Imam Abdul Matin accused of sexually assaulting children

An Imam sexually assaulted two children while he was employed to teach them about the Quran, Northampton Crown Court has heard.

Abdul Matin, 41, is accused of sexually touching the youngsters, kissing them, and sitting one of them on his lap during lessons.

Both children also said he hit them with a hairbrush as punishment.

Mr Matin, from Albert Road in Wellingborough, said the children had invented the claims.

Police were first alerted to the case after one of the youngsters told a school teacher about the classes.

‘Touched and kissed’

The parents of both children were approached by police and both made claims against Mr Matin.

He is accused of seven counts of sexual assault over 12 months from January 2007.

Speaking in Bengali, he told the court that the children had threatened to make false allegations against him in the past to stop him from telling their father that they were not focussing in the class.

He said: “They said we know how to read it (the Quran), that we don’t want to read it now. I was very angry, I was going to tell their father.

“Then one said if you tell my father then I will say that you did this and that, that you touched us, we will go to the police, to the school.

‘Too embarrassed’

“Then they said sorry, and I thought that was the end of it.”

When asked how he felt about the claims he said: “I was upset that I teach children who could say something like that.”

The children’s parents said they were shocked by the allegations.

While giving evidence at the court, the mother of one of the victims said that her child had felt too embarrassed to talk to her about what happened.

She said: “I feel ill. I feel guilty.

“It is not in our religion, we don’t discuss this openly.”

The case is due to resume on Tuesday.

Another “homegrown” muslim terrorist surfaces, this one is behind the popular English language terrorist magazine that runs articles like “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom”. These vermin are not being turned in by the wider muslim community but by good intelligence. The wider muslim community just complains about surveillance…

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UN Watch Exclusive Report:
Syria Running for the U.N. Human Rights Council, Says U.S.

U.S.-Sponsored Resolution Slams Syrian Candidacy

By Hillel Neuer

GENEVA – In the past decade, the U.N. Human Rights Council elected Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya as chair, hailed Sri Lanka’s “promotion and protection of all human rights” after its army had killed thousands of civilians, and convened an emergency session to lament the death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of the Hamas terrorist organization.

Even so, historians will now have to decide whether the U.N.’s flagship human rights body is about to sink to a new low.

According to a U.S.-sponsored and EU-backed draft resolution that was debated today during informal meetings at the council in Geneva, the murderous regime of Bashar al-Assad is a declared candidate for a seat on the 47-nation U.N. body, in elections to be held next year at the 193-member General Assembly.

As part of the U.N.’s 53-nation Asian group, Syria’s candidacy would be virtually assured of victory due to the prevalent system of fixed slates, whereby regional groups orchestrate uncontested elections, naming only as many candidates as allotted seats.

That’s how non-democracies like China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia won their current seats, and how Pakistan and Venezuela are about to do the same.

Fears that Syria will indeed win—in a 2013 election for a position starting the following year—appear to have mobilized the U.S. and the European Union into taking the unprecedented action of asking the council to declare in advance that a candidate country, in this case Syria, be declared inherently disqualified to join its ranks.

In a strongly-worded resolution condemning the Syrian government for committing atrocities, slated for a Friday vote, paragraph 14 “stresses that the current Syrian government’s announced candidacy for the Human Rights Council in 2014 fails to meet the standards for Council membership” as set forth in its founding charter. That Syria is a contender came as a major revelation.

Shockingly, the perfectly reasonable attempt to keep Syria away from the world’s highest human rights body was met with strong resistance.

In today’s discussions, Cuba declared itself “totally opposed,” and demanded the paragraph’s deletion, a position quickly echoed by China. It was for the General Assembly to decide whom to elect, insisted Havana.

“We don’t like to speak to country candidacies,” added Egypt. Brazil argued that the reference to council membership was “outside the scope of the resolution.”

Russia insisted that no action be taken until Assad’s candidacy was formally submitted. Likewise, India believed the subject was “premature.”

However, as noted by the Americans, the public record shows otherwise. Syria actually had declared its official candidacy in early 2011, around the time the killings began.

It was only after UN Watch revealed Assad’s bid and organized an international coalition of human rights groups to fight it that Western democracies rallied to the cause, applying heavy pressure on the Asian states. At the last minute, on May 11th last year, a deal was announced: Kuwait would replace Syria.

Assad’s U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari made clear, however, that his country had agreed only “to reschedule the timing of our candidacy,” saying they would run instead in the 2013 elections, for a three-year term.

His Kuwaiti counterpart corroborated the pact. “We agreed to exchange terms,” said Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Alotaibi. “Syria is not withdrawing,” he told reporters.

But once Kuwait’s entry ended the controversy, no one—until now—had paid any attention to the fact that Syria would actually run again soon.

Though it’s truly difficult to imagine how the Asians could, in face of all the horrors taking place, allow Syria to be one its candidates, the reality is that they did so just last year, changing their minds only after massive lobbying.

What is more, this past November Syria won unanimous election to two human rights committees of UNESCO, the U.N.’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Despite the suspension of Assad’s regime from the Arab League, the very same nations’ UNESCO ambassadors in Paris refused to allow objections to a country’s human rights record to interfere with their backroom rotation deals—lest one day the precedent be used against them. They nominated Syria, and it was duly elected.

After UN Watch campaigned against this obscenity, too, the U.S. and Britain attempted remedial action. Yet despite their best efforts, the old boys’ club could not be convinced to expel one of their own. Syria remains a full member of UNESCO’s committee to judge human rights complaints, and of its committee dealing with human rights organizations.

And unless America’s laudable effort succeeds, Syria may soon win a seat on the world’s highest human rights body as well.

original here http://www.unwatch.org/cms.asp?id=3280354&campaign_id=63111

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17028000

(full text at the bottom in case they backtrack)

“The closure is believed to be caused by a shortage in fuel being supplied
through smuggling tunnels from Egypt.”

untrue as there is no reason for it to be smuggled.

“It also blamed Israel’s continuing blockade of the Palestinian territory.”

should have been countered by the BBC with the facts that Palestinians chose to have their fuel delivered solely from Egypt.

“all legal trade is still forbidden”

Strange choice of words in an irrelevant sentence here

We can see here from official IDF sources

http://www.cogat.idf.il/Sip_Storage/FILES/7/3027.pdf

“Due to the heavy-duty diesel crisis from Egypt to the Gaza strip in order to operate the power plant, operating the power plant may be problematic and the electricity may temporarily not work in the strip.

Heavy-duty diesel for the power plant is delivered directly from Egypt according to the Palestinians decision from a few months ago; therefore, no diesel is transferred from Israel.”

And as mentioned above, the original BBC smear in full

Gaza’s only power station closes

By
Jon Donnison BBC News, Gaza City

The authorities in Gaza say the Palestinian territory’s only power station has shut down because of a lack of fuel.

The closure is believed to be caused by a shortage in fuel being supplied through smuggling tunnels from Egypt.

Power cuts, already common, are expected to increase. The station provides around 30-40% of Gaza’s electricity.

The rest of the electricity used by the territory is supplied by Israel.

The Gaza Power Company said the strip would soon be “swimming in a sea of darkness”.

Supplies of fuel smuggled into the territory have diminished due to the recent Egyptian
political unrest.

Many families and businesses have private generators to avoid the blackouts. But fuel for those is also hard to come by.

This week long queues can be seen outside petrol stations with people worried about filling up their cars.

A statement from the power station called on Egypt to allow more fuel to pass through the tunnels. It also blamed Israel’s continuing blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Israel and Egypt imposed sanctions on Gaza after the Islamist movement Hamas came to power in 2007.

Last year Egypt eased restrictions allowing people to travel more easily, but all legal trade is still forbidden and the tunnel industry continues to thrive.

At least one person was killed and up to 47 others wounded Tuesday when up to four grenades exploded outside the main courthouse in the eastern Belgian city of Liege.

no description of attackers, this is the only clue to who did this….
“The Karachi Post in Pakistan claimed that the attack was linked to a sentence in an honour killing case. It said the parents of Sadia Sheikh were sentenced on Monday when there had been a bomb alert in the court.”

full story here..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/8953449/Belgium-grenade-attack-leaves-at-least-two-dead.html