சத்தியமார்க்க குண்டுதயாரிக்கும் மதரஸாவில் வெடிமருந்து வெடித்து 16 குழந்தைகள் பலி

தமிழர்களே எச்சரிக்கையாக இருங்கள்.
ம்தரஸா பக்கம் தலை நீட்டாதீர்கள்.

16 killed in blast in Pak madrassa used as bomb-making factory
1 Comments | Post CommentLarger | Smaller Agencies
Tags : Pak bomb blast, madrassa, Punjab province


At least 16 people, including several children, were killed and 120 others injured on Monday when a powerful explosion in Mian Channu near Multan flattened a madrassa, which was being used to make bombs, officials said.

The blast, which occurred shortly before 10 am local time in the village near Mian Channu in southern Punjab, was caused by explosives stored in the home of madrassa teacher Riaz Ali, local residents said.



Ali was a member of a banned religious group, officials said.



Police and rescue service officials told reporters that 16 people, including several children, were killed in the blast, which also destroyed dozens of houses.



Muhammad Yousuf Soomra, health officer of Khanewal district, said the toll could rise as more bodies were feared to be buried under the rubble of collapsed homes.



It was not immediately known what triggered the blast. Rescue workers found parts of shells and bombs, grenades, rockets and suicide jackets in the rubble of the madrassa.





Officials said the seminary was being used to make bombs.



Doctors in local hospitals said 120 injured people had been brought for treatment. Over 40 of them were admitted to hospitals while many were allowed to go home after being given first aid. An emergency was declared in all hospitals near Mian Channu.



'Jehadi' material, including cassettes with militant propaganda and pamphlets of the Harkat-ul-Jehad al-Islami terrorist group, were also found in the debris of Ali's house, Geo News channel reported.



The blast created a crater 40 feet wide and eight feet deep. The explosion flattened about 25 structures, including a rural health centre and the madrassa, a police official said.



... contd.

Read More...

Collapse...

இஸ்லாமிய அடிமைமுறையிலிருந்து விடுதலை பெற காத்திருக்கும் ஆப்பிரிக்கர்கள்

மௌரிட்டானியாவில் கருப்பினத்தவர்கள் அடிமைகளாகவும் வந்தேறி அரபுகள் எஜமான்களாகவும் இருக்கிறார்கள்.

கருப்பினத்த்வர்களான ஆப்பிரிக்கர்களை கட்டாய மதமாற்றம் செய்து முஸ்லீமாகவும் மாற்ரிவிட்டார்கள் இந்த அரபுகள். இந்த அடிமைமுறையை ஒழிக்கவேண்டும் என்று உலகமே இவர்களிடம் கோரிக்கை வைத்தாலும் நீக்கமுடியாது என்று இன்றுவரை இந்த ஆப்பிரிக்கர்களை அடிமைகளாக வைத்திருக்கிறார்கள் அரபு பெர்பர்கள்.

இதுதான் இஸ்லாம் வழங்கும் விடுதலையாம்!

இந்த "விடுதலை" வேண்டாம் என்று ஆப்பிரிக்கர்கள் தங்களை அடிமைமுறையிலிருந்து விடுவிக்கவேண்டும் என்று கோருகிறார்கள்.

அரபு முஸ்லீம்கள் இஸ்லாம் அடிமைமுறையை ஆதரிக்கிறது. இவர்களை விடுதலை செய்யமுடியாது என்று போராட்டம் செய்கிறார்கள். எல்லாம் மனித நேயம்தான்! இஸ்லாமிய வெரைட்டி.


Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania's presidential election
More than half a million slaves are at the heart of a presidential election battle in the former French colony of Mauritania.

By Nick Meo in Nouakchott, Mauritania
Published: 8:30AM BST 12 Jul 2009

Supporters of General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz Photo: AFP/GETTY
A year after she ran away from her master, Barakatu Mint Sayed prays that the election on July 18 will mark the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania.

Her nation is one of the last places on Earth where large numbers of humans are still kept as property.


Related Articles
Barack Obama tells Africa to stop blaming the West
US election: Slavery is still an issue
US Elections: Simon Schama waves goodbye to the politics of pettiness
Whoopi Goldberg: no Mother Superior
Alan Hackney
Jack KempAnd like thousands of other slaves and freed slaves across the Saharan country, her hopes are fixed on an inspirational candidate, a man born to slave parents who has sworn to put an end to the practice of "owning" humans if he is elected president.

That candidate is Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, a 66-year-old former civil servant with a strong resemblance to the film actor Morgan Freeman. Mr Boulkheir has vowed that in power he would punish slave owners and do everything he can to free their human property.

His prospects of winning power are growing by the day - and he is being hailed as Mauritania's brightest star by his supporters.

"He is the Obama of Mauritania," said Boubacar Messaoud, an architect and veteran anti-slavery campaigner in the northwest African desert state. "He is going to bring change, and he represents social justice and equality."

Officially, slavery has long been abolished in Mauritania, but the law has never been enforced and there are an estimated 600,000 slaves, almost one in five of the country's 3.2 million people, almost 150 years since the American civil war.

Change will come too late to heal Mrs Sayed's ruined life. But she knows that victory for Mr Boulkheir could transform the future for the daughter and grandchildren whom she had to leave behind in captivity when she finally summoned the courage to escape.

A black African of Mauritania's Haratine caste, she was born into slavery about 40 years ago - she is illiterate and has only a hazy idea of time - and grew up as the property of an Arabic-speaking Berber family, in an oasis town deep in the desert.

While her master's children went to school, she was cooking, cleaning and washing from dawn to dusk. She slept on the floor, and suffered beatings.

"Sometimes I was too tired by the end of the day to eat my food," Mrs Sayed said at her new home in the capital, Nouakchott, where she now works as a paid housekeeper.

Aged about 10, she was separated from her mother by being given to a cousin of the master as a wedding gift. She remembers crying uncontrollably when they moved to a different town, where she was forbidden from leaving the master's house.

Another 20 years later she was separated from her own daughter, Mulkheir, when the girl was given away as a teenager – a common trauma for slave families.

Mrs Sayed has never seen her three young grandchildren or met her daughter's husband. In fact she is not sure whether her daughter even has a husband, or whether Mulkheir's children were fathered by her master.

It is the kind of life that has been endured for centuries by Mauritania's slaves, since the first marauding Berber raiders rode out of the desert from the north in the 3rd century to carry off African villagers.

The former slave who would be president believes he can finally bring such suffering to an end.

"All that is needed to free the slaves is willpower," Mr Boulkheir told The Sunday Telegraph at his modest home in the capital.

A quietly spoken man with a commanding presence, he has a clean reputation in an Islamic nation which has suffered years of corrupt rulers.

The acting president and head of the senate, Ba Mamadou Mbare, is not contesting the election. Of his nine rival candidates, the man Mr Boulkheir has to beat is the self-appointed president of the Higher State Council, General Mohammed Ould Abdelaziz, who led a military coup last year and is the most powerful man in the country. He is the Arabic-speaking former head of security for Ould Taya - the deposed dictator who was driven out by an earlier coup in 2005 and now lives in exile.

Gen Abdelaziz - who has removed his uniform to contest the election in line with the constitution - and his political opponents including Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the president he deposed last year, agreed to the polls in a deal brokered by Senegal.

The junta and its opponents had come under intense pressure from the international community to re-establish a democratic government, with the United Nations, European Union and African Union co-sponsoring the mediation.

Gen Abdelaziz's enemies stop short of claiming that he owns slaves – he was in fact born in poverty and inherited nothing. But they insist that there are slave-owning masters among the ranks of his wealthy supporters.

The two candidates despise each other. Their electoral battle, a novelty in a ramshackle capital which is more used to coups, has enthused its residents, as much as anyone can be enthused in temperatures of 43 degrees centigrade.

Its streets, where sand drifts across the tarmac, are plastered with posters, and nomadic-style tents have been erected in every suburb. Blaring loudspeakers praise the rival candidates at such volume that passing camels and donkeys pulling carts are sent into a panic. With six days to go, diplomats consider the race too close to call.

The votes of slaves who have been registered by their masters may make a critical difference. But campaigners fear that in the great swathes of the country's dusty hinterland where most of the slaves are kept, thousands will be compelled to cast their votes for Gen Abdelaziz.

Mr Boulkheir's camp hopes it can pull ahead by energising the freed Haratine – the slave caste which has grown in size and clout in recent years, especially in the cities, as slaves have gradually been freed or run away. Once free, they can join the workforce. Fishing, desert agriculture and iron and gold mining and are the main sources of income for Mauritanians, who on average earn little more than $2 a day, although that could rise if offshore oil exploration ever proves fruitful.

Mr Boulkheir also enjoys the kudos of having being jailed three times by Mauritania's former military dictatorship for advocating democracy when that looked impossible in the 1990s.

Arabic-speakers as well as black Africans back his bid for power, attracted by his promise of building democracy after years of economic stagnation under military misrule and a chaotic series of coups. He is regarded as the candidate with the best chance of ending conflict between the black majority and the Berber ruling elite. Slave-holding has been abolished three times, first by the country's former French overlords and then twice by different rulers of the independent state, most recently in 2007. But the law has never been enforced and no slave owner has ever been prosecuted.

"Many slaves have been freed in Mauritania now, and if I am elected I will speed up the process," Mr Boulkheir said. "Slave owners will be punished, for the first time in our history. Justice will be implemented.

"I will do everything in my power to end this curse of slavery."

In this, he has a deeply personal motivation. Soon after he was born his mother was beaten almost to death by the master from whom his parents had run away. They only managed to escape to freedom because of help from the French authorities.

Their son overcame the handicap of his birth to find a job as a civil servant and rise to a senior rank.

He knows that ending slavery will not prove easy, especially in the vastness of the Sahara where pastoralists and nomads endure a harsh existence which has barely been touched by the modern world.

Not all slaves suffer abuse. If they are lucky, masters feed and care for them as if they are family members, albeit inferior ones, and they will eat and pray with their slaves.

In bondage, the Haratine work as labourers: herding animals; working in date groves; or doing the household chores while the master's family laze around.

Centuries of indoctrination have persuaded the Sahara's captives that slavery is religiously ordained - slaves are taught that if they run away they will be barred from heaven. As a local saying puts it: "Paradise is under your master's foot." In some remote places a runaway will still be hunted down by nomad masters.

If they are brave enough, boys do often escape when they reach their late teens, but for women and children it is much harder. They know that with no skills or education a life of hunger or prostitution is the realistic alternative to captivity, and many escaped slaves return to their masters to beg forgiveness.

In the oasis towns of the desert masters are still powerful, but after 20 years of international pressure - and encouraged by such Western organisations as Anti-Slavery International, which help local campaigners to challenge the entrenched culture - few are prepared to discuss slavery openly.

A Berber driver, who would only give his first name, Mohammed, defended slavery. "It is our religion and custom," he said.

"Why does the international community try to stop it? The slaves are better off with their masters. This is their fate. When they leave, they starve."

Read More...

Collapse...

ஏன் இஸ்லாமிய நாடுகளில் தற்கொலை மிகக்குறைவாக இருக்கிறது?

என்ன காரணமென்றால், அவர்கள் தற்கொலை செய்துகொண்டார்கள் என்று எழுதினால், அது ஹராமாக ஆகுமாம். அதனால், இதய அடைப்பினால் இறந்துவிட்டார்கள் என்று மருத்துவமனையிலேயே எழுதிவிடுவார்களாம்.

ஆனால், பாகிஸ்தானின் எல்லா நகரங்களிலும் ஏராளமானவர்கள் தற்கொலை செய்துகொள்கிறார்கள் என்று பாகிஸ்தானிய நிபுணர்கள் கூறுகிறார்கள்.


ஒன்று தற்கொலை குண்டுதாரியாக இன்னும் ஏராளமானவர்களை கொல்லலாம். அல்லது யாரையும் கொல்ல விருப்பமில்லாதவர்கள் தானே சாகலாம்.

இதற்கு காரணம் இஸ்லாமாகத்தான் இருக்கும் என்று கருதலாம்.

More of our men are committing suicide: experts

Daily Times Monitor

KARACHI: Suicide has become a major public health problem in Pakistan but despite this there are no official statistics and national rates are unknown. Rates for men are consistently higher than women; the highest rates for men were between the ages 20-40 years in Larkana. Given the stigma, experts believe these figures to be an underestimate.

To determine rates experts carried out an analysis of suicide reports from six cities in Pakistan. Their findings were put together in an article ‘Epidemiology of Suicide in Pakistan: Determining Rates in Six Cities’ that appeared in the ‘Archives of Suicide Research’ in April.

Suicide is one of the ten leading causes of death in the world today, accounting for almost a million deaths worldwide annually. Along with neuro-psychiatric disorders, suicide contributes 12.7% to the global burden of disease. Information on suicide from Islamic countries is lacking, including those with populations exceeding 100 million people such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

There are no official data on suicide from Pakistan. Data on suicide is not included in the national annual mortality statistics. As a result, national rates on suicide are neither known nor reported to the WHO.

Pakistan’s population of 162 million makes it the sixth most populous country in the world. Ninety-seven percent of its people are Muslims, while Hindus, Christians, and Zoroastrians form smaller but important minorities. Official unemployment stands at 12% of the eligible workforce. Health spending is 0.7% of the national annual budget. Mental health does not have a separate budget but is believed to be 0.1% of the health budget.

Under Pakistani law both suicide and deliberate self-harm (DSH) are illegal acts, punishable with a jail term and a heavy financial penalty. Every case of suicide or attempted suicide must be taken to one of the government hospitals designated “medico-legal center” (MLC), where the police register a case and conduct an enquiry into the circumstances of the act. In practice, although prosecution is rare, harassment and extortion of money from survivors and their families is not uncommon. People avoid going to the MLCs and many seek treatment from private hospitals that neither diagnose such cases as suicide nor report them to the police. There are also strong social sanctions against suicide and families are often ostracized. For these reasons suicide is under-researched and under-studied in Pakistan.

Despite this there is compelling evidence that incidences of suicide have increased in Pakistan in recent years. The lay press in Pakistan regularly report on suicide incidences in Pakistan. These news reports are based on surveys of police stations of different cities and reports of NGOs that collect information on suicides. There is therefore need to gather evidence to inform policy for development of preventive programs.

The absence of suicide rates in Pakistan is a major impediment in informing policy, monitoring suicide incidences or estimating effectiveness of suicide prevention programs. The six cities include capital cities of three provinces, i.e., Karachi (Sindh province), Lahore (Punjab province), and Peshawar (NWFP province), while the other three cities (Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, and Larkana) have populations in excess of a million people. Only one province, i.e., Balochistan (capital Quetta) is not represented in our study.

Suicide rates in Islamic countries are considerably lower than other countries. In 1989 experts carried out a 71 nation cross-national analysis and showed when factors such as social, economic, and demographic modernity are controlled, Islam has an independent effect on lowering suicide rates. However, there is good evidence from a number of Islamic countries such as Iran, Turkey and Bangladesh that suicide occurs regularly in Islamic countries. In a recent study of suicide and undetermined deaths in 17 Islamic countries, experts argue that in many Islamic countries culturally unacceptable suicidal deaths may be hidden in the “Other Violent Death (OVD)” category, thereby artificially lowering suicide rates in these countries.

The study highlights that suicide not only occurs regularly in Pakistan but rates are not as negligible as generally believed. When age- and gender-specific rates are calculated, they show much higher figures. It is important to note we used denominator of 20-59 years age group, as population percentage was available for this, rather than 20-40 age group. Therefore, rates are lower than would have been obtained with a lower denominator, i.e., 20-40 years age group.

Currently, when a death of a person occurs, the head of the family is supposed to report it to the municipal administration within four days. For this a register is maintained in the town council office. Although there is a column for cause of death, this is filled according to the statement of the person notifying the administration of the death. Death certificates issued by hospitals usually state “cardio-respiratory arrest/failure” rather than suicide.

Read More...

Collapse...

ஏன் முஸ்லீம் அடிப்படைவாதிகள் தஸ்லிமாவை செருப்பால் அடித்தார்கள்?

உண்மையை சொல்வதால்!

I want to return home, Taslima petitions Hasina
Dhaka (IANS): Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has petitioned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to be allowed to return home 15 years after fleeing death threats by Islamic militants. She has not yet received any response.

She is unhappy with all regimes in Dhaka and with India, where she lived for some years, but had to leave in 2007 following threats from Muslim extremists.

"The problem of all political parties in India is that they tend to appease the Muslim fundamentalists," Nasreen, who holds a Swedish passport and lives in Paris, told Blitz, a Dhaka weekly.

"Muslims comprise 25 percent of Indian population, this section generally relies on their religious leaders to choose the politician or party to vote. So, all political parties try to win the hearts of these religious leaders, who are often fanatics.

"The Indian authorities do not allow me to live in India, because they are afraid of being labelled as anti-Islam. Muslim fundamentalists claimed that I destroyed Islam. The politicians thought they, instead of supporting freedom of speech, should issue fatwa against it because to them supporting me would mean being labelled as anti-Islam which would destroy their Muslim vote-bank," she told the weekly.

Calling herself "truly secular", Nasreen however says she is not against Taliban who seek to enforce an extremist form of Islam. She wants the 'system' that produces Taliban to be destroyed.

She has disputed Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni's description of Bangladesh as a 'secular' nation, pointing to numerous religion-based laws in force.

Rather than being 'secular', which is an ideal situation, she would prefer Bangladesh to be a "moderate Muslim state".

Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 to live in exile after death threats over her novel 'Lajja' (Shame) which depicts the life of a Hindu family persecuted in the Muslim-majority country.

Sheikh hasina was the prime minister then.

Her plea to return follows the poll victory of Hasina's Awami League last December. The new government has pledged to crack down on Islamic militancy.

"As there is no true secular political party in the country, it is the only party we have pinned our hopes on. There is no alternative," Taslima said.

"I hope I would be able to return to my country during Hasina's term. If I can't go back now, I am afraid whether I will ever be able to in future. I hope good sense would prevail," she said.

Taslima was forced to leave her adopted home in India's Kolkata city in November 2007, after receiving fresh death threats from radical Indian Muslims.

After several months in hiding under Indian government's protection, Nasreen fled to Sweden in March last year, where she was offered a two-year safe haven in the town of Uppsala, a monthly allowance and an apartment.

The author said she pined for her own country.

"I have been living in exile for 15 years. They are punishing me for crimes the Muslim fanatics committed against me. I have been to almost all Bangladesh embassies in the West to get my passport renewed," Taslima said.

"I was born in Bangladesh and as a citizen it is my legal right to be able to live in Bangladesh. My right has been violated time and again. They have never given me any reason for imposing the ban," she said.

Read More...

Collapse...

சீனாவில் பெரும் கலவரம்- 140 முஸ்லீம்கள் பலி

உய்கெர் மாநிலத்தில் முஸ்லீம்கள் கலவரத்தில் இறங்கியதால், அங்குள்ள சீன போலீஸார் அவர்களை சுட்டுக்கொன்றதில் 140 முஸ்லீம்கள் பலி என்று சீன செய்திநிறுவனம் தெரிவிக்கிறது.

140 slain as Chinese riot police, Muslims clash in northwestern city
Email Picture
Shen Qiao / New China News Agency
Firefighters douse a bus in Urumqi, the main city in Xinjiang, where China's ethnic Uighur minority is concentrated. Eight hundred people were injured and hundreds held as demonstrations against racial discrimination erupted into street violence.
Eight hundred people are injured and hundreds are reported arrested in Urumqi. The Uighur demonstrators were protesting against racial discrimination.
By Barbara Demick
12:16 AM PDT, July 6, 2009
Reporting from Beijing -- China's worst ethnic violence in years broke out Sunday in the northwestern city of Urumqi, leaving 140 people dead and more than 800 injured, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

The unrest pitted Uighurs, a long-aggrieved Muslim minority, against the Han Chinese, who increasingly dominate the far-flung Xinjiang region. With the death toll climbing over the course of the day, the violence appeared to be far deadlier than that last year in the Tibetan region.



Uighur protest in ChinaImages from the city of 2 million showed flames raging from overturned cars and black smoke billowing over downtown.

Urumqi was virtually closed down today, with vehicles barred in much of the city, telephone lines and the Internet down.

Chinese bloggers wrote that at least one bomb exploded during the incident and that about 100 public buses were destroyed.


The Chinese government accused Uighur exiles in the U.S. of masterminding what was described by state television as a rampage of "beating, smashing, robbing and burning."

But representatives of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority, countered that they were holding a peaceful demonstration that turned ugly because of government brutality.

"Under Chinese law, we should have the right for a peaceful protest against what the Chinese government is doing to our people," Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, said in a telephone interview from his home in Sweden.

He described the incident as the most serious unrest in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang region, where 8 million Uighurs live uneasily among the majority Han Chinese.

Witnesses reported that riot police arrived on the scene in armored personnel carriers, dispersing the crowd with water cannons and tear gas, and firing warning shots into the air.

At least 300 people were reported to have been arrested and 828 injured.

The trouble began shortly after 3 p.m., when about 300 Uighurs held a sit-in at People's Square. Later, thousands of Uighurs began marching. By nightfall, riots had spread throughout the city, concentrated around the traditional market area known as Erdaoqiao.

Video from Uighur sources that circulated on the Internet for a few hours before being removed by Chinese censors showed a crowd that appeared to be about 3,000-strong marching through the city. In another scene, people subdued with cuffs and ropes were lying on the pavement.

In what was emerging as a battle of images, Chinese television countered with footage of rioters overturning a police car. Two young women with blood streaming down their faces, who appeared to be victims, hugged each other and wept.

A man said to have been beaten by the mob was quoted by the official New China News Agency as saying, "They took to the street, not peacefully, carrying knives, wooden batons, brick and stone." His name was reported as Wang Yaming.

The imagery bore an eerie resemblance to those that came out of Lhasa, the Tibetan region's capital, in March 2008 when years of suppressed rage by Tibetans erupted in rioting. The Tibetan unrest dragged on through much of the year and threatened to mar the festivities around the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

It is unclear whether the Uighurs' protests will have a similar effect during another sensitive year, in which Beijing is planning massive celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of communist China.

Sunday's protests were triggered by the June 26 killing of two young Uighur men at a toy factory in Guangdong province.

According to Uighur sources, the men were beaten to death by a mob, enraged by false rumors that they had sexually harassed Han women.

"Uighurs have suffered for years under racial profiling and unjust government policies that have painted the entire Uighur population as criminals and terrorists," U.S.-based Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said in a statement released last week.

The Uighurs say that an influx of ethnic Han Chinese into their traditional homeland has diluted the Uighur culture and led to high unemployment. China considers Uighur activists to be criminals and terrorists for their opposition to Beijing's rule over Xinjiang.

The news agency today quoted an unidentified Chinese government official as saying that "the violence was masterminded" by Kadeer.

Alim Seytoff, secretary-general of the Uyghur American Assn. and Kadeer's spokesman, said in an e-mail from Washington late Sunday that the demonstrators were not separatists and that many had carried the Chinese flag on the march.

"They only asked the Chinese government to stop racial discrimination against Uighurs. . . . However, you will see what kind of brutal force they met," he wrote.

The Obama administration has been struggling in recent months to resettle Uighur detainees who had been held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since they were captured in Pakistan in 2001.

Read More...

Collapse...

ஒரு வயதில் பெண்ணுக்கு திருமணம் செய்யலாமா?

செய்யலாம் என்று கூறுபவர் சவுதி அரேபிய இமாம்.

அப்புறம் சொல்வதை இங்கே எழுத கூசுகிறது. நீங்களே பார்க்கலாம்.

Read More...

Collapse...

குரான் சொல்லித்தரும்போது 12 வயது சிறுமியை தொடர்ந்து கற்பழித்த இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் கைது. 10 வருடம் சிறை

குரான் சொல்லித்தரும்போது 12 வயது சிறுமியை தொடர்ந்து கற்பழித்த இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் கைது. 10 வருடம் சிறை

Imam raped 12-year-old girl during Koran classes
Published: 12:01AM GMT 23 Dec 2004
A former Muslim cleric was yesterday jailed for 10 years for raping and sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in a mosque where he was teaching.

Manzoor Hussain, 42, of Bristol, was convicted of one offence of rape and four of indecent assault. The offences took place at a mosque in the city between July 1996 and March the following year.

'Sexual predator' gets life for raping womanAt the time of the offences, Hussain was the imam at the mosque in Lower Cheltenham Place. Exeter Crown Court was told the girl had kept the attacks secret for six years because she did not think she would be believed.

Sentencing Hussein at Exeter Crown Court, Judge Graham Cottle said: "You were an elder in the community and a man to be revered and respected by children you taught.

"In a gross breach of the trust placed in you, you sexually assaulted the girl over nine months, culminating in an offence of rape. She was a frightened, confused and miserable child.''

The girl had told the court that Hussain committed the offences when she was attending classes to learn the Koran.

The offences were not reported to the police until last year. Hussain, who came to Britain from Pakistan in 1991, had denied the charges.

Read More...

Collapse...

சொந்த மகளையே கற்பழித்த இஸ்லாமிய இமாம்

சொந்த மகளையே கற்பழித்த இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் கைது. 10 வருட சிறை
அதுவும் குரான் சொல்லித்தரும் போதுதான் கற்பழிப்பாராம்.

My imam father came after me with an axe
Hannah Shah had been raped by her father and faced a forced marriage. She fled, became a Christian and now fears for her life

Dominic Lawson
We are all too familiar with the persecution of Christians in countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. Yet sitting in front of me is a British woman whose life has been threatened in this country solely because she is a Christian. Indeed, so real is the threat that the book she has written about her experiences has had to appear under an assumed name.

The book is called The Imam’s Daughter because “Hannah Shah” is just that: the daughter of an imam in one of the tight-knit Deobandi Muslim Pakistani communities in the north of England. Her father emigrated to this country from rural Pakistan some time in the 1960s and is, apparently, a highly respected local figure.

He is also an incestuous child abuser, repeatedly raping his daughter from the age of five until she was 15, ostensibly as part of her punishment for being “disobedient”. At the age of 16 she fled her family to avoid the forced marriage they had planned for her in Pakistan. A much, much greater affront to “honour” in her family’s eyes, however, was the fact that she then became a Christian – an apostate. The Koran is explicit that apostasy is punishable by death; thus it was that her father the imam led a 40-strong gang – in the middle of a British city – to find and kill her.

Hannah Shah says her story is not unique – that there are many other girls in British Muslim families who are oppressed and married off against their will, or who have secretly become Christians but are too afraid to speak out. She wants their voices to be heard and for Britain, the land of her birth, to realise the hidden misery of these women.

Hannah’s own voice is quiet and emerges from a tiny frame. She is clearly nervous about talking to a journalist and the stress she has been under is betrayed by a bald patch on the left side of her head. Yet she has a lovely natural smile, especially when she reveals that she got married a year ago; her husband works in the Church of England, “though not as a vicar”.

I tell Hannah that the passages in her memoir about her sexual abuse are almost impossible to read – but I also found it hard to understand why, now that she is in her early thirties, independent and married, she has not reported her father’s horrific assaults on her to the police.

“What has stopped me is that if my dad went to prison, the shame that would be brought upon the rest of the family would be horrific. My mum would not be able to . . . I mean, it’s bad enough having a daughter who’s left, is not agreeing to her marriage and is now a Christian. Then to have my dad in prison would be the end for her.”

I tell Hannah, perhaps a little cruelly, that in her use of the word “shame” she is echoing the sort of arguments that her own family had used against her.

“I understand that, but what I’m saying is that if I do that, then there will never be a door open to me to have contact with my family ever again. I’m still hoping that there will be some opportunity for that.” Of course, by writing this book, albeit under an assumed name and with all the places and characters disguised, there is a chance that her family and community will identify themselves in it. What does she think they would do, then?

“To be honest, I don’t even want to think about that. Either they will decide between them that they are not going to say anything because it will bring shame on all the community, or they will decide that they want to take action. Then my life will become even more difficult, because they’ll all be looking for me.”

Hannah’s description in the book of the moment when her “community” discovered the “safe” home where she had fled after becoming an apostate is terrifying. A mob with her father at its head pounded and hammered at the door as she cowered upstairs hoping she could not be seen or heard. She heard her father shout through the letter box: “Filthy traitor! Betrayer of your faith! Cursed traitor! We’re going to rip your throat out! We’ll burn you alive!”

Does she still believe they would have killed her? “Yes, without a doubt. They had hammers and knives and axes.”

Why didn’t you call the police after-wards? “First, I didn’t think the police would believe me. That sort of thing just doesn’t happen in this country – or that’s what they’d think. Second, I didn’t believe I would get help or protection from the authorities.”

Hannah had good reason for this doubt. When, at school, she had finally summoned the courage to tell a teacher that her father had been beating her (she couldn’t bring herself to reveal the sexual abuse), the social services sent out a social worker from her own community. He chose not to believe Hannah and, in effect, shopped her to her father, who gave her the most brutal beating of her life. When she later confronted the social worker, he said: “It’s not right to betray your community.”

Hannah blames what is sometimes called political correctness for this debacle: “My teachers had thought they were doing the right thing, they thought it showed ‘cultural sensitivity’ by bringing in someone from my own community to ‘help’, but it was the worst thing they could have done to me. This happens a lot.

“When I’ve been working with girls who were trying to get out of an arranged marriage, or want to convert to Christianity, and they have contacted social services as they need to get out of their homes, the reaction has been ‘we’ll send someone from your community to talk to your parents’. I know why they are doing this, they are trying to be understanding, but it’s the last thing that the authorities should do in such situations.”

This is the sort of cultural sensitivity displayed by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, last year when he suggested that problems within the British Muslim community such as financial or marital disputes could be dealt with under sharia, Islamic law, rather than British civil law. What did Hannah, now an Anglican, think on hearing these remarks?

“I was horrified.” If you could speak to him now, what would you say to the archbishop? “I would say: have you actually spoken to any ordinary Muslim women about the situation that they live in, in their communities? By putting in place these Muslim arbitration tribunals, where a woman’s witness is half that of a man, you are silencing women even more.”

She believes the British government is making exactly the same mistake as Rowan Williams: “It says it talks to the Muslim community, but it’s not speaking to the women. I mean, you are always hearing Muslim men speaking out, the representatives of the big federations, but the government is not listening to Muslim women. With the sharia law situation and the Muslim arbitration tribunals, have they thought about what effect these tribunals have on Muslim women? I don’t think so.”

It’s fair to say that Hannah Shah is an evangelical Christian, who clearly feels a duty to spread her new faith to Muslims– something with which the Church of England’s eternally emollient establishment is very uncomfortable and the government even more so. She points out that even within this notionally Christian country, people are “persecuted” for evangelism of even the mildest sort. She cites the recent cases of the nurse who was suspended for offering to pray for a patient and the foster parents who were struck off after a Muslim girl in their care converted to Christianity.

“Such people – I’m not talking about apostates like me – have been persecuted or ostracised in this country simply because they want to share their faith with others. People call this political correctness but I actually think it is based on a fear of Muslims, what they might do if provoked.”

Shah’s conversion seems to have its origins in the fact that the family who put her up after she ran away from the prospect of an arranged marriage in rural Pakistan were themselves regular church attenders. She began to go with them and, to put it at its most banal, she liked what she heard.

“It was the emphasis on love.

The Islam that I grew up knowing and reading about doesn’t offer me love. That’s the biggest thing that Christianity can and does offer. I sense that I belong and am accepted as I am – even when I do wrong there is forgiveness, a forgiveness which Islam does not offer.”

So does Hannah offer Christian forgiveness to the father who raped and abused her and who, by her own account, was even prepared to murder her?

“It’s taken a long time and it’s only in the past few years that I’ve got to that. It’s very hard to get there and it’s taken a lot of shouting and screaming behind closed doors, and praying, to get me to the point of being able to say: I forgive. I have to, partly because otherwise I would be a very bitter and angry person and I don’t want to livea life that’s full of anger.”

I can’t help asking how she would react if a future child of hers decided she wanted to abandon the Christian faith of the family home and become a Muslim. “It would be very hard for me, obviously.”

Would she try to discourage it? “No. I’d bring them up as Christians, take them to church, but I’d also want them to know about, well, my culture, about Islam. Because being Christian should be a choice, not what you’re born to. But yes, it would be hard if they chose Islam.”

Somehow, though, I think Hannah Shah would cope.

Read More...

Collapse...

முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாதிகளால் பௌத்தர் தலை துண்டிப்பு: தாய்லாந்து

தாய்லாந்தில் வெறியாட்டம் ஆடும் முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாதிகள் அங்குள்ள பௌத்தர்களை கொன்று வருகிறார்கள். ஒரு பௌத்தரின் தலை துண்டிக்கப்பட்டது. மற்றவர் கொல்லப்பட்டார்.

Thai Buddhist beheaded, another shot in Muslim south
Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:53am EDT

YALA, Thailand, June 15 (Reuters) - Suspected separatists beheaded a rubber tapper and shot dead a school janitor, both Buddhists, in the latest violence in Thailand's Muslim south, police said on Monday.

The attacks took place in Yala and Pattani, two of the three Malay Muslim provinces where 29 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in the past 10 days, among them soldiers, teachers and Buddhist monks.

The body and severed head of the rubber tapper was found in a house next to a plantation in Yala's Than To district. That added to more than 40 beheadings in the region since violence erupted in 2004.

The school janitor was shot dead by unknown gunmen while travelling to work on his motorcycle in Pattani, police said.

Attacks on Buddhists have increased since a shooting last week at a Narathiwat mosque, where unknown gunmen killed 10 Muslims at prayer and wounded 12 more.

Residents blamed security forces for the bloody attack, which the military said was the work of shadowy rebels seeking to cause sectarian rifts.

A labourer from northeastern Thailand was shot dead two days later and a note left at the scene said: "You kill our innocents, so we kill your people."

A Buddhist monk was killed and another critically injured on Friday when they were gunned down as they collected alms in Yala.

A report by Washington-based Nonviolence International released on Monday said the government's decision to arm Buddhist civilians and deregulate gun sales was deepening rifts between Muslims and the region's Buddhist minority.

The study said the policy had "heightened resentment among the Malay Muslim population towards the Thai state and raised the feeling of injustice and discrimination".

In a weekly televised address on Sunday, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajvia said development aid rather than tough security measures would be used to tackle the unrest, with increased investment in the region's fisheries and rubber and palm oil industries.

Mystery surrounds who is behind the violence in the deep south, which was an independent Malay Muslim sultanate until annexed by Buddhist Thailand a century ago.

No credible group has claimed responsibility for the near daily shootings, bombings and arson attacks in the region, where nearly 3,500 people have died in five years of unrest. (For a Q+A on the insurgency click on [ID:nBKK463005]) (Additional reporting by Kittipong Soonprasert in Bangkok) (Reporting by Surapan Boonthanom; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Alan Raybould)

Read More...

Collapse...

ஆசிய பெண்களை கற்பழித்தபின் அடிமைகளாக விற்கும் குவாய்த் போலீஸ்காரர்கள்

ஆசிய பெண்களை கற்பழித்தபின் அடிமைகளாக விற்கும் குவாய்த் போலீஸ்காரர்கள்

Women kidnapped, raped, sold - Cop nabbed
as police bust huge prostitution network

KUWAIT CITY : Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department have arrested a lance corporal working at the Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh Police Station for abusing his authority and raping Asian women and then selling them to pimps to be pushed into prostitution, reports Al-Dar daily.
According to a police source the corporal used to kidnap the victims and then drive them in a police vehicle to his apartment. After raping them and satisfying his lust he then sold them to the pimps and the latter pushed them into prostitution.
According to the Al-Qabas daily the policeman has made a lot of money in bribe. He reportedly accepted bribe to release persons who had been arrested for not holding identification papers.
The daily added all the victims are residence law violators and they were not in a position to file a complaint against him for fear of being deported from the country.
This came to light when the police raided many apartments in the area and arrested 50 pimps and rescued 64 kidnapped Asian women.


Print Send This Article To Your Friend

Read More...

Collapse...

பிலிப்பைன்ஸ் நாட்டில் முஸ்லீம்கள் தாக்கி ஒரு பெரிய கதீட்ரல் அழிப்பு- பலர் பலி

மோரோ இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் ஒரு பிலிப்பைன்ஸ் சர்ச்சை தாக்கி அழித்தனர். அங்கிருந்த ஏராளமான கிறிஸ்துவர்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டனர்.

Bomb hits Philippine church-goers
Advertisement
Police and emergency services rushed to the scene

A bomb blast outside a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines has killed five people and injured at least 26 others, officials say.

The military immediately blamed the attack in the town of Cotabato, Mindanao, on a militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

The group has been fighting to establish a separate Islamic state.

One of its leaders denied any involvement in the attack, saying there was no religious conflict in the south.

The bomb went off outside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception as people were leaving Mass, the army said.

Police told AFP news agency that two of the dead were soldiers guarding the cathedral.

Militant denial

A military spokesman, Col Jonathan Ponce, said rogue MILF militants were suspected of planting the bomb.

"The rebels are getting desperate and they are no longer choosing their targets," he said.

"They are now attacking even places of worship."

But a leader of the MILF, Mohaqher Iqbal, denied his group had been involved in the attack.

"Who needs a Christian-Muslim conflict?" he told Reuters news agency in a mobile phone text message.

"There's no religious conflict in the south. We're fighting for our right of self-determination. We're only defending our people and our communities."

Read More...

Collapse...