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Source URL:http://news.asiaone.com/news/crime/man-gets-17-years-jail-24-strokes-rape-and-robbery

Chang Kar Meng crept up behind the 33-year-old waitress as she waited for the lift at her block, knocked her senseless with a neck chop he learnt from the movies, and robbed her.

He then dragged her to a secluded grass patch where he raped her and took photos of her bare breasts, before and after he violated her, as well as of her clothed body later.

Yesterday, Chang, now 27, was sentenced to 17 years' jail and the maximum 24 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to committing rape and robbery with hurt at about 1.30am on March 8, 2013.

The court heard that the woman, a foreigner married to a Singaporean, left work at about 1.15am and took a taxi home. Chang, who was short of money, decided to rob her after he saw that there was no one around the lift lobby.

The Malaysian sneaked up to her, covered her mouth with his left hand and hit the back of her neck with his right hand. After a few blows, she passed out.

Just as he was about to drag her away, the lift doors opened. Chang lowered his head to prevent his face from being captured by the surveillance camera inside. He dragged her to the side and took her phone, sling bag and jewellery. He then dragged her 13m to a grass patch, where he took photos of her bare breasts, fondled her and raped her.

During the sexual assault, the woman had come to but pretended to remain unconscious out of fear that he would hurt her. He then took more photos of her breasts and dressed her.

He put her work permit, prayer card and house key into her pocket before walking away with her bag. She was about to get away but he returned, so she lay back down on the grass. He then carried her to a staircase landing, laid her on a mattress and took a photo of her. After he left, the woman went home. Her husband then called the police.

Chang's DNA was found on the woman's body and clothes. He was arrested 5½ months later at the rental flat he shared with his girlfriend. The court heard that a large number of women's underwear was seized from him.
Yesterday, Deputy Public Prosecutor Zhong Zewei cited rape statistics as he argued that a deterrent sentence was warranted.

Between 2012 and last year, the number of reported rapes rose from 133 to 163, although there was a slight dip in 2013.

Chang's brazen crimes in an HDB estate have shaken the assurance that people can walk home safely at night, said the DPP.

Chang's lawyer, Mr Sunil Sudheesan, argued that his client was sincerely remorseful for his actions, which were totally out of character. He also noted that crime statistics did not take into account population growth.

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Its a sad story but I never knew kung fu chop in movies can be used in real life.
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Kung Fu exponent bros here.... can verify?

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The location where the alleged rape victim was kicked out of the car

The man who allegedly raped a woman after giving her a lift in his car told the police in a statement on May 7, 2013 he just wanted to rob her.

Haliffie Mamat, 24, had said he didn’t know why he had sex with the 34-year-old woman.

He is now on trial for allegedly raping the woman on a bridge along Kallang Bahru Road between 6.30am and 6.45am on May 4, 2013.

He is also accused of robbing her of a Louis Vuitton handbag, two mobile phones, about $300 in cash and a bottle of Bvlgari perfume.

His ex-wife, Ms Yunizar Hambali, took the stand on Wednesday (May 20) and said she had a quarrel with Haliffie the day before the alleged offence over financial matters.

She said she searched his car two days later and found a bottle of perfume in a small storage compartment under the steering wheel.

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Source Link (http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/muslim-claims-he-molested-girls-in-pool-because-he-cant-swim/)

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Makes perfect sense. He somehow stayed afloat for nearly half an hour despite not being able to swim and in the course of being unable to swim molested a bunch of young girls. As a non-swimmer, he had trouble telling the difference between swimming and molesting.

In Afghanistan, they’re the same thing.


An Afghan asylum seeker accused of indecently assaulting seven teenage girls in 25 minutes at a western Sydney swimming pool claimed the incidents were accidents – because he couldn’t swim.

What were the odds he would be named Mohammed? About as good as the chances that he would blame the whole thing on a cultural misunderstanding due to his unfamiliarity with swimming pools and the rights of women.

Mohammad Salem Nazari, 33, yesterday pleaded not guilty during a bail application in Burwood Local Court to the allegations made by the girls, aged 14 to 18.

Magistrate Chris Longley refused bail on the basis of the number of alleged victims and the seriousness of the assaults, allegedly carried out in which police said were at the “highest level” of the alleged offences committed in the Rapid River Ride at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on Sunday.

His lawyer Peter Allport eventually told the court Nazari was a poor or “non-swimmer” and he came into contact with the girls because of the current the whirlpool ride created.

Police facts tendered to the court said the accused admitted in an interview after his arrest he touched the girls but said it was accidental.

Police said he showed no remorse and appeared “extremely nonchalant” about the seriousness of the allegations. They also said the girls were traumatised by the alleged assaults.

This by the way is taking place in Australia which has a major problem with TRUNCATED “refugees”. Under TRUNCATED law, back in Afghanistan, the girls would have been charged with adultery and stoned to death.

But then again under TRUNCATED law, they’re committing adultery by even swimming.

“When a woman goes swimming, as the word for sea is masculine, when “the water touches the woman’s private parts, she becomes an ‘adulteress’ and should be punished.”

– Summary of a report titled “The misguided Fatwas of the TRUNCATED Brotherhood and Salafis”, as published in the Al Masry Al Youm.

No word on what gender Australian swimming pools are. But in TRUNCATED, it’s always the woman’s fault. As the Grand TRUNCATED of Australia said, of TRUNCATED gang rapes of Australian women,

“If I came across a rape crime, I would discipline the man and order that the woman be jailed for life. Why would you do this, Rafee? He said because if she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn’t have snatched it.”

“If you get a kilo of meat, and you don’t put it in the fridge or in the pot or in the kitchen but you leave it on a plate in the backyard, and then you have a fight with the neighbour because his cats eat the meat, you’re crazy. Isn’t this true?”

“If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street, on the pavement, in a garden, in a park, or in the backyard, without a cover and the cats eat it, then whose fault will it be, the cats, or the uncovered meat’s? The uncovered meat is the disaster. If the meat was covered the cats wouldn’t roam around it. If the meat is inside the fridge, they won’t get it.”

“If the woman is in her boudoir, in her house and if she’s wearing the veil and if she shows modesty, disasters don’t happen.”

“Satan sees women as half his soldiers. You’re my messenger in necessity, Satan tells women you‘re my weapon to bring down any stubborn man. There are men that I fail with. But you’re the best of my weapons.”

“…The woman was behind Satan playing a role when she disobeyed God and went out all dolled up and unveiled and made of herself palatable food that rakes and perverts would race for. She was the reason behind this sin taking place.”

Is it any wonder, with religious leaders like these, that the TRUNCATED act this way?

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Madonna was recently slammed for comparing herself on Instagram to iconic social activists like Martin Luther King Jr., but this time the star is getting accolades for her social networking.

An image of two men, one a Hasidic Jew and the other a TRUNCATED, in an affectionate pose was posted on Madonna's Instagram on Sunday. The hashtag #rebelhearts was included in the post, which mirrors the name of her most recent album, Rebel Heart. The post had received over 76,000 likes by Tuesday.

As pointed out by The NewCivil Rights Movement and Gay Star News, this isn't the first time Madonna combined her wish of Middle East peace with support for LGBT people. During her 2007 Confessions tour, the singer featured two shirtless dancers with images from Judaism and TRUNCATED painted on their chests; the men performed an elaborate dance that ended with them embracing.

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Creationist: If evolution is true, then it wasn’t wrong for Josh Duggar to molest his sisters

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reationism activist suggested Josh Duggar be punished for molesting his sleeping sisters and their friends by being paid to campaign against LGBT people marrying one another.

That’s exactly what the 27-year-old Duggar was doing until Thursday, when he resigned his position with the Family Research Council after admitting to “inexcusable behavior” as a teenager.

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“Since Josh molested girls, which could damage their trust of men, which could damage their future marriage, which could damage their future family, we should make Josh Duggar work the rest of his life to help families stay together and help them recognize how twisted the world is and how God offers instruction on how to live righteously!” said Hovind, who is affiliated with the Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida.

“He should be forced to push faith, family and freedom in the public showing the Christian worldview has the answers,” Hovind continued. “We should force him to get a job at the Family Research Counsel (whose) mission is ‘to advance faith, family and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview.’ That would be a great punishment!”

Eric Hovind — son of imprisoned creationist theme park operator Kent Hovind – said Duggar was the victim of a double standard by the media, which he said praised sins such as lust, abortion, and homosexuality but condemned “confession, judgment, and forgiveness.”

Naturally, he blamed evolution.

“If evolution is true, then there is no absolute right and wrong,” Hovind said. “If evolution is true Josh should not have admitted his faults over a decade ago because what one evolved bag of molecules does to another bag of molecules just doesn’t really matter. If evolution is true there is no ultimate Judge on the bench who will hold every man, woman, and child responsible for their actions. And if evolution is true you will not give an account for every idle word you speak.”

Another creationist pastor, Ray Comfort, offered his support to Duggar – who joined him last year in a street preaching video stunt.

“Standing by my friend Josh Duggar, as a brother in Christ,” Comfort tweeted. “This was in his BC days. Such were some of us.”

Comfort apparently means that Duggar, who was reared in a Christian household, molested family members and friends before he became a Christian.

The New Zealander, who encouraged Duggar family friend Kirk Cameron to become an evangelist, said he would stop watching TLC — which suspended its popular “19 Kids and Counting” reality show after the publication of a police report that was hastily ordered destroyed Friday by a judge with political ties to the Duggar family.

“TLC knew about this back in 2006 and did not take the family off the show,” Hovind claimed. “Authorities that investigated the incident felt that it was handled in a way that no further charges were necessary.”

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A group of Brazilian doctors recently published a paper in the academic journal Advances in Urology identifying "woman-on-top" (aka cowgirl) as the most dangerous sex position in terms of the sheer number of dicks broken mid-fuck. Analyzing data from three accident and emergency units in the Brazilian city of Campinas over the past 13 years for clear cases of penile fractures (in which the ligament in the penis either tears or overextends, often with a loud, painful crack), the doctors determined that half of all such fractures came when women rode men, with 29 percent resulting from over-vigorous doggy-style and 21 percent resulting from missionary sex.

Those who made it trough the wince-inducing study may have tried to take comfort in the fact that sex-related injuries are rare. As it turns out, that's not entirely true. Urologists at the University of Washington Medical School alone say they see at least one or two penile fractures a month. More generally, a British study found that up to five percent of the workforce takes time off for expressly sex-related injuries every year. And although there's a great deal of under-reporting, self-treating, or misreporting of sex-related injuries, most estimates say that up to one-third of adults will suffer some kind of injury during or directly from the dirty deed—often without realizing the pain they're in until the morning after, thanks to our lovely, sexed-up endorphins.

Many of these injuries could happen outside of carnal embrace: carpet burns, pulled muscles, sprains, and the like. But many more are fairly serious, associated with specific sexual scenarios, and utterly avoidable with the proper precautions.

To save ourselves some grievous harm at the most unfortunate of times, VICE dove into the literature on sex-related injuries and spoke with renowned sex therapist Dr. Kat van Kirk to create a list of the six most injurious heterosexual sexual positions and situations. (While there is overlap between heterosexual and homosexual sex injuries for both men and women, there are enough differences to merit their own future posts.)

Our rankings were based on the severity of injuries involved and the frequency with which practitioners encounter them. We also identified the safest heterosexual sexual position, and a few very simple tips to help you avoid serious harm in any position to make sure sex doesn't wreck your bits.

SIX OF THE MOST DANGEROUS HETEROSEXUAL SEX POSITIONS

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WOMAN-ON-TOP / COWGIRL

The boys from Brazil were right about this one— it's fairly easy to hit things at the wrong angle and get a snap-crackle-pop when a woman puts her full body weight down on a penis.

"This issue is basically the woman's pubic bone," explains Dr. Van Kirk. "It's slightly differently positioned in each woman. At times there's not enough lubrication when the woman goes to sit on the penis if there's enough force or friction or the penis catches on the pubic bone, that's when that bend will occur in that ligament. That is more common than people think."

FYI: Apparently, the angle involved in reverse cowgirl is even more dangerous than cowgirl.

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DOGGY STYLE AND ITS VARIANTS

This one's mainly dangerous because forceful penetration at the wrong angle can, according to Dr. Kristi Latham, a pelvic health specialist at Dallas's Beyond Therapy & Wellness clinic, cause vaginal tearing (which is least common in cowgirl thanks to the woman's greater power to control depth and motion). Additionally, according to Dr. Kat, deep and vigorous thrusts in a short vaginal canal can cause cervical bruising or even bleeding. But wait! There's more: issue associated with doggy.

"I'll often see from rear-entry positions guys going to penetrate the vagina and fairly often the penis will accidentally go into the anus," says Dr. Kat. "And because there wasn't any preparation, there can be anal tears and things like that."

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Oral sex is a great fast pass to pink eye if your partner isn't as hygienic as he or she could be, leading to the introduction of fecal matter onto the cornea. But two parties engaging in the practice simultaneously is double trouble when it comes to the sewage-face conundrum.

TITTY FUCKING

You'd never expect this one, but apparently men run into trouble when penis meets breast.

"I've seen a few penile fractures, not just with the pelvic bone, but when guys are in the process of trying to give a pearl necklace," says Dr. Kat. "Sometimes they'll put so much force against the woman's sternum that it can fracture [the penis], and if you're not using any lube, the friction can cause some problems too."

MISSIONARY

Even the most seemingly boring, safe, and sacred position poses risks. According to Dr. Kat, while it's not as common as in rear-entry positions, it's pretty easy for women with short vaginal canals to suffer cervical bruising or other abrasions from deep thrusts.

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POORLY LUBRICATED SEX

"Regardless of position, one of the main things I see are vaginal and penile abrasions from not enough lubrication," says Dr. Kat. "If there's not enough lube and you're just trying to force things or if you're just jumping into it without a whole lot of lubrication or foreplay, it can cause nasty abrasions. I've seen those get infected pretty regularly."

Unfortunately, just slathering on lube isn't good lubrication either, because so many people wind up having allergic reactions to many over-the-counter gels (and condoms and sex toys) leading to further irritations.

UNCHARACTERISTICALLY ACROBATIC SEX

This one's simple: if you're out of shape or doing something you're not used to, you just might hurt yourself. Lifting someone at the wrong angle or bending in the wrong way can lead to pulled muscles at best and broken extremities and heart attacks at worst, especially when you're getting down on iffy surfaces like stairs or rickety tables.

"People trying to do things in the shower or in their cars," says Dr. Kat, "there I see things like actual broken bones just from trying to do things that might be outside of their typical range."

UNPRACTICED KINK SEX

Although usually low-level injuries are related to excessive spanking or hair pulling, at times people try whips and chains and other exciting things without reading up on how to properly use them. This trend actually spiked during the release of the 50 Shades books and movies, and seems to be on the rise in general, probably thanks to the rise in awareness of kinky lifestyles in the media but not a concurrent rise in open, candid, and common conversations on safe kink sex practice.

"I don't see it typically with people who have practiced it for a long time or at least with one partner who is well versed," says Dr. Kat. "But things that have been wrapped around the penis or limbs too long or too hard and causing bruising or contusions or things of that nature. Most of those practices, if they're done responsibly, are not very unsafe [though]."

FORGETFUL SEX

Whether in the anus or the vagina, men and women often forget that they've placed things inside of themselves, leading to lodged objects only discovered much later.

"Lost condoms, lost tampons, lost sex toys, and sometimes other lost items that shouldn't be used for sex toys in the anus and vagina," says Dr. Kat. "Especially when people have been drinking or using some kind of substance, their judgment is off and their ability to sense and feel sensation might be altered in some way. I've seen it plenty of times: People won't even realize that something was stuck there. They either figure that the condom got thrown away or that the little vibrator was taken out at some point.

Then they present because of other symptoms like infection symptoms, [like] itching and discharge. The cervix can become so inflamed that it bleeds. I've seen it more with men than with women [in the anus]. Retrieval requires emergency personnel because you have to employ ultrasounds or x-rays, because the anus can go up into the colon." Hope you have health insurance!

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Nice sharing TS :)

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\With her cute looks and adorable smile, one woman in Taiwan has earned herself the title of 'Pork Princess.'

According to AsianTown, Zhang Caijie, 25, has become an overnight internet sensation after social media users posted photos online of her working at her family stall.

The former philosophy student, who studied at Fu Jen Catholic University, has been helping out at a market in Dongmen Market, Taipei.

She now has admirers turning up at the market asking, "How much meat do we have to buy before you give us your phone number?"

Even mothers and grandmothers have visited the stall to introduce their sons and grandchildren to her, ETTV reports, making her the most popular attraction there.

Zhang shares:

"They ask me if I have a boyfriend, which school am I studying at as well as other details.

"It's quite embarrassing actually. They tell me that girls who work for their family are good girls and that they like this type of girl.

"One guy tried to pressure me into adding him as a friend online but I simply refused."

She told reporters that her family are third generation butchers and that she decided to work there after taking a break from her studies.

Zhang has not let her internet fame go to her head and continues to work as a butcher as well as making wontons. She is keen for life to return to normal and get on with her job.

An elderly stallholder, who has watched Zhang grow up, said she had always been a 'good girl' with a 'strong spirit' who worked there despite its unappealing smell.

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The amusing story behind this unique tourist attraction in New Zealand

The Cardrona bra fence in Central Otago, New Zealand, began in 1999, sometime between Christmas and New Year, when four women's bras were found attached to the wire fence along the road.

According to Amusing Planet, nobody knows for sure who did it and for what, but legend has it that a group of women who were celebrating the new year the Cardrona Hotel decided to take off the bras and hang them on the fence after leaving the pub late at night.

Apparently, the sight of female lingerie fluttering in the wind inspired more women to leave their undergarments, resulting in sixty more joining the oringal four by the end of February 2000.

The news about the fence spread. In the following years, the bra population multiplied to the thousands, becoming a unique tourist attention in its own right and gaining international attention.

Not everyone was pleased with the sight though. Some viewed the fence as an eyesore and an embarassment. Others felt it was a potential hazards to drivers.

There were numerous attempts to strip the bras off the fence over the years, but the bras returned each time.

In 2006, even the Queenstown Lakes District council stepped in and removed 1500 bras from the fence. But the fence, ever persistent, started rebuilding its collection again.

Let us know if you ever intend to visit this unique tourist attraction, or if you have ever been there before!

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The superman looks sexy :D

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this pic she looks like Vivian Chow.

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The battle between the veil and the miniskirt

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Two opposing campaigns arguing about what women should wear are gripping the Arab world.

What makes a man? According to the people behind a campaign which apparently started in Algeria this week, "real men" take charge of what the women in their family wear - and they make sure females are covered up in public. The Facebook page "Be a man and don't let your women out in revealing clothes" has attracted thousands of likes. On the page, men are sharing verses from the TRUNCATED and posting photos of their family members wearing conservative clothes. They argue that the TRUNCATED hijab and other modest attire protects women from unwanted attention.

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A few of the posts compare women to objects. Under a picture of two lollipops - one wrapped and pristine, the other unwrapped and covered in ants, a caption reads: "You can't stop them but you can protect yourself." Another image compares a woman who reveals "too much" of her body to a peeled banana.

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But the campaign stirred a strong reaction from secular activists in neighbouring Tunisia, a country known for its more progressive views on women's rights compared to others in the region. Tunisian campaigner Rachid ben Othman led the online offensive by calling for an "international day of the mini skirt" in a show of solidarity with Algerian women. "We must fight the pro-TRUNCATED taking over," Othman wrote on the event's Facebook page.

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Another Tunisian campaigner, who wanted to remain anonymous because of fears for her safety, told BBC Trending that the "Be a man" campaign demeans women. When asked why a miniskirt was chosen as the poster garment for the campaign, she said: "It had to make the same point, they chose the veil as a piece of clothing and we chose the miniskirt."

Citing the country's history of comparatively liberal mores and the relatively recent move towards conservative TRUNCATED dress, she noted: "The mini-skirt existed in Tunisia long before the veil."

The miniskirt Facebook event page was briefly taken down for unknown reasons earlier this week. Facebook said it could not comment on individual cases, and the page was later reinstated. The event was initially planned for Saturday but has since been delayed, and campaigners are now asking women all around the world to go out in mini skirts on 6 June and posts selfies in defiance of the "be a man" campaign. We tried to contact the "Be a man" organisers - but they didn't respond to repeated requests for comment.

To like their page... go here: https://www.facebook.com/events/892684020770824/

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Women in Iran are under an oppressive theological and oft times illogical regime. They are usually kept behind a veil but did you know Persian pussies are really sweet? See hot examples below....

1. Nazanin Boniadi.

best known for her roles in How I Met Your Mother, Scandal, and Homeland.

(Fun fact: first Middle Eastern to ever get a contract with American daytime television).

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But what you may not know… she was set in following the Persian path – attending medical school at UC Irvine (where she won the Chang Pin-Chun Undergraduate Research Award for molecular research involving cancer treatment and heart transplant), but ended up dropping out and pursuing her passion of acting. When she’s not wowing audiences on screen, Nazanin works as a spokesperson for Amnesty International USA with a focus on the unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth, women, and prisoners of conscience.

2. Shermine Shahrivar.

Miss Europe, 2005. Iranian-German. Student.

(and she dated Kanye).

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Winning Miss Germany in 2004, Shermine went on to dominate the beauty pageant scene. You don’t have to be for beauty pageants, but you can’t deny that Shermine went on to do great things. Currently, the face of American Apparel and a student at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.

She also radiates Persian pride — in 2005, she was host of the Oberhausen, Germany Nowruz celebration, said to be the largest in the World.

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3. Marjane Satrapi.

Author of Persepolis. No brainer.

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Award winning graphic novelist and filmmaker. Master of tongues: fluent in Farsi, French, English, Swedish, German, and Italian. Most importantly, she speaks her mind:

4. Sarah Shahi.

Actress. Former NFL Cheerleader. Sinfully hot.

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And she’s Persian loyalty: a descendant of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar of the Qajar Dynasty. Do we really need to say more?

From The Sopranos to Dawson’s Creek to The L Word, Sarah’s resume speaks for itself. Her given name was Aahoo (translation: gazelle), but she changed it to Sarah after being tormented in school.

How mad are those tormenters now?

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5. Davar Ardalan.

Public media guru. Interactive storyteller. Social media expert. Voice for Iranian Americans.

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Davar has time and time again educated the country on Iranian traditions and examined the close cultural dynamics between Iranians and Americans. She also made sure everyone is aware of the significance of the haftsin. Most importantly, she constantly strives to give a voice to women of color.

6. Sara Racey Tabrizi.

Former America’s Next Top Model contestant. Known for being “too sexy for the fashion industry,” but not too sexy for us.

(what does “too sexy” even mean?)

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She was dismissed from ANTM in the 7th round, but that didn’t stop her from modeling for multiple brands including: L’Oreal, Converse, Pulse, King and Maxim. She went on to sign modeling contracts with TBM Models and Talent, APM Model Management and Mensa Management.

Take that, Tyra. Living proof to always try, try again.

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7. Parisa Tabriz.

Dubbed “Google’s Security Princess.”

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She spends her day hacking into Google. Yes, you read that right. Plus, her title actually is “Security Princess” at Google. She gets paid to think like a criminal so that Google can continue their impenetrable existence on the internets.

8. Kathreen Khavari.

Actress. Proves that she can actually do any role. Beauty and the brains.

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She graduated on the Dean’s Honor List from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in infectious diseases. Post-degree, she took a leap of faith and moved to New York where she pursued acting gigs and ultimately, developed the web series “Famous Farrah.” The web series married her love for acting and her background in science in a pretty damn funny way.

But most people know Kat through this video — where she proved that diversity comes in many shapes, sizes, and accents. Basically, she’s not about portraying that terrorist role in Hollywood, and we’re down with that.

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9. Nazanin Mandi.

Triple threat: model, singer, Persian. Part Iranian, Spanish, Mexican, and Native American to be exact.

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Did we mention she can sing in five different languages? Mastery of jazz and classical music? Check. She’s currently working on her debut album with the talented Miguel… who’s also her main squeeze. Her modeling resume ranges from Maxim Magazine to Esquire, GQ India, and Cosmo Girl (with many more included). Fact: brown is beautiful.

10. Kiana Hayeri.

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Born in Tehran, raised in Canada – Kiana strives to bridge the gap between her Iranian heritage and Canadian upbringing. Something so many of us first generation-ers experience. She uses her camera to tell stories with a “social message,” – focusing on young women and the challenges that Iranians face both in Iran and abroad. Some of her works include “Beyond the Veil,” and “Your Veil is Your Battleground:”

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I love Iranian and north indian ladies... They r perfectly beautiful n attractive... Jus like arabian women too...

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Why no busty kims? :D

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I love Iranian and north indian ladies... They r perfectly beautiful n attractive... Jus like arabian women too...

Yeah, Arabian women if they dun have to wear the hood are pretty man. Too bad their regime don't allow them to flaunt it if they have it. Don't know why can have sexy belly dancers but cannot flaunt it...

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http://www.abplive.in/World/2015/06/01/article605291.ece/Women-in-jeans-responsible-for-earthquakes-Pakistani-politician

Women in jeans responsible for earthquakes: Pakistani politician

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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

New Delhi: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a Pakistani politicians has said that women in jeans are responsible for the earthquakes occurring around the world.

He also blamed these 'immodest women' for economic crisis and other natural disasters.

Rehman has also demanded the Pakistan armed forces to launch a military operation against women wearing jeans in Pakistan.

He believed that that terror groupTehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is not at fault.

“The Taliban are our brothers and their angst against the state is justified. As brother Ansar Abbasi has so eloquently put in the past: TTP’s suicide bombings are just Allah’s wrath upon us. And so there is a need to earmark and eliminate the real enemy of Pakistan: every woman who wears jeans," a daily quoted him.

A woman who is not covered like a 'sack of flour' is a mobile weapon of mass destruction for her state and that Pakistan has multitude of such nuclear missiles in all its major cities. 'Immodest women' are responsible for the Baluchistan crisis, lack of energy supply and the deteriorating security situation in Pakistan.

I can't believe this fucktard actually believe that women's skinny jeans are responsible for Earthquake.... Everyone knows that g-strings are the reason not Jeans... lol...

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Pakistan acquits eight Malala shooting suspects

http://news.yahoo.com/malala-shooting-suspects-cleared-113448004.html

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Eight of the 10 men reportedly convicted and jailed for attempting to murder Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai were actually cleared, officials said Friday.

The Nobel-prize winning teenager was shot in the head in October 2012 by Pakistani Taliban militants who boarded her school bus in an attack that also wounded two of her friends and shocked the world.

In April, legal and security officials announced that a court had sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment over the attack, following a trial in Malala's hometown of Mingora, in Pakistan's northwestern Swat district.

The suspects had been detained by the army during a major anti-militant offensive and the existence of the trial was kept secret until after its conclusion. No media were present for any hearings.

Salim Khan Marwat, the Swat district police chief, said that contrary to the earlier announcement, the anti-terrorist court had cleared all but two of the suspects.

"Two of them were sentenced to life imprisonment while eight others were acquitted," he told AFP.

"I have no knowledge where the eight persons are now -- either in military custody or released."

Azad Khan, the deputy inspector general of police for Malakand division, of which Swat forms a part, confirmed the details and said the trial had been held under military supervision.

A senior court official with close knowledge of the case also confirmed the news, which emerged in a report in Britain's Mirror newspaper.

"Two of them were convicted and eight others were acquitted because of insufficient evidence and no proof," the official told AFP.

"The two, Israrullah and Izhar were sentenced to 25 years jail term, which is equivalent to life imprisonment."

A senior security official in Mingora insisted the court had sentenced all 10 men to life imprisonment, accusing the police of lying.

Malala, now aged 17, survived the attempt on her life and in October last year became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in history for her courageous and determined fight for children to have the right to go to school.

The man suspected of actually firing the gun at Malala, named by officials as Ataullah Khan, is believed to be on the run in Afghanistan, along with Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, who ordered the attack.

Pakistan's military announced the arrest of the 10 suspects in September 2014 as part of an operation that involved the army, police and intelligence agencies.

Army spokesman Asim Bajwa said the group had a hitlist of 22 targets in addition to Malala, all ordered by Fazlullah.

- Aspiring PM -

Soon after the attack in 2012, Malala was taken to the United Kingdom for treatment and never returned to Pakistan after recovery. She has resumed her studies in the UK and aspires to become Prime Minister of Pakistan in future.

The Swat Valley was under the de facto control of Pakistani Taliban commander Fazlullah from 2007 to 2009, where it imposed a harsh brand of Sharia law and carried out public floggings and hangings.

Malala rose to fame during that time when she wrote a diary for BBC's Urdu service using a pen name and later appeared on TV talk shows, advocating for girls' education in the valley, and for peace.

The militants were driven out by an army operation after a ceasefire broke down, but remain a threat in the region.

Pakistan has been battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency for more than a decade after it agreed to cooperate with US-led NATO forces in their war in neighbouring Afghanistan.

Public opinion however has shifted heavily against the Taliban in recent times after a series of brazen attacks on civilian targets, including a school in Peshawar where more than 150 people -- mostly children -- were killed.

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http://www.abplive.in/World/2015/06/01/article605291.ece/Women-in-jeans-responsible-for-earthquakes-Pakistani-politician

Women in jeans responsible for earthquakes: Pakistani politician

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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

New Delhi: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a Pakistani politicians has said that women in jeans are responsible for the earthquakes occurring around the world.

He also blamed these 'immodest women' for economic crisis and other natural disasters.

Rehman has also demanded the Pakistan armed forces to launch a military operation against women wearing jeans in Pakistan.

He believed that that terror groupTehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is not at fault.

“The Taliban are our brothers and their angst against the state is justified. As brother Ansar Abbasi has so eloquently put in the past: TTP’s suicide bombings are just Allah’s wrath upon us. And so there is a need to earmark and eliminate the real enemy of Pakistan: every woman who wears jeans," a daily quoted him.

A woman who is not covered like a 'sack of flour' is a mobile weapon of mass destruction for her state and that Pakistan has multitude of such nuclear missiles in all its major cities. 'Immodest women' are responsible for the Baluchistan crisis, lack of energy supply and the deteriorating security situation in Pakistan.

I can't believe this fucktard actually believe that women's skinny jeans are responsible for Earthquake.... Everyone knows that g-strings are the reason not Jeans... lol...

wtf they can blame on anything and everything :D

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Muslim Youth Leader Ahmed Saleem Arrested In Child Sex Predator Sting; Orlando Activist Worked For Council On American-Islamic Relations

http://www.ibtimes.com/muslim-youth-leader-ahmed-saleem-arrested-child-sex-predator-sting-orlando-activist-1950388

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A Muslim leader who worked with teenagers was arrested Tuesday in a sex predator sting after he reportedly tried to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Ahmed Saleem, a former community organizer for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Orlando, was arrested after he attempted to meet up with detectives posing as a girl.

The bust also saw 100 other people arrested after detectives in Polk and Lake counties in Florida posed as children between the ages of 12 and 14. They used a vacant house and chat forums to pose as a child, or someone looking for prostitution. Theme park workers at Universal Orlando and SeaWorld, and a Disney World cast member, were also arrested in the operation named "Operation: L and P" — for Lake and Polk counties.

“If we didn’t get you in this operation, you better be sure we will in the next one,” Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said. “We are after you. Leave our children alone.” He added: "These are very dangerous people and they are after our children."

Saleem traveled to meet the girl in a car with a license plate that read: “Invest in Children,” the Tampa Tribune reported. Saleem is founder of the Saleem Academy, an organization that seeks to empower Muslim youths. The academy’s website and Facebook page and the CAIR website deleted any mention of him on Wednesday.

"He's well known as a community outreach leader interacting with teens in and around the Orlando area," said Judd.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group, was created as an "organization that challenges stereotypes of Islam and Muslims," according to its site. It works on civil rights and anti-defamation cases across the nation.

The state organization released this statement Wednesday: "CAIR Florida is shocked and deeply concerned by the serious crimes Ahmad Saleem is alleged to have committed. We trust in the legal system to hold to full account any and all persons found guilty. CAIR Florida takes the safety and security of the community very seriously and as such we attempt to thoroughly vet any potential employment candidates through standard hiring practices. Ahmad Saleem briefly worked for CAIR Florida as a community organizer for two months earlier this year until he abandoned his position in April. Accordingly, CAIR Florida removed him as an employee from our website and began recruiting a new candidate for the position prior to learning of the allegations against him."

The Muslim population in the Orlando metropolitan area grew from 2,691 in 2000 to 27,939 in 2010, according to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. There are roughly 20 Muslim congregations across Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Lake counties, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

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Saudi who 'kept maid as sex slave' denied parole in US for refusing to attend sex offender course

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/saudi-who-kept-maid-sex-slave-denied-parole-us-refusing-attend-sex-offender-course-1501295

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A Saudi national who was convicted of keeping his Indonesian maid as a sex slave has refused to attend a mandatory sex offender's course, arguing that his Muslim beliefs do not allow him to look at pictures of scantily-clad women.

Homaidan al-Turki, 45, was jailed for 28 years in 2006 after his maid claimed she had been forced to work 12 hour days with no break and then locked in a cellar and abused regularly by the Saudi, who was in the US on an academic scholarship with his wife and five children.

Al-Turki's sentence was reduced in 2011 to eight years-to-life but his parole applications have been repeatedly denied because of his refusal to attend a sex offenders course.

Al-Turki told prison officials in 2013 that the sex offender treatment programme "conflicts with [his] Islamic faith", according to a letter by the then executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, Tom Clements.

His lawyers told the court in the same year that the programme: "would require [him] to look at photos that included women in bathing suits or undergarments as part of the evaluation process", AP reported.

A Colorado Department of Corrections spokesperson told IBTimes UK: "Our treatment program does not show photos or images of scantily clad women" but that it would involve open discussion and admission of his offenses, which al-Turki has always denied.

Al-Turki's extremely complex case began in 2004 when he, his wife and the maid – who the family had brought to America from their home in Riyadh – were arrested by US immigration over visa issues. The housekeeper claimed that she had suffered four years of exploitation and abuse by the family, including being sexually abused in a cellar in the al-Turki home.

After a two-and-a-half week trial - where it also emerged that al-Turki was being investigated by the FBI over potential terrorist links - he was convicted and given 28 years for sex offences and unlawful imprisonment. This was reduced to eight years in 2011 with a Colorado judge arguing that the original sentence had been "excessive".

The case has become a cause célèbre in Saudi Arabia, with Al-Turki's conviction and subsequent failure in 2013 to persuade the courts to allow him to serve his sentence at home garnering major media coverage.

As well as the refusal to take the mandatory treatment, prosecutors argued that there was no guarantee that the Saudi authorities would not release al-Turki as soon as he landed in Riyadh.

A hashtag in Arabic featuring al-Turki's name had got over 900 thousands tweets by Thursday, and prominent media figures had made statements calling for his release.

Many Saudis consider al-Turki's conviction to be politically motivated and that his original jailing was the product of anti-Muslim bias in the wake of the September 11 attacks. They point to his original investigation on terrorism charges as evidence that the US government wanted to frame al-Turki anyway it could.

Abdullah al-Mudaifer, a TV presenter at Rotana in Riyadh, said: "The majority of people in Saudi Arabia believe he has been subject to fabricated charges. Even those who believe he is guilty suggest that 28 years [the length of his initial charge] is long for this kind of conviction."

Speaking from Riyadh, al-Turki's son, Turki, called on the Saudi government to get involved in lobbying for his father's release.

"We tried all possible ways through jurisdiction but it cannot offer any solution. I urge the Saudi government to use its political power to put more pressure on the US government to release my father," he told IBTimes UK.

Homaidan's friends and family launched a campaign for his release in 2010, releasing a video featuring prominent Saudi celebrities, including authors, clerics, TV presenter and football player requesting President Obama to free him. His son has argued that anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of the 9/11 attacks led to his conviction.

"The hate and the misconception created after the attack influenced the jury verdict. Topics like women's rights in Saudi and Islam were regularly brought up in the court, just to associate my father with negative perceptions," he said.

He has also argued that the FBI has intervened in his case and even promised that he would be released if he returned to Saudi Arabia and spied for the US.

Al-Turki said: "We are optimistic that King Salman will do the necessary actions to secure the return of my father."

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Female genital mutilation performed in Iran

http://europe.newsweek.com/female-genital-mutilation-performed-young-girls-iran-328246

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The first in-depth report into female genital mutilation (FGM) in Iran has claimed that the practise is prevalent in "secret pockets" of at least four provinces of Iran and "continues to violate aspects of women's sexual rights."

The report, authored by Kameel Ahmady, a research anthropologist based in London was released today to coincide with the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression observed every year on 4 June.

The report exposes the regions of Iran in which FGM is occurring and the "abundance of reasons women use to justify the act" and aims to provide the building blocks for an effective strategy to combat FGM in Iran.

Over a period of 10 years, Ahmady interviewed over 3,000 Iranian women, all of whom had experienced FGM, as well as speaking to 1,000 men who were also aware that the practise went on. His report identifies that FGM, known in Iran as "Khatne" or "Sonat," is most common in the southern province of Hormozgan but is also found in rural Muslim communities based in Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan.

Ahmady identifies that the ritual, most common in Iran's small minority of Shafi'i Sunni Muslims, is practised for a number of reasons, for example "to tame girls' sex drive before marriage." In many cases, FGM is also seen as a rite of passage for Iranian girls and is primarily encouraged by women and mothers who insist that their daughters are cut to make them "more virtuous than the majority Shia girls".

Ahmady told the Guardian newspaper that the majority of women he spoke to who were circumcised defended FGM, saying that it is "a tradition that had existed for hundreds of years".

Hilary Burrage, a consultant sociologist in the UK who has just finished writing a book on FGM, Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation: A UK Perspective told Newsweek of the secrecy surrounding the topic of FGM in rural areas of Iran. "Silence is one fundamental reason FGM remains a problem in Iran; there is, in many countries, simply not a language for women to discuss these matters."

Burrage explained that this complete lack of discourse surrounding FGM is not only common between men and women, but also between women themselves. Both the lack of vocabulary surrounding the topic of FGM and women's entitlement to use it "has led to a basic lack of understanding about how people's bodies work," Burrage said.

The report identifies that although FGM is not practised in every part of Iran, it is a cultural tradition that predates Islam itself. In fact the practise of FGM is known to date back to Egypt 2000 years ago, as a ritual of the Egyptian aristocracy, according to research carried out by the FGM National Clinical Group.

In 2015 FGM remains prevalent in approximately 30 different countries across Africa and the Middle East. In Africa, it is most common in Somalia, where 98% of girls are cut and Guinea where 96% of girls are cut. It is also prevalent in Oman and Iraqi Kurdistan, where between 72%-78% of girls are cut. The practise can also be found in small immigrant communities within Europe, such as the UK and France.

According to The World Health Organization, between 100-140 million girls and women have experienced FGM across Africa and the Middle East. Unicef estimates that without international action to stop the ritual, the number of girls cut each year will grow from 3.6 million in 2013 to 6.6 million by 2050.

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Woman pleads for death to escape 30 times rape

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In a harrowing interview with BBC World Service, Compassion4Kurdistan activists raising awareness of IS’ persecution of women revealed that Kurdish fighters took a phone call from the unidentified woman.

The peshmerga told the British-based activists that the woman was sobbing as she described her plight and debilitating injuries on the phone.

“If you know where we are please bomb us… There is no life after this. I’m going to kill myself anyway – others have killed themselves this morning,” she was quoted as saying.

“I’ve been raped 30 times and it’s not even lunchtime. I can’t go to the toilet. Please bomb us.”

Kurdish activists in Britain have been resorting to increasingly more controversial stunts to bring attention to their cause, including recreating a ‘sex slave’ market in Westminster.

The protest saw a group of chained veiled women being led in front of the Houses of Parliament, Leicester Square and Downing Street – where costumed men urged the public to bid on them.

A United Nations official yesterday said evidence strongly indicates that the IS group’s assault on Iraq’s Yazidi’s is “an attempt to commit genocide.”

Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic spoke to reporters Tuesday after a weeklong visit to Iraq, where he spoke with at least 30 Yazidis from various parts of the country.

After hundreds of Yazidis were killed as the Islamic State group swept across parts of northern and western Iraq in August, an estimated 7,000 Yazidis stayed and have been forced to convert to the Islamic State group’s harsh interpretation of Islam.

Islamic State fighters have captured, enslaved and sold Yazidi women and children, and claim the act is justified in Islam to prevent men from feeling “tempted” by other, non-enslaved women.

According to a piece in the group’s full-colour magazine, which is published in English and evidently aimed at a Western audience, confirms the long-rumoured atrocities committed by the group in Iraq, where Yazidi women have reported being kidnapped, sold for a few dollars and repeatedly raped.

The latest issue of Dabiq magazine released on Sunday stated, “the enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers.” It added, “the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Sharia amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations.”

Anyone opposing slavery in such circumstances is not a Muslim, the piece says. “Enslaving the families of the kuffar [non-believers] and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Sharia that if one were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Qur’an… and thereby apostatizing from Islam.”

A Human Rights Watch report, which came out on Sunday, claimed hundreds of Yazidi men, women and children from Iraq are being held captive in makeshift detention facilities by the group.

The report follows two UN officials issuing a joint statement on the “barbaric acts” of sexual violence committed by ISIS fighters.

“We condemn, in the strongest terms, the explicit targeting of women and children and the barbaric acts the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ has perpetrated on minorities in areas under its control, and we remind all armed groups that acts of sexual violence are grave human rights violations that can be considered as war crimes and crimes against humanity,” Nickolay Mladenov, special representative of the UN secretary-general for Iraq and Zainab Hawa Bangura, special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, said.

The statement, reported by Newsweek, cited evidence of “savage rapes” being used as weapons of war against women and teenage boys and girls belonging to the Yazidi, Christian, Turkomen and Shabak minority groups in Iraq.

Academic and Middle East expert Haleh Esfandiari has said IS allow their followers to rape captured girls and women as a “reward”.

“ISIS has received considerable world attention for its savage beheadings, executions of captured soldiers and men in conquered towns and villages, violence against Christians and Shiites, and the destruction of non-Sunni shrines and places of worship,” she blogged for the Wall Street Journal.

“But its barbarity against women has been treated as a side issue. Arab and Muslim governments, vocal on the threat ISIS poses to regional stability, have been virtually silent on ISIS’s systemic degradation, abuse, and humiliation of women.

“To the men of ISIS, women are an inferior race, to be enjoyed for sex and be discarded, or to be sold off as slaves.”

Amnesty International spokeswoman Donatella Rovera, who is in Iraq, told Huffington Post UK that, though the charity had not verified any cases of women suffering sexual abuse at the hands of IS, she said there was evidence that captured women were under “strong pressure to convert to Islam and strong pressure to marry (ISIS) fighters”.

Many of the women and girls have told horrific stories of abuse. One 15-year-old Yazidi girl who escaped from the group said she was trafficked across the border to Syria and sold to a man in Raqqa, before escaping to Turkey.

“They took girls to Syria to sell them,” she said, her body shyly hunched over as she spoke. “I was sold in Syria. I stayed about five days with my two sisters, then one of my sisters was sold and taken (back) to Mosul, and I remained in Syria.”

In Raqqa, she said, she was first married off to a Palestinian man. She claims she shot him, saying the Palestinian’s Iraqi housekeeper who was in a dispute with the man helped her by giving her a gun. She fled, but she had nowhere to run. So she went to the only place she knew, she said — the house where she was first held with the other girls in Raqqa.

There, the militants did not recognise her and sold her off again — for $1,000 to a Saudi fighter, she said. The Saudi militant took her to a house where he lived with other fighters. “He told me, ‘I’m going to change your name to Abeer, so your mother doesn’t recognize you,’” she said. “You’ll become Muslim, then I will marry you. But I refused to become a Muslim and that’s why I fled.”

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ISIS: Pigeon Genitals are Offensive to Islam

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/isis-pigeon-genitals-are-offensive-to-islam/

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The list of things offensive to Islam is never ending.

Opened diet cokes, kites, chess, other religions, women and now pigeons. Especially pigeons flying overhead.

ISIS clerics have banned pigeon breeding, which they say is an affront to Islam.

According to the Daily Mail, the jihadist organization that has taken over parts of Iraq and Syria believes that “the sight of birds’ genitals as they fly overhead is offensive to Islam.”

Anyone caught violating the new edict is in danger of being subjected to public flogging.

Earlier this year, there were reports that 15 young boys were arrested and at least three of them executed in eastern Iraq after they were found to be engaged in pigeon breeding.

The official ISIS edict states that the ban was instituted as a means “to put a stop to the greater criminal act of harming one’s Muslim and Muslim women neighbors, revealing the [pigeon’s] genitals and wasting time.”

Clearly Allah is at fault here for creating pigeons and making them fly overhead. The only sensible thing to do is to declare that Allah is offensive to Islam.

This is Islam. An endless well of insanity from which maddened clerics draw new bans on more lunatic things. Islam licenses rape, but bans pigeon breeding because that’s immoral.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/07/guardian-view-flogging-raif-badawi-saudi-arabia-in-dock

The Guardian view on the flogging of Raif Badawi: Saudi Arabia is in the dock

http://i.guim.co.uk/media/w-620/h--/q-95/8d9b3ea8b4afcf14c31a046fb4ce597381911676/0_315_4928_2959/1000.jpgEnsaf Haidar, the wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, at the annual meeting of the German section of Amnesty International in Dresden, Germany on 23 May 2015. Photograph: Arno Burgi/dpa/Corbis

The cruel and unjust sentence passed on the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes, has been upheld by the supreme court in Riyadh. Hopes that the court might reduce or even commute the sentence, particularly as the holy fast of Ramadan begins next week, have been dashed. The only remaining appeal now is to the Saudi monarch, King Salman. From Quebec, where she has been granted asylum with their children, Mr Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar has said that she fears the public flogging – 50 lashes at a time every Friday after prayers – might resume as soon as this Friday. Mr Badawi had been whipped only once after his sentence was passed, and prison doctors deemed that he was too ill to be flogged again before his appeal was heard. Britain and its allies, conveniently meeting together at the G7 in Germany, must unite and condemn what is almost certainly a life-threatening sentence. They should stand together in defence of their shared values and demand his release.

Mr Badawi’s sentence is a brutal exercise in public intimidation. He has challenged Saudi Arabia’s autocratic and religious state, and even though his arguments could not be more carefully and modestly expressed, to hold them at all is incompatible with the regime under which he lives. His offence was to start a website, the Saudi Free Liberals forum, that argued for secularism and free speech. He carefully avoided direct criticism of the Saudi royal family, but – like many Arab thinkers before him –he is convinced that a separation of faith and state is the best course if his country is to have a future of what he calls “modernisation and hope”. In an expression of his convictions posted five years ago, he wrote: “States which are based on religion confine their people in the circle of faith and fear.” For this belief he faces a punishment from a state that was one of the handful never to endorse the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the grounds that that document violates the precepts of Islam.

As this newspaper has argued before, Saudi Arabia ought to be treated as a global pariah. It is a source of a particular strain of jihadist poison, of fanatical preachers, and of young men, like the 9/11 hijackers, who threaten both the west and the whole Middle East by their readiness to fight, often in the cause of Wahhabist Islam. For the past month, a Saudi blockade has been imperilling thousands of innocent Yemenis, and aerial bombardment by Saudi jets is killing scores more. Yet the kingdom continues to be treated with honour by western powers. Britain buys Saudi oil and courts Saudi trade. Even free speech in the UK has been curtailed in order to avoid giving offence to so rich and powerful an ally. Of all the European powers, only Sweden has been prepared to jeopardise relations and its arms trade by taking a stand.

Mr Badawi will never have doubted what a challenge he posed to the kingdom. He will have understood the retribution that it was likely to bring down on his head. It is the kind of courage that demands to be recognised and honoured by everyone who respects human rights. We are and we remain Raif Badawi.

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Malaysia’s dark journey toward an Islamic State

http://themalaymailonline.com/what-you-think/article/malaysias-dark-journey-toward-an-islamic-state-markus-russin (http:// themalaymailonline.com/what-you-think/article/malaysias-dark-journey-toward-an-islamic-state-markus-russin)

13 — In a global environment that reveres economic parameters more than the living condition of the human beings behind them Malaysia’s steady fall into a spiral of religious fundamentalism has successfully dodged serious international condemnation for years. A strong economy, particularly when compared with its Asean neighbours, has provided the government in Putrajaya with the necessary leverage to ignore fundamental human rights and continue to truncate what is left of them. Anwar Ibrahim’s recent conviction based on a law that must not exist in the first place might have been a slight temporary hiccup as hardly anyone doubts that it was more than a political campaign to weaken the opposition. Soon, however, it will have left the international conscience and at its current rate Malaysia’s societal and humanitarian decline will further accelerate.

Perhaps more than ever before the political elite surrounding Prime Minister Najib Razak are incapable of representing the population of Malaysia as a whole and in many instances reluctant to even try. Najib’s constant reminders that Islam is the official state religion often feel awkward and forced as if this regular reiteration of his litany was required to keep a dying patient alive.

They also expose the underlying quandary of the Malaysian government: if there somehow were a magical solution, it would not hesitate to change Malaysia from its current multi-ethnic, multi-opinion nature into a monolith of pious Muslims who blindly follow their religious and political leaders. When former Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi recently said — in the context of a commendable advice not to give in to the threats of extremism — that in his eyes Malaysia was “still a model of how a multiracial, multi-religious and multicultural country should be”, it might have felt like a failed attempt at humour if the topic at hand were less serious. In fact, the recent announcement by the Pew Research Centre that Muslims can be expected to constitute 72.4 per cent of the Malaysian population in 2050 must have been good news for many a policymaker across the states of Peninsular Malaysia: it would appear that things are going to become much easier for them.

However, at least two caveats need to be considered in order to evaluate this prognosis. Firstly, it seems to imply that average ethnically Malay citizens, the heart of Malaysia’s Muslim population, will remain comparatively poor, a factor classically associated with higher fertility rates. As the government has already succeeded in partly eradicating the economic disparity across ethnicities with controversial laws for decades, it can be assumed with some careful optimism that this aspect might further lose its relevance for demographic prognostications.

Secondly, the prognosis relies on the assumption that the currently religion-fuelled legal and political environment of Malaysia will not change during the next thirty-five years; concretely, that being a Muslim will continue to be an obligation, rather than a choice for those who happen to be born into a Malay family. In fact, it is this second caveat that exemplifies a factor that might determine whether the thin ice underneath the feet of open-minded Malaysians — regardless of ethnicity or religion — will break or not. To be born to Muslim parents in Malaysia means to live outside a modern world where individuals freely choose their religion or lack thereof — and this has serious implications on an individual’s social and personal life. The looming possibility of an implementation of hudud law, a Sharia-related piece of sexist and antediluvian jurisdiction encompassing corporal punishment for “crimes” like consensual sex between unmarried people or apostasy, two personal decisions that must never be penalized, in Kelantan, which has long been Malaysia’s most reactionary state in the political sphere, corroborates fears of an emerging Islamic state. The fact alone that such a policy can enter the political landscape as more than just a nightmarish phantasmagoria shows the negative potential for Malaysia to sink deeper and deeper into fundamentalist quagmire. The hackneyed argument that this is “what people want” seems to be at odds with the high number of laws created to ensure that what said people “want” perfectly coincides with what benefits the interests of the ones holding political and religious power.


The assurance that hudud — just like other laws affecting personal life decisions – will only apply to Muslims does not attenuate the severity of the problem in the slightest given that Islam is not a choice. Those who believe in Allah, but disagree with the increasingly overwhelming intrusions into their lives become ostracised or see no other way than to leave their homeland altogether. In a country as prosperous as Malaysia it is a strange anachronism that such a large percentage of the population appears to be blindly following the religious institution of Islam.

Yet, stabilising such a religious climate is crucial to those currently in charge of the country’s future not only in Malaysia: the truth that many individuals are essentially bullied into government-sanctioned versions of Islam might be one of the main reasons for the religion’s growth rate around the globe and the way by which several ideology-driven governments seem to be purposely isolating their respective populations from an increasingly interconnected world in the social and cultural domain. As it is always the case when religion enters politics, whether or not somebody believes is not at all a relevant question.

The religious institution is merely an instrument to enforce the continuation of the given power structures within a society. While policymakers struggle with unimportant questions like whether Muslims should be allowed to drink beer or touch dogs, the real problem lies at the very core of the political system: in the fact that Malaysia is a country with a state religion, namely Islam; and that said religion has been meddling with politics since the nation’s inception.

Although Islam is by far the most politicized religion of our times, the problems of political Islam do not derive from the specifics of this very religion, but from the simple fact that religion and politics never work well together. Any attempt to align an ancient institution that is out of touch with modern times with the specifics of contemporary democracy, which oppose many fundamental concepts of Islam or any other religion, is doomed from the start.

Basic psychological models have shown for decades that religious institutions will always lead to ostracism of those who do not comply and by definition this would be every non-Muslim and also every Muslim who questions the status quo alongside, due to the deeply engrained patriarchy and misogyny at the core of any institutionalized religion, women in general. The fact that, if anything, political Islam has become stronger in government and opposition in recent years is a red flag for everybody who still hopes that Malaysia can turn around and truly embrace its diverse heritage, making “1Malaysia” more than just a cringe-worthy propaganda campaign.

The political elite of Malaysia have created a nation unsettlingly resembling Apartheid South Africa or the pre-Civil Rights Movement United States. Instead of using its economic strength in order to realise its potential as a catalyst for open-minded, inclusive and humanitarian development within Asean — a role that now perhaps falls on the shaky shoulders of the new Indonesian president Joko Widodo (Jokowi) – Malaysia appears to be on a dangerous path toward a future more reminiscent of contemporary Saudi Arabia where rich and oppressive father figures have created what is essentially every misogynist’s wildest dream come true.

Although it is hard to imagine given the most recent manoeuvres in government and opposition, which both receive most of their legitimacy and power from Islamic drivel, maybe it is not too late yet for a political U-turn. A functioning and just society can only be created if religious institutions are kept out of politics and awareness of the inadequacy of political Islam seems to be on the rise within certain parts of the intellectual elite. Without fundamental change the religious and ethnic divide across the country’s population will only worsen and even literally tear the country apart as the dissatisfaction with the federal government keeps growing in the eastern states of Sabah and Sarawak.

Malaysia might for now continue to be a nation with a promising economic future, but with regard to its societal, humanitarian and cultural development its outlook remains depressingly bleak.

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Islamic jihadists are 'pornography-obsessed w******', says Boris Johnson

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London Mayor Boris Johnson has branded religious fundamentalists recruited by terror groups such as Islamic State (IS) as "w******" who are obsessed with pornography.
Mr Johnson took aim at Islamic extremists in an interview with The Sun newspaper, suggesting they were young men who were low on self-esteem.

According to the paper Mr Johnson said: "If you look at all the psychological profiling about bombers, they typically will look at porn. They are literally w******. Severe onanists.

"They are tortured. They will be very badly adjusted in their relations with women, and that is a symptom of their feeling of being failure and that the world is against them. They are not making it with girls and so they turn to other forms of spiritual comfort - which of course is no comfort.

"They are just young men in desperate need of self-esteem who do not have a particular mission in life, who feel that they are losers and this thing makes them feel strong - like winners."

He also said he felt efforts to tackle extremism should come from within Muslim communities but claimed clerics had not been "persuasive in the right way with these people".

More than 500 Britons are thought to have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight with IS, while a report this week found many Western women in IS were "desensitised" to violence carried out by the militants and encouraged it on social media.

It is not the first time Mr Johnson has been outspoken on terrorism - on a recent visit to the Kurdish regional capital Irbil, he called on the Government to supply sophisticated weaponry to Kurdish peshmerga fighters battling IS terrorists.

But he suggested that ministers were nervous about doing so because they feared they could be used by the Kurds to establish their own separate state, independent of the Iraqi government in Baghdad.

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14 year-old girl kills 35 year-old husband

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Gezawa (Nigeria) (AFP) - A packed Nigerian court heard testimony on Monday that a 14-year-old girl admitted to killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison, and signed a police confession with a thumbprint because she cannot write.

Wasila Tasi'u, from a poor and deeply conservative Muslim family, has been charged with murdering her husband Umar Sani days after their marriage in northern Kano state.

Because she did not understand English, homicide investigator Abdullahi Adamu translated her statement from the Hausa language dominant in the region and gave her the document to sign.

She could not write her name, so "she had to use a thumbprint," he told the court during his testimony on the last day of the prosecution’s case.

The state's lawyers, who are seeking the death penalty, also called to the stand Tasi'u's "co-wife", a term referring to the woman -- identified as Ramatu -- whom the deceased farmer had married previously in a region where polygamy is widespread.

Ramatu said she got along well with Tasi'u and that the two had prepared the food together on April 5, the day Sani died.

She testified that because it was Tasi'u's turn to share a bed with Sani, Tasi'u was also entitled to serve him his meal.

"After putting the food in the dish I didn't see anybody put anything in it," Ramatu said.

She told the court she saw her husband sometime later being helped back to the house by a neighbour, unable to walk and foaming at the mouth.

As she spoke the court was overflowing, with people peering in through the open windows and a crowd so large it spilled out of the gallery door.

The case has sparked outrage among human rights activists who say Nigeria should be treating Tasi'u as a victim, noting the possibility that she was raped by the man she married.

But others in the region, including relatives of the defendant and the deceased, have rejected the notion that Tasi'u was forced into marriage.

They have said that 14 is a common age to marry in the deeply impoverished region and that Tasi'u chose Sani from among many suitors.

A motion by defence lawyers to have the case moved to juvenile court was rejected, despite claims by human rights lawyers that she is too young to stand trial for murder in a high court.

Further complicating the case is the role of sharia (Islamic law) in northern Nigeria, which allows children to marry according to some interpretations.

While sharia is technically in force in Kano, law enforcement officials have no guidelines concerning how it should be balanced with the secular criminal codes, creating a complex legal hybrid system.

According to Human Rights Watch, Nigeria is not known to have executed a juvenile offender since 1997, when the country was ruled by military dictator Sani Abacha.

The trial has been adjourned until February 16.

http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-child-bride-confessed-killing-husband-police-194833359.html

Read the thread here (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?196420-14-year-old-girl-kills-35-year-old-husband-Guess-the-religion&p=2078021#post2078021)

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Nudist insults Sabah Minister, residents of Tawau

Malaysians react angrily to Emil Kaminski's expletive-laden insults on Facebook and Twitter while minister calls him a “monkey”

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PETALING JAYA: Notorious nudist Emil Kaminski not only committed a sacrilegious act by posing nude and urinating atop Mount Kinabalu with his group of friends, he has now taken to social media to insult Sabah’s Minister of Tourism, Culture & Environment.

“Masidi Manjun, you are an idiot, not a minister of tourism,” Kaminski tweeted following an earlier tweet that read: “Masidi Manjun, a Malaysian tourism minister, blames the earthquake on nudity,” showing his apparent confusion as it was Deputy Chief Minister and Huguon Siou Joseph Pairin Kitingan who said it and not the tourism minister.

However taking the insult in stride, Masidi shot back via his Twitter page: “Just got this very complimentary posting from the nudist. I say, ‘it takes a monkey to call another person a monkey’.”

Besides insulting the minister, Kaminski also wrote an expletive-laden and condescending posting on Facebook about the residents of Tawau when he wrote: “Hoooooooli crap, Mohamed Ali is running a shop in Tawau!?!?

“Anywho, the place is a shithole, but I am stuck here for a few more days until the whole ‘naked-on-a-mountain’ thing dies down.

“Luckily the dumbasses here have no internet and no idea!”

Reacting angrily to this latest rant, Facebook users left equally expletive-ridden postings on his wall with one Redknight Yan posting a line drawing of a middle finger while Mazliana Mazlan said: “No internet? No idea? Are you sure? That shows how shallow your mind is. Lol we were not born in the stone age.”

Mel Alfonso said: “Who are you trying to amuse with your silly actions on top of the mountain also negative and disgusting comments about people’s hometown, we love Sabah, this is where we born and you said the place is a shithole ? Yet you called us “dumbasses”, if you feel happy treating people like that, people will be happier to treat you the same way.”

Smidha Nair meanwhile said: “You Better Hope The Locals Can’t Locate Your Whereabouts Dummy! Why The Hell Should We Locals RESPECT Your DAMNED ILK… Get A Life Asshole!”

Yasmin Toruk: “You’re hiding but telling the whole world the place that you’re hiding now?? You are literally too stupid to insult! And by the way, we do have internet here asshole!”

Sabah Police Commissioner Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said all five nudists would not be allowed to leave Sabah until investigations of their crime was wrapped up.

The group is being investigated under Section 290 of the Penal Code and are liable to a RM400 fine if convicted.

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Israeli rabbi peddles ‘kosher’ pleasure with online sex shop

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ELAZAR: Their inspiration may be exotic — the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Rome’s Colosseum — but rabbi Natan Alexander’s vibrators have a distinctly domestic goal: giving Orthodox Jewish couples gratification without the guilt.

Alexander, 34, was born in Sydney and now lives in a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

After studying religion and becoming a rabbi in Israel, he turned his hand to online sex counselling in a mission to spice up the love lives of the faithful.

“Giving pleasure to one’s wife is a religious obligation,” he told AFP. “Religious couples should be helped to better live their sexuality.”

He founded the Better2gether website where observant couples can peruse and purchase all sorts of sex aids, safe in the knowledge the products are kosher.

“Jewish law permits the use of these objects that can best help fulfil the commandment to give pleasure to one’s wife,” Alexander said.

“Better2gether is here to help couples enhance and strengthen relationships both emotionally and physically,” the website proclaims. “Our approach provides modesty, sensitivity, and confidentiality.”

Its online catalogue has an architectural flavour, offering vibrators modelled on landmarks including London’s Gherkin skyscraper, the fronds of Palm Island in Dubai and the spires and domes of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square.

Alexander is not the first cleric to publicly address sex and eroticism in marriage among Judaism’s deeply conservative community.

American Orthodox rabbi Shmuley Boteach had a blockbuster success with his 1999 book “Kosher Sex” and his 2009 followup “The Kosher Sutra” was also a bestseller.

“I think in our culture we suppress and deny a woman’s true erotic nature,” he said in a video promoting his 2014 work, “Kosher Lust”.

“Women today are loved but they’re not lusted after. They’re appreciated but not desired,” said Boteach, 49, whose website says that he has nine children and two grandchildren. “They’re complimented but their husbands aren’t ripping their clothes off.”

‘Proud to be a pioneer’

Alexander’s West Bank business has proved successful, counting satisfied customers in Israel but also as far afield as the United States, Britain, Australia and South Africa.

In spite of sales of approximately five items a day and more than 20,000 views of the website a month, he insists his online sex venture isn’t all about profit.

“I want to offer these services to allow religious couples access to pleasure without breaking religious laws,” he explained.

While the products are the same as those offered by sex shops everywhere, they are supplied in packages without the kind of racy illustrations that offend Orthodox sensitivities.

The site offers online counselling by what it says are professional sex therapists, couples counsellors and gynaecologists on issues which many couples find hard to raise with their rabbis.

Questions on premature ejaculation, penis size, orgasms and sexual positions are answered using language “respecting the rules of religious life,” Alexander said.

“Judaism gives an important place to sexual pleasure but it is still too often a taboo subject,” he added. “I am proud to be a pioneer in this field.”

- AFP

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Most feel concert guidelines unfair to non-Muslims

Source URL (http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/04/22/most-feel-jakims-concert-guidelines-unfair-to-non-muslims/)

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PETALING JAYA: Fans and entertainment companies have expressed mixed feelings about the updated set of guidelines the Department for Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) has proposed in regard to concerts by foreign artistes.

Among the rules are strict limitations on dressing, behaviour and performances as well as a proposal on gender segregation among those in the audience.

One K-Pop fan going by the name of Mia who said the guidelines were acceptable to her, including the requirement that males be separated from females, cautioned however that it should be implemented in stages.

She also felt that Jakim was not giving enough consideration to the non-Muslims in the audience. “We also have a lot of non-Muslims here in Malaysia, and they don’t mind if the artistes wear sexy attire,” she was quoted as saying in The Malaysian Insider while adding that when it came to implementing guidelines such as this, Jakim had to be fair.

Raihanna Aleesya shared Mia’s sentiments about fairness saying, “As guidelines, it is good. But separating men and women, I think we have to look at it from another angle… This is because we are living in a multi-racial and multi-religious country. We need to respect other races and also followers of other beliefs.”

When asked his opinion about Jakim’s guidelines, Muzzafar Salleh, a producer at music label Erama Creative, said: “It is probably true that the majority of the Malay fans will agree with such a ruling (gender segregation). But, what about the Chinese and Indian fans?”

Meanwhile Venus, the administrator of a local online K-Pop fan club said many fans were unhappy with Jakim’s guidelines, saying K-Pop was somehow singularly being targeted.

She also said many fans had expressed their willingness to work overtime in order to save enough money so they could go overseas to watch their favourite artistes perform live.

“A lot of the K-pop fans will not hesitate to go overseas to watch their idols’ perform if the artistes do not want to come here due to the strict ruling by the authorities,” Venus explained.

She also said there was no valid reason for the Islamic authorities to take such drastic action as many of the guidelines proposed were already in place and being adhered to strictly when foreign artistes were brought into the country by concert organisers and entertainment companies.

“They take their own initiative and look into the religious sensitivities in Malaysia.” she was quoted as saying.

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Kate Middleton's friend holds orgies in sharia hotel

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The Duchess of Cambridge's friend has been staging sex parties in the country's first sharia hotel.

Emma Sayle, owner of Killing Kittens, a members-only sex-club, said the Bermondsey Square hotel in London is one of her preferred destinations for the self-styled ‘sexual elite’.

A friend of Kate Middleton's, Miss Sayle, 36, who attended Downe House boarding school with Prince Michael's daughter, Lady Gabriella Windsor, has used the four loft suites on the seventh floor of the hotel for her parties.

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Emma Sayle and Kate Middleton lunching together in 2007 (Rex Features)

The £220-a-night hotel became the country's first sharia hotel last year, banning the sale of alcohol.

According to Miss Sayle, who is a member of Kate's rowing crew, The Sisterhood, the rules at Killing Kitten events state men can’t approach women at parties unless they know them, everyone wears a mask and single men aren't allowed.

She told Conference News: “A lot of our events are in high-end hotels such as The Wood Norton in Evesham and the Bermondsey Square hotel, London, among others."

A spokeswoman for the Bermondsey Square hotel said the sex parties took place in the four loft suites which meant there was no overlap with other guests.

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She said: "Bermondsey Square Hotel has had a complete change of ownership in the last six months. The restaurant is undergoing refurbishment and the hotel remains a popular choice with business and leisure guests alike for its location and service. Over two years ago a number of rooms were booked by Killing Kittens on a couple of occasions. These were very discrete guests. We have not hosted events for a number of years and it is not something we will be looking to do in the future."

A spokeswoman for the Wood Norton hotel in Worcestershire, said: “I am aware of the company. We have held events organised by Killing Kittens in the past. They would have taken exclusive use. It’s not something we will be looking to do in the future. We have had a complete change of management in the last six months.”

Miss Sayle added: “They are private events for couples and girls so it’s definitely not about corporates organising a party for their staff.”

Her Killing Kittens brand also sells sexual aids and has organised “kidnap role play experiences” for £3,500.

In 2010 Miss Sayle was questioned by police after posting an update on her Facebook page saying: “Just had a two-hour shooting lesson. She will now be using this skill on the top of East London high rises to help with the UK's illegal immigrant problem.”

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The location where the alleged rape victim was kicked out of the car

wah........ nice location leh......... must go there and pcc liao.......

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The battle between the veil and the miniskirt

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Two opposing campaigns arguing about what women should wear are gripping the Arab world.

bro........ can i request both a not?........ a nice zhao geng mini skirt and a air tight tudung......

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[QUOTE=IwantbustyKim;13137614]Woman pleads for death to escape 30 times rape

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rape asshole 30 times or die?........ the choice is clear........ drink pepsi cola.......

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Source URL (http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/new-hotline-manual-help-counter-isis-threat-20150609)

New helpline, manual to help counter ISIS threat in Singapore

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SINGAPORE - From early next month, members of the public seeking answers to questions on extremism and advice on religious matters can turn to a new helpline set up by a group of Islamic religious scholars and teachers.

The Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), formed in 2003 to counsel terror detainees and counter the Jemaah Islamiah threat, is hard at work extending its outreach efforts to derail radical propaganda spread by terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as it continues to lure foreign fighters into its war.

The hotline, 1800-7747747, will be manned by RRG members. More details will be announced later.

The group is also going down to the ground, working with the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) to conduct outreach talks at mosques before Friday sermons. Its co-chair Hasbi Hassan and vice-chair Mohamed Ali started these sessions last Friday at the Al-Muttaqin Mosque in Ang Mo Kio and Darussalam Mosque in Clementi.

Meanwhile, RRG counsellors will have clear guidelines to refer to with the launch of a third counsellor's manual. This manual, produced by the RRG, focuses on refuting ISIS' extremist narrative and making clear how they are not relevant to Singapore Muslims in particular.

These measures taken by the RRG to tackle the growing terrorism threat were lauded by Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean at the group's annual retreat on Tuesday.

News broke last month of a self-radicalised Singaporean student detained in April under the Internal Security Act. He had made plans to join ISIS, and had also planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Singapore - including the assassination of President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Another 17-year-old was arrested in May for further investigations.

These two cases highlight the urgent need to deal with the ISIS threat, said Mr Teo, who is also Home Affairs Minister. Speaking in Malay, he urged the community to work together to protect youths from radical ideology, and suggested three ways they could better tackle concerns of terrorism.

First, religious teachers must work with MUIS and groups like the RRG and Pergas to develop an ideology that counters ISIS' radical take on the religion. This should be attuned to Singapore's context - a multiracial, multireligious society - he added.

Second, the RRG and other community groups should work with young people to reach out to youths - who are most vulnerable to the spread of extremist propaganda online - through social media and the Internet.

Mr Teo said: "Just as ISIS has used social media to provide religious justifications for its various actions, our responses have to be equally, if not more, dynamic."

And third, he said, Singapore needs to go beyond countering distorted and radical ideology, and put out a positive agenda that allows the different communities to live together peacefully.

"This is a precious legacy built by our founding leaders and Pioneers. We want our youths to also appreciate the racial and religious harmony that we enjoy today," said Mr Teo.

"This peace and stability serves as the foundation for our social and economic development - allowing Singaporeans of all races and religions to receive good education, take up good jobs, and bring up children in a safe and secure environment."


- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/new-hotline-manual-help-counter-isis-threat-20150609#sthash.8g7Utuco.dpuf

We should do our part in Singapore by identifying all those ISIS fanboys or Sympathizers and report them as soon as possible before anything happens. The earlier the better.

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When ‘Church’ is not a church

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A Facebook user had an unusual request for a fast food chain recently after he was perplexed that its dipping sauce had the word “Church” on it.

A post on the Texas Chicken Malaysia (TCM) FB page read: “Dear TCM Please do explain your dipping sauce brand, most customers are Muslim and we do not eat food from ‘Church’ brand.”

This resulted in a response from TCM, that explained to the worried customer that the brand “Church” was the surname of the founder and did not refer to any place of worship (church or gereja).

“Thank you for your query. Please be informed that the brand Texas Chicken was founded in San Antonio, Texas, by our founder George W. Church Sr.
“Church is his surname and the name of the brand is ‘Church’s Chicken’ in USA. Outside of USA, the brand is known as ‘Texas Chicken’.

“Hence, the word Church here is not used in a religious context and does not have any affiliation with ‘gereja’.”

The fast food chain’s response read that when it came to the dipping sauce, some of it was imported directly from America.

“This is so you get to enjoy the same great taste and quality that is synonymous with the brand anywhere in the world.

“Please rest assured that the sauces, food and ingredients in all our outlets have been certified halal by Jakim,” read the post, referring to Malaysia’s Islamic Development Department (Jakim), which monitors whether food is permissible according to Islamic principles.

The post has since been taken down, but is making the rounds on social media.
Most comments point out how silly the worry by the customer was.
Others asked for the name on the dipping sauce to be changed.

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Do they have issue with a certain doll too?

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Malaysian gymnast gets brickbats for showing ‘aurat’, ‘vagina shape’ despite winning gold

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 — Malaysian gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi has received a slew of criticisms from Muslims who attacked her for showing her “aurat” and the “shape of her vagina” in a leotard despite winning a gold medal at the SEA Games.

Several Facebook users slammed the 21-year-old Malay woman on Buletin TV3’s Facebook page that had uploaded Wednesday a photograph of her in the gymnastics outfit, along with a caption that announced her winning gold in floor exercise in artistic gymnastics.

“Until she’s dead too people can see the shape of her vagina and aurat,” wrote a Facebook user called Muhammad Nur Salam.

Facebook user called Amir Muhd said: “Just strip off your clothes lah… let everyone see.”

Another Facebook user said Farah Ann’s dressing was even worse than non-Muslims’ in terms of showing her “aurat”.


“This is the joy of the temporal world...even though our afterlife will be full of pain from Allah swt, what is it compared to the medal hung around that neck if our spirit in the afterlife suffer one day later,” wrote Addieputra Jentayu.


A screen capture showing the facebook post by Buletin TV3.
Both Muslim women and men are prohibited in Islam from exposing their aurat, though criticisms are more often targeted against women.

Other Muslim Facebook users, however, have come to Farah Ann’s defence.

“So disgusting reading these religious comments from the so-called future members of heaven… just ignore them… Congratulations Farah Ann, it’s not easy to get a gold medal for Malaysia,” wrote Dina Nida.

A Facebook user called Siti Kasim congratulated the young athlete, saying: “Ignore those retards who can’t see beyond their limited brain capacity! Keep up the good work! We are proud of you!”

Singapore news website The New Paper reported that Farah Ann had pulled off a flawless floor routine to score 13.733, beating Indonesia and Vietnam.

The Malaysian athlete also reportedly won three bronze medals and a silver in individual events.

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think her outfit is nothing compared to the europeans

[assrammer]

[QUOTE=IwantbustyKim;13162694]Malaysian gymnast gets brickbats for showing ‘aurat’, ‘vagina shape’ despite winning gold

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 — Malaysian gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi has received a slew of criticisms from Muslims who attacked her for showing her “aurat” and the “shape of her vagina” in a leotard despite winning a gold medal at the SEA Games.

knnbccb......... kong jiao wei these stupid people......... wear speedo costume how not to show chee by shape?.......... must wear diaper inside lo......... but.......... if her chee by is circumcised without clit anymore.......... maybe that's fine........... hahahah......... so.......... next time wanna show chee by shape? .......... make sure chee by got no more shiok skin or shiok button.......... hahahhaha...........

[IwantbustyKim]

They would rather she not win a medal and conform to some backward middle ages Arabic standard of dressing than for her to bring glory to Malaysia.


[QUOTE=IwantbustyKim;13162694]Malaysian gymnast gets brickbats for showing ‘aurat’, ‘vagina shape’ despite winning gold

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 — Malaysian gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi has received a slew of criticisms from Muslims who attacked her for showing her “aurat” and the “shape of her vagina” in a leotard despite winning a gold medal at the SEA Games.

knnbccb......... kong jiao wei these stupid people......... wear speedo costume how not to show chee by shape?.......... must wear diaper inside lo......... but.......... if her chee by is circumcised without clit anymore.......... maybe that's fine........... hahahah......... so.......... next time wanna show chee by shape? .......... make sure chee by got no more shiok skin or shiok button.......... hahahhaha...........

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They would rather she not win a medal and conform to some backward middle ages Arabic standard of dressing than for her to bring glory to Malaysia.


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Full of pretence la ....... condemn openly but pcc to her pics at home :p

[assrammer]

oh........... wear the full fledged black poncho cover face, hand, leg and all and do the event?.......... good idea......... that will be a first........ hahaha.......

[IwantbustyKim]

Malaysia to fall into ‘stupid state’ before Talibanism digs in, says activist Marina Mahathir


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KUALA LUMPUR, June 13 ― Pointing to the recent social media frenzy over the “vagina shape” of a champion Malaysian gymnast at the SEA Games, Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir said the country was in greater danger of descending into stupidity before becoming a Taliban state.

The prominent social activist blamed the country’s political leaders for fuelling the pettiness of some Muslims who had panned gold medallist Farah Ann Abdul Hadi for purportedly showing her aurat with her figure-hugging sports attire.

“No, I don’t think we’ll be a Taliban state yet; we’ll be a stupid state first,” Marina said at a panel discussion at the Cooler Lumpur Festival here today, when asked if the public outrage indicates that Malaysia will become a Taliban state eventually.

“The trouble is, our top leadership, we do have small and petty-minded people. They see these leaders saying things ― ‘bocor’ lah, ‘ni lah’, crosses on ‘telekungs’ for instance ― nobody laughs at them.

“In another country, people would point at the politicians and say, ‘What a dumb thing to say’. But here they don’t,” she added.

National news agency Bernama reported Tuesday Sabah Community Development and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Jainab Ahmad Ayid as reminding Muslims to beware of “telekung” (prayer garments for Muslim women) that have a cross pattern.

He reportedly claimed that this showed attempts to deviate Muslims from their faith, as the cross is the religious symbol for Christianity.

Marina also said today that those who call Farah Ann’s outfit “haram” (forbidden), despite the 21-year-old recently winning a gold medal in floor exercise at the SEA Games in Singapore, forget that it is also “haram” to humiliate people in public.

“Some people started talking about what she wore, ‘showing off her private parts’, but they don’t think it’s controversial to say that. They think it’s normal to do, then they’re shocked that people are telling them off,” said the eldest daughter of former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the panel discussion called “What would you write about if you weren’t afraid?”

Farah Ann has received a slew of criticisms from fellow Muslims who attacked her for showing her aurat and the “shape of her vagina” after Buletin TV3 uploaded Wednesday a photograph of her in a leotard on its Facebook page.

Both Muslim women and men are prohibited in Islam from exposing their aurat, though criticisms are more often targeted against women. The definition of the aurat, however, is debatable.

Other Muslim Facebook users, however, have come to Farah Ann’s defence and told the athlete to ignore her critics.

Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who is also Umno Youth chief, tweeted yesterday: “In gymnastics Farah wowed the judges and brought home gold. In her deeds only the Almighty judges her. Not you. Leave our athletes alone”.

Marina said today that people seem to fear diverse views and opinions about religion.

“People are scared of their own religions. They don’t want to learn more about it, they don’t want to express doubt. But it’s only when you have doubt that you start asking for more information. I find that’s the greatest fear,” said the activist.

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The Nude Tourist Who Insulted Sabahans Was Never Actually In Malaysia To Begin With...

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Emil Kaminski, a Canadian mountain climber, is believed to be one of the 10 trekkers who disrobed on Mt. Kinabalu and triggered, as deemed by Malaysian authorities and locals, the 6.0-magnitude quake that rocked the Mt. Kinabalu on Friday, 5 June. Of the 10, four trekkers accused of taking nude photographs on Mt. Kinabalu have been jailed for 3 days from date of arrest and fined RM5,000 each.

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However, it turns out, Emil Kaminski was not part of the 10 trekkers. In fact, he was not even in Malaysia when all this was happening! In other words, the Canadian nudist has been faking it since the start!

In a video titled "Mt. Kinabalu - The Naked Truth," Emil reveals that none of the photos of him being shared online are actually from Malaysia, and "most importantly", he says, "I wasn't even in Malaysia at the time," adding, "I did not claim to be in Malaysia at the time."

Emil, who runs travel blogging site Monkeetime, said that he was merely "trolling" the people of Malaysia. Describing the "virtual experience" in the YouTube video, he said he got "flared up" by politicians blaming the tourists for an earthquake that killed 18. Watch the full video here as Emil reveals how it faked it all:

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The Naked Truth is finally unveiled !!!!!!!!!! :D

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How stupid can these ppl be?

Unmarried couples caned in Indonesia's Aceh

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Men and women, aged between 18 and 23, hit several times for being together alone in violation of province's strict law.

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Three couples have been publicly caned in Indonesia's Aceh after the unmarried university students were caught spending time alone together in violation of the province's strict interpretation of Sharia.

A rowdy crowd of about 1,000 spectators shouted as the three men and three women, aged between 18 and 23, were lashed on Friday several times each with a rattan cane in a square in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh.

A fourth woman, aged in her 40s, was also publicly caned for committing adultery. One of the women fainted after being caned four times and had to be carried off by officials.

"Hopefully those who are being caned will realise their mistakes and feel remorseful and repent to God so that they can become noble humans again," Ridwan, an official from the local sharia law office who goes by one name, said before the caning.

RELATED: The heavy hand of religious police in Aceh

Public caning is a common punishment in Aceh, which is the only province in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country that is allowed to implement Islamic sharia, but it is rare for women to be caned.

Gay sex, gambling and drinking alcohol are already punishable by caning in Aceh which began implementing sharia after being granted special autonomy in 2001, an effort by the central government in Jakarta to quell a long-running separatist rebellion.

A flurry of strict Islamic Sharia have been introduced in Aceh in recent years, drawing howls of protest from rights groups.

Just this week, Banda Aceh banned women from entertainment venues after 11pm unless they are accompanied by a husband or male family member and last month an Aceh district banned unmarried men and women from riding together on motorbikes.

More than 90 percent of Indonesians describe themselves as Muslim.

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Calls for lifting of female curfew in Indonesia's Aceh

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Many working women hope Jakarta will reverse night-time restrictions and give them back their freedom of movement.

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Activists in Indonesia are voicing their opposition to a partial curfew imposed on women earlier this month in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province.

The provincial government says the new rule, which mandates that females working or visiting nightspots must return home by 11pm, is meant to protect women from sexual harassment and prevent them from being overworked.

But opponents of the regulation say the curfew not only takes away the basic freedom of movement but represses women who have to work night shifts to support their families.

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, reporting from Banda Aceh, said only a few women have dared to protest openly against the curfew rule, mainly because it was issued in the name of religion in a province that has a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

Samsidar, a woman activist in Aceh, told Al Jazeera the law is "clearly discriminatory" against women and contradicts the country's constitution.

Conflicting opinions

Iliza Saaduddin Djamal, mayor of Banda Aceh, defends the new rule, saying: "After 11 pm, places of entertainment are quite dangerous. There are many problems. ... If women work later than 11pm, it is not effective. By that time women should be able to rest."

However, Indonesian government ministers in Jakarta say they want to review the regulations in Aceh to see whether they breach the national constitution.

"Many women are affected by [the curfew law] because they work at night," Yohana Yembise, minister of women empowerment, told Al Jazeera.


"We need to review this and I will discuss this with our home minister because this is not the only regulation in Aceh violating gender equality."

In Banda Aceh these days, women are reprimanded for being outdoors after 9pm unaccompanied by their husbands or family members. Unmarried couples are arrested for kissing in the city's parks.

Violators can be punished by caning in public, like three unmarried couples who were recently caught.

While not all women are obeying the mayor's regulations, most cafes in the city are now filled with men only.

Many women are hoping that the government in Jakarta will reverse the rule and allow them to work and move around at night as they used to do.

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Tudung vs miniskirts: Fashion or jihad?

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A road billboard in Kelantan shows a Muslim woman in a tudung and baju kurung with the words: “Menjaga aurat adalah perintah Allah SWT” [Covering your ‘aurat’ is God’s commandment]. — Facebook pic

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — A billboard in Kelantan shows a Muslim woman in a tudung and baju kurung with the words: “Menjaga aurat adalah perintah Allah SWT” [Covering your ‘aurat’ is God’s commandment].

The image of the signboard, which was shared by the Ipoh branch of Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) on its Facebook page, illustrates how women’s bodies in Malaysia have become a battleground between the conservatives and the liberals, just like the opposing campaigns in the Arab world on the headscarf and the miniskirt.

UK news site BBC News reported recently that a campaign in Algeria has men determining what their female family members wear and arguing that the tudung, or the hijab as it’s called in Arab, protects women from unwanted attention.

The “Be a man” Facebook campaign, however, reportedly sparked a reaction from secular activists in neighbouring Tunisia, as they started an “international day of the miniskirt” campaign on the social networking site saying: “We must fight the pro-Islamists taking over”.

Although none here have embarked on such campaigns, the topic of how Muslim women dress themselves in Malaysia is a subject of much debate.

The latest controversy was sparked by social media criticism over the gymnastic leotard of SEA Games gold medallist Farah Ann Abdul Hadi, which allegedly showed off the 21-year-old Muslim athlete’s “aurat” and the “shape of her vagina”.

Conservative Muslim figures say women should cover themselves from head to toe, while liberal Muslims say hemlines don’t determine piety.

According to the beliefs of local politician Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, a Malay leader in secular party DAP, Muslim women should be allowed to wear whatever they want, from knee-length skirts to even miniskirts.

“Letting men decide what women should wear is highly degrading. Women can decide for themselves what is good and what is bad,” said the young Dyana Sofya, who does not wear the headscarf.

Abdul Hakim Othman, spokesman of ultra-conservative Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia (HTM) disagreed with the view, however, and said it is “haram” (forbidden) for Muslim women to wear miniskirts or anything similar in public.

“Muslim women must wear ‘khimar’ (cover from head to chest) and ‘jilbab’ (cover from neck to foot as one dress).

“This is the ‘hukum’ (divine rule) as stated in al-Quran,” Abdul Hakim told Malay Mail Online, citing Surah Al-Ahzab verse 59 and Surah An-Nur verse 31.

Like Abdul Hakim, Perak Mufti Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria similarly said Muslim women must cover their entire bodies except for their face and hands.

“If she wears a tudung, people will respect her. It means she’s religious,” the Muslim cleric told Malay Mail Online.

“Miniskirts are not allowed [in Islam]; women can wear trousers, but they can’t be too tight,” he added.

Malay Mail Online reported last month that tudung brands are flourishing in Malaysia on the back of an increasingly conservative brand of Islam practised in the country.

Hijabsters, or hipsters who don the hijab, however have turned the headscarf into a fashion item.

Housewife Siti Noraini Mohd Kamarulzaman, who buys four to five headscarves every week, said it is compulsory in Islam to cover her “aurat” from head to toe, but noted that the hijab can be fashionable too.

“Fashion is very important to me. To me, wearing the hijab can also prevent rape and the like because it can prevent male desire from the ends of my hair to the soles of my feet,” the 24-year-old woman told Malay Mail Online.

Islamic Renaissance Front chairman Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa, however, said women’s dressing should not be blamed for sexual assault.

“I believe a woman has the right to choice of clothing, but this choice will have to be tempered with prevailing religious sensitivities because that’s where you live,” Ahmad Farouk told Malay Mail Online.

“I don’t think clothing reflects a person’s religious character,” he added.

Sisters in Islam communications officer Aliah Ali said women’s right to decide what to wear should be respected.

“Surah al-Baqarah (2:256) states that there shall be no compulsion in religion and this even applies to coercing, either both covering or removing covering,” Aliah told Malay Mail Online.

“The Quran, in Surah Al-A’raf (7:26) which reads, ‘We have revealed unto you raiment to conceal your shame, and splendid vesture, but the raiment of righteousness, that is the best’, shows to us that the best garment is one of righteousness.

A piece of clothing is not the ultimate reflection of piety,” the Muslim women’s rights activist added.

In Malaysia, however, what Muslim women wear has come to symbolise their religiosity – or the lack of it – according to conservatives who seek to impose their beliefs and dictate other people’s appearances.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/tudung-vs-miniskirts-fashion-or-jihad#sthash.qoFEFrCk.dpuf

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Imagine LTA say their customers can't serve you if you wear shorts and singlets....


Even men in sleeveless shirts will be denied service, RTD clarifies after woman made to wear sarong -

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 — After a middle-aged, conservative-looking woman was denied service at a Road Transport Department (RTD) office for wearing a skirt deemed too revealing, the government department has published a dress code that prohibits even men from wearing sleeveless shirts.

The dress code was published on RTD’s Facebook page and Twitter account @JPJ_Malaysia after an uproar yesterday and a debate on all sides that seems to suggest that Malaysians remain divided along religious lines amid an increasingly conservative brand of Islam practised in the country.

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The dress code published on RTD’s Facebook page.

Observers say that the incident of the RTD officers purportedly making the ethnic Chinese woman wear a full-length sarong in order to get service, who said she was at the RTD office for a vehicle ownership transfer, indicates creeping Islamisation in government departments whose workers are predominantly Malay-Muslim.

“Visitors must dress neatly, cleanly and in accordance with Malaysian practice,” the RTD dress code read.

“Practise decent dressing (T-shirts, collared T-shirts, shoes, long trousers, long skirts below the knee), especially during official business at offices at complexes.

“Visitors are prohibited from wearing indecent clothes or clothes that expose the flesh, such as the following: skirt lengths above the knee or shorts, sleeveless shirts, tight shorts or skirts and slippers,” it added.

RTD did not mention its reasons for the dress code.

A public relations officer with the department told The Star that the incident is currently being investigated.

“We are investigating when and where the incident happened. If we know where it happened, we want a report from that office," the officer was quoted saying in a report by the daily today.

Both Muslim women and men are prohibited in Islam from exposing their “aurat” (certain parts of the body).

The woman who had complained about the dress code on Facebook claimed that RTD officers told her they would not entertain her unless she wore the sarong.

Government departments and agencies regularly enforce dress codes and will refuse service or even entry to those who do not comply.

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After gymnast furore, Islamist group moots Jakim guidelines for sports

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — The federal Islamic authorities should come out with a guideline for sports so Muslim women can stay Shariah-compliant, the female wing of National Muslim Youth Association (Pembina) said today.

Amid attacks against SEA Games gold medallist Farah Ann Abdul Hadi’s gymnastic attire, the student arm of Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) said Muslim women should stay away for activities or careers which are not Shariah-compliant.

“If Jakim had recently been able to provide a guideline for concerts in Malaysia, I am optimistic Jakim will be able to provide a guideline for sports next,” Pembina female wing chief Roszida Kamaruddin said on its website, using the acronym of the Malaysian Islamic Development Department.

Jakim recently introduced updated guidelines to entertainment which, among others, urges gender segregation among the audience, and prohibits humour that will provoke “excessive laughter”.

According to Jakim, the new list is meant to assist the authorities in ensuring that entertainment programmes are based on the Islamic faith and codes, and moral values.

Roszida accused many sports of trying to discard an athlete’s shame using nearly-naked attires, claiming that “gymnastics” originated from a Greek word which means “to exercise naked”.

“Gymnastics” comes from the Greek word “gymnastikos”, meaning “skilled in bodily exercise”. This, in turn, originated from the archaic Greek word “gymnos” which means “naked”, as athletes in ancient Greek competed without clothes.

“Women should not be stopped from sports, but they must priorities the Islamic codes in sports attire. Furthermore, there are many Muslim female athletes who succeed even by covering their aurat,” said Roszida, referring to the “intimate body parts” that Muslims must cover with clothing.

On Friday, Malay Mail Online reported of Muslims who attacked Farah for showing her “aurat” and the “shape of her vagina” in a leotard despite winning a gold medal at the SEA Games.

Several Facebook users slammed the 21-year-old Malay woman on Buletin TV3’s Facebook page that had uploaded Wednesday a photograph of her in the gymnastics outfit, along with a caption that announced her winning gold in floor exercise in artistic gymnastics.

Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin had since defended Farah Ann, telling detractors that they have no right to judge her attire.

The double gold medallist had also fired back at her critics on Twitter: “Empty cans make the most noise.”

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/after-gymnast-furore-islamist-group-moots-jakim-guidelines-for-sports#sthash.pTIFTdXo.dpuf

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After ulama rout in PAS, Mat Sabu says IS thinking creeping into Malaysia - See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/after-ulama-rout-in-pas-mat-sabu-says-is-thinking-creeping-into-malaysia#sthash.1HUJCzUI.dpuf

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — After a complete wipeout of the progressives by the clergy class in PAS’s elections two weeks ago, its deposed deputy president Mohamad Sabu, or popularly known as Mat Sabu, declared that Malaysia is now facing an ideological threat similar to that propounded by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS).

Speaking at a ceramah event here last night, Mat Sabu said the signs of rising Islamism have become more apparent today and this dangerous trend was reflected in the campaigns throughout the PAS election where any views that differed from those of the clergy class (ulama) were immediately labelled as un-Islamic.

“If we do not stop this then we shall see the arrival of the IS (ideology) into our country. We can already see this dangerous line of thinking in how they are labeling people,” Mat Sabu told the ceramah.

“Those with differing views are deemed as liberals, munafik (pretenders), jebon (derogatory term to describe traitors) and if we fail to contain this (line of thinking) then we will become like the middle east - which has been devastated by sectarian wars.”

Mat Sabu predicted should Malaysia become engulfed in sectarian violence, it would take decades for the country to recover much similar to the war-torn Arab nations.

Without naming anyone or even using the term “ulama”, which was the obvious subject of his vitriols, Mat Sabu said the Muslim world is now plagued by a “piety crisis” where those who profess divine sanction display their Islam-ness only in the rituals, but not morally.

“Now we have those who rather support Muslims despite them being evil and corrupt just because they are Muslims and promised the heavens.

“And these very same people would rather not co-operate with the non-Muslims even though they do so much good, just because they are not Muslims and are not promised the heavens.”

The assertion was apparently aimed at PAS president and leader of the clergy class Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang who appears to have signalled his keenness on co-operating with archrivals Umno instead of its own allies the DAP.

Hadi had in the past repeatedly stated his willingness to work with Umno for the sake of Malay-Muslim unity.

Continuing his attacks on Hadi, Mat Sabu said PAS’s closeness with Umno was a betrayal of those who voted for Pakatan Rakyat in the 2013 General Election, and said the move was akin to providing Umno a lifeline.

“Whatever we do we must never give Umno-Barisan Nasional, which has ruled with tyranny, lifeline..but this group is giving them lifeline”.

Conservatives close to Umno routed the progressives in the PAS polls leaving only one post to the latter group. Analysts said the election results effectively removed any obstacle for Hadi to pursue co-operation with Umno.

Mat Sabu said there is a need for a paradigm shift after the PAS polls, and said Muslims now must now undo the damage done by the present PAS leadership by following the true teachings of Islam.

Mat Sabu stressed that that would be his focus now.

“In the Muslim world now we have a problem where they only profess Islam in their rituals. They are only Muslims in ritual, but not morally. But my campaign will be to ensure that we not only promote ritual Islam, but its morality as well”.

Mat Sabu was among the progressives defeated in the recent PAS election .

He was accused of conspiring to topple Hadi, a claim he said was trumped up as part of a ploy to wipe the progressives out.

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Women’s bodies invite rape, Ridhuan Tee says

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Tee also said today that covering up one’s ‘aurat’ does not guarantee protection from rape, but stressed that it was merely a preventive measure. — YouTube videograbKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 16 — Controversial columnist Ridhuan Tee Abdullah claimed today that women’s bodies attract rapists, amid an uproar over a recent Friday sermon that linked women’s dressing to sexual assault.

Pointing out the difference between the shape of women’s and men’s bodies, Tee said in his column on Malay daily Sinar Harian that by “exposing and flaunting” their bodies, women are motivating men to commit rape.

“The logic is simple. Women’s bodies are alluring and arousing,” said Tee in the article titled “Bila si jahil berbicara (When the ignorant speak)”.

The lecturer at the Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin’s Research Institute for Islamic Products and Civilisation was explaining his reasons for disagreeing with a claim by G25 earlier this month that Kelantan will be overrun by paedophiles should the PAS government implement hudud.

G25, the moniker used to refer to the group of prominent Malay former civil servants, had said at a forum on February 7 that this is because the Islamic penal code dismisses the need for scientific evidence to prove crimes like zina (sex outside marriage).

“Why so quick to condemn Islamic law when we have yet to experience it here?” Tee asked. “If you claim to practise Islam, then where is your confidence in Allah?”

He claimed that humans are more inclined towards committing good deeds rather than bad, and rational-thinking people were unlikely to rape others.

Only a select few would dare to commit such crimes, he pointed out.

“That is why Islam’s way is to prevent (crime) by taking harsh action,” he said.

Tee also claimed that wearing short skirts and going to nightclubs could lead to rape, sexual assault and other forms of violence against women.

The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) said in its Friday sermon earlier this month that covering up one’s “aurat” would prevent women from being raped, sparking outrage from women’s groups and politicians who said that the Islamic authority was perpetuating rape myths.

“Aurat” in Malay refers to “intimate body parts” that Muslims must cover with clothing; exposing these is considered sinful.

Damansara Utama assemblyman Yeo Bee Yin from the DAP has since pointed out that Kelantan, which is governed by conservative Islamist party PAS, has the second-highest number of rape cases per 100,000 people in the country.

Yeo, who cited 2009 statistics from the Statistics Department, said Kelantan has 20 rape cases per 100,000 people while Negri Sembilan has the highest figure at 20.6 cases.

Tee said today that covering up one’s “aurat” does not guarantee protection from rape, but stressed that it was merely a preventive measure.

“If it’s fated that many of those who cover their ‘aurat’ are raped, then it’s fate,” said the Muslim convert.

Civil rights group Empower said last Monday that women’s clothing has nothing to do with rape, pointing out that rape victims in several high-profile cases in Malaysia include those wearing headscarves and young girls in “modest” clothing.

“The ultra kiasu said it’s those who cover their aurat who are the most commonly raped. It’s because loose cloth is easily removed, compared to tight pants,” said Tee today.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/womens-bodies-invite-rape-ridhuan-tee-says#sthash.Y5wXubtG.dpuf

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If your wife dowan to have sex with you, bring her to Malaysia...WTF is wrong with these lawmaker monkeys. Can rape but cannot use force??? So if you drug your wife and rape her.... its legal... WTF...... I hope her hubby drug-rapes her and see what she says....This is utterly ridiculous

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/marital-rape-will-remain-non-crime-law-minister-announces


Marital rape will remain non-crime, Malay law minister announces


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Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Nancy Shukri said Putrajaya through the Parliamentary Select Committee on rape decided against making the amendment to Section 375 of the Penal Code. ― Picture by Yusof M

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — De facto law minister Nancy Shukri today said the government will not amend Section 375 of the Penal Code to categorise non-consensual sex between a married couple as rape.

She said Putrajaya through the Parliamentary Select Committee on rape decided against making the amendment as sex between a man and woman in a legitimate marriage cannot be considered as rape.

“Based on the research tabled to the committee, the government had decided to maintain the provisions under Section 375 of the Penal Code that sex between a husband and wife in a lawful marriage cannot be considered as rape.

“Until today there is no suggestion for it to be amended,” Nancy said in a Parliamentary written reply.

“However, the act of a husband in causing hurt to his wife with the purpose of soliciting sex was already considered an offence under Section 375A of the Penal Code since September 7, 2007,” she added.

Under Section 375A of the Penal Code, a man who uses harm or the threat of violence to obtain sex from his wife, or any other person, may be imprisoned up to five years upon conviction.

Malaysians are divided over the issue of marital rape and the subject became a hotly debated topic recently when Muslims argued that, in Islam, non-consensual sex in a marriage cannot be considered rape.

The issue blew up after a state lawmaker from DAP launched a campaign to educate the public about rape, which included a poster saying that non-consensual sex in a marriage was also considered rape..

Disagreement to the existence of marital rape was not limited to Muslims, however, with one apparently non-Muslim user claiming that a husband having non-consensual sex with his wife did not equate to forced intercourse.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/marital-rape-will-remain-non-crime-law-minister-announces#sthash.pyDZ9poH.dpuf

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Saudi Court Sentences Gang Rape Victim to 200 Lashes

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The victim of a violent gang rape has been sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court to 200 lashes and six months in jail for the crimes of speaking to the press and indecency.

According to Sharia Law, a Saudi Arabian woman must be accompanied by a male guardian at all times in public, something the 19 year old victim did not obey when she went to meet a friend, according to website Live Buddhism.

While in a car with a student friend, retrieving a picture, two men got into the vehicle and drove them to a secluded area. She said she was raped there by seven men, three of whom also attacked her friend.

The Shi’ite Muslim woman had initially been sentenced to 90 lashes after being convicted of violating the Kingdom’s religious diktats on segregation of the sexes, where woman are treated as second class citizens.

After the sentences were handed down following the rape in 2006, which included lenient custodial sentences for the men guilty of the violent crime, the woman’s lawyer appealed to the Saudi General Court. But instead of choosing to overturn the punishments for being the victim of a crime, the court more than doubled her sentence. At the same time, they also roughly doubled the prison sentences for the seven men convicted of raping her, according to Saudi news outlets.

Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, who defended the woman, reached out to the media after the sentences were handed down. The court has since banned him from further defending the woman, confiscating his license and summoning him to a disciplinary hearing later this month.

Saudi Arabia defended the controversial decision to punish the victim, saying that she was at fault for being out without a male friend, something which was met with international outcry.

“The Ministry of Justice welcomes constructive criticism, away from emotions,” it said in a statement.

The statement also said that the “charges were proven” against the woman for having been in a car with a strange male, and repeated criticism of her lawyer for talking “defiantly” about the judicial system, saying “it has shown ignorance.” They also added that the sentence was increased because the victim had spoken to the media. “For whoever has an objection on verdicts issued, the system allows to appeal without resorting to the media,” a statement on the official Saudi Press Agency said.

Politicians from the West reacted angrily to the news, with Jose Verger, the Canadian minister responsible for women, calling it “barbaric” and saying the country would complain to Saudi authorities.

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, “I think when you look at the crime and the fact that now the victim is punished, I think that causes a fair degree of surprise and astonishment. It is within the power of the Saudi government to take a look at the verdict and change it.”

UK political activist Angharad Yeo, who is half Saudi and has campaigned against violation of women’s rights at home and abroad. said it “sends a clear message that women are not valued and only seen as a possession.”

The UKIP member described the ruling as “disgusting”, adding that a woman was being punished “because men in Islam are weak and pathetic and hide behind Islam. What message does that send to young women?” she asked.

“You can’t ever protect yourself and your well being is a lottery. Should you be unfortunate enough to be assaulted, expect for it to be your own fault.”

The New York based Human Rights Watch said the verdict “not only sends victims of sexual violence the message that they should not press charges, but in effect offers protection and impunity to the perpetrators.”

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Jailed: Muslim businessman who repeatedly raped and threatened victim before driving her to mosque to be wed is first successful prosecution under new forced marriage law


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3118346/Muslim-businessman-repeatedly-raped-victim-threatening-kill-father-did-not-wed-prosecuted-new-forced-marriage-law.html

- 34-year-old, who cannot be identified, repeatedly raped 25-year-old woman
- He secretly filmed her showering and threatened to make footage public
- Man, who was also married, developed 'irrational obsession' with his victim
- He has been jailed for 16 years at Cardiff Crown Court for seven charges including forced marriage, rape and bigamy

A Muslim businessman who repeatedly raped his victim before threatening to kill her father if she refused to be his wife has become the first person in Britain to be prosecuted under new forced marriage laws.

In the landmark case, the 34-year-old man from Cardiff, described as 'arrogant, manipulative and devious', was jailed for 16 years for making a 25-year-old woman marry him under duress.

Merthyr Crown Court heard how the man, who was already married, developed an 'irrational obsession' with his victim.

The first time that he raped her, the man lured her to his home under the false pretense of a get-together with friends.

But when she arrived at his home, the woman found the property empty before the curtains were drawn and the front door locked.

A judge then told of how the terrified woman - a devout Muslim - was bound and gagged with scarves before music was played loudly to drown out her cries for help as he raped her.

But the woman's ordeal was far from over.

Following the attack, the man encouraged the woman to take a shower.
But, unbeknown to the victim, he had secretly recorded her showering by hiding a camera in the towel rail.

He later showed her the footage and threatened to make the 'intimate' video public unless she married him.

He then carried out a six-month 'campaign of repeated and systematic rape' against the woman, the court heard.

Sentencing the man, Judge Daniel Williams said the defendant used 'constant threats' to try to keep his victim quiet.

'You made her feel that she was no longer marriage material (for anyone else) in the hope that she would turn to you,' he said.

The court heard that on another occasion, following months of abuse, the man suddenly turned up at the woman's place of work and drove her straight to a mosque to get married.


While there, he warned the victim that, if she did submit to his demand, her parents would be killed, the court heard.

Judge Williams said the forced marriage left her so distressed that she considered taking her own life.

The Cardiff businessman pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, as well admitting forced marriage, bigamy and voyeurism.

Judge Williams said: 'When you first raped her, she was still a virgin - something which you would use to ensure her silence.

'After you had raped her you produced a laptop which had a video of her showering after you had installed a hidden camera in a towel rail.

The Cardiff businessman pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, as well admitting forced marriage, bigamy and voyeurism during a hearing at Merthyr Crown Court

The Cardiff businessman pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, as well admitting forced marriage, bigamy and voyeurism during a hearing at Merthyr Crown Court

'You threatened that if she disclosed the rape to anyone, you would make that video public.'
The court heard that the man had preyed upon his victim for years and even managed to convince her that her then boyfriend was gay by setting up a fake Facebook page.

Judge Williams also detailed the defendant's attempts to try to have his case thrown out. He said that the man's constant change of plea right up until the 11th hour was an 'exercise of control' over the woman in the hope that she drop the case.

The court was also told the man's trial was aborted on the second day - just as his victim was due to give evidence in front of a jury - after he finally pleaded guilty.

Judge Williams deemed the man 'a high risk' to women and described the offending as 'planned...over a significant period of time'.

He told him: 'You are an arrogant, manipulative and devious man. While you have pleaded guilty....there has been no genuine show of remorse.
'Over the period of which you raped her...it was your intention to cause her irreparable harm so that no one would want her.'

Detective Superintendent Lian Penhale of South Wales Police speaks to the media outside Merthyr Crown Court after a 34-year-old man was jailed for 16 years for the rape and forced marriage of a woman

Detective Superintendent Lian Penhale of South Wales Police speaks to the media outside Merthyr Crown Court after a 34-year-old man was jailed for 16 years for the rape and forced marriage of a woman

For the rapes, voyeurism, bigamy and forced marriage, the defendant was sentenced to 16 years custody before being made the subject of an extended licence for five years.

Judge Williams also said the man - who claimed to follow Islam - would remain on the sex offenders' register for 'an indefinite period'.
Before sending the defendant down, Judge Williams praised the victim's bravery in coming forward.

'She has continued to show courage and fortitude....and the court wishes her good fortune for the future - which she so richly deserves.'
Meirion Davies, defending, said there was 'a lot of good' in the convicted businessman.

The court heard he had run a 'successful enterprise' in Cardiff and had done a lot of work for charity, which involved mixing with well known sports personalities at charity events.

She has continued to show courage and fortitude....and the court wishes her good fortune for the future - which she so richly deserves
Judge Daniel Williams

Mr Davies said: 'He has expressed regret about what he did.'
Forced marriage was criminalised under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 and came into force last June.
Previously, courts had only been able to issue civil orders to prevent victims being forced into marriage.
In 2013 the government's Forced Marriage Unit dealt with 1,302 cases - with 82 per cent of victims female, 18 per cent male and 15 per cent under the age of 15.

The cases involved 74 different countries with 43 per cent relating to Pakistan, 11 per cent to India and 10 per cent to Bangladesh.
Iwan Jenkins, Head of Crown Prosecution Wales Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Unit, said: 'Forced marriage wrecks lives and destroys families. We hope that today's sentence sends a strong message that forced marriage will not be tolerated in today's Britain.

'It is a testament to the strength of the case which we constructed with the police that we secured a guilty plea for the offences in this case.
'The victim has shown great courage and bravery in reporting these matters. This conviction illustrates the seriousness in which these crimes are treated and investigated by the Crown Prosecution Service and South Wales Police.
'I hope today's sentence brings some closure for those who have suffered as a result of these particularly nasty and invasive crimes.'

Following the sentence, Detective Duperintendent Lian Penhale, of South Wales Police, said: 'From the outset this complex case was a legal milestone in Wales and the UK and a benchmark to what can be achieved.
'I hope that today's sentencing will act as a catalyst to empower victims and those at risk to come forward and enable the police and our partners to give them the support they need to ensure they're free from this criminal activity – and to bring the offenders to justice.'


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Something is seriously wrong with TS...seems he is promoting hate for a certain religion..i thought we lived in civilised world where people are free to believe in what they want? Why the attack on that certain religion???..Moderator should take note of TS

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More Idiot State websites in Malay to recruit fighters

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/more-isis-websites-malay-recruit-fighters-20150617

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KUALA LUMPUR - Propaganda strategists for the Idiot State in Iraq and Syria, which has tasted success in recruiting Malaysians for its violent movement across the Middle East, are making its reading materials in Malay more accessible online to penetrate deeper into pure Malay-speaking communities.

There are six or seven Idiot State websites, forums and blogs in Malay, said The Malaysian Insider (TMI) news site, and none has been shut down even though the authorities are aware of their existence.

The sites carry "articles" that glorify Idiot State fighters, especially those from Malaysia and Indonesia, and give information on Idiot State' activities in the Iraqi and Syrian provinces it has conquered, TMI said.

Online recruiters for the terrorist group - which is notorious for releasing brutal videos showing executions of its foreign hostages - also turn to forums and blogs to tell tales of martyrdom and life with Idiot State to draw sympathy among Malaysians and Indonesians.

"They feed their sympathisers with fairy tales," said Bukit Aman Counter Terrorism Division principal assistant director Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay.

One such online platform identified is the (TRUNCATED cos dun want to spread stupidity), a portal containing articles extracted from the Idiot State magazine DaFUCK and translated into Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.

The servers of these websites are located outside Malaysia and Indonesia to avoid detection by the local authorities, said Datuk Ayob.

Idiot State' official radio station Al-Balloony broadcasts pre-recorded English and Arabic shows which are available on YouTube. These shows are said to attract between 700 and 2,000 visitors.

"Before this, they took a 'defensive approach', that is to respond to the accusation made against them and it was done either in Arabic, English or Indonesian language," International Islamic University Malaysia's political science and Islamic studies lecturer Ahmad El-Muhammady was quoted as saying by TMI.

"Now, they have changed tack," he added.

He noted that the pro-Idiot State cybersphere is now abuzz with the term "Me Hard media" (al-'ilami al-Me Hardy), which was coined by Mehard ideologue Abu Sa'ad al-Amily to encourage young people to join the Idiot State media team.

A soft copy of his book on "Me hard media" has been translated into several languages, including Bahasa Indonesia, and is making its rounds on Facebook.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission's monitoring and enforcement division head Zulkarnain Mohd Yasin told TMI that the agency has compiled a list of the Idiot State Malay websites but would not release it to the public.

"So far, we have not blocked any such website but we did take down a few videos on YouTube," he said.

Idiot State has ramped up its activities in South-east Asia so effectively that there is now an entire military unit of terrorists - who call themselves the Katibah Nusantara (Malay Archipelago Combat Unit) - recruited from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, according to Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Highlighting that "South-east Asia is a key recruitment centre for Idiot State", Mr Lee said at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last month that the group included more than 500 Indonesians and dozens of Malaysians.

Idiot State first gained prominence in January last year when it conquered the city of Raqa in northern Syria, after fierce fighting against rival rebels. Raqa, the first provincial capital lost completely by the regime, became Idiot State' stronghold.

The militant group then began a lightning offensive in north-western Iraq during which it seized a second city, Mosul, before sweeping across much of the Sunni Arab heartland bordering autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan.

Last June 29, it declared a "curryphate", a form of Idiot state government, across the territory it had seized in Iraq and Syria.

The United States, which has been leading air strikes targeting Idiot State positions in Iraq, launched 16 air strikes in nine Iraqi cities with coalition forces on Sunday, destroying fighting positions and vehicles, a statement said.
- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/more-isis-websites-malay-recruit-fighters-20150617#sthash.oHcGRZBT.dpuf

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Religion misused to keep marital rape legal, women groups say

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The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality pointed out that a parliamentary committee had previously cited alleged clashes with ‘Shariah law and other religions’ when it decided that rape within valid marriages should not be made illegal. —

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 — Religion has been gravely misused to justify the decision against making marital rape a crime, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) said today.

The coalition of women’s groups pointed out that a parliamentary committee had previously cited alleged clashes with “Shariah law and other religions” when it decided that rape within valid marriages should not be made illegal.

“The Parliamentary Select Committee report in 2004, which stated that recognising marital rape would conflict with Shariah law and other religions, is a grave misuse of religion as no religion would ever espouse any form of violence or coercion,” the coalition of women advocacy groups said in a statement.

In a Parliamentary reply yesterday stating that marital rape will not be made a crime, the Home Ministry had quoted the committee’s findings, among other things.

But JAG bluntly said that “rape and sexual violence” are a common form of domestic abuse and do take place in marriages in reality.

JAG highlighted a report that stated “rough sex” was a leading cause of divorces among Muslims in Selangor, while noting police statistics from 2013 showed 31 per cent of victims suffered sexual violence from either existing or former partners — including boyfriends, fiancés, and ex-husbands.

The coalition said today that it was shocking that Malaysia continues to allow marriage to be a man’s “licence” to force sex on his wife, further stating that Putrajaya’s failure to outlaw marital rape denies women their rights.

“The continued refusal by the government to fully recognise marital rape as a crime is demeaning to women nationwide as it denies a woman the right both over her body and to say no in a marriage.

“Furthermore, it exposes our lawmakers’ outdated acceptance for the absolute submission of a wife to her husband,” it said.

While noting that Putrajaya had rolled out Section 375A of the Penal Code in 2007, JAG lamented that this offence against men causing fear of death or hurt to their wives for sex is a mere “compromise” and “inadequate tool” to combat marital rape.

“Unfortunately, Section 375A amounts to a compromise which fails to recognise the current reality of many married women who have sex forced upon them by their husbands, by not just physical means, but mental, emotional and economical means as well,” it said of the offence that carries a maximum jail term of five years.

The Home Ministry’s “alarming” disclosure yesterday that no man has even been charged under Section 375A since it was introduced on September 7, 2007 shows Putrajaya’s failure to create awareness of women rights, as part of its obligations under a United Nations convention, JAG said.

It also accused the federal government of putting in “little effort” to highlight that husbands should not force their wives to have sex, or that wives raped by husbands can take legal action against them, or to “address the difficulties, shame, and embarrassment faced by women on reporting crimes of such an intimate nature”.

The federal government should criminalise marital rape to show its rejection of violence against women “under the guise of marriage”, JAG said.

The JAG coalition comprises of eight women groups — All Women’s Action Society (AWAM), Association of Women Lawyers (AWL), Perak Women For Women (PWW), Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (EMPOWER), Sabah Women’s Action Resource Group (SAWO), Sisters In Islam (SIS), Tenaganita and Women’s Centre For Change (WCC).

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/religion-misused-to-keep-marital-rape-legal-women-groups-say#sthash.qGQ4BiSS.dpuf

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http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2015/06/17/dear-god-save-us-from-the-church-dipping-sauce/

Dear God, save us from the Church dipping sauce
Fa Abdul
June 17, 2015

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Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim. In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate.

You can see this phrase framed above the main doors of many Muslim homes in the country. But that has never stopped non-Muslims from stepping through those doors.

You can hear the phrase used in the openings of many speeches in public gatherings. But it has never made non-Muslims walk out of the gathering halls.

You might know that is the same phrase uttered by Muslims when we slaughter animals. But it has never stopped non-Muslims from enjoying the food we prepare.

However, while the non-Muslims choose to respect our religious faith and are compromising on many grounds, it seems to me that there are certain ignorant Muslims who make a fuss out of everything.

I am referring to the two Muslims who commented on the Texas Chicken Malaysia (TCM) FB page which has gone viral since. The first Muslim urged TCM to explain its dipping sauce, branded “Church”, claiming that “Muslims do not eat food from church brand.”

Upon TCM’s clarification that “Church” is the surname of the company’s founder, the second Muslim suggested that the brand name be changed as a sign of respect to Muslim customers.

Wow.

Seriously I had no idea that dipping a piece of chicken into a sauce branded “Church” could weaken our faith. Perhaps these people are genetically related to those folks in Taman Medan whose faith were shaken at the sight of a cross hanging on a church building. And yes, they should also be distant relatives of those people who made a fuss of clothes shaped like “T”.

These cases demonstrate how narrow minded we Muslims can be when it comes to matters of religion. Remember how many windscreens were smashed for displaying McD and Starbucks stickers simply because some people thought it was un-Islamic to support them? Remember the calls not to celebrate Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day, Halloween and Christmas?

Some of the people I work with even make a big fuss over dining at eateries owned by non-Muslims even when certified halal. Somehow they believe the nons have a hidden agenda, as if serving Muslims with non-halal food gives them great satisfaction.

I have also met Muslim friends who are reluctant to allow their children to swim in the same pool as non-Muslim kids. Perhaps their Muslim identity would peel off by sharing the same pool.

And just recently, a Muslim friend of mine got real annoyed with her parents for advising her not to get too close to her non-Muslim friends.
“Don’t share food with the kafir.”

“Don’t use their plates and utensils.”

“Never use their dishwashing sponge to wash your belongings.”

I find the more Muslims become obsessed with matters pertaining to religion, the narrower their thinking becomes. Perhaps this is how we become easy targets to those who use religion as a weapon to control us. They know it is our weak point.

The thing is, while we get over-sensitive about the nons’ alleged attempts to sabotage our faith, we ourselves do not put much effort into following our own religion’s core teachings.

If serving “Church” sauce is insensitive to Muslim feelings, isn’t attaching the “Bismillah” phrase to everything we do insensitive to non-Muslim feelings?

Are we truly worried about non-Muslim propaganda or are we merely an over-sensitive bunch of people? Or perhaps our faith is simply weak?If Muslims continue to be sensitive about every darn thing, perhaps then we should question where the ikan goreng we had for lunch today came from? Was the fishmonger a Muslim? Was the fisherman a Muslim? What are the chances that they had handled pork – or any haram substance for that matter – with their bare hands before touching the fish you just ate?

Technically, everything we are in contact with has passed through a non-Muslim – the food we consume, the clothes we wear, the car we drive, the money we hold, the house we live in, the street we walk on.

Why don’t we start questioning the halalness of everything we come in contact with? Are we willing to go to that length? Or shouldn’t we just trust God? After all, everything we do begins with Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim. How can we ever go wrong when the name of God is invoked every time we begin something? It should not matter if our dipping sauce is branded “Church” or our lollipop is branded “Piggy Pop” or if our UHT milk is branded “Murugan Milk”.

Right?

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Time to go Austria

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2015/06/15/austrian-brothel-offers-free-sex-in-tax-protest/

Austrian brothel offers free sex in tax protest

Mueller, who also operates brothels in four other cities in Germany and Austria, has complained in past media interviews about what he says has been punitive taxation and regulation of his businesses.

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VIENNA: An Austrian brothel is offering customers free sex in a summer-long protest over what its owner sees as punitive tax payments.

“We are not paying taxes any more. Effective immediately: Free Entrance! Free Drinks! Free Sex!” the Pascha establishment in Salzburg posted on its website. A woman who answered the phone there on Sunday said it was no joke.

The Oesterreich newspaper showed a picture of men queued up outside to take advantage of the unusual offer.

It quoted owner Hermann Mueller as saying he would compensate from his own pocket the up to 10,000 euros ($11,270) a month that prostitutes working at the club will forego.

Mueller, who also operates brothels in four other cities in Germany and Austria, has complained in past media interviews about what he says has been punitive taxation and regulation of his businesses. He said he had paid nearly 5 million euros in taxes in Salzburg alone over the past decade.

- Reuters

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Muslim group raises stink over picture of Hindu god near ‘halal’ logo on bottle labels

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A Muslim group has claimed that a mineral water bottler used the image of a Hindu god on its labels, claiming its placement near a ‘halal’ logo was insensitive. ― File pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 4 ― A Muslim consumers group today demanded authorities punish a mineral water bottler for using the image of a Hindu god on its labels, claiming its placement near a “halal” logo was insensitive.

Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia (PPIM) claimed that it was wrong for bottlers Chuan Sin Sdn Bhd to use the image of Lord Murugan, a Hindu deity, on its labels as it was offensive to the country’s Muslim community.

“How can Chuan Sin place the picture of another god next to the halal logo? This is a very sensitive issue to the Muslims of the country.

“We will make a police report and urge all Islamic authorities and NGOs to stop or hold sales of this brand of mineral water until we can resolve this matter,” PPIM chief Datuk Nazim Johan said.

Chuan Sin Sdn Bhd produces mineral water under the Cactus and Spritzer brands in their factory in Perak.


PPIM head of monitoring and financial services, Sheikh Abdul Kareem, claimed the practice violated the Trade Descriptions Act, which states that no religious symbols may be used on the label or packaging of a product.

“As a mineral water manufacturer, they should be more sensitive. This action is a disgrace to the religion of the constitution, which is Islam. We urge the Home Ministry to take action and tell them to respect that,” said Sheikh Abdul.

“If they sell it without using the halal logo, it won’t be a problem but when you have both, it will definitely cause confusion among the Muslim community,” he said.

PPIM officer Mohd Mustaffa Hamzah said that they hope the government takes this matter seriously.

“Insyallah we will make a police report tomorrow,” he said.

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http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/270000-tonnes-of-food-wasted-during-ramadan#sthash.0K5y8OQI.dpbs

270,000 tonnes of food wasted during Ramadan

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very year during the fasting month (Ramadan), about 270,000 tonnes of leftovers that could still be consumed are disposed of wastefully.

According to the Solid Waste And Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp), the food could have fed 180 million people, six times the country's population of 27 million.

If the food is arranged in piles, the height of it would level that of 30 KLCC buildings. KLCC is 452 metres high.


SWCorp chief executive officer Datuk Ab Rahim Md Noor said an average 9,000 tonnes of food were discarded daily during Ramadan. He described the wastage as a worrying trend.

"Food leftovers are the highest component in the solid waste composition scale at 45%, while the cost of managing solid waste in the states under SWCorp reached RM1.4 billion last year," he told Bernama.

Ab Rahim said the 9,000 tonnes of food could have fed six million people.

Hence, he said, various initiatives had been implemented by SWCorp, among them, an agreement with hotels and eateries that leftovers be donated to welfare institutions.

The corporation oversees the solid waste management system for Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, Pahang, Kedah, Perlis, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka and Johor.

Meanwhile, Persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia (PPIM) president Datuk Nadzim Johan claimed that the excessive leftovers during Ramadan was due to over-preparation of food.

"The buffet spreads prepared particularly by hotels are enormous. In this regard, hotel owners should set up a mechanism to penalise customers who waste food.

"If the hotels have a mechanism in place, I'm sure customers will think twice or thrice about wasting food," he said.

Malaysian Association of Hotels president Cheah Swee Hee concurred that food wastage during Ramadhan was a result of superabundant preparation.

"Our association is cooperating with SWCorp to educate the public against wasting food, particularly during the fasting month.

"To this end, we have been putting up posters to first advise and educate, before taking any action to penalise them, which would be the last resort," he said.

The association has more than 800 members nationwide. – Bernama, June 19 2015.

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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/boo-su-lyn/article/the-politics-of-the-vagina

The politics of the vagina

JUNE 19 ― Farah Ann Abdul Hadi received plenty of flak over her leotard when TV3 uploaded on Facebook a photograph of the artistic gymnast after she won a gold medal in floor exercise at the SEA Games.

Muslims accused the 21-year-old of exposing her aurat and said they could see the “shape of her vagina” in her gymnastics outfit.

Many people, including former minister Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, and social activist Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, have come to her defence and told the trolls to shut up.

What is it about the vagina that makes people go nuts?

Even so-called liberals dislike the use of the “V word” in news reports, making it seem as if female genitalia is something that we should be ashamed of.

Why is the vagina something that should be covered up or not talked about? Unlike the penis and testicles, which are seen as a symbol of strength and authority (though I can’t imagine why since a man will curl up in excruciating pain if he’s kicked in the nuts), women’s genitalia suffer negative connotations.

A cowardly man is called a “pussy”, street slang for vagina. If he lacks bravery, like a certain prominent figure when he skipped a rather important public forum, then people question where his “balls” are.

Nobody bats an eyelid at Malaysian bodybuilder Sazali Abd Samad when he poses in a skimpy thong that reveals the outline of his penis.

Instead, penises and phallic symbols are celebrated ― the bigger the package, the better, like this fashion spread by Vice magazine featuring men’s hard-ons.

But people get their panties in a twist when a young woman wears a leotard that barely shows the outline of her labia (no camel toe visible). It’s a leotard ― what did you expect? It’s the same thing when women wear swimsuits to the beach or short shorts in competitive running.

It’s times like these when I wish women could leave their vaginas at home and go about winning gold medals and achieving things without being hindered by sexism.

If men demand that women cover up their bodies ― their thighs, arms, hair and whatever body part is deemed unsuitable for the public eye ― because they’re aroused and say they cannot be blamed for sinning or for raping such women, then perhaps we should lock men up at home like the beasts they claim to be.

If we see someone eating a delicious ice-cream cone, we don’t demand that she hide it just because we’re on a diet. No, we ignore our cravings because we have self-control; we are not animals.

If we see Baskin Robbins selling ice-cream, we don’t steal some even if we desperately want a cone; we buy it. Likewise, if a man sees a beautiful woman, he should ask for consent before engaging in sexual intercourse, or he can just buy sex from a prostitute.

I’m tired of women’s bodies being shamed and sexualised. It doesn’t matter how old you are – you can be a slender, attractive 21-year-old or a middle-aged woman with a sizable waistline – you suffer the same judgments from both women and men.

Before Farah Ann, people were talking about the Chinese woman who was forced by the Road Transport Department (RTD) to put on a full-length sarong over her skirt, which ended just above her knee, before she could get service at one of the government agency’s offices.

Some said Suzanna G.L. Tan’s skirt was a “little bit short”, while others thought it was “decent.” A few men wondered why her dressing was a problem since she’s “old” and asked how on earth RTD officials could be aroused.

Why do people have to judge her dressing or callously criticise her attractiveness (in a strange, sexist attempt at defending her)? If it was a beautiful young woman wearing a miniskirt at the RTD, she should still be served. Why should a woman’s looks or skirt length determine whether she gets service or not?

It’s completely arbitrary to use hemlines or the amount of skin shown to determine a woman’s “decency” and “modesty.”

Men don’t suffer such judgments. They have the liberty to go about doing whatever they like without being hindered by their body, or social judgments of it.

Women have breasts and vaginas. Deal with it. If seeing women’s bodies makes you go crazy with lust, then turn off the news and stay home, or wear blinders like those for horses when you go outside.

Women shouldn’t have to give up their freedom just because men can’t handle it.

*This is the personal opinion of the columnist.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/boo-su-lyn/article/the-politics-of-the-vagina#sthash.m8Yuo9Lo.dpuf

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Its a sad story but I never knew kung fu chop in movies can be used in real life.
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Kung Fu exponent bros here.... can verify?

That one not kungfu chop. Leonard learn acu point from the Chinese.

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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/quran-doesnt-specify-womens-hair-as-aurat-muslim-ngo-insists-as-conservativ

Quran doesn’t specify women’s hair as ‘aurat’, Muslim NGO insists as conservative Islam digs in

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 - The Quran does not specifically mention hair as part of a woman’s “aurat”, Sisters in Islam (SIS) has said amid rising religious conservatism in Malaysia.

The Muslim women’s rights group said the perception that a woman’s “aurat” covers her entire body except for the face and hands came from a hadith narrated by Asma Abu Bakar. A hadith is a collection of sayings attributed to Prophet Muhammad.

“However, this hadith has been greatly contested by Islamic scholars, such as Thariq Iwadullah and Sheikh Nasiruddin Al-Abani, on the grounds of its authenticity in the chain of message as the ‘rawi’ (transmitter of hadith) was renowned for being dishonest,” SIS told Malay Mail Online in a recent interview.

“SIS is of the opinion that hair is not part of a woman’s ‘aurat’. In fact, the Quran has never mentioned hair as being specifically a woman’s ‘aurat’.

“When reading Surah an-Nur (24:31) on covering one’s modesty, it is important to understand the context of when the verse was introduced,” the women’s rights group added.

SIS said that the verse which states that women should “draw their khimar (head covering) over their bosoms” was made in reference to the culture of 7th century Arabia, in which women traditionally already wore the khimar.

“The message of this verse is to advocate modesty by calling on women to cover their bosoms with the khimar, as bosoms traditionally did not constitute body parts which was (sic) already visible.

“If hair was also considered a woman’s private part, the Quran would have clearly specified it in 24:31 when women were instructed to cover their bosoms,” said the group.

The increasingly conservative stance of Islamic authorities and figures in Malaysia has been reflected in the way Muslim women are told to wear the tudung and are harshly criticised if they do not so, even though most Malay-Muslim women in the 1950s and 1960s, before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, did not cover their heads.

Tudung brands in Malaysia have boomed since the Iranian Revolution started the popularisation of the tudung in the country, with one company estimating about 80 to 90 per cent of Muslim women aged between 25 and 50 years now wear headscarves.

Women’s rights activist Norhayati Kaprawi, who had made a documentary titled Aku Siapa (Who Am I?) about why women wear the tudung, told Malay Mail Online recently that she found that some Muslim women in both villages and cities in Malaysia were ostracised for not covering their heads.

Following the uproar over several Muslims who had recently accused artistic gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi, who did not wear a tudung, of exposing her “aurat” and the “shape of her vagina” in a leotard, some Twitter users have insisted that Muslim women should wear the tudung even when playing sports.

Twitter user Ar.Zainur tweeted via the handle @ibnzainal95 last Sunday a picture of women athletes wearing headscarves, track bottoms and long-sleeved shirts.

A tweet by HanyaTweet @TapiUntuk Semua on May 31 that lists body parts like hair, arms, legs, and the chest as “aurat” that must be covered, or “wajib tutup”, has been retweeted over 3,000 times.

SIS told Malay Mail Online that the interpretation of the “aurat” in Malaysia has become increasingly influenced by Arab culture since the 1980s, noting that most Malay-Muslim women did not wear the tudung during the 1950s and 1960s, including the wife of the Kelantan mufti then and the spouse of Indonesian ulama, Prof Dr Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, better known as Hamka.

“This very narrow and conservative interpretation of ‘aurat’ has also been directed mainly to women and as a result, the growing obsession with controlling women’s bodies by making wearing the hijab compulsory,” said SIS.

Perak Mufti Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria told Malay Mail Online recently that Muslim women must cover their entire bodies except for their face and hands.

Malaysians have come to Farah Ann’s defence, with a Facebook page even set up to support the 21-year-old athlete, who had won a gold medal in floor exercise during the recent SEA Games.

Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin also said last week that the authorities should come out with guidelines for “perverts” instead of trying to regulate sportswear.

Khairy’s remark follows his Cabinet colleague Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, minister in charge of Islamic affairs, who told Parliament last Monday that the federal government will carry out an in-depth study on Islamic compliance for clothing used for sports and other fields, amid the uproar over Farah Ann’s outfit at the SEA Games in Singapore.

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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/malays-under-najib-will-become-talibans-nothing-like-singapore-malays-zaid

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Malays under Najib will become Talibans, nothing like Singapore Malays, Zaid tells Dr M


KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 — If Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak remains in office, the Malays here will become like those living under the repressive rule of the Taliban and not like Singapore’s Malays, former Umno minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said.

Zaid, who was disagreeing with Dr Mahathir’s claim that Najib’s leadership would force the Malays here to become as marginalised as Singapore’s Malays, told the former prime minister that if his assertion were true, he would gladly support Najib.

“Sorry Tun if under Najib Malays here will become like Spore Malays; I will give him full support. Malays under Najjb will be Talibans,” the former minister wrote on Twitter today.

“Malays under Najib and Hadi will abandon their culture, traditions and values. Tun M must read my new book Assalamualaikum out in Sept,” he said in another post on the microblogging site.

In a video of a Wednesday forum released online today by blogger Din Turtle, Dr Mahathir was recorded saying that if Najib stays in power, the Malays here could become marginalised like their Singaporean brethren.

The former prime minister also remind his audience that the struggle for the country is not for the personal goals of one man but for the survival of the nation, its race and its religion.

“I think we are smart people. Do we want to protect Najib? Or do we want to protect the Malays and the country?

“This is what we have to ask ourselves,” he said in his speech during the forum with several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at the Perdana Foundation.

Dr Mahathir has been at the forefront of attacks against the Najib administration and has been actively campaigning for the prime minister’s resignation, believing the latter will lead BN to doom in the next federal polls.

Among others, Dr Mahathir has attacked Najib over his handling of the controversy surrounding 1MDB, the troubled state-owned firm that has racked up a debt of RM42 billion since its inception in 2009.

Najib, however, has refused to step down and has responded to Dr Mahathir’s accusations — several times via his blog and once through a pre-recorded interview on TV3.

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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/woman-in-shorts-claims-barred-entry-at-sungai-buloh-hospital

Woman in shorts claims barred entry at Sungai Buloh hospital

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 ― In a third incident at public institutions here, a woman has come forward alleging that she was forbidden from entering the Sungai Buloh Hospital here recently because she was dressed in shorts.

In her Facebook post accessible to the public that is being shared on social media, the woman who goes by the moniker Nisha Daddygal said she was then forced to borrow a towel to cover up her legs before she was allowed to visit her father who had been warded there.

“The moment I reach the visitors gate they was few security guards stop me and say ‘you can't go in because you're wearing shorts’,” she wrote on June 21.

“I have no choice my father need to go up to the wad and borrow patient towel and bring down for me to tie and close my half knees as the security guards request than [sic] only they let me to go in to visit the patients,” the woman said.

The incident took place on June 16, according to the woman’s Facebook post.

She added that the hospital security personnel had told her that the no-shorts policy came directly from the Ministry of Health.

In the pictures that accompanied her posting, the woman was seen wearing a loose T-shirt and a pair of black shorts.

She also posted a picture of herself wearing a yellow towel at the entrance to the hospital, where a signboard depicted the hospital’s dress code for visitors. Two men dressed in the security guard’s uniform are seen in the background.

Malay Mail Online was not able to reach the woman directly through her Facebook post for verification but an authority at the Sungai Buloh Hospital later acknowledged the incident.

The woman's complaint comes amid public uproar over two similar incidents involving the Road Transport Department and the Selangor State Secretariat building where three women were told to put on sarongs to cover their legs.

Yesterday Klang DAP MP Charles Santiago said a New Straits Times reporter named Prema Nanthini and a Pandamaran resident named Tan Lee Fong had come to the SUK building in Shah Alam, Selangor for his press conference, but the security guards barred them entry unless they put on the sarongs.

On June 9 a middle-aged woman who was made to wear a sarong over her skirt, which was slightly above the knee, when seeking service at a Road Transport Department (RTD) office.

Selangor Mentri Besar Azmin Ali said there was no such policy in SUK and that his government will investigate the matter.

The RTD on the other hand, issued a public apology after the incident went viral on social media. It also clarified that there was no such policy that allows its officers to force visitors to put on the sarong if they violate the department's dress code.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/woman-in-shorts-claims-barred-entry-at-sungai-buloh-hospital#sthash.GzwriySK.dpuf

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https://news.vice.com/article/secret-video-shows-horrific-animal-abuse-in-uk-halal-slaughterhouse

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Secret Video Shows Horrific Animal Abuse in UK Halal Slaughterhouse

Covertly filmed video has emerged that shows huge animal rights abuses in a British halal slaughterhouse. The footage was released by Animal Aid and filmed in the Bowood Lamb facility in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, over three days in December.

The clips include video of sheep being hurled around, and kicked in the face and head, being thrown head-first into a solid structure, a worker jumping up and down on the neck of a conscious animal, and staff laughing as a sheep bleeds to death with the painted outline of green spectacles drawn around its eyes.

Since the secret footage was released on Tuesday morning, one man has lost his job and three others have had their operating licenses removed.

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The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) has begun an investigation and confirmed that they taken action against four workers so far.

"The Food Standards Agency takes animal welfare at abattoirs very seriously which is why we immediately suspended the licenses of the slaughtermen involved," the organization said in a statement. "There is no excuse for treating animals in the way shown on the video and we are therefore investigating the footage with a view to prosecution. We are also continuing to investigate all the circumstances around the incident to ensure proper safeguards are introduced to stop this happening in the future."

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Halal in Arabic means "permissible" or "lawful." Meat is only halal in accordance with Islamic law if it has been slaughtered using a particular method that involves an animal being killed with a cut to the jugular vein, while still alive and healthy, and for a blessing to be recited while doing so.

Many animals killed in this way are stunned before being bled to death, something which is also common practice in non-Halal practice.

A 2012 FSA report found that in total about 88 percent of animals slaughtered by halal methods were stunned before being killed. The Bowood slaughterhouse is a non-stun facility, something that Animal Aid say they were not aware of before they planted the cameras inside.

While the release of this footage has incited debate about how humane Halal slaughter is, Andrew Tyler, director of Animal Aid, told VICE News that this is not a Halal-focused problem.

This is the tenth slaughterhouse filmed in this way, he said, and in all but one they found evidence of huge cruelty and law-breaking. The latest is the first that deals with Halal meat, the others were all "traditional humane" plants. One of these, he said, was organic, another was approved by animal welfare charity RSPCA.

"So this is not about halal being different from other slaughter," Tyler said. "This is about cruelty in slaughterhouses which we found over and over."

Tyler said that the footage was captured after an investigator working for Animal Aid snuck into the slaughterhouse in the dark of night and planted cameras in order to capture what was going on. This is a common trespass, Tyler said, and Bowood was welcome to take a civil case against his organization if they wished.

However, he said it was vital to make the public aware of the treatment that animals are subjected to before they are killed. Some of the things his group has filmed have included animals being burned by cigarettes and being punched in the head, he said.

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"What we're talking about is animals suffering, and it's a bloody pitiless business." Tyler said that the coverage of their footage so far had virtually ignored the fact that this investigation was one of ten and that the cruelty is widespread, rather than limited to halal meat.

"The last thing we want is an anti-Muslim backlash," he told VICE News. "There's enough hate directed at Muslims, and ignorance, and we're mindful of that."

When asked whether — minus any abuses — it is crueler to slaughter an animal with the halal method instead of using a non-halal method, Tyler said that he wouldn't be willing to make a judgment on that. However, he did say that he believes that regulators are culpable, along with those responsible for the action.

"When you pay someone to kill non-stop, it's going to do something very odd to their head," Tyler said. "It's not a healthy pursuit, and (the slaughterhouse workers) end up being contemptuous and hateful towards these animals."

Tyler said that Animal Aid is campaigning for compulsory CCTV in slaughterhouses, which they hope will help with monitoring and halting any abuses. "Not every minute, every working day" needs to be watched, he said, but the footage should be readily available and used to deter workers from committing acts of cruelty.

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Timothy Pachirat is a political science professor who spent six months undercover in a slaughterhouse in Omaha in the US. He worked in the chutes as a cattle driver, in the cooler as a liver hanger, and on the kill floor as a food-safety quality-control worker

He told VICE News that — after viewing this footage — his starting point would be condemnation of the actions seen on screen, but added: "This kind of release of footage always causes a kind of momentary shock among the people who are viewing it but it generally does not cause people to question the larger system of violence against animals more generally."

Pachirat said that by scapegoating a particular slaughterhouse or a particular religion, society is absolving itself of complicity, when "the real tragedy is the fact that we delegate this kind of labor to a small group of people who are kept out of sight, and so we respond with shock and horror when very routine footage is released from activist groups but the fact is it's not just an indictment of that particular slaughterhouse, it's an indictment of the whole system.

"If you look at the working conditions of slaughterhouse workers it is absolutely predictable that they will — in some proportion — take out their frustration on creatures that have even less power than they do, but these workers are not in any way well-treated by society as a whole."

He said that — from his experience — slaughterhouse workers are often paid low wages, and sometimes those who turn to this kind of work are undocumented immigrants.

"We set that up structurally, to give the most disempowered workers the dirtiest and most morally questionable jobs and then it's a little bit hypocritical to act with shock and horror when predictable outcomes occur."

Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Educational Center of Oxford, told VICE News that it is important to use the most humane method to kill animals.

"Halal slaughter is not incompatible with humane killing," he said. "We need to embrace modern methods while at the same time observing Islamic rule of letting the blood drain from the animal."

Hargey also noted that this footage might encourage a backlash towards Muslims and added that this is a wider problem than an Islamic one. "Either we as a society should curb all meat eating to ensure that animals are not suffering, but most people in this society — in the UK — they eat meat," Hargey said.

"At some point killing is involved. At that point we should make killing as humane as possible and there's nothing in the Quran or in Islamic law that says that animals should not be killed humanely."

The use of Halal meat is common across the UK. British food chain Pizza Express uses only halal chicken, as do some KFC stores, and 66 of Britain's 330 Nando's restaurants.

Follow Sally Hayden on Twitter: @sallyhayd

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Terror attacks in Kuwait, France and Tunisia echo Isis methods

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/26/terror-attacks-in-kuwait-france-and-tunisia-echo-isis-methods

The targets - Shia Muslims, French workers and western tourists in Tunisia - as well as the alleged culprits all share similarities with past attacks

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Three different attacks, one overall suspect. The wave of killing on Friday will undoubtedly be attributed to Islamic State, which has already reportedly claimed responsibility for one amongst them, with strong indications of a role in the others.

Each attack hit a different target in a different way, and underlines the varied nature of a constantly evolving threat.

One involved Muslims killing Muslims in the Middle East itself: a bomb in a Shia mosque in Kuwait, a conservative Gulf state with a Sunni Muslim majority. This is part of the horrendous sectarian violence which has increasingly convulsed the region over the last five years and shows no sign of abating.

Outright war against Shias – seen as apostates by Islamic State – is a core aim of the terrorist organisation which goes back to its origins in Iraq a decade or more ago. This is a reminder that the vast proportion of casualties of terrorism are Muslims killed by co-religionists.

The second targeted western tourists in Tunisia. Hotels and holidaymakers have been a frequent target in recent years. Western tourists are both an obvious and vulnerable presence in the Islamic world. An attack on a hotel will attract global attention, mark a group’s influence and badly damage the local tourist industry.

Historically such attacks have undermined local support but it seems unlikely Friday’s attackers would have been bothered by this. The prime suspects for the Sousse attack are militants belonging to fragmented local groups, possibly based in neighbouring Libya and loyal to Isis.

Third was the attack on a US-owned gas cylinder plant in south-east France. The culprit in this strike appears to have worked for the victim’s company, but the French have nevertheless launched a terror investigation. He also appears to fit a profile that has become well established in recent years: a French male aged between 22 and 35 who was either born overseas before coming to France or whose parents migrated from Algeria or Morocco.

Some of these attackers have had links to overseas groups; while others have been closer to the classic idea of “lone wolves”. But all have been steeped in a broader environment of violent activism, extreme conservatism, homophobia and anti-semitism for many years before they acted.

They are “lone actors” only in terms of the actual organisation and execution of a terrorist attack; their world view is shared by a significant number of people.

An increasing number have either been inspired by, or actually fought for, Islamic State. When propagandists of the group tell individuals their duty is to take up arms in European countries – especially against the “filthy French” – they know already how receptive some will be to their call to arms.

The three strikes came almost exactly on the first anniversary of Islamic State’s declaration of its caliphate, and it is possible they were coordinated. If so, it would indicate a new level of strategic thinking and capability for Isis. If not, they nevertheless send a potent message: terrorists hope to to give the impression that they can strike at will, everywhere, anywhere.

This is clearly not the case: the attack in Europe involved one man; the one in Tunis, a gunman or two. We are still far from the mass casualty attacks of 10 or 12 years ago in Europe. We are also far from the doomsday scenario of highly trained Isis militants making their way to the UK, US or wherever to execute major operations.

But the sense of ubiquitous menace inevitably induced by Friday’s killings will be difficult to dispel.

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Malaysian Fashion police creating confusion

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/fashion-police-creating-confusion

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Anith and Vanessa before their visit to the National Archives on June 10

KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — Recent incidents of security guards taking on the role of fashion police has created a furore among the public.

Two Malay Mail reporters share their run-in with the self-appointed fashion police when they went to the National Archives in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim to gather information for stories they were working on in two separate incidents.

All they wanted was information — instead they were asked to don a sarung songket first.

In the first visit on May 27, Anith Adilah went to get information for a special report. Prior to the visit, she contacted the department and was told to register as a researcher.

Since it was her first visit, the guard guided her to the car park and she made her way to the lobby where she was greeted coldly by a woman at the counter.

“I noticed she was sizing me up as she directed me to the research area upstairs,” she said.

Anith, wearing a knee-length dress and high-cut boots, went upstairs and was greeted by two other women who said she was not properly attired.

“They said they would lend me a sarung and handed me an expensive looking piece of clothing.

“I was taken aback but as I was a first timer there, I thought it was normal,” she said.

Since Anith did not know how to wear a sarung, the woman helped her put it on.

“Just when I thought I was ready to go in, they handed me a shawl and said it was to cover the top.”

After the whole dress-up session, she was allowed to conduct her research.

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On Anith’s second visit on June 10, two weeks after the first encounter with the fashion police, she was accompanied by colleague Vanessa Ee-Lyn Gomes.

Anith registered at the guardhouse for both. While walking in, they felt they were being watched.

‘’Perhaps, it was the way we were dressed — I was in a grey dress and a white and red cardigan, while Anith was in a black dress with knee-high socks,” Vanessa said.

Walking into the research area, the receptionist asked them in Bahasa Malaysia, “How did you get in here with that dress? How come the guard at the main gate didn’t stop you? You’re not allowed to enter the building because your dress length is above your knees.”

A second receptionist suggested the two wear kain songket before entering the research area.

She then gave them two songkets to wear.

“When we asked why, she replied it was normal in government buildings and that the dress code was displayed in the guardhouse,” Vanessa said.

Anith, familiar with the earlier sarung episode, said: “I expected to be given another songket and shawl but they only requested me to cover my legs. I asked why I was made to wear a shawl on my previous visit.”

“The dress you wore must have been low-cut, so the shawl was to drape around your shoulders,” Anith was told. The girls asked her to take a picture of them.

Before snapping the photo, she said, “Don’t put this in the newspaper okay? If you want to post it on Instagram, it is okay but not for the paper.”

She then proceeded to direct them where to stand to get the best photos.


- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/fashion-police-creating-confusion#sthash.nDKBxjSt.dpuf

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Dress codes a form of discrimination and abuse of power — Sisters in Islam -

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/what-you-think/article/dress-codes-a-form-of-discrimination-and-abuse-of-power-sisters-in-islam

JUNE 25 — Sisters in Islam (SIS) expresses growing concern at the recent events regarding unwarranted dress code enforcement. After the incident at the Road and Transport Department (JPJ), we are repulsed to see the repetition of discrimination in other public buildings. SIS is extremely concerned that this growing policing of women’s attire by government officials could make the state of Malaysia even more conservative than what it already is.

The various incidents of dress code enforcements on women is a source of concern as everyday government officials are now taking matters into their own hands and arbitrarily enforcing regulations and even denying service to some women. This type of selective enforcement is completely discriminatory and unnecessary. Especially after Sungai Buloh Hospital Director, Dr Khalid Ibrahim, said the incident was unwarranted as neither the Health Ministry nor the hospital management has any policy to discriminate based on attire. Moreover, Health director-general, Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, also stated that the dress sign is only “advisory”.

Whose standard of “decent dressing” is being enforced on all Malaysians? First, the incident at the Road Transport Department, Sungai Buloh Hospital, Selangor State Secretariat, and now the Islamic Religious Department in Pahang (Jaip) has issued a warning that Muslim women must dress decently in public to respect the holy month of Ramadan or face a year of jail time or a fine of up to RM2,000. Religious conservatism in Malaysia is crossing the line as now Malaysians face restrictions on their freedom of movement because of dress codes.

Furthermore, the Qur’an indicates that modesty is founded on the God-consciousness of an individual and others cannot impose that God-consciousness by enforcing the covering or removal of covering. Al-Baqarah, 2:256 states, “Let there be no compulsion in religion”. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, an Islamic scholar, has eloquently stated that religion depends upon faith and will, therefore these would be meaningless if induced by force.

SIS is concerned that the growing conservatism that is slowly taking over will only lead to more discrimination of Malaysian citizens. We should learn from the tragedy that occurred in Mecca in 2002, when 15 school girls were murdered because religious police did not allow them to leave a burning building simply because they were not wearing headscarves.

SIS firmly believes that the dress codes in question are based on an arbitrary interpretation of “decent dress”. It is evident that this new obsession with women’s bodies is not meant to encourage modesty. Instead, the concept of dress codes is clearly being used as a form of control by conservative individuals to deny services to Malaysian women. SIS calls on the government and all public institutions to reeducate their personnel in order to prevent cases in question being repeated. — Sisters in Islam

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Muslims should only take part in archery, shooting, horse riding and swimming to prepare for jihad, says local hardline Islamists.

I just want to point out that Malaysian Jihadists are encouraging their believers to learn swimming to prepare for Jihad... I wonder why?

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/muslims-should-only-take-part-in-archery-shooting-horse-riding-and-swimming

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 ― The local chapter of hardline Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia (HTM) scoffed at the country’s obsession with sports today, claiming Putrajaya is wasting its coffers on capitalist ventures that do nothing to uplift the Muslim community.

According to HTM, Muslims do not need to participate in organised sports, but should focus instead on activities such as archery, shooting, horse riding and swimming in order to get Muslims prepared to fight in a jihad, or the holy war.

“If scrutinised, we will realise the reality that the national sports agenda, no matter how grand it is, will never lead to the rise, what more the nobility, of Muslims,” the group said in its weekly newsletter distributed in mosques nationwide during Friday prayers.

“The reality is, this sports agenda will continue to distract the focus of Muslims from the main problems currently afflicting the community.”

The group gave the example of the recent SEA Games, which it accused Putrajaya of wasting millions of ringgit for Malaysia’s participation although the same money could have been used to help fellow Muslims like the Rohingyas.

“Winning a medal is more valuable to the government than saving the lives of their own religious kin!

“The demands of sports have become an agenda more important than religious obligations!” claimed the group, which wishes to establish an Islamic caliphate in Malaysia.

Calling sports the product of Western capitalists, HTM said such sporting events are where vice activities are encouraged, where men and women go to mingle, expose their intimate parts, and participate in corruption, gambling, drug abuse and brawls.

“Sports has really influenced Muslims of all ages and background, until they are not aware that sports have been made a way for their enemies to poison their thoughts and stopping them from their obligations as Muslims,” it said.

“The influence of sports, added with the hedonist lifestyle, has succeeded in luring Muslims away from their business to uphold the religion of Allah, and subsequently causing them to fall into the trap of their enemies who wish to see the community crumble.”

On Wednesday, HTM applauded the person who started the snowball of criticism against champion gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi for wearing a leotard that showed off her “vagina shape” during the SEA Games, adding that such “haram” sports would be barred under a caliphate.

Several Facebook users had earlier this month slammed the 21-year-old Farah Ann on Buletin TV3’s Facebook page after it uploaded a photograph of her in the gymnastics outfit, along with a caption that announced her winning gold in floor exercise in artistic gymnastics.

The woman athlete has since received an outpouring of support, however, from Malaysians who pointed out that the athlete should be celebrated for her performance at the games, which not only saw her take home gold, but three bronze medals and a silver in other individual events.

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Coverless Lebanese Girls Burning #ISIS Flags

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Absolutely LOVE these women for standing up to those religious pigs.... HOORAH!

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http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/06/minister-warns-of-absolutists-in-malay-muslim-community/

Minister warns of “absolutists” in Malay-Muslim community

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In his latest remarks urging the Muslim community in Singapore to be alert to radicals within its fold, the Second Minister for Home Affairs, Masagos Zulkifli, warned of the growing presence of and threats posed by “absolutists” in the community.

The minister was speaking to the media in a special interview which included questions on how the government was dealing with extremist ideologies online.

Mr Masagos advised that Muslims should not easily “succumb” to the views and opinions of “absolutists”.

“They may look attractive, they may look correct,” he said, “but do not be gullible.”

Mr Masagos warned that these “absolutists” interpret the teachings of Islam in a rigid way, and that those who disagreed with their views were seen as “un-Islamic”, for example.

The emergence of these “absolutists” could be a result of religious teachers coming here from “all over” the world.

“The variations of Islam they embrace are ‘very cultural’, and some of the conflicts experienced in other countries are brought to Singapore”, Channel Newsasia reported the minister as having said.

“The differences among the Muslims are something the Muslims must address themselves,” Mr Masagos said. “We have to look at what is important for the community, what principles we should hold as an exemplary Muslim minority community that others can look up to.

“Therefore we must know what principles must rule us. Is tolerance important? Is acceptance of a plural society important? Is participating in a modern economy important? If these are all important to us, then we must set the norms for ourselves and therefore those who do not, we must try to bring them back to these norms.”

On what could then be done to address the presence of such thinking of ideology within the community, Mr Masagos said, “When we hear something that is really out of the norm, be alert to it. We have to accept them for their freedom to express their religious variations, too.”

But the fight against extremist beliefs, such as those espoused by the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), is not limited to Singapore alone, especially online.

“It’s important for the Muslim community, not just in Singapore, in fact the whole world, to really think about how to present Islam in an attractive way to counter the attractiveness of the information that is put up by the proponents of ISIS doctrine,” he said.

“However, there is also the need to also counter the doctrine that is put forth by ISIS and also in an attractive way. There are some sites that do this but not enough and our youths have to be made aware that there are alternative views, counter-views to what ISIS is proposing.”

Mr Masagos, however, said that at the end of the day, “we cannot run away from the fact that parents need to be responsible to watch out for their children.”

Mr Masagos has been raising concerns about the emergence and presence of radical Islamic teachings in recent months.

In January, in an interview with the Straits Times, he explained how Singapore dealt with those who were influenced by such ideologies.

“It is crucial to build up community resilience in peacetime so that, should a terrorist attack occur in Singapore, it does not adversely impact on our communal relations, and suspicions and mistrust between the different communities do not arise,” he said then.

“We have laid the foundations for good social relations with the establishment of the Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circles and the Community Engagement Programme in the wake of the JI arrests in 2001/2002, and the continuing effort by our communities to strengthen community bonds. The real test will come in the event of a crisis.”

And in March, Mr Masagos again cautioned the community to be aware of the threat of ISIS and to take preventive measures, especially for parents to be aware of what their children are involved in.

“We have to play a preventive role – the society, the Government and especially parents – to watch out for tell-tale signs in our children, family, and friends…(and) we want them to report early to the authorities.

“The Government’s role is to ensure that our borders are secure, there is racial harmony and that we do not become a society that hates each other… But everyone has a part. We would like the community to be involved, be our eyes, our ears.”

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This Ramadan, a reminder of Islamisation

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/zurairi-ar/article/this-ramadan-a-reminder-of-islamisation

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To paraphrase a friend, Islamisation is no longer creeping in this country. Instead, it is marching down the streets banging the drums, and at no time is it as obvious as Ramadan.

There is just something about the combo of a blessed holy month with millions of hangry adherents that brings out the self-righteous and judgmental ones.

It is undeniable that there is a shift of public sentiment this year, with more and more Muslims publicly saying that fasting is their burden of faith alone, and non-Muslims should not be subjected to the same restrictions in public.

But perhaps we are not there yet.

It was disheartening to hear reports of a senior teacher in Kedah who told non-Muslim primary school students to drink water in the school toilets, and if they do not have water, “they can drink from the tap or their own urine.”

Particularly disappointing was the response by Deputy Education Minister Mary Yap that non-Muslims should consume food and drink discreetly and outside the view of fasting Muslims.

Even more disappointing was her fellow Deputy Education Minister P. Kamalanathan, who rebuked the teacher, but only for making the “urine joke.” The bigger problem was left untouched: that non-Muslims were urged to drink in the toilet instead.

Surely some Muslims would feel that they are entitled to “respect” during Ramadan. But that is just a by-product of the Islamisation of this country.

Elsewhere, especially in countries where Muslims are the minority, nobody would even care about them fasting, what more humouring their feelings of entitlement.

There seems to be a wave of awareness among non-Muslims that they should no longer be subjected to exclusive moral values, as illustrated by the many complaints in the past week of Malaysians forced to cover up when seeking service in government outlets.

This scene at the Ramadan bazaar at Kampung Baru is played out at the various bazaars all over the country. — Picture by Yusof Mat IsaThis scene at the Ramadan bazaar at Kampung Baru is played out at the various bazaars all over the country. — Picture by Yusof Mat IsaThe dress code “rebellion” was a perfect example of the clash of two different values in the society.

On one side is the set of more sensible values, one that is not even liberal. It is only common sense to expect government services to be made available to the public, without restricting it with dress codes that border on unnecessary.

Determining what values lies on the other side is more complex.

It surely cannot be conservative values? After all, we have had conservatives of all colours — Muslims or not — since time immemorial, and we have not experienced anybody being denied their rights.

It is perhaps inconclusive to blame Islamisation entirely for this obsession to heavily regulate the public’s behaviour, but again, it must share at least part of the blame.

We can expect some Muslims to cry so-called Islamophobia, that they are being unfairly targeted by such an allegation. So it is perhaps prudent to specify how Islamisation has less to do with Islam, but rather authoritarianism.

To be concerned with Islamisation does not necessarily mean feeling negatively against Islam.

Islam as a religion is fairly neutral. I think many can agree that they have no problems with Muslims.

But Islamisation is a process of political domination, by enforcing Islamic rules and codes on others who do not subscribe to the same belief system.

It is taking Islam’s message of being the blessing to the world with too much zealousness. It is when Muslims decide to take their mission as “caliphs of the world” a little too seriously, and can only rest when others submit to their faith and moral values.

Islamisation is when Muslims practise their “amal ma’ruf, nahi munkar” doctrine — “to do good and prevent wrongdoings”.... but only to mean that everyone must follow and leave out things strictly according to Islam, instead of what is universally considered “good” and “bad.”

Islamisation happens because some Muslims demand for religious bodies to be given the authority to govern their lives, because they have never been taught to do otherwise.

It happens when Muslims refuse to take responsibility for their own lives, outsourcing them instead to clerics and scholars.

Islamisation is a skewed interpretation that Islam is a way of life with no separation of state and religion. It is when the State is emboldened to codify every facet of a Muslim’s life: his worship, his attire, his food, his thoughts.

And among its abhorrent consequence, is the belief that Muslims have the right to judge and condemn others with impunity. And the worse victims as usual tend to be women — whose status is deemed lesser by the patriarchal nature of the ideology.

That is when champion gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi gets chastised by self-righteous men who could only see the grooves on her crotch instead of her worth as an individual, just days before going into Ramadan.

That is when the anonymous woman who took a selfie at a Ramadan bazaar with Dr Mahathir Mohamad, and TV host Edleen Ismail was “cautioned” online for being “too sexy” that perverts cannot contain themselves during the holy month.

That is when Pahang Islamic enforcers used Ramadan as an excuse to decide that Muslim women — only women — who dress “indecently” during the month can be fined with a one year jail sentence or RM2,000 fine starting this year, as if it is a requirement for fasting.

Things will only get worse as the two sets of values continue their clashes.

And some Muslims would complain of persecution, when it is not their rights which are in contest, but their previously unabated harassment against others.

Those who have been comfortable with Islamisation for too long will be kicking and screaming, but we shall drag them out anyway.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/zurairi-ar/article/this-ramadan-a-reminder-of-islamisation#sthash.qKC9Kvzy.dpuf

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http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-jails-father-and-son-for-planning-terror-attacks

Malaysia jails father and son for planning terror attacks

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A father and his son were given long prison terms yesterday for planning attacks aimed at installing an Islamic regime in Malaysia.

Murad Halimmuddin, 49, and Abu Daud, 25, pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges in the Kuala Lumpur High Court. Murad was given 18 years' jail and his son 12 years.

Murad is believed to be the leader of a group called "Fisabilillah".

Both men "admitted in court that they planned to kidnap politicians, raid army camps for weapons and overthrow the government", said prosecutor Shukor Abu Bakar.

Four others, including two airforce personnel and an Indonesian, pleaded not guilty to similar charges and will appear in court again on Aug 28.

All were part of a group of 17 men nabbed in April when the authorities said they had foiled terror attacks in Kuala Lumpur and the administrative capital in Putrajaya.

"We are lucky we have good intelligence. If not, bombs would have exploded in Kuala Lumpur," Datuk Ayub Khan, Special Branch counter-terrorism principal assistant director, told The Straits Times.

Malaysia and Indonesia have stepped up security, fearing calls by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for "calamity" during Ramadan could lead to further bloodshed after last week's killings in France, Kuwait and Tunisia.

"We are very aware of ISIS' (Ramadan) message. We have tightened security as Ramadan is when ISIS followers believe it's the best time to die as a martyr, as it is a holy month," said Indonesian national police spokesman, Inspector-General Anton Charliyan.

Last week, ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani told followers to turn Ramadan into a time of "calamity for the infidels... Shi'ites and apostate Muslims".

"We have tightened security since April, not just since Ramadan," said Datuk Ayub. "We have given clear instructions to all states in the country to increase security."

Tunisia saw the most bloodshed last week when a lone gunman shot and killed 39 people, most of them foreign tourists, at a beach resort.

Insp-Gen Anton said Bali, which was bombed twice, in 2002 and 2005, has been deemed a "high-risk area". "Terror attacks are nothing new to us. We are closely monitoring various groups," he said.

ISIS has set up a unit called Katibah Nusantara (Malay Archipelago Combat Unit), noted counter-terrorism analyst Jasminder Singh.

"Symbolically, it represents the Muslims of South-east Asia. Substantively, the Malaysians and Indonesia have been active supporters of ISIS through manpower, social media," says the research analyst with Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jul-01/304556-isis-beheads-two-syria-women-for-sorcery.ashx

ISIS beheads two Syria women for ‘sorcery’

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BEIRUT: ISIS militants have beheaded two women in eastern Syria accused of “witchcraft and sorcery,” activists said Tuesday, in the Islamist group’s first decapitations of female civilians.

ISIS has become infamous for gruesome executions and mass killings, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the two women were the first female civilians to be beheaded by the group.

“ISIS executed two women by beheading them in Deir al-Zor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women being killed by the group in this manner,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel-Rahman said.

The Britain-based activist group said the executions took place on Monday and Sunday and involved two couples. In both cases, the women were executed with their husbands, with each pair accused of “witchcraft and sorcery.”

ISIS has captured around 50 percent of Syria’s territory since it emerged in the country in 2013.

According to the Observatory, ISIS has previously decapitated the corpses of Kurdish female fighters during battles.

The group is also reported to have stoned civilian women to death on allegations of adultery.

Abdel-Rahman said the two female civilians and their husbands, killed in the city of Mayadin, appear to have been accused after the group found them in possession of charms.

The use of amulets, charms and other folk religious practices is common in parts of Syria, particularly in the countryside.

The charms are often written on a piece of paper sewn into fabric, and are intended to protect the recipient against bad luck or jealousy, or solve and prevent other problems.

But the practice is considered heretical and a form of “witchcraft” by ISIS, which imposes its harsh interpretation of Islam on the areas under its control.

The group is known for its brutality, often filming acts including beheading and throwing people from buildings.

It punishes people for “crimes” including homosexuality, adultery, smoking cigarettes and spying.

The Observatory said earlier this week that ISIS has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria in the year since it declared its “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq.

Nearly 1,800 of them were civilians, including 74 children.

It has executed more than 100 of its own members, mostly on allegations of spying, and often as they were seeking to escape the group, according to the Observatory.

The Observatory also said Tuesday that ISIS has hung at least eight people from makeshift crosses in recent days as punishment for allegedly failing to fast during the month of Ramadan.

The eight were all strung up alive on crucifixes with placards attached to them accusing them of breaking the Ramadan fast “with no religious justification.”

Among the eight were two minors, the Observatory said, adding that while it had documented eight cases, there might be others that have not been reported.

The Observatory said the eight were hung from the crucifixes for a day and taken down afterward still alive.

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Singapore Chinese Muslim stunned by Halal dietary question in job application

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-chinese-muslim-stunned-by-halal-dietary-question-in-job-application-050755708.html

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"You don't eat pork, right?"
Singapore Chinese Muslim Heidi Heng was shocked when she was asked the question when she tried to find out more about an opening for an administration position.
At first, she said, she was mistaken for being a non-Chinese because she was seen wearing a headscarf. Then, she was told that her Halal diet would be an inconvenience to other employees especially when it comes to company events.
Heng was responding to job application queries sent via Whatsapp messages on her phone when she was confronted by questions that involved her race, religion and dietary option. She was corresponding with someone who appeared to be the human resource staff of an unnamed company. A screen grab of the conversation was posted on Facebook on Tuesday, and has since garnered more than 1,000 shares and nearly 100 comments.

Facebook screen grab of racist conversation. 
Facebook screen grab of racist conversation.

The conversation had taken place over Whatsapp when Heng was asking for the appropriate email address to send her resume to.

Heng seemed disappointed at how the conversation had panned out, even labeling the comments that the staff member made as “racist”.

“Work is work, food is food. I can eat Halal food, (you) can eat (your) non-Halal food. Just (wanted) a simple admin job, end up get a racist comment... Admin job got event every month meh (sic)?” she said.

Most of the commenters on Facebook have shown support for Heng while criticising the company.

“I don’t see why one’s dietary preference will hinder the productivity of the admin job… what if the candidate is a Chinese vegetarian?” said a Bob M Fauzi.
One commenter even offered Heng a job and is awaiting her reply.

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http://www.therakyatpost.com/news/2015/07/05/songkok-wearing-wombat-mistaken-for-pig/

Malaysian Muslims stupidly mistake Wombats for pigs in Hari Rays Ad and got upset

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Servcorp which featured a wombat.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — An electronic billboard in Bukit Bintang has purportedly been retracted after it upset some Muslims who mistook the wombat featured in a songkok and baju Melayu as a pig.

News portal Mynewshub said the billboard by Australia-based company Servcorp, a serviced office and virtual office provider, that featured a Selamat Hari Raya greeting by the company’s mascot, Sydney the Wombat, could “confuse” Muslims even though the animal featured was not a pig.

“Mynewshub understands that DBKL (Kuala Lumpur City Hall) has ordered the company to retract the billboard as it was put up without approval,” Mynewshub reported today.

Malay Mail Online was unable to reach Servcorp Malaysia as it is the weekend, outside the company’s business hours from Monday to Friday.


Some Facebook users also slammed Servcorp Malaysia on its Facebook page, with one called Ajoy Yusof saying: “do you know that pig is haram (forbidden) to Malay/Muslim....please change it or we will report your company to authority and sue your company for making fun of the Muslim and Malays”.

A Facebook user called Farah Annesa, however, said in reply: “Dear All, please note that the animal depicted in the advert is an Australian Wombat. It has been an official mascot for Servcorp for years. Kindly do your research first. Selamat berpuasa everybody”.

The consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam and the pig is considered offensive to many Malay-Muslims in Malaysia, with former sex bloggers Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee even being charged with sedition in 2013 for posting on Facebook a mock “Selamat Berbuka Puasa” (breaking of fast) greeting on Facebook featuring “bak kut teh”, a soupy pork dish.

The Friends of BN — Barisan Nasional Facebook page said today that the Servcorp billboard was “disrespectful” to Muslims and posted that the advertisement has been retracted.

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36 arrested on suspicion of vice-related activities in HDB units

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SINGAPORE: Two men and 34 women, aged between 21 and 48, have been arrested for their suspected involvement in vice-related activities in residential areas in Singapore, said police on Thursday (Jul 9).

Preliminary investigations revealed that the women had advertised their sexual services online and carried out vice-related activities in various residential areas, said police.

Police conducted raids at locations including Woodlands, Sembawang, Sengkang, Jurong West, Yishun, Chinatown and River Valley in a two-day operation which ended on Wednesday. During the operation, police seized items such as boxes of condoms, lubricants, mobile phones, cash, contraband cigarettes and work documents which were believed to be forged.

Police will also investigate the premise owners, and they will alert the Housing and Development Board on the units believed to have been used to facilitate the vice-related activities.

A person found guilty of being a tenant, lessee, occupier or person in charge of a brothel, or those who manage or assist in managing a brothel could be fined up to S$10,000, be jailed for up to five years, or both. Additionally, those who live wholly or in part on the earnings of the prostitution of another person could be jailed for up to five years and be fined up to S$10,000.

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http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=551512:police-cordon-off-low-yat-plaza&Itemid=2

Najib ploy rumors as Umno groups look to stir trouble: COPS CORDON OFF LOW YAT PLAZA

UPDATED KUALA LUMPUR - As political crisis continued to grip Malaysia following shock corruption allegations that have seriously shaken Prime Minister Najib Razak's hold on power, a scuffle that took place in a downtown mall has taken on a sinister form.

Speculation is swirling that Najib's supporters might be using the incident to deflect attention from his woes.

According to Malaysiakini, police cordoned off Low Yat Plaza after about 200 people gathered in front of the building in reaction to a brawl which had occurred inside the building on Saturday.

The group of protesters, which claims to represent Malay NGOs linked to Najib's Umno party included Persatuan Kebajikan Islam dan Dakwah Islamiah (Pekida), had gathered outside the plaza at 6.30 pm.

They tried to enter the main entrance at aout 8.35pm, but were stopped from doing so.

Low Yat Plaza was shuttered by about 9pm. Police eventually cordoned off the area with yellow tape to prevent the group from gathering.

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News of probe reaching Pluto sparks debate on science and religion among Utusan readers

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 — The conflict between science and religion took centre stage earlier today, as readers of Utusan Malaysia took to the Malay daily’s Facebook page to duke it out over whether or not yesterday’s news of a NASA probe reaching Pluto was true.

Proclamations that NASA’s announcement was “poyo”, a Malay slang word for stupid, was a recurring theme on the comments section of Utusan Online’s snapshot of its page that carried the story, with some even claiming that the footage from the New Horizons probe was simply made using a green screen.

“Mdarat di bulan pn tipu ,ni kan pluto,” wrote one Facebook user who went by the name AntiPilak Iju.

(They lied about landing on the moon, what more pluto.)

Another Facebook user by the name of Hairul Hilman went on a lengthy tirade against the US and science, arguing that the only reference needed is the Quran which details seven layers of the sky that are guarded by angels that do not eat or sleep.

He added that the Americans’ claim of having reached Pluto cannot be trusted as even the Russians and Chinese with “more advanced technology” are nowhere near achieving such a feat.

Facebook user Uchiha Fiq questioned how it is even possible for the NASA probe to have reached the furthest end of the solar system.

“Pluto tu berjuta2 kilometer maybe bilion kilometer,bersamaan 10 ribu tahun cahaya,mustahil.maaf silap.sempena hari raya ni minta maaf la oi,” he said.

(Pluto is millions of kilometres maybe billions of kilometres, equivalent to 10 thousand light years, impossible.I’m sorry it’s a mistake. In conjunction with hari raya just apologise.)

There were, however, many on the thread who hit back at the naysayers, with some even taking the trouble to correct some of the claims made.

Uchiha Fiq’s post alone drew 39 replies, most of which listed out facts and explanations on calculating the distance between Earth and Pluto to disprove his claim that it spans 10,000 light years.

Others either drew conclusions that the comments slamming the US and NASA as liars is a result of lack of learning, or chose to poke fun at the whole situation.

“This is why we cant be a developed country,” wrote Afif Rais.

Navah Ruban posted; “Lol NASA Penipu? Poyo? Rip brains”

(Lol Nasa Liar? Stupid? Rip Brains)

“Orang yang malas belajar, Tak minat sains, Mereka inilah yang melariskan pasaran ubat ajaib, Ditipu, Kerana kebodohan itu modalnya penindas,” wrote Fahmi Mustaffa.

(Those who are lazy to learn, Not interested in science, They are the ones who buy out the market for miracle drugs, Cheated, Because stupidity is the capital of the oppressor.)

NASA’s New Horizons probe made its closest approach to Pluto on Tuesday, 10 years after it was launched on the mission.

The US space agency is now working on conducting a series of experiments to study the planet’s atmosphere and photograph its night-side using light reflected off its primary moon Charon, according to newswire Reuters.

It will take about 16 months for New Horizons to transmit back all the thousands of images and measurements taken during its pass by Pluto. By then, the spacecraft will have travelled even deeper into the Kuiper Belt, heading for a possible follow-on mission to one of Pluto’s cousins.

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Despite ‘aurat’ criticism, Farah Ann tells fashion spread Olympic dreams not dashed

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 — After receiving flak for purportedly exposing her “aurat” during the recent SEA Games, gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi has emerged on the cover of a magazine in a one-shoulder dress with an assurance to fans that the episode has not dampened her Olympic ambition.

In her interview with the Malay-language online magazine “Pepatung”, the sports star, who was featured wearing a midnight-blue dress, said she has not wavered from her goal.

“Negative criticisms will not dampen my spirits to achieve my aims and dreams in this field,” Farah Ann, 21, told Pepatung in an interview published today.

“Gymnastics helps individuals become stronger, more flexible and enables us to learn new things,” added the young woman with Malay and Canadian blood.

Pepatung also reported that Farah Ann, who won gold at the recent Singapore SEA Games, hoped to compete in the Olympics next year and that she would have to first shine at the World Gymnastics Championships at Glasgow, Scotland, in October.

Farah Ann has reportedly suffered fractures in the knee, backbone and fingers, as well as torn ligaments throughout her 18 years in gymnastics.

“Honestly, I did think of withdrawing from this sport. Besides injuries, less satisfactory results in competitions have also weakened my resolve. Luckily, my interest conquered everything and has managed to last until today,” said the young woman.

Farah Ann was accused of exposing her “aurat” when she was featured at the SEA Games wearing a leotard, as all female gymnasts do, despite winning two gold medals, a silver medal and three bronze medals.

Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin and even Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, however, have come to her defence.

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Swindling is part of Chinese trading culture, Muslim group claims

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UALA LUMPUR, July 14 — While emotions remain raw over the weekend riot in Low Yat Plaza, a Muslim group yesterday accused ethnic Chinese traders of adopting swindling as part of their business “culture”.

The Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia (PPIM) claimed that ethnic Chinese businesses regularly cheat Malay consumers as a legitimate way for them to get extra profit.

“We don’t deny that it is really their practice, it has become their culture even in trading,” PPIM president Datuk Nadzim Johan said as quoted by the website of Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma).

“What more, they feel that with swindling they can earn. Unfortunately, those who always got conned are the Malays,” he added.

He did not provide any data or statistics to back up his assertion.

The police said yesterday that eighteen people have been arrested over their involvement in the riot and alleged theft of a smartphone at Low Yat Plaza over the weekend.

They also stated that there was no truth to rumours that the incident was triggered by cheating, and stressed that the case began with the alleged shoplifting attempt.

Despite that, Isma is adamant on its website that the scuffle was caused by dishonest traders in the popular gadget mall instead.

Yesterday, Isma information chief Mohd Hazizi Ab Rahman said the melee and vandalism at Low Yat Plaza this weekend was the angry response towards “diaspora chauvinists” who insulted and ridiculed Islam and the Malay community.

Isma asserted that it is only natural for Malay youths to release their anger on the Chinese traders in the popular tech mall as the Malays are known for running amok, and they would not have done so if they were not provoked by what the Muslim group claimed to be chauvinists.

Hazizi did not specify who or what the “diaspora chauvinists” are, but Isma has previously used the word to refer to non-Muslims, especially the ethnic Chinese and the DAP.

The riot came after a 22-year-old man was reportedly handed to the police for allegedly stealing a mobile phone Saturday, after which his accomplice contacted their friends who then assaulted workers from a mobile phone store and caused an estimated RM70,000 in damage.

Rumours had spread on social media after the alleged theft that the Chinese trader had sold the Malay man a counterfeit phone, leading to calls for boycotts of “cheating” Chinese traders and the complex itself.

Yesterday, the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said he has ordered the arrests of those who spread such rumours.

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Mustafa Sultan Ali tried to make his way to Syria from Turkey in order to “participate in armed violence by fighting alongside ISIS”, says the Ministry of Home Affairs.

SINGAPORE: A 51-year-old Singaporean has been arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA) after he tried to join the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Tuesday (Jul 28).

In late May, Mustafa Sultan Ali left Singapore and went to an unnamed regional country before flying to Turkey. He had taken that travel route in the hopes of hiding his tracks, MHA said, adding that he had planned to cross into Syria from the Turkish border.

He was detained by local authorities in Turkey and subsequently deported to Singapore in June, MHA said. In July, Mustafa was issued with a two-year Order of Detention.

Investigations showed that Mustafa had been “deeply radicalised by the terrorist ideology of ISIS and other radical ideologues he had come across online”, MHA said. He tried to make his way to Syria in order to “participate in armed violence by fighting alongside ISIS”, and was prepared to carry out ISIS-directed terrorist attacks against Western establishments in Singapore, it added.

In May, a 19-year-old Singaporean M Arifil Azim Putra Norja'I was detained for participating in terrorism-related activities and planning to carry out violent attacks in Singapore. Another radicalised 17-year-old Singaporean was also arrested in May under the ISA for further investigations.

MHA urged members of the public who may be aware of any involvement in terrorism-related activities to inform the Internal Security Department (1800-2626-473) or the Police (999).

“The Government takes a very serious view of any form of support for terrorism, including but not limited to the use of violence, and will take firm and decisive action against any person who engages in such activities,” it said.

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PHOTOS OF CHEATING WIFE FOUND IN TAMPINES VOID DECK

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Posters written by a married woman warning a man that his wife has been having an affair with the woman's husband were found in void decks in Tampines. The posters, which carried the photo of the alleged 'homebreaker', were trying to tell the man that his wife has been cheating on him for the past 9 years.

Shin Min news reported that such posters have been appearing at the void decks of blocks 878 to 880, Tampines Ave 8, for the past two weeks. The posters were in English and Chinese along with a photo of a woman in sporting attire.

Residents said that the posters at block 880 have been torn down, leaving only the photo of the alleged 'homebreaker'. It is unclear who had put up the posters and photos.

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The poster addressed one 'Mr Lee' and is written by an anonymous married woman. The woman said that her husband is having an affair with the wife of Mr Lee and this has been going on for 9 years.

"I discovered the shameful affair about 2 years ago, my husband and I have quarreled, fought and I really feel like giving up this marriage, but my husband told me it is your wife that doesn't want to let go and continues to pester him," the poster wrote.

The author claimed that she will call the 'homebreaker' every three months to plead with her to leave her husband, but the 'homebreaker' was unwilling saying that he was a nice man with no temper.

The author also said that the 'homebreaker' would fetch her husband to his workplace every morning and they would have lunch together. There was even once when their maid chanced upon the 'homebreaker' and the husband in Geylang.

There was once when the author went to the 'homebreaker's' office to talk things through, but she found out that the entire office already knew that 'homebreaker' has another boyfriend besides 'Mr Lee'. The author also went to the Lee residence, but only the daughter was at home, and the daughter said her mother only loved to dance.

When the author confronted the 'homebreaker', she was told by the 'homebreaker' that they shouldn't fight over a man and that they should be good friends. She said that the husband of the author was penniless and that she was giving money to him.

The author urged Mr Lee to rein in his wife and to stop bothering her husband. She said both the families have children and she doesn't wish the children to grow up without a father or mother.

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VIETNAM DEMANDS TO KNOW WHY VIETNAMESE WOMEN TURNED AWAY BY ICA

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Last week, Vietnam's Civil Aviation Authority raised a query with Singapore after the island-republic turned away several Vietnamese women who came to Singapore on different occasions dating back to last year.

The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has responded to the query, stating that the women did not meet entry requirements. It added that Singapore welcomes all visitors of all nationalities, but noted that "every visitor's entry into Singapore is neither a right nor automatic, and e

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ICA said visitors can be subjected to additional interviews and checks, adding: "The granting of visit passes to visitors is assessed and determined by the ICA officers at the Singapore checkpoints upon their arrival."

Vietnam News Agency reported Vietnamese officials as saying that the women were turned away because they were found to be using different passports, with one woman reportedly having three passports with three different identities. The women were reportedly also unable to explain to officers why they wanted to enter Singapore.

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No couple seats for you, Perak cinema tells unmarried Muslims

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The Lotus Five Star cinema in Seri Iskandar had issued the ban following 'advice' from the Perak Tengah Municipal Council.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — A cinema outlet has banned unmarried Muslims from selecting couple seats when frequenting its outlets in Perak, according to a report today by news portal Astro Awani.

The report said that the Lotus Five Star (LFS) cinema in Seri Iskandar, a township with several tertiary education institutions, had issued the ban following “advice” from the Perak Tengah Municipal Council.

“Couples who are not mahram are not allowed to sit in couple seats,” said a notice in Malay issued by the cinema, in a photo that has since been circulated online.

Mahram, also pronounced muhrim in Malay, is a concept in Shariah law that refers to unmarriageable kin, such as blood relatives.

Awani also reported that the cinema, which has 12 couple seats, had kept the ban in force from as far back as two years ago when it first opened its doors.

It is unknown what by-law authorises the council to advise LFS’s management to implement the ban.

It is also unclear how the cinema enforces the ban or what action will be taken for those who defy the ban.

Malay Mail Online cannot yet reach LFS or the council for verification.

LFS operates over 25 cinemas across the country, and is popularly known for showing Hindi and Tamil films.

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These people pray so much to their deity until no brains liao....

After BigBang show, Islamist group claims DAP hand-in-glove with K-pop stars on Christian agenda

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — Malaysia’s opposition DAP is working closely with Korean pop artistes who are using their concerts as a front to spread Christianity while chipping away at the Muslim faith, Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) claimed today.

The group had previously protested against highly-popular K-pop boyband BigBang ahead of its concert here last weekend, but which went off without a hitch.

“DAP which is close to the evangelists would surely support the concerts, just like how they previously supported a beer festival, even when the practice is detrimental to the public and was rejected by the majority of Malaysians,” Omar Kassim, who chairs Isma’s missionary bureau, said on the group’s website.

“However, they protest against good things such as making couple seats in cinema only for married couples, to prevent immodest acts. DAP’s action only shows how afraid it is of Islam becoming stronger in Malaysia,” he added.

Omar also claimed K-pop concerts “bring joy” but are actually “anti-Islam” and would allegedly destroy the Muslim community in the country.

He claimed K-pop artistes recite text from the Bible during concerts and invite their fans to attend church, but did not provide any proof to back his allegations.

This is not the first time Isma has accused K-pop groups of using their concerts as a front for evangelical missions.

In January, Isma had claimed that K-pop artistes from the Christian-majority nation may be using their music to covertly spread the religion.

Isma alleged that many K-Pop artistes are secretly “church activists” and have been directly involved in proselytisation programmes abroad.

The article provided no evidence to support Isma’s assertions other than excerpts and quotes from a blog run by A. Karim Omar — the secretary-general of another Malay NGO Pertubuhan Muafakat Sejahtera Malaysia.

BigBang held a two-day concert in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend for the Asian leg of its world tour, drawing over 15,000 attendees each night.

Prior to the concert, Isma’s student wing National Muslim Youth Association (Pembina) had launched a campaign calling for the cancellation of BigBang’s concert, and banning of K-pop concerts in general.

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Catfished! Girls Scam ISIS on Social Media for Travel Money

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Three girls turned the tables on ISIS recruiters. (Photo: Jaber al-Helo/AP)

If you’re low on funds for that big vacation, you could always ask to borrow money, make a Kickstarter campaign… or swindle a couple of Islamic State recruiters. It may not be the safest way to make money, but that’s what three girls from Chechnya, a Russian republic in southeastern Europe, did.

The Chechen girls are under investigation for fraud after they allegedly scammed ISIS members into giving them money on the pretense that they would use it to travel from their homeland to Syria. The ladies got away with $3,300 before being discovered, according to RT News.

The ISIS members allegedly reached out to the girls’ social media accounts, asking the girls to join the militant cause. The young women kept in contact with the ISIS members and even sent fake pictures to string them along.

Related: Requiem for History: Rare Look at What ISIS Destroyed in Iraq

After the ISIS members wired the money, the girls closed down their accounts, stopped all communication, and kept the windfall. The con artists had no intention of actually leaving the country, though one admitted that she used to consider joining.

“I don’t recall any precedent like this one in Chechnya, probably because nobody digs deep enough in that direction,” police officer Valery Zolotaryov told a local Chechen newspaper. “Anyhow, I don’t advise anyone to communicate with dangerous criminals, especially for grabbing quick money,” he added. Wise advise.

Related: Did ISIS Hack Its Way Into Paradise?

The girls’ (totally illegal) stunt isn’t the first of its kind. RT News reported that sometimes men create fake accounts, pretending to be females, with the same ISIS-swindling intentions.

The Islamic State often targets Muslim communities, like Chechnya, in Europe and the United States to recruit people who are willing to inflict acts of terrorism on their own soil. Members have been said to use social media to get a wide reach of followers and find those who will agree to commit violence. Often women are the ones cheated during these arrangements, as they are married off to fighters and often become victims of sexual abuse, Mirror reports.

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Why can’t women wear short skirts? — Kabberi Dutta

JULY 23 — Having grown up as a Malaysian Indian girl, who studied at an International school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, I have been exposed to many different cultures and perspectives, which I am grateful for.

However, as a result of various exposures, I have come to find certain faults in Malaysian society that, although I do my best to understand and respect, urge me to question these ‘rules’.

Before I explain, I’m not biased against my own culture- Western culture too has many faults, some of which are more extreme (in different ways) than our own, but as a Malaysian, I feel more passionate and justified discussing my own culture.

There’s no avoiding the recent surge in the policing of women’s attires, from the woman who was required to cover her legs with a towel to visit a relative in hospital to the two women who were made to wear sarongs to cover the skirt that was barely above their knees.

As a teenage-cum-woman, I was already disgraced at the attitudes of these institutions that forced these women to cover up their bodies, thus humiliating them, but it wasn’t until my own experience with body policing that I felt the need to speak up.

Earlier this morning, I went to the Damansara Public Library to study for my exams- dressed in a long shirt and a short skirt (admittedly, well above my knees).

After sitting down at a table for a brief ten minutes, I was handed a notice highlighting the dress code for the library and although I wasn’t instructed to leave, my embarrassment caused me to quietly pack my things and return home.

I have multiple issues with this including the double standard that is in place when enforcing such rules as well as the reasoning itself behind dress codes for women. Before I elaborate, I’d like to highlight my reason for wearing the short skirt that was at the brunt of this issue.

As many are aware, growing up as a teenage girl is widely known to be filled with pressures from peers and society itself. Society places pressures on girls to conform to a certain image: in Western cultures, it’s always shifting but the current pressure is to look quite similar to Kim Kardashian — curvy with a full bum and breasts.

In Malaysian society, it’s more of the opposite — girls are expected to dress modestly and not show off excess skin by wearing revealing clothing.

What with all the external influences we are exposed to, being comfortable in one’s own skin has become increasing hard to do.

The statistics alone for eating disorders represents this — since the 1960’s, the number of emergence of eating disorders has doubled.

Shockingly, the age at which one becomes vulnerable to these pressures is continuously getting lower- reports have shown that an increasing number of children have fallen in to eating disorders at ages as young as six.

This article, however, is not to do with the pressures of image as a girl, however (not to say that men and boys don’t suffer from eating disorders) I am just explaining that given all these pressures, I am proud of the fact that, to the most extent, I am comfortable with my body, and this reflects in the way I choose to present myself, and dress.

I wear short skirts because I feel comfortable in them, the exact same reason that on other days, I wear jeans.

My choice of clothing is a reflection of what I feel comfortable in, nothing more. I don’t wear short skirts to grab the attention of men and neither do a lot of girls. Why is that not okay?

Relating this to the incident that occurred this morning, women aren’t allowed to wear short skirts because they are deemed provocative.

My biggest question is why are they deemed provocative? The word ‘provocative’ is defined as being ‘intended or intending to arouse sexual desire or interest’ and as I have stated, that was not my intention.

And if provocativeness arises from intent, then doesn’t it deem that I am the only person who can define my clothing as being provocative, since I am the only person who could accurately know my intentions?

For anyone else to define clothing as being provocative, would merely be making an assumption.

However, taking the definition of the word loosely and agreeing that I didn’t intend for my clothing to lead to ‘sexual desire or interest’, let’s assume that people were effected in a sexual sense by my clothing.

Is that my fault for wearing what I feel comfortable in, or the fault of the men who objectify women and see them merely as sexual beings? In a culture where victim blaming has risen, what with women being told not to dress a certain way to avoid being raped (in extreme cases), I think we’re tackling this problem all wrong.

Instead of demanding that women dress a certain way so as not to make men sexually aroused or uncomfortable, shouldn’t we actually teach men to respect women irregardless of what they are wearing?

That issue aside, I was also angered regarding the huge double standard in place when it came to enforcing the dress code of the library.

Having studied there for nearly a week, I had witnessed men in flip flops and shorts, to no comment by the librarian, but the moment a women breaks the rules- she has to change?

I understand why in certain areas one must dress a certain way — I would never wear a short skirt to a temple or church out of respect for the religion — but if you believe that an area needs to have a dress code, then it should be enforced without gender bias.

I’m not going to be defiant and try to return to the library in a short skirt, but at least make sure that the men are following the rules too.

I see no reason why they should be exempt.

* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of Malay Mail Online.
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http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/isis-executes-19-women-refusing-practice-sex-says-kurdish-official/

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(IraqiNews.com) Dohuk – Media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, Said Mimousini, said on Monday, that ISIS executed 19 women in Mosul, attributing the cause to refusing the practice of the so-called sexual jihad.

Mimousini said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “ISIS executed 19 women in the city of Mosul during the past two days,” claiming that, “the penalty decision came on the background of the refusal to participate in the practice of sexual jihad.”

He added that the last period has seen splits in the ranks of ISIS in Mosul and internal conflicts because of the money and distribution of women.

Mimousini also pointed out to the killing of 2 Kurdish militants in the city of Mosul.


Those wretched beasts.... I thought they want to spread their religion which states that all women are supposed to be chaste... Now, if they refuse to serve as sex slaves, they are now executed? WTF....

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http://www.therakyatpost.com/news/2015/08/09/netizens-call-bull-on-ustazahs-logic-about-drinking-dairy-milk/

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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9, 2015;
An ustazah’s scientific understanding is being questioned by netizens who are also mocking her “theory” on cow’s milk and human behaviour.

Fatimah Syarha, who host TV3’s Fiqh Wanita, claims that cow’s milk should not be fed to babies, as the infant may “absorb” the obtuse DNA of the bovine in the milk would somehow affect the development of the child.
The religious teacher, when discussing the importance of breastfeeding, explained that a child who is regularly fed with the dairy milk may possess features that are generally associated with the animal.

Babies, Fatimah said on Friday’s show, catered for Muslim woman, may grow up to be hot-headed because cows were so.

Her assertions, however, bewildered netizens and Fatimah inadvertently became a laughing stock on cyberspace as social media users began questioning the lack of scientific evidence in her theory, which undermined her reputation as an educator.

Directing their comments towards the television programme’s official Facebook page, netizens express their dissatisfaction with the information that has been conveyed by the show.

Adila Musa Idris commented; “I find your lack of scientific fact disturbing. You cannot based your claims on blind assumptions alone.Where is your proof?”
One Siti Amiranah said while Fatimah’s point on the importance of breastfeeding was correct, the former did not agree with the claim that cow’s milk will cause brain damage.

“It’s just ridiculous, humans have been feeding children with milk from animals for centuries.”

Mariani Mohd Azlan said that the facts provided by the host are wrong and creates confusion among its viewers, who are generally young mothers.
“I request that TV3 and the ustazah correct and amend the information on this matter or at the least provide correct scientifically accurate information in such shows.”

Aishah Balqis said based on this logic, it was best to stay away from beef, chicken and sea food.

“Maybe we should eat human flesh then you get 100% human DNA. So shallow.”

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Money, lust and kung fu: Shaolin’s ‘CEO Monk’ is under fire

http://www.todayonline.com/chinaindia/china/money-lust-and-kung-fu-shaolins-ceo-monk-under-fire

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DENGFENG (China) — Incense drifting through ancient cedars. Saffron-robed monks, limbs a blur of movement, making quick work of imagined enemies. The boing of a giant bronze bell calling the faithful to prayer.

This is the scene at the fabled Shaolin Temple, a cradle of kung fu and Zen Buddhism nestled in the forests of the central Chinese province of Henan, where legend has it monks have trained in martial arts for centuries. But in recent days, another sound has been wafting across its hallowed grounds: The snickering of tourists trading the latest news about the abbot of Shaolin and his reportedly less than virtuous ways.

Over the past week, much of the nation has been transfixed by salacious allegations that the famed abbot, Mr Shi Yongxin, known as China’s chief executive officer Monk for transforming Shaolin into a global commercial empire, is a swindler and serial philanderer who secretly fathered children with two of his lovers, vows of celibacy notwithstanding.

The accusations — new tidbits have appeared almost daily in the Chinese news media — are mostly based on documents released by a self-described former monk at the temple who says the abbot owns a small fleet of fancy cars, has embezzled millions of dollars from a temple-run corporation and has funnelled some of the cash to a mistress now living in Australia.

Beyond the obvious legal repercussions, the abbot’s apparent lust for women, money and bling runs counter to the virtues of chastity and austere living that he has long sought to personify as one of the most prominent figures in Chinese Buddhism. To his growing legion of critics, the scandal has heightened public cynicism about a society in which greed and crass materialism often seem to trump morality, especially among those in positions of power.

The informer, a mysterious figure using a name that translates as “seeker of justice”, has told reporters he is fed up with the abbot’s hypocrisy and wants to see the “grounds of Shaolin purified again”. He declined interview requests and has yet to appear in public, saying he is afraid for his safety following threats from what he called “Shi Yongxin’s henchmen”.

“We want the outside world to know that the Shaolin abbot, using Buddhism as a cloak, is a maniacal womaniser and corrupt ‘tiger’ who brazenly exploits Shaolin’s assets and tarnishes its reputation,” he wrote in a statement last week that pleaded for a government investigation.

Among the evidence he has made public to support his accusations are police depositions and photographs of a woman said to be one of the abbot’s lovers, a Shaolin nun who appears dressed in brown monastic robes while holding the baby she says was fathered by Mr Shi Yongxin. Another supposed mistress claims to have physical evidence of his lechery: Semen, collected in a condom, that she sent to a doctor for safekeeping. Over the weekend, she used a social media account to post a photo of the underwear she says she wore during sex with the abbot.

During a visit to the temple last week, the modest grey-brick pavilion where Mr Shi Yongxin lives and works was padlocked, and monastery officials declined interview requests. In a statement posted online, they called the allegations against Mr Shi Yongxin “vicious, groundless libel”.

Local police officials say they have opened an investigation, perhaps moved by the media maelstrom and a public finger wag by the powerful State Administration for Religious Affairs, which warned that the scandal threatened to tarnish Chinese Buddhism.

Critics have complained for years that Mr Shi Yongxin has overcommercialised Shaolin through product licensing and overseas franchises, including plans for a US$300 million (S$415 million) luxury Shaolin kung fu resort and golf course in south-eastern Australia.

Like the paying tourists who flock to Shaolin’s hourly “fighting monks” acrobatic show, other controversies have come and gone, including reports that the monastery spent more than US$400,000 on “luxury toilets” and an initial public stock offering that was scuttled amid criticism that monks sworn to asceticism should not be playing the stock market.

News accounts have also detailed Mr Shi Yongxin’s taste for Apple products and gold-filament robes — all gifts, he pointed out — and a 2011 Xinhua report said the authorities were investigating claims he managed to escape prosecution after being caught in a brothel raid.

Through it all, the abbot has remained stoic, refusing to respond to allegations of impropriety while brushing off requests to release details of the monastery’s finances, which include those of Shaolin Intangible Assets Management, a corporation that invests in seven Buddhist-themed enterprises and is largely owned by him.

“If these things are problems, they would have become problems by now,” he told the BBC elliptically during a visit to London last year.

A pudgy, soft-spoken man with a round, shaved head, Mr Shi Yongxin, 50, is alternately lionised in the Chinese media for reviving the 1,500-year-old monastery complex after decades of desecration and neglect and criticised for his mercantile approach to its management.

In interviews, he has described the business deals and his globe-trotting ways as necessary to promote Buddhism, and especially Shaolin’s unique brand of martial arts, mysticism and faith.

“If China can import Disney resorts, why can’t other countries import the Shaolin Monastery?” Xinhua quoted him as saying in March amid criticism over the Australia project. “Promoting culture abroad is a very dignified undertaking.”

Even if officially atheist, China’s ruling Communist Party has come to appreciate Shaolin’s global profile and its ability to generate revenue. Judging from the parade of officials who have visited in recent years, many also evidently believe in the mythological protective powers of Shaolin’s fighting monks, a reputation dating from the seventh century, when, as the story goes, a band of 13 monks saved a Tang dynasty prince from a predacious warlord.

Appreciative officials have returned the favour, giving Mr Shi Yongxin a US$125,000 luxury vehicle and anointing him as a representative to the country’s ceremonial legislature, the National People’s Congress. His other political sinecure is a top job with the state-run Buddhist Association of China.

Mr Shi Yongxin’s defenders say successful people invariably draw enemies. Dr Li Xiangping, director of the Religion and Society Research Institute at East China Normal University, said the critics had misunderstood his role as a bridge between Buddhism and the secular world, and especially a government that has the ultimate say over religious affairs in China.

“They think monks should just study scripture really hard and sit meditating morning and night,” Dr Li said. “But if you really want to promote Buddhism and influence society, you have to interact with the society.”

Amid a party campaign against corruption and gluttony that has toppled scores of powerful figures, the fact that the story has remained alive in the tightly controlled state news media for so many days does not bode well for Mr Shi Yongxin. On Monday (Aug 3), news outlets gleefully reported that he failed to show up in Thailand over the weekend for a previously scheduled martial arts performance because he was “tied up” with the investigation.

But here at the heart of Shaolin, home to 400 resident monks and where thousands of students study martial arts in private academies that line the main road to town, support for Mr Shi Yongxin remains strong.

Last week, a group of 30 monks released a public letter rejecting the allegations against him, and even the trinket vendors wave away the innuendo. “You won’t find a more virtuous man,” said Mr Wang Daling, 50, a tour guide who has been leading groups through the temple complex for two decades.

Many tourists, however, were not buying the denials. “Just the sight of his fleshy face to me suggests he’s guilty,” said Mr Li Yanan, 24, an engineering student on a visit from nearby Shandong Province. “Monks aren’t supposed to be so fat.”

Still, few thought Shaolin would suffer lasting damage given the temple’s popularity both in China and abroad.

“The more gossip about Shaolin, the more tourists will come,” said Mr Zhang Jianzhen, 32, a snack vendor whose concession sells US$1.50 bottles of water, a 400 per cent markup over those sold outside Shaolin’s gates. “That can only be good for business.” THE NEW YORK TIMES

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SAS Sniper Kills IS Executioner Before He Can Behead 8-Year-Old Boy

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http://freebeacon.com/national-security/sas-sniper-kills-is-executioner-before-he-can-behead-8-year-old-boy/

A British sniper from the elite SAS saved an 8-year-old boy and his father from an Islamic State executioner by shooting the executioner in the head last month.

The SAS sniper team was reportedly tipped off to the execution in the Syrian desert by an Iraqi spy. When they arrived, they found that several Shia Muslims had already been beheaded by their captors. The IS (commonly referred to as ISIS) executioner, flanked on both sides by armed companions, was preparing to kill a young boy and his father next when the SAS team deployed its .50-caliber silenced sniper rifle.

The father and son were slated to be executed for not renouncing their faith

“The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed,” an unnamed source told the Daily Star. “Everyone just stared in confusion.”

“The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots–three kills with three bullets.”

The young boy and his father were last spotted heading to the Turkish border as the Syrian town they were evacuating celebrated the killing of the IS fighters.

“It was a good day’s work,” the source told the paper.



Yeah! Kill those ISLAMIC state fuckers!

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http://m.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/dpm-i-will-never-eat-pork-to-get-votes-from-chinese

DPM: I will never eat pork to get votes from Chinese

TAMPIN, Aug 16 — While maintaining a healthy relationship between Malaysia’s different races is important, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told Umno delegates today that there were some lines which he would not cross like eating pork to gain votes from Chinese voters.

In his opening address at the Tampin Umno division meeting here, the Deputy Prime Minister said that he is well-versed with the Chinese culture, especially Chinese opera as he took up four minor subjects in Chinese which included writing and Chinese literature.

“I believe in cross-culture. Though we are Malays, we must respect the Indians and the Chinese cultures.

“I only don’t eat pork to get votes from the Chinese… that I will never do,” Ahmad Zahid said.

The Home Minister said that though he has always defended the Malay community, he has also not deprived fair opportunities to other races.


“Yes I defend the Malays, but I never deprive opportunities of other races.

“Since Umno’s formation… we never deprived others races. Why? Because Umno is led by credible and rational leaders,” Ahmad Zahid said to cheers from the crowd.

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He got nothing else better to say? :D

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He got nothing else better to say? :D
Someone should stuff him and his kind with Mooncake (Halalalalala one of course)

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Dubai: Muslim Father let daughter drown rather than have strange men touch her

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/man-lets-daughter-drown-rather-than-let-strange-men-touch-her-10448008.html

The death of his daughter was preferable to violating Sharia restrictions. He assumed that Allah, “the compassionate, the merciful,” would be happier with him if he let his daughter die rather than bring dishonor on his family. This is an assumption deeply ingrained by the intransigence and preoccupation with hellfire and judgment that permeate the Qur’an.

“Man let daughter drown rather than have strange men touch her, Dubai police claim,” by Caroline Mortimer, The Independent, August 10, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

The father of a 20-year-old woman who drowned in Dubai allegedly stopped lifeguards from helping her.

The unnamed man had said he preferred to let her die rather than be touched by strange men after she got into difficulty on a beach in the city, a senior Dubai official told Emirates 24/7.

Lt. Col Ahmed Burqibah, Deputy Director of Dubai Police’s Search and Rescue Department, said the incident had stuck with him.

He said: “The kids were swimming in the beach when suddenly, the 20-year-old girl started drowning and screaming for help.

“Two rescue men were at the beach, and they rushed to help the girl.

“However, there was one obstacle which prevented them from reaching the girl and helping her.

“This obstacle was the belief of this Asian man who considered that if these men touched his daughter, then this would dishonour her. It cost him the life of his daughter.”

According to Lt. Col Burqibah, the man became aggressive, physically pulling the rescue men away from the water and said he “prefers his daughter being dead than being touched by a strange man”.

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Najib’s claim of RM2.6 billion to fight Isis full of holes, says DAP

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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak should come clean about the RM2.6 billion donation made to his personal accounts following revelations that the money was given to Malaysia for fighting militant group Isis, DAP said today.

Its parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang added that this latest "spin" was so far the most "ludicrous and outrageous" explanation of the funds deposited into Najib's accounts.

"It has been said that once you tell a lie, you need to tell ten more lies to cover the first lie," Lim said in a statement today.



"But the latest spin that the RM2.6 billion deposited into Najib’s personal bank accounts originated from Saudi Arabia as an appreciation to Malaysia for championing Islam, fighting Isis and for practising Sunni Islam really takes the cake for being the most ludicrous and outrageous explanation so far."
Najib's claim was full of holes and could not hold up under scrutiny, Lim, the Gelang Patah MP said, adding that the prime minister had previously glorified the terror group in a speech at an Umno function.

"If it were true that the RM2.6 billion deposited into Najib’s personal bank account was allegedly in appreciation for Malaysia’s efforts in combating Isis, then Najib would not have sung the praises for Isis at the 20th anniversary dinner of the Cheras Umno Branch on June 24, 2014, calling on Umno members to emulate their bravery.

"The deposit of RM2.6 billion into Najib’s personal bank accounts occurred in March 2013, more than a year before Najib’s speech to Cheras Umno and the creation of the caliphate and the change of Isis to the Islamic State," he added.

In a speech made one week before militant group Isis declared the creation of a caliphate and changed its name to the Islamic State, Najib had said Umno should follow their example of bravery if the Malay nationalist party wanted to survive.

"With this history and background, who will believe that RM2.6 billion was deposited into Najib’s personal bank accounts in March 2014 in appreciation of Malaysia’s combat against Isis?" Lim said today.

"Najib should come clean on the RM2.6 billion deposit into his private bank accounts and stop telling lies, like the latest one on its being donated from Saudi Arabia in appreciation of Malaysia’s combat against Isis, which has immediately been torn to piece with close scrutiny."

Umno Kuantan division chief Wan Adnan Wan Mamat had been reported as saying in Sinar Harian that the money was a form of appreciation to Malaysia for "championing Islam" and fighting Isis.

"It was an appreciation to Malaysia for championing Islam and for practising Sunni Islam (Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah)," Wan Adnan was quoted as saying.

Wan Adnan said Najib had said this to 146 Umno divisional leaders at a meeting last Wednesday.

"Not only did Malaysia receive the donation from Saudi Arabia, two or three more countries also received, including the Muslim community in the Philippines and (southern) Thailand," Wan Adnan was further reported as saying during the opening of the Umno Kuantan division meeting.

Lim added that Najib had lost all moral authority to propose a committee to study political funding regulations as long as the prime minister continued to "fudge and bluff" about the RM2.6 billion in his personal accounts.

"Najib’s proposal of a National Consultative Council on Political Funding, although a dead duck, may still be salvageable if he could re-establish his moral authority to talk about transparency and integrity of political funding.

"There is only one way for Najib to regain moral authority on transparency, integrity and good governance principles – and this is for him to immediately give a full and satisfactory explanation about the RM2.6 billion deposit into his personal bank accounts and about the RM42 billion 1MDB scandal."

Lim gave Najib and his Cabinet a Wednesday deadline to explain both 1MBD's debt scandal and the donation to his personal bank accounts.

"Before the expiry of the 96-hour ultimatum on Wednesday, all ministers should declare whether they have received handouts from Najib’s personal accounts, and how much, or state clearly and unmistakably that they had not been beneficiaries at all," Lim said. – August 17, 2015.

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/najibs-claim-of-rm2.6-billion-to-fight-isis-full-of-holes-says-dap#sthash.5VqIuck6.dpuf

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RM2.6 billion for Najib to fight ‘DAP-Jewish’ threat, says Umno leader

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The Middle Eastern donor who gave US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) to Datuk Seri Najib Razak made the contribution so that Umno could fight DAP, which is funded by the Jews, during the 2013 general election, said Umno division leader Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said today.

The Sri Gading Umno chief said the donor feared that through DAP, Jewish influences would permeate the country and destroy the "Islamic government" led by Barisan Nasional (BN).

"If we had lost, DAP would be in power. DAP with its Jewish funding would control this country. Based on that, our Muslim friends in the Middle East could see the Jewish threat through DAP," said Aziz, who is also deputy transport minister.



"If it reached the Islamic government, it would be overthrown, and that would destroy the Islamic struggle (perjuangan Islam) throughout the world.
"Because Najib is seen as a great Muslim leader in this region," Aziz told delegates at his division's meeting today in Parit Raja, Johor.

He said he was confused as to why Malays were even questioning the donation, saying that it was an Islamic act to give to others.

"Haven't you ever given donations? It is encouraged in Islam. The more you donate, the more rewards (pahala) you get.

"Alhamdulillah, Najib, as the party president, he was the warrior (panglima perang) chosen to ensure that we win the general election."

He urged the Malays not to fall for the "lies" created by foreign media, adding that Umno was the only party that could stop the Jews from taking over the country through DAP.

"Believe me, if the foreigners succeed in splitting us apart, there will be no more Malay party strong enough to fight DAP, which is based on and funded by the Jews." – August 22, 2015.

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/rm2.6-billion-for-najib-is-to-fight-dap-jewish-threat-says-umno-leader#sthash.7wjShnKJ.dpuf

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Don't bring viagra or porn to the Haj.

http://m.firstpost.com/india/haj-pilgrims-advised-against-carrying-pornography-viagra-sexual-oils-and-creams-to-saudi-2404372.html

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As pilgrims gear up for Haj to Mecca, the Haj Committee of India (HCOI), a statutory body of Ministry of External Affairs has issued new directives advising them not to carry certain items to Saudi Arabia.
According to a report in Times of India, the HCOI has issued an advisory asking pilgrims to refrain from carrying Viagra, sexual oil and creams, and items such as pornography material, among other list of things.  
"Despite the divine commandments that no illegal activities should be carried out during Haj, some pilgrims in the past were found to be smuggling in items like Viagra, sexual oil and creams and many other things, which are banned in Saudi Arabia. We have inserted this advisory in the Haj application forms too," the report quoted Ataur Rahman, CEO, HCOI, as saying.
However, the advisory has not gone down well with religious leaders within the community to whom the directives seem unsolicited.
According to a report in India TV News, the community leaders believe that pilgrims themselves refrain from sex during Haj and issuing such an advisory will only tarnish the image of Muslims. The general advisory will present Muslims as sex maniacs who cannot do without sex even during Haj.
Every year, over a lakh pilgrims travel from India to Saudi Arabia for Haj. The annual pilgrimage will be performed on September 22 this year.
Read the entire HCOI guidelines

http://www.hajcommittee.com/Files/Others/2015/English%20guide.pdf

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France train gunman Ayoub El-Khazzani 'dumbfounded' at terror allegations and claims he found AK-47 'by chance' in a park

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/train-gunman-ayoub-elkhazzani-is-dumbfounded-at-terror-allegations-claims-he-found-ak47-by-chance-in-a-park-10467965.html

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I wonder if it's his religion that made him stupid or he think the rest of us are stupid.




By DOUG BOLTON
Sunday 23 August 2015
Ayoub El-Khazzani, the man suspected of attempting a massacre on a French train, is "dumbfounded" that he is being accused of terrorism and claims he found the AK-47 assault rifle "by chance", according to his former lawyer.
Sophie David, a lawyer who was assigned to El-Khazzani when he was detained in Arras but is no longer representing him, said he denies firing a single shot.
Speaking to BFM-TV, David said: "He is dumbfounded that his act is being linked to terrorism," adding that El-Khazzani describes himself as a homeless man.
"He says that by chance he found a suitcase with a weapon, with a telephone, hidden away," she said.
Security at Brussels Midi station was stepped up after the incident (EPA)
"He said he found it in the park which is just next to the Midi Station in Brussels, where he often sleeps with other homeless people."
Explaining what El-Khazzani claims he planned to do with the rifle, David said: "He planned to hold up the train, then shoot out a window and jump out to escape."
"When I told him about the media attention he didn't understand," she added.
The 26-year-old gunman is belived to have links to Isis and radical Islam, and was on the Schengen register, a watch-list of "persons of interest" that is shared by 27 European countries.
French judicial police stand on the train platform near rifle magazines in Arras
Officials believe that El-Khazzani planned to kill people on the train. He was discovered with the gun when another passenger encountered him while trying to use the toilet.
The passenger tried to subdue him, and shots started flying, claims Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
 
The gunman was subdued when two American servicemen, US Airman Spencer Stone and National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, their friend Anthony Sadler, and British businessman Chris Norman tackled and disarmed him.
Sadler described seeing a train employee running down the aisle, followed by a man with a rifle.
US serviceman Spencer Stone waves as he leaves the hospital in Lille. He was injured in the hand as he and three others subdued the gunman (Reuters)
"As he was cocking it to shoot it, Alek just yells, 'Spencer, go!' And Spencer runs down the aisle," Sadler said.
"Spencer makes first contact, he tackles the guy, Alek wrestles the gun away from him, and the gunman pulls out a box cutter and slices Spencer a few times. And the three of us beat him until he was unconscious."
Norman said he was the last to jump into the fray, grabbing the gunman's arm and tying it with his tie.
Anthony Sadler, Aleck Sharlatos and Chris Norman helped disarm an attacker on a train from Amsterdam to France.
El-Khazzani denies firing a shot, but Skarlatos, who has served in Afghanistan, said then when he examined the rifle, he found that the gunman had tried to fire it but failed because it had a bad primer.
Stone was taken to hospital with a hand injury, and an unidentified dual French-American citizen was also hospitalised with a bullet wound.
Read more: How three childhood friends stopped a gunman
Hero passengers foil gunman's attack on Paris train
62-year-old Brit helps take down train gunman

The victim is in a "serious but stable" condition and their life is not in danger. Stone was released from hospital on the same day, and the three Americans apparently visited the US Ambassador's residence in Paris.
The White House said that President Barack Obama called them on Saturday to commend and congratulate them.

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Why so few Malays in Bersih 4?

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/310450

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CRYvY89gA8Vxtic-hU1DctD2rl4fjOCHGOzYxAOkJjJQ-vb8iS6fHGr3UOTCWXmB2FMOeHXD9I-4n7ZCNg=w700

COMMENT The question most frequently asked on Bersih 4 is, why are they so few Malays?

I don’t buy the two most common answers: first, PAS does not participate and Harapan Baru does not have the clout; second, Malays are worried of violence and chaos.

For me, the answer is straightforward: the Malays feel politically vulnerable because three main Malay-based parties - first PKR, then PAS, now Umno - are split while the Chinese are seemingly so united behind the opposition especially DAP.

To discourage the Malays to join Bersih 4, one may just need to warn them, if Malays join in enthusiastically, then not only Najib Abdul Razak will go, Umno will lose power, too, and the now politically assertive Chinese will dismantle the New Economic Policy (NEP) and weaken Islam.

Against this backdrop, even if PAS has mobilised, Malay turnout will still be weak because of this anxiety. And ‘violence and chaos’ cited in the Merdeka Center survey is but the code word for the collapse of Umno’s one-party state.

Will I blame our Malay friends who don’t join us? Of course no. Everyone has every right to want the country to be cleaner, freer and more democratic. That needs not have anything to do with ethnicity or religion.

I will not even blame them on their anxiety. Can people force themselves to not be anxious?

Simply because the dismantling of Umno’s one-party state is a colossal change, all of us need a soft landing, not only the Malays who have been told that they will be ‘bangsat’ without Umno.

Malaysia’s political system has been so winner-takes-all, with losers not only marginalised but often also persecuted. Clearly, this is the fear many Umno members harbour.

We can’t have a smooth transition until we can convince fellow Malaysians in Umno this, the party(-state) is over but Umno can choose to transform itself into a competitive democratic parties - like Indonesia's Golkar, Taiwan’s KMT and Mexico’s PRI.

It is more realistic to ensure you can come back after losing than insisting you will have lost.

In full recognition of the political reality, Bersih 2.0 makes it clear while pressing for Najib’s resignation is necessary for the institutional reforms we need, Bersih 4 is not a rally to end Umno’s rule and will not force Najib out ala the Philippines’ People’s Power or Arab Spring.

We will end the rally peacefully tonight with the Merdeka countdown.

Aiming to empower Malaysians

We aim to empower Malaysians so that independence is a psychological reality that they fear neither each other because of differences nor the authoritarian government.

If everything ends well tonight, this goal would have been achieved although the push for Najib’s exit remains an uphill battle.

Coming back to the low Malay turnout, while we certainly need to work harder to get more Malays to the streets, should we go this far to border lamenting, why are there so many Chinese? Should the Chinese feel sorry that there are too many of them?

It is time we break this myth that we can’t do anything legitimately until we get the all ethnic representation, or worse, in the right composition: 1 Malay, 1 Chinese, 1 Indian, 1 Sarawakian, 1 Sabahan, etc.

I slept on the pavement on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman last night. It was like a refugee camp with many people - mostly in the illegal yellow Bersih 4 T-shirts - sleeping on not only the pavements, but also the middle of the road. Some brought sleeping bags, some used newspapers as their mat, others just slept on the road.

Why did they sacrifice their comfort in bed? Many of them, like me, have booked hotel rooms for refreshing themselves, but chose to sleep on the streets just to show our yearning for change. Most of them were Chinese while there were also some Malays - middle-aged men, youth and a couple.

Woke up at about 6, I saw a good group of volunteers giving away free coffee, with placards with the words ‘Tak mau duit kopi’ and chanting, “Minum kopi, tak mau duit kopi”. I was so moved by their creativity.

Have I forgotten to mention this? They were all Chinese. So were a bunch of volunteers I bumped into last night busy collecting rubbish - they were all Chinese, too.

I examine my own anxiety which appeared since the beginning of the rally - that there were too few Malays.

I ask myself, what's wrong that most of them are Chinese? Should I feel sorry that some of my bedfellows on Jalan TAR are not Malays? Should I wish that some of the volunteers should not be there because they are not Malays?

No, why should all the good things they do be less good just because they happen to be in one ethno-religious category and not the other? Why?

Aren’t we hypocritical if we let our pragmatism go mad to the extent that we judge one not by one’s behavior but by one’s colour or creed?

I see two positive implications in the phenomenal Chinese turnout in the Bersih 4 rally, beyond their patriotism and sense of political efficacy.

First, most of them probably have not been exposed to Malay language and culture from indie music, poetry reading to prayers in the open in such intensity. Many may have yet to remember not to blow their vuvuzela and chant during Muslims’ prayer time.

A learning process

Some may have overlooked cultural sensitivity in their rejection of corrupt readers. But this is a learning process, isn’t it?

Second, if Bersih 4 ends well and peacefully, this will set a precedent that grand rallies can be peaceful, inclusive and strengthening our nationhood, even when the ethnic composition of protesters is skewed.

There will be a long warfare of perception after tonight finale.

On one end, Umno’s mouthpiece will do their best to portray Bersih 4 as a Chinese plot to topple Umno and sideline the Malays. On the other end, naysayers will repeat the old tune that Bersih 4 is a failure because Najib won’t resign after tonight.

I urge all friends out there in Bersih 4 to tell your own story, best with powerful pictures worthy of thousand words.

We have two stories to tell to every other Malaysian whom we may encounter in daily life or on social media:

First, the Bersih 4 rally is dominated, not by ethnic Chinese, but patriotic Malaysians.

Second, the Bersih 4 rally is not failure but a great success, because we find hope and solidarity in each other.

We are Malaysia.

WONG CHIN HUAT earned his PhD on the electoral system and party system in West Malaysia from the University of Essex. He is a fellow at the Penang Institute, and a resource person for electoral reform lobby, Bersih 2.0.



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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/nothing-good-about-joining-yellow-tribe-dr-m-told-after-bersih-4-rally-show

Nothing good about joining ‘yellow tribe’, Rosmah’s aide tells Dr M after Bersih 4 rally show

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 31 — Datuk Rizal Mansor, the aide to Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, took a swipe at former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad for the latter’s appearance at the Bersih 4 rallies over the weekend, saying there was nothing pro-people about the move.

In a Facebook posting just hours after the rally ended last night, Rizal said joining the “puak kuning” (yellow tribe) was not the most pertinent way to show one is with the people.

“Kalau nak bersama rakyat bukan pegi join puak baju kuning..(If you want to be with the people you don’t go join the yellow group),” Rizal wrote.

Yesterday evening Dr Mahathir, the man who staunchly opposed to public demonstrations during his 22 years in power, became a part of a mass street protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

The 90-year-old made his debut as a street protester in the Bersih 4 rally like many others since yesterday, using the public trains and after alighting at the Kuala Lumpur KTM station and footing it downtown to the Pasar Seni LRT station, Central Market and Masjid Jamek.

“I’m here to show solidarity with the people,” he told a news conference later.

“There’s no more avenue for legal redress. We have to resolve through demo. That’s why I’m here. If there is a taskforce to investigate where is the money, I wouldn’t be here,” he added.

Accompanying him was his wife Tun Dr Siti Hasmah.

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BRAVO ZULU!!!

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http://www.clarionproject.org/news/pakistani-christians-told-convert-receive-flood-aid#

Pakistani Christians Told to Convert to Receive Flood Aid

Christians left homeless due to devastating flooding in Pakistan were told by Muslim charities: convert to Islam or become bonded servants.

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Christians left homeless due to devastating flooding in Pakistan have been offered an unacceptable choice by Muslim charities providing for victims: convert to Islam or become bonded servants, essentially a form of modern-day slavery.

The choice come with the Pakistani government’s alleged decision to ignore the suffering of the country’s Christian communities.

"When it comes to responding to the flooding of Christian communities, the government seems to back off. Whereas with Muslim communities they respond immediately as do the Muslim charities," said Wilson Chowdhry, the president of the British Pakistani Christian Association speaking to The Christian Post.

Chowdhry added that "is not unusual for the government to overlook helping the Christian communities." In addition, the government has not built the proper infrastructure to prevent this type of damage, even though the region is known for severe flooding, he said.

Floods that hit the Kasur region in Pakistan this summer washed away thousands of homes, including those of more than 60 Christian families. While the Muslims left homeless were provided with temporary shelter, clean water and food by the government and Muslim charities, the Christians were not.

Chowdhry said the Christians were told to renounce their religion and convert to Islam if they wanted to receive aid, a choice they rejected. They were offered the option of receiving aid if they became bonded servants to the Muslims.


"We arrived very late. We first went to Layyah and Gilgit where flooding was most severe, but if we had arrived in Kasur seven days earlier, there could have been more lives that we potentially could have saved from this modern-day slavery," Chowdhry said. "Several families have already now signed contracts, which have now made them slaves for their Muslim landlords."

Although Chowdhry’s organization is stepping in to help the families, the organization has limited resources as do the churches in Pakistan.

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Malaysia’s 10-0 loss to UAE may have been caused by ‘paranormal beings’, claims ‘Islamic’ medical expert/ Bodoh!!!

http://m.todayonline.com/sports/football/malaysias-10-0-loss-uae-may-have-been-caused-paranormal-beings-claims-islamic


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KUALA LUMPUR — “Makhluk halus” or paranormal beings may be to blame for Malaysia’s 10-0 drubbing by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a World Cup qualifying match on Wednesday (Sept 2), Malay tabloid Kosmo reported today (Sept 6).

While pundits and fans alike have pointed to obvious weaknesses in the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) as the reason for the country’s stunning defeat, the daily cited an “Islamic” medical expert Shamsuri Shafie as not discounting the possibility that such paranormal beings were employed to distract the national players on field.

The players may have been disturbed by the entities because they forgot to recite prayers before playing, he was reported saying further.

“As Muslims we are encouraged to recite prayers before doing any activities including playing football. People then will usually recite prayers before playing so they will be blessed and protected from being disturbed by these paranormal entities,” Mr Shamsuri was quoted as saying.

He added that it is haram (forbidden) for Malay-Muslims to believe in black magic and such, but other cultures may practise it and applied them during the match.

“Sometimes there are beliefs that practise black magic to be strong on the field,” Mr Shamsuri reportedly said.

The UAE is also an Islamic country.

Ironically in the same report, Kosmo quoted a psychologist from the University of Malaya that the embarrassing defeat suffered by the national squad nicknamed Harimau Malaya was likely caused by mental weakness.

The Kosmo news report has been widely shared on social media sites Twitter and Facebook, drawing ridicule from fans who mostly pointed out that such mind-sets dominate the FAM and is the very cause of Malaysia’s dwindling football quality.

Yesterday, Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin requested FAM president Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah act on the shameful performance of the national team, starting with those “around him” in the association.

Mr Khairy was quoted by The Star Online as saying that he is almost certain that those in the FAM are not fit to be there.

National football coach Dollah Salleh has since resigned for the catastrophic performance and has been replaced by Under-23 Harimau Muda coach Ong Kim Swee.

Malaysia lost to UAE in Abu Dhabi in the Asian Zone World Cup qualifiers, after the latter led by 7-0 in the half-time, setting a record for the country’s worst ever defeat in a competitive match. THE MALAY MAIL ONLINE

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Muslim flight attendant says she was suspended for refusing to serve alcohol

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/05/travel/muslim-flight-attendant-feat/

(CNN)A Muslim flight attendant says she was suspended by ExpressJet for refusing to serve alcohol in accordance with her Islamic faith.

In a bid to get her job back, Charee Stanley filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday for the revocation of a reasonable religious accommodation.

She wants to do her job without serving alcohol in accordance with her Islamic faith -- just as she was doing before her suspension, her lawyer said.

"What this case comes down to is no one should have to choose between their career and religion and it's incumbent upon employers to provide a safe environment where employees can feel they can practice their religion freely," said Lena Masri, an attorney with Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Stanley, 40, started working for ExpressJet nearly three years ago. About two years ago she converted to Islam. This year she learned her faith prohibits her from not only consuming alcohol but serving it, too, Masri said.

She approached her supervisor on June 1 and was told to work out an arrangement for someone to fulfill passenger requests for alcohol.

"It was at the direction of the airlines that she began coordinating with the other flight attendant on duty so that when a passenger requested alcohol, the other flight attendant would accommodate that request," Masri said. "We know that this arrangement has worked beautifully and without incident and that it hasn't caused any undue burden on the airline. After all, it was the suggestion of the airline."

Flight attendants complained about 'menacing' images on aircraft

It seemed to be working out until another flight attendant filed a complaint against Stanley on August 2 claiming she was not fulfilling her duties by refusing to serve alcohol, Masri said. The employee complaint also said Stanley had a book with "foreign writings" and wore a headdress.

On August 25, the airline sent a letter to Stanley informing her that it was revoking its religious accommodation to exclude her from service of alcohol and placing her on administrative leave.

"They placed her on unpaid leave and they advised her that her employment may be terminated after 12 months," Masri said. "We are requesting that her employment be reinstated and the accommodation of her religious beliefs be reinstated as well."

A spokesman for ExpressJet declined to discuss Stanley's complaint.

"At ExpressJet, we embrace and respect the values of all of our team members. We are an equal opportunity employer with a long history of diversity in our workforce. As Ms. Stanley is an employee, we are not able to comment on her personnel matters," spokesman Jarek Beem said in an email.

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Facebook users slam women for bringing dog into Johor hypermarket

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JOHOR BARU, Sept 6 — Facebook users slammed the action of two customers who brought their dog into a hypermarket by placing the pooch into an empty trolley as being ‘insensitive’ to Muslims.

According to a Star Online report, the photo of the two women and their dog was captured by one of the customers at the hypermarket in Plentong, Masai yesterday. It was then uploaded on the social media site and has since gone viral.

A Facebook user known only as Annie Belinda Han said that the women should not bring their dog into a public area such as a hypermarket.

“The building management should put up a huge notice board in four languages to notify customers ‘no pets allowed’ in the premise,” she was quoted by Star Online as saying.


Another user by the name of Zaberi Che Mat also criticised the security guards on duty, urging action against them for failing to stop the two women.

Tesco Malaysia today issued a statement on its official Facebook page, saying that it deeply regretted the incident and that it had very strict regulations on pets and animals on its premises.

A spokesman of the hypermarket, who declined to be identified, said about 500 trolleys had since been cleaned in accordance with Islamic principles and with the assistance of volunteers from a nearby mosque.

Star Online also reported Seri Alam OCPD Supt Abdul Samad Salleh as saying the police did not receive any report on the incident and advised the hypermarket management to prohibit customers from bringing their pets along when shopping.


Next time go Sheng Shiong or NTUC don't buy pork and put inside try trolley or else over sensitive people will be offended and will find fault.

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World Cup qualifier in Malaysia abandoned due to crowd trouble

Shameful!!!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3226688/World-Cup-qualifier-Malaysia-abandoned-crowd-trouble.html

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Reuters) - The World Cup qualifier between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia at Shah Alam Stadium in Selangor on Tuesday was abandoned just before fulltime because of crowd trouble.

The visiting Saudi Arabia team were leading 2-1 in the Group A Asian qualifier when play was stopped in the 87th minute after fans launched flares and fireworks on to the pitch, local media reported.

Players from both teams left the pitch as smoke began filling the ground and did not return. The match was later abandoned with the outcome to be decided by the sport's world governing body FIFA.

Malaysia led 1-0 when Mohd Safiq Rahim scored in the 70th minute but Saudi Arabia equalised three minutes later through Taisir Al-Jassim and took the lead after 76 minutes when Mohammed Al-Sahlawi scored.

Malaysia are bottom of Group A after suffering a record 10-0 loss to United Arab Emirates last week.

Dollah Salleh resigned as coach upon returning to Kuala Lumpur on Friday and the Football Association of Malaysia appointed former international midfielder Ong Kim Swee as caretaker.

In the lead-up to Tuesday's match, Ong asked disgruntled Malaysian supporters not to disrupt the game after the supporters' group Ultras Malaya called on fans to protest at the team's poor performances.

Local media said hundreds of extra police had been deployed at the match in case there was trouble.

Malaysia's Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin later blamed the unruly fans and the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), saying they had failed to control the situation.

"FAM lost control of their own stadium. Fans throwing flares were wrong. Both at fault tonight," Khairy said in a tweet.

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Stop speculating on Kevin Morais’s disappearance: MACC

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KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) hopes no one makes any speculations about the disappearance of deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais.

It's investigations division director, Datuk Azam Baki in a statement said baseless speculations should be excluded and that it should not associated with any ongoing investigations by the commission nor to link it with police's investigations on alleged leakage of information.

"I was shocked when I heard the news and we in MACC pray that he will be found soon safely. We also hope his family members will be remain patient while police find him," he said.

Azam added that Morais had handled many high-profile cases and was currently handling several MACC related cases as well.
"I knew him well since he served in MACC. He is dedicated and committed in conducting his duty and a friendly person too. We hope that all parties pray for his safety," he said.

Meanwhile, city criminal investigation chief Datuk Zainuddin Ahmad said there were no positive leads yet on whether the burnt car found in Hutan Melintang, Perak today was connected to the disappearance of the DPP.

"It is too early to confirm it right now. The chassis number was believed to have been scratched off and the car was badly burnt to even identify it," he said adding that police from all states have been informed to find the missing person.

It was reported that a burnt car believed to be a Proton Perdana which was the same model as the one used by Morais was found in an oil palm plantation at Hutan Melintang at 10am.

However, no human remains were found in the vehicle, which was abandoned around three kilometres from the main road, and far away from any residential area.

Morais who previously seconded to the MACC, was last seen leaving his Menara Duta apartment for work at 9am on Friday.

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Umno grassroots chief vows 1 million ‘Red Shirts’ in KL on Oct 10 to counter Bersih 4 rally


http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/umno-grassroots-chief-vows-1-million-red-shirts-in-kl-on-oct-10-to-counter

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ABAK BERNAM, Aug 30 — Seeking to prove that Datuk Seri Najib Razak is able to muster more supporters than the on-going Bersih 4 rally in the national capital, Sungai Besar Umno division chief promised today he will gather one million people to rally behind the prime minister in the streets of Kuala Lumpur on October 10.

Datuk Jamal Md Yunos told a news conference after opening the Sungai Besar Umno divisional meeting here that he was confident he could easily top the tens of thousands who flooded the streets around Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur in response to electoral reform group Bersih 2.0’s call to pressure Najib into resigning from office, now into its second day.

“We have decided on October 10 for our rally. We will gather at Low Yat, Bukit Bintang and 1 million ‘Red Shirts’ will come down and show support for Najib,” Jamal said.

“This will show that the prime minister too has many supporters,” he added.

Tens of thousands participants gathered around Dataran Merdeka this weekend to demand Najib’s resignation over the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

The crowd started marching from various points in Kuala Lumpur around 2pm yesterday.

Separate rallies were also held simultaneously in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; Kuching, Sarawak and several other cities worldwide pressing for the same demands.

A group of pro-government supporters who wore uniformed red shirts — hence their moniker — had last week promised a “showdown” with the yellow-clad Bersih 4 participants this weekend.

Their plans to hold a “Bersih 4 Peace” rally yesterday was called off after Jamal who is also a spokesman for the “Red Shirts,” had met with Kuala Lumpur police chief Tajuddin Mohd Isa and Dang Wangi police chief Zainol Abu Samah.

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Umno members free to join Red Shirt rally, says DPM

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/09/08/umno-members-free-to-join-red-shirt-rally-says-dpm/

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UTRAJAYA: Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has confirmed there will be no restriction on any Umno member who wished to participate in the upcoming Red Shirts rally, also called “Himpunan Maruah Melayu” (Malay Dignity Rally) this September 16 in Kuala Lumpur.

He said, this was because every Umno member had the right to join any rally he or she wished to attend.

“We will let the police give them a permit and conduct enforcement operations.
“The rally will be organised by an NGO and the NGO will invite Umno. It is an individual’s right to attend a rally,” he said during a media conference after a meeting of the Central Disaster Management and Aid Committee which he chaired.

The rally, that falls on Malaysia Day, will see Malay supporters wearing Red Shirts marching down the streets of Kuala Lumpur and gathering peacefully at Bukit Bintang and Petaling Street. The rally is to last for 12 hours.
Its leader Jamal Md Yunos previously promised one million red-shirted people to rally behind Prime Minister Najib Razak in a show of support for his leadership.

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‘Sometimes, 7-8 men raped us in one day…we thought we were going to die,’ says woman rescued from Saudi diplomat’s home -

CAMELFUCKING TOWELHEADS...


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Gurgaon rape case: The vicitms claimed that the Saudi diplomat also took them to other places, including Nainital and Agra, where they were introduced to other ‘guests’ and subjected to further sexual assault.

“Last four months were a curse for us. It was so ugly…we thought we were going to die in that house and our families would never even find our bodies,” said the 20-year-old woman from Nepal, who had been sexually abused for months.

The woman and her 44-year-old mother were rescued from the Gurgaon residence of a diplomat from Saudi Arabia on Monday night. Hired as domestic help, they were allegedly held hostage at the house and sexually abused every day for the last four months by the diplomat and his ‘guests’.
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“There were days when seven to eight men — all from Saudi Arabia — would assault us. If we resisted, the diplomat and his family would threaten to kill us and dispose of our bodies in the sewer,” said the older woman. She claimed that on one occasion, the diplomat had even slashed her on the arm with a knife.

On some days, they would be given no food at all, she said. But they were allowed to bathe, right before they had to meet the diplomat’s ‘guests’, who would rape and sodomise them, said the women.

The diplomat’s wife made no attempt to help them; instead, she beat them up, alleged the women. “We were made to do all the household chores, from morning till late in the night, and then subjected to sexual assault at the end of the day. We were not given food. Sometimes we only survived on biscuits, bread and watery tea. We were never allowed to step out of the house,” said the women.

They claimed that the diplomat also took them to other places, including Nainital and Agra, where they were introduced to other ‘guests’ and subjected to further sexual assault.

“Right after we were employed, our employer took us to Saudi Arabia for 15 days. There, he did not touch us or misbehave with us. After we returned in May, he asked us to massage him… he then raped us and forced us to have unnatural sex and oral sex. After that he offered us to his friends regularly,” they stated in their police complaint.

The women were finally rescued with the help of NGO Maiti Nepal India, which was informed about their plight by another woman who had been employed as a domestic help at the diplomat’s residence but ran away within three days.
NGO members then enlisted the help of someone who had access to the women and managed to pass on a mobile phone to them. “They were in constant touch with us for the last five days. They would narrate their ordeal on the phone and we assured them that they will be rescued soon,” said Bal Krishna Pandey, convener of NGO Maiti Nepal India.

The NGO then informed the Nepal Embassy, which wrote to the Ministry of External Affairs and Gurgaon police. A police team raided the diplomat’s residence on Monday night and rescued the two women.

Maiti Nepal India has also made arrangements to take the women back to their home — in Nepal’s Morang district — on Wednesday.


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MUSLIM SEX SLAVE: ‘CONVERT OR DIE’

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/09/09/muslim-sex-slave-convert-or-die/

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This article originally appeared on CNN:

When ISIS came for Zeinat and her family, they ran, terrified, for the safety of the mountains. They had heard the horror stories and knew only too well what might happen to them if they stayed in their home.

But they were too late; stranded at the foot of Iraq’s Mount Sinjar by the huge crowds of refugees struggling uphill, they were easy pickings when fighters arrived.

Separated first from her father, and then from her sisters, she was forced — like thousands of Yazidi women — into slavery, treated as the property of the so-called “Islamic State.”

Zeinat, though, wasn’t working for ordinary rank-and-file ISIS militants; instead she was handpicked to serve terror boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his family and friends.

Speaking exclusively to CNN, Zeinat (not her real name), 16, has told of how al-Baghdadi beat and mistreated her. She also says he raped American hostage Kayla Mueller, who was held captive by the group after being taken hostage in 2013.

“He treated us so badly,” she says, her beautiful, expressive blue eyes peering out fearfully from behind a rust-red tasseled headscarf as she relates her harrowing ordeal at the hands of one of the world’s most wanted men.

“He would always tell us: Forget your father and your brothers. We have killed them. And we have married off your mothers and sisters. Forget them.”

Selected by the terrorist leader — though she did not know who he was at the time — at a slave market in “a white palace … between the mountain and the sea,” Zeinat and eight other girls were taken to his home in Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of ISIS’ territory.

As soon as she arrived, she says, she was made to watch a video showing ISIS fighters beheading a Westerner and threatened with the same fate unless she agreed to abandon her Yazidi faith.

“There was a journalist, an American journalist, and there was a man dressed all in black,” she remembers. “He killed the journalist. He beheaded him.”

Zeinat’s description matches widely circulated ISIS videos of the killings of James Foley, Steven Sotloff and other Western hostages.

Read the full story at CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/09/middleeast/al-baghdadi-isis-slave/index.html).

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teachers-at-islamic-school-jailed-for-12-months-for-beating-10yearold-pupil-10494998.html

Teachers at Islamic school jailed for 12 months for beating 10-year-old pupil

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Birmingham Crown Court heard the boy lost his hair with worry over beatings


Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have been jailed for 12 months for "brutally" beating a young boy with a stick.

The 10-year-old victim was repeatedly beaten for offences such as "talking in class" or "failing to read the Koran accurately" at Sparkbrook Islamic Centre in Anderton Road, Birmingham.

Teachers Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his son Mohammed Waqar, 24, admitted wilful cruelty to the boy and were sentenced on Thursday afternoon.

The court had previously heard how the child became so worried about the assaults that he started losing his hair. The teachers beat him with a plastic stick as well as back-handed slaps on four separate occasions.

Judge Mark Wall QC told the pair he had not choice but to give a jail term, saying it would "not be right" to suspend the sentence.

He said: "This is not a case where you each overreacted only once to provocation, neither is it a case in which you misunderstood what constitutes proper punishment and therefore requires some guidance from probation services as to where that boundary lies.

"Added to that, there must be no mistake about the message taken from this case.

"Acts of brutality of this sort which you each indulged in, with a stick, will not be tolerated."

Sam Forsyth, prosecuting, said the men's actions came to light when the boy informed a learning mentor at his school. Photographs of his injuries showed "extensive" bruising to the back of his legs.

The judge praised the boy for having "found the courage" to tell someone about the attack, triggering a police investigation and bringing his ordeal to an end.

A restraining order was made banning either men from contact with the victim, and Mr Wall said he had no doubt the "relevant authorities" would make an order barring the men from teaching in future.

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Thanks for sharing :)

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=ESmMiPd37qI

Did he kill her? Al Jazeera documentary on the Mongolia lady murder lest we forget. This is what happen when certain types of people are in power!

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Muslims thinking more about sex amid Islamisation, activist says -

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PETALING JAYA, Sept 12 — Muslims here are increasingly preoccupied with sex even as Islam becomes more conservative in Malaysia, a women’s rights activist said today.

Norhayati Kaprawi, who is also a filmmaker, noted that Malay society in the past did not have a problem with women and men mingling, and that Malay women used to wear tight kebayas without being perceived negatively.

“Now with Islamisation, Malays are starting to adopt a foreign mindset with the way Arabs look at things,” Norhayati told a forum titled “Siapa bilang gadis Melayu tak melawan?” (Who says Malay women don’t fight back?) organised by Projek Dialog at the Art for Grabs festival here.

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The panel speakers for the 'Siapa bilang gadis Melayu tak melawan?' forum organised by Projek Dialog at the Art for Grabs festival at Petaling Jaya on Sept 12, 2015.The panel speakers for the 'Siapa bilang gadis Melayu tak melawan?' forum organised by Projek Dialog at the Art for Grabs festival at Petaling Jaya on Sept 12, 2015.“Now it’s ‘Cannot look at women, scared we’ll commit adultery’. These days, we always think about sex. With Islamisation, we shouldn’t be thinking about sex, but the opposite is now happening. When men and women sit next to each other — we think about sex. Malays back then never thought such things,” she added.

Islam as is practised in Malaysia is beginning to show signs of increasing conservatism, illustrated among others by the local boom in the tudung industry that was a rarity just several decades ago.

Friday sermons sanctioned by the government also repeatedly tell women to cover their aurat, with a Malay-Muslim gymnast recently getting backlash for wearing a leotard.

Norhayati, who has made a documentary titled “Aku Siapa?” (Who Am I?) about why women wear the tudung, noted that Muslim women now are thought of as “tak sopan” (improper) if they do not cover their heads.

“If you wear tight clothing, you’re not thought of well; you’re perceived as ‘sundal’ [a slut]. But in the old days, wealthy women used to wear tight kebayas and sheer clothing. Nobody thought of them as bad women. The image of women has shifted,” said the activist.

Yati Kaprawi (right) and Fadiah Nadwa, speakers for the 'Siapa bilang gadis Melayu tak melawan?' forum organised by Projek Dialog at the Art for Grabs festival at Petaling Jaya on Sept 12, 2015.Yati Kaprawi (right) and Fadiah Nadwa, speakers for the 'Siapa bilang gadis Melayu tak melawan?' forum organised by Projek Dialog at the Art for Grabs festival at Petaling Jaya on Sept 12, 2015.Human rights lawyer Fadiah Nadwa Fikri said Malays have criticised her over her work and linked it to her wearing a headscarf.

“They’d say ‘What’s this woman doing wearing a tudung but fighting the cops?’ They’d say I have no manners,” she said at the forum.

Fadiah Nadwa noted that there were negative perceptions overseas too about her wearing the tudung.

“They’re shocked when they see me in tudung and talking about human rights. They come up to me and say ‘You speak English’,” said the lawyer

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/muslims-thinking-more-about-sex-amid-islamisation-activist-says#sthash.DzqpNrRz.dpuf

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Shocking moment two topless feminist protestors storm Muslim conference - before they are dragged off and kicked on the floor

What a Gentlemanly circle of men......RIGHT

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3232721/Watch-moment-two-topless-feminist-protestors-storm-Muslim-conference-kicked-dragged-off.html

http://metro.co.uk/2015/09/13/topless-women-storm-the-stage-at-muslim-conference-5389598/


Two women storm on stage at the Muslim event north west of Paris, France
Protestors, naked from the waist up, had messages written on their bodies
Footage shows them being dragged off stage by security and group of men
One man can be seen aiming kicks at one of the women while she was on the ground


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One was carried off by a security guard, and the second was dragged away, with one man appearing to kick out at her.

Femen is well known for using nudity to protest, and has previously targeted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KcK1GRLbHQ

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Tired mum 'told she deserved to DIE' by Muslim passenger for putting her FEET on train seat

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tired-mum-told-deserved-die-6426108

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrI33WgQwHw

Ruby Butler, 27, who has film of the encounter, said she would have removed her feet had he asked her nicely

A tired mother says she was told by a Muslim man that she deserved to be killed - for resting her feet on a train seat.

Ruby Butler, 27, had her feet on a chair on the Overground when the man challenged her and began threatening her.

Ms Butler, who began filming the encounter after he said she should be killed, said she would have removed her feet had he been polite but was shocked at his aggression.

She said: "I was wearing a brand new pair of white Converse shoes which had given me blisters.

"I wanted to make myself feel a bit more comfortable so I put my feet on the seat.

"The train was quite empty, there were over 50 chairs I could see that were empty but this gentleman with a beard walks along and says 'move your feet from the chair'.

"I asked him if he worked for the train company and he said 'Yes I do' so I asked to see some ID but he said he was off duty today.

"I said 'Come back to me when you're in a uniform'.

"I was refusing to move them because of the way he spoke to me. If he asked me politely I would have done it.

"He told me that I deserve to be killed and then as soon as I heard that I started recording."

Ms Butler posted a video to her Facebook page, which has been viewed more than 500,000 times.

She explained: "I asked him politely to go away three times and he wouldn't go away."

In the footage, the Muslim man is shown standing over the mother of two, who was travelling from Wanstead to Acton North last Thursday afternoon.

He said: "I cannot sit there and I cannot pray with my clothes okay? And I travel every day"

Ms Butler said: "Yes? Ok."

Another male commuter, who tried to calm the situation interjected: "I 100 per cent agree with you - she is just not worth arguing with."

Ms Butler, who agreed, said: "It's really not. I am tired. It's been a long day.

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The man then said: "You should be in prison."

She asked: "What for putting my feet on the chair?"

The Muslim man then walked to the other end of the carriage, to argue with other passengers.

A young male passenger shouted: "This is England, bruv."

The elderly man replied, in a thick Pakistani accent: "Don't argue with me, I know this is England, I was born here and I have as much right as you have."

The pair then argue inaudibly as Ruby walked closer to film the squabble.

The Muslim man, who is facing the other passenger, then shouted: "What are you going to do are you going to do - hit me?"

He led the Muslim man to the train door and said: "Let's get off the train, come on.

The Muslim man then dialled a number on his mobile and said that he was going to call the police.

Ms Butler replied: "This is all because I have my feet on the seat. Please get the police. If they can arrest me for putting my feet on the chair then I will gladly be arrested."

"But I don't have the same religion as you, Sir. I pray with my shoes on.

"Every day I with my shoes on. I am Christian."

The man shouted: "I am a Muslim and I cannot."

Ruby replied: "This is not a Muslim country."

The man then walked off the train with the other passenger before the video cut out.

Ms Butler thinks the unnamed elderly man was upset because her shoes were dirty, meaning a Muslim person could not pray on the seat where her feet were resting.

She said: "My understanding is that his point of view was that I had my shoes on there and now a Muslim person can't sit there and pray because my shoes are dirty.

"But I had day old blinging white converse shoes and I wanted to say my shoes are cleaner than your clothes so go away but I didn't want to cause an argument."

She also said it might be because of her gender: "It's possibly because I am a woman and I spoke back to this man and he got more and more upset and more and more angry.

"If it was a Muslim lady she might have done what she was told but I am from a Christian community and we don't believe in being spoken down to by men.

"A lot of people have commented that I am racist but I couldn't be racist if I wanted to. I have a lot of Muslim friends and even converted Muslim friends."

Ruby was contacted by the British Transport Police after the footage emerged, but the man is yet to be traced.

She added: "I hope something happens, even if I just raise a bit of awareness for young girls travelling on the train."

A spokesman for British Transport Police said: "We are aware of the video in question which shows an altercation between two passengers on board a London Overground train.

"We are currently investigating and anyone information is asked to contact British Transport Police."

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Shocking that former Umno leader mastermind of ‘red shirt’ rally, says Kit Siang

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/shocking-former-umno-leader-mastermind-095850580.html

It is shocking that a former top Umno leader is the main organiser of the controversial red-shirt rally on September 16, said Lim Kit Siang, who claimed that the Malay party is sponsoring the gathering.

The DAP parliamentary leader questioned how former Malacca Chief Minister Senator Tan Sri Mohd Ali Mohd Rustam could be the mastermind of the rally, whose critics say has sparked fears it could create communal tensions.

“It is simply shocking and outrageous that a former top vote-getter as Umno Vice President, one-time aspirant for Prime Minister ... could be so insensitive as to be the mastermind behind the Sept. 16 rally, repudiating the very import and meaning of Malaysia Day.”

Lim said the rally in Kuala Lumpur would seriously undermine the unity, integrity and cause of Malaysia at such a fragile period in the country’s history.

“In fact, rally by Umno or to be more exact the forces (of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak) may be the first step to cause the disintegration of Malaysia,” Lim said in a statement today.

Najib, who is Umno president, said the party did not endorse the rally, but it won’t stop party members from attending. Some of the rally’s organisers are also Umno grassroots leaders at the division level.

The “red shirt” rally or “Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu” is said to be held to counter last month's Bersih 4 rally, which had called for Najib's resignation over alleged financial scandals.

The gathering is also being held to express anger over footage of Bersih 4 participants stomping on pictures of Najib and PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

Lim said, unlike the racial overtones of the red shirt rally, Bersih 4 only had political demands such as free and fair elections, a transparent government and strengthening parliamentary democracy.

“One was a peaceful rally to celebrate diversity and to dream of a better Malaysia for all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region, age, gender or politics,” Lim said.

“The other was a provocative rally to threaten racial confrontation and divide Malaysians, when it was actually a gross abuse of the name of Malays as it was not intended to protect the “maruah” (honour) of Malays, but only to protect UMNO or to be more exact, Najib himself!”

The rally’s organisers claim it is not a racist get-together, but critics have pointed out that they use slogans such as “Kebangkitan maruah melayu” (rise of Malay honour), which have communal sentiments.

The rally is also supposed to march through Bukit Bintang and Petaling Street, two well known and busy Chinese business enclaves popular with tourists.

Lim said if the organisers truly wanted the rally to not be racist, they could have used the slogan “Kebangkitan maruah Malaysia”, (rise of Malaysia’s honour). – September 13, 2015.

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Traumatised pilgrims ask how Mecca crane collapsed due to 'winds'

http://m.hindustantimes.com/world-news/traumatised-pilgrims-ask-how-mecca-crane-collapsed/article1-1390173.aspx

Yup, cos "God" will protect you... Right... The crane that caused this horrible accident is incidentally owned by the BinLadin family. Karma if real is a bitch....

Jumaa Ibrahim and his wife Hasnaa Karam, a Syrian couple in their early 60s, arrived in Mecca on Friday and headed straight to Islam's holiest site, the cube-shaped Kaaba.


It had begun to rain in the ancient desert city. Karam, who had waited a lifetime to make the pilgrimage to stand before the Kaaba, stood with her palms facing toward the sky in prayer. Ibrahim stood a few feet to her side, quietly reading verses from the Quran.

Suddenly, a loud boom echoed. Karam found herself surrounded by carnage -- body parts were scattered everywhere amid pools of blood on the white marble floor of the mosque.

The kingdom's Civil Defense says unusually strong winds tipped over one of the massive cranes around the Grand Mosque that houses the Kaaba. The crane crashed through part of the mosque's roof and upper floors, sending concrete slabs  crashing down.

"I saw a head, legs, blood, dead people," Karam said on Sunday, interviewed at her husband's bedside in Mecca's Al-Noor Specialist Hospital. "We started saying 'Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar' as the rain poured down."

She escaped injury, but her husband was among the hundreds injured, his leg broken in two parts. The death toll reached 111 on Sunday as more of the injured died. The health ministry on Sunday said 394 people were treated at medical facilities after the crane collapse and 158 of the injured remain hospitalised.

Ayman Shaaban, the owner of a hajj tour company in Egypt, was praying on the ground floor of the Grand Mosque when the crane collapsed. He says he was tossed some 20 metres (66 feet). He was immediately rushed into a large room with other injured people, the right side of his face broken, bloodied and swollen, unable to open his left eye.

Saudi media reported that a committee has been established to investigate the incident. It is unclear how the kingdom's Civil Defense, which led rescue operations, was able to determine that winds caused the crane's collapse. The spokesperson for Civil Defense could not be reached immediately for comment.

Shaaban has questions about the cause of the accident.

"Logically speaking, for a crane to fall from wind, even if there were strong winds, something doesn't add up," Shaaban said from his hospital bed. "If there is negligence, because of these souls lost, someone must be held accountable."

These concerns indicate the sensitivity of the incident for Saudi King Salman, whose title is Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques -- the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the first mosque built by Prophet Muhammad in Medina. The king visited the Grand Mosque on Saturday and later met with some of the injured being treated at the government-run hospital.

The Al Saud royal family's legitimacy is rooted, in part, in its claim to be the protectors of Islam's two most sacred sites that are at the center of the hajj, the pilgrimage that all Muslims are required to perform at least once in their lifetime if they are able to do so.

The accident comes just over a week before this year's hajj, which is expected to start around September 21 and last for four to five days. It will draw between 2 to 3 million Muslims from around the world for a series of rites in Mecca and surrounding areas that are believed to trace the footsteps of prophets Ibrahim and Ismail.

An Associated Press journalist saw the Liebherr crane on Sunday, its base tipped forward and its superstructure leaning into the mosque where it struck. The Liebherr Group, a large equipment manufacturer, makes many of its cranes at a plant in Biberach an der Riss, Germany, and has its global headquarters in Switzerland.

Liebherr spokesperson Kristian Kueppers said in an email to The Associated Press that the company is doing everything in its power "to help bring the accident investigation to a speedy and logical conclusion". The company said it had issued clear instructions on how the crane was to be installed and secured to protect it from winds. The company also expressed its deep sympathy for the families of victims.

Over the years, the Grand Mosque has undergone several expansions to accommodate growing numbers of pilgrims but in the last decade, the kingdom launched its most ambitious overhaul ever.

Historic sites significant for Islam have been demolished to make way for hotels, causing an outcry among some Muslims. Saudi officials say the overhaul is needed as the number of pilgrims during hajj is projected to reach 7 million by 2040.

The current $60-billion Grand Mosque expansion will almost double the area for pilgrims to pray at the Kaaba. The Grand Mosque is now surrounded by dozens of cranes, part of the massive construction effort headed by the Saudi Binladin Group. The Binladin family has been close to Saudi Arabia's ruling family for decades and runs major building projects around the country. Al Qaida's late leader Osama bin Laden was a renegade son disowned by the family in the 1990s.

The Binladin Group has not released any statements to the press about the crane collapse and its representatives have not been made available for comment. The company's chairman or a top representative is likely a member of the investigating committee, according to several Saudis familiar with the process.

On Sunday, the imam of the Grand Mosque, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al Sudais, also visited the injured. Flanked by a team of assistants, he gave patients bags that included a copy of the Quran, a vial of traditional Arab fragrance called oud and bottles of water from the sacred underground Zamzam well in Mecca believed to have healing properties.

He told patients that that there was great reward for them in being at the Kaaba, just before the hajj.

"This is God's will," he told each patient as he passed by their bed. "The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, may God protect him, is very concerned with your well-being."

Dr Salem Bajuifer, medical director at Al-Noor, said his team received around 120 patients, many of them with serious injuries requiring amputations.

The injured at the hospital come from a range of countries, including Germany, Canada, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Syria and Iran.

The Indian mission in Saudi Arabia says two of its citizens were killed although the Saudi government has not released details about the nationalities or ages of the dead since many are still being identified. Several children are believed to have died in the accident too.

"It is a big trauma," Bajuifer said, when asked about the emotional toll on patients and their relatives. "Of course everybody is traumatised, not only the patients. Even we are traumatised."

Karam, whose husband has been in and out of surgery for his leg, says she's too traumatised to think about what comes next. She fled barrel bombs and the civil war in Syria to live in Turkey, never expecting to be so close to death at Islam's most sacred site.

"I am still feeling terrified," she said, as she broke into tears.

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For the safety of everyone, please try to stay away from KL if you can.

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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/mobile/asiapacific/red-shirt-rally-to-go/2125078.html

KUALA LUMPUR: A"red shirt" rally that has sparked fears of ethnic clashes is expected to go ahead on Wednesday (Sep 16) amid a high police presence, after organisers confirmed a venue.

The National Silat Federation (Pesaka) received the green light from the Kuala Lumpur City Council to hold the "anti-Bersih" Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu (United Citzens Rally) at Padang Merbok on Malaysia Day, a day to mark the formation of the Malaysian federation in 1963.

Some 250 Malay NGOs pledged support for the rally, which they said was aimed at countering last month's Bersih protest, where tens of thousands hit the streets of Kuala Lumpur calling for institutional reform and the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Malay groups said the rally disrespected Malay leaders and ethnic Malays, who make up the majority of the population in peninsular Malaysia,  and they want to teach minority "Chinese from opposition party DAP" a lesson.

Malaysia's Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said that the rally's organisers have complied with legal requirements so it is permitted to go ahead but there will be a high police presence to ensure public safety and order.

Messages have been circulating on social media and messaging services warning non-Malays to stay away from the city centre over fears of ethnic clashes.

But the police chief said the public should not worry as authorities will be on standby and will be monitoring the speeches for seditious content. 

Last week, Prime Minister Najib acknowledged that some leaders and members of his party UMNO planned to participate in the rally, though they were not organising it.

He said UMNO did not support anything of a racist nature but he would not be directing members to not participate.

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Kota Baru Umno burn effigies of DAP leaders in run-up to ‘red shirt’ rally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5udpAj9JX4

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With two days to go before the “red shirt” rally commences, the Kota Baru Umno division has burnt effigies of DAP leaders donning Bersih 4 t-shirts in a run-up programme to the planned gathering on Wednesday.

In a video clip uploaded on YouTube yesterday, Umno members, led by Kota Baru division head Datuk Mohd Fatmi Che Salleh, were seen burning effigies of DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang and its secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

The programme reportedly took place in Kota Baru on Sunday.



Fatmi, who is Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's former political secretary, was seen giving a fiery speech urging party members to participate in the September 16 gathering to “uphold the dignity of Malays” in the video.
"The people of Kota Baru must fight, fight for our religion, race and country."

He also criticised the two DAP leaders and organisers of Bersih 4, who he added were out to break up the Malay race.

"Burning their effigies is a symbol of our protest, we are against everything about Bersih which are just lies.

"Do you agree?

"They are evil, and want to break up the Malay race and this country," Fatmi said in the video.

The “red shirt” rally is said to be held to counter last month's Bersih 4 rally, which had called for Najib's resignation over alleged financial scandals.

The gathering is also being held to express anger over footage of Bersih 4 participants stomping on pictures of Najib and PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

Meanwhile, the Umno headquarters is understood to have issued a notice to its divisions to mobilise members to attend the “red shirt” rally on September 16, despite official statements that the Malay party has not endorsed the controversial gathering. – September 14, 2015.

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/kota-baru-umno-burn-effigies-of-dap-leaders-in-run-up-to-red-shirt-rally#sthash.3tpWwPqe.dpuf

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Bangkok Shrine bombing suspect was at Delhi IGI airport for few hours

http:// http://indianexpress.com/article/world/asia/bangkok-shrine-bombing-suspect-was-at-delhi-igi-airport-for-few-hours/

The Chinese national, suspected to be responsible for last month’s bombing outside a temple in Thailand’s capital Bangkok, was in Delhi for few hours on transit from Dhaka to Abu Dhabi last month.
The accused Abudusataer Abudureheman alias Ishan, who is alleged to have organised the bombing outside Brahma temple in which killed 20 people, had taken a flight on August 30 from Dhaka to Abu Dhabi, official sources said.
He had to change flight at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport where he was in transit for a few hours, the sources said.

The transit passengers are not supposed to undergo any immigration check and, moreover, there was no alert about the accused either through Interpol or Thailand authorities, the sources said, explaining why he could not be apprehended.
The 27-year-old accused from China’s Xinjiang province took the flight from New Delhi and left for Abu Dhabi on August 30, the sources said, adding from there he travelled to Istanbul on the next day.
The sources said once the information was shared in the second week of this month, central security agencies carried out a random check of flight manifest and also searched the CCTV footage of that day.
Thai police had also sought help from Bangladesh through Interpol to help locate the mastermind behind the country’s deadliest bombing after investigations indicated that the Chinese man might have fled there.
The Bangkok police had come to know about the departure of accused to Dhaka after testimony from witnesses.
The accused left Thailand via Suvarnabhumi International Airport on August 16, a day before the bombing, to China and then headed to Bangladesh.
Bangkok police was also tracing money channelled from foreign countries to see whether it was used in funding the attacks.

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I am racist and my racism based on Islam, says Umno’s Annuar Musa
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/i-am-racist-and-my-racism-based-on-islam-says-umnos-annuar-musa
Well at least these equines are honest about their stupidy

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Umno Supreme Council member Tan Sri Annuar Musa says today the ‘red shirt’ rally in Kuala Lumpur is justified on grounds of Islam. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, September 16, 2015.

“I am racist,” said Umno Supreme Council member Tan Sri Annuar Musa, when trying to justify the racial overtones of today’s “red shirt” rally in Kuala Lumpur. 

However, he stressed that his “racism was based on Islam”.

Anuar, who was the last speaker at today’s “Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu”, said racism was allowed in Islam, except when it involved oppressing others.


The Malay community in Malaysia was the most tolerant ethnic group in the world, Anuar said, adding that in Indonesia, ethnic Chinese Indonesians were not even allowed to use Chinese names. 

“I am racist but it’s racism based on Islam. Racism is allowed in Islam,” Annuar told reporters at the end of the rally at Padang Merbok, which he claimed attracted 250,000 people. 

Annuar then quoted a hadith (a saying of the Prophet) on assobiyah (Arabic term for pride in one's tribe) which he interpreted as justifying racism.

Critics of today's rally have said it could incite ethnic tensions for its insistence on defending Malay supremacy and honour.

Annuar also admitted that some of the rally participants were sponsored but claimed that Bersih 4's organisers also paid people to attend  their rally on the Merdeka weekend. – September 16, 2015.

Racism is allowed in Islam says this idiot!

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At rally’s end, protesters say came out of fear of Chinese ‘black magic’ and stolen rights

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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 — Many among the thousands who painted the city’s streets red today said they were there to defend the country against purported Chinese domination, with some expressing anger against the minority group for allegedly insulting their Malay-Muslim leaders and stealing their rights.

Although organisers of the Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu rally previously said the event was not meant to be racially-tinged, some participants openly admitted their objectives were to fight for the rights they claimed were trampled on by the “big-headed” Chinese.

One attendee, Muhamad Ridzuan Sulaiman, said the Malays now play too small a role in the economy, which he alleged is Chinese-controlled.

“For instance, if I wanted to open a shop next to a Chinese owned shop, they would use black magic to curse my shop,” he told Malay Mail Online as rally participants began packing up to leave Padang Merbok this evening.

The 21-year-old said although he believed the rally was not expressly anti-Chinese, it was organised due to Malay frustration over certain actions by the country’s ethnic minorities.


“The other races are just waiting for the Malays to fall,” lamented the youth who expressed interest in joining Malay nationalist party Umno.

The sentiment was echoed by another rally participant, 62-year-old Che Hassan from Pasir Puteh, Kelantan.

“We’re not exactly angry at the Chinese. But we’re so angry at the DAP. They are insulting our Malay-Muslim leaders.

“They are messing around with the rights of the Malays, like what they did in Bersih 4. They insulted our leaders there, but here, we have done nothing. We didn’t stir up any issues like they did,” the man said.

City dweller Aziah Mat Dohun told Malay Mail Online that when given the opportunity, the Chinese would “grab the rights of the Malays”.

Asked to explain, the 57-year-old said: “They insulted our ministers. They had the gall to do that because we let them, and because we let the illegal rally Bersih happened.”

She said today’s rally was not meant to pick a fight as it was hoped that the event would result in some positive changes for Malaysia.

“The Chinese must not be ‘besar kepala’ (big-headed),” she said.


Participants of the Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu rally head to Padang Merbok, September 16, 2015. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

Most of the thousands who had earlier swarmed the streets of the capital have now left Padang Merbok, although a sizeable crowd is still lingering at Petaling Street where riot police had earlier fired water cannons to disperse protesters.

The mass event organised by silat group Pesaka had turned chaotic at intervals earlier in the afternoon when protesters stormed past police barricades to march through the streets. 

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Annuar Musa: ‘I am racist, Islamically’

http://m.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/annuar-musa-i-am-racist-islamically

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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 — An Umno leader today admitted that he, along with today’s “Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu” was “racist” in nature, but insisted that this was still in line with Islamic teachings.

Tan Sri Annuar Musa maintained that acting in defence of Malay honour was permitted in Islam so long as other races were not oppressed in the process.

“Being racial is endorsed in Islam as long as you are not cruel towards other people. This rally if you say is racist, yes. What are you scared of? Islam has put in place guidelines, what is not allowed is racism that is cruel towards other races.

“In Indonesia, you cannot have a Chinese name but in Malaysia you can. If that is considered racial, then yes, I am racial. But my being racial is guided by religion. I am racist, Islamically,” he said after the rally ended at Padang Merbok today.

He added that the Malays have done the other races a great service by sharing the country and its resources them.


“And when has the Malays even behaved cruelly towards other races? We share this country, we shared citizenship. We share all our rights. Who was the one who made thus county open to other races? It was the Malays,” he added.

Thousands of red-shirted people were bussed into the federal capital this morning to take part in a rally officially called “Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu” or the United People’s Assembly, but which drew concern among traders in the city centre and ethnic Chinese business leaders.

The protest was marred by sporadic outbreaks of racism, however, with one attendee recorded calling a reporter “Crazy Chinese pig”, among other insults.

The “red shirts” first gathered at several points in the city, including Kompleks Kraf Malaysia in Jalan Conlay, the Putra World Trade Centre and the National Mosque before marching through major roads to converge at Padang Merbok near Parliament.

The rally, said to be in support of Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s leadership, was to counter to last month’s two-day Bersih 4 gathering calling for the prime minister’s resignation.

The ruling Malay party has insisted that it does not endorse the event, which has also been alternately called “Himpunan Maruah Melayu”, but has not prohibited its members from participating in today’s demonstration organised by martial arts group Pesaka. 

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Facebook users tell Bank Negara scholarship winner to don tudung

http://m.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/facebook-users-tell-bank-negara-scholarship-winner-to-don-tudung

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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 ― Hajar Nur Asyiqin Abdul Zubir, an 18-year-old who dreams of studying in Oxford University, is the winner of a prestigious Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) scholarship but to some on Facebook, the young Malay girl’s achievement has been shadowed by her failure to don the tudung (Muslim headscarf).

On the social media site, the chemistry student, upon winning the Kijang Emas Scholarship 2015 that allows her to pursue any field of study at top universities across the world, was told that her father would bear the sins of her not covering her “aurat”.

“Congratulations..but it’s a pity that the ‘aurat’ is not covered. Her father bears the sin,” a Facebook user called Rozaidi Jai commented on Friends of BN ― Barisan Nasional’s Facebook post Wednesday announcing Hajar Nur Asyiqin’s win.

Facebook user named Nazri Toushirou even called for conditions of the scholarship interview to mandate covering the “aurat”

“Don’t think it’s wrong, right?” he said.


Facebook user Mohd Sabri Hussien said: “Pretty looks, good at studies. It’ll be better if she wore a tudung”.

Another Facebook user, called Mohd Khairudzaman Bahaudin, said: “All right, congratulations, Allah hates His servants who do not cover their ‘aurat’, we succeed not because we’re clever”.

Other Facebook users, however, have since come to the 18-year-old’s defence, with one named Ag Sha saying: “It doesn’t necessarily mean that not wearing a tudung means you’re not religious..congratulations..prove to them that you’re not shallow in your religious knowledge”.

Islam as is practised in Malaysia is beginning to show signs of increasing conservatism, illustrated among others by the local boom in the tudung industry that was a rarity just several decades ago.

Friday sermons sanctioned by the government also repeatedly tell women to cover their aurat, with a Malay-Muslim gymnast recently getting backlash for wearing a leotard. 

Local daily New Straits Times reported Monday that Hajar Nur Asyiqin ― who went to SMK Abdul Rahman Talib in Kuantan, Pahang, and is now doing her A-Levels at Tuanku Ja’afar College in Mantin, Negri Sembilan ― wants to study chemistry at Oxford University in the UK, one of the top universities in the world.

The paper reported that she scored 9A+s in SPM last year and that she had undergone group and individual assessments by Bank Negara before she was announced last April as one of four recipients of the Kijang Emas Scholarship.

According to Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s speech at the Kijang Emas Scholarship award ceremony last April, the central bank had received 212 applications for the 2015 Kijang Emas Scholarship and shortlisted the top 24 based on their SPM results and involvement in sports and co-curricular activities.

“The students then underwent a rigorous evaluation process under the Bank’s ‘Kijang Academy’ which assessed their technical and leadership competencies, as well as their values,” Zeti said in the speech made available on Bank Negara’s website.

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Iran women’s soccer team captain to miss tournament after husband refuses to let her travel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/09/16/iran-womens-soccer-team-captain-to-miss-international-tournament-after-husband-refuses-to-let-her-get-a-passport/


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Iran women’s soccer team captain to miss tournament after husband refuses to let her travel
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By Marissa Payne September 16

Niloufar Ardalan, left, views for the ball during a match in 2006. (AP)
The Iranian women’s soccer team will be short one player when it travels to Malaysia to compete in an indoor soccer championship next week. That’s because, according to local reports, the team captain doesn’t have a passport — her husband refused to sign papers to allow his wife to renew it.

Niloufar Ardalan, 30, is married to sports journalist Mahdi Toutounchi, who under Iranian law has the right to keep his wife from leaving the country. His reason for keeping Ardalan at home, according to reports, is that he did not want Ardalan to miss their 7-year-old son’s first day of school on Sept. 23. The Asian Football Confederation Futsal Championship is set to run from Sept. 21-26.

[Hiker: “I was imprisoned in Iran for two years."]

Ardulan expressed dismay over her husband’s decision and called on the country to revise its laws when it comes to allowing women to leave the country.

“These games were very important to me,” she told Nasimonline (via news.com.au). “As a Muslim woman, I wanted to work for my country’s flag to be raised [at the games], rather than traveling for leisure and fun.”

She added: “I wish authorities would create [measures] that would allow female athletes to defend their rights in such situations.”

Ardulan, who has been heralded as Iran’s best female player, is a longtime advocate for women’s rights in Iran, especially when it comes to equal treatment in sports. In 2005, she made headlines for being one of the first women to attend a men’s national team match. She had to petition Iran’s soccer governing body for permission, however.

Unfortunately, not much has changed in Iran in the last 10 years. Despite promises to ease restrictions, women are still banned from attending men’s sporting events in the country. In some cases, the country has even arrested women who tried to do so. The most famous example came last year when Ghoncheh Ghavami went to jail for five months after attempting to attend a men’s volleyball game.

[FIFA President Sepp Blatter calls on Iran to end ban of women from soccer stadiums]

While Ardulan won’t end up in jail — without her passport, she has no choice but to follow the law and remain in the country — women’s rights advocates hope her case will raise awareness to bring change.

“This just shows to what extent this law can impact a woman’s life,” Shadi Sadr, the director of the human rights group Justice for Iran, told Radio Free Europe earlier this week. “Even if a woman reaches the highest ranks in politics, sports, or culture, she still needs her husband’s consent for one of her most basic rights — traveling abroad.”


Sadr continued: “[Ardulan] broke the silence, and this could lead to other women taking the courage to detail and shed light on other similar cases.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/world/middleeast/mecca-stampede.html?_r=0

Hajj Stampede Near Mecca Leaves Over 700 Dead

Such a sad tragedy, just hope the SA govt with all their ill-gotten oil money spend more next Hajj on security and making sure this never ever happens again.

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — In streaming ribbons of white, great masses of Muslim pilgrims made their way between cities of air-conditioned tents toward the next stop on their holy tour of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

Then something went disastrously wrong, trapping the crowds in narrow streets and touching off a mass panic and crushing stampede that left the asphalt covered with lost sandals, crumpled wheelchairs and piles of white-robed bodies.

It was the deadliest accident during the hajj pilgrimage in a quarter-century, with at least 717 pilgrims from around the world killed and more than 850 injured. And it posed yet another challenge for the country’s new leader, King Salman, who is already coping with low oil prices, a war in Yemen and an increasingly fierce rivalry with Iran.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/member-saudi-royal-family-arrested-l-alleged-sex-crime-n433366

Member of Saudi Royal Family Arrested in L.A. for Alleged Sex Crime

A member of the Saudi royal family was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of trying to force a woman to perform a sex act on him, police said Thursday.

Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Drake Madison said Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 29, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on three counts, with the main charge being forced oral sex of an adult. Al-Saud is a member of the royal family, according to the LAPD.

Police said the alleged assault occurred in the Beverly Glen area in West Los Angeles, and the alleged victim was a worker at the property.

Officers were sent to a Wallingford Drive home Wednesday afternoon on a report of a disturbance, but when they investigated further Al-Saud was arrested on suspicion of the alleged sex crime as well as on suspicion of battery and false imprisonment, police said.

Jail records show Al-Saud was booked Wednesday and was freed on $300,000 bail Thursday. His next court date is Oct. 19, according to records.

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Authorities said it was not immediately clear if the suspect would claim diplomatic immunity, or whether it could be applied in the case.

There was no immediate comment from the Saudi royal family. NBC News was not able to reach a lawyer for Al-Saud.

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http://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/09/3-suspected-terrorists-nabbed-near-jalan-alor?m=1

3 suspected terrorists nabbed near Jalan Alor



KUALA LUMPUR: Police nabbed three suspected terrorists in connection with a recent security threats made against the US Embassy and tourist hotspot Jalan Alor in Bukit Bintang.

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the men are a Malaysian, a Syrian and an Indonesian.

They were arrested in a raid carried out by the federal police Special Branch's Counter-Terrorism Division near Jalan Alor about 6pm Thursday.

Noor Rashid said the arrests were made based on tip-off received by the division from their international intelligence network and surveillance.

He said police believed that the suspects were involved in terrorism activities, and had the intention to launch terror attacks on Malaysian soil.

They are being detained to facilitate investigations under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.

On Thursday, the US Embassy here issued a security notification warning its citizens of a potential terrorist act, and advised its nationals to avoid Jalan Alor and its surrounding areas.

This move was then followed by the Australian and UK embassies here.

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Today Saudi Arabia Will Crucify This Teenager for Protesting the Government

http://usuncut.com/world/today-saudi-arabia-will-crucify-teenager-protesting-government/

Saudi Arabia, which was just admitted to the UN’s Human Rights Council days ago, will imminently behead and then crucify Ali Mohammed al-Nimr — a young man who encouraged pro-democracy demonstrations during the Arab Spring in 2012, when he was just 17 years old. In protest, the hacktivist collective Anonymous apparently shut down a number of Saudi government websites yesterday. Activists subsequently took to Twitter using the hashtag #OpNimr to oppose Saudi Arabia’s execution of al-Nimr.

Hacktivists aren’t the only ones in Al-Nimr’s corner: other figures to voice support include heads of state and celebrities like comedian Bill Maher, who last week tweeted his support for al-Nimr. Both France’s president and its prime minister have called on Saudi Arabia to abandon the execution. The UK’s newly-minted opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, wrote a scathing letter to prime minister David Cameron demanding that he call on Saudi Arabia to “commute the unjust and horrific sentence”.

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No prominent American official has spoken out against the Saudi government’s sentence. When press asked the US State Department’s spokesman for his thoughts on al-Nimr’s case, he claimed that he was “not aware of the trial” despite international outrage. When asked about Saudi Arabia’s controversial appointment to head a key UN human rights panel, the US spokesman replied, “We would welcome it. We’re close allies.”

The US and Saudi Arabia have been close allies for decades — the US has approved over $90 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia since 2010. In 2014 alone, the US approved over $2.2 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.

Many of these weapons are now being used by Saudi Arabia in its invasion of Yemen — and is committing the attacks with intelligence and logistical support from the US. Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused Saudi Arabia of committing war crimes in its invasion.

Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen has killed over 2,100 civilians and displaced over 1.4 million people, with 13 million Yemenis now food insecure. The invasion has caused 21 million people to be denied life-sustaining goods and services. Saudi Arabia further exacerbates Yemen’s humanitarian crisis with its naval blockade, which restricts access to humanitarian aid.

Al-Nimr’s execution would be far from Saudi Arabia’s first: according to Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia ranks #3 among the world’s top 5 executioners in 2014 (the US ranked #5). Since 1985, Saudi Arabia has executed over 2,200 people for “crimes” including sorcery, witchcraft, adultery, and drug possession. Most of these executions were carried out in the form of a public beheading, though some were carried out by firing squad.

The Leahy Law prohibits the US government from providing military aid to countries guilty of “a gross violation of human rights”; however, the US continues to arm Saudi Arabia in clear violation of this prohibition.

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The evil empire of Saudi Arabia is the West’s real enemy

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-evil-empire-of-saudi-arabia-is-the-west-s-real-enemy-a6669531.html

Iran is seriously mistrusted by Israel and America. North Korea protects its nuclear secrets and is ruled by an erratic, vicious man. Vladimir Putin’s territorial ambitions alarm democratic nations. The newest peril, Isis, the wild child of Islamists, has shocked the whole world. But top of this list should be Saudi Arabia – degenerate, malignant, pitiless, powerful and as dangerous as any of those listed above.

The state systematically transmits its sick form of Islam across the globe, instigates and funds hatreds, while crushing human freedoms and aspiration. But the West genuflects to its rulers. Last week Saudi Arabia was appointed chair of the UN Human Rights Council, a choice welcomed by Washington. Mark Toner, a spokesperson for the State Department, said: “We talk about human rights concerns with them. As to this leadership role, we hope that it is an occasion for them to look into human rights around the world and also within their own borders.”

US 'welcomes' UN putting Saudi Arabia in charge of human rights panel
The jaw simply drops. Saudi Arabia executes one person every two days. Ali Mohammed al-Nimr is soon to be beheaded then crucified for taking part in pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring. He was a teenager then. Raif Badawi, a blogger who dared to call for democracy, was sentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes. Last week, 769 faithful Muslim believers were killed in Mecca where they had gone on the Hajj. Initially, the rulers said it was “God’s will” and then they blamed the dead. Mecca was once a place of simplicity and spirituality. Today the avaricious Saudis have bulldozed historical sites and turned it into the Las Vegas of Islam – with hotels, skyscrapers and malls to spend, spend, spend. The poor can no longer afford to go there. Numbers should be controlled to ensure safety – but that would be ruinous for profits. Ziauddin Sardar’s poignant book Mecca: The Sacred City, describes the desecration of Islam’s holiest site.

Even more seriously, the pernicious Saudi influence is spreading fast and freely. King Salman has offered to build 200 mosques in Germany for recently arrived refugees, many of whom are Muslims. He offered no money for resettlement or basic needs, but Wahhabi mosques, the Trojan horses of the secret Saudi crusade. Several Islamic schools are also sites of Wahhabism, now a global brand. It makes hearts and minds small and suspicious, turns Muslim against Muslim, and undermines modernists.

The late Laurent Murawiec, a French neocon, wrote this in 2002: “The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadres to foot soldiers, from ideologists to cheerleaders.” Murawiec’s politics were odious, but his observations were spot on. Remember that most of the 9/11 killers were Saudi; so was the al-Qaeda hierarchy.

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In the 14 years that have followed 9/11, the Saudis have become more aggressive, more determined to win the culture wars. They pour money into Islamist organisations and operations, promote punishing doctrines that subjugate women and children, and damn liberal values and democracy. They are pursuing a cruel bombing campaign in Yemen that has left thousands of civilians dead and many more in dire straits.

So, what does our ruling establishment do to stop the invisible hand of this Satan? Zilch. The Royal Family, successive governments, parliamentarians, a good number of institutions and people with clout collectively suck up to the Saudi ruling clan. I have not seen any incisive TV investigation of this regime. We know it is up to no good, but evidence is suppressed. Some writers have tried to break this conspiracy of obsequiousness. Craig Unger’s book, House of Bush, House of Saud was published in 2004. It established beyond reasonable doubt that Saudi Arabia was the nerve-centre of international terrorism. And that the Bush family was unduly close to the regime. Many of us believed the revelations were even more explosive than those by the journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who exposed the lies told by Richard Nixon.


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This deadly enemy will not be cowed or stopped by Trident. Our leaders know what is going on. So what do they do? They pick on the small people. The Government’s Prevent programme now imposes a duty on educators to watch out for young “radicals” and nip them in the bud. Older dissenters, too. To date, 4,000 young Muslims have been referred for reprogramming. One was three years old. In May, a young Muslim schoolboy talked about “eco-terrorists” and was taken away to be interrogated about whether he supported Isis. Academics, lawyers, doctors and nurses are also expected to become the nation’s spies. Mohammed Umar Farooq, a student at Staffordshire University, was accused last week of being a terrorist because he was reading a book entitled Terrorism Studies in the library.

In the US, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested because he took a home-made clock to school. (Richard Dawkins, these days a manic tweet preacher, questioned whether the clock was part of a “hoax” designed to get Mohamed arrested, before backtracking.) The West, it seems, is free only for some. And to be a Muslim is a crime.

Extremism is a serious problem. Westernised, liberal Muslims do try to influence feverish, hostile young Muslim minds, but we are largely powerless. Our leaders will not confront Saudi Arabia, the source of Islamist brainwashing and infection. They won’t because of oil and the profits made by arms sales. Political cowards and immoral profiteers are the traitors, the real threat to national security, patriotism and cohesion. How do they answer the charge?

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Chinese Embassy allays worries over envoy's remarks

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinese-embassy-allays-worries-over-envoys-remarks

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Chinese ambassador to Malaysia, Dr Huang Huikang (left), and his wife (centre) visiting Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown, last Friday. Accompanying them was Hawkers and Petty Traders Association president Ang Say Tee (right).PHOTO: THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK

Envoy only expressed hope Malaysia stays united, prosperous, harmonious: Embassy


The Chinese Embassy in Malaysia has moved to ease concerns over remarks Ambassador Huang Huikang had made during a visit to Petaling Street last Friday, after he was summoned to Malaysia's Foreign Ministry for "interfering" in the country's affairs.

The embassy said in a statement that Dr Huang's visit, which came nine days after a pro-Malay rally that accused Chinese Malaysians of trying to usurp political power, was an act of goodwill and not interference in Malaysia's domestic affairs.

Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown, is a major attraction for tourists from China and a significant contributor of tourism dollars.


The embassy statement said the ambassador, who went there ahead of yesterday's Mid-Autumn Festival, makes similar visits during other festivals, including Chinese New Year, Hari Raya and Deepavali.

"Dr Huang was asked some questions by the media but he only expressed the hope that Malaysia stays united, prosperous and harmonious," said the statement, according to yesterday's Sin Chew Daily. His visit was to show that Petaling Street was safe to visit, the statement added.

On Sept 16, pro-Malay figures, including Umno officials and lawmakers, gathered tens of thousands of supporters in a rally to counter last month's demonstration by electoral reforms group Bersih.

The Bersih protest had also drawn a massive crowd in Kuala Lumpur to call for Prime Minister Najib Razak's resignation over allegations of financial misconduct.

But the largely Chinese turnout led to a racial backlash that included threats of violence.

Traders in Petaling Street and Bukit Bintang - another tourist and shopping area seen as a symbol of Chinese economic power - either closed for business or deployed additional security for the so-called "red shirts" rally.

The Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement early yesterday that it would call in Dr Huang today to "seek clarification on his statement", which "has attracted attention and caused concern to the Malaysian public".

Dr Huang had said last Friday that China, Malaysia's top trading partner, would not hesitate to speak out against any threat that may affect the country's ties with Malaysia and that Beijing is opposed to discrimination against races and any form of extremism.

An Umno Youth leader has already called on Dr Huang to apologise, while Mingguan Malaysia, the Sunday edition of the newspaper owned by the ruling Malay party, also insisted the ambassador should be sent back to China for disrespecting Malaysia's sovereignty, if an apology is not forthcoming.

"Whatever it may be, Dr Huang must apologise or return to his country and be replaced with someone who knows more manners," the paper said in an editorial.

Even the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), an Umno ally, was forced to make a statement.

Its divisional leader, Mr Gan Ping Sieu, a former MCA vice-president, noted that Dr Huang's visit, though well-meaning, was counterproductive and could be manipulated to the detriment of the country's frayed racial harmony.

But the Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia said in a statement yesterday that the government should withdraw its summons to the Chinese envoy.

It supported the embassy's view that Dr Huang's visit was to allay fears of racial clashes that had spiked following threats of a second "red shirts" protest last Saturday. That protest, however, did not materialise.

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http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/09/28/internet-speed-is-what-kit-siang-not-aware-off-says-salleh-said-keruak/

Most Malaysians choose slower, cheaper Internet, says Salleh Said Keruak

Hahaha... Malaysians choose to be slower..What's new...

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PETALING JAYA: Most Malaysians choose to pay less for slower internet speeds instead of spending more on fast connections, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak (pic).

"Lim Kit Siang is grumbling about the slow Internet speed in Malaysia.

"Actually there are a wide range of Internet speeds that Malaysians can choose from but about 71% of Malaysian Internet users prefer the slower Streamyx broadband package that offers speeds of between 384 Kbps to 1 Mbps," said Salleh in a blog post on Monday night refuting a blog post by Lim.

Lim had said that Salleh "appeared to be only interested in his blog and Facebook, busy with his new toy and cabinet assignment to be Najib’s chief propagandist to fight the prime minister’s political survival battle."

"One would have expected Salleh to be very occupied with blueprints, announcements, statements or even blogs as to how Malaysia is to return to the front-line of information technology powers. But Salleh has been conspicuously unconcerned about Malaysia’s poor Internet infrastructure," Lim said.

Refuting this, Salleh said that Lim's complaints were similar to those of internet users in the United Kingdom, which is ranked as the 16th in Europe in terms of Internet speed.

"It is estimated that if Britain wants to improve the communications infrastructure it would need to spend about RM200bil.

"The question being asked in the UK is whether Internet users are prepared to foot his bill on top of the RM1,400 billion they need to pay for the other infrastructure like energy, roads and railways," he said.

Salleh pointed out that even though higher broadband speeds are available, the majority of customers will subscribe to the cheaper and thus slower packages.

"In Singapore and Thailand the minimum speeds range from 4-5 Mbps. In Malaysia it is only 384 Kbps. Of course we can also do this for Malaysia.

"We can increase the minimum Internet speed to, say, 5 Mbps and force Malaysians to buy this higher-speed package. But that would mean the cost would be higher as well and Internet usage will be available to only those who can afford to pay the higher cost," said Salleh.

He pointed out that Malaysians could choose a 20 Mbps package if they wanted higher speed internet services.

"However, most Malaysians would not opt for this and would still prefer the cheaper and slower speed Internet. So in the end it all boils down to affordability and Malaysia offers affordable Internet to those who want it and higher speed Internet to those where money is not a problem," said Salleh.

He added that all Lim spoke about in his blog post was connection speed.

"Lim Kit Siang just talks about speed. Malaysia’s focus is speed, coverage and affordability. We want to ensure that by 2020 at least 95% of Malaysians will have access to the Internet. And we also want to ensure that at least 50% of urban areas and 20% of rural areas have broadband speeds of 100 Mbps," said Salleh

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Why fear Khairuddin if 1MDB papers fake, newsman asks Najib

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/why-fear-khairuddin-if-1mdb-papers-fake-newsman-asks-najib

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Former Umno leader Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan should be allowed to provide the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with his supposedly “fake and doctored” documents on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), said Datuk A. Kadir Jasin.

Writing in his blog, the former New Straits Times Group editor-in-chief said there was no reason for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to fear the former Batu Kawan Umno vice-chief if the latter was lying.

Instead, Najib should have faith in the American justice system to act against Khairuddin if the 1MDB papers were fake.



“If Khairuddin is a liar and the documents in his possession were fake or doctored, why should the prime minister fear him?
“Being a good friend of the US, he should have faith in the US justice system and allow Khairuddin to provide the FBI with the fake and doctored documents.

“Let the US arrest and prosecute him for lying. Lying to a US government agency is a criminal misdemeanour.”

Kadir also said Khairuddin’s arrest, as well as that of another sacked Umno member Anina Saadudin, showed that intimidation had become Najib’s strategy.

Anina was sacked after filing a suit against Najib to make him account for a RM2.6 billion political donation channelled into his personal accounts.

A staunch critic of Finance Ministry-owned debt-ridden 1MDB, Khairuddin was first arrested by police at his home in Mont Kiara last Friday.

Earlier on the same day, he and his lawyer Matthias Chang were barred from leaving the country by Immigration officers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar had said Khairuddin was detained as his move to use foreign enforcement agencies to put pressure on Malaysia over the 1MDB issue could be deemed as an act of sabotage against the country.

Khairuddin first lodged a police report against 1MDB, which has debts of RM42 billion, in December last year, and was subsequently sacked from Umno for being declared a bankrupt.

He recently lodged reports with authorities in Hong Kong, Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom against the troubled firm, of which Najib is advisory board chairman.

It was reported that he was on his way to meet FBI officials in the United States when he was barred from leaving the country.

He was remanded for six days after his arrest on Friday and, on Wednesday, was rearrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) 2012 as he walked out of a courtroom at the Jalan Duta court complex where a magistrate had released him.

Under Sosma, a suspect can be detained without trial for up to 29 days. – September 26, 2015.

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/why-fear-khairuddin-if-1mdb-papers-fake-newsman-asks-najib#sthash.yMxqIl23.dpuf

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Everybody should watch this trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cug1-eTOVSk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai

It tells the brave story of Malala, the brave young girl from Pakistan who dared to defy the stupidity that is the Taliban who wanted Islam to rule over everyone and not allow young girls to go to school.

Her advocacy for young women to receive education attracted their religious hate and more than 50 Islamic clerics issued a Fatwa against her for daring to get women educated.

And what did those cowards do? They shoot a young innocent girl in the head cos their "god" probably told them to do so. Cowards!!! I tell you, stupid fucking cowards who fuck camels...

This is why we need to keep our society as secular as possible and keep fairytales from entering our way of life.

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Utusan to Chinese envoy: Deal with prostitutes, not Petaling Street

http://malaysiakini.com/news/313634

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Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia has lashed out at the Chinese ambassador saying he would do better to deal with his nation's prostitutes than to meddle in the Petaling Street issue.

This, the newspapers said in an opinion piece under the collective pen name Awang Selamat, was because Malaysia is allegedly flooded by sex workers from China.

"(Ambassador Huang Huikang) should trust this country's authorities to deal with the threat of illegal demonstrations at Petaling Street, which did not even happen.

"It would be better if the ambassador gives more focus to the issue of large numbers of Chinese nationals in the prostitution and massage industry in (Malaysia) as the Chinese government is more stern in dealing with such matters in their own country," Awang said in Utusan's Sunday edition Mingguan Malaysia.

The newspaper demanded an apology from Huang for the remarks made during his visit to Petaling Street on Friday.

"Huang needs to apologise or return to his country and be replaced with another diplomat who has more courtesy.

"Hopefully this will be the first and last violation by a Chinese diplomat. Do not be a busybody and go overboard," said Awang, usually one of the daily's senior editors.

'We can interfere in China too'

Huang had raised eyebrows after he visited Petaling Street on the eve of a planned protest there that was racially-charged and declared the Chinese government was against racial discrimination and extremism.

In a statement yesterday, the Chinese embassy defended Huang's visit, stating it was an act of goodwill in conjunction with the mid-autumn festival.

However, Utusan described the remarks as "shameful" as the ambassador should have known his limits, adding that China too would not like any quarters to interfere in its domestic affairs.

"Awang would like to remind China that it too faces many problems in the country and foreign diplomats including Malaysia can also interfere and comment on anything," it said.

Huang on Friday handed mooncakes to Petaling Street traders to celebrate mid-autumn or mooncake festival which falls today.

However, his statement which appeared to be a subtle reference to the racially motivated protest at Petaling Street led by government-linked figures, surprised Putrajaya.

Wisma Putra reportedly summoned Huang over his remarks and he is expected to provide his explanation to Malaysian officials tomorrow.

Petaling Street, also known as Chinatown, was the site of a rowdy protest by the red shirts on Sept 16 and was broken up by the police's federal reserve unit using water cannons.

One of the frontmen of the red shirts, Sungai Besar Umno division chief Jamal Md Yunos, threatened another protest on Sept 26 demanding that Chinatown be opened up to traders of other races and accusing businesses there of selling fake goods.

Jamal had alluded to riots if his demands were not met.

He was arrested on Friday and the planned protest was subsequently aborted.

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'I WILL SLAP YOU IF YOU COMPLAIN TO CHINA' - 'KAMPUNG QUALITY' UMNO MINISTER TELLS LOCAL CHINESE

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Deputy Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Tajuddin Abdul Rahman has warned that he will "slap" the Chinese in Malaysia if they take their complaints outside of the country.

"I want to warn the Chinese Malaysians, don't think when you have a problem, you want to complain, just a little bit also complain so that there will be people to protect them.

"Nak kena lempang macam itu (get a slap for that)," he told a press conference after officiating an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur today.

The Umno supreme council member called on the Chinese to stop "fantasising" that external powers would defend them.

"Chinese people in Malaysia, don't fantasise that there will be a big boss coming, that there will be a Godfather coming from China to help them.

"Don't fantasise like that," he stressed.



The Pasir Salak MP said Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang's visit to Petaling Street last week was just to protect tourists from China who visit Malaysia.

"When he said ‘protecting his people’, he doesn't mean Chinese Malaysians. Why should he interfere? I would also get angry if he interfered.

"The Chinese ambassador said his statements were misconstrued, he had no intentions of interfering with our domestic affairs, no intentions of defending the Chinese here," he added.

Yesterday, Huang said his visit to Petaling Street on Friday should not be made into an anti-Malaysian government issue.

The ambassador insisted that his visit was to show solidarity with the locals and to find out if there were safety concerns before deciding to issue a travel advisory notice to tourists from China. - M'kini

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Malaysian PM warns over ISIL influence

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World Bulletin / News Desk
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday warned that his country and international community would not tolerate any form of violence and extremism committed by ISIL.
Razak said Malaysia condemns what he called ISIL's blatant misrepresentation of Islamic teachings, when it says the sadistic brutality, torture and murder of innocent men, women and children were justified.

He made Malaysia's stand at the Leaders' Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism at the United Nations in New York.

"Renounce your virulent creed of hate, violence and extremism and be guided back towards the righteous path, or face the consequences," he was quoted as saying by The Star Online.
The Summit was hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden.
As the chair of the Southeast Asian nations grouping ASEAN this year, Razak said Malaysia is leading the region towards combating all forms of extremism, including the possible spreading of ISIL beliefs in the region.
"We must make pre-emptive arrests if necessary and if there is irrefutable evidence, to save innocent lives," Razak said, referring to over 100 people detained in recent months by the Malaysian police, all suspected of having inclination towards ISIL.
He underlined that Malaysia's law enforcement and security agencies have been working quietly to combat the menace.
Collaboration with international law enforcement agencies has been strengthened, especially in intelligence gathering.
Razak said Malaysia was aware of ISIL's fast-spreading influence in cyberspace, thus proposed that ASEAN countries' government must come up with an organised strategy to counter the lies being spread by the ISIL online supposedly in the name of Islam.
Malaysia is also exploring the potential of establishing a regional digital counter-messaging communications centre to combat ISIL efforts.

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1 year ago.....

http://m.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/be-brave-like-isil-fighters-najib-tells-umno


Be brave like ISIL fighters, Najib tells Umno


KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — Umno must emulate the bravery of a Middle Eastern militant group that defeated an Iraqi force outnumbering it nearly 30 to one if the Malay nationalist party is to survive, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said yesterday.

The Umno president and prime minister was listing virtues that were needed to allow the Malay nationalist party to continue in power, during a dinner to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its Cheras branch yesterday.

“For example, when someone dares to fight to their death, they can even defeat a much bigger team.

“As proof — whether we agree or not is another matter — the group ISIL with the strength of just 1,300 people, can defeat an Iraqi army of 30,000 soldiers, until four, five generals with three, four stars run for their lives, jump out the window at night. Why? Because they are afraid of those who are brave,” he told more than 1,000 Umno members in attendance.

He also stressed the importance of being loyal to god, the party, and friends.


Najib said having wisdom and foresight in battles as well as the ability to organise is also crucial in strengthening the party.

The Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL) is a splinter group of al-Qaeda that wants to set up an Islamic caliphate encompassing both Iraq and Syria.

ISIL is viewed as a terror organisation by authorities both here and abroad.

A Malaysian suspected of being a member of ISIL was believed to have been the suicide bomber who killed 25 members of an Iraqi police team last month.

Earlier this month, three local men were arrested by police for suspected links to ISIL.


Malaysian PM warns over ISIL influence

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World Bulletin / News Desk
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday warned that his country and international community would not tolerate any form of violence and extremism committed by ISIL.
Razak said Malaysia condemns what he called ISIL's blatant misrepresentation of Islamic teachings, when it says the sadistic brutality, torture and murder of innocent men, women and children were justified.

He made Malaysia's stand at the Leaders' Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism at the United Nations in New York.

"Renounce your virulent creed of hate, violence and extremism and be guided back towards the righteous path, or face the consequences," he was quoted as saying by The Star Online.
The Summit was hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden.
As the chair of the Southeast Asian nations grouping ASEAN this year, Razak said Malaysia is leading the region towards combating all forms of extremism, including the possible spreading of ISIL beliefs in the region.
"We must make pre-emptive arrests if necessary and if there is irrefutable evidence, to save innocent lives," Razak said, referring to over 100 people detained in recent months by the Malaysian police, all suspected of having inclination towards ISIL.
He underlined that Malaysia's law enforcement and security agencies have been working quietly to combat the menace.
Collaboration with international law enforcement agencies has been strengthened, especially in intelligence gathering.
Razak said Malaysia was aware of ISIL's fast-spreading influence in cyberspace, thus proposed that ASEAN countries' government must come up with an organised strategy to counter the lies being spread by the ISIL online supposedly in the name of Islam.
Malaysia is also exploring the potential of establishing a regional digital counter-messaging communications centre to combat ISIL efforts.

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http://m.malaysiakini.com/news/314198

The things Singaporeans take for granted, no alalalalalehlong like killing chicken in morning to wake you up.



PKR Youth: All states must also ban mosque loudspeakers

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PKR Youth urges all states to emulate the Penang Islamic Council’s ban on the use of loudspeakers by mosques other than to broadcast the azan.

The Penang Mufti Office in a letter on Sept 1 said the edict by the state fatwa committee to ban the use of loudspeakers other than for the call for prayer, will be gazetted soon.

“Respect for each other must be encouraged, given Malaysia’s multicultural and multi-religious nature.

“Thus, we support the fatwa by the Penang mufti based on the spirit of maqasid syariah (the objectives of the syariah).

“In fact, it should be used as an example for all other states in Malaysia,” PKR Youth religious bureau representative Wan Ji Wan Hussin said.

Wan Ji, an Islamic scholar, said Islamic teachings dictate that no other matters should be broadcast from a mosque besides the call for prayer, for the express purpose of reminding believers to pray.

Similarly, he said, non-Muslims should also avoid practices which disturb others unless it is something that is compulsory in their religion or culture.

“If Muslims respect non-Muslim practices involving loud noises, then non-Muslims in this country must likewise respect the azan.

“We pray that the spirit of respect among religions and races in this country goes on, for the sake of our future,” he said.

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Child marriages not rare in Malaysia with 15,000 underage brides, activists say

How fucking disgusting are these assholes!!! Should chop off their pedo dicks! I don't care what your religion say but pedophilia is just universally wrong.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — A coalition of eight gender equality groups denounced today the government’s attempt to gloss over the issue of child marriages in the country as a rarity.

Citing statistic from United Nations’ reports, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) said there were as many as 15,000 Malaysians who were married off before the age of 19, contrary to the low figures given by the prime minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor at a function in the US yesterday.

The group highlighted that there is an even more worrying trend in the country, especially in poorer states, to marry off young girls to their rapists.

“In addition, in East Malaysia where poverty is higher… many girls are still married off at a young age. Child marriages are definitely not rare in Malaysia,” JAG said in a statement.

National news agency Bernama has reported Rosmah as telling an international group at the Ford Foundation breakfast meeting yesterday that the incidence of child marriages was rare in Malaysia due to good education and low poverty rate.


“The enrolment of boys and girls in primary education is 99 per cent while about 70 per cent of girls are now enrolled in universities,” Rosmah was quoted as saying.

Citing the United Nations Human Rights Council’s resolution to end child marriage, the coalition urged the government to acknowledge the issue and give a more accurate picture on it.

In Malaysia, the legal minimum age for marriage under civil law for both genders is 18, with marriages involving those under this age requiring consent from the state mentri besar or chief minister.

Islamic laws here places the legal marrying age for Muslim boys and girls at 18 and 16, with girls aged below 16 allowed to be married off with the consent of the Shariah court.

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How fucking disgusting are these assholes!!! Should chop off their pedo dicks! I don't care what your religion say but pedophilia is just universally wrong.

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1MDB controversy turned into racial conspiracy to divert attention, says former Special Branch deputy chief

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/1mdb-controversy-turned-into-racial-conspiracy-to-divert-attention-says-for

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 — The racially-tinged claim of a purported conspiracy to overthrow the ruling government is a tactic to shift the public’s attention from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) controversy, says former deputy chief of the police’s Special Branch Datuk Abdul Hamid Bador.

Abdul Hamid reportedly alleged that this bid to confuse the public is meant to halt ongoing investigations on the state-owned firm.

“In line with that effort (to stop the investigations), they are confusing the public by conjuring a stale script that there is supposedly a conspiracy to topple the government, which doesn’t make sense.

“Who wants to topple the government? Supposedly it’s the Chinese who are taking power?” he was quoted saying in an open letter by news portal Malaysiakini.

Abdul Hamid Bador: A conspiracy to topple the government ‘just doesn’t make sense’. — File pic
Abdul Hamid Bador: A conspiracy to topple the government ‘just doesn’t make sense’. — File pic
In his October 1 letter directed at the government, Abdul Hamid reportedly claimed that this was a “wicked” tactic to turn a matter of alleged “criminal breach of trust” into a “racial issue”.

Abdul Hamid also reportedly claimed that there have been attempts to hamper local investigations into the 1MDB controversy, including through the removal of Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail as Attorney-General, the arrest of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers and the disruption of investigations by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and a special government taskforce.

The taskforce has since been disbanded and rebranded into a new taskforce that does not include a specific probe on 1MDB as one of its brief, while the PAC’s probe will only resume after the replacement of its chairman and several members who have been made ministers and deputy ministers.

The controversy surrounding 1MDB spilled over to Putrajaya, when the US-based Wall Street Journal cited government investigations in its report of the alleged movement of almost US$700 million (RM3.1 billion) through 1MDB-linked entities into Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s accounts, which the MACC has said is a donation by a Middle Eastern source.

Following a Cabinet reshuffle in late July that saw Umno leader Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin losing his deputy prime minister post over what some suspected to be his vocal views on 1MDB, speculation of a purported plot to remove Najib Razak as prime minister cropped up but later died down.

The Bersih 4 rally on August 30 and 31 for institutional reforms was declared illegal by the government while the leader of organiser Bersih 2.0, Maria Chin Abdullah, was reported calling for Najib’s removal through a vote of no confidence in Parliament.

Critics of the Bersih 4 rally claimed that it was dominated by the Chinese, while Najib later explained on September 18 that it was declared illegal because it was planned as part of an alleged bid to topple the administration by demonstrating in a place where preparations were being held for the Merdeka celebration.

Najib recently said that a counter-rally on September 16 by red-shirt participants in favour of Malays and him was allowed to go on as it was not aimed at toppling the government, among other reasons.

1MDB is currently under investigation for corruption and mismanagement domestically as well as by various authorities in several countries, including Hong Kong, Switzerland and the UK.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/1mdb-controversy-turned-into-racial-conspiracy-to-divert-attention-says-for#sthash.iNBTapci.dpuf

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Go ahead and slap the Chinese if you have the guts, Dr M tells Umno deputy minister

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/go-ahead-and-slap-the-chinese-if-you-have-the-guts-dr-m-tells-umno-deputy-m

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Umno’s Pasir Salak MP Datuk Tajuddin’s off-the-cuff remark appears to have riled up even his political allies in Barisan Nasional.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today scoffed at an Umno leader who is getting flak after saying the ethnic Chinese should be “slapped”, and challenged Datuk Tajuddin Abdul Rahman to carry out the act.

The former prime minister was visibly amused when asked for his view on the “lempang” remark by the Pasir Salak MP

Lempang is a Malay term to describe the act of slapping.

“Lempang? Ask him to lempanglah. It’s easy to say. When we have the government backing us we are brave, but outside we are not brave,” he said dismissively at a news conference.

Tajuddin had initially accused news portal Malaysiakini — which first ran a story on his remark — of misquoting him in its story but later claimed he merely said it in jest, after an audio recording was posted online.

The agriculture and agro-based industries deputy minister said he did not fear any disciplinary action from his party over the incident as he had not issued any inappropriate statement in an official capacity.

However, Tajuddin’s off-the-cuff remark appears to have riled up even his political allies in Barisan Nasional, with both MCA and Gerakan saying they will issue a formal protest note and ask the coalition leadership to punish the Perak lawmaker.

Tajuddin’s remark was ostensibly in response to a comment by Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang in Petaling Street last week, that Beijing would not hesitate to speak out against any threat that may affect the country’s ties with Malaysia, in commenting on the communal tension here.

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Malaysia not just for Malays, but for Muslims, says hardline Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir

Just hope their stupidity do not spread....

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HTM spokesman Abdul Hakim Othman speaks to members of the media during a press conference in Seri Kembangan, on October 3, 2015. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

SERI KEMBANGAN, Oct 3 — The Malaysian chapter of hardline Islamists Hizbut Tahrir chided local Muslims today for their preoccupation with race, warning that tribalism is stopping the community from uniting with their brethren worldwide.

Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia (HTM) said many Malaysian Muslims have been influenced by “unIslamic thoughts” that cause them to insist that the country belongs solely to the Malays.

“The Muslims in Malaysia, who are mostly Malays, are still fighting for the Malays, their race. Whereas, in Islam that is haram [forbidden],” HTM spokesman Abdul Hakim Othman told reporters at the sidelines of the group’s Muktamar Khilafah 2015, a congress on establishing a caliphate.

“Malaysia is not owned just by the Malays. For Hizbut Tahrir, we are fine with any Muslims that come here, as this is a country for Muslims. Where anybody deserves to be here.”


In a speech made in the congress, HTM activist Omar Hussein accused Western powers of dividing Muslims into nation-states, causing them to identify more with their nationalities rather than their faith.

“Verily, the reason behind Muslims’ weakness and disunity is because Muslims these days are separated and segregated by the tribal divisions,” Omar told hundreds who attended the congress.

“With nation-states in which political games have been arranged by the West since the fall of the caliphate on March 3, 1924.”

The date refers to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire’s caliphate, following the Turkish national movement led by Turkey’s first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

HTM’s remark today came amid claims by several Umno leaders that racism is in line with Islamic teachings, with Tan Sri Annuar Musa saying in a pro-Malay rally last month that acting in defence of Malay honour was permitted in Islam so long as other races were not oppressed in the process.

Similarly, another leader in that #Merah169 rally, Sungai Besar Umno chief Datuk Jamal Md Yunos also claimed in an interview this week that Islam requires him to prioritise his race before his nationality.

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HTM aims to establish an Islamic state in Malaysia and a worldwide caliphate as part of its global network, although it has never explained how.

It had previously said that Putrajaya must implement all of Allah’s laws, and not just hudud, in a comprehensive Islamic rule that encompasses every aspect of government, including its economic, social and foreign policies as well as education.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/malaysia-not-just-for-malays-but-for-muslims-says-hardline-islamist-group-h#sthash.MyTTs6QC.dpuf

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Singapore is not an island

http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/singapore-is-not-an-island

Since 1957, first Malaya then Malaysia, was premised on a political and social compact that had Malay dominance as its cardinal principle. So long as this was not challenged, other races could have their own space. In political terms, this compact was reflected in a system structured around an alliance of race-based political parties with the dominant Malay party - United Malays National Organisation or Umno - at its centre.

Supporters of pro-democracy group Bersih gathering near Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown on Aug 29.
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The Chinese were represented by the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), later joined by Gerakan; the Indians by the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC). Two opposition parties, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS ), were in principle multiracial, but in practice largely Chinese and Malay and in any case were peripheral.

It was our refusal to accept the system's cardinal principle that led to Separation from Malaysia in 1965. But it was a system that had its own coherence and until relatively recently, it did not serve Malaysia badly. And despite the complexities of bilateral relations and occasional periods of tension, over the last 50 years, it was a system we learnt to work with, while going our own way.

That familiar system is now under immense stress. It is not certain that it can hold together.

PRESSURE POINT

The pressure point is religion. Arab influences from the Middle East have for several decades steadily eroded the Malay variant of Islam in which adat or traditional practices coexisted with the Quran in a syncretic, tolerant synthesis, replacing it with a more austere and exclusive interpretation of Islam. This is one aspect of a broader process of globalisation which is a sociocultural and not just an economic phenomenon. It has changed the texture of Malaysian society, I think irreversibly.

It is impossible for any country to insulate itself from globalisation. Religion in Singapore is not immune from globalisation's consequences, and not just in our Muslim community. Evangelical Christianity is one example. But Singapore is organised on the principle of multiracial meritocracy. So long as this is accepted by all races and religions as the foundation of our identity, the most corrosive political effects are mitigated. In the Singapore system, God - every God - and Caesar are separate and so all Gods must perforce co-exist, with the state playing the role of neutral arbiter.

Not so in Malaysia.

The cardinal principle of Malay dominance is enshrined in the Constitution, which also places Islam as the first component in the definition of a Malay. This makes the mixture of religion and politics well-nigh inevitable. Umno politicians have been unable to resist the temptation to use religion for electoral advantage. They are responding to the logic of the system as it has evolved.

In 2001, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad made a fundamental political error when he tried to undercut PAS by declaring that Malaysia was already an Islamic state. A constitutional controversy ensued. But the most damaging consequences were political not legal. Tun Dr Mahathir's incautious declaration gave a sharper political focus to the changes in the interpretation of Islam that were under way and catalysed a competitive dynamic in which those inclined to religious moderation were inevitably outbid and overwhelmed.

The result has been an increasingly pronounced emphasis on religion in Umno's political identity and a significant and continuing narrowing of the political and social space for non-Muslims.

Surveys show that Malaysian Malays privilege Islamic credentials over other qualities they look for in their leaders. A Merdeka Centre survey this year revealed that 60 per cent of Malaysian Malays polled identified themselves as Muslims first rather than Malaysians or even Malays. Demography accentuates the political impact of these attitudes. In 1957 the Chinese constituted 45 per cent of Malaya (West Malaysia). In 2010, they constituted only 24.6 per cent of Malaysia including East Malaysia. Malay fertility rates are significantly higher than both Chinese and Indians.

In the 2013 Malaysian General Election, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition got only 13 per cent of the Chinese vote. Two days after the election, Utusan Malaysia, an Umno mouthpiece, pointedly asked "Apa Lagi Cina Mau?" (What more do the Chinese want?)

The question was provocatively phrased, but not entirely unreasonable. Prime Minister Najib Razak tried hard to win back Chinese votes but got almost nothing for his efforts. MCA won only seven seats. Gerakan was wiped out.

The DAP won 38 seats, the largest number in the opposition coalition.

A NEW SYSTEM IN THE MAKING?

The Chinese parties in BN had clearly lost the trust of Chinese voters. Can MCA win back Chinese votes? Doubtful. MCA is obviously powerless to stem the narrowing political and social space for non-Muslims; the fecklessness of its leaders exposed by constant scandals and internal bickering.

In 2013, BN lost the popular vote but retained its parliamentary majority because of the 47 seats it won in East Malaysia. Native East Malaysians are not ethnically Malay but are classified as bumiputera. Some in Umno began to question whether it was really necessary to work with the Chinese at all. The declining numbers of Chinese in the Malaysian population will sooner or later make them electorally irrelevant to Umno and BN had already retained power without their votes.

Nor can the opposition coalition of the DAP, PAS and Anwar Ibrahim's Parti Keadilan Rakyat - Pakatan Rakyat (PR) - form a new multiracial system. PR was always a motley crew. Although its component parties are in theory multiracial, they have nothing in common except the ambition to displace BN. Only Anwar's charismatic personality and political skills held them uneasily together.

Anwar is now in jail and PR has fallen apart. PAS has left. Without Anwar, Keadilan's future is bleak. The DAP is subject to the demo- graphic constraints of a falling Chinese population and is unlikely to make substantial electoral advances beyond its present strength, although it will probably retain what it now holds. PR's successor - Pakatan Harapan - a coalition of the DAP, Keadilan and a minor breakaway faction from PAS, is a forlorn hope (pun intended).

PAS has purged its moderate leadership and is now led by the ulama. Umno is increasingly relying on religion to legitimise itself. Umno and PAS may eventually form some sort of de facto if not de jure alliance that could be the core of a new ruling system. There may be token ornaments of other races, but the Malaysian system will then comprise an overwhelmingly dominant Malay government with a DAP-led Chinese opposition. This will be potentially explosive.

I do not know if such a system will really replace the current system, but it certainly seems possible, even probable. It will not happen overnight. But the controversy over 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) could well hasten its emergence. The recent demonstrations seem to foreshadow such a development.

STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN UMNO

The anti-government Bersih demonstrations held in late August this year were, despite a sprinkling of other races, predominantly Chinese affairs. PAS, which had joined previous Bersih demonstrations, stayed away. The organisers claimed the demonstrations were apolitical, but the DAP with Keadilan clearly played significant roles.

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Last month, a pro-government counter-demonstration was organised by Pesaka - a right-wing Malay group ostensibly devoted to silat, the Malay martial art. The demonstration was almost entirely Malay, positioned as defending Malay rights and marked by fierce racial rhetoric. Before the demonstration, posters were displayed, captioned "Cina turun Bersih, sedialah bermandi darah" (Chinese who attend Bersih, be ready to be bathed in blood) which depicted a Bersih supporter being slashed with a parang. A flier with a similar slogan was found at DAP headquarters.

Umno denied organising the demonstration. Datuk Seri Najib did not attend but said he had no objections to Umno members doing so. The president of Pesaka is an Umno leader. Another Umno politician, who was one of the driving forces of the Pesaka demonstration, proudly admitted he was racist because it was under the Constitution.

Thankfully, violence at these demonstrations was avoided by the strong police presence. But the demonstrations certainly raised the temperature of an already racially fraught atmosphere.

Although the authorities denied it, the affray that broke out in July at Low Yat Plaza, a mainly Chinese shopping area in Kuala Lumpur, after a Malay youth was accused of stealing a mobile phone, was certainly racial. It exposed the tinderbox Malaysia had become.

Shortly after news broke about US$700 million (S$1 billion) believed to be from 1MBD being traced to what was alleged to be Mr Najib's personal account, a Putrajaya spokesman said: "The Prime Minister has not taken any funds for personal use."

Umno has always operated through a system of patronage. If this is what the spokesman was hinting at, then Dr Mahathir's accusations against Mr Najib ring hollow. Did he not preside over the same system and for far longer than any other Malaysian prime minister?

This system also means that Mr Najib is in no imminent danger of being forced from office so long as he holds the majority of Umno divisions and retains Malay support. Frustration may account for Dr Mahathir's attendance at the Bersih demonstration which I do not think has raised the good doctor's standing with the Malay ground.

The 1MDB scandal is less about corruption than about a struggle for power within Umno.

Dr Mahathir seems to have expected to exercise remote control even though he was no longer prime minister. Among his grievances with his successors were their warming of ties with Singapore, Mr Najib's decision to settle the railway land issue, cooperation on Iskandar Malaysia (IM) and the refusal of both Tun Abdullah Badawi and Mr Najib to proceed with his pet white elephant: the "crooked bridge". Dr Mahathir wants to replace Mr Najib with someone more pliable.

The intra-Umno power struggle is not over. Mr Najib retains his office but has been politically damaged. Dr Mahathir's reputation may have been dented, but he still has a following within Umno and the Malay public.

Mr Najib cannot allow himself to be outflanked on the right. Two days after the September demonstration, he attended a Pesaka gathering. He praised Pesaka members as being "willing to die" for the government and said "Malay people can also show that we are still able to rise when our dignity is challenged, when our leaders are insulted, criticised, shamed", adding, "We respect other races. But don't forget: Malays also have their feelings. Malays also have their limits."

WHAT NEXT?

A former minister, Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin, has said that "if Najib succeeds in uniting Umno and PAS, then I am confident the Malays will forgive his grave mistakes", adding that "after fulfilling this large and sincere task" he should step down and hand power to former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

I do not know if Mr Najib feels he has committed "grave mistakes". But he certainly will not hand over power to a man he unceremoniously sacked. Still, Mr Zainuddin is probably not wrong about anyone who brings Umno and PAS together becoming a Malay hero. It may not be Mr Najib, but the trajectory of political developments in Malaysia already seems to point in that direction.

Malaysia and Singapore are each other's second-largest trading partner. Malaysia is Singapore's sixth-largest investment destination and we are the top investor in IM. Every day tens of thousands of Malaysians commute across the Causeway to work in Singapore. It is in our interest to see Malaysia stable with a healthy economy.

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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/pakistan-woman-set-on-fire-for-refusing-marriage-proposal

Pakistan woman ‘set on fire for refusing marriage proposal

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MULTAN (Pakistan), Oct 23 — A young Pakistani woman was recovering in hospital today after she was burned over nearly half her body by a man she had refused to marry, police said.

Sonia Bibi, 20, told police from her hospital bed that her former lover Latif Ahmed sprinkled her with petrol and set her alight after she turned down his proposal.

A doctor in Multan’s main Nishtar hospital confirmed to AFP that 45 to 50 per cent of Bibi’s body had been burnt in the attack, but said she was out of danger.

The incident took place in a remote village of Multan district in central Punjab province, and police have arrested the 24-year-old Ahmed, local police official Jamshid Hayat told AFP.

“Police arrested the man after recording the statement of Sonia Bibi in the presence of her parents,” Hayat said.

“The girl told us that she was in love with Latif, whom she accused of dousing her in gasoline and setting her alight,” Hayat said.

Police have launched a probe, he said, but preliminary investigations suggested Latif had set Bibi on fire “after she refused to marry him”.

Mukhtar Cheema, another police official in Multan confirmed the incident, saying that Bibi had told police she had turned Ahmed down as she was no longer in love with him. — AFP

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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/discrimination-against-single-women-in-public-sexual-health-services

Discrimination against single women in public sexual health services?

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KUALA LUMPUR Oct 25 — Public sexual healthcare providers appear to be discriminating against single women on moral grounds, with clinics regularly withholding access to contraceptives, among others, without proof of marriage.

Despite the lack of directives to limit universal sexual health care to the married, its provision by government clinics to unwed women is inconsistent from one location to another.

Recent attempts by Malay Mail Online to obtain contraceptives at one such clinic was initially denied as caregivers there insisted that they have never provided birth control medication to unmarried women, although the reporter was able to convince them to dispense these after a long negotiation.

At another clinic, also in the Klang Valley, the nurses outright said it is mandatory for clients to bring in their marriage certificates in order to be registered and treated.

Calls to 18 maternal and child health clinics in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor also supported the suspicion that unmarried women face informal barriers to obtaining sexual health services that are provided unchallenged to their married counterparts, with all saying they must check if they are allowed to dispense contraceptives to singles.

Seven later said no, while five said it is not encouraged; another said to seek the doctor’s advice first.

Six said it was possible after further checks, although one said it was necessary for patients to disclose their religion, explaining that Muslim women must provide proof of marriage in order to obtain the medication.

Premarital sex and sex in general remain taboo subjects in conservative Malaysia, and such views are hampering access to sexual health services at government clinics in times of changing norms and values.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), men and women have the right to be informed of and have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of fertility regulation of their choice.

“Reproductive health, therefore, implies that people are able to have a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so,” according to its web site.

The unofficial barriers to single women securing contraceptives from public healthcare providers also come at a time when cases of teen pregnancies and baby dumping are on the rise.

According to Welfare Department statistics, there were a total of 472 abandoned babies in the country between 2005 and 2010. Activists attributed many of the cases to the stigma that unwed mothers face as well as the lack of access to sexual health education.

Figures from the Health Ministry revealed that 16,528 teen pregnancies were recorded last year based on the number of adolescents that registered at government clinics. On average, there are around 50 teen pregnancies a day.

Reproductive health care includes not only access to contraceptives such as birth control pills, condoms, but also scientific rather than religious-based information on reproductive health, treatment for sexually transmitted infection and diseases, access to safe abortion, among others.

These services are technically available to all at the 1,061 government clinics all over the country, inclusive of standalone Maternal and Child Health Clinics and 1810 Community Health Clinics, under the Health Ministry.

Dr Choong Sim-Poey, the president of the Penang Family Health Development Association (FHDA), said the fact that sexual health services are given to singles on a “discretionary” basis allows cultural and religious bias to operate.

The co-chair of Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM) said some official data indicated that this unmet need for better contraceptive and abortion services has long been ignored by health authorities because of such biases.

“In a nutshell, the government considers that all single women are celibate, and if they are not, they should be punished.

“And because of stigma and prejudice, a lay person may find it quite difficult to get accurate information on where to get such services,” he explained.

He said a more controversial aspect of discrimination in reproductive health services is termination of pregnancy or induced abortions for unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.

Although Section 312 of the Penal Code allows for terminations on grounds of mental distress, he said records showed that government hospitals only provide abortion for serious medical risks of a continuing pregnancy.

As such, most abortions here are provided by private doctors who are willing to recognise mental distress as a valid and legal indication for an abortion, he noted.

“But because the private sector abortions are unregulated, clients, especially if they are single, are exploited by some doctors with exorbitant fees putting this procedure or treatment beyond the means of many women,” he said.

WHO calls for legal abortion a “fundamental right of women, irrespective of where they live” and “legalisation of abortion on request is a necessary but insufficient step toward improving women’s health”.

Dr Choong said an official Health Ministry guideline released in September 2012 made it clear that government health facilities should provide this service according to the law, but based on informal feedback, he said this has yet to be effected.

“The concept of reproductive rights of women as a human rights principle has yet to be recognised by our government,” he said.

Sex educator and activist June Low said the answer to the current situation is not to tell staff at government clinics not to apply their own morals on patients; rather, she advocate comprehensive sex education for everyone, from students through to adults.

“Get sex ed in schools, get people talking about sex and being more open about it as an issue that affects us all.

“Only then can we expect a shift in attitudes,” she said.

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Saudi Singer Shams Bandar Slams Arab World and Hypocrisy

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The 28-year-old Saudi-born singer Shams Bandar Al-Aslami might not have been so popular before but after making some bold comments about the Arab world she is getting the limelight almost everywhere.

Shams was interviewed recently where she lamented on the worrisome situation that a number of Arab countries are currently going through, blaming the Arab world in general for hypocrisy on the matter. Her comments were pretty hard hitting and got criticized all over the Arab countries because it is not usual for an Arab to speak out so openly against his/ her fellow Arabs.

Shams Bandar, on the other hand, has recently announced that she is giving up her Saudi and Kuwaiti nationality and taking on a European nationality. In the interview, she was inquired as to the reasons for this. When she was probed with questions about why she regarded the Arab world as “hell” and the west as “paradise,” she finally spoke up:

WHY TELL OURSELVES LIES? THE SYRIANS ARE SCATTERED IN THE WORLD’S OCEANS, DYING BY THE MILLIONS ON A DAILY BASIS… IRAQIS ARE DYING BY THE MILLIONS… ALL THE ARAB COUNTRIES HAVE CLOSED THEIR BORDERS TO THEM. WHAT CAN THESE WRETCHED PEOPLE DO WITH THEIR ARAB CITIZENSHIP? HOW DOES A SUFFERING SYRIAN BENEFIT FROM HIS ARAB CITIZENSHIP, WHEN HIS CHILDREN AND FAMILY HAVE BEEN KILLED AND HIS LIFE HAS BEEN DESTROYED? HIS OWN ARAB BRETHREN DO NOT LET HIM IN.

Defending the west and comparing it against the practices of Arab she taunted whether the former chopped off heads, decapitated people, stoned or publically executed them before moving on to talk about ISIS and how they are the stark opposite of the west at least as far as laws and constitutions are concerned.

“For 1,400 years we have been slaughtering one another, just because one of us prays one way and another prays a different way,” Shams Bandar said and concluded that 1400 years ago the USA was not there then why on earth is the Arab world blaming them for everything.

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Saudi actor arrested by religious police for taking selfies with female fans in mall

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A popular actor and TV presenter has been arrested in a mall in Saudi Arabia after his appearance caused a huge commotion among young female fans.

Abdul Aziz al-Kassar, a Saudi national who lives in Kuwait, was on a working visit to Riyadh when he was mobbed by fans trying to take pictures and selfies with him.

Kassar had publicised his visit to the Al Nakheel shopping centre on Friday evening, asking his social media followers for recommendations of "the best mall to visit", Gulf News reported.

But in a TV interview at the weekend, he told the Gulf Rotana network he had not expected the "overwhelming" welcome he received from fans.

Video from the mall posted to YouTube and Twitter appears to show Kassar surrounded by women taking photos, before a man in white robes grabs him by the shirt and hauls him away.

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Kassar told Gulf Rotana: "I did not expect to find so many people waiting for me. I want to clarify that the presence of young women at the mall was not something under my control.

"When I stepped in, several fans came over and surrounded me until someone came over and pulled me aside into a room that I learned was reserved for the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice inside the mall.

Saudi's 'religious police' assault Kuwaiti artist @KASSAR_KASSAR in a mall in Riyadh. #شكرا_رجل_الهييه_تلال_الارقاب pic.twitter.com/eD56DuRCdf
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"I understood that the man who pulled me was a member of the commission and I did not resist him out of my respect for the Commission,” he added.

Kassar said he initially had his phone confiscated, and he has been released on bail pending an investigation into accusations of disturbing public order, mixing with women unrelated to him and abusing social media.

Hugely popular on social media and with acting credits across Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Kassar has also presented a number of TV programmes. He claimed that the religious police should have warned him about the number of fans congregating and that they "did not tell me to stay away".

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Drug smuggling, rape and torture: These 5 Saudi royals all did things commoners would be executed for

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The recent arrests of two Saudi Arabian princes — one for smuggling literal tons of illegal drugs in his private plane and one for a series of sexually abusive incidents involving his employees — call attention to a long and august tradition of fabulously wealthy people from the highly religious Islamic monarchy acting in absolutely horrible ways.

On Monday, Saudi prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four associates were caught at the Beirut airport attempting to carry “two tons of Captagon pills” into Saudi Arabia as well as a quantity of cocaine.

Captagon is the brand name for fenethylline, a combination of the stimulants amphetamine and theophylline. Sources in the Middle East say Captagon is fueling fighters on both sides of Syria’s bloody civil war.

The Guardian said that the drug was first synthesized in the 1960s to treat “hyperactivity, narcolepsy and depression,” but was ultimately banned as too addictive. It remains wildly popular in the Middle East, but virtually unheard-of anywhere else.

Last week, in Los Angeles, 29-year-old Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud was arrested on suspicion of “forced oral copulation” of an adult and other charges.

Al-Saud is accused by three anonymous female employees of going on a violent, debauched rampage in which he attacked male and female aides and house workers, forcing them to strip on command and perform sex acts against their will.

Last week neighbors spotted a naked, bleeding woman frantically trying to scale the 8-foot fence around Al-Saud’s Beverly Hills compound. They helped the woman escape and called police.

By Thursday Al-Saud — who is the son of Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah — was free on $300,000 bail.

The arrests echo other instances of wealthy Saudis running afoul of the law, including the case of 27-year-old Monsour Alshammari. Alshammari was apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border attempting to flee the country to escape prosecution on rape charges in Utah.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Alshammari is related to Saudi royalty and U.S. authorities say that if he is allowed to return to that country, they will lose the ability to extradite and try him.

In 2013, a Saudi princess named Meshael Alayban was arrested in Irvine, California on charges that she imprisoned and abused a Kenyan house servant. The L.A. Times said that the victim accused Alayan of imprisoning her and treating her as slave labor.

In 2010, a wealthy Saudi couple was accused of torturing a 49-year-old Sri Lankan maid by hammering 24 hot nails into her flesh when she complained about her workload.

Also in 2010, Saudi Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir Al-Saud was jailed for life after bludgeoning his manservant Bandar Abdulaziz to death in London. During Nasir Al-Saud’s trial it came to light that the man he murdered was also his partner.

The BBC noted that the 34-year-old prince spent more of his time in court arguing that he isn’t gay than he did denying the murder.

The oil-rich nation is a theocratic monarchy which is rigidly controlled by the House of Saud, a royal family with thousands of members, the majority of whom wield outsized wealth and influence over a population boasting one of the widest gaps between rich and poor on the planet.


Some 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from wealthy Saudi families and former al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden also hailed from the richest districts of Riyadh, the Saudi capital.

The country is governed by Islamic law and its criminal justice system regularly executes offenders by means of beheadings, firing squads and crucifixions. An August report said that the Saudi government is executing one person every two days for crimes as various as “drug trafficking, rape, murder, armed robbery and apostasy.”

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Saudi Arabia 'may jail woman who posted video of husband groping housemaid'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-may-jail-woman-who-posted-video-of-husband-cheating-with-housemaid-a6683651.html

A Saudi woman who filmed a clip appearing to show her husband groping their housemaid could face prison because of the nation's defamation laws.

The woman secretly shot the encounter between her husband and the maid on her phone. The resulting footage appears to show the man talking to a maid and kissing her.

Seeking her revenge, she shared the footage on a social media alongside the caption: “the minimum punishment for this husband is to scandalise him.”

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The video, shown above, went viral in Saudi Arabia, with many viewers rallying in support of the wife, the Sada newspaper reported, according to Emirates 24/7.

“I salute you warmly for your valiant courage,” Al Yamama, a blogger, said of the woman’s decision, according to Gulf News.

“You did the best thing because there was an urgent need for revenge and your revenge is the best."

However, Majid Qaroob, a top Saudi lawyer, said the woman could be handed a one-year prison sentence or a fine of 500,000 Saudi Riyals (£87,630).

"This law [on information technology crimes] includes stiff punishment for anyone using mobile phones with a camera or other equipment to photograph others and defame them," he said.

Millions of people work as maids in the Gulf States, many of whom are migrants from poor countries such as the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

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Appellate court bins bid by mum and four sons to remove ‘Islam’ status from IC

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PUTRAJAYA, Oct 30 — The Court of Appeal today dismissed the bid by a mother and her four sons to get the National Registration Department (NRD) to change their names and remove “Islam” as their religious status in their identification cards (IC).

The appellate court ruled that their argument of being mistakenly identified as Muslims by the NRD was not supported by “cogent evidence,” noting that there was evidence to show that they had identified themselves as being of Indian Muslim heritage and professing Islam.

“Based on the evidence on record, we are of the unanimous view that the decision of the National Registration Department not to change the names and religion of the applicants in their respective identity cards is correct in law and cannot be categorised as being perverse, unreasonable, irrational or illegal so as to warrant our intervention,” the three-man panel led by Court of Appeal judge Datuk Mohd Zawawi Salleh said.

“Therefore we affirm the decision of the High Court and dismiss all appeals with costs,” he said, fixing RM5,000 as the total costs that the five have to pay for the High Court and Court of Appeal proceedings.

Today was the hearing of the appeal by a Hindu-born mother, her Hindu-born son from her first marriage and her three other sons from her second marriage, against the Kuala Lumpur High Court's February 10 decision to dismiss their judicial review bid against the NRD's refusal to make the amendments.


The mother Jamilah Jan Vasanthegokelam, 56, had sought to get the NRD to remove Islam as her official religious status and to revert her name to her original - Vasanthegokelam Subramaniam - when she was born to Hindu parents.

During the appeal hearing, Jamilah's lead counsel Robin Lim Fang Say said his client had changed her name at the NRD at the request of her second husband Mohd Baser Kalakan to avoid problems in obtaining a birth certificate for their eldest son, due to his Muslim-sounding name, and her name that did not sound like a Muslim's.

But Lim argued that Jamilah's name change is not conclusive proof that she had changed her religion and she had no intention to convert, noting that she herself had conducted her own search and confirmed with the Islamic authorities that there was no certificate of her conversion to Islam.

Jamilah's three sons from the second marriage — Mohd Jefrey Mohd Baser, 32, Mohd Jass Mohd Baser, 28 and Mohd Naser Mohd Baser, 22 — now also want the religious status classification of Muslim in their identity cards to be removed. Lim had noted that their birth certificates did not carry their religious status or that of their parents.

Jamilah's other son Mahendra Ghanasan had his name changed to Mohd Sharif Abdullah and was declared to the NRD as being an Indian Muslim and professing the Islamic faith when he obtained his IC at the age of 12, but the 35-year-old wants to reinstate his original name and Hindu religious status that was stated in his birth certificate.

Lim had said there was no conversion certificate to show that Mohd Sharif had converted to Islam.

But senior federal counsel Mazlifah Ayob, who represented the NRD, noted that Jamilah has held this new name for 30 years since she applied for a name change in 1983 and has been holding the identification card with the word “Islam” printed on it for the last 13 years since it was issued in 2003.

Mazlifah cited Jamilah's 2013 statutory declaration in support of her application to the NRD for a name change and removal of the Islam status, where the latter had said she had converted to Islam but was not a practising Muslim.

Jamilah's lawyer Lim interjected to say that his illiterate client had mistakenly thought that her identification card details meant that she had converted.

Mazlifah said NRD's records show that the application forms for all four sons for their identification cards were filled up with “Indian Muslim” and “Islam” as their race and religion.

Lim contended that the religious status of Jamilah's husband was unclear as there was no evidence to state he was born or converted to be Muslim, while government lawyer Mazlifah said that his identification card application and an application for his death certificate had stated that he was a Muslim.

At one point, Mazlifah said the NRD was not denying applicants their right to amend their religious status in their identification cards, but said there was a need to show some proof that they have become apostates.

Jamilah and her four sons had filed for judicial review against the NRD director-general and the Home Minister.

Nithiyawathi Subramaniam and federal counsel Haryati Ahmad appeared for the five appellants and the two respondents respectively, while Farez Mohd Ali Jinnah held a watching brief on behalf of the Bar Council.

The other Court of Appeal judges who heard this case today are Datuk Nallini Pathmanathan and Datuk Abd Rahman Sebli.

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Non-Malays more accepting of child rape, says deputy home minister

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/non-malays-more-accepting-of-child-rape-says-deputy-home-minister

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KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 — Non-Malays are likely to be more accepting of statutory rape, Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar told Parliament today, in reply to a question on the low incidence of reported cases of sexual violations among Malaysia’s minorities.

The deputy home minister appeared to suggest that the lower level of tolerance among the country’s largest community for sexual predators who prey on minors is a contributing factor to the high number of cases involving Malays.

“This doesn’t mean the cases mostly involve Malays. Because Malays are culturally more sensitive about its youth so there are more police reports about it.

“Non-Malays are maybe more accepting about it so the margin (is lower),” Wan Junaidi said in reply to Setiu Barisan Nasional MP Che Mohamad Zulkifly Jusoh during Question Time.

The Santubong MP said that in 2012, there were 1,550 reported incidents of statutory rape, with Malays taking the top spot at 48 per cent, followed by the Chinese at 5 per cent and Indians at 3 per cent.

The lawmaker observed that the number of reported cases last year had dropped to 1,424.

He added that close to 90 per cent of the cases reported involved those aged between 16 and 19.

Despite the decline in numbers, child rape remains a major concern, Wan Junaidi said .

He added the government has initiated various campaigns to educate the public about the problem as well as crime prevention programmes.

But the deputy minister said public refusal to co-operate has made it hard for the authorities to tackle the problem.

Malaysia was rocked in the past two years by several high-profile cases of men having sex with underage girls, some barely in their teens, which raised questions over the Penal Code.

A 41-year-old Sabahan and father of two was charged with statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl whom he subsequently married last year.

In 2012, a national bowler, who pleaded guilty to having consensual sex with his 13-year-old girlfriend when he was 19, escaped a jail sentence after the Court of Appeal ruled to show leniency, saying the youth had shown remorse.

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In Chinatown, opposition leaders tell Malaysians to unite against racism

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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 — In a symbolic display of unity, leaders of the multi-racial opposition pact Pakatan Harapan today visited Petaling Street where an anti-Chinese rally was initially scheduled to take place, and called on Malaysians to unite against what it alleged was state-backed racism.

The rally, which an Umno leader warned earlier this week could possibly escalate into a riot, was called off at the eleventh hour but Pakatan Harapan leaders said their presence at the area known as Chinatown was meant to send a clear message that there are Malaysians who will stand up against any effort to divide the country with communal politics.

“I am here not only to support the traders, but I come here to show that this is place that belongs to all Malaysians.

“Whatever form of racism is symptomatic of the jahiliyah (ignorant) people and as a Muslim we must stand up for unity and fight any divisive elements,” PKR vice-president and Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar told a press conference here.

Nurul Izzah was flanked by several other opposition leaders, including the DAP's Lim Kit Siang and national laureate Datuk A Samad Said.


“This togetherness here is important to send a strong signal that we Malaysians reject any attempt to incite and divide, which received the endorsement and support of this government,” she added.

Earlier this week, #Merah 169 spokesman Datuk Jamal Md Yunos had warned that the authorities’ failure to take action against Petaling Street traders for allegedly selling counterfeit goods will inevitably force “red shirt” protesters to return there today and possibly “riot”.

Last week, some 2,000 participants of the pro-Malay #Merah169 rally had tried break a police barricade around Petaling Street, a tourist hotspot dominated by Chinese traders that the group described as a symbol of alleged Chinese chauvinism.

Samad said today he does not see Petaling Street as a “Chinese place” and recalled how he used to walk by and shop in the area, which had in the past inspired some of his writings.

“This is a place of history, culture and food so any attempt to desecrate it with elements of racism must be opposed,” said the soft-spoken writer and now a member of Chinese-majority DAP.

He also accused Jamal and the “red-shirters” of attempting to score political mileage by stirring racial sentiment to rally support for the Najib administration by targeting Petaling Street.

Lim echoed the view and said the #Merah169 rally was nothing more than a diversion from the many crises plaguing Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s government.

“They are playing the racial card in a bid to strengthen Najib’s rule. That is all”.

The Gelang Patah MP noted that Putrajaya’s diversion tactic was evident with leaders allegedly painting the August pro-reform Bersih 4 rally as a Chinese and DAP initiative, which he called “utter nonsense”.
Najib is facing mounting pressure to quit over his alleged involvement in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd financial fiasco, which is now under investigation by several international agencies, including the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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No more legal obstacle for Hadi’s hudud motion in Parliament, lawyer says -

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 9 — The High Court here struck out today a suit against Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, which according to PAS president’s lawyer, has opened the way for any other federal lawmaker to restart stalled talks on the controversial enforcement of Islamic criminal laws in Malaysia.

PAS secretary-general Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan, who represented Hadi, said the High Court allowed his client's application to strike out the lawsuit filed by four Malaysians who wanted to block the Islamist party leader from tabling any Private Member's Bill related to hudud.

Takiyuddin said the court also decided that Hadi's past actions - in seeking the amendment of Act 355 or a 1965 law to increase the Shariah courts' powers to enable the harsher hudud penalties to be enforced — was done in line with rules.

"The court decided that the defendant Haji Abdul Hadi Awang has done something as a member of Parliament according to rules based on the Standing Order and Parliamentary Privilege Act.

"He has done something properly and in accordance with the law. He filed everything required by the law to bring the motion to amend the Act 355," he told reporters after High Court judge Datuk Asmabi Mohamad delivered her decision in chambers.

Six grounds were given by the judge, who gave no order as to costs, as both Hadi and the other defendants who were sued did not seek for costs to be awarded, Takiyuddin said.

Farez Mohd Ali Jinnah, the lawyer for the four who had sued Hadi, told Malay Mail Online that he is still seeking instructions from his clients on their next course of action.

In June, a group of “concerned citizens” filed for an injunction to prevent federal lawmakers from debating Hadi’s private member’s Bill to remove the legal barriers preventing PAS from enforcing the Islamic penal code in Kelantan.

The group comprises Mansoor Saat, Azira Aziz, Hasbeemaputra Abu Bakar and Hazwany Jamaluddin.

The four named Hadi, Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Mulia Amin, Deputy Speakers Datuk Ronald Kiandee and Datuk Ismail Mohamad Said as well as Dewan Rakyat Secretary Datuk Roosme Hamzah as respondents in their application.

Hadi submitted his private member’s Bill twice earlier this year, but was unable to have it debated in Parliament during the last two meetings ostensibly due to a lack of time. He had not resubmitted it for the last Parliamentary meeting this year.

To implement hudud in Kelantan, PAS is seeking to amend the Shariah Court Act (Criminal Jurisdiction) 1965 or Act 355, which currently only allows the Shariah courts to mete out punishments limited to RM3,000 fine, five years’ jail and six strokes of caning.

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KL mulls over separate trolleys for non-halal foods

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KUALA LUMPUR • Malaysia is considering drafting new laws to make supermarkets supply different sets of trolleys for consumers.

Trolleys used for carrying halal foods would be different from those for non-halal foods, a Cabinet minister said, as reported by the Utusan Malaysia newspaper yesterday. The government might also seek to have different checkout counters for halal and non-halal products, said Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Hamzah Zainudin.

He said the proposal was being discussed by the ministry to ensure Muslims did not have to "worry" whether the goods they bought had mixed with non-halal items.



"The ministry plans to make special regulations so that people could differentiate the trolleys for use with non-halal products," Datuk Hamzah said.

"The segregation can be done with red trolleys for non-halal products and other colours for halal products," he was quoted as telling reporters after attending an event on Friday.

Halal foods are those that are permissible for Muslims to consume. Non-halal foods in Malaysia are currently sold in separate rooms or at separate counters in most supermarkets, with large signs to show that they are not for consumption by Muslims, who make up about 60 per cent of the 30 million population.

Mr Hamzah said studies would be undertaken first as providing different sets of trolleys would be costly for supermarkets.

The plan, if carried out, would represent yet another uptick in rising Islamic conservatism in Malaysia led by government officials.

Officials were inundated with complaints from non-Muslim women in recent months when they were prevented by security guards from entering some government departments unless they were "appropriately dressed".

The Malaysian Chinese Association on Friday called on the Health Ministry to investigate reports that a toddler was denied treatment at two government clinics and a hospital because his mother was deemed to be "inappropriately dressed", party vice-president Chew Mei Fun said. The government has also faced several legal cases involving Christians being blocked from bringing in Bibles and books in Bahasa Malaysia.

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‘Haram’ to welcome Obama, Hizbut Tahrir tells Putrajaya, Malaysian Muslims -

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PUTRAJAYA, Nov 6 — The local chapter of a hardline Islamist group claimed today that it would be “haram” for the Putrajaya and Muslims here to welcome United States President Barack Obama when the latter arrives in Kuala Lumpur later this month for his second visit to Malaysia.

The group, Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia (HTM), labelled Obama an “enemy” of Islam, citing the deaths of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, as well as in the ongoing Syrian conflict, which they blamed on the US president’s administration.

“We hope that Muslims, specifically in Malaysia, realise that Obama is Islam’s enemy. Many of our brothers and sisters have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And now, as a result of the cooperation, the permission and the instruction of the US, we see Russia has invaded Syria and have dropped their bombs in Syria, killing many Muslims there,” HTM spokesman Abdul Hakim Othman told reporters outside the prime minister’s office here this afternoon.

“And we hope Muslims in Malaysia realise that they are our enemy and that it is haram to welcome them.”

The group handed over a memorandum to the Prime Minister’s Department today to state its objection to Obama’s scheduled visit this month.

In the memorandum, HTM pointed out that two visits by a US president in two years was out of the ordinary. The pro-caliphate movement also warned of Obama allegedly bringing with him agenda that could endanger Muslims here, and Malaysians in general.

It listed four official reasons for its rejection of the US president’s visit, including a claim that Obama is the leader of an imperialist country that shows hostility towards Muslims in the name of countering terrorism; and another claim accusing the world leader of backing Zionist Jews.

HTM said it has doubts over the true intention of Obama’s visit here, and that it feared the leader was looking to influence Malaysia with Western ideologies like democracy, human rights, liberalism, secularism, as well as strengthening Malaysia’s stand on moderation.

Abdul Hakim said HTM will continue to show its rejection of Obama’s visit and will hand another memorandum to the US embassy next Friday.

“What we are doing is for the good of the country, and the good of Muslims in Malaysia because we know the agenda of the US, that is filled with craftiness and tricks against Muslim countries,” he said.

Over 100 people turned up today as part of the delegation to hand over the memorandum to the prime minister’s department. The supporters held up banners and placards saying “TPPA haram di sisi Islam” (TPPA is haram in Islam), “Undang musuh Allah, undang murka Allah” (inviting Allah’s enemy is inviting Allah’s wrath) and “Kick Obama! World’s no.1 terrorist” among others.

Obama is expected to be in Malaysia from November 20 to 22 to attend the third Asean-US Summit and the 10th East Asia Summit.

He last visited Malaysia in April last year.

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Bumiputera will steal if left unaided, says law minister

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 — Poor Bumiputera will resort to theft, minister Nancy Shukri said today in her defence of the government’s recent move to reintroduce a race-preferential economic policy that has drawn the ire of Malaysia’s minority Chinese and Indian communities.

The de facto law minister told a public forum on international covenants organised by the Malaysian Bar here that the Bumiputera Economic Empowerment Policy was needed to help fix the unequal wealth distribution among the races that remains prevalent half a century after the country was formed, and which she claimed could lead to a potential spurt in social ills and crime.

“As a politician now, I understand why there is a Bumiputera new economic policy... The Bumiputera, they are very marginalised in terms of economy. They’re very much lower than other groups.

“If there is no such policy to balance the economic distribution within Bumiputera and non-Bumiputera, there could be a difficult situation as well,” Nancy said.

A former civil society activist, the Sarawakian MP for Batang Sadong said the public at large was unable to understand the necessity for such policy to reverse the imbalance in distributing wealth.

“If you don’t help... social ills will be happening. Because they will left very far behind, there will be social problems. That’s the situation, if they don’t have money, what will they do? They will start stealing.”

Even so, the minister admitted that the Bumiputera cannot forever depend on help from Putrajaya, and the New Economic Model (NEM) itself does not just simply gift the ethnic group cash handouts.

In September, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had detailed the far-reaching NEM that is set to offer the dominant Malay community access to tens of billions in aid and contracts.

In a high-profile announcement, Najib trotted off a list of over RM31 billion in various loans, contracts and programmes that will be made available to the group, with the stated aim of strengthening Bumiputera economic participation and boost their ownership of commercial property.

The commitment towards uplifting the lot of the Malay community — which Najib described as integral in charting the country’s fortunes — follows recent criticism against the Umno president for failing to fully acknowledge the support the group had extended to the ruling Barisan Nasional during the recent general election.

The move had received heavy criticism from opposition Pakatan Rakyat, with DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang claiming that the NEM will only result in greater benefits for Umno’s upper echelon.

PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang had also said that Bumiputera special privileges cannot justify Putrajaya’s decision to lavish billions on the community without care for the rest of Malaysia.

Najib however received support from Malay rights group Perkasa which urged the prime minister to not be apologetic over the NEM as it is the government’s obligation to repay the Bumiputera for their support in the recent general election.

The group also thanked Putrajaya for listening to its recommendations while forming the NEM, claiming now that empowering the Bumiputera is a “national agenda” instead of a racial one.

The Malays and Bumiputera make up the majority of Malaysia’s population at an estimated 67.4 per cent of the 28.3 million population, followed by the Chinese at 24.6 per cent, according to the most recent census at 2010.

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Penang removes playground structures with pig-like designs

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GEORGE TOWN • Several playthings that resembled a pig were removed from the Esplanade hours after photos of the structures went viral in cyberspace.

Penang Island City Council (MBPP) immediately replaced the spring-operated ride with a pig design with those of birds at the outdoor playground last Saturday.

Penang Muslim non-governmental organisations coalition secretary Ahmad Yakqub Nazri said he was shocked when he saw the structures that resembled a pig.


"Those who installed such items are clearly insensitive to the Muslims in the state," he said.

MBPP secretary Ang Aing Thye said that the officer-in-charge of the project had been told to submit a report.

"We are investigating the matter. Action will be taken against those at fault," he said.

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Tun Dr Ismail’s son wants Jakim abolished


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here was a time in the country's history when the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) did not exist, Putrajaya did not tell Malaysians how to practise their faith, and no one batted an eye when Muslims owned dogs.

And the former deputy prime minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman's eldest son, Tawfik Ismail, wants those days back.

The main step is to dissolve Jakim, Tawfik said during an interview in conjunction with the release of "Drifting into Politics", a collection of his late father's writings during the nation's formative years, edited by Tawfik and academic Ooi Kee Beng.


Jakim was created during Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's time and seems to serve no other purpose than to intervene in the personal lives of Malaysians, Tawfik told The Malaysian Insider when met at his house in Taman Tun Dr Ismail.
"I think Jakim should be abolished. I don't think Jakim should exist. What is the government afraid of? You have 13 muftis with 13 different fatwas and 13 different ways of approaching it (religion).

"What is the purpose of Jakim? Halal certificates? That can go to the health ministries, trade ministry. What else does Jakim do? Print the Quran? We have a communications minister," said the softspoken, yet candid, 64-year-old former MP.

Naysayers may argue that Jakim is needed to "protect" the sanctity of Islam, but Tawfik was quick to point out that the Agong, sultans, imams (Muslim scholars) and muftis already filled that void.

"Jakim is an advisory body to the government, but constitutionally it really has no role. Islam is the province of the sultan of the state, it has nothing to do with the government."

So which areas of Muslim life should the government intervene in? Tawfik flat-out said nothing at all.

"National integration in this country is the biggest challenge. How do you integrate the nation if you are going around this route of looking for faults among Muslims?" he asked.

Tawfik Ismail questions the need for the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim), saying over the years the department has only been intruding into the private lives of Malaysian Muslims. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Kamal Ariffin, November 9, 2015.Tawfik Ismail questions the need for the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim), saying over the years the department has only been intruding into the private lives of Malaysian Muslims. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Kamal Ariffin, November 9, 2015.But, Tawfik clarified that his views on dismantling Jakim were his own, and that G25, the group of retired Malay top civil servants of which he is a member, did not share them.

G25 does, however, want Jakim to justify its existence as well as the hundreds of millions of ringgit it receives from the federal budget each year, which he said could have been funnelled to the Health or Education Ministry instead.

"I think there's a subversion of the constitution by religious authorities at the state level where they are actually testing the limits that they can go in intruding on a person's personal life," he added.

Putrajaya had not always acted as the defender of the people's faith, revealed Tawfik, who served as MP from 1986 to 1990.

He said that during the time of Malaysia's first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, only a small religious department existed in the Prime Minister's Department.

There was no minister of religious affairs, and no national outcry over the fact that his father, Tun Dr Ismail, owned a dog.

"My dad had a Boxer, and, before that, an Alsatian," recalled Tawfik.

He said all this changed after Dr Mahathir took over and his then deputy, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, tried to infuse their definition of "Islamic values" into every aspect of Malaysian life.

This was done to counter the growing influence of PAS, which had never been an issue during the early years of Independence, said Tawfik.

As a result, Malaysia today is now facing "Arabisation", with society eschewing its Nusantara roots in favour of appropriating the culture of the Middle East, he said.

"We seem to be delighting in coming up with creative ways of 'speaking' Arabic in this country."

Tawfik said it was for this reason that Drifting Into Politics may not sit very well with Putrajaya.

"Certain things my father says here are quite interesting.

"For example, he said whenever Tunku had a meeting at his house with a group of people... occasionally one or two of them would go into the kitchen and have a drink of brandy and whisky, then come back and join in. He admits this.

"Yes, it's an open secret, but it's never been in writing by a leader," chuckled Tawfik.

His father died in 1973 at the age of 57, after just three years of serving as deputy prime minister. November 4 was his 100th birth anniversary.

With such records in existence, no matter how it tried to Islamise Malaysia, Tawfik said, the government would never be able to rewrite history nor erase its roots. – November 9, 2015.

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EXCLUSIVE: Perverted Saudi prince ordered his entire staff to strip naked at his Beverly Hills mansion's pool and said: 'I want to see some naked p****,' court papers claim



Prince Majed Al-Saud, 29, is being sued by three female staff members over allegations of sexual assault at his rented $37m home in Los Angeles
The son of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah - who died this year - has been cleared of felony sexual assault but faces misdemeanor charges
Fresh court documents seen by Daily Mail Online claim he ordered his entire household to strip naked so he could see 'naked p***y'
Alleged that he had male aide break wind in his face to order and that he was also pleasured by the man - gay sex is punishable by death in Saudi


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Putrajaya defends Islamic charity foundation involved in graft claims

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utrajaya has defended an Islamic charity foundation under the Prime Minister's Department accused of misappropriation, saying it was an independent body that did not directly involve any minister.

Deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said ministers also do not interfere in the management of the foundation, which has come under the spotlight of an anti-graft whistleblower group for various alleged offenses.

"It is true that it is under (our) supervision but remember, the foundation is independent. It has its own board. The minister has no power over the board. So we need to get information from the organisation itself," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today.



The foundation is under the oversight of the minister in charge of Islamic affairs, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, who is also a minister in the Prime Minister's Department.
Earlier this week, anti-graft watchdog group National Oversight and Whistleblowers (NOW) revealed the foundation's involvement in channelling RM223,000 supposedly for community programmes in the Rompin by-election in May this year, that instead went to a Kelantan Wanita Umno leader.

The Wanita Umno leader has also been under investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for misappropriating flood relief funds held in trust by the same foundation for flood victims in Kelantan.

Yesterday, NOW alleged that the same foundation gave its top office bearers multiple positions, enabling them to earn huge amounts in allowances.

A family of three, where the wife held seven posts; the son six directorships and the husband a fellowship, took home RM81,700 a month, it revealed.

Asyraf said today the relevant parties would issue a statement soon and as such, it was unfair for him to respond to questions raised by NOW.

"The thing is now under MACC. Let the statement come from the institution first. I think maybe this evening or tomorrow morning they will issue a statement.

"This has gone viral today, so they should issue a statement as they are bound by their own trust deeds, and as such, it is inappropriate for others, including me, to make a statement.

"It's not fair if I don't know the matter and I have to make a statement. We need to get accurate information," he said. – November 12, 2015.

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Family members in government-linked foundation earn RM80,000 a month, says anti-graft group

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ational Oversight and Whistleblowers (NOW) director Akmal Nasir says a charity foundation under the Prime Minister's Department gave its top office bearers multiple positions, enabling them to earn huge amounts in allowances. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Kamal Ariffin, November 11, 2015

A charity foundation under the Prime Minister's Department is again under the spotlight of an anti-graft whistleblower group for giving its top office bearers multiple positions, enabling them to earn huge amounts in allowances.

A family of three, where the wife held seven posts; the son six directorships and the husband a fellowship, took home RM81,700 a month, the National Oversight and Whistleblowers (NOW) said today.

NOW director Akmal Nasir said the woman, who is the deputy chairman of the board of trustees, was also its deputy president, held seven positions in total earning her RM45,500 a month. One of these positions was as chairman of the foundation's audit committee.



Her son also held six director positions in several of the foundation's subsidiaries, earning RM31,200 a month, while her husband was appointed as a fellow who received RM5,000 a month.
This meant the family of three earned RM81,700 a month, Akmal told the press. He also produced copies of the allowance statements, the foundation's organisational chart and appointment letters to the office bearers at the press conference in Kuala Lumpur today.

"This information was from last year. This year there may even be an increase.

"This is evidence obtained from the monthly allowance letters and yearly income statements," Akmal told reporters.

The chairman of the foundation's board of trustees, meanwhile, earned a total of RM73,000 a month, also from being its president, in addition to having ten other positions on panels, committees and subsidiaries of the foundation.

The foundation is under the oversight of the minister in charge of Islamic affairs, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom. The minister has not responded to calls and messages from The Malaysian Insider on the matter.

"This is an institution under the Prime Minister's Department. Datuk Seri Jamil Khir should come forward to explain how this could happen under his watch," Akmal said.

NOW has been exposing alleged corruption by this particular government-linked foundation which received public donations as well as government grants.

Earlier this week, NOW revealed the foundation's involvement in channelling RM223,000 supposedly for community programmes in the Rompin by-election in May this year, that instead went to a Kelantan Wanita Umno leader.

The Wanita Umno leader has also been under investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for misappropriating flood relief funds held in trust by the same foundation for flood victims in Kelantan. – November 11, 2015.

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Don’t label me racist because I fight for Bumiputera, says minister -

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Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri said he should not be labelled as racist simply because he voiced the interests of the Malays and Bumiputera.

The Rural and Regional Development minister also stressed that he would continue fighting for the Malay and Bumiputera without suppressing the interests of others.

"I have probably been labelled as racist, but my principle is quite easy...we fight for our people, but we do not afflict others. As long as we keep it that way, I think there's nothing wrong with what we do.


If the Chinese leaders want to talk about Chinese people, go ahead, no problem, but just don't go calling me racist when I talk about the Malays," he said in response to MCA central committee member Datuk Choon Hann Lua's remark accusing him of using electronic cigarettes or vape issue as a racial issue.
Ismail said this to reporters after opening the 14th convocation of Kolej Universiti Agrosains Malaysia at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre today.

Ismail said as Barisan Nasional component party, MCA should understand his responsibility as an Umno leader in helping the Malays because other BN component party leaders would do the same for their respective community.

He said Umno had no problem if MCA tried to so something for the Chinese and even willing to collaborate for the purpose.

Ismail also called Lua to stop labelling him as racist, but instead to focus on winning the hearts of the Chinese voters to support MCA and BN.

He also expressed hope that the Health Ministry would meet and discuss with vape traders to find the best solution to the issue. – Bernama, November 12, 2015.

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DAP hands over ‘racist’ video of Ali Tinju to cops, wants case reopened

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Police should reopen investigations against Mohd Ali Baharom, said DAP after the party handed over to the authorities videos of the former soldier allegedly making racist remarks in the July Low Yat Plaza incident.

Chong Zhemin, organising secretary of Perak DAP Socialist Youth, said  a CD containing the recordings of Ali, also known as Ali Tinju, was handed over to the police at the Ipoh headquarters.

“Video recordings of Ali Tinju making the inflammatory remarks have gone viral on the Internet and it is inconceivable and unimaginable that the police are unable to come up with the recordings.


“With this evidence of him making racist and seditious remarks, the police should not have any more excuse to drop the charge against Ali Tinju,” Chong said in a statement.

Police have been criticised for dropping sedition charges against Ali, who is president of the Malay Armed Forces Veterans Association, for his role in sparking a racist-fuelled fracas outside Low Yat Plaza in Kuala Lumpur.

In a recent interview with The Malaysian Insider, Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali revealed that the charge was dropped because the police could not come up with recordings of the alleged remarks. – November 14, 2015.

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ISIS social media post in May cites Singapore as possible target

Singapore has been identified as a possible target for attack by a recent Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) posting on social media, a report this week said.

ISIS supporters from the region have also cited the Philippines and the United States as targets, the report's author, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies analyst Jasminder Singh, told The Straits Times.

This development comes as Malaysia last month nabbed a cell with explosives targeting Putrajaya and the federal Parliament, and as Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry on Wednesday announced the detention of a 19-year-old student who made plans to join ISIS in Syria and carry out attacks here.

It is not the first time Singapore has been cited by radicals. Last year, extremist English-language magazine Resurgence cited the Phillip Channel and Sembawang Naval Base in a piece on how militants could attack at sea.

The threat to Singapore and the region is set to grow as ISIS' Malay archipelago combat unit, Katibah Nusantara, formed in Syria last August for South-east Asian fighters who find it easier to communicate in Bahasa Indonesia and Malay rather than Arabic, gains ground.

There are now more than 700 fighters from Indonesia and over 200 fighters from Malaysia fighting in Iraq and Syria, Mr Singh noted in the report published this week. While they make up a small proportion of over 30,000 foreign fighters from 90 countries, the unit scored its first major combat success last month, seizing five Kurdish-held areas in Syria.

The unit is likely to gain importance in ISIS' strategic goal of setting up a worldwide caliphate, with returning fighters mobilised to undertake attacks and even declare a new branch in this region.

"The downward slide of jihadist appeal and success since 2009 has been reversed by Katibah Nusantara's success in Iraq and Syria," Mr Singh wrote.

He said Malaysian fighters have also seized on local issues like the push for an Islamic penal code to win support. More recently, ISIS sympathisers online have called on Rohingya fleeing persecution in Myanmar to go to Syria.

Professor Rohan Gunaratna, who heads Singapore's International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, says the unit poses a severe threat to Singapore and South-east Asia.

"It has multiple functions: to train people capable of carrying out attacks in Iraq and Syria, to instigate South-east Asians to mount attacks in their home countries, and to radicalise South-east Asians online, recruit them and physically facilitate their entry into Iraq and Syria," he said.

Hence, the strategy to counter this influence has to be multi-pronged, from engaging the community to exposing ISIS' evils online. Muslim leaders worldwide are also leading the effort to counter ISIS, he added.

They include Singapore's Mufti, Dr Fatris Bakaram, who said it was a religious obligation for Muslims here to report to the authorities those who pose a threat.

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Great post on Facebook by Sulaiman Daud

https://www.facebook.com/sulaiman.daud.503/posts/10153827144425955

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A father's split-second heroism saved countless lives in another terror attack, in Beirut

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Adel Termos, a Beirut resident out with his young daughter, witnessed a horrific bombing on Thursday. Then he made a split-second decision that saved countless lives.

s a second suicide bomber moved toward onlookers clustering at the scene of the explosion, Termos rushed the suspect.

"He tackled him to the ground, causing the second suicide bomber to detonate," says blogger and physician Elie Fares, who lives in Beirut. "There are many many families, hundreds of families probably, who owe their completeness to his sacrifice."

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that took an estimated 45 lives, including Termos. More than 200 people were wounded. It's not clear, however, whether the daughter died. Pictures posted recently seem to suggest she survived.

Fares says when similar bombings occurred in Beirut in years past, Lebanese were quick to view the events through the prism of sectarian politics.

"The street is still divided by political and sectarian lines, but this time around the sense is that these are people, period," Fares says. "They're dead because of something they had absolutely no role in ... They died because of some demented, twisted politics."

Fares says it would be wrong to call the victims martyrs.

"Calling them martyrs is a sort of Lebanese way to not only dehumanize them, it's to sort of make ourselves feel better that, yeah, it's okay, they died, but they're martyrs which means they're in heaven and they're in a better place," he says. "But the fact of the matter is it's just sort of a label to make ourselves feel better, and maybe their families feel better because the label of 'victim' means there's a sort of accountability to the process."

The two blasts hit during the evening rush hour, and devastated a commercial strip of southern Beirut.

Lebanon shares a border with Syria and hosts more than one million refugees from throughout the region.

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http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/11/will-politicians-finally-admit-that-the-paris-attacks-had-something-to-do-with-islam/

Will politicians finally admit that the Paris attacks had something to do with Islam?

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French president Francois Hollande speaks at the Elysee palace in Paris on November 14, 2015, following a series of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late Friday which left more than 120 people dead (Photo: Getty)

The West’s movement towards the truth is remarkably slow. We drag ourselves towards it painfully, inch by inch, after each bloody Islamist assault.

In France, Britain, Germany, America and nearly every other country in the world it remains government policy to say that any and all attacks carried out in the name of Mohammed have ‘nothing to do with Islam’. It was said by George W. Bush after 9/11, Tony Blair after 7/7 and Tony Abbott after the Sydney attack last month. It is what David Cameron said after two British extremists cut off the head of Drummer Lee Rigby in London, when ‘Jihadi John’ cut off the head of aid worker Alan Henning in the ‘Islamic State’ and when Islamic extremists attacked a Kenyan mall, separated the Muslims from the Christians and shot the latter in the head. It was what President François Hollande said after the massacre of journalists and Jews in Paris in January. And it is all that most politicians will be able to come out with again after the latest atrocities in Paris.

All these leaders are wrong. In private, they and their senior advisers often concede that they are telling a lie. The most sympathetic explanation is that they are telling a ‘noble lie’, provoked by a fear that we — the general public — are a lynch mob in waiting. ‘Noble’ or not, this lie is a mistake. First, because the general public do not rely on politicians for their information and can perfectly well read articles and books about Islam for themselves. Secondly, because the lie helps no one understand the threat we face. Thirdly, because it takes any heat off Muslims to deal with the bad traditions in their own religion. And fourthly, because unless mainstream politicians address these matters then one day perhaps the public will overtake their politicians to a truly alarming extent.

If politicians are so worried about this secondary ‘backlash’ problem then they would do well to remind us not to blame the jihadists’ actions on our peaceful compatriots and then deal with the primary problem — radical Islam — in order that no secondary, reactionary problem will ever grow.

Yet today our political class fuels both cause and nascent effect. Because the truth is there for all to see. To claim that people who punish people by killing them for blaspheming Islam while shouting ‘Allah is greatest’ has ‘nothing to do with Islam’ is madness. Because the violence of the Islamists is, truthfully, only to do with Islam: the worst version of Islam, certainly, but Islam nonetheless.

In January a chink was broken in this wall of disinformation when Sajid Javid, the only Muslim-born member of the British cabinet, and one of its brightest hopes, dipped a toe into this water. After the Charlie Hebdo attacks, he told the BBC: ‘The lazy answer would be to say that this has got nothing whatsoever to do with Islam or Muslims and that should be the end of that. That would be lazy and wrong.’ Sadly, he proceeded to utter the second most lazy thing one can say: ‘These people are using Islam, taking a peaceful religion and using it as a tool to carry out their activities.’

Here we land at the centre of the problem — a centre we have spent the last decade and a half trying to avoid: Islam is not a peaceful religion. No religion is, but Islam is especially not. Nor is it, as some ill-informed people say, solely a religion of war. There are many peaceful verses in the Quran which — luckily for us — the majority of Muslims live by. But it is, by no means, only a religion of peace.

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I say this not because I hate Islam, nor do I have any special animus against Muslims, but simply because this is the verifiable truth based on the texts. Until we accept that we will never defeat the violence, we risk encouraging whole populations to take against all of Islam and abandon all those Muslims who are trying desperately to modernise, reform and de-literalise their faith. And — most importantly — we will give up our own traditions of free speech and historical inquiry and allow one religion to have an unbelievable advantage in the free marketplace of ideas.

It is not surprising that politicians have tried to avoid this debate by spinning a lie. The world would be an infinitely safer place if the historical Mohammed had behaved more like Buddha or Jesus. But he did not and an increasing number of people — Muslim and non-Muslim — have been able to learn this for themselves in recent years. But the light of modern critical inquiry which has begun to fall on Islam is a process which is already proving incredibly painful.

The ‘cartoon wars’ — which began when the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten published a set of cartoons in 2005 — are part of that. But as Flemming Rose, the man who commissioned those cartoons, said when I sat down with him earlier this year, there remains a deep ignorance in the West about what people like the Charlie Hebdo murderers wish to achieve. And we keep ducking it. As Rose said, ‘I wish we had addressed all this nine years ago.’

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Contra the political leaders, the Charlie Hebdo murderers and the latest Paris attackers were not lunatics without motive, but highly motivated extremists intent on enforcing their Islamic ideas on 21st-century Europe. If you do not know the ideology — perverted or plausible though it may be — you can neither understand nor prevent such attacks. Nor, without knowing some Islamic history, could you understand why — whether in Mumbai or Paris — the Islamists always target the Jews.

Of course, some people are willing to give up a few of our rights. There seems, as Rose says in his book on the Danish cartoons affair,The Tyranny of Silence, some presumption that a diverse society requires greater limitations on speech, whereas of course the more diverse the society, the more diverse you are going to have to see your speech be. It is not just cartoons, but a whole system of inquiry which is being shut down in the West by way of hard intimidation and soft claims of offence-taking. The result is that, in contemporary Europe, Islam receives not an undue amount of criticism but a free ride which is unfair to all other religions. The night after the Charlie Hebdo atrocities I was pre-recording a Radio 4 programme. My fellow discussant was a very nice Muslim man who works to ‘de-radicalise’ extremists. We agreed on nearly everything. But at some point he said that one reason Muslims shouldn’t react to such cartoons is that Mohammed never objected to critics.

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There may be some positive things to be said about Mohammed, but I thought this was pushing things too far and mentioned just one occasion when Mohammed didn’t welcome a critic. Asma bint Marwan was a female poetess who mocked the ‘Prophet’ and who, as a result, Mohammed had killed. It is in the texts. It is not a problem for me. But I can understand why it is a problem for decent Muslims. The moment I said this, my Muslim colleague went berserk. How dare I say this? I replied that it was in the Hadith and had a respectable chain of transmission (an important debate). He said it was a fabrication which he would not allow to stand. The upshot was that he refused to continue unless all mention of this was wiped from the recording. The BBC team agreed and I was left trying to find another way to express the same point. The broadcast had this ‘offensive’ fact left out.

I cannot imagine another religious discussion where this would happen, but it is perfectly normal when discussing Islam. On that occasion I chose one case, but I could have chosen many others, such as the hundreds of Jews Mohammed beheaded with his own hand. Again, that’s in the mainstream Islamic sources. I haven’t made it up. It used to be a problem for Muslims to rationalise, but now there are people trying to imitate such behaviour in our societies it has become a problem for all of us, and I don’t see why people in the free world should have to lie about what we read in historical texts.

We may all share a wish that these traditions were not there but they are and they look set to have serious consequences for us all. We might all agree that the history of Christianity has hardly been un-bloody. But is it not worth asking whether the history of Christianity would have been more bloody or less bloody if, instead of telling his followers to ‘turn the other cheek’, Jesus had called (even once) for his disciples to ‘slay’ non–believers and chop off their heads?

This is a problem with Islam — one that Muslims are going to have to work through. They could do so by a process which forces them to take their foundational texts less literally, or by an intellectually acceptable process of cherry-picking verses. Or prominent clerics could unite to declare the extremists non-Muslim. But there isn’t much hope of this happening. Last month, al-Azhar University in Cairo declared that although Isis members are terrorists they cannot be described as heretics.

We have spent 15 years pretending things about Islam, a complex religion with competing interpretations. It is true that most Muslims live their lives peacefully. But a sizeable portion (around 15 per cent and more in most surveys) follow a far more radical version. The remainder are sitting on a religion which is, in many of its current forms, a deeply unstable component. That has always been a problem for reformist Muslims. But the results of ongoing mass immigration to the West at the same time as a worldwide return to Islamic literalism means that this is now a problem for all of us. To stand even a chance of dealing with it, we are going to have to wake up to it and acknowledge it for what it is.

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Paris attacks: French jets attack Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa



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French fighter jets have launched raids against the Islamic State's nerve centre of Raqqa in response to the Paris terror attacks.

"The raid ... including 10 fighter jets, was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped," the defence ministry said in a statement.

The operation, carried out in coordination with US forces, struck a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot and a training camp for fighters, it said.

The targets were identified by French reconnaissance, and the operation was carried out "in co-ordination with American forces", the ministry said.

Activists in Raqqa told The Washington Post the bombs hit, among other things, a football stadium, a museum and medical facilities.

The strikes had knocked out electricity in the city of about 200,000 people, they said.

The airstrikes come in retaliation for a night of terror in Paris in which more than 130 people were killed and some 350 were injured.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, speaking on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey, said France has always said it would react in self defence.

"That's what we did today with the strikes on Raqqa. We can't let Daesh attack without a reaction," Fabius said, using an alternative name for Islamic State.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes prompted the extremist militia to put its fighters in al-Raqqa on alert.

No casualties have been reported, it said.

France has been bombing Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria for months as part of a US-led operation.

Raqqa is the main headquarters in Syria of Islamic State fighters, who have proclaimed a caliphate stretching from Syria's Aleppo province through the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys to the outskirts of Baghdad.

French President Francois Hollande has called the attacks an "act of war" and promised a "ruthless" response against Islamic State, which claimed responsibility.

France has declared three days of national mourning and Hollande will make a rare address to the joint upper and lower houses of parliament on Tuesday (NZT) at the Palace of Versailles, just outside Paris.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/jun/27/its-not-the-religion-that-creates-terrorists-its-the-politics

It’s not the religion that creates terrorists, it’s the politics

The word “radical” has always been an overly capacious term, easily filled with whatever meaning the speaker wants to pour into it. There is the radical right, the radical left, even the radical centre, whatever that means. Traditionally associated with the 18th-century English struggle to extend the franchise and with the cause of freedom, it has been one of those words no modern politician can do without. Google any of the current crop of parliamentarians adding the words “radical vision” and see what I mean. They’re all at it, all claiming it. Unless, of course, you put the word Islamic first. And then it immediately becomes a bogey word.

“How do we stop young Muslims becoming radicalised?” is the question we now continually ask. But it’s a deeply misleading question because it points us in the wrong direction. Why? Because it contains a hidden assumption that it is radical ideas, specifically Islamic theological ideas, that are the root cause of turning a young lad from West Yorkshire into an Isis suicide bomber in Iraq. According to the radicalisation hypothesis, it’s conservative Islam and the dangerous ideas contained in the Qur’an that motivate murderous behaviour.

We want to tell ourselves that we are secular and enlightened and so have no part in all of this bloodshed
To me this is about as convincing as arguing that the murderous bits of the Bible were responsible for the brutality of the IRA. For many of the young people who have been persuaded to go off and fight in Syria and Iraq have hardly got past the first chapter of Islam for Dummies. They often know next to nothing about the Qur’an and are about as motivated by reading the few passages they have as the average republican terrorist was motivated by Saul’s genocidal destruction of the Amalekites in the first book of Samuel. Yes, the language of violent jihad may borrow its vocabulary from Islamic theology – it’s a useful marker of shared identity – but root motivation is as it always is: politics. The IRA weren’t Bible-believing Catholics, they were mostly staunch atheists. Catholicism was simply a marker of who counted as “one of us”. And the same is true of Islamic terrorism.

Earlier this year, Professor Arun Kundnani published a fascinating account of how the rhetoric of radicalisation has created “a decade lost”. In it, he summarises the flimsy empirical basis on which the connection between radical theology and terrorism has been built and the extent to which the burgeoning radicalisation industry, especially in academia, is linked by a revolving door to conservative political lobbyists keen to blame conservative Islam for terrorism.


The reason this is important has nothing to do with exonerating religion. I don’t care about apologetics here. So let me acknowledge that both the Qur’an and the Bible have passages that are deeply immoral. But don’t get distracted by this. For this is not how or why people go to Iraq to become murderous criminals. They go – largely – because they believe their tribe is under attack, that Bashar al-Assad is dropping chlorine gas, that the west invaded Iraq, because of torture and Guantánamo Bay, and because they have a warped and misguided sense of adventure in responding to all this.

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We buy into the radicalisation hypothesis because we want evil to be mysterious and other; something that has nothing to do with us. We want to tell ourselves that we are secular and enlightened and so have no part in all of this bloodshed. It’s what people commonly do with evil – we conceptualise it as being as far away from us as possible. But if Islamic terrorism is really all about politics, then we have to admit that the long history of disastrous western interventions in the Middle East is a part of the cause of the horror that continues to unfold. In other words, we have to face our responsibility.

But even more troubling than the evasion of responsibility that is built into the radicalisation hypothesis is the fact that it points us in the wrong direction when looking for how to prevent it. If you want to find a terrorist, look for people buying dodgy chemicals, not people saying their prayers.

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http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/11/17/Bernard-then-killed-abu-sayyaf/

Malaysian hostage Bernard Then beheaded

Fuck the Abu Sayef!!!

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KOTA KINABALU: Sarawakian Bernard Then (pic), held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf terror group, has been killed in the southern Philippines.

He was beheaded by the gunmen at about 4pm in the island of Jolo.

Then is the first Malaysian hostage to have been beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf.

Brigadier-General Alan Arrojado, commander of the Joint Task Group Sulu, confirmed that Then was decapitated.

Sources from the military and social workers in the Philippines are indicating that the 39-year-old electrical engineer was killed by the Abu Sayyaf gunmen who were being pursued by Philippine military in the Butaran Hill area around Indanan village in Jolo island.

According to Jolo-based social workers, the Abu Sayyaf plan to release a video of the alleged beheading soon.

They said they received news of the beheading, but could not confirm which Abu Sayyaf leader carried out the killing.

The group holding Then was led by Indang Susukan.

So far, Philippines officials have not confirmed the incident.

Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said that they have yet to receive any word about Then, who was grabbed along with restaurant manager Thien Nyuk Fun, 50, from Ocean King Seafood Restaurant in Sandakan on May 15.

Thien was released on Nov 8 by the gunmen and is now back in Sandakan.

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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/terrorism-threat-in/2264120.html

Everybody should play their part and be vigilant against people who may seek to harm us.

Terrorism threat in Southeast Asia a 'serious, difficult' issue: PM Lee

SINGAPORE: The terrorism threat in Southeast Asia is a serious and difficult problem, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in an interview published on Monday (Nov 16).

In the interview with The Australian newspaper that was held before the multiple terror attacks in Paris, Mr Lee said that it is not just "random individuals" who are being radicalised and going to Syria to join ISIS.

Mr Lee pointed to Malaysia as an example, noting that there were repeated incidents of people from the army going to Syria. He said Malaysia had just arrested two commandos on top of nearly a dozen military personnel earlier.

He also made reference to Indonesia, saying that there are parts of the country which are remote from centres of government. “If (the radicals) set up a little base camp there and call that ISIS in Southeast Asia or some such title, then that is another focal point which can attract activists to go to as a kind of Mecca,” he said.

Even individuals who have been jailed could still pose a problem, said Mr Lee. He noted that in jail, radicals have been able to hold press conferences as well as ceremonies pledging allegiance to ISIS.

“Their terms of imprisonment are completed and then, they are released and it’s not at all clear that they are less dangerous than now than they used to be,” he added. Several hundred in Indonesian prisons are due to be released this year and next. Mr Lee said that while Indonesia is taking this very seriously, it could be a difficult problem for them.

Mr Lee also shared his thoughts on why such violent ideology persists, calling it a "very difficult" problem.

“It is not purely religion and yet it is not unrelated to a certain warped view of religion. Some people genuinely persuade themselves that this is the way to heaven and so they pursue this perverted path,” he said. “Others know very little about religion or doctrine. Something has gone with their life and this is their way to hit out at the world or at their society.

“Some of them are young people who are just misled. They are at the soul-searching stage of their lives and they stumble across this and then, get led deeper and deeper in and then, it is almost too late,” he added. “We have picked up students who are like that. They are in school and they did not have a network. It is not that they had radical friends but somehow they became interested in this.”

Mr Lee said it was lucky that authorities have discovered such students.

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http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/620218/Turkey-fans-boo-minutes-silence-chant-Allahu-Akbar-Paris-attack

Turkish football fans boo, chant 'God is Great' during one-minute silence for Paris attack victims

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n a troubling incident, fans at a football game in the Turkish city of Istanbul booed when a minute's silence was being observed for victims of the Paris attacks, reports Reuters. Some also chanted Allah-u-Akbar (God is Great).

The reported incident took place during a Turkey-Greece men's soccer friendly attended by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras.

Here's a video. The booing and chanting are audible.

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It was the first time the two teams had met for eight years and the Turkish Football Federation had announced a string of additional security measures before the match at the Istanbul Basaksehir stadium.

Turkey went on to draw the match 0-0.

Islamic State (IS) militants struck Paris on Saturday, killing at least 132 and injuring many more. On Wednesday, a police officer was killed in Paris during a raid on an alleged terrorist hideout in northern Paris. A female suicide bomber also perished.

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Justice is best served cold

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Syrian man kills judge at ISIS Sharia Court for beheading his brother

Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A Syrian young man killed a judge from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) along with two of his escorts in the city of Manbij in Aleppo province, north Syria, local sources reported on Wednesday.

After killing the ISIS judge in Manbij, the man has committed suicide by shooting himself.

“The young man has shot dead a Tunisian national, who served as a judge at the ISIS-linked Sharia Court in Manbij,” said an eyewitness on the condition of anonymity, Kurdish Independent Agency reported.

The incident took place on Tuesday, after the Sharia Court beheaded several family members of the Syrian young man.

“The same judge had order the beheading of at least three family members of the man, including his brother,” the source reported.

“He took revenge and killed himself afterwards to avoid falling in the hands of Daesh (ISIS).”

In the meantime, dozens of people took to the street in Manbij to protest against ISIS atrocities. However, the group opened fire on the protesters, killing at least two and wounding several others. The rest of the protesters were arrested, said activists in Manbij.

This is the third protest organized by the people of Manbij in two months, calling for the departure of the terror group from their city and denouncing its violations against civilians.

The terror group has captured the city of Manbij more than a year and a half ago, after battles with the Syrian opposition forces.

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https://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/russia-takes-aim-isis-massive-bombing-campaign?fb=ptba

Russia Announces Success Of Massive Bombing Campaign Against ISIS

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Though the U.S. and Russia have diplomatically sparred over Russia’s involvement in the battle against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh, in Syria, this hasn’t stopped Russia's onslaught of bombing.

On Nov. 17, Russia sent at least 25 Backfire, Bear and Blackjack bombers to attack ISIS forces,making it one of the heaviest bombing campaigns in modern history, The Daily Beast reported.

“During a massive airstrike [Nov. 17], 14 important ISIL targets were destroyed by 34 air-launched cruise missiles,” Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia’s general staff, said. “The targets destroyed include command posts that were used to coordinate ISIL activities in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, munition and supply depots in the northwestern part of Syria.”

Idlib and Aleppo are largely held by U.S.-backed rebels, though Russia warned U.S. officials before the strike was launched, according to the Pentagon. This cooperation stems from an October agreement between the U.S. and Russia to coordinate their attacks against ISIS.

Russia's airstrikes are motivated, in part, by the takedown of Russian Metrojet 9268 in October -- an attack that ISIS took credit for. However, Russia also plans to coordinate its attacks with France, which fell victim to an attack by ISIS on Nov. 13, The New York Times reported.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and France’s President Francois Hollande have spoken on the phone. They plan to meet in Moscow on Nov. 26 to coordinate their military assault on ISIS.

Sources: The Daily Beast, The New York Times / Photo Credit: Global Panorama/Flickr, Beau Considine/Flickr

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/senegal-bans-burqa-stop-terrorists-disquising-islamic-dress

Senegal considers burqa ban to stop terrorists disguising in Islamic dress

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Senegal is considering banning women from wearing the burqa, amid rising fears of Islamic extremism in the west African country.

The interior minister, Abdoulaye Daouda, said women would no longer be allowed to wear the Islamic dress, which leaves only the eyes exposed. Daouda said the decision was a question of national security and was designed to prevent terrorists from using the burqa as a disguise.

An estimated 92% of Senegal’s population is Muslim. Although the country has not suffered a terrorist attack recently, authorities are concerned that the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, based in north-eastern Nigeria, may be trying to extend its range. This month, police arrested five people suspected of having ties to Boko Haram as part of a nationwide crackdown.


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Senegal is not alone in west Africa in banning the burqa. This year Cameroon and Chad, also with large Muslim populations, issued similar orders citing similar reasons. “Senegal is just following the trend,” said Martin Ewi, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies.

He said the ban, though difficult to enforce, had been reasonably effective in both countries. “You still have the villages and far corners of the country where people don’t always respect the ban,” he added.

However, the ban was not a foolproof solution, Ewi warned. Two days after Chad instituted a ban, two burqa-clad bombers blew themselves up in N’Djamena, killing at least 27 people including several police officers. “They deliberately wore the burqa to attract the attention of the police,” Ewi said.

The burqa ban has been the subject of debate within Senegal, with commentators struggling to balance the national security imperative with religious freedom. “Its imposition in Senegal will cause social instability … there is a delicate line between preventive measures and respect for individual freedoms,” said Khadim Mbacke, a Dakar-based researcher.

Mbaye Niang, a Muslim leader and member of parliament, said the new law was designed to protect Islam. “We should not allow someone to cover their entire body like terrorists do. This is a tradition of some countries but it has nothing to do with Islam,” he told the local newspaper Le Quotidien. The reason terrorists use this method was because they wanted to attack the religion, he added.

Farid Essack, a religious studies scholar at the University of Johannesburg, said that context was key and the justifications used in Muslim countries did not necessarily apply elsewhere.

“In some political contexts, I find [the banning of burqas] deeply disturbing and an extension of Islamaphobia. I don’t think that the Chadian response is a manifestation of Islamophobia,” he said. “Chad … has had several bombings, a number of them were seemingly perpetrated by [fully covered] men, and I don’t think that it is unreasonable, in that context, to insist people should not be completely veiled in public.”

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/Paris-attacks-Mother-died-using-her-body-to-shield-her-five-year-old-son-from-bullets/articleshow/49831047.cms

These Islamist Militants are so cruel. They kill so that they can install their own version of religion in the world.

Paris attacks: Mother died using her body to shield her five-year-old son from bullets

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five-year-old boy survived the massacre in Paris's Bataclan theatre after he was sheltered from the bullets by the body of his dead mother.

Louis had been attending the Eagles of Death Metal concert with his mother Elsa Delplace, 35, and his grandmother Patricia San Martin, 61, when it was attacked by terrorist gunmen.

Ms Delplace and Ms San Martin were both shot dead as they tried to protect him - leaving him covered in blood.

READ ALSO: 'They might have guns, but we have flowers': Video shows father reassuring son in wake of Paris attacks

In a tribute to Ms Delplace in Le Point magazine, her friend Sihem Souid wrote: "Elsa Delplace and her mother Patricia died on Friday under a hail of bullets inside the Bataclan.

"Her son Louis, her ray of sunshine, was with her. Louis was found in Vincennes hospital, distraught and covered in his mother's blood as she tried to protect him from the bullets.

"Elsa was a joyous person who always had a smile on her lips, even at difficult times. She was involved in the voluntary, cultural and artistic worlds. She played the cello brilliantly.

"She always fought against injustice. I think it was part of her family - her Chilean mother fled the dictatorship of Pinochet."

READ ALSO: 'You will not have my hatred', husband of Paris victim tells ISIS
Eighty-nine people died in the Bataclan theatre on Friday night when gunman opened fire on the packed rock concert before detonating suicide vests.


A further 40 people were killed in coordinated attacks across the city in several restaurants and outside the Stade de France football stadium.
Tributes have flooded in for all the victims of the attacks.
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I bow down before you. This is the definition of MOTHER. She take care of his child without any expectations.
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In a Facebook post, French journalist Antoine Leiris, whose wife Helene Muyal-Leiris also died in the Bataclan attack, said "you will not have my hatred".
He said: "I don't know who you are and I don't want to know, you are dead souls. If this God for whom you kill blindly made us in his image, every bullet in the body of my wife is a wound in his heart.
"So no, I will not give you the satisfaction of hating you. You want it, but to respond to hatred with anger would be to give in to the same ignorance that made you what you are."

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62% of Pakistanis 'don't know' how they feel about Islamic State

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Despite an overwhelming negative view of Islamic State in most Muslim countries, Pakistan is an exception with a majority offering no definite opinion of the militant group, according to a new data released by the Pew Research Center.

In Pakistan, 62% of the people do not have a definite opinion on the group that has taken over swathes of land in Syria and Iraq and is responsible for some of the deadliest attacks worldwide, including last week’s Paris attacks.

Of the people surveyed in Pakistan, 28% had a negative view while nine per cent viewed the group positively.

The data shows a stark contrast to how the Islamic State is viewed in Pakistan as compared to other Muslim countries. Not a single Muslim country had less than 60% people viewing Islamic State negatively other than Pakistan.

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The survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 11 countries with noticeable Muslim populations was conducted as part of the center’s annual global poll in April and May this year.

In Lebanon, a victim of one of the most recent attacks, almost every person surveyed who gave an opinion had an unfavourable view of the group, including 99% with a very unfavorable opinion. The group was viewed unfavourably by all religious groups in the country — Lebanese Sunni Muslims (98% unfavorable) and 100% of Shia Muslims and Lebanese Christians.

Israelis (97%) and Jordanians (94%) were also strongly opposed to IS as of spring 2015, including 91% of Israeli Arabs. Further, 84% in the Palestinian territories had a negative view of IS, both in the Gaza Strip (92%) and the West Bank (79%).

Six-in-ten or more had unfavorable opinions of IS in a diverse group of nations, including Indonesia, Turkey, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Malaysia and Senegal.

In Nigeria, there was alarmingly more support, 14%, for the IS as compared to other countries. But the opinions differed greatly and were affected by religious affiliations. Around 71% Nigerian Christians and 61% Muslims held unfavourable views towards the terrorist group. However, 20% of Nigerian Muslims had favorable views of IS although the country is often torn apart by Boko Haram, an IS-affiliated terrorist group but is a separate entity.

The survey did not ask people living in Western countries, however, more than half of the population in 15 mostly Western countries said they were very concerned about the growing threat of the terrorist IS.

Take for example the case of France, where only last week multiple coordinated attacks were carried out by the IS, 71% had said in spring this year that they were concerned about the IS threat.

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Similarly, 77% in Spain, 70% in Germany, 69% in Italy and 68% in America held unfavorable views towards the IS and seemed perturbed by the growing threat of the terrorist group.

More importantly, the distaste has been growing along with concern in many Western and predominantly Muslim countries surveyed since the start of this decade. Consequently, there seems to be widespread support for the US military action against the extremist group in Iraq and Syria from most of the countries. In Israel 84% were in favor of the military actions, 81% in France, 80% in the United States, 78% in Lebanon, 77% in Jordan, 66% in the United Kingdom, and 62% in Germany.


11% of of Malaysia is FAVORABLE to that fucking organisation... WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!!!!!! How can anyone be supportive of terrorism? This is fucking wrong!

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http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/jakim-imposing-their-version-of-islam-says-dr-mahathir

Jakim imposing its version of Islam, says Dr Mahathir

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The Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) is trying to impose its own version of Islam on others, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.

"In Islam, there is no compulsion," Dr Mahathir said today when asked if Jakim was policing people's personal lives.

"But Jakim wants to compel everyone to follow its version of Islam."


Recently, several well-known personalities said Jakim was "unconstitutional" since the states already had rulers as heads of religion, and that Putrajaya should not be interfering in religious matters.
Mohamed Tawfik Ismail, son of former deputy prime minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman made the call and was supported by constitutional expert Abdul Aziz Bari.

Dr Mahathir meanwhile said this after launching former law minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim's new book, "Assalamualaikum", which comprises writings on Islamisation in Malaysia.

Dr Mahathir also said in his speech that Islamisation in Malaysia meant that people were not required to think when it came to religion.

"They (religious authorities) don't want people to think. Just accept what is being taught and have faith," he said.

He added that there was nothing in the Quran that said zakat payments must be made directly through the government and to recipients.

"I have read the Quran, and this was never mentioned. But I pay my zakat through the government because it's easier," he said.

Federal Territories Zakat Council chief Che Mat Che Ali recently said it was "sinful" to pay zakat directly and not through the authorities. – November 20, 2015.

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/jakim-imposing-their-version-of-islam-says-dr-mahathir#sthash.XihgUSFW.dpuf

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Excellent thread from TS to share all these news.

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S'porean terrorist wants Indonesian citizenship

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/sporean-terrorist-wants-indonesian-citizenship

Cos you will get the death penalty if you smuggle drugs but not if you kill innocents in the name of God. We should bring him in, trial him and hang that mudderfucker

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JAKARTA • Jailed Singaporean terrorist Mohammad Hassan Saynudin, also known as Fajar Taslim, wants to apply for Indonesian citizenship, and intends to stay on in Indonesia when his jail sentence ends in 2027.

His lawyer, Mr Achmad Michdan, told The Straits Times yesterday: "Because Indonesia does not accept dual citizenship, Hassan must give up his Singapore citizenship before getting Indonesian citizenship. We will seek information from the Singapore Embassy here on the procedures for giving up his citizenship."

Hassan, 42, dreads returning to Singapore, where he could be detained under the Internal Security Act without trial, Mr Michdan said.


An associate of the Indonesian-born Singaporean terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari, Hassan is serving a jail term of 18 years for killing a Christian school teacher and planning terror attacks against Westerners.

The defiant terrorist appeared to show no remorse for his crimes when the court handed down the verdict in 2009. He said he did not appeal against the sentence because he did not recognise the judicial system.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja

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TS, thank you for sharing.

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Obama: Societies divided along racial, religious lines ‘almost never successful’ -

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/obama-societies-divided-along-racial-religious-lines-almost-never-successfu

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 — Countries with societies torn apart by ethnic divisions and religious differences are “almost never successful”, often finding themselves embroiled in conflict and violence, United States president Barack Obama said today.

Obama said the US faced this problem over two centuries ago and still struggles today with issues concerning race and religion.

“Every country has racial, religious, ethnic differences.

“Violence, discrimination (that) happens in societies that are divided ethnically, racially are almost never successful,” he said during a town hall session with the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) here.

Obama said racial and religious conflict was a real issue in Southeast Asia as well, and recounted his younger days growing up in Indonesia where the ethnic Chinese community faced persecution because of their race.

“I remember when I was growing up in Indonesia, there were riots against Chinese... stores were burned down, people killed.

“And right now in Myanmar...(this is) how ethnic groups are treated, the Rohingya are treated differently,” Obama added.

US President Barack Obama participates in a town hall meeting with Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) attendees at Taylor’s University in Kuala Lumpur, November 20, 2015. — Reuters pic
US President Barack Obama participates in a town hall meeting with Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) attendees at Taylor’s University in Kuala Lumpur, November 20, 2015. — Reuters pic
The US president also later responded to a question on the Trans-Pacific Trade (TPP) agreement, denying claims it was “elitist” and would alienate the rights of citizens from countries who are signatories to the deal.

“If you’re negotiating with 12 countries and there is no space to agree on the deal, then it will never get done. If every chapter was subject to what various interest groups want....we could never get it done.

“Each country has to give up something in order to get a trade deal done,” Obama said.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/obama-societies-divided-along-racial-religious-lines-almost-never-successfu#sthash.f0ohB22y.dpuf

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How Jakim spent nearly RM1 billion this year

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/how-jakim-spent-nearly-rm1-billion-this-year

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In recent weeks, questions have been raised over the Islamic Development Department of Malaysia's (Jakim) relevance, and how it actually spends the nearly RM1 billion of taxpayer's money it receives each year.

The federal Islamic agency under the Prime Minister's Department has become the subject of debate since the son for former deputy prime minister, Tawfik Ismail, said it should be abolished for serving little purpose other than to regulate the personal lives of Muslims.

Tawfik has drawn flak for that, and has opened up debate on the role and relevance of the agency in regulating Islam.


In response, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said Jakim had become even more relevant today as it was involved in dealing with Shia and "liberal Islam" as well as threats from militant group Isis.
Director-general of Jakim, Datuk Othman Mustapha refused The Malaysian Insider’s request for an interview on how the department's budget has and will be spent.

Meanwhile, the department's public relations officer told The Malaysian Insider that neither Jakim's financial history nor audited accounts were available for the public.

According to the Treasury, however, Jakim's objectives can be boiled down to three main points: a) spreading Islam; b) producing "credible" leaders; and c) creating a management system based on Islamic values and ethics.

To achieve these objectives this year, Jakim received an allocation of RM819,074,900 from Budget 2015. For next year, that figure has been reduced slightly to RM724,594,600.

The Treasury's website provides an estimated breakdown of how the funds were used this year as well as the department's "output", and it appears that "Policy" activities ate up most of Jakim's budget.


RM531,392,000 on Policy

An estimated RM531,392,000 was spent this year to, among others, thwart attempts to “deviate” Muslims by groups Putrajaya deems “deviant" and "threatening national security”.

Other objectives under this category include: coordinating and standardising Islamic laws throughout Malaysia; enforcing state Shariah laws; pioneering research in the fields of Islamic study; and developing and coordinating Islamic education in religious schools.

According to the Treasury's estimates, Jakim managed to carry out the following policy activities:

- Six programmes held at the state, regional and international levels;

- 10,000 halal certificates;

- 2,243 research and monitoring efforts;

- 35 programmes to coordinate the management and development of fatwas; and

- 10 programmes to coordinate improvement in quality of education.

Next year, RM486,772,000 has been allocated for policy activities, while the estimated output remains the same.


RM125,223,600 on Management

The management of Jakim and its staff cost taxpayers approximately RM125,223,600 this year, and the output was:

- 13,300 processed cash vouchers;

- 97% officer positions filled;

- 12 Jakim management meetings; and

- 9,000 applications for the Halal certificate.

Next year it will receive an estimated RM94,590,900 allocation, and the public can expect the same results.



RM97,374,000 for the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department (Jawi)

Jawi's objectives is to prevent Muslims in the Federal Territories from flouting Islamic laws, and to take charge of Islamic affairs in the area.

The Treasury estimates that with approximately RM97,374,000 this year, Jawi managed to:

- Carry out 60 operations;

- Take action against 500 cases;

- Manage 88 Sekolah Rendah Agama, Sekolah Rendah Agama Integrasi, and Sekolah Menengah Agama; and

- Administer 114 Quran and Fardu Ain classes.

Next year, Jawi will receive RM94,590,900 to carry out the same number of tasks.


RM24,259,700 on Human Development

Human development, which covers training preachers and scholars; monitoring and coordinating Islamic policies; and dakwah (preaching) efforts, ate up an estimated RM24,259,700 of this year’s budget.

The output of that money? According to the Treasury's estimates, Jakim this year:

- Published 130 magazines, publications and flyers on dakwah; and

- Organised 125 programmes on social and Islamic family development.

Jakim hopes to slash the money for human development activities to RM15,659,700 next year, but its ambitions remain the same.


RM14,934,700 for Sabah Jakim

Sabah Jakim's objectives are to provide efficient service and administration; and to boost the quality of human capital, management and administration for society based on Islam's teachings.

With a nearly RM15 million budget allocation, the Treasury estimates that Sabah Jakim this year organised:

- 135 dakwah programmes;

- 80 KAFA (Quran and Fardu Ain classes) programmes;

- 55 programmes at its Islamic Training Centre; and

- 65 publication and public relations programmes

It also carried out 50 research on strengthening the faith, according to the Treasury's estimates.

Next year, the allocation will be reduced to RM11,560,000, although the output is expected to remain the same.



RM10,593,800 for Sarawak Jakim

Like its Sabah counterpart, Sarawak Jakim aims to provide efficient, effective and quality service and management; spread dakwah, and strengthen Islam.

With the money it received, Sarawak Jakim carried out an estimated:

- 270 dakwah programmes;

- 50 secretariat and management programmes;

- 60 research programmes;

- 86 Sarawak Training Centre programmes; and

- 44 Malaysia Islamic Skills Institute Sarawak (Ikmas) programmes

Its allocation next year will be reduced to RM10,593,800, although the output is expected to be the same.


RM8,103,100 for Darul Quran

The Darul Quran institution focuses on training SPM graduates to understand and memorise the Quran, as well as produce preachers and scholars.

According to the Treasury, the estimated output for this year was:

- 559 huffaz (memorisers of the Quran) underwent training;

- 38 huffaz trained in reciting Quran at the undergraduate studies level;

- 30 individuals joined a short-term public training programme for a Tarannum Al-Quran higher certificate; and

- 30 individuals joined a short-term Basics of Qiraat programme open to SPM leavers.

Darul Quran received the same allocation for next year, and its output is expected to remain the same.


RM7,194,000 for Malaysian Islamic Training Institute (Ilim)

This institute's objective is to train civil servants tasked with Islamic affairs to be "religious, competent and courageous in facing challenges".

With the money, it selected 8,000 participants for its course; carried out 160 courses; and one study on the outcome of the course.

Next year, the institute will receive slightly less funds, at RM7,617,600. – November 22, 2015.

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/how-jakim-spent-nearly-rm1-billion-this-year#sthash.aHa2CiXf.dpuf

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http://nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-isis-that-has-made-it.html


Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

Fuck the Saudis n their perverse ideology

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By KAMEL DAOUD
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia. In its struggle against terrorism, the West wages war on one, but shakes hands with the other. This is a mechanism of denial, and denial has a price: preserving the famous strategic alliance with Saudi Arabia at the risk of forgetting that the kingdom also relies on an alliance with a religious clergy that produces, legitimizes, spreads, preaches and defends Wahhabism, the ultra-puritanical form of Islam that Daesh feeds on.

Wahhabism, a messianic radicalism that arose in the 18th century, hopes to restore a fantasized caliphate centered on a desert, a sacred book, and two holy sites, Mecca and Medina. Born in massacre and blood, it manifests itself in a surreal relationship with women, a prohibition against non-Muslims treading on sacred territory, and ferocious religious laws. That translates into an obsessive hatred of imagery and representation and therefore art, but also of the body, nakedness and freedom. Saudi Arabia is a Daesh that has made it.

The West’s denial regarding Saudi Arabia is striking: It salutes the theocracy as its ally but pretends not to notice that it is the world’s chief ideological sponsor of Islamist culture. The younger generations of radicals in the so-called Arab world were not born jihadists. They were suckled in the bosom of Fatwa Valley, a kind of Islamist Vatican with a vast industry that produces theologians, religious laws, books, and aggressive editorial policies and media campaigns.

One might counter: Isn’t Saudi Arabia itself a possible target of Daesh? Yes, but to focus on that would be to overlook the strength of the ties between the reigning family and the clergy that accounts for its stability — and also, increasingly, for its precariousness. The Saudi royals are caught in a perfect trap: Weakened by succession laws that encourage turnover, they cling to ancestral ties between king and preacher. The Saudi clergy produces Islamism, which both threatens the country and gives legitimacy to the regime.


It is worth reading certain Islamist newspapers to see their reactions to the attacks in Paris. The West is cast as a land of “infidels.” The attacks were the result of the onslaught against Islam. Muslims and Arabs have become the enemies of the secular and the Jews. The Palestinian question is invoked along with the rape of Iraq and the memory of colonial trauma, and packaged into a messianic discourse meant to seduce the masses. Such talk spreads in the social spaces below, while up above, political leaders send their condolences to France and denounce a crime against humanity. This totally schizophrenic situation parallels the West’s denial regarding Saudi Arabia.

All of which leaves one skeptical of Western democracies’ thunderous declarations regarding the necessity of fighting terrorism. Their war can only be myopic, for it targets the effect rather than the cause. Since ISIS is first and foremost a culture, not a militia, how do you prevent future generations from turning to jihadism when the influence of Fatwa Valley and its clerics and its culture and its immense editorial industry remains intact?

Is curing the disease therefore a simple matter? Hardly. Saudi Arabia remains an ally of the West in the many chess games playing out in the Middle East. It is preferred to Iran, that gray Daesh. And there’s the trap. Denial creates the illusion of equilibrium. Jihadism is denounced as the scourge of the century but no consideration is given to what created it or supports it. This may allow saving face, but not saving lives.

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Can you not be so insensitive to muslims?

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Paris attack fugitive Salah Abdeslam ‘visited gay bar’ in Belgium

Ironic that this Chao Ah Gua was fighting for Sharia law so that he can have his dick chopped off.

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MISSING Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam had a taste for gay sex, drugs and PlayStation.

As the international manhunt for the 26-year-old Belgian continues, patrons of a gay bar in Brussels have told Britain’s Sunday Times he was a regular there, and was known for boozing, smoking hash and flirting with other men.

“We had him down as a rent boy,” a bartender named Julien said of Abdeslam, who’s been on the run since the attacks in Paris on November 13.

Others said he was known for long days playing video games in the bar owned by his killed terrorist brother Brahim, in the poor Brussels suburb of Molenbeek.

The brothers’ tastes would appear to make them unlikely ISIS extremists. The terror group brutally punishes homosexuality, often hurling gay men off buildings or stoning them to death, along with alcohol or drug use.

Friends of Abdeslam say the fugitive has Skyped them in recent days. His brother, Mohammed, told reporters that he believes Salah “is not far away”, sparking suspicion he may be holed up in Belgium’s capital.

Brussels went into lockdown on Saturday, shuttering its metro system, cancelling concerts, postponing soccer games and telling locals to stay out of crowds amid fears of a “serious and imminent” terror attack.

“We are talking about the threat that several individuals with arms and explosives would launch an attack perhaps in several locations at the same time,” Prime Minister Charles Michel said.

nvestigators are still trying to untangle Abdeslam’s role in the carnage in Paris, where 130 people were killed and 350 injured. He and Brahim joined in the carefully planned assaults on restaurants, a concert hall and the national stadium with at least six other extremists.

Abdeslam may have rented two of the three cars used in the attacks, French police say, but they don’t know if he acted as a driver or as a shooter. They believe he abandoned a car in a Paris suburb. He was picked up early the next morning and driven back to Brussels by two accomplices who are now in custody.

Officials stopped the car at the border and questioned the men, but let them go. Abdeslam disappeared once he reached Brussels.

The lawyer for one of the accomplices said Abdeslam was wearing “a big jacket, maybe a bomb belt” and behaved nervously, making authorities suspect he had backed out of his murderous assignment in Paris.

Meanwhile, a Moroccan-born Belgian who may have scouted the Paris targets was arrested in Turkey as he tried to flee to Syria, authorities said. Ahmad Dahmani, 26, was collared Saturday with two other suspects.

Investigators tracing the jihadist networks that inspired the terrorists said Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Paris ringleader who was killed in a police raid last week, is connected to the group Sharia4Belgium, known to have sent at least 50 Belgians to join ISIS forces in Syria.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3329327/Mastermind-Paris-terror-attacks-linked-six-UK-hate-preachers-including-Tottenham-Ayatollah-Omar-Bakri-Muhammad.html

-Paris attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed on Wednesday
-He and other Paris attackers, linked to extremist group Sharia4Belgium
-Radical preacher who founded group enlisted help of UK based fanatics
-They included an ISIS bomb maker and Osama Bin Laden sympathiser

The mastermind of the Paris terror attacks was linked to at least six radical preachers from the UK, including an ISIS bomb maker, it has been reported.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris massacres, was said to have ties to banned Islamist group Sharia4Belgium which recruited young men from the deprived Molenbeek neighbourhood where he grew up.

He was riddled with bullets and blown apart by grenades in a special forces raid on his hideout in the run down Paris suburb of Saint Denis on Wednesday.
Fouad Belkacem, the radical preacher who founded Sharia4Belgium, recruited several UK based fanatics to help him promote sharia law on the streets of Belgium and help sneak members into Syria, it has been claimed.

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Belkacem and 45 Sharia4Belgium members were convicted terrorism offences in February. The group sent its recruits to fight with extremist groups including ISIS in Syria, prosecutors said.

One of the men Belkacem approached was London based preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad, who was banned from the UK in 2005 and later jailed for terror related offences in Lebanon, Dipesh Gadher of the Sunday Times reported.
Known as the 'Tottenham Ayatollah', Muhammad was tasked with helping Sharia4Belgium transport its radicalised members to Syria, it was claimed.
Another preacher, who said Belkacem was a 'dear friend' of his, was asked to help 'start something in Belgium', it was reported.

Footage is said to show three other UK based terrorists travelling to Belgium to meet up with Sharia4Belgium members.

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Sharia4Belgium was founded by Fouad Belkacem (pictured) who was jailed for terror related offences in February

One of those men is believed to be Abu Rahin Aziz, who learned bomb making skills in ISIS's de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. He is said to have travelled to Belgium to help Sharia4Belgium promote its fundamental views.

Aziz, a father of two from Luton, met Paris attacks ringleader Abaaoud in Syria and regularly threatened to attack the West on Twitter before he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in July.

Another man seen in the footage obtained by the Sunday Times was Asfor Ali, 27, who once posted a YouTube video warning of a terror attack on the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

He was jailed for 31 months in August after being found guilty of three counts of possessing terrorist material.

The third man in the video is said to be Saiful Islam, who is said to have praised slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

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Feline surreal: Belgians tweet cat photos for #BrusselsLockdown

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/feline-surreal-belgians/2284976.html

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BRUSSELS: When Belgian police requested social media silence during a series of anti-terrorism raids on Sunday (Nov 22), they might have expected a catty response from the Internet.

In fact people politely complied but with a surreal twist, as thousands tweeted pictures of their feline friends when the hashtag #BrusselsLockdown went viral.

It began when Defence Minister Steven Vandeput tweeted: "Police are asking the public not to report their movements on social media, please support & rt #BrusselsLockdown."


Frustrated and anxious after the city spent a second day on its top state of alert as authorities intensified their hunt for a key Paris attacks suspect, Belgian twitter users responded bizarrely.

Instead of taking pictures of what they could see or describing police operations, they posted pictures of cats.

"I think in one hour I've seen more #lolcats than I've seen in the rest of my life," said social media specialist Mateusz Kukulka, or @Mateusz.

He said he believed the first to have the idea was a cameraman for the Dutch television channel NOS, Hugo Janssen, or @Hoguhugo, who tweeted: "Instead of tweets about police activity in Brussels, here's a picture of our cat Mozart".


As the theme caught on, some posted photos of cats looking suspicious, others of cats looking scared.

Others in the country of famed surrealist Rene Magritte took a truly surreal tack: user @jaycelight posted a picture of two Star Wars stormtroopers riding hover scooters shaped like cats.

As more and more users joined in, there was soon international support too:

"Absolutely loving the #BrusselsLockdown hashtag! Amazing. Belgium is awesome. <3," tweeted @SvenjaLiv from Ireland.

Afterwards Belgian authorities thanked the Internet.

"The federal prosecutor and the police services must thank the press and social media users for taking into account the needs of the ongoing operation," prosecutors' office spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt told a press conference as he announced 16 arrests.

- AFP/pp

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Arrests in Brussels raids but Paris suspect still on run

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/arrests-in-brussels-raids/2284614.html

BRUSSELS: Belgian police arrested 16 people in a wave of anti-terrorism raids but key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam slipped the net, with Brussels set to remain under security lockdown on Monday (Nov 23).

Schools and the metro will be shut as Brussels stays at the highest possible alert level over what Prime Minister Charles Michel called a "serious and imminent" threat of attacks similar to those that killed 130 people in France.

Police on Sunday carried out 19 raids in Brussels and three in the industrial town of Charleroi, detaining 16 people, prosecutors said, while the driver of a car was injured after police fired two shots when the vehicle drove at officers.

"Salah Abdeslam was not caught during the raids," federal prosecutor spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt told a press conference just after midnight, meaning Europe's most wanted man remains at large. Abdeslam's elder brother Brahim blew himself up outside a Paris bar in the Nov 13 attacks.

No arms or weapons were found in the raids, prosecutors added. Armed officers and troops have been patrolling the near deserted streets of the tense Belgian capital all weekend after the government raised the terror alert to the highest level of four in the city.

The European Union and NATO, which are based in Brussels, both said they would increase security and urged non-essential staff to work from home on Monday.

Michel said the Brussels metro system would remain shut and schools and universities would be closed over concerns that jihadists were planning a repeat of the Paris gun and suicide bombing attacks on Nov 13.

'SERIOUS AND IMMINENT'

"What we fear are similar attacks, with several individuals in several places," Michel told reporters. "The threat is considered serious and imminent," he said, adding that the rest of the country, including Brussels airport, would remain on security alert level three, meaning an attack is considered possible and the threat credible.

Officials will review the situation again on Monday. The historic Grand Place square in central Brussels, usually bustling, was virtually empty at the weekend, with business badly hit in the run-up to Christmas as anxious residents heeded warnings to stay home.

With a massive manhunt on for several suspects linked to the carnage in Paris, Belgian police urged the media and social media not to show live footage of the police operations taking place Sunday evening.

Many Belgians responded in light-hearted fashion by tweeting pictures of cats under the hashtag #BrusselsLockdown.

Interior Minister Jan Jambon earlier said the authorities were looking for "several suspects" and not just for Abdeslam, who is thought to have slipped past French security forces after taking part in the Paris attacks, which were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

French police meanwhile released a photo of the third of three men who blew themselves up outside France's national stadium during the rampage, which also targeted the Bataclan concert hall as well as a string of bars and restaurants.

The man in the picture passed through Greece with one of the other suicide bombers, carrying a Syrian passport in the name of Mohammad al-Mahmod, a source close to the investigation said.

OBAMA 'NOT AFRAID'

With the world on edge over the jihadist threat, US President Barack Obama said the most powerful tool in the fight against IS was to say "that we're not afraid".

He added that he would go ahead with a December visit to Paris for UN climate talks and called on other countries to show similar resolve.

French President Francois Hollande will embark on a diplomatic offensive in the coming days in a bid to forge a broad anti-IS coalition.

He will host Britain's David Cameron Monday before meeting Obama in Washington on Tuesday, holding talks with Germany's Angela Merkel in Paris Wednesday and Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday.

The UN Security Council on Friday authorised "all necessary measures" to fight jihadist violence after a wave of deadly attacks, including the downing of a Russian aircraft in Egypt with the loss of 224 lives and the storming of a luxury hotel in Mali that left 19 dead.

Meanwhile, Eagles of Death Metal, the Californian band that was playing at the Bataclan where 89 people were massacred, spoke for the first time since the attacks, with singer Jesse Hughes saying that many fans died trying to protect their friends. "So many people put themselves in front of people," he said in an excerpt of an interview with Vice.com.

The suspected ringleader of the Nov 13 attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, died in a massive police raid in Paris on Wednesday.

He was a notorious Belgian jihadist thought to be fighting in Syria, and his presence in Europe has raised troubling questions about a Europe-wide breakdown in intelligence and border security.

Questions remain too over the role played by Belgian-born Abdeslam - who used to run a bar with his brother Brahim in Brussels.

A third brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, told Belgian TV on Sunday he believed Salah had at the last moment decided not go through with the attack.

He said the family wanted him to give himself up. "That way he can give us the answers we seek, our family and the families of the victims," he said.

- AFP/de/pp

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German police arrest five in hunt for Paris suspects

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Police special units in the western city of Aachen arrested one man and two women of foreign nationalities in the morning, and two more suspects later in the day, police said.

BERLIN: German police hunting for suspects in the Paris attacks on Tuesday (Nov 17) said they had arrested five people near the Belgian border, but cautioned they had established no links so far to the attacks.

Police special units in the western city of Aachen arrested one man and two women of foreign nationalities in the morning, and two more suspects later in the day, police said.

The suspects "could be connected with the Paris attacks", Aachen police spokesman Werner Schneider told news channel NTV. He however cautioned that "either these indications will be confirmed or they could all go up into thin air". He added that the identities of the first three were yet to be established.

A police statement said: "Following the terrorist attacks last Friday in Paris and the search for the perpetrators and masterminds, Aachen police received a report about suspicious persons in Alsdorf near Aachen."

"In this context, there were three arrests this morning. Two women and a man were overwhelmed by special forces and taken into custody. Investigations are currently ongoing." It added that police had conducted further operations in the area which it could not detail "for tactical reasons", and that "two more people were arrested by special forces in Alsdorf".

European police forces are searching for Salah Abdeslam, 26, who was named by French police as a key suspect in the Paris attacks in which 129 people were killed.

News site Spiegel Online reported that the German police alert was sparked by a supermarket employee who reported spotting a suspect who resembled Abdeslam.

Salah Abdeslam - the younger brother of Brahim Abdeslam, who blew himself up in Friday's attacks -- is being sought by French investigators who have issued a photograph of him, describing him as "dangerous", while Belgium has issued an international arrest warrant.

Salah Abdeslam was in Austria in September, telling police after arriving from Germany with two men that he was "on holiday", Austrian authorities said on Tuesday.

- AFP/ms

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Kevin gave me info on probe on powerful individuals: brother

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The brother of Anthony Kevin Morais has claimed to be in possession of a pen drive sent to him by the deputy public prosecutor just before he was murdered.

“It is in safe custody in the US with someone who has instructions to release it publicly should anything untoward happen to me for swearing this statutory declaration,” said Charles Suresh Morais.

“The contents of this pen drive clearly and unequivocally reveal the investigation Kevin had been tasked with just before his untimely death, which implicates certain personalities who currently walk the corridors of power in Malaysia,” he added in a statutory declaration today.

Charles said Kevin told him in August that he will send Charles something. The pendrive arrived in October.

Kevin was murderd in September.

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Football: LionsXII kicked out of Malaysian league from next season

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PETALING JAYA - Singapore Lions XII will no longer play in the Malaysian League (M-League).



Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) executive committee had decided not to extend their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Singapore FA which sees the participation of the Lions in the M-League, when the current season ends.

The Singapore side's Super League slot will be taken by the winner of a play-off between Armed Forces and T-Team.

The Lions made their return to the M-League after a 17-year hiatus after the FAS and FAM signed the MoU in 2011.

Singapore had previously parted ways with Malaysian football in 1994 after winning both the Malaysia Cup and the league title.

The Lions' return in 2012 saw them finish runners-up in the 12-team Super League behind champions Kelantan.

The following season they went on to win the Super League but they finished empty handed in 2014.

This year they won their first ever FA Cup in May and have qualified for the Malaysia Cup quarter-finals.

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Selangor fatwa inaccurate, we are not deviants, Hizbut Tahrir says

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Hizbut Tahrir supporters pray while holding up placards against US President Barack Obama's planned visit to Malaysia during a protest outside the US embassy in Kuala Lumpur in this file picture taken on April 18, 2014. HTM recently declared Malaysia’s welcome of Obama in November as ‘haram’. — Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 — Hardline Islamic movement Hizbut Tahrir Malaysia (HTM) today disagreed with the Selangor edict labelling it “deviant”, saying the state fatwa committee had unfairly and wrongly interpreted its teachings.

A spokesman for the group Abdul Hakim Othman told Malay Mail Online that HTM met with the Selangor religious authorities on at least two occasions previously to seek its explanation on the fatwa but failed to get it reversed.

“We initiated a meeting with the Selangor Mufti Department in September this year, but they ended the meeting before we could finish explaining how they have wrongly interpreted our stances,” he told Malay Mail Online when contacted.

In the fatwa in the Selangor government gazette on September 17 and published today as a notice in Malay-language daily Sinar Harian, Hizbut Tahrir was declared a “deviant” movement for several reasons, including its claim that MPs, rulers and Islamic scholars here are infidels for accepting and following a government system that it claims to be against God’s will.

Abdul Hakim, however, said this portrayal of the movement was untrue and not the formal position of HTM.

“Where, in any of our publications have we said this? They have made up their own conclusions,” he said.

“The fatwa also says that we have declared Islamic countries as infidels (kafir), which we have never said. Even in our publications, we only provide definitions to explain the differences between an Islamic country and one that is not,” he added.

Abdul Hakim also denied the fatwa’s claim that the movement rejects the term “al-Qadha’ wa al-Qadar” (the Divine Will and Decree) as well as hadiths sourced from the Quran, known as “hadith Ahad”.

He said that the only point that was close to the truth was HTM’s stand on prophets not being infallible in their lives before being made prophets, which he said even Islamic scholars here are debating.

“Yes, we have that stand, but it is an issue that is even debated among scholars. The way they have presented it in the fatwa will confuse the public,” he said.

Abdul Hakim said that no action has been taken against the group, although he has seen posters of the fatwa put up in mosques in Selangor.

He added that it was regrettable that HTM had not been given the opportunity to explain its beliefs and its agenda, adding that the group has yet to decide its next step.

HTM, which seeks to establish a global caliphate, has been vocal in its demands, most recently for declaring Malaysia’s welcoming of US president Barack Obama in November as “haram”.

It had also previously declared that Muslim men do not need their wives’ consent to have sex, and that it was not sinful even if it was by force.

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In plea for Malay unity, Najib opens Umno meet with slides of May 13 riots


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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak opened the Umno general assembly today by screening slides of the bloody May 13 race riots and the communist attacks in Malaya, in an apparent reminder to the country’s ruling party of the importance of national unity and the dangers of discord among the Malays.

The Umno president and prime minister also said that Bumiputeras will comprise 70 per cent of the population by 2020, and told the Malay party’s delegates to imagine how strong the community would be then.

“Everything that we see today didn’t come easily on their own. Actually, the ups and downs of Malaysia’s journey were full of episodes and events,” Najib said in his policy speech, before screening black and white clips titled “Communist guerrilla attack in Malaya” and “13 May 1969”.

Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin yesterday urged Malays to rise and defend themselves from a purported onslaught of insults and challenges to their special position in the country, declaring that the country’s predominant ethnic group has been patient enough.

Yesterday, Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil also told Malays at the Umno general assembly that their race would break up if they allowed their faith in Islam to be subverted and if they were disunited in their beliefs.

Najib said today that the key to peace in Malaysia was “solidarity”, a word he repeated throughout his speech.

“The symbol of unity is called solidarity,” he said.

Malaysia is experiencing more visible incidents of communal friction among its various ethnicities.

In July, Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin reportedly said that Malaysia could see another May 13 incident if no efforts were made to preserve inter-ethnic harmony, especially when Malays and Muslims continue to be insulted.

Muhyiddin later clarified that he was not making any threats but merely serving a reminder about the state of the country’s race relations.

Hundreds of Malaysians are believed to have died during the May 13, 1969 clashes between the Malays and the Chinese. Although ostensibly triggered by the results of Election 1969, it was rooted in ethnic tensions between the two communities.

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Saudi Arabia 'destabilising Arab world', German intelligence warns

It is unusual for the BND spy agency to publicly release such a blunt assessment on a country that is considered an ally of the West. Germany has long-standing political and economic ties with Saudi Arabia

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Prince Mohammed bin Salman is believed to have played a key role in Saudi Arabia's decision to intervene in Yemen Photo: Getty Images

By Justin Huggler, Berlin7:00PM GMT 02 Dec 2015
Saudi Arabia is at risk of becoming a major destabilising influence in the Arab world, German intelligence has warned.

Internal power struggles and the desire to emerge as the leading Arab power threaten to make the key Western ally a source of instability, according to the BND intelligence service.

“The current cautious diplomatic stance of senior members of the Saudi royal family will be replaced by an impulsive intervention policy,” a BND memo widely distributed to the German press reads.

The memo focuses particularly on the role of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the 30-year-old son of King Salman who was recently appointed deputy crown prince and defence minister.

The concentration of so much power in Prince Mohammed’s hands “harbours a latent risk that in seeking to establish himself in the line of succession in his father’s lifetime, he may overreach,” the memo notes.

“Relations with friendly and above all allied countries in the region could be overstretched.”

Prince Mohammed is believed to have played a key role in Saudi Arabia’s decision to intervene in the civil war in Yemen earlier this year.

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Both he and King Salman want Saudi Arabia to be seen as “the leader of the Arab world” and are trying to extend its foreign policy “with a strong military component and new regional alliances,” the BND analysts write.

Prince Mohammed is believed to want to succeed his father as king, but he is currently second in line to the throne, behind the 80-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, King Salman’s nephew.

Analysts at the Royal Bank of Canada recenlty desrcribed the jockeying for position inside the extensive royal family as “Saudi Arabia’s Game of Thrones”.

The royal family has thousands of members of varying influence and power, and any suggestion Prince Mohammed is trying to move ahead of the crown prince in the line of succession could trigeer a dangerous power struggle.

Regionally, the Sunni kingdom is locked in a rivalry with Shia Iran “reinforced by mutual mistrust and religious-ideological enmity,” the memo warns.

This rivalry between the two counties is being fuelled by a Saudi loss of faith in the US as the dominant strategic power in the region and in its ability to provide protection, it says.

Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen was driven by a desire to show the country was “willing to take military, financial and political risks in order not to fall behind in regional politics”.

The overthrow of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad remains a priority for the kingdom, the BND says.

Saudi Arabia has previously been accused of supplying arms and funding to jihadist groups fighting in Syria, including Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

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Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Stupid State oil trade


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An undated still image taken from a video made available by the Russian Defence Ministry in Moscow, Russia December 2, 2015, shows the Turkish-Syrian border crossing. Russia's defence ministry officials displayed satellite images on Wednesday which they said showed columns

Russia's defense ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq.

Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a war of words since last week when a Turkish air force jet shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border, the most serious incident between Russia and a NATO state in half a century.

Erdogan responded by saying no one had the right to "slander" Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from Islamic State, and that he would stand down if such allegations were proven to be true. But speaking during a visit to Qatar, he also said he did not want relations with Moscow to worsen further.

At a briefing in Moscow, defense ministry officials displayed satellite images which they said showed columns of tanker trucks loading with oil at installations controlled by Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and then crossing the border into neighboring Turkey.

The officials did not specify what direct evidence they had of the involvement of Erdogan and his family, an allegation that the Turkish president has vehemently denied.

"Turkey is the main consumer of the oil stolen from its rightful owners, Syria and Iraq. According to information we've received, the senior political leadership of the country - President Erdogan and his family - are involved in this criminal business," said Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov.

"Maybe I'm being too blunt, but one can only entrust control over this thieving business to one's closest associates."

"In the West, no one has asked questions about the fact that the Turkish president's son heads one of the biggest energy companies, or that his son-in-law has been appointed energy minister. What a marvelous family business!"

"The cynicism of the Turkish leadership knows no limits. Look what they're doing. They went into someone else's country, they are robbing it without compunction," Antonov said.

Erdogan last week denied that Turkey procures oil from anything other than legitimate sources.

The United States said it rejected the premise that the Turkish government was in league with the militants to smuggle oil. "We frankly see no evidence, none, to support such an accusation," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.

Erdogan has said Ankara is taking steps to prevent fuel smuggling, and he challenged anyone who accused his government of collaborating with Islamic State to prove their allegations.

On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said Turkey had made progress in sealing its border with Syria, but Islamic State was still exploiting gaps to bring in foreign fighters and sell oil.

WEAPONS FLOW

The Russian defense ministry also alleged that the same criminal networks which were smuggling oil into Turkey were also supplying weapons, equipment and training to Islamic State and other Islamist groups.

"According to our reliable intelligence data, Turkey has been carrying out such operations for a long period and on a regular basis. And most importantly, it does not plan to stop them," Sergei Rudskoy, deputy head of the Russian military's General Staff, told reporters.

The defense ministry said its surveillance revealed hundreds of tanker trucks gathering at Islamic State-controlled sites in Iraq and Syria to load up with oil, and it questioned why the U.S.-led coalition was not launching more air strikes on them.

"It's hard not to notice them," Rudskoy said of the lines of trucks shown on satellite images.

Russian officials said their country's bombing campaign had made a significant dent in Islamic State's ability to produce, refine and sell oil.

U.S. officials say coalition air strikes have destroyed hundreds of IS oil trucks while the Russian campaign has mainly targeted opponents of the Syrian government who are not from Islamic State, which is also known as ISIL.

"The irony of the Russians raising this concern is that there's plenty of evidence to indicate that the largest consumer of ISIL oil is actually Bashar al-Assad and his regime, a regime that only remains in place because it is being propped up by the Russians," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

The State Department's Toner said U.S. information was that Islamic State was selling oil at the wellheads to middlemen who were involved in smuggling it across the frontier into Turkey.

SMUGGLING ROUTES

Russian officials described three main routes by which they said oil and oil products were smuggled from Islamic State territory into Turkey.

The ministry said the Western route took oil produced at fields near the Syrian city of Raqqa to the settlement of Azaz on the border with Turkey.

From there the columns of tanker trucks pass through the Turkish town of Reyhanli, the ministry said, citing what it said were satellite pictures of hundreds of such trucks moving through the border crossing without obstruction.

"There is no inspection of the vehicles carried out ... on the Turkish side," said Rudskoy.

Some of the smuggled cargoes go to the Turkish domestic market, while some is exported via the Turkish Mediterranean ports of Iskenderun and Dortyol, the ministry said.

Another main route for smuggled oil, according to the ministry, runs from Deir Ez-zour in Syria to the Syrian border crossing at Al-Qamishli. It said the trucks then took the crude for refining at the Turkish city of Batman.

A third route took oil from eastern Syria and western Iraq into the south-eastern corner of Turkey, the ministry said.

It said its satellite surveillance had captured hundreds of trucks crossing the border in that area back in the summer, and that since then there had been no reduction in the flow.

The defense ministry officials said the information they released on Wednesday was only part of the evidence they have in their possession, and that they would be releasing further intelligence in the next days and weeks.

(Additional reporting by Alexander Winning in Moscow and Lesley Wroughton and Doina Chiacu in Washington; writing by Christian Lowe; editing by Andrew Osborn, Giles Elgood and Philippa Fletcher)


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Sri Lanka urges Saudi not to stone to death maid for adultery

Sri Lanka said on Friday it was calling on Saudi Arabia to pardon a domestic worker sentenced to death by stoning after she admitted committing adultery while working in the Arab nation.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka said on Friday it was calling on Saudi Arabia to pardon a domestic worker sentenced to death by stoning after she admitted committing adultery while working in the Arab nation.

An official from Sri Lanka's Foreign Employment Bureau said the married 45-year-old woman who was working as a maid in Riyadh since 2013 was convicted of adultery by a Saudi court in August.

Her partner, also a Sri Lankan migrant worker, was given a lesser punishment of 100 lashes on account of being single.

"She has accepted the crime four times in the courts. But the Foreign Employment Bureau has hired lawyers and have appealed against the case," Upul Deshapriya, spokesman for the Foreign Employment Bureau, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"The appeal is going on. Also from the foreign ministry side, they are in negotiation with the Saudi government on a diplomatic level."

Officials from the Saudi Embassy in Colombo did not respond to requests from the Thomson Reuters Foundation on whether they would consider the plea for clemency.

Oil-producing Saudi Arabia follows Sharia, or Islamic law, and is often criticised by human rights groups for the wide range of crimes such as adultery, drug smuggling and witchcraft which carry the death penalty.

Stoning, a form of execution where a group throws stones at a person buried waist or chest deep in the ground until they are dead, is still carried out in parts of the Muslim world.

In 2013, Saudi Arabia beheaded a young Sri Lankan housemaid for the killing of an infant left in her care, rejecting repeated appeals by Colombo against her death sentence.

Thousands of men and women from the Indian Ocean island travel to the Middle East every year to seek jobs as maids or drivers.

According to Central Bank data, 279,952 Sri Lankans went to work in Middle Eastern nations in 2014, generating over US$7 billion in remittances, around 9 percent of total GDP.

Saudi Arabia, which is current chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council Panel, has executed over 150 people this year, mostly by public beheading, the most in 20 years, rights group Amnesty International said this month.

Foreigners, mostly guest workers from poor countries, are particularly vulnerable as they typically do not know Arabic and are denied adequate translation in court, Amnesty said.

Riyadh says it provides fair trials to all defendants.

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Malaysian diplomat Muhammad Rizalman pleads guilty to indecent assault

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Muhammad Rizalman in the dock of the Wellington High Court as he pleads guilty.

The former Malaysian defence attache who returned to New Zealand to face criminal charges has this morning admitted indecently assaulting a Wellington woman.

Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail, 39, was to have faced trial in the High Court at Wellington toady, but has admitted a charge of indecently assaulting Tania Billingsley.

Crown prosecutor Grant Burston offered no evidence on a charge of assault with intent to sexually violate Ms Billingsley, while a charge of burglary was dismissed.

As Rizalman stood in the dock, a Malay interpreter helped him.


A Crown summary of the offending was read to the court, although Rizalman disputes aspects of it.

It says about 6.30pm on Friday May 9, 2014, Ms Billingsley was at her Wellington flat in Brooklyn.

"She was the only one home at the time and was watching a movie on her laptop in her bedroom," the summary says.

"Before entering the address, the defendant, Rizalman, removed his trousers and underwear."

He entered the flat through a closed but unlocked door.

In the kitchen, he took off his jacket.

Rizalman then knocked on Ms Billingsley's bedroom door and pushed it open.

"He spoke to the victim, saying, 'Can I come in?' The victim looked up from her bed and observed the defendant standing in the entranceway to the bedroom, wearing only a shirt and naked from the waist down," the summary says.

Ms Billingsley got up and began yelling and screaming for Rizalman to get out.

He approached her and grabbed her shoulders and the pair struggled.

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Ms Billingsley managed to push Rizalman out of her room.

After removing him from the flat she locked the door and ran into the bathroom to call the police.

A neighbour heard screaming and called a flatmate, while a flatmate's boyfriend who lived nearby came to help.

He arrived to find Rizalman standing by the front door.

"By this time he had put his trousers back on," the summary says.

"The defendant was confronted, but eventually began walking away from the address on to the pathway."

Ms Billingsley suffered marks to her arms and "considerable emotional trauma".

Rizalman told police the pair had been to a cinema together. He claimed she invited him to her house but became angry when he ate her food.

Defence lawyer Donald Stevens, QC, said there was "no real dispute" about what happened in the house, apart from a suggestion by Ms Billingsley that Rizalman grabbed her throat.

Dr Stevens said Rizalman's hand might have come into contact with her throat, during a struggle.

He said he understood the Crown would dispute Rizalman was mentally unwell at the time, as the defence argues.

"Mr Rizalman has accepted there was an indecent assault because he went into the house without his trousers and underpants on, which made it indecent."

The assault itself was Rizalman grabbing Ms Billingsley's shoulders and arms.

Dr Stevens also asked Justice David Collins not to enter a conviction today, to which the judge agreed.

Crown prosecutor Grant Burston said the Crown didn't accept Ms Billingsley touched Rizalman first.

The most important thing was the "fear, slash, terror" she would have felt when Rizalman entered her house.

The Crown didn't agree with mitigating factors cited by the defence, Mr Burston said.

"It's not accepted by the Crown that the defendant followed the victim to her home because he thought the victim wanted him to follow her," he said.

"It's not accepted by the Crown that the fact the defendant removed his trousers and underpants prior to going into the victim's bedroom was not sexually motivated.

"Thirdly, it's not accepted by the Crown that the defendant was suffering from a significant mental illness at the time of the offending."

The defence would need to call evidence about that, Mr Burston said.

He said one expert's evidence suggested Rizalman's behaviour on the day in question was consistent with the use of cannabis and with anxiety.

Justice Collins bailed Rizalman until Friday, for a hearing about disputed facts.

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Green Party women's affairs spokeswoman Jan Logie said she believed Rizalman's guilty plea would be a "real relief" for Ms Billingsley.

She said the courts were "still not good places for [sexual assault] survivors".

"There is a lot of work that needs to be done to make them as fair and as comfortable a place for people to be able to seek justice," she said.

The Green MP was approached by Ms Billingsley last year. The victim was critical of the Government for letting her attacker leave the country and said that Prime Minister John Key appeared unconcerned with her case.

Ms Logie praised Ms Billingsley's bravery in waiving name suppression to speak out about her case.

"This is one of those situations where because she was brave enough to go public people were able to see the huge number of flaws in the process," she said.

The Green Party was now calling on Mr Key to apologise personally to Ms Billingsley on behalf of the Government.

Mr Key has previously said he would not apologise because former Ministry of Foreign Affairs head John Allen had already done so.

Ms Logie said a report into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' handling of the case should also be released.

The report by John Whitehead was completed a year ago but would not be made public until Rizalman's trial was completed.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said at the time that the findings in the report were "disappointing".

Labour's foreign affairs spokesman David Shearer said Rizalman's plea would make the court process much simpler for Ms Billingsley.

"Clearly, she had a very harrowing deal, now that we know the facts of the case," he said.

Mr Shearer said the full details of MFAT's handling of the matter should be released as soon as possible.

"The big question still remains why foreign affairs got this so wrong," he said. "And so far they have been hiding behind the John Whitehead report."

Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Todd McClay had no comment to make while the case remained before the court.

A spokeswoman said the Whitehead report would not be released until the court process - including any potential appeals - had been concluded

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Family of Texas boy arrested over clock demands $15m in damages

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Fifteen million dollars and apologies from the mayor and police chief.

That's what an attorney says the family of Ahmed Mohamed is demanding from city and school officials in Irving, Texas, or they say they'll file a civil suit.

In September, 14-year-old Ahmed made international headlines when he brought a handmade clock to school to show his teachers.

One of them thought it was a bomb and notified school authorities, who then called police. Ahmed was detained, questioned and hauled off in handcuffs. At the time, the school said it reacted with caution because the contraption that had wires could have been an explosive device.

It wasn't. It was just a clock.

In a whirlwind of publicity about the case fueled by social media, #IStandWithAhmed became a trending topic on Twitter, President Barack Obama invited the teen to attend an event at the White House and a foundation offered him a scholarship to study in Qatar.

Ahmed Mohamed receives job offers, White House invite

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But despite the surge of support for Ahmed, the attorney representing his family says the teen suffered severe psychological trauma and that his "reputation in the global community is permanently scarred."

In two letters sent Monday to attorneys representing the school district and the city, attorney Kelly Hollingsworth says that Ahmed's civil rights were violated by the way the case was handled.

Irving city officials told CNN they were reviewing the letter and had no comment.

School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver told CNN that the district is aware of the letter and also had no comment.

Hollingsworth, who says he was recently retained by the teen's father, alleges that the teenager was not read his Miranda rights during his arrest and that those involved with the incident tried to cover up mistakes "with a media campaign that further alienated the child at the center of this maelstrom."

Rather than calming the situation, Hollingsworth says in the letters, officials in Irving stoked the flames.

"They tried to push responsibility off on the victim -- Ahmed. They have even implied publicly that what has come of this has been good for Ahmed, as though the resilience of this fine boy and his fine family somehow excused what they did," the letters say. "It does not, for there is no excuse."

Hollingsworth argues that the damages are numerous but difficult to quantify. He notes an online blog post that superimposed the 14-year-old's face onto a famous image of Osama bin Laden, a "Clock Boy" Halloween costume on a website and harassment suffered by the teen's siblings.

"Ahmed will now forever be associated with bomb making wholly without basis," Hollingsworth says.

Among numerous allegations, the letters say that the authorities interrogated the Muslim teenager, alone, for at least one hour and 25 minutes, a period that was recorded on a police officer's iPhone. At one point, according to the letters, a police officer who first saw Ahmed said, "Yep. That's who I thought it was."

"Ahmed clearly was singled out because of his race, national origin and religion," the letters say.

If officials don't comply with the family's demands for apologies and compensation for the damages within 60 days, the letters say, a civil lawsuit will be filed.

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Commando charged with having IS T-shirt

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PARIT - An army commando has been charged in a magistrate's court here with possession of a T-shirt with Islamic State (IS) design.



Clad in blue denim jacket and jeans, Mohd Abu Haliff Shah Abu Bakar, 28, was read his charge under Section 130JB(1)(a) of the Penal Code before magistrate Mohd Fitri Sadarudin.

No plea was recorded.

According to the charge sheet, Mohd Abu Haliff Shah was found in possession of the T-shirt at his home at Kampung Baru, Mukim Lambor Kiri Bota, in Perak Tengah, on Nov 12 at about 1.30pm.

Mohd Abu Haliff Shah, who is based at the Sungai Udang camp in Malacca, faces up to seven years in jail or a fine and the forfeiture of the item.

Mohd Fitri set Jan 6 for mention.

It is learned that the case will be transferred to the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

DPP Nurul Qistini Qamarul Abrar prosecuted while Mohd Abu Haliff Shah was unrepresented.

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Malaysian Islamic affairs (Yapeim) Minister have been using money for Orphans for lavish shopping and golf trips in USA!

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Charity organisation Yayasan Pembangunan Ekonomi Islam Malaysia (Yapeim) had funded a federal minister’s shopping trip in the US last year using donations meant for an orphanage, a PKR-linked anti-corruption group alleged today.

Continuing its exposés on alleged power abuse by Yapeim, National Oversight and Whistleblower (NOW) director Akmal Nasir also claimed the minister in charge of Islamic affairs, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, the latter’s wife and their entourage had travelled to the US in May last year under the guise of an official charity programme organised by the state-linked charity agency, but instead had gone on a shopping spree and played golf for most of the eight-day trip.

Akmal said official documents of the programme obtained by NOW showed that while Yapeim deemed the trip as a means to “strengthen” the charity body’s work, payment was instead made among others for a golf game, gift shopping and a trip to a factory outlet store in Washington DC that sells luxury goods.

The trip, funded by Yayasan Pembangunan Anak Yatim/Miskin (Pemangkin), which is an institution under Yapeim’s watch, had cost more than RM410,000, Akmal claimed.

“I am quite certain that this exposé can reach beyond the imagination of the rakyat how an Islamic foundation under the watch of the prime minister can be abused for a minister’s activities like playing golf or shopping and all.
“NOW, with this, demand a thorough investigation where the spendings of Yapeim and other institutions under Yapeim are checked and audited openly,” Akmal told a press conference at the group’s office here.

In copies of receipts of payments for the Yapeim US programme, the foundation was said to have funded a trip to three locations — Washington DC, Iowa and Minnesota.

The trip took place from May 21 to May 29, 2015. Out of the schedule, four days were spent on a “VVIP” trip to Leesburg Corner Premium Outlet, a factory outlet store that sells luxury goods at discounted prices.
Transportation fees to the outlet cost close to RM6,000, according to the receipt.

Akmal noted that Pemangkin’s director is the former Kelantan Umno Wanita chief who was implicated in another power abuse allegation during the Rompin by-election in Pahang earlier this year.

The Wanita Umno leader, who is also the chairman and director of Yapeim, was accused of siphoning RM223,000 of the foundation’s money, purportedly to help Barisan Nasional’s (BN) election campaign.
She was also appointed to the post by Jamil Khir, Akmal pointed out.
“For Jamil Khir Baharom, if he still has dignity, he should resign immediately and apologise openly to Malaysians because he had abused money meant for poor orphans donated by the public,” Akmal said.

Akmal demanded that Jamil Khir and the top two heads of Pemangkin, who also head the Yapeim board, return every sen they took from Yapeim, including their salaries, allowances and overseas spending.

Senator Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki told Malay Mail Online yesterday the federal government has no direct involvement in the operations of Yapeim or knowledge of the alleged mismanagement at the entity.

Yapeim director-general Datuk Abibullah Samsudin said in a statement yesterday that it was ready to be investigated over claims of mismanagement.

Yapeim was a charity set up by the federal government in 1976 and placed under the purview of the prime minister, with special attention from Jamil Khir.

Akmal had said that more than half a million Malaysians have joined Yapeim’s monthly salary cut scheme to donate their money and estimated that the charity will receive RM65.73 million this year from public donations.

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