An Indonesian man who helped pass a law that punished adulterers by publicly flogging them has himself been flogged for adultery.
The man, known only as Mukhlis, was given 28 lashes after he had an affair with a married woman. The woman was also publicly punished.
CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/11/01/asia/indonesia-adultery-caning-scli-intl/index.html">reported</a> that the man is a member of the Aceh Ulema Council in one of the most conservative provinces of Indonesia, and the only region that imposes Sharia law. A number of other offenses are also punishable by caning, including homosexuality and alcohol consumption.
&#8220;We have clarified his identity and we proceeded with the investigation and handed over the dossier to prosecutors, and today we carried out the implementation of the flogging punishment,&#8221; Banda Aceh sharia police chief Muhammad Hidayat told the Agence France-Presse.
Another resident told the AFP that “A lot of things we can learn, but ultimately we have to enforce God&#8217;s laws, especially on Islamic land like here.&#8221;
The deputy regent of the municipality told the AFP: “No matter who you are &#8230; if you violate (Islamic) law you will be whipped.”
“The organisation for which Mukhlis works advised the local government and legislature on drafting and implementing Aceh’s religious law, including public flogging,” the AFP <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/indonesia-man-flogged-adultery-law-helped-draw-aceh">reported</a>.
“It was not immediately clear what he did for the agency.”
The outlet reported that Mukhlis would likely be fired due to his employer’s moral code.
In addition to Mukhlis, the AFP reported, “a female university student was flogged a dozen times after she was caught spending the night in a boarding house with a man, who escaped punishment because he was underage.”
The outlet reported that three people were caned in July for premarital sex, each one receiving 100 lashes. Last year two men were whipped 100 times for having sex with underaged girls.
As CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/14/asia/indonesia-banda-aceh-public-flogging-intl/index.html">reported</a>, 15 people were caned last year in the Aceh province.
“Two men accused of being gay received 87 lashes each for gay sex, while nine others were sentenced up to 26 lashes for adultery. Four people were caned for being drunk, including one woman who received 27 lashes,” the outlet reported.
People gather for the public punishments, sometimes by the hundreds. Mukhlis’ flogging was attended by just a handful of people, but some filmed the lashing with their cell phones.
Those who are publicly flogged receive health checks ahead of time to ensure they can withstand the punishment.
CNN reported that Aceh’s Sharia criminal code was adopted in September 2015. Human Rights Watch <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/03/29/human-rights-watch-complaint-rights-lgbt-people-indonesias-aceh-province">reported</a> that the adoption of the criminal code has “had a chilling effect on the basic rights to security and freedom of expression for Aceh&#8217;s deeply marginalized LGBT community.&#8221; The report added that LGBT people in the Aceh Province “live in a spiraling climate of fear &#8230; [and] face ever-present harassment, arbitrary arrests and detention by Sharia [Islamic law] and municipal police, and threats of torture.&#8221;

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Indonesian Man Who Supported Law Punishing Adulterers With Caning Gets Caned For Adultery

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Sharia Law

Last week, the little birdies in Twitter&#8217;s legal department notified me that one of my tweets from 2015 is &#8220;in violation of Pakistan law.&#8221; It seems like ancient history, but Islamic supremacists never forget &#8212; or forgive.
My innocuous tweet featured a compilation image of the 12 Muhammad cartoons published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. It also linked to my Jan. 8, 2015, syndicated column on the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre in Paris. There&#8217;s no hate, violence, profanity or pornography, just harmless drawings and peacefully expressed opinions about the Western media&#8217;s futile attempts to appease the unappeasable enforcers of sharia law, which bans all insults of Islam.
The Twitter notice assured me that the company &#8220;has not taken any action on the reported content at this time,&#8221; yet advised me that I should &#8220;consult legal counsel about this matter&#8221; in response to complaints from unnamed &#8220;authorized entities.&#8221;
Don&#8217;t worry, lawyer up? Gulp.
I&#8217;m used to getting threats directly from bloodthirsty cartoon jihadists. In 2006, I spearheaded a &#8220;Mohammed cartoons blogburst&#8221; in support of the Danish cartoonists at Jyllands-Posten. After posting all 12 of the drawings to educate the public about the publication&#8217;s brave stand against sharia-enforced self-censorship in the West, death and rape threats from radical Muslims around the world poured into my email inbox. Vengeful thugs based in Turkey and Germany called me a &#8220;whore&#8221; and &#8220;prostitute,&#8221; vowing &#8220;We will kill you&#8221; unless I deleted the pictures from my server. My website was targeted by jihadist hackers who launched a week of denial-of-service attacks.
Thirteen years later, however, who knew that using an American company&#8217;s microblogging service from my secluded mountaintop in Colorado could get me in hot water with foreign Muslim stone-age goons 8,000 miles away still hung up on the cartoons.
Who knew Twitter would act as dutiful messenger pigeons for the oppressive anti-blasphemy police squad that sentences people to death for disparaging Islam.
Welcome to Silicon Valley sharia.
Over the past few months, several other prominent critics of Islamic extremism have received similar warning letters from Twitter&#8217;s legal department, including Saudi-Canadian activist Ensaf Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi; Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, an Iranian-born Muslim scholar and reform advocate from Australia; Jamie Glazov, a Russian-born Canadian columnist who just released a new book called &#8220;Jihadist Psychopath&#8221;; and Pamela Geller, an anti-jihad blogger and activist.
Jacob Engels, another conservative activist and blogger, was suspended from Twitter this weekend without explanation. His last tweet linked to video of a black Christian street preacher being arrested for &#8220;breaching the peace.&#8221; Engels opined that the scene depicted &#8220;America&#8217;s future thanks to (Rep. Ilhan Omar). Roaming rape gangs &#8230; cops do nothing. Massive terrorist attacks.&#8221;
There&#8217;s no violence, hate, profanity or pornography, just an informed opinion about the consequences of open borders and capitulation to Islamic extremism. So why was Engels censored for condemning violent Muslims? Jack Morrissey, the Disney film producer who publicly called for the falsely accused Covington Catholic high school students to be fed into a woodchipper &#8220;screaming, hats first,&#8221; was allowed to retain his verified Twitter status without any punishment for his bloody death wishes.
This is all of a piece. As I reported in December, citizen journalist Laura Loomer was banned from Twitter for stating true facts about radical Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar&#8217;s embrace of sharia laws that threaten gays, Jews and women. Loomer has since been deplatformed from PayPal and just learned she can no longer sell T-shirts protesting Twitter&#8217;s ban with the hashtag #StopTheBias on Teespring.
Paypal&#8217;s CEO admitted this week that he relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s powerful smear machine for input on which conservatives to blacklist in order to uphold the company&#8217;s alleged values of &#8220;diversity and inclusion.&#8221; SPLC&#8217;s de-Paypal&#8217;d victims include Tommy Robinson, an English anti-jihad activist; VDARE, a nationalist immigration news and commentary site that publishes my syndicated column; and Gavin McInnes, a humorist, social critic and media entrepreneur whose fans have raised nearly $140,000 at DefendGavin.com for his powerful defamation lawsuit against the SPLC. McInnes was also de-Twittered and temporarily de-YouTube&#8217;d.
Among others targeted by SPLC, which collaborates with credit card companies and banks to silence influential thinkers and activists on the right: David Horowitz, a venerable scholar and investigative author who successfully beat back Mastercard&#8217;s attempt to drop him over his organization&#8217;s opposition to Islamic radicalism and illegal immigration, and the Center for Immigration Studies, which is suing the SPLC for labeling its mainstream think tank a &#8220;hate group.&#8221;
Deplatforming dissenting voices is a ruthless, bizarre and unprogressive way to achieve &#8220;diversity and inclusion.&#8221; So is conspiring with repressive regimes that are hell-bent on destroying the West. Twitter has become America&#8217;s version of Islam&#8217;s morality police &#8212; the dreaded &#8220;mutaween&#8221; (Arabic for &#8220;the one who makes others obey&#8221;).
I will not. As an American citizen who is subject to America&#8217;s laws &#8212; not Pakistan&#8217;s or Mohammed&#8217;s &#8212; I&#8217;ll retweet my harmless little Mo cartoons to my 2.1 million followers every day from now on and stand with other targets on the side of free speech and free thought. How about you, Twitter?
Michelle Malkin&#8217;s email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

MALKIN: I’ve Been Silicon Valley Sharia’d

Radical Islam

Twitter

Conservative radio host Steve Deace walked off the set of an HLN segment on Friday after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/dean-obeidallah">CNN contributor</a> Dean Obeidallah compared Christianity to Sharia law.
The segment was centered around President Donald Trump&#8217;s upcoming nomination of a new Supreme Court justice and the panelists discussed the potential long-term ramifications of the pick.
&#8220;The stakes are really high in this country,&#8221; Obeidallah said. &#8220;And there are people who want to impose Christian Sharia law in this country. And what I mean by that is that they want the Bible as the law of the land.&#8221;
Deace later fired back that any comparison between Islamic Sharia law and Christianity was &#8220;preposterous,&#8221; but Obeidallah, who is very progressive, continued to push the comparison.
&#8220;Christian Sharia law in this context is simply shorthand for turning religious beliefs into the laws of the land,&#8221; Obeidallah continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going through the Bible. To me, that&#8217;s what Sharia is in the Muslim world, what Sharia is here. I&#8217;m not sure why you&#8217;d be upset unless you&#8217;re advocating it. I&#8217;m not suggesting you are.&#8221;
Deace immediately got up and left the set.
WATCH:
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WATCH: CNN Contributor Compares Christianity To ‘Sharia Law,’ Guest Walks Off Show

Award-winning director/producer Gloria Z. Greenfield introduces her fourth documentary, The Fight of Our Lives: Defeating the Ideological War Against the West, with the warning, &#8220;Civilizations, empires, great powers can fall apart very fast. Collapse can come suddenly like a thief in the night.&#8221; In the ensuing 64 minutes, Ms. Greenfield&#8217;s impressive cast of experts present a powerful argument that we in the West are facing a lethal threat to our way of life &#8212; to our Western culture and tradition. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are in the fight of our lives against the greatest challenge of our time.
Harvard&#8217;s Niall Ferguson sets the stage with the admonition that great civilizations have disappeared more quickly than those living at the time ever anticipated. Author/journalist Melanie Phillips provides the film&#8217;s organizational framework, noting that the West faces an existential threat both &#8220;from within&#8221; and &#8220;from without.&#8221;
In compelling detail, the documentary first explores the threat from within &#8212; postmodernism, the West&#8217;s collapse of confidence in its values after WWII&#8217;s devastation. An ideology that now defines the public debate, dictates what&#8217;s acceptable and turns the West against itself.
We learn that postmodernism encompasses two key ideological components, the first being anti-colonialism, the belief that people around the world coexisted comfortably and peacefully prior to Western imperialists invading, dividing, conquering, exploiting and oppressing them.
The second element is cultural relativism, advocating that all cultures are equally valuable, including those morally repugnant to Western sensibilities. There are no absolute truths: One cannot sit in judgment on cultures that practice female genital mutilation, cut off limbs as punishment or hang gays from rooftops. Hoover Institution&#8217;s Victor Davis Hanson comments, &#8220;One man&#8217;s terrorist is another man&#8217;s freedom fighter.&#8221; The doctrinal philosophy of multiculturalism springs from this theory.
For postmodernists, history is the story of the powerful and powerless, the victimizers and the victims. Classical liberalism, with its primacy on the individual, is replaced by identity politics championing victim-groups based on race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual persuasion.
In academia, most faculty members in the social sciences and humanities espouse postmodernist ideology, seeing themselves as adversaries of Western values and demanding that their students strictly adhere to this dogma. Allowing no criticism of their worldview, professors tell students what to believe. Students demand &#8220;safe spaces&#8221; to protect themselves from alternative views. According to Ms. Phillips, ideas are no longer &#8220;in direct combat with other ideas.&#8221;
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz describes academia today as the &#8220;light fog of fascism&#8221; threatening to &#8220;mis-educate&#8221; our future leaders. Too few students today read the works of the people who make the best arguments for liberal democracy and political pluralism.
The sections &#8220;Breaching the Gates&#8221; and &#8220;People of the Book&#8221; identify the &#8220;threat from without&#8221; &#8212; political Islam with its goal of world domination and its intolerance for different religions, political and legal systems, and cultures.
We learn that there are Muslims abusing our open society to infiltrate government, academia and the media in order to impose Sharia law on our democratic way of life, attacking the Judeo-Christian values that underpin Western civilization.
The viewer is reminded that the dream of millions of Muslims for a worldwide Islamic caliphate is no more absurd than was Lenin&#8217;s or Hitler&#8217;s totalitarian vision, and is equally dangerous.
Using the &#8220;narration without a narrator&#8221; technique, Greenfield skillfully weaves commentary about this complex subject into a cogent argument. The musical score and photographs complement the discourse.
The Fight of Our Lives should convince you that action is necessary to defeat this clear and present danger. Our children must learn about Western civilization&#8217;s humanism, Judeo-Christian morality, Enlightenment thought, commitment to separation of church and state, human rights, freedom of speech and religious diversity. The Fight of Our Lives reminds us that if we don&#8217;t renew our &#8220;moral confidence&#8221; in our heritage, we will lose the fight.
The film will premiere February 19 at The Broad Stage, Santa Monica, California, sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Victor Davis Hanson will offer pre-screening remarks. Details for upcoming screenings can be found at <a href="https://www/">https://www</a>.<a href="http://thefightofourlives.com/">thefightofourlives.com</a>.

REVIEW: ‘The Fight Of Our Lives’

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Prominent Islamic reformer Imam Mohammad Tawhidi zapped leftist Islamic activist Linda Sarsour and former President Barack Obama in two tweets on Wednesday.
Tawhidi&#8217;s first tweet took aim at Sarsour, who previously tweeted: &#8220;Tomorrow is an ELECTION. Take your frustrations to the polls. Vote against bigotry, hate, xenophobia. Use your vote. It counts.&#8221;
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Tomorrow is an ELECTION. Take your frustrations to the polls. Vote against bigotry, hate, xenophobia. Use your vote. It counts.
&#8212; Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/927589729301868544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Here&#8217;s Tawhidi&#8217;s response roasting Sarsour:
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Voting is against your Sharia Law. Nice try. <a href="https://t.co/JAkzVdvgXt">https://t.co/JAkzVdvgXt</a>
&#8212; Imam Tawhidi (@Imamofpeace) <a href="https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/936013326085120001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Tawhidi&#8217;s second tweet piggybacked off this tweet from President Donald Trump that took aim at former President Barack Obama:
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Funny to hear the Democrats talking about the National Debt when President Obama doubled it in only 8 years!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/936058006659321858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Here&#8217;s Tawhidi&#8217;s response:
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Obama also doubled Islamic terrorism.
&#8212; Imam Tawhidi (@Imamofpeace) <a href="https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/936058944165785600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Even left-leaning <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/13/barack-obama/obama-says-terrorism-worldwide-has-not-increased-s/">PolitiFact</a> seems to agree with Tawhidi&#8217;s assertion, rating the following statement from former President Obama in September of 2016 as &#8220;mostly false&#8221;:
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&#8220;If you look worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents have not substantially increased.&#8221;
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PolitiFact cites a couple of different sources showing a varying degree of just how much terrorist attacks increased under Obama.
Figures from the U.S. State Department, which used strict and narrow criteria for what it defined as terrorism, indicated that global terrorism increased approximately 7% from 10,999 in 2009 to 11,774 in 2015.
However, PolitiFact also cited the START Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which used slightly different criteria to measure terrorist attacks, and according to their numbers, terrorism rose a stunning 214% from 2009 to 2015. So, based on the statistics provided by GTD, Tawhidi&#8217;s tweet about Obama is accurate.

Muslim Imam ROASTS Linda Sarsour And Barack Obama On Twitter. Here’s What He Said.

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On Monday, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed six people on drug and murder charges. Since the beginning of 2017, Saudi authorities have officially put to death 44 people. Many more may have been killed extra-judicially.
According to the country’s interior minister, five of the individuals executed Monday were Saudi nationals. The sixth individual was Pakistani.
Home to Islamic holy sites in Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia boasts one of the highest execution rates in the world. With Wahhabist forms of Sharia-law forming the bedrock of the country’s penal code, the Muslim kingdom has modeled its legal system in a manner consistent with literalist interpretations of the Quran.
“The kingdom has one of the highest execution rates in the world, handing down the death penalty for terror, murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking crimes,” <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/News/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-death-penalty-executions-capital-punishment-six-killed-one-day-outcry-a7834726.html">reports</a> The Independent. “In 2014, Saudi Arabia executed a record number of 158 people. Last year, it executed 153 people, a slight decrease.”
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/News/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-death-penalty-executions-capital-punishment-six-killed-one-day-outcry-a7834726.html">Roughly 40%</a> of the so-called “criminals” sentenced to death by Saudi jurists were non-violent offenders. Everything from attending a dissident political protest to public expressions of atheism are offenses that are punishable by death in the Islamic country.
Here’s a list of all the things that you could be executed for in Saudi Arabia, courtesy of <a href="http://www.vocativ.com/underworld/crime/saudi-arabia-execution-beheading/">Vocativ</a>. (Note: The amount of evidence required for a judge to render somebody guilty is far lower than in the West. Many are placed in jail or sentenced to death on trumped-up or fabricated charges.)
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<li>Sorcery or witchcraft</li>
<li>Adultery</li>
<li>Consensual homosexual sex with another adult</li>
<li>Drug possession</li>
<li>Drug distribution</li>
<li>Consumption of intoxicants</li>
<li>Apostasy</li>
<li>Burglary</li>
<li>Robbery</li>
<li>Treason</li>
<li>Espionage</li>
<li>Rape and/or sexual assault</li>
<li>Non pre-meditated murder</li>
<li>Aggravated murder</li>
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RELIGION OF PEACE: Saudi Arabia Just Executed 6 People In A Single Day

Radical Islamic Terror

Saudi Arabia

It was <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14925/left-goes-nuts-over-reports-pence-will-only-eat-hank-berrien">reported </a>on Wednesday that Vice President Mike Pence refuses to go on dinner dates with women who are not his wife. Almost immediately following the report, the Left&#8217;s collective head exploded. 
One particularly &#8220;woke&#8221; person reporting for Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin, had the hottest take of all: Pence is a Sharia law-compliant misogynist! 
&#8220;How is this different from extreme repressive interpretations of Islam (&#8216;Sharia Law!&#8217;) mocked by people like Mike Pence,&#8221; asked Jardin. 
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Sincere question. How is this different from extreme repressive interpretations of Islam (&#8220;Sharia Law!&#8221;) mocked by people like Mike Pence
&#8212; Xeni Jardin (@xeni) <a href="https://twitter.com/xeni/status/847084156853129216">March 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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This tweet is, of course, moronic. Choosing to take precautions in order to honor your wife and avoid situations which could comprise your marriage is not close to brutal, oppressive Sharia law. 
And Jardin wasn&#8217;t the only leftist making the ridiculous comparison; Mark Bland, a radio host from St. Louis, also got in on the action:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze">@redsteeze</a> Isn&#8217;t Mike Pence&#8217;s basis for this technically the merits of SHARIA LAW that he should &#8220;pretend&#8221; to be against?
&#8212; Mark Bland (@markbland) <a href="https://twitter.com/markbland/status/847475926183034880">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Jardin and her agreeable leftist friends were swiftly annihilated via Twitter for such a comparison:
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Mike Pence chooses to honor his wife. Sharia Law stones women for being raped. I understand your confusion&#8230; oh no, wait. You cray. <a href="https://t.co/AHnDhn2V5C">https://t.co/AHnDhn2V5C</a>
&#8212; Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/847461138027630593">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Well for starters, modern feminist leaders aren&#8217;t supporting Mike Pence <a href="https://t.co/0JzY2EvwEc">https://t.co/0JzY2EvwEc</a>
&#8212; Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/847259108063432705">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Other than the fact that it&#8217;s his own personal choice and that he won&#8217;t get beaten or killed if he violates it? Other than that, you mean? <a href="https://t.co/ub3uXEJg1A">pic.twitter.com/ub3uXEJg1A</a>
&#8212; neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/847495341679058944">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Feminism today:
Hijab = liberation
Man who won&#8217;t eat dinner alone with woman other than his wife = oppression
&#8212; John Hayward (@Doc_0) <a href="https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/847430536771403777">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/xeni">@xeni</a> THIS is Sharia Law, not Mike Pence respecting his wife <a href="https://t.co/Qws6gEOg03">pic.twitter.com/Qws6gEOg03</a>
&#8212; Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chet_Cannon/status/847256724851400705">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;m giving up alcohol for lent.&#8221;
&#8220;OMG JUST LIKE ISIS!!!&#8221;
&#8212; neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/847495773604388865">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Libs: Wow Mike Pence is such a weirdo for only dining with his wife.
Also libs: Look at the beautiful diversity in this pic! <a href="https://t.co/CVX4ghiw0E">pic.twitter.com/CVX4ghiw0E</a>
&#8212; Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) <a href="https://twitter.com/CounterMoonbat/status/847128581121691650">March 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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i love my wife and i avoid any situations where i might do something i&#8217;ll regret 
OMG LITERALLY SHARIA LAW<a href="https://t.co/vW7KoAIXjR">https</a><a href="https://t.co/vW7KoAIXjR">://t.co/vW7KoAIXjR</a>
&#8212; Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/847513410434510848">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Some of the Tweeps comparing Mike &amp; Karen Pence&#8217;s marriage to sharia law also praise Linda Sarsour as a women&#8217;s march organizer.
&#8212; Mujahed Kobbe (@Moj_kobe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/847480032960196608">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Ted Kennedy drives a woman off a bridge: Senate Democrat hero for decades.
Mike Pence respects his wife: Eww strange religious nut.
&#8212; Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) <a href="https://twitter.com/CounterMoonbat/status/847288298531729411">March 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Reporter Compares Pence To A Sharia-Compliant Misogynist For Refusing Dinner Dates With Other Women

Mike Pence

On Friday morning, a gruesome video <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4210986/Woman-lashed-brutal-Sharia-law-s-traditional-punishment.html">emerged </a>of a woman in Indonesia being publicly beaten with a cane for allegedly violating Sharia law. The newly-surfaced video, which is said to be from December of 2015, shows a man repeatedly whipping the woman to the sound of mass applause from the ravenous crowd until she becomes unconscious. 
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The horrifying visual of female oppression comes on the heels of a similar video of an Indonesian woman released last week. The unnamed female was given 26 public lashes for having premarital sex, which is forbidden under Sharia law.
Naturally, my initial reaction was to check the <a href="https://www.womensmarch.com/press/">official accounts</a> for the Women&#8217;s March, the group that allegedly fights against female oppression and for women&#8217;s equality. Surprisingly enough, there was no planned march, no statement, no condemnation. &#8203;Instead, the Women&#8217;s March Twitter account was littered with applause for the &#8220;resistance&#8221; to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/11054/good-trump-trump-chooses-voucher-advocate-ben-shapiro">Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos</a>, a woman who is a proponent of giving poor children school choice. 
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THIS is what resistance looks like! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhyIResist?src=hash">#WhyIResist</a> <a href="https://t.co/ekt67HEUUK">https://t.co/ekt67HEUUK</a>
&#8212; Women&#8217;s March (@womensmarch) <a href="https://twitter.com/womensmarch/status/830091309784367104">February 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Priorities. 
How odd? If those who align themselves with the Women&#8217;s March are dedicated to &#8220;intersectional&#8221; women&#8217;s issues, if they care so deeply about gender equality, where is the condemnation of such brutal female oppression, as seen in this video? When can I expect the massive protest packed with big-name celebrities like Madonna and Ashley Judd? When? 
Bueller?
Bueller..? 
Of course, here in reality, we all know this will never happen. Islam is a no-go zone for feminists. 
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Next time you&#8217;re putting on your vagina costume and non-mandated hijab pre-march, save us all your righteous indignation over &#8220;women&#8217;s rights&#8221; and &#8220;female equality.&#8221;

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As I wrote back in January, the feminist movement in America is essentially <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/12667/7-things-anti-trump-womens-march-should-have-amanda-prestigiacomo">useless</a>, constantly ignoring actual oppression of women to scream about the &#8220;right&#8221; to kill unborn babies. The Women&#8217;s March, which took place the day following the inauguration of President Donald Trump, failed to focus on serious issues, such as the mandated hijab, honor killings and female genital mutilation&#8211;all of which happen right here in America, by the way. 
So please, feminists, next time you&#8217;re putting on your vagina costume and non-mandated hijab pre-march, save us all your righteous indignation over &#8220;women&#8217;s rights&#8221; and &#8220;female equality.&#8221; We all know you couldn&#8217;t care less about actual female oppression.

So . . . When’s The ‘Women’s March’ For This Woman Being Publicly Beaten Under Sharia Law?

Feminism

The Southern Poverty Law Center, as Daily Wire&#8216;s Aaron Bandler wrote in his <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/8967/7-things-you-need-know-about-southern-poverty-law-aaron-bandler">article</a>, is &#8220;a leftist hack advocacy group which picks and chooses what standards to apply to its labels, consistently turning a blind eye to leftist and pro-Democrat groups and individuals while targeting, often unfairly, their enemies on the right.&#8221;
Over the past few days, SPLC continued to protect hard-left and Islamist radicals in the name of the &#8220;progressive&#8221; cause by joining the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/12718/sally-kohn-never-mind-womens-march-organizer-elliott-hamilton">chorus</a> of left-wing organizations and leftist commentators in rushing to the support of Linda Sarsour.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Islamophobes have been attacking <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensMarch?src=hash">#WomensMarch</a> organizer <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">@lsarsour</a>. We stand with her against this type of hate and bigotry. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMarchWithLinda?src=hash">#IMarchWithLinda</a>
— SPLC (@splcenter) <a href="https://twitter.com/splcenter/status/823639309240729601">January 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
Sticking to its modus operandi, SPLC labels anyone who questions Sarsour&#8217;s Islamist and regressive tendencies as &#8220;Islamophobes&#8221; while committing themselves to combating hate and bigotry. This begs the question of when SPLC will condemn some of Sarsour&#8217;s own commentary.
Take the following tweets from Sarsour&#8217;s account.
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What SPLC does not want to address is that Sharia law permits husbands beating their wives, <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/islamic-state-throws-gays-buildings-iraq">executing gay people</a>, and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/understanding-islamism/womens-rights-under-sharia">other</a> despicable things that would never be tolerated in western civilization.
Instead of teaching the nation about Sharia law&#8217;s regressive and illiberal tenets, SPLC will dedicate its resources to defending its proponents like Sarsour and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/29/i-m-a-muslim-reformer-why-am-i-being-smeared-as-an-anti-muslim-extremist.html">blacklisting Muslim reformers</a> like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center Is A Joke, And This Proves It

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Sexism

Ever since media figures <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/24/linda-sarsours-muslim-identity-politics-epitomize-feminisms-hypocrisy/">exposed</a> Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour for her history of defending <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/12659/tweet-one-womens-march-organizer-shows-how-nuts-ben-shapiro">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/21/womens-march-organizer-recently-met-ex-hamas-operative-has-family-ties-to-terror-group/">Hamas</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/530197072486473729">Sharia law</a>, Women&#8217;s March activists have came rushing to her defense.
Leftists started a #MarchWithLinda hashtag in solidarity with Sarsour, who once told pro-Israel activist Chloé Valdary that &#8220;she forgot where she came from&#8221; when the Valdary <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/180382/students-justice-palestine">slammed</a> Students for Justice in Palestine for their racist tactics.
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Do we have an anti-zionist racist on our hands? *SHOCK* <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">@lsarsour</a> careful your klansman mask is showing. <a href="http://t.co/Jekky16M1d">pic.twitter.com/Jekky16M1d</a>
&#8212; Chloé Simone Valdary (@cvaldary) <a href="https://twitter.com/cvaldary/status/495248789008289792">August 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
 Even the American Civil Liberties Union tweeted a message in support of Sarsour.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMarchWithLinda?src=hash">#IMarchWithLinda</a> <a href="https://t.co/tFAxcp3LSR">https://t.co/tFAxcp3LSR</a>
&#8212; ACLU National (@ACLU) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/823615285068529664">January 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
However, one of Sarsour&#8217;s biggest defenders is CNN commentator and &#8220;Hands Up Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/15/cnn-hands-up-host-under-fire-critics-claim-bias_n_6327546.html">propagator</a> Sally Kohn, who spent much of her time last night defending Sarsour, who has <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/10/23/taxpayers-should-not-be-funding-this-anti-american-hate-spewer/">celebrated</a> Palestinian-Arab terrorism that kills Jews.
Here are some examples of what Kohn wrote in Sarsour&#8217;s defense:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">@lsarsour</a> is one of my heroes and deserves admiration, not trolling. Step off haters. You&#8217;re outta your league. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMarchWithLinda?src=hash">#IMarchWithLinda</a>
&#8212; Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/823631812123455488">January 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Weird I would think those who insist they only hate Islamic *extremism* would love progressive Muslims like <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">@lsarsour</a> but? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImarchwithLinda?src=hash">#ImarchwithLinda</a> <a href="https://t.co/ehyeoHdRzF">https://t.co/ehyeoHdRzF</a>
&#8212; Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/823702877835141120">January 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Tweets are great but wanna *REALLY* show support for <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">@lsarsour</a>? Donate to organization she runs! <a href="https://t.co/2zKKp0KfGR">https://t.co/2zKKp0KfGR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMarchWithLinda?src=hash">#IMarchWithLinda</a>
&#8212; Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/823704847383834625">January 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Correction: A Muslim leader FIGHTING FOR WOMEN&#8217;S RIGHTS AND LGBT RIGHTS AND PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE is called an ALLY! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMarchWithLinda?src=hash">#IMarchWithLinda</a> <a href="https://t.co/LC8Vlrl1xM">https://t.co/LC8Vlrl1xM</a>
&#8212; Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/823728458249302016">January 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
In Kohn&#8217;s view, it does not matter that Sarsour defended Saudi Arabia&#8217;s misogyny, Sharia law, or Jew-hating genocidal terrorist groups. As long as Sarsour peddles the same &#8220;progressive&#8221; causes that she believes in, Kohn will see a hypocrite as a &#8220;hero&#8221; and as an inspiration to women across the world.
There is a word for Jews and Christians who submit to the will of Sharia law and radical Islamist supremacy. The word is &#8220;Dhimmi,&#8221; which refers to set of restrictions that Muslims imposed on Jews and Christians, including bearing arms, running for political office, and being forced to pay a tax in order to establish their submission to Islam. Suffice it to say, Sally Kohn played right into that description.
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You are a perfect Dhimmi. <a href="https://t.co/Y1Ee6r8MTs">https://t.co/Y1Ee6r8MTs</a>
&#8212; Elliott Hamilton (@ElliottRHams) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElliottRHams/status/823754346970148868">January 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Sally Kohn: Never Mind That Women’s March Organizer Supports Sharia Law. She’s An Ally!

Donald Trump

Sally Kohn

An imprisoned Iranian activist has ended his 71-day hunger strike after his wife was finally freed from prison after being detained last October. On the brink of collapse, Arash Sadeghi will be transported to a hospital and fed intravenously, according to his lawyer. He will be returned to prison after he is stabilized. Sadeghi himself is serving a 19-year jail sentence on trumped-up charges of &#8220;spreading propaganda against the system,&#8221; &#8220;gathering and colluding against national security&#8221; and &#8220;insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic.&#8221;
These charges, specifically &#8220;propaganda&#8221; and conspiracy against the state, have been leveled against dissidents for nearly a century, through the reign of the Shah to the rise of the Islamist Khomeini regime. The ambiguity of the charges enables the state to detain any and all opposition (both real and imagined) against its iron-fisted rule.
An illusory legal process, made up of kangaroo court proceedings, is an asset in every tyrant&#8217;s tool kit. It helps the autocratic state maintain its monopoly on violence.
As a victim of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s totalitarian governance, Sadeghi garnered national attention after subjecting his body to unbearable hunger for a number of weeks to protest his wife&#8217;s detention.
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&#8220;Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, was jailed in 2016 after police discovered an unpublished story she had written in a diary in which a character burns the Koran in protest,&#8221; <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38500746">reports</a> the BBC. &#8220;Ms Ebrahimi Iraee was detained on 24 October after officials raided her home, human rights group Amnesty International said. She had previously been convicted of &#8216;insulting Islamic sanctities&#8217; and &#8216;spreading propaganda against the system.&#8217;&#8221;
&#8220;Her unpublished story described the emotional reaction of a young woman who watches the film The Stoning of Soraya M, which in turn tells the true story of a young woman stoned to death,&#8221; adds the BBC. &#8220;Iranian authorities found the piece, written in a private diary, on 6 September 2014.&#8221;
Ebrahimi Iraee&#8217;s meta-narrative, exposing the grave injustices of the patriarchal Islamic society, was likely seen as an affront to Islam itself.
According to Amnesty, Sadeghi and Ebrahimi Iraee were detained by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces loyal only to the mullahs.
But Ebrahimi Iraee release has stunned even the folks at Amnesty International who had previously called her trial in Iran &#8220;farcical.&#8221;
The temporary order for release would have come straight from the top of the power totem pole in Tehran.
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Dear World congrats; Arash has broken his hunger strike on day 72 after his wife Golrokh was released from prison. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveArash?src=hash">#SaveArash</a> <a href="https://t.co/4B9NxbDj5Q">pic.twitter.com/4B9NxbDj5Q</a>
&#8212; KavehTaheri (@TaheriKaveh) <a href="https://twitter.com/TaheriKaveh/status/816264534142910468">January 3, 2017</a></blockquote>
Notably, authorities let Ebrahimi Iraee go just one day after hundreds of Iranians, mostly young and women, had gathered outside of Iran&#8217;s notorious Evin prison to call for the release of her husband.
In the ultimate expression of love, Sadeghi risked his life to save his wife, capturing the hearts of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Iranians living under the yoke of theocratic oppression. Sadeghi and Ebrhaimi Iraee became a real-life <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_and_Majnun">Layla and Majnun</a>, the cultural equivalent of a Romeo and Juliet.
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As his hunger strike continued into the 40th, 50th, and 60th day, Sadeghi began inspiring a movement. On the ground and online, #SaveArash brought together thousands of Iranians and dissident-allies around the world under the banner of freedom.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Illinois?src=hash">#Illinois</a> teacher/artist <a href="https://twitter.com/Marcnelsonart">@</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Marcnelsonart">Marcnelsonart</a>&#8216;s portrait of Arash Sadeghi, now on day 70 of hunger strike. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/savearash?src=hash">#savearash</a> <a href="https://t.co/HDMeVWO9lf">pic.twitter.com/HDMeVWO9lf</a>
&#8212; Wendy Widom (@wendywidom) <a href="https://twitter.com/wendywidom/status/815586424938516480">January 1, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Love is the soul&#8217;s light-Rumi 
Keep raising your song for Arash and Golrokh. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveArash?src=hash">#SaveArash</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveGolrokh?src=hash">#SaveGolrokh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash">#Iran</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Humanrights?src=hash">#Humanrights</a> <a href="https://t.co/redeTRZtst">pic.twitter.com/redeTRZtst</a>
&#8212; Marc Nelson (@Marcnelsonart) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marcnelsonart/status/816028183841697792">January 2, 2017</a></blockquote>
Defying the state in an unprecedented act of unpermitted protest, hundreds of Iranian marched on the physical embodiment of &#8220;hell on earth,&#8221; Evin prison, to demand justice for Sadeghi. In doing so, they risked their own safety. The symbolism of this protest cannot be overstated.
To stand in front of Evin prison is to come to terms with our own mortality. Here, the angel of death faithfully serves his patrons in Tehran.
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People gathered in front of Evin Prison this morning to support Arash Sadeghi &amp; his wife who wrote a short story about stoning. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveArash?src=hash">#SaveArash</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ukg8gBSkKM">pic.twitter.com/Ukg8gBSkKM</a>
&#8212; My Stealthy Freedom (@masihpooyan) <a href="https://twitter.com/masihpooyan/status/815874163785269248">January 2, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Family/friends of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArashSadeghi?src=hash">#ArashSadeghi</a> on Day 71 of hunger strike rally today outside Evin Prison chanting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeArash?src=hash">#FreeArash</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeGolrokh?src=hash">#FreeGolrokh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveArash?src=hash">#SaveArash</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash">#Iran</a> <a href="https://t.co/7lrIIihaPc">pic.twitter.com/7lrIIihaPc</a>
&#8212; M. Hanif Jazayeri (@HanifJazayeri) <a href="https://twitter.com/HanifJazayeri/status/815868208787890176">January 2, 2017</a></blockquote>
&#8220;To many Iranians, the concept of Evin prison is synonymous with political repression and torture,&#8221; Gissou Nia, executive director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/28/inside-evin-look-at-world-most-notorious-political-prison.html">told</a> FoxNews.com. &#8220;Today, anyone who is perceived to be a threat to the Iranian regime, including human rights defenders &#8230; is kept within the confines of Evin and other notorious prisons in Iran.&#8221;
Fox News <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/28/inside-evin-look-at-world-most-notorious-political-prison.html">reports</a>:
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Beatings, torture, mock executions and brutal interrogations are the norm at Evin prison, where for four decades the anguished cries of prisoners have been swallowed up by the drab walls of the low-slung lockup in northwestern Tehran. Standing at the foot of the Alborz Mountains, it is home to an estimated 15,000 inmates, including killers, thieves and rapists. But the prison has also held ayatollahs, journalists, intellectuals and dissidents over the years.
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The fate of Sadeghi is unknown. For now, his wife is out of prison and his hunger strike has ended. The protests have largely quieted down. The fact is, Sadeghi may very well languish in prison or mysteriously disappear in the imminent future.
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This is the power of the people! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveArash?src=hash">#SaveArash</a> who has stood tall against the regime of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash">#Iran</a>, has forced them to accept all his demands. <a href="https://t.co/7ir7gKgxwq">pic.twitter.com/7ir7gKgxwq</a>
&#8212; KavehTaheri (@TaheriKaveh) <a href="https://twitter.com/TaheriKaveh/status/816326854412042240">January 3, 2017</a></blockquote>
Iranian authorities knew exactly they were doing when they released Ebrahimi Iraee. It wasn&#8217;t an act of mercy or a genial courtesy. Releasing the Ebrhaimi Iraee was a calculated political decision. The state wanted to dry out the embers of popular unrest quickly before the unstoppable fire of resistance began burning in the bowels of the Iranian body politic. Unfortunately for the mullahs, this searing urge to be free isn&#8217;t going anywhere. It emerged with the collective force of a people undeterred during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Green_Movement">2009 Green Movement</a>, and it was resurrected once again outside of Evin prison on Monday. 

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Imprisoned Iranian Activist Ends 71-Day Hunger Strike After Wife Freed. Hundreds Protest Outside Iran’s Most Brutal Prison Demanding His Release.

Free Speech

Iran

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

The most extensive study ever conducted of British Muslims found what the researchers described as some &#8220;<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/738852/British-Muslims-Sharia-Law-enforced-UK-Islam-poll">deeply worrying</a>&#8221; results, including over 40 percent of British Muslims wanting to replace British law with at least some aspects of Sharia Law and widespread belief that the 9/11 terror attacks were either an American or Jewish conspiracy.
The <a href="https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/unsettled-belonging-a-survey-of-britains-muslim-communities/">study</a> was commissioned by the Westminster-based think tank Policy Exchange and included a survey of over 3,000 British Muslims by the highly regarded polling firm ICM. While the survey found general agreement among Muslims with the rest of the population on issues like immigration, unemployment and healthcare, views diverged sharply on law and terrorism. 
A total of 43 percent of British Muslims surveyed said they wanted at least parts of British law replaced by &#8220;particular aspects&#8221; of Islamic law (16 percent &#8220;strongly&#8221; supported; 25 percent &#8220;tend to support&#8221; the idea). Only 22 percent are opposed (9 percent are strongly). 
The widespread views on terrorism were even more eye-opening: 31 percent of British Muslims said the 9/11 terrorist attack was a conspiracy of the U.S. government, while 7 percent blamed the Jews. Only 4 percent believed Al Qaeda was behind the attack.
The conspiratorial views on 9/11 were not the only troubling results regarding radical Islam. More than a quarter (26 percent) surveyed said they did not believe that Islamic extremism even exists and nearly half (48 percent) said they would not turn someone over to police if they knew the person was linked to terrorism.
In his foreword to the study, Labour MP Khalid Mahmood addresses the problem of this &#8220;paranoid and at times fearful worldview&#8221;:
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It is obviously a cause for concern that so many within our communities should doubt the very existence of this phenomenon, even as we face a severe and on-going terrorist threat.
Even more startling is the fact that so many British Muslims seem ready to entertain wild and outlandish conspiracy theories about the way the world works, believing that dark forces are at work to &#8216;do us down&#8217; as Muslims. From the attacks of 9/11, down to the more recent conflict in Syria, too many people seem ready to believe that these events are being deliberately organised and manipulated &#8211; whether by the American Government, Jews, or some other force &#8211; with the express intention of damaging Muslims. &#8230;
This readiness to believe in conspiracy theories and the mentality of victimhood to which it speaks is having a pernicious effect on British Muslims and the way they see the world. It is holding us back &#8211; as a community &#8211; and ensuring that we remain locked in a paranoid and at times fearful worldview. 
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Another one of the study&#8217;s authors, Dr. Martyn Frampton, called the many conspiratorial views on terrorism among the UK&#8217;s Muslim population &#8220;deeply worrying.&#8221; 
&#8220;Unlike the general population, nearly a third of British Muslims believe the American government was responsible for the attacks on the Twin Towers, while a surprisingly tiny number attributed blame to al-Qaeda,&#8221; said Frampton. 
Some positive findings in the study included that, like the British people in general, British Muslims overwhelmingly condemned terrorism (90 percent). They also felt strong connection to England. A total of 55 percent supported seeing more police on the streets for the protection of the population. 
For more on Muslims&#8217; views on terrorism and Sharia Law, see <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/22/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/">Pew Research Center&#8217;s study of Muslims and Islam</a>. 
H/T <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/738852/British-Muslims-Sharia-Law-enforced-UK-Islam-poll">Express</a>. 
Top image (Getty Images): &#8220;Muslims arrive to protest against the killing of Osama bin Laden outside the US embassy in Mayfair on May 6, 2011 in London, England. The demonstration, which was called by radical Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, was in close proximity to a rival protest by the English Defense League who were celebrating the death of the al-Queda leader.&#8221;

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