Year: 2010

Islamic Navigational System

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From The Daily Mail U.K.

Woman fined for erratic driving caused by niqab headscarf impairing her vision

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 12:43 PM on 14th June 2010

Restricted: The niqab was 'bothering the driver in her manoeuvres' according to policeRestricted: The niqab was ‘bothering the driver in her manoeuvres’ according to police

A motorist has been fined for erratic driving caused by her Islamic headscarf, just weeks after a similar incident sparked a major political row.

Police in Vaucluse in southern France stopped the woman after she was spotted driving her vehicle carelessly on the road.

It was then officers noticed the driver was wearing a niqab, a veil that leaves only the eyes exposed, and that her sight was impaired, according to commanding officer Charles Bourillon.

‘[The headscarf] was bothering the driver in her manoeuvres … It was obvious she could not see a thing,’ he said.

Police gave the driver a ticket for 22 euros (£18) for driving with a reduced field of vision.

Officers then suggested that the woman remove her niqab to improve her sight, which she did.

The Islamic veil has become a political hot potato in France.

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government is pushing ahead with a legal ban on wearing full-face veils such as the niqab or burqa in public, despite a warning from state judicial experts that such a law could be unconstitutional.

In April, a woman in the French city of Nantes was fined for wearing a veil while driving.

The incident spiralled after a minister threatened to punish her Muslim husband for offences including polygamy.

Soccer fans executed for watching World Cup.

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From The Telegraph U.K.

World Cup 2010: Somali football fans executed for watching matches

Two Somali football fans have been killed by Islamic militants after being caught watching World Cup matches.

By Aislinn Laing, Southern Africa correspondent
Published: 5:59PM BST 14 Jun 2010

World Cup 2010: Somali football fans executed for watching matches
A Somali football fan adjusts the Television set for the group D game between Ghana and Serbia Photo: EPA

The deaths happened on Saturday near the capital Mogadishu when members of the Hizbul Islam group stormed a house where people were watching Nigeria play Argentina.

A further 10 people were arrested by the group, which has imposed a strict version of Islam in the areas they control in southern and central Somalia.

The following night, another 30 people including a 15-year-old boy were arrested as the watched the Germany-Australia game in two private homes in the town of Afgoye.

A spokesman for the group, Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Aros, said the rest of Somalia should respect their ban on the World Cup – the first to be hosted in Africa – and focus instead on “pursuing holy jihad”.

“We are warning all the youth of Somalia not to dare watch these World Cup matches. It is a waste of money and time and they will not benefit anything or get any experience by watching mad men jumping up and down,” he said.

The ban, which has seen radio stations around the city taken off air for playing music, has resulted in people flocking to public cinemas in the few Government-controlled areas of the country.

Ahmed Santos used to live in an area of Somalia run by militants, but now is in a government-controlled area.

“I can now freely watch the matches,” he said. “I am so sorry that some of my friends who are now living where I was once don’t have that chance to watch the World Cup. I really feel sorry for them.”

Others are risking the wrath of the militants, such is their love of the beautiful game.

One man, who lives in the militant-controlled livestock market area of the city said he watched Algeria-Slovenia at home with his family.

“I have one eye on the TV and the other on the door, and the sound turned down,” he said.

EDL in Wembley

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You EDL supporters don’t miss this one. If I was a few thousand miles closer I would be there with ya.

TheUKInfidel — June 13, 2010 — The English Defence League (EDL) will be protesting against preachers of hate in Wembley on 26/06/10.

If you love England and hate extremism come and join us.

A video from the Bristol Division

No Surrender!

Canada: Police investigate honour crime in Montreal, mother charged

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From The Montreal Gazette, courtesy TROP

Mother faces charges in daughter’s Dorval stabbing

Home on Louise Lamy St. in Dorval where a 19-year-old woman suffered serious stab wounds to her head and face Sunday. Police arrested the victim's 38-year-old mother, who is scheduled to be arraigned Monday for attempted murder, armed assault and possession of a weapon with dangerous intent.

Home on Louise Lamy St. in Dorval where a 19-year-old woman suffered serious stab wounds to her head and face Sunday. Police arrested the victim’s 38-year-old mother, who is scheduled to be arraigned Monday for attempted murder, armed assault and possession of a weapon with dangerous intent.

Photograph by: Allen McInnis, the Gazette

This story has been updated.

MONTREAL – A 38-year-old woman is scheduled to be arraigned Monday afternoon on charges of attempted murder, armed assault and possession of a weapon with dangerous intent after her daughter, 19, suffered serious stab wounds at the family’s West Island home.

The victim suffered significant injuries to her head and face but was listed in stable condition Monday, police said.

Police said the weapon used was a large kitchen knife. The victim was attacked at her home on Louise Lamy St. near Carson Ave. in Dorval about 8:15 a.m. Sunday. The victim’s father and three sisters, age 10, 14 and 16, were home at the time of the stabbing, police Constable Anie Lemieux said.

Montreal police Constable Olivier Lapointe said the incident is being investigated as a possible honour crime, generally defined as an act of violence perpetrated because the victim is believed to have brought dishonor upon the family. The family is originally from Afghanistan, police said.

Lapointe noted that the victim had stayed out all night before she was attacked and this will be considered as part of the investigation.

© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

DUTCH SYNAGOGUE VANDALIZED WITH RED PAINT IN AMERSFOORT

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The list of attacks against Jews in the Netherlands keeps on growing. Here is the latest sad news: a synagogue was vandalized with the smearing of red paint, most likely tied to the “outrage of the Muslim street” over the “Flotilla of the Huns” incident.
Turkish jihadis commandeered a ship with the blessings of the Turkish government, to spring a trap on IDF soldiers who were expected to drop in to steer the ship to the coastal Israeli port of Ashdod for inspection.
So the Jews of the Netherlands are made to feel the rage of the Muslim street, but lats face facts, they don’t need any reason for sudden rage syndrome, just walking past a Muslim while being Jewish is more than enough to set them off. KGS
AMERSFOORT (Reuters) – The Synagogue of the Jewish Community Amersfoort is smeared with red paint. The police surveillance in the coming days additional property, a police spokesperson reported Wednesday.
At the synagogue are big blobs of red paint left, but no offensive slogans or written texts. The Jewish community has reported the destruction. It is still unclear, according to the police or to vandalism or that there is a purposeful action.  “We’re being in surveillance at least extra in this location,” said the spokesman.

H/T Bad News From the Netherlands:

The synagogue in Amersfoort has been daubed with large quantities of red paint. No text or graffiti were added. The Jewish community has put in a complaint with the police. According to the police it is unclear whether this is vandalism or a targeted action.

UPDATE: Similar report found here in Dutch.

Turkeys presidents anti semetic past

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From Andrew Bostom’s blog:

“Mas-Kom-Ya” Erdogan, and His Ur-Jew Hatred

Posted By Andrew Bostom On June 13, 2010 @ 7:40 pm In Essays | 1 Comment

Erdogan: Soon to Be Another Unique Moustache Association [1] Member, Donning an “11” Mustache?

Egypt Unique Moustache Assoc: We Respect Moustache of Hitler [1]

Quoth Captain Sayyed Shahada [1] of the Unique Egyptian Moustache Association:

“I respect the mustache of this Hitler, because he humiliated the most despicable sect in the world. He subdued the people who subdued the whole world—him with his “11” mustache.… The generation of this Hitler… When I was little, my father, may he rest in peace, grew that kind of mustache, and so did all his classmates. They all had this “11” mustache. That was in the days of Hitler. That was the fashion back then”

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As reported by the Jerusalem Post [2] on Wednesday June 9, 2010, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) has revealed the close ties between the most violent operatives from Turkey’s jihadist IHH organization on board the Mavi Maramara ship, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his ruling AKP government. Salient details of these connections from the ITIC analysis—based upon statements given by Mavi Maramara passengers after the vessel was towed to the port of Ashdod last week, as well as findings from
IHH member’s computers seized by the Israel Defense Forces—included:

For the rest, please click through to here:

Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding

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h/t Lili Gobi

From AOL news:

(June 5) — Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixing between the sexes, two powerful Saudi clerics have said. They are at odds, however, over precisely how the milk should be conveyed.

A fatwa issued recently about adult breast-feeding to establish “maternal relations” and preclude the possibility of sexual contact has resulted in a week’s worth of newspaper headlines in Saudi Arabia. Some have found the debate so bizarre that they’re calling for stricter regulations about how and when fatwas should be issued.

Sheikh Al Obeikan, an adviser to the royal court and consultant to the Ministry of Justice, set off a firestorm of controversy recently when he said on TV that women who come into regular contact with men who aren’t related to them ought to give them their breast milk so they will be considered relatives.

“The man should take the milk, but not directly from the breast of the woman,” Al Obeikan said, according to Gulf News. “He should drink it and then becomes a relative of the family, a fact that allows him to come in contact with the women without breaking Islam’s rules about mixing.”

Obeikan said the fatwa applied to men who live in the same house or come into contact with women on a regular basis, except for drivers.

Al Obeikan, who made the statement after being asked on TV about a 2007 fatwa issued by an Egyptian scholar about adult breast-feeding, said that the breast milk ought to be pumped out and given to men in a glass.

But his remarks were followed by an announcement by another high-profile sheik, Abi Ishaq Al Huwaini, who said that men should suckle the breast milk directly from a woman’s breast.

Shortly after the two sheiks weighed in on the matter, a bus driver in the country’s Eastern Region reportedly told one of the female teachers whom he drives regularly that he wanted to suckle milk from her breast. The teacher has threaten to file a lawsuit against him. Continue Reading →

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Danish TV, CFRA, CBC,

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Ths from Gates of Vienna. I also was fortunate enough to capture 2 interesting radio interviews with Ayaan on Ottawa radio, first, CBC then CFRA with Steve Madeley who I think is one of Canada’s best journalists. Listen to them both in a row to see a contrast in the ideology of each.

The most disturbing one wit Ali was some couple of years ago with rabid leftist and now Al Jazeera employee, then CBC TV host, Avi Lewis.

First, this current Danish interview.

Interview: Ayaan Hirsi Ali May 2, 2010 from Cordialis on Vimeo.

Here is the CBC attack on her by Lewis from 2008:

Ottawa’s truly superb journalist, Steve Madeley interviews Ayaan

CBC Radio Canada interviews Ayaan here on June 10th 2010.

Untitled from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.

BBC: Venezuela orders arrest of TV owner critical of Chavez

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BBC:

The Venezuelan authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a private television channel fiercely critical of President Hugo Chavez.

Prosecutors accuse Guillermo Zuloaga, who owns the Globovision channel, of business irregularities.

Mr Zuloaga’s supporters say the warrant is an effort to silence him. The government says all due legal procedures have been followed.

Opposition groups accuse Mr Chavez of trying to control the media.

‘Completely irregular’

The BBC’s Will Grant in Caracas says members of the national intelligence police are searching for Mr Zuloaga, a millionaire businessman who is one of the highest profile opposition figures in Venezuela.

Video grab from Globovision shows pro-Chavez activists attacking the station Globovision’s offices were attacked by Chavez supporters last year

A warrant has also been issued for his son.

So far neither of the two men have been found or arrested but their home in Caracas has been cordoned off by the police.

A lawyer for Mr Zuloaga denounced the arrest order as “completely irregular”.

Mr Zuloaga’s supporters say the warrant is politically motivated, after President Chavez recently referred to comments made by Mr Zuloaga at an international press forum earlier this year.

At the conference, Mr Zuloaga suggested that Mr Chavez was responsible for most of the deaths which occurred in April 2002 during a short-lived coup.

“How is it possible that he can accuse me of such things and still walk free?” the Venezuelan leader asked during a recent televised address. Continue Reading →

Youtube: “messing with the wrong Jews.”

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Here is an interesting and somewhat concerning post from Caroline Glick’s blog:

YouTube silences Latma, removes We Con the World

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As Israel went offline for the Jewish sabbath, YouTube removed most versions of Latma’s hit parody song We Con the World. If you try to access the song on YouTube you receive the notification:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner/ Chappell Music, Inc. .
Copyright experts we advised with before posting the song told us in no uncertain terms that we were within our rights to use the song because we did so in accordance with the Fair Use Doctrine. The Fair Use Doctrine, copied and pasted below from the US Copyright Office stipulates that it is legal and permissible to use copyrighted material under the fair use doctrine for purposes of parody.
Copyright attorneys also warned us that given our clearly lawful use of the song We are the World, if anyone wished to silence our voices, they wouldn’t target us. Instead they would target YouTube. It is YouTube’s standard practice to remove any material that they receive even the flimsiest threat for because the company wishes to avoid all litigation.
At the same time, this is not YouTube’s first move to silence Israeli voices. During Operation Cast Lead, the IDF Spokesman’s Unit established a YouTube channel and began posting combat footage on its channel to bypass the anti-Israel media and go directly to news consumers.
Shortly after the IDF channel began making waves, YouTube – which is owned by Google – removed IDF videos from the website. After the move evoked a storm of protest, YouTube restored them but flagged the videos in the same manner it flags pornography. People trying to access the videos received a screen saying, “This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube’s user community. To view this video or group please verify that you are 18 or older by singing in and signing up.”
Here’s a link to the write-up of the YouTube move.
If YouTube didn’t already have a track record for censoring pro-Israel material, I would say that despite the obviously frivolous and unsubstantiated nature of the copyright claim against We Con the World, the company was simply erring on the side of caution.
The fact that more than 3 million people have already seen the video and that it has been written up in major newspapers and featured on major television networks around the world since we first posted it last Thursday night however causes me to fear that something else is going on here.
Despite these obstacles, we at Latma have no intention of crying Uncle. By tomorrow, we will repost our song on blogs throughout the world. If you already downloaded the song, please post it on your website. If not, I will post a non-youtube version on my site tomorrow with instructions from my webmaster about how to download it.
Moreover, stay tuned for our next video next Thursday night.
If someone is in fact trying to silence our voices, they will soon discover that they are messing with the wrong Jews.
Here’s that Fair Use Doctrine from the US Copyright Office
One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords. This right is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the copyright law (title 17, U. S. Code). One of the more important limitations is the doctrine of “fair use.” The doctrine of fair use has developed through a substantial number of court decisions over the years and has been codified in section 107 of the copyright law.
Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:
1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
2. The nature of the copyrighted work
3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work
The distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission.
Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission.
The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”
Copyright protects the particular way an author has expressed himself. It does not extend to any ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in the work.
The safest course is always to get permission from the copyright owner before using copyrighted material. The Copyright Office cannot give this permission.
When it is impracticable to obtain permission, use of copyrighted material should be avoided unless the doctrine of fair use would clearly apply to the situation. The Copyright Office can neither determine if a certain use may be considered fair nor advise on possible copyright violations. If there is any doubt, it is advisable to consult an attorney.
FL-102, Revised May 2009

Here it is from BLIP TV: