Former right-wing anti-Muslim politician who branded Quran ‘poison’ CONVERTS TO ISLAM

By Laura O’Callaghan

Express, 9 February 2019

           

Joram van Klaveren made the shock conversion in October after spending four years criticising the religion when he served as one of the leading men in the Dutch far-right Party of Freedom (PVV). Having set out to write an anti-Islam book, determined to show how the religion incites violence, encourages contempt of women, and justifies attacks on Jews and homosexuals, Mr van Klaveren’s search forced him to change his views. The 40-year-old made a U-turn half way through his research, saying he came across “things that made my view on Islam falter”, and instead decided to write a book about his unconventional journey to the religion.

In an interview ties IslamiCity.org, Mr van Klaveren, who was raised in a Reformed Protestant home, admitted his mother was “not very happy” about him switching faiths but said his wife had come to terms with it.

He said: “My wife accepts that I am Muslim.

“Incidentally, she never felt the repugnance I felt for Islam. She was not so happy that I was with the PVV. But it is your journey, she said.

“She does not feel the need to go with that. My daughters are still too young to talk about this.”

In 2014 the lawmaker announced he was leaving the PVV as he no longer agreed with its course.

Controversial comments made by the party’s leader Geert Wilders are believed to have played a part in his decision.

Mr Wilders, an anti-Islam populist, had asked supporters whether they wanted “fewer or more Moroccans in your city and the Netherlands”, saying they turned the streets into unsafe places.

Mr Wilders seemed surprised to hear about his ex-ally’s conversion which he likened to a “vegetarian going to work in a slaughterhouse”.

During his time with the PVV, Mr van Klaveren referred to Islam as an ideology of terror, death and destruction.

After quitting the party, he continued to serve as an independent MP and in May 2014 he and two others founded a news conservative party called For the Netherland (VNL). His tern in the House ended in March 2017.

He said he does not plan on changing his name, as many converts to Islam do, and acknowledges that many Muslims in the Netherlands may not immediately jump to celebrate his conversion or even support his change of mind.

"I did not do this for Muslims, I did this for myself,” he added.

The former politician denied that his religious conversion was linked with swapping sides on the political spectrum, insisting he is still a conservative.

Image: Joram van Klaveren (Image: GETTY)

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1084777/anti-muslim-convert-dutch-mp-joram-van-klaveren

Umm Ayman, Barakah, may Allah be pleased with her

A Notable Muslim African Woman

If you're looking for an important Muslim African woman to talk about during Black History month, look no further than the Seerah of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) , and the woman he described as his "mother after my own mother. She is the rest of my family."Barakah or Umm Ayman was the name of the woman whom the noble Prophet esteemed so highly. She was the first person to hold him in her arms when he was born and the only person who knew him from that point until his death. She was one of the few Muslims who the Prophet assured of a place in Paradise.

"Be a mother to him, Barakah. And don't ever leave him," Amina instructed her about her son as she lay dying.

Umm Ayman did not fail in her responsibility.

Her beginnings were more than humble. In her youth, the Abyssinian girl was put up for sale in Makkah as a slave. In pre-Islamic Arabia, slavery was no shame, and slaves were treated like animals.

But Barakah was blessed to be treated with kindness.

She was bought by a noble and gentle man: Abdullah, the son of Abdul Muttalib. The father of the Prophet.

Barakah not only took care of Abdullah's affairs as a servant in his home, but after he married the Prophet's mother, she looked after Amina as well.

It was Umm Ayman who slept at the foot of Amina's bed and comforted her when, only two weeks after her wedding, her husband was instructed to leave for that journey to Syria, after which he never came back. It was Umm Ayman who took care of Amina during her pregnancy.

It was Umm Ayman who gave Amina the news of her husband's death at Yathrib (her son, too, would one day be buried there), what was later to be known as Madinah.

As the Prophet faced tragedy upon tragedy, Umm Ayman was there for him. From the time when his mother died when he was six, to when his grandfather Abdul Muttalib died when he was eight, Umm Ayman stayed with the Prophet.

It was only after the Prophet married Khadija (may Allah be pleased with her) that she married, and that too, on their insistence.

She married Ubayd ibn Zayd from the Khazraj tribe of Yathrib and they had a son named Ayman, thus her name Umm Ayman.

When the Prophet received the prophethood, Umm Ayman was among the first Muslims, and like the others, bravely faced the punishments of the Quraish for those who dared to believe in La ilaha illa Allah Muhammadur Rasool ullah.

She and Zayd ibn Harithah, another companion who lived in the Prophet's household, put their lives on the line to find out about the plots and conspiracies of the pagan Makkans against the Prophet and the Muslims.

During the Battle of Uhud she gave out water to the thirsty soldiers and took care of the wounded. She accompanied the Prophet on some expeditions.

She tied her well-being to that of Islam. During a visit from the Prophet, he asked: "Ya Ummi! Are you well?" and she would reply: "I am well, O Messenger of Allah so long as Islam is."

Umm Ayman's husband died not very long after their marriage. When she was in about her 50s, the Prophet, when speaking to his companions said, "Should one of you desire to marry a woman from the people of Paradise, let him marry Umm Ayman."

It was Zayd who stepped forward and agreed to marry her. They had a son named Usamah who was described as "the beloved son of the beloved." In other words, the Prophet loved both he and his father.

One example of Umm Ayman's dedication to Islam and the Prophet was when she trekked across the burning desert through sandstorms on foot from Makkah to Madinah to join the Prophet. Despite the harshness of the journey though, she persisted, and was given good news when she reached her destination.

When she got to Madinah, swollen feet, dust-covered face and all, the Prophet said to her,

"Ya Umm Ayman! Ya Ummi! (O Umm Ayman! O my mother!) Indeed for you is a place in Paradise!"

She became a widow again, after Zayd was killed during the Battle of Mutah in Syria. She also lived to see her son's martyrdom at the Battle of Hunayn.

Ayman lived to see her other "son" die as well: the Prophet. But it was not for him she cried. When asked, she said, "By Allah, I knew that the Messenger of Allah would die but I cry now because the revelation from on high has come to an end for us."

Umm Ayman died when Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was Khalifa.

36-year-old Ilhan Omar, elected to Minnesota’s 5th congressional district. Ilhan Omar: Why Advocating for Palestine is Not Anti-Semitic

This past week, the U.S. midterms made history, electing anunprecedented wave of women leaders tasked with taking back our democracy.  Amongst them is 

By Azmia

Muslim Girl, November 2019

Omar, a Black Muslim woman and a Somali-American refugee, has made history three-fold:  as the first hijabi in Congress, the first Somali-American legislator, and one of the first Muslim women in Congress.

While on the campaign trial, Omar faced vicious Islamophobic attacks from the far right, conservative media, and random citizens.

Her predecessor, Keith Ellison, may have been Muslim – and he faced his share of Islamophobic vitriol as well – but he wasn’t a visibly Muslim woman, and a Black Muslim woman at that, who is also an immigrant and a refugee, from a country on the Muslim ban list; a conglomerate of traits and identities that are seemingly targeted by the GOP with various policies such as the Muslim ban and current immigration policies.

Another analysis shows that President Donald Trump consistently targets Black people and women with insults about their intelligence.  This has been further compounded by President Trump’s recent attacks on Black women, including former First Lady Michelle Obama, and those in the press, that occurred just this past week.

And in fact, when Trump was asked a question about Omar and another Muslim woman winning their elections to become the first two Muslim women elected to Congress being a “rebuke” to his policies, he pretended he couldn’t understand the reporter.

Some of Omar’s naysayers have attacked her because of her criticism of the Israeli government.  Charges of “anti-Semitism” were lobbied at her because of her condemnations of the Israeli government for their actions in Palestine. 

In May 2018, Omar’s 2012 tweet was cited yet again, when a Twitter user posted a screen shot of the 2012 tweet and called Omar a “proud Jew hater.”  Omar responded that “Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews,” confirming that her tweet was indeed a condemnation of the Israeli government.

Criticism of the Israeli government should not be confused with anti-Semitism.  In fact, conflating criticism of the government with anti-Semitism is in and of itself anti-Semitic, because you’re otherwise silencing and discounting the opinions of a large portion of Jewish people right here in the United States, who rightfully criticize the Israeli government for their actions in Palestine.

For example, in a 2013 Pew Research survey, only a quarter of American Jews aged 18-29 felt that Netanyahu’s government was “making a sincere effort to bring about a peace settlement with the Palestinians.” Overall, across all age brackets, less than half of American Jews (only 38%) felt that the Israeli government was making a sincere effort at peace with Palestinians.  A whopping 44% felt that settlement construction was detrimental to Israel’s own security interests.

Criticism of the Israeli government isn’t just for American Jews; one in four Jewish Israelis support the right to return for Palestinian refugees.

Jewish Israelis also freely protest the Israeli government’s actions in Palestine; several hundred Israelis, predominately Jews, have gathered in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to protest with not nary a problem from Israeli forces — no instances of police brutality — whilst Palestinian protestors are met withextrajudicial punishments and force.

There are two sets of rules and governance:  one for Israelis, and one for Palestinians.   Palestinians who throw rocks can be met with lethal force; there have even been allegations of lethal force against unarmed protestors.  Settlers who throw stones are often not prosecuted, let alone met with lethal force.  This is reminiscent of apartheid.

The criticism of the Israeli government is not anti-Semitism because it has nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with a brutal government committing human rights violations against an occupied peoples with little to no right to self-determination.

What is anti-Semitism is not to criticize a brutal government committing human rights violations against an occupied peoples, but to erase the opinions of these Jewish people living in Israel and abroad because it is politically inconvenient for those that support the Israeli government and their criminal tactics.

Ilhan Omar, a refugee who fled the civil war in Somalia with her family, knows about the realities of war all too well.  She was only 12 years old when she came to the United States with her family.  She spoke no English; only Somali.  It’s because of her own childhood marred by war that she identifies with the plight of Palestinians.

Muslim Girl had the chance to speak with the newly-elected Congresswoman about her stance on Palestine, and why it’s so important to advocate for Palestine.

Says Omar, “For me, that particular issue really is about making sure that we are people who understand that there is oppression happening, and speak to that as you would for issues that are safe.  I believe that it doesn’t really matter who you are, and where you live, and who has empowered you; no one has a right ever to transgress on other’s rights.  For me, in that particular region, that is one where I am constantly thinking back to my kids, knowing that as a kid, I lived through war, and I know the pains that causes you as a child.  Looking at my kids, that’s not something that would I want for them now.  When I see the kind of weapons that are being used to fight kids who are throwing rocks, I think that’s injustice, and so that has propelled me to feel like I needed to say something.  I think when we are thinking about this particular region, it’s one that really needs true advocacy.  It needs people that are not afraid to speak truth.  It is a region that has power extremely lopsided.  When we are given an opportunity to look at the world, and dream of a place where people are treated equally, and people are allowed the opportunity for self-determination, we cannot dream of that world without having this particular region in mind.”

Omar says that her faith has guided her to be a better person and fight for justice and the rights of others, saying that she fights for humanity as a whole.  “I don’t really pay attention to the stuff people say I am, because what I know is I am a fighter for human rights, and I am a fighter for justice, and I am someone who fights for everybody’s humanity to be uplifted, and for everyone to have a fair shake in life,” she continued.

“The people in my district and the folks that I represent who have ties to that region understand how necessary it is for us to advocate, and not abdicate because it is politically expedient; but advocate because we know right from wrong.”

Congresswoman-elect Omar’s stance is backed by international law and evidence and statements from numerous prominent international rights groups, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, amongst others.

Omar has been criticized for a past video, believed to have been filmed in August 2018, where she says that she supports a “two-state solution” and says BDS is “not helpful in getting that two-state solution.”  She says in the video, “I think that the particular purpose for it (BDS) is to put pressure, and I think that that pressure is really counteractive. Because in order for us to have a process to getting to a two-state solution, people need to be willing to come to the table…… I think that (BDS) stops the dialogue.”

On November 11, 2018, Omar’s campaign told Muslim Girl that “Ilhan believes in and supports the BDS movement, and has fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized. She does, however, have reservations on the effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution.”  Her campaign confirmed that Congresswoman-elect Omar voted against an anti-BDS bill in Minnesota.  At the time, she spoke passionately about how BDS worked in South Africa, as told to her by her grandfather.  Of her vote, Omar said, “I don’t want to be part of a vote that limits the ability of people to fight towards that justice and peace.”

http://muslimgirl.com/50283/ilhan-omar-why-advocating-for-palestine-is-not-anti-semitic/

SECRET OF MUSLIM VICTORY

~Roohul Iman

In Ma-aariful Qur'aan, Hadhrat Mufti Muhammad Shafi (rahmatullah alayh), in the tafseer of the verses dealing with the Battle of Uhud, says:

"The lesson is that Muslims should not rely on the superiority of material means (weapons, etc.). For Muslims, victory is from Allah Ta'ala. Therefore the imperative need is to strengthen the bond with Him. During the Battle of Yarmuk when Hadhrat Umar (radhiyallahu anhu), the then Khalifah, was urgently requested for reinforcements to bolster the small Muslim army, he wrote back to the Muslim commander:

"Your letter has reached me. You have requested reinforcements. I direct you to The being Who is mightier (than reinforcements) with regard to the provision of aid, and Who is a greater Protector. That Being is Allah Azza Wa Jal. Seek His aid. Verily, on the occasion of Badr, Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) was aided with a number (of Mujahideen) less than your number. When my letter reaches you, then attack (the kuffaar) without further reference to me. "

This is the yaqeen which stem from Sabr and Taqwa. There was no doubt in the Promises of Allah Ta'ala. Such yaqeen is possible only if the Deen with all its facets has become the life of the Mu 'min. Then there will be no need to fear the 'high-tech weaponry" of Bush and his coalition. The defeat of Muslims is directly attributable to gross lack of Taqwa and Sabr. It is a grievous error to attribute the defeat and humiliation of Muslims to the lack of air defences and to the superiority of USA high-tech weapons. Those who have failed to understand the meaning of the Qur' aan and who latch on to the juziyaat (particular masaa-il) recorded in Fiqh books imply a belief in the efficacy of the material intermediaries. For the Mu'mineen, especially in the Fields of Jihad, Allah Ta'ala makes wonderful exceptions. He delivers aid and reinforcements to them without the normal worldly agencies and intermediaries as is quite apparent from the letter of Hadhrat Umar (radhiyallahu anhu) and the many Qur'aanic verses. But the imperative conditions are true Taqwa and Sabr which are possible only if the whole Shariah and Sunnah are adopted.

When the commander of the Muslim army at Yarmuk read the inspiring letter of Ameerul Mu'mineen Hadhrat Umar Bin Khattaab (radhiyallahu anhu), the Muslim army taking the Name of Allah, unleashed a ferocious attack. The enemy was decisively defeated.

The question of humiliatingly surrendering never occurred to the Muslims. Kuffaar superiority was never considered valid grounds for disgraceful surrendering and abandonment of brother Mujahideen. Hadhrat Sayyiduna Umar (Radhiyallahu anhu) understood well that victory or defeat for Muslims is not the product of superior weaponry and great numbers of troops. Clarifying this reality, the Qur'aanic verses pertaining to the initial defeat in the Battle of Hunain, state:

"(Remember) the day of Hunain when your majority made you vain. Nothing then  availed you ... "

No one should be deceived by the calamity which has descended on Afghanistan and the Mujahideen over there. They were defeated and disgraced, not because America enjoyed superiority in weapons -not because of the sophisticated missiles, bombers and high-tech armour. Whoever believes that the superiority of the weapons of the USA was the cause of Muslim defeat in Afghanistan implies that- Nauthubillah- Allah Ta'ala Who had aided the Sahaabah in their primitive style warfare in which primitive weapons were used, has become impotent on account of the sophisticated and high tech missiles and aircraft of Bush. But in reality nothing can withstand Divine Aid should it be forthcoming.

The Muslims in Afghanistan suffered their fate of ignominy because of the lack of Taqwa and Sabr. The awe and fear for the weapons of the USA are the effects of deficiency of Imaan and nothing else. All those who attempt to justify the foul epidemic of surrenders in Afghanistan by presenting a variety of mundane factors betray their lack of understanding the Qur'aan and the shakiness of their Imaan, for they doubt the Promises of Allah Ta'ala stated explicitly and repeatedly in the Qur'aan Majeed.

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