And again: 'Palestinian' stabs Christian British student to death on Jerusalem tram
A 23-year old Christian British woman was murdered by a 'mentally unstable' (is there any other kind?) 'Palestinian' terrorist on the Jerusalem tram this afternoon. The terrorist was a 57-year old (so much for 'only' letting 'over-50 Palestinians' move around freely) resident of Ras-al-Amud, the area near the Mount of Olives. The stabbing took place as the tram rounded the corner at IDF Square, just outside Jerusalem's Old City.
Another woman, who is pregnant, was injured when the train stopped, and a man was hurt while trying to flee the assailant. They are both lightly hurt, MDA said.
The assailant has been identified as Gamil Tamimi, 57, a Palestinian resident of Ras al-Amud in East Jerusalem who was recently released from a psychiatric hospital, according to the police said.
Probably related to this Tamimi - at least distantly. Israel is holding this paragon of virtue - at least until the next Terrorists for X exchange.
The Shin Bet said that Tamimi had tried to commit suicide by swallowing a razorblade while hospitalized. In 2011, he was convicted of molesting his daughter.
"This is yet another case of a Palestinian suffering from personal, mental or moral distress choosing to commit an act of terror to escape his problems," the Shin Bet says.
So in 'Palestinian society' you can save your 'family honor' by murdering a Jew. Murder a Jew and and molesting your daughter is forgiven.
Taharrush - the Arab rape 'game' that's been exported to Europe
What happened in Cologne and other cities in Europe on New Year's Eve is known in the Arab world as Taharrush. It's a rape 'game' and it's particularly unpleasant for the women caught up in it (Hat Tip: Ellen S).
The "rape game" Taharrush is about a large group of Arab men surrounding
their victim, usually a Western woman or a woman wearing Western-style
clothing, and then the women are subjected to sexual abuse.
They
surround the victim in circles. The men in the inner circle are the
ones who physically abuse the woman, the next circle are the spectators,
while the mission of the third circle is to distract and divert
attention to what's going on.
If there is enough men, the woman
is dragged along by the mob, while the men take turns ripping her
clothes off, grope her, and inserting fingers in her various body
orifices.
I have a mercifully short video of it to show you (safe for work, but parental discretion advised - I did not turn on this video with my kids in the room).
Let's go to the videotape. More after the video.
Sounds like what happened to CBS reporter Lara Logan in Cairo's Tahrir Square five years ago, doesn't it? More reading here.
And now thanks to Frau Merkel, it's been exported to Europe. Will the US be next?
Settlement activity is “illegitimate and counterproductive to the cause
of peace. Continued settlement activity and expansion raises honest
questions about Israel’s long-term intentions and will only make
achieving a two-state solution that much more difficult,” Kirby told
reporters in Washington on Friday.
He spoke days after Defense
Minister Moshe Ya’alon agreed to expand the Gush Etzion bloc to include a
4-hectare site with eight stone buildings that is located off of Route
60 between the Gush Etzion junction and the Kiryat Arba settlement.
Settlers
want to operate a tourist center on the property geared to helping
visitors take advantage of Jewish tourist sites in the area, including
the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
The property was owned by
the US Presbyterian Church until 2008 where it ran a tuberculosis
hospital and then a hostel on the site. Inclusion of the site within the
Gush Etzion boundaries would make it easier for settlers to further
develop the property.
When queried about the compound by a
reporter at the daily briefing, Kirby said the US was “deeply concerned”
about the move, “which effectively creates a new settlement on 10 acres
in the West Bank.”
He then spoke in general about Area C of the West Bank, which is under Israeli military and civil rule.
“It’s
important to note that some 70 percent of the West Bank’s Area C has
already been unilaterally designated as Israeli state land, or within
the boundaries of these regional settlement councils,” Kirby explained.
“The
new decision only expands this significant majority of the West Bank
that has already been claimed for exclusive Israeli use. “Along with the
regular retroactive legalization of unauthorized outposts and
construction of infrastructure in remote settlements, actions such as
this decision clearly undermine the possibility of a two-state
solution,” Kirby said.
He added that “continued settlement
activity and expansion raise honest questions about Israel’s long-term
intentions and will only make achieving a two-state solution that much
more difficult.”
The US has asked both the Israelis and Palestinians to demonstrate their commitment to a two-state solution, Kirby said.
“Actions such as [the Gush Etzion] decision, we believe, does just the opposite,” he stressed.
Six 'happy' Iranian women forced to 'repent' on national television for video
Six Iranian women have been forced to 'repent' on national television for posting a video on YouTube of themselves dancing unveiled with men. The video has garnered nearly 700,000 views since being posted on YouTube on Monday. This is from the first link.
The video was reportedly uploaded to YouTube late last month; one upload of the six dancing in Tehran
to Williams' catchy song promoting happiness has already garnered over
half a million views on YouTube since being posted Monday.
A source close to those arrested said armed police raided the
home of one of them on Sunday, wantonly destroying private property in
the house as they arrested the woman and her friends, reports The Daily Beast.
In jail, the six reportedly were not allowed to use the toilet, put
in solitary confinement and constantly interrogated about the clip and
comments they had made to foreign media. The women were reportedly
forced to strip naked and perform squats before female officers.
The persecution and humiliation reached a head on Tuesday, when they
were forced on national TV in front of Tehran Chief of Police Hossein
Sajedinia. They "confessed" being tricked to appear in the video, while
lined up with their backs to the camera and the women appearing with
large head coverings.
Sajedinia, in the role of interrogator and morale preacher, praised
the crackdown during the TV broadcast, saying "these (agents) were able
to identify (the six dancers) within two hours, and within six hours had
arrested them all."
Clips of the dancing video shown during the "confession" were blurred
out, apparently for "modesty." The national broadcast, in Farsi, can be
seen here:
Let's go to the videotape.
Siavash Taravati, who directed
and filmed the "criminal" video, said that in the "confession" broadcast
it was apparent how terrified the six were.
While the young Iranians
were in jail, allegedly Iranian police threatened their families saying
that if they spoke to the media their children would not be released.
The six eventually were released, but only after paying a bail of 30
million toman ($10,000), or 40 million toman in the case of one of the
women. Reportedly several cell phones, computers and cameras were
confiscated as well, in addition to the personal affects destroyed
during the arrest.
Tunisian girls have been sent to Syria to have sex with opposition jihadis. And no, this doesn't have anything to do with love. It's a sex jihad.
Last Thursday, during an address to the National Constituent
Assembly, Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Bin Jeddo announced that
Tunisian girls who had traveled to Syria to perform “sex jihad” had
returned after being sexually “swapped between 20, 30, and 100 rebels
and they come back bearing the fruit of sexual contacts [from
pregnancies to diseases] in the name of sexual jihad and we are silent,
doing nothing and standing idle.”
Several video interviews with Tunisian females who went to the sex jihad further testify to the veracity of this phenomenon.
For example, 19-year-old Lamia, upon returning, confessed how she was
made to have sex with countless men—including Pakistanis, Afghanis,
Libyans, Tunisians, Iraqis, Saudis, Somalis, and a Yemeni, all in the
context of the “sex jihad, and that she and many other women were
abused, beaten, and forced to do things “that contradict all sense of
human worth.”
Now back in Tunisia, Lamia has been to a doctor finding that she is
five months pregnant. Both she and her unborn are carrying the Aids
virus (read her whole story).
Other interviewed women
have told of how they were “fooled,” or how their husbands (they being
one of four wives) divorced and sent them to Syria for the sex jihad,
with assurances that they would be guaranteed paradise in the
afterlife. One 16-year-old explained how her father ordered her to have sex with several jihadi “liberators.”
Due to the severity of this matter, since March, 6,000 Tunisians were
banned from travelling to Syria; 86 individuals suspected of forming
“cells” to send Tunisian youth to Syria have been arrested.
Back in April, Sheikh Othman Battikh, former Mufti of Tunisia, said
before reporters that, “For Jihad in Syria, they are now pushing girls
to go there. 13 young girls have been sent for sexual jihad. What is
this? This is called prostitution. It is moral educational corruption.”
He was dismissed from his position as Mufti of Tunisia days later.
The Egyptians always seem to find the time to molest women no matter what is going on. It's a national sickness.
Close to 100 women have fallen victim to "rampant"
sexual attacks in Cairo's Tahrir Square during four days of protests
against Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, Human Rights Watch
said on Wednesday.
"Mobs sexually assaulted and in some cases raped at least 91 women in
Tahrir Square... amid a climate of impunity," HRW, which is based in
New York, said in a statement.
It cited figures from the Egyptian Operation Anti-Sexual
Harassment/Assault, which runs a hotline for victims of sexual assault,
showing that there were 46 such attacks against women on Sunday, 17 on
Monday and 23 on Tuesday.
Another women's rights group, Nazra for Feminist Studies, reported that there were another five attacks on Friday, said HRW.
The watchdog called on Egyptian officials and political leaders
"across the spectrum to condemn and take immediate steps to address the
horrific levels of sexual violence" in the iconic square.
"The rampant sexual attacks during the Tahrir Square protests
highlight the failure of the government and all political parties to
face up to the violence that women in Egypt experience on a daily basis
in public spaces," said Joe Stork, HRW's deputy Middle East director.
"These are serious crimes that are holding women back from
participating fully in the public life of Egypt at a critical point in
the country's development."
There's a much bigger problem than rape preventing women from participating in Egypt's public life. The real problem is that it shows a complete lack of respect for half the population, treating women as objects rather than as people. But then, that seems to be what Islam everywhere seems to think about women, so perhaps the problem isn't unique to Egypt - it's just most visible there.
Sickness: Israeli judge says 'some girls enjoy being raped'
I don't usually do the court thing (I'm not a litigator), but about five years ago, a friend in a messy divorce case convinced me to help him out by going to court and interrogating his ex-wife about some financial documents - including her US tax return - that his Israeli lawyers did not understand. One of the papers involved was a letter to someone called the Foreign Currency Controller, whose approval you needed to transfer foreign currency out of Israel until about 15 years ago. The letter, which the woman admitted to have signed, asked for the transfer of a seven-figure sum to an account held by a company of which she was the sole owner in an offshore jurisdiction. The request had been approved, but when I asked where the money was, the woman said to ask her ex-husband, whose name was nowhere to be found in the letter. She claimed 'he put it in front of me and I signed it without knowing what it was.' I had her nailed. But as I went in for the kill, the judge looked down from the bench and said "my wife trusts me absolutely, and if I handed her a piece of paper asking her to sign away her rights in our apartment, she would sign it without knowing or asking me what it was."
Until this morning, I thought that kind of bias in the Israeli court system was limited to that particular court, but that apparently is not the case. The Jewish Press reports that a judge of the Tel Aviv district courtis hearing a case in which a 13-year old Jewish girl who was raped by four 'Palestinians' is seeking to have the attack classified as a terror attack. The judge, Nissim Yeshaya, said, "[Th]ere are some girls who enjoy being raped." Yes, really.
In Israel, a Victim of Terrorism is a person injured as a result of a
terrorist act committed for nationalistic reasons, in Israel or abroad.
Victims of terrorist attacks are eligible for compensation, pursuant to the Compensation for Victims of Hostilities Act of 1970.
During the hearing, the young woman’s attorney, Roni Aloni-Sadovnik, a
well known feminist lawyer, tried to convince the panel of judges,
headed by Retired Tel Aviv District Court Judge Nissim Yeshaya, that
there are cases of rape whose circumstances justify recognition as an
act of terrorism committed for nationalistic reasons.
Attorney Aloni-Sadovnik later described the scene that ensued to
Israel Army Radio: “In the midst of the passionate debate, he (Judge
Yeshaya) suddenly said aloud, in earshot of everyone present, ‘There are
some girls who enjoy being raped.’”
“The room fell into silence,” the attorney continued her description.
“Even the panel members were silent for several minutes. And he didn’t
even get what he had just said. He didn’t understand why everyone became
quiet all of a sudden.”
Now, you might have thought that Yeshaya is a flaming Leftist who is trying to avoid the expansion of the definition of 'terror attack' (which is what I thought when I saw this story). Most of the Israeli judiciary leans hard left. But surprisingly, that does not appear to be the case. Go and figure. The bias toward women apparently goes both ways in the Israeli court system - for and against women.Shameful.
This is Islam: 8-year old girl dies on wedding night
Mustafa Kazemi is an Afghan government official and war correspondent.
He posted the following story on his Facebook page.
WARNING: Story is extremely graphic (Hat Tip: Weasel Zippers).
The 8-years-old girl whose story you’ll read in coming lines did not
make it to the 2nd night of her wedding nor did she make it to her 9th
or 10th birthday.
Her name unknown, my source telephoned me last week at 9:30 pm to
tell me her story. At the first I thought it’s just going to be a short
conversation but later it was unveiled that the story is different.
The story came from a village in Khashrood district of Nimruz province in Afghanistan.
A medical doctor assigned in the main hospital in Zaranj city, the
capital of the province, who wished to remain unnamed confirmed that he
was “made aware” of the incident and that it was “too late to do
anything for her” as well the “remote area didn’t allow them to do
anything”.
The girl was one of the several daughters of a man in his late 30s.
For an unknown reason he gave his daughter to the Mullah of their
village for a big amount of money. It is also common in Afghanistan’s
rural areas or 3rd level provinces/cities to marry young girls to old
men, and trading their daughters for their debts or other items.
The mullah is in his late 50s and is the mosque guy of the village where this incident happened.
The mullah is already married and has many children too.
The two families hold a tribal meeting, agree on the price that the
groom’s family pay to the bride’s family, and they set a date for
wedding.
In rural areas like this here there are no engagements or any
ceremonies beforehand like there are some in the metropolitan and urban
areas.
The two families planned a wedding party, the wedding and Nekah (The
religious process in which a woman is officially married to a man) took
place and the 8-years-old bride became the 50-years-old Mullah’s 2nd
wife.
The celebration party was over and the sun downed – the time to have sex (not make love) with the 8-years-old bride.
The girl was just 8 years old and everybody understands the fact that
she knows nothing about sex or wedding or making love or virginity or
sexual related topics; not even at a basic level for two reasons, one
being that she’s just a child – not even a teenager and that in that
part of the country, nobody knows anything about these things nor they
are given trainings or education about a healthy sexual life.
An article in Egypt's Independent recounts the disgusting manner in which that country's street children are treated (Hat Tip: HaDaR).
But street children? They aren’t citizens — they don’t
even hold IDs. When they arrive, raped, shot or dead in front of the
shelter doors, there hasn’t been a crime because a citizen hasn’t been
involved. So, no, this flood of articles about harassment, sexual
attacks and gang rape on the streets is not about street kids.
But this is the everyday reality for these children, and
I have come to know these streets in the way that they have been
recently discovered by others. So I thought that maybe by writing this, I
could shed a different light — a look from a different angle — on a
phenomenon that so many are horrified by and so unfamiliar with.
I am arguing here that this is just one of the ugly
faces of the street, just as each human, each friend, has an ugly face,
which you get to see, know and get scorned by once you have spent a long
enough time with it. Its reality and its crudeness cannot hide forever.
The euphoria of the imagined utopia of solidarity that the street
brings during revolutionary times begins to crack, and the street and
all its non-citizen inhabitants become a reality that you cannot escape.
Talking about scarring — a lot of attention and horror
has been expressed following the attack in which a blade was used on one
victim of these assaults. I wonder about the irony of the timing of
this. Just last month, I took one of my street girls to a generous
plastic surgeon who had offered my girls free reconstructive surgery for
the scars they suffered during such attacks on the street.
The scarring is part of the street rape culture; any boy
or girl who has been raped on the street will be “marked.” This mark,
usually a curve under the eye of the victim, will mean they are no
longer virgins. Subsequent sexual attacks — and there will be many —
will lead to smaller marks anywhere else on the body.
One girl, who none of us at the shelter will ever
forget, was lucky. She escaped the scarring on the face but needed 16
stitches on her lower back, where she was knifed as she escaped her
rapists.
I am not an expert in conspiracy theories, but I am a
consultant on street kids and the risks of the street. And so, when I
read the musings that the National Democratic Party, the Muslim Brotherhood or someone else is organizing these mob sex attacks, my better judgment makes me tentative.
#AnaLama: Saudi preacher who raped and murdered daughter pays 'blood money' and is released
You may recall Lamaa, the 5-year old Saudi girl who was raped (not part of the previous post - just found that out now), tortured and murdered by her father, a Saudi television preacher.
The only good news I can tell you is that the preacher has now been named. His name is Fayhan al-Ghamdi.
The bad news is that he has now paid 'blood money' and has been released from custody by the Saudi authorities. No trial (heck - he admitted he did it). No prison sentence. Just money for snuffing out a little girl's life.
Fayhan al-Ghamdi had been accused of killing his daughter Lama, who
suffered multiple injuries including a crushed skull, broken back,
broken ribs, a broken left arm and extensive bruising and burns. Social
workers say she had also been repeatedly raped and burnt.
Fayhan
al-Ghamdi admitted using a cane and cables to inflict the injuries after
doubting his five-year-old daughter’s virginity and taking her to a
doctor, according to the campaign group Women to Drive.
Rather
than getting the death penalty or receiving a long prison sentence for
the crime, Fayhan al-Ghamdi served only a few months in jail before a
judge ruled the prosecution could only seek ‘blood money’.
Albawaba News
reported the judge as saying: "Blood money and the time the defendant
had served in prison since Lama's death suffices as punishment."
Fayhan al-Ghamdi, who regularly appears on television in Saudi Arabia, is said to have agreed to pay £31,000 to Lama’s mother.
The
money is considered compensation under Islamic law, although it is only
half the amount that would have been paid had Lama been a boy.
Despite
Saudi Arabia’s famously strict legal system, Women to Drive say fathers
cannot be executed for murdering their children in the country.
Equally, husbands cannot be executed for murdering their wives.
Formal
objections to the ruling have been raised by three Saudi activists, and
the twitter hashtag #AnaLama (which translates as I Am Lama) has been
set up.
What's a girl's life worth in Saudi Arabia? £31,000. And a boy's life is worth £62,000. Really not a whole lot more What a sick society and a sick religion.
Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan and Lebanon are telling stories of gang rapes, according to the New York-based International Rescue Committee.
The New York-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) said Syrian
refugees interviewed in Lebanon and Jordan gave sexual violence as a
primary reason for their flight, saying that gang rapes often occur in
front of family members.
"After decades of working in war and disaster zones, the IRC knows
that women and girls suffer physical and sexual violence in every
conflict. Syria is no exception," the IRC said in a 23-page report
entitled "Syria: a regional crisis".
"Many women and girls relayed
accounts of being attacked in public or in their homes, primarily by
armed men," it added, without identifying those responsible.
...
The IRC said it was also told of attacks in which women and girls were kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed.
"For
survivors who manage to flee, there is a shortage of medical and
counseling services to help them recover in the communities where they
have settled and even there, challenges continue. Many women and girls
face unsafe conditions in refugee camps as well as elevated levels of
domestic violence."
It's interesting that they won't say whether it's Assad's goons of the Islamist rebels who are behind this. I would bet on both.
Just imagine what they would do to Jews if God forbid they were given the chance.
Expressing frustration that the “warriors of Islam” fighting in Syria
may be getting weary for the lack of sexual pleasure, the religious
leader issued a decree that promotes hours-long “intercourse marriages.”
The
cleric, Muhammed al-Arifi, who is a leading jihadist religious figure,
made it clear that his edict called for the gang rape of Syrian women
and girls. He specified that the “intercourse marriages” last only a few
hours “in order to give each fighter a turn.” As to who is an eligible
bride, the cleric approves any girls or women over the age of 14 who are widowed or divorced. Yes, you read that right. Any girls over the age of 14.
Aww.... The poor 'warriors of Islam.' Where is the Left? Where are all the advocates of 'equal rights for women'? Why is it that they are more interested in a group of women who want to put on a show called 'praying at the Western Wall' than they are in this?
By the way, which side constitutes 'warriors of Islam'? The Free Syrian Army? Bashar al-Assad? Both?
Religion of rape: Egypt's Islamist government organizing rapes of protesters
The Islamist government of Mohammed Morsyis reported to be organizing gang rapes of female protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Meanwhile there have been reports of organised rape taking place in
Tahrir Square in order to intimidate protests there. While sexual
assaults on women were reported as taking place in Tahrir Square as long
ago as last February, including that of the CBS journalist Laura Logan
who was molested for over 30 minutes by a crowd of men, mob sex attacks
against female protesters are said to have increased during the the
past year. Activists say that nearly 20 attacks have taken place in the
past ten days.
The sexual assaults take place at around the same time of day, and
usually occur on the corner of Tahrir Square and Mohammed Mahmoud
Street. It is being reported widely that Egypt’s ruling party is paying
gangs of thugs to beat up men who are protesting against Mohamed Morsi
and his latest decree giving himself sweeping new powers, and also to
sexually assault women involved in the protests.
The director of the Nadeem Centre for Human Rights, Magda Adly, says
that the state sponsored gang violence that occurred under Mubarak “is
still happening now.” She says “thugs are being paid money to do this…
the Muslim Brotherhood have the same political approaches as Mubarak.”
Men have admitted that they have been paid to target female
protestors, saying that they operate in a group of around 65 local men
and are paid between £10 and £20 a time. But they would not reveal who
pays them.
Eleven years later, “they” still hate us, now
more than ever, Logan told the crowd. The Taliban and al-Qaida have not
been vanquished, she added. They’re coming back.
“I chose this subject because, one, I can’t
stand, that there is a major lie being propagated . . .” Logan declared
in her native South African accent.
The lie is that America’s military might has tamed the Taliban.
“There is this narrative coming out of Washington
for the last two years,” Logan said. It is driven in part by “Taliban
apologists,” who claim “they are just the poor moderate, gentler, kinder
Taliban,” she added sarcastically. “It’s such nonsense!”
Logan stepped way out of the “objective,”
journalistic role. The audience was riveted as she told of plowing
through reams of documents, and interviewing John Allen, the top U.S.
commander in Afghanistan; Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a Taliban
commander trained by al-Qaida. The Taliban and al-Qaida are teaming up
and recruiting new terrorists to do us deadly harm, she reports.
She made a passionate case that our government is
downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as
a rationale of getting us out of the longest war. We have been lulled
into believing that the perils are in the past: “You’re not listening to
what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your
arrogance, you think you write the script.”
Our enemies are writing the story, she suggests, and there’s no happy ending for us.
...
Logan even called for retribution for the recent terrorist killings of
Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other
officials. The event is a harbinger of our vulnerability, she said.
Logan hopes that America will “exact revenge and let the world know that
the United States will not be attacked on its own soil. That its
ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States will not
stand by and do nothing about it.”
Unfortunately, I was not able to find video of Logan's talk on line. Two other speeches have been posted, but so far Logan's has not. I guess that President Obama still has friends in Chicago.
Libyans sang song of victory, praised God as they dragged Stevens' body through streets of Benghazi
The Obama administration has attempted to convince anyone who will listen that those Libyans who dragged US Ambassador Chris Stevens through the streets of Benghazi on September 11 were just trying to save him. Not so, writes Phyllis Chesler.
Here’s what’s happening.
America is now experiencing what Israel has had to live with, unaided, disbelieved, for decades.
Remember
the ghoulish lynching of the two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in
2000? And how the Palestinians danced for joy in the streets on 9/11? In
2012, the Arab Street, the Islamist Muslim Street, is again dancing in
blood, dancing with corpses.
People have cautioned me not to write
about mob mass rape without proper sources. They are right. But today,
what constitutes a credible source? Would one turn to the New York Times (or Huffington Post or NPR) or to The Wall Street Journal, National Review, or the Weekly Standard?
What constitutes irrefutable proof—the kind accepted by all?
Remember
the Mumbai massacre? Islamist terrorists forced hotel guests to strip
naked to humiliate them before they killed them. Remember the Chabad
Rabbi and his very pregnant wife in Mumbai? They were both tortured in
full sight of each other and their genitals were mutilated.
I know
of many instances of Islamist Muslim mobs on a rampage. They have
attacked civilians, including women and children, with axes, swords,
knives, whips, chains, and rocks and they hacked, stabbed, lashed, and
stoned their victims to death. The mob also be-headed their victims and
sexually mutilated them, both while they were still alive and after
death. They have also been known to gang-rape and gang-grope their
victims.
As yet, we have no autopsy reports about our American
dead in Libya, nor do we have any eyewitness accounts of the possible
sodomizing of Ambassador Stevens.
However, I have been looking at
the photos and the brief video of Ambassador Stevens and I have spoken
to two different Arabists.
The Arabists both assure me that the
mob dragging and photographing Ambassador Steven’s body are chanting a
song of victory over one’s enemies and are praising God for that
victory.
The photos and video show a mob of men photographing a
half-naked, facially battered man as they drag him through the streets.
They do not look like Good Samaritans who are rushing him to the
hospital for treatment. Ambassador Stevens looks quite dead.
According
to one of my Arabists, the Arab language media reported that Ambassador
Stevens had been gang-raped before he was mob-murdered. He sent me a
link to an Arab media venue. (And no, I am not referring to the Lebanese
source which recanted this information).
This is the 'culture' with which President Hussein Obama wishes to make peace at any price. Are you going to vote for him?
Khaled Abu Toameh reports that Muslim men in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries are using their embassies in Iraq and Jordan to help them find 14 and 15-year old girls for 'pleasure marriages.' That sounds like rape to me.
Syrian female refugees aged 14 and 15 who fled their country to Jordan and Iraq are being forced into "pleasure marriages" [Nikah al-Mut'ah] -- a pre-Islamic custom allowing men to marry for a limited period.
Apart from being a cover for legalized prostitution (the marriage can last for as little as 30 minutes), Nikah al-Mut'ah deprives the wife of many rights.
No divorce is necessary in "pleasure marriages," for instance, and the husband may void the marriage earlier than agreed.
What is most disturbing about this practice is not even whether or not the wife has rights, so much as that Muslim scholars and preachers have given the green light to their followers to exploit the plight of the poor and helpless Syrian girls.
Since we have been told that Islam doesn't condone rape, and would never take advantage of minor children of poor families, you probably assume that there's outrage about this all over the Arab world. Well, no.
Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the pan-Arab Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, expressed outrage over the "ugly exploitation" of Syrian girls who fled the war in their country.
"Exploiting the conditions of the girls in the refugee camps by marrying them temporarily is a form of rape that must stop immediately," Atwan wrote. "Those responsible for this crime should be brought to trial."
Yet Atwan's condemnation seems to be a lone voice in the desert. No prominent Muslim figure or organization has deemed it necessary to denounce the sexual exploitation of the Syrian girls.
I don't know of any other religion that has institutionalized exploitation of teenage girls in 2012. Do you?
We’re all shocked by the horrifying pictures of Corrie lying on the ground, broken and bleeding. But has anyone ever asked what kind of ghoul would snap pictures rather than rush to her aid or run to get help?
Numerous pictures of Corrie standing defiantly in front of an Israeli bulldozer appeared in the media, but upon investigation it transpired that not a single one was from the incident that killed her. Some were taken hours before the fatal incident with a different bulldozer; others were sloppy photoshopped forgeries. Why were there photos after she was injured and not before?
Corrie was not the only member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who was nearly crushed beneath the bulldozer’s maw that day. Indeed, at least two – “Will and Jenny” – were pulled away by their colleagues at the last second.
Immediately after Corrie’s death, several leaders of ISM were interviewed. They didn’t express horror or even sorrow. They spoke of peace soldiers’ sacrifices in battle and the PR benefits of an American woman dying at hands of Israel’s army.
The ghoulish photographer was an ISM member who went by the name of “Joe Smith.” His real name: Joseph Carr, a self-proclaimed anarchist who apparently used aliases to travel in and out of Israel and anti-American hotspots like Fallujah, Iraq. His March 17 affidavit immediately after Corrie’s death suggests a narcissist who speaks more about his trauma than Corrie’s death, and an agitprop specialist who had all of the press contacts and numbers readily at hand to launch a press campaign just 30 minutes after her death.
But Smith/Carr may not have been the only culprit.
Why would the “internationals” risk their lives in such a way? And was Corrie a partner to this treacherous game? Reporter Joshua Hammer explained that on that fateful day the ISM members decided to take their confrontation with the IDF up a notch. They needed to prove themselves to the local population:
An anonymous letter was circulating which referred to Corrie and the other expatriate women in Rafah as “nasty foreign bitches” whom “our Palestinian young men are following around.”
That morning [of Corrie’s death], the ISM team tried to devise a strategy to counteract the letter’s effects. “We all had a feeling that our role was too passive,” said one ISM member. “We talked about how to engage the Israeli military.” That morning, team members made a number of proposals that seemed designed only to aggravate the problem. …“The idea was to more directly challenge the Israeli military dominance using our international status,” said the ISMer.
One of the ISM founders, Thom Saffold, admitted to The Washington Post the day after Corrie’s death that “it’s possible they [the protesters] were not as disciplined as we would have liked.”
Saffold continued with astounding callousness: “But we’re like a peace army. Generals send young men and women off to operations, and some die.”
That wasn’t the only statement indicating that Corrie was cannon fodder for the ISM. Another of ISM’s founders, George Rishmawi, told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2004:
When Palestinians get shot by Israeli soldiers, no one is interested anymore. But if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice.
Another ISMer in Gaza committed to writing similar sentiments in a letter home in February 2003:
You just can’t imagine it unless you see it, and even then you are always well aware that your experience is not at all the reality: what with the difficulties the Israeli Army would face if they shot an unarmed US citizen.”(emphasis added)
The author was Rachel Corrie, one month before she died. Did she believe that she should be that unarmed US citizen? Did the Gaza ISM cadre believe that they had to prove to the Palestinian locals that they were as committed to the cause as the Palestinian shihads blowing themselves up on Israeli buses?
The Muslim Brotherhood may be in charge, but Egyptian men are as randy as ever
The Muslim Brotherhood may now be in charge in Egypt, but some things haven't changed. One thing that has not changed is Egyptian men and their treatment of blonde, female westerners. I have discussed before on this blog the harassment of women - especially foreign women - by Egyptian men. Now, it's happened again. Another foreign journalist has been attacked in Egypt. This time it's a British journalist... with long blonde hair.
I don't believe that this is an excuse, but note again that Natasha Smith has long blonde hair. Note what I wrote here about the Lara Logan assault.
The second reason I wasn't surprised by the assault was when I saw the picture of Logan at the top of this post. Several years ago, the wife of a friend confided in me that she had been raped before they were married. She was assaulted by an Arab man right here in Jerusalem, and she told me that she attributed the assault that she was blond and that she was wearing her hair loose. She said that blonds have to be particularly careful around Arab men, and she advised wearing their hair tight and in a bun. Look at Logan's picture. See what I mean?
Now, look at Natasha again in the video. See what I mean?
Natasha's full account of the incident is here (via Blazing Cat Fur). I just want to quote a small part of it.
The women told me the attack was motivated by rumours spread by trouble-making thugs that I was a foreign spy, following a national advertising campaign warning of the dangers of foreigners. But if that was the cause, it was only really used as a pretext, an excuse, to molest and violate a blonde young Western girl.
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Women were crying and telling me “this is not Egypt! This is not Islam! Please, please do not think this is what Egypt is!” I reassured her that I knew that was the case, that I loved Egypt and its culture and people, and the innate peacefulness of moderate Islam. She appeared stunned. But I’m not really a vengeful person and I could see through the situation. This vicious act was not representative of the place I had come to know and love.
But as you can see from my story about my friend's wife and from Lara Logan, this is very typical behavior for the Arab Islamic world, particularly for foreign women with long, blonde hair.
If Ms. Smith returns to Egypt, I would suggest that she temporarily dye her hair a different color and cut it short. As silly as that sounds, it could save her life.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Durban Follies, constitutes a permanent delegation to the UN. The OIC was established in 1969. Its position is as follows: it seeks to
pursue as a matter of priority a common policy aimed at prevented defamation of Islam perpetrated under the pretext and justification of the freedom of expression in particular through media and internet.
In 2011, the 38th Conference, held in Kazakhstan, stated “deep concern over any activities carried out by certain governmental and non-governmental organizations supported by governments in order to attack OIC member states for political purposes and to further their foreign policy objectives in international forums.” The conference also denounced “media campaigns and fabrications made by some quarters in non-member states regarding the mistreatment of non-Muslim minorities and communities in the OIC member states under the slogans of religious freedoms and so on.”
In other words, attempting to help a Christian escape genocide in Egypt, Iraq, or Pakistan would be outlawed as would all work that reports on religious persecution. What I’m writing here would be criminalized. The Muslims who drafted this document want to do their gender cleansing without being exposed, stopped, or held liable for it. That’s the OIC at the UN.
The United States, to its credit, shunned the UN’s Durban III conference. However, in 2009, the Obama administration eliminated the phrases “Islamic extremism,” “Islamic terrorism,” and “terrorism” from national security strategy documents. We have also seen a quantum increase in fears about a non-existent “Islamophobia” and a similar quantum decrease in “official” fears about an escalating anti-Semitism which in the Middle East is potentially genocidal.
Many European politically correct/anti-racist governments agree with the OIC Conference. For example, European governments have prosecuted “thought crimes” which involve criticism of Islam or any objective presentation of Islam (honor killing, honor related violence, forced marriage, daughter and wife beating, etc.) that some Muslim somewhere finds offensive — in Holland, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Iceland etc. I myself have called this the death of free speech in Europe.
Recently, I was involved in the case of a Pakistani apostate, Khalid Saheed, who sought and was denied political asylum in Sweden. Predictably, he and his family have received death threats from Islamic fundamentalists. If Saheed and his family are sent back to Pakistan, they will be murdered for leaving Islam. This is the true state of religious tolerance in the Muslim world. There is no such freedom and USCRIF has boldly exposed and published this truth.
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Perhaps there are simpler reasons involved in the death of USCRIF. The bill to continue funding it was held up by just one man, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill). Durbin may not necessarily oppose aiding religious minorities as much as he is in favor of delivering pork barrel to his constituents. Thus, unbelievably, only until or unless the Thomson Correctional Center in northwest Illinois is funded and/or funded for the purpose of holding Guantanamo Bay detainees, there can be no funding for religious freedom anywhere else on earth.
I am sure that certain readers of this blog will dismiss this as 'lies' and 'Islamophobia' and will dismiss me as an 'Islamophobe' or will claim that it doesn't 'represent Islam.' But you can't just dismiss it without presenting contrary facts, and certainly in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan (for starters) there are none.
Let's go to the videotape.
Thanks to Dick Durbin and the OIC Gulnaz is marrying her rapist. Shame on the western world.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
