Disposição para o martírio

Boas notícias sobre as cristãs iranianas presas por apostasia. Organizações de defesa dos direitos humanos (propriamente ditos) afirmam que a libertação se deveu à pressão internacional:

«(...) [Two Iranian women jailed for no other reason than being Christian were released from a Tehran prison today.

Maryam Rustampoor, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, were imprisoned for 259 days – since March 5. They were repeatedly told to recant their faith and that they would be executed as "apostates," solely because they are Christians.

But now Open Doors USA has confirmed the women have been released from the notorious Evin prison with no bail, a rarity for Christians released from prison in Iran.

(...)

Compass Direct News noted that the women may still face charges of proselytizing and "apostasy," or leaving Islam.

An Iranian source told Compass the Iranian government faced intense public pressure for imprisoning the women.

"It was from the international pressure, and also the government couldn't handle it anymore," said the source. "Already their detention was illegal. At the same time, the government wasn't ready to prosecute them for apostasy. They already have many headaches. They cannot handle everything."

(...)

As WND reported, Rustampoor and Amirizadeh appeared before a court in Iran and were charged with "crimes of apostasy, and propagation of the Christian faith." In a display of raw courage, they told a government prosecutor that not only are they Christian, it is up to God, not a bureaucrat, to whom He talks.

(...)

According to Elam, a dramatic part of the hearing came when they refused to deny their Christian faith.

They explained that God had convicted them through the Holy Spirit.

"It is impossible for God to speak with humans," Haddad, a deputy prosecutor identified only by his surname, stated.

"Are you questioning whether God is Almighty?" Amirizadeh asked him.

To which Haddad then replied. "You are not worthy for God to speak to you."

"It is God, and not you, who determines if I am worthy," she said.

Haddad earlier had asked if the women were Christian.

"We love Jesus," they replied.

"You were Muslims and now you have become Christians," Haddad stated.

"We were born in Muslim families, but we were not Muslims," the women said.

The deputy prosecutor asked about their regrets, and they said, "We have no regrets."

"You should renounce your faith verbally and in written form," he warned.

They refused.

(...)

Under Shariah law, the penalty for apostasy often is death or life imprisonment. According to reports about the punishment system within Iran, for women the execution often is preceded by rape. (...)»

Via Jihad Watch.

Padre ortodoxo russo assassinado em Moscovo

«The Rev. Daniil Sysoyev, a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church who was known for promoting missionary work among Muslims, was shot and killed in his parish church late Thursday night, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. (...) A Moscow Patriarchate official called Father Sysoyev a “talented missionary” whose work among Muslims, including Tatars, might have been the motive for the shooting. (...) Father Sysoyev had spoken out in opposition to Islam and had warned Russian women against marrying Muslim men. Anatoly Bagmet, an official of the prosecutor’s office, said there was reason to believe that the shooting took place “on religious grounds,” the news agency reported.

Kirill Frolov, a prominent Orthodox missionary activist, said that Father Sysoyev had said that he had been receiving threats for several years. “Over the course of two, three years Father Daniil, who was famous for his active missionary work, periodically received e-mails stating that if he didn’t stop his theological polemics with Islam, then he will be dealt with like an infidel,” Mr. Frolov told the Interfax news agency. (...) Officials of the Russian Orthodox Church have complained in recent years about violence directed against churches and priests.»

In New York Times, via Vlad Tepes.

Eurabia: antevisão

In Zenit:

«O imenso patrimônio religioso, histórico, artístico e cultural do cristianismo ortodoxo em Kosovo corre perigo se a comunidade internacional não garantir o Estado de direito, denuncia a Igreja ortodoxa da Sérvia.

O bispo Teodosije Sibalic, abade do mosteiro ortodoxo sérvio de Visoki Dečani, lançou um alerta lido no dia 17 de novembro, durante um evento na Câmara dos Deputados da Itália (...).

“A nossa região é de maioria muçulmana. Passados dez anos do fim da guerra civil, e apesar da chegada das forças de paz da OTAN, a verdadeira paz e liberdade para a comunidade cristã ortodoxa ainda não chegou, afirma.

A presença na região de um elevado número de igrejas e mosteiros faz que Kosovo tenha grande importância para a Igreja ortodoxa sérvia.

(...)

[S]ó no recente período desde o fim da guerra, foram destruídas ou gravemente danificadas na região –pelos extremistas kosovares albaneses– 150 igrejas e mosteiros, entre eles lugares medievais de importância mundial.

"Geograficamente –afirma o abade–, Kosovo forma parte da Europa, mas é difícil imaginar um futuro europeu para esta região se continuarem as violações dos direitos religiosos, civis e humanos da comunidade ortodoxa cristã e a destruição de monumentos medievais símbolos de nossa espiritualidade e cultura”.

(...)

“Os países europeus –assinalou Sibalic– devem insistir com maior força para que o respeito da lei e da ordem e o cumprimento dos valores democráticos representem os critérios principais de seu apoio político.” (...)»

Conformidade com a sharia VIII

Pamela Geller, autora do blogue Atlas Shrugs, analisa no American Thinker a reacção da América ao ataque terrorista de Fort Hood e não hesita: os americanos estão a obedecer à sharia:

«(...) I have watched in abject horror the elites' stunning reaction to this act of war. The denial, the submission, the excuses, the dodging, the self-flagellation, the shame -- the deceiving of the American people by the media, the military, society, law enforcement, authorities and politicians, all the way up to and including the White House -- amounts to the enforcement of Shariah law. Shariah law forbids criticism of Islam. And here we are. We are witnessing an Islamized America. This is well beyond political correctness. We are enforcing Shariah law. We will not insult Islam -- that is Shariah law. We self-censor -- that is Shariah law. We disrespect ourselves and our nation so that we might respect Islam. This is dhimmitude. We should be raging; we should be outraged. We should be strategizing for this worldwide conflict. (...)»

Lapidação explicada às criancinhas

acompanhada de uma versão para os papás: Hadith Sahih Muslim, Livro 17, nº 4207. Via Bivouac-ID.

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Michael Ramirez Cartoon

Via Hot Air.

Infiltração jihadista (16)

Obama recusa colaborar com a investigação do Congresso ao massacre de Fort Hood.

«The first public congressional hearing on the Fort Hood attack will not include testimony from any current federal law enforcement, military or intelligence officials because the Obama administration "declined to provide any" such witnesses, according to a Senate committee source.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has released the witness list for its hearing (...).

But the list does not include anyone actively involved in investigating the Fort Hood attack, or anyone who might have been responsible for decisions made by various government agencies before the attack about whether to investigate the shooting suspect, Nidal Hasan. The Senate committee source said HSGAC Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) had hoped to have witnesses from the FBI and the U.S. Army, but was rebuffed in his requests.»

O título deste postal não se refere a Nidal Hasan, mas ao próprio presidente dos EUA. Via Hot Air.

Conformidade com a sharia VII

A polícia canadiana pede desculpa aos muçulmanos por um agente de sexo masculino ter revistado uma mulher na acção de detenção do seu marido:

«Windsor Police Chief Gary Smith publicly apologized to the Muslim community this week after one of his officers allegedly patted down the wife of a suspect during a raid tied to a case in metro Detroit that ended in the shooting death of an Islamic leader. “The actions taken did cause embarrassment and did offend their religious beliefs,” Smith said in a statement. “I sincerely apologize to the families and the Islamic community.” (...) Khan’s wife, Hiba Khan, was patted down by a male Windsor police officer during the raid, said Patrick Ducharme, the lawyer for the two suspects. Ducharme welcomed Smith’s apology. (...)

Ducharme said he was on the phone with Hiba Khan as officers were in their home during the raid.

“She said, ‘He’s going down my body with his hands’’’ on the outside of her clothing, Ducharme said.

Ducharme said that the pat down was unnecessary because Hiba was not being arrested. He added that if a patdown is to happen on a woman, a woman police officer should do it, especially if the subject is Muslim. Some Muslim women say their religion doesn’t allow them to make physical contact with men outside their family.

”This is not just about Muslim women,” he said. “This is about all women. They should not be searched by an officer of the same sex.” A police union official told reporters that the officers involved in the raid acted appropriately, according to Canadian media reports. (...)»

No Tundra Tabloids comenta-se o caso do seguinte modo:

«This is a classic case of Islamic values, specifically, sharia law, being accepted by non-Muslims. It's clear that the police officer did nothing wrong, but yet, the Windsor police chief is offering an apology for the proper conduct of one of his police officers. (...) It should never have been a question as to whether the officer acted properly "in this circumstance", because under the law, all people are to be treated in the exact same manner, there is no special treatment for particular groups. (...) This is a prime example of sharia based principles being accepted by non-Muslim law enforcement officials in the West, and it needs to be rebuked and condemned in no uncertain terms. The Windsor Chief of Police should be forced to take back his apology and insist that his police officers acted correctly and will continue to frisk all suspects regardless of gender.»

A conformidade voluntária com a sharia é um dos sinais mais evidentes de que o Ocidente está a ceder à ofensiva islâmica e de que o efeito pretendido da jihad - instilar o medo no coração dos infiéis - está a ser plenamente alcançado.

Alta traição (2)

Sobre a decisão de julgar Khakid Sheikh Mohammed em processo civil:

«''This is a prosecutorial decision as well as a national security decision," President Barack Obama said last week about the attorney general's announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda operatives will be put on trial in New York City federal court.

No, it is not. It is a presidential decision—one about the hard, ever-present trade-off between civil liberties and national security.

Trying KSM in civilian court will be an intelligence bonanza for al Qaeda and the hostile nations that will view the U.S. intelligence methods and sources that such a trial will reveal. The proceedings will tie up judges for years on issues best left to the president and Congress.

Whether a jury ultimately convicts KSM and his fellows, or sentences them to death, is beside the point. The treatment of the 9/11 attacks as a criminal matter rather than as an act of war will cripple American efforts to fight terrorism. It is in effect a declaration that this nation is no longer at war.

(...) KSM and his co-defendants will enjoy the benefits and rights that the Constitution accords to citizens and resident aliens—including the right to demand that the government produce in open court all of the information that it has on them, and how it got it. Prosecutors will be forced to reveal U.S. intelligence on KSM, the methods and sources for acquiring its information, and his relationships to fellow al Qaeda operatives. The information will enable al Qaeda to drop plans and personnel whose cover is blown. It will enable it to detect our means of intelligence-gathering, and to push forward into areas we know nothing about.

This is not hypothetical, as former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has explained. During the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (aka the "blind Sheikh"), standard criminal trial rules required the government to turn over to the defendants a list of 200 possible co-conspirators.

In essence, this list was a sketch of American intelligence on al Qaeda. According to Mr. McCarthy, who tried the case, it was delivered to bin Laden in Sudan on a silver platter within days of its production as a court exhibit.

Bin Laden (...) could immediately see who was compromised. He also could start figuring out how American intelligence had learned its information and anticipate what our future moves were likely to be.

(...)

KSM's lawyers will press hard to reveal intelligence secrets in open court. Our intelligence agents and soldiers will be the ones to suffer.»

Via The Corner.

Alta traição

Em artigo na National Review Online, Andrew McCarthy reexpõe a sua tese, já defendida em postal anterior, mas explicitada com mais riqueza de pormenores e clareza de argumentos (no fundo, a diferença entre um postal num blogue e um artigo numa revista de referência).

«The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda terrorists to New York City for a civilian trial is one of the most irresponsible ever made by a presidential administration. That it is motivated by politics could not be more obvious. That it spells unprecedented danger for our security will soon become obvious. The five 9/11 plotters were originally charged in a military commission. Military commissions have been approved by Congress and the courts. Eleven months ago, the jihadists were prepared to end the military case by pleading guilty and proceeding to execution. (...) The Obama Justice Department teems with experienced defense lawyers, many of whom (themselves personally or through their firms) spent the last eight years volunteering their services to America’s enemies in their lawsuits against the American people. As experienced defense lawyers well know, when there is no mystery about whether the defendants have committed the charged offenses, and when there is controversy attendant to the government’s investigative tactics, the standard defense strategy is to put the government on trial. That is, Pres. Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, experienced litigators, fully realize that in civilian court, the Qaeda quintet can and will demand discovery of mountains of government intelligence. They will demand disclosures about investigative tactics; the methods and sources by which intelligence has been obtained; the witnesses from the intelligence community, the military, and law enforcement who interrogated witnesses, conducted searches, secretly intercepted enemy communications, and employed other investigative techniques. They will attempt to compel testimony from officials who formulated U.S. counterterrorism strategy, in addition to U.S. and foreign intelligence officers. As civilian “defendants,” these war criminals will put Bush-era counterterrorism tactics under the brightest public spotlight in American legal history. This is exactly what President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder know will happen. And because it is unnecessary to have this civilian trial at all, one must conclude that this is exactly what Obama and Holder want to see happen. (...)»

A decisão de julgar Khalid Sheikh Mohammed em processo civil, ao criar condições para a divulgação pública de informação dos serviços secretos, colocando em risco toda a sua estrutura operacional, configura um crime de alta traição: Obama e companhia preparam-se para pôr à disposição dos terroristas presos e dos seus representantes legais informação confidencial e crítica para a defesa face à ameaça terrorista. Para além disso, põe a anterior administração no banco dos réus. Obama mata dois coelhos com uma cajadada. Ganha o terrorismo islâmico e alegra-se a esquerda progressista e suicida. Perde a segurança dos EUA e do mundo.

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E, ao que consta, nem o fez convenientemente. Para além do mais, o Imperador não retribuiu o cumprimento, o que já havia ocorrido com o Rei da Arábia Saudita. Tem o que merece.

Sim, insensatos são todos aqueles homens em que se instalou a ignorância de Deus

Livro de Sabedoria 13,1-9. «Sim, insensatos são todos aqueles homens em que se instalou a ignorância de Deus e que, a partir dos bens visíveis, não foram capazes de descobrir aquele que é, nem, considerando as obras, reconheceram o Artífice. Antes foi o fogo, o vento ou o ar subtil, a abóbada estrelada, ou a água impetuosa, ou os luzeiros do céu que tomaram por deuses, governadores do mundo. Se, fascinados pela sua beleza, os tomaram por deuses, aprendam quão mais belo que tudo é o Senhor, pois foi o próprio autor da beleza que os criou. E se os impressionou a sua força e o seu poder, compreendam quão mais poderoso é aquele que os criou, pois na grandeza e na beleza das criaturas se contempla, por analogia, o seu Criador. Estes, contudo, merecem só uma leve censura porque talvez se extraviem, apenas por buscarem Deus e quererem encontrá-lo. Movendo-se no meio das suas obras, investigam-nas, mas deixam-se seduzir pela aparência, pois são belas as coisas que vêem. De qualquer modo, nem sequer estes são desculpáveis, porque, se tiveram tanta capacidade para poderem perscrutar o universo, como não descobriram, primeiro, o Senhor dessas coisas?»

Vlad Tepes

Apenas para divulgar mais um par de sites anti-islamização do Ocidente:

• Vlad Tepes. Tem uma secção com filmes, semelhante à nossa Videoteca do Islamismo.
• Islam: the Religion of Peace (and a big stack of dead bodies), que trata de fazer a contagem dos ataques jihadistas, e das suas vítimas, por todo o mundo.

Mudança na qual podemos acreditar

Obama volta a quebrar um protocolo com 233 anos e faz uma vénia ao Imperador do Japão. No Hot Air, Ed Morrissey comenta:

«(...) American Presidents do not bow to royalty. In fact, heads of state do not bow or genuflect to each other in the normal course of diplomacy. At least, they didn’t until this amateur came into office and failed to learn from the first time he did it. (...)»

Obama parece inclinar-se a demonstrar subserviência perante a aristocracia mundial. Recorde-se a vénia ao rei da Arábia Saudita, que teve a agravante de ser feita ao chefe de estado de um regime islamita totalitário, opressor, onde as mulheres são cidadãos de segunda, assim como os não-muçulmanos que não têm liberdade religiosa. Com esta vénia, estes gestos podem ser interpretados como acções concretas de Obama para mostrar respeito no contexto da estratégia diplomática que tem implementado de assumir uma atitude expiatória dos supostos crimes americanos da história, narrativa tão ao gosto do progressismo esquerdista. Seja como for, uma desgraça.

KSM será julgado em processo civil

A decisão do Department of Justice norte-americano de julgar Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, o suposto cérebro por trás do planeamento do ataque de 11 de Setembro, num processo civil deixou metade dos EUA perplexos. Para começar a perceber porquê, pode ler-se Andrew MaCarthy:

«(...) Let's take stock of where we are at this point. KSM and his confederates wanted to plead guilty and have their martyrs' execution last December, when they were being handled by military commission. As I said at the time, we could and should have accommodated them. The Obama administration could still accommodate them. After all, the president has not pulled the plug on all military commissions: Holder is going to announce at least one commission trial (for Nashiri, the Cole bomber) today.

Moreover, KSM has no defense. He was under American indictment for terrorism for years before there ever was a 9/11, and he can't help himself but brag about the atrocities he and his fellow barbarians have carried out.

So: We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al. It will be a soapbox for al-Qaeda's case against America. Since that will be their "defense," the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and — depending on what judge catches the case — they are likely to be given a lot of it. The administration will be able to claim that the judge, not the administration, is responsible for the exposure of our defense secrets. And the circus will be played out for all to see — in the middle of the war. It will provide endless fodder for the transnational Left to press its case that actions taken in America's defense are violations of international law that must be addressed by foreign courts. And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more efficient at killing us.»

Eu apenas acrescentaria, para já, que julgar KSM num tribunal de guerra corresponderia a reconhecer que o ataque de 11 de Setembro foi um acto de guerra contra os EUA. Obama não se quer associar a essa tese, sustentada por George W. Bush.