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Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar!’ in a Crowded Movie Theater
Algemeiner ^ | 3-1-15 | Jack Saltzberg

Posted on 03/01/2015 6:51:29 AM PST by SJackson

Antisemitic graffiti at UC Davis following the passage of a resolution urging divestment from Israel. Photo: Instagram.

On a busy Syrian street, members of al Qaeda held a Muslim woman captive. As part of their “street justice,” one man loudly proclaimed that she had gone against Allah by committing adultery. After five, long torturous minutes, he pulled a pistol and shot her dead. The entire group immediately began chanting “Allahu Akbar!”

In an Eastern Nigerian village, a group of Islamic terrorists gunned down more than 50 Christian children as they screamed “Allahu Akbar!”

In Paris, terrorists stormed the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and murdered 12 people while yelling “Allahu Akbar!”

Throughout Israel, almost every Muslim suicide bombing that took thousands of Jewish lives was preceded by the chant “Allahu Akbar!”

In Dijon, France, when a driver drove into a crowded public square, he screamed “Allahu Akbar!”

As Federal prosecutors showed videos and still photographs of charred bodies from the destruction of 9/11, terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, who admitted that he conspired with al Qaeda, could be seen at the defense table nodding his head and mouthing “Allahu Akbar!”

“Allahu Akbar!” It is the chant of ISIS beheadings of non-Muslims on the Internet. It was the chant of a Canadian Muslim before he fired inside and outside the nation’s parliament in Ottawa killing a soldier. It is the chant of public executions of homosexuals in Saudi Arabia. “Allahu Akbar!” was the chant of an Arab terrorist as he butchered five elderly Jewish men with a meat cleaver while they were praying in Jerusalem.

Even in the United States, at Fort Hood, when U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim, went on his shooting spree that killed 13 and wounded many more, he also screamed “Allah Akbar!”

“Allahu akbar!” was most likely the last thing two men heard in Copenhagen as a Danish Muslim yelled it when he shot them dead and wounded many more.

The list of examples of shouting “Allahu Akbar!” before and after violence is in the thousands. Which brings up the question of freedom of speech versus hate speech, freedom of religion versus threats of violence.

It is legal to yell “fire,” but for obvious reasons it is illegal to shout fire in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire. So, should students at an anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) vote be allowed to yell “Allahu Akbar!” while shouting down mostly Jewish and pro-Israel students?

It is never questioned if college students are allowed to shout anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Chinese, anti-female, anti-any minority slurs. They are not. Students who do so could be expelled and charged for their hate speech and threats. So when a riotous, angry mob yells ​”Allahu Akbar!” at Jewish students, are these words a threat?

Literally, “Allah Akbar” means “G-d is great.” However, in certain contexts, and usually outside of prayer, its use is both anti-Jewish and anti-Israel and, as can be seen in endless examples, it is often homicidal.

Recently, as a vote to divest from Israel took place at U.C. Davis, a mob of students shouted “Allahu Akbar!” as a small group of mostly Jewish pro-Israel students carrying American and Israeli flags made their way out. According to the University of California Policy Code, people are not allowed “to communicate a serious expression of intent to terrorize…’Terrorize’ means to cause a reasonable person to fear bodily harm or death…”

In today’s climate, it seems most reasonable that a small group of Jewish and pro-Israel students would feel threatened, and yes, terrorized, while walking between a gauntlet of students yelling “Allahu Akbar!”

The University of California system would not tolerate these actions by any group toward gays, Asians, women, or blacks, so the time has come to put an end to this pretense. The time for yelling “Allahu Akbar!” at demonstrations, school votes, pro-Israel rallies, or anywhere that is publicly funded has come and gone, just as yelling “fire” in a crowded movie theater has.


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1 posted on 03/01/2015 6:51:29 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 03/01/2015 6:52:04 AM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: SJackson
In an Eastern Nigerian village, a group of Islamic terrorists gunned down more than 50 Christian children as they screamed “Allahu Akbar!”

The Christian children were screaming Allahu Akbar?

3 posted on 03/01/2015 6:53:49 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: SJackson

I’m pretty sure “Allahu Akbar” translates as “This has nothing to do with Islam”.


4 posted on 03/01/2015 6:54:04 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: SJackson

They should be free to shout it whenever they please and we should be able to legally shoot them dead when they do so.


5 posted on 03/01/2015 6:54:37 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: SJackson

Someday real soon, we´ll get to the tipping point, and then it will all be downhill. I am anxious...to see things hit the fan, and the false religion of Peace be unveiled for what it is....


6 posted on 03/01/2015 6:57:50 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: SJackson

To me, those words are the equivalent of “I am a rabid crazy animal and need to be put down immediately.”


7 posted on 03/01/2015 6:58:30 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: jjotto

Maybe the hells angels want to license that exhortation when they are conducting Jihad operations?


8 posted on 03/01/2015 6:59:23 AM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: rovenstinez

Ever look at a listing of all the groups fighting in Syria? The groups on “our side” are interesting. Some familiar names like Muslim Brotherhood of Syria and Al Qeada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War

We will never win in the mideast till we stop siding with the most extreme groups.


9 posted on 03/01/2015 7:03:59 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: SJackson

If you’re outside, in a park ... is it really a crowded movie theater? ... :-) ...


10 posted on 03/01/2015 7:04:56 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: SJackson

Interesting how liberal colleges in California are joining Islamic groups and then condemning Israel and jews. I mean, it’s not like this was in prophecy years ago.


11 posted on 03/01/2015 7:05:13 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: SJackson

In Obonics, A**ahu A**ar translates to “We are vicious violent zealots with an extremist ideology who go around randomly killing folks! You must understand and empathize with us!”


12 posted on 03/01/2015 7:44:38 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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13 posted on 03/01/2015 7:53:28 AM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: SJackson

I thought “Allahu Akbar” meant “duck!”.


14 posted on 03/01/2015 8:04:19 AM PST by moovova
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“I thought Allahu Akbar meant duck.”

Saw a youtube video of a funeral for a savage Moslem killer whose body was being carried above the crowd. Problem was that they didn’t take his suicide vest off before moving him. It went off sending 20 the crowd home to Satan. Survivors were yelling Allahu Akbar.


15 posted on 03/01/2015 8:16:36 AM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Sasparilla

I saw that! Excellent video.


16 posted on 03/01/2015 8:28:35 AM PST by moovova
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To: SJackson

Well written and argued.

UC Davis and other UC’s are remiss.


17 posted on 03/01/2015 9:26:22 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: SJackson

If you EVER hear those words, hit the dirt or take cover! If there’s no “BOOM” following, find the source and eliminate it.


18 posted on 03/01/2015 10:21:18 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SJackson

Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fare. Jewish and pro-Israel students terrorize poor Palestinians with their racist Apartheid rules. They keep checking them for weapons at check points, and uncovering plots to kill Jooos! through undercover agents. This is a suppression of Palestinian culture, which must be answered in kind, with a boisterous Allahu Akbar! (In Arabic, ‘Allah is Great!, ‘ but in Hebrew, ‘Allah is a mouse’), preferably bellowed two inches away from a Jooos!’s face and with a dozen people surrounding him. That’s because violence is all that Jooos! understand that Palestinians are able to convey. They’re trying to communicate, and this is the thanks the poor Palestinians get from these cold-hearted Jooos!.


19 posted on 03/01/2015 11:01:09 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The words “Allahu Akbar” mean “God is the Greatest.” See http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/commonwordcommonlord/2014/02/what-allahu-akbar-really-means.html


20 posted on 03/01/2015 11:51:37 AM PST by dominic flandry
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