Seven Egyptian Christians Sentenced to Prison

H/T Gates of Vienna: From Assyrian News

Egypt (AINA) — Seven Coptic Christians, including two priests, were sentenced to prison for allegedly being involved in a brawl in connection with a dispute over the purchase of a property by the Coptic Orthodox Bishopric of Delga and Deir Mawas, 270 KM from Cairo. The Misdemeanor Court in Mallawi upheld a verdict passed by the First Instance Court in April, 2007. The Rev. Maximos Talat and Rev. Bolah Nassif – priest of St. George’s Church were sentence to one week in prison and fined 200 Egyptian Pounds, “based on claims made by the ‘aggressors’ and without any legal basis,” according to the their lawyer, Amgad Lamei.

In 2007 an adjacent property was legally acquired by the Bishopric from the Selim family. The dispute ensued after another neighbor, the Shaker family, said they have “right of first refusal” as they are cousins of the Selims, and subsequently occupied the property. The Bishopric obtained an eviction order from the Attorney General.

Attorney Amgad Lamei, who is also sentenced to prison, told Freecopts that during the execution of the eviction order on 4/15/2007, the Shaker family assaulted the party accompanying the two priests, in the presence of the police. “When I saw the brawl, I left the place with the priests and went to the police station to file a report about the incident,” said Mr. Lamei. “We went at 14:00 to report the matter to the police, and found out at 17:00 that we had been accused.” He expressed his surprise and disappointment at the verdict. He plans to take case to the Court of Cassation, but that will not stop the prison sentence.

There has been an escalation in the imprisonment of clergy. In October 2008 an Egyptian court sentenced Coptic priest Father Mettaos Wahba to five years hard labor. He was falsely accused of aiding a young Muslim woman in getting an ID card that had falsely indicated her religion as Christian, thus enabling her to marry a Christian man and flee Egypt.

By Mary Abdelmassih

No go zones form in Oslo

From The Gates of Vienna. Photos from the article mentioned within:

Cultural Enrichment News
Our Norwegian correspondent Zylark has translated a news article about a encounter between culture enrichers and emergency personnel in Oslo. He includes this note:

Observe the complete lack of identification in the story of the people responsible. It reeks to high heaven of Islam. The worrying part is that the hindrance of emergency personnel has now reached Norwegian shores. I know it is already pretty common in Sweden and Denmark, but this is the first I’ve heard of it here in Norway. It’s a pretty safe bet it will not be the last.

I’ve translated the story from an article in Aftenposten. It was also reported in Dagbladet. The second article has the more interesting photos. Notice the tent-women in the background.

And his translation:

Hindered ambulance — Woman died

When ambulance personnel were dispatched after an emergency call from an elderly woman in Tøyen [Muslim-dense region in the center of Oslo], family members arrived and denied them access.

The woman’s life could not be saved.

Around 12 o’clock today ambulance personnel were dispatched to an apartment in Tøyen Oslo after a report that a woman in her sixties had suffered a medical emergency. But the family denied them entrance.

“Simultaneous with the arrival of the ambulance, a car with several of the woman’s relatives arrived. They behaved so threateningly that the ambulance personnel chose to call the police. When the police arrived, the relatives threatened them as well,” says the chief of operations in Oslo police precinct Vidar Hjulstad to NTB.

Fight with the police

After a while, more of the woman’s relatives arrived at the location, and a fight ensued between the police and the family. According to Dagbladet.no someone shouted “We shall kill you!” to the police and ambulance personnel.

The police managed to clear a path for the medical team, but as they got up to the woman’s apartment, the woman’s life could no longer be saved.

“They were delayed a few minutes because of the relatives. But it is too early to tell if her condition was so precarious that this was a factor,” says Hjulstad.

May file criminal charges

The police had to send several squad cars to manage the situation. To persons were arrested by the police, who may file charges against them for violence against a public servant.

“We have two people in custody, but it is too early to say what we will do with them. So far we don’t understand much of the situation, and have to consider if this resulted from a reaction based in grief.”

Some of the peace Islam brought to Iran Dec 27th 09

Found this clip on gayandright. This is a country that has recently started a proxy war with Saudi Arabia in Yemen, has taken an oil well in Iraq, claiming the well was within Iran, is funding and fueling Chavez’s rather psychotic anti-Americanism and threatens to destroy Israel pretty much every day. Oh yes did I forget they equip elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan? Yes Islam is the religion of peace and the more Islamic a nation is, the more peace you get. Here is a nice sample of it below brought to you by the Islamic Republic of Iran:

Brit hired Swedish Nazis for Auschwitz raid: report

From The Local.se

A Swedish right-wing extremist group agreed to help a wealthy UK-based collector and Nazi sympathizer acquire the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the Auschwitz concentration camp in exchange for “huge money”, according to a British newspaper.

“The collector wanted it as a trophy – and used his neo-Nazi contacts to put word out he was prepared to pay huge money for it,” a source based in Sweden told the Sunday Mirror newspaper.

Last week, Polish justice officials sought assistance in the investigation from their Swedish counterparts in order to follow up on suspicions that the heist was masterminded by someone outside of Poland.

Five men are currently being held in Poland in connection with the December 18th theft of the iconic, five metre long sign, which translates from German to “Work sets you free”.

According to the Mirror, the suspects in Poland were merely “bit-part players” in a larger international plot which would have also benefited pro-Nazi groups in Sweden.

“Arrangements had been made to hide the sign in a cellar in Stockholm, waiting for the British man to collect. The plan was to use the British guy’s money to fund neo-Nazi hate attacks in Sweden,” the source told the newspaper. Continue Reading →

Venezuela: Evidence On 2009 U.S. Incursion Claimed

From STRATFOR

January 5, 2010
Venezuelan Vice President and Defense Minister Ramon Carrizales said Jan. 5 that evidence exists of an incursion into Venezuela by a U.S. military aircraft from Curacao on May 17, 2009, El Universal reported. Carrizales claimed the government has recordings of inquiries made to the aircraft’s crew by air traffic controllers and flight charts that show it violated Venezuelan airspace and flew into a restricted area near La Orchila air base

Venezuela: Evidence On 2009 U.S. Incursion ClaimedJanuary 5, 2010Venezuelan Vice President and Defense Minister Ramon Carrizales said Jan. 5 that evidence exists of an incursion into Venezuela by a U.S. military aircraft from Curacao on May 17, 2009, El Universal reported. Carrizales claimed the government has recordings of inquiries made to the aircraft’s crew by air traffic controllers and flight charts that show it violated Venezuelan airspace and flew into a restricted area near La Orchila air base

Ireland’s new blasphemy law being copied by Pakistan

Thanks Sean for this.

From Mr. Obrien’s Thinking Emporium

Ireland’s new blasphemy law – which was passed in July 2009 – came into force four days ago on 1 January 2010. It makes blasphemy a crime punishable by a fine of up to €25,000. It has been the subject of some controversy, to say the least. I’m not going to delve into the whole debate here except to say my position on the law is that I’m agin it. The subject of this post is a couple of interesting comments that appeared on this thread at Politics.ie.

‘FutureTaoiseach’ voices a suspicion about the new blasphemy law, which is similar to comments I had made earlier in the same thread:

The radical Islamists want it [the law]. The govt is concerned about a Danish-style cartoon row blowing up in this country. At the UN, Islamic countries are pushing for a global ban on blasphemy.

To which ‘Half Nelson’ helpfully replies:

Statute
For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion.

Pakistan’s Submission to UN
State parties shall prohibit by law the uttering of matters that are grossly abusive or insulting to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion (p11.1)

Somebody is watching us.

Indeed. When one of the most illiberal police states in the world is plagirising your country’s laws in order to further its global theocratic agenda, that may be a sign that you’re doing it wrong.

Ireland: Fury Over Explosives ‘Smuggling’

H/T The Baron

From the Independant.IE

Tuesday January 05 2010

A furious Government has demanded that Slovakia explain itself after an unsuspecting electrician was allowed to carry explosives on a flight to Dublin in a botched security exercise.

The diplomatic row erupted after Slovak airport police randomly planted powerful RDX in the 49-year-old’s bag but took three days to warn authorities he had unwittingly evaded scanning machines.

It is understood Government officials were angry about the high level security breach and have called for answers.

A spokesman said: “The Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern, has ordered a full report into what has transpired.”

Slovak authorities began the live security tests last Saturday but only contacted Irish police to warn of the lapse.

Officers planted several items, including the RDX plastic explosive, in the luggage of eight unsuspecting passengers as they prepared to board international flights at Bratislava and Poprad Traty airports.

A Garda source said: “It seems his bag was picked randomly – he is not in any trouble with us. We have verified the whole thing through proper police channels and security chiefs in the Slovak authorities.”

One security source said: “If that much explosive was detonated, it would cause serious damage, it would kill if it went off in a plane – it’s an unbelievable mistake.

“It doesn’t bear thinking about to put that kind of explosive on a plane, unaccounted for.”

Seven passengers were stopped as they went through scanning machines while the electrician unwittingly evaded checks at Poprad Tatry and made it to Dublin. He was carrying 4oz (about 90 grams) of the explosive material.

Press Association

Interview with the sister of the Somalian who attacked Kurt Westergaard

Here is a video I just finished subtitling, sent to me with the English translation by Snaphanen in Denmark. It seems the sister of the attacker is sure the Danish police put him up to it, not the Al Shabaab people he was hanging out with. Rather typical gratitude from Islamic immigrants. First, try and kill the hosts who pay for your formerly unimaginably lavish lifestyle, then when you get caught, blame the police who protect your hosts for really being the ones behind the attempted murder.

Well, here it is. Thanks again Snaphanen.

We need a proper Prime Minister to suppress troublemakers like Anjem Choudary

An interesting article in The Telegraph, and an interesting observation:

“What is it, historically, that brings the smack of firm government? Answer: government by weaklings with no will to defend their own people. If the Islamic extremists eventually provoke an extreme reaction from their opponents, they will not only have Choudary and his ilk to thank for their predicament, but also Brown, Harman, Cameron et al whose weakness excited their aggression. It is going to be an interesting decade – especially after we deposit Dave in the dustbin of history in 2015.” Read more.

Hate rants by Alleged al-Qaeda boss Anwar al-Awlaki on sale in London

MIRROR… Rantings by the terror chief accused of coaching the Christmas Day syringe bomber are on sale in London.

Alleged al-Qaeda boss Anwar al-Awlaki was hailed a hero by fanatic Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to explode a bomb concealed in his underpants on Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Yesterday our investigators found a wide selection of al-Awlaki’s hate-filled tirades on sale in an Islamic bookshop yards from the East London Mosque which was regularly attended by Abdulmutallab.

We found DVDs of his chilling speeches prominently displayed next to the counter at Al-Furqan books on Whitechapel Road.

They included Constants on The Path To Jihad – described as “a virtual bible” for terrorists.

Somalia Terror Forces Halt to UN Food Aid

World Food Program Says al Qaeda-Linked Militants Demanded Protection Money; 1 Million Left in “Dire” Need

CBSNEWS… The U.N. food agency is stopping aid distribution to about 1 million people in southern Somalia because of attacks against staff and demands by armed groups that aid groups remove women from their teams, the agency said Tuesday.

The World Food Program is moving staff and supplies to northern and central Somalia from six areas in the south that are largely controlled by the al-Shabab Islamist group, said Emilia Casella, a WFP spokeswoman. The U.S. State Department says al-Shabab has links to al-Qaeda.

“Up to a million people that have been dependent on food assistance in southern Somalia face a situation that is particularly dire,” Casella told reporters in Geneva.At least four of WFP’s staff have been killed over the past 18 months, and militants threatened and looted three of its offices in the south, Casella told The Associated Press.

Armed groups have also increasingly been demanding that the World Food Program and other aid groups remove women from their staff and pay tens of thousands of dollars in protection money to guarantee the aid workers’ security, she said.

The agency had tried to resolve the demands of armed groups through meetings with village elders, but was unable to win the necessary guarantees for the security of its staff and protection of its humanitarian work, Casella said.

“We need concrete guarantees from the leadership” of the armed groups, she said.

The World Food Program is now preparing for a mass exodus of hungry Somalis from the south to other parts of Somalia and to neighboring countries, she said.

The agency supplies aid to some 3 million people in the war-torn country, which is also struggling with drought and produces only a third of the food it needs every year.

English Defence Leagues Tommy Robinson interview on Radio 5 live (04/01/2010)

H/T Gaia at ICLA

English Defence Leagues Tommy Robinson is the voice of the silent majority on Victoria Derbyshires BBC Radio 5 live show on Monday 4th January 2010. He was on the show to explain the EDLs position on Anjem Choudary and his islam4uk groups plan to march through Wootton Bassett and islamic extremism in general.

Some Iranians want Israel to save them from regime

From Ynet news with a hat tip to Islam in Europe

Iran bans contact with 60 groups

Ban includes BBC, Human Rights Watch and Israel Radio. Veteran Persian-language broadcaster in Israel says this is not the first time Iran points the finger at media

01.05.10, 13:57 / Israel News

Iran has banned its citizens from having contact with 60 organizations including the BBC, Human Rights Watch and opposition website Rahesabz as well as US-funded broadcasters, state media have reported.

The deputy intelligence minister in charge of external affairs said that the 60 blacklisted groups were suspected of being involved in efforts by Western governments to topple the Islamic regime as part of a “soft war” and that it was an offence to communicate with them.

“Any kind of contact by individuals or legal entities with those groups involved in the soft war is illegal and prohibited,” state media quoted the deputy minister as saying on Monday without giving his name.

The blacklisted organizations also included US government-funded Voice of America and Radio Farda as well as US-based pro-monarchist satellite channels, Israel Radio and the outlawed rebel People’s Mujahideen.

Veteran Persian-language Israel Radio broadcaster Menashe Amir commented on the ban in a talk with Ynet and said, “We have been broadcasting for nearly 20 years, and this is not the first time Iran’s leaders accuse us of encouraging the Iranian people to conduct a fight for its rights.

“This does not impact our policies. Every time there were riots in Iran or important date nearing, they would try to block foreign broadcasts and the internet.”

According to Amir, the Iranian intelligence ministry’s claims are “setting the foundations for the completion of the political-cultural coup that began after the presidential election.”We talk with listeners in and outside of Iran, and many get on the air and express their opinion against the regime in a free and assertive manner. These listeners live in all corners of Iran and present a cross section of every cultural and age group. Some of them demand Israel come and save the Iranian people.”

Jonathan Weber contributed to this report