Fjärde Intifadan ? Fatah och Hamas utlovar ny terrorvåg

Fatah och Hamas tycks för en gångs skull vara överens. Israel ska utsättas för en omfattande terrorvåg med s k "folkligt motstånd". 
En ny Intifada.

Senior Fatah figures have recently often represented the “popular resistance” [i.e., popular terrorism] as an important response to an Israeli annexation of territories. Senior Fatah figure Jibril Rajoub was interviewed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV channel. According to Rajoub the “popular resistance” is carried out peacefully (a baseless allegation) and has gained international legitimacy. However, in principle does not reject the alternative of “armed resistance” (i.e., institutionalized military terrorism). Relating to the issue in careful terms, he said that in the event of an annexation, [Fatah] would meet to decide the option of “armed resistance” (for the main points of the interview see Appendix A). In addition, Fatah spokesman Usama al-Qawasmeh said that currently Fatah was in constant contact with Hamas to advance a plan of escalation of the “popular resistance,” as had been carried out in the first intifada.

• Senior Hamas figures, among them Isma’il Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political bureau, also discussed the “popular resistance.” However, there were two important differences between Hamas and Fatah. According to Hamas, agreeing to “Fatah’s program of popular resistance” did not mean abandoning “armed resistance,” which is Hamas’ preferred strategy. In addition, according to Haniyeh the objective of all forms of the “resistance” is not only to prevent Israel from annexing territories and Trump from carrying out the “deal of the century,” it is the destruction of the State of Israel (“the liberation of all Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea”) (for further information see Appendix B). Khaled Mashaal, former head of Hamas’ political bureau, called for a comprehensive exploitation of the “popular resistance” and a variety of activities in the West Bank to exhaust Israel: ramming attacks, the erection of “solidarity tents” in the Jordan Valley and territories Israel annexes and confrontations with IDF soldiers.

Det är en terrorvåg som bygger på enstaka, till synes okoordinerade, dåd.

Sten- och bombkastning,knivhuggningar, skjutningar,attacker mot kollektivtrafik

och bilar.

Den effektiva israeliska säkerhetstjänsten Shin Bet har efterhand lyckats ta död på den Tredje Intifada som Hamas utropade i  december 2008. Terrorismen har varit i avtagande sedan ett par år.

Den Tredje Intifadan var en terrorvåg riktad mot s k mjuka mål.

Civila israeler, judar över hela världen, synagogor, kollektivtrafik, Israels vänner.

Redan i inledningen brändes synagogor på många håll i Europa, även i Sverige...

Då och då har terrorn intensifierats genom "stormningar" av Gazagränsen och granat- och raketbeskjutningar från Hamas. Även Irans omfattande terrorapparat (bl a Hezballah) har tidvis engagerats.

Nu kan vi uppenbarligen vänta en Fjärde Intifada från både Fatah och Hamas. Förmodligen fortfarande inriktad mot "mjuka mål" över hela världen. Judar, synagogor och Israels många vänner...

Läs mera om terroristernas planering. 

Några exempel från Tredje Intifadan:

Hela staden jagade terrorist 

Sexbarnsmor mördad inför sina barn

Hamas hatvideo: "Knivhugg fler judar" 
Jerusalem idag: Tredje Intifadans terror 
Terrorvågens tjugonde offer

Vi bör observera att Iran/Hezballahs samarbete med Hamas har fördjupats de senaste åren. Samtidigt har Hezballahs terrorapparat i Europa (inte minst i Sverige...) växt kraftigt.

Den danske överrabbinens sammanfattning av terrorn gäller tyvärr fortfarande:
Dansk rabbin: "De ser det som en religiös plikt att slå ihjäl judar"



   

En fransk intifada

Nidra Poller är en amerikansk

författare och journalist. Bosatt

i Frankrike sedan 70-talet. Ett

alltmera islamiserat Frankrike

”präglat av islamiskt judehat,

förakt mot västerländska

värden och annat anti-socialt

beteende förstärkt av religiös

fanatism…”

I A French Intifada i Middle

East Quarterly skildrar hon den

nya franska verkligheten.

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A process described by some as the

Islamization of Europe, by others as

the failure of Europeans to integrate

Muslim immigrants, has reached a

breaking point in France.

One of the most troubling mani-

festations of this discord is the

development of a particular type

of violence that is more than the

sum of its parts.

**

A sampling of this year's news

reports reads like a catalogue of

stomping, stabbing, shooting,

torching, and sacking; attacks on

teachers, policemen, firemen, old

ladies, and modest retirees; turf

wars, tribal fights, murder over

women, over attitude, over nothing;

dead youths, murderous youths,

bodies scattered across a national

battlefield.

**

Is there a connection between the

endless series of seemingly disparate

criminal incidents and markers openly

displayed in insurrectional riots and

demonstrations—kaffiyeh face masks,

Hezbollah flags, intifada slogans,

Islamic chants?

A general French tendency to withhold

information and a deliberate decision to

avoid ethnic and religious symbols leads

to white noise coverage of criminality.

Names, photos, and background

information about perpetrators, suspects,

and victims are usually suppressed,

especially those that might create a

negative image of Muslims.

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Yet there is ample evidence that

immigration has brought specifically

Islamic antipathy to Jews, contempt

for Western values, and other anti-

social attitudes reinforced by religious

zeal and aggravated by the clash

between an authoritarian family structure

and permissive French society.

Many second and third generation,

French-born Muslims, anxious to

separate themselves from a "French"

identity they reject, are no less

vulnerable to these influences than

recent immigrants.

A supposedly reassuring "it's not

Chicago" occasionally tacked on at

the end of a report about a lawless

neighborhood adds to the confusion.

In fact, it is not Chicago but more

like Algiers, Jenin, or Bamako.

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Antisemitism som "revolutionär kamp"

Apropå att polisen börjat nysta upp det svenska terrornätverket Global Intifada:

Gruppen ser sig "som en del av den internationella socialistiska kampen", vilket borde göra en och annan gammal 68-a tårögd. På hemsidan (som naturligtvis ligger på de autonomas server Motkraft....) skryter man glatt om sina attentat. Judiska mål angriper man gärna.
Givetvis får de stöd av likasinnade:
"AFA-Stockholm stödjer Global Intifada i dess kamp och kampmetoder. Vi anser att man i vissa lägen är tvungen att agera militant och att Global Intifada har valt rätt medel vid de tillfällen de har agerat." Ja ja, så var det med den "antifascismen...

Se hur det gick för deras föregångare Blekingegatsligan i Danmark. Sex maoister försökte 1988 starta världsrevolutionen genom att råna huvudpostkontoret i Köpenhamn. En polis dödas och terroristerna kommer över 13 miljoner kronor. En del sänds som bidrag till kompisarna i PFLP
och resten köper man stulna militärvapen för.
Den fortsatta "kampen" förbereds bl a genom att man lägger upp ett omfattande kortregister över danska judar. Av en ren slump spårar polisen dem och förhindrar pogromer och andra revolutionära stordåd.

Islamisternas Intifada mot Europa – inga ”spontana protester”

För tredje natten på två veckor slogs centrala Oslo sönder
av islamistiska stormtrupper. I Köpenhamn härjades
centrum under jihadisternas raseri över den stora och
lyckade manifestationen FÖR Israel. I London, Berlin
och i många franska städer: förstörda affärer, brända bilar
och skadade poliser. Och ännu värre: mord och dödshot....
Är detta då ”spontana protester” av ”arabiska ungdomar”, som
gammelpressen försöker inbilla oss ?
Nej, Hamas utropade 27 december en s k Tredje Intifada, som
inte bara skulle rikta sig mot Israel utan utvidgas över hela
världen. Alla Israelvänliga personer, organisationer och stater
är mål för islamisternas terror.
Omedelbart började Hamas moderorganisation, Muslimska
Brödraskapet, sätta den nya terrorvågen i verket.
Därför skjuts israeler i Odense; därför bränns synagogor
i Helsingborg, Toulose och London; därför kastas brandbomber
på poliser i Oslo och Nice; därför läggs judar ut på ”dödslistor”
på islamistiska webforum i Tyskland…..
Det är en välorganiserad och välfinansierad attack mot hela
Västerlandet !
Hur välorganiserat det är framgick i Oslo när polisen fann
islamisternas arsenal:
Fant hemmelige våpenlagre i Oslo sentrum
(VG Nett) På hemmelige steder i Oslo sentrum
fant politiet store våpenlagre
Funnene sjokkerte politiet.

- Enkelte beslag gjorde at vi var bekymret over hva

de var i besittelse av, brifet politiinspektør Johan Fredriksen

justisminister Knut Storberget på Karl Johans gate

i ettermiddag.Overfor VG Nett utdyper politiinspektøren

funnene som rystet dem.

- Vi tok beslag i molotovcocktails, slagvåpen og kniver.

Flere steder i sentrum fant vi skjulte depoter med av

molotovcocktails og slagvåpen, sier Fredriksen
**
Det är hög tid att Europas politiker och journalister

begriper att det är Muslimska Brödraskapet som

organiserar och styr ett samlat angrepp mot

Västerlandet, demokratin och yttrandefriheten !!

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Några glimtar från natten i Oslo

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SDS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8 ,9, 10 SvD, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Bar, 1 YA, 1 DN, 1, 2, 3 VG, 1, 2 Pol, 1

Dagbl, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Antisemitiskt Intifada-mord i Paris

Nu har Hamas Intifada skördat ännu ett offer.

Den 70-årige judiske läkaren Désiré Amsellem,

som sköts förra fredagen har nu avlidit. Han

arbetade sedan många år i ett arabiskt distrikt

utanför Paris. Gärningsmannen är ännu inte

gripen, men polisen spanar i islamistiska kretsar....

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Vos Iz Neias

Atlas Shrugs

Le Parisien

Miljonte besökaren firas

Denna veckan firar bloggen den miljonte
besökaren.
Eller för att vara exakt: Jubiléet inträffade
för snart tre veckor sedan, men jag har haft
mycket att göra....
**
Nästan lite lustigt att det som skulle blivit ett
tillfälligt tidsfördriv för 5½ år sedan nu istället
samlat över 2.000 artiklar och en miljon
besökare på Sveriges största blogg
specialiserad på islamism, terrorism
och antisemitism.
Extra kul var att i samband med jubiléet
var bloggen uppe på tredje plats på
Bloggtoppen, långt före hela skocken av
kommunister och antisemiter.
**
Som vanligt firar jag med ett litet axplock
av de mest populära artiklarna genom åren:
Har Malmö flest muslimer i Europa ?
*
Ett muslimskt Malmö - vad betyder det ?
*
Muslimska strukturer i Malmö
- vägen till islamism ?
*
HÄR är Muhammed-teckningarna !!
*
"De förtjänar något bättre"
*
...och ordet var Folkmord
*
Shalhevet, 10 månader
- mördad av Fatah
*
Arabisk mobb angriper judar
under Lövhyddohögtiden
*
Rushdie m fl: Islamismen globalt hot
*
"Hamas, Hamas ! Gasa judarna !"
*
Intifada-hatbrott i Malmö ?
*
82,6 % antisemiter
- "en markant skillnad"??
*
Stormuftin tänkte bygga
koncentrationsläger i Nablus
*
Hebron - 4.000 års judisk kamp
*
Islamisterna i Malmö
*
Vardagen i en shariadomstol....
*
Var fjärde ung muslim
i Danmark islamist
*
Islamisternas Intifada mot Europa
– inga ”spontana protester”
*
Varför brinner Rosengård ?
- försök till analys
*
Reepaluskandalen får vetenskaplig analys
*
Arabisk antisemitism i Malmö
- ett bevisat faktum
*
Malmö, Sveriges Gaza
- antisemitiskt, islamistiskt
*
Attentat mot synagogan i Malmö
*
De två sista av 875.000...
*
Nytt antisemitiskt attentat i Malmö
och (s)-dumheter
*****
Och därmed tänker redaktören fira
med lite vila. De närmaste veckorna
bloggas enbart i händelse av krig el
dyl....

En halv miljon läser JIHAD !

Som den uppmärksamme läsaren observerat:

Jihad i Malmö firade i all tysthet sin

halvmiljonte besökare häromveckan.

Bloggen som var avsedd att bli en kortvarig insats

i kampen mot islamismen har nu funnits i snart

fyra år, publicerat över 1.400 artiklar och haft

över en halv miljon besökare....

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Traditionen trogen tänker vi fira detta

genom att påminna om några av de bästa

och populäraste artiklarna från de

gångna åren:

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Nytt antisemitiskt attentat i Malmö

och (s)-dumheter

**

HÄR är Muhammed-teckningarna !!

**

"De förtjänar något bättre"

**

...och ordet var Folkmord

**

Stöd yttrandefriheten mot mörkrets krafter !

**

Rakel ingriper i Gaza

**

Autonoma i antisemitisk förstörelsesorgie

**

Lite sommarläsning: En fantastisk historia...

**

Antisemitiskt överfall - denna gång i Amsterdam

**

Nya kravaller i Sveriges Gaza

**

Gangstersafari i Malmö

**

Sionismen - det judiska folkets

nationella frihetsrörelse!

**

"Hamas, Hamas ! Gasa judarna !"

**

Intifada-hatbrott i Malmö ?

**

82,6 % antisemiter

- "en markant skillnad"??

**

Theo van Gogh in memoriam

**

Har Malmö flest muslimer i Europa ?

**
Ett muslimskt Malmö - vad betyder det ?
**
Muslimska strukturer i Malmö
- vägen till islamism ?

**

Rushdie m fl: Islamismen globalt hot

**

Islamisterna i Malmö

**

Islamisternas Intifada mot Europa

– inga ”spontana protester”

**

Antalet islamister i Europa

**

Varför brinner Rosengård ?

- försök till analys

**

Anti-demokrater enas i Danmark

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Välbekomme !

Redaktören kommer nu att ta en lång och

välförtjänt (?) semester fram till påsk...

På återseende !

"Tredje Intifadan" har startat.

Nu koncentreras intresset av naturliga skäl till

vad som händer i Gaza, men låt oss se ett ögonblick

på den andra fronten. The Home Front....

Hamas har nu officiellt utropat en "Tredje Intifada"

mot Israel. Av det får man väl dra slutsatsen att den

s k Andra Intifadan avslutats....

Denna nya Intifada ska uppenbarligen också handla om

terror mot civila. Redan i helgen har israeliska bilar

attackerats med stenkastning och brandbomber i

Judéen och Samarien.

Bland islamisternas framgångar kan noteras att de

skadat två spädbarn....

Idag på morgonen anföll två araber förklädda till

fläktreparatörer de judiska invånarna i ett hus i

Modiin Illit i Samarien. Fyra judar knivhuggna,

en terrorist död, en efterspanas.

Samtidigt fortsätter det regna missiler från Gaza.

På morgonen träffades en byggarbetsplats i

Ashkelon: Minst en död och 16 skadade.

Alla tycks vara araber.....

I Sderot träffade en missil ett bostadshus;

flera israeler skadades.

Intifadan skadar 14 poliser/dag - i Frankrike !

Ongoing 'intifada' in France

has injured 2,500 police in 2006

(World Tribune )

"We are in a state of civil war,

orchestrated by radical Islamists,"

said Michel Thoomis, secretary general

of the Action Police trade union.

"This is not a question of urban violence

any more.

It is an intifada, with stones

and firebombs."
The French Interior Ministry has acknowledged

the Muslim uprising. The ministry said more than

2,500 police officers have been injured in 2006.

This amounts to at least 14 officers each day.
**
Muslim street commanders, who run

lucrative drug networks, have

organized youngsters in housing

projects to ambush police and

confront security forces.

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The response time allows hundreds of

Muslims to storm police cars and patrols

within minutes.
"You no longer see two or three youths

confronting police," Thoomis said.

"You see whole tower blocks emptying into

the streets to set their comrades free when

they are arrested."
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Not surprisingly, Muslim neighborhoods

are becoming autonomous zones,

with police and government workers too

scared to enter.

The police union is demanding the

Interior Ministry supply officers with

armored cars.

**
European law enforcement sources

say France could be a model

for other countries.

The most worried are

Britain and the Netherlands.

Fakta smular sönder pinsam utrikesminister.....

Jewish Press uppmärksammade återigen den svenska regeringens
öppna stöd för Hamas och Fatahs Tredje Intifada.
Margot Wallströms pärlband av okunniga och dumma uttalande om den
pågående terrorn blir alltmera pinsam för svenska folket.
Flera gånger tuggar hon om att Abbas "tagit som sin livsuppgift att gå
fredens väg".
Wallström fördömer också judiskt självförsvar mot terrorister.
Att beteckna hennes uttalanden som dumt svammel känns som
en underdrift. Byt utrikesminister !

 





(JNi.media) Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström will probably go down in history for her comment 12 hours after the Nov. 13 Paris attack: “To counteract the radicalization we must go back to the situation such as the one in the Middle East in which not at least the Palestinians see that there is no future; we must either accept a desperate situation or resort to violence.”

Much has been said since by Israelis and Jews about Wallström, and she continues to be under attack for the vast gap between her views on Middle East and terrorism issues and reality as it is perceived in the entire civilized world.
Recently, Israeli organization Palestinian Media Watch recently provided Swedish MP Kent Ekeroth (SD) information which he used in a recent debate in Swedish Parliament to document that Abbas and the two institutions he runs, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, are promoting violence and undermining Peace.

Kent Alexander Ekeroth, member of the Sweden Democrats, has been in the Riksdag since October 2010, representing Stockholm County. Ekeroth’s mother is Jewish, originally from Kazakhstan. Ekeroth is mindful of his Jewish heritage, but considers himself an atheist.
Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström defended Abbas as having made it “his mission in life to replace violence with diplomatic struggle.” To refute this claim, MP Ekeroth held up and quoted PMW reports on PA and Fatah promotion of violence and terror.

Despite the fact that FM Wallström was shown PMW’s actual, detailed findings, she denied them, exclaiming that “only the gods know” where MP Ekeroth gets his information from.

(The links below are to PMW’s original reports):
Wallström: I note that President Abbas has made it his mission in life to replace violence with diplomatic struggle to reach an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine…
Ekeroth: [Foreign Minister] Wallström says: “I’ve heard him [Abbas] denouncing [terror].” Not once in the last two months with over 20 Israelis dead, has he dissociated himself. Fatah’s official Facebook page has a picture of a knife in the back of a Jew, and the text says: “Here is Jerusalem – beware.” On Fatah’s official Twitter account, just a month ago, we see a Palestinian terrorist who plays the violin on a knife. Knives are now used daily to attack the Jews. Here’s another picture from Fatah’s Facebook account, which is controlled by Mahmoud Abbas. It is a picture of a German book from 1936, that says: “Do not trust a Jew.” This is from Oct. 29, 2015. I’m sorry, but you cannot say that Abbas is a friend of peace… Wallström and others need to understand that Abbas speaks two languages – one to gullible politicians, where he claims to speak about peace, and another to the Palestinians in which he promotes, glorifies and rewards terror…”

Wallström: Where you get your information from – only the gods know.



En ny pandemi: ANTISEMITISMEN

Abraham H Foxman från ADL konstaterar

att en ny pandemi drar över världen, anti-

semitismen.

**

Let’s take a moment to revisit what happened

in the weeks after Israel launched the Gaza

offensive on Dec. 27.
It was as if the floodgates had been opened.

Within days an open season had been declared

on world Jewry. It started with criticism of

Israel: Israel was wrong. Israel was evil.

Israel was satanic and a violator of inter-

national human rights and international law.

This theme quickly morphed into talk about

war crimes and war tribunals.
In cities around the world, rhetoric at rallies

and demonstrations against Israel reached

a fever pitch with the most outrageous

language imaginable and comparisons of

Israelis and all Jews to Nazis, to Hitler, to

swastikas. The language was unmistakable

and ubiquitous -- the Star of David equals

the swastika, the accusation that Gaza is

the same as Auschwitz, the victims of the

Holocaust are now the perpetrators of a

new one. The shouts of “Jews to the Gas”

-- shamelessly shouted in public, even in

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. -- spread quickly

across the Internet along with much

worse expressions of hatred for Israel

and Jews.
Jewish communities felt pressure as never

before. In Venezuela, the community of

nearly 15,000 woke up to a nightmare

of anti-Semitic expression aided and

encouraged by President Hugo Chavez

and his government, who expelled the

Israeli ambassador and called on Jewish

Venezuelans to renounce their allegiance to

Israel. In Caracas, a synagogue was vandalized

in an orgy of anti-Semitism: the Torah scrolls

thrown to the floor, the walls daubed with

anti-Jewish epithets and threats, the member-

ship rolls stolen. The Venezuelan media and

Web sites were filled with expressions of hatred

for Israel and calls for Jews to be expelled from

the country.
Venezuela was not an isolated case. Reports

flooded in from Jewish communities around

the world that were feeling similar pressures.

European countries, including democratic,

Western nations such as France, Belgium and

Great Britain, witnessed an outpouring of hatred

aimed at Jews. The hateful rhetoric at rallies

often was followed by violence, sometimes

by demonstrators, other times by unidentified

perpetrators who aimed Molotov cocktails at

synagogues and other visibly Jewish institutions

and property.

**

Pandemi enligt Socialstyrelsens definition:

En pandemi är när en infektionssjukdom

sprids över stora delar av världen och

drabbar en stor andel av befolkningen i

varje land.

**

This is why the word “pandemic” applies to

what we are witnessing. Not only has it

spread more widely than we have ever

witnessed -- even during the second intifada,

when Israel faced suicide bombings in the

heart of Jerusalem, it was not this intense

-- but it has metastasized with accusations

of dual loyalty and Holocaust denial thrown

into the mix.
This is the worst, the most intense, the most

global hatred aimed at Jews in most of our

memories. When was the last time we can

remember Jews being beaten in the street,

as happened in the United Kingdom, where

220 incidents were reported during the three

weeks of Israel’s military operation, an eight-

fold increase compared to the same period a year ago?
likewise, in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens,

Barcelona, Berlin, Caracas, Florence,

Montevideo and Paris, Jews have been

beaten on the street, synagogues have

been firebombed and desecrated, and

Jewish institutions, businesses and homes

have been attacked.
And for what reason? Because Israel, a

sovereign nation, sought to defend itself

from the constant barrage of Hamas

missiles threatening its cities."

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Hela artikeln här

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Ur egen fatabur

Snart åtalas Intifadamordet i Malmö

Muslimska Friskolan tipsar idag om att det
islamistiska Intifadamordet på en homo-
sexuell man i Malmö snart leder till åtal.
Överraskande nog för mord....
De två gripna islamisterna Abdurraham
Kushtrim Nika (född 1991) och Kushtrim
Ademi (född 1993) sitter häktade sedan en
dryg månad, vilket ju är ovanligt för så unga
mördare.
Intressant är att mordet är ett hatbrott med
uppenbara kopplingar till islamism, den
pågående tredje intifadan mot Europa och
demokratin samt Abdurrahmans ledande
roll i de unga islamistkretsarna i Malmö.
Ännu intressantare är frågan om något av
"ledarskäggen", de som utbildar ungdomarna
till fullfjädrade jihadister, kommer att åtalas ?
Anstiftan till mord är ju fortfarande ett brott i
Sverige.....
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Läs

Intifada-hatbrott i Malmö ?

Kopplingar Hamas - hatmordet i Malmö

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Läs mera om
Intifadans konsekvenser i Europa
(och Malmö)
- och arrangörerna bakom kulissen

Den stora islamistiska offensiven mot yttrandefriheten

Lawful Islamism's Greatest Attack Yet

- The OIC Resolution Against Defaming Religion
By Supna Zaidi

Have you seen the little old lady who passes out

Jehovah's Witness literature in your neighborhood?

Some people stop and show interest. Others roll

their eyes, and keep walking. But, would you ever

expect anyone to threaten her? Call her a racist,

and try to get her arrested?

*
Islamists would. And that is exactly what happened

to two English Christian ministers who had the

nerve to proselytize on a street corner in a pre-

dominantly Muslim immigrant area in the UK

in 2007.

*
Such freedom of speech violations won't be an

anomaly if the Organization of the Islamic

Conference (OIC), which has a permanent

delegation to the United Nations, succeeds in

passing a UN resolution against "Defamation of

Religion". Noboby in a western country will be

able to discuss the socio-political consequences

of Muslim immigration, for fear of being labeled

"Islamophobic" and slapped with a fine, or even

jail time.

*
Islamists are increasingly using lawful Islamism,

or non-violent and legal strategies to spread

Sharia, (Islamic law) in the West, encroaching

on non-Muslim life everyday. Other examples

include:

*
1. Sharia Finance;

2. Islam in public schools;

3. Violations of basic hygiene policy by

Muslim medical staff;

4. Workplace violations in the name of

religious freedom;

5. Censorship of literature.

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Under the banner of "religious freedom," Islamists

attack the very fabric of democracy in favor of

Islam in the public sphere. The above examples

are not examples of pluralism, but a violation of

the separation of church and state doctrine meant

to keep people of all faiths, or no faith, equal under

the law. Liberals have forgotten that secularism is

not a free-for-all, but has boundaries in order to

remain meaningful.

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Freedom of speech has already been attacked

repeatedly. Islamists tried to censor criticism

of Islamist terrorism when the Muhammad

cartoons were published in Jyllands-Posten

in 2005. Strangely enough, the "cartoon intifada"

arose 5 months after their original printing, but

only weeks before the UNHCR was due to consider

the OIC's resolution on "Combating Defamation

of Religion."

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Such a coincidence caused the National Secular

Society to state in its Memorandum (Section

E, point 2) to the UK Parliament that, the Danish

cartoon crisis was manufactured… to exploit

sensitivities around racial discrimination and to

promote (or even exaggerate) the notion of

"Islamophobia" in order to restrict possibilities

for open discussion or criticism of Islam….measures

calling for legislation banning "defamation of religion"

- …. aims to remove religion, especially Islam, from

public scrutiny and public debate.

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If any religion is to be integrated into the daily

social, economic and political life of a nation, it

must open the door for evaluation of its goals

and application. Otherwise, OIC nations will be

able to govern unilaterally without respect to

international law.

Consider the following precedent.

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Saudi Arabia ratified the UN Convention on the

Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against

Women (CEDAW) in 2000, with reservations,

stating, "In case of contradiction between any

term of the Convention and the norms of Islamic

law, the Kingdom is not under obligation to

observe the contradictory terms of the Convention."
Thus, Saudi Arabia confirms that it will only offer

lip service to human rights by signing documents

like the CEDAW charter. It will not actually

improve the status of women, because it is a

theocracy, and every move a woman makes is

governed by Islamic law. CEDAW can do nothing

for them. Moreover, if the Defamation of Religion

resolution is passed, all human rights activists will

feel even greater censorship, since protests from

abroad will be construed as racism.

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Consider the "Qatif girl" case.

A Saudi girl was gang-raped in 2005 and blamed

for it, since she was in the presence of unrelated

men when it happened. Her attorney lost his license

for challenging the Saudi courts. Only after

generating global media pressure did the situation

change in her favor. The king pardoned her and

the attorney got his license reinstated. In a post-

Defamation of Religion world, the attorney would

have been trapped, unable to help the girl and

disbarred if he dared to challenge Saudi Islamic law.

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Lastly, the OIC resolution must fail because it is

patently hypocritical. While professing great

sensitivity toward religion, OIC members

ironically regularly fail to show any respect

for other faiths:
1. Saudi Arabia continues to use

bigoted textbooks, and export

them to American Islamic

schools despite promises to change.
2. Iran sponsored a Holocaust cartoon

contest in retaliation for the Danish

cartoons of Muhammad in 2005.

Yet, Jews had nothing to do with

the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
3. Pakistan's blasphemy laws attack

Christians as a pretext for personal disputes.

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The Defamation of Religion resolution is a free

pass for Islamists to continue denigrating other

religions and minorities through lawful Islamism.

It ties the hands of any politician that questions

the spread of Islamism in the West, and prevents

critical evaluation of the treatment of women and

minorities in Muslim societies.
Liberal and conservative citizens of the

West must work together to prevent this

resolution from passing in the UN.

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(Supna Zaidi is editor-in-chief of Muslim World

Today and asst director of Islamist Watch at

the Middle East Forum)

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