Okay, the video above was for fun. But the numerous stories we have below is anything but humorous. . .
- EGYPT: Women are the targets of a new Saudi-style ‘Morality Police’ - Bare Naked Islam
This is what happens when a secular country like Egypt votes in representatives of the two most radical IslamoFacist parties in the country. Are you missing Hosni Mubarak yet? You will. J POST For 25-year-old Suzie, who is Muslim thanks to her father, Egypt has become a dichotomy of faith and honor. Now, she fears the rise of online groups espousing to uphold the country’s “morality.” These “morality police” groups are gaining steam, and for many Egyptians, especially women, the idea has them fearful that the country could quickly turn into an ultra-conservative Islamic state akin to Saudi Arabia and Iran.
“We all know that these vice prevention committees are really a way to subject women to disgusting ways of life and push us farther into the house and away from the public,” Suzie argues.
Egypt is an oddity in the Middle East and with the recent gains being made by Islamic groups in the country’s first post-Hosni Mubarak election, many are worried that a conservative brand of Islam is already rising from the uprising. The Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), and the Al-Nour Salafist Party have won the lion’s share of votes thus far, with nearly two-thirds of votes cast in their favor.
“That can scare people a lot, but we must all remain cautious before we jump to conclusions,” says Nehad Abu Komsan, the head of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR). “I don’t think that many people voted for these parties because of a conviction toward them, but more because that was who was campaigning the most.”
The grassroots Committee for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue has adopted the name of an official government body that operates in Saudi Arabia. Armed with wooden canes, the Saudi committee’s paid operatives and volunteers patrol the streets enforcing the strict separation of men and women, conservative dress codes, public prayer and other behavior it regards as commanded by Islam. Looking nervously at the Saudi model, activists and average Egyptians worry about what the Egyptian vice committee might bring as Islamist parties sweep the elections.
“I do feel the Salafists are powerful and have a lot of support because they have told people that the Western liberals and protesters are doing bad things like drugs and having sex. This scares people who believe them,” says café owner Mohamed Yussif, who runs a small successful middle-class café in downtown Cairo. “I hear people talk about our customers and say they should not be here, especially the women.”
Suzie contends that they have a big draw for the average Egyptian because of the conservative and religious undertones to their message. She argues that groups that build a mission on faith and Islam are “strong with people who think that anything Islamic is a good thing.”
The on-line group, named after their Saudi brothers, claims the great majority of Egyptians support their efforts, citing “millions of Egyptians who voted for the Al-Nour Party.” They argue this proves their support is not fabricated.
The group’s official Facebook page – all administrators of the page are anonymous – claims to “preserve the morals of Egyptians in accordance with Sharia law.”
Already, Egyptians are reporting members of the group have entered shops, cafes and other Egyptian locations to lecture owners on the un-Islamic nature of their businesses, often referring to places that sell body-clinging women’s clothes and alcohol as haram, or forbidden in Islam.
For Suzie, who considers herself a “decent Muslim and liberal,” the very concept of a vice committee on the Saudi model “is so wrong and will destroy the Egypt that we have come to love and enjoy and that we fought to have last January.”
- Egypt Islamists seen winning near two-thirds of seats - Reuters
The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it had won at least 41 percent of the seats in Egypt's lower house of parliament, with Islamists of various stripes occupying almost two thirds of the assembly so far.
Banned under deposed President Hosni Mubarak, the Brotherhood has emerged as a major winner from the uprising that toppled him, exploiting a well-organized support base in the first free legislative vote in decades.
It may be some weeks before the exact shape of the lower house is known because of various runoff votes. However, it is unlikely that their outcome will alter the dominance of the Islamists who now look set to wield major influence over the shape a new constitution to be drafted by a 100-strong body that the new assembly will pick.
- Iran holds military exercise near Afghan border - Reuters
Iran launched a military maneuver near its border with Afghanistan on Saturday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, days after naval exercises in the Gulf increased tensions with the West and pushed up oil prices.
Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces, said the "Martyrs of Unity" exercises near Khvat, 60 km (40 miles) from Afghanistan, were "aimed at boosting security along the Iranian borders," Fars reported.
The Revolutionary Guards' naval forces' 10-day exercise in the Gulf that ended last Monday worsened relations with Washington days after U.S. President Barack Obama approved sanctions that aim to stop countries buying Iranian oil.
Threats that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz, which leads out of the Gulf and provides the outlet for most oil from the Middle East, pushed up oil prices and Iran warned Washington not to send an aircraft carrier back into the Gulf.
- Pakistan govt minister warns of vigilante violence for blasphemers - Jihad Watch
He wasn't warning those who accuse people falsely against taking vigilante action -- oh, no. He was warning blasphemers that they could expect mobs to murder them. "Punjab Assembly: Blasphemers told to stop or ‘face consequences,’" by Abdul Manan in the Express Tribune.
- Islam's Latest Contributions to Peace - The Religion of Peace
"Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another" Quran 48:29
2012.01.07 (Baghdad, Iraq) - Sunni bombers send two Shiite pilgrims straight to paradise.
2012.01.07 (Maiduguri, Nigeria) - Two Christian university students are murdered by Religion of Peace gunmen.
2012.01.06 (Adamawa, Nigeria) - Islamists chanting 'Allah Akbar' barge into a church and massacre a dozen worshippers.
2012.01.06 (Yola, Nigeria) - Three people at a beauty salon are gunned down by Boko Haram.
2012.01.06 (Trinkot, Afghanistan) - Six children bleed to death following detonation of a Taliban bomb.
2012.01.06 (Baghdad, Iraq) - Two Shiite pilgrims are disassembled by Sunni bombers.
- War With Iran Imminent? - Politics and Finance
These are links to stories that would suggest that war or military action against Iran may occur sooner rather than later!
- The Fordo uranium enrichment facility located deep underground will come online soon - Iran crosses another nuclear red line. Fordo soon on stream
- Israel and the United States are holding the Austere Challenge-12 exercises involving thousands of troops - Israel and U.S. to hold joint missile drill
- Leon Panetta issues another warning over any attempt by Iran to close theStrait of Hormuz - US warns of response if Strait is closed
- Iran schedules new military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz for February -Iran plan more war games in Strait as sanctions bite
Once again, an illusion of a moderate Islam is unmosqued. And it is ugly. Why do civilized men tolerate this barbarity? Why do civilized men walk on eggshells for fear of insulting savages, as if they had human sensibilities? They don't, and we'd be wise to buck up and fight this gruesome fight. We will have to.
Instead, the media quislings allow Islamic supremacists and stealth jihadists to smear, defame and libel those who challlenge jihad and dare to speak the truth about the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth. To what end?
- "A Black Day for Austria" - Irate Tireless Minority
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has been convicted of "denigrating a religion" because she commented that muhammad "had a thing for little girls". The fact that the man married a 6 year old and consummated that marriage when the girl was 9, apparently doesn't justify the utterance by Mrs. S-W of such an "excess of opinion" according to the judge. This is because the pedophile also had other wives that were not children. I am appalled. If you would care to donate towards her legal costs, you may do so here.
Austria, by this ruling, seems to me to be giving the Islamic religion a form of legitimacy for its most unsavory and immoral elements.
- AFGHANISTAN: 15 year-old child bride who was tortured and multilated by her own husband’s family speaks out - barenakedislam
Saved by rescuers, the teenager wants justice for the husband and in-laws who tortured, beat, burned, starved, and subjected her to electric shock for refusing to prostitute herself for them.
ORIGINAL STORY: afghanistan-child-bride-imprisoned-in-toilet-and-mutilated-by-in-laws-for-refusing-to-work-as-a-prostitute
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And the Islamists dare to call themselves anything other than violent?
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