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A father's split-second heroism saved countless lives in another terror attack, in Beirut



Adel Termos, a Beirut resident out with his young daughter, witnessed a horrific bombing on Thursday. Then he made a split-second decision that saved countless lives.

s a second suicide bomber moved toward onlookers clustering at the scene of the explosion, Termos rushed the suspect.

"He tackled him to the ground, causing the second suicide bomber to detonate," says blogger and physician Elie Fares, who lives in Beirut. "There are many many families, hundreds of families probably, who owe their completeness to his sacrifice."

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that took an estimated 45 lives, including Termos. More than 200 people were wounded. It's not clear, however, whether the daughter died. Pictures posted recently seem to suggest she survived.

Fares says when similar bombings occurred in Beirut in years past, Lebanese were quick to view the events through the prism of sectarian politics.

"The street is still divided by political and sectarian lines, but this time around the sense is that these are people, period," Fares says. "They're dead because of something they had absolutely no role in ... They died because of some demented, twisted politics."

Fares says it would be wrong to call the victims martyrs.

"Calling them martyrs is a sort of Lebanese way to not only dehumanize them, it's to sort of make ourselves feel better that, yeah, it's okay, they died, but they're martyrs which means they're in heaven and they're in a better place," he says. "But the fact of the matter is it's just sort of a label to make ourselves feel better, and maybe their families feel better because the label of 'victim' means there's a sort of accountability to the process."

The two blasts hit during the evening rush hour, and devastated a commercial strip of southern Beirut.

Lebanon shares a border with Syria and hosts more than one million refugees from throughout the region.

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Will politicians finally admit that the Paris attacks had something to do with Islam?


French president Francois Hollande speaks at the Elysee palace in Paris on November 14, 2015, following a series of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late Friday which left more than 120 people dead (Photo: Getty)

The West’s movement towards the truth is remarkably slow. We drag ourselves towards it painfully, inch by inch, after each bloody Islamist assault.

In France, Britain, Germany, America and nearly every other country in the world it remains government policy to say that any and all attacks carried out in the name of Mohammed have ‘nothing to do with Islam’. It was said by George W. Bush after 9/11, Tony Blair after 7/7 and Tony Abbott after the Sydney attack last month. It is what David Cameron said after two British extremists cut off the head of Drummer Lee Rigby in London, when ‘Jihadi John’ cut off the head of aid worker Alan Henning in the ‘Islamic State’ and when Islamic extremists attacked a Kenyan mall, separated the Muslims from the Christians and shot the latter in the head. It was what President François Hollande said after the massacre of journalists and Jews in Paris in January. And it is all that most politicians will be able to come out with again after the latest atrocities in Paris.

All these leaders are wrong. In private, they and their senior advisers often concede that they are telling a lie. The most sympathetic explanation is that they are telling a ‘noble lie’, provoked by a fear that we — the general public — are a lynch mob in waiting. ‘Noble’ or not, this lie is a mistake. First, because the general public do not rely on politicians for their information and can perfectly well read articles and books about Islam for themselves. Secondly, because the lie helps no one understand the threat we face. Thirdly, because it takes any heat off Muslims to deal with the bad traditions in their own religion. And fourthly, because unless mainstream politicians address these matters then one day perhaps the public will overtake their politicians to a truly alarming extent.

If politicians are so worried about this secondary ‘backlash’ problem then they would do well to remind us not to blame the jihadists’ actions on our peaceful compatriots and then deal with the primary problem — radical Islam — in order that no secondary, reactionary problem will ever grow.

Yet today our political class fuels both cause and nascent effect. Because the truth is there for all to see. To claim that people who punish people by killing them for blaspheming Islam while shouting ‘Allah is greatest’ has ‘nothing to do with Islam’ is madness. Because the violence of the Islamists is, truthfully, only to do with Islam: the worst version of Islam, certainly, but Islam nonetheless.

In January a chink was broken in this wall of disinformation when Sajid Javid, the only Muslim-born member of the British cabinet, and one of its brightest hopes, dipped a toe into this water. After the Charlie Hebdo attacks, he told the BBC: ‘The lazy answer would be to say that this has got nothing whatsoever to do with Islam or Muslims and that should be the end of that. That would be lazy and wrong.’ Sadly, he proceeded to utter the second most lazy thing one can say: ‘These people are using Islam, taking a peaceful religion and using it as a tool to carry out their activities.’

Here we land at the centre of the problem — a centre we have spent the last decade and a half trying to avoid: Islam is not a peaceful religion. No religion is, but Islam is especially not. Nor is it, as some ill-informed people say, solely a religion of war. There are many peaceful verses in the Quran which — luckily for us — the majority of Muslims live by. But it is, by no means, only a religion of peace.

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I say this not because I hate Islam, nor do I have any special animus against Muslims, but simply because this is the verifiable truth based on the texts. Until we accept that we will never defeat the violence, we risk encouraging whole populations to take against all of Islam and abandon all those Muslims who are trying desperately to modernise, reform and de-literalise their faith. And — most importantly — we will give up our own traditions of free speech and historical inquiry and allow one religion to have an unbelievable advantage in the free marketplace of ideas.

It is not surprising that politicians have tried to avoid this debate by spinning a lie. The world would be an infinitely safer place if the historical Mohammed had behaved more like Buddha or Jesus. But he did not and an increasing number of people — Muslim and non-Muslim — have been able to learn this for themselves in recent years. But the light of modern critical inquiry which has begun to fall on Islam is a process which is already proving incredibly painful.

The ‘cartoon wars’ — which began when the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten published a set of cartoons in 2005 — are part of that. But as Flemming Rose, the man who commissioned those cartoons, said when I sat down with him earlier this year, there remains a deep ignorance in the West about what people like the Charlie Hebdo murderers wish to achieve. And we keep ducking it. As Rose said, ‘I wish we had addressed all this nine years ago.’



Contra the political leaders, the Charlie Hebdo murderers and the latest Paris attackers were not lunatics without motive, but highly motivated extremists intent on enforcing their Islamic ideas on 21st-century Europe. If you do not know the ideology — perverted or plausible though it may be — you can neither understand nor prevent such attacks. Nor, without knowing some Islamic history, could you understand why — whether in Mumbai or Paris — the Islamists always target the Jews.

Of course, some people are willing to give up a few of our rights. There seems, as Rose says in his book on the Danish cartoons affair,The Tyranny of Silence, some presumption that a diverse society requires greater limitations on speech, whereas of course the more diverse the society, the more diverse you are going to have to see your speech be. It is not just cartoons, but a whole system of inquiry which is being shut down in the West by way of hard intimidation and soft claims of offence-taking. The result is that, in contemporary Europe, Islam receives not an undue amount of criticism but a free ride which is unfair to all other religions. The night after the Charlie Hebdo atrocities I was pre-recording a Radio 4 programme. My fellow discussant was a very nice Muslim man who works to ‘de-radicalise’ extremists. We agreed on nearly everything. But at some point he said that one reason Muslims shouldn’t react to such cartoons is that Mohammed never objected to critics.

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There may be some positive things to be said about Mohammed, but I thought this was pushing things too far and mentioned just one occasion when Mohammed didn’t welcome a critic. Asma bint Marwan was a female poetess who mocked the ‘Prophet’ and who, as a result, Mohammed had killed. It is in the texts. It is not a problem for me. But I can understand why it is a problem for decent Muslims. The moment I said this, my Muslim colleague went berserk. How dare I say this? I replied that it was in the Hadith and had a respectable chain of transmission (an important debate). He said it was a fabrication which he would not allow to stand. The upshot was that he refused to continue unless all mention of this was wiped from the recording. The BBC team agreed and I was left trying to find another way to express the same point. The broadcast had this ‘offensive’ fact left out.

I cannot imagine another religious discussion where this would happen, but it is perfectly normal when discussing Islam. On that occasion I chose one case, but I could have chosen many others, such as the hundreds of Jews Mohammed beheaded with his own hand. Again, that’s in the mainstream Islamic sources. I haven’t made it up. It used to be a problem for Muslims to rationalise, but now there are people trying to imitate such behaviour in our societies it has become a problem for all of us, and I don’t see why people in the free world should have to lie about what we read in historical texts.

We may all share a wish that these traditions were not there but they are and they look set to have serious consequences for us all. We might all agree that the history of Christianity has hardly been un-bloody. But is it not worth asking whether the history of Christianity would have been more bloody or less bloody if, instead of telling his followers to ‘turn the other cheek’, Jesus had called (even once) for his disciples to ‘slay’ non–believers and chop off their heads?

This is a problem with Islam — one that Muslims are going to have to work through. They could do so by a process which forces them to take their foundational texts less literally, or by an intellectually acceptable process of cherry-picking verses. Or prominent clerics could unite to declare the extremists non-Muslim. But there isn’t much hope of this happening. Last month, al-Azhar University in Cairo declared that although Isis members are terrorists they cannot be described as heretics.

We have spent 15 years pretending things about Islam, a complex religion with competing interpretations. It is true that most Muslims live their lives peacefully. But a sizeable portion (around 15 per cent and more in most surveys) follow a far more radical version. The remainder are sitting on a religion which is, in many of its current forms, a deeply unstable component. That has always been a problem for reformist Muslims. But the results of ongoing mass immigration to the West at the same time as a worldwide return to Islamic literalism means that this is now a problem for all of us. To stand even a chance of dealing with it, we are going to have to wake up to it and acknowledge it for what it is.

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Paris attacks: French jets attack Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa



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French fighter jets have launched raids against the Islamic State's nerve centre of Raqqa in response to the Paris terror attacks.

"The raid ... including 10 fighter jets, was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped," the defence ministry said in a statement.

The operation, carried out in coordination with US forces, struck a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot and a training camp for fighters, it said.

The targets were identified by French reconnaissance, and the operation was carried out "in co-ordination with American forces", the ministry said.

Activists in Raqqa told The Washington Post the bombs hit, among other things, a football stadium, a museum and medical facilities.

The strikes had knocked out electricity in the city of about 200,000 people, they said.

The airstrikes come in retaliation for a night of terror in Paris in which more than 130 people were killed and some 350 were injured.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, speaking on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey, said France has always said it would react in self defence.

"That's what we did today with the strikes on Raqqa. We can't let Daesh attack without a reaction," Fabius said, using an alternative name for Islamic State.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes prompted the extremist militia to put its fighters in al-Raqqa on alert.

No casualties have been reported, it said.

France has been bombing Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria for months as part of a US-led operation.

Raqqa is the main headquarters in Syria of Islamic State fighters, who have proclaimed a caliphate stretching from Syria's Aleppo province through the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys to the outskirts of Baghdad.

French President Francois Hollande has called the attacks an "act of war" and promised a "ruthless" response against Islamic State, which claimed responsibility.

France has declared three days of national mourning and Hollande will make a rare address to the joint upper and lower houses of parliament on Tuesday (NZT) at the Palace of Versailles, just outside Paris.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...s-the-politics

It’s not the religion that creates terrorists, it’s the politics

The word “radical” has always been an overly capacious term, easily filled with whatever meaning the speaker wants to pour into it. There is the radical right, the radical left, even the radical centre, whatever that means. Traditionally associated with the 18th-century English struggle to extend the franchise and with the cause of freedom, it has been one of those words no modern politician can do without. Google any of the current crop of parliamentarians adding the words “radical vision” and see what I mean. They’re all at it, all claiming it. Unless, of course, you put the word Islamic first. And then it immediately becomes a bogey word.

“How do we stop young Muslims becoming radicalised?” is the question we now continually ask. But it’s a deeply misleading question because it points us in the wrong direction. Why? Because it contains a hidden assumption that it is radical ideas, specifically Islamic theological ideas, that are the root cause of turning a young lad from West Yorkshire into an Isis suicide bomber in Iraq. According to the radicalisation hypothesis, it’s conservative Islam and the dangerous ideas contained in the Qur’an that motivate murderous behaviour.

We want to tell ourselves that we are secular and enlightened and so have no part in all of this bloodshed
To me this is about as convincing as arguing that the murderous bits of the Bible were responsible for the brutality of the IRA. For many of the young people who have been persuaded to go off and fight in Syria and Iraq have hardly got past the first chapter of Islam for Dummies. They often know next to nothing about the Qur’an and are about as motivated by reading the few passages they have as the average republican terrorist was motivated by Saul’s genocidal destruction of the Amalekites in the first book of Samuel. Yes, the language of violent jihad may borrow its vocabulary from Islamic theology – it’s a useful marker of shared identity – but root motivation is as it always is: politics. The IRA weren’t Bible-believing Catholics, they were mostly staunch atheists. Catholicism was simply a marker of who counted as “one of us”. And the same is true of Islamic terrorism.

Earlier this year, Professor Arun Kundnani published a fascinating account of how the rhetoric of radicalisation has created “a decade lost”. In it, he summarises the flimsy empirical basis on which the connection between radical theology and terrorism has been built and the extent to which the burgeoning radicalisation industry, especially in academia, is linked by a revolving door to conservative political lobbyists keen to blame conservative Islam for terrorism.


The reason this is important has nothing to do with exonerating religion. I don’t care about apologetics here. So let me acknowledge that both the Qur’an and the Bible have passages that are deeply immoral. But don’t get distracted by this. For this is not how or why people go to Iraq to become murderous criminals. They go – largely – because they believe their tribe is under attack, that Bashar al-Assad is dropping chlorine gas, that the west invaded Iraq, because of torture and Guantánamo Bay, and because they have a warped and misguided sense of adventure in responding to all this.

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We buy into the radicalisation hypothesis because we want evil to be mysterious and other; something that has nothing to do with us. We want to tell ourselves that we are secular and enlightened and so have no part in all of this bloodshed. It’s what people commonly do with evil – we conceptualise it as being as far away from us as possible. But if Islamic terrorism is really all about politics, then we have to admit that the long history of disastrous western interventions in the Middle East is a part of the cause of the horror that continues to unfold. In other words, we have to face our responsibility.

But even more troubling than the evasion of responsibility that is built into the radicalisation hypothesis is the fact that it points us in the wrong direction when looking for how to prevent it. If you want to find a terrorist, look for people buying dodgy chemicals, not people saying their prayers.

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http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Natio...ed-abu-sayyaf/

Malaysian hostage Bernard Then beheaded

Fuck the Abu Sayef!!!



KOTA KINABALU: Sarawakian Bernard Then (pic), held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf terror group, has been killed in the southern Philippines.

He was beheaded by the gunmen at about 4pm in the island of Jolo.

Then is the first Malaysian hostage to have been beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf.

Brigadier-General Alan Arrojado, commander of the Joint Task Group Sulu, confirmed that Then was decapitated.

Sources from the military and social workers in the Philippines are indicating that the 39-year-old electrical engineer was killed by the Abu Sayyaf gunmen who were being pursued by Philippine military in the Butaran Hill area around Indanan village in Jolo island.

According to Jolo-based social workers, the Abu Sayyaf plan to release a video of the alleged beheading soon.

They said they received news of the beheading, but could not confirm which Abu Sayyaf leader carried out the killing.

The group holding Then was led by Indang Susukan.

So far, Philippines officials have not confirmed the incident.

Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said that they have yet to receive any word about Then, who was grabbed along with restaurant manager Thien Nyuk Fun, 50, from Ocean King Seafood Restaurant in Sandakan on May 15.

Thien was released on Nov 8 by the gunmen and is now back in Sandakan.

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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/...n/2264120.html

Everybody should play their part and be vigilant against people who may seek to harm us.

Terrorism threat in Southeast Asia a 'serious, difficult' issue: PM Lee

SINGAPORE: The terrorism threat in Southeast Asia is a serious and difficult problem, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in an interview published on Monday (Nov 16).

In the interview with The Australian newspaper that was held before the multiple terror attacks in Paris, Mr Lee said that it is not just "random individuals" who are being radicalised and going to Syria to join ISIS.

Mr Lee pointed to Malaysia as an example, noting that there were repeated incidents of people from the army going to Syria. He said Malaysia had just arrested two commandos on top of nearly a dozen military personnel earlier.

He also made reference to Indonesia, saying that there are parts of the country which are remote from centres of government. “If (the radicals) set up a little base camp there and call that ISIS in Southeast Asia or some such title, then that is another focal point which can attract activists to go to as a kind of Mecca,” he said.

Even individuals who have been jailed could still pose a problem, said Mr Lee. He noted that in jail, radicals have been able to hold press conferences as well as ceremonies pledging allegiance to ISIS.

“Their terms of imprisonment are completed and then, they are released and it’s not at all clear that they are less dangerous than now than they used to be,” he added. Several hundred in Indonesian prisons are due to be released this year and next. Mr Lee said that while Indonesia is taking this very seriously, it could be a difficult problem for them.

Mr Lee also shared his thoughts on why such violent ideology persists, calling it a "very difficult" problem.

“It is not purely religion and yet it is not unrelated to a certain warped view of religion. Some people genuinely persuade themselves that this is the way to heaven and so they pursue this perverted path,” he said. “Others know very little about religion or doctrine. Something has gone with their life and this is their way to hit out at the world or at their society.

“Some of them are young people who are just misled. They are at the soul-searching stage of their lives and they stumble across this and then, get led deeper and deeper in and then, it is almost too late,” he added. “We have picked up students who are like that. They are in school and they did not have a network. It is not that they had radical friends but somehow they became interested in this.”

Mr Lee said it was lucky that authorities have discovered such students.

- CNA/xq

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http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...r-Paris-attack

Turkish football fans boo, chant 'God is Great' during one-minute silence for Paris attack victims



n a troubling incident, fans at a football game in the Turkish city of Istanbul booed when a minute's silence was being observed for victims of the Paris attacks, reports Reuters. Some also chanted Allah-u-Akbar (God is Great).

The reported incident took place during a Turkey-Greece men's soccer friendly attended by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras.

Here's a video. The booing and chanting are audible.



It was the first time the two teams had met for eight years and the Turkish Football Federation had announced a string of additional security measures before the match at the Istanbul Basaksehir stadium.

Turkey went on to draw the match 0-0.

Islamic State (IS) militants struck Paris on Saturday, killing at least 132 and injuring many more. On Wednesday, a police officer was killed in Paris during a raid on an alleged terrorist hideout in northern Paris. A female suicide bomber also perished.

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Syrian man kills judge at ISIS Sharia Court for beheading his brother

Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A Syrian young man killed a judge from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) along with two of his escorts in the city of Manbij in Aleppo province, north Syria, local sources reported on Wednesday.

After killing the ISIS judge in Manbij, the man has committed suicide by shooting himself.

“The young man has shot dead a Tunisian national, who served as a judge at the ISIS-linked Sharia Court in Manbij,” said an eyewitness on the condition of anonymity, Kurdish Independent Agency reported.

The incident took place on Tuesday, after the Sharia Court beheaded several family members of the Syrian young man.

“The same judge had order the beheading of at least three family members of the man, including his brother,” the source reported.

“He took revenge and killed himself afterwards to avoid falling in the hands of Daesh (ISIS).”

In the meantime, dozens of people took to the street in Manbij to protest against ISIS atrocities. However, the group opened fire on the protesters, killing at least two and wounding several others. The rest of the protesters were arrested, said activists in Manbij.

This is the third protest organized by the people of Manbij in two months, calling for the departure of the terror group from their city and denouncing its violations against civilians.

The terror group has captured the city of Manbij more than a year and a half ago, after battles with the Syrian opposition forces.

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Russia Announces Success Of Massive Bombing Campaign Against ISIS



Though the U.S. and Russia have diplomatically sparred over Russia’s involvement in the battle against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh, in Syria, this hasn’t stopped Russia's onslaught of bombing.

On Nov. 17, Russia sent at least 25 Backfire, Bear and Blackjack bombers to attack ISIS forces,making it one of the heaviest bombing campaigns in modern history, The Daily Beast reported.

“During a massive airstrike [Nov. 17], 14 important ISIL targets were destroyed by 34 air-launched cruise missiles,” Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia’s general staff, said. “The targets destroyed include command posts that were used to coordinate ISIL activities in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, munition and supply depots in the northwestern part of Syria.”

Idlib and Aleppo are largely held by U.S.-backed rebels, though Russia warned U.S. officials before the strike was launched, according to the Pentagon. This cooperation stems from an October agreement between the U.S. and Russia to coordinate their attacks against ISIS.

Russia's airstrikes are motivated, in part, by the takedown of Russian Metrojet 9268 in October -- an attack that ISIS took credit for. However, Russia also plans to coordinate its attacks with France, which fell victim to an attack by ISIS on Nov. 13, The New York Times reported.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and France’s President Francois Hollande have spoken on the phone. They plan to meet in Moscow on Nov. 26 to coordinate their military assault on ISIS.

Sources: The Daily Beast, The New York Times / Photo Credit: Global Panorama/Flickr, Beau Considine/Flickr

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-islamic-dress

Senegal considers burqa ban to stop terrorists disguising in Islamic dress



Senegal is considering banning women from wearing the burqa, amid rising fears of Islamic extremism in the west African country.

The interior minister, Abdoulaye Daouda, said women would no longer be allowed to wear the Islamic dress, which leaves only the eyes exposed. Daouda said the decision was a question of national security and was designed to prevent terrorists from using the burqa as a disguise.

An estimated 92% of Senegal’s population is Muslim. Although the country has not suffered a terrorist attack recently, authorities are concerned that the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, based in north-eastern Nigeria, may be trying to extend its range. This month, police arrested five people suspected of having ties to Boko Haram as part of a nationwide crackdown.


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Senegal is not alone in west Africa in banning the burqa. This year Cameroon and Chad, also with large Muslim populations, issued similar orders citing similar reasons. “Senegal is just following the trend,” said Martin Ewi, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies.

He said the ban, though difficult to enforce, had been reasonably effective in both countries. “You still have the villages and far corners of the country where people don’t always respect the ban,” he added.

However, the ban was not a foolproof solution, Ewi warned. Two days after Chad instituted a ban, two burqa-clad bombers blew themselves up in N’Djamena, killing at least 27 people including several police officers. “They deliberately wore the burqa to attract the attention of the police,” Ewi said.

The burqa ban has been the subject of debate within Senegal, with commentators struggling to balance the national security imperative with religious freedom. “Its imposition in Senegal will cause social instability … there is a delicate line between preventive measures and respect for individual freedoms,” said Khadim Mbacke, a Dakar-based researcher.

Mbaye Niang, a Muslim leader and member of parliament, said the new law was designed to protect Islam. “We should not allow someone to cover their entire body like terrorists do. This is a tradition of some countries but it has nothing to do with Islam,” he told the local newspaper Le Quotidien. The reason terrorists use this method was because they wanted to attack the religion, he added.

Farid Essack, a religious studies scholar at the University of Johannesburg, said that context was key and the justifications used in Muslim countries did not necessarily apply elsewhere.

“In some political contexts, I find [the banning of burqas] deeply disturbing and an extension of Islamaphobia. I don’t think that the Chadian response is a manifestation of Islamophobia,” he said. “Chad … has had several bombings, a number of them were seemingly perpetrated by [fully covered] men, and I don’t think that it is unreasonable, in that context, to insist people should not be completely veiled in public.”

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/w...w/49831047.cms

These Islamist Militants are so cruel. They kill so that they can install their own version of religion in the world.

Paris attacks: Mother died using her body to shield her five-year-old son from bullets



five-year-old boy survived the massacre in Paris's Bataclan theatre after he was sheltered from the bullets by the body of his dead mother.

Louis had been attending the Eagles of Death Metal concert with his mother Elsa Delplace, 35, and his grandmother Patricia San Martin, 61, when it was attacked by terrorist gunmen.

Ms Delplace and Ms San Martin were both shot dead as they tried to protect him - leaving him covered in blood.

READ ALSO: 'They might have guns, but we have flowers': Video shows father reassuring son in wake of Paris attacks

In a tribute to Ms Delplace in Le Point magazine, her friend Sihem Souid wrote: "Elsa Delplace and her mother Patricia died on Friday under a hail of bullets inside the Bataclan.

"Her son Louis, her ray of sunshine, was with her. Louis was found in Vincennes hospital, distraught and covered in his mother's blood as she tried to protect him from the bullets.

"Elsa was a joyous person who always had a smile on her lips, even at difficult times. She was involved in the voluntary, cultural and artistic worlds. She played the cello brilliantly.

"She always fought against injustice. I think it was part of her family - her Chilean mother fled the dictatorship of Pinochet."

READ ALSO: 'You will not have my hatred', husband of Paris victim tells ISIS
Eighty-nine people died in the Bataclan theatre on Friday night when gunman opened fire on the packed rock concert before detonating suicide vests.


A further 40 people were killed in coordinated attacks across the city in several restaurants and outside the Stade de France football stadium.
Tributes have flooded in for all the victims of the attacks.
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I bow down before you. This is the definition of MOTHER. She take care of his child without any expectations.
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In a Facebook post, French journalist Antoine Leiris, whose wife Helene Muyal-Leiris also died in the Bataclan attack, said "you will not have my hatred".
He said: "I don't know who you are and I don't want to know, you are dead souls. If this God for whom you kill blindly made us in his image, every bullet in the body of my wife is a wound in his heart.
"So no, I will not give you the satisfaction of hating you. You want it, but to respond to hatred with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that made you what you are."

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62% of Pakistanis 'don't know' how they feel about Islamic State

http://tribune.com.pk/story/993966/6...islamic-state/

Despite an overwhelming negative view of Islamic State in most Muslim countries, Pakistan is an exception with a majority offering no definite opinion of the militant group, according to a new data released by the Pew Research Center.

In Pakistan, 62% of the people do not have a definite opinion on the group that has taken over swathes of land in Syria and Iraq and is responsible for some of the deadliest attacks worldwide, including last week’s Paris attacks.

Of the people surveyed in Pakistan, 28% had a negative view while nine per cent viewed the group positively.

The data shows a stark contrast to how the Islamic State is viewed in Pakistan as compared to other Muslim countries. Not a single Muslim country had less than 60% people viewing Islamic State negatively other than Pakistan.



The survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 11 countries with noticeable Muslim populations was conducted as part of the center’s annual global poll in April and May this year.

In Lebanon, a victim of one of the most recent attacks, almost every person surveyed who gave an opinion had an unfavourable view of the group, including 99% with a very unfavorable opinion. The group was viewed unfavourably by all religious groups in the country — Lebanese Sunni Muslims (98% unfavorable) and 100% of Shia Muslims and Lebanese Christians.

Israelis (97%) and Jordanians (94%) were also strongly opposed to IS as of spring 2015, including 91% of Israeli Arabs. Further, 84% in the Palestinian territories had a negative view of IS, both in the Gaza Strip (92%) and the West Bank (79%).

Six-in-ten or more had unfavorable opinions of IS in a diverse group of nations, including Indonesia, Turkey, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Malaysia and Senegal.

In Nigeria, there was alarmingly more support, 14%, for the IS as compared to other countries. But the opinions differed greatly and were affected by religious affiliations. Around 71% Nigerian Christians and 61% Muslims held unfavourable views towards the terrorist group. However, 20% of Nigerian Muslims had favorable views of IS although the country is often torn apart by Boko Haram, an IS-affiliated terrorist group but is a separate entity.

The survey did not ask people living in Western countries, however, more than half of the population in 15 mostly Western countries said they were very concerned about the growing threat of the terrorist IS.

Take for example the case of France, where only last week multiple coordinated attacks were carried out by the IS, 71% had said in spring this year that they were concerned about the IS threat.



Similarly, 77% in Spain, 70% in Germany, 69% in Italy and 68% in America held unfavorable views towards the IS and seemed perturbed by the growing threat of the terrorist group.

More importantly, the distaste has been growing along with concern in many Western and predominantly Muslim countries surveyed since the start of this decade. Consequently, there seems to be widespread support for the US military action against the extremist group in Iraq and Syria from most of the countries. In Israel 84% were in favor of the military actions, 81% in France, 80% in the United States, 78% in Lebanon, 77% in Jordan, 66% in the United Kingdom, and 62% in Germany.


11% of of Malaysia is FAVORABLE to that fucking organisation... WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!!!!!! How can anyone be supportive of terrorism? This is fucking wrong!

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Jakim imposing its version of Islam, says Dr Mahathir



The Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) is trying to impose its own version of Islam on others, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.

"In Islam, there is no compulsion," Dr Mahathir said today when asked if Jakim was policing people's personal lives.

"But Jakim wants to compel everyone to follow its version of Islam."


Recently, several well-known personalities said Jakim was "unconstitutional" since the states already had rulers as heads of religion, and that Putrajaya should not be interfering in religious matters.
Mohamed Tawfik Ismail, son of former deputy prime minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman made the call and was supported by constitutional expert Abdul Aziz Bari.

Dr Mahathir meanwhile said this after launching former law minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim's new book, "Assalamualaikum", which comprises writings on Islamisation in Malaysia.

Dr Mahathir also said in his speech that Islamisation in Malaysia meant that people were not required to think when it came to religion.

"They (religious authorities) don't want people to think. Just accept what is being taught and have faith," he said.

He added that there was nothing in the Quran that said zakat payments must be made directly through the government and to recipients.

"I have read the Quran, and this was never mentioned. But I pay my zakat through the government because it's easier," he said.

Federal Territories Zakat Council chief Che Mat Che Ali recently said it was "sinful" to pay zakat directly and not through the authorities. – November 20, 2015.

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