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France recalls Turkey envoy after Erdogan says Macron needs ‘mental check’

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Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54678826

France has recalled its ambassador to Turkey for consultations after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insulted his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. He said Mr Macron needed a mental health check for pledging to defend secular values and fight radical Islam. Mr Macron has spoken out forcefully on these issues after a French teacher was murdered for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class. France “will not give up our cartoons”, he said earlier this week. Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad can cause serious offence to Muslims because Islamic tradition explicitly forbids images of Muhammad and Allah (God). But state secularism – or laïcité – is central to France’s national identity. Curbing freedom of expression to protect the feelings of one particular community, the state says, undermines the country’s unity.

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UK: ‘I Stopped Wearing My Hijab Because I Was Scared for My Life’

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Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/10/uk-i-stopped-wearing-my-hijab-because-i-was-scared-robert-spencer/

Meanwhile, the real victims are Muslim women who dare not to wear the hijab. The UK’s Metro on Thursday published a sob story entitled “I stopped wearing my hijab because I was scared for my life,” all about “Islamophobia” in the Sceptered Isle. Sumaiya Ahmed, who poses, hijabless but demure, in a photo accompanying the article, complains: “You’d think growing up in a predominantly Asian area in London would mean not having to deal with racism and Islamophobia. But as a British-Bangladeshi Muslim, I can say racism in this city runs deep.” Racism? What race is Islam again? What race is wearing the hijab? In any case, this article proceeds from the assumption that women who wear hijabs in the UK (and the US) are routinely subjected to discrimination and harassment.

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President Trump Attacked for Giving Offering While at Church in Las Vegas

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Article Link: https://www.westernjournal.com/president-trump-attacked-giving-offering-church-las-vegas/

The act of giving to God or the church isn’t just uncontroversial, it’s expected of Christians. Tithing — the act of donating one-tenth of one’s earnings — appears rather early in the Bible, in Genesis 14. (For the benefit of our liberal readership, that’s the first book of the Bible, the one with Adam, Eve, Noah, Cain, Abel and most of the other figures in the Good Book you can probably identify who aren’t named Jesus.) Over the centuries of the Christian era, donations from individuals large and small have kept houses of worship operating, fed the poor, established hospitals and maintained missionary activities in foreign lands. In short, as most churchgoers know, money from believers is what takes care of material needs so religious organizations, no matter what their faith, can attend to the spiritual.

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France teacher attack: Police raid homes of suspected Islamic radicals

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Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54598546

French police have raided the homes of dozens of suspected Islamic radicals following the beheading of a teacher who showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils. Some of those being questioned are believed to have posted messages of support for the killer of Samuel Paty. The government also said it was investigating 51 French Muslim associations. Police shot dead Mr Paty’s suspected killer on Friday in a Paris suburb. On Monday, Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin said the operations sent a message that there was “no respite for enemies of the republic”, and that they were expected to continue all week.

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Teacher’s throat slit in France after showing class Mohammad cartoons

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Article Link: https://torontosun.com/news/world/french-police-shoot-dead-man-who-beheaded-victim/wcm/760518b7-4f74-4276-bbcc-198f23b8b38c

PARIS — A man knifed to death a middle school history teacher in France who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims consider to be blasphemous, French officials said on Friday. The attacker was shot dead by a police patrol a few streets away from the scene of the attack late on Friday afternoon, in a residential suburb north-west of Paris.

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JK Rowling Hit for “Islamophobia” for Depicting Criminal Hiding Identity in Burqa

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Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/jk-rowling-hit-islamophobia-depicting-criminal-robert-spencer/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has recently run afoul of the Maoist Left for daring to do what they hate the most: portray reality as it is. The UK’s appalling Daily Mail reported last week Rowling “has been accused of playing into both Islamophobic and transphobic prejudices” for a passage in a work of fiction in which characters discuss a criminal hiding his identity by wearing a burqa. But only days after Rowling’s appalling transgression, a man who was concealing his identity by wearing an Islamic veil opened fire on a Paris street. Rowling’s scenario turned out not to be “Islamophobia” at all, but a simple depiction of reality. This will, no doubt, make the Left hate her all the more.

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Tens of Thousands Attend Prayer March 2020: See Crowd Size Photos & Turnout

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Article Link: https://heavy.com/news/prayer-march-2020-crowd-size-photos-turnout/

Discussion posted by: OFRU

On Saturday, September 26, Franklin Graham led the Prayer March 2020 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern starting at the Lincoln Memorial. How many people attended the nearly two-mile march in Washington, D.C.? Estimates ranged from tens of thousands to 50,000. Here’s a look at crowd size photos and videos from the event.

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Seven detained after knife attack near ex-Charlie Hebdo offices

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Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54302337

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

Seven people have been detained in connection with an attack outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, officials say. A man armed with a meat cleaver wounded two people in the attack on Friday. The main suspect, identified as an 18-year-old man of Pakistani origin, was arrested near the scene. Police said six others were in custody and being questioned. The attack is being treated as a terrorist incident. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said it was “clearly an act of Islamist terrorism”. He said police had underestimated the threat level in the area.

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Blasphemy: Islam’s Achilles Heel

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Article Link: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/blasphemy-islams-achilles-heel-raymond-ibrahim/

Discussion posted by: Arye ben-Shaoul

All around the Islamic world, and even in the West, “blasphemers”—those who would talk against Islam—are under attack; some are murdered, many imprisoned. Validating this assertion is almost futile, as blasphemy-related stories surface with extreme regularity. The recent murder of an American citizen being tried for blasphemy in a Pakistani courtroom is just the most “spectacular.” Incidences of Muslims beating or imprisoning (two with death sentences) those who say or do something critical of Islam—to say nothing of just rioting in general—have in recent days and weeks been reported from Austria, Bangladesh, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Tunisia, and the UK.

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