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Two arrests after possible 'Anti Christian riot' in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Calais.

Two arrests after possible 'Anti Christian riot' in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Calais. (LeFigaro)[Google translated].

A gunfight broke out in the camp located on the outskirts of Dunkirk on Tuesday night. Five wounded, three by bullets and two others by knives, was the result..

At least two people were placed in custody after a brawl broke out Tuesday night in the camp of migrants from Grande-Synthe (Nord) resulting in four wounded with minor injuries, as we learned Wednesday of judicial source.

Two people were injured by firearms, one stabbed and a fourth wounded with a stick, said the prosecutor Eric Fouard Dunkirk, in what seemed  " to be a settling of scores between rival gangs ".

Fifteen shots have been fired at the camp, he said, adding that the searches conducted in the evening allowed for now to find five May 9 mm caliber casings and one bullet. the DA of Dunkrk opened in the evening a judicial investigation for "attempted murder", entrusting the investigation to the PAF and the police station.

After the brawl, which occurred around 16 hours, the calm quickly returned to the camp with an important security device was deployed: a Raid team, mobile gendarmerie brigade, a squadron CRS and two dog teams to search for possible weapons and explosives, says a correspondent for AFP.

They conducted an extensive search of the camp. "It is now over, men have found five bullet casings, one was un struck. But for the time being, none of the perpetrators have been arrested, "the union leader David Michaux. "It is very difficult to apprehend someone, the camp is located on a wooded and swampy terrain," says union leader.

David Michaux has also stated that the most likely reason for the brawl was opposing Kurdish smugglers. A version supported by the first elements of the investigation. "I have no information that would be sectarian violence," says the Figaro prosecutor Dunkirk.

The shooting do not akin to a punitive anti-Christian, contrary to what Police union spokesman David Michaux had said the day before. But according to the union official, there is a "real problem between Muslims and non-Muslims." A minority of Grande-Synthe refugees are Iranians, and some of them are Christians. "Muslims are trying to evict the Christian camp," said David Michaux.

At least 2,500 people live together on this camp located on the outskirts of Dunkirk and forty kilometers from Calais. The camp population is 95% Kurdish. Syrian Kurds, Iraqi, and Iranian and networks of smugglers who do not wish to stay in France. All have only one dream: to go to England.

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Palestinian poet gets death sentence for ‘apostasy’ in Saudi Arabia.

Palestinian poet gets death sentence for ‘apostasy’ in Saudi Arabia. (RT).

A Palestinian poet has been sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian court for allegedly abandoning his Muslim faith, Human Rights Watch reports. The death sentence comes after an initial 2014 verdict that sentenced the poet to four years in prison and 800 lashes.

Poet Ashraf Fayadh was detained in Abha, southwest Saudi Arabia, in 2013 due to allegations by a prosecution witness, who claimed he heard Fayadh cursing God, the Prophet Mohammed and Saudi Arabia. Also, the prosecution alleged offenses based on a book of poems Fayadh had written several years prior to that.

The poet’s friends, however, believe he was being punished for posting a video showing Saudi Arabia’s religious police (mutaween) lashing a man in public.

“They accused me [of] atheism and spreading some destructive thoughts into society,” Fayadh told The Guardian. The book, “Instructions Within,” published in 2008, was “just about me being [a] Palestinian refugee … about cultural and philosophical issues. But the religious extremists explained it as destructive ideas against God.”

Human Rights Watch’s Middle East researcher Adam Coogle, who says he has seen the trial documents, confirmed Friday that the death sentence handed down to Fayadh, a Palestinian national, was on charges of “apostasy.”

“I have read the trial documents from the lower court verdict in 2014 and another one from 17 November. It is very clear he has been sentenced to death for apostasy,” Reuters cited Coogle as saying.

According to the court documents, Fayadh denied the blasphemy accusations, saying he is a faithful Muslim.

“I am repentant to God most high and am innocent of what appeared in my book mentioned in this case,” he said.

The justice system of Saudi Arabia is not only based on Islamic Sharia law, but is also under great influence from the Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, an ultra-conservative interpretation of Sharia that does not hesitate to designate the death penalty for apostasy and blasphemy. Hmmmm.....The kind of countries we don't need on the UN Human rights council.

Video - Germany - Report on conversions to Christianity by refugees. (French)

15 Turkish Protestant churches receive death threats for denying Allah.

15 Turkish Protestant churches receive death threats for denying Allah. (ChristianToday).

15 Turkish churches are receiving death threats for denying Allah, according to World Watch Monitor.

The leadership and congregations of 15 protestant churches in Turkey have been sent death threats since 27 August.

The Association of Protestant Christians in Turkey believes it is likely that the threats come from one source.

"Threats are not anything new for the Protestant community who live in this country and want to raise their children here," they said earlier this month. "But with the recent increase in systematic threats, from this country's west to east and north to south, in different cities, we think that these messages, coming close together and resembling each other, are coming from the same source."

Most of the Christians being attacked used to be Muslim and the threats vow to kill, massacre and behead apostates.

They are accused of having "chosen the path that denies Allah" and "dragged others into believing as you do... As heretics you have increased your number with ignorant followers."

Turkey is rare amongst Muslim-majority nations in that its citizens are free to change their religious identity legally.

World Watch Monitor reported saw a copy of one message. It showed the IS flag and named itself "those who go to jihad" warning "Perverted infidels, the time that we will strike your necks is soon. May Allah receive the glory and the praise."

The messages often quote Al-Ahzab, the chapter of the Quran which threatens "those who spread false news... Accursed, they shall be seized wherever found and killed with a horrible slaughter."

They are also circulating a Youtube video entitled "The religious proofs why apostates should be killed."

The Association is encouraging churches who receives such threats to report them.

This was sourced from World Watch Monitor.

Indian Urdu Daily Advocates Murdering Apostates After Extremist Hindu Groups Convert Muslims.

Indian Urdu Daily Advocates Murdering Apostates After Extremist Hindu Groups Convert Muslims: 'The First Interpreter Of The Koran, Prophet Muhammad, Has Clearly Ordered The Killing Of A Person Becoming Apostate' HT: Memri.

In recent months, and especially after the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power following the 2014 parliamentary elections in India, extremist Hindu organizations allied with Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have conducted several programs to convert Muslims and Christians back to Hinduism. 

Such programs, often described as ghar wapsi (or "returning home"), have been led by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliated organizations, which argue that the Muslims and Christians are originally Hindus.

The RSS's conversion - or re-conversion - programs have been widely criticized by Muslims and secular Hindu groups and politicians, though media outrage has not been seen in India when Islamic clerics and Christian missionaries convert Hindus. 

Under the Indian constitution, religious freedom is guaranteed, which means that people are allowed to profess, propagate, and convert others to their religious beliefs. The converts to either Hinduism or Islam and Christianity are generally impoverished.

In a recent article, the leading Indian Urdu daily Urdu Times published an article, written by Muhammad Najeeb Qasmi Sanbhali, who quoted verses of the Koran, hadiths (sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad), as well as sayings and practices of the Righteous Caliphs (the first four caliphs of Islam: Abu Bakr, Umar ibn Khattab, Usman ibn Affan, and Ali ibn Abi Talib) to justify that the apostates, i.e. Muslims being converted to Hinduism, are justified to be killed.

Following are excerpts from the article, titled "The Punishment For An Apostate In The Light Of The Koran And Hadiths" Read the full story here.

Muslim 'apostates' come out of hiding in Eu[Rabia].

Muslim 'apostates' come out of hiding in Eu[Rabia]. (EUbusiness).

A number of Muslims in Europe are publicly abandoning their religion to become Christians or agnostics despite their former community's taboo against such acts.

In France, the film "The Apostle" by filmmaker Cheyenne Carron has meanwhile lifted the veil on "apostasy" by telling the story of a young Muslim who converted to Catholicism and how he had trouble getting family and friends to accept his choice.

"It is time for us to stop hiding," said Pastor Said Oujibou, 46, who left radical Islam for evangelical protestantism and who is among the few converts to have publicised his decision in France.

He said he is "tolerated" by his former co-religionists, even if he admits to having sparked "sarcasm and annoyance" from them.

But he warned against the "double talk" that certain branches of Islam in France close to the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists use toward apostate Muslims.

"Apostasy is a taboo in Muslim culture and if the text of the Koran does not provide for any punishment, prophetic tradition calls for killing apostates," said Radouane Attiya, a former preacher trained in Saudi Arabia who is now a specialist on Islam at Liege University in Belgium.

Specialists said that more people become Muslim in Europe than leave the faith but Muslims converting to Christianity, especially evangelical protestantism, are on the rise, according to Oujibou.

Evangelicals seek to proselytise in working class and immigrant neighbourhoods where there are many Muslims.

"In Europe, as in Arab countries, there is a rampant atheism gaining ground. But what is new is the search for visibility," Attiya said.

- 'Fed up with fundamentalists' -

He said "Islamic radicalism, world jihadism are contributing to the emergence of a reverse radicalism."

Ahmed, a Belgian engineer in his forties, abandoned Islam because he said he rejected the "total control" his former religion has over people's lives.

Ahmed spoke only on condition of anonymity and said he was also "fed up with the omnipresence of fundamentalists," and what he called "the hypocrisy of Islam."

He joined a group that fights Muslim "indoctrination," one that has around ten members, "very little financial means" and a website publicising the books of Robert Spencer, an American anti-Muslim blogger who has been accused of racism and incitement to hatred.

Similar organisations have existed for several years in Britain and Germany, made up of Iranian exiles.

In September, the Central Council of Ex-Muslims in Germany called for a protest against a handful of Salafists who proclaimed themselves "police of the Sharia," Islamic law, in the western city of Wuppertal.

"It's true," Ahmed said, "that somehow we join the extreme right, but Islam is also the extreme right. It's up to us to clean house."

Imtiaz Shams, 25, who comes from what he calls a "very conservative" Muslim family in London, may not be an activist like Ahmed.

But he renounced his faith before his family two years ago and joined an "underground community" for former Muslims that now numbers around 300 people in London.

"We do weekly meet-ups, we take care of each other. This is not even the tip of the iceberg. It's a couple of ice cubes on top of the iceberg," Shams said.

"We don't really fit in with the activist ex-Muslim stuff. It's more personal," he said.

He said it is very difficult for Muslims to "come out" before their families.

"People feel hurt, because they feel like you are rejecting something, almost spitting in their face even if you have respect for their faith," he said.

For his mother, it's also "the fear that my child is going to hell."

He estimated that there may be around 10,000 agnostics among London's Muslim community of 600,000.

Islamist Sudan To execute by hanging Eight months Pregnant Woman convicted of apostasy.

Islamist Sudan To execute by hanging Eight months Pregnant Woman convicted of apostasy.(webpronews).

A woman in Sudan married a Christian man. She is now 8 months pregnant with their child. A court in Sudan has now convicted her of apostasy and says they will hang her after she has given birth.

“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam,” Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa told Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag. “I sentence you to be hanged to death.”

The woman was also convicted of adultery, for which she will receive 100 lashes. The adultery charge came, even though she is married, because her marriage to a Christian man is not valid under Islamic law.

Earlier in the proceedings, the judge had spoken with the Ms. Ishag for 30 minutes, trying to convince her to recant her faith and “convert back” to Islam.

“I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy,” she told him. Ms. Ishag was not raised a Muslim. Her father was a Muslim, but he was not around when she was raised. Her mother is an Orthodox Christian. Under Sharia law, since her father was a Muslim, she is considered a Muslim and has no choice. Therefore, by claiming to be a Christian, she is considered to have recanted her Islamic faith.

It was a family member who turned Ms. Ishag in to authorities, claiming she was an apostate for marrying a Christian man.

Groups supporting both sides of the issue protested outside the court. Those supporting the decision say that Sharia law must be upheld.

“This is a decision of the law,” one supporter of the verdict said.

Clashes break out at Egyptian church over kidnapping rumors of young Muslim woman that converted to Christianity.

Clashes break out at Egyptian church over kidnapping rumors of young Muslim woman that converted to Christianity.(AO).Clashes have broken out between hundreds of locals outside a church in the city of Kom Ombo in Aswan on Thursday, as reports circulated that a 37-year-old Muslim woman had been kidnapped and forced to convert to Christianity.

The family of the woman, who had been missing for three days when her family were told of her presence in Mar Girgis Church, accuse the church of kidnapping her and forcing her to embrace Christianity. Other eyewitness accounts say that the woman converted of her own free will.

Security forces have formed a human shield around the church, while locals from Kom Ombo have blockaded railway tracks and are throwing stones at the building.

At the time of going to press, teargas was being fired by security forces, and there were reports of clashes between Copts who were protecting the church and local Muslims who were throwing rocks.

“We as Copts will stand by the security and the family of the girl to find her and avoid strife,” Father Johannas Rzeiq of the Mar Girgis church told Al-Ahram Arabic news website, prior to the outbreak of the clashes.
Also on Thursday, in the town of Al-Wasta in the central governorate of Beni Suef, members of the Salafist Nour Party and El-Gamaa El-Salafaya (the Salafist Group) gathered in front of the police station to protest the alleged kidnapping of a 20-year-old Muslim woman who they claim was forced to convert to Christianity.

The Salafist protesters demanded the woman be returned to her family within three days.According to reports, the girl had been missing for almost week. Her family found a number of Christian books in her personal library, which led them to suspect church-involvement in her disappearance.

Following the January 25 revolution, several sectarian incidents occurred in which Salafists besieged churches in cases related to conversion.
In May 2011, clashes erupted in Cairo after a rumour spread among Salafists that a Christian woman who had allegedly converted to Islam was being held hostage at a church in Imbaba in Cairo.
The clashes left at least twelve dead and over 50 injured. Two churches were burnt down. Hmmmm......Perhaps invite Kerry for a speech on Obama's 'world vision'?Read the full story here.

Video - Robert Spencer vs. Mubin Shaikh: Does the Qur'an Call for the Violent Subjugation of Unbelievers?

Video - Robert Spencer vs. Mubin Shaikh: Does the Qur'an Call for the Violent Subjugation of Unbelievers?HT: AnsweringMuslims.I wish I could brag about Robert Spencer crushing Mubin Shaikh in this debate, but I can't. To do so would be like bragging about Mike Tyson snatching a lollypop from a toddler. I'm not, of course, condemning Shaikh's performance. I think he did about as well as a Muslim could do under such circumstances. But when the topic is whether the Qur'an calls for the violent subjugation of non-Muslims, Robert might as well be taking candy from a baby.

Here's the main verse for discussion:

Qur’an 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, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

On a related note, here's a complete analysis of the historical, immediate, and extended literary contexts of 9:29. For some reason, Shaikh goes to the opening verses of Surah 9 (which are part of a discussion of Islam's dealings with pagans) to establish the context of 9:29 (which is a discussion of Islam's dealings with Christians and Jews). Unfortunately for Shaikh, the Muslim sources are very clear on the meaning of 9:29:

Video - Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: "without the ‘Death for Apostasy’ laws, Islam would have failed with the death of Mohamed, as people would never stay in this religion otherwise."

Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: "without the ‘Death for Apostasy’ laws, Islam would have failed with the death of Mohamed, as people would never stay in this religion otherwise."Hmmm.....Where's the Champagne to toast this quote?HT: TundraTabloids - VladTepes.