In case you do, here it is. Whoopie Goldberg and others advertise their moral superiority to the rest of mere mortals.
Year: 2010
Klaven on the culture: Does Islam Suck?
Damn I love PJTV. Klaven and Bill Whittle are two of the best media public figures of our time.
I found this clip on Klein Verzet. A worthy English language blog out of Holland.
The mathematics of human life in Islam
Here, a Muslim man calculates the value of the lives of his children and grandchildren.
Halal cat food. Really now. God cares what cats eat.
When one reads an add for a company that sells specially prepared and blessed meat for cats, one must wonder exactly what kind of a ‘religion’ Islam actually is. I mean with literally thousands of years of Jews arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and every other kind of possible issue from the old testament, I bet not one of them once ever thought to argue that their pets had to eat Kosher foods.
Here is a link to a Halal pet food business. Remember, your cat can’t go to paradise and sniff and scratch it’s 72 virgins on couches of the finest silk with young boys fresh as pearls if a guy in a goofy hat doesn’t scream ‘Allahu Ackbar” while his food is being slaughtered.
If we cared at all, then yes, we would need “a short explanation”
Al-Qaeda targets Danish pedestrians
CPHPost
Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:32 RC News
Terrorist organisation’s magazine blames country’s support of Israel and America
Al-Qaeda’s primary propaganda magazine has come out with a direct incitement for its supporters to carry out attacks in Denmark – if necessary, by running pedestrians down with vehicles.
According to TV2 News, the organisation’s ‘Inspire’ magazine suggests fitting blades on the front of cars to ‘cut through Allah’s enemies at high speed’.
Denmark is mentioned in the issue as one of the countries whose ‘government and public support the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the American invasion of Iraq’.
In the first-ever issue of Inspire, a death list was printed that included the names of three of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper employees associated with the Mohammed drawings.
Geert Wilders trial, Simon Admiraal testimony
Canada: Ottawa argues no to compensation for Abousfian Abdelrazik
From The Globe and Mail
Abdelrazik deserves no compensation, Ottawa argues
Abousfian Abdelrazik deserves nothing, despite claims that he was tortured in Sudan’s notorious prisons after being targeted by Canadian counterterrorism agents, the government says in a sweeping repudiation of a $27-million lawsuit.
Mr. Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen, was denied return to Canada for years until a federal court judge ruled the Harper government had violated his rights and ordered him flown home. He claims that Canadian agents arranged for his arrest in Khartoum, that they knew he would be tortured, and that government ministers, acting in bad faith, then willfully thwarted his return even after he was released from prison.
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The government admits that Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon’s “denial of an emergency passport” violated Mr. Abdelrazik’s Charter right “to enter Canada,” but denies Mr. Cannon “breached the plaintiffs charter right knowingly and in bad faith.” Mr. Abdelrazik’s suit, if successful, would dwarf the $10-million Ottawa paid Maher Arar for its role in identifying him to U.S. agents who flew him to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured.
The government’s 34-page statement of defence in Mr. Abdelrazik’s case doesn’t explain how agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service knew before anyone else in the Canadian government that Mr. Abdelrazik was in prison in Khartoum, or how CSIS agents came to interrogate him in a Sudanese jail while Canadian consular officers were denied access.
“Clearly, Mr. Abdelrazik was arrested in Sudan on the basis on information that came from Canada,” Paul Champ, his lawyer, said. Justice Department lawyers deny Canada “requested, suggested or prompted Sudanese officials to arrest,” Mr. Abdelrazik, who had been under CSIS surveillance in Montreal for years. The government, however, acknowledged that CSIS shares intelligence with other counterterrorist agencies. Nothing in the government statement precludes the kind of second-hand arrangement whereby French or American agencies could have alerted Sudan based on a CSIS tip. U.S. agents also interrogated Mr. Abdelrazik in Sudan, but Canadian diplomats rejected his pleas for them to attend.
The government concedes it knew that torture was rife in Sudan’s prisons, but claims Mr. Abdelrazik “was detained but not tortured.”
The case could take years to resolve. The government has already warned that it will redact hundreds of thousands of pages before making them available.
Among the thousands of pages already released are documents marked “CSIS,” though apparently originating from the Foreign Affairs Department, which state Mr. Abdelrazik was arrested “at our request.” Mr. Abdelrazik, meanwhile, remains the only Canadian on the United Nations Security Council’s 1267 terrorist watch list despite formal letters from both CSIS and the RCMP that neither agency has any current reason to warrant blacklisting him. He cannot work because Canadian law makes it a crime to employ anyone on the list.
Mr. Abdelrazik’s entry on the 1267 list, echoing his listing on U.S. watch lists, claims he was an al-Qaeda operative linked to an extremist cell in Montreal who travelled to Pakistan and Chechnya to participate in jihad – or holy war.
Mr. Abdelrazik flatly rejects any association with any extremist group and says his travel was solely connected with humanitarian relief in conflict zones.
He came to Canada in 1990, was granted refugee status, and became a Canadian citizen after marrying a Quebecker. He says his return to Sudan in 2003 was intended as a visit to his ailing mother.
As for the torture alleged by Mr. Abdelrazik, the government acknowledges that he showed abdominal scars to Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai in 2008. Subsequently, government lawyers cross-examining Mr. Abdelrazik alleged he had mutilated himself as part of an obscure religious rite.
Mr. Champ said Mr. Abdelrazik believes CSIS has resumed shadowing him. “He knows what it is like to be followed,” Mr. Champ said, adding that if CSIS agents were “following him again it would be really cruel,” especially after clearing him in writing. “They have persecuted him for more than a decade for living in the wrong apartment block and saying hello to the wrong people at the mosque.”
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Moonwalking terror suspect Khurram Syed Sher granted bail
From The Ottawa Sun
News Ottawa and Region
Second terror suspect granted bail
By KENNETH JACKSON, Ottawa Sun
Last Updated: October 13, 2010 11:04pm
- Terror suspect Dr. Khurram Syed Sher was released on bail in Ottawa on Wednesday. Errol McGihon, Ottawa Sun
The alleged terrorist who once moonwalked across the stage auditioning for Canadian Idol was granted bail Wednesday.
Dr. Khurram Syed Sher didn’t dance out of the courthouse but did break out the robot in jail before attending the bail hearing, his lawyer Anser Farooq said.
Farooq said his client has a sense of humour and did the ’80s dance move at Ottawa’s provincial jail on Innes Rd. despite not knowing how Wednesday would turn out.
Sher stopped for a throng of media waiting for him outside the Elgin St. courthouse. Besides a “no comment” Sher didn’t respond to questions until a television reporter asked how the fresh air felt.
“It’s nice,” he replied with a small smirk.
Sher, 28, and co-accused Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, and Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, 31, are charged with conspiring with people in Canada, Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai and Pakistan to facilitate terrorism.
The reasons for Justice of the Peace Louisette Girault’s decision are covered by a standard publication ban.
Sher will reside at a family member’s home in Mississauga and have to report to the RCMP in Etobicoke once a week. He also can only use the Internet to continue his studies under supervision of a surety, as well as not communicate with the accused. His sureties posted a $183,000 bond.
Ahmed and Alizadeh are also charged with possessing explosives and Alizadeh with financing terrorism.
“It’s going to take some time to sink in,” said Farooq of his client being on bail.
Farooq said their goal is to get the case moving along so Sher can clear his name. Farooq said he’s going to push to the Crown to reassess their case against Sher because he feels there isn’t enough evidence that implicates him.
Ahmed has already been granted bail but the Crown is appealing it. Alizadeh has yet to have a bail hearing.
Investigators with Project Samossa allege a plot to build and detonate bombs in Canada and raise money to help Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
Soon after his arrest, a video of Sher showed his awkward 2008 appearance on the Canadian Idol reality talent show.
Sher, then a 25-year-old McGill medical student, drew laughs and ridicule from the panel for his butchered rendition of Avril Lavigne’s hit song Complicated.
Bearded and wearing traditional Pakistani clothing, Sher performed the moonwalk, kicked up his leg Michael Jackson-style and performed robotic breakdancing moves.
The young doctor had told the panel that he liked hockey, music and acting. He had been heavily involved in sporting events and student life as a medical student at McGill, where he graduated in 2005.
Sher left Montreal in June for a job as a pathologist in London, Ont.
Colleagues at St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital were shocked when they learned of his arrest.
— with QMI Agency files
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More cultural enrichment in Canada: the importation of polygamy, child brides, forced marriages
From The Ottawa Sun
Polygamy, child brides pose problems for immigration officials
By BRIAN LILLEY, Parliamentary Bureau
Last Updated: October 12, 2010 4:13pm
OTTAWA – Forced marriages, child brides, polygamy and arranged marriages between first cousins are some of the problems that Canadian immigration officials in Pakistan have to deal with.
The revelations are contained in a 26-page report prepared by Canadian officials working out of the immigration and visa office in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The report was obtained by immigration lawyer Richard Kurland through access to information legislation and supplied to QMI Agency.
“With few exceptions, the Islamabad spousal reunification programme involves Muslim proxy marriages arranged by the families, the vast majority of which take place between first cousins,” reads the report.
According to Kurland, polygamy is most common among wealthy Pakistani families trying to immigrant to Canada. Canadian officials often won’t reject an application just because a man has more than one wife, Kurland said.
“They say we can’t do this because you are polygamists so you have to divorce some, keep one and work it out domestically,” Kurland said. Kurland told QMI that often second or third wives will be sponsored into Canada as skilled workers for a business or as a maid for the household.
As for first cousins marrying, while the practice is not common in Canada due to a higher risk of birth defects, marrying your cousin is legal in this country.
“Marriages that are legal in Canada are legal for the purposes of immigration and sponsorship,” said Alykhan Velshi, a spokesman for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
Tazeen Ahmad, a British woman of Pakistani descent, produced a documentary earlier this year for Channel 4 called Dispatches: When Cousins Marry.
Ahmad documented the cultural reasons for the practice among British Pakistanis as well as the problems, such as a high rate of recessive gene disorders.
Canadian Court of Appeal ‘decides’ on niqabs in courtrooms
From The Ottawa Sun
Putting face on religion
By MICHELE MANDEL, QMI Agency
Last Updated: October 13, 2010 10:08pm
TORONTO – It is a typically Canadian solution.
The Ontario Court of Appeal won’t ban Muslim witnesses from wearing a face veil. Nor will the highest court in the province grant them an automatic right to do so.
Instead, in its highly anticipated decision, the appeal court has ruled right down the middle, saying “each case must turn on its own facts.”
As long as it doesn’t prejudice a fair trial, the court ruled, Muslim women should have the religious right to wear their niqab when testifying.
But if a judge is convinced by the accused that he can’t properly defend himself if she’s testifying against him behind a veil, the witness must remove her niqab and allow the face-to-face confrontation that is the norm in Canadian courts.
Justice system
“The criminal justice system as it presently operates, and as it has operated for centuries, places considerable value on the ability of lawyers and the trier of fact to see the full face of the witness as the witness testifies,” wrote Justice David Doherty in the ruling released Wednesday morning on behalf of the three-judge panel.
“There is no getting around the reality that in some cases, particularly those involving trial by jury where a witness’s credibility is central to the outcome, a judge will have a difficult decision to make.”
It was not a clear-cut victory for any side, but one cautiously applauded by all.
“It’s a real step forward,” said David Butt, lawyer for N.S., the Toronto woman who was ordered to remove her niqab at a preliminary hearing. “This walks a middle ground that balances two very important, competing rights.”
N.S. came forward in 2007 and accused her uncle and cousin of sexually abusing her as a child. When the case went to a preliminary hearing in 2008, she said she wanted to testify while wearing her niqab. When the judge ruled against her, she took her case to the Ontario Court of Appeal in June.
In its 54-page decision, the three-judge appeal panel ruled that there needs to be a “case by case assessment” and for the first time set out guidelines for judges in these previously “uncharted waters”.
For N.S., the appeal court overturned her niqab ban and said she must be given a proper hearing to show why her religion requires her to cover all but her eyes.
The defence must also be allowed to call evidence on the issue before the judge decides if she can testify wearing her veil or whether accommodations can be made for her testimony — such as an all-female court.
“The court did not decide the crux issue of whether the niqab comes off or stays on,” said N.S.’ lawyer.
“On the other hand, the court has given us a very firm set of factors to guide us.”
The Criminal Lawyers’ Association had argued that a witness can’t be properly cross-examined if their face is concealed but was satisfied with the ruling.
“It is a paradigmatic, Canadian decision insofar as it strikes a very workable compromise rather than making a choice between two important competing values,” noted association president Paul Burstein. “Time will tell.”
Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, was relieved the court of appeal did not grant an automatic right to give testimony behind the veil, which he insists is a political, not a religious, symbol. But he was troubled the appeal court seemed to bend over backwards to accommodate women wearing a face covering many in the west see as backward and misogynistic.
“They do not think that Muslim women are women per se, but some kind of exotic species that they have to nurture in the laboratory that’s called Canada,” Fatah complained.
For its part, the appeal court wisely shied away from making a definitive ruling on a piece of cloth that continues to divide.
“The wearing of a niqab in public places is controversial in many countries including Canada,” Doherty wrote.
“The controversy raises important public policy concerns that have generated heated debate. Those difficult and important questions are not the focus of this proceeding and cannot and should not be resolved in this forum.”
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UK sharia chief – there is no such thing as rape within marriage
And, there goes a thousand years worth of human rights advancement in one fell swoop.
From The Samosa:
Wednesday, 06 October 2010 15:13
Chaminda Jayanetti speaks to the president of Britain’s main Islamic law court about rape within marriage.
It is hardly the most obviously controversial of statements:
The husband undertake not to abuse his wife/child(ren) verbally, emotionally, physically, or sexually.
This statement is from the London-based Muslim Institute’s Muslim Marriage Contract, published in 2008 as an attempt to modernise the contract governing many Islamic marriages in Britain. But few within the British Muslim establishment were impressed. Britain’s main Islamic sharia court, the Islamic Sharia Council, produced a swift rebuttal of the contract, including the statement on sexual abuse (page 6 here).
Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed is the president of the Islamic Sharia Council. A softly spoken elderly man with the manner of a kindly grandfather, he is far removed from a firebrand radical Islamic preacher – indeed, he is nothing of the sort.
But sitting in a small office at the al-Tawhid Mosque in East London, where the Council’s sessions had been relocated while its nearby headquarters were renovated (the Council has now moved back), I asked Sheikh Sayeed whether he considered non-consensual marital sex to be rape.
“No,” he replied. “Clearly there cannot be any ‘rape’ within the marriage. Maybe ‘aggression’, maybe ‘indecent activity’.”
He said it was “not Islamic” to classify non-consensual marital sex as rape and prosecute offenders, adding that “to make it exactly as the Western culture demands is as if we are compromising Islamic religion with secular non-Islamic values.” Continue Reading →
KitmanTV: MEMRI founder speaks in Geneva
The founder and operator of the incalculably important MEMRI TV organization, that monitors Muslim and Arab media and subtitles it for the benifit of the wider world, spoke in early Oct. to a select group of people in Geneva Switzerland.
KitmanTV was present and was able to film the speech he gave and here made a synopsis of it, with the actual clips refered to interjected in the speech. This is a very important clip. Please feel free to embed on your own sites.
KitmanTV: “Muslim Policeman in Britain does not have to protect a Jew”
Danish Prime Minister speaks to ghettos in Denmark.
“Police are not enough”
clearly there is a growing willingness to address certain sensitive problems publicly even if it is not quite named directly just quite yet…
“How to kill Americans” and other ‘tips’ published in al-Qaeda magazine.
From The Telegraph U.K.
Al-Qaeda magazine published ‘tips on how to kill Americans’
A magazine run by the Yemeni group al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula has published a list of tips on how to kill Americans.
Published: 7:00AM BST 12 Oct 2010
Underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab at a desert camp in Yemen Photo: AP
“A random hit at a crowded restaurant in Washington, DC at lunch … might end up knocking out a few government employees,” one article reads, according to the private SITE Intelligence Group, which studies, tracks and analyses the global jihadist network and terrorism financing.
The edition also includes “The Ultimate Mowing Machine,” which describes how to use a pickup truck “as a mowing machine, not to mow grass, but mow down the enemies of Allah.” It says “to achieve maximum carnage, you need to pick up as much speed as you can while still retaining good control . . . to strike as many people as possible in your first run.”
The magazine includes two articles by renegade US cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is on a US government kill-or-capture list for his alleged roles in the attempted Christmas Day airliner bombing, and inspiring the Fort Hood shooting of 13 troops. Army Major Nidal Hassan has been charged in the killings.
There’s also an article by the so-called American al-Qaeda, Adam Gadahn.
Another American, Samir Khan, describes how he went from online jihadist in North Carolina to full-time terrorist in Yemen. The article is entitled, “I Am Proud to be a Traitor to America.”
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has taken root in Yemen’s remote and mountainous Shabwa province, far from the reach of the country’s weak central government.
The group rose toward the top of the security agenda of the United States and other world powers after it was linked to the failed Christmas Day attempt to down a Detroit-bound US airliner. The would-be bomber had explosives sewn into his underwear.
The magazine’s content reveals the group’s evolving strategy of rejecting easier-to-stop spectacular attacks in favour of one-man operations, using everyday objects.
That shows the organisation is “increasingly agile, lethal and opportunistic,” according to Yemeni scholar Christopher Boucek from the Carnegie Endowment.
The first edition included an article called “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.”
In the introduction to the latest magazine, the editors boast of “recent US assessments” that declared al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula “one of the most dangerous branches of al-Qaeda.” It concludes, “You haven’t seen anything yet.”