While anti-regime protests in Iran, following the gruesome murder of Mahsa Amini is getting momentum and receiving international support, cruel mullahs in Iran are continuing murdering innocent civilians and protestors.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) released the names of 10 more martyrs of the uprising on October 9. The names of 192 martyrs of the uprising have already been announced, and many are under the age of 18.
Maryam Rajavi, leader of PMOI/MEK said that the sacrifices of the martyrs, young people, and teenagers from Kurdistan and Lorestan and Azerbaijan to Sistan and Baluchistan and from Mazandaran, Gilan, and Tehran to Kerman are reflected in the cries of “death to Khamenei” of millions of Iranians nationwide and people are even more determined to continue until freedom is achieved. She called on the Security Council, the European Union, and its member states to take immediate action to stop the killings and bloodshed and take measures to secure the release of the prisoners.
Meanwhile, Islamic Republic’s state-owned TV network was hacked during a Khamenei address and the message: “The blood of our youth is dripping from your fingers”. Another message displayed: Rise up and Join Us.
In my opinion, it is responsibility of every decent individual in the world as well as pro-democracy forces to extend their fullest support towards the protestors in Iran, while we also need to raise our voice in unison, demanding international pressure on the members of thuggish mullah regime in Iran to immediately stop murdering civilians and stop persecution forthwith. Iranians well-deserve our fullest support during this crucial period. International media also needs to give extensive coverage of this movement, while journalists and writers need to use their pen against the barbaric regime in Tehran.
US imam is unhappy on Iranian protestors
Commenting on the current massive protests in Iran eminent writer Robert Spencer wrote in PJ Media: What is happening in Iran these days is world-historical. The entire country is rising up against a brutal, violent, repressive regime that the people of Iran have endured for over forty years, and the most courageous of all are little schoolgirls who have their whole lives ahead of them and thus the most to lose. Yet while practically the entirety of what used to be called the free world is cheering on the demonstrators who are standing unarmed against ruthless security forces, one imam in Texas is not happy at all. Yasir Qadhi, one of the most prominent Muslim clerics and Islamic apologists in the United States, recently likened the protests in Iran to protesting for the right to walk around nude in Texas. Yes, he really did.
The East Plano Islamic Center’s YouTube channel, EPIC Masjid (which has nearly 300,000 subscribers), recently posted a video of Qadhi explaining that to oppose Iran’s mandatory hijab law, which some women have received ten-year prison sentences for violating, is tantamount to opposing public indecency laws in the good old USA. Qadhi said: “In the last two weeks, I have been inundated with dozens of emails with one particular focus or theme… regarding the enforcement of the hijab in a particular country, and apparently, it caused the death of somebody and whatnot”.
Qadhi explained that he wasn’t a political commentator, and so he said he wasn’t going to name the country or get into the political issues involved.
Qadhi said that he received a question from one of his followers, a high-school girl: “Is it true that our religion forces the women to wear the hijab? Can an Islamic government have this right? Shouldn’t worship be done freely?” Qadhi responded by warning about getting involved in hypothetical issues that are far beyond our own responsibility: “I am not responsible for something happening five thousand miles away.” He then launched into a lengthy critique of Western secularism, comparing it unfavorably to Islamic law, and argued that all countries, including those in the secular West, enforce codes of morality; they just differ in their content.
On that basis, Qadhi then advanced a curious argument: “Even in the West”, he explained, “there are laws against indecency, and there are moral prescriptions about what one can and should and must wear”. He added: “If you show certain parts of the body, and if you show certain organs of your body, you shall be fined, and if you continue to do so, you shall go to jail. Now, the issue therefore is not over, Can the state control what you can or cannot show. The issue is, How much can you show? So some Middle Eastern countries might have a lot more. And, uh, here in America, it is a lot less. But the notion of the state telling you a minimal amount that you can wear, that is pretty much universal”.
That’s true as far as it goes, but Qadhi is ignoring the fact that women have received draconian and disproportionate sentences for not wearing the hijab, and 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed in police custody after being arrested for not wearing her hijab properly in the eyes of the security forces. That already takes the protests in Iran far beyond any question of the right of the state to make laws regarding public indecency. Nor is brutality against Muslim women who dare not to wear the hijab limited to Iran. Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Amina Muse Ali was a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. Forty women were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab. Alya Al-Safar’s Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain. Amira Osman Hamid faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab. An Egyptian girl, also named Amira, committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab. Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia were told they had to wear the hijab or be fired. Women in Chechnya were shot with paintballs by police because they weren’t wearing hijab. Other women in Chechnya were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab.
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These pictures from Muslim societies in various countries are extremely deplorable indeed. In the recent time we are unfortunately witnessing some radical Muslim females coming up with demand of wearing hijab. It is happening everywhere – in India, in Britain, in the US and many other nations, where enforcing sharia at least is not legal. We are also witnessing how Muslim females in the United Kingdom in particular are enforcing hijab and burqa amongst fellow Muslims, while according to a recent article by Raymond Ibrahim: “Muslims should NOT sing the national anthem” is the title and argument of a recent piece by Faisal Bodi of the so-called “Islamic Human Rights Commission” based in London. Written in response to Queen Elizabeth II’s recent funeral, it reveals Muslim sentiment in more ways than one.
First, Bodi engages in the usual: civilizational projection—accusing Britain of mainstream Islamic practices. Thus, he claims that Muslims in Britain “have been beaten into second class citizenship,” when it is Islam, in fact, that openly mandates second class status for non-Muslims living under Islamic rule. The Koran (9:29) goes so far as to insist that Christians and Jews be regularly extorted (via jizya) and continuously made to feel “fully humbled”.
Similarly, after bemoaning how the British “monarch embodies all the cruel atrocities and plunder carried out under the British Empire,” the Muslim living in Britain writes:
Given that this anthem was and is sung as a patriotic ode when Britain has invaded Muslim countries or gone to war with them, it is grotesque to see Muslims belting it out particularly on masjid premises [mosques].
To anyone with an inkling of historical knowledge—true and accurate as opposed to fake and “woke” history—such a claim is beyond misleading. Before any Brit traveled to “Muslim countries”—most of which were violently stolen from Christians—Muhammad’s followers had, for many centuries, been invading, terrorizing, and conquering various parts of Europe in the name of Islam. In their quest to leave no stone unturned, they even plundered the remotest corner of Christendom—Iceland—of its people.
Bodi also argues that “the national anthem is not a religiously neutral song”—it has too many “Christian trappings”—and that British monarchs are “conferred with the title of ‘Defender of the Faith.’ Their principal duty is to preserve the primacy of the Church of England”.
This, for the Muslim “human rights activist”, is also blameworthy—perhaps because it is precisely due to Europe’s “Defenders of the Faith” that Islam could never achieve its goal of conquering Europe, despite centuries of atrocity-laden jihadist campaigns.
The most revealing aspect of Bodi’s argument, at least for those with eyes and ears to see and hear with, is that he does what so many do: invoke “wokist” paradigms to justify their own evil, or in this case, disloyal inclinations.
This especially comes out in the British Muslim’s closing lines: the opportunity for Muslims in Britain to sing the anthem “is being seized on as a chance to affirm their loyalty to the state,” he writes, “which has always been a sine qua non for gaining mainstream acceptance. It’s an embarrassingly demeaning act of servility and surrender and should rightly be condemned as such”.
Although expressing loyalty to one’s country is a perfectly normal expression for most people, there is an unspoken reason that Bodi and other Muslims deem such a pledge “an embarrassingly demeaning act of servility and surrender”.
Isn’t it a matter of gravest concern that British Muslims are denying to show respect to country’s national anthem? Doesn’t it show a horrifying picture of the future Britain where Muslims may finally proclaim the country either as a Sharia state or a caliphate? In order to stop Muslims from Islamizing the country, British law enforcement and intelligence agencies need to adopt immediately policies in closely monitoring each and every mosque and Islamic Center in the United Kingdom, while it also is essential to monitor activities of Muslim females, who are engaged in pressing radical Islam as a member of Tablighi Jamaat.
Iranian protestors deserve international support in their courageous initiatives against hijab and the mullah regime. At the same time, it is essential for the international community to adopt policies which would stop Muslims from spreading seeds of religious hatred and jihad in the country.
Iranian protestors need to win. This is not their own struggle against the rogue mullah regime. It is a struggle between pro-democracy forces and Islamist thugs.
