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reports and articles on those with extremist views that mirror those of Osama Bin Laden
Pakistan: Report warns of Pakistan’s younger generation losing faith in democracy
— “Only a third believe democracy is the best system of governance, one third support sharia law, while 7% think dictatorship is a good idea.”
— British Council – Pakistan web site — Download “Pakistan – The Next Generation” report
— Pakistan wasting demographic dividend: British Council report
— Daily Mail: “Muslim father who staged hate campaign against own daughter over her arranged marriage given lifetime restraining order”
— Daily Mail reports: “Aurang Zeb threatened to kill his daughter and cut out her mother’s tongue after she refused to marry her cousin.”
— “In the first prosecution of its kind, Aurang Zeb has been convicted of breaching a Forced Marriage Protection Order taken out to stop him taking Rozina Akhtar out of Britain to marry.”
— “But despite his chilling threats he escaped imprisonment and was given community service. Last night campaigners condemned the sentence, saying it sent out the wrong message.”
Yet another stoning in Somalia with a crowd of 200 watching – this is the second stoning in Somalia this month. This latest stoning of a woman on November 17, 2009 was done by the extremist group al-Shabab. BBC and other news services conflict over the age of the woman who was stoned to death (see reports below).
This is the same al-Shabab that also used their extremist version of Sharia law to justify the stoning of 13 year old girl Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow. Aisha, who was a victim of gang-rape, was also stoned to death while a crowd of 1000 watched. We urge you to sign our petition demanding government and international recognition of the anti-freedom ideology of extremism used to oppress and to justify violence and murder against women (and men).
— BBC reports: “Somali woman stoned for adultery”
— “A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people.”
— “A judge working for the militant group al-Shabab said she had had an affair with an unmarried 29-year-old man.”
— “He said she gave birth to a still-born baby and was found guilty of adultery. Her boyfriend was given 100 lashes.”
— “It is thought to be the second time a woman has been stoned to death for adultery by al-Shabab.”
— “The group controls large swathes of southern Somalia where they have imposed a strict interpretation of Islamic law which has been unpopular with many Somalis.”
— “According to reports from a small village near the town of Wajid, 250 miles (400km) north-west of the capital, Mogadishu, the woman was taken to the public grounds where she was buried up to her waist.”
— “She was then stoned to death in front of the crowds on Tuesday afternoon.”
— “The judge, Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, said her unmarried boyfriend was given 100 lashes at the same venue.”
— “Under al-Shabab’s interpretation of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been married – even a divorcee – who has an affair is liable to be found guilty of adultery, punishable by stoning to death.”
— “An unmarried person who has sex before marriage is liable to be given 100 lashes.”
— “BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says the stoning is at least the fourth for adultery in Somalia over the last year.”
— “Earlier this month, a man was stoned to death for adultery in the port town of Merka, south of Mogadishu.”
— “His pregnant girlfriend was spared, until she gives birth.”
— “Last month, two men were stoned to death in Merka after being accused of spying.”
— “President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, was sworn in as president after UN-brokered peace talks in January.”
— “Although he says he also wants to implement Sharia, al-Shabab says his version of Islamic law would be too lenient.”
— “The country has not had a functioning national government for 18 years.”
— SINA News quotes Sheikh Abdurrahman, “a Al-Shabaab court judge in ElBon village in Bakool region,” as stating: “Haliimo Ibraahim Abdurrahman, 29, who had been previously married, had an illegal sex with Nanah Mohamed Maadey, 20, previously unmarried, and they have confessed to the acts in front of the court which sentenced Halimo to be stoned to death and Nanah to receive 100 lashes in accordance with the Islamic law.”
— South Africa News 24/DPA reports: “Somali woman stoned to death”
— “Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a 29-year-old married woman to death for adultery, the second such execution this month, officials said.”
— “Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman, an al-Shabaab judge, also ordered the woman’s sexual partner, and unmarried man, to receive one hundred lashes.”
— “Hundreds of spectators watched the stoning late on Tuesday in the village of Eelbon, southern Somalia.”
— “Al-Shabaab and its ally Hizbul Islam are battling the weak central government and control much of south and central Somalia. They have been implementing strict sharia, or Islamic law, in the areas they control, ordering floggings and executions. They have also banned musical ringtones and dancing at weddings. An estimated 19 000 civilians have died since early 2007 in Somalia’s bloody insurgency…”
— Daily Nation reports “Somalia: Woman Stoned to Death for Adultery”:
— “Mogadishu — An unnamed woman was stoned to death at Eel-boon in Wajid district, 330 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, on Wednesday. She was sentenced by an Islamic court after she was found guilty of adultery.”
— “The woman was taken to a square, her body half buried and then stoned.”
— “A crowd was present as well as officials of al-Shabaab, an Islamist movement that opposes the Transitional Federal Government and controls a large territory in Southern and Central Somalia.”
— “A young man, who was also caught in the same adulterous act, received 100 strokes of the cane.”
— “According to Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdurahman, a judge of the Islamic court who sentenced the woman to death and the man to whipping said the cases differed.”
— ” ‘The woman was had been married before and under Sharia (Islamic law) she is to be stoned to death upon proof,’ said Sheikh Abdurahman.”
— ” ‘The young man with no previous marriage experience is to receive 100 whips under the same law,’ he added.”
— “Last Friday, another Islamic court that falls under the control of al-Shabaab sentenced a young man to death by stoning in Marka town, 110 kilometres south of Mogadishu. He was found guilty of committing adultery following a case of alleged rape.”
— “At a football stadium facing the Indian Ocean, the condemned man was taken to a corner of the playground, his body half buried in dirt before youngsters started hitting him with stones.”
— “Before the execution, the clergymen who rule Marka town and surrounding areas announced that a woman who had also been sentenced for committing adultery was in custody, to be stoned.”
— “The woman is said to be pregnant.”
— “Al-Shabaab and Hizbu Islam, the Islamist groups that strongly oppose the TFG, generally enforce the severe punishments.”
— “In 2008, a teenage girl was accused of adultery in Kismayu, 500 kilometres south of Mogadishu, sentenced by a court and stoned to death.”
Update on the reported release of two Christian convert women from Islam, Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, who Elam Ministries states were ” released from Evin Prison in Tehran on November 18 at 3:30 pm [local time], without bail.” Elam Ministries reports: “However, they may yet have to face a court hearing and still need our prayers. ‘Words are not enough to express our gratitude to the Lord and to His people who have prayed and worked for our release,’ they said.”
— Ms. Maryam Rustampoor (27) and Ms. Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (30), were arrested for their religious beliefs in Christianity in Iran on March 5, 2009
— See previous R.E.A.L reports on Maryam and Marzieh
— 15 Year Old Egyptian Convert to Christianity Sends Plea to Obama
15-year-old Egyptian girl Dina el-Gowhary, who converted from Islam to Christianity, has sent a plea to President Obama, complaining of mistreatment by the Egyptian Government and asking for his mediation. “Mr President Obama,” she writes, “we are a minority in Egypt. We are treated very badly. You said that the Muslim minority in America are treated very well, so why are we not treated here likewise? We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country.”
The handwritten Arabic letter, posted on Coptic websites, also says “I am 15 years old but I still have hope that my message will reach President Obama.”
The el-Gowhary family was barred from leaving Egypt on September 17, 2009 without any legal reason. They were told, however, that the order came from a higher authority (AINA 9-26-200).
Dina, is the daughter of 57-year-old Maher el-Gowhary, also known by his Christian name Peter Athanasius, who embraced Christianity secretly 35 years ago. In August, 2008 he filed the second ever lawsuit of a Muslim-born Egyptian against the Egyptian Government to officially alter his identification documents to reflect his new Christian identity. He lost the case in June 2009. According to the Court ruling, the religious conversion of a Muslim is against Islamic Sharia law and poses a threat to the “Public Order” in Egypt. (AINA 6-16-2009). He appealed the ruling.
Maher and Dina have been living in hiding ever since he filed his lawsuit because Muslim clerics have called him an apostate and several Fatwas (religious edicts), for ‘spilling his blood’ have been issued. He frequently changes where he lives to evade being killed, and friends supply him with food. “We cannot sleep, eat or go out in the street,” he said. He believes that the authorities are putting pressure on them (he and Dina) to re-convert back to Islam, “but this will never happen, even if we have to live on the streets. We love our Lord Jesus, and we have left Islam for good.”
Sudan: Implications of Sharia Law for Sudan’s unity
— Zechariah Manyok Biar : “If Northerners are not ready to let Sharia Law go, then they should not blame Gen. Kiir for advising Southerners to vote for secession in 2011.”
Pakistan a leading player in imposing blasphemy law on globe through UNHRC: Nazir Bhatti
— Pakistan Christian Post reports: “Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC expressed reservations on UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/12/L.14/Rev.1 subject to “Religion Defamation” presented by Zamir Akram, a Pakistani representative of Organization of Islamic Conference OIC on behalf of Egypt and USA, the cosponsors of resolution because it will promote blasphemy law around globe.”
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National Post: “Jew Hatred on Campus”
“Anti-Jewish political groups like Hizb-ut-Tahrir seek to have a formal presence on campuses. This is how Ed Hussain, recalling his time as a college student in London, describes what he calls the ‘Islamist control of Muslim student population… At many universities the tactics of confrontation and consolidation of Muslim feeling under the leadership of Hizb activists were being adopted. The Hizb confronted the Jewish…lecturers…. What dumbfounded us was the fact that the authorities on campuses never stopped us.’ Hussain had been attracted to Islamism as a school-boy. A poster in his bed room quoted the famous appeal of Hassan al-Banna, the grandfather of Tariq Ramadan and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood:”
“Allah is our Lord.”
“Mohammed is our Leader. The Koran is Our Constitution. Violent Extemism is Our Way.”
“Martydom is Our Desire.”
“All over the world students at school or university put up posters of ‘revolutionary’ heroes like Che, or Mao, today Hugo Chavez or Sheik Nazrullah, without thinking through what they really stand for or have done. But how many have gone to sleep having done their homework under a poster urging jihad and expressing a desire for martyrdom?”
“At his college, Hussain helped cover the college walls as well as those in the street outside with a poster reading ‘Islam: The Final Solution’ because ‘deep down, we never really objected to the Holocaust… Without question we despised Jews and perceived a Jewish conspiraracy.’ Like a con-man who changes his name as he moves from town, Hizb is also adept at adopting new guises as it seeks to win over students to its anti-Semitic core beliefs. Islamist spokesmen have denounced Hussain’s expose of Hizb anti-Jewish work on campuses as being a lone example of what happened in the 1990s. Yet the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism reported that in December 2005, the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK organized a debate under the title ‘Zionism: The Greatest Enemy of the Jews.’ Some of the listed speakers were known to have expressed anti-Semitic opinions on previous occasions and the university cancelled the event. MPACUK riposted on its website saying ‘Jewish Societies’ were the same as ‘Zionist Socities.’ It accused Jewish students of working for Mossad and put up a picture of Spiderman using the classicial anti-Semitic motif of Jews spinning a web of control. In 2002, the University of Manchester Students’ Union discussed a motion that anti-Zionism was not anti-Semitism. The General Union of Palestinian Students distributed a leaflet before the vote which repeated classic anti-Semitic propaganda including the Benjamin Franklin forgery circulated by the Nazis, which claimed the American statesman had written an anti-Jewish tract in the 18th century which called Jews ‘vampires.’ The motion was defeated. The response of the Jew-haters was to throw a brick through the window of a Jewish student residence and a poster with the words ‘Slaughter the Jews’ was stuck on the front door.”
“So Ed Hussain’s description of Islamist anti-Semitism on the campus is far from an isolated example from the 1990s; the Jew-hatred in British universities has intensified this century. In 2005, the Glasgow-based national Scottish paper, The Herald, reported that Hizb, and other Islamist groups with different names but sharing the same political gene pool and anti-Jewish obsessions, were seeking to infiltrate Scottish universities. A Hizb spokesman admitted that the extremist organization was seeking to work ‘in Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh universities.’ Al Muhajiroun, the breakaway group from Hizb and arguably even more violent in its anti-Semitism, was also active in Dundee and other universities. According to The Herald, Dundee University ‘said it had no knowledge of radical Islamic groups being active on its campus’ while ‘Edinburgh University said it… did not object to religious groups holding meetings on campus as long as they operated within the law and did not deploy inappropriate tactics.’ But both Hizb and Al Muharjiroun exist to snuff out free speech and replace democracy. They are not religious groups in the same sense as Quakers, or Buddhists, or Mormons, or Orthodox Christians who wish to share their views on faith with others. Hizb and its off-shoots are deeply political and refuse to join in campaigns to condemn attacks on Jews worldwide.”
— CDN: “Court Seeks Help to Link Murders in Turkey to ‘Deep State’ ”
— CDN reports “Judges and prosecutors in the trial regarding the murder of three Christians in this southeastern city in Turkey on Friday (Nov. 13) renewed their request for help from the Istanbul High Criminal Court as reports mounted linking the slayings to top gendarmerie officials.”
