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Beheading of Christian Children in Islam

2006-11-03T08:59:00.001-06:00

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

2006-09-10T07:02:00.000-06:00

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.

2006-09-08T09:12:00.000-06:00

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

2006-09-07T14:58:00.000-06:00

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.

2006-05-17T20:51:00.000-06:00

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

2006-05-10T14:07:00.000-06:00

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

2006-04-12T20:51:00.000-06:00

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

HELP SAVE FATEMEH - URGENT - IMMINENT EXECUTION

2006-04-07T05:29:00.000-06:00

HELP SAVE FATEMEH - SIGN PETITION

Photo Faith Freedom

Excerpts-

UA: IRAN

28 March 2006

More news on UA 281 /04

Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh is reportedly scheduled to be executed on or before 1 April 2006. She was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband.

IMMINENT EXECUTION

IRAN

* FATEMEH HAGHIGHAT-PAJOUH'S TRAGIC STORY

"The stay of execution granted to Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh on 12 October 2004 was rescinded by the Supreme Court. Her execution has been reportedly scheduled to take place on or before 1 April 2006.

Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband.

She alleged that her husband was a drug addict who had tried to rape her daughter from a previous marriage, who was 15 years old at the time.

Apparently he had previously told her that he had lost the girl in a gambling match. Amnesty International does not know when she was arrested, but she may have been tried in 2002.

The Head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, had stayed Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh's execution after reading a letter written to him by her daughter, entitled "Don’t render my hopes hopeless", in which she appealed for clemency for her mother.

Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh was then held in Evin prison in the capital, Tehran, whilst her case was sent to the second Division of the Supreme Court for review.

According to a report in the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri on 15 March 2006, the Court has confirmed the death sentence against Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh and has reportedly approved the execution.

Her lawyer was reported to be intending to ask the Head of the Judiciary to use his powers to issue another stay of execution."

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in Persian, English, French or your own language:

- expressing concern that the stay of execution granted to Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh has been rescinded after almost 18 months;

- urging that the death sentence imposed on Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouhbe commuted immediately;

- urging the authorities to ensure that the victim’s family is made aware of its right, under Islamic law, to pardon the condemned;

- reminding the Iranian authorities of their commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular Article 3A: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

National Council of Resistance of Iran - Foreign Affairs Committee

Read our friend Kat - Islam, Freedom and Democracy

2006-04-02T13:39:00.000-06:00

Islam & Female Genital Mutilation

Kuwait's Al-Rai TV presents, as Charles Johnson says, "an Egyptian Islamic expert discussing the finer points of female genital mutilation."
From MEMRI TV

Dark Ages Via Satellite
Thanks to LGF, April 01, 2006

[...]
Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: Ibn Al-Qayyem recounts that when Hagar married Abraham and got pregnant, Sarah was very jealous of her. Because of her jealousy, she swore by Allah that she would cut off three of Hagar's body parts. Abraham was afraid that she would cut off Hagar's nose or ears,so he instructed her to pierce Hagar's ears and to circumcise her. This was the beginning of female circumcision in history.

Dr Zarrar: I am not talking about the intellectuals or the elite. I am talking to you about reality as it is, about the people who live in cemeteries, about the reality in which I grew up and lived. I am talking about what happens in South Egypt, about the Nuba, about the peasants and so on. I speak about a reality I am experiencing, along with every woman who has been subjected to the painful and public violation of her honour. I consider this to be a crime, in terms of both religious and civil laws. I condemn whoever tries to defend this.

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: Dr Zarrar rejects female circumcision altogether but I claim that it existed among the Arabs in the ancient times, and even among the righteous caliphs.
There are many references to this. So what caused the confusion? It is the result of some wrong actions...

Interviewer: What wrong actions?

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: For example, taking my daughter to the local practitioner, who is not a professional, yet she cuts off the girls thing. I am saying to all the people who are watching that I am against the pharaonic circumcision, which is still practiced in Egypt. I'm totally against it. It's forbidden. I am against the complete removal of the clitoris. I am totally against this, because it is forbidden and does not please Allah. The caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab said to the circumciser: When you perform khifadh circumcision - leave a part of it. This proves it was prevalent among the Arabs in the days of Omar. Khfadh circumcision is not meant for all girls, only for some.

Interviewer: Which girls?

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: I will tell you which girls. A girl phoned me once... A woman called me once - there is no shame in asking questions about religion... A girl called me and said: When I take the Metro, wearing tight jeans... The Metro in Egypt jolts about like this. She said I get aroused. What should I do?

Dr Zarrar: I asked a doctor. I'm telling you what happened...

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: I asked a doctor, who told me this girl's clitoris was very high, and that a small part of it must be cut off. We must take all girls to a Muslim doctor who specializes in this, who will determine whether she needs a khifadh circumcision or not. If a girl needs a khifadh circumcision, we should perform it, and if a girl does not need it, we should not.

Am I supposed to deny one of the rites of Islam and the laws of Allah?
Dr Zarrar: The Prophet Muhammad had four daughters. Did you ever hear any claim that he circumcised any of them?

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: The Islamic Research Center at Al-Azhar University held a meeting on November 14, 1994. I have the decision with me if you want to copy it...
It says: Regarding female circumcision - after CNN aired a report about an Egyptian girl, who was brutally circumcised... This is the report that brought the issue to public attention because the West wants to impose its culture and philosophy on us...

Interviewer: Circumcision is always brutal.

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: The research Center, the highest religious authority in the Islamic world, concluded "female circumcision, khifah circumcision, is legal in Islam and must not be forbidden or regarded as a crime."

Interviewer: How come there are religious sheik who do not circumcise their daughters? Who told you this? Do you have any daughters?

Dr Zarrar: I don't have any daughters. I wish I did.

Dr Zarrar: It's a good thing you don't!

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: If I had a daughter, I would circumcise her.

Dr Zarrar: Do you have any sisters?

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: Yes, I do.

Dr Zarrar: Have they been circumcised?

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: Let me tell you what we did. we took my young sisters to a specialist doctor who said that one needed a circumcision and the other didn't. We performed the khifadh circumcision on the one who needed it and we did not perform it on the one who didn't need it.

Dr Zarrar: We must declare war on Saudi Arabia. We must pick up a sword and fight them because this is not practiced in Saudi Arabia or in the gulf countries. It has been scientifically proven that all whores have been circumcised.

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: In 2001, the center for Population research at Al-Azhar University conducted research about the chastity of Egyptian girl and the unity of the Egyptian family. They took a representative sample of the Egyptian society. They determined several factors for the chastity of Egyptian girls:
The first is the khifadh circumcision of the girls.
The second factor is modesty.
The third is the mother's monitoring of the daughter's behavior and finally, the observance of prayer.

Interviewer: Is the girl asked whether she wants to be circumcised or not?

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: No. we ask the doctor, who makes the decision. God help us.

Interviewer: What if she says: I don't want to be circumcised. What happens then?

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: If a girl says she doesn't want it, she's free. No problem.

Interviewer: Is this what happens in reality?

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: I have no relation to reality. I am talking about how things should be.

Interviewer: You are a religious sheik, from Al-Azahar University. You cannot say you have no relation to reality.

Dr. Muhammad Wahdan: Reality is a mistake, we must rectify it.
In Egypt we have four and a half million spinsters. The definition of a spinster is a woman who has reached 30, without ever receiving a marriage proposal. We have a spinster problem in the Arab world, and the last thing we want is for them to be sexually aroused. Circumcision of the girls who need it makes them chaste, dignified, and pure.

Pictures Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

"...in Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Mauritania etc.
FGM is carried out with knives, scissors, scalpels, pieces of glass or razor
blades. Anaesthetic and antiseptics are not generally used ." From Middle-East-Info.org

There are a few types of this procedure: clitoridotomy, clitoridectomy, infibulation and a few others types of Female genital cutting Wikipedia

WHAT IS FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION?

"We are circumcised and insist on circumcising our daughters so that there is no mixing between male and female... An uncircumcised woman is put to shame by her husband, who calls her 'you with the clitoris'. People say she is like a man. Her organ would prick the man..."
An Egyptian woman [1]

Testimony
"I was genitally mutilated at the age of ten. I was told by my late grandmother that they were taking me down to the river to perform a certain ceremony, and afterwards I would be given a lot of food to eat. As an innocent child, I was led like a sheep to be slaughtered.

Once I entered the secret bush, I was taken to a very dark room and undressed. I was blindfolded and stripped naked. I was then carried by two strong women to the site for the operation. I was forced to lie flat on my back by four strong women, two holding tight to each leg. Another woman sat on my chest to prevent my upper body from moving. A piece of cloth was forced in my mouth to stop me screaming. I was then shaved.

When the operation began, I put up a big fight. The pain was terrible and unbearable. During this fight, I was badly cut and lost blood. All those who took part in the operation were half-drunk with alcohol. Others were dancing and singing, and worst of all, had stripped naked.

I was genitally mutilated with a blunt penknife.

After the operation, no one was allowed to aid me to walk. The stuff they put on my wound stank and was painful. These were terrible times for me. Each time I wanted to urinate, I was forced to stand upright. The urine would spread over the wound and would cause fresh pain all over again. Sometimes I had to force myself not to urinate for fear of the terrible pain. I was not given any anaesthetic in the operation to reduce my pain, nor any antibiotics to fight against infection. Afterwards, I haemorrhaged and became anaemic. This was attributed to witchcraft. I suffered for a long time from acute vaginal infections."

Hannah Koroma, Sierra Leone

Amnesty.org / WHAT IS FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION?

"Circumcision makes women clean, promotes virginity and chastity and guards
young girls from sexual frustration by deadening their sexual appetite."
Mrs Njeri, a defender of female genital mutilation in Kenya [2]

More information:

TOSTAN
"Tostan is an international, non-governmental organization based in
Senegal, West Africa. Tostan empowers African communities to take charge of
their own development." Check Tostan's links

Female Genitale Mutilation (and Gender-based violence)
SDC - Health / Social Development Division, Medicus Mundi Switzerland.

For the international community involved in development cooperation, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is one of many forms of violence against women, also referred to as gender-based violence.

The WHO estimates that 130 million of girls and women world-wide are concerned by FGM, with another two million girls at risk of undergoing some form of the procedure every year. Several types of “operations” are performed to modify the normal anatomy of a woman’s external genitalia.

All types of FGM can lead to immediate and long-term medical, sexual and psychological complications. The list of medical complications is long. In addition, many women suffer from immediate or lifelong psychological traumata and disturbed sexual functions.... Read the rest here

Towards Redirecting the Female Circumcision Debate: Legal, Ethical and Cultural Considerations
From McGill Journal of Medicine Home Page (http://www.mjm.mcgill.ca)

International Journal of Dermatology 2002, 41, 253-263 Abstact and photos.

All photos : Middle-East-Info.org

This post was also published at the Killing Zone

2006-03-12T15:31:00.000-06:00

Help Save Mohammed Al-Asadi's Life

An Appeal from Jail from Mohammed al-Asadi, Editor-in-Chief. By Mohammed Al-Asadi
Feb 14, 2006
Mohammed Al-Asadi, editor-in-chief of the Yemen Observer, in jail. YO Photo

Report: Press Climate Deteriorating in Yemen
By Observer Staff,
Mar 12, 2006

"SANA'A - In a new report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warns of a “dangerous escalation” in the government’s suppression of independent and opposition media in Yemen.
In the report, “Attacks, Censorship, and Dirty Tricks,” the CPJ says that at least two dozen journalists have been assaulted, jailed or sued over the past two years. And in the past year, Yemeni authorities shut down at least seven newspapers..."

SIGN the Petition

'Of Course I’m Afraid’, an Interview with Mohammed Al-Asadi
By Rod Nordland - Newsweek magazine
Feb 19, 2006

SANA'A – Mohammed Al-Asadi, the Editor-in-Chief of the Yemen Observer, remains in jail concerning accusations related to the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

In an interview from his jail cell Al-Asadi spoke to reporter Rod Nordland from the US-based Newsweek magazine, discussing press freedom, religion and calls for his execution. The transcript from Newsweek follows below.

NEWSWEEK: Is this your first time in jail?
Mohammed al-Asadi: It's the first time ever I've been a prisoner, or even in front of a judge.

How are the accommodations?
I'm in a temporary prison, awaiting a hearing, so it's not so bad. It's a basement, and we have to buy everything we need, even bottled water. There are 15 of us sharing one big room and one toilet, but the others aren't common criminals. A couple are journalists, because it's the prison of the prosecutor for press and publications...

Yemen Exploits Cartoon Controversy to Close the Yemen Observer
JAWA
February 09, 2006
Fighting the Wrong War: Not in the Prophet’s Name
By YemenObserver Staff
March 11, 2006
Lawyers Wrangle and Yemen Observer Demanded to Compensate for Insults
By Sanaa, NewsYemen
March 8, 2006

"SANA’A – Yemen is focusing on the wrong people in targeting Mohammed Al-Asadi and the Yemen Observer in the accusations of insulting the Prophet (PBUH), according to a leading academic.
Dr Abdullah Al-Faqih, Professor of Politics at Sana’a University and head of the Change Forum, an independent NGO working to promote political dialogue, appealed to they Yemeni people arguing that they are “fighting the wrong war” in targeting the newspaper.

"Yemen’s battle is not with Al-Asadi but with poverty, illiteracy, underdevelopment, and diseases," he said.
Dr Al-Faqih, in an interview with the Observer, wrote an appeal for real justice to be made, calling the trial a ‘witch hunt.’
His statement follows below.
“It is inconceivable to think that a newspaper like the Yemen Observer would intentionally seek to insult Muslims or their Prophet (PBUH) in any manner..."

FREE MUHAMMAD AL-ASADI
By Michelle Malkin ·
March 10, 2006

Yemeni Lawyrers demands death penalty
By Sandmonkey,
March 10, 2006

Campain to save a life
By Blueslord - Infidel Bloggers Alliance
March 09, 2006

Help Save A Man's Life: Yemen editor faces capital punishment for printing cartoons. (Updated)
Freedom Zone
March 09, 2006

Yemen editor 'faces death calls' The trial adjourned until 22 March.
BBC -March 8, 2006

Knowing the Defender from the Offender
By Shaker Lashuel*, YemenObserver
March 6, 2006
* Shaker Lashuel is a freelance Yemeni writer based in the U.S. He has written on the Yemeni-American community and Yemen related issues. He is a teacher working for the New York City Department of Education.

Danish Cartoons International
Hjörtur Gudmundsson - The Brussels Journal
March 2, 2006

"According to the Danish online newspaper eJour, 143 newspapers in 56 countries around the globe, including Christian and Muslim ones, have so far republished one or more of the Muhammad cartoons, first published by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in September. (See the twelve cartoons here, halfway the page) A list of the countries can be found here. 13 newspapers in 9 countries, including Egypt, had published one or more of the cartoons before the Norwegian Christian newspaper Magazinet republished them on January 10.
Editors have either been sacked or jailed for publishing the cartoons. In Algeria two editors have been jailed and in Indonesia a number of them were fired...

Journalists in Yemen and Algeria arrested over prophet cartoons
CPJ - Committee to Protect Journalists -New York
February 13, 2006

2006-02-15T21:29:00.000-06:00

Creation of a Jihad

I- Anatomy of an outrage - Cartoon : Aug 2005 - mid-February 2006
Around 68 articles on the subject.
Search

II- Jihad ready or are we "tooned" out?
Perfect timing for cartoon Jihad
Search

III- Brillant Rose
Chronology of events, commentaries
update Feb. 20, 2006

2006-02-12T11:57:00.000-06:00

HANDS OFF MY FREEDOM!

Life before the Cartoons (Sept 20, 2005)

In Denmark before the Cartoons (BTC) an author of children’s books wanted to produce a book for Muslim kids portraying Muhammad as a hero – one in a series he had written. Unfortunately he was unable to find an artist willing to illustrate his book.

The editor at the Jyllands-Posten paper heard about the story since the issue of ‘self-censorship’ is, in journalistic terms, part of the daily life of every editor who tries to keep the daily newspaper fresh and interesting.

Remember as well, the Danish media have a particularly active cultural core that sees a vital role for the testing of the hard won freedoms that are not physical, but intellectual – for example, freedom of speech - and in the Socratic tradition of discourse.

Hence Editor-in-chief Carsten Juste commissioned illustrations to test "an article of self-censorship which rules large parts of the Western world” by providing an open commission to around 40 artists. I believe they were asked how they think about Islam

So Jyllands-Posten's publication of the cartoons of Muhammad is best understood not as an attack on Islam, but as a reaction to this trend, and an attempt to dramatically reassert the primacy of free speech. The cartoons essentially were a question to the Danish society. In context, the reaction of non-Danish Muslims to the publication of the cartoons was not at issue.

Course the supreme irony is that by reacting as they have with violence and death threats to these depictions of Muhammad, Muslims prove to us in the West that we were right to self- censor!

We may soon thank the Jyllands-Posten for alerting us all to the very real fragility of our Freedoms - if we are not prepared to fight for them, they will be taken away.

In an excellent article published in the Weekly Standard, Paul Marshall, a senior fellow at Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom -

“Religious toleration means not insulting somebody else's religion, and it is a good thing. But religious freedom means being free to reject somebody else's religion and even to insult it.

Government should want and encourage its citizens to be tolerant of one another, but its primary responsibility is to protect its citizens' rights and freedoms."

Who are the moderates?

British Imam praises London Tube bombers
Sunday Times, Feb 12 2006

In pictures: Pro-Islam protests BBC

Worldwide Cartoon Frenzy Powerline

The 'moderate' voice of Islam, the Muslim Association of Britain which supported the rally of the "toon" protests, includes among some powerful extremist leaders, a former military commander of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organisation. Terror link of 'moderate' Muslims at London rally
GORDON RAYNER
Daily Mail, 11th February 2006

Tens of thousands in Turkish protests at Mohammed cartoons
ISTANBUL - AFP
Sun Feb 12,2006

Denmark closes embassies, Mohammed cartoon protests ease
Sat
COPENHAGEN - AFP
Feb 11, 2006

Provoking Art

Toon-deaf Europe is taking the wrong stand
Mark Steyn
SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
February 12, 2006
From Europe's biggest-selling newspaper, the Sun: ''Furious Muslims have blasted adult shop [i.e., sex shop] Ann Summers for selling a blowup male doll called Mustafa Shag."

Not literally "blasted" in the Danish Embassy sense, or at least not yet. Quite how Britain's Muslim Association found out about Mustafa Shag in order to be offended by him is not clear. It may be that there was some confusion: given that "blowup males" are one of Islam's leading exports, perhaps some believers went along expecting to find Ahmed and Walid modeling the new line of Semtex belts. Instead, they were confronted by just another filthy infidel sex gag. The Muslim Association's complaint, needless to say, is that the sex toy "insults the Prophet Muhammad -- who also has the title al-Mustapha.''

In a world in which Danish cartoons insult the prophet and Disney Piglet mugs insult the prophet and Burger King chocolate ice-cream swirl designs insult the prophet, maybe it would just be easier to make a list of things that don't insult him. Nonetheless, the Muslim Association wrote to the Ann Summers sex-shop chain, "We are asking you to have our Most Revered Prophet's name 'Mustafa' and the afflicted word 'shag' removed..."

CN & Diane

2006-02-09T13:12:00.000-06:00

Cartoons and Louise Arbour Update

"In a free state, tongues too should be free"
Pro-Freedom Artists
Don't Touch My Freedom - I am with the Danes
AFD
This is not a Prophet - draft # 2
'Everyone Is Afraid to Criticize Islam', AYAAN HIRSI AL
AFD
No Prophet - vision 3
Impure Islam, Irshad Manji
Organized apoplexy, David Warren... - Search

In light of the cartoon firestorm let us reflect for a moment on who knew what and particularly, when.

Many MSM writers (Amir Taheri and Peter Goodspeed in The National Post (Canada) today and blogs, (Michele Malkin), are now picking up on the manufactured nature of this cartoon-like “spontaneous combustion” by the Muslim Street

Many are opening the archives to peer into the documentary trail from last Sept that implicates one of the leading Danish Imams, Abu Laban for creating this second test.

The first test was the series of Paris youth riots.

They are now showing us the strength of the pan-Islamist movement and its functional chain of command. The working model, Mark ll.

The aim is to show how easily the human emotional bomb (HEB) can be sort of harnessed to terrorize Western societies.

My original post (copied below) was put up 9 Dec 05. It was prompted by a same day reading of media reports that the UN HR Committee, Mme L. Arbour, (Chair), had sided with the enemy by writing to remonstrate with the Danish paper.

Now, we are quite aware that the whole story did not get much traction when first the cartoons were published in Sept 2005.

We now know that the Danish Imam, Abu Laban (a Saudi agent), on his sponsored trips to the ME in Dec 2005 visited in Egypt and one or more of the Gulf States. Oh, yes, and with the Hamas and Syrian leadership.

We now know that he finally got the attention of Abu Moussa Sec of the Arab League and the Saudis.

The rest as we say is history.

Mme Arbour is implicated.

My questions to her are these:

Which UN member nations are on the HR Committee that she Chairs?

Was there any debate at Committee?

How did the Committee decide that the cartoons were within its Committee mandate or authority to examine?

Was the issue of Freedom of Speech discussed by the Committee?

At the time she or the Committee agreed to sign the official UN HR Committee letter, which cartoon images had they seen and when had they seen them?

Had she or they been exposed, directly or by description, to any of the bogus ugly cartoons inserted by the Danish Imam?

By what means did her Committee become seized of this, “pressing” issue? Who or what organization presented the documentation to the Committee for its review?

To whom did the official Committee send its reply? There is certainly no doubt that a “letter indicating action taken” was sent to someone. At the UN there must be normal administrative steps to follow as part of the transparency process.

So, now it is up to the blogosphere to crank up the research engines and expose those who have subverted the UN to their own ends.

Flash: Please see this story in the International Herald Tribune, Thurs, 9 Feb for answers to many of these questions.

cn

2006-01-31T10:27:00.000-06:00

This is not a Prophet! ART
- Updated -

WARNING - EXTEMELY GRAPHIC VIOLENCE
NOT SUITED FOR CHILDREN
Thank You.

Ceci, n'est un pipe - This is not a pipe

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable." René Magritte

For those who have forgotten, art is not the object it represents, art is rather a personal representation of the reality. Art must remain free.

Why should we apologize for thinking freely and describing the world as it is, especially after seeing daily images of horror and terror brought to us by Islamo-fascists.

The great indignation expressed over these cartoons is right out of Kafka, given the daily doses of beheadings, suicide bombings and threatening speeches from Imams against the West and the Jews/Israel specifically.

Just wonder what would happen if, for a week, we in the West actually did mirror the kind of hate speech and calls for the elimination Israel that is the main event every day in the Arab ME?

After all, most of these terrorists crimes are committed in the name of Allah, the Prophet and Islam; no wonder Mohammed with a bomb in his turban is such an appropriate image!

Why should we apologies for portraying the facts?

When the moderate Muslims speak out against this terror, that is being done in the name of all Islam, perhaps we can talk.

Meanwhile, what is Islam doing to end the violence? Nothing.

Islamists, teaching through the Quran, use and celebrate violence.

It is clear that Islamic authorities and Islam-fascists have no interest in recognizing the crimes they use to maintain terror? Without terror, they would loose their ultimate power on others, the West included.

Let us remember those who recently paid the price of this madness with their lives: Loved ones, friends, children, men and women on the front, professional civilians, journalists...

Let's hope that the great majority of Muslims will soon realize how free they can be by rejecting the terror and the oppression forced on them by the Islamists!

Bless the innocents. - Hell to the terrorists!

Colin and Diane

***

I- The Quran
II- Gatering jihad
III- The Islamic blade and beheadings
IV- Honour Killings
V- Genocide and mass rapes sanctionned by Islamists
VI- Lynching and desecrating the human body
VII- Murders, child abuse and teaching hatred
VIII- Latest kidnappings in Iraq and tragedies

I-The Quran

"All non-Muslims will be rejected by Allah after they die."

3:85 And whoso seeketh as religion other than the Surrender (to Allah) it will not be accepted from him, and he will be a loser in the Hereafter.

"you cannot hurt the sentiments of billions of Muslims in the name of freedom of press."

Pakistan official spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry

"...blasphemous" cartoons was "disgusting and irresponsible..." Official WAM news agency

"This is cultural terrorism, not freedom of expression. The repercussions of such irresponsible acts will have adverse impact on international relations..." Emirates' Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs Mohammed Al Dhaheri

II- Gatering jihad

Read Deconstructing Bin Laden’s Latest Propaganda
James Phillips - Heritage Foundation
January 24, 2006

WARNING - Glorification of violence against humanity in the Quran

Quran’s Teachings: Find out what is the inspiration behind the hate and violence in Islamic terrorism?
Faithfreedom

Quran 2 :24 And if ye do it not - and ye can never do it - then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones.

The Caliphate: Islam's Challenge to Global Order?
Noman Hanif
January 31 2006

"A divine belief by the radical Islamic movement in the institution of the Caliphate as a fortress to restore Islam’s power and a vehicle to challenge the primacy of Western civilisation is gathering storm in the Islamic world and beyond. Sourced from the Koran and Islamic history, the Islamic movement may differ as to whether the methodology of revival should be jihad, reformist or political, but the goal of restoring the Caliphate is now uniformly agreed upon..."

Jihad through History
by Daniel Pipes - New York Sun
May 31, 2005

Twelve Nepalese killed on video by Iraqi terrorists Toby Harnden in Baghdad and Thomas Bell in Kathmandu
January 09,2004

III- The Islamic blade and beheadings

Horrific Murders of Christian School Girls in Indonesia by Islamic terrorists WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES AND REPORTS FOLLOW
October 30, 2005

Paul Johnson Beheading Video: why you should see it - Jawa Report
July 22, 2004

Daniel Pearl Foundation

Daniel Pearl Is dead, officials confirm
Washington CNN
February 22, 2002

William Sampson in Saudi Arabia- Savagely tortured, raped, threaten of execution by beheading.

Where Islam is the law, dehumanizing an innocent man is sanctioned by the government.

One more act of defiance "He was beaten on his feet, buttocks and genitals with an axe handle and cane. His genitals were squeezed and mashed underfoot. He was sodomized. He was once told he was about to be publicly executed and was driven, blindfolded, through the city. He eventually realized it was just a cruel hoax..."
Andrew Duffy - The Ottawa Citizen
November 17, 2005

IV- Honour Killings

Honour Killing? Man beheads sister
Press Trust of India
January 02, 2006

Honour Killing in Pakistan - Ansar Burney Trust- Human and Civil Rights Organisation

A 59 year old man accused of the 'honour killing' of a 13 year old girl in Iraq in 2001
Kurdish man charged in Sweden with honour killing
1/19/2006 The Local (Swedish News)

Boyfriend was stabbed 46 times in 'honour killing
A Correspondent October 06, 2005

Women of Gaza fear for their freedoms under new religious regime
Donald Macintyre -The Independent- Online edition
30 January 2006

Commodifying Honor in Female Sexuality: Honor Killings in Palestine Suzanne Ruggi

Honor killings, a brutal tribal custom
Walter Rodgers - CNN
December 7, 1995

Ibtihaz Hasoun was accused of shaming her family, was recently stabbed to death by her brother. He had summoned villagers to watch him murder his sister. The villagers celebrated the murder.

"She married someone outside the village," said one man. "We would do the same thing."

V- Genocide and mass rapes sanctionned by Islamists

The rape of Darfur - The Guardian, January 18, 2006

The Accused: Arab Women Sang Songs Of "Joy" As African Women Raped In Dafur
Ace of Spades HQ
January 10, 2006

VI- Lynching and desecrating the human body

Ramallah Lynching

Vadim Nourezitz, Yosef Avrahami.
Rest In Peace.

"October 11, 2000, Yossi Avrahami, father to three small children, and Vadim Norvich, just married four days earlier, were on their way to their yearly army reserve service, when they were unfortunate enough to take a wrong turn and end up in Palestinian police custody. They were taken to the police headquarters in Ramallah."
Ramallah Lynching - WARNING - EXTEMELY GRAPHIC
In Honor

"We have just killed your man" shouted a Palestinian into the phone when Irena Nourezitz, wife of Vadim Nourezitz, called her husband's cell phone.

Two Israeli reserve men got lost on their way. They took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramlah. A group of Palestinians started chasing them. The two run a way and looked for shelter at the Palestinian police department. By that time a mob of hundrads of Palestinians was chasing them.

I won't spend any more words to describe what happened to them at the Palestinian police department... the pictures say enough!" Link to Video clip of this barbaric.

Hat tip: Little Green Football Palestinian Policeman Convicted of Lynching
August 26, 2003

Iraqi Mob Desecrates Americans' Bodies - WARNING - EXTEMELY GRAPHIC
The Memory Hole
November 23, 2003

VII- Murders, child abuse and teaching hatred

Carnage In Russian School Siege CBSNews - Beslan, Russia
Sept. 3, 2004

WARNING -Graphic Images - horrying crimes against children

See Palestinian Child Abuse - Slideshow LGF

Ask For Death, The Life will be given to you, are told Palestinian Children. Short Video

Myth and Fact: Palestinian Children and Terrorism By Mitchell G. Bard
Jewish Virtual Library

VIII- Latest kidnappings and tragedies

New Hostage Video of Four Western Peace Activists - Jawa Report,
January 28, 2006

Jill Carroll update,
Christian Monitor, January 30, 2006

We can help Mr. Enwiya's Widow, please see links below.

Helping Allan Enwiya's Widow at An Iraqi in America

American Journalist Kidnapped In Baghdad at Fay, An Iraqi in America
Kidnapping and Murder in Baghdad at Mad Canuck

Thank You Fayrouz and Madcanuck.

Photos source:

Palestinian children: Israel's war Againts terror, Picture archives

Representation of Mohammed Newspaperindex.com

Mohammed Image Archive - Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History Hat Tip: Little Green Football

Diane

2006-01-14T21:52:00.000-06:00

Ever wonder why there is so much violence in the Islamic universe? What is Islamofascism?
- Warning - Images of a difficult reality below -

Image by Cox & Forkum, That Day

National Rally Against Islamofascism Day - Jan 10, 2006 - Persian Journal

The Real Global Virus - The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online

Islamofascism Rising in Holland by Alexis Amory FrontPageMagazine.com

The Islamofascist Agenda - “The Americans love Pepsi-cola, we love death" by Dean Murdock National Review Online

Islamofascism by Ali Sina FaithFreedom

The Scope of Islamofascism- Reader comment on article: The Enemy Within by Daniel Pipes

AMERICA & IRAQ by Amir Taheri Benador Associates

Islamofascism - Wikipedia

Bring Back the Horror - I want to be disturbed. by Jonah Golberg
March 20, 2002 4:15 p.m.

Excerpt-

"The images of people leaping to their deaths from the World Trade Center were carried around the world for weeks. Many have cited and credited these images with rallying world opinion to our cause. When visiting the United States, Hamid Karzai, the interim president of Afghanistan, singled out those images as the essence of the evil we face. By the evening of Sept. 11, the only place Americans could see these morally compelling images was foreign television. It is a rare thing in the history of humanity that the galvanizing images for a nation's war are more likely to be seen by the enemy than hits own citizens..."

- Recently during the Pilgrims in Mecca, 2006 -

"Iranian pilgrims in Mecca for the Hajj demonstrate the peaceful, tolerant nature of Islam, via MEMRI TV." Little Green Football on January 09, 2006

Play Video - "Israel is the enemy of Allah. May the hands of the infidels be chopped off."

Following are excerpts from a rally of Iranian pilgrims in Mecca, aired on Channel 1, Iranian TV, and on Al-'Alam TV, on January 9, 2006.

Crowd: Israel is the enemy of Allah.

Man: May the hands of the infidels be chopped off.

Crowd: May the hands of the infidels be chopped off.

Man: May the hands of the infidels be chopped off.

Crowd: May the hands of the infidels be chopped off.

Man: (Chopped off) from the land of the believers.

Crowd: From the land of the believers.

Man: The Audience will now split into two groups: One group will settle the score with America, and the other will settle the score with Israel. This group now: Death to America!

Crowd: Death to America!

Man: Death to Israel!

Crowd: Death to Israel! Death to America!

Man: Death to America!

Crowd: Death to America!

Man: Death to America!

Crowd: Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to Israel!

Man: All together now: Death to America! Death to Israel!

Crowd: Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to Israel!

Israeli soldier cleans the blood after an Israeli was
stabbed and killed at the Kalandia Checkpoint near
the west bank town of Ramallah, Thursday,

Dec. 8, 2005.

[...]

Speaker: Today, the impure world Zionism, in the modern Age of ignorance, has emerged with the same (polytheistic) ideology, but with new methods. It wants to take over the fields of economy, of culture, and politics, as well as the military, throughout the world.
[...]
We, the pilgrims who have come to the house of God, condemn the plots and the measures taken by the international Zionism – the deceitful Satan who spreads heresy, polytheism, and idolatry, enslaving human beings with a new method. It abuses the divine religion of Moses. It takes Satanic measures, and arouses the world's hatred towards this divine religion, and its true followers. We denounce these criminal acts. We call upon the world of Islam and the free peoples to take significant measures to thwart the Satanic policy of this camp.

Crowd: Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar.

Speaker: We, the pilgrims who have come to the house of God, strongly condemn the aggressive measures of "the global arrogance," led by the idol and center of evil, the criminal America. We condemn it for its aggression, war-mongering, its murder, plundering, torture, espionage, its abductions and its secret jails. We strongly condemn it.

We emphasize that the occupation forces must leave the lands of Islam. We express our hatred and our disgust at the mother of all corruption of this century, the Great Satan, and at its illegitimate offspring, the plundering Israel.

Crowd: Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar.

[...]
Speaker: My believing brothers, I will now read to you the text of the call of the leader of the Islamic revolution, Imam Khamenei, to the pilgrims who have come to the house of God:
[...]
...Today, the fleets of arrogance are, once again, using new methods of deceit, in order to perpetuate and strengthen their control over the Islamic world. Their slogans of spreading democracy and human rights is one of these methods of deceit. The Great Satan, who embodies evil and violence against humanity, raises the banner of defending of human rights, and summons the peoples of the Middle East to democracy.

The democracy that America wants to implement in these countries, however, means that general elections – which pretend to be popular, but are in fact American elections – will give rise, by means of conspiracies, bribery, and deceptive propaganda, to obedient American collaborators.

These collaborators will accomplish America's goals of arrogance, and first and foremost stopping the spread of Islam, and removing the Islamic values from the scene.
[...]
The fact that the slogan of democracy is being raised by the greedy people who for many years have supported the dictatorial regimes in Asia, Africa, and the American continent is completely unacceptable. Likewise, when the call to fight violence and terrorism by those who support Zionist terrorism, and who carry out the bloodiest kind of violent acts in Iraq and Afghanistan this is a mockery.
[...]
The American and British governments, which permit the torture of suspects, and the spilling of their blood in the streets, and the tapping of citizens' phone calls without a court order, do not have the right to claim they are defending civil rights.

The governments that have blackened the face of modern history with their production and use of nuclear and chemical weapons to not have the right to impose their patronage on the issue of preventing the spread of weapons of mass... on the issue of preventing the spread of nuclear technology.

2005-11-06T14:31:00.000-06:00

ISLAM - WOMEN - SILENCE

Tribute to the Beautiful Zahra Kazemi

Zahra Kazemi (1948 - 2003)

Born as Zahra Kazemi in Shiraz, Iran, on the first day of Autumn, 1948
Two years later her parents renamed her Ziba...

How Kazemi was Murdered
The Ottawa Citizen , Michael Petrou
"The murder of Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in Iran has been shrouded in denial and speculation -- until now. In exclusive interviews, other dissidents reveal what happened inside Tehran's notorious Evin prison last June.

TEHRAN - Heshmatollah Tabarzadi will never forget Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi screaming in a nearby cell...

Before & After in Iran

The Silent Muslim Majority is the Problem
By Nonie Darwish
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 7, 2005

For Canadian Coalition for Democracies

Exerpts:

I am overwhelmed with sadness over the state of the Muslim world. I am looking at the photograph of an Iranian woman about to be stoned to death in Iran, buried to her waste in dirt to keep her from running away.
A few weeks ago, I read about a 14 year-old Iranian boy who died after receiving 85 lashes for the `sin' of eating in public in the month of Ramadan. Salah Uddin Choudhury has been in prison for one year in Bangladesh for the `crime' of urging his nation to recognize Israel and advocating interfaith dialogue among equals as well as warning against the growing power of Islamists in Bangladesh.

What are Muslim community activists in America doing about their homegrown brutal human rights violations? They are silent.

The picture of the stoned woman has been seen by some Muslims I know in the Middle East and also fellow Americans, Christians and Jews. The first reaction by the Muslims was "what did she do?" while the first reaction by Americans was "How could this happen?"...

"...They are silent in the face of Muslim poverty, corruption, neglect of human rights, oppression of women, honor killings and the brutal and unusual punishments such as cutting off limbs, flogging and stoning. They are not using American freedoms as an opportunity to change their countries of origin, but as an opportunity to influence and change America to be like the countries they came from. Their goal is also to keep Muslim-Americans under their control and the control of Muslim world mullahs, sheiks and dictators they should have left behind...."

What Will It Be by Deeyah

Irshad Manji, best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today, October 24, 2005 "Friends and Foes: I’m devoting this special edition of Muslim-Refusenik.com to Deeyah, a young Muslim singer and musician who has a maverick message for us all. Months ago, Deeyah emailed me out of the blue....

Lyrics of What Will It Be by Deeyah:
Verse 1):
Does the truth only come from the top of a holy man’s spire?
From three paces back, covered head to toe?
Are the rules just for the masses and written just for show?
Pre chorus):
Where the beat goes -- nobody knows
Where the street goes -- nobody knows
(Chorus):
Do you stand up, lay down or follow?...

See and hear it all, beautiful photography, lyrics, video at MUSLIM REFUSNICK

Photo Sources:

Globle & Mail Frontpage : Kazemi, Sephrem.blogspot.com - CAN

Veiled women : Iran va Jahan
Context: "Tehran - Iranian women can now demand divorces from husbands who are alcoholics or drug addicts, one of ... "

Human Cruelty: The photograph with The Iranian Woman about to be stoned to death has been everywhere aroundthe Net, unfortunately I was unable to trace the origin. Perhaps one of the readers could would know.

Deeyah / Irshad & Friends :
Irshad, Deeyah and Donya at Muslim Refusnik

Lectrice du Nord de l'Iraq by Zahra Kazami : Lexane.info

Silence Off : Yvon Goulet / Montage: D.C.

This post was originally published for the site search.

2005-10-16T23:54:00.000-06:00

No Words Can Describe

See update below.

Please, be advised,images below are not for everyone.
It is strongly recommended for those who are not completely aware of the atrocities made in the name of Islam to begin a personal quest for the truth. Middle Eastern observers have a lot to say.

FaithFreedom.org offers Testimonies of Those Who Left Islam, it is well worth the read.

All these images were found image found at the gallery of the excellent site Faith Freedom

Along with documents depicting the nightmares under Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the photographs below are some of the most troubling I have seen, since this project started. The crimes depicted in these images are like all the others, unpardonable. Only sorrow and revolt emerge in one's soul when witnessing such horror. However, victims must never be forgotten. One has a responsibility to denounce terror unequivocally, with courage and humanity.

1 - ”Iranian boy is punished for breaching the Sharia law.”

2 - ”PayAm Amini, was hanged in public on Sunday Sep. 29, 2002 He screamed…”

3 - ”Mr. Vimal Patak a Bangladeshi born Hindu was beaten to death with sticks as the Muslim mullas (priests) chanted "kill the Kafir!" (non-muslim). With folded hands he begged for his life…”

4 - ”The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides…read Quote, 5:33

5 - Iranian woman beaten by Islamic Regime of Iran. Read Quote 4:34 of the Quran on this.

6 - Another despicable crime in the name of Islam

7 - Picture courtesy of www.homa.org

I apologize if the above picture is disturbing. It is indeed disturbing.
But it would be more disturbing if no one spoke about it. If anyone recognizes this beast, please send me a note and let me know his name.

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This up date was made for an unknown friend who would like to learn more.

1 - "Muhammad was also a successful merchant and heard, on his travels, the Nestorian Christians' desert versions of Bible stories that the Koran mirrors closely (Christ, in the Koran, is born in an oasis, under a palm tree). It ought to be fascinating to Muslims everywhere to see how deeply their beloved book is a product of its place and time, and in how many ways it reflects the Prophet's own experiences.

However, few Muslims have been permitted to study their religious book in this way. The insistence that the Koranic text is the infallible, uncreated word of God renders analytical, scholarly discourse all but impossible. Why would God be influenced by the socioeconomics of seventh-century Arabia, after all? Why would the Messenger's personal circumstances have anything to do with the Message?..."The Right Time for An Islamic Reformation By Salman Rushdie - WP | August 7, 2005

2 - "Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: 'The Jews are yours." Former Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini in his post-WWII memoirs..." Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII,David Storobin Global Politician | January 5, 2005 David Storobin, Frontpage Magazine - Global Politician | January 5, 2005

3 - "Unfortunately, even against the bloody backdrop of the 20th century, there are strong reasons to regard the Nazi extermination of the Jews as a unique atrocity. It was the first, and so far the only time that, as Cornell University historian Stephen Katz put it in his 1994 book ''The Holocaust in Historical Context," that ''a state set out, as a matter of intentional principle and actualized policy, to annihilate physically every man, woman, and child belonging to a specific people." But the problem with the proposal goes far deeper. The other ''genocides" for which they want recognition include the Israeli killings of Palestinians..."Muslims and the Holocaust Cathy Young - Boston.com | September 19, 2005

4 - "The creation of a democratic political and social order in Iraq or elsewhere in the Middle East will not be easy. But it is possible, and there are increasing signs that it has already begun. At the present time there are two fears concerning the possibility of establishing a democracy in Iraq. One is the fear that it will not work, a fear expressed by many in the United States and one that is almost a dogma in Europe; the other fear, much more urgent in ruling circles in the Middle East, is that it will work. Clearly, a genuinely free society in Iraq would constitute a mortal threat to many of the governments of the region, including both Washington's enemies and some of those seen as Washington's allies.

The end of World War II opened the way for democracy in the former Axis powers. The end of the Cold War brought a measure of freedom and a movement toward democracy in much of the former Soviet domains. With steadfastness and patience, it may now be possible at last to bring both justice and freedom to the long-tormented peoples of the Middle East." Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East
Bernard Lewis - From Foreign Affairs | May/June, 2005

6 - "I am often asked, Why I left Islam?. As absurd as it may be, some Muslims cannot even allow themselves to think that leaving Islam is an option, or even possible. They rather think that those who leave Islam are paid Jewish agents than accept the fact that people have freedom to think and some may even think that Islam is not for them. The following are my reasons:..."Why I Left Islam Ali Sina - FaithFreedom.org

لماذا تركت الاسلام لي سينا"لبا ما يسألني السلمون ,لماذا تركت الاسلام ؟العجيب في هذا السؤال ان المسلمين لا يسمحوا لانفسهم بمجرد التفكير في ان الخروج من الاسلام هو خيار مفتوح لاي شخص , او بمجرد التفكير انه يمكن للانسان ,اي انسان ان يتخلى عن هذا الدين , فهم يعتقدون ان من يخرج من الاسلام هو عميل للغرب او لليهود بشكل خاص ويقبض مقابل ذلك الاموال من حكومات هذه الدول ومخابراتها ,ولا يخطر على بالهم ان للناس حرية التفكير وحرية الاختيار ,حتى ان لهم الخيار في ترك الاسلام لاي سبب كان .
اما سبب خروجي من الاسلام فتجده في السطور القاد..."

Pourquoi J'ai Quitté L'Islam

Aufruf an alle Moslems der Welt

2005-10-16T09:21:00.000-06:00

The Prophet was just a man

photo source: FreedomFaith.org

2005-10-14T21:51:00.000-06:00

Using Their Children to Kill Their Enemies

Source of most of the pictures at Little Green Footballs, LGF in their powerful slideshow Child Abuse

MYTH
“There is a distinction between the political and terror wings of Hamas.”
FACT

"Apologists for Palestian terror, especially in the media, sometimes argue that Hamas shouldn’t be labeled a terrorist organization because only some members engage in murder while others perform charitable activity. The ombudsman for the Washington Post, for example, argued that , since Hamas is a “nationalist movement” engaged in “some social work,” the perpetrators of Palestinian suicide and other attacks should be described in the press as “militants” or “gunmen.”…

Amnesty International Condemns Palestinian Use of Children for Terror
(March 24, 2004)
Amnesty International is gravely concerned about reports that earlier today a 14-year-old Palestinian child was found to be carrying explosives when attempting to pass through the Israeli army checkpoint at Huwara, at the entrance of the West Bank town ofNabus
Reports indicate that the boy was wearing an explosive belt, which would suggest that he was knowingly carrying it. According to Israeli army reports the boy may have intended to detonate the explosive belt, and thus commit suicide, near soldiers manning the checkpoint.
Last week, Israeli soldiers discovered a bag of explosives in the possession of an 11-year old Palestinian child at the same checkpoint. The boy, who regularly carried bags for travellers from one side of the checkpoint to the other, was reported not to have been aware that one of the bags on his cart contained explosives.

Amnesty International has repeatedly condemned duicide bombings and other attacks against civilians by Palestinian armed groups as crimes against humanity. Using children to carry out or assist in armed attacks of any kind is an abomination. We call on the Palestinian leadership to publicly denounce these practices.
Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas Islamic Jihad, and al-Aqsa Martyrs’s brigades, must put an immediate end to the use or involvement of any kind of children in armed activity..."

Read the rest at The Jewish Virtual Library

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Excerpts from Palestinian Terrorism: A New “Cooperative” Phase by Reuven Paz,Academic Director for ICT - International Counter-Terrorism

"The nature of the present uprising, led by the Palestinian security forces and Fatah Tanzim, is a result of the centricity of the PA and the Palestinians in the territories in the Palestinian struggle. These circumstances contrast sharply with those of the previous uprising, in which the power of the PLO and the various Palestinian groups was much greater. The present situation imposes greater cooperation and a gradual lessening of the differences between the various groups and movements. Cooperation on the political level, in the form of the joint National-Islamic Committee, which directs the popular events, may also push the armed struggle in the direction of greater cooperation. The mixture of PA security forces, Fatah militia members, Islamists, and rejectionist groups, together with inflamed populpassions, has created not only new phase of cooperation, but also operations of a higher quality. This transition is reminiscent of the same process in the Lebanese arena. In addition, the Palestinians have retained the sympathy of international public opinion for their present struggle, which encourages them to continue with a sense of much greater unity than they’ve ever achieved.

In such circumstances, there is a possibility that the dynamics of terrorism, shaped in the present uprising, will last for some time, becoming an obstacle for any settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. It may proof an extremely difficult task to uproot the developing discipline of “cooperative” operations in the terrorist field." Read it all

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Terrorism: Questions and Answers
Council on Foreign Relations

Hamas, Islamic Jihad - Palestinian Islamists
Updated: October 2005

"What is Hamas?
Hamas is the Palestinians’ largest and most influential Muslim fundamentalist movement. It has an extensive social service network, as well as a terrorist wing that has carried out suicide bombings and attacks using mortars and short-range rockets in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and inside the pre-1967 boundaries of Israel. It is the best-organized Palestinian challenger to President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, which holds political control of the Palestinian Authority (PA)—the autonomous government in the West Bank and Gaza—and a determined foe of Israeli-Palestinian peace. In Arabic, the word “hamas” means zeal. But it’s also an Arabic acronym for “Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya,” or Islamic Resistance Movement.

What are Hamas’ origins?
Hamas grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, a religious and political organization founded in Egypt with branches throughout the Arab world..."Continue

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More on Palestinian political violence.
"Palestinian political violence refers to acts of violence committed for political reasons by Palestinian individuals or groups..." Wikipedia

2005-10-11T13:02:00.000-06:00

Unbearable Losses at the Hands of Fanatics

Video, Testimony

FactsOfIsrael.com News, Comments and Links

On June 1st 2001, a Friday night, a Palestinian homicide/suicide bomber exploded himself in front of a disco in Tel-Aviv killing 21 Israeli children and wounding 120 (most of the killed were in their teens, including many 14 and 15-year-old girls).
21 children massacred by a Palestinian homicide/suicide bomber in a Tel-Aviv Disco

Mideast Truth (www.mideasttruth.com) has released a video that describes this homicide/suicide bombing with interviews and footage of the Palestinian killers and a mother of some of the victims.

These Palestinian murderers are proud of killing unarmed Israeli kids and they regularly tape videos of themselves before conducting their massacres. This video shows the Palestinian slime saying:
"I will make myself a living bomb. I will explode myself in the heart of the Zionists."

The video also shows how these Palestinian murderers become "martyrs" - their killings are celebrated in Palestinian towns and cities. There's also footage of what can be regularly heard in Palestinian mosques:
"Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans."

If you are a Palestinian reading this, mark my words: you will get nothing out of such despicable acts! You will only reinforce the Israelis' love for life and their struggle against your terror. You will not get a Palestinian State and your terrorist organizations, the Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and Arafat's terror groups (e.g. the Al-Aksa brigades, the Tanzim) will be destroyed.

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Shiri Negari, killed June 18, 2002

Shiri's loved ones created a wonderful hommage to her spirit and memory, three years after she had been murdered by a Palestinian bomber.

Remembering Beautiful Shiri Negari

Shiri singing.

These sensless tragedies occur on daily base. They are meant to hurt were it is the most tender. These rip people and families a part in Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, and in the rest of the world.

We must remember.

2005-09-26T19:18:00.000-06:00

NEVER AGAIN !

Photos from left to right, sources and additonal notes on the context.

1-Kosovo. "Bodies of 45 ethnic Albanians lie in a mosque in the village of Racak, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Pristina, Sunday Jan. 17, 1999. Fighting erupted Sunday near this southern Kosovo village where the 45 ethnic Albanians were massacred by Serbs, sending terrified civilians and international monitors fleeing to safety" Racak Massacre Sunday, Jan. 17, 1999 * The Nausea

"The actions of Milosevic were driven by a desire to achieve a Greater Serbia."

Slate Julian Davis Mortenson
Subject: A Wired Courtroom Full of Powdered Wigs
Friday, Sept. 16, 2005, at 4:20 AM PT A Week of Trial with Milosevic "By the end of the day, Milosevic's superior, wry, sly attitude has slipped entirely. He's now fulminating about Croatian aggression against ethnic Serbs, about a "criminal plan to kill and expel the Serbs" from Croatia. "What is your explanation that only one [Croatian] general is indicted for this? Mr. Nice could probably give us a response, and he will have to at some point. Not everyone listening to this is an idiot. ... Mr. Nice is laboring under the illusion that he will not be held criminally responsible for the crime he is perpetrating here. Not before your bench, of course, but he will. Because he is one of the criminals—" Judge Robinson finally cuts him off as the interpreters catch up. "That comment is entirely inappropriate and totally without any base or function." And so it is. But that doesn't really matter. Despite every effort of the conscientious tribunal staff to squeeze this case into the comfortable rhythms of an ordinary criminal courtroom, Milosevic will have his say. Contemptuous and indignant, swaggering and self-righteous, he's made this his trial in every sense. And so long as he keeps threading that successful line between political theater and a legitimate self-defense, there's not much that anyone can do about it.

2-4 Kurdistan. Halabja
"A mother who embraced her one-year-old baby, fell down two steps from her house and was martyred. In a 150 meter area in the main street of Halabja, at least fifty women and children were martyred as a result of the deployment of the chemical weapons. A father was sitting over the bodies of his wife and ten of his children in one of the alleys of Halabja and was wailing. The sound of his wailing touched any cruel human being. The crimes were huge, very huge." Bloody Friday - Chemical massacre of the Kurds by the Iraqi regime- Halabja-Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq
Halabja Poison Gaz Attack Wikipedia
3- Israel. A roadside bomb exploded at 7:30 in the morning on November 20 alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Two adults accompanying the children were killed and 9 others, including 5 children, were injured, 5 of them seriously.Among those seriously injured are three children of the Cohen family:12-year-old Orit, whose right foot was amputated, her 7-year-old brother Yisrael whose right leg was amputated below the knee, and their 8-year-old sister, Tehila, who lost both legs despite doctors' efforts to save them. They were visited by President Moshe Katsav.
Gaza Is Like LA, Rome and London. from DFME ,September 25, 2005
"Intimating continued genocide of the Jews, a Hamas spokesman reminded the outfit's followers that both Hamas and Sharon had said that "Gaza is like Tel Aviv." At Friday night sermon, Hamas' Sheikh Nazzar Rayan spelled it out:
"The vanquishing of the enemy in Gaza does not mean that this stage has ended. We still have Jerusalem and the pure West Bank. We will not rest until we liberate all our land, all our Palestine. We do not distinguish between what was occupied in the 1940s and what was occupied in the 1960s. Our Jihad continues, and we still have a long way to go. We will continue until the very last usurper is driven out of our land."

5- Eastern Europe. The Holocaust - Photographs of Democide Power Kills,
"Jewish women, some of whom are holding infants, and children who had been forced to strip and then wait in a line to be murdered by Ukrainian auxiliary police, an arm of German forces. Documentation a photo of Jewish women, some of whom are holding infants, and children who had been forced to strip and then wait in a line to be murdered by Ukrainian auxiliary police, an arm of German forces. Documentation: Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder. Source: "The Undeniable Holocaust" From The Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, Warsaw, Poland.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

6- Sudan. Famine Boy Power Kills, Rudolph J. Rummel
"The fundamentalist Arab, Muslim military government of Sudan has been waging a war against their black and non-Muslim south. Perhaps 2,000,000 have been killed in the war and resulting famine, much of which has been purposely caused by government destruction of food sources, including the bombing of wells and relief supplies. Here is shown what I believe is a starving boy in the South whose life expectancy, given his condition, must now be short".

7- Ukraine. Face Of Famine Power Kills, Rudolph J. Rummel
"In the early 1930s Stalin imposed a deadly famine on the Ukraine in order to stifle Ukrainian nationalism and the resistance of its peasants to collectivization. About 5,000,000 Ukrainians died of starvation and associated diseases, all in effect murdered by Stalin. There are few photographs of the victims on the internet, and some of what I could find have been shown in the other rooms. Here is the face of one victim, a starving, emaciated boy. Given the death toll of this famine, he probably died as well. Documentation: Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder. Source: A Struggle For Existence by Andrew Gregorovich.

8- Eastern Europe. "Men and a boy stripped naked and about to be shot to death by Germans or their auxiliaries. Two wait for their death at the edge of a pit, while two men and boy are walking over to join them. Documentation: Source: The Undeniable Holocaust From Himmler, Reichsfuhrer-SS, by P. Padfield, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1990.Photographs of DemocidePower Kills, Rudolph J. Rummel

9- China. Tiananmen Massacre 4th June 1989. About 1.200 people killed. More than 1.000 soldiers and 100 officials executed for disobeying orders.
Photos from * The Nausea

Tiananmen Square Massacre or June 4th Massacre or 6/4 incident Wikipedia

*TheNausea.com is a bank of horrifying images. Its mandate is to cause such powerful discomfort so that the viewer's reaction to pain and violence will be a complete rejection of any use of lethal forces, no matter what. I do not subscribe in such utopia, but I respect the good intents of the believers.

2005-09-14T10:24:00.000-06:00

Teens Executed : Their Crime, Homosexuality / Iran

"Two gay Iranian teenagers -- one 18, the other believed to be 16 or 17, were executed this week for the "crime" of homosexuality, the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported on July 19.(The ISNA report is in Farsi, and was translated into English by the British gay rights group OutRage!, ISNA also provided the terrifying photos of the teens' last moments you see on this page.The two youths -- identified only by their initials as M.A. and A.M., were hanged on July 19 in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashhad in north-eastern Iran, on the orders of Court No. 19. The hanging of the teens was also reported by the National Council of Resistance of Iran." Indymedia Beirut

Execution of two gay teens in Iran spurs controversy WIKINEWS / Wikipedia

"Executing youth

Iran has been under fire by international human rights groups for executing teenagers in the past, including the 2004 execution of Atefeh Rajabi, a 16-year-old girl convicted of having sex before marriage. Medical reports, not allowed in the court, had stated that she was mentally ill.
Like many other Islamic countries, Islamic countries, Iran enforces the religious sharia law, which allows for the execution of children, including girls aged nine or older and boys 15 and older.
Iranian officials have complained that the media has emphasized the teens' ages. Deputy Ali Asgari said, "Whatever sentence is decreed by an Islamic penal system must be approved, unless proven otherwise... Instead of paying tribute to the action of the judiciary, the media are mentioning the age of the hanged criminals and creating a commotion that harms the interests of the state... Even if certain websites made a reference to their age, journalists should not pursue this. These individuals were corrupt. Their sentence was carried out with the approval of the judiciary and it served them right."
Both teens were convicted by Court No. 19 under sharia law. The teens are identified only as "M.A." and "A.M." Those found having homosexual sex in Iran may face death by either hanging, stoning, cutting in half by a sword, or dropping from a tall building or cliff.
An ISNA report said the couple acknowledged having sexual relations with each other but said they were unaware of laws against homosexuality." WIKINEWS

2005-09-12T11:24:00.000-06:00

"No Words"
From a picture posted at Atlas Shrugs by Pamela aka "Atlas" on Sunday, September 11, 2005 -

Pamela chose this picture and the one below in a powerful collection, 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" published by the New York Times.

Hat tip, Pamela and RG/US.

2005-09-12T10:05:00.000-06:00

The Lost Of A Little Boy.

From a picture posted at Atlas Shrugs by Pamela aka "Atlas" on Sunday, September 11, 2005 -

My thanks to Pamela RG.

2005-09-02T15:23:00.000-06:00

..."Freedom is a basic human right recognized by the United Nations and international treaties, and is the heart of social justice.

Freedom is an engine of economic and human development, and scientific and technological advancement.

Freedom ameliorates the problem of mass poverty.

Free people do not suffer from and never have had famines, and by theory, should not. Freedom is therefore a solution to hunger and famine.

Free people have the least internal violence, turmoil, and political instability.

Free people have virtually no government genocide and mass murder, and for good theoretical reasons. Freedom is therefore a solution to genocide and mass murder; the only practical means of making sure that "Never again!"

Free people do not make war on each other, and the greater the freedom within two nations, the less violence between them.

Freedom is a method of nonviolence--the most peaceful nations are those whose people are free."...

Excerpts from the introduction of the Freedom Website published by Doctor Rudolph Rummel.