"A Pakistani
activist, Mukhtar Mai, was gang-raped at the orders of a tribal
council. She was honored by Glamour Magazine as Woman of the Year
2005 for her fight against oppression in her homeland."
"An Islamic appeal court has upheld a sentence of
death by stoning for adultery against a Nigerian woman. Amina Lawal, 30, was found guilty by a court in
Katsina state in March after bearing a child outside marriage. "We uphold your conviction of death by stoning as prescribed by the
Sharia" (Iislamic law). (BBC Aug. 19. 2002).
Islamic GESTATION PERIOD: On 25 September 2003 Lawal had her
sentence overturned by the Sharia court of appeal, and is now
free. In their successful defense of Amina Lawal, lawyers used
the notion of "extended pregnancy," arguing that under Sharia
law,
a five year interval is possible between human conception and
birth.
disTurban
News
from Other sites; Off-site links: Feb 2006:
Former Khmer Rouge military chief Ta Mok lies in a coma in
military hospital in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh July 16,
2006. Ta Mok, one of Pol Pot's most ruthless henchmen and a
key defendant in upcoming 'Killing Fields' trials, died on
Friday in an army hospital in the Cambodian capital.
(Stringer/Reuters)... This isn't strictly Islamic, but it's
in the same ballpark... torture as is advocated in the Holy
Koran. Torture is good, god willing. The only
other Khmer Rouge leader after Pol Pot and Ta Mok, now (Jul
2006), who is in custody, is former Tuol Sleng chief Duch --
real name Kang Kek Leu -- who is now a born-again Christian!
At
the age of 5, Malika Oufkir, eldest daughter of General Oufkir,
was adopted by King Muhammad V of Morocco and sent to live in
the palace as part of the royal court. There she led a life of
unimaginable privilege and luxury alongside the king's own
daughter. King Hassan II ascended the throne following
Muhammad V's death, and in 1972 General Oufkir was found
guilty of treason after staging a coup against the new regime,
and was summarily executed. Immediately afterward, Malika, her
mother, and her five siblings were arrested and imprisoned,
despite having no prior knowledge of the coup attempt.
They
were first held in an abandoned fort, where they ate
moderately well and were allowed to keep some of their fine
clothing and books. Conditions steadily deteriorated, and the
family was eventually transferred to a remote desert prison,
where they suffered a decade of solitary confinement, torture,
starvation, and the complete absence of sunlight. Oufkir's
horrifying descriptions of the conditions are mesmerizing,
particularly when contrasted with her earlier life in the
royal court, and many graphic images will long haunt readers.
Finally, teetering on the edge of madness and aware that they
had been left to die, Oufkir and her siblings managed to
tunnel out using their bare hands and teaspoons, only to be
caught days later. Her account of their final flight to
freedom makes for breathtaking reading. Stolen Lives is a
remarkable book of unfathomable deprivation and the power of
the human will to survive.
Amazon.com
Ayaan
Hirsi Ali on Real Time w / Bill Maher
Her blog WIKI
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
on Real Time
w/Bill Maher.
Re: Islam --
"The real moment for me was after the 11th
of September I started to download Bin Laden's propaganda and
compare it to what was written in the Qur'an, just to check if
it was really there. It was, and I was really
disappointed and depply disturbed."
Q: Do you want to
stay in the US?
A: "Yes, I'm happy here. The only thing that bothers me is
when you go to a restaurant they put ice in your water"
Newsweek Feb. 26, 2007
On
women...
Australian cleric refuses to quit over "meat" sermon
"If
you take out
uncovered meat and place it
outside on the street, or in the garden or in
the park, or in the backyard without a cover,
and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is
it, the cats or the uncovered meat? The
uncovered meat is the problem," Hilaly said,
according to a newspaper translation.
CANBERRA (Reuters) OCT 2006
Australia's top Muslim cleric, suspended from
preaching after describing women who do not
dress modestly as "uncovered meat," rejected
calls to resign, saying he would not do so the
White House was cleaned out. He apologized for
his comments, which he said had been
misinterpreted and taken out of context.
In a sermon last month, he said sexual assaults
might not happen if women wore a hijab and
stayed at home.
Q:
Why would one place meat, covered or no, in a park
or garden, or in the street?
Why not simply put it in the REFRIGERATOR ?
"If necessary,
we will behead
and slaughter to preserve the
spirit and morals of our people."
'Wear a veil or we
will behead you,' radicals tell TV women
By Eric Silver in
Jerusalem 04 June 2007
All 15 women presenters reported for work at the official
Palestine Television station in Gaza yesterday, in defiance
of death threats by a radical Islamic group that is believed
to have links with al-Qa'ida. The Righteous Swords of Islam
warned that it would strike the women with "an iron fist and
swords" for refusing to wear a veil on camera.
"It is disgraceful that the women working for the official
Palestinian media are competing with each other to display
their charms," it said in a leaflet distributed in Gaza at
the weekend. "We will destroy their homes. We will blow up
their work places. We have a lot of information about their
addresses and we are following their movements."
The fringe group threatened to "slaughter" the women for
corrupting Palestinian morals. "The management and
workers at Palestine TV should know," it warned, "that we
are much closer to them than they think. If necessary, we
will behead and slaughter to preserve the spirit and morals
of our people."
About half the women TV journalists wear the traditional
hijab head covering, but all show their faces and wear
makeup. They mounted a vigil yesterday outside the Gaza City
office of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas,
demanding protection and respect.
Lana Shaheen, who heads the station's English-language
programs, told The Independent: "Of course we are afraid.
Previously this group threatened Internet cafes and video
shops, then burned them. We will protect ourselves."
She insisted the women would continue working. "We will not
change... our lives. We've worked through Israeli
bombardments and attacks, just like the men. It's a national
obligation."
Mohammed al-Dahoudi, the director-general of Palestine TV,
said they were taking the threats seriously. "In the current
security chaos, everything can happen in Gaza. There is
incitement from some groups against television. We will
continue to work as usual, but we will take precautions. We
have to be careful."
He recalled previous attacks by Muslim radicals on local
offices of the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV; another station,
Voice of the Workers; and Palestine TV's own branch in Khan
Yunis. In recent weeks, militants campaigning against
Western influence have also vandalized an American school
and a Christian bookshop. Bassam Eid, director of the
Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, accused the
radicals of behaving like the Taliban in Afghanistan. "Gaza
has become Hamasistan. They are trying to drag Palestinian
society back to the dark ages."
As the prospect of peace recedes and poverty spreads,
Palestinians have become more traditional. Bars and cinemas
have closed. Many educated, middle-class women now cover
their heads, but hardly anyone, even in the villages, wears
the niqab veil.
* Despite a sharp decline in the number of rocket attacks
from Gaza, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, vowed
yesterday to continue military operations in Gaza and the
West Bank. Four Israeli soldiers were wounded yesterday when
Palestinian fighters fired mortars at the Erez passenger
crossing between Gaza and Israel. Earlier, troops shot dead
a Fatah gunman in the West bank town of Jenin
Saudi Marriage Expert Advises Men in Right
Way to Beat Their Wives
Friday, November 02, 2007
Move over, Dr. Phil, there's a new relationship expert in
town.
He's Saudi author and cleric, "Dr." Muhammad Al-'Arifi, who
in a remarkable segment broadcast on Saudi and Kuwaiti
television in September, counseled young Muslim men on how
to treat their wives.
"Admonish them – once, twice, three times, four times, ten
times," he advised. "If this doesn't help, refuse to share
their beds."
And if that doesn't work?
"Beat them," one of his three young advisees responded.
He goes on to calmly explain to the young men that hitting
their future wives in the face is a no-no.
"Beating in the face is forbidden, even when it comes to
animals," he explained. "Even if you want your camel or
donkey to start walking, you are not allowed to beat it in
the face. If this is true for animals, it is all the more
true when it comes to humans. So beatings should be light
and not in the face."
His final words of wisdom?
"Woman, it has gone too far. I can't bear it anymore," he
tells the men to tell their wives. "If he beats her, the
beatings must be light and must not make her face ugly.
"He must beat her where it will not leave marks. He should
not beat her on the hand... He should beat her in some
places where it will not cause any damage. He should not
beat her like he would beat an animal or a child -- slapping
them right and left.
"Unfortunately, many husbands beat their wives only when
they get mad, and when they start beating, it as if they are
punching a wall – they beat with their hands, right and
left, and sometimes use their feet. Brother, it is a human
being you are beating. This is forbidden. He must not do
this."
20
out of 23 chose "Mohammad" , popular boys' name in
Sudan...
12-3-2007 A
British teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her pupils name
a teddy bear Mohammad arrived back in London on Tuesday
after being pardoned and freed.
Gillian Gibbons, sentenced last week to 15 days in jail for
insulting Islam, arrived at Heathrow airport on a flight
from Khartoum along with two prominent British Muslim
legislators who had appealed to Sudan's President for her
early release.
A smiling Gibbons was met by her son John and daughter
Jessica at the arrival lounge of the airport and was
expected to hold a news conference. The plane touched down
at around 0705 GMT.
Gibbons prompted a complaint after she let her pupils at
Khartoum's private Unity High School pick their favorite
name for a teddy bear as part of a project in September.
Twenty out of 23 of them chose Mohammad -- a popular boy's
name in Sudan, as well as the name of Islam's Prophet.
Gibbons apologized on Monday for any distress she may have
caused to the people of Sudan and said she had encountered
"nothing but kindness and generosity from the Sudanese
people."
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose country has had
strained relations with Sudan for several years, mainly due
to the conflict in Darfur, said he was "delighted and
relieved" to hear Gibbons had been pardoned and freed.
( Reporting by Kate Kelland. Editing by Michael
Winfrey )
Source Yahoo
Controversial Anti-Muslim Dutch Film Adds to Already
Simmering Tensions
Threats of murder. Fears of riots and religious violence.
Demands for censorship. Politicians in hiding, fearing for
their lives. A government preparing for the worst.
It's happening right now in a most unlikely place ... the
Netherlands, once regarded as Europe's quietest and most
stable nation.
And it's all happening because of a 10-minute movie that
hasn't even been made yet.
It's the work of Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, who calls his
movie "a call to shake off the creeping tyranny of
Islamicization." Wilders plans to present it to his country
on television sometime next month.
"People who watch the movie will see that the Koran is very
much alive today, leading to the destruction of everything
we in the Western world stand for, which is respect and
tolerance," Wilders, the 41-year-old leader of the
right-wing Party for Freedom, said in a telephone interview.
"The tsunami of Islamicization is coming to Europe. We
should come to be far stronger."
Like other European countries, the Netherlands is struggling
to cope with an influx of Muslim immigrants, and the
newcomers are often relegated to working at low-paying jobs
and living in high-crime ghettos. Though the Dutch boast of
their culture of tolerance, tensions have been high, with
some blaming rising unemployment and crime on newcomers from
Muslim countries like Turkey, Morocco and Somalia.
In the late 1990s, political leaders like Pim Fortuyn,
Somalian-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali and outspoken filmmaker
Theo van Gogh seemed to tap into a growing well of
resentment against Muslims and criticism of Islam.
In 2002, tensions broke into outright murder when Fortuyn
was shot by an animal rights activist who told the judge in
the case that he was acting on behalf of the country's
Muslims. Two years later, van Gogh was shot, stabbed and
nearly decapitated on an Amsterdam street by Mohammed
Bouyeri, a Muslim and a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent.
Van Gogh, with Hirsi Ali, had recently made the film
"Submission," a 10-minute movie that the two said depicted
the abuse of women in Islamic cultures. After van Gogh's
murder, the Dutch government placed public figures known for
their anti-Muslim stances in safehouses... [more]
Pakistan ordered local Internet service providers to block
access to the popular Youtube Web site because of cartoons
of the Prophet Mohammad that have outraged many Muslims, an
industry official said on Sunday.
The cartoons, published in Danish newspapers in 2005 and
again earlier this month, angered Muslims because of their
depiction of the Prophet Mohammad.
"They asked us to ban it immediately ... and the order says
the ban will continue until further notice," said
Wahaj-us-Siraj, convener of the Association of Pakistan
Internet Service Providers.
Publication of the cartoons led to protests and rioting in
many Muslim countries, including Pakistan, in which at least
50 people were killed and three Danish embassies attacked.
Several Danish newspapers reprinted one of the cartoons
earlier this month after police in Copenhagen uncovered a
plot by two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin to kill
the cartoonist, sparking further protests around the world.
Attempts to access Youtube in Islamabad on Sunday were met
with a generic error message saying the site was
unavailable.
"Users are quite upset. They're screaming at ISPs which
can't do anything," Siraj said.
"The government has valid reason for that, but they have to
find a better way of doing it. If we continue blocking
popular Web sites, people will stop using the Internet."
Patriotism
is the conviction that this country is superior to all other
countries because you were born in it. -- George B. Shaw
And
so I believe that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
the Almighty creator. In standing guard against the Jew. I
am defending the handiwork of the Lord. -- Adolph Hitler
Amazon.comMein
Kampf
* "The sperm of any animal
whose blood spurts when its throat is cut is impure."
* "If a man sodomizes the
son, brother, or father of his wife after their marriage, the marriage
remains valid. "
* "Wine and all
intoxicating beverages are impure, but opium and hashish are not. "
* "During sexual
intercourse, if the penis enters a woman's vagina or a man's anus,
fully or only as far as the circumcision ring, both partners become
impure, even if they have not reached puberty; they must consequently
perform ablutions."
* "If the man thinks that
he has not entered the woman's vagina beyond the circumcision ring,
ablution is not required."
* "If a man -God protect
him from it!- fornicates with an animal and ejaculates, ablution is
necessary"
* "If a man becomes
aroused by a woman other than his wife but then has intercourse with
his own wife, it is preferable for him not to pray if he has sweated;
but if he first has intercourse with his spouse and then with another
woman, he may say his prayers even though he be in sweat."
Pat Robertson --
"I have taken issue with our esteemed president in regard to this stand
in [his] saying [that] Islam is a peaceful religion. It's just
not.
And the Koran makes it clear, if you see an infidel, you kill him".
[external -
CNN:
Ministers preach war on Islam ]
Rev. Franklin Graham
--
The Moslem faith is "a very evil and very wicked
religion". [external -
Dallas News ]
Ken's Guide to the Bible
by Ken Smith
With precision and pig-
iron wit, this compact
volume lays bare all the
sex, gore, and lunacy
that the Bible has to offer.
