Woman who walked out of her husband’s home faces eviction

JEDDAH: Noor wept silently when she remembered her father who died seven years ago. The 35-year-old divorcee is a Yemeni national but was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. She has been living with no identification papers for the past year and four months.

“I can’t work to earn a living. The owner of the basement I live in will kick me out at the end of the month,” she said.

Noor is the youngest of eleven siblings. She got married to a Yemeni 17 years ago. She had a severe case of hernia and gallbladder stones. Her 38-year-old husband refused to treat her because the operation was costly. He used to beat her, abandon her and does not provide her with the basic needs of life.

“I had two miscarriages because of his violence. My health deteriorated and he didn’t show me any mercy,” said Noor. “I had to leave the house. I couldn’t take it anymore.”

A mother of four boys and a girl, Noor walked out of her husband’s house three years ago. Her husband refused to divorce her, leaving her with no choice but to ask for khula, a form of divorce in Shariah where the woman secures her divorce paying financial compensation to the husband that begins with a reimbursement of the dowry but often includes what the husband sees as his additional expenses for the marriage.

The judge ordered SR10,000 as the compensation for the husband. People of good will lent her SR7,500. “I couldn’t pay them back until now. I had to borrow the rest of the money from the judge. I can’t take my divorce papers until I pay him SR2,500,” said Noor.

Due to divorce procedures and her inability to pay her debt to the judge, Noor cannot transfer her sponsorship to her older brother — who has Saudi citizenship.

He told her he does not want to sponsor her. He would deport her to Yemen and make her live with her brother’s wife there. “But I don’t know anyone in Yemen and my children live here in Makkah,” said Noor.

Arab News contacted a source at the Yemeni Consulate in Jeddah. The source, who asked not to be named, said he intervened in Noor’s marriage when she was having problems. It was her desire to get a divorce because things were not working out, he said. As for her brother deporting her, he said it is not his right.

“Her brother has no right to deport her. She must approach the Saudi authorities since her brother is Saudi,” he said.

Noor’s brother, who is in his late 40s, expressed his dissatisfaction with and disapproval of her “actions and attitude” when asked about his decision of deporting her to Yemen.

“What do you think of someone who divorced her husband and now wants to work? You women, what do you think?” said Noor’s brother in a coarse, shrill voice. “She not only is guilty, but she’s responsible for all her actions.”

Noor stopped school prior to getting married. She studied through the sixth grade. Due to her determination and a little computer skills, she managed to land jobs with advertising and print agencies and charitable institutions. But when her iqama expired, no one was interested anymore in employing her.

“I don’t want money. I want someone to give me an identity. I’m one of this country’s citizens,” said Noor, trembling with anguish. “I’ve been patient for so long. I didn’t do anything to deserve this.”

See how merciful muslims are to their own people? If I had enough money I would sponsor her here in the US.

Huge Bomb Lab Found in Mosque

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas terrorists in Kalkilya built a large supply of bombs and stored them in a local mosque without raising suspicion from local Palestinian Authority armed forces who represent the rival Fatah faction. However, the terrorists were out of luck on Wednesday, Passover eve, when a simple electric shortage gave away their plans.

The shortage caused a small fire in the mosque, bringing PA forces to the building, where they found bombs ready for use and large cannisters of bomb-making materials. The mosque was closed down, and PA sappers removed the explosives.

The bombs were then turned over to the IDF, which sent experts to detonate the weapons in a controlled explosion.

A captain in the PA forces told Israeli journalists that the mosque had been used to both produce and store the bombs. “It was a huge weapons lab,” he said.

Four people have been arrested in connection to the incident, he said, two of them members of Hamas and two “everyday citizens.”

Kalkilya and surrounding villages have been the source of several recent attacks on Israeli citizens. Two Israelis were wounded in rock attacks in the past month when driving in the area, and other rock and firebomb attacks on vehicles have been reported.

Kalkilya is located just minutes from the Israeli city of Kfar Saba and the Trans-Israel highway.

However, due to the Judea and Samaria security barrier, Kalkilya terrorists have largely turned away from attacking Israelis in those areas, and have focused on harming Jews in Samaria.

Why do we insist on treating mosques like a holy place or some kind of church? A mosque is a political house with the koran as its holy book. They are houses of hate.

CHILD MARRIAGE, SHARIAH BEATINGS IN AL FAROOQ MOSQUE IN NASHVILLE TENNESSEE Young Child (7 years old) Mentions her Husband - Sexual abuse/Pedophilia

We here in the US need to understand that mosque, communittee center and youth center are all the same. They are mosques.

There is a first-hand undercover investigation being done in Al-Farooq mosque in Nashville, TN. What has been exposed is unthinkable. This is video footage of a first-hand undercover investigation done in Al-Farooq mosque. Listen to a 7 year old talk about her husband and how they are beaten during shariah class. The video is just the sound, as these kids are in tremendous danger and the undercover person inside needed to hide the camera deeply. We are working on the sound quality. Listen to the girl stating how kids are beaten as she begins to cry.

Too much to post here.

Read and watch is all: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/04/videochild-marriage-shariah-beatings-in-mosque-in-nashville-tennessee-.html

Appeals court rules Philadelphia cop can't wear headscarf

Anti-dhimmi alert from here in the US?

A Muslim woman who works as a Philadelphia Police officer Wednesday lost her court fight to be allowed to wear her head scarf while on duty.

The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that granting Kimberlie Webb an exception to a regulation banning religious symbols while in uniform would impose an "undue hardship" on the city of Philadelphia.

Webb, a Philadelphia cop since 1995, requested permission in February 2003 to wear her head scarf while on duty. She was denied that permission, and filed complaints with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

In August 2003, Webb showed up to work wearing her head scarf. When she refused to remove it, she was sent home. This was repeated on two additional days.

"There is a history of allowing palms in police cars on Palm Sunday," said Jeffrey Pollock, Webb's lawyer. "[Washington,] D.C., New York City and Chicago all allow officers to wear religious symbols.

Symbols, not religious garments. There is no equating, say, a scapular or necklace with the utter non-subtlety of a hijab.

"Why can't the Philadelphia Police make the exception?"

In October 2005, Webb brought a lawsuit against the city, claiming religious and sex discrimination.

The court's opinion said that "uniform requirements are crucial to the safety of officers (so that the public will be able to identify officers as genuine, based on their uniform appearance)."

Not only that, but as explained here, the hijab endangers the officer in that it could be grabbed in a struggle. Moreover, the uniform is intended to be religiously neutral -- logical under the separation of church and state -- and representative of the impartiality of the law, and equal protection under it. Superimposing other garments upon a uniform spoils that neutrality, and -- again -- the purpose of having a uniform.

The appeals court also declined to consider Constitutional issues brought up by Pollock. Those issues were not raised at trial, so the court did not have to consider them, according to the opinion of the three-judge panel.

A lower court already had ruled that the city would suffer undue hardship if it were required to accommodate Webb's request.

"I respect [the judges], but I'm obviously disappointed," Pollock said.

Pollock said that no decision has been made about whether to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Again they are pushing their ways on us. They will push and push and push. It may only seem like a small thing at the time. But once you see the big picture it is frightening.

You have muslims that refuse to drive a person with alcohol in taxis, they also won't pick up people with seeing eye dogs, they want muslim holidays, they want breaks when they "need" to pray, they won't touch a package of bacon when working in a grocery store, they won't load beer in warehouses, they want prayer time in schools, they want foot baths everywhere, they want special accomodations in gyms both public and on school campuses, and on and on and on.

Illinois: Islam "insulted" by alleged child killer's mug shot, says husband

Yes, but what does he think of the crime?

Was Islam "insulted" by the child killing?

The police booking photo of alleged child killer Nour Hadid released Tuesday is an "insult against our religion," says Hadid's husband, Alaeddin.

Orland Park police detectives say the 26-year-old Muslim woman was treated as any other suspect in a murder probe would be, and they did not intend to humiliate her when they photographed her Sunday without her headscarf and wearing only a skimpy top.

So that is what they are hiding under those bags? I would make my wife wear one too.

Nour Hadid is accused of beating her 2-year-old niece Bhia Hadid to death over four days at her home on the 9000 block of West 140th Street. The child had 55 separate bruises and was beaten "from head to toe," according to prosecutors, who say Hadid confessed.

But Alaeddin Hadid - who insists his wife is innocent

She confessed; see below.

- said Orland Park police are "really going to be in big trouble" for releasing the woman's booking photo to the news media after she was charged with first-degree murder.

The Hadids are Muslims and Nour "never leaves the home without covering up," said Alaeddin, who's vowed to sue.

By custom, some practicing Muslim women wear the hijab, or headscarf, and cover their arms and legs when in public.

In the mug shot, a bare-headed and obviously emotional Nour appears to be protecting her modesty with her hands.

"It is against our religion; we do not do this in our culture," Alaeddin said.

"People have been calling me about this all day."...

Orland Park police Cmdr. Chuck Doll said the mug shot was taken "for identification purposes" before Hadid made her confession. Her headscarf was handed back to her after the photo was taken, Doll said.

"A matron was with her at all times while she was in our custody," Doll said. A matron is a law enforcement official who works with women held in custody. "She was wearing a tank top, and she had the headscarf when she was interviewed."

The headscarf later was taken from her after she made suicide threats, he said.

A sobbing Hadid appeared without the headscarf at the Bridgeview courthouse Tuesday and is being held without bail at the Cermak Medical Center at the Cook County Jail, where she remains on suicide watch.

Police have said her husband's possible involvement in Bhia's death still is under investigation....

And -- surprise, surprise! -- here come the unindicted co-conspirators:

Islamic advocacy groups seem wary of taking up Hadid's cause.

Spokesmen for the Council on Islamic American Relations, the Islamic Society of North America and the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation all declined to comment Thursday.

But Dr. Mohammed Sahloul, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Chicago, said that while police should follow the usual procedures with all defendants, "they should respect the modesty of the accused."

Sahloul, who made it clear he was not aware of the Hadid case and was speaking in general terms about the hijab, pointed out that Muslim women are allowed to wear hijabs in photos for their state IDs.

"If it's for the purposes of identification and they cover in public, then that's going to be more effective in identifying them anyway," he said.

Former chairman Kareem Irfan said, "It's particularly humiliating because she appears to be in her underwear.

Isn't it more humiliating to have murdered a toddler?

"I don't condone what she's alleged to have done.

Of course not. But it isn't what you're focusing upon, is it?

"But if it was a nun accused of these crimes, would they treat her the same way?"

First a nun would not beat a child to death. This muslim woman is a cold blooded murderer. She beat a two year old child to death. Why? Did she lose her virginity? Was she promiscuous? Probably not. So, what could this child possible have done to warrent this? She was treated like any other person that was arrested. Why do muslims need special treatment? Oh, that's right, muslims are the best people on the Earth. It says so in their holy book the koran.

Top US general apologizes to Afghan leaders, says he'll study Qur'an

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- The top U.S. general in Afghanistan reached out to influential Afghan tribesmen in regions where U.S. troops will soon deploy, apologizing for past mistakes and saying he is now studying the Quran, the Muslim holy book.

Gen. David McKiernan met with villagers in Helmand and Kandahar -- two of Afghanistan's most violent provinces -- in an attempt to foster good will ahead of the U.S. troop surge that will send 21,000 more forces here this summer to stem an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency.

McKiernan said he wanted to show respect to tribal elders by traveling to Kandahar on Wednesday to explain some of the mistakes U.S. forces have made in the past -- such as arresting people based on information taken from one side in a tribal fight, or killing civilians during operations.

''I'm trying to connect to the local population in a bottom-up way and try to explain what the new U.S. strategy means and why they're going to see an increased force presence where they live,'' McKiernan said during the trip to Kandahar aboard the seven passenger jet he flies in....

''I'm reading a very good book now about this part of the world. It's written in English, but it's all about you -- it's the Quran,'' McKiernan said to applause. Moments later an Afghan man stood up and gave McKiernan a bright purple, red and green cloth in which to wrap the translated version of holy book....

I do agree that this general needs to read AND UNDERSTAND the koran, the terrorist training manual. He needs to know what makes them tick. I personally have done this and find it a frightening book. It speaks very little about the believers, but speaks at great length about the unbelievers. It speaks of how us kafir are the worst kind of people, that the believers are not to take an unbeliever as a friend, etc. Everyone in the West needs to read this hatefilled book.

Obama aide discovers that OBL-surrogate is a "terrible man"

Regardless, "although his 'justice' is brutal, many of his actions were also popular" among Pakistanis, i.e., U.S. "friends-and-allies." "Terror plot: Baitullah Mehsud profile," by Richard Holbrooke for the Telegraph, April 10:

Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistan Taliban, is a "terrible man" according to President Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, .Which is why the US state department last month offered a $5 million dollar reward for information leading to his capture.Pennies, considering that ten times that much wasn't enough to capture Osama.

The reward was a rite of passage for Mehsud, reflecting his rise from a small tribal leader in North Waziristan, close to the Afghan border, to the leader of all Taliban forces in Pakistan, and now allegedly the greatest individual threat to Pakistan's survival.

He emerged as a leader in 2004 when he launched a series of attacks against the Pakistan Army and gangsters who had been terrorising local tribesmen.

He was formally appointed 'Emir' of Waziristan by Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, to whom he has pledged allegiance, and in 2005 pulled off a spectacular coup by forcing the Pakistan government to sign a peace deal.

The government paid $500,000 as 'compensation' to Mehsud's commanders, knowing it would be used to repay debts to al Qaeda.

The deal quickly collapsed, but it allowed al Qaeda's leadership to rebuild its global headquarters in tribal areas under Mehsud's control, and gave him space to extend his reign of terror.

Although his 'justice' is brutal, many of his actions were also popular, including the murder of criminals who were hung from lamp-posts. Opponents were sent 1,000 rupee notes and a needle and thread for it to be stitched into their funeral shrouds, and within 24 hours many were dead.

He now has more than 20,000 fighters, and Osama bin Laden's son has trained as a commander under his wing...

And our muslim president wants to make nice with these types of people.

Tiny Horse Trains as Guide for Blind Muslim Woman

DEARBORN, Mich. — Mona Ramouni seems more nervous than Cali as they ride the rattling bus to work for the first time.

"You're a good girl, you're OK, you're OK," Ramouni says softly, stroking Cali — a 3-year-old former show horse that stands about 2 1/2 feet tall, weighs about 125 pounds and has trained since November to become Ramouni's guide.

Ramouni lost her sight to retinopathy of prematurity shortly after birth. She relies on her family to guide her around the Detroit suburbs where she's lived, studied and worked for all of her 28 years.

She wants more independence, but a traditional guide dog isn't an option. Many Muslims consider dogs unclean, and Ramouni, an observant Sunni, respects her Jordanian-born parents' aversion to having a dog in the home where she lives along with three of her six siblings.
The answer, she hopes, is Cali, short for Mexicali Rose.

"I want a horse that will be a partner for the next 30 or so years. This is a really awesome little horse ... and what I really want is to be able to take her places and go places with her that neither of us ever would have been able to do without each other," Ramouni says.

While most Muslims believe dogs can violate ritual purity, horses are seen as "regal animals," says Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relation's Michigan chapter.

Still, "there would be concerns about bringing a horse into certain establishments and areas of worship as well," he says.

There are only a handful of the miniature animals trained as guides for the blind in the United States. Cali's trainer, Dolores Arste, knows of five others.

"Taking on a horse as a guide is a huge commitment, same as a dog but with more physical needs," Arste, 61, says. "It is not a novelty. It is a real working animal."

Dogs are unclean to muslims so she needs a 125 pound horse. That would be fine but the picture shows her on the bus with the horse. That is a huge animal for the people on the bus to have to deal with. If she just walked down the street with it, I would have no real problem.