(https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/) (https://www.facebook.com/Gatestone.Institute) (https://twitter.com/GatestoneInst) (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/rss.xml) (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/contribute.php) In this mailing: * Judith Bergman: _Europe: Illegal to Criticize Islam_ (mip://0b74d448/default.html#toc_item_9525) * Ahmed Charai: _Why Donald Trump Should Focus on Africa_ (mip://0b74d448/default.html#toc_item_9522) * Raymond Ibrahim: _Egypt's Deadliest Church Attack_ (mip://0b74d448/default.html#toc_item_9549) _Europe: Illegal to Criticize Islam_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9525/europe-illegal-criticize-islam) by Judith Bergman • December 12, 2016 at 5:00 am * While Geert Wilders was being prosecuted in the Netherlands for talking about "fewer Moroccans" during an election campaign, a state-funded watchdog group says that threatening homosexuals with burning, decapitation and slaughter is just fine, so long as it is Muslims who are making those threats, as the Quran tells them that such behavior is mandated. * "I am still of the view that declaring statistical facts or even sharing an opinion is not a crime if someone doesn't like it." - Finns Party politician, Terhi Kiemunki, fined 450 euros for writing of a "culture and law based on a violent, intolerant and oppressive religion." * In Finland, since the court's decision, citizens are now required to make a distinction, entirely fictitious, between "Islam" and "radical Islam," or else they may find themselves prosecuted and fined for "slandering and insulting adherents of the Islamic faith." * As Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said, "These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it." There are extremist Muslims and non-extremist Muslims, but there is only one Islam. * It is troubling that Western governments are so eager to crack down on anything that vaguely resembles what has erroneously been termed "Islamophobia," which literally means an irrational fear of Islam. * Considering the violence we have been witnessing, for those Westerners who have studied Islam and listened to what the most influential Islamic scholars have to say, there are quite a few things in Islam of which one legitimately ought to be fearful. In Finland, Terhi Kiemunki, a Finns Party politician, was found guilty by a court of "slandering and insulting adherents of the Islamic faith." (Image source: YouTube video screenshot) Several European governments have made it clear to their citizens that criticizing European migrant policies or migrants is criminally off-limits and may lead to arrest, prosecution and even convictions. Although these practices constitute police state behavior, European governments do not stop there. They go still farther, by ensuring that Islam in general is not criticized either. Finland is the European country most recently to adopt the way that European authorities sanction those who criticize Islam. According to the Finnish news outlet YLE, the Pirkanmaa District Court found the Finns Party politician, Terhi Kiemunki, guilty of "slandering and insulting adherents of the Islamic faith" in a blog post of Uusi Suomi. In it, she claimed that all the terrorists in Europe are Muslims. The Court found that when Kiemunki wrote of a "repressive, intolerant and violent religion and culture," she meant the Islamic faith. _Continue Reading Article_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9525/europe-illegal-criticize-islam) _Why Donald Trump Should Focus on Africa_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9522/trump-africa-focus) by Ahmed Charai • December 12, 2016 at 4:00 am * President-elect Trump has the opportunity to make a historic course correction, and to do so in a manner consistent with his administration's stated goals. By renegotiating the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act, which was first initiated by the Clinton Administration, he can strengthen American exports, create new export-related jobs and foster development-oriented investment on the continent. By reforming U.S. humanitarian aid to Africa, he can cut considerable bureaucratic waste, effectively increasing assistance without upping the cost. Kenyan military personnel meet with U.S. military personnel at Camp Lemonnier, in Djibouti, on March 14, 2011. (Image source: U.S. Army) What's a three-word foreign policy agenda President-elect Donald Trump can pursue that will create American jobs, reduce terrorism, challenge China and set him apart from the failings of his predecessor? Promote African development. On the one hand, the world's poorest continent is rife with socioeconomic problems that have paved the way for some lands to become hubs of international terrorism, posing a threat to their own populations as well as to distant countries, including the United States. Of the eighteen ISIS branches deemed fully operational by the National Counterterrorism Center, eight are in Africa. According to the latest edition of the Global Terrorism Index, the world's deadliest terrorist group by sheer volume of lethality is not ISIS but the Nigerian Boko Haram. _Continue Reading Article_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9522/trump-africa-focus) _Egypt's Deadliest Church Attack_ (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9549/egypt-church-attack) by Raymond Ibrahim • December 12, 2016 at 3:00 am * The law that the elders of Islam bequeathed to Egypt's Muslims, holds that all conquered indigenous inhabitants -- in Egypt, the infidel Christians -- must not be permitted to build churches, must not complain or ask for equal rights, and must be grateful merely for being allowed to live. * In short, not only has nothing changed for Egypt's Christians; the deadliest church attack in modern history has now just taken place, not under Mubarak or Morsi, but under President el-Sisi. What does he propose to do about it? The interior of St. Peter Cathedral in Cairo, after the bombing of December 11, 2016. (Image source: AP video screenshot) The worst attack on Egypt's Christian minority in recent years occurred yesterday, Sunday, December 11, 2016. St. Peter Cathedral in Cairo, packed with worshipers celebrating Sunday mass, was bombed; at least 27 churchgoers, mostly women and children, were killed and 65 severely wounded. As many of the wounded are in critical condition, the death toll is expected to rise. As usual, witnesses say that state security was not present, and that police took an inordinate amount of time to arrive after the explosion. Preliminary investigations point to a bomb placed inside an unattended woman's purse on one of the rear pews of the women's section. Mutilated bodies were strewn along the floor of the cathedral. "I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews. It was a horrible scene," said one witness. 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[PoliticalForum] Illegal to Criticize Islam
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