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‘Honour killings’ of females on rise in Canada: Expert

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From Canada.Com:

By Shannon Proudfoot, Canwest News ServiceJuly 23, 2009 8:46 PM

As many as 5,000 women and girls lose their lives — most at the hands of family members — in “honour killings” around the world each year, according to the United Nations.

Up to a dozen have died for the same reason in Canada in the last decade, and it’s happening more often, says Amin Muhammad, a psychiatrist who studies honour killings at Memorial University in Newfoundland.

“There are a number of organizations which don’t accept the idea of honour killing; they say it’s a Western-propagated myth by the media, but it’s not true,” he says. “Honour killing is there, and we should acknowledge it, and Canada should take it seriously.”

Kingston, Ont., police are now investigating that as a motive in the deaths of three teenage sisters and an older female relative who were found in a car submerged in the Rideau Canal in Kingston on June 30. The girls’ mother, father and brother were arrested on Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder.

“In our Canadian society, we value the cultural values of everyone that makes up this great country, and some of us have different core beliefs, different family values, different sets of rules,” Kingston Police Chief Stephen Tanner said at a news conference on Thursday. “Certainly, these individuals — in particular, the three teenagers — were Canadian teenagers who have all the freedom and rights of expression of all Canadians.”

He added that he’d received an e-mail from an extended family member of the girls, suggesting honour killing was to blame for their deaths. Continue Reading →

Kingston Police Call It A “Muslim Honor Killing.”

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From Phyllis Chesler and Pajamas Media:

Family Charged with Four Counts of First Degree Murder and Four Counts of Conspiracy to Commit Murder

At 2pm est today, on a CFRA radio press conference, it was announced that the police have finally described the deaths of four Afghan-Canadian girls and women, as a “Muslim honor killing.” If the police are right, this is the fifth known honor killing in Canada since 1999 and it brings the death toll to nine victims. I am no statistician but I have friends who are and they tell me that this is a very high number given that the Muslim and Sikh population in Canada is no more than one million.

Let’s hear it for the Canadian police! They have just charged the Shahi family with counts of first-degree murder and four counts of conspiracy to commit murder in this case. In other words, they understand that both classic and often unique honor murders are planned and performed by families, not only by individuals.

Kingston police chief, Stephen Tanner said “It was a needless and senseless loss of human life…They had their lives cut short by members of their own family.”

Only once, in 2008, did our own FBI describe an honor killing as an honor killing. They did so in the case of the Said Dallas case but within ten days, they retracted that description. One can only imagine why. (And one does not know what the Canadian police or prosecutor will ultimately say).

This is also the second Afghan-Canadian honor killing. The first one took place in 2006, and was a brother-on-sister murder. The brother, Hasibullah Sadiqi, shot his sister and her fiancée in a shopping mall in Ottawa. Sadiqi stood trial in 2009.

Here is the background to this latest developing story in Canada.

DisplayPhoto.ashxThey married in Kabul in 1979, the year the Russians invaded. Rona Amir Mohammed was Mohammed Safi’s first and only wife—that is, until it was clear she could have no children. At some point, he married a second wife, Tooba Mohammed Yahya, with whom he had four (or seven) children: three daughters and one son. The daughters were all born in Kabul, the son might have been born in Dubai. They all moved to Canada two years ago.

No one in St. Leonard, a suburb of Montreal, knew that Safi was living with two wives. Rona, his first wife, was an intimate member of the family, variously introduced as a “relative,” an “aunt,” a “cousin.” From a Muslim point of view, Safi behaved honorably because he did not divorce or banish his first wife even though she was infertile. How polygamy itself as well as secretive polygamy may psychologically affect a family is another matter entirely. And, while Safi may have appeared westernized, that was far from the truth.

Last month, 50 year-old Rona, 19-year-old-Zainab, 17-year-old Sahar, and 13-year-old Geeti were mysteriously all found dead in a car submerged in the Rideau Canal. The car entered the canal backwards. This suggests that Rona had co-parented these girls and perhaps that she supported their westernization.

Is this really an honor killing? I am not sure but let’s consider these facts:

Safi, a polygamist, considered his eldest daughter Zainab, to be a “rebel.” He accused her of having a boyfriend. He also told the police that Zainab had taken the car “on a joyride.” Safi mocked Zainab’s driving ability.

The fact that his first wife was found dead along with the second wife’s “rebellious” older daughter suggests that Rona might have argued for Zainab or might, herself, have longed for a more westernized life. I am not sure why the two younger girls also had to die. Perhaps they were seen as already too influenced by their older sister. Maybe they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Well, it could have been a mysterious accident. But yesterday, the police arrested Mohammed Safi, his second wife, Tooba, and their eldest son on their way to Montreal’s Trudeau’s International airport. Why would they be leaving at this point? Where were they going?

Atlas Shrugs has the photos of the marriage between Rona and Mohammed of thirty years ago. Rona’s sister, Diba Massomi, sent them to the police. It was she who first suggested that this was an honor killing.

Massomi emailed the Kingston police and said that “for some time, my sister and the Shafi couple’s oldest daughter Zainab, had been receiving death threats for social, cultural, and family reasons.”

Family members charged with first-degree murder in Kingston canal deaths

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Picture 7.jpgFrom The Ottawa Citizen:

KINGSTON, Ont. — Three family members from Montreal were charged Thursday in the deaths of three young sisters and a woman last month in Kingston, Ont.

The girls’ father Mohammad Shafii, mother Tooba Mohammad Yahya and 18-year-old brother, Hamid Mohammed Shafii, were each charged with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of conspiracy to commit murder, Kingston police said at a news conference Thursday.

“It was a needless and sensitive loss of human life,” said Kingston police chief Stephen Tanner. ” . . . They had their lives cut short by members of their own family.”

The bodies of three sisters — Zainab Shafii, 19, Sahar Shafii, 17 and Geeti Shafii, 13 — and their female relative Rona Amir Mohammed, 50, were discovered in a submerged car, near the Kingston Mills locks on the Rideau Canal June 30. The older woman has now been confirmed to be the girls’ father’s first wife.

While Kingston police have always referred to the deaths as suspicious, they revealed Thursday that they had been looking at this case as a homicide all along.

A coroner’s investigation has been completed but police say they will not release the cause of deaths of the four women until they are before the courts.

The three accused had told police the family were returning to Montreal after vacationing and visiting relatives in Niagara Falls.

The family, travelling in two cars, stopped at a hotel late at night during the trip and, according to Yahya, the girls’ mother, that her eldest daughter had asked for the keys to their Nissan Altima.

Yahya said she assumed her daughter wanted to practise driving and took the car without permission before it somehow ended up in the canal.

Police said Thursday that the three accused were actually the ones who “operated” the Nissan.

The second vehicle, a Lexus, which had been driving back to Montreal by the girls’ brother, has been linked to the crime scene, police said.

Investigators said it took three weeks to make the arrests because it was a “unique” case involving information coming in from overseas. Tanner confirmed that an email was received by police by someone who claimed to be a relative. He would not say if it was from Diba Masoomi, a woman living in Niort, France who claims to be the older woman’s sister. He said that would be revealed at a later date.

Three children aged 8 to 15 have been taken in child protection services in Montreal.

The three sisters were all born in Kabul, Afghanistan. Their family moved to Dubai in the 1990s and to Canada two years ago.

An honour killing? Ontario police make arrests:

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From the Whig, a Kingston Ontario paper where the drownings occured:

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Posted By ROB TRIPP RT****@*****IG.COM

Updated 2 hours ago

Kingston Police have arrested at least three people in connection with the mysterious deaths of four Montreal women found in a submerged car in Kingston Mills on June 30.

Police sources confirmed the dramatic development in the case yesterday, 22 days after a black Nissan Sentra was found in roughly three metres of water near one of the four locks.

Three teenage sisters were found dead in the car, Zainab Shafi, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with a 50-year-old woman, Rona Amir Mohammed.

La Presse newspaper in Montreal said three people who were heading to Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport were arrested yesterday morning.

Initially, police said the case was suspicious but that they had not found evidence of foul play.

It’s not clear what charges are being laid, but the Whig-Standard learned that Kingston Police have been investigating, for at least two weeks, the allegation that the deaths were an honour killing. Continue Reading →

Arrests in bizarre drownings, report says

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Couldnt be an honour killing could it? No nothing to see here folks the canal is full of cars full of drowned Muslims all the time.

National Post:

The mystery surrounding the deaths of three Montreal sisters and a relative whose bodies were found in a car in the Rideau Canal deepened yesterday as three people were arrested in Montreal, Global National reported.

The three were reportedly on their way to Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at the time of their arrest.

Police would only say publicly yesterday that the status of their investigation into the Kingston-area deaths last month had changed.

Neighbours who spoke to Canwest News Service said investigators from both the Montreal and Kingston police forces spent several hours at the victims’ suburban home on Tuesday night.

Kingston police have scheduled a news conference for this afternoon and were expected to make an announcement about the status of the investigation.

Arrests in bizarre drownings, report says

Died in Rideau Canal

Mike Drolet and Paul Cherry, Global National; Canwest News Service; Published: Thursday, July 23, 2009

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    The mystery surrounding the deaths of three Montreal sisters and a relative whose bodies were found in a car in the Rideau Canal deepened yesterday as three people were arrested in Montreal, Global National reported.

    The three were reportedly on their way to Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at the time of their arrest.

    Police would only say publicly yesterday that the status of their investigation into the Kingston-area deaths last month had changed.

    Neighbours who spoke to Canwest News Service said investigators from both the Montreal and Kingston police forces spent several hours at the victims’ suburban home on Tuesday night.

    Kingston police have scheduled a news conference for this afternoon and were expected to make an announcement about the status of the investigation. Continue Reading →

Malaysia case crucial for understanding sharia courts in west

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In the past few years there have been a number of complex issues facing the western world in terms of Islamic demands for accommodation within non western cultures. The two most important and confusing perhaps, are the notions of sharia courts and Islamic financing within the greater context of western law and banking systems.

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Many Muslims and apologists tend to argue that in many nations including Canada, Jewish and Catholic systems of family jurisprudence are already set up and operating, so it is a gross travesty to not allow Muslim sharia courts to operate also.

The problem is as it often is, the intellectual slight of hand of what I call ‘the levels of abstraction game.’

Let me illustrate:

‘Catholicism is a religion. Judaism is a religion. Islam is generally thought of as a religion. So if the first two can operate their own system of family law etc, within the greater western framework why cannot Muslims?’

This question is tantamount to:

‘Hitler wore pants, Mary Tyler Moore wore pants, 1960s TV beauties must therefore lead the Nazi party.

Consider this example from multicultural Malaysia where sharia courts operate along side secular courts.

Malaysian court orders Muslim woman to be flogged with a cane for drinking beer:

Tue Jul 21, 6:43 AM

By Julia Zappei, The Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – An Islamic court in Malaysia has sentenced a Muslim woman to be flogged with a rattan cane for having a beer in a nightclub, a court official said Tuesday.

It is rare for a woman in Malaysia to be sentenced to caning – a punishment usually reserved for men in various crimes ranging from rape to bribery.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno was sentenced Monday to six lashes and a fine of 5,000 ringgit ($1,400) for consuming alcohol, said a Shariah High Court official who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to make public statements.

Shukarno, a 32-year-old model, pleaded guilty in the court in eastern Pahang state to a charge of drinking beer when Islamic authorities raided a hotel nightclub in August 2008.

Consuming alcohol is a religious offence in Malaysia only for Muslims, who make up nearly two-thirds of the population. Offenders are prosecuted in Shariah courts, which handle cases mainly related to family and moral issues for Muslims.

Most offenders are fined, but the law also provides for a three-year prison term and caning. Shukarno was the only Muslim caught in the raid at the Pahang nightclub.

Malaysian clubs and lounges typically serve alcohol but are not legally required to check if customers are Muslim before serving them, so the hotel nightclub operators were not charged with any offence.

Shukarno plans to appeal the sentence, the New Straits Times daily reported.

The punishment “is aimed at making the accused repent and serves as a lesson to Muslims,” the newspaper quoted Judge Abdul Rahman Yunus as saying.

The judge did not elaborate on why he imposed a relatively severe sentence, but local media noted that he had a history of being tough on alcohol offenders.

Rattan canes used in the punishment are made from palm plants common in tropical parts of Asia. They have been used for decades for corporal punishments in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

The caning sentence is generally carried out by specially trained officials at prisons

Now how many reading this imagine that this woman had any choice whatsoever in the matter of what court she would be tried in? Clearly she had no options. She cannot simply declare herself ‘not a Muslim’ as that would mean apostasy and she would be killed for it. There is no rational comparison between sharia law and Jewish or Christian law, in as much as such a thing even exists, whatsoever. Only Islam is a complete system, legal, religious, sexual, even absurdly medical. It is crucial that Islamic apologists do not further inculcate gullible westerners with relativist nonsense. Islam is so different from religion as we think of it, that it must not be allowed the usual exceptions and privileges of Christian and Jewish traditions to secular law. As another example, a church may from time to time harbour certain people who take refuge from the law. This is an ancient tradition where the church agrees to certain concessions and the state agrees to allow them certain minor immunities. Shades of Norjiega hiding at the Papal Nuncio in Panama spring to mind. However churches are never fronts for bomb making factories and mosques so frequently are, it isn’t even news anymore.

Mosque in fact, equals arsenal. Ultimately, we in the west must come to certain realizations. We are being hoodwinked by our own leftists who use this intellectual slight of hand to force us to concede to false comparisons with respect to Islam. These concessions may destroy our own culture values and freedoms as it did the indigenous people of the various nations Islam now lays claim to today.

Remember, no nation which is now Islamic simply converted by choice. All where conquered even Saudi Arabia itself and by bloody conquest, deception rape and theft.

More on the Chicago terror recruit confrence

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Hizb Ut-Tahrir: Shariah Takes Precedence over U.S. Constitution

Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the international movement to re-establish an international Islamic state ­ or Caliphate – kicked off a new campaign to win American recruits Sunday afternoon in this Chicago suburb. Nearly 300 people packed the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel for its Khalifah Conference on “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam” to listen to listen to HT ideologues blame capitalism for World War I and World War II; the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown; the current violence in Iraq and Afghanistan; world poverty and malnutrition and inner-city drug use.

A speaker identified as Abu Atallah even blamed capitalism for the late singer Michael Jackson’s decision “to shed his black skin.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir aims to restore the Caliphate that existed during the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk abolished it in 1924 in an effort to create a secular, Europeanized state.

Security at the conference was very tight. Oak Lawn police maintained a checkpoint outside the Hilton, and local police and HT’s own security people had a substantial presence inside the hotel. In the ballroom where the conference took place, men and women were largely segregated, with men in the front and women in the back. This became a significant point of contention between HT supporters and several members of the audience who objected to this arrangement. At one point, an unidentified Hizb ut-Tahrir speaker became flustered over this line of questioning.

“Men and women,” he blurted out, must be kept separate “to prevent people from behaving like animals.”

A woman in the audience responded: “How does intermingling between men and women make you animals?” HT panelists didn’t have a persuasive answer, and soon adjourned that session.

The conference was sometimes poorly organized. There was no list of speakers, forcing reporters to sometimes guess at the spelling of speakers’ names. But HT certainly appeared to be serious about working for the larger goals of the conference: abolishing capitalism and imposing Caliphate rule over the world. Continue Reading →

The ‘Golden Age of Islam’ refuted once and for all time.

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Man, I am tired of people parroting the feel good line about how great it was to live under the multiculti splendour of Islam in its so called ‘Golden Era’ when they ruled Spain and much of Europe. Here is Andrew Bostom quoting Islamic Jewish and Christian scholars of the day on what that was actually like. Watch it a few times. I have and it keeps on getting better with each viewing.

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Where should amputated limbs be buried? Today’s Islam Q&A

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Where should amputated limbs be buried?

h/t Grace

What is the ruling on amputating a specific limb of a person, such as a finger, etc. Should it be thrown out with the garbage, or should they be collected and someone appointed to bury them in the Muslim graveyard?

Praise be to Allaah.

This matter is open, because amputated limbs do not come under the same ruling as the whole person. There is no reason why they should not be put with the garbage, but burying them in the ground out of respect towards them is preferable. But the matter is open, praise be to Allaah, as we said. They do not have to be washed (ghusl) and buried unless it is a foetus of more than four months’ gestation. But if it was merely flesh into which the soul had not yet been breathed, or it was an amputated finger or something similar, then the matter is open. But burying it in the ground is good and is preferable.

Kitaab Majmoo’ Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi’ah li Samaahat al-Shaykh al-‘Allaamah ibn Baaz , vol. 9, p. 436

Many people convicted without due process of ‘creating mischief in the land’ will be relieved to know the above when they have their various bits chopped off.

Tribal customs? This is just standard vanilla Islam.

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KARACHI: The Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid (LHRLA) held a press conference for a couple and their children who being victims of tribal customs, on Wednesday.

Ghulam Sarwar and his wife Rahila Ghulam, residents of Tehsil Jhat Pat, district Jaffarabad, Balochistan said If the government would not provide them immediate protection, they would have no other option left, but to marry their three minor daughters to unknown men in accordance with the jirga’s decision.

The couple said that they had married out of choice about five years ago but Rahila’s family was not happy with this decision and they summoned a jirga regarding the case about three years back.

The jirga decided that the couple would have to marry off four daughters and also give Rs 1.5 million for their rebellion against the tribal customs.

The jirga comprised of Rahila’s father, Mir Dost, her three uncles namely Shah Dost, Arbab and Ali Dost and her cousins, said Ghulam Sarwar. Later, Rahila’s father decided that we would have to pay a fine of Rs 500,000 and marry off four of our daughters, he added. We paid the revised fine but declined to marry our daughters as they were just toddlers, the exasperated man added.

I have three minor daughters Paras, 4, Sughra, 2, and Rehmat who is just eight months old and I will not marry my daughters to my paternal uncles, said Rahila while bitterly crying.

The couple said that Rahila’s uncles had been threatening that they will face dire consequences if the daughters are not given soon, while they also sent armed men to their house on July 7. They narrowly escaped being caught and killed and fled to Karachi.

They have lodged an FIR against the members of the jirga and are awaiting help from the government. ppi

Karachi Kids trailer.

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This needs to be seen by everyone. Will try and find whole film.

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Muslim man enslaves Jewish woman, rest of the story too horrible for headline

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Please go over to The Force of Reason to see the video made showing how this man is in fact no more and no less than being what Mohammed commanded followers of his religion to be and to do. Warped, disgusting and sad but it does no good to not know.

From Israel National News:

Woman Tells of Being Saved from Arab Husband-Turned-Jailer

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Over 500 women heard the dramatic story this week of a woman rescued from her Arab husband-turned-jailer by the anti-assimilation Yad L’Achim organization. The gathering took place in the central Israel city of Elad.

The women were treated to a unique, first-time appearance of a young woman who was rescued by Yad L’Achim volunteers from the Arab village in which her husband kept her captive.


“At the last moment,” she recounted with tears, “the people of Yad L’Achim were able to save me from inside the village. They were truly selfless.”

She told how she was first brought to the Galilee village, without even knowing that her new husband was not Jewish. The woman detailed the physical suffering and mental anguish she underwent during the period in which she was, for all intents and purposes, incarcerated in the Arab town.

The audience was even more enraptured when the woman’s two children – typical Arab youngsters until recently, who have now returned to their religion – recited the fundamental Shma Yisrael prayer with great devotion.

“By the merit of Yad L’Achim, I have now returned to my nation and my people, in a secret and well-furnished apartment,” she said with heartfelt appreciation.

Three Children Saved, Three Still in Hamastan
The participants also heard a heart-rending case of Jewish children left alone and stuck in Hamas-run Gaza, after their Arab father was killed during Operation Cast Lead. Their mother was able to escape to Israel with three of her children, aged 5-8, but her two twin daughters, aged 3, and her 10-year-old daughter, are still there, being raised by their grandfather. The elderly Arab says he will be glad to return the daughters to her, if she merely agrees to marry her husband’s brother. Continue Reading →

Anti-blasphemy law passes by one vote in Ireland

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I see this as the beginning or perhaps closer to the middle of the process of Balkinization of Ireland. Couple the story below with recent threats against foreigners and the usual North South Irish issues and the upcoming vote for the EU constitution, and you have a recipe for factionalization in Ireland. I hope I am being naive and under informed on this matter.

This article shows that the enemies of freedom are not just Islam and the left. The conservative Christian right here and there seem to have some of the same desire to crush debate and genuine freedom of speech required for a free and democratic not to mention secular society. I find this terrifying. Those who believe in the central pillars required to maintain civilization are being squeezed tighter and tighter by more sides.

I do not know who said this although it is credited to many, but the phrase ‘I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend with my life you’re right to say it’ has become nearly extinct as a popular sentiment and with it, the light of progress, civilization, tolerance and liberalism.

Eeyore for Vlad:

From The Examiner:


On Friday July 11th, 2009, Ireland passed the Defamation Bill by one vote. One of the aspects of this bill would make it illegal to criticize religion… any religion under penalty of fines up to 25,000 Euros. That is the equivalent to nearly $35,000.

When I first heard this story on the internets, I was certain that it was a false story. I read the story, googled it, checked out legitimate Ireland news sites, and double checked more Ireland news sites. The story checks out. It seems that the Blasphemy Clause of the Defamation Bill was challenged in the legislature by an amendment which would delete such a clause. The amendment to delete the clause initially passed by one vote, but a request was made for a “walk-through vote.” During that time two more Senators came in and voted against the amendment to delete the clause. This meant that the clause would stay in the bill. The bill then passed by the same margin.

Here is an excerpt from the Blasphemy Clause:

Section 36

(1) A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €100,000. [Amended to €25,000]

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if (a) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and (b) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.

This part of the bill makes it illegal to criticize any religion either verbally or in writing. Saying anything in which a “substantial number” of followers might find offensive would now be a crime in the Ireland. But the bill goes even further. Here is another excerpt:

Section 37

(1) Where a person is convicted of an offence under section 36, the court may issue a warrant (a) authorising any member of the Garda Siochana to enter (if necessary by the use of reasonable force) at all reasonable times any premises (including a dwelling) at which he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that copies of the statement to which the offence related are to be found, and to search those premises and seize and remove all copies of the statement found therein, (b) directing the seizure and removal by any member of the Garda Siochana of all copies of the statement to which the offence related that are in the possession of any person, specifying the manner in which copies so seized and removed shall be detained and stored by the Garda Siochana.

The Garda Siochana is the Irish police who can now (under this law) break into people’s homes and confiscate copies of any book which might be critical of any religion. I keep trying to point out that any religious criticism is a crime, because many Christians are critical of differing religions. Atheists are not the only ones being targeted here. Simply claiming that the Pope is not infallible might be considered blasphemous to many Catholics. Claiming that the prophet Joseph Smith was not really visited by angels and given magic golden plates would be blasphemous to Mormons. Mentioning the prophet Mohammad without adding the phrase “peace be upon him” would be considered blasphemous to Muslims. And claiming that Scientology is a sham and that Tom Cruise is crazy would obviously be blasphemous to Scientologists.

What if a Christian claimed that if someone was not saved through Jesus Christ, he or she would spend eternity in Hell? An argument could be made that such a statement and even the Bible itself might be considered blasphemous to other religions. In fact, most religious are blasphemous to other religions. Maybe the Irish police will fine everyone.

Author: Staks Rosch

Staks Rosch is an Examiner from Philadelphia. You can see Staks’s articles on Staks’s Home Page.

Muslims Set Church Ablaze But Egyptian Security Implicates a Christian Copt

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From The Force of Reason blog:

So what do you want to do this Saturday?  Watch some cartoons?  Shoot some hoops?  Read a book?  Mow the lawn?  Hey, I know, let’s burn down a church in full view of some cops and watch its congregants get dragged away to be tortured and falsely convicted.  Totally!

It’s not a weekend in Egypt without some horrific crime perpetrated against the Copts.

By my girl Mary Abdelmassih

(AINA) — In a continuation of the ongoing wave of arson attacks on Coptic places of worship, the Church of St. Abaskharion Kellini, in the village of Ezbet Bassilious, Beni Mazar, was burnt down at noon on July 11 by Muslim village inhabitants. No one was injured.

A source in Bani Mazar Diocese told Free Copts advocacy the fire was instigated and directed as usual by State Security, aiming “to prevent prayers in new churches throughout both the Upper Egyptian provinces of Minya and of Beni Suef.”

Reverend Abraham Phillobos, pastor of the torched Church told Coptic News Bulletin that the Security authorities are trying to falsely implicate the Copt Reda Gamal.

The Church was officially inaugurated on July 3 by the Bishop of Beni Mazar and was licensed for prayer. It was closed on that same day by State Security ‘for security reasons and to avert a sectarian crisis,’ and was placed under continuous guard. Continue Reading →