FALSE HYMEN ONLINE $29.95, ESCAPE ISLAMIC LAW OF HONOR KILLING

mortally afraid of being murdered by their fathers and brothers in their zeal to restore the family "honor.

They sell thousands a month to Muslim women in Western countries. These poor women are victims,

Modern medicine meets the stone age. The hymen-repair industry is indicative of both the brutality and hypocrisy of Islamic culture, even as it exalts its allegedly superior moral standards over those of the West. Islamic culture is not a culture of virtue, but a culture of fear. It does not celebrate purity, but makes a mockery of it. In the West we should be using stories like this one as teaching opportunities to impress upon non-Muslims and Muslims alike the dignity and value of each human being, and the fundamental principle that one's personal morality is for G-d and each individual to judge, and should not be made subject to the barbaric moral calculus that leads to this kind of desperate measure.

Respect for the sharia in the West leads to the continued dehumanization and diminishing of women in the West.

Mail-order hymens available to Canadians By Kris Sims, Parliamentary Bureau, CNEWS hat tip Weasel

Women who cannot afford to get their hymens surgically re-attached in Canada prior to marriages in their cultural country of origin have a less expensive option: they can order one in the mail.

Starting at just $29.95, women can order a false hymen online, shipped from China.

The imports are officially banned in many Middle Eastern and North African countries, but women in North America and Great Britain are a fertile market.

"We have many urgent requests from women, begging us for urgent delivery before their wedding night," says Mike Munro, with the Hymenshop.com. The online store opened in March 2010, and sells a couple thousand per month.

"There are some cultural notions out there that the ordinary person cannot just challenge and try and change them without paying a very dear price and in some case with their own lives."

In Canada, some young women from predominantly Muslim backgrounds are desperate to appear as virgins, fearing they could be killed by their families if they do not have an intact hymen on their marriage beds after arranged marriages in their cultural home countries.

Some are getting plastic surgery in Canadian private clinics to re-attach their hymens.

The mail-order version is a thin film containing a packet of red fluid. The website advises to insert the film 20 minutes prior to sex in order to mimic the breaking of the hymen and showing the required "blood."

The parcels come with alternate markings from generic sounding companies, evading interception.

"Woman belonging to these sorts of cultures will have to work around these notions if they wish to have a safe and 'normal' family lives and we provide them with this opportunity." says Munro.

Explosion hits Egypt church, 21 killed, 79 injured

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) -- A powerful bomb exploded in front of a crowded Coptic Christian church a half hour into the New Year early Saturday, hitting worshippers emerging from a holiday Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria and killing at least 21 people in an attack that raised suspicions of an al-Qaida role.

The attack came in the wake of repeated threats by al-Qaida militants in Iraq to attack Egypt's Christians. A direct al-Qaida hand in the bombing would be a dramatic development, as Egypt's government has long denied that the terror network has a significant presence in the country. Al-Qaida in Iraq has already been waging a campaign of violence against Christians in that country

European Parliament backing for hard pressed Christians in Iraq

The European Parliament has officially welcomed a delegation of Christian leaders from Iraq and Lebanon at its last plenary session of the year.

The move comes at a time when concern is high for the welfare of under-pressure Christians and other minorities in Iraq and other countries throughout the Middle East.

"It is clear that there are some fundamentalist elements seeking to create sectarian division within the Iraqi society where Christianity has been an integral part of the fabric of Middle Eastern society for two millennia. We monitor the situation closely, I will continue to highlight the issue, at every possible opportunity, of the situation of Christians in Iraq and the broader Middle East region," said Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament

Iraqis defy threats to pack massacre church on Christmas

BAGHDAD — Hundreds of Christians packed Baghdad's Our Lady of Salvation church for Christmas on Saturday, defying threats of attacks less than two months after militants massacred worshippers and priests there.

Security was extremely tight, with forces armed with pistols and assault rifles guarding the area and a 10-foot high (three-metre) concrete wall topped with gleaming razor wire surrounding the church.

All cars entering the area were searched, and worshippers were patted down twice before being allowed into the church.

The mood was sombre after an October 31 attack claimed by Al-Qaeda affiliate the Islamic State of Iraq in which gunmen stormed the church, leaving two priests, 44 worshippers and seven security personnel dead.

The church, which was filled with more than 300 worshippers, still bears signs of the attack, its walls pockmarked from bullets and the destroyed wooden pews replaced with plastic and metal chairs.

The attack has left many reeling.

"Last year, we were all gathering" for Christmas, said Uday Saadallah Abdal. But "this year, I went to the house, and I saw it was empty... I was crying all night, because no one was here any more."

The 28-year-old said two of his brothers were killed in the attack -- one of the priests, Father Thair, and another brother Raed. His mother was also shot three times, and is hospitalised in France.

"I feel that their souls are still there in the church; that is why I came. They encourage me to come here despite all the danger and threats," Abdal said of his brothers.

"We are afraid, but despite that, we are coming" for mass, Rana Nikhail said. "We have to be here, because it is the birthday of the Messiah."

But "we cannot feel happy because tears are in our eyes, and people we love are not with us any more," the 35-year-old added.

Ten days after the deadly siege, a string of attacks targeted the homes of Christians in Baghdad, killing six people and wounding 33 others.

Threats have also been made against Iraqi Christians.

Chaldean Catholic archbishop Monsignor Louis Sarko in Kirkuk said on Tuesday that he "and 10 other Christian personages received threats from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq."

Syrian Catholic Archbishop Matti Motaka called for people to maintain hope despite all the hardships.

"Our message is for people not to give up and to have hope in this life," Motaka said after the mass.

"We have hope, because Jesus is with us all the time, during all the difficulties that we face," but because of the attack, "there is a great wound in the heart of the church."

Some worshippers asserted that despite the attacks and threats, they were not afraid, or at least not enough to stay away from Christmas mass.

"We have no fear at all. We are insisting on coming to the church for prayer and mass," said 40-year-old Tomas Rafo.

"We are here to support each other, to support the families of the victims, and to challenge terrorism," he said, adding: "Sadness is still in our hearts because of the attack, because of losing people that we love."

Fikrat Pack, 52, said: "There is sadness, but not fear. If we were afraid, the church would be empty. People are sad but not afraid, that is why they are here.

"We cannot give up our religion and our church because of an attack."

Speaker of parliament Osama al-Nujaifi urged Iraqi Christians, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled abroad amid unrest since the 2003 US-led invasion, to stay.

"Iraqis don't want the sound of the (church) bells to stop," Nujaifi said at the opening of the Saturday session of parliament.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki also expressed solidarity with Christians on Saturday, and called on them to remain in Iraq.

"The attempts at eliminating the Christians from their country and land is a huge crime against national unity," he said in a statement.

"We strongly call on (Christians) to stay in their country, to commit to their country and participate in building and reconstructing it."

Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim Atta said no incidents were reported on Saturday.

"Our leadership took a series of security measures to protect the churches, through deploying forces around all churches," he said.

"We are on alert for the mass, but we have no fear that the attacks on Our Lady of Salvation may be repeated," said Atta.

Dutch Arrest 12 Somalis on Terror Suspicions

(AP)  AMSTERDAM - Twelve Somali men have been detained in the port city of Rotterdam on suspicion of terrorist-related activities, the Dutch public prosecutor said Saturday. 

The men aged 19 to 48 were seized Friday on a tip from the intelligence services that they were planning a terrorist attack shortly in the Netherlands. There was no immediate information on the intended target of the alleged attack. 

European officials often step up security around the holidays, but this year especially after a Nigerian man last Christmas Day taped explosives to his underwear and allegedly tried to blow up a plane as it approached Detroit. 

There also have been growing concerns in Europe about holiday season attacks following a suicide bombing in Sweden and attacks on two embassies this week in Rome. 

Dutch police searched a call center, four houses and two motel rooms in the Rotterdam area, prosecutors said in a statement Saturday. No weapons or explosives were found. 

Six of the suspects live in Rotterdam, five have no permanent residence and one man comes from Denmark, they said. 

Last year, 24-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who had studied in London, boarded a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit from Amsterdam. He is accused of trying to blow up the flight, and a judge in a federal court in Detroit has entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf. 

On Thursday, anarchists sent mail bombs to the Rome embassies of Chile and Switzerland, injuring two mail employees at those embassies. 

A top Italian security official said the attackers wanted to avenge blows by those countries against their movement. 

Last Monday, 12 men were also arrested in Britain in the largest counterterrorism raid there in nearly two years. The men - whose ages range from 17 to 28 - were arrested in London, Cardiff, Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham. At least five were of Bangladeshi origin. 

Security officials said a large-scale terror attack was aimed at British landmarks and public spaces. Lord Carlile, the government's independent watchdog for terror, said the alleged plot appeared significant and involved several British cities, but he did not identify the targets. 

Police removed computers from the suspects' homes. They have up to 28 days to either charge the men or release them. 

Possible targets that were scouted include the Houses of Parliament in London and shopping areas around the U.K., according to a security official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. 

French officials, meanwhile, have ordered plainclothes police patrols in key tourist sites for the holidays, including an extra 6,000 more police for New Year's Eve. 

Europe has been the target of numerous terror plots by Islamist militants. The deadliest was the 2004 Madrid train bombings, when shrapnel-filled bombs exploded, killing 191 people and wounding about 1,800. A year later, suicide bombers killed 52 rush-hour commuters in London aboard three subway trains and a bus. 

In 2006, U.S. and British intelligence officials thwarted one of the largest terror plots yet, a plan to explode nearly a dozen trans-Atlantic airliners. 

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Teaching Hatred of Christians and Jews in Muslim Schools in the U.K.

A BBC report on how and what Muslims are teaching in private Islamic schools in the U.K. is very surprising and disheartening for natives of the United Kingdom, who have been living there for centuries before the migration of Muslims.
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Dr. Sumaya Alyusaf, director of the King Fahad Academy, recognized that their books and curriculum, taught to Muslim children, say that Jews are monkeys and Christians are pigs. She confessed that these are the books that were taught in her schools. However, the arrogant and haughty Alyusaf, notwithstanding the advice of the interviewer, openly refused to withdraw those hatemongering books from her schools.

To defend the Quran, she said that we should not see the misinterpretation of the specific verses that says Christians are pigs and Jews are monkeys, but we should see and consider the entire story in the chapter of the Quran. After that only would we understand the true soul of the Quran that it teaches humanity to mankind. This is real laughable and ridiculous answer by Dr. Alyusaf.

The interviewer also raised the point that schools, overseen by the Fahd Academy, also teaches that those, who do not follow Islam, will be perished in Hellfire. Dr. Alyusaf denied this, but only to accept it in her next sentence that Islam emphasizes that whoever does not believe in Muhammad as the final messenger, he/she will find their abode in the Hell fire and the Quran testifies this many times.

My advice and request to those high authorities of non-Muslim countries that they should open an organization on how to deal with Islam and truth about Islam. They can now openly tell to their students that Muslims are dogs; they should teach the true history of the real pirates of Arabia of the 7th and 8th centuries that ruled over the weak, oppressed women, and engaged in massive killings. How Muslims claim that women have equal rights in Islam even after practicing polygamy and distribution of less property share than their brothers inherited from their parents.

I personally believe that now is the right time that Islam should be exposed naked before the world, before this virus spreads in the minds of otherwise innocent people, who might go to kill innocent people, even their own parents, siblings, and beloved ones.

Why the Swiss Were Right to Prohibit Construction of Minarets?

"The European media are crowded with editorials condemning the Swiss for voting to prohibit the construction of any more minarets in their country



. Here in Norway, the newspaper Dagsavisen went furthest of all, devoting its entire front page on Monday to a comparison of the entire nation of Switzerland with Nazi brownshirts. The front-page illustration did not admit to misinterpretation: the Swiss were Nazis, period. ”



Virtually all of the media went on autopilot in their abuse of the Swiss. What is at issue is the supposedly “sacred” freedom of religion, which has become an icon especially among left-wing intellectuals and the European niceness industry as a whole. But hold it for one second: As far as I’ve noticed, no major commentator or intellectual who has blasted Switzerland for this plebiscite has taken into account Islam’s political content. Can anyone in my own country of Norway, for example, point to a single — I repeat, a single – Muslim congregation within our borders that is secular? That is, a single congregation that rejects sharia and Islam’s political ambitions?

In any event, thanks to the Swiss minaret vote, Islam and Christianity are yet again being brought together in a forced marriage. A minaret, we keep being told, is just like a church spire. Nothing new there: When it comes to Islam, the editorialists, columnists, and talking heads simply can’t or won’t face reality. These “decent” people are appalled by the Swiss people’s rejection of minarets — period. Yes, I’ll be the first to admit that the case is a disagreeable one — but if so, it’s because Islam is itself disagreeable. To put it bluntly, a mosque with minarets is not the equivalent of a church with a spire. Why? Because Europe’s churches have no political agenda, and because they aren’t obsessed with the painstaking study of ancient “divine” laws that are consistently placed above secular law.

It is precisely this disagreeable aspect of Islam, in contrast with Christianity, that I think we would profit by discussing openly and honestly. Because if I could be sure that a Muslim congregation (with or without its own minaret, even though the minaret adds an extra dose of religio-political power) was founded on the same freedom-based values as, say, the Norwegian state church, and that any “struggle” involving that community was limited to arguments about things like same-sex marriage and whether Muhammed was born of a virgin, they could build as many minarets in my neighborhood as they wanted – because in that case Islam would not represent a challenge to Norwegian liberty and democracy. But unfortunately Islam does represent a challenge. Therefore I pose this challenge to the elite of my country: Of the over 100 Muslim congregations in Norway, name one that will forever fight tooth and nail against sharia and for a secular Norway. If such a faith community exists, it’s doing a very good job of keeping itself hidden.

What the people of Switzerland have understood is that Islam, in its fundamentals, does have political ambitions. By contrast, elsewhere in Europe — and certainly here in Norway — the media have been almost entirely silent about the real-world conditions that help to explain the Swiss vote to begin with. Switzerland already had three mosques with minarets. Then the Turkish cultural association in the town of Olten bought a lot outside of town and applied for permission to build a mosque with minarets. It thereupon emerged that the association’s ideological lodestar was the ultranationalist Alparslan Türkes [1], founder of the racist National Movement Party and the paramilitary group “The Gray Wolves,” which was responsible for several assassination attempts in Turkey and elsewhere. As several observers have noticed, the ties between totalitarian ideologies such as Nazism, fascism, and Islamism (i.e., political Islam) are intimate. It is not surprising, then, that this so-called “cultural association” is infected by extremism.

The links between this cultural association in Switzerland and nationalistic fascism in Turkey is thus attested to by the fact that this faith community in Olten practices far more than just religion; there is also a great deal of politics in the mix. And this takes us straight into the heart of the issue: To condemn the Swiss people’s “no” on minarets — as virtually every public figure in Europe seems to be doing — because the vote supposedly represents an assault on religious freedom, is not just imprecise but completely wrong. Europe’s minarets have every bit as much political and legal significance as they do religious meaning.

Allow me to mention a case in which the media and intellectuals should have reacted firmly to Islam’s mingling of religion and politics. One of the largest and most important Muslim congregations in Norway, the Islamic Cultural Centre [2] (ICC), recently opened a new mosque in downtown Oslo that has resplendent minarets. What is the ICC? Well, it’s directly connected to the Jamaat-i-Islami movement in Pakistan, which was founded by one of the world’s leading Islamist ideologues of the last century, namely Abu Ala Mauwdudi (1903 – 1979). Jamaat-i-Islami is also an Islamist political party, founded by the selfsame Mauwdudi. The ICC’s ideology, then, is precisely the same as that of Mauwdudi and Jamaat-i-Islami.

That the world’s largest Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Mauwdudi are ideological twins is confirmed by several of Mauwdudi’s works. For those of us who live in countries where women enjoy equal rights, his 1939 book Purdah and the Status of Women in Islam is a masterpiece when it comes to degrading women’s status. Mauwudi writes, for example, that a woman’s eyes are an “erogenous zone” that can lead to adultery. Ditto perfume. And the same goes for her voice, which is the devil’s agent. And don’t forget the sound of her heels. Unsurprisingly, then, gender segregation is absolute for Mauwdudi — and for the ICC. Those of us here in Norway were all granted a special insight into this congregation’s mentality when our queen, Sonja, visited the ICC’s new mosque in the Oslo neighborhood of Grønland earlier this year. Picture this: As Queen Sonja enters the building, she amiably offers her hand to a male representative of the congregation. The man grimaces and twitches, and his hand zigzags feverishly in the air before ending up on the shoulder of a boy at his side, whom he asks to greet the queen. Thus did he avoid breaking Mauwdudi’s prohibition against touching strange women.

“Islam is an all-encompassing ideology”: this is Mauwdudi’s motto. In other words, a society has not been Islamized until all manifestations of life — all social and political institutions — are governed according to Islamic principles. The objective is not only to develop an Islamic state with Islamic law, but also an Islamic economy, Islamic science, and so on. Will anyone dare to liken such an ideology to the established church community in the West or to mainstream contemporary interpretations of Christianity?

One has to wonder: What is it about Islam that makes this religion — especially in its organized form — tip over so easily into politics and law? The problem began with its founder, Muhammed, his principal message, and his actions, which make Islam far more difficult to reform and secularize than Christianity. As the Danish philosopher Kai Sørlander has observed, Islam and Christianity are not at all similar phenomena, but are, on the contrary, radically different. In fact, Sørlander maintains that Christianity’s core message itself played a critical role in the revocation of the clergy’s temporal power, while the opposite has happened in large portions of the Islam-dominated parts of the world.

But why should we care about such things in these modern times? Can’t people just be allowed to believe that a church spire and a minaret symbolize pretty much the same values and ways of thinking — that the religions, in short, are twins? Sørlander’s answer to this is as follows: It’s important to understand that if democracy “has developed and put down its roots in certain societies, but not in others, it can be because of a difference between the religions that have prevailed in those different places. If one prefers that people who live in democracies be blind to this difference, then one is not helping to strengthen democracy. On the contrary, one is helping to weaken its ability to preserve itself.”

Before I go further, I want to make one thing clear: I realize that I am entering an area here that has already become a minefield in public debate. Many think that it’s better, in the interests of harmony and understanding, to avoid discussion of Islam’s basic premises and thus steer clear of needless conflict and keep from offending Muslims.

I believe, however, that if we don’t have this debate about the challenges Islam poses to our democratic societies, we will one day discover that key elements of Islam — elements that make it difficult for an Enlightenment to occur among the Muslim population — have taken root in our own backyard. What is the greater danger: That an open discussion will intensify tensions for an unforeseeable period, or that the problems will be allowed to grow until they are past any hope of resolution — all because we retreated from an uncomfortable situation? Besides, if it’s really true that our democracy can’t tolerate an open discussion of this topic, doesn’t that mean that our democracy is already critically weakened?

I wish to make yet another major point: To discuss Islam and Christianity from the perspective of secularism and democracy is not to view Islam as being of lesser value than Christianity. On the contrary, it is a question of examining historical events that may help us to understand and be aware of the ways in which these two religions have functioned under different sociopolitical systems. What is condescending is not to take Islam seriously as a belief system.

How to comprehend the key difference between Islam and Christianity in regard to the separation of politics from religion? Kai Sørlander’s answer is to look at the two religions’ core messages, as expressed at the time of their founding – in other words, to go back to the religions’ first messengers, Jesus and Muhammed. Christianity is based on Jesus’s life and preaching, as recounted in the New Testament, while Islam is based on Muhammed’s life and preaching, as recounted in the Koran and the various hadith collections (accounts of Muhammed’s acts and sayings). These two men’s lives and teachings are radically different. Jesus never sought political power, but must rather be characterized as socially engaged. He drew a clear line between this world and the next, which is perhaps most clearly illustrated by the passage in Matthew about “render[ing] unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s.” Jesus was, moreover, a pacifist who allowed himself to be crucified without resistance. Nor did he introduce a new set of laws; on the contrary, he revoked brutal edicts that dated back to the time of Moses and that were set down in the Old Testament.

Perhaps the best illustration of this is found in John’s gospel, in which the scribes and Pharisees come to Jesus with a woman taken in adultery: “Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?” Jesus’ reply: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” When the scribes and Pharisees left, Jesus told the woman: “Neither do I condemn thee.” Indeed, Jesus commanded his disciples to “turn the other cheek,” told them “judge ye not,” and said “love thine enemy.” These commandments cannot easily be translated into legislation. As Sørlander points out, in fact, such commandments would undermine the power of any state. For example, Sørlander asks: “What good is an army that turns the other cheek?”

Muhammed’s life tells an entirely different story than that of Jesus. For Muhammed, religion and politics were one and the same. Muhammed led an army and was the supreme judge in his realms. He introduced legislation that covered every area of life — marriage, divorce, child custody. He established financial regulations, including a prohibition on interest (for this reason Muslims in Europe have founded banks that offer interest-free loans). He formulated criminal laws that prescribed amputation and whipping. Unlike Jesus, who rejected the Mosaic law about the stoning of adulteresses, Muhammed directed that extramarital sex, among other things, should be punished by stoning to death. Consider the account of a woman who went to see Muhammed and told him she had been unfaithful to her husband and gotten pregnant out of wedlock. The story goes that Muhammed refused to forgive her. She visited him again, at which time he supposedly instructed her to return when her child was born. She did, and was then told to nurse the baby until it was weaned off of breast milk. When the woman had done this, Muhammed took the child from her and gave it to another Muslim, and arranged her punishment: She was buried up to her neck and Muhammed ordered her to be stoned to death. Even today this kind of punishment is carried out by, among others, the violent Islamist group called Al-Shabab in southern Somalia (which enjoys support among the Norwegian Somalis who worship at a major, but minaret-less, Oslo mosque, the Tawfiiq Islamsk Senter). Recently a man in Somalia was stoned to death for having extramarital sex, while the woman he allegedly had sex with has been spared — for the time being, anyway: first, in accordance with Muhammed’s example and teaching, she must give birth to the child she is bearing.

Muhammed also drew some clear lines when it came to the difference between men’s and women’s rights, and between the rights of Muslims and infidels. The society he created on the Arabian peninsula 14 centuries ago was thoroughly Islamized — and is thus considered divine and worthy of emulation for all time.

The title of the film Ayaan Hirsi Ali made with Theo van Gogh in 2004, Submission [3], was far from casually selected. The word Islam means “submission” — no surprise, then, that the religion allows little room for doubt or rebellion. As the American author Paul Berman says: “In Islam, submission is all. Submission to God allows Islam to create a unified, moral, and satisfying society — at least potentially, even if the flesh-and-blood Muslims in any given era have forgotten their religious obligations. Submission is the road to social justice, to a contented soul, and to harmony with the world.”

Christianity’s legitimization of rebellion paved the way for Luther’s revolt against church leaders. Luther went to the heart of the New Testament, founding his arguments on Jesus’ life and teachings. At first the Reformation caused ecclesiastical authority in Protestant countries to be transferred to the king, but — as a result of the same kind of argumentation — the king, too, eventually lost that power. The fact that the Bible, during the same period, was made available in several languages, and that ordinary Christians were therefore able to interpret it themselves, further contributed to a process of secularization that had its breakthrough in the Enlightenment.

It is not necessarily the case, then, that Christianity, as is often said, was “forced” to accept Enlightenment ideas. On the contrary, the demand for the separation of the religious and political spheres sprouted from within the church itself — because Christianity made room for such a separation. Islamic reform, on the contrary, has an entirely different political dynamic, which is strongly connected to the diametrical difference between Jesus and Muhammed.

The secularization of Christianity was a process that was motivated and influenced by Jesus’ own life and teachings. To focus on Muhammed’s life and teachings, however, as part of any attempt to reform Islam would have precisely the opposite effect — namely, the political sphere would be thoroughly Islamized. A reformation of the sort that Christianity experienced, then, would lead to a pure Wahhabism of the kind that exists in Saudi Arabia, not to a modern, secularized democracy. It is for this reason, argues Sørlander, that any movement in the Islam-dominated world in the direction of freedom and democracy based on secular law has never been motivated from within..

This does not mean that Muslims cannot be secular democrats, or that it is impossible for Islamic countries to move toward secularization. But such a development is far more difficult for Muslims and for Islamic countries because the process requires them to violate key precepts of their faith. What is especially challenging is that the process demands that God-given law, sharia, be discarded — a problem that does not exist in Christianity.

It is these dramatic differences between Christianity and Islam that Europe’s elite either fails or understand or has chosen to sweep under the carpet — at the cost of the continent’s ability to preserve liberal values. This conduct on the part of the elite is especially damaging to freedom-loving European Muslims who wish to be liberated from their repressive houses of worship — with or without minarets.

One final point: In many European countries, Norway included, religious communities enjoy the financial support of the national government. In other words, tax money is being used to spread the ideologies of people like Mawdudi and Al-Shabab in supposedly free countries. It is absurd — and dangerous. But for the political, media, and intellectual elite, alas, this would appear to be an inconvenient truth.

Italy: Would-be convert from Islam to Christianity hangs himself

Said was terrified of his father, who under no circumstances wanted a Christian for a son." Sounds as if his father was a misunderstander of Islam! After all, everyone

knows that there is no death penalty or any other penalty for apostasy in Islam!

Isn't that right, Dr. Bassiouni? Mr. Kruse? Ms. Heagney?

"Italy: Moroccan would-be convert 'hangs himself,'" from AKI, December 3 (thanks to C. Cantoni):
Civitavecchia, 3 Dec. (AKI) - Prosecutors are probing the death of a 22-year-old Moroccan immigrant who wanted to convert from Islam to Catholicism. Said Bouidra was found hanged in the central Italian port city of Civitavecchia outside Rome late Wednesday“read more”

Bouidra's family was reported to have bitterly opposed his decision to convert to Catholicism and to had threatened and beaten him.

Earlier on Wednesday he had tried to drown himself in the sea but had been saved by Italian paramilitary 'Carabinieri' police and port officials, news reports said.

Prosecutors will investigate why he was allowed to discharge himself from a local psychiatric hospital where he was admitted after he tried to drown himself.

They will also look at claims by Bouidra's friends that he had told them members of his family had threatened and savagely beaten him over his planned conversion.

"Said was terrified of his father, who under no circumstances wanted a Christian for a son," said Civitavecchia's local councillor for social services, Chiara Guidoni.

"To get away from the pressure he was facing, he had talked about going to France to join the Foreign Legion," she added.

Bouidra was popular figure in Civitavecchia and was known to members of the city council as he had volunteered for Italy's civil protection agency.

He assisted victims of the devastating 6 April earthquake in the central Abruzzo region.

"He came to the town hall on Monday to ask for help," opposition councillor Vittorio Petrelli was cited as saying.

Last month Bouidra scaled a lighting post at the nearby coastal town of Santa Marinella's football stadium and threatened to throw himself off, the local TeleCivitavecchia TV station reported.
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"Said was terrified of his father, who under no circumstances wanted a Christian for a son." Sounds as if his father was a misunderstander of Islam! After all, everyone knows that there is no death penalty or any other penalty for apostasy in Islam! Isn't that right, Dr. Bassiouni? Mr. Kruse? Ms. Heagney?

"Italy: Moroccan would-be convert 'hangs himself,'" from AKI, December 3 (thanks to C. Cantoni):
Civitavecchia, 3 Dec. (AKI) - Prosecutors are probing the death of a 22-year-old Moroccan immigrant who wanted to convert from Islam to Catholicism. Said Bouidra was found hanged in the central Italian port city of Civitavecchia outside Rome late Wednesday.

Bouidra's family was reported to have bitterly opposed his decision to convert to Catholicism and to had threatened and beaten him.

Earlier on Wednesday he had tried to drown himself in the sea but had been saved by Italian paramilitary 'Carabinieri' police and port officials, news reports said.

Prosecutors will investigate why he was allowed to discharge himself from a local psychiatric hospital where he was admitted after he tried to drown himself.

They will also look at claims by Bouidra's friends that he had told them members of his family had threatened and savagely beaten him over his planned conversion.

"Said was terrified of his father, who under no circumstances wanted a Christian for a son," said Civitavecchia's local councillor for social services, Chiara Guidoni.

"To get away from the pressure he was facing, he had talked about going to France to join the Foreign Legion," she added.

Bouidra was popular figure in Civitavecchia and was known to members of the city council as he had volunteered for Italy's civil protection agency.

He assisted victims of the devastating 6 April earthquake in the central Abruzzo region.

"He came to the town hall on Monday to ask for help," opposition councillor Vittorio Petrelli was cited as saying.

Last month Bouidra scaled a lighting post at the nearby coastal town of Santa Marinella's football stadium and threatened to throw himself off, the local TeleCivitavecchia TV station reported

Muslim Turkish Military Planned Attacks on Christians

By Dikran Ego
Freelance Journalis
Senior Turkish military officers had made extensive plans to terrorize non-Muslims in Turkey. In the large Ergenekon[1] scandal recently a well-planned terrorist operation was revealed. The operation which is called "Kafes Operasyonu Eylem Planı", in English meaning "the execution of the cage - operation" was to eliminate the remaining small group of Christians living in Turkey today..














The plan was revealed when police arrested Levent Bektas, a major in the Turkish army. The evidence seized reveals more than 27 officers and senior military officers involved in the conspiracy against Christians.



In order to identify key persons among the Christians and then kill them, this terrorist network has broken into a Greek Church congregation compound and stolen computers. The purpose of this was to access the congregation’s member lists.



"When our office was emptied of computers and files, church members were very concerned. Since the murder of the monk Santoro, the journalist Hrant Dink and the brutal murder of three publishing workers in Malatya, Christians are living in constant fear", said lawyer Kezban Hatemi, representing the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Constantinople (Istanbul).



On 28 November 2007, the Syriac Orthodox monk Daniel Savci in Turabdin was kidnapped in southeastern Turkey. The monk resides in the St. Gabriel monastery, which Turkish authorities are trying to confiscate. A few days later the monk was found beaten. Shortly after, the police arrested some village guards, a state-sanctioned militia subordinate to the Turkish army, for the kidnapping. Many people with insight into the situation interpret the kidnapping as a direct threat to the remaining Assyrians in Turabdin.



Christians were attacked across the country. To implement the strategic attacks, the country's Christian population was mapped out and 939 key persons from different parts of the country were identified as potential targets.



The fully detailed operation consists of four phases: preparation, spreading propaganda, shape opinion and execute.



The newspaper Taraf, which has been able to access the information, has published several articles about this. On its website www.taraf.com.tr it is described in detail how the plan to attack the Christians was to be implemented.



Below are some points that constitute the plan's main lines.

Christians are mapped

Famous and wealthy Christian businessmen kidnapped

Systematic fires and looting of Christian businesses

The Armenian newspaper AGOS be subjected to several explosions

Murder patrols executing attacks against selected individuals

Christian cemeteries subjected to explosions

Churches and institutions belonging to Christians subjected to explosions

Put the blame on imaginary militant organizations

From the late 1980s to the 2000s, thousands of people have been killed, among them there were also many Christians. The perpetrators of the killings have never been found. But officially they have been systematically identified as an organization named "Hizbullah".



A military arsenal provides the network with weapons. The police have, after following the tracks, at a house search in Poyrazköy outside Istanbul found a weapon cache to be used in the attacks. Among the weapons were several items, from C4 explosives to Uzi firearms and other sophisticated weapons.



According to the newspaper Taraf, major Eren Günay has been arrested for having provided the attackers with arms and ammunition. According to the newspaper there are indications that the plan is sanctioned by the highest Turkish military leadership.



For a long time, Christians’ houses, property and businesses in the Christian areas of the cities of Istanbul and Izmir have been labeled, in order to identify them. MP Sebah Tuncel notified the Turkish government with a written question last summer. The question addressed the Ministry of Interior and was about what the government intends to do against the labeling of Christian properties and about Christians being identified. Even today, the government has not replied to this question yet.



As long as the attacks were aimed at Christians and other minority groups, the Turkish government acted indifferently. Not until the ruling government party AKP themselves felt threatened they began to act. In recent years the relationship between the government and the military has been strained and on several occasions the military has made attempts to make a coup d'état, without succeeding fully.



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[1] Ergenekon is a terrorist network that consists of many different elements, from high military officers to teachers and journalists, there are many professional groups represented in the network. This network is also called the "deep state" in Turkey