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Feeding into an Islamophobic Narrative

21 January 2015 By Lyn Pickering Leave a Comment

In the Middle East

Japanese captives

Two captive Japanese men dressed in the now all too familiar orange prisoner’s garb, kneel in the desert sands with their black-clad executioner brandishing his knife.  Islamic State is demanding a $200 million ransom for their release, but everyone knows that even if their demands are met, they may decide to kill their hostages anyway.   Islamic State militants are not known for their scruples.

In Mosul, Iraq, last week, thirteen young teenagers were caught by Islamic State watching an Asian Cup soccer game between Iraq and Jordan.  They may have known that under Islamic State’s imposition of Sharia Law the penalty would be harsh if they were caught, but they were boys.  The charges against them were read out through a loudspeaker before all thirteen were mowed down under machine-gun fire.   Under ISIS this is the penalty for entertainment.  They were dragged out into the street and left to lie there.  Parents of these youths were too afraid to claim the bodies for fear they would meet the same fate.

A woman was stoned to death for adultery – no mention of her male partner, but I doubt she committed the sin alone. [Read more…]

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Islam and Political Doublespeak

19 January 2015 By Lyn Pickering Leave a Comment

While doublespeak often refers to the use of euphemisms, it can also mean creating an ambiguity to deliberately  invert the meaning.  In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth.  A good politically correct example of doublespeak today is the continual reference to Islam as a peaceful religion.

The French President took political correctness to a ludicrous extreme on Thursday last week when he declared in a completely masterful stroke of doublespeak that Muslims are the “first victims of fanaticism, fundamentalism, intolerance,” without mentioning that fundamentalist, fanatical and intolerant Islam is at the forefront of almost every terror attack.

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls, however, takes a different stance.   Valls argues that the charge of ‘Islamophobia‘ is often used to silence critics of Islamism.

If we are left feeling a little confused by the rhetoric surrounding Islam, we are not alone.  Pat Condell has the final word on Islamic doublespeak – or does he?

[Read more…]

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Animal Farm All Over Again

16 January 2015 By Lyn Pickering Leave a Comment

Animal Farm 2

While five of the seventeen victims of terror were buried today, French President, Francois Holland addressed the Arab World Institute in Paris.

“It is Muslims,” he declared, “who are the main victims of fanaticism, fundamentalism and intolerance,” at the same time adding that the whole country was united in the face of terrorism.  Whose terror – and which victims?

He failed to mention that Muslims were also the main perpetrators, and that many Muslim victims of terror were killed by their own militia – and even by their own governments.

President Holland generously promised to protect the Muslim community. [Read more…]

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Future of the Islamic Caliphate

9 November 2014 By Lyn Pickering Leave a Comment

According to several reports, a U.S. led airstrike on Saturday 8th November left Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “critically wounded”.  The attack was made on the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim where a gathering of ISIS leaders was taking place.  It appears that a number of top Islamic State members were among the dead and many more were injured.  The hospital in al-Qaim struggled to cope with the large numbers of injured, and witnesses claim that ISIS cleared the hospital of patients in order that their men should receive preferential treatment.  ISIS militants used loudspeakers to make urgent appeals for blood to be donated.Caliph Ibrahim

Although there has been no official confirmation of al-Baghdadi’s condition, it is interesting to speculate what his possible death might mean in terms of the Islamic Caliphate.  A Caliph, much like a pope, is intended to be God’s representative on earth, any major injury would serve to reduce his credibility, whereas his death could potentially spell the end of the Caliphate. [Read more…]

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