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Is freedom subjective? This post verbatim from Gates of Vienna.

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The text cannot be improved so I am copying it word for word. Please watch this speech and read who the speaker is.

Is Freedom Subjective?

by Dymphna

On March 14th, Ehsan Jami, a politician in the Netherlands, was in Denmark to accept the Danish Free Press award. What follows below his is speech at that event.

Before you watch it, here’s some background on Mr. Jami. He is a former Muslim, a naturalized Dutch citizen, and the co-founder of the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims.

Ehsan Jami was born in Iran, to an upper-class family, in 1985. His father was a doctor and politically active, which forced the family out of the country. They landed in the Netherlands when Mr. Jami was nine years old.

It wasn’t until after 9/11 that he began to read the holy books of Islam. His father was nominally Muslim and his mother was a Christian. As he began to question the tenets of Islam, he says the greatest gift his family gave him was the freedom to ask questions and to choose. He found Islam unacceptable; at some point he identified himself as an atheist.

By 2007, having gone public with his denunciation of Islam, he was aggressive in his founding of the Committee for ex-Muslims.

In late 2008, Mr. Jami made the infamous film “An Interview with Mohammed”, which you can see here.

Predictably, he was beaten up, threatened with death, and lives in hiding. He quit school. Because of the large immigrant student population, Ehsan Jami is not safe, as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders are not safe.

Here is his speech on March 14th, at the Danish Free Press Society’s award ceremony:

Ehsan Jami from Snaphanen on Vimeo.
Mr. Jami says many things you’ve heard before; perhaps sentiments you have expressed yourself. However, I trust you are not in hiding, or living in the presence of bodyguards because of saying these things.

I won’t go through the whole thing, but there were several points he made that struck me, coming as they do from someone who was born and raised in Mashhad, Iran. Next to Mecca, this is the holiest city of the Shi’ite Muslims. His has been a long path to Copenhagen.

Most of what I say will be paraphrases; I’m not fast at dictation so I took some short-cuts, some of which I had trouble deciphering afterwards. But I think I did get the gist of what Mr. Jami wanted to get across to his audience and to us.
These are the things he said which most stood out for me. They may not be what you find most memorable, but I’d like to hear from people about that: what stood out for you?

Before beginning his speech, he dedicated his award to his mother, expressing his gratitude to her for allowing him to decide his own religious path. After the government put him under security, it was she who came to visit him. You can hear how isolated he felt.
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Some links for Sunday March 15 2009

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Shades of Buffalo, a moderate Muslim in the UK who was an advisor to the government on Islam was arrested for stabbing someone in his home.

A Muslim who advised the Government following the July 7 London bombings has been arrested after an alleged stabbing.

Inayat Bunglawala, 39, was held on suspicion of attacking another man at his £300,000 home.

Mr Bunglawala, who also briefed former Security Minister Tony McNulty on the threat posed by Islamic radicals in the UK, was arrested two weeks before Christmas last year.

Anjem Choudary said he wanted every woman to be covered by a full-length cloak in his vision of Britain under Sharia law. Remember Britain? It’s the place that arrested and sent home an elected member of the Dutch Parliament Geert Wilders as they felt his message that Islam posed a threat to liberal values was one unfit for British ears. Apparently Choudary’s is not.

The lawyer, who praised the Mumbai terror attacks, also said he wanted to see the “flag of Allah” flying over Downing Street, adulterers stoned to death and drunks whipped.

Choudary, 41, sparked fury this week when he branded British soldiers “cowards” and was behind a sickening anti-war protest against troops who were arriving home from Iraq to a heroic welcome.

Last night politicians and fellow Muslims condemned his comments while some called for him to leave the country.

Choudary, the leader of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah, a group set up following the banning of extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, led by now-exiled preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, said he offered “a pure Islamic state with Sharia law in Britain”.

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More on the UN and its anti UN agenda:

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International Humanist and Ethical Union

The UN Human Rights Council is not allowed to judge religions, according to president Doru Romulus Costea of Romania. Criticism of Sharia law or fatwas is now forbidden.

This ruling follows attempts by the Egyptian and Pakistani delegates at the Council to silence criticism of human rights abuse in the Islamic world.

The representative of the Association for World Education, in a joint statement with the International Humanist and Ethical Union, had denounced the stoning to death of women accused of adultery and of girls being married at the age of nine years old in countries where Sharia law applies.

The speaker, David Littman, was interrupted by no fewer than 16 points of order and the proceedings of the Council were suspended for forty minutes when the Egyptian delegate said that “Islam will not be crucified in this Council” and attempted to force a vote on whether the speaker should be allowed to continue.

On giving his ruling after the break Council President Costea said that the Council “is not prepared to discuss religious questions and we don’t have to do so”. “Declarations must avoid judgments or evaluation about religion. … I promise that next time a speaker judges a religion or a religious law or document, I will interrupt him and pass on to the next speaker”.

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Another major attack on women’s rights in Swat

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Sometimes the most vicious attack on a people’s rights are the most subtle. While Vlad has in sadly much gory detail written about attacks on women to enforce barbaric policies, this next story I feel in an important way is considerably more serious.

Notice that I did not use the adjective ‘primitive’ to describe the Taliban’s treatment of women as frankly, there are many if not all societies that predate the Taliban and indeed predate Islam altogether where women had more value to society as well as power. Ancient Rome Greece and Egypt all have records of powerful women and while they may not overall have had the rights of men, certainly life would be better for them than it is under ‘true Islamic states’.

Now the story from Hindustan Times:

The Pakistani Taliban in the troubled Khyber tribal region have warned authorities not to issue national identity cards to women, saying the practice is un-Islamic.

Omar Farooq, the commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in Khyber Agency, warned the National Database and Registration Authority that its offices would be attacked if it issued identity cards to women.

Farooq told reporters on phone from an unknown location that making identity cards for women went against Islamic rules. The Taliban will not allow women to obtain these cards, he said.

He also warned women that they would have to face the consequences if they went to NADRA offices to get themselves registered for the identity cards.

The Taliban in Swat valley of the North Western Frontier Province and parts of the restive tribal have banned girls education and barred women from visiting markets unless they are accompanied by male relatives.

This story quite literally seeks to officially remove the actual status of women as human beings by the state. Women will not be able to have identity cards symbolically of course meaning they can have no identity as individuals but practically, no access to the state whatsoever. Imagine yourselves with no legal papers. I feel this story is considerably more important than the western media does clearly as there appears to be no reports on it whatsoever.

I humbly beg you all to please forward this link to the original source on this, the Hindustan times to any and all media you may know. This cannot go unnoticed and keep in mind. if Obama is to be taken at his word, these are the people he suggested reaching out to.

widow sentenced to 40 lashes for accepting bread

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Khamisa Sawadi, a 75 year old widow living in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months imprisonment for ‘mingling’ with two young men who are not relatives. She had asked them to deliver to her home five loaves of bread. After delivering the baked goods her nephew and his business partner were arrested by the religious police and were also sentenced to lashes and jail time.

This is sharia law in progress.

Meanwhile, there has been virtual silence from Canadian human rights activists and feminist organizations. Judy Rebbick, queen of Canadian gender equality is too busy writing  foolish claims that Israel Aparthied Week in Canada is not an anti-Semitic hate fest to be bothered by the fact that whabbists would cart a senior to a post and lash her, I would suspect, to death.

She is a widow. She is 75. She asked for bread. I invite the lefties, namely the feminist organizations and the NDP (who would have the Alberta oil sands shut down so we could pump more money to our Saudi friends) and any moderate Muslim organizations in Canada to openly denounce these actions. Hmmmm. I’m still waiting for the denouncements for the brutal murder of Daniel Pearl, and the slaughter of school children in Beslan. For those who want to continue chattering on of the qualities of cultural relativism, go ahead. For those who are prepared to stand up to sharia, please contact the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Ottawa or the nearest whabbist centre near you.

Women in Swat.

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Feminists, human rights groups, damn it people in general where the hell are you? Where is the apartheid week on campus for woman’s rights?

Fear of death stalks women in Swat. From Dawn.com

Saturday, 07 Mar, 2009 | 11:27 AM PST |

Veiled young women sit attend a class at a vocational training center at Gulkada area in Swat valley. —AFP


Veiled young women sit attend a class at a vocational training center at Gulkada area in Swat valley. —AFP


PESHAWAR: Terrified, locked up at home and courting death if they go out alone, women oppressed by extremists in Swat have nothing to celebrate on International Women’s Day.

Nearly 100 years after the annual day was created to mark the struggle for equal rights for half the world’s population, most women in Swat look blank and go silent when asked about gender rights and discrimination.

They’re too frightened to speak in public. They can only leave the confines of their homes accompanied by a male relative, their bodies hidden in veils.

‘How can I tell you my name, are you crazy? I was told not to give my name to anyone because the Taliban could hurt me,’ one girl in the ninth grade told AFP by telephone from the former ski resort.

The girl’s dreams of becoming a doctor are over. She worries the Taliban will stop her finishing school, regardless of her parents’ support.

‘My mother told me I can do anything, but my inner soul is shattered.’

‘Tell me if you stop women getting an education where will a sick woman go? Do you want her to go to a male doctor? I was told that education is compulsory for every man and woman in Islam but the Taliban destroyed our schools.’

Militants have destroyed 191 schools in the valley, 122 of them for girls, leaving 62,000 pupils with nowhere to study, local officials say.

Huma Batool – not her real name – is a 42-year-old mother of two who dices with death to teach girls at a private school in the region’s main town Mingora.

‘We have to veil ourselves and wear shuttlecock burqas. We are not safe even at home.
We fear the Taliban all the time. Life is becoming worse and worse for women in Swat,’ she told AFP by telephone.

Educated and financially self-sufficient, she cannot even pop to the shops without a male relative, leaving her frequently couped up at home for hours, waiting for a suitable escort to become available.

‘You cannot imagine how I manage to get to school, practically every day I think about leaving the job and sitting at home.’

‘Life bores us to tears. There is no entertainment. We can’t even think about cable TV, cinema, film and music. Imagine I can’t even go shopping or to the bazaar as women are banned by Taliban.’

Salma Javed, 35, is a nurse at a local hospital, where women – however sick – can only be admitted if accompanied by a male relative.

‘Every woman fears she will be killed if she comes out, so even sick and pregnant women have to visit hospital with their husbands.’

Salma would love to leave, but she cannot scrape together the money to set herself up in Peshawar.

‘Now we are waiting to see what will happen after the peace deal, but let me tell you things will not change for women,’ she said.

The only light in Shahnaz Kousar’s life is that the Taliban – at least for now – are allowing her to go to school in Mingora. But outside her 10th grade classroom, the daily pleasures of shopping and make-up are gone.

‘We are now totally depending on Taliban. There’s not a single shop left where I can go and buy cosmetics, all shops selling women’s things are either closed or empty.’

‘I remember when I used to go to this market with my mother and sisters, but now it seems like a dream.’

The cost of surrender. Christians in Swat

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Here is a link from Asianews on an attack on a Christian community in Swat. In case anyone doesn’t know, the government of Pakistan has surrendered to the Taliban/Al Queda coalition by giving them a homeland in the formerly wonderful Swat Valley.

The Pakistanis refer to it as a peace deal however it is indistinguishable from a surrender in as much as the Taliban now enforces the most draconian version of sharia law similar to what was the norm in pre 911 Afghanistan including but not limited to, the killing of musicians, the public hanging of dancers bodies and flogging and murder of anyone who breaks the most arcane Muslim rules. An example might be, having pants that are too long or not properly shrieking “Allah” when slaughtering animals for meat. The bold is mine as there are illustrations here of an ongoing thread at VTB about Islam and the arts.

Please find the text of the article below:

PAKISTAN
Muslims attack Christian community in Punjab
One woman has been killed, and 28 people have been injured at the Presbyterian church in Songo. Violence is on the rise in the Swat Valley and in the northern regions. Thousands of people are fleeing after the introduction of sharia, including many teachers and entire families. In Takhtbhai, in the district of Mardan, there have been bomb attacks on 16 music stores.

Peshawar (AsiaNews/Agencies) – One woman has died and 28 people have been injured in an attack on the Presbyterian Christian community in the village of Songo, in the district of Gujranwala, province of Punjab. The attack took place on the evening of March 2: at 8 p.m., a group of Muslim inhabitants opened fire on the faithful who had gathered in the church for prayer. The woman, named Shakeela, died on the spot, while other members of the faithful suffered injuries of various kinds while they were seeking to flee from the bullets or to protect the pastor. The attackers broke the windows of the church, destroyed the Bibles and the other prayer books, and removed the cross from the roof of the building.

The victims of the attacks say that this was a premeditated action, and recount that in the previous weeks they had received a number of threats from the attackers. The authors of the attack have been identified, and a report against them has been filed at the local police station. The Pakistan Christian Post says that for now, the security forces have turned down the request for investigations on the attackers. For this reason, the burial of the woman’s body has been delayed, to permit an autopsy in evidence of the attack.

The attack in Songo is added to a long list of violent events that are now being seen more or less everywhere in Punjab and in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). The attacks are carried out by the Taliban, but also by ordinary people, and they are not coming to an end in the Swat Valley, where a fragile ceasefire has been attained by the government, thanks to the concession of introducing sharia in that district and in the district of Malakand.

During the night of March 5, the Taliban blew up 16 CD and DVD stores in Takhtbhai, in the district of Mardan northeast of Peshawar, the capital of the NWFP. It is one of the many places in the province that in recent months have come under the grip of the Taliban. In February, it was the theater of attacks against girls’ schools, carried out by Islamic fundamentalists, and in spite of the fact that the agreement between the Taliban and the government provides for the reopening of schools to girls, many are afraid of fresh violence.

Since the beginning of the year, people have been abandoning the Swat Valley by the thousands. These include many families and a number of teachers, who have formally stated that they are going on vacation. One mother who left the district recounts: “All the best teachers from my children’s schools have left. I do not think they will go back. According to my relatives there, many children have gone back to school, but there are now too few teachers.”

shariah justice; a contradiction in terms

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Vladtepes has decided to install a regular series on shariah. We felt it important to do so since there is some confusion surrounding the term itself;  it’s meaning, application, extension, foundation, history and narrative. Proponents of it in the west would have us believe it to be nothing more than a benign set of Islamic  judiciary laws dealing primarily with marriage and divorce, yet closer inspection reveals it’s all encompassing and immutable reality. Sharia must be understood in terms of it’s entirety and the far reaching implications and consequences it bears.

Shariah is the body of Islamic religious law, the legal framework by which all aspects of life are regulated based on Islamic principles of jurisprudence. It deals with all aspects of daily life; politics, economics, banking, contracts, family, sexuality, hygiene, and social issues. It is also the antithises of liberal secularism, a set of religiously pious and absurd constructs unparalelled in it’s opposition to democratic principle and fundamentals. The Muslim Brotherhood describes shariah as ” the real effective way out of all sufferings and problems”.

Patrick Poole of Frontpage magazine wrote in May 2006 of the discovery of the Muslim Brotherhood’s twenty-one year old document known as “The Project”. The contents clearly point to an intentional, long term and multi-pronged approach, a manifesto written to fulfill their desired plan of ‘cultural invasion’ to aid in the conquest of the west. The MBH established in 1928, is arguably one of the older organizations during modern times which has devoted itself in the re-radicalization process, with offshoot groups such as al-Qaeda and Hamas actively participating in jihad on it’s behalf. It clings to the credo: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope”. Keeping this in mind, their endorsement of sharia isn’t exactly the mark of sterling rationale or collective sanity but is an ever faithful testament to their dangerous mandate of supremacy and domination, shariah sanctioned of course.

In 2004, Canada had been tested in terms of the proposed adoption of Islamic law. Syed Mumtaz Ali, the lawyer and shariah advocate who sought it’s implementation gleefully stated ” every act of your life is to be governed by shariah. If you are not obeying the law, you are not a Muslim.” He was referring clearly to the laws of Islam and not of Canadian law. Although the proposal was smacked down due in large part to national and international objection and it’s inclusion as a parallel system rejected, his statement offered us a glimpse of shariah reality.  Islam is shariah and shariah is Islam.

Of those opposing the creeping implementation of shariah two groups immediately come to mind. The first, Women Against Shariah are of the view that Islamic law cannot be allowed to flourish in any way. By virtue of it’s inherent discrimination of non-Muslims, appalling record of human rights abuses and open violations of equality it (shariah) calls for immediate ridicule and eventual abandonment. Women Against Shariah’s description is succinct:

“it is our position that shariah law imposes second class status on women and is incompatible with the standards of liberal western societies and the basic principles of human rights that include equality under the law and the protection of individual freedoms. The sharia code mandates the complete authority of men and women, including the control of their movement, education, marital options, clothing, bodies, place of residence and all other aspects of their existence. Further, it calls for the beating, punishment and murder of women who do not comply with shariah requirements.” Women Against Sharia’s mission is “to prevent and outlaw the imposition of shariah law in the United States for both Muslim and American women as either a parallel legal system or a replacement for existing laws”.

The second, Muslims Against Shariah, is an Islamic reform movement. This group strives to educate Muslims of the dangers presented by Islamic religious texts and the need for reform, to instruct non-Muslims of the differences between moderate Muslims and Islamists and to reinforce the truth that increasingly moderate Muslims are also the targets of Islamic terror. Both organizations are solid in their committments and provide numerous articles relaying the oppression and cruelty that accompany shariah. Both are also brave in their refusal to be coerced and dominated by a centuries old legal system unfit for the 21st century.

Writing for American Thinker, James Arlandson writes one of the best articles I have come across on shariah. “Top ten reasons why shariah is bad for all societies” is a must read for anyone wishing to understand this complex issue. His writing is thorough, with well documented articles, quotations from the Quran and hadith and classical legal opinion. Also included are supporting articles which examine the historical and literary context of each Quranic verse that is cited.

I do believe that shariah is bad for all societies. I also believe that to support Muslims who fully understand it’s horror is not only an act of compassion but one of absolute necessity. Shallow excuses of inaction will only lead to more gratuitous cruelty, stifling oppression, religious decadence and death in the name of Islam.

Guilty charge on ‘fecal jihad’ case UK

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Vlad recently did its first reluctant post on a phenomenon so disturbing we preferred not to report on at all. The now several accounts of Muslim immigrants contaminating food stuffs and other materials with their own fecal matter and general excreta. Despite having read numerous reports on arrests and suspicions we just felt it was better to let this one go. After all, until you have an actual conviction this sort of thing is just to hard to believe and we as a source of information would lose credibility despite the facts of the matter. Here is a video from before the conviction:

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So today there was an actual conviction. From the BBC news, themselves no stranger to reporting on shit:

Chemist guilty of contamination

Court artist's drawing of Sahnoun Daifallah
Daifallah chose to defend himself in court

An Algerian chemist has been found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of contaminating food and wine by using his own urine and faeces.

Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, of Bibury Road, Gloucester, was found guilty of four counts of contaminating goods at four businesses in May 2008.

Daifallah, who had defended himself, had pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Sentencing was adjourned to allow preparation of psychiatric reports. Daifallah is likely to be deported.

Judge Carol Hagen said: “I find this a very worrying case and the circumstances are alarming.”

She warned Daifallah that if he did not cooperate with authorities in creating pre-sentence reports, it would “reinforce my conclusion that I find you to be a potentially very dangerous man”.

The court had heard the Algerian-born chemist sprayed the mixture in the Air Balloon Pub, in Birdlip, near Cheltenham on 14 May.

He then moved on to the Waterstones bookstore in Cirencester, Tesco in Quedgley and Morrisons in Abbeydale.

The court heard shoppers and staff in both stores saw Daifallah with a black lap top computer with a vapour coming from the bag being sprayed on the shelves

As the earlier post on this issue links to, this would appear to be a tactic right out of the Al Queda handbook. So one cannot accuse these people of being illiterate. Having crappy taste in books perhaps.

Cricket team focus of slaughter in Pakistan

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Sri Lankan cricket team brutally slaughtered by ‘well trained terrorists’. From The Australian. A truly excellent online newspaper. Thanks to ‘R’ our contact in Oz.

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Eight dead as cricketers ambushed

UPDATE | 5:33pm MASKED gunmen opened fire on the Sri Lankan cricket team’s bus in Pakistan, killing at least eight people and wounding team members.

MASKED gunmen have opened fire on the Sri Lankan cricket team’s bus in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least eight people and wounding six team members, police say.

The cricket tour was called off following Tuesday’s attack and arrangements made to fly the visiting team straight home.

Six police officers and two civilians died in the attack, police said.

Star Sri Lankan batsman Thilan Samaraweera was injured and hospitalised while Captain Mahela Jayawardene and coach Australian Trevor Bayliss were among those who sustained minor injuries, officials said.

Up to 12 gunmen attacked the team’s convoy near the Gaddafi stadium with rockets, hand grenades and automatic weapons, triggering a 25-minute gunbattle with security forces, said Lahore police chief chief Habib-ur Rehman.

“They appeared to be well-trained terrorists. They came on rickshaws,” said Rehman.

The attack happened as the team was heading for the third day’s play in the second Test against Pakistan.

Television footage showed several gunmen creeping through trees, crouching to aim their weapons and then running onto the next target.

Broken glass littered the road next to a gun cartridge and an empty rocket-propelled grenade launcher. A police motorbike was shown crashed sideways into the road at the Liberty Chowk roundabout.

Bullet holes ripped through the windscreen of another vehicle and a white car was shown smashed headlong into the roundabout as nervous security officers guarded the site.

Pakistani civil defence experts defused two car bombs and recovered a stash of weapons after the attack, an official said.

Officials gave no details about the fate of the gunmen.

Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse condemned the action as a “cowardly terrorist attack”.
Officials said six team members were wounded and the team was immediately ending its tour of Pakistan.

Assistant coach, Englishman Paul Farbrace, and star batsman Thilan Samaraweera were kept in hospital although their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, said Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge.

Captain Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Tharanga Paranavithana and Ajantha Mendis suffered only minor injuries, he said.

Coach Trevor Bayliss sustained minor injuries, a team official said.

Pakistani authorities were providing helicopters to evacuate the Sri Lankan team.

“This test match has been officially called off,” Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt told reporters in Lahore.

“We are providing helicopters to evacuate the team from the ground to an air base from where they will leave,” Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province of which Lahore is the capital, told reporters.

“We are going to catch these terrorists one way or the other,” he said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but fears of attacks by Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda have caused many teams to postpone or cancel cricket tours to Pakistan in recent years.

The shooting also came as the Sri Lankan army pushed its final offensive against ethnic Tamil rebels in the north of the country in a civil war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

The brazen attack sent shockwaves through the world of cricket and immediately raised doubts about the 2011 World Cup which is due to take place in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

“What has happened is very shocking indeed,” said N Srinivasan, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

“We have been saying that there was a lack of security and safety in Pakistan. But this is not the time to give statements on that. At the moment our concerns are only for the Sri Lankan players,” he told AFP.

Former Sri Lankan cricket coach, Australian Tom Moody, said he was stunned.

“My thoughts and prayers are not only with my friends in the Sri Lankan cricket team, but with the families of everyone that has been killed or injured in today’s attack,” he said.

The attack cast another cloud over Pakistan cricket which has been reeling from a string of cancelled tours and tournaments.

Australia earlier this month forced Pakistan to change the venue of a one-day series to the neutral venues of Dubai and Abu Dhabi when the two sides meet in April-May this year over security fears.

Polygamy, Islam and marriage. Even a whore gets some choice.

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We have made the case before on VTB that the issue is less one of polygamy, (and that is fortunate as the fight against that is lost in the western world anyway) and more of one of forced marriage. Pretty much every western nation has already caved in to Muslim multi-mate arrangements without so much as a debate in the legislatures. However this article, ‘Muslim bride tricked into marriage’ caught my eye today from The Religion Of Peace.

A MUSLIM woman tricked into an arranged marriage presided over by her local imam has had it annulled by the Family Court.

She thought she was signing paperwork in preparation for the ceremony but, because her culture does not allow her to talk to men other than her family, she couldn’t ask questions.
Her brother said he thought things were not right but the family’s strict Muslim culture meant their father and the imam could not be wrong.
He said he was asked to be a witness and told he was signing an engagement certificate – although the document was headed certificate of marriage.

“We are a traditional patriarchal family and it would not be appropriate for me to question my father or the imam,” the brother told the court.

The names of the couple and the imam have been suppressed by the Family Court. It is not the first Muslim “marriage” ruled void by the court.
Justice Nahum Mushin said there had been previous similar cases, including one in which the couple became married when all they thought they were doing was becoming engaged.
In the present case, the 27-year-old “bride” is a public servant from a traditional Islamic family.
She told the court that in May 2007 her family and the family of a 39-year-old Muslim in Canada began discussing an arranged marriage.
She said arrangements were made between the man, a divorced financial planner, and her father “because in our culture it is not acceptable that women speak to men not in their family”.

She first met the man at the airport and three days later the local imam attended the family’s home with a “bundle of papers”.

She was told by her father to dress “appropriately” and waited outside the room until called in, when she signed the documents where she was told.
The “husband” left Australia two weeks later and the couple only discovered they were married when, in January 2008, they agreed via text they wanted to call the engagement off.

The woman told the court the marriage was never consummated.

As we have made the case before, how many wives is certainly a debatable issue. But we in the west need to make something perfectly clear to ourselves and that is how we view marriage at a level so fundamental that we probably do not even imagine that others may not see it as we do. To be clear, the notion that people who get married, consent to it.

The above case is relatively benign. Practically a clerical error. But one can see the potential in it. However hundreds of thousands of true forced marriages take place annually in the Muslim world. Marriages where the woman literally may be killed by her own family should she refuse to be sold like a goat to a man, often a stranger and often very much older.

The media is fond of referring to Muslim arranged marriages. It has a nice old world ring to it. Sort of charming. But many Islamic marriages are more accurately described as ‘forced’ marriages where the female has no actual choice in the matter whatsoever.

When we debate homosexual marriage in western nations it never occurs to anyone whether or not both people wish this arrangement. It is a given. The debate is whether or not a state stamp of approval on this sort of arrangement will have a deleterious effect on the rest of our culture and society. When we debate polygamy it usually has the exact same set of parameters. However anyone who has read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s most excellent book ‘Infidel’ or Bruce Bawer’s turpentine for the eye book, ‘While Europe Slept’ would know that in far too many cases, marriage is a property deal between men in one or more families to consign a woman to a man with absolutely no choice given to the woman and often without even her knowledge of the matter until she is delivered to the man’s address.

These must never be allowed to have state sanction at all. Preferably anywhere on earth but as the UN slides backwards away from any meaningful human rights towards protection of Islam we can forget that. But in western nations that still have a trace of true human rights, surely the most basic of which is the right to self determination in marriage. Even a whore gets to pick her tricks.

Eeyore for VTB

Links for Sunday March 1 2009

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First of all, I would like to mention that today is VTB’s 1st birthday. We have been doggedly blogging for one year today. I wish to take this opportunity to thank especially Grace who researches tirelessly every day for stories especially of Canadian interest that has often caught the attention of the general blogosphere. We started out happy to have four or five readers a day and now are enjoying what I am told, is a good readership for a blog only one year old on a daily basis.

Also the readers of this blog. Because you come and read and comment, it is the juice that keeps us working. Thank you for making this a space you visit. It really does mean a great deal to us especially when you leave a comment.

Also through this blog I have had the chance to meet some truly wonderful thoughtful and dedicated people who have committed themselves to the cause of freedom of the individual usually at great expense to themselves both financially (as this is a very time consuming vocation) as well as no small amount of personal risks as there most certainly are groups out there in pretty much every city in the western world and beyond now, who would do harm to those interfering with the agenda of the various kinds of fascism now threatening all of us.

I would like to particularly thank The Gates of Vienna as well as The Religion of Peace for their support in terms of information as well as general insight and the amazing amount of hard work they do for the cause of raising awareness of the imminent dangers that face us all.

There are dozens of other blogs however from which we have drawn information and inspiration not least of which is Ezra Levant who is a tireless fighter for freedom of speech, One of the corner stones of the anti jihad. As it has been said,

“Take away all my rights and just leave me freedom of speech and I will win the rest back with just that one”.

Many more can be found in our blogroll to the right.

On to some links:

I like all of us I’m sure, have concerns about various political parties who claim to wish to work for the maintenance of indigenous European peoples and cultures. How can we know they are not secretly fascist parties working for a sinister agenda?

As we have seen, many parties in Europe who are in fact classically liberal have been so maligned as an attempt to discredit them by those who are indeed truly fascist. Geert Wilders is constantly referred to by the European press as being ‘a far right Dutch politician’ when of course nothing can be farther from the truth.  I enjoy pointing out to anyone who views him that way that if they can find any far right politician in world history who has been a vocal supporter of homosexual rights, of minority and most importantly individual rights such as to smoke marijuana (A stupid choice but not anyone else’s to make for you) and a staunch supporter of Israel and Jewish minorities than OK Geert is far right.

No one yet has found such an example.

Even so, I have had my concerns about the BNP in the UK. They are often accused of being a front for a kind of neo-nazi movement. I still am not sure but I did find this video from the BNP to be very instructive:

There are other examples of classically liberal parties in Europe which are painted with the labels of fascism. This is a dangerous tactic. It likely will backfire on all of us. Notably the German Pro-Köln. To quote from the Gates of Vienna:

Pro-Köln Gets the Vlaams Belang Treatment

by Baron Bodissey

Under the suffocating strictures of politically correct Multiculturalism, any conservative nationalist party in Europe is certain to be demonized as “neo-Nazi”. In some countries it is all but impossible for a truly conservative party to emerge. Anyone who publicly admits to right-wing convictions is instantly vilified by the political establishment and set upon by the hounds of the media. For this reason, European electoral choices usually amount to Socialism, More Socialism, Extra-Strength Socialism, and — just for variety’s sake — Socialism With Added Environmentalism.

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March for sharia in Englandistan

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What can possibly be the motive for the various levels of government in the UK to so selectively enforce laws that can account for the article below? Can it merely be fear? Have the British become so complacent and timid that they fear any violence at all and move straight to surrender? Often on Vlad we have posted articles showing the dhimmitude of the British but each week something occurs that eclipses the previous events. Last weeks arrest and banning of Geert Wilders at Heathrow airport and now permission to stage a march demanding sharia law in place of British common law, the system upon which Canadian American and Australian legal systems are founded not to mention India and numerous other nations, all of which are the only decent places for human habitation on earth I might add. The UK also agreed to banish a traditional English parade as ‘racist’. Selective enforcement at its most pernicious.

Why no revolt by the public? They care clearly caught in a pincer attack. The violent Muslim immigrants on one hand, and the fear of arrest and having a relatively comfortable life destroyed by their own governments on the other.

Remember, it was not Geert Wilders who first compared Koran to Mein Kampf. It was W. Churchill in his nobel prize winning book on WW2, The Gathering Storm.

Eeyore for Vlad.

HATE PREACHER GETS OK TO RUN SHARIA LAW DEMO
ABOVE: CAMPAIGN: Anjem Choudary
28th February 2009
By Tom Savage and Ross Kaniuk

Demands sharia law in UK

Demands sharia law in UK

HATE preacher Anjem Choudary will march in London today calling for Britain to adopt Islamic Sharia law.

The startling move comes just days after processions celebrating St George were banned for being racist.

Choudary was given the green light yesterday despite a previous demonstration in which some of his supporters chanted: “Bomb the UK”.

Publicity for the march, in the East End, carries 41-year-old Choudary’s personal mobile number and says the aim of the campaign is to “emulate the Prophet and his companions, by calling for Islam and speaking out against the oppression of man-made law”.

It says that Britain is full of “disbelievers” who are involved in prostitution, gambling, alcoholism and worshipping other gods.

The publicity says women are welcome to join the march but they must walk at the back of the procession as “strict segregation will be enforced”.

The demo comes 18 months after three of Choudary’s supporters were jailed for soliciting murder in a London protest against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed published in Denmark.

That was when some demonstrators chanted “Bomb the UK” and “Europe, you will pay with your blood”. Organiser Choudary was fined.

Today’s march won permission after a council withdrew funding for a St George’s Day parade in the Midlands – on the grounds that it was “racist”.

Parade founder Mark Cowles, 40, of West Bromwich, said yesterday: “I can’t believe Choudary’s event can go ahead.

“The British establishment is trying to take away the British voice but other cultures choose to force their way of life on us.”

More on Chaudery from a few sources…

Dragon Dirt:

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary calls for people who get drunk to be flogged

The lawyer, who recently praised the Mumbai terror attacks, said anyone becoming intoxicated by alcohol should be given 40 lashes in public. He claimed alcohol was “the root of all evil”.

The 41-year-old made the remarks on his website Islam4UK, which argues that Britain should become an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law.

Mr Choudary also used the plight of George Best, the former Manchester United footballer who died aged 59 in 2005 after a long battle with alcoholism, to illustrate why it must be outlawed.

He wrote: “Under Islam, all harmful intoxicants will be banned unequivocally, regardless of their classification or their profitability in retail marketing.

“The Final Messenger Muhammad condemned the manufacturing, transporting, retailing and consuming of alcoholic beverages over 1,400 years ago and equated it with being one of the roots of all evils.

“Islam additionally imposes 40 lashes in public for deliberate intoxication, followed by 80 lashes in public if repeated for a second time.”

Mr Choudary argued that alcohol should be “removed from society”.

He also wrote that everything would be “sound” and “put right” if Sharia law was introduced in the UK, adding: “Islam is undeniably the only real solution for Britain’s problems.”

From another UK Blog..

Lots of information and links. Check the link yourself. Its well worth it. This mam Choudary goes beyond fifth column and perhaps even beyond treason as there appears not to be any presence at all to represent England its values customs or traditions but an open call to jihad and the deaths of all who stand in the way of the Islamification of the west, the UK in particular.

Video on UN resolution on defamation of Islam

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This is important. Do not kid yourself. This resolution will attempt to make any observation of Islam and behavior of Muslims around the world illegal should those observations be tactically problematic for Islamic global dominance. This is urgent and needs to be followed closely. Its also powerful evidence that the UN not only has little or nothing to do with its purpose at inception, but is now in fact the enemy. The enemy of all free people and anyone who wishes any degree of autonomy as a group. Chris Hitchens is also interviewed in this piece. We at VTB have been following the UN workings to destroy freedom of speech and worse, the attempt to make criticism of irrational religious authority a crime. This criticism was the very thing that allowed the enlightenment which now appears to be near an end.

Also, this is clearly an attempt to install sharia law by proxy.

If in the past few generations there was anything worth fighting for, the preservation of freedom of speech and from religious tyranny is that thing.

Pakistan. If you read or see nothing else this week…

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Make it this post. This is the most accurate and detailed documentary done so far on the deteriorating situation in Pakistan concerning Taliban and Al Queda in the Swat valley. This is extremely serious. I will be adding information all night on this but watch the documentary for the love of god, freedom, your wife and children, any Jewish friends you may have, for anything you hold sacred. If you think this isn’t going to happen here, wherever here is, I have news for you. It already is.

Add to this new information about the near total impotence of the civilian government in Pakistan, the army’s likely inability to step in and stabilize the country as it did in the early 90s, and today’s dismissal of the premiere of the largest province in Pakistan the Punjab.

I will be adding more to this post over the next 24 hours. There is a lot of information about Pakistan emerging rapidly but I want this video up now. Everyone simply has to see this.
Special thank you to Muslims against Sharia, a most excellent blog for providing me the embed code and for Australia’s four corners for making this. Sit down, get a drink, and watch.

Some links for Feb. 24 2009

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Vladtepesblog clearly exists to make a point. But what if evidence of that same point was so unbelievable that presenting that evidence would make it less likely the point would get made?

Suppose for instance that this was a blog trying to prove the existence of extra terrestrials and there was actual, bona fide verifiable measurable and in plain site evidence of aliens that looked like Barbara Streisand but had 3 bottoms and a forty foot tentacle where a tongue should be.  The temptation for a reasonable site would be not to present it, not because it wasn’t true but because such a thing is so obscene one looses ones credibility even though by all reasonable accounts, the thing is true.

So it is with the ‘fecal jihad’. So far I have managed to avoid reproducing the few reports I have come across of Muslims being arrested and charged in the UK mostly, for having contaminated food stuff at bakeries and so on with their own fecal matter and urine. One such baker collected his own feces, dried it and put the shavings on cakes he sold to an unwitting public. (Granted I make the assumption the public was unwitting. It wasn’t specified that they where but I take the license to assume that there was no sign advertising shit cake.)

So I have avoided republishing these news reports. Until now. This one was just to hard to ignore as the man has been arrested and was found in possession of many bottles of a mixture of feces, urine amonia and delivery devices with labels for cities on each one, and was charged with doing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to foodstuffs book stores and property in general.

A brief quote from the link above to a British Newspaper:

A man who is accused of waging a urine and feces-spraying campaign at two supermarkets, a pub and a bookshop caused £700,000 damage, a court heard yesterday.

Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, is alleged to have squirted a brown, foul-smelling substance from a spray container at four businesses in Gloucestershire on May 14 and 16 last year.

The court heard the man from White City, Gloucester, visited the Air Balloon pub at around 12.45pm on May 14 where police were called after he asked a barmaid Susan Lawson-Bagent how much it would cost to rape her.

When officers arrived Daifallah had gone but he had left a trail of stench behind him which the prosecution say was his calling card.

Stephen Dent, prosecuting, told the jury: “He mixed up an evil potion of various biological ingredients including his own feces and urine.

“It was not until after he had left that staff started to notice a bad smell of excrement.

“We say that this was his little calling card because he did not like the way he had been treated.”

Daifallah then moved on to Waterstone’s bookstore in Cirencester where it is alleged he sprayed the brown substance all over a toilet in the coffee shop.

Staff noticed the smell but it was not until after he had left the store that they discovered a 20-metre area of 38 shelves had been doused in the foul substance.

It goes on in some detail like that. Worth the read. But you get the point. I have read many accounts of this sort of thing and managed to avoid reprinting it or mentioning it in any forum as it is so outrageous that it does more harm than good as one immediately looks like some sort of anti Muslim nutbar and lose all credibility at once. Yes, when I stick to more banal stories about plots by Muslims in the west to kill us all, subject us to barbaric sharia law, end modernity and commit genocide against Jews homosexuals and return us all to the 7th century we are all familiar with this so it doesn’t detract. But a fecal jihad? C’mon you have to be joking.

I wish.

Next, an article from the National Post online on anti semitism in Canada. The comments are a fun read as well. The article is  few days old as I can only manage so much depression in one day. This focuses on Canada’s civil service union, CUPE and its rather extra curricular activity of Israel baiting and extends it somewhat to Jew trashing as it asked that no Jewish professor be allowed to teach at a Canadian university unless they agree to denounce Israel.

On a similar theme, this article also from the National Post online on the global reawakening of antisemitism.

Despite all this I still think Rabbi Meir Kahane , the founder of the Jewish Defence league is wrong when he makes outrageous statements like ‘Every Jew a .22’.

Would require a .32 at least.

Which reminds me of what a friend of mine said when a policeman asked him why he was carrying a Colt 45.

“Because they don’t make a Colt 46”