Chapter 12: What Do Muslims Bring to Western Societies?

Let me make it clear I do not dislike Muslims per se.

In fact I know a young Muslim couple who are two of the nicest people you could ever meet. The husband works hard all week at his small trade-related business and on weekends likes to go fishing. His wife works for a law firm.

I have been to their home a number of times and have never seen her wear any type of head covering. On the contrary, she enhances her intrinsic beauty by wearing make-up, high heels and form-fitting jeans. They are both Iranian (or Persian, as they prefer to be called).

They are probably nominal Muslims, but whatever the case, they are a credit to their host country. They have assimilated into the Australian way of life and are making a positive contribution to our country.

I would welcome more such immigrants.

Unfortunately, such Muslims are very much in the minority.

The problem is the threat posed by Islamists demanding the imposition of sharia law, with the ultimate aim of creating an Islamic theocracy together with the threat posed by their military arm, the Islamic terrorists.

The support may just be a secret admiration that the jihadists are doing Allah’s work (passive terrorists), or it may be more overt, such as providing finance or sanctuary for the jihadists. In any event, the jihadists and Islamists depend upon significant networks to carry out their nefarious activities.

I prefer to call the significant number of so-called “moderates” as non-combatants. They assist the jihadists by simple actions like insisting on wearing Muslim dress, building mosques to intimidate and dominate enclaves, and demanding the imposition of sharia and the payment of halal taxes.

It’s a numbers game – the more Muslims in a country, the more Islamists and potential terrorists. The only way to deal decisively with the problem is to ban all further Muslim immigration.

First, let’s review what the majority of Muslims contribute to Western society.

Female genital mutilation

In the period April 2015 to March 2016, Britain recorded 5,702 new cases of female genital mutilation, equivalent to more than 100 cases every week. FGM has been illegal in Britain since 1985, with the original law strengthened in 2003 to prevent girls taken abroad for the practice, yet so far no convictions have been brought. Eighteen of the cases recorded over the year were known to have been undertaken in the UK.[i]

The figures covering the period of April 2015 to March 2016, were collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre and represent the first ever set of annual statistics on the practice.[ii]

Most shockingly, the report found that the 5- to 9-year-old age group was the most common age range at which FGM was undertaken, accounting for 43 per cent (582 cases) of the total number where the age at the time of undertaking was known.

Previous studies into FGM have found that girls living in Britain are often taken abroad at the beginning of the summer holidays to undergo FGM in their ancestral countries. Consequently, Kam Thandi from the British charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), said most calls to its helpline regarding FGM are made in July.

She told the BBC: “It’s a perfect opportunity for young people who are being forced to undergo this procedure, to have the procedure, and also heal by the time they come back to this country and re-engage with school.”[iii]

Defrauding welfare systems

As many Muslims see it, it is only natural to extract money from the infidels by robbing them or making them pay the jizya. The welfare payments they receive in the West are not seen as generosity to the underprivileged, but as jizya, to which they are divinely entitled because Allah decreed in the Quran that dhimmis have to pay tribute to Muslims.[iv]

84 per cent of “non-Western” migrants in Denmark are on welfare.

Migrants of a “non-Western origin” are massively over-represented in Denmark’s benefits system, according to figures from the country’s Ministry of Employment.[v]

Of all totally dependent families in Denmark, some 84 per cent of married couples, where both partners are on social assistance (i.e., state benefits), are “non-Western origin” migrants. In total, a third of all cash paid out in benefits every month goes to these non-Western migrants in Denmark, according to the latest figures obtained by the Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet.[vi]

These figures might be considered especially high as, among Denmark’s working-age population, non-Western migrants make up just eight per cent of residents. The paper reports experts confirm the phenomenon of a minority group of eight per cent of the population making up such a significant part of the claimant count, and concede that it is a “large and especially expensive problem.”

It is estimated Denmark’s migrants cost the government some 11 billion crowns (£1.1 billion) a year, reports another Danish newspaper, BT, which is a significant sum for a country of just five and a half million people.[vii]

Danish jihadists on unemployment benefits

Television 2 Denmark reported on May 18, 2015, that 32 Danish jihadists have collected unemployment benefits totalling 379,000 kroner ($55,000) while fighting with Islamic State in Syria, according to information from Danish Security Intelligence Service documents.[viii]

The welfare fraud was discovered after the Danish intelligence agency, PET, began sharing data about known Danish jihadists with the Ministry of Employment to determine if any of these individuals were receiving unemployment benefits.

The Danish newspaper, BT, revealed in an article in April 2015, that the parents of Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein – a Danish-Jordanian jihadist responsible for the terror attacks in Copenhagen in February 2015 in which two people died – have been welfare recipients in Denmark for more than 20 years. Omar’s parents received a total of 3.8 million kroner between 1994 and 2014, amounting to roughly 500,000 euros or $560,000.[ix]

Germany

Asylum-seekers in Germany received nearly €5.3 billion ($5.91 billion) in welfare benefits in 2015, more than double the cost in 2014. Some 975,000 asylum-seekers received benefits in 2015, more than double the number in 2014, the Federal Statistical Office said. In total, Germany paid asylum-seekers €5.27 billion in support, ranging from lodging to food and medical treatments, up from €2.4 billion in 2014.

This is just part of the total amount the German state spent on helping migrants in 2015, since the statistics only include asylum-seekers – including rejected applicants who cannot be deported, and who are not recognized refugees, most of whom are eligible for income support. Only a minute fraction of the roughly 1 million migrants who entered Germany in 2015 have found work.[x]

The German finance ministry reported in July 2016 that it expected to spend $86 billion over the next four years feeding, housing and training refugees, according to updated budget estimates for the period from 2017 to 2020.

One of the more interesting cases of a refugee claiming social welfare benefits in Germany is Syrian refugee, “Ghazia A.” (his surname is not disclosed), who fled Syria in 2015 and headed for Germany via Turkey, accompanied by his four wives and 23 children.

According to Muslim tradition, a man is allowed to have up to four wives as long as he can support them financially. However, Germany does not officially recognize polygamy.

Ghazia had to choose one of the women as an “official” wife in order for him and the rest of the family to claim social welfare benefits, the German magazine Bild reported.[xi] He opted for his “main” wife Twasif and five children, while the other three women have been officially called his “partners” by the authorities.

The man now lives in the community of Montabaur in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. His other three wives had to split the remaining children between them and were moved by the authorities into various neighboring communities.

A neighbor of Ghazia told the news outlet that the refugee is often absent from his “main” family while visiting other wives and children, living within a radius of some 50 kilometers.

“According to our religion, I have the duty to visit each family equally and not to prioritize any of them,” Ghazia A. told Bild.

A German finance expert, Hubert Königstein, released his calculation of what the German state is paying to the entire family annually. On the website of the Employers’ Association he estimated that the refugee family is getting roughly 360,000 euros per year.[xii]

It is difficult to see how Ghazia could ever have time for a job if he is to fulfill his Islamic duties in regularly visiting his family spread out over a 50-kilometre radius. And why would he look for a job? 360,000 euros a year will keep bread on the table.

United States

More than 90 per cent of recent refugees from Middle Eastern nations are on food stamps and nearly 70 per cent receive cash assistance, according to government data.

In September 2015, the U.S. Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, chaired by Republican Senator for Alabama, Jeff Sessions (who, in 2017, was appointed Attorney-General in the Donald Trump administration), highlighted data obtained from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR): in 2013, 91.4 per cent of Middle Eastern refugees (accepted to the U.S. between 2008-2013) received food stamps, 73.1 per cent were on Medicaid or Refugee Medical Assistance and 68.3 per cent were on cash welfare.

Middle Eastern refugees used a number of other assistance programs at slightly lower rates. For example, 36.7 per cent received Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), 32.1 per cent received Supplemental Security Income (SSI), 19.7 per cent lived in public housing, 17.3 per cent were on General Assistance (GA), and 10.9 per cent received Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA).[xiii]

Britain

Over 50 per cent of male UK Muslims are on welfare. More than 21 per cent of British Muslims have never worked, compared to only 4.3 per cent of the whole population that has never worked.[xiv]

Radical Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary, who lives off the British welfare state, has been filmed urging his followers to quit their jobs and claim unemployment benefits so that they will have more time to plot holy war against non-Muslims.

Excerpts of the speech, have drawn renewed attention to the growing problem of Muslims in Britain and elsewhere who are exploiting European welfare systems.[xv]

In the video, Choudary – a former lawyer – is recorded as saying that Muslims are justified in taking money from non-Muslims.

Speaking to a group of Muslim men, Choudary mocks non-Muslims for working in nine-to-five jobs their whole lives. He says: “You find people are busy working the whole of their life. They wake up at 7 o’clock. They go to work at 9 o’clock. They work for eight, nine hours a day. They come home at 7 o’clock, watch EastEnders [a British soap opera], sleep, and they do that for 40 years of their life. That is called slavery…. What kind of life is that? That is the life of the Kuffar [a non-Muslim].”

Choudary, who is married and has four children, enjoys a rather comfortable lifestyle that is being paid for by British taxpayers, year after year. In 2013, for example, the Daily Mail reported that he takes home more than £25,000 ($38,000) a year in welfare benefits.

Among other handouts, Choudary receives £15,600 a year in housing benefit to keep him in a £320,000 ($485,000) house in Leytonstone, East London. He also receives £1,820 council tax allowance, £5,200 income support and £3,120 child benefits. Because his welfare payments are not taxed, his income is equivalent to a £32,500 ($50,000) salary.

By comparison, the average annual earnings of full-time workers in Britain was £26,500 in 2012.

Britain’s benefits system is being abused to fund terrorism, a senior police officer has warned.

Terri Nicholson, from the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command unit, said that taxpayers’ money was being claimed fraudulently and used by terrorists in countries such as Iraq and Syria.

She said there had been “a number of cases” recently of terrorists making fraudulent student loan claims to fund their activities.

Ms. Nicholson, a Met Assistant Commander, said terrorists were using “innovative” techniques to send money abroad. “We are seeing a diverse fraud, including substantial fraud online, abuse of the benefits system, abuse of student loans, in order to fund terrorism,” she said.[xvi]

Australian jihadist on disability support pension

One of Australia’s most-wanted terrorists and a suspected war criminal, Khaled Sharrouf, continued to receive a taxpayer-funded disability support pension months after arriving on the battlefields of Syria.

Sharrouf, who fled Australia for Syria using his brother’s passport, continued to receive his disability support pension at least until February 2014, about two months after he left Australia bound for Syria.[xvii]

Sharrouf, who was convicted and served three years and nine months for his role in a terror plot, arrived in Syria in December 2014 and soon distinguished himself as one of the most brutal Australian fighters to emerge on the Syrian battlefield. He gained global infamy after posting pictures of his young son holding a severed head.

Revelations that the former Sydney man was paid his regular fortnightly disability cheque – $766 a fortnight – long after authorities knew he was gone, raise the possibility that the Australian taxpayer may have been inadvertently funding his terrorist activities.

A federal government investigation into the welfare status of Australian foreign fighters, prompted in 2015 by revelations in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, shows 96 per cent had been on welfare benefits when they fled to the Middle East.

Most had continued to collect payments from Australian taxpayers while training with Islamic State to become terrorists intent on wanting to kill Australians.

The investigation has captured the records of 57 Australians who left the country before October 2015 to fight with the Islamic State.

Of that number 55 have been confirmed to have been on welfare payments

Since then, an estimated 50 more Australians have illegally travelled to the Middle East to join IS, with most believed to have been claiming some form of benefit.

A subsequent audit of this group confirmed that most had been at one time in receipt of benefits such as Newstart, sickness, youth and carer’s allowances, as well as the Disability Support Pension.[xviii]

In an article for Sydney’s Daily Telegraph (February 20, 2015), Australia’s then Prime Minister Tony Abbott wrote that he was appalled that the majority of those Australian joining terror groups had benefited from the welfare system. He said:

As a nation, we were repulsed when images started appearing in the media last year of Australian members of the Islamist death cult gloating over the corpses of their victims and brandishing severed heads.

I was equally appalled when I was briefed last September that 55 out of 57 Australians then believed to be fighting in Syria and Iraq with ISIL and other terrorist groups had been on some form of welfare, including the Disability Support Pension.[xix]

Australian commentator, Michael Smith, after analysing a statistical paper produced by the Australian government, wrote an interesting article on his blog on August 4, 2013, in which he said:[xx]

I’ve chosen to study a cohort of overseas-born Australians and their uptake of Australian Government welfare payments.

76,451 Australians or 0.35% of our population was born in Lebanon.

Of that 76,451:

• 11,515 are on the Disability Support Pension. 1 in 6 Lebanese-born Australians.
• 1,315 receive a Wife Pension
• 5,714 receive a Carer Payment
• 8,991 receive a Carer Allowance
• 3,852 receive a Parenting Payment

Halal certification extortion rackets

According to a recent report, published by the World Halal Forum, global trade in halal food and beverages is currently estimated to be worth around US$1.4 trillion annually.[xxi] With Islam now considered to be the second-largest religion, and the fastest-growing, Muslims are soon expected to represent the largest share of global consumer spending.[xxii]

It has been reported that the halal market is currently worth 16 per cent of the entire global food industry and is predicted to rise to 20 per cent in the near future

The halal-certification protection-racket skims off billions from Western countries by way of an involuntary, and often hidden, tax on abattoirs, chicken-processors, a wide range of wholesale and retail food items, many restaurants and even transport companies. From there it flows to Islamic organizations to establish mosques, schools and, in some cases, the financing of terrorist organizations.

If you think halal certification does not affect you, then you may be surprised, and perhaps dismayed, to learn that a large number of the foods you buy in your local supermarket are paying the halal tax. Even producers of dairy products, such as milk, cheese and yoghurt (all natural halal products), are paying the halal tax.

Most international food-manufacturers pay the halal tax, including Cadbury, Mars, Maggi, Nestlé, Kraft, Kellogg’s, Campbell’s Soup, Sara Lee and many others. Nearly all major fast-food companies, including McDonalds, KFC and Burger King, pay the halal tax. Most kebab shops display the halal symbol.

The essence of halal is that any food is forbidden to Muslims if it includes blood, pork, alcohol, the flesh of carnivores or carrion, or comes from an animal which has not been slaughtered in the correct manner, which includes having its throat slit. Food labelled as halal invariably involves the payment of a fee. It does not extend to chocolate, but Cadbury lists 71 products which are halal, ranging from dairy milk chocolate to Freddo Frogs to Red Tulip chocolates.

The Quran 002.173 states:

He hath only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name hath been invoked besides that of Allah. But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits, then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-forgiving Most Merciful.

But it doesn’t say anything about Freddo Frogs.

Incredibly all sort of foods and products you would think have nothing to do with halal certification are being dragged in anyway, showing what a money-making racket this is.

Halal mainly involves meat. Much of the non-meat food supply is intrinsically halal, and thus does not require certification, including milk, honey, fish, vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and grains. Yet many producers and suppliers of such products pay for halal certification.

There are claims that certifiers put undue pressure on companies, blackmailing them with the threat of being branded anti-Islam or racist if they don’t comply. They can also be threatened with boycotts from organized Muslim groups; so the companies buckle and pay, building the cost into their products.

Australia has at least 21 halal-certifiers. One such certifier is the Supreme Islamic Council of Halal Meat in Australia, Inc. Reference to an extract of its 2014 financial statements reveals an income in 2014 from certification and halal audits of A$1.5 million, a nice little earner. For the two years 2013 and 2014, this organization has made donations of A$1,169,494. Under sharia law’s zakat rules, A$146,168 must go to the support of jihad.

According to Islamic law, it would not be permissible, or halal, for Islamic organizations providing halal certification not to pay zakat, which under Islamic law is obligatory for all Muslims, on the fees they charge.

And under zakat rules, as explained in Chapter 7, one eighth of zakat must go to supporting jihad.

Therefore, whenever you buy one of the many halal-certified products increasingly found in our Western countries, even without your knowledge and against your will, you are being subjected to sharia law and you are indirectly contributing to Islamic terrorists.

Sharia law – Islamization by stealth

The Arabic word sharia (sometimes spelled “shariah”), according to one modern English-language textbook on Islam, literally means “a straight path” (Quran 45:18) or an endless supply of water.”[xxiii] It is the term used to describe the rules of the lifestyles of Muslims, as ordained by Allah.

Sharia is held by mainstream Islamic authorities to be the perfect expression of divine will and justice and thus is the supreme law that must govern all of Muslims’ lives, from cradle to grave, irrespective of where they live.

Sharia contains categories and subjects called the branches of fiqh (literally “understanding”), including Islamic worship, property law, civil law, criminal laws, family relations, sexual conduct, inheritance, administration, taxation, international relations, war and military matters.

Islamic leaders have the belief that that Islamic law has every right to be put into practice in non-Muslim countries, and the insistence that a parallel legal system can function alongside civil and criminal codes adhered to by a majority of a country’s citizens.

Salafists desire a return to the Islamic caliphate. They do not respect secular states. They believe sharia law should constitute the only legal system in society, because it is divine law.

This creeping Islamization begins with authorities accommodating seemingly minor demands, such as allowing women to cover their hair at schools and at their places of employment. Then it progresses to the wearing of burkas or niqabs, then to demanding prayer rooms at airports, public places and places of employment.

Ultimately, sharia becomes the de facto law in the hundreds of “no-go” zones in Britain, France and major European cities.

A 2016 university study reveals the alarming conclusions that half of the Turks in Germany regard Islamic law as being above German law, and that

study, commissioned by the University of Münster, surveyed 1,201 respondents of Turkish ethnicity on a range of issues and found that many the youth are the most devout.

The hold extremely conservative views when it comes to the role of Islam in their lives.

The survey was designed to reflect the societal opinions of the 2.6 million Turkish residents in Germany and showed that 47 per cent believe that “following the tenets of [their] religion is more important to [them] than the laws of the land in which [they] live,” Der Spiegel reports.[xxiv]

First-generation migrants tend to be the most conservative, with 57 per cent of those polled believing that Islam is more important than state laws, and falls to just over one third by the second and third generations. The total number of people of Turkish descent that believe Islamic law trumps German law is therefore over one million.

Even more shocking is that one third of all those polled thought that “Muslims should strive to a societal order like that in the time of Mohammed,” meaning a return to 7th-century sharia law which the Islamic State claims to follow to the letter. First-generation migrants agreed with the sentiment at 36 per cent, and there was only a small drop to 27 per cent for second- and third-generation Turks.

While only seven per cent of the Turks surveyed believed that violence was justified in spreading Islam, one in five said that the threat from the Western world to Islam justified violent action by believers. The report noted that of the Turks polled “quite a few of them hold onto religious positions which don’t do much to counter the magnitude of suspicions and mistrust.”[xxv]

The spread of Islamic sharia law in Germany is far more advanced than previously thought, and German authorities are “powerless” to do anything about it, according to a 2011 book about the Muslim shadow justice system in Germany.

The 236-page book, titled Judges Without Law: Islamic Parallel Justice Endangers Our Constitutional State,[xxvi] which was authored by Joachim Wagner, a German legal expert and former investigative journalist for ARD German public television, says Islamic sharia courts are now operating in all of Germany’s big cities.[xxvii]

This “parallel justice system” is undermining the rule of law in Germany, Wagner says, because Muslim arbiters-cum-imams are settling criminal cases out of court without the involvement of German prosecutors or lawyers before law enforcement can bring the cases to a German court.

Settlements reached by the Muslim mediators often mean perpetrators are able to avoid long prison sentences, while victims receive large sums in compensation or have their debts cancelled, in line with sharia law, according to Wagner. In return, they are required to make sure their testimony in court does not lead to a conviction.

German police do investigate cases involving serious crimes. But parallel to that, special Muslim arbitrators, also known as “peace judges,” are commissioned by the families concerned to mediate and reach an out-of-court settlement.

In March 2007, Judge Christa Datz-Winter, a judge at Frankfurt’s family court created a furore when she quoted the Islamic Quran in a divorce case involving a 26-year-old German woman of Moroccan origin, who was terrified of her violent Moroccan husband, a man who had continued to threaten her despite having been ordered to stay away by the authorities. He had beaten his wife and allegedly had threatened to kill her.

Judge Datz-Winter refused to grant the divorce, arguing that a woman who marries a Muslim should know what she is getting herself into. In her ruling, the judge went so far as to quote Sura 4, verse 34 of the Quran. She wrote that the Quran contains “both the husband’s right to use corporal punishment against a disobedient wife and the establishment of the husband’s superiority over the wife.”[xxviii]

The insidious spread of sharia in Britain

Sharia law has steadily inveigled its way into British society by various means, including “Muslim patrols,” unofficial sharia courts and an audacious attempt by the Law Society to incorporate “sharia-compliant” wills into the British legal system.

Muslim gangs have been filmed loitering on streets in London and demanding that passers-by conform to Islamic sharia law.

Authorities have noticed a growing trend for some radical young Muslims to patrol their streets to impose a strict application of Islamic sharia law on Muslims and non-Muslims alike, in direct breach of British legal standards

One such group of self-proclaimed vigilantes, who call themselves Muslim London Patrol, are seen in several videos abusing people for drinking alcohol, for showing too much flesh and for being homosexual.

In one three-and-a-half minute video posted on YouTube on January 17, 2013, a number of hooded men are seen repeatedly shouting “This is a Muslim area” towards non-Muslim passers-by.

In another video, uploaded onto YouTube on January 23, 2013, one day after two gang members were arrested by London police, members of Muslim London Patrol are defiant. As the video opens, men are heard shouting, “Allah is the greatest! Islam is here, whether you like it or not. We are here! We are here! What we need is Islam! What we need is sharia!”

Next the men accost a woman passer-by. “We do not respect dolls who disobey God, we don’t respect them.” The woman, stunned, responds, “I am so appalled.” The men reply: “We don’t care if you are appalled at all.” She says: “This is Great Britain.” The men reply: “This is not-so-Great Britain, this is a Muslim area. We are vigilantes implementing Islam upon your own necks.”[xxix]

In December 2013, two members of the Muslim London Patrol were jailed at the Old Bailey for repeatedly trying to enforce sharia law in East London with threats and violence.

Jordan Horner, 19, and another Islamic extremist told one couple they could not hold hands while walking down the street, because it was in a “Muslim area.”

The radicals also attacked a group of men drinking in the road, and told a woman she would face “hell fire” because of the way she was dressed.

The court heard that Horner and the 23-year-old man drove alongside Joshua Bilton and Anna Reddiford in Bethnal Green, and started yelling at them through a megaphone.

The teenage convert shouted: “Let go of each other’s hands. This is a Muslim area!” – but the couple initially assumed it was a joke.

They stopped holding hands after the men repeated the message – and when they resumed walking, the car blocked their way until they let go.

Two weeks later, Horner and 36-year-old Ricardo MacFarlane attacked men drinking in Shoreditch, shouting: “Kill the non-believers.”

Horner then punched two of the group, hitting one man in the jaw and knocking out another man with a sucker punch to the head.

Horner, an associate of hate preacher Anjem Choudary who has declared he wants to bring sharia law to Britain, pleaded guilty to two charges of assault and two charges of using threatening words and behavior.

Horner was jailed for 68 weeks, MacFarlane for 12 months.[xxx]

In Britain “Muslims Against the Crusades,” a group founded in 2010 by Abu Assadullah, declared an Islamic Emirates Project.[xxxi] It set out to enforce its brand of sharia in 12 British cities, naming the two London boroughs of Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets among its targets. “Muslim patrols” took to the streets in these two boroughs and began enforcing a narrow view of sharia over unsuspecting locals.

Petrified Saturday-night revellers were stopped by hooded thugs in these so-called Muslim areas, who warned them that alcohol, “immodest” dress or homosexuality were now banned. To add to the humiliation of being threatened, all this was filmed and uploaded on to the Internet. Some shops in East London no longer felt free to employ uncovered women or sell alcohol for fear of violent reprisals.

The then Home Secretary, Theresa May (now Prime Minister), banned the group on November 11, 2011, making membership or support of the group a criminal offence.[xxxii]

In March 2014, the Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, attempted to insert some sharia law, in the form of “sharia–compliant” wills, into the British justice system. The Law Society produced a written guide on sharia succession rules to be used in British courts. The guide denies women an equal share of their inheritance and entirely excludes non-believers. It also means that children born outside of marriage, and adopted children, could also be denied their fair share.[xxxiii]

The guide states:

No distinction is made between children of different marriages, but illegitimate and adopted children are not Sharia heirs.

The male heirs in most cases receive double the amount inherited by a female heir of the same class. Non-Muslims may not inherit at all, and only Muslim marriages are recognized.

Similarly, a divorced spouse is no longer a Sharia heir, as the entitlement depends on a valid Muslim marriage existing at the date of death.[xxxiv]

The move by the Law Society provoked a storm of protest.

Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, an organization that campaigns for strict separation of the state from religious institutions and equality of religion before the law, said the move was a backwards step that would undermine British justice. He said:

The UK has the most comprehensive equality laws in the world, yet the Law Society seems determined to undermine this by giving approval to a system that relegates women, non-Muslims and children born out of wedlock to second-class citizenship.

Instead of running scared at any mention of sharia, politicians of all parties should face these issues square on and insist on the primacy of democratically-determined human rights-compliant law.

Laws determined by Parliament should prevail over centuries-old theocratic laws. We should have one law for all, not allowing any law to operate which disadvantages any sections of the community.[xxxv]

Baroness Caroline Cox, a cross-bench peer leading a parliamentary campaign to protect women from religiously-sanctioned discrimination, including from unofficial sharia courts in Britain, said it was a “deeply disturbing” development.

“This violates everything we stand for. It would make the Suffragettes turn in their graves.”

On previous occasions she has spoken out about the growth of “Islamic courts” resolving disputes. She once said:

No longer do we have a single legal code in our society.

Instead, alongside our own law, there is now effectively a parallel quasi-legal system operating within some Muslim communities.

Sharia law, imported from theocracies like Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, first began to be used here in a strictly limited form, dealing mainly with narrow issues like Islamic financial contracts.

But as the Muslim population has grown and the pervasive creed of multiculturalism has become ever more powerful, so sharia law has rapidly grown in influence within some communities.[xxxvi]

Following the massive protests, the Law Society backed down and quietly withdrew the guide notes in November 2014.

However the sharia courts will no doubt steadily increase in number over time and further attempts made to incorporate sharia into the British legal system.

Baroness Cox has observed: “There are now estimated to be no fewer than 85 sharia courts across the country – from London and Manchester to Bradford and Nuneaton. They operate mainly from mosques, settling financial and family disputes according to religious principles.”[xxxvii]

A look inside British sharia courts

Dr. Machteld Zee, a Dutch political scientist and legal scholar has carried out extensive research into sharia courts, mainly in the United Kingdom, much of it conducted by open-ended interviews, with selected experts in this area, ranging from academics and lawyers to a member of the House of Lords. But, most importantly, this author has personally attended hearings at sharia councils in Birmingham, London and Nuneaton.

Based on her research, Dr. Zee has published a book, Choosing Sharia? Multiculturalism, Islamic Fundamentalism and Sharia Councils.[xxxviii]

The academic, who describes herself as an atheist, was permitted to observe hearings at the Islamic Sharia Council (ISC), the country’s busiest sharia court in Leyton, East London.

The experience led her to conclude that sharia courts are condemning Muslim women to “marital captivity” and failing to properly protect victims of domestic violence.

She wrote:

In a toxic mix of religious fundamentalism, culture and tight-knit communities, sharia councils uphold the theory and practice of the strong hold men have over women.

During one hearing, Zee saw a judge declare that divorces granted in British courts are worthless to proper devout Muslims. “A secular judge does not do religious divorces,” she quotes him as saying. “Can a Kaffir (non-Muslim) come in and judge Islamic matters?”

During another ISC case, she says a qadi, or judge, refused to intervene even though a woman said her husband was effectively blackmailing her by denying her a divorce unless she gave him £10,000.[xxxix]

Zee says the vast majority of the cases involved women seeking to divorce absent husbands, due to the fact that under Islamic law, men only need to say “I divorce you” three times to separate from their wives – while women need the sanction of clerics, whom they must pay for the privilege.

“Sharia councils exist so that Islamic fundamentalists can promote their ideology whilst at the same time making money by letting women buy their freedom,” she observes.[xl]

Honor killings

So-called “honor killings” are a familiar concept in the Muslim world, and are perpetrated when a women is accused of bringing perceived “shame” on her family.

A second-generation Kurdish migrant living in Germany was publicly executed after refusing to marry her cousin. The westernized young woman was the victim of a “treacherous tradition,” her father said.

The 21-year-old was shot dead at a wedding in Hanover in Germany on March 13, 2016. Her father, named as Ghazi H., posted a shocking image of her lying in a pool of blood surrounded by distraught guests on Facebook.

Alongside the photo, he demanded justice for his daughter, and explained that their family had fled Iraq when his daughter was just three.

She had subsequently grown up as an independent, westernized young woman with German citizenship, and studying property management at college in Hanover.

“It is with the deepest sense of loss and pain that I announce the loss of my daughter. She died in a pool of her own blood, as a victim of a treacherous tradition,” he wrote.

The father added: “This murderer would not accept that! They decided to take revenge, to continue the tradition. At 10am, on March 13, she was killed with three shots to the head by her own cousin.”

He specified that his two brothers had tried to arrange the forced marriage with the young woman’s cousin, Sefin, 22, but she had refused.[xli]

The body of a 20-year-old Syrian woman, known only as Rokstan M., was unearthed from a shallow grave in the small town of Dessau in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on October 2, 2015. Her father and brothers allegedly stabbed her to death on her mother’s orders, after she had been gang-raped by three men. The rape left her “unclean” and the mother allegedly demanded the killing to restore the family’s honor.[i]

That by itself was newsworthy; but what was even more newsworthy was the fact that the news itself was not reported in any of Germany’s major daily newspapers or websites. The tabloid Bild-Zeitung ran the story, along with the regional press, while the arbiters of enlightened opinion buried it. Der Spiegel, the country’s biggest news site, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the newspaper of record, made no mention.[ii]

The case of Rokstan M. is heart-rending. She had found work in Germany as a translator for the government, but she knew her family would track her down and kill her. “I am awaiting death. But I am too young to die,” she had written on a social media profile. Her story deserves a line or two in the quality press. But it’s one of many that German leaders want to ignore.

Having fled to Germany two years ago following her ordeal in her Syrian homeland, Rokstan (pictured) had settled in the country and had been living in a house for single women.

But she returned to her family a few days before she was murdered.

According to authorities, she had integrated into German society and worked as a translator for refugees navigating their way through the country’s bureaucracy.

Her body was found in her family’s allotment in Dessau on Friday, October 2, 2015. A post-mortem examination showed that she had been stabbed several times.[iii]

Morsal O., a 16-year-old German-Afghan girl, had a lot to live for. According to friends, she laughed a lot and was a go-getter. She was a good student, had ambition and a lot ahead of her in life. But she was murdered on Friday, May 9, 2008. Her 23-year-old brother, Ahmad-Sobair O., with the help of a cousin, lured her to a parking lot near a subway station in the German port city of Hamburg under a false pretense and stabbed her 20 times with a knife.

 

 

Murder of teenage or young adult women by their fathers or other close male relatives is characteristic of classic honor killings and is not a pattern in non-immigrant Western populations.

For more than an hour, emergency doctors fought to save Morsal’s life, but she died on the way to the hospital. The girl’s parents rushed to the scene, but they weren’t allowed to attend to their daughter because they had forgotten their IDs in the midst of the turmoil.

Morsal died alone.[iv]

In sentencing 24-year-old Ahmad-Sobair O., to life imprisonment, Hamburg Judge Wolfgang Backen said, while reading the verdict, “He killed her out of pure intolerance,” adding that the murder was “treacherous” and a premeditated “bloodbath.”

His sentence sparked dramatic scenes in the court room. Far from disowning Ahmad-Sobair O., the convicted murder’s family and friends wailed and hit the security glass behind which he was sitting.

And, in a sign of contempt for Western justice, the accused himself began screaming, “You son of a whore! What is this, honour? I know no honour.”[v]

Between January 1996 and July 2005, some 55 honor killings were reported to the police in Germany alone. Yet it is difficult to record the crime because there is no official police definition.

Honor killings are part of Islamic culture

Although Sikhs and Hindus do sometimes commit such murders, honor killings, both worldwide and in the West, are mainly Muslim-on-Muslim crimes. To combat the epidemic of honor killings requires understanding of what makes these murders unique. They differ from plain and psychopathic homicides, serial killings, crimes of passion, revenge killings and domestic violence. Their motivation is different and based on codes of morality and behavior that typify Muslim culture.

In 2004, at a meeting in The Hague about the rising tide of honor killings in Europe, law-enforcement officers from the UK announced plans to begin reopening old cases to see if certain murders were, indeed, honor murders.[vi] The number of honor killings is routinely underestimated, and most estimates are little more than guesses that vary widely. Definitive or reliable worldwide estimates of honor killing incidence do not exist.

Most honor killings are not classified as such, are rarely prosecuted, or when prosecuted in the Muslim world, result in relatively light sentences.[vii] When an honor killing occurs in the West, many people, including the police, still shy away from calling it an honor killing. In the West, both Islamist and feminist groups, including domestic-violence activists, continue to insist that honor killings are a form of Western-style domestic violence or femicide (killing of women).[viii]

Just over half of these victims were daughters and sisters; about a quarter were wives and girlfriends of the perpetrators. The remainder included mothers, aunts, nieces, cousins, uncles, or non-relatives.

Honor killings are a family collaboration. Worldwide, two-thirds of the victims were killed by their families of origin.

Worldwide, more than half the victims were tortured, i.e., they did not die instantly but in agony. In North America, over one-third of the victims were tortured; in Europe, two-thirds were tortured; in the Muslim world, half were tortured. Torturous deaths include: a) being raped or gang-raped before being killed; b) being strangled or bludgeoned to death; c) being stabbed many times (10 to 40 times); d) being stoned or burned to death; e) being beheaded, or f) having one’s throat slashed.

Finally, worldwide, 58 per cent of the victims were murdered for being “too Western” and/or for resisting or disobeying cultural and religious expectations (see Table 1). The accusation of being “too Western” was the exact language used by the perpetrator or perpetrators. Being “too Western” meant that the woman was being seen as too independent, not subservient enough, refusing to wear varieties of Islamic clothing (including forms of the veil), wanting an advanced education and a career, having non-Muslim (or non-Sikh or non-Hindu) friends or boyfriends, refusing to marry one’s first cousin, wanting to choose one’s own husband, choosing a socially “inferior” or non-Muslim (or non-Sikh or non-Hindu) husband; or leaving an abusive husband.[ix]

Polygamy

Polygamy is legal in nearly 50 out of 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of them being Muslim majority countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.[x]

Several countries, such as the UK,[xi] the Netherlands,[xii] Sweden[xiii] and France, nevertheless recognize Muslim polygamous marriages if they were contracted abroad under certain circumstances, such as if polygamy is legal in the country where the marriage took place.

There are no official figures, but it is estimated that as many as 20,000 polygamous Muslim marriages exist in Britain. As of 2016, a husband and his first wife are paid up to £498.89 a month. Subsequent spouses living under the same roof receive about £173 per month. Under Britain’s new system of social security benefit, the Universal Credit, which is not expected to be fully implemented until 2021, subsequent wives will be able to claim a single person’s benefit, currently £317.83 per month.[xiv]

As an example, a non-working Muslim male with three wives and six children will receive benefits of £1,229.93, per month, and after the Universal Credit system is implement, this amount will rise to £1,520.78 This figure does not take into account numerous other welfare benefits such as rent assistance, healthcare, education and “social exclusion” benefits. In May 2016, the average weekly wage in the UK was £503 per week.[xv]

In France as polygamy was legal until 1993, the minimum estimate as early as 2006 was around 20,000 polygamous marriages.

In Germany, it was estimated in 2012 that, in Berlin alone, 30 per cent of all Arab men were married to more than one wife.[xvi]

In April, Swedish professor Göran Lind argued that it was time to “put one’s foot down” regarding polygamy in Sweden, after it was disclosed that Sweden had recognized “hundreds” of polygamous marriages contracted abroad. Professor Lind pointed out that polygamy is not compatible with Swedish law, especially the principles of equal treatment of spouses, the equality of all human beings, and the prohibition against discrimination on the basis of gender, as codified in the European Convention on Human Rights.[xvii]

One might add to those the principles enshrined in the UN’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Article 16, according to which:

States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in all matters relating to marriage and family relations and in particular shall ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women:

(a)    The same right to enter into marriage;

(b)   The same right freely to choose a spouse and to enter into marriage only with their free and full consent.[xviii]

In a German documentary from 2013, the journalists found that Muslim men used polygamy as a means to commit fraud and obtain more welfare benefits.[xix] The tactic was to have their wives claim at the employment center that they were single women who did not know the father of their children. The story works because Germany, like other European countries, has no way of ascertaining the existence of an Islamic marriage, especially as German law does not obligate women to inform the authorities of their marital status.[xx]

Mistreatment of women

More than 11,000 cases of so-called honor crime were recorded by UK police forces from 2010-14, new figures show.

The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organization, which obtained the data, called for a national strategy for police, courts and schools to follow.

The crimes are usually aimed at women, and can include abductions, beatings and even murders.

Scotland Yard commander Mak Chishty, who leads the Metropolitan Police’s hate crimes unit, said there was now a better understanding of the problem.

So-called honor crimes, he said, were acts which have been committed to protect or defend the supposed honor or reputation of a family and community.

Diana Nammi, director of the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organization – a charity that provides support to Middle Eastern women living in the UK who are facing “honor” violence – said the figures suggested that the incidence of the crime remained “consistently high” in the UK and that the issue was “not going away.”

She said: “Unfortunately they [the figures] do not show the real extent of the problem. So many crimes are unreported because the perpetrators are often the victim’s own family.”[xxi]

Anisa’s story

Anisa – not her real name – is a British Asian woman in her early 20s.

In 2015 she was staying in one of only a handful of safe houses in the UK just for Asian women, run by the charity Hestia, to protect her from her parents.

She said they believe she had shamed and dishonored her family by leaving her abusive husband:

My husband would beat me at least twice a week. If he wasn’t strangling me, he was punching me and slapping me. My parents knew what was going on and they let it happen.

When I ran away from my husband, my parents threatened to kill me if I didn’t go back. They see it as a big dishonour, like I’ve slated the family name.

I’m really scared they are going to find me and force me to go back, and if I refuse, they will kill me.[xxii]

“Crimes unreported”

The figures revealed 11,744 incidences of these crimes between 2010 and 2014, consisting of data from 39 out of 52 police forces in the UK. They included forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).

Criminality

Although politically-correct authorities in Western countries do their best to hide or obfuscate details of Muslim criminality, where statistics are available, they reveal that Muslims are grossly over-represented in criminal justice systems.

For example, Iranian sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar reported in April 2015 that of France’s 64,000 prisoners, 60 per cent were Muslim, yet Muslims make up less than 8 per cent of the population, and hence are nearly eight times over-represented.[xxiii]

American prisons hold over 143,000 Muslim prisoners. Based on data from 2011, the Pew Research Center estimated that Muslims made up 9 per cent of the 1,598,780 state and federal prisoners in the United States, yet represent just 0.8 per cent of the population. Muslims in the United States are thus over-represented in the prison population by 11.25 times their percentage of the population.

Prominent Dutch politician Geert Wilders claimed in an interview on the Dutch Public News Service (NOS), on March 12, 2014, that statistics reveal that 65 per cent of all Moroccan youths have been arrested by police and that one third of that group have been arrested more than five times.[xxiv]

Muslim “no-go zones” are a well-known fact of life in many parts of Europe.

These zones are indeed “off limits” to non-Muslims. Host-country authorities have effectively lost control over most no-go zones and are unable or unwilling to provide even basic public services, such as police, fire-fighting and ambulances out of fear of being attacked by Muslim youths.

Muslim enclaves in European cities are breeding Islamic drug syndicates that operate openly without fear of apprehension, and Islamic radicalism thrives posing a serious threat to Western security.

The gangs traffic in heroin and cocaine, run brothels or are active in the contraband-smuggling business. The brutality with which they carry out their activities has made them very powerful; the police are afraid of them. The state is passive with respect to these clans, and the politicians ignore the phenomenon.

In November 2003, retired New South Wales Detective Sergeant Tim Priest gave a speech titled The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia in which he talked about his experiences policing specific households of people of Lebanese descent and warned of the rise of Lebanese criminal gangs.[xxv]

Tim Priest spoke of the rapid rise of the Middle Eastern crime gangs around Sydney. He said:

The Lebanese groups were ruthless, extremely violent, and they intimidated not only innocent witnesses, but even the police that attempted to arrest them.

He went on to say:

The most influential of the Middle Eastern crime groups are the Muslim males of Telopea Street, Bankstown, known as the Telopea Street Boys. They and their associates have been involved in numerous murders over the past five years, many of them unprovoked fatal attacks on young Australian men for no other reason than that they are “Skips”, as they call Australians.

They have been involved in all manner of crime on a scale we have never seen before.

What sets the Middle Eastern gangs apart from all other gangs is their propensity to use violence at any time and for any reason.

And even more alarming is that the violence is directed mainly against young Australian men and women. There is a clear and definite link between violent attacks on our young men and women being racial as well as criminal. Quite often when taking statements from young men attacked by groups of Lebanese males around Darling Harbour, a common theme has been the racially motivated violence against the victims simply because they are Australian.

In his very prescient conclusion, Tim Priest warned:

There is also the serious possibility that some of these Middle Eastern youth that are engaged in organised crime and have no regard for our values and way of life may go a step further and engage in terrorist acts against Australia. The ingredients are there already. It is but a small step from urban terrorism to religious and political terrorism, as we have seen with groups such as the IRA, where organised crime often became interwoven with terrorism.[xxvi]

Authorities are becoming increasingly concerned about the link between criminal networks and Islamic terrorism.

Chris Dawson, head of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), has warned of the authorities’ concerns. In 2016 he told the Perth newspaper, The Sunday Times:

Yes they should (be concerned) because we are increasingly seeing a nexus between criminality and terrorism.

Whether they become ideologues and radicalised to a jihadist extremist view, we see a high proportion of people that the Australian authorities are dealing with that have connections with serious and organised crime groups whether that be through financing (or) through acquiring weapons.

You’ve only got to look at the profile of the attackers in France, Belgium, Denmark, Canada and other places and you will see these people have, at times, strong criminal histories or they’ve been known to law enforcement for some time.[xxvii]

Sexual assaults against women

In the German city of Cologne, the cathedral opposite the main train station used to be the traditional gathering spot for New Year’s Eve revellers.

On New Year’s Eve 2015, as Germans poured out from the train station to celebrate the New Year, they were met by a crowd of some 2,000 young men. The men, according to German police, seemed to be of Arab or North African origin. They had taken over the entire public square in front of the station, and divided themselves into smaller gangs to surround women who were passing by. They then sexually assaulted them, and stole their wallets, purses and phones.

“Shortly after midnight, the first women came to us,” an unnamed policeman said. “Crying and in shock they described how they had been severely sexually harassed. We went to look for women in the crowd. I picked one up from the ground. She was screaming and crying. Her underwear had been torn from her body.”

Even large groups of girls travelling together were not spared by the immigrants at Cologne railway station and in other German cities, as gangs of up to 40 men moved to attack at once in the early hours of New Year’s Day. Michelle, an 18-year-old German woman, was walking to the station at 11:00 pm on New Year’s Eve with a group of friends when they were attacked. The German news channel, N-TV, reported her words, as follows:

We were eleven people on the go. At eleven o’clock we were at the main station and walked to the Rhine in order there to watch the fireworks. Even then we already noticed many men.

We were at the cathedral and from there walked to the Ludwig Museum and passed down to the Rhine. There were suddenly 20 to 30 men who surrounded us, and more and more came.[xxviii]

The men then moved in and, despite the girls’ screaming, began to molest their victims. Michelle told the television station about how the assailants, after getting through the girls’ thick winter clothes, started touching them on the legs, back, buttocks and upper body. She said they protested, but the men didn’t appear to understand German. “They were all foreigners,” she said.

In tears after their ordeal, the girls later realized after their escape that they had been stripped of their mobile phones, purses, cigarettes and electronics. They were unable to find a police officer to report the incident to.[xxix]

Police were initially accused of trying to cover up the scale of the attacks and the identities of the attackers amid fears of a backlash against newly-arrived migrants.

But after footage of the incident emerged on social media and reports of attacks in other cities spread, officers were forced to admit that at least 1,200 women had been targeted in Cologne alone.

The attacks fuelled huge anger and concern in Germany, coming just months after Chancellor Angela Merkel had controversially decided to welcome more than a million migrants and refugees from the Middle East and North Africa.

According to leaked police intelligence report more than 2,000 men were involved in the mass sex attacks.[xxx]

Holger Münch, president of the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany’s federal criminal police authority, said: “There is a connection between the emergence of this phenomenon and the rapid migration in 2015.”

He added many of those responsible for the sex attacks would probably escape justice because of limited CCTV footage and the fact many were masked.

He said: “We have to presume that many of these crimes will never be fully investigated.”[xxxi]

More than six months after mobs of Muslim men sexually assaulted the women in Cologne and other German cities on New Year’s Eve, a German court finally issued the first two convictions: The District Court of Cologne gave a 20-year-old Iraqi, identified only as Hussain A., and a 26-year-old Algerian, Hassan T., a one-year suspended sentence and then released both men. Hussain, who was 20 at the time, was sentenced under juvenile law and was ordered to attend an integration course and do 80 hours of community service.

The newspaper, Bild, published photographs of a jubilant Hassan smiling as he left the courtroom.[xxxii] An observer said the light sentence was a mockery of justice and would serve as an invitation for criminal migrants to do as they please with German women.

The Cologne attacks are symptomatic of rapes and sexual assaults against local girls and women in every European country with large numbers of Muslim immigrants and refugees. Muslim men are highly over-represented in all convictions for sex attacks in these countries.

Following the news of the New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne, Germany, news broke in Sweden that a large number of sexual assaults against girls and women had occurred at the music festival, “We Are Sthlm” [short for Stockholm], in both 2014 and 2015, but had been covered up by both the police and the media. The National Police Commissioner, Dan Eliasson, immediately launched an investigation to find out the scope of the problem.

The results were presented in May 2016 in a report, The Current Situation Regarding Sexual Assault and Proposals for Action – and the conclusions are frightening. Almost all the perpetrators who attacked in groups, and who have been apprehended, are citizens of Afghanistan, Eritrea and Somalia – three of the four largest immigrant groups in Sweden who fall into the category of “unaccompanied refugee children.”[xxxiii]

Terrorism and jihad

There are numerous calls to violent jihad in the Quran. But the Quran is hardly alone. In much of Islam, jihad is a thoroughly modern concept. The 20th-century jihad “bible,” and an animating work for many Islamist groups today, is The Quranic Concept of War, a book written in the mid-1970s by Pakistani General S.K. Malik. He argues that because God (i.e., Allah) himself authored every word of the Quran, the rules of war contained in the Quran are of a higher caliber than the rules developed by mere mortals.

In Malik’s analysis of Quranic strategy, the human soul – and not any physical battlefield – is the center of conflict. The key to victory, taught by Allah through the military campaigns of the Prophet Muhammad, is to strike at the soul of your enemy. And the best way to strike at your enemy’s soul is through terror.

Terror, Malik writes, is “the point where the means and the end meet.” Terror, he adds, “is not a means of imposing decision upon the enemy; it is the decision we wish to impose.”

“I am a soldier of the Caliphate and am launching a martyrdom operation in Germany…. I have lived among you, lived in your homes. I planned this in your own land. And I will slaughter you in your own homes and in the streets…. I will slaughter you with this knife and sever your necks with an ax, if Allah permits.” – Germany’s axe-attacker, in an Islamic State video, July 2016.

A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker, brandishing an axe and shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is the greatest”), seriously injured five people on a train in Würzburg, Bavaria. The assailant was shot dead by police after he charged at them with the axe.[xxxiv]

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said police had found a hand-painted Islamic State flag in his room at his foster home in the nearby town of Ochsenfurt. They also found a farewell letter to his father, which read:

“Now pray for me so that I can take revenge on these infidels. Pray for me that I can get to paradise.”

The teenager, who had claimed asylum after arriving in Germany in June 2015 as an unaccompanied minor, had been placed with a foster family just two weeks before the attack as a reward for being “well integrated.”

Shortly after the attack, the Islamic State released a video purporting to show the Afghan asylum-seeker holding a knife and making threats against Germany:

France church attack: priest killed, IS group claims responsibility

On July 26, 2016, two men pledging allegiance to Islamic State attacked a Roman Catholic church during Mass, killing a priest and gravely injuring another person in the first assault on a church amid a string of previous terrorist attacks on Western Europe.

The knife-wielding jihadists launched their assault by taking five people hostage inside the church in the Normandy town of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, south of Rouen, where Father Jacques Hamel, the parish’s 85-year-old auxiliary priest, was leading prayers.

A nun escaped and called the police, who then surrounded the church and attempted to negotiate with the attackers.

Two nuns and one worshipper then exited the church followed by the two attackers, one carrying a handgun, who charged police shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) before being shot.

One of the attackers was identified as Adel Kermiche. French authorities said a young man who was under court order to wear an electronic bracelet for trying to travel to Syria.

Kermiche, a 19-year-old who grew up in France, was detained in Turkey in 2015 while trying to reach Islamic State’s stronghold in northern Syria, French authorities said. He was ordered to wear the bracelet after a French court convicted him on terrorism charges in March 2016.

A nun who fled the scene told French TV she saw the attackers force Father Hamel to kneel before cutting his throat. The jihadists recorded the attack and “did a sort of sermon around the altar in Arabic,” she said.

Islamic State’s Amaq news agency reported that two “soldiers” carried out the Normandy church attack.

“They carried out the operation in response to the call to target the countries of the crusader coalition,” the Amaq statement said. It released a video that it said showed the two attackers pledging allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The video, posted on Amaq, showed two bearded men calling themselves Abu Omar and Abu Jalil al-Hanafi holding hands as they swore “obedience” to the IS leader.

French President François Hollande confirmed that the attackers had sworn allegiance to the extremist group.[i]

The jihadist murder of Jacques Hamel marked the end of innocence in the 21st-century Christian West. It was the first time Islamic State jihadists have entered a Western church to kill a priest. Following the attack, Pope Francis said that the world was at war, but he denied its roots were religious. Instead, rather amazingly, he ascribed jihadism to a battle over resources and money.

Empirical evidence suggests that the Pope is wrong – gravely so. The murder of Father Hamel was inspired by Islamism, motivated by hatred of Christians, enacted by jihadists and responsibility for the deed claimed by Islamic State. In its propaganda magazine Dabiq, Islamic State vowed that Christians “will not have safety, even in your dreams, until you embrace Islam.”

It predicted: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women.”[ii]

Following the attack, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he would consider a temporary ban on foreign financing of mosques, urging a “new model” for relations with Islam after the spate of jihadist attacks.

France has just over 2,000 mosques for one of Europe’s largest Muslim populations of around five million, and some large mosques have reportedly been financed by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf or northern African countries.

Terrorist attacks of increasing frequency and intensity have become an unfortunate fact of life for citizens of Western Europe in recent years.

Here are just a few headline incidents perpetrated by the “religion of peace” between December 2016 and October 2017:

October 31, 2017

An Islamic terrorist drove a rented pickup truck into cyclists and runners for about one mile (1.6 kilometers) of the Hudson River Park’s bike path alongside West Street from Houston Street south to Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The vehicle-ramming attack killed eight people and injured eleven others.

A flag and a document indicating allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were found in the truck.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevich Saipov, who had immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, with destruction of a motor vehicle and providing material support for a terrorist.

August 17, 2017

On the afternoon of August 17, 2017, 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into pedestrians on La Rambla in Barcelona, Spain, killing 13 people and injuring at least 130 others, one of whom died 10 days later on August 27. Abouyaaqoub fled the attack on foot, then killed another person in order to steal the victim’s car to make his escape.

Nine hours after the Barcelona attack, five men thought to be members of the same terrorist cell drove into pedestrians in nearby Cambrils, killing one woman and injuring six others. All five attackers were shot and killed by police.

The night before the Barcelona attack, an explosion occurred in a house in the Spanish town of Alcanar, destroying the building and killing two members of the terrorist cell; including the 40-year-old imam thought to be the mastermind. The home had over 120 gas canisters inside, which police believe the cell was attempting to make into one large bomb or three smaller bombs to be placed in three vans which they had rented; but which they accidentally detonated. 

June 3, 2107

An Islamist terrorist attack occurred in London, United Kingdom, where a van left the road and struck a number of pedestrians on London Bridge. After the van crashed, its three occupants ran to the nearby Borough Market area and began stabbing people in and around restaurants and pubs.

Eight people were killed and 48 were injured, including four unarmed police officers who attempted to stop the assailants. The three attackers, who wore fake explosive vests, were later shot dead by police.

May 22, 2017

Manchester Arena bombing

A suicide bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, detonated an improvised explosive device, packed with nuts and bolts to act as shrapnel, in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena. The attack took place after an Ariana Grande concert that was part of her 2017 Dangerous Woman Tour. 14,200 people attended the concert.

Twenty-three people were killed, including the attacker, and over 500 were injured. Many exiting concert-goers and waiting parents were in the foyer at the time of the explosion. According to evidence presented at the coroner’s inquest, the detonation of the bomb killed people who were up to 20 meters away.

Greater Manchester Police declared the incident a terrorist attack and suicide bombing. It was the deadliest attack in the United Kingdom since the July 7, 2005, London bombings.

April 9, 2017

Palm Sunday church bombings

On Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017, following ISIS calls for attacks on Christians, twin suicide bombings took place at St. George’s Church in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta on the Nile delta, and Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the principal church in Alexandria, seat of the Coptic papacy. At least 45 people were reported killed and 126 injured. Amaq News Agency said the attacks were carried out by a security detachment of the ISIS.

December 31, 2016:

10-year-old girl used as a human bomb in Nigeria attack

One person was seriously injured when a suicide bomber aged around 10 blew herself up in a New Year’s Eve (2016) attack in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

“The girl walked towards the crowd, but she blew up before she could reach her target,” said witness Grema Usman who lives in the area.

“She died instantly, while one person was seriously hurt after he was hit by shrapnel.”

“(Judging) from her corpse, the girl was around ten years old,” Usman said.

An aid worker involved in the evacuation of the body gave a similar estimate of the bomber’s age.

“The girl was clearly not more than 10 and this could have made her too nervous, making her to detonate the explosives prematurely,” the aid worker suggested.[iii]

December 11, 2016:

Two girls of just seven blow themselves up in a suicide-bomb attack in Nigeria

Two seven-year-old girls blew themselves up in a suicide-bomb attack at a market in Nigeria.

The explosions in the Maiduguri, which lies in the Boko Haram stronghold of Borno state, killed both the girls and one other person, while 18 were left injured.

A member of the Maiduguri militia said he saw the girls immediately before the explosion.

“They got out of a rickshaw and walked right in front of me without showing the slightest sign of emotion,” he said.

“I tried to speak with one of them, in Hausa and in English, but she didn’t answer. I thought they were looking for their mother,” he added.

“She headed toward the poultry-sellers, and then detonated her explosives belt.”

The other young girl exploded her belt shortly after.[iv]

[i]       Matthew Dalton and Noemie Bisserbe, “France scrambles to step up security measures after church attack”, Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2016 [paywall-protected article].
URL: www.wsj.com/articles/french-religious-leaders-urge-solidarity-after-church-attack-1469615378

[ii]       “Breaking the Cross”, Dabiq (Islamic State magazine), Issue 15, 2016, available from Clarion Project (Washington, DC).
URL: www.clarionproject.org/factsheets-files/islamic-state-magazine-dabiq-fifteen-breaking-the-cross.pdf

[iii]      AFP, “10-year-old girl used as human bomb in Nigeria New Year’s Eve attack”, Yahoo! News, January 1, 2017.
URL: www.yahoo.com/news/10-old-girl-used-human-bomb-nigeria-years-115733193.html

[iv]      Associated Press, “Girl suicide bombers killed in Nigeria terror attack, witnesses say”, Fox News, December 11, 2016.
URL: www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/11/girl-suicide-bombers-killed-in-nigeria-terror-attack-witnesses-say.html

[i]       Allan Hall, “Syrian gang rape victim who fled to Germany after her ordeal is stabbed to death in honour killing”, Daily Mail (UK), October 7, 2015.
URL: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3262990/Syrian-gang-rape-victim-fled-Germany-ordeal-stabbed-death-honour-killing-ordered-mother-seen-unclean-sex-assault.html

[ii]       Ken Schultz, “Syrian woman killed in Germany by her family for being ‘unclean’ after being gang-raped”, Australian News Commentary, October 24, 2015.
URL: http://australian-news.net/article/syrian-woman-killed-in-germany-by-her-family-for-being-unclean-after-being-gang-raped

[iii]      Hall, “Syrian gang rape victim who fled to Germany…”, op. cit.

[iv]      Barbara Hans, “An honor killing in Germany: Afghan girl’s death sparks national debate”, Der Spiegel (Hamburg), May 22, 2008.
URL: www.spiegel.de/international/germany/an-honor-killing-in-germany-afghan-girl-s-death-sparks-national-debate-a-554866.html

[v]       “German-Afghan gets life for ‘honour killing’”, The Local (Berlin) [Germany’s news in English], February 13, 2009.
URL: www.thelocal.de/20090213/17415

[vi]      “‘Honour killings’ to be reviewed”, BBC News, June 22, 2004.
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3828255.stm

[vii]     Yotam Feldner, “‘Honor’ murders – why the perps get off easy”, Middle East Quarterly (Philadelphia), Vol. 7, No. 4., December 2000, pp. 41-50.
URL: www.meforum.org/50/honor-murders-why-the-perps-get-off-easy

[viii]     Phyllis Chesler, “Are honor killings simply domestic violence?”, Middle East Quarterly (Philadelphia), Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 61-69.
URL: www.meforum.org/2067/are-honor-killings-simply-domestic-violence

[ix]      Phyllis Chesler, “Worldwide trends in honor killings”, Middle East Quarterly (Philadelphia), Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring 2010, pp. 3-11.
URL: www.meforum.org/2646/worldwide-trends-in-honor-killings

[x]       “Legal status of polygamy”, Wikipedia.
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_polygamy

[xi]      “Polygamy”: House of Commons Library Briefing Paper Number 05051, House of Commons (UK), January 6, 2016.
URL: http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05051/SN05051.pdf

[xii]     “Dutch authorities now recognizing polygamous marriages contracted abroad”, Catholic News Agency (EWTN, Irondale, Alabama), August 15, 2008.
URL: www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/dutch_authorities_now_recognizing_polygamous_marriages_contracted_abroad/

[xiii]     Anna Wetterqvist, “Sverige har erkänt hundratals fall av månggifte – ‘domstolarna borde sätta ner foten’”, Dagens Juridik (Stockholm), April 4, 2016.
URL: www.dagensjuridik.se/2016/04/sverige-har-erkant-hundratals-fall-av-manggifte-domstolarna-borde-satta-ner-foten

[xiv]     Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Men with more than one wife will get extra benefits under new rules”, Daily Mail (UK), January 24, 2016.
URL: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3414264/Want-higher-benefits-marry-one-wife-New-welfare-rules-hand-extra-taxpayer-cash-polygamists.html

[xv]     “United Kingdom average weekly wages, 2000-2017”, Trading Economics (New York), March 1, 2017.
URL: www.tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/wages

[xvi]     Joachim Wagner, “Polygamie in der Migranten-Parallelgesellschaft”, Die Welt (Berlin), September 30, 2012.
URL: www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article109544417/Polygamie-in-der-Migranten-Parallelgesellschaft.html

[xvii]    Wetterqvist, op. cit.

[xviii]   UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Article 16:
URL: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/econvention.htm#article16

Judith Bergman, “Polygamy: Europe’s hidden statistic”, Gatestone Institute (New York), June 5, 2016.
URL: www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8199/polygamy-europe

[xix]     “Muslim polygamy and welfare fraud in Germany”, LiveLeak/ YouTube, May 6, 2013.
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTIjbiIiUuI

[xx]     Bergman, “Polygamy: Europe’s hidden statistic”, op. cit.

[xxi]     Divya Talwar and Athar Ahmad, “‘Honour crime’: 11,000 UK cases recorded in five years”, BBC News, July 9, 2015.
URL: www.bbc.com/news/uk-33424644

[xxii]    Ibid.

[xxiii]   Johanna Markind, “Why are so many Muslims in prison?”, Middle East Forum (Philadelphia), August 30, 2015.
URL: www.meforum.org/blog/2015/08/islam-prison

[xxiv]   Although the source of the original statistics has been removed from the internet, reportage may be found at: Timon Dias, “Who is in more trouble: Wilders or the Netherlands?”, Gatestone Institute (New York), April 24, 2014.
URL: www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4285/geert-wilders-netherlands

Also: “Helft Marokkaanse jongens in aanraking met politie”, de Volkskrant (Amsterdam), June 25, 2010.
URL: www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2664/Nieuws/article/detail/1002064/2010/06/25/Helft-Marokkaanse-jongens-in-aanraking-met-politie.dhtml

[xxv]    Tim Priest, “The rise of Middle Eastern crime gangs”, Quadrant (Australia), Vol. 48, Nos. 1-2, January-February 2004, reprinted in Australian News Commentary, May 22, 2013.
URL: http://australian-news.net/article/the-rise-of-middle-eastern-crime-in-australia

[xxvi]   Ibid.

[xxvii]   Phil Hickey, “Australia’s new crime fighting intelligence agency warns crime link to terrorism ‘should worry’ WA”, Perth Now (Western Australia), August 14, 2016.
URL: www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/australias-new-crime-fighting-intelligence-agency-warns-crime-link-to-terrorism-should-worry-wa/news-story/42b379e7739e92834f5481047995ed37

[xxviii] Oliver J.J. Lane, “‘I feel so dirty, so used’ – harrowing testimony of Cologne victims”, Breitbart (London edition), January 6, 2016.
URL: www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/06/ifeelsodirtysousedharrowingtestimonyofcolognevictims/

[xxix]   Ibid.

[xxx]    Justin Huggler, “German women report string of sexual assaults by ‘Arab and North African men’”, The Telegraph (UK), January 5, 2016.
URL: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12082366/German-women-report-string-of-sexual-assaults-by-Arab-and-North-African-men.html

[xxxi]   Nick Gutteridge, “German police revise up number of victims of Cologne migrant sex attacks”, Daily Express (UK), July 12, 2016.
URL: www.express.co.uk/news/world/688767/German-police-revise-up-number-of-victims-of-Cologne-migrant-sex-attacks

[xxxii]   Petra Braun, “Sex-Mob-Grinser feiern ihr mildes Urteil”, Bild (Berlin), July 7, 2016.
URL: www.bild.de/regional/koeln/sex-uebergriffe-silvesternacht/prozess-gegen-sex-mob-verdaechtige-46686468.bild.html

[xxxiii] “Lägesbild över sexuella ofredanden samt förslag till åtgärder”, Nationella Operativa Avdelningen [Swedish Police: National Operations Department], Stockholm, May 16, 2016.
URL: https://polisen.se/Global/www och Intrapolis/Övriga rapporter/Lagesbild over sexuella ofredanden.pdf

[xxxiv] Adrian Mühlebauer and Jörg Völkerling, “Zwei Opfer ringen mit dem Tod”, Bild (Berlin), July 19, 2016.
URL: www.bild.de/regional/muenchen/anschlag/opfer-anschlag-wuerzburg-46883730.bild.html

 

 

Chapter 12: What Do Muslims Bring to Western Societies?

[i]       Donna Rachel Edmunds, “British doctors faced with 5,700 cases of female genital mutilation in one year”, Breitbart (London edition), July 21, 2016.
URL: www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/21/more-than-100-new-cases-female-genital-mutilation-recorded-every-week/

[ii]       “Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – April 2015 to March 2016, experimental statistics”, NHS Digital (National Health Service, UK), July 21, 2016.
URL: http://content.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB21206

[iii]      Lindsay Brown, “The first ever FGM figures show nearly 6,000 new cases in England”, BBC Newsbeat, July 21, 2016.
URL: www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36838870/the-first-ever-fgm-figures-show-nearly-6000-new-cases-in-england

[iv]      The Koran, 9:29

[v]       Oliver J.J. Lane, “In Denmark, 84 per cent of welfare recipients are ‘non-Western immigrants’”, Breitbart (London edition), March 17, 2016.
URL: www.breitbart.com/london/2016/03/17/in-denmark-84-per-cent-of-welfare-recipients-are-non-western-immigrants/

[vi]      Janus Ostergaard, “Chok-tal om indvandrere på kontanthjælp: Hvad gør Løkkes tropper?”, Ekstra Bladet (Copenhagen), March 11, 2016.
URL: http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/politik/danskpolitik/chok-tal-om-indvandrere-paa-kontanthjaelp-hvad-goer-loekkes-tropper/5990965

[vii]     Laura Rode Nygaard, “Choktal afslører: Så mange indvandrere er på kontanthjælp”, BT (Berlingske Media Group, Copenhagen), March 11, 2016.
URL: www.bt.dk/danmark/choktal-afsloerer-saa-mange-indvandrere-er-paa-kontanthjaelp

[viii]     “Syrienkrigere har fået 378.000 kroner i velfærdsydelser”, Nyheder TV2 (Copenhagen), May 18, 2015.
URL: http://nyheder.tv2.dk/2015-05-18-syrienkrigere-har-faaet-378000-kroner-i-velfaerdsydelser

[ix]      Uffe Jorgensen Odde and Soren Kjellberg Ishoy, “Terroristens far på kontanthjælp i 20 år: Kommunen kaldte familien ressourcestærk og skred ikke ind”, BT (Berlingske Media Group, Copenhagen), April 17, 2015.
URL: www.bt.dk/krimi/terroristens-far-paa-kontanthjaelp-i-20-aar-kommunen-kaldte-familien-ressourcestaerk

[x]       Ruth Bender, “Germany sees welfare benefit costs more than double”, Wall Street Journal, September 5, 2016 [paywall-protected article].
URL: www.wsj.com/articles/germanys-welfare-bill-rises-169-as-refugee-numbers-grow-1473077920

[xi]      John Roth, “Mein Nachbar hat 4 Frauen und 23 Kinder”, Bild (Berlin), October 19, 2016.
URL: www.bild.de/news/inland/ehe/mein-nachbar-hat-vier-frauen-48362758.bild.html

[xii]     Hubert Königsstein, “4 Frauen, 23 Kinder”, Deutscher Arbeitgeber Verband (Wiesbaden), October 3, 2016.
URL: https://deutscherarbeitgeberverband.de//klartextfabrik/2016_10_03_dav_klartextfabrik_frauen-kinder.html

[xiii]     Caroline May, “More than 90 percent of Middle Eastern refugees on food stamps”, Breitbart, September10, 2015.
URL: www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/10/more-than-90-percent-of-middle-eastern-refugees-on-food-stamps/

[xiv]     Tim Ross, “Britain’s coping classes at breaking point”, The Telegraph (UK), October 10, 2010.
URL: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8054403/Britains-coping-classes-at-breaking-point.html

[xv]     Melanie Hall, “Muslim preacher urges followers to claim ‘Jihad Seeker’s Allowance’”, The Telegraph (UK), February 17, 2013.
URL: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9875954/Muslim-preacher-urges-followers-to-claim-Jihad-Seekers-Allowance.html

[xvi]     Peter Dominiczak, Tom Whitehead and Christopher Hope, “Jihadists funded by welfare benefits, senior police officer warns”, The Telegraph (UK), November 26, 2014.
URL: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11256882/Jihadists-funded-by-welfare-benefits-senior-police-officer-warns.html

[xvii]    Dennis Shanahan and Paul Maley, “Terrorist Khaled Sharrouf went to jihad on welfare”, The Australian, July 12, 2014.
URL: www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/terrorist-khaled-sharrouf-went-to-jihad-on-welfare/news-story/7c1b5ad7e9e5cec9df0fc4df8c9fb9c1

[xviii]   Simon Benson, “Aussie jihadists were on the dole”, Daily Telegraph (Sydney), February 20, 2015.
URL: www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/aussie-jihadists-were-on-the-dole/news-story/dcba3f4043e19b6a9f36cd46005ec5e1

[xix]     Ibid.

[xx]     Michael Smith, “A bit of analysis on who gets our welfare payments”, Michael Smith News (Sydney), August 4, 2013.
URL: www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/08/a-bit-of-analysis-on-who-gets-our-welfare-payments-one-country-of-birth-stands-out-a-lot.html

[xxi]     Mustafa M. Farouk, “Advances in the industrial production of halal and kosher red meat”, Meat Science, (Elsevier, Amsterdam), Vol. 95, Issue 4, December 2013, pp. 805-820.

[xxii]    M. van der Spiegel, H.J. van der Fels-Klerx, P. Sterrenburg, S.M. van Ruth, I.M.J. Scholtens-Toma and E.J. Kok, “Halal assurance in food supply chains: Verification of halal certificates using audits and laboratory analysis”, Trends in Food Science & Technology, Vol. 27, Issue 2, October 2012, pp. 109-119.

[xxiii]   Yahiya Emerick, What Islam Is All About (A Student Textbook) [1997] (Richardson, Texas: Noorart, Inc., 6th edition, 2005), p. 354.

[xxiv]   Anna Reimann, “Junge Deutsch-Türken geben sich immer religiöser”, Der Spiegel (Hamburg), June 16, 2016.
URL: www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/junge-deutsch-tuerken-halten-sich-fuer-religioeser-als-die-alten-a-1097936.html

[xxv]    Chris Tomlinson, “Half of Turks in Germany regards Islamic law as supreme”, Breitbart (London edition), June 17, 2016.
URL: www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/17/half-turks-germany-regard-islamic-law-supreme/

[xxvi]   Joachim Wagner, Richter ohne Gesetz: Islamische Paralleljustiz gefährdet unseren Rechtsstaat (Berlin: Econ, 2011).

[xxvii]   Soeren Kern, “Islamic law’s foothold in German legal system”, Gatestone Institute (New York), June 7, 2013.
URL: www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3753/islamic-law-german-legal-system

[xxviii] “Paving the way for a Muslim parallel society”, Der Spiegel (Hamburg), March 29, 2007.
URL: www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-justice-failures-paving-the-way-for-a-muslim-parallel-society-a-474629.html

[xxix]   Soeren Kern, “Muslim gangs enforce sharia law in London”, Gatestone Institute (New York), January 25, 2013.
URL: www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3555/sharia-law-london

(The videos mentioned have since been taken down by YouTube).

[xxx]    Hugo Gye, “‘Muslim Patrol’ jailed for harassing couple holding hands and men drinking in a bid to enforce Sharia law in East London”, Daily Mail (UK), December 7, 2013.
URL: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519519/Muslim-Patrol-jailed-harassing-couple-holding-hands-men-drinking-bid-enforce-Sharia-law-East-London.html

[xxxi]   Soeren Kern, “Britain’s ‘Islamic Emirates Project’”, Gatestone Institute (New York), July 21, 2011.
URL: www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2278/britain-islamic-emirates-project

[xxxii]   “Muslims Against Crusades (MAC)”, Wikipedia.
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims_Against_Crusades

[xxxiii] John Bingham, “Islamic law is adopted by British legal chiefs”, The Telegraph (UK), March 22, 2014.
URL: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10716844/Islamic-law-is-adopted-by-British-legal-chiefs.html

Sam Webb, “Sharia law to be enshrined in British legal system as lawyers get guidelines on drawing up documents according to Islamic rules”, Daily Mail (UK), March 23, 2014.
URL: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587215/Sharia-Law-enshrined-British-legal-lawyers-guidelines-drawing-documents-according-Islamic-rules.html

[xxxiv] Webb, “Sharia law to be enshrined in British legal system”, op. cit.

[xxxv]   Ibid.

[xxxvi] Ibid.

[xxxvii] Ibid.

[xxxviii]         Machteld Zee, Choosing Sharia? Multiculturalism, Islamic Fundamentalism and Sharia Councils (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2016).

[xxxix] Ian Drury, “Sharia courts in Britain ‘lock women into marital captivity and do not officially report domestic violence’ says academic”, Daily Mail (UK), December 7, 2015.
URL: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3348606/Sharia-councils-Britain-lock-women-marital-captivity-not-officially-report-domestic-violence-says-academic.html

[xl]      Guy Adams, “Inside Britain’s sharia courts: There are now 85 Islamic courts dispensing ‘justice’ across the UK”, Daily Mail (UK), December 14, 2015.
URL: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358625/Inside-Britain-s-Sharia-courts-EIGHTY-FIVE-Islamic-courts-dispensing-justice-UK-special-investigation-really-goes-doors-shock-core.html

[xli]     Julian Robinson, “Murder over a marriage: Kurdish woman is shot dead at a wedding in Germany after refusing to marry her cousin”, Daily Mail (UK), March 17, 2016.
URL: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3495111/Murder-marriage-Kurdish-woman-shot-dead-wedding-Germany-refusing-marry-cousin-prime-suspect.html