Month: June 2008

California: Muslim polygamist guilty of torturing 2 wives, 19 children

Here is one of the 50,000 to 100,000 Muslim polygamists in the U.S. Of course, there are abusive husbands in all cultures, but only in an Islamic context is there the idea that beating one’s wife has divine sanction (Qur’an 4:34). Might not that create a culture, an atmosphere in which this kind of thing is more likely to happen?

An update on this story. “SoCal Polygamist Guilty of Torturing 19 Children, 2 Wives,” from AP, June 11 from DW

After being convicted on 24 charges involving torture, abuse and false imprisonment, Mansa Musa Muhummed, seated, looks up at his defense attorney as he is being handcuffed. When the verdicts were read in court, Muhummed had shook his head from left to right.

MURRIETA, Calif. — A self-described polygamist was convicted Wednesday of charges that he starved, tortured and abused his two wives and many of his 19 children and stepchildren.
A Riverside County Superior Court jury found Mansa Musa Muhummed guilty on 25 counts, including torturing seven of the children, abusing 12 of them and falsely imprisoning the wives. He faces seven life sentences.

Muhummed, 55, shook his head as the verdict was read, prosecutor Julie Baldwin said.

His wives and children were not present in court but they plan to attend his sentencing, which is scheduled for August 1, she said.

Muhummed, whose birth name was Richard Boddie, told authorities that his Muslim faith gave him the right to take multiple wives. He was arrested in 1999 after one of his wives, Laura Cowan, managed to slip a 13-page letter to a postal service worker describing the abuse….

Once the case went to trial, a string of his children and stepchildren, now adults, also took the stand, telling the jury that they had been beaten, starved, strung up by their feet and forced to eat vomit and feces.

Muhummed testified in his own defense. On the stand, in sometimes tearful testimony he denied the charges and blamed one of his wives for the alleged abuse.

He said that his children and stepchildren ate three regular meals a day except during the holy month of Ramadan, when the older children ate two meals — one before dawn and one after sunset.

Doctors said the children were extremely malnourished. A 19-year-old daughter was 4-foot-1 and weighed 56 pounds.

* In other news:

Pali work accident kills 7

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip – An explosion flattened a house in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing seven people. After blaming Israel and unleashing a barrage of rockets and mortar shells, Hamas suggested the blast was accidental, not an Israeli attack.

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Imagine! The Associated Press reports that there are some “troubling passages” in texts at Va. school.

That would be the notorious Islamic Saudi Academy, and those “troubling passages” say things like “kill the infidels and steal their property.”

Troubling.

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.

Other passages in the school’s textbooks state that “the Jews conspired against Islam and its people” and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed “polytheists.”

* Trouble is that this is not some ‘extremist’ or ‘fundamentalist Wahabist’ stuff, its main-stream Islam.

The passages were found in selected textbooks used during the 2007-08 school year by the Islamic Saudi Academy, which teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax and receives much of its funding from the Saudi government.

The academy has come under scrutiny from critics who allege that it fosters an intolerant brand of Islam similar to that taught in the conservative Saudi kingdom. In the review, the panel recommended that the school make all of its textbooks available to the State Department so changes can be made before the next school year.

This indoctrination of children has been going on at the Islamic Saudi Academy for years, and the AP is only now noticing it.

UPDATE at 6/12/08 8:59:10 am:

Unbelievably, at MSNBC a poll asks whether the school should be allowed to stay open, and 13% answer “Yes. One way to teach tolerance is to show tolerance.”

* Now, why isn’t this academy being investigated for inciting hate crimes?

* Spencer has more

* You can’t have religion in public schools, unless it’s Islam

*  Islamic proselytizing in US classrooms draws complaints

*  Pakistani jihadist group declares jihad against U.S.

Birds of a feather…

* From JW

 

Guess who met with Doudou Diène, United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, in Miami on June 2 at a hearing on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination.

That’s right: none other than ex-CAIR operative Ahmed Bedier, whose unsavory statements and associations I detailed here recently.

Bedier, according to his own press release on the meeting (thanks to Paul), “relayed how Islamophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric by officials and pundits are contributing to hate crimes against Muslims across Florida.”

I wonder if Ahmed Bedier could provide even one scrap of evidence for that assertion. Can he provide evidence for an increase of hate crimes against Muslims in Florida? Can he show any causal link between statements by any official or pundit, and any of those hate crimes?

Meanwhile, does he support the attempts to restrict free speech as a way to combat “Islamophobia”?

Spurious charges of “Islamophobia,” and false claims that hate crimes are being committed because of it, are being used to advance an anti-free speech agenda. Americans need to be aware of what’s happening, and resist it.

* A dose of reality:

 

There have been all kinds of “hate crimes” involving Muslims in the United States.

There was the Muslim from Saudi Arabia who, in a fit of islamitude, slit the throat of his former, and too-trusting, supposed close friend, a Jewish friend, in Houston.

There was the Muslim Egyptian who opened fire, killing two, at an El Al check-in line at LAX.

Continue reading Ahmed Bedier: Me and my Doudou

University hijab ban upheld

Ruling by top court expected to accelerate Turkish republic’s `divide over religion’

*     ”Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Suzan Fraser/Associated Press

ANKARA–Turkey’s top court has ruled that Islamic headscarves violate secularism and cannot be allowed at universities, deepening a divide between the country’s Islamic-oriented government and secular institutions.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government had tried to allow hijabs at universities as a “matter of personal and religious freedom.”

But yesterday’s Constitutional Court verdict said constitutional amendments that were passed by parliament in February went against secularism.

The headscarf issue is an explosive one in Turkey, where the government is locked in a power struggle with secular groups that have support from the military and other state institutions.

The verdict is likely to bode ill for the government. Turkey’s chief prosecutor is seeking to disband the ruling party on grounds that it is “the focal point of anti-secular activities” in a separate case at the Constitutional Court.

The prosecutor – who has also asked that Erdogan and other party officials be banned from politics for five years – has cited attempts to allow headscarves at universities as a case in point.

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Spencer: The Stealth Jihad in Turkey

In Human Events today I discuss one of the world’s most skillful practitioners of the stealth jihad: Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan 

Link

*  Erdogan: “You cannot be both secular and a Muslim!”

Where is the stealth? He does it out in the open. There is nothing clandestine or furtive in Erdogan or in his policies, at any level. Maybe it’s a slow jihad but there’s nothing stealthy about it.

* Islam’s Trojan Horse? Turkish Nationalism and the Nakshibendi Sufi Order

Paul Stenhouse*

* TURKEY: ongoing terror against Christians

Former priest turned Muslim turns out to be military man

* scum

We need more cartoons, not less!

“I’d like to know if your newspaper is satisfied with what it has done and what it has unleashed?”

That is the question that should be asked of all Muslims who have killed or exhorted others to violence over these cartoons — not of the cartoonists or any Western government.

Who is responsible for the June 2 suicide attack against the Danish Embassy in Pakistan that killed six people? An increasing number would say that the Danes themselves are responsible, or at least the Danish government, for its obstinate attachment to that irritating little principle of free speech. On Wednesday, June 4, a web posting claiming to be from Al-Qaeda said that the bombing was fulfillment of Osama bin Laden’s vow to exact revenge for the cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad that ran in a Danish newspaper in 2005. Fauzia Mufti Abbas, Pakistan’s ambassador to Denmark addressed a rhetorical question to the people of Denmark: “I’d like to know if your newspaper is satisfied with what it has done and what it has unleashed?”

* What Motoon Rage is all about: Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression — or else

* Pakistan’s ambassador to Norway: new Muhammad cartoon a “terrorist act”

* The Myth’s of Muhammad

* The creeps from the New York Times:

NY Times: Unlike Other, More Nuanced Nations, the US Clings to Free Speech

* Yep. You read that right: progressive thinkers stinkers are now post free speech: we need to MOVE ON, and we need CHANGE!

The New York Times, scrupulously fair as always (cough), suggests that it might be time for the United States to reconsider this antiquated idea of “free speech” and join the rest of the world in prosecuting people like Mark Steyn: American Exception – Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech – Series – NYTimes.com.

“Free speech is an American concept…We don’t need no stinking free speech here……”

(Canadian Human Rights Expert….)

The New Duranty Times has taken the article off. You can still get it if you subscribe. But here’s the essence:

Some prominent legal scholars say the United States should reconsider its position on hate speech.

“It is not clear to me that the Europeans are mistaken,” Jeremy Waldron, a legal philosopher, wrote in The New York Review of Books last month, “when they say that a liberal democracy must take affirmative responsibility for protecting the atmosphere of mutual respect against certain forms of vicious attack.”

Professor Waldron was reviewing “Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment” by Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times columnist. Mr. Lewis has been critical of attempts to use the law to limit hate speech.

But even Mr. Lewis, a liberal, wrote in his book that he was inclined to relax some of the most stringent First Amendment protections “in an age when words have inspired acts of mass murder and terrorism.” In particular, he called for a re-examination of the Supreme Court’s insistence that there is only one justification for making incitement a criminal offense: the likelihood of imminent violence.

“I am Mohammed and no one dares to publish me.”

Continue reading Fauzia Mufti Abbas, Go and f*@k yourself!

Winds of Jihad reported:

8-year-old Aisha seeks divorce in Yemen

Link here

Yemen child bride Nujood Ali gets divorce

The 10-year-old was married off to a man in his 30s who abused her. She made her way to a courthouse, found a lawyer and broke free.

By Borzou Daragahi

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
SANA, YEMEN

* Hopefully she will not end up like her: Mother who defied the killers is gunned down

* JW link

The little girl was waist-high, so small that the lawyers, clerks and judges hurrying through the courthouse almost missed her.

As lunchtime arrived and the crowds of noisy men and women cleared away, a curious judge asked her what she was doing sitting alone on a bench.

“I came to get a divorce,” 10-year-old Nujood Ali told the jurist.

Her impoverished parents had married her off to a man more than three times her age, who beat her and forced her to have sex, she explained. When she told her father and mother that she wanted out of the marriage, they refused to help. So an aunt provided her with bus money to travel to court and seek a divorce.

* Yemen: Over half of married women under 15, says report

* France: second hand virgins have a better chance to stay alive

 
Within days of that April 2 encounter, Nujood’s tale and the plight of child brides in Yemen made international headlines. And thanks to the efforts of human rights lawyer Shada Nasser, who took up her cause, the girl at the center of the story has begun to overcome her trauma and dream of a better life.

Yemeni law sets the age of consent at 15. But tribal customs and interpretations of Islam often trump the law in this country of 23 million. A 2006 study conducted by Sana University reported that 52% of girls were married by 18.

Publicity surrounding Nujood’s case prompted calls to raise the legal age for marriage to 18 for both men and women. Yemen’s conservative lawmakers refused to take up the issue. But the case sparked public discussion and newspaper headlines. Several more child brides came forward, including a girl who sought a divorce last week in the southern city of Ibb.

“This case opened the door,” Nasser says.

Nujood says that at first, she felt ashamed about what had happened to her. “But I passed through that,” she says, eyes narrowing beneath her black head scarf.

“All I want now is to finish my education,” she adds, her mouth curling into a smile. “I want to be a lawyer.”

Continue reading Yemen child bride Nujood Ali: Now She Wants To Be A Lawyer

ABC Unhinged:

Islamofascist agit prop Irfan Yusuf shills for the Bali bombers

*   “Unhinged” would be more apropriate than ‘unleashed’. The ABC provides a forum for Irfan Yusufs insidious Islamofascist propaganda. By allowing this creepy Islamist blog on their site Yusuf attracts radical fringe nutters and Islamic hate-mongers who  readily  do the bidding for the Islamofascist movement, thus legitimizing it. In his most recent entry, Yusuf, slick and sly as always, raves against ‘Death Penalty Hypocrisy’ and mixes his Islamo-poison with sweet molasses, just to make the medicine go down.

* Because we can’t have those ‘double standards’, right Yusuf?

But of course Yusuf has no problem with the death penalty. Yusuf has no problem with hand, arm and leg chopping, as long as its done under shariah. Public flogging, the stoning of women? Not a problem: you will never hear a sound criticising any aspect of ‘divine Islamic law’- what bothers Yusuf is the possible death penalty for the fanatical, brainwashed lunatics from the Bali bombings, and he would like your support in preventing their execution. Because they were only following their ‘religion’, right Yusuf?

Yusuf’s jihad by the pen:

Yusuf never fails to rave on about ‘Abu Ghraib’ (as if butt-pyramids could somehow be equated with the terror, the mass-murder and the beheadings committed by the Islamists) and yes: ‘Gitmo- torture’ must be brought into it again and again (oh the injustice!)

“Our attitude toward capital punishment seems to mirror our attitude toward torture – that it’s ok so long as one class of murder suspects (known as “terrorists”) are involved. And if the hysteria is enough, we’ll go along with even executing innocent people, again ignoring Drebin’s Law.”

Bali bombing: victim of Islamic terror

Did you get that? We are ‘hysterical’ because we would like to see the Bali bombers executed? What, pray tell, Yusuf, makes these perverted swine ‘innocent?’  Did you note Irfan’s exclamation marks on ‘terrorists?’ Am I missing something? Is there a criminal equivalence between a bunch of dumb kids who allowed themselves to be used as drug mules (by whom? Could it be a set-up?)) who are now held hostage by Indonesia in this perverted game against the Bali bombers who killed 300 people in the name of your terrorist prophet?

Rank Islamo-hypocrisy and snake oil from Islam-Intern operative Irfan:

Mr Rudd said a Labor government would only use such diplomacy against the death penalty in support of Australian citizens facing execution abroad.

So a Labor government will try to convince other countries not to adopt the Rule of Law – treating all equally under the law – but only when it comes to executing Aussies. If you smuggle drugs into Bali, a Labor government will argue to Balinese authorities that you shouldn’t get the same punishment as other convicted drug smugglers just because you hold an Australian passport.

There is a difference between Mass-murdering terrorists and kids who get caught carrying drugs, Yusuf. But for you the Bali bombers are ‘holy warriors’, are they not Yusuf? Which  makes you a co-conspirator to Islamic terror. Just like your jihadi-posters on the ‘Unhinged’ website who try to whitewash the Beslan atrocity, where Islamic terrorists killed 300 children in the name of your ‘religion’.

Beslan Jihad against children

No Yusuf, there is no conspiracy to make the world Islamic, because YOU say so. And because you say so, we will just ignore the daily atrocities in more than 30  theaters of jihad warfare around the world. Because Irfan Yusuf’s taqiyya with its 18 secret herbs and spices is so tasty it makes the awful Islamic doctrine of perpetual warfare against unbelievers and Jew-hatred in the Koran and the sunnah go away?

I don’t think so, mister Ikhwan. See you in Gitmo!

Continue reading Islamofascist Wankfest @ ABC Unleashed

A JUDGE sparked outrage yesterday by ruling that an illegal immigrant who sexually abused a young girl for three years was “not dangerous” – and free to stay in Britain.

From the SUN

Pervert Nurul Islam will cost taxpayers more than £200,000 after being jailed for 5½ years.

Indian-born Islam, 35, of Oxford, began preying on the victim when she was 12.

He admitted ten counts of sex acts on a child.

* Creeps who like each other:

But Judge Julian Hall told him at Oxford Crown Court: “I do not make a recommendation for deportation and I do not find you are dangerous.

“This is not a man who is going to go out on to the street looking to cause harm.”

The Home Office says criminals from outside Europe should be deported if jailed for more than 12 months.

The judge’s decision was slammed as “outrageous” by UKIP MP Bob Spink last night.

He said: “This man has broken the law to get into the country, then broken the law while he is here.”

Mark Wallace, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, added: “This sends out an awful message.”

Judge Hall previously jailed a rapist for only two years, saying his ten-year-old victim was dressed provocatively.

The sentence was doubled by Appeal Court judges last year.

* Related:

Anti Dhimmitude in the Alps:

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERN, Switzerland

Swiss nationalists say they have enough signatures to force a nationwide referendum on whether to ban the construction of minarets.

Initiative Committee Co-President Ulrich Schlueer says 103,000 signatures have been verified, exceeding the required minimum of 100,000. The scheduling of the vote likely will take months.

The referendum if approved would enshrine in the Swiss constitution a ban on the Muslim call-to-prayer towers built next to mosques.

The organizers say they are acting against the political spread of Islam. Opponents say a ban would violate religious freedom.

Schlueer confirmed a report Sunday in the weekly NZZ am Sonntag.

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* Spin spin spin: Islam propaganda goes into overdrive in Italy

Muslim group stages events to promote religious dialogue

Link

*   “Dialogue” in Islam-lingo of course means da’awa: proselytizing, shoving Islam down your infidel throat. Like it or not, you must submit…

Continue reading Switzerland: Anti-Minaret Movement Has Enough Signatures To Force National Referendum

Finnish blogger gets 2 years, 7 months in prison for insulting Islam

Free Speech Death Watch Update: Pastorius of the Infidel Blogger’s Alliance,  sends over the bad news, and has the details.

* Other News from Scandinavia:

Pakistan’s ambassador to Norway: new Muhammad cartoon a “terrorist act”

Honor violence widespread in Sweden

Eurabia Alert: “Honour violence widespread in Sweden,” from The Local, June 9 (via Fjordman):

Honour-related violence is rampant across the country, according to a new study by Sveriges Radio.Nearly 60 percent of the country’s social services have helped victims of honour violence or those threatened with honour violence to hide themselves.

75 percent of the country’s social services answered a survey from Sveriges Radio. Seven of ten responded that they had dealt with cases involving honour-related violence.…

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From the ‘Nothing to do with Islam’ department:

“GIRL STABBED TO DEATH IN BERGAMO”

(AGI) – Bergamo, June 9 – A 21-year-old girl was stabbed to death this morning in Bergamo. The young woman, originally from Campobasso but resident in Racalunca, was killed by a Tunisian immigrant, 25 years of age, in an apartment in Via Moroni.

*  He was a ‘Tunisian Immigrant’, you see. Nothing to do with Islam….
Around 10:45h, at the climax of a quarrel, the man has taken a kitchen knife with a 20cm long blade, and stabbed the girl various times in the stomach. Then he called the police. The medics of 118 tried to reanimate her, but the 21-year-old died around 11:15h. The man, without criminal record, and awaiting the renewal of his residence permit, was arrested and taken to the police station to be interrogated.

Muslim leaders urge Western governments to condemn acts that insult Islam

The Associated Press

* Islam, Islam, Islam: because nothing else matters:

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A Muslim political leader urged Western governments Monday to hit out more strongly against acts that are offensive to Islam.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, warned there seemed to be a growing “campaign of hate and discrimination” against Muslims by a small number of individuals and organizations.

* Turkish PM holds emergency meeting after headscarf defeat

In a speech to a conference in Kuala Lumpur on improving ties between Muslims and the West, Ihsanoglu praised Western nations for criticizing acts such as the recent release of an anti-Quran film by a Dutch lawmaker, but said more should have been done.

“Mere condemnation or distancing from the acts of the perpetrators of Islamophobia will not resolve the issue, as long as they remain free to carry on with their campaign of incitement and provocation on the plea of freedom of expression,” Ihsanoglu said.

* Friday afternoon public executions will do the trick, right Ihsanoglu?

Continue reading Islam wins real big in Finland