Archive for July 21st, 2008
A truly interesting question for Obama
Here’s a question Barack Obama might want to ask Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas when they meet in the Middle East next week: How could you, Mr. President, join in the unseemly celebration of a child murderer as a “hero”?
There’s not much chance of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee posing such an impolitic question during his get-together with Abbas in Ramallah on the West Bank. Yet it goes to the heart of the culture of the Palestinian side of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and to the hopes of eventually achieving a lasting peace deal.
The child murderer is Samir Kuntar, whom the Israelis freed in a prisoner swap that brought home the bodies of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped — and, as it turned out, fatally wounded — in an attack two years ago that ignited a monthlong war in southern Lebanon between Israel and the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The freeing of Kuntar has long been a terrorist goal; the two Israeli soldiers had been kidnapped to try to win his release.
Yes, a more than accurate question for Mahmoud Abbas, specially after seeing this photo of “peaceful Kuntar”.
Technorati Tags: Samir+Kantar, Samir+Kuntar, Obama, Mahmoud+Abbas
Why Saudi king does not begin “inter-religious dialogue” in his own country?
Because intolerance is taught at Saudi schools and he is doing nothing to stop it:
Textbooks used in schools across the conservative Muslim kingdom refer to Jews and Christians as apes and swine and attack other Muslims who do not practice a fundamentalist form of Islam, according to a report by US-based think tank the Hudson Institute.
A truly rare way of promoting “dialogue among religions”, isn’t it?
Technorati Tags: Saudi+Arabia, King+Abdullah, clash+of+civilizations, dialogue+among+religions, Wahabbism, Madrid’s+World+Conference+on+Dialogue
Archbishop of Canterbury: “Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims”
UK finest moonbat rides again:
Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.
Dr Rowan Williams also criticised Christianity’s history for its violence, its use of harsh punishments and its betrayal of its peaceful principles.
His comments came in a highly conciliatory letter to Islamic leaders calling for an alliance between the two faiths for ‘the common good’.
And??? Will he add that Islamic doctrine is offensive to Christians?? No, don’t worry, that would be “truly offensive” to Muslims… And as his words are only offensive to “stupid violent Christian warmongers” waging war against peaceful jihadis, what he isn’t really offensive, you know.
EURSOC has more comments on the subject.
as a fine report in The Spectator shows, there isn’t even a majority of Muslim nations with Sharia installed as the legal system. Why should Britain go where most Muslims don’t want to go?
Yeah, but those countries are not supporting multiculturalism are they?
NOTE: if Islamic countries have now truly barbaric laws, specially regarding non-Muslims and women, just imagine what would happen if Sharia Law was applied…
Technorati Tags: Rowan+Williams, Archbishop+of+Canterbury, Uk, Great+Britain, Christianity, Islam
Egypt: two thirds of women have been sexually harrased
Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed Thursday.
The forms of harassment reported by Egyptian men, whose country attracts millions of foreign tourists each year, include touching or ogling women, shouting sexually explicit remarks, and exposing their genitals to women. “Sexual harassment has become an overwhelming and very real problem experienced by all women in Egyptian society, often on a daily basis,” said the report by the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights.
This must be the oriental “romantic” sense…
Jihad Watch had posted about this some months ago via Spanish Pundit.
Sandmonkey also posted about a specific case of sexual abuse in Egypt:
bloggers available downtown documented the whole thing, and provided pictures of it as well. Reading their accounts I can’t help by feel my heart being torn on what the people of the country has turned to. The one that broke my heart the most was Sharqawi’s account (remember, he is the guy who got sexually assaulted by the police during interrogation ) and how it suddenly danwed at him that what happend to him wasn;t an isolated incident. That The Police forces didn;t came from another planet, that they were born and raised egyptians, amongst the egyptian people, the same egyptian people who have produced those mobs who found it in their right to attack girls in middle of crowded downtown for 5 houres under the police’s watchdul eyes. The ones who approached the police asking them to do something were told : “what do you want us to do? It’s Eid. Happy Eid to you too!” The same response was given to women who went to the police stations to report the incidents. The police refused to do their jobs and take a report, because it would probably reflect badly on their downtown peers. Some people were surprised at the Police’s reaction, but the majoirty of us weren’t. Those are the same police officers who facilitated the assaults on women last year during the referendum. This is business as usual for them.
There were protest for the lack of police action but the protesters were arrested (and beaten) afterwards:
Here are Nasser Nouri’s pictures of Nadia and Walid’s arrest , provided by Hosam from arabawy, who provided me with more information on what happend to the two activists: They spent the night in the Qasr Al Neel police station, and will be presented today to the public persecutor’s office for disturbing public order. According to their lawyer, Nadia was beaten up during the arrest and the SS officer kept beating her against the police truck’s metal stairsteps. She was later greeted at the police station with slaps on the face before being thrown in a jail cell with criminals.
Anyway, a Muslim Brotherhood’s MP has sent “an inquiry to the ministry of tourism against their passive role in preventing tourists from getting sexually harassed, and maybe even they will pass a law that criminalizes the sexual harassment of foreign touristy women“… because that would damage Egyptian tourism… Magnificent… Damned hipocrisy!
Technorati Tags: Egypt, sexual+harrasment
British Communist Party launches “hand-off China” campaign
The campaign dubbed “Hands off China” is aimed to defend China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, support the “One China” principle and the country’s just stands on issues of its vital national interest such as Taiwan and Tibet.
It is also expected to refute hostile propaganda and misinformation of western media and uphold the great revolutionary traditions of the Chinese communists, working class and people, and support the achievements of the Chinese people in eliminating poverty and building a strong, powerful and modernized socialist country as well as China’s contributions to realizing a multi-polar and peaceful world and to the independent, anti-imperialist development of the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
In the launching ceremony of the campaign in London, there were the amazing number of 50 people!! Anyway, it’s a little bit worrying that there are people in Great Britain who are trying to defend Chinese Government without taking into account its horrible record of Human Rights.
Anyway, China is preparing its citizens for the Olimpics. Just read the “recommendations in case you see a terrorist“.
Technorati Tags: British+Communist+Party, “Hands+off+China”, Hands+off+China+campaign, Human+Rights, Human+Rights+abuses
UK prime minister acknowledges aide lost Blackberry during trip in China
IHT:
The British prime minister’s office says a senior aide lost his BlackBerry phone during an official trip to China in January.
But it has denied a report in the Sunday Times that the phone was stolen in a suspected Chinese intelligence operation.
The newspaper alleges that the aide reported the phone lost after leaving a party at a hotel disco with an attractive Chinese woman.
The newspaper cites an unnamed official as saying the loss bears the hallmarks of a “honeytrap.”
So he left a party with an “attractive Chinese woman” and after he “reported the phone lost”, phone which must have important information because if not nothing would have been said. He didn’t say (of course) what he did in the middle, but you don’t need to be very imaginative, do you?
No, hummm, no honeytrap. Right…
Technorati Tags: Gordon+Brown, China, UK, Great+Britain, British+aide+lost+Blackberry+in+China
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