Year: 2009

Slavery in Pakistan: “Girl sold in open auction”

Pakistan: “Girl sold in open auction”
— The Nation reports – “no one condemned” the open slavery sale:
— “A 20-year-old girl was auctioned at village Badani Bhutto of Taluka Kashmore in consideration of Rs2,70,000 on Saturday.”
— “Azizan, daughter of late Allah Bux Bhutto, was divorced on the allegation of Karo-kari some time back. She is stated to be mother of two children and was residing with her brother who held the open auction for her ‘sale’ at village Badani Bhutto.”
— “A large number of villagers showed interest in the auction that started with Rs50,000 and ended at Rs270,000. Bilawal Bhutto, 50, of the same village purchased her for the said amount. Initially he paid Rs210,000 for the girl.”
— “Maulana Azizullah Bhutto performed their nikah later.
— “It is irony of the situation that no one condemned the inhuman act. The groom will take the bride to his house after paying the rest of the amount. The auction money was distributed equally among all the brothers of the girl.”

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California: “Thieves damage Azusa mosque”

Daily Breeze reports: “Thieves damage Azusa mosque”
— “Thieves broke into an Azusa mosque, damaged the building and stole cash from a donation box, and American-Islamic relations advocates today urged police to investigate the incident as a possible hate crime”
— “The break-in occurred Monday between 2:30 p.m and 7 p.m. at the Masjid Al-Fatiha mosque in the 200 block of North Citrus Avenue, said Sgt. Sam Fleming of the Azusa Police Department.
— ” ‘There was $20 stolen from a donation box,’ Fleming said, adding the front door and glass windows were broken.”
— ” ‘It appears to be a crime of opportunity,’ he said. ‘There was no other damage. There was no graffiti and no vandalism.’ ”
— CAIR also reports to Daily Breeze past incidents of Islamophobia at the Masjid Al-Fatiha mosque

Pakistan: “Allegedly Poison Christian Employees to Death”

Pakistan: “Allegedly Poison Christian Employees to Death”
— CDN reports: “Two brothers die, third in critical condition, after complaining they were not paid.”
— “Muslim employers of three Christian sanitation workers at a banquet/wedding hall here allegedly poisoned the three workers yesterday, killing two of them; at press time the third was struggling for life in intensive care.”
— “The father of the three workers, Yousaf Masih, said the owner of the hall, along with the manager, poisoned his sons because they were Christians who had dared to ask for pay owed to them.”
— “Imran Masih, 29, and Irfan Masih, 25, died at the Ferozewala Pul Banquet & Marriage Hall after being forced to drink something that was heavily poisoned, Yousaf Masih said. The third worker, 23-year-old Aakash Masih, was in critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit of Civil Hospital Gujranwala, in Punjab Province.”
— ” ‘It appears from the position they were in that they were forced to consume some kind of poisoned drink, or a drug, and they were left there to die,’ Yousaf Masih said. ‘The administration of the banquet and wedding hall did not call a hospital or take them to a hospital – instead they called us after the death of two of our loved ones.’ “

Turkey: Turks Threaten to Kill Priest over Swiss Minaret Decision

Turkey: Turks Threaten to Kill Priest over Swiss Minaret Decision
— CDN reports: ” In response to a Swiss vote banning the construction of new mosque minarets, a group of Muslims this month went into a church building in eastern Turkey and threatened to kill a priest unless he tore down its bell tower, according to an advocacy group.”
— “Three Muslims on Dec. 4 entered the Meryem Ana Church, a Syriac Orthodox church in Diyarbakir, and confronted the Rev. Yusuf Akbulut. They told him that unless the bell tower was destroyed in one week, they would kill him.”

France: Anti-Muslim graffiti found on French mosque — Nazi swastika and “white power”

France: Anti-Muslim graffiti found on French mosque
— AP reports: “Police say assailants have scrawled a Nazi slogan and hung pig feet on a mosque in southern France.”
— “Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has denounced the “vile and racist desecration” of the mosque in the town of Castres.”
— “Police say the swastika in black paint and slogans including Hitler salute “Sieg Heil” in German, “France to the French” in French, and “White Power” in English were scrawled on the mosque.”

Somalia: Extremists Stone Man to Death, Publicly Whip 15 Year Old Girl


— Somali Man Stoned to Death by Extremists for Adultery
— Bloomberg reports: “Somalia’s rebel Hisb-ul-Islam group had a man stoned to death for adultery in front of hundreds of people and a woman flogged for her relationship with him, Sheikh Osman Fidow, a security official for the group, said in an interview.”

— Somalia: Extremists Excute Two Men in Afgoye District
— RBC Radio: Mohammed Abubakar Ibrahim stoned to death for adultery, Sheik Osman Hassan Fidow said stoning based on “Islamic sharia law”
— “Adan  Ahmed who was at the scene told  RBC Radio that he was looking one of the excuted men  (Abu Bakr Mohammed Ibrahim) screaming, with blood pouring from his head and chest.. he added  ‘He died quickly after being hit by large pieces of rubble.’ ”
— “Ibrahim’s partner, a 15-year-old girl who did nor revealed her name, was punished with 100 lashes on her body because she is not married.”

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