Hamas slams Amnesty International report over committing crimes in Gaza

Islamic Hamas movement on Wednesday slammed an Amnesty International report which accused the movement of committing crimes in Gaza Strip where the movement has been ruling since June 2007.

Hamas spokesman in Gaza Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement that the Amnesty International report "is unfair and a false accusation against Hamas movement and the government."

Amnesty International accused Hamas movement and its militants as well as members of deposed Hamas government police of executing civilians, shooting dozens of people in their knees and torturing many others.

The report published testimonies of people were shot in their knees, some of them belong to Hamas' rival, moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.

"All these positions and stories published in the report are illusory and very well-fabricated by the media," said Barhoum. "The organization only listens to one part and hasn't listened to the other."

Hamas took over Gaza Strip by force in June 2007 following weeks of heavy fighting with rival Fatah militants. The fighting ended after Hamas drove out Abbas' security forces from the enclave.

"This report is directly hurting Hamas reputation. Instead of just focusing on accusing Hamas, they should document the awful crimes of the massacres committed during the unfair war on our people," said Barhoum.

Meanwhile, he called on Amnesty International "to collect evidences and quote real witnesses from the ground and present those documents to the international courts to sue the (Israeli) occupation for its crimes."

I am shocked, shocked. AI is actually calling out Hamas? Look how the thin skinned muslims react? Their feelings are hurt that it is not Israel that is being attacked.

India: Two held for "hurting the religious feelings" of Muslims

Think this can't happen here? We have the First Amendment, and all will be well? Think again: exceptions will be made, and they're coming down fast. Free Speech Death Watch Update: "Pair held for 'offending Islam,'" by Subir Bhaumik for BBC News, February 11 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
The editor and publisher of a top English-language Indian daily have been arrested on charges of "hurting the religious feelings" of Muslims.

The Statesman's editor Ravindra Kumar and publisher Anand Sinha were detained in Calcutta after complaints.

Muslims said they were upset with the Statesman for reproducing an article from the UK's Independent daily in its 5 February edition.

The article was entitled: "Why should I respect these oppressive religions?"
It concerns the erosion of the right to criticise religions.

In it, the author, Johann Hari, writes: "I don't respect the idea that we should follow a 'Prophet' who at the age of 53 had sex with a nine-year old girl, and ordered the murder of whole villages of Jews because they wouldn't follow him."...

Muhammad really did those things, according to Muslim sources, but as we have seen before, the truth is no defense in such cases.

Some Muslims close to the Jamiat-e-Ulema e Hind (The Organisation of Indian Scholars, a leading Islamic group in India) later filed a complaint with police alleging that the publication had "outraged their religious feelings", which is an offence under Section 295 A of the Indian Penal Code.

Mr Kumar has said he has already issued a public apology for reproducing the article.

"I admit it was an editorial misjudgement but it was never intentional," Mr Kumar told the BBC in an interview.

Kumar should not have apologized.

As you can see I have no problems with hurting the religious feelings of muslims. That is why I say they all should be killed. After all they love death in the same way that we love life.

Saudi judge sentences pregnant gang-rape victim to 100 lashes for adultery

The testimony of four male witnesses is the standard for establishing guilt in sexual offenses under Sharia law, per Qur'an 4:15, 24:4, 24:6, and 24:13. Four male Muslim witnesses who saw the act. The testimony of the woman involved is inadmissible. Therefore if those four male witnesses do not come forward and the victim becomes pregnant, her pregnancy becomes evidence that she has committed adultery.

This sentence is not something extreme. It's standard Islamic Sharia.

A Saudi judge has ordered a woman should be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was gang-raped, it was claimed last night.

The 23-year-old woman, who became pregnant after her ordeal, was reportedly assaulted after accepting a lift from a man.

He took her to a house to the east of the city of Jeddah where she was attacked by him and four of his friends throughout the night.

She later discovered she was pregnant and made a desperate attempt to get an abortion at the King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces.

According to the Saudi Gazette, she eventually 'confessed' to having 'forced intercourse' with her attackers and was brought before a judge at the District Court in Jeddah.

He ruled she had committed adultery - despite not even being married - and handed down a year's prison sentence, which she will serve in a prison just outside the city.

She is still pregnant and will be flogged once she has had the child.

Note the Daily Mail's dhimmitude:

The Saudi Arabian legal system practices a strict form of medieval law. Women have very few rights and are not even allowed to drive.

They are also banned from going out in public in the company of men other than male relatives.

This isn't "a strict form of medieval law." It isn't as if the Saudis plucked some twelfth century legal system out of the dustbin of history on a whim. This is Sharia. But the Daily Mail is apparently afraid to call it what it is.

This is terrible, but it is what islam is all about. Punish the real victim. The whole concept of islam is arab, male, supremism over all others. Women are property. I hate muslims.