http://www.examiner.com/article/saudi-imam-rapes-tortures-5-yr-old-daughter-because-he-doubted-her-virginity In line with Sharia’a Law, a father cannot be executed for the slaying of either his wife or any of his children. The $50,000 blood money presented to the girl’s mother is half the amount if the murdered child were a boy. A popular Saudi Arabian television preacher was found guilty of murdering his […]
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/08/265035.html”
Mohamemd al-Arifi, an influential Saudi religious scholar and professor at King Saud University, has thrown a bombshell by claiming that al-Qaeda “does not tolerate bloodshed” and that it was victimized by attributing to it a bad ideology.
During a recent television interview, he went as far as claiming that the late Oussama Bin Laden (who he referred to as “Sheikh Oussama” and prayed for his soul to be blessed) was a victim of wide-level character assassination.
Arifi, known for his often controversial statements and fatwas such as the one calling for daughters not to wear revealing clothes in the presence of their fathers, was answering questions on the Qatari state-owned Al Jazeera television this week about the French intervention in Mali.
While pointing out that “the issue in Mali” was blown out of proportion, Arifi said some people attribute to al-Qaeda many opinions and thoughts which the group does not hold.
“These beliefs in fact are not correct. Al-Qaeda members do not tolerate accusing other Muslims of apostasy and they do not tolerate bloodshed. I am not part of al-Qaeda and I do not adopt their thinking, but Allah says: ‘And when you testify, be just,’” Arifi said.
He said that from his meeting with al-Qaeda members who went through the kingdom’s terrorist rehabilitation program, he discovered that they did not hold opinions and thoughts often attributed to al-Qaeda.
“Even al-Qaeda leader Sheikh Oussama Bin Laden, may his soul rest in peace, did not adopt many of the thoughts that are attributed to him today,” Arfif explained.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
2013.02.08 (Kalaya, Pakistan) – Muslim fundamentalists bomb marketplace selling videos and CD’s, killing at least sixteen.
2013.02.08 (Shomali, Iraq) – Fourteen Iraqis at a bus stop are dismantled by Islamic State of Iraq bombers.
2013.02.08 (Baghdad, Iraq) – Holy Warriors detonate two car bombs at an animal market popular with Shias, slaughtering at least seventeen.
2013.02.08 (Kano, Nigeria) – Islamists gun down nine female polio vaccination workers in two attacks after clerics accuse the program of being a conspiracy against Muslim children.
2013.02.07 (Garissa, Kenya) – Islamists shoot two Christian pastors, killing one.
2013.02.07 (Kishindih, Afghanistan) – The Taliban take out four locals with a roadside bomb.
* Sources for individual incidents
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21381773
POLIO IS NOW ENDEMIC IN NIGERIA…RSK
Nine female polio vaccinators have been killed in two shootings at health centres in northern Nigeria, police have told the BBC.
In the first attack in Kano the polio vaccinators were shot dead by gunmen who drove up on a motor tricycle.
Thirty minutes later gunmen targeted a clinic outside Kano city as the vaccinators prepared to start work.
Some Nigerian Muslim leaders have previously opposed polio vaccinations, claiming they could cause infertility.
On Thursday, a controversial Islamic cleric spoke out against the polio vaccination campaign, telling people that new cases of polio were caused by contaminated medicine.
Such opposition is a major reason why Nigeria is one of just three countries where polio is still endemic.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2672/argentine_foreign_minister_israel_encourages_anti_semitism
HIS FATHER WAS JACOBO TIMERMAN THE PUBLISHER WHO WAS UNDER HOUSE ARREST FOR CONFRONTING THE ATROCITIES OF ARGENTINA’S “DIRTY WAR.” JEWISH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS LOBBIED FOR HIS RELEASE AND HE RELOCATED TO ISRAEL IN 1979 WHERE HE WASTED NO TIME IN BASHING ISRAEL’S ROLE IN THE 1982 LEBANON WAR AND BECAME A VOCAL CRITIC ACCUSING SHARON OF ATROCITIES IN LEBANON. IN 1984 HE RETURNED TO ARGENTINA WHERE HE DIED IN 1999. ANOTHER SON DANIEL LIVES IN ISRAEL….RSK
Hector Timerman has caused a fresh diplomatic problems for his country by claiming Israel “encourages anti-Semitism”.
ector Timerman, the hypocritical Argentinian foreign minister who earlier this week claimed the UK should heed UN calls for talks over the Falklands, has caused a fresh diplomatic problems for his country by claiming Israel “encourages anti-Semitism”.
The statement was apparently made during a “difficult and unpleasant” meeting with Israel’s ambassador to Argentina, in which the issue of the 1994 Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) bombing was raised.
Iran and Argentina have recently been co-operating in a fresh investigation into the bombings, which critics have claimed is Iran’s attempt to shift blame away from its proxy, Hezbollah, over the atrocity which killed 85 people and injured around 300.
Timerman is reported to have remarked that Israel should stay out of Argentina’s business, even though, hypocritcally, Iran seems to have a large stake in the matter. The foreign minister apparently stated that Israel’s interest in the bombing “encourages anti-Semitism” by implying Jewish Argentinians have split loyalties – an anti-Semitic trope in itself.
Iran and Argentina have agreed to create a “truth commission” to investigate the 1994 bombing of AMIA, the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.
“Israel has no right to demand explanations; we’re a sovereign state,” Timerman reportedly told Shavit. “Israel doesn’t speak in the name of the Jewish people and doesn’t represent it. Jews who wanted or want to live in Israel moved there, and they are its citizens; those who live in Argentina are Argentine citizens. The attack was against Argentina, and Israel’s desire to be involved in the issue only encourages anti-Semitism from those who accuse Jews of dual loyalty.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/339973
Further to yesterday’s post, Bruce Bawer has a very good report on the attempted assassination of my friend Lars Hedegaard in Copenhagen:
Hedegaard opened the door and was handed a package by the guy, who then drew a pistol and shot at him. Miraculously, the gunman missed – just barely. While he fumbled with his weapon, trying to get off another shot, Lars acted fast, striking his assailant, who dropped the gun. Lars tried to shut the door, but the perpetrator stuck his foot in and managed to push it open again and to pick up his pistol. The two men struggled, and the goon finally took it on the lam.
He was last seen at the Copenhagen Zoo, which seems appropriate. We laugh at the ineptitude of these bozo jihadists, but, as the IRA taunted Mrs. Thatcher after the Brighton bombing, they only have to be lucky once; you have to be lucky every time. This time Lars was lucky. That first shot whistled past his ear — and then a spry septuagenarian clobbered “a man around 25 with a foreign background” with the phony package he’d been handed, and tenaciously fought back.
Last summer, over in Europe, I had the privilege of presenting Lars with a Defender of Freedom Award for his brave words. Yesterday morning, he was called on to defend freedom more directly. Had he died, it would have been a grievous loss. Even so, because of the folly and delusion of the European establishment, it was a close call — and not the last.
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http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ EVOLUTION, IT’S NOT JUST FOR FISH The Illegal Alien Amnesty (it’s not amnesty, you pay a fine!) was sold as a comprehensive immigration reform plan. Then we found out that the enforcement part of the plan is going to be watered down further and it’s basically another illegal alien amnesty, just like the one […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ SO GOD MADE A DEMOCRAT God looked down on Washington D.C. and said “I need someone who will steal morning, noon and night. Who will steal from the rich to give to the poor and steal from the poor to give to the rich and fool them all and keep all the loot.” So […]
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/02/07/Dereliction-of-Duty-Obama-Did-Nothing-to-Save-American-Lives-in-Benghazi–and-Lied-About-It
Nothing. That is what President Barack Obama did on the night of September 11, 2012, as terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and killed four Americans, among them Ambassador Christopher Stevens. President Obama’s inaction was revealed in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday by outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey.
Under direct questioning by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Panetta admitted that he had no communication with President Obama after their “pre-scheduled” meeting at 5:00 p.m. EDT. The attack on the consulate had already been under way for 90 minutes at that time. Neither the president nor anyone else from the White House called afterwards to check what was happening; the Commander-in-Chief had left it “up to us,” said Panetta.
Panetta’s testimony directly contradicts President Obama’s own claim to have issued “three directives” as soon as he learned “what was going on” in Benghazi. As he told a Denver reporter in October:
I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure we are securing our personnel and that we are doing whatever we need to. Number two, we are going to investigate exactly what happened and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Number three, find out who did this so we can bring them to justice.
That same claim was subsequently repeated by other Democrats, including Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who came to the president’s defense. But if those directives were indeed given–and proof has never been produced–they were given long after the attack, not while the attack was going on, during which time the president did nothing.
Panetta and Dempsey also admitted, under questioning by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), that they were not in touch with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the attacks, and did not receive a request for help from the State Department. Dempsey also testified that he had been “surprised” at Clinton’s testimony last month that she did not know of an urgent cable from Ambassador Stevens last August about the dire security situation.
To borrow a metaphor from the 2008 Democratic primary campaign: when the 3 a.m. call came (at 5 p.m. in the afternoon), neither Clinton nor Obama were there to respond.
Panetta was also forced to admit, in the face of vigorous questioning by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), that no military action at all had been taken to intervene in Benghazi after the attack had begun, promising only that a similar lapse would not happen again.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=302550
Looking out across the vastness of Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, it is difficult to see why Ethiopia is known as a land plagued by horrific droughts. – BBC, “Nile restrictions anger Ethiopia,” February 3, 2005
Any action that would endanger the waters of the Blue Nile will be faced with a firm reaction on the part of Egypt, even if that action should lead to war. – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat – cited in “The Waters Of Life,” Time, April 23, 2006.
While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia – which is the source of 85 percent of that water – are denied the possibility of using it to feed ourselves… and forced to beg for food every year. – Ethiopia’s late prime minister Meles Zenawi, February 3, 2005.
The Greek historian Herodotus (c.484- 425 BCE) is credited with designating Egypt “The Gift of the Nile.” Today, tens of millions of Egyptians might consider the epithet “gift” singularly misplaced.
Writing on the wall?
The recent unrest that has raged across Egypt has once again thrust the country into the center of international attention. Indeed, there is a growing realization that the gap between the challenges facing the country and its ability to meet them – in even a minimally adequate fashion – is widening, perhaps irretrievably, making a humanitarian catastrophe of staggering proportions evermore likely.
