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1) Love, Sex and Islam,

2) Remembering Uzza - If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub,

3) Alice Visits a Mosque to Learn About Judgement Day.

Islamic Scriptures as They  Relate to Current Events

News Analysis you will not find anywhere else (O=Off-topic)

2023 Israel-Hamas War | 2023 | 2022 | O Canada

Supreme Court reaffirms religious liberty in Canada (but not Quebec) Court upholds the right of Muslim students to pray at Calgary private school National Post, March 28, 2024

The demand by Islamists for prayer space is very much a test of our tolerance for incursion of religious rituals in the public and ostensibly secular space. Prayers are not accepted by Allah unless wudu has been performed beforehand. This does not seem to have been the case here therefore the appeal to the Canadian Human Rights Commission for accommodations for prayer was very much a sham without a demand for a place to perform wudu.

Moscow attack: Day of mourning after 133 killed at Crocus City Hall concert BBC March 24, 2024

Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.

Ayatollah Khomeini

Concerts make particularly attractive targets for Islamic terrorists, not only because they attract a crowd of people of all ages enjoying themselves, but a crowd of bona fide sinners. Listening to music or playing musical instruments is 16th of the 50 grave or greater sins; sins where the transgressor will burn in hell for eternity.

At least 133 dead after Moscow terror attack. ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack at a popular concert venue complex near Moscow CNN March 23, 2024

What is unusual about this attack is that the terrorists did not continue killing until they themselves were killed for that is how you get into Paradise no questions asked.

3:169 And do not think those who have been killed in the Way of Allah as dead; they are rather living with their Lord, well provided for.

As explained in a discussion on Australian TV between Muslim clerics Dr. Jamal Rifi and Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi  following the Manchester massacre, this is the power of Islamic scriptures in recruiting fanatics to kill in the Way of Allah.

More families will be allowed to apply to come to Canada from Gaza, Immigration Minister says. Globe and Mail, March 18, 2024

Are we again witnessing Prime Minister Trudeau's Islamophilia at work considering the families he is bringing in will be very much still under the influence of the Koran and their imams and therefore expected to support, if not swell the already impressive protests against Israel's unconscionable actions in Gaza, which, according to CNN, have killed nearly 100 children a day in Gaza since the war started (CNN March 2, 2024).

The insanity of men raised on a pitiless text setting up children to be killed for the propaganda value, and an enemy willing to oblige.

Big moon god block big sun god! Much darkness. Teachers afraid! Cancelling classes due to an eclipse is just teachers’ unions insisting their members resist the notion that they should ever need to work on any day that is in any way special. Chris Selley National Post, March 17, 2024

Isn’t that the point of eclipses, to scare people?

Narrated Abu Bakra:

Allah's Apostle said: "The sun and the moon are two signs amongst the signs of Allah and they do not eclipse because of the death of someone but Allah frightens His devotees with them."

Bukhari 17.158

Muhammad and eclipses

For Muslim women who are isolated, Ramadan can be lonely. An Ottawa group is working to fix that with 'Sisterhood Iftar' Ottawa Citizen March 13, 2024

Not to be disrespectful, but not being able to participate in all that Ramadan has to offer may have some health benefits. The Fast of Ramadan is a misnomer. Ramadan is not so much a fast, which can be beneficial, but a changing of your eating schedule for 30 consecutive days from three balanced meals during the day to one meal after nightfall on which some will you gorge themselves while others pick at it perhaps hoping to avoid the impact on a confused digestive system. You  can eat and drink until morning.

2:187 Eat and drink until you can discern the white thread from the black thread of dawn.

Health concerns would not have been an issue in the hot sunny deserts of Arabia, where the tradition originated, when your daily main meal was after the sun set, for obvious reasons.

Modern-day Islam does make allowance for diabetics and people who must take medicine with food at a specific time of the day. For otherwise healthy people, whose eating schedule was not that of a Torrid Zone desert dweller, constipation is the most common side effect of observing the so-called Fast of Ramadan. The reason why, I was told by a Muslim acquaintance, many stock up on laxatives before the onset of Ramadan.

Muhammad broke his daily fast with a helping of one or more dates, a natural  laxative. In keeping with this tradition, many halal food banks, such as Ottawa's Sadaqa Food Bank, include at least one box of dates in their Ramadan food hamper.

At some latitudes the lateness of the one meal of the day during Ramadan will be even more conducive to an uncooperative colon.

Ramadan’s health impact is relatively the same for both sexes. Not so for another Torrid Zone tradition! I will let Uzza explain how a manufactured religious imperative, not related to Ramadan, can have direr and long lasting consequences for females. You may have seen its impact on many women forced out of their homes in Gaza by Israeli bombs.

Biden warns Netanyahu he risks losing international support due to casualties in Gaza. CNN March 10, 2024

Israel was created to be a safe haven for Jews. Today, because of its abject cruelty towards Palestinians and a near absolute disregard for their lives and property, no Jew is safe anywhere. It will only get worst unless we put an end to what started as a noble experiment. Europe, in particular, should welcome a massive influx of Israeli Jews so as to revitalize a way of life that almost died at Auschwitz while blunting the Islamization of the birthplace of the fragile exception.

Rahim Mohamed: National Muslim group demands MPs denounce Israel or face wrath. Feb. 29, 2024

Members of Parliament, if you are friends of Israel you will do what the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) asks.

I will admit to having been influenced by Star Trek and the morality lessons contained in many episodes. One of them stands out in relation to this conflict. The following dialogue where the character Worf is harshly reprimanded by his captain for putting children at risk will be familiar with fans of Star Trek Deep Space 9:

Sisko: You fired at something you hadn't identified. You made a military decision to protect your ship and crew, but you're a Starfleet officer,

Worf. We don't put civilians at risk or even potentially at risk to save ourselves. Sometimes that means we lose the battle and sometimes our lives. But if you can't make that choice, then you can't wear that uniform.

Worf: Yes, sir.

Sisko: At ease, Commander. Now, all that being true, the reality is no harm has been done. There are no dead children on your conscience. You got lucky.

To date, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have killed more children than died in conflicts since Israel's founding. The IDF has lost the moral high ground and, in much of the world today is viewed as no better, if not worse, than the people they are fighting, having killed 25 people, and counting, for every one killed by Hamas. Those who won’t even try to bring Israel to its senses by criticizing its methods are not behaving as friends should.

Brendan O’Neill: As Islamist fervour sweeps Britain, critics are shamefully silenced Feb. 27, 2024

The silence of critics may have something to do with Britain, after the 2005 London bombings, passing legislation sheltering Islam from criticism.

Taliban decrees on clothing and male guardians leave Afghan women scared to go out alone, says UN... Over half of the women interviewed for the report felt unsafe leaving the house without a male guardian, or mahram. CityNews Feb. 17, 2024

In the weirdness that is Islam where women are concerned, a lactating female can make any man mahram, i.e. ineligible for marriage therefore eligible to be her male guardian by suckling him.

Woman who fired inside a church allegedly praised Hamas, Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden 'Don’t worry my MUSLIMS brothers I am pass the threat phase. I’m in planning mode. Please don’t message me private trying to stop me,' Genesse Moreno wrote on her Telegram channel on Jan. 3 National Post, Feb. 16, 2024

Why women would join, let alone kill and die for a religion that denigrates them and condemns the vast majority to burn in hell is a mystery.

'It's not a one-time rape. It's happening now': Canadian pleads for the return of her cousin taken by Hamas National Post, Feb. 16, 2024

Sex and the Booty

Italy donates 3D-printed replica of statue destroyed by ISIS to Iraq... Constructed in the ninth century BC, the 5-meter-tall (16-foot) “Bull of Nimrud” was destroyed by ISIS fighters in 2015, CNN Feb. 13, 2024

Blasphemies

Terry Glavin: Four months ago, Hamas's bloody pogrom shattered Israeli society... Canada’s own foreign affairs minister, Mélanie Joly, insisted in December that while Hamas can never again be allowed hold power in Gaza, a two-state solution has never been more viable as a consequence of the Hamas attacks, that it’s just a matter of the "right parties at the table to give the right credibility.” Feb. 7, 2024

Another example that terrorism works if you are willing to be brutal enough as the Koran recommends.

9:123 O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them see how harsh you can be. Know that Allah is with the righteous.

U.S. porn actor [Whitney Wright] who advocates for Palestinians visits Iran on trip unacknowledged by Tehran, The Associated Press, Feb. 5, 2024

I wonder if Ms. Wright would be interested in doing porn for good. She is, after all, concerned with saving lives and that is what Love, Sex and Islam is all about. At 32 she would be perfect for the part of Anne.

Avi Benlolo: Antisemitism in Canadian universities at least as bad as in UNRWA The surge in antisemitism is a direct result of imported Palestinian propaganda aimed at delegitimizing, defaming, and demonizing Israel Feb. 2, 2024

The surge in antisemitism may also have to do with prayers said in mosques, madrassas and increasingly in the secular school system and in universities and colleges that have acquiesced to the demands for prayer rooms.

Prayers in Islam are not about asking for favours or intervention—those are supplications and are a totally different thing—but worshipping Allah by uttering, usually as part of an assembly, verses from the book He authored. A prayer said alone and in silence is practically worthless. In a period of approximately a year, observant Sunnis will have prayed the entire Koran.

In saying their prayers believers are repeating some of the most hate filled scriptures, especially for Jews, ever imagined. Prayers are sacrosanct for every religion therefore off-limits in places of worship. But that should not be the case in our education system and which has created a fertile ground for the type of antisemitic propaganda mentioned by Mr. Benlolo.

Jesse Kline: The UNRWA teachers who slaughtered Jews and the Canadian profs who admire them." ...In December, Jewish educators told the National Post about a culture of antisemitism within Ontario’s Peel District School Board." Jan. 30, 2024

It is both a truism and a cliché that children are the future. Where that future will be shaped is in the classroom. The public non-denominational school system in Canada is both the strength and the Achilles’ heel of our democratic collective. The strength can be found in schools where children are still taught that the human journey is a journey in the pursuit of knowledge through scientific enquiry and critical thinking. Each generation being responsible for taking that additional step in the direction of the elusive, ultimate truth, which, if ever discovered would mean the end of the human journey as we know it.

The empirical pursuit of knowledge about our universe and our place in it, a gift from the Greeks of antiquity rediscovered during the Renaissance and the period known as the Enlightenment, is facing a serious challenge from those who believe that this journey ended long ago and that we should now simply worship and wait for the promised reward for our uncritical acceptance of revealed truths, immutable facts communicated to a mortal by a god.

Most, if not all religions would like nothing better than to transform classrooms into centers of religious indoctrination instead of education. Islam has been the most successful in breaching the last refuge of children from the bombardment of the word of God, the Peel and the Toronto School District being prime examples.

Muslim council cancels meeting with Trudeau over Gaza funding... “We’re interested in the government taking real tangible action to reduce Islamophobia in this country (and) taking real tangible action to stop the hostilities in the Middle East,” Stephen Brown (CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims) said. The Canadian Press Jan. 30, 2024

Uzza: Some people believe in the separation of Church and State as deeply as Islamists believe there should be no such distinction. Allowing Islam to blur this line by letting it market its ideology everywhere made people uneasy, and rightly so. If governments had held the line against a militant Islam that recognises no man-made boundaries to its expansion and jealously guarded the fragile exception that is Western civilization instead of caving in to bullies, there might have been fewer reasons for people to fear Islam.

Gerry: So you agree that Islamophobia is real.

Uzza: A fear of Islam is real, and it is not a phobia, as Islamists and their patsies would have you believe.

Gerry: By patsies, you mean politicians?

Uzza: And well-meaning people who don't know any better. A fear of Islam is a legitimate fear. Fear is what non-believers who get close and personal with the Koran and Allah’s unrestrained visceral hatred and cruelty for their kind will experience, for that is the intent. It is a fear nourished and amplified by the Author’s demands of believers when it comes to dealing with those for whom He has nothing but contempt: from avoiding them, to enslaving them, to killing them. Fear is what terrorism in the name of Allah is all about.

Instead of dealing with this fear in a forthright manner, Western governments preferred spreading the Islamic slander that a fear of Islam is an irrational fear, that of Islamophobia, or worse, racism, as if Islam was a race and not a religion.

From Remembering Uzza - If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub: The Enemy Within, Boreal Books.

Hamas command center found under cemetery Israel accused of desecrating Inside the tunnel, the IDF found an office from which a Hamas Khan Yunis Brigade battalion commander managed the attack on Oct. 7 National Post, Jan. 29, 2024

In Islam there should not be cemeteries as we know them. Muhammad, on his death bed, ranted against the tradition of erecting monuments over the grave of a dearly departed as creating a distraction from worshipping Allah. Most of his wives are buried in Medina’s Baqi cemetery which has since been bulldozed to erase all grave markers. What the Israelis did is not that much different than what the Saudis did to the most famous cemetery in Islam.

Taking a Bulldozer to History

Anti-Islamophobia envoy warns of chill on freedom of speech in relation to Gaza... “Better government co-ordination would allow more precise measures, Elghawaby argues, weeding out criminal acts of hate targeting any community while preserving their right to speak out.” Canadian Press, Jan 27, 2024

Since Ms. Elghawaby got that high-paying job she has adopted a more balanced speech, and for that we should all be grateful. Weeding out "acts of hate", including hate speech, against any community is a good thing. However, Ms. Elghawaby exhibited a double standard when it came to weeding out hate speech from within her community.

In 2015, the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence issued a report based largely on testimony from prominent Muslims about the threat posed by foreign trained imams. The Committee recommended that “the federal government work with the provinces and the Muslim communities to investigate the options that are available for the training and certification of imams in Canada.”

Ms. Elghawaby, then communications director of the CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations)-like National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) would have none of it. In an apoplectic response she misrepresented, not only the testimony of moderate coreligionist but the intent of the recommendation as an attack on the freedom of speech of Muslims.

Saudi Arabia to change alcohol rules... Saudi Arabia is preparing to open its first alcohol store in the capital Riyadh which will serve exclusively non-Muslim diplomats. CNN Jan. 25, 2024

If, as a Muslim, you may not even enjoy a simple glass of wine with dinner, blame Umar. Until Umar convinced Him otherwise, Allah only asked that believers not attend prayers while drunk,

The rules regulating alcohol quotas for non-Muslim diplomatic missions are being introduced to “counter the illicit trade of alcohol goods.”

That is how Sohrab made a living during his stay in Kuwait.

'October 7' restaurant allegedly named after Hamas's massacre opens in Jordan Ottawa Citizen Jan. 25, 2024

A café will have to do until conditions permit the building of a mosque, the usual way militant Islam commemorates a significant massacre or victory (often one and the same). More than ten years had to pass before permits were issued for the building of what is referred to as the Ground Zero mosque, two blocks from where the two towers once stood.

Islamic group calling for Shariah law cancels Canadian event after U.K. declares it a terrorist entity National Post, Jan. 24,2024

A brief introduction to Sharia Law

The Muslim who saved us from our ignorant selves

Katherine Brodsky: Growing up in Israel surrounded by suicide bombings left a scar Jan. 20, 2024

The scars are left by men who kill and die on a god’s claim that the dead have better sex than the living. We could seriously diminish the scourge of suicide bombers by telling the young men who are the majority who seek sex through murder and self-immolation the truth about sex in Paradise.

Halal food industry growing to meet demand as Muslim population continues rising Globe And Mail, Jan. 14, 2024

In 2016, an Islamophile made it the responsibility of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to confirm that animals whose meat is destined for a believer's table have been tortured to death

Ottawa plans 'multi-stage' vetting process for visa applicants from Gaza amid security fears National Post, Jan 12, 2024

Asking the same questions twice is not the answer. Asking the right questions once, as Uzza suggests in her namesake book, will properly vet any immigrant from any Sharia jurisdiction.

Al Rashid Mosque cuts ties with Edmonton-based halal mortgage company. Jan. 10, 2024

Halal mortgages are a fiction. Both the Koran, and the illiterate who revealed its contents warned against attempting to circumvent God’s restriction against earning both simple and compound interest, or what they considered its equivalent, on the sale of whatever.

Allah | Muhammad

Toronto police chief apologizes after officer delivers coffee to anti-Israel protesters National Post, Jan. 8, 2024

In the opening act of Remembering Uzza - If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub the host of a popular current affairs program visits his favourite bar after being charged by the police with causing a viewer to experience a severe case of Dogmatic Distress Syndrome, or DDS for short, which caused said viewer to stalk said host and shoot him, wounding him. Read to the end of A Bad Case of Dogmatic Distress for the answer to why the police would charge the victim and not his assailant. It may actually be relevant, or soon may be, to why the police would serve coffee to pro-Hamas protestors.

Charlie Hebdo, neuf ans après l’attentat (nine years after the attack) Le Point, Jan. 7, 2024

Remembering the murdered.

ISIS claims responsibility for deadliest attack in Iran since 1979 revolution CNN Jan. 4, 2024

Remember the Islamic State.

Iran says at least 103 people killed, 211 wounded in two explosions... The explosions occurred near his grave site as long lines of people gathered for the event. The Associated Press, Jan. 3, 2024

You would expect a commemoration to be where a person passed on for, according to Muhammad, a reconstituted body and soul survives in a space beneath the ground where they died.

"These are the times that try men's soul," Thomas Paine.

Any study beside that of the Quran is a distraction, except the Hadiths and jurisprudence in the religion. Knowledge is what He [Muhammad] narrated to us, and anything other than that is the whispering of the Satan. Al-Qaeda

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking 1942-2018

My everyman's writings on the Koran, Muhammad and Islam are part of what, with Lucette's passing, became a solitary campaign against the willful ignorance that will be our undoing.

The Morning After

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