“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
Thanks to Blazing Cat fur for the tip on this one.
Islam when it is asserting itself as dominant, and forcing infidels to feel themselves subdued and under willing submission, likes to destroy any representational art as its some form of superstition that any recreation of a living thing is insulting to thier god, who apparently cannot do anything for himself and has to have seventh century psychopathic lunatics do his work for him.
In that spirit… well watch the video.
From The Daily Mail U.K.
By Niall Firth
Last updated at 12:04 PM on 16th July 2010
More than 2.5million users will leave Facebook unless certain Islamic pages are reinstated, it has been claimed.
A template letter that has been pasted into numerous Facebook pages accuses founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior members of Facebook of ‘ignoring the feelings of more than 2.5million Muslims’.
The Muslim community is angry that four extremely popular Islamic pages were removed from the site and the letter warns that unless its demands are met Facebook’s Muslim users will move to an Islamic alternative.
The letter demands not only that the pages are reinstated but that new rules are introduced which make it a violation of Facebook’s terms to post anti-Islamic comments.
And Facebook is given notice that unless the changes are introduced then 2.5 million Muslim users will leave to join madina.com, a social networking site for Muslims.
The letter reads: ‘Although you have attended the world’s best communication skills courses you have been most successful in growing great hatred and hostility between you and Muslims around the world, but seriously this time you have caused an almost unrepairable [sic] damage.’
Facebook has been warned that Muslims will leave unless certain pages are reinstated
It also accuses Facebook of ‘irresponsible behaviour’ for allowing to host ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ pages which sparked controversy for encouraging users to draw portraits of the Prophet.
There is no specific ban on images of Allah or the Prophet Mohammed in the Koran but there is one line which is commonly taken to mean that it is impossible for human hands to recreate his likeness. To attempt to do so would is an insult to Allah, it is believed.
The letter demands that the four deleted pages are reinstated, disrespecting Islamic religious symbols is banned and any Facebook page which does so is disabled.
Madina.com was a social networking site set up specifically for the Muslim community.
It pledges to abide by the ‘highest Islamic principals’ and encourages Muslim unity. Female users are asked not to use pictures of themselves as profile pictures.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said that the Islamic pages, which included ‘I love Mohammed’ and ‘Quran Lovers’, were taken down because they were being used to ‘spam’ users, which is against the company’s policy.
From TROP
By Karina Ioffee
NEW YORK | Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:15pm EDT
Supporters say there are more than 100,000 Muslim students in the public schools, or about 12 percent of the enrollment. Continue Reading →
From The Daily Mail U.K.
By Daily Mail ReporterWCs at Rochdale’s Exchange shopping centre will include two Nile pans alongside traditional western toilets when they reopen following a refurbishment.
The pans differ from western toilets as the user is able to squat over them, rather than sitting.
They are preferred by some members of the Asian community for cultural reasons and were installed to give staff and customers the option of using them.
The decision to install pans in the ladies and gents toilets came about after centre management attended a cultural training course with community activist Ghulam Rasul Shahzad. Continue Reading →
by Baron Bodissey
Last month’s Counterjihad meeting in Zurich was a milestone for several reasons, one of them being the participation of a substantial contingent of French delegates. Gandalf*, who has appeared several times previously at Gates of Vienna and blogs at Vérité, Valeurs et Démocratie, gave a presentation on his proposed Alliance to STOP Sharia.
In the wake of the meeting a group of people from a number of European countries (plus the United States and Canada) began preparations for the launch of the Alliance to STOP Sharia as an umbrella group that can apply anti-sharia strategies across the entire West.
Countries with secularism written into their constitutions encounter a problem with any official effort to oppose Islamization. How can Islam be stopped when the state is enjoined not to interfere in religious affairs? In particular, the constitutions of France and the United States forbid any state meddling with religions. We Americans have the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and the French have an official policy of laïcité — the complete removal of religious matters from the purview of the government.
The Alliance, however, is completely unconcerned with Islamic religious beliefs — as far as it is concerned, Muslims may believe whatever they want. Instead, the focus is on Sharia, or Islamic law.
Last week Gates of Vienna interviewed Gandalf about the reasoning and methodology behind the planned alliance.
Q: You say that you do not take issue with Islamic beliefs or religious doctrines, but only with the body of law known as Sharia. Could you please explain the reasons for your focus on Sharia?
A: Well, let’s begin with Islamic beliefs and religious doctrines. We cannot take issue with someone’s beliefs for the simple reason that we are respectful of their human rights. In a democratic society you have the right to believe what you want; it’s as simple as that. Let me add that having issues with what’s inside your neighbour’s brain seems a very unproductive way of spending your time.
Sharia is an entirely different matter, Sharia in an occidental society is of a political nature (politics being the thing that rules society). In a Muslim society Sharia is of religious essence but we are not in a Muslim society, and we don’t have to consider their weltanschaaung in this matter.
Some people pretend to introduce something they consider as a body of laws into our society. Laws regulating individual and collective behaviour, morals, clothing, food, justice, matrimonial relations, sexual life, inheritance, citizenship status, and even what you are allowed to believe or not believe. Laws voted by nobody, laws absolutely incompatible with the principles of democracy, laws violating each and every human right you can think of, laws rejecting our basic civilisationnal concept of human dignity, and you ask why we focus our concerns on the Sharia?
Let me return your question by asking this: why hasn’t everyone in our democratic countries focused yet on the Sharia problem we are facing today?
Some clever souls say that it only concerns Muslim people, why should we care?
What is a Muslim? A new kind of citizen having different rights and obligations? A new kind of citizen denied the benefits of his constitutional rights, of his basic human rights — especially if this Muslim person is a woman?
We don’t know what a Muslim is, and to be really honest, we don’t care. But we know what a free citizen is and we know what Sharia does to people: it enslaves them in a degrading servitude. Sharia is mental slavery, that’s why we take issue with it. Continue Reading →
From CNN World
Paris, France (CNN) — France’s lower house of parliament Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a ban on any veils that cover the face — including the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women.
The vote was 335 to 1, with 339 lawmakers not voting.
The measure must still go to the French Senate before it becomes law. The Senate is expected to vote on it in the week of September 20.
French people back the ban by a margin of more than four to one, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found in a survey this spring.
Some 82 percent of people polled approved of a ban, while 17 percent disapproved. That was the widest support the Washington-based think tank found in any of the five countries it surveyed.
Clear majorities also backed burqa bans in Germany, Britain and Spain, while two out of three Americans opposed it, the survey found.
The French Council of Ministers approved the measure in May, saying veils that cover the face “cannot be tolerated in any public place.” Their approval sent the bill to parliament.
The parliamentary vote is the latest step in France’s efforts to ban the burqa, niqab and other Muslim garments that cover a woman’s face.
A panel of French lawmakers recommended a ban last year, and lawmakers unanimously passed a non-binding resolution in May calling the full-face veil contrary to the laws of the nation.
“Given the damage it produces on those rules which allow the life in community, ensure the dignity of the person and equality between sexes, this practice, even if it is voluntary, cannot be tolerated in any public place,” the French government said when it sent the measure to parliament in May.
The bill envisions a fine of 150 euros ($190) and/or a citizenship course as punishment for wearing a face-covering veil.
Forcing a woman to wear a niqab or a burqa would be punishable by a year in prison or a 15,000-euro ($19,000) fine, the government said, calling it “a new form of enslavement that the republic cannot accept on its soil.”
The measure would take effect six months after passage, giving authorities time to try to persuade women who veil themselves voluntarily to stop.
The French Council of State has warned that the ban could be incompatible with international human rights laws and the country’s own constitution. The council advises on laws, but the government is not required to follow its recommendations.
Amnesty International has repeatedly urged French lawmakers not to approve the ban.
“A complete ban on the covering of the face would violate the rights to freedom of expression and religion of those women who wear the burqa or the niqab in public as an expression of their identity or beliefs,” said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s expert on discrimination in Europe, in May.
If the French bill is approved by the upper house and signed into law, it will be the first national ban in Europe on the burqa, a full-body covering that includes a mesh over the face, and the niqab, a full-face veil that leaves an opening only for the eyes.
The hijab, which tightly covers the hair and neck but not the face, and the chador, which covers the body but not the face, apparently would not be banned by either law. However, a 2004 law in France bans the wearing or displaying of overt religious symbols in schools — including the wearing of headscarves by schoolgirls.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life estimates that France has about 3.5 million Muslims, or about 6 percent of the population.
France does not keep its own statistics on religious affiliation of the population, in keeping with its laws requiring the state to be strictly secular.
From The National Post
Barbara Kay July 12, 2010 – 4:20 pm
Nathan Denette / National Post
Muhammad Shan Parvez, left, and Waqas Parvez — brothers of murderer teenager Aqsa Parvez — leave a Brampton, Ont., courthouse on Dec. 14, 2007.
The Minister for Status of Women, Rona Ambrose, gave a press conference today on “culturally-driven violence and so-called ‘honour crimes.’ ” The occasion prompting her remarks was the official release of a position paper on the growing problem of culturally driven violence in Canada’s immigrant communities by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, the subject of my July 7th column.
The report, Culturally-Driven Violence Against Women: A growing problem in Canada’s immigrant communities, was written by Aruna Papp, a counsellor to immigrant men and women caught up in domestic conflicts. Ms Papp, an immigrant from India who herself suffered a great deal of culturally-related abuse, has emerged as an expert on South Asian cultural gender roles and honour/shame-related behaviours. Ms Papp has written about the subject of culturally-driven violence in the National Post.
Reflecting opinions expressed in the report, the minister endorsed Ms Papp’s most important points, emphasizing, with regard to honour killings, “These heinous acts cannot be justified by cultural relativism or excused under the guise of political correctness.” Continue Reading →
From CTV News
By: The Canadian Press
Date: Monday Jul. 12, 2010 10:59 AM PT
MONTREAL
— A woman alleged to have stabbed her daughter in the head in a so-called “honour crime” has been declared fit to stand trial.
Johra Kaleki will return to Quebec court on July 26 for a bail hearing. The prosecution says it will seek to have Kaleki remain behind bars.
Kaleki, 38, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon against her own 19-year-old daughter.
She had been sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation at the defence’s request, and the results were deposited with the court Monday.
“There were two things that were evaluated: her fitness to stand trial and her responsibility,” Crown prosecutor Anne Gauvin told reporters outside the courtroom.
“At this stage, she comes back fit and responsible.”
The Crown said it would oppose Kaleki’s attempt at bail because of the emotions involved in the case.
Johra Kaleki, 38, is seen in this artist’s rendition during court proceedings, Monday, June 14, 2010.
Gauvin argued unsuccessfully that Kaleki should be barred from speaking with her family, notably her husband Ebrahim Ebrahimi.
Ebrahimi will be the one putting up bail in two weeks’ time. The Crown fears there will be pressure on the victim to alter her testimony or simply not testify at all.
“It (parental pressure) could change the way it’s related in court,” Gauvin said.
“She’s (the victim) sort of facing her mother, what happened to her is not something ordinary and the pressure is there.”
The incident occurred inside the family’s Montreal-area home in the early morning hours of June 13.
The daughter is said to have returned home after a late night out and police said Kaleki was in a hysterical state.
Initial police reports suggested Kaleki’s husband tried to stop the attack.
Police quickly reached a conclusion that they were dealing with a so-called “honour” crime — an attack by a family on one of its members for an act believed to have brought shame to the family.
Ebrahimi has said the case was a misunderstanding and has pleaded with authorities to release his wife and reunite the family.
The 19-year-old victim, the eldest of four daughters, has since returned home after spending some time in hospital.
By MAX DELANY and JASON STRAZIUSO (AP) – 1 hour ago
KAMPALA, Uganda — Somalia’s most dangerous al-Qaida-linked militant group claimed responsibility Monday for twin bombings in Uganda that killed 74 people watching the World Cup final on TV, saying the militants would carry out attacks “against out enemy” wherever they are.
Al-Shabab, whose ranks are swelled by militant veterans of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, has long threatened to attack outside of Somalia’s borders, but the bombings late Sunday are the first time the group has done so.
“We will carry out attacks against our enemy wherever they are,” Rage said. “No one will deter us from performing our Islamic duty.” Continue Reading →
Where is Henry V when you really need the man?
Here is a 27 minute Finnish TV documentary where the reporter interviews the main imam of Finland about what offends Muslims about drawings and why, and she also takes his explanation to three cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard, who drew the famous bomb-turban Mohamed drawing, and Lars Vilks of Mohamed roundabout dog-Mohamed drawing fame.
She then asks them to do a drawing as an answer to the imam and takes it back to him for his comment. He does what Muslims always do. Demand that Islamic rules be followed by all in the name of tolerance etc.
Iran, having enjoyed wild success on delaying action against their nuclear weapons program, seem to be employing the same technique on getting people off their back on the issue of stoning women to death who had a confession beaten out of them by whipping.
From CTV News:
From The Guardian U.K.
Fifteen could still die in horrific sentence after being allegedly convicted of adultery
An Iranian woman at a protest in Brussels highlights the barbarity of death by stoning, in which women are buried up to their necks in front of a crowd of volunteers. Photograph: Thierry Roge/ReutersTwelve Iranian women and three men are on death row awaiting execution by stoning despite an apparent last-minute reprieve for a mother of two who had been facing the horrific sentence after being convicted of adultery.
Human rights groups and activists welcomed a wave of international publicity and protests over the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who was awaiting execution in the western Iranian town of Tabriz after what her lawyer called an unjust trial and a sham conviction.
The Iranian embassy in London said in a statement that “according to information from the relevant judicial authorities” the stoning would not go ahead. If confirmed it would be an victory for a brief but intense campaign that was first highlighted by the Guardian last week.
However, there are still concerns over her plight. In a previous case a prisoner who was to be stoned was instead executed by hanging. Continue Reading →
From Dec 2009, its quite well done though.