That cumb dunt doesn't understand how little it matters what % of Muslims are peaceful.
If 5 sober people are passengers in a car and the 6th is the driver and he's shitfaced what's going to happen?
What % of Muslims who hold rifles, radicalize their children, blow up malls, preach jihad, take preteen brides, and capture large swaths of territory through murder are peaceful?
Written byAsra Q. Nomani Hala Arafa
The End
02.20.15
Will It Take The End of the World For Obama To Recognize ISIS As 'Islamic'?
Obama’s tap-dance around whether ISIS is ‘Islamic’ or not is completely wrong.
At the White House summit on “countering violent extremism,” President Obama declared that violent jihad in the name of Islam isn’t the work of “religious leaders” but rather “terrorists.” American-Muslim leaders, attending the summit, cheered and applauded, later taking selfies in front of the president’s seal.
But, as liberal Muslim feminist journalists who reject the vision of the Islamic State, we can say that the Islamic State, al Qaeda and the alphabet soup of Islamic militant groups, like HUM (Harkut-ul Mujahideen) and LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba), rely very much on the scholarship of “religious leaders,” from Ibn Tamiyyah in the 14th century to Sayyid Qutb in the 20th century, who very much have credibility and authority among too many Muslims as “religious leaders.”
A very nuanced and thorough Atlantic article by journalist Graeme Wood this week, arguing “The Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic,” set off a firestorm of “derision,” as labeled by an article at ThinkProgress, a media site affiliated with the Center for American Progress, a think tank started by former Democratic operative John Podesta. ThinkProgress religion reporter Jack Jenkins wrote that the Atlantic article elicited “staunch criticism and derision from many Muslims and academics who study Islam.”
Wood argues the Islamic State views itself as “a key agent of the coming Apocalypse.” He is absolutely right, and we have been seeing the symbols for months. After spending about 200 hours combined over the last few weeks, analyzing every word and symbol in the burning video of the Jordanian Air Force pilot and the execution video of the Coptic Christians, we can tell you that both videos reveal Islamic State strategists, propagandists and recruiters are very much grounded in a logical interpretation of the Quran, the hadith, or sayings and traditions of the prophet Muhammad, and fatwa, or religious rulings.
They are also hell-bent on one mission: Chasing the apocalypse, according to Islamic eschatology—the study of the end of the world.
Doing a verbal tap dance around Islamic theology and extremism, even calling it “whatever ideology,” Obama and his policy team have it completely wrong. We have to own the issue of extremist Islamic theology in order to defeat it and remove it from our world. We have to name it to tame it.
They are also hell-bent on one mission: Chasing the apocalypse, according to Islamic eschatology—the study of the end of the world.
Among Muslims, stuck in face-saving, shame-based cultures, we need to own up to our extremist theology instead of always reverting to a strategy of denial, deflection, and demonization.
While Rome burns in the war plans of the Islamic State and other militants, it is important to identify the enemy clearly. As sixth-century Chinese military strategy Sun Tzu said, “Know your enemy.” This is particularly important in the kind of asymmetrical war America has been fighting for 14 years since the 9/11 attacks. We know “America is not at war with Islam.” We settled that in the days after 9/11. But we are at war with an ideology and theology of Islam.
At the summit on “countering violent extremism,” Obama said that it would hand America’s enemy a propaganda victory if we called out the Islamic theology that is the underpinning of their violence, but the enemy will despise us no matter how politically correct we try to be. And by returning always to “historical grievances” and “root causes,” from the Crusades to colonialism, we only feed a culture of “wound collectors,” as former FBI agent Joe Navarro calls terrorists.
As Obama argues it, the murders of the Coptic Christian—or “Egyptian citizens,” as the White House spokesman first put it—following the immolation of Jordanian Air Force pilot Lt. Muadh al Kasasbeh and the beheadings of Japanese hostages, journalists and others reveal a “brutal, vicious death cult.”
But we, as Muslims, recognize every word in the Islamic State’s theology from teachings, ideas and interpretations we’ve heard through our approximately 50 years on this earth, from the living room chatter of “couch jihadis,” as one FBI agent describes “wound collectors,” to sermons, Facebook posts and Twitter messages.
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As with earlier videos, the propagandists begin with a salutation that we know well: “In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.” This phrase starts every chapter of the Quran, the use of it by the Islamic State propagandists positioning themselves squarely within the realm of the accepted rhetoric of Islam. The media company name that produced the video flashes “Al-Hayat Media Center,” on screen, invoking an oft-repeated Quranic principle of hay at, or “life.” The Jordanian pilot burn video carried the brand “Al Furqan” media company. Furqan, a Quranic chapter title, represents “the standard” between good and “evil.”
In English, a title appears above a beach scene: “A Message Signed in Blood to the Nation of the Cross.” The phrase used is actually Ummat El-Saleeb, which actually means “Community of the Cross,” though ummat can be used as “nation.” In the burn video, the West and its Muslim allies are called “the crusader coalition”—the language of a doomsday showdown.
Later, in the video of the Egyptian Coptic Christians, the captives are called “the people of the cross,” in English, a term used by Anselm Turmeda, a Franciscan monk in Tunis who converted to Islam, in the title of an early 15th-century, pre-Ottoman narrative, “The Unique Find for the Intelligent Mind: A Treatise of Riposte to the People of the Cross,” or Tuhfat al-adib fi al-radd ‘ala ahl al-salib.
In English, the Islamic State lambasts, “The people of the cross, the followers of the hostile Egyptian Church.” But in Arabic, the Islamic State refers to Christians as ra’aya, which means “subjects,” not “people,” of “the cross,” or al-saleeb. The Arabic word used to describe “the Egyptian Church” is al-mohariba, which means “militant,” not “hostile.” So, the actual translation is: “Subjects of the cross, from the followers of the militant Egyptian church.”
At 18 seconds, the Islamic State fighters bring the captives onto the beach, and the fighters flash a signal of orthopraxy, or external ritual. The fighters’ pant hems are high, or “high-water,” as it’s said in American slang. Again, these are signs any Muslim would recognize, from a supposed hadith of the prophet Muhammad: “Lift up your lower garment to the middle of your shank, and if you don’t wish to, then to the ankles. Beware the trailing of the lower garment, for it is arrogance, and Allah does not like arrogance.” The “shank” is around the calf, making the fighters, in our eyes, “high-water jihadis.”
Two minutes into the video, the chief fighter says, “Oh, you people, you’ve seen us on the hills of Al-Sham and Dabiq’s plain.” Al-Sham is a reference to Syria, and it is the second “S” in the name “ISIS.”
In Islamic prophetic text, Sham is where the Muslim messiah, the “Mahdi,” will appear. Eschatologists in Islam argue the murder of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat by a dissident Egyptian in 1981, plus a string of killed rulers from Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, realizes a prediction that “the inhabitants of Egypt and Sham will kill their ruler and his commands.” Sham, to Muslim eschatologists, is not only the word for Damascus but also the word for “left” and is a way to describe countries to the left of the Hijaz, the region in modern-day Saudi Arabia that includes Mecca and Medina.
A hadith, or saying of the prophet Muhammad, is translated as: “The Last Hour (of history) would not come until the Romans land at (either) al-A’maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best (soldiers) of the people (the Muslims) of the earth at that time will come from Medina (to counteract them).” Dabiq and al-A’maq are towns in Syria along the Turkish border. Dabiq is about an hour’s drive north of Aleppo. According to another hadith attributed to the prophet Muhammad, this area will witness a war in which Muslims will defeat the Romans, conquer Constantinople (now Istanbul) and usher the return of Jesus, thus triggering the apocalypse.
As the Islamic State fighters pushed the captors to their knees, one of the captors’ lips moving in silent speech, another looking furtively around, the video reads, in Arabic: “Until this war ends and Issa, may the blessings and the peace of Allah be upon him, descends….”
Muslims know this name well. In Arabic, Issa is Jesus, and the fighter says, after his name, alayhi al-sallam, which means, “peace be upon him,” a saying reserved for prophets. The abbreviation in English for the shorthand translation: “Peace be upon him,” or “P.B.U.H.”
Our mothers taught us, like most Muslims teach it, that Jesus was a noble prophet—but not a God and not resurrected on the cross, thus the Islamic State video accusing the Christians in the video of shirk, or a supposed crime of equating another deity to God. Islamic eschatology, based on hadith, says Jesus will descend to Earth and meet the Mahdi in the grand mosque of Damascus, after the Mahdi arrives from Khorosan in modern-day eastern Iran and northern Afghanistan, with an army waving black banners, a black flag of the Islamic state with the shahada, or Islamic proclamation of faith, flapping in a corner of the Jordanian pilot immolation video.
There, according to Islamic eschatology, the Mahdi will ask Jesus to lead the prayer, but Jesus will say, “No,” and pray behind the Mahdi.
Another hadith says: “At this very time Allah would send Christ, son of Mary, and he will descend at the white minaret in the eastern side of Damascus wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing his hands on the wings of two Angels. When he would lower his head, there would fall beads of perspiration from his head, and when he would raise it up, beads like pearls would scatter from it.”
In the video of the Copts, one captive cries out, “Ya, Rabb! Yassou!” as masked fighters for the Islamic State slice open the throats of 21 men, their bodies flung onto the beach outside Tripoli, Libya, their blood spilling grotesquely into the Mediterranean Sea’s waters, lapping against their limp bodies. The translation: “Oh God! Jesus!”
These Muslim end-timers’ beliefs aren’t much unlike those of the Christian mullahs of apocalyptic prophecy, including groups that call themselves “Christian Zionists,” but the Islamic State doomsday believers are, literally, killing in the name of their prophecies.
Pointing his knife at the screen, holding it in his left hand, an oddity for a culture that still scolds children to use their right hand, the main Islamic State fighter says, “To break the cross, kill the swine and impose the jizya,” the “tribute.”
The hadith for this prediction, goes like this: “The Prophet said: There is no prophet between me and him, that is, Jesus. He will descent [sic] (to the earth)… He will break the cross, kill swine, and abolish jizya. Allah will perish all religions except Islam.”
As the hostages lay slaughtered, the on-screen script read: “This filthy blood is only a portion of what awaits you to avenge Camelia and her sisters.”
A song begins: “…bullets flare , for punishment time is now, there is nowhere to hide….”
Camelia refers to Camelia Shehata, the wife of a Coptic priest, who was at the center of a sectarian dispute in Egypt five years ago. Many Muslims believed she converted to Islam but was illegally detained and tortured for doing so along with other Coptic women. Although she insisted she hadn’t converted, the grievance remained.
The song continues, “If apostasy became widespread,” a sign of the impending apocalypse, according to a hadith, “and incandescent, we will fill the valleys with red blood,” as the screen shows the sea filled with red.
We made the conscious decision to study the propaganda videos of the Islamic State because we feel there is just too much silence among Muslims against the logic of the Islamic State and like-minded militants. One of us, Hala, shook in her home in Fairfax Station, Va., after she translated the murder video of the Coptic Christians. The other, Asra, retreated into a corner of her family’s home in Morgantown, W.Va., to take screenshots of the video behind a locked bedroom door.
Muslim leaders have to realize that grievances expressed on the streets—like the tragic murder of three Muslims in Chapel Hill, N.C., last week—become the material of terrorism videos, and we have to lead our communities out of a culture of “wound collecting,” and toward a pathway for positive, progressive healing.
The alternative is more horrifying scenes like the video on the beach. But spilled blood should inspire—not paralyze—us. Moderates must unite, to see that “revenge” isn’t our answer and that end-time eschatology doesn’t become something very dangerous: a self-fulfilling prophecy.
[h=1]Saudi Morality Police Arrest Men for Dancing at a Birthday Party[/h] Feb. 22, 2015 11:55am Associated Press
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s morality police detained a group of young men for dancing at a birthday party and referred them to prosecutors, according to a state-linked media report.
The news website Ayn al-Youm reported Saturday that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice raided a private property in the city of Buraydah, arresting the men inside for “loud music and inappropriate dancing.”
Buraydah is the provincial capital of Saudi Arabia’s Qassim province, which is home to some of the kingdom’s most conservative clerics, who practice a strict interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism.
An unnamed official told the website that when members of the morality police raided the private property, they found the young men in “a comprising situation in their dance and shameful movements.” The official said there was also a cake and candles to celebrate one of the men’s birthdays.
No details were released about how many men were arrested or their ages. The official did, however, say that the young men’s hairstyles and dress were not traditional, and urged parents to monitor this kind of behavior “because it can lead to immorality and even homosexuality.”
A hashtag on Twitter quickly went viral about the arrest, with many Saudis ridiculing the raid and pointing out that the men were not caught drinking alcohol or partying with women — both crimes in Saudi Arabia.
Others shared photos of Saudi royals performing a traditional men’s sword dance, though supporters of the raid claim that form of dance is socially acceptable and “masculine.”
In this Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007 photo, the late King Abdullah, center, of Saudi Arabia, surround by Saudi princes, holds his sword as he attends the traditional Arda dance, or war dance, during the Janadriyah Festival of Heritage and Culture on the outskirts of Riyadh. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Wahhabi clerics view Western music as sinful and birthday celebrations as un-Islamic. The morality police are empowered to enforce Islamic law as practiced in Saudi Arabia, including enforcing dress codes.
Shortly after King Salman ascended to the throne last month, he relieved Sheikh Abdullatif al-Sheikh — seen as a reformer— as head of the religious police and appointed Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sanad to lead the force.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s morality police detained a group of young men for dancing at a birthday party and referred them to prosecutors, according to a state-linked media report.
The news website Ayn al-Youm reported Saturday that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice raided a private property in the city of Buraydah, arresting the men inside for “loud music and inappropriate dancing.”
Buraydah is the provincial capital of Saudi Arabia’s Qassim province, which is home to some of the kingdom’s most conservative clerics, who practice a strict interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism.
An unnamed official told the website that when members of the morality police raided the private property, they found the young men in “a comprising situation in their dance and shameful movements.” The official said there was also a cake and candles to celebrate one of the men’s birthdays.
No details were released about how many men were arrested or their ages. The official did, however, say that the young men’s hairstyles and dress were not traditional, and urged parents to monitor this kind of behavior “because it can lead to immorality and even homosexuality.”
A hashtag on Twitter quickly went viral about the arrest, with many Saudis ridiculing the raid and pointing out that the men were not caught drinking alcohol or partying with women — both crimes in Saudi Arabia.
Others shared photos of Saudi royals performing a traditional men’s sword dance, though supporters of the raid claim that form of dance is socially acceptable and “masculine.”
In this Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007 photo, the late King Abdullah, center, of Saudi Arabia, surround by Saudi princes, holds his sword as he attends the traditional Arda dance, or war dance, during the Janadriyah Festival of Heritage and Culture on the outskirts of Riyadh. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Wahhabi clerics view Western music as sinful and birthday celebrations as un-Islamic. The morality police are empowered to enforce Islamic law as practiced in Saudi Arabia, including enforcing dress codes.
Shortly after King Salman ascended to the throne last month, he relieved Sheikh Abdullatif al-Sheikh — seen as a reformer— as head of the religious police and appointed Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sanad to lead the force.
[h=1]Sweden’s national job agency fires its entire network of ‘immigrant resettlement assistants’ over fears they were finding them jobs – as ISIS militants[/h]
The Swedish government has been forced shut down an assimilation guide service after discovering that several aides may have been trying to recruit newly arrived immigrants to ISIS.
The assimilation guides, a service provided by the Swedish state job agency, have been accused of taking bribes from migrant job-seekers and making 'recruitment attempts to militant fighting groups'.
The state job agency, Arbetsformedlingen, has fired the entire network of assimilation guides with immediate effect following the reports.
- Swedish state job agency fire all migrant jobseekers guides
- 'Assimilation guides program' set to help integrate new arrivals
- Guides made 'recruitment attempts to militant fighting groups'
- Sources within state job agency say they were recruiting for ISIS
- Guides have also been accused of fraud, bribery, threats and blackmail
The Swedish government has been forced shut down an assimilation guide service after discovering that several aides may have been trying to recruit newly arrived immigrants to ISIS.
The assimilation guides, a service provided by the Swedish state job agency, have been accused of taking bribes from migrant job-seekers and making 'recruitment attempts to militant fighting groups'.
The state job agency, Arbetsformedlingen, has fired the entire network of assimilation guides with immediate effect following the reports.
[h=1]ISIS seeks to attract more foreign fighters among its ranks in Syria by opening two English-speaking schools for their children[/h]
Militants fighting for the Islamic State in Syria are seeking to attract more foreign recruits by opening two English-language schools in the terror group's de facto capital city.
Activists working undercover in the ISIS stronghold Raqqa uncovered plans for two schools - one for boys and one for girls - where most lessons will be taught in English, not the local Arabic dialect.
The plans are just ISIS' latest attempt to build establish a fully-functioning state within the vast swathes of Syria and Iraq it controls through a campaign of rape, massacre and brutal oppression.
Last summer the terror group declared the territory a so-called caliphate and said it as the duty of all Muslims around the world to live under the regime. Since then tens of thousands of foreigners have done just that, with English becoming a lingua franca among the militants and their families.
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New approach: A poster promoting the schools says that they will cater for children aged between six and 14, and lessons will run between 9am and midday between Saturday and Wednesday
- Local activists revealed terror group's plans to educate children in English
- Posted images online of a poster announcing formation of the two schools
- One school is for boys while the building next door will be used for girls
- Religious lessons, Mathematics and English Language will all be in English
- But Arabic Language lessons and reading the Koran will still be in Arabic
Militants fighting for the Islamic State in Syria are seeking to attract more foreign recruits by opening two English-language schools in the terror group's de facto capital city.
Activists working undercover in the ISIS stronghold Raqqa uncovered plans for two schools - one for boys and one for girls - where most lessons will be taught in English, not the local Arabic dialect.
The plans are just ISIS' latest attempt to build establish a fully-functioning state within the vast swathes of Syria and Iraq it controls through a campaign of rape, massacre and brutal oppression.
Last summer the terror group declared the territory a so-called caliphate and said it as the duty of all Muslims around the world to live under the regime. Since then tens of thousands of foreigners have done just that, with English becoming a lingua franca among the militants and their families.
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New approach: A poster promoting the schools says that they will cater for children aged between six and 14, and lessons will run between 9am and midday between Saturday and Wednesday
[h=1]Brainwashed in their bedrooms: British schoolgirl 'jihadi brides who fled to Syria to join ISIS' were following SEVENTY extremists on Twitter accounts that the internet giant had refused to axe[/h]
Twitter faced a backlash last night after it was revealed the three British 'jihadi brides' were ruthlessly groomed online.
The internet giant was accused of allowing the vulnerable teenagers to be 'brainwashed in their bedrooms'.
It came as the straight-A pupils' distraught families begged them to come home amid fears they have already reached Syria after being radicalised on the social media site.
Today, the headteacher of Bethnal Green Academy - which Kadiza Sultana, 16, Amira Abase, 15, and Shamima Begum, 15, all attended - said there was 'no evidence the girls were radicalised at school'.
- Teenage 'jihadi brides' were ruthlessly groomed online, it was revealed
- Twitter accused of allowing them to be 'brainwashed in their bedrooms'
- One of the girls was 'following' more than 70 known extremists on the site
- Would have exposed her to graphic content - including brutal beheadings
- At least one of the girls is thought to have been contacted by ISIS fighter
- Despite some accounts being well-known, none have been suspended
- Came as the families of the straight-A pupils begged them to come home
- Academy headteacher said no evidence girls were radicalised at the school
Twitter faced a backlash last night after it was revealed the three British 'jihadi brides' were ruthlessly groomed online.
The internet giant was accused of allowing the vulnerable teenagers to be 'brainwashed in their bedrooms'.
It came as the straight-A pupils' distraught families begged them to come home amid fears they have already reached Syria after being radicalised on the social media site.
Today, the headteacher of Bethnal Green Academy - which Kadiza Sultana, 16, Amira Abase, 15, and Shamima Begum, 15, all attended - said there was 'no evidence the girls were radicalised at school'.
[ but but but, Guesstard says Islam is a reliegion of Peeeeeeeace ]
[h=1]Pew Study: Over Half of Jewish Students Face Anti-Semitism in U.S. Colleges[/h] 170
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by Paul Miller23 Feb 201594
[h=2]A study titled “National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students 2014,” conducted in the spring of 2014 by Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, revealed that over half of Jewish college students have experienced anti-Semitism on campus.[/h] Trinity professors Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar led the research project, under the guidance of Kenneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and past head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
Brandeis Center and Trinity College released a joint report this morning explaining the survey methodology and findings.
Of the 1,157 students in the sample, 54 percent reported instances of anti-Semitism on campus during the first six months of the 2013-2014 academic year. The data provide a snapshot of the types, context, and location of anti-Semitism as experienced by a large national sample of Jewish students at university and four-year college campuses.
The rates of victimization for students with different social characteristics – such as type of campus, year of study, academic major, demographics, religiosity, or politics – ranged from a low of 44 percent to a high of 73 percent. There was only a slight variation in the rates across the regions of the United States, strongly suggesting that anti-Semitism on campus is a nationwide problem.
“The patterns and high rates of anti-Semitism that were reported were surprising. Rather than being localized to a few campuses or restricted to politically active or religious students, this problem is widespread,” explained Kosmin. Jewish students are subjected to both traditional prejudice and the new political anti-Semitism.”
The survey found that female students were more likely than their male counterparts to report anti-Semitism.
“Jewish women seem to feel more vulnerable on campus, with 59 percent of female students versus 51 percent of males telling us that they have personally witnessed or experienced anti-Semitism,” said Keysar. “This gender gap is alarming and needs to be further explored.”
Historically, Orthodox Jewish men were most likely targets of hate, as they tend to be easily identifiable. This study revealed that on college campuses, “Conservative and Reform Jewish students are more likely than Orthodox students to report being victims. Membership in a Jewish campus organization also raises the likelihood of a student reporting anti-Semitism.”
In the foreword to the Anti-Semitism Report, Brandeis Center’s Kenneth Marcus writes:
We hear frequently from college students who find that their experiences of anti-Semitism are not taken seriously. A decade ago, Jewish college students spoke of the vindication that they felt when the U.S. Civil Rights Commission gave voice to their concerns. This report should provide a similar vindication, since it indicates that the scope of this problem is greater than most observers had realized.
This study was conducted prior to last summer’s war between Hamas and Israel that led to an increase in anti-Semitism worldwide.
Recent acts of singling out and discriminating against Jewish students and Israel on college campuses, support the study findings.
UCLA student council members recently opposed confirmation of a student to a subcommittee solely because she is Jewish.
Jewish students at the University of California at Davis awoke to swastikas spray-painted on their fraternity house. This occurred 48 hours after the UCD student government voted to divest from Israel, with a council member proclaiming, “Hamas & Sharia law have taken over UC Davis. Brb crying over the resilience. … Israel will fall. Insha’Allah.”
Student governments at Northwestern University and Stanford recently singled out the Jewish State, passing anti-Israel divestment resolutions, while ignoring atrocities committed by nations such as Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
[h=1]Pew Study: Over Half of Jewish Students Face Anti-Semitism in U.S. Colleges[/h] 170
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by Paul Miller23 Feb 201594
[h=2]A study titled “National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students 2014,” conducted in the spring of 2014 by Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, revealed that over half of Jewish college students have experienced anti-Semitism on campus.[/h] Trinity professors Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar led the research project, under the guidance of Kenneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and past head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
Brandeis Center and Trinity College released a joint report this morning explaining the survey methodology and findings.
Of the 1,157 students in the sample, 54 percent reported instances of anti-Semitism on campus during the first six months of the 2013-2014 academic year. The data provide a snapshot of the types, context, and location of anti-Semitism as experienced by a large national sample of Jewish students at university and four-year college campuses.
The rates of victimization for students with different social characteristics – such as type of campus, year of study, academic major, demographics, religiosity, or politics – ranged from a low of 44 percent to a high of 73 percent. There was only a slight variation in the rates across the regions of the United States, strongly suggesting that anti-Semitism on campus is a nationwide problem.
“The patterns and high rates of anti-Semitism that were reported were surprising. Rather than being localized to a few campuses or restricted to politically active or religious students, this problem is widespread,” explained Kosmin. Jewish students are subjected to both traditional prejudice and the new political anti-Semitism.”
The survey found that female students were more likely than their male counterparts to report anti-Semitism.
“Jewish women seem to feel more vulnerable on campus, with 59 percent of female students versus 51 percent of males telling us that they have personally witnessed or experienced anti-Semitism,” said Keysar. “This gender gap is alarming and needs to be further explored.”
Historically, Orthodox Jewish men were most likely targets of hate, as they tend to be easily identifiable. This study revealed that on college campuses, “Conservative and Reform Jewish students are more likely than Orthodox students to report being victims. Membership in a Jewish campus organization also raises the likelihood of a student reporting anti-Semitism.”
In the foreword to the Anti-Semitism Report, Brandeis Center’s Kenneth Marcus writes:
We hear frequently from college students who find that their experiences of anti-Semitism are not taken seriously. A decade ago, Jewish college students spoke of the vindication that they felt when the U.S. Civil Rights Commission gave voice to their concerns. This report should provide a similar vindication, since it indicates that the scope of this problem is greater than most observers had realized.
This study was conducted prior to last summer’s war between Hamas and Israel that led to an increase in anti-Semitism worldwide.
Recent acts of singling out and discriminating against Jewish students and Israel on college campuses, support the study findings.
UCLA student council members recently opposed confirmation of a student to a subcommittee solely because she is Jewish.
Jewish students at the University of California at Davis awoke to swastikas spray-painted on their fraternity house. This occurred 48 hours after the UCD student government voted to divest from Israel, with a council member proclaiming, “Hamas & Sharia law have taken over UC Davis. Brb crying over the resilience. … Israel will fall. Insha’Allah.”
Student governments at Northwestern University and Stanford recently singled out the Jewish State, passing anti-Israel divestment resolutions, while ignoring atrocities committed by nations such as Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
[ liberalism is a fucking mental disorder ]
[h=1]Islamic Preacher Who Called Homosexuality a ‘Criminal Act’ to Speak at University Day Before Gay Pride Event[/h] 510
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by Nick Hallett23 Feb 201569
[h=2]A controversial Islamic preacher who described homosexuality as a “scourge” has been invited to speak at a London university’s Islamic society just a day before a national gay pride event takes place there.[/h] Haitham al-Haddad, who has been invited to speak at the University of Westminster’s Islamic Society, has previously called homosexuality a “criminal act”. He also claimed there is a “proper” way of performing female genital mutilation (FGM) and said that state authorities should not get involved in cases of domestic abuse. “A man should not be questioned why he hit his wife, because this is something between them,” he said.
According to the London Evening Standard, his speech at an event called “Who Is Muhammad” is due to take place on Thursday, one day before the National Student Pride Festival launches at the university.
A spokesman for Student Pride said: “Considering Westminster is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and is such an advocate of our event it is disappointing that on the eve of our tenth anniversary such an anti-gay speaker has been allowed to speak on campus.”
This is not the first time a student Islamic society has caused controversy by inviting al-Haddad to speak. A similar row happened when he spoke at a previous University of Westminster event in 2013. He was also prevented from speaking at the London School of Economics in February 2012, but was later allowed on campus in May that year.
Last year he spoke at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies on Sharia banking, with a spokesman the student union saying the event was “stewarded” to make sure the debate “stayed on topic”.
The Islamic Society at London Metropolitan University also invited him to speak last year, but withdrew the invitation after the university’s authorities expressed “concerns”.
A spokesman for the University of Westminster said: “The University of Westminster is committed to maintaining freedom of speech and a range of views as set out in the Education Act 1986. As a diverse community of local and international students of many faiths, respect and tolerance is our foremost concern and we will be monitoring the event carefully and any student concerns.
“The University has a strict speaker policy which means that all speakers are required to give their agreement to abide by a code of practice. Speakers who do not comply with this policy while on campus will not be permitted to speak at the University in the future.”
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by Nick Hallett23 Feb 201569
[h=2]A controversial Islamic preacher who described homosexuality as a “scourge” has been invited to speak at a London university’s Islamic society just a day before a national gay pride event takes place there.[/h] Haitham al-Haddad, who has been invited to speak at the University of Westminster’s Islamic Society, has previously called homosexuality a “criminal act”. He also claimed there is a “proper” way of performing female genital mutilation (FGM) and said that state authorities should not get involved in cases of domestic abuse. “A man should not be questioned why he hit his wife, because this is something between them,” he said.
According to the London Evening Standard, his speech at an event called “Who Is Muhammad” is due to take place on Thursday, one day before the National Student Pride Festival launches at the university.
A spokesman for Student Pride said: “Considering Westminster is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and is such an advocate of our event it is disappointing that on the eve of our tenth anniversary such an anti-gay speaker has been allowed to speak on campus.”
This is not the first time a student Islamic society has caused controversy by inviting al-Haddad to speak. A similar row happened when he spoke at a previous University of Westminster event in 2013. He was also prevented from speaking at the London School of Economics in February 2012, but was later allowed on campus in May that year.
Last year he spoke at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies on Sharia banking, with a spokesman the student union saying the event was “stewarded” to make sure the debate “stayed on topic”.
The Islamic Society at London Metropolitan University also invited him to speak last year, but withdrew the invitation after the university’s authorities expressed “concerns”.
A spokesman for the University of Westminster said: “The University of Westminster is committed to maintaining freedom of speech and a range of views as set out in the Education Act 1986. As a diverse community of local and international students of many faiths, respect and tolerance is our foremost concern and we will be monitoring the event carefully and any student concerns.
“The University has a strict speaker policy which means that all speakers are required to give their agreement to abide by a code of practice. Speakers who do not comply with this policy while on campus will not be permitted to speak at the University in the future.”
[ Wait, is it the Kuuuran, or the Bible these kids are reciting? I'm not sure? ]
[h=1]Terror trainees: New ISIS video shows indoctrination of kids as young as 5[/h] Published February 23, 2015FoxNews.com
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The latest disturbing video from ISIS shows what the Islamist group touts as the next generation of jihadist killers, pint-sized terror trainees who appear to be as young as 5 participating in drills and reciting verses from the Koran.
The 9-minute video released Monday shows about 70 camouflage-clad kids, who are reportedly the children of foreign fighters who have flocked to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamist army. An instructor states in Arabic that most of the children are in the second phase of training and that they represent the "next generation" of ISIS. The video illustrates the charge in a UN Human Rights Council report last year that determined that Islamic State “has established training camps to recruit children into armed roles under the guise of education.”
“At the camps, the children recruited received weapons training and religious education,” the report stated. “The existence of such camps seems to indicate that ISIS systematically provides weapons training for children.
"Subsequently, they were deployed in active combat during military operations, including suicide-bombing missions," it stated.
In the video, the children wear ISIS' trademark black headbands and are seen answering religious questions and quoting the Koran against a soundtrack of Arabic music. The clip provides a disturbing snapshot into how the extremist group is taking young innocent children and turning them into their own depraved version of Nazi Germany’s Hitler youth, experts said.
"If you believe the ISIS caliphate is the best place to be and Allah commands you to go there, you'd want your family there, too," sad Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst for the Clarion Project, a New York based research institute that tracks global terrorism. "For ISIS supporters, this is like signing your kid up for the best private school."
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The young jihadists are believed to be the children of foreign fighters.
The video is designed to send a message that ISIS is here to stay, Mauro added.
"ISIS is emphasizing its child recruits because it obviously makes for good footage but also to emphasize this is a generational struggle," Mauro said. "You can kill off the current leaders and fighters, but their kids will fight on. It makes it harder to celebrate ISIS' losses if you know their manpower will be replenished with brainwashed children."
Author and former radical Islamist Maajid Nawaz told Fox & Friends Monday the video of the jihadi cubs is disturbing and underscores the militant organization’s long-range objective.
“I think this is shocking for everyone who sees such images,” he said. “Islamic State from the beginning has been saying that they’re planning not just to build a state but a new generation of jihadists who have been raised on their diet of blood and violence.”
ISIS has long been known to employ child soldiers, deploying them as human shields, suicide bombers -- and even executioners. In one horrifying video the terror group released in January, a young boy is shown executing a pair of captives the terror group claims were Russian spies. The video shows a young boy of 10 or less shooting the two men repeatedly in the head with a pistol.
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Experts say the message is intended to show the West that ISIS plans to be around for generations.
Syrians in Raqqa have previously reported that the terrorist army has forced children into its ranks and indoctrinated them in its bloodthirsty ways. One man told the website Syria Deeply.org that his 13-year-old son was forced to attend a training camp where he underwent a form of “brainwashing the children.” When the boy returned, his mother found a blond, blue-eyed doll – along with a large knife given to her son by his ISIS supervisors, in his bag. The boy told his parents the materials were given to children to practice beheading Westerners, according to the report.
Other images and video have emerged on social media from the region showing proud foreign fighters with young children, some even holding the severed heads of Islamic State's enemies.
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Now Playing New ISIS video shows young children training for battle
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The latest disturbing video from ISIS shows what the Islamist group touts as the next generation of jihadist killers, pint-sized terror trainees who appear to be as young as 5 participating in drills and reciting verses from the Koran.
The 9-minute video released Monday shows about 70 camouflage-clad kids, who are reportedly the children of foreign fighters who have flocked to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamist army. An instructor states in Arabic that most of the children are in the second phase of training and that they represent the "next generation" of ISIS. The video illustrates the charge in a UN Human Rights Council report last year that determined that Islamic State “has established training camps to recruit children into armed roles under the guise of education.”
“At the camps, the children recruited received weapons training and religious education,” the report stated. “The existence of such camps seems to indicate that ISIS systematically provides weapons training for children.
"Subsequently, they were deployed in active combat during military operations, including suicide-bombing missions," it stated.
In the video, the children wear ISIS' trademark black headbands and are seen answering religious questions and quoting the Koran against a soundtrack of Arabic music. The clip provides a disturbing snapshot into how the extremist group is taking young innocent children and turning them into their own depraved version of Nazi Germany’s Hitler youth, experts said.
“The existence of such camps seems to indicate that ISIS systematically provides weapons training for children."- UN report on ISIS
The tape, which was posted on the Internet, was apparently shot at a military training center the Islamic State calls the Al Farouk Institute for Cubs in Raqqa, Syria. The video cannot be independently verified. Ser scenes show the youngsters kneeling in prayer with a trainer kneeling in prayer in front of them in front of a pair of rifles. There is little laughter, even as the boys in the video are shown eating a post-prayer meal.
"If you believe the ISIS caliphate is the best place to be and Allah commands you to go there, you'd want your family there, too," sad Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst for the Clarion Project, a New York based research institute that tracks global terrorism. "For ISIS supporters, this is like signing your kid up for the best private school."
[h=2]Related Image[/h]
Expand / ContractThe young jihadists are believed to be the children of foreign fighters.
The video is designed to send a message that ISIS is here to stay, Mauro added.
"ISIS is emphasizing its child recruits because it obviously makes for good footage but also to emphasize this is a generational struggle," Mauro said. "You can kill off the current leaders and fighters, but their kids will fight on. It makes it harder to celebrate ISIS' losses if you know their manpower will be replenished with brainwashed children."
Author and former radical Islamist Maajid Nawaz told Fox & Friends Monday the video of the jihadi cubs is disturbing and underscores the militant organization’s long-range objective.
“I think this is shocking for everyone who sees such images,” he said. “Islamic State from the beginning has been saying that they’re planning not just to build a state but a new generation of jihadists who have been raised on their diet of blood and violence.”
ISIS has long been known to employ child soldiers, deploying them as human shields, suicide bombers -- and even executioners. In one horrifying video the terror group released in January, a young boy is shown executing a pair of captives the terror group claims were Russian spies. The video shows a young boy of 10 or less shooting the two men repeatedly in the head with a pistol.
[h=2]Related Image[/h]
Expand / ContractExperts say the message is intended to show the West that ISIS plans to be around for generations.
Syrians in Raqqa have previously reported that the terrorist army has forced children into its ranks and indoctrinated them in its bloodthirsty ways. One man told the website Syria Deeply.org that his 13-year-old son was forced to attend a training camp where he underwent a form of “brainwashing the children.” When the boy returned, his mother found a blond, blue-eyed doll – along with a large knife given to her son by his ISIS supervisors, in his bag. The boy told his parents the materials were given to children to practice beheading Westerners, according to the report.
Other images and video have emerged on social media from the region showing proud foreign fighters with young children, some even holding the severed heads of Islamic State's enemies.
Hitler and Pol Pot did the same with kids, because they believed they were the legions of the future, both, like ISIS believe their reign to be long term, Hitler envisaged a 1000 year Reich.
Like despotic regimes before, ISIS will suffer a short life span and these kids will never be the ISIS legions that is hoped of them, because ISIS will be extinguished.
Like despotic regimes before, ISIS will suffer a short life span and these kids will never be the ISIS legions that is hoped of them, because ISIS will be extinguished.
What an absolute surprise. Another Guesser Google search result is foiled by REALITY!
The Muslim ring around the Oslo synagogue was a fabrication. It wasn't 1,300 Muslims. It was 20 Muslims, one of whom is an out and out anti-Semite.
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Organizer of Muslim Synagogue “Peace Ring” Gave “Why I Hate Jews” Speech | FrontPage Magazine
A lot of media outlets have fallen for the story of Muslims organizing to protect a synagogue. It's a great media op scene, but it ignores the fact that synagogues...
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Palestinian groups face $218m Israel attacks fine in US
One of the attacks took place at Jerusalem's Hebrew University in 2002
Continue reading the main storyIsrael and the Palestinians
A US court in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for attacks in Israel over 10 years ago.
Six attacks in and around Jerusalem killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more during the second Palestinian intifada between 2002 and 2004.
The jury awarded victims of the attacks more than $218m.
The Palestinian groups expressed dismay at the court's decision and vowed they would appeal.
As some of the victims were American citizens, the lawsuit was filed in a US court.
After deliberating for a day, jurors ruled in favour of 10 American families who were seeking damages related to the six attacks.
The Israeli government has denied any official involvement in the lawsuit.
The Palestinian groups have said they will appeal against the ruling
A joint statement by the PLO and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) described the charges as "baseless" and said they were disappointed by the ruling.
The victims' families allege that internal documents show the attacks were approved by the Palestinian authorities.
"Those involved in the attacks still receive salaries from the Palestinian Authority and still get promoted in rank while in jail," said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Israel-based Shurat HaDin Law Center, a lawyer who is representing the victims' families.
But defence lawyer Mark Rochon told jurors that the PA and PLO did not have knowledge of the attacks before they took place.
And he said the organisations could not be held liable for the actions of suicide bombers and gunmen, whom he argued acted alone.
The victims had requested more than $350m. The US Anti-Terrorism Act could yet allow for the fine to be tripled.
One of the attacks took place at Jerusalem's Hebrew University in 2002
Continue reading the main storyIsrael and the Palestinians
A US court in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for attacks in Israel over 10 years ago.
Six attacks in and around Jerusalem killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more during the second Palestinian intifada between 2002 and 2004.
The jury awarded victims of the attacks more than $218m.
The Palestinian groups expressed dismay at the court's decision and vowed they would appeal.
As some of the victims were American citizens, the lawsuit was filed in a US court.
After deliberating for a day, jurors ruled in favour of 10 American families who were seeking damages related to the six attacks.
The Israeli government has denied any official involvement in the lawsuit.
The Palestinian groups have said they will appeal against the ruling
A joint statement by the PLO and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) described the charges as "baseless" and said they were disappointed by the ruling.
The victims' families allege that internal documents show the attacks were approved by the Palestinian authorities.
"Those involved in the attacks still receive salaries from the Palestinian Authority and still get promoted in rank while in jail," said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Israel-based Shurat HaDin Law Center, a lawyer who is representing the victims' families.
But defence lawyer Mark Rochon told jurors that the PA and PLO did not have knowledge of the attacks before they took place.
And he said the organisations could not be held liable for the actions of suicide bombers and gunmen, whom he argued acted alone.
The victims had requested more than $350m. The US Anti-Terrorism Act could yet allow for the fine to be tripled.
[h=1]BREAKING NEWS: ISIS kidnap at least 90 people from Christian villages in Syria, human rights watchdog reveals[/h]
- Islamic State militants launched dawn raid on Syrian villages, reports claim
- Sources say at least 90 have been abducted - mainly women and children
- Up to 3,000 people are said to have been 'displaced' as a result of the raid
- Eyewitnesses describe 'panic' as 'massive' ISIS force swooped on villages
[h=1]ISIS thugs take a hammer to civilisation: Priceless 3,000-year-old artworks smashed to pieces in minutes as militants destroy Mosul museum[/h]
Islamic State thugs have destroyed a collection of priceless statues and sculptures in Iraq dating back thousands of years.
Extremists used sledgehammers and power drills to smash ancient artwork as they rampaged through a museum in the northern city of Mosul.
Video footage shows a group of bearded men in the Nineveh Museum using tools to wreck 3,000-year-old statues after pushing them over.
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Extremists used sledgehammers and power drills to smash ancient artifacts at a museum in the northern city of Mosul
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Militant uses a power tool to destroy a winged-bull Assyrian protective deity at the Ninevah Museum in Mosul, Iraq. The statue dates back to the 9th century B.C
One of the items, depicting a winged-bull Assyrian protective deity, dates back to the 9th century B.C.
A man shown in the video said the items were being destroyed because they promoted idolatry.
'The Prophet ordered us to get rid of statues and relics, and his companions did the same when they conquered countries after him,' the unidentified man said.
The articles destroyed appeared to come from an antiquities museum in the northern city of Mosul, which was overrun by Islamic State last June, a former employee at the museum told Reuters.
The extremist group has destroyed a number of shrines - including Muslim holy sites - in a bid to eliminate what it views as heresy.
Militants are also believed to have sold ancient artwork on the black market in order to finance their bloody campaign across the region.
- Extremists used power drills and sledgehammers to smash ancient items
- They wrecked a series of 3,000-year-old statues at museum in Mosul, Iraq
- One vandal says items being destroyed because they promoted idolatry
- Comes after thugs destroyed thousands of books at Mosul Public Library
Islamic State thugs have destroyed a collection of priceless statues and sculptures in Iraq dating back thousands of years.
Extremists used sledgehammers and power drills to smash ancient artwork as they rampaged through a museum in the northern city of Mosul.
Video footage shows a group of bearded men in the Nineveh Museum using tools to wreck 3,000-year-old statues after pushing them over.
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Extremists used sledgehammers and power drills to smash ancient artifacts at a museum in the northern city of Mosul
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Militant uses a power tool to destroy a winged-bull Assyrian protective deity at the Ninevah Museum in Mosul, Iraq. The statue dates back to the 9th century B.C
One of the items, depicting a winged-bull Assyrian protective deity, dates back to the 9th century B.C.
A man shown in the video said the items were being destroyed because they promoted idolatry.
'The Prophet ordered us to get rid of statues and relics, and his companions did the same when they conquered countries after him,' the unidentified man said.
The articles destroyed appeared to come from an antiquities museum in the northern city of Mosul, which was overrun by Islamic State last June, a former employee at the museum told Reuters.
The extremist group has destroyed a number of shrines - including Muslim holy sites - in a bid to eliminate what it views as heresy.
Militants are also believed to have sold ancient artwork on the black market in order to finance their bloody campaign across the region.
