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In this mailing:
- Nonie Darwish: The Islamic View
of "Feminism"
- Jeff Trag: How Social Media
Stifles Free Speech
- Joe Kaufman: High Time for
Sofian Zakkout, Pillar of the American-Muslim Community, to Be
Investigated for Ties to Hamas
by Nonie Darwish • July 13, 2017
at 5:00 am
- What
the West needs to know is that in the Muslim world, jihad is
considered more important than women, family happiness and
life itself. If we are told, as Linda Sarsour said, that Islam
stands for peace and justice, what we are not told is that
"peace" in Islam will come only after the
whole world has converted to Islam, and that
"justice" means law under Sharia: whatever is inside
Sharia is "justice;" whatever is not in
Sharia is not "justice."
- Rebelling
against Sharia is, sadly, for the Muslim woman, unthinkable.
How can a healthy and normal feminist movement develop under
an Islamic legal system that can flog, stone and behead women?
That is why Sarsour's jihadist kind of feminism is no heroic
kind of feminism but the only feminism a Muslim woman can
practice that will give her a degree of respect, acceptance,
and even preferential treatment over other women. In Islam,
that is the only kind of feminism allowed to develop.
Linda
Sarsour's recent speech calling to wage jihad against the
"fascist" and "white supremacist" White House
did not sound peaceful. It clearly sounded more like a call for an
Islamic uprising. Pictured: Sarsour at the Women's March on
Washington, on January 21, 2017. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Muslim activist and Women's March organizer, Linda
Sarsour, has helpfully exposed a side of Islam that is pro-Sharia
and pro-jihad:
"I hope that ... when we stand up to those who
oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form
of jihad, that we are struggling against tyrants and rulers not
only abroad in the Middle East or on the other side of the world,
but here in these United States of America, where you have fascists
and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White
House."
by Jeff Trag • July 13, 2017 at
4:00 am
- Even
more problematic is that those platforms are free to delete
the pages and posts of users they deem to have violated
whatever they decide are "community standards." This
includes judging content supportive of, for example,
restricting migration in Europe.
- Facebook,
for example, also often permits real hate speech while banning
websites that expose this hate speech.
- Ultimately,
the only way to keep the United States safe is by protecting
its citizens' ability to discuss ideas that without fear. If
we lose our freedom of expression on the internet, we lose our
democracy.
One of the greatest contemporary battles for
individual liberty and freedom of the press is being conducted in
cyber space.
Today, political, journalistic and corporate elites
are in the process of trying to control, and even rewrite,
"story lines" of history and current events with which
they might disagree, and that they see slipping through their
fingers.
It is a form of censorship akin to banning the
printing press or preventing open debate in the literal and
proverbial public square.
Facebook, for example, also often permits real hate
speech while banning websites that expose this hate speech.
There are, however, constitutional and legal
measures that can and should be taken to protect Americans from
having their right to express themselves as they wish – without
causing harm to public safety or engaging in illegal activity --
violated every time they log in to their social media accounts.
by Joe Kaufman • July 13, 2017 at
3:00 am
- The
question is, then, whether Sofian Zakkout's attachment to
Hamas is "merely" emotional, or whether he is an
official member of the terrorist organization. All evidence
points to the latter.
- It
is time for the FBI to investigate Zakkout and his activities,
and for all the groups that provide him an ill-deserved
virtuous reputation to recognize him for the threat he poses
to the coexistence and "understanding" he purports
to be promoting.
The
question is whether Sofian Zakkout's attachment to Hamas is
"merely" emotional, or whether he is an official member
of the terrorist organization. Pictured above: Unidentified Hamas
gunmen in Gaza City, in 2006. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
There is good reason to suspect that a pillar of the
Muslim community in South Florida, who sits on the boards of many
civil rights groups and charities, is actually a member of Hamas,
the terrorist organization ruling the Gaza Strip. Sofian Zakkout,
the founding president of the American Muslim Association of North
America (AMANA), was born and partly raised in Gaza, which he has
referred proudly to as "my nation, my hometown."
His fondness for his birthplace, however, is not
what is worrisome about Zakkout. It is, rather, that he has spent
decades cloaking himself in a veil of respectability, while
actively promoting violent Hamas propaganda, including virulently
anti-Semitic speech.
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