Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

Historic.

Narendra Modi’s natural sympathies for Israel, as a Hindu nationalist with a dim view of Muslims, including those who wish to destroy Israel, have now meshed with a new kind of realpolitik calculation:

Who would have predicted it?

Robert Azzi has for several years been staging his “Ask a Muslim Anything” events in New Hampshire. In a display of ostentatious openness, he presents a sanitized version of Islam, describes Muslims in America feeling besieged and deserving of our sympathy, and mocks our baseless “fears” about Islam, and about the need to understand the “real Islam.”

Here’s one more of the write-ups of his appearance, this dating from 2017.

“Exeter resident and photojournalist, columnist, public speaker and education consultant Robert Azzi, who is Muslim, was on hand to lead a dialogue about issues of identity, fear, conflict, interfaith relations, international affairs and Islamophobia for the sizable crowd that filled up the Levenson Room in the library.

“We definitely live in changing times, it’s important we come together and have a dialogue,” said Portsmouth Library Director Steve Butzel before introducing Azzi. “We’re going to come together as a community and we’re probably going to learn a few things.”

“What’s happening in Washington is not just marginalization of Muslims but it’s an indication of how communities of color and minority communities may be treated in the future in this country,” said Azzi. “No one people stands alone and no person or community is discriminated against without it affecting other communities. To the extent Muslims are marginalized or not heard in this country, whether we are Muslim or non-Muslim; part of the 1 percent or the 99 percent, it makes us all less secure.”

Comment;

What ‘marginalization of Muslims” has taken place in this country? In 2017 there was what Azzi and other Muslim apologists call a “Muslim ban.” But in fact, that “Muslim ban” included both North Korea and Venezuela, both non-Muslim countries, and the five Muslim countries included represented only 5% of the world’s Muslims. The ban was directed not at Muslim countries, otherwise another fifty of them would have been included, but only at countries whose security measures were deemed insufficient by the Department of Homeland Security. This was soberly explained by Mr. Justice Roberts, in his opinion in Trump v. Hawaii.

Only five Muslim states were affected in any way by the travel ban. Two Muslim states, Iraq and Chad, were initially included, but then were dropped from the original list after further study of their domestic security. No Muslims coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Egypt, Algeria, Indonesia, and 45 other Muslim countries see any change in their status. No Muslims coming from France or Great Britain or Germany or a dozen other European countries are affected. This has to be kept constantly in mind, and constantly repeated in the face of so many shrill cries about “a Muslim ban.’ . Those who are outraged by what they misleadingly call a “travel ban on Muslims” should be reminded that for 95% of the world’s Muslims, nothing has changed. Furthermore, individuals from the affected countries can even apply for an exemption.

“The conversation [at Azzi’s event] shifted to some of the root causes that lead to misunderstanding between the West and the Muslim world. The majority of which stems from a long history of economic and political control on the part of Western powers.

″The anger felt in the Middle East is not just at America but at a West that they believe, in part, spent a century or two colonizing and exploiting their resources, of limiting their opportunities, of keeping them subservient in many cases to the great powers, to denying them access to freedoms that which[sic] the West was enjoying and not giving anything back,” said Azzi. “It created cultures that are fractured and more tribal. If we just take today, the United States is militarily involved in the seven countries that are part of the immigration ban.”

Comment:

Muslims have been waging Jihad against non-Muslims for the past 1,400 years. They did so in 700, 1000, 1200, 1500, 1800, and in all the centuries and years between, right through to 2019, for the same immutable reason: that they are commanded to do so in 109 verses in the Qur’an — “to fight” and “to kill” and “to strike terror” in the hearts of the Infidels. They don’t need a specific reason, as Azzi thinks, to wage jihad against those they believe to be the “most vile of created beings”

Africans have a sardonic name for their corrupt leaders.“waBenzi” (the “People of the Mercedes-Benz”).who drive those luxury vehicles up and down the handful of paved roads in the countries they rule over, the countries from whose treasuries they help themselves to. But the “Palestinian” waBenzi have outdone any African leader in the scale of their corruption.

At a certain point, reality seeps in.

How many terror attacks by Muslims should make us justifiably alarmed about those who follow the precepts of the Qur’an?

What does Omer Aziz think about Abu Darda’s advice to Believers: “Let us smile to the face of some people while our hearts curse them”?

Why is it that Muslim immigrants seek safety in Canada, or other Western countries — the very safety that they do not find in their own, Muslim, countries of origin?

Muslim terrorists justify their attacks by reference to specific verses in the Qur’an, verses that cannot be changed. “White supremacy” terrorists, including the lone lunatic who shot up the two mosques in New Zealand, have no textual authority in the Bible to justify murdering anyone.

Here is the latest vivid example of Muslim Arab antisemitism.

Qur’an 2:256 — “There Is No Compulsion In Religion” — is one of the two Qur’anic verses most often quoted by Muslim apologists.

Is the author suggesting that the media is unfairly reporting on Muslims?

Please stop mentioning Muslim terrorists, who have struck in New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chattanooga, Fort Hood, Little Rock, San Bernardino, Orlando.

Hannah Allam has identified a problem that does not exist.

The next time you hear a Muslim apologist insist that “there is no compulsion in (the Islamic) religion” — “it’s Qur’an 2:256” — before an audience of Ask-A-Muslim-Anything non-Muslims, you could read out, by way of answer, the Open Letter of Leo Igwe.

In attempting to present an obvious and colossal defeat at the hands of the IDF into a kind of victory, Nasrallah merely makes himself an object of ridicule.

It is long past time for the Saudis in the West to be disabused of the notion that they are above the law.

Hassan Nasrallah and his collaborators no doubt thought even the Israelis would not be able to locate tunnels that were hundreds of feet underground.

No claim is too ludicrous for Muslim Arabs to believe when it comes to Israel.

Antisemites in France, who unsurprisingly are so often defenders of Islam, if not Muslims themselves, have taken the “Gilets Jaunes” movement in a different direction from what it was at the beginning.

Emad Albeheery is a hysteric, but he is hardly alone. His hysteria is shared by many Egyptians, who, whenever anything connected to Jews or to Israel comes up, lose their faculty of reason.

This extraordinary remark ignores the texts of Islam itself.

The stumbling Merkel administration, not knowing what to do about the superflux of Muslim migrants in its midst, has now decided to try bribery.

Ocasio-Cortez should read up on the world’s failure to rescue Jews when it mattered most, and compare their fate, and the numbers of victims, with that of the Central Americans.

Her comparison of the people in the caravan fleeing Central America — and being prevented only from entering the U.S. illegally — to Jews fleeing Nazis is grotesque.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not content with turning Turkey’s secular democracy into an islamized and islamizing despotism, has been expanding his influence and power among the large Turkish communities in Western Europe.

This is one more way to continue the narrative of Israel as a foreign body, stealing not just “Palestinian” land, but also stealing “Palestinian” culture, including its clothing, its keffiyeh, and its food.

This triumphalist statement is a staple of Islamic propaganda.

If a Muslim woman cannot go out in public in France unless she wears a niqab, that is her problem — and her husband’s. It is not a reason for the French state to let down its guard against the real and present danger of niqabbed criminals.

Since 2001, more than 60,000 Christian villagers have been killed by Fulani herdsmen.

While all eyes seem to be elsewhere — on North Korea, on Iran and the attack at Ahvaz, on the U.K. floundering over how to settle its Brexit affairs and the U.S. floundering over a Supreme Court nomination — in Nigeria there is an ongoing jihad against the Christians.

Corbyn moved the hard-left Seamus Milne, his director of communications, and his most important staff member, to Labour headquarters back in August 2017, in order to have Milne, who was once a journalist on a Communist paper, purge the party of all its moderates, and to put in place, in the Party’s bureaucracy, only those of the hard-left.

The only surprising thing in this tale is why the Maldivians allowed those statues to be built and placed underwater in shore cages in the first place.

The next time you are told that the Israelis need to “make peace” with their Arab neighbors by signing a treaty, you can point out Israel already has the only “peace” that it can count on. This is the “peace” that is enforced by deterrence, that is, by the power of the IDF.

If even the Socialists show themselves willing to shut the very doors that they made a point, so recently, of flinging open to such immigrants, there is hope that Europe itself can come to its senses.

We don’t have to guess what Hitler thought of Islam. He tells us. He is unambiguously admiring.

We should choose to remain supporters of the Saudis who, despite their conduct of the war in Yemen, are for now no threat to American national interests. And right now, Iran is.

In Toronto, at the Alexander the Great Parkette, those virtuous Canadians who pride themselves on their tolerance showed, not for the first time, that they don’t need no stinkin’ free speech.

What, in the first place, is the effect of such a news story, which has been getting significant coverage online? It feeds a narrative of Islam On The March, of Islamic triumphalism.

The Ayatollah Khomeini famously said that “there is no fun in Islam.” How wrong he was. He never met Travaile Speller.

To understand Islam you have to study the texts, the teachings, the history of Islam, the history of Jihad. Only thus, and it takes work.

Macron has now been in office for a year. And nothing has happened to change, much less transform, either the attitudes or behavior of Muslims in France.

Just like his brother Tariq, Hani Ramadan may finally be getting the kind of attention he so richly deserves.

She may have taken her first Instagram comments down. But they still exist permanently in the ether; screenshots can be taken; her words can still be retrieved and read by anyone. And they will always have the ring of truth because, of course, they are the truth.

This should have been the headline everywhere: “With Lionel Messi, his family, and other players under death threat from Palestinians, Argentinean team cancels match.”

The Handshake: “A Very Small Issue That Is Incredibly Huge”

The Muslim presence in France increases inexorably, their large families made possible by the benefits of a generous, and dangerously oblivious, welfare state.

There is an ideological war going on, right here at home, for the hearts and minds of many Americans who, having been misinformed about Islam, convert on the basis of that misinformation.

Yunique Saafir deserves to know the truth about the position of women in Islam.