Sexual thoughts : Islamic cleric asks women not to touch bananas,cucumbers - TruthDive

An Islamic cleric residing in Europe said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, as they have sexual resemblance and may invoke “sexual thoughts.”

The unnamed sheikh who was featured in an article on el-Sawsana news, was quoted saying that if women wish to eat these food items, a third-party, preferably a male related to them such as their a father or husband, should cut the items into small pieces and serve.

He said that these fruits and vegetables “resemble the male penis” and hence could arouse women or “make them think of sex.” He also added carrots and zucchini to the list of forbidden foods for women.

The sheikh was asked how to “control” women when they are out shopping for groceries and if holding these items at the market would be bad for them. The cleric answered saying this matter is between them and God.

Answering another question about what to do if women in the family like these foods, the sheikh advised the interviewer to take the food and cut it for them in a hidden place so they cannot see it.

The opinion has stirred a storm of irony and denouncement among Muslims online, with hundreds of comments mocking the cleric.

One reader said that these religious “leaders” give Islam “a bad name” and another commented said that he is a “retarded” person and he must quite his post immediately.

But the cleric seems to have some merit in his statement scientifically.

Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D, Founder and CEO, The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in his website has said “All cultures have foods that are considered aphrodisiac. For example, saffron in Spain, bird’s nest soup in China, camel’s hump among the Arabs, cocoa for the Aztecs. It was said, for example, that Montezuma had 600 concubines, and to satisfy them he drank 50 cups of cocoa per day from a golden goblet. Over time, almost every interesting or exotic foodstuff, particularly if reminiscent of the male or female sex organs, has been used to inspire desire and stimulate performance: bananas, peaches, berries, figs, dates, asparagus, nuts, seeds, stuffed dates, sea urchins, to name a few”.

“Food can be sexually enticing or suggestive because of its texture (soft, slithery, slurpy, such as oysters), shape or appearance (think bananas, asparagus, cucumbers, pomegranates), and even the attitude with which it’s eaten (if slowly, sensually, with eye contact)”, he added.

Ultraconservative party to push for Islamic Egypt - Atlanta Journal Constitution

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CAIRO — Anticipating a strong presence in the new Egyptian parliament, ultraconservative Islamists outlined plans Friday for a strict brand of religious law, a move that could limit personal freedoms and steer a key U.S. ally toward an Islamic state.

An Egyptian waves a national flag while wearing a clown mask during a rally in support of the ruling supreme council of the armed forces, SCAF, at Abbasiya Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Islamists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt's first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a trend that if confirmed would give religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military and ultimately reshape a key U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Thousands of supporters of the ruling supreme council of the armed forces, SCAF, shout national pro council slogans during a rally at Abbasiya Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Islamists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt's first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a trend that if confirmed would give religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military and ultimately reshape a key U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
A banner supporting Egyptian parliamentary candidate Ahmed Abd El Hameed Mohammed is pasted on a wall in the al-Azhar quarter in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. The fundamentalist Brotherhood is emerging as the biggest winner in partial results from the first voting this week in Egypt's landmark election, in which voters turned out in unexpected droves. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Egyptian supporters of the ruling supreme council of the armed forces, SCAF, wave by a national flag in Abbasiya Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Islamists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt's first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a trend that if confirmed would give religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military and ultimately reshape a key U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt's election commission announced only a trickle of results from the first round of parliamentary elections and said 62 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the highest turnout in modern history.

However, leaked counts point to a clear majority for Islamist parties at the expense of liberal activist groups that led the uprising against Hosni Mubarak, toppling a regime long seen as a secular bulwark in the Middle East.

The more pragmatic Muslim Brotherhood is poised to take the largest share of votes, as much as 45 percent. But the Nour Party, which espouses a strict interpretation of Islam in which democracy is subordinate to the Quran, could win a quarter of the house, giving it much power to affect debate.

A spokesman, Yousseri Hamad, said his party considers God's law the only law.

"In the land of Islam, I can't let people decide what is permissible or what is prohibited," Hamad told The Associated Press. "It is God who gives the answers as to what is right and what is wrong."

The Nour Party is the main political arm of the hard-line Salafist Muslim movement, which espouses a strict form of Islam similar to that practiced in Saudi Arabia. Salafis, who often wear long beards and seek to imitate the life of the Prophet Muhammad, speak openly about their aim of turning Egypt into a state where personal freedoms, including freedom of speech, women's dress and art, are constrained by Islamic law — goals that make many Egyptians nervous.

Salafis object to women in leadership roles, citing Muhammad as saying that "no people succeed if led by women." However, when election regulations forced all parties to include women, Salafi cleric Yasser el-Bourhami relented, saying that "committing small sins" is better than "committing bigger ones" — by which he meant letting secular people run the government.

In the end, the party put women at the bottom of its lists, represented by flowers since women's photos were deemed inappropriate.

This week, Salafi cleric and parliamentary candidate Abdel-Monem Shahat caused a stir by saying the novels of Egypt's Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, read widely in Egyptian schools, are "all prostitution."

Salafis are newcomers on Egypt's political scene. They long shunned the concept of democracy, saying it allows man's law to override God's. But they formed parties and entered politics after Mubarak's ouster, seeking to enshrine Islamic law in Egypt's new constitution.

By contrast, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest and best organized political group, was officially banned under Mubarak but established a nationwide network of activists who built a reputation for offering services to the poor. After Mubarak's fall, the group's Freedom and Justice Party campaigned fiercely, their organization and name-recognition giving them a big advantage over newly formed liberal parties.

Stakes are particularly high since the new parliament is supposed to oversee writing Egypt's new constitution. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took control of the country when Mubarak fell, has tried to impose restrictions on membership in the 100-member drafting committee. The Muslim Brotherhood has said it will challenge the move, and a strong showing by Islamists in the elections could boost its popular mandate to do so.

Hamed, the Nour Party spokesman, said democracy can't pass laws that contradict religion.

"We endorse Egyptian democracy," he said. "However, I don't give absolute freedom to people to legislate to themselves and decide on what is right or wrong.

"We have God's laws that tell us that."

He suggested, for example, that alcohol should be banned and that a state agency could penalize Muslims for eating during the day during the holy month of Ramadan, when the devout fast from dawn to dusk.

The Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis have both cooperated and disagreed in the past.

They tried to form an electoral alliance, which broke down over disagreements about including Christians and women in their electoral lists. However, the two parties campaigned together in some areas and declined to contest certain seats so as not to split the Islamist vote and allow liberal candidates to win.

The strong Islamist showing worries liberal parties who fear the two groups will work to push a religious agenda. It has also caused many youth activists who launched the anti-Mubarak uprising to feel that their revolution has been hijacked. Still, the liberal Egyptian Bloc coalition, which is competing with the Salafis to be the second-largest parliamentary bloc, could counterbalance hard-line elements.

Cooperation between the Brotherhood and Salafis in parliament isn't guaranteed, said Shadi Hamid, Middle East expert with the Brookings Doha Center. The Brotherhood is a pragmatic organization that will work with other parties to achieve its goals, while the Salafis shun compromise.

Once the parliament is seated, Hamid expects the Brotherhood to focus on establishing a strong parliamentary system, reforming state institutions and boosting the economy — goals they share with liberal groups.

"Banning alcohol or passing laws on women's dress are not on their priority list, and they see these issues as a distraction from the issues at hand," he said.

Still, a strong Salafist bloc in parliament will have a "massive effect," he said, by giving the group a larger platform for its views.

"The Salafis are going to insert religion into the public debate in a way that would not have happened otherwise," he said.

Many in Egypt's Coptic Christian population, which makes up 10 percent of the country, fear the Salafis will push for laws that will make them second-class citizens.

Even some religious Egyptians see the Salafi as too extreme.

"I am religious and don't want laws that go against my beliefs, but there shouldn't be religious law," said Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, a geography teacher. "I don't want anyone imposing his religious views on me."

The election commission said Friday that more than 8 million eligible voters — 62 percent — participated in the first round. But it announced final results in only a few races. It remains unclear when complete final results will be released.

This week's vote, held in nine provinces, will determine about 30 percent of the 498 seats in the People's Assembly, parliament's lower house. Two more rounds, ending in January, will cover Egypt's other 18 provinces.

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Gadhafi used 'renegade' Islamic view for 'purely political purposes' - CNN (blog)

Washington (CNN)– Moammar Gadhafi may have held onto power in Libya for more than 40 years, but the role Islam played in Gadhafi's personal life and leadership remains shrouded in mystery and debated by scholars. After his death, scholars are distancing Gadhafi from Islam and characterizing his religious views as “renegade” and “dictatorial” more than Islamic.

“It should also be made quite clear that Gadhafi was no more of a Muslim leader than Slobodan Milosevic or Robert Mugabe should be considered to be Christian leaders,” said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and author of "Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era."

“My sense is Gadhafi’s religion was Gadhafisim,” said Kelly Pemberton, assistant professor of religion and women’s studies at George Washington University. “It was clear to many Libyans that his brand of Islam was purely political; it served his political purposes.”

Pemberton, who traveled to Libya with a group of scholars last year, said this was evident not only by the way he lived his life, but the way that he was viewed throughout the Muslim world.

“I think most people did see him as a renegade,” Pemberton said. “I would venture to say he had no friends in the Arab world, and he had no friends in the Muslim majority, and he had very few friends in Africa more generally.”

Though Gadhafi was a Sunni Muslim, he was more influenced by the idea of Arab united, said Harris Zafar, national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA.

“When it comes to Gadhafi, even Sunni clerics have declared fatwas to kill him,” Zafar said. “He has always been this renegade, he hasn't really affiliated with a particular side. He almost made his own little brand.”

Zafar said Gadhafi was more influenced by events and people during his childhood than the Quran. In particular, Gadhafi admired the rise of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt.

And according to a 1971 Time magazine interview, Nasser admired Gadhafi, too. “You know,” Nasser said during an interview, “I rather like Gaddafi. He reminds me of myself when I was that age."

Nasser, while criticized for his politics specifically toward a then growing Israeli population, is widely considered the most successful champion of Pan Arabism, the idea of unifying all countries of the Arab world, from Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean to Oman on the Arabian Sea. When he came to power as the second president of Egypt, Nasser moved to create the United Arab Republic, the predecessor to the Arab League.

Gadhafi idolized Nasser for these views. As a way to honor his hero, after taking control of Libya, Gadhafi converted the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Mosque of Gamal Abdel Nasser.

According to the same 1971 Time report, “[Gadhafi’s] dual preoccupations are the destruction of Israel and, through lavish outlays of his country's oil money, making himself Nasser's successor as the leader of Pan-Arabism.”

But Nasser pushed Pan Arabism as a secular movement, and in many instances he pushed programs of modernization and secularization. Gadhafi’s actions while leading Libya, however, shrouded how much he followed Nasser’s plan of secularization.

And when Pan Arabism seemed out of reach, Gadhafi changed his focus.

In 2009, the Libyan strongman was the chairperson of the African Union. During his tenure, he proposed a United States of Africa as a way to provide stability to the African country.

According to a number of scholars, Gadhafi made contradictory statements on Islam throughout his life. While at times he disavowed himself from Islam, especially Islamists, he also told a crowd in Niger that Islam was the world’s only universal religion. Under his rule, the Libyan government granted financial aid to Islamic communities around Africa, including building Islamic schools.

“You don't come to power without giving some sort of lip service to Islam and establishing your credentials as a believer,” said Pemberton from George Washington. “I think he did that openly when he came to power and certainly talked about the Quran and Sharia.”

But, said Pemberton, once he had come to power, it was evident that “Gadhafi’s Islam was not a true Islam. It was much more based on Pan Arabism ideals.”

Robin Wright, foreign policy analyst at the United States Institute of Peace and author of “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World,” echoed Pemberton’s claim.

“He, at the end of the day, was secular,” Wright said. “This is a country without sectarian violence. It had deep tribal difference but not sectarian differences, unlike Bahrain and Syria.”

And according to Wright, more than being secular, Gadhafi was anti-Islamist. This was evident in his actions against the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a group listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization that hoped to depose Gadhafi.

“Brutality helped him stay in power,” said Wright, speaking of Gadhafi’s regular crackdowns on the organization. “He feared the rising tide of Islam as a political force and as a potential force to mobilize against him.”

Libya is overwhelmingly Sunni, with some estimates as high as 97% of Libya practicing Sunni Islam. Though Sunni Islam is referred to as the orthodox view of Islam with the vast majority of practicing Muslims identifying as Sunni, Zafar said Gadhafi never fully embraced the orthodoxies of Sunni Islam.

“He did expose his religious ideologies to a certain extent, but it wasn't the same as other rulers,” Zafar said. “He was always speaking as a proponent of Islam. He really didn't give much to religious tolerance.”

In one of the more bizarre chapters in the Libyans leader's life, Gadhafi hired 200 Italian models in 2010 while visiting Rome and lectured them on the Quran. Additionally, he called people who did not follow Islam “losers” and said the Christian Bible was a forgery.

“When he had this ludicrous ideas of Sharia law, of everyone converting to Islam, particularly women, he definitely showed his intention or desire for Islam to rule, but he did not identify with a certain sect or thought process,” concluded Zafar.

Islamic Rep. Ellison draw anti-Muslim tea party Challenger-Salon

Keith Ellison, one of two Muslim members of Congress, has drawn a Tea Party challenger who says she is running because she believes Ellison is a "radical Islamist."

Lynne Torgerson wrote a post last week on the website of Tea Party Nation on the need to ban Shariah in the U.S., and her claim that Ellison sees Islamic law as supreme:

I, Lynne Torgerson, am running for Congress in Minnesota, against radical Islamist Keith Ellison.  Keith Ellison fails to oppose banning Islamic Sharia law in the United States.  He accuses people of trying to ban it as "conspiratorilists." [sic] Keith Ellison also fails to support that the United States Constitution should be supreme over Islamic Sharia law. 

Torgerson actually ran last cycle, garnering 4 percent as an independent. A Minneapolis criminal defense attorney, her campaign website was dominated by critiques of Islam:

"And, what do I know of Islam? Well, I know of 911."

And here's a video uploaded yesterday of Torgerson asking Ellison at an event whether he believes Shariah or the U.S. Constitution should be supreme in the United States.

"I believe that the United States Constitution, which has been amended well over 25 times, is the bedrock of American law," Ellison says. "This whole movement to ban Shariah -- bills like this have been introduced in 22 states -- in my view is a very thinly disguised effort at religious persecution of people that are Muslim."

Sara Forestier and Jacques Gamblin in "The Names of Love"

French guilt over the Nazi-collaborator Vichy regime and the World War II deportation and murder of thousands of Jews has produced an entire genre of French cinema that shows little sign of abating, 60-odd years on. But perhaps no French movie has tackled this topic more oddly, or more pleasurably, than Michel Leclerc's sweet, sexy and deceptively lightweight romantic comedy, "The Names of Love." (I guess that's an audience-friendly translation of the original  title, which might be more accurately given as "People's Names.") On one level Leclerc's film, a major hit and award-winner in France, is an archetypal Gallic fable on the pitfalls of l'amour, especially when Cupid's arrows have brought together a repressed middle-aged bachelor and an uninhibited, free-spirit younger woman.

OK, so "free spirit" is a bit of a euphemism when we're talking about Baya (Sara Forestier, winner of the best-actress César, or French Oscar), the radiant, half-Algerian heroine of "The Names of Love." Baya is flamboyantly promiscuous, or as she puts it, a "whore." Mind you, she's a whore with political aims: She has sex with right-wing guys -- French nationalists, wonky neoliberals, Islamic fundamentalists, you name it -- and uses her mind-blowing talents to convert them to the cause of left-wing egalitarian socialism. You may hop into the sack with Baya as a fan of Milton Friedman or Jean-Marie Le Pen or Maggie Thatcher, but you come out ready to raise llamas, ride a solar-powered moped and live in a yurt.

Now, buttoned-down Arthur (Jacques Gamblin) isn't a "fascist," even in Baya's all-encompassing use of the term. He's a dull, decent, suit-wearing Frenchman, a center-left Socialist voter and a veterinarian who specializes in avian diseases. (I'm not quite sure why it seems both funny and sad to have a character who's an expert on flu in ducks and geese, but it is.) Baya shouldn't be remotely interested, but something clicks between them right away. Because Leclerc and co-writer Baya Kasmi's playful screenplay -- they are real-life partners, and there's clearly an autobiographical element here -- frequently has Arthur and Baya break the fourth wall to talk directly to the audience, we understand the secret connection between them long before they do. Arthur is Jewish in much the same way Baya is Arab, by descent but not by upbringing, and both are carrying family secrets that shape their personalities in ways they barely recognize.

There are a few awkward moments in "The Names of Love" when Leclerc and Kasmi venture too close to delivering a lecture about tolerance or an anti-jingoistic lesson in the polyglot nature of contemporary French identity. But mostly they handle some profound and tragic elements of French history by way of thoroughly endearing comedy and a pair of mismatched, irresistible characters. (Not to mention a delightful supporting cast that includes Jacques Boudet as Arthur's taciturn dad and Carole Franck as Baya's motormouth lefty mom.) Forestier is of course the centerpiece as the frequently naked Baya -- hey, it's a French comedy -- whose luscious sexuality isn't quite as liberated as she thinks. Gamblin's performance is much subtler but also rewarding, as Arthur struggles to shed the overcoat of Parisian reserve that enshrouds his personality. A profound masterwork of French cinema? Hardly. But in its joyful and high-spirited fashion "The Names of Love" suggests that we must learn from the past but live for the future, and that definitely doesn't just apply to French people.

"The Names of Love" is now playing in New York and Los Angeles, with wider national release to follow.

Do I spot crescents in this CityCenterDC promotional brochure?

There is a giant real estate development happening in downtown Washington, D.C., near the White House, on the site of the old convention center. Boring news for non-D.C. residents. But I'm willing to bet that the CityCenterDC complex -- office space, retail, condos, your standard massive downtown "revitalization" project -- will soon be very interesting to a lot of people who don't live in the area. Not because anyone cares about urban land-use issues, but because of one of the project's investors: Muslims.

The Washington City Paper noticed a bombshell buried at the bottom of a New York Times piece:

Even before the Qatari investors became involved, Hines and Archstone determined that leasing to banks would not help them create lively shopping streets, Mr. Alsup said. But as it happened, their hesitancy on bank branches meshed with the policies of their financial partners, who adhere to the restrictions of Shariah, or Islamic law, including the ban on collecting interest. Restaurants will be able to serve liquor, but retailers whose primary business involves selling alcohol will not be allowed, Mr. Alsup said.

That's right: Shariah law, a stone's throw from the U.S. Capitol. I am assuming the Times just neglected to mention that in addition to banning bars from the complex, all women will be required to wear the niqab, and obviously all infidels will be murdered, while shopping at the Apple store or whatever ends up there. And no dancing!

What's astounding is that as far as I can see, Matt Drudge hasn't picked this up. Pamela Geller hasn't written a lengthy screed about it. Robert Spencer has not weighed in. No one at the Corner has mocked liberals for mocking the threat of creeping Shariah. Get on it, guys! SHARIAH LAW HAS BEEN IMPOSED IN WASHINGTON!

This interview with Robert Spencer, the go-to Islam expert for the right wing, offers a taste of the worldview of the Shariah fear-mongering set:

Frontpage: I would like to talk to you today about Anthony Weiner’s marriage to his Muslim Brotherhood wife, Huma Abedin.

How is it exactly that a Muslim woman connected to the Muslim Brotherhood is married to a Jewish man? Something is not fitting here, right?

Spencer: Jamie, Islamic law prohibits a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim man. A Muslim man may marry a non-Muslim woman, but not the other way around. This is yet another manifestation of Islamic supremacism: the idea is that a wife will become a member of her husband’s household, and the children will follow the religion of the father. Thus, Muslim men marrying non-Muslim women ultimately enriches the Islamic community, while the non-Muslim community must forever be made to diminish.

Consequently, when a non-Muslim man begins a relationship with an observant Muslim woman, he is usually pressured to convert to Islam, and such conversion is made a condition of the marriage. Of course, laws are often honored in the breach, and this is not always true. So while we know that Huma Abedin’s parents were devout and observant Muslims — indeed, her father was an imam — we don’t know what exactly is going on with her marriage to Anthony Weiner.

Certainly the most likely scenario is that Weiner did convert to Islam, as Abedin’s mother, a professor in Saudi Arabia, would almost certainly have insisted that he do so. Weiner has made no public statement of this conversion, but since it would almost certainly have cost him politically if he had announced it, this silence is not any indication that he didn’t actually convert.

However, it is also possible, given the recent scandal involving Weiner’s apparently frequent and sexually charged contact with other women, that the rumors that the Abedin/Weiner union is a political marriage of convenience are true. After all, in 2008, Hillary Clinton was running for president. There were widespread insinuations that she was involved in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with Abedin, her ever-present personal assistant. Those whisperings persisted into Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. Abedin’s 2010 marriage to Weiner, at which Bill Clinton presided, put those rumors to rest.

In Islamic law, a Muslim must officiate a marriage ceremony; hence if Bill Clinton was the only one officiating, the marriage was not valid according to Islamic law. Huma Abedin would undoubtedly have known that. Thus, if no Muslim was officiating along with Clinton, Weiner would not have had to convert to Islam, as the whole thing was a charade from the outset, apparently entered into with the full awareness of all parties concerned.

Emphasis added.

This is the second time we've heard the baseless claim that the very Jewish Weiner might have converted to Islam when he married Huma Abedin.

The important point here is that Spencer is no fringe figure; he's at the very center of the anti-Muslim movement in the United States. His bio describes the impressive access he has to both mainstream and right-leaning media sources:

His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, the UK's Guardian, Canada's National Post, Middle East Quarterly, WorldNet Daily, First Things, Insight in the News, National Review Online, and many other journals.

Spencer has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry. He has also appeared on the BBC, ABC News, CNN, FoxNews's O'Reilly Factor, the Sean Hannity Show, the Glenn Beck Show, Fox and Friends, and many other Fox programs, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span, France24 and Croatia National Televison (HTV), as well as on numerous radio programs including Bill O'Reilly's Radio Factor, The Laura Ingraham Show, Bill Bennett's Morning in America, Michael Savage's Savage Nation, The Sean Hannity Show, The Alan Colmes Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Michael Reagan Show, The Rusty Humphries Show, The Larry Elder Show, The Barbara Simpson Show, Vatican Radio, and many others. He has been a featured speaker at Dartmouth College, Stanford University, New York University, Brown University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, Washington University of St. Louis, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and many other colleges and universities.

I asked Spencer about his claim, and he emailed: "If [Weiner] converted, it was almost certainly for convenience, not out of conviction." Spencer also amended his statement that Weiner "most likely" converted to "most immediately obvious":

"'Most likely' is a bit overstated. That is the most immediately obvious scenario, given Abedin's background and self-identification as a Muslim. It is, as is obvious from the rest of what I said, not the only possible scenario," he wrote.

What did he say this time? Let's go to the tape!

MediaMatters' Political Correction provides the video and the transcript:

GOHMERT: And I know the president made the mistake one day of saying he had visited all 57 states, and I'm well aware that there are not 57 states in this country, although there are 57 members of OIC, the Islamic states in the world. Perhaps there was some confusion whether he'd been to all 57 Islamic states as opposed to all 50 U.S. states. But nonetheless, we have an obligation to the 50 American states, not the 57 Muslim, Islamic states. Our oath we took is in this body, in this House. And it's to the people of America. And it's not to the Muslim Brotherhood, who may very well take over Egypt and once they do, they are bent upon setting up a caliphate around the world, including the United States. And this administration will been [sic] complicit in helping people who wants [sic] to destroy our country.

Yep, just your typical "Barack Obama is a Muslim who wants to Muslimize America because he hates us" screed. Pretty standard, par-for-the-course insane racist paranoia, from a congressman. This bizarre right-wing fantasy-land bullshit is at this point so common that when I saw this video, I was like, "man, wake me when Louie Gohmert says something really awful." He needs to really think outside his awful box of bigoted garbage to impress me, these days!

So that's pretty depressing, right? Louie Gohmert: I am desensitized to your horribleness.

Newt Gingrich has become one of the most vocal Muslim-baiting Republicans in the country, from his call for a federal ban on Shariah to his comparison of the organizers of the "ground zero mosque" to Nazis. But Gingrich's recent rhetoric represents a little-noticed shift from an earlier period in his career when he had a strikingly warm relationship with the American Muslim community.

As speaker of the House in the 1990s, for example, Gingrich played a key role in setting aside space on Capitol Hill for Muslim congressional staffers to pray each Friday; he was involved with a Republican Islamic group that promoted Shariah-compliant finance, which critics -- including Gingrich -- now deride as a freedom-destroying abomination; and he maintained close ties with another Muslim conservative group that even urged Gingrich to run for president in 2007.

Gingrich's changing relationship with the Muslim community mirrors a similar evolution in the Republican Party at large. President Bush won a majority of Muslim votes in 2000, but after Sept. 11 and the subsequent passage of the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, and Abu Ghraib, Muslim Americans shifted to the Democratic column. After Bush -- who had at least given rhetorical support to the idea of non-discrimination -- left office, explicitly anti-Muslim voices in the GOP became more prominent, most visibly during the hullabaloo last summer about the planned Islamic community center near ground zero.

Among them was Gingrich, who launched a particularly feverish media and fundraising offensive against the so-called "ground zero mosque." Last summer Gingrich also delivered an address at the American Enterprise Institute warning of "stealth jihadis" using "political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools" to destroy Western civilization. "Shariah in its natural form has principles and punishments totally abhorrent to the Western world," Gingrich declared. In its blanket condemnations of Shariah -- a broad term referring to the Islamic legal tradition -- this was hardly a nuanced speech.

But a little over a decade ago, the same man, as speaker of the House, went out of his way to give Muslim staffers space for Friday prayers in one of the House office buildings. At a Council on Foreign Relations event last week, the interfaith activist Eboo Patel recalled that, when Gingrich was approached about the issue by a Muslim staffer friend of Patel's, the speaker promised, "I'm going to make sure you have a place to pray for 50, and our staff will move the tables and the chairs for you. And as long as I'm speaker, you can count on that." Joked Patel: "So Mr. Gingrich has the distinction of helping to facilitate Shariah." (Ironically, a conservative group recently called for an investigation of controversial imams who allegedly addressed this same weekly prayer meeting.)

Gingrich's warm relations with the Muslim community continued well into the mid-2000s. Around 2004, for example, he participated in a planning meeting of the Islamic Free Market Institute, according to an activist who also attended the meeting. "His tone was nothing like what you hear today," recalls the activist. "He was very positive, very supportive. His whole attitude was that Muslims are part of the American fabric and that Muslim Americans should be Republicans."

By the standards of the Gingrich we know today, the Islamic Free Market Institute was essentially engaged in "stealth jihad." The now defunct group, founded by conservative activist Grover Norquist in 1998 to woo Muslim Americans to the GOP, was involved in educating the public and policymakers about Islamic or Shariah-compliant finance. Its 2004 IRS filing reported the group spent tens of thousands of dollars to "educate the public about Islam[ic] finances, insurance, banking and investments." To most people, there's nothing nefarious about Islamic finance -- there is a large international banking business centering on special financial instruments that are compliant with Islamic strictures against interest, and so on.

So in 2004 Gingrich attended a planning meeting of a group devoted to promoting Shariah-compliant finance. Fast forward to 2010 and here's what he said in his speech to the American Enterprise Institute:

"[I]t's why I think teaching about Sharia financing is dangerous, because it is the first step towards the normalization of Sharia and I believe Sharia is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it. I think it's that straightforward and that real."

Mother Jones recently reported that Gingrich attended another Islamic Free Market Institute meeting in 2001 at which he was said to be "attentive and supportive."

As late as 2007, a Republican group called Muslims for America actually nominated Gingrich for president in its newsletter, citing the fact that "unlike other politicians, Gingrich does not see us at war with Islam." The group is run by the Hasans, a Colorado family that became big Republican donors after amassing a fortune in the HMO business. The matriarch of the family, Seeme Hasan, both founded the group Muslims for Bush in 2003 and, according to her bio, represents Gingrich's group, American Solutions, in Colorado and Nevada. The website of Muslims for America prominently features a picture of Gingrich with Seeme's son, Muhammad Ali Hasan.

Seeme Hasan was not available to comment about Gingrich's evolution, but she told Talking Points Memo last August that she was considering leaving the GOP because "the past few years in the Republican Party has been constant humiliation for Muslims."

Gingrich, for his part, is currently on a cruise in Greece and his spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Department of Homeland Security this month paid $5,000 to anti-Muslim terrorism "expert" Walid Shoebat to speak at a conference for South Dakota law enforcement, despite Shoebat's history of dubious claims about the threat of Islam as well as his own background.

That $5,000 figure was unearthed by a public records request filed by Rapid City Journal reporter David Montgomery. Shoebat is an evangelical Christian whose website describes him as a "former PLO terrorist [who] now speaks out for USA and Israel."

However, as Hussein Ibish and others have documented, Shoebat's claims about his past are largely unsubstantiated, down to whether his real name is really Walid Shoebat. He, for example, claims that, in his Islamic extremist days in the 1970s, he threw at a bomb at a Bethlehem bank. But the bank says it never happened, and there are no news reports of any such terrorist attack. Surveying Shoebat's history of questionable claims, Ibish concludes that he is a "shameless fraud."

It is beyond dispute that Shoebat holds views of Islam well outside the mainstream. He told a Missouri crowd in 2007 (via Nexis) that "Islam is not the religion of God -- Islam is the devil." He has also said President Obama is "definitely" Muslim.

Nevertheless , Shoebat has managed to build a career speaking on Islam and terrorism before law enforcement and military audiences, Jewish groups, and on Fox and WorldNetDaily. At the South Dakota homeland security conference this month, Shoebat spoke about on "Jihad in America. "

Shoebat's appearance -- his second in two years in South Dakota alone -- is the latest sign of the institutional embrace of self-styled terrorism experts who are both openly hostile to Islam and unfit to provide well-grounded information to law enforcement. (For recent examples of this phenomenon in New York City and around the country, see here and here.) At last year's conference in South Dakota, Shoebat reportedly encouraged attendees to tap the phones of Muslim student groups because "you can find out a lot of information that way."

The federal Department of Homeland Security told me it had no role in inviting Shoebat to the conference -- but it did provide the grant money that paid him.

"This event was hosted and managed by the South Dakota Office of Homeland Security, a separate entity from the federal Department of Homeland Security," said DHS spokesman Matthew Chandler. "If states use grant money from DHS that is intended for training, the onus is on the state to abide by the standards."

It's not clear what those standards are. The South Dakota Office of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A typical Shoebat tactic is to quote selectively from the Quran, painting Muslims as cartoonish evil-doers. For example it's hard to see how this bit of Shoebat's speech this month, quoted by the Rapid City Journal, will add to law enforcement's understanding of Islamic extremist terrorism:

"If you meet the unbelievers, then smite off their necks," Shoebat quoted the Quran, a translation of the fourth verse of chapter 47.

"What part of ‘smite off their necks’ do you Americans not understand?" he asked.

Here, finally, is Shoebat holding forth about Islam and the "mark of the beast":

Political Islam-Businessday and Sanusi of Islamic finance

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi geria (cbn) Governor Ni at the Central Bank of Islamic politics project is to set up the concept of ' Islamic finance ', this has to do more than others. The Nigerian Islamic financial institutions in excess of $ 950 billion Politicisation assets to more than 75 countries on endangered line otherwise attack the experiment.

' Political Islam ' takes different forms, and various strategies and tactics over the controversial term. However, most definitions that should guide the social and political as well as personal life ' Islam: ' faith, including banks and insurance services in this context, the global explosion of faith is compatible with Shar'ia, symbols, and inspiration, shape, and even competitors can benefit people in the community believing that economic activity to animate draw can be interpreted as an exercise, depending on the language of Islam. ' Divide-and-conquer ' strategy is therefore contradicts this brand of Islam a peaceful political.

This two-part series on the column, ' Nigeria's Islamic finance dilemma ' in Islamic finance approved earlier (BusinessDay, 8th April 2010 and April 15, 2010). However, presciently warning of CBN and Islamic finance, the series is a very complex financial system badly politicising and promoters to run due to lack of preparation and expertise to manage projects.

To get started with an unnecessary linguistic gymnastics and CBN officials are engaged in the problems pointed out. By splitting hairs over whether the ' Islamic finance ' and ' Bank is part of a non-interest banking in other cognitive accidentally created their ' synchronous ' product CBN Shar'ia, focusing on the issue than it is. ' He's license and other forms of non-interest banking in the future, ' call itself has no idea who are interested in these ' other forms ' Iran does not appear on the CBN smart political communication.

Sanusi is skillfully, but attempts to apply the Governor he put out the fire in the mid set in Savannah disingenuously, that the Muslim populace, ' indirect rule ' strategy for the West Sea of self. ' No one is interested in setting up Islamic banks, first issued a circular requiring the current Deputy Governor in March 2009, Pastor Tunde Lemo; Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, and [cbn] administrator then. At the time, became Governor, he sorted input from the general public, the circular has already been there, and finally with the Director, financial policy and regulation of, whose name was directed by Christian Chukwu. So, if the Grand process of Islamisation, and then start for the banking sector, Pastor Charles Soludo, Professor Tunde Lemo and Mr Christian Chukwu ' (May 28, 2011).

Sanusi ' Christian Bank would push hard for equally, whether or not you can ' Bank ' Okija shrine, he Knights of why anyone aside in the financial services Board (IFSB) Islam these Christian and its description is not in the Technical Committee? International standard setting organization ' raise the IFSB prudential issues and major industry ... a global standard.Principles of the Islamic financial services industry improves reliability of soundness and it will remain exclusively for both Muslims and Dr. Bashir Aliyu Umar Sanusi:.

How many non-Muslims in the Islamic banking and Finance Institute (IBFI) CBN Nigeria Shar'ia compatible products in training by? Non-Muslims will head of Islamic finance unit detailing CBN? How many women are being trained in Islamic banking? It should not be in the 21st century, our State's Constitution guarantees equal treatment for all of your resource dictionary, instead of using the Islamic banking takes off, in the Islamic tradition of public life, and potentially closed female dogs?

Why do Muslims have to qualify for the Elimination of illegal lowers the bar — need to Bank float instead of the N25 N5-N10 billion — billion other people? Why Islamic banking in Nigeria ', the ' overwhelming craving Muslims cannot raise the N25 (Lotus capital Jaiz international) is the first and only get off the ground for almost 20 years, the Islamic Bank approves billion? There are two ways to make a difference, and we are, the more difference is created.

Come clean, rather than to the CBN threw Islamic finance ' like ' Christ sludge. distribution of laundry However, he is a Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria as '' not washing; The Christian Association of Nigeria Kaduna State chapter, Bishop David, Yakubu Pam Pastor Bakare North Korea's Central; Graduate School of theology at the Seminary of the venerable Andrew Crowther or Igenoza. In the ' Apostle ' in the market (AiMP) CBN network professionals ' sort ' Christian, countless Christians, cbn contrived fluff, whose loud silence is motivated by this reverberates. compared to

Organic growth in other countries, Islamic finance, manufacturing, media hyped the Tomb instead of a top-down well that served them. Some of the top business schools in the world, such as DePaul University — the largest Catholic University in the United States — Islamic finance professionals for the next generation of Islamic finance to run a program. Instead, we used subtle advance or we will be sick of our Islamic finance when we split the apparent political goals in order to afford it. Similarly, the Nigerian Muslims ' 120 years discounts to appease the dream revival, modern banking experience, but once again worked in Nigeria, and elsewhere, and the politicization of bias here ready, zealotry woefully our usual fails because of a lack of ' popular ' policy is the root of the graveyard and dangerous.

How to prove that Islamic violence-FrontPage magazine Absurdities Islam

Muslims to ignore Muhammad's sunna Sheikh's video saw a warning about the other day or prescribed in the rules and customs of the Prophet for Muslims. In order to support his points, he was talking about Muslims, Muhammad wherein the hadith reads: "pray, wash your hands before you put in water to wake up from sleep, ablution for nights spent at hand."

Sheikh Muhammad said, according to hear of someone, deridingly as "I'm not going to keep my own hand, what I am know?!"You are talking about, and then

This guy is trying to find his arm — elbow to hand in his anus up — Xu.

The moral of the story? It is dangerous to ignore the words of Muhammad. Sheikh Sharh Sahih Muslim, this highlights a trusted source of anecdotes and its closing alerts, read: "therefore, to make light of the fear of Allah and the sunna of the Prophet's words to ridicule human flaws — rebelling, and what references to this person."

There is a reason why guardians of Islam — past and present — always Muslims threatened: Muhammad sunna, seriously, if you do not want to provoke laughter naturally comic or perverse things to bizarre.

We have just one: adult breastfeeding, rida ' Al-Kabir concept or thebreast milk "Islam, Muhammad. adult women when I started hitting Canonical hadithis included in it, Islamtoday, almostauthorities the top of the 1,400 years later, still advocate this perverse practice. After all, or reject it, the other canonical hadith and fiqh of usul al-source — in short, rejects Sharia reject the methodology.

Now, how we connect the dots to see the bizarre show violence in Islam.

Consider: Muslim is still simply "adult breastfeeding," set to true if you are compelled to such things as the 7th century, Muhammad said so, because it is not that they are embracing their Prophet's better documented and unequivocal consent regarding pagan at the end of the logical?

Take a look at it this way: adult breastfeeding problem is Muslims and all sorts of embarrassing so far about; advantage or to provide them with benefits, it places them in a position, especially their women, mad (actually, it was the first rank "top 10 bizarre or ridiculous fatwas" in this list). So why is it still relevant issues among Muslims? Because Muhammad ordered it once. Thus, like it or not, Muslims must come to grips with it somehow.

What, following Muhammad's other Commandments — if you are in a Muslim settlement, embarrassed, and power, wealth, they provided the commandment humanity hedonistic pleasure — that is the most primitive urges, and very well run out of the commandments? I speak of (and extensions Sharia) war of Muhammad ("Jihad"), a pagan, his wealth, women, and children, looting, and everlasting kept him from battling the pagan Muslims along the history of Islam vis-à-vis the commandments — for non-Muslim all the things that define them.

Simply feel the need to address adult breast feeding, that is, the spirit of Islam, Muhammad, the Prophet of war and conquest because it once sold on the constant incitements recommendations.

The Islamic world is so much weaker than the heathen world, currently living in an era where it is capable of launching an attack on the whole, one may be overlooked this fact. But the intention is certainly there. Look at how a non-Muslim minorities, only one is needed, especially Christians, Muslims persecutionin the world are processed kidnapping-where are they, rapes and ransacked, — to make sure of it.

Women of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan madrassas breeds radicalism-Reuters

By Rebecca Conway

Islamabad (Reuters)-Varda is a dream of accounting students who are working abroad. Tasty and tender, 22-year-old expanding her horizons to aim at but when it comes to Islam, she questions the priest and national instructors offered by the denial of a fundamentalist interpretation.

More than one million students in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Varda's branch of the all-female madrassa or well-to-do women's army at the expense of rising intolerance faith of enlightenment occurs Islamic Theological Seminary.

Islamic extremists slowly society strengthen their grip on the country, where all women madrassas number the State educational system and deepening of the middle and upper classes, the Governor by the failure of the fuel has been rapidly over the past decade.

Often the parent job market, primarily male-oriented and married to a woman waiting for a romantic relationship will not be drawn on alternative Masooda Bano, United Kingdom-based economic and Social Research Council research fellow after a woman called to finish high school or College, enrolled in madrassas.

But, like many students, Varda, 2000 or so registered madrassas college students or graduates housewife who is Islamic Republic of Pakistan society, like everyone else, deepen their faith to feel the pressure as well as greater understanding of Islam looking.

"What they said was told to perform my thoughts and this is my religion is correct [NULL] to learn more about wanted," said Varda, who she's joined by neighbors Tehreek-i-Islami madrassa in part time encouraged the process.

The country's controversial blasphemy law against Governor this year because of questions about the murder, Varda, without hesitation, said his bodyguard by Salman Taseer's murder was the right thing to do.

"If they do not need this law to criticism then people ... They themselves Muslim members of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic, "he said the phone.

"To say this is the preferred method of I'm sorry but this is what he deserved."

Family destination

Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Al Qaeda and the Taliban is also home to call on the nuclear-armed politically unstable country President General Mohammad Zia ul Haq under the rule of since the 1980s has been drifting toward religious militancy.

Zia, Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation of the United States enjoyed enthusiastic support from, who is training Islamic militants and u.s. cash used social moderate and hard-line Islamic Saudi Arabia Wahhabism was inspired by the tolerant towards that were previously located on.

While not a weak Government, leading to a radical Sidekick and anti-Americanism has been a strong stem remains.

For boys the Islamic Islamic Republic of Pakistan's madrassas, crooked his hard-line teachings and armed fighters are notorious for making. Experts say women school students tend to be better educated and more affluent though just as dangerous.

Women's madrassas "target women will go up because the plants seeds, place it because" the global information company Stratfor Kamran Bokhari, the Middle East and South East Asia Director said.

"Women, marriage, women will raise children. Create norms within a society over time. "

Men from the boys live madrassas and free, or student's mass is often very poor, which means a very small fee and remote or rural area you can eat in. They are memories Quran all day, and their teachers, who often hear some lectures in lack sophisticated understanding of faith.

Women's madrassas month-private University price almost 3000-4000 rupees flat rate charge. Courses typically last four years, and memorizing the Koran in addition to women's studies morality and piety in Islamic texts.

"Schools, these types and their associated with the serious problem is that there are" Haider Mullick, policy analysts, and United States joint special operations in Florida University researcher said. "Some of them are tolerant, but not to participate, the attack or we've seen as a kind of murder will develop."

Al-Huda, Farhat train by the 1990s, established the country's most well-known female madrassas is one of the middle and upper classes in most of the students hail from.

Schools in Islamabad on the outskirts of the vast new headquarters, black or grey robes students where children class classroom, colorful past and flyers Islam describes terms of where the sunlit lobby to walk through.

The exact number is not available, while the expected 15,000 students Al Huda program have gone through a comprehensive journal Southeast Asia Faiza writes Mushtaq.

Sadaf Ahmad, Lahore University of Management Sciences and for women in the book's author and an Assistant Professor of anthropology, Islam Al Huda and other female members of the madrassas to be held at the home of religion study group through the mainstream society to further their ideas spread said.

Across town in the Warren of narrow lanes, the hidden another famous female madrassa, founder Um-e-Hassan below approximately 550 students from Jamia Hafsa to educate. Headscarves a small group of women from the meticulous late at night and the teacher's question the Koran recitation low sitting on the table.

Hassan's students come from various social backgrounds, she says, live in the town and school Islamabad many travel from the village.

Hassan helped her students in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 2007, the harsh imposition of Islamic law for a campaign to take control of Islamabad's Red Mosque's Imam is married.

Women's stick wielding her roving band commando assault mosque had it back in Islamabad fear the neighborhood before. More than 100 people died in the attacks.

Hassan Jamia Hafsa in 1992, and since women's "thousand", has been dating her education. Red Mosque siege of the time, she says about 750 students.

"We we know Islam [NULL] girl, our children must be passed," Hassan said. "Here they do not think, or how to fashion, they look for. they do not have things don't worry. They just focus on their research, and some in the community will teach women when they leave. "

Abedin/inner marriage "Islamic plot"-dumb and Muslims United States

By Sheila Musaji

Muslim population in the United States to take more than a plot and a lot of children and growing their current 1% of the United States the majority of the population, they can revert the following "Sharia law" may have been the West sostupid Muslim conspiracy"ever, but Muslim marriage conspiracy comes a close second.

Muslim population in the plot, here's a little background might not remember for those who are

In the United States is currently about 50,000 Muslims and approximately 300 million total population-1%.  I am a mathematician, however (i.e. 2,086) by United States population is about 77 years in the United States double seems to be about the current growth rates of geography.com looking for information.  At the same rate as the Muslim population doubles, if 600 million 1.6% of the population of 10 billion will be Muslims.  Twice in the Muslim population growth the norm if it is only 3.3% of the 600 population 20 million Muslims, it is possible to be.

How to look at the numbers, no matter how anyone this Muslims who by acquiring the American population, they will have to wait long, or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of years to reach their goals.  I've seen is the stupidist racist garbage.

Wrote an article a few days ago Eliana Benador and beyond Washington Times paranoia, shenanigans, Islamophobia lunacy! she Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin marriage had written about articles about.  Benador her article title "Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin: Islamic agenda marriage?".  Title got my attention.  What possible "Islamic agenda" probably Interfaith marriage is destroying the tawdry sex scandals could be?  Page was a lot of other people have been discovered by the Washington Times obtained from the site.

Her rant of Benador unpleasant speculation much task management — Weiner may have converted to Islam or Islamic Abedin, otherwise why Islamic Imam would be understood that gave her advice can be on the left — was the best groom Abedin has been "political movers and shakers Rep. Anthony Weiner, politically placement marriage, including in the United States advance the cause of Islam access?" — "Anthony Weiner-Huma Abedin Union widely reported when we love by or socialist political agenda. Jewish American men and her lineage of Muslim women's cultivate wonder if coupling "—" Taqiyya observant Muslims, there are legal rights and promote the cause of Islam to distort the truth of the Sharia that represents a duty elements of practice to remember that this situation at the time of reporting, it is also important. ...”

Benador's article in the New York mosque Imam, "the Imam of New York" and "best Islamic time", and his simple advice takes on sinister tones.  This time can hold a minority opinion but Islamophobes Muslims hold a different opinion is not allowed.  They Muslim Borg the same of Star Trek and the hive mind sharing.  Benador important male or politicians-pro-Muslim agenda America conquering Islam/Socialist/left-wing conspiracy to get married to a engaging Muslim women to groom came out evil Islamic plot.

This crazy hut it Islamophobia industry really lunatic fringe can be limited.  However, I have been wrong in that assumption.

Daniel Pipes as a pro-Islamist attack Grover Norquist and his 2005 article update.  In the original article Norquist's Islamic wife pipe and possible meanings of a mixed marriage to discuss spent a lot of time.  Pipe closed, along with the original article "If Grover Norquist but actually converted to Islam, he's just not enabled the Islamic cause, but Islam itself."

Pipe in mind who must marry a Muslim suspects, his 2011 June 9, pipe said update: "speaking Muslim women and marriage, Anthony Weiner in American politics who did notable non-Muslim male, Jewish, born Huma Abedin, Southeast Asia is the origin of Islamic marriage converted to Islam? According to one account "give up drinking and even sometimes fasting in Ramadan." the godly wife acceptance that he "did Weiner secretly converted to Islam, Islamic marriage?"Did Barrack in the marshalls evidence suggesting Ben

Pipe Weiner/Abedin marriage as a description of the recommended article Benador's articles as crazy.

Why Barrack question "this time Kuwait Faculty of Islamic law in Dr. Anwar Shoeb Declaration Anthony Weiner between Huma Abedin marriage is null and void, considering it from the location where the Sharia adultery as he Jew or Christian to go regardless of whether the non-Muslim, Muslim women's marriage ban." her husband would "by Abedin Barrack then Abu Namous asks Muslim his boss a direct opposite? Why? "

How Islamic scholars in Kuwait, some in the United States time "Muslim excellence"?  I heart Abu Namous, "New York's Imam" in the same way that Kuwait scholars assume this authority was obtained.

This is the same Ben Barrack other articles authored Walid Shoebat claimed that Huma Abedin mother and Muslim Brotherhood secret is a member of the women's wing.  And then all come out of the Barrack and Shoebat most adverse evidence "which Huma any major Western media outlets, even what is common knowledge in the Arab world. Yet, confirmed by Arab sources-Huma Abedin has a brother called Oxford University to work on Abedin mountain. "

Cue scary music, Oxford, and her brother works.  Apparently that proves something.

They then Oxford University Islamic infiltrated by Islamic activity that is known is the breeding ground.  Even worse, Abedin's brother Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has worked with.

More terrifying music cue.  Her brother was working in Oxford and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has worked with.  Now we have her brother was taking over the West, and we hold dear all bent on subverting the truly extreme Muslims.

Who News Corp., Fox News Channel's parent company's second-largest shareholder is the same Alwaleed Bin Talal.  And, for one, do not have to show their money seee anti-Muslim who influence the Fox News channel.  He is also many other well known companies even Euro Disney is a large shareholder.  Perhaps there are Mickey Mouse to convert Muslim is some sort of plot.

Pipe like serious scholars, you should consider yourself but at the same page, even as a kind of expert Walid Shoebat include reference, referral and pipes claim serious scholarship endangering Texas radio talk show host academic qualifications will be recorded by.  Shoebat herefor more.

United States creates a Muslim woman Islamic app-Bikya Masr

Los Angeles: United States Muslim women to that for more interested in an often misunderstood religion to help smart phones for application development.

Amanda as the brains behind the new app and 365muslim website she humor and pointed out, some of the many people's perceptions, or misperceptions of Islam fighting.

Politicianssaid in an interview with applications will lead to not download readers "conversion, teachings, hypnosis, browbeat and subject Japan, Jihad-Ed, or added to the FBI watch list."

On her website she her simple for the cause. She converted to Islam, 12 years ago and a professional writer and activist in Austin, Texas, living in that identify themselves.

"Rather than simply Muslims all violence, I thought the best thing to do, misogynistic religious lunatic communicate truly really we want to get to know more about moderate, intelligent people believe in that you want to argue with people," she writes. "When the Smartphone apps charm and fun way for Muslims and Islam, and the maximum daily in fact came up with the idea of the role."

For example, gives a politician: "the Prophet Muhammad said, ' there it not deserve the Sparrow or anything smaller, without killing any person but is Allah that questions about it on judgment day. Yes, I mean your windshield spiders too! "

New applications, you can use free iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch. She is currently developing knowledge so it on Android phones. Users to their Facebook page to share information, you can even.

American Muslims a new effort to be excited about, and they hope to non-Muslims in the United States and elsewhere to help combat the perception of Islam by the application will be downloaded.

"I do not understand people, but instead of converting something they can go and the people who learn something hope" Yussif Kadry, Egypt-United States started in the Faculty of UCLA. The question that people are, and then 365muslim their answers can get you will find a place. He even found it useful.

"Growing up in the United States, or Islam, [NULL] was quite a bit about, and not even say today I religions, practicioner very much but faith [NULL] want to know more about believe this app is for those who will be great," he added.

Now at least I don't have the information against the body. Kadry, millions of American Muslims and the faith [NULL] want to know more about the people they are now the app to the world's largest religion, to learn about one of their friends, you can send.

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Myanmar/Islam: terror in the State and the Arakan Rohingya situation ...-the International Islamic News Agency

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DAKHA (Bangladesh), 26 Jumada 2/May 29 (IINA)-”Rohingyas have become stateless within the state. The military regime has put up two options before the Rohingya people: either to accept a Barman melting pot and become Buddhist, or migration to alien lands. None of Rohingya could agree to an arrangement that compromises their religious identity. The ancestral land, Arakan is dear and sacred to them. The new form of persecution is increasing every day. It is only the return of Democracy that is likely to break the age-old repressive rule of the Barman over the Rohingyas of Myanmar.”

It is not often you meet someone who tells you that he is from “a people at the brink of extermination.” But the testimonies from refugees in a remote corner of southern Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, justify that assessment. For the Rohingya people, a Muslim minority in northern Arakan State, western Burma, are a stateless people whose very identity is denied.

Arakan, a geographically isolated area in western Myanmar, a mountain range separating it from central Burma, had been an independent kingdom until 1784.It is named by the present regime as the Rakhine state. Two major ethnic races, the Rohingya (Muslims) and the Rakhine (Buddhists) inhabit Arakan. The unofficial total population of Arakan is more than 5 million including about 1, 5 million Rohingyas. At present both the races stand at almost equal proportions inside Arakan. Rohingyas have been living in Arakan from time immemorial. They are a people with a distinct culture and civilization of their own. They trace their ancestry to Arabs, Moors, Pathans, Moguls, Bengali and some Indo-Mongoloid people. Early Muslim settlements in Arakan date back to the 7th century AD.

The Naaf River marks part of the border between Bangladesh and Burma. The Arab traders have been in contact with Arakan since the third century and they had introduced Islam to Arakan around 788 CE. During that time a dynasty, Chandra was ruling the kingdom of Arakan. The Arab merchants carried out missionary activities by spreading Islam side by side with their trade. In the process, a large number of people were converted to Islam. Many of the Arab traders married to local women and settled there permanently. Due to conversion, inter-marriage and migration, the Muslim population grew to large numbers during the subsequent centuries. These Muslims came to be known as Rohingyas, a term derived from the Arabic term “Raham” (God blessing). Until the 15th century Arakan was ruled by a non-Muslim king, Narameikhala, who himself embraced Islam in 1404 and adopted the Muslim name of Solaiman Shah. After the death of last Muslim king Solaiman Shah 11 Buddhism had arrived in the region from Tibet, Mongolia. By the middle of the 10th century, the Mongolian race Barman’s mostly Buddhists had established their of power in Burma proper. During the decaying years of Muslim rule in Arakan a Burman king of Ava, Bodaw Phaya invaded Arakan and gained control of Arakan in 1784. Thus came the end of Independent Arakan.

In 1824, the British East India Company invaded Burma and through the Anglo-Burma war Arakan came under the sway of the British. The whole of Burma including Arakan was brought under the Indian system of Administration. During the colonial rule the British were not interested in the national integration of diverse communities in Burma. On the contrary, those divisions were used for prolonging colonial rule with its policy of “divide and rule”. The Nationalist leader General Aung San convened a conference of all ethnic groups at Pang long in 1947. It was agreed that all states would be given regional Autonomy with the provision of seceding after 10 years of Independence. However, the constitution which was adopted after Aung San death declared that the new state called Burma would be unitary in character, with no Autonomy for the provinces. The constitution caused immediate ethnic insurrection which became worse after 1958, even though, the Prime Minister U Nu had declared Buddhism as the state religion of the country to appease the ethnic groups, as a great majority of them were Buddhists. However their further alienated the Muslims in Arakan who felt more insecure in Independent Burma. The government dismissed many Muslim officers and replaced them with Buddhists in Arakan. An all-out effort was made to transmigrate Buddhists from Burma proper to Arakan in order to diminish the Muslim majority.

After the Independence civil war broke out when many ethnic Nationalities and the communist party of Burma (CPB) took up arms against the central government headed by U Nu. In Rakhine state both Rakhines and Muslims groups formed armed opposition groups who fought against the government. In the late 1950`s when the government started discriminating against the Muslims a Japanese trained Rohingya, Jafar Kawal  organized people, calling them mujahedeen. However, against the trained Burmese soldiers the mujahedeen could not last long. Jafar Kawal was assassinated. Many of his supporters were captured and killed. By 1962 the civilian government had also collapsed and the army took over. The military regime abolished the constitution, dissolved the parliament and banned the activities of all organizations. The Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) inflicted heavy casualties on the Rohingya masses. General Ne Win launched a major offensive under the code name of “King Dragon Offensive” against the Rohingya liberation force.

The state Peace and Development Council (SPDC), supreme body of the regime rejects the existence of a separate ethnic group called “Rohingya”. They are not recognized as one of the 135 national races by Myanmar government. As per the rules stated in section 3 of the 1982 citizenship Law, the Rohingyas are not considered to be a National ethnic group and therefore, they are not qualified to obtain full citizenship. However, the family list only indicates names of family members and date of birth. It may not indicate place of birth, which in-effect prevents people from furnishing conclusive evidence of birth in Myanmar as required by the 1982 Law. Thus the theoretical entitlement to citizenship for Rohingyas becomes meaningless in practice. In fact, the 1982 act was specially designed effectively to deny the Rohingyas the right to a nationality because the promulgation of this law took place soon after the Rohingyas who fled to Bangladesh during 1978 had been repatriated. According to a report by Amnesty International this law is certainly discriminatory and is in clear violation of Myanmar’s obligation as a state and a member of the UN to protect and respect human rights without distinction, such as race, color, sex, Language, religion Political or other opinion , national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

The military regime has prohibited the Rohingyas, their rights to freedom of movement and selection of their place of residence within the state. According to the Law, Rohingyas in northern Arakan state must routinely apply for permission before traveling to other villages or towns. However, this law does not apply to the Rakhine population in the same Rakhine state. Travel restrictions have further increased following the outbreak of communal violence in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state in February, 2001.Their inability to travel freely, greatly inhibits the Rohingyas ability to earn a living and obtain proper health care. Freedom of movement is fundamental human rights. Upon which other human rights are contingent. Article 13 of the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) states,” everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the border of each state.” The sweeping restrictions on the movement of Rohingyas are disproportionate and discriminatory; they are imposed on all Rohingyas because they are Rohingya and not on members of other ethnic nationalities in Rakhine state. They are broad and indiscriminate in their application and as such are unlawful.

Forced labor on infrastructure projects mainly road is one of the most common forms of the practice in Myanmar. But those who can pay a bribe to the authorities can be excused from forced labor. The practice of forced labor prevents the poorer Rohingyas from having sufficient time to earn cash income to sustain them and achieve food security for their families.

The creation of model villages is a unique way of terrorizing the Rohingyas in the Rakhine state. Many Rakhine Buddhits and other non-Rohingyas are relocated to especially established model villages in northern Arakan from other parts of the Arakan state. Others include poor Bama from the central plains, retired civil servants, former prisoners, former insurgents and ethnic minorities such as the Kamein, Daingnet, Mro and Thet, who live in the high lands near the border with Bangladesh and Chin state. There are 26 model villages in Maung Daw and Buthidaung townships. In every model village there are about 100 families. Each family receives 1-4 acres of farm land, a pair of oxen and a house. The farm lands confiscated from Rohingyas. Moreover, houses and other facilities such as schools and health centers, in these model villages are built on the confiscated land of Rohingyas by forced labor by the Rohingya population.

In addition for migrated residents in the model villages and extension of military camps, shrimp farms and rice fields for NaSaKa in Rakhine state have also led to land confiscation. But Rohingyas receive no compensation for the confiscated lands. Land confiscated policy led to a number of evictions of Rohingyas. However, the Burmese government has violated all the international CRC and CEDAW convention despite signed by the Burmese government.

Rohingyas in Rakhine state are subjected to extortion and arbitrary taxation. These taxes vary from collecting firewood and bamboo to fees for the registration of death and births in the family lists, on fruits bearing trees and even on football matches and shrimp tax, animal tax, roof tax, house building and repairing taxes and so on are collected by force. Every new born and death of animal has to be reported paying a fee. The worst form of taxation that has been the heaviest burden for rice paddy farmers. Under this system farmers were required to sell a portion of their harvest at fixed prices to the State Myanmar Agricultural Products Trade (MAPT). These prices are well below the market rate, varying from half to one-eight of the market price. Although the rice tax was abolished in April, 2003 by the government.

By Law any Rohingya has to report to the authority for new birth and death in families with fees. Otherwise a new born baby will never be considered as citizen. There have also reports that since mid-2002 some pregnant women have had to register themselves in person in the nearest NaSaKa camp. According to some testimonies, women were asked to show their abdomens and then they were raped. All these are gross violation of international Law.

Since 1992, the regime has introduced a regulation that every Muslim in Northern Arakan is required to ask for prior permission of the authority before getting married. Muslims living in other parts of the Myanmar are not effect by this policy. However prior permission itself may not be a problem, but what is problematic is that the authorities demand large amount in taxes from people who ask for permission to get married. For some case people have to wait 2 to 3 years to get permission after paying large sums of money. According to UDHR (Article 16): Men and Women of full age without any limitation due to race, nationality, or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. There are consistent reports of young couples fleeing to Bangladesh because this is the only way for them to get married. Their names have often been removed from their family lists by the authorities. The poor have gone into serious debt to get permission. When they are unable to reimburse their debt, they have fled to Bangladesh. However, when they are in Bangladesh they are merely branded as economic migrants without realizing their unbearable plights. They face arrest or deportation.

In fact, the presence of the UNHCR and UN agencies and NGOs do not provide the necessary safe-guard to the refugees. They cannot fulfill the social, economic, political and spiritual needs of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The new arrivals that entered into Bangladesh after September 1992 are not recognized as UN refugees and are not accepted in refugee camps. Nearly 350,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees have entered into Bangladesh. In a report on the plight of Rohingya people to Bangladesh, the International Federation of Human Rights League (FIDH) pointed out that the UNHCR is entrapped in an insane policy, in complete contradiction to its mandate.

“The situation is desperate for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh,” says Lynn Yoshikawa, an advocate with Refugees International who recently returned from visiting Rohingya camps in the region. “They live in squalor and are forced to suffer a litany of abuses because the government doesn’t recognize them as refugees.”

The lack of documentation also makes Rohingya women and girls particularly vulnerable to sexual and physical attacks. Reports of sexual violence against unregistered refugees have increased. “Registering Rohingya refugees would help these people be protected from arrest and deportation and receive lifesaving assistance,” Yoshikawa said. “We hope that the UN Refugee Agency, the government of Bangladesh, and other involved governments can work together to establish a system to register these undocumented refugees as soon as possible.”

For pure humanitarian reasons, I believe it is not only morally right, but imperative, to speak up for the beleaguered Rohingya. Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) ranks them among the ten people groups around the world most at risk of extinction. They are in urgent need of humanitarian help and advocacy said Benedict Rogers.

When the Rohingya refugees came to Bangladesh, the local people were sympathetic to them. They helped them through providing cloth, food and even shelter. Over the years, the situation has changed. Nowadays, the relations between the Rohingya refugees and the community people are not warm. The local are becoming unhappy, if not hostile to the Rohingya refugees. The Refugees often involve in disputes and other forms of conflicts with the local people. Some local people argue that the problem of local unemployment has been created by the influx of the Rohingyas. The Rohingya labourers are low paid compared to the Bangladeshis. As a result, the local community is least concerned about the Rohingya refugee problem. All these factors antagonize the local people against the Rohingyas as they confront more hardships in their lives due to their arrival in Bangladesh.

Besides the above tortures, there are many other peculiar ways of violation of human rights in Rakhine state. They are:

(1)    Extra judicial killing, summary executions, arbitrary arrest and torture, destruction of Mosques, cemeteries and religious schools.

(2)    Abuse of women: the authorities are collecting Rohingya girls from the villages under the pretext of “women development”. There are reports of sexual violations on these girls. For example, on 27th April, 2004   Sajeeda, a twelve (12) years old daughter of Noor Kamal of Kyi Kan Pyin (Kawarbil) village under Maung Daw Township was raped and strangled by a NaSaKa.

(3)    Deprivation of right to education: Since the promulgation of citizenship Law in 1982 the Rohingya students are denied the right to higher education. Rohingya students who stood in selection tests and formal admission for various seats of learning located in Rangoon and Burma proper are unable to pursue their studies as they are not allowed to travel. That’s why Rohingya students are to stop their studied.

Following the Nagamin (Dragon King) operation of the Myanmar army in Arakan, more than 200,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh in 1978. This campaign was officially aimed at “ scrutiny each individual living in the state, designating citizens and foreigners in accordance with the law and taking action against foreigners in accordance with the law and taking action against foreigners who have filtered into the country illegally.

After the creation of NaSaKa in 1992, the restriction of freedom of movement and other abuses increased significantly. Consequently, in 1992 a new wave of over a quarter of a million Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh from the end of 1992 until early 1994 an understanding between the Bangladesh government and the Myanmar government reached for repatriation and forcibly repatriated some 50,000 Rohingyas across the border after formal memorandum of understanding was signed between the UNHCR and the Myanmar government in November 1993 the UNHCR established a presence on the ground in Rakhine state to implement the reintegration program and to provide protection for the returnees. Despite the presence of the UNHCR, Rohingyas continue to suffer from discrimination on the basis of their ethnicity and various restrictions and abuses at the hands of the Myanmar authorities. Consequently the Rohingyas have continued to flee to Bangladesh. The exact number of new arrivals since 1996 is not clear but according to a report by Amnesty International they are believed to be in the tens of thousands. The Bangladesh government has been unable to handle the massive of these refugees and has denied these new arrivals access to the refugee camps. It has also not permitted UNHCR to extend protection to them, claiming that they are economic migrants. The mass repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar by the UNHCR took place from April 1994 to December 1995. About 25,000 Rohingya refugees are still in the two remaining refugee camps.

Rohingyas have become stateless within the state. The military regime has put up two options before the Rohingya people: either to accept a Barman melting pot and become Buddhist, or migration to alien lands. None of Rohingya could agree to an arrangement that compromises their religious identity. The ancestral land, Arakan is dear and sacred to them. The new form of persecution is increasing every day. It is only the return of Democracy that is likely to break the age-old repressive rule of the Barman over the Rohingyas of Myanmar.

US Congressman Christopher Smith has today (30.9.2010) introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling on Burma’s military regime to immediately recognized the Rohingya people “as full and equal citizens of Burma”, and to lift all restrictions on movement, marriage and access to education.

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Islamic sects and Jews connection-Jerusalem Post

In defense of Muslims in the Middle East – they undersiege mentality, "Professor Azyumardi Azra explained on Monday."They interact, and afraid of the big room, giving a different Islamic sects, or whether members of other religions.

Later in the day, Arza religious law and State of the Union in Bar Ilan University International Conference, the Indonesian State, democratic State and Shari'a, about the interaction between delivered the lecture. Tager family Jewish law program University supported by the Law Faculty of the diverse perspectives Conference-religious, historical, philosophical, among them Jews from the development of legal research.

The Islamic State Jakarta, Azra history professor at the University and Studia Islamika founder, Islamic studies and SOA, University of London Editor of the journal of Qur'anic Studies Board of the journal's editor in Indonesian. In 2010, he was honorary CBE (Commander of the order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II in the interfaith understanding in his devotion was granted.

This WAS his first visit to Israel, and how green country besides his surprise, he pointed out how of Jerusalem old city to Muslims, Christians and Jews-was full of Abrahamic religious venues. But religion in common despite the Middle East is not a place of religious tolerance.

"Muslim sect in the Middle East among compromise leaves little room for," Azra Sunni, Shia, Salafites Wahabites and in the region, another Islamic Group in the center of the Department said. "Of course, the situation has become worse and authoritarianism" in the fashion of that country some.

The current political upheaval in the Middle East appeared more moderate form of Islam for the settings, you can create.

"There is a problem in the current transition," he said. "The first long entrenched military power because of the almost no civil society, which resulted in Egypt like. In the case of Libya, there is no possible political structure, tribalism. "

According to Azra "Arab countries democratic system development is a challenge. We should encourage civil society. The problem is that you socialbased mass organization-Muslim brothers-they are very political social or educational and Muslims to strengthen their understanding of the cultural aspects of improvement, such as not working in. "

Arza, the lack of moderation in the Middle East and Islamic region stems from the historical settings.

"In defense of Muslims since the late 18th century Napoleon Bonaparte of the time. In the Middle East, many Muslims had control of the Western powers. That's why conspiracy theories so trendy. "

So, while in the Middle East conflict, "there are forces, moderate" he could "not [be] conspiracy theories and under-siege mentality too old Muslims have powerful enough" said other steps.

"Now, for the Muslims to develop the necessary prerequisites of Muslims between non-Muslims they bridge the gap between their confidence."

Of course, the Islamic Middle East model is not the only modus operandi of religion.

"In Indonesia, but the difference we sects we compromise to give room for. we are lucky, in the past decades have experienced religious convergence, other sectarians, practices of barter exchanges" Azra said. "This is the [big] room for accommodation have made a compromise. "

Southeast Asia, Africa, the world's largest Muslim population, also home to a very different attitude than women in the region.

"Middle East Muslim male-dominated society. Men have been discriminated against for centuries, women's important role, "Azra said. But Indonesia, women in the temple, to recite the Koran in his voice is not considered "arwa"-sexually arousing men. Middle East Muslim men as well as many Orthodox Jews, songs, let alone in the liturgy of the women's voices to refrain from listening. In addition, Indonesia, the Islamic women's prayer with men in the same mosque space, on the other side, but without dividing wall.

For the West "during the colonial period since radical Islam as a religion, but Westerners the impression of Islam in the Middle East and take a look at that area and the fact that the Muslim South and a strong influence in Southeast Asia are ignoring identifies the Arabs," he noted.

"Islam and Judaism that can learn from each other," Azra added. "Christianity, Islam and Judaism came from the same roots. We, and many commonalities among us, needs to be strengthened. We should not look only difference; Children from one family, of the difference in there too, but one that you do not have to highlight them. "

Who is a member of the Conference Organizing Committee, Bar Ilan University of the law faculty, Professor Zvi Zohar is the Shari'a, the religion of Islam agree that the law is very similar to Halacha.

"There you can build we have many similarities, Islamic scholars and Indonesia, Foreign Affairs, it should be pointed out that the Israel country people and scholarly dialog can be the basis of," he said.

Zohar who is also legal, religious, and programs within the framework of a biannual journal of the publish status, one of the editors, it is organized by the Islamic Conference to participate in the discourse is fundamental.

"Law, religion and State in all the discussion of the relationship, there are a number of reasons, contact Islam," he said. "Islam and Judaism are their structure and the relationship between religion and State are much closer to" Christianity, for example, and more.

"Our sorrow Israel-Palestine conflict has escalated the conflict meet has been seen as by certain quarters," Zohar said. "Israel was the founder of Islam, [NULL] about anything, it's just a [historical coincidence] people living here were Muslims. We and Islam, dialog to enter all of the reasons that might be of interest and conflict, the common grounds of obscurity. "

He said, "if we talk with each other can we [NULL] add to learn about the similarities and people from two communities facing common problems and find two spectrum is. Indonesia has its own important cultural important country and we hope that this positive spirit of cooperation in the future will form the foundations. "

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