These are the people the Obama admin should be supporting. Those willing to risk a lot for freedom. Not the ones willing to risk the lives of others to take it away.
H/T Magic Martin.
Category Archives: Secularism Vs religious rule
Bangladesh sentences Islamic party leader to death
H/T Hermes
Mail.com
Photo: AP Bangladeshi youth gesture while celebrating the death sentence awarded to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced Sayedee, the leader of an Islamic political party to death for crimes stemming from the nation’s 1971 fight for independence, a politically charged decision that sparked violent protests.
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Photo: APBangladeshi activists shout slogans demanding the execution of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, one of the top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced the leader to death for crimes during the nation’s 1971 war for independence, a politically charged decision that sparked violent protests that left four people dead.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced a leader of an Islamic political party to death for crimes during the nation’s 1971 war for independence, a politically charged decision that sparked violent protests that left at least 12 people dead across the nation.
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, one of the top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, was found guilty on eight of 20 counts involving mass killings, rape and atrocities committed during the nine-month war against Pakistan, prosecutor Syed Haider Ali said.
Salafists fail to stop ‘Harlem Shake’ in Tunisia
These music videos that the Tunisians are posting are a genuine act of defiance and courage against a rapidly forming totalitarian regime. These kids, like most of the Egyptian protesters, are likely ‘cultural Muslims’ and not political or desirous of sharia. These are the ones we should be supporting.
From Ahram Online:
Dozens of Tunisian Salafists fail to stop a ‘Harlem Shake’ dance at a school in the El Khadra neighborhood, as students shouted ‘Get out, get out’
AFP , Wednesday 27 Feb 2013
Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against security forces after clashes at the US Embassy, at the al-Fatah mosque in Tunis, Sept. 17, 2012 (Photo: Reuters)
Salafist Muslims tried to prevent the filming of current Internet craze the “Harlem Shake” at a Tunis school on Wednesday, but were driven off after coming to blows with students, an AFP correspondent said.
When the dozen or so ultra-conservative Muslims, some of them women in veils, showed up at the Bourguiba Language Institute in the El Khadra neighbourhood, a Salafist bastion, students shouted “Get out, get out!”
One of the Salafists, wearing military gear and carrying a Molotov cocktail he never used, shouted “Our brothers in Palestine are being killed by Israelis, and you are dancing.”
The Islamists eventually withdrew, and the students were able to film their production.
On Monday, Education Minister Abdellatif Abid said a probe had been ordered into a staging two days earlier of a “Harlem Shake” by students in a Tunis suburb.
H/T Magic Martin
Hey! There are some cool people in Tunisia!
H/T Magic Martin
Tunisia probes “Harlem Shake” students as video goes viral
Tunisian authorities have ordered a probe into the staging of a “Harlem Shake” show in a Tunis suburb by students who dance wildly and imitate sexual acts, after a video recording went viral on the Internet.
“The ministry of education has demanded an investigation and the department will take appropriate measures,” Education Minister Abdellatif Abid said on private Radio Mosaique.
He said there could be possible “expulsions” of students or “sacking” of educational staff who were behind the staging of the dance.
Tunisian secularists protest against new Islamist PM
Tunis (Reuters) – Thousands of Tunisians protested on Saturday against the new prime minister-designate Ali Larayedh, a hardliner from the main Islamist Ennahda party.
President Moncef Marzouki asked Larayedh to form a government on Friday, in the aftermath of the February 6 assassination of secular opposition politician Chokri Belaid.
Outgoing prime minister Hamadi Jebali resigned on Tuesday because Ennahda rejected his plan for an apolitical technocrat cabinet to prepare for elections.
Larayedh, the new premier-designate, is controversial because opposition secularists accuse the Interior Ministry which he headed of failing to curb Islamist violence.
Tunisia’s new premier promises inclusive government (But really MB)
Reuters:
By Tarek Amara
TUNIS | Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:24am EST
(Reuters) – Tunisia’s prime minister-designate Ali Larayedh, a hardliner from the main Islamist Ennahda party, said on Friday he hoped to form a “government of all Tunisians”, but opposition leaders swiftly signaled discontent.
Tunisia plunged into political crisis on February 6 when the assassination of secular opposition politician Chokri Belaid on February 6 ignited the biggest street protests since the overthrow of strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali two years ago.
President Moncef Marzouki asked Larayedh to draw up a government within two weeks after he was formally nominated for prime minister by Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi.
RT: Engdahl: Sharia Shushed: Majority of Egypt against Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt moves to ban alcohol, belly dancing
H/T Asaad Alepti
Daily Star:
February 18, 2013 12:20 AM
CAIRO: Two years after the Egyptian revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, liberals are increasingly concerned that the ruling Islamists are out to curb personal freedoms and build a society in their own image. Nabil Abbas, the vice president of the New Urban Communities Authorities, told Reuters Sunday that the government would no longer issue licenses for the sale of alcohol in new residential settlements on the outskirts of Cairo, Alexandria and other big cities.
“NUCA has stopped renewing licenses to sell alcohol but the current ones will continue until they expire,” Abbas said.
“Representatives of the residents in new suburbs complained that the sale of alcohol leads to problems including attacking women and randomly ringing doorbells of people’s homes.”
A man buys the Muslim Brotherhood’s newspaper Al-Hurriya wal-Adala (Freedom of Justice) near a newsstand in Cairo.
Egypt moves to ban alcohol, belly dancing
The Daily Star-3 hours ago
And a court in Egypt Sunday ordered a TV channel that airs belly dancing clips off the air for showing “sexually explicit” content and operating …
Egypt’s court shuts down belly dancing channel, religious cleric
Ahram Online-16/02/2013
In the first case, the court orders that the popular Al-Tet belly dancing channel be taken off air for broadcasting on satellite without a license.
Alcohol sales banned in Egypt’s new suburbs residential areas …
Ahram Online-16/02/2013
Egypt’s alcohol ban raises tourism doubts
Telegraph.co.uk-15/02/2013
Egypt’s alcohol ban raises tourism doubts … it will no longer issue licenses to sell alcohol in some urban areas, including newly-built “satellite …
Egypt to stop issuing new alcohol licences
Africa Review-13/02/2013
Egypt will no longer issue new licences for the sale of alcohol in urban areas, a government official has said, raising fears that the country is …
Anti-Islamist blogger killed in Bangladesh
H/T Oz-Rita
Ahram online:
A Bangladesh blogger has been killed after he played a large role in organizing big anti-Islamist protests in Dhaka
AFP , Saturday 16 Feb 2013
FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi activists participate in a candle light vigil demanding the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah and others convicted of war crimes during the nation’s independence war in 1971, in Dhaka, Bangladesh (AP Photo)
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A blogger who had been critical of Bangladesh’s Islamist groups was killed in the capital late Friday, police said, a day after he attended a big rally against leaders of the country’s largest Islamic party.
Protests championed by the country’s bloggers have seen thousands of people take to the streets demanding the execution of leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party who are under trial for war crimes. Clashes between police and Islamist protesters demanding the trials be halted have also rocked the capital.
Police found the body of Ahmed Rajib, 35 — better known by his online identity Thaba Baba — near his home in Dhaka’s Pallabi suburb, with his head hacked apart with a machete.
Egyptian govt. takes imam into custody who demanded death for opposition MP’s
Somehow I doubt highly that this is more than the purest of blurry optics and misdirection. Nonetheless here is the article. Below, the video of what he said, which, is pretty much in accord with the sharia. Given that Islam is now governed by sharia by a Morsi decree, hard to see the grounds they would jail this guy.
H/T Magic Martin
Confrontation between Muslims and secularists in Egypt today.
The thing i so love about Islam, is the nearly magical diversity of chants and liturgical music it inspires. In 1400 years they have managed to create so many inspirational chants and powerful and provocative hymns and invocations how can anyone not covert to Islam? Pretty much the sum total of these can be heard here in the first 10 seconds.
Clashes re-erupt outside presidential palace in Heliopolis
Hundreds face off with police for the second night in a row outside Itihadiya in east Cairo
Saturday Feb 2 2013
According to media reports, some protesters used fireworks and Molotov cocktails in clashes with the police, while officers fired rounds in the air.
The atmosphere remains volatile. No reports of injuries are available.
Bloody confrontations broke out on Friday night at the palace, which is located in Heliopolis, as thousands were protesting against President Mohamed Mosi and the Muslim Brotherhood – the group he hails from.
Earlier on Saturday, a funeral march for Mohamed Hussein Korani, who was killed in Friday’s clashes, headed from the nearby Al-Nour mosque in Abbasiya to the presidential palace.Egypt has been hit by turmoil since 25 January – the second anniversary of the 2011 Revolution.
‘Admitting you are a secularist can get you killed in Pakistan’
H/T Arun
Pakistan Trib:
Published: January 28, 2013
PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI: Urdu linguists have distorted the meaning of the word “secular,” and falsely translated it as la-deen (non-religious). The use of the word is so dangerous now that even mainstream leftist political parties in the country are afraid of talking about it.
Civil society representatives highlighted these points as they participated in a seminar titled ‘Democracy and secularism in Pakistan: Its need and importance’, at the Arts Council on Saturday. The event was organised by the Forum for Secular Pakistan. The participants urged political leaders to push for a secular state, “as there can be no democracy in the country without secularism”.
Prof. Dr Jaffar Ahmed, the chairperson of the Pakistan Study Centre, criticised Urdu linguists for “distorting” the meaning of ‘secular’ in earlier dictionaries. The word was originally used to refer to the small pieces of land that common people used to hold in the days when the Catholic Church would own most of the land. The word came to symbolise scientific inventions and progressive thought in the 19th century, he said.
“If someone says that he is secular, people would kill him on the spot.”
What all the rioting is about.
H/T Magic Martin
The National Salvation Front, which has earlier announced its intention to hold a sit-in, released a press statement listing the sit-in’s demands:
1. Handing over power to a national salvation government, representing the diversity of Egyptians.
2. Annulling the “sectarian and invalid” constitution, and the reformation of a new constituent assembly that shall draft a new constitutional to fulfill the aspirations and goals of the revolution.
3. The immediate calling for early presidential elections.
4. Dissolving the “invalid” Shura Council, and cancelling any laws it had issued.
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The muslim brotherhood headquaters are burning … :
MEMRI: Egyptian Women Cut Hair in Protest of Harassment during Constitution Referendum
H/T Magic Martin
A slap in the face for Egypt’s women
I beg to differ with this lawyer. The nile region is not an exception it is the rule. Wherever there is the sharia, there is horror and oppression of women and non Muslim males and ultimately Muslim males if they fall afoul of anyone’s interpretation of sharia where convenient as a tool of settling unrelated personal disputes. You cannot be a feminist and a religious Muslim. I think she is out of touch with the reality of the religion and its history.
DW.De:
Civil Rights
Preliminary reports suggest that Egyptians have approved a new constitution in a referendum process. One lawyer believes that the consequences for Egypt’s women will be wide-ranging and severe.
She’s a feminist and a Muslim, she fights for women’s rights wearing beige slacks and a bright red headscarf. Nihad Abu El Konsam is perhaps the best evidence that Egypt’s women can be followers of the Koran and yet still see eye-to-eye with their male counterparts.
Yet Egypt’s Nile region has always been the exception, the lawyer and chairwoman of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR) admits. Abu El Konsam worries that the Islamists currently in power in Cairo will use a newly drafted constitution to reverse the forward march of Egyptian history.
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