BBC bows in dhimmitude, refuses to air program on Islam and free speech

Another nail in the coffin of the great British Lion.  The head of the BBC, Mark Thompson said the decision to not air the program had nothing to do with the content, but then says there is a nervousness about talking about Islam.

Uh huh.

Coward.

From the Telegraph March 28 by Tim Walker

BBC refuses to screen play about Islamic threat to freedom of speech

Although the BBC was willing to disregard protests from Christians who considered its decision to broadcast Jerry Springer: The Opera as an affront, Mark Thompson, its outgoing director-general, is more wary of giving airtime to Can We Talk About This?, the National Theatre’s examination of how Islam is curtailing freedom of speech.

Lloyd Newson, the director of the DV8 physical theatre company which staged the new work, challenged Thompson to screen his production during a platform discussion at the theatre.

He pointed out that Jerry Springer: The Opera was a lot more controversial because it was a “satire”, whereas his work, consisting of a series of comments and factual statements set to dance, is “a factual piece”.

Thompson’s spokesman tells me: “We are currently working with the National on various ideas. There are currently no plans to broadcast Can We Talk About This?, but this is not due to the play’s content or themes.”

In the past, Thompson has conceded that there is “a growing nervousness about discussion about Islam”. He claimed that because Muslims were a religious minority in Britain, and also often from ethnic minorities, their faith should be given different coverage...

Why?  In what way?  To achieve what, exactly?  Why is Islam different than any other religion, and how do you propose to present it?  What is your audience?  Infidel minds want to know.

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Afghan soldiers turning on American counterparts

It's called "Green on Blue attacks" which really doesn't explain the players to non-military, or the implications of these murders.  Afghan soldiers have murdered many American soldiers and the chilling effect this is having on our ability to work with the Afghans is called into question.

It is long past the time for us to have left.  There is no defined goal, no end strategy and no won hearts and minds.  We cannot afford to pay for the privilege of being abused by both the Afghans and our own clueless government any longer.

More will die....and for what now?

From CBS March 26

Afghan soldier kills 2 U.K. troops on NATO base

(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan soldier shot and killed two British troops Monday at a NATO coalition base in southern Afghanistan before being gunned down by international forces, officials said.

The attack was the latest in a string of so-called "green on blue" attacks in which Afghan security forces have turned their guns on their international colleagues or mentors. Such attacks have become increasingly common over the past year, particularly since the burning of Korans at a U.S. base in February.

Fifteen NATO service members, including eight Americans, have been killed by Afghan security officials or militants disguised in their uniforms so far this year.

Monday's shooting occurred around 11 a.m. in front of the main gate of a joint civilian-military base in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, the governor's office said.

Ghulam Farooq Parwani, deputy commander of the Afghan National Army in Helmand, said the shooter was from the eastern Nangarhar province and had been in the army for four years. The Afghan soldier arrived at the gate of the base in an army vehicle. He was able to get close to the British troops by claiming that he had been assigned to provide security for a delegation of government officials from Kabul who were visiting the base Monday, according to Parwani.

"He got close to the foreign troops — three or four meters — and he opened fire," Parwani said. "Then the foreign troops killed him."

Line up the virgins, here comes another one!

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Jihad denial in France

Robert Spencer discusses the ongoing problem of ignoring the Islamic elephant in the room.  Mohamed Merah is but the latest example of jihad blindness among the PC media.

From the American Thinker March 25 by Robert Spencer


The Toulouse Massacre: More Jihad Denial

Every time a Muslim commits murder in the name of Islam, the denial begins again: Western leaders and the mainstream media tie themselves into knots trying to explain what happened without making any reference to its guiding motivation.

Last week was no different: Muhammad Merah was a self-styled "Islamic warrior" who killed a rabbi and several children at a Jewish day school in Toulouse, France, in an attack that the international media widely reported initially as having been perpetrated by a neo-Nazi. When it became clear that Merah was actually a jihadist, the predictable denial began: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the attack had nothing to do with Islam, and the call echoed worldwide not to allow the murders to harm French "pluralism."

In fact, however, Muhammad Merah's murders had everything to do with Islam: he claimed affiliation with al-Qaeda and may have trained with the Taliban, both of which are explicitly and ostentatiously Muslim groups that justify all their actions by reference to the Qur'an and Sunnah. He claimed to be a mujahid, which is a warrior of jihad, which is an Islamic theological and legal concept. He killed Muslim soldiers who fought in the infidel military -- something that only someone who considered one's loyalty to the umma to trump all other loyalties would have done.

Indeed, so grounded is Merah's massacre in Islam that it is virtually inconceivable that he would have carried it out had he not been a Muslim...

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Hani Nour Eddin said that his party “will defend the second article of the (1971) constitution,” which stipulates that the principles of Sharia are the main source of legislation in the country..."

He said it.

From Al Arabiya March 27

We will insist on applying Sharia in Egypt, Islamist MP says

Egypt’s Construction and Development Party (CDP) “won’t give up the application of the Sharia [Islamic law]” in Egypt, an Egyptian MP representing the party told an Egyptian daily on Monday. CDP is the political party of Egypt’s al-Jamaa al-Islamiya.

Hani Nour Eddin said that his party “will defend the second article of the (1971) constitution,” which stipulates that the principles of Sharia are the main source of legislation in the country, Egypt’s al-Masry al-Youm quoted him as saying.

Nour Eddin said that there is no disagreement among Egyptian political powers over the second article of the constitution, adding that his party is open to suggestions that are in accordance with the principles of Sharia.

CDP has finalized a draft of the constitution to be introduced during the constituent assembly meetings, Nour Eddin said, adding that legal experts have contributed to the draft that the Shura Council of the group and its party leaders have made.

“We will respect all other points of view with the aim of drafting a constitution that embraces all Egyptians,” Nour Eddin added.

Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya engaged in armed confrontations with the government security forces in the 1990s, aiming to depose the Mubarak regime and establish an Islamic state. However, in the late 1990s, the group announced it would abandon its violent, jihadist ideology, and apologized for previous attacks that had killed hundreds of people.

“There is coordination between CDP, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the Salafi Nour Party to reach a united vision shared with all political trends that goes also with the culture and identity of society,” he told the Egyptian daily.

Divorce at the Mall

In Islam a man can divorce his wife simply by saying I divorce you three times.  The method of transmission can be virtually anything and this article illustrates how modern technology is being used for the most personal of Muslim actions.

From BikyaMasr March 23

Saudi man divorces wife over loudspeaker at mall

CAIRO: A Saudi husband used a loudspeaker to divorce his wife at a busy shopping mall after seeing her take a note from another man bearing his phone number.

This, according to the Saudi Arabic language quotidian, Kabar.

The husband was with his wife and three children at the mall when he went his own way into a men’s clothes shop.

“When he left that shop, he saw a man giving his wife a note bearing his phone number…she accepted the paper and put it inside her bag,”

The newspaper did not mention where the mall is located.

“He then used the mall’s loudspeaker to shout divorce words against his wife although she was with her three children.”   

Selling shampoo from the grave

With Turkey quickly sliding away from the secularism of Kamal Attaturk and into a sharia-compliant country, it is no surprise to find Der Fuhrer as a product spokesman.  There is outcry, but the government-run TV station refuses to pull the ad.  There is no word on whether any programs or producers complained of the ad running during their shows.

From Spiegel March March 26

Turkish TV Ad Features Hitler to Sell Shampoo

A Turkish cosmetics company is under fire for featuring Adolf Hitler in a television advert for men's shampoo, but it continues to run on the country's state television network despite widespread outrage.

The 12-second commercial shows black-and-white footage of Hitler delivering an impassioned speech, dubbed with a high-pitched voice screaming the following words in clipped Turkish:

"Why are you using woman's shampoo if you're not wearing a woman's dress? Now there's the hundred percent men's shampoo Biomen. A real man uses Biomen."

Media reports said that Turkish state television has so far declined to remove the commercial, despite criticism from Jewish groups in Turkey and abroad. The US-based Anti-Defamation League released a statement saying it was "repulsed" at the commercial.

"The use of images of the violently anti-Semitic dictator who was responsible for the mass murder of 6 million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust to sell shampoo is a disgusting and deplorable marketing ploy," Abraham Foxman, the ADL's national director, said in a statement.

"It is an insult to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, those who survived, and those who fought to defeat the Nazis. This video is just the latest example of the use of Holocaust imagery in some countries to sell commercial products, which has contributed to the trivialization of and desensitization to the unparalleled horrors of the Holocaust," it continued.


"There can never be any justifiable purpose for using the images of Hitler, Nazis or any other depiction of the Nazi killing machine to sell products or services."


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Roger of the CIA: leader of counter-terrorism and convert to Islam

I will let you decide where this could lead.  There are many questions about this which need answering.  Asking most of them will garner accusations of Islamophobia.

So where do we go from here?

From the Washington Post March 24 by Greg Miller

At CIA, a convert to Islam leads the terrorism hunt

For every cloud of smoke that follows a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, dozens of smaller plumes can be traced to a gaunt figure standing in a courtyard near the center of the agency’s Langley campus in Virginia.

The man with the nicotine habit is in his late 50s, with stubble on his face and the dark-suited wardrobe of an undertaker. As chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center for the past six years, he has functioned in a funereal capacity for al-Qaeda.

Roger, which is the first name of his cover identity, may be the most consequential but least visible national security official in Washington — the principal architect of the CIA’s drone campaign and the leader of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. In many ways, he has also been the driving force of the Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killing as a centerpiece of its counterterrorism efforts.

Colleagues describe Roger as a collection of contradictions. A chain-smoker who spends countless hours on a treadmill. Notoriously surly yet able to win over enough support from subordinates and bosses to hold on to his job. He presides over a campaign that has killed thousands of Islamist militants and angered millions of Muslims, but he is himself a convert to Islam.

His defenders don’t even try to make him sound likable. Instead, they emphasize his operational talents, encyclopedic understanding of the enemy and tireless work ethic.

“Irascible is the nicest way I would describe him,” said a former high-ranking CIA official who supervised the counterterrorism chief. “But his range of experience and relationships have made him about as close to indispensable as you could think.”

Critics are less equivocal. “He’s sandpaper” and “not at all a team player,” said a former senior U.S. military official who worked closely with the CIA. Like others, the official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the director of CTC — as the center is known — remains undercover.

Remarkable endurance

Regardless of Roger’s management style, there is consensus on at least two adjectives that apply to his tenure: eventful and long.

Since becoming chief, Roger has worked for two presidents, four CIA directors and four directors of national intelligence. In the top echelons of national security, only Robert S. Mueller III, who became FBI director shortly before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has been in place longer.

Roger’s longevity is all the more remarkable, current and former CIA officials said, because the CTC job is one of the agency’s most stressful and grueling. It involves managing thousands of employees, monitoring dozens of operations abroad and making decisions on who the agency should target in lethal strikes — all while knowing that the CTC director will be among the first to face blame if there is another attack on U.S. soil.

Most of Roger’s predecessors, including Cofer Black and Robert Grenier, lasted less than three years. There have been rumors in recent weeks that Roger will soon depart as well, perhaps to retire, although similar speculation has surfaced nearly every year since he took the job.

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Update on Toulouse jihadist brother

Two articles on the next round of activity in finding the loose ends that were tied to Mohamed Merah, specifically his brother Abdelkader.  Here is more context on the brother and added info on the jihadist.


From the Daily Mail March 24 by Peter Allen

Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah had links to Islamic extremists in Britain

The Al Qaeda gunman who shot dead seven people in France was in touch with British Islamic extremists as recently as last year, security sources in Paris said yesterday.

Mohammed Merah, 23, who was killed when police commandos stormed his flat in Toulouse last week, is said to have met UK-based jihadists on a visit to Afghanistan. His codename – ‘Youssef Toulouse’ – was passed to British security agents.

The disclosures came as the girlfriend of one of Merah’s victims said she intended to marry her partner in a posthumous ceremony. 

Caroline Monet, 21, has been given presidential permission to wed 25-year-old Corporal Abel Chennouf, who was shot dead at a cash machine in the town of Montauban, near Toulouse, this month.

Merah’s brother Abdelkader, 29, and his 30-year-old wife, who has not been named, face charges of ‘conspiracy to commit terrorist acts’.

Abdelkader has boasted of feeling ‘very proud’ of his brother, who killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers.

Merah had been tracked by French authorities since he broke out of an Afghan prison in 2008. He worked as a mechanic in France, but returned to the Middle East to train with the Taliban. He is thought to have gone to Pakistan in 2010 and reached the Afghan  capital Kabul that November. He was picked up by US security agents and sent back to France.

Detectives believe Merah and his brother, an international terrorist suspect, were involved in two Islamist organisations, Forsane Alizza  (The Knights of Pride) and Al Qaeda splinter group Jund al-Khilafah.

A security source in Paris said: ‘Not only were members of these groups in touch with British jihadists while in Europe, they would also have met them in Afghanistan.’

From France24 March 25

Preliminary charges filed against gunman's brother

AP - A Frenchman suspected of helping his brother plot attacks against Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers was handed preliminary murder and terrorism charges Sunday.

But Abdelkader Merah denied any role in the attacks. Investigators looking into France’s worst terror attacks in years believe Merah helped his brother Mohamed prepare the killings, and are investigating whether they were linked to an international network of extremists or worked on their own.


Abdelkader’s lawyer said he feels like “a scapegoat.”


“No one knew anything” about what Mohamed was plotting, lawyer Anne-Sophie Laguens told reporters in Paris. She dismissed reports that Abdelkader had praised his brother’s attacks. “He was never proud of those actions.”


Mohamed Merah, 23, claimed responsibility for killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers earlier this month. After a 32-hour standoff with police, he died Thursday in a hail of gunfire as he jumped out a window of his apartment in the southern city of Toulouse.



Since then, attention has focused on his older brother Abdelkader Merah, who was handed preliminary charges on Sunday of complicity to murder and theft, and involvement in a terrorist enterprise, prosecutors said. Detained last week, he will remain in custody pending further investigation.


Preliminary charges under French law mean there is strong reason to believe a crime was committed, but allow magistrates more time to investigate.


Authorities suspect Abdelkader had a role in acquiring his younger brother’s arsenal and financing his trips to Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East. Mohamed Merah claimed allegiance to al-Qaida and told police he traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan for training.


Abdelkader was questioned several years ago about alleged links to a network sending Toulouse-area youths to Iraq, but no action was brought against him at the time.


Prosecutor Francois Molins said the inquiry is also looking at anyone else who could have been involved in planning the attacks.


The brother’s girlfriend, Yamina Mesbah, was held, then released early Sunday without being charged. The Merah brothers’ mother was released Friday night.


The girlfriend denied any involvement in what happened and said she was shocked by the killings, her lawyer Guy Debuisson said, adding that Abdelkader Merah appeared to have led a double life.
“This woman was unaware of anything about her husband’s accessory, complementary or secret life,” the lawyer said. The couple married according to Muslim custom in 2006, but did not undergo the civil ceremony required in France for a marriage to be recognized.


Abdelkader Merah took five or six long trips to Egypt, ostensibly to study Arabic literature, and his girlfriend joined him on two or three, the lawyer said.


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Nursing home jihad

She was 87 and in need of constant care.  She fell and suffered injuries which for a younger person would not have been as much the problem.  She was not attended to immediately because the nurse in charge was praying.  She died from those injuries.   One of the caregivers offered this explanation to a inquiry board as to a reason why the resident was not cared for immediately, " It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying upstairs in the office on his prayer mat. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish."

This is Islam.

From the Telegraph March 23

Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying

Alzheimer's sufferer Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang and a carer went to the office for help to lift her.

But agency nurse Abdul Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait.

Carer Zoe Shaw told the Sheffield hearing: "It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying upstairs in the office on his prayer mat. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish."

An ambulance was not called for nearly four hours after Mrs Griffiths fell from bed and cut her head and suffered a gash to her hip at the privately-run Valley Park Nursing Home in Wombwell, near Barnsley.

She died later in hospital. Mr Bhutto failed to appear at the inquest and a summons had to be issued for him to attend the resumed hearing later in the year.

Assistant deputy coroner Donald Coutts-Wood said he had contacted him during a recess and he denied being the duty nurse that night and said he had been there on a course.

Mrs Griffiths, the widow of former Barnsley footballer Steve Griffiths, who used to live in Wombwell, had been a resident at the home since 2009 and died last November.

She was put to bed at 9.45pm on October 24 and checked checked every two hours, according to Zoe Shaw.

The old lady was using the toilet at 4am and Mrs Shaw went to an office to fill in paperwork.

She said Mrs Griffiths was not prone to falls and was not considered "at risk".

She and another carer found her on the floor and Mrs Shaw went to get help from Mr Bhutto. He was the most senior nurse on night duty at the home, run by the Mimosa Healthcare Group, because the senior carer was unable to work havning been on duty for six of the previous seven nights.

When Mr Bhutto arrived he checked the pensioner's limbs, took her blood presssure and pulse while she was still on the floor and told the carers to put her back into bed.

But instead Mrs Shaw, worried that she might fall again, washed the old lady, dressed her and took her to the office while she carried on filling forms.

At about 5.45am she took her to the lounge and said she was "talking fine" and walking around.

But at breakfast-time when the residents were being offered a cup of tea Mrs Griffiths was found unresponsive and an ambulance was called at about 7.30am.

Mrs Shaw, who broke down and wept in the witness box, said she would have called an ambulance immediately after the fall but had only since discovered that staff could override a nurses' decision.

Speaking after the inquest was adjourned Dorothy's daughter Jean David, 61, said: "We are quite upset that Mr Bhutto hadn't appeared and we are having to come here again particularly as my brother is having to come up from Staffordshire. We would like it to have been done and dusted but we can't leave it without his evidence."

Homage page to Toulouse jihadist removed from Facebook

"In nature there's no blemish but the mind,
none can be call'd deformed but the unkind"  From Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night" or what you will


From France24 March 23

Facebook removes page paying homage to Toulouse killer

AFP - Facebook on Thursday removed a page that paid homage to the young Frenchman who died in a shootout with police after killing seven people, officials said.

French interior ministry officials said the ministry had asked the social networking site to remove the page that went up shortly after Mohamed Merah was killed earlier Thursday in Toulouse.

The page, which bore a picture of the self-proclaimed Al-Qaeda militant and was titled "Homage to Mohamed Merah", was consulted by more than 500 people before it was removed just hours after it appeared, they said.

Many visitors left comments that were hostile to the police or favourable to Islamic extremism.

Egypt: panel charged with drafting new constitution using Jeffersonian model to separate mosque and state....wait, what?

No, not really.  They are getting ready to begin the drafting process, and with 60% of the panel made up of "less than moderate" Muslims you can bet that the end result will be a constitution that little resembles what we think a constitution should be.  With sharia law enshrined as the only source of jurisprudence and Islam the only officially recognized religion the good times are soon upon us.  Except for Christians, Catholics, Jews and any other non-Muslim belief system.

Will the last non-Muslim out the door please turn off the "Vacancy" sign?

From AP/Yahoo March 25 by Hamza Hendawi

Islamists are majority on Egypt constitution panel

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Islamists have won a sizable majority on a 100-member panel tasked with drafting a new constitution, according to a list of names published Sunday by the country's official news agency. The list reinforces fears by secular and liberal Egyptians that the Islamists dominating parliament will pack the panel with supporters and ignore concerns of other groups.

The new constitution will determine the balance of power between Egypt's previously all-powerful president and parliament, and define the country's future identity, including the role of religion and minority rights.

The constitutional committee will have nearly 60 Islamists in all, including 37 legislators selected Saturday by parliament's two chambers. Half the panel will comprise public figures, also selected by members of parliament.

A handful of Christians and women were selected and there were only a few names from the revolutionary movement behind last year's ouster of longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.

The announcement of the panel's makeup was followed by the sudden emergence of a public dispute between the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest political group, and the ruling generals who took power following Mubarak's ouster more than a year ago.

The Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, accused the generals of trying to "hinder" the transition to democratic rule. In a statement posted on its website, it also raised concern that presidential elections due in May could be rigged to benefit a "certain candidate" it did not identify.

The party, it added, is studying proposals to field its own candidate, reversing an earlier decision not to do so.

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Updates in French jihadist Merah

His brother is now wanted, and his mother is distraught, confused by her sons actions.

From Yahoo march 24 by Johanna Decorse and Raphael Satter

French investigators focus on gunman's brother; police suspect he helped prepare attacks

PARIS - The brother of an Islamist fanatic behind a deadly shooting rampage in France celebrated his martyr-like death and may have helped him, police and a lawyer said.

Counterterrorism authorities are expected to decide early Sunday whether to file preliminary charges against 30-year-old Abdelkader Merah, who has been under questioning for four days over killings in southern France that stunned the country and refocused attention on the threat of radical Muslim militants.

His brother Mohamed Merah died in a hail of gunfire Thursday after a standoff with police during which he claimed responsibility for attacks that killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers. Merah claimed allegiance to al-Qaida and told police he travelled to Afghanistan and Pakistan for training.

In Pakistan, intelligence officials said Saturday that 85 French Muslims have been training with the Taliban in northwest Pakistan and are examining whether Mohamed Merah was part of this group. Merah travelled to Pakistan in 2011 and said he trained with al-Qaida in Waziristan.

The Merahs' mother was in police custody for three days before she was released late Friday.

A lawyer for 55-year-old Zoulhika Aziri said her world had been "turned upside down." ''She is devastated," Jean-Yves Gougnaud told reporters in the southern city of Toulouse. "At no time could she have imagined that her son was the one who did it."

From the New York Post March 24

French gunman's brother 'proud' of what 'school slayer' did

TOULOUSE, France -- The older brother of the Toulouse gunman who killed seven people in France said he was "proud" of Mohammed Merah's actions, police said Saturday.

Abdelkader Merah admitted being present when the scooter used in the killings was stolen, even though he claimed he knew nothing of his brother's criminal intentions.

He and his girlfriend were taken into custody after his brother was killed trying to shoot his way out of an apartment following a 32-hour police siege.

The 23-year-old had murdered three Jewish children, a trainee rabbi and three soldiers in three separate gun attacks between Mar. 11 and Mar. 19 in the southwestern French city, shocking the country in the buildup to a presidential election.

Abdelkader Merah and his girlfriend were being transferred from Toulouse to Paris on Saturday for questioning by anti-terrorist police, a source close to the investigation said.

Police and prosecutors said the 29-year-old is a radical Islamist and that traces of what could be an explosive material were found in his car.

He and his girlfriend will be questioned at the anti-terrorist police headquarters in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. Under French law, they could be held until Sunday, after which they would have to be taken before a judge in the French capital.

Mohammed Merah was alone when he carried out the killings, but there has been speculation that he had accomplices or logistical help. Investigators said he apparently lived beyond his limited means.

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"... radical Islam is not coming to Canada, it is already here"

Imagine a how-to book on the ways to discipline your Christian wife which touts the virtues of beating her to maintain control and harmony within the marriage.  A book like that would never be allowed to be sold, but if it is about Islamic marriages and the rules that govern that union there is no problem.  Ironically, this book has sold out almost as fast as it went on the shelf.  Don't expect it to appear at your local bookstore anytime soon, either.

From CNews March 24 by Terry Davidson

Book tells Muslim men how to beat and control their wives 
   TORONTO - A local bookstore has “sold out” of a controversial marriage guide that advises Muslim men on how to beat their wives (4-34.)

The 160-page book, published by Idara Impex in New Delhi, India, is written by Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, who’s described in the book’s foreword as a “prolific writer on almost every 

topic of Islamic learning.”

The store’s manager, who didn’t give his name, said the book had been sold out for some time, and the store’s owner, whom the manager identified as Shamim Ahmad, refused to comment for the story.

It wasn’t clear whether the shop has ordered more copies of the book, but it’s available at online Islamic bookstores and even through eBay. 

In the book’s opening pages, it is written that “it might be necessary to restrain her with strength or even to threaten her.

The loving hand of Islam in action.

Later, its author advises that “the husband should treat the wife with kindness and love, even if she tends to be stupid and slow sometimes.”


Page 45 contains the rights of the husband, which include his wife’s inability to leave “his house without his permission,” and that his wife must “fulfil his desires” and “not allow herself to be untidy ... but should beautify herself for him ... ”


In terms of physical punishment, the book advises that a husband may scold her, “beat by hand or stick,” withhold money from her or “pull (her) by the ears,” but should “refrain from beating her excessively.”


It doesn't say to refrain completely from beating the stupid and slow wife, only to not do it excessively.  


Moderate Muslim voice Tarek Fatah says the shopkeeper should be charged for selling such a book.
“I wouldn’t say it’s hate, but it is inciting men to hit women,” said Fatah, who identified the book’s author as a prominent Islamic scholar. “This is new to you, but the Muslim community knows that this is widespread, that a woman can be beaten. Muslim leaders will deny this, but... ”


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Saudi Arabia says women can compete in the Olympics as long as their appearance and performance "meets the standards of decency and women do not contradict Islamic law"

Wait for the excuses to come forth in the coming weeks as to how the Olympics violates sharia law.

From ASIANews March 21

For the first time Saudi female athletes at the Olympics 

Riyadh (AsiaNews / Agencies) - For the first time in the history of the Olympics, women athletes from Saudi Arabia may be able to compete in London, reports the influential and usually well informed Al-Hayat, according to which a decision in this regard has been made by the Interior minister and Crown Prince of the Kingdom, Nayef bin Abdulaziz,.

The newspaper says, Nayef has given his consent for participation in sports that "meet the standards of decency and as long as the women do not contradict Islamic law."

The announcement comes at a time when King Abdullah is committed to achieve a slow but gradual modernization of the culture of his country. Significantly, yesterday pro-governmentArab News published an editorial entitled "Saudi women are in urgent need of equal rights."

In the article, it is stated among other things that "women comprise more than half the population of our country and, frankly, no real social development can be achieved without them," that "Islam is a great religion, but some of us spread the wrong message "and" repress civil rights of women "and" that Saudi Arabia has a moral responsibility to respect and protect human rights of all its citizens. " Again: "Although the Koran clearly states that personal freedom must always be respected and that is that everyone, man or woman should be allowed to make their own decisions, the tragic reality is that women are not free to do so and can not live a normal life". The editorial ends with a call to men to support the efforts of the Saudi king for reforms, including those for real equality between all citizens, men and women.

Pakistan: A grand's worth of death

The numbers are shocking, yet those who claim to care about these women are strangely silent.  Women are killed with impunity in Islam and there is nary a peep from our dear leaders.  How many more innocents must die because we refuse to step in and help is any ones guess but one thing is for sure; it won't stop at this article.

From AlArabiya March 22

Nearly 1,000 Pakistani women ‘killed for honor’

At least 943 Pakistani women and girls were murdered last year for allegedly defaming their family’s honor, the country’s leading human rights group said Thursday.

The statistics highlight the growing scale of violence suffered by many women in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where they are frequently treated as second-class citizens and there is no law against domestic violence.

Despite progress on better protecting women’s rights, activists say the government needs to do more to prosecute murderers in cases largely dismissed by police as private, family affairs.

“At least 943 women were killed in the name of honor, of which 93 were minors,” wrote the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its annual report.

Seven Christian and two Hindu women were among the victims, it said.

The Commission reported 791 “honor killings” in 2010.

Around 595 of the women killed in 2011 were accused of having “illicit relations” and 219 of marrying without permission.

Some victims were raped or gang raped before being killed, the Commission said. Most of the women were killed by their brothers and husbands.

Only 20 of 943 killed were reported to have been provided medical aid before they died, the Commission wrote.

Yet Islam respects women and treats them with equality and honor.  That's what we are told, isn't it?

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Teacher in France disciplined for calling jihadist murderer Mohamed Merah a "victim"

This is the new France, where even the most vile of jihadists gets called a victim.  At least the teacher was punished for this, but that is just a small slap against the rising tide of Islamic hegemony spreading across Europe.  You can bet this teacher is not alone in their view, the big question is how to identify and stop those molders of young minds before they can damage the minds they influence.


From the Jerusalem Post March 23

'French teacher asked

minute's silence for Merah'

 

Before the slaughter...

France's education minister called for disciplinary proceedings against a teacher in the north of France on Friday, after she allegedly asked her students to observe a moment's silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the man who gunned down three children and a rabbi in front of Jewish school in Toulouse earlier this week.

Students in the the French English teacher's class in Rouen wrote to their principal that she had called the serial killer a "victim," and said his links to al-Qaida were fabricated by the media and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to AFP.

The teacher's request prompted most of the students to empty out of the classroom, though some stayed behind to "try to understand what she was talking about," AFP reported according to their letter.

French Education Minister Luc Chatel has called for the teacher to be suspended for her request, which was made the day after police shot Merah dead in the south of France after he went on a killing spree.

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France jihadist may have spent time in Israel

It appears that Muhamed Merah visited Israel in 2010.  Israeli intelligence is saying their investigation is continuing.

We shall see.

From INN March 23 by Elad Benari

Report: Toulouse Terrorist Visited Israel

Mohammed Merah, the terrorist who murdered seven people, including a rabbi and three young children, andwho was killed by French security forces in Toulouse, visited Israel several years ago, it was reported Thursday.

Channel 10 News reported that the reason for Merah’s visit to Israel is not entirely clear, but it is believed he came to gather intelligence for his attack.

The Channel 10 report was based on a comment made by an American officer serving in Afghanistan to the French newspaper Le Monde. The officer told the newspaper that Merah’s passport had been stamped with entry to and exit from Israel.

However, the National Immigration Authority said on Thursday evening that an initial investigation found that Merah never visited Israel. Kol Yisrael radio reported that the National Immigration Authority said that the terrorist's name, as published in the media, was not found in the list of arrivals to Israel. The authority added that it is continuing to investigate the matter.

Channel 10 noted that there are conflicting reports about whether Merah was identified as an Al-Qaeda activist before 2010, which is when he allegedly visited Israel. Thereport noted that if he was indeed suspected to be an Al-Qaeda terrorist, then Israeli procedure would have called for him to be interrogated at the airport and to undergo a thorough security check.

It is unknown whether Merah was indeed interrogated or checked, the report said. The Israel Security Agency refused to comment on the issue and said that it was still being review reviewed.

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A shot to the head and now his virgins can comfort him

Mohamed Merah is dead.  He murdered 7 in the name of Allah and justified his actions through the Qur'an.  President Sarkozy says Islam had nothing to do with these seven innocent people losing their lives yet Merah was a claimed member of Al-Qaeda.  The disconnect between reality and what the West wants to see is astounding, I wonder how much farther backwards we will have to bend before we fall down.

From AFP/Yahoo March 22 by  Remy Bellon and Laurent Lozano 

French police kill 'Al-Qaeda' militant as battle ends siege

Police used massive firepower Thursday to end the 32-hour siege of a killer whose murders of Jewish schoolchildren and soldiers traumatised France and briefly halted the presidential election campaign.

The self-proclaimed Al-Qaeda militant died in an intense firefight as he tried to shoot his way out of his surrounded apartment in the southwestern city of Toulouse when officers from special police forces moved in.

An Al-Qaeda linked group, Jund al-Khilafah, claimed responsibility on jihadist websites for the shootings by a man whom French President Nicolas Sarkozy dubbed a "monster".

The seven killings shocked France, home to western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim minorities, and raised questions about intolerance and security failures in the midst of a hard-fought presidential election campaign.

Mohamed Merah, who admitted shooting dead three soldiers and three children and a teacher at a Jewish school -- murders he filmed with a video camera -- opened fire when police from the elite RAID force stormed his flat.

Police said the 23-year-old burst out of the bathroom and shot at police before jumping out the window of his first-floor apartment, still firing as he fell, in a bid to escape.

France's chief anti-terror prosecutor, Francois Molins, said Merah was shot in the head while wearing a black djellaba, a traditional loose-fitting North African robe, and a bullet-proof vest.

Molins said police had been told to do everything possible to take Merah alive but had no choice when he opened fire "at an incredible rate".

"He literally launched an assault, rushing forward with a Colt .45 and continuing to fire as he jumped through the window, until he was shot in the head," Molins told journalists.

"He was dead by the time he hit the ground," a police source told AFP, while Interior Minister Claude Gueant said: "A RAID officer who is used to this kind of thing told me that he had never seen such a violent assault."

The streets of the residential area resounded with the sound of intense gunfire in a shattering finale to the standoff which began before dawn on Wednesday. A police source said around 300 shots were fired.

"It's the first time in my life I've seen someone, as we launch an assault, launch an assault against us," RAID head Amaury de Hauteclocque said.

Get used to it, Hauteclocque because as the Muslim population continues to outpace your native Frenchmen, this kind of behavior will continue to escalate.  Just look at your own Marseilles and parts of Paristan.

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Update:  here is a live twitter feed during the final hours before the fatal head shot.  Fascinating reading.