Archive for September 27th, 2008
Omar Bakri’s Daughter is a Pole Dancer
You Don’t say!!! 
Yasmin Fostok, 27, has admitted rebelling against her father’s strict Muslim beliefs by performing semi-naked in London bars and nightclubs.
She lives as a single mother in South East London, bringing up her three-year-old son conceived during an arranged marriage to a Turkish man which has since collapsed.
Miss Fostok, who left the Bakri former home in North London four years ago, said: ‘I don’t get on with my dad. I don’t agree with his views – I just get on with my life and that is it.’
It has been reported that Miss Fostok regularly works in bars in the West End and has toured other countries as a podium dancer with a troupe called Ibiza Untouched.
She is also thought to work a fire-eating routine into her act and performs semi-naked inside cages.
(…) Last night her father said: ‘If this is true I am deeply shocked.’
Speaking from Lebanon, where he has lived since being exiled from the UK three years ago, he added: ‘She was brought up properly in the Muslim faith but she is free to make her own choices in life. But I am still shocked.
‘I haven’t spoken to her for a long time, because I believed she was living with her family in Turkey. But I knew nothing of this.
‘She should not seek forgiveness from me, she should seek forgiveness from God.
Daughter of Radical Islamic Cleric is a Pole Dancer « Doctor Bulldog & Ronin.
Let’s hope she is not killed out of “family’s honor“…
More commentary at IBA.
Pakistan militants threaten more bombs
A militant group that claimed to be behind the deadly Marriott Hotel bombing in Pakistan’s capital threatened more attacks Wednesday, warning again that Pakistanis should stop cooperating with the United States.
In a cell phone message to reporters, the little known group calling itself “Fedayeen al-Islam” — “Islam commandos” — referred to the owner of the Marriott by name.
“All those who will facilitate Americans and NATO crusaders like (owner Sadruddin) Haswani, they will keep on receiving the blows,” said the message, which was in English.
It was impossible to verify the identity of the group or say whether it was in a position to make good on the threat. Pakistani officials were not immediately available for comment.
Pakistan militants threaten more bombs – Yahoo! News.
Read also Pakistan warns US Again, This Time After Exchanging Fire from Poligazzette:
Whatever the case, it is for the first time that the two sides have exchanged fire. This is, considering the fact that they are allies, significant. It is a sign that the situation at the border could very well escalate; unless the U.S. gives in. It is unlikely that Pakistan will give in, because it cannot do so; President Asif Ali Zardari has to present himself as a strong, determined leader, willing to say ‘no’ to the United States. If he does not, he may very well be ousted sooner rather than later.
Epaminondas has also written about this last incident in the Afghan-Pakistani border.
Related posts:
- Afghan Ambassador kidnapped in north-west Pakistan.
- Pakistan gets a message against closer co-operation with US.
- Pakistan: US did not warn of any strike.
- WHO cancels polio jabs for Afghan children after doctors killed.
- Pakistan’s tribal areas: A wild frontier.
- Pakistan strikes back and accuses US of cooperating with terrorism.
- Pakistan restores three judges ousted by Musharraf.
- india accuses Pakistani intelligence of terrorist attack.
- Afghanistan accuses Pakistani intelligence of the terrorist attack against the Indian embassy.
Forced marriages in UK:
Hundreds of children fearing for their lives have called a new national helpline set up to assist victims of forced marriages since its launch four months ago, The Independent has learnt. Many are seeking ways to escape parents and family members who are trying to force them into unwanted marriages. Others have said they fear becoming victims of so-called “honour killings”, because of social and sexual behaviour that their community disapproves of.
According to the first national breakdown of callers, an average of 62 victims are phoning for help every week. One in 10 is under the age of 16. One 14-year-old girl said she was in fear of her life because she had become pregnant and thought her parents would kill her or marry her off if they found out.
(…) According to Jasvinder Sanghera, who was disowned by her family for refusing a forced marriage and went on to set up Karma Nirvana, the youngest caller to the new helpline was 13.
“We have to move away from thinking that forced marriages and honour-based violence only affect a few people,” she said. “These numbers will be just the tip of the iceberg.”
Activists believe schools must do more to train teachers to be aware of the tell-tale signs that indicate a pupil might be at risk of a forced marriage so that they can alert the correct authorities without tipping off potentially violent family members.
Forced marriages: the trail of misery and fear in Britain – Home News, UK – The Independent.
And this is UK!! It’s not Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Sudan.
Related posts:
- Saudi Arabia: another child marriage.
- Pakistan: kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married.
- Yemen: divorced 10-year-old speaks openly about her marriage.
- Children’s marriage in Islam: some comments.
- Social movement against child brides in Yemen.
- India: the “Dissapearing Daughters” report (II).
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‘Homosexual cleansing’ rampant in Iraq (I)
The improved freedom and security in Iraq do not extend to the homosexual population, who are subject to a sexual cleansing campaign, evidence shows.
Peter Tatchell, human rights activist and member of the gay rights group OutRage!, writes in The Guardian Thursday of the apparent sanctioned murder of the Iraqi homosexual population.
So-called death squads affiliated with the Shiite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the Badr Organization, as well as the Mehdi Army of firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr, have been coordinating a cleansing campaign at the behest of several leading religious figures in Iraq.
Revered cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Tatchell notes, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling for the killing of homosexuals in the “most severe way possible.”
Tatchell in the short film “Queer Fear — Gay Life, Gay Death in Iraq” points to provisions in the Iraqi Constitution that permit “honor killings,” which he says tacitly sanction violence against gays.
A 2006 report by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq, meanwhile, reports homosexuals in Iraq are increasingly at risk of extrajudicial killings due to their sexual orientation.
‘Sexual cleansing’ rampant in Iraq – Middle East Times.
“Homosexuals are increasingly at risk of extrajudicial killings due to their sexual orientation”, but international MSM and homosexual organizations aren’t denouncing this at all.
(I) By the way, an Iraqi gay leader has been gunned down:
This morning, I received news from Iraq that the coordinator of Iraqi LGBT in Baghdad, Bashar, aged 27, a university student, has been assassinated in a barber shop.
“Militias burst in and sprayed his body with bullets at point blank range.”
Continued Tatchell’s statement, “He was the organizer of the safe houses for gays and lesbians in Baghdad. His efforts saved the lives of dozens of people.”
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