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Newsweek: European far-Right parties ‘seeking anti-Islam coalition with Jewish groups’

By on July 16, 2015 in Loon-at-large

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Not new information. We’ve been noting this trend among many of the nationalist, fascist European parties for quite some time now.:

By , Newsweek

Right-wing European political parties are seeking to sow religious discord in Europe by approaching Jewish organisations in a bid to form an anti-Islamic alliance.

Speaking to Newsweek on condition of anonymity, a senior figure in one of Europe’s largest Jewish organisations has revealed that their group has been approached in the past year by MEPs, including members of the Austrian Freedom Party, seeking to create a coalition to combat the rise of Islam in Europe. They emphasized that all approaches had been flatly refused.

Last week, Marine Le Pen and other far-Right politicians met with Vadim Rabinovich, the chairman of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP), prompting criticism from European Jewish leaders.

Now the source says that far-Right’s rapprochement with Jewish groups is far from new as politicians from various parties have attempted to court their group, offering to “be friends with Jews” if Jewish groups “help us in our fight against Muslims”.

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In a meeting chaired by Le Pen last Wednesday, Rabinovich met with 10 representatives of the Europe of Nations and Freedom, a bloc of nationalist parties in the European Parliament formed in June.

The bloc includes the Austrian Freedom Party, whose current leader Heinz-Christian Strache was criticised for posting a cartoon perceived as anti-Semitic on his Facebook page. The party’s former leader, Jörg Haider, who died in a car crash in 2008, previously described the Nazi concentration camps as “penal camps” and referred to SS officers as “upstanding men of character”.

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The European Jewish Association, which claims to be the biggest federation of Jewish organisations in Europe, said that the EJP risked “magnifying the problem” of anti-Semitism by “giving a platform to those seeking to spread messages of hate”.

Dr Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, said he was shocked that the EJP met with “fig leaf racists and anti-Semites” and added: “It goes without saying that these people [the EJP] are as unrepresentative of the vast majority of European Jews as this collective of Le Pen’s MEPs is of the vast majority of European citizens.”

In a statement on the EJP’s website, Rabinovich said he was “very surprised” by the negative reaction from other Jewish groups.

“The meeting with the [Europe of Nations and Freedom] opens the new dialogue, which, in our firm conviction is what Europe needs today – a dialogue of everybody with everyone, in order to preserve peace and tolerance and combat anti-Semitism in Europe,” said Rabinovich.

He added that a joint statement with Le Pen had condemned anti-Semitism as “the cancer of Europe”.

The EJP was founded in 2011 by Rabinovich and another Ukrainian Jewish billionaire, Igor Kolomoisky. Upon its foundation, it was criticised for including famous persons such as David Beckham and Stella McCartney in its original batch of election candidates. The elections were announced online without many candidates being informed.

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  • The greenmantle

    jews just become number two on the list

Nicolas Sarkozy: “Don’t Turn Empty Churches Into Mosques”

By on July 9, 2015 in Loon Politics
Bourdeaux Church turned into the Utopia Movie Theater.

Bourdeaux Church turned into the Utopia Movie Theater.

Europe has a lot of empty churches, many of which are “for sale” as the Wall Street Journal put it, due to the rising numbers of Europeans leaving Christianity in large numbers.

“…the closing of Europe’s churches reflects the rapid weakening of the (Christian) faith in Europe, a phenomenon that is painful to both worshipers and others who see religion as a unifying factor in a disparate society.”  By example, the Netherlands is projected to close 2/3 of its Roman Catholic churches in the next decade.

Pew Research Center data, presented by the Wall Street Journal, highlights the degree to which the European population reports no religious affiliation:  France (28%), Germany (24.7%), Italy (12.4%), Netherlands (42.1%), and the United Kingdom (21.3%).  By contrast, 16.4% of the United States population is unaffiliated with any religion. (via. Daily Kos)

It turns out across Europe these former Churches are being sold or turned into pubs, night clubs, skate halls and art galleries. I don’t know how prevalent it is for these empty churches in France to be changed but the one above is a church that was converted into a movie theater.

One French Muslim leader named Dalil Boubacker’s suggested turning some of them into mosques since there are a shortage of mosques compared to the demand. This didn’t go over well, especially with the Marine Le Pen’s and Nicolas Sarkozy’s (transparently attempting to appeal to the right’s votes) of the world. They demand that you “don’t touch our churches.”

The Local

Sarkozy added his name to a list of signatories that includes controversial writer and political journalist Éric Zemmour and philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, as well as Jeannette Bougrab, partner of the late Stéphane Charbonnier, Charlie Hebdo editor .

The petition, published in the magazine Valeurs Actuelles comes after Dalil Boubakeur, the rector of the Grand Mosque in Paris said he was in favour of turning empty churches into mosques due to the serious shortage of places of worship for Muslims.

In France there are currently 2,500 mosques, with another 300 under construction, but Boubakeur says the number falls far short of what is needed.

With upwards of 5 million Muslims in France – the largest Muslim population in Europe – Boubakeur and other imams suggest as many as 5,000 mosques are needed.

But his call stirred up a hornet’s nest and Sarkozy has come out firmly against the idea. So too has former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

“The French Catholic churches [have been] part of the historical heritage of the French population for ten centuries,” he said.

A poll published alongside the petition suggests they are not alone, with 67 per cent of French people apparently opposed to the idea.

“Even if France [has been] deeply de-Christianised since the 1960s, there is a real commitment… to the Christian roots and their symbols,” Jerome Fourquet, Ifop’s director of opinion and strategy, told the magazine.

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My only point would be why not assign those historic churches that one seeks to preserve as national landmarks, clearly it is not possible that all or even most of these unused churches would fit this description. If some of them can be turned into movie theaters and used for other secular purposes there should be nothing wrong in some of them being mosques, synagogues, Buddhist temples, etc.

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    • Cengiz_K

      What about the congregational prayer orientation.. Had that to be adjusted as well, I take it that formerly the cathedral was not oriented towards mekka at first?

    • George Carty

      Judaism didn’t die when the Romans destroyed the Jerusalem Temple, and Islam wouldn’t die if Mecca was destroyed (especially if it was destroyed deliberately by Islam’s enemies).

    • Saleem

      I never liked Freud. But he sure went deep. This one is a classical example of what he taught.

    • Friend of Bosnia

      I wonder if he is the same guy who made all those horrible serbofascist propaganda postings on Balkaninsight. But no, it can’t be the same, because that guy has at least some knowledge about the region even though his conclusions are utterly wrong.

    • Friend of Bosnia

      Hate speech, fascism, genocidal talk must be auppressed. Always. And who utters it must be rendered harmless. Also, continued insult must not be tolerated. What teh world is sorely lacking, and that’s what makes continued violence and genocide possible, is lack of respect. At the very least such guys must be taught manners. They must be taught to respect the others and if they refuse to learn they must be hit over the head with a two-by-four. Or better, be given the same treatment the guy in “Clockwork Orange” was. And then be left to the tender mercies of their former buddies. God, how I would love that Karadzic, Mladic or some other cetnik swine who indulged in killing, raping, robbing Bosniaks would get just that. That woukd hurt them more than being killed or locked up for life.

    • Friend of Bosnia

      Well he wouldn’t let well enough alone. It’s true there is a hadith about our Prophet (saws) touching teh idols in the Ka’aba with his staff and they fell down. I think it can be found in Ibn Oshaq’s biography. It is also true that IS and other such groups interpret this as a mandate to destroy all pre-Islamic (and alos a lot of Islamic) artifacts and historic buildings. However history has shown that most Muslism don’t interpret it as that. Had they, there would be no historica evidence left in most Muslim countries. Also his description of IS abd of the Wahhabi ideal of socienty is accurate as far a sI know. But it is most unfair of him and theother individuals of his ilk to conflate the above with Islam and Muslims in general, to defame Islam as fascism and to associate these negative and destructive currents of Islam with Muslims in general. That is hate-mongering and fear mongering. Such talk can lead to genocide as history continues to show. Who does that is evil and has resigned from the human race.

    • Lithium2006

      “Shutting down speech is never the solution.”

      When it comes to an idiot like that who offers nothing of substance and knee jerk posts, it’s time to tell him offer something intelligent and respectable or get out.

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NY Daily News: Man Who Made Death Threats Against CAIR Employee Gets Six Months House Arrest

By on July 8, 2015 in Loon-at-large

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Mental health is a serious issue that shouldn’t be belittled or easily dismissed but one has to question why Muslims who commit a crime of violence are almost never treated in a like manner. There are people behind bars for plotting or aiding terrorism, due to nothing more than government entrapment, who are certifiable insane and in need of “medical help,” not lengthy jail sentences.

By John Marzulli, NY Daily News

A Queens kook was sentenced Tuesday to six months of house arrest and mental treatment for sending an email threatening to kill an employee of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Bernhard Laufer, 57, is still facing attempted murder as a hate crime charges in state court for stabbing the caretaker of the Masjid Al-Saaliheen Mosque in Flushing in 2012 after uttering an anti-Muslim epithet.

Laufer made references to the stabbing attack in the vile rants to CAIR in 2014. He was free on $200,000 bail at the time.

“I’m sorry for what I did,” Laufer said in Brooklyn Federal Court. “I was not thinking logically. I need medical help.”

Judge Raymond Dearie said the one year that Laufer has spent in custody since his arrest on the federal charge was sufficient time served. But the judge expressed concern that there is no guarantee that psychiatric hospital will accept Laufer for in-patient treatment.

“I’m sure he’s not an inherently evil person, he just needs help,” Dearie said.

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    • Friend of Bosnia

      Where you’re right, you’re right.

    • Nur

      The best way for Muslims to protect themselves is to learn a martial art. It is time that Muslims understand that the western authorities are not on their side, and that they MUST have first and foremost the protection of themselves and their loved ones in mind…and be of heightened awareness.

      After you neutralize a threat is the time you can report it. It is much better for the defender if the threat is incapacitated during the police reporting.

      I am sad that this happens, but Muslims have to be honest and frank and deal with the situation as it is.

    • Reynardine

      This and the Doggett case certainly present an argument that some people’s lives are considered more equal than other people’s.

    • mindy1

      Well on the bright side, he can’t hurt anyone else, although I hope more severe penalties are coming…

Robert Doggart: If He Was Muslim He’d Be Serving Life In Prison

By on July 6, 2015 in Loon-at-large

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So this guy will likely be let go because a judge thinks he isn’t “a true threat.” Hmmm, I wonder why?

This is another instance that exemplifies the double standard, systematic racism and flawed justice system that is pervasive in the US. (h/t: JD)

By Judd Legum, ThinkProgress

Robert Rankin Doggart, a former candidate for Congress, admitted in federal court to “plotting the annihilation” of a village in New York that is home to many Muslims. Doggart’s plans included “burning down a school, a mosque and a cafeteria,” according to the criminal complaint.

“We’re gonna be carrying an M4 with 500 rounds of ammunition, light armor piercing. A pistol with three extra magazines, and a machete. And if it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to shreds,” Doggart allegedly said according to the transcript of a wiretap cited in the complaint. He also allegedly tried to recruit other individuals to participate in his plot through a Facebook group.

As part of a plea agreement, Doggart pled guilty to “interstate communication of threats” and faces up to five years in prison. He was in jail awaiting final sentencing.

But a federal judge, Curtis Collier, may not accept the guilty plea. He’s ordered the prosecution and defense to produce briefs proving that Doggart was a “true threat.” Meanwhile, a different federal judge, Magistrate Susan K. Lee, released Doggart from jail “into the custody of two family members.”

Lee had previously found that Doggart was a “danger to the community.” The government appealed the decision to release Doggart to Judge Collier, who affirmed Lee’s decision.

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    • Lithium2006

      o/t troll, flagged.

    • syed ali

      ahhhh that is so true

    • ShunTheRightWhale

      Jesus said, he’s God. So if Mohammed was narcisstic, J. takes it to a whole new level. But I believe J. was right, because J. does not only love himself, but everyone. You, good sir, if you are a Christian, should feel that too. But when I read your comment, I feel nothing of God’s love, but simply weak Human hate. Love thy declared “enemy” at least a bit!

    • 1DrM

      He has the complexion for the protection

    • HerrSkolly

      Huh the Huh?

      [No need to scroll down.]

    • Debbie

      Like the infidelophobes who conspire to murder infidels, this Muslimophobe should clearly be locked up forever, IMO. Unfortunately, the reality is that most terrorism convictions in the US result in short-ish, finite sentences rather than “life in prison” :

      http://www.lawandsecurity.org/Portals/0/documents/02_TTRCFinalJan142.pdf

      Average sentence for persons convicted of terrorism: 191.9 months, or 16.0 years

    • Nur

      You posted this:

      “…Muslims inhabit a different moral universe from the rest of us,.”

      If you take your medication, you can leave the hospital, and live in reality with the rest of us.

    • Nur

      From your comment:

      “…A narcissist truly believes he is the best of humanity even if his actions are despicable. He projects his own vices on others while idealizes his own attributes…”

      The arrogance of your post is proof that you have first hand knowledge of what you are trying to project away from yourself.

    • AJ

      I think he is bipolar.

    • Reynardine

      Do you realize that in the vernacular of the time, that was seventy-two golden Muscat grapes? Those are a delicate pleasure, but even a vegan wouldn’t kill for them.

    • Reynardine

      …..

    • Reynardine

      If you want to see a psychopathic narcissist, you could always look in the mirror…woops! You already always are!

    • Yausari

      WHAT the WHAT?

      [Edit]: Meh, scrolled down..

    • Yausari

      “Muslims inhabit a different moral universe from the rest of us,”

      I think it’s more likely that you are self-absorbed in your own moral universe from the rest of us.

    • downwithpants

      “Muslims are incapable of loving” That’s not true “We love death more than you love life” HAMAS See they love something. But for serious Muslims love their children as much as anyone else. Have you not seen the news footage of mums and dad’s openly weeping over their injured or dying children. Average working people caught in a war zone. On the one hand fanatics on the other ISIS….(.see what I did there. ) the world can be a terrible place count your blessing that “terrorism” is really a minor threat in the grand scheme of things.

    • downwithpants

      Narcissistic? Devout followers? I think you’re thinking of Kanye West.

    • moraka

      “I am a patriot!” and “I stand for America all the way!” (Said Frank Silva Roque when he was arrested for the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi)

    • moraka

      You know you can solve your problem by getting some professional help. With the right medication you can one day no longer suffer from delusions.

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New Poll on American Muslims Is Grounded in Bias, Riddled with Flaws

By on June 28, 2015 in Loon-at-large

Screen-Shot-2015-06-26-at-12.04.02-PM3 This is particularly important highlight:

“Sixty-percent of respondents agreed that “shariah as interpreted by Islamic authorities is compatible with the U.S. Constitution, including freedom of speech and other rights,” and 51% chose this definition of jihad: “Muslims’ peaceful, personal struggle to be more religious.” These rare but helpful nuances are not even alluded to … in conservative outlets like Fox News. Bill O’Reilly also makes exaggerations that the already-flawed data doesn’t support. “Fifty-one percent [of Muslims] say sharia law should be the reigning law,” he said. But that language is nowhere in the survey data he’s likely referencing, which says that “a majority (51%) agreed that ‘Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah.’” “

June 26, 2015  By:  The Bridge Initiative

On Wednesday, the Center for Security Policy (CSP), a Washington, D.C. think tank run by former Reagan official Frank Gaffney released a survey of 600 Muslims living in the United States. Its takeaway, captured in a headline on the CSP website, is this: “Poll of US Muslims Reveals Ominous Levels of Support For Islamic Supremacists’ Doctrine of Shariah, Jihad.”

The poll gained quick traction online and in the media. On the evening of its release, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly also lent credence to its findings and cast doubt upon American Muslims’ loyalty to their country.

Among the poll’s findings are:

  • “A majority (51%) agreed that ‘Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah.’”
  • “Nearly a quarter of the Muslims polled believed that, ‘It is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed.’”
  • “Nearly one-fifth of Muslim respondents said that the use of violence in the United States is justified in order to make shariah the law of the land in this country.”

But this survey should not be taken seriously. It comes from an organization with a history of producing dubious claims and “studies” about the threat of shariah, and was administered using an unreliable methodology. Its proponents seize upon its shoddy findings, exaggerating and misrepresenting them to American audiences, and falsely claim that the survey data represents the views of Muslims nationwide.

Here are the details.

CSP’s History of Baseless Fearmongering

In recent years, many groups have raised questions about the objectivity and intentions of Frank Gaffney. His tendency to posit conspiracies about Barack Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood is well documented, and has earned him sharp critique across the political spectrum. The Center for American Progress labels him a “misinformation expert,” while the Conservative Political Action Committee banned him from their 2011 conference for peddling false accusations about GOP connections to Muslim extremists. It was his organization, CSP, that was behind the unfounded rumor that Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Huma Abedin, was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and once floated the false idea that General David Petraeus had “submitted” to shariah.

Since the early 2000s, CSP has generated dozens of occasional papers, blogs, and reports that fixate on shariah or other allegedly nefarious topics related to Islam. Often, they are loosely sourced or entirely unsubstantiated, relying instead on a furtive web of connections or, in one case, a 24-year-old document written by a lone Muslim activist that has since been roundly discredited.

False Statistics and False Claims

Both Gaffney and O’Reilly claim that the poll’s findings are representative of nationwide Muslim public opinion. But this assertion is untrue.

CSP’s survey was an non-probability based, opt-in online survey, administered by the conservative group, the Polling Company/Woman Trend, a small Washington-based agency that has collaborated with CSP on other occasions to produce surveys about Islam and Muslims. (We learned this after reaching out to the Polling Company to get more details about their methodology, which wasn’t released to the public when Gaffney began promoting the survey’s findings.)

According to the body that sets ethical standards for polling, the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), opt-in surveys cannot be considered representative of the intended population, in this case Muslims. The AAPOR says that in these cases, “the pollster has no idea who is responding to the question” and that these kind of “polls do not have such a ‘grounded statistical tie’ to the population.”

So when O’Reilly and guest Zuhdi Jasser pointed to this survey and made claims about what “25% of three million, which is hundreds of thousands of Muslims” believe, it’s not only a misleading statement—it’s outright false.

This survey does not represent the views of American Muslims. It only represents the views of the 600 Muslims that it polled.

Loaded Questions and Answers

Another problem with this poll is the way that questions and answers are phrased. Often, they are not neutral but are imbued with assumptions, and replicate, in an interrogative form, statements that Gaffney and CSP have declared as fact for years. In one question, respondents are asked: “Do you believe the Muslim Brotherhood in America accurately represents your views?” Packed into this question is the assertion that the Brotherhood indeed exists in the United States — something that Gaffney has long propagated. Those who answer “yes” confirm his suspicions, while those who answer “no” acknowledge nonetheless that the group is present here. They’re put into a lose-lose situation.

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  • mindy1

    HAH

Dylann Roof: The Nexus Between White Supremacy’ s Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia

By on June 23, 2015 in Feature

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By Garibaldi

Prof. Juan Cole posted an article Sunday with the provocative title, European Islamophobic Networks Influenced Roof to Kill in Charleston. Prof. Cole first provides some recent historical context, noting that the Islamophobia Network helped incite the terrorist mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik.  Prof. Cole then cites a paragraph from Roof’s manifesto possibly hinting to the same sort of ideological beliefs as those held by Breivik and co.,

From this point I researched deeper and found out what was happening in Europe. I saw that the same things were happening in England and France, and in all the other Western European countries. Again I found myself in disbelief. As an American we are taught to accept living in the melting pot, and black and other minorities have just as much right to be here as we do, since we are all immigrants. But Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there. From here I found out about the Jewish problem and other issues facing our race, and I can say today that I am completely racially aware.

The predictable retort from those who will try to disassociate what Dylann Roof believed from their hate-filled ideology will be that he doesn’t mention fascist European politicians such as Geert Wilders by name, nor does he cite Robert Spencer or Pamela Geller specifically the way Breivik did. They may even claim that Roof isn’t referencing the Muslims of Europe at all.

However, those who object would be wrong. Roof was absolutely influenced by Islamophobic conspiracies when he mentions that “the same things were happening in England and France, and in all the other Western European countries…Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there.”

It should be recalled that Roof cited the Council of Conservative Citizens (CoCC) as having particular influence on his murderous anti-Black racism. CoCC heightened his paranoid perception of unfairness and belief that somehow Whites were an oppressed class whose “women were being raped” by Black men who “were taking over.” Language that is very similar to what one hears from the Islamophobia Network about Muslims, especially Muslims in Europe.

In fact, a corollary to CoCC’s horrid anti-Black racism is their virulent Islamophobic hate and conspiracy theories. A simple search for the term “Islam” on the Council of Conservative Citizens’ website brings up articles, including: White supremacist Jared Taylor discussing a future third World War between Europe and “Islam”, claims that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg is censoring criticism of Islam, multiple articles supporting European groups and individuals involved with the anti-Muslim group PEGIDA, promotion of the conspiracy of “Islamization” by Geert Wilders’ PVV party, positively citing Bill Maher for his views on Islam and Muslims, fear of the spread of Islam in US prisons, claims that Jews are supporting the “Islamification” of Europe as “revenge for the Holocaust” (an Islamophobic-anti-Semitic narrative that I discussed in a previous article), pushing the conspiracy about Muslim men raping White women across Europe, targeting the predominantly Black Muslim Islamberg community (a group that was recently the target of a foiled terrorist attack by a White Christian). There are also a number of articles claiming “no one has mistreated Blacks like Muslims,” an attempt to exculpate themselves for their own racist views by projecting onto another religion.

It is therefore not a leap at all to consider that Roof’s expression of deep angst about “what was going on in Europe” was a reference to the Islamophobic language, narratives and conspiracy theories common among the differing currents and trends within the trans-Atlantic Islamophobia Nework.

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They lived a life of love and service and while worshiping were killed because of hate.

Roof’s mad manifesto is shorter than Breivik’s 1,500 page screed, yet we can gleam commonalities and some minor distinctions in their beliefs. Both Breivik and Roof see Europe as the home of Whites (their “people”), under “threat” from “outside invasion.” Roof makes no mention of Christian identity whereas Breivik explicitly considers himself part of a Neo-Crusader movement and in fact one of a group of “Templar Knights” (It should be noted here that CoCC’s “statement of principles” asserts that the US is a “Christian country,” that should be made up of “European peoples.”) Roof’s seminal preoccupation was race and seeing everything through the lens of “racial awareness,” while Breivik also focused on other aspects of civilizational identity, specifically Christian heritage.

There’s ample evidence that Roof held deeply anti-Black beliefs for years and he may not have required the influence of the pervasive White supremacist currents of the Islamophobia Network to kill and terrorize in Charleston. In the end he was a racist with a supreme hatred of Blacks and other races, (oddly he admired East Asians and thought of them as allies). Yet it is clear that Roof was further radicalized by his visits to CoCC and there is no doubt that the prominence given on their website to the narratives of the Islamophobia Network influenced and heightened his ideological belief in the oppression of Whites world-wide.

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Israeli Author Avi Lipkin Says All Churches Are Infiltrated By Undercover Muslims Pretending To Be Christian

By on June 16, 2015 in Feature

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By Emperor

If Muslim Americans thought that they were being watched by the FBI in their mosques, community centers, local restaurants and cafes (as they are), well, that’s nothing compared to what the secret-Mooslamic-Empire is doing with its world takeover plot that will usher in the Last Days/End Times/Return of the Moschiac. That’s according to Israeli author Avi Lipkin, a beloved and frequent commentator on the right-wing Zionist speaker circuit.

Lipkin has been telling churches that “‘all’ churches in America have been infiltrated by Muslim spies who frequently pretend to have found Christ but are really looking to provide intelligence to radical Muslims who will try to kill all Jews and Christians when jihad is ordered upon the U.S.”

This is a departure from Lipkin’s previous call for Christians to bring Muslims “to the Lord or they’ll bring you to the sword.” Apparently, even ex-Muslims aren’t to be trusted as they might be activated at any moment to usher in The Jihad. Lipkin also states that Israel will expand its borders into Syria, (which it already did in 1967), perhaps Lipkin ascribes to the conspiracy that Israel seeks to extend its borders from the Nile to the Euphrates.

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Lipkin thinks Islam is a psychosis, his recent rants really make you wonder why he is projecting so hard?

By Oge Okonkwo, The Pulse

A popular Jewish author, Avi Lipkin, has warned that “all” churches in America have been infiltrated by Muslim spies who frequently pretend to have found Christ but are really looking to provide intelligence to radical Muslims who will try to kill all Jews and Christians when jihad is ordered upon the U.S.

Christian Post reports that Lipkin, who has authored a number of books critical of radical Islam, frequently speaks at Christian churches around the U.S. to emphasize the importance of unity between the Jewish and Christian communities in standing against the advance of radical Islam.

Lipkin, who immigrated from New York to Israel in 1968, spoke at this week’s Future Conference held at Skyline Church in San Diego where he proclaimed that the world is facing the “most interesting” biblical period since the days of Jesus Christ and contended that the coming of the Messiah is just around the corner.

“We are realizing with our own very eyes fulfillment of more Bible prophecy than in any other generation in 2,000 years,” Lipkin asserted. “I believe the Messiah is in our time and I believe Israel will realize its borders.”

As Lipkin believes that Israel will soon expand its borders to occupy part of Syria, he argued that soon after, jihadi orders will be called to rid the world of Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims.

When Muslims are called to jihad, Lipkin believes that they will already have personal information on Jews and Christians because they will have used deception to build personal relationships with those they seek to exterminate.

Explaining that it is a violation of the Quran for Muslims to seek relationships with Jews and Christians, Lipkin said there is an exception for those who plan to act as Islamic spies on churches and synagogues.

Lipkin further explained that his wife, an Egyptian-born Jewess named Rachel, is an avid monitor of various Islamic broadcasts, television feeds and other Islamic news outlets. In one particular Arabian broadcast, Lipkin said Rachel heard the claim made that “all” churches in America have Muslim spies.

“It is very dangerous for a Muslim to even be associated with Christian missionaries or Christian churches unless they are spies. My wife has picked up broadcasts that say all the churches in America have Muslim spies in them, including former Christians who converted to Islam,” Lipkin said.

“When Muslims come to you and say ‘Oh yes, we have accepted Christ and we are born-again,’ you gotta be real careful because lying in Arabic is not only permissible it is commanded. Lying is a virtue in Islam to defeat the enemy.”

Lipkin told the story of one highly-decorated Middle Eastern Muslim doctor who applied for a Canadian visa in order to set up a medical office in Edmonton, Alberta. Before leaving for Canada, Lipkin explained that radical Muslims demanded that she record the personal information, addresses and phone numbers of her Jewish and Christian patients in Edmonton. The Muslims demanded that after she acquired the personal information of her non-Muslim patients, she had to send it to them on a disk so that information can be used to kill her patients once jihad has been ordered in Canada.

“When a war breaks out in the Middle East and orders for jihad come to the Muslims of Canada, the Muslims of Edmonton will kill the Jews of Edmonton and Muslims of Toronto will kill the Jews of Toronto and the Muslims of Vancouver will kill the Jews of Vancouver,” Lipkin continued.

“This was in 1999 but even now, they are cataloging the Jews wherever the Jews live. The Muslims like to have ecumenical relations with the Jews because they want to know who the Jews are and they go to the rabbis and want to be best friends with a rabbi. They want to get close with the rabbi because it will be easier to reach him and kill him.”

Lipkin further suggested that when the orders for jihad are made, Muslims are to kill the Jews on Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath) and then kill the Christians on Sunday.

“Allah wants to kill the Jews on Saturday and kill the Christians on Sunday; kill the Hindus, kill the Buddhists, kill the blacks in Africa and the Muslims kill each other all in the name of Allah,” Lipkin contended. “The bottom line in Islam is that every Jew dies and after that every Christian dies. Jesus Christ is coming back.”

“Ask any Muslim and they will tell you that Jesus is a Muslim,” Lipkin added. “On that day of judgement, every Jew and every Christian who has not converted to Islam will have his throat personally slit by Jesus Christ, the Muslim.”

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    • Laila Muhammad

      in a couple months we will learn that avi has been arrested for child abuse like rabbi freundel eli chen and subway spokesman jared fogle oy vey

    • Tanveer Wan Khanobi

      No, it was a serious question. I had to Google up what an abjad value was.

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Schools Monitoring Pupils’ Web Use With ‘Anti-radicalisation Software’

By on June 15, 2015 in Loon-at-large

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The out of control counter-terrorism industry in the UK has a new feature, software that is being sold to schools as a way to fight radicalization by spotting “extremist-related” language among pupils. Truth is stranger than fiction.

By Diane Taylor, The Guardian

Schools are being sold software to monitor pupils’ internet activity for extremism-related language such as “jihadi bride” and “YODO”, short for you only die once.

Several companies are producing “anti-radicalisation” software to monitor pupils’ internet activity ahead of the introduction of a legal requirement on schools to consider issues of terrorism and extremism among children.

Under the Counter-terrorism and Security Act 2015, which comes into force on 1 July, there is a requirement that schools “have due regard to the need to prevent pupils being drawn into terrorism”.

One company, Impero, has launched a pilot of its software in 16 locations in the UK as well as five in the US. Teachers can store screenshots of anything of concern that is flagged up by the software. Other companies offering anti-radicalisation software products to schools include Future Digital and Securus.

Impero has produced a glossary of trigger words such as “jihobbyist” (someone who sympathises with jihadi organisations but is not an active member) and “Message to America” (an Islamic State propaganda video series).

Schools involved with the Impero pilot already have contracts to buy or rent other software from the company, and are trialling the anti-radicalisation software at no extra charge. They are in areas including London, County Durham, Essex, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire and Staffordshire.

A spokeswoman for Impero said: “The Counter-terrorism and Security Act places a duty on schools to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. Since the introduction of the act at the beginning of the year we have had a lot of schools approach us requesting a keyword-detection policy focused on radicalisation.

“The system may help teachers confirm identification of vulnerable children, or act as an early warning system to help identify children that may be at risk in future. It also provides evidence for teachers and child protection officers to use in order to intervene and support a child in a timely and appropriate manner.

“It is not about criminalising children, it is about helping schools spot the early warning signs so that risk in relation to an individual can be assessed and measured, and counter-narratives and support can be put in place to help educate children before they potentially become victims of radicalisation.”

Different schools are interpreting the anti-radicalisation clause in the new counter-terrorism legislation in different ways. Headteachers interviewed by the Guardian said it was a very difficult issue for schools to get involved with.

Some schools are simply signalling that they are aware of the requirement to take the issue into account, while others are being more proactive. One school is east London is offering workshops on spotting signs of radicalisation.

Monega primary school in Newham has invited parents of children as young as four to a workshop on 26 June. The invitation states: “Come and join us for this session led by a social worker on how to prevent and detect radicalisation. All parents are welcome.”

Yahya Birt, a Muslim academic specialising in British Islam, tweeted about the four-year-olds potentially being monitored for radicalisation: “They’re pre-lingual, let alone pre-political. It’s bonkers.”

Last month there was controversy over a questionnaire circulated to pupils in five primary schools in Waltham Forest, another east London borough with a large Muslim population.

The questionnaire asked pupils leading questions about their views and beliefs including whether or not they would marry someone from a different religion, whether they would be prepared to hurt someone who made fun of their race or religion and whether they felt God had a purpose for them.

Waltham Forest council later said the questionnaires would be withdrawn. It said they had been produced by the behavioural insights team, also known as the “nudge unit”, which started life inside 10 Downing Street and is partly government-owned.

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    • Tanveer Wan Khanobi

      I was supposed to complete some history homework at lunchtime but got distracted by Obama memes… now I have two pieces of homework to do within three hours >.<

    • HSkol

      Procrastinator.

    • Tanveer Wan Khanobi

      Update: I finally got round to searching up the blacklisted words and they didn’t come up as blocked. Sed tims.

    • Yausari

      Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) once said that one day people of the future times will consider that doing good deed is bad and committing sins is good.

    • Reynardine

      Well, this dress makes my ass look big.

    • Reynardine

      A truly pretty tit (whoops) chickadee

    • HerrSkolly

      Really? I do. But, then I love chickadees.

    • Reynardine

      At least, in the U.S., we don’t refer to chickadees as “tits”

    • Reynardine

      A Jihobbyist is clearly a kid who insists his/her rocking horse be pure Arab.

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How Marianne Made A Fool Of Itself

By on June 5, 2015 in Feature, Loon Media

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Original guest post

By Mehdi

On the week of May 22nd, French weekly newspaper Marianne issued a sensationalist cover on “The accomplices of Islamists,” showing a red carpet being laid to the typical cliché of a dangerous Islamist (wearing a turban, qamis, and a beard).

The issue included 24 pages of articles on people and organizations who are accused of handing over the French republic to the “Islamists.” Included are a mix of profiles described either as accomplices (including a very scary account of an imam in Toulouse, radical political activists such as “Parti des indigènes de la république”), others branded as useful idiots (to quote Lenin’s characterization of social democrats), or cowards refusing to stand up to the Islamist danger (especially targeted are locally elected politicians who choose to accommodate demands coming from “Islamists”).

There is a lot that can be discussed about the issue (we will come to that later), but one article in particular resulted in Marianne receiving an unexpected and hilarious backlash especially on social media. Marianne attacked “Beur Fm,” a radio station dedicated to the “Beurs” (one of the ways North Africans are referred to in France), for its talk show “Les Zinformés.” Marianne accused it of providing audience to extremists, insulting Charlie Hebdo (calling them rats), inviting controversial figures such as “les indigènes de la république,” focusing too much on Israel-Palestine by inviting anti-Zionist figures and implying an analogy between the French joining the war in Syria and the ones joining the IDF when it committed bloodshed and atrocities in Gaza.

As soon as the article was published, a massive campaign ran on Twitter with the hashtag #PensecommeMarianne (think like Marianne), a few samples:

Translation: I cook a tajine does that make me an Islamist?

Translation: If you listen to Radio-shalom you are a zionist, if you listen to beurfm you are an islamist.

Translation: Marianne can’t be found this week at your newspaper stand but around here.

Translation: ISIS has just set the BeurFM flag in Palmyre…

Translation: BeurFM presenting its team for the upcoming season.

Translation: Djihad FM continues on BeurFM , join us for some fun this morning!!

Translation: Talk show host Yassine Belattar just arrived for his interview at France 5 and had some trouble parking his car.

Translation: The team of « les zinformés » going home after the show.

The response went viral, it was ranked fifth in France on Twitter. Following that, BeurFm decided to organize a special show called “Djihad FM,” branding themselves as a special show with a prize trip to Syria for the lucky winner.

The choice of mocking Marianne was very successful. The team also had a chance to respond back to Marianne by being invited to TV shows.

But some serious response still had to be done, and it came from media expert Julien Salingue, a regular guest of “Les zinformés,” also known for his sharp analysis on media (on a sidenote he also is an expert of the Palestine-Israel, he recently published a solid book on the Oslo process and its effect on the lives of Palestinians). Julien Salingue delivered a two piece deconstruction of the Marianne work, it can be found in French here and here. The main points of the criticism from Salingue are:

  • Marianne, traditionally left-wing, is now embracing themes coming from the extreme right wing, especially newspaper “Valeurs actuelles,” which is known for its anti-immigration and Islam obsession. They even hired a former journalist from that paper (Wladimir De Gmeline) who contributed to the recent issue
  • Marianne attacks radio station BeurFM while partnering with RMC, a radio station that was regularly summoned by the authorities for hosting several shows that where racist, misogynous and in which many degrading terms were uttered. One particular example is their mocking in vulgar terms Nafissatou Diallo after the famous sex scandal involving Dominique Strauss Kahn.
  • In 24 pages, Marianne never gives a proper definition of Islamism, keeping a vague definition and just focusing on attacking persons and organizations. In another article, there is an analogy made between Islamism and… Judaism and Catholicism…which shows that the issue is maybe not only about Islamism but also about Islam from Marianne’s perspective.
  • Marianne pretended to bring in new revelations, but Salingue’s study showed that it was mostly copy-paste work, from all the references and quotes from different people, only 7% at best were new ones (providing a table of the references and names), whereas all other quotes came from previous articles borrowed from other newspapers, reusing old material. Besides, the quotes were all leaning in the same direction, no opposing view was ever considered.
  • An article in the issue tried to imply that the French state was befriending the Gulf states to the point of cowardly letting Islamism set the rules, for instance being too afraid to call ISIS “Islamic state” out of fear. In one part the article the state would have even pressed AFP (the French equivalent of Reuters) to avoid using the “Islamic state” term, Salingue showed that a quote from an AFP statement was deliberately cut out of context. The main reason why AFP refrained from the state was due to the fact that it was an inaccurate definition.
  • Another article in the issue tried to prove that the French educational ministry evades the problem of an increase in “radical Islam” at high schools, linking it to Anti-Semitism. Salingue showed again based on the original text that the Marianne article included a manipulation of quotes on the nature of incidents at high schools, overly dramatizing or simplifying the issues documented.

Marianne tried to respond to Julien Salingue’s analysis but mostly evaded the topic and showed the depth of its lack of credibility with orthographic (spelling) mistakes.

Following Salingue’s analysis, another article from another website was check and mate for Marianne as it simply analyzed several programs from “Les zinformés” and reached the following conclusion after listening to 12 hours of the show’s programs:

  • Terrorism is clearly regularly condemned during the show
  • Antisemitism is clearly regularly condemned during the show
  • There are insults during the show, mostly against politicians or journalists
  • Islamophobia is an important topic and is regularly debated
  • Israeli policies are an important topic and is regularly debated
  • There were several stormy debates about the «Je suis Charlie» slogan and the national unity that followed the January attacks

In brief, as Buzzfeed concluded, there are many opinionated debates held at « Les zinformés », one may agree with them or not but nothing to prove any complicity between BeurFM and any scary so-called “Islamists.”

Unfortunately, there seem to have been some threats against Marianne, which have to be condemned (as BeurFM did), but this media frenzy shows that humor and serious analysis work are a much better way of making points while fighting bigotry, sensationalism, or simply Islamophobia. A lesson worth remembering.

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    • Tanveer Wan Khanobi

      Holy crap, I never noticed the arrow sticking out of his nipple.

    • Mehdi

      thanks reynardine

    • Reynardine

      I had one of those quit when I followed him back.

    • GaribaldiOfLoonwatch

      Ha! Wow…I never thought one of my comments would conjure up an image from 300, let alone on the Spartan side. LOL

      I do understand the point by those concerned, whose views I take seriously and appreciate. More and more these days however I’m tired of the idea of being so pedantic or pressurized and tip toeing because someone already has a suspect view of you.

    • Reynardine

      This is last month’s,because this month’s isn’t visible yet. But good wishes for Ramadan.

    • HerrSkolly

      The only way to truly block someone is to make your account private. I had done that on a previous account, in part because DeportAmericanIslamists is a creeper – and further yet because a neo-Nazi creeper had followed me. Some of these folks do take screen shots – Google for yourself, you may find screen shots of your posts. I did, and sure enough, my words were on boards I’d never visited. Oh, well. I decided to remain public on my new account. These people know where to find me anyhow.

  • Tanveer Wan Khanobi

    I don’t really know why, but this image immediately came to mind after reading your comment

NJ: Mosque Vandalized With Swastika Carvings

By on June 3, 2015 in Loon-at-large

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By Noah Cohen, NJ.com

MIDLAND PARK — A Midland Park mosque where officials discovered a 10-inch swastika carved into an outdoor sign has stepped up security while authorities continue to investigate the vandalism, a report said.

“I am sure it’s one foolish individual,” Hasan Charaf, of the Elzahra Islamic Center, told CBS2. “It’s not what the whole town thinks.”

The mosque has now installed security cameras, the station reported.

The hateful symbol was discovered May 25 along with other sexually explicit images carved into a wooded sign outside the center.

The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Tuesday called for state and federal authorities to investigate the incident.

“These types of incidents should be investigated within the context of the rising level of Islamophobic sentiment in our society and treated with the seriousness they deserve,” CAIR-NJ Board Chair Nadia Kahf said in a statement. “Public officials and interfaith leaders should speak out against acts of hatred and intolerance whenever they occur.”

Kahf pointed to threats mailed to Arizona mosques and an anti-Islam rally where he said protesters displayed Nazi symbols.

Borough police have said the case was being treated as a bias crime and the investigation was continuing.

Chief Michael Powderley told CBS2 that investigators were exploring if the mosque carvings were connected to vandalism reported over the same weekend at the local high school.

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    • mindy1

      >:(

    • cmyfe .

      Worms.

    • mindy1

      Pathetic… >:(

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