S.Arabia: Saudi women don’t want to drive, Justice minister

ANSA.It:

Other religions allowed, but no churches on land sacred to Islam

23 April, 16:53

(ANSAmed) – BRUSSELS, APRIL 23 – Saudi Arabian Justice Minister Mohammed al-Isa defended the kingdom’s human rights record at a hearing on Tuesday before the European Parliament’s foreign affairs commission.

”We respect freedom of opinion and human rights, so long as they don’t infringe on public order and the rights of others”, the minister explained. Other faiths are banned from building churches and temples in Saudi Arabia because it is ”a land sacred to Islam. Other uses would be unacceptable. It would be like building a mosque in the Vatican: it’s a question of principle”, the minister said. ”But this does not mean people aren’t allowed to profess other religions”.

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‘MODERATE’ MUSLIM INDONESIA TEARS DOWN CHURCH, PARISHIONERS WATCH IN HORROR

The tolerance just oozes out of their yells of allhu akbar.

indonesia mustards tear down church 23.3.2013

The church group secured more than the required numbers of signatures from local community supporters in order to get approval for the extensions, but local community leaders refused the request under pressure from local Islamists.

Church Demolished in ‘Moderate’ Indonesia!

By  • on March 23, 2013

We are often fed the idea that Indonesia is a ‘moderate’ Islamic nation.  Events on the ground would suggest something very different.  The Australia News Network reports on the demolition of a Christian Church near Jakarta (1).  Click HERE for the Australia News Network Coverage which includes a video about the issue.

Again, we don’t hear a peep from the supposed high priests of religious tolerance at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).  The OIC promoted UNHRC Resolution 16/18 that purports to confront threats to freedom of religion.  It seems very clear that the OIC does not in fact favour religious freedom and Indonesia is an OIC member state.  Perhaps to the OIC, religious freedom only means the freedom to expand the reach of sharia.

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Religious Persecution In Yet Another OIC Member State – Indonesia

ICLA:

By • on March 19, 2013

President Barack Obama and Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2010

President Barack Obama and Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2010

Human Rights Watch has exposed widespread religious persecution of non-Muslims in Muslim majority Indonesia (1).  Some commentators have pointed to Indonesia as a as a ‘moderate’ Muslim country (2) and that includes the obviously easily led British Prime Minister David Cameron. Of course Indonesia is a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), that curious organisation that claims to be in favour of religious tolerance.  Unfortunately, to the OIC religious tolerance actually means tolerance of, and indeed complete acceptance of sharia law.  That is why the OIC claims that freedom of speech leads to ‘defamation of Islam’ in the West but does not seem to mention the actual persecution that goes on in its own member states.

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Christians protest the horror they have endured from Muslims in Pakistan

It should be obvious to all at this point that the call has gone out via the mosques to up the transition from the Mecca phase of Islam to the Medina phase. More plainly, that where Muslims enjoy the numerical upper hand they should act out more and more violently towards non-Muslims where able until “All religion is for allah”

Thanks for this one as well SDAMATT

Interview with assassination attempt victim, Markus Beisicht

On March 13th, 2013, German police foiled an assassination attempt by Islamic radicals on Markus Beisicht, the leader of the Islam-critical group pro-NRW. That evening Markus Beisicht gave an exclusive interview to PI news in Cologne.

This is part I of II. I hope to have the second one done soon.

Timing, Henrik Ræder Clausen Translation: JLH

Youtube version here

Article for this video available here at GoV.Net

Bangladesh war crimes verdict sparks more violence

BBC:

Bangladeshi police stand guard in a street during a clash with Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Thakurgaon, north-west from Dhaka, on February 28, 2013 There was anger on the streets of Bangladesh after the verdict

Protesters clashed with police for a second day, after a senior Islamist party leader was sentenced to death by a special war crimes tribunal.

Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was found guilty on Thursday of charges including murder, rape and torture during the war of independence in 1971.

At least 40 people have been killed as deadly clashes swept the country after the verdict was announced.

Sayeedi’s Jamaat-e-Islami party says the tribunal is biased against it.

The party was opposed to Bangladeshi independence but denies any role in war crimes committed by pro-Pakistan militias. Official estimates say more than three million people were killed in the war.

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For coverage of the ongoing atrocities against all non-Muslims by Muslims in Bangladesh please visit this site often.

 

Indonesia: Religious Minorities Targets of Rising Violence

HRW.Org

Government Inaction, Discriminatory Laws Embolden Militant Groups
February 28, 2013
  • Soldiers walk past a burned Ahmadiyah mosque in Cisalada, West Java province, which hundreds of Muslims burned along with five other houses on October 2, 2010.

    © 2010 Reuters
Yudhoyono needs to insist that national laws be enforced, announce that every violent attack will be prosecuted, and map out a comprehensive strategy to combat rising religious intolerance.
Brad Adams, Asia director

(Jakarta) – The Indonesian government is failing to protect the country’s religious minorities from growing religious intolerance and violence, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should respond much more decisively and adopt a “zero tolerance” policy for attacks on religious minority communities.

The 107-page report, “In Religion’s Name: Abuses against Religious Minorities in Indonesia,” documents the government’s failure to confront militant groups whose thuggish harassment and assaults on houses of worship and members of religious minorities has become increasingly aggressive. Those targeted include Ahmadiyahs, Christians, and Shia Muslims. Indonesian monitoring groups have noted a steady increase in such attacks, one group finding 264 violent incidents over the past year.

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FOX: Report: Iran confiscates Buddha statues to stop promotion of Buddhism

FOX:

TEHRAN, Iran –  Buddha statues have joined Barbie dolls and characters from “The Simpsons” TV cartoon as banned items in the conservative Muslim nation.

Authorities are confiscating Buddha statues from shops in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to stop the promotion of Buddhism in the country, according to a report Sunday in the independent Arman daily.

Iran has long fought against items, such as Barbie toys, to defuse Western influence, but this appears to be the first time that Iranian authorities are showing an opposition to symbols from the East.

The newspaper quoted Saeed Jaberi Ansari, an official for the protection of Iran’s cultural heritage, as calling the Buddha statues symbols of “cultural invasion.”

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These muslims love to hate stuff

Blazing Cat Fur:

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The message reads “Operation Fuck Valentines Day”

“We are Muslims soldiers of Allah”

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Chechnya’s Kadyrov Calls for Crackdown on Sorcery

ABC News:

By MAX SEDDON
MOSCOW February 11, 2013 (AP)

Sorcerers, psychics, and faith healers may be on the way out in Chechnya, where the leader of the mountainous, overwhelmingly Muslim region in Russia’s Caucasus has ordered a crackdown on the practices.

Kremlin-backed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov called on Chechens to steer clear of “charlatans” claiming to have magic powers, whom he accused of exploiting people’s sufferings for money.

Kadyrov said at a meeting with municipal leaders in Grozny, the capital, on Saturday that “turning to wizards and false healers won’t bring them any relief and is banned by Islam,” according to a statement from the Chechen government. He went on to threaten that anyone engaging in such practices would feel the force of the region’s feared security services.

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Preachers of hate who spread their violent word on British TV channels

Telegraph:

 Muslim fundamentalists have used British television channels to preach in favour of violent crime and killing “apostates”.

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Zakir Naik said on the “Dare to Ask” program on Peace TV that if a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his new faith against Islam, the death penalty should be applied
David Barrett

By , and Ben Leach

9:00PM GMT 09 Feb 2013

The communications watchdog, Ofcom, has made a series of rulings against channels which allowed “inflammatory” material to be broadcast in breach of rules which forbid extreme opinions gaining a platform on British television.

The cases, disclosed today, include examples of an imam telling viewers that those who disrespect the prophet Mohammed should be killed, and another broadcaster saying homosexuals should be beaten and tortured.

The stations were found to have committed serious breaches of the broadcasting code by allowing the extreme opinions to be aired unchallenged.

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‘A priceless heritage destroyed by Islamic barbarians’: Dawkins outrages Muslims with comments over extremists damaging library

H/T Bains

Daily Mail:

  • Richard Dawkins’s tweet over library in Timbuktu, Mali, causes offence
  • Some of 600,000 followers say professor was unjustly attacking Islam
  • Later clarifies he ‘does not of course mean all Muslims are barbarians’

By Mark Duell

PUBLISHED: 06:14 GMT, 31 January 2013 | UPDATED: 09:07 GMT, 31 January 2013

Atheist Richard Dawkins has managed to outrage another religion after calling Muslims ‘barbarians’.

The 71-year-old author of The God Delusion was referring to the severe damage caused by Islamist extremists to a sacred library in Timbuktu, Mali, but his remarks were seen as insulting to all Muslims.

Oxford University academic Professor Dawkins told his 600,000 Twitter followers on Tuesday: ‘Like Alexandria, like Bamiyan, Timbuktu’s priceless manuscript heritage destroyed by Islamic barbarians.’

Comments: Richard Dawkins said Timbuktu's manuscript heritage was 'destroyed by Islamic barbarians'Comments: Richard Dawkins said Timbuktu’s manuscript heritage was ‘destroyed by Islamic barbarians’

But his comments were criticised, with some followers claiming he was unjustly attacking Islam and others saying he should be considering vandalism acts by Christians, reported the Daily Telegraph.

Muslim Twitter user ‘Shawa5i Al Nasseri’ from the United Arab Emirates said: ‘You call us barbarians, truly no respect’, before later adding: ‘How do you explain this “destroyed by Islamic barbarians?”’

 

 

Professor Dawkins responded to the comments by saying: ‘You mean you were one of those who burned the books in Timbuktu? No? I thought not. So I wasn’t calling you a barbarian was I.’

He also said to all of his followers: ‘I was calling Islamic barbarians barbarians’, adding: ‘By “Islamic barbarians” I mean those Muslims who are also barbarians. I do not of course mean all Muslims.’

 

Backlash: Professor Dawkins's comments on Twitter were criticised, with some followers claiming he was unjustly attacking Islam and others saying he should have considered vandalism acts by ChristiansBacklash: Professor Dawkins’s comments on Twitter were criticised, with some followers claiming he was unjustly attacking Islam and others saying he should have considered vandalism acts by Christians

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Religious warfare haunts Syria’s villages: despatch

H/T EDL Buck

The Telegraph:

Religious groups that have lived peacefully together for generations have been plunged into savage local conflicts, as The Sunday Telegraph discovered in villages deep inside Latakia Province.

Salma village in Latakia Province close to the front line which resembles a ghost town which is bombed and shelled daily.

Salma village in Latakia Province which is close to the front line and now resembles a ghost town. It is bombed and shelled daily. Photo: Warren Allott

By , Beit Swelheh, Latakia province

8:30AM GMT 06 Jan 2013

Perched on a hillside amid the forests, streams and waterfalls of Syria’s Latakia province, the village of Beit Swelheh was once a place of harmony.

By day, Abo Mohamed al-Shokri, a Sunni resident of the village, would share lifts to work with his Alawite neighbours, and by night they would smoke shisha pipes together, sitting under starlit skies and listening to the call of the crickets.

“Before the war I had a brilliant relationship with my Alawite neighbours,” said Mr Shokri, 40. “We were very friendly to each other, and spent much time in each other’s homes”.

 

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Seven teachers shot dead in Swabi (Pakistan)

H/T Shabnam

More here at the Daily Mail also

 

Pak-Tribune

 

Published: January 1, 2013

Gunmen targeted teachers, including six women and a man, working at an NGO-operated school.

SWABI: Seven teachers, six women and a man, working at an NGO-operated school were shot dead on Tuesday in Swabi, Express News reported.

The incident took place in Sher Afzal Banda area in Tehsil Chota Lahore, when unidentified gunmen targeted the teachers who had just exited the school building.

Earlier in December 2012, the office of an NGO in Muhallah Gulbahar in Swabi was destroyed when a bomb exploded near its building.

In recent months, a number of government and NGO offices as well as CD shops have been targeted by assailants in the relatively peaceful district. So far, police have been unable to arrest any culprit behind these incidents.

Suspected Islamic extremists attack Indian student in Germany

H/T Shabnam

Straights Times:

BERLIN (AP) – Police say an Indian student in Germany has been attacked and injured by suspected Islamic extremists who accosted him and demanded that he convert to Islam.

Police spokesman Frank Piontek said on Thursday that two attackers in the western German city of Bonn severely beat the 24-year-old and then slashed his tongue with a knife.

Police say the attackers walked up to the student in a city street late on Monday and demanded that he convert to Islam – then beat him up after he refused to do so.

The student, whose identity wasn’t given in line with German privacy rules, was taken to a hospital for treatment. He was released a day later.

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And for a little bit of Irony, check out what the German Government is busy propagandizing the citizens into believing and where they want to focus all the guilt like a laser. (H/T to Snaphanen for this one)

Yes while Muslims are creating no-go zones, forcibly converting people on the street and endless lists of terror plots and planned abuses of liberal democracy, the German government is spending millions making sure that no ethnic German harms a single Muslim for any reason and any reason is likely to be a horrible one anyway, right?