Archive for September 16th, 2008
China Wants UN To Help Trace Sources On Internet
So there won’t be any anonymity in the web:
“A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous. The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the ‘IP Traceback’ drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal. Members of Q6/17 have declined to release key documents, and meetings are closed to the public. The potential for eroding Internet users’ right to remain anonymous, which is protected by law in the United States and recognized in international law by groups such as the Council of Europe, has alarmed some technologists and privacy advocates. Also affected may be services such as the Tor anonymizing network.”
Slashdot | China Wants UN To Help Trace Sources On Internet.
Related posts: CHRC launches independent review on hate messaging on the internet h/t Larry Borsato. So the question is: what is hate messaging? Telling a member of the Governement “you’re an asshole”? Or considering Mohammed a pedophile?
A Moroccan theologian promotes young girls’ weddings
My translation of the news published by Spanish newspaper El PAIS:
A nine-year old girl gives “better results in bed than a 20-year-old girl”. In the Islamic world, specially in the Arabic peninsula, the weddings between girls and adult men are relatively normal, but the Muslim theologians do not use to justify it in a so crude way as the Moroccan theologian Mohammed ben Abderraman al Maghraoui.
He published a fatwa earlier this month in which he legalises the union between a young girl and an adult man. “We have been told, and we have seen by ourselves, that girls this age give better results than the adult women”, he states. “So, they are as able as 20-year-old girls to wed themselves”.
Al Maghraoui, a reknown Salafist sheik, author of half a dozen teology books, wrote and published the fatwa in the webpage of his association “Preaching and Sunna in the Quram”. His critics state that probably ha has published it to protect some friend who has been wed in secret.
His statement has provoked a great scandal in Morocco, but the authorities have not said oficially anything about this subject. The radical theologian considers as a basis for his fatwa, the example of the prophet Mohammed. Aixa, he remembers, was only six when he was engaged to her, although he didn’t marry her till she was nine.
“There are vicious teologians who are able to use religion to promote paedophilia”, writes the socialist newspaper Al Ittihad al Ichtiraki. “Yes, he is promoting paedophilia”, says Najia Adib, director of the association Don’t touch my sons, who is fighting in Morocco against it. Even the Islamist MP Abdelbari Zemzmi, an ex-imam, considers as “perverse”, the fatwa because “since the Prophet’s times the social reality has changed”.
A Rabat’s lawyer, Mourad Bakouri, has denounced Al Maghraoui under the new Moroccan Law, which states that the minimum legal age to wed is 18 and makes it difficult to be repealed. But its application has several problems in a very conservative society.
In an effort to prevent the proliferation of fatwas, which in some cases are absurd, the Superior Council of Ulemas assures that only its members are collectively qualified to issue them. That’s why it’s surprising that none of them has said anything about Al Maghraoui’s initiative. It’s also surprising that the Prosecuting Office has not undertaken any proceedings considering that the fatwa is calling to break the law.
Un teólogo marroquí promueve las bodas con niñas · ELPAÍS.com
via Cinco Dias.
Jihad Watch has reported that Al Maghraoui has said that he is a confirmed theologian and that he has not made this up: “It is the prophet who said that before me”. And continued:
“Those who criticise me, like the press or Moroccan television as well as the lawyer who filed the complaint (against me), are part of a secular attack against the Islamic nation and its theologians,” he added.
Muslims continue pushing Christians out of Bethlehem
Without any important MSM reporting about this… In the end, they are only Christians…
It is estimated that, for the past seven years, more than one thousand Christians have been emigrating from the Bethlehem area annually and that only 10,000 to 13,000 Christians remain in the city. International human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner, who teaches at Hebrew University, told the Jerusalem Institute for Global Jewish Affairs that, under the PA-Fatah regime, Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses by Muslims.
“There are many examples of intimidation, beatings, land theft, firebombing of churches and other Christian institutions, denial of employment, economic boycotts, torture, kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and extortion,” he said. PA officials are directly responsible for many of the attacks, and some Muslims who have converted to Christianity have been murdered.
Jihad Watch: Muslims continue pushing Christians out of Bethlehem
Erraji Released
These are really good news, but he shouldn’t have been condemned in the first place:
The court of appeals ruled on Thursday that the lower court had failed to respect certain legal procedures under the Press and Publication Law. The public prosecutors office did not object to Erajjis release.
Erraji Released : Committee to Protect Bloggers
Looks like the international pressure has done its work. For a background on this case, click here.
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