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by Samuel Westrop
• December 4, 2016 at 5:00 am
- In its report,
the Charity Commission makes note of the iERA's promotion of hate
preachers, but treats the charity as a victim of such extremism,
rather than an instigator.
- According to the
Commission, bureaucracy is the solution -- the iERA's extremism will
be solved by more "adequate procedures... to prevent abuse of the
charity, its status, facilities or assets."
- Those more
familiar with the iERA will know that asking this Salafist charity to
produce and follow its own counter-extremism plan is akin to demanding
that the Ku Klux Klan introduce affirmative action hiring processes.
- Extremist
charities are not private institutions: charitable status affords
extraordinary legal and financial benefits, including the opportunity
for radical Islamist organisations to claim government subsidies. But
no government should allow extremist networks to exploit charitable
status. Shut these charities down, and ban those Islamist activists
from ever again becoming trustees of a charitable organisation.
The head of the Islamic Education and Research Academy
(iERA), Abdur Raheem Green, is a former jihadist who warns Muslims of a
Jewish "stench," encourages the death penalty as a "suitable
and effective" punishment for homosexuality and adultery, and has
ruled that wife-beating "is allowed." (Image source: BBC video
screenshot)
On November 4, the British charity regulator, the Charity Commission,
published a report of its inquiry into the Islamic Education and Research
Academy (iERA), a British Salafist group and religious training
organisation. The inquiry was initially welcomed by moderate Muslim groups
and counter-extremism analysts, but many will be disappointed with the
Charity Commission's recommendations.
More than a dozen pieces have been written for the Gatestone Institute
examining the iERA's links to extremism, as well as the failure of
government, media and even Jewish organisations to tackle this fast-growing
Salafist group. In 2014, one of these articles exclusively revealed that
the "Portsmouth Five," a notorious group of ISIS recruits from
southern England, were all members of an iERA youth group.
by Itamar Marcus
• December 4, 2016 at 4:00 am
A fire rages in central Haifa, November 24, 2015. (Image
source: Haaretz video screenshot)
While Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas was accepting
praise for sending Palestinian firefighters to help put out fires in
Israel, the PA Finance Ministry was busy doing the paper work to start
paying salaries to the Palestinian arsonists who were arrested for setting
many of those same fires. So far Israel has arrested 23 suspected arsonists
connected to the hundreds of fires that raged across Israel in the last
week of November, burning more than 500 homes and 32,000 acres of forests
and national parks. According to Palestinian law documented by Palestinian
Media Watch (PMW), anyone imprisoned for "resisting the
occupation" receives a high monthly salary. Therefore, all of those
convicted and imprisoned for arson will receive PA salaries "from the
day of arrest until the day of release."
by Vijeta Uniyal
• December 4, 2016 at 2:00 am
- With his
initiative for tighter gun laws, to prevent weapons getting into
"the wrong hands," Justice Minister Maas does not mean to
target the Islamists who pose an existential threat to Germany, but an
obscure German group called the "Reichsbürger."
- As the German
newspaper Bild describes the law proposed by Maas, "a
13-year-old child bride would have to testify against her husband,
saying that her well-being as a child is under threat. If neither the
child nor the Child Welfare Service lodges a complaint, for all
practical purposes the marriage would be declared legitimate."
This law clearly does not take into account the possibility of private
coercion against a child, let alone the blinding likelihood of
outright threats.
- Justice Minister
Maas evidently cares more about "gender image" than he cares
about truly oppressed women and vulnerable children. In a recently
drafted new law by his ministry, Mass refused to ban child marriage.
- With both France
and Germany going to polls next year, there is the possibility of a
democratic, peaceful "European Spring."
(Image source: Tobias Koch/Wikimedia Commons)
In her first message to President-elect Donald Trump, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel lectured him on gender, racial and religious
equality. As the New York Times put it, Merkel "named a
price" for Germany's cooperation with the Trump-led administration,
namely the "respect for human dignity and for minorities from a man
who has mocked both."
If this was anything more than political posturing, and Chancellor
Merkel truly cared about "human dignity" or the rights of those
most vulnerable, she might have started closer at home.
After a year-long investigation into the mass-sexual attacks in
Cologne, where an estimated 2,000 migrant men -- mostly from Arab and
Muslim countries -- molested at least 1200 women, almost all the men have
managed to walk free.
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