Year: 2010

Khadr repatriation overturned by top court

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CBCNEWS… The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned lower-court orders that the federal government must try to repatriate Toronto-born Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

However, the top court agreed Canadian officials violated Khadr’s human rights, and that he continues to be threatened by the effect of those violations.

In a unanimous decision released Friday, the court declared that Canadian officials breached Khadr’s right to life, liberty and security of the person under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

However, it concluded that ordering the government to ask the U.S. for Khadr’s repatriation to stop the continuing violation of his rights would interfere with the government’s jurisdiction over foreign relations. Therefore, it chose not to issue the order, even though it had the authority to do so.

“We … leave it to the government to decide how best to respond to this judgment in light of current information, its responsibility for foreign affairs and in conformity with the charter,” the ruling said.

Khadr, 23, has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since he was arrested in Afghanistan at age 15, accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier. He is scheduled to be tried in July by a U.S. military court on charges of murder, conspiracy and support of terrorism.

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Violent Death of Girl in Pakistan Spurs Push for Justice

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 Compass Direct News… Rare protest by family of tortured child puts spotlight on abuse of Christian working poor.
LAHORE, Pakistan, January 28 (CDN) — A daring protest and a high-profile funeral here on Monday (Jan. 25) for a 12-year-old Christian girl who died from torture and malnourishment has cast a rare spotlight on abuse of the Christian poor in Pakistan.

In an uncommon challenge in the predominantly Muslim nation, the Christian parents of Shazia Bashir Masih protested police unresponsiveness to the alleged violence against their daughter by Muslim attorney Chaudhary Muhammad Naeem and his family and his attempt to buy their silence after her death. The house servant died on Friday (Jan. 22) after working eight months in Naeem’s house.

An initial medical report indicated she died gradually from blows from a blunt instrument, wounds from a sharp-edged weapon, misuse of medicines and malnourishment. Key media highlighted the case on Pakistan’s airwaves, and minority rights groups along with high-ranking Christian politicians have swooped in to help.

Initially police were unresponsive to the family’s efforts to file charges against Muslim attorney Naeem, and on Saturday (Jan. 23) they staged a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly. The power of Naeem, a former president of the Lahore Bar Association, was such that officers at Litton Road police station refused to listen to Shazia’s relatives when they tried to file a complaint to retrieve her three months ago, telling the girl’s relatives, “a case against a lawyer cannot be registered,” her uncle Rafiq Masih told Compass.

Her mother, Nasreen Bibi, told Compass Naeem came to their home on the day Shazia died and offered 30,000 rupees (US$350) to keep the death secret and to pay for burial expenses.

“I refused to accept their offer, and they went they went away hurling death threats,” she said. Continue Reading →

Another gem from the KitmanTV mine. LSD and Russia

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Kitman found this gem and explained it to me this way.

‘Why (paraphrasing) do you think the culture changed so much in the 60s? From every college kid in the 1950s and before feeling honour bound to do his duty for his country in the US and Western Europe to a massive movement of hedonism and drug abuse?’

In fact, while many of us remember the CIA experiments with LSD on the unwitting people of Montreal, it would appear to be a mere shadow of what the Russians were experimenting with and to what purpose. Is it that much of a stretch that the Soviet communists would introduce large amounts of LSD and other drugs to western youth if it had been determined to cancel aggression and foster an anti war sentiment? I dunno. But this is an interesting video no matter what. For all interested in communism, irrational leftism and Islam get a pick and shovel and dig around KitmanTV for a while. An important repository of material questioning the left.

Eeyore for Vlad

Tory MP claims ”barbaric and medieval” views about women have been imported into Britain

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A Tory MP accused some communities of importing ”barbaric and medieval” views about women into Britain while discussing the sentencing of an Asian teenager for rape.

David Davies, a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee, has called for the Attorney General to review the three-year term imposed on Balal Khan, 14.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live on Wednesday the Monmouth MP said the case raised a ”wider question”.

”What is it about this young man’s upbringing, what about his community or his parental upbringing, that led him to think that women are second-class people whose rights can be trampled over like this?” he said.

”That is a very interesting question. And, you know, there are some sensitive issues here, but there do seem to be some people in some communities who don’t respect women’s rights at all and who – if I may say, without necessarily saying that this is the case on this occasion – who have imported into this country barbaric and medieval views about women and that is something that also needs to be addressed.”

The Conservative Party distanced itself from Mr Davies’s comments.

A spokesman said: ”These comments do not reflect the views of the party in any way.”

Khan was sentenced to three years in a young offenders institution at Stoke Crown Court after admitting raping and robbing a 20-year-old woman.

Peter Hain, the Welsh Secretary, said: ”I am appalled at this Conservative MP’s indiscriminate attack on whole communities in our tolerant society.

”This sort of inflammatory language from a leading Welsh Tory does nothing to help hardworking people in difficult times.

”We are trying to get along together the best we can – David Davies should be ashamed of himself.”

Imam in Spain charged for menacing woman over veil

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MADRID (AP) — Charges have been filed against an imam in northeastern Spain accusing him of threatening a woman who refused to wear an Islamic headscarf or abide by certain Islamic customs, prosecutors said Thursday.

The prosecutors are seeking a five-year jail sentence for Mohamed Benbrahim, a Moroccan, on charges of calumny, coercion and menacing behavior against fellow Moroccan Muslim Fatima Ghailan. The two live in Cunit, a town in Catalonia, a region with a sizable Muslim population.

The court filed similar charges against the president of the Islamic Association in Cunit and lesser ones against Benbrahim’s wife and his daughter.

In a statement to the court in the nearby town of Vendrells, Ghailan, 31, said Benbrahim had harassed her and campaigned to have her removed from her job in the town hall’s cultural department purely because she had a job, dressed in a Western style, drove a car and associated with non-Muslims.

She said the imam and his supporters also pressured her husband and children.

Ghailan filed a complaint in December, 2008, after she said she and her husband were accosted in the street by the imam, who told them they would be run out of the town.

Benbrahim was quoted by the Spanish daily El Pais as denying the charges and claiming Ghailan concocted the story. He said he simply felt the woman was not suitable for the job.

But the prosecutors office said the judge investigating the case had found the woman’s account credible and decided to press charges.

Ghailan and the imam cold not be reached for comment Thursday.

The prosecutors office said it could be a year before a trial is held.

About 725,000 Moroccans live in Spain.

News clip on trial of Geert Wilders

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There is overall a deafening silence on the trial of Geert Wilders in the west. Still, most people do not know it is going on. In fact, the vast majority of people are well aware of some of the facts of the life of Galileo and his trial by the Catholic church for speaking astronomical truth and paying a price for it. Yet nearly no one knows that same trial is taking place right now in the church of political correctness for blasphemy of Islamic law.

I have it on good authority that broadcast media in the west in some cases will not directly cover this trial as they are just sick of having to defend themselves in various government media regulatory bodies against Muslim complainants.

I have a suggestion:

Get rid of government regulatory bodies of broadcast media. They are not necessary. There is no limit on the amount of spectrum. Notice by the way, this clip is from Russian TV. Perhaps they value freedom more than we do these days. They remember not having any.

Pigs head found in a few Malaysian Mosques

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I have my doubts Christians did this in retaliation for burning down a dozen or so churches. I mean retaliation should take the form of some serious action for the utter hate filled destruction of a dozen houses of worship just because the supreme court of Malaysia decided that it was OK for Christians to use the word ‘Allah’ to mean god. No idea why they would want to, Allah is an invention of the paedophile Mohamed who has attributes nothing like the Christian or Jewish gods. ‘Allah is the greatest of tricksters’ is one paraphrase from Koran about Allah. Don’t remember that from bible school about Jesus.

My guess is, like in Pakistan, some Muslims did this in order to create a religious false flag to really start some Christian killing like when Christians were accused of tearing pages from Koran and whole villages were burned and so on.
Anyway here is the news report with thanks to Taffy

Britons Send Mixed Messages on Islamic Veils

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From Angus Reid Global Monitor

Most people in Britain hold a critical opinion on the veils worn by some Muslim women, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 67 per cent of respondents say that garments that conceal a woman’s face represent an affront to British values, while 25 per cent disagree with this notion.

However, 58 per cent of respondents believe the government should not be allowed to tell individuals what they can and cannot wear.

About 1.5 million Muslims currently reside in Britain.

On Jan. 17, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), said his party wants to ban some garments that are worn by Muslim women, declaring, “We are taking expert advice on how we could do it. It makes sense to ban the burqa—or anything which conceals a woman’s face—in public buildings. But we want to make it possible to ban them in private buildings. It isn’t right that you can’t see someone’s face in an airport.” Continue Reading →

C’mon,I dare ya… take the terrorism quiz.

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From Phyllis Chesler courtesy Pajamas Media.

Who, really, is behind the epidemic of global terrorism against civilians? Whom should airport security personnel view carefully—respectfully—but very, very carefully?

A friend just sent me the following “laugh until you cry” quiz. One hopes that the folks screening us at airports are given this quiz and are guided accordingly. Perhaps passengers should carry it with them; as they say: “Don’t leave home without it.”

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, young Israeli athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:

a. Darth Vader

b. Sitting Bull

c. Arnold Schwarzenegger

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:

a. Lost Norwegians

b. Elvis

c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 Continue Reading →

Sweden: Mayor of Malmö Revives Zionism is Racism Canard

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He’s An antisemite

Ilmar Reepalu:
Arab self determination is fine,
it’s Jewish self determination that I object to.

Another antisemitic Swedish/Scandinavian politician denies the Jews their obvious right to determine their own lives. In an interview, ironically about stamping out antisemtism in Malmö, Sweden,  Mayor of Malmö, Ilmar Reepalu, blames the collective Jew, Israel, for recent attacks against Jews in Malmö, “due to the conflict in Gaza last year spilled over to Malmo.”

But Reepalu goes further to elucidate his true views on Israel, which basically follows the thinking in the Islamic world, that Jews are not allowed a national movement of their own. For him, Zionism equals racism. But he wouldn’t ever dream labeling the Palestinian movement as racist, for not wanting a single Jew to remain on “Arab land”, as well as the Arab/Muslim states that support their position. From the interview:

Skånsen.se: “Have You considered to say in public, that Malmö does not accept antisemitism. Or is it controversial?
Ilmar Reepalu: We don´t accept Zionism or antisemitism. They are extremists, which want to set themselves over other groups and believe they are worth less.”

*NOTE: A sloppy google trans of the Swedish interview in English is available here.

And we all thought such sentiment in Europe at least, ended with the infamous, Zionism = racism resolution being revoked in 1991. Think again, the antisemites are out in full force, this time around, they take up the banner of not being antisemitic all the while they expose themselves as being just that.

Just last year the TT went head to head with Finnish world record holder, pianist, Richard Järnefelt, who believed that his prior good deeds in helping Jews exonerated him from ever being considered an antisemite concerning his views about Israel.

These ignoramus types can’t figure out the gross contradiction in saying that they’re truly “philosemitic”, all the while they equate the Jewish state with the Nazis, and reject Jewish self determination. KGS

NOTE: Malmö was the scene for last year’s antisemitic/anti-Israel demonstration by Israel/Jew haters, who insisted that a Jewish/Israeli tennis player be exluded from the Davis Cup tournament.

H/T: Ted Ekeroth

NOTE: Malmö Sweden has the highest cencentration of Muslim immigrant/refugees in Sweden, and was a former strong hold of support for the Nazis during WWII. This is a clear example of the danger Leftist politicians pose to democracy, when they import mass volumes of people who hold antisemtic views, then court them for their vote.

What would be said if Bush did this:

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This is too easy a post. I mean even my most adamant leftist friends admit that a clear double standard has existed from the beginning of Obama’s term in office. Of course only when no one else was listening. Like when Obama appointed a tax cheat as head of the I.R.S. for example. It was a safe bet that had Bush done so, there would be a national if not global crisis of deafness as a result of the shrieking of the left and media in general.

As a rule, VTB has at least attempted to not post anything about Obama unless it was a matter of direct impact on Islam in the west and the jihad in general, like Obama’s truly horrific speech in Cairo last year, or irrational leftism like the ACORN stories.

This is neither. But I simply cannot contain myself on the matter of the grotesque double standard. Bush was attacked for taking six minutes to respond to 911 when no one was expecting anything like it, as he read from a children’s book at a class for grade six. Obama took as many days to respond to the Fort Hood shooting and everyone is expecting Islamic terrorism even if no one is allowed to call it that.

Then we have this:

Frankly I thought this was a photoshop. No one outside of the set of Dexter can be this pathologically egomaniacal. Then I saw these which contained the image below:

But this goes beyond a gentle poke at the left and their selective myopia. The fact that the president of the United States uses a rig like this to speak to kids in grade six is itself a sad sad reflection of this man’s self image for good or for bad. I mean who needs a podium with your title on it and two microphones to speak to a couple of dozen kids sitting within 30 feet of you?

I would venture a guess that whoever does, is not a well man.

Lastly, if you choose to listen to the Cairo speech in the link at the top, investigate his claims about Islamic invention. They are themselves, invention, and where they are not, they are grotesque and perverse distortions of important historical facts. Search for the history of the U.S. marines, and why Jefferson had a Koran. There are too many misrepresentations of history and fact to list, but for those with an eye to research, investigating the claims in that that speech will yield some surprises.

Eeyore for Vladtepesblog with thanks to larwyn and Jammie Wearing Fool

UPDATE: Jammie wearing fool reports this rig was used for the media afterwards. Not sure that changes one thing though.

South Korea returns fire from North: report

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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has returned fire after North Korea shot several artillery rounds into waters near a disputed sea border with the South on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported an unnamed military source as saying.

North Korea on Tuesday declared a no-sail zone in the waters off its west coast, according to media reports in the South.

(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz and Jack Kim; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)

Just in case anyone is uncertain about whether or not Kim’s North Korea is a state run by a complete psycho of an order the world probably hasn’t seen since Caligula, check out this video from July 2009


When the current North Korean leader’s father died, orders where given that people all had to go out in the streets and grieve publicly and intensely. Many people were arrested for insufficient displays of public grief. I hope the guy at a minute fourteen seconds got an extra 5 grams of gruel that day.

Makes one wonder. Take the E out of Korean and what do you get?