© November 24, 2018
Consider this relatively recent development in European rule
of law:
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
passed a verdict last Thursday that insulting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed would be
a punishable offense and will not be protected as ‘free speech’.
Court Case
A panel of seven-judges decided
that defaming or demeaning the Prophet Mohammed goes ‘beyond permissible limits
of an objective debate. And it could cause prejudice in the society and
will risk religious peace’.
The court case was about a lecturer
who would talk about Mohammed being a pedophile. The court said … READ
ENTIRETY (European Court Makes it Illegal to Criticize
Mohammed. Free Speech Does NOT Apply; By Avi Abelow; Israel Unwired;
11/14/18)
I’ve always been flabbergasted by Leftist Multiculturalist
support for adherents of Islam to practice their Anti-West, Anti-Christian,
Jew-Hating faith unrestrained by Western principles and the Western rule of
law.
My astonishment is based on the fact evidenced by Islam in
history, that whenever Islam attains political supremacy either by conquest
(via Jihad)
or by gradual conversion; Islamic Supremacism ALWAYS takes over forcing
non-Muslims into a discriminated (often abused) second class citizen whereby
acts of humiliation are exacted further securing a socio-politico stranglehold
on ALL THINGS cultural.
That would include the Multicultural Left whose political
hubris of expecting gratefulness from such a counter-culture as Islam would
ever coexist peacefully amidst non-Islamic cultures or lifestyles. That hubris
if perpetuated will lead to the complete destruction of all things Western that
has evolved from Graeco-Roman-Judeo-Christian thought.
This Multiculturalist support to ensure Muslims practice
their faith according to the tenets of their theo-political religion enforced
by Islamic Sharia Law makes Western tenets of Liberty subservient to the
dictates of Islam. MEANING telling historical truths about Islam and its
founder is considered insulting under Sharia. In Sharia shining the light on
Muslim practices in history – including the nefarious acts of Muhammad – can be
penalized up to and including death.
An EU Court ergo, has criminalized anything that Sharia
would list as insulting.
THE HYPOCRISY: Yet Muslims in adherence to their
revered writings (Quran, Hadith and Sunna [Sira]) can insult the Godhood
and Sonship of Jesus as well as call for the death of Jews (Quran,
Hadith
& Sira [PDF
pg. 37 document pg. 29]) without ANY legal penalty whatsoever in
European Courts.
AND NOW, even after ECHR says criticizing a religion – Islam
– is now a criminal offense in Europe (Thank God the USA still stands with
the Bill of Rights). It appears the ECHR ruling is only a one-way street.
BECAUSE Muslim Imams all over Europe are
calling for the death Jews. The implication is Islam can criticize ANY
religion, even call for the murder of the members of any non-Islamic religion
and there is European Judicial outrage.
Dear God in Heaven! Islam is not even the majority religion
in Europe yet the religion’s adherents can execute Islamic Supremacy!
AMERICANS CANNOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN HERE!
I first became aware of this tolerance of Islamic Jew-Hatred
via a Facebook Group post at New English Review by Jerry Gordon. Gordon pointed out an Israel National News
(Arutz Sheva) post by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld.
I’m going to begin with Gordon’s Facebook post which is a
cross post of the Gerstenfeld About Page, followed by Gerstenfeld’s post.
JRH 11/24/18
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Read chaver Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld's chilling …
Posted by Jerry
Gordon
November 21 at 1:24 PM
Facebook Group New
English Review
Read chaver [For those pro-Israel Christians as myself – chaver
defined] Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld's chilling Arutz Sheva -
Israel National News report on European Imam's calling for the murder of Jews.
Dr. Gerstenfeld is a noted Israeli expert on European and Global Antisemitism
and Emeritus Chairman of the Jewish Center for Public Affairs.
Outright calls to murder Jews have become a pattern among
European Muslim clergy, but western politicians are bent on hiding it. They
know why.
About Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
The writer has been a long-term adviser on strategy issues
to the boards of several major multinational corporations in Europe and North
America. He is board member and former chairman of the Jerusalem Center for
Public Affairs and recipient of the LIfetime Achievement Award (2012) of the
Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism.
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European Imams call for murder of Jews
Outright calls to murder Jews have become a pattern
among European Muslim clergy, but western politicians are bent on hiding it.
They know why.
By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
November 21, 2018 07:40 updated: 06:20
The massive immigration of Muslims into Western European
countries has also brought with it major whitewashing efforts to keep resulting
problems hidden. The main whitewashers are western politicians as well as media
and Muslim leaders. There are also many others. A central reason for the
strong whitewashing efforts is that publishing the details of the criminality,
incitement and other serious problems that segments of the Muslim immigrants
and their descendants have brought with them would be a huge accusation against
European governments. They have let millions of people in without adequate
screening.
Other issues are distorted as well. Many pseudo-progressives
falsely assert that all cultures are equal, a claim simple to deconstruct.
Furthermore, mainly as a result of the evils of colonialism, the misbelief that
only white people can be racists has been promoted.
This collection of fallacies is particularly problematic for
Jews. There is a disproportionately large number of antisemites among Muslim
immigrants and their descendants. Jews have therefore become a preferred target
of several of them. Some Muslims commit violence, and a few more extreme ones
are even murderers. All Jews who have been murdered for ideological reasons in
the new century in Western Europe have been killed by Muslims.
Due to the physical aggressions, violent attacks and even
murder, verbal violence against Jews is studied with much less attention.
Yet, many of the most extreme expressions of antisemitic hate mongering come
from Muslims, including religious leaders. Explicit calls for the murder of
Jews have been made by imams in several countries.
In July 2018, a Danish prosecutor charged Imam Mundhir
Abdallah with calling for killing of Jews. This religious figure preaches at
the Masjid Al Faruq mosque in Copenhagen. In Facebook and YouTube video posts
in March 2018 Abdallah quoted a hadith, a classic religious narrative saying;
"Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill
them," In May 2017 Denmark published a list of six foreigners accused of
preaching hatred. Five of them were Muslims and one was an evangelical
preacher. They were banned for at least two years.
In December 2017, Mohamed Tatai, the imam of the Grand
Mosque in Toulouse, France, quoted the full hadith which is attributed to the
prophet Mohammed about the final and decisive battle: ‘Judgement Day will not
come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind the stones and
the trees, and the stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of
Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him – except for the
Gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews.’” This extreme antisemitic
inciter was a member of an interfaith dialogue group with Jews.
In August 2014, Italy expelled Raoudi Albdelbar, a Moroccan
imam who preached against Jews in a mosque near Venice: "Oh Allah, count
them one by one and kill them to the very last one." This came to public
knowledge in a video released by the Washington based media monitoring group,
MEMRI.
In 2001, the El Tawheed mosque in Amsterdam was forced by
the authorities to remove several statements from its website, including the
following: “The Jews possess the weapons industry and, on the other hand, they
are the ones who make the wars.” In 2018, it became known that the Amsterdam El
Tawheed mosque was frequently visited by people who joined armed Jihad and
terrorists.
Jews are not the only target of Muslim hate preachers. In
December 2016, in the Dittsbury mosque in Manchester, imam Mustafa Graf, called
for armed jihad. One of the regular attendees there was Salman Abedi. Six
months later he would detonate a suicide bomb that killed 22 people at a
concert given by singer Arianne Grande in that town.
In 2016, Belgium expelled the Dutch Moroccan imam El-Alami
Amaouch. Since then he preaches in the Netherlands. Yet another hate preacher
in the Netherlands is Imam Fawas Jneid. Once, in Arabic he verbally attacked
Rotterdam mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, an orthodox Muslim, calling him an apostate
Muslim and an enemy of real Islam. Dutch Minister of Justice, Fred Grapperhaus,
informed parliamentarians that this preaching was within the borders of the
law. The Dutch imams’ association told a newspaper that it would not publish an
official statement on Jneid’s comments. ‘There are so many people saying crazy
things,’ a spokesman observed.
Muslim hate preachers can also be found in Canada and the
United States. In the latter country the problematic First Amendment of the
Constitution is a severe handicap in acting against extreme inciters. In the
Arab world and in some Muslim countries religious and other leaders calling for
the murder of Jews are common. For many years the “murder hadith” was part of
the Hamas charter.
All the above is only the tip of the iceberg. Muslim
organizations in Europe frequently claim that mosques have nothing to do with
antisemitism. If the European Union was serious in its fight against
anti-Jewish hate mongering it would see to it that in all member countries,
police services investigate the preaching of hate in mosques and by Muslim
religious leaders wherever they may be. Then the information obtained should be
made public.
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Consider This!
John R. Houk
© November 24, 2018
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European Imams call for
murder of Jews
I don’t disagree with the views expressed here in, but here’s an interesting counterpoint regarding “balance”. Hopefully, it works both ways, as the ECHR would have have ruled similarly about holocaust denial.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/what-europe-can-teach-america-about-free-speech/537186/