Jihad, a Muslim's Destiny: The Muslim Brotherhood

Adil Charkaoui's speech to kill the Jews has drawn broad condemnation from politicians like Premier François Legault and groups like the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. (Adil Charkaoui/X)

"An Explanatory Memorandum for the Muslim Brotherhood's Goals in North America."

"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means."

"The Ikhwan ['brotherhood'] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

"It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes and there is no escape from that destiny." 

The Muslim Brotherhood

 

"Canada's permissive environment, shaped by a fragile national identity, a culture of victimhood, vote-bank politics, and unchecked immigration, has made it the ideal incubator for Islamist expansion."

"[Canada has] become 'ground zero' for their soft-power operations, from campaigns to criminalize 'Islamophobia' to the indoctrination of children under the banner of 'anti-Palestinian racism'."

Joe Adam George 

Muslims pray outside McGill University's Roddick Gate during pro-Palestinian protest in Montreal Monday October 7, 2024 on the one year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. (John Mahoney / MONTREAL GAZETTE)

 

The Muslim Brotherhood and its many associated arms well established in Canada as Muslim-Canadian groups whose purpose is to advance 'human rights', the protection of the Muslim-Canadian population of several million from criticism under threat of being labelled 'Islamophobic' in a greater society that shrinks from being thought of as 'racist' has infiltrated every level of society and government. Sitting in municipal chambers, on school boards, as directors in national public institutions, and among the professorial class in academia, advance a narrative of Muslim rights.

 

The installation of Islamic Sharia will once again crop  up as the Muslim demographic increases. Muslim groups, particularly those who associate their activities with the 'Palestinian cause', feel entitled to express their hatred toward a much smaller demographic of Canadian Jews by amassing mobs of anti-Israel, pro-Hamas agitators who have for the past several years since the Palestinian terrorist orgy of sadistic savagery in southern Israel on October 7/23, marched through city streets chanting 'globalize the intifada', 'Jews back to Europe', 'Final Solution', and 'From the river to the sea'. 

 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in downtown Montreal in October 2023. In November, Montreal police received a complaint about speeches made during those demonstrations. (Danielle Kadjo/Radio-Canada)

 

In the process demonizing Israel as a 'genocidal' nation intent on exterminating Palestinians when it is the Palestinians who have for generations launched attacks against Israel and Jews, while Israel is left defending its population, against those portraying themselves as pitiable victims of Israeli aggression. The CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, originally established with a focus on the Holocaust, has decided to mount a permanent 'Nakba' exhibit, damning the creation of Israel, grieving the 'catastrophe' it brought to Palestinian ambitions to own the geography of Judean ancestral land. Isha Khan, the CEO, assures that the exhibit will undergo the strictest adherence to the museum's human rights goal.

 

While the American Congress and Senate are working toward blacklisting the Muslim Brotherhood and its arms like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Canada's Liberal government tolerates Islamist 'pro-Palestinian' marches through Jewish neighbourhoods, hostile gatherings of Islamists in front of Jewish old-age homes, parochial schools, and synagogues that intimidate and threaten Canadian Jews. Pro-Palestinian encampments on  university grounds that targeted Jewish students saw no action from any level of Canadian government to protect Canadian Jews.

 

That inaction led to criminal assaults against Jewish institutions and private businesses that were vandalized, fire-bombed and shot at. Public gatherings of Muslims for group prayer sessions, shutting down traffic and access to the public have been tolerated, as 'expressions of free speech and religion', while the very fact of that kind of 'occupation' is an Islamic expression of conquest of the public sphere. Canada's political, cultural and educational institutions have been subjected to entryism by Muslim jihadists using the soft-touch approach to insurgency.

 

Muslim prayer in front of a Montreal church   Screenshot

 

Groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, members of the Iranian IRGC, are present in Canada representing the ideologies of jihad and terror, and official Canada does nothing to deter their presence, nor their criminal activities in money-laundering funds from criminal activities. The Brotherhood was described by a member of the European Parliament as "a clear and present challenge to European values" whose response was "to persuade the European Commission to change its policy and stop all contributions to Islamist organizations".

 

Ward Elcock, formerly director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) testifying on terrorist organizations that raise funds in Canada, warned Canada "cannot become, through inaction or otherwise, what might be called an unofficial state sponsor of terrorism", back in 1998. For the past ten years and counting, the government of Canada has been invested in appeasing Islamist terror, taking statements and accusations levelled against the State of Israel by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas as credible.

 

Slowly and surely the Muslim Brotherhood's silent stealth within Western countries, establishing itself as a legitimate voice of reasonable accommodation for the religion of peace as the true face of Islam -- as opposed to the murderously violent Islamist jihadists ravaging Africa, making incursions into Latin America, and roiling the Middle East, where most countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Jordan ban the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization --  has gained it a solid footing of trust, only now beginning to fray. But not yet in Canada.

 

Pro-Palestinian protesters at the corner of Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue in Toronto, Nov. 2, 2025. (Credit: Lila Sarick)

 

This, Too, Is Culture Affirmed by Islamic Hadiths

Child Marriage in the Qur'an

• It is clear the verse 65:4 is given as a command to be followed (Jussive mood).
• The verse itself refers to those women who did not menstruate(in all of past time until the present time), which can include children or girls before puberty or attainment of menarche (first period).

Therefore, the exact translation of this portion of Quran 65:4 is "Not menstruated yet" ( لَمْ يَحِضْنَ ). In Arabic, the menstruating process is called HAIDH ( حيض ). It is possible to turn this noun into its verb form. Like we do it with menstruation, "menstruate" is YAHIDH ( يَحِض ). But it is LAM ( لَمْ ) that appears before YAHIDH and the NA ( نَ ) associated with YAHIDH and this puts Islamic apologists in a quandary because it cannot have any other meaning than “Not menstruated yet”. This is the appropriate English translation.

This verse 65:4 should be read as a continuation of Qur'an 33:49. If a woman who has not been used for sex should not have to observe any Iddah at all, as mentioned in 33:49, what is the reason for the prescribed Iddah for those women who have not yet menstruated? This is a clear indication marrying pre-pubescent girls and having sex with them is sanctioned by the Qur'an.

The phrase found in Qur'an 65:4 as "Wallaee Lam Yahidhna" is sometimes mistranslated by apologists. Exact meaning of the phrase is available in Tafsirs (Quran interpretations). 

The Noble Qur'an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: "And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women - if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated" [Qur'an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur'an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet (PBUH) entered into a marriage contract with A'isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.

Is it permissible to restrict the age at which girls can marry?

Submitted by Ahmad, IslamOnline, December 24, 2010

WikiIslam 

"Day by day, the numbers are increasing of families selling their children."

Lack of food, lack of work, the families feel they have to do this."

Mohammad Naiem Nazem, human-rights activist, Badghis, Afghanistan

"[Parwana] was cheap, and her father was very poor and he needs money."

"She will be working in my home. I won't beat her. I will treat her like a family member."

Qorban, 55, Afghan buyer of 9-year-old Afghan girl

"We are eight family members. I have to sell to keep other family members alive."

"This is your bride [Qorban]."

"Please take care of her -- you are responsible for her now, please don't beat her."

Abdu Malik, father of 9-year-old Parwana

The moment Parwana Malik, 9, is sold as a child bride. Image / CNN

 

The purchaser of this 9-year-old girl speaks of her working in his home. The agreemnt of the sale was valued at several t housand dollars; the exchange was a mixture of sheep, land and cash. Parwana, Qorban said, would be in the care of his wife, treated like one of his own children. Bought as a slave, to be worked as a slave, and without any doubt, to be a child-bride. This is a wealthy man by Afghan standards, he owns a vehicle, he is able to afford to buy a slave child who he will also use as a sex slave. 

 

The little girl's father spoke of desperate straits in the displaced persons camp he and his family live in, with the diminishing of foreign donors' generosity in humanitarian support leaving them adrift, since the Taliban overtook the legally elected government of the Republic of Afghanistan to re-introduce in its stead the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Child sex slavery is customary in many Islamic countries, considered legal under Sharia interpreting both the Koran and the Hadiths.

 

 

The sale of his 9-year-old little girl was not the first; Abdu Malik had previously sold Parwana's 12-year-old sister months earlier. Living in the Badghis camp for the displaced for four years, his family survived on his meagre wages as a labourer along with humanitarian aid. Both have since disappeared; he can no longer find work, even travelling to another nearby town in the rural district. His story is by no means rare, repeated time and again with families under duress.

Parwana held herself back, unwilling to move toward the man who now claimed her as his property. Like any normal child she yearned to remain with her family. But she was no longer any normal child, but a child owned by a stranger who had designs on her future. The man, considerably older than her own father, white-bearded and firm about his rights to ownership, grasped her arm and led her from her home. She must go with him, however reluctantly, to his waiting car.

Other destitute families have their own stories to tell in an atmosphere of dashed hopes with the United Nations warning that before long 97 percent of the population would be living below the poverty line. The Taliban's emirate is a broken country. Itself an acknowledged terrorist group, it must grapple with other Islamist fundamentalist groups whose dedication to cold and deadly Islamist conquest is more brutal than its own; Islamic State in Khorasan Province and al-Qaeda alongside. The country's economy has entirely floundered.

Afghans face a "tsunami of destitution" in the words of the UN, requiring $200 million monthly in international aid to avoid starvation and catastrophe. The nations that could once be relied upon to financially support the government that the Taliban had cowed into submission through its constant deadly raids, bombings, attacks on the country's national police, its military and on its foreign aid presence, have no intention of giving financial support to the Taliban via financing life for its desperate population.

In Qala-i-Naw, capital of the western province of Badghis, Sabehreh, 25, ws responsible for the food she had bought for her family on credit at a grocer's. She faced prison by the Taliban for failing to repay the businessman. Finally it was agreed that Sabehreh's thre-year-old daughter Zakereh's betrothal to the grocer's four-year-old son would defray her debt. A far more humane solution to a seemingly intractable economic trap than what had befallen 9-year-oldParwana.

"I'm not happy to have done that", said Sabehreh, "but we had nothing to eat or drink. If this continues, we'll have to give up our three-month-old". In neighbouring Ghor province, Ibrahim was preparing to sell his ten-year-old daughter Magul, to a 70-year-old man as the only way open to him to pay off his family debts. $2,700 had been borrowed from a neighbour. Ibrahim had been arrested and threatened to by imprisonment in a Taliban jail. Selling his daughter to repay the loan was his only option.

 

Islamist Exceptionalism and Privileges of Victimhood

"Islamophobia refers to fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture."
Toronto District School Board definition of Islamophobia.

"The debate about “Canadian values” — started by Kellie Leitch, one of the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party — erupted into the predictable insinuation that she was racist, xenophobic and guilty of the ultimate offence of the times: Islamophobia."
"Fortunately, for her, it did not take long for the question of Canadian values clashing head on with medieval beliefs to erupt when the Globe and Mail on Tuesday reported on how a number of Muslim families in Toronto had taken their children out of music classes, insisting they 'cannot allow their children to be in the same room where musical instruments are being played'."
"The story revolved around Mohammad Nouman Dasu, a Quran teacher at Scarborough’s Jame Abu Bakr Siddique mosque, who led the campaign to ban Muslim students from being exposed to music.
It wasn’t just him. The senior imam of the mosque, Kasim Ingar, told the Globe and Mail: 'We [Muslims] here believe that music is haram [forbiddenl]. We can neither listen to it, nor can we play a role in it."
"Imam Ingar, who also heads the Scarborough Muslim Association, added: 'We do not compromise with anyone on the clear-cut orders and principles conveyed by the Prophet [Muhammad]'."
Tarek Fatah, Journalist, The Toronto Sun

Dear Prime Minister:
Re: Designating January 29th as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia
On behalf of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), I am writing to you about the upcoming first anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack that will take place on January 29, 2018.
One year on, Canadian Muslim communities are still reeling from the devastating terrorist attack that claimed the lives of six Muslim men worshipping in their mosque – fathers, husbands and sons – and gravely injured many others. For the first time in Canadian history, a place of worship was targeted by a horrific act of violence solely because the victims were Muslims.
The question on so many minds is how do we prevent such a violent hate-motivated attack targeting Canadian Muslims, or any other religious community, from ever occurring again?
With the rise of far-right extremist groups that continue to threaten the safety of Canadian Muslim institutions and congregations, it is critical that our elected leaders stand firmly against Islamophobia and the agents of bigotry who aim to foment hateful division between Canadians and their fellow Muslim citizens. We must not allow voices of hate, even ones that may initially appear to be on the margins, to permeate our public discourse and damage our social fabric.
As you have eloquently stated, in these difficult times we must always remember the bonds of unity as Canadians and protect the diverse and open nature of our society.
To that end, we call on your government to designate, by order-in-council or by proclamation, January 29th as a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia, on or before the first anniversary. This call is supported by a host of other Canadian Muslim organizations and community partners, listed below.
Such a designation will enable Canadians to collectively remember the victims of the attack and to enhance public education about the perils of hate, bigotry and Islamophobia.
We look forward to your response to this important issue. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ihsaan Gardee
Executive Director
National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM)

Azzedine Najd and his wife Fadwa Achmaoui look at the memorial near the site of a fatal shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City on January 31, 2017. Reuters/Mathieu Belanger

One thing invariably leads to another ... give them an inch and they'll ask for a mile ... these old adages in observation of human nature and group identity agendas have never rung more true than with Islamic organizations and groups within non-Muslim societies agitating for exceptional recognition reflecting the very reality which they set conveniently aside, that Muslims following strict Koranic codas are never amenable to living under secular laws that prevail in most non-Muslim countries. 

Groups that argue they speak in the name of national Muslim communities such as the National Council of Canadian Muslims (CAIR Canada) which once urged for Sharia law to be recognized and given equal status to Canadian law, and which later orchestrated a motion brought by Liberal MP Iqra Khalid to parliament to "condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination", and to follow up by mounting a government study to document hate crimes against Muslims in Canada, now have another goal.

The NCCM or as it was once known before a name change, as CAIRCan, has written a request to the prime minister to have the federal government declare January 29 to be the first anniversary of an attack on a Quebec City mosque that killed six worshippers and injured others, naming it a "National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia". This is the same group that obligingly gave the 'appropriate' wording to a definition of Islamophobia for the Toronto District School Board's guidebook to Islamic Heritage Month.

You might ask why the Toronto District School Board would even have a guidebook to Islamic Heritage, much less recognize a month set aside for that purpose. But doing so would reveal your ignorance about the power of lobbying, and the overwhelming aura of political correctness that has assailed all educational institutions in Canada, from elementary schools up to post-secondary institutions, identifying any who question Islamic precepts and Muslim behaviour as "racist".

In the Muslim community anywhere in the world there are notable instances of 'honour' bullying and sometimes killing of girls and women who have disobeyed the injunction to be 'modest', to cover their hair with a hijab, not to associate with boys or men other than family, for to do so is seen as dissolute, dishonourable, injurious to the reputation of the family, the tribe, the religion and the culture. But the Muslim community takes umbrage at mention of any such atrocities.

Just as it gathers itself indignantly into victimhood when the connection is made as it must be, between Islam and injunctions to jihad leading to terrorist attacks both within the Islamic community when sectarian brutalities and killings occur, and without the Islamic community targeting the West, its culture, its politics its values, its very existence in martyrdom attacks. To mention any connection between Islam and terrorism is tantamount to Islamophobia, racism, discriminatory hatred writ large.

Why it has been so relatively simple a task for groups such as the NCCM to guilt Western societies into silence over Islamist excesses and violent attacks is one of those mysterious episodes of human nature gone awry, that those who have much to answer for insist that others do the answering. Canada acknowledges with sincere empathetic sorrow that a sole individual acted on a psychotic impulse to enter a mosque and kill worshippers.

This horrific event represents a one-off; not a terrorist attack, but an attack by someone clearly unhinged for reasons unknown to the public. And this man will stand trial for his dreadful misdeed, but the entire population of the country has no need to do penance, at the behest of the NCCM. Remembrance of the event will be sharp within the Muslim community, and it will fade within the rest of society as other wretched events move in to take its place in our consciousness.

The NCCM is Islamic-centric and it is understandable they wish to keep their memory alive. Due to their agenda to make inroads into the Canadian consciousness, politics, society at large to view Islam as exceptional, a memory fog would be well suited to make Islamist crimes against society opaque and forgotten, while the view of Islam as a martyr to non-Muslim misunderstanding of it as a religion of peace requires the rectification of highlighting the Muslim community as persecuted.

It is not, necessarily, any more than the gay community, the Jewish community, the Black community and the Asian community. The latest figures released by Statistics Canada register a diminished number of anti-Muslim events in Canada, while anti-Semitic incidences have risen. In no small part due to the venom expressed by the increasing number of Muslims who migrate to Canada bringing with them their tradition of anti-Semitism bolstered by passages in the Koran, refreshed at Friday mosque sermons.

The Silencing Construct of Islamophobia

"[To launch a study to decide] a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia."
Motion 103, Introduced to Parliament by MP Iqra Khalid

"Recently an infinitesimally small number of extremist individuals have conducted terrorist activities while claiming to speak for the religion of Islam. Their actions have been used as a pretext for a notable rise of anti-Muslim sentiments in Canada"
"These violent individuals do not reflect in any way the values or the teachings of the religion of Islam. In fact, they misrepresent the religion. We categorically reject all their activities. They in no way represent the religion, the beliefs and the desire of Muslims to coexist in peace with all people of the world."
E-411 House of Commons petition brought by Samer Majzoub, Pierrefonds, Quebec

Anti-Pakistan statements by India will be raised on UN, OIC platforms   The Nation

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a powerful Muslim condominium of 56 Muslim-majority states invested in the promotion of Islam and condemning any criticism of Islam; the largest voting bloc of influence in the UN, has been trying for years to have the United Nations adopt a universal and legal condemnation of anything that even hints of bringing Islam to task for any reason. The very subject of Islam is to be inviolable to criticism. To be critical of Islam in any form would become a criminal offence.

Islam, and Islam alone is to be held sacrosanct. To express disapproval, to censure, to verbally attack, to question, to denounce or condemn anything about Islam, its faithful and above all the Prophet Mohammad is to invite virally shrill threats from the faithful, as the world well knows, as a result of the violent turmoil that erupted after the cartoons published in the Danish Jylands-Posten press, and the organized sanctions that followed, as well as the 200 deaths that occurred globally in a paroxysm of religious madness.

But for the OIC, inciting the faithful to riot, threaten and commit to violent acts meant to intimidate and to terrorize, it is not quite enough. They wish also to have worldwide recognition of their contention that Islam is beyond critique from any source, through any venue, by 'Islamophobics'. As to the tediously frequent denials that violence and terrorism mounted by Muslims screaming Allahu Akbar! has nothing whatever to do with Islam, when Koranic passages instruct the faithful to jihad, it is the height of mendacious sanctimony.

Islam has succeeded in infiltrating every corner of the globe. It insinuates itself wherever non-Muslim governments have permitted Muslim immigrants to settle. Once a critical mass of Muslims has established itself in any non-Muslim-majority country, that mass asserts itself through demands of accommodation to Islamist principles and Sharia law. Violence is the blunt tool, but public relations and diplomacy have their place, as well. The unspoken yet celebrated certainty that Muslim birth rates outdistance all others will one day lead to the majority ruling represents yet another tool in the Islamist arsenal of conquest.

In Canada, the two items quoted above are to be considered for adoption and implementation in two weeks' time. Should that become possible, though the Province of Ontario decades ago flirted with the prospect of allowing Sharia law but responded to public indignation by setting it aside, it is possible that it will become viewed as a hate crime to criticize Islam in any manner in Canada. No comments on Islamism, on Islamic sectarian bloodbaths, on honour killings, on the spine-chilling public executions in Saudi Arabia and Iran, the persecution of Christians, the threats against Israel.

After all, these things happen. Just because terrorism and acts of unspeakable barbarity are roiling the Middle East, North Africa, and France, Belgium and the United States have become unfortunate venues of vengeance-seeking jihadists, none of this has anything to do with Islam, the religion of peace. The history of Islam as a raw, new 7th-Century Bedouin religion spread through conquest by the sword, moving relentlessly through the Middle East, Africa, Europe in its sweep to conquer, a tried-and-true method that has been renewed, threatening world stability, has nothing, repeat, nothing to do with Islam.

• Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. . . . But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. . . . Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.  Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran
  
  • As quoted in Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism (1987) by Amir Taheri, pp. 241-3.

Sharia Under Islamic State

"This isn't something we want our children to see [two dead Islamic State fighters lying on the neighbourhood sidewalk, decomposing]."
"I asked them [Iraqi special forces] to please take the bodies away, the smell is terrible."
"We've received nothing [in the way of foreign humanitarian aid]."
"We are so thankful for these soldiers [driving around in black armoured Humvees], but what we really need now is a medical centre."
Muhammad Jassim, eastern Mosul

"We want people to know that this area is safe, that the military is here now."
Lt.-Gen.Abdul Wahab al-Saadi, Iraqi special forces

"I put on everything -- the niqab, the abaya, the gloves, the socks. All I forgot to do is cover my eyes."
"They [morality police] said: 'Where is your husband Does he accept that just anyone can see your face? ' I said: 'But I wasn't showing my face. Only my eyes'!"
Halima Ali Beder, 39, Khazer Camp, Iraq

"To the virtuous women. In modesty [wear] the wide, loose jilbab, stay in your homes and leave them only in cases of necessity."
ISIL 'Bill of the City' governing Mosul

ISIL captured Mosul as part of a 2014 blitz to seize Iraqi territory [Reuters]

The Islamic State set up their police headquarters, commonly called the hisha, wherever they controlled cities; in Syria, in Iraq, in Libya, in pursuit of spreading virtue and modesty. Offenses against the circulated 'Bill of the City' setting out ISIL's expectations for deportment under ISIL's Sharia law, were prosecuted from their bureaucracy, handing out fines, flogging men if their beard was the wrong length, for failure to pray at the sanctioned hours, for possession of tobacco and alcohol, among other moral missteps.

A 39-year-old woman named Wafa living in Mosul described how she had barely lifted the khimar fabric over her face to enable her to bring a spoon to her mouth at a family picnic with her children, when she was overseen by police. She was arrested, taken away by police, and an ISIL judge ordered the punishment of 21 lashes. A woman with a cable of metal spikes at the end, had her kneel: "It's indescribable the pain I felt. I was screaming, crying -- begging -- reciting prayers."

Veiled women sit on a bench in Raqqa. Isis has imposed sweeping restrictions on personal freedoms, and women must wear the niqab, or full face veil, in public or face punishment. Photograph: Reuters

If a woman was caught by the morality and virtue police not adequately observing the ISIL dress code, her husband was expected to appear at a hearing where he was levied a fine, or else he or his wife would be sentenced to be whipped. Mrs. Beder, recounting the restrictive lives led in Mosul under Islamic State rule, said her husband was fined 50,000 dinars, representing a huge portion of the family monthly income.

For Iraqi forces, now that Islamic State fighters have been forced out of much of Mosul, a routine of slow progress inside the city is taking place, even while civilians remain trapped along the front lines. Although Jassim Mishraq's neighbourhood was declared to have been liberated by the Iraqi military a week earlier, the neighbourhood is still too dangerous for humanitarian aid groups to enter and give aid to the residents, since just a few hundred metres away, violent clashes are still ongoing in the effort to roust ISIL from the city.

ISIL counterattacks emphasize for Iraqi forces that they remain a force to be reckoned with, necessitating their slower progress in clashing with the jihadis. Mosul's dense residential neighbourhoods demand more caution. The Iraqi government has no intention of emulating what neighbouring Syria's government is engaged in, bombing civilian enclaves. The initial swift advances in the outskirts and outlying towns of Mosul have given way to slower progress, as the military negotiates its way carefully around traps.

The Iraqi know they remain vulnerable to ISIL suicide attacks  and bombs set to explode where they least expect them.

Changing Horses

"We have to accept and the schools with a majority of Muslim parents have to accept -- as they do if they are Hindu, Sikh, Jewish or Christian -- that we also live within the United Kingdom."
"Alongside values that are religiously based there has to be a clear understanding that this is the U.K., and there are a set of values, that are indeed Christian based, which permeate our sense of citizenship."
Jack Straw, former Labour Cabinet minister

"My daughter tried to bring in an Easter egg for a friend and one boy grabbed it and smashed it against a wall."
"Another girl of about 11 brought in a little Easter bunny toy that she wanted to show her friends. They grabbed that off her too. All talk of Christmas and other non-Muslim festivals is banned. The teachers just turn a blind eye to it."
"Older boys are going around in these morality squads telling off girls if they do not wear veils."
Mother of student -- fearful of reprisals, unnamed

 "Wider, more comprehensive action is needed. These allegations need either to be substantiated and firm action taken, or to be shown to be baseless."
Peter Clarke, former head of Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command

"If you bring someone in badged counter-terrorism then the interpretation of the situation is pretty obvious. The big Muslim community out there in Birmingham are going to feel a little uneasy that the person that Michael Gove has brought in is a counter-terrorist expert and not from an education background."
Albert Bore, chairman, local city council, Birmingham

Precisely, claims Tahir Alam, hardline Muslim Council of Britain activist. Himself accused of representing the "Trojan Horse" plot's ringleader, denying any role in the attempted and ongoing Islamicization of Britain, diminishing its culture, the celebration of its Christian heritage, the insistence of its universal law, he characterizes the investigation as a "witch-hunt", and the reasons for it, a "fabrication".

Birmingham City Council has stated confirmation that it was in the process of investigating 25 schools and a former school principal, Ian Kershaw, has been appointed to the investigation as the Council's chief advisor. Children who brought Easter eggs to class had the misfortune of having them 'confiscated' by "Muslim morality squads" patrolling Birmingham schools, according to press stories of events they followed up distressing to the children.

One of the students spoke of her experience to her mother, and her mother spoke to the Daily Express, informing the paper that groups of older students had been forcefully claiming the eggs in the hands of younger children, while teachers simply ignored the situation. Six schools in Birmingham have been implicated in what has been named as a "Trojan Horse" schemed by extremist Muslims to "Islamize" secular state eduction.

No mere conjecture this, the scheme has been replete with the illegal segregation of students according to gender, and discrimination being practised against non-Muslims, now in the minority status in their country of birth where an immigrant Muslim population has become numerous enough that some among them feel confident enough in those numbers to claim exceptionalism from the norm and to instill fear and caution among non-Muslims for fear of violent retribution.

A local Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, explained that a small group of individuals was busy attempting to alter the ethos of schools by stealth. And in some instances, not so stealthy at all. The West Midlands Police has been brought in to begin the criminal investigation of a situation that began several months earlier. Michael Wilshaw, chief of the Office for Standards in Education is heading an inquiry to report to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove.

And it is Mr. Gove's appointment of Peter Clarke, formerly head of Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command to investigate intimidation claims that has raised a furore, with the chief constable of West Midlands Police describing the appointment as "desperately unfortunate". A decision, he claims, that would "inevitably draw  unwarranted conclusions from his former role as national co-ordinator for counter terrorism."

Seen, however, to be warranted.

Sharia's Culture of Enslavement

"Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): 'I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.' This is because they contended against Allah and His Messenger: If any contend against Allah and His Messenger, Allah is strict in punishment. This (will it be said): 'Taste he then of the (punishment): for those who resist Allah, is the penalty of the Fire'. O ye who believe! when ye meet the Unbelievers in hostile array, never turn your backs to them. If any do turn his back to them on such a day -- unless it be in a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop (of his own) -- he draws on himself the wrath of Allah, and his abode is Hell, an evil refuge (indeed)!"
(Sura 8:12-16)

"If the infidels live among the Muslims, in accordance with the conditions set out by the Prophet -- there is nothing wrong with it provided they pay Jizya to the Islamic treasury. Other conditions are ... that they do not renovate a church or a monastery, do not rebuild ones that were destroyed, that they feed for three days any Muslim who passes by their homes ... that they rise when a Muslim wishes to sit, that they do not imitate Muslims in dress and speech, nor ride horses, nor own swords, nor arm themselves with any kind of weapon; that they do not sell wine, do not show the cross, do not ring church bells, do not raise their voices during prayer, that they shave their hair in front so as to make them easily identifiable, do not incite anyone against the Muslims, and do not strike a Muslim ... If they violate these conditions, they have no protection."
Sharia injunction on dhimmitude

Slate.com

The Islamic conquest of Egypt and the land of Israel in the 7th Century AD, which reached its height during the 19th Century was accompanied by a robust slave trade. Sudanese and Egyptian Muslim slave-traders plied their trade, aided and abetted by Bedouin tribes still living along the borders of Ethiopia to the Mediterranean. The ideal slaves were Christian and Pagan Ethiopians, and they were taken from their traditional homes in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The original Red Sea slave trade was known for its extreme cruelty and deprivation meted out to the helpless taken from their homeland and treated as expendable cattle. Their treatment included castration, rape, torture, murder and the weak among them abandoned to the wilderness. About ten thousand to twelve thousand slaves were traded annually up the Nile and Res Sea coast through the Sudan and into Egypt.

The Muslim regime in Khartoum waged and continues to wage a bloody jihad against Sudanese Christians living in the southern part of the country to the present time, although Darfurians, black Muslim Sudanese were certainly not exempt from mass rape, slaughter, forced migration and the continued assaults by horsed Arab Sudanese Muslims (Janjaweed) against the Darfurians supposedly protected in refugee camps.

When the British colonized Egypt and Sudan they outlawed slavery, but after the turn of the 20th Century, Sudanese religious and political leaders petitioned to allow the keeping of slaves to be reinstituted; as a valuable part of the social culture. A new slave trade has emerged with the same persecutors and their victims. "Sinai trafficking" describes a revived Red Sea slave trade where between 2009 and 2013 an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 people were victims of the slave trade.

Islam is proud of its no-interest banking system, considering it immoral to charge interest for money lending. But when it comes to revenge for an assault against a tribe's or a family's 'honour', when someone has been killed, for example, it is strictly an eye for an eye; someone in the other family must be killed to restore honour in atonement for the crime. Unless, that is, the family whose members targeted can come up with enough blood money to satisfy the demands of the other clan as defined by Sharia law.

And since Sharia law insists that non-Muslims be treated differently than Muslims; subjugated, humiliated, paying for the privilege of living among Muslims albeit as inferiors, great sums of money is realized along the same lines of entitlement by the human traffickers in ransoms by families trying to buy back their family members from slavery. And it is not only slavery, but torture, where Sinai Bedouin captors torture their captives, beating them, often breaking limbs.

People are hung upside down for days, electrocuted and burnt, held in chains, and repeatedly sexually assaulted. Children raped before their parents, and women in front of their husbands, and so too are young men raped. The victims are given little food or water. When captives are on the phone with overseas relatives pleading for rescue through ransom, they are tortured then, so their screams act as motivation for the relatives to send money for their rescue through international wire transfers.

The Sinai has provided haven to tribal al-Qaeda operatives, Bedouin Salafist smugglers and extortionists with a free hand in the revived slave trade. An estimated 50 tribally based trafficking gangs are working in the Sinai. Captives who survive their ordeals through ransom are left off in Cairo where Egyptian authorities arrest them and arrange for their deportation. Once, a group of Eritrean captives escaped their captors by overpowering them, and reported them to Egyptian police.

The result was the escapees' imprisonment, and the torturers set free to resume their horrific but very remunerative occupation. An Egyptian journalist who reported from the Sinai was arrested and placed in solitary confinement for his writing about the slave trade. "There is much to be afraid of given our skin colour and religion ... over 400 Eritreans are here, the women held in a separate location. The Muslims of other countries are taken care of, but we Eritreans do not get such an option", said one survivor.

UK: Our New Sharia Law

by Douglas Murray
April 3, 2014 at 5:00 am

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4246/uk-sharia-law

The question of what constitutes "voluntary" remains. Could the state ever have confidence that a woman whose marital problems were put before a Sharia court actually "volunteered" for this process, or avoided it, or would have any say whatsoever in accepting the court's judgement? In reality, the woman never stood a chance.
If we are indeed seeing the beginning of this process, we are far from seeing what lies at the end of it.

What is Sharia and what should be our attitude towards it? These questions, which have intermittently swirled around Britain in recent years, have just re-erupted thanks to a recent story in the Sunday Telegraph.

The story revealed that The Law Society -- the body which represents and advises solicitors in England and Wales -- has drawn up guidance for its members on how to draw up wills in accordance with Islamic law. The document can be seen here. As the Telegraph pointed out, High Street solicitors in England and Wales will now be assisted in drawing up documents that refuse women an equal share of inheritance and that discounts the potential inheritance of non-believers entirely. Nicholas Fluck, president of The Law Society, told the Sunday Telegraph that the document, which would be recognised by the national courts, would promote "good practice" in applying Islamic principles. The paper claims that this document effectively enshrines Sharia law in the British legal system for the first time.

Since this is such an important matter it is crucial to note what is right and what is wrong about this story. First the good news: this is not the first entry of Sharia into British law. Now the bad news: it has happened a lot already. This is just one in a string of such developments.

The first opening that adherents and advocates of Sharia law were given in the UK came from the 1996 Arbitration Act, which allowed civil disputes to be settled by any means of arbitration to which both parties consented. So, for instance, if two parties wished to have a dispute voluntarily arbitrated by a religious or other social arbiter, they could.

The point was that so long as the arbitration did not run contrary to, or above, the rest of the law of the land (and this is an important distinction to keep in mind), then the arbitration would get the stamp of state approval. This condition was apparently intended to save the courts' time and satisfy the religious demands of some groups.

The result, of course, was to leave an opening for advocates of Sharia.

Five years ago, stories began to emerge of some of these "arbitrations." It turned out that not only had they overstepped the confines of the law, but strayed far beyond it. They strayed, for instance, into and above family law, when Sharia courts were found to have advocated steps -- such as non-cooperation with police and forcing a wife to remain with her husband even if he had abused her -- perversions of justice that should have been of immediate interest both to the Crown Prosecution Service and the police. Yet nothing happened. No arrests were made, and the various Sharia "arbitration" tribunals were allowed to grow and keep growing.

Several years ago, there were said to be 85 such courts in operation in the UK. In reality the number -- as most are informally put together -- is doubtless much higher. The Muslim preacher, Anjem Choudary, mentioned during an interview several years ago, that he runs his "Sharia court" via his van and his mobile phone. All the issues that came along with this and similar stories were ignored by a society intent (after the first shocks) to look the other way.

The question, for instance, of what constitutes "voluntary" remains. Could the state ever have confidence that a woman whose marital problems were put in front of a Sharia court actually "volunteered" for this process, or avoided it, or would have any say whatsoever in accepting the court's judgement? The legal -- and indeed religious -- authorities claimed that they could know this. In reality, the woman never stood a chance.

Before this latest eruption, we had already come across the case of Sharia wills. In 2010, in the Times of London, a piece (by this author) appeared that focused on a known case of a Muslim British man who had died without leaving a will. The dispute over his estate was arbitrated -- and the estate disbursed -- according to the principles of Sharia as overseen by a local Sharia court. The daughters got half of the inheritance of their brothers, and so on.

So, to this extent, the Law Society's advice is not so much the opening of a flood-gate as another drip in the slow drip-drip by which Sharia principles are beginning to flood through the body of our Common Law tradition.

The movement of Sharia principles into -- and over -- Family Law is just one example. Other cases cover a huge variety of areas. There is, for instance, the UK government's perpetual desire -- whether Labour or Conservative -- to make Britain a center for Islamic Sharia finance. This includes the issuing by the British government -- the first in a non-Muslim country -- of Sharia-compliant bonds [sukuk]. All these financial decisions, and the decisions on the probity of investments, will be made by a team of Islamic scholars. Whether their idea of reputable investment is what the average UK citizen regards as being reputable investment we shall have to see. But by pushing people towards investing with them, the British government is supporting the growth of investment in Sharia funds and thus strengthening such funds and the people who promote them.

"I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world." — UK Prime Minister David Cameron, addressing the World Islamic Economic Forum in London on October 29, 2013. (Image source: 10 Downing St. Facebook page)

The strangest thing of all about this is not the slow erosion of the principle of one law for all. It is not even the offering up of an increasing number of parts of British life to an extremist ideology. It is the ease with which it is all done. "This is not chopping off hands," Sharia's defenders say, scoffingly. "It is not chopping off heads or lashing people," they continue. Some people already complain that critics of Sharia are giving Sharia as a whole a bad name, lumping in the "bad" Sharia with the "good" Sharia. In reality, of course, Sharia law, officially adopted just this week by Brunei, apparently complete with amputations and stoning, is not compatible with law as we have been practicing it for over 2000 years in the West. The short-term political gains for the political leaders who support it hardly seem worth the long-term losses that will befall our society if we continue incorporating this system of law into our national life. If we are indeed seeing the beginning of this process, we are far from seeing what lies at the end of it.