An Imam In France That Went Too Far

Nadene Goldfoot
France has been very lenient with the influx of Muslim immigrants.  From having 4.7 million in 2010, the Pew research feels there will be 6.9 million in 2030.  Unfortunately so many have been extremists and violent to the point of putting many Jewish citizens in jeopardy with their hatred for Jews.  A Jewish school was targeted in Toulouse on March 19, of this year  with the result of the deaths of 3 small children and their teacher and another injured. There has been 148 incidents in March and April with 43 being violent.  Last year there were 14 violent anti-Semitic attacks, so it has risen.

France has the highest Jewish population in Europe, but this was causing many to remove to Israel.  In 2004 the Jewish population was about 483,500.  They suffered 96 anti-Semitic incidents that year.

France did the unthinkable.  Wednesday they deported 77 year old Imam Mohammed Hammami back to Tunisia where he came from in the 1960's.  He has been a real trouble-maker by giving anti-Semitic speeches that called for a holy war against everyone not Muslim.  He called for corporal punishment of women who stepped out of line of the Sharia Law.  He has been preaching in the Omar Mosque in Paris. It is but one of 19 mosques in the capital.  

Since the massacre in Toulouse, anti-Semitism rose 45% this year alone.  Netanyahu arrived in France on Wednesday for conferences and was assured that the country is doing its best to halt this anti-Semitic criminal behavior.  He mentioned that  the French Jews would be welcomed in Israel.   The population is projected to be 482,000 of Jews in France by 2020.  

We only have 13.3 million Jews in the whole world today.  1.6 million live in Europe which is 12% of our population.  In 1939, on the cusp of World War II there were 17 million Jews.  France acted bravely by ousting an Imam, but they realized that he was a threat to the society and security of France.

Resource:  http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/france-expels-radical-tunisian-imam-17607899
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/161583
http://www.pewforum.org/future-of-the-global-muslim-population-regional-europe.aspx
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/France.html
http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/world-jewish-population.htm
http://judaism.about.com/od/jewishhumor/f/jewry_france.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_France
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/anti-jewish_attacks_in_france_reach_epidemic_proportions.html

Morsi Plans to take Jerusalem Now

Nadene Goldfoot
Now that the Muslim Brotherhood's contender, Morsi, won the Presidential election in Egypt, a cleric, Satwat Higazi, who was the campaign manager for Morsi, had announced that Jerusalem would become their capital.  Like so many campaign promises, that's not going to happen.  That gives us an idea as to how much of the peace plan they intend to keep, doesn't it?  The question will be now how much money will the United States keep giving them?

Mohammed Morsi won by 51.7% of the votes beating out Shafik.  This was the 1st election that Egypt has had since Mubarak.  There were rumors that Morsi's side was stuffing the ballot box.  Perhaps that's why they went into overtime to count the ballots.  .

I am reminded of " The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace" from Psalms 29:11.  We certainly will need that strength now in striving for peace.  Our neighbors are certainly not of that mind-set.  Morsi has already called for a review of the peace treaty with Israel.  The military says they will decide just what he can do to the government.  He is not from the military which other leaders have been.  Morsi promises to be a moderate but modern leader with an Islamist agenda who will have a transparent government.  He promises to have an Egyptian renaissance with an Islamic foundation.  This man is intent on having Sharia law in the country for sure.  Sharia law does not favor Israel in any way.  

The United States congratulated their milestone victory.  Morsi did go from being involved in an outlawed group calling for terrorism if you look at the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood which  was not allowed during Mubarak's time or Sadat's.  Morsi went from being a prisoner to a president in very few steps, swept in with the Arab Spring. 
   
Reference:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znepNvkrxI&feature=youtu.be
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/egyptian-cleric-claims-muslim-brotherhood-presidential-candidate-will-make-jerusalem-the-capital-of-the-caliphate/
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/profile-egypt-s-mohammed-morsi-goes-from-prisoner-to-president-1.443597

Freedom of Speech in Peril in USA?

Nadene Goldfoot
One thing that sets the United States of America apart from many other nations is our freedom of speech.  Slander is another thing.  One can be sued for that.  Our country is for some reason or other concerned about Sharia law, which states that slander is anything concerning a Muslim that he would dislike. 

That brings to mind many years ago in American Jewish communities where holocaust survivors has settled, and Nazis were marching through their neighborhoods, like Skokie, Illinois.  It brought terror to these people, but the ACLU said that it was freedom of speech and they had a right. "The challengers argued that the injunction violated the First Amendment rights of the marchers to express themselves freely".  I wasn't happy with their decision, but that's the way it was decided. 

 I was shocked at this display of speech, being Nazis were outlawed in Germany after the 2nd world war.  All of a sudden Islam has a lot of power here.

Possibly that's because 56 (and I thought there were only 48 Muslim majority countries counted by Wikipedia) Muslim countries plus the Palestinians are organized in a group larger than the UN, called the OIC.  They speak with authority and have the Cairo Declaration, exempting all Muslim countries from compliance with the UN declaration on Human rights and replacing it with their Islamic Shariah law. 

But this is America, right?  The OIC has met to counter Islamophobia and even want this to go through the UN.  Now, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is going to host the OIC Secretary Genral Elmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Washington DC very soon this month and talk about how the US can implement their agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam.

Does that mean that I cannot warn my friends that the Muslim Brotherhood's top leader in Qatar, Qaradawi, has put out a fatwa on all Jews everywhere to be killed?  Or should we be able to separate Muslim politics from the Muslim religion where Qaradawi, a religious Muslim leader in the Muslim Brotherhood has been calling for the Muslim world to damage the US economy by boycotting American products, and who has appeared on Arab TV channels inciting Muslims by calling for Islam's conquest of Rome, warning the US to change their policies or face "collapse," and calling for another Holocaust against the Jews but this time at the hands of the Muslims.  In 2009 he told his Al-Jazeera audience "Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them (Jews).  Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."  The Koran has other sections also telling readers to look under rocks or behind bushes to kill Jews.  That actually happened when Islam was first created as there were Jewish tribes living in Saudi Arabia who were massacred unless they converted to Islam.  Jews felt that Islam was converting by the sword.  That's one reason why Jews do not try to go out to convert people.  We ourselves have had  terrible experiences  with people trying to convert us.  They don't call us stiff-necked for nothing.  We're not ready subjects.  So now Islam's religion is just ready to kill us all and skip the conversion part.

Iran has joined the bandwagon and has gone from "Destroy Israel!" to "Destroy all the Jews!"  They wish to annihilate Jews worldwide instead of their previous goal of wiping Israel off the map.  These people read the ever-popular book, Elders of Zion and base their philosophy on that.  They've come out with their own book "How Israel should be destroyed", basing a lot on the Elders book.

This thought of attacking our freedom of speech is coming at a bad time.  In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood wants to re-evaluate their peace treaty with Israel now that they are creating a new parliament.  They think it's been a long time since the Camp David accord was signed and needs the review, reported Mahmoud Hussein, the new secretary-general.  He added that "Generally, Israel does not honor the agreement."  So you know where he is going with his re-evaluations.  The Brotherhood has a political wing, "The Freedom and Justice Party", which got 36.5% of the vote.  After reading their declarations concerning Israel and Jews, I doubt strongly if this new group will follow in Mubarak's footsteps in wanting peace with Israel. 

To top it off, Hillary is getting women of Israel and the Muslim countries mixed up in her mind.  Rabbi Shlomo Amar, a chief rabbi in Israel, said her knowledge on the subject was incomplete.  Separate gender seating on buses is not required by Jewish law.  Israel is a country where the IDF couldn't do without their female sergeants who help train young soldiers.  They're tough, I've been told.  Israe's rabbis and women are most vocal and will take care of any misunderstandings themselves.  Don't worry.  The fact that in Mea She'arim there were women sitting apart was their choice, not Judaism's.  If she wants to help women, she should look into what's going on with Muslim women in other countries. 

When we returned from Israel the tail end of 1985, we found an upstairs apartment in SW Portland.  Below us, to my great surprise, was a Muslim fellow.  At Passover I opened the door for Elijiah and wondered if he could hear us.  We got along fine.  Up the street from the pre-school I was working at was a Mosque.  Gosh, I was beginning to feel like I was back in Israel again.  To be sure, there are hopefully many Muslims who do not follow the Muslim Brotherhood's dictums that are living here in the USA.  But that does not mean that there aren't some that do, or that such a belief is not growing throughout the world. 

Little things happen, like bringing DAM, a hip-hop 3 man Palestinian Israeli group to Lincoln High and the next thing heard was a student saying how she hated Israel.  Israeli Jews live here as well in this city.  None of us want to hear lies about ourselves, our religion or Israel.  We also love freedom of speech, so certainly are not looking forward to losing that one special right in the United States. 

When Israel is picked on and attacked by Muslim countries, one winds up feeling that there is something wrong between Jews and Muslims, and that this is a religious war.  That's confirmed by putting out a fatwa against all Jews everywhere.  Yet people aren't going to be able to say anything about Muslims?  This outrageous thought of passing such an idea hasn't got a leg to stand on.  I hope Hillary has the gumption to tell Elmeleddin Ihsanoglu a thing or two about what America is all about.  What a great teaching moment she has in her hands. 

Reference: Sheikh Al-Qaradawi & Qatar's Education City Hosting American University Branches, from Memri
Family Security Matters by Clare M. Lopez
AIPAC Update: update@aipac.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie
http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/59853/hillary-clinton-enters-israel-gender-dispute