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Sergeant_Pluck Great Old One Joined: 10 Apr 2012 Total posts: 504 Location: The Hague, Netherlands. Age: 40 Gender: Male |
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| Fluttermoth wrote: | | I have very little time for any religion, but Islam takes the biscuit, it really does |
So-called 'honour killing' is not (necessarily) a function of the religion of Islam per se. While it is true that most honour killings are committed in Islamic countries, the concept is more of a tribal nature and is more relevant to the social structure of the family/culture.
Honour killlings are not unknown among Sikhs, Christians and Hindus either. |
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| Xanatic_ Great Old One Joined: 08 Aug 2009 Total posts: 347 Gender: Unknown |
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| The use of acid strikes me as odd.I got the impression acid was more used as a form of symbolic punishment. Such as throwing it in the face of someone not wearing a veil to cover their face. Trying to punish them for perceived vanity. If they just wanted to kill their daughter, there are easier ways. Disfiguring her doesn't seem to help anything either, when it comes to restoring honour to the family. At least not what I know of the rules they play by. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 24-11-2012 12:16 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Uproar over Saudi women's 'SMS tracking'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20469486
Saudi women are banned from travelling abroad without their male guardian's consent
A discovery that Saudi male guardians are automatically getting text messages about cross-border movements of female dependants has caused a Twitter uproar.
"Hello Taliban, herewith some tips from the Saudi e-government!" read one post, while another suggested microchips.
Attention was drawn to the system when a man travelling with his wife got an alert as they left Riyadh airport.
Saudi women are denied the right to travel without their guardian's consent and are also banned from driving.
Reform attempts
Saudi men earlier had the option of requesting alert messages about their dependants' cross-border movement, but it appears that since last week such notifications are being sent automatically.
Some Twitter users have mocked the move, suggesting also the use of microchips and ankle bracelets to track women.
Another tweet read: "If I need an SMS to let me know my wife is leaving Saudi Arabia, then I'm either married to the wrong woman or need a psychiatrist."
The text alerts are part of an electronic passport system launched by the Saudi authorities last year.
The government argues that e-passports make it easier for citizens to deal with their travel arrangements "without having to visit the passport office".
Saudi Arabia remains a deeply conservative country, however King Abdullah has recently introduced some cautious political and social reforms.
In September 2011, he announced that women would be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 27-11-2012 14:42 Post subject: |
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[quote="SameOldVardoger"] | Quote: | AP: Anti-Muslim filmmaker in hiding after protests
(AP) LOS ANGELES — An Israeli filmmaker went into hiding Tuesday after his movie attacking Islam's prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by ultra-conservative Muslims on U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya, where one American was killed.
Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and that the 56-year-old intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.
Protesters angered over Bacile's film opened fire on and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing an American diplomat on Tuesday. In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner.
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Some crook!
| Quote: | ‘Muslims’ Filmmaker Used 17 Names, Worked as Bong Salesman
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/nakoula/
BY ROBERT BECKHUSEN11.26.122:09 PM
Anti-Islam film producer Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in September 2012, escorted by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies from his home in Cerritos, California. Photo: AP/CBS2-KCAL9
It appears the deceptive multi-aliased filmmaker behind the shlocky Islamophobic movie “Innocence of Muslims” is even more deceptive and shady than we thought. Another alias used by the now-jailed filmmaker — at least his 17th name — has been uncovered, along with the filmmaker’s history as a one-time flea market salesman of cigarettes and drug paraphernalia.
That’s according to a Monday report in The New York Times, which also features the first interview with filmmaker who called himself (among other things) Nakoula Basseley Nakoula since his movie about a child-molesting Prophet Muhammad went viral. Convicted earlier this month over probation violations, he’s now serving a one-year sentence in jail.
It was only a few weeks ago that federal prosecutors learned that the man they thought was named Nakoula had, in fact, legally changed his ”Mark Basseley Youssef” in 2002. That’s despite pleading guilty under the “Nakoula” moniker for a check-kiting scheme in which he used an array of 14 aliases — including “P.J. Tobacco” and “Kritbag Difrat.”
Under his probation agreement, the future filmmaker said he’d never change his identity again. Now, we learn through the Times, Nakoula changed his name right after he got out of jail, this time to “Ebrahem Fawzy Youssef.” And to the cast and crew of “Innocence,” he was known by a different name entirely: “Sam Bacile.” They believed the movie he was making wasn’t about the Prophet Muhammad at all, let alone a slanderous one. (Actors say they were deceived.)
The story also gets even more surreal. Nakoula was reportedly a one-time hawker of tobacco and drug paraphernalia, operating out of a flea market. The Times calls him a “bong salesman.” But he didn’t seem to move much merchandise and “spent most of his time on the phone, shouting in Arabic,” the paper reports. He also didn’t seem to do much work in offices he rented in Los Angeles, coming around “only at night for the most part” and using it for storing cartons of Marlboro cigarettes. In 1997, he was arrested in a conspiracy to manufacture the drug PCP, and was later given community service after another arrest over trying to sell meth ingredients.
Even worse, the 15-minute “Innocence” film is reportedly an incomplete version. The unreleased full version racks up to 140 minutes. That means there is 125 more minutes of the worst movie ever made.
There’s a reason why it’s so bad, aside from the content and production values. Actors in “Innocence” say Nakoula lied to them, and that they were duped into making anti-Islam agitprop, with the most inflammatory lines dubbed in after they shot their scenes. Actors believed the film’s villain was named “George.” But these references were swapped with dubbed versions of “Muhammad” in post-production. Nakoula, meanwhile, has no regrets. “They had signed contracts before they went in front of any camera, and these contracts in no way prevented changes to the script or movie,” Nakoula told the Times.
Meanwhile, Nakoula’s son, Abanob, had helped with the social media campaign behind the film, owing to his father’s lack of technical know-how. Abanob uploaded the movie to YouTube under the name Sam Bacile — one of his father’s pseudonyms – where the video went viral. The son also said his dad left off the actors’ names “as a precaution for their safety” — though Nakoula never warned them about it — and because the film would cause a stir.
And how. Nakoula became an international figure in September when his movie became a flashpoint for anti-American protests throughout the Muslim world. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blasted the movie as “disgusting and reprehensible” for its depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as a child molester. The White House later walked back claims the film was responsible for the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi and the killing of the U.S. ambassador and three others, but the film had already become ensnared by the political fallout.
“My dad is not an evil man. He has had a hard life,” his son, Abanob, said. “He did something — the movie, something he felt strongly about — that was not frowned upon by the Constitution. He would always say, ‘Don’t fight Muslims; fight their ideology.’”
But Nakoula didn’t really ever make any distinctions, and he’s not in jail because his movie broke a speech code. Nor is he a martyr, as his supporters believe and he apparently fantasized about being. He was obsessed, with his anger against Muslims increasing after the 2009 Fort Hood massacre and as he watched protests intensify over a mosque near ground zero. ”I thought, before I wrote this script,” he told the Times, “that I should burn myself in a public square to let the American people and the people of the world know this message that I believe in.”
Meanwhile, Coptic Church officials say that Nakoula was an intermittent church-goer, though Nakoula maintains his motivation arose from his anger at persecution of Coptic Christians in the Muslim world. But really, instead of being the martyr for Christians that he dreamed about, Nakoula went out of his way to hide who he was. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Yaseen Ali Ege murder: Mother killed son over Koran studies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20596854
Sara Ege had denied the murder in July 2010
A mother who beat her seven-year-old son "like a dog" when he failed to memorise passages of the Koran has been found guilty of his murder.
Sara Ege, 33, beat Yaseen Ege to death at their home in Pontcanna, Cardiff, in July 2010 and set fire to his body.
She was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice at Cardiff Crown Court. Sentence was adjourned.
The boy's father, Yousuf Ege, 38, was acquitted of causing Yaseen's death by failing to protect him.
Yaseen Ege was beaten to death by his mother, who then set fire to his body
It was initially thought Yaseen had died in the blaze at the family home but tests later revealed he had died hours earlier.
His mother had pleaded not guilty to his murder and claimed her husband was responsible for Yaseen's death.
She said she feared her husband would kill her and target her family unless she confessed to the murder.
That confession - made to police days after the death of her son - was captured on video and played to the jury during the five week trial.
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Ian Murphy
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During the hour-long harrowing footage, university graduate Ege described how the young boy collapsed after she had beaten him while still murmuring extracts of the Koran.
"He was breathing as if he was asleep when I left him," she said.
"He was still murmuring the same thing over and over again. I thought that he was just tired."
When she returned 10 minutes later she found her son shaking and shivering on the floor. He then died.
Within moments she said she decided to burn his body and ran downstairs to get a lighter and a bottle of barbecue gel.
'He never complained'
In police interviews she also confessed to beating her son for no reason and that her anger often led to her being out of control.
She and her taxi driver husband had enrolled Yaseen in advanced classes at their local mosque as they wanted him to become Hafiz - an Islamic term for someone who memorises the Koran.
The court heard Ege become more and more frustrated with her son's inability to learn the passages he needed to.
She told officers: "I was getting all this bad stuff in my head, like I couldn't concentrate, I was getting angry too much, I would shout at Yaseen all the time.
"I was getting very wild and I hit Yaseen with a stick on his back like a dog."
She later retracted her statement.
'Suffered terribly'
The prosecution said that Yaseen suffered significant abdominal injuries that were the cause of his death.
They included fractures which were non-accidental. He also had numerous historical injuries.
"Sara Ege made no attempt to seek the medical attention he so obviously needed," prosecutor Ian Murphy said.
The boy's death shocked the community
"He clearly suffered terribly. She started the fire to hide what she had done."
However, Ege insisted that both she and Yaseen had been beaten by her husband, adding he had been violent throughout their marriage.
She told the jury that she did not take the boy to the doctor because she feared for her safety and that social services would take her son away.
Her mother Nafees Ahmed also gave evidence to say that Ege was a good mother who looked after her son well.
Ege was found guilty of murder and perverting the course of justice by burning Yaseen's body.
Her husband was cleared of causing or allowing the death of a child by failing to protect him.
The jury returned unanimous verdicts after eight hours of deliberation.
'Deeply tragic'
As the verdict was read out Ege broke down in the dock, holding her head in her hands and crying.
Judge Mr Justice Wyn Williams told her she faces a term of life imprisonment.
Emergency services at the house in Pontcanna in 2010
He added that he would determine a minimum sentence for her in the New Year after a medical report had been completed.
Her husband showed no emotion as he walked free from court.
Speaking after the verdicts, Deborah Rogers, district crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the "deeply tragic nature" of the case had been "all too apparent".
"We should not forget that at the heart of the case is the loss of a bright and friendly young boy who had his whole life ahead of him," she added.
"It is therefore right that the circumstances of Yaseen's death were fully examined in a criminal court." |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 08-12-2012 12:46 Post subject: |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 18-12-2012 12:36 Post subject: |
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Polio is a gift from Allah the Merciful and Compassionate. Those who try to eradicate it must die.
| Quote: | Karachi polio killings: Vaccination workers shot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20767138
Pakistan is considered the key battleground in the global fight against polio
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Vaccine checks 'to control polio'
Pakistan polio worker shot dead
Polio doctor attacked in Pakistan
Five Pakistani polio vaccination workers - four of them women - have been shot dead in the country's largest city Karachi, officials say.
The victims were reportedly working with a UN-backed programme to eradicate polio, which is endemic in Pakistan.
No group has said it carried out the shootings, but the Taliban have issued threats against the polio drive and are active in parts of Karachi.
The attacks took place in three separate locations in the city.
Meanwhile, a teenage girl was wounded in an attack when gunmen opened fire on a team of female health workers on the outskirts of Peshawar in the north-west.
Key polio battleground
Pakistani health officials said the latest three-day nationwide anti-polio drive - during which an estimated 5.2 million polio drops were to be administered - had been suspended in Karachi due to the attacks.
Continue reading the main story
Polio's last stand? 2012 cases
Nigeria - 97
Pakistan - 47
Afghanistan - 26
Chad - 5
source: IMB
There has been opposition to such immunisation drives in parts of Pakistan, particularly after a fake CIA hepatitis vaccination campaign helped to locate Osama Bin Laden in 2011.
Militants have kidnapped and killed foreign NGO workers in the past in an attempt to halt the immunisation drives which they say are part of efforts to spy on them.
Along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is still endemic.
Pakistan is considered the key battleground in the global fight against the disease, which attacks the nervous system and can cause permanent paralysis within hours of infection.
Continue reading the main story
Polio facts
Polio is a highly infectious viral disease
It is transmitted via contaminated faeces
It can caused irreversible paralysis, usually in the legs
A minority of cases are fatal
Nearly 200 children were paralysed in the country in 2011 - the worst figures in 15 years.
Earlier this year, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative warned that tackling the disease had entered "emergency mode" after "explosive" outbreaks in countries previously free of polio.
The World Health Organization said polio was at a tipping point, with experts fearing it could "come back with a vengeance" after large outbreaks in Africa and Tajikistan and China's first recorded cases for more than a decade.
Declaring polio a national emergency, the Pakistani government is targeting 33m children for vaccination with some 88,000 health workers delivering vaccination drops.
In Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city of 18 million people, Health Minister Saghir Ahmed said on Tuesday that the government had told 24,000 polio workers it was suspending the anti-polio drive in Sindh province. |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
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| Posted: 18-12-2012 15:45 Post subject: |
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| ramonmercado wrote: | Polio is a gift from Allah the Merciful and Compassionate. Those who try to eradicate it must die.
| Quote: | Karachi polio killings: Vaccination workers shot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20767138
Pakistan is considered the key battleground in the global fight against polio
Related Stories
Vaccine checks 'to control polio'
Pakistan polio worker shot dead
Polio doctor attacked in Pakistan
Five Pakistani polio vaccination workers - four of them women - have been shot dead in the country's largest city Karachi, officials say.
The victims were reportedly working with a UN-backed programme to eradicate polio, which is endemic in Pakistan.
No group has said it carried out the shootings, but the Taliban have issued threats against the polio drive and are active in parts of Karachi.
The attacks took place in three separate locations in the city.
Meanwhile, a teenage girl was wounded in an attack when gunmen opened fire on a team of female health workers on the outskirts of Peshawar in the north-west.
Key polio battleground
Pakistani health officials said the latest three-day nationwide anti-polio drive - during which an estimated 5.2 million polio drops were to be administered - had been suspended in Karachi due to the attacks.
Continue reading the main story
Polio's last stand? 2012 cases
Nigeria - 97
Pakistan - 47
Afghanistan - 26
Chad - 5
source: IMB
There has been opposition to such immunisation drives in parts of Pakistan, particularly after a fake CIA hepatitis vaccination campaign helped to locate Osama Bin Laden in 2011.
Militants have kidnapped and killed foreign NGO workers in the past in an attempt to halt the immunisation drives which they say are part of efforts to spy on them.
Along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is still endemic.
Pakistan is considered the key battleground in the global fight against the disease, which attacks the nervous system and can cause permanent paralysis within hours of infection.
Continue reading the main story
Polio facts
Polio is a highly infectious viral disease
It is transmitted via contaminated faeces
It can caused irreversible paralysis, usually in the legs
A minority of cases are fatal
Nearly 200 children were paralysed in the country in 2011 - the worst figures in 15 years.
Earlier this year, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative warned that tackling the disease had entered "emergency mode" after "explosive" outbreaks in countries previously free of polio.
The World Health Organization said polio was at a tipping point, with experts fearing it could "come back with a vengeance" after large outbreaks in Africa and Tajikistan and China's first recorded cases for more than a decade.
Declaring polio a national emergency, the Pakistani government is targeting 33m children for vaccination with some 88,000 health workers delivering vaccination drops.
In Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city of 18 million people, Health Minister Saghir Ahmed said on Tuesday that the government had told 24,000 polio workers it was suspending the anti-polio drive in Sindh province. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 22-12-2012 21:24 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Pakistani mob beats to death Muslim accused of blasphemy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20823531
A mob in Pakistan has stormed a police station and beaten to death a Muslim man accused of desecrating the Koran.
The victim's body was then set alight, according to witnesses.
The unnamed victim had earlier been handed over to the police after burnt pages of the Koran were found in a mosque in Dadu district, 330km (200 miles) north of Karachi, where he had been staying overnight.
Hours later a mob went to the police station, seized the man and killed him.
The district police chief, Usman Ghani, told the BBC the gruesome incident was filmed on mobile phones. He said the footage was being reviewed to identify culprits.
The case of Rimsha Masih, a young Christian, caused an outcry
Thirty people have so far been detained in connection with the attack.
The local police chief and five of his officers have been arrested for failing to protect the man.
The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani says blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Pakistan, where scores of people have been killed by mobs or vigilantes.
Our correspondent in Karachi adds that the controversial laws are often misused to persecute minorities or settle scores.
Most recently, international attention focused on the case of Christian teenager Rimsha Masih, who was held over blasphemy allegations.
The case was dismissed last month after a neighbour gave evidence that she had been framed, possibly to chase Christians out of her neighbourhood outside Islamabad.
In 2011, two leading politicians - the Governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, and the Religious Minorities Minister, Shahbaz Bhatti - were assassinated after speaking out against the existing blasphemy legislation. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 03-01-2013 14:57 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Indonesia city to ban women 'straddling motorbikes'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20896966
The city mayor says women straddling motorbikes are not in line with Islamic values
A city in the Indonesian province of Aceh which follows Sharia has ordered female passengers not to straddle motorbikes behind male drivers.
Suaidi Yahya, mayor of Lhokseumawe, says it aims to save people's "morals and behaviours".
Leaflets have been sent out to government offices and residents to inform them about the regulation.
Aceh is the only Indonesian province that follows Sharia.
Under the new regulation, the mayor says that women passengers are only allowed to sit "side-saddle" because straddling the bike seat violates Islamic values.
"When you see a woman straddle, she looks like a man. But if she sits side-saddle, she looks like a woman," Suaidi said.
He added that passengers who sat side-saddle rarely fell off.
The local government will be evaluating the regulation in a month, after which it could turn into a by-law, he added.
When asked if women who did not follow the rule would be punished, Suaidi said: "Once it has become a by-law, automatically there will be sanctions."
The regulation has been met with criticism from well-known Muslim activists like Ulil Abshar Abdalla, who is based in the capital, Jakarta.
"How to ride a motorbike is not regulated in Sharia. There is no mention of it in the Koran or Hadiths," he said on his Twitter account, referring to the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran.
"In a democratic country, what is claimed to be Sharia must be assessed by the public's common sense if the government aims to turn the regulation into law." |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
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| Slow day in the mayor's office... |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
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| Quote: | The regulation has been met with criticism from well-known Muslim activists like Ulil Abshar Abdalla, who is based in the capital, Jakarta.
"How to ride a motorbike is not regulated in Sharia. There is no mention of it in the Koran or Hadiths," he said on his Twitter account, referring to the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran.
"In a democratic country, what is claimed to be Sharia must be assessed by the public's common sense if the government aims to turn the regulation into law." |
A good response.
What various petty officials and self-appointed mullahs don't seem to realise is how much their pronouncements on matters like this make Islam look ridiculous to the outside world - probably because they don't actually know much about the outside world.
(And there are some fundamentalist Christians who are as bad.) |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Sara Ege: Life jail for son's murder over Koran studies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-20920649
Sara Ege had denied murdering her son Yaseen in July 2010
A mother who beat her seven-year-old son to death when he failed to memorise passages from the Koran has been jailed for life, for a minimum of 17 years.
The judge told Sara Ege, 33, she subjected Yaseen Ege to prolonged cruelty and a ferocious beating at home in Pontcanna, Cardiff, in July 2010.
She also set fire to his body, and was convicted after a five-week trial.
Ege collapsed as the sentence was read out at Cardiff Crown Court and had to be helped from the dock.
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Mr Justice Wyn Williams
Cardiff Crown Court
She was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Her husband Yousuf Ege, a taxi driver, was cleared of allowing the death of a child by failing to protect him.
Sara Ege had pleaded not guilty to murder and claimed her husband was responsible for Yaseen's death. She had been praised during her trial as a "brilliant mother" to Yaseen.
Mr Justice Wyn Williams said: "I am satisfied that it was his failure to learn the Koran that day that resulted in the beating that caused his death."
It was initially thought Yaseen had died in a fire, but tests later revealed he had died hours earlier.
In a complicated series of claims and counter-claims she had confessed to the murder and then retracted that confession.
She claimed her husband and his family forced her to make the confession and that he was the killer.
The harrowing confession was recorded by police and shown to the trial jury in evidence.
Yaseen Ege was beaten to death by his mother before she burned his body
In it, Sara Ege described how Yaseen collapsed after she had beaten him while still murmuring extracts of the Koran.
"He was breathing as if he was asleep when I left him," she said. "He was still murmuring the same thing over and over again. I thought that he was just tired."
When she returned 10 minutes later she said she found her son shaking and shivering on the floor. He then died.
She then used barbecue gel to burn her son's body in an attempt to hide the evidence.
The mother also confessed to beating her son for no reason and that her anger often led to her being out of control.
She and her husband had enrolled Yaseen in advanced classes at their local mosque as they wanted him to become Hafiz - an Islamic term for someone who memorises the Koran.
Continue reading the main story
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I was getting very wild and I hit Yaseen with a stick on his back like a dog”
Sara Ege
In police interviews
As a child Sara Ege had taken part in competitions showing her knowledge of Islam and had recited from the Koran. The court heard that she become increasingly frustrated with her son's inability to learn the passages.
She told officers: "I was getting all this bad stuff in my head, like I couldn't concentrate, I was getting angry too much, I would shout at Yaseen all the time.
"I was getting very wild and I hit Yaseen with a stick on his back like a dog."
She later retracted her statement.
The trial heard that Yaseen suffered significant abdominal injuries that were the cause of his death.
They included fractures which were non-accidental. He also had numerous historical injuries.
"Sara Ege made no attempt to seek the medical attention he so obviously needed," the court was told during the trial by prosecutor Ian Murphy. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Muslim exclusive: Malaysian sultan forbids using ‘Allah’ outside Islam
http://rt.com/news/malaysia-allah-forbid-muslim-647/
The Sultan of the Malaysian state Selangor has issued a decree that the sacred word ‘Allah’ can be used only by Muslims. The move put more fire into controversy in the state where language peculiarities also make Christians use the term.
“Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah made a decision and decreed that the word ‘Allah’ is a sacred word specific to Muslims and it is prohibited to be used by any non-Muslim in Selangor,” the Islamic Affairs Council of the Selangor state said Tuesday. The body added "a stern action" was ordered against those questioning the new fatwa, but did not elaborate.
The sultan, mufti and council convened after the chief minister of another state, Penang, urged the central government to allow the word ‘Allah’ to be used in the Malay translation of the Bible, national daily The Star Online reported.
Over 28 million people live in Malaysia, out of them:
61.3% are Muslims
19.8% are Buddhists
9.2% are Christians
6.3% are Hindus
3.4% practice other or no religion
Source: 2010 Census
Christians in Indonesia and Malaysia also use ‘Allah’ to refer to God in their languages. This comes through traditional translations of the Bible made back in the 16th-17th centuries which put the Hebrew’s ‘Elohim’ (‘God’ in English holy books) as ‘Allah’.
But in 2007 the central Malaysian government decided to put an end to the old tradition and limited the usage of the term to the Muslim context only. This was revoked by the High Court two years later; the judges said the law was unconstitutional. The government appealed the ruling and the short-lived implementation of the 2009 court verdict has since been suspended.
Sultan Sharafuddin’s decree could not but create an immediate political standoff. It comes on the eve of a broad meeting called by Pakatan Rakyat, a national affiliation within the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS). For the convention, Pakatan Rakyat allowed the use of ‘Allah’ to all groups, including non-Muslims.
Just minutes after the forbidding decree, PAS leadership endorsed by other opposition parties proclaimed they stand firm by their decision.
“‘Allah’ in its original Koran meaning stands for ‘The One and Only God' and it should not be misused by others against the Muslim community, to the point of creating confusion,” PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said. “Nevertheless, Islam does not stop followers of other religions from using the word ‘Allah’ in practicing their faith, although it might not be equitable to the actual meaning of the original Koranic word.”
Malaysia's Council of Churches also said it will continue to use the word “Allah” in the Malay version of the Bible.
"Many indigenous communities in our nation have incorporated this word in their everyday language. That being the case, we shall continue this practice, and call on all parties to respect this fundamental right,” the prominent organization said in a statement adding the practice was a right “guaranteed to them in the country's Federal Constitution” under Article 11, which secures freedom of religion.
However, officials across the country reacted positively to the reaffirmed ban on the word, some of them saying that Sultan Sharafuddin has every right to issue such decrees, him being the head of the state's Islamic affairs. |
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A happier story:
Why Bradford City fan in a hijab holds key to the game’s future
Watching television coverage of Bradford City beating Aston Villa on Tuesday night, I was struck by the most arresting sight.
By Jim White
6:10AM GMT 10 Jan 2013
As the visitors’ Barry Bannan went to take a corner, he was assailed by an overexcited Bradford fan, attempting verbally to put him off his stride.
Perhaps a choice observation was being made about his height, maybe about his hair’s copper hue, whatever it was probably as well that the pitchside microphones did not pick it up.
Not that there was anything unusual in such behaviour: most fans reckon that the price of entry to a football game these days includes the right loudly to voice disparaging comment about opposition players.
What was striking, though, was the identity of the fan yelling at Bannan: she was an Asian woman wearing a hijab. What is more, she was with a couple of female Asian friends, in a section of the Valley Parade crowd dotted with Asian faces.
If it is possible that someone yelling at a footballer represents evidence of social progress, then this was the most encouraging image of the season.
After all the miserable racist vituperation that has swilled around football recently, here was a Muslim woman, comfortable in the middle of an ethnically mixed crowd, engaging with the game’s traditional possibilities. And in doing so, clearly having the time of her life. How pleasant was that to see?
The good news is that shouty Bradford woman is not alone. For years it was to the game’s shame that Asian people felt excluded from immersing themselves in its glories.
Such was the sense of isolation, British Asian men largely preferred to follow cricket, while young Asian females would never have felt comfortable at a match.
Thanks to some imaginative initiatives, parts of the game are increasingly reaching out to the Asian audience. Which, if nothing else, makes commercial sense: this is a substantial inner-city market residing in the shadow of league grounds. To ignore it is to miss out on the customers living on the doorstep.
And the Asians are coming. At Manchester United home games, television audiences have for several years now seen a family of Sikhs doughnutting the dugout, passing each other sweets as Sir Alex Ferguson stalks the technical area.
At Wolverhampton Wanderers, the growth in interest among the city’s Asians has been growing rapidly since 2007, when a group of six fans formed Punjabi Wolves.
“We just thought: the game belongs to us as much as anybody,” Raj Bains, the organisation’s founder, explains. “I started going to matches in 1979. In the early days it was a bit scary, even with the home fans. But there are no issues now.”
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/9792081/Why-Bradford-City-fan-in-a-hijab-holds-key-to-the-games-future.html |
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