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[[Image:Quran.jpg|thumb|right|Pages from the [[Koran]], the foundational text of the Islamic ideology, dictated by a single 7th-century author who claimed to have been inspired by a supernatural being whom Muslims call 'Allah'. If the Constitution is the highest law of the United States, then the Koran is the highest law of Islam.]]

[[Image:Mohammad.jpg|thumb|right|[[Muhammad]], the creator of Islam. Pictorial representations of Muhammad is considered making a graven image of a false god in Islam.]]
'''Islam''' (or '''Mohammedanism'''; archaic) is a religion based on the teachings of [[Muhammad]] (sometimes Mohammed), a seventh-century [[Arab]]. Muhammad claimed descent from [[Ishmael]], the son of [[Abraham]]. Muhammad claimed to have received revelations from Allah, the entity which adherents of Islam claim to resemble the [[God]] of [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]], via the archangel Gabriel, which were written in the [[Koran]] – thus forming the core teachings of Islam.

The Koran's singular authorship offers no corroborating evidence, as the four Gospels do for example, of testimony of independent eyewitness accounts to its claim of divine inspiration as the Mosaic Law requires,<ref>Dueteronomy 19:15 ''By the testimony of two is a matter established''. The testimony of one - Mohammad - is insufficient to convict the human race, or infidels, of sin, ''per the Law of Moses'' or the Koran itself which claims descent.</ref> from which the Koran's author borrowed selectively.

==Overview==
[[File:World Muslim Population Pew Forum.png|thumb|The Muslim population of the world map according to the Pew Forum 2009 report.]]
The word "Islam"<ref>Arabic الإسلام‎‎, specifically referring to submission to Allah</ref> means "submission" or "surrender" in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]. Islam, as originally designed in the Koran, presents itself as an "Abrahamic faith" and has [[Moses]] in it,<ref>Brannon Wheeler. Moses in the Koran and Islamic Exegesis. Routledge, 2002.</ref> as well as [[Jesus]] as a prophet in Islam,<ref>Muhammad Ata ur-Rahim, Ahmad Thomson. ''Jesus: Prophet of Islam''. TTQ, INC., 2003.</ref> and it specifically denies Jesus's divine nature.

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The world’s Islamic population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. In the United States, for example, the population projections show the number of Muslims more than doubling over the next two decades, rising from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030.<ref>[http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/ The Future of the Global Muslim Population.]</ref>
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Islam has been criticized for some time because of its demanding of strict submissiveness (especially of women), its suppression and violations of human rights (also including those of women), and its predisposition to being violent toward those of true religious faiths and attacking those faiths deemed a threat to Islam. There have been over 23,000 terrorist attacks committed by adherents of Islam since [[September 11, 2001 attacks|the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001]].<ref>http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/</ref> A more recent strain of Islam has combined European totalitarianism and a virulent [[anti-Semitism]]. This version is called [[Jihadism#Lesser jihad|lesser jihad]], [[Islamism]], radical Islam, or militant Islam. Without the historic institution of the Caliph, this form degenerates into stateless terrorist activity that strikes at the heart of civilized man. Some who identify as Muslim have denounced the violent jihadism while others remain silent. Some Muslims and non-Muslims theorize that mainstream Islam has become corrupted over the years that there needs to be an [[Islamic Reformation]] similar to that of the [[Protestant Reformation]].<ref>Michaelle Browers, Charles Kurzman. An Islamic Reformation? Lexington Books, 2004.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/954/distinguishing-between-islam-and-islamism|title=Distinguishing between Islam and Islamism|author=Daniel Pipes|date=June 30, 1998}}</ref> The Reformation movements were costly and bloody for well over a century.
[[Image:Mecca.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mecca]], one of the holy cities of Islam.]]
There are small groups of largely Westernized Muslims who publicly reject Islamism. Such moderate Muslim conservatives are in the [[Republican Party]], known as the [[Muslim Republicans]].<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> One of America's Founding Fathers, [[Thomas Jefferson]], who was a religious [[libertarian]], declared: "''freedom for the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindu and infidel of every denomination''."<ref>John A. Garraty, Story of America Beginnings to 1877, (1992) Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pg 706.</ref>

Issues with Islam arose in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign. Republican presidential candidate [[Mitt Romney]] said that "''Radical, violent Islamists pose a threat to Americans and others around the world.''" and that "''they take a very different view of Islam than the Muslims I know.''" Romney said that when he lived in Detroit he knew Muslims, as Detroit has a large Muslim population, and says "''They are peace-loving and America-loving individuals. I believe that very sincerely. I believe people of the Islamic faith do not have to subscribe to the idea of radical, violent jihadism.''<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> Former Republican presidential nominee candidate [[Ron Paul]], a libertarian conservative, says that America should not fear Islam and said that America should just embrace people of all faiths.<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref> American conservative author Margaret Hoover believes that the Republican Party needs to recognize Muslim Republicans, noting an example of Muslim Republican youth Suhail Khan who she describes as "''one of thousands of Muslim Americans who work to promote Christian-Muslim understanding''".<ref>Margaret Hoover, ''American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party'', Random House Digital, Inc., 2011, pg 202.</ref> Candidates for the Republican nomination like [[Newt Gingrich]] and [[Rick Santorum]] strongly criticized Islamic extremism.<ref>http://www.muslimrepublicans.net/</ref>

[[Multiculturalism|Multiculturalists]] ignore or minimize violence in the history of Islam and exaggerate Christian atrocities to advance a [[moral equivalence]]. Proponents of this view often cite the [[Crusades|Great Crusades]]--an unsuccessful attempt by Western Christians to retake parts of the [[Byzantine Empire]] that had been conquered by Islamic armies--and various religious wars which were later fought in Europe between branches of Christianity. However, they brand critics of Islam "racists" (even though Islam is not a "race") and "[[Islamophobia|Islamophobes]]" (a smear term invented for the purpose of censoring and silencing legitimate criticism of Islam) for exposing today's threats by [[jihadism|jihadists]].<ref>http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/charity.html</ref>

A follower of Islam is called a "[[Muslim]]" (rarely "Moslem"), a term which means "one who submits (to Allah)." The older terms "Mohammedan" and "Muhammedan" ("follower of Muhammad"), have fallen out of use.<ref>Additional archaic terms for Muslims include "Hagarene", "Musselman", and "Saracen." Saracen as a term for Muslims was limited to the Crusades era, although it makes frequent re-appearances in pre-modern polemics. Hagarene was a more common term in pre-modern works, as it denotes the Biblical connection of Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, who is claimed to be a patriarch of Islam. Additional names for Muslims in pre-modern and Medieval works are generally derived from misspellings.</ref>

Because of its history of terrorism, mass murder and suicide attacks, Islam, and those who adhere to it, are sometimes generally perceived as having no regard toward human life.<ref>[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2017/07/09/human/permanent-rage-islam/ The Permanent Rage of Islam] at Conservative News and Views</ref>

==Theology==
[[File:Kaaba.jpg|thumb|Masjid al-Haram, the holiest site in Islam.]]

There are no clergy, but there are religious teachers, or [[Imam]]s, who have their followings. All Muslims are supposed to follow the teachings of Muhammad, whom they believe to be Allah's<ref>Arabic الله</ref> last and greatest [[prophet]] (although Jesus, in Matthew 7:15-20, warned "Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves. You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will recognize them by their fruit", which serves to explicitly describe Muhammad and such like him). The teachings of Muhammad are transmitted through the [[Koran]], the Hadith, and the Sunnah. The Sunnah is a general term for "the life and doings of the Prophet", which all Muslims are called on to replicate. Islam claims that the Archangel [[Gabriel]] appeared to Muhammad in a cave reciting verbatim a revelation from Allah. The first word that Gabriel says to Muhammad is "Iqra" or "Recite/Proclaim", which is found in the 96th Sura of the Koran.

Muslims believe that Allah revealed the Koran to Muhammad. The key miracle of Islam comes from the historical condition of the illiterate and uneducated Muhammad, as the Koran is composed in an erudite and complex form of Arabic prose and poetry.<ref>Proclaim! (or read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created- Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood: Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful,- He Who taught (the use of) the pen,- Taught man that which he knew not.(Surah 96:1-5)</ref> The Koran was not written down in a systematic fashion until a decade after Muhammad died, preferable transmission being through oral recitation. The Koran is claimed by Muslims to be the pure and holy word of Allah, uncreated and eternal. In Islamic belief, the term uncreated is very important, as it implies that there is no author for the Koran, only the delivering of the word to Muhammad who delivered it to the Sahab and the Salaf (The Companions and the Pure), who delivered it to the scribe delegated to record it in the reign of the Caliph Uthman bin Affan.

Islam teaches fundamental contradictions about the nature of Allah. Allah is said to be all-powerful, yet impotent to have a son (Surah 6:100-101). The idea of Allah having offspring is mocked,<ref>"Limitless is He is His glory, and sublimely exalted above anything that men may devise by way of definition: the Originator of the heavens and the earth! How could it be that He should have a child without there ever having been a mate for Him - since it is He who has created everything, and He alone knows everything?" - Surah 6:100-101.</ref> and this limitation of his power differentiates Allah from the Christian God. Allah is a very angry god who loves only those who swear allegiance to him, and hates non-believers. To serve Allah is to hate Allah's enemies with the same divine hatred that Allah hates non-believers (Surah 5:54). This stands in direct contrast to John 3:16.

In Islamic theology, Allah, the alleged maker of heaven and earth (Surah 6:100), is impotent to have a son (Surah 6:101). Human beings, with the ability to reproduce themselves, possess powers Allah is incapable of.

===Divisions within Islam===
Uthman was assassinated in 656 A.D. by soldiers who then installed Ali ibn Abu Talib, Muhammad's son-in-law, as [[Caliph]]. Ali's followers believed Muhammad had chosen Ali to be Muhammad's heir, and had disagreed with the selections of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman as Caliphs. Ali's claim to the position was challenged by Muawiyah, a kinsman of the murdered Uthman. Five years later, Ali was assassinated by Kharjites, dissidents who broke away from the main body of Islam because they rejected Ali's accepting arbitration to resolve his leadership dispute with Muawiyah. Ali's supporters, or the Shiah al-Ali (or Shiat Ali, partisans of Ali) believed that Ali was the true Caliph and was, in part, divinely inspired. Ali's sons, Hassan and Husayn followed as [[Shia]] Caliphs, Hassan dying in 669 or 670 A.D., possibly by poisoning, and Husayn slain by soldiers of his rival, the [[Sunni]] Caliph Yazid, in 680 A.D.

The Shia Islamic community has divided further as followers coalesced around several of Ali's descendants or successors, called [[Imam]]s. The "twelvers," predominant in Iran, believe the twelfth Imam is in hiding and will reveal himself just before judgment day. Ismailis rejected the seventh Imam and practice a spirituality that seeks hidden meaning in scripture. Ismailis ruled much of [[North Africa]] as the [[Fatimid Dynasty]] of [[Egypt]] in the tenth through the twelfth centuries, and today are found primarily in [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]], and [[India]]. The Sunni majority reject the premise that men can be divine, including Muhammad, Ali, or Jesus, and did not accept any of the Imams who followed Ali. Sunnis remain more committed to traditions and less inclined to accept Shia mysticism. Today, about 15% of the world's Muslims are Shia and 85% are orthodox Sunni.

There are other factions within Islam. Sufis, a name possibly derived from the wool garments they wear, developed around mystical practices and trance-induced revelations. Sufis are found today in [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], and parts of [[Africa]]. One of the most famous modern followers of Sufism was American professional boxer [[Muhammad Ali]] in his later years. Other movements have taken reform tracks, such as the Unitarians of [[Saudi Arabia]], also called [[Wahhabi]]s after their 18th-century reformist founder Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. The conservative Wahhabis are found today in Saudi Arabia and [[Qatar]]. Today the Wahhabi line has a tendency to produce extremists, such as [[Osama Bin Laden]]. Some critics would argue that the [[Taliban]] of Afghanistan took conservative reform to an extreme. Other sects or break-away groups include, among others, the Alawis found in Syria and Turkey, the [[Druze]] in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel, the Ibadhis (Kharjites) in Oman and Africa, the Ahmadiya of Pakistan, and the Zaydis of Yemen.

==Origins==
Like Christianity and Judaism, Islam originated in the Middle East. Islam claims to trace its roots back to Abraham through his son Ishmael. Muslims do not believe that Muhammad was the founder of Islam, rather they claim that he restored the original faith of Abraham and the prophets that followed as recorded in the lost books of the Tawrat and Injil.

Based upon this belief, the [[Bible]], both the [[Old Testament|Old]] and [[New Testament]]s, is claimed by adherents of Islam to have become corrupted through the [[Bible translations|translations and misinterpretations]] accumulated over several millennia. The criticism of the [[Torah]] centers around the reconstruction of the existing Biblical text required after the "[[Babylon]]ian captivity". The criticism of the New Testament centers in the many disputed gnostic texts which contradict the orthodox biblical canon. Interestingly, Islamic jurisprudence accepts that the Injil was complete and whole up until the revelation of Muhammad. Therefore, there is some inconsistency in the claims made against the New Testament. For more information, see [[The Bible versus the Qur'an|The Bible versus the Koran]].

Muhammad spent many years attempting to unite disparate polytheistic Arab tribes in the power vacuum created by the fall of the [[Roman Empire]] through recitations of his epic poem, which borrowed heavily from Hebrew scriptures and dietary laws, meeting with only limited success. He was eventually driven out of Mecca by the powers that be for challenging state authority, an event known as the ''Hijra'' or "Flight from Mecca" which marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.

Eventually Muhammad was summoned back to Mecca by a faction of sympathizers, mainly tribal family members, as political chaos engulfed the city. Muhammad conquered the city after a prolonged siege with attacks on the civilian population and hundreds of beheadings to any who refused to accept his claims to a divine mission of carrying out the will of Allah. The doctrine of abrogation (''nashk'') in Islamic scholarship teaches that the later instructions of Mohammad supersede any earlier contradictory verses in the Koran.<ref>http://www.quranicstudies.com/books/abrogation-in-the-quran-and-islamic-law/</ref> Hence was born political Islam,<ref>https://www.politicalislam.com/abrogation-and-the-koran/</ref> a doctrine of war, conquest, and vengeance, over any earlier utterances which teach Islam a religion of peace. Peace only exists in Islam insofar as all Islam's enemies are subjugated.

==Terminology==
Additional archaic terms for Muslims include, but are not limited to, "Hagarene" and "Saracen." The term Hagarene was more common in post-crusade Europe as it made specific reference to the Biblical mother of Ishmael. In Islam, Ishmael plays an analogous theological role to Isaac. Muslims do not use it today to avoid confusing worship of [[Muhammad]] with worship of [[Allah]].<ref>Schimmel, (1992)</ref>

==Islamic guidance==
During his lifetime, Muhammad's companions learned and later transcribed the verses (surrahs) of the Koran as Muhammad spoke them. In Islam, the teachings of Mohammed were believed to be direct divine revelation from Allah.

The third Caliph, Uthman, collected and codified the various versions of the surrahs into one written Koran that became the standard Arabic text used by the world's Muslims today. The Koran is longer than the Bible and written in general order of longest chapters to shortest rather than in any order of when they were spoken, sometimes making the work appear to be confusing. In all there are 114 chapters. Most of the later recorded sayings of Mohammed, which were also more warlike, actually appear earlier in the text. Present-day Muslims look first to the Koran as a guide to life, then to the [[Sunnah]], or the way of the Prophet (his life as an example for others) as recorded by his early companions, and then to the [[Hadith]], a collection of the Prophet's sayings, comments, advice, and descriptions.

Frequently, Muslims disagreed over how to interpret certain passages in the Qur'an, the Sunnah, or the Hadith in their search for the ideal life and perfect path to heaven. From these interpretations Sunni Muslims developed four schools of law, or interpretations of law, named after their founders or early leaders: the Hanbali, considered the most strict school and predominant today in Saudi Arabia; Shafi, the school of widest acceptance, found in Egypt, parts of Palestine-Syria, south Arabia, and the Far East; Maliki, prevalent in North Africa, Sudan, and Nigeria; and Hanafi, considered the most moderate school, predominant in Ottoman Turkey and today found primarily on the Levant and Indian subcontinent. Frequently, Islamic countries have two separate legal systems, one for civil, criminal, or commercial law, and a second, and separate, system for religious law. Religious courts and their judges (qadis) might handle issues dealing with marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, religious education, charitable or religious property (Waqf), or family matters. Among Middle Eastern countries, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen have Shariah courts serving alongside their secular courts or have adopted [[Sharia]]h (Islamic law) as the basis of their legal systems.

===Five pillars of Islam===
*'''[[Shahadah]] (Profession of Faith)''' -The Shahadah is the Muslim profession of faith. 'ašhadu 'al-lā ilāha illā-llāhu wa 'ašhadu 'anna muħammadan rasūlu-llāh, a loose English translation reads "''There is none worthy of worship except Allah, and [[Muhammad]] is the messenger of Allah''" This testament can be seen as the foundation of all of the other tenets of Islam and swears off the divinity of Christ. For the Christian believer, the Shahada is essentially an [[oath]] renouncing the divinity of [[Christ]], "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven." (Matt 10:33).

*'''[[Salat]] (Ritual Prayer)''' -All Muslims are required to pray to Allah five times each day while facing [[Mecca]]. Praying six times a day is considered willful disobedience to Allah, ''per shariah law'', an act punishable by death.<ref>The example is used by Prof. Quinten Wiktorowitz of an extremist considered by Muslim "moderates" as one who loves Allah so much he defies Allah's instructions. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10576100500497004</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://archives.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/WIKTOROWICZ_2006_Anatomy_of_the_Salafi_Movement.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiXlY7EttfTAhVF02MKHRExBFwQFggcMAA&usg=AFQjCNH4tKyamYaRwVVY8j23A0VjTOOWJg&sig2=zIzwl9aecd3zpGkLsveV0g "Despite the success of the Prophet’s mission and the growth of Islam, Salafis believe human desires continue to grip Muslims and challenge the purity of the message. In this view, there is an eternal temptation to manipulate and distort the religion through innovation. Although nefarious interests often drive deviancy, it can also result from good intentions. Muslims who pray more than the explicitly proscribed five times a day, for example, are likely motivated by love for God. They are, however, still engaged in innovation because they are inventing new practices to fulfill a human desire." p.4 pdf]</ref>

*'''Zakat (Charity)''' Zakat is often described as charitable giving. Able Muslims must donate to the poor based on the wealth one has accumulated. In current usage it is interpreted as 2.5% of [[net worth]] held for a full lunar year. However, funding violent jihad by wealthy Muslims has been ruled a form of ''zakat'' by Islamic scholars, a requirement to fulfill their Islamic duty under the five pillars. There exists the poor, unemployed, and unemployable jihadis, and the ignorant (''jahiliyya'') infidel masses in need if Islamic enlightening, hence funding terrorism is considered charitable work.

*'''Sawm (Fasting)''' All able-bodied Muslims (children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the ill are exempt) must not eat during the daylight hours of the entire month of [[Ramadan]]. According to Muslims, this purifies the body and soul. Although Muslims and their mainstream media surrogates refer to it as a "fast," this in no way aligns with traditional Christian and Judaic concepts of fasting, and indeed violates the basic concept. Torturing oneself in an outward display of [[piety]] is deemed hypocritcal by the [[monotheist]]ic traditions of Christianity and Judaism. Some Islamic sects allow military, police and emergency services personnel to receive an exemption from fasting from an imam, on the grounds that their work supports the community or national good.

*'''Hajj (Pilgrimage)''' All able-bodied Muslims must make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lives. Many without funds for a round trip never made it back, having been sold off in the slave auction market place at [[Taif]].<ref>https://youtu.be/emRVkisdbhc</ref>

===Sharia===
[[Image:StarCresent.png|thumb|right|220px|The Star and Crescent is a symbol of Islam. It is featured in the national flag of [[Algeria]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Malaysia]], [[Tunisia]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Mauritania]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Turkey]], amongst others]]
[[Sharia]] is the body of Islamic law. The term means "way" or "path"; it is the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Islamic principles of jurisprudence. It is not actually part of the canonical Koran; that is to say, it is not believed to be the direct word of Allah by Muslims, but rather the interpretation of it.

Sharia deals with many aspects of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business law, contract law, sexuality, marriage, divorce, and social issues. Most Islamic scholars regard Sharia as the body of precedent and legal theory established during the early stages of the Islamic Empire, though a few scholars also believe contemporary legal cases can and should shape the law, though such thinkers may be subject to ridicule and even threats from Islamists and their liberal allies.

Sharia law proscribes often brutal punishments for acts, that, in the western world, are relatively minor. For example, under sharia law, turning away from Islam is punishable by death,<ref>[http://www.ntpi.org/html/whyoppose.html]</ref> while women found guilty of adultery is punishable by stoning to death, which often includes many rape victims, as Sharia courts often regard a rape victim as guilty of adultery unless she can provide four witnesses to the act of rape.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6148590.stm</ref> In cases involving the death penalty of corporal punishment, methods of carrying out the punishment are often barbaric, and include public beheading, chopping off of the hand, and flogging.<ref>http://saudiwoman.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/punishment-in-saudi-arabia/</ref> Many Islamic groups have been attempting to have Shariah courts set up in European countries, initially to rule over civil cases between Muslims in Europe.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422661,00.html</ref>

The need by Islam's adherents to add to and retain followers in its ideology through Sharia, deceit, force and intimidation, particularly through threats of death against those who leave Islam or who levy legitimate criticism against it for its barbaric ways and history, would indicate that overall, Islam is a weak ideology that would not withstand criticism or exposure of the truth of its ways and history. To facilitate retaining its membership and to keep the truth about Islam under wraps, its adherents have formed convenient alliances with sympathetic liberals in politics, academia, the courts, the mainstream media and Hollywood to deceive the public about Islam and what it really is, as well as to censor and silence critics of Islam through ridicule, false accusations of "racism", "hate speech" and "Islamophobia" and the illegal use of the legal system to punish critics.<ref>[http://nationalpost.com/news/weaponization-of-free-speech-prompts-talk-of-a-new-hate-law?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29 "Weaponization" of free speech prompts talk of a new hate law] at the ''National Post''</ref>

===Ulemah ===
Sunni Islam does not have a priesthood or clerical hierarchy to conduct religious services or interpret scripture, but it does have prayer leaders, called Imams, and religious scholars, called Ulemah,<ref>"Umma and ulemah" would be roughly equivalent to "laity and clergy".</ref> who often are educated men familiar with the Koran and able to offer commentaries on Koranic verses. Sunni Muslims also respect the teachings and interpretations of scholars, judges, and academics who may interpret laws, write treatises on Sharia (religious law) or Hadith, and issue Fatwas, religious rulings or declarations intended to enlighten or guide Muslims. These religious scholars issue legal rulings on various questions in contemporary life, such as the use of toilet paper which Islamic law previously forbade,<ref>https://nypost.com/2015/04/08/muslims-can-now-use-toilet-paper-turkeys-top-religious-authority/</ref> transgenderism,<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-transgender/pakistani-clerics-declare-transgender-marriages-legal-under-islamic-law-idUSKCN0ZD1IZ</ref> conjugal relations in marriage during the menstrual cycle<ref>http://aliftaa.jo/QuestionEn.aspx?QuestionId=2667#.YGOXVtKSncs</ref> or use of bug zappers.<ref>https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/198619/killing-insects-with-electric-insect-killer</ref>

Shia Islam has a hierarchy that resembles a priesthood. Mullahs are prayer leaders, but usually do not interpret religious law. Mujtahids are religious scholars who may interpret law or passages from the Koran or Hadith. The lower order of Mujtahids are called Hojjatolislam. Ayat Allah (literally sign of Allah, also Ayatollah) is a higher order of Mujtahid who may issue Fatwas, or religious edicts, in addition to leading Islamic schools, interpreting religious law and the Koran, and offering sermons or discourses on proper Islamic behavior.

== Converts to Islam ==
People who convert to Islam from legitimate religions or from nontheism commit ideologically motivated crimes such as [[jihadism|jihadist]] [[terrorism]], [[hate speech]], [[discrimination]], and [[fraud]]: [http://web.archive.org/web/20190327113206/https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Converts_to_Islam A list of converts to Islam]. As has been witnessed many times, people who convert to Islam become radicalized and divide the world into two groups: Muslims ("people who surrender to Allah") and non-Muslims (''kafir''s, i.e. people who think differently).

==Today==
[[File:2012 Sydney protest.jpg|thumb|Some non-Muslims feel threatened by the unforgiving nature of the ideology of Islam.]]
Islam is the world's largest socio-political ideology, with over 1.6 billion followers, and is claimed to be the fastest-growing ideology in America.<ref>[http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-fastest-growing-religion-in-america-is-islam]</ref> This rapid growth is mainly due to conversions, high birth rates, and convenient redefinitions of the term "Muslim". Conversions to Christianity (from ''any'' faith or lack thereof) outnumber those to Islam, but are keeping up with the birthrate discrepancy.<ref>[http://www.bible.ca/global-religion-statistics-world-christian-encyclopedia.htm World Christian Encyclopedia]</ref><ref>[http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/AlJazeerahAfrica.php Translation of AL-Jazeerah interview between Maher Abdallah and Shiekh Ahmed Katani]</ref>

Islamic doctrine, including what is taught in [[North America]], teaches that 1 John 4:9, "God is love", is a false doctrine.<ref>http://www.arabicbible.com/for-christians/1313-christians-common-questions-about-islam.html?start=2</ref> The doctrine of ''Al-Wala wal-Bara'' teaches true faith is measured in sharing Allah's hatred of the ''kufr'', non-believers, or infidels.<ref>http://www.meforum.org/3545/islam-hatred-non-muslim</ref> In other words, Islamic doctrine teaches that Allah hates his own creation, sinful man, which John 3:16 teaches, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son." ''Al-Wala wal-Bara'', or divine hatred, is used to justify terrorist attacks. The believing Muslim feels he is carrying out Allah's will in killing Allah's enemies. Rather than the [[atonement|atoning]] blood of Jesus for sinful man, the murder of infidels and attacks on their societal institutions and national governments is aimed at blotting out evil in the world.

Even Orthodox Judaism teaches that Jehovah loves sinners. Psalm 138:8, for example, says, "The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands."

[[Indonesia]] has the largest Islamic population in the world.

=== Future of Islam in Europe and the desecularization of Europe ===
''See also: [[Atheism vs. Islam]] and [[Secular Europe]]''
[[File:Europe pol 2004.jpg|thumbnail|right|325px|In 2014, the Pew Research Forum indicated that [[Europe]] will go from 11% of the world's population to 7% of the world's population by 2050.<ref>[https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/03/10-projections-for-the-global-population-in-2050/ 10 projections for the global population in 2050] By Rakesh Kochhar, Pew Research Forum, February 3, 2014</ref>]]

In April 2010, Eric Kaufmann indicated concerning the future of Islam in Europe:
{{cquote|I address this in some detail in the book, as well is in a [http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/europes-muslim-future recent article in the April issue of Prospect magazine] here in Britain. The short answer is that I don’t foresee a Muslim-majority Europe in this century or in the next. Why? Mainly because Muslim birthrates are plunging both in Europe and the Muslim world. Already, Iran, Tunisia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and several other Muslim countries have replacement-level fertility or below. In the UK, Bangladeshi and Pakistani fertility has halved in a generation and is now under 3 children per woman. This means their long-term growth will begin to tail off. The other part of the equation is the rise of non-Muslim immigrant groups (African and West Indian Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and other Eastern faiths) who are also increasing and therefore making Europe more plural and, in the process, rendering it harder for Muslims to increase their share of the population.

That said, Muslim membership retention and in-group marriage is exceptionally high (over 90 per cent) and they are a much younger population than the host society. So they are on course for steady growth. My colleagues and I expect their fertility to fall to host levels by 2030, but they will still make up 5-15 per cent of most West European countries by 2050 and 10-25 per cent by 2100. This is a major change from the 2-6 per cent levels of today<ref>[http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/shall_the_religious_inherit_the_earth/#sthash.nE0JGi2Y.dpuf ''Shall the religious inherit the earth?''], 2010 Interview with [[Eric Kaufmann]] by MercatorNet</ref>}}

Due to the growing number of Muslims moving into secular Europe/[[Western World]] and the ideological differences between the [[atheist worldview]] and Islam, there has been growing tension between [[atheism|atheists]]/secularists and Muslims - particularly between [[Militant atheism|militant atheists]] and militant Islam.

The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Sam Harris]] and the late [[Christopher Hitchens]] have received multiple accusations of engaging in "[[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]]" behavior.<ref>
*[https://www.salon.com/2013/03/30/dawkins_harris_hitchens_new_atheists_flirt_with_islamophobia/ Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia] by Nathan Lean, ''Salon'', March 30, 2013
*[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-harris-muslim-animus Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus] by [[Glenn Greenwald]], ''The Guardian'', April 3, 2013</ref> On the other hand, defenders of atheist criticisms of Islam/Muslims indicated that New Atheists should be able to criticize Islam without being accused of "Islamophobia".<ref>[http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2013/04/new-atheism-should-be-able-criticise-islam-without-being-accused-islamophobia New Atheism should be able to criticise Islam without being accused of Islamophobia] by Andrew Zak Williams, ''New Statesman'', Published 19 April 2013</ref>

For more information, please see:

*[[Atheism vs. Islam]]
*[[Atheism vs. Christianity]]

==Other aspects of Islam==
===Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem===
Muhammad's home city of Mecca was the site of his earliest preaching and conversions, and is the location of the Kaaba, traditionally held to be the foundation stone of the first mosque built by Adam and later restored by Abraham, and now the focus of the annual pilgrimage (hajj). Some historians suggest that the Kaaba, a black stone probably meteoric in origin, was venerated by pre-Islamic polytheistic religions.

At first, Jerusalem was claimed by Islam to be its holy city and the focus of prayers, but Mecca became the center of Islam after Muhammad's return in 630. Medina, because of its early association with Muhammad and as the site of Muhammad's tomb, is second in importance to Mecca. Jerusalem is revered by Muslims as the site of Solomon's temple, Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Ishmael, and the scene of Muhammad's miraculous midnight journey, the latter two now enshrined in the [[Dome of the Rock]] mosque. According to the Koran (Surrah 17:1, Isra) and Hadith, Muhammad and Gabriel were taken on winged mules from Mecca to Jerusalem, where they ascended through the seven heavens to the presence of Allah. During the visit, Muhammad learned, among other points, that Muslims were to pray five times each day and to honor Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the other prophets.

===People of the Book===
Christians and Jews are called "people of the Book" in the Koran and are considered earlier forerunners to Islam and viewed as brothers as long as they pay an extra tax when under Islamic rule. Islam, which claims roots tracing back to Abraham through his son Ishmael instead of Isaac as the Jews did, believes that they are the descendants of Allah's promise. Islam claims that both the Old and New Testament were corrupted and corrected by the Koran (though in truth, it is the Koran itself which plagiarized from and corrupted Biblical scripture), but there is still an earlier link claimed between the two religions and Islam. The view of Jews and Christians varied within different parts of the Koran and Islamic history. Much of current Islamic culture, even in places that were once very tolerant such as Egypt, has seen an upsurge in persecution and violence against Christians and Jews.

===Jihad===
Jihad is the "struggle" each Muslim is called to against unbelievers (infidels). Participation in jihad in Allah's cause was the third most important good deed listed in the Hadith, after prayer and honoring one's parents. Jihad was a rallying cry for the military spread of Islam in the seventh through tenth centuries against non-Muslims, and is the same reason for Islamic terrorism and war today. 
Some Muslim apologists in the western world say that jihad refers to the difficulties a Muslim faces in the everyday trials of life, such as the effort to get better grades in school, or the striving to achieve better results from a job, or the struggle to avoid sinful temptations. It is, they say, the internal struggle of good and evil, or the pure and the impure. However, this is simply a fabrication, which has been publicly labeled as such by Muslim scholars in the middle east. Nonetheless, even some mosques not teach this, fostering a more peaceful version of Islam. Unfortunately, it is not based on the Koran and the Hadith, but rather modern revisions. Any Muslim believing this peaceful version can be corrected based on these sacred books, and thus become "radicalized."

====Violent passages of the Koran championed by Islam====
In its passages, the Koran has advocated adherents of Islam to commit acts of violence, hatred and insurrection against those who do not follow that ideology (in particular, Jews and Christians) or are critical of it, to subjugate Judaism, Christianity and other religions to Islam and to force the followers of legitimate religions to submit and adhere to Islam.<ref>[https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx What Does Islam Teach About Violence]</ref><ref>[https://thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/hell-and-hate.aspx What Does Islam Teach About Hell and Hate]</ref> Not surprisingly, attempts at pointing out the violence advocated by the Koran have been met with denials and excuses by Islamic apologists, who engage in [[taqiyya]] by claiming that the critics of the violent passages took those passages "out of context" and that "critics only quote the part which (suits) them" while the apologists do exactly what they accuse the critics of doing.<ref>[https://discover-the-truth.com/2014/08/12/quran-2191-and-kill-them-wherever-you-find-them-explained/ Quran 2:191- ‘And kill them wherever you find them…’ Explained] - an attempt by Islamic apologists to excuse violent passages of the Koran by offering deceitful explanations of what they claim those passages "really mean"</ref><ref>[http://islam101.com/terror/verse8_12.htm The Holy Quran, verse 8:12], from another Islamic apologist site which excuses the violent passages of the Koran and attacks its critics by claiming "Some non-Muslims either through ignorance or Islam-bashing continue taking the verses of the Holy Quran out of context and its history to justify their false propaganda"</ref><ref>[https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/games/discover-truth/verses/47-4.aspx "Discover the Truth's" Game] - a refutation of the claims and excuses made by the Islamic apologist site Discover the Truth regarding Koran 47:4</ref><ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/01/jihad_quran_9123_v_matthew_103.html Jihad: Quran 9:123 v. Matthew 10:34] at American Thinker</ref><ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/obama_quotes_verse_532_omits_5.html Obama quotes (Koran) verse 5:32, omits 5:33] at American Thinker</ref> Among the more violent and hateful passages of the Koran are these:

*Koran 2:191 - “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.”
*Koran 9:123 - “Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.”
*Koran 9:5 - “When opportunity arises kill the infidels wherever you catch them.”
*Koran 3:85 - “Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.”
*Koran 9:30 - “The Jews and the Christians are perverts; fight them.”
*Koran 5:33 - “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam”
*Koran 9:28 - “The infidels are unclean; do not let them into a mosque.”
*Koran 22:19 - “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water; melt their skin and bellies.”
*Koran 47:4 - “Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them.”
*Koran 8:65 - “The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them.”
*Koran 3:28 - “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.”
*Koran 8:12 - “Terrorize and behead those who disbelieve (in Allah).”
*Koran 8:60 - “Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.”

====Osama bin Laden and fundamentalists====
[[Osama bin Laden]], a follower of [[Wahhabism]], stated that Islam is at war with the United States and its allies. Some observers claim that the number of Islamic fundamentalists is growing and poses a threat to the West.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/255/islamic-fundamentalists-are-the-new-big-threat-to-the-west|title=Islamic Fundamentalists are the New Big Threat to the West|author=Daniel Pipes|newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer|date=Sept 16, 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.city-journal.org/html/rev2006-06-04td.html|title=All or Nothing: The quest for a moderate Islam may be futile.|date=June 4, 2006|author=Theodore Dalrymple|newspaper=Cite Journal}}</ref> But other observers differentiate between conservative "fundamentalists" and the "extremists" who follow murderers such as bin Laden or other terrorists.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://townhall.com/columnists/dineshdsouza/2008/09/15/who_speaks_for_islam/page/full/|title=Who Speaks For Islam|author=Dinesh D'Souza|newspaper=Townhall|date=Sept 15, 2009}}</ref> In several major Islamic nations, bin Laden had the support of the majority of people in the early years after the 9/11 attacks. As he lost battles with the West and started to target fellow Muslims his popularity waned.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/04/30/on-anniversary-of-bin-ladens-death-little-backing-of-al-qaeda/|title=On Anniversary of bin Laden’s Death, Little Backing of al Qaeda|date=April 30, 2012|publisher=Pew Research Center}}</ref>

===Islam and forced conversion===
The Quran and the various Hadiths teach Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they are killed, converted, or in a permanent state of subjugation.
*Quran (8:38-39) - “Say to those who have disbelieved, if they cease (from disbelief) their past will be forgiven... And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world ]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do.”

*Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

*Quran (9:5) "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them..."

*Quran (9:11) - (Continued from verse 9:5) "But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then are they your brethren in religion"

*Quran (9:56-57) - "And they swear by Allah that they are most surely of you, and they are not of you, but they are a people who are afraid (of you). If they could find a refuge or cave or a place to enter into, they would certainly have turned thereto, running away in all haste."

*Quran (2:193) - "And fight them until fitna is no more, and religion be only for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers."

*Qur'an (3:83) - "Are they seeking a religion other than Allah's, when every soul in the heavens and the earth has submitted to Him, willingly or by compulsion?"

*Sahih Muslim (1:33) The Messenger of Allah said: "I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer and pay zakat."

*Sahih Muslim (19:4294) - "When you meet your enemies who are polytheists (which includes Christians), invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them ... If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them"

*Sahih Bukhari (84:59) - "Allah's Apostle said, 'I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah.'"

*Sahih Bukhari (53:392) - "While we were in the Mosque, the Prophet came out and said, "Let us go to the Jews" We went out till we reached Bait-ul-Midras. He said to them, "If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land. So, if anyone amongst you owns some property, he is permitted to sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle."

*Sahih Bukhari (2:24) - "Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform a that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah."

*Sahih Bukhari (60:80) - "The Verse:--'You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind.' means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam."

*Sahih Bukhari (60:40) - "...:And fight them till there is no more affliction (i.e. no more worshiping of others along with Allah)."

*Sahih Bukhari (59:643) - "Testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah, or else I will chop off your neck!"

*Ibn Kathir v.4 p.133, Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 959 - "Then the apostle sent Khalid bin Walid… to the Banu al-Harith and ordered him to invite them to Islam three days before he attacked them. If they accepted then he was to accept it from them, and if they declined he was to fight them. So Khalid set out and came to them, and sent out riders in all directions inviting the people to Islam, saying, 'If you accept Islam you will be safe.' So the men accepted Islam as they were invited."

*Ibn Kathir (Commenting on Quran 2:256 in the unabridged version of his tafsir) - "Therefore all people of the world should be called to Islam. If anyone of them refuses to do so, or refuses to pay the jizya, they should be fought till they are killed."

===Islam and slavery===
*Quran (33:50) - ''"O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee"
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*Quran (23:5-6) - ''"..who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess..."
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*Quran (4:24) - ''"And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess."
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*Quran (8:69) - ''"But (now) enjoy what ye took in war, lawful and good"''

*Quran (24:32) - ''"And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves..."''

*Quran (2:178) - ''"O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female."
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*Quran (16:75) - ''"Allah sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have bestowed goodly favours from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means;) praise be to Allah."
''
*Sahih Bukhari (41.598) - Muhammad establishes that slaves are property. They cannot be freed if an owner has outstanding debt, but they can be used to pay off the debt<ref>https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx</ref>

*Sahih Bukhari (62:137) - Gives an account of women taken as slaves in battle by Mohammed's men after their husbands and fathers were killed. The women were raped with Mohammed's approval.

*Sahih Bukhari (34:432) - Another account of women taken captive and raped with Mohammed's approval. In this case it is evident that the Muslims intend on selling the women after raping them because they are concerned about devaluing their price by impregnating them. Muhammad is asked about coitus interruptus.

*Sahih Bukhari (47:765) - A woman is rebuked by Mohammed for freeing a slave girl. The prophet tells her that she would have gotten a greater heavenly reward by giving her to a relative (as a slave).

*Sahih Bukhari (2:15:103) - ''"I was watching the display of black slaves in the mosque..."''

*Sahih Bukhari (59:637) - ''"The Prophet sent Ali to Khalid to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and I hated Ali, and Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus). I said to Khalid, 'Don't you see this (i.e. Ali)?' When we reached the Prophet I mentioned that to him. He said, 'O Buraida! Do you hate Ali?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Do you hate him, for he deserves more than that from the Khumlus.'"''

*Abu Dawud (2150) - ''"The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur’anic verse: (Quran 4:24) 'And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.'"
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*Abu Dawud (1814) - ''"...[Abu Bakr] He then began to beat [his slave] him while the Apostle of Allah (pbuh) was smiling and saying: Look at this man who is in the sacred state (putting on ihram), what is he doing?"
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*Abu Dawud (38:4458) - ''Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: “A slave-girl belonging to the house of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) committed fornication. He (the Prophet) said: Rush up, Ali, and inflict the prescribed punishment on her. I then hurried up, and saw that blood was flowing from her, and did not stop. So I came to him and he said: Have you finished inflicting (punishment on her)? I said: I went to her while her blood was flowing. He said: Leave her alone till her bleeding stops; then inflict the prescribed punishment on her. And inflict the prescribed punishment on those whom your right hands possess (i.e. slaves)”.''

*Abu Dawud (1:142) - ''"Do not beat your wife as you beat your slave-girl"''

===Stealing from non-Muslims===
The Koran and the various Hadiths encourage Muslims to steal from non-Muslims.
*Koran (8:69) - "So enjoy what you took as booty; the spoils are lawful and good."

*Koran (48:20) - "Allah promised you many acquisitions which you will take, then he hastened on this one for you and held back the hands of men from you, and that it may be a sign for the believers and that he may guide you on a right path."

*Koran (33:27) - "And he caused you to inherit their land and their houses and their wealth, and land ye have not trodden. Allah is ever able to do all things."

*Sahih Bukhari (53:351) - " Allah's Messenger said, "Booty has been made legal for me."

*Ibn Ishaq (327) - "Allah made booty lawful and good. He used it to incite the Muslims to unity of purpose. So enjoy what you have captured."

*Ibn Ishaq (503) - "Allah saw what was in their hearts [what they coveted] so he rewarded them with victory and with as much spoil as they could take. Allah promised that they would soon capture a great deal of booty.”

*Sahih Bukhari (44:668) - "We were in the company of the Prophet at Dhul-Hulaifa. The people felt hungry and captured some camels and sheep (as booty)..."

*Ahmad 4869 (also found in the original Hadith of Bukhari and Sahih al Jaami' AsSagheer 2828) - It is mentioned from Ibn ‘Umar from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, “I have been raised between the hands of the Hour with the sword, until Allah the Exalted is worshipped alone with no associates. He has provided sustenance from beneath the shadow of spears and has decreed humiliation and belittlement for those who oppose my order.”<ref>https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/stealing.aspx</ref>

===Contamination of food given to non-Muslims===
There have been incidents where Muslims contaminate food given to Non-Muslims:
*In 2008, in the U.K, Saeed Hashmi and Jan Yadgari, the owners of a restaurant, sold chocolate cake sprayed with human feces.<ref>https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/uk-muslim-who-sprayed-food-with-feces-and-urine-cant-be-deported</ref>

*In 2015, a Pakistani Muslim owned restaurant in Britain by the name of "Khyber Pass Kebab" was found by health inspectors to be mixing feces in food given to customers. <ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3247526/Kebab-shop-owners-infected-150-customers-rare-form-food-poisoning-meals-contaminated-human-faeces.html</ref>

*In July 2019, the local branch of ISIS in India planned to poison prasadam at a Hindu temple, to kill over 400 Hindu devotees. The suspects were arrested before they could do this.<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/terror-group-islamic-state-zakir-naik-mumbreshwar-temple-1573514-2019-07-25</ref>

*In August 2019, a Muslim vendor in the city of Meerut in India was caught mixing his Urine and Sperm in Biryani that he sold to Hindus.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGuYkInllg</ref>

*On April 3, 2020, a Muslim fruit vendor in India was caught licking fruits before selling them.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPoFAe52uw4&feature=emb_title</ref>

*On May 8, 2020, a Muslim man by the name of Abdul Nazim Sheikh Mahmood was caught on video licking bread while cutting it. The incident occurred in Maharashtra, India.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2020/05/maharashtra-man-arrested-in-amravati-after-video-of-him-spitting-on-bread-in-a-bakery-goes-viral-on-tiktok/</ref>

*On February 21, 2021, a Muslim man by the name of Sohail was caught on video spitting on Rotis while cooking for a wedding in the city of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, India.<ref>https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/watch-man-spits-on-tandoori-rotis-while-cooking-at-wedding-in-ups-meerut-arrested/723272</ref>

*On March 19, 2021, two Muslim men by the names of Sabi Anwar and Ibrahim were caught on camera spitting on Rotis that they were preparing.<ref>https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/2-staffers-held-for-spitting-on-rotis/article34103460.ece</ref>

*In September 2021, a Muslim owned company by the name of "iD Fresh Food" was found to be adding Cow Bones and Calf Rennet in Idli and Dosa Batter. <ref>https://twitter.com/RUDRANofficial/status/1434533101821063170</ref> <ref>https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/iD-Fresh-Food-raises-Rs-35-crore-in-first-round-of-funding/article20900998.ece</ref>

===Restrictions===
Observant Muslims are not supposed to eat pork and in general do not have dogs as pets; both swine and canines are considered unclean. Muslims can have dogs for safety. Muslims are prohibited from drinking alcoholic beverages, gambling, and from collecting interest on financial transactions.

===Women in Islam===
[[File:Muslim girls at Istiqlal Mosque Jakarta Indonesia.jpg|left|thumb|240px|Muslim girls at Istiqlal [[Mosque]], Jakarta.]]
In pre-Islamic times women's rights were defined by tribal laws which differed among the tribes. Some women had absolute equity and the ability to hold power, while some women were treated worse than chattel; bride prices, unlimited polygamy, and female infanticide were a common theme. [[Sharia law|Islamic law]] offered a path for which Muslim men could regulate women in a legal system based on Muslim principles of jurisprudence on the Arabian peninsula. Treated merely as individual sex objects, women were granted very limited rights but as distinct legal individuals; forced to marry who their parents tell them to, women are required not to directly object in order for the marriage contract to have some form of validity.

Unlike the pre-Islamic times where unlimited polygamy occurred, [[Sharia law]] limits [[polygamy]] to a maximum of four wives at any one time, though the use of "temporary" marriage in effect rendered this restriction meaningless. Once married, only men are entitled to divorce any time they please. The reality of traditional Sharia law as applied in the modern era has shocked the modern conscience.<ref>Linda Rae Bennett, ''Women, Islam and Modernity'' (2005)</ref> These restrictions on women were put into place over a thousand years ago, and there has been little progress since. Women are still not allowed to drive a [[car]], they cannot ride [[bicycle]]s, are unable to [[vote]], have been prohibited from traveling abroad without permission, and they can't use public facilities when men are present.

[[File:Sharia.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Muslim woman tortured under Sharia law.]]
Women in Islam are treated as inferiors to men in almost every regard and women's rights are all but non-existent in Islam, a fact conveniently ignored by the ideology's liberal allies (including in [[feminism]] and the [[mainstream media]]). In [[Sharia]], the testimony of one man equals that of five women. Women are required to cover the head and body in public, by wearing the hijab. Hijab is applied in different ways: a small scarf around the head and western street clothes may be acceptable in Cairo or Damascus but a full length opaque [[burqa]] was enforced in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. As of 2008, [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iran]], and [[Pakistan]] are the most significant Middle Eastern countries where the government requires women to wear some form of restrictive garb, though cultural pressure in most Islamic countries offers women little choice but to submit to the dictat of hijab. Women who are claimed by their husbands or family to have disgraced their family are put to death in "[[honor killing]]s"; buried halfway or sometimes up to their neck so they cannot run, women, who are in most cases victims, are stoned to death.

====Honor killings====
Another violent practice continued in Islamic countries is [[honor killing]], in which a brother, father, or uncle "restores" or "defends" a family's honor by killing the sister, daughter, or niece that "dishonored" the family through supposedly "promiscuous" behavior. This "promiscuous" activity often includes women from Islamic societies living in the West aspiring to a more open lifestyle. The "honor killing" is more ancient, and pagan in origin, but tolerated and practiced more or less openly in some Islamic societies.

Some apologists might try to excuse or justify this practice by putting down this verse:

<blockquote>
'Because of that, We decreed...that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.' -5:32. [http://quran.com/5/32].
</blockquote>

Notice the ellipses between decreed and that? I hope you did, and if you followed the link you would know that this was decreed to the Children of Israel, who would be the Jews. Now, how could this be a defense against honor killing in Islamic countries if this wasn't even given to Muslims? The answer lies in the very next verse:

<blockquote>
'Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment, Except for those who return [repenting] before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.' (5:33-34) [http://quran.com/5/33] [http://quran.com/5/34]
</blockquote>

So what we get from that, unlike the Jews where it is a blessing not to commit murder, for Muslims, it is a deed for Allah to murder those who have "caused corruption". Among these that "cause corruption" could be one's daughter, sister, or wife who is not wearing the headscarf, praying five times a day, not fasting in Ramadan, becoming too Westernized, etc., and thus honor killing would be "justified" in their view. Of course if you look at the next verse, it says that you should be merciful to those who have repented -before you apprehend them. This implies that they will be terrorized, and then there self-preservation instinct will kick in and they will repent. But what about those who don't? What if one's female relative doesn't believe that the headscarf is necessary while you do? And what if she still believes the same way after you apprehend her? You follow 5:33. As Muhammed himself proclaimed:

<blockquote>
I have been made victorious with terror.'
-Bukhari 4.52.220 [http://www.quranexplorer.com/Hadith/English/Hadith/bukhari/004.052.220.html].
</blockquote>

====Female genital mutilation====
Female genital mutilation (also known as "female circumcision") is mentioned in Hadith as an "honorable" condition for a woman, and act to carry out. It is a pre-Islamic tradition in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab world, though not in Coptic Egypt as some Islamic apologists claim. Female genital mutilation is not called for nor is it supported by the Koran.

====Abortion====
Muslims see [[abortion]] as ''haram'' (forbidden), but accept it if the life of mother is at risk.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/abortion_1.shtml</ref>

====Islamic dress is regular grounds for conflict in multicultural education====
Treatment of women varies widely by country. In the Islamic state of Saudi Arabia women are forbidden from driving a car, traveling in public without their husband or a male family member as an escort, leaving their home without wearing Islamic dress, working or voting. Though not formally forbidden from owning property, they have no way of obtaining this as work is forbidden and only males are permitted to inherit – should a man die, his brothers, sons, and father will all inherit before his wife. These restrictions are part of Sharia law and enforced by the police and a special Islamic office. Pakistan has similar restrictions but to a lesser extent. In contrast, [[Turkey]] has a majority Muslim population and yet grants women some rights similar to those of men including property ownership, employment, and education to university level.

Islamic apologists suggest the extremely repressive policies of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are cultural rather than religious, though these are the countries where traditional Islam is strongest. They point to the more moderate Islam practiced in Turkey as a demonstration that Islam and women's rights are compatible, ignoring the efforts of traditionalists in Turkey to end the few freedoms women were granted by men.

Islamic women's status is controversial. While Islamic men control and oppress Islamic women by compelling them to remain hidden behind the veil, sequestered in the home, and ignorant of the world by denying them access to education and worldly opportunities, Islamic apologists defend some practices. These men claim that many of the restrictions on women, such as the veil, are cultural traditions that pre-date Islam and are intended to protect women from predatory men. Unfortunately, such Islamic men ignore the fact that if a predatory man or group of rapists were to sexually assault an Islamic woman in Islam, she would be punished under Sharia law for "allowing" such an act to occur, and she would likely receive hundreds of lashes and years of jail time or be punished with death; the predatory man or men commonly go unpunished or only receive very light punishments at worst.

=== Atheism vs. Islam ===
From a global perspective, [[Europe]] is more secular/[[Atheism|atheistic]] than the rest of the world although it does have a considerable amount of religious immigrants who have higher birth rates (see: [[Secular Europe]] and [[Atheist population]] and [[Global atheism]]).

===Anti-science===
Modern science started in Christian Europe, not the Islamic world, and not even China. The Islamic world has not accomplished anything major in the sciences, unless copying counts. The Muslims borrowed their architecture from the Byzantines. For example, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem was built and designed by Byzantine craftsmen. Thousands of years before Muhammad was born, the Greeks discovered algebra and the Persians built the first astrolabe, though no denying that the Arabs were influential in naming it. After Greece and China established academies with Syrian Christians starting the School of Nisibis, the first school of higher education to achieve university status was the University of Bologna, while Al-Ahzar University was established as a madrassa around 970 AD, but did not achieve university status until 990 years later; the first hospital was built by the heretical Nestorians. The Indian numerals were actually modified in Europe, but ironically, the Arabic language was the last one to adopt the modified version.

==Historical background==
According to Islamic belief, in approximately 610 A.D., [[Muhammad]], a 40-year-old merchant of the Quraysh tribe in [[Mecca]], located in the Hijaz (now eastern [[Saudi Arabia]]), was commanded by the angel [[Gabriel]] (or Jibreel) to "recite" the message of Allah (professed by adherents of Islam to be their god). Gabriel said mankind had lost sight of Allah's previous messages to earlier prophets, [[Adam]], [[Noah]], [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], [[Solomon]], and [[Jesus]], among others, and that Muhammad was to spread Allah's message to all people so that mankind would know how to live, how to show respect for Allah, and how to prepare for the judgment day.
[[File:Islam750.jpg|right|thumb|Map of the expansion of Islam]]
The message to Muhammad was to be Allah's last and fullest revelation, a direct copy of the Umm Al Khitab, the mother of all books located in heaven next to Allah; Muhammad was the "seal of the prophets." Muhammad won some converts to Islam in his local area, but his [[monotheist]] preaching threatened to undermine the profitable [[polytheist]] pilgrim traffic supporting many Meccan merchants. In 622 A.D., the merchants drove Muhammad and his followers out of Mecca to the city of Yathrib (later renamed [[Medina]], or the city – as in the city of the prophet). This flight (hijra) from Mecca to Medina marks the beginning of the Islamic lunar calendar, and is celebrated each year in the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Muhammad's forces, composed of the sahaba (companions) from Mecca, and the Ansar (allied tribes from Yathrib) started attacking the trade caravans going in and out of Mecca, cutting off its economic lifeline. After a series of battles between the Meccans and Muhammad's forces, Mecca finally accepted Muhammad's ultimatum to succumb and convert to Islam. The city welcomed the prophet back in 630. Muhammad died in 632.

Tribal elders in a traditional council called the "Shura" elected [[Abu Bakr]] to be Muhammad's successor, or [[Caliph]] (Khalifa). Abu Bakr united the tribes of the Arabian peninsula during his two years as head of the new faith. Upon his death, the elders elected [[Umar ibn al-Khattab]] the next Caliph. During Umar's ten-year reign, Islam invaded and spread through conquest and negotiation into [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Palestine]], [[Iraq]], and parts of Persia (modern-day [[Iran]]). Umar was assassinated by a Persian in 644, and was succeeded by [[Uthman ibn Affan]], who continued the invasions to spread Islam into [[North Africa]], [[Cyprus]], the rest of Persia, [[Afghanistan]], and parts of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. Over the next two centuries, Islamic armies continued to expanded Islam's empire into sub-Saharan Africa, [[Spain]], South-east and Central Asia, and [[Turkey]].

The Muslim armies conquered and superseded the ancient Sassanid and Byzantine empires which had ruled before. Within a generation of Muhammad's death Islamic armies occupied an empire stretching from the Nile river to the far-off Persian province of Khorasan. Reasons for the rapid conquest are varied and obscure. The Arab armies were more akin to tribal war bands raiding and settling where and when they could. The Byzantine and Sassanid empires had been at war for centuries. The constant simmering conflict between Constantinople and Persia reached a climax in the early 7th century. The Sassanids conquered briefly Egypt and the Levant threatening the central Byzantine heartland of Anatolia. Under the military reforms of the emperor Heraclius, the Byzantine army consolidated and counterattacked, recapturing all that they had lost and capturing the Sassanian capital of Ctesiphon in 628.

This brief end of the Roman-Persian wars disrupted the frontier areas which had predicated their economies on raiding and mercenary activities. Two major areas in Arabia were directly affected. The Lackmid tribe and the Gassanid tribe both acted as mercenaries for the Persians and Romans. The official religion of both tribes analogically mirrored that of their overseers. Monophysite Christianity was common, particularly of the Jacobite sect. The death of Muhammad and the subsequent Ridda wars occupied these warrior tribes until the reign of Caliph Umar. Additionally, there was great religious unrest in the Levant and Egypt. These areas resented the ruinous taxes and the harsh orthodoxy imposed by the emperor in Constantinople.

The same climate was present in the Sassanid realm with the rise of the dualism of the Manicheans. Under the Caliph Umar, the Arab tribes which had concluded the infighting following the death of Muhammad were allowed to raid into the Byzantine and Sassanid frontiers. The weakened state of both regimes from both military and economic exhaustion and religious unrest made them fertile picking grounds for the tribal warbands. The Arabs were chiefly successful in holding these areas in that they upheld a lightweight regime of low taxes based on the Islamic laws and distant government. Rather than employing an army of bureaucrats and nobility, the early Arab empire was more favorable towards maintaining the existing government structures under the leadership of Arab tribes. In this atmosphere, it is hardly surprising to note the reports from both Islamic and Christian sources of peaceful capitulation and invitation of the invading forces.

[[File:Madina Haram at evening .jpg|center|800px|thumb|Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (the Mosque of the Prophet) in [[Medina]], [[Saudi Arabia]], the site of [[Muhammad|Muhammad's]] tomb.]]

=== Islam and war ===
''See also: [[Irreligion/religion and war]] and [[Islamic terrorism]] and [[Atheism vs. Islam]]''

In his book ''The Irrational [[Atheism|Atheist]]'', [[Vox Day]] wrote:
{{Cquote|It’s also interesting to note that more than half of these religious wars, sixty-six in all, were waged by Islamic nations, which is rather more than might be statistically expected considering that the first war in which Islam was involved took place almost three millennia after the first war chronicled in the ''Encyclopedia'', Akkad’s conquest of Sumer in 2325 B.C.

In light of this evidence, the fact that a specific religion is currently sparking a great deal of
conflict around the globe cannot reasonably be used to indict all religious faith, especially when one
considers that removing that single religion from the equation means that all of the other religious
faiths combined only account for 3.35 percent of humanity’s wars.<ref>[http://www.voxday.net/mart/TIA_free.pdf The Irrational Atheist - Abbreviated free copy on PDF]</ref>}}

===Islam and Christianity===
''See also: [[Dhimma]]''

While adherents of Islam do not believe Jesus to be the Son of God or in the Resurrection, they consider Him and His mother to be among Allah's most important prophets (Marian and Isa) otherwise known as Mary and Jesus. However, the Koran warns against worshipping Jesus, Muhammad, and other humans for fear of [[idolatry]].<ref>[http://www.ccg.org/_domain/ccg.org/Islam/Islam.htm Christian Churches of God Articles on Islam], March 10, 2007</ref>

The Koran states that non-believers will be punished, though the nature of the punishment is not specified (same as similar statements in the Bible and the Torah):

{{cquote|Surely, disbelievers are those who said:
'Allah is the third of the three (in a Trinity).' But there is no god but One, Allah.
And if they cease not from what they say, verily, a painful torment will befall the disbelievers among them.

Will they not repent to Allah and ask His Forgiveness? For Allah is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.

The Messiah, son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a Siddiqah (i.e. she believed in the words of God and His Books ).
They both used to eat food (as any other human eat).
Look how We make the signs clear to them, yet look how they are deluded away (from the truth)."
}}
::(Koran 5:73-75)

However, Islam does recognize Christians and Jews as "people of the book" since both refer to one God only, and recognize Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic) as a founding prophet.

==Critics==
Most contemporary critics of Islam are either atheists or nominally religious: [[Ibn Warraq]] (author), [[Wafa Sultan]] (psychiatrist), [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] (author), [[Hugh Fitzgerald]] (of JihadWatch), [[Oriana Fallaci]] (author), [[Geert Wilders]] (politician), [[Sam Harris]] (author), [[Pamela Geller]] (blogger), [[Bill Maher]] (comedian) and the crowd at the Ayn Rand Institute. The notable exception is [[Robert Spencer]], who while a devout Catholic, criticizes Islam as the socio-political ideology it is. Political critics include [[Winston Churchill]],<ref>[http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/winston-churchills-brutal-takedown-of-islam-means-more-today-than-ever Winston Churchill’s Brutal Takedown of Islam Means More Today than Ever]</ref> [[Herman Cain]], [[Rick Santorum]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news-press.com/article/20130323/NEWS0119/303230016/Santorum-delivers-warning-about-radical-Islam-during-Naples-appearance|title=Santorum delivers warning about radical Islam during Naples appearance|date=March 23, 2013|newspaper=Fort Meyers News Press|author=Lindsay Downey}}</ref> [[David Horowitz]] (author) and [[Pat Robertson]] (preacher). Neither [[Ronald Reagan]] (who helped mujahideen fight atheistic Communists) nor [[George W. Bush]] ("Islam means peace") saw Islam as the problem. Commentators note that the conservative response to fundamental Islam is a far cry from the complete and unequivocal condemnation of Communism during the heyday of the Cold War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberty-and-culture.com/conservatives.html|title=The Conservative Response to the Islamic Threat.|author=Jason Pappas|date=Sept 5, 2004}}</ref> [[Dinesh D’Souza]] argues that Muslims are "God-fearing conservatives",<ref>{{cite book|author=Dinesh D’Souza|title=The Enemy At Home|year=2007|publisher= Doubleday}}</ref> even though they have formed convenient alliances with liberals and several Islamic countries (particularly Iran) have formed alliances with the Communist regimes in [[China]] and [[North Korea]] and the Marxist regime in [[Venezuela]] to oppose the United States and its Western allies.<ref>''Some of the text for this article was taken from "Islam: A Primer", Congressional Research Service Report for Congress (2003), a work in the public domain'' [http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/islam.htm#back]</ref>

===Ex-Muslims===
[[Michelle Malkin]] highlights a group of [[Ex-Muslims]] hoping to change the terms of debate about Islam in Europe. Maryam Namazie, the head of the British group said "Too many things in the media and government policies have been geared to pandering to the political Islamic movements and Islamic organizations."<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/20/ex-muslims-stand-up-in-britain/ Ex-Muslims stand up in Britain]</ref> Ex-Muslims include Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark A. Gabriel, Walid Shoebat, and Mosab Hassan Yousef.

== See also ==
[[Image:Africa islam 87.jpg|thumb|Islam in Africa]]
*[[Arab American]]
*[[Islamic republic]]
*[[Islamophobia]]
*[[Qur'an]]
*[[Jihadism]], an extremist, take on Islam
*[[Ramadan]]
*[[In the midst of a Maelstrom: the Holy Spirit and silence: an essay]] encounter of Israeli Messianic Jew and Egyptian Muslim in Alexandria
*[[List of countries by number of Muslims]]
*[[Undercover Muslim]]
*[[Islamic worldviews]]
*[[Islamophilia]]
*[[Judaism and Islam]]
*[[Atheism vs. Islam]]
*[[Islam and Christianity]]

==Further reading==
* Armour, Rollin. ''Islam, Christianity, and the West: A Troubled History'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Christianity-West-Troubled-History/dp/1570754071/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342713&sr=1-32 excerpt and text search]
* Armstrong, Karen. ''Islam: A Short History'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-History-Modern-Library-Chronicles/dp/081296618X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Berkey, Jonathan P. ''The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Formation-Islam-Religion-Society-600-1800/dp/0521588138/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342713&sr=1-27 excerpt and text search]
* Campo, Juan Eduardo. ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' (2009), basic introduction
* Esposito, John J. ''The Oxford History of Islam'' (2000) [https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-History-Islam-John-Esposito/dp/0195107993/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]
* Glasse, Cyril. ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'' ( 2nd ed. 2008)
* Lewis, Bernard. ''Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East'' (2001), by leading conservative historian [https://www.amazon.com/Islam-History-People-Events-Middle/dp/0812695186/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342525&sr=1-15 excerpt and text search]
* Martin, Richard C. et al. ''Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World'' (2003), more advanced
* Newby, Gordon. ''A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Encyclopedia-Islam-Gordon-Newby/dp/1851682953/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342942&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Robinson, Chase F. ed. ''The New Cambridge History of Islam'' (Volume 1) (2009), summarizes advanced scholarship
* Ruthven, Malise, and Azim Nanji. ''Historical Atlas of Islam'' (2004)
* Schimmel, Annemarie. ''Islam: An Introduction''. (1992)
* Sonn, Tamara and Mary Williamsburg. ''A Brief History of Islam'' (2004) [https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Blackwell-Histories-Religion/dp/1405109009/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342302&sr=1-12 excerpt and text search]
* Wheatcroft, Andrew. ''Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam'' (2005) [https://www.amazon.com/Infidels-History-Conflict-Between-Christendom/dp/0812972392/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259342525&sr=1-13 excerpt and text search]

==External links==
*[http://muslim-canada.org/islam_christianity.html Islam and Christianity] - excellent article comparing and contrasting the two.
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/ Qur'an online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/ Sahih Bukhari (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/ Sahih Muslim (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/ Sunan Abu-Dawud (Hadith collection) online in English]
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muwatta/ Malik's Muwatta (Hadith collection) online in English]
* Congressional Research Service, "Islam: A Primer", Report for Congress (2003), a work in the public domain and the source of part of this article [http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/islam.htm#back]
*[http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2011/01/islamists-torch-pope-in-effigy-again.html Islamists Torch Pope in Effigy, Again]
*[http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2010/december/849_kind-strangers.html Muslims Saving Jews During World War II.] By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh.
*[http://differencesbetween.com/islam-and-muslim/ Difference Between Islam and Muslim]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ A Turkish Delight: they think so in Israel too!]
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/ Turkey's Islamic scholar, Rabbi Meir Lau, and Cain speechless before Abel]

==References==
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Israel Apartheid slur

2021-10-17T22:30:21Z

I dream of Blue lolq:

==Apartheid slur==
The Apartheid Slur is an [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] canard, poisonous myth, meant to demonize and delegitimize [[Israel]].

The [[Essay:anti-Israel bigotry: the Apartheid slur|Apartheid slur]]<ref>[https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/human-rights-watch-israel-apartheid-report-condemned-as-fiction-1.516093 Human Rights Watch ‘Israel apartheid’ report condemned as ‘fiction’], The JC, April 27, 2021. ''The Board joined Israel and a Jerusalem-based research institute in dismissing the document...The ridiculous ‘apartheid‘ slur in this report is belied by the fact that, as it stands, Israel’s next Government may well rely on the support of Arab parties, voted for by the country’s fully-enfranchised Arab citizens.
"Israel’s Arab citizens have been appointed as ambassadors, professors, Supreme Court judges, hospital directors, and other key roles throughout Israel’s socio-economic landscape. Civil society organisations should be directing their efforts towards reinvigorating the peace process, not trading in false hyperbole that extends the cycle of conflict"... </ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opinion/israel-and-the-apartheid-slander.html Israel and the Apartheid Slander] Richard J. Goldstone, The New York Times, Oct 31, 2011</ref><ref>[https://aijac.org.au/op-ed/gross-distortions-of-hrw-apartheid-slur/ Gross distortions of HRW apartheid slur] Ahron Shapiro, aijac, May 13, 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.janglo.net/item/LoHOoAAcUsr Anti-Israel ‘Apartheid’ Slur Promoted by NYC Mayoral Candidate] Yakir Benzion, Apr 19, 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/hrws-apartheid-demonization-bds-lawfare/ HRW’s “Apartheid” Publication: Demonization, BDS, and Lawfare], NGO Monitor, April 25, 2021</ref><ref>[https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/the-new-blood-libel-of-medical-apartheid/ The New Blood Libel of “Medical Apartheid”], Edwin Black, Besa, April 14, 2021. ''Media amplification of the blood libel, as occurred generations ago in Eastern Europe, has been a boon to anti-Israel radicals. This newest medical apartheid slur has become a significant driver for efforts to undermine support for the State of Israel in the US... Erekat, a top Palestinian negotiator, was rushed to a Jerusalem hospital when he faced a COVID-19 respiratory crisis. Other elite Palestinian officials have received similar priority''..</ref><ref>[https://zionist.org.uk/the-btselem-apartheid-slur/ The apartheid slur peddled by B’tselem], Steve Winston, Jan 12, 2021</ref><ref>https://honestreporting.ca/neil-macdonalds-apartheid-slur-is-inflammatory-and-unfounded</ref><ref>[https://unwatch.org/u-n-s-mideast-agency-obsessed-israeli-apartheid/ Report: U.N.'s Mideast Agency Obsessed with 'Israeli Apartheid'], Richard Falk, Jul 18, 2017</ref><ref>[https://ajn.timesofisrael.com/bob-carr-out-of-control/ Bob Carr out of control], Gareth Narunsky, TOI, May 6, 2021. ''Former federal Labor leader Bill Shorten told The AJN he had made it a practice not to comment about Carr’s comments, “Because you can be here all day.”''</ref><ref>[https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2016/02/i-grew-south-africa-so-believe-me-when-i-say-israel-not-apartheid-state I grew up in South Africa, so believe me when I say: Israel is not an apartheid state. This week on university campuses across the UK, activists are preparing for “Israel Apartheid Week”. This term is not only misleading, but a grave insult to those who were subjugated in South Africa.] Ephraim Mirvis, New Statesman, February 24, 2016</ref><ref>[https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/apartheid-slur-driven-hatred-lies Apartheid slur driven by hatred and lies], CJNews, March 4, 2015
</ref> <ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/05/19/explaining-john-kerrys-apartheid-slur/ Explaining John Kerry’s apartheid slur] Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, May 19, 2014</ref><ref>[https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jonathan-tobin/kerrys-apartheid-slur Kerry’s Apartheid Slur. Threat Assessment] Jonathan S. Tobin, The Commentary Mag.,
June, 2014</ref><ref>[https://brandeiscenter.com/the-apartheid-slur-an-intellectual-affront-and-obstacle-to-peace/ The Apartheid Slur: An Intellectual Affront and Obstacle to Peace], [Anti-Semitism], Gil Troy, Brandeis Center, March 15, 2013</ref><ref>[https://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-students-blast-israeli-apartheid.html Black Students Blast the "Israeli Apartheid" Slur], Daphne Anson, April 10, 2011</ref><ref>[https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304893404579531740253742348.html Carelessness or Candor?. The "apartheid" slur has a long history] James Taranto, WSJ, Apr 29, 2014]</ref>
<ref>[https://www.wbez.org/stories/israeli-response-accusations-of-apartheid-slur-israel/b8b72c44-ad7f-4c3d-80d9-cc5aedf62410 Israeli Response: Accusations of Apartheid Slur Israel] wbez, Sept. 23, 2009</ref><ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-the-apartheid-slur/ Israel and the "Apartheid" Slur], TOI, John C. Landa Jr., Mar 15, 2015</ref><ref>[https://jpost.com/jerusalem-report/israel/the-apartheid-slur/ The apartheid slur. Comparing Israel to South African system insults victims of apartheid regime.] By Vic Alhadeff, ''Jerusalem Post'', March 22, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.iol.co.za/amp/the-star/apartheid-slur-is-a-ploy-mr-kasrils-1135399 'Apartheid' slur is a ploy, Mr Kasrils - IOL. Sep 12, 2011 — I refer to the letter of Mr Ronnie Kasrils ("Palestine tribunal will help Israel, too", The Star, September 7)]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090828042304/http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/troy/entry/treat_the_apartheid_slur_the Center Field: Treat the apartheid slur – the “A-word” – like the “N-word”.] By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, Aug 25, 2009.</ref>

<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/205008 South Africans against 'Israel apartheid' slur]. '''Israel Collective' organization asked Black South Africans to comment on one of the most common anti-Israel accusations.'' Ari Soffer, INN, Dec 16 , 2015.
''"As a Black person to actually find the truth, is like: you've taken something so painful for Black Africans, and misrepresenting it either for publicity, or for directing hate, and then repackaging it and saying it's apartheid? Not cool."</ref><ref>[http://www.wranter.com/2012/02/28/israeli-apartheid-is-a-slur-that-does-no-one-any-good/ ‘Israeli apartheid’ is a slur that does no one any good], February 28, 2012, wRanter</ref><ref>[https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/false-linkage-zionism-colonialism The false linkage of Zionism and colonialism], CJN, September 7, 2010 . ''Linking Zionism with colonialism – much like accusing Israel of apartheid-like practices – is often central to any discourse that seeks to demonize, dehumanize and delegitimize the Jewish state and those who support it. In the same way that the Israel apartheid slur needs to be deconstructed, so too should the Zionism as colonialism falsehood be addressed''.</ref><ref>[https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/calling-israel-an-apartheid-state-is-both-racist-and-a-lie/ Calling Israel an apartheid state is both racist and a lie] Karen Harradine and Paul T Horgan, Conservative Wonan, July 16, 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.cfi.org.uk/news.php?article=488 Israel and the Human Rights Distortion] Christian Friends of Israel, Apr 28, 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22apartheid+slur%22+-wikipedia+-nyt&oq=%22apartheid+slur%22+-wikipedia+-nyt google]</ref>, canard<ref>[https://www.aish.com/jw/me/Shattering-the-Apartheid-Canard.html Shattering the Apartheid Canard], S. Simmons, Aish, Jan 18. 2021.
''It’s time to call out the anti-Semitism and hypocrisy...''</ref><ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/apartheid-canard-does-not-wash/ Apartheid canard does not wash], TOI, Allan Wolman, Jan 21, 2021</ref> poisonous myth,<ref>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/the_poisonous_myth_of_israeli_apartheid/ The poisonous myth of 'Israeli apartheid'] NGO Monitor. February 17, 2008
[This article was posted in the National Post, February 14, 2008.
([http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=306670])</ref> to delegetimize and demonize<ref name=talia>Prof. Talia Einhorn, "[https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israel-is-not-and-will-never-be-an-apartheid-state/ Israel is not and will never be an 'apartheid state']", ILH, June 23, 2020.
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The false accusation is designed to portray any fulfillment of the Zionist dream as racist, and make Israel an outcast in the world.

This week, we witnessed a partial solar eclipse in the skies of Israel. But the claim that an Israeli declaration of sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and settlements in Judea and Samaria will make Israel into an "apartheid state" is a total eclipse.

The term "apartheid" was always unique to the policies of racial separation in South Africa, where a white minority gave itself an excess of rights and controlled most of the population, from whom basic rights were withheld based on their skin color. In recent years, the term has been expanded to be used in accusing Israel of treating the Palestinians as if the discrimination were based on race, rather than the result of the Palestinians' violent and ongoing struggle against the Zionist movement.

Since the application of sovereignty under discussion addresses areas of the Land of Israel in which there is only very sparse Arab presence, the claim is incomprehensible, since most of the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria are clustered in Areas A and B, which are already under Palestinian Authority law, not Israeli law. If Israel is not currently an apartheid state, applying Israeli law to places of Jewish settlement will not change that.

But the apartheid claim, in its various formulations, is recycled at every seemingly opportune moment to question the Jewish people's right to a national home in the Land of Israel; a right that was recognized by the San Remo Conference 100 years ago – and includes the right to make aliyah, settle there, and manage the land in a manner that will facilitate that; a right that was also approved and ratified in Article 80 of the UN Charter.

The claim was raised in the past, when Israeli declared sovereignty over east Jerusalem and the Old City, when it applied Israeli law to the Golan Heights and when the Knesset amended the Basic Law: Citizenship to prevent family unification between Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. When the High Court challenges the policy of developing Jewish settlement in Israel; tramples the Basic Law: The Knesset, which disqualifies parties and candidates that reject Israel's existence as a Jewish state from participating in elections; and might soon do the same to the nation-state law, heaven forbid – it lends its voice to the claim that the fulfillment of Zionist values is inherently racist. That is what formed and still forms the base of the claims about apartheid.

But they are false. Israel works to develop the nation for the sake of all its citizens, but it is still the nation-state of the Jewish people alone.

The Palestinians, on the other hand, do not see self-definition for Arab residents of Judea and Samaria as the end of their national demands. The PLO charter determines that "the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation," and that "Palestine is the homeland of the Arab-Palestinian people and is inseparable from the greater Arab homeland." According to the charter, even Arab Israelis inside the Green Line have the right to self-determination in Palestine and outside it. The partition of the land and the establishment of Israel are fundamentally unacceptable, as is the Balfour Declaration and the rights given to the Jewish people under the Mandate. This is also the position of the Joint Arab List, whose members want to cancel the Law of Return.

Under international law, a state has the right to defend itself, not only from physical terrorism but also from existential threats. The dangers that a Palestinian state in the heart of the country would pose to Israel should deter those who love peace – true peace – and pursue it from supporting such a "solution" before conditions are right. The Trump administration's deal of the century stresses that there is no place for another failed state in the Middle East, and sets conditions that will allow a Palestinian state to be established only when Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled.

The use of the term "apartheid" is designed to make Israel, a democracy fighting for its life while respecting the civil and religious rights of all its citizens, an outcast in the world, and paint it with the mark of Cain. It is a false accusation, and it's time to finally put an end to it.</blockquote></ref> Israel

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Detroit Jewish News Feb 3 1967.PNG|[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.02.03.001/1 Shukairy, helped Hitler & turned the Arabs against the West] = [https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/historys-worst-serial-abusers first to hurl "apartheid" slur]
Jewish News July 17 1946.PNG|[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1946.07.12.001/1 Shukairy (& Jamal Husseini) justified the murder of six million Jews] = [https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/historys-worst-serial-abusers first to hurl "apartheid" slur]
All_out_for_Hitler.PNG|[https://books.google.com/books?id=ijg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA5735&dq=#v=snippet&q=%22all%20out%20for%20Hitler%22&f=false Shukairy fought with the Communists against the Allies. After Stalin battled Hitler, Shukairy switched to help Hitler against the Jews] = [https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/historys-worst-serial-abusers first to hurl "apartheid" slur]
Ahora 1965 Shukeiri.jpg|[https://www.google.com/search?q=Shukairy+se+alineo+con+Hitler&source=lnms&tbm=bks After Hitler attacked Russia.. Communists.. changed positions, Shukairy aligned himself w/ Hitler for his programs against the Jews.] = [https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/historys-worst-serial-abusers first to hurl "apartheid" slur]
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was originally invented by genocidal<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-0wMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22But+in+my+estimation+none+of+them+will+survive%22 'Israel Studies: IS. Volume 8. Indiana University Press, 2003. p.71] Moshe Shemesh: Did Shuqayri call for 'throwing the Jews into the sea'? ...'But in my estimation none of them will survive.'</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9HIcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22China+which+we+have+received+free+of+charge+will+be+put+into+action%22 Arab Design for Israel's Annihilation, 1967, p. 10] ''28 May 1967, Ahmed Shukairy, Head of the Palestine Liberation Organization "China supplies us with weapons so that they be used for the liberation. The weapons of China which we have received free of charge will be put into action in order to destroy Tel-Aviv."''</ref> Jihadi<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=r64MAQAAMAAJ&q=%22After+the+prayers+at+Al+-+Aqsa+,+Mr+Ahmed%C2%A0Shukairy%22 Mideast Mirror, Arab News Agency, 1967, p. 18]. June 3, 1967. ''...on June 2. The demonstrators shouted slogans calling for Israel's annihilation and attacking western powers for supporting Israel. The main speaker at Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque here called for a "Jihad" (holy war) against Israel and her supporters, and delivered a special attack against the United States. After the prayers at Al-Aqsa, Mr Ahmed Shukairy, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) told those present: "We are living today a life of struggle and jihad. The hour has come and we are now in the field, approaching the battle day after day, hour after hour."''</ref> [[Ahmad Shukeiri]]<ref>"History's Worst Serial Abusers." December 8, 2014. ''Ahmad Shukairy, Husseini’s former aide, was the next leader of the Palestinians. In 1964, the Arab League appointed him to head the newly created Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)... Shukairy was the first to hurl the apartheid slander at Israel even as he tirelessly advocated "driving the Jews into the sea." "We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants, and as for the survivors – if there are any – the boats are ready to deport them..." '' https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/historys-worst-serial-abusers</ref> (who in 1940 cheered, prayed for,<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=pJkH06fTLD8C&pg=PA189 Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies, Cass books on the Middle East," Elie Kedourie, Professor of Politics Emeritus, Psychology Press, 1964, p. 189]. ''Our sympathies werep with the Axis powers being led by Hitler from victory to victory, and with our sympathies went our prayers for the victory of Germany and her allies, and defeat for Britain...'"</ref><ref>Uri Milstein: The Truth About the War of Independence: Poor Preparations - Chapter 19 ... In the Chapter: Israeli Arabs Supported Nazi Germany in World War II... News1, Mar 13, 2015.. https://m.news1.co.il/Archive/002-D-100749-00.html</ref> then helped Hitler since 1941,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=47UMAQAAMAAJ&q=axis+agents+%22shukeiri,+who+fled+from+Palestine+with+the+Mufti%22 "Palestine." Volumes 1-5. American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946, pp.1-2]
(Palestine - Volumes 1-5 - Page v)
Vol.2, No. 9, 10. November-December, 1945.
''Seeing that all those pogromists, rebels and Axis agents are now allowed to sit on the Arab Higher Committee, that one of them, Mr. Shukeiri, who fled from Palestine with the Mufti.''</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ijg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA5735 Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 107, Part 24. United States. Congress - U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. p.5735]. ...''he belonged to a group of fanatical extremists ed by the ex-Mufti. This gang cooperated with the Communists and prior to the Hitler-Stalin Pact sought in every possible way to sabotage the Allied war effort against the Nazis in the Middle East. However, when Soviet Russia joined the Allies, Shukairy's group split with the Communists and went all out for Hitler.''</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0nacFQ7dBJIC&pg=SL1-PA525 Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 110, Part 22, United States. Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 524-5] ''Shukairy has had a remarkable history . As has been revealed... he worked with the Nazis in the Middle East and was a henchman of the notorious Mufti...''</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3Yah_o9r5V4C&pg=SL1-PA456#v=snippet&q=Shukairy%20%22Nazis%22&f=false Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. United States. Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965, p. 456]. ''Ahmed Shukairy, the self-proclaimed spokesman for the Arab refugees — a man who worked for the Nazis and their henchmen during World War II...''</ref><ref>[https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.02.03.001/9 The Detroit Jewish News. Friday, February 03, 1967. Page 9]. ''Antiwar Group Warns Public of PLO Leader Shukairy. ''Dr. Albert Simard, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of World War Three warns of the "dangerous" background and activities of Ahmed Shukairy, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization who, he said, had expressed hatred of the West. Recalling the pro-Hilter activities "highest levels of government" of Shukairy when he was associated with the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Dr. Simard said, that the Arab terrorist leader "also played a most active role in keeping tensions white hot in the Middle East and inciting the Arabs against the West." ''</ref> justified the Holocaust in 1946,<ref>"Behind the British Conspiracy." B'nai B'rith Messenger. 12 July, 1946, p.6. https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1946/07/12/01/article/47. ''Achmed Shukeiri, chief of the Arab Office, who reiterated in his conversation the words of Goebbels justified the murder of six million Jews of Europe "because Hitler could not have been all wrong..." ''</ref> and [recalling the NYT's article<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/16/archives/argentine-youths-in-nazi-group-salute-and-cry-hail-tacuara.html Argentine Youths in Nazi Group Salute and Cry: 'Hail Tacuara!'; Anti-Semitic Organization, Said to Be Growing, Asserts It Fights 'Zionism, Capitalism and Communism' Tells About Drills He Doubts Charges.] The New York Times, Sept. 16, 1962. Page 30</ref>] had introduced to the UN, promoted neo-Nazi storm-trooper gang,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=n9c3AQAAIAAJ&q=shukairy+apartheid "Facts." Volumes 15-17, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1963, p. 424]. ''In 1962 at the U.N., Shukairy even went so far as to praise the militant, anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi storm-troop gang in Argentina know as Tacuara...''</ref> <ref>The National Jewish Monthly, Volume 77, B'nai B'rith., 1962, p. 1. ''This was too much even for Saudi Arabia's king Faisal, who removed Shukairy from his UN post.'' https://books.google.com/books?&id=OjLnAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22removed%22</ref> who guarded monsters: Adolf Eichmann. "Dr." 'Dr. Death' - J. Mengele<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MW8-AAAAIAAJ&q=%22many+of+its+instructors+are+former+SS+officers.+Eichmann%22 Lev Bezymenskiĭ: "Tracing Martin Bormann," 1966. pp.149-150] <blockquote>This brutal act focussed the limelight on an armed underground nazi organisation in Argentina which called itself Tacuara... a terrorist organisation...
It does not require much investigation to see that this organisation's activities bear the stamp of the German nazis. Indeed, many of its instructors are former SS officers. Eichmann was under Tacuara protection. Dr. Mengele, before he left for Paraguay, lived on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in a house guarded by Tacuara members.</blockquote></ref> and has tortured a 19 years old girl, carved a swastika on her, as a revenge for killing Eichmann<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-tY6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 Beatrice D. Gurwitz, "Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt: Between the New World and the Third World." 2016, p.53] ''The most shocking event came in June, when Graciela Narcisa Sirota, a nineteen-year-old Jewish university student, was kidnapped and tortured by members of Tacuara. The abductors burned her with cigarettes, tattooed a swastika on her, and told her that the attack was “revenge for Eichmann.”''</ref>). He did it in October, 1961 in the context of him protesting the Eichmann trial,<ref>"A response to David Grossman." By Amnon Lord. IsraelHayom, 08-05-2018
''... the first person to accuse Israel of being an apartheid state was Ahmad Shukeiri, a U.N. diplomat, in 1961 in the context of the Eichmann trial.'' https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/a-response-to-david-grossman/</ref> some 5 and a half years before<ref>Dan Diker and Olga Meshoe Washington, "[https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/guestcolumn/opinion-hrws-condemnation-of-israel-apartheid-appropriation-racism-in-name-of-human-rights-20210508 HRW's condemnation of Israel: Apartheid appropriation, racism in name of 'human rights'?]" News24, May 8, 2021.
...''Even more far-reaching, [[PLO]] founder Ahmed Shukeiri exploited the Israeli apartheid libel well before Israel was forced to enter the West Bank and Gaza in the defensive 1967 war.''</ref> the so-called "occupation" of the [[Six-Day War]].

Method are:

* Distortion<ref name=ajc/><ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/understanding-btselems-apartheid-libel/ Understanding B'tselem's “Apartheid” Libel], CAMERA, Jan 27, 2021... ''Falsehoods and Distortions...''</ref><ref name=ibth>[https://israelbehindthenews.com/2009/08/25/studying-with-prof-neve-gordon-at-the-university-of-michigan/ Studying with Prof. Neve Gordon at the University of Michigan], Jacob Shrybman, Israel Behind the News, August 25, 2009.
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In a lecture on October 10th, 2007 which was supposed to be about the historical Suez Crisis, Gordon purposefully digressed at length to blame Israel for the current crisis with Iran. He explained to the class that Israel gained nuclear weapons as the outcome of a deal with France at the end of the crisis in 1956. He then stepped away from his podium to drive home his message, “You can not understand what is happening with Iran today if you don’t understand what happened with Israel in `56.” As this comment was charged with controversial anti-Israel bias, Gordon was delighted to open the class to questions. When a student, who prefaced his statement with the premise that he was Jewish, challenged Gordon’s ridiculous blame of Israel for Iran’s actions today, Gordon disregarded the Jewish student’s challenge by smirking and stating to the class, “Ben is always trying to bring us back to the present.” It was in fact Prof. Gordon who clearly brought the class discussion to that of present times. Gordon then welcomed a question from a student who claimed Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust was “not a big deal.” By first demonizing Israel, then not allowing any student objections to his anti-Israel statements, then welcoming an out rightly anti-Semitic comment in his lecture hall, Gordon was in no way teaching an unbiased historical course, as one would have expected in an institution of higher learning.

In a lecture on November 5th, 2007 Gordon continuously used the term “Jewish roads” to refer to Israeli roads in the West Bank and formerly in the Gaza Strip from which Arabs are excluded. An Israeli student in the large class raised his hand and told Gordon that he was offended by his phraseology and said Gordon was bordering on anti-Semitism by deeming these roads “Jewish roads.” The student described for the class the complete freedom of movement of Israeli Arabs (Arabs with Israeli citizenship) on Israeli roads inside Israel and inside the West Bank. Therefore by calling the roads “Jewish” and not Israeli Gordon was being anti-Semitic. Gordon again simply disregarded the challenge to his biased teaching and appeared irritated.

The same Israeli student that challenged Gordon received a terse email after class that same day from Gordon requesting that the student come see him at his office at an appointment two days later. The student arrived at Gordon’s office and was surprised to see his Graduate Student Instructor (who directly grades the student) present as well. The student cordially greeted Gordon in Hebrew but did not receive the same warm greeting in return.

Gordon then proceeded to berate the student for publicly embarrassing and offending him during class. He belittled the student by telling him that he (Gordon) had been teaching for longer than the student had been alive and that he had never been embarrassed and offended like that before. Behind closed doors, intimidated by his professor yelling at him, and in the presence of the person who decides his grade, the student quickly apologized and hoped the matter was put to rest. Much to the student’s dismay, in the next lecture Gordon attempted to clear his name and denounced the student’s challenging questions as unfair and unfounded, while publicly humiliating the student. Gordon’s Graduate Student Instructors further dissected the Israeli student’s challenge in the class discussion sections, and referred to the student by name without his consent.

Along with the history of scare-tactics used by Prof. Gordon in order to keep his classroom opposition quiet and disallowing any challenging of his anti-Israel positions, Gordon did not adhere to the tenet of an open environment within the structure of academic freedom. Before speaking in his class, Gordon directed students to state their name. In a large lecture hall this creates an uncomfortable environment for the students to express their own ideas. Gordon uses the students’ names in order to refute their statements or questions while referring back to each of their arguments. As a result, students were reluctant to speak up in the class.</blockquote></ref><ref>[http://www.acpr.org.il/pp/pp171-sharanE.pdf Shlomo Saran, "Our Inner Scourge: The Catastrophe of Israel Academics"], Ariel Center for Policy Research Policy Paper No, 171. (Sep-2007 - Tishrei-5768)
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Student Complaint about Ben Gurion University’s Neve Gordon.

The lecture began smoothly, with Neve Gordon giving a theoretical explanation of human rights (including the fundamental human right of free speech). It soon, however, turned very political.
He presented a slideshow about the "Separation Wall" and the injustices it causes to the Palestinians. He made many mentions of land being “confiscated” by the Israelis and the “humiliation” caused to the Palestinians due to lack of movement throughout the territories.
On his PowerPoint presentation, he mentioned that parts of the fence were electrified. However, I then corrected him that they were just electric monitors. He conceded on this point.

My fellow students and I challenged him on his accusations and he became frustrated and lashed back due to the questions. He said he was more Zionist then any of us on the basis that he lives in Israel (although some in the class, including myself, are currently making Aliya).
He condescendingly remarked that we were just full of American propaganda. He then requested that we stop asking questions and try to learn something.
I made a comment that Israel is in a war and fences and separation are necessary. He then made a comment about how during war millions of Jews were thrown in ovens. I asked him if he was comparing the situation in Israel to Nazi Germany and he did not answer. He then made another comparison of fenced in Palestinians and ghettos in Germany. He also claimed that when Jordan took control of the West Bank it was legal, but when the Israelis won the territory in war, it was illegal.
At the end, I was able to approach him. I asked how he could possibly justify standing in solidarity with Arafat after the Passover Seder massacre. He became agitated and admitted that the picture has caused him troubles.
I then asked how he could sue another professor (at the University of Haifa – SS) for exercising his right to freedom of speech. He responded that we as Americans don’t understand that in
Israel it is acceptable to sue in such a case for libel and that in Israel his case is reasonable...
He left in a huff, seeming very frustrated, annoyed, and agitated.</blockquote></ref>
* Lies<ref>[https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-the-myth-of-israeli-apartheid-debunked/ WATCH: The Myth of Israeli Apartheid Debunked!] Max Gelber, UWI, Nov 22, 2018.
''The myth of so-called "Israeli Apartheid" gets shattered by fact after fact.''
Premiered Nov 20, 2018.
''You may have heard the accusation that Israel is "an apartheid state" like that of apartheid South Africa. But does this accusation stand up to scrutiny? K. Hausdorff explores.''
https://youtu.be/4UOe21K0SWU</ref>
* Often plain libels
* Misreprentation<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/haaretz-s-apartheid-campaign-against-israel/ Haaretz's Apartheid Campaign Against Israel] Y Goldflam, CAMERA, Oct 25, 2012. ''...Levy's striking misrepresentations...''</ref><ref>[https://honestreporting.com/haaretz-apartheid-clarification-too-little-too-late/ Ha'aretz Apartheid Clarification: Too Little, Too Late], HR, Oct 29, 2012</ref>

* Overall dismissal of Israel's (and more at risk, Jews') safety concerns for historic and present dangers it faces.

[[File:Beaches.jpg|center|thumb|[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/p/eoz-posters-for-apartheid-week.html 'Apartheid Week' Posters]]]

The ''A'' slur, and other like it, "Slur-du-jur"<ref>[https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/336519/israel-apartheid-the-big-black-and-white-lie/ Israel Apartheid: The Big Black-and-White Lie] ''Accusing Israel of racism and apartheid fails the anti-Semitic smell test.''
G Troy, JJ, May 12, 2021</ref> the slandering via incorrectness,<ref>[https://cameraoncampus.org/blog/camera-on-campus-plans-to-disrupt-israeli-apartheid-week/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=camera-on-campus-plans-to-disrupt-israeli-apartheid-week #ApartheidWeekExposed]</ref><ref name=mp-2021>Melanie Phillips, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-false-accusation-of-israel-apartheid/ The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’]", JNS, Sep 30, 2021.<blockquote>
The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the shallow and ignorant, whose knowledge of the Jewish state is entirely drawn from malicious propaganda that misrepresents Israel’s defensive measures as racist aggression.

The campaign to demonize and delegitimize Israel has recently moved into a higher gear with the increased use of one particularly vicious falsehood.

This is the claim that Israel is an apartheid state.

The claim is as fatuous as it is pernicious. Apartheid was the name given to South Africa’s systematic oppression of its black inhabitants, who were denied political, civic and human rights.

By contrast, Arab Israeli citizens have fully equal rights. They study in Israel’s universities; enjoy Israel’s beaches and parks; receive equal treatment as patients in Israel’s hospitals, and work there as doctors and other medical staff; serve as members of the armed forces and as judges; and are represented by members of Knesset who are currently lynch-pins in Israel’s governing coalition.

Those Arabs who live in the disputed territories don’t have Israeli rights—for the very good reason that they aren’t Israeli citizens. They have no civic entitlements purely because the status of those territories remains unsettled as a result of Palestinian Arab rejectionism and violence—and because Arab states regard them as a nuisance preferably to be ignored.</blockquote></ref> a demonization<ref>"Day of Rage" Rallies Demonize Jews, Israel.' Anti-Defamation League. Jul 10, 2020. https://www.adl.org/blog/day-of-rage-rallies-demonize-jews-israel</ref> terminology exclusively.

==Non-apartheid Israel VS real apartheid in Arab-Muslim world==

Before, during and after Shukairy's slur, Israel's stand against racial discrimination has been consistent.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/dav/1965/12/03/01/article/17 Davar⁩ - ⁨דבר⁩⁩, 3 December 1965].
'נציג ישראל מזכיר העמדה העקבית נגד אפליה.'
מאת שלמה שפיר
סופר "דבר" בארה"ב.
ואשינגטון, 2 (מיוחד ל"דבר").
בדיון בשאלה ה"אפרטהייד" בוועדה המדינית של האו"ם הזכיר אמש חבר משלחת ישראל ד"ר יואל בר-רומי את עמדתה העקיבה של ישראל שהצביעה בכל 15 מבחני-ההצבעה נגד הפרדה גזעית. הוא הדגיש כי ישראל בעצם קיומה מחייבת גינוי אפליה גזעית.
ד"ר בר-רומי אף הזכיר את עמדתה הנמרצת של ישראל נגד שלטונות המיעוט הלבן ברודזיה.

"The Israeli representative mentions the consistent stance against discrimination."
By Shlomo Shapir.
"DAVAR" writer in the United States.
Washington, 2 (Special to "DAVAR").
During a discussion on the "apartheid" issue at the UN Political Affairs Committee last night, a member of the Israeli delegation, Dr. Joel Bar-Romi, mentioned the consistent position of Israel, which voted in all 15 voting tests against racial segregation. He stressed that Israel's very existence requires condemnation of racial discrimination.
Dr. Bar-Romi even mentioned Israel's vigorous stance against the white minority authorities in Rhodesia.</ref>

Veteran journalist and sports adminstrator:<ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5269521,00.html Do you even know what apartheid means?] Noah Klieger, May 26, 2018.
''Op-ed: A state with complete academic freedom, with Arab ministers and MKs, a state that fosters Arab professors, doctors, pharmacists and teachers, can’t be called an ‘apartheid state,’ unless it’s by ignorant or evil people. And the last person who can throw this accusation at Israel is a dictator like Erdoğan who has been cracking down on freedom of speech and the free press in his own country.... Any intelligent person can immediately see that the only country in the Middle East where Arabs enjoy full rights and a proper life is Israel''</ref>
''Do you even know what apartheid means? A state with complete academic freedom, with Arab ministers and MKs, a state that fosters Arab professors, doctors, pharmacists and teachers, can’t be called an ‘apartheid state,’ unless it’s by ignorant or evil people.''

The malicious lies didn't seem to stop even as Israeli government in June, 2021 includes: An Islamic party in the coalition, an Arab minister, 2 Arab deputy chairmen, and 3 Arab committee chairmen, and ''"Apartheid in Israel" has never looked more ridiculous.''<ref>@YosephHaddad tweeted:
I have a serious issues w/ the MKs from Arab society but in the new gov, they will be the strongest evidence against “apartheid.” An Islamic party in the coalition, a minister, 2 deputy chairmen, and 3 committee chairmen, "Apartheid in Israel" has never looked more ridiculous. [https://mobile.twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1404006075356045313 Jun 13, 2021]</ref> Classic irony: an Arab elected official<ref>[https://lphinfo.com/le-journaliste-arabe-sioniste-pourfend-la-deputee-aida-touma-suleiman/ Le journaliste arabe sioniste pourfend la députée Aïda Touma-Suleiman], S. Blum, LPH INFO, June 23, 2021</ref> Aida Touma-Suleiman (in Mar, 2020, this Arab MK Suleiman was accused of racism and lying, spreading libels,<ref>[https://www.inn.co.il/news/430227 Naftali Bennett to MK Touma Suleiman: "You are a liar, antisemitic and...]", Channel 7, Mar 13, 2020. 
The defense minister attacked MK Thomas Suleiman, who claimed that the IDF was spraying Palestinians with unidentified material. "It is unbelievable that Boogie and Gantz are ready to form a government with you."

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett today (Friday) sharply attacked MK Aida Toma Suleiman from the joint list, who defamed the IDF and claimed that he was spraying "unidentified material" on Palestinians in the Qalandiya crossing.

''You're a liar, antisemitic and... These are not IDF forces. It is the Palestinian Authority that has decided to disinfect the checkpoint and is carrying it out. "It is unbelievable that Boogie, Yvette, Ganz, Gabi and Lapid are ready to form a government with your finger," Bennett said.</ref> her embrace of paroled [[PFLP]] terrorist, in Sep/2021, sparked outrage,<ref>Yori Yalon, "[https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/09/27/arab-mks-embrace-of-paroled-pflp-terrorist-sparks-outrage/ Arab MK's embrace of paroled PFLP terrorist sparks outrage]," ILH, Sep 27, 2021.
 
Joint Arab List lawmaker Aida Touma-Suleiman shares a photograph in which she embraces Khalida Jarrar, a senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member, who was sentenced to two years in prison for involvement in a 2018 terror attack.</ref><ref>Adv. Nitzana Darshan-Leitner (@AttorneyNitsana) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/AttorneyNitsana/status/1442108256529358848?s=20 Sep 26, 2021]): 
MK Aida Touma Suleiman from the joint list writes in admiration of the release of Khaleda Jarrar, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who was arrested in October 2019 as part of a wave of arrests of the organization's operatives following the assassination of Rene Shenrav.
https://t.co/dM295gFh1n</ref> Aida Touma casted a known criminal --who happened to be an Arab-- shot by undercover cops during an anti crime operation, as some "victim by police" and used a reference to a poem recited in State Memorial Days,<ref>Arab crime @YouthViolenceIL Tweeted Sep 25, 2021: [https://mobile.twitter.com/YouthViolenceIL/status/1441834811249803264]:<blockquote>
How did Ian Aslan, an Arab-Druze, a well-known criminal and a violent man, find himself in the count of Arab murdered people for 2020?
Aslan was killed in a shootout with police.
He and his equally successful cousin set out on a shooting spree on banks in the north. On one occasion, they met determined detectives and the end is known...</blockquote>
[https://twitter.com/YouthViolenceIL/status/1441834809039392768?s=20]
<blockquote>On December 22, 2020, his name was mentioned in the Knesset of Israel by the terrorist Touma...In most of her impudence she used a reference to a song by Zelda Schneerson called in State Memorial Days.
"Every man has a name, even if he is an Arab: ..... Yarka; Bian Aslan, 40 years old, Kfar Marar, and he was shot by police; Muhammad .."</blockquote>
[https://m.ynet.co.il/Articles/58687320 Documentation: A shootout between detectives and criminals in the north. (Ynet, Jan 3, 2021 ''A series of attacks on banks in Arab localities ended about a month ago in an ambush by police officers near a branch in Bitter, during which Ian Aslan was killed and his cousin was arrested and charged.]</ref> in Oct, 2021 as Bahraini Arabs visited Israel in commemorating the Abraham Accord, Touma Suleiman called out on them in derogatory term, to the meaning of 'spit on you'<ref>[https://www.maariv.co.il/news/politics/Article-870140 The representative of the delegation from Bahrain in Israel claims: MK Toma Suleiman called out to them "Tfu on you"] (meaning 'spit on you').
Eric Bender, Maariv, Oct 12, 2021.
<blockquote>
The delegation from Bahrain and MK Wasserman Landa (Photo: Jordan Regev)
Amit Deri, who accompanies the delegation, claimed in a conversation with Ben Caspit and Winon Magal that the Knesset member from the joint list called out to them with a derogatory call. MK Thouma Suleiman declined to comment on 103FM's claims,..</blockquote></ref><ref>Ruth Wasserman Lande, (@rutilande) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/rutilande/status/1447843259099799557?s=20 Oct 12, 2021]):<blockquote>
It is a great pity that where all the peoples, the Knesset of Israel, is respected, this is the reception received by the Bahraini delegation that I personally invited to the launch conference of the Lobby for the Advancement of the Abrahamic Agreements. I was ashamed to hear from one of the members of the delegation who never expected an Arab Member of Parliament to treat such disrespectful Arab guests. awkward and contemptible!</blockquote></ref><ref>Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1447812654303784962?s=20 Oct 12, 2021]):
<blockquote>
She spits on guests from Bahrain, she spits on peace agreements, she spits on the state and she also spits on us Israeli Arabs.</blockquote></ref>) this woman, holding high position in democratic equal-for-all-Israel organized a "conference" - on so-called "apartheid" on the government's properties. The nerve of conducting such a charade inside the Knesset building, trying to defame inside its welcoming "house." The exact contradiction to its false claims.<ref name=collins>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/my-word-the-apartheid-label-and-libel-671958 My Word: The apartheid label and libel], Liat Collins, JPost, June 24, 2021.
<blockquote>
Rather than promoting peace, the delegitimization and boycott efforts have the opposite effect.

Under the title “After 54 years: Between occupation and apartheid,” MKs sat in the House at the taxpayers’ expense and tried to present the case that they suffer from South African-style oppression.

Just who is exploiting whom? It takes a special kind of nerve to sit as a serving MK in the parliament and pretend you are a victim of apartheid. It also requires a special ability to avoid history and reality in favor of a “narrative.”

Under the apartheid system, for those who need reminding, the white minority completely subjugated and segregated the black majority, who had no vote and no say at all in the corridors of power.

There was nothing for which these MKs should be proud. I can’t even reprint in full some of the words that were thrown around.
[...]
Arab-Israeli Yoseph Haddad, CEO of the Vouch for Each Other NGO, found himself out in the cold. He could definitely make the case that he was being discriminated against. Haddad, who encourages Arab-Israelis to serve in the IDF or do civilian national service and to participate in Israeli society, resorted to tweeting: “I am an Israeli Arab with different opinions and they don’t want me inside. They are the ones who are really apartheid. If Aida Touma-Sliman says that Israel is apartheid, how is she allowed to hold this meeting in the walls of Israeli democracy?”

MK Ahmad Tibi, whose CV includes work as a gynecologist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, being a former adviser to Yasser Arafat and serving as a former deputy Knesset Speaker – not bad for someone born in an “apartheid” state – told rookie Yamina MK Amichai Chikli he should “be humble” in the face of his seniors. Apparently Tibi doesn’t know the meaning of being humble anymore than he understands what apartheid means, although apartheid is a word he bandies around a lot.

Among the speakers was “Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch” Omar Shakir, who participated via Zoom having been denied entry to the country for his anti-Israeli, BDS activities. He also didn’t mince words and came up with the perennial favorite “crimes against humanity.”

Before the event, MKs from Yesh Atid, New Hope, Yamina, Yisrael Beytenu and Blue and White wrote to Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy voicing their “disgust” and saying that “while freedom of expression lies at the soul of this House, we cannot remain silent when the Knesset is cynically exploited as a platform to undermine the very existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and to slander the state in the outside world.”

The parley was part of a trend – an attempt to brand Israel as an illegitimate, pariah state.

Using the words “apartheid” and “occupation” is one way of doing it. Another is condemning Israel for its response when it comes under massive rocket fire from Gaza, as it did last month.

Rather than promoting peace, the delegitimization and boycott efforts have the opposite effect. The Palestinians are encouraged to use more violence and media-mobilizing tactics hoping to put ever more pressure on Israel.

Not everyone is falling for the ruse, however. Last week, Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE, Europe’s largest digital publishing house, told the company’s 16,000 employees that anyone “who has an issue with an Israeli flag being raised for one week here, after antisemitic demonstrations, should look for a new job.”

Also last week, as The Jerusalem Post’s Lahav Harkov noted, the European Union finally released its report on Palestinian Authority textbooks which includes dozens of examples of encouragement of violence and demonization of Israel and of Jews. Under the guise of “resistance” – another catchword – children are being brainwashed about the glory of martyrdom. Following the report’s publication, European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi said the EU should review its funding to education in the Palestinian Authority.</blockquote></ref> Observer (of that despicable language laced conferece) concluded, it has the exact opposite effect of 'peace' the "apartheid" proponents claim they seek.<ref name=collins/>

Columnist:<ref name=mf-2021/><blockquote>The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’

The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the shallow and ignorant, whose knowledge of the Jewish state is entirely drawn from malicious propaganda that misrepresents Israel’s defensive measures as "racist" aggression.

The campaign to demonize and delegitimize Israel has recently moved into a higher gear with the increased use of one particularly vicious falsehood.

This is the claim that Israel is an apartheid state.

The claim is as fatuous as it is pernicious. Apartheid was the name given to South Africa’s systematic oppression of its black inhabitants, who were denied political, civic and human rights.

By contrast, Arab Israeli citizens have fully equal rights. They study in Israel’s universities; enjoy Israel’s beaches and parks; receive equal treatment as patients in Israel’s hospitals, and work there as doctors and other medical staff; serve as members of the armed forces and as judges; and are represented by members of Knesset who are currently lynch-pins in Israel’s governing coalition.

Those Arabs who live in the disputed territories don’t have Israeli rights—for the very good reason that they aren’t Israeli citizens. They have no civic entitlements purely because the status of those territories remains unsettled as a result of Palestinian Arab rejectionism and violence—and because Arab states regard them as a nuisance preferably to be ignored.</blockquote>

AJC:<ref name=ajc>[https://transatlanticinstitute.org/analysis/hrw-defames-israel-ajc-reacts HRW Defames Israel - AJC Reacts] AJC Transatlantic Institute, May, 2021. ''American Jewish Committee perspectives.
The HRW report spans over 213 pages and contains many allegations against Israel. The purpose of this memo is not to refute every allegation, but rather focus on the report’s most glaring biases.''</ref>
<blockquote>
'''A Genuine and vibrant democracy''': Israel is certainly not above criticism, but the HRW report not only criticizes Israeli policy and conduct in the Palestinian areas but also calls into question Israel’s democratic values and rule of law within its own borders. The history of the 20th century is replete with examples of democracies – notably, those in Europe between the two world wars – that, under internal and external pressures, collapsed and turned into dictatorships. Israel, in contrast, has remained a true democracy, indeed the only democracy in the Middle East, despite a permanent security threat and the challenge of transforming hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from all over the world into a coherent, modern nation.

'''Not an apartheid state''': In 1948, the same year that the term apartheid was first used to denote legal separation of the races in South Africa, Israel issued its Declaration of Independence, which stated:

The State of Israel…will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture…

To the Arab inhabitants of Israel, the Declaration promised “full and equal citizenship and due representation in its provisional or permanent institutions.” Consistent with these principles, Israel has maintained a democratic political system based on majority rule. Israel’s Arab citizens participate fully, actively and without any restrictions in this system and are represented in the Knesset and all branches of the government. Transportation, public services and universities are open to all citizens, Jews and Arabs alike. Hospitals and other medical facilities are also open to citizens of neighboring Arab states who seek medical treatment in Israel. Muslim law has equivalent legal status in Israel with Christian and Jewish law in personal matters relating to marriage, divorce and inheritance.

The relationship between majority and minority is never simple, and Israel is no exception, all the more so because the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict compounds the situation for both Jews and Arabs in Israel. Yet despite this difficulty, Israel has achieved a remarkable degree of coexistence between these two communities.

'''Not a racial conflict''': The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a political conflict between two peoples with competing national goals – and should be addressed as such. Attempts to transform it into a racial or religious conflict make it much more difficult to resolve. By embracing the two-state solution and making generous peace overtures, Israel has made it abundantly clear that it does not want to rule the Palestinians, let alone impose an “apartheid regime” upon them.

'''Palestinian refugees''': Echoing a long-standing Palestinian claim to a “right of return,” HRW criticizes Israel for prohibiting the return of Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war, and their descendants, to Israel. Israel rightly says that such refugee return is unacceptable, since a large influx of Palestinians would mean the end of the Jewish state. The solution for the Palestinian refugees lies in their settlement in the Arab lands where they currently live, or their repatriation to a future Palestinian state. Israel has already indicated its willingness to participate in an international effort to implement such a solution.

“'''Occupation''':” The HRW report condemns Israel for perpetuating what it calls occupation of Palestinian areas while ignoring the historical circumstances that led to the occupation. In May 1967, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt violated international law by closing the Straits of Tiran and deploying 100,000 troops in the Sinai Peninsula, presenting an existential threat to Israel. After exhausting all diplomatic options, Israel was left with no choice but to exercise its right of self-defense. Israel did not attack Jordan, hoping that Jordan would stay out of the war, and indeed sent messages to King Hussein promising not to attack unless it was attacked first. Unfortunately, King Hussein ignored Israel’s peaceful overtures, and instead used artillery and air power to attack Israeli population centers and ground troops to capture the UN headquarters in Jerusalem. It was only in response to these attacks, in a clear-cut case of self-defense, that Israel captured the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem.

'''Right of self-defense''': The report accuses Israel of launching three large-scale military offensives in Gaza since 2008, “in the context of hostilities with armed Palestinian groups.” Those offensives, the report claims, “included apparently deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure and killed over 2,000 civilians.” The report ignores the asymmetrical warfare that Hamas and other terror organizations have imposed on Israel, thus effectively dismissing Israel’s right of self-defense.

The IDF has been guided by international humanitarian law, including the principles of “distinction” and “proportionality.” These require IDF units to direct their attacks solely against military objectives and to try to ensure that civilians are not harmed. Where damage to civilians or civilian property cannot be avoided, the IDF makes extraordinary efforts to ensure that force is not excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage.

'''Israel’s quest for peace''': In 2000, seven years after the Oslo process was launched, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak, with American help, tried to conclude a two-state agreement with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Barak offered Arafat the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the bulk of the West Bank, with its capital in East Jerusalem. Initially, Barak agreed to concede 80 percent of the West Bank, but he gradually increased that percentage up to 90-91 percent. President Clinton, under the so-called Clinton parameters, increased that percentage to 94-96 percent, but the Palestinians declined to accept the offer.

'''The real tragedy''': The only way the Palestinians can fulfill their legitimate national aspirations is by reaching an agreement with Israel based on the principle of two states living side-by-side in peace and security. Yet the Palestinian leadership refuses to return to the negotiation table, insisting that its maximalist demands be accepted by Israel in advance. The real tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that at every historical turning point the Palestinian leadership has failed its people. Rather than urging that leadership to change course, HRW has opted to echo some of its baseless allegations against the Jewish state, thus further undermining the prospects of peace.</blockquote>

After Israel's Arab representatives in Israeli Knesset succeeded in pushing for unification between Arabs in Israel and "Palestinian" Arabs living in West Bank and Gaza, journalist tweeted:<ref>(@ArielSchnabel) Tweeted:
I do not understand the joy of my fellow members now that thousands of Palestinians can become Israelis and [supposedly] suffer severely from the [supposed] repression of discrimination in second-class citizenship and inequality...
[https://twitter.com/ArielSchnabel/status/1412268832819924992?s=20 July 6, 2021]</ref>
<blockquote>I do not understand the joy of my fellow members now that thousands of Palestinians can become Israelis and [supposedly] suffer severely from the [supposed] repression of discrimination in second-class citizenship and inequality...</blockquote>

As 100,000 Muslims have (in 2021) filled,<ref>Emanuel Fabian, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/100000-muslims-pray-at-al-aqsa-mosque-on-eid-al-adha/ 100,000 Muslims pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Eid al-Adha], TOI,
July 20, 2021.</ref><ref>Today more than 100,000 worshippers gathered on the Temple Mount to celebrate Eid Al-Adha. Israel guarantees Freedom of Religion & will continue to safeguard the right to worship freely. [https://mobile.twitter.com/Israel/status/1417401554206875671 Jul 20, 2021]</ref> Jews' holy areas, (after [[Rashida Tlaib]] outright lies<ref>Jordyn @JordynTilchen: Eid Al Adha is tomorrow. Today is Tisha B’Av. And police responded when rocks were thrown at Jews who went up to the Temple Mount, our holiest site, at their designated times to pray. Why are you lying, Rashida? Surely you cannot have some ulterior motive.
Quote Tweet: Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib - Jul 18. Why is Israel attacking Al Aqsa on Eid Al Adha...
[https://mobile.twitter.com/JordynTilchen/status/1416888422359240705 Jul 18, 2021]</ref>), activist noted:<ref>[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/07/judaisms-two-holiest-places-are-filled.html Judaism's two holiest places are filled with Muslims today], EoZ, July 20, 2021.</ref>
<blockquote>
Imagine if the situation was reversed and there was Muslim control over these places. Would they allow Jews to enter on their holy days?

We don't have to imagine. When Muslims controlled them before 1967, Jews were banned from entering both. Muslims would not allow Jews to go beyond the seventh step at the Cave of the Patriarchs, and they would gather to pray at that step.

Even today, even though Jewish holy spots are listed in the Oslo agreements as places that Jews should be able to freely and safely visit, the Jewish sites under Palestinian Authority rule can only be visited sporadically and when protected by the Israeli army.

And Muslims insist, today, that these holy spots are exclusively Muslim and Jews should be banned altogether from them.

The international community, which wants to give control of these places back to Muslims, will never insist on Jewish rights to visit and worship at Jewish holy places. It is up to Israel to enforce that.

Only under Jewish rule is there respect for all religions in the Land of Israel.</blockquote>

Author notes:
<ref>Efraim Karsh, 'The Middle East’s Real Apartheid.' March 6, 2012. https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/06/the-middle-easts-real-apartheid/.</ref>
<blockquote>This charge, of course, is not only completely false but the inverse of the truth. If apartheid is indeed a crime against humanity, Israel actually is the only apartheid-free state in the Middle East – a state whose Arab population enjoys full equality before the law and more prerogatives than most ethnic minorities in the free world, from the designation of Arabic as an official language to the recognition of non-Jewish religious holidays as legal days of rest.

By contrast, apartheid has been an integral part of the Middle East for over a millennium, and its Arab and Muslim nations continue to legally, politically and socially enforce this discriminatory practice against their hapless minorities.</blockquote>

Asks, therefore:

''Why then should an innocent party be under constant pressure to “come clean” while the real culprits are not only left unscathed but also given a worldwide platform to blame others for their own crimes?...''

Reminding:
<blockquote>Arab/Muslim apartheid comes in many forms, and some victims have been subjected to more than one.

– Religious intolerance: Muslims historically viewed themselves as distinct from, and superior to, all others living under Muslim rule, known as “dhimmis.” They have been loath to give up this privileged status in modern times. Christians, Jews and Baha’is remain second-class citizens throughout the Arab/Muslim world, and even non-ruling Muslim factions have been oppressed by their dominant co-religionists (e.g. Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia, Sunnis in Syria).

– Ethnic inequality: This historic legacy of intolerance extends well beyond the religious sphere. As longtime imperial masters, Arabs, Turks and Iranians continue to treat long-converted populations, notably Kurds and Berbers, that retained their language, culture and social customs, as inferior.

– Racism: The Middle East has become the foremost purveyor of anti-Semitic incitement in the world with the medieval blood libel widely circulated alongside a string of modern canards (notably The Protocols of the Elders of Zion) depicting Jews as the source of all evil.”¨Likewise, Africans of sub-Saharan descent are held in deep contempt, a vestige of the region’s historic role as epicenter of the international slave trade.

– Gender discrimination: Legal and social discrimination against women is pervasive throughout the Arab-Islamic world, accounting for rampant violence (for example domestic violence or spousal rape are not criminalized) and scores of executions every year, both legal and extra-judicial (i.e. honor killings). Discrimination against homosexuals is even worse.

– Denial of citizenship: The withholding of citizenship and attendant rights from a large segment of the native-born population is common. Palestinian communities in the Arab states offer the starkest example of this discrimination (in Lebanon, for example, they cannot own property, be employed in many professions, move freely, etc.). The Beduin (stateless peoples) in the Gulf states, and hundreds of thousands of Kurds in Syria have been subjected to similar discrimination.

– Labor inequality: Mistreatment of foreign workers (especially household servants), ranging from sexual abuse to virtual imprisonment and outright murder, is widely tolerated throughout the Middle East, especially in oil-exporting countries that host large expatriate labor forces.

– Slavery: The Arabic-speaking countries remain the world’s foremost refuge of slavery, from child and sex trafficking in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states to actual chattel slavery in Sudan and Mauritania. Indeed, Islamists throughout the Middle East have had no qualms advocating the legalization of slavery.

– Political Oppression: Many Middle Eastern regimes are little more than elaborate repressive systems aimed at perpetuating apartheid-style domination by a small minority: Alawites in Syria..
the Saudi royal family; the Hashemite dynasty in Jordan.
</blockquote>

A former Sudanese slave spoke out:

''What you find on the pages of the New York Times, or in the record of the UN condemnations is "Israeli crimes" and Palestinian suffering. My people have been driven off the front pages because of the exaggerations about Palestinian suffering. What Israel does is portrayed as a Western sin. But the truth is that the real sin happens when the West abandons us: the victims of Arab/Islamic apartheid.''
<ref>[https://www.aish.com/jw/me/Israel_Sudan_and_Me.html Israel, Sudan and Me], Simon Deng, Aish, Oct 30, 2011.
</ref>''We seem to be choosing to ignore the many who suffer at the hands of Arab/Muslims. Deng has shared his concerns about the West abandoning the "victims of Arab/Islamic apartheid."...''
''Deng had the courage to speak at the Durban Conference, a meeting notorious for focusing its efforts on accusing Israel of racism and apartheid, about the "oppression, brutalization, demonization, Islamization, Arabization and enslavement" of his people. It was there that he announced that Black Muslims from Darfur, refugees fleeing "Arab racism" hoping to find refuge in Egypt saw Egyptian security forces slaughter 26 black refugees and continued their journey to Israel "where they knew they would be safe."''
<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/diane-bederman/slavery-africa_b_3975881.html Slavery in Africa Is Alive, Well and Ignored], Weber Bederman, Contributor, Oct 18, 2013</ref>

Arab journalist:<ref>[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12521/palestinians-apartheid-victims Palestinians: Victims of Arab Apartheid], Khaled Abu Toameh, June 18, 2018.</ref><blockquote>
*Tens of thousands of Palestinians are now living in a Lebanese ghetto called Ain Al-Hilweh, and the world seems to be fine with that.
*No one cares when an Arab country mistreats and discriminates and kills Palestinians. But when something happens in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, the international media and community suddenly wake up. Why? Because they do not want to miss an opportunity to condemn Israel. One can only imagine the uproar in the world were Israel to pass a law denying Arabs jobs or the right to inherit property.
*There are no protests on the streets of London or Paris. The UN Security Council has not -- and will not -- hold an emergency session to condemn Lebanon. Of course, the mainstream media in the West is not going to report about Arab apartheid and repressive measures against Palestinians. As for the leaders of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, they do not have time to address the problems of the camp residents. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas are too busy fighting each other, and the last thing they have on their minds are the interests and well-being of their people.

Lebanon is one of several Arab countries where Palestinians are subjected to discriminatory and apartheid laws and measures. The plight of Palestinians in Arab countries, however, is apparently of no interest to the international community, pro-Palestinian activists and groups around the world.</blockquote>

It has been noted that:

''In Saudi Arabia, discrimination against the non-Muslims is absolutely rampant, very clear and open. It starts with aqama (red cards for the non-Muslims and green cards for the Muslims). The rule on taxation is also different for the Muslims and the non-Muslims...''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cRJNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22islamic+apartheid%22 Bharatiya Pragna], Vol. 8, 2006, p.27.
</ref>
And author elaborated on ''Islamic apartheid in Pakistan and Bangladesh''. <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Od3XAAAAMAAJ&q=%22islamic+apartheid%22 Islam and the Modern Age], Vol. 20, 1989, p.92.</ref>

African author:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HgC7UmErBPQC&pg=PT224 Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World ], George B.N. Ayittey, (2011)</ref>

''Elsewhere on the African continent were equally heinous de facto apartheid regimes: Arab apartheid in Mauritania and Sudan; tribal apartheid in Burundi, etc...''
It has been written about the "victims of an escalating Arab apartheid campaign segregating non-Arabs and Arabs, particularly people who had Nilotic ancestry."
<ref>https://www.coursehero.com/file/74488697/Order-2930855editeddocx/</ref>

And about the Arab-Palestinians, apartheid in Arab-Palestine - the "Entrenched apartheid in the 'West Bank'. A discriminatory two-tiered segregation system is maintained throughout Areas A and B."<ref>[http://en.inn.co.il/Articles/Article.aspx/22435 "Entrenched apartheid in the 'West Bank'] David Singer, INN, July 10 2018.</ref>

Then there is the Arab apartheid against Israel since 1948:<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/petty-arab-apartheid-olympic-style-463776 Petty Arab apartheid, Olympic-style], Gerald Steinberg, JPost, August 10, 2016</ref>
<blockquote>
... In the bad old days in South Africa, “petty apartheid” was the term used for the daily oppression and humiliation of blacks through separate public water fountains, bathrooms, buses, cafeterias and similar facilities. This strictly enforced separation was a sign of the black population being viewed as subhuman.

Since 1948, petty apartheid has also been a feature of the widespread Arab rejection of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. This practice is ongoing and is often taken for granted and ignored, as was the case of South Africa for many years.
...petty apartheid – practiced against Israel and Israelis on a daily basis, year in and year out, for 68 years, and still going strong. It is not a minor and childish “spat” as depicted in some media headlines (“Olympics spat as Lebanese stop Israelis joining them on bus,” Associated Press, The Washington Post) – but rather similar to the refusal to allow blacks in South Africa before 1994, or in the US before the civil rights movement, to sit with whites on buses or drink from the same water fountains.

Many Israelis have experienced this racism in one form or another....
Similarly, the self-appointed guardians of human rights, including NGO superpowers such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, are silent when Israelis are the victims. Indeed, they are very active in promoting the apartheid inherent in the boycott movement, which is the current Western embodiment of the Arab League’s economic boycott of Israel. The anti-Israel campaigners in the democratic West who wrap themselves in the façade of human rights and opposition to racism are part and parcel of this apartheid.</blockquote>

==From those that saw real, true [[apartheid]] [[South Africa]]==

*Richatd G Goldstone.
From a known anti-Israel critic, South African former judge, Richard J. Goldstone:

<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opinion/israel-and-the-apartheid-slander.html Israel and the Apartheid Slander] Richard J. Goldstone, The New York Times, Oct 31, 2011</ref>
<blockquote>
...it is important to separate legitimate criticism of Israel from assaults that aim to isolate, demonize and delegitimize it.

One particularly pernicious and enduring canard that is surfacing again is that Israel pursues “apartheid” policies. In Cape Town starting on Saturday, a London-based nongovernmental organization called the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will hold a “hearing” on whether Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid. It is not a “tribunal.” The “evidence” is going to be one-sided and the members of the “jury” are critics whose harsh views of Israel are well known.

While “apartheid” can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations.

I know all too well the cruelty of South Africa’s abhorrent apartheid system, under which human beings characterized as black had no rights to vote, hold political office, use “white” toilets or beaches, marry whites, live in whites-only areas or even be there without a “pass.” Blacks critically injured in car accidents were left to bleed to death if there was no “black” ambulance to rush them to a “black” hospital. “White” hospitals were prohibited from saving their lives.

In assessing the accusation that Israel pursues apartheid policies, which are by definition primarily about race or ethnicity, it is important first to distinguish between the situations in Israel, where Arabs are citizens, and in West Bank areas that remain under Israeli control in the absence of a peace agreement.

In Israel, there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute: “Inhumane acts ... committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.” Israeli Arabs — 20 percent of Israel’s population — vote, have political parties and representatives in the Knesset and occupy positions of acclaim, including on its Supreme Court. Arab patients lie alongside Jewish patients in Israeli hospitals, receiving identical treatment.</blockquote>

*R.M:<ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/growing-up-apartheid/ Growing up Apartheid], R. Marks, Mar 9, 2015
</ref><blockquote>Israel is not a perfect country and I would challenge anyone to find a country that is. Racism certainly rears its ugly head in Israel just as it does in every country in the world but it certainly is NOT an Apartheid state. The singling out of the Jewish state at the expense of other countries that do have discriminatory laws not only insults the profound suffering of South Africa’s victims of Apartheid but also exposes the true nature of those who subscribe to this rationale – anti-Semitism.</blockquote>

*A. W.:<ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/apartheid-canard-does-not-wash/ Apartheid canard does not wash], TOI, Allan Wolman, Jan 21, 2021</ref>
<blockquote>
There were separate entrances to any official building, separate toilets, schools, park benches, beaches, busses, hospitals and clinics, school curriculum’s, cinema’s, theatres, restaurants — all vastly inferior for those who were not white-skinned people.

Love across the colour line was forbidden by law. People of colour were forbidden to live in “white” areas. There are many, many more examples of this abhorrent system I could detail but space does not permit.

Any negative reporting or criticism of the state would have been immediately shut down, banned and those responsible would be victimized and jailed, yet B’Tselm operates openly in Israel together with other human rights organizations vigorously opposed to Israel’s occupation and other policies but these do not suffer the kind of victimization that was apartheid, in fact, there is any number of groups and publications openly hostile to government policies that have an open platform for expression.

Like every country on the globe, Israel has its warts and is far from perfect. There are many issues that I am opposed to and am fiercely against the occupation and neither vote for the ruling party, but having lived most of my life in South Africa and now live in Israel I have not seen nor experienced anything that remotely resembles what apartheid was.
</blockquote>

*E.M.<ref>[https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2016/02/i-grew-south-africa-so-believe-me-when-i-say-israel-not-apartheid-state I grew up in South Africa, so believe me when I say: Israel is not an apartheid state], E. Mirvis, New Statesman, Feb 24, 2016]</ref><blockquote>The difference between the two countries could scarcely be more stark. Under apartheid, a legal structure of racial hierarchy governed all aspects of life. Black South Africans were denied the vote. They were required by law to live, work, study, travel, enjoy leisure activities, receive medical treatment and even go to the lavatory separately from those with a different colour of skin. Interracial relationships and marriages were illegal. It was subjugation in its rawest form.

Contrast that with Israel, a country whose Arab, Druze, Bedouin, Ethiopian, Russian, Baha’i, Armenian and other citizens have equal status under the law. Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity. They would need only to visit Hand in Hand, an organisation that runs schools where Jewish and Arab pupils learn together, or meet the Israeli-Arab judge Salim Joubran of the Supreme Court of Israel. They might note the appointment last month of Mariam Kabaha as the national commissioner for equal employment opportunities in the economy ministry, or hear that just this month, Jamal Hakrush became the first Muslim Arab to be appointed a deputy commissioner of the Israel Police.

Indeed, the difference is so stark that one might argue there is a good case for ignoring the apartheid slur altogether. Yet the tragic reality is that every time the word is used in the context of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, the two sides become polarised yet further and peace becomes ever more distant. As the word “apartheid” is an icon for malevolence, it can only be received by Israel with resentment and suspicion. In turn, extremist forces in Palestinian society can only benefit from a reinforcement of the notion that the very existence of Israel is illegitimate. In short, the apartheid slur provides fuel for those who seek to polarise and it obstructs those who seek peace.</blockquote>

*M.H.<ref>[https://malcolmhedding.com/the-charge-of-apartheid/ The charge of Apartheid], Malcom Hedding, July 27, 2016</ref>
<blockquote>...his initiative to brand Israel a racist state is not new as a similar attempt was made in 1975 at the United Nations when the General Assembly adopted a resolution defining Zionism as racism. After close scrutiny and investigation this resolution was finally overturned in 1991 when it was established that in fact Zionism is nothing more than an ideology that gives expression to the longing of Jews everywhere to return to the land of their forefathers. However, not withstanding this setback, the enemies of Israel were determined to remodel the accusation and they did in the form of the current charge that Israel is an apartheid state.

So then the apartheid slur against the state of Israel is just another attempt to reintroduce the notion that Israel is a racist entity that must be dismantled in order to bring peace to the Middle East. Those who advocate for this position are invariable Islamists who wish to see Israel given over to the totalitarianism of radical Islam. That is, they would be more than happy to see Hamas or Hezbollah in control of the region! In fact at the very root of this new movement is the age-old problem of anti-Semitism.

I am a South African who was born in 1952 and was therefore raised in the apartheid state of South Africa. I saw the wickedness of this system firsthand; I lived in its world every day and witnessed the systematic dehumanization of 30 million black people by a white minority government. There is nothing in Israel that is even close to this abomination and to suggest that there is, is an insult to the millions of black people in South Africa who lived and suffered under it. The truth is, nowhere in Israel today are Arab Israelis treated in the manner in which the black people of South Africa were treated. Arab Israelis can go anywhere in the country, live anywhere they wish to, go to any university or educational institution or hospital of their choice and take up any profession they desire.
</blockquote>

===Proposed real apartheid state: Islamic Palestine===

The proposed "Palestine" state, according to "moderate" PA, would be a real apartheid state, with ethnic and religious discrimination, An apartheid, Islamic, Judenrein Palestine.
Explains Prof.<ref>"[https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/push-palestinian-state-rejected-hurt-arabs-jews-alike-article-1.956600?outputType=amp Push for Palestinian state at UN must be rejected: It will hurt Arabs and Jews alike]." A. Dershowitz New York Daily News, Sep 21, 2011.</ref>
<blockquote>
Based on statements made by officials in President Mahmoud Abbas' administration, it's safe to conclude that a new Palestinian state would be an apartheid state...

If and when the General Assembly of the United Nations accords the Palestinians the status of a state, for at least some purposes, the question then arises, What kind of a state will it be?...

The draft constitution for the new state of Palestine declares that "Islam is the official religion in Palestine." It also states that Sharia law will be "the major source of legislation." It is ironic that the same Palestinian leadership that supports these concepts for Palestine refuses to acknowledge that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Israel, in contrast to the proposed Palestinian state, does not have an official state religion. Although it is a Jewish state, that description is not a religious one but rather a national one. It accords equal rights to Islam, Christianity and all other religions, as well as to atheists and agnostics.

According to statements by the Palestinian Authority leadership, the new Palestinian state would prohibit any Jews from being citizens, from owning land or from even living in the Muslim state of Palestine.

The Palestinian ambassador to the United States was asked during an interview whether "any Jew who is inside the borders of Palestine will have to leave." His answer: "Absolutely."

After much criticism, he tried to spin his remarks, saying that Jews who are "amid an occupation, who are in my land illegally" would be excluded. Whatever he meant, one thing is clear: Jews will never be welcome as equal citizens in an Islamic Palestine.

In contrast, Israel has more than 1 million Arab citizens, most of whom are Muslims. They are equal under the law, except that they need not serve in the Israeli Defense Forces.

The new Palestine will have the very "law of return" that it demands that Israel should give up. All Palestinians, no matter where they live and regardless of whether they have ever set foot in Palestine, will be welcome to the new state, while a Jew whose family has lived in Hebron for thousands of years will be excluded.

To summarize, the new Palestinian state will be a genuine apartheid state. It will practice religious and ethnic discrimination, will have one official religion and will base its laws on the precepts of that religion. (Imagine what the status of gays will be under Sharia law.)

It is noteworthy that the very people who complain most loudly about Israel's law of return and about its character as the nation-state of the Jewish people are silent when it comes to the new Palestinian state. Is it that these people expect more of Jews than they do of Muslims? If so, is that not a form of racism?

And what would the borders of a Palestinian state, as recognized by the General Assembly, look like? Were the Palestinians to get their way, they would get, as a starting point, all of the land occupied by Jordan prior to the 1967 war, in which Jordan attacked Israel. This return to the status quo that led to the Six-Day War is inconsistent with the intention of Security Council Resolution 242, which contemplated some territorial changes.

The new boundaries of this Palestinian state would also include Judaism's holiest place, the Western Wall. It would also include the access roads to Hebrew University, which Jordan used to close down this great institution of learning founded by the Jews nearly 100 years ago. The new Palestinian state would also incorporate the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, in which Jews have lived for 3,000 years, except for those periods of time during which they were expelled by force.

.. Palestinian leaders have already indicated that they would hold these important and sacred sites hostage to unreasonable demands. For example, the Western Wall covers only a few acres, but the Palestinian leadership has indicated that these acres are among the most valuable in the world, and in order for Israel to regain them, it would have to surrender thousands of acres.

An apartheid, Islamic, Judenrein Palestine based on the 1967 borders is a prescription for disaster. That is why a reasonable Palestinian state must be the outcome of negotiations with Israel, and not the result of a thoughtless vote by the United Nations.</blockquote>
===Current racist Arab-Palestine===

Anti Jewish hate, racism, incitement, demonization has been documented regularly at ''Pal Watch.''<ref>http://palwaych.org</ref>

In June, 2021:<ref name=collins/>
<blockquote>the European Union finally released its report on Palestinian Authority textbooks which includes dozens of examples of encouragement of violence and demonization of Israel and of Jews. Under the guise of “resistance” – another catchword – children are being brainwashed about the glory of martyrdom. Following the report’s publication</blockquote>

==Users==

Most that use that term have been "traditionally" Arabs, Muslims out of bigotry<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-ilhan-omar-overcome-her-prejudice-11562970265 Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice?]
''I was born in Somalia and grew up amid pervasive Muslim anti-Semitism. Hate is hard to unlearn without coming to terms with how you learned it.''
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, WSJ, July 12, 2019.
<blockquote>Most men (and the odd woman) in power in Muslim-majority countries are autocrats. Even where there are elections, corrupt rulers play an intricate game to stay in power. Their signature move is the promise to “free” the Holy Land—that is, to eliminate the Jewish state. The rulers of Iran are explicit about this goal. Other Muslim leaders may pay lip service to the peace process and the two-state solution, but government anti-Semitism is frequently on display at the United Nations, where Israel is repeatedly compared to apartheid South Africa, accused of genocide and demonized as racist.

Media also play their part. There is very little freedom of expression in Muslim-majority countries, and state-owned media churn out anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda daily—as do even media groups that style themselves as critical of Muslim autocracies, such as Al Jazeera and Al-Manar.

Then there are the mosques, madrassas and other religious institutions. Schools in general, especially college campuses, have been an Islamist stronghold for generations in Muslim-majority countries. That matters because graduates go on to leadership positions in the professions, media, government and other institutions.
</blockquote></ref> some posing as "activists". Widely by "plain" racists who use the Middle East as a cover.

Some radical liberals began using it mostly after [[Jimmy Carter]] used it in his 2006 book exclusively on the "territories." Then came along long time anti-Israel radicals to abuse positions in human rights groups.

==Jimmy Carter==

Jimmy Carter admitted that Israel is a free equal democracy for all<ref>(for example, in LATimes, Dec. 8, 2006: "The book is devoted to circumstances and events in Palestine and not in Israel, where democracy prevails and citizens live together and are legally guaranteed equal status." </ref> and that his book is about the "territories " exclusively and it's not related to "race" or "racism".<ref>NPR and Brendeis, Jan.07</ref> He also added that he is aware it's a provocative term.

But even his "facts" and anti-Israel bias was heavily criticized.<ref> One example: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Bearing_False_Witness.html?id=U-mUGAAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter's Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid], Andrea Levin, Camera, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, 2007 [https://www.camera.org/videos-publications/bearing-false-witness-jimmy-carter-s-palestine-peace-not-apartheid/]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110724051931/http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976879837 Ex-President for Sale]. January 08, 2007.
''has been bought and paid for by Arab money. In his recent book tour to promote Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Carter has been peddling a particularly nasty bit of bigotry...''</ref>

Columnist at the ''Washington Post'' :<ref>Michael Kinsley, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101225.html It's Not Apartheid]." The Washington Post, December 12, 2006</ref><blockquote>It's not clear what he means by using the loaded word "apartheid," since the book makes no attempt to explain it, but the only reasonable interpretation is that Carter is comparing Israel to the former white racist government of South Africa. That is a foolish and unfair comparison, unworthy of the man who won -- and deserved -- the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing Israel and Egypt together in the Camp David Accords, and who has lent such luster to the imaginary office of former president.</blockquote>

==Haaretz exposed==
Per Haaretz' Amos Shocken (2008), there is no need for there to be any identity between the regime in Israel and the regime in South Africa called by that name. Suffice it to say that the use of the word constitutes, in Schocken's opinion, "an absorbing and understandable media headline in large parts of the world, and is therefore useful for conveying the message."<ref>[https://mafyahu.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5-2-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9D-%D7%93%D7%99-%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F/ Antisemitism in Haaretz (2): Is it enough to show a "family resemblance" to Der Stürmer ("The Assailant")? of course not].
Apr 20, 2017.<blockquote>And when there were allegations against the generous use of this propaganda term, Schocken had an explanation. Here is an article he published in his newspaper back in July 2008: "Among circles..." That is: to use the insult of "apartheid" against Israel, there is no need for there to be any identity between the regime in Israel and the regime in South Africa called by that name. Suffice it to say that the use of the word constitutes, in Schocken's opinion, "an absorbing and understandable media headline in large parts of the world, and is therefore useful for conveying the message."</blockquote></ref>

==Omar Shakir and the Apartheid slur==

Arab-American [[Omar Shakir]]<ref>[https://canarymission.org/individual/Omar_Shakir canary Mission - Omar Shakir]</ref> has been active against Israel since he was a student.

From a 2010 Arab report,<ref>"BDS in the USA, 2001-2010." Noura Erakat In: 255 (Summer 2010)</ref> he struggled with applying the "apartheid" label on Israel because conditions are not the same as [[South Africa]], such as Arabs in Israel actually do have voting rights.

He defended anti-Semite in court.<ref name=stopantisemitism>[https://www.stopantisemitism.org/antisemite-of-the-week5-1/antisemite-of-the-week-omar-shakir-bigot-with-a-vengeance Antisemite of the Week: Omar Shakir - Bigot with a Vengeance], Stop Anti-Semitism, May 1, 2021</ref>

Shakir was deported from [[Israel]] for his harmful [[BDS]] activities in November, 2019.<ref>Fact Sheet on Omar Shakir's BDS Campaigns. ngomonitor.
https://www.ngo-monitor.org/fact-sheet-on-omar-shakirs-bds-campaigns</ref>

In April 2020, in a tweet<ref>1:47 PM · Apr 26, 2020, to Hagai El-Ad</ref> he showed excitement to another infamous long time instigator, who serves in [[Btselem]]<ref>[https://www.aish.com/jw/me/Shattering-the-Apartheid-Canard.html Shattering the Apartheid Canard], S. Simmons, Aish, Jan 18. 2021.
''It’s time to call out the anti-Semitism and hypocrisy... The fact that the charge comes from B'Tselem, an Israeli group that the Israeli government has called out for “spreading lies, slander and incitement against the state of Israel,” was apparently lost amongst the onslaught of negative media coverage.''</ref> for promoting the apartheid slur (via distortions<ref>[https://www.camera.org/article/understanding-btselems-apartheid-libel/ Understanding B'tselem's “Apartheid” Libel], CAMERA, Jan 27, 2021... ''Falsehoods and Distortions...''</ref>) saying it was "already" a "fact" for some time.<ref>[https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/anti-semitic-propaganda-is-not-news/ Anti-Semitic propaganda is not news]. Israel Hayom, Jan 18, 2021. ''It is surprising that CNN quotes B'Tselem without fact-checking its accusations, especially in light of the network's tireless efforts to do so with ...''</ref><ref>[https://www.ngo-monitor.org/in-the-media/opinion-when-human-rights-ngos-adopt-anti-semitic-language/ When human-rights NGOs adopt anti-Semitic language].
Ngo Monitor, Feb 10, 2021. '"Last month, the Israeli NGO B'Tselem launched a discriminatory and hateful campaign titled, “A regime of...''</ref>

Some assessed that guy's urgency, after Trump's [[Abraham accord]] which debunked the false narrative of Israel supposedly being "simply against" Arab per se.

A year later, Shakir himself, consumed by anger over Israel not renewing his visa, as a revenge propaganda,<ref name=steinberg>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/human-rights-watch-demonizes-israel-through-the-propaganda-of-apartheid-666416 Human Rights Watch demonizes Israel via propaganda of apartheid], Gerald M. Steinberg, JPost, April 27, 2021.
<blockquote>
Shakir was hired in 2016, after a number of years as a campus activist under headings like ”Apartheid IsReal.” He led HRW’s (failed) effort to press Airbnb and the FIFA soccer association to join the anti-Israel boycott, and repeatedly invokes “apartheid” and “racism” when discussing Israel. For Shakir, who left Israel after his work visa was not renewed and a lengthy court battle, this is revenge propaganda.</blockquote></ref> has also promoted it, abusing the [[HRW]] platform.<ref>[https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/human-rights-watch-israel-apartheid-report-condemned-as-fiction-1.516093 Human Rights Watch 'Israel apartheid' report condemned as 'fiction'], Mathilde Frot, The JC,
Apr 27, 2021. ''Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl said the report was a "sham which puts rhetoric above fact." "They consistently ignore or downplay the fact that Israel’s security measures in the West Bank and around Gaza are the response to well-documented terror activities. The ridiculous ‘apartheid‘ slur in this report is belied by the fact that, as it stands, Israel’s next Government may well rely on the support of Arab parties, voted for by the country’s fully-enfranchised Arab citizens. "Israel’s Arab citizens have been appointed as ambassadors, professors, Supreme Court judges, hospital directors, and other key roles throughout Israel’s socio-economic landscape. Civil society organisations should be directing their efforts towards reinvigorating the peace process, not trading in false hyperbole that extends the cycle of conflict," she said. NGO Monitor president Professor Gerald Steinberg, also criticised the report writing in the Jerusalem Post that it comprised "the standard mix of shrill propaganda, false allegations and legal fictions." "Exploiting the 'apartheid' image for propaganda is a cynical appropriation of the suffering of the victims of the actual apartheid regime"..''</ref> A "report" full of distortions.<ref name=ajc/> A hatchet job, ''while promising “detailed legal analysis” of the apartheid charge, HRW actually proved Israel’s innocence.''<ref>[https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/336519/israel-apartheid-the-big-black-and-white-lie/ Israel Apartheid: The Big Black-and-White Lie], G. Troy, JJ, May 12, 2021</ref>

Despite knowing fully well, Omar Shakir, who resided in the area before being Estelle for BDS hate propaganda that most Israelis are 'brown ' he chose (in his debunked slur doc) to portray in an imAoeil-2021), in an image, to portray Israelis as "all White" and the Arab Palestinians a p.o.c.<ref name=stopantisemitism/>
Part of an old systematic Arab-Islamic racism to portray its victims of its bigotry as beibg supposedly the "racists."

He expanded the Apartheid term, as so to fit his long-time anti-Israel agenda. Not realizing his expansion would cover many others. But realizing that according to his new apartheid definition, Israel can never escape this terminology, no matter what it does. (Hence proving again point of pure hatred).<ref> [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://presspectiva.org.il/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%97-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%94%D7%99%D7%99%D7%93-%D7%A9%D7%9C-human-rights-watch-%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%94-%D7%97%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%92/ Human Rights Watch's Apartheid Report: Unsurprising Propaganda and False Lies] Shlomi Ben-Meir, Presspectiva, 09.05.21 <blockquote>And that's the little problem with it. The big problem is its big resonance in the international press, eager for any indictment against Israel. ... according to the report, there is (almost) nothing Israel can do to not be considered an apartheid state in the eyes of HRW. Even if it withdraws from all territories, establishes a Palestinian state and removes restrictions over the Gaza Strip, the stain will continue to accompany it...</blockquote></ref>

Shakir called on FIFA to boycott the Israeli national football team because of its apartheid policy. Only this idiot did not take into account that almost half of the Israeli team are players from Israeli Arab society and even the captain is Muslim.<ref>@YosephHaddad:
By the way, Omar Shakir called on FIFA to boycott the Israeli national football team because of its apartheid policy. Only this idiot did not take into account that almost half of the Israeli team are players from Israeli Arab society and even the captain is Muslim.
[https://mobile.twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1407033552605270022 June 21, 2021]</ref><ref name=steinberg/>

In addition to these individuals personal record, it's worth mentioning that: ''Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem... these organizations have a long record of blaming Israel for all of its difficult relations with its Palestinian neighbors while at the same time demonstrating a “hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil” approach to Palestinian misdeeds.''<ref>[https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-op-com-israel-palestine-apartheid-response-20210510-g4uswha5sbdcbojc75g2ds3x7i-story.html No, Israel is not an apartheid state], South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Mark S Freedman, May 10, 2021. ''...nothing more than pouring old wine in anew bottle. To claim that Israel is an apartheid state, as Nevel does, is disingenuous and, more importantly, it is incorrect. Nevel relies on reports from Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem to support her assertions. These organizations have a long record of blaming Israel for all of its difficult relations with its Palestinian neighbors while at the same time demonstrating a “hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil” approach to Palestinian misdeeds.''</ref>

Shakir is aided by another long-time extremely biased<ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/kenneth-roth-whats-wrong-with-you/ Kenneth Roth: What’s Wrong With You?], TOI, Apr 27, 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/ken_roth_s_immoral_anti_israel_obsession_and_the_gaza_war_ Ken Roth's Immoral Anti-Israel Obsession and the Gaza War] September 04, 2014, NGO Watch</ref><ref>[https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/09/01/head-of-human-rights-watch-skewered-on-twitter-for-peace-hating-rant-belittling-israel-uae-accord/ Head of Human Rights Watch Skewered on Twitter for Peace-Hating Rant Belittling Israel-UAE Accord]". Algemeiner.com, Sep 1, 2020.</ref><ref>Daniel Kohn, "[https://www.forward.com/opinion/382213/human-rights-watch-tweet-exposes-decades-old-anti-israel-bias/%3fgamp Human Rights Watch Tweet Exposes Decades-Old Anti Israel Bias]". Forward, Sep 8, 2017</ref><ref>Jeffrey Goldberg. "[https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/380556/ Does Human Rights Watch Understand the Nature of Prejudice?]". The Atlantic, Sep 12, 2014.</ref> a Hamas apologist<ref>UN Watch (@UNWatch) Tweeted:
For the first time ever, Human Rights Watch chief Ken Roth refers to "the Hamas armed wing," as if to emphasize that other parts of the terrorist group are legitimate.
Ken Roth is a Hamas apologist. He recently deleted a tweet after many protested that it justified antisemtism. [https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1425764888958361609?s=20 Aug 12, 2021</ref>, even bigot at HRW Ken Roth.<ref>D Lange, [https://www.israellycool.com/2021/07/21/ken-roth-blames-jews-for-his-decision-to-delete-tweet-blaming-the-jews/ Ken Roth Blames Jews for His Decision to Delete Tweet Blaming the Jews], Israellycool, July 15, 2021.</ref><ref>UN Watch (@UNWatch) Tweeted:
After 328 votes in half an hour, the interim results show that 70.7% believe Ken Roth is a big antisemite. https://t.co/IRoYkvvQsR [https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1417533128520970245?s=20 July 20, 2021]</ref>
a "know it all" even propagandist for Hamas,<ref>YsabellaHazan (@ysabellahazan) Tweeted:
Correction:
1. Hamas terrorists*. Condemn Guerilla warfare.

2. Stop giving Hamas the Benefit of the doubt and misleading your followers based on speculation, IDF has intelligence that you don’t.

3. Human shields at the hands of Hamas is a human rights violation. [https://twitter.com/ysabellahazan/status/1430170396498747399?s=20 Aug 24, 2021]</ref> Twisted Ken Roth is also Soft on monsters of Iran and Syria and big against its rivals .<ref>Seth J. Frantzman, [https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/human-rights-watch-head-slammed-for-tweet-on-irans-attack-on-saudi-609067 Human Rights Watch head slammed for tweet on Iran’s attack on Saudi], JPost, Nov 27, 2019.
''The Head of HRW called Iran's attack on Saudi Arabia “far better than the Saudi crown prince’s attacks on Yemen.”''</ref>
===Hatred and violence perpetuated after Shakir Apartheid-slur promotion===

Since Shakir has outrageously used the HRW status, it has boosted even more the excuse for anti-Israel radicals to use the trope.

Then came [[the Squad]]<ref>Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) Tweeted: Congresswoman, that U.N. report accusing Israel of 'apartheid' was authored by 9/11 conspiracy theorist Richard Falk, who was denounced by his own UN chief Ban Ki-moon and by the UK for antisemitism, and it was commissioned by Syria, Libya and 18 other Arab states. #factsmatter https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1394077789767323648?s=20. Congresswoman, that U.N. report accusing Israel of 'apartheid' was authored by 9/11 conspiracy theorist Richard Falk, who was denounced by his own UN chief Ban Ki-moon and by the UK for antisemitism, and it was commissioned by Syria, Libya and 18 other Arab states. #factsmatter [https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1394077789767323648?s=20 May 16, 2021]</ref> to repeat it after of "palestinian" Arab origin [[Rashida Tlaib]] usage of it. An Israeli Arab replied to [[AOC]] on the falsehood of applying the term vs reality of Arabs in democratic Israel with full equal rights.<ref>May 15, 2021. Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted:
Hi AOC. I’m Yoseph, an Israeli Arab. I checked the definition of apartheid and you seem to be confused by the propaganda of this political org. Arabs like me have full equal rights and live, learn, work, and play together. Take it from me, I live it. Stop lying. [https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1393684888696590336?s=20] . OMG! After my video calling out @RashidaTlaib
Emily comes and destroys the entire squad!
[https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1393650054150434817?s=20] [https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1393648976503652353]</ref> The promotion and rising use of the term has contributed to [[anti-Semitic]] attacks especially since May-2021 [[Guardian of Walls]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/05/21/jews-antisemitic-attack-los-angeles-times-square-biden-israel-palestine "Jewish American groups appeal to Biden White House after string of antisemitic attacks related to Israel."] Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 21, 2021.
<blockquote>Near Miami, a family was assaulted as they walked in Bal Harbour on Tuesday. The Orgen family was visiting from New Jersey when a car of people yelling “Free Palestine” and, “We’re going to rape your wife,”...since May 8 and that the ADL this week reported finding 17,000 tweets between May 7 and May 14 with variations of the words: “Hitler was right.”... Rubin, who handled Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, said the current level of vitriol in the United States against Jews is higher than he’s ever seen it. He pointed to an increased use of the term “apartheid” by progressive politicians and the appearance of White nationalists in the Palestinian cause...“There is language being used to describe Israel that is heading us on a path to arguments about delegitimization, that Israel should not exist, that the issue is that it exists,” said Rubin, executive director of the American Jewish Congress. “Words are being used about Israel that are incredibly unsettling to the Jewish community that go further, and in a direction that makes the community feel very vulnerable. And that vulnerability is not a good place to be..</blockquote></ref> Which as a result, even anti-Israel ardent activist, [[Bernie Sanders]], (who's known to throw the term "racism", frequently, at so many situations so often, ridiculously) has asked to refrain from this and such rhetoric.<ref>5/23: Sanders, Gates, Honoré.
This week on "Face the Nation," will the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East continue to hold? Plus, more hopeful signs that we're reaching the end of the pandemic.
<blockquote>
J. Dickerson: 
Let me ask you how this is played out here at home, the ADL says, there were a 193 reports of anti-Semitic incidents this week, up from a 131 previous week, so that's during the period while the crisis began...
</blockquote>
B. Sanders:
<blockquote>
Anti-Semitism is rising in America, it is rising all over the world. We have to combat anti-Semitism. We have to combat the increase in hate crimes in this country, against Asians, against African-Americans, and against Latinos, so we have a serious problem of a nation which is being increasingly divided, being led by right wing extremists...
</blockquote>
J. Dickerson:
<blockquote>
There are a number of liberals who use the the word "apartheid".. a number of liberals in the house used that language.
 
The executive director of the American Jewish Congress, who handled Jewish outreach for your campaign, Joel Rubin has said that the use of that language has increased the level of vitriol that has contributed to this Anti Semitism...
</blockquote>
Sanders: <blockquote>...we have to tone down the rhetoric...</blockquote>.[https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1396556620583383041?s=20 Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) Tweeted]:
Some progressive lawmakers, including AOC, use the term "apartheid" ... Bernie Sanders' former Jewish outreach director says the charged language can fuel anti-Semitic incidents. "I think we should tone down the rhetoric," Sanders says. https://t.co/lIsXnHhVTB
4:00 PM · May 23, 2021</ref> All the while other "activists" such as known anti-Jewish Islamic politicians [[Ilhan Omar]] and [[Rashida Tlaib]] have not done so.

[[File:Tala Halawa.PNG|left|thumb|[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bbc-journalist-hitler-was-right- From Arab journalist in Ramallah's tweet: Tala Halawa]]]

After daughter of Mohammed Hadid, Bella tweeted a vitriol against Israel including the 'A' slur, and Tala Halawa, an Arab journalist based in Ramallah, working for the BBC, punlished an extreme style piece supporting Hadid's stance, Halawa's earlier shocking antisemitic tweets were exposed, including that "Hitler was right." BBC reporter comes under fire for tweet saying 'Hitler was right'.<ref>[https://honestreporting.com/honestreporting-prompts-bbc-investigation-hitler-was-right-journalist/ HonestReporting Prompts BBC Investigation of ‘Hitler Was Right’ Journalist] E. Miller, HR, May 24, 2021. ''The BBC has launched an investigation after HonestReporting helped bring to public attention numerous antisemitic tweets from one of its journalists, including a post which stated that “Hitler was right.” ''
</ref><ref>[https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/bbc-reporter-comes-under-fire-for-tweets-supporting-hitler-668946 BBC digital reporter Tala Halawa's 2014 antisemitic tweets were unearthed recently.] Jerusalem Post, May 24, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://meaww.com/tala-halawa-bbc-journalist-hit-was-right-israeli-defense-force-go-to-hell-social-media-fire-reaction Who is Tala Halawa? BBC journalist slammed for 'Hitler Was Better' tweet from 2014, Internet says 'sack her'.] By Alakananda Bandyopadhyay, May 23, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tala-halawa-and-the-progressive-media-s-anti-semitism-blindspot Tala Halawa and the progressive media’s anti-Semitism blindspot], Stephen Daisley, The Spectator, 24 May 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/23/bbc-investigating-palestinian-journalist-tweeted-hitler-right/ BBC investigating Palestinian journalist who tweeted 'Hitler was right'] The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 2021. ''Digital journalist Tala Halawa, who works as a Palestine Specialist for BBC Monitoring, compared Israel to Nazi Germany in the same post
''</ref>

Muslim writer, Mehdi Hassan who rationalized them,<ref>MSNBC, 27 May, 2021</ref> should know that when an African-American says the N word is totally different. Besides, the demonization and delegitimization intent is clear.

==See also==
*[[Essay:anti-Israel bigotry: the Apartheid slur]]

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Loudoun County, Virginia

2021-10-16T20:35:44Z

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[[File:Loudon-County-1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Parrent arrested at Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting after his daughter was raped in a [[public school]] transgender bathroom.]]
'''Loudoun County''' is a county in northern [[Virginia]]. The county seat is Leesburg. Loudoun County is part of the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area and is in Virginia's 10th congressional district. The 10th district has 35,500 federal workers. By comparison, Virginia's 1st district has 46,900; the 11th has 51,900; and the 8th has 81,100.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/rep-comstock-running-for-reelection-wont-vote-for-a-government-shutdown-no-matter-how-much-trump-wants-one/2018/08/01/ccce41a4-94dc-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html|title=Rep. Comstock, running for reelection, won't vote for a government shutdown no matter how much Trump wants one|author=Portnoy, Jenna|work=Washington Post|date=1 August 2018}}</ref> Since 2008, the county has been ranked first in the U.S. in median household income among jurisdictions with a population of 65,000 or more.<ref name=acs2011>{{cite web|title=LOUDOUN COUNTY INCOME HIGHLIGHTS, AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY, 2011 ACS UPDATE|url=http://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/9701|publisher=Loudoun County Department of Planning|access-date=}}</ref>

==Loudoun County School Board==
{{See also|U.S. Color Revolution|Cultural Marxism}}
A [[Maoist]] holocaust survivor told ''[[Fox News]]'', "When I was in [[China]] I spent my entire school years in the [[Cultural Revolution|Chinese cultural revolution]], so I'm very very familiar with the [[communist]] tactics of how they divide people, how they cancel the Chinese traditional culture and destroy our heritage. And all this is happening here in America. Now they are labeling parents and concerned citizens like me as domestic terrorists. What that can do? You may lose your freedom. I do have a question: what's next step? is it the [[Tiananmen massacre|Tiananmen crackdown]], the next? Would parents, one day, risk their life just to speak up for the children? That's why I'm here."<ref>https://youtu.be/ZCsivc-N5Hw</ref>

===Critical race theory===
{{See also|Critical race theory}}
A [[far-Left]] group of critical race theory teachers, school board members and other activists in Loudoun County's [[public school]] system (the membership of which includes the county's [[Soros]]-funded prosecutor) were outed as planning on targeting parents who opposed the plans of the racist anti-white teachers/activists, whose group has the ironic name "Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County" and are also ironically white themselves, to indoctrinate their students with CRT by compiling a list of opposed parents to target with harassment campaigns including infiltration of anti-CRT parent groups, [[hacker]]s (for the purposes of disrupting the parents' online communications) and "exposing" the parents via illegal doxxing.<ref>Two references:
*[https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-04-02-public-school-teachers-compiling-lists-expose-parents.html Vile public school teachers now compiling “lists” to “expose” parents who reject far-left curriculum] at Natural News
*[https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/public-school-teachers-compile-list-of-parents-who-dissent-from-racist-liberal-curriculum-plan-to-expose-them Public school teachers compile list of parents who dissent from racist liberal curriculum, plan to ‘expose’ them] at LifeSiteNews</ref> One of the group's members, Loudoun County school board member Beth Barts, was temporarily removed from her duties after her plans to expose and target anti-CRT parents (including the use of aggressive civil unrest), along with other group members sending Barts the names and other info of anti-CRT parents to use for doxxing purposes, was publicly exposed, putting the CRT group in violation of Virginia law regarding felony anti-[[First Amendment]] criminal activity. The information regarding the CRT group was forwarded to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office for investigation.

===Transgender bathrooms===
[[File:Transgender bathroom.JPG|right|200px|thumb|''Washington Examiner'' Op-ed: Loudoun County knew it was putting female students at risk with its transgender policy.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/loudoun-county-knew-it-was-putting-female-students-at-risk-with-its-transgender-policy</ref>]]
{{See also|Transgenderism}}
[[Scott Smith]], a parent, was at a Loudoun County school board meeting on June 22, 2021 because his daughter had been [[rape]]d by a [[transgender]] boy in the girls’ bathroom on May 28, 2021 at Stone Bridge High School.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/loudoun-county-father-school-cover-up-bathroom-assault-daughter</ref> The school told Smith his daughter had been assaulted but didn't call police. Smith reported the assault to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) and rape kit evidence collected. Prior to the June 22 meeting, When Smith showed up at the school to complain about what had happened, they accused him of lying and called the police.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/12/loudoun-county-virginia-school-board-covered-up-student-rape-and-had-father-of-victim-arrested-to-keep-him-quiet-national-school-board-association-then-labeled-the-father-a-domestic-terrorist</ref>

Moments before Smith’s arrest Superintendent Scott Ziegler of the county’s schools “said the school hadn’t had any incidents involving a transgender student in bathrooms and declared that ‘the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.'” <ref>https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/parents-demand-superintendent-be-fired-for-alleged-sex-assault-cover-up/</ref> An [[Antifa]] activist at the meeting claimed his daughter was lying. When an argument ensued, police grabbed his arm. When he pulled his arm away, he was assaulted and thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and removed from the room.<ref>https://uncoverdc.com/2021/10/14/family-of-young-rape-victim-files-lawsuit-against-loudoun-county-schools/</ref>

And while the [[far-left]] prosecutor’s office, which would eventually try to throw the book at Smith over his arrest at the school board meeting, insisted they were taking the rape case seriously, the same boy was transferred to another school in the district. On October 6, 2021, the same boy was alleged to have committed another rape. A sheriff's office press release stated, "A teenager from Ashburn has been charged with sexual battery and abduction of a fellow student at Broad Run High School."<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10083783/Loudoun-County-father-arrested-school-meeting-says-daughter-raped-boy-girls-bathroom.html</ref>

===Sexual assaults===
A pattern of sexual assaults has emerged in the Loudoun County Public School (LCPS) system which have gone illegally unreported by school administrators. Previously, LCPS had failed to report an incident from October of 2018. Three football players at Tuscorara High were arrested and charged with sexual assault after attacking another boy according to the Loudoun Times-Mirror. A source claimed that a younger player was “held down by teammates who inserted objects into the victim” in a locker room. LCPS asserted at the time that “the case will be subject to disciplinary action.” Upon review, the annual report for Tuscorara that year listed zero instances of sexual offenses against students. Such incidents are required to be reported to the public and school superintendents are to be held personally liable for any violations.

The law in Virginia states, “Reports shall be made to the division superintendent and to the principal or his designee on all incidents involving … sexual assault.” The law also states, “A division superintendent who knowingly fails to comply or secure compliance with the reporting requirements of this subsection shall be subject to the sanctions authorized in § 22.1-65. A principal who knowingly fails to comply or secure compliance with the reporting requirements of this section shall be subject to sanctions prescribed by the local school board, which may include, but need not be limited to, demotion or dismissal.”

Incidents are required to be reported to the public via a public database called Safe Schools Information Resource (SSIR) which is administered by the Virginia Department of Education. LCPS reported that Stone Bridge had zero sexual assaults for the 2020-2021 school year which is known to be untrue.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/10/15/loudoun-co-schools-embroiled-in-more-alleged-cover-ups-after-another-horrific-sexual-assault-report-emerges-1149208/</ref>

===Biden regime intimidation and harassment of parents===
{{See also|War on Parents}}
The National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to [[socialist]] leader [[Joe Biden]] complaining about parents speaking out at school board meetings. The NSBA letter states that parents’ protests and speeches at school board meetings “could be equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism.” The letter specifically cited the June 22, 2021 Loudoun County, Virginia incident as an example.<ref>https://nsba.org/-/media/NSBA/File/nsba-letter-to-president-biden-concerning-threats-to-public-schools-and-school-board-members-92921.pdf</ref> The NSBA falsely claimed the parent was arrested in a dispute over critical race theory when, in fact, the parent was removed from the school board hearing after the school board publicly lied about the rape of the the parent's daughter in a transgender bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt.<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/10/13/parents-come-out-in-force-demand-loudoun-county-school-superintendent-resign-for-alleged-rape-cover-up-n456058</ref> Biden handed the letter to regime chief procurator [[Merrick Garland]]. Garland issued a memo directing the FBI and numerous other federal and state agencies to take “measures designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel,” a clear example of the politicization of the [[Department of Justice]]. A liberal advocacy group sent the Office of the President a letter; Merrick Garland dutifully turned that letter into DOJ policy. The memo's intent was to intimidate parents to not speak out at school board meetings against critical race theory.

==See also==
*[[Davidson v. Loudoun County Board of Supervisors]]

==References==
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==External link==
*[https://www.gofundme.com/f/safe-schools-legal-fund?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer Safe Schools Legal Fund]

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Scott Smith

2021-10-16T20:31:11Z

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Scott Smith is a parent from [[Loudoun County, Virginia]], whose 14 year old daughter got [[Rape|raped]] in the bathroom by a [[Transgender|transgender]] boy wearing a skirt at Stone Bridge High School. The school told Smith his daughter had been assaulted but didn’t call the police.

Scott Sanford

2021-10-16T20:27:36Z

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[[Scott Smith]]
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=William Scott Sanford
|image=Scott Sanford of TX.jpg
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office=[[Texas]] State Representative for District 70 (part of Collin County)
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|term_start=January 2013
|preceded=[[Ken Paxton]]
|birth_place=Place of birth missing
|birth_date=October 3, 1963
|residence=McKinney, Collin County Texas, USA
|occupation=[[Certified Public Accountant]] 
Executive pastor, Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church
|spouse=Shelly Lee Sanford
|children=Ryan and Lauren
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'''William Scott Sanford''', known as '''Scott Sanford''' (born October 3, 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/william-sanford/williamsan54263fa|title=William Sanford (Scott)|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=July 25, 2020}}</ref><ref name=votesmart>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/138362/scott-sanford#.UyJO3MtOUfg|title=Scott Sanford's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=July 25, 2020}}</ref>is a [[Certified Public Accountant]] from McKinney in north [[Texas]], who is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 70 based in a portion of Collin County north of [[Dallas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=5740&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=~gender=~last=Sanford~leaderNote=~leg=83~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Scott Sanford|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=July 25, 2020}}</ref>

==Background==

A native Texan, Sanford graduated from [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a master's degree in Taxation. Formerly with Ernst & Young, he since established his own CPA business. Since 1997, he has also been the executive pastor of the Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church<ref name=candidatesfile/> in Allen, Texas,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cottonwoodcreek.org/about-us/staff/member/1238385/|title=Our Team|publisher=cottonwoodcreek.org|accessdate=July 26, 2020}}</ref> formerly the First Baptist Church of Fairview. Cottonwood moved into its current facility in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cottonwoodcreek.org/history|title=History of Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church|publisher=cottonwoodcreek.org|accessdate=July 25, 2020}}</ref>

Sanford and his wife, Shelly Lee Sanford (born c. 1964), have two children, Ryan and Lauren.<ref name=votesmart/>

==Political life==
In 2012, [[Ken Paxton]] left the House District 70 seat in 2012 to run successfully for state senator for the District 8 seat vacated by another Republican, Florence Shapiro, two Republicans with backgrounds in the ministry, Scott Sanford of McKinney and Bracy M. Wilson (born c. 1974) of Frisco, filed for the open seat. Wilson, a graduate of Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie in Ellis County, is engaged in providing consulting and support services for [[charter school]]s. His Bracy Wilson Ministries, Inc., is a [[non-profit organization]] that serves children with [[autism]].<ref name=candidatesfile>Candidates for House District 70, Baumbach.org, October 21, 2011; material no longer on-line.</ref> Paxton served only two years in the Senate and in 2014 was elected state attorney general, a position which he still holds.

Sanford is a member of the House committees on (1) Human Services and (2) Urban Affairs.<ref name=votesmart/>

===Legislative positions===

In 2013, Sanford supported the ban on [[abortion]] after twenty weeks of [[gestation]]; the measure passed the House, 96-49. He co-sponsored companion legislation to increase medical and licensing requirements of abortion providers.<ref name=votingrecords/> These issues brought forth an unsuccessful [[filibuster]] in the state Senate from Wendy Russell Davis of [[Fort Worth]], who in 2014 was the unsuccessful [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] gubernatorial against Republican [[Greg Abbott]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Filibuster in Texas Senate Tries to Halt Abortion Bill|author=Manny Fernandez|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/politics/senate-democrats-in-texas-try-blocking-abortion-bill-with-filibuster.html|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=June 25, 2013|accessdate=July 25, 2020}}</ref> The Texas [[Right to Life]] Committee rated Sanford 78 percent favorable on [[pro-life]] issues.<ref name=ratings/>

Representative Sanford voted against the bill to establish a taxpayer-funded breakfast program for public schools; the measure passed the House, 73-58. He co-sponsored legislation to provide marshals for school security as a separate law-enforcement entity. He also co-sponsored the extension of the franchise tax exemption to certain businesses. He voted against the adoption of the biennium state budget. He voted against the bill to prohibit texting while driving; the legislation nevertheless passed the House, 97-45. Sanford voted to require testing for [[narcotics]] of those receiving unemployment compensation. He voted against the "equal pay for women" measure, which nevertheless passed the House, 78-61.<ref name=votingrecords/>

Sanford sponsored the measure to forbid the state from engaging in the enforcement of federal regulations of firearms. He similarly sponsored legislation to allow college and university officials to carry concealed weapons in buildings and vehicles in the name of campus security. He supported legislation to reduce the time required to obtain a concealed-carry permit. He backed the [[redistricting]] bills for the state House, the state Senate, and the [[United States House of Representatives]]. Sanford voted against[term limits for certain state officials.<ref name=votingrecords>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/138362/scott-sanford#.UyJs08tOUfg|title=Scott Sanford's Voting Records|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=July 25, 2020}}</ref>

===Interest group ratings===

In 2013, Sanford's rating from [[Phyllis Schlafly]]'s [[Eagle Forum]], then managed in Texas by [[Cathie Adams]], a former state chairman of the Texas Republican Party, was 98 percent favorable, one of the highest scores given by the organization to [[conservative]] legislators. The Young Conservatives of Texas ranked him 83 percent. The Texas League of Conservation Voters scored him 46 percent. Another [[interest group]], Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, founded by Michael Quinn Sullivan, rated him 98 percent favorable. The Texas Association of Business scored him 87 percent. The [[National Rifle Association]], 92 percent.<ref name=ratings>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/138362/scott-sanford#.UyJxEctOUfg|title=Scott Sanford's Ratings and Endorsements|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=July 25, 2020}}</ref>

===A nation in peril===

On his website, Sanford said the United States in 2012 was in a state of peril:
<blockquote>
Our nation is at a perilous point in history. The danger is great and our demise as the world’s leading free country is plausible, if not likely. The uniqueness of today’s crisis as compared to past threats to America is that today’s most pressing issues were brought on ourselves by American governmental leadership at all levels—federal, state, and local. We have not been invaded nor are foreign armies amassing at the borders. Nevertheless, we find ourselves in a country of serious decline. Our decline is financial, governmental, cultural, structural, and moral.<ref name=candidatesfile/></blockquote>

==References==
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Green New Deal

2021-10-16T20:19:23Z

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[[File:Green leap forward.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Official poster for the Green Leap Forward in the style of Socialst realism.]]
The '''Green New Deal''' is a radical [[Socialism|Socialist]] and [[totalitarian]] plan to destroy America introduced into the 116th Congress by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat Party]].<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gov-richard-lamm-my-plan-to-destroy-america-35408</ref><ref>Murphy, James (January 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/31113-ocasio-cortez-s-green-new-deal-represents-the-true-wishes-of-democrats-and-globalists Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” Represents the True Wishes of Democrats and Globalists]. ''The New American''. Retrieved January 6, 2019.</ref><ref>Pollak, Joel B. (February 7, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/07/pollak-green-new-deal-is-a-republican-parody-of-the-democratic-platform/ Pollak: ‘Green New Deal’ Is a Republican Parody of the Democratic Platform]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 7, 2019.</ref><ref>Duke, Selwyn (February 11, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/31454-exposed-ocasio-cortez-can-scrub-but-she-can-t-hide-green-new-deal-details Exposed! Ocasio-Cortez Can Scrub, but She Can’t Hide Green New Deal Details]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 11, 2019.</ref> It fundamentally seeks to "save" the planet from total destruction by [[greenhouse gases]] in twelve years by getting rid of American [[Energy Independence|energy independence]]. Simply put, it is an [[intersectional]] [[coalition]] of the [[environmental movement]] and the socialist [[welfare state]]. The "climate crisis" gives urgency to pass legislation that will destroy American freedoms, such as the right to own a car, a gun, or private health insurance. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]'s chief of staff admitted that the Green New Deal's goal had nothing to do with climate change, but rather to "change the entire economy."<ref>Bufkin, Ellie; Dunleavy, Jerry (July 11, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-chief-of-staff-confirms-green-new-deal-was-not-really-about-the-climate AOC chief of staff confirms: Green New Deal was not really about the climate]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved July 11, 2019.</ref><ref>Pollak, Joel B. (July 11, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/07/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-chief-of-staff-green-new-deal/ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Chief of Staff Admits: Green New Deal About Socialism, Not Climate]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 11, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-green-new-deal-was-never-about-climate-change-its-just-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-excuse-to-destroy-americas-economy The Green New Deal was never about climate change; it's just AOC's excuse to destroy America's economy]. ''Washington Examiner''. July 13, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019.</ref> [[2020 Presidential election|2020 Democrat presidential nominee]] [[Joe Biden]] is an enthusiastic supporter of the Green New Deal, which he renamed [[The Biden Plan]].

Not to be outdone in apocryphal premonitions, the [[United Kingdom|British]] government-owned [[fake news]] outlet, the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]], claimed in July 2019 that by Inauguration Day 2021, we'd all be dead if the [[pseudoscience]] solutions to "[[global warming]]" were not adopted.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48964736</ref>

Among several provisions, the Green New Deal would:
*give "economic security" for people who are "unwilling to work," or [[Basic income|UBI]] (universal basic income);<ref>Pollak, Joel B. (February 7, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-will-pay-americans-who-are-unwilling-to-work/ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Green New Deal’ Will Pay Americans Who Are ‘Unwilling to Work’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 7, 2019. Democrats tried to hide this aspect of the Green New Deal and denied its existence:
*Ferrechio (February 9, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/the-mysterious-case-of-aocs-scrubbed-green-new-deal-details The mysterious case of AOC’s scrubbed 'Green New Deal' details]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
*Nolte, John (February 10, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/10/nolte-ocasio-cortez-adviser-caught-lying-to-tucker-carlson/ Nolte: Ocasio-Cortez Adviser Caught Lying to Tucker Carlson]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
*Re, Gregg (February 10, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-adviser-admits-he-falsely-claimed-green-new-deal-didnt-promise-security-for-those-unwilling-to-work Ocasio-Cortez adviser admits he falsely claimed Green New Deal didn't promise security for those 'unwilling' to work']. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
* https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1094277774074875904
* https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1094316596569493504</ref>
*wean Americans off of [[beef]] and [[dairy]] products;
*ban all gas-powered vehicles by 2030;
*eliminate the [[airline]] industry;
*promote [[Medicare for All]], "gender-based justice", [[homosexuality]] and [[gender confusion]];
*tear down and rebuild every building in the country.

The Green New Deal has been endorsed by [[Democrat]] [[2020 presidential election|presidential hopefuls]] [[Kamala Harris]], [[Elizabeth Warren]], [[Kirsten Gillibrand]], [[Cory Booker]], [[Tulsi Gabbard]], [[Jay Inslee]] and [[Julian Castro]]. It was introduced as H.Res.109 in February 2019.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190208215631/https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2018/12/11/congressional-support-for-a-green-new-deal</ref> The Workers of the World in the [[AFL-CIO]] in an official statement responded to Democrats,
{{quotebox-float|We will not accept proposals that could cause immediate harm to millions of our members and their families. We will not stand by and allow threats to our members’ jobs and their families’ standard of living go unanswered."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/afl-cio-slams-green-new-deal-not-achievable-or-realistic/</ref>}}

Six weeks into Democrat control of the House of Representatives it already claimed victory for destroying 25,000 jobs.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/tech/amazon-blasts-ocasio-cortez-says-we-dont-want-to-work-in-this-environment-in-the-long-term</ref>
[[File:Biden's war on cow farts.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Joe Biden supports the Green New Deal, the war on hamburgers, cow farts, and American jobs.]]
==History==
The Manhattan-based Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) has discussed the concept of a Green New Deal since at least 2013: {{Quotebox|"A Green New Deal is concerned with a just transition to a more sustainable economy,<ref>"Sustainability" in leftist rhetoric refers to a [[zero sum]] allocation of resources, and is the exact opposite of the [[supply side]] definition of "sustainable [[economic growth]]."</ref> with improved provision of public services, and with strict regulation of polluters and financial speculators. While there is much promise in this approach, it contains unresolved contradictions and has been blocked by hostile forces. Moreover, it is unclear whether this agenda is adequate to the challenge posed by climate change. Building green socialism may be the only way to emerge from this time of crisis with a society that treads lightly on the earth while enabling a full range of human flourishing."<ref>http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/green-transformation/?fbclid=IwAR3e8YCrJ2ffNyd275Hb6-EigwwY_z0tWsYsUlqo6UWRE51sLPsgW0vqhQ0</ref>}}

The RLS is the American affiliate of the [[Berlin]]-based Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, a wholly owned affiliate of [[German]] political party [[Die Linke]] (The Left)—a direct descendant of the former [[Stalinist]] East German Communist Party.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-east-german-communists-training-guiding-democratic-socialists-of-america_2628662.html</ref> The RLS works closely with the United States' largest [[Marxist]] organization, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and the pro-[[China]] [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]] (FRSO), as well as the [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA), all of which are fully behind the Green New Deal. According to the ''[[New Yorker]]'' the proposal was {{quotebox|"written over a single December 2018 weekend by the staff of the freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three like-minded progressive groups: the Sunrise Movement, a grassroots climate organization; the [[Justice Democrats]], which recruits and supports progressive candidates; and an upstart policy shop called the New Consensus." All three of these groups are spin-offs of a New York City-based revolutionary training organization called "Momentum."<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-allies-supplanted-the-obama-generation</ref><ref>https://keywiki.org/Momentum</ref>}} According to Momentum's website:
[[File:Rules-for-radicals-Obama-tribe-and-cabinet-768x456.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
{{quotebox-float|"We see two dominant traditions of organizing in the [[United States]]: structure-based organizing and mass protest. In the structure-based tradition, developed by [[Saul Alinsky]] and others, organizers start with one-on-one relationships to develop leadership and build a base that can advocate for the needs of particular constituencies. Structure-based organizations, such as community organizations and [[labor union]]s, make instrumental demands, using the base’s leverage over policymakers to win concrete reforms for their members. By contrast, in the mass protest tradition, autonomous groups of individuals create polarizing moments that inspire thousands of unaffiliated people to take to the streets around symbolic, popular social issues. The Momentum model fuses the strengths of the structure-based organizing and mass protest to seed a new tradition of organizing in the United States. Momentum synthesizes the lessons of various 20th century movements, including the [[Ukrainian crisis|Color Revolutions]] of [[Eastern Europe]] and the [[Arab Spring]] in North Africa."}} Momentum boasts of training activists from groups "doing some of the most important movement-building" in the United States, including "[[Black Lives Matter]], Dream Defenders, BYP100, United We Dream, Showing Up For Racial Justice, 350.org, National People’s Action, PICO, and more."<ref>https://www.momentumcommunity.org/about-momentum/</ref> All of these groups are [[front group]]s or close affiliates of the [[FRSO]]. In short, the Green New Deal seeks a fusion of climate activists with the [[civil rights movement]], as was done with the [[Feminist]] movement in the 1970s and [[Gay rights]] movement in the 1990s.

Strong similarities exist between the Green New Deal and Germany's failed environmental program.<ref>Peek, Liz (February 21, 2019). [https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/430980-aocs-green-deal-isnt-new-its-been-a-flop-in-germany AOC's green deal isn't new — it's been a flop in Germany]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved February 21, 2019.</ref>

==Funding==
Several of the organizations promoting the Green New Deal are connected to far-left financier [[George Soros]], as well as [[Occupy Wall Street]] and [[Black Lives Matter]].<ref>Klein, Aaron (February 19, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/19/whos-behind-the-green-new-deal-big-money-backs-ocasio-cortez-socialist-dream-project/ Who’s Behind the Green New Deal? Big Money Backs Ocasio-Cortez Socialist Dream Project]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 19, 2019.</ref>

==Green New Deal==
[[File:Cost of green new deal.png|right|300px|thumb|The Green New Deal costs 119.23% of the total economic output of Planet Earth;<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/group-sees-ocasio-cortez-s-green-new-deal-costing-93-trillion</ref> to raise global GDP to meet the anticipated costs of the Green new Deal would, of course, necessitate an increase in carbon emissions.]]
:{{See also|Fascism and the New Deal|Economic planning|War on Freedom}}
The Green New Deal is a 10-year plan to "mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since [[World War 2]] to achieve net-zero [[greenhouse gas]] emissions and create economic prosperity for all." [[New Consensus]] provides the theoretical backbone for the Green New Deal. The [[DSA]], [[FRSO]], and [[CPUSA]] are all behind the Green New Deal. Even the [[League of Revolutionaries for a New America]], has backed the plan.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/events/227647884777976/</ref>

The name overlooks the consensus of modern economists that the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt stunted economic growth and prolonged the Great Depression with massive government spending programs.<ref>[http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409 FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate], Meg Sullivan | August 10, 2004.</ref>

====De-industrialization====
Ocasio-Cortez's plan calls for, within 10 years a
{{Quotebox-float|
*national, energy-efficient, “smart grid;
*Upgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety;
*Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing, agricultural and other industries as well as from America’s transportation and infrastructure network, the sort of legislation that provoked the [[Yellow Vest movement]];
*Funding “massive investment” in reducing existing greenhouse gasses.}}

The new committee will have total oversight of American industry, with a mandate for pushing union membership. Under “Scope of the Plan,” a section on labor states the committee's final plan shall: {{quotebox|"Require strong enforcement of labor, workplace safety, and wage standards that [[collective bargaining|recognize the rights of workers to organize]] and unionize free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment, and creation of meaningful, quality, career employment."}}

====Medicare for All====
The plan includes universal income and [[Medicare for All]]: The plan, it says, shall {{quotebox|"include additional measures such as basic income programs, universal health care programs and any others as the select committee may deem appropriate to promote economic security, labor market flexibility and entrepreneurism."}} The moral question of robbing people of their basic human dignity as contributing members of society and turning them into lazy leeches is not addressed.

The plan also imagines creating governmental support for "transitioning" minority communities. The deal shall: {{quotebox|"ensure a 'just transition' for all workers, low-income communities, communities of color, indigenous communities, rural and urban communities and the front-line communities most affected by climate change, pollution and other environmental harm including by ensuring that local implementation of the transition is led from the community level."}}

====Free income====
:{{See also|Nanny state|Welfare state}}
The plan calls for "economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work." [[Abraham Lincoln]] defined [[slavery]] in this way: “You work; I’ll eat.” In his Chicago speech of July 10, 1858, Lincoln put it slightly differently, “You toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it.”<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=VOw7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT240&lpg=PT240&dq=You+work;+I%E2%80%99ll+eat.%E2%80%9D+In+his+Chicago+speech+of+July+10,+1858,+Lincoln+put+it+slightly+differently,+%E2%80%9CYou+toil+and+I+will+enjoy+the+fruits+of+it.&source=bl&ots=yt9vSDwA7p&sig=ACfU3U2nzg3_XxcYMmC98mX9BJ8yKksGXg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC38S60LrgAhUrgK0KHQ0kCvgQ6AEwAXoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=You%20work%3B%20I%E2%80%99ll%20eat.%E2%80%9D%20In%20his%20Chicago%20speech%20of%20July%2010%2C%201858%2C%20Lincoln%20put%20it%20slightly%20differently%2C%20%E2%80%9CYou%20toil%20and%20I%20will%20enjoy%20the%20fruits%20of%20it.&f=false Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party]'', [[Dinesh D'Souza]], St. Martin's Press, Jul 31, 2018.</ref>

The plan calls for creating a national jobs force to help people participate in this "transition." The Green New Deal shall {{quotebox|"provide all members of our society, across all regions and all communities, the opportunity, training and education to be a full and equal participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one."}}

====Gender based justice====
:{{Main article|Gender psychosis}}

====Reparations====
[[File:Politicalgrave3.jpg|right|200px|thumb|1892 grave marker of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s brother-in-law.]]
Progressive leftists see this plan as being a vehicle through which "social equality might finally be realized through the use of [[reparations]] to right historical injustices." To paraphrase Rep. [[Ilhan Omar]], "because some people did something somewhere," all non-African Americans, post [[American Civil War]] immigrants, descendants of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, descendants of residents of Free Soil states, descendants of residents of states that never had [[Jim Crow]] laws, [[Native American]]s and residents of states that joined the Union after the Civil War, must pay taxes into the federal treasury which than will disburse reparations to compensate for the Democratic party's [[slave power]], under the [[Democratic Socialist]]s' distorted sense of "justice". Whether persons of mixed race receive only partial compensation has not been determined, or whether a partial payment would be offset by any culpability for having white blood. There is no means test proposed for descendants of African Americans who owned slaves. Neither qualifying parameters for African Americans such as [[Barack Obama]] or [[Kamala Harris]] who have no family relationship whatsoever to slaves in the [[United States]]. The final Green New Deal will
{{quotebox-float|"mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth (including, without limitation, ensuring that federal and other investment will be equitably distributed to historically impoverished, low income, deindustrialized or other marginalized communities in such a way that builds wealth and ownership at the community level)."}}

[[2020 presidential election|2020 presidential candidates]] [[Elizabeth Warren]] and [[Kamala Harris]] have expressed support for [[slave]] reparations.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/us/politics/2020-democrats-race-policy.html</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/430999-warren-harris-back-reparations-for-black-americans-affected-by-slavery</ref> The program is little more than a [[Lyndon Johnson ]]-era recycled [[Great Society]] and War on Poverty vote buying scheme to force the federal Treasury and all Americans to pay for the crimes of the Democrat party throughout the Democrat party's long racist history, and to keep [[African American]]s subservient and dependent on the [[Democrat slave plantation]].

The most unjust aspect of the proposal is asking white descendants of the 700,000 white males who gave their lives to free Blacks in the Civil War to now share in the culpability of white Democrat slave holders. And it was the same Democrats who implemented [[segregation]] and [[Jim Crow]]. White Republicans were the first victims of [[lynching]] in the [[Reconstruction]] era. After Republicans had been driven out of [[the South]] by Democrats, then Democrats turned to lynching Blacks. No [[Republican]]s were slave holders.

====War on Cow Flatulence====
:{{Main article|Peoples Temple Agricultural Project}}
The Green New Deal seeks to turn all Americans into [[vegan]]s.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/should-plant-based-meat-replace-beef-completely Should plant-based meat replace beef completely?], Paul Solman, [[PBS]] News Hour, Dec 21, 2017.</ref> {{quotebox|"We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of f*rting cows and airplanes that fast,<ref>[http://jonathanturley.org/2008/05/14/epa-issues-fart-chart-bovine-flatulence-measured-state-by-state/ EPA Issues “Fart Chart”: Bovine Flatulence Measured State-by-State], 1 May 2014, by jonathanturley</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpa8Oz9DRbY Cow farts blow up barn].</ref> but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get to net-zero.}}
The dirty little secret about the [[global warming hoax]] is that it's not [[Dick Cheney]], [[Halliburton]] and [[capitalism]] destroying the planet with carbon emissions, but rather American's beef-eating habits and reliance on dairy products. As population grows, dairy cow and slaughter beef herds get bigger. One cow gives off more methane gas daily than an automobile at a McDonald's drive thru.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/should-plant-based-meat-replace-beef-completely</ref>

Goldsmith University of London banned the sale of burgers on campus in 2019.<ref>https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/goldsmiths-university-bans-sale-of-burgers-as-part-of-its-steps-to-save-the-planet-a4211436.html</ref>

====Enron reborn====
:{{See also|Enron scandal|Kyoto protocol|Al Gore}}
{{quotebox|"The Green New Deal is about creating the renewable energy economy through a massive investment in our society and economy. [[Cap and trade]] assumes the existing market will solve this problem for us, and that’s simply not true. While cap and trade may be a tiny part of the larger Green New Deal plan to mobilize our economy, any cap and trade legislation will pale in comparison to the size of the mobilization and must recognize that existing legislation can incentivize companies to create toxic hotspots in frontline communities."}}

====Electrification====
[[File:Gilets jaunes.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The [[Yellow vest movement]] was spawned by the French government's attempt to implement their version of the Green New Deal.]]
The plan calls for :
{{quotebox-float|"Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle}} while at the same time :
{{quotebox-float|"A Green New Deal ... would not include creating new nuclear plants. It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible,"}}
essentially "build charging stations everywhere" without a power source while looking to decommission existing power sources.

The Congressional Research Service says automobile electrification will disrupt the automotive parts supply chain.<ref>https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF11101.pdf</ref>

The proposal doesn't spell out if "massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing" supports President Trump's trade war with oversees automobile manufacturers, or if the jobs will go to [[China]] to achieve the Democrats' plan to create "a job for anyone who wants one."

====Financing====
:{{See also|Stagflation|inflation}}
Ocasio-Cortez's plan would be financed by taxpayers, the [[Federal Reserve]] and other institutions the government can create. {{Quotebox|"The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments, new public banks can be created (as in [[WWII]]) to extend credit and a combination of various taxation tools (including taxes on carbon and other emissions and progressive wealth taxes) can be employed."}}
This proposal violates the House [[Paygo]] provision, which mandates all new spending proposals must carry with them cuts in programs for existing constituencies, or proposals for tax increases to offset added spending. Ocasio-Cortez's Medicare for All proposal, which Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi both claim to support, adds spending more than two times America's [[Gross Domestic Product]],<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/study-medicare-for-all-bill-estimated-at-32-6-trillion</ref> making the Medicare for All provision a fantasy, Ocasio-Cortez a simpleton, and Pelosi and Sanders bald face liars to stupid people. Paygo is Pelosi's own rule that she herself formulated as [[Speaker of the House]].

Printing money causes inflation and a dramatic rise in the cost of living. To get to net-zero carbon emissions the government of France has targeted elimination of carbon-emitting vehicles by the year 2040 - ten years later than Green New Deal targets. An 8 cent per gallon fuel tax increase in November 2018 to discourage [[fossil fuel]] consumption and encourage conversion to electric cars sparked months of rioting leaving at least 10 people dead and dozens with serious injuries including loss of limbs. The protests and riots - originally over carbon fuel taxes for a green economy - now include protests over rising living costs.

==House Committee on the Climate Crisis==
:{{Main article|Climate Crisis Committee}}
The '''House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis''' was formed by [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]] in 2019 under pressure from Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] and two [[Marxist]] groups known as the [[Sunrise Movement]]<ref>https://www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/</ref> and the [[Justice Democrats]].<ref>https://www.justicedemocrats.com/about/</ref> The Green New Deal was introduced as H.Res.109 with 84 Democrat co-sponsors on February 7, 2019. In the [[Senate]] it was introduced as S. Res. 59 with 11 Democrat co-sponsors.<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/59/cosponsors S. Res. 59]</ref> Democrats struggled to defend it while Republicans mocked it.<ref>Richardson, Valerie (February 10, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/10/democrats-stumble-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-n/ Democrats struggle to defend much-mocked Green New Deal]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved February 11, 2019.</ref>

===The crisis===
Economist [[Thomas Sowell]], in his 1995 book, ''The Vision of the Anointed'', outlined the general pattern with multiple examples.<ref>http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/2002/12/vision-of-anointed-by-thomas-sowell.html?m=1</ref>

*'''STAGE 1. THE ‘CRISIS:''' Some situation exists, whose negative aspects the anointed propose to eliminate. Such a situation is routinely characterized as a 'crisis'

*'''STAGE 2. THE ‘SOLUTION’:''' Policies to end the ‘crisis’ are advocated by the anointed, who say that these policies will lead to beneficial result A. Critics say that these policies will lead to detrimental result Z. The anointed dismiss these latter claims as absurd and ‘simplistic,’ if not dishonest.

*'''STAGE 3. THE RESULTS:''' The policies are instituted and lead to detrimental result Z.

*'''STAGE 4. THE RESPONSE:''' Those who attribute detrimental result Z to the policies instituted are dismissed as ‘simplistic’ for ignoring the ‘complexities’ involved, as ‘many factors’ went into determining the outcome.

Later in the book Sowell adds other potential responses:
*Goals are redefined after the fact to give the public the illusion of success regarding the policies put in place.
*Bad motives are ascribed to the opposition or to society in general.
*The good intentions of the anointed are highlighted.
*They attack the accuracy of the data showing failure.

===Government spending & debt vs investment===
This is an old ruse first introduced by candidate [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992, referring to increased government spending and piling on the [[national debt]] as "investment." Many other politicians and journalists have since misused the term. Clinton aimed to hide the negative associations most voters had from experiences of the [[New Deal]] and [[Great Society]] - [[new spending]] meant vote buying, tax increases, and [[inflation]]. Fortunately for Clinton, he presided over two years of balanced budgets in the post-[[Cold War]] era and negative aspects of increased spending weren't immediately apparent.

"[[Investment]]," used in its proper context, comes from [[savings]]. Government spending only increases debt.

===Job killer===
Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, who supports the Green New Deal, was livid when her fellow communists killed the prospect of [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] bringing its main headquarters to New York and creating 25,000 jobs with wages averaging $150,000.<ref>https://youtu.be/nnVS-Zah54k</ref> Elizabeth Warren and Ocasio-Cortez took credit for killing the deal.

[[CNN]] reported the fight over Amazon is the fight for the future of the Democratic Party. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: {{quotebox|"Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon's corporate [[greed]], its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world."}} Warren tweeted {{quotebox|"How long will we allow giant [[corporation]]s to hold our democracy hostage?"}}

Amazon was promised up to $1.5 billion in tax abatements in exchange for the promise of creating 25,000 jobs. Ocasio-Cortez believes a tax abatement is a bucket of cash the government can spend on subways or teachers. Warren called the tax incentives "bribes."

CNN claimed {{quotebox|"Democrats and party leaders have not exactly kept pace with all, or maybe even most, of their constituents in urban areas, where jobs are plentiful -- but fewer and fewer people feel they're able to get ahead. It was a campaign of younger politicians and [[activist]]s who sent the Internet giant packing, and the lesson may very well be that a new crop of progressives is hostile to the idea that government should be working with corporate America to make jobs."}}
Mayor [[Bill De Blasio]] blamed Amazon for the deal falling apart.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/amazon-aoc-democrats-future/index.html</ref>

==Supporters==
The Green New Deal is strongly supported by the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|Communist Party USA]].<ref>Varney, James (June 22, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/22/american-communists-unite-behind-green-new-deal/ American Communists unite behind Green New Deal]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved June 22, 2019.</ref>

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*[[Kirsten Gillibrand]]
*[[Cory Booker]]
*[[Amy Klobuchar]]
*[[Jeff Merkely]]
*[[Richard Blumenthal]]
*[[Mazie Hirono]]
*[[Bernie Sanders]]
*[[Jay Inslee]]
*[[Julian Castro]]
*[[Ed Markey]]
*[[Ron Wyden]]
*[[Chris Murphy]]
*[[Jared Huffman]] (CA-02)
*[[Jackie Speier]] (CA-14)
*[[Ro Khanna]] (CA-17)
*[[Mike Levin]] (CA-49)
*[[Ted Lieu]] (CA-33)
*[[John Lewis]] (GA-05)
*[[Joe Neguse]] (CO-02)
*[[Tulsi Gabbard]] (HI-02)
*[[Chellie Pingree]] (ME-01)
*[[Jamie Raskin]] (MD-08)
*[[Ayanna Pressley]] (MA-07)
*[[Rashida Tlaib]] (MI-13)
*[[Ilhan Omar]] (MN-05)
*[[Deb Haaland]] (NM-01)
*[[Carolyn Maloney]] (NY-12)
*[[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] (NY-14)
*[[Jose Serrano]] (NY-15)
*[[Earl Blumenauer]] (OR-03)
*[[Alcee Hastings]] [D-FL-20]
*[[Juan Vargas]] [D-CA-51]
*[[Adriano Espaillat]] [D-NY-13]
*[[Stephen Lynch]] [D-MA-8]
*[[Nydia Velazquez]] [D-NY-7]
*[[Brendan Boyle]] [D-PA-2]
*[[Joaquin Castro]] [D-TX-20]
*[[Yvette Clarke]] [D-NY-9]
*[[Pramila Jayapal]] [D-WA-7]
*[[Ro Khanna]] [D-CA-17]
*[[Peter Welch]] [D-VT-At Large]
*[[Eliot Engel]] [D-NY-16]
*[[Jerrold Nadler]] [D-NY-10]
*[[James McGovern]] [D-MA-2]
*[[Mark Pocan]] [D-WI-2]
*[[Mark Takano]] [D-CA-41]
*[[Eleanor Holmes Norton]] [D-DC-At Large]
*[[Jamie Raskin]] [D-MD-8]
*[[Gerald Connolly]] [D-VA-11]
*[[Alan Lowenthal]] [D-CA-47]
*[[Doris Matsui]] [D-CA-6]
*[[Mike Thompson]] [D-CA-5]
*[[Chellie Pingree]] [D-ME-1]
*[[Mike Quigley]] [D-IL-5]
*[[Bonnie Watson Coleman]] [D-NJ-12]
*[[Jesus Garcia]] [D-IL-4]
*[[Brian Higgins]] [D-NY-26]
*[[Grace Meng]] [D-NY-6]
*[[Salud Carbajal]] [D-CA-24]
*[[David Cicilline]] [D-RI-1]
*[[Steve Cohen]] [D-TN-9]
*[[Katherine Clark]] [D-MA-5]
*[[Judy Chu]] [D-CA-27]
*[[Debbie Mucarsel-Powell]] [D-FL-26]
*[[Seth Moulton]] [D-MA-6]
*[[Raul Grijalva]] [D-AZ-3]
*[[Gregory Meeks]] [D-NY-5]
*[[Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan]], [D-MP-At Large]
*[[Barbara Lee]] [D-CA-13]
*[[Suzanne Bonamici]] [D-OR-1]
*[[Sean Patrick Maloney]] [D-NY-18]
*[[Janice Schakowsky]] [D-IL-9]
*[[Rosa DeLauro]] [D-CT-3]
*[[Andy Levin]] [D-MI-9]
*[[Betty McCollum]] [D-MN-4]
*[[Mark DeSaulnier]] [D-CA-11]
*[[Joe Courtney]] [D-CT-2]
*[[John Larson]] [D-CT-1]
*[[Veronica Escobar]] [D-TX-16]
*[[Adam Schiff]] [D-CA-28]
*[[William Keating]] [D-MA-9]
*[[Peter DeFazio]] [D-OR-4]
*[[Anna Eshoo]] [D-CA-18]
*[[Lori Trahan]] [D-MA-3]
*[[Jimmy Gomez]] [D-CA-34]
*[[Joseph P. Kennedy III]] [D-MA-4]
*[[Maxine Waters]] [D-CA-43]
*[[Wm. Lacy Clay]] [D-MO-1]
*[[Eric Swalwell]]

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Former Democrat presidential candidate [[Al Gore]] has called the Green New Deal "part of the answer to global [[inequality]]."

==Reception==
[[Patrick Moore]], co-founder of [[Greenpeace]], said of Ocasio-Cortez, the bills author, and to its supporters: {{Quotebox|Pompous little twit. You don’t have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get the [[food]] into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every [[tree]] in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass [[death]].<ref>https://www.inquisitr.com/5322741/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-called-pompous-little-twit-by-greenpeace-co-founder-trump-mocks-green-new-deal/</ref>}}

[[President Trump]] responded saying,
{{Quotebox|Anybody who can win office promoting the Green New Deal, they deserve to win. They got to be really good. They got to have the greatest line of crap anyone has ever had in the history of politics.}}

==See also==
*[[War on Science]]
*[[Committees of Correspondence for Democratic Socialism]]
*[[Our Revolution]]
*[[New Consensus]]
*[[Green Quantitative Easing]]
*[[Chicken Little]]
*[[Green New Deal 02/07/19]]
*[[Great Leap Forward]]
*[[New Zealand mosque shooting]]
*[[El Paso Walmart shooting]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ1gqIAKdgA Jordan Peterson discusses climate change]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud14oTQpbAE&feature=youtu.be Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex], [[The Heritage Foundation]], Nov 28, 2017. youtube.com
*[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-green-new-deal-is-about-power-not-the-planet The Green New Deal is about power, not the planet], ''Washington Examiner'', May 14, 2019.
*[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/corporate-socialism-is-paving-the-road-to-the-green-new-deal Corporate socialism is paving the road to the Green New Deal], by Timothy P. Carney, May 15, 2019.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXatjSeWWE&feature=youtu.be The Nazi Roots of Environmentalism and the Climate Change Fraud | Close Encounters Ep. 2]

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The Stranger

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The Stranger is the fifth studio album by musician [[Billy Joel]], released in 1977 by [[Columbia Records]]. It became Joel’s first major breakthrough album, and produced hits such as Movin Out(Anthony’s Song), Just The Way You Are, Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, and more. It is Columbia’s best-selling album release, surpassing Bridge Over Troubled Water by [[Simon and Garfunkel]].

Billy Joel

2021-10-16T20:11:54Z

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'''William Martin "Billy" Joel''' is an [[American]] singer, songwriter, and pianist. He was born in the Bronx, [[New York]] in 1949.<ref>http://www.billyjoel.com/site.html</ref> His music takes from aspects of [[rock and roll]], pop, and jazz as well as many bands of the 1950s. He is an [[atheism|atheist]].<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/atheist-day-2018-billy-joel-stephen-hawking-and-more-why-god-may-not-exist-868074 'ATHEIST DAY' 2018: BILLY JOEL, EMMA THOMPSON AND MORE ON WHY GOD MAY NOT EXIST], Newsweek</ref>

He began his solo record career in 1971 with the album ''[[Cold Spring Harbor]]'', and his 1973 album ''[[Piano Man]]'' (along with the [[Piano Man (song)|titular song]]) was the first to achieve major success. However, the two albums he released after that, [[Streetlife Serenade]], and [[Turnstiles]], failed to be successful. In 1977, Joel had released his first major breakthrough album titled [[The Stranger]], which had hits such as Movin’ Out(Anthony’s Song),
Just The Way You Are, and Scenes From An Italian Restaurant. He continued to have Top 10 hits and the 80s and 90s, and according to Columbia, he has sold over 100 million records worldwide.<ref>http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1448500/20010829/joel_billy.jhtml</ref> Most recently, he released a single titled ''All My Life'' in 2007. Another well known Billy Joel song is "[[Just the Way You Are]]," which he also parodied in a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' serenade to [[Oscar the Grouch]].

Billy Joel has said that he is not a fan of [[Donald Trump]], and has expressed support for a [[liberal]] musician, [[Bruce Springsteen]].<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/442302-billy-joel-not-a-big-fan-of-trump-but-not-going-to-be</ref>

==References==
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Billy Joel

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'''William Martin "Billy" Joel''' is an [[American]] singer, songwriter, and pianist. He was born in the Bronx, [[New York]] in 1949.<ref>http://www.billyjoel.com/site.html</ref> His music takes from aspects of [[rock and roll]], pop, and jazz as well as many bands of the 1950s. He is an [[atheism|atheist]].<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/atheist-day-2018-billy-joel-stephen-hawking-and-more-why-god-may-not-exist-868074 'ATHEIST DAY' 2018: BILLY JOEL, EMMA THOMPSON AND MORE ON WHY GOD MAY NOT EXIST], Newsweek</ref>

He began his solo record career in 1971 with the album ''[[Cold Spring Harbor]]'', and his 1973 album ''[[Piano Man]]'' (along with the [[Piano Man (song)|titular song]]) was the first to achieve major success. However, the two albums he released after that, [[Streetlife Serenade]], and [[Turnstiles]], failed to be successful. In 1977, Joel had released his first major breakthrough album titled [[The Stranger]], which had hits such as Movin’ out(Anthony’s song),
Just the way you are, and Scenes from an Italian restaurant. He continued to have Top 10 hits and the 80s and 90s, and according to Columbia, he has sold over 100 million records worldwide.<ref>http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1448500/20010829/joel_billy.jhtml</ref> Most recently, he released a single titled ''All My Life'' in 2007. Another well known Billy Joel song is "[[Just the Way You Are]]," which he also parodied in a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' serenade to [[Oscar the Grouch]].

Billy Joel has said that he is not a fan of [[Donald Trump]], and has expressed support for a [[liberal]] musician, [[Bruce Springsteen]].<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/442302-billy-joel-not-a-big-fan-of-trump-but-not-going-to-be</ref>

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Joel, Billy}}

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Police brutality

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'''Police brutality''' is the use of excessive or unjustified [[lethal]] force by [[police officer]]s or other law enforcement officers against criminals. The actual definition of what constitutes police brutality, or to what level constitutes lethal force against an assailant by officers, has been under constant dispute and debate.

Police brutality is a subject notably utilized (and abused) by [[racist]]s such as Rev. [[Al Sharpton]] and the [[Black Panthers]], who have continued to take advantage of shootings, such as the 2014 case of [[Michael Brown]], in order to worsen racial tensions throughout the country, including the organizing of violent protests and riots.

An officer can be charged with police brutality for the most ridiculous reasons, such as improper transport to jail and a [[canine]] bite.

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