Walid Shoebat, Shoebat Foundation — In 2011, CBN News did a report on the overwhelming number of Muslims in Moscow who wanted more mosques built there in order to meet demand. In 2013, it appears that the mayor of Moscow can now officially be diagnosed with Islamophobia.
Don’t worry; that’s a good thing.
Via Russia Today:
The Mayor of Moscow says there are no plans to build a new mosque in the city, and says the ‘excessive’ number of economic migrants was a ‘harmful thing’.Hmmmm. Muslim enclaves have higher crime rates? Really? Muslims don’t learn the language of their host country whilst exhibiting “aggressive behavior”?
“It has turned out that the praying Muslims are not at all Russian citizens and they are not Moscow residents. They are labor migrants. There are only 10 percent of Moscow residents among them and building mosques for everyone who wants it – I think this will be over the top,” Sergey Sobyanin said in an interview with Moscow’s Echo radio.
The top city official went on to say that “Muscovites now get irritated by people who speak a different language, have different manners, with aggressive behavior. This is not purely ethnic, but this is connected with some ethnic traits,” Sobyanin said.
At the same time, the Moscow Mayor explained that there are no ethnic enclaves in the city and expressed the hope that such enclaves would never appear as closed districts like that usually have a very high crime rate.
If a phobia is defined as an irrational fear, how is it that the traits exhibited by the most devout practitioners of Islam warrant rational fear?
Sounds like a case FOR Islamophobia, does it not? » Full Article
Here is the CBN News report from 2011 that highlighted the mosque situation in Moscow?
Russia's Muslims Demand More Mosques
Video Description: Moscow has four mosques serving some two million people, the largest Muslim population in Europe. But the need for more space is stirring controversy... The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN
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Biography of Walid Shoebat
Former Muslim Brotherhood Member Now Peace Activist
Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid's grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd's Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler. Walid's great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel. Walid lived through and witnessed Israel’s Six Day War while living in Jericho. As a young man, he became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel, and was later imprisoned in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem's central prison for incitement and violence against Israel. After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities. In 1993, Walid studied the Tanach (Jewish Bible) in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy. Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews and Israel to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause of Israel to tens of thousands of people throughout the world: churches and synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media. » Full Bio