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Time to call a spade a spade - OR - a crime a crime

Once again we have muslim (aided and abeted by the mainstream media) peverting our English words into contranyms ( A contranym is word that has two opposing meanings) 

First was the word honour/honor (honesty, fairness, or integrity) - a word with a plethora of positive meanings and connotations. But with the muslim we have seen the word honor twisted into a bizarre interpretation as it is (mis)used to describe  the murder of innocents - usually women. Murdered because a muslim man or family has designated themselves God and decided thatthe woman has disgraced her family and must be killed.  More often than not her 'sin' against the family is becoming 'too Westernized'.  Apparently Papa or Husband and the rest of the family partaking of taxpayer paid benefits provided by these Western nations - does not fall into the same offensive 'Westernization'.

Now we have another formerly respected (esteem, veneration) word (pun intended) being misused ---RESPECT. Under the title - "Islamic scholar 'stabbed his father-in-law in respect row'".  In this case we have Islamic scholar, Mohammed Saghir, 33 attempting to murder his father-in-law, 55-year-old Mohammed Zaman, by stabbing him in the stomach.  Why? Because Mr Zaman went to the defense of his daughter - and to broaden his statements- the defense of many muslim women living in Britain:

"Mr Zaman said his son-in-law had become 'abusive' towards him and his daughter and Saghir's wife, Shasta Kausir, 30.

Mr Zaman said: "I said to him when you bring husbands over to this country, as soon as they get their British citizenship they become disrespectful.

"They don't respect their wives, they don't respect their mother-in-laws, they don't respect anyone.

"They call our daughters bitches and they call themselves religious.

"He is a religious person and he is the one who stabbed me.

"He is a scholar of his religion and he should have known, 'my father-in-law is like my father, I must respect him.'

"I gave my daughter to him in marriage and he gets the British citizenship and he starts stabbing me."

The above statement speaks loudly about the abuse that British muslim women receive at the hands of their imported muslim husbands. Abuse ranging from being seen as a easy passport to British citizenship (and benefits) to being at the receiving end of physical and mental injury. Mr. Zaman was upset that Mohammed Saghir was disrespecting his wife; Mr Zaman's beloved daughter.

Why then was Mr. Zaman stabbed by his daughter's spouse?- why because Mohammed clearly felt his father-in-law was guilty of not respecting Mohammed - more so than Mohammed was guilty of DISrespecting his wife thru abuse. Thus Mohammed saw himself as the REAL victim and proceeded to show his own Islamic 'self-respect' by displaying a murderous lack of respect for his elder father-in-law.  There you have it - another mangled interpretation of a word and another faux reason for a muslim  'Islamic scholar'  to pull out a knife and try to commit murder.

I admire Mr. Zaman for coming to the defense of his daughter and speaking the words  muslim apologists and enablers refuse to acknowledge.

Now if we could just stop the media from the misuse of our English language - in media headlines - in order to obfuscate,  excuse or mitigate muslim illegal behaviors and demand the media start accurately describing these acts for they truly are = VIOLENT CRIMES.

'Respect' and 'stabbed' have no more business being in the same sentence then 'honor' and 'killing'.

Article in full:

Islamic scholar 'stabbed his father-in-law in respect row'

October 23, 2009

AN Islamic scholar tried to kill his father-in-law in a row about Pakistani men who marry British brides, a court heard.

Mohammed Saghir, 33, is accused of attempting to stab 55-year-old Mohammed Zaman to death.

Saghir denies attempted murder.

Manchester Crown Court heard that on April 14 an argument flared up between the two men at Saghir's home in Chesham Street, Oldham.

Mr Zaman said his son-in-law had become 'abusive' towards him and his daughter and Saghir's wife, Shasta Kausir, 30.

Mr Zaman said: "I said to him when you bring husbands over to this country, as soon as they get their British citizenship they become disrespectful.

"They don't respect their wives, they don't respect their mother-in-laws, they don't respect anyone.

"They call our daughters bitches and they call themselves religious.

"He is a religious person and he is the one who stabbed me.

"He is a scholar of his religion and he should have known, 'my father-in-law is like my father, I must respect him.'

"I gave my daughter to him in marriage and he gets the British citizenship and he starts stabbing me."

Defending, Tahir Khan claimed Mr Zaman had punched Saghir on April 14.

On April 19, the family had celebrated Shasta Kausir's birthday.

Saghir bought her a £600 Gucci bag.

But later that day, Saghir burst into Mr Zaman's Oldham house.

Mr Zaman then claimed to have heard Shasta shout: 'Dad he's got a knife, he's going to kill you,' before hearing Saghir shout, 'I'll kill you.'

Saghir was said to have jabbed towards his father-in-law with a knife causing an injury to the stomach before bursting into tears.

Mr Zaman also claimed that religious and family elders had urged him to write a letter and forgive Saghir.

Mr Zaman said: "The elders got involved and I was advised only criminals go to court and we don't wish to go to the courts.

"I do forgive but am not sure whether the law of this land will forgive him."

Somali Islamist "Youths" Whip Women for Wearing Bras

"Somalia's hardline Islamist group al-Shabaab has publicly whipped women for wearing bras they say violate Islam by constituting a deception, north Mogadishu residents said on Friday.

.....Residents said gunmen had been rounding up any woman seen with a firm bust and then had them publicly whipped by masked men. The women were then told to remove their bras and shake their breasts.

"Al-Shabaab forced us to wear their type of veil and now they order us to shake our breasts," a resident, Halima, told Reuters, adding that her daughters had been whipped on Thursday.

"They first banned the former veil and introduced a hard fabric which stands stiffly on women's chests. They are now saying that breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat." SEE ARTICLE BELOW

So, according to breast obsessed muslim men (aka "youths"), a woman's wearing a bra is deception?

BUT THIS ISN'T?:

 

   

Men whipped for shaving, women made to shake breasts

Somali hardliners whip women for wearing bras

MOGADISHU (Reuters)

Somalia's hardline Islamist group al-Shabaab has publicly whipped women for wearing bras they say violate Islam by constituting a deception, north Mogadishu residents said on Friday.

The insurgent group, which seeks to impose a strict form of sharia Islamic law throughout Somalia, amputated a foot and a hand each from two young men accused of robbery earlier this month. They have also banned movies, musical ringtones, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching soccer.

Residents said gunmen had been rounding up any woman seen with a firm bust and then had them publicly whipped by masked men. The women were then told to remove their bras and shake their breasts.

"Al-Shabaab forced us to wear their type of veil and now they order us to shake our breasts," a resident, Halima, told Reuters, adding that her daughters had been whipped on Thursday.

"They first banned the former veil and introduced a hard fabric which stands stiffly on women's chests. They are now saying that breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat."

Officials of al-Shabaab, which Washington says is al-Qaeda's proxy in the failed Horn of Africa state, declined to comment.

The group's hardline interpretation of Islamic law has shocked many Somalis, who are traditionally moderate Muslims. Some residents, however, give the insurgents credit for restoring order to the regions under their control.

Al-Shabaab, which means "youth" in Arabic, control large swathes of south and central Somalia.

Abdullahi Hussein, a student in north Mogadishu, said his elder brother was thrown behind bars when he fought back a man who humiliated their sister by asking her to remove her bra.

"My brother was jailed after he wrestled with a man that had beaten my sister and forced her to remove her bra. He could not stand it," Hussein said.

Men were not spared the' moral cleansing'. Any man caught without a beard was been publicly whipped.

"I was beaten and my hair was cut off with a pair of scissors in the street," Hussein said.

"My trouser was also cut up to the knee. They accused me of shaving my beard but I am only 18. They have arrested dozens of men and women. You just find yourself being whipped by a masked man as soon as leave your house."

PORTRAIT OF A BRITISH WAR HERO - BRAVERY FAR FEW OF US POSSESS

Brave British soldier immortalised in painting depicting the moment he was gunned down in a hail of bullets

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:39 AM on 29th September 2009

Bursting out of a cornfield with his rifle blazing the paratrooper charges towards an enemy position. The insurgents fall in the hail of gunfire but one manages to raise a rifle towards the lone soldier hinting that it is about to unleash a fatal burst of gunfire.

Celebrating the heroism of the soldier in unabashed style, the painting shows the courage of Corporal Bryan Budd as he stormed a Taliban position in Afghanistan.

Cpl Budd was hit by a stray bullet during hand-to-hand fighting with the insurgents in Helmand province three years ago after he had killed three of the enemy.

A member of 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, 29-year-old Cpl Budd was awarded the first posthumous Victoria Cross since the Falklands War.

Honour: A painting of Corporal Bryan Budd, 29, was commissioned by The 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment after he was killed in Afghanistan storming a Taliban position in 2006

His widow Lorena collected the medal from Buckingham Palace two years ago with the couple's two children, the youngest born after Cpl Budd was killed in action.

To honour his bravery officers at the regiment's HQ, in Colchester, commissioned the oil painting.

 

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It was painted by military artist Stuart Brown, who interviewed fellow soldiers who had been on Cpl Brown's last mission near Sangin.

During the battle with the Taliban, he led his section of men around a cornfield to cut them off but they were spotted and came under heavy fire.

Two of his men were injured, and realising their position was perilous and they were likely to be captured or killed, Cpl Budd ran through the corn firing his rifle.

Brave: Cpl Budd, who was attempting to protect men in his section, was awarded the first posthumous Victoria Cross since the Falklands War. The soldier, who had two children, was killed when a stray bullet hit him during hand-to-hand fighting

The oil painting depicts him bursting out of the cornfield and killing three armed insurgents.

But seconds later he was to be hit and killed himself.

Mr Brown, from Southampton, said: 'Cpl Budd was obviously an exceptional soldier and I wanted to depict him in that light.

'I knew what the scene was and it was up to me to capture the spirit and courage of the man moments before he died.'

The type of heroics shown by Cpl Budd are thought to be some of the reasons behind a surge in new recruits to the British armed forces.

Young people inspired by patriotism and the threat of joblessness  have lead to a 25 per cent jump in Army applications this year, with more signing up now than at any time since 2005.

Colonel Jonathan Calder-Smith, who helps run the army unit responsible for recruitment, told the Guardian many young recruits have been inspired to join the armed forces, despite casualties continuing to rise in Afghanistan: 'We are seeing gatekeepers – teachers and parents, mothers particularly – who are less keen to see their sons and daughters joining the army and that is understandable'.

>Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216591/Brave-British-soldier-immortalised-painting-depicting-moment-gunned-hail-bullets.html#ixzz0SUsJaJXK

The Muslim Wolf at Feminism's Door

Excellent post from the Canada Free Press web site:

Honor killing spreads when those whose who practice it emigrate to Western countries

The Muslim Wolf at Feminism’s Door

By Daniel Greenfield  Sunday, September 6, 2009

More than 5,000 women are victims of honor killings each year. Most of those women are Muslim, and while most of them are killed in Muslim countries—more and more of them are being killed in Europe, Canada and America. A 2007 study by Dr. Amin Muhammad and Dr. Sujay Patel in Canada’s Memorial Hospital observed that honor killing spreads when those whose who practice it emigrate to Western countries.

Honor killings however are only the final act in the drama of a Muslim woman’s life. Before that she is expected to walk behind a man, to be a second class citizen, to cover herself as much as possible in order to deflect male desire and to take the blame for the sexual intentions that men have toward her. She knows that if she fails to deflect male desire, she may suffer a variety of penalties from imprisonment to death. In countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran, those penalties are imposed by courts. In countries like Afghanistan or Pakistan, they are imposed by rough tribal justice. In the West, where there is no Islamic court system or tribal courts, they are imposed by the family.

The burka, the chador, the hijab or any of the other covering garments are assigned to Muslim women to “protect” them from men, and to protect men from them. These garments are meant to cover their “Awrah”, which in Arabic means nakedness, fault or defect. While for a Muslim man “Awrah” is only the swimsuit region, a Muslim woman is entirely “Awrah”.

Al-Qadhi Ibn-Al-Arabi Maliki states: “And all of a woman is ‘awrah; her body, her voice, and it is not permissible for her to uncover that unless out of necessity, or need such as witnessing in court, or a disease that is affecting her body…” [Ahkam Al Quran 3/1579]

Imam Al-Qurtubi stated went even further stating; “It is forbidden for a woman to speak when non-related men are present and it is forbidden for men to hear the voice of a non-mahram woman as long as there is no need for that.”

What that means is that all of a woman is “a zone of shame” and obscene. Even the sound of her voice is a form of “nakedness” or “lewdness”. Various Muslim authorities claim that this applies to even a woman’s fingernails and eyes. A woman who fails to dress this way is behaving obscenely and is open to being assaulted, as the Koranic verse which orders Muslim women to cover themselves makes clear.

“O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested.” -Al-Ahzab:59 (Qur’an)

The key word here of course is “that they shall be known as such and not molested”. Conversely the failure to fully cover up (a covering that Mohammed demonstrated by cloaking himself and leaving only one eye uncovered in order to see) leaves them open to being molested under the code of “she was asking for it.”

In the wake of the brutal Sydney gang rapes in which the perpetrators told the victims and exchanged messages among themselves making it clear that the attacks were motivated by the girls being Australian and Christian, Australia’s top Muslim cleric, the infamous Sheikh Hilaly delivered a sermon stating;

“When it comes to rape, it’s 90 percent the woman’s responsibility. Why? Because a woman owns the weapon of seduction. It’s she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes to the streets, God protect us, dallying. It’s she who shortens, raises and lowers. Then, it’s a look, a smile, a conversation, a greeting, a talk, a date, a meeting, a crime, then Long Bay jail. Then you get a judge, who has no mercy, and he gives you 65 years.”

“But when it comes to this disaster, who started it? In his literature, writer al-Rafee says, if I came across a rape crime, I would discipline the man and order that the woman be jailed for life. Why would you do this, Rafee? He said because if she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn’t have snatched it.”

The “uncovered meat” were girls as young as 14, whom the attackers brutalized for hours. Their crime was that they were meat, and they had left themselves uncovered by failing to wear Chadours or Hijabs to prevent themselves from being “molested”.

This is the Muslim wolf that now stands growling outside the feminist door. The wolf dictates that women in any country with a sizable Muslim population have two choices, to cover up or be assaulted. By covering up the woman accepts her inferiority to the male. Refusing to do that could get her raped or killed. There is no third option within Islam. In Iraq, in Kashmir, in Pakistan; women have had acid thrown in their faces for not wearing the appropriate Muslim garb.

But why speak of countries under medieval Islamic laws, when you can speak of the “Free West”. A French survey found that 77 percent of the women who wear Hijabs did so because of threats by Islamist groups. 77 percent. France. We are not speaking about some backward little Third World nation where the tribal elders decide what goes. We are speaking of Paris, the glittering city of lights, the capital of art and music. The birthplace of Republican Europe.

This is what Hijab feminism looks like in France,

More often the girls were under orders from their fathers and uncles and brothers, and even their male classmates. For the boys, transforming a bluejeaned teen-age sister into a docile and observant “Muslim” virgin was a rite de passage into authority, the fast track to becoming a man, and more important, a Muslim man…. it was also a license for violence.

Girls who did not conform were excoriated, or chased, or beaten by fanatical young men meting out “Islamic justice.” Sometimes the girls were gang-raped. In 2002, an unveiled Muslim girl in the cite of Vitry-sur-Seine was burned alive by a boy she turned down.

Jane Kramer, Taking the Veil, New Yorker

Despite that 77 percent number, American feminists insist on fighting for “the right” of Muslim women in France and America to wear the veil. They might as well be fighting for the right of women to be barefoot and pregnant, since they are one and the same.

Much as they might eagerly parrot the propaganda of the Muslim Student Association, itself an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, regarding the veil being liberating, the veil is a statement of female submission and degradation. There is nothing feminist about being inferior. The hijab is part of a larger agenda to force Muslims in the West, and even non-Muslims to live under Islamic law. A law which states that women are inferior to men.

In the process apologists for Islam like Karen Armstrong or Noah Feldman misrepresent key Arabic words, for example defining “Awrah” as beauty, or “Zina” as meaning only adultery, or seizing on whatever property Sharia law allowed women to hold as feminist, while completely ignoring the larger issue that women were considered inferior by Mohammed and his men, and are considered inferior under Islamic law today. Not simply in theory, but in fact. A fact that expresses itself in the rapes, beatings and murders of women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, by Muslim men on a regular basis.

Rather than confront the threat to women posed by Islamic law, feminist authors like Naomi Wolf are instead claiming that the wolf is really a misunderstood poodle. They have tried to transform the Hijab into a statement of Muslim feminism, while completing ignoring the fact that the Hijab only exists because Islamic law views all of a woman as obscene and treats the woman’s presence in the public sphere as a source of Fitna and Zina, Discord and Immorality, that incites men to do immoral things, including rape her. Under Islam the woman is a threat to men that can only be rendered safe for men by fully covering her up and keeping her apart from men as much as possible.

Unfortunately Naomi Wolf, like most modern liberal feminists had no interest in defending those women

What does Naomi Wolf think is an urgent issue? Based on her blog, it isn’t women, but Muslim men. Specifically defending the sort of Muslim men who kill women who don’t wear the veil. Wolf’s blog is filled with posts fulminating against Guantanamo Bay and the plight of the Taliban and assorted other Islamists imprisoned there. The same men who if given a chance would have a knife to her neck in minutes.

This spring in Pakistan’s Sindh province alone, 40 honor killings took place. One woman took refuge in a police station, only to be handed over to her brother who killed her. A 14 year old girl was burned to death. Two women had acid poured on them after being raped. Two women had their noses chopped off for violating family honor. The Sindh province had been overrun by the Taliban.

Rather than writing about any of these women, Naomi Wolf instead wrote demanding to know “What Happened to Mohamed al-Hanashi?” Her article describes Mohamed al-Hanashi as “a young man” who could shed light on many crimes. Not the crimes of Islamist terrorists, but the crimes of the US in detaining in Islamist terrorists. At no point in time throughout the article does Naomi Wolf mention that Mohamed al-Hanashi was a member of the Taliban. The same Taliban which mandated complete covering for women, forbade women to be treated by male doctors or to get an education.

In April 2009, Sitara Achakzai, a leading women’s rights activist in Afghanistan, was murdered by the Taliban because she supported rights for women. 3 days later, Naomi Wolf did not write about her. Instead she wrote an article claiming that the American people had “blood on their hands” over Gitmo and demanded that we hold Nuremberg Trials to determine who gave the order to “torture” captured Al Queda and Taliban terrorists in order to gain information about future attacks against America.

Unfortunately Naomi Wolf, like most modern liberal feminists had no interest in defending those women, only in defending their abusers. While women were being murdered by the Taliban, she sweated blood and tears to defend members of the Taliban. Finally in August, Naomi Wolf went to a Muslim country, put on a headscarf and described how it made her feel free. That seems like a reasonable preparation for the sort of environment that Naomi Wolf and much of the feminist movement are helping to create for women in the West.

In 1984 the Party’s slogan is “Slavery is Freedom.” The political use of such an idea is that it is easier to enslave people, if they believe that being enslaved makes them free. It is why every one party Communist dictatorship made sure to call themselves a “Democratic People’s Republic”. It is why the Muslim Brotherhood fronts understand that it will be easier to sell Westerners on subjugation to Islam, if they believe that this subjugation makes them free.

For almost a decade, Wolf and those like her, have been assailing the brave men and women who helped liberate women from the Taliban… while fighting for the Taliban. In the name of freedom of course. The freedom of those who shot up girls’ schools, who threw teachers down staircases and beat women in the streets. Now the Muslim wolf has its snout thrust into half of Europe, into Australia, Canada and America. The honor killings continue to rise. Bodies continue to show up in hospitals and morgues. The bodies of the victims of Islam.

POPULATION JIHAD - The Video

Population Jihad = NO guns needed just the ongoing rampant immigration of muslims into Western nations with their subsequent high birth rates - coupled with low birth rates of the indigenous population = islamisation in OUR lifetime:

Former Gitmo Detainee Becomes XBox Star

File in the category of "You couldn't make this stuff up", former Gitmo detainee,  Moazzam Begg, is on his way to starring in a new X-box game. The new game, Rendition, is being developed by a software firm in Scotland and lets players control a Guantanamo detainee who is trying to shoot his way out of the prison. Begg's "expertise" was called upon as the game's creators needed to know the layout of the prison thus he was initially hired as a consultant.

Needless to say the game maker is being criticized:

"We have had a lot of hate mail about this, mainly from America, saying things like, 'Don't dare put out a game that shows them killing our soldiers," Zarrar Chishti, director of Scottish software company T-Enterprise, told the U.K.'s Daily Mail."

Hate mail?  Sounds more like adamant requests not to make an outrageous "true to life" game about killing American (or British) soldiers - can't imagine why anyone would find that offensive and unacceptable - can you?

Zarrar Chishti, director of the software company, insists that only "mercenaries" will be killed - mercenaries at Gitmo? - now that sounds a bit NON-realistic. 

Chishti further states: "We are expecting an extreme reaction to the game in the US. But we think it will sell well in the Middle East."

Well - guess that should come as no surprise - but you can be sure that the "extreme reaction" in the USA WON'T look like THIS or THIS over THIS. 

At a cost of £250,000 or $405,000, the game/atrocity is scheduled to go on sale this coming October.

Just another glaring example of:  For many people - when it comes to money - there is no morality.

For article go to:

Former terror detainee stars in Gitmo Xbox game

Moazzam Begg plays himself in Rendition: Guantanamo

SLAVERY - RAPE & ABUSE - MODERN DAY REALITIES FOR MIDDLE EAST MAIDS

While browsing the web, yesterday, I viewed the Arab Times online site and came across several news articles about the rape and abuse of maids in Kuwait. I was surprised at the cluster of cases so I searched the web for more information and was nearly knocked off my chair when I realized the enormous extent of the huge numbers of foreign maids suffering abuse at the hands of their Middle East "sponsors".  To use the term "maid" is a misnomer - these women (and boys) are nothing more than modern day SLAVES.  Slaves to be abused, raped, tortured, maimed, and killed. 

Many of these maids come into the Middle East (particularly Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon) from Indonesia, the Phillipines, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia - smaller numbers come from India and Bangladesh. Saudi Arabia has the largest number of these imported domestics estimated at 200,000 in 2004. These maids are seen as inferiors to their Middle Eastern masters and many countries do not even recognize them as being covered by labor laws - including minimum wage:

"The plight of domestic workers in Lebanon rose to the spotlight during the summer of 2006, when Israel launched a thirty-four-day military offensive on Lebanon. In Arabic, the term "Abed" is used to denote a "black" person or "slave" and the word is sometimes heard in reference to Africans or Sri Lankans. Non-Arab Afro-Asian migrants in Lebanon are physically looked upon as inferior due to their positions as servants. These workers remain excluded under Article 6 of Lebanese labour laws and are often victims of abuse by both employers and agencies." LINK

The vast majority of these women are seeking an opportunity to earn money and send remittances back to their families - 

".......Phillipines, where the economy relies heavily on remittances from nearly eight million Filipinos working overseas. Of that eight million, about 73,000 work in Kuwait. Some 60,000 are women employed mainly as maids and earning less than $200 a month on average, labor groups say.

Some of these woman do quickly realize the danger and manage to escape in a few days. But, many of the remaining "servants" are left in a living nightmare.

Here are some of the sickening stories of abuse, etc that I came across with a quick net search:

Saudi employer accused of Ramadan abuse on Indonesian maid - burned her with hot iron and lye, forced to eat feces, smashed her teeth and jammed broken teeth down her throat

Widespread gang rape of slave boys by Arab masters

 

Saudi man/sponsor beat maid - whipped her with an electric wire, burned her genitals & broke her front teeth --- and never paid her

 

Man fractures maid's spine

 

Saudi couple beat Indonesian maid for one month - maid's hands and feet are amputated due to gangrene

 

15 "youths" try to gang rape maid

 

Saudi man beats 2 Indonesian maids to death puts 2 others in Intensive Care

 

Filipino woman hired as beautician jumps from window after being beaten by female employer and told she must now be a maid

 

Indian maids in Kuwait - beaten and tortured by employers then tossed onto road

 

Bahrain - Ethiopian maid jumps from second floor window to escape abuse

 

Maid arrested for bewitching her employer

 

Saudi maid kept as slave for 18 yrs - never paid and starved

 

Saudi maid kept as slave and never paid salary for 10yrs

 

Bahrain Maid sets trap for "sex pests"

 

Lebanon - maids abandoned and dumped at hospitals if sick

 

Domestic workers are dying (suicide, murder)in Lebanon at a rate of more than one per week

 

Is it any wonder many of these maids choose to run away? - 

 

"In what can be termed a modern-day slave trade, Sri Lankan women arrive in Lebanon only to find themselves abused, imprisoned, raped, hungry, defenseless and alone. Siriani P., 27, came to Beirut in a desperate attempt to save her family from a life of poverty. Just ten months later, however, she grabbed the first opportunity to run away from her employers. LINK

 

Unfortunately, more often than not, this often makes these women more vulnerable to predators  and they soon find their hoped for emancipation leads them directly into  prostitution.

 

It is interesting that instead of seeing the hundreds of women/maids who flee their sponsor's home as a reason to investigate and reflect upon the domestics plight and their widespread abuse - this "maid flight" is seen as an irritation and enormous inconvenience for their muslim employers:

 

"Families in Jeddah and Riyadh live in constant fear of maids running away. Maids are sometimes like a rope that we place around our necks with them in control."  LINK

 

More from Saudi Arabia:

 

"About 20,000 runaway housemaids from Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka have escaped from their employers for alleged abuse and maltreatment.

 

But the real story is not the above quote - but the POLICE spokesman who proceeds into a major WHINE complaining the abused, runaway maids cost their employers and the Kingdom money.

 

The shame of modern day slavery is not exclusive to the muslim countries as it appears that muslims are bringing their maid slavery behaviors into "multicultural" Western countries - a few examples:

 

Irvine CA Couple -Abdelnasser Eid Youssef Ibrahim and Amal Ahmed Ewis-abd Motelib -found guilty of child slavery

 

Long Island NY - Millionaires arrested after half naked Indonesian maid escapes mansion

 

Germany refuses to help slaves of Persian Gulf sheiks

 

Colorado USA -Saudi man "sex slave" trial begins 

 

Brussel's officials raid hotel and remove 17 girls who were enslaved by Arab Royal family

 

So what is the solution to such a far reaching travesty of humanity?

 

Stopping women from going to the Middle East to be maids?

 

Ethiopia bans citizens from working in "abusive" Lebanon

 

Abuse causes Sri Lanka to send fewer maid to Arab countries

 

Concern?

 

Indonesian Embassy concerned about maid abuse

 

Writing story books?

 

Lebanon launches series of books to sensitize population to foreign maids

 

Ad campaigns?

 

Saudi Arabia begin "Be nice to your maid" ads

 

Better yet - How about swift arrest and LONG term jail sentences for those who abuse/rape etc these (or any) women :

 

Saudi Man gets 27 years for keeping women a "sex slave"

 

The above USA trial resulted in the conviction of Homaidan al-Turki. This conviction, in turn,  brought seething protests from muslims that al-Turki was "framed" and accusations of "Islamophobia" against the United States judiciary/prosecution. The Saudi press claimed he would never have been convicted in Saudi Arabia. LINK 

 

The Saudi press is right.

 

That is the sad and unfortunate reality for the thousands of women living as maids in the Middle East. Abusive employers receive NO punishment --- whereas a beaten, gangrenous, hospitalized maid --- who reports torture at the hands of her muslim employer - will get the Islamic Court ordered 79 lashes for her complaints along with a continued life of abuse or even death.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muslim Woman Self Immolates Rather Than Continue Desperate Life

53 year old Afghan widow, Jan Bibi, chose to pour gasoline over her body and light herself on fire rather than continue her desperate life. As an aging muslim woman - with no husband - she was on the bottom rung of Afghan life and considered a pariah of society.  She had little chance of finding work due to her gender and even less chance of finding a new husband due to her age. So a painful, skin blistering-flesh charring death by fire seemed the only solution to her desolate situation.

Recently President Barack Obama declared that the USA is losing the War in Afghanistan and discussed talking with the "moderate" Taliban in Afghanistan. What might these "moderates" want as concessions?

"One expert comments that "a few months ago, Taliban leaders, believed to be moderate, indicated the three points that for them are nonnegotiable: that all the soldiers from other countries leave; that there be no foreign interference in Afghan politics; and that sharia (Islamic law) be applied." LINK

Thus Obama's publicized thoughts of "reaching out"  to the Taliban are cause for consternation and fear particularly among the Afghan women - many who hope the United States presence in Afghanistan will increase the success of democracy and offer continuing hope and positive change to their grim existence under the Taliban/Sharia Law rule.

"Fear is widespread that a new Taliban regime would mean "going backward." Analysts observe that the only results of this long war and its immense cost in human lives and money may be the better conditions for women, and democracy. Democracy is still weak, to such an extent that Karzai has delayed until August the elections scheduled for April, because of the difficult situation."

""The evolution of this country is in the hands of women. Under the Taliban, women could not even go to school, they were forced to stay home and endure forced marriages." LINK

AND

"The Taliban government that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 forced women to stay at home and banned them from appearing in public without a body-covering burqa. Much has improved since then: Millions of girls now attend school, and many women own businesses. Of 351 parliamentarians, 89 are women. On Saturday, a female lawmaker, Shalah Attah, said she will run for president in this year's election, now set for August." LINK

Afghan women now only have to look across a nearby border to see strictly imposed Sharia Law in the Swat Valley -  located in nothwestern Pakistan. This area was recently sacrificed by the Pakistani government in order to appease the militant Taliban -- in a  "peace" agreement.  Apparently past experience was discounted:

"This cease-fire smacks of a similar deal the previous government of Pervez Musharraf arranged in Pakistan's tribal areas in 2006. That deal created a Taliban sanctuary and led to sharp increases in terrorist attacks, both in Afghanistan and the Pakistan heartland. Sufi Mohammed has signed three previous pacts with various Pakistani governments extending the writ of Islamic law. None mollified the extremists; each invited the next round of violent demands." LINK

Thus it should come as no surprise that the "peace" was swiftly broken:

"Yet no sooner was the deal signed than a Pakistani journalist was murdered while covering a "peace march" organized by Sufi Mohammed -- the 20th journalist killed around Swat in two years." LINK

There is currently little evidence that the Taliban, in Afghanistan, would be any different.

President Obama needs to think long and hard about any appeasement of the Taliban and any level of condoning Sharia Law - to do so would be giant leap backwards for the nation and particularly it's brave women ----- ensuring that the piercing screams from burning muslim Afghan women - like Jan Bibi - will be deafening.

Bosnian Serbs ordered to pay $41.8 million to rebuild mosques

The Bosnian Serb government, sued by the "Bosnian Islamic Community" has been ordered to pay multi millions to rebuild mosques:

"BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina-A court has ordered the Bosnian Serb government to pay €33 million ($41.8 million) compensation to the organization representing Bosnia's Muslims for the wartime destruction of Islamic shrines in Banja Luka." LINK

Not surprisingly, I could find NO evidence of Albania muslims being order to rebuild 112  Serbian Orthodox Christian Churches they systemically ransacked and decimated or the 10 defiled Orthodox cemeteries .

"...the number of Orthodox Churches destroyed or damaged since NATO and the UN occupied Kosovo to 112. This has been an unprecedented act of genocide. The planned and systematic destruction of the Christian history of Kosovo-Metohija under US/NATO/EU sponsorship. Churches that had survived for over 500 years under Ottoman Turkish rule were reduced to rubble under the protection of 30,000 NATO troops."

OR

"Not even the innocent dead are immune from Albanian "revenge". ...50-60 Orthodox tombstones were desecrated and vandalized. Bishop Artemius/Artemije reported that the Albanians had exhumed human remains and had scattered them around the graves in Siga and Brestovik Orthodox churchyards near Pec in Metohija. Bishop Artemius stated that over 10 cemeteries and over 100 Orthodox churches had been ransacked and destroyed. Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI), and the Helsinki Human Rights Group have ignored these acts of genocide. KFOR and UNMIK have done nothing to prevent this vandalism. Bishop Artemije was incredulous how NATO/KFOR/UNMIK could not prevent the destruction of 110 Orthodox churches and 10 Orthodox cemeteries

"On December 2, 2002, 46 tombstones at the Orthodox cemetery in Kosovo Polje and Decani were destroyed following celebrations of Albanian Flag Day held on November 28 near the Visoki Decani Monastery'

For excellent article on this & link to above quotes/information - go to :  The Systemic Destruction of Orthodox Christian Churches in Kosovo - Erasing the History of Christianity in Kosovo by Carl K. Savich

Guess this is all more evidence of  (the myth of) "Islamophobia".

 

Are Muslims Conducting Forest Fire Jihad in Australia? Update 2/14/09 JIHADISTS CELEBRATE FIRES & CALL THEM "ACT OF REVENGE"

 

02/14/09  UPDATE - LINK

JIHADISTS are celebrating the worst tragedy in Victoria's history.

Terror watchdogs said fundamentalists had blogged on websites across the globe, applauding the lives lost and destruction in the Victoria fires.

Senior analyst at SITE Intelligence Group Adam Raisman said they were posting pictures of burnt homes and devastated victims and "taking joy in the scenes", the Sunday Herald Sun reports.

One jihadist wrote: "It would be an act of revenge for Australian's participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."

Bushfires victims said they were stunned.

"We're minding our own business and trying to cope with all this and they are celebrating our suffering," said Denise McCann who lost her home in the Kinglake blaze.

Regional Islamic Council vice-president Dr Ameer Ali said the comments did not represent the wider Muslim community.

"They have no idea what they are talking about," he said.

 

02/13/09  UPDATE

Deliberate Forest Fire Jihad???   Are these arsonists muslims???? 

Australian Police release image of arsonist and admit two fires were lit deliberately

Wanted: Australian police have released this photo-fit of the man they believe is responsible for starting a fire near Melbourne today

Police have released this image of a man wanted for questioning in relation to arson in Victoria.

But he is not the chief fire-starter they are looking for in the 'bushfire zone' further to the north of the area where this man is alleged to have started a blaze.

This suspect, said police, is wanted for questioning in relation to an eight-acre fire that flared up in bushland earlier today some 10 miles from the centre of Melbourne.

No one appears to have died in that fire - but the blaze was lit days after 181 people were killed in fires that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described as 'mass murder', leaving many to wonder what compulsion could have driven the suspected arsonist to put yet more lives in danger.

The fire disrupted traffic and sent plumes of smoke across nearby suburbs.

Police said the man they were seeking has a dark complexion and is in his early to mid-20s, wearing black pants a polo shirt and yellow-rimmed glasses.

He was also carrying a black backpack.

Detectives have yet to release a photofit of a man they are looking for in the Gippsland area, some 70 miles south east of Melbourne

For rest of article go HERE

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Hat tip to Anonymous:

Just this past September came reports of Islamists in Australia threatening to conduct a Forest Fire Jihad. These Islamist groups urged their fellow muslims to deliberately ignite bush fires in "infidel lands" as a weapon of terror.

"AUSTRALIA has been singled out as a target for "forest jihad" by a group of Islamic extremists urging Muslims to deliberately light bushfires as a weapon of terror.

US intelligence channels earlier this year identified a website calling on Muslims in Australia, the US, Europe and Russia to "start forest fires", claiming "scholars have justified chopping down and burning the infidels' forests when they do the same to our lands".

The website, posted by a group called the Al-Ikhlas Islamic Network, argues in Arabic that lighting fires is an effective form of terrorism justified in Islamic law under the "eye for an eye" doctrine.

The posting — which instructs jihadis to remember "forest jihad" in summer months — says fires cause economic damage and pollution, tie up security agencies and can take months to extinguish so that "this terror will haunt them for an extended period of time".

"Imagine if, after all the losses caused by such an event, a jihadist organisation were to claim responsibility for the forest fires," the website says. "You can hardly begin to imagine the level of fear that would take hold of people in the United States, in Europe, in Russia and in Australia.

...The internet posting by the little-known group claimed the idea of forest fires had been attributed to imprisoned Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al-Suri. It said Al-Suri had urged terrorists to use sulphuric acid and petrol to start forest fires."

for rest of article go HERE

Now comes word from Australia of out of control fires - these fires are the DEADLIEST FIRES IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY.

"The death toll from bush fires in southern Australia has reached at least 84, the worst in the country's history.

Thousands of firefighters, aided by the army, are battling several major fires, and the number of dead is expected to rise as fires are put out.

Arsonists responsible for lighting the fires could be charged with murder, police have said.

Entire towns have been destroyed in the fires, fanned by extremely high temperatures and unpredictable winds."  - For rest of article go HERE

What about the horrific fires that the USA/California (brush fire chars over 2500 acres)  (Wildfire causes 10,000 to flee LA foothills) and Greece (one-half of country burned) recently experienced?

Coincidence? Conspiracy Theory? or could Islamists be responsible for these fires? 

UPDATE: 02/09/09

Arsonist hunted as valley grieves

"We know we do have someone who is lighting fires in this community," Mr Warrington said."

ALSO

Australian Prime Minister:  Arsonists responsible for bushfires are 'mass murders'

"Clearly stunned by the steadily rising number of dead - with many more bodies to be found throughout Monday - Mr Rudd said: 'There are no words to describe it other than mass murder.' Firebugs are suspected of starting many of the blazes which have combined to create a 'perfect firestorm' that swept through the hills north and east of Melbourne, wiping out everything in its path."