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DANIEL GREENFIELD” MALDIVES MUSLIMS FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO FLOG

Maldives Muslims Fight for the Right to Flog Posted By Daniel Greenfield

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/07/maldives-muslims-fight-for-the-right-to-flog/

When the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay visited the Maldives, she wasn’t expecting to make much of a splash there. Officially the Republic of Maldives is a Constitutional democracy with open elections that any Muslim can vote in (not being a Muslim happens to be against the law in the Maldives). Unofficially it’s a paranoid theocracy based on Sharia law where an Indian teacher who drew a compass had to be hurriedly evacuated after students mistook it for a cross.

The United Nations Human Rights apparatus generally tries to avoid looking too closely at human rights in Muslim countries because it knows exactly what it will find. The Maldives is a case in point. So when Navi Pillay stopped by the Maldives she followed the formula to the letter, praising the human rights progress in the Maldives and after a few minutes of that, briefly suggested that perhaps they should stop flogging women accused of premarital sex.

ANDREW BOSTOM: QARADAWI’S ODIOUS VISION

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/28504 Qaradawi’s Odious VisionThe “Arab Spring” and the treason of the intellectuals Feb. 18, 2011, marked the triumphal return to Cairo of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “spiritual guide,” Yusuf al-Qaradawi, after years of exile. His public reemergence in Egypt was sanctioned by the nation’s provisional military rulers. Qaradawi’s own words, as well as the images and […]

LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SCOUNDRELS…NORWAY BLAMES RAPES ON ISRAEL

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/12/land-of-midnight-sons-norwegian.html

It seems that antisemitism is so ingrained in the psyche of Norway’s leftwing political elite, that they twist into propaganda against Israel a rape epidemic in their country by Muslim immigrants from benighted countries who believe that Norwegian women, going freely about their business and dressed how they like, are fair game. (No pun intended.)

Back in July, when this epidemic first came to light, it was reported that:

‘Yehuda Bello, an Israeli blogger who is well-acquainted with Norwegian culture, noted the report and claimed that Norwegians are a culture that suffers from “extreme boredom” due to the presence of huge oil reserves, and are thus inordinately interested in multiculturalism and assorted “human rights” campaigns.

They are also traditionally anti-Semitic, he believes. As a result their politicians and press are focused on Israel’s actions in Shechem (Nablus) and Hevron and choose to ignore Muslim misdeeds – be they in Iran, Syria, or in Norway itself.

Despite this, he reports, the Muslim rape campaign has become so terrible that even Norwegians have begun to recognize the reality around them, and in recent months there have been protests where the slogan was “Muslims out!”’.

Now, it’s further reported, Yehuda Bello

‘who understands Norwegian and has Norwegian contacts, reports that from January to late October, 48 rapes were confirmed to have been carried out in Oslo alone, 45 of them by Muslims. In the first six months of 2011, 208 Norwegian women complained of rape and attempted rape in Oslo alone. In all of Norway, 929 rapes and attempted aggravated rapes were reported since the beginning of the year, he adds.

Bello notes that Norway is “the most advanced country in the world in granting rights to women.” However, he adds, the “politically correct rot” prevents the rape wave by Muslims from being reported. “They are called ‘non-western,’ ‘dark skinned,’ ‘Middle Eastern’ et cetera.

After a police report in Oslo said that Muslims were raping Norwegian women out of a religious conviction that this was the proper thing to do, a stormy public debate erupted, reports Bello, and “the government ministers, most of them avowed anti-Semites, claimed that the report and its publication serve Israel and its policy of occupation.”

Norway’s justice minister defended the police report but also said that “Israel must be glad to hear about it.”

Bello says women do not dare venture out of their homes after dark in many parts of Norway and that many have even dyed their hair black, out of the conviction that blond hair is more alluring to the rapists. Some carry tear gas, although this is against the law.’

MELANIE PHILLIPS: THE EARTHQUAKE IN THE ARAB AND ISLAMIC WORLD

http://melaniephillips.com/the-earthquake-in-the-arab-and-islamic-world Is Foreign Secretary William Hague still hymning the brave new dawn of democracy in Egypt? The Daily Telegraph reported this morning: ‘To the dismay of the secular liberal forces behind February’s overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, Islamist parties dominated the first phase of the Egyptian election, according to provisional results. ‘The Brotherhood’s Freedom and […]

BOB OWENS: AND NOW GUNWALKER’S COUSIN “MONEYWALKER”

Gunwalker’s Cousin: ‘Moneywalker’? Posted By Bob Owens URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/blog/gunwalkers-cousin-moneywalker/   Operation Fast and Furious and other alleged gunwalking operations run out of the Department of Justice have provided thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels, which have been traced to the murders of hundreds of Mexican nationals and two U.S. federal agents. It […]

ROGER SIMON: OBAMA TO IRAN…”HEY DUDES…ENJOY YOUR NUKES”

URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/12/06/obama-to-iran-enjoy-your-nukes/

Barack Obama and his minions — Suha-bussing [1] Hillary Clinton who disses Israel [2] every chance she gets and Ambassador Howard Gutman [3] who thinks Islamic anti-Semitism began at a Tel Aviv felafel shop a week ago Thursday (he should read Andrew Bostom [4]) — love to put pressure on our supposed ally… but on Iran’s despicable mullahs not so much.

So it should be no surprise that our president is pushing back on last week’s Senate vote for stronger sanctions on Iran. Via Reuters [5]:

The Obama administration is urging US lawmakers to soften proposed sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank, Senator Mark Kirk said on Tuesday.

Kirk, a Republican, is the co-author along with Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of a proposal to penalize foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran’s central bank, the main conduit for its oil revenues.

The Senate approved the proposal last week 100-0 despite lobbying against it by Obama administration officials, who argued that threatening US allies might not be the best way to get cooperation in action against Iran. [bold mine]

TUNISIA’S RELIGIOUS POLICE “IS THIS THE FATE OF TUNISIA?” ANNA MAHJAR BARDUCCI

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2644/tunisia-religious-police

A”committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice” has been launched in Tunisia. It is not an official committee, but it is supported by Salafist groups there. Political parties are remaining astonishingly idle, totally incompetent to stop a violent minority that it is threatening personal liberties. The Tunisian civil society is active against the committee, but does not have the political instruments to take action against this newly formed organization.

These self-appointed custodians of Islamic virtues are aggressively intervening in public life: They occupy mosques and Quranic schools, and are trying to impose on them imams with Salafist views. They are verbally and physically aggressive towards women who do not abide by their code of dress, they also physically and psychologically assault intellectuals and film makers.

Lately, they have come under the spotlight after they decided to forbid Professor Ikbal Gharbi, appointed by the government to the post of director of the religious radio station Zitouna FM, to enter her office. The reason, according to them, was that Prof. Gharbi had no religious background, despite her being an eminent professor of at the Theological Zitouna University in Tunis. In reality, this committee objects to a woman being in charge of a religious radio station, and for Prof. Gharbi being known as a reformist with a modernist interpretation of the Quran.

ROBIN SHEPHERD: HUGE SCALE OF HONOUR ATTACKS IN BRITAIN FAILS TO MENTION THE WORD “ISLAM”

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/699/bbc_reveals_huge_scale_of_honour_attacks_in_britain_fails_to_mention_the_word_islam_
BBC reveals huge scale of honour attacks in Britain,
fails to mention the word “Islam”

At least 2,823 people, mainly vulnerable young women, were brutalised in Britain last year by members of their family. But BBC report censors out the key information.

But what line do they take?

All right. I’m not going to make this difficult. The families giving the orders, as well as the victims, are in all, or almost all, cases Muslim. Surprised? No, of course you’re not. Honour attacks ranging in brutality from beatings to murder are commonplace in many parts of the Muslim world.

Since Britain, like many other European countries, has imported sizeable Muslim communities, which are to a significant degree unassimilated, the cultural practices of the old country have survived the transition to the new.

Finally, the figure of 2,823 attacks is almost certainly a gross under-estimate since, apart from anything else, it is drawn from only 39 of 52 UK police forces.

Got it? In just over 150 words (including title and summary) you now know all the basic information, and as intelligent, informed citizens you can have a discussion on what to do about it. That’s what journalism is for.

Propaganda, on the other hand, is intended for something else. It is designed to present a politically charged narrative held to with a fanaticism that will allow no mention of facts that contradict it. It is thus deliberately intended to lower the quality of the discussion by erasing key pieces of information.

Enter the BBC, which reported on the matter in a lengthy, 700-plus word article and failed to mention the words “Muslim”, “Islamic” or “Islam” even once.

As I write this I am flicking back to the story itself so I can double check using the Find function. Could I be mistaken?

Here goes: “Islamic”? “No Matches”. “Muslim”? “No Matches”. “Islam”? “No Matches”.

This is how societies go down: when matters of the profoundest significance to their character, and potentially their very existence, have been rendered undiscussable by the people that set the terms of public debate.

LOOKING AWAY FROM HATE AT CAL STATE UNIVERSITY: BRUCE KESLER

http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/18726-Looking-Away-From-Hate-At-California-State-University.html

Looking Away From Hate At California State University

Does a math professor at California State University, Northridge, have the right to use the university’s web server, the url being the university’s, to post a hate page against Israel and Jews?
The webpage says, “Israel is the most racist state in the world at this time,” Israel engages in “ethnic cleansing”, says “No” to the question “But aren’t Palestinians equally responsible for the violence?”, posts links to other similar charges from the usual assortment of Israel-haters, and calls for a boycott of Israel.
According to the California State University’s legal counsel, “The California State University is committed to protect against the misuse of its name.” He continues on “Misuse of the CSU name”, “It is inappropriate to use the CSU name without the written permission of the institution for any purpose, including:…Advertising any meeting or activity that has the purpose of supporting or opposing any strike, lockout, boycott, or political, religious, sociological or economic activity…”
Yet, according to the Cal State Northridge president, retiring this month, a review of the professor’s webpage, spurred by many letters of complaint, “raised many difficult issues, it found no such violations. This conclusion was affirmed by CSU legal counsel.” She goes on to say, “the University does uphold and preserve the principles of academic freedom—and Professor Klein’s right to express his views. Our review affirmed that this right extends to the use of an individual’s web pages, as part of the University website, as a vehicle for expression.”

DR. SYD COHEN “THE FLYING RABBI” OF WW2 HAS DIED AT AGE 90

Dr. Syd Cohen, dubbed ‘Flying Rabbi’ of WWII passes away at the age of 90. ‘His name will forever remain in the air force pantheon,’ say colleagues

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4157126,00.html

Aviel MagneziThe man who said to tell “the damn Nazis that they were fighting a Jew” when he was in the middle of a dog fight with German airplanes during WWII has died.

Dr. Sydney (Syd) Cohen who received the nickname the “Flying Rabbi of World War II” and who later became one of the founders of the Israeli Air Force’s first combat squadron, passed away on Sunday. He was 90-years-old. Cohen dies at his home in Ramat HaSharon.

“His name will forever remain in the air force pantheon,” his former air force colleagues said.