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October 18, 2015
This is Female Genital Mutilation, FGM
Watch and weep for the millions of girls in Egypt, Somalia, Indonesia and some in India-Pakistan as well as in UK, USA and Canada who undergo this horror, which their parents believe is sanctioned by Islamic Sunnah and the Hadith (sayings and tradition of Prophet Muhammad).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pb2s48y3uqdtu61/This%20is%20FMG.mp4?raw=1
This is Female Genital Mutilation, FGM. Trudeau believes it isn’t a ‘Barbaric Practice’
Watch and weep for the millions of girls in Egypt, Somalia, Indonesia and some in India-Pakistan as well as in UK, USA and Canada who undergo this horror, which their parents believe is sanctioned by Islamic Sunnah and the Hadith (sayings and tradition of Prophet Muhammad).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pb2s48y3uqdtu61/This%20is%20FMG.mp4?raw=1
October 16, 2015
Pakistan Military commits War Crimes in Balochistan – Death by Firing Squad
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zg26fjk5z4x7jcp/Pakistan%20Army%20killing%20Baloch%20boys%20in%20Balochistan.mp4?raw=1
October 15, 2015
Why this Socialist will not vote for the Left in Canada’s elections – Column in Toronto Sun
“It’s as if Lady Liberty in Eugene Delacroix’s famous 1830 painting is no longer bare-breasted, but wearing the niqab.Nearly 200 years later, Canada’s left is not merely betraying Lady Liberty, but the principle of equality itself.”
Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman personifying the concept and the goddess of Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. T
Why this socialist will vote for Harper
October 14, 2015
Tarek Fatah
The Toronto Sun
For the past 50 years, my inner socialist has been my moral compass.It has guided me in politics and in my writing. Two prison terms by successive military dictatorships in Pakistan did not break my resolve.
It was the 1960s. On one side were the Islamists, backed by the U.S. On the other, a motley coalition of social democrats, liberals, communists, socialists and trade unionists, of which I was a part.
Whether one was in Iran, Indonesia, Egypt or Pakistan, options were limited; either support the Islamists, or risk life and liberty to seek modernity through the progressive ideas of the left.
From studying the Fabians to the Bolsheviks, marching in solidarity with Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh and mourning the overthrow by the CIA of Iran’s Mohammad Mossadegh, my youth was one endless struggle to break free from ignorant medievalism and religious fanaticism.
From the first time I voted in Pakistan’s only truly free election in 1970, to the 2011 Canadian election, I have always backed the left.
I am drawn to Justin Trudeau’s Liberal plan in this election to invest in the country and to have the courage to admit the government will run deficits for three years.
I support Tom Mulcair’s NDP plan of offering working parents subsidized, $15-a-day daycare, as well as targeting a federal minimum wage of $15-per-hour.
But this Monday, my tradition will be broken.
It’s not because I have drifted away from my social-democratic ideals or principles.
It’s because many Muslims like me, who are on the left in Canada, have been betrayed by our political leaders who have embraced Islamists to woo the so-called Muslim vote bank in urban centres.
I liken being a Canadian to owning a family farm with fertile soil, ploughed and ready to receive the seeds from which crops will grow. But the farmer’s family cannot agree on what to plant: canola or wheat, barley or corn.
While the family debates this issue, they are unaware of the coming blight, or locust storm, that will devour whatever crop they grow.
Despite being repeatedly warned about these threats, the family looks toward the horizon and says: “We do not see any blight, we cannot see any locusts; don’t fear monger.”
But farmers who refuse to take precautions against looming disasters are risking the future of their farm and their families . They are inviting catastrophe.
For me, the only Canadian politician who has raised the alarm about Islamism in Canada and abroad, and the danger it poses to our future, is Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.
So even if some of the crops he wants to plant would not be my choices, I am glad he at least wants to insure the farm and the family survive.
Trudeau and Mulcair have dismissed the idea there is any threat to Canada from ISIS or Islamism.
Meanwhile anti-Islamist Muslims like me have been insulted as “Uncle Toms,” at the receiving end of unspeakable vitriol.
And it does not end there.
Today the Liberals and NDP not only say “fighting ISIS is not our problem,” they passionately defend the most vulgar manifestation of medieval misogyny, the niqab.
It’s as if Lady Liberty in Eugene Delacroix’s famous 1830 painting is no longer bare-breasted, but wearing the niqab.
Nearly 200 years later, Canada’s left is not merely betraying Lady Liberty, but the principle of equality itself.
October 13, 2015
Niqab “is single most reprehensible cause for keeping Muslims backward … sooner it’s abolished, the better” – Khushwant Singh
“In my view, shared by all my Muslim friends, burqa is the single most reprehensible cause for keeping Muslims backward (it is synonymous to jehalat — ignorance and backwardness). The sooner it is abolished, the better.”
November 3, 2007
Khushwant Singh
Hindustan Times
At the recent Book Fair in Delhi there was a stall selling Islamic literature. Friends who went round the stalls told me that among the hottest sellers was Answer to Non-Muslim Common Questions About Islam by Dr Zakir Naik (Madhur Sandesh Sangam).
The learned doctor, who has a phenomenal memory when it comes to quoting chapters, verses and lines of the scriptures, has chosen 20 questions, most often asked by non-believers: they include polygamy, burqa, drinking, eating pigmeat, afterlife, and kafirs.
I have heard Zakir Naik hold forth on these and other subjects several times on television before large receptive audiences, who hear him spellbound. I disagree with almost everything he has to say about misconceptions about Islam. Though by definition (a kafir), I don’t believe in God, satan, angels, devils, heaven or hell, I feel hurt and angry because I am emotionally and rationally bothered by the sorry plight of Muslims today.
I find Naik’s pronouncements somewhat juvenile. They seldom rise above the level of undergraduate college debates, where contestants vie with each other to score brownie points.
I will deal with only four of the twenty topics he deals with — two of minor and two of major importance.
Muslims and Pork
Why is eating pigmeat forbidden in Islam? Dr Naik tells us that the “pig is one of the filthiest animals on earth.”
Agreed, it eats garbage, including human and animal excreta. He further adds, “The pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth. It is the only animal that invites its friends to have sex with its mate” I admit I was not aware of this swinish aberration. He goes on to list 70 different types of diseases caused by eating pigmeat. He does not tell us why the vast majority of non-Muslims, non-vegetarians of the world relish pigmeat in different forms: ham, bacon, pork, sausages, salami etc.
Many Pacific island economies depend on breeding pigs. I for one have not heard of great epidemics caused by consumption of pig meat.
Muslims and Alcohol
Why is alcohol forbidden to Muslims? Actually, what is forbidden by the Quran is drunkenness, not drinking. However, Dr Naik construes it to be a sin.
He says, “Alcohol has been the scourge of human society, since time immemorial. It costs enormous human lives and terrible misery to millions throughout the world.”
He lists 19 diseases, including eczema, caused by intake of liquor. One does not have to quote the scriptures to prove that excessive drinking ruins one’s health, impoverishes families, leads to bad behaviour and crime. It is plain common sense.
People all over the world overdo it and suffer. Those who drink within limits enjoy it. I have been drinking for 70 years. I have not been drunk even once in my life, never fallen ill nor offended anyone.
I am 94 and still drink everyday. My role model is Asadullah Khan Ghalib. He drank every evening and alone. I look forward to my sundowners. For me and for millions of others, drinking has nothing to do with religion.
Let us see what Dr Naik has to say about two more serious subjects: polygamy and hijab (veil).
Muslims and Polygamy
“The Quran is the only religious book on the face of this earth that contains the phrase “marry only one,” he asserts. And explains the verse on the subject “marry women of your choice, two, three or four; but only fear that ye shall not be able to do justice (with them), then only one”.
And since “ye are never able to be fair and just as between women. Therefore, the verdict is in favour of one wife at a time. “Hindus are more polygamous than Muslims,” writes Dr Naik.
There are more women than men in the world; so what are women who can’t find unmarried men do except become co-wives of married men? Or become “public property?” So goes the learned doctor’s argument.
He does not deign to deal with the situation as it exists today. Every other religion other than Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism now forbids men from having more than one wife at a time.
Muslims are the sole exception though only a miniscule minority, mainly Arabs, have multiple wives.
Apply for a visa to some country like Indonesia and Malaysia and you will have to fill a column naming up to four wives accompanying you. The answer to the problem of women out-numbering men is not polygamy, it is freedom to engage in extra-marital relation or have them staying single. It is better than having a harem.
Muslims and Burka
Dr Naik is in favour of women wearing burqas from head to foot, girls not going to mixed schools or colleges, nor going into professional institutions in which they have to expose their faces etc. This amounts to denying them, equal rights with men.
In my view, shared by all my Muslim friends, burqa is the single most reprehensible cause for keeping Muslims backward (it is synonymous to jehalat — ignorance and backwardness). The sooner it is abolished, the better.
He castigates the western society in no uncertain terms: “Western talk of women’s liberalisation is nothing but a disguised form of exploitation of her body, degradation of her soul and deprivation of her honour.
“Western society claims to have uplifted women. On the contrary, it has actually degraded them to the status of concubines, mistresses, and society butterflies who are mere tools in the hands of pleasure seekers and sex marketers….”
All I can say in reply is “Dr. Naik, you know next to nothing about the Western society and are talking through your skull cap. People like you are making the Muslims lag behind other communities.”
Exposing an Islamist who used White Guilt as a Weapon to enshrine Sharia in Canada
The only exception was Evan Soloman on his Sirius Radio show, and CTV News who allowed an anti-Islamist Muslim to air his views.
October 11, 2015
October 10, 2015
Islamic version of ‘Mary had a Little Lamb…’ How we Muslims learn to slaughter and live with bloodshed very early in our childhood
If you’ve ever wondered why we Muslims are desensitised to bloodshed, this video should explain it.
The clip shows an Arab boy going through initiation rites as he slaughters his toy plastic lamb while his mother spills make-belief blood and other mothers chant ‘Allah O Akbar’.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/euxwu390t3s1qad/VID-20151011-WA0003.mp4?raw=1
Now I wait for one of my people to claim this scene was staged by Hindus and Jews to defame Muslims.
October 9, 2015
How one Islamist used White Guilt as a Weapon to enshrine Sharia in Canada
The only exception was Evan Soloman on his Sirius Radio show, and CTV News who allowed an anti-Islamist Muslim to air his views.
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