Tag: 4/16/2019

“Innocent housewife” Shamima Begum was in fact cruel enforcer in ISIS’ morality police

BY EMMA R.

Shamima Begum was a member of the Isis morality police, a feared group which enforced the terror organisation’s strict interpretation of Islamic law – and she also tried to recruit other young women to join the jihadist group.

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The 19-year-old British citizen, who fled her home in Bethnal Green four years ago with two other schoolgirls, has claimed that she was only a “housewife” during her time living with the group in Syria.
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But according to a report in The Sunday Telegraph she played a much more active role in the organisation’s reign of terror as a member of the “hisba” – which metes out punishment to those found flouting Isis laws on how to dress and behave.
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One activist quoted by the newspaper said Begum had been seen holding an automatic weapon and shouting at Syrian women in the city of Raqqa for wearing brightly coloured shoes.
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“Members of our group from Raqqa knew her well”, said Aghiad al-Kheder, an activist from Deir ez-Zor who founded an anti-Isis collective that published information about Isis crimes from sources on the ground.
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“There were lots of young European women in the hisba. Some of them were very harsh and the local population became very scared.”
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There were separate allegations that Begum stitched suicide bombs onto explosive vests, so they could not be removed without detonating.
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The Mail on Sunday reported that the prime minister and home secretary had been briefed on intelligence received by the CIA and Dutch military intelligence.
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BAPTIST PASTOR SAYS BANK OF AMERICA SHUT DOWN ALL OF HIS CHURCH’S BANK ACCOUNTS

Baptist Pastor Says Bank of America Shut Down All Of His Church's Bank Accounts

We’re entering new territory when unelected bankers can close down people’s bank accounts over their political and religious views.

Chris Menahan | Information Liberation – APRIL 16, 2019

Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona said Monday on YouTube that Bank of America shut down all the bank accounts of his church.

“This morning, I found out that Bank of America shut down all of our bank accounts froze our accounts without notice and we can’t even get our money out,” Anderson said on YouTube. “We can’t even walk into the bank and withdraw our money they just froze everything, shut everything down.”

“They’re supposedly going to send us a cashier’s check in like two weeks for all the money that was in our church bank account but in the meantime they just took all our money away,” Anderson said.

Anderson has attracted controversy over the years due to his fundamentalist preachings on homosexuality.

Earlier this year, Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio had his bank account closed by Chase Bank:

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Conservative commentator Martina Markota also had her business account closed by Chase Bank:

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Conservative activist Joe Biggs also had his Chase account closed, though the decision was later reversed after widespread outrage:

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All three suspected their accounts were closed due to their political views.

We’re entering new territory when unelected bankers can close down people’s bank accounts over their political and religious views.

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The Daily Caller Defends Sharia Law: It’s “As American As Apple Pie”

By Luke Rohlfing

In a newly published article, Daily CallerDeputy Editor J. Arthur Bloom uses entirely economic arguments to claim that Sharia Law is “as American as apple pie.”

Bloom first points out the fact that under Sharia Law, the practice of profiting off of lending money (collecting interest) is a sinful activity.

“Let’s start with a basic outline of Islamic finance. Islamic finance is not too different from most moralistic approaches to finance. It views money as a neutral mediator of transactions. For that reason, it views the ability to acquire more money by simply lending money (riba, in Islamic parlance) as a barren and hence sinful activity – it is proclaimed haram (prohibited) under Sharia law.”

This is true, and as Bloom also points out, most religions throughout history have similar views on profiting off of loaned money, including the Catholic Church.

But the thing that separates Islam from other religions is the influence their religion has on public policy. This is due to the fact that Islam is not just a religion, with there being no separation between the religious and the political in the Muslim world.

For this reason, Bloom points out that under Sharia Law, the practice of “equity ownership” is encouraged, resulting in less debt buildup.

But in Bloom’s entire article, he never once mentions the oppressive aspects of Sharia Law.

He doesn’t point out the fact that women are oppressed under Sharia Law, with their testimony being equal to only half that of a man.

(But to be fair, the Daily Caller is known for their mistreatment of women.)

Bloom also doesn’t point out the fact that homosexuality is punishable by death in countries that practice Sharia Law.

BLP reached out to Jacob Engels, a gay conservative activist, who was disgusted by the article.

“The fact that The Daily Caller, which used to be a beacon of hope for conservatives and alternative media is willing to publish trash like this is curious,” Engels told BLP. “One must question if there was financial compensation, or if they just wanted to be edgy. But as a gay American it is abhorrent. What’s next, are they going to write a guide on stoning women, or throwing gays off of buildings?”

BLP reached out to Bloom to ask if The Caller was paid by any outside interest to write the article, and he replied:

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