In Islam, a man can have any number of concubines…in addition to his four wives

Can’t wait to see how this argument plays out in those states that have refused to place a ban on sharia law.

RUSSIA: Muslim Chechnya embraces sharia and honor killings

Chechnya’s President, Ramzan Kadyrov, now is openly approving of families that kill female relatives who violate their sense of honor, as this Russian republic embraces a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam after decades of religious suppression under Soviet rule.

Washington Times  In the past five years, the bodies of dozens of young Chechen women have been found dumped in woods, abandoned in alleys and left along roads in the capital, Grozny, and neighboring villages.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov publicly announced that the dead women had “loose morals” and were rightfully shot by male relatives. He went on to describe women as the property of their husbands, and said their main role is to bear children.

“If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them should be killed,” said Mr. Kadyrov, who often has stated his goal of making Chechnya “more Islamic than the Islamists.”

In today’s Chechnya, alcohol is all but banned, Islamic dress codes are enforced and polygamous marriages are supported by the government.

Some observers say Mr. Kadyrov’s attempt to impose Islamic law violates the Russian Constitution, which guarantees equal rights for women and a separation of church and state.

“We are a traditional, conservative society, but the government has gone overboard,” said Lipkhan Bazaeva, head of the Women’s Dignity Center, a nongovernmental organization promoting women’s rights in Grozny. “They are declaring unacceptable limits on women — as an individual, she has no rights even if her husband beats her, despite Russian laws.”

Though observers agree that honor killings are on the rise in Chechnya, the issue remains largely taboo among locals — making official statistics hard to come by.

“You hear about these cases almost every day,” said a local human rights defender, who asked that her name not be used out of fear for her safety. “It is hard for me to investigate this topic, yet I worked on it with [human rights activist] Natasha [Estemirova] for a while. But, I can’t anymore. I am too scared now. I’ve almost given up, really.”

Estemirova, who angered Chechen authorities with reports of torture, abductions and extrajudicial killings, was found in the woods in 2009 in the neighboring region of Ingushetia with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. Her killer or killers have not been found.

Few dare to openly challenge Mr. Kadyrov’s rule. But activists say some young Muslim women do so surreptitiously, placing themselves in a constant tug of war between two value systems.

Isn’t this familiar looking Koranimal with Kadyrov from Dearbornistan? The Association for Threatened Peoples (APM) criticises the decision of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin to nominate the current Prime Minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov as transitional president of the Chechen Republic. For APM, Kadyrov “should be brought before an international court and not receive a governmental assignation.” According to research conducted by the human rights organisation, Kadyrov and his personal militia are directly responsible for a large number of homicides, rapes and kidnappings of Chechen civilians, among which, many children. Kadyrov has set up various illegal prisons in which whoever is suspected of belonging to Chechen liberation movements disappears and undergoes torture. Under the regime of Kadyrov the number of disappearance of relatives of combatants and presumed combatants has skyrocketed – thus reports the communiqué of the APM. H/T Sheikyermami

Milana, a ninth-grader in Grozny, wears thick eyeliner, dons tight miniskirts, smokes cigarettes and dates boys: all things a proper Muslim girl is forbidden to do in Chechnya. She said she has heard it from her father countless times: A Chechen girl who loses her virginity before marriage is a prostitute, and Allah will punish her.

In this small Chechen village, residents talk about the teenage girl who was killed in early February after she spent a night at her boyfriend’s house. The 16-year-old’s body was wrapped in a traditional rug and returned to her mother’s house. Her relatives are suspected of killing her in the name of family honor.

SWEDEN: Horrific gang rape of 29-year-old white mother of two by Muslim asylum seekers in Swedish refugee camp

Seven-hour non-stop gang rape by 12 Afghan MUSLIM refugees was the ‘most gruesome rape marathon in Sweden’s history,’ say prosecutors. The rape was oral, anal, and vaginal, with up to three rapists in her at the same time. Only 7 of the 12 rapists were convicted.

The other Muslim onlookers were clapping and cheering and calling the woman a “whore” and a “slut,” how Muslim men describe unveiled women. The victim is now confined to a wheelchair, suffering severe mental distress. The Swedish media concealed the ethnicity of the perpetrators and quickly removed the story. Swedish socialists say it would be “racist” to deport the rapists. No wonder, Sweden is now considered the rape capital of the world.

H/T Martin

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MAURITANIA: Muslims riot after human rights group burns Islamic books (like the quran) that promote slavery

President promises to invoke sharia law to punish book burners even though slavery was outlawed there in 2007. Then again, Muslims don’t have to obey man-made law. Where Islam rules, slavery never dies.

NO! Toronto Islamic school should NOT apologize for its anti-semitic curriculum that equates Jews with Nazis

Canada should apologize to its Jews and Christians for allowing a death cult like Islam, posing as a religion, to spread hatred, bigotry, and misogyny in a land of freedom and religious tolerance. Islam must be de-classified as a legitimate religion and the practice of it outlawed in every non-Muslim country on earth.

Qur’an 8:59

“The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them.”

National Post  The East End Madrassah acknowledged in a press release that passages of its educational texts that referred to “crafty” and “treacherous Jews” and contrasted Islam with “the Jews and the Nazis” were a mistake.

“We unreservedly apologize to the Jewish community for the unintentional offence that the item has caused,” the school responded in a statement. “Our team of scholars has already undertaken to review all texts and material being used in the curriculum to ensure that our teachings are conveying the right message.”

In the years up to and during World War II, the leader of the Muslim world and Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, embraced Hitler and the Nazis. Tens of thousands of Muslims served with Waffen-SS military units, and the Nazis promised Jerusalem and the murder of all Jews in the Middle East upon the Nazi victory. The Nazis even set up an SS school for Mullahs in Dresden.

Meanwhile, Jewish groups said they were not satisfied with the school’s response, and neither was Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak. “It’s not a matter of reviewing materials,” he said. “This is hatred. This is poison. This type of material has no place in our classrooms, no place in the province.”

At a Toronto synagogue a few months ago, the scrawled “Islam will rule” was accompanied with a swastika. Islamic hate during Ramadan

Qur’an 33:26

“Allah made the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you killed some and made many captive. And He made you inherit their lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you had not traversed before.”

The East End Madrassah rents space every Sunday in a high school owned by the Toronto District School Board. The madrassa said in a statement it had operated for almost 40 years and had taught thousands of Muslim students.

“Our curriculum is not intended to promote hatred towards any individual or group of people, rather the children are taught to respect and value other faiths, beliefs and to uphold Canada’s basic values of decency and tolerance,” it said.

Qur’an:47:4

“So, when you clash with the unbelieving Infidels, smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making them captives. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.”

The school is one of three affiliated with the Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri Jamaat, an Islamic centre that once demanded the Ontario government apologize for hosting Salman Rushdie, the British author condemned to death by Iran over his book The Satanic Verses.

More recently, the centre’s resident scholar complained in a sermon posted online that the West was “hyping the whole world up” against Iran over its nuclear program, adding, “this is all because of this fellow sitting in the Middle East, Israel.”

Qur’an 5:51

“Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends.”

From: Blazing Cat Fur: The East End Madrasah and the Centre Madrasah are affiliated with the David Duke loving Islamonazis of CASMO the favoured Muslims of Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Barbara Hall and Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal Party.

This is the Level 8 Dinyat Text at Toronto’s East End Madrasah.:
End of Jewish Plots and Treacheries 

“Ever since the Prophet’s entry into Madina, the treacherous Jews had vehemently opposed him and his Islamic call, evoking memories of their hostility to the previous Prophet, Jesus Christ (a), half a millennium ago. The crafty Jews entered into an alliance with the polytheist Quraish in a bid to stamp out Islam. They conspired to kill Prophet Muhammad [s] despite the fact that he was lenient towards them and had treated them kindly, hoping to convince them of Islam’s truth.”

ABROGATION: A guaranteed discussion-killer for anyone who tries to tell you that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’

BOOKMARK THIS VIDEO. When a Muslim or Leftie apologist starts quoting peaceful passages from the quran, pull out this this video or memorize its content and you immediately invalidate any argument about Islam being just like Christianity or Judaism.

Pat Condell sticks it to ‘gay’ Saudi Arabia

When the world no longer needs your oil, and you go back to producing your second largest export – nothing – don’t come crying to us.

Iran is locking up people’s pet dogs because they were walking them in public

Under Islam, dogs are considered filthy. The Iranian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals (SPCA) says that 20 pet dogs were  being walked by their owners in a public park last week when security forces took the canines away and transferred them to what appears to be a detention center.

MOHABAT NEWS (H/T John)  The SPCA has posted on its website a video of the arrested dogs inside a cage. The group warns that the dogs are being kept in “unhygienic and difficult conditions” and that their owners have not been yet able to secure their release.

Reza Javalchi, the spokesman of the SPCA, said, ”Unfortunately, because these dogs are being kept together, they often become sick and they’re not being given enough food. There have been some cases where some of the dogs have died during their detention.”

The dogs will likely be kept in the detention center for a while and then released if their owners sign a written document promising not to walk their dogs in public. But every day in confinement is dangerous for the animals, Javalchi says.

This isn’t the first time that security forces have cracked down on dogs and their owners in the Islamic republic, where dog ownership has always been a sensitive issue. In 2007, a number of dogs in the Iranian capital ended up in a “dog prison” after police forces took them away from their owners who were walking them in the streets.

Dogs are considered dirty by Iranian clerics, who have denounced dog ownership as morally corrupt. In recent years, police officials have issued warnings against dog owners. Dog owners and their pets have been harassed, detained, and forced to pay fines. That hasn’t stopped Iranians in Tehran and other big cities from keeping dogs as pets, however.

Javalchi says there are no legal prohibitions in Iranian law against it.

One woman who owns a small terrier told RFE/RL that dog ownership is becoming increasingly difficult in Iran. ”It’s ridiculous,” she said. “Instead of solving people’s economic problems, the [authorities] harass us for having dogs.”

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Photo shows what we’ve accomplished in Afghanistan after 10 years

Certainly not the desired result of the best of America’s courageous young men and women who gave so many lives and limbs, not to mention the blood and sweat of all those who toiled at trying to give the Afghans schools, hospitals, homes, jobs, and better lives.

Covered in blood amid a tangled heap of dead mothers and children, 12-year-old Tarana Akbari punctuates the chaotic aftermath of a suicide attack with a scream for help.

Daily Mail  When it appeared on the front page of the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times on December 7 2011, this image brought home the bloody reality of a war that has devastated the lives of ordinary people across Afghanistan.

Today it was honoured with a Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest accolade. It was taken by Massoud Hossaini who happened to be covering a Shiite religious ceremony at a shrine in Kabul for Agence France-Presse when the bomb ripped through the crowd. Sixty-three people were killed.

It isn’t just that Muslims are unfriendly, it’s that Islam commands them to be rude to the filthy kuffar (disbelievers)

A Muslim will never greet a (kafir) first. Instead, he will try to get you to greet him first in the belief that in doing so, you have taken a step closer toward the religion of the paedophile prophet Mohammed.

 Qur’an 9:5

“When the sacred forbidden months for fighting are past, fight and kill the disbelievers (kuffar) wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them, and lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”

Islamic North Sudan declares war on Christian Black South Sudan. Israel arming South.

President Omar al-Bashir, known as the ‘Butcher of Sudan’ for his massive slaughter of Sudanize citizens has threatened to overthrow newly independent South Sudan’s “insect” government.

AFP  “Our main target from today is to liberate South Sudan’s citizens from the SPLM (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement),” Bashir said, adding that the southern regime cannot be called a “movement”.

“We call it an insect… trying to destroy Sudan, and our main target from today is to eliminate this insect completely.”

He spoke at a rally in support of troops who hope to reclaim Sudan’s most important oil field, Heglig, from South Sudanese troops who seized it eight days ago.

“In a few hours you are going to listen to good news from your brothers in Heglig,” he told about 3,000 youths, some of them dressed in military gear. ”Heglig will not be the end. The end will be in Juba,” the South’s capital, said Bashir, whose audience sang songs about jihad, or holy war.

The United Nations, the United States and the European Union have criticised the South’s occupation of the oil field, equally denouncing Sudanese air strikes against the South.

There are widespread fears that the fighting will spread. It is already the worst since South Sudan won independence in July after a 1983-2005 civil war which killed two million people.

In the meantime,  jets sent by unnamed Israeli organizations landing daily at South Sudan airport, unloading weapons meant for army. And the Israeli Air Force has been carrying out surgical bombing raids on Muslim infiltrators from the North.

YNET NEWS  According to the report, jets have been landing at a Sudan airport at 3 am every day unloading missiles, military equipment and African mercenaries. The paper did not name the organizations behind the alleged deliveries, which, according to the report, began earlier this week.

Western nations fear the clashes could reignite a full-blown war between the mainly Muslim north and the Christian and animist South, with rival claims on oil resources a key part of the conflict.

Last week Sudan bombed oil fields in South Sudan a day after skirmishes at a border town led Khartoum to cancel President Omer Hassan al-Bashir’s scheduled visit to South Sudan for a meeting with President Salva Kiir.

In December 2011 Al-Intiba reported that Israeli aircraft attacked vehicles in South Sudan. The report speculated that the targeted vehicles had been serving arms smugglers. The newspaper claimed that the first of two attacks was carried out on December 15. The IAF allegedly bombed two land cruiser vehicles, killing four passengers. The second attack was reportedly carried out on December 18. A car had been bombed and all its passengers killed. It was also reported that an Israeli apache helicopter landed in an area where South Sudanese army radar stations are located.

Israel is providing much needed economic support and training to the South Sudanese

Israel considers sending police force into Southern Sudan.

YNET NEWS  Israel is considering sending a police force to South Sudan to assist the UN, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported Thursday.

The UN has approached Israel (Oh, NOW they want Israel’s help? I thought Israel was an ‘apartheid’ state according to the UN)  on the matter, and on Wednesday Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met Robert Orr, a top aide for UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki-moon, and told him that Israel was considering the possibility of sending 14 police officers to the African country.

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Saudi Arabia bans ‘gays and tomboys’ from schools and universities

In its fight against the spread of what they call a ‘phenomenon,’ the Wahabist Muslim Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will no longer allow gays and tom-boys to attend government schools and universities.

Hey, at least they don’t hang them. Or do they?

HOW CAN THEY TELL?

EMIRATES  The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most feared law enforcement authority in the oil-rich country, has been asked to enforce the new orders, Sharq Arabic language daily said.

“Instructions have been issued to all public schools and universities to ban the entry of gays and tom boys and to intensify their efforts to fight this phenomenon, which has been promoted by some websites,” it said.

The paper did not make clear who issued those instructions but said gay and tom boy students can go back to schools and universities if they prove they have been corrected and have stopped such practices.

It said high-level orders have been issued to the Commission to immediately enforce the new rules and to step up efforts to combat this phenomenon and other “unacceptable behavior” in public places.

WISCONSIN: Walid Shoebat, ex-PLO terrorist and convert to Christianity, draws a big crowd

With renowned terrorism expert, Walid Shoebat, as the keynote speaker, hundreds of people jammed the Waukesha Expo Center Saturday night to hear the message that Islam is a growing threat to law and peace in the United States.

Sussex Patch  The rally was an especially strong draw for Brookfield residents who oppose a mosque proposed for the city by the Islamic Society of Milwaukee.

A FULL HOUSE FOR WALID

Shoebat, a well-known ex-PLO terrorist who fought against Israel, has been confronted about his past by media outlets like CNN, who reported they could find no evidence to support his background story. But he stood by his case Saturday, saying the media were the real frauds.

The video below refutes that hatchet job that CNN (in cooperation with Hamas-linked CAIR) recently did on Shoebat:

“Heck, sometimes even FOX News doesn’t even like what I have to say, because I say Islam is not a peace-loving religion,” Shoebat told the crowd.

Brookfield residents Chuck and Sharon Bloom left the rally Saturday with a plastic bag full of books sold by VCY America, a Christian radio station that sponsored the event. The couple was hoping to learn more about Islam and to build a case against the proposed mosque.

“More than just me and my wife, the community needs to be informed,” Chuck Bloom said. “I think it’s important to find out exactly what questions we need to ask to make sure there’s no sharia law, etcetera.”

Sharia law was the buzz phrase of the evening, especially surrounding the mosque. Shoebat said while he supports freedom of religion, Islam as an institution stretches beyond religious practice with sharia law. Sharia guides all aspects of Muslim life including daily routines, familial and religious obligations, and financial dealings, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.

“It’s not the mosque I have a problem with,” Shoebat said, making no specific reference to the Brookfield proposal. “It’s, where is the funding coming from, and will the mosque sign and swear that they will never be sharia?“

Brookfield aldermen were invited to the event and had reserved seats in the front row, but the seats were quickly filled by other attendees when it appeared they did not show up.

Brookfield Mayor Steven Ponto and Alderman Scott Berg have both previously stated they do not think the religion of Islam should be considered in deciding whether to grant the Islamic Society of Milwaukee the permit they need to build their proposed mosque for land northeast of the intersection of Calhoun Road and North Avenue.

But Shoebat’s comments were echoed by the audience as the filed out of the Expo Center. David Ball, a pastor from New Berlin, said he came “to find out if the message about what Islam really is is getting out properly.” ”I hold freedom of religion very dear, but Islam is not just a religion; it is also a state government system, completely contrary to our system of government,” Ball said. “Our Constitution should not be subverted to sharia law.”

Brookfield resident Robin Couillard said she found out about the proposed mosque for the first time at the event. She said she was especially concerned about Shoebat’s remark that a mosque is like an embassy for Islam and sharia law.

“I’m just shocked that this is being proposed for Brookfield,” she said. “I’m concerned about Islam overtaking our community, and our country, and the world.”

Organizers with the Islamic Society of Milwaukee have previously defended their proposal — and their religion — to opposition that surfaced at a meeting in March.

An informed public is a Muslim’s worst nightmare. Mosque officials were shocked at what they called ‘hostile questioning’ about Islamic ideology.

Opposition to the proposed Islamic Center is serious. Brookfield residents raised questions not just about a proposed mosque in the area, but about the faith and ideology of those who plan to use it. ”We’re not fighting against a religion, what we’re fighting against is a tyrannical ideology,” said Janet Spiewak of the conservative Eagle Forum, which hosted the discussion. READ MORE

ALGERIA: Father kills teenage daughter for having photos of movie stars on her cell phone

An Algerian man used a kitchen knife to slaughter his 16-year-old daughter after discovering pictures of American and Turkish actors in her mobile phone.

EMIRATE via trop  The man, identified as B. Majeed, sent his second wife and her children to her family so he could be left alone with his teen age daughter, Lidya.

“After finding photographs of some American and Turkish actors in her mobile phone, the father decided to kill his daughter and made plans for the murder,” the Algerian Arabic language daily Al Nahar said.

“When he was alone with her at home, he grabbed her and put the knife on her neck…he then slaughtered her like a sheep.” (As a good Muslim, he was careful to kill her the halal way)

The culture of racism against black domestic help in Lebanon (and the rest of the Arab Muslim world)

A video showing a young Ethiopian maid being dragged by the hair, beaten and forced into a car by several Lebanese men in a busy Beirut street was followed by the maid committing suicide by hanging a few days later.

OBSERVERS.france24 (H/T SusanK)   The scene, captured by a cell phone camera, occurred in front of the Ethiopian consulate in Beirut. The maid, named Alem Dechasa, is lying on the ground, crying and pleading in Ethiopian: “I don’t want to go there!” An onlooker can be heard attempting to stop the man beating her: “Stop it, what’s your problem? Let her go back to the consulate.” But a few moments later, another man grabs Dechasa’s collar and drags her on the ground, then tries to force her into a car. She resists, and one of the men violently grabs her hair – at which point the video cuts. 

The main perpetrator of the violent acts in the video, identified by the licence plate of his car, is Ali Mahfouz, the owner of a maid service agency that employs many migrant workers. He claims that he had taken her to her consulate for her to be sent her back to her country, which she categorically refused.

 Ethiopian consular officials said that they found Dechasa too unstable to be sent back to Ethiopia, and had advised Mahfouz to take her to a psychiatric hospital in the city. After they left, the consular officials said they heard screams and shouts coming from the street and called the police. According to Mahfouz, he was trying to get Dechasa into a car to drive her to the airport when the police interfered and took her to the Deir al-Salib psychiatric ward.

She committed suicide there on March 14 by strangling herself with a sheet.
Ali Latifa Fakhri a member of the Lebanese Anti-Racism movement in Beirut, says, “Ali Mahfouz brought Dechasa to the consulate while she was in a crazy frenzy. He then justified himself by saying that she had tried to commit suicide several times and he had been forced to switch her to another house. But the question is obviously not whether or not the girl had mental problems. Violence like this can in no case be justified. It’s also worth asking whether Dechasa became unstable following the treatment she underwent at the hands of her employers. 

Personally, I consider businesses like Mahfouz’s little more than human trafficking. These recruiters go to Ethiopia, Sri Lanka or the Philippines to convince poor women to work in Lebanon. They promise good wages, days off, freedom of religion, etc… But once in Lebanon, they often find themselves working 18 hours a day with no rest, irregular pay, and limited freedom. Sometimes, their passport is confiscated and they can’t go anywhere without their employer’s permission. They’re worse than second-class citizens, they’re like slaves. [Every year, there are reports of several thousand maids being physically or sexually abused by their employers in Lebanon.]

“The simple fact that such blatant violence took place in front of the woman’s consulate is proof that nothing stops employers.” The system completely excludes these employees from the rights of other Lebanese workers: they have practically no legal protection.

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