Saudi court said to order criminal to be surgically paralyzed
Posted: April 3, 2013 Filed under: News | Tags: Al-Hayat, Amnesty International, London, MENA, Middle East, Reuters, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Comments Off on Saudi court said to order criminal to be surgically paralyzed
03/Apr/2013
Source: Reuters(Reporting by Sami Aboudi; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
DUBAI (Reuters) – Amnesty International has condemned a reported Saudi Arabian court ruling that a young man should be paralyzed as punishment for a crime he committed 10 years ago which resulted in the victim being confined to a wheelchair.
The London-based human rights group said Ali al-Khawaher, 24, was reported to have spent 10 years in jail waiting to be paralyzed surgically unless his family pays one million Saudi riyals ($270,000) to the victim.
The Saudi Gazette newspaper reported last week that Khawaher had stabbed a childhood friend in the spine during a dispute a decade ago, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Saudi Arabia applies Islamic sharia law, which allows eye-for-an-eye punishment for crimes but allows victims to pardon convicts in exchange for so-called blood money.
“Paralyzing someone as punishment for a crime would be torture,” Ann Harrison, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director, said in a statement late on Tuesday.
“That such a punishment might be implemented is utterly shocking, even in a context where flogging is frequently imposed as a punishment for some offences, as happens in Saudi Arabia,” she added.
A government-approved Saudi human rights group did not respond to requests for comment.
The Arabic-language al-Hayat daily quoted Khawaher’s 60-year-old mother as saying her son was a juvenile aged 14 at the time of the offence. She said the victim had demanded 2 million riyals to pardon her son and later reduced this to 1 million. “But we don’t have even a tenth of this sum,” she said.
Al-Hayat said an unnamed philanthropist was trying to raise funds to pay the blood money, but it was not clear how much time remained before Khawaher’s sentence was to be carried out.
Amnesty said the case demonstrated the need for Saudi Arabia to review its laws to “start respecting their international obligations and remove these terrible punishments from the law”.
Saudi judges have in the past ordered sharia punishments that include tooth extraction, flogging, eye gouging and – in murder cases – death.
“THIS IS ISLAMIC APARTHEID”: NEW AFDI AD CAMPAIGN TO LAUNCH IN NYC TO COUNTER BLOOD LIBEL BY AMERICAN MUSLIMS
Posted: March 28, 2013 Filed under: News | Tags: Anne Bayefsky, Criticism of Islam, Israel, Jew, Muslim, Muslim world, New York City, Sharia Comments Off on “THIS IS ISLAMIC APARTHEID”: NEW AFDI AD CAMPAIGN TO LAUNCH IN NYC TO COUNTER BLOOD LIBEL BY AMERICAN MUSLIMS
27/March/2013
Source: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
We submitted the following ads (scroll) responding to the repulsive, anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine ads (above) that were announced yesterday. Our ads will focus on the real apartheid, Islamic apartheid: the institutionalized oppression of women, gays and non-Muslims under Islamic law (Sharia). This is the fourth repulsive anti-Semitic campaign that Muslim Jew-haters are running in the New York City transit system. It is important to point out that it is these campaigns that were the impetus for the AFDI pro-Israel and #MyJihad campaigns. I can assure you that this latest Goebbels-style demonization of the Jews will not go unanswered. We are working right now to get ads responding to these ready for submission.
Our ads will focus on the real apartheid, Islamic apartheid: the institutionalized oppression of women, gays and non-Muslims under Islamic law (Sharia).
Myths and facts0 (here). Contribute to this campaign here or via paypal. Send your donation to americanfreedomdefense@aol.com (it’s a 501C3).
No Halal Butcher
Posted: March 20, 2013 Filed under: Pictures | Tags: Halal, Islam, Muslim, no halal, No Halal Butcher, Sharia Comments Off on No Halal Butcher
Saudi Beheading *Viewer discretion advised
Posted: March 20, 2013 Filed under: Video | Tags: Capital punishment, Decapitation, Execution by firing squad, Human Rights Watch, Rizana Nafeek, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Comments Off on Saudi Beheading *Viewer discretion advisedSHARIA LAW ABOUT TO ENTER THE SPANISH LEGISLATOR
Posted: January 26, 2013 Filed under: News | Tags: Christianity, Government of Spain, Islam, Morocco, Sharia, Spain, Spanish Constitution of 1978, Spanish Government Comments Off on SHARIA LAW ABOUT TO ENTER THE SPANISH LEGISLATORSource : ALERTA DIGITAL, Spain
[Google translate] DJ. – The Spanish govern
ment will
allow Moroccan religious authorities to take control of children up to 18 years of age to make sure they have not been converted to Christianity.
In the name of Sharia it designates the set of rules of Muslim life. Islamic states are adopting it as their own legislation. They are even doing this – in partially-in Islamic countries that are not Islamic states.
In our case it is the subject of adoption. Apparently many couples want to adopt Spanish children outside our borders. We see that there are not enough children here.
Anyway, in Morocco, since the Islamists came to power in January 2012 [you know, the Arab spring], for a child to be adopted by a Moroccan Spanish family, it requires the child to remain culturally and religiously Muslim. Furthermore, the Spanish Government should be obliged to control the process [?] And allow Moroccan religious authorities to take control of children up to 18 years of age to ensure they have not been converted to Christianity.
The demands of an Islamic country is not a surprise for us, for we know far too well their lack of religious freedom. What is truly inconceivable is that the Spanish government accept these conditions. Well, what you just read, this unprecedented advance of Sharia in our country, will soon be included in our legislation.
Some questions that confront us are: What about religious freedom? And the Spanish Constitution? What about the West?
Apart from other issues such as the control of another state on our citizens within our borders, I think that no government has the right to create spaces within the country in which it suspends the right to religious freedom.
By observing the optimism and “normality” with some sectors towards such radical secularism when we hear this kind of news, it is understood that for some people the concepts of democracy, freedom, human rights, etc.. both extol them-however-are underlined with its hatred of Christianity (I am speaking now of Spain, of course). They forget, or ignore, that all these rights and freedoms are the result of a culture steeped in the Christian faith.
BELGIUM. GOVERNMENT BANNED CHRISTMAS TREE OUT OF CONCERNS MUSLIM POPULATION FOUND IT “OFFENSIVE.”
Posted: December 26, 2012 Filed under: News | Tags: Belgium, Brussels, Christmas Tree, Flanders, Grand Place, Muslim, Sharia, Wallonia Comments Off on BELGIUM. GOVERNMENT BANNED CHRISTMAS TREE OUT OF CONCERNS MUSLIM POPULATION FOUND IT “OFFENSIVE.”
Government officials in Brussels, Belgium banned Wednesday a popular Christmas tree exhibit out of concerns that the local Muslim population found it “offensive.”
An “electronic winter tree,” will take the place of the traditional Christmas Tree and Nativity scene at the city center of Grand Place, reports Brussels News.
The electronic sculpture will stand 25 meters (82 feet) tall and consists of a set of television screens, reports Brussels Expat. “During the daytime you can climb to the top of the tree where you will be able to enjoy a panoramic view of the city,” the website explains. “As soon as it becomes dark the tree turns into a spectacle of light and sound. Every ten minutes an amazing show will unfold.”
City councilwoman Bianca Debaets believes a “misplaced argument” over religious sensitivities has moved Brussels to put up the light sculpture. She points to the fact that it display not be referred to “Christmas” in any way to make her point.
“I suspect that the reference to the Christian religion was the decisive factor” in replacing the tree, she told reporters. “For a lot of people who are not Christians, the tree there is offensive to them.”
Many cities in Belgium have thriving Muslim populations. A 2008 study showed Muslims make up 25.5-percent of the population of Brussels, 3.9-percent of Flanders, and 4.0-percent of Wallonia.
Two Muslims elected to the Brussels city council last month have vowed to turn Belgium into a Muslim state based on Sharia law, as previously reported.
“Must a historic city like Brussels be sensitive to traditions? And should be a multi-religious city like Brussels not leave room for the individuality of every philosophy?,” Debaets asks.
Other city officials insists the move was not made to placate Muslims or other groups. Nicolas Dassonville, spokesman for Mayor Thielemans (PS), said the Nativity scene will remain at Grand Place
The tree’s sponsor, electricity generator Electrabel, made the move to put up the electronic sculpture this year, Dassonville said.
(therightperspective)
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