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Category Archives: Irrational religious authority
Imam fired for suggesting that evolution may be compatible with koran
This is a more important clip I think, in terms of revealing the nature of Islam, not radical or some kind of extremist Islam. but just the general orthodoxy of the religion than much else we see.
H/T Don
Phyllis Chesler: ‘Turning a blind eye to Islam’s brutal treatment of women’.
From The National Post, Full Comment
Phyllis Chesler: Turning a blind eye to Islam’s brutal treatment of women
National Post, March 12, 2011 – 7:03 AM ET/Last Updated: March 12, 2011 5:10 AM ET
http://www.nationalpost.com/ Phyllis Chesler in New York City
My feminist generation believed in universal human rights — one standard for all. I still do. Therefore, I have taken a strong stand against the persecution of immigrant women and dissidents. I now submit affidavits on behalf of women who have fled the threat of such killings and who are seeking asylum in the United States.
Those of us who condemn the plight of such women, who are mainly Muslims and ex-Muslims, have been demonized in activist circles as “Islamophobes” and racists because we do not, in the same breath, blame America, the West or Israel for their suffering. Many Western academic feminists are so afraid of being condemned as “racists” that this fear trumps their concern for women’s rights in the Arab and Muslim world.
Islamic gender apartheid, which has penetrated the West, is characterized by normalized daughter- and wife-battering, forced veiling, female genital mutilation, polygamy, purdah (the segregation or sequestration of women), arranged marriage, child marriage and first-cousin marriage. Girls and women often are honour-murdered if they resist such practices, if they wish to divorce a dangerously abusive husband, or if they are viewed as too independent, too modern.
Today, at its most extreme, Islamic gender apartheid is characterized by acid attacks, public stonings, hangings, and beheading of women in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Saudi Arabia — countries in which female rape victims are jailed, tortured and executed.
Feminists should be crying out from the rooftops against these practices. Some are. I am. Yet, many Muslims, as well as many intellectually “progressive” Western infidels, are not. They are welcoming the imposition of Islamic religious law, Sharia law, not only in the Middle East but also in the West. Continue Reading →
CBN: Iran and the 12th imam
‘I am a Muslim too’ rally
Can anyone please tell me what exactly this is about? Thanking you in advance.
Two minute clip on International Womens day from UK TV #4
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Video promo for womens rights revolution in the Muslim world.
In this case, it is never too little, and too is never too late. I am thrilled to see this well made appeal for women to fight for equal rights, although any rights at all would be welcome I’m sure, in the Muslim world.
Children of terror
KitmanTV has been having a little trouble finding this powerful and important documentary a home. Hopefully it will stick where it lives now, bit if you have not seen it, take the time to watch this before it gets pulled again. I am having trouble embedding the video here, so click through to the link uptop to go to it and I posted an excerpt/trailer Frank Kitman did below.
Eeyore
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Cory Speaking Truth To Power.
Cory Bernardi is a Liberal Senator from South Australia. He is also, according to a small segment of the Australian community, a hypocrite and hell-bent enemy of allah. I wonder if he realised that by saying what he thought, he’d be damned to all eternity.
I suspect he did, because he’s received death threats.
Standard operating procedure for the religion of peace [sic], I know, but still tiresome.
So what was it that Cory actually said?? Have a listen for yourself.
Chris Smith:I actually believe the greatest mismatch has been our christian values in this country, and what I see as an ancient muslim tribalism. Now, many other people wouldn’t pick out islamic religion as something that doesn’t fit with multiculturalism, but I think there are parts of that community who have this ancient tribalism that they continue to espouse. That is, there’s no such thing as equal sexes, ah, my religion is far superior than [sic] your laws, and democracy should be taken over by sharia law, and the more we have of these people, the more younger members of their community will be influenced and the more dramas we have with multiculturalism.
Cory Bernardi: Oh, Chris, you’re spot on. But islam itself is the problem, it’s not muslims. Muslims are individuals who practise their faith in their own way, but islam is a totalitarian, political and religious ideology. It tells people everything about how they should need to conduct themselves, who they’re allowed to marry, and how they’re allowed to treat other people. It is, um, it has not moved on since it was founded, and there are these extremists that want to see the fundamentalist islamic rule implemented in this country. they are continually trying to change our laws they’re seeking special accommodation to indulge in it and unfortunately this government is allowing them and encouraging them..
Okay, I’ve added a few links in there for people to investigate themselves.
In the meantime, Cory has managed, with a few words, to stir the possum.
He’s speaking out against these teachings for some time now, but with the unrest in Egypt, Tunisia and now Libya, islam is getting more and more attention.
This is actually a good thing, because it uncovers a few truths that are unpalatable for a lot of people.
Islam does not promote a cohesive society:
3.28. Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends, guardians, and councilors in preference to the believers. Whoever does that is not on a way from God and has no connection with Him, unless it be to protect yourselves against them and take precautions (against the danger of being persecuted and forced to turn away from your Religion or betray your community, or of losing your life). And God warns you that you beware of Himself; and to God is the homecoming.
Or, to quote my favourite troll over at Bolta’s:
Talal replied to Luke
Wed 16 Feb 11 (07:11pm)no apparently in islam if they wear a hijab they are “oppressed”
but if the embrace “aussie” and “US” culture of running around half naked and thrusing boobs in everyones face on virtually most of todays music videos, it means they are “free”
Read enough islamic forums, and you will see that this view is not uncommon. It’s just couched in slightly more diplomatic terms, and it is a problem, because it’s drawn from islamic teachings.
Cory Bernardi is speaking the truth, and as Orwell told us,
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
(ETA:H/T Shirl for the audio link.)
Polish priest killed by Tunisian extremists-media
From The News.Pl
Father Rybinski; photo – salezjanie.pl
Roman Catholic Salesian missionary Father Marek Rybinski was found dead with his throat cut in Tunis on Friday. The Tunisian interior ministry says it believes he was murdered by “fascist terrorists”.
The ministry in the Tunisian capital “strongly condemned” the murder, adding that the perpetrators would be “severely punished”.
Father Rybinski, who was 34 years old, went missing on Thursday morning and after a search of the Salesian school in the Manouba district, police found his body in a storage room, his throat cut.
“Given the manner of his murder [we believe] that a group of fascist terrorists are behind the crime,” the ministry said in a statement.
Rybinski’s family has been notified.
Police say that the priest is the second Christian religious figure to be killed during the social unrest which led up to and followed the ousting of President Ben Ali in January.
On 31 January, the Salesian missionary’s web site says the order in Tunis received death threats in an unsigned letter.
Father Rybinski worked in Tunisia for three years and had been a priest for five after being ordained in Lodz, central Poland. He served in the Salesian missionary centre in Warsaw and also worked for a year in the Olsztyn Salesian institution, where he prepared educational and volunteer mission trips.
The Salesian Society mission is the third largest Christian missionary organisation in the world. (pg)
Iran’s superstitious crap is the rest of the worlds worry
Clearly reasonable people have a very hard time believing that an entire nation can actually dedicate themselves to this nonsense. So its very hard to convince people that we need to defend ourselves against it. Many of my closest friends are certain that Iran’s leadership actually do not believe this stuff, but its all geopolitical business as usual and they use this stuff to get the rubes in line.
I find it hard myself not to fall into that thinking. But history warns us, the barbarians bust down the gates and trump reason when reason fails to adequately defend itself from mans more fanatical nature.
Much more here at Newsreal Blog
Thank you Richard.
CHANNEL 4 DISPATCHES: LESSONS IN HATE AND VIOLENCE
This is the film the Tundra Tabloids posted over the past two days about a madrassa in the UK that was abusing the pupils it was otherwise brainwashing into Islam. Here is the portion of the video. KGS
…and what would Valentines day be without a hysterical rant by a moron.
Happy Valentines day from all of us at Vlad Tepes blog to all of you
🙂
Prayer space may become commonplace in Ontario public schools.
From The Record.com
Dedicated prayer rooms may be part of new approach by province’s schools
- By Liz Monteiro, Record staff
- Sat Jan 29 2011
WATERLOO REGION — Walk through the wooden door into the secluded, carpeted room with holy books and prayer mats, and it’s hard to believe you’re in a school.
But this is the beginning of a new phase for public and Catholic schools where prayer rooms could become commonplace.
Under a provincewide policy, school boards must be more inclusive and accommodate different faiths during the school day.
This could mean a private place for Muslim students who pray five times a day and for students who are fasting, a modified gym class and a separate room for them so they don’t have to watch their peers eat lunch.
Atieh Noori, a 27-year-old Muslim student at St. Louis Adult Learning and Continuing Education Centre in downtown Kitchener, uses the prayer room each day at lunchtime to say her midday prayers.
After school, Noori doesn’t have time for prayer so she appreciates the space.
“It’s quiet and there is light and no one comes here to bother me,” said the Afghan-born Noori, who came to Canada in 2007 via Iran.
At St. Louis, the prayer room was set up about eight years ago to accommodate many of the English-as-a-second-language students who attend the school.
The newly adopted faith and accommodation policy states that each student has a right to follow his or her beliefs free from discrimination or harassment. Areas of reasonable accommodation include observance of major religious holy days and celebrations, prayers and rituals, dietary requirements and fasting, religious attire and participation in school curriculum and extracurricular activities.
“Someone’s faith is part of who they are. Accommodating them brings understanding and shows we respect them,” said public school trustee Cindy Watson. Continue Reading →
Sharia in Canada: Muslim parents want kids excused from music, co-ed gym.
From The Ottawa Citizen
Muslims want children excused from music, mixed phys-ed classes
By Nick Martin, Winnipeg Freepress
February 5, 2011
The school division has alerted Education Minister Nancy Allen about the situation because music and phys-ed are compulsory in the province’s elementary schools. Photograph by Max Whittaker/The New York Times XX
WINNIPEG — A dozen Muslim families who recently arrived in Canada have told Winnipeg’s Louis Riel School Division that they want their children excused from compulsory elementary school music and coed physical education programs for religious and cultural reasons.
“This is one of our realities in Manitoba now, as a result of immigration,” said superintendent Terry Borys. “We were faced with some families who were really adamant about this. Music was not part of the cultural reality.”
Borys said the school division has alerted Education Minister Nancy Allan about the situation since music and phys-ed are compulsory in the province’s elementary schools.
There have been no issues so far with children of middle-school or high-school age, he said.
The families accept physical education, as long as the boys and girls have separate classes, but do not want their children exposed to singing or the playing musical instruments, Borys said. The division has suggested they could instead do a writing project to satisfy the music requirements of the arts curriculum.
However, a local Muslim leader says there is no reason for young kids to be held out of music or phys-ed classes based on religious and cultural grounds.
“Who is advising them? My first concern would be who are these new immigrants talking to?” said Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services. “This is the first time I am hearing this; I’m not very happy about it.”
Siddiqui said there is no problem with elementary-school children taking coed phys-ed, at least “not with little kids under the age of puberty.”
She said when some middle-school and high-school students have asked not to mix genders, they have been accommodated by schools.
Siddiqui acknowledged that music can be an issue — but only for a few people.
“Music is controversial in our community; this is a North American phenomenon,” she said. “There is a minority view that music is forbidden. (That view) is not accepted by the majority.”
Borys said that there had been one or two requests for kids to be excused previously, but this year a dozen families came forward at six schools.
Borys said that school division contacted a member of the Islamic community whom the parents suggested, consulted the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and looked at what other jurisdictions are doing about accommodation, particularly Ontario.
The division is trying to figure out what issues might arise when the children enter junior high or high school, he said.
Music is optional beyond Grade 6, but phys-ed is coed right through Grade 12.
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