Brisbane woman raped then jailed for sex in United Arab Emirates

A BRISBANE woman was jailed for eight months in the United Arab Emirates for claiming she was raped by three men after her drink was spiked in a hotel bar.

The woman, identified only as Amanda, said she ordered one drink from the bar in the United Arab Emirates hotel she was staying, but then remembered nothing until waking up the next afternoon.

Amanda, interviewed on ABC radio this morning, said she was arrested after reporting her rape to police and later sentenced to 11 months' jail for having illicit sexual relations and one month for consumption of alcohol.

"I don't remember anything except for having that drink ... in one way that's a good thing but from what happened following, it's still an extremely traumatising,'' she said.

She was released five months ago after securing a royal pardon after serving eight months, and is now home in Australia.

She said the jails were overcrowded, inmates were often beaten and the water was frequently turned off.

Amanda said she had extensively researched the customs of the largely Muslim country before living there, but was not aware of the laws surrounding women and sex and drinking.

"It was such a glamorous lifestyle and at the moment there are so many Australians working over there,'' she said. "It is a very glamourous lifestyle and you can make a lot of money but unfortunately there's the other side that people just aren't aware of.''

She said four high-ranking muslim men had to witness penetration to prove a rape charge, so women who reported rapes were typically seen as confessing to illicit sexual relations or prostitution.

"I can move on, and I'm working on that, part of my process is to help other people with awareness of what's going on and making changes,'' she said.

Amanda met with several state MPs this week to tell her story. Amnesty International's Michael Hayworth said he sent a letter to United Arab Emirates officials, asking them to comply with United Nation's Women's Rights Conventions and remove discriminatory laws.

She is an idiot. Living in a muslim country and not knowing anything about islam?

TURKEY: BEATS WIFE, SENTENCED TO PUBLIC APOLOGY

ANSAmed) - ANKARA, JUNE 15 - "I apologise to my wife and the people of Arac for beating her". In northern Turkey the court of Arac sentenced Mustafa Kadinci to print a leaflet with these words apologising for his wife-beating habits. He had to print 1,000 leaflets containing his apologies and hand them out in city streets and public offices in order to avoid spending two years in prison. The unusual sentence was issued by a local (female) judge, who also ordered Kadinci to plant 50 trees and nurture them for 6 months. The sentence was issued after the man was found guilty of locking up his wife at home after an argument sparked off by the fact that the woman, going against her husband's will, went to visit her family. (ANSAmed).

Why was he even charged? The koran supports wife beatings and you can find many an imam on youtube verifying this.

TURKEY-EU: FIRST EU-RATED TOILET OPENS IN GAZIANTEP

ANSAmed) - ANKARA, JUNE 22 - The southeastern Anatolian city of Gaziantep has become the first in the country to have a public toilet that meets European Union standards, daily Hurriyet reports. The toilet facility was built in the city's Turktepe neighborhood, along Culture Road, and cost 80,000 euros. Built with EU funds, the public toilet has a special section for the disabled, a music system, water taps with sensors, a section for changing baby diapers and air conditioning and took one year to build. The man responsible for running the toilet, Sih Mehmet Agir, said people are surprised on their first visit. "They are surprised to see such a clean toilet; they show a lot of interest; they don't just come to meet their needs, they also come to look", Agir noted. (ANSAmed).

Since they are used to shitting down a hole, this must be a real novelty. Hey I will bet it even has soap in there. The Taliban banned soap in public toilets because Old Mo did not use soap. What progress in the muslim world.

UK: Muslim prisoners complain about sharing cells with infidels, are accommodated

A prison has agreed to give Muslims their own cells after they complained about sharing with other inmates.

They were said to be unhappy at praying and eating near non-Muslims at Birmingham’s Winson Green jail.

It is thought to be the first time inmates have been segregated by religion. Prison bosses have decided to place them with other Muslims, or give them single cells when space is available.

More than 1,400 inmates, including murderers and robbers, are housed at the jail.

‘So far around 15 Muslim inmates have been accommodated either by being moved to a cell with another Muslim or put on their own,’ said a prison source. ‘They initially asked for their own wing but this was turned down.’

In June 2006, a High Court judge warned that Ministers must find cash to cope with growing prison numbers and called for an end to forced cell sharing. Mr Justice Keith’s concerns were included in his report into the racist murder of Asian prisoner Zahid Mubarek by his cellmate Robert Stewart at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution in West London.

The judge called for a new concept of ‘institutional religious intolerance’ to combat prejudice against Muslim inmates.

Aren't these guys in prison? Shouldn't they lose rights in prison? I say give them all a wing. It will keep them from converting the other prisoners.

There has also been concern among the 200-strong Muslim contingent in Winson Green about the halal meat served there. It had been prepared on site but, after complaints, is now brought in by an authorised supplier at what is thought to be extra cost.

One prison officer said: ‘This has caused resentment because it is felt the Muslim inmates are getting special treatment.’

That is because they are getting special treatment.

A Prison Service spokesman said: ‘Prisoner requests to share cells can be accommodated in some circumstances, such as prisoners sharing religious and dietary needs. All requests are subject to a risk assessment.’

About ten per cent of the 80,000-strong jail population in England and Wales is Muslim.

That sounds like the black and mexican jail population percentages in the US. There are less than ten percent muslims in the UK, but they represent a higher jail population. I wonder why that it is? Could it be that some "races" are more violent than others?

Taliban: “We know you are Christian. We warn you to leave this area, embrace Islam, pay 1,500,000 rupees (US$18,500) as jizya, or be ready to die in a

Islamic Tolerance Alert. Here is Qur'an 9:29 in action: "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

After imposing jizya (an Islamic tax like a fine to the non-Muslims) to the Sikhs in some tribal areas of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan, where the Taliban have strongholds and rule their own fiefdom, Christians and Shia Muslims (a minority sect) across the country have received letters threatening them with death should they not conform to the Taliban's Sunni Islam.

On June 10, a letter was sent to Rabita Manzil, of the National Catholic Office for Social Communications in Lahore, second biggest city of Pakistan. It was handed over to a Christian women, who lives near the office by two masked men. The letter stated, “We know you are Christian. We warn you to leave this area, embrace Islam, pay 1,500,000 rupees (US$18,500) as jizya, or be ready to die in a suicide attack.”

According to the UCA News, Christians have received similar threats in various parts of the country as fighting between government troops and the Taliban militants continues to rage in the country's northwest. Sacred Heart Cathedral, several Catholic schools in Lahore, and various pastors have received threatening notes telling them to convert to Islam. Moreover, Church of Pakistan Bishop Mano Rumalshah of Peshawar, NWFP, said the churches in his diocese continued to receive threatening letters which say either become a Muslim, leave, or be killed....

This is straight out of the terrorist training manual, the koran. Why does the West fail to believe that this is a religious war.

Yemen: Jihadists murder Christians for proselytizing

"America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings." -- Barack Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009

A BRITISH engineer kidnapped in Yemen by armed killers was part of an evangelical group that may have been targeted as an act of revenge for its attempts to convert local Muslims to Christianity.

His captors have already killed three women members of the group and abducted a married couple and their three young children.

Yesterday, as his wife clung to the hope that he was alive, it was reported that two of the dead women – Anita Gruenwald, 24, and Rita Stumpp, 26, both German nurses - had “missionary materials” in their belongings when their bodies were found. Young-Sun Lum, 34, a South Korean teacher who called herself Magdalena after Jesus’s disciple, was the other victim.

They had been warned to stop trying to convert Muslims, according to German investigators. Mullahs had spoken out against their missionary activities and their books on Christianity had been confiscated....

Initial reports said the three victims had been shot and stabbed. Hamboush Hussein, general director of the local health office, said they had not been mutilated but had several gunshot wounds in the head, chest or back as if they had been struggling and trying to escape.

Britain has sent a team of counterterrorism experts to Sana’a because of the possibility of Al-Qaeda involvement. While the investigation continues the Foreign Office has imposed a virtual news black-out, withholding the British engineer’s full name. In Yemen he has been identified only as Anthony.

All the victims were members of Worldwide Services, a Christian relief group based in Holland that has been working at al-Jumhuri hospital in Saada for 30 years....

So, they are there trying to help the "poor" muslims and this is what they get. I really do not feel sorry for them though. They are Christians in a muslim country, that was the first mistake. The second was trying to do something good for the muslims. The third is that it is illegal in that part of the world to try to make a muslim stray from the death cult, islam.

Pakistan's nukes: "God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them agai

And meanwhile: "The strategy of the (al Qaeda) organisation in the coming period is the same as in the previous period: to hit the head of the snake, the head of tyranny -- the United States. That can be achieved through continued work on the open fronts and also by opening new fronts in a manner that achieves the interests of Islam and Muslims and by increasing military operations that drain the enemy financially."

We can see that happening all over.

DUBAI (Reuters) - If it were in a position to do so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States, a top leader of the group said in remarks aired on Sunday.
Pakistan has been battling al Qaeda's Taliban allies in the Swat Valley since April after their thrust into a district 100 km (60 miles) northwest of the capital raised fears the nuclear-armed country could slowly slip into militant hands.

"God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans," Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the leader of al Qaeda's in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Al Jazeera television.

Abu al-Yazid was responding to a question about U.S. safeguards to seize control over Pakistan's nuclear weapons in case Islamist fighters came close to doing so.

"We expect that the Pakistani army would be defeated (in Swat) ... and that would be its end everywhere, God willing."

Asked about the group's plans, the Egyptian militant leader said: "The strategy of the (al Qaeda) organisation in the coming period is the same as in the previous period: to hit the head of the snake, the head of tyranny -- the United States.

"That can be achieved through continued work on the open fronts and also by opening new fronts in a manner that achieves the interests of Islam and Muslims and by increasing military operations that drain the enemy financially."

And our muslim president wants to make nice with these people. We need to just nuke northwest Pakistan and do the world a big favor. And I am tired of hearing about the women and children being killed. They are considered martyrs, kill them all and let allah the pagan moon god sort them out.

Sarkozy: Burqa not welcome in France

June 22 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the country’s National Assembly should debate a ban on the burqa, the Muslim garment that conceals a woman’s face and body, saying it was “not welcome” in France.

“The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of servitude,” Sarkozy said today in a speech to both houses of parliament at the Versailles Palace on the outskirts of Paris. Calling it a violation of women’s “dignity and freedom,” Sarkozy said the burqa “will not be welcome on French soil.”

A group of French lawmakers have called for a total burqa ban. Sarkozy asked them to “open a debate” on the matter. Only a small minority of women wear burqas and the Opposition Socialist Party would favor a ban “of the burqa or the nikab,” Benoit Hamon, its spokesman, told Le Monde newspaper today.

The clothing rule would come five years after France outlawed head scarves and other “ostentatious” religious symbols, including large Christian crosses and Jewish skullcaps, in state offices and schools. The 2004 law prompted protests in France and criticism from some Muslim groups, including the second-in-command of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Sarkozy’s speech today marked the first time a French president has addressed lawmakers since 1875 after a law preventing such direct communication was overturned last year.

Budget Minister Eric Woerth said yesterday the Burqa “should not exist in France.” Sarkozy characterized it today as a “fence” in front of women’s faces....

The burqa has also been used for robberies and disguises to evade police. It is about time that some country is challenging the muslims.

Hamas, UN open their summer camps for Gaza children

The boys sat in circles on the massive green carpet and girls sat upstairs on the blue-colored ground of al-Shafei mosque in Gaza City, all reiterating phrases of the Quran.
The aim is to memorize as much as possible of the Muslim's holy book in a period of no more than two months, according to Islamic Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip and sponsors the Quran summer camps across the impoverished enclave.
Salah Yassin, 14, was sitting at the head of a male circle, peeking at a copy of Quran to make sure that if another younger boy recited correctly. "I have taken a Quran-rules course in the mosque and now I'm passing my knowledge to these boys."
The "Summer without Boredom" program is one of the latest activities Hamas launched to permeate through the complex society in Gaza by attracting children to join its camps where they learn Quran, sports, basics of self defense and numerous skills.
"We want at least 10,000 students to memorize the entire Quran this summer," said Abdel Rahman al-Jamal, a Hamas lawmaker who also chairs the Quran and Sunna association.
But a few blocks down to the west of the mosque, groups of young girls rejoiced in joyful playing inside a beachside camp of bright-colored tents under a United Nations flag.
Unable to restrict the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) work, Hamas, which routed forces of secular president Mahmoud Abbas in June 2007, is racing with the international organization to flaunt the fringe benefits of its Islamic program. Abbas' Fatah movement is not allowed to hold any type of activities in the Gaza Strip.
Badria Shamalakh, 8, said she joined the UNRWA camp because it presents "many nice things" like water games, drawing, sports and swimming.
Nisreen, a young mother, used to send her two children to an UNRWA camp in the past four years. Today, she will send the girl to an Islamic camp "as a way of change" and the boy will continue his the UNRWA seaside camp.
"Mohammed is eager to go to his camp this summer after he learnt that there would be swimming pools there," Nisreen said about her son.
But Salah, who wants to be an Islamic religious teacher when he grows up, prefers to join the mosque-hosted camp rather than the UNRWA one. "In the mosque, there are better morals and treatment, but there (in the UNRWA) they don't care about prayer."
Salah believes that spending summer time inculcate the Quran provides you with countless benefaction. "When I die, I will go to heaven immediately and will be the happiest."

He will also be trained that martyrdom is the fastest was to get there. He will then be ready to blow himself up to attain a goal that will never, ever happen.

The UNRWA-run camps are good too, said Salah's grandfather Abu Yousef Yassin. "But here it is still better because the pupil will remain polite."
Every morning, Abu Yousef walks to the mosque with Salah and three granddaughters, monitoring their progress in the lessons. "They have completed memorizing three Sura (chapters) in one week," the white-bearded man said proudly.
Dr. Fadel Abu Heen, a respected independent sociologist, said the families became badly affected with the political rift between the Palestinian factions. "Those who are against the Islamic trend and want to send their children to a summer camp find no place but the UN camps."
The organizers of the camps have their own goals "and some of them could be political since the political groups stand behind many of these camps," he added.
In eastern Gaza City alone, Hamas has opened 40 summer camps, hoping that up to 4,500 children aging between 6 and 17 would enroll, Mohammed al-Dalou, a Hamas official, added.
"We are teaching the children how to love al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Palestine," he explained, urging the families not to hesitate in sending their children to the camps "since they will be taught the principles of their religion too."

They are being indoctrinated into hating the Jews and learning that killing a Jew is the best way to get to paradise. They get this crap starting in kindergarden and going all the way through whatever school system they have.

Boats To Set Sail From Cyprus To Gaza

On June 25th, the Free Gaza movement will set sail on its eighth mission to break Israel's horrific siege and collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza strip.

"The Israelis violated international law by ramming the boat I was on which was carrying medical supplies to Gaza. Therefore, I never got to Gaza. Especially after Operation Cast Lead, I want to go to Gaza, and if I'm lucky, one day, I'll also get to visit a free Palestine," said former Representative Cynthia McKinney, one of the passengers coming back.

Along with McKinney, 36 others will board the FREE GAZA , a fishing boat, and the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, a small ferry loaded with building supplies such as cement, only a token of what is needed in Gaza, but a prelude to larger shipments the Free Gaza movement expects to take throughout the summer.

Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ireland is also going back, "I am going to Gaza to show my love and support for the people of Gaza who continue to suffer under Israeli siege and occupation, yet whose spirit of nonviolent resistance inspires all who believe in equality, freedom and justice," she stated.

"It is crucial that we continue sending boats to Gaza to challenge Israel's criminal closure on the Strip," said Huwaida Arraf, delegation leader of the June 25th voyage. "Gaza does not need our charity but needs us to stand up against the forces that continue to deliberately deny an entire people their human rights. International donors pledged over $4 billion to rebuild Gaza, and yet none of them are doing anything about the fact that Israel is not allowing any building supplies into Gaza, not to mention thousands of other items such as anesthetic, oxygen and cancer treatments, chlorine to treat the water supply as well as paper, books and toys for children, even tea and coffee have been banned."

This voyage will be the first attempt to challenge Israel's naval blockade on the Gaza Strip since an Israeli gunship brutally rammed the DIGNITY in December, and nearly sank the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY with all on board in January. This 8th trip will also be the first of a series of boats we intend to send to Gaza as part of our Summer of Hope campaign.

The Free Gaza Movement, a human rights group, sent two boats to Gaza in August 2008. These were the first international boats to land in the port in 41 years. Since August, four more voyages were successful, taking Parliamentarians, human rights workers, and other dignitaries to witness the effects of Israel's draconian policies on the civilians of Gaza. On December 30, their boat, the DIGNITY was rammed three times while 90 nautical miles out, in international waters, on its way to deliver emergency medical supplies to the people of Gaza, while they were under the infamous attack by Israel.

If they would recognize the Jewish state, stop trying to kill Jews everyday and stop teaching their kids to hate the Jews, them maybe Israel would open the borders. But until then, the Jews have every right to keep those animals in their cage.