after police were passed a video appearing to show him burning a copy of the Koran.



Quoth the British Home Office in this report: "'The government absolutely condemns the burning of the Koran. It is fundamentally offensive to the values of our pluralist and tolerant society.'"



By "it," one supposes they mean the burning. That kind of grammatical ambiguity could all but cause riots nowadays.



Sion Owens, 41, was named as a party candidate for the South Wales West regional list last week.



He is due to appear at Swansea magistrates' court on Monday.



A second BNP election candidate has been arrested in connection with the incident, and released on bail.



A BNP spokesperson said both would still be candidates in the assembly election on 5 May.



On Friday, police were given a video which appeared to show Mr Owens dousing a copy of the Koran with a highly flammable fluid, before setting it alight and watching it burn.



Later that day he and another of the party's candidates for the assembly election, Swansea East candidate Joanne Shannon, were arrested.



Mr Owens was charged on Saturday night. He is in custody in Swansea, and due to appear in court on Monday.



Ms Shannon has been bailed pending further inquiries



Posted by Marisol on April 10, 2011 7:36 AM

Finland: Priest Accused Of Inciting Religious Hatred For Calling Jihad Terrorists "Terrorists"

From Jihad Watch:


Finland: Priest accused of inciting religious hatred for calling jihad terrorists "terrorists"







This out-Orwells Orwell. "Finnish priest persecuted for speaking out against terrorists," from RT, April 7 (thanks to Paul):



A priest in Finland is being accused of inciting religious hatred after he described one of the world's most-wanted criminals as a 'terrorist'.

­Police have questioned Pastor Juha Molari after he gave an interview to RT in which he discussed Doku Umarov, the man behind the Moscow metro and airport bombings.



Russia's number one outlaw Chechen terrorist Doku Umarov is also high-up on the international most-wanted list. But it seems one of Russia's neighbors isn't interested in helping bring him to justice.



“I use the word terrorist. They use the word president,” Molari explains.



The pastor has been a long-time critic of a website called the Kavkaz Center, where extremists freely express their views.



The site was the first to publish the terrorist's words on the attacks claimed by Umarov, and is banned in many European countries but freely operates in Finland.



Apart from facing being defrocked for speaking out against Doku Umarov and his internet mouthpiece, Juha Molari is receiving threats of a different kind.



“We advise you to stop your activity against the Kavkaz Center. If you don’t come to your senses we’ll cut off the heads of you and your family”, one of them says.





Posted by Robert on April 10, 2011 6:32 PM

Will France Survive? French Interior Minister Calls For Less Immigration

From Jihad Watch:


Will France survive? French interior minister calls for less immigration







Will France survive? Or will it continue to commit slow demographic suicide by allowing in millions of Muslim immigrants who believe it to be their responsibility before god to work to transform France into a Sharia state? "French interior minister calls for less immigration," by Joseph Bamat for France24, April 7 (thanks to C. Cantoni):



French Interior Minister Claude Guéant says the government intends to reduce the number of immigrants allowed to enter the country legally, in statements evoking a divisive and little-understood aspect of contemporary French society.

“I have asked that we reduce the number of people admitted under work immigration visas,” Guéant told the conservative Figaro Magazine in an interview to be published on Friday.



“We also continue to reduce the number of foreigners coming to France for family reunification,” he said.



Some 20,000 people are allowed to enter France on work visas and another 15,000 for family reasons each year, according to the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for immigration.



Guéant also said he would not exclude changes to France’s policy on asylum seekers, suggesting a cap on asylum visas was also on the table.



The opposition Socialist Party and the organization SOS Racism have already condemned Guéant’s statement as a “provocation”....





What a surprise.



Posted by Robert on April 10, 2011 6:42 PM

Will The Netherlands Survive? Dutch Minister Wants To Slash Non-E.U. Work Permits

From Jihad Watch:


Will the Netherlands survive? Dutch minister wants to slash non-EU work permits







Will the Netherlands survive? Or will it continue to commit slow demographic suicide by allowing in millions of Muslim immigrants who believe it to be their responsibility before god to work to transform the Netherlands into a Sharia state?



"Minister wants to slash non-EU work permits," from Dutch News, April 8 (thanks to C. Cantoni):



The cabinet on Friday will discuss home affairs minister Henk Kamp’s plan to drastically reduce the number of work permits for non-EU nationals, the Telegraaf reports.

The rules for knowledge migrants will not be affected, the paper says.



The paper says the minister wants to make it much more difficult for companies to prove they cannot find suitable staff in the Netherlands or the EU....





Posted by Robert on April 10, 2011 6:46 PM

Congress Cuts Budget For Program That Rescues Persecuted Christians From Iran

From Jihad Watch:


Congress cuts budget for program that rescues persecuted Christians from Iran







The budget is out of control and should be reined in before the whole thing comes crashing down. The American people are being bled dry. But the programs that need to be cut are aid to Pakistan (i.e., to the jihadists in Pakistan, which is where all too much of that aid has ended up); money for the bombing of Libya (which aids the jihadists there); and other self-defeating and ultimately suicidal initiatives -- not programs like this.



"Iranian Christians Endangered by Congressional Budget Cuts," from International Christian Concern, April 8 (thanks to Cyril Lucar):



Washington, D.C. (April 8, 2011) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a U.S. program that rescues persecuted Christians from Iran may end as Congress debates major cuts in the congressional budget. The program is set to be chopped just days after reports surfaced that an Armenian Christian and his Jewish wife were executed in Tehran.

The Lautenberg Amendment was established in 1989 to offer U.S. refugee status to persecuted Jews and Christians from the former Soviet Union and was expanded in 2003 to assist Christians, Baha’is and Jews in Iran. Without the program, persecuted Christians and other religious minorities in Iran will be denied the opportunity to apply for the same refugee status in the U.S. that is offered to persecuted religious minorities throughout the world.



The program was not included in any resolutions that carried over into the new year and its renewal has been delayed due to the current budget standoff in the U.S. Congress. Furthermore, Rep. Lamar Smith, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has proposed overseeing all existing immigration related programs prior to being passed by Congress, meaning that the program will suffer further deferment, delay and possible rejection by the committee. Since its enactment 22 years ago, this noncontroversial humanitarian program has received nothing but widespread support in Congress.



As the program’s renewal hangs on a thread, persecution in Iran increases. On March 14, a Jewish-Armenian couple and three others were secretly executed in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Moreover, Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani awaits the same fate after being convicted of apostasy last September and issued the death sentence by hanging. Without the Lautenberg Amendment, imprisonments and executions of Iranian Christians and other religious minorities will heighten.



Aidan Clay, ICC Regional Manager for the Middle East, said, “Without the assurance of the Lautenberg amendment, Iranian Christians who have fled to neighboring countries face potential deportation back to Iran. For them, returning to Iran means immediate imprisonment, and potential execution, upon arrival. This program assures religious minorities that their applications to receive refuge in the U.S. from religious persecution will be reviewed and processed. We urge the U.S. Congress, particularly Representative Lamar Smith, to save countless lives by immediately renewing the Lautenberg amendment.”



Please call Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, to express your concern: (202) 225-4236.





Please do -- politely and respectfully.





Posted by Robert on April 10, 2011 10:10 PM

Muslim Women Defy French Face Veil Ban: I Will Only Respect Laws Of The French Republic Which Are Not In Contradiction With Me, My Religion And My Faith

From Jihad Watch:


Muslim women defy French face veil ban: "I will only respect laws of the French Republic which are not in contradiction with me, my religion and my faith"







The implications of a vow only to obey French laws that do not contradict Islam are huge. Ultimately, many French laws, including those establishing equality of rights for women and mandating no penalty for people who leave Islam, contradict Islamic law. A showdown between the two will be hard for the French to avoid.



"For life, liberty and the burqa: Muslim women defy France's ban on full-face veils," by Dheepthi Namasivayam in the Herald Sun, April 11:



THEY are the women prepared to defy France for the burqa.

From today French police have the power to stop Muslim women wearing full-face veils and to threaten them with fines or prison if they refuse to expose their faces.



All over France posters have been put up reminding veil-clad women that “the Republic lives with its face uncovered”.



Last year, President Nicolas Sarkozy pushed through a controversial law banning Muslim women from wearing burqas or niqabs in public. He said the law was to increase security but claimed it would liberate Muslim women from the oppression of their veil.



Any woman who refuse to lift her veil can be taken to a police station, fined 150 euros ($205) and ordered to attend re-education classes.



Anyone found guilty of forcing a woman to wear face veils in public or in private faces a fine of 30,000 euros and a year in jail.



However, some women have vowed to defy the law.



“I will not obey it,” said Wahiba Mebrek, 25, from the suburb of Villepinte, north of Paris. “I will only respect laws of the French Republic which are not in contradiction with me, my religion and my faith,” she added.



She is angry the Government and media peddled this image of them as being oppressed. For her, it was a conscious decision, made by her and husband when they became devout Muslims eight years ago.



Violent reaction



Hind*, a 31-year-old single mother from the suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois outside Paris, switched from the “miniskirt to the veil” after converting to Islam six years ago.



She said that her wearing of the veil had provoked hostile, even violent reactions in the street. She was recently attacked in front of her daughter by a couple.



“People’s reactions weren’t as violent until this issue was mediatised. Now that the law has passed, they feel that their violent behaviour towards us is justified,” she said.



“People have the impression that we are totally cut off from the world, but we have normal relationships like everyone else, we are accessible."



Hind will not take off her niqab, if asked by police. “Never ever will I apply this law,” she said. “It is not up to the government to meddle in my private life and my beliefs.”...





Posted by Robert on April 11, 2011 12:28 AM