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Saudi women turn to social media for the right to drive

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Now I wonder where the flotillas are for Saudi women. Or Saudi ‘apartheid’ weeks, often months it seems, on Western university campus’ to support something which actually does look a lot more like apartheid than anything one finds in Israel. The fact that women are not allowed to drive in a UN member state country merely because they are women and the state religion mandates that women should be disenfranchised of any autonomy in every possible way should be the source of outrage of every college campus in the US, Canada and Europe and indeed, East Asia as well. Instead, university students seem to prefer to be useful idiots and hasten their own dhimmitude.

Even this BBC story manages to utterly avoid the kind of rightful outrage and contempt that they should show towards the Saudi genuine apartheid of women, that they would heap upon any story on Israel, even then the issue is trivial, spun out of all relationship to the facts or outright fiction.

From The BBC:

By Katy WatsonMiddle East business reporter, BBC News

WATCH: Saudi Arabia’s women are forced to rely on men to do the driving – which puts many jobs off-limits, and makes running a business almost impossible

The video shows a young woman getting into her car for a spin around town with a friend. Giggling away, they sound excited yet nervous. And all the while, they comment on the reactions of passers-by.

 

So far, the story sounds uneventful. After all, millions of women across the world drive every day without a second thought.

Only the difference is, this video was shot by 28-year old Solafa from Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world that bans women from driving. Continue Reading →

Britain, OIC agree to develop joint programs

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h/t Snaphanen.dk

By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS

Published: Jun 20, 2011 01:17 Updated: Jun 20, 2011 01:17

RIYADH: The British government has appointed Mohammed Shokat as the UK special envoy to the 57-member Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in a major bid to boost ties between the two.

The OIC and the UK have also announced plans to develop a joint framework of dialogue and cooperation in selected areas and evinced keen interest to hold regular consultations on issues of common concerns, said a British Embassy spokesman in Riyadh Sunday.

The move to promote relations with the OIC is significant for both sides as Islam is the second largest religion in Britain, with an estimated Muslim population of 2.5 million.

The UK is also a permanent member of the UN Security Council besides being a developed country and the world’s sixth largest economy. On the other hand, the OIC, the second largest inter-governmental organization after the UN, is the collective voice of the Muslim world.

A joint draft statement released by the British Embassy Sunday said Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, OIC secretary-general, held talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Minister William Hague that focused on promoting OIC-UK cooperation.

The OIC chief paid a five-day official visit to London last week on the invitation of Baroness Warsi, UK Cabinet minister without portfolio.

During the visit, Ihsanoglu was also received by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Nigel Evans, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Alistair Burt, Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan, UK Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Mark Sedwill, as well as Shokat, said the statement.

Referring to Ihsanoglu’s talks with Cameron and Hague, the statement said a number of issues of mutual interest were discussed including the further development of OIC-UK relations and cooperation, including thorough regular consultation at various levels.

They also exchanged views on the Middle East peace process, developments in some countries in Northern Africa and the Middle East, such as Libya, Syria and Yemen and the situation in Afghanistan, the statement added.

The OIC chief welcomed Shokat’s appointment and expressed his support for him in consolidating the bilateral relationship.

Ihsanoglu met selected British Muslim personalities and exchanged views about their role and activities in society. He commended the valuable and successful work conducted by the British Muslim community and expressed his strong belief that members would set a good example for Muslims in the rest of Europe.

In addition, the OIC secretary-general got together with ambassadors of OIC member states based in London and met representatives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, during his trip.

Both sides agreed to develop a joint framework of dialogue and cooperation between the OIC and the UK on selected areas including international political issues, development aid, humanitarian assistance, science and technology, interfaith dialogue and combating intolerance.

Islam and Anti-Semitism at Yale

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From Front Page Magazine:

Please click over to see the rest of this article, as only the first bit is here.

And so, as I feared, by the end of the first week in June, 2011, Yale University shut down the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA). They gave the initiative, which has been housed at Yale since 2006, until July to clear out.

The Palestinianization and Stalinization of the American professoriate coupled with the likely prospect of funding from the Arab world made this outcome inevitable — as did the non-stop diet of Big Lies about Israel and Jews in the mainstream media, at the United Nations, and in international human rights reports.

Only last year, there were bitter and very public complaints the Palestinians and their supporters made in response to YIISA’s best-ever conference on contemporary global anti-Semitism, which was held last August. And why? Because the scholars gathered by YIISA from at least five or more continents dared to focus on the Muslim and Islamist face of genocidal anti-Semitism.

The YIISA global conference, in which I was privileged to participate, was utterly unique in focusing not only upon the politically correct view of anti-Semitism as a Christian, Western, and European phenomenon, but also on its current and lethal incarnation in the Islamic and Islamist worlds. I, and a lonely and demonized handful of others, had been writing and speaking about this for the last eight to ten years, but this was the first time that voluminous, in-person evidence was brought to bear on this reality.

In the past, I was a single voice crying out. Here, at Yale, my voice was joined by others who had facts, experience, analysis, details and no small amount of drama. I was especially moved by the testimony of the Argentinian prosecutor of Iran’s terrorist plot against Argentina’s Jews, Professor Alberto Nisman. The terrorist mastermind of this heinous plot escaped justice when President Ahmadinejad appointed him Iran’s Minister of Defense. I had not known this. The information was chilling….

Islamist Calls for Slavery’s Legalization

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From Daniel Pipes site:

by Daniel Pipes
November 7, 2003
updated Jun 1, 2011

Most Islamists prefer to avoid the subject of slavery, which is explicitly permitted in the Koran, but Salafis endorse this practice. Ali Al-Ahmed of the dissident Saudi Information Agency reports today that a prominent Saudi religious authority recently called for slavery to be re-legalized in the kingdom. Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, the author of a religious textbook (At-Tawhid, “Monotheism”) widely used to teach Saudi high school students as well as their counterparts abroad studying in Saudi schools (including those in the West), announced in a recent lecture that “Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.” He argued against the idea that slavery had ever been abolished, insulting those who espouse this view as “ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel.”

Al-Fawzan is no maverick. He is:

  • A member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body;
  • A member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research;
  • Imam of the Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh; and
  • Professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, the main Wahhabi center of learning.

That such a viewpoint can be asserted by a card-carrying member of the Saudi religious establishment offers a tragic commentary on the state of Islamic discourse today. (November 7, 2003)

May 18, 2010 update: More pro-slavery nonsense coming out of the Muslim world, this time Egypt and the use of slaves as soldiers: for details, see my weblog entry, “Praising Military Slavery.”

Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini (also spelled Abo Ishaq Alheweny) dreams of buying kafir slave girls.

May 31, 2011 update: An Egyptian sheikh, Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini (also spelled Abo Ishaq Alheweny) wants to apply the Shar’i code of spoils of war, including the taking of slaves. Raymond Ibrahim explains in “Raped and Ransacked in the Muslim World”:

According to Huwaini, after Muslims invade and conquer a non-Muslim nation—in the course of waging an offensive jihad—the properties and persons of those infidels who refuse to convert or pay jizya and live as subjugated dhimmis, are to be seized as ghanima or “spoils of war.” … Huwaini said that infidel captives, the “spoils of war,” are to be distributed among the Muslim combatants (i.e., jihadists) and taken to “the slave market, where slave-girls and concubines are sold.”

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Gen. Boykin on Muslim countries and sharia law.

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Ok here is yet another clip of a credible and experienced person attempting to warn the West on the factual nature of Islam, and how Islam behaves given he slightest opportunity. But why watch it? What’s the point?

The point is that Canada, the US, and Europe are merely several stages before this. The proof, will be published monday in quite an important document. I very much look forward to posting it when its available. But it will be everywhere. When you watch this, and I hope you do, please keep in mind that while there are no surprises here for anyone who is a regular reader of this site and ones like it, these countries are the rule, not the exception. Any nation with more than two or three percent Muslims have mosques. Mosques preach jihad and dominance of all the earth as Mohamed demanded, petulant, murdering, rapist that he was, and all countries which have Muslims have a percentage of those Muslims that work toward the goal of implementing the sharia, be it by stealth, wealth or force.

More on the riots and demos at the Swedish, Saudi sponsored Mosque:

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This from Snaphanen.dk

Hope to get a translation soon but you can at least see the scale of the concern.

Snaphanen.DK sent in this analysis:

Riots at saudi mosque opening in Gothenburg.

Leftists and Muslims hand in hand for wahabism. Can no-one protect these people from themselves ? Should one forgive them, because they dont know what they are doing ?

In Norway Saudi financing is forbidden nowadays.

Sweden is fast becoming the biggest security risk in Scandinavia – we will have to reestablish our borders in near future

Cops: Woman Spit At Walmart Shoppers

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From Click Orlando

21-Year-Old Jailed After Incident At Palm Bay Store

POSTED: Monday, May 16, 2011



Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi
Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi.
PALM BAY, Fla. — A 21-year-year-old woman faces hate-crime charges after she repeatedly spit at a Walmart customer who told her she entered the wrong door and later proclaimed that “Americans are pushing us around,” according to police.Nuha Mohammed Al-Doaifi, a Saudi Arabian national, faces a charge of battery with a hate-crime enhancement after Palm Bay police were called about 1 p.m. Sunday to the Walmart at 1040 Malabar Road to investigate reports of a disturbance.The hate-crime enhancement means that the battery charge could be elevated to a felony.Police said the incident started when Al-Doaifi attempted to roll a shopping cart into the store and struck the exit door.

 

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Six girls flogged after ‘act of mischief’ at Saudi Arabia orphanage

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By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 7:31 PM on 11th May 2011

Six orphan girls aged between 12 and 18 were flogged in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of attacking the head of their orphanage, an official said today.

The girls received 10 lashes each under the country’s strict interpretation of Islamic law at a women’s prison in Medina, Islam’s second holiest city, in the west of the desert state.

‘The order against the six orphans is a legitimate court order,’ Mohammed al-Awadh, the public relations manager at the Ministry of Social Affairs, said. ‘The ministry does not have the right to interfere in a court order.’
The girls received 10 lashes each under the country's strict interpretation of Islamic law at a women's prison in the city of Medina, Saudi ArabiaThe girls received 10 lashes each under the country’s strict interpretation of Islamic law at a women’s prison in the city of Medina, Saudi Arabia

He gave no details of the ruling but the Arabic-language newspaper Okaz said the girls had been convicted of ‘acts of mischief’ and attacking the director of the orphanage.

The girls defended their actions, saying they were harassed by the director, Okaz reported.

International human rights groups have criticised the Saudi justice system for applying corporal punishment for petty crimes, as well as limb amputations for thieves and beheadings for murderers under its strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Pilgims walk underneath giant umbrellas at a Mosque in Medina - the city in which the floggings took placePilgims walk underneath giant umbrellas at a Mosque in Medina – the city in which the floggings took place

Saudi officials say the practice is widely approved by Saudi society and is a deterrent to crime.

In January 2010 a teenage girl was sentenced to 90 lashes and two months in prison for hitting her school principal on the head with a cup when she took away her mobile phone.

Awadh said the Ministry of Social Affairs would continue to care for the six orphans after the floggings were carried out.

‘What it will do is rehabilitate and take care of the girls’ social wellbeing, which is part of its duties and responsibilities,’ he said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386000/Six-girls-flogged-act-mischief-Saudi-Arabia-orphanage.html#ixzz1M5cJpZ4F

Pajamas Media: Iran Turns Up the Heat in the Gulf

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On May 16, according to the state-owned Fars News Agency, Iran is going to send what they call an aid flotilla from the southern port city of Bushehr. Its destination? Bahrain. In addition to aid, the report stated, the flotilla will convey the Iranian people’s message — “Solidarity with Oppressed Bahraini People.”

But that is not all. Reports from inside Iran state that the flotilla will be carrying the martyrdom forces destined to be the start of a new confrontation with the kingdom in Bahrain.

The radical Islamic organization Ansar Hezbollah — consisting of Islamist thugs and ardent supporters of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei who have been at the forefront in the brutal suppression of Iranian demonstrators — has now assembled volunteers, mostly from Basij forces, for a martyrdom mission to Bahrain.

They are also preparing suicide bombers, in coordination with the Guards’ Quds Force, for attacks on Bahraini and Saudi interests.

In a recent interview with www.ammariyon.ir, a site affiliated with the conservative camp in Tehran, former Revolutionary Guards officer and founder of Ansar Hezbollah Hossein Allah-Karam provided details of the strategy designed to assist the revolutionaries in Bahrain, Gaza, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and more.

A key part of that strategy, Allah-Karam revealed, involves registering volunteers willing to go to the conflict areas to carry out suicide missions.

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In Iran, dozens of students attack Saudi embassy with firebombs to protest Bahrain crackdown

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Iranian ‘students’. Remember that trick from the revolution?

From Winnipeg Free Press:

By: The Associated Press

Posted: 04/11/2011 10:45 AM |

TEHRAN, Iran – Scores of Iranian students have attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy with firebombs to protest the Gulf country’s role in cracking down on anti-government protesters in Bahrain.

The official IRNA news agency says protesters tried to attach a flag of the Lebanese group Hezbollah to the embassy’s gate Monday, but were prevented by police. Protesters chanted slogans against Saudi and Bahraini leaders, both followers of Sunni Islam.

Iran, predominantly Shiite Muslim, has denounced the deployment of a Saudi-led force to help prop up Bahrain’s monarchy. A government crackdown against Bahrain’s Shiite-led protests has killed at least 27 people. Authorities say they see Iran’s influence among the opposition, though there are no visible links.

CANADIAN PROFESSOR CAUSES STIR FOR RAP DANCE MOVES IN SAUDI CLASS

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THE SAUDI NOOSE

TSN: This will be the last booty swaying session this infidel will ever give

Canadian professor probed for dancing for students

Published Monday, April 04, 2011
24/7: A Saudi university is investigating a Canadian professor after he was caught on video dancing to his students during class, a newspaper said on Monday.

A student filmed the professor while dancing and publicized it online, where he was seen swaying to Rap music in class at the university in the central province of Qasseem, Sabq Arabic language daily said.

“The university’s management has opened investigation into the incident after it saw the film showing the Canadian professor swaying to Rap music from his mobile phone,” it said.

NOTE: If anyone have info on the You Tube vid, please contact the TT

Iran seeks volunteers to participate in suicide bombings against Saudi interests around the world

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From Pajamas Media:

The Iranian leaders, furious over the Saudi intervention in Bahrain and what they call crimes against the Shiites of that country, have openly created centers to recruit volunteers for suicide bombings against Saudi Arabia’s interests worldwide:

Several grand ayatollahs in Iran have issued a fatwa for Muslims to come to the aid of their Shiite brothers in Bahrain, who they claim are suffering horrific crimes from their government in collaboration with the Saudi armed forces. They further emphasized that the people of Bahrain have every right to demand freedom and their fair share from the state.

Shia-News, a site associated with Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi (a hard-line Shiite Twelver and an influential figure in the suppression of Iranians during their uprising to protest the fraudulent presidential election of 2009), is registering volunteers to participate in suicide bombings against Saudi interests around the world. Hundreds have already registered. Reports from inside Iran indicate that an alert has gone out to the Revolutionary Guards Quds forces throughout the world to prepare for attacks on Saudi establishments.

The translated text of the Shia-News article:

Please click over to PJ Media for the rest of this article.