இஸ்லாமை ஏற்றுக்கொள், இல்லையேல் சாவு: என்று ஒரு யூதர் ஏமனில் அமைதிமார்க்கத்தினரால் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளார்
Yemen: Man killed in religious hate crime
Amran, 12 Dec. (AKI) - A gunman shot and killed a Yemeni Jew in the Raydah district in northern Yemen, security sources said on Friday. Thirty-nine year-old Mousa Yaish al-Nahari, a father of eight, was reportedly shot for no reason, said Yahya Mousa, a rabbi for Yemeni Jews in the capital Sanaa.
Arab media said the gunman was identified as Abdul-Aziz Yahya al-Abdi, a former air force pilot. He was arrested in Raydah in the Amran governorate.
Police are still investigating the motive of the crime, but witnesses say the gunman approached al-Nahari and told him "Jew, accept Islam's message" and then shot him five times with an AK-47 assault rifle.
Al-Abdi is alleged to have murdered his wife two years ago but was not jailed because he agreed to pay compensation to the wife's family, said Pan-Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat.
Ahmed al-Sarihi, a security official, told the daily that al-Abdi was a religious extremist that suffered from mental problems and that during interrogation he admitted killing al-Nahari and telling police that "these Jews must convert to Islam."
Although Yemen is overwhelmingly Muslim, a small community of 300-400 Jews still live there.
Since 1949 about 50,000 members of the once-thriving Yemeni Jewish community are reported to have been secretly airlifted to Israel.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
கோடிக்கணக்கான ஏழைகள் இருக்கும்போது 60 மில்லியன் டாலரில் மசூதி
கோடிக்கணக்கான ஏழைகள் இருக்கும்போது 60 மில்லியன் டாலரில் மசூதி கட்டுகிறார் ஏமனின் ஜனாதிபதி.
அரபு நாடுகளிலேயே மிகவும் ஏழையான ஏமன் நாட்டில் இது கடுமையான கோபத்தை கிளப்பியுள்ளது.
Big mosque for president puzzles Yemen's poor
Comments 0By AHMED AL-HAJ
Published: November 23, 2008
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) _ The inauguration of an enormous new mosque named after Yemen's authoritarian president has bewildered the people of this impoverished Arab country — especially when they learned it cost a staggering $60 million.
It's a massive sum in a country that ranks as the poorest in the Arab world and is beset by internal armed conflict, terrorism and severe malnutrition.
"We need schools and hospitals," said Salem Ahmed, a government employee. "Many Yemenis have to travel abroad for medical treatment. This is hypocrisy."
Nonetheless, senior Islamic clerics dutifully turned out for Saturday's opening ceremony of the Saleh Mosque to play their part in glorifying the country's leader, President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The gargantuan house of worship is surrounded by sprawling gardens and has space for 40,000 faithful.
Lavish building projects are already an unusual sight in Yemen, a tribal country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, many of whose 22 million people are wracked by poverty.
According to a 2008 survey by the World Food project, some 43 percent of the population is either moderately or severely food insecure, and the UNDP estimates 46 percent of the population is under the poverty line.
Rising food prices in a country where half the wheat is imported has exacerbated the situation, as well as a deadly tropical storm that smashed into the country on Oct. 24, causing widespread flooding that wiped away 20,000 people's homes in one of the poorest provinces.
Much of what the country does earn — largely through oil sales — is believed to go toward arms and security.
Yemen's armed forces battled rebels in the country's north for four years until Saleh declared an end to that fighting in July. The rebels accuse the government of corruption and neglect.
And there is unrest lingering from the 14-year civil war between the country's north and south.
Furthermore, Yemen's heavily armed tribes barely acknowledge the central government's authority, and there is a persistent al-Qaida movement that has attacked and killed foreigners, most recently launching a suicide car bombing outside the U.S. Embassy on Sept. 17 that killed 19 people.
"There is no strategic plan for the development of Yemen's economy," said Mohammed Haider, a Yemeni economic expert. "We are too dependent on oil exports — even though the government tells us production could decrease by 50 percent next year."
It's with that sense of foreboding in mind that Yemenis scratch their heads in wonder when the consider the new mosque.
Passers-by crane their necks to study its six towering minarets, four of which soar 525 feet (or 160 meters) into the sky.
The mosque's design follows a unique Yemeni style of architecture, with wooden roofs and 15 wooden doors, each 75 feet (23 meters) high and carved with copper patterns. Inside, a large crystal chandelier lights up the main prayer area. The mosque has three floors, with libraries and 25 classrooms.
"Yemen doesn't need this luxurious mosque," said Rushdi Mohammed, a student. "We need industrial projects to rescue the country from poverty, unemployment and diseases."
Haider says the mosque represents the haphazard management of the country's resources with little thought going into how to use Yemen's farmland or fisheries.
The mosque also seems to represent an enduring wish by Yemen's president to be ever-present. Already, hospitals, schools and stadiums around the country bear his name.
Large pictures of Saleh in public places have been making a comeback following their brief disappearance after Iraq's Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. Saleh had ordered his own pictures taken down after TV images were broadcast around the world of Iraqis tearing down similar pictures of Saddam.
Still, precautions are being taken to protect the Saleh Mosque. It's the only one in all of Yemen where worshippers are searched by police and bomb-sniffing dogs.
அரபு நாடுகளிலேயே மிகவும் ஏழையான ஏமன் நாட்டில் இது கடுமையான கோபத்தை கிளப்பியுள்ளது.
Big mosque for president puzzles Yemen's poor
Comments 0By AHMED AL-HAJ
Published: November 23, 2008
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) _ The inauguration of an enormous new mosque named after Yemen's authoritarian president has bewildered the people of this impoverished Arab country — especially when they learned it cost a staggering $60 million.
It's a massive sum in a country that ranks as the poorest in the Arab world and is beset by internal armed conflict, terrorism and severe malnutrition.
"We need schools and hospitals," said Salem Ahmed, a government employee. "Many Yemenis have to travel abroad for medical treatment. This is hypocrisy."
Nonetheless, senior Islamic clerics dutifully turned out for Saturday's opening ceremony of the Saleh Mosque to play their part in glorifying the country's leader, President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The gargantuan house of worship is surrounded by sprawling gardens and has space for 40,000 faithful.
Lavish building projects are already an unusual sight in Yemen, a tribal country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, many of whose 22 million people are wracked by poverty.
According to a 2008 survey by the World Food project, some 43 percent of the population is either moderately or severely food insecure, and the UNDP estimates 46 percent of the population is under the poverty line.
Rising food prices in a country where half the wheat is imported has exacerbated the situation, as well as a deadly tropical storm that smashed into the country on Oct. 24, causing widespread flooding that wiped away 20,000 people's homes in one of the poorest provinces.
Much of what the country does earn — largely through oil sales — is believed to go toward arms and security.
Yemen's armed forces battled rebels in the country's north for four years until Saleh declared an end to that fighting in July. The rebels accuse the government of corruption and neglect.
And there is unrest lingering from the 14-year civil war between the country's north and south.
Furthermore, Yemen's heavily armed tribes barely acknowledge the central government's authority, and there is a persistent al-Qaida movement that has attacked and killed foreigners, most recently launching a suicide car bombing outside the U.S. Embassy on Sept. 17 that killed 19 people.
"There is no strategic plan for the development of Yemen's economy," said Mohammed Haider, a Yemeni economic expert. "We are too dependent on oil exports — even though the government tells us production could decrease by 50 percent next year."
It's with that sense of foreboding in mind that Yemenis scratch their heads in wonder when the consider the new mosque.
Passers-by crane their necks to study its six towering minarets, four of which soar 525 feet (or 160 meters) into the sky.
The mosque's design follows a unique Yemeni style of architecture, with wooden roofs and 15 wooden doors, each 75 feet (23 meters) high and carved with copper patterns. Inside, a large crystal chandelier lights up the main prayer area. The mosque has three floors, with libraries and 25 classrooms.
"Yemen doesn't need this luxurious mosque," said Rushdi Mohammed, a student. "We need industrial projects to rescue the country from poverty, unemployment and diseases."
Haider says the mosque represents the haphazard management of the country's resources with little thought going into how to use Yemen's farmland or fisheries.
The mosque also seems to represent an enduring wish by Yemen's president to be ever-present. Already, hospitals, schools and stadiums around the country bear his name.
Large pictures of Saleh in public places have been making a comeback following their brief disappearance after Iraq's Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. Saleh had ordered his own pictures taken down after TV images were broadcast around the world of Iraqis tearing down similar pictures of Saddam.
Still, precautions are being taken to protect the Saleh Mosque. It's the only one in all of Yemen where worshippers are searched by police and bomb-sniffing dogs.
Friday, June 20, 2008
10 வயது சிறுமிக்கு விவாகரத்து வழங்கப்பட்டது!!
10 வயது சிறுமியை 30 வயது ஆணுக்கு ஏறத்தாழ விற்பதை திருமணம் என்ற பெயரில் செய்துள்ளார்கள். இது இஸ்லாமிய முறைப்படி திருமண்மாம். பெண்களூக்கு குறைந்த பட்ச வயது என்று ஏதும் இஸ்லாமில் இல்லையாம். ஆனால் ஏமனில் குறைந்த வயது சட்டப்படி இருந்தாலும் இந்த பெண்ணை திருமணம் செய்துதருவது இஸ்லாமிய முறைப்படி செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.
தற்போது இந்த பெண்ணுக்கு விவாகரத்து கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
Yemeni girl granted divorce at age 10
CASE SHEDS LIGHT ON CHILD BRIDES, LAWS
By Borzou Daragahi
Los Angeles Times
Article Launched: 06/15/2008 01:33:48 AM PDT
SAN'A, Yemen - The little girl was waist-high, so small that the lawyers, clerks and judges hurrying through the courthouse almost missed her.
As lunchtime arrived and the crowds of noisy men and women cleared away, a curious judge asked her what she was doing sitting alone on a bench.
"I came to get a divorce," 10-year-old Nujood Ali told the jurist.
Her impoverished parents had married her off to a man more than three times her age, who beat her and forced her to have sex, she explained. When she told her father and mother that she wanted out of the marriage, they refused to help. So an aunt provided her with bus money to travel to court and seek a divorce.
Within days of that April 2 encounter, Nujood's tale and the plight of child brides in Yemen made international headlines. And thanks to the efforts of human rights lawyer Shada Nasser, who took up her cause, the girl at the center of the story has begun to overcome her trauma and dream of a better life.
Common occurrence
Yemeni law sets the age of consent at 15. But tribal customs and interpretations of Islam often trump the law in this country of 23 million. A 2006 study conducted by Sana'a University reported that 52 percent of girls were married by age 18.
Publicity surrounding Nujood's case prompted calls to raise the legal age for marriage to 18 for both men and women. Yemen's conservative lawmakers refused to take it up. But the case sparked public discussion and newspaper headlines. Several more child brides came forward, including a girl who sought a divorce in the southern Yemeni city of Ibb this month.
"This case opened the door," Nasser said.
Nujood says that at first, she felt ashamed about what had happened to her. "But I passed through that," she said, eyes narrowing in her black head scarf.
"All I want now is to finish my education," she added, her mouth curling into a smile. "I want to be a lawyer."
Nujood's unemployed father, Ali Mohammed Ahdal, has two wives and 16 children. He is among the many tribal Yemenis who migrated to the capital over the last decades looking for work. Instead, he found misery.
He arranged to have Nujood married in February to Faez Ali Thamer, a 30-something motorcycle deliveryman from his native province, Hajja.
Nujood's parents said they were trying to do what was best for their daughter and didn't even receive a dowry, a claim many Yemenis don't believe. The parents say the groom had promised he wouldn't have sex with her until she reached puberty.
"We asked him to raise her," said Shu'aieh, the girl's mother.
The groom has disputed that claim.
About 40 people attended the wedding in the village of Wadi La'a where the groom lived. As a wedding gift, she received three new dresses and a $20 wedding ring. She was to live with him and his family.
The trouble started on the first night, when he demanded that they share a mattress. She resisted, walking out of the room, only to have him follow. Sometimes he beat her into submission. For weeks, she cried all day and dreaded the nights, when he would enter the room, blow out the oil lamp and demand sex.
On a visit to her parents' house back in the capital weeks later, she wept that her husband was doing unmentionable things to her. Her father claimed there was nothing he could do.
"My cousins would have killed me if I dishonored the family by asking for a divorce," he said.
But her mother's sister discretely advised her to go to court.
The bewildered judge who found Nujood on the bench decided to bring her to his house for the weekend. His daughters had a swing and toys she'd never seen.
Once the work week began, the judge dispatched soldiers to arrest Nujood's father and husband. He placed Nujood in the care of an uncle, her mother's brother.
Legal quandary
Still the lawyers and judges had no idea how to handle her case. Nujood and her uncle languished in the courthouse for days until Nasser approached them.
Nasser vowed to Nujood that she would take her case without pay and that she would take care of her. She took her to her upscale home and offered to let her stay there.
Outraged, Nasser also called her contacts at the Yemen Times, the country's English-language newspaper. The story of the brave little girl who went to court on her own to stand up for her rights captivated the country. By the time a sympathetic judge agreed to hear her case several weeks later, media packed into the courtroom.
Verbally, Judge Mohammed Ghadi, was merciless to the husband.
"You could not find another woman to marry in all of Yemen?" he demanded.
But legally, there was little he could do. No provision in Yemeni law provides for enforcement of sexual abuse charges within a marriage. Not only did the husband and father go free, but Thamer demanded $250, the equivalent of four months salary for a poor Yemeni, in order to agree to a divorce. A sympathetic lawyer donated the cash.
Nujood was elated. "She was smiling," Nasser recalled. "She said, 'I want chocolate. I want pears, cake and toys.' "
Nasser bought her some new clothes. Donations began pouring in, with several wealthy Europeans offering to pay for her education.
When the controversy died down, Nujood insisted on going back to live with her parents again. Her father promised her that he would not marry off her or any of her sisters.
தற்போது இந்த பெண்ணுக்கு விவாகரத்து கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
Yemeni girl granted divorce at age 10
CASE SHEDS LIGHT ON CHILD BRIDES, LAWS
By Borzou Daragahi
Los Angeles Times
Article Launched: 06/15/2008 01:33:48 AM PDT
SAN'A, Yemen - The little girl was waist-high, so small that the lawyers, clerks and judges hurrying through the courthouse almost missed her.
As lunchtime arrived and the crowds of noisy men and women cleared away, a curious judge asked her what she was doing sitting alone on a bench.
"I came to get a divorce," 10-year-old Nujood Ali told the jurist.
Her impoverished parents had married her off to a man more than three times her age, who beat her and forced her to have sex, she explained. When she told her father and mother that she wanted out of the marriage, they refused to help. So an aunt provided her with bus money to travel to court and seek a divorce.
Within days of that April 2 encounter, Nujood's tale and the plight of child brides in Yemen made international headlines. And thanks to the efforts of human rights lawyer Shada Nasser, who took up her cause, the girl at the center of the story has begun to overcome her trauma and dream of a better life.
Common occurrence
Yemeni law sets the age of consent at 15. But tribal customs and interpretations of Islam often trump the law in this country of 23 million. A 2006 study conducted by Sana'a University reported that 52 percent of girls were married by age 18.
Publicity surrounding Nujood's case prompted calls to raise the legal age for marriage to 18 for both men and women. Yemen's conservative lawmakers refused to take it up. But the case sparked public discussion and newspaper headlines. Several more child brides came forward, including a girl who sought a divorce in the southern Yemeni city of Ibb this month.
"This case opened the door," Nasser said.
Nujood says that at first, she felt ashamed about what had happened to her. "But I passed through that," she said, eyes narrowing in her black head scarf.
"All I want now is to finish my education," she added, her mouth curling into a smile. "I want to be a lawyer."
Nujood's unemployed father, Ali Mohammed Ahdal, has two wives and 16 children. He is among the many tribal Yemenis who migrated to the capital over the last decades looking for work. Instead, he found misery.
He arranged to have Nujood married in February to Faez Ali Thamer, a 30-something motorcycle deliveryman from his native province, Hajja.
Nujood's parents said they were trying to do what was best for their daughter and didn't even receive a dowry, a claim many Yemenis don't believe. The parents say the groom had promised he wouldn't have sex with her until she reached puberty.
"We asked him to raise her," said Shu'aieh, the girl's mother.
The groom has disputed that claim.
About 40 people attended the wedding in the village of Wadi La'a where the groom lived. As a wedding gift, she received three new dresses and a $20 wedding ring. She was to live with him and his family.
The trouble started on the first night, when he demanded that they share a mattress. She resisted, walking out of the room, only to have him follow. Sometimes he beat her into submission. For weeks, she cried all day and dreaded the nights, when he would enter the room, blow out the oil lamp and demand sex.
On a visit to her parents' house back in the capital weeks later, she wept that her husband was doing unmentionable things to her. Her father claimed there was nothing he could do.
"My cousins would have killed me if I dishonored the family by asking for a divorce," he said.
But her mother's sister discretely advised her to go to court.
The bewildered judge who found Nujood on the bench decided to bring her to his house for the weekend. His daughters had a swing and toys she'd never seen.
Once the work week began, the judge dispatched soldiers to arrest Nujood's father and husband. He placed Nujood in the care of an uncle, her mother's brother.
Legal quandary
Still the lawyers and judges had no idea how to handle her case. Nujood and her uncle languished in the courthouse for days until Nasser approached them.
Nasser vowed to Nujood that she would take her case without pay and that she would take care of her. She took her to her upscale home and offered to let her stay there.
Outraged, Nasser also called her contacts at the Yemen Times, the country's English-language newspaper. The story of the brave little girl who went to court on her own to stand up for her rights captivated the country. By the time a sympathetic judge agreed to hear her case several weeks later, media packed into the courtroom.
Verbally, Judge Mohammed Ghadi, was merciless to the husband.
"You could not find another woman to marry in all of Yemen?" he demanded.
But legally, there was little he could do. No provision in Yemeni law provides for enforcement of sexual abuse charges within a marriage. Not only did the husband and father go free, but Thamer demanded $250, the equivalent of four months salary for a poor Yemeni, in order to agree to a divorce. A sympathetic lawyer donated the cash.
Nujood was elated. "She was smiling," Nasser recalled. "She said, 'I want chocolate. I want pears, cake and toys.' "
Nasser bought her some new clothes. Donations began pouring in, with several wealthy Europeans offering to pay for her education.
When the controversy died down, Nujood insisted on going back to live with her parents again. Her father promised her that he would not marry off her or any of her sisters.
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