Igbo Jews are people of Nigeria who practice Judaism

 

Jews have been documented in parts of Nigeria since the precolonial period, but it is not known for the Igbo to have claimed Israelite descent or practiced Judaism in precolonial times. Significant Igbo identification with Jews concretized during and after the Biafran war (1967-1970). No formal census has been taken in the region and the precise number of Igbo in Nigeria who practice Judaism is not known. 

An estimated 30,000 Igbos, having at least 26 synagogues of various sizes, were said to be practicing some form of Judaism in 2008. In 2021 there were said to be approximately 12,000-15,000 mainstream Igbo Jews in Nigeria, comprising some 70 active communities. A more conservative figure of at least 2,000-3,000 Igbo practicing Judaism, and at most 5,000, has also been given.
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Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists

 

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64. They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls." Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex.
Allie and Bethan -- who both declined to give their full names -- said they planned to spend a whole month touring Kenya's palm-fringed beaches. They would do well to avoid the country's tourism officials.
"It's not evil," said Jake Grieves-Cook, chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board, when asked about the practice of older rich women traveling for sex with young Kenyan men. "But it's certainly something we frown upon."
Also, the health risks are stark in a country with an AIDS prevalence of 6.9 percent. Although condom use can only be guessed at, Julia Davidson, an academic at Nottingham University who writes on sex tourism, said that in the course of her research she had met women who shunned condoms -- finding them too "businesslike" for their exotic fantasies.
The white beaches of the Indian Ocean coast stretched before the friends as they both walked arm-in-arm with young African men, Allie resting her white haired-head on the shoulder of her companion, a six-foot-four 23-year-old from the Maasai tribe.
He wore new sunglasses he said were a gift from her.
"We both get something we want -- where's the negative?" Allie asked in a bar later, nursing a strong, golden cocktail.
She was still wearing her bikini top, having just pulled on a pair of jeans and a necklace of traditional African beads.
Bethan sipped the same local drink: a powerful mix of honey, fresh limes and vodka known locally as "Dawa," or "medicine."
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The Clock Turns Back For Women

 

Rising sexual violence in Europe - linked to young immigrant men - threatens women’s hard-earned rights and must not be ignored.

We in the West are used to seeing women everywhere around us. We see them as colleagues in the office, sitting next to us on the bus, as patrons in restaurants, jogging on the streets, and working in shops. We are also seeing more women than ever in leadership positions as prime ministers, politicians, chancellors, directors, and bosses. Women born in the West in the 1990s onward take this as a given. They do not consider that walking to school or sitting in a cafe is a triumph of liberalism. But in some parts of Western cities and towns these days, you may notice something strange: there are simply no women around—or very few.

Walking in certain neighborhoods in Brussels, London, Paris, or Stockholm, you suddenly notice that only men are visible. The shop assistants, waiters, and patrons in cafes are all men. In parks nearby, it is only men and boys playing soccer. In the communal areas of apartment buildings, it is men talking, laughing, and smoking. On the continent to which millions of tourists travel each year to see the female body as an object of art or wearing the latest fashions, this seems a little strange. What happened to the women? Why are they no longer sitting at sidewalk cafes or chatting in the streets?

The answer is that some women have removed themselves from those neighborhoods, others have been hounded out, and still others are at home, out of sight. As more women erase themselves from public places in such neighborhoods, the few who remain are exposed, drawing the attention of men inhabiting the area. There is no formal segregation, but a feeling of discomfort and vulnerability is enough to make any woman walking alone shudder and think, “I won’t come this way again.”

Women in such areas are harassed out of the public square. Some men call out to them, “Hey, baby, give me your number,” or “Nice ass,” or “What are you doing here?” Whatever their age or appearance, if they are female and especially if they are alone, they get the same treatment. A persistent harasser might follow a woman up the street, touch her, and block her path. If a woman looks vulnerable, some men will go further: they pick her as a target, they encircle and intimidate her, groping her, pulling at her clothes, and occasionally doing worse.

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a new book, Prey: "Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights", by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

  
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A Jihad Diária em França

Original em inglês: Daily Jihad in France
Tradução: Joseph Skilnik - Gatestone Institute

Paris, 2 de dezembro de 2023. 21h. Um homem grita "Allahu Akbar!" ("Alá é o maior!"), esfaqueia um turista alemão que caminhava ao longo do Rio Sena perto da Torre Eiffel, uma região considerada segura. A caminho do hospital, a vítima morreu. O assassino, grita de novo "Allahu Akbar!", ataca mais duas pessoas, ferindo-as gravemente, antes de ser preso pela polícia. Um comunicado à imprensa do governo logo afirmou que o assassino era um cidadão francês, nascido na França, de nome, Armand, bem francês.

Aí então emergiu a verdade. Armand realmente nasceu na França em 1997, mas o seu primeiro nome original era Iman (nome completo: Iman Rajabpour-Miyandoab), até 2003, quando os seus pais iranianos, que fugiram da República Islâmica, se tornaram cidadãos franceses e mudaram o nome dele para Armand. Entre 2015 e 2016, ele declarou solenemente a sua lealdade ao Estado Islâmico (ISIS) e fez contatos nas redes sociais com inúmeros islamitas que perpetraram ataques terroristas na França naquele período e planejou um ataque terrorista para ser realizado em Paris.

Antes que pudesse executar o seu plano, em 2016, ele foi preso e condenado a cinco anos de prisão. Ele foi solto após quatro anos e colocado na lista estadual de pessoas particularmente perigosas. Na tarde de 2 de dezembro de 2023, ele gravou um vídeo no qual anunciava que queria "vingar os muçulmanos" e matar infiéis, exatamente o que ele fez poucas horas depois. Ao comentar o ataque, o ministro do interior, Gérald Darmanin, insistiu que o assassino estava sendo "rigorosamente monitorado", sob "tratamento psiquiátrico" e ressaltou que houve uma "falha psiquiátrica".

O assassinato foi amplamente divulgado. Muitos jornalistas observaram que o assassinato de um turista em Paris por um ex-presidiário islamista poderia criar pânico entre os turistas estrangeiros e, o fato de um extremista islamista considerado perigoso pelas autoridades estar passeando livremente poderia causar ainda mais temor, especialmente com a menção do termo "tratamento psiquiátrico". Na mesma linha, Kobili Traoré, que assassinou Sarah Halimi em 2017 e que foi enviado a um hospital psiquiátrico, foi recentemente declarado não responsável pelos seus atos e será solto em breve.

O que deveria causar temor na França, contudo, é o aumento generalizado da violência islâmica. As estatísticas oficiais mostram que entra dia, sai dia ocorre na França, em média, 120 ataques com faca, muitos dos quais resultam em morte.

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France's Skyrocketing Threat

  

January 30, 2024. The French weekly, Le Journal du Dimanche, publishes the most comprehensive and detailed survey on what French Muslims think. Not surprisingly, the results are disturbing.
The first question in the survey was about Jews. 17% of French Muslims admit that they hate Jews. 39% say they have a bad, or very bad, opinion of Judaism.
France is the only country in 21st-century Europe where Jews regularly have been murdered simply because they are Jews. Since the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi in January 2006, all Jews murdered in France have been killed by Muslims. Sammy Ghozlan, the president of the National Office for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), which lists anti-Semitic acts and helps their victims, has emphasized year after year, for more than twenty years, that almost all violent anti-Semitic acts committed in France are committed by Muslims.
When it comes to Israel, the results are even more disturbing. Feelings go beyond hatred. 45% of French Muslims say they want the total destruction of Israel. An equivalent number of French Muslims define the massacre rape, torture, beheadings and burning alive of Jews by Hamas terrorists in Israel on October 7, 2023, as an "act of resistance".
So, almost half of a religious community in a Western democracy openly wants the destruction of a group of people who were just massacred in another country, and in the greatest number since the end of the Holocaust.
19% of French Muslims say they have sympathy for Hamas. That so many French Muslims have sympathy for an organization whose leaders say that they will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated, and unabashedly state that they want the genocidal destruction of the only Jewish state, should sound an alarm that French Jews, and French non-Jews, are in an extremely perilous situation.
Other figures showed that 42% of French Muslims place respect for Islamic Sharia law above respect for the laws of the French republic (the percentage rises to 57% among young Muslims aged 18 to 25).
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More Than 365 million Christians Face Genocide (Gatestone Institute)

  

Except for North Korea, where the persecution is caused by "dictatorial paranoia" and "communist and post-communist oppression," the main religion of all other countries and groups on the list is Islam.
"While some relief aid is available, this is mostly distributed through local Muslim groups and mosques, which are alleged to be discriminating against anyone not considered a devout Muslim." — Open Doors, Yemen.
"More believers are killed for their faith in Nigeria each year, than everywhere else in the world combined." — Open Doors, Nigeria.
"For Christians who convert from Islam, not even the veneer of tolerance is present." — Open Doors, Iran.
"When the Taliban came to power, they did so with pledges to recognize more freedoms than in the past. But that hasn't happened—if an Afghan's Christian faith is discovered, it can be a death sentence, or they can be detained and tortured into giving information about fellow believers." — Open Doors, Afghanistan.
"Of 34.5 million displaced people across Sub-Saharan Africa, around 16.2 million are Christians." — Open Doors, Sub-Saharan Africa.
Many of these incidents remain unreported by the mainstream media. And until the mainstream media, governments and international organizations start openly addressing the ideological and theological motives of the perpetrators, this worldwide, genocide-level persecution of Christians will likely increase.
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Pinto da Costa disparou e algemou-se

  

.As contas semifalhadas do presidente do FC Porto foram apenas um dos vários tiros dados nos pés desde o início da recandidatura (Sic Notícias - Opinião de João Rosado)

É fruta da época, como se costuma dizer. Com o País colado à televisão a escrutinar todas as propostas dos programas eleitorais para as legislativas de 10 de março, é natural que um respeitável cidadão deixe escapar uma daquelas promessas que depois não consegue cumprir na íntegra.

Pode ter sido o caso de Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa. Outrora habilitado na cena política, o líder máximo do FC Porto, na grande entrevista que deu à SIC em novembro último, estipulou três condições para se recandidatar e ontem ficou a saber-se que uma delas já não será completamente respeitada.

Em comunicado enviado à CMVM (Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários), a SAD portista reconheceu a existência de capitais próprios negativos de 8,5 milhões de euros referentes ao primeiro semestre da época 2023-24, o que contraria de forma substancial um dos pressupostos estabelecidos por Pinto da Costa (PC) para oficializar a corrida ao 16º mandato.

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In Denmark and throughout Europe, assimilation is becoming mandatory

  

The Danish government is introducing a new set of laws that would regulate all aspects of life in 25 low-income and heavily Muslim enclaves known as “ghettos”–a controversial move that aims to promote assimilation into Danish society and singles out families with young children.

According to Quartz’s Aamna Mohdin, “there were about 50,000 people with non-Western backgrounds living in Denmark in 1980”; “today, that figure is nearly half a million.” The proposal put forward by the government of Liberal prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen includes 22 measures that Danish policymakers say are aimed at integrating immigrant communities and breaking up the so-called ghettos by 2030. Many of the measures have already been approved by a parliamentary majority, with the rest slated for a vote this fall.

Critics claim the measures essentially represents a parallel system of laws that overwhelmingly target poor, Muslim migrants—an interesting choice of language, given the government’s policy of calling the ghettos “parallel societies.” Sociologist Amro Ali, writing in Time Magazine, claims that “the legislation reads like a 19th century missionary enterprise, a colonial experiment to civilize the brown folks.” One thing is clear: Denmark’s new laws are part of a broader European trend of attempts to use the law to make assimilation mandatory.

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Some measures appear explicitly punitive. One targets primary schools with a large proportion of “ghetto children” who miss certain achievement criteria for more than 3 years in a row. Those schools will now incur sanctions, including a possible shutdown or government takeover. Another proposal involves withdrawing social benefits from parents whose children miss more than 15% of the school quarter. Perhaps the most striking is the last measure, which involves a possible four-year prison sentence for immigrant parents who take their children on “extended visits” to their country of origin in a way that the Danish government determines compromises the children’s “schooling, language and well-being.”

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