Girl aged 8 gets divorce from 50-year-old man

Seriously, what is WRONG with these men???? Ask yourself what kind of religion it is that claims the bride's age has nothing to do with anything????

"There was an age when these things could happen and none would ever find out. That age is almost over. But the battle for the futures of these little children has only just begun. We're a long way from stopping this abhorrent practice. Telling the world about it is just a beginning."

From Ruth Gledhill:

May 01, 2009

Girl aged 8 gets divorce from 50-year-old man

In Saudi Arabia, a girl of eight whose father gave her to a friend in settlement of a debt has been given a divorce at the third attempt.

As we report today, the case has reopened the debate in Saudi Arabia on whether a minimum age for marriage should be introduced. 'After the first two petitions failed, the Saudi newspaper columnist Amal al-Zahid wrote: “The trafficking of child brides — a most reactionary practice that takes us back to the days of concubines [and] slave girls” should be outlawed. She added that the country was incurring “behavioural abnormalities and problems of which only Allah knows”.'

This picture is not of the Saudi girl, who remains anonymous, but of a Yemeni girl, Nojoud Nasser, also married off at eight and now successfully divorced. Read on for her story.

After Nojoud got her divorce, the Yemeni government changed the law to ban child marriage. But now some Islamists in Yemen are trying to change it back, arguing that the ban is 'unIslamic'.

As Memri reports in its analysis of this issue last month, the Prophet Mohammed was himself married to a child bride, AIsha, when she was six. Memri quotes a Jeddah marriage official as saying that the Prophet's marriage was not itself consummated until the girl was nine.

This is what Nojoud told the Yemen Times:

'My father beat me and told me that I must marry this man, and if I did not, I would be raped and no law and no sheikh in this country would help me. I refused but I couldn’t stop the marriage. I asked and begged my mother, father, and aunt to help me to get divorced. They answered, ‘We can do nothing. If you want you can go to court by yourself.’

'So this is what I have done. He used to do bad things to me, and I had no idea as to what a marriage is. I would run from one room to another in order to escape, but in the end he would catch me and beat me and then continued to do what he wanted. I cried so much but no one listened to me. One day I ran away from him and came to the court and talked to them. Whenever I wanted to play in the yard he beat me and asked me to go to the bedroom with him. This lasted for two months. He was too tough with me, and whenever I asked him for mercy, he beat me and slapped me and then used me. I just want to have a respectful life and divorce him.'

Memri translated an opinion on Islam Today , a website supervised by a well-known Saudi Wahhabi sheikh, Salman Al-'Oda. 'The article stated that Islam attributes no importance to the age of the bride, and that intercourse is permitted as long as the girl is able to cope with the act and its implications. The article also criticized the opponents of child marriage and those who deny that the Prophet married Aisha when she was six.'

Just consider for a moment the sheer enormity of the courage of the tiny handful of women and children who speak out against and fight this practice.

There was an age when these things could happen and none would ever find out. That age is almost over. But the battle for the futures of these little children has only just begun. We're a long way from stopping this abhorrent practice. Telling the world about it is just a beginning.

Hot Rod Anglican: Neighborhood Bully - Dylan - Infidels (1983)

Hot Rod Anglican: Neighborhood Bully - Dylan - Infidels (1983)



I am pro-Israel. I am sickened by those who counsel Israel to lie down and take whatever Hamas and their other enemies dish out and never, ever defend themselves, disgusted by those who call Israel the "neighborhood bully" and turn a blind eye to calls by Hamas and radical Islamists to utterly destroy the Jewish people.

And here are the lyrics:


Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.

He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.

What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully

From Bishop David Anderson of AAC

In my email this morning was an update from the American Anglican Council. Included was this paragraph:

A third area that concerns us as orthodox Anglicans is the invasion of Islam into supposedly solid Christian areas, and the rapidity with which Christians seem to be rolling over and not adequately responding. I used to wonder how Islam conquered North Africa so easily, suppressing such a vital Christian area and pushing the Christian faith into a small corner of the community. Watching the idiocy of many governmental leaders in the Western world today, ready to give away so much to accommodate the demands of Muslim immigrants into their land, and seeing the Christians, with only a few exceptions, fail to rise to the challenge, I think I understand a little better what happened in North Africa. One difference there was that Islam conquered cities and territories by the sword… but who needs a sword if they can accomplish the same result by making demands and through thuggery and intimidation? I am thinking especially of articles about English vicars being beaten and harassed at their churches by Muslim youths.

This week, in my small Central New York town, I saw 4, count them, 4 women in burqas. And, no it wasn't the same woman seen at four different times. They were in a group, shopping at Walmart. No one in the store seemed at all disturbed by this incursion of militant Islam.

Pray for the conversion of Muslims.

Britain recognizes polygamy

Britain has now recognized polygamy
February 5, 2008
by “Jimmy Bradshaw”

Britain has now recognized polygamy in its latest capitulation to sharia law. Fortunately, writes “Jimmy Bradshaw”, medical professionals are showing more backbone when it comes to Muslim doctors refusing to disinfect themselves before dealing with patients. In today’s UK, it’s a war between multiculturalism and universalism, and so far the latter is on the ropes.

British political scandals involving wives invariably revolve around politicians cheating but the latest controversy goes way beyond a middle-aged MP having an affair with his secretary.New guidelines on income support welfare benefits from the U.K’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have de facto recognized polygamy. The guidelines state: “Where there is a valid polygamous marriage the claimant and one spouse will be paid the couple rate … The amount payable for each additional spouse is presently £33.65.” the rest

h/t to Transfigurations

Women 'tricked into suicide blasts'

More from the religion of peace. It is beyond comprehension how evil these people are.



Two women suicide bombers who have killed nearly 80 people in Baghdad were Down's Syndrome victims exploited by al Qaida.

The explosives were detonated by remote control in a co-ordinated attack after the women walked into separate crowded markets, said the chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad General Qassim al-Moussawi.

Other officials said the women were apparently unaware of what they were doing in what could be a new method by suspected Sunni insurgents to subvert toughened security measures.

More than 70 people died and scores were wounded in the deadliest day since the US "surge" of 30,000 extra troops were sent to the capital this spring.

In the first attack, a woman detonated explosives hidden under her traditional black Islamic robe in the central al-Ghazl market. The weekly bazaar has been bombed several times since the war started but recently had re-emerged as a popular place to shop and stroll as Baghdad security improved. At least 46 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.

The second woman then struck a bird market in a predominantly Shiite area in south-eastern Baghdad killing up to 27 people and wounding 70.


read the rest here...

No, really, Islam is the religion of peace. Really

Oh, and tolerance, too. Did I forget to say that?

Here's another installment in the exciting saga "The Caliphate of Great Britian".

From Ruth Gledhill

UK Imam's daughter gets death threats for apostasy

An imam's daughter who converted to Christianity after fleeing an arranged marriage is under police protection after receiving death threats from her family. Read our exclusive report on this at Times Online. The story of Hannah, aged 32, will be unveiled tomorrow at the launch of a new charity, Lapido Media, in London. The aim of the charity is to promote religious literacy in world affairs. I spoke to Hannah, who uses a pseudonym, earlier today. Her story is chilling, and provides a sobering reflection on what it is to be Muslim, or a Muslim convert to Christianity, in Britain today. Also today, as we report, Saga have released a poll showing how many over-50s are worried about the downgrading of Christianity in society, and MPs at Parliament have debated whether there is Christianophobia in the UK.

Read the rest here.

Gillian Gibbons arrives home

The prayers of many were answered when Gillian Gibbons arrived home safely yesterday.

From timesonline.co.uk

Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohamed, arrived back in Britain today and declared: "I never imagined this would happen. I am just an ordinary primary school teacher."

About freakin' time.

From EthicsDaily.com


North American Muslims Issue Fatwa Against Terrorism

Daniel Burke
12-03-07

WASHINGTON (RNS) North American Muslim clerics issued a fatwa against Islamic terrorism here Friday, hoping to build on the just-completed Mideast peace talks and a Vatican invitation to meet with Muslim leaders.

The Fiqh Council of North America, an affiliate of the Islamic Society of North America, counts support from some 500 Muslim leaders and organizations for its condemnation of violence, chairman Muzammil H. Siddiqi said.

"Targeting civilians' life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is prohibited in Islam--haram--and those who commit these barbaric acts are criminals, not `martyrs,"' the fatwa reads.

The fatwa also says Muslims have a duty to alert law enforcement about any threats to human life and must not cooperate with any group or individual involved in terrorism.

Friday's fatwa follows similar attempts by moderate Muslims, including the Fiqh Council, to denounce violence, Siddiqi said. But both Siddiqi and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, on hand Friday to promote the fatwa, said previous calls were "widely ignored."

Recent events worldwide, however, including Mideast peace talks in Annapolis, Md., and a flurry of correspondence between Muslim scholars and Pope Benedict XVI make this an opportune time to gain momentum in the U.S., leaders said Friday.

(Maybe one of the "worldwide events" was the imprisonment & riots calling for the death of a 54 year old schoolteacher who let her kids name a teddy bear Muhammed?)


"We've reached a good plateau," said McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington and a leader in interfaith peace efforts. "Now we have a good foundation to build on."


McCarrick gently chided Americans for not heeding previous attempts by moderate Muslims to be heard.

(Naturally, it's OUR FAULT they haven't done this before.)

The fatwa, he said, "is a monumental step. ... We've never taken notice before. Now we're taking notice of the clear statements they've made."

A number of Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders, as well as prominent Washington insiders, attended the fatwa announcement and offered a "Thanksgiving Proclamation" of their own to welcome it.

"We are all children of Abraham," said McCarrick, "so we're all family. And we really need to love each other, understand each other and work together."

Copyright © 2002-2007 EthicsDaily.com

Pray for Gillian Gibbons

AP
Teacher hidden as Sudan mob urges death

By MOHAMED OSMAN, Associated Press Writer 29 minutes ago

KHARTOUM, Sudan - Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and swords and beating drums, burned pictures of a British teacher Friday and demanded her execution for insulting Islam by letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad.
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Sudan's Islamic government, which has long whipped up anti-Western, Muslim hard-line sentiment at home, was balancing between fueling outrage over the case of Gillian Gibbons and containing it.

The government does not want to seriously damage ties with Britain, but the show of anger underlines its stance that Sudanese oppose Western interference, lawyers and political foes said. The uproar comes as the U.N. is accusing Sudan of dragging its feet on the deployment of peacekeepers in the war-torn Darfur region.

Many in the protesting crowd shouted "Kill her! Kill her by firing squad!"

In response to the rally in central Khartoum, Gibbons was moved from the women's prison across the Nile in Oumdurman to a secret location, her chief lawyer Kamal al-Gizouli told the Associated Press. He said he visited her there to discuss her conviction Thursday on charges of insulting Islam.

The 54-year-old Gibbons, who was sentenced to 15 days in jail, spoke Friday with her son John and daughter Jessica in Britain by telephone.

"One of the things my mum said today was that I don't want any resentment towards Muslims," the son told AP. "She's holding up quite well."

Despite the fervor of the protest, the rest of Khartoum was quiet. The rally was far smaller than February 2006 protests held with government backing after European newspapers ran caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, suggesting popular anger over Gibbons did not run as deep.

In their mosque sermons Friday, several Muslim clerics harshly denounced Gibbons, saying she had intentionally insulted the prophet, but they not call for protests and said the punishment ordered by the court was sufficient.

The rest here.

These people are barbarians and tyrants.

From the New York Times:

BRITISH TEACHER FOUND GUILTY

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 29 — The British teacher in Sudan who let her 7-year-old pupils name a class teddy bear Muhammad was found guilty on Thursday of insulting Islam and sentenced to 15 days in jail and deportation.

Okay, according to a Reuters news story, not only did she let the children name the bear Muhammad, she also had them pick 3 names and VOTE. Maybe the voting was the real crime. Plus the class included boys and girls. Do these barbarians allow 7 year old girls to be in classrooms with boys not related to them? I'm surprised they allow girls to even be in school.

But some people don't think the sentence was harsh enough:

Under Sudanese law, the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, could have spent six months in jail and been lashed 40 times.

“She got a very light punishment,” said Rabie A. Atti, a government spokesman. “Actually, it’s not much of a punishment at all. It should be considered a warning that such acts should not be repeated.”..........


Sudan’s relations with the West — especially Britain — are as strained as ever. Many developed countries are increasingly frustrated with what they consider stalling tactics by the Sudanese to delay the deployment of peacekeepers to Darfur, the troubled region of western Sudan.

Sudan, meanwhile, has accused the West of being anti-Islamic.

I sincerely hope we become very anti-Islamic or this madness will spread.

Another Awesome prayer site

Ramadan starts September 13th this year. What better way to love our Muslim neighbors than to pray for their hearts and minds to be turned to Christ?