Wednesday, May 1, 2019

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Did Sri Lankan Government Shut Down Surveillance of Muslims That Could Have Stopped Attack?

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Why were Islamic terrorists able to massacre hundreds of Christians in Sri Lanka? As in the United States, the answer may lie in the government’s dismantling of surveillance of Islamic terrorists.
The first action of the Sri Lankan government after the bombing of churches and hotels was to shut down social media. As I noted in an article today, that effectively silenced criticism of the government.
Swisher’s Recode site also published its own post, “Sri Lanka blocks social media: shutdown shows Facebook can’t be trusted”. An actual journalist would have argued that a government shutdown of free expression shows that the government can’t be trusted. It wasn’t Facebook that failed in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government had received warnings about an incoming attack and had failed to act.
The shutdown of social media prevented the spread of information damaging to the government…
The Sri Lankan defense ministry already announced why it was blocking social media. And it isn’t to save lives. “Currently, the security sections are conducting investigations in a broad manner on these incidents and the government has taken steps to temporarily block all the social media avenues until the investigations are concluded,” its statement reads.
The military is blocking people from expressing their opinions until it finalizes its story and presents it officially to the public.
Why is the Sri Lankan government afraid of? Here may be part of the answer.

Sri Lanka’s former wartime defense chief, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said on Friday he would run for president in elections this year and would stop the spread of Islamist extremism by rebuilding the intelligence service and surveilling citizens.
He said that if he won, his immediate focus would to be tackle the threat from radical Islam and to rebuild the security set-up.
“It’s a serious problem, you have to go deep into the groups, dismantle the networks,” he said, adding he would give the military a mandate to collect intelligence from the ground and to mount surveillance of groups turning to extremism.
Gotabaya said that a military intelligence cell he had set up in 2011 of 5,000 people, some of them with Arabic language skills and that was tracking the bent towards extremist ideology some of the Islamist groups were taking in eastern Sri Lanka was disbanded by the current government.
“They did not give priority to national security, there was a mix-up. They were talking about ethnic reconciliation, then they were talking about human rights issues, they were talking about individual freedoms,” he said.
Sri Lanka’s politics are complex. And I don’t want to oversimplify them or portray Gotabaya as the answer.
But there are questions worth asking here.
The media has no interest in asking them because it wouldn’t like the answers.
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Ilhan Omar Compares Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ to Those ‘Fleeing Nazis’ During WWII

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Ilhan Omar Compares Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ to Those ‘Fleeing Nazis’ During WWII

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So much wrong here, but she truly is the gift that keeps giving. The US accepted millions of refugees from Europe during WWII, also went, with boots on the ground. There is no “Muslim ban” it’s a ban on countries that are at high risk of bringing in violent jihadists, many of the larger muslim majority countries were never affected, and there was never calls for them to be added to the ban list.
This from www.hannity.com
Controversial Congresswoman Ilhan Omar raised eyebrows among her fellow lawmakers Tuesday; bizarrely comparing President Trump’s non-existent ‘Muslim Ban’ to the ‘millions fleeing Nazi persecution’ during World War II.
“We are in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War II—a time when the U.S. refused protections for millions fleeing Nazi persecution. This decision—like the Muslim ban and family separation—will be remembered as a dark stain on our nation’s history,” posted Omar on social media.
The left-wing lawmaker made national headlines just weeks ago when she flippantly referred to the 9/11 terror attacks as just “some people” who “did something.”
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Museum Tries to Censor Depiction of Islamic Slavery

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History has a notorious Islamophobic bias. The only way to get rid of Islamphobia is to dispose of history entirely.
That’s a difficult challenge. Censorship is a lot easier.
An American art museum is demanding that a German far-right party stop using one of its paintings, portraying a 19th-century slave auction, in a campaign poster for the European elections.
“We are strongly opposed to the use of this work to advance any political agenda,” Olivier Meslay, the director of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, told The Associated Press. “We did not supply the painting to the AfD,” he said, using the acronym for the party Alternative for Germany.
The 1866 oil-on-canvas painting “Slave Market,” by Jean-Leon Gerome, shows a black, apparently Muslim slave trader displaying a naked young woman with much lighter skin to a group of men for examination.
The AfD’s Berlin branch said they put up 30 posters of the painting across the German capital with the slogan: “So that Europe won’t become Eurabia.”
The party, known for its anti-Muslim stance, said it won’t take down any of the posters.
The Clark Art Institute owns the painting because Sterling Clark, a man its current staff don’t seem to like very much once bought it. It doesn’t own the rights to it.
So it has no legal authority to do anything.
The painting, and some of Gerome’s other work, were clearly meant to depict the dehumanizing qualities of slavery. While most viewers focus in on the woman in the painting, it also depicts an African man being examined and forced into slavery.
The Islamic slave trade was conducted in both Africans and Europeans.
Finally, Gerome was both an artist and a scholar. The painting is set in an actual place in Cairo. It’s unknown whether the artist personally observed the slave trade, but it’s likely that he did. And the trade continued for much longer than most people care to realize. In some Muslim countries, it continues today.
The Cairo setting is an important reminder that Egypt was a major gateway for the African slave trade. Censoring the painting won’t banish that truth.
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Sri Lanka warning: female bombers may pose as devotees to attack Buddhist temples

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“Female bombers posing as devotees may have been planning to attack Sri Lanka’s Buddhist temples after authorities seized white clothes from a house that was raided following Easter Sunday blasts.” The jihad against Christian infidels is also threatening the Buddhist community and in fact all non-Islamic communities. Sri Lanka faces a big problem with Islamization. Although the Islamic State took credit for the Easter Sunday jihad bombing attacks that saw nearly 300 innocents murdered and hundreds of others injured, two local groups are believed to be behind the massacres. One is the National Thawheed Jammath and following a police raid of the group’s headquarters, another group Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim was discovered to be suspect.
There is another factor that impacts Sri Lanka: the insidious stealth jihad that works in tandem with its violent counterpart, although the former pretends to have nothing to do with the latter. For example, the Catholic archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Ranjith, “met with ambassadors of Islamic countries who expressed condolences over the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings and assured him that there was ‘no connection to Islam.’” Unfortunately, the Cardinal believed them because they appeared friendly and concerned (as stealth jihadists generally do), despite the fact that among these envoys represented some of the worst jihadist-funding states.  Another example of Islamic supremacism at work in Sri Lanka: after the obvious decision to ban the burqa for security reasons, Muslim clerics in Sri Lanka became outraged and Hilmy Ahmed, vice-president of the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulema organisation, which represents Muslim clerics, called the decision “stupid”, and somehow believed that the Muslim community should have been consulted about the burqa ban; despite the fact that the pressing issue is a national security emergency that affects all of Sri Lanka, and female jihadists can easily hide under the burqa.  The burqa is also a symbol of female oppression and sharia supremacy (cf. Quran 24:31 and 33:59).
“Female bombers may pose as devotees to attack Buddhist temples in Lanka: Intel”, New Indian Express, April 29, 2019:
Female bombers posing as devotees may have been planning to attack Sri Lanka’s Buddhist temples after authorities seized white clothes from a house that was raided following Easter Sunday blasts, a media report said on Monday.
The Sri Lankan intelligence agency has received inputs of possible attacks on Buddhist temples by female bombers of the banned local terror outfit National Thawheeth Jamath (NTJ) after police found white pairs of skirts and blouses from the house which was raided after the explosion in Sainthamuruthu area in the Eastern province, raising suspicion that the attackers might pose as Buddhist devotees, the Daily Mirror reported.
On March 29, Muslim women had spent 29,000 Sri Lankan rupees (USD 166) to purchase nine sets of such clothes from a textile shop in Giriulla, the report said. The CCTV footage of the shop shows the visuals of these women who purchased clothes from the shop.
So far, five sets of white clothes have been found from this house and intelligence services are trying to find the remaining clothes. Sri Lankan authorities say that there was one women among the nine bombers who carried out the country’s worst terror attack, killing 253 people and injuring over 500 others….
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Tunisia: “Islamic sharia law” invoked to shut down LGBTQ rights

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“One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal threats by the government.”
Tunisia has a history of secularism, but “following the revolution of early 2011, more room was created for religious political parties to operate in the country”. The al-Nahda movement won 41% of seats in the Constituent Assembly in that year, and its representatives “proposed a constitutional provision declaring Islam to be the main source of legislation with the goal of unifying all Tunisian legislation under the rule of Islamic law.” Under the current government administration,  the ills of increasing Islamic sharia influence is evident, with the LGBTQ community losing rights. Further loss of rights and human rights abuses is inevitable as any country becomes more sharia adherent.
Recently in Brunei, death by stoning of gays was implemented under the sharia as its leader Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah called for “stronger Islamic teachings.”
“Tunisia invokes sharia law in bid to shut down LGBT rights group”, by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian (Thanks to The Religion of Peace), April 30, 2019:
One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal threats by the government.
Association Shams has been officially operating in Tunisia since 2015, helping the country’s LGBT community repeal article 230 of its penal code, a French colonial law, which criminalises homosexuality with up to three years in jail.
The government failed to permanently suspend Shams’ activities in a 2016 lawsuit, but is appealing the ruling. A hearing is scheduled for Friday.
Shams’ president, Mounir Baatour, said the appeal represents the Tunisian government’s seventh attempt to close the organisation, but it is more serious because it has been based on Islamic sharia law.
“The judicial harassment against our association has no legal basis, and reflects the homophobia of the Tunisian state and its will to discriminate and stigmatise the LGBT community, which is already marginalised,” Baatour told the Guardian. “Such harassment makes our work difficult and creates a climate of tension and fear among the team working for our association.”
Despite pressure, the country’s LGBT community is thriving. In January 2018, Tunisia held its first LGBT film festival in the capital, Tunis, organised by the group Mawjoudin (We Exist). It is one of the four officially recognised LGBT organisations in Tunisia, all of which have emerged since the 2011 revolution….
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