Cyrus Nowrasteh » THE STONING OF SORAYA M. Cyrus Nowrasteh accepts the NAACP IMAGE AWARD for "The Stoning of Soraya M. " see trailer In a world of secrecy, corruption and injustice, a single courageous voice can tell a true story that changes everything. This is what lies at the heart of the emotionally charged experience of THE STONING OF SORAYA M. Based on an incredible true story, this powerful tale of a village’s persecution of an innocent woman becomes both a daring act of witness and a compelling parable about mob rule. Who will join forces with the plot against her, who will surrender to the mob, and who will dare to stand up for what’s right. It is both a classic fable of good and evil and an inspiring tribute to the many fighting against injustice around the world, THE STONING OF SORAYA M. was a rousing runner-up to SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE as the Audience Favorite at the Toronto Film Festival.
[youtube] Related Videos: Related links: Stoning of Soraya M. – IMDb. Sudan: Women are punished with '600,000' lashes a year - Adnkronos Security. Khartoum, 16 Dec. (AKI) - Forty thousand women in Sudan are subject to police whippings for moral transgressions each year, a figure that came to light after a video was circulated on the Internet which showed the public thrashing of a Khartoum woman.Sudanese feminist and political figure Mariam al-Sadiq al-Madi brought the issue to the attention of authorities, the Sudanese daily al-Sharq al-Awsat reported.The drama of the physical punishments against women in Sudan is much more serious than previously believed," al-Madi said. She said that each year around 600,000 lashes are dealt to women in Sudan. " Women with “seditious” eyes must cover up - Emirates24|7. Women unveiling their eyes in public in Saudi Arabia will be forced to fully cover up their faces if their eyes are found to be seditious, according to the Gulf Kingdom’s most feared Islamic law-enforcement group.
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was reacting to last week’s fight between one its members and a Saudi husband, who was maddened by the man’s orders to his wife to cover up her face, the Saudi Arabic language daily Alwatan reported on Sunday. Police are still investigating the incident, in which the husband was stabbed in the back during the fight in the southern province of Hael. “The Commission members have orders to tell any women in public to cover up her face if they find that her eyes are seditious,” the paper said, quoting Sheikh Mutlaq Al Nabit, a Commission spokesman in Hael. Women in Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative Muslim nations, must veil their faces in public but some of them uncover their eyes.
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » The Whitewashing of Soraya M. The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom (9780980722307): Mark Durie, Bat Ye'or. Muslim Genocide of Christians Throughout Middle East :: Hudson New York. It is obvious by now that the Christians in the Middle East are an "endangered species. " Christians in Arab countries are no longer being persecuted; they are now being slaughtered and driven out of their homes and lands.
Those who for many years turned a blind eye to complaints about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East now owe the victims an apology. Now it is clear to all that these complaints were not "Jewish propaganda. " The war of genocide against Christians in the Middle East can no longer be treated as an "internal affair" of Iraq or Egypt or the Palestinians. What the West needs to understand is that radical Islam has declared jihad not only against Jews, but also against Christians. In Iraq, Egypt and the Palestinian territories, Christians are being targeted almost on a daily basis by Muslim fundamentalists and secular dictators.
In Egypt, the plight of the Coptic Christian minority appears to be worsening. Muslim Christmas in Europe: "Another Offense Is 'Claiming God Has a Son.'" :: Hudson New York. Europe's Christmas and New Year holidays this year were overshadowed by widespread Islam-related controversies in nearly every European country -- conflicts that reflected the growing influence of Islam thanks to mass immigration from Muslim countries, and an ominous sign of things to come, considering that Europe's Muslim population is expected to double by the end of the decade that began this week.
Some of the most heated multicultural dust-ups during the December 2010 holidays took place in Britain, where a Muslim group launched a nationwide poster campaign denouncing Christmas as evil. Organizers posted across Britain thousands of placards claiming the season of goodwill is responsible for rape, teenage pregnancies, abortion, promiscuity, crime and paedophilia. They said they hoped that the campaign would help to "destroy Christmas" in Britain, and instead lead to Britons converting to Islam.
The bottom of the poster declares: "In Islam we are protected from all of these evils. The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History (9781591025542): Andrew G. Bostom, Ibn Warraq. CRCC: Center For Muslim-Jewish Engagement: Resources: Religious Texts. Update: Danish Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard Attacked by Somali Linked to Radical Islamic al-Shabab and al Qaeda | Flap's Blog - FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog. ++++++Update+++++ More on last night’s attack on Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard: Danish police intelligence said they believed the “attempted assassination … is terror related” and accused the man, who was not named, of having links with Somalia’s al-Shabaab militant group as well as al Qaeda militants.The cartoonist, 74, pushed a panic button, fled to a safe room and was unhurt when police arrived.
His grand-daughter was in the house during the attack. Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokkee Rasmussen siad that the attack was “an attack on our open society and democracy.” At the hearing the police can request to hold him longer or proceed to a trial. Here is the BBC account of today’s court hearing. Note that Al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Ali Muhamud Rage told the AFP New Agency: “We appreciate the incident in which a Muslim Somali boy attacked the devil who abused our prophet Mohammed and we call upon all Muslims around the world to target the people like” him.”
And, all of this for what? Danish Cartoons Spurs Riots Across The Globe — Why? - THINK MTV. The furor over a Danish cartoons that caricatured the Islamic prophet Muhammad continued to rage into this week, with the violence turning deadly as protests in Asia, Europe and the Middle East escalated on Monday and Tuesday (February 7). The protests are in response to 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in Denmark's Jyllands-Posten in September and then reprinted in papers across Europe over the past week. In one of them, Muhammad is depicted wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse. According to The Associated Press, the cartoons came about when the Danish paper asked cartoonists to draw the pictures because members of its staff felt the media was practicing self-censorship when it came to Muslim issues: The comics were reportedly solicited by an editor at the paper after he read a story about Danish illustrators refusing to do the artwork for a children's book about Muhammad.
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » ‘South Park’: Drawing a Line in the Sand. Molly Norris Goes Ghost - Clifford D. May. Molly Norris is not as well known as Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf or Pastor Terry Jones. But you should know who she is — even though she is no more. It will take just a moment for me to explain. In response to threats from militant Islamists, such custodians of Western culture as Comedy Central, Yale University Press, and the Deutsche Oper have resorted to self-censorship. Norris, a cartoonist for the Seattle Weekly, was troubled by what she saw — correctly, I think — as the slow-motion surrender of freedom of expression, a fundamental right.
So she came up with an idea: “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.” This may not have been a great idea — few are — but the point she wanted to make was simple enough: Freedom implies the right to criticize and caricature. You may have noticed that Molly Norris’ comic is not in the paper this week. The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. Norris views the situation with her customary sense of the world’s complexity, and absurdity. [W]e wish her the best. The Amboy Times: The List of Things That Offend Muslims. The Jewel of Medina. The Jewel of Medina is a historical novel by Sherry Jones. It was scheduled for publication by Random House in 2008, but subsequently cancelled; it was subsequently announced that it would be published by Beaufort Books in the United States and by Gibson Square in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.[1][2] Eventually it was published in the U.S. by Beaufort Books.[3] The novel tells a fictionalized version of the life of Aisha, one of the wives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the person who reportedly accompanied him as he received most of his revelations.[4] The novel tells Aisha's story from the age of six, when she was betrothed to Muhammad, to his death.[2] Cancelled publication[edit] Sherry Jones in Århus, Denmark, 15 March 2009 Denise Spellberg[edit] Spellberg subsequently wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal contesting Nomani's characterization of her as the "instigator" of the book's cancellation.
Statement from Random House for Cancellation[edit] Responses[edit] Official Web site of Comedian Aman Ali. GroupProfile. Influential Islamist organization Ideological forebear of Hamas and al Qaeda Supports imposition of Shari’a law Approves of terrorism against Israel and the West See also: The Muslim Brotherhood's "General Strategic Goal" for North AmericaThe Muslim Brotherhood's "Global Project for Palestine" Hasan al-Banna Sayyid Qutb Yusuf al-Qaradawi Al Qaeda Hamas Jihad Is The Way Founded in 1928 by the Egyptian schoolteacher/activist Hasan al-Banna (a devout admirer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis), the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) -- a Sunni entity -- is one of the oldest, largest and most influential Islamist organizations in the world.
While Egypt historically has been the center of the Brotherhood’s operations, the group today is active in more than 70 countries (some estimates range as high as 100+). Islam expert Robert Spencer has called MB "the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda. " In the 1930s, the Brotherhood was largely an underground organization. The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States: Fitzgerald: Lack of prosperity in the Islamic world. MPAC Conference Features Radicals. One of the nation's leading Islamist political organizations hosts its annual convention this weekend, opting to showcase a slew of radicals and terror apologists on its program. The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is calling this Saturday's conference at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, "The Struggle for America's Conscience. " Among the invited speakers is a leader of a Virginia mosque whom law enforcement officials consider to be "associated with Islamic extremists," a director of a group founded by the Muslim Brotherhood with a history of radical statements, and MPAC officials with their own record of undermining law enforcement counter-terror efforts.
In addition, a White House aide responsible for outreach to the Muslim world is scheduled to appear. But even he has a record of criticizing American terrorism prosecutions and policies. Convention topics include "Islamophobia, U.S. Al-Marayati has a substantial record of defending terrorist groups and extremist organizations. Questions for America's New OIC Envoy. IPT News February 18, 2010 No sooner than President Obama named 31-year-old lawyer Rashad Hussain to be America's new envoy to the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), did reports surface indicating Hussain has held harshly critical views of his own country's treatment of Muslims. Politically motivated prosecutions, out-of-control surveillance of Muslims and the prospect that internment camps could one day return to American soil are among those concerns he has expressed. During a 2004 talk before the Muslim Students Association, Hussain reportedly cast the terror-support indictment of Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian as an example of the politically-motivated cases.
At the time, Al-Arian was a year away from trial. According to Politico: It is instructive to remember what the message about Al-Arian was in 2004. At his sentencing, presiding U.S. It's not clear that the OIC agrees. Islam envoy retreats on terror talk - Josh Gerstein. President Barack Obama’s new Islamic envoy, Rashad Hussain, changed course Friday — admitting that he made sharply critical statements about a U.S. terror prosecution against a Muslim professor after initially saying he had no recollection of making such comments. “I made statements on that panel that I now recognize were ill-conceived or not well-formulated,” Hussain said, referring to a 2004 conference at which he discussed the case. Hussain’s reversal came after POLITICO obtained a recording of his presentation to a Muslim students’ conference in Chicago during which he can be heard portraying the government’s cases towards professor Sami Al-Arian, as well as other Muslim terrorism suspects, as “politically motivated persecutions.”
Al-Arian later pled guilty to aiding terrorists. The comments touched off criticism from conservative commentators, who questioned whether someone who held those views should represent the United States in the Muslim world. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) MPAC's Flawed Prescription for Fighting Homegrown Terror. IPT News December 18, 2009 Following the news that five Americans had traveled from the United States to Pakistan to attend terrorist training camps, a coalition of representatives from the American-Muslim community has come out denouncing the alleged plotters.
From this chorus, groups such as the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) have promised to redouble efforts at combating radicalization and to renew cooperation with law enforcement. Indicative of these efforts, according to MPAC, is a recently released report entitled Building Bridges to Strengthen America: Forging an Effective Counterterrorism Enterprise Between Muslim Americans and Law Enforcement (MPAC Report). The report was written to provide a "blueprint for how Muslim American communities can be an asset in securing our nation and preserving the rights of all Americans, as defined by a Muslim American perspective. " Latest al-Qaida Magazine Stokes Homegrown Terror. Al-Qaida makes a full press for Muslims in America and other Western nations to wage homegrown terrorist attacks in the second issue of its English-language magazine, offering grisly suggestions that "would cause chaos and trauma among the public. " The second edition of Inspire features articles by at least three American writers - cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, considered one of the movement's leading recruiters, al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn and Samir Khan, who writes of his decision to leave North Carolina for Yemen to aid the cause.
But the most disturbing sections come from someone identified as Yahya Ibrahim. In separate articles, he suggests ideas for terrorist attacks and offers advice on how to wage jihad without generating scrutiny from law enforcement or intelligence agencies. The graphic for the article "The Ultimate Mowing Machine" is taken from a Ford F-150 advertisement showing a truck splashing through puddles as lightning strikes in the background. Hizb ut-Tahrir in America: Lessons from Great Britain. Jihadization of youth a 'rapid process' Radical Outreach - Steve Emerson. Freedom to Believe: challenging Islam's apostasy law (9780978714192): Dr Patrick Sookhdeo.
Ex-CIA Analyst Ignores Islam in Muddled Mideast Strategy: Books. 'Christmas is evil': Muslim group launch poster campaign against festive period. The Red Cross bans Christmas. European Commission criticised for omitting Christmas on EU school diary. British credit-card chief forced to quit after making Shi'ite joke. Doctors should not eat in front of Muslims during Ramadan says Scottish NHS -Times Online. The Amboy Times: Church Bells and Fireworks Safety ads. The Amboy Times: Terrorist Lego Toy Offends muslims. Islamofascist Anisa Abd El Fattah declares Michelle Malkin “an enemy of the people”, incites violence against Jews, Christians.
Infidel Bloggers Alliance. CNN's Anderson Cooper outs Hezbollywood. The Red Cross Ambulance Incident. Welcome to the counterjihad! — 1389 Blog – Counterjihad! An open reply to Chulov re Red Cross ambulances. MPAC Whitewashes Terror Threat While Condemning Law Enforcement. Turkish PM: "Islamophobia" is a crime against humanity.
Jihad Watch. UK: 'Terror tape' given out at mosque. Hamas bomb factory found in West Bank mosque. Weapons found in Gaza mosque. Letter from bin Laden Found in Mosque in Italy. Knoxville: Mosque demands that nearby restaurant not sell alcohol. Iraq: GIs exchange fire with jihadists in mosque. Jihadists firing from inside mosque injure two. Italy: Group used mosque as jihad training camp. Comparing Europe’s Muslims of Today to Europe’s Jews of Yesterday | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune. Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law (9781595551610): Nonie Darwish. AP Stringer Was Lebanese Red Cross Volunteer at Qana 1 & 2.
Fake-but-true: The Age defends the holey ambulance hoax.