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Brits are too polite and scared of offending ‘vocal and aggressive Muslims’, claims former Obama adviser

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H/T UK Pete

Daily Mail:

  • Professor Lawrence Krauss spoke out after debate at UCL last week
  • Islamic group tried to enforce segregation between men and women
  • Leading physicist threatened to walk out unless it was stopped
  • Suggested Brits were too polite to object to such practices

By Steve Robson

PUBLISHED: 11:23 GMT, 16 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:55 GMT, 16 March 2013 British society is scared of offending a ‘vocal and aggressive’ Muslims, claims a former adviser to Barack Obama.

Prof Lawrence Krauss made his comments after threatening to walk out of a debate hosted by an Islamic group at the University College London where organisers would not allow men and women to sit together.

The Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) told women to sit at the back, while men and couples were sent to the front. Three people who objected were ordered to leave.

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Theoretical physicist and professor of physics Lawrence Krauss threatened to leave if men and women continued to be segregatedTheoretical physicist and professor of physics Lawrence Krauss threatened to leave if men and women continued to be segregated

Ban: UCL said today that the Islamic Education and Research Academy were no longer allowed to hold events thereUCL said that the Islamic Education and Research Academy were no longer allowed to hold events there

The public debate last week was on the subject ‘Islam or Atheism: Which Makes More Sense?’

Ignoring audience jeering, Prof Kraus told an organiser: ‘Either you quit the segregation or I’m not interested.’

He returned when staff allowed men and women to mix.

 

Well. Democracy in Libya is going well now, isn’t it?

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H/T Magic Martin.

At this time I would like to point out that democracy has pretty much bugger all to do with voting for stuff and everything to do with the nature and structure of the institutions of government such as ‘justice’ etc. Don’t watch if you are squeamish.

UCL adopts sharia law for public debate, separating women from men

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Archbishop-Cranmar:

University College London is one of our great seats of learning and foremost among UK centres of research. Founded in 1826, UCL was the first university in England to be established on an entirely secular basis: students were admitted irrespective of their religion, and gender equality was a foundational statute.

So it is all the more surprising that a public debate was held on 9th March at which the audience was segregated by gender (ie women in the cheap seats at the back). It was hosted by the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA), and the topic was: ‘Islam or Atheism: Which Makes More Sense?’. It pitched atheist Professor Lawrence Krauss against Hamza Andreas Tzortzis (described variously as ‘a lecturer on Islam’ or an ‘Islamist extremist’). He agitates for a global caliphate and isn’t particularly disposed to Jews, gays, adulterous women or democracy. He has publicly denounced liberty:

“We as Muslims reject the idea of freedom of speech, and even the idea of freedom. We see under the Khilafa (caliphate), when people used to engage in a positive way, this idea of freedom was redundant, it was unnecessary, because the society understood under the education system of the Khilafa state, and under the political framework of Islam, that people must engage with each other in a positive and productive way to produce results, as the Qur’an says, to get to know one another.”

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BBC staff told: Don’t wash your feet in the sink!

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H/T Magic Martin

London Loves Business:

1 February 2013 | By Asa Bennett

 

Standards have sunk to a new low at the BBC as workers in the News Department are knee deep in battling a hygiene crisis.

Health and safety experts have stepped in to check everyone is toeing the line, putting up a sign in the new Broadcasting House offices’ kitchen warning staff not to wash their feet in the sink.

Pork at the Arveyres cafeteria (33): the Mayor finds his car vandalized

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Translation: Bear

South West France

A meeting is planned to “appease” the tensions but mayor Girondin maintains his decision to abolish the meals of substitution of pork at the school cafeteria.

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the decision to abolish the meals of substitution of pork at the school cafeteria creates debate. But the Mayor Benoit Gheysens (small square in picture) maintains his decision

 

the announcement of the decision of Benoit Gheysens the mayor of d’Arveyres of no longer proposing the meal of substitution when pork is served at the cafeteria has triggered numerous reactions. And amongst those one was particularly vicious.

“some individuals broke into my house over night and vandalized my vehicle. I noticed this morning at 0830 hours” explains Benoît Gheysens who deposited his complaint to the police. Two perforated tires and scratches on the body that the elected judges “inadmissible”: “They come and walk into my private life. I do not see the interest of continuing my engagement in public life in these conditions. I will finish my mandate but I am not sure I will present myself again.

Although what he defines as “means of pressure” will not make him come back on his decision “it is a question of economics, of justice and equality for the children. I hear the reaction of the parents and am ready to receive them, to listen to them but to go as far as vandalizing my personal property it goes too far.”

from now on, the mayor of d’Arveyres looks for “appeasement”. This wednesday night. a meeting between the mayor and representant of parents of students permits according to the two parties to look forward to a solution for the end of march break the 18 of March.

A new meeting will take place that day in order to verify the menus of the next three months. the goal being according to Benoît Gheysens “that the meals be balanced, even without meat and that there is no double. Meaning that we do not find saussage in the entree and pork in the main course…

Taliban declares war on India, wants Sharia law imposed

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Niti Central

By NitiCentral Staff on March 4, 2013

Taliban declares war on India, wants Sharia law imposed

In its January 9, 2013 issue Urdu daily Hindustan Express reported that leader of Tehrik Taliban Pakistan Waliur Rahman Khan announced sending of terrorists in Kashmir and pledged to fight for the imposition of Sharia law in the State.

The US has already declared a bounty of $50 lakh on Waliurrahman for his involvement in the killing of CIA officials in Afghanistan in 2007. Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehmood released a video in which he states to begin Jihad in Kashmir, India and the US.

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40 lashes under ‘Islamic law’: men guilty of assault

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H/T The Observer

Quite a day for Australian-Islamic news. Interesting how some of the Islamic community attempted to divorce the sharia component from this 100% sharia punishment for the ‘crime’ of imbibing alcohol that this convert to Islam did. Below the ‘click for more’ I will post a video on this exact thing from July 19 2011 as well as another one on Islamic attitudes on Australia at the time. Quite revealing and rather contrary to the tone of this article.

SMH.Com.Au

Stephanie Gardiner

Reporter

Men leaving Burwood Local Court accused of occasioning actual bodlily harm on Christian Martinez when he was whipped 40 times with a cord. Zakaryah Raad 21 photographs Ben Rushton October 22 2012Zakaryah Raad leaves Burwood Local Court last October. He has been found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company. Photo: Ben Rushton

Four men have been found guilty of giving a Sydney electrician 40 lashes with a cable, which they said was a punishment under Islamic law for drinking alcohol and using drugs.

Zakaryah Raad, Tolga Cifci, Wassim Fayad, and Cengiz Coskun were today convicted of several charges relating to whipping Cristian Martinez, a convert to Islam, in July 2011.

Mr Fayad counted out the lashes and when he came up to number 10 … he gave Mr Martinez a break. Mr Martinez went into the bathroom and vomited.

Magistrate Brian Maloney told Burwood Local Court on Thursday it was an extremely unusual case.
Men leaving Burwood Local Court accused of occasioning actual bodlily harm on Christian Martinez when he was whipped 40 times with a cord. Wassim Fayad 44 photographs Ben Rushton October 22 2012Wassim Fayad leaves Burwood Local Court last October. He has been found guilty of assault and stealing. Photo: Ben Rushton

“Until now, assaults occasioned in the course of a religious practice involving the mortification of the flesh have not been before any court in any common law country.”
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Mr Maloney said that, from the outset, prosecutors were clear the case was not about sharia, or about the Islamic faith.

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And below, what do Muslims in Australia really feel about sharia law?

Maldives girl to get 100 lashes for pre-marital sex

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BBC:

By Olivia LangBBC News

Maldives

Rights groups have urged the government to abolish the punishment

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A 15-year-old rape victim has been sentenced to 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex, court officials said.

The charges against the girl were brought against her last year after police investigated accusations that her stepfather had raped her and killed their baby. He is still to face trial.

Prosecutors said her conviction did not relate to the rape case.

Amnesty International condemned the punishment as “cruel, degrading and inhumane”.

The government said it did not agree with the punishment and that it would look into changing the law.

Baby death

Zaima Nasheed, a spokesperson for the juvenile court, said the girl was also ordered to remain under house arrest at a children’s home for eight months.

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“…It is happening frequently – only last month there was another girl who was sexually abused and sentenced to lashes.”

 

Muslim patrols could become more prevalent and more violent, warns anti-extremist

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The Telegraph:

Muslim patrols stalking British streets could become “a lot more dangerous” and perhaps even willing to maim or kill, the head of an anti-extremism organisation has warned.


By Rosa Silverman8:01AM GMT 30 Jan 2013
As British jihadists venture abroad to capitalise on the aftermath of the Arab Spring and then return to the UK, they are likely to bring a greater level of violence back home, Maajid Nawaz, the chairman of the Quilliam Foundation, suggested.
His comments follow incidents in which groups of Muslim vigilantes, dubbing themselves ‘Muslim Patrols’ have approached Londoners and demanded they behave in an Islamic way by not drinking.
They have also told women to put more clothes on, claiming they are entering ‘Muslim areas’.

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Saudi vice police order shops who employ men and women to put up segregation walls to keep them apart

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Daily Mail:

  • Shops have been ordered to erect dividers to keep men and women apart
  • The dividers need to be at least 5ft 3in, religious police said
  • Saudi Arabia’s strict sharia law ban men and women who are not immediate relatives from socialising

By Sara Malm

PUBLISHED: 19:59 GMT, 29 January 2013 | UPDATED: 20:00 GMT, 29 January 2013

Shops in Saudi Arabia have been ordered to put up walls to separate their male and female employees in accordance with the country’s strict vice laws.

The barriers need to be at least 5ft 3in high and will keep staff from seeing and communicating with workers of the opposite sex.

This follows Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islam which prohibits men and women who are not immediate relatives from socialising.

Segregation: Shops in this mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will have to erect barriers to separate their male and female employees as religious law prevents mingling of men and women who are not blood relativesSegregation: Shops in this mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will have to erect barriers to separate their male and female employees as religious law prevents mingling of men and women who are not blood relatives

The news comes only days after the religious police, known as the Mutawa, said there would be no punishment for men who frequent shopping malls and public spaces in their underwear.

The new and controversial trend among young men is to go out in public wearing only undershirts and trousers, normally worn underneath the traditional robes.

 

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Al Qaeda’s Timbuktu prison where women locked up and lashed for being immodest

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Daily Mail:

  • Woman shows prison where she was locked up and lashed for letting veil fall
  • Timbuktu residents have spoken of rule under Islamists who have now fled
  • The city was re-taken by French and Malian troops over the weekend

By James Rush

PUBLISHED: 20:57 GMT, 29 January 2013 | UPDATED: 23:06 GMT, 29 January 2013

A Malian woman has spoken of how she was thrown into an Islamist prison and given 15 lashes a day for letting a veil slip off her head.

Residents in Timbuktu have been speaking for the first time of a rule of fear under Al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels, who had controlled the city until it was re-taken by French and Malian troops at the weekend.

People have been openly smoking on the city’s streets for the first time in months – something that would have earned them swift retribution only a few days ago.

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Imprisoned: A Malian women has spoken of how she was locked up and lashed 15 times a day for letting her veil slip off her headImprisoned: A Malian women has spoken of how she was locked up and lashed 15 times a day for letting her veil slip off her head

 

Prison: The woman showed the two square metre cell which she had to share with up to 14 other detaineesPrison: The woman showed the two square metre cell which she had to share with up to 14 other detainees

Punishment: The woman said she was taken to the jail and beaten 15 times a day for letting her veil slipPunishment: The woman said she was taken to the jail and beaten 15 times a day for letting her veil slip

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“Muslim patrol” homophobic abuse victim comes forward

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H/T EDL Buck:

East London Advertiser:

Robin de Peyer Monday, January 28, 2013
5:51 PM

A man who was subjected to homophobic abuse by a self-styled “Muslim patrol” in Whitechapel has come forward to police.

The man is now being questioned after police submitted an appeal for him to make himself known to them last week.

It is part of an ongoing investigation into a series of incidents on the weekend of January 12 and 13.

Several videos of vigilantes patrolling the streets of Whitechapel were uploaded to YouTube. In one, shot in Commercial Street, a man is told to: “get out of here you fag… don’t stay around here any more”.

Other videos show passers-by being harassed and told to pour away their alcoholic drinks as the vigilantes tell them to leave the area surrounding the East London Mosque.

A spokesperson said: “The Metropolitan Police Service takes these incidents very seriously and is pursuing various lines of enquiry with a view to identifying and prosecuting the individuals concerned.”

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