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.

Terrorist muslim in US kills soldier

CAIR normally denounces Islamic terror attacks against Americans on US soil, but not against Americans serving in uniform overseas. The murder of 23-year-old Pvt. William Long in Arkansas presented a bit of a dilemma. (So far CAIR has refused to condemn it).

CAIR supports terrorism throughout the world. They are guilty of sending "charity" to jihadis all over the world. They need to lose their tax exempt status or be outlawed the way the UK outlaws groups like this.

How islam is making a difference in the UK

Muslim immigration into the UK has left a trail of rape victims, but as long as the political elite place a higher value on multiculturalism,Britain's women will just have to keep taking one for the team!

Multiculturalism is going to be the downfall of the West. What we need to do is get the liberals out of the schools and deprogram the others. We need to teach our kids good conservative values. And yes, some cultures are better than others. We are not all the same.

Man kills sister in the name of ‘honour’

LAHORE: A man from Sabzazar has been arrested for allegedly killing his sister in yet another honour killing case on Thursday.

According to police, Iqbal strangled his 22-year-old sister Adeeba – in the presence of family members – for having illicit relations with a boy from their neighbourhood. The alleged murderer later asked his family members not to disclose the incident. The victim’s family planned to bury her in their native city of Khoshab, but locals informed the police and Iqbal was arrested. Police have recovered the body and shifted it to the city morgue for autopsy. Police said the girl was strangled to death with a piece of cloth, which had also been confiscated as evidence. A first information report (FIR) has been registered against Iqbal and investigations are underway.

And we are always told that honour killings have nothing to do with islam. Why don't we hear of Jewish, Christian, Buddist or Athiest honour killings? Could it be that muslims are just barbarians?

Ahmadinejad won, says Iran's supreme leader as he defies mass protest and international outrage

This is the real leader of Iran and he hates all non-muslims. He is the one that will make the decision to nuke the Jews.

This guy is just a stooge that they parade out to the West. The mullahs would not look so good in their religious garb.

These are the loyal subjects chanting "Death to UK, Death to US and Death to Israel." Aren't muslims a friendly bunch?

Michigan: Judge says Arab Christian group can't roam freely and give out literature at Arab festival

Is this America? Now Arab Christians don't have the same rights that Arab Muslims do at an Arab festival in the United States of America? They don't have the right to free exercise of their religion?

The judge says this is all about crowd control issues, but it is hard not to notice the fact that Islam frowns on proselytizing by other religious groups. Given the general accommodationist spirit sweeping across Obama's America in these heady days, it's highly coincidental that a group engaging in an activity that Islamic law forbids and that Muslims generally hate would be squelched, now, isn't it? Isn't it a marvelous coincidence that by this decision U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds managed to please a significant constituency in the Dearborn area?

And of course the mayor of Dearborn believes in free speech -- he just doesn't want this group to practice it.

A federal judge sided with the city of Dearborn today in a dispute with a Christian group over the distribution of religious literature during an upcoming Arab festival. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed this week by a Christian group who says the city of Dearborn is denying it the right to roam the Arab International Festival to hand out religious literature.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds denied a motion from the Christian group for a temporary restraining order that would have prohibited the city from restricting the group from handing out literature, according to a release from the group’s attorneys.

Read it all: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026642.php

CAIR-NY Welcomes City Council Vote on Muslim Holidays in Schools

NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today joined a coalition of community organizations in welcoming the passage of a resolution by a committee of the city council that calls for adding Muslim holidays to the school calendar.

Resolution 1281, passed overwhelmingly by the New York City Council Education Committee, calls on the "New York City Department of Education to incorporate the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as observed school holidays in the school calendar for the city school district of the city of New York" and also asks that the state legislature "pass, and the Governor to sign into law, A.8108/S.5837, an Act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring that Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha be school holidays in the city school district of the city of New York."

The Coalition for Muslim School Holidays - a broad interfaith, inter-ethnic coalition of labor, community, civil rights, and religious organizations - also urged the entire city council to support including Muslim holidays in the school calendar.

"Today marks a positive step forward in the effort to provide a more inclusive educational environment for all students," said CAIR-NY Community Affairs Director Faiza N. Ali, who sits on the steering committee of the Coalition for Muslim School Holidays. "This resolution advances religious liberty, recognizes the growing Muslim population in New York and promotes our great city's values of diversity and inclusion."

She noted that the New York City area is home to some 1 million Muslims, one of the fastest growing and most diverse religious populations in the city. More than 90 percent of Muslim students attend public schools and one in eight public school students is Muslim.

CAIR offers a booklet, called "An Educator's Guide to Islamic Religious Practices," designed to promote diversity and accommodate Muslim students in educational institutions.

Ali also urged Speaker Christine Quinn and the entire city council to pass Resolution 1281: "Our community continues to face issues of harassment and discrimination in schools. The city now has an opportunity to help foster a better understanding of Islam and re-affirm that Muslims are a valued part of this city."

Of course they are victims. Give them holidays and that will help make it all better?

In a similar effort to promote religious inclusion in New York, CAIR-NY yesterday joined the Sikh Coalition in its request to end a Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) uniform policy that requires Sikh and Muslim transit workers to brand their religious head covering with MTA logos.

TUNISIA: JUSTICE MINISTRY, ASTONISHED BY GUANTANAMO INMATES

(ANSAmed) - TUNIS, 19 JUNE - "Tunisia is astonished by claims of the violation of human rights that some Tunisian prisoners supposedly could undergo if they are repatriated to their country of origin," the Tunisian Ministry for Justice and Human Rights said in a statement reacting to the prospects for Tunisian prisoners at Guantanamo who could be sent home. "Such claims, made to justify the transfer of these citizens resident abroad to certain European countries rather than repatriating them, are totally baseless. The Constitution of Tunisia guarantees the physical and moral integrity of any person on its territory and the country has always collaborated with the United Nations and international institutions on such matters," the statement claimed. "The fact of being detained at the Guantanamo camp is not proof of guilt. The detainees convicted in their absence by Tunisian courts can, when that happens, make use of their right to appeal against such judgements". The ministry cited the case of two former Guantanamo detainees who were repatriated in 2007 who appealed. "They benefitted from a fair and public trial and their sentences were reduced. They are held in normal conditions and receive regular visits from family members and their lawyers." "In this context, the repatriation to Canada of Said Jaziri, an Imam of Tunisian origin, should be remembered. It was also said of him, in certain circles, that he would be badly treated in his country. After his arrival in Tunisia, Said Jaziri was not prosecuted, nor arrested or denounced. He currently lives peacefully with his family," said the statement. (ANSAmed).

The real reason that we cannot close Club GITMO is that the muslims don't want to go back to their home countries and their home countries don't want them either.

Student jailed for trying to fight British in Afghanistan

His fellow traveler, on the other hand, was "acquitted after claiming he thought he was going on a trekking holiday' when he travelled to Turkey, and that he had been deceived by his co-defendant."

A gap-year student who vowed to battle British soldiers with a Koran in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other has been jailed.

Mohamed Abushamma, 21, was intercepted by anti-terror police in Turkey as he attempted to travel to Afghanistan to join pro-Taliban fighters.

The youth hoped to enter Afghanistan via its northern border with Tajikistan, after trekking over the mountainous border between the two countries.

Once there, he hoped to join mujihadeen fighters engaged in bloody fighting with coalition troops.

At Croydon Crown Court yesterday, Judge Mr Justice Bean sentenced Abushamma to three-and-a-half years' imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to preparing for acts of terrorism.

His friend Qasim Abukar, 21, who travelled with him to Turkey, was cleared of the same offence by a jury earlier this month, despite going on the run in the middle of his trial.

Mr Justice Bean told Abushamma: "You have pleaded guilty to preparing for acts of terrorism. You decided to travel to Afghanistan to join the mujihadeen.

"In that country, you were seeking to overthrow the government by force, fighting against the government and the coalition forces, assisting them in order to advance the ideological cause of militant islamism.

"Fortunately, you were intercepted in Turkey before you could reach your destination.

"I accept that what you have done is nothing like as grave as actually committing a terrorist outrage, or even attempting one, but it is a grave and serious offence."[...]

Prosecutor Alison Morgan told the court than in an email sent to his father and sister before his departure for Turkey, Abushamma "clearly indicated that he would be fighting with a Koran in one hand and an AK47 in the other."

Abushamma, who was due to start a course at University College London in September last year, decided to fight violent Jihad after being radicalised by reading extremist websites.

His lawyer Imran Khan told the court his client was from an illustrious' family - his grandfather was a general and his great-grandfather was the first president of the Sudan.

His parents had sent him to study medicine in the Sudan, after he failed to get into medical school in Britain when he only got an A and two Bs at A-level, but he refused to stay there and returned to Britain.

He had also spent a year studying Arabic in Egypt.

That would be his problem right there. Studying arabic is code for being radicalized.

Mr Khan urged the judge to give his client a suspended sentence, telling the court that he had repented of his actions and was now working to try and dissuade other young people from extremism.

Abushamma, of Britannia Row, Islington, North London, admitted engaging in conduct in preparation for committing acts of terrorism.

Abukar, of Dartmouth Park Hill, Upper Holloway, North London, denied the same charge.

He was acquitted after claiming he thought he was going on a trekking holiday' when he travelled to Turkey, and that he had been deceived by his co-defendant.

He absconded halfway through his trial and has not been seen since.

He is in Turkey fighting with a koran in one hand and an AK in the other.

Saudi Arabia: Father has son arrested for "disobedience"

JEDDAH – A real estate businessman has been arrested under the orders of the General Commission for Prosecution and Investigation after his father accused him of “disobedience”, or “’Uqouq” in Shariah law, with the case now due to be heard at the Shariah Court in Jeddah.

The dispute reportedly began when the father wished to invest in his son’s successful real estate business and a five-year partnership agreement was signed between the two parties, but after two years the father began demanding large sums of money in profits he believed his investment had earned.

His son, however, provided him with details of the company’s turnover and further offered to let an independent auditor review the accounts, but his father rejected the proposal and said instead that his son should relinquish all his possessions to him.

When he refused, the father went to the police accusing his son of “uqouq”, or “disobedience.”

The police passed the case over to the Commission for Investigation and Prosecution which issued an arrest warrant for the son on the grounds that disobedience is a crime punishable by Shariah law, thereby transferring the issue to the Shariah Court in Jeddah, which is scheduled to hear the case on Saturday.

Mosque petrol bombed twice in a week

A BRAVE caretaker was hurt as he risked his life to save a mosque torched by arsonists in the second petrol bomb attack in a week.

Mohamed Koheeallee, 62, raced to tackle 7ft flames at the Greenwich Islamic Centre in Plumstead Road at 12.15am on Tuesday.
Grabbing a bucket of water, he extinguished the fire as it spread inside but when he opened a fire exit, he was engulfed by flames burning his arm and his face.
Choking with smoke inhalation and despite his injuries, he carried on dousing the fire until the mosque was safe but when he tried to tackle the source of the blaze he was pushed back by its intensity.
Holy texts, including the most sacred in Islam - the Koran - were burned.
Mr Koheeallee, who believes the attack was racially motivated, was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital by ambulance to be treated for smoke inhalation and burns and was later discharged.
He said: "It makes me feel really bad to see the burnt holy scriptures.
If these people have a problem they should be brave enough to say it to my face, but not like this."
The caretaker had also dealt with another arson attack at the mosque which had been less serious but had taken place a week before at approximately the same time of night.
A chain that locks two heavy duty metal gates at the rear of the centre - which were put in place after the London 7/7 bombings - had been cut.
In March 2006, Mr Koheeallee was attacked in the mosque with a hammer, as reported in the Times.
The centre's director, Dr Tariq Abbasi, said "enough is enough," and has called on the new Greenwich borough commander Richard Wood to take action.
Dr Abbasi said: "This is as bad as it can get. Nobody deserves this. Seeing burnt copies of the Koran, the emotional impact has been devastating."
Monetary loss is one thing, the building can be re-built, but the emotional scars can last for years."
The Muslim community see this as a racist attack on a place of worship."If something like this happens anywhere in the world the reaction is not a good one."
We want the borough commander to take action and for council leaders to understand that we are not prepared to accept it."
He said a racist minority may have been encouraged after BNP members won seats in the European elections.
The latest attacks come after Romanians in Belfast this week had to seek sanctuary in a church after being targeted by mobs believed to have links to racist group Combat 18.
Plumstead councillor, Sajid Jawaid praised the bravery of Mr Koheeallee, and called for the community to unite against the "mindless cowards" who attacked the mosque.
Mr Jawaid said: "These people are trying to divide the communities and sow the seeds of hate."We must work together to create a stronger and diverse community in the borough."
A spokesperson for Greenwich Police said: "Officers attended the scene and the cause of the fire is being investigated by the London Fire Brigade."
A man suffering minor burns was taken by ambulance to a local hospital."Enquiries into the circumstances of the fire continue.
There have been no arrests.

It is not impossible for him to have started the fire himself. There are videotaped records of muslims vanillizing their own mosques to play the victim. This has all the smell of being a set up.

Mother accused of starving daughter to death 'banned school from feeding other child snacks when he was hungry'

A mother accused of starving her seven-year-old daughter to death refused to take another child in her care to a dietician despite medical advice to do so, a court heard today.
Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court were told that Angela Gordon banned staff at the child's school from feeding him snacks when he was hungry.
Gordon is charged alongside her partner Junaid Abuhamza - with the murder of Khyra Ishaq, who died from malnutrition.
Dr Suraj Ahmed said teachers grew concerned about the young boy after he stole food from the plates of his classmates.
The child, who cannot be named, was seven years old when Dr Ahmed examined him in January last year.
The doctor, an assistant specialist in community paediatrics, said: 'The school was a little bit concerned because he always appeared to be hungry.'
'He was searching cupboards looking for food as soon as he got into school.
'At lunchtime he would grab food from the other children's plates and eat it and that was a cause for concern for the school staff.'
Weighing 22kg, the boy was below the average weight for his age.
Dr Ahmed said: 'I pointed this out to (Gordon) and said that he appeared not to be getting enough calories. I suggested that he might benefit from seeing a dietician but she was not keen on that. She was against it.
'She felt he was getting an adequate amount of calories at home and she didn't want the school to give him any snacks without her permission.'
Another medic who treated the boy at Birmingham's City Hospital after Khyra's death on May 17 last year said he had appeared 'obsessed' with food.
Dr Simil Bhimsaria said: 'He would approach anyone and ask for food all the time. He appeared quite obsessed with food throughout the time of his stay in hospital.'
Today a pathologist who attended a second post-mortem examination on Khyra's body on June 4 last year spoke of his shock at seeing her emaciated body.
Dr Roger Malcolmson told jurors that he had never seen such a high level of fat loss as that suffered by Khyra before her death.
Dr Malcolmson said he believed Khyra died from a bacterial infection but that the 'ultimate cause' of her death was malnutrition.
He told the jury: 'Taking everything into consideration, she was severely malnourished.
'I have never seen a similar case before. I believe in this case that the infection that caused Khyra's death was inevitably caused by her malnutrition.'
Dr Malcolmson added that there was no other 'credible or conceivable' natural cause of death.
Gordon, 34, and 30-year-old Abuhamza, both of Leyton Road, Handsworth, deny murder.
Abuhamza has pleaded guilty to cruelty charges relating to five children in his care and control.
Gordon denies the charges of child cruelty, which are alleged to have been committed between December 2007 and May 17 2008.

What is it with muslims starving their kids?

Scuffles as extremist Muslim group orders men and women to be segregated at public meeting

Douglas Murray and Anjem Choudary confront each other after the South Place Ethical Society banned the pracher's group, Al Muhajiroun from the hall.

A public debate organised by banned Islamic sect Al Muhajiroun was cancelled today after an angry confrontation broke out over the segregation of men and women.
Management at the meeting's venue said 'fundamentalist thugs' forced the event to be called off after they physically prevented men and women sitting together.
Giles Enders, Chairman of the South Place Ethical Society, which runs Conway Hall in Holborn, London, said scuffles broke out over the group's heavy-handed approach.
The meeting came as the group's new leader, Anjem Choudary, issued a challenge to the Government to ban the group after it emerged it was reforming.
Al Muhajiroun has sparked controversy after he said he wanted Sharia law in Britain and called 9/11 terrorists the 'Magnificent 19'.
The group was hoping to hold its first public meeting in five years but Mr Enders said the group had broken the terms for its hire of the hall.
Today's debate, called Sharia Law Versus British Law, was intended to pit Choudary against Douglas Murray, director of right-wing think tank the Centre for Social Cohesion.
Taking to the stage, Mr Enders said: 'A group of thugs at the door have refused to let women in. I'm cancelling this meeting.'
He was cheered by a small group of women sitting in the balcony but was also heckled by many of the 100 or so men in the main hall.
Mr Choudary, who sat on stage during the scuffles and Mr Enders' announcement, then grabbed the microphone and after led chants saying: 'This is a victory for Osama Muslims'
But Mr Enders took the microphone back from Mr Choudary and ordered everyone in the hall to leave.
Alexander Hitchens, of the Centre for Social Cohesion, said his group was invited to the debate with Mr Choudary on the understanding that it would be held on neutral ground with no segregation.
He said he was greeted by members of Al Muharjiroun on the door before being barred from entering.
'We were led to believe it would be completely neutral,' he said.
Outside the hall, Mr Choudary criticised British society as 'dirty' and predicted that, within one or two decades, Muslims would be the majority here.
Asked why he was living here, he said: 'We come here to civilise people, get them to come out of the darkness and injustice into the beauty of Islam.'
Mr Murray, who arrived at the venue with his own security guards, said the platform of tonight's planned debate was 'completely unacceptable'.
He said: 'I'm perfectly willing to debate Anjem Choudary and Al Muhajiroun's ideas. His ideas are not difficult. They do not stand up.
'But it's very clear that this debate is not neutral. This was a segregated event, policed by Al Muhajiroun's guards.'
He added he had been led to the event under false pretences by a front organisation called Global Issues Society.
Mr Murray confronted Mr Choudary and his supporters in the street and the pair spoke for about 10 minutes.
Mr Choudary said he had not broken any laws and called to Muslims to join his group.
'We are not a proscribed group and it is not illegal to be a member,' he said.
'That's a challenge to the Government and to the media - we were not doing anything that was terrorist-related in the past.'
Accepting that the group would have to pay attention to laws which outlaw the glorification of terrorism, he said: 'We will have to choose our words a little bit more carefully.'
Opposition leaders called on ministers to act swiftly to implement a ban.
However, the Home Office said a ban could only be implemented if there was evidence that a group was involved with terrorism.
A spokesman said: 'Proscription is a tough but necessary power to tackle terrorism.
'Decisions on proscription must be proportionate and based on evidence that a group is concerned in terrorism as defined in the Terrorism Act 2000.
'Organisations which cause us concern, including those which might change their name to avoid the consequences of proscription, are kept under constant review.
'As and when new material comes to light, it is considered and the organisation reassessed as part of that process.'
Shadow security minister Baroness Pauline-Neville Jones said the ban would be a test as to whether the Government was serious about proscribing organisations which espouse extremism.
Former prime minister Tony Blair pledged to ban the group four years ago, but it was never outlawed while two splinter groups, Al Gurabaa and the Saviour Sect, were proscribed.
Al Muhajiroun was formed by radical preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad, who was later kicked out of Britain.
Mr Choudary's followers provoked outrage in Luton earlier this year when they protested against soldiers returning from Iraq.

I still do not understand why this guy is still allowed to live in England.

Oh what a man! - Anything for revenge

KUWAIT CITY : Police have arrested an unidentified man for threatening to post his wife’s pictures on the Internet website. The pictures reportedly show the couple making love, reports Al-Rai daily.

It has been reported the couple got married when the wife was just 14 years old and there was an agreement between the couple not to have babies until the wife was 24 years old. When the time came she reportedly told the husband that she wants to have a baby and the husband turned down her wish.

When the wife threatened to nullify the marriage the husband threatened to post her pictures on the website.

After the arrest, the husband denied the allegations and also said he does not possess any of his wife’s clips, but later confessed to having them.

A case has been registered against the man and police have reportedly confiscated the pictures and clips from the man which was taken by Bluetooth without the knowledge of the wife.

So he was planning ahead?

Italy: MP in court to defend herself against death 'fatwa'

Bologna, 18 June (AKI) - An Italian MP and Muslim women's rights activist was due to give evidence to a court on Thursday over death threats allegedly made against her in a 'fatwa' or religious edict. Souad Sbai, MP for the ruling conservative People of Freedom party, was due to attend the court in the northern Italian city of Bologna as witness.

"I am today in Bologna to defend myself against a death 'fatwa' issued against me, for which I had to live in fear for quite some time," said Sbai in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI).

Akrane H., is accused of having issued the death threat in 2007 and accused Sbai of taking advantage of immigrants for personal gain."I call on God to act against you, in a way that he will expose you.

You are a very bad woman, begin to pray to God, leave work for men. "I have heard very bad things about you and you have thus been exposed as a 'massihia' (Christian)," Akrane wrote in a letter to Sbai.

The claim by Akrane is an accusation of apostasy, which under Islamic law calls for the death penalty, which can be carried out by any Muslim at any time.

"You are an opportunist. You use immigrants for profit-making. You Souad, are nothing and you have nothing to do with Islam and have no knowledge of fikh (religious jurisprudence)," the letter stated.

"You have your hair uncovered in the sight of God, and a woman who does not cover her head must be hanged by the hair. God will punish you for the evil you do to people," the letter continued.

Sbai, who is also president of the Moroccan Women's Association in Italy, said she hopes the judge will understand the severity of the death threat.

"Today's hearing could be the last hearing of the trial and I hope the judge understands the danger of this 'fatwa' and the seriousness of this issue," she told AKI.

Sbai said she was worried that Bologna's DIGOS or anti-terrorism police had no information about who she was, or her work in favour of abused Muslim women.

DIGOS also considered Akrane H. nothing more than an anarchist or an extreme-left political activist.

"This is not correct, because they are underestimating the 'Islamic value' of his words," she concluded.

I am surprised she is not dead yet.

Egypt: Court denies second ex-Muslim's right to convert

"... Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality." - Barack Obama in Cairo

Tolerance from islam? Really?

ISTANBUL, June 16 (Compass Direct News) – A Cairo judge on Saturday (June 13) rejected an Egyptian’s convert’s attempt to change his identification card’s religious status from Muslim to Christian, the second failed attempt to exercise constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom by a Muslim-born convert to Christianity.

For Maher El-Gohary, who has been attacked on the street, subjected to death threats and driven into hiding as a result of opening his case 10 months ago, Saturday’s outcome provided nothing in the way of consolation.

“I am disappointed with what happened and shocked with the decision, because I went to great lengths and through a great deal of hardship,” he said.

El-Gohary follows Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy as only the second Muslim-born convert in Egypt to request such a change. El-Gohary filed suit against the Ministry of the Interior for rejecting his application in August last year.

In contrast to their angry chants and threats in previous hearings, lawyers representing the government sat quietly as Judge Hamdy Yasin read his decision in a session that lasted no more than 10 minutes, according to one of El-Gohary’s lawyers, Nabil Ghobreyal.

The judge rejected El-Gohary’s application even though the convert provided a baptism certificate and a letter of acceptance into the Coptic Orthodox Church that the judge had demanded.

“The judge said he will not accept the [baptism] certificate from Cyprus or the letter from Father Matthias [Nasr Manqarious],” said Ghobreyal. “Even if he gets a letter from the pope, the judge said he would not accept it, because the remit of the church is to deal with Christians, not to deal with Muslims who convert to Christianity; this is outside their remit.”

El-Gohary sounded perplexed and frustrated as he spoke by telephone with Compass about the verdict.

“The judge asked for letters of acceptance and baptism,” he said. “It was really not easy to get them, in fact it was very hard, but if he was not going to use these things, why did he ask for them in the first place? We complied with everything and got it for him, and then it was refused.

What was the point of all this?”...

The judge had no intention of ever allowing this.