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[h=1]Islamic Preacher: ‘Masturbating Men Will Find Their Hands Pregnant In The Afterlife’[/h] 21333
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[h=2]A Muslim cleric has warned that men who pleasure themselves could make their hands pregnant in the afterlife.[/h] Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reports that Mucahid Cihad Han made the comments on a live TV broadcast after a married man called his show to say he could not stop masturbating, even on holy pilgrimage to Mecca.
Han responded that masturbation was a sin in Islam. He added:
“Moreover, one hadith states that those who have sexual intercourse with their hands will find their hands pregnant in the afterlife, complaining against them to God over its rights.
“If our viewer was single, I could recommend he marry, but what can I say now?”
The self-styled televangelist advised the viewer to “resist Satan’s temptations”.
The issue is controversial in Islam as there are varying opinions on how permissible masturbation can be. The Koran has no clear reference to the act and many hadiths (teachings of Mohammed outside of the Koran) are of questionable authenticity.
Few Islamic scholars consider it “haram” (forbidden), with most considering it “makruh” (disliked or offensive). Some even say it is permissible in certain circumstances, such as avoiding temptation to commit adultery.
Han was widely mocked on social media after making the statement. One Twitter user asked: “Are there any hand gynaecologists in the afterlife? Is abortion allowed there?”
Another added: “So you think being pregnant is a God-given punishment?”

 

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In a report late last year, the U.N. sanctions committee stated: 'Regrettably, the monitoring team continues to receive a steady - albeit officially unconfirmed - flow of media reports indicating that some listed individuals have become increasingly adept at circumventing the sanctions measures, the travel ban in particular.'
The State Department insists that U.S. officials work to mitigate the risk of former Guantanamo detainees returning to the fight, threatening Americans or jeopardizing U.S. national security. U.S. officials have noted in the past that the five Taliban leaders are middle-aged or older, were former officials in the Taliban government and probably wouldn't be seen again on any battlefield, although they could continue to be active members of the Taliban.
Members of Congress have repeatedly expressed concern about what will happen after the travel ban expires. They have asked the Obama administration to try to persuade Qatar to extend the monitoring.
Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte wrote Defense Secretary Ash Carter in March, asking him to take any step necessary to make sure the five do not return to the battlefield in Afghanistan.
And earlier this month, the 13 Republican members of the House Intelligence committee wrote President Obama asking him to urge Qatar to extend travel restrictions on the former detainees indefinitely.
Many lawmakers from both parties were irate when the five Guantanamo detainees were swapped for Bergdahl, who recently was charged with desertion.
They complained that the White House did not give Congress a 30-day notification of the transfer, which is required by law.
The White House said it couldn't wait 30 days because Bergdahl's life was endangered.


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A Yazidi teenager has told how she and her little sister were raped daily by depraved jihadists after they were sold into slavery at an auction of virgins - as she revealed she is now pregnant with the vile extremist's baby.
The girl, who is just 17, revealed how every day of her nine-month ordeal was 'like choosing between death and death' as she was faced with beatings and sexual assaults by the ISIS militant and his team of 'bodyguards'.
The teenager told how she was gang-raped, whipped and even scalded on the thigh with boiling hot water if she didn't keep with her ISIS rapist's depraved sexual demands.


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Sex slaves: Yazidi women and girls have been separated from their families, forced to convert to Islam and repeatedly raped by ISIS fighters

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Horrifying: The teenager told how she and and her 10-year-old sister were handcuffed and taken to a hotel where other scantily dressed women and girls were auctioned off to jihadis Picture: A sex slave victim of ISIS, many of whom say they try to kill themselves so that they won't be raped again





The girl recalled how she was forced to recite passages from the Koran while her 'owner', calling himself Al-Russiyah, and his 'bodyguards' molested her.
Now, three months pregnant with Al-Russiyah's baby, the girl says she gets flashbacks and nightmares about what he did to her.
'It was like choosing between death and death... It was terrible,' she said.

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'He beat me and would be with at least one other man every time he had sex with me.'
The teenager was kidnapped last August, after ISIS fighters overran the town of Shingal, also known as Sinjar, in an onslaught which sent thousands of Yazidis who had been living on the Nineveh Plain running for the mountains to escape the extremists.
The teenager was handcuffed and held in a hotel by gun-toting ISIS fighters, with a number of other scantily dressed women and young girls in Mosul, Iraq.
She was then moved to Islamic State's adopted capital of Raqqa, Syria, where she and dozens of other women and girls were underwent an intrusive examination to confirm that they were virgins.


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Vile: The girl described how the fighter used to smell her and the other sex slaves each morning, before deciding which one he would take for himself

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Horrifying: The girl revealed how she was sold at an auction of sex slaves to a jihadi fighter who raped her repeatedly over nine months. This picture from ISIS social media channels purports to show one such market

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Kidnapped: The girl was captured when ISIS overran the Nineveh Plane last August, which sent thousands of Yazidis fleeing for the relative safety of Mount Sinjar (pictured)



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'The virgins were taken to a room with 40 men,' she recalled.
'They lined us up and pointed who they wanted... I thought I might be lucky: I was not as beautiful as the others.'
The girl was bought by Al-Russiyah, originally from Chechnya, who purchased her, her 10-year-old sister and two other girls in 10 minutes.
But it was not only the prospect of what the horrors they would face once they were taken away from the auction house which left the girls distraught.
'The day me and my sister were sold was the last day I saw my mother. I will never forget when she started crying and pulling her hair when they took us,' she said.
They forced me to say things from the Koran during the time they did their actions, and if I didn't they whipped me.
Girl, 17, who was kept as a sex slave


Once at their new 'home', an abhorrent daily routine from which they could not escape began.
Each morning, Al-Russiyah would strip the girls naked, then smell them and decide who he wanted to have sex with that day, she said.
After the he had made his choice, his bodyguards would select one of the remaining girls for themselves.
But the bodyguards were so rough with her that the teenager felt relief at being picked by her captor, who would 'beat her less than the other men'.
It was hopeless to resist: on the one occasion she did, one of Al-Russiyah's men poured boiling water on her leg.
'They forced me to say things from the Koran during the time they did their actions, and if I didn't they whipped me,' she said.
'I didn't feel anything. I just felt numb. I wanted it to be over. I wanted to kill myself.
'We were forced to cook, clean and do anything that they told us. We had to obey their orders. Sometimes we had to dance and sing for them.'

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Sex slave: The girl is not the only one to speak about her horrific ordeal. Hamshe, a Yazidi girl from Iraq, spoke to documentary maker about being held as a sex slave by Isis militants for 28 days with her baby



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Freedom: The girls finally escaped in April, when their captors were killed. They then joined thousands of refugees, like these ones, in hidng from ISIS, who believe Yazidis are infidels who are barely human

But then finally, after nine months of torture which no one should have to endure, a chance to escape arose.
In April, Al-Russiyah was killed, together with his bodyguards, by Peshmerga forces near Sinjar, northern Iraq - and the girls were finally able to flee.
She said: '[Al-Russiyah] and his bodyguards were wounded when they fought against Kurdish soldiers. He died immediately and the guards also.
'That was when we fled.'
Some of the girls ran back to ISIS because they were so afraid. One girl who tried to escape had her legs cut off by the militants, it is claimed.
The girl says life is now difficult for her because the Yazidi community is very patriarchal - and those who have fled ISIS are considered 'tainted' - even though their highest cleric has urged families to accept them.
Her uncle has threatened to kill her if she had been sexually abused by Islamic State fighters, and she is now preparing to terminate her pregnancy.
Delal Sindy, a 23-year-old aid worker from Sweden, has helped tell the 17-year-old Yazidi girl's story.
Ms Sindy, who has been in Kurdistan since October last year, is determined to stay and help in the face of ISIS getting stronger in the region.
'They are growing stronger in certain areas but here they are being pushed furth

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[ Look! The Koran says these maggots can fuck little boys!! What a nice, friendly book!! ]

[h=1]It Is Permissible for the Mujahid to Enjoy Young Boys in the Absence of Women”[/h]By Raymond Ibrahim on June 1, 2015 in From The Arab World, Islam





Recently a number of Arabic language websites posted the following picture which is attributed to the official Twitter account of Caliph Abu Bakr of the Islamic State.

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The Arabic writing reads:
“It is permissible for the mujahid [jihadi] to enjoy young boys in the absence of women.”
The purported fatwa then justifies this position by quoting Koran 52:24:
“There will circulate among them [servant] boys [especially] for them, as if they were pearls well-protected.”
A similar verses (76:19) reads: “There will circulate among them young boys made eternal. When you see them, you would think them [as beautiful as] scattered pearls.”

 

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Zit the Koran says it? Or ISIS CLAIMS the Koran says it?

Big difference and I can't find proof.

 

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Zit the Koran says it? Or ISIS CLAIMS the Koran says it?

Big difference and I can't find proof.

Of course ISIS is "reading between the lines" on this one... Not that they aren't the first group of Muslims to justify fucking little boys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancing_Boys_of_Afghanistan

 

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[ More Muslim kiddie diddlers, head of CAIR in Orlando in on the bust. ]
[h=1]101 arrested in child-sex sting[/h] [h=2]Muslim leader among those busted[/h] Published: 2 days ago

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The two-week joint sting, known as “Operation L and P,” netted 101 arrests in both Lake and Polk counties. The investigation concluded late last week. (Photo: Dave D’Marko, News 13)

More than 100 people, including the Orlando leader of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, were arrested in a two-county Florida sex-sting operation, many of whom for allegedly trying to have sex with children.


The investigation concluded last week, authorities announced Tuesday.
Many of those arrested had jobs working with children, including theme-park workers at Universal Orlando and SeaWorld, and a former Walt Disney World cast member who left the job before his arrest. SeaWorld said the men charged were no longer employed at the theme park.
“These are very dangerous people and they are after our children,” said Grady Judd of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
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Ahmad Saleem

During the first week of the sting, investigators say, 22 people traveled to Clermont, Florida, thinking they were going to have sex with a child between ages 10 and 14. Seventy-nine others were arrested on charges connected to prostitution.
Ahmad Saleem, a Muslim youth coordinator, was also one of the men arrested. Investigators said the men all went to a home in Clermont with the hopes of having sex with a child. The car Saleem traveled in had a license plate that said, “Invest in children,” according to investigators.
Saleem is also founder of the Saleem Academy, an organization “empowering Muslim youth globally” and also served as the Orlando coordinator for CAIR.
A note posted at the Saleem Academy website Tuesday stated, “Closed. May God bless you, guide you, and illuminate the right path for you, and keep you firm on it. Keep me in your prayers.”
“He’s well known as a community outreach leader interacting with teens in and around the Orlando area,” said Judd.
Judd said the operation was designed to send a strong message to anyone in Internet chat rooms that sex with minors won’t be tolerated.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office released the following in a statement:
“The first week of the operation targeted adults who were looking for sex with a child. During this phase, the detectives posed as either a child or a parent of a child as they were solicited by those interested in sexual activity with the child. As this phase progressed, 22 individuals were arrested after traveling to the location to have sex with who they believed to be a child, two of whom were already registered sex offenders. The age range for the target child was 10-14 years old in these cases.
“During the second week of the operation, detectives targeted those involved in crimes related to prostitution. As this portion of the operation progressed, 79 individuals were arrested on charges related to prostitution. Some of those arrested in this phase were also in possession of drugs and were therefore charged accordingly.”


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/101-arrested-in-child-sex-sting/#9ObhJTxALoXOKA0q.99

 

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First authoritative research shows FGM is carried out in four major provinces

A woman wearing a niqab in Iran’s Hormozgan province, which has the highest incidence of FGM in the country. Niqabs are only worn in southern provinces.
A woman wearing a niqab in Iran’s Hormozgan province, which has the highest incidence of FGM in the country. Niqabs are only worn in southern provinces. Photograph: Kamran Jebreili/Getty Images/arabianEye





Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Thursday 4 June 2015 09.00 BST Last modified on Friday 5 June 2015 00.00 BST
The first authoritative study into female genital mutilation in Iran has found the practice is being carried out in at least four major provinces while officials are silent on the matter.


According to research by social anthropologist Kameel Ahmady released on Thursday, FGM is more prevalent in the southern province of Hormozgan and its nearby islands (Qeshm and Hormuz) than in any other parts of the country.


It is also being practised to a lesser degree in Kurdistan, Kermanshah and West Azerbaijan provinces, which are situated in western Iran close to the Iraq border.


Ahmady’s research shows that FGM is mainly an issue concerning the Shafi’i sect of Sunni Muslim Iranians, a minority in the Shia-dominated country. Only a small fraction of the Shia population living in proximity of Sunni communities practise FGM.


“FGM is practised in Iran in some cases to tame girls’ sex drive before marriage; it is made to preserve their chastity,” said Ahmady. “The attitude of officials and authorities is that FGM doesn’t exist in Iran. The Iranian public is also largely ignorant about the subject.”


Ahmady first decided to focus on FGM in Iran when he was working with relief NGOs in Africa in early 2000s. Over the course of 10 years he has spoken to around 3,000 Iranian women who have experienced FGM in Iran, as well as 1,000 men. His research was published to coincide with the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, observed every year on 4 June.


“I returned to Iran in 2005 to study FGM in my home country and instantly I was shocked to discover that it even happened to the closest members of my own family and relatives,” he said. “In fact, many in Iran don’t have a clue that [FGM] is being practised in some parts of the country.”


FGM, which has affected millions of girls and women alive worldwide, predates Islam and Christianity and has been practised in many different cultures and societies, from Coptic and Catholic Christians in Eritrea and in Ethiopia, to Beta Israel society, Australian aboriginal tribes and some parts of the Middle East and Asia. It is usually performed on girls between the ages of four and 12 and can include partial or in extreme cases total removal of external parts of female genitalia.


In Iran, the practice, referred to as Khatne or Sonat, is usually carried out outside hospital without anaesthesia or prior consent by amateur midwives. The tools used include sharp razors.


Mehrangiz Kar, a leading Iranian human rights lawyer, said it was tragic that such mutilation was carried out by women. “It’s one of those instances where the violence against women is carried out by women in unhygienic circumstances,” she told the Guardian. “In areas where FGM exists, unfortunately it’s usually the mothers who insist that their daughters should be cut.”


In at least one extreme case which had involved stitching up after cutting, Kar said an Iranian mother refused to allow her daughter to have her stitches removed before marriage. “The daughter told me that she was afraid of marriage; she feared she would have pain during sexual intercourse.”


Although Ahmady’s research is unprecedented in its depth, other people have also studied FGM in Iran, including Fatemeh Karimi and Rayehe Mozafarian, who have both published books on the subject. Mozafarian said that the Iranian authorities had let activists research FGM in Iran and had allowed those books to be published.


“When people in Iran learned for the first time seven or eight years ago that women are being cut there, it was a cultural shock,” she said. “People didn’t believe that it was being practised.”


Mozafarian said she had reached out to the country’s vice president for women’s affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, who is considering her proposal for a nationwide campaign to end FGM. Iran’s penal code criminalises mutilation but does not specifically mention FGM.


Mozafarian warned that in some parts of Khuzestan province, home to many Arab Iranians, an extreme form of FGM known as infibulation, which involves the removal of the clitoris as well as the narrowing of the vaginal opening by creating a covering seal, is being practised.


Influenced by events in the neighbouring Kurdistan region of Iraq, which prohibited FGM in 2007, female circumcision is in decline in Iran’s Kurdistan but still goes on. Hormozgan is less affected by that change.


Not all Sunni Iranians practise FGM, such as those belonging to the Hanafi sect or those living in other provinces. In West Azerbaijan, FGM exists among Sunni Shafi’i Kurds of Sorani dialect but not among Sunni Shafie Kurds of Kermanji dialect, Ahmady’s report shows. In Iran’s Kurdistan, where prevalence of FGM is patchy, it is mainly seen in rural areas, some villages and communities but not usually in urban areas. Even in provinces where FGM exists, many communities do not practise it.


“The majority of women I spoke to who were circumcised defended FGM, saying that it is a tradition that had existed for hundreds of years,” said Ahmady. “Some Sunni mums even boasted that their daughters were more virtuous than the majority Shia girls because they were cut.”


Shia clerics also avoid interfering in what they see as a Sunni issue. The government, wary of inciting anti-Shia sentiment among the country’s Sunni minority, is also largely quiet. In Hormozgan, minimal traces of FGM is seen in Shia communities in some village, the report shows.

 

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Barbaric jihadis fighting for the Islamic State in Libya have brutally beheaded a government soldier outside a mosque while children no older than eight years old look on.
The savage execution took place in the northern port city of Derna, which was seized by ISIS militants in October last year as the country tore itself apart in civil war.
The chilling photographs show regime soldier Abdulnabi Shurgawi wearing an orange jumpsuit as he is dragged into a public square and executed.
A second shot shows a depraved militant holding the man's head aloft while young boys are allowed to crowd around his bloodied corpse for what ISIS described as 'education purposes'.

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Sickening: An ISIS militant stands over Shurgawi's bloodied corpse and holds the soldier's head aloft. Crowded around him young boys, some of whom gaze with interest at the body, while others pose for photographs

The first of the two images shows Shurgawi, who fought for the internationally recognised Libyan government based in Tobruk, being led out into a square by a group of black-clad, masked militants.
It is believed he was captured by ISIS earlier this week and charged with 'apostasy', which essentially meant not practicing Islam according to ISIS' barbaric interpretation.


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Several heavily armed jihadis stand on the steps of the local mosque as Shurgawi is forced to his knees and beheaded by a militant wearing an olive green scarf wrapped around his head.
A second sickening image shows the militant standing over Shurgawi's bloodied corpse and holding the soldier's severed head aloft in celebration.
Crowded around the executioner are a group of young boys, some of whom gaze with interest at Shurgawi's body, while others appear to be posing for photographs.
The images were released by ISIS' local 'Wilayat Barqa' terror cell, who added that the children had been allowed to see the brutal murder up close for 'education purposes'.

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Preparing to die: Abdulnabi Shurgawi, who fought for the internationally recognised Libyan government based in Tobruk, is seen being led out into a square by a group of black-clad militants in the militant-held city of Derna

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The future: An unknown Libyan cartoonist released a chilling illustration captioned 'Derna and the future of its children' within hours of the brutal execution. It shows a group of young boys practicing beheading dolls

Within hours of the execution photographs emerging online, an unknown Libyan cartoonist released a chilling illustration captioned 'Derna and the future of its children'.
The cartoon - which has been widely shared on Libyan social media - shows a masked executioner beheading a man as he stands in front of a group of smiling children. Each of the children is seen holding their own knife which they are using to practice cutting the head off of a doll.
As well as forcing children to become child soldiers, ISIS regularly exposes boys to brutal executions in the hope of breeding a generation of men for whom life is cheap and brutal murder is accepted.
The idea is that, with a callous attitude towards killing and relentless brainwashing with murderous and anti-Western propaganda, ISIS is slowly creating a jihadi networks that could last generations.
Libya erupted into civil war following the overthrow and killing of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Last year the country's internationally recongnised government was forced to leave the capital Tripoli by the conservative Islamist group Libya Dawn who have set up an opposition government.
The internationally recognised government now has its headquarters in the eastern city of Tobruk, with militant groups such as ISIS exploiting the chaos and power vacuum in cities such as Derna and Sirte to establish Libyan strongholds.


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[h=1]US airline apologises over anti-Muslim discrimination[/h] [h=2]United Airlines apology comes after flight attendant denies woman unopened drink can for "security reasons".[/h] 04 Jun 2015 17:15 GMT | Human Rights, US & Canada, United States

United Airlines has apologised to a Muslim chaplain who said she was denied an unopened can of soft drink on an affiliated US domestic flight by an attendant who said it could be used as a weapon.
The US airline also said in a statement on Wednesday that the flight attendant had been banned from serving its customers.
United launched an investigation after Tahera Ahmad, Northwestern University associate chaplain, complained about the incident last week in social media posts that went viral.
Ahmad, who wore a headscarf aboard a flight from Chicago to Washington that was operated by Shuttle America for United, said in a Facebook post the flight attendant had discriminated against her when she was denied an unopened can of Diet Coke.
Ahmad's description of the incident touched off a social media storm, including a Twitter campaign at #UnitedforTahera, which garnered global support and a call by many to boycott the airline.
Ahmad did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
The attendant cited "security reasons", saying the beverage could be used as a weapon, yet gave the man sitting next to Ahmad an unopened can of beer.
Anti-Islamic comments
When she complained, Ahmad said, other passengers on the flight directed anti-Islamic comments at her.
Bob Birge, a spokesperson for Republic Airways Holdings, which operated the Shuttle America flight on behalf of United, said the airline's beverage policy did not ban serving unopened cans to passengers.
"While United did not operate the flight, Ms Ahmad was our customer and we apologise to her for what occurred on the flight," United Airlines said in a statement on Twitter.
"After investigating this matter, United has ensured that the flight attendant, a Shuttle America employee, will no longer serve United customers."
The airline said all its employees who dealt with customers underwent cultural awareness training at least once a year. It also said Shuttle America employees who worked with customers were trained in cultural sensitivity training, but did not specify how often.
"United does not tolerate behaviour that is discriminatory - or that appears to be discriminatory - against our customers or employees," the airline said.
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If people in America are so hateful and mean to her, why does she stay here?

Speaking out: Tahera Ahmad (seen left and right) has said a flight attendant last week declined her request for an unopened can of Diet Coke because it could be used as a weapon

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Incident: Ahmad has said she asked other passengers if they saw what happened, and one man swore at her

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Her side: Ahmad posted this message to Facebook after United had described the incident as 'a misunderstanding regarding a can of diet soda'


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If people in America are so hateful and mean to her, why does she stay here?


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This is her Country, that's why she stays here.

 

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this is her country, that's why she stays here.

Whose country is this?

 

[The Guesser]

Whose country is this?

It's her Country, It's My Country. It's Bernie Sanders' Country.

 

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[h=1]Syrian women pull off their burkas to show they are free from ISIS[/h]
Marie Le Conte for Metro.co.ukSaturday 6 Jun 2015 12:38 pm

A woman takes off her burqa as she enters Rojava (pic: Jack Shahine /Shervan Derwish)This picture, taken by the border between Syria and Turkey, shows the amazing moment women take off their black burqas to celebrate being out of ISIS-held territory.
The snaps were captured by cameraman Shervan Derwish, as the car drove into the autonomous region of Rojava, which is held by the Kurdish YPG.
Under the Islamic State so-called caliphate, women have to wear the black shapeless burqas, whether they want it or not.

More women leaving ISIS-held territory (pic: Jack Shahine /Shervan Derwish)Jack Shahine, the journalist who was working alongside Derwish when he captured the footage, told MailOnline:
‘These women, children and men are fleeing ISIS controlled area and as soon as reaching Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units) controlled areas they remove the black Burkas obliged by ISIS, breathing freedom again…[They] started to remove blackness, feeling cheerful and joyful for being finally free.’


Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/06/syria...hey-are-free-from-isis-5233062/#ixzz3cL8VmVbk

 

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Men covered from head to toe in moss have paraded through the streets of Bejar in western Spain to commemorate a daring raid that local legend says helped liberate their town from Muslim occupation some eight centuries ago. Locals believe that during the reign of King Alfonso VIII of Castile (1155-1214) men camouflaged themselves in moss from local forests to enable them to approach the gates of a Muslim fortress.

 

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[ Execution for drinking a glass of water, that sounds about right for these Muslim cock-roaches. ]

[h=1]Support builds for ailing Pakistani Christian facing death for drinking from Muslim water cup[/h]Published June 29, 2015FoxNews.com


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Aasia Bibi before her 2010 death sentence for crimes of blasphemy. (Asia Bibi Collection)


A Pakistani Christian woman facing death for drinking water out of the same vessel used by her Muslim co-workers is in such poor health her supporters fear she won't make it to her date with the executioner.
Aasiya Noreen, a wife and mother of five better known as Asia Bibi, was sentenced in 2010 to be hanged for apostasy. The grim verdict was handed down after her co-workers charged she had insulted Prophet Mohammed when she was told she could not share the water vessel. Now 50, Bibi is suffering from numerous health problems, including intestinal bleeding, according to Global Dispatch, which cited Bibi's family in reporting the woman is “so weak she could hardly walk.”
“She is an exemplar of a gross miscarriage of injustice rooted in Pakistan’s extremely unfair blasphemy laws and of how this law can victimize someone who should not be inside the criminal justice system whatsoever,” said Phelim Kine, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division.
Supporters of Bibi are calling on the U.S. to use the approximately $900 million in annual foreign aid it provides Pakistan as leverage to obtain justice for Bibi and others suffering under the Muslim nation's Draconian blasphemy laws. The Center for Research and Security Studies, which identified 247 blasphemy cases prosecuted in Pakistan since 1987 and found many were used to persecute religious minorities and settle personal scores.
In recent years, Bibi’s case has received sporadic coverage due to several postponements of court hearings. The British Pakistani Christian Association is hoping to use the sixth anniversay of her arrest to bring renewed attention to her plight, sending out statements and releasing songs calling for her freedom. The group's chairman, Wilson Chowdhry, has urged nations with close ties to Pakistan, such as the U.K. and the U.S., to speak up.
“There has been a lack of mainstream media coverage, meanwhile her plight continues and she had been waiting for a Supreme Court hearing for eight months,” he said. “People have to contact leaders of their nations asking them to engage in dialogue with Pakistani government for humanitarian rights alone.”

Nazir Bhatti, president of the Pakistan Christian Congress, told FoxNews.com it is difficult for the international media to pick up news on Bibi's plight because it generates so little coverage within the country.
“Pakistani media do not often write about her case and are too afraid because they are under pressure from the government to stay silent,” Bhatti said.
Pope Francis has called for clemency for Bibi, and last year, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul called for an end to U.S. aid to Pakistan, noting the persecution of young women and Christians in the nation, and citing Bibi in particular. Last month, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom pressed the Obama administration to designate Pakistan a “country of particular concern.”
Those who have spoken up for Bibi from within Pakistan have done so at their own peril. Two, Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab, and Shahbaz Bhatti, the minister of minority affairs, were assassinated after defending Bibi and speaking out against the blasphemy laws.
“The assassinations show how dangerous it is for politicians to challenge the blasphemy law. Militants will go to extreme measures for anyone who speaks for religious freedom or human rights,” said Kine.
According to a recent Mission News Network article, there have been some recent internal attempts to overhaul the blasphemy laws due to international pressure. A March 2014 poll from the Pakistani English-language newspaper,The Nation, showed 68 percent of Pakistanis believe the blasphemy law should be repealed.
“It is not something that can happen overnight,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch. “The government needs to educate their people on what are universal human rights, what is respecting religious minorities and so on. Right now, I don’t see that happening.”
Chowdry, however, believes that reform of blasphemy laws are unlikely in a country he says is “hijacked” by extremists.
“We see what happens when someone tries to challenge the blasphemy laws,” he said. “It got two key politicians killed…In a country with such animosity against Christians, I don’t believe a Supreme Court judge will be brave enough to exonerate her.”
The British Pakistani Christian Association has issued an online petition calling for Bibi’s release.