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arun wrote:Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion inspired sectarian killings in Iraq and Lebanon over the weekend sees mainly the Shia sect being targeted by their co-religionist’s:

Iraq car bombings: Attacks hit mainly Shia cities

Gunmen kill four Shias in eastern Lebanon

Arun ji, a note of thanks to you for your work. most of us focus on Islamic acts of violence against non-muslims.
but you remind us that even within Islamic societies, power struggles rage on with violence and bloodshed, ever aiming for the purest of the pure version of theology.
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which country has the highest rape rate in the world?
The title sadly goes to Sweden, which now sees one out of every four Swedish women being the victim of rape.

Is this the result of the rapid influx of Muslim immigrants who continue to form a larger percentage of the Swedish population?

From the Counter Jihad Report:

With Muslims represented in as many as 77 percent of the rape cases and a major increase in rape cases paralleling a major increase in Muslim immigration, the wages of Muslim immigration are proving to be a sexual assault epidemic by a misogynistic ideology....As of 2008, Sweden's rape statistics were up to 53.2 per 100,000 population.
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^^^ +1

Thanks Devesh.
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Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion inspired sectarian violence sees suicide bombing of Shia / Shiite Mosque in Iraq today:

31 killed, 57 wounded in suicide bombing at Baghdad mosque

In other news today from elsewhere in the Mohammadden world, funeral in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is also suicide bombed.

At this juncture it is not clear if this incident is also a case of Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion inspired sectarian violence and if so what manner of the less pure and pious was targeted for extermination by the more pure and pious:

Suicide blast at Mardan funeral kills 28, including PTI lawmaker
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In Nigeria, Mohammadden Terrorist group Boko Haram attacks school whose name, “Ansarudeen School” suggests that the school was also established by Mohammaddens making this attack a case of Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden blood letting:

Nigeria Islamists kill 9 students in school attack: medic

The above school attack at Maiduguri is the second such attack carried out by the Mohammadden Terrorist group Boko Haram over the past three days. On Sunday Boko Haram, whose name translates as “Education is sinful”, attacked a school in Damaturu:

Nigeria says 11 killed in Islamist sect school attack
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Views on Leftism, Capitalism and Islamism

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Child sex exploitation is a common crime - but here certain cultural memes surface.

Charge: UW biology student raped 12-year-old runaway
A University of Washington student accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl he picked up in the University District has been charged with child rape.

Currently free after posting bond, UW Senior Omar Abdelbadie is alleged to have plied the girl with marijuana, brought her back to his apartment and had sex with her hours after they met. Abdelbadie, a 22-year-old originally from Bellevue, was described by prosecutors as a threat to community safety, despite his lack of a criminal history.
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According to charging papers, Abdelbadie told police he met the girl walking near University Avenue and claimed she was dressed “provocatively.” He is alleged to have admitted he “hooked up” with the girl, but would not say whether he knew her true age.
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Egypt girl's death puts spotlight on genital mutilation
"We have been brought up according to certain morals. It shows good upbringing, a way of controlling a girl's sexual desire."

Sameya Mohammad Abdel-Razek, a grandmother from the Egyptian city of Giza is talking about female genital mutilation.
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In some rural areas in Egypt, it is estimated that more than 75% of women have had the procedure, but it is common in urban areas too.

"I had the operation done for each of my three girls when they were 11 years old," Ms Abdel-Razek tells me. "I told each daughter this operation is extremely important, and that it is just like having their tonsils removed."

In fact, of course, the procedure means varying amounts of a girl's genitalia are cut away. In rural areas it is often done without anaesthetic.

In very extreme cases so much is removed that the wound fuses to leave only a small hole through which to urinate.

But Sameya said that each time one of her girls had the operation done, the family held a party to celebrate. She says she fully expects her granddaughter to have it, too.
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On the contrary, there have been statements from the ruling Muslim Brotherhood defending the practice.

..."And to the religious leaders, they need to tell people it's not related to Islam or Christianity."

However, religious leaders have given ambiguous messages.

While, in the past, some clerics in Egypt have stated that female genital mutilation has no religious basis, other clerics continue to openly advocate it.

"'Circumcision' is ordered by Allah, Sharia [Islamic religious law] from Allah. Orders from Allah must be realised," says Sheikh Yussef al-Badri, a cleric who has repeatedly petitioned the country's courts to make female genital mutilation legal again.


Sheikh Yussef al-Badri: "[Circumcision] makes a girl control her common sense about sex"
Sheikh Badri claimed Muslim countries in which the practice did not take place were imitating the West and were not pious, and insisted it was necessary for a harmonious society.

"This makes the girl control her common sense about sex because women quickly feel sex, before men."

...The grandmother we met in Giza, Sameya Mohammad Abdel-Razek, repeated many of the same arguments we had heard from the cleric.

She says she was not even aware genital mutilation was illegal in Egypt.

"These are human laws anyway," she told us. "They are not Sharia, God's laws."

Human rights campaigners in Egypt feel that the government is doing a poor job of defending many aspects of women's rights.

As a result, they fear eradicating female genital mutilation in Egypt has become all the more difficult.
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Chechen Rebels Behead a Syrian Civilian Man and Kill Two Women in Syria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TczYF_rbQug

I don't understand why Muslims still want to be Muslims. I do believe that many muslims want to move out of the ideology. Its high time they make the move and be peaceful and progressive with belief in other ideology.
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uddu, the reason is extreme brainwashing from a very young age. Notice that all muslim kids are sent to some madarassa or Quran school from a very young age and parents are proud that their kids have become a Hafeez. The mullah there subtly teaches them how awesome they are because they are Muslims and pathetic Kafirs are. Hence you see this Paki behavior where they are pathetic beggars but acting cocky. They REALLY believe that they are better off.
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NYT on 'radical buddhism' in Burma taking on the muslims.

Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists
“You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,” Ashin Wirathu said, referring to Muslims.

“I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers,” Ashin Wirathu told a reporter after his two-hour sermon. “I am proud to be called a radical Buddhist.”

The world has grown accustomed to a gentle image of Buddhism defined by the self-effacing words of the Dalai Lama, the global popularity of Buddhist-inspired meditation and postcard-perfect scenes from Southeast Asia and beyond of crimson-robed, barefoot monks receiving alms from villagers at dawn.

But over the past year, images of rampaging Burmese Buddhists carrying swords and the vituperative sermons of monks like Ashin Wirathu have underlined the rise of extreme Buddhism in Myanmar — and revealed a darker side of the country’s greater freedoms after decades of military rule. Buddhist lynch mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes.
Sinhala buddhists too are an aggressive lot who are taking on the abrahamics head-on. Seems the abrahamics may lose their exclusive rights on aggressive religious mobilization only.
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China jails 11 for extremist crimes in Muslim west
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese courts have sentenced 11 people for inciting religious extremism and related crimes in the northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang, just weeks ahead of the anniversary of bloody ethnic rioting that spread through the region four years ago.

The Justice Ministry's official newspaper Legal Daily said Thursday that Aihetaimu Heli was given the harshest sentence of six years in jail for uploading to the Internet materials promoting jihad and ethnic hatred. The sentence on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic prejudice was handed down Wednesday in the far-western city of Aksu, the paper said.

In the city of Kashgar, an additional eight people were sentenced to between two to five years for creating a public nuisance after breaking into homes and destroying 17 television sets in what the paper called a religious frenzy.

Two others were fined and given less serious administrative punishments of from five to 15 days for posting extremist material to a blog and spreading rumors of a suicide bombing on the popular QQ Internet messaging service.

Calls to the courts either rang unanswered or were answered by people who said no one was available to comment.

All of the defendants identified by name appeared to be from Xinjiang's native Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group, who are culturally, linguistically, and religiously distinct from China's majority Han.

Xinjiang sees periodic outbreaks of anti-government and anti-Chinese violence, some of it inspired by resentment over economic marginalization by Han migrants who have flooded into the region in recent decades, along with restrictions on Uighur social and cultural life.

Authorities have consistently responded with overwhelming force and repression, and the period leading up to the anniversary of the July 2009 riots in the regional capital Urumqi is always one of heightened tension and increased security.

Almost 200 people were killed in the violence that began with Uighur attacks on Han residents, followed by revenge attacks by Han armed with knives and iron rods.

China said much of the violence was coordinated through text messages and blog postings and in its wake redoubled efforts to monitor online material considered subversive or threatening, including extremist and jihadist material produced abroad.
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X Posted from the TSP thread.
anupmisra wrote:
Narad wrote:So a jumma chumma blast?? Score is likely to increase as there were at least 300 shiates attending the gathering.

14 apostates meet their 72. Definitely (more) green-on-(lesser) green post-Fridin sermon action.
two attackers were prevented from entering the complex while one managed to enter the Imambargah
belonging to the Shia sect
six to seven kilograms of high intensity explosives and four kilograms of pellets were used in the blast
What's interesting to note is that the cops are now such experts on these soosai bombers that they can tell within minutes the size, type and model number of the explosives used down to the last kilogram. Amazing!
Death toll in the demonstration of the IED Mubarak variant of the IEDology of Pakistan on the day of the Mohammadden Sabbath inches up to 15.

I find it inexplicable as to why in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohamaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, such high levels of Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion inspired sectarian violence is prevalent.

I also find it inexplicable why so much of the Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion inspired sectarian violence occurs on the Mohammadden Sabbath of Friday and targets Mohammadden places of religious significance, given widespread claims by Mohammaddens that theirs is “The Religion of Peace”

Sectarian strife: Gun-and-suicide attack leaves 15 dead in Peshawar
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Agnimitra wrote:Egypt girl's death puts spotlight on genital mutilation .........{Snipped}..........
Egypt is not the only country where there is a problem of Mohammaddens practising Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

There is a problem of Mohammaddens in Indonesia practising FGM:

The day I saw 248 girls suffering genital mutilation

Back here at home in India, there is also the problem of Mohammaddens of the Dawoodi Bohra sect practising FGM:

Bohra women go online to fight circumcision trauma
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Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion inspired sectarian violence sees suicide bombing of Shia / Shiite Mosque in Iraq yesterday:

15 killed in suicide bombing in Iraq's Shiite mosque
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Florida, US:
MUSLIMS PROTEST PROF TEACHING ISLAM-TERROR LINK
A university professor who believes there’s a relationship between terrorism and Islam has been accused of anti-Muslim bigotry by a prominent U.S. Muslim advocacy group that was founded by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a complaint with the University of Central Florida against Professor Jonathan Matusitz, charging that his communications courses portray Islam in an inaccurate and biased way, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
His lecture on youtube - How culture shapes terrorism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qFw6SGI_s
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300 Western Converts to Islam Captured Fighting in Syria
Damascus, 18 June (AKI) – Several hundred westerners including Italians have been captured fighting alongside rebels seeking to overthrow president Bashar al-Assad, government sources told Adnkronos on Tuesday.

“We are holding 300 westerners, of whom six or seven are Italian, according to the information I have. They are all converts to Islam,” the source said.

Converts to Islam are particularly dangerous because they are eager to prove their loyalty and have nothing but Islam in their life anymore.

One of the good things about the Syrian Civil War is that it is diverting the sort of people who would otherwise be killing Westerners.
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Green on Green Intra-Mohammadden religion inspired violence in Egypt results in 4 members of the Shia / Shiite sect of Mohammaddenism being beaten to death for “trying to spread their version of Islam” by a mob of their Sunni co-religionists:
Deaths reported in Egypt sectarian attack

Four beaten to death in Giza, near Cairo, by crowd of 3,000 villagers including ultraconservative Sunni Salafists.

Last Modified: 24 Jun 2013 03:46

Sunni Muslim villagers have killed four Shia Muslim men in Egypt after accusing them of trying to spread their version of Islam, according to security officials.

The four were beaten to death on Sunday in Giza province, near the capital Cairo, in one of the most serious sectarian incidents in Egypt in recent months.

The Health Ministry confirmed the death toll, adding that scores of Shias were seriously injured in the attack.

About 3,000 angry villagers, including ultraconservative Sunni Salafists, surrounded the house of Hassan Shehata, a Shia leader, threatening to set it on fire if 34 Shias inside did not leave the village before the end of the day, according to the officials. …………………….
Read it all:

Al Jazeera
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The west suddenly awakens to the horrifying spectre of the monotheistic monopoly on militant religious mobilization endangered only....

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Palestinians: No Jews Allowed
Palestinian journalists who try to arrange meetings or interviews with Palestinian Authority representatives for Western colleagues have become used to hearing such things almost on a daily basis.

Just last week, for example, a journalist who requested a meeting between Western journalists and a top Palestinian Authority official was told "to make sure there were no Jews or Israelis" among the visitors.

The official's aide went on to explain: "We are sorry, but we do not meet with Jews or Israelis."

Another Palestinian journalist who tried to arrange an interview with a Palestinian Authority official for a European colleague was turned down "because the man's name indicates he is a Jew."

In yet another recent incident, a Palestinian Authority ministry instructed its guards to "prevent Jewish reporters" from attending an event in Ramallah.
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The rampant murder of Christian citizens in Syria, reminded me of the the following post...

An anecdote from the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century:
Jihadi Loyalty
Then one night, my husband came home and told me that the padisha had sent word that we were to kill all the Christians in our village, and that we would have to kill our neighbours. I was very angry, and told him that I did not care who gave such orders, they were wrong. These neighbours had always been kind to us, and if he dared to kill them Allah would pay us out. I tried all I could to stop him, but he killed them — killed them with his own hand. (Sir Edwin Pears, Turkey and Its People, London: Methuen and Co., 1911, p. 39)
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27 killed in riots in China's Xinjiang province- TOI Report
Twenty seven people were killed today in riots, apparently involving native Uygur Muslims and Han Chinese migrants, in China's volatile Xinjiang province
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Pakistaniyat at fore - Source: Yawn!

Two girls, mother killed over family video
A family video showing two teenage girls enjoying rain in their house led to their murder in Chilas on Sunday night. Their mother was also gunned down allegedly by her stepson and his four friends.
a video clip circulated on mobile phones and showing the girls overjoyed by rain in the lawn of their bungalow
stepbrother Khutore took it as an “assault on the honour of his family” and tried to “restore the family’s honour” by killing the girls
Will islamophobia ever stop?
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‘Muslim marriage circular based on non-existent law’
This has been one among the controversial decisions in Kerala. The State govt. says this is a "one off" case to help Muslim couples who got married when they were under-aged. How ever other folks feels that the circular would now help all such marriages legal sanctity. As per the circular a formal certificate given by a cleric is all that is required for the marriage certificate to be issued.
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Preventing terrorists with pork...

http://en.ria.ru/world/20130625/1818548 ... -Ammo.html

...reminds me of Sepoy Mutiny.....
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anupmisra wrote:Pakistaniyat at fore - Source: Yawn!

Two girls, mother killed over family video
A family video showing two teenage girls enjoying rain in their house led to their murder in Chilas on Sunday night. Their mother was also gunned down allegedly by her stepson and his four friends.
a video clip circulated on mobile phones and showing the girls overjoyed by rain in the lawn of their bungalow
stepbrother Khutore took it as an “assault on the honour of his family” and tried to “restore the family’s honour” by killing the girls
Will islamophobia ever stop?
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I’ll-dlie-die-die-doo
Die-dlie-die-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo...

I'm sinning in the rain
Just sinning in the rain
What a blasphemous feelin'
I'm scrappy again
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Do work from above
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Let the horny louts chase
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Come on with the pain
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2013/ ... wich-in-US
McDonalds has served its last halal McChicken sandwich in US
McDonald’s, the largest fast food chain to offer menu alternatives designated for observant Muslims, is removing the items from its menu, suggesting that preparing food exclusively to suit individual religious tastes is problematic for restaurants involved in mass production food services.In April, the company reached a $700,000 settlement in response to a 2011 lawsuit that alleged the restaurants were advertising items as halal that were not, in fact, prepared according to custom. According to The Detroit News, the company did not admit wrongdoing.Kassem Dakhlallah, the attorney who filed the lawsuit, called the McDonald’s decision, which it announced on Monday, to stop selling halal food “disappointing.” He told The Detroit News that the chain should have tried “to ensure that all products sold were halal as advertised,” adding that, without that guarantee, “ceasing to offer halal products was probably the best decision.”“The debate has created roadblocks for the market to grow. Many agree the potential is certainly present: Mr. Amanullah says that when he started his website in 1998, he identified only 200 restaurants across the US that would qualify as serving halal items; today there are more than 7,000.The Association of American Halal Certifiers, an advocacy group in Bolingbrook, Ill., estimates that, with the approximately 7 million Muslims living in the US, the annual market potential is between $30 billion and $40 billion.“The nature of food production, the cross-contamination issues, the separating of equipment and utensils is a concept aiming for consistency and speed, not accommodating a halal customer menu,” says Mary Chapman, director of product innovation at Technomic, Inc., a Chicago-based food and food service research and consulting group. “Looking at the big picture and where they’re going to please the most customers, if [fast food chains] don’t have to jump through hoops or take extra steps, they won’t.”While Amanullah says that the next step for the market to grow in the US is to establish set universal guidelines for halal, he also says the market would benefit from emphasizing elements of preparation that would appeal to non-Muslim consumers invested in the health benefits of meat that is locally produced from stock raised on free range farms.
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Kassem Dakhlallah, the attorney who filed the lawsuit,
Is this real name? Isn't filing a case called Dhakal in urdoo?

More appropriately he should be called Dakullah for suing McDonald!

Poor McD thought of a marketing opprotunity for halal products and got themselves into a mess with Kaseem Daku.

And is it true that 7M people have a market of $30B-$40B for just hamburgers and eating out in fast food places?

Most I know doint like fast food places!
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ramana wrote:
Kassem Dakhlallah, the attorney who filed the lawsuit,
Is this real name? Isn't filing a case called Dhakal in urdoo?

More appropriately he should be called Dakullah for suing McDonald!

Poor McD thought of a marketing opprotunity for halal products and got themselves into a mess with Kaseem Daku.

And is it true that 7M people have a market of $30B-$40B for just hamburgers and eating out in fast food places?

Most I know doint like fast food places!
Moral of the story: Don't try to appease Muslims.
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National Geographic interviews a Pakistani survivor of the Nanga Parbat Terrorist attack. Survivor confirms the Mohammadden religious identity of the attackers by stating that they used Mohammadden slogans like “Allahu Akbar” thereby also confirming this to be an act of Mohammadden Terrorism.

Interestingly the survivor was unmolested despite declaring that he belonged to the minority Ismaili sect of Mohammaddenism:

Climbers Recount Murder on Famous Pakistan Peak :Two climbers recount a night of terror as ten mountaineers were killed.
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X Posted from the TSP thread. Story of Canadian visa for female teenage adherent of Christism, Rimsha Masih, who was persecuted by Mohammaddens led by a Cleric for burning a book they consider holy resulting in her being arrested for the crime of blasphemy which carries the death penalty in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:
Brad Goodman wrote:finally Canadian vijja

Christian girl accused of blasphemy moves to Canada, lawyer in Pakistan says
A Christian girl who was accused of burning Islam's holy book in a case that focused international attention on Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws was forced to move to Canada over security concerns, her lawyer said Saturday.

The girl left Pakistan with her parents, three sisters and a brother on March 14, attorney Tahir Naveed Chaudhry said.
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X Posted from the TSP thread.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s courts have no time for Non-Mohammadden Kaafir Dhimmi’s languishing in jail for slighting Mohammddenism. Appeal hearing for overturning the blasphemy conviction of Asia Bibi, an adherent of Christism, is reported as being a good two years away:

Blasphemy convict: Aasia Bibi’s appeal at least two years away
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Ashin Wirathu: The Monk Behind Burma’s “Buddhist Terror”
By Jonathan DeHart

June 25, 2013

When the July issue of TIME Magazine hit newsstands it got the attention of the highest levels of government in Burma. On its cover is a serene image of Burmese Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, with a loaded phrase superimposed on his crimson robes: “The Face of Buddhist Terror”. The article explores the rising wave of anti-Muslim violence in the country and traces much of it back to Wirathu.

Reacting to the provocative story, President Thein Sein’s office released a statement that said the story “creates a misunderstanding of Buddhism.” It added, “The government is currently striving with religious leaders, political parties, media and the people to rid Myanmar [Burma] of unwanted conflicts.” Sein went on to call Wirathu a “noble person” who is a “son of Buddha”.

While it may be true that conjoining the words “Buddhist” and “terror” may cast the vast majority of the world’s Buddhists in an unfair light, suggesting that real efforts are underway to cease sectarian violence and forge ethnic unity in Burma glosses over a number of troubling facts. Most significant among them: Wirathu actively encourages an extremist attitude towards Burma’s Muslims.

Before a large gathering who came to hear his thoughts on Burma’s Muslims – whom he called “the enemy” – Wirathu recently said: “You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.”

“Muslims are like the African carp,” he told Global Post. “They breed quickly and they are very violent and they eat their own kind. Even though they are minorities here, we are suffering under the burden they bring us.”


This sentiment is not fringe either. As seen by the crowd, which numbered in the thousands, Wirathu has a massive following. Using an intoxicating mix of paranoia, racial stereotyping and unfounded claims, Wirathu has whipped up anti-Muslim sentiment among Burmese Buddhists. He can be seen here speaking at some length in these terms.

An organic movement has formed as a result, which has come to be known as the 969 campaign. While most distance themselves from comparing the two, some have even likened the movement to a Burmese form of neo-Nazism.

The numerological significance of the digits comes from the Buddhist idea that the Three Jewels (Tiratana) comprise 24 attributes: nine special attributes of the Lord Buddha, six core Buddhist teachings and the nine attributes of monkhood. Hence: 969.

Burmese Muslims have their own numerological talisman as well: 786, referring to the Quranic phrase, “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful”, which has a numeric value of 786. The number is often seen plastered on the fronts of halal restaurants in Burma.

The 969 Buddhists have struck back, putting stickers and signs that bear the number on shops, from food stalls and teashops to street vendors, to distinguish themselves as being Buddhist. There have been instances of Buddhists being beaten by 969 adherents for patronizing Muslim businesses. The numbers are a giveaway. While hundreds of Muslims have been jailed for involvement in the violence, very few Buddhists have wound up behind bars.

Yet this does not end in the marketplace or with beatings. Beginning in the northern state of Arakan and fanning out to other parts of the country, over the past year hundreds, mostly Muslims, have been killed, while more than 125,000 have been displaced. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called the Burmese government’s treatment of the nation’s Rohingya Muslim minority “ethnic cleansing”.

“The Burmese government engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya that continues today through the denial of aid and restrictions on movement,” said HRW’s deputy Asia director Phil Robertson. “The government needs to put an immediate stop to the abuses and hold the perpetrators accountable or it will be responsible for further violence against ethnic and religious minorities in the country.”

Indeed, Burmese dissident Dr. Maung Zarni has listed a number of overt anti-Muslim acts committed by the government, from backing violence against Rohingyas and “cleansing” Muslims from the Burmese military to approving anti-Muslim publications and bolstering the rise of Wirathu himself.

Even Burmese Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was accused of remaining silent on the issue of the Rohingyas’ plight for too long until speaking out earlier this month against the controversial two-child policy applied solely to them. While Suu Kyi may have broken her silence when it came to this hotly contested official attempt at controlling Muslim numbers, she has not commented either way on Wirathu.

While they may not be outspoken on the issue of violence against Burma’s Muslim minority, more than 59,000 have signed an online petition (as of Tuesday afternoon) to protest TIME’s cover story on the grounds that it misrepresents Buddhism – but not necessarily in defense of Wirathu’s views.

Others with the urge to vent have taken to Facebook, such as D Day Ang who wrote: “We are not terrorist, we are peaceful people and hate terrorism…please write articles only after gathering sufficient information.”

While it remains to be seen what will become of the contentious issue of the magazine in Burma, presidential spokesperson Ye Htut said that, unsurprisingly, the Burmese government might just pull it from circulation and remove it from the public’s view.

Jonathan DeHart is assistant editor of The Diplomat.

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Mobile Deal in Myanmar Elicits Anger Over Religion

These Burmese Buddhist monks mince no words. Such clarity... scary in some ways.

However, the impotence of western media walas is worth watching. The Burmese Buddhists are unapologetic about their biases. That offers no handle, no leverage for the bleeding farts sitting far away from the conflict zone to insert themselves.

Just like the NGO and rights industry realized that muslims cannot really be shamed or browbeaten into giving up their prejudices and biases, the Burmese are showing that any community that is unapologetic (Sinhalas too, BTW) cannot be similarly sheparded only.

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Yes, there's a message for us Indics/yindooze here. There are times when one should be unapologetic about core interests - like when the pandits were driven out of J&K or when the Bangla muslims demographically invaded our NE. Push back and be unapologetic about it regardless of what it makes us look like to the NGO industry worldwide. Only.
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agastya wrote:Loud explosion heard in Quetta?s Hazara town - DAWN.COM

Loud explosion heard in Quetta’s Hazara town
QUETTA: At least 20 people have been killed and several more casualties are feared in a powerful explosion near an Imambargah on Kirani road of Quetta’s Hazara town.

A police official who requested not to be named told Dawn.com on the telephone that 20 people were killed and at least 60 were injured in the blast. He said that the blast occurred in a crowded area. “We fear an increase in the number of casualties,” he said.

Babul Baloch, a rescue worker told Dawn.com that aid workers were not being allowed to reach the explosion site. He said that most of the aid workers were stranded on different streets leading to Hazara Town and Kirani road. “The blast seems to be a suicide attack,” Baloch said while quoting eye witnesses.

Para-military troops and police were dispatched in the area to control the situation. The initially injured were being taken to civil hospital Quetta for medical treatment.
Reuters is reporting that the Laskar e Jhangvi (LeJ), a terrorist outfit adhering to the Sunni Deobandi school of Mohammaddenism, has taken credit for this demonstration of the IED Mubarak variant of the IEDology of Pakistan that targeted their Shia co-religionists. That would make this attack a case of Green on Green religion inspired Intra Mohammadden bloodletting with the “more pure” exterminating the “less pure” in the “land of the pure”:

Blast in Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 28

Frequent Acts of Green on Green religion inspired Intra-Mohammadden bloodletting such as the above in Peshawar does nothing to counter the comment by Myanmarese Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu that “Muslims are like the African carp ,………….. they are very violent and they eat their own kind” :
Surasena wrote:
Ashin Wirathu: The Monk Behind Burma’s “Buddhist Terror”
By Jonathan DeHart

June 25, 2013 ………… {Snipped} ………………..

Before a large gathering who came to hear his thoughts on Burma’s Muslims – whom he called “the enemy” – Wirathu recently said: “You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.”

“Muslims are like the African carp,” he told Global Post. “They breed quickly and they are very violent and they eat their own kind. Even though they are minorities here, we are suffering under the burden they bring us.”
……………………… {Snipped} …………………

Jonathan DeHart is assistant editor of The Diplomat.

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Why is the left so blinkered to Islamic extremism?

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com ... 79265.html
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Half of Britain’s mosques have been attacked since 9/11
There remains ‘a lack of political will’ to tackle Islamophobia, warns Government adviser.

Despite the warning signs, a senior Government adviser told The Independent that there remains a “lack of political will” to take on the rise of Islamophobic attacks in Britain. The adviser, who did not want to be named, said that attempts to “tackle this issue – even before Woolwich – struggled to attract buy-in,” with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, identified as the primary source of frustration.
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Phuket Opinion: Promoting Islam for Phuket youths, tourists
Maroj Thongyon, a 66-year-old Phuket native, has been a member of the committee of the Phuket Islamic Council since 1990 and is president of the Foundation Nurul Islamiah. Two years ago he took the position of Imam at the Nurulislam mosque in Patong. Here, he talks about the loss of cultural identity among Phuket Muslim youth and the opportunity to market Phuket as a halal-tourist destination.

PHUKET: Phuket is a very popular destination for tourists from around the world. Our island needs to promote its Muslim heritage by promoting halal food shops, marking sites important to Muslim history on the island and by noting mosques on guide books and maps.

Thai-Muslims compose about 30 per cent of Phuket’s population. Many Muslim communities on the island are historically located in Cherng Talay, Kamala, Rawai, Baan Ko En and more isolated areas across the island.

The members of these communities traditionally were fishermen or orchard gardeners, and unlike most of the Thai-Muslims in Yala, Narathiwat, and Pattani, Phuket’s population speaks Thai, not Malay.
Islamic education needs to be instilled in educational institutions. We have received very positive feedback when discussing this idea with educational institutions.

It also must be presented to young people by members of their family, religious leaders and relevant organizations.

I hope in the future the new generation of Phuket Muslims will be more aware of their Islamic heritage and be stricter in their observations of halal customs.
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The Economist -
European Union enlargement: Keeping up with the Croats
After Croatia’s accession, Europe should be ready to admit more new members
...on July 1st the club will admit its 28th member, Croatia (see Charlemagne).

To many this marks the beginning of the end of a process. Most people accept that the western Balkans must eventually join the club, so membership talks continue with Montenegro and will open next year with Serbia. But further negotiations with Turkey, already almost frozen, have at German insistence been put off until October, because of the Turks’ crackdown on protesters (see article). And nobody even raises the possible accession of Moldova, Ukraine or the Caucasus.

This is a mistake. Enlargement has been the EU’s most successful policy bar none. The hope of membership was crucial in fostering and smoothing the transition to democracy, first in Greece, Spain and Portugal and later across large parts of eastern Europe. The lure of joining the rich democrats’ club led countries into social and constitutional reform and persuaded them to free statist economies. The results benefited not just new members, but existing ones, too.

Those who oppose further enlargement offer several arguments. The EU club is already too large to function well, they say, and is anyway in too big a mess to afford new distractions. Some countries were let in before their institutions were sufficiently developed (Romania and Bulgaria in 2007), or with unresolved territorial disputes (Cyprus, 2004). Hungary (also 2004) has regressed in its democracy. Others, like Turkey, are not really European at all. Public opinion is against more expansion, partly because of rising resistance to large-scale immigration. Potential candidates from the east are too big (Ukraine), too poor (Moldova), too Muslim (Turkey again), too autocratic (Azerbaijan)—or some combination of the above.
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X-post from China thread:

Violence continues:

Violence hits west China ahead of key anniversary
Violent incidents have spread over the past week in a tense minority region of western China, just days before the fourth anniversary of a bloody clash between minority Uighurs and the ethnic Han majority that left almost 200 people dead and resulted in a major security clampdown.
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arun wrote: Frequent Acts of Green on Green religion inspired Intra-Mohammadden bloodletting such as the above in Peshawar does nothing to counter the comment by Myanmarese Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu that “Muslims are like the African carp ,………….. they are very violent and they eat their own kind” :
ImageAck. Read it as "African cRap" first and was stunned by how racist that was. But he said "cArp". Wasn't aware that they were canibalistic though :eek: .
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Islamists in Syria's Aleppo ban 'provocative dress' for women. Source: Not BBC
Islamist rebels in Syria's northern city of Aleppo issued an order on Monday banning women from dressing in what it considered provocative styles
"Muslim women are banned from leaving the house in immodest dress, in tight clothing that shows off their bodies or wearing makeup on their face," the statement said. "It is incumbent on all our sisters to obey God and commit to Islamic etiquette".
"A girl can't go around dressed in a way that causes chaos and shame, no matter what her religion."
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