Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque is trying to gain council approval to play the Islamic call to prayer from loudspeakers.
Lebanese Muslim Association spokesman Gamel Kheir says the practice is inclusive, because Islamic authorities always historically gave non-Muslims the choice to pay a special tax for protection.
“If you return the call to prayer back to us, we leave you alone. If you don’t return the call to prayer, you have two choices: you either fight, or pay a tax for protection.”
I reckon it’s really nice to be offered protection. Thank you Gamel.
“Ayaan Hirsi Ali Gets Confronted on Islamophobia - Her Answer Takes the
Debate in a Completely Different Direction”
Student : You speak of Islamophobia and classes like Black Studies as phony,
ideologically driven things. But what makes white supremacy or Islamophobia different from antisemitism?
America imported millions of African slaves, Native Americans faced forced marches and genocide, and Muslims are being massacred in China today.
So what makes antisemitism so different?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Two things.
First, America and Western Europe have reckoned with their past.
We had slavery, we fought a war and ended it. We had segregation, we fought another major battle and ended it. We had the Civil Rights Movement.
And the people leading many of those emancipation movements were Christians inspired by the Bible.
Second, antisemitism is the oldest hatred in humanity, and you find it across the entire world.
What made the West different was that after nearly exterminating its Jewish population, it looked honestly in the mirror and confronted what it had done.
Islamophobia is a made-up word.
It's been created by a political movement that wants to exploit Western guilt to achieve its ultimate goal: the revival of the caliphate.
And the goal of that movement is to convert people to Islam whether they want to or not.
Those who refuse, she says, could face violence.
That's part of what I mean by subversion, active measures and asymmetric warfare.
The Islamists have become incredibly successful against nations with enormous military and economic power.
Islam is spreading.
They've regained Afghanistan. They have Iraq. They have Syria.
And Muslim governments themselves are afraid of what the Islamist movement could do to them.
They're exploiting principles like freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of association.
We need to understand that and find a way to preserve our principles while beating the Islamists at their own game.
Student : Is there room for compromise between principles?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: If I want to kill you and behead you unless you convert to the religion I dictate, what would be the place of compromise?
Student : I wouldn't mind converting, since I'm agnostic, but I understand some people wouldn't share that vision...
Neues von den Parteien der Kiffer, der Islamisten und des Nannystaates. Dann geht halt rüber nach Afghanistan, sage sogar ich als Nichttrinker. https://t.co/t6sVB2Cp2V
Migrant boat smashes into girl, 17, leaving her with multiple fractures - then continues to Italian beach after men on board decide not to help her https://t.co/A7B1pX3Ps2
Thomas Sowell on a hard truth:
“Discrimination has been pervasive, but not pervasively effective.”
People have discriminated almost everywhere, in almost every period of history.
Some groups are held back by it. Others are barely slowed down. Jews in the 19th century faced discrimination in hiring. They responded by hiring each other — and went on to dominate the garment industry and the early Hollywood studios.
Sowell’s conclusion is clear:
Skills are what matter. Not whether other people are willing to hire you. Even groups that dislike each other will eventually hire skilled people if it pays.
For black Americans the lesson is the same: Skills first. If outsiders won’t recognize them in the short run, those skills still have value inside the community.
Skills, work, and savings are what have moved groups from poverty to affluence. Sowell says he knows of nothing else that has done it.
BREAKING NEWS: We just released our third NDIS video investigation, exposing a taxpayer funded $15 million West Sydney business empire which employs open jihadist extremists as disability support workers.
@PeteZogoulas and I spent 7 months investigating Mona Salem's Hope and Care business.
Salem faced a compulsory court debt examination in 2018 for tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid debts to contractors. Now, just a few short years later, she boasts a $15 million property empire alongside a fleet of luxury cars worth half a million dollars.
Unter „Same, Lindsay“ erklären zigtausende Frauen ihre Sympathie und Nähe zu einer Mutter, die ihre drei Kinder tötete. Und machen daraus einen Kult um die eigene Psyche. Es ist der vorläufige Tiefpunkt eines nach unten offenen „white liberal women"-Abgrunds. https://t.co/1Fokq0RUaN
This Ross Kemp's Extreme World in South Africa 🇿🇦 originally aired on Sky One on 29 Jan 2015. The casual way they describe gang rape defies description.
They don't have a shred of remorse & most worried about HIV & pregnancy. Absolutely no thought of the consequences.