Throughout the Islamic world wherever Sharia law is upheld harsh punishments are introduced. I think in Europe we have decide which way we want to go!! Flogging – an everyday occurrence in Saudi Arabia – but it seems no cameras are allowed. 

Close to a fifth of Muslims in Denmark want to see Sharia law implemented in Denmark. A study conducted by analysis institute Capacent for DR news shows that 18% of Muslims in Denmark declare they ‘agree’ or ‘completely agree’ with the statement: “Sharia law should be integrated into Danish law”.

Sharia legislation is several hundred years old and built on principles from the Koran and report of the Prophet Muhammad’s life.

But the notion of what sharia is, is interpreted very different by Muslims round the world.

In countries like Sudan, Nigeria and Iran sharia law means that adultery or stealing can lead to cutting off of hands or whipping. At the same time, there are laws which considerably place women worse off than men, which means that women can be refused the right to a divorce.

In several Western countries, some Sharia law is implemented. Here in Denmark it’s possible to receive a so-called sharia-loan without interest, and in Great Britain there are so-called sharia councils which can solve private conflicts between Muslims.

Source: Jihad Watch, Europe News

An Egyptian butcher controls a pig as a medical team member examine it at the slaughter house in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 30, 2009. Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precaution against swine flu even though no cases have been reported here, infuriating farmers who blocked streets and stoned vehicles of Health Ministry workers who came to carry out the government’s order. (AP Photo/Nasser Nouri)

They are supposed to be killing the pigs to ‘protect’ the population from the H1N1 flu – but look at how these men are dressed – no protective gear on!! This just shows you that it is all about religion – unfortunately the Islamic world is some years behind the Western world – in most things.

Places like Egypt are clearly where Europe was several hundred years ago – he is walking through the streets openly and without gloves holding a pig about to be culled to ‘protect’ the Egyptian population from a virus – that does not emanate directly from pigs. This is a farce!!

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization announced Thursday it will would stop using the term “swine flu” to avoid confusion over the danger posed by pigs. The policy shift came a day after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs in a misguided effort to prevent swine flu.

WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the agriculture industry and the U.N. food agency had expressed concerns that the term “swine flu” was misleading consumers and needlessly causing countries to ban pork products and order the slaughter of pigs.

“Rather than calling this swine flu … we’re going to stick with the technical scientific name H1N1 influenza A,” Thompson said.

Egypt began slaughtering its roughly 300,000 pigs Wednesday even though experts said swine flu is not linked to pigs and not spread by eating pork. Angry farmers protested the government decree.

In Paris, the World Organization for Animal Health said Thursday “there is no evidence of infection in pigs, nor of humans acquiring infection directly from pigs.”
Killing pigs “will not help to guard against public or animal health risks” presented by the virus and “is inappropriate,” the group said in a statement.

China, Russia, Ukraine and other nations have banned pork exports from Mexico and parts of the United States, blaming swine flu fears.

Most in the Muslim world consider pigs unclean animals and do not eat pork because of religious restrictions. The farmers in Egypt raise the pigs for consumption by the country’s Christian minority.

WHO also reported the number of confirmed swine flu cases rose to 257 worldwide Thursday, with cases in Mexico rising to 97 from 26, with seven deaths. The WHO confirmed tally from the United States now stands at 109, with one death.

Other confirmed cases include 19 in Canada, 13 in Spain, eight in Britain, three each in Germany and New Zealand, two in Israel and one each in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Thompson told reporters in Geneva that at least one of the Spanish cases involved a person who had not traveled to Mexico. Spanish officials said that was a man who apparently got the virus from his girlfriend, who recently returned from Mexico.[..]

In the Sikh religion boys and girls are often dressed the same when they are young. 

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has forcibly captured three houses and ten shops belonging to people of the Sikh community in the Orakzai Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) after they failed to fulfil their demands of huge protection money (the Islamic Jizya tax levied on non-Muslims living in Muslim regions).

According to the sources, Taliban gunmen forced all the 24 family members of one Kalyan Singh out of their houses and shops. Singh, a cloth merchant, was kidnapped by extremists a fortnight ago, and was released when he paid 3.5 million rupees out of the 13 million rupees which was demanded as protection money. After Singh failed to arrange the rest of the amount, the Taliban occupied the properties.

Source: Times of India

Displaced women to the Pakistan military offensive on Taliban hold their infants at repatriation centre Peshawar, located in the North West Frontier Province April 30, 2009.

BUNER VALLEY, Pakistan (Reuters) – The Pakistan army battled through mountain passes on Thursday in a third day of fighting to evict Taliban fighters from a strategic valley, after U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed its newfound resolve.

The militants were still controlling parts of Buner valley, just 100 km (60 miles) northwest of the capital, Islamabad, though troops had secured the main town of Daggar on Wednesday after helicopters dropped them behind enemy lines.

Obama told a news conference in Washington on that Pakistan’s army had begun to realize that homegrown militants and posed a bigger current threat to the Muslim nation’s stability than India, despite three wars between the two old rivals.

“On the military side, you’re starting to see some recognition just in the last few days that the obsession with India as the mortal threat to Pakistan has been misguided, and that their biggest threat right now comes internally,” Obama said.

“And you’re starting to see the Pakistani military take much more seriously the armed threat from militant extremists.”

The Taliban’s creeping advance from their stronghold in Swat valley, unnerved many Pakistanis and raised fears in Washington that its nuclear-armed ally was becoming more unstable.

Obama said he was confident about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.

SWAT NEXT?

On Thursday troops used helicopter gunships and artillery to target militants hideouts in Buner, and hundred of families were seen streaming out of the valley, their vehicles laden with whatever belongings they could carry, including cattle.

“We are leaving but we don’t know where we will be going. There was shelling over my village the whole night,” said an old woman, her head and face covered, as she sat on the back of a pick-up truck.

Military spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas said security forces has won control of at least two passes on Thursday, but were having to move carefully because of roadside bombs.

He also delivered a warning to the Taliban in Swat for failing to keep their side of the bargain after the government accepted demands to establish Islamic sharia courts across the Malakand Division of North West Frontier Province, which includes Swat, Buner and several other districts.

“The terrorism, terrorizing of people of the area is continuing unabated and this we consider a gross violation of peace deal,” Abbas told a news conference in Rawalpindi, the garrison town neighboring Islamabad.

Abbas said the militants had refused to disarm, had abducted security forces personnel and killed policemen and civilians.

U.S. officials have urged Pakistan to follow through on this week’s offensives in Dir and Buner rather than let the enemy regroup, and speculation was mounting that once the army has secured Buner it will turn its attention to the Taliban in Swat.

Abbas gave no casualty update from the fighting in Buner and Lower Dir, where an operation began on Sunday, but as of Wednesday more than 120 militants had been killed.

OBAMA “GRAVELY CONCERNED”

Before the military offensive in Buner, Western allies, who need Pakistan’s support to defeat al Qaeda and stabilize neighboring Afghanistan, were worried the government seemed too willing to appease militants.

“I am gravely concerned about the situation in Pakistan, not because I think that they’re immediately going to be overrun and the Taliban would take over in Pakistan,” Obama told a news conference in Washington on Wednesday.

“I’m more concerned that the civilian government there right now is very fragile and don’t seem to have the capacity to deliver basic services: schools, health care, rule of law, a judicial system that works for the majority of the people.”

Clearly religiously motivated and that’s unfortunate – as the virus is a mixer of pig, bird and human – likely the Egyptians won’t kill all the birds in the country (or all the humans). Let’s hope someone can talk some sense into this lot.

ROME, April 29 (Reuters) – Egypt’s order on Wednesday to cull all the country’s pigs is “a real mistake” and another reason why the world needs to rethink using “swine flu” to describe a virus affecting humans, a U.N. agency official said.

Egypt, where pigs are mainly raised by the country’s Christian minority, described the order to slaughter the animals as a precautionary measure in a country hard hit by bird flu. Up to 400,000 pigs could be culled, a cabinet spokesman said.

Joseph Domenech, the chief veterinary officer at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, told Reuters his staff were trying to reach Egyptian authorities to correct any confusion about a virus that has killed humans but not been found in pigs.

“It’s a real mistake. There is no reason to do that. It’s not a swine influenza, it’s a human influenza,” said Domenech, adding the FAO had been trying to reach Egyptian officials but has so far been unsuccessful.

“There is certainly no support from FAO for that decision.”

The new H1N1 flu strain — a mixture of swine, human and avian flu viruses — has killed up to 159 people in Mexico and a 23-month-old boy in the United States.

But since no pigs have been found with the disease, groups like the FAO and the Paris-based Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) are lobbying for a name change.

“This is one of the results of this strange way of defining the disease as a swine influenza. That’s why the FAO and OIE are fighting to get that name changed because it’s a totally undue focus on swine,” he said.

Egypt, harder hit by the H5N1 bird flu virus than any other country outside Asia, is deeply worried about the effects of another flu virus after extensive damage to its poultry industry and economy.

Egypt’s al-Ahram newspaper said owners of culled pigs could receive 1,000 Egyptian pounds ($177) per animal in compensation, although an Egyptian cabinet spokesman said the issue was still under discussion.

Youssouf Fofana, 28, who led a loose-knit gang of youths from an immigrant housing estate, swaggered into court and shouted “Allah will conquer” as the court began hearing a case into a killing that horrified France and the world Jewish community in 2006.

Mr Fofana and most of his 26 alleged accomplices have admitted their roles in the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi, 23, an assistant in a Paris telephone shop, who was held for ransom for 24 days in the suburb of Bagneux.

Mr Fofana, whose parents came to France from Ivory Coast, denies killing the victim, who was tied up in a cellar and tortured with acid, cigarettes and knives. He died in an ambulance after Mr Fofana dumped him by a railway line and allegedly set him alight.

The crime symbolised the casual and violent anti-Semitic culture among the young on the immigrant estates. It shocked France because many residents, including parents of gang members, were alleged to have been aware that Mr Halimi was being held. Some allegedly took turns in guarding the captive for a few euros. Half the defendants, mainly teenagers at the time, face charges of failing to render assistance or alert police.

The racially charged trial proceeded in camera because two of the accused were minors in 2006, including Emma, 19, of Iranian background, who is alleged to have lured Mr Halimi to his doom by visiting his shop and inviting him on a romantic date.

Ruth Halimi, the victim’s mother, has accused the police of bungling the inquiry. She initially attacked the Government, including Nicolas Sarkozy, then the Interior Minister, for playing down its anti-Semitic aspect.

After thousands demonstrated, Mr Sarkozy promised Jewish leaders that everything would be done to bring all those involved to justice.

Mr Fofana faces life imprisonment if convicted of kidnapping, torture and murder, aggravated by anti-Semitic motives, a specific charge in French law.

Mrs Halimi sat apparently praying in court as Mr Fofana, bearded and in a white tracksuit, grinned at her and jokingly told the judges that his name was “Arabs African revolt barbarian Salafist army”. Salafism is a fundamentalist movement espoused by many young immigrant radicals.

Mrs Halimi has been waging a campaign to keep the spotlight on the anti-Semitic motives behind the crime. Mr Fofana’s accomplices are alleged to have said that he picked the victim because he was Jewish and “Jews have money and they stick together”.

Source: Times Online

HEBRON: A Palestinian court on Tuesday sentenced to death by hanging a man convicted of selling land in the occupied West Bank to Israelis.

A court in the West Bank town of Hebron sentenced Anwat Breghit, 59, to death by hanging after finding him guilty of treason and of “selling Palestinian land to Israelis.”

According to the indictment, Breghit sold property belonging to his village of Beit Omar near Hebron to Israelis from the nearby Jewish settlement of Karmei Tzur.

The sentence still requires the approval of president Mahmud Abbas in order to be carried out.

Dozens of Palestinians have been sentenced to death since 2000 over charges of collaboration with the Israeli authorities. Only two people have seen their sentences carried out, but many others were summarily executed over similar suspicions.

Source: Times of India

To ward off attack – Pakistan now goes through the process of proving – just how Muslims they are.

LAHOREl A prominent college for women in Lahore, Pakistan has barred students from wearing jeans or figure-hugging clothes in the wake of a reported terrorist threat.

Kinnaird College, which is among Lahore’s oldest educational institutions, has imposed the strict dress code according to which students can attend classes in shalwar kameezes or loose trousers.

Wearing a dupatta has also been made mandatory. The college’s Vice Principal Nikhat Khan told the Daily Times newspaper that the measures were in line with a government notification and had no connection with rumours about burqa-clad women issuing warnings to students.

Khan said jeans and tight dresses were banned at the college several years ago but the new principal was unaware of the ban and girls were using this to their advantage.

However, students said there was an “atmosphere of fear” after the introduction of the rules.

Source: Times of India

Piotr Stanczak’s message before he is beheaded begins at about 4 mins in.

Piotr Stanczak’s message before he is beheaded begins at about 4 mins in.

WARSAW, Poland — The remains of a Polish geologist beheaded by Islamic militants in Pakistan were returned Wednesday to Poland in a casket draped in the two countries’ flags and covered in flowers.

Piotr Stanczak’s body was flown to Warsaw’s military airport on a Pakistani air force plane. In a short ceremony on the tarmac, a Roman Catholic priest prayed over the white casket.

Dressed in black, Stanczak’s son and girlfriend stood briefly by the casket, their heads bowed.

The geologist was one of a handful of foreigners kidnapped in Pakistan in recent months as the country witnessed a deterioration in security along with a rise in al-Qaida and Taliban-led violence.

Stanczak was kidnapped Sept. 28 close to the Afghan border while he was carrying out a project for a Krakow-based geophysics company that surveys oil and gas fields.

He was held hostage for several months before his captors beheaded him in February, a killing that they videotaped.

On Sunday, a car dropped the casket near a paramilitary camp in Razmak, Pakistan. Officials then confirmed the remains were those of Stanczak.

Source: AP

No wonder they hate us !!

We continuously see evidence of Muslims macabre prayers for destruction and harm to come to non-Muslims – but then look around the world – and notice who are the ones being killed.

The former German Chancellor is said to have warned Muslims – ‘Be careful those who wish death upon others – as it may be yours that you get!’

I think what this video is good demonstration of what could take place – but it doesn’t take into account a couple of things – is mixed marriages – Muslims marrying those from within their adoptive countries – and conversions from Islam. In Europe there are very few marriages between Muslims and others – and one of the reasons for this is the arranged marriage – for passport system (or scam) – something which the Americans haven’t clued into yet.

The arranged marriages between those of the home country and the adopted – are one of the foremost reasons for the disproportionate increase in Muslim numbers – dubbed ‘fetching marriages’ – and even ‘forced marriages’ – most cases of honor killings in the West – if they are not about Islamic clothing – are almost always about marriage – and marriage – not just to anyone – marriage to a cousin – from the family’s homeland – in exchange for a Western passport.

Muslims across Europe – were taking advantage of this immigration loophole – so much so that almost no one marries the girl or boy they met down the road – as their parents had arranged for them – a marriage – to someone from their homeland – in Norway ‘I believe’ – in one year – a study showed – there was only 4 marriages between the Muslim immigrants and the native Norwegians – and in 20 short years – 1000 Muslims – who wittingly or unwittingly became a part of this study – had increase their numbers to over 20,000.

The fact is that no nation can support that type of population grow – especially when it is those who – largely have little or no respect for democracy and rule of law – by the people.

What this study found – was that each of the Islamic immigrants given refuge – married a person from their homelands – in this case – Turkey – and in some cases the men would divorce and remarry up to three times – each time choosing a partner from Turkey. Demonstrating how one man could become 4 without even making a single child. If every Muslim (theoretically) marries a person from the old country every time – then every person doubles – without producing a single baby. And if all family members work this system – for three generations – which many are doing – then you not only have to take into account – the number of children per couple – but that for each person – the marriage partner must be added to the growth equation.    

Norway has now outlawed the practise outright – but only recently – the Leftist government – had to admit the practise of ‘family reunification’ was being abused. Holland has placed restrictions on the practise and significantly reduced the numbers taking part in these marriage for passports arrangements. France – will allow these marriages – if the person has a job and can demonstrate they can support the person – and then the newcomer is watched for eight years to see if they have embraced the French value system – in other words if they want Shari’a they can go home – as happened to one Moroccan immigrant – who had children while in France – but this was before her trail period was up – and she was deported back to Morocco – for rejecting French values – which her immigration to France was based on her acceptance of.

Several EU countries have introduced a test – to determine whether Muslim visa applicants – are willing to accept that – the countries they wish to migrant to – are the free world a place where Islamic values and belief system become personal. Germany and Holland are most notable. Germany has made efforts to take Iraqi refugees – who are ‘most in need’ – i.e. Christians, single mothers and the elderly or sick. 

Apostacy – Once Muslim, not always a Muslim

Muslims have this clause – most don’t fully understand when they sign up – and that is – no one is allowed to leave the religion (shot in the back) !! In Europe and America there are Muslims who have converted to Christianity – and other religions – or just chosen none – atheism – and their numbers are growing – along with organizations which represent their issues (being attacked and maligned by Muslims who reject their apostasy), because of the threat of attack – immigrants from Islamic countries – are often reluctant to openly express a change in their religious beliefs.  

In this respect even the Islamic world is changing – Christians broadcasters are talking of the level of mail they are receiving from with the Islamic world – the Middle East and Egypt – of people who are saying they have secretly converted. In Iran there are an estimated 1 million – according to the Iranian parliament – so frightened – they have introduced – or voted for – the death penalty for apostates from Islam. 

The reality is that in the Islamic world – most people are stifled – they have to ask permission to do almost everything – which stifles natural genius and innovation – in some of these countries you have to ask the Imam or religious authority first for approval for your ideas – and ………if ……its……. Islamic…….enough…… then ……..it… can…… go……. ahead…… you (may) will be granted permission. Can you see a Bill Gates (Microsoft)or Steve Jobs (Apple) emerging from that environment. And this has been going on in the Islamic world – for 1000 years – where they have systematically killed off their genius.

What most are afraid of is being overrun by backward people – who have no intention of modernizing – and eager to destroy all culture, art and learning that is not considered ~ well Islamic. This is why we need to work against those that would introduce Islamic laws – supposedly to help Muslims – as one day we all may be forced to follow these laws and adhere to these Taliban-like restrictions – out of respect for Islam. Know that to attend to all of Muslim sensibilities – is to become an Islamic Republic – we have to know that for the most part – at least at present – our societies and those of the Islamic world are on two different paths – we don’t want to live in a theocracy and they do – or as it goes Muslims don’t have the choice – the state or government makes religious decisions for them – and seeks to punish them for free religious conscience.

There are Muslims immigrants – who have made the decision – to work within Western society to support it – and even those who work against Islamization and innocuous attempts to introduce Islamic laws – as they know better than most what this could turn into – rather than an open mind ( as a westerner trying to help Islam would take) – they have seen the reality back in their own countries and are gradful for their freedom.

Though most Muslims – will try to make the world – like it was back in the old country – are willing to destroy the free world and the things in it – to achieve that – this is where we have to stick to our guns – freedoms have to be paramount – freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience – all the things that don’t exist in the Islamic world – besides sensible immigration policy – this is our garlic to this vampire.

Picture Faith Fighter 2 seen here
Play Faith Fighter – video game here - censored and uncensored versions

A team of game developers has removed from their Web site a video game that pit major religious figures such as Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha against one another in all-out combat.

Italy-based Molleindustria took down “Faith Fighter” after the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC)* issued an official statement Tuesday calling the game “incendiary in its content and offensive to Muslims and Christians.” 

* OIC – the  same organization which is trying to curtail freedoms around the world through the UN – by criminalizing all criticism of Islam.  

“The game would serve no other purpose than to incite intolerance,” the group reported an OIC spokesman as saying.

In their response Tuesday, the team at Molleindustria said they took down the game for their Web site, bud did so as a “symbolic act” and not because they were “bowing to the foundamentalists (sic).”

“We have no sympathy for any religion but we are aware that muslims are victim of widespread racism in the western world,” they stated.

Molleindustria claims that its mission has been to spur serious discussion about the social and political implications of videogames and that its fighting game “depicted in a mildly politically incorrect way all the major religions as a response to the one-way islamophobic satire of the Danish Mohammad cartoons.”

“If a established organization didn’t understand the irony and the message of the game and is claiming it is inciting intolerance, we simply failed,” they added.

Though the game was released more than a year ago and has reportedly been played by millions of players on the internet, OIC said they came across the game through an article on Metro UK, which Molleindustria said had “successfully manufactured this controversy.”

In their closing remarks, Molleindustria said they hope that people who are hearing about the game for the first time will check it out themselves before making a judgment, as copies of the game still can be found across the internet.

“Hopefully this will help people to make their judgments by examining the actual work and not the sensationalist accounts spread by mass media,” they concluded.

“Faith Fighter” featured six characters, including God, Jesus, Buddha, the Hindu deity Ganesha, the Taoist deity Budai, and Muhammad.

Source: Christian Post