Nigeria: Clashes with yet another Islamic sect leave 35 dead

Firstly it was Boko Haram sect. Now, it’s Yan Kala-Kato:

Atiku Yusif Kafur, Bauchi State Police Commissioner, told a press conference that 35 members of an Islamic sect known as Yan Kala-Kato – including its leader Malam Badamasi – were killed on Monday by a joint army and police squad at Zango, about three kilometres from the state capital.”We have made arrest of twenty people, eleven adults and nine youth and fourteen were injured. We carted away weapons from the group leader’s house, including cutlasses and knives,” he stated.

Fighting broke out at Zango on the outskirts of the city of Bauchi in the afternoon hours of Dec. 28 just after a sermon delivered by the sect’s leader created sharp divisions within the group.

Badamasi, who had been sick for some time, was under pressure to step down; he is reported to have delivered a provocative sermon to his followers that triggered a violent fight within the group, resulting in the death of three members.

via allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Fears for the Future as Religious Violence Claims 35.

According to SOS Childer’s Village :

Red Cross humanitarian workers estimate that most of the victims—two thirds–were children under 15 years old.

Most of these children were students of Islam and Arabic who had come from outside the city. Local officials have it that any children killed would have been either struck by vehicles or trampled by crowds fleeing the chaos.

Twenty suspected fundamentalist sect members were arrested, including 11 young people. It is not uncommon for impressionable young people (young men especially), to be recruited by extremist organizations.

More abuse on children. Any word from UNICEF?

Pakistan: Two-year-old raped and left to die because her father refused to convert to Islam

Bastards:

Church founder Rev. Majed El Shafie said the family of seven have been hiding from extremists in Pakistan for about three years.Baby Neeha, at the age of 21/2, was raped by the son of her father’s employer and left to die by the roadside, he said. No one was arrested for the crime.

“These horrific events took place because her father, who was Christian, refused to give in to pressure from his Muslim employer to convert to Islam,” El Shafie said.

The family went underground in Pakistan to hide from Muslim extremists who were seeking revenge for their non-conversion, he said.

….Canada’s Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, issued a special “ministerial permit” to get the family out of Pakistan, because there were “significant difficulties” involved in getting them out of that lovely, tolerant place.

via Two-year-old raped and left to die because her father refused to convert to Islam – Jihad Watch.

Where’s UNICEF when you need it? As ever, no one is arrested for crimes like these ones in Pakistan. Absolutely disguting…

Website documenting Islamic hate faces death threats

The Religion of Peace is getting death threats:

A recent e-mail to a website launched after the 9/11 terror attacks to document the instances of Islamic violence said simply: “We will kill you. Like this … “

The message included a photograph of a man who had been beheaded, his body resting chest down on grass and his lifeless head placed in the middle of his own back. Another photograph showed a bloody knife.

via Website documenting Islamic hate faces death threats « Creeping Sharia.

The web operator doesn’t think these are important,but thinks it’s better to remain anonymous… I agree.

FT interview with John Brennan, US counter-terrorism expert

FT: What about areas beyond AQ’s core command, such as Yemen and Somalia?

Brennan: Clearly there are a number of places that have organisations that have formally pledged their allegiance to AQ senior leadership: AQ in the Arabian peninsula, which has taken root in Yemen, which is a serious concern; AQ in East Africa which is not just Somalia, but neighbouring countries; AQ in the Islamic Maghreb, which is in Mali, Mauritania and other places. These are clear franchises, they have links to the AQ core, some of these individuals served alongside senior AQ leaders in Afghanistan, Pakistan in 2001, 2002.

There are other areas where we are concerned about AQ’s efforts to exploit local grievances, whether we are talking about southern Thailand, Indonesia or the Philippines. [Notes success in Indonesia.] What we have to be careful about is not just focusing too heavily on one area or another couple of areas while AQ then curries favour and attracts adherents and recruits in other parts of the world … We are trying to get to the leadership without a doubt, in terms of [Osama] Bin Laden, [al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri and others. But that does not mean we are not very much focused on and energised in the other areas where AQ is really trying to take advantage.

via FT.com / US & Canada – Transcript: FT interview with John Brennan, US counter-terrorism expert.

Finland: Muslims Hijack Christian Funeral

A 28-year-old Christian man’s funeral took a surprising twist at the Helsinki Malmi cemetery when the deceased’s Muslim relatives arrived at the grave and took the lead in the funeral. – Upon reaching the gravesite all of a sudden Muslim men jumped out from the thicket and replaced the Finnish pallbearers and the Imam began to lead the service, “the pastor, Jukka Simoila said.

via Finland: Muslims Hijack Christian Funeral — Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami.

Originally published in Finnish tabloid paper Ilta Sanomat (28.12.2009, s. 8)

Image from Islamization Watch. More in Europe News.

WOW, respect, tolerance… you name it,,,

Jordan: No end for honor killings in sight?

IN OCTOBER, A MAN from the Jordan Valley reportedly confessed to using a sword to stab to death his 22-year-old daughter and her unborn child. He said he felt he needed to preserve his honor after the girl became pregnant out of wedlock.

This horrific act wasn’t the only one of its type to have occurred in the Kingdom this year. As JO went to press, 17 other so-called honor killings had been brought to light in the media in 2009.

They included a 30-year-old mother of six who was stabbed to death with a switchblade by her brothers, after she went missing from her husband’s house for 10 hours. And then there was the 16-year-old victim of incestuous rape who was shot nine times in an Amman suburb by her uncle.

Between 15 and 20 women are known to be murdered each year in Jordan in the name of honor, according to the AFP news agency, and some groups and individuals who try to track the crimes say there may be more killings that are missed, or made to look like accidents, suicides or disappearances. Despite numerous high-profile attempts to eradicate the practice, things don’t seem to be improving.

via Jordan: No end in sight? | Stop honour killings!.

Guess what? Some activists thing honor killings are caused by poverty. The same that Abdumull… was a “poor” terrorist?

It’s important that Kind Abdullah speaks against domestic violence but it’s not sufficient. Specially because this hting about “honor” is mostly religious and cultural. It’s not only domestic violence: it’s sanctioned by every cleric who considers that is just to punish a woman for just being too Westernised, for marrying with someone her family doesn’t want (being desobedient thus) or having sexual relations out of wedlock. So, unless he speaks against those clerics and calls for legisiation supporting women in those cases, he is really doing nothing.

Indonesia: video explaining Jemaah Islamiyah