No, no, it isn’t what you think. This time, it’s not the Muslim raping a donkey, it’s a donkey raping an ass.
Emirates(H/T trop) Fifteen people were killed or injured in tribal fighting in Yemen after a male donkey chased an ass and raped it just near the house of its owner. Newspapers in Yemen said the owner of the ass got mad after he saw the donkey attacking his animal, prompting him to chase the donkey and hit it. The attack infuriated the donkey owner, who called on his armed tribesmen to take revenge.
“The problem snowballed into an armed fight between Makabis tribe, which owns the donkey, and Bani Abbas which owns the ass…15 people were either killed or injured in the battle,” the Saudi Arabic language daily Aleqtisadiah said, quoting newspapers in Yemen. A large police force intervened and stopped the fighting at a village in the southwestern province of Abb, newspapers said, adding that police had arrested eight persons involved in the conflict.
But here’s a Muslim screwing a donkey in Iraq. Videotape and witty commentary provided by American soldier.
Pakistan blocked, then later restored Twitter over “blasphemous content.” The site had reportedly refused to remove tweets promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous.
NY TIMESThe Pakistani government blocked access to the social networking service Twitter for much of Sunday, after publicly holding Twitter responsible for promoting what it described as a blasphemous cartoon contest taking place on Facebook, officials said.
The restoration of Twitter service late in the evening was as sudden as its suspension earlier in the day. No official statement or explanation was given for an act that some rights campaigners saw as much as a warning shot at the media and public expression as a reaction to controversial content.
The shutdowns began around midday Sunday, in a rolling ban that almost immediately brought a huge public outcry on other social media.
A government spokesman was quoted by local news media early on Sunday as saying that the government had been in talks with Twitter to remove “objectionable” material but that there had been no results. “The material was promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad,” Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication’s Authority, was quoted as saying. He was also quoted as saying that Facebook had agreed to allay the concerns of the Pakistani government.
It remained unclear — and unlikely — that Twitter had agreed to the demands of the Pakistani government before access was restored, at roughly 10 p.m. Sunday.
Fizza Batool Gilani, the daughter of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, announced on Twitter around then that Mr. Gilani had ordered the restoration. Blasphemy is an issue that roils sentiment easily in Pakistan. Blasphemy allegations have often resulted in violent riots, and religious minorities in Pakistan have long maintained that the country’s blasphemy laws are used to settle personal scores.
Facebook was banned for two weeks in 2010 after protests erupted in the country over a similar cartoon contest on Facebook to draw the Prophet Muhammad. After a high court ordered the government to ban Facebook, the government was quick to ban YouTube and hundreds of other Web sites and services.
Speculation that the government intended to suspended Facebook and Twitter again had been swirling around for the past couple of days. However, this time around there have been no major public protests over the contest that Pakistani officials have expressed concerns about.
The ban caught Twitter users by surprise.“I never heard of any caricatures on Twitter,” said Arif Rafiq, an adjunct scholar at Middle East Institute and a commentator on Pakistani politics, who has a Twitter following of more than 10,000 users. “Now this ban will be promoting whatever caricatures were posted on it.”
Responding to a question last night, Rehman Malik, the country’s interior minister, had denied that ban on social networking sites was in the offing.
“The government of Pakistan’s ban on Twitter is ill advised, counterproductive and will ultimately prove to be futile as all such attempts at censorship have proved to be,” said Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistan director at Human Rights Watch, in a press statement. “The right to free speech is nonnegotiable, and if Pakistan is the rights-respecting democracy it claims to be, this ban must be lifted forthwith. Free speech can and should only be countered with free speech.”
Critics of the government said that blocking Twitter seemed to fit with what they see as a long-term government plan to muzzle media freedom, and could be related to the vociferous opposition and criticism that is heaped on the country’s security apparatus in Twitter debates.
“Twitter is a place where fierce opposition to Pakistan’s security agencies is expressed,” said Raza Rumi, a widely read columnist and an adviser at the Jinnah Institute, a public policy center based in Islamabad.“There is a clear trend that the Pakistani military and spy agency get a strong critique from Pakistanis themselves, something that does not happen in mainstream media where people are generally shy to express such views.”
Activists supporting minority rights have established a strong voice on Twitter, and advocates for the Baluch people, who are demanding greater rights and a share of the natural-resources wealth in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, have also used it to spread their message.
Lady Gaga has been declined a permit to perform in the world’s largest, and what Hillary Clinton called the most ‘moderate’ Muslim country in the world, after fundamentalist groups said her risque outfits and dance moves would undermine Islamic values and corrupt the country’s youth.
TELEGRAPHIndonesia’s national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said the permit for her June 3 “Born This Way Ball” concert – the biggest show on her Asian tour – had been denied.
The local promoter, Michael Rusli, could not immediately be reached for comment. Earlier, he said it would be “regrettable” if police didn’t give the clearance.
Fans have been eagerly awaiting Lady Gaga, he said, with every seat in Jakarta’s 52,000-seat Gelora Bung Karno stadium scooped up – half in the first two hours of sales.
Indonesia, a secular country of 240 million people, has more Muslims than any other in the world. Though it has a long history of religious tolerance, a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years.
Hard-liners have loudly criticized Lady Gaga, saying the suggestive nature of her show threatened to undermine the country’s moral fibre. Some threatened to use physical force to prevent her from stepping off the plane.
The chairman of Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), which planned to protest against the American artiste’s June 3 performance in Jakarta, said earlier:
“We will stop her from setting foot on our land. She had better not dare spread her satanic faith in this country. Her style is vulgar, her sexual and indecent clothes will destroy our children’s sense of morality. She’s very dangerous.”
Mariska Renata, a fan who had tickets to the Jakarta show, said: “I’m very disappointed.”
She said by bowing to the wishes of “troublemakers,” authorities only give them more power. “We are mature enough to be able to separate our own moral values from arts and culture,” Renata said.
Lady Gaga’s Asian tour started late last month and many of the stops have sold out. The South Korean concerts were limited to fans 18 or older because conservatives there raised objections.
Knuckle-draggers gathered outside the parliament to condemn an article entitled ‘God and Me,’ by Norwegian Kurdish expatriate, Halmat Goran, because he complained about what he called God’s treatment towards Kurdish Muslims.
Angry protesters attacked 3 pubs, a cultural center, the headquarters of Kurdistan Parliament and Zagros TV as well as police kiosks in the city center. The rally was to condemn an allegedly blasphemous article published in Chirpa, a local Kurdish magazine.
Security forces were deployed to control the demonstrators as the events turned ugly. The writer of the article was seen a week ago in a YouTube video tearing out pages of two suras from the Holy Qur’an. Goran is currently still in Norway, but demonstrators want him to return to the Kurdistan Region to face his punishment for insulting Islam – the death penalty.
A Muslim family in Basel has been fined 1,400 francs ($1,550) for refusing to let its daughters participate in mixed swimming classes.
The Local (H/T Henry P) The family had sought to avoid paying the fine on the grounds that the requirement for the girls to join the swimming lesson infringed on their religious freedom, online news website Le Matin reported.
CO-ED SWIMMING SHARIA STYLE
The parents argued that, in accordance with the teachings of the Koran, they wanted to instil a sense of shame in their children before they reached puberty. Mixed swimming lessons in primary school, the family claimed, would be incompatible with such an aim.
Following the family’s appeal of the original Administrative Court verdict, the Federal Court decided to uphold the fine. The court stated that the obligation to participate in mixed swimming classes did not represent a significant assault on the family’s religious freedom.
The upper court said it agreed with the Administrative Court’s view that there was a “substantial public interest that all children take swimming lessons.”
BECAUSE NOTHING SAYS "HAWT" LIKE A BURQUINI CLAD BAGHEAD
Daad Murad, the most productive man on earth, revealed that he has sex with his youngest teenage wife six times a day. The one-legged baby producing machine grabbed global media attention, after Emirates Today featured him on the front page.
EMIRATES Speaking to the website, Daad said the countdown to reach his ambitious target of 100 children is well on the way. The last baby girl born in the family is just nine months old, and the 94th child is expected by November/December 2012. He hopes that by 2013, he would have 100 children, a world record and then he will stop marrying and fathering children.
RAHMAN'S NEXT WIFE?
“The countdown has started with my 93rd baby.Fifteen of my children are already married and have their children. The total family members now number 140. The seven lucky ones will be born this year or next year,” he said.
A retired truck driver turned soldier could not recollect the names of his recent children and promised to return with the correct details.
“My last marriage was to a Baluchi girl, who is just 19-years old. She is very beautiful. ”I enjoyed life with two other Baluchi wives. One is already retired and at 50 years, she is busy bringing up her four children.
“Majida, another wife from Baluchistan, is currently enjoying the warmth of my love. At 25, she is also good, but I spend most of my time with Nadia now days because she is young, newly-married and there is no children to disturb us,” he said.
The six bedroom sessions with his 19 year-old wife stretch from early morning to midnight. He said the best time that he prefers to be with his wife is early morning.
“I have a good time with Nadia, and I take her out to Al Dhaid, Muscat or Dibba and there is no disturbance because she has no children yet. If I take my other wives out, sometimes I need a bus to carry all the children and there will be lot of disturbances,” he said.
“We spend a lot of time together because there is no disturbance from children. When I am with other wives, sometimes children start crying or making noise.
Here I am getting 100 per cent attention on Nadia. She too enjoys it and I have reduced my visit to other two wives,” he added.
Daad takes a natural mix of honey and quail bird meat, dried in sunlight. “I don’t believe in taking any natural sex additives like Viagra and thanks to God, I have the stamina to satisfy all my wives.
“I go to three of my current wives, who are legally allowed under Shariah and I don’t go to other wives, who are retired. Even if I feel like going back to one of them, I cannot do it because I strictly follow the Shariah rules.”
His third wife is an Emarati woman, Arifa, aged 30 years with six children. Daad married her in 2003. “My youngster daughter, nine-month old Moza, is very cute and when I take her to the emigration department or hospital, everybody adores her. She is very cute and resembles me,” Daad said.
“Delivery is an expensive affair for other people, but for my wives, it is a free gift from the UAE Government. I have the Tandook Zawag, Marriage Home Book, which gives free access to the facilities in government hospitals and offices.
I am getting two new houses from the Abu Dhabi Government and Nadia will be accommodated in one of these homes. I also got support from the Abu Dhabhi Government to waive off a loan of Dh600,000 from various banks and now I am free to spend more time with the family,”Daad said, adding that his plans to get married in Jaipur did not materialise.
To advertise their new collection, Italian Fashion Company, Fornarina, used scantilly clad models posing in front of various quotes from the Quran on the walls of an unused madrassa located in Marrakesh.
Islam in EuropeFornarina, who say they got all the necessary permits for the shoot from the Moroccan government, say they will remove the offending images. Muslim leaders in Morocco say the photographs and video are blasphemous to the Muslim religion. The madrassa has not been used as a school or place of worship for many years.
Fornarina gave the Moroccan government all the required permits, and officials did not find anything in the company’s plans to be offensive. But this was not enough to appease some Islamic activists who initiated the dispute. The story has made it onto the screens of the Saudi satellite TV Al Arabiya, where the broadcaster fanned the flames spening a lot of time reporting on interviews with outraged Moroccans both in Morocco and Italy, all of whom condemned the company in the strongest of terms.
The now removed ‘offensive’ video shows a scantily clad model, shooting inside a historic religious school in Marrakesh. Behind her, the walls have engravings of verses from the Quran, the sacred book of Muslims. ”These images are offensive and provoke reactions of anger and condemnation,” said the local Muslim activist Abdul Ghani to Ballut to al-Arabiya. He also accused the government of his country for having granted permission to shoot.
Fashion-StyleThe Fornarina spring/summer 2012 collection features an array of florals and cute prints taking inspiration from Japan and the fifties revealing the exotic touch of the line.
The Fornarina girl is “a new Venus” who “rises from inlays and mosaics in a kaleidoscope of colours, she is clad in precious and impalpable clothes, the result of painstaking care for details and a mix of couture and design.” Shot by photographer Francesco Musati and Valentina Aimone, the new Fornarina campaign is set to be launched worldwide in a rich media mix, besides being displayed in the Fornarina stores and in a dedicated website.
Flaunt your fashion credentials this season and choose among the wide range of effortlessly chic pieces brought by the renowned Italian brand. There is something specific to every Fornarina collection reflecting a unique lifestyle that revolves around a distinctly fashion and ‘dress-up’ imaginary. Perfect for the independent woman who always loves to interpret her own femininity with taste and a one-of-a-kind feeling.
Reports of a meeting between representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and members of the deceptively named ‘Freedom and Justice Party’ of Egypt, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, were confirmed today.
Canada Free Press (H/T Shoebat) According to information provided by Bobby Maldonado, Manager of Media Relations for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the U.S.-Egypt Business Council hosted members of the Freedom and Justice Party of Egypt including Dr. Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, FJP’s Member of Parliament serving on their Foreign Relations Committee. The meeting was held at the Chamber offices in Washington, DC.
The Muslim Brotherhood sent a tweet about their meeting with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today as shown in this message sent as the meeting began:
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) was founded in Egypt on 30 April 2011 by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the ideological forefather of al Qaeda and Hamas, supporter of Sharia law, and an advocate of terrorism against Israel and the West.
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) was created by the Muslim Brotherhood following the “Arab Spring” uprisings that toppled Hosni Mubarak. According to a February 2012 report in USA Today, “[t]he newly politically empowered Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic organization that supports religious law and opposes Western influence, has supported a crackdown on those who disagree with them, including the very activists who helped bring about the free elections that the Brotherhood dominated.”
Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, a VIP of the delegation hosted at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is an outspoken proponent of Sharia law over democracy and openly critical of American business influences in Egypt. In the same USA Today report, Dardery complained that “American non-profit groups were working toward a type of democracy that will not bring Islamists to power, and this is wrong.”
Mr. Maldonado said the meeting that was held today, although private and by invitation only, focused on open and constructive dialogue to advance business opportunities between the U.S. and Egypt. The meeting was conducted to address business and investment opportunities for Egypt and the West.
The delegation was scheduled to attend a conference on “Islamist movements in power” at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. It should be noted that the official motto of the Muslim Brotherhood is: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Before any questions about the anti-democratic business environment in Egypt could be raised, however, Mr. Maldonado was emphatic that political beliefs played no role in today’s meeting. When asked what was discussed at the meeting, Mr. Maldonado stated that he was not present and does not know the specific topics that were addressed.
Raymond Ibrahim Atiya based his fatwa on a hadith—a documented saying or doing of Islam’s prophet Muhammad and subsequently one of Sharia law’s sources of jurisprudence. Many Egyptians naturally protested this decree—hadith or no hadith—though no one could really demonstrate how it was un-Islamic; for the fatwa conformed to the strictures of Islamic jurisprudence. Still, due to the protests—not many Egyptian women were eager to “breastfeed” their male coworkers—the fatwa receded, and that was that. However, because it was never truly rebutted, it kept making comebacks.
For instance, three years later in 2010, a high-ranking Saudi, Sheikh Abdul Mohsin al-Abaican issued a fatwa confirming that “women could give their milk to men to establish a degree of maternal relations and get around a strict religious ban on mixing between unrelated men and women.” But unlike Atiya’s fatwa, “the man should take the milk, but not directly from the breast of the woman. He should drink it [from a cup] and then [he] becomes a relative of the family, a fact that allows him to come in contact with the women without breaking Islam’s rules about mixing.”
Now, a report titled “Kuwaiti Activists: Husband Breastfeeding from Wife not Prohibited,” published earlier this month by Arabic RT (see also Garaa News) opens by announcing that “The adult breastfeeding fatwa has returned once again to the spotlight, after Kuwaiti Islamic activists supported the adult breastfeeding fatwa issued by the Egyptian Salafi, Sheikh Jamal al-Murakbi [different from Al Azhar's Sheikh Atiya]. This time around, the Kuwaitis examined the adult breastfeeding fatwa in the context of relations between a man and his wife.”
While the Kuwaiti sheikhs all essentially agree that the activity is not strictly forbidden according to Sharia—only “disliked” (literally makruh)—they are divided over the particulars.
Consider for a moment the significance of these Islamic edicts: whether women “breastfeeding” coworkers (Egyptian fatwa, 2007), whether men drinking female breast-milk in a cup (Saudi fatwa, 2010), or whether Kuwaiti minutiae concerning bedroom foreplay—such fatwas are reminders of the inescapable strictures of Sharia law: while these sheikhs offers various circumstances and interpretations concerning “adult breastfeeding,” they are all confined to the words of the prophet of Islam.
This is precisely why, despite all the claims that Islam is perpetually being “misunderstood”—by terrorists, by “Islamophobes”—understanding what Islam commands and forbids is actually quite a simple matter: along with the Koran, determine what the prophet said in canonical hadiths.
It is, after all, no coincidence that the above mentioned Kuwaitis, like Sheikh Misbahi, were members of the delegation that recently went to ask Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti about Islam’s position on churches in the Arabian Peninsula: the same source that compelled the Grand Mufti to declare that all churches must be destroyed, is the same source that advocates “adult breastfeeding”: Muhammad and his teachings. All very straightforward, really.
One of many satirical cartoons that appeared in Egypt in response to the "adult breastfeeding" fatwas: the man says, "I have some cookies and am only here to breastfeed for breakfast."
The dust hasn’t even settled from the departure of the last U.S. and coalition troops, and the sharia-inspired Islamic crackdown on homosexuals and fashion-trendy young people is in full swing.
CNNA recent rash of killings of people perceived to be gay or emo in Iraq has stoked fear within those communities, which worry the government might be unwilling or unable to protect them.
At least 14 such victims were killed in Baghdad in the past three weeks, according to a senior Interior Ministry official. But Rights activists claim the number is actually much higher, with some suggesting dozens or more than 100 have been killed since February, many of them stoned to death by the ‘Morality’ Police for having emo haircuts and tight jeans. The killings appear to target people perceived to be gay, or emo — shorthand in Iraq for an in-your-face style of Western dress that favors tight clothes, long hair and the color black.
“Ten days ago, I received a letter from militiamen threatening me that if they found me then they will not kill me like other ‘perverts,’ but they will cut my body into pieces,” a gay activist told CNN. ”We strongly warn every male and female debauchee, if you do not stop this dirty act within four days, then the punishment of God will fall on you at the hands of Mujahideen,” it read. Iraq’s Moral Police was granted approval by the Ministry of Education to enter Baghdad schools and pinpoint students with Western appearances.
Of course, this test takes 15 minutes to complete, and by that time, hot food will have cooled off to the point that bacteria could make you sick. Better to stay out of all non-halal restaurants. Even better, staying out of all non-Muslim countries will guarantee you don’t inadvertently consume pig.
With the filthy kuffar (non-Muslim) world awash in swine products, scientists in Kazakstan have developed a test to detect the presence of pork in a dish. By exposing a plastic test strip to any food item, diners wanting to avoid pig meat will be able to determine whether pork is present.
It’s no secret that some chefs cheat and add pork to beef to make the dish cheaper and more flavorful, so you’ll have to carry these test sticks everywhere you eat out. Or don’t eat out at all. That way the rest of us won’t have worry about being force fed halal food without our knowledge.
Thousands of people held a demonstration organized by radical Islamist group Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (JUI) in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The protesters called for resistance against “pro-American policies” in Pakistan. They also urged the government to cut its ties with the United States, blaming Washington for the worsening security and economic situation in Pakistan.
Hey, Paki Man, how about sending back the $billions in financial aid we give you every year?
Press TVJUI leader Mufti Kifayatullah told Press TV that “conspiracies” are being hatched to make Pakistan a “secular state.” “Pakistan is an Islamic state… and we have been trying to foil these conspiracies,” he said. “We have been holding massive rallies across the country and they have been successful in bringing about a change in the minds of people,” Kifayatullah added.
The leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e Islam also stated that a false “image of Islam and Muslims” is being presented to the world. “The world thinks we are terrorists, but we are actually a peaceful nation. We want the world to look at the real face of Islam, which is the religion of peace and tranquility,” he noted.
The pets, which belonged to two different households on the same road in Knottingley, West Yorks, suffered fits which left them foaming at the mouth. It is believed they had eaten slabs of blackened meat deliberately left for them, after tests revealed them to be poisoned.
Islam vs Europesays, “We don’t know for sure if this was done by Muslims. But West Yorkshire is one of the most heavily Muslim-colonised parts of Britain. That’s where Bradford is. Also the fact that pork was used each time is very curious. Muslims are not prohibited from handling pork, only eating it. And “pork-eaters” is one of their favourite insults for infidels. In these incidents, the pork element could provide both an extra sadistic twist and a kind of justification; as the Muslim would see it, the dog would have died because it made the immoral choice of eating pork and therefore was the author of its own demise.” (See other cases of Muslims poisoning dogs in links at the bottom)
UK TELEGRAPHOwners Georgina Wetherall, 34, and Emma McGuire, 27, who live just eight doors apart, now fear more dogs in the road could be targeted and police are warning neighbours to be vigilant. Mrs Wetherall said the deaths had left her so distraught she was now planning to move out of the road, where she has lived with her family for 14 years.
The apparent attacks began in January this year, when Miss McGuire’s three-month-old Jack Russell puppy Monty was found lifeless in his cage.
Miss McGuire’s three-month-old Jack Russell puppy Monty was found lifeless in his cage
After retracing his steps, she found six pieces of blackened pork loin in the garden, which vets confirmed had been poisoned. Despite her extra vigilance, her other Jack Russell Poppy died just one month later in similar circumstances. Miss McGuire said: “They might only be animals to some people, but they were my animals. They might as well have poisoned me.”
This week, friend and neighbour Mrs Wetherall came home to find two of her dogs dead and another which foamed at the mouth before having to be put down. The mother-of-three said: “I want to know who has done this. It’s absolutely devastating. Whoever is doing this is the lowest of the low. “They weren’t just dogs, they were my family and I’ve never felt so empty.”
Georgina Weatherall with her daughter Jessica holding their dogs Roxy and Paddy who survived being poisoned
Michael Shewring, a vet from the Bartram and Patrick practice, said post-mortem tests on Mrs Wetherall’s dogs were not yet complete, but that there were similarities in the symptoms leading to all five deaths. He added: “In the case of Miss McGuire’s dogs, the owners brought in pork loin steaks from the garden which were coated in something suitably evil and suspicious.
“For two dogs to go from young, fit and healthy to seizing uncontrollably, there’s no doubt these dogs were maliciously poisoned.”
The restoration of Twitter service late in the evening was as sudden as its suspension earlier in the day. No official statement or explanation was given for an act that some rights campaigners saw as much as a warning shot at the media and public expression as a reaction to controversial content.
Speculation that the government intended to suspended Facebook and Twitter again had been swirling around for the past couple of days. However, this time around there have been no major public protests over the contest that Pakistani officials have expressed concerns about.
The ban caught Twitter users by surprise.“I never heard of any caricatures on Twitter,” said Arif Rafiq, an adjunct scholar at Middle East Institute and a commentator on Pakistani politics, who has a Twitter following of more than 10,000 users. “Now this ban will be promoting whatever caricatures were posted on it.”
Critics of the government said that blocking Twitter seemed to fit with what they see as a long-term government plan to muzzle media freedom, and could be related to the vociferous opposition and criticism that is heaped on the country’s security apparatus in Twitter debates.
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