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God shoes, Nike swoosh and a musical Quran

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These stories are not recent. However they do illustrate that on any given day, in any given month of any given year, one can find the ridiculousness that can be found in obsessive Islam. They remind me of the stories of the woman who found a message from Allah in her rotted mango, the Quranic script found on zucchini leaves by Imams in California and the complaint initiated by a Muslim in Canada over a Dairy Queen soft-serve tip-swirl which resembled some holy something in some Islamic text. You might as well laugh as cry.

From the Stupid Muslim Tricks file.

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Iran: Artist gets five year jail term for musical Koran

Tehran, 13 July (AKI) – An Iranian artist has been sentenced to five years in prison for having put the Koran to music. According to ‘Fardanews’, the Iranian authorities considered the move “offensive to Islamic morality”.

Mohsen Namju is accused of having ridiculed the Koran, “reciting it in a western and anti-Islamic style”.

One of the major experts on recitation of the the Koran in Iran, Abbas Salimi, reported the musician to the Islamic court in Tehran.

The court found the artist guilty for having breached “Islamic morality”.

After the sentence, Abbas Salimi was reportedly “very satisfied” and underlined the importance of “defending the sacredness of god’s book”.

“No-one should be able to ridicule it,” he said.

Under Islamic law, music is allowed if it does not result in provoking the faithful.

Combining the recitation of the Koran and popular songs, like the Iranian artist, is not tolerated under Islamic Sharia law.

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UAE: ‘God’ shoes confiscated for breaking Islamic law

Dubai, 23 July (AKI) – A large quantity of women’s shoes have been confiscated from a shop by the inspection and customer protection section of the United Arab Emirate’s department of economic development because they had the word God, or Allah, printed on them.

Dubai-based daily Gulf News, reported the confiscation on Thursday and said the head of the department said that the shop where the seizure took place is one of the Emirate’s biggest fashion showrooms specialising in selling women’s shoes.

The official said they confiscated the shoes and issued a fine against the store after receiving multiple complaints from the public.

The deputy director of the economic development department, Hamad al-Shamsi, said that other legal measures will be taken against the shop for infringement of the Islamic moral code.

Al-Shamsi said that their action follows Article 10 of the so-called Violations and Fines List. The article says that the department will punish and impose fines to all those who sell or display publicly products that can directly violate the decency code or Islamic regulations.

This is not the first instance with the printing of Allah on shoewear.

In 1997, the sportswear company Nike was forced to recall a pair of basketball shoes because of a symbol on the back that accidentally resembled that of the Arabic script for Allah.

Nike later apologised after realising what they had done.

Printing God, or Allah, on shoes is considered morally wrong because in the Muslim faith the sole of the shoe is the most unclean part of an unclean object and shoes are considered ritually unclean.

Muslim Europe: the transformation of a continent

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This should come as little surprise to many, but is nevertheless an important read.

The Telegraph U.K.

Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent

The EU is facing an era of vast social change, reports Adrian Michaels, and few politicians are taking notice

Adrian Michaels
Published: 11:11AM BST 08 Aug 2009

Muslims in Europe

Europe’s low white birth rate, coupled with faster multiplying migrants, will change fundamentally what we take to mean by European culture and society. Photo: AFP/GETTY
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Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.

The numbers are startling. Only 3.2 per cent of Spain’s population was foreign-born in 1998. In 2007 it was 13.4 per cent. Europe’s Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years and will have doubled again by 2015. In Brussels, the top seven baby boys’ names recently were Mohamed, Adam, Rayan, Ayoub, Mehdi, Amine and Hamza.

Europe’s low white birth rate, coupled with faster multiplying migrants, will change fundamentally what we take to mean by European culture and society. The altered population mix has far-reaching implications for education, housing, welfare, labour, the arts and everything in between. It could have a critical impact on foreign policy: a study was submitted to the US Air Force on how America’s relationship with Europe might evolve. Yet EU officials admit that these issues are not receiving the attention they deserve.

Jerome Vignon, the director for employment and social affairs at the European Commission, said that the focus of those running the EU had been on asylum seekers and the control of migration rather than the integration of those already in the bloc. “It has certainly been underestimated – there is a general rhetoric that social integration of migrants should be given as much importance as monitoring the inflow of migrants.” But, he said, the rhetoric had rarely led to policy.

The countries of the EU have long histories of welcoming migrants, but in recent years two significant trends have emerged. Migrants have come increasingly from outside developed economies, and they have come in accelerating numbers.

The growing Muslim population is of particular interest. This is not because Muslims are the only immigrants coming into the EU in large numbers; there are plenty of entrants from all points of the compass. But Muslims represent a particular set of issues beyond the fact that atrocities have been committed in the West in the name of Islam. Continue Reading →

Yale University Press runs scared of Islamists

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So let’s get this straight. A book about the Danish cartoons, with no pictures of the cartoons.

Yale University criticised over censorship of book on Danish cartoons row

Yale University has been accused of self-censorship after deciding to publish a book about controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed without including any of the images at the heart of the row.

from the Telegraph U.K.

Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 6:39AM BST 18 Aug 2009

The Cartoons That Shook the World, by Danish-born professor Jytte Klausen, set to be published in November, will examine the protest campaign against the caricatures first published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005.

She told Fox News she was disappointed that Yale University Press had “rolled back our own principles” and questioned why it has consulted anonymous experts before making its decision.

“I regard the experts’ advice to the university as alarmist and misplaced,” she said.

“The images were published widely before protests gathered steam, orchestrated by a network of Islamist preachers and motivated by anti-Western sentiment.”

Sherry Jones, an author whose novel the Jewel of Medina was shelved by Random House because of fears of violent reprisals, said: “I decided to take a stand for free speech and publish my books in spite of threats and violence because I wanted to make a positive difference in the world,”

“Yale University Press’s decision, like that of the executives at Random House, does the opposite,” she said. “Self-censorship changes our world for the worse.”

The original cartoons, published in September 2005, where the result of a competition set by the newspaper.

One showed Mohammed with a ticking bomb in his turban and like others was regarded as blasphemous by many Muslims whose faith bans the depiction of the Prophet.

Move over Batman, here comes the Muslim 99

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From the Telegraph U.K.

World’s first Muslim superheroes, the 99, are headed for British television screens

The world’s first Muslim cartoon superheroes have taken the Arab world by storm, and now they are headed for British television screens.

Published: 11:00AM BST 20 Aug 2009

Jabbar the powerful: World's first Muslim superheroes, the 99, are headed for British television screens

Jabbar, is one of The 99, the world’s first Muslim cartoon superheroes

Named the 99, as each possesses one of Allah’s 99 attributes, the characters include a burka-clad woman named Batina the Hidden and a Saudi Arabian Hulk-type man named Jabbar the Powerful.

They have proved a hit from Morocco to Indonesia and were recently named as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the world by Forbes magazine.

Now they are being brought to British television by Endemol, the production company behind Big Brother, with a mission to instill Islamic values in children across all faiths.

Until now, the superhero market has been dominated by the likes of Batman, Spiderman and Superman who have typically limited their crime-fighting abilities to America and the Western world.

They were created by Dr Naif al-Mutawa, a clinical psychologist from Kuwait, who felt Muslim children needed a new set of heroes to look up to, to counter jihadist role models.

“It hit me that the stories I was hearing were from men who grew up believing that their leader, Saddam, was a hero, a role model — only to one day be tortured by him,” he told The Times. “I decided the Arab world needed better role models.”

However, despite being called the 99, there will never be a full cast of 99 superheroes since it is forbidden to depict all Allah’s attributes

Dr al-Mutawa hopes the cartoons will have a universal appeal.

He said: “It is based on attributes such as generosity and mercy. These are not things that Islam has a monopoly over.”


The Canadian Bar Association has a crush on Omar Khadr

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This column written by Ezra Levant, appears in today’s National Post. It perfectly describes the left’s ongoing love affair with Canada’s #1 poster-boy of terrorism, Omar Khadr.

Ezra Levant: The Canadian Bar Association’s Khadr fetish

Posted: August 19, 2009, 9:45 AM by NP Editor ,

The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) has a crush on Omar Khadr. The left-leaning lawyers’ club held its convention in Dublin last week, but even Ireland’s charms couldn’t get their minds off the accused terrorist, still detained in Barack Obama’s prison at Guantanamo Bay.

The spark for the CBA’s latest pronouncement on the matter was a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal, ordering the Canadian government to seek Khadr’s repatriation (the government is considering an appeal). But the CBA doesn’t need a reason to talk about their favourite cause. Khadr has been the subject of more CBA press releases than everyone else on the planet combined.

The CBA is obsessed. A search of its website yields 232 items about Khadr. What about other Canadians trapped overseas, such as Huseyn Celil, a Canadian citizen currently being held on trumped-up charges by China, or William Sampson, who was held and tortured in Saudi Arabia? They are non-persons to the CBA — no press releases for them, and no mentions on its website.

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Tamil-Canadian romanced terror

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From the National Post.

Tamil-Canadian student leader got the ‘VIP tour’ from Tigers

Stewart Bell, National Post Published: Monday, August 17, 2009

Satha Sarachandran, former national president of the Canadian Tamil Students Association, poses with a machine gun at a Tamil Tigers rebel camp in Sri Lanka. FBI handout Satha Sarachandran, former national president of the Canadian Tamil Students Association, poses with a machine gun at a Tamil Tigers rebel camp in Sri Lanka.

Photos of a former Toronto student leader handling and firing guns at a rebel camp have been unsealed by United States prosecutors in advance of his sentencing on terrorism charges.

Sathajhan Sarachandran was once national president of the Canadian Tamil Students Association but the photos show him holding a machine gun and aiming a rifle while uniformed Tamil Tigers rebels look on.

RCMP officers found the pictures during a search of Sarachandran’s residence in Scarborough. The search was conducted at the request of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, which was investigating his involvement in a rebel arms smuggling ring. Continue Reading →

Pervert cabbie gets 2 months house arrest

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One lesson here? Drive your own car or hitch a ride with a friend. Seems sharia has a monopoly on the taxi business. Another lesson? Don’t expect a sharia advocate to provide any dutiful conveyance of safety or respect to a woman.

Taxi driver who sexually assaulted female passenger gets house arrest

By Andrew Seymour, The Ottawa CitizenAugust 18, 2009 12:01 PM

OTTAWA — An Ottawa taxi driver found guilty of sexually assaulting a female passenger has been sentenced to two months of house arrest.

Hassan Jabar Majli, 36, stood with his arms behind his back as Ontario Superior Court Justice Denis Power sentenced him for the June 23, 2007 sexual assault in the lobby of a west-end apartment building.

Power said Majli “owed (the victim) a duty to convey her safely home at night.”

“Mr. Majli’s conduct is a serious breach of trust owed to the public at large and the complainant in particular,” said Power. “Citizens must feel safe hailing cabs, especially at night.”

Power, who said he had “considerable difficulty” arriving at a conditional sentence, said a term of incarceration in jail was not out of the question, but he took into account that the sexual assault Majli was convicted of was “not the most serious” and that Majli’s myriad of health problems would be better treated in the community.

Majli, who has since lost his taxi licence, was found guilty of sexual assault in May after court heard testimony from the victim, a teacher, about how the driver followed her into her apartment building and kissed her on the mouth as she tried to get on an elevator.

The victim, who can’t be identified because of a publication ban, testified the driver then put his hand up her skirt and digitally penetrated her as she tried to flee through a stairway door.

The woman admitted she had consumed 10 to 12 pints of beer before getting in the taxi outside the Heart and Crown in downtown Ottawa following a night of celebrating the last day of school.

In his decision, Power found there was sufficient evidence that Majli grabbed and kissed the woman, but concluded the Crown hadn’t proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he digitally penetrated her.

At trial, Majli testified that he believed the woman had asked for a kiss. According to Majli, the woman repeatedly used words in Arabic that she had learned from a friend that meant “I want a kiss” and “I love you.” Majli said he only offered her a “friendly” kiss when he became worried she would complain to his boss that he didn’t “please her.”

However, the judge found the woman, who testified she only used the Arabic phrases in a conversational manner, in no way consented to Majli’s advances and found Majli guilty of sexual assault.

Crown prosecutors had been asking Power to sentence Majli to 30 to 60 days in jail. Majli’s lawyer had been asking for a suspended sentence with credit for four days spent in pre-trial custody.

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‘Asian Invasion’ hammers British teenager

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In 2006, fifteen year old Henry Webster, a pupil at Ridgeway school in Wroughton was repeatedly punched, kicked and hit with a claw hammer in a racially motivated attack. Webster was left with a fractured skull and suffers brain damage. Now eighteen, he seeks compensation from the school claiming they were negligent in maintaining discipline in dealing with racial tensions. Of course the school denies any responsibility. The perpetrators of the crime were described as ” disaffected Asian pupils” and were convicted last year in a London court. Here’s my description:

Thirteen Muslim, racist, criminal fuckwits brutally attack Henry Webster with the intent to kill because he is a white, non-Muslim. Dhimmitude to blame.

From the Telegraph, U.K.

Teenager beaten by ‘disaffected Asian pupils’ in racist attack

A 15-year-old student was subjected to a racist hammer attack which left him brain damaged because his school had failed to properly discipline “disaffected Asian pupils”, a court heard.

By Richard Savill
Published: 3:36PM BST 17 Aug 2009

Henry Webster with his mother: Boy attacked with claw hammer in playground sues school for £1million

Henry Webster with his mother Photo: CHRISTOPHER JONES

The secondary school had created a “culture of racist bullying and harassment”, it was claimed.

Henry Webster, who is now 18, suffered a fractured skull after he was repeatedly punched, kicked and hit with the sharp end of a claw hammer by a gang of Asian pupils.

Thirteen teenagers, and a man who did not attend the 1,400-pupil Ridgeway School in Wroughton, near Swindon, Wilts, were convicted of the attack at Bristol Crown Court last year.

Mr Webster is seeking compensation from the school, claiming there was a negligent failure to maintain proper discipline and deal with racial tension.

His counsel Robert Glancy, QC, told the High Court in London that the “undue indulgence and leniency” towards disaffected Asian pupils created an “obvious risk of racial violence”. Continue Reading →

Iraqi gays rounded up, tortured and mutilated

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Militias in Iraq are rounding up gays, slitting and removing pieces of their throats, cutting off their genitals and gluing their anuses shut. Signs are then attached to their displayed, mutilated bodies reading ‘pervert’ in Arabic and their bodies then dumped into garbage cans. “Fears that Iraqi men’s masculinity is under threat” is the motivation for violent action taken against gays in Iraq. Victims families are also to blame for carrying out honour killings because ‘unmanly’ behaviour shames the family/tribe.

From The National Post.

Rights activists say Iraqi gays targeted for death by militias

Aseel Kami and Mohammed Abbas, Reuters Published: Monday, August 17, 2009

BAGHDAD – Iraqi militias are conducting a campaign of torture and murder against men suspected of homosexual activity, a leading rights group said on Monday, adding that government security forces may be involved.

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the killings began earlier this year in the poor Sadr City district of Baghdad, once ruled by Shi’ite Muslim militias, and had since spread to many cities across Iraq.

“The killers invade homes and pick people up in the street, witnesses and survivors said, interrogating them before murdering them to extract the names of other potential victims,” the rights group said in a statement. Continue Reading →

Israel, wackos and hate

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Here are two editorials from Full Comment at the National Post. The first, written by Robert Fulford describes how Opposing Israel has become a fashionable, institutionalized ritual founded on anti-Semitism. The second, by Johnathan Kay describes the latest violent episode in Gaza where Hamas (wacko group#1) attacks Jund Ansar Allah (‘Soldiers of the Partisans of God’, wacko group #2).

Robert Fulford:
Posted: August 15, 2009, 8:45 AM by NP Editor ,

When Criticizing Israel becomes ritual

It begins, reasonably, as a response to apparently unnecessary violence by Israel. Then it moves on to accuse Israel of expanding on land the Arabs insist is theirs. Nothing wrong with criticizing that, surely. Israel, a state, deserves to be judged like any other.

Even those friendly toward Israel have often felt duty bound to point out its mistakes. In more innocent times, I imagined that intellectuals in the West paid careful attention to Israel’s faults because they expected it to set a high standard. Who would worry about the moral status of, say, Bolivia? No one except Bolivians. Jews, however, live with the injunction to be (as Isaiah quotes God) “A light unto the nations.”

But now everything has changed. Opposing Israel has become an institutionalized ritual. It’s now a movement across Europe and North America. It has its traditions, like Israel Apartheid Week, celebrated every spring in universities, often the cause of riots and an occasion to intimidate Jewish students. Vehement opposition to Israel appears to be the major interest of thousands of people all over the world. Many are Muslims, sympathizing with the Palestinians, but many are not. This week, attacks on Israel once more appeared on the agenda of the general council meeting of the United Church of Canada, a critic of Israel for generations.

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Welcome back Khadr!!!

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Islamists in Canada rejoice! Canadian born terrorism suspect and family member of Canada’s First Family of Terror Omar Khadr is coming home!

From the Montreal Gazette.

Court confirms ruling to repatriate Khadr

By Andrew Mayeda, Canwest News Service August 14, 2009 11:43 AM
Omar Khadr at a hearing at the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in a court sketch.

Omar Khadr at a hearing at the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in a court sketch.

Photograph by: Janet Hamlin, AFP/Getty Images

OTTAWA — A Federal Court of Appeal judge upheld a ruling Friday ordering the government to repatriate Canadian-born terrorism suspect Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

In April, Federal Court Justice James O’Reilly ordered the Harper government to seek Khadr’s repatriation, arguing the government’s ongoing refusal to do so violates his rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

O’Reilly ruled the Canadian government was directly involved in Khadr’s mistreatment in Guantanamo Bay by sharing information with U.S. authorities, even though Canadian officials knew Khadr was being subjected to interrogation techniques such as sleep deprivation.

The judge also found that Canada has violated international laws that protect child soldiers.

Khadr, who was born in Toronto, was 15 years old when he was picked up by the United States army in Afghanistan during a shootout with American forces in 2002. He is accused of lobbing a grenade that killed a U.S. army medic. Continue Reading →

Turncoat Karzai bargains away Afghan women in deal for votes

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” Karzai has made an unthinkable deal to sell Afghan women out in return for the support of fundamentalists in the August 20 election. So much for any credentials he claimed as a moderate on women’s issues”. Brad Adams, Asia director, New York-based Human Rights Watch.

From The Ottawa Citizen.

Karzai ‘sells out Afghan women’ over law

By Jonathon Burch, ReutersAugust 14, 2009 11:01 AM
A woman listens to presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai at a rally in Kabul on Wednesday. Afghanistan's presidential election will be held on August 20.

A woman listens to presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai at a rally in Kabul on Wednesday. Afghanistan’s presidential election will be held on August 20.

Photograph by: Lucy Nicholson, Reuters

KABUL – A leading rights group accused President Hamid Karzai on Friday of selling out Afghan women by ratifying a Shiite law, which has drawn wide condemnation over its harsh provisions on women, before next week’s election.

Karzai, who approved the law earlier this year, was forced to review the decision after Western leaders and Afghan women’s rights groups expressed dismay at provisions on women’s rights some people said were reminiscent of Taliban-era restrictions.

An amended version of the Shiite Personal Status Law was submitted last month and published in the official gazette on July 27, bringing it into effect weeks ahead of the Aug. 20 presidential poll, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

“Karzai has made an unthinkable deal to sell Afghan women out in return for the support of fundamentalists in the August 20 election,” said Brad Adams, Asia director for HRW.

“So much for any credentials he claimed as a moderate on women’s issues,” he said in a statement. Continue Reading →

Violent, weapon weilding punks rob fast-food joints

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From the Ottawa Citizen

Ottawa police release photos of suspects in violent fast-food restaurant robberies

By Tony Spears, The Ottawa CitizenAugust 14, 2009 9:49 AM
Police photos of suspects in Ottawa fast-food restaurant robberies.

Police photos of suspects in Ottawa fast-food restaurant robberies.

Photograph by: Ottawa Police, Ottawa Police

OTTAWA — Seven violent fast-food restaurant robberies in Ottawa have police turning to the public for help.

Two to six suspects armed with knives, bats and sometimes a handgun would storm the eateries by their front and rear doors, and force employees to empty out cash registers and safes. The suspects would flee on foot.

Minor injuries were reported after some robberies though none required medical attention.

Police believe the robberies may be linked.

The robberies occurred from June 19 to July 8 at the following stores:

Domino’s Pizza, in the 500-block of Montreal Road on June 19.

Dairly Queen, in the 300-block of St. Laurent Boulevard on June 22.

Burger King, in the 200-block of Ogilvie Road on June 23.

Pizza Pizza, in the 1900-block of Montreal Road on June 26.

Pizza Pizza, in the 1300-block of Richmond Road on June 26.

Dairy Queen, in the 400-block of Terry Fox Drive on June 30.

Bobby’s Pizza, in the 1400-block of Ogilvie Road on July 8.

The suspects are described as male, black or middle-eastern and around 20 years old.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 613-236-1222 ext. 5116 or Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477 (TIPS)

Man wins right to sacrifice goats, turtles in Texas

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Yes, this is true.

” He’s claiming that his religious beliefs trump all state and local laws related to public health. If he (Merced) claims that his religious beliefs need him to have an elephant in his back yard……then no one could stop that. The law is not designed to allow someone to be a law unto themselves, and that’s what he’s claiming–that he gets to describe the law”, lawyer William McKamie on Mr. Merced.

From the National Post

Animal sacrifices spark religious fight

Texas man wins court ruling upholding faith-based rights

Mary Vallis, National Post Published: Friday, August 14, 2009

Santeria priest Jose Merced is suing the city of Euless for his right to practice his religion, which sometimes involves sacrificing animals. Irwin Thompson/The Dallas Morning News Santeria priest Jose Merced is suing the city of Euless for his right to practice his religion, which sometimes involves sacrificing animals.

Jose Merced seems like an average Texan: He has a good job with an airline, a house in a suburban cul-de-sac, three chihuahuas and strong religious faith.

It is what transpired in a bedroom attached to his garage, however, that piqued his neighbours’ interest about five years ago. Police in Euless, a suburb of Fort Worth, received two anonymous calls warning that Mr. Merced, 46, was preparing to slit a goat’s throat.

When officers arrived at his door in 2004, they learned that for the past 16 years, Mr. Merced had been sacrificing more than goats — ducks, chickens, doves and turtles had all been brought to his door, and killed at the same time in ceremonies for a little-known religion. Continue Reading →

Crown wants man jailed for honour crime

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From the Ottawa Citizen

Crown wants taxi union boss jailed for ‘honour crime’

That’s ‘not my world,’ man insists, despite threats to daughter

By Andrew Seymour, The Ottawa CitizenAugust 14, 2009 6:55 AM

OTTAWA — Crown prosecutors are seeking to send the head of Ottawa’s taxi union to jail for up to two years, alleging that a campaign of threatening and intimidating behaviour directed toward his daughter after she turned her back on the family’s Muslim beliefs was an honour crime.

Yusef Al Mezel’s threat of an honour killing was designed to “control and dominate” his then-23-year-old daughter, Eman Al Mezel, by suggesting she had brought shame upon her family that would be met with violent consequences, assistant Crown attorney James Cavanagh argued during a sentencing hearing Thursday.

Al Mezel, who pleaded guilty to criminal harassment last September, was trying to deny his daughter “every basic freedom as to how she could live her life,” Cavanagh said, the result of an “underlying notion of patriarchal dominance” based on a “perverted and archaic belief in family honour.” Continue Reading →