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Daily Archives: 12/31/2009
AFP: Jordan jails man for 10 years over ‘honour killing’
It would be great if honor killings were ended in Jordan, but news like this prove that is somewhat far away:
A Jordanian court sentenced a 61-year-old man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of killing his teenage daughter last year to “defend his honour,” a judicial official said.”In 2008, the 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped by a group of men, who are currently on trial,” the official told AFP.
“But the father suspected that his daughter was involved in a sexual relationship with one of the men. He shot her dead before handing himself in to police, claiming he wanted to defend his honour.”
The court initially jailed the father for 15 years, “but decided to reduce the sentence after the man’s family urged leniency,” he said, adding the murder took place in Ein Basha, outside Amman.
via AFP: Jordan jails man for 10 years over ‘honour killing’.
Iran: opposition leaders ‘flee Tehran’ as government mobs threaten death
Iran’s state news agency IRNA said that two leaders of “sedition” in the country have fled to a northern Iranian province. The top opposition leaders are Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi had fled the capital.
“Two of those who played a major role in igniting tension in Iran following the (June presidential) vote, fled Tehran and went to a northern province because they were scared of people, who demanded their punishment,” IRNA said.
Supporters of the two men dismissed the report. Hossein Karoubi, the son of moderate defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi, said his father and opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi were still in Tehran.
…Earlier, television footage showed crowds in areas including Tehran’s Enghelab Square, chanting slogans and waving pro-regime placards.
“O free-willed leader, we are ready, we are ready,” they shouted in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Only the Supremre Leader is “free-willed”, the rest are slaves?)
The rallies were called in response to a series of opposition protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed June re-election. Mousavi and Karroubi were the main challengers in that poll.
via Iran leaders ‘flee Tehran’ as government mobs threaten death – Telegraph.
What a democracy, hein? People flood the streets to support a Government who has just killed 15 people while protesting the same Government.
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Iraq: Catholic student kidnapped in Mosul, intimidation campaign continues
I’m sure this is not going to open any news bulletin tomorrow:
A Christian student at the University of Mosul was kidnapped on December 28; Islamic militants claimed responsibility. The abduction was the latest in a series of attacks on the city’s minority Christians, including murders, bombings, and other kidnappings. Christian leaders believe that Islamic zealots have begun a campaign of “ethnic and religious cleansing,” hoping to drive Christians out of the region through intimidation.
Ideology: Taking Jihadist Islamism Seriously
It borders on collective delusion not to face the intrinsically religious and theological taproots of this ideology, and to plan accordingly. The survival of our civilization may hinge, in the end, on whether those in “authority” are able to do so.
Hitchens makes the point with characteristic clarity in Slate:
What nobody in authority thinks us grown-up enough to be told is this: We had better get used to being the civilians who are under a relentless and planned assault from the pledged supporters of a wicked theocratic ideology. These people will kill themselves to attack hotels, weddings, buses, subways, cinemas, and trains. They consider Jews, Christians, Hindus, women, homosexuals, and dissident Muslims (to give only the main instances) to be divinely mandated slaughter victims. Our civil aviation is only the most psychologically frightening symbol of a plethora of potential targets. The future murderers will generally not be from refugee camps or slums (though they are being indoctrinated every day in our prisons); they will frequently be from educated backgrounds, and they will often not be from overseas at all. They are already in our suburbs and even in our military. We can expect to take casualties. The battle will go on for the rest of our lives. Those who plan our destruction know what they want, and they are prepared to kill and die for it. Those who don’t get the point prefer to whine about “endless war,” accidentally speaking the truth about something of which the attempted Christmas bombing over Michigan was only a foretaste. While we fumble with bureaucracy and euphemism, they are flying high.
via Taking Jihadist Islamism Seriously « The Enterprise Blog.
I personally don’t agree with Hitchens on his general view of religions. But I do agree in what he points here.
