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Phila. Police seeking 3 people in child kidnapping

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Story posted 2013.01.16 at 01:03 PM EST

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Action News has learned that Philadelphia Police are now searching for three people, 1 man and 2 women, in connection with Monday’s abduction of a 5-year-old girl in West Philadelphia.

Police say one of the women actually abducted the girl, signing her out of Bryant Elementary school Monday morning.

They believe the other woman rescued the girl from a home in West Philadelphia and dropped her off at a playground in Upper Darby, where she was eventually found.

Police have not identified any of the suspects by name.

More details are expected in a police news conference scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Wednesday.

WATCH the news conference LIVE on 6abc.com beginning at 1:00 p.m.

WATCH: Surveillance video from the school

The girl went missing Monday morning after her mother dropped her off at Bryant Elementary School in West Philadelphia. That was at 8:45 a.m.

Police say minutes later, a woman dressed in Muslim garb which only showed her eyes, signed in with the name “Tiffany.”

The woman was told to go to the school’s office. But police say she went to the girl’s classroom instead, telling the substitute teacher on duty she was the girl’s mother and was taking her to breakfast.

 

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Man wears burka to escape terror charges

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JAKARTA (AFP) – An Indonesian man convicted of terror offences escaped from a high-security jail by wearing a burqa to disguise himself as a woman, police said Thursday.

Roki Aprisdianto, who was serving a six-year sentence for involvement with an Islamic militant group, put on the full-length Muslim garment and walked out of the prison with a group of burqa-clad women visitors, police said.

The 29-year-old prisoner is believed to have made his escape after a visiting woman wearing two burqas passed him one, police spokesman Rikwanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP.

At the time of the escape on Wednesday, the prison, which holds around 70 terror convicts, was being guarded by four members of the elite anti-terror squad and seven other police officers.

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Covered woman in France sentenced to 6 months in prison

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H/T EDL Buck:

HurriyetDailyNews:

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A Muslim woman speaks with a French gendarme during an identity control, on September 22, 2012 near the prefecture of Lille, northern France. AFP photo

A Muslim woman speaks with a French gendarme during an identity control, on September 22, 2012 near the prefecture of Lille, northern France. AFP photo

A court in France’s northern province of Lille sentenced a fully-covered 18-year-old woman to 6 months in prison on Oct.30 for refusing to present her identity card to police, reported AFP.

The woman, who wasn’t identified in reports, refused to show her identity card to police, telling them she didn’t have time before attempting to escape. The woman kicked police officers who followed and eventually caught her.

The woman was convicted of willful violence, outrage, rebellion and incitement to riot and was issued a sentence two times longer than expected. The prosecutor had originally demanded a 3 month prison sentence.

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Putin opposes Muslim headscarves at schools, says Russia is secular state

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A relative of mine once said, ‘The most common substance in the universe is not stupidity, it’s irony’

h/t Martin

Al Arabia:

Thursday, 18 October 2012

President Vladimir Putin has spoken out against the wearing of headscarves in Russian schools in his first public comment on a potentially explosive issue. (AFP)

President Vladimir Putin has spoken out against the wearing of headscarves in Russian schools in his first public comment on a potentially explosive issue. (AFP)

By Al Arabiya with Agencies

President Vladimir Putin has spoken out against the wearing of headscarves in Russian schools in his first public comment on a potentially explosive issue.

Putin’s statement Thursday follows a recent incident in southern Russia where a school principal forbade girls from Muslim families from wearing headscarves at school. Their parents protested the move and the principal said she was threatened, according to The Associated Press.

Asked to comment on the issue, Putin signaled his opposition to headscarves at schools, saying that Russia is a secular state and must create equal conditions for all its citizens.

“We must always treat the religious feelings of people with great respect. That must be shown in the state’s activities, in the nuances, in everything,” Putin told supporters, quoted by the Interfax news agency.

“Secondly we have a secular state and we must proceed from this basis,” he added, after being asked for his view on the case of a school in southern Russia that banned girls from wearing the Islamic headscarf.

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Egyptian man beats pregnant wife for taking off veil in heat

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(ANSAmed) – Porto Empedocle (Sicily), August 17 – An Egyptian man brutally beat his pregnant wife Friday after she took off her veil in an attempt to find relief from the scorching heat.

The woman, a 20-year-old from the town of Porto Empedocle in Sicily’s southern province of Agrigento, was taken to hospital for treatment.

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Italy: Moroccan severely beats daughter in mall for refusing veil

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last update: August 10, 16:22
Modena, 10 Aug. (AKI) – Italian police have charged a Moroccan man for recently severely injuring his daughter when he beat her in a shopping mall in northern Italy for not wearing a veil.
As a minor, a restraining order had been placed on the woman’s family when she reported a difficult living situation to family services, according to the Gazzetta di Modena newspaper.

Trouble started when her refusal to don a veil and accept an arranged marriage, the paper said.

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France brushes off US criticism of burqa ban

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I have a great idea. Why not have Barack Hussein Obama run for president of France?

From Expatica

Paris on Tuesday brushed off a US State Department report that criticised France for banning Muslim women from wearing full veils.

“Our conception of secularism is a common heritage of all French people, which implies rules that encourage social harmony in the public space and in public schools,” said a foreign ministry spokesman.

In its 2011 International Religious Freedom Report, the State Department complains about a “rising number of European countries, including Belgium and France, whose laws restricting dress adversely affected Muslims and others”.

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Knife-wielding robber hits Innes Rd. bank

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I have an idea. Let’s make a special exception to the ‘no disguises allowed at the bank’ rule. No one will abuse it I’m sure!

H/T Grace

Ottawa Sun:

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Innes Rd. bank robbery suspect
Shortly after noon Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2012 police say a male, brandishing a knife, jumped the counter at an Innes Rd. bank and demanded money. This is a photo of the suspect. (Submitted photo)

Ottawa police want the public’s help to identify a knife-wielding bank robber.

Shortly after noon on Tuesday, police say a male, brandishing a knife, jumped the counter at an Innes Rd. bank and demanded money.

The suspect made off with some cash, which included a dye pack that went off during his escape.

The suspect is described as white and of average height and build.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Ottawa Police Service robbery unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5116 or Crime Stoppers at 613-233-8477.

 

‘Roubaix [France]: Veiled woman refuses ID control, attacks police’

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An original translation by Michael Laudahn:

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According to information by the Voix du Nord, an identity check saturday afternoon at Roubaix degenerated. A young woman aged 18 wearing the the total veil [voile intégral] did not accept to be controlled by a specialised local team patrolling the city.

When the forces of order demanded that she present her identity papers and to lift her veil, in order to verify if her face corresponded to the photo, the young woman continued to walk. She also explained to police, while putting on an additional veil, that she did not have the time, and did not want to present her identity paper.

When police officers decided to take her to the police station, in order to execute an identification procedure, the totally veiled woman grabbed the vehicle and debated by kicking, punching and shouting. According to a source close to the investigation, the young woman also tried to bite and treat an officer to several side blows, during the manual scanning before her being taken into police custody. No police officer was injured.

 

 

Muslim Mob Rule in Marseilles: Police Attacked While Doing Burka Check, Attackers Released Without Charge

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There’s that word, ‘restive’ again…

H/T Don L

Islam Vs. Europe

Posted by Cheradenine Zakalwe

There have been a few attacks on police in France and Belgium while they were conducting burka checks. But this is the first time the state has taken the side of the attackers. With a 40% Muslim demographic in Marseilles and 93% of Muslims voting Socialist, the police can expect a lot more betrayal from Socialist politicians, including the new Hollande government.

In the restive port city of Marseille, police fear that the release of four people arrested for allegedly attacking officers during an ID check on a woman wearing an Islamic veil will undermine their fight against violent crime in the city.

By FRANCE 24 (text)

Marseille police say three of its officers were injured in the early hours of July 25 when a mob of some 50 people tried to prevent them from checking the identity of a woman who was wearing a full Islamic veil.

Under a controversial law passed in 2010, wearing a full veil or covering one’s face in a public place is illegal in France and offenders must submit to ID checks.

According to the police, the woman was stopped just after midnight near a city mosque and refused to cooperate with the officers.

A man accompanying her as well as a large group of bystanders came to her aid and three officers were “lightly injured” in a scuffle.

After police reinforcements arrived, four people, including the 18-year-old woman named only as “Louise-Marie”, were arrested for allegedly assaulting the officers – but were promptly released with a warning on the orders of the city prosecutor.

According to an AFP source, the decision was “a gesture of appeasement during the holy [Islamic] month of Ramadan.”

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