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by Lindy Lowry | Facebook posts may be a new persecution tactic that Islamic extremists are using against Christians, says Open Doors Middle East Director. He just returned from Egypt when he learned about several incidents involving blasphemous Facebook posts...
Suspected Islamic extremists open fire at a Burkina Faso restaurant
Suspected Islamic extremists opened fire at a Turkish restaurant in the capital of Burkina Faso late Sunday, killing at least 18 people in the second such attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in the last two years.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the violence, which continued into the early hours Monday. Gunfire could be heard almost seven hours after the attack began.
Communication Minister Remi Dandjinou told journalists that at least 18 people were dead and eight others wounded, according to a provisional toll. He said two of the attackers were also killed.
The victims came from several different nationalities, he said. At least one of the dead was French.
Security forces arrived at the scene with armored vehicles after reports of shots fired near Aziz Istanbul, an upscale restaurant in Ouagadougou. The attack brought back painful memories of the January 2016 attack at another cafe that left 30 people dead.
Police Capt. Guy Ye said three or four assailants had arrived at the Aziz Istanbul restaurant on motorcycles, and then began shooting randomly at the crowds dining Sunday evening.
Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation in West Africa, is one of the poorest countries in the world. It shares a northern border with Mali, which has long battled Islamic extremists. (AP)
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So, John Bolton and Marco Rubio were on Fox News earlier discussing the possibilities of ousting the Assad regime. Something they’ve both been very vocal advocates for, but when asked about who would replace him even they had no idea or anyone to look for to fill the void.
There should be no talk of ousting Assad without even considering some new government that will bring stability and not be filled with Islamic theocrats. As of now, negotiation from a position of strength with Russia and Gulf Allies on Syria will suffice.
There has been understandable alarm throughout the country about recent events at Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield. I share it. West Yo
By: Suella Braverman
Published: Mar 4, 2023
There has been understandable alarm throughout the country about recent events at Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield. I share it. West Yorkshire police recorded a non-crime hate incident after a boy dropped a copy of the Quran, which appeared to have been scuffed. The mother of the boy has said he is autistic. Appallingly, he has received death threats and there has been considerable unrest.
I have already indicated my deep concern about this case and the way it has been handled, but it raises a number of broader issues.
The education sector and police have a duty to prioritise the physical safety of children over the hurt feelings of adults. Schools answer to pupils and parents. They do not have to answer to self-appointed community activists. I will work with the Department for Education to issue new guidance spelling this out.
Instead, a disturbing video showed a meeting — which looked more like a sharia law trial, inappropriately held at a mosque instead of a neutral setting, whereby the mother of one boy was made to account for his behaviour in front of an all-male crowd.
We do not have blasphemy laws in Great Britain, and must not be complicit in the attempts to impose them on this country. There is no right not to be offended. There is no legal obligation to be reverent towards any religion. The lodestar of our democracy is freedom of speech. Nobody can demand respect for their belief system, even if it is a religion. People are legally entitled to reject — and to leave — any religion. There is no apostasy law in this country. The act of accusing someone of apostasy or blasphemy is effectively inciting violence upon that person.
Everyone who lives here has to accept this country’s pluralism and freedom of speech and belief. One person’s freedom to, for example, convert from Islam to Christianity is the same freedom that allows a Muslim to say that Jesus was a prophet but not God Incarnate.
This freedom is absolute. It doesn’t vary case by case. It can’t be disapplied at a local level. And no one living in this country can legitimately claim that this doesn’t apply to them because they belong to a different tradition.
All of this is typically understood. If I told a socialist they should politely endorse my sincerely held conservative beliefs, he or she would laugh in my face — and rightly so. Roman Catholics readily understand that people are going to criticise the Pope or mock the concept of transubstantiation.
Yet things are going in the wrong direction. We see that in the monstrous way that JK Rowling and others have been treated for daring to challenge radical gender ideology. And there is a particular issue with attitudes towards Islam.
The overwhelming majority of Muslims are tolerant, peaceful and embrace our values. But some Muslims and non-Muslims alike — as well as Islamist extremists — believe that Islam should enjoy a special status, protected from disrespect.
There is a long, ignoble history of that, which goes back at least as far as the furore over The Satanic Verses. It is rooted in a view — actually a bigoted one — that Muslims are uniquely incapable of controlling themselves if they feel provoked. And it has excused agitators using fear to force people to bend to their demands.
In June last year, a cinema chain cancelled all UK screenings of The Lady of Heaven after threatening behaviour by groups of Muslim men outside cinemas. A teacher from Batley who showed his students a Charlie Hebdo cartoon of Muhammad is still living in hiding, following angry protests outside the school and online threats from local community leaders.
The way to ensure community cohesion and peace is not to cave into bullies, nor to demand that people aren’t “unnecessarily offensive”. The right approach is to defend our pluralist, free society very robustly indeed.
I am not happy with the way non-crime hate incidents are recorded and I will soon be announcing new guidance for police.
Timidity does not make us safer; it weakens us. A fear of being seen as “Islamophobic” led to the grooming gangs scandal. It led the Prevent counterterrorism programme to fail to recognise the scale of the threat of Islamist extremism, to deny the individual culpability of extremists, and actively to co-operate with extremist groups. It fails to protect people from the mob.
Enough. It is high time for leaders — real leaders, not self-appointed hot-heads — to stand up for our free society. It is this country’s sacred promise to everyone who lives here, whatever their background. Every organisation that answers to me as home secretary will be in no doubt of where I stand.
Suella Braverman is home secretary
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https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/697372-terror-in-court
After a teenager commits murder in a courtroom during the hearing of a blaphemy case, images and videos on social media showing lawyers and police officers embracing him call into question the role played by guardians of the law
As Faisal alias Khalid, the alleged killer of blasphemy accused Pakistani-American Tahir Ahmad Naseem, approached the courtroom for a hearing, a couple of lawyers excitedly headed towards him. Video clips and photos of this interaction, now available on social media, show lawyers hugging and kissing the killer encircled by a dozen policemen. There is no resistance from the police. A couple of days later, selfies of smiling police guards with the alleged killer in a police van also emerged on social media, highlighting how sections of law enforcement agencies and legal fraternity treat a heinous crime committed in the name of religion.
On July 29, Khalid, a teenager, had shot dead a senior citizen in the courtroom in broad daylight during the hearing of a blasphemy case. Naseem, also an American citizen with ties previously to Ahmadi faith, was accused of blasphemy in April 2018 after a student at an Islamic seminary in Islamabad met the accused in Peshawar. According to the student, the accused claimed that he was “a prophet and a messiah” and that God had bestowed him with spiritual powers to guide people.
Everyone is just completely baffled over how a teenager got a loaded firearm into a packed, secure courtroom.
the accused claimed that he was “a prophet and a messiah” and that God had bestowed him with spiritual powers to guide people.
This is a reason to be arrested and ultimately killed. The problem with Islam remains Islam.
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Italian police seek Pakistanis tied to 2020 attack in Paris
Italian police seek Pakistanis tied to 2020 attack in Paris
The suspects are accused of criminal association with an international terror group, and are suspected of belonging to a terror cell called “Gabar Group”. 14 Pakistani citizens linked to Charlie Hebdo attacks arrested by Italian police (File Photo) Authorities in the northwestern Italian port city of Genoa on Tuesday were executing arrest warrants on 14 Pakistani citizens linked to the man who…
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