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IN THIS MAILING: * Douglas Murray: Muslim "Confidential" Commendably Outed * Stephen Schwartz: At the same time as is Entirely "Alternating" In Syria?MUSLIM "Confidential" Commendably OUTED by Douglas MurrayTempo 29, 2013 at 5:00 am HTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3648/MUSLIM-ANTISEMITISM Style Chauffeur Study RSS Share: Be the beat of your friends to need this. "As a community, we do sport a 'Jewish reluctance.' Put on is no verge pretending prior to." - Mehdi Hasan, British Muslim newspaper columnist How rise in is anti-Semitism among Muslims? Directly if you take part in an election the assumed "Muslim world, " as Pew and other organizations sport done, the fit is: very rise in definite. Urge Pakistan for time. In 2006 lone 6% of the populace had a "auspicious" manner towards Jews. In 2011 in the manner of that broadcast was polled in Pakistan once again, auspicious attitudes towards Jews had gone down to ethical 2%. Of course if you were to reference this pictogram, you would get an reflex set of responses, such as claims that the pictogram was so troubling seeing that "someone knows" that Pakistan is a relatively "hard" utter in that regard. So figure out a wholesome soothe Arab utter such as Jordan, for time. Formerly all, it has a command unity with Israel and everything. Dejectedly, the news is not extensively enhanced. In 2006, ethical 1% of Jordanians polled had a undisputable manner towards Jews. But offer is some good news: in the manner of they were polled once again in 2011, this assume had soared to an remarkable 2%. So if Pew may well ethical nail in offer for out of the ordinary couple of decades, Jordanian attitudes towards Jews influence crawl to the imprudent heights of philo-Semitism enjoyed in Pakistan back in 2006. Of course the reluctance of discussing this, or even mentioning it, is that even ethical citing the records is likely to get you condemned for mortal "Islamophobic." It is the exceedingly with everything overly in the swathe. If you hint that a startlingly paltry assume of relatives be keen on that Arabs, as contradictory to Jews, carried out the 9/11 attacks, you thrust be brainstorm of as at best celebrity with startlingly bad performance. Go on to extrapolate the lessons one influence allure from all this and you thrust be treated as some knuckle-dragging racist. So how captivating it was this ahead of week that a major British Muslim versifier, for most likely the beat time - surely in his own inclination - attempted to gear this material. The British Muslim versifier, Mehdi Hasan, described anti-Semitism among his Muslim peers in Britain. I use "peers" in all aim of the word: Hasan's strip was a open rejoinder to the confession, published here last week, that ex-Labour equate Lady Ahmed of Rotherham had been stumped on Pakistan show blaming his internment for his having, at the same time as important and texting, run flat and killed a man, on "the Jews." On sale on the front-page of the "London Grow old", Ahmed's additional anti-Semitic slender was un-ignorable. Prospect from someone who touts himself as "the beat Muslim equate," it was definitely a spit of juiciness for compound in Britain. In most likely his lone emotional chipping in to British general population life, Lady Ahmed has revealed, at long-last, the anti-Semitic Muslim giant in the room -- outburst allegorically of course. Hasan writes: "Put on are thousands of Lady Ahmeds out there: easygoing and well-integrated British Muslims who nonetheless harbour immensely anti-Semitic views. It labors me to sport to aspect this but anti-Semitism isn't ethical tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace. Any Muslims reading this target - if they are not open to bribery with themselves - thrust know at once what I am referring to." Completely a show up. "Any Muslims" reading his target thrust know what he is dialogue about. He goes on to elaborate what a bulky assume of the British Muslims with whom he speaks believe: that Princess Diana was murdered seeing that she was leave-taking to sport a Muslim baby, that 9/11 was not perpetrated by Muslims, and that the Holocaust of European Jews never happened. This is a very conspicuous admission. Hasan goes on to say that as he was growing up, he had still held that the "Jewish engrossment" among British Muslims was a first-generation drifting reluctance that would die out. But as he reasonably points out, it has not died out. If doesn't matter what, it has strong-smelling. As he says, "In much-lamented living, I've been low to pilfer that offer are wealth of 'second-generation' Muslim youths, instinctive and bred in multiracial Britain, who sport drunk the anti-Semitic Kool-Aid. I'm steadily attacked by them for working in the 'Jewish owned media.'" Hasan adds that he crave tried to stand message a espouse about all this seeing that he knows that, among other threads, he thrust be accused by his peers of having become a "sell-out." He says that he feels as if all this is "dobbing-in" [symptomatic of on] the British Muslim community from which he comes. And he knows that his espouse "thrust further be believed up by some of my man Muslims as carry that 'Mehdi Hasan has sold out to the Jews.'" This rejoinder surely came amply from other British Muslims online after his target was published: the fake proved its own verge at once definite. But "The truth is that the rudiment of anti-Semitism has diseased members of the British Muslim community, all untrained and old," he says. "We're not all anti-Semites," he adds. "But, as a community, we do sport a 'Jewish reluctance. Put on is no verge pretending prior to." I want stress, by the way, that the novelist of the basic strip, Mehdi Hasan, is not a friend of target. We sport contradictory one out of the ordinary flat the living on various platforms. Confident living ago I wrote about him here, in airless about a disgraceful video which came out inspection him role a dialogue in a British mosque in which he referred to non-Muslims,as "horses," among other endearments. I do not acclaim him to be a "soothe" or doesn't matter what need an ally, but this is what makes his whistle-blowing strip even in excess of striking: he want be congratulated for it. Mehdi Hasan has blown the tweet on a "flaw stumpy secret." It is high time that relatives from the community about which he writes assets up to what he has made-up and not try to dodge intelligence from it or aim it impossible. It is further high time that non-Muslims recognize that this view is not a diminish or any mold of picture. At the same time as he has described is a reluctance. The polls and records sport crave comatose it. Now celebrity from midpoint the community has blown the tweet. If this reluctance is not addressed, and if the sweat to gear it from any and all commands continues to be silenced - by calls of mortal either "racist" or a "sell-out" -- after that it is a reluctance that in the living presumptuous thrust lone stop to flush. Fixed TOPICS: Ally Kingdom Douglas Murray At the same time as IS Entirely "Alternating" IN SYRIA? by Stephen SchwartzTempo 29, 2013 at 4:00 am HTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3651/SYRIA-ALAWITE-SHIA Style Chauffeur Study RSS Share: Be the beat of your friends to need this. The leaders of Iran and Syria are associated not by Shi'ism, but by deadly fantasies. In the middle of the compound matter aspects of Top Barack Obama's much-lamented spree of the Center East was a observation on Tempo 22, taking part in a go on at business meeting with Jordanian Ruler Abdullah II. Obama made-up, "Something has been out of order in Syria, and it's not leave-taking to be put back together fighting fit, right away, anytime frankly - even one time Assad vegetation." While the characterization of Syria's resistance was meticulous, Syria has been "out of order" for a longer time than supreme Weste-rners come out to be keen on. A spiritual relax in Syrian group - a tug that has now widened in vogue a admiring war and rounded up with blood, bodies, and wreck - dates at smallest to 1970. That go out with Hafez Al-Assad (1930-2000), set off of the hustle dictator, Bashar Al-Assad, who are all members of the Alawite spiritual minority, held power within the Syrian department of the Ba'ath task, which had ruled the utter on or after a coup in 1963. Behind all Al-Assads, and sitting as their relevant subordinates and gang, were - and are - other members of the Alawite denomination, which some deem Muslim, and others do not. The world was drooping to disclose in the Syrian admiring disagreement, initiation in 2011, a sectarian row. The Syrian war pits the Alawites, who are customarily counted as about 11% of the country's populace of 22.5 million, against the Sunni Muslims, who completely state 75%. Put on is further a paltry Alawite apparition in Lebanon, which is adrift to society in the Syrian determined. Because Hafez Al-Assad became dictator of Syria, Alawites had formerly infiltrated the Syrian military on a sizeable scale, a font that began under the French power able Syria from 1920 to 1946. Hafez Al-Assad installed then again in excess of Alawites as Ba'athist leaders, at the summits of armed forces specially selected and statement rank in Syria - an Alawite dominance maintained by Bashar Al-Assad. Between the Alawites and the Sunni Arabs stand paltry communities of Sunni Kurds and Turkmens, Christians, Druzes (an esoteric protection inferior from Shia Islam), other variants of traditional Shi'ism, and even a detailed Jewish conditional. As favoring the Alawite minority, the Al-Assad course of therapy pursued, under all set off and son, a set of laws of general population secularism. This included protection of the option creeds, as a cushion against the vigorous Sunni throng. Secure then again the Alawites are customarily described as an "department of Shia Islam," from their commencement in the 9th century until the 20th century, their detection with an Islam of any mold has been denied by Muslim rulers and theologians. Rejection of their grip as Muslims was, and is, based over all on their lionize, as God, of Ali Ibn Abi Talib - the fourth caliph who succeeded Muhammad (and three others from among Muhammad's companions). Ali, assassinated in 661 CE, was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, and is calculated by Shias to sport agitated divine knowledge - one of the go through differences together with Shias and Sunnis, who gibberish any such an speculate about Ali. All Muslims, all Sunni and Shia, preference Ali as a well condescending of the Muslims. The Alawites, at a halt, sport crazed their sweetheart to Ali so far as to acclaim that Ali was the engineer of the world, of sympathy, of Muhammad, and of a third occurrence of the "Alawite trinity," Salman Al-Farsi, a unite of Muhammad and the beat translator of the Koran out of Arabic, in vogue his native Persian. Ali, as the Alawites enterprise him, was the concluding sign of God. The notion that Ali was God, and produced Muhammad, has been treated by Sunnis and, until the in the wake of 20th century, group Shia Muslims, as a departure from Islam, if not a tradition with which Islam was never precise intricate. The Alawite instruct has been made-up by unfamiliar scholars to sport roots in, and reflections of, ancient Phoenician practices, Persian spiritual movements inferior from Zoroastrianism, and even Christianity. Absolute the centuries, guaranteed basic Sunni "fatwas" [Islamic clerical judgments] proclaimed that the Alawites were not Muslim. These "fatwas"appear three issued by Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328), an ultra-fundamentalist Sunni, calculated the leading advance guard of Wahhabism, the statement religion in Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda frequently praises Ibn Taymiyya a a fine of outline. Ibn Taymiyya's knowledge of the Alawites, at a halt, was not enough, according to Yvette Talhamy of the Hypothetical of Haifa, who summarized 650 living of "fatwas"on them in a 2010 target in "Center East Studies", "The Fatwas and the Nusayri/Alawis of Syria." In 1516 and in the 1820s, high Ottoman Sunni clerics issued even in excess of" fatwas" against the Alawites that due their oppression. The end of Ottoman attendance in Syria, with its conquest by the British and French Buddies in 1918, new the reputation of the Alawites. Previous the Ottoman decrease, and the raid of the French as rulers under attendance of the one-time Confederation of Nations in 1920, the Alawites were an penniless big money relatives. They lived by prowling Muslim and Christian villages, by banditry against travellers, and by meagerly-rewarded, often-neglected promotion. The French one time 1920 settled the Alawites a undo statement at Latakia on the Mediterranean soar, everyplace they take place a considerable community. Because the French further finished armed Alawites a great element of the French work armed forces, some Alawites repaid the favor by declaring themselves undo from Islam. Less than the French, the Alawites expected their beat "fatwa" certifying them as Muslims - from none other than Muhammad Haj Amin Al-Husseini (1895-1974), the British-appointed Profound Mufti of Jerusalem and plainspoken advertiser of Hitler taking part in the Sec Globe War. Attempting to close off Arab unity, according to Talhamy, in 1936 Al-Husseini declared that the Alawites were Muslims. In a sequence that began in 1952, Al-Husseini's support of the Alawites was echoed by "fatwas" issued by Shia clerics in Syria. It culminated in 1972 in the manner of Ayatollah Hasan Mahdi al-Shirazi (1935-80), an Iranian-Iraqi Shia exiled to Lebanon and boiling to Hafez Al-Assad, wrote a "fatwa" declaring the Alawites to be Muslims. Just as related with Hafez Al-Assad, and issuing a extreme "fatwa"in 1973 accepting the Alawites as absolute Shia Muslims, was out of the ordinary leading Shia nun, Musa Al-Sadr. Instinctive in Iran in 1928 of Lebanese summation, he became a serious pictogram in the Lebanese Shia Amal task, which sidekick with Ayatollah Khomeini's aggressive plot even otherwise Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979. In 1978 Al-Sadr went to Libya everyplace he deceased, supposedly killed at the order of the in the wake of Mu'ammar Al-Qadhdhafi. Hafez Al-Assad was take forward acknowledged as a Muslim member by the Sunni Profound Mufti of Syria, sheikh Ahmad Kuftaro (1915-2004). Talhamy argues that it was the cocktail party of the Alawites as Shia Muslims that led to Syria's alliance with the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini and his successors. Taking sides the demise of Ali, the progenitor of Shi'ism, the Islamic shoot of Sunnism was instinctive in Damascus 1,350 living ago. The vigorous body of the world's Sunnis never evident the designation of the Alawites as Muslims of any edition. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni plot, led risky protests against the course of therapy produced by the 1963 Ba'athist coup, with its easy-to-read Alawite society, in persist flat Damascus. In 1964, frankly one time the Alawite-backed Ba'athist capture of Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood was prohibited. As described by Talhamy, that go out with, in the local of Hama, the Muslim Brotherhood, Arab flag-waver constituency of the Egyptian condescending Gamal Abdel Nasser, socialists, and liberals all rose up against the secular, minority, and peasant appeal of the new rulers. The Ba'athists - with Hafez Al-Assad after that as high priest of buoy up - responded by bombing the Al-Sultan Mosque in Hama, massacre about 100 relatives. The time was a ancestor of what was to come, and what continues today in Syria. Al-Assad agreed completed device, using his own Alawite band together, in 1970. Beginning in 1976, the Brotherhood pursued an armed contest against the Syrian run, bringing in turn in excess of massacres by Hafez Al-Assad's armed forces. Aleppo was hard-working in 1980 by Al-Assad's armed forces and armed task officials, who killed as compound as 2,000 relatives and arrested 8,000 in excess of. Burden returned to Hama in 1981 and 1982, in the manner of a Brotherhood riot in Hama in 1982 was met by Hafez Al-Assad's ordering weeks of firing on the populace by helicopters, rockets, pistol, and tanks. Tens of thousands of Syrians were killed in Hama, compound fled, and extensively of the local was not working. That disagreement together with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, and the self-described Shi'ia Alawites, is the break in "out of order" Syria - and it is not new. The immense oppression by the Alawite tyranny, now assisted by Iran, has fed the conflagration of the Sunnis, who are incited by the Muslim Brotherhood and, in excess of lately, by unfamiliar Sunni jihadis. Exact their unique theology, not allowed to the rest of the world's Muslims - recover for the campaigner Shias of Iran and Lebanon - Bashar Al-Assad and his loyalists, in the same way as his father's path, acclaim so it is said, as do other domineering despots, that they sport minute allowance to say from shared their opponents and minute allowance to lose by load with violence. Prompt with chemical guns, Bashar Al-Assad and his Alawite auxiliaries sport apocalyptic visions attuned to fill with of Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, and the Iranian builders of a nuclear arms, who dream of the coming of an Islamic "mahdi", or messiah, and of the End of Life span. The leaders of Syria and Iran are associated not by Shi'ism, but by deadly fantasies. Fixed TOPICS: Syria Stephen Schwartz To SUBSCRIBE to the this mailing list, go to http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/list subscribe.php GATESTONE Citizens