9.10.11

Islão na Catalunha em todo o seu esplendor

Com dissimulação, com supremacismo islâmico, com a imposição da xariá aos mais diversos planos da vida dos muçulmanos (quer queiram, quer não) e dos kuffar (termos pejorativo que significa "infiéis").

É ler tudo!

Amplify’d from www.hudson-ny.org

Muslims in Spain Declare Jihad on Dogs

by Soeren Kern
October 6, 2011 at 5:00 am

Spanish authorities are investigating the recent deaths by poisoning of more than a dozen dogs in Lérida, a city in the northeastern region of Catalonia that has become ground zero in an intensifying debate over the role of Islam in Spain.

All of the dogs were poisoned in September (local media reports here, here, here, here and here) in Lérida's working class neighbourhoods of Cappont and La Bordeta, districts that are heavily populated by Muslim immigrants and where many dogs have been killed in recent years.

Local residents say Muslim immigrants killed the dogs because according to Islamic teaching dogs are "unclean" animals.

Over the past several months, residents taking their dogs for walks have been harassed by Muslim immigrants opposed to seeing the animals in public. Muslims have also launched a number of anti-dog campaigns on Islamic websites and blogs based in Spain.

In response to the "lack of sufficient police to protect the neighbourhood," 50 local residents have established alternating six-person citizen patrols to escort people walking their dogs.

In July, two Islamic groups based in Lérida asked city officials to regulate the presence of dogs in public spaces so they do not "offend Muslims." Muslims are demanding that dogs be banned from all forms of public transportation including all city buses as well as from all areas frequented by Muslim immigrants.

Muslims in Lérida say the presence of dogs violates their religious freedom and their right to live according to Islamic principles.

Dogs are not the only Islam-related controversy in Lérida, where 29,000 Muslims now make up around 20 percent of the city's total population.

In December 2010, Lérida became the first municipality in Spain to ban the burqa head covering in all public spaces. Women found violating the ban will be fined up to €600 ($750). One day before the ban took effect, the Catalonian Supreme Court turned down an appeal from the Watani Association for Freedom and Justice, a local Muslim group, which had argued that the ban constitutes religious discrimination.

In September 2010, Watani president Mourad El-Boudouhi submitted a letter to the Lérida city council in which he asked the mayor to provide him with free land so that he can build a mosque in downtown Lérida. The mosque would be financed by Morocco.

The Moroccan mosque would compete with another mosque project in Lérida that is being financed by Saudi Arabia. The imam at the Saudi mosque is Abdelwahab Houzi, a Salafi jihadist preacher who adheres to the radical Wahhabi sect of Islam.

Salafism is a branch of revivalist Islam that calls for restoring past Muslim glory by forcibly establishing a universal Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe such as Spain, which Salafists view as a Muslim state that must be re-conquered for Islam.

Much of Spain was ruled by Muslim conquerors from 711 and 1492; Salafists believe that the territories the Muslims lost during the Spanish Reconquista still belong to them, and that they have a right to return and establish their rule there – a belief based on the Islamic precept that territories once occupied by Muslims must forever remain under Muslim domination.

The Salafist Houzi has called on Muslims who are eligible to vote in Spain to support Catalan separatist parties as a means to firmly establish Islamism in Catalonia.

"Muslims should vote for pro-independence parties, as they need our votes. But what they do not know is that, when they allow us to vote, we will all vote for Islamic parties because we do not believe in left and right. This will make us win local councils and as we begin to accumulate power in the Catalan autonomous region, Islam will begin to be implemented," Houzi said.

The Catalan independence movement supports the independence of Catalonia from Spain. Catalan separatism is based on the idea that Catalonia is a nation with its own unique history, culture and language.

In an effort to promote the Catalan language, Catalonian pro-independence parties have traditionally favored immigration from non-Spanish-speaking countries, especially from Arabic-speaking Muslim countries, in the belief that these people would speak Catalan rather than Spanish.

The end result of this decades-old policy is that Catalonia is now home to a huge concentration of hard-line Islamist groups including Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami and the Salafists.

Salafi preachers in Catalonia do not believe in democracy and teach that Islamic Sharia law is above Spanish civil law. They also promote the establishment of a parallel Muslim society in Spain.

Salafi imams have set up Sharia tribunals in Catalonia to judge the conduct of both practicing and non-practicing Muslims in Spain. They also deploy Islamic "religious police" in Lérida and other Catalan municipalities to monitor and punish Muslims who do not comply.

In one case, nine Salafists kidnapped a woman in Reus, tried her for adultery based on Sharia law, and condemned her to death. The woman just barely escaped execution by fleeing to a local police station.

In another case, a Salafi imam in Tarragona was arrested for forcing a 31-year-old Moroccan woman to wear a hijab head covering. The imam had threatened to burn down the woman's house for being an "infidel" because she works outside the home, drives an automobile and has non-Muslim friends. In an effort to prevent "a social conflict," in August a local court absolved the imam of all wrongdoing.

The Salafi movement in Spain is based in the Catalonian city of Tarragona, but Salafi Islam also has a major presence in the Catalan municipalities of Badalona, Calafell, Cunit, El Vendrel, Girona, Lleida, Mataró, Reus, Roda de Bara, Rubí, Salt, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Boi, Torredembarra, Valls, and Vilanova, not to mention Barcelona, which hosts five Salafi mosques.

Meanwhile, the Catalan regional government says that during the first six months of 2011, it prevented 14 forced marriages and the genital mutilation of 24 Muslim girls.

Catalan police say they prevented forced marriages in metropolitan Barcelona (6), Girona (4), central Catalonia (2), the western Pyrenees (1) and Tarragona (1). The girls at risk from genital mutilation were in metropolitan Barcelona (19), Girona (4) and Lérida (1).

Not surprisingly, some Catalans are having second thoughts about Muslim immigration. The Catalan nationalist party Plataforma per Catalunya (PxC), which has some 70,000 active members, is opposed to any further Muslim immigration.

PxC is also leading opposition to the construction of a Salafi mega-mosque in the Catalan town of Salt. PxC spokeswoman María Osuna says the party does not want Salt to become "the new Mecca of the most radical Islamism."

For its part, the Catalan regional government has discovered that Muslim immigrants are not all that interested in learning the Catalan language. In an effort to promote Catalan, the Catalonian Bureau of Religious Affairs recently published a guidebook in Arabic and Catalan called "Salam al Català."

The guide aims to bring the Catalan culture to Muslims to "show the bonds that historically have existed between both realities, and bring the [Catalonian] language to the Arabic-speaking Muslim population."

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1.10.11

«Decálogo para denegrir as visitas apostólicas de Bento XVI» para jornalistas progressistas

Infra apenas o início do «Decálogo». Não deixe de ler tudo:

No hay mucho misterio. Las terminales mediáticas del mundo progre tienen sus agendas bien claras sobre cómo desacreditar al Papa.
Decálogo del blog para poner palos en las ruedas al Papa Benedicto XVI
1) Prepara anticipada y escrupulosamente cada visita o viaje apostólico de Benedicto XVI:

a) construye una bella polémica sobre los costos del viaje;

b) identifica cuidadosamente las posibles temáticas (sacerdotes pedófilos, disminución de los fieles, desobediencia de los obispos, eventuales contrastes con protestantes, judíos, musulmanes);

c) actúa de tal modo que el viaje sea precedido por una escala de polémicas. Eventualmente, y en el último minuto, finge estar consternado por el comportamiento de los medios;

d) presenta el viaje como “el más difícil del Pontificado”;

e) da la máxima resonancia a las manifestaciones de protesta que se están organizando. Dispara las cifras que te ofrecen los organizadores e insinúa que los manifestantes serán más que los fieles;

f) avisa a tus lectores que las Misas y las Vigilias presididas por el Papa Benedicto estarán ciertamente desiertas;

g) pon en evidencia el hecho de que el Papa Benedicto no conoce la realidad de los diversos países que visita porque vive encerrado en el Vaticano (acariciando gatos, escribiendo libros y tocando el piano);

h) entrevista siempre a Hans Küng, una verdadera garantía;

i) pregunta siempre al Padre Lombardi si durante el viaje el Papa se encontrará con víctimas de sacerdotes pedófilos;

j) el día de la partida escribe un artículo absolutamente negativo sobre el viaje en el que precises que nadie está esperando al Papa, el cual será acogido con hielo siberiano;

k) si por casualidad el Papa visita Alemania, no olvides citar la famosa frase “Nemo propheta in patria”.
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Manuais escolares sauditas promovem violência contra judeus e cristãos

Ten Years On: Saudi Arabia's Textbooks Still Promote Religious Violence

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Ten Years On: The following excerpt come from supposedly revised books produced in 2010-11.

•From a Grade 8 text: “The Apes are the people of the Sabbath, the Jews; the Swine are the infidels of the communion of Jesus, the Christians.”
Saudi Arabia's Textbooks Still Promote Religious Violence
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Constantes do islão

Coagir para converter, ontem e hoje. Diferentes estamos nós, que ficamos para aqui com conversas e alguns ainda pensam que a culpa é nossa.

Amplify’d from pajamasmedia.com

Islam’s History of Forced Conversions

Apostasy and continuity in Islam. (And don't miss Christian Adams at the Tatler, "Iranian Execution of Christian Convert Would Follow Islamic Law.")
September 29, 2011 - 4:53 pm - by Raymond Ibrahim

Finding and connecting similar patterns of behavior throughout Islamic history is one of the most objective ways of determining whether something is or is not part of Muslim civilization.

Consider the issue of forced conversion in Islam, a phenomenon that has a long history with ample precedents.  Indeed, from its inception, most of those who embraced Islam did so under duress, beginning with the Ridda wars and during the age of conquests, and to escape dhimmi status.  This is a simple fact.

Yet, when one examines today’s cases of forced conversions with those from centuries past, identical patterns emerge, demonstrating great continuity.  Consider:

Days ago in Pakistan, two Christian men were severely beaten with iron rods and left for dead by a group of Muslims, simply because they refused to convert to Islam.  According to Compass Direct News, they were returning from a church service when they were accosted by six Muslims.  After they discovered they were Christian, the Muslims:

then started questioning them about their faith and later tried to force them to recite the Kalma [Islamic conversion creed, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger”] and become Muslims, telling them that this was the only way they could live peacefully in the city. They also offered monetary incentives and “protection” to Ishfaq and Naeem [the Christians], but the two refused to renounce Christianity.

“After cajoling the two Christians for some time,” the Muslims pretended to go away, only to ram their car into the Christians: “The Muslims [then] got out of the car armed with iron rods and attacked Ishfaq and Naeem, shouting that they should either recite the Kalma or be prepared to die…severely beating[ing] the two Christians, fracturing Ishfaq Munawar’s jaw and breaking five teeth, and seriously injuring Masih…. [T]he two Christians fell unconscious, and the young Muslim men left assuming they had killed them.”

Contrast this contemporary account with the following anecdote from some 500 years past (excerpted from Witnesses for Christ, pgs.62-64):

In the year 1522, two Christian brothers in Ottoman Egypt were denounced by local Muslims “mostly out of jealousy and envy”; so the emir arrested them and “began flattering them and asking questions about their faith.”  The brothers made it clear that they were firm adherents of Christianity.  “The Muslims in the audience became enraged with the brothers when they heard their answers, and they began screaming and demanding they must become Muslims.”  The brothers responded by refusing to “deny the faith we received from our forefathers, but we will remain unshaken and very firm in it until the end.”

The Muslim judge deciding their case told the Christian brothers that if they simply said the Kalma and embraced Islam, they “would be given many honors and much glory”; otherwise, they would die.  At that point, the brothers’ mother came to support them, but “when the Muslims in court noticed her, they fell upon her, tore her clothing, and gave her a thorough beating.”

After rebuking them for their savagery, the brothers reaffirmed that they would never deny Christianity for Islam, adding “behold our necks, do what you wish, but do it quickly.”

 Hearing this, one of the Muslims in the audience became so angry that he took out a knife and stabbed Kyrmidoles [one brother] in the chest, while someone else kicked him as hard as possible, and another dropped a large stone on his head.  Finally, they plucked out his eyes.  Thus Kyrmidoles died.  As for Gabriel [his brother] they threw him to the ground and one of the soldiers severed his right shoulder and then proceeded and cut off his head.

Now, consider the near identical patterns in the two accounts, separated by half a millennium:

  1. The Muslims first begin by talking to the Christians about their religion, suggesting they convert to Islam.
  2. Failing to persuade the Christians, the Muslims proceed to “cajole” and offer “monetary incentives and protection” (in the modern case) and “flatter” and offer “many honors and much glory” (in the historic case).  All that the Christians need do is speak some words, the Kalma, and become Muslim.
  3. When the Christians still refuse, the Muslims fly into a savage rage, beating and torturing their victims to death (in the modern case, the Muslims assumed they had killed their victims).

Considering the Ottoman Empire and contemporary Pakistan are separated by culture, language, and some 500 years, how does one explain these identical patterns?  What binds them together?

Only Islam—Islam empowered, Islam in charge; Muslim majorities governing, and thus abusing their non-Muslim minority.  A fact of life, past and present.

Raymond Ibrahim, an Islam specialist and author of The Al Qaeda Reader, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum. To receive his articles, sign up on his mailing list.
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30.9.11

Spencer e Horowitz sobre «Islamofobia»

NB: umas das passagens do Alcorão citadas infra é objecto de uma tradução defectiva numa das versões mais populares em língua portuguesa, a de Samir El-Hayek. A passagem é a seguinte, na versão castelhana disponível aqui http://quran.com/2/282

Alcorão 2:282 «Llamad, para que sirvan de testigos, a dos de vuestros hombres; s no los hay, elegid a un hombre y a dos mujeres de entre quienes os plazcan como testigos, de tal modo que si una yerra, la otra subsane su error.»

El-Hayek: «Chamai duas testemunhas masculinas de vossa preferência, a fim de que, seuma delas se esquecer, a outra recordará.»

Pickthall: «And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not (at hand) then a man and two women, of such as ye approve as witnesses, so that if the one erreth (through forgetfulness) the other will remember.»

Amplify’d from www.nationalreview.com
A Rational Fear of Islamism
Not all fears are irrational, nor criticism unwarranted.

In recent months, several reports have appeared to a generally uncritical reception in the press, which purport to expose alleged conspiracies organized by “Islamophobes” against American citizens who mean us no harm. These reports single out for condemnation a dozen prominent conservative figures (and mostly the same dozen) who have publicly criticized the misogyny, bigotry, and terrorism promoted by many (but not all) Islamic institutions and religious texts.

The term “Islamophobia” itself was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the political fountainhead of Islamic terror, having spawned al-Qaeda and created Hamas. Not coincidently, the reports themselves have been produced by Brotherhood fronts like CAIR, and jihadist apologists like the Southern Poverty Law Center. But the latest and most elaborate Islamophobia report, transparently derivative of its predecessors, has been issued by the Center for American Progress, which is a brain trust of the Democratic party. It thus marks a disturbing development in this ugly campaign.

On examination, the term “Islamophobia” is designed to create a modern-day thought crime, while the campaign to suppress it is an effort to abolish the First Amendment where Islam is concerned. The purpose of the suffix — phobia — is to identify any concern about troubling Islamic institutions and actions as irrational, or worse as a dangerous bigotry that should itself be feared.

Is fear of terrorists inspired by Islam irrational? There have been 17,800 terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims in the name of Allah since 9/11. Is it unreasonable to be concerned that 30,000 shoulder-ready surface-to-air missiles have recently gone missing in the Muslim nation of Libya, where both government and rebels support the Islamic jihad against America and the West?

Would not a reasonable person be concerned about the attacks plotted and carried out by Muslims in the United States who claim to be inspired by the Koran and who regard themselves as holy warriors in the jihad declared by Osama bin Laden and other Muslim fanatics? These Muslim attacks include the successful massacre of unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood by Nidal Hassan, a self-declared Muslim warrior whose anti-infidel rantings were ignored by the military brass.

These Muslim terrorists include Naser Abdo, the would-be second Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; and Khalid Aldawsari, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Lubbock, Texas; and Muhammad Hussain, the would-be jihad bomber in Baltimore; and Mohamed Mohamud, the would-be jihad bomber in Portland; and Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square jihad mass-murderer; and Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the Arkansas military recruiting station jihad murderer; and Naveed Haq, the jihad mass murderer at the Jewish Community Center in Seattle; and Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who hatched a jihad plot to blow up a Manhattan synagogue; and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas airplane jihad bomber; and many others.

If the FBI and law-enforcement agencies had not had serious fears of Muslim fanatics, had not been possessed by a species of “Islamophobia,” all those would-be terrorist attacks would be successful attacks and carry long lists of dead innocents — infidels — along with their names.

Should those of us who are infidels — and therefore targets — not be concerned by a religion whose followers regard this Koranic incitement as the word of God: “Slay the pagans wherever you find them.” (9:5)?

Should Jews not be concerned by the Jew-hatred that permeates the sacred texts of this religion, whose prophet has said: “The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them, until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him” (Sahih Muslim 6985)?

Should Jews not be concerned that this genocidal incitement is enshrined in the Hamas charter and defines the agenda of an armed force that is supported by dozens of Muslim states and many factions of the international left?

Should women not fear the expansion of a creed whose God likens a woman to a field men can till: “Your women are a field for you (to cultivate) so go to your field as ye will.” (Koran 2:223)? This God has decreed that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man (2:282), that men can marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave girls (4:3), that a son’s inheritance shall be twice the size of daughter’s (4:11), and that husbands can and should beat their disobedient wives: “Good women are obedient…. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” (4:34).This God sanctions marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” (65:4). Islamic law codifies all this and adds from Islamic tradition justification for honor killing, female genital mutilation, and even the prohibition of women leaving their homes without permission from a male guardian.

Gays fare no better. As Sheikh Khalid Yasin, an Islamic preacher sponsored by the Muslim Students Association, said in 2005: “God is very straightforward about this — not we Muslims, not subjective, the Sharia is very clear about it, the punishment for homosexuality, bestiality or anything like that is death. We don’t make any excuses about that, it’s not our law — it’s the Koran.” Hossein Alizadeh of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission has said that in Iran gays live with “constant fear of execution and persecution and also social stigma associated with homosexuality.” This is true not only in Iran, but in all too many areas of the Islamic world. Is gays’ fear of Islamic institutions and governments irrational? Phobic?

Finally, there is the failure of any Muslim state or authority to condemn the calls of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the extermination of America and Israel. The mainstream media constantly assumes that Muslims don’t take their words seriously, and that there exists a large population of moderate Muslims who reject the excesses of these violent leaders. Yet these moderates have maintained their silence in the face of the genocidal calls in the name of their God. They have failed to mount a campaign to condemn and counter the Jew-hatred expressed by their spiritual leaders, and broadcast by their government-sponsored media organizations, and taught in their schools.

What is truly irrational is not the fear of these very real threats, but the fear of those who point out these threats and whom the Muslim Brotherhood and its enablers have demonized as “Islamophobes.” What is irrational is the failure to recognize danger when it stares you in the face, and the attempt to silence those who have the temerity to attempt to warn you before it is too late. 

— Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth about Muhammad. David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author, most recently, of A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next.

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28.9.11

Cabeça tapada só se for muçulmana

E assim, reclamando igualdade de tratamento, o islão vai conquistando posições de efectivo privilégio:

Amplify’d from www.jihadwatch.org

The Islamization of the Australian passport

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On the Australian passport, only Muslims are allowed to cover facial features.

Only religious reasons are acceptable excuses for covering hair, ears and facial contours. And only Islam has such religious reasons. From the Australian Govermnent's general photograph guidelines:

The photograph must show you without any hat or other head covering. However, if you wear a head covering for religious reasons we will accept a photograph of you wearing it, but your facial features from bottom of chin to top of forehead and both edges of your face must be clearly shown.
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Cristão iraniano arrisca pena de morte por apostasia

Marisol comenta: «International pressure got the hikers freed; theirs was a fashionable cause in the mainstream press and among prominent left-wing figures. Would Hugo Chavez, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cindy Sheehan, Noam Chomsky, and Sean Penn care to stand up for Yousef Nadarkhani's human rights?»

Eu acrescentaria: há dias, um pouco por todo o lado, inclusive na blogosfera portuguesa, protestou-se contra a execução de um homicida. Nenhum dos que o fizeram protesta agora contra a execução de alguém que apenas mudou de religião?

Amplify’d from www.jihadwatch.org

Iranian court upholds apostasy conviction and death sentence for convert from Islam to Christianity

An update on this story. "Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani faces potential execution," by Jordan Sekulow for the Washington Post, September 27:

Just days after Iran released two Americans accused of spying, an Iranian court has upheld the apostasy conviction and execution sentence of Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani.
The 11th branch of Iran’s Gilan Provincial Court has determined that Nadarkhani has Islamic ancestry and therefore must recant his faith in Jesus Christ. Iran’s supreme court had previously ruled that the trial court must determine if Youcef had been a Muslim before converting to Christianity.
However, the judges, acting like terrorists with a hostage, demanded that he recant his faith in Christ before even taking evidence. The judges stated that even though the judgment they have made is against the current Iranian and international laws, they have to uphold the previous decision of the 27th Branch of the Supreme Court in Qom.
When asked to “repent” by the judges, Youcef stated, “Repent means to return. What should I return to? To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?” The judges replied , “To the religion of your ancestors, Islam.” To which he replied, “I cannot.”
It is reported that Youcef was able to see his children for the first time since March and was in good spirits speaking of how he longed to serve the church upon his release.
Pastor Youcef will be brought to the court for two additional “hearings” on September 27th and 28th for the sole purpose of being called upon to recant his Christian faith. The ACLJ’s sources report that although Pastor Youcef’s attorneys will attempt to appeal the case, there is no guarantee that the provincial court will not act on its own interpretation of Sharia law and execute pastor Youcef as early as Wednesday.
Technically, there is no right of appeal, and under Iran’s interpretation of Hadith and Sharia law, Pastor Youcef is to be given three chances to recant. He has already been asked to recant twice, and will be asked to do so again Tuesday. If he does not recant his Christian faith, he could be executed at any time.
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Êxodo cristão consequência da «primavera» árabe

Cristianicídio na Nigéria, violações de cristãs no Paquistão e a infame lei da blasfémia.

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Persecución de cristianos en los países musulmanes

En Egipto, desde el estallido de la “primavera árabe”, más de 93.000 cristianos han huido del país. En agosto, 100 cristianos nigerianos fueron masacrados por elementos vestidos con el uniforme del ejército. En Indonesia, un suicida musulmán se hizo estallar frente a una iglesia el día 25 de septiembre matando a dos cristianos…y en el salvaje Punjab, el secuestro y violación de cristianas es una “práctica normal” en la que participa la corrupta policía paquistaní.

Según el digital egipcio Almaryalyoum, desde el 19 de marzo 93.000 cristianos coptos han abandonado su país, aunque cuando finalice el año la cifra de exiliados podría superar la de 250.000. Pese a que los coptos están habituados a recurrentes olas de violencia, que en los últimos 30 años se han cobrado más de 5.000 vidas de cristianos, con la llegada de la “primavera árabe” las matanzas, asaltos a domicilios, coacciones, robos y secuestros han aumentado considerablemente. Y a todo esto hay que añadir la colaboración policial con los perpetradores “radicales” de los continuos ataques, lo que ha generado una profunda sensación de miedo e indefensión en la comunidad copta.

Los nuevos aires democráticos con “características islámicas”, están generando una nueva y amarga diáspora de los cristianos, víctimas de las virulentas soflamas y arengas de clérigos como Adel Sahato, quien declaró recientemente en una entrevista: “Si los cristianos me dan problemas, los exterminaré”. Es preocupante que un clérigo mahometano afirme su resuelta voluntad de aniquilar al 10% de los egipcios, pero es todavía mucho más grave que semejante sujeto no haya sido ingresado en un psiquiátrico o establecimiento penitenciario, lo  que demuestra cuál es el ambiente de amenazas impunes y miedo en el que viven varios millones de cristianos egipcios.

Pero la vida de los cristianos en Nigeria, Indonesia o Pakistán tampoco es especialmente grata. En agosto, seguidores de Mahoma, dieron muerte a 100 cristianos nigerianos en la zona central del país, exterminando a familias enteras. El día 25 de septiembre, el mensaje de paz del islam fue dado a conocer en Indonesia por un suicida que al hacerse estallar en pedazos, segó las vidas de dos cristianos, Gonsin de 53 años y Olivia de 16.

¿Y.. Pakistán? Pakistán, tiene el dudoso honor de poseer la policía más corrupta y propensa al delito de su entorno, según informa AsiaNews, que recoge las palabras del Padre Jill John: “La violación de mujeres cristianas se ha convertido en una “práctica normal”, gracias a la protección que la policía brinda a los autores de estos delitos”.

El último caso conocido tuvo lugar en el Punjab el 15 de septiembre, fecha en la que una cristiana de 32 años y madre de cinco hijos, fue secuestrada a punta de pistola y violada sucesivamente por tres musulmanes. Los violadores, en connivencia con la corrupta policía, ya han advertido al marido de la víctima de las consecuencias de no retirar la denuncia presentada.

Otra plaga que persigue a los cristianos paquistaníes es la acusación de blasfemia. El 9 de septiembre, Aslam Masih, murió en prisión al negársele tratamiento médico contra el dengue. Aslam, había sido detenido en 2010 después de que dos miembros del influyente grupo Tablighi Jammat le acusaran de haber ofendido al “Profeta”.

Pero, la peor desgracia que aflige a los cristianos perseguidos es la indiferencia de  Occidente. Ese Occidente, que regala terrenos públicos para erigir  mezquitas en nuestras ciudades a los mismos que incendian iglesias o impiden su construcción en El Cairo o Islamabad. 

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27.9.11

Vergastadas por conduzir na Arábia Saudita

É um saco de batatas, é um cortinado ao vento, não! É uma mulher saudita.

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27 September 2011 Last updated at 13:19 GMT

Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban

Saudi women get in the back seat of a car Saudi women will soon be allowed to vote but driving remains a banned activity

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking the country's ban on female drivers.

The woman, identified only as Shema, was found guilty of driving in Jeddah in July.

Women2drive, which campaigns for women to be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, says she has already lodged an appeal.

In recent months, scores of women have driven vehicles in Saudi cities in an effort to put pressure on the monarchy to change the law.

The sentence comes two days after the Saudi leader King Abdullah announced women would be allowed to vote for the first time in 2015.

Two other women are due to appear in court later this year on similar charges, correspondents say.

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O direito de voto para as mulheres na Arábia Saudita

O entusiasmo dos media portugueses com a notícia segundo a qual as mulheres sauditas poderiam votar nas próximas eleições autárquicas parece exagerado. Se não leia-se:

Amplify’d from www.nationalreview.com

On the heels of an edict allowing women to “participate” in elections to powerless municipal councils and to be appointed to a toothless Shura council, today Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman, “Shema,” to 30 lashes for driving while female, the BBC is reporting.

Also on the topic of Saudi women, Gulf analyst Simon Henderson, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, has an interesting story, “All the King’s Women,” at foreignpolicy.com. He quotes a diplomatic source as saying that the 88-year-old monarch is too sick to rule and “lucid for only a couple of hours a day.” He speculates that one of the king’s daughters is responsible for his decree on Sunday. Henderson notes that the king’s personal views on women are hardly modern and reveals he has long had a full Islamic complement of four wives, “two of whom were semi-permanent and the other two ‘rolled-over.’” In any event, like me, Henderson also doubts that the king will be around in four years to enforce the decree on women’s rights to participate in the municipal councils’ elections and that his likely successor, Wahhabi hardliner Prince Nayef, is unlikely to do so.

In light of today’s development, it becomes clearer just how clever a public relations move the women’s political rights decree was.

— Nina Shea is director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom and co-author, with Paul Marshall, of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedoms Worldwide (Oxford University Press, November 2011).

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Relatório sobre a invasão turca de Chipre e as violações dos direitos humanos perpetradas

A invasão turca de Chipre ocorrida em 1976 e a ausência de consequências para a Turquia pelo sucedido é um escândalo que devia envergonhar todos os políticos ocidentais da época e os seus sucessores.
É de pasmar o desprezo por este caso ainda mais dada a atenção - leia-se, atitude persecutória - dedicada a Israel. Na verdade, invasão militar e ocupação de um território de um país soberano, limpeza étnica, homicídios em massa, estupros indiscriminados efectivamente perpetrados pelos turcos há apenas 35 anos não trouxeram aos turcos consequências.

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• The secret report on Turkish atrocities in Cyprus

Freedom & Justice in Cyprus 25 September 2011
By Panos Ioannides

The secret report from Council of Europe on Turkish atrocities in Cyprus during the 1974 invasion has been recovered. This report documents the systematic and extensive human rights violations perpetrated by the Turkish army against the Greek Cypriot population, raping an murdering thousands in order to force a mass exodus and an ethnic cleansing of the northern third of Cyprus. Turkey has never been held responsible for these atrocities and, in spite of all principles of international law, is still permitted to keep the fruits of the 1974 aggression, specifically the so-called Turkish Republic of North Cyprus.

The report in full is available for download at Cyprus Action Network.

From Cyprus Action Network:
THE SUNDAY TIMES (London, 23 January 1977) having secured a copy of a secret Council of Europe Report, which found Turkey guilty of violating seven articles of the European convention on Human Rights.

On the ground of the 1976 secret Report, THE SUNDAY TIMES published on 23rd January 1977 a first page massive indictment of the Ankara government for the murders, rapes and looting by the Turkish army in Cyprus during and after the 1974 Turkish invasion, together with an Insight Exclusive titled “Turk atrocities: What secret report reveals”.

To the fury of the Turkish government, the newspaper published extracts of the secret Report, that document the killing and execution of civilians (men, women and children), the repeated rapes of women of all ages from 12 to 71, the enforced prostitution of women and girls, the SYSTEMATIC TORTURE of people (including children, women and pensioners), and the systematic looting in all Turkish-occupied areas of Greek Cypriot houses and business premises.


Turkish soldiers performing ethnic cleansing in Cyprus

The Movement for Freedom & Justice in Cyprus has secured the full text of the Council of Europe's SECRET Report on the Turkish Atrocities in Cyprus, which should have been THE BIBLE of all Governments’ (of Cyprus and Greece) efforts against Turkey since 1976…

Here is the original Report (in English).

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26.9.11

BBC: datas sem referência explícita a Cristo

É evidente que não se trata de não ofender ninguém. Nesse caso, os cristãos até se poderiam queixar.
O objectivo é erradicar o cristianismo do mapa da nossa civilização, tarefa que só os ignaros da essencial conexão entre cristianismo e Ocidente podem almejar, não percebendo que erradicar o cristianismo terá como consequência inevitável a corrosão do Ocidente, asserção ilustrada à saciedade pelos media a cada dia.
Recorde-se que uma tentativa de substituir o nascimento de Cristo como referência para a determinação do ano foi levada a cabo pelos revolucionários franceses, com o resultado conhecido. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar]

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BBC drops Anno Domini and Before Christ to avoid offending non-Christians

The BBC has been accused of bowing to political correctness after it emerged that it was discouraging the use of the terms BC and AD for fear of offending non-Christians.

By Claire Duffin

12:59AM BST 25 Sep 2011

The Corporation's religion website states that it opts for the "religiously neutral" Common Era and Before Common Era, rather than Anno Domini (the year of Our Lord) and Before Christ.

It goes on: "As the BBC is committed to impartiality it is appropriate that we use terms that do not offend or alienate non-Christians."

But critics said the changes were meaningless because, just like AD and BC, the alternative terms still denote years in relation to the life of Christ.

Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, said: "These changes are unnecessary and they don't achieve what the BBC wants them to achieve.

"Whether you use Common Era or Anno Domini, the date is actually still the same and the reference point is still the birth of Christ."

As well as the BBC's Religion and Ethics website, its Learning and GCSE Bitesize websites also use the alternative terms, which have also been used in some news bulletins and on some programmes.

The BBC said last night: "The BBC has not issued guidance on the dates system. Both AD and BC, and BE and BCE are widely accepted dates systems and the decision on which term to use lies with individual production and editorial teams."

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25.9.11

Informação contra a contra-informação sobre a execução de Troy Davis (2)

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Pena de morte

No mesmo dia, a justiça americana executou dois condenados à morte. Na Geórgia, o infeliz chamava-se Troy Davis, de 42 anos e julgado em 1991 pelo assassínio a tiro de um polícia. No Texas, a sorte (em sentido lato) calhou a Lawrence Brewer, 44 anos, julgado em 1998 pelo assassínio mediante agressão e tortura de um transeunte a que dera boleia. Até à última hora, multiplicaram-se os apelos em favor da clemência para Davis, movimento que ultrapassou os EUA e chegou à União Europeia e ao Vaticano. Não houve apelos ou movimentos nenhuns no caso de Brewer. A história de Davis levou milhares às ruas em protesto e suscitou um frenesim mediático. Brewer chegou ao fim sozinho, se descontarmos umas dúzias de apoiantes ou contestatários desse fim. Davis era preto e a sua vítima branca. Brewer era branco e a sua vítima preta, cujo filho, aliás, foi o autor do único pedido de clemência para o texano.

Não gosto dos que se opõem à pena de morte de forma localizada e apenas para relembrar a essencial malignidade da América. Prefiro os que se opõem à pena de morte em geral e lamentam a sua continuidade num país essencialmente livre como é a América. A primeira escola de pensamento (digamos) está bem representada na diferença de tratamento concedida a Davis e a Brewer. A segunda não instiga nem aceita diferenças.

Discordar da pena de morte é discordar do princípio que lhe é inerente, ou seja a legitimidade de o Estado dispor literalmente da vida dos cidadãos. Não é decidir o juízo conforme as circunstâncias, incluindo a cor da pele do criminoso (Davis tinha a "correcta"), a cor de pele do alvo do crime (o polícia tinha a "incorrecta"), as dúvidas na sentença (alguns testemunhos incriminatórios de Davis reverteram depois a posição inicial) ou o carácter dos sentenciados (parece que Brewer era racista e matou por ódio). A oposição à pena de morte é também, ou principalmente, a oposição a aplicá-la naqueles em quem não reconhecemos o mais leve vestígio de humanidade.

O resto é sentimentalismo, em parte patrocinado pelos "media" que distribuíram a atenção de acordo com a respectiva "agenda" e concluem agora que o ruído motivado pela execução de Davis ajudará, a prazo, a decidir a abolição de uma herança selvática. Nunca se sabe. Mas o silêncio na execução de Brewer não ajuda nada.

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24.9.11

Greenfield: a tentativa e criação do estado da Palestina em contexto

Deixo aqui apenas o princípio do artigo. Não deixe de o ler na íntegra:

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In the spring of 1964, while the Vietnam War was underway, the space program had brought close up photos of the moon, and the Beatles were topping the charts; the Arab League convened to try and find a way to complete the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel. They had tried it once before in 1948, with incomplete results. Back then, the Arab forces had managed to capture and ethnically cleanse the eastern half of Jerusalem, as well as seizing and annexing the West Bank and Gaza. But for 16 years, Israel had managed to frustrate their designs by stubbornly continuing to exist.
What the Arab governments wanted was a terrorist organization that could cross the border and carry out attacks inside Israel. And they wanted plausible deniability so that Israel and the UN couldn't hold them responsible for those attacks. And so cloaked in a lot of smoke and mirrors about "Palestinian Arab nationhood", the Palestine Liberation Organization was born. The PLO had three tasks, to harass Israel through terror, to cultivate a fifth column inside the country that would come into play in an invasion, and to make it seem as if the Arab world wasn't a bunch of genocidal maniacs, but wanted to destroy Israel in the name of "Palestinian rights".

The Arab League had never believed in an independent Palestinian state. Even while they were creating the PLO, Jordan had already annexed the West Bank. And Gaza was in Egyptian hands. The PLO's purpose was not to liberate these areas, or even to govern them. Its own charter made that abundantly clear.

Article 24. This Organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in the Gaza Strip or the Himmah area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields.

The PLO's own founding charter had already conceded that the West Bank was not part of Palestine, and instead recognized Jordan's annexation of the area. When the PLO talked about "liberating" Palestine, it only meant the parts of Israel that the Arab League members had not succeeded in seizing in 1948. When the PLO talked about liberating Palestine, up until 1967, it had nothing to do with the West Bank or Gaza, it simply meant destroying Israel.

It was not until 1967, when the latest Arab League attempt to "drive the Jews into the sea" failed, that the PLO began talking about their rights to Gaza and the West Bank. Previously they had staged terrorist attacks on Israel from bases in Gaza and the West Bank, under the sponsorship of Egypt and Jordan. After Israel reclaimed Gaza and the West Bank, and reversed the ethnic cleansing of Jews carried out in 1948, the PLO began focusing on the territories that their sponsors had lost in 1967, rather than just those they had lost in 1948.
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