Stoning 101; the anatomy of barbarism.

From The National Post

November 20, 2010 – 10:11 am

Graphic: Anatomy of a stoning

In Saturday’s National Post we look at the brutal practice of stoning. This method of execution is still practiced in certain countries, notably Iran, where it is used to punish adulterers and other criminals. The graphic below looks at how a stoning occurs (click on graphic for a full-size version):

Part one

Adam McDowell, Asmahan Giarrit, Jonathon Rivait, Richard Johnson/National Post

Part two

Adam McDowell, Asmahan Giarrib, Jonathon Rivait, Richard Johnson/National Post

“Allah’s sun over the Occident”

This from the Brussels Journal with a H/T to AA to bringing it to my attention.

A Multicultural Conference Hijacked By Islamists

From the desk of Luc Van Braekel on Tue, 2010-11-09 10:56

During the last weekend of October, a conference in Antwerp got a lot of resonance in the Arab world. The same conference was virtually ignored in Belgium, even within the local Muslim community.  “The place of Islam in the new Europe” was the title of the conference which was widely reported on Al Jazeera (see video below this article) and the Moroccan newspaper Le Matin.  In Belgium, only Gazet van Antwerpen published a short article on the local pages in three of its six regional editions. Make no mistake: this was a conference to promote multiculturalism en mutual understanding between the Islamic world and Europe.  The conference was organized by the Institute for Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies of the University of Antwerp, abbreviated as “IMaMs“.

CHAOTIC

The conference was announced as a big event, but its course was chaotic. Jacques Attali was announced as the keynote speaker, but he didn’t come.  The program and the panelists were very different from what was announced in the invitation, and a complete schedule was distributed on paper only halfway through the conference.  What should have been a conference on an academic level, turned out to be an event with very few high-level scholars and with very few references to scientific studies, statistics or serious references.

REFERENCE TO NAZI SCIENTIST

Already at the opening session, the first blunder was heard, even though most of the audience never noticed it.  Speaker Muhammad Bensalah highlighted the contribution of Islam to European civilization, and suggested that few Western scholars fully recognized the Islamic contribution without covering it up.  He named three: the American John Esposito, the German Sigrid Hunke and the Belgian George Sarton.  Now, Sigrid Hunke was an employee of the scientific department of the SS under the Nazi regime, where she was researching racial psychology.  In that position she came in contact with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who openly advocated the extermination of the Jews.  In her book “Allahs Sonne über dem Abendland” (“Allah’s sun over the Occident”) she asserted that the roots of European civilization were not Christian, but are a mix of Islamic, pagan-Celtic and Germanic elements.  She illustrates this argument with now discredited theories like the sea map of Piri Reis allegedly used by Columbus, and the fact that in German and Dutch one does not say “twenty three” but “three twenty” (Dreiundzwanzig, drieëntwintig), because in Arabic, one reads from right to left.

Islamists want to create a parallel society in Canada

From The National Post

Islamist groups seek ‘parallel society’ in Canada: report

“At a minimum, the existence of such mini-societies undermines resilience and the fostering of a cohesive Canadian nation,” a new Candian intelligence report on Islamic “parallel societies” says.

Stewart Bell, National Post · Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010

TORONTO — A newly released intelligence report says hardline Islamist groups want to build a “parallel society” in Canada, which could undermine the country’s social cohesion and foster violence.

The de-classified Intelligence Assessment obtained by the National Post says extremists have been encouraging Muslims in the West to reject Western society and to live in “self-imposed isolation.” The report focuses on groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which do not advocate terrorist violence but promote an ideology at odds with core Western values.

“Even if the use of violence is not outwardly expressed, the creation of isolated communities can spawn groups that are exclusivist and potentially open to messages in which violence is advocated,” it says. “At a minimum, the existence of such mini-societies undermines resilience and the fostering of a cohesive Canadian nation.”

The report was written by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, which monitors threats to Canada’s national security and is composed of representatives of CSIS, the RCMP, Foreign Affairs, National Defence and other agencies.

It was circulated internally last year after Hizb-ut-Tahrir invited Muslims to a conference in Mississauga, Ont., to discuss the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. A copy of the document was recently released under the Access to Information Act.

“While the issue of violence by Islamist groups has continued to be a counter-terrorism priority for Western governments and particularly security services for many years, Islamist social ideology appears to have gone unstudied, precisely because the use of violence is either unsupported or understated,” it says. “Nevertheless, several Islamist movements advocate a rejection of Western society and mores, and encourage self-imposed isolation of Muslims in the West.”

It says Islamists believe that Islam should govern all aspects of society and that Sharia law and state law should be “synchronized.” Extremists forced to flee Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt now preach these beliefs in the West, it says, adding, “By definition, their world views clash with secular ones. A competition for the hearts and minds of the diaspora Muslims has hence begun.”

“Some Islamists advocate isolationism and the establishment of a parallel society,” it says. “Isolationism can lead to conditions where extreme messages can incubate and eventually become the catalyst for violence. At a minimum, isolationism undermines a multicultural and democratic society.”

The report notes that Mennonites and Doukhobors have also sought to isolate themselves form the mainstream. “Why then, should Canadians be worried about Islamist extremists who reject democracy or isolate themselves from non-Muslims?” it asks.

But activist Tarek Fatah said there is a difference. “You can talk about the Mennonites but the Mennonites’ aim in life is not to destroy Western civilization, it is seclusion.”

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Shining A Light On Shariah Creep

Investors.com:

Posted 11/10/2010 07:14 PM ET

Islamofascism: The Council on American-Islamic Relations may wish it never sued to overturn an Oklahoma ban on Shariah law. Now the entire nation will get to see it and other Islamists’ true anti-American colors.

CAIR is thumping its chest over persuading a Clinton-appointed federal judge to temporarily block Oklahoma from enacting a state constitutional amendment that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law when deciding cases. Fully 70% of Oklahoma voters passed the landmark measure.

But CAIR has ignited a legal firestorm that will likely rage all the way to the Supreme Court. Thanks to CAIR’s latest bit of lawfare, Americans will get to hear a long overdue debate not just about the constitutionality of such bans on Shariah law but about the constitutionality of Shariah law itself.

This is not a debate CAIR wants to have, since it ultimately will have to defend the indefensible. It claims in a press release that Shariah law is “a dynamic legal framework” derived from Islamic scripture “and analytical reasoning.”

In fact, there’s nothing reasoned about it. It’s a medieval legal code that administers cruel and unusual punishments such as stonings, amputations and honor killings. Think the Taliban.

Shariah can be seen in action this week with Pakistan’s death sentence on a Christian woman for blasphemy. Between 1986 and 2009, at least 974 people have been charged for defiling the Quran or insulting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

For the rest please click over to investors.com

Woman fined 2 1/2 years pay AND given the death penalty for blasphemy

I do not mean to make light of this but people who have been given the death penalty typically have a difficult time paying large fines after the fact.

From All voices.com

Pakistani Christian Woman Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy Charges

Pakistani court has sentenced a Christian mother of two, Asia Bibi to death for “blasphemy” charges thereby becoming the first woman to receive such a capital punishment.

This indication is contained in a report by Release International, (www.releaseinternational.org), a United Kingdom based Christian organization serving the persecuted Christians in 30 countries around the world adding that a sessions court judge gave Asia the maximum sentence yesterday at the end of a trial that lasted for more than 16 months.

The report said that Asia, a farm laborer in her late-30s from Ittanwali, Punjab, was also fined more than £700 – the equivalent of two-and-a-half years’ salary for the average worker. Continue Reading →

Blazing Catfur: The Imam Delic saga continues

From Blazing Catfur with thanks…

Conservative Senator, Usual Opposition Suspects Meet With Imam Zijad Delic & Muslim Brotherhood Student Association

Imam Zijad Delic of the Canadian Islamic Congress gets booted from a DND function on Oct 4th because of his organizations radical Islamist stance.

On October 29th Imam Delic met with Conservative Senator Salma Ataullahjan and the usual assortment of Liberal/NDP apologists in the House of Commons. But that’s not all…

Who were these Senators and MP’s hosting? Why the MSA, the Muslim Student Association. What is the Muslim Student Association?

There is overwhelming evidence that the MSA, far from being a benign student society, is an overtly political organization seeking to create a single Muslim voice on U.S. campuses—a voice espousing Wahhabism, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism, agitating aggressively against U.S. Middle East policy, and expressing solidarity with militant Islamist ideologies, sometimes with criminal results.

Please click over to Blazing for the rest:

Anjem Chaudery once again, honestly lays out the facts.

This man is so blunt and factual (about most aspects of Islamic politics at least if not Islam) that I am tempted to send him money. Notice that what he say in terms of Muslim ambitions and the nature of Islam overall.

Islam and Women’s rights. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. C-SPAN

Once again, a brilliant expose of the factual nature of Islam today and its consequences to a secular West with an emphasis on women’s rights. This is just under an hour.

Exposing the ACLU’s rather blatant double standard.

The modern ACLU reminds me somewhat of a particular Oscar Wilde quote although without the humour.

“There are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”

Except the ACLU does have 2 sets of consistent and opposing principles it acts on.

Below, is a video with which I do not entirely agree. That is to say, I do in fact believe in the separation of church and state. But this has to apply to Mosques as well, yet the ACLU actually fought for, and won the ‘right’ for Muslims to have publicly funded foot-baths for ritual prayer in federal airports. Something they do not even have in Saudi Arabia. Which makes this all the more annoying.

sheikyermami on the newest West supported Islamic fiefdom

by sheikyermami on October 23, 2010

The Bunglawussi mob is jubilant:

Useful idiot Red Ken  Livingstone with the Sultan of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman

Lutfur Rahman elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets

Lutfur Rahman with spiritual advisors…..

Andrew Gilligan reminds us who Lutfur Rahman is: ‘Britain’s Islamic republic’: full transcript of Channel 4 Dispatches programme on Lutfur Rahman, the IFE and Tower Hamlets

Labour: London borough becomes ‘Islamic republic’

Outside the Wellington Way polling station in Tower Hamlets yesterday, as at many other polling stations in the borough, people had to run a gauntlet of Lutfur Rahman supporters to reach the ballot box. As one Bengali woman voter went past them, we heard one of the Rahman army scolding her for her “immodest dress.”

That incident is perhaps a tiny taste of the future for Britain’s poorest borough now it has elected Mr Rahman as its first executive mayor, with almost total power over its £1 billion budget. At the count last night, one very senior figure in the Tower Hamlets Labour Party said: “It really is Britain’s Islamic republic now.”

Please click over to the Sheik for the rest of this excellent and important article.

Here is a little clip KitmanTV put together on the chief advisor to Lutfur Rahman, ‘Adel Al-Kalbani’ in Tower Hamlets.

I feel I have to add my two cents to this clip. 1 cent, Every time I see one of these guys I imagine a table at an Italian restaurant that is missing its cloth and the second cent…

Wouldn’t it be just grand if he meant that for Muslims ‘visiting’ Western lands and not just as he does, for infidels in Muslim countries.

The Muslims are coming. Phyllis Chesler and CBN

In France, young Muslims have been rioting for days—not about the age of retirement but in a display of hostility towards the French Republic; some are now describing this violence as “anti-French racism.” In Holland, young Muslims riot incessantly and call out the vilest hate speech imaginable against America, Israel, Jews, Holland, and infidels—and yet Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, is still the one on trial for telling the truth about Islamic jihad because it offended some Muslims.

No, the Wilders trial is not yet over; three judges must first agree with both the defense and the prosecution who have both asked that all charges be dropped.

Meanwhile, in the United States, Juan Williams was just fired by NPR aka National Palestinian Radio for admitting that he, like so many others, including many Muslims, “feels” some trepidation when he sees Arabs in Islamic clothing board a plane.

But Americans face an even more serious danger than offended Muslims or foreign and home grown Muslim terrorists.

Contrary to many fears, sharia (Muslim religious law) cannot be imposed. It is unlikely that sharia law will overthrow American constitutional law or that American judges will issue rulings based on the Qur’an.

But here’s what can happen; in fact, it is already happening.

Voters in Oklahoma will soon be voting on a “Save our State” bill which passed the Republican-controlled state legislature. The proposed Oklahoma legislation (State Question 775) is essentially a preemptive strike against the possibility that sharia law might become either an acceptable alternative to American law or that it will supersede it.

In 2004, in Oklahoma, the U.S. Justice Department helped a 6th grade girl win the right to wear hijab in public school. The Justice Department said: “No student should be forced to choose between following her faith and enjoying the benefits of a public education.” Many Muslim Americans have used American law to argue for their right to wear hijab, receive special halal food, segregate a public swimming pool, obtain foot baths at universities, etc.

For the rest please check out Newsreal Blog were this post is from:

Australia: male journalists ordered out of courtroom while Muslim woman testifies without niqab.

I predicted this. I knew it would only be a matter of time before sharia standards would be granted formal legitimacy and folded into western court proceedings. This woman refused to remove her niqab at a previous hearing, so to satisfy her irrational sensibilities, the judge decided that sacrificing Australia’s own laws of gender equality to suit Islamic gender apartheid practices would be a fair cultural exchange.

From The Australian

Muslim woman removes niqab to give evidence, as male journalists are barred from court

  • From: AAP
  • October 18, 2010 5:28PM

A MUSLIM woman who sparked a national debate when she asked to give evidence in court wearing a niqab has uncovered her face to testify in a fraud trial.

Tasneem, whose last name has been suppressed by the Perth District Court, gave evidence for just 15 minutes today in the trial of Anwar Sayed.

Mr Sayed, 50, is accused of falsifying student numbers at the Muslim Ladies College of Australia in Kenwick, in Perth’s south, to fraudulently obtain part of $1.125 million the school received in state and federal government grants.

Tasneem, 36, has worn a niqab since the age of 17 and wanted to wear it while giving evidence in the trial.

But Judge Shauna Deane in August ruled she must remove the face-covering garment so that the jury could see her facial expressions.

Tasneem only removes the niqab when she visits the doctor and dentist, at customs in airports and when she has her driver’s licence photograph taken.

Judge Deane last week ruled that to make it easier for Tasneem to give evidence comfortably, men would be removed from the court.

The only men allowed in the courtroom while she gave her evidence today were male jurors, the judge’s usher, Mr Sayed and the lawyers.

While female journalists were allowed to stay in the court to report on Tasneem’s evidence, male journalists were ejected.

A lawyer representing Network Ten and the Seven and Nine networks made an application on Friday to alter the order so that male journalists could remain in court, but the application was rejected.

Giving evidence via video link today, Tasneem appeared comfortable, flanked by a security person and a support person, both of whom were female.

During her brief evidence she explained that she worked at the school as an Islamic studies teacher for two hours a day, five days a week.

Tasneem said that “from time to time” some students would go overseas on holiday or to visit family, mostly in Afghanistan, so it was possible they were enrolled at the school, but did not attend for long periods of time.

Mr Sayed is the director of Muslim Link Australia, which runs the Muslim Ladies College.

He allegedly knowingly signed a declaration that in the 2006/07 census year, more than 180 students were enrolled in the school when there were 80 to 100 fewer than that.

The school received about $164,000 from the state government and about $961,000 from the federal government.

The trial continues.

AAP