A Pakistani’s Assassin’s Long Reach

A hero's welcome for the governor's killer 

By all accounts, Mr. Taseer was shot, at a public market, more than twenty times — and none of the other guards in the area shot at his alleged 26-year-old attacker, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, a member of an elite police force.

But one American official said, “it’s one more reason to give pause” when thinking about what could happen if a like-minded guard or scientist decided to make his point by seizing nuclear materials.


[T]he killing has further weakened the Zardari administration — so badly that almost none of the country’s top leaders were willing to attend his funeral or condemn his killing.

The weakening of Zardari's government or the fear of Islam? This is what is gradually happening in the west. The more we talk of what we can't do, because the radicals might attack ~ the way many EU governments have tried to control citizens ~ like Pakistan ~ the more we empower these radicals. The more their numbers grow. But we have to say ~ yes we can ~ because this is the 'free' world!


Later in the NYT article ~ as always, there is the financial reasons ~ for the troubles ~ but Pakistan's come in the form of perhaps not having the Saudi funding ~ which means that although the Saudis also run an intolerant society ~ with the oil wealth, they have almost unlimited funds to control it. Pakistan has expressed a wish to be the most prominent Islamic country next to S.arabia ~ but has far more people and doesn't have the revenue to control all of the religious factions. In schools they are stirring up negative and intolerant sentiment, against India ~ the idolaters and misguided Christian ~ infidels. They are free to stir these things up ~ but it should also come with the realization that it could also get out of control. Which is what has happened. More money would help them to better control the effects of their intolerant Islamic agenda.


WASHINGTON — The assassination last week of one of the most moderate politicians in the Pakistani political elite was shocking enough, even in a country known for settling religious and political disputes with a hail of gunfire.

But it was Pakistan’s reaction to the killing of the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer — starting with the rose petals showered on the smiling accused assassin as he was led into court — that really rocked the Obama administration, as it tries to sustain its public line that the Pakistani government is a close ally, fully committed to countering terrorism.

“Everything about what’s happened in the past few days is a reminder of how we’re still losing ground in Pakistan,” said one administration official who deals with the country often, but would not speak on the record because public criticism of Pakistan’s two governments — its weak civilian leadership and its always-dominant military — is avoided at all cost. “It’s trouble on many different levels.”

Three levels, at least, and at each a threat to assumptions that underlie the Obama administration’s strategy. One is that Pakistan is moving toward the West, even if sporadically. Another is that the United States can gradually deal more with Pakistan’s elected government, and less with its military. The third, and most critical, is that Pakistan’s expanding nuclear arsenal is truly safe from betrayal by insiders.

No room for secularism in Pakistan as Islam is its sole identity: Jama'at-e-Islami

You know a tree by the fruit it bears ~ the Islamic tree bears the fruit of violence and intolerance....

To help Muslims adjust to the west ~ we accommodate for Islamic intolerance.

We should not let their disturbance become ours.

Lahore, Jan 8 (ANI): Islam is Pakistan's sole identity, and there is no room for secularism and its believers in this country, Jama'at-e-Islami deputy Secretary General Hafiz Sajid Anwar has said.

Addressing the congregation at Mansoora mosque, Anwar said that a Muslim could not tolerate blasphemy of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), The Nation reports.

Even Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik had told media persons that if someone committed blasphemy in his presence, he would shoot him to death, he added.

Anwar exhorted the rulers to learn a lesson from Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination, as none of the official Khatibs and Imams was ready to lead his funeral prayer.

On Tuesday, Taseer was assassinated by Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, one of his own elite security force protectors, who opened fire on him because of the governor's support for the release of Pakistani-Christian woman Asia Bibi, who has been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges.

Congressman Allen West appointed to House Armed Services Committee - Video

The incoming congressman and retired lieutenant colonel has been appointed to the House Armed Services Committee, as well as the Small Business Committee.

"Congressman-elect West brings a lifetime of military experience to the committee,'' said incoming committee chair Rep. Buck McKeon. "His experience leading troops on the battlefield will benefit the committee, and the men and women of our Armed Forces, as we address the vital national security and defense issues of our nation."

CAIR caught napping over name

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has sued controversial Southfield lawyer Debbie Schlussel in federal court for trademark infringement, saying Schlussel incorporated several similarly-named groups to confuse its donors.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, urges U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn, to stop her from using the names she incorporated.

“There are people in our community who contacted our office thinking she actually was named executive director of CAIR Michigan,” the group’s executive director, Dawud Walid, said today. He said he fears supporters of his group are making charitable contributions to Schlussel, believing she runs the real CAIR organization.

Schlussel countered that CAIR abandoned its name in Michigan by failing to file annual reports to the state of Michigan beginning in 2004. She said she filed articles of incorporation last year, at the behest of a client who she wouldn't identify.

"They abandoned it,” Schlussel said. “The state of Michigan sent them notices, but they never once responded.”

Walid says Schlussel spews anti-Muslim hatred on her website. Schlussel counters that she seeks to point out the intolerance of Islam.

A hearing on the case is set for 9 a.m. Friday.


CAIR sues Debbie Schlusseame | freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Islam now considered 'a threat' to national identity by almost half of French and Germans, majority believe Muslim refusing to integrate: new poll

42 per cent of French and 40 per cent of Germans consider the presence of Islamic communities 'a threat' to their national identities. Here a student in a headscarf studies in a university library in Germany

Others – 55 per cent in France and 49 per cent in Germany – believe that the 'influence and visibility of Islam' is 'too large', while 60 per cent in both countries say the reason for the problem was Muslims' own 'refusal' to integrate.

Part of this is government interference ~ in trying to help people to 'understand' Islam ~ the religion is being forced on people. Even tough parts of Islam are not that pleasant or even pious ~ however individual Muslims may or may not act.

In addition to help 'include' Muslims ~ traditional practises are being actively discouraged. For example, to placate a Somali family, a US nursery school ~ got rid of Santa. When you can't have Christmas lights, and you can't call it Christmas, and there is a list of things that is getting longer and longer that you can't do in order to take extra care that Muslims might not get offended ~


It is no wonder people feel threatened by Islam.


We are sending out a confused message ~ we are telling Muslims to integrate ~ then we removing everything that remotely looks like western society ~ and then we are saying integrate into this.


The message is throw what westerns do in the back room ~ as to not offend.

To integrate Muslims we have been trying to move the whole society to fit around what might offend Islam ~

And what is more ~ Muslim groups who want to see Europe become an Islamic state ~ are emboldened by this.



To show the proper respect for Muslims we should get rid of what is ours and replace it with what is theirs ~ even rights and freedoms. If we don't go along we will be labelled racists and Islamophobes and other nasty names. And it works ~ not only are people fearful of offending Islam ~ they don't want their careers destroyed ~ by not going along with some ridiculous Islamization scheme or other.


It is making people uncomfortable. Now western toilets are not good enough ~ Muslims need their own toilets. Next it will be ~ replace all toilets. Muslims can't eat chicken ~ that is specifically not blessed by an Imam. Next thing, its 'you don't mind eating halal ~ do you?' Well ~ yes I do! I would prefer non-halal products ~ thanks for asking.


Muslims don't want to integrate:

60% say the reason for the problem was Muslims' own 'refusal' to integrate

In the Islamic world Muslims have more rights. The Koran tells Muslims they are superior to all others. And so the laws of Islam are based on Islamic supremacy. For Muslims that's God's will.

Christians and others can live among Muslims ~ but only after they agree to pay respect to Islam and Muslims. [See dhimmi status]


But once Muslims are with people who are non-Muslim in great numbers ~ how do they go from understanding themselves as being superior ~ to being equals. Equal under the law, free to practise most aspects of Islam that are within the law.


Not good enough

What is bothering people in Europe is that Muslims are saying it's not enough. Muslims are pushing for their our own laws. In fact they want their laws integrated into EU laws.


Some misguided folks, in the name of 'religious' freedom ~ want to allow Islamic law into state law. We are told Islamic law is not-so-bad, Muslims use it in their daily lives. That its 'Muslim' and a 'private religious' matter ~ is no longer relevant.


But of course, now in Europe the climate has changed. Those who thought that if they reached out to Muslims and offered to moderate western society with regards to Islam ~ if they have not become completely disillusioned, they most likely have been voted out of office.

~ At an Islamic Dutch state-funded school ~ one teacher who dreamed of cultural bliss ~ was made to eat her lunch separately from Muslim teachers. And was suspended for teaching her class on the three Middle Eastern religions. She was told to teach them only that Islam will conquer.


Islam has legal and political aspects ~ to be fully operational they have to erect a state. In Europe.


Fantasies aside about individual Muslim displays of tolerance ~ the practise of tolerance in the Islamic world is in short supply. Muslims are taught they are superior ~ and that one day either others will realize they Muslims too or will come under Muslim control.


Like Ghaddfi says all people are Muslims they just don't know it. Intellectuality non-Muslims are seen as being in a state of ignorance. So what the average non-integrating Muslim is likely hearing ~ is that we are asking them to integrate into our state of ignorance.


In the Islamic world the 'ignorant' are given a lower 'protected' status. Though in the west, we break all of Islam's rules ~ yet continue to be successful and prosperous ~ defies Islamic logic ~ which states, practise these Islamic rituals ~ 5 of these and 5 of those ~ and wear this or that cloth ~ and society will advance. Has failed. It has not provided for Muslims, and this has led them to the west.


Immigration

I think the west has some hard choices to make with Islam. Immigration. Why allow people in who don't want to be here. Or want to come, not to get along and help, but to supplant.


It is immigration that has allowed the unassimilable Muslim numbers to swell. If EU governments had done a better job of selecting immigrants from Muslim nations ~ it 'might' likely look at lot better. Instead they turned a blind eye while each immigrant family chose a partner for one or all of their children from the Muslim world ~ generation after generation. Instead of asking ~ What is this new person going to bring? People were frightened to challenge cultural practise ~ that was costing EU nations more than it was benefiting.


But when we look at European Muslims and the need to integrate ~ we have to look at Russia's Muslims. Who are not immigrants. Besides attacks, there are also calls for more Islamic laws and restrictions on freedoms ~ particularly women's rights.



The Muslim idea is that one day the world will be happy to live as they do in the Islamic world ~ but we are content with rights and freedoms and equality under the laws ~ that we make.
That Muslims want religious law where they are made superior ~ means that we are going to need to take an honest hard look. First we can stop blaming ourselves for some old colonial guilt. Turkey had colonies and Islam's story is littered with brutality and colonization. They feel no guilt because they believe it was God's will. We have to get smart and understand this mindset. And stop tearing ourselves apart.


Islam comes with arrogance ~ but western society has almost had the arrogance beat out of them ~ as we acknowledge our past mistakes. Islam has taken no time for introspection. It is therefore a perfect delusion. Unfortunately, because it refuses to learn from its past ~ as it doesn't admit to mistakes ~ it is an accident ready to happen. Though, as with developments in Pakistan ~ the Islamic accident ~ needn't happen here.




Islam is considered a 'threat' by millions of French and Germans, with the vast majority believing Muslims have 'not integrated properly', a devastating new poll revealed today.

Le Monde newspaper ran the results under a headline which brands efforts to get different religious and cultural communities to live side-by-side as a 'failure'.

It will be viewed with particular dismay in France and Germany, as the two countries have the biggest Muslim communities in Europe.

German Chancellor Merkel said her country's cultural integration had failed, while in France Sarkozy's government has displayed an increasing hard line towards religious extremism, recently banning Islamic veils

IRAN: 'American' detained for allegedly having spy equipment in her teeth ~ amid crackdown on Armenian Christians

Iran is almost like the old communist nations ~ in its ability to create an utterly ridiculous story ~ and pass it off as official.

Apparently, the arrested, now more than 60 in the last month, mostly of the Armenian Orthodox Church are deviants, like the Taliban and receive their backing from Britain ~ in the name of Christianity!!

In Iran, the state and God [or religion] are one ~ the state's will is God's will.

Allah Iran Akbar!!


A woman referred to by authorities as American, who is of possible Armenian Christian descent, has been arrested on espionage charges, an Iranian newspaper reported Thursday, as officials launched a major crackdown on the country's Christian minority for alleged proselytizing.

According to the Iranian daily newspaper Iran, a mouthpiece of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the 55-year-old "American" was detained in the Iranian-Armenian border city of Nordouz.

Customs officials allegedly discovered she was carrying hidden "spy equipment" and microphones on her body.

According to the privately owned conservative Iranian news website Tabnak, the woman -- identified in media reports as Hal Talayan -- had spy equipment in her teeth at the time of arrest and feared she'd be killed by Armenian security forces if she were returned to Armenia.

"If sent back to Armenia by the Islamic Republic of Iran, then the security forces of that country will kill her," Tabnak quoted her as saying.

The semiofficial Fars News Agency, quoting a "well-informed source," reported that the woman was detained by customs officials a week ago.

Pakistan Killer Had Revealed Plans

Thousands gathered in Lahore for the funeral of Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab province who had criticized Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

The governor's assassination presents serious implications for security in Pakistan.

"The governor's remarks had hurt the sentiments of Muslims and Qadri could not control his sentiments," said one top TV anchor on a prime-time show.

The Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat, another religious group, said in a statement signed by more than 500 clerics that Mr. Qadri was a "true soldier of Islam" and warned Muslims not to mourn his death.

"It is a warning to all intellectuals and politicians who [want] to change Islamic laws," the statement said.

Jamaat-e-Islami, one of Pakistan's main Islamist political parties, also said the assassination was justified. "If the government had removed him from the governorship, there wouldn't have been the need for someone to shoot him," it said in a statement.

The killing of a senior politician who spoke out against Pakistan's blasphemy laws was widely lauded by Islamist groups and sympathizers Wednesday and it emerged that the assassin, a member of an elite police force, had told others about the pending attack but had still been assigned to his victim's detail.

Malik Mumtaz Qadri pumped multiple rounds Tuesday into Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab province, at a shopping complex in an upscale part of Islamabad. He later told police he was angered by Mr. Taseer's efforts to abrogate the country's strict blasphemy laws.

Malik Mumtaz Qadri, third from right, was greeted by supporters as he arrived at court in Islamabad on Wednesday.

Mr. Qadri had previously been removed from a branch of the police dealing with counterterrorism due to concerns about his Islamist leanings, and had himself come forward to ask to guard Mr. Taseer, a senior police official said.

Arabia: Female nurses face sexual harassment in hospitals ~ mainly by male doctors and nursing staff

It appears that for Saudi women nurses ~ that the profession is seen as being akin to prostitution ~ Saudi men refuse to marry women who are nurses.

Obviously the women's strict dress is not stopping the male doctors and patients from making advances.


Currently no laws in place to protect female nursing staff ~ and one wonders if some of these women aren't from places like the Philippines ~ 4 Filipino nurses were violently gang raped in October 2010. At least one died.

 That they don't have laws in place ~ attests to the Muslim ideology ~ that Islam will solve all the problems and that it is the answer to everything. While all this is going on.

The Middle Eastern Arab countries are places where expat female workers are most likely to be attacked.

HAFR Al-BATEN: Authorities in Hafr Al-Baten have launched a thorough investigation into a number of allegations about sex attacks on nurses working evening and night shifts at hospitals in the region.

One of the hospitals where several recent incidents occurred is King Khaled Hospital in Hafr Al-Baten where nurses on night duty reported being attacked by patients, Al-Yaum newspaper reported recently.

“I shouted and cried out for help,” said one Asian victim who was attacked by a patient. “I only escaped narrowly after threatening the guy that I would call the police,” she added, while urging the authorities to restrict night shifts to male nurses except in the maternity wards. Another nurse spoke about the time when a duty doctor tried to sexually abuse her. “He started talking to me and made some obscene remarks. If I responded positively, then he might have taken it further and tried to sexually abuse me,” she said.

Ayesha, a 27-year-old nurse, said she was forced to call hospital security staff to deal with a visitor who made sexually explosive comments and tried to lure her into an empty room.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “Submission II is too risky” - Video

Complete Submission film

The film maker Van Gogh was killed by a Muslim fanatic ~ not for depicting that Muslim men believe they have the right to beat their women or that many Muslim women's freedom is not respected ~ but what he like many Muslims believed outrageous about the film Submission ~ was that the actress had Koran verses drawn on her body.

Reform in Islam is a long long way off. Honesty is forbidden or actively ignored.

Muslims want to come to Europe and the free world but wish to continue living as they did in the one they left. One of the reasons Hirsi Ali is so deeply involved with Muslim women's issues ~ was because she could speak the language ~ she acted as an interpreter for women in Dutch abuse centres. And said that although Muslims make up only 5% of the population ~ represented more than 60% of the women in these shelters.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she will not make sequels to her controversial 2004 film Submission, an attack on the treatment of Muslim women. In an interview for Dutch TV, the former Dutch politician said the risk to the crew and cast would be too great.

The script for Submission II is ready for filming and a third part was planned, Ms Hirsi Ali says, but it would be necessary for producers, crew and actors to remain anonymous, and this would be "extremely difficult if not impossible".

Submission criticised alleged violence against women in Islam, and featured images of women’s bodies painted with verses from the Qur’an. After the film was aired on Dutch TV, its director Theo van Gogh was murdered by a Muslim extremist. The filmmaker and broadcaster was an outspoken critic of Islam. He had insisted on being openly credited for his role in collaborating with Ms Hirsi Ali on Submission, which some Muslims criticised as blasphemous.

Fanatics
Submission II was to have tackled the position of men in Islam, including the oppression of homosexuals, Ms Hirsi Ali said in 2006. In part three God would have been portrayed speaking directly.

Islam: Live to Die - Video

Amsterdam Police Chief ~ Suggests He Will Not Enforce Burka Ban

AMSTERDAM, 07/01/11 - Amsterdam police corps chief Bernard Welten has said he will not enforce the ban on the wearing of face-covering clothing that the cabinet is to introduce shortly.

Under the coalition accord, the conservatives (VVD), Christian democrats (CDA) and Party for Freedom (PVV) have agreed to ban face-covering clothing, such as the niqab and burka. If the proposal is passed by parliament as expected, Welten will nonetheless ignore the law and will not fine or arrest any women.

"Some things in the coalition accord I pass over," said Welten on TV programme Vijf jaar later. "I do not always feel myself to be an instrument of the government who immediately does what is asked. I still use my own judgement."

According to Welten, an "extremely complex dilemma" is posed. He will opt for "civil disobedience" because the police "is there to guarantee freedom, equality and justice."

The PVV considers that Welten must resign. PVV MP Hero Brinkman pointed out on Radio 1 yesterday that the police should be subordinated to the government. "The police must enforce. We would be living in a banana republic if this were the other way round."

Pakistan: Punjab governor's assassin a Sufi, 'linked to Islamic group' that defends 'traditional' Islamic values

Pakistani lawyers outside court to show support for the governor's killer.

Police also seized some religious books from Qadri's home overnight and sealed off the three-storey house.

They took religious books ~ it is clear they don't completely believe this Islam means peace story!

(AKI/DAWN) - The Pakistani Elite Force guard who on Tuesday shot dead Punjab governor Salman Taseer is said to be associated with ‘Dawat-i-Islami’, a non-political and non-violent religious group close to a moderate Sunni Muslim sect.

Taseer's self-confessed killer, Mumtaz Qadri, was associated with the moderate Barelvi sect, according to one his colleagues. The Barelvis originated in India in the 19th century to defend traditional Islam and many practices and rites associated with the mystical Sufi strand of the faith.

Five hundred Barelvi scholars warned that anyone who expresses grief over Taseer's assassination could suffer the same fate.

Pakistan was on high alert ahead of Taseer's state funeral taking place in the Pujabi capital, Lahore, on Wednesday.

Taseer - a senior member of the governing Pakistan People's Party (PPP) - had recently angered Islamists by appealing for a Christian woman, sentenced to death for blasphemy, to be pardoned.

Prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani declared three days of national mourning and appealed for calm.

EDL protest’s leader arrested on 'suspicion of intentionally causing religiously aggravated harassment alarm or distress' or blasphemy ~ while Muslim who openly threatens him ~ within law - Video

Suspicion of intentionally causing religiously aggravated harassment alarm or distress or rather blasphemy.

But does blasphemy attend to what is said that is not true or what is true but deemed offensive?

What is true was that Muhammad was a Genghis Khan type of guy. He killed to convert he encouraged rape ~ and scolded his men for not raping non-Muslim women in front of their husbands. We could respect that Muslims view all of Muhammad's actions, even his deviant actions as perfect ~ but we should also respect that others see it as deviant and cruel and not at all perfect or Godly.

Genghis Khan also united his people around the local religious beliefs ~ via warfare. But he showed much more respect for children ~ when the Mongol children were about 9 they were allowed to select a partner from other children of about the same age ~ and 5 years later, at 15 or so ~ would they be allowed to come together and consummated the marriage.

There is no historical record of Khan choosing from this group for himself. Of course, as Muhammad did. The Hadiths also tell us of his other inappropriate affections for small children ~ as well as he had relations with the deceased.

I think we can treat a person with respect ~ be they Muslim or otherwise ~ without holding this stuff as in anyway to be the truth [as in guidance] or acceptable.


Arresting those who dare to speak out is like banning a book ~ and suddenly the book becomes more famous. To protect Muslims we take on some of the Islamic world's repression of individual rights and freedoms. The accused, made a speech at a rally of people who wanted to hear him. In the Islamic world his arrest would be normal ~ and likewise in the Islamic world if someone was outspoken in the same way about Christianity or Hinduism ~ they would not be arrested. And this is where rights are being eroded. But we have seen this before ~ before WWII it was seen as offensive to criticize Hitler.


ONE of the leaders of the English Defence League (EDL) has been arrested after police received complaints about his speech during their protest in Peterborough on 11th December.

Guramit Singh (28), from Nottingham, was arrested yesterday (22nd December) on suspicion of intentionally causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress.

Wild Pakistan ~ Muslim lawyers show support for governor's killer - Photos

Pakistani lawyers chant slogans in favor of Mumtaz Qadri, alleged killer of Punjab's governor Salman Taseer, during his appearnce in a court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Taseer was killed on Tuesday by his bodyguard commando reportedly enraged by his opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam.

This is why real reforms in Islam are so far off. Anyone who takes a stand is sliced down.

Pakistani greets Mumtaz Qadri, third from right, the alleged killer of Punjab's governor Salman Taseer, as he arrives at a court in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011

Mumtaz Qadri, alleged killer of Punjab's governor Salman Taseer, as he arrives at court, in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.

Pakistanis wave at a helicopter carrying the coffin of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer as it departs for burial, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011

Pakistani helicopter carrying the coffin of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, departs for burial, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.

Pakistani women light candles and pray at the site of shooting which killed Salman Taseer governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.

Pakistani mourner reacts during the funeral procession of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Thousands of Pakistani police were on high alert in Lahore on Wednesday ahead of the funeral for an outspoken provincial governor shot dead by a bodyguard reportedly enraged by his opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam.

Pakistani man uses his mobile phone to take a picture of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, center, as he arrives to attend the funeral of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.

Pakistani rescue workers and mourners bury the coffin of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, in a cemetry in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011

Pigeons fly next to Pakistani rangers standing guard during the funeral procession of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.

Helsinki Muslim-women-only pool session dropped

Another example of Muslim exclusivity imposed on western society ~ can you imagine having a Christian only pool session. Maybe it is that Muslims don't want to swim with other ~ because they think they are unclean. There was a Muslim-men-only swimming session at one London pool. A non-Muslim man and his son were turned away from their local pool. He was told in the end that he did not have the right type of trunks. Not long enough to meet Islamic standards. At another pool just outside London, which non-Muslim women could attend but had to wear Muslim women's swimming attire. Arms covered. But in the Netherlands ~ clued up to this kind of nonsense ~ told a group of Muslim women who requested that all men leave the pool when they swam in their burkinis [the all covering Muslim swimsuit], because the men could still see their wrists and ankles ~ to go and swim in Casablanca.

The City of Helsinki will stop reserving special hours for Muslim women to use the public pool in Jakomäki. In the future, the timeslot for Muslim ladies will be open to all women.

Other swimmers had criticised the practice, according to Teemu Raatikainen, who manages the pool.

Previously, the Jakomäki swimming hall blocked off Saturday mornings specifically for Muslim women. The women's session followed a swimming class for Muslim girls.

The Jakomäki pool reopened on Wednesday after being closed for renovation. From now on, the pool will be open to all women—and off-limits to men—on Tuesday evenings....

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Father Christmas banned from nursery, after Muslim family complained of being offended by un-Islamic visitor

With Islam tolerance is exclusive. The things that you have come to accept ~ are excluded.

The idea of asking Muslims to show tolerance towards others ~ has been deeded too offensive.

That this family wants to make America ~ like Somali ~ and that there are those who would go along with it ~ is frightening.

The idea that only the Somali family's wishes were considered. Is one of the objections to Islam in the west.

It is not only that we should respect others ~ we should respect ourselves too. Many Muslims come from an Islamic world torn apart by violence and human rights violations ~ and somehow their ways ~ should be placed above ours. In the west they should learn respect and tolerance.


Father Christmas has been banned from visiting a children's nursery after a Muslim family complained.

For the last four years, Dennis Jackson has donned a beard and red-and-white costume to hand out presents at the St Peter's Head Start Programme in Minnesota.

But this year he was told he wasn't welcome after objections from a Somali family.

'It kind of burnt me up,' Mr Jackson said, after being banned by officials at the Head Start Programme.

Aussie: Jihad Fried Chicken employee loses cool when customer requests bacon on chicken burger - Video

JFC ~ We Do Jihad Right!!

You go in there and you don't respect Islamic law ~ anything could happen!!


* There is a sign on the fridge that says NOT HALAL*

Why should we be forced to eat that stuff!

A worker at a KFC restaurant in Sydney has been suspended after he was filmed screaming vicious insults and threatening to attack a customer.

The violent outburst happened at a Halal-friendly KFC in Punchbowl on December 26, allegedly after a customer became angry after being refused bacon on their burger.

The Punchbowl restaurant does not serve bacon or pork in accordance with Islamic law, and one employee can be heard saying "we don't have bacon" before the other begins yelling.

"Don't record me bitch!" he screams as he approaches the counter. "Don't f---ing record me!"

The employee continues to yell and smacks the cash register display on its side, before other workers grab him and lead him outside.

"I'm gonna f---in break your head bro," he says to the person filming as he is led around the corner out of sight.

A spokesman for KFC Australia told ninemsn the employee had been suspended over the incident and offered counselling.

"KFC Australia strongly condemns the behaviour of the team member who appears in the clip and sincerely apologises for this very inappropriate reaction," the spokesman said.

But the spokesman also said the employee may have been harassed by the customer before his meltdown.

"As part of our continuing investigation, KFC has been offered statements from other customers who were in the store at the time," the spokesman said.

"These statements indicate a customer had directed offensive language and became abusive towards the team member when the customer's preferred selection was not available at that store."

The video was posted online by YouTube user "farkie", who wrote that the outburst stemmed from an argument over bacon.

"We asked for bacon on the burger, when we complained about there being no bacon," they wrote.

KFC said their investigation into the incident was ongoing.

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500 Islamic clerics and scholars describe Pak governor's killer as an Islamic warrior: warn against expressions of sympathy or prayers

Governor's killer wears a garland of flowers.

Someone said, the killing is an indication of a break down of law and order in Pakistan ~ there is order ~ an Islamic order.

In the west we get upset about outward threats against prominent figures by Muslims ~ but in the Islamic world ~ it is the norm.

Paying tribute to Taseer's assassin and his courage, the statement described Qadri as a lover of the prophet Mohammed and a 'Ghazi' or Islamic warrior.

Qadri had "revived the 14-century-old traditions of Islam" and made Muslims around the world proud, it said.

A group of over 500 Pakistani scholars and clerics have described the policeman who gunned down the Punjab governor Salman Taseer as a 'Ghazi' and have warned against any expression of sympathy for slain PPP leader, saying it would tantamount to an act of blasphemy.

Warning the people not to lead or offer funeral prayers for Taseer, 66, the clerics part of Jamaat-e-Ahl-e -Sunnat Pakistan, a grouping representing the moderate Barelvi sect of Sunni Muslims praised the Elite Force policeman Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri and called him a 'Ghazi', an Islamic warrior.

The outspoken Taseer who was known for his liberal views and who supported changes in the controversial blasphemy law, was gunned down in a posh market in the heart of Islamabad on Tuesday.

AArrested Pakistani bodyguard Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri wearing a garland shouts 'We are ready to sacrifice our life for the prestige of the Prophet Mohammad' after appearing in court in Islamabad on January 5, 2011 a day after the assassination of the governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer. Pakistani police on January 5, 2011 charged the police commando with murder and terrorism over the killing of Salman Taseer, lawyers said. Qadri, who was part of Taseer's security detail, was presented before a magistrate in Islamabad and will appear in an anti-terrorism court on January 6, lawyer Mohammad Ashraf Gujjar told.

The clerics said in a statement issued last night, "Also, there should be no expression of grief or sympathy on the death of the governor, as those who support blasphemy of the prophet Mohammed are themselves indulging in blasphemy."

Praising Qadri, the clerics said he had killed Taseer for calling the blasphemy law a "black law".

Hailing the "courage" and zeal of Qadri, the clerics and scholars said his action had made all Muslims proud.

A military serviceman loads the casket containing the body of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer onto a helicopter after his funeral prayers at the Governor's House in Lahore January 5, 2011. Five hundred moderate Pakistani religious scholars have warned that anyone who expresses grief over the assassination of a senior ruling party official who opposed the country's blasphemy law could suffer the same fate.

Former lawyer for Rifqa Bary could face sanctions - brought by lawyer of convert to Christianity's parents

The father raised a laptop to strike his daughter once he found that she converted to Christianity. In the Islamic world ~ this would be explained away ~ and if he had killed her his actions would have been blamed on the girl's disobedience. It is hard for Muslims to adjust to a world where a person has the right to change their religion. And that any coercive action in the way of violence taken against that person is unlawful. This is the laws we made.

The father was no doubt given the benefit of the doubt in this case. It is hard for people to fathom the idea that a father would want to kill his own child. But it is very believable to Muslims. And especially Muslim girls.

The father's lawyer is suing any and all challengers to the case ~ in which he lost.

ORLANDO -[AP]- The former lawyer for an Ohio teenager who ran away to Florida after converting to Christianity could face sanctions from the Florida Supreme Court.

Now, his response to hearing that news is angering his former legal adversary.

John Stemberger, the Orlando attorney who had formerly represented Rifqa Bary, has been basically accused of slander in a misconduct complaint filed by the lawyer who represented Bary's parents in Ohio when the case was removed from Florida.

That lawyer, Omar Tarazi, said Stemberger continued to go on television as Rifqa's attorney, even though he had stopped representing her.

Non-Muslims driven from Muslim world in droves ~ 400 Pak. Hindus apply for Indian citizenship ~ say Islamic peace, too overwhelming

News clip from March, 19, 2009:

Though there were no direct threats, the Hindu families were never left in any doubt about their minority status. Sometimes it would be a warning not to stare at Muslim women for long, at other times, it would be the subtle coercion of the local administrators to sell their land when the situation was still normal. The families were weighing their options until October when they were asked to wear a red patch in their pagadis (turban).

"We were told Hindus are not supposed to wish [to greet] a Muslim even inadvertently and that is why, in order to make it obvious for a passing Muslim that we were Hindus, we ought to have some element of red in our headgear," Hardwari Lal, who is now in Amritsar with his family of 13, says.

The Hindu red patch and the yellow star of WWII all have the same origins ~ both have an Islamic source. The Mufti of Jerusalem was in with Hitler ~ as both had ambitions of eradicating the Jews. Iran considered making its non-Muslims wear different color patches ~ according to one's religion ~ a few years ago. Whether it means the run up to a genocide ~ is unclear ~ what is clear ~ is that it is a belittling. The reduction in value of the non-Muslim life. Islamic supremacy in action.

The Pak Muslims are also forcing the Hindus in the tribal regions to pay the Islamic jizya tax ~ straight out of the Koran 9:29. It's by the book!! A tribal court decides how much they are to pay ~ and as it is an Islamic 'protection tax' ~ when they can't pay ~ their homes, businesses and property are burnt out or destroyed.

This is where, I suppose, Allah is Great ~ where for Muslims he allows them to get away with such tyranny. We are going to have to set some limits for Allah's Greatness in the west. Tie that deity down or shall we hang him up ~ back in the desert sky!


AMRITSAR: With the Centre agreeing before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a couple of months ago, to grant citizenship to 120 Pakistani Hindus staying near Jalandhar for years, around 400 more such people placed in a similar situation here have intensified their demand for citizenship.

According to president of a local NGO, All India Hindu Shiv Sena, Surinder Kumar Billa, there were around 450 to 500 Pakistani Hindus settled in Amritsar who have been awaiting citizenship. He said most of them had fled from Pakistan fearing extortion and kidnapping by Taliban and Muslim fundamentalists.

'Allah Akbar!' Palestinian mothers training with machine guns and explosives ~ some hope to be martyrs - Video

Honing killer instinct with Islamic prayer ~ Palestinian mothers up to the task.


Can't help thinking the one who wants to be a martyr ~ looks like a talking hamburger.

'I want to be a martyr ~ I want to kill lots of people for Allah. Allah is the Greatest!!'

Islamabad: Punjab Governor assassinated by own security ~ for opposing blasphemy law ~ Video

Human rights workers said Pakistan had been robbed of a rare voice of courage, who championed women's rights and supported minorities.

There was another sentenced to death for blasphemy ~ a Muslim human rights worker ~ accused of being a Christian/infidel ~ by a prominent Pakistani lawyer ~ as the promotion of human rights are seen as the promotion of western ideals and deemed un-Islamic. The international focus has been on the Christian woman.

Terrible terrible events happening in Pakistan today.


It is the respect for Islam over human rights ~ it is an alteration that western governments must not be tempted to make.


The influential governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has died after being shot by one of his bodyguards in the capital, Islamabad.

Mr Taseer, a senior member of the Pakistan People's Party, was shot when getting into his car at a market.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the guard had told police that he killed Mr Taseer because of the governor's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law.

Many were angered by his defence of a Christian woman sentenced to death.

100,000 Britons convert to Islam in past decade - but where is the survey for those 'leaving' Islam ~ perhaps we don't want to offend

Tony Blair's sister-in-law ~ the new pin up for converts to Islam. She converted in Iran ~ one has to wonder whether she expects the Mahdi or 12th Imam to return in the final conflict of conflicts. Or did she join the Muhammad-centric Sunni version!

Shangri-La is on offer ~ and people are buying it. But how many people have become disillusioned with it ~ and abandoned the religion ~ something Muslims are extremely sensitive about ~ but shouldn't we be given the other side.

- More than one in four accepted there was a ‘natural conflict’ between being a devout Muslim and living in the UK.

- Nine out of ten women converts said their change of religion had led to them dressing more conservatively. More than half started wearing a head scarf and five percent said they had worn the burqa.

How long will the offspring of these British converts learn to do like the young do in the Islamic world ~ where pre-marital sex is anal ~ as a way to ensure [vaginal] virginity is secured until marriage!! This is the norm in the Islamic world. A Muslim girl must pass a virginity test ~ carried out by a medical doctor ~ and they make sure they do. [Not so dumb!]

If the aim is to trash western society ~ then we should fully understand theirs.

And once the Muslim woman is married ~ often to a first or second cousin ~ she then comes under the complete control of the husband. He decides everything she does and the law in the Islamic world backs his wishes.

To entertain fantasies about a perfect world ~ is one thing - to actually witness or worst ~ to live an extremely restrictive or dumbed down life ~ with limited rights and freedoms ~ at state level ~ is completely another.


It is doubtful that all these people will remain Muslim ~ or strictly adhering Muslims ~ and many will reject it completely.


Cherie Blair's sister says she reads the Koran everyday:

The mother of two now wears a hijab, has given up alcohol and visits a mosque ‘when she can’. She has also stopped eating pork and reads the Koran every day.

But the Koran says to fight the non-believer and then subjugate them ~ how can they honestly tell us that their new found faith means 'peace'? It must be also that they are in for a penny in for a pound and are willing to perpetuate the pretence ~ as many Muslim do ~ with the aim of firstly protecting the image of Islam and for the new converts ~ defending their personal choice.

I think Cherie Blair's sister is a sad case. Islam is not going to give her what she needs ~ on top of converting to Islam she is in serious financial trouble and is getting a divorce.





Proudly you can't eat pork ~ but Muhammad said it was okay to sleep with dead people... as he did... instructions lie in the Hadith 'Intercourse with a dead woman'...


Another oddity of the Prophet's behavior for new converts to defend!!


But if Muhammad was happy ~ that's explanation enough!!

Watch the flies!!



About 5,200 people in UK adopted faith last year alone

The number of Muslim converts in Britain has topped 100,000 for the first time - fuelled by a surge in young white women adopting the Islamic faith.

Egyptian police attack relatives of Copt victims: Radicals bomb & police attack - Video

The Egyptian violence is labelled religious tensions ~ but one group clearly has the upper hand.

Aussie: Double honor killing ~ Wife wanted to go to the beach!! Jan 3 2011 - Video

'Tie EU aid to rights for Christians' - Aid should be 'cut or eliminated' Italy FM says after Alexandria blast

The Italian FM is not the first to talk of making aid to Muslim nations ~ in particular conditional on the treatment of Christians.

A good example, was the aid the Pakistan received during its internal refugee crisis ~ although western nations gave 100's $$millions ~ the Christians in the country receive none of this ~ they were not allowed in the camps ~ as they were told, they and their food were unclean.


It is clear that a part of respect for Islam includes acceptance of the dhimmi laws ~ that a part of respecting Islam is the acceptance that Christians and others don't have as much rights as the Muslim citizen. For the Muslim world it is clear they believe that to respect Islam is to also respect this disparity in rights ~ not only between men and women ~ but also between Muslim and non-Muslim.

Muslim will argue that because God commended it ~ that the limited rights awarded to Christians and other ~ is fair treatment. [Obviously God doesn't want this for Muslims living in the west.]



There has also been talk of Christian nations ~ coming together to advocate for Christian rights around the world.


In Egypt there are forced conversions ~ by the state, forced marriages ~ through kidnap, attacks and killings to maintaining Muslim law ~ at street level. They must take collective pleasure in saying ~ we have one more Muslim and one less Christian ~ by any means.


(ANSA) - Rome, January 3 - European Union aid should be tied to respect for human rights in countries where Christian minorities are under attack, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Monday after a New Year's Day church bombing in the Egyptian city of Alexandria that killed 21 Coptic Christians.

EU aid "should be reduced if not eliminated" for "those countries that do not collaborate" in protecting Christians, Frattini said.

"We have to move from monitoring to action," said the foreign minister, stressing that Italy could not remain "isolated" in the battle for Christians' rights around the world.

The EU "should work with those countries that collaborate and encourage them," he said.

Italy has been saying for months that more should be done to help embattled Christian communities around the world.

On December 22 Frattini blasted the European Union for not doing more to combat Christian persecutions in Iraq and other Middle Eastern Countries.

He said United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also worried about the plight of Middle Eastern Christians, who are leaving the region in increasing numbers, especially from Iraq, where they have been the victims of a series of bomb attacks.

''Frankly, it is a little sad that Europe isn't reacting on this issue as it should'', he said.

Italy is set to present a resolution to the United Nations on religious freedom which aims to stop this persecution and it has the backing of the EU, while several non-EU countries have expressed ''great interest''.

Pope Benedict XVI, who condemned the New Year's Day attack in Alexandria as a "cowardly attack against God," has said Christians are the religious group that suffer most persecution around the world.

Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria are among the other countries where there have been anti-Christian campaigns and attacks. More than 80 people were killed in bombings in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Christmas Eve, sparking clashes between Muslim and Christian youths.

Ethnic and religious violence in central Nigeria has left hundreds of people dead this year.

photo: woman outside Alexandria church on New Year's Day

Chief Egypt Imam rebuffs Pope's concern for killed Copts ~ as interference in Egypt's [Islamic] business

Egyptian man cleans blood stains from the main gate of the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church following an overnight car bomb attack that targeted the church in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria on January 1, 2011.

The same Egyptian religious authority issued a statement to the Copts, just a few months back telling them that they live in an Islamic state [of Egypt] and that they hold only the dhimmi or lower status ~ which is conditional on respect for Islam.

If anything he is saying to the Pope ~ we will deal with our dhimmis as we see fit.

Once a majority Christian country ~ is an example, as to what happens when Islam is allowed free rein ~ to take over ~ in just 60 short years Pakistan is another stark example.

A "Statement to the Nation" was released by the al-Azhar's Islamic Research Council on Saturday, September 25 [2010] in which Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb...

...stresses the fact that Egypt is an "Islamic State" according to the text of its Constitution, which represents the social contract between its people. "From this stems the rights of citizenship, as taught to us by the Messenger of Allah ɥɐllɐ in his pact with the Christians of Najran, in which he decided that they were to enjoy rights and duties as the Muslims. However, these rights are conditional to respect for the Islamic identity and the citizenship rights as set by the Constitution."

The Christians of Najran, Medina, refused conversion to Islam in 631 A.D. and offered Mohamad to maintain their faith, accept the dominance of Muslims and pay an annual tribute (the jizya), he accepted and the pact was sealed between them.

Magdy Khalil, head of the Middle East Freedom Forum, issued a press release on September 27, saying the Al-Azhar's "Statement to the Nation" brings us back to the era of Dhimmitude.


"We refuse to bow to their condition of respecting the Islamic Identity, in order to get our citizenship rights," said Coptic activist Selim Riad. "We have our separate Coptic identity, and our rights are not at the disposal of Muslims setting conditions for us to obtain them."

Cairo (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The suicide attack on the Coptic Church of Saints (Al Kiddissine) in Alexandria was carried out by local elements of the Islamic Jihad, according to specialist anti terrorism sources. President Hosni Mubarak immediately after the attack had asked Copts and Muslims to show unity in the face of "an foreign attack." The New Year's Eve suicide bombers who carried out the bombing on the church of Alexandria had, at first, tried to get inside the place of Christian worship to cause the greatest number of victims among the faithful.

An Egyptian police source cited by the Arabic daily 'Al-Quds al-Arabi', according to some witnesses said the bomber had tried to enter the church. However he changed his mind on seeing officers on guard outside the main door. Instead the terrorist waited for the faithful to emerge from the Church after mass. Investigators are analyzing an unidentified corpse found at the site of the attack in an attempt to identify the bomber. Meanwhile, a dozen people have been detained and questioned, seven are still in police custody.

Christian Cleansing ~ In a region that wishes to drive out all non-Kaaba Stone religions

Christians carry a portrait of Christ taken from the bombed church of al-Qiddissian through the streets of Alexandria

The Egyptian police are probably using some restraint ~ as they know the world is watching. It is customary in Egypt after Muslims attack Christians and a few people die, are seriously injured or property destroy ~ to arrest Christian youths. If we were dealing with people of different colors ~ people would not hesitate to call it racism ~ but so long as we are dealing with Islam ~ and the image of the religion is protected ~ almost anything goes.

Was anyone convicted from last year's attack ~ the court-case was delayed at one stage?


The Prophet Muhammad instructed Muslims to make the non-Muslim existence uncomfortable ~ so that the Muslims are acting within their brief. I think at one point he told Muslims to drive the non-Muslim off the main road, to force them onto the minor ~ so that they will know that they are non-Muslims. Koran 9:29. Muhammad was a Prophet who instructed people to act against their better nature ~ and we are still reaping the consequences of this today.


Hundreds of Christian demonstrators paraded through the streets of Alexandria after a car bomb killed 21 worshippers celebrating the New Year.

Bearing a blood-stained banner of Jesus rescued from the shattered church, protesters clashed with Egyptian riot police who had moved in to break up the gathering.

Christians and Muslims pelted each other with rocks and cars were also torched in the disturbances.

Firefighters were also called out to contain blazes started by protesters, seen here throwing oil on to the flames.

'We are not going to remain silent,' chanted the protesters. Three demonstrators were arrested and beaten up by police, according to witnesses.

Inside the al-Qiddissian (Saints) Church, in the Sidi Bechr district, the floor was still stained with blood.

Two statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary were toppled and benches scattered by the impact of the blast.

Other protesters carried crosses as they came up against a line of Egyptian riot police

A wooden cross hanging on the church gate was covered with a white sheet stained with victims' blood and bits of human flesh remained stuck on the gate.

Iran executes seven convicted drug smugglers

Iran hanged seven men on Monday for smuggling drugs, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

According to Reuters, the convicted men were put to death inside a prison in the western province of Kermanshah. "They had procured and distributed narcotics ranging from 5 kg (11lb) of heroin to 100 kg (220 lb) of synthetic crack," stated prosecutor Mojtaba Maleki.

Iranian parliament passed a law last December issuing the death penalty for procurement and distribution of more than 30 g (1.06 oz) of drugs. State media reported on Saturday the execution of an additional eight other drug smugglers in the holy Shi'ite city of Qom.

Iran has one of the highest execution rates in the world. Drug trafficking, murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, and apostasy--the renouncing of Islam--are all crimes punishable by death under Iran's Islamic law, in effect since the 1979 revolution. JP

Washington based Sheykh thinks Iran Supreme leader ~ best thing since sliced bread

This famous American Imam thinks that the supreme leader of the Iranian Shia Muslims is the best bet for unifying world Muslims

Khamenie, this would be the same supreme leader who said after the opposition were all rounded up and put in jail. The same man who said that their jailers could rape the women and sodomize the men. As long as neither side “enjoyed it”. From what I understand the recipients of forceful sexual penetration seldom “enjoy” it. Whether their jailers , performing the act, do is another matter.


Muhammad approved rape: 

The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives.

Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur’anic verse: (Sura 4:24) "And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess." (Abu Dawud 2150, also Muslim 3433)

For Muslims the raping of a non-Muslim captive ~ must therefore be a perfect act ~ as all things Muhammad did were considered perfect ~ and thinking for yourself is forbidden in Islam. [Though the verse proved Muhammad's men were better than he was. But also that Muhammad understood the power of a good 'angel inspired' verse ~ in order that men carry out his desires, even against their better judgement or morality.]

The writer here, is trying to appeal to Muslim logic ~ but when it comes to Muhammad and Islam ~ you might as well be talking to a baby or small child ~ adult logic or reason is not there. Muhammad raped women, slept with dead ones ~ and they think that if they don't follow this they will go to hell... they are happy with this!!

The prominent American figure said,” Resistance of grand Ayatollah Khamenei and the Iranian nation against the arrogant and bullying powers of the world brings hope for the Muslims around the world.”

So all you Sunni and assorted other types of Muslims you know what to expect if the Ayatollah and the American Imam have any thing to do with it. Go on the street to complain and you will get plenty of sex whether you want it or not.

Telegraph

Hebrew word 'Shalom' reportedly censored on Malaysian television

By The Anti-Jihadist

Shalom, all.

The new year 2011 is already more than 24 hours old here in the fair Melayu Islamic Republic. Events in 2011, unfortunately, seem decidedly 'old year' with an Islamic-inspired church bombing in Egypt. The new year looks a lot like the old year, but what else could we expect?

On television here in Malaysia today there was a programme I saw with a brief scene involving a phone call between an American character and an Israeli one. The dialog certainly involved nothing objectionable--the characters were discussing their wishes for the future and expressing their hopes for a peaceful world. And the scene wasn't long--maybe two to three minutes at most. But I discovered another thing that the Malaysian Guardians of Morality (i.e. the Muslim censors) do not want people to hear or see, besides the usual and profanity, violence, or nudity.

What horrible word did they remove from this conversation? It was the word "shalom", repeatedly and consistently removed, in that brief scene on television. I could read the lips of the actors, and considering the context, there was no doubt that this was the 'offensive' word in question.