Monday, July 08, 2013

10 வயது சிறுமி 50 வயது கிழவனுக்கு மணமுடிப்பு: பாகிஸ்தானில்



Under ‘vani’: Minor girl married off to 50-year-old

Published: June 16, 2013
The local panchayat ordered the nuptials to ‘avenge’ the girl’s father’s second marriage. PHOTO: APP/ FILE
LAHORE: 
A 10-year-old girl was forcibly married off to a 50-year-old man Malahanwala, Hafizabad under the ‘vani’ custom to compensate for her father’s second marriage in district.
Muhammad Akram, the girl’s father, had abducted a woman named Munawaran Bibi, whom he later married out of love, reported the police. Muawaran was Akram’s second wife.
Following this, the village ‘panchayat’ (court) decided to give Akram’s daughter’s hand in marriage to Munawaran’s middle-aged brother Falak Sher.
The FIR filed by the girl’s uncle reveals that Falak Sher had barged into Akram’s house along with seven other men, including a prayer-leader from a local mosque, and performed a forced nuptial ritual in the presence of Akram’s first wife.
Mukhtar Hussain, an Investigation Officer in the case informed that the young girl had escaped from Falak Sher’s custody and returned to her parents’ home. The process of raids continues to ensure the immediate arrest of the all the accused nominated in the FIR.
The FIR, registered with Police Station Jalalpur Bhattiaan on Saturday, nominates nine persons including Falak Sher, the prayer leader and seven members of the ‘panchayat.’
The area’s people said that the local administration and police had remained tight lipped and reluctant to take any action against the accused. However, police officials claimed that they had registered a case against the accused without any delay when approached by complainants.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 16th, 2013.

சவுதி அரேபியா ஸ்பெஷல் வைரஸ் ஹஜ் யாத்திரையின் போது பயங்கரமாக பரவும் ஆபத்து

சவுதி அரேபியா ஸ்பெஷல் வைரஸ் ஹஜ் யாத்திரையின் போது பயங்கரமாக பரவும் ஆபத்து பற்றி ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சுகாதார அமைப்பு எச்சரித்துள்ளது.
இதுவரை மெர்ஸ் வைரஸால், அறுபதுக்கும் மேற்பட்டவர்கள் சவுதி அரேபியாவில் இறந்துள்ளார்கள்.


Fears of MERS virus at Muslim hajj pilgrimage
A foreign worker rides near the King Fahad hospital in Hofuf, east of Riyadh. Virologists are casting a worried eye on this year's Islamic hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia as they struggle with the enigmatic, deadly virus known as MERS which is striking hardest in the kingdom.
A foreign worker rides near the King Fahad hospital in Hofuf, east of Riyadh. Virologists are casting a worried eye on this year's Islamic hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia as they struggle with the enigmatic, deadly virus known as MERS which is striking hardest in the kingdom.
Hajj pilgrims queue to throw pebbles at pillars in the Jamarat ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina near Mecca last October. Little is known about the new MERS virus beyond the fact that it can be lethal by causing respiratory problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.
Hajj pilgrims queue to throw pebbles at pillars in the Jamarat ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina near Mecca last October. Little is known about the new MERS virus beyond the fact that it can be lethal by causing respiratory problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.
Pilgrim walk round the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca last October. For any respiratory virus the mass gathering of the hajj provides a perfect opportunity to first spread at the two holiest Muslim shrines in the cities of Mecca and Medina, and then travel around the globe at jet speed as pilgrims return home.
Pilgrim walk round the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca last October. For any respiratory virus the mass gathering of the hajj provides a perfect opportunity to first spread at the two holiest Muslim shrines in the cities of Mecca and Medina, and then travel around the globe at jet speed as pilgrims return home.
The Abraj al-Bait Towers or Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower overshadows the Grand Mosque in Mecca last October. The first recorded MERS death was in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia and the count has ticked up steadily, with a flurry this May and June taking it to 77, the bulk of them in the kingdom.
The Abraj al-Bait Towers or Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower overshadows the Grand Mosque in Mecca last October. The first recorded MERS death was in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia and the count has ticked up steadily, with a flurry this May and June taking it to 77, the bulk of them in the kingdom.
AFP - Virologists are casting a worried eye on this year's Islamic hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia as they struggle with the enigmatic, deadly virus known as MERS which is striking hardest in the kingdom.
Little is known about the new pathogen, beyond the fact that it can be lethal by causing respiratory problems, pneumonia and kidney failure. It can be transmitted between humans, but unlike its cousin, the SARS virus, which sparked a scare a decade ago, it does not seem very contagious.
Even so, for any respiratory virus the mass gathering of the hajj provides a perfect opportunity to first spread at the two holiest Muslim shrines in the cities of Mecca and Medina, and then travel around the globe at jet speed as pilgrims return home.
The 2012 hajj drew 3.1 million people -- and this year's event likewise occurs in October, as the northern hemisphere slides into the season for coughs and sneezes.
UN World Health Organisation (WHO) head Margaret Chan sounded the alarm to ministers at the agency's annual congress in May.
"We need to get the facts clear and get the appropriate advice to all your countries where your pilgrims want to go to Mecca. It is something quite urgent," she said.
Experts point first and foremost to figuring out the basics of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus.
Is it transmitted by contact -- if a patient contaminates his home or workplace with droplets containing virus? Or is it done by breathing in virus from coughs and sneezes? What is the best treatment for it? What about a vaccine? Are there risks of viral mutation? And is there an animal host which acts as a reservoir for the virus?
The first recorded MERS death was in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia. The count has ticked up steadily, with a flurry this May and June taking it to 77, the bulk of them in the kingdom.
Forty MERS patients have died to date, an extremely high rate of 52 percent, compared to nine percent of the 8,273 recorded patients with SARS, which was centred on Asia.
But again, the tally of people who have fallen ill with MERS but not been diagnosed with it, or who may have been infected but not developed symptoms, is simply unknown.
As the fight for knowledge unfolds behind lab doors, the WHO is urging nations to monitor respiratory infections, especially among patients returning from the Middle East, but has held off calling for travel restrictions.
"This is really a new phenomenon that we're dealing with," Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director general for health security, told the International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control in Geneva this week.
"We don't know what the potential is yet, based on the information we have, for sustained human-to-human transmission. We don't know what the full geographic extent of this virus is right now."
Leading virologist Laurent Kaiser of the Geneva University Hospitals told AFP: "It's really a balance between too much precaution and no precaution. At this time, we have to be worried, we have to be careful."
While MERS centres on Saudi Arabia, there have been laboratory-confirmed cases originating in Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Tunisia have had cases who were either sent there for care or who fell ill after returning from the Middle East. France, Italy, Tunisia and Britain have also seen limited transmission among patients who had not been to the Middle East but had close contact with people who had.
So far, MERS has essentially been found in nations with health services capable of tracing and tackling such diseases. But the hajj draws a broad spectrum of Muslims, including from poor countries which struggle to cope even with commonplace diseases.
"We don't know if the disease is there right now. They don't have surveillance," Saudi Arabia's deputy health minister, Ziad Memish, told AFP on the sidelines of the Geneva conference.
Health experts give praise to Saudi authorities for beefing up vigilance for infectious diseases over the years.
They also note that the hajj has successfully ridden out two previous viral episodes in the past decade -- SARS in 2003 and H1N1 influenza in 2009, although the difference now is that Saudi Arabia is the apparent hotbed of MERS.
Memish, who is also a medical professor and runs a WHO-accredited research centre on the medicine of mass gatherings, pointed to the success of lower-scale umrah pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia this year.
"I think it's comforting that as of today, four and a half million people have performed the umrah in Mecca and nothing has happened," Memish said. "But of course we're making all the arrangements and all the planning to do active surveillance, to be able to intervene."

பெண்களே இல்லாத பெண்கள் மாநாடு! சவுதி அரேபியா ஸ்டைல்

பெண்களே இல்லாத பெண்கள் மாநாடு! சவுதி அரேபியா ஸ்டைல்


Feminism Saudi-style: Hundreds turn out do discuss women in society... but not a single member of the audience is female


This image show attendees at a conference in Saudi Arabia on the topic ‘women in society’ – and not a single one is female.
The conference, reportedly held at the University of Qassim last year, was attended by representatives from 15 nations, apparently all men.
The seats in the hall are filled with men in traditional Arab dress apart from one wearing a blue chequered shirt.
No girls allowed: A 'Women in Society' conference in Saudi Arabia which judging by this picture had an all-male attendance
No girls allowed: A 'Women in Society' conference in Saudi Arabia which judging by this picture had an all-male attendance
The photograph was published in a Saudi newspaper last year, and has since been making the rounds on social networks.
Twitter users have branded the image ‘absurd’, ‘the height of misogyny’ and ‘astonishing’ as the internet responded to what is only the latest proof of the gender gap in the Middle-Eastern nation.
 
Segregation between men and women in the oil rich country is widespread due to the ultra-conservative Wahhabi sharia law.
Restrictions mean they are not allowed to drive, they must use separate entrances at banks and offices, and a plan to build a city for female workers only has been announced.
Restricted: Although they are now allowed to ride bikes and motorcycles, women in Saudi Arabia are still very much controlled by their fathers, brothers and husbands
Restricted: Although they are now allowed to ride bikes and motorcycles, women in Saudi Arabia are still very much controlled by their fathers, brothers and husbands
They also need permission from a male relative or their husband to work, travel, study or marry and a woman's testimony counts for less than that of a man in a court of law.
Small steps towards gender equality has been made in the past year.
Earlier this year, King Abdullah appointed women to 20 per cent of the 150-member Shura Council, an unelected body which advises the Government.
In April, Saudi Arabia lifted the ban preventing women from riding motorbikes and bicycles, but only if they are accompanied by a male relative and dressed in full veil.


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சவுதி அரேபிய எஜமானால் கெடுக்கபட்ட பிலிப்பினோ பெண்ணுக்கு 100 சவுக்கடி தண்டனை.

சவுதி அரேபிய எஜமானால் கெடுக்கபட்ட பிலிப்பினோ பெண்ணுக்கு 100 சவுக்கடி தண்டனை.
ஆணுக்கு தண்டனை எதுவும் இல்லை போலிருக்கிறது.
திருமணத்துக்கு வெளியே உறவு கொண்டாராம்.



July 2, 2013 1:50pm

Tags: Saudi Arabia
An overseas Filipina worker (OFW) received 100 lashes in Saudi Arabia because she had a child with a man who was not her husband.
 
In an interview aired on 24 Oras on Monday, the 29-year old woman said she was lashed 100 times on the back after being convicted of immorality under the Sharia or Islamic law. 
 

 
Under the Shari’ah or Islamic law, women who get pregnant out of wedlock face imprisonment or a penalty of lashes to be determined by courts.
 
The Filipina worker said she had to go through the pregnancy alone as she was immediately abandoned by the man who got her pregnant when he discovered she was with child.
 
It was only after she gave birth that authorities discovered she was unmarried.
 
“Nanganak po ako sa ospital na pinagtatrabahuhan ko, Nalaman po nila na wala akong asawa. Pagkatapos noon, ni-report nila ako sa pulis,” she said.
 
 
The Filipina worker said she was sentenced to one-year imprisonment but received lashes instead as a result of being pardoned.
 
 
Saudi authorities ordered the lashing of the 35-year old woman who was already in prison even after she suffered a miscarriage. Xianne Arcangel, VVP, GMA News

சாப்பாடு போடாமல் கணவனால் சிறைவைக்கப்பட்ட பெண்ணுக்கு உணவளித்த மனித உரிமை சேவகர்களுக்கு சவுதி அரேபிய அரசு சிறை தண்டனை வழங்கியது


குடும்பத்துக்குள் குழப்பம் விளைவித்ததற்காக இந்த மனித உரிமை சேவகர்களுக்கு தண்டனையாம்.


Saudi activists face jail for taking food to woman who said she was imprisoned

Saudi women
Saudi women are banned from driving and can only cycle in recreational areas when accompanied by a male guardian. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AFP/Getty Images
Two female human rights activists are facing prison sentences in Saudi Arabia for delivering a food parcel to a woman who told them she was imprisoned in her house with her children and unable to get food.
Wajeha al-Huwaider, who has repeatedly defied Saudi laws by posting footage of herself driving on the internet, and Fawzia al-Oyouni, a women's rights activist, face 10 months in prison and a two-year travel ban after being found guilty on a sharia law charge of takhbib – incitement of a wife to defy the authority of her husband.
But campaigners argue the women have been targeted because of their human rights work, and fear that the sentences send out a chilling message to other activists who dare to criticise the repressive regime, under which women cannot drive and can only cycle in recreational areas when accompanied by a male guardian.
"These women are extremely brave and active in fighting for women's rights in Saudi Arabia, and this is a way for the Saudi authorities to silence them," said Suad Abu-Dayyeh, the Middle East and north Africaconsultant for Equality Now, which is fighting for the women's release. "If they are sent to jail it sends a very clear message to defenders of human rights that they should be silent and stop their activities – not just in Saudi Arabia, but across Arab countries. These women are innocent – they should be praised for trying to help a woman in need, not imprisoned."
The women were arrested in June 2011 after going to the aid of the Canadian national Nathalie Morin, who contacted Huwaider and said her husband was away from their home in the eastern city of Dammam for a week and her supplies of food and water were running out. When they arrived they were immediately arrested and released a day later.
More than a year later, in July 2012, they were called in for further questioning. Huwaider previously said she was repeatedly asked about her involvement in the Women2Drive campaign, which lobbies for women to be allowed to drive in the kingdom. In May 2011 Huwaider and Manal al-Sharif defied Saudi law and gained international media attention by driving a car, posting widely viewed footage on YouTube. She was also asked about a women's rights protest she organised in 2006 on the King Fahd causeway and her 2009 attempt to cross to Bahrain without the approval of a male guardian.
In a statement Huwaider said: "These harsh sentences that have been imposed on us will not prevent us from pursuing [the cause that is] dictated by our Muslim faith and our humanitarian and moral duty – to help the oppressed, the deprived and the needy, and to protect the rights of women in our country, in all domains, including their right to social, political and employment empowerment, and her right to drive."
Following a trial which concluded last month the judge deemed the pair were guilty of "supporting a wife without her husband's knowledge, thereby undermining the marriage". Their appeal is to be heard on 12 July and they are asking the Saudi king, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, for a pardon.
Huwaider had been in contact with Morin – a Canadian who married a Saudi and has been trapped in Saudi Arabia since 2005, according to her blog – since Morin's mother, Johanne Durocher, contacted her in 2009. Durocher told them Morin's husband, a former police officer, Sa'eed al-Shahrani, was abusing her and denying her adequate food and water. Speaking from Quebec, Durocher said Huwaider was the only person who helped get money to her daughter so she could feed her children. "These women have shown enormous courage in trying to help my daughter. Why are they trying to put these women in jail, just for giving another woman food? I am a Canadian, and for me this is simply unbelievable," she said. "The authorities think that if you put these women in prison, other women will not speak up – they will be even more scared than they were before."
Writing on her blog Morin, who was not called to give evidence in the trial of Huwaider and Oyouni, said she could not leave Saudi Arabia as she did not have permission to take her children and called on the Canadian government for help. She wrote: "The charges against Wajeha al-Huwaider must be cleared, she has not asked to be involved in my story and she should not suffer the consequences. She never knew me and knew nothing about me. She only wanted to help me as a woman, a wife, a mother and human being herself from what she heard by others. She never tried to make any kind of interference in my relationship with my husband and she never had a discussion directly with me."

முகம்மதுவை அவதூறு செய்தவர்களை கொல்ல அழைப்பு விடுத்த தொலைக்காட்சிக்கு 20000 பவுண்டுகள் அபராதம்- இங்கிலாந்தில்



Asian TV channel fined over 'kill' speech

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An Asian TV channel has been fined £85,000 by Ofcom after it broadcast a speech by an Islamic scholar who said Muslims had "a duty to kill" anyone who insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
The comments were made during a live lecture shown on DM Digital's Rehmatul Lil Alameen, broadcast in October 2011.
The media regulator said the programme was "likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime".
In its ruling, Ofcom added it must not be broadcast again.
It stated some of the scholar's comments could be seen as "a generic call to all Muslims encouraging or inciting them to criminal action or disorder, by unambiguously stating they had a duty to kill anyone who criticises or insults the Prophet Mohammed and apostates".
The lecturer also praised the introduction of a blasphemy law in Pakistan and the murder of a prominent politician who opposed it.
Not deliberate
The station accepted that it had breached the broadcasting code, but argued that it had not been deliberate and that it had issued an apology the following day, tightened up its editorial guidelines and dismissed those responsible for the programme's content.
It also pointed out that the scholar had previously been a guest and had "never expressed such views previously", and that he will never be invited back again.
In a separate breach of guidelines, the channel was also fined £20,000 over its coverage of the Pakistan Overseas Alliance Forum conference the same year which Ofcom said offered a "one-sided" view of political violence in Karachi.
It also criticised the channel's chief executive, Dr Liaqat Malik, for expressing his personal views on matters of political and industrial controversy, which breached rules on impartiality.
The Manchester-based channel describes itself as bringing "Asian and English cultures closer by integrating its people, the cultural diversity, communities and the economy".
It is available on Sky in the UK and via other satellite platforms across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

கருப்பின மக்களை குரங்குகள் என்று அழைக்கும் அரபியர்களின் இனவெறி

Blacks in North Africa and Middle East Often Face Virulent Racism from Arabs

   
As the West continues to train its focus on racism leveled at blacks by white people in the U.S. and recently in Europe and Israel, attention has increasingly been directed at the mistreatment of blacks by Arabs in Northern Africa and the Middle East.
For years, observers interested in probing a little more deeply in Iraqi society than the typical Western news stations found that the sizable black population in Iraq endures a form of virulent racism that African Americans haven’t seen in more than 50 years. Blacks there say they are regularly called “slave” and followed by groups of kids yelling epithets.
The Canadian academic Salim Mansur has claimed, “Blacks are viewed by Arabs as racially inferior, and Arab violence against blacks has a long, turbulent record.”
A piece broadcast on a radio station in the Netherlands took a deep look at the racism experienced by sub-Saharans Africans in Morocco, where they are viewed with such suspicion by the local Arabs that an Arab shopkeeper even warned the European reporter to stay away from the Africans because “they might eat you.”
The Africans are forced to live in a camp deep in the woods because they are unable to find jobs to make money—and when they do find work, they believe they are paid poorly because they are black. They are also frequently victimized by criminals who know the Africans can’t report it to authorities because they would face deportation.
“Arabs hate black people. And that is not from today. It is in their blood,” Aboubakr, a young man from Senegal who is hoping eventually to cross over into Europe, told the reporter for RNW (Radio Netherlands Worldwide). “Friends of mine were attacked with a knife. Bandits target us because they know we cannot go to the police, even if we are robbed and hurt. Having no papers, we will be caught instead. Blacks have no rights here.”
Aboubakr is also insulted that Moroccans “cannot believe many of us are Muslims too.” According to him, people are surprised when they see him kneeling for prayer. “They don’t think a black can be Muslim.”
Many Africans know that Arab states have not responded to atrocities in places like Darfur and Sudan because the people getting slaughtered are black Africans.
Black African guest workers in places like Egypt, Algeria and Libya have spoken about being publicly ridiculed and physically assaulted by Arabs. Egyptian writer Mona Eltahawy has written about watching a Sudanese girl being assaulted and tormented on the Cairo Metro, concluding, “We are racist people in Egypt and we are in deep denial.” She says the Arab world has ignored the suffering of Darfur because the victims are black. “We only pay attention when America and Israel behave badly.”

Because Europe has become more aggressive about patrolling ts borders specifically to keep the Africans in North Africa from slipping in, more migrants are stuck in places like Morocco, where they are forced to live in ghettos like the tent camp they created in the woods.
“Years ago, people had to get used to their presence, but now the relations are okay,”  a shopkeeper in a mountain village near the forest told Radio Netherlands. When a tall, black man walked into the shop and purchased rice, yoghurt and other food, the shopkeeper said, “The authorities advise me not to sell to them, but I sell to anyone. We’re all the same.”
Ironically, even as the Arab countries continue to mistreat the black Africans, they also find themselves on the receiving end of racist treatment. The United Arab Emirates national soccer team just got an apology from the Asian Football Confederation for referring to them as “sand monkeys”—on the AFC website!
The “AFC apologizes for an editorial mistake in which the UAE National Team was inadvertently referred to by an inaccurate nickname on the AFC’s official website,” the organization said in a statement.
It said the comment was due to an “error, which was mainly because of referral to a popular web-based encyclopaedia” and that it “was corrected immediately after it was noticed.” The AFC said it was sorry for “any hurt this might have caused to the UAE Football Association and UAE football fans.”
The day before, the UAE federation secretary-general Yusuf Abdullah said in a statement, “We express our strong resentment over the use of this bad description by the AFC website.”
“What happened is unacceptable and shows disrespect to others. It is proof of racist attitudes that are starting to surface,” he said, demanding “a quick official apology.”
The UAE football team is usually referred to as “Al-Abyad”, or the whites, based on the color of their strip. But a report on the AFC website about a “friendly” (match) between the UAE and Uzbekistan on Friday described the team of the desert Gulf state as “sand monkeys.”