Europe's Cities Absorb Sharia Law
Within days after the Islamic State conquered the city of Sirte in Libya two years ago, enormous billboards appeared in the Islamist stronghold warning women they must wear baggy robes that cover their entire bodies, and no perfume. These "sharia stipulations for hijab" included wearing dense material and a robe that does not "resemble the attire of unbelievers".
Two years later, Europe's three most important cities -- London, Paris and Berlin -- are adopting the same sharia trend. Paris has said au revoir to "sexist" ads on public billboards. The Paris city council announced its ban after the Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the move meant that Paris was "leading the way" in the fight against sexism. London Mayor Sadiq Khan also banned advertisements that promote "unrealistic expectations of women's body image and health". Now Berlin is planning to ban images in which women are portrayed as "beautiful but weak, hysterical, dumb, crazy, naive, or ruled by their emotions". Der Tagesspiegel's Harald Martenstein said the policy "could have been adopted from the Taliban manifesto". The irony is that this wave of morality and "virtue" is coming from cities governed by uninhibited leftist politicians, who for years campaigned for sexual liberation. There is a reason for this grotesque campaign banning these images. These cities host significant Muslim populations; and politicians -- the same who frantically are enacting mandatory multiculturalism -- want to please "Islam". It is now a "feminist" talking point to advocate sharia policy, as does Linda Sarsour. The result is that, today, few feminists dare to criticize Islam. It is happening everywhere. Dutch municipalities are "advising" their employees to not wear mini-skirts. There are women-only hours at Swedish swimming pools. German schools are sending letters to parents asking children to avoid wearing "revealing clothes". The first to suggest calling for a ban on posters or advertisements that "reduce women or men to sexual objects" was German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, a Social Democrat. "To demand the veiling of women or taming of men," said Free Democratic Party leader Christian Lindner, "is something known among radical Islamic religious leaders, but not from the German minister of justice." In 1969, Germany was overwhelmed by a debate on introducing into schools the "Sexualkundeatlas", an "atlas" of sexual science. Now the effort is to desexualize German society. The newspaper Die Welt commented: "Thanks to Justice Minister Heiko Maas we finally know why on New Year's Eve, at Cologne Central Station, about a thousand women were victims of sexual violence: because of sexist advertising. Too many eroticized models, too much naked skin on our billboards, too many erotic mouths, too many miniskirts in fashion magazines, too many wiggling rear-ends and chubby breasts in television spots. It is another step in the direction of a 'submission'".Instead of nipples and buttocks, Die Welt concludes, "should we urge the use of burqa or veil, as Mrs. Erdogan does?" The same German élites who suggest banning "sexist" billboards censored the crude details of the mass sexual assaults in Cologne. Meanwhile, a liberal Berlin mosque, which banned burqasand opened its door to gays and to unveiled women, is now under police protection after threats from Muslim supremacists. Europe's élites have adopted a double standard: they are proud to host an exhibit of a Christian crucifix submerged in urine, but quickly capitulate to Muslim demands to censor cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed. The Italian authorities went to great efforts to spare Iran's President Hassan Rouhani a view of nudity on ancient sculptures in the Capitoline Museums of Rome. The Western public appears fascinated by Islamic veils. Ismail Sacranie, a founder of Modestly Active, the manufacturer that designs burkinis, told the New York Times that 35% of their clients are non-Muslim. Aheda Zanetti, a Lebanese woman living in Australia who invented the burkini, claims that 40% of her sales are to non-Muslim women. The Western public, which has been romanticizing Islam, is apparently absorbing the pieties of Islamic law. The Spectator called it "a new puritanism" and "why some feminists make common cause with Islam". To paraphrase the American writer Daniel Greenfield, the irony of women celebrating their own suppression is both heartbreaking and stupefying. Europe might soon have to apologize to the Mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker. She was criticized -- denounced -- for advising women to keep "at an arm's length" from strangers to avoid sexual harassment. If the West keeps on betraying the democratic value of individual freedom on which Western civilization is based, Islamic fundamentalists, like those who imposed burqas on Libyan women, will start imposing them on Western women. They may even begin with those feminist élites who first created the sexual revolution to emancipate women in the 1960s, and who are now infatuated with an obscurantist garment that hides women in a portable prison.
Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
Sharia Law Spreading Throughout Europe.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Radical Muslims ARE Our Enemy
We have seen the enemy and it is the Muslims. One can only look at the news around the world where every major battle involves Islam and its believers. We cannot wait any longer, we must turn the screw on them before they attack us again.
Yes, we said again. Remember the attack against the World Trade Center in 1993 and again in 2001, the Cole, the embassys in Africa and Benghazi this year. They are coming for us and the ONLY time we have responded in 9/11. Are we stupid or are we just a paper tiger. We believe both.
How many Americans are going to have to be killed before the Administration(s) of this country get the message and decide to take off the gloves and to call Radical Muslims what they are--the scourge of the world! It is a pestilence not unlike rabies, the Black Plague, the Nazi Regime, Tojo, or the Kaiser.
All of these "diseases" have been contained and some destroyed except radical Muslims. To think that the "Great Satan" is not targeted for extinction, is foolhardy. It is time for this one to end.
However, do not expect this from your current occupant of the White House. He is either unschooled in the ways of radical Islam or a believer. It would not take much information to make us believe the latter. All we have to do is look at the latest tragedy in Benghazi to see how he played word smith with the attack for weeks. He had to be dragged into admitting that it was a terrorist attack. Anyone with such disregard for American human life has to be a "believer."
We, the citizens of this country, must force our "leaders" to take steps to stomp out radical Islam anywhere we find it whether it is in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, France or even the US. Will they, we doubt it. We are too weak of mind and spirit.
One knows how future generations will think about our lackadaisical attitude toward the greatest threat this country faces today. They will blame us for not acting. The women will curse us behind their burkas as the men pay their homage to the Mosque. We will have become dimis, second class citizens.
Conservative Tom
CBS' Lara Logan warns that Muslim jihadis are coming for us
Journalist says that Obama administration is lying to the public about jihadist threat
Lara Logan, correspondent for CBS' "60 Minutes," had a dire warning to offer about 1,100 influential people from government, politics, media and the legal and corporate arenas. Logan's ominous message was arrived at from her years of covering U.S. military involvement in the Middle East. Logan had arrived in Chicago shortly after her Sept. 30 report, "The Longest War," which examines the Afghanistan conflict.
Lara Logan maintains that the U.S. government is downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as a rationale of getting us out of the longest war.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Eleven years later after 9/11, Logan was on hand to say that "they" still hate us, now more than ever. The Taliban and al-Qaida have not been vanquished - and they're coming back.
"I chose this subject because, one, I can't stand, that there is a major lie being propagated . . ." Logan declared in her native South African accent. Quite contrary to what the White House says, America's military might has tamed the Taliban.
"There is this narrative coming out of Washington for the last two years," Logan said. She says this is because of "Taliban apologists," who claim "they are just the poor moderate, gentler, kinder Taliban," she added sarcastically. "It's such nonsense!"
Logan told of plowing through reams of documents, and interviewing John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan; Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a Taliban commander trained by al-Qaida. The Taliban and al-Qaida are alive and well, teaming up and recruiting new terrorists to do us deadly harm, she reports.
Logan maintains that the U.S. government is downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as a rationale of getting us out of the longest war. Logan says that the U.S. public has been lulled into believing that the perils are in the past: "You're not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your arrogance, you think you write the script."
Logan even called for retribution for the recent terrorist killings of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other officials. The event is a harbinger of our vulnerability, Logan says. She says that she hopes that America will "exact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil. That its ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States will not stand by and do nothing about it."
© 2012, Distributed by NEWS CONSORTIUM.
"I chose this subject because, one, I can't stand, that there is a major lie being propagated . . ." Logan declared in her native South African accent. Quite contrary to what the White House says, America's military might has tamed the Taliban.
"There is this narrative coming out of Washington for the last two years," Logan said. She says this is because of "Taliban apologists," who claim "they are just the poor moderate, gentler, kinder Taliban," she added sarcastically. "It's such nonsense!"
Logan told of plowing through reams of documents, and interviewing John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan; Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a Taliban commander trained by al-Qaida. The Taliban and al-Qaida are alive and well, teaming up and recruiting new terrorists to do us deadly harm, she reports.
Logan maintains that the U.S. government is downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as a rationale of getting us out of the longest war. Logan says that the U.S. public has been lulled into believing that the perils are in the past: "You're not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your arrogance, you think you write the script."
Logan even called for retribution for the recent terrorist killings of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other officials. The event is a harbinger of our vulnerability, Logan says. She says that she hopes that America will "exact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil. That its ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States will not stand by and do nothing about it."
© 2012, Distributed by NEWS CONSORTIUM.
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