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In Sweden and the West, What Message Are We Muslims Sending?
by Mudar Zahran
• June 10, 2014 at 5:00 am
"I just want to make a
living but those Islamist crazies won't leave us alone. They say they support
jihad, they deal drugs, they get drunk and harass women. I swear to Allah,
sometimes I feel I am not living in Malmö but in Afghanistan." — Mr. S.,
Palestinian refugee from Jordan living in Sweden.
"I am religious, but I
cannot accept what the Muslim fundamentalists have been doing to this
country. I have had job offers to teach at major Swedish cities, but instead
chose to go to a remote town where I would not have to see those
fundamentalist immigrants." — Muslim College Professor, northern Sweden.
If secular Western countries are
evil and immoral in the view of some Muslims, why don't those who feel that
way leave and relocate in Islamist states such as Iran and Afghanistan? Where
is our Islamic rage against these lunatics? Our silence means that we agree
to what the fundamentalists do and say. Can we than blame some Westerns for
fearing us when we respond with hostility to their welcoming and generosity?
Immigrant
youths from a mainly Muslim area of Stockholm hurl rocks at police during a
week of rioting in May 2013. (Image source: RT YouTube video)
Renowned for tolerance and multiculturalism, Sweden has been most
welcoming to immigrants from Muslims countries. As a result, today 350,000 of
Sweden's population of 9.5 million are Muslims. On a recent visit to Sweden,
this Muslim author saw that the Swedes' welcoming and tolerance have been
abused by many Muslims. They respond to Sweden's kindness by seeking to
Islamize the place.
According to a 2007 report by the Open Society Institute, the Muslim
population of Sweden is estimated at between 250,000 and 400,000,
representing between 1.8% and 4.4% of the Sweden's population.
One Week of Rouhani's "Moderate" Islamic Republic of Iran
by Shadi Paveh
• June 10, 2014 at 4:30 am
According to Article 110 of the
Islamic Republic's Constitution, the Supreme Leader must oversee all matters.
Even the release of one single prisoner is not possible without his
signature. Presidents are just paraded around for the sake of the West.
Silent executions continue under
Rouhani. Political prisoners remain without medical aid but with prolonged
well-planned torture, to kill them without formal executions.
The only difference seems to be
that now prisoners are taken to hospital, photographed in an examination gown
and returned to prison without treatment -- to create the appearance that the
prisoner was treated, to appease human rights organizations.
Crimes committed against Baha'is
are not punished in Iran: according to Islamic law, they are considered
non-persons.
Gholam-Reza
Khosravi (right, pictured with his son) was hanged on June 1, for donating
approximately $500 to an opposition TV station.
Internationally, the Islamic Republic of Iran is still basking in having
falsely attained a "moderate" status for President Hassan Rouhani
and a seat on five sub-committees of the United Nations Economic and Social
Council, including the Commission on the Status of Women. Inside Iran,
however, daily life still consists of systematic arrest, torture, persecution
of minorities and accelerated executions.
In just one week under the Islamic Republic:
Roya Nobakht, a dual British-Iranian citizen who lived in Stockport,
England, was sentenced on May 30 to twenty years in prison for a comment she
posted on Facebook during her three week holiday in Iran. The comment simply
stated that the government was "too Islamic." According to HRANA
News Agency, she was among eight others sentenced to a total of 128 years for
similar comments. All were charged with "endangering national security,
insulting Islam and gathering crowds."
The Baha'is in Iran
by Denis MacEoin
• June 10, 2014 at 4:00 am
It is the Baha'is who apparently
represent the greatest threat to Islam.
"Kull al-bid'a kufr," all innovation is unbelief." — Salafi formulation.
Liberalization is a constant
threat to today's Islamists.
The
destruction of a historic Baha'i cemetery in Shiraz, Iran, by the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corp. (Image source: Baha'i World News Service)
Anyone who takes an interest in human rights issues in Iran -- and there
are many who do -- probably knows about the Baha'is. They are a small
religious minority (perhaps as many as 300,000), but nonetheless the largest
in the country. The largest, yet painfully small and the most hated. If Jews
and Christians have a rough time in Iran, the Baha'i experience has been
worse. Over 200 members of the religion, including many of its leaders (there
are no priests) have been executed, and others have been and still are in
prison.[1] In 1983, a seventeen-year-old girl, Mona Mahmudinezhad, was hanged
in Shiraz along with nine older women, mostly in their 20s. Their crime was,
apparently, teaching "morality lessons" to Baha'i children who had
been expelled from school. All the Baha'i holy places in Iran have been
reduced to rubble, including the beautiful House of the Bab, a small treasure
of Iranian architecture which the author visited often with its custodian.
All Baha'i cemeteries have been dug up and bodies exhumed. No young Baha'i is
permitted to enter university. Older Baha'is have had their pensions removed.
Jobs are hard to come by. Many linger in prison. There are serious plans to
rid the country of the Baha'is altogether.
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