Denmark: 55% of Muslims think criticizing religion should be forbidden, 64% support curtailing freedom of speech

Denmark: 55% of Muslims think criticizing religion should be forbidden, 64% support curtailing freedom of speech

More from the big DR survey of Muslims in Denmark, titled "Your Muslim neighbor" (DA). h/t Peter. The data published in different papers is different by one or two percentage points, but the overall direction is clear.

See also Denmark: Close to 90% of Muslims would vote for the Left for more on the survey.

Read it all:

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/04/denmark-55-of-muslims-think-criticizing.html

Muslim-owned shop bans customers wearing veils

A Muslim-owned jewellery shop has decided to ban customers wearing veils after being targeted by robbers disguised as Islamic women.

Muslim women in a niqab will be encouraged to telephone in advance to ensure that a female member of staff is present during their visit, to confirm their identities.

Everyone entering ATAA Jewellers in Glasgow must reveal their faces under planned new rules to protect staff from further attacks.

The store owners decided to act after two Asian men wearing traditional Muslim women's clothes – including niqab veils – made away with thousands of pounds worth of jewellery earlier this month.

The pair, who were also carrying handbags, pretended to be interested in buying some items but attacked staff with pepper spray when cabinets were unlocked.

Now the Sadiq family who run the shop are planning to put up a sign informing customers that they cannot wear any headgear that covers the face.

Any Muslim women who are more comfortable in a niqab will be encouraged to telephone in advance to ensure that a female member of staff is present during their visit, to confirm their identities.

"It is our safety that matters as well at the end of the day," Rukhsana Sadiq told the BBC Asian Network. "God forbid anything like this happening to anyone else."

The family said they accepted the policy may offend some Muslims, but expect other businesses to take a similar approach. Criminals wearing Islamic veils have carried out at least one other robbery in the city.

Local councillor Hanzala Malik backed the plan. "I know in Scotland that banks will not allow their customers coming in with motorbike helmets, I don't see why it should be different for people wearing the Niqab. It is an issue about identifying people," he said.

The disguise potential of traditional Muslim women's dress has been exploited several times in recent years. July 21 bomber Yassin Omar donned a burka as he fled after the failed attacks, as did BBC journalist John Simpson to gain entry to Afghanistan during the 2001 invasion.

Why do they have to wear masques? Oh, Old Mo said so.

Couple Killed

Here's one of so many stories we hear about on a daily basis: a person known to be violent is free to move about in society. The authorities do nothing until a calamity occurs. And even then, they do very little... The simplistic tone of the article is typical, in it's wearisome objectivity, of the way crime is reported in the press.

The northern city of Denain was holding its 106th carnival. Three kilometers away, at Douchy-les-Mines, a 62-year-old man named Ahmed Assous murdered a young French couple. Because their car was improperly parked. The regional paper La Voix du Nord reports:

While the Lithuanian majorettes and Flemish drumkorps were parading in the neighboring city of Denain, a crime without precedent took place in Douchy-les-Mines, in the former miners' village ("coron") of La Fabrique.

The cause of the murder was "a simple neighborhood quarrel", according to Jean-Michel Bérard, prefect of the region. (...)

But the fact remains that a sixty-year-old man suddenly killed a man and a woman, both in their early twenties, who had come to visit their family in La Fabrique. The young couple was taking advantage of Easter Monday to introduce their 10-day-old baby to an uncle and an aunt.

They had arrived around 4:30 p.m. A half-hour later they came out, without the baby, to better park their Peugeot that they had left in front of a neighbor's house. That's when they saw they had a flat tire. They called on Ahmed Assous, 62, who, by way of a response, took out his 30-30 caliber carbine rifle, a veritable war weapon. According to several sources not officially confirmed, the former municipal employee of the city of Denain also shot in the direction of a young man, 17, the couple's nephew, who was not hit. But signs of a bullet impact were found on the front door of a vehicle parked nearby.

Note: The article does not say why they went to Assous - was it to ask for help, or to question him about the flat tire? Nor does it say if they knew him.

A subsequent article, also from la Voix du Nord, indicates that Ahmed Assous was a truck driver, not a municipal employee.

When the Denain police and firemen from Douchy-les-Mines arrived a few minutes later, they saw two bodies, motionless and soaked in blood, but they could not intervene since the killer, assumed to be dangerous, still had his weapon.

The man, "who had a reputation for violence", according to the prefect, retreated into his house.

The article concludes with a description of the crime scene, the closing off of traffic, and finally the surrender of the killer, who put up little resistance.

The family was described as "stunned" ("hébété") by the killings.

The second article, linked above, describes Ahmed Assous as a man who did not like anyone to park in front of his house, which he regarded as his territory. In 1996 he had struck a neighbor on the head for leaning on a parked car in front of his house. Neighbors also knew about the death threats he made to his wife who recently divorced him. After the divorce, he sank into pathological aggressiveness, consumed alcohol regularly, and shot his rifle in the garden.

How does this guy have a gun? He is a nut job muslim.

Mahmoud Abbas: "A Jewish state, what is that supposed to mean?"

Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state poses temporal and religious problems for Abbas & Co.: Acknowledging and accepting Israel's Jewish identity disqualifies Muslims' future claims on the land for negotiation, armed conflict, the claim to a "right of return," and so forth. Doing so would also acknowledge the historical identity of the region as a Jewish homeland (as opposed to the revisionist story of the allegedly "uncorrupted" followers of a proto-Muslim Abraham). Lastly, it accepts something other than Islamic law as legitimate, which is out of step with the fundamental reason for waging jihad: Imposing Islamic dominion and law.

Ramallah, 27 April (AKI) - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday dismissed calls by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. He also said a halt to Israel's continuing expansion of illegal Jewish settlements inside the West Bank was a prerequisite for resuming peace talks.

"A Jewish state, what is that supposed to mean?," said Abbas, quoted by Israeli media. "You can call yourselves as you like, but I don't accept it and I say so publicly."

He also said it was not his job to define or name the Israeli state.

"Name yourself, it's not my business. Name yourself the Hebrew Socialist Republic. All I know is that there is the state of Israel, in the borders of 1967, not one centimetre more, not one centimetre less. Anything else, I do not accept."

Many observers believe the so called 'green line' – the pre-1967 Six-Day War ceasefire line between Israel and Jordan – should be the basis for an international border between Israel and the West Bank in the creation of a future Palestinian state.

Israeli daily Haaretz said last week that Netanyahu wanted to impose the precondition of recognition of Israel as a Jewish state in order to resume peace negotiations.

However, it is believed such recognition would block the Palestinians demand for the "right of return" of millions of refugees who fled or were expelled by Jewish forces, during the establishment of Israel in 1948 and subsequent wars. The refugees are now scattered throughout the Middle East.

Israel's hardline foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said last Thursday that the right of return is not up for discussion....

No right of return. In fact, the Jews need to expel every arab from all of Israel, Gaza, Judea, Sumaria, and the Golan.

"My Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish"

Islamic antisemitism, rooted in many Qur'anic injunctions, notably the charge that the Muslims' worst enemies will be the Jews (Qur'an 5:82), comes to Britain.

"Labour Party embroiled in race row after candidate told she was 'too white and Jewish' to be selected," by Emily Andrews in the Daily Mail, April 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):

The Labour Party has become embroiled in a race row after a prospective female councillor was allegedly told she was 'too white and Jewish' to be selected.

Elaina Cohen claims that Labour councillor Mahmood Hussain said he would not support her application for an inner-city ward because 'my Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish'.

Mrs Cohen, 50, has made an official complaint about the alleged remarks made by Mr Hussain, a Muslim and former lord mayor of Birmingham.

She said: 'I am shocked and upset that a member of the Labour Party in this day and age could even think something like that, let alone say it.

'People should not be allowed to make racist comments like that. If someone in the party feels I cannot represent them because of my colour or religion, that's ridiculous.

'I felt particularly aggrieved because I have worked across all sections of the community, particularly with the Muslim section, and have been on official visits to Pakistan.'
Mrs Cohen had applied to stand as a Labour councillor for the Birmingham ward of East Handsworth and Lozells, which has a high Asian and Afro-Caribbean population.

As one of Labour's safest seats on Tory-led Birmingham city council, the final candidate would be almost certain of victory at the June 4 by-election.

But when Mrs Cohen telephoned 57-year-old Mr Hussain for his support, she was astonished to be told that she was too 'white and Jewish' to be considered.

Lorraine Briscoe, who runs a local community association, was sitting next to Mrs Cohen when the conversation took place on speakerphone last Tuesday.

'I was disgusted that a councillor could make comments like that in 2009,' she said.
'He told her, "They will not vote for someone who is white and Jewish. My Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish".

'Elaina then asked him if he had talked to his Muslim members about it and he said, "I don't want to talk about it with you" and hung up....

Mr Hussain said yesterday: 'I would not make those sort of comments. The allegations are not true.'

Sure he would never make these comments. This is straight from the terrorist training manual, the koran.

Afghanistan: Airborne chemical attack on girl school; nearly 50 collapse

"Police said they had made no arrests and did not know who was responsible." Those wacky, anonymous "miscreants" must be at it again. "Girls collapse after suspected poison attack on Afghan school," by Ben Farmer in Kabul for the Telegraph, April 27:

Dozens of girls collapsed and needed hospital attention after a suspected airborne chemical attack on a school in northern Afghanistan.Five teachers and 40 pupils were overcome by fumes during a school ceremony in the capital of northern Parwan province.

Afghan officials said they were awaiting the results of blood tests to determine what had happened, but there were unconfirmed local reports a bottle had been thrown into the playground beforehand.Dr Abdullah Fahim, a spokesman for the public health ministry, said: "For the time being, it seems to be airborne poisoning. But it's not confirmed yet what the actual reason is."

One teacher at Sadiqi Padshah School in Charikar, who did not wish to be named, said the whole school had been standing in the playground listening to staff speeches when students began to collapse.

"We didn't know what was happening, all the children just went down and we took them to hospital." Victims were treated for severe headaches and streaming eyes after the attack on Sunday morning, 40 miles north of Kabul, but the provincial governor said all had made a full recovery.

Police said they had made no arrests and did not know who was responsible. While the growth of the Afghan school system is seen as one of the successes of the past seven years, Taliban-led insurgents opposed to the central government or girls' education continue to attack schools and teachers.

In 2008, there were 292 attacks on schools, with 92 people killed and 169 injured.

Last year in the southern city of Kandahar, men on motorbikes threw acid in the faces of girls walking to school.

However, Parwan, a Tajik-dominated province immediately north of Kabul, is considered relatively safe, with little Taliban activity.

See how well the world be run under sharia?

Taliban push Robin Hood image in Pakistan

The "Merry Men" of Sharia

"Its systematic. The Taliban move into an area, they use local existing resentments. They often go in with the guise of being Robin Hoods. They scare away some local thieves, they impose very, very quick justice, very harsh justice, and initially in some places they are even welcomed." Yet, unlike the English Robin Hood, these (sharia) justice seekers forbid women from appearing in public, throw acid on school-girls, and regularly persecute Christians: So the "Robin Hood" analogy may not be wholly accurate.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- In radio broadcasts and sermons, Taliban militants have been promoting themselves as Islamic Robin Hoods, defending Pakistan's rural poor from a ruling elite that they describe as corrupt and oppressive.

That message has been resonating throughout the Pakistani countryside, where the culture is deeply conservative and the people are desperately poor.[...]

Across this overwhelmingly Muslim country, there is widespread hope that adopting a strict code of law based on the Koran will transform a society where corruption is rampant and where at least a quarter of the population lives under the poverty line.

Enforcement of sharia law is the platform the Taliban have been using to justify recent land-grabs, such as last week's armed occupation of the district of Buner, some 60 miles from the Pakistani capital.[...]

"Its systematic. The Taliban move into an area, they use local existing resentments. They often go in with the guise of being Robin Hoods," said Amnesty International representative Sam Zarifi. "They scare away some local thieves, they impose very, very quick justice, very harsh justice, and initially in some places they are even welcomed."[...]

"We love the Taliban," announced one Pashtun farmer who asked not to be named. He called the militants heroes.[...]

But if farmer Babar Hussein has his way, Taliban justice would mean taking away freedoms from Pakistani women, like the right to have a driver's license.

"Women should not even come out of their houses. That's against Islam" he said, while complaining about the un-Islamic fashions he saw women wearing in Islamabad.

When Taliban militants overran Buner last week, they told women to stay indoors, warned men to stop shaving their beards, and threatened shopkeepers who sold movies and music.

In Pakistan's rural society, male strangers are not even supposed look at local women. And yet, some farmers enjoy blaring Bollywood music and even dancing on trailers full of hay, while driving their gaudily-decorated tractors.

If the Taliban's rural revolt succeeds, it could bring silence to the Pakistani countryside.

They are going to have nuke very soon. Wake up West. I honestly believe that a nuke will find its way into the US. Under the muslim in cheef's watch. But the media will find a way to make it Bush's fault.

Fort Dix jihadists sentenced to life of prison da'wa

A federal judge today sentenced three Muslim immigrants from South Jersey to life in prison for plotting to attack Fort Dix, saying radical ideology and hatred for America drove their plot to kill United States soldiers.

Gee, which radical ideology was involved?

The men, brothers from the Balkens [sic], were among five defendants convicted in December of conspiring to target the Burlington County military base in a crime prosecutors said was inspired by al Qaeda and proved homegrown jihadists were plotting inside America.

"Nothing has a greater impact on society than the crime of terrorism," U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler said before delivering the sentences in a heavily-guarded courtroom in Camden, crowded with government officials, reporters and the men's relatives.

The defendants - Dritan, Eljvir, and Shain Duka - sat quietly during the most of hearing, wearing dark-green prison jumpsuits and thick beards. Before being sentenced, they each delivered rambling statements -- lasting nearly 25 minutes -- saying the prosecution was riddled with lies.
"Me and my brothers are innocent," Eljvir Duka said....

Finally we get some real convictions of these sleeper cells in the US. Now how about raiding everyone of those muslim compounds that are spread around the US? The Feds think I am a bigger theat to the US than muslims.