This week in Islam

[Michael Hardner]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Revolt

 

This Week = 2500 years ago ....

[Charles Anthony]

Folks,

Avoid thread drift lest I do so on your behalf. 

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On 5/19/2019 at 6:26 AM, Michael Hardner said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Revolt

 

This Week = 2500 years ago ....

Just like it was yesterday. 

Hey...anyone else feel that déjà vu?

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5 hours ago, Charles Anthony said:

Folks,

Avoid thread drift lest I do so on your behalf. 

Are you saying the thread is strictly about what happened this week in Islam and not the dim mists of time that preceded it?

[scribblet]

Is this being intolerant of Muslims...  quite a catch 22

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7050217/Labour-Birmingham-Yardley-MP-Jess-Phillips-furious-row-Muslim-parent-protestors-outside-school.html

Labour MP Jess Phillips was involved in a furious row with Muslim protestors outside a school in Birmingham today amid ongoing protests about LGBT education. 

Police were called to Anderton Park Primary School in the Sparkbrook area of the city last night after pro-LGBT campaigners and members of the Muslim community clashed outside. 

This morning the Labour MP turned up at the school to announce she is calling for an exclusion zone to ensure pupils can get to and from school safely.

It comes after seven weeks of protests by Muslim parents who claim LGBT inclusion lessons are a breach of their religious values and are aggressively promoting homosexuality'.

[Michael Hardner]

So they're like Christians then ?  

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/25/opponents-rally-parents-against-lgbt-education-law/

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A rally this weekend will give New Jersey parents an opportunity to oppose a new state law requiring public schools to teach children about the “political, economic, and social contributions” of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

 

[Guest]

13 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

So they're like Christians then ?  

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/25/opponents-rally-parents-against-lgbt-education-law/

 

Or the Christians are like the Muslims.  Either or.  As long as it's okay to say they're all intolerant religious nutjobs without worrying about being accused of anything, it's all good.

[Michael Hardner]

7 hours ago, bcsapper said:

 As long as it's okay to say they're all intolerant religious nutjobs without worrying about being accused of anything, it's all good.

I see lots of people saying that.  But some others only want white nutjobs and fake Christians here.

[Argus]

6 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

I see lots of people saying that.  But some others only want white nutjobs and fajr Christians here.

What makes you think we want them either?

[Argus]

20 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

So they're like Christians then ?  

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/25/opponents-rally-parents-against-lgbt-education-law/

What a moronic law. A law requiring schools to teach about the “political, economic, and social contributions” of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals".

No wonder people are getting pissed off at progressive zealots. Why not a law requiring schools to teach about the political, economic, and social contributions of redheads? Blondes? Jews? Italians? Hindus? Left-handed people? You don't have to be a religious fanatic to oppose this kind of determined sexual propaganda campaign directed at children. It's this kind of shit that drives people to vote Republican.

Edited May 21, 2019 by Argus

[dialamah]

Ipsos poll: 25% Canadians think its become more acceptable to be prejudiced against Muslims, a finding that is correlated to an increase in hate crimes against Muslims (up 151% in 2017) and an increase in White Nationalist groups from around 100 in 2015 to between 200 and 300 today.

15% of Canadians think it's more acceptable to be prejudiced against Jews.

[Goddess]

46 minutes ago, dialamah said:

Ipsos poll: 25% Canadians think its become more acceptable to be prejudiced against Muslims, a finding that is correlated to an increase in hate crimes against Muslims (up 151% in 2017) and an increase in White Nationalist groups from around 100 in 2015 to between 200 and 300 today.

15% of Canadians think it's more acceptable to be prejudiced against Jews.

We're doing pretty good, then.

https://www.learnreligions.com/muslim-views-of-jews-2076073

 

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Muslim Views of Jews as 'Unfavorable'

Here, we present the findings of the Muslim view of Jews by country:

 

• Jordan - 100 percent
• Lebanon - 99 percent
• Egypt - 98 percent
• Morocco - 88 percent
• Indonesia - 76 percent
• Pakistan - 74 percent
• Turkey - 60 percent
• Poland - 27 percent
• Russia - 26 percent
• Germany - 21 percent
• Spain - 20 percent
• France - 16 percent
• Canada - 11 percent
• United States - 7 percent
• Great Britain - 6 percent

 

• It seems that anti-antisemitism amongst Muslims goes down - by a lot - the more contact they have with Western nations.

[dialamah]

@Goddess  So in your view its not really a problem if Canadian prejudice is increasing, resulting in more violence and hate against not just Muslims, but also immigrants and Jews?

[Goddess]

Just now, dialamah said:

@Goddess  So in your view its not really a problem if Canadian prejudice is increasing, resulting in more violence and hate against not just Muslims, but also immigrants and Jews?

Please stop rewriting everything I say.

[dialamah]

5 minutes ago, Goddess said:

Please stop rewriting everything I say.

You first, punkin. 

[Goddess]

[dialamah]

Hate crime targets Muslims in Hartford Connecticut.   

'Anti-Islamic' posters in Essex showing crusader chasing woman in burqa with AK-47.

Far right politician Rasmus Paludin ,who wants to deport Muslims and ban Islam, has schoolyard game named after him.

"He told me that the pupils had been playing the 'Paludan-game' in the schoolyard, dividing each other into Christians, Jews and Muslims. The Christians then had to catch the Jews and Muslims and put them in [imaginative] cages and insult them"

Young Muslim women, born and raised in Canada, told they don't look Canadian.

Muslim women in Quebec face increased hostility after Bill 21.

[Guest]

18 minutes ago, dialamah said:

Hate crime targets Muslims in Hartford Connecticut.   

'Anti-Islamic' posters in Essex showing crusader chasing woman in burqa with AK-47.

Far right politician Rasmus Paludin ,who wants to deport Muslims and ban Islam, has schoolyard game named after him.

"He told me that the pupils had been playing the 'Paludan-game' in the schoolyard, dividing each other into Christians, Jews and Muslims. The Christians then had to catch the Jews and Muslims and put them in [imaginative] cages and insult them"

Young Muslim women, born and raised in Canada, told they don't look Canadian.

Muslim women in Quebec face increased hostility after Bill 21.

Well, to be fair, the poster in Essex does refer to Islamists, and really, who wants any of them around?

 

 

Edited May 22, 2019 by bcsapper
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction, but there seems to be varying degrees of it - not Blaise Pascal

[Argus]

 

“10-12 Somali teen males armed with hammers” Chased Passengers in Minneapolis

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/10-12-somali-teen-males-armed-with-hammers-chased-passengers-in-minneapolis

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Argus said:

 

“10-12 Somali teen males armed with hammers” Chased Passengers in Minneapolis

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/10-12-somali-teen-males-armed-with-hammers-chased-passengers-in-minneapolis

Wow, and not Blaise Pascal just mentioned the varying degrees too!

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On 5/20/2019 at 7:36 PM, Michael Hardner said:

So they're like Christians then ?  

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/25/opponents-rally-parents-against-lgbt-education-law/

Yes, exactly, but now there's a problem because they can't label muslims as bigoted, intolerant alt right etc. or go to their homes and charge them with hate speech  (this UK)

They have a conundrum

[scribblet]

12 hours ago, bcsapper said:

Or the Christians are like the Muslims.  Either or.  As long as it's okay to say they're all intolerant religious nutjobs without worrying about being accused of anything, it's all good.

More  or less my point....

 

JUST ADDING THIS ON

Edited May 22, 2019 by scribblet

[dialamah]

From the "Islam must reform" news:

A Muslim women's shelter in New York, operated by Muslim women.

Woman's Mosque launches in Toronto.

In Germany, an LGBT-friendly Mosque.  

Also available in Kitchener-Waterloo, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Halifax and Ottawa.

Kenyan Islamic leaders speak out against FGM.

Somali sheikh leads campaign to end FGM.

US Islamic leaders condemn FGM, and Imam who supported it.

Dublin Imam issues Fatwa against FGM.

Egypt's Grand Mufti condemns FGM.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, dialamah said:

From the "Islam must reform" news:

I must say, that kind of thing is good to hear.  Especially the moves against FGM.

[AsksWhy]

To be crystal clear: I agree that what has been done is disgusting. Unfortunately, there's a market for everything and the world business model supports if not forces people to do strange things to make money - its the nature of the beast.