The One Size Fits All Friendly Muslim Thread

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The Obamas with the "Qocksuckers of Qatar."
Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, the leader of the Emirate of Qatar, is acting as Hamas’ “channel of communication” to the international community. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is now in the Qatari capital of Doha directing his organization’s war effort in Gaza, where the Qatari royals welcomed him with open arms after his welcome in Damascus came to an abrupt end. Qatari funds have been crucial to Hamas’ military build-up in recent years, as they were to the Muslim Brotherhood’s attempted takeover of Egypt under Mohammed Morsi. And the Doha-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera is energetically backing Hamas, as it has other terrorist-connected and supporting movements.

 

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[h=1]Plans for Britain's largest Muslim cemetery with space for 11,000 graves on green belt land sparks fury[/h]

• 11-acre site near Solihull could include 11,000 graves for followers of Islam
• Plan has sparked anger among residents in village of Catherine-de-Barnes
• Council leader says there is 'no need' for the extra site on rural land
• There are also fears over the impact of extra traffic on roads around village
• Muslim community in Solihull says there is a desperate need for more plots

.Residents living in a picturesque rural village have hit out at controversial plans to build what would be Britain's largest Muslim cemetery on rural land.The proposed 11-acre site in Catherine-de-Barnes, near Solihull, West Midlands, would include a total of 11,000 graves for followers of Islam.
Currently, the largest Muslim-only cemetery in the UK is in Ilford, Essex, which has 5,000 plots.

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Residents living in a picturesque rural village have hit out at controversial plans to build what would be Britain's largest Muslim cemetery on rural land

It means the development - which would include 95 parking spaces for visitors - will become the country's biggest if it gets the green light.
The graveyard would be able to comply fully with Sharia law which states Muslims are traditionally buried in their own section of land, next to others of the same faith.
Islamic law also stipulates a method of bathing and shrouding the bodies before being buried with their heads facing towards Mecca.

Today, residents of the village - which has a population of just 613 - criticised the move and said questioned the need for the cemetery.
It would mean the facility could eventually hold over 18 times as many people as currently live in the village itself.
Locals are also objecting the plans for the cemetery based on concerns surrounding the impact it will have on traffic as well as the surrounding greenbelt land.
Grandfather-of-four Gerry Chauke, 55, said: 'There is ample room for graves to accommodate the local population here.'

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Map shows the proposed sites for 4,000 graves and another 7,000 nearby, close to Solihull in West Midlands

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The proposed 11-acre site in Catherine-de-Barnes, near Solihull, West Midlands, would include a total of 11,000 graves for followers of Islam

Plans for a large plot of 4,000 graves was made in January and received 160 objections and 180 submissions of support were sent to Solihull Council.
The application was originally withdrawn amid the storm of protest.
But in July the plans were resubmitted and the second application for an adjacent Muslim-only cemetery was received by the authority this week.
Both applications are due to go before the planning committee next month.
Conservative councillor Alison Rolf, for the Bickenhill ward of Solihull, said: 'My main concern is that they are building on the greenbelt land.
'When the first application was taken down local people were delighted that it had gone away, but it's come back with very little adjustment.
'I understand people's frustrations.'

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Residents say the plans, if given the go ahead will have an impact on the roads in the surrounding area

One representative for the Catherine-de-Barnes Residents' Association who has lived in the area for 31 years, but did not want to be named, said: 'There's no need for it.
'The borough has sufficient provision for the next 20 years.'
Leader of Solihull Council, Conservative councillor Bob Sleigh, said he also agreed the needs of local people could already be met at the borough's current plots.
He said: 'There is no need for this extra site in Solihull. We have identified our population need and made provision for that.
'This is an extremely large proposal.
'Obviously people are concerned about the scale of the development and its threat to greenbelt land around Catherine-de-Barnes.
'I don't believe the case has been made to overcome the very special measures which apply to greenbelt land.'

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The development - which would include 95 parking spaces for visitors - will become the country's biggest if it gets the green light

Both cemeteries - which were submitted by different applicants but through the same agent, Cemetery Development Services - have received backing from the Muslim community in Solihull, who said there was a desperate need for more burial spaces.
Funeral director Mohammed Khalil, of Birmingham-based ZUQ Funeral Services, said even 11,000 burial plots would barely provide enough space for the next 50 years.
He said: 'The local Muslim population is growing rapidly, but the cemetery Muslims use is mostly Handsworth which is nearly full.
'Birmingham Council are making some provision but we still need more in the vicinity of the population.
'Don't forget, the people who came here in the 1950s and 1960s are now old and dying fast.
'Before, they used to send people back home to their families in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
'But apparently now all their families are here and they have no-one back home.
'They are saying 'this is our country now.'
'We are living here and dying here so we should be buried here.'


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Afghan women, 1950 vs. 2013

Yeah, Islam is a "friendly" religion, yeah right.

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Guilty: Umar Razaq (Picture: Ross Parry)



Fear of being branded racist allowed 16 years of ‘appalling’ sexual abuse by Asian gangs of at least 1,400 children in one town, an inquiry found.
Council officials and social workers ‘tiptoed’ around the fact that ‘by far the majority’ of the victims – who were as young as 11 – were white, according to the Rotherham Abuse Inquiry.
The girls were gang-raped, doused in petrol and threatened with handguns by groups of men, before being ignored by the council and treated with ‘contempt’ by the police.

Guilty: Zafran Ramzan (Picture: Ross Parry)



Prof Alexis Jay who headed the inquiry into the attacks between 1997 and 2013 in South Yorkshire, said: ‘It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered.
‘They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated.
‘Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origin of perpetrators for fear of being thought racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.

Guilty: Razwan Razaq (Picture: Ross Parry)




‘The collective failures of political and officer leadership were blatant.
‘The authorities involved have a very great deal to answer for.’

Five men –
Zafran Ramzan, 25,

Razwan Razaq, 34,

Umar Razaq, 28,

Adil Hussain, 24,

and Mohsin Khan, 25 –


were jailed in 2010 for child sex offences but the inquiry found more attackers remain unidentified.

Guilty: Adil Hussain (Picture: Ross Parry)


Typically, the girls were picked up from school in cars and taxis, and groomed with gifts before being abused by groups of men.
And there was a stark warning in the report that developing technology was now allowing girls as young as eight to be targeted.
‘Mobile phones, social networking sites and mobile apps have become common ways of identifying and targeting vulnerable children,’ it said.
‘In a small number of cases, this led to direct physical contact, rape and sexual abuse with one or more perpetrators.’

Guilty: Mohsin Khan (Picture: Ross Parry)




The report prompted the immediate resignation of Rotherham Council leader Roger Stone but no council staff have been disciplined.
Chief executive Martin Kimber apologised and said services had ‘improved significantly’.
He added: ‘The council and its partners could and should have done more to protect young people from what must be one of the most horrific forms of abuse imaginable.’
However, Prof Jay warned that the abuse ‘continues to this day’.

 

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[h=1]British jihadist 'madams' are running Isis brothels full of thousands of kidnapped Iraqi women[/h]

• Al-Khanssaa brigade is female-only militia set up by IS in Raqqa, Syria

• 'Key figure' is Aqsa Mahmood, 20, who fled Glasgow for Syria last year

• 3,000 women and girls have been taken captive from the Yazidi tribe

• It's believed they're being forced into sex slavery in brothels for fighters

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Thousands of Iraqi women are being forced into sex slavery in brothels for Islamic State fighters and run by a 'police force' of British women jihadis, it has been reported


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What do they know? Among the UK women going to Syria are Zahra (left) and Salma Halane (right), 16, twins from Chorlton, Manchester





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[ Nice, friendly Muslims banning math and social studies for children. What a nice idea. ]

ISIS bans math, social studies for children

By Holly Yan and Anas Hamdan, CNN
updated 9:53 AM EDT, Wed September 17, 2014

Syrian government forces walk down a street in Halfaya, Syria, after taking the city from rebel forces on Friday, September 12. The United Nations estimates more than 190,000 people have been killed in Syria since an uprising in March 2011 spiraled into civil war.










(CNN) -- In swaths of Syria now controlled by ISIS, children can no longer study math or social studies. Sports are out of the question. And students will be banned from learning about elections and democracy.
Instead, they'll be subjected to the teachings of the radical Islamist group. And any teacher who dares to break the rules "will be punished."
ISIS revealed its new educational demands in fliers posted on billboards and on street poles. The Sunni militant group has captured a slew of Syrian and Iraqi cities in recent months as it tries to establish a caliphate, or Islamic state, spanning Sunni parts of both countries.
In the letter, ISIS said alternative courses will be added.

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It also said teachers must erase the phrase Syrian Arab Republic -- the official name of Syria -- and replace it with Islamic State, which is what ISIS calls itself.
Educators cannot teach nationalistic and ethnic ideology and must instead teach "the belonging to Islam ... and to denounce infidelity and infidels."
Books cannot include any reference to evolution. And teachers must say that the laws of physics and chemistry "are due to Allah's rules and laws."
The letter ends with a firm warning:
"This is an obligatory announcement, and all violators will be punished."
200 Syrians killed in one day
The brutal advances of ISIS in Syria come as the country grapples with a three-year civil war with no clear victor in sight.
At least 200 people were killed on Tuesday alone, the opposition group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said about 60 were killed by regime airstrikes.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, meanwhile, said terrorist attacks in Damascus, Hama and Homs left at least three civilians dead.
In all, the United Nations estimates more than 190,000 people have died in the violence between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and rebels seeking an end to four decades of al-Assad family rule.

 

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[ 91 lashes for dancing. Sounds about right. Fucking pieces of shit. ]

[h=1]Iran's 'Happy' dancers sentenced to 91 lashes, jail[/h] By Lisa Daftari
Published September 18, 2014FoxNews.com


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Iran's latest crackdown on freedom includes lashes and prison for seven young adults who posted a video of themselves dancing to the American pop hit "Happy" and a death sentence for a blogger accused of insulting Prophet Muhammad.
The seven men and women were arrested in May, but then released after self-professed "moderate" President Hassan Rouhani tweeted that the regime should lighten up. But the group was forced nonetheless to apologize on television and endure a trial in which they were convicted and each sentenced to 91 lashes. One was given a full year in prison while the others got six months, although their attorney told Iranwire.com the sentences were suspended.
“A suspended sentence becomes null and void after a certain period of time,” attorney Farshid Rofugaran said. For the Happy Group, that period will be three years. “When it’s a suspended sentence, the verdict is not carried out, but if during this period a similar offense is committed, then the accused is subject to legal punishment and the suspended sentence will then be carried out as well.”
The video was part of a global campaign launched by pop star Pharrell Williams and was viewed by more than 100,000 people on YouTube. The six who appeared on the video and a man who shot the footage apologized and said they had been tricked into doing it. After the confession, they were released on bail.
“We can accept the verdict or appeal,” said Rofugaran, adding that his clients are not banned from leaving the country.
Meanwhile, the ultimate penalty was handed down to Soheil Arabi, a blogger found guilty of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in his postings on Facebook. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that Arabi will be able to appeal the decision.
Revolutionary Guard agents arrested Arabi, 30, and his wife last November. Arabi's wife was released a few hours later, but Arabi was kept in solitary confinement for two months inside the notorious Evin Prison before being found guilty of “sabb al-nabi” (insulting the Prophet), on Aug. 30.
“Soheil had eight Facebook pages under different names, and he was charged with insulting the Imams and the Prophet because of the contents of those pages. He has accepted his charges, but throughout the trial, he stated that he wrote the material without thinking and in poor psychological condition,” a source told the Campaign.

 

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[ Women shouldn't be able to drive a car, right? ]

[h=1]Saudi human rights activist fined for driving herself to the hospital[/h]

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A female member of Saudi Arabia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has reportedly been fined for driving herself to the hospital.
When police pulled her over, Aliyah Al Farid said she had a medical emergency and there was no one available to drive her to the hospital so she took her husband’s car.
The officers reportedly allowed her to continue driving. They followed her to the hospital and waited while she saw a doctor, before taking her to the traffic department where she was fined for driving without a licence.
Women are unable to get a driver’s licence in Saudi Arabia, despite there being no law against women driving.


Al Farid has been arrested for driving twice previously and has participated in campaigns to allow female drivers, but told Arabic daily Al Hayat on this occasion it was an emergency.
“I told the traffic officers that I had to drive because it was an emergency case,” she said.
“I didn’t do it on purpose and I’m not after fame or media hype. I was very sick and that was it.”
She said she also occasionally drove patients at her centre for persons with special needs when they urgent medical attention.
“We can’t leave an epileptic patient convulsing on the ground while waiting for our male driver to come and transport him to hospital,” she said.


“I have to get behind the steering wheel and do it.”
Al Farid has refused to sign an undertaking not to drive again, citing the fact there is no law prohibiting women from driving; it has become a cultural custom routinely enforced by the unofficial religious police (haia).

 

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This would be hilarious if it wasn't true. What a fucked up religion and culture.

 

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[h=1]BREAKING NEWS: Preacher of hate Abu Qatada cleared of plotting terror attacks in Jordan – and will walk free[/h]

• Jordanian court ruled there was insufficient evidence against Abu Qatada
• He was linked with plans to target Israeli and U.S tourists, and diplomats
• Earlier David Cameron insisted he would not be allowed back in the UK

A Jordan court has acquitted radical preacher Abu Qatada of plotting attacks on Americans and Israelis.
The decision was handed down in the case presided over by civilian judges on Wednesday in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The court ruled there was insufficient evidence against Abu Qatada and his defense lawyer, Husein Mubaidin, says he expects his client to be released within hours.

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A Jordan court has acquitted radical preacher Abu Qatada of plotting attacks on Americans and Israelis

Separately, the 53-year-old preacher was acquitted in June in another case, a foiled 1999 plan to attack an American school in Amman.
He had pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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The court ruled there was insufficient evidence against Abu Qatada and his defense lawyer, Husein Mubaidin, says he expects his client to be released within hours

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Long stay: Abu Qatada and his family moved to Britain in 1993 and were granted asylum the following year. While living in Britain, Qatada lived on benefits totalling an estimated £500,000

The Home Office insisted that there was no question of him returning to the UK.
A spokesman said: 'Abu Qatada's re-trial in Jordan was made possible thanks to this Government's determination to successfully deport him from the UK to face the courts in his own country.
'It is right that the due process of law has taken place in Jordan. The UK courts agreed that Abu Qatada posed a threat to national security in the UK, so we are pleased that we were able to remove him.
'Abu Qatada remains subject to a deportation order and a United Nations travel ban. He is not coming back to the UK.'
The statement echoed David Cameron's view on the matter express earlier this year.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said in June: 'He can't come back and he won't come back. He's a Jordanian, he does not have a UK passport, he was deported on an indefinite deportation order, he would not be granted permission to enter the UK, end of story.
'Mr Qatada was put on a plane to Jordan and is not coming back. This is a man the British courts have deemed a risk to national security. He is not coming back.'
Qatada, real name Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, was extradited from Britain after a lengthy legal process.
Abu Qatada has been previously been described in courts as a senior al-Qaeda figure in Europe who had close ties to Osama bin Laden.
Britain has accused him of links with Zacarias Moussaoui - the only person charged in the United States over the September 11 attacks - and with shoe bomber Richard Reid.







[h=3]RADICAL VIEWS, WIDE INFLUENCE AND ALLEGED ROLE AS AL-QAEDA'S 'SPIRITUAL LEADER' IN EUROPE MADE ABU QATADA 'TRULY DANGEROUS'[/h]Abu Qatada was born in the West Bank city of Bethlehem in 1960, which was under the control of Jordan at the time.
At the age of 29 he moved to Peshawar in Pakistan to teach about Sharia law, before moving to Kuwait.
In 1991 - after the Gulf War - he was kicked out the country along with other Palestinians and returned to Jordan.
Two years later Qatada and his family applied for asylum in the UK, claiming he had been tortured in Jordan. This application was granted in June 1994.
In the late 1990s Qatada came to MI5's attention as his sermons became more extreme and his influence increased.
From his home in North London, he was later described as the 'in-house' adviser to radical groups around the world.
In 1999 and 2000 Qatada was convicted in his absence and given a life sentence in Jordan for the two alleged terror plots for which he has been standing trial.
Qatada was arrested in the UK for the first time following the September 11 attacks, but was not charged with any crime.
He was repeatedly linked with extremist groups over the subsequent decade.
Mr Justice Collins, then chairman of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission said he was 'heavily involved, indeed was at the centre' of al-Qaeda's UK activities, calling him 'a truly dangerous individual.'
While living in Britain, Qatada lived on benefits totalling an estimated £500,000.
The campaign to extradite Qatada to face the terror conspiracy Jordan began in 2007, but was continually delayed by claims he would be tortured on his return.
After initially barring the UK deporting Qatada, the European Court of Human Rights finally denied him leave to appeal in 2012 after receiving assurances from Jordan that he would not be tortured.
Qatada finally left the UK to face trial the following July.

 

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[h=1]ISIS-linked militants behead French hostage within minutes of Obama's call for UN to join in the fight against jihadists[/h]

• Sickening video showing murder of Herve Gourdel was released today
• Islamist group named Jund al-Khilifa - who are loyal to ISIS - titled the footage 'A Message in Blood for the French Government'
• Mr Gourdel was captured in Algeria's Djurdjura National Park on Sunday
• 55-year-old had arrived in the country the previous day for a hiking holiday
• Video released yesterday demanded France end airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq
• Militants threatened to kill Mr Gourdel within hours unless strikes ceased

 

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ISIS-linked militants in Algeria have beheaded a French hostage captured at the weekend - having earlier made threats to kill him if France did not stop bombing targets in Iraq.
Herve Gourdel, 55, was captured by the Islamist group Jund al-Khilifa while hiking in the Djurdjura National Park on Sunday - just one day after he arrived in Algeria for a 10-day walking holiday.
A video featuring Mr Gourdel was released yesterday in which the militants threatened to kill the professional mountaineering guide within hours unless France stopped bombing ISIS targets in Iraq by the end of the day.
The sickening four minute 46 second video of Mr Gourdel's murder - titled 'A Message in Blood for the French Government' - was released exactly 30 minutes after Barack Obama gave a speech vowing to destroy ISIS and its affiliates to the UN General Assembly.
In his speech President Obama urged the world to come together to tackle the threat posed by ISIS and 'dismantle this network of death'. The address ended at 10.38am New York time, with the existence of Mr Gourdel's murder video revealed just 30 minutes later, at 11.09am.

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Execution: ISIS-linked militants in Algeria have beheaded French tourist Herve Gourdel after he was captured at the weekend. The group earlier made threats to kill Mr Gourdel if France did not stop bombing targets in Iraq

 

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[ KFC bans wipes for fear of offending scumbag Muslims ]

[h=1]KFC apologizes for banning wet wipes at halal restaurant[/h] Published September 30, 2014FoxNews.com


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Nothing cleans the grease off dirty fingers quite like a wet wipe after a fried chicken meal.
But one KFC customer in the U.K. was recently refused a wipe at a halal-only restaurant because he was told it violated the location’s policy, reports the Leicester Mercury.
KFC operates dozens of halal stores in the U.K., and 32 in the U.S., that adhere to Islamic law mandating how food is prepared. Customer Graham Noakes said that the chain refused him the wipes because they were soaked in rubbing alcohol and told it was forbidden under Islamic law.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this before, I couldn’t believe it,” said Noakes.
“Why shouldn’t I be allowed a wipe for my hands? They use wipes in hospital, what happens when we start being told we can’t have wipes there?”
He told the British newspaper that he was “disgusted” and vowed never eat at KFC again.
A spokesperson for KFC initially defended the location’s decision stating, “Wherever possible, we have taken steps to ensure that our halal restaurants are close to a non-halal store to cater to all of our customers' needs, and, in this case, customers wanting a non-halal option can visit our nearby restaurant in Braunstone.”
But the town’s local Federation of Muslim Organizations questioned the chain’s policy, calling it “bizarre.”
“I know alcohol is prohibited in the Muslim community, but I don’t understand why you can’t use hand-wipes - there’s nothing wrong with it,” Suleman Nagdi, a spokesman for the group, told the Leicester Mercury. “KFC have made a commercial decision to do this, and now the Muslim community will face backlash.”
Now the chain is back peddling, claiming the ban on alcohol-soaked wet wipes was a “misunderstanding.”
A spokesman for KFC issued a statement on the restaurant faux pas and apologized for the incident:
“Our alcohol-based hand wipes are approved for use in all our restaurants, including those who are part of the halal trial. There was a misunderstanding at the store in question, but the wipes are now being used again.”

 

[The Guesser]

[h=1]NFL forced to apologize to Muslim player penalized for PRAYING: League says Chiefs safety should not have been reprimanded for dropping to his knees to celebrate[/h]

• Husain Abdullah received a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after he performed the Sajdah during Monday night's football game
• According to the former Vice President of Officiating in the NFL, giving praise after a touchdown does not qualify as unsportsmanlike conduct
• The NFL has since apologized for the call, saying Abdullah should not have been penalized

By Chris Spargo and Daniel Bates for MailOnline
Published: 08:12 EST, 30 September 2014 | Updated: 11:52 EST, 30 September 2014


A Muslim player was penalized for dropping to his knees in prayer after scoring a touchdown.
Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah received a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after he dropped to the ground and performed the Sajdah in the fourth quarter of last night's game against the New England Patriots.
Abdullah had just intercepted a pass from Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and returned it for a touchdown.

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Penalty: Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah received a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after he dropped to the ground and performed the Sajdah (above) during last night's game against the Patriots

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Big play: Abdullah had just intercepted a pass from Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (above) and ran the ball back into the end zone

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Mistake: The NFL said in a statement on Monday that Abdullah (above) should not have been penalized

The NFL, who could have fined Abdullah, released a statement early Monday morning about the incident.
Michael Signora, the NFL Vice President of Football Communications, wrote on Twitter, 'Abdullah should not have been penalized. Officiating mechanic is not to flag player who goes to ground for religious reasons.'

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The rule that referees claimed Abdullah violated reads, 'Prolonged or excessive celebrations or demonstrations by an individual player. Players are prohibited from engaging in any celebrations or demonstrations while on the ground. A celebration or demonstration shall be deemed excessive or prolonged if a player continues to celebrate or demonstrate after a warning from an official.'

According to Mike Pereira however, the former Vice President of Officiating in the NFL, players who pray after scoring a touchdown are not in violation of this rule.
Pereira even explicitly said as much on his Twitter account in 2013, writing, 'you're not penalized for going to the ground to give praise after a TD.'

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Faith: Abdullah (above, with his son Jalaal) is a devout Muslim who fasts during Ramadan

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Pilgrimage: Abdullah (above, with his son Jalaal) also sat out the 2012 season so he could visit Mecca during the Hajj in October

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No response: Abdullah (above) has yet to comment on the call

Players praying after major plays and touchdowns has long been common in the NFL. In fact, former quarterback Tim Tebow prayed so frequently during games that the act of kneeling with one's head bowed and an arm resting on bent knee became known as 'Tebowing.'
Tebow, who is a Christian, was never once penalized by the NFL for this action.
Abdullah, who fasts during Ramadan and even sat out the entire 2012 season so he and his brother, former NFL safety Hamza Abdullah, could visit Mecca during the Hajj in October, has yet to respond to the controversy.
But Husain's brother Hamza told MailOnline that the penalty should never have been given and blamed possible 'ignorance' on the part of the referee.
Hamza, a former Denver Broncos safety, said that his brother was merely thanking his God for allowing him to ‘show off his gifts at such a high level’.
He said: 'We have always tried to be good examples of what Muslims are about and try to bring out the best in Islam. I don't think it was (a case of) it's a Muslim celebration, we're going to fine him.
'Maybe it was a bit of not knowing, simply a bit of ignorance by the referee. He didn't know what Husain was doing.
'Maybe he thought he was going down to pull something out of his jersey... referees are human and make mistakes and he is erring on the side of being cautious'.
Hamza urged the NFL to educate itself and said that, compared to the slew of recent stories about the league, him and his brother are a positive story.
He said that his brother prays five times a day and so when he was score the touchdown and was on his knees, a position known by Muslim as Sajdah, it seemed natural to lower his head to the ground.
Hamza, who like his brother has been a devout Muslim his whole life, said that when he saw his brother do this he thought it was 'beautiful'.
He said: 'I thought he was representing the NFL, his family and his religion in the right way'.
Asked if he thought the league was racist, Hamza said: 'I don’t think the NFL is that way'.
Hamza also said that if a Christian player was given a penalty for doing something similar than his brother would feel that it was unfair to punish him too.

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Tebowing: Giving praise following touchdowns and major plays is common among many players in the NFL, most notably Tim Tebow (above)

Penalty or not, Abdullah's touchdown still helped carry the Chiefs to a 41 - 14 victory over the Patriots.
This of course comes at a time when the NFL is already under fire following their botched treatment of numerous abuse scandals involving players including Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy, to name just a few.

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[ballerhanz]

Maybe ISIS can accept the penalty and take 15 yards from the spot of the beheading

 

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[ScottL]

^^^15 Yards for Kicking The Rougher ;-)

 

[SheriffJoe]

lmfao!

 

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