MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Qur’an Sura 4:34, “Men have authority over women because [Allah] has made the one superior to the other… Good women are obedient… As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them…”

By Saleha Soadat, RAWA News – “Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Wednesday said that it recorded 550 cases of violence against women in the last month, showing a remarkable increase from previous months.

‘In the last month, 550 cases of violence against including, beating, forced marriages, murder and rape – most of them happening in the remoter provinces of the country – have been recorded at the Human Rights Commission,’ AIHRC Women’s Rights Coordinator Latifa Sultani said.

Religious scholars condemned the perpetrators of the violence saying that families who commit such deeds against women are living in ignorance, unaware of the tenants of Islam and the rights of women.

‘Families who commit any kind of violence against women are living in the era of ignorance. We are now living in the modern era of Islam, we should fight against such events,’ Afghan religious scholar Mawlawi Hedayatullah told TOLOnews.

The Afghan Women’s Network (AWN) also expressed its concerns over the statistics saying that the numbers for last month were exceptional.

AWN chief Ferozan Mashal said she is working hard to launch an awareness programme in order for people to know what are women’s rights.

The civil society is putting pressure on different organs to enforce laws. We also play a vital role in informing the people about what are their rights and the laws of the country,’ she told TOLOnews.

In the last fortnight, severe cases of abuse have been reported in Herat province including the beheading of a woman by her mother-in-law for refusing to be a prostitute, and the stabbing death of a woman at the hands of her husband.” Source – RAWA News.

• Flashback: Covered, Confined, Cursed: The Place Of Women In Islam
• Flashback: Arab Lecturer Admission On Palestinian TV: Part Of Our Identity Is To ‘Attack’, ‘Beat’ And ‘Kill Women’
• Flashback: Tunisia: New Draft Constitution Diminishes Women To Inferior Status
• Flashback: Israel: Local Cleric Favors Beating Women As Radical Islamic Revolution Closes In On Israeli Arabs
• Flashback: Arab Women Joining Women’s Rights Movement: Revolutions Topple Dictators, But There Remains ‘A Dictator In Every Household’

Thank goodness Barack Obama supported the overthrow of our “stalwart ally” — radical Islamic dictator Hosni Mubarak — and embraced the rise of the “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood, otherwise Egypt would have ended up with some crazy Islamic clerics saying some crazy Islamic things …

Egyptian Cleric Shehab Al-Din Abo Zahw: “Personally, I do not trust any document coming from America. It is the country of heresy, the source of all heresy, the country of terrorism, the source of all terrorism. America is the chief Satan of our times. It is the destroyer of Muslim homes. It is a cancer spreading throughout the body of the Islamic world. America is Satan’s envoy on Earth. It is the sponsor of depravity, heresy, tyranny, and terrorism, which they dress up as democracy, freedom and the like, although they couldn’t be any further from that… Our viewer Abu Amin said that any candidate should be like [Al-Qaeda leader] Sheik Al-Zawahiri, and Sheik Osama Bin Laden, Allah’s mercy upon him. He is a lion of Islam, and even if we disagree with him on several points, he was doing the right thing by confronting American tyranny. We may disagree with him on certain matters, but he is a lion of Islam.”

By Steve Emerson and John Rossomando, IPT – “A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.

Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations.

The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors’ names with lists of known radical Islamists. Among the visitors were officials representing groups which have:

• Been designated by the Department of Justice as unindicted co-conspirators in terrorist trials; Extolled Islamic terrorist groups including Hamas and Hizballah;
• Obstructed terrorist investigations by instructing their followers not to cooperate with law enforcement;
• Promoted the incendiary conspiratorial allegation that the United States is engaged in a ‘war against Islam’— a leading tool in recruiting Muslims to carry out acts of terror;
• Repeatedly claimed that many of the Islamic terrorists convicted since 9-11 were framed by the U.S government as part of an anti-Muslim profiling campaign.

Individuals from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) visited the White House at least 20 times starting in 2009. In 2008, CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist money laundering case in U.S. history – the trial of the Holy Land Foundation in which five HLF officials were convicted of funneling money to Hamas.

U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis later ruled that, ‘The Government has produced ample evidence to establish the association’ of CAIR to Hamas, upholding their designations as unindicted co-conspirators. In 2008, the FBI formally ended all contact with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.

In January 2004, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR’s Los Angeles office, publicly defended Palestinian terror attacks in comments before Muslim students at the University of California – Los Angeles, saying that terrorists were exercising their ‘legitimate right’ to defend themselves against Israeli occupation.

Ayloush, who was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., casts the United States as controlled by Israeli interests. At a 2008 CAIR banquet in San Diego, he imagined ‘an America that respects and humanizes religion. It’s an America that is free to act on its values and not on the interests of any foreign lobby.’ In 2004, he said that the war on terror had become a ‘war on Muslims.’ Ayloush attended at least two White House meetings.

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But things that promote Islamic “values” must either remain or be included, such as hatred of Jews and Christians …

By Penny Starr, CNS News – “The Libya Herald reported on Thursday that the ‘Fatwa Office’ has asked the Ministry of Education in Libya to remove passages related to democracy and freedom of religion from school textbooks.

‘Libya’s Dar Al-Ifta’ (the Fatwa office), presided by Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadeq Al-Ghariani, has called on the Ministry of Education to remove passages relating to democracy and freedom of religion from school textbooks,’ the article states.

The article also reports that the religious official asked for ‘clarification’ as to why extracts of the Prophet Muhammad’s Sunnah had been deleted. The Sunnah is the second book for Islam jurisprudence after the Quran, according to scholars.

The article cited reporting from LANA, the state-approved news outlet.

‘According to official news agency LANA, the Fatwa office issued a statement on Tuesday saying that the Grand Mufti had published an article entitled The Curriculum and the Instilling of Values in which he highlighted a number of criticisms of the new school syllabus textbooks for the current academic year,’ the report states.

‘The first was about the deletion of some of the Prophet’s Sunnah within the Islamic education syllabus, and the second addressed the two paragraphs included in the basic education textbooks about religious freedom and democracy,’ stated the Libya Herald.

‘The statement said, according to LANA, that the Ministry of Education had responded positively to the remarks made by the Grand Mufti and had promised to investigate the reasons behind the absence of the Sunnah texts from the Islamic education curriculum,’ said the newspaper.

The statement claimed the information in the textbooks about Greek democracy might be ‘too detailed’ for students to comprehend and that references to freedom of belief and religion should be removed because ‘it suggests to younger students that they could choose any religion they wanted,’ according to the article.

The article said the Fatwa office warned that because of the public’s religious values the textbooks ‘could spark public anger.'” Source – CNS News.

Unfortunately, some people get to experience Islam 101 the hard way. The question now, however, is whether or not anything was learned …

By JAMEY KEATEN – “PARIS — A correspondent for France 24 TV was ‘savagely attacked’ near Cairo’s Tahrir Square after being seized by a crowd, the network said Saturday. It was the latest case of violence against women at the epicenter of Egypt’s restive protests.

The news channel said in a statement that Sonia Dridi was attacked around 10:30 p.m. Friday after a live broadcast on a protest at the square and was later rescued by a colleague and other witnesses. France 24 did not give further details about the attack, but it said its employees were safe and sound, though ‘extremely shocked,’ and that it will file suit against unspecified assailants.

The network, which receives state funds but has editorial independence, said it and the French Embassy were working to bring Dridi back to France.

‘More frightened than hurt,’ wrote Dridi in French on her Twitter page Saturday. Referring in English to a colleague, she tweeted: ‘Thanks to (at)ashrafkhalil for protecting me in (hash)Tahrir last nite. Mob was pretty intense. thanks to him I escaped from the unleashed hands.’

Ashraf Khalil, who works with France 24’s English language service, said the crowd was closing in on him and Dridi while they were doing live reports on a side street off Tahrir. He said the attack and rescue took about half an hour, but it felt like a lot longer.

‘The crowd surged in and then it went crazy. It was basically me keeping her in a bear hug, both arms around her and face-to-face,’ he told The Associated Press, estimating that at least 30 men were involved. ‘It was hard to tell who was helping and who was groping her.’

Khalil said they retreated into a fast food restaurant with a metal door, to keep her out of the reach of the attackers. He said they hustled into a car, and some men banged on it as it sped away. Some of their belongings had been stolen, he said.” Read more.

Short yet to-the-point political ads like this are sure to give Islamists and their leftist enablers an aneurysm …