Post-inauguration euphoria sweeping America could result in an Obama baby boom

Births on historical day: Kenyan mothers Linda Omondi, with baby Michelle Obama (left), and Caroline Akinyi, with baby Barack Obama, carry their newborns.

I am only posting this because we all know that this man is really a muslim from Kenya. We really do not need anymore babies to be born to the "ME, ME, ME" generation. People are already saying that they know Obama is going to pay for their houses and kids will goto college free.

Hopenchange at the CIA

It’s all about hope, and reaching out...

U.S. intelligence agencies should seek ways of working with Islamic leaders and countries such as Iran on issues of mutual interest, President Barack Obama’s choice for spy chief said on Thursday.

Retired Adm. Dennis Blair also urged a break with the Bush administration intelligence policies in a Senate confirmation hearing his nomination as director of national intelligence. This includes applying standards across the government for humane treatment of terrorism suspects.

“Identifying opportunities as well as threats is an extremely important balance for intelligence agencies to strike,” Blair said.

I can feel the love from all of the muslims that still want to make the US an islamic country. That will not happen as long as I am alive. Arm yourselves America.

British mother faces jail for adultery in Dubai after losing appeal

Marnie Pearce, 40, had her jail sentence reduced from six to three months by Dubai's Appeal Court, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.

She was also ordered to pay a fine of 3,000 dirhams and will be deported.

Ms Pearce, originally from Bracknell, Berkshire, was found guilty of adultery by a Dubai court in November after being accused of cheating on her Egyptian ex-husband.

She insisted she was innocent and said she feared losing custody of her two young sons if she went to prison.

The teaching assistant remained on bail while she attempted to overturn her conviction.

It was not immediately clear whether she would have to start her sentence straightaway.

Ms Pearce met her ex-husband in Oman and married him in the Seychelles in September 1999.
They had two children, Laith, seven, and Ziad, four, and moved to Dubai, but their marriage eventually broke down.

In March last year she was arrested and accused of committing adultery with a British man who she insists was only a friend.

In Dubai, non-Muslim adulterers cannot be punished by flogging, but can face up to 18 months in prison.

Speaking after her original conviction, Ms Pearce said: "I have been going through hell for nine months and I just want to get my children out. I am so scared that if I go to jail I will never see them again."

What the hell is wrong with Western women? Why do they keep marrying muslim men only to find out later that is was not the best idea. She is in a muslim country and can be accused of any crime by a muslim male and she has no chance. She will be lucky to get out of the country with her kids. Does she not realize that children always "belong" to the muslim husband? I feel nothing for her. There have been many, many reports of this kind of shit going on and yet she felt that he was different . Idiot.

"There will still be free speech in America in much the same way as Henry Ford used to say that you can have any color car you want, as long as it's b

This is what Robert Spencer has to say about this. It amazes me that the West will allow this kind of shit to go on.

FP: Geert Wilders is being put on trial by the Dutch Court of Appeals in Amsterdam for making anti-Islamic statements. Tell us what this charge is about and the ramifications if Wilders loses.

Spencer: The charge is essentially that he has insulted Islam and Muslims, and engaged in hate speech. Hate speech, of course, is in the eye of the beholder, and hate speech laws are tools in the hands of the powerful that they can use to silence the powerless and crush dissent.

And make no mistake: even though the Muslims in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the West present themselves as embattled victims of racism and "Islamophobia," that is exactly what is going on here: this is just one part of the 57-government Organization of the Islamic Conference's efforts to silence speech that they deem critical of Islam -- including "defamation of Islam" that goes under the "pretext" of "freedom of expression, counter terrorism or national security."

If they succeed in doing this, we will be rendered mute, and thus defenseless, in the face of the advancing jihad and attempt to impose Sharia on the West -- in fact, one of the key elements of the laws for dhimmis is that they are never critical of Islam, Muhammad, or the Qur'an, so this initiative not only aids the advance of Sharia in the West, but is itself an element of that advance.

Remember any appeasement is looked at as weakness. When they win these small battles it is seen as a great victory and they look to the next thing they can push the West into accepting.

ACLU to sue Islamic public school in Minnesota

Well now the ACLU is actually going after a muslim school of jihad. Amazing. I cannot wait to hear what CAIR is going to say.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota said it will file suit today against a publicly funded charter school, alleging that it is promoting the Muslim religion and that it is leasing school space from a religious organization, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, without following state law.

The suit was to be filed this afternoon in U.S. District Court against Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, known as TIZA, and the Minnesota Department of Education, which the ACLU says is at fault for failing to uncover and stop the alleged transgressions. The suit names the department and Alice Seagren, the state education commissioner, as co-defendants.

The department investigated the Twin Cities school last year, and the school said it had taken corrective actions in response to concerns about the practicing of religion in the school. TIZA officials have previously said they are in compliance with federal and state regulations.

In May, Asad Zaman, TIZA's director, said the state inquiry vindicated the school's position.

"I now have proof that this is not a religious school," Zaman said at the time. He is one of the defendants, as is Islamic Relief USA, a California non-profit organization and TIZA's sponsor.
But the ACLU claims the school is using federal and state money to promote religion in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The state ACLU said that the suit was being filed after a lengthy investigation by the organization.

"TIZA has received millions of dollars of taxpayer money to support what is, in essence, a private religious school," said Charles Samuelson, state ACLU executive director.

The school, which has one campus in Inver Grove Heights and a smaller site in Blaine, had about 430 K-8 students last year, most of them Muslim. The public charter school, founded in 2003, receives per-pupil funding from the state that the ACLU said is expected to total $3.8 million for the current school year.

Samuelson said the school took government aid money and paid it to a holding company which then donated it to the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.

That is, the Muslim Brotherhood, the group dedicated in its own words to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within."

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BANGLADESH: PASTOR’S WIFE GANG-RAPED, HOME ROBBED

Influential Muslim villagers, local media said to falsely blame Christians, Hindu.

VENNABARI, Bangladesh, January 20 (Compass Direct News) – The pastor of a Baptist church in this village about a 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Dhaka said that earlier this month local Muslims tied him and his wife up, robbed his living quarters on the church property and gang-raped his wife. The Rev. Shankar Hazra, 55, of Chaksing Baptist church in Gopalganj district, said that before leaving, the assailants desecrated the church building. The night of the attack, the pastor said, he and his wife went out to a toilet outside their home at about 2 a.m. on Jan. 6. “Suddenly a man loomed up from the darkness and thrust the snout of a homemade rifle at my chest and told me to keep mum, otherwise both of us would be killed,” Rev. Hazra said. “Around seven to eight people swooped on us and tied me and my wife. They blindfolded my wife and took her inside the house.” After the assailants left, Rev. Hazra managed to untie himself and found his wife lying unconscious on the bed, he said. He added that villagers tried to implicate non-Muslims and portray the attack as resulting from internal conflicts among Christians. Police, influential villagers and local Muslim-owned media are trying to conceal likely anti-Christian motives for the crime, he said, by falsely accusing two Christians and a Hindu of participating – and labeling a local Baptist pastor as the “mastermind” of the attack.

Quote from General George Patton

“It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.”

Winston Churchill about Islam

“How dreadful are the curses which Islam lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

"A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property‹either as a child, a wife, or a concubine must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

"No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

"Far from being moribund, Islam is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science -the science against which it had vainly struggled -the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

~~ Sir Winston Churchill~~

This was said over 60 years ago. It is still true today.

Dutch court decided to prosecute Wilders over Fitna after complaints from nine people

Ever think that one individual or one small group can't make a difference? Consider this: nine people in the Netherlands could be responsible for the final extinguishing of the freedom of speech in the West.

Conceivably, then, nine others could defeat the enemies of free speech and roll back the jihad.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (CNN) -- Dutch authorities will file charges against a lawmaker for inciting religious hatred in speeches and a film he made about Islam last year, an Amsterdam district prosecutor told CNN Wednesday.

Geert Wilders is a member of parliament for the right-wing Party for Freedom.

Prosecutors had originally decided not to press charges against Geert Wilders, 43, a member of parliament for the right-wing Party for Freedom.

"We thought a conviction would not be possible," prosecutor Otto Van Der Bijl told CNN. But nine people filed complaints with the Court of Appeal, he said. The court found there was a "reasonable suspicion that Mr. Wilders is guilty of the charges and the prosecution should in fact proceed." [...]

In deciding that Wilders should face charges, the Court of Appeal did not rule on the lawmaker's guilt or innocence, prosecutor Van Der Bijl said.

"The prosecutor's office is now working on an indictment," he said, adding that it could take months to complete.

Van Der Bijl said he did not expect Wilders to be arrested before he comes to trial.

The charges are "insulting groups of people" and "inciting hatred against people of a certain faith," related to his film and speeches, the prosecutor said....

Here is a link to Fitna. View it for yourselves.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=216_1207467783

What Really Brought Down Flight 1549

It's OK to hit and rape your wife, says Aussie Islamic cleric

"Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them." -- Qur'an 4:34

But even though it is quite clear that what Samir Abu Hamza says here is an accurate summation of the teachings of the Qur'an and Hadith, he blames the controversy on...three guesses.

A MELBOURNE Islamic cleric has told his male followers they can force their wives to have sex and hit them if they are disobedient.

Coburg's self-styled cleric Samir Abu Hamza said despite Australian rape laws it was impossible for a man to rape his wife even if she refused to have sex with him, the Herald Sun reports.

In a recorded lecture entitled "The Keys to a Successful Marriage", delivered to his male worshippers but now broadcast on the internet and viewed by several thousand people, Mr Hamza said Islamic law allowed men to hit their wives as a last resort, but they were not to make them bleed or become bruised.

He said under Islamic law, as described in a koranic verse, it was a man's right to demand sex from his wife whenever he felt like it.

"If the husband was to ask her for a sexual relationship and she is preparing the bread on the stove she must leave it and come and respond to her husband, she must respond," Mr Hamza told his male followers on the video sermon.

Are muslim men that incapable of restraining their sexual urges? Why is there so much about sex in the world of muslims. They are obsessed with it.

He then mocked Australia's criminal laws, which required consent for sex to be lawful.

"In this country if the husband wants to sleep with his wife and she does not want to and she hasn't got a sickness or whatever, there is nothing wrong with her she just does not feel like it, and he ends up sleeping with her by force ... it is known to be as rape," Mr Hamza said.

"Amazing, how can a person rape his wife?"

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News from Gaza

Dhimmitude in Gaza: Christians live in daily danger.

It's not just Jews, however, who suffer at the hands of Hamas. Getting far less media attention is the situation facing 3,000 Christians who live inside the Gaza strip. Following the Hamas coup in Gaza, a radical sheikh, Abu Sakir announced, "'I expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace in Gaza.'" Months ago I had a conversation with two Gazan Christians, who had fled their homes and were hiding out in the West Bank while hoping for asylum elsewhere. Their stories exposed the dangers Christian families face under Hamas, including extortion, rape, beatings and murder....

News from the animalstinians. Why did Israel pull out of Gaza? They should have finished off everyone of those terrorists, man, woman and children. They retake the land and stop the rockets once and for all. Then they can do the same in Judea and Sumarea.

Pro Israel Rally Phoenix Arizona 1-19-09

Pro-Israel rally Phoenix, AZ, 1/19/09. Notice no pro arab, muslim idiots in the background. That is because AZ is an open carry state for guns. Don't get me wrong, we have our fair share of muslims in Phoenix. In fact my apartment complex has been over run by Iraqi's. They are also building a muslim communittee center, mosque, not far from here. It really is amazing at the speed in which these people are taking over my complex.

Obama: "To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect"

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

Good luck with that. Will he find that mutual respect reciprocated? Do the Saudis treat us with respect when they fill Islamic schools and mosques in America with material teaching hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity to subjugate unbelievers under the rule of Islamic law? Do the Pakistanis respect us when they take our money to fight jihad terrorism and use it instead to aid jihad terrorism? Will Obama examine the reasons why that respect may not be forthcoming, and adjust policies accordingly?

Obama is going to try to make nice with people that want us to submit to allah, pay the jizya or die for not joining in the submission to allah. Great!! Hey Obama, got news for you, they don't like you anymore than Bush.

Al-Qaeda accursed: Not by the plague, but by its own incompetence

This is even better than the Black Death. It looks like those crazy muslims were working with some kind of chemical or biological weapon and oops, "allah we have a problem." Warm up the virgins.

The "Al Qaeda gets the bubonic plague" story was actually a story about a biological or chemical weapons experiment that went wrong.

An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday.

The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press reports that the accident killed at least 40 al Qaeda operatives, but he said the mishap led the militant group to shut down a base in the mountains of Tizi Ouzou province in eastern Algeria.

He said authorities in the first week of January intercepted an urgent communication between the leadership of al Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQIM) and al Qaeda's leadership in the tribal region of Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. The communication suggested that an area sealed to prevent leakage of a biological or chemical substance had been breached, according to the official.

"We don't know if this is biological or chemical," the official said.

The story was first reported by the British tabloid the Sun, which said the al Qaeda operatives died after being infected with a strain of bubonic plague, the disease that killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century. But the intelligence official dismissed that claim....

What is scary about this is that they are working with this type of weapon. Who will be the first to have this used against them?

Al Qaeda hit by Black Death fear as medieval plague kills 40 terrorists at training camp

Al Qaeda terrorists have been left fearing the Black Death plague after it wiped out at least 40 insurgents at an Algerian training camp, it was reported today.
The horror disease, which killed 25 million people in medieval Europe, is understood to have been found in a militant’s body dumped at a roadside.

Terror group AQLIM (al Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb) was forced to turn its shelter in the Yakouren forests into mass graves and flee, it has been claimed.

The new plague epidemic is said to have begun in AQLIM’s cave hideouts of in Tizi Ouzou province, 90 miles east of the capital Algiers.

AQLIM is the largest and most powerful al Qaeda group outside the Middle East and trains Muslim fighters to kill British and American troops.

Its boss Abdelmalek Droudkal claims to command around 1,000 insurgents and masterminded the bombing the UN headquarters in Algiers in 2007, killing 41.

Black Death comes in various forms and was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history when it struck in the 1340s killing 75 million people across North Africa, Asia and Europe.

Bubonic Plague is spread by bites from infected rat fleas. Symptoms include painful boils in the groin, neck and armpits.

In Pneumonic Plague, airborn bacteria spread like flu. Without medication it can be deadly.
Although plague is virtually unheard of in developed countries, the World Health Organisation reports several thousand cases a year.

These occur mainly in southern Asia, southern Africa and central America.

Between 1989 and 2003 there were more than 38,000 cases, which caused 2,845 deaths in 25 countries.

I love it!!! They want to live in seventh century conditions and lo and behold they are dying from The Black Death. I can only just hope that the CIA is behind spreading this around the muslim world. Death to every muslim is the only way that the world will see peace.

Hamas declares "great victory" after Israeli cease-fire

In a televised speech Ismail Haniya, the Prime Minister appointed by Hamas in Gaza, said: "God has granted us a great victory, not for one faction, or party, or area, but for our entire people.
"We have stopped the aggression and the enemy has failed to achieve any of its goals."

His comments came as Israel began withdrawing troops from the Gaza strip.

Hamas has joined the ceasefire in Gaza - but said it will resume hostilities unless Israel withdraws all its troops from the area within a week.

The truce ends three weeks of bloodshed which has claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people - half of them civilians.

It has been welcomed by US President-elect Barack Obama, who takes office on Tuesday.

A spokesman said: "President-elect Obama is committed to working to help achieve lasting peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians.

"(He) will have more to say on these issues after January 20th."
Hamas militants have carried out several rocket attacks on Israel since the ceasefire came into effect.

Israeli forces responded to the first with an airstrike on the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun in which a woman and child were reportedly wounded.

Israel's war cabinet - led by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - voted unanimously to back the ceasefire deal brokered by Egypt.

But he said Israeli troops would remain in Gaza and hit back if the militants launched further attacks.

He described the truce as "fragile" and said it would be reviewed on a "minute to minute" and "hour to hour" basis.

Hamas has said there cannot be a lasting peace until Israel pulls its troops out of Gaza and lifts a trade blockade.

A break from the aerial bombing is not a ceasefire. Israel has to withdraw from Gaza and stop fighting. - Source close to Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal

Following talks in Jerusalem between the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and European leaders, Gordon Brown urged the Israelis to pull all their troops out of Gaza as soon as possible and open up border crossings.

Mr Brown said: "I believe that that would constitute the next stage following the ceasefire that will make possible the resumption of talks that are necessary for a permanent peace."...

Both Brown and Obama, among others, would do well to examine the parameters of cease-fires and peace treaties under Islamic law. For example, below is a passage from Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveler), a Shafi'i Islamic jurisprudence manual certified as "reliable" by Egypt's Al-Azhar University:

Truces are permissible, not obligatory....Interests that justify making a truce are such things as Muslim weakness because of lack of numbers or materiel, or the hope of an enemy becoming Muslim...If the Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (may Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud....The rulings of such a truce are inferable from those of the non-Muslim poll tax; namely, that when a valid truce has been effected, no harm may be done to non-Muslims until it expires. o9.16

Why is Israel doing this? This is unbelievable. They need to wipe out every man, woman and child in Gaza, retake it, throw the arabs out of Israel and the West Bank and then they will have peace.

Love, Yemeni style: "I prefer to marry uneducated rural girls as I believe that uneducated girls are more innocent and easier to control"

A consequence of the enshrinement of Muhammad's consummating his marriage to Aisha when she was 9 years old as a laudable act, worthy of imitating (Qur'an 33:21), is not only the stigmatization of "older" would-be brides, but that "older" is actually rather young. Hence, according to this article, the marriage of very young girls is actually on the rise.

"I'm not young anymore to get married. I am in my late thirties so it is not easy," said 38 year-old and primary school teacher Mona.

The norms of our society compel a woman to make unsatisfied choices to marry as early as possible or to remain single beyond the usual age. However, thousands of women struggle during the time they remain unmarried.

According to a new study conducted by researcher Shuroog Ba-Mogbl, more than half a million women go above their thirties and still stay unmarried. Also the motive behind spinster was revealed as the society has negative thoughts towards working women.

"Hearing negative comments about educated women, I prefer to marry uneducated rural girls as I believe that uneducated girls are more innocent and easier to control," said 27 year old Rashid Al-Sa'di.

Perhaps he has heard this Yemeni proverb: "Give me a girl of 8, and I can give you a guarantee [for a good marriage]."

"If we can liberate ourselves a little from having bad feelings towards educated women, we won't have the big crisis of early marriage in Yemen," said lawyer and human rights activist Afra Hariri. "People's way of thinking towards educated women and divorced ones raises the issue of spinster in the country" she added.

In Sana'a theaters next Friday the 13th: Night of the Educated "Spinster".

Belqis Al-Lahabi a human rights activist who also passed through struggles of being unmarried, said that educated women often prefer to marry wealthy men and this is one reason for the delay of their marriages, which also leads them to marry older men.

Is "wealthy" defined with the same low threshold as "old enough for marriage?"

Sociology professor at Sana'a University Adel Al-Sharjabi said that late marriage is believed to be a crisis not only in Yemen but also in all Arab countries. "The period of time in which the woman stays unmarried is harmful as her behavior is watched and her movements are monitored more than others," he added.

In a country where many older women are struggling to get married, the rate of early marriages are increasing dramatically. The wait that older women go through leads younger women to get married as early as possible.

"I don't know anything about my childhood only a girl who had to bring water from a far away water wells," said 28 year-old Daula Hassan who got married 15 years ago to a man in her father's age. "If I have something to regret, it is my childhood," she added.

Volunteer lawyer of (Nujood, Arwa and Reem,) who all got married before the age of 14, Shatha Nasser said that the reasons that led her clients' families to accept early marriages for their daughters was their parents financial reasons.

There is a deeper problem with a system of values that considers bartering one's daughter as an option in the face of financial difficulty.

The law before 1990 stated that the girl must reach the age of sixteen to get married and any marriage before the limited age is a crime and those who violate the law must be imprisoned not less than a year and not more than three years and pay money for the woman as a compensation.

"It is a potential risk that men turn to marry younger girls and leave adult ones," said Head of the Sister Arab Forum for Human Rights, Amal Basha.

Researcher and parliament member Faud Dahabh believe that under age marriage is not permitted in Sharia if it harms the girl. He went on that numerous cases of early marriages assured that many girls were harmed when they got married early.

"If it harms the girl." And what transparent, verifiable system is in place to ascertain that?
Sana'a university faculty of law professor Abdul Mo'men Shuja' Al-Dein said that the new law does not make it clear as it states that the marriage of the child girl is illegal." "The law also states that the silence of a woman when asked for marriage is a sign of acceptance and this law is against the international agreements that Yemen signed," he added.

Locals who got married at a early age describe their practice of sex with their wives to bakers who bake bread in cold ovens. That crass and insensitive analogy aside, one would think some of them might recognize that as sign that child marriage is not such a great idea.

Professor and jurisprudence's professor and ex-head of the Faculty of Law Sana'a University Hassan Al-Ahdel stated that it is not fair to force a female child to get married early because such a marriage could result to many problems.

He revealed that famous Islamic scholars as Abu Hainfah fixes marriage age at 18 and considers this age to be the minimum, because a man or a woman becomes full-grown and able to take decisions out of his own sense and consideration.

It will take much more than one anecdote about a favorable minimum marriage age to genuinely solve the problem. The opinion of one scholar -- however famous -- against the example of Muhammad, and the fact that the Qur'an takes child marriage for granted in allowing for divorce of girls who have not reached puberty (65:4) will not sway those who are determined to maintain child marriage. Only a broad consensus against it, stated in unequivocal terms, with the support of civil laws and clerics who will refuse to be party to child marriages will pave the way for progress. Insisting that it isn't really Islamic (except when it kind of is, but it's complicated) will not.

Early marriage is one of the biggest development challenges in Yemen according to Naseem-Ur-Rehman, Chief Information Officer at UNICEF Sana’a. A 2006 field study revealed that child marriage among Yemeni girls reached 52.1%, compared to 6.7% among males. The study, conducted by the Woman and Development Study Center, affiliated to Sana’a University, looked at 1,495 couples.

Old Mo was a pediphile who loved little boys and girls. He married a six year old Ayisha and had sex with her at nine. NINE? Even back then nine was too young. But hey, Old Mo is the pefect human according to the sick muslims.

Taliban deadline arrives, girls' schools close in Pakistan's Swat Valley

Thousands of young women living in a part of Pakistan once considered the country's most idyllic tourist destination have been prevented from going to school after an order from Taliban forces which have seized control of much of the area.

Fearful of violent attacks that have already seen the torching of over 180 schools in the Swat Valley, school administrators have announced that more than 900 private schools will remain closed until the security situation improves. Government officials, struggling to organise adequate protection, have appealed to schools to extend their winter holidays until at least March. The future education of around 125,000 young women is uncertain as a result of the order, said to come into effect on January 15.

In an echo of Afghanistan under the Taliban, the campaign against female education is the latest phase of a brutal and swift advance across the valley led by local Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah that has included the beheading of opponents, the closure of barber shops, political assassinations, kidnappings and the destruction of homes belonging to the wealthy.
Earlier this month, militants were believed to be behind attacks on the homes of the Wali of Swat, the benign autocrat who ruled the valley and who has now fled to Islamabad, and Hameedullah Khan, a reporter for the respected Dawn newspaper.

The Taliban have also introduced a parallel legal system where makeshift Sharia courts order lashes and death sentences for those seen to be violating their brand of Islamic law, said Shoukat Saleem, a lawyer.

“Yesterday there was a bombing of a school in Mingora, the main city,” he added. “No one is giving any education. Girls preparing for their matriculation exams in March have had to abandon their education. Unless the government or the Taliban announce that the situation will be ok, no one will take the risk.”

Shoukat Ali Yousafzai, the top civil administrator, said most of the schools were currently closed for winter holidays. “Once they are over, we will give security with the help of the army,” he said.

But in a sign of worsening security in even Mingora, which until recently been beyond the reach of the Taliban, Mr Yousafzai said around 50 corpses had been discovered dumped this month. Some have been found beheaded, others carried a note warning readers not to remove the body before an appointed time.

Ziauddin Yousafzai, a spokesman for the Private Schools Management Association, said: “It will be very difficult to reopen the schools as long as there is no political solution of the problem? The Taliban are now the de facto rulers of Swat.”...

Additional reporting from Reuters and the Associated Press adds this:

Muslim Khan, the militants' spokesman, said they would not allow girls' schools to operate until the army withdraws from the valley and Islamic law is imposed. "These schools are being run under a system introduced by the British and promote obscenity and vulgarity in society," Khan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.

WSJ: Hey, let's call it a war against "Islamic supremacy"!

James Taranto has had a great new idea: let's not call it a War On Terror, but a War On "Islamic Supremacy"!

[...] So, how does one describe these movements? "Terrorist," as we have noted, is too imprecise, a reference to tactics, not ideology. What we need is a term that acknowledges that they are Islamic movements without implying anything invidious about Muslims who do not belong to such movements.

The answer: Islamic supremacy. The analogous term, white supremacy, is in no way offensive to whites, Indeed, condemnations of white supremacy generally succeed at shaming whites into shunning groups like the Ku Klux Klan, just as the West hopes to shame Muslims into shunning Islamic supremacist groups.

We would define Islamic supremacy as follows: a doctrine that seeks to subjugate or exterminate non-Muslims, or convert them to Islam by force. This is slightly different from white supremacy, in that there is no such thing as a racial conversion--but we think the analogy is close enough to be useful.

This is getting too close to the bone, so Taranto draws back into a comfortable moral equivalence, gliding over the fact that while Christianity and Islam are universalist, Christianity lacks the militaristic imperative to subjugate nonbelievers that is taught by all the orthodox sects of Islam:

One might argue that supremacy is inherent in Islam, inasmuch as it claims to be the one true religion and (unlike some other faiths, such as Judaism) seeks converts. But the same is true of Christianity, which has largely made peace with secular modernity and religious pluralism. Reconciling Islam with religious pluralism is a task for Muslims. Combating Islamic supremacist movements is one for non-Muslims and nonsupremacist Muslims alike. [...]

The entire koran is about the supremacy of the arab. They make people memorize the koran in arabic. 95% of all muslims do not speak or understand arabic. So, they are learning how to just say words that have no meaning for them. Then there is the dress for both men and women. The dress proscribed is from the seventh century arabian desert.

I like this idea. Terror is a tactic. Supremism is an ism. Now that we know how to fight.