New years eve sexual assaults in Cologne - a psyop?

[Ca.]

FWIW

I'll tell ya that in 2008 i was visiting Amsterdam, leaveing the USA too for go all the BS with the election rhetoric and lies that year.

Well what i would do (with testing my blind navigation skills), would be to rent a bike and just start peddling till exhausted, and or lost.

Since Amsterdam is so flat i (and below sea level) i would soon lose my bearings (buildings) and started spinning circles of what seemed likes hours on end.

So i believe i was 10 miles from where needed too be.

At this point i saw a family man in van and approached him for direction. Asking if he could point me to the center of the canal district.

He sized me up pretty quick, and informed me that i was in a very rough part of town, and thus gave me the proper coordinates to where i had asked to be.

I thanked him for the sound advice which he replied placing his hand over his heart smiled and said اذهب مع الله (https://translate.google.fr/?hl=fr#en/ar/go%20with%20god)

There was no hostility's just the kindness from a Muslim to an American lost in the ghettos.

There was no race creed or color issue.

I will never forget that encounter or his kindness. It was one human being helping another.

Look at the mess They have Created NOW

 

[Windmill knight]

I came across this opinion piece published in the UK Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/15/germany-syrians-cologne-new-years-eve-attacks

Germany has been good to us Syrians. I hope Cologne doesn’t change that

Basheer Alzaalan

I am a male Syrian refugee and I live close to Cologne. It feels like it is my moral obligation to say something about the attacks that took place there on New Year’s Eve. On the one hand I am angry and speechless, like many people in the city, across Germany and around the world. But I also worry what these disgusting crimes will mean for other refugees, including my own family.

Most importantly, I want to express my solidarity with the women who were attacked by dozens of men during what was supposed to be a happy celebration.

It makes me feel sad and ashamed to hear that some of the perpetrators of these attacks were asylum seekers. It baffles me that those who have themselves fled unbearable violence and war can act in such a manner. My German friends tell me that there should not be such thing as a “collective guilt” of refugees: criminals are criminals, no matter where they come from. Statistics show that crime rates among refugees are no higher than among Germans. But I keep thinking of all the volunteers who have supported me since I fled to Germany, and of the support I received from the German state. In Arabic we say that “one should not bite the hand that feeds him”. Yet this is what the offenders from Cologne have done.

The attacks have also churned up other, similar memories. About a year ago I saw a man violently harass a woman at the train station in Düsseldorf. It was the first time in my life I had witnessed something like that. The offender was drunk and I tried to intervene, but he was very violent. My brother held me back and told me I should be wary as the police might end up arresting me - after all, I am a refugee. Back than we were still new to this country and were afraid we could be sent back to Syria. We felt weak and helpless.

I arrived in Germany on New Year’s Eve 2014. I had fled my home town, Deir ez-Zor, in Syria, after terrorist groups had taken over and I feared for the lives of my wife, our three- and four-year-old daughters and our unborn son. Bombs had been dropping where we lived on a daily basis, and I lost many of my friends and family members. There was no medical care, and hardly any running water or electricity.

I walked for days, endured a rocky boat crossing to Greece and passed through the dangerous transit zone in the Balkans. I am one of more than 4 million Syrians to have fled my home country since the conflict started, in 2011.

I did not know much about my new home when smugglers brought me over the border to Germany from Austria. But since I arrived, I have been overwhelmed by the kindness and hospitality I have encountered. I am here to become part of this society, which upholds freedom, peace and equality. I am thankful to the Germans who are sharing their country with me. My friends here have become my new family, and it breaks my heart to think that any of them could have been among the ones assaulted in Cologne.

There are a lot of discussions going on about how to bring criminal asylum seekers to justice. I think they should be, just like everyone else. Someone who is a criminal should be treated like one, no matter where he comes from.

Criminal refugees damage the hopes of all other refugees with their behaviour. Like all people, “refugees” are a heterogeneous group. Among the refugees you will find criminals, as you will in any other group. A bad person does not necessarily change when he becomes a refugee.

At the same time, I also think that it is important to look ahead. In Syria, I worked as an English teacher. Now I am a volunteer with Care International in Germany. We support teachers dealing with the many new students who have arrived in this country as refugees. We want to convey core values and counter negative stereotypes, gender roles and discrimination.

It is important that German schools are not left alone with the big challenge of integrating hundreds of thousands of children and young adults who have fled or migrated to this country.

I want to contribute to overcoming the current challenges and ensure that the welcoming culture of Germany, which was a balm for my soul when I arrived after years of living in civil war, will not be lost because of what happened in Cologne. Otherwise, it will feel like the offenders of New Year’s Eve have won.

 

[Alana]

I came across this opinion piece published in the UK Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/15/germany-syrians-cologne-new-years-eve-attacks

Germany has been good to us Syrians. I hope Cologne doesn’t change that

Ι was also reading in DW.com that a lot of Syrians in Germany created a hashtag to protest against the events in Cologne:

http://www.dw.com/en/syrian-refugees-in-germany-take-a-stand-against-sexual-attacks/a-18973974

Syrians in Germany, both refugees and residents, are joining together to show Germany that the criminals who perpetrated the attacks on New Year’s Eve do not represent all Syrians in the country. Syrians from all over Germany have responded. Many are posting their photos on Facebook holding up a sign saying “#SyrerGegenSexismus” (Syrians against sexism).

Sakher Al-Mohamad, a Syrian from Homs now living in Cologne, is the founder of the group “Syrian refugees say ‘no’ to the attacks in Cologne” and has been promoting #SyrerGegenSexismus. The group is are also asking the police to prosecute the perpetrators of the violence and to expel them from Germany.

“These criminal attackers are representing JUST themselves. Regardless of their nationalities and religion or political affiliations. And they are not representing our values and culture which we were raised on,” wrote Al-Mohamad on Facebook.

Many of the members are also writing long posts directed at the German people. They thank and praise the German people for their hospitality and generosity. At the same time they denounce the attacks saying that not all Syrians either believe or would commit such criminal acts.

Malek Haddad, a 20-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who fled Aleppo with his mother and sister, thanked the German people for giving them a chance at a new life.

“I feel sick by what has happened in Cologne over New Years. I speak for the vast majority of Syrians when I say that all those who assaulted women and caused problems for the German police should be arrested and punished,” he wrote on Facebook.

The group has previously taken part in other demonstrations held since the attacks. Al-Mohammed just announced that they have received permission from the Cologne police to hold a demonstration on the steps of the Cologne Cathedral (opposite the main train station) near where many of the attacks took place.

Other groups of refugees have also been planning and holding demonstrations against the attacks. One group gave out flowers to women outside the main train station in Berlin.

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One of the men handing out flowers told the Berliner Morgenpost, a daily newspaper in Berlin which also produced the video above, that what happened was awful but that those people do not represent the majority of refugees.
“Most are good people, loving people who respect women like they do their sisters and daughters,” he said.

It is so sad. Imagine every single american man to have to prove himself that he is not a rapist every time another american rapes a woman somewhere. And IF they events in Cologne took place as described....

 

[munaychasumaq]

Three days ago i had the unhappy experience to hear a colleague in my job to say:If some of this son of...rape to my together,i swear, i will go to his -flick-... country and i will kill even to his grandparents...!!!
He was talking about the events in Germany.I tried to explain than we do not have all the information yet.Somebody wants Merkel out of the political scenario and probably this is one of the instruments using in order to blame her or simply they are adding more fire against Muslims Community.This arguments do not help :(

This is the situation than contrel-pro since thousand of years has created in this planet in orden to divided us and take the control.They are still going to do it,now and for ever...You now why?? because it works,because almost the majority of humans beings do not have respect for our brains in order to think objectively,just we react like a machines...our emotions without any control are pulling us to hell
First it was men against women,then women agains men,then white people against black people,then homosexual against heterosexual,now everybody against Muslims...whats is next...?Everybody against everybody??

One of my roommates is Muslim,she is like my sister.Her babygirl is my little child also.I am not agree in many points of this religion,but the same point of view with Christians an Judaism.If we are going to talk about Muslims we have to talk about the others two also.There is a lot of historically evidence about their atrocities and there are not nice.

Have a good night

 

[Ruth]

The following is the executive summary from an open letter to the "fighters and followers of the self-declared Islamic State". It was signed by 128 of the world's foremost Islamic scholars and religious leaders, and can therefore be seen as reflecting the true beliefs of the vast majority of the world's practicing Muslims:

1- It is forbidden in Islam to issue fatwas without all the necessary learning requirements. Even then fatwas must follow Islamic legal theory as defined in the Classical texts. It is also forbidden to cite a portion of a verse from the Qur’an—or part of a verse—to derive a ruling without looking at everything that the Qur’an and Hadith teach related to that matter. In other words, there are strict subjective and objective prerequisites for fatwas, and one cannot ‘cherry-pick’ Qur’anic verses for legal arguments without considering the entire Qur’an and Hadith.
2- It is forbidden in Islam to issue legal rulings about anything without mastery of the Arabic language.
3- It is forbidden in Islam to oversimplify Shari’ah matters and ignore established Islamic sciences.
4- It is permissible in Islam [for scholars] to differ on any matter, except those fundamentals of religion that all Muslims must know.
5- It is forbidden in Islam to ignore the reality of contemporary times when deriving legal rulings.
6- It is forbidden in Islam to kill the innocent.
7- It is forbidden in Islam to kill emissaries, ambassadors, and diplomats; hence it is forbidden to kill journalists and aid workers.
8- Jihad in Islam is defensive war. It is not permissible without the right cause, the right purpose and without the right rules of conduct.
9- It is forbidden in Islam to declare people non-Muslim unless he (or she) openly declares disbelief.
10- It is forbidden in Islam to harm or mistreat—in any way—Christians or any ‘People of the Scripture’.
11- It is obligatory to consider Yazidis as People of the Scripture.
12- The re-introduction of slavery is forbidden in Islam. It was abolished by universal consensus.
13- It is forbidden in Islam to force people to convert.
14- It is forbidden in Islam to deny women their rights.
15- It is forbidden in Islam to deny children their rights.
16- It is forbidden in Islam to enact legal punishments (hudud) without following the correct procedures that ensure justice and mercy.
17- It is forbidden in Islam to torture people.
18- It is forbidden in Islam to disfigure the dead.
19- It is forbidden in Islam to attribute evil acts to God.
20- It is forbidden in Islam to destroy the graves and shrines of Prophets and Companions.
21- Armed insurrection is forbidden in Islam for any reason other than clear disbelief by the ruler and not allowing people to pray.
22- It is forbidden in Islam to declare a caliphate without consensus from all Muslims.
23- Loyalty to one’s nation is permissible in Islam.
24- After the death of the Prophet, Islam does not require anyone to emigrate anywhere.

I think this is a really important piece of communication and needs to be known by everyone. I'd also like to know more about when it was written and who those signatories are, although sott probably mentioned it. It's depressing that the mainstream media didn't make more of this. Too busy promoting problems for Russia and encouraging fear of Moslems around the world, perhaps?

 

[Ruth]

That is a very interesting topic here. One thing that you have to notice is that these young people were first generation. Culturally they are bearing the stigmas of a restrictive society that use force and domination through (loosely interpreted) religion principle and through some form of tribalism.
A little bit of anthropology, North Africa is tiny set of fertile land isolated between the sea and the desert. For surviving with limited ressources, the locals had to be aggressive toward the neighbor to keep their land and mean of food production. They also had to control the fertility of the women. Still to this day this trait persist in a cultural form.

I'm not sure if all the perpetrators of this violence were first generation descendants of immigrants/refugees or not. From what the media is saying about prosecutions and the law, there seems to have been a mix of individuals from all different upbringings and backgrounds.

 

[luc]

Three days ago i had the unhappy experience to hear a colleague in my job to say:If some of this son of...rape to my together,i swear, i will go to his -flick-... country and i will kill even to his grandparents...!!!
He was talking about the events in Germany.I tried to explain than we do not have all the information yet.Somebody wants Merkel out of the political scenario and probably this is one of the instruments using in order to blame her or simply they are adding more fire against Muslims Community.This arguments do not help :(

Thanks for sharing munaychasumaq, I feel the same frustration. Where do you even begin with people who think our world is dandy and take what is said in the media as gospel!? The only way I guess is to appeal to people's sense of decency and repeat the message that Muslims are people like you and me etc.

It is so sad. Imagine every single american man to have to prove himself that he is not a rapist every time another american rapes a woman somewhere. And IF they events in Cologne took place as described....

Yes, it is so sad. And what they are doing in the media really is straight from hell. Yesterday we went to the big city (Germany, many immigrants), and you could literally feel it. And the worse thing: it works, even for me! Whenever I saw a dark-skinned man - didn't even matter whether he is from India, Asia, Africa or Arab country - something cringed inside me. It's so powerful how they play with our lowest, animal-like instincts. A sane society would strive to bring out the best in people, ours brings out the worst, systematically. I can't even imagine how the 99% honest, law-abiding and decent Muslims/dark-skinned men feel right now in Germany and elsewhere.

And frankly, my tolerance towards those moronic Muslim-bashers is dwindling. Just saw several "friends" on facebook sharing the latest BS story about police officers who supposedly had to sign a document not to report violence committed by Muslims to the media. Well, it takes 5 seconds on google to figure out it's a lie spread by a journalist to proove her point that this sh't spreads like wildfire, even if it's invented (1:0 for the journalist). There are many, many false stories like that out there. But hell, it's against Moooslims and confirms my racism? Let's share!!

"Honey, are you coming to have 5 beers, tell moronic sexist jokes and watch a soccer game to celebrate our superior white Christian culture?" "Yeah, just let me finish sharing my racist BS on facebook okay?" "Sure, but hurry, otherwise I will be drunk already *gulp*"

One of the men handing out flowers told the Berliner Morgenpost, a daily newspaper in Berlin which also produced the video above, that what happened was awful but that those people do not represent the majority of refugees.
“Most are good people, loving people who respect women like they do their sisters and daughters,” he said.

I wouldn't say that (bold part) about many white males I know, in this porn-erized, sexualized, drugged, egocentric, hedonistic and common sense-less "supreme white society" of ours. And I met quite a few people in my life.

 

[casper]

The madness spread, link:
https://translate.google.hr/translate?sl=hr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=hr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vecernji.hr%2Fsvijet%2Fnjemacki-grad-bornheim-zabranio-azilantima-pristup-bazenu-zbog-zlostavljanja-zena-1052378&edit-text=


Quote:
"West German city of Bornheim banned asylum seekers access to the public pool after complaints that several women were sexually harassed there.

Markus Schnapka, deputy mayor of Bornheim, a town with 48,000 inhabitants 30 kilometers south of Cologne, said that the decision was made ​​to send a clear message that non-compliance with the German cultural norms red line that must not be crossed.

He did not say how it will implement the ban.

German media said the asylum seekers, who do not get help from the state, have to show identification in order to be released from pool rates.

Schnapka said that his city launched a campaign in local shelters to teach asylum seekers that they must respect gender equality and women."

 

[Windmill knight]

The madness spread, link:
https://translate.google.hr/translate?sl=hr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=hr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vecernji.hr%2Fsvijet%2Fnjemacki-grad-bornheim-zabranio-azilantima-pristup-bazenu-zbog-zlostavljanja-zena-1052378&edit-text=


Quote:
"West German city of Bornheim banned asylum seekers access to the public pool after complaints that several women were sexually harassed there.

Markus Schnapka, deputy mayor of Bornheim, a town with 48,000 inhabitants 30 kilometers south of Cologne, said that the decision was made ​​to send a clear message that non-compliance with the German cultural norms red line that must not be crossed.

He did not say how it will implement the ban.

German media said the asylum seekers, who do not get help from the state, have to show identification in order to be released from pool rates.

Schnapka said that his city launched a campaign in local shelters to teach asylum seekers that they must respect gender equality and women."

Sounds hysterical. The deputy mayor also did not say what was the nature of the complaints, how many there were, when did they happen, nor who were the perpetrators. Even if there were genuine complaints from one local pool, that has nothing to say about any larger group of people outside that pool. But of course anyone reading it will find confirmation that asylum seekers are a bunch of perverts.

 

[Buddy]

In case you missed it, check out Harrison's article on the topic on Sott:

http://www.sott.net/article/310260-New-Years-in-Cologne-Sexual-crime-and-the-radicalizing-of-European-society

When I read the above, I went to read the article, its comments and the discussion on here that followed. It was all a bit distressing to me. Part of me wanted to jump in with comments and another part of me wanted to 'let it go' because I'm hopelessly outclassed.

Be that as it may, I'd now like to say I enjoyed the article. Maybe I'm biased in favor of our SoTT writers and don't care, but even if Harrison had been coming from a left-wing angle, I didn't give a hoot. Towards the bottom of the article, he anchored everything to the reality of individuals being responsible for their own actions and clearly demonstrated his understanding of the difference pointed to in the old saying, "guns (or whatever) don't harm/rape/kill people, people do that to people" and etc.

So, a newly-minted right-winger (or whatever) trying to cut his teeth on one of our writers can only fail because, people like our Joe knows how to point out how they can wind up contributing to the very causes they claim to be against.

I've glimpsed some of the horror of my personal contributions to the "predator's mind" in myself, others and society. I no longer seem able to contribute to arguments at a level of abstraction some intellectuals operate on, but I still can read and comprehend. The only thing I can say after reading the discussion related to the argument is that my bogosity meter goes off when someone claims to be "afraid for Europe" or any such nonsense. I seriously doubt that or any such claim. I have seen that the only thing the predator's mind is interested in is its own continuation, regardless of who, what or how many has to pay the price.

One might profitably ask oneself if the real basis of their fear is nothing more than the possibility of losing a favored way of seeing or thinking about things.

My 2 cents.

 

[Joe]

I think this is a really important piece of communication and needs to be known by everyone. I'd also like to know more about when it was written and who those signatories are, although sott probably mentioned it. It's depressing that the mainstream media didn't make more of this. Too busy promoting problems for Russia and encouraging fear of Moslems around the world, perhaps?

Depressing, yes, but are we surprised given that the mainstream media is, on important matters, the propaganda arm of Western governments who are determined to demonize Muslims?

The letter is hosted at http://www.lettertobaghdadi.com/

There are also about 50 more new signatories.

List of Signatories

(in alphabetical order)

Name

Title

1.

HE the Sultan Muhammad Sa'ad Ababakar

The Sultan of Sokoto, Head of the Nigerian National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs

2.

Prof. Abdul-Rahman Abbad

Prof. of Islamic Studies at the College of Al-Qur’an Al-Karim, and Secretary of the Body of Scholars and Preachers, Jerusalem

3.

Mr. Omar Abboud

Secretary-General of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue, Buenos Aires, Argentina

4.

Prof. Salim Abdul-Jalil

Former Undersecretary for da’wah at the Awqaf Ministry, and Professor of Islamic Civilization at Misr University for Science & Technology, Egypt

5. Sheikh Wahid Abdul-Jawad Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

6.

Dr. Mustafa Abdul-Kareem

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

7.

Prof. Ibrahim Abdul-Rahim

Professor of Shari’ah, Dar al-Ulum College, Cairo University, Egypt

8.

Prof. Jafar Abdul-Salam

Secretary-General of the League of Islamic Universities and Prof. of International Humanitarian Law, Egypt

9.

HE Dr. Sheikh Hussain Hasan Abkar

Chairman of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and Imam of the Muslims in the Republic of Chad, Chad

10.

HE Prince Judge Bola AbdulJabbar Ajibola

Islamic Mission for Africa (IMA) and Founder of Crescent University, Nigeria

11.

HE Prof. Sheikh Shawqi Allam

The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Egypt

12.

Prof. Sheikh Abdul Nasser Abu Al-Basal

Professor at Yarmouk University, Jordan

13.

Prof. Mohammad Mahmoud Abu-Hashem

Vice-President of Al-Azhar University and member of the Centre for Islamic Research at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, Egypt

14.

HE Prof. Sheikh Mustafa Cagrici

Former Mufti of Istanbul, Turkey

15.

Sheikh Mohammad Ahmad Al-Akwa’

Senior Sunni Scholar, Yemen

16.

Prof. Mohammad Al-Amir

Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies for Girls, Al-Mansoura University, Egypt

17.

Dr. Majdi Ashour

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

18.

Prof. Dr. Abdul-Hai Azab

Dean of the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

19.

Azhar Aziz

President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), USA

20.

Prof. Mustafa Abu Sway

The Integral Professorial Chair for the Study of Imam
Ghazali’s Work, Jerusalem

21.

Prof. Bakr Zaki Awad

Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Al-Azhar University,
Egypt

22.

Nihad Awad

National Executive Director of the Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR), USA

23.

Dr. Sheikh Osama Mahmoud Al-Azhari

Islamic Preacher, Egypt

24.

Dr. Jamal Badawi

Executive Director of the Fiqh Council of North America, USA

25.

Dr. Ihsan Bagby

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Council Member of the Fiqh Council of North America, USA

26.

Naeem Baig

President of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), USA

27.

Prof. Osman Bakr

International Centre for Islamic Studies, Malaysia

28.

Sheikh Abu Bakr Baldi

Head of the African community in Portugal, Portugal

29.

Dr. Hatem Bazian

Chairman of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), USA

30.

Dr. Mohammed Bechari

Member of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, and President of the French National Federation of Muslims, France

31.

HE Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah

Leading Muslim Scholar and President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, Abu Dhabi

32.

HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan

33.

Al-Habib Muhammad Luthfi bin Ali bin Yahya

Islamic Preacher, Indonesia

34.

HE Sheikh Dr. Ra’ed Abdullah Budair

Member of the Body of Scholars and Preachers, Jerusalem

35.

Dr. Mohammad Abdul Sam’i Budair

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

36.

Dr. Sameer Budinar

Muslim Scholar and Director of the Centre for Humanities
and Social Studies, Morocco

37.

Dr. Zahid Bukhari

Executive Director of the Center for Islam and Public Policy (CIPP), USA

38.

HE Prof. Mustafa Ceric

Former Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

39.

HE Mr. Ibrahim Chabbouh

Tunisian Scholar, Tunisia

40.

Prof. Caner Dagli

Professor of Islamic Studies, USA

41.

Prof. Jamal Farouq Al-Daqqaq

Professor at Al-Azhar University, Egypt

42.

Seyyed Abdullah Fadaaq

Islamic Preacher and Scholar, Saudi Arabia

43.

Sheikh Wahid Al-Fasi Al-Fahri

Head of the Federation of Italian Muslims, Italy

44.

Prof. Mohammad Nabil Ghanayim

Professor of Shari’ah, Dar al-Ulum College, Cairo University, Egypt

45.

Sheikh Dr. Ali Gomaa

Former Grand Mufti of Egypt, Egypt

46.

HE Dr. Ahmad Abdul-Aziz Al-Haddad

Head of the Fatwa Department, Dubai, UAE

47.

Dr. Abdullah Hafizi

Secretary-General of the International Association for Idrisid Sherifs and their Cousins, Morocco

48.

HE Sheikh Mustafa Hajji

The Mufti of Bulgaria, Bulgaria

49.

Sheikh Ali Al-Halabi

Author and Islamic Preacher, Jordan

50.

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson

Founder and Director of Zaytuna College, USA

51.

Sheikh Farouq Aref Hasan

The Integral Professorial Chair for the Study of Imam Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi’s Work, Jordan

52.

HE Sheikh Ali bin Abdul Rahman Aal Hashem

Advisor to HH the Head of State for Judicial and Religious Affairs, UAE

53.

Dr. Ahmad Hassan

Professor of Da’wah and Irshad, Yemen

54.

Sheikh Musa Hassan

Secretary-General of Majma’ al-Ummah, Sweden

55.

HE Prof. Mohammad Al-Hifnawi

Professor of Usul al-Fiqh at the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law at Al-Azhar University, Tanta branch, Egypt

56.

Prof. Sami Hilal

Dean of the College of the Holy Qur’an, Tanta University, Egypt

57.

Prof. Sa’d al-Din Al-Hilali

Head of the Department of Comparative Jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, Egypt

58.

Ed Husain

Senior Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies, (CFR), UK

59.

Imam Monawar Hussain

Founder of the Oxford Foundation, UK

60.

HE Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein

Mufti of Jerusalem and All Palestine, Palestine

61.

HE Sheikh Ibrahim Saleh Al-Husseini

Head of the Supreme Council for Fatwa and Islamic Affairs, Nigeria

62.

Dr. Jabri Ibrahim

Head of the Preaching and Guidance Department at the Yemeni Awqaf Ministry, Yemen

63.

Dr. Khaled Imran

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

64.

Prof. Salah al-Din Al-Ja’farawi

Assistant Secretary-General of the European Islamic Conference, Consultant for the Ibn Sina Institute in France , and Consultant to the Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charitable Foundation, Germany

65.

Dr. Omar Jah

Head of the Sheikh Abdullah Jah Charity Foundation, Gambia

66.

Oussama Jammal

Secretary-General of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), USA

67.

Sheikh Muqbil Al-Kadhi

Islamic Preacher, Yemen

68.

Prof. Muhammad Hashem Kamali

Founding Chairman and CEO of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Afghanistan

69.

Prof. Enes Karic

Bosnian Scholar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

70.

Yusuf Z. Kavakci

Prof. Dr. (Emeritus), USA

71.

Sheikh Ahmad Wisam Khadhr

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

72.

Sheikh Muhammad Wisam Khadhr

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

73.

Sheikh Abdul-Majeed Khayroun

Union of Mosques, the Netherlands

74.

Sheikh Mohammad Yahya Al-Kittani

Preacher & Imam, Egypt

75.

Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Al-Kumein

Professor of Da’wah, Yemen

76.

Sheikh Amr Mohamed Helmi Khaled

Islamic Preacher and Founder and President of the Right Start Global Foundation, Egypt

77.

Prof. Judge Maher Alyan Khudair

Supreme Shari’ah Court Judge and member of the Body of Scholars and Preachers in Jerusalem, Palestine

78.

Shaykh Prof. Ahmad Al-Kubaisi

Founder of the ‘Ulema Association, Iraq

79.

Prof. Joseph E. B. Lumbard

Professor at Brandeis University, USA

80.

HE Sheikh Mahmood As’ad Madani

Secretary-General of Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, India

81.

Prof. Dr. Abdul Hamid Madkour

Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Dar al-Ulum College, Cairo University, Egypt

82.

Sheik Mohamed Magid

ADAMS Center, USA

83.

Prof. Mohammad Mukhtar Al-Mahdi

Professor of Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar University and President of the Shari’ah Society, Egypt

84.

Imam al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi

Chairman of the National Umma Party, Sudan

85.

Sheikh Ahmad Mamdouh

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

86.

Prof. Bashar Awad Marouf

Iraqi Scholar, Author and Historian, Iraq

87.

Mr. Bakkay Marzouq

French National Federation of Muslims, France

88.

Sheikh Moez Masoud

Islamic Preacher, Egypt

89.

Prof. Mohammad Abdul Samad Muhanna

Advisor to the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, Egypt


90.

Sheikh Mukhtar Muhsen

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

91.

Professor Fathi Awad Al-Mulla

Pundit and consultant for the Association of Islamic Universities, Egypt

92.

Sheikh Hussein Al-Obeidi

Sheikh of the Al-Zaytuna Grand Mosque, Tunisia

93.

Dr. Yasir Qadhi

Professor of Islamic Studies, Rhodes College, USA

94.

Dr. Muhammad Tahir Al-Qadri

Founder of Minhaj-ul-Qur’an International, Pakistan

95.

Sheikh Mohammad Hasan Qarib-Allah

Muslim Scholar, Sudan

96.

Mr. Abdul Hadi Al-Qasabi

Grand Sheikh of the Sufi Tariqahs in Egypt, Egypt

97.

Prof. Saif Rajab Qazamil

Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

98.

Sheikh Faraz Rabbani

Islamic Scholar and Founder of SeekersGuidance, Canada

99.

Sheikh Ashraf Sa’ad

Muslim Scholar, Egypt

100.

Sheikh Dr. Hmoud Al-Sa’idi

Islamic Preacher and Undersecretary at the Yemeni Ministry of Awqaf, Yemen

101.

Sheikh Hasan Al-Sheikh

Head of Religious Affairs at the Salah Mosque, the largest mosque in Yemen, Yemen

102.

Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Sharif

Head of the Association of Sherifs in Egypt, Egypt

103.

HE Sheikh Abdullah Al-Sheikh Sae’eed

Head of the Association of Islamic Scholars in Kurdistan, Kurdistan

104.

Dr. Mohamad Adam El Sheikh

Executive Director of the Fiqh Council of North America, USA

105.

Dr. Mohammad Sammak

Secretary-General of the National Committee for Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Lebanon

106.

Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah

Secretary General of the Fiqh Council of America, USA

107.

Prof. Ismail Abdul-Nabi Shaheen

Vice President Al-Azhar University and Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Islamic Universities, Egypt

108.

Dr. Omar Shahin

Secretary General of the North American Imam Federation, USA

109.

Imam Talib M. Shareef

President of the Nation's Mosque, Masjid Muhammad, USA

110.

Dr. Ahmad Shqeirat

Member of the North American Imams Federation, USA

111.

Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi

Chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, USA

112.

Dr. Muddassir H. Siddiqui

Council Member of the Fiqh Council of North America, USA

113.

Prof. Nabil Al-Smalouti

Professor of Sociology and former Dean of the Department of Humanities, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

114.

HE Prof. M. Din Syamsuddin

President of Muhammadiyah, and Chairman of the Indonesian Council of Ulama, Indonesia

115.

Dr. Mohammad Tallabi

Muslim Scholar and leader in the Tawhid and Islah Movement, Morocco

116.

Eng. Salmann Tamimi

Founder of the Muslim Association of Iceland, Iceland

117.

HE Sheikh Na’im Ternava

The Mufti Kosovo, Kosovo

118.

Dr. Muhammad Suheyl Umar

Director of Iqbal Academy, Pakistan

119.

Mr. Mohammad Wadgiri

Head of the Muslim community in Belgium, Belgium

120.

HE Dato’ Wan Zahidi bin Wan Teh

Former Mufti of Malaysia’s Federal Territories , Malaysia

121.

Dr. Amr Wardani

Fatwa Council (Dar al-Ifta’), Egypt

122.

HE Prof. Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Wuld-Abah

President of Chinguitt Modern University, Mauritania

123.

Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yacoubi

Islamic Preacher, Syria

124.

Sheikh Mohammad Mustafa Al-Fakki Al-Yaqouti

Minister of State in the Sudanese Ministry of Awqaf, Sudan

125.

HE Sheikh Muhammad Sadiq Muhammad Yusuf

Former Grand Mufti of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan

126.

Prof. Zaki Zaidan

Professor of Shari’ah, Faculty of Law, Tanta University, Egypt

 

[Buddy]

Bookmarked. I intend to print at least one copy of the letter to have on hand. I can imagine only usefulness for this from now on. Thanks, Joe and thanks to Ruth for asking about it.

 

[Alana]

I just came upon this. Not surprised at all (click on the link below to see the images and the report):

Fake photos flood Internet after sexual assaults in Germany

Dozens of photos and videos purporting to show young female victims of sexual assaults in Germany, Sweden and even Finland have been spreading like wildfire across social media. Although the women in the photos have bloodied faces, bruised bodies and petrified expressions, FRANCE 24's Observers discovered that many of these pictures are actually fakes. [...]

These fake and wrongly attributed images continue to be spread by social media users, who are determined to demonise refugees amid Europe’s contentious debate on migration.

 

[Windmill knight]

Here's another article on the pool that banned refugees in a German town. My question is, why not treat each case individually as they would do with any German or anyone else for the matter, which is what common sense dictates? Suddenly all refugees are responsible?

https://www.rt.com/news/329141-germany-refugees-pool-harassment/

German swimming pool closed to male refugees after assaults on women

In a first, male migrants were banned from a leisure center in a German town for sexually harassing female visitors, while authorities in a different German town chose to step up security at a center for similar reasons.

Male asylum-seekers currently living in a hostel in Bornheim, a town on the outskirts of Bonn, were banned from visiting a local swimming pool after the number of complaints of sexual harassment from female bathers became alarmingly high, the town’s authorities said on Friday.

None of the episodes can be regarded as criminal offences, but the men’s behavior was more than inappropriate, Markus Schnapka, Bornheim’s social welfare chief said, as cited by Die Welt.

The ban is a temporary measure. The men can regain access to the swimming pool once they reconsider their behavior, according to local officials.

“Once our social workers tell us that they have got the message, we’ll terminate the measure,” Schnapka said, Die Zeit reported.

Schnapka would also like to hold so-called “information days” at Bornheim’s refugee camp, where nearly 300 refugees currently live, to raise awareness about the image of contemporary German women.

The ban was also prompted by a sexual attack on a woman in her 50s by an 18-year-old refugee in the same town that took place in broad day-light. The man reportedly groped the victim and tried to kiss her.

The staff of another pool in the town of Netphen in North Rhine-Westphalia near Cologne also had to impose disciplinary measures on some refugees.

Bernd Wieczorek, the pool manager, has confirmed that a group of 20- to 25-year-old refugees sexually harassed female visitors. The young men watched them during aqua-cycling class and followed them afterwards, Berliner Kurier reported.

The rules and regulations of the swimming pool were clearly stated in English, German, Arabic and French, according to Wieczorek.

The refugees weren’t banned from the pool, however. Instead, the administration decided to increase security, since a ban would mean “discrimination,” according to RP Online.

In the same manner, an Austrian bar called Charly’s in the town of Bad Ischl banned refugees after an alleged sexual harassment episode. The move sparked criticism from human rights groups.

On New Year’s Eve, a group of migrants came to the bar and reportedly groped a waitress.

“After that I had enough and I decided to ban them all until we find the culprits. I need to protect my guests and my family,” Karin Siebrecht-Janisch, the owner, told AFP, insisting that she was not inciting racism or hatred.

The measures come in the wake of the recent mass sexual assaults that took place on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Bielefeld, where migrants attacked, groped, and robbed women. Similar cases were reported in other EU cities including Helsinki, Stockholm, Vienna, Zurich, among others.

 

[luke wilson]

Reminds me of jim crow except this time it's refugees... Good work Germany! The book defying hitler also comes to mind as to the psyche of the German population plus how events are unfolding.