பயங்கரவாதத்துக்குள் கட்டாயமாக திணிக்கப்படும் இந்த இந்துக்களை பார்த்தும் நாம் வெட்டியாக வாளாவிருக்கிறோம்.
இவர்களது பிள்ளைகள் எதிர்காலத்தில் மீதமிருக்கும் இந்துக்களை இதே போல கொடூரம் செய்வார்கள்.
நாம் அப்போதும் வாளாவிருப்போம்.
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57 Pakistani Hindus convert to Islam 'under pressure'
Amir Mir / DNAFriday, May 28, 2010 2:22 IST Email
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ISLAMABAD: Over 50 Pakistani Hindus have converted to Islam in the Sialkot district of Punjab within a week (between May 14 and May 19) under pressure from their Muslim employers in a bid to retain their jobs and survive in the Muslim-dominated society.
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As many as 35 Hindus converted to Islam on May 14, another 14 on May 17 and eight on May 19, 2010.
All the 57 Hindus who have converted belong to the Pasroor town of Sialkot.
According to some Pakistani electronic media reports, Mangut Ram, a close relative of some of the new converts, who lives in Sialkot, said that these Hindus had to embrace Islam because they were under pressure from their Muslim employers.
He said four Hindu brothers along with their families lived in the village of Nikki Pindi. Mangut Ram said that Hans Raj, Kans Raj, Meena/Kartar and Sardari Lal along with his nephews and sons worked at an eatery in Karachi.
According to Mangut Ram, his co workers often used to speak against Hindus in Karachi where his family worked. “The owner of the shop where I worked said that after a few months of his employing me the sales dropped drastically because people avoided purchasing and eating edibles prepared by Hindus. Many people opposed the large presence of Hindu employees at his shop and my boss felt pressured to change the situation,” he added.
Ram said Sardari Lal and his brother Meena/Kartar had worked at the sweets shops for several years and made a decent living that allowed them to support their families.
He said other Muslims employees of the nearby shops discriminated against them and persecuted them. The shop owner was forced to think about their future at his establishment. “That was when the two brothers and their families decided to embrace Islam in order to keep their jobs and be secure,” he added.
Ram confirmed that 13 family members of Sardari Lal, 12 members of Meena/ Kartar, their nephew Kans Raj’s son Boota Ram along with three adults and several children of these families embraced Islam on May 14, 2010.
He said that Sardari Lal’s older brothers Hans Raj and Kans Raj remained Hindus. Hans Raj too has said that he might consider converting to save his job. He said that life was ‘just easier if one was Muslim’ and he wouldn’t be discriminated against.
Ram said that 14 Hindus of the Tapiala village had embraced Islam on May 17 because they were extremely poor and could not get jobs because no one would employ the large Hindu family.
He said that another relative of his, Parkash, who lived in the village of Seowal, along with his eight family members had embraced Islam in order to save their lands.
“After embracing Islam, Parkash Ram told me that Muslim neighbours had been mistreating him and had forced him to convert,” Mangut Ram said.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
வியத்நாம் ஹோ சி மிங் சிட்டியில் மஹா மாரியம்மன் கோவில்
அனைவருக்கும் அருள் பாலிக்கும் அன்னை
HCMC’s Indian goddess temple serves Hindus and non-Hindus
Last update 19:59, Tuesday, 11/05/2010 (GMT+7)
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VietNamNet Bridge – No one knows exactly when the Indian goddess temple called Mariamman Temple was built in HCMC, but people there say it was first erected in the late 19th century by traders from Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India. The main goddess of this temple is the Hindu goddess Mariamman, the main South Indian mother goddess who is predominant in most rural areas of Tamil Nadu and other southern states of this country.
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A visitor prays at the Mariamman Temple in HCM City.
Mariamman originated as an ancient village goddess related to fertility and rain.
The Hindu Temple serves Indian families who live in HCMC, but most of the devotees worshiping the goddess are Saigonese non-Hindus who believe in the power of Mariamman. Located at 45 Truong Dinh Street in HCMC’s District 3, the temple is regarded as a holy site and attracts thousands of people every week.
On the right is a statue of a goddess named Pechiamnan, a deity that destroys the devils. And on the left is a statue of a god named Madurai Veeran who is believed to be one of the great warriors of the southern kingdom of India who successfully fought against the enemy thanks to his bravery and talent, a man identified as Ba told me when I paid a visit to the temple.
Every devotee who comes to the temple buys offerings for the deities to show their gratitude to these gods. After finishing praying, the temple’s guardians will give manna, or so called gift of the gods. It may be a coconut, a small bag of green beans, a small bag of glutinous rice or a small bag of petals of jasmine, rose or marigold. People respect the manna as good luck that Mariamman brought to them.
Surrounding the outer walls of the temple are about twenty statues of gods such as Mahavishinu, Kaliyamman, Birman and Paramasivam. Also in District 1, there are two other Hindu Temples, Sri Thendayutthapani Temple and Sunbramaniar Temple. These enrich the city with a glimpse of Indian features in the spiritual life of Saigonese. The temple remains open to visitors from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and every Friday holds a ritual from morning to late evening.
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HCMC’s Indian goddess temple serves Hindus and non-Hindus
Last update 19:59, Tuesday, 11/05/2010 (GMT+7)
,
VietNamNet Bridge – No one knows exactly when the Indian goddess temple called Mariamman Temple was built in HCMC, but people there say it was first erected in the late 19th century by traders from Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India. The main goddess of this temple is the Hindu goddess Mariamman, the main South Indian mother goddess who is predominant in most rural areas of Tamil Nadu and other southern states of this country.
Ha Tinh Museum to host ancient Champa statue
Champa altar house to be displayed at New York Museum
Ceramic piece with ancient scripts discovered in My Son
A visitor prays at the Mariamman Temple in HCM City.
Mariamman originated as an ancient village goddess related to fertility and rain.
The Hindu Temple serves Indian families who live in HCMC, but most of the devotees worshiping the goddess are Saigonese non-Hindus who believe in the power of Mariamman. Located at 45 Truong Dinh Street in HCMC’s District 3, the temple is regarded as a holy site and attracts thousands of people every week.
On the right is a statue of a goddess named Pechiamnan, a deity that destroys the devils. And on the left is a statue of a god named Madurai Veeran who is believed to be one of the great warriors of the southern kingdom of India who successfully fought against the enemy thanks to his bravery and talent, a man identified as Ba told me when I paid a visit to the temple.
Every devotee who comes to the temple buys offerings for the deities to show their gratitude to these gods. After finishing praying, the temple’s guardians will give manna, or so called gift of the gods. It may be a coconut, a small bag of green beans, a small bag of glutinous rice or a small bag of petals of jasmine, rose or marigold. People respect the manna as good luck that Mariamman brought to them.
Surrounding the outer walls of the temple are about twenty statues of gods such as Mahavishinu, Kaliyamman, Birman and Paramasivam. Also in District 1, there are two other Hindu Temples, Sri Thendayutthapani Temple and Sunbramaniar Temple. These enrich the city with a glimpse of Indian features in the spiritual life of Saigonese. The temple remains open to visitors from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and every Friday holds a ritual from morning to late evening.
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இந்திய முஸ்லீம் பெண்கள் வேலைக்கு போகக்கூடாது - பத்வா
இந்திய முஸ்லீம் பெண்கள் வேலைக்கு போகக்கூடாது. அப்படி வேலைக்கு போகும் பெண்கள் சம்பாதித்து கொண்டு வந்ததை குடும்பம் ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளக்கூடாது என்று பத்வா விதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
தாலிபான் வழியில் வேகமாக பின்னேறும் இந்திய முல்லாக்களும் அவர்கள் பின்னால் செல்லும் முஸ்லீம் பெண்களும் பரிதாபத்துக்குரியவர்கள்.
ஆகவே வேலை இட ஒதுக்கீடெல்லாம் முஸ்லீம் ஆண்களுக்குத்தான். பெண்கள் அந்தோ அதோகதி.
முகம்மது, கதீஜா அம்மையாரின் கீழ் வேலை செய்து பிழைத்ததாக சொல்கிறார்கள். கதீஜா அம்மையாருக்கு பத்வா கொடுத்துவிட்டிருக்கிறார்கள் போலிருக்கிறதே.
Now, fatwa against working women
Posted: Wed May 12 2010, 15:30 hrs
Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has decreed that it was illegal according to the sharia law for a family to accept a woman's earnings.
The fatwa was issued by a bench of three clerics including chief mufti Habib-ur-Rehman on March 29. But it was made public recently, Deoband sources said today.
Clerics at the largest Sunni muslim seminary said the decree was based on the fact that the sharia prohibited proximity of men and women in the workplace.
The fatwa was in response to a query by a person Kausar whether income of a Muslim woman for a family was justified.
They ruled that Muslim women to work in any institution, government or private, with men is against Sharia law.
At the time when there is a demand for job quota for Muslims and a yearning for progress in the community that sees itself neglected, the fatwa has drawn flak from other clerics and progressive personalities.
தாலிபான் வழியில் வேகமாக பின்னேறும் இந்திய முல்லாக்களும் அவர்கள் பின்னால் செல்லும் முஸ்லீம் பெண்களும் பரிதாபத்துக்குரியவர்கள்.
ஆகவே வேலை இட ஒதுக்கீடெல்லாம் முஸ்லீம் ஆண்களுக்குத்தான். பெண்கள் அந்தோ அதோகதி.
முகம்மது, கதீஜா அம்மையாரின் கீழ் வேலை செய்து பிழைத்ததாக சொல்கிறார்கள். கதீஜா அம்மையாருக்கு பத்வா கொடுத்துவிட்டிருக்கிறார்கள் போலிருக்கிறதே.
Now, fatwa against working women
Posted: Wed May 12 2010, 15:30 hrs
Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has decreed that it was illegal according to the sharia law for a family to accept a woman's earnings.
The fatwa was issued by a bench of three clerics including chief mufti Habib-ur-Rehman on March 29. But it was made public recently, Deoband sources said today.
Clerics at the largest Sunni muslim seminary said the decree was based on the fact that the sharia prohibited proximity of men and women in the workplace.
The fatwa was in response to a query by a person Kausar whether income of a Muslim woman for a family was justified.
They ruled that Muslim women to work in any institution, government or private, with men is against Sharia law.
At the time when there is a demand for job quota for Muslims and a yearning for progress in the community that sees itself neglected, the fatwa has drawn flak from other clerics and progressive personalities.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
குழந்தையை கற்பழித்ததற்காக இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் கைது
Imam charged with sex offences
Published: 6 May 10 08:41 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/26484/20100506/
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A 48-year-old imam who teaches children about the Koran has been charged with sexually molesting an 11-year-old female student.
•Minister: Catholic Church should investigate (30 Apr 10)
•Allegations mount against Catholic Church (28 Apr 10)
•'Catholics in Sweden must challenge Rome' (14 Apr 10)
According to the charge sheet the incidents are alleged to have occurred in August and September 2009 in the girl's family home south of Stockholm. The 48-year-old was a regular visitor to the apartment and taught the girl and her 14-year-old elder brother about the Koran and the Arabic language.
When the girl finally revealed what she had been subjected to her parents immediately called the police.
"The mother was scared that more children could be exposed," district prosecutor Eva Kokkonen told news agency TT.
The sexual molestation involved the man groping the girl, including her breasts.
"It is always serious when a child is exposed to sexual acts. Especially when it takes place in her home and with a person she should be able to have confidence in. I consider that the man abused his authority and the punishment should be prison," Kokkonen said.
The prosecutor argues that the evidence against the imam is strong.
"The girl's story is reliable and her reaction when she told her parents is typical of abused children. She was very sad and so ashamed that she could barely talk about what had happened. Her big brother who arrived at the lesson later supported her story by testifying to the man's exaggerated indiscretion towards the girl," Kokkonen said.
"He presented himself to me as an imam, I think that makes the crime worse. I am shocked over what he has done," the girl's mother told news agency TT.
The trial will be held in Södertörn district court before the summer. The man denies all charges.
TT/The Local (news@thelocal.se/08 656 6518)
Published: 6 May 10 08:41 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/26484/20100506/
Dictionary tool Double click on a word to get a translation
A 48-year-old imam who teaches children about the Koran has been charged with sexually molesting an 11-year-old female student.
•Minister: Catholic Church should investigate (30 Apr 10)
•Allegations mount against Catholic Church (28 Apr 10)
•'Catholics in Sweden must challenge Rome' (14 Apr 10)
According to the charge sheet the incidents are alleged to have occurred in August and September 2009 in the girl's family home south of Stockholm. The 48-year-old was a regular visitor to the apartment and taught the girl and her 14-year-old elder brother about the Koran and the Arabic language.
When the girl finally revealed what she had been subjected to her parents immediately called the police.
"The mother was scared that more children could be exposed," district prosecutor Eva Kokkonen told news agency TT.
The sexual molestation involved the man groping the girl, including her breasts.
"It is always serious when a child is exposed to sexual acts. Especially when it takes place in her home and with a person she should be able to have confidence in. I consider that the man abused his authority and the punishment should be prison," Kokkonen said.
The prosecutor argues that the evidence against the imam is strong.
"The girl's story is reliable and her reaction when she told her parents is typical of abused children. She was very sad and so ashamed that she could barely talk about what had happened. Her big brother who arrived at the lesson later supported her story by testifying to the man's exaggerated indiscretion towards the girl," Kokkonen said.
"He presented himself to me as an imam, I think that makes the crime worse. I am shocked over what he has done," the girl's mother told news agency TT.
The trial will be held in Södertörn district court before the summer. The man denies all charges.
TT/The Local (news@thelocal.se/08 656 6518)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
இஸ்லாமை விட்டு வெளியேறிய 15 வயது எகிப்திய சிறுமி மீது ஆசிட் அட்டாக்
இஸ்லாமை விட்டு வெளியேறிய 15 வயது எகிப்திய சிறுமி மீது ஆசிட் அட்டாக்
Muslim Egyptian Girl Who Converted to Christianity Subjected to Acid Attack
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Posted GMT 4-17-2010 1:10:43
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(AINA) -- Dina el-Gowhary, the 15-year-old Egyptian Muslim-born girl who converted to Christianity, was subjected to an acid attack, the latest in a string of failed attempts by Muslim fanatics against her and her father, 57-year-old Peter Athanasius (Maher el-Gowhary), who converted to Christianity 35 years ago. Several Fatwa's were issued calling for the "spilling of his blood," which makes their lives in constant danger in the face of the reactionaries and advocates for the enforcement of Islamic apostasy laws, which call for the death of a convert.
Dina said that three weeks ago as she ventured out from their hiding place in Alexandria with her father to get some bottled water, her jacket was set on fire due to acid being thrown at her. "My father quickly took my jacket off before the fire reached my arms. Ever since then I am terrorized to go out in the street, with or without my father."
Through an aired interview with Freecopts advocacy Dina addressed an open letter to President Mubarak of Egypt begging him to save her and her father and allow them to leave Egypt.
She said that she had written previously to President Obama, who got her message and responded to it (AINA 11-17-2009). It was reported that the el-Gowharys met with the US Committee on International Religious Freedom on their last visit to Egypt in January 2010, and that they have asked for asylum in the United States (Fox News video).
Dina wonders whether she will get the same attention from President Mubarak as she did from President Obama. "Will he listen and lend us a helping hand, if, as they claim, he truly does not differentiate between Muslim and Christian citizens?" She asked the Egyptian President, who newly became grandfather to a baby girl "Do you accept that your granddaughter would live under the same conditions like mine? I have no home, I am always afraid when I go to church or even go out in the street, I have no friends and no education."
In her letter to President Mubarak, Dina expressed her deep distress at the mistreatment and continuous troubles she finds everywhere she goes, including being beaten and humiliated. She tells of how "because of her love for Jesus" she left her Muslim mother and went to live with her Christian father, abandoning school where she was persecuted by teachers and students. "I was threatened many times before. Once coming back from school, a bearded young man stepped out of a car, lifted me through my clothes from the ground and warned me that if my father and myself do not go back to Islam, both of us will be killed."
Dina, now living with her father for the last two years, has to move with him from one place to another in search of personal safety for both, in the face of the many threats that they experienced since her father declared his conversion to Christianity and his desire to his change religious designation in official documents.
In June 2009 a Court refused his request to order the Civil Registry to alter his religious designation on his ID to reflect his Christian religion and his Christian name, Peter Athanasius. The Court ruling said that the religious conversion of a Muslim is against Islamic Sharia law and poses a threat to the "Public Order" in Egypt. He appealed the Court ruling (AINA 6-16-2009).
In the Freecopts interview, Dina says that she hopes that President Mubarak will help them to leave Egypt in order for them to live normally and for her to continue her education.
The el-Gowhary family was barred from leaving Egypt on September 17, 2009 without any legal reason. They were told, however, that the order came from a higher authority. To this today, says Maher, he does not know why he is barred from travel and which authority exactly is barring him (AINA 9-26-2009).
He explained, in a interview with Freecopts this week, the extremely difficult circumstances they are living under, being hunted the whole time and with many attempts on their lives. "It is only due to the Grace and Protection of God, that we are still alive until today," he adds.
"Why did they confiscate our passports? What have we done wrong?" said Dina. "The only thing we did is that we loved Jesus with all their hearts and converted to Christianity." The teenage girl stressed that whatever the government does or will to them to force them to abandon Christianity is in vain. "We will never leave Christianity and we will never ever revert back to Islam. Jesus is simply etched in our hearts," she said.
By Mary Abdelmassih
Muslim Egyptian Girl Who Converted to Christianity Subjected to Acid Attack
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Posted GMT 4-17-2010 1:10:43
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(AINA) -- Dina el-Gowhary, the 15-year-old Egyptian Muslim-born girl who converted to Christianity, was subjected to an acid attack, the latest in a string of failed attempts by Muslim fanatics against her and her father, 57-year-old Peter Athanasius (Maher el-Gowhary), who converted to Christianity 35 years ago. Several Fatwa's were issued calling for the "spilling of his blood," which makes their lives in constant danger in the face of the reactionaries and advocates for the enforcement of Islamic apostasy laws, which call for the death of a convert.
Dina said that three weeks ago as she ventured out from their hiding place in Alexandria with her father to get some bottled water, her jacket was set on fire due to acid being thrown at her. "My father quickly took my jacket off before the fire reached my arms. Ever since then I am terrorized to go out in the street, with or without my father."
Through an aired interview with Freecopts advocacy Dina addressed an open letter to President Mubarak of Egypt begging him to save her and her father and allow them to leave Egypt.
She said that she had written previously to President Obama, who got her message and responded to it (AINA 11-17-2009). It was reported that the el-Gowharys met with the US Committee on International Religious Freedom on their last visit to Egypt in January 2010, and that they have asked for asylum in the United States (Fox News video).
Dina wonders whether she will get the same attention from President Mubarak as she did from President Obama. "Will he listen and lend us a helping hand, if, as they claim, he truly does not differentiate between Muslim and Christian citizens?" She asked the Egyptian President, who newly became grandfather to a baby girl "Do you accept that your granddaughter would live under the same conditions like mine? I have no home, I am always afraid when I go to church or even go out in the street, I have no friends and no education."
In her letter to President Mubarak, Dina expressed her deep distress at the mistreatment and continuous troubles she finds everywhere she goes, including being beaten and humiliated. She tells of how "because of her love for Jesus" she left her Muslim mother and went to live with her Christian father, abandoning school where she was persecuted by teachers and students. "I was threatened many times before. Once coming back from school, a bearded young man stepped out of a car, lifted me through my clothes from the ground and warned me that if my father and myself do not go back to Islam, both of us will be killed."
Dina, now living with her father for the last two years, has to move with him from one place to another in search of personal safety for both, in the face of the many threats that they experienced since her father declared his conversion to Christianity and his desire to his change religious designation in official documents.
In June 2009 a Court refused his request to order the Civil Registry to alter his religious designation on his ID to reflect his Christian religion and his Christian name, Peter Athanasius. The Court ruling said that the religious conversion of a Muslim is against Islamic Sharia law and poses a threat to the "Public Order" in Egypt. He appealed the Court ruling (AINA 6-16-2009).
In the Freecopts interview, Dina says that she hopes that President Mubarak will help them to leave Egypt in order for them to live normally and for her to continue her education.
The el-Gowhary family was barred from leaving Egypt on September 17, 2009 without any legal reason. They were told, however, that the order came from a higher authority. To this today, says Maher, he does not know why he is barred from travel and which authority exactly is barring him (AINA 9-26-2009).
He explained, in a interview with Freecopts this week, the extremely difficult circumstances they are living under, being hunted the whole time and with many attempts on their lives. "It is only due to the Grace and Protection of God, that we are still alive until today," he adds.
"Why did they confiscate our passports? What have we done wrong?" said Dina. "The only thing we did is that we loved Jesus with all their hearts and converted to Christianity." The teenage girl stressed that whatever the government does or will to them to force them to abandon Christianity is in vain. "We will never leave Christianity and we will never ever revert back to Islam. Jesus is simply etched in our hearts," she said.
By Mary Abdelmassih
10 வயது சிறுமியை பலாத்காரம் செய்த இந்திய கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் இத்தாலியில் கைது
10 வயது சிறுமியை பலாத்காரம் செய்த இந்திய கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார் இத்தாலியில் கைது செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளார்.
Indian priest accused of paedophilia under house arrest in Italy
IANS, Apr 16, 2010, 02.24pm IST
Tags:Indian priest held in Italy|Priest charged with sexual violence|Priest under house arrestTERAMO (Italy): An Indian priest who confessed to sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in central Italy has been placed under house arrest.
The priest, identified only as David, was transferred to an unnamed location, believed to be a local convent after being charged with sexual violence in the town of Teramo, 175 km northeast of Rome.
His lawyer, Giovanni Gebbia, said that the 40-year-old priest from southern India was completely "demoralised" by his arrest on Thursday and expressed concern about his client's mental health.
"He is very worried about his profile because he is both a priest and a foreigner," Gebbia told AKI. "He is very depressed."
The priest on Wednesday admitted to visiting the girl at her home on December 19 last year.
Gebbia sought to downplay the accusations Thursday, saying the hand of his client "brushed against" her intimate area. "He approached her private parts, he brushed against her private parts," Gebbia said. "He did not have any bad intentions."
Gebbia said his client had been singled out because of the "current climate" after a wave of sexual abuse allegations by priests has shaken the Catholic Church in the US, Germany, Ireland, Italy and several other countries.
"He has suffered because of the current climate. This climate is not at all calm," Gebbia said.
The head of the Teramo diocese, Bishop Michele Seccia, was not available for comment Thursday.
Church spokesperson Gino Mecca also expressed concern about the "current climate" over clerical sexual abuse which he likened to a "cyclone" sweeping the Catholic Church.
"It is very difficult for him," Mecca said. "He is being made a scapegoat."
He said he would face Italy's criminal law before the church took any action on his future under canonical law.
Gebbia also expressed concern about the charge of sexual violence saying it encompassed a range of sexual crimes, which were far more severe than what the Indian priest had done. He declined to estimate the type of sentence his client could face but it could be several years.
"He is available under house arrest for any further interrogation by the magistrates," he said.
The priest has been studying at Pontifical Gregorian University for two years and used to spend weekends celebrating mass and carrying out other duties in the Teramo diocese.
The priest, who was ordained in 1987, was nabbed Monday soon after he returned from India where he was visiting his ailing mother.
His lawyer said he had no relatives in Italy and had not had contact with his mother since his arrest.
He is the first priest to be arrested in Italy since the Vatican published revised guidelines stating that priests suspected of molesting children must be reported to police.
Indian priest accused of paedophilia under house arrest in Italy
IANS, Apr 16, 2010, 02.24pm IST
Tags:Indian priest held in Italy|Priest charged with sexual violence|Priest under house arrestTERAMO (Italy): An Indian priest who confessed to sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in central Italy has been placed under house arrest.
The priest, identified only as David, was transferred to an unnamed location, believed to be a local convent after being charged with sexual violence in the town of Teramo, 175 km northeast of Rome.
His lawyer, Giovanni Gebbia, said that the 40-year-old priest from southern India was completely "demoralised" by his arrest on Thursday and expressed concern about his client's mental health.
"He is very worried about his profile because he is both a priest and a foreigner," Gebbia told AKI. "He is very depressed."
The priest on Wednesday admitted to visiting the girl at her home on December 19 last year.
Gebbia sought to downplay the accusations Thursday, saying the hand of his client "brushed against" her intimate area. "He approached her private parts, he brushed against her private parts," Gebbia said. "He did not have any bad intentions."
Gebbia said his client had been singled out because of the "current climate" after a wave of sexual abuse allegations by priests has shaken the Catholic Church in the US, Germany, Ireland, Italy and several other countries.
"He has suffered because of the current climate. This climate is not at all calm," Gebbia said.
The head of the Teramo diocese, Bishop Michele Seccia, was not available for comment Thursday.
Church spokesperson Gino Mecca also expressed concern about the "current climate" over clerical sexual abuse which he likened to a "cyclone" sweeping the Catholic Church.
"It is very difficult for him," Mecca said. "He is being made a scapegoat."
He said he would face Italy's criminal law before the church took any action on his future under canonical law.
Gebbia also expressed concern about the charge of sexual violence saying it encompassed a range of sexual crimes, which were far more severe than what the Indian priest had done. He declined to estimate the type of sentence his client could face but it could be several years.
"He is available under house arrest for any further interrogation by the magistrates," he said.
The priest has been studying at Pontifical Gregorian University for two years and used to spend weekends celebrating mass and carrying out other duties in the Teramo diocese.
The priest, who was ordained in 1987, was nabbed Monday soon after he returned from India where he was visiting his ailing mother.
His lawyer said he had no relatives in Italy and had not had contact with his mother since his arrest.
He is the first priest to be arrested in Italy since the Vatican published revised guidelines stating that priests suspected of molesting children must be reported to police.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
ஏன் முஸ்லீம்கள் தங்கள் திருமணத்தை அரசாங்கத்தில் பதிவு செய்ய மாட்டேனென்கிறார்கள்?
ஏமனைச் சேர்ந்த 13 வயது சிறுமியை 23 வயதான ஆளுக்கு திருமணம் செய்துவைத்திருக்கிறார்கள்.
அந்த சிறுமியை கணவன் பலாத்காரம் செய்ததால் அந்த சிறுமி சில மணி நேரங்களில் இறந்துவிட்டாள்.
இஸ்லாமில் சிறு குழந்தைகளை திருமணம் செய்து வைப்பது வழக்கமாம்.
சிறுபான்மை உரிமை!
Dead Yemeni child bride tied up, raped, says mom
SHUEBA, Yemen (AP): The mother of a Yemeni child bride who bled to death after her marriage says her daughter was tied down and raped by her husband.
Nijma Ahmed, 50, says just before her daughter lost consciousness she described how her husband had tied her up and forced himself on her. The 13-year-old died hours later.
Elham Assi bled to death on April 2, four days after she was married to a 23-year-old man. A forensic report said her vagina and rectum were deeply ripped, causing her to hemorrhage.
The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in impoverished Yemen.
Traditional families prefer young brides and poor families can be lured with hundreds of dollars in gifts.
Legislation to ban child brides has been stalled by opposition from religious leaders.
அந்த சிறுமியை கணவன் பலாத்காரம் செய்ததால் அந்த சிறுமி சில மணி நேரங்களில் இறந்துவிட்டாள்.
இஸ்லாமில் சிறு குழந்தைகளை திருமணம் செய்து வைப்பது வழக்கமாம்.
சிறுபான்மை உரிமை!
Dead Yemeni child bride tied up, raped, says mom
SHUEBA, Yemen (AP): The mother of a Yemeni child bride who bled to death after her marriage says her daughter was tied down and raped by her husband.
Nijma Ahmed, 50, says just before her daughter lost consciousness she described how her husband had tied her up and forced himself on her. The 13-year-old died hours later.
Elham Assi bled to death on April 2, four days after she was married to a 23-year-old man. A forensic report said her vagina and rectum were deeply ripped, causing her to hemorrhage.
The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in impoverished Yemen.
Traditional families prefer young brides and poor families can be lured with hundreds of dollars in gifts.
Legislation to ban child brides has been stalled by opposition from religious leaders.
ஐந்து வயது குழந்தையை பாலியல் பலாத்காரம் செய்த 65 வயது இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் அப்துல் கரீம்
ஐந்து வயது குழந்தையை பாலியல் பலாத்காரம் செய்திருக்கிறார் இந்த 65 வயது இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் அப்துல் கரீம்
இந்தியாவில் முஜாபர்நகரில் நடந்துள்ளது.
வாழ்க சிறுபான்மையினர் உரிமை
5-yr-old girl raped by cleric
Zopag News Network
Updated Mon 12th Apr 2010 12:49:14 / Published Mon 12th Apr 2010 12:19:59E-mail | Print | Comment | Feedback | TextMuzaffarnagar, April 12: A 5-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a cleric at Minranpur town in Muzaffarnagar and was later arrested, police said.
65-year-old Abdul Karim was arrested for raping the minor following an FIR lodged by the victim's father Noshad in this regard, they said, adding the girl had been sent for medical examination.
(with PTI inputs)
இந்தியாவில் முஜாபர்நகரில் நடந்துள்ளது.
வாழ்க சிறுபான்மையினர் உரிமை
5-yr-old girl raped by cleric
Zopag News Network
Updated Mon 12th Apr 2010 12:49:14 / Published Mon 12th Apr 2010 12:19:59E-mail | Print | Comment | Feedback | TextMuzaffarnagar, April 12: A 5-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a cleric at Minranpur town in Muzaffarnagar and was later arrested, police said.
65-year-old Abdul Karim was arrested for raping the minor following an FIR lodged by the victim's father Noshad in this regard, they said, adding the girl had been sent for medical examination.
(with PTI inputs)
Monday, April 05, 2010
14 வயது சிறுமியை பலாத்காரம் செய்த பழனிவேல் என்ற சாமியார்
செக்குலர் வியாதிகளே ஓடி விடுங்கள்.
இந்த செய்தி கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார் ஜோஸப் பழனிவேல் ஜெயபால் பற்றியது.
இவன் அமெரிக்காவுக்கு போனால் விஷயம் வெளியில் வந்துவிடுகிறது.
இந்தியாவில் இருந்தால், தமிழ்நாட்டு பிச்சைக்கார பத்திரிக்கையாளர்களிடம் காசு கொடுத்து சமாளித்துவிடலாம்.
இவனை மாதிரி எத்தனை கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார்கள் தமிழ்நாட்டில் அலைந்துகொண்டிருக்கிறார்களோ தெரியவில்லை.
Indian priest accused of sexually molesting teen in US
Associated Press, Monday April 5, 2010, New Delhi
A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota is working in his home diocese in India and has no plans to return to the US to face the courts, he and his bishop said on Monday.
Church documents show the Vatican was alerted to the accusations against the Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul more than three years ago but it did not respond.
The priest has received only a minor punishment and is currently working in his bishop's office processing teacher appointments for a dozen church schools in the diocese of Ooty in southern India.
"We cannot simply throw out the priest, so he is just staying in the bishop's house, and he is helping me with the appointment of teachers," said the Most Rev. A. Almaraj, the bishop of Ooty. "He says he is innocent, and these are only allegations. ... I don't know what else to do."
Almaraj emphasised that Jeyapaul was engaged in only "paperwork, nothing to do with the children or anything."
The main group of clerical abuse victims in the United States has scheduled a news conference for Monday in St. Paul, Minnesota, to draw attention to the Jeyapaul case and demand he be suspended and returned to face justice in the United States.
The group, Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, has been campaigning recently to draw attention to what it considers the Vatican's complicity in cases of abusive priests being moved around dioceses to avoid criminal prosecution.
The Vatican has denounced such accusations and has blamed the media for what it calls a smear campaign against the pope and his advisers.
The Vatican has insisted Pope Benedict XVI takes such accusations seriously and cracked down on abuse in 2001 by ordering dioceses to inform the Vatican of all such cases. However, the Vatican hasn't issued any guidelines requiring bishops to heed civil authorities, though it insists nothing in its directives precludes such cooperation.
Jeyapaul is currently wanted on two counts of criminal sexual conduct stemming from accusations he assaulted a young, female parishioner in the fall of 2004 at the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush, Minnesota, where he was working. Each charge carries a sentence of up to 30 years.
According to the criminal complaint, the teenage girl accused Jeyapaul of threatening to kill her family if she did not come into the rectory, where he then forced her to perform oral sex on him and groped her in the fall of 2004.
In a telephone call with The Associated Press, Jeyapaul denied the charges.
"It is a false accusation against me," he said. "I do not know that girl at all."
He said he had no intention of facing the charges, and Almaraj said the church had never discussed asking him to return to the United States to appear in court.
"No steps were taken. Nobody talked about that. Nobody asked about that," Almaraj said.
Officials at India's Foreign Ministry were not immediately available to discuss whether the US asked for Jeyapaul's extradition. The two countries do have an agreement.
At the time the accusations against Jeyapaul first surfaced in 2005, the priest had returned home to visit his ailing mother and officials in Minnesota's Crookston diocese told him he should stay in India, Jeyapaul said.
"My mother told me to remain here, and the (Crookston) bishop also told me not to come back, because these allegations have come against you," he said.
On December 21, 2006, Monsignor Victor Balke, the-then bishop of the Crookston diocese, wrote about the accusations against Jeyapaul to both Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the Most Rev. Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, to the United States. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Vatican office that handles all abuse cases.
"I hope that for the good of the Church you are able to reach a speedy resolution to this case," he wrote to Levada, according to a letter obtained by AP.
A week later, Rev. Sambi wrote to Bishop Balke: "I assure you that this material has already been forwarded to the Holy See."
It's not clear what actions, if any, the Vatican took. Alamaraj said the Vatican was informed of his disciplinary actions against Jeyapaul, but had no input.
Almaraj said he sent Jeyapaul to a monastery for a year of prayer and asked the local parishes where the priest had worked previously if there were any prior cases of possible abuse. None came to light, he said.
Almaraj then assigned Jeyapaul to the bishop's house, where he is in charge of compiling seniority lists for teachers in the diocese's schools.
இந்த செய்தி கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்துவ பாதிரியார் ஜோஸப் பழனிவேல் ஜெயபால் பற்றியது.
இவன் அமெரிக்காவுக்கு போனால் விஷயம் வெளியில் வந்துவிடுகிறது.
இந்தியாவில் இருந்தால், தமிழ்நாட்டு பிச்சைக்கார பத்திரிக்கையாளர்களிடம் காசு கொடுத்து சமாளித்துவிடலாம்.
இவனை மாதிரி எத்தனை கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார்கள் தமிழ்நாட்டில் அலைந்துகொண்டிருக்கிறார்களோ தெரியவில்லை.
Indian priest accused of sexually molesting teen in US
Associated Press, Monday April 5, 2010, New Delhi
A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota is working in his home diocese in India and has no plans to return to the US to face the courts, he and his bishop said on Monday.
Church documents show the Vatican was alerted to the accusations against the Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul more than three years ago but it did not respond.
The priest has received only a minor punishment and is currently working in his bishop's office processing teacher appointments for a dozen church schools in the diocese of Ooty in southern India.
"We cannot simply throw out the priest, so he is just staying in the bishop's house, and he is helping me with the appointment of teachers," said the Most Rev. A. Almaraj, the bishop of Ooty. "He says he is innocent, and these are only allegations. ... I don't know what else to do."
Almaraj emphasised that Jeyapaul was engaged in only "paperwork, nothing to do with the children or anything."
The main group of clerical abuse victims in the United States has scheduled a news conference for Monday in St. Paul, Minnesota, to draw attention to the Jeyapaul case and demand he be suspended and returned to face justice in the United States.
The group, Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests, has been campaigning recently to draw attention to what it considers the Vatican's complicity in cases of abusive priests being moved around dioceses to avoid criminal prosecution.
The Vatican has denounced such accusations and has blamed the media for what it calls a smear campaign against the pope and his advisers.
The Vatican has insisted Pope Benedict XVI takes such accusations seriously and cracked down on abuse in 2001 by ordering dioceses to inform the Vatican of all such cases. However, the Vatican hasn't issued any guidelines requiring bishops to heed civil authorities, though it insists nothing in its directives precludes such cooperation.
Jeyapaul is currently wanted on two counts of criminal sexual conduct stemming from accusations he assaulted a young, female parishioner in the fall of 2004 at the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush, Minnesota, where he was working. Each charge carries a sentence of up to 30 years.
According to the criminal complaint, the teenage girl accused Jeyapaul of threatening to kill her family if she did not come into the rectory, where he then forced her to perform oral sex on him and groped her in the fall of 2004.
In a telephone call with The Associated Press, Jeyapaul denied the charges.
"It is a false accusation against me," he said. "I do not know that girl at all."
He said he had no intention of facing the charges, and Almaraj said the church had never discussed asking him to return to the United States to appear in court.
"No steps were taken. Nobody talked about that. Nobody asked about that," Almaraj said.
Officials at India's Foreign Ministry were not immediately available to discuss whether the US asked for Jeyapaul's extradition. The two countries do have an agreement.
At the time the accusations against Jeyapaul first surfaced in 2005, the priest had returned home to visit his ailing mother and officials in Minnesota's Crookston diocese told him he should stay in India, Jeyapaul said.
"My mother told me to remain here, and the (Crookston) bishop also told me not to come back, because these allegations have come against you," he said.
On December 21, 2006, Monsignor Victor Balke, the-then bishop of the Crookston diocese, wrote about the accusations against Jeyapaul to both Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the Most Rev. Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, to the United States. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Vatican office that handles all abuse cases.
"I hope that for the good of the Church you are able to reach a speedy resolution to this case," he wrote to Levada, according to a letter obtained by AP.
A week later, Rev. Sambi wrote to Bishop Balke: "I assure you that this material has already been forwarded to the Holy See."
It's not clear what actions, if any, the Vatican took. Alamaraj said the Vatican was informed of his disciplinary actions against Jeyapaul, but had no input.
Almaraj said he sent Jeyapaul to a monastery for a year of prayer and asked the local parishes where the priest had worked previously if there were any prior cases of possible abuse. None came to light, he said.
Almaraj then assigned Jeyapaul to the bishop's house, where he is in charge of compiling seniority lists for teachers in the diocese's schools.
Saturday, April 03, 2010
இந்தியாவுக்குள் 9000 மதரஸாக்களை பகிச்தான் நடத்துகிறது
இணைய ஜிகாதிகள் எங்கிருந்து வருகிறார்கள் என்று தெரிகிறது
Illegal madrassas: A breeding ground of terror
Last updated on: April 01, 2010 16:17 IST
Tags: IB, India, Wakf Board, Inter Services Intelligence, Anwar al-Awlaki
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India has over 21,000 registered madrassas approved by the respective state governments and the Wakf Board.
IB sources say efforts are on to shut down illegal madrassas and the state authorities have been warned about their operations. Intelligence officials suspect Pakistan-based outfits may be using these illegal madrassas to carry out their operations in India, after the crackdown on terror modules and sleeper cells.
IB officials say nearly 3,000 illegal madrassas have been set up in the last year, with Maharashtra [ Images ] and Kerala [ Images ] having the maximum concentration. They claim that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence has managed to pump in nearly Rs 20 crore to fund these illegal institutions.
These institutions do not report to the Wakf Board and their syllabus is the same as the one followed in madrassas in Pakistan, say IB sources. The syllabus is based on the Anwar al-Awlaki school of thought, which has been adopted by Lashkar-e-Tayiba's [ Images ] front organisation Jamat-ud-Dawa, and speaks of 44 different ways to perform jihad
At class V level in these madrassas, students are taught that Hindus helped the British set up their empire in India. In class 6 and class 7, the students are clearly told that there is no way in which they should reconcile with India, since the only way to attain total freedom is by fighting and becoming martyrs.
Earlier, the various terror outfits concentrated on recruiting people for sleeper cells and modules, but soon realised that the concept of jihad needed to be introduced at an younger age to encourage fundamentalism. The illegal madrasas want to ensure that the students learn to internalise the jihadi school of thought.
Tracking such madrassas poses a problem for intelligence agencies, as they keep shifting base, and the fact that most of their students are children invariably shields them from any kind of suspicion.
Illegal madrassas: A breeding ground of terror
Last updated on: April 01, 2010 16:17 IST
Tags: IB, India, Wakf Board, Inter Services Intelligence, Anwar al-Awlaki
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CommentIntelligence agencies are worried about nearly 9,000 illegal madrassas which have mushroomed across India [ Images ] without requisite approval by the authorities.
India has over 21,000 registered madrassas approved by the respective state governments and the Wakf Board.
IB sources say efforts are on to shut down illegal madrassas and the state authorities have been warned about their operations. Intelligence officials suspect Pakistan-based outfits may be using these illegal madrassas to carry out their operations in India, after the crackdown on terror modules and sleeper cells.
IB officials say nearly 3,000 illegal madrassas have been set up in the last year, with Maharashtra [ Images ] and Kerala [ Images ] having the maximum concentration. They claim that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence has managed to pump in nearly Rs 20 crore to fund these illegal institutions.
These institutions do not report to the Wakf Board and their syllabus is the same as the one followed in madrassas in Pakistan, say IB sources. The syllabus is based on the Anwar al-Awlaki school of thought, which has been adopted by Lashkar-e-Tayiba's [ Images ] front organisation Jamat-ud-Dawa, and speaks of 44 different ways to perform jihad
At class V level in these madrassas, students are taught that Hindus helped the British set up their empire in India. In class 6 and class 7, the students are clearly told that there is no way in which they should reconcile with India, since the only way to attain total freedom is by fighting and becoming martyrs.
Earlier, the various terror outfits concentrated on recruiting people for sleeper cells and modules, but soon realised that the concept of jihad needed to be introduced at an younger age to encourage fundamentalism. The illegal madrasas want to ensure that the students learn to internalise the jihadi school of thought.
Tracking such madrassas poses a problem for intelligence agencies, as they keep shifting base, and the fact that most of their students are children invariably shields them from any kind of suspicion.
Friday, March 26, 2010
இந்து பெண்களை வேட்டையாடும் பாகிஸ்தான் முஸ்லீம்கள்
ஈமானுள்ள பாகிஸ்தான் போலீஸும் கண்டுகொள்வதில்லை.
Police turn blind eye to rampant kidnapping and rape of Hindu girls in Pak's Sindh province Friday, March 26, 2010,10:42 [IST]
Karachi, Mar.26 (ANI): A 12-year-old Hindu girl, Nandini, is still missing as police officials have failed to recover her even after four months of her being allegedly picked up by an influential individual of the city.
Buzz up!Officials have no information regarding Nandini's whereabouts, who was kidnapped in December last year, and the accused named Younis has not been arrested despite the fact that there is a first information report (FIR) registered against him.
It is not an isolated case where Hindu families have been left with little choice than to lament over their fate, with no help in sight from the authorities.
Several Hindu families, which are at the receiving end of the government's apathy, are awaiting justice for years but there's no one to listen to their plight.
According to Roshni Research and Development Welfare Organisation (RRDWO), a non-government organisation (NGO), a research has shown in majority of cases involving the minority community, police only provide lip service and do not seriously hunt down the criminals.
The NGO's President, Muhammad Ali, cited another case of a 17-year-old Hindu girl, who was kidnapped and raped by four men, in January this year. All the four accused were granted pre-arrest bail by a session court.
"Rape is a non-bail able offence in Pakistan and this is against criminal procedure and the law," The Daily Times quoted Ali, as saying.
Ali said the Asian Human Rights Commission has also expressed its serious concern over the case.
"Instead of giving justice to the victim's family, the police later arrested the victim's father on a false offence, and have obstructed attempts by the family to file an FIR and obtain a medical report," he added.
Ali also disclosed that an 'illegal' tribal court had asked the victim girl to marry her rapist and convert to Islam following which the girl had threatened public self-immolation.
"Not arresting the rapists and rather forcing a Hindu girl, who is a rape victim, to convert to Islam and be the wife of the culprit could be double trauma for the victim. It is another form of further victimising a woman," he said.
Ali also appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo moto notice of the gross human rights violations of the poor and the marginalized minorities in the Sindh province at the hands of police and lower judiciary, who are influenced by the feudal and local elite. (ANI)
Police turn blind eye to rampant kidnapping and rape of Hindu girls in Pak's Sindh province Friday, March 26, 2010,10:42 [IST]
Karachi, Mar.26 (ANI): A 12-year-old Hindu girl, Nandini, is still missing as police officials have failed to recover her even after four months of her being allegedly picked up by an influential individual of the city.
Buzz up!Officials have no information regarding Nandini's whereabouts, who was kidnapped in December last year, and the accused named Younis has not been arrested despite the fact that there is a first information report (FIR) registered against him.
It is not an isolated case where Hindu families have been left with little choice than to lament over their fate, with no help in sight from the authorities.
Several Hindu families, which are at the receiving end of the government's apathy, are awaiting justice for years but there's no one to listen to their plight.
According to Roshni Research and Development Welfare Organisation (RRDWO), a non-government organisation (NGO), a research has shown in majority of cases involving the minority community, police only provide lip service and do not seriously hunt down the criminals.
The NGO's President, Muhammad Ali, cited another case of a 17-year-old Hindu girl, who was kidnapped and raped by four men, in January this year. All the four accused were granted pre-arrest bail by a session court.
"Rape is a non-bail able offence in Pakistan and this is against criminal procedure and the law," The Daily Times quoted Ali, as saying.
Ali said the Asian Human Rights Commission has also expressed its serious concern over the case.
"Instead of giving justice to the victim's family, the police later arrested the victim's father on a false offence, and have obstructed attempts by the family to file an FIR and obtain a medical report," he added.
Ali also disclosed that an 'illegal' tribal court had asked the victim girl to marry her rapist and convert to Islam following which the girl had threatened public self-immolation.
"Not arresting the rapists and rather forcing a Hindu girl, who is a rape victim, to convert to Islam and be the wife of the culprit could be double trauma for the victim. It is another form of further victimising a woman," he said.
Ali also appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo moto notice of the gross human rights violations of the poor and the marginalized minorities in the Sindh province at the hands of police and lower judiciary, who are influenced by the feudal and local elite. (ANI)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
ஏமனில் குழந்தை திருமண தடை சட்டத்தை எதிர்த்து முல்லாக்கள் போர்க்கொடி
குழந்தை திருமணம் முஸ்லீம்களின் மத உரிமையாம். அதனால் முஸ்லீம் பெண்கள் குழந்தை திருமண தடைச்சட்டத்துக்கு எதிராக போராட்டம் நடத்தினார்கள்.
இந்த புர்காக்களுக்குள் எத்தனை ஆண்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள் என்று தெரியவில்லை.
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Yemeni women hold up the Quran and Arabic placard reading "yes to the legal rights of the Muslim woman" as they take part in a protest outside the parliament in San'a, Sunday, March 21, 2010.
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SAN’A, YEMEN—Some of Yemen's most influential Islamic leaders, including one the U.S. says mentored Osama bin Laden, have declared supporters of a ban on child brides to be apostates.
The religious decree, issued Sunday, deeply imperils efforts to salvage legislation that would make it illegal for those under the age of 17 to marry.
The practice is widespread in Yemen and has been particularly hard to discourage in part because of the country's gripping poverty — bride-prices in the hundreds of dollars are especially difficult for poor families to pass up.
More than a quarter of Yemen's females marry before age 15, according to a report last year by the Social Affairs Ministry. Tribal custom also plays a role, including the belief that a young bride can be shaped into an obedient wife, bear more children and be kept away from temptation.
A February 2009 law set the minimum age for marriage at 17, but it was repealed and sent back to parliament's constitutional committee for review after some lawmakers called it un-Islamic. The committee is expected to make a final decision on the legislation next month.
Some of the clerics who signed Sunday's decree sit on the committee.
The group behind the declaration also includes Yemen's most influential cleric, Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, whom the United States has branded a spiritual mentor of bin Laden. Al-Zindani denies being a member of al-Qaida.
In a further challenge to the rights groups pushing for a ban, government officials are reluctant to challenge al-Zindani and other conservative tribal and religious figures whose support they need to hold onto power in the fragile nation.
The religious leaders organized a protest against the legislation on Sunday by a group of women. Hidden behind black face veils and robes, the women carried signs that read "Yes to the Islamic rights of women."
"I was married at 15 and have many children now," said one of the women, Umm Abdul-Rahman. "And I will marry my daughter at the same age if I decide she is ready for it."
The issue of Yemen's child brides vaulted into the headlines three years ago when an 8-year-old girl boldly went by herself to a courtroom and demanded a judge dissolve her marriage to a man in his 30s. She eventually won a divorce, and legislators began looking at ways to curb the practice.
In September, a 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organization said.
A rights group pushing for a ban planned a protest for Tuesday.
"The government has two options: to give girls in Yemen a chance at life or to condemn them to a death sentence," said Amal Basha, chairwoman of the group, Sisters Arab Forum in Yemen.
Yemen once set 15 as the minimum age for marriage, but parliament annulled that law in the 1990s, saying parents should decide when a daughter marries.
கட்டாய மதமாற்றத்துக்கு எதிராக சீக்கியர்கள் ஐநா முன் போராட்டம்
பாகிஸ்தானில் சீக்கியர்களை கட்டாயமாக இஸ்லாமுக்கு மதம் மாற்றுவதற்கு எதிராக சீக்கியர்கள் ஐநா முன் போராட்டம் நடத்தினார்கள்
Forced Conversions and Racial Discrimination in Pak: Sikhs protest UN inaction
Punjab Newsline Network
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
By Gagandeep Ahuja
PATIALA: Sikhs held protests, against United Nations’ inaction to stop continued forced conversion of minorities to Islam and grave abuse of human rights of minorities and women in Pakistan, to coincide with International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at Patiala near Dukhniwaran and Singh Sabha Gurudwaras, Monday.
Dr. Manjit Singh Randhawa, President of Sikh Nation Organisation, said that Sikhs appealed to the international community to prevail upon Pakistan to repeal the 'Nizam-e-Adl 2009 Regulation' that has “legitimized and legalized tyranny” by ‘Taliban’, in complete disregard to its international commitments under various UN Conventions, to safeguard Human Rights of its citizens within international borders of Pakistan.
He maintained that without repealing the Regulation it was impossible to save lives, property and Shrines of Minority Sikh and Hindu Communities in Swat Valley and North West Frontier Province in Pakistan that has been placed under ‘Taliban Rule’ by repealing all Pak Laws to maintain law and order.
The Regulation has taken away Human Rights of Women and female Children, whose freedom of conscience has been put to unreasonable restrictions and are subjected to honour killings, whipping, torture, degrading treatment and punishment in Swat Valley and adjoining province, in a country signatory to U.N. Conventions on Human Rights, he added.
Sikhs also appealed the international community to support their demand for ‘Vatican’ like status to ‘Nanakana’ Sahib along with eighteen thousand acres property of the shrine, to develop a “fear free abode for humanity”, without which “personal freedom” and “dignified survival” of Sikhs, Hindus, Christian and other Minority Communities seemed impossible.
They shamed United Nations Human Rights system for its "observed silence" on systematic and undeterred persecution of minorities that stood reduced to negligible level in Pakistan, as a result of “forced conversions, killings and migration” in the Islamic country that is signatory to various U.N. Conventions on Human and Minority Rights and Conservation of diverse Cultural and Religious World Heritage of Humanity.
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Forced Conversions and Racial Discrimination in Pak: Sikhs protest UN inaction
Punjab Newsline Network
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
By Gagandeep Ahuja
PATIALA: Sikhs held protests, against United Nations’ inaction to stop continued forced conversion of minorities to Islam and grave abuse of human rights of minorities and women in Pakistan, to coincide with International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at Patiala near Dukhniwaran and Singh Sabha Gurudwaras, Monday.
Dr. Manjit Singh Randhawa, President of Sikh Nation Organisation, said that Sikhs appealed to the international community to prevail upon Pakistan to repeal the 'Nizam-e-Adl 2009 Regulation' that has “legitimized and legalized tyranny” by ‘Taliban’, in complete disregard to its international commitments under various UN Conventions, to safeguard Human Rights of its citizens within international borders of Pakistan.
He maintained that without repealing the Regulation it was impossible to save lives, property and Shrines of Minority Sikh and Hindu Communities in Swat Valley and North West Frontier Province in Pakistan that has been placed under ‘Taliban Rule’ by repealing all Pak Laws to maintain law and order.
The Regulation has taken away Human Rights of Women and female Children, whose freedom of conscience has been put to unreasonable restrictions and are subjected to honour killings, whipping, torture, degrading treatment and punishment in Swat Valley and adjoining province, in a country signatory to U.N. Conventions on Human Rights, he added.
Sikhs also appealed the international community to support their demand for ‘Vatican’ like status to ‘Nanakana’ Sahib along with eighteen thousand acres property of the shrine, to develop a “fear free abode for humanity”, without which “personal freedom” and “dignified survival” of Sikhs, Hindus, Christian and other Minority Communities seemed impossible.
They shamed United Nations Human Rights system for its "observed silence" on systematic and undeterred persecution of minorities that stood reduced to negligible level in Pakistan, as a result of “forced conversions, killings and migration” in the Islamic country that is signatory to various U.N. Conventions on Human and Minority Rights and Conservation of diverse Cultural and Religious World Heritage of Humanity.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
சவுதி அரேபியாவின் இமாம் ஆபாக படங்கள் பார்த்ததிற்காக கைது
சூனிய வேலையும் இந்த இமாம் செய்கிறாராம். அதற்காகவும் கைது செய்திருக்கிறார்களாம்.
Porn videos found on imam’s mobile
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH – A Saudi primary school teacher and imam and Khateeb of a mosque east of the city has been arrested on charges of indulging in sorcery, according to a Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai’a) official, Al-Watan Arabic newspaper reported Monday.
Over 50 pornographic video clips were also found stored in the imam’s mobile phone, the official was quoted as saying.
The imam was also accused of sheltering and having under his sponsorship an Arab national who engaged in sorcery and practiced it inside the mosque.
The imam was arrested with the help of a Sudanese sorcerer whose assistance was sought by the former to “have a married woman divorced”. The imam allegedly made the phone call seeking the help of the Sudanese as the latter was being taken away by the police for his involvement in sorcery.
The Sudanese cooperated and agreed to guide a Hai’a raiding team to the imam who initially offered some resistance but was later overpowered, the newspaper said.
The Hai’a official said the Saudi was imam of a big mosque in a district east of Jeddah and used to practice ruqya – treatment with Qur’anic verses – in the same mosque with an Arab national, who is now out of the country.
Jeddah Police spokesman said the case is now with Al-Jamea Police Station which released the suspect after completing investigations.
The case has now been referred to the Commission for Investigation and Prosecution.
Porn videos found on imam’s mobile
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH – A Saudi primary school teacher and imam and Khateeb of a mosque east of the city has been arrested on charges of indulging in sorcery, according to a Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai’a) official, Al-Watan Arabic newspaper reported Monday.
Over 50 pornographic video clips were also found stored in the imam’s mobile phone, the official was quoted as saying.
The imam was also accused of sheltering and having under his sponsorship an Arab national who engaged in sorcery and practiced it inside the mosque.
The imam was arrested with the help of a Sudanese sorcerer whose assistance was sought by the former to “have a married woman divorced”. The imam allegedly made the phone call seeking the help of the Sudanese as the latter was being taken away by the police for his involvement in sorcery.
The Sudanese cooperated and agreed to guide a Hai’a raiding team to the imam who initially offered some resistance but was later overpowered, the newspaper said.
The Hai’a official said the Saudi was imam of a big mosque in a district east of Jeddah and used to practice ruqya – treatment with Qur’anic verses – in the same mosque with an Arab national, who is now out of the country.
Jeddah Police spokesman said the case is now with Al-Jamea Police Station which released the suspect after completing investigations.
The case has now been referred to the Commission for Investigation and Prosecution.
ஓரின பாலுறவு போர்னோகிராபி செய்ததற்காக மாலத்தீவுகளில் இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் கைது.
ஓரின பாலுறவு போர்னோகிராபி செய்ததற்காக மாலத்தீவுகளில் இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் கைது செய்யப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்.
இந்த இமாம் பெரியார் மாதிரியே நிர்வாணமாக கடற்கரையில் ஓடிக்கொண்டிருப்பாராம்.
ஒரே குஷிதான் பெரியார்தாசர்களுக்கு.
Imam among seven men arrested for homosexual activity
By Ahmed Naish | December 7th, 2009 | Category: Society | 42 comments
A group of men, including an imam, were arrested in Alif Alif atoll Maalhos on Thursday after photos and videos emerged of the seven engaged in homosexual activity.
An islander who spoke on condition of anonymity told Minivan News a group of teenagers from the island came upon the video CDs in the house of one of the suspects. When the CDs began to be circulated in public, the “island elders” alerted police.
“It came as a big shock to everyone on the island to see that [the imam] was one of them. He gives the Friday sermons at the mosque every week,” he said. “He is a well respected person on the island and we saw him as our religious leader.”
Besides the imam, the pornographic videos featured a mosque caretaker, a carpenter and another man the islanders believe to be mentally unstable, the islander claimed.
“He is a deranged person. We have always seen him running around the island naked,” he said.
Of the three men not featured in the video, two were incriminated in photos found along with the videos, he continued, while the third was believed to have filmed the pornography.
Three of the suspects were married with children, the islander said, while one of them included a second, retired imam. The youngest of the seven men was aged 27, while the rest were over 45 years of age, he said.
Miadhu reported other islanders as claiming that two of the seven men consider themselves “as husband and wife.”
Sergeant Ahmed Shiyam from the Maldives Police Service confirmed the arrests were made on Thursday following a report from the islanders. The seven men are currently in police custody. All were residents of Maalhos.
A spokesperson for the Islamic Ministry said they were not yet aware of the case and could not speculate on any measures that could be taken. Meanwhile Abdullah bin Mohamed Ibrahim, President of Islamic NGO Salaf Jamiya, also said he was unable to comment as they did not have complete information on the case.
Under the existing penal provisions, the punishment for sodomy is 19 to 39 lashes, banishment or imprisonment of up to three years.
Another islander from Maalhos who spoke to Minivan News said a group of people had become suspicious of the seven men before the videos came out.
“They have been following them around for a long time now,” he said. “They were suspicious before, and the videos just confirmed it.”
இந்த இமாம் பெரியார் மாதிரியே நிர்வாணமாக கடற்கரையில் ஓடிக்கொண்டிருப்பாராம்.
ஒரே குஷிதான் பெரியார்தாசர்களுக்கு.
Imam among seven men arrested for homosexual activity
By Ahmed Naish | December 7th, 2009 | Category: Society | 42 comments
A group of men, including an imam, were arrested in Alif Alif atoll Maalhos on Thursday after photos and videos emerged of the seven engaged in homosexual activity.
An islander who spoke on condition of anonymity told Minivan News a group of teenagers from the island came upon the video CDs in the house of one of the suspects. When the CDs began to be circulated in public, the “island elders” alerted police.
“It came as a big shock to everyone on the island to see that [the imam] was one of them. He gives the Friday sermons at the mosque every week,” he said. “He is a well respected person on the island and we saw him as our religious leader.”
Besides the imam, the pornographic videos featured a mosque caretaker, a carpenter and another man the islanders believe to be mentally unstable, the islander claimed.
“He is a deranged person. We have always seen him running around the island naked,” he said.
Of the three men not featured in the video, two were incriminated in photos found along with the videos, he continued, while the third was believed to have filmed the pornography.
Three of the suspects were married with children, the islander said, while one of them included a second, retired imam. The youngest of the seven men was aged 27, while the rest were over 45 years of age, he said.
Miadhu reported other islanders as claiming that two of the seven men consider themselves “as husband and wife.”
Sergeant Ahmed Shiyam from the Maldives Police Service confirmed the arrests were made on Thursday following a report from the islanders. The seven men are currently in police custody. All were residents of Maalhos.
A spokesperson for the Islamic Ministry said they were not yet aware of the case and could not speculate on any measures that could be taken. Meanwhile Abdullah bin Mohamed Ibrahim, President of Islamic NGO Salaf Jamiya, also said he was unable to comment as they did not have complete information on the case.
Under the existing penal provisions, the punishment for sodomy is 19 to 39 lashes, banishment or imprisonment of up to three years.
Another islander from Maalhos who spoke to Minivan News said a group of people had become suspicious of the seven men before the videos came out.
“They have been following them around for a long time now,” he said. “They were suspicious before, and the videos just confirmed it.”
Thursday, March 18, 2010
பெண்கள் பள்ளிக்கூடங்கள் மீது முஸ்லீம்களுக்கு என்ன அப்படி கோபம்?
தெரியவில்லை. அது அல்லாவுக்குபிடிக்காதோ என்னவோ.
குண்டு வைத்து தாக்கி அழிக்கிறார்கள்.
Militants blow up school
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Our correspondent
KHAR: Militants dynamited a government-run girls’ primary school in Nawagai subdivision while the political administration arrested 26 tribesmen during a crackdown, tribal and official sources said on Wednesday.
The sources said that a group of militants entered the Government Girls Primary School, Malkana in the remote boundary area between Bajaur and Mohmand tribal agencies and planted explosive devices at separate points in the building.
The militants later came out of the school and triggered explosions with a remote control. As a result, the structure of the school was completely destroyed. Soon after the incident, the administration carried out search operation and apprehended 26 tribesmen under the collective responsibility section of Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR). Meanwhile, the security forces dynamited the house of a militant commander during search operation in Mamond tehsil.
குண்டு வைத்து தாக்கி அழிக்கிறார்கள்.
Militants blow up school
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Our correspondent
KHAR: Militants dynamited a government-run girls’ primary school in Nawagai subdivision while the political administration arrested 26 tribesmen during a crackdown, tribal and official sources said on Wednesday.
The sources said that a group of militants entered the Government Girls Primary School, Malkana in the remote boundary area between Bajaur and Mohmand tribal agencies and planted explosive devices at separate points in the building.
The militants later came out of the school and triggered explosions with a remote control. As a result, the structure of the school was completely destroyed. Soon after the incident, the administration carried out search operation and apprehended 26 tribesmen under the collective responsibility section of Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR). Meanwhile, the security forces dynamited the house of a militant commander during search operation in Mamond tehsil.
பெண்களுக்கு பின்னால் மறைந்து நின்று சுடும் தாலிபான்கள்
தாலிபான்களின் வீரம் எந்த அளவுக்கு என்று தெரிந்திருந்தாலும் இது இன்னும் அவர்களுக்கு கேவலம்.
சொல்லியிருப்பது அமெரிக்க ஜெனரல் அல்ல. ஆப்கானிய ஜெனரல். இவரும் முஸ்லீம்தான்.
Afghanistan Taliban 'using human shields' - general
US Marines have come under heavy fire in Marjah
Taliban militants are increasingly using civilians as "human shields" as they battle against a joint Afghan-Nato offensive, an Afghan general has said.
Gen Mohiudin Ghori said his soldiers had seen Taliban fighters placing women and children on the roofs of buildings and firing from behind them.
The joint offensive in southern Helmand province has entered its fifth day.
US Marines fighting to take the Taliban haven of Marjah have had to call in air support as they come under heavy fire.
They have faced sustained machine-gun fire from fighters hiding in bunkers and in buildings including homes and mosques.
They are trying to get us to fire on them and kill the civilians
Gen Moheedin Ghori
Afghan National Army
Moshtarak diary: Day five
Gen Ghori, the senior commander for Afghan troops in the area, accused the Taliban of taking civilians hostage in Marjah and putting them in the line of fire.
"Especially in the south of Marjah, the enemy is fighting from compounds where soldiers can very clearly see women or children on the roof or in a second-floor or third-floor window," he is quoted by Associated Press as saying.
"They are trying to get us to fire on them and kill the civilians."
As a result, his forces were having to make the choice either not to return fire, he said, or to advance much more slowly in order to distinguish militants from civilians.
Day-by-day report and map
Civilians die in Kandahar strike
Nato has stressed that the safety of civilians in the areas targeted in the joint Nato and Afghan Operation Moshtarak is its highest priority.
Journalist Jawad Dawari, based in Lashkar Gah, told BBC Pashto that Taliban fighters remained in many residential areas of Marjah and were defending their positions with heavy weapons.
"It is difficult for the Afghan army and Nato to storm Taliban-held areas because to do so may inflict heavy civilian casualties and there are still a lot of civilians in Marjah.
"Whenever they launch an attack, the Taliban take refuge in civilians' homes."
He had spoken to many local people in Marjah, he said, and they had all said the Nato offensive had made little progress since the first day.
An Afghan military official had told reporters that the backbone of the resistance came from foreign fighters - Pakistani and Arab - and that it was feared they might resort to suicide attacks, he added.
ANALYSIS
By Frank Gardner, BBC News, Kandahar
There's a lot of fighting going on in the Marjah area - the estimation of the number of insurgents there varies between 100 and 300. They are not all hardcore Taliban by any means. The US commander there, Brig Gen Larry Nicholson, said he thought about 80% were probably less committed local fighters hired to do this, as opposed to being hardcore, ideological jihadists.
The operation has taken a long time for a number of reasons - it's a big area, 200sq km, and they are having to cope with an unexpectedly large number of these IEDs. A lot of locals are telling the soldiers where the devices are but other IEDs are having to be defused very slowly.
The most senior US general in the south, Brig Gen Ben Hodges, gave the BBC a more upbeat assessment of Marjah, saying locals were coming out to give information on insurgents now that they were confident the forces involved in Operation Moshtarak were not leaving.
He said Afghan units would be staying for at least 30 days and the Marine battalions "for several months".
Speaking to the BBC after visiting Marjah, the commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan, Maj Gen Nick Carter, said the situation was dangerous, but that progress was being made.
He told the BBC's Frank Gardner it could take up to 30 days to clear the insurgents out, depending on when they lost the will to fight.
Troops taking part in the offensive have been having to deal with large numbers of improvised bombs.
American forces have found a so-called "daisy chain" - a long bomb rigged up from mortar bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike, our correspondent says.
Nato has said that safeguarding civilians is its top priority
And British engineers have deployed a device called a "python" - a length of explosives designed to set off mines and clear a safe path through them, he says.
Afghan army chief of staff Besmillah Khan told the AFP news agency the threat from improvised bombs meant gains were coming "slowly".
Meanwhile, to the north, British forces have discovered an insurgent cache of stolen Afghan army and police uniforms.
The find suggests the Taliban could have been planning attacks disguised as Afghan security personnel, our correspondent says.
Nato says discussions with the local population on how to bring lasting security to the area are continuing, our correspondent adds.
Gen Hodges said several hundred police had been trained and would go into central Helmand once the situation was deemed appropriate.
British and Afghan troops are reported to be advancing more swiftly in the nearby district of Nad Ali than are their US and Afghan counterparts in Marjah.
Missiles 'on target'
Gen Carter confirmed on Tuesday a missile that struck a house outside Marjah on Sunday killing 12 people, including six children, had hit its intended target.
Afghan troops raise the national flag at a bazaar in Marjah
Gen Carter said the rocket had not malfunctioned and the US system responsible for firing it was back in use. Officials say three Taliban, as well as civilians, were in the house but the Nato soldiers did not know the civilians were there.
Initial Nato reports said the missile had landed about 300m (984ft) off its intended target. Gen Carter blamed these "conflicting" reports on "the fog of war".
Speaking on Tuesday, Dawud Ahmadi - a spokesman for Helmand Governor Gulab Mangal - said that 1,240 families had been displaced and evacuated from Marjah - and all had received aid in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
Operation Moshtarak, meaning "together" in the Dari language, is the biggest coalition attack since the Taliban fell in 2001.
Allied officials have reported only two coalition deaths so far - one American and one Briton killed on Saturday.
சொல்லியிருப்பது அமெரிக்க ஜெனரல் அல்ல. ஆப்கானிய ஜெனரல். இவரும் முஸ்லீம்தான்.
Afghanistan Taliban 'using human shields' - general
US Marines have come under heavy fire in Marjah
Taliban militants are increasingly using civilians as "human shields" as they battle against a joint Afghan-Nato offensive, an Afghan general has said.
Gen Mohiudin Ghori said his soldiers had seen Taliban fighters placing women and children on the roofs of buildings and firing from behind them.
The joint offensive in southern Helmand province has entered its fifth day.
US Marines fighting to take the Taliban haven of Marjah have had to call in air support as they come under heavy fire.
They have faced sustained machine-gun fire from fighters hiding in bunkers and in buildings including homes and mosques.
They are trying to get us to fire on them and kill the civilians
Gen Moheedin Ghori
Afghan National Army
Moshtarak diary: Day five
Gen Ghori, the senior commander for Afghan troops in the area, accused the Taliban of taking civilians hostage in Marjah and putting them in the line of fire.
"Especially in the south of Marjah, the enemy is fighting from compounds where soldiers can very clearly see women or children on the roof or in a second-floor or third-floor window," he is quoted by Associated Press as saying.
"They are trying to get us to fire on them and kill the civilians."
As a result, his forces were having to make the choice either not to return fire, he said, or to advance much more slowly in order to distinguish militants from civilians.
Day-by-day report and map
Civilians die in Kandahar strike
Nato has stressed that the safety of civilians in the areas targeted in the joint Nato and Afghan Operation Moshtarak is its highest priority.
Journalist Jawad Dawari, based in Lashkar Gah, told BBC Pashto that Taliban fighters remained in many residential areas of Marjah and were defending their positions with heavy weapons.
"It is difficult for the Afghan army and Nato to storm Taliban-held areas because to do so may inflict heavy civilian casualties and there are still a lot of civilians in Marjah.
"Whenever they launch an attack, the Taliban take refuge in civilians' homes."
He had spoken to many local people in Marjah, he said, and they had all said the Nato offensive had made little progress since the first day.
An Afghan military official had told reporters that the backbone of the resistance came from foreign fighters - Pakistani and Arab - and that it was feared they might resort to suicide attacks, he added.
ANALYSIS
By Frank Gardner, BBC News, Kandahar
There's a lot of fighting going on in the Marjah area - the estimation of the number of insurgents there varies between 100 and 300. They are not all hardcore Taliban by any means. The US commander there, Brig Gen Larry Nicholson, said he thought about 80% were probably less committed local fighters hired to do this, as opposed to being hardcore, ideological jihadists.
The operation has taken a long time for a number of reasons - it's a big area, 200sq km, and they are having to cope with an unexpectedly large number of these IEDs. A lot of locals are telling the soldiers where the devices are but other IEDs are having to be defused very slowly.
The most senior US general in the south, Brig Gen Ben Hodges, gave the BBC a more upbeat assessment of Marjah, saying locals were coming out to give information on insurgents now that they were confident the forces involved in Operation Moshtarak were not leaving.
He said Afghan units would be staying for at least 30 days and the Marine battalions "for several months".
Speaking to the BBC after visiting Marjah, the commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan, Maj Gen Nick Carter, said the situation was dangerous, but that progress was being made.
He told the BBC's Frank Gardner it could take up to 30 days to clear the insurgents out, depending on when they lost the will to fight.
Troops taking part in the offensive have been having to deal with large numbers of improvised bombs.
American forces have found a so-called "daisy chain" - a long bomb rigged up from mortar bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike, our correspondent says.
Nato has said that safeguarding civilians is its top priority
And British engineers have deployed a device called a "python" - a length of explosives designed to set off mines and clear a safe path through them, he says.
Afghan army chief of staff Besmillah Khan told the AFP news agency the threat from improvised bombs meant gains were coming "slowly".
Meanwhile, to the north, British forces have discovered an insurgent cache of stolen Afghan army and police uniforms.
The find suggests the Taliban could have been planning attacks disguised as Afghan security personnel, our correspondent says.
Nato says discussions with the local population on how to bring lasting security to the area are continuing, our correspondent adds.
Gen Hodges said several hundred police had been trained and would go into central Helmand once the situation was deemed appropriate.
British and Afghan troops are reported to be advancing more swiftly in the nearby district of Nad Ali than are their US and Afghan counterparts in Marjah.
Missiles 'on target'
Gen Carter confirmed on Tuesday a missile that struck a house outside Marjah on Sunday killing 12 people, including six children, had hit its intended target.
Afghan troops raise the national flag at a bazaar in Marjah
Gen Carter said the rocket had not malfunctioned and the US system responsible for firing it was back in use. Officials say three Taliban, as well as civilians, were in the house but the Nato soldiers did not know the civilians were there.
Initial Nato reports said the missile had landed about 300m (984ft) off its intended target. Gen Carter blamed these "conflicting" reports on "the fog of war".
Speaking on Tuesday, Dawud Ahmadi - a spokesman for Helmand Governor Gulab Mangal - said that 1,240 families had been displaced and evacuated from Marjah - and all had received aid in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
Operation Moshtarak, meaning "together" in the Dari language, is the biggest coalition attack since the Taliban fell in 2001.
Allied officials have reported only two coalition deaths so far - one American and one Briton killed on Saturday.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
இஸ்லாமிய குழந்தை திருமணத்துக்கு ஆதரவாக மலேசிய அமைச்சர் உறுதி
வயதானவர்கள் குழந்தைகளை திருமணம் செய்யும் குழந்தை திருமணம் மலேசியாவில் தடை செய்யப்படாது. அது இஸ்லாமிய முறை என்று உறுதி கூறியுள்ளார்.
ஏன் பெரியார்தாசர்கள் இஸ்லாமுக்கு ஆதரவாக இருக்கிறார்கள் என்று தெரிகிறது.
Malaysian minister rejects child marriage reform
(AFP) – 13 hours ago
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's religion minister on Tuesday defended Islamic laws that allow girls under 16 to marry, amid a controversy over two youngsters who were married off to middle-aged men.
The issue has flared in Malaysia after reports that two girls aged 10 and 11 were wed in the conservative northern state of Kelantan last month. They have now been removed from their husbands.
Rights groups have called for the reform of Islamic laws that allow marriage under the age of 16 if religious officials give their consent. Sharia law runs in parallel with civil law in multi-ethnic Malaysia.
"There is no need to amend the law," Jamil Khir Baharom, a cabinet minister in charge of religious affairs, told reporters.
"The law already exists... marrying someone aged 16 and below requires the consent of the court. The court does not simply grant the consent," he said.
"Maturity is a subjective question. It depends on the development of the person. Maturity is not based on age solely."
Pressure group Sisters in Islam has called for an end to child marriages, saying the practice was "unacceptable" but continued in Malaysia because of a "belief that Muslim girls can be married off once they reach puberty".
"The minimum age of marriage for Muslim girls must be raised to 18 to be in compliance with the Child Act which defines children as those below the age of 18," it said in a statement.
Other citizens in the multicultural country -- where the population is dominated by Muslim Malays -- are not permitted to marry before the age of 18.
Malaysian authorities are investigating the case of the two girls in Kelantan, both linked to a man who is accused of leading an Islamic cult.
He is accused of marrying the 11-year-old girl and giving away his 10-year-old daughter to a family friend.
Sharia court officials told the New Straits Times Tuesday the 11-year-old's marriage was not approved in court.
The girl was found outside a mosque in the nation's capital over the weekend and is now being treated in hospital.
Women, family and community development minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has spoken out against the practice.
"A child of that age does not have the choice or capacity to give her full consent and, as such, child marriage is viewed within the context of force and coercion," she said in a statement to AFP.
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ஏன் பெரியார்தாசர்கள் இஸ்லாமுக்கு ஆதரவாக இருக்கிறார்கள் என்று தெரிகிறது.
Malaysian minister rejects child marriage reform
(AFP) – 13 hours ago
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's religion minister on Tuesday defended Islamic laws that allow girls under 16 to marry, amid a controversy over two youngsters who were married off to middle-aged men.
The issue has flared in Malaysia after reports that two girls aged 10 and 11 were wed in the conservative northern state of Kelantan last month. They have now been removed from their husbands.
Rights groups have called for the reform of Islamic laws that allow marriage under the age of 16 if religious officials give their consent. Sharia law runs in parallel with civil law in multi-ethnic Malaysia.
"There is no need to amend the law," Jamil Khir Baharom, a cabinet minister in charge of religious affairs, told reporters.
"The law already exists... marrying someone aged 16 and below requires the consent of the court. The court does not simply grant the consent," he said.
"Maturity is a subjective question. It depends on the development of the person. Maturity is not based on age solely."
Pressure group Sisters in Islam has called for an end to child marriages, saying the practice was "unacceptable" but continued in Malaysia because of a "belief that Muslim girls can be married off once they reach puberty".
"The minimum age of marriage for Muslim girls must be raised to 18 to be in compliance with the Child Act which defines children as those below the age of 18," it said in a statement.
Other citizens in the multicultural country -- where the population is dominated by Muslim Malays -- are not permitted to marry before the age of 18.
Malaysian authorities are investigating the case of the two girls in Kelantan, both linked to a man who is accused of leading an Islamic cult.
He is accused of marrying the 11-year-old girl and giving away his 10-year-old daughter to a family friend.
Sharia court officials told the New Straits Times Tuesday the 11-year-old's marriage was not approved in court.
The girl was found outside a mosque in the nation's capital over the weekend and is now being treated in hospital.
Women, family and community development minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has spoken out against the practice.
"A child of that age does not have the choice or capacity to give her full consent and, as such, child marriage is viewed within the context of force and coercion," she said in a statement to AFP.
Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved. More »
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
சவுதி அரேபியாவில் மேஜிக் செய்தவருக்கு தூக்கு தண்டனை
சவுதி அரேபியாவில் மேஜிக் செய்யக்கூடாதாம்...
SAUDI ARABIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR LEBANESE MAGICIAN UPHELD
(ANSAmed) - JEDDAH, MARCH 12 - Judges of the General Court of Medina in Saudi Arabia confirmed a death sentence against Lebanese magician Ali Hussein Subat, accused of witchcraft and on trial for about two years. The forty-seven year old Subat was caught in the act of committing the crime in a Medina hotel room, covered with papers with magical symbols, while he was using herbs and amulets for one of his rituals. On December 8, pointed out Arab News' website, the Saudi Arabian Court of Appeals rejected the judges' sentence of first instance from the Medina court. The effects of the sentence were suspended, to give the man - a well-known magician on satellite TV programmes who performed with the name "Scheherazade Magician" - to "show repentance" and to verify the authenticity of the accusations against him. During the two years of the trial, Subat, who was also accused of fraud, admitted to practicing black magic rituals and contributing to the break-up of marriages. According to prosecutors of the general court, Subat allegedly practiced black magic publically on television in front of millions of spectators for years and did not show any remorse. According to the General Court, the death penalty sentence must serve "as a warning and deterrent so that others - foreigners in particular - do not perform sorcery in Saudi Arabia". Now the case will be heard by the Mecca Court of Appeals. (ANSAmed).
2010-03-12 14:14
SAUDI ARABIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR LEBANESE MAGICIAN UPHELD
(ANSAmed) - JEDDAH, MARCH 12 - Judges of the General Court of Medina in Saudi Arabia confirmed a death sentence against Lebanese magician Ali Hussein Subat, accused of witchcraft and on trial for about two years. The forty-seven year old Subat was caught in the act of committing the crime in a Medina hotel room, covered with papers with magical symbols, while he was using herbs and amulets for one of his rituals. On December 8, pointed out Arab News' website, the Saudi Arabian Court of Appeals rejected the judges' sentence of first instance from the Medina court. The effects of the sentence were suspended, to give the man - a well-known magician on satellite TV programmes who performed with the name "Scheherazade Magician" - to "show repentance" and to verify the authenticity of the accusations against him. During the two years of the trial, Subat, who was also accused of fraud, admitted to practicing black magic rituals and contributing to the break-up of marriages. According to prosecutors of the general court, Subat allegedly practiced black magic publically on television in front of millions of spectators for years and did not show any remorse. According to the General Court, the death penalty sentence must serve "as a warning and deterrent so that others - foreigners in particular - do not perform sorcery in Saudi Arabia". Now the case will be heard by the Mecca Court of Appeals. (ANSAmed).
2010-03-12 14:14
11 வயது சி்றுமியை திருமணம் செய்து விவாகரத்து செய்த 41 வயது முஸ்லீம் தலைவர்
‘Sect leader practised witchcraft to marry daughter’
By ZALINAH NOORDIN
zalinah@thestar.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: The mother of the 11-year-old Kelantanese girl who was “married” to a 41-year-old man has claimed that he could have used black magic to fulfil his wish of marrying children.
Siti Sarnan Mat Ail, 42, whose daughter Siti Nur Zubaidah ended up being “married” to the religious sect leader after being abducted by him last month, alleged that he had also used religion to convince his followers that he had an agenda to expand the Prophet’s teachings.
Upset mum: Siti Sarnan talking to the press at the Sungai Buloh Hospital yesterday. Looking on is Shahrizat.
On Saturday, a Malay daily reported that the girl was found in a dazed state outside a mosque in Kepong on Friday, after being abandoned by her “husband”.
The daily reported that the sect leader had also married off his daughter to a middle-aged man.
Siti Sarnan, who met reporters after visiting her daughter with Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil at the Sungai Buloh hospital here yesterday, said her husband was initially talked into signing up their daughter at a religious school by the man.
She said the man, who already has four wives and six children, approached her husband on Feb 19 and convinced him that it would be good to send their daughter to a religious school in Machang.
“He also asked for our daughter to be married to him as she would be put under his care while attending religious school.
“All my husband could do was agree, even though he was not fully aware of what was happening,” claimed Siti Sarnan.
“My husband came back that night and told me to cook lunch the next day as there would be visitors coming to our house in Pasir Mas, Kelantan.
“Nine men came to our house with the man. My daughter was devastated when she learnt that her father had agreed to send her away. She refused to go but relented after my husband persuaded her,” Siti Sarnan said.
She said a police report was lodged on Feb 21 after the man failed to return the girl as promised.
Asked if she knew if the “marriage” was “consummated,” Siti Sarnan declined to comment. She, however, said her daughter was in a state of shock and traumatised by the ordeal.
“My daughter has now expressed her wish to be taken care of by her uncle in Tanah Merah and not by us,” Siti Sarnan said.
Meanwhile, Shahrizat urged the relevant authorities to take action against the man and those involved in the “reckless and irresponsible act”.
Such an act, said Shahrizat, was a contravention of Section 8 of the Kelantan Muslim Family Law Enactment 2002, which stated that any female below 16 was not allowed to enter into marriage, except with written permission from the Syariah Court.
By ZALINAH NOORDIN
zalinah@thestar.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: The mother of the 11-year-old Kelantanese girl who was “married” to a 41-year-old man has claimed that he could have used black magic to fulfil his wish of marrying children.
Siti Sarnan Mat Ail, 42, whose daughter Siti Nur Zubaidah ended up being “married” to the religious sect leader after being abducted by him last month, alleged that he had also used religion to convince his followers that he had an agenda to expand the Prophet’s teachings.
Upset mum: Siti Sarnan talking to the press at the Sungai Buloh Hospital yesterday. Looking on is Shahrizat.
On Saturday, a Malay daily reported that the girl was found in a dazed state outside a mosque in Kepong on Friday, after being abandoned by her “husband”.
The daily reported that the sect leader had also married off his daughter to a middle-aged man.
Siti Sarnan, who met reporters after visiting her daughter with Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil at the Sungai Buloh hospital here yesterday, said her husband was initially talked into signing up their daughter at a religious school by the man.
She said the man, who already has four wives and six children, approached her husband on Feb 19 and convinced him that it would be good to send their daughter to a religious school in Machang.
“He also asked for our daughter to be married to him as she would be put under his care while attending religious school.
“All my husband could do was agree, even though he was not fully aware of what was happening,” claimed Siti Sarnan.
“My husband came back that night and told me to cook lunch the next day as there would be visitors coming to our house in Pasir Mas, Kelantan.
“Nine men came to our house with the man. My daughter was devastated when she learnt that her father had agreed to send her away. She refused to go but relented after my husband persuaded her,” Siti Sarnan said.
She said a police report was lodged on Feb 21 after the man failed to return the girl as promised.
Asked if she knew if the “marriage” was “consummated,” Siti Sarnan declined to comment. She, however, said her daughter was in a state of shock and traumatised by the ordeal.
“My daughter has now expressed her wish to be taken care of by her uncle in Tanah Merah and not by us,” Siti Sarnan said.
Meanwhile, Shahrizat urged the relevant authorities to take action against the man and those involved in the “reckless and irresponsible act”.
Such an act, said Shahrizat, was a contravention of Section 8 of the Kelantan Muslim Family Law Enactment 2002, which stated that any female below 16 was not allowed to enter into marriage, except with written permission from the Syariah Court.
இஸ்லாமில் ஒரே மதம் வேறு ஜாதி ஆணை காதலித்ததற்காக தண்டனை. முஸ்லீம் பெண் தப்பியோட்டம்
Hounded by cops, caste panchayat, Muslim woman goes into hiding
Sanjay Sharma
Chandigarh: Amid the din about more power to women, a Muslim woman was forced to go into hiding. Her crime: she fell in love and married man from the same religion but a different caste. As a result, she incurred the wrath of a caste panchayat of Muslims and also the UP police.
A gathering of legal luminaries and intellectuals, who assembled here to formulate a strategy against honour killings and honour crimes, was stunned when Shabnam appeared after
a month in hiding and narrated her story. “I am ashamed of being a woman, falling in love and marrying a man from my own religion but a different caste,’’ she said. She said she had nowhere to go as her husband has deserted her. Her parents are also being hounded by the UP police. Her plight prompted legal luminaries to suggest writing to the CJI.
Shabnam said she was a Syyed before marrying a Sheikh. “When the community came to know about it, they forced my husband to retract the marriage. I was framed in a theft case by the Lucknow police and detained at the behest of my husband. He refused to recognize our marriage,’’ she said.
Same-gotra marriage: Khap ostracises family
Bhiwani (Haryana): A community ‘panchayat’ on Sunday asked the family of a man, who it claims had married within the same gotra, to leave its village within a week and sell its property in three months. The Faugat Khap panchayat also asked the villagers of Samaspur to sever all connection with the family of Sri Bhagwan, who married Anita of Makdani from the same gotra. Earlier, the panchayat had ordered the social boycott of Randhir Singh, the father of Bhagwan, and ordered him to leave the village by March 2. AGENCIES
Sanjay Sharma
Chandigarh: Amid the din about more power to women, a Muslim woman was forced to go into hiding. Her crime: she fell in love and married man from the same religion but a different caste. As a result, she incurred the wrath of a caste panchayat of Muslims and also the UP police.
A gathering of legal luminaries and intellectuals, who assembled here to formulate a strategy against honour killings and honour crimes, was stunned when Shabnam appeared after
a month in hiding and narrated her story. “I am ashamed of being a woman, falling in love and marrying a man from my own religion but a different caste,’’ she said. She said she had nowhere to go as her husband has deserted her. Her parents are also being hounded by the UP police. Her plight prompted legal luminaries to suggest writing to the CJI.
Shabnam said she was a Syyed before marrying a Sheikh. “When the community came to know about it, they forced my husband to retract the marriage. I was framed in a theft case by the Lucknow police and detained at the behest of my husband. He refused to recognize our marriage,’’ she said.
Same-gotra marriage: Khap ostracises family
Bhiwani (Haryana): A community ‘panchayat’ on Sunday asked the family of a man, who it claims had married within the same gotra, to leave its village within a week and sell its property in three months. The Faugat Khap panchayat also asked the villagers of Samaspur to sever all connection with the family of Sri Bhagwan, who married Anita of Makdani from the same gotra. Earlier, the panchayat had ordered the social boycott of Randhir Singh, the father of Bhagwan, and ordered him to leave the village by March 2. AGENCIES
Thursday, March 11, 2010
டெல்லியில் குண்டு வைத்த இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகளுக்கு உதவிய எம்.எல்.ஏக்கள்
டெல்லியில் குண்டு வைத்து 150க்கும் மேலான பொதுமக்களை கொன்ற இஸ்லாமிய பயஙக்ரவாதிகளுக்கு பணமும் அடைக்கலமும் கொடுத்தது ஒரு காங்கிரஸ் எம் எல் ஏ. இவரும் ஒரு முஸ்லீம்.
இவர்களுக்கு பணம் கொடுத்து தப்பி ஓட உதவியபோது இவர்கள்தான் குண்டு வைத்தார்கள் என்று தெரியாது என்று சாதிக்கிறார்.
அபு ஆஸ்மி என்ற சமாஜ்வாதி கட்சி தலைவரும் தங்களுக்கு உதவியதாக இவர்கள் கூறுகிறார்கள். அவர் எனக்கு இவர்களை தெரியாது என்று சாதிக்கிறார்.
நல்லா விளையாடுகிறார்கள். இந்துக்கள் சொரணை இல்லாமல் இருக்கும் வரைக்கும், சோனியா, கருணாநிதி, மன்மோகன், கம்யூனிஸ்டுகளுக்கு நல்ல காலம்.
Former legislator says he gave money to Delhi blast suspects
March 11th, 2010 - 11:49 pm ICT (UTC +0700) by IANS -
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) A former Congress legislator from Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh Thursday admitted that he unwittingly gave money to two Delhi blast suspects after they escaped from the September 2008 Batla House encounter. A Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator, however, denied providing any monetary help to them.
According to Abdus Salam, Junaid alias Haris came to his house in Noida Sector 44 alongwith another friend around 4 p.m. Sep 19, 2008 and asked for some money to buy train tickets.
“I knew Haris as he was the son of a close friend of mine. He asked for some money to buy train tickets to go to Azamgarh and I gave them Rs.1400 to Rs.1500. I did not know that he was involved in Delhi blasts and came to know three days later when his picture appeared in a national daily,” Salam told IANS over phone.
Salam said by seeing the picture of other suspects, he came to know that the youth accompanying Junaid that day was Shahzad, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist also involved in Delhi blasts.
Police had earlier said that during interrogation Shahzad told them that a former legislator gave them money to travel to Azamgarh.
According to police sources, Shahzad also claimed SP leader Abu Azmi had helped them. But Azmi denied the allegations.
“I never gave money to them and I don’t know any one of them,” he told a TV channel over phone from London.
Salam denied informing police that Junaid took money from him but said he had asked Junaid’s father to take his son to police.
Five synchronised blasts — two in Connaught Place, two in Greater Kailash and one in a crowded market in Karol Bagh - occurred within a span of 31 minutes on Sep 13, 2008. Twenty-six people were killed and over 150 were injured in those blasts.
இவர்களுக்கு பணம் கொடுத்து தப்பி ஓட உதவியபோது இவர்கள்தான் குண்டு வைத்தார்கள் என்று தெரியாது என்று சாதிக்கிறார்.
அபு ஆஸ்மி என்ற சமாஜ்வாதி கட்சி தலைவரும் தங்களுக்கு உதவியதாக இவர்கள் கூறுகிறார்கள். அவர் எனக்கு இவர்களை தெரியாது என்று சாதிக்கிறார்.
நல்லா விளையாடுகிறார்கள். இந்துக்கள் சொரணை இல்லாமல் இருக்கும் வரைக்கும், சோனியா, கருணாநிதி, மன்மோகன், கம்யூனிஸ்டுகளுக்கு நல்ல காலம்.
Former legislator says he gave money to Delhi blast suspects
March 11th, 2010 - 11:49 pm ICT (UTC +0700) by IANS -
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) A former Congress legislator from Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh Thursday admitted that he unwittingly gave money to two Delhi blast suspects after they escaped from the September 2008 Batla House encounter. A Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator, however, denied providing any monetary help to them.
According to Abdus Salam, Junaid alias Haris came to his house in Noida Sector 44 alongwith another friend around 4 p.m. Sep 19, 2008 and asked for some money to buy train tickets.
“I knew Haris as he was the son of a close friend of mine. He asked for some money to buy train tickets to go to Azamgarh and I gave them Rs.1400 to Rs.1500. I did not know that he was involved in Delhi blasts and came to know three days later when his picture appeared in a national daily,” Salam told IANS over phone.
Salam said by seeing the picture of other suspects, he came to know that the youth accompanying Junaid that day was Shahzad, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist also involved in Delhi blasts.
Police had earlier said that during interrogation Shahzad told them that a former legislator gave them money to travel to Azamgarh.
According to police sources, Shahzad also claimed SP leader Abu Azmi had helped them. But Azmi denied the allegations.
“I never gave money to them and I don’t know any one of them,” he told a TV channel over phone from London.
Salam denied informing police that Junaid took money from him but said he had asked Junaid’s father to take his son to police.
Five synchronised blasts — two in Connaught Place, two in Greater Kailash and one in a crowded market in Karol Bagh - occurred within a span of 31 minutes on Sep 13, 2008. Twenty-six people were killed and over 150 were injured in those blasts.
Monday, March 08, 2010
போப்பாண்டவரின் வாடிகனில் ஓரினப்பாலுறவு scandal
கத்தோலிக்க கிறிஸ்துவத்தின் தலைமைப் பீடமான வாடிகனின் தலைமை பீடாதிபதி சாமியார் போப்பாண்டவர்.
இவர் தனி நாடு மாதிரி வைத்துக்கொண்டு அட்டூழியம் செய்து வருகிறார்.
போப்பாண்டவரின் வாடிகனில் ஓரினப்பாலுறவு scandal வெளிவந்துள்ளது.
Vatican chorister and usher in gay prostitution scandal
One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter's Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican.
Published: 8:30AM GMT 05 Mar 2010
The Vatican Photo: GETTY IMAGES Ghinedu Ehiem, a Nigerian, was dismissed by the Vatican from a prestigious choir after his name appeared in transcripts of police wiretaps.
In the wiretaps, Mr Eheim is allegedly heard negotiating over the procurement of male prostitutes.
After the PR disaster, what does the future hold for Pope Benedict?
Pope launches YouTube channelThe wiretaps were carried out in connection with a probe into corruption in contracts to build public works, including the planned venue in Sardinia of last year's G8 summit.
Among four people arrested last month in the corruption probe was Angelo Balducci, an engineer who is a board member of Italy's public works department and a construction consultant to the Vatican.
Balducci is also a member of an elite group called "Gentlemen of His Holiness" – ushers who are called to serve in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on major occasions such as when the pope receives heads of state or presides at big events.
Balducci was arrested on corruption charges and the allegations of prostitution emerged only later.
Excerpts of the wiretaps and police documents published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica showed that Ehiem, 40, had been in regular contact with Balducci before Balducci's arrest last month and the subject of their conversation was gay sex.
A police document prepared for magistrates and published in part by La Repubblica said Balducci was in contact with Ehiem and an Italian who were part of what the police called "an organised network ... to abet male prostitution".
It was not immediately possible to contact Ehiem's lawyer.
A Vatican source said Balducci, who is still in jail, has been dismissed from the elite group of ushers and that his name would not appear in the next edition of the Vatican's directory.
"He obviously can't come back here after being accused of these things," the source told Reuters.
The latest black eye for the Vatican comes on the heels of major paedophilia scandals involving the abuse of children by priests in Ireland, Germany and the United States.
Balducci's lawyer, Franco Coppi, one of Italy's highest profile lawyers, said he had no comment on the newest accusations against his client, saying: "We have much more serious things to be concerned with right now," referring to the corruption charges.
இவர் தனி நாடு மாதிரி வைத்துக்கொண்டு அட்டூழியம் செய்து வருகிறார்.
போப்பாண்டவரின் வாடிகனில் ஓரினப்பாலுறவு scandal வெளிவந்துள்ளது.
Vatican chorister and usher in gay prostitution scandal
One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter's Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican.
Published: 8:30AM GMT 05 Mar 2010
The Vatican Photo: GETTY IMAGES Ghinedu Ehiem, a Nigerian, was dismissed by the Vatican from a prestigious choir after his name appeared in transcripts of police wiretaps.
In the wiretaps, Mr Eheim is allegedly heard negotiating over the procurement of male prostitutes.
After the PR disaster, what does the future hold for Pope Benedict?
Pope launches YouTube channelThe wiretaps were carried out in connection with a probe into corruption in contracts to build public works, including the planned venue in Sardinia of last year's G8 summit.
Among four people arrested last month in the corruption probe was Angelo Balducci, an engineer who is a board member of Italy's public works department and a construction consultant to the Vatican.
Balducci is also a member of an elite group called "Gentlemen of His Holiness" – ushers who are called to serve in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on major occasions such as when the pope receives heads of state or presides at big events.
Balducci was arrested on corruption charges and the allegations of prostitution emerged only later.
Excerpts of the wiretaps and police documents published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica showed that Ehiem, 40, had been in regular contact with Balducci before Balducci's arrest last month and the subject of their conversation was gay sex.
A police document prepared for magistrates and published in part by La Repubblica said Balducci was in contact with Ehiem and an Italian who were part of what the police called "an organised network ... to abet male prostitution".
It was not immediately possible to contact Ehiem's lawyer.
A Vatican source said Balducci, who is still in jail, has been dismissed from the elite group of ushers and that his name would not appear in the next edition of the Vatican's directory.
"He obviously can't come back here after being accused of these things," the source told Reuters.
The latest black eye for the Vatican comes on the heels of major paedophilia scandals involving the abuse of children by priests in Ireland, Germany and the United States.
Balducci's lawyer, Franco Coppi, one of Italy's highest profile lawyers, said he had no comment on the newest accusations against his client, saying: "We have much more serious things to be concerned with right now," referring to the corruption charges.
புனே பேக்கரி வெடிகுண்டு வழக்கில் காங்கிரஸ் தலைவர் கைது ?
ஆரிஃப் பதன் என்ற காங்கிரஸ் தலைவர் புனே ஜெர்மன் பேக்கரி வெடிகுண்டு வழக்கில் கைது செய்யப்பட்டிருக்கிறார். இல்லை என்று போலீஸ் மறுக்கிறது.
54-yr-old aide of state Cong leader ‘detained’ in German Bakery probe
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Tags : Arif Pathan, Sanjay Dutt, German Bakery blast
Arif Pathan, a 54-year-old aide of Maharashtra Congress spokesman and MLC Sanjay Dutt, is said to have been detained by police in connection with the German Bakery blast in Pune, his family and friends alleged today.
While official sources confirmed that Pathan had been questioned — and that his name had come up during the probe into the 2008 Jaipur serial blasts — top police officers denied Pathan had been picked up for the attack. They also refused to comment on why the man was missing since being questioned by police on Wednesday as claimed by his family.
For the record, K P Raghuvanshi, chief of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad which is probing the blast, said his force had not picked up Pathan.
Pathan and his brother Feroz own a successful transport business in Kalyan in Thane district and their vehicles are known to mostly transport livestock to Nashik, Ahmednagar, Pune and other cities in the region. He was appointed Dutt’s official personal assistant about three months ago.
54-yr-old aide of state Cong leader ‘detained’ in German Bakery probe
11 Comments | Post CommentLarger | Smaller Sukanya Shetty
Tags : Arif Pathan, Sanjay Dutt, German Bakery blast
Arif Pathan, a 54-year-old aide of Maharashtra Congress spokesman and MLC Sanjay Dutt, is said to have been detained by police in connection with the German Bakery blast in Pune, his family and friends alleged today.
While official sources confirmed that Pathan had been questioned — and that his name had come up during the probe into the 2008 Jaipur serial blasts — top police officers denied Pathan had been picked up for the attack. They also refused to comment on why the man was missing since being questioned by police on Wednesday as claimed by his family.
For the record, K P Raghuvanshi, chief of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad which is probing the blast, said his force had not picked up Pathan.
Pathan and his brother Feroz own a successful transport business in Kalyan in Thane district and their vehicles are known to mostly transport livestock to Nashik, Ahmednagar, Pune and other cities in the region. He was appointed Dutt’s official personal assistant about three months ago.
கிறிஸ்துவர்களும் முஸ்லீம்களும் போரிட்டதில் நைஜீரியாவில் 500 பேர் பலி
நைஜீரியாவில் கிறிஸ்துவர்களாகாமலும் முஸ்லீம்களாகாமலும் இவர்கள் இருந்திருந்தால் அமைதியாக வாழ்ந்திருப்பார்கள்.
இப்போது அவர்களுக்குள்ளேயே ஒருவர் வெள்ளைக்காரர்களுக்கு ஆதரவாகவும், மற்றவர்கள் அரபிகளுக்கு ஆதரவாகவும் தங்கள் கலாச்சாரத்தை தொலைத்துவிட்டு அடித்துக்கொண்டு சாகிறார்கள்.
பார்போம் இயேசுநல்லா மொத்துகிறாரா அல்லது அல்லா நல்லா திருப்பி போடுகிறாரா என்று.
இவர்கள் மேலேயே அடித்துகொள்ளலாமே? ஏன் தங்கள் சீடர்களை விட்டு அடித்துக்கொள்கிறார்கள் என்று தெரியவில்லை.
At least 500 dead in Nigeria religious attacks
By Aminu Abubakar (AFP) – 4 hours ago
JOS, Nigeria — Nigeria's government sent in troops to the flashpoint Jos region on Monday after machete-wielding gangs attacked Christian villages, killing at least 500 people, officials say.
Police arrested scores of people in the wake of the attacks which came just weeks after another outburst of Muslim-Christian violence, which left hundreds dead.
Newspapers said Muslim residents of the villages had been warned by phone text message to escape two days before the attacks.
Witnesses meanwhile described how the victims of Sunday's three-hour orgy of violence, mainly women and children, were caught in animal traps and fishing nets as they tried to flee their attackers, who hacked them to death.
The official death toll was initially put at a little over 100 but Dan Manjang, an advisor to the Plateau state government, said it had shot up.
"We have been able to make 95 arrests but at the same time over 500 people have been killed in this heinous act," Dan Manjang told AFP.
Government-run radio also reported that 500 people had been slaughtered in a raid on three villages on the fringes of Jos, capital of Plateau state.
Witnesses and local rights activists put the figure at between 200 and 250.
Much of the violence was centred around the village of Dogo Nahawa where gangs from the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group set fire to straw-thatched mud huts before embarking on the killing rampage in the early hours of Sunday.
Frank Tatgun, a resident of Dogo Nahawa, said that he had seen two armoured vehicles and three military trucks arrive in the village and scores of troops were now on patrol.
The explosion of violence is the latest between rival ethic and religious groups in the region. In January, 326 people died in clashes in Jos, according to police although rights activists put the overall toll at more than 550.
A curfew which was imposed after January's unrest is supposed to be still in place but Christian leaders said the authorities had done nothing to prevent the bloodshed.
"Shortly after the militants beseiged Dogo Nahawa ...we contacted the soldiers at exactly 1:30am. But we were shocked to find out that the soldiers did not react until about 3:30am after the attackers had finished their job and left," Plateau State Christian Elders Consulatative Forum (PSCEF) said in a statement.
"The attack is yet another jihad and provocation," said it added.
Witnesses said armed gangs had scared the victims out of their homes by firing into the air but most of the killings were as a result of machete attacks.
Survivors said the attackers were able to separate the Fulanis from the Beroms by chanting 'nage', the Fulani word for cattle. Those who failed to respond in the same language were hacked to death. One local paper said the gangs chanted "Allah Akhbar" -- Arabic for "Allah is the greatest", before breaking into homes.
Other residents said the few Muslims in the villages received SMS messages warning them to leave the area before the attack.
Many of the victims in Sunday's attacks were hacked to death as they tried to flee into woodland.
Rights activists said the attack appeared to be in revenge for the January clashe in which mostly Muslims were killed.
"I think it's a reprisal from the Fulanis for the earlier attacks," said activist Shehu Sani.
Locals said the attacks were the result of a spiralling feud between the Fulani and the rival Berom clan which started out with the theft of cattle, then worsened after a deadly revenge attack.
The office of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan said the security services in Plateau and neighbouring states had been placed on red alert to ensure the violence did not spread.
Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved. More »
இப்போது அவர்களுக்குள்ளேயே ஒருவர் வெள்ளைக்காரர்களுக்கு ஆதரவாகவும், மற்றவர்கள் அரபிகளுக்கு ஆதரவாகவும் தங்கள் கலாச்சாரத்தை தொலைத்துவிட்டு அடித்துக்கொண்டு சாகிறார்கள்.
பார்போம் இயேசுநல்லா மொத்துகிறாரா அல்லது அல்லா நல்லா திருப்பி போடுகிறாரா என்று.
இவர்கள் மேலேயே அடித்துகொள்ளலாமே? ஏன் தங்கள் சீடர்களை விட்டு அடித்துக்கொள்கிறார்கள் என்று தெரியவில்லை.
At least 500 dead in Nigeria religious attacks
By Aminu Abubakar (AFP) – 4 hours ago
JOS, Nigeria — Nigeria's government sent in troops to the flashpoint Jos region on Monday after machete-wielding gangs attacked Christian villages, killing at least 500 people, officials say.
Police arrested scores of people in the wake of the attacks which came just weeks after another outburst of Muslim-Christian violence, which left hundreds dead.
Newspapers said Muslim residents of the villages had been warned by phone text message to escape two days before the attacks.
Witnesses meanwhile described how the victims of Sunday's three-hour orgy of violence, mainly women and children, were caught in animal traps and fishing nets as they tried to flee their attackers, who hacked them to death.
The official death toll was initially put at a little over 100 but Dan Manjang, an advisor to the Plateau state government, said it had shot up.
"We have been able to make 95 arrests but at the same time over 500 people have been killed in this heinous act," Dan Manjang told AFP.
Government-run radio also reported that 500 people had been slaughtered in a raid on three villages on the fringes of Jos, capital of Plateau state.
Witnesses and local rights activists put the figure at between 200 and 250.
Much of the violence was centred around the village of Dogo Nahawa where gangs from the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group set fire to straw-thatched mud huts before embarking on the killing rampage in the early hours of Sunday.
Frank Tatgun, a resident of Dogo Nahawa, said that he had seen two armoured vehicles and three military trucks arrive in the village and scores of troops were now on patrol.
The explosion of violence is the latest between rival ethic and religious groups in the region. In January, 326 people died in clashes in Jos, according to police although rights activists put the overall toll at more than 550.
A curfew which was imposed after January's unrest is supposed to be still in place but Christian leaders said the authorities had done nothing to prevent the bloodshed.
"Shortly after the militants beseiged Dogo Nahawa ...we contacted the soldiers at exactly 1:30am. But we were shocked to find out that the soldiers did not react until about 3:30am after the attackers had finished their job and left," Plateau State Christian Elders Consulatative Forum (PSCEF) said in a statement.
"The attack is yet another jihad and provocation," said it added.
Witnesses said armed gangs had scared the victims out of their homes by firing into the air but most of the killings were as a result of machete attacks.
Survivors said the attackers were able to separate the Fulanis from the Beroms by chanting 'nage', the Fulani word for cattle. Those who failed to respond in the same language were hacked to death. One local paper said the gangs chanted "Allah Akhbar" -- Arabic for "Allah is the greatest", before breaking into homes.
Other residents said the few Muslims in the villages received SMS messages warning them to leave the area before the attack.
Many of the victims in Sunday's attacks were hacked to death as they tried to flee into woodland.
Rights activists said the attack appeared to be in revenge for the January clashe in which mostly Muslims were killed.
"I think it's a reprisal from the Fulanis for the earlier attacks," said activist Shehu Sani.
Locals said the attacks were the result of a spiralling feud between the Fulani and the rival Berom clan which started out with the theft of cattle, then worsened after a deadly revenge attack.
The office of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan said the security services in Plateau and neighbouring states had been placed on red alert to ensure the violence did not spread.
Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved. More »
இந்துப் பெண்களுக்கு எச்சரிக்கை: காதலி கொலை: காதலன் கைது
பல்லவி என்ற பெண்ணை காதலித்து கர்ப்பமாக்கிவிட்டு அந்த பெண்ணை பொது கழிப்பிடத்தில் கொலை செய்து போட்டுவிட்டிருக்கிறார் ஷமிம் என்ற காதலர்.
Lover murders pregnant girlfriend in public loo
Soumittra S Bose, TNN, Mar 8, 2010, 03.49am IST
Tags:Girlfriend|Murder|loverNAGPUR: Tragedy struck Sakhre family of Bhankheda the second time in just over a month. It had lost eldest son Prateek, 28, to illness just five weeks ago. On Sunday when the family was preparing for the ritual after completion of one-and-quarter month of Prateek’s death, the body of their second daughter, 20-year-old Pallavi, was found in community latrine for the women’s, strangled to death by her lover. Initial investigations revealed that Pallavi was fourmonth pregnant.
She was allegedly coaxed into physical intimacy before being strangled inside the congested latrine. Sources from Tehsil police station said that Pallavi was smothered before she was throttled with her own kameez and her partially naked body left. Police have arrested Pallavi’s paramour Mohammed Shamim, alias Shammi, 25, a married man, for the murder. Police have applied the charge of murder (302 of the Indian Penal Code) but are yet to decide on adding rape charge. Pallavi was first year student of arts’ stream in PWS college.
Shamim, a carpenter, was apparently having an amorous relationship with Pallavi for last two years. She had also undergone abortion once in the past. Sources claimed that Pallavi was demanding some money from Shamim to terminate her pregnancy and also wanted him to marry her. She had threatened Shamim, who is married to Rizwana Parveen and has a nine-month-old daughter, that she would go to his house on Sunday. Police said that this led to an altercation between them resulting in violent end. Sources said that Shamim’s wife Rizwana already knew about the affair and was livid about it. Police said that Shammi had called up on Pallavi’s younger sister Rinku’s cellphone at 10 pm on Saturday. He wanted to speak to Pallavi who was sitting outside the home.
“My sister left home after the call,” said Rinku adding that the family was busy preparing for Sunday’s ritual when Pallavi sneaked out of home without speaking to anyone. Family members were worried when she did not return in the night. “We were not sure what to do. This had never happened before. But we did not approach the police,” said Pallavi’s distraught father Yogeshwar. Pallavi’s mother Shardabai, who was sobbing uncontrollably, works with the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. The family wanted to resume searching in the morning as relatives and others were expected at the residence for the rituals. In the morning, it was left shocked when a few women from the neighbourhood raised an alarm seeing body of Pallavi inside the latrine.
Lover murders pregnant girlfriend in public loo
Soumittra S Bose, TNN, Mar 8, 2010, 03.49am IST
Tags:Girlfriend|Murder|loverNAGPUR: Tragedy struck Sakhre family of Bhankheda the second time in just over a month. It had lost eldest son Prateek, 28, to illness just five weeks ago. On Sunday when the family was preparing for the ritual after completion of one-and-quarter month of Prateek’s death, the body of their second daughter, 20-year-old Pallavi, was found in community latrine for the women’s, strangled to death by her lover. Initial investigations revealed that Pallavi was fourmonth pregnant.
She was allegedly coaxed into physical intimacy before being strangled inside the congested latrine. Sources from Tehsil police station said that Pallavi was smothered before she was throttled with her own kameez and her partially naked body left. Police have arrested Pallavi’s paramour Mohammed Shamim, alias Shammi, 25, a married man, for the murder. Police have applied the charge of murder (302 of the Indian Penal Code) but are yet to decide on adding rape charge. Pallavi was first year student of arts’ stream in PWS college.
Shamim, a carpenter, was apparently having an amorous relationship with Pallavi for last two years. She had also undergone abortion once in the past. Sources claimed that Pallavi was demanding some money from Shamim to terminate her pregnancy and also wanted him to marry her. She had threatened Shamim, who is married to Rizwana Parveen and has a nine-month-old daughter, that she would go to his house on Sunday. Police said that this led to an altercation between them resulting in violent end. Sources said that Shamim’s wife Rizwana already knew about the affair and was livid about it. Police said that Shammi had called up on Pallavi’s younger sister Rinku’s cellphone at 10 pm on Saturday. He wanted to speak to Pallavi who was sitting outside the home.
“My sister left home after the call,” said Rinku adding that the family was busy preparing for Sunday’s ritual when Pallavi sneaked out of home without speaking to anyone. Family members were worried when she did not return in the night. “We were not sure what to do. This had never happened before. But we did not approach the police,” said Pallavi’s distraught father Yogeshwar. Pallavi’s mother Shardabai, who was sobbing uncontrollably, works with the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. The family wanted to resume searching in the morning as relatives and others were expected at the residence for the rituals. In the morning, it was left shocked when a few women from the neighbourhood raised an alarm seeing body of Pallavi inside the latrine.
Friday, March 05, 2010
நெதர்லாந்தில் முஸ்லீம் எதிர்ப்பு கட்சிக்கு ஆதரவு பெருகுகிறது. கீர்ட் வில்டர்ஸ் பிரதமரா?
Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders makes strong showing in local polls
Geert Wilders, the radical anti-Muslim Dutch politician, was celebrating a symbolic breakthrough on Thursday as his party won control of its first municipality in a show of strength ahead of June's general election.
Published: 11:29AM GMT 04 Mar 2010
Geert Wilders Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES Mr Wilders's far-Right Party for Freedom (PVV) made a strong showing in local polls held Wednesday, while the traditionally strong Christian Democratic (CDA) and Labour (PvdA) parties lost support, early results showed.
The PVV came first and second in the only two of 394 municipalities it contested.
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Controversial anti-Muslim MP banned from the UK because of public order fearsIt was the strongest party with 21.6 per cent of the vote in Almere, a city of 187,000 people near the capital Amsterdam previously won by the PvdA, and came second in the seat of government, The Hague - the Netherlands' third largest city with 442,000 residents.
"What is possible in The Hague and Almere is possible all over the country," said Mr Wilders, who is awaiting a hate speech trial for calling Islam a fascist religion and likening the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Mr Wilders was arrested and deported from Heathrow in February 2009 after the Home Office banned him on the grounds "that his presence in the UK could foster hatred and threaten community harmony in light of his anti-Muslim rhetoric".
This was the first municipal election for the PVV, with its mission of "fighting the Islamisation of the Netherlands".
The Netherlands' two biggest parties, the Christian Democratic Appeal and Labour Party, lost about two and six percentage points respectively with 93 per cent of the vote counted by Thursday morning, two weeks after their governing coalition collapsed at a national level.
The CDA of Jan Peter Balkenende, the outgoing prime minister, had dropped about two percentage points from 16.83 per cent in 2006.
The PvdA, the strongest party in the last round of municipal polls in 2006 with 23.45 per cent of the vote, now stood at about 16 per cent.
The CDA and PvdA had been in government nationally until January 20, when Wouter Bos, then finance minister and vice premier, withdrew his Labour party from the coalition in a spat over extending the Netherlands' military presence in Afghanistan.
Mr Balkenende now leads an interim government until early national elections brought forward to June 9.
Some 12 million Dutch out of a total population of 16.5 million were registered to vote in Wednesday's elections, viewed as a test of political loyalties and far-Right leanings ahead of national polls.
முஸ்லீம்கள் சீக்கியர்களாக மதம் மாற்றம்
பாகிஸ்தானில் சீக்கியர்களை கட்டாயமாக இஸ்லாமியர்களாகவேண்டும் என்று கட்டாயப்படுத்தி மதம் மாற்றியுள்ளனர்.
அவர்கள் அங்கிருந்து தப்பி வந்த பின்னால், மீண்டும் சீக்கியர்களாக ஆகியுள்ளனர்.
Kidnapped Sikhs were forced to cut hair and convert to Islam
By Deepak Lal
The story of kidnapped Sikhs in Pakistan has had a new revelation, with the two men revealing in their 42 day captivity they were forced to convert to Islam. Once Sarjeet Singh and Gurbinder Singh were kidnapped they were forced to go against their religious values by shaving off their beards and cutting their hair.
The two men were being reported to have been kidnapped by a group of militants from the Tehrik-e-Taliban, in which Jaspal Singh was beheaded on February 20th after his family failed to pay a ransom of Rs 30 million, which was demanded for all three men.
Pakistani forces recovered the two remaining men in the Orakzai and Khyber regions, which border neighbouring Afghanistan. Sarjeet and Gurendal were successfully rescued, but not un-scathed as Sarjeet suffered three bullet wounds in the furious gun-fire exchanges. We are being led to believe that Sarjeet was mistakenly shot because he had no beard or turban, with the Pakistani military not being able to tell the difference between the Sikh detainees and the barbaric Taliban militants.
Doctors at the Combined Military Hospital successfully removed two bullets from the body of Sarjeet Singh; he had been in a stable condition since. Gurendal had been reunited with his family in Peshawar where another Sikh man, Robin Singh has recently been abducted with a ransom of £140,000 being demanded. A five year old British boy has also been kidnapped with a ransom of £100,000 being ordered. Although Sikhs are a minority in Pakistan they have lived in Khyber for over 200 years.
India’s foreign minister, S M Krishna has come out to condemn the ‘barbaric’ attacks by the Taliban: “I rise to strongly condemn the beheading of Sardar Jaspal Singh in the tribal areas of Pakistan. This barbaric and heinous crime is deplorable in the strongest possible terms. His abductors, reportedly the Taliban, committed the grave crime when his family was not able to pay ransom money to the abductors. We express our sincere condolences to the family of the victim,'' said Krishna who is scheduled to visit Golden Temple in Amritsar on Friday. He has also claimed that Pakistan’s president has condemned the attacks also with the government pledging to find those guilty and India will be taking the issuer up with Pakistan.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
பச்சிளம் சிறுவர்கள் கற்பழிப்பு: இமாம் கைது: சன் டிவி போடுமா செய்தி?
இந்த பொறுக்கி நாயும் பச்சிளம் சிறுவர்களை கற்பழித்திருக்கிறான்.
ஆபிரஹாமிய மத சாமியார்களுக்கே சிறு குழந்தைகளை கற்பழிப்பதில் என்ன வக்கிர விருப்பமோ தெரியவில்லை
Imam accused of child sex offences
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 09:20
THE imam of a Stoke-on-Trent mosque has appeared before a court accused of committing serious sexual offences with two young boys.
Mohammed Hanif Khan, aged 41, is a leader at the Capper Street Mosque, in Tunstall. Yesterday he appeared before North Staffordshire Magistrates' Court, sitting in Fenton, to be charged with five offences.
The defendant is accused of the attempted rape and sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy in Meir last year.
He is further accused of three counts of rape on a boy under the age of 13 last year in Tunstall.
Prior to outlining the prosecution case to the magistrates, prosecutor Paul Moore said: "This is a very sensitive case.
"He is an imam at the Capper Street, Mosque, in Tunstall. He commands enormous power and respect in the community.
"Not only is he a figure of respect in this area, but he is a figure of respect outside this area because of his teachings."
As the charges were read and a brief outline of the facts given to the court, Khan, who wore a white shirt and black suit, listened intently from the dock in court one.
Mr Moore asked the court to remand the defendant, who gave his address as Bardsley Close, Ellesmere Port, in custody.
Emma Wiseman, defending, told the magistrates that the allegations against her client were denied.
She said Khan had been on bail for some considerable time while the matters had been investigated.
Miss Wiseman said the defendant had co-operated with the police and complied with bail conditions.
The case lasted for 35 minutes and Khan was remanded in custody to appear at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for a preliminary hearing there on February 15.
According to his website, Khan became the first ever full-time Islamic Minister in the history of the British prison service in 2001.
He further progressed in introducing and setting up religious initiatives by becoming the first Muslim and non-Christian multi-faith co-ordinator of the British prison service in 2003.
In 2004 he visited Buckingham Palace to receive a Butlers' Trust Award from Princess Anne for his work in multi-faith and diversity.
He is patron and founder of Hizb ur Rasool (HUR), a charity dealing with youth issues and the propagation of Islam.
In 2008, the imam was among a group of business and community leaders drawn together to transform politics in Stoke-on-Trent.
He was appointed to the Governance Transition Board, a body tasked with making radical changes to the way the city is run.
ஆபிரஹாமிய மத சாமியார்களுக்கே சிறு குழந்தைகளை கற்பழிப்பதில் என்ன வக்கிர விருப்பமோ தெரியவில்லை
Imam accused of child sex offences
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 09:20
THE imam of a Stoke-on-Trent mosque has appeared before a court accused of committing serious sexual offences with two young boys.
Mohammed Hanif Khan, aged 41, is a leader at the Capper Street Mosque, in Tunstall. Yesterday he appeared before North Staffordshire Magistrates' Court, sitting in Fenton, to be charged with five offences.
The defendant is accused of the attempted rape and sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy in Meir last year.
He is further accused of three counts of rape on a boy under the age of 13 last year in Tunstall.
Prior to outlining the prosecution case to the magistrates, prosecutor Paul Moore said: "This is a very sensitive case.
"He is an imam at the Capper Street, Mosque, in Tunstall. He commands enormous power and respect in the community.
"Not only is he a figure of respect in this area, but he is a figure of respect outside this area because of his teachings."
As the charges were read and a brief outline of the facts given to the court, Khan, who wore a white shirt and black suit, listened intently from the dock in court one.
Mr Moore asked the court to remand the defendant, who gave his address as Bardsley Close, Ellesmere Port, in custody.
Emma Wiseman, defending, told the magistrates that the allegations against her client were denied.
She said Khan had been on bail for some considerable time while the matters had been investigated.
Miss Wiseman said the defendant had co-operated with the police and complied with bail conditions.
The case lasted for 35 minutes and Khan was remanded in custody to appear at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for a preliminary hearing there on February 15.
According to his website, Khan became the first ever full-time Islamic Minister in the history of the British prison service in 2001.
He further progressed in introducing and setting up religious initiatives by becoming the first Muslim and non-Christian multi-faith co-ordinator of the British prison service in 2003.
In 2004 he visited Buckingham Palace to receive a Butlers' Trust Award from Princess Anne for his work in multi-faith and diversity.
He is patron and founder of Hizb ur Rasool (HUR), a charity dealing with youth issues and the propagation of Islam.
In 2008, the imam was among a group of business and community leaders drawn together to transform politics in Stoke-on-Trent.
He was appointed to the Governance Transition Board, a body tasked with making radical changes to the way the city is run.
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