Sunday, November 29, 2009
முஸ்லீம் பெண்கள் ஏன் ஷரியா கோர்ட்டுகளை எதிர்க்கிறார்கள்?
அரபிய பெண்கள் துணிந்து இப்படி வாதிடுகிறார்கள்.
உலகப்பெண்கள் அனைவரும் ஷரியாவை விரும்புகிறார்கள் என்று தமிழ்நாட்டு முஸ்லீம் ஆண்கள் கூறுகிறார்கள்
Thursday, November 26, 2009
சாதிபேதமற்ற முஸ்லீம் ஜாதிகள் மோதியதில் 57 பேர் படுகொலை
பிலிப்பைன்ஸில் பல முஸ்லீம் ஜாதிகள் இருக்கின்றன. ஒன்றை ஒன்று கொலைவெறியோடுதான் பார்க்கும்.
ஒரு முஸ்லீம் ஜாதி மீது இன்னொரு முஸ்லீம் ஜாதி தாக்கியதில் 57 பேர் கொல்லப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்கள். எல்லாம் கோடாரி, கத்தி என்றுதான் தாக்குதல்.
சமத்துவ இஸ்லாம்!
ஏமாறாதே ஏமாற்றாதே!
Homicidal vendettas integral to Filipino politics
The massacre of at least 22 people in the southern Philippines has exposed a brutal culture of guns, greed and money that has poisoned the nation's political system for decades.
By Jason Gutierrez in Manila
Published: 9:57AM GMT 24 Nov 2009
Comments 4 | Comment on this article
The murders in the southern province of Maguindanao on Monday are thought to have beeny related to next year's national elections, when posts from village chiefs to the president will be up for grabs.
"This explosion of violence arises whenever there is an election," said Samira Gutoc, one of the convenors of the Young Moro Professionals, a group helping the government in peace talks with armed Muslim groups in the south.
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Philippines massacre Indeed, dozens of people are killed each election season in this impoverished and often lawless south-east Asian nation.
Local political warlords have for generations competed for political power and the accompanying business riches that government posts offer.
These clans control private armies, which carry out assassinations and attacks on rivals.
The proliferation of over 1.1 million unlicensed firearms, most of them in the hands of rebel groups or paramilitaries, contribute to the general lawlessness in many remote areas, according to police.
In the run-up to congressional elections in 2007, a member of parliament from a northern province was gunned down on the steps of a church by an assassin hired by his rival, while attending a wedding in Manila.
All in all, 121 people were killed that polling season, according to national police statistics, slightly fewer than the 148 who died in the 2004 national elections.
But while the problem involves the entire country, experts say Maguindanao and other parts of the far southern island of Mindanao - where a Muslim insurgency has waged for decades - are particularly volatile.
"Politics in Mindanao is about ownership of power. Public office is perceived as a personal, clannish thing - a birth right, and they would spill blood for it," Gutoc said.
She said she expected more violence in the fall-out from Monday's massacre, with relatives of those killed expected to carry out vendetta killings, called rido in the local dialect.
"Retaliation is a natural course of events," she said.
At least 22 people were murdered as they accompanied the wife of Esmael Mangudadatu, a local government official, to file his candidacy for governor of Maguindanao province and end the decades-old control of a rival Muslim clan.
The military said 100 heavily armed men under the control of his rival, Andal Ampatuan, seized the group of more than 40 people and later shot many of them dead.
Twenty-two bodies have so far been found, and the death toll is likely to rise, the military said.
None of the Ampatuans could be contacted, but the military maintains that the family is probably behind the attack.
Abhoud Syed Linga, the executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, who has done research on clan fighting, said that the murders further complicate the Muslim insurgency that has claimed more than 150,000 lives since the 1970s.
"Some rido are sustained for generations," Linga said. "The retaliation and counter-retaliation involve the whole family or clan."
The vendetta killings, he said, are the "consequence of the absence of justice" for a perceived wrong.
"Among Muslims the value of justice is strong to the extent that it becomes a duty for family members to work for justice and reject oppression," he said.
Amnesty International said that the killings underlined the danger facing civilians across the entire country before next year's elections.
"The government must prohibit and disband private armies and paramilitary forces immediately," said Amnesty's deputy director in Asia, Donna Guest.
ஒரு முஸ்லீம் ஜாதி மீது இன்னொரு முஸ்லீம் ஜாதி தாக்கியதில் 57 பேர் கொல்லப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்கள். எல்லாம் கோடாரி, கத்தி என்றுதான் தாக்குதல்.
சமத்துவ இஸ்லாம்!
ஏமாறாதே ஏமாற்றாதே!
Homicidal vendettas integral to Filipino politics
The massacre of at least 22 people in the southern Philippines has exposed a brutal culture of guns, greed and money that has poisoned the nation's political system for decades.
By Jason Gutierrez in Manila
Published: 9:57AM GMT 24 Nov 2009
Comments 4 | Comment on this article
The murders in the southern province of Maguindanao on Monday are thought to have beeny related to next year's national elections, when posts from village chiefs to the president will be up for grabs.
"This explosion of violence arises whenever there is an election," said Samira Gutoc, one of the convenors of the Young Moro Professionals, a group helping the government in peace talks with armed Muslim groups in the south.
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Philippines massacre Indeed, dozens of people are killed each election season in this impoverished and often lawless south-east Asian nation.
Local political warlords have for generations competed for political power and the accompanying business riches that government posts offer.
These clans control private armies, which carry out assassinations and attacks on rivals.
The proliferation of over 1.1 million unlicensed firearms, most of them in the hands of rebel groups or paramilitaries, contribute to the general lawlessness in many remote areas, according to police.
In the run-up to congressional elections in 2007, a member of parliament from a northern province was gunned down on the steps of a church by an assassin hired by his rival, while attending a wedding in Manila.
All in all, 121 people were killed that polling season, according to national police statistics, slightly fewer than the 148 who died in the 2004 national elections.
But while the problem involves the entire country, experts say Maguindanao and other parts of the far southern island of Mindanao - where a Muslim insurgency has waged for decades - are particularly volatile.
"Politics in Mindanao is about ownership of power. Public office is perceived as a personal, clannish thing - a birth right, and they would spill blood for it," Gutoc said.
She said she expected more violence in the fall-out from Monday's massacre, with relatives of those killed expected to carry out vendetta killings, called rido in the local dialect.
"Retaliation is a natural course of events," she said.
At least 22 people were murdered as they accompanied the wife of Esmael Mangudadatu, a local government official, to file his candidacy for governor of Maguindanao province and end the decades-old control of a rival Muslim clan.
The military said 100 heavily armed men under the control of his rival, Andal Ampatuan, seized the group of more than 40 people and later shot many of them dead.
Twenty-two bodies have so far been found, and the death toll is likely to rise, the military said.
None of the Ampatuans could be contacted, but the military maintains that the family is probably behind the attack.
Abhoud Syed Linga, the executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, who has done research on clan fighting, said that the murders further complicate the Muslim insurgency that has claimed more than 150,000 lives since the 1970s.
"Some rido are sustained for generations," Linga said. "The retaliation and counter-retaliation involve the whole family or clan."
The vendetta killings, he said, are the "consequence of the absence of justice" for a perceived wrong.
"Among Muslims the value of justice is strong to the extent that it becomes a duty for family members to work for justice and reject oppression," he said.
Amnesty International said that the killings underlined the danger facing civilians across the entire country before next year's elections.
"The government must prohibit and disband private armies and paramilitary forces immediately," said Amnesty's deputy director in Asia, Donna Guest.
அல்லாவுக்கு உதவும் அமெரிக்கா
மெக்காவில் பன்றிக்காய்ச்சலை கட்டுப்படுத்த அல்லாவால் முடியாததால், அமெரிக்காவின் உதவியை நாடியுள்ளனர் சவுதி அரேபியா அரசாங்க்த்தினர்
ஒருவேளை அல்லா பன்றிக்காய்ச்சலில் இருந்து மெக்கா மக்களை காப்பாற்றமுடியாவிட்டால் என்ன செய்து என்று அமெரிக்காவை நாடிவிட்டார்களோ என்னவோ.. அல்லாஹ் போதுமானவன் இல்லையா?
எப்படியோ மக்கள் காப்பாற்றப்பட்டால் சரி
ஆனாலும் அல்லாஹ்வோ அல்லது வேறு யாருமோ அங்கே மெக்கா மக்களை கடும் வெய்யலில் வறுத்தெடுக்கிறார்கள்.
Muslim pilgrims pray under scorching sun at hajj
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI (AP) – 5 hours ago
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims holding white umbrellas against the blazing sun clambered up a rocky desert hill for prayers Thursday during the annual hajj, following a day of deadly torrential rains.
After Wednesday's sudden, unexpected downpours, the heat was scorching as the nearly 3 million pilgrims traveled to Mount Arafat, a desert plateau about 12 miles (20 kilometers) outside Mecca where the Prophet Muhammad delivered his farewell sermon.
Throughout the day, the faithful climbed up the Mountain of Mercy, a rocky hill at Arafat, and prayed for God's forgiveness of their sins in what Muslims consider the spiritual high point of the pilgrimage.
Flooding from Wednesday's downpour killed 48 people in western Saudi Arabia, Saudi officials said. None of the dead were hajj pilgrims, said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry. The rains tapered off Thursday but meteorologists predicted further showers.
The four-day event, which opened Wednesday, is one of the most crowded in the world, with the masses of Muslims from every corner of the globe packed shoulder to shoulder in prayers and rites.
Saudi Arabia's biggest worry for months ahead of the hajj has been swine flu. The Saudi government has been working with the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to set up clinics and take precautions to stem any outbreak.
There is also the risk of one of the gathering's perennial dangers: deadly stampedes.
In 2006, all it took was a dropped piece of luggage to trip up a crowd and cause a pileup that killed more than 360 people at one of the holy sites. The rains also could cause flash floods or mudslides in the desert mountains where most of the rites take place.
It often rains in Mecca and Jiddah during the winter months, but Wednesday's downpour was the heaviest in years during the hajj. Jiddah was swamped with 7 centimeters (2.76 inches) of rain, more than it would normally get in an entire year, according to Dale Mohler, senior meteorologist at the Web site, AccuWeather.com.
ஒருவேளை அல்லா பன்றிக்காய்ச்சலில் இருந்து மெக்கா மக்களை காப்பாற்றமுடியாவிட்டால் என்ன செய்து என்று அமெரிக்காவை நாடிவிட்டார்களோ என்னவோ.. அல்லாஹ் போதுமானவன் இல்லையா?
எப்படியோ மக்கள் காப்பாற்றப்பட்டால் சரி
ஆனாலும் அல்லாஹ்வோ அல்லது வேறு யாருமோ அங்கே மெக்கா மக்களை கடும் வெய்யலில் வறுத்தெடுக்கிறார்கள்.
Muslim pilgrims pray under scorching sun at hajj
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI (AP) – 5 hours ago
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims holding white umbrellas against the blazing sun clambered up a rocky desert hill for prayers Thursday during the annual hajj, following a day of deadly torrential rains.
After Wednesday's sudden, unexpected downpours, the heat was scorching as the nearly 3 million pilgrims traveled to Mount Arafat, a desert plateau about 12 miles (20 kilometers) outside Mecca where the Prophet Muhammad delivered his farewell sermon.
Throughout the day, the faithful climbed up the Mountain of Mercy, a rocky hill at Arafat, and prayed for God's forgiveness of their sins in what Muslims consider the spiritual high point of the pilgrimage.
Flooding from Wednesday's downpour killed 48 people in western Saudi Arabia, Saudi officials said. None of the dead were hajj pilgrims, said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry. The rains tapered off Thursday but meteorologists predicted further showers.
The four-day event, which opened Wednesday, is one of the most crowded in the world, with the masses of Muslims from every corner of the globe packed shoulder to shoulder in prayers and rites.
Saudi Arabia's biggest worry for months ahead of the hajj has been swine flu. The Saudi government has been working with the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to set up clinics and take precautions to stem any outbreak.
There is also the risk of one of the gathering's perennial dangers: deadly stampedes.
In 2006, all it took was a dropped piece of luggage to trip up a crowd and cause a pileup that killed more than 360 people at one of the holy sites. The rains also could cause flash floods or mudslides in the desert mountains where most of the rites take place.
It often rains in Mecca and Jiddah during the winter months, but Wednesday's downpour was the heaviest in years during the hajj. Jiddah was swamped with 7 centimeters (2.76 inches) of rain, more than it would normally get in an entire year, according to Dale Mohler, senior meteorologist at the Web site, AccuWeather.com.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
படங்கள்: முஸ்லீம் பெண்கள் பர்தா அணியவேண்டும் என்று முஸ்லீம் ஆண்கள் சொல்வதன்காரணம்
படங்கள்: முஸ்லீம் பெண்கள் பர்தா அணியவேண்டும் என்று முஸ்லீம் ஆண்கள் சொல்வதன்காரணம் என்னவென்று யோசிப்பவர்களுக்கு இந்த படங்க்ளைபார்த்தால் தெரியும்.
பெண்களின் முகத்தை பார்த்தால் முஸ்லீம் ஆண்களுக்கு என்னவோ ஆகிவிடுகிறது.
அதன் மீது ஆசிட் ஊற்றுகிறார்கள்.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/photo/2009/11/terrorism-thats-personal.html
EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT
பெண்களின் முகத்தை பார்த்தால் முஸ்லீம் ஆண்களுக்கு என்னவோ ஆகிவிடுகிறது.
அதன் மீது ஆசிட் ஊற்றுகிறார்கள்.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/photo/2009/11/terrorism-thats-personal.html
EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Text by Jim Verhulst, Times' Perspective editor | Photos by Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press
We typically think of terrorism as a political act.
But sometimes it’s very personal. It wasn’t a government or a guerrilla insurgency that threw acid on this woman’s face in Pakistan. It was a young man whom she had rejected for marriage. As the United States ponders what to do in Afghanistan — and for that matter, in Pakistan — it is wise to understand both the political and the personal, that the very ignorance and illiteracy and misogyny that create the climate for these acid attacks can and does bleed over into the political realm. Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times op-ed columnist who traveled to Pakistan last year to write about acid attacks, put it this way in an essay at the time: “I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through Cambodia (men are almost never attacked with acid). Because women usually don’t matter in this part of the world, their attackers are rarely prosecuted and acid sales are usually not controlled. It’s a kind of terrorism that becomes accepted as part of the background noise in the region. ...
“Bangladesh has imposed controls on acid sales to curb such attacks, but otherwise it is fairly easy in Asia to walk into a shop and buy sulfuric or hydrochloric acid suitable for destroying a human face. Acid attacks and wife burnings are common in parts of Asia because the victims are the most voiceless in these societies: They are poor and female. The first step is simply for the world to take note, to give voice to these women.”
Since 1994, a Pakistani activist who founded the Progressive Women’s Association (www.pwaisbd.org) to help such women “has documented 7,800 cases of women who were deliberately burned, scalded or subjected to acid attacks, just in the Islamabad area. In only 2 percent of those cases was anyone convicted.”
The geopolitical question is already hard enough: Should the United States commit more troops to Afghanistan and for what specific purpose? As American policymakers mull the options, here is a frame of reference that puts the tough choices in even starker relief: Are acid attacks a sign of just how little the United States can do to solve intractable problems there — therefore, we should pull out? Or having declared war on terrorism, must the United States stay out of moral duty, to try to protect women such as these — and the schoolgirls whom the Taliban in Afghanistan sprayed with acid simply for going to class — who have suffered a very personal terrorist attack? We offer a reading file of two smart essays that come to differing conclusions.
• In August, Perspective published a New York Times Magazine piece that followed up the story of Afghan sisters Shamsia and Atifa Husseini, who were attacked with acid simply for attending school. If you wish to refresh your memory, you may read the original article here.
• Two very smart, informed observers come to opposite conclusions on the proper U.S. course of action in Afghanistan. Here are excerpts from arguments that each of them has recently made:
Here are excerpts from Steve Coll’s “Think Tank” blog at NewYorker.com, in which he argues why we can’t leave — “What If We Fail In Afghanistan?” (Read it in full here.)
In an essay entitled “The War We Can’t Win” in Commonweal (also reprinted this month by Harper’s), Andrew J. Bacevich makes the case that we are overstating the importance of Afghanistan to U.S. interests. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of Power. A retired Army lieutenant colonel, he served from 1969 to 1992, in Vietnam and the first Persian Gulf War. He was a conservative critic of the Iraq war. Several of his essays have run before in Perspective. To read this one in full, go here.
• See the Sunday November 22, 2009 Perspective section in the St. Petersburg Times But be forewarned: Those photos are even harder to look at than this one.
To read the original story by Nicholas Kristof, please go Here.
Irum Saeed, 30, poses for a photograph at her office at the Urdu University of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Irum was burned on her face, back and shoulders twelve years ago when a boy whom she rejected for marriage threw acid on her in the middle of the street. She has undergone plastic surgery 25 times to try to recover from her scars.
Shameem Akhter, 18, poses for a photograph at her home in Jhang, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 10, 2008. Shameem was raped by three boys who then threw acid on her three years ago. Shameem has undergone plastic surgery 10 times to try to recover from her scars.
Najaf Sultana, 16, poses for a photograph at her home in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. At the age of five Najaf was burned by her father while she was sleeping, apparently because he didn't want to have another girl in the family. As a result of the burning Najaf became blind and after being abandoned by both her parents she now lives with relatives. She has undergone plastic surgery around 15 times to try to recover from her scars.
Shehnaz Usman, 36, poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Shehnaz was burned with acid by a relative due to a familial dispute five years ago. Shehnaz has undergone plastic surgery 10 times to try to recover from her scars.
Shahnaz Bibi, 35, poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Ten years ago Shahnaz was burned with acid by a relative due to a familial dispute. She has never undergone plastic surgery.
Kanwal Kayum, 26, adjusts her veil as she poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Kanwal was burned with acid one year ago by a boy whom she rejected for marriage. She has never undergone plastic surgery.
Munira Asef, 23, poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Munira was burned with acid five years ago by a boy whom she rejected for marriage. She has undergone plastic surgery 7 times to try to recover from her scars.
Bushra Shari, 39, adjusts her veil as she poses for a photograph in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, July. 11, 2008. Bushra was burned with acid thrown by her husband five years ago because she was trying to divorce him. She has undergone plastic surgery 25 times to try to recover from her scars.
Memuna Khan, 21, poses for a photograph in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 19, 2008. Menuna was burned by a group of boys who threw acid on her to settle a dispute between their family and Menuna's. She has undergone plastic surgery 21 times to try to recover from her scars.
Zainab Bibi, 17, adjusts her veil as she poses for a photograph in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008. Zainab was burned on her face with acid thrown by a boy whom she rejected for marriage five years ago. She has undergone plastic surgery several times to try to recover from her scars.
Naila Farhat, 19, poses for a photograph in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008. Naila was burned on her face with acid thrown by a boy whom she rejected for marriage five years ago. She has undergone plastic surgery several times to try to recover from her scars.
Saira Liaqat, 26, poses for the camera as she holds a portrait of herself before being burned, at her home in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. When she was fifteen, Saira was married to a relative who would later attack her with acid after insistently demanding her to live with him, although the families had agreed she wouldn't join him until she finished school. Saira has undergone plastic surgery 9 times to try to recover from her scars.
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