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Sharia Law debate festers. . . www.piperpost.net - 18.3.08 The Anglican
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, shocked many of his own
flock recently when he made the suggestion that Britain should adopt
some aspects of Islamic Sharia law. Criticism of the
Archbishop flowed in from far and wide. Editor of the Catholic Herald, Damien Thompson,
described Dr Williams' suggestion as 'the most monumentally stupid I
have ever heard the Archbishop of Canterbury say.' Honour killing persists in west . . . www.piperpost.net - 24.3.08 Honour
killings continue. . . www.piperpost.net
- 26.7.08 Iran's judiciary has announced a halt to
execution by stoning - one of the modes of punishment employed by the
hardline Islamic state. Iran is reluctant to admit publicly to such
executions but it is believed a number have occurred in recent times.
Such a punishment has been applied in cases of adultery, incest and
prostitution. PAKISTANI TEENAGER KILLED BY PARENTS.
In yet another 'honour killing' Saira Nusrat Bibi, a 17-year-old, was
murdered allegedly on the orders of her parents because she wished to
have her marriage annulled - a marriage forced upon her at the tender
age of 9 years. According to The Weekend Australian she was surrounded
by a group of men sent by her parents as she left the court hearing her
case and was shot in front of police. Earlier in Baluchistan Province
two women and three teenage girls were buried alive because they
refused to marry the men forced upon them. www.piperpost.net - 14.09.08 Iranian women's rights activists sent to prison by islamic courts. www.piperpost.net
- 07.09.08 Afghan journalist jailed for 'blasphemy' . . . www.piperpost.net - 02.11.08. 11-year-old girl set on
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21.12.08. Insurance giant accused of promoting Shariah law . . .
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28.12.08. Wife beating o.k. says Islamic cleric. www.piperpost.net - 25.01.09. EDITORIAL
The storm has never died down since then. More recently a secret plan
to train police in Sharia law and the Muslim faith has come to light
and been roundly condemned by many.
Not surprisingly the Archbishop has been supported by one group - the
Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. The International Union for Muslim
Scholars, led by Yousef al-Qaradaw, warmly supports the prelate's
views.
Conservative Party leader David Cameron has demanded Prime Minister
Gordon Brown ban Qaradawi from visiting Britain, calling the cleric one
of the “preachers of hate who should not be allowed into the country.”
In 2004 Qaradawi visited the UK at the invitation of London mayor Ken
Livingstone sparking protests from rights activists over his comments
about Jews and homosexuals. The cleric has also defended suicide
attacks against Israelis telling the BBC 'It's not suicide, it is
martyrdom in the name of God.'
Counterterrorism expert Douglas Farah noted it was not surprising the
Muslim Brotherhood would embrace Dr Williams’ comments, as its publicly
stated goal of a Muslim conquest of Europe 'hinges on creating Muslim
enclaves that are exempt from national laws and under Sharia law-then
steadily expanding those areas.'
'This opening is exactly what the Muslim Brotherhood has been seeking
for some time,' Farah wrote.
COMMENT:
Never mind their academic qualifications, the clergy are often naive
when it
comes to dealing with dedicated people like the Islamics who want to
conquer us through a process of osmosis.
An
alarming number of so-called honour killings are occurring among
Muslims living in Western nations. One of the most recent occurred in
the USA. It was a tragedy in every way with two beautiful teenage girls
allegedly murdered by their own father.
Sarah (17) and Amina (18) Said had the misfortune of being the
daughters of an Egyptian Muslim, Yaser Abdel Said, but were living in
the freedom-loving society of the USA. Neither girl wanted to wear the
traditional oppressive hijab and both had American boyfriends.
It is alleged Yaser beat and sexually abused his daughters over the years. And Amina was facing an arranged marriage.
Whatever had gone before, their lives came to a miserable end in
January 2008 when Amina and Sarah were lured into their father's taxi
and taken for a one-way ride. They were shot by their father and left
to die in his abandoned taxi.
Yaser Said is a fugitive and still on the run.
The world has just witnessed a graphic
demonstration of what awaits the people of Afghanistan if the NATO
forces fail to subdue the Taliban. Two women were publicly
executed by firing squad because they had allegedly engaged in
prostitution.
An Afghan journalist, Rahmatullah Naikzad, stirred up controversy when
he took still pictures and videos of the women. He was not
allowed to film the actual execution but took before-and-after photos
and recorded the screams of the women as they died. Naikzad has been
accused of having tied to the Islamic terrorists but has been cleared
of any involvement by the Afghan government.
Large areas of Afghanistan are still controlled by Islamic militants
who subject the populace to harsh laws, oppress women as of old and
employ cruel punishments in the case of whose who transgress.
The
scourge of so-called 'honour killings' has spread in recent times from
primitive areas of the world to Western nations. Inspired by distorted
views of 'morallity' linked to religious belief, people often murder
their own family members.
One of the worst cases in recent history occurred in the USA where the
hunt continues for Yaser
Abdel Said, alleged to have murdered his own teenage daughters in an
'honour killing' in January 2008.
Sarah (17) and Amina (18) Said had the misfortune of being the
daughters of an Egyptian Muslim, Yaser Abdel Said, but were living in
the freedom-loving society of the USA. Neither girl wanted to wear the
traditional oppressive hijab and both had American boyfriends.
It is alleged Yaser beat and sexually abused
his daughters over the years. And Amina was facing an arranged
marriage. Whatever had gone before, their lives came to a miserable end
in
January 2008 when Amina and Sarah were lured into their father's taxi
and taken for a one-way ride. They were shot by their father and left
to die in his abandoned taxi.
Yaser Said is a fugitive and still on the run. A
FOX news reporter, Greg Jarrett, recently had a run-in
with the fugitive's brother. Jarrett says he believes the brother knows
where accused man is hiding.
Young girls are not the only ones murdered. More recently in Turkey
Ahmet Yildiz, 26, a gay man, was shot dead as he left a cafe. It is
believed the action was an 'honour killing'. Yildiz was a high-profile
activist in a country where many still regard homosexuality with
horror. Although the Turkish government decriminalized homosexuality in
the 19th century gays have still suffered in many ways over the years.
The dead man's relatives had urged him to see a doctor to be 'cured,'
according to the Independent
newspaper, Yildiz reported to a prosecutor that he was receiving death
threats five months before the fatal attack, but the case was not
pursued. When he died, relatives refused to claim the body, friends
told the Independent.
A reminder of the horror and
misery inflicted by misguided morality. A photo of the late Amina and
Sarah Said from their MySpace entry. What sort of mind distortion
could prompt the cold-blooded killing of these two beautiful girls?
Iran orders halt to execution by stoning. . .
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- 09.08.08
It is reported that a number
of people facing death by stoning have had their sentences commuted.
They now face instead either long prison terms or flogging.
The details of execution by
stoning are medieval in nature: burying the woman in a hole in the
ground up to her breasts where she helplessly awaits her slow death.
The Iranian criminal code specifies the size of stones used - designed
so as not to be 'large enough to kill the woman by one or two strokes'
- in other words, designed to make her death as drawn-out and painful
an affair as possible.
Pressure from the EU and from
human rights organizations is acknowledged as affecting Iran's
actions. But the country is well-known for its capital and
corporal punishment regime, which it has not abandoned.
Over the years even young
girls have been hanged for so-called 'moral crimes'. In 2004 a
notorious case saw a teenage girl, 'Leila' facing public hanging.
Leila had been sold by her own parents into a life of prostitution at
the age of 8 years. From then on she was forced to service clients and
eventually became pregnant, bearing twins at the age of 14. For giving
birth to 'illegitimate children' Leila was punished with 100 lashes.
And although Leila was known to be mentally challenged the judicial
system ground on.
Earlier another young girl,
16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi was convicted or moral crimes and sentenced
to death. She was dragged screaming and crying to a waiting crane from
which she was to be hung. The judge who presided over the trial put the
rope around the girl's neck himself. The body was left hanging for some
hours as a warning to others.
Footnote: In 2006 two young Iranian
women living in exile in Paris, Ladan and Roya Boroumand, whose father
was assassinated by an Iranian death squad, released a database they
had compiled - of 9,400 confirmed cases of victims murdered and
executed by the Islamic regime.
Courts
in Iran have been active lately in punishing women's rights activists.
Four women - Mariam Hossein-khah, Nahid Keshavarz, Jelveh Javaheri and
Parvin Ardalan - were each sent to prison for 6 months. Their offence:
contributing to 'banned' women's websites.
Another woman, Zeinab Bayzeydi, received a stiffer sentence - four years - for being involved in women's rights campaigns.
All five women were involved in an international campaign called One
Million Signatures, designed to petition the Islamic Republic demanding
rights for women. But although these women have been jailed they
scored one victory - Parliament shelved legislation that was being
considered which would have reduced the rights of women in marriage.
Once again the fictitious crime of 'blasphemy' raises
its false head - this time in Afghanistan, where a young journalist has
been sentenced to 20 years' jail for the alleged offence.
Sayed
Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, a journalism student and reporter, was accused of
blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad by publishing an article on or
from the Internet advocating rights for women. Originally the reporter
faced a death sentence when the court staged an apology for a trial in
which he was not allowed to ffer any defence. The trial took five
minutes! Later an appeals court commuted the death sentence to a
sentence of 20 years in prison.
The organization Reporters Without Borders commented: 'Afghan justice
has again failed to protect Afghan law and guarantee free expression.'
Outrage at the sentence has been expressed in many parts of the world.
COMMENT:
'Blasphemy' is one of the chief weapons in the armory of the
priesthood, designed to stifle free inquiry. And made all the more
absurd by the fact that in various parts of the world different sets of
blasphemy laws exist, each asserting that one particular deity is the
object in question - yet these deities are rivals! For example,
in the United Arab Emirates in August 1994 six Indians were put on
trial, charged with blasphemy after they staged a play in which ants
ate the bodies of the Prophet Muhammad and Jesus of Nazareth. Four
other men were jailed two years previously in connection with the same
play. But the whole notion of 'blasphemy' turns on the proposition that
there is something or someone, i.e. a deity, to be insulted. As no such
beings exist blasphemy is a fictitious crime.
An Indian Muslim in Jaipur,
northern India, has been arrested by police after he poured
kerosene over his niece's body, setting it alight, and
leaving the 11-year-old girl near death.
The girl's great uncle
took this action because his young relative, Nazmeen, was,
he claimed 'inappropriately dressed' and was wearing
lipstick. Last report from the hospital was that she had
little chance of survival, with 90 percent of her body
burnt.
It was later claimed by relatives that the uncle had
molested the girl.
An unexpected consequence of the US government's bail-out of insurance
giant AIG is the discovery that the company helps promote Sharia law,
effectively acknowledging Islam's belief in the conversion,
subjugation and destruction of the 'Christian' West.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former marine
infantryman, Kevin J. Murray, supported by the Thomas More Law Center,
a national public interest law firm, seeks to stop all bail-out funds
going the AIG.
'Use of taxpayer funds to acquire ownership of a business that
intentionally promotes, endorses, supports, and funds Shariah-based
Islamic religious practices violates the Establishment Clause of the
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,' claims the suit.
The basis of the lawsuit is that AIG intentionally promotes
Shariah-compliant businesses and insurance products, which by necessity
must comply with the 1200 year old body of Islamic cannon law based on
the Quran. AIG employs a three-person Shariah Advisory Board, with
members from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Pakistan. According to AIG, the
role of its Shariah authority 'is to review [its] operations, supervise
its development of Islamic products, and determine Shariah compliance
of these products and [its] investments.'
Of particular concern is the presence of the Pakistani Board member, Dr
Muhammed Imran Ashraf Usmani. Dr Usmani is the son and devoted disciple
of Sheik Mufti Taqi Usmani, the leading authority on Shariah financing
who, in 1999, authored a book dedicating an entire chapter on why a
Western Muslim must engage in violent jihad against his own country -
even if Muslims are given equality and freedom to practice their
religion and to proselytize.
A storm of protest has greeted the words of an Australian Islamic
cleric, Samir Abu Hamza, who advised faithful males to beat their wives
and to force them to have sex if necessary.
The
cleric told his followers that under Islamic law men could demand sex
from their wives. However, under Australian law sex without consent,
even involving wives, is a criminal act. It is called rape.
The comments have aroused the ire of Australia's Prime Minister, Kevin
Rudd, who commented: 'Under no circumstances is sexual violence
permissible or acceptable in Australia. Australia will not tolerate
these sort of remarks. They don't belong in modern Australia, and he
should stand up, repudiate them and apologize.'
It is now being claimed that the remarks were 'taken out of context'
and that the reference to hitting was 'in a metaphorical' sense. Mr
Hamza has since gone to ground and cannot be contacted.
Islamic warriors destroy girls' schools www.piperpost.net - 08.02.09.
It seems the brave warriors of the Taliban have turned from murdering adults to destroying
girls' schools. So intent are these followers of Muhammad on
maintaining male domination over women that they will do anything they
can to keep women 'barefoot and pregnant' under those gloomy rags they
force them to wear.
Like many of their
kind, these neanderthals fear women gaining an education. The women
who do so might begin questioning the status quo in the thirteenth century society
the Taliban promotes. Many women are doing so already.
In both Afghanistan and in Pakistan Taliban terrorists have destroyed a
large number of schools, mostly girls' school but some boys' schools
also. In Afghanistan an estimated 300 teachers and pupils have died as
a result of Taliban attacks on schools while in the Swat area of
Pakistan the Taliban issued an order that all girls were banned from
schooling after 15 January. Up to 200 schools have been blown up or
otherwise destroyed. There is no word of the Pakistan government acting
to counter this move.
What a contrast - around the world millions of people working hard,
creating, developing, building and making the world a better place -
and educating children. And in these backwaters people like the Taliban and their fellow-Islamic
criminals can do is tear down, destroy, murder and maim. Who would want
to be a member of such a pathetic religion of negativity?
Police
have arrested Muzzammil Hassan, the 44-year-old head of Bridges TV,
which had been promoted as 'the first-ever full-time home for American
Muslims.' Hassan is suspected of having murdered his 32-year-old
wife Aasiya by beheading.
Recently
Aasiya Hassan had filed for divorce following years of alleged abuse at
the hands of her husband. She had obtained an order of protection that
barred her husband from their home, according to attorney Elizabeth
DiPirro, whose law firm, Hogan Willig, represented Aasiya Hassan in the
divorce proceeding.
Hassan allegedly beheaded Aasiya at the office of Bridges TV, their
television station in Orchard Park, near Buffalo. Police have
given few details, only saying that Hassan surrendered to Orchard Park
police, simply saying his wife was dead.
The Islamic Society of North America issued a statement of condolence
and urged Muslim leaders to take a strong stand against domestic
violence. 'Women who seek divorce from their spouses because of
physical abuse should get full support from the community and should
not be viewed as someone who has brought shame to herself or her
family,' the statement by Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali said.
Pakistan allows Sharia law. . .
www.piperpost.net - 22.02.09.
The
Government of Pakistan has allowed a large area of the country in the
north-west to be subjected to Sharia law. This has been done to placate
the fundamentalist Islamics, most notably the Taliban.
The
Government says a deal has been signed, following talks between the
Government and a local Islamic leader, Sufi Muhammad. This is the same
man who is known to have led hundreds of men fighting against US forces
in Afghanistan.
'This is definitely a surrender,' said Khadim Hussain of the Aryana
Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy in Islamabad. 'If you keep
treating a community as something different from the rest of the
country, it will isolate them.'
Recently in the same area Taliban mobs have been burning down schools, especially girls' schools. Up to 200 schools have been blown up or
otherwise destroyed.
[COMMENT: Clearly the Taliban and their Pakistani allies are working hard to return the country to the 13th century.]
Sharia law in operation: Real photo of Sudanese man with amputated hands.