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Radio Free Europe – “An Iranian government spokesman has said that outgoing President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will return with the Hidden Imam, who according to Shi’ite belief went into hiding in the 10th century and will reappear to bring justice to Earth.

‘[Allah] willing, with the manifestation of Imam Mehdi, Ahmadinejad will also return and work for the establishment of pure Islam,’ spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by Iranian news agencies.

Ahmadinejad and his close aides have been criticized in Iran over their repeated references to Mahdi and signs of his imminent coming.

Ahmadinejad came under fire in March for saying that former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will be resurrected alongside Jesus and the Hidden Imam.” Source – Radio Free Europe.

Flashback: Muslims United: Thousands Of Palestinians Call For Global Islamist Caliphate To ‘Bring The Coming’ Of Islam’s Savior – The Mahdi – “Thousands of PA Arabs participated in a mass rally in Ramallah earlier this week calling for the establishment of the Muslim Caliphate – the worldwide Islamist government that will ‘bring the coming of the Mahdi.’ the Muslim messiah. The Caliphate is essentially a union of Muslim countries under the spiritual and political leadership of a single individual, the Caliph. It has been an Islamic concept since the days of Muhammad, when it was established by several of his disciples. The office of ‘official Caliph’ has been disputed at times, with rival would-be Caliphs battling each other for the title.” Read more.

Flashback: Iranian Government: ‘Jesus’ And The Mahdi Are Coming Soon! – “The following picture was sent to me from a friend in Iran. It is of a small billboard set up in various cities throughout Iran by the present Iranian government. The caption reads, ‘Quote from our Holy prophet, His Holiness Mohammad (God Bless Him): ‘I swear to God, for sure, Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) shall descend amidst my followers, the leader of [the] people on that day shall be his holiness (sic) [the] Mahdi. (May God expedite his revelation).’’ Try to imagine if the present United States government placed billboards across the nation informing and encouraging people with the message that Jesus will return soon.” Read more.

Flashback: Poll: Belief In The ‘Islamic Messiah’ Widespread In Muslim World, 672 Million Believe The Mahdi Will Soon Appear – “Last week, Pew Research firm released a comprehensive study of opinions among Muslims, and one of the questions was related to the Mahdi! Now, for the first time, a comprehensive study including tens of thousands of Muslims in more than 23 countries asked if they believed the Mahdi’s emergence was imminent and that it would occur within their lifetimes. The results conclusively prove that which I have been warning about all along… scholar of Islamic history Timothy Furnish makes the following important observations on his blog … ‘Bottom-line: Mahdism is a far stronger and more-widely held belief than even I had thought – and I’ve been preaching its pervasiveness for years.’” Read more.

For peaceful purposes …

Qur’an Sura 48:29a, “Mohammed is [Allah’s] apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers …”

By Allan Hall, Mail Online – “Police in Germany have raided dozens of addresses to foil an Islamist terror plot intending to use remote controlled model aircraft filled with explosives to be flown into targets.

Armed officers of the specialist G9G units raided homes in Stuttgart, Munich and Dachau after receiving information that at least one assassination attempt was being planned using the model planes as guided missiles.

Technical materials and paperwork were seized at several addresses while prosecutors spoke of plans for a ‘seditious outrage’.

German intelligence officers have been warning for some time of a home-grown attack inside the country’s borders as more and more Islamists return from Jihadist training camps in Pakistan ready to commit terrorist acts.

When Muslims insist on immigrating to the West it is not enough to simply say that they “respect” civilized society and the rule of law. They also need to obey it. Unfortunately, far too many do not …

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…”

Hadith – Abu Dawud, 2142, “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.”

By Steve Butcher, The Age – “A Melbourne man who bound, gagged and repeatedly struck his wife with a piece of garden hose – and also shaved off her hair – has voluntarily bought a one-way ticket out of Australia.

Raidh Janabi said he had respect for Australia and its laws, but 27 months since beating her he has declared: ‘I’m not going to stay here anymore. (I’ll) feel better when I go far (away).’

But his departure will be delayed until he serves the next two years in a Victorian prison for recklessly causing serious injury to his now former wife.

Judge Damian Murphy on Tuesday ‘totally condemned’ Janabi’s conduct which he described as designed to humiliate her and, by cutting her hair, intended to ‘restrict her ability to socialise’.

In his sentencing in the County Court, Judge Murphy said he agreed with Janabi, 53, who described his offence as ‘twenty minutes of madness’ and that the attack showed ‘high-handed disregard’ for the integrity [of] her body and the path she had chosen for her  own life.

Fairfax Media has previously reported that he injured his wife of 22 years on February 27, 2011, at their home because he thought she had been unfaithful…

[Prosecutor Kevin Doyle] said he then struck her for 15 minutes with the hose before they left the house for a motel. On her return she went to police the next day…

Judge Murphy told Janabi that ‘in this country’ no-one is entitled to assault their wife. ‘A husband is not entitled to bash his wife,’ he said. ‘This is the law of the land.’ …

Janabi told Judge Murphy how before he came to Australia in 1996 as a political refugee that ‘our culture’ in Iraq was that ‘if a wife cheats and the husband kills her’ and he attends the police or a court ‘they said to him ‘good on you, just go home”.

‘I have respect for Australia, the law of Australia,’ he said, noting he had not once been to a police station and that ‘I’m straight and good’.

‘I love Australia, because Australia saved me,’ he said.

But he had ‘learned a lot’ and ‘paid a lot’ from and since what had happened in February, 2011, and announced he had the one-way ticket out of Australia. ‘I’m not going to stay here anymore,’ he declared…

There was no truth in his claim his wife was having an affair, Mr Doyle submitted.” Read more.

Flashback: The Treatment of Women in Islamic Culture

• Top 10 Qur’an Quotes Every Woman Must See
• Muslim Rapist: Women Have No Rights Or Opinions In Islam
• Chechnya: Women In Mortal Fear As Chechen President Promotes Islamic Honor Killings
• Israel: Local Cleric Favors Beating Women As Radical Islamic Revolution Closes In On Israeli Arabs
• Kuwait: Muslim Man Beating Wife Tells Passersby, ‘Leave Me Alone, She Is My Wife I Can Do What I Want With Her’
• Turkey: 62% Of Men Support Wife Beating, Murder Rate Of Women Increases 1400% Since Election Of Islamist Party
• UK: Muslim Husband Beats Wife, Tells Police He Is Entitled To Beat Her … Because His Islamic Religion Allows It
• Egypt: Cleric Says Islam Teaches A Man To Beat His Wife So That She’ll Treat Him With Kindness, Respect, And Know He Is Superior
• Oops: Islamic Book Promoting Wife-Beating Receives Endorsement From Muslim Politician In Canada
• Canada: ‘Beat By Hand or Stick’: Islamic Marriage Guide At Toronto Store Teaches Husbands How To Control Their Wives

For peaceful purposes. “Allah” seems to be quite thirsty lately, especially for the blood of non-Muslims …

Qur’an Sura 8:12b, “… terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an.”

By Enrique Romero, El Independiente del Sureste (Mexico) via The Muslim Issue – “A man deranged, apparently a religious fanatic and follower of Islam, coldly slaughtered his elderly parents in the colony Pakalkin of this city, after he received [Allah’s] command to kill them, which made him wildly attack them with a knife.

The couple had just arrived from San Cristobal to visit their son who lives in this city of Palenque.

The bloody events took place after 9:00 pm yesterday, in a house that is located on the street Bonampak, Kin Pakal colony, when neighbors called the emergency number 066 to report the assault, after witnessing how the demoniac subject grabbed the back of the elderly woman while she was trying to escape to the street and then cut her throat with a knife. He then took her limp body and drag it to the house, where he left it by the body of the stepfather…

Several municipal police patrol arrived on the scene and surrounded the house while trying to convince the subject to surrender.

After several minutes a male person, who identified with the name of Gilberto Garcia Chavez, 43 years old, left the house wearing bermuda shorts and bloodstained shirt to be delivered to the municipal police.

They subjected him and put him under guard, and later entered the room located behind a home where they found two elderly people lying on the floor in a pool of blood with stab wounds in different parts of the body and a throat slit where life eluded them.

In the fourth of the murderer was found a copy of the Koran, the holy book of Islam where the prophet Muhammad proclaimed that Allah is God and Mohammed is his prophet. Apparently his parents did not belong to that religion, and that had put them in the crosshairs of the fanatic as ‘infidels’ and therefore worthy of death.

The prosecutor in turn, accompanied by experts from the District Attorney moved to the site to attest to the facts and carry out the removal of the bodies, of those respondents living names Naomi Chavez Garcia, 63 years old and Jacinto Aurelio Vargas, 65, native of Acapulco, Guerrero, to be transferred to the plates of Semefo to practice them the autopsy to determine the cause of death.

The suspect was handed over to the police officers of the State Specialized (PEE) to be transferred to the regional headquarters where he argued that the main reason which brutally murdered was because [Allah] asked him, since the opposite would be the soul that was to be sacrificed.” Read more.

Flashback: Islam’s Rule Of Numbers: Islamic Beheadings Are Not Uncommon In The West, Including The U.S. – “As surreal as this event may seem, Islamic beheadings are not uncommon in the West, including the U.S. In 2011, a Pakistani-American who helped develop ‘Bridges TV’—a station ’designed to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims’—beheaded his wife. In Germany in 2012, another Muslim man beheaded his wife in front of their six children—again while hollering ’Allahu Akbar.’ Beheading non-Muslim ‘infidels’ in the Islamic world is especially commonplace …” Read more.

I commend this group for making a stand. But something is woefully wrong in the Islamic community when a city that is home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims can only manage to draw 24 of them to protest against Islamic terrorism. So what’s wrong? This is what’s wrong …

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch – “One of the cornerstones of the argument over the last few days for keeping me out of the U.K. is the false claim that I ‘demonize all Muslims’ in my critique of jihad and Islamic supremacism. In reality, I point out that Islamic supremacists claim to represent the authentic interpretation of the Qur’an and Islam, that they make recruits among peaceful Muslims with this claim, that most reputedly ‘moderate’ organizations in the U.S. are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood (as has been abundantly established by the Justice Department), and that genuinely peaceful and non-supremacist Muslims have not effectively countered the Islamic supremacist appeal among Muslims.

All these facts are established anew by the tiny turnout at the small number of Muslim anti-terror demonstrations that have taken place. Several years ago a group called the Free Muslims Coalition held what it called a ‘Free Muslims March Against Terror,’ intending to ‘send a message to the terrorists and extremists that their days are numbered … and to send a message to the people of the Middle East, the Muslim world and all people who seek freedom, democracy and peaceful coexistence that we support them.’ In the run-up to the event it got enthusiastic national and international publicity, but it ended up drawing about twenty-five people. And that is about as many as this demo in Toronto drew. Now the group appears to be defunct; its website hasn’t been updated since December 2011.

‘Progressive Muslims group launched in Toronto to reclaim ‘hijacked’ faith,’ by Wendy Gillis for the Toronto Star, June 17 (thanks to Rick):

Tahir Gora shouts into a microphone, cuing a response from the sparse group of supporters gathered with him at the steps of Queen’s Park.“Terrorism,” he yells.

“Unacceptable!” they reply.

Their voices carry across the grassy Legislature grounds that are, with the exception of a few bike cops and pedestrians, deserted. A stack of unused signs, their slogans reading “Hate is not my religion” and “Love it or leave my Canada,” lean up against a nearby pole.

Mighty but small, it was not quite the turnout the newly formed Progressive Muslims Institute Canada had in mind for their first rally, held last week. As one of the organizers mused with a chuckle, there were more white faces than brown in the crowd of roughly two dozen. Read more…

Muslim apologists claim that those who call Islam a violent religion take the Qur’an and Hadith out of context. But the Qur’an and Hadith say otherwise …

By Mark Durie, Gatestone Institute – “Recently, the journalist Paul Sheehan, reflecting on the Woolwich beheading of Drummer Lee Rigby, invited consideration of the view of Muslim violence in authoritative Islamic texts. In the Sydney Morning Herald of May 27, 2013, Sheehan observed that the Koran and the teachings of Muhammad seem to be a factor behind Muslim violence, and offered these critical observations:

• Many violent attacks on civilians are done in the name of Islam.
• The existence of violent Islamic sectarian conflict and the repression of religious dissent in Muslim nations give the lie to the ‘absurd claim’ that Islam is ‘the religion of peace.’
• Many verses in the Koran call for violence against unbelievers, and these are invoked by Muslims who murder others: ‘So many Muslims have been encouraged to murder civilians by such exhortations that the rate of violent incidents perpetrated in the name of Islam is staggering, a toll that shows no sign of subsiding.’

A rejoinder was published the next day by Associate Professor Mohamad Abdalla, founding director of the Islamic Research Unit at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Abdalla rejected the proposition that Islam supports killing innocent people: ‘A contextual reading of the Koran or Hadith leads to one conclusion only: there is no justification for killing of innocent people…’

Sheehan, while affirming that ‘Most Muslims are peaceful,’ did not say that Islam is the only factor behind Muslim violence, and he did not claim that the killers’ interpretations of religious texts were the only valid interpretation. He also nowhere used the label ‘innocent’ to characterize victims of Muslim violence; and he did not claim that Islam supports killing ‘innocent’ people. His point was simply that, according to some Muslims, violent verses in the Koran contribute to Muslims behaving violently.

Why did Abdalla introduce the word ‘innocent,’ and do his arguments have credibility?

Abdalla’s key point is that seemingly violent texts from Islam’s canon have to be read ‘in context.’ He explains that to put the Koran ‘in context,’ one must at least consider the following five factors:

• the context in which verses were ‘revealed’ to Muhammad;
• the principle of ‘abrogation’;
• other passages which address the same subject;
• the life of Muhammad, and
• the way the verse has been applied [by Muslim scholars].

Abdalla claims that Sheehan is not competent to pass judgement on the Koran because he lacks such knowledge. He also states, but offers no evidence to support the allegation, that taking ‘context’ into account will result in a more moderate interpretation of these sacred scriptures.

Taking context into account, however, can actually make a ‘peaceful’ verse quite nasty, and a violent verse even worse. There is nothing about ‘context’ that makes it a magic wand to render peaceful and harmless every text over which it is waved. Context is neither a silver bullet against violent texts, nor is it a disinfectant for theological unpleasantness.

It also needs to be understood that radical jihadis themselves use a contextual model to interpret the Koran: they do not simply rely on context-free interpretations or on proof-texts — quotes taken out of context to support an argument. The Bin Ladins of the world — and theologians such as Sayyid Qutb who paved the way for them — have been more than familiar with interpretive tools such as the ‘context’ of revelation, ‘abrogation,’ or the life of Muhammad. Such subjects are on the curriculum in the jihad factories.

What is disappointing about Abdalla’s article is that the very texts he refers to Read more…