Beheading of Christian Children in Islam

Horrific violence. Beheading of children in Indonesia.

The trial for assassin Hasanuddin.

Carefully planned by Hasanuddin, the Jakarta trader had for objective to decapitate six girls. On October 30, 2005, he carried out his crime and eventually butchered three girls with the help of five other men. The children had been watched on their regular path to school. They apparently severed the heads in a "cleanly" manner, placed them in plastic bags with the note, "Wanted: 100 more Christian heads, teenaged or adult, male or female; blood shall be answered with blood, soul with soul, head with head." .

Beheaded girls were Ramadan 'trophies'
By Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta correspondent
The Australian - November 09, 2006

Indonesian schoolgirls beheadings 'act of charity'
By Adrian Morgan, Spero News - November 09, 2006
Photos of Alfita Poliwo (left) and Theresa Morangke - Source for these photos Spero News

"... Ida Yarni Sambue (15), Theresia Morangke (15), and Alfita Poliwo (19) - were decapitated, and their companion, Noviana Malewa, was hacked in the face with a machete, but survived. The killings of the three schoolgirls, whose heads were placed in plastic bags and left near a church in their village, signaled a resurgence of sectarian conflict in the province of Central Sulawesi...."

Last year, this horrific crime was reported in several blogs covering Islamic terror but it seems that main stream media ignored the story.

Read Atlas Shrugs for more on this story: warning - graphic image. Beheading Sweet Young Christian Girls on their Way Home from School October 29, 2005 - Photos Reuters Alertnet

Recently in Iraq, a 14 year old Christian boy was decapitated by a Islamic group -AINA, Assyrian International News Agency - October 29, 2006

14-year old Christian boy beheaded in Iraq -MND, MensNEWSdaily - October 30, 2006

For more, see at Gates of Vienna, by Dymphna - Arab Sport: Crucifying Christian Children in Iraq The Assyrian International News Agency reports the latest atrocities against Christians in Iraq. - October 12, 2006

Analysis and Commentaries
About the Moro Islamic Liberation Front - MILF.

Moro Islamic Liberation Front - MILF, Global Security

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Security in Southeast Asia
Report Summary by Zachary Abuza USIP, United States Institute ofr Peace

"Senior Fellow Zachary Abuza noted that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has waged a secessionist campaign in the southern Philippines since 1978, when they broke away from the secular Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). Their avowed goal is to establish an independent homeland for the Moro peoples that will be governed by sharia (Islamic law). Though initially armed and supported by the Libyan and Malaysian governments, by the early 1990s, the MILF had lost much of its state support. To that end, the MILF forged a tentative relationship with Al Qaeda, receiving money through Saudi charities, as well as limited military training, though while trying to build up its self reliance. While they always remained focused on the “near enemy” and the establishment of their own homeland, they were willing to take advantage of the support that transnational groups offered them; in exchange, they had to give some assistance to groups, such as Al Qaeda’s regional affiliate, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), in pursuance of the war against the “far enemy.” While the MILF is not a transnational group that seeks to establish a pan-Islamic caliphate (known in Southeast Asia as Nusantara Raya), they have given assistance to groups such as JI and the Abu Sayyaf group (ASG).

Since 2002, the JI, arguably the most lethal of all of Al Qaeda’s regional affiliates, has perpetrated three deadly bombings in Indonesia—in Bali (October 2002), the JW Marriott in Jakarta (August 2003) and at the Australian Embassy (September 2004). Despite the MILF’s denial of ties to JI, credible evidence soon emerged that several JI members involved in the three bombings were trained in MILF camps..."

Beheading in the Name of Islam
By Timothy Furnish, Middle East Quarterly -Spring 2005

[...]Apologetics and Reality

Some American commentators say that Islamist decapitations are intended as psychological warfare and devoid of any true Islamic content. Imam Muhammad Adam al-Sheikh, head of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, for example, claimed incorrectly that "beheadings are not mentioned in the Koran at all."[5] Asma Afsaruddin, an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, also misrepresented Islamic theology and history when she told a reporter, "There is absolutely no religious imperative for this." [6] The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as well as the American Anti-Arab Discrimination Committee (ADC) have both signed on to a statement that such killings "did not represent the tenets of Islam." [7] Sam Hamod, former director of the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., claimed that the Qur'anic passage on beheading unbelievers did not actually mean that people should be killed. [8] Such fulminations have had an effect: the Western news media has, perhaps as a result of political correctness or its own bias, twisted the reality of Islamic history and propagated such revisionism. With such apologetics, Western academics either display basic ignorance of their fields or purposely mislead. The intelligentsia's denial of any religious roots to the recent spate of decapitation has parallels in the logical back flips and kid-glove treatments in which many professors engaged in order to deny a religious basis for violent jihad. [9] Afsaruddin and Hamod aside, Islamists justify murder and decapitation with both theological citations and historical precedent.
Decapitation in Islamic Theology
Groups such as Abu Mus‘ab al-Zarqawi's Al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad (Unity and Jihad) and Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Hasan bin Mahmud's Ansar al-Sunna (Defenders of [Prophetic] Tradition) [10] justify the decapitation of prisoners with Qur'anic scripture. Sura (chapter) 47 contains the ayah (verse): "When you encounter the unbelievers on the battlefield, strike off their heads until you have crushed them completely; then bind the prisoners tightly." [11] The Qur'anic Arabic terms are generally straightforward: kafaru means "those who blaspheme/are irreligious," although Darb ar-riqab is less clear. Darb can mean "striking or hitting" while ar-riqab translates to "necks, slaves, persons." With little variation, scholars have translated the verse as, "When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks." [12]
For centuries, leading Islamic scholars have interpreted this verse literally. The famous Iranian historian and Qur'an commentator Muhammad b. Jarir at-Tabari (d. 923 C.E.) wrote that "striking at the necks" is simply God's sanction of ferocious opposition to non-Muslims. [13] Mahmud b. Umar az-Zamakhshari (d. 1143 C.E.), in a major commentary studied for centuries by Sunni religious scholars, suggested that any prescription to "strike at the necks" commands to avoid striking elsewhere so as to confirm death and not simply wound. [14] [...]

The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading
By Andrew G. Bostom, FrontPageMagazine.com - May 13, 2004

"Reactions to the grotesque jihadist decapitation of yet another "infidel Jew," Mr. Berg, make clear that our intelligentsia are either dangerously uninformed, or simply unwilling to come to terms with this ugly reality: such murders are consistent with sacred jihad practices, as well as Islamic attitudes towards all non-Muslim infidels, in particular, Jews, which date back to the 7th century, and the Prophet Muhammad's own example.

According to Muhammad’s sacralized biography by Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad himself sanctioned the massacre of the Qurayza, a vanquished Jewish tribe. He appointed an "arbiter" who soon rendered this concise verdict: the men were to be put to death, the women and children sold into slavery, the spoils to be divided among the Muslims. Muhammad ratified this judgment stating that it was a decree of God pronounced from above the Seven Heavens. Thus some 600 to 900 men from the Qurayza were lead on Muhammad’s order to the Market of Medina. Trenches were dug and the men were beheaded, and their decapitated corpses buried in the trenches while Muhammad watched in attendance. Women and children were sold into slavery, a number of them being distributed as gifts among Muhammad’s companions, and Muhammad chose one of the Qurayza women (Rayhana) for himself. The Qurayza’s property and other possessions (including weapons) were also divided up as additional "booty" among the Muslims, to support further jihad campaigns..."

Killing by Beheading is Islamic!

By Syed Kamran Mirza - Faith Freedom

Big question-‘is the beheading Islamic?’

Yes, beheading is, of course, an Islamic justice to the infidels, criminals, and sinners. This cruel way of killing infidels is sanctioned by Islamic Sharia laws. Denial to the grotesque beheading of western Kaffirs by those Islamic terrorists (in Iraq) that it is not Islamic is yet another clear sign of ignorance, hypocrisy, or intellectual dishonesty by the defenders of Islam. Islamists are not ready to take the burden of ugly reality of the fact that human beheading is 100% consistent with the sacred Islamic Jihadi practices. Hatreds towards other religion such as Jews, Christians, Hindus and other polytheists are the ardent teachings of Islamic holy book Qur’an. Beheading was practiced by the Prophet Muhammad himself during the 7th century period of Islam and by the most Islamic rulers thereafter.

Saddest thing is no Islamists will ever tell you the truth about the intimate relation of beheading in Islam! ... read it all here.

Understanding Islam
Hysciences, highly recommended.

Previous post on violence and Islam at Difficult Images Cautious extremely graphic images.

Meanwhile, this music video made in France glorifies violence.
Hat tip. No Parasan

Kim Chapiron and friends playing with cruelty SHEITAN.


Sheitan is an horror movie see the script here with the participation of the well known actor Vincent Cassel.

In this interview, Kim Chapiron, creator of the group Kourtrajmé, and director apparently of this horrible video, prides himself to be have the most hardcore artists-group of the planet. His father, Christian Chapiron created a punk-group called Bazouka in the 70's. Chapiron added that his father's group terrorized the world with his music while doing "everything".

Kim, who brags about his own sick mind, appears also very proud of his poetry. You can read in the interview what he will do with grand-mother. In my views, this is simply emotionally corrupted. I can't see his point.

Previous post on violence and Islam at Difficult Images
Caution; extremely graphic images

Death penalty, slow progress

As published in the main page, Arts for democracy.



Still learning how to use a camera.

Hanging bodies: neck gets stretched, no tension in muscles.
Hanging is apparently a painful death.
I can't imagine how it feels moments before one loses grip to the ground, especially when one is innocent.

Death penalty should not exist in our times, and certainly not in any democracy.
Why executing someone already behind bars, hands tied for the rest of his or her life?
How can we take a life in the name of an entire nation? Revenge is not justice, especially at the state level.

Humanity can be as cruel as it can be great.

To my Christian friends, I would like to ask what would Christ say about death penalty?

This being said, if Iraqis want to execute Saddam Hussein, I won't stand defending the life of the old butcher.

My position differs in the case of a young democracy that has suffered enormous atrocities committed by its previous ruler. An ex-nation leader who abused all his powers, massacred and terrorized his people can be executed after his day in court, I will not look but I will not blame those who demand his execution. Such an execution could be seen as positively symbolic and perhaps as a good way to turn a page on a very ugly past.

I can think of a few other autocrats who could deserve a similar destiny.

Life in society is never simple, but it gets even more complicated when we lose track of right and wrong, what Sharansky brilliantly calls moral clarity.

Interesting insights, see Sharansky - No Peace With Dictators
R.J. Rummel, Democratic Peace,
January 13, 2005

...

Un corps pendu : le coup s’étire, les muscles sont détendus.
La pendaison est apparemment une mort douloureuse.
Le sentiment doit être cauchemardesque lorsque que l‘on pert pied surtout si l’on est innocent.

La peine de mort est une forme de vengeance plutôt que la justice.
Elle n'a aucune raison d'être dans un état démocratique.
Un individu jugé coupable d’un crime lors d’un procès équitable est incarcéré et ainsi dépourvu de tous ses droits civils. Il ne représente plus un danger pour la communauté.

Il n’y a aucun besoin d’aller plus loin. Détruire une vie au nom de l’état ne sert les intérêts de personne. La peine de mort portée au nom d’une société entière est un acte de profonde cruauté.

Cependant mon opinion change lorqu'il s'agit d'un ex-chef d'état trouvé coupable d'avoir violement abusé de tous ses pouvoirs et d'avoir massacré et terrorisé son peuple. Je ne m’oppose pas à la peine de mort si une jeune nation démocratique, suite à un procès équitable, se donne le droit d’exécuter son ex-leader trouvé coupable d'avoir ordonné la violation systématique de droits humains et ainsi commis d’énormes atrocités. Si les Iraquiens liquidaient Saddam Hussein par vengeance ou par désir de justice, je leur souhaiterais de faire vite, d'enfin tourner la page et de se jurer «plus jamais». D'autres dictateurs sanguinaires de notre époque pourraient bien subir un sort semblable, j'aurais le même raisonnement.


La vie en société n'est jamais simple mais elle est encore plus compliquée quand on se veut plus ou ne sait plus faire la différence entre ce qui est bien et ce qui est mal, que Sharansky a brillamment nommée "moral clarity", voir clairvoyance ou discernement moral.

More on Sudanese editor Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed.

Edited.

Update to Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed's murder at Difficult Images

Ahmed was a journalist and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He had supposedly been rebutting an article written 500 years ago by the historian Al-Maqrizi. The Historian Al-Maqrizi suggested in a manuscrit titled "The unknown in the Prophet’s life" that the real name of Mohammed's father was Abdel Lat or "Slave of Lat and not Abdallah as it was believed.

Mohammed Taha's attempt to explore this position in an article published on April 21, 2006 in his publication, the daily Al-Wifaq was perceived as an insult to the Prophet. His paper was closed down for three months and on May 4, the government of Sudan accused Ahmed of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed. Death penalty was demanded by the prosecution.

According to the Associated Press, Ahmed apologized in a statement to the press while denying the charges.

Taha had previously escaped a murder attempt in 1990. Critical of other Islamic groups, his positions caused anger when he published an article about the Islamist leader Hassan Turabi. Al-Turabi is thought to have played an important role in institutionalizing Islamic Sharia law in Northern Sudan. Turabi was a friend and protector of Ossama Bin Laden who married one of Turabi's nieces.

"Turabi sought to persuade Shiites and Sunnis to put aside their divisions and join against the common enemy. In late 1991 or 1992, discussions in Sudan between al Qaeda and Iranian operatives led to an informal agreement to cooperate in providing support-even if only training-for actions carried out primarily against Israel and the United States. Not long afterward, senior al Qaeda operatives and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives." -- 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 2. [1]

Brief biography of Al-Turani - Human Rights Watch News.
Hassan al Turabi, a graduate of Khartoum University School of Law and of the Sorbonne, became a leader of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1960s...

News agencies in Sudan covering Ahmed 's story, Arabic language:
ALRAY-ALAM : Article 1 - Article 2
Addaraweesh


So far today I found nothing in the news from Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran on Taha's case.

According to the Jordan Times, there is growing opposition to the Sudanese government.

Sudanese mourn death of editor, fear for future
Jordan Times

KHARTOUM (Reuters) — A sea of white-clothed mourners laid Sudanese editor Mohammad Taha to rest on Thursday after he was kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men, raising fears of a new brand of extreme violence in Sudan.

Taha's decapitated body was found dumped on a dirt road on Wednesday. He had drawn protests from Islamic groups last year by reprinting a series of articles questioning the roots of the Prophet Mohammad.

Amid cries of "There is no God but God" and "God is Greatest", thousands attended his funeral, including government ministers who sat alongside journalists and Taha's family.

"The authorities have to get these people — it's their responsibility," said Taha's uncle, Nasrallah Ali Mustafa.

Hundreds of riot police lined the streets of central Khartoum and near the cemetery in a show of force by the interior minister whose resignation was demanded by hundreds of mourners at the morgue on Wednesday after Taha's body was found.

Sudanese were shocked by the gruesome crime, the first of its kind, and commentators voiced widespread concern it may be the start of a worrying new and violent trend.

"Something must be done before the abduction phenomenon develops into a practice," said state-owned Sudan Vision, which printed in black and white only.

The semi-independent Watan paper said: "When you open this evil door to hell and knives and bullets take the place of the pen, this means we are.... on the path to chaos." Police said they had made some arrests but no one has claimed responsibility for his death and authorities admit they are at a loss as to who committed the crime.

"The circumstances are very murky," said journalist Sabah Mohammad Hassan. "This is the first time we see something like this in the history of this country..."

Other sources:
Alarm about trial of journalist on blasphemy charge
Reporters Without Borders - May 12, 2005

Journalist charged, threatened after story on prophet
CPJ - Committee to Protect Journalists - May 06, 2006

Hassan al-Turani - Wikipedia

Al-Maqrizi - Wikipedia [1]

Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, found beheaded

Editor, Previously Persecuted for Controversial Articles, Kidnapped And Beheaded
Committee to Protect Journalists (New York)
PRESS RELEASE
September 7, 2006

"The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the kidnapping and beheading in Sudan of a newspaper editor. Masked gunmen bundled Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, editor-in-chief of the private daily Al-Wifaq, into a car outside his home in east Khartoum late Tuesday. Police found his severed head next to his body today in the south of the capital. His hands and feet were bound, according to a CPJ source and news reports.
"August 30, Khartoum police beat Ibrahim Muhammad, a cameraman for the Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, and seized his camera during a banned demonstration against rises in fuel and sugar prices, Reuters reported. On August 26, a court in El-Fasher charged Paul Salopek, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Chicago Tribune, along with his Chadian interpreter and driver, with espionage, illegally disseminating information, and writing "false news." Tomo Kriznar, a Slovenian freelance photographer was detained in Darfur on July 19 and sentenced on August 14 to two years in prison on what CPJ considers a spurious charge of espionage."...

Sudan cracks down on protests
By Opheera McDoom
September 06, 2006
Swissinfo

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - "Sudanese security forces on Wednesday fired tear gas and beat demonstrators protesting against price increases for basic goods, and a journalist was found beheaded in a further sign of rising political tensions.

The protests were organised despite calls for national unity from President Omar Hassan al-Bashir as Khartoum faces off with the international community over its refusal to allow a United Nations peacekeeping force into the war-torn Darfur region."

Gunmen behead Sudanese editor KuwaitTimes
September 07, 2006

KHARTOUM: The chief editor of a Sudanese independent daily who provoked a furore by publishing an article denounced as blasphemous was found dead a day after being abducted by unknown gunmen, police said yesterday. A group of masked gunmen abducted Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, the editor-in-chief of Al-Wifaq, from his home in the east of Khartoum late Tuesday. His body was found in another part of the city a day later, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
In May 2005, scores of Sudanese gathered in front of the capital's courthouse demanding a death sentence for Ahmed for insulting Islam's prophet, by republishing an article from the Internet that questioned the parentage of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The Al-Wifaq daily was fined 8,000,000 Sudanese pounds (about US$3,200) for the outcry it prompted in this conservative African Muslim nation.

Sudan violence escalates as Darfur deadline nears
September 06, 2006
CBC

According to this article, CBC reporter David McGuffin assigned in Khartoum experienced police violence the same day Taha's body was recovered.

...Accusations of genocide

Mark Hanis of the Genocide Intervention Network said there were good reasons from the government's point of view to spurn the international community.

"They're worried that the peacekeeping force is going to protect the Darfurian people that they're trying to eliminate in this genocide; and the second reason is they're afraid they're going to be held accountable and possibly sentenced in the international criminal courts," Hanis said.

Kidnapped Sudanese editor found slain
By MohammedOsman Seattle
Post Intelligencer
AP Writer

Press release, Reporters Without Borders :
The Editor of Khartoum paper kidnapped and beheaded

"We express our solidarity with our colleagues in Khartoum, for whom this cowardly murder is a harsh ordeal. The reforms introduced to restore peace and justice to Sudan will be put at risk if nothing is done to punish this crime," said Reporters Without Borders. "The Sudanese authorities must do their utmost to see that light is shed on this tragedy, so that both the perpetrators and those who instigated it are brought to trial," the organisation added."

The murder of Mohammed Taha was a clear message to thos like Taha, an Islamist, who are in favour of the UN presence in Darfur.

So what is IslamOnLine saying on Sudan and the need for troops to address the ongoing genocide?

Resolution 1706 Divides Sudan: Analysts
By Ahmed Fathi, IOL Correspondent.

KHARTOUM — "UN Security Council Resolution 1706 approving the deployment of UN troops in Sudan's troubled Darfur region despite fierce Sudanese opposition is a bid to divide Sudan and entrench US interests in Africa, Egyptian experts said.

"The US-backed Darfur troops are nothing but an international military alliance to divide Sudan by force and take away the Darfur region from the Sudanese authority," Ambassador Abdullah Al-Ashaal, a former assistant to Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, told IslamOnline.net Saturday, September 2"...

Sudan must accept U.N. force for Darfur - France
September 07, 2006

Reuters PARIS - "The humanitarian crisis in Darfur must be tackled and Khartoum is going to have to accept the presence of a United Nations force in the region, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Thursday."

"There is a humanitarian drama going on in Darfur. It is terrible, disastrous," Douste-Blazy told reporters. "We don't have the right in today's world to let these women, children and civilians die. It's not possible"...

Of course, while the West wants to see the UN troops in Sudan, the Arab League support AU - Africa Union - troops to do "peace keeping" in Sudan, although their troops have been immobile in Khartoum, unable to do anything.

Arab League supports Sudan's plan to deploy troops in Darfur
People's Daily on line,
China publication

"The Cairo-based Arab League Wednesday passed a resolution supporting Sudan's plan to deploy the government troops in its western region of Darfur, said AL Secretary General Amr Moussa..."

Moussa encourages dialogue, yes, but the AL position is that only Sudanes troops and AU forces can be in Sudan, no UN troops. Our guess is that the AL wants to see the ethnic cleansing job completed.

The Arab and African justification for this position seems odiously racist: Only Africans can help Africans meaning if most black Christians die because they want no Western presence there, so be it! The color of the skin of those protecting the population matters more than the lives of the entire Christian community of Sudan.

We can also fairly expect China and Russia to veto the deployment of UN troops.

More info on Sudan.

Regarding history, it is interesting also to see the official persective on Sudan's history by Sudan, click on Society & Culture: Historical perspective: Sudan's official website

Wikipedia - Sudan

Early History of Sudan

Three ancient Kushite kingdoms existed consecutively in northern Sudan. This region was also known as Nubia and Meroe, and these civilizations flourished mainly along the Nile River from the first to the sixth cataracts. The kingdoms were influenced by, and in turn influenced Pharaonic Egypt. In ancient times, Nubia was ruled by Egypt from 1500 BC, to around 1000BC when the Napatan Dynasty was founded under Alara and regained independance for the kingdom of Kush although borders fluctuated greatly.

Christianity was introduced by missionaries in the 3rd or 4th century, and much of the region was converted to Coptic Christianity. Islam was introduced in 640 AD with an influx of Muslim Arabs who had conquered Egypt, although the Christian Kingdoms of Nubia managed to persist until the 15th Century.

A merchant class of Arabs became economically dominant in feudal Sudan. An important kingdom in Nubia was the Makuria, which reached its height in the 8th-9th centuries, and was of the Melkite Christian faith, unlike its Coptic neighbours, Nobatia and Alodia...

2006 in Sudan:

Just as the decades long North-South civil war was reaching a resolution, a new rebellion in the western region of Darfur began in early 2003. The rebels accused the central government of neglecting the Darfur region, although there is uncertainty regarding the objectives of the rebels and whether they merely seek an improved position for Darfur within Sudan or outright secession. Both the government and the rebels have been accused of atrocities in this war, although most of the blame has fallen on Arab militias (Janjaweed) allied with the government. The rebels have alleged that these militias have been engaging in ethnic cleansing in Darfur, and the fighting has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, many of them seeking refuge in neighboring Chad. The government claimed victory over the rebels after capturing Tine, a town on the border with Chad, in early 2004 the violence continued. But as of 2006, the War in Darfur continues with the situation getting worse.

There has been signed a Darfur Peace Agreement between some of the parties in Darfur. This agreement is supervised by African Union Mission in Sudan(AMIS).

The people in Darfur are predominately black and Muslim, whereas Janjaweed militias are black Arab Muslims.

CIA - FactBook on Sudan

SUDAN - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE


Views:
SUDAN STILL BLEEDS
by Amir Taheri
New York Post
May 10, 2005


Exerpts

[...In recent months, Khartoum has accepted U.N. Security Council resolutions dealing with the 21-year-old war in the south and signed a peace agreement with Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA-SPLM). The regime has also agreed to cooperate with the United Nations to put an end to the year-long genocide in Darfur. Other diplomatic gestures have reinforced the impression that Khartoum is truly heading for change.

The truth, however, is quite different:

* The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between Khartoum and the SPLM concerning the south remains largely a dead letter.

* The U.N. peacekeeping mission exists only on paper, with no timetable set for its deployment on the ground.

* Tension is growing over the southern oilfields — while elaborate plans for sharing oil revenues, to help rebuild the war-shattered south where most oilfields are located, have been back-burnered.

* The regime's promise to disband some of its most vicious security organs hasn't been fulfilled — and there is, as yet, no sign of releasing political prisoners on any significant scale.

* The regime has also breached the peace agreement by repeatedly missing deadlines fixed for drafting a new democratic constitution as the first step toward free and pluralist elections.

* In a clear sign that the regime intends to retain a significant war-making capacity in the south, a stream of military personnel and materiel still flows into the two mainly affected provinces. And Khartoum has speeded up arms deliveries to the so-called Lord's Army in next-door Uganda as part of a scheme to use that band of cut-throats as a mercenary force in the south...]
Read it all here.

Nazanin is sentenced to death.

The bastards will likely kill her.
Why would they do otherwise? Killing, violating, spreading fear and oppressing in any ways is a specialty in the islamofascist hell.

Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists.
Hat tip LGF The Wonder of Shari'a

Remember Nazanin,who was sentenced to death for defending herself from rape?

Iran : A 17 year old girl is sentenced to death by hanging.
Faithfreedom
2006/01/08





Bless your soul Nazanin and your loved ones.



The animals will pay for that. It is a matter of time.

The UN, the Officials and the Reality

The UN tried to rejuvenate itself by recreating what it wanted to eliminate, a Council for Human Rights lead by human rights abusers. Chances are we will see in horror more of the same. However, while some are satisfied with the new organization, others are either skeptical or simply outraged.

- The first part of this post covers those developments at the UN, opposite reactions.
- The second part is a brief reminder of the UN involvement in the Food for Sex Scandal in Liberia.
- The third part is allocated to Sudan, the UN, the Officials and the others. - Compare analyses.

1- The new and revamped UN Human Rights Council, reactions

Israel against the world. The new UN Human Rights Council is heading straight into the anti-Zionist morass that helped destroy the body it's meant to replace.

David Matas, Citizen Special
May 08, 2006
"We have witnessed the death throes of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, soon to be replaced by a newly created Human Rights Council. The inauguration of this body should rightly signal a promising new era in human rights-building. However, with the General Assembly due to elect members tomorrow to the Council and its first meeting set for June 19, the ostensibly new and improved body looks as if it will fall into the same pitfalls that led to the commission's abolition.
The commission was abolished because it had ceased to function. Human rights violators had come to realize that they could avoid accountability by becoming members of the commission and then diverting attention away from their violations. The principle diversionary tactic was to focus on Israel. Of the commission's two agenda items dealing with country-specific human rights violations, one was reserved solely for Israel, while the other was meant to cover the rest of the world.
The commission became an Israel-bashing consortium, automatically condemning whatever the Jewish state was doing to defend itself against terrorist attacks. For years, one-third of the time and the resolutions of the Human Rights Commission were devoted to Israel alone. At the same time, there were no resolutions on major human rights violators, not on China or Zimbabwe or Iran.
Will the new council be different? Although it was the UN in New York that decided to create the council, it will be the UN in Geneva deciding its agenda and working methods. In the Geneva discussions, Israel has been sidelined -- a bad sign..."

Human Rights Groups Protest Nomination of Jean Ziegler to UN Post
Judeoscope May 09, 2006 Jean Ziegler: the U.S. is an "imperialist dictatorship responsible for all the world’s misery." In 1989, Ziegler co-founded the "Khaddafi Human Rights Prize." In 2002, he won it himself.

47 nations gain seats on U.N.'s rights council - New body manages to keep worst abusers from even daring to run in the election.
Maggie Farley, Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2006

'Abusers' elected to human rights council
By David Usborne
May 10 , 2006

Khaleej Times
AP, May 10

[...Even before the vote, Roth said, “the council was a vast improvement over the discredited commission” because many countries that violate human rights who had been commission members didn’t seek seats on the council including Sudan, Zimbabwe, Libya, Congo, Syria, Vietnam, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Yvonne Terlingen, UN representative for Amnesty International, said it was “fairly pleased” that the council members “constitute a good basis to make a fresh start with creating a strong and effective human rights body.”
“Some countries have been elected with weak human rights records, but they also are now committed to uphold the highest human rights standards,” she said.
" To ensure global representation, Africa and Asia were given 13 seats each; Latin America and the Caribbean eight seats; Western nations, seven seats; and Eastern Europe, six seats."...]

[...The other winners were Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. The East European losers were Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia.
With Kenya dropping out, Africa fielded 13 candidates for the 13 seats and all won: Algeria, Cameroon, Djibouti, Gabon, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia and Zambia.
The 13 Asians elected to the council were Bangladesh, Bahrain, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka. Those defeated were Iran, Iraq, Kyrgystan, Lebanon and Thailand.
In Latin American and the Caribbean, the 8 seats went to Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. Nicaragua and Venezuela were defeated.
The 7 countries elected from the Western bloc were Britain, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. Greece and Portugal lost their bid for seats.]

Canada wins seat on new rights body
Other founding members include violators
U.S. stayed out of vote to pick 47 countries
Olivia Ward
May 10, 2006.

"I am pleased that the international community has recognized and reaffirmed Canada's long-term commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights both at home and abroad," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said during a visit to Afghanistan. "With a seat on the council, Canada will make a valuable contribution to its important work in establishing and enforcing human rights standards."
The new council was created to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission, whose rotating membership included countries known for their flagrant rights violations. It was often attacked for focusing on political mudslinging, and defending the dubious records of the members rather than eradicating abuses during its short six-weeks-a-year session... "

2- Liberia and the UN

The U.N. sex-for-food scandal
The Washington Times
May 10, 2006

" The United Nation's "sex-for-food" scandal continues to spread. As the human rights group Save the Children documents in a new report, U.N. peacekeepers in the war-torn, refugee-rich Liberia have been accused of selling food for sex from girls as young as 8. They are the latest victims in a growing tragedy that includes girls from Burundi, Ivory Coast, East Timor, Congo, Cambodia and Bosnia, proving correct a prediction made last year by the assistant secretary-general at the United Nations for peacekeeping operations. "We think this will look worse before it begins to look better," she said last May after efforts to investigate peacekeepers in Congo had fallen short.
The report found abuse at all age levels from 8 to 18, though the victims older than 12 were identified as being "regularly involved in 'selling sex'." But "all of the respondents clearly stated that they felt that the scale of the problem affected over half of the girls in their locations," the report said..."

Liberia: Sexual Exploitation Tops UN Agenda, But How Realistic Is The Emphasis?
The Analyst
Monrovia - May 9, 2006

UN Probes Allegations of Sex Abuse By Aid Workers In Liberia
By Franz Wild
Abidjan - 08 May 2006

Aid scandal hits Liberia's weakest
By David Loyn
BBC Developing World correspondent
May 07, 2006

In addition, here is an interesting article on Liberia: Taylor's Liberia: One Reporter's Memories
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone,
March 31, 2006

3- Sudan's crisis the UN, the Officials and the rest of us.

Political statements and the views of some officials and leftist media.

UN pleads for more Darfur crisis aid
May 10, 2006

Diplomats who spoke at the meeting also expressed near-unanimous support efforts to give the United Nations control over some 7,200 African Union peacekeepers in Darfur.

The African Union forces, now low on funds, have largely been ineffective in stopping atrocities and re-establishing security, leaving tens of thousands of people sheltering in camps with little food or water.

The force would be bolstered and folded into the command of a UN peacekeeping force monitoring a separate peace deal between Sudan’s largely Muslim north and the Christian and Animist south...

World Mobilization Urged for Darfur Accord, Action - Secretary Rice urges nations to seize "momentous opportunity" to restore hope
By Judy Aita
Washington File United Nations Correspondent
Bush pledges more aid for Sudan
By AP
May 9, 2006
No mention of the Islamic reality at Amnesty International and even the CIA stay away from mentioning the unmentionable role of Islamists.

The CIA's facts on Sudan - CIA World Factbook on Sudan

The Conflict as presented by Amnesty international - Women's Human Rights -UPDATE: THE CRISIS IN DARFUR

"People from sedentary groups formed a force called Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) in February of 2003. The SLA attacked government security forces, including the police and army. They also attacked towns, but only military causalities were reported. They said that this was in protest of what they perceived to be their marginalization and the failure of the government security forces to protect them from nomadic groups. They claimed that they were attacking the government rather than the nomadic groups as they thought the government was to blame, not inter-ethnic tensions.
At first, the government seemed to seek reconciliation with the SLA, but by the end of March 2003 it decided that it was going to solve the revolt by force. In April 2003, the SLA attacked the airport of al-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, destroying planes and reportedly killing some 70 military officials. The government gave free rein to nomadic militias (later known as the Janjawid) to attack, burn and loot villages in rural areas and to kill villagers in order to drive them away from their homes.
Another armed political group, calling itself the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) emerged shortly after, with demands broadly similar to the SLA."

Sudan is certainly not shy about showing its colors and flavors, see a comprehensive Sudan Website with information on The Republic of The Sudan, its People, Culture, Geography Politics, Current News, Music Clips and many ...

Take a look at Latest News From Sudan at Sudan.Net

The "Janjaweed" Militia in Darfur
by David Hoile
Media monitors Network
July 05, 2004

Warning, published two years ago at the website with the trendy name Media Monitors Network, this article would probably still reflect today, the general understanding of the conflict through the lens of relativism by the left and other parties. Notice that the many references are to the one UN report source.

The Crisis in Sudan as understood by the Guardian's team

More in depth and accurate analyses.

SUDAN STILL BLEEDS
By Amir Taheri
New York Post
May 10, 2005

As the plane from London landed at Khartoum Air port the other day, a contingent of armed security men moved in to cordon it off before its "dangerous cargo" could be removed from it and taken to an unknown destination...

Sudan's Silent Jihad
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com
July 29, 2004

Just in time to mark the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide that it largely ignored, the human rights community is beginning to take notice of the genocide in Sudan. As welcome as this is, and as refreshing as it is that the New York Times and Washington Post have done extensive reporting on Darfur in recent weeks, few have noted that the tragedy of Darfur is actually the second Sudanese genocide of our age. The first killed over two million African Christians and animists in southern Sudan.

They may be forgiven for being slow on the uptake, however; after all, Darfur marks the third genocide in Africa that Kofi Annan is declining to notice: Rwanda, Sudan I and now Sudan II. Over 100,000 people have been killed in Darfur. By autumn the number of those who have been displaced or impoverished, or whose lives have been destroyed by the war in other ways, will most likely exceed three million. Yet Annan declared that he cannot consider it “genocide or ethnic cleansing yet."

Symposium: Darfur - Islam's Killing Fields
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com
September 10, 2004

Thomas Haidon, an advisor to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Khartoum, Sudan in 2003. An American lawyer who was raised in the Catholic faith but converted to Islam, he is a member of the Board of Advisors and President of the New Zealand Chapter of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism;

Jon Lewis,a Mid-East expert whose works on the Arab world’s persecution of minorities have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forward, In the National Interest, Middle East Quarterly and other prestigious publications;

and

Walid Phares, Professor of Middle East Studies and Religious Conflict at Florida Atlantic University and a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He serves as an Analyst on Terrorism and Conflicts with MSNBC;

FP: Walid Phares, Thomas Haidon and Jon Lewis, welcome to Frontpage Symposium

Lewis, let me begin with you. I would like to start with something that has puzzled me: many of the roots of the Darfur genocide reside in Islamic jihad. On many fronts, this is a holy war led by Muslims. How come we almost never hear about this in the mainstream media?

Who Are the Janjaweed? - A guide to the Sudanese militiamen.
By Brendan I. Koerner
Updated Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Much of the violence in Sudan, which has created over 1 million refugees, has been attributed to militias known as the Janjaweed. Who are the Janjaweed?
The word, an Arabic colloquialism, means "a man with a gun on a horse." Janjaweed militiamen are primarily members of nomadic "Arab" tribes who've long been at odds with Darfur's settled "African" farmers, who are darker-skinned. (The labels Arab and African are rather misleading, given the complexity of the region's ethnic history.."
Janjaweed Wikipedia

Janjaweed "leader" says Sudan govt supported militia
© afrol News
March 02, ?

Janjaweed at Wikipedia
Sudan at Wikipedia
History of Sudan - Main article: Early history of Sudan.

Three ancient Kushite kingdoms existed consecutively in northern Sudan. This region was also known as Nubia and Meroe, and these civilizations flourished mainly along the Nile River from the first to the sixth cataracts. The kingdoms were influenced by, and in turn influenced Pharaonic Egypt. In ancient times, Nubia was ruled by Egypt from 2600 BC, although borders fluctuated greatly.
Christianity was introduced by missionaries in the 3rd or 4th century, and much of the region was converted to Coptic Christianity. Islam was introduced in 640AD with an influx of Muslim Arabs who had conquered Egypt, although the Christian Kingdoms of Nubia managed to persist until the 15th Century.
A merchant class of Arabs became economically dominant in feudal Sudan. An important kingdom in Nubia was the Makuria, which reached its height in the 8th-9th centuries, and was of the Melkite Christian faith, unlike its Coptic neighbours, Nobatia and Alodia read here for more facts on Sudan.

Photo of the little boy in photo-montage with the UN logo:
Prisoners Overseas

This is what's happening in Darfur at Darfur a Genocide We Can Stop. Photo By Steven Evens

Mother with little boy in Sudan. Every Screen

Child's hand with gun The Nation Project: sect. 14 SUDAN
Briana Mills


UN PRESS Releases and Meeting Coverage

UN News Center

Cruel Islam and Iran is the worst

Iran : A 17 year old girl is sentenced to death by hanging.
Faithfreedom
2006/01/08

Nazanin, 17, was sentenced to death by hanging for defending herself against three rapists.

A young girl who defended herself and her chastity against three male assailants who intended to kidnap and rape her causing injury to one of them who later died in hospital was condemned to death by hanging in an Islamic court in Iran. Nazanin who has seen no more than 17 Springs, all of which under the tyrannical rule of the Mullahs is now facing execution for trying to defend herself and her honor...

Petition here

Islam Is The Real Source of Violence.

Ali Sina - Faithfreedom
April 2001

Human rights abuses happen in many countries, but never to the proportion and the magnitude of what is happening in Iran and other Islamic countries. In the last few years, and with no little thanks to the Islamic Revolution of Iran, I noticed that the major human right abuses are perpetrated in the name of religion. I became concerned for the plight of my people in Iran and her neighboring countries and decided to investigate the cause. I asked myself whether all this is because the gentle and peaceful message of Islam is misunderstood and whether there is a way to revive the pure Islam and save my country. It was in this quest that I realized, to my chagrin, that the human right abuses are not deviations from the true Islam but they ARE teachings of Islam.

I realized that in Islam, Man has no rights! All the rights are reserved for Allah. Man has only duties. Among his duties, he has to pray five times a day, believe in the religion of Allah and submit his will, thoughts and intelligence to him. Any independence from Allah, even at the level of thought is punishable by beating, imprisonment and death.

"People around the world are breathing a sigh of relief with the news that the possible execution of confessed Afghani Christian Abdul Rahman has been solved and he will now be free to return to his life, Most people also believe this is an isolated incident..."
Read Islam Doesn’t Mean Submission—It Means Death"
By Barbara J. Stock - Faithfreedom
2006/03/28



Karim Fahimi, also known as Karim Shalo.
Anmesty International

"Karim Fahimi was sentenced to death in June. The sentence has now been upheld
by the Supreme Court, and he could be executed at any time.

Karim Fahimi, a Kurd, who is married with two young children, was reportedly
sentenced to death for drinking alcohol, by a court in the city of Sardasht,
western Iran. It was at least the third time he had been convicted of the
offence: under article 174 of the Iranian Penal Code, the penalty for consuming
any intoxicant is 100 lashes; under article 179, this penalty may be handed
down twice, but a third conviction carries the death penalty."

Wine Drinking in Islam
by Abul Kasem
April 14, 2005

WINE AND LIQUEUR (including beer, whisky, brandy, Martini, vermouth, gin, vodka, Champagne , Port, Sherry…) are great taboos in Islam. It is a great sin even to hold a bottle of one of these dreadful stuffs, not to talk of dropping a single drop of these haram liquids into one’s ( I mean, a Muslim’s) throat. Ask any Muslim and he will surely attest to what I have diligently written just now. There are severe prescribed (read Islamic) punishments for the production, distribution, sale, trading and consumption of these egregious products... Read it here.


Savage Hanging in the Public - Qazvin
from Holy Crime
"Karim Fahimi, also known as Karim Shalo
Karim Fahimi has been sentenced to death in June 2005. The sentence has now been upheld by the Supreme Court, and he could be executed at any time.

Karim Fahimi, a Kurd, who is married with two young children, was reportedly sentenced to death for drinking alcohol, by a court in the city of Sardasht, western Iran. It was at least the third time he had been convicted of the offence: under article 174 of the Iranian Penal Code, the penalty for consuming any intoxicant is 100 lashes; under article 179, this penalty may be handed down twice, but a third conviction carries the death penalty... See more links

PUBLIC HANGING ON THE RISE IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Iran Press service
By Brian Murphy (Associated Press)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The condemned man kissed the rope.
”I am not scared'', Ahmad Dowlatyari shouted to the crowd that assembled at sunrise Monday to watch his hanging. “My life is now over. I want to go with a smile''.

A tow truck's crane rose with a hydraulic hiss. The orange rope stiffened. Dowlatyari (convicted of murdering his crime partner in a fight over stolen gold) gasped once and was dead..." Read the rest here.

'NO MORE MULLAHS'
by Amir Taheri
Wall Street Journal
June 30, 2005

"In one of his rare outings during the Iranian presidential election campaign last week, Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the man then designated as the likely winner by almost everyone, ran into a spot of bother. An old woman broke through his security ring, shouting, "May I have a word with you?" Once allowed to approach Mr. Rafsanjani, the woman removed his turban with a blow and shouted, "No more mullahs!"

A couple of nights before that, Mr. Rafsanjani had been booed by students at Tehran University with cries of "mullahs back to the mosques!" Acknowledging the rising antimullah sentiments, Mr. Rafsanjani had himself photographed without a turban for the last posters in his forlorn campaign.

Mr. Rafsanjani was not the only mullah to experience the adverse tide of opinion. Ayatollah Muhammad Javadi Amoli, one of the regime's five "grand ayatollahs," was slapped across the face and shouted down from the stage as he tried to deliver a sermon supporting Mr. Rafsanjani in the holy city of Qom ... Read the rest here."


"...In his revealing case study, Afshari investigates how Islamic culture and Iranian politics since the fall of the Shah have affected human rights policy in that state. He exposes the human rights violations committed by ruling clerics in Iran since the Revolution, showing that Iran has behaved remarkably like other authoritarian governments in its human rights abuses. For over two decades, Iran has systematically jailed, tortured, and executed dissidents without due process of law and assassinated political opponents outside state borders. Furthermore, like other oppressive states, Iran has regularly denied and countered the charges made by United Nations human rights monitors, defending its acts as authentic cultural practices..."
Human Rights in Iran. The Abuse of Cultural Relativism
Reza Afshari

A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title.
Book review, University of Pennsylvanian Press


"...The Islamic Republic remains one of the worst violators of human rights in the world. Proportional to its population, it holds more prisoners of conscience than any other nation. It leads the world in number of people executed for political reasons on false charges of moral and other "deviations"..."IRAN'S 'UNKNOWNS': FACE THE FACTS
By Amir Taheri
New York Post
March 15, 2006

NCR-Iran.org July 2005
"...Before hanging the victims, the henchmen flogged each of them 228 times. The executioners wore masks fearing reprisals and anti-riot forces put the entire area under their control to prevent outbreak of public protests..."
The victims were charged with disrupting public order among other things. They had been imprisoned since 14 months ago, meaning that they were 16 years old at the time of the alleged offences ...Read it here.


Iran 'must stop youth executions'
By Steven Eke
BBC News
H/T FaithFreedom


Pictures of Murdered Shoaneh Ghaderi

These pictures are disturbing. Do not scroll down if you can't stomach gory scenes:

Potkin Azarmehr

The following distressing pictures are not from Abu-Ghorreyb or Guantanama. Otherwise they would have been all over the Western media and Kofi Annan would have made a song and dance about them..

They show the pictures of a murdered Iranian pro-democracy secular activist. That's why the Western media have not reported it...

Tolerating Intolerance:
How Political Correctness Protects Islam

I was just six, I have got hope, you took it all of them with a bullet.
Kurdish Blog

Additional links and photos sources:
Persian Journal
Persian Journal - Women
Le Comité de soutien aux Droits de l'homme en Iran.
Hanged Publicly in Iran Holy Crime
Death Row Speaks
The Iranian
NCR : National Council of Resistance of Iran - Foreign Affairs Committee
IranManif.org
Faith Freedom - Komeni's Speech
Deutsche Welle

Alos published at Iraqi blogger Central and The Infidel Blogger Alliance