MADURAI: In a chilling incident of child sacrifice, a fakir and his woman associate allegedly kidnapped, beheaded a one-and-a-half-year-old baby and buried the remains at two different places in southern Tamil Nadu, apparently to attain supernatural powers, the police said.
The police also suspected that the kidnapper may have drunk the child's blood as part of occult rituals.
The police have arrested the two and exhumed the torso of the child from a secluded spot near Erwadi dargah in Ramanathapuram district and the head from Kallamozhi near Yeral in Thoothukudi district. Abdul Gafoor, the fakir, had apparently sacrificed the child to goddess Kali Amman. Which makes this case Hindu.
The police said Gafoor (31) from Kayalpattinam in Thoothukudi district, told investigators that he had kidnapped and murdered the child after he had a dream in which he was instructed to sacrifice a child and drink its blood to acquire supernatural powers.
He had kidnapped G Khader Yusuf, the child, from Goripalayam dargah in Madurai on July 2. The child's mother, Sherin Fathima, a widow, had been staying in the dargah for several months. The police said Gafoor had spotted the child during a visit to the dargah for the treatment for his associate, Ramala Beevi (28).
"Gafoor and Ramala Beevi took the child to a lodge in Ramanathapuram. When the child started crying, Gafoor slit his throat. He then beheaded the boy and buried the head at Kattupallivasal near the Erwadi dargah. The couple then took the head to Thoothukudi where they buried it near the Kallamozhi dargah," Chidambaram Murugesan, inspector and head of the special team investigating the case said.
The police zeroed in on Gafoor after enquiries at the Goripalayam dargah revealed that he had stopped visiting the place since July 2. He was arrested on Friday night from his hometown and brought to Madurai. On Sunday, the police took Gafoor to Ramanathapuram and Thoothukudi, where he was asked to exhume the body.
When Gafoor started digging at the spot, a portrait of goddess Kali Amman, and a garland of beads were found along with the torso wrapped in red cloth. The police team then went to Yeral and exhumed the head. I have no words for this.
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Ezecution is too good a fate for these vermin, stake them out over an anthill, use chains, come back in a week or so, burn the remaining bones, and feed them to pigs.
(I'm a little peeved)
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feed them to pigs
Redneck, this one is not Islamic. Unusual, I know, but psychos do come in more than one flavor.
Place your bets...
An American television program pits the Navy SEALs against Israeli commandos this week in the season finale of Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior.
The program, now ending its second season, features warriors from two different sides, faced off against each other in various scenarios. We thought it would be a great finale because both are so iconic, said executive producer Gary Tarpinian. They are among the greatest soldiers in the world. Tarpinian would not give away the ending, but said, this was maybe the closest battle we've ever had.
Although the program is scheduled to air July 27 on the Spike TV network, it is posted and available to viewers on the Internet only within the United States and Canada.
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Hey, the SEALs won! Maybe the show has some credibility after all . . . . :-)
I'm sure we have lots to learn from each other, but it seems to me that Krav Maga is the deadlier form, but hopefully the warrior would never have to use it.
Whoa! Wonder how many minutes it took him to research that one?
Summary: arranging power sharing without solving the underlying problem means that the crisis, when it finally comes, will be worse. Who woulda thunk that?
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This book is racist. Everyone knows colonial Africa, the forced implementation of literacy, the introduction of Christianity, and apartheid were evil.
US President Barack Obama on Sunday announced that Washington would seize money stolen by corrupt African leaders and hidden in the America and the West.
The announcement was made in President Obama's name by US Attorney General Eric Holder to a meeting of African heads of state. The Kleptocracy recovery effort he said would target large-scale corruption perpetrated by foreign nationals, and he had assembled a team of prosecutors to deal with it.
Many of those listening African heads of state are on the list of accused kleptocrats. This should go far to impact their countries' efforts in the war on terror. Cleverly done, President Obama!
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Zimbabwe has threatened to close 9,000 foreign owned firms after they ignored a deadline to submit plans on how they intend to release some of their shareholding to locals.
President Robert (Bob) Mugabe, aka Muggsy's government wants the foreign owned companies with a value of over $500,000 to transfer 51 per cent of their shareholding to locals.
The tough regulations which were initially introduced in March were reviewed last month after causing a split in the unity government.
But despite the changes to the legislation that allow for exemptions to be made on companies who do considerable community service, the government has done little to re-assure sceptical investors.
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), which was consistently among the top performing bourses in Africa at the height of the country's economic problems has lost about US$1 billion in revenue since March.
State media reports indicated that only 480 out of a provisional list of 9,577 companies had submitted proposals on how they intend to empower locals.
Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Savious Kasukuwere said the companies that continued to defy the law would be closed down.
"If the companies do not comply, we will take legal action," he told The Sunday Mail newspaper. "Currently we are in the process of sending forms to companies to comply within 30 days.
"If they don't comply within 30 days, we will cancel their licenses, if they are in trading.
"They will also appear before the courts."
He said the majority of the companies in the mining industry had not complied with the regulations.
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WHAT? they won't go along with your theft so you're going to cut your own throat.
Go ahead, your country is a cesspool alredy so just try to add more shit and watch it improve?
You're crazy, I see all those rumors you're infected with aids are true, insanity is a main symptom.
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Be interesting to see if he goes near any Chinese firm, or should be triad to do a Je$$ie on them.
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I find it hard to believe there are that many "foreign owned firms" left in ZimBob. With respect to any Chinese ones, those are PLA owned, so they don't count I guess.
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If the companies do not comply, we will take legal action just like we are doing in Arizona, he told The Sunday Mail newspaper. Currently we are in the process of sending forms to companies to comply within 30 days.
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Remember that his government paid a small fortune to a professional witch for an "oil stick", that when you hit a rock with it, refined diesel oil would flow out. (And the witch was so dim that after she sold it to them, she didn't get out of town in a hurry.)
In other words, we're dealing with real "rocket surgeons" here.
A Muslim businesswoman in Britain has launched the countrys first range of halal cosmetics which are free from alcohol and animal products. British entrepreneur Samina Akhter set up Samina Pure Make-up at her home in Birmingham after questioning the ingredients of many international brand makeup products, Sky News reported.
She was shocked to find out that some of the products she used contained fatty acids and gelatine from pigs. As a Muslim, I was questioning what I was putting on my skin. I wanted to know whether it was permissible in Islam, she said. Akhter says her make-up products are made from plant extracts, minerals, essential oils and vitamins. Many Muslim women like me have been frustrated by wanting to look good and follow their faith, she said.
Halal cosmetics are an up and coming business. Malaysian singer-turned-entrepreneur Famiza Zulkifli began her company four years ago and now has an annual turnover of $1.6 billion. She exports dozens of beauty products to Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and Brunei, and plans to expand her business to Europe next year.
A Malaysian research company has estimated the global halal business to be worth $635 billion a year, which has expanded from Muslim countries to Western nations with a growing Muslim population. The halal cosmetics business is estimated to be worth $560 million globally and is seen by analysts as next in line for growth after the halal food and Islamic finance sectors.
However, skeptics claim that the halal stamp is a gimmick, and there are no checks in place to determine whether a product being certified is halal or not. Abdalhamid David Evans, a British expert on the halal business, believes that more manufacturers will jump on the bandwagon as Muslims choose halal products to reinforce their identity while others become more eco-conscious.
Even scams compete.
People are becoming increasingly concerned about those things and they become a marketing issue, and without a doubt, (the halal cosmetics industry) is going to be big, said Evans.
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I thought Muslims weren't supposed to wear makeup at all.
Topical application of all those herbs and minerals improves the health, Javins3089; the improved appearance is a side effect. It's just like how the ancient Egyptians lined their eyes with kohl to prevent eye infections.
A warming climate could see millions of adult Mexicans migrate to the US as rising temperatures cause a drop in crop yields, according to a study by researchers at Princeton University.
Or it could lead to a change to heat resistant varieties of traditional food crops. Or possibly, northern Mexican communities could adapt to traditional southern Mexican ingredients. Oddly enough, people have been known to try new foods elsewhere in the world, like in the U.S., where they now eat burritos with gusto (and salsa, when they can get it).
For every 10% of lost crop yields in Mexico, 2% more Mexicans are likely leave their country, the study says.
The research draws a connection between both climate change and immigration - two heavily debated issues in the US.
It claims warming may bring from 1.4m to 6.7m Mexicans to the US by 2080.
Shut the border. And commence developing heat-resistant varieties of traditional Mexican crops immediately in border state agricultural colleges. That way we'll be ready when the time comes... which it should do, sometime in the next several millenia.
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I think I'll work up a grant to study the potential migration north into Canada by overly-hot North Dakotans. Bur since I don't work at Princeton, I probably couldn't get more than $500,000 for it.
But aren't the Princetonians in favor of such migration? More Dem voters, more wealth to be redistributed?
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Princeton is the only Ivy League school that retained ROTC, Bobby. It's also where Petraeus did his PhD.
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ION TOPIX > HUMANS SURVIVED [deadly]ICE AGE IN "GARDEN OF EDEN", circa 195,000 Years ago in Southern Africa while nearly all other Biotic life went extinct due to SEVERE CLIMATE = TEMPERATURE CHANGE.
Yokay, MADONNA, I'll bite > MALI = MALAWI??? Your Fan from Guam would like to hear your response.
[Guam Taotamonas + Nostradamus + Oliver Stone + Texas-sized Asteroids, ...@etc. eating Popcorn here].
(AHN) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned the United States against interfering in his country's crisis with pro-U.S. Colombia and threatened to cut off its oil exports to Washington in case it continues support to Bogota.
He also cancelled his Cuba trip abruptly, citing security concerns amid reports of possible armed aggression by Colombia. The left-wing leader was to attend the 57th anniversary of Fidel Castro's rebel attack, which started the Cuban revolution and brought his close ally into power in 1959, in Havana on Monday.
"If there was any armed aggression against Venezuela from Colombian territory or from anywhere else, promoted by the Yankee empire, we would suspend oil shipments to the United States even if we have to eat stones here," Chavez said on Sunday.
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"...we would suspend oil shipments to the United States even if we have to eat stones here," Chavez said on Sunday.
In an attempt to take distance from the Colombian guerrilla following claims of his alleged links with the rebels presented by Bogota before the Organization of American States, OAS, President Hugo Chavez said that "Colombian armed groups must reconsider their armed strategy".
"There are no conditions for them taking power in a foreseeable future. They have become the main excuse for the (United States) empire to penetrate Colombia and from there practice aggressions against Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba", said Chavez during a trade unions of the Americans gathering held in Caracas.
But in spite of the latest statement, the Venezuelan president has is the past openly received and praised the Colombian guerrillas, Colombian revolutionary Armed Forces, FARC, as part of negotiations for the release of hostages.
Chavez also regretted the death of the FARC leader Manuel Marulanda Velez ("Tirofijo") of whom there are several statues in Venezuela and has also requested that FARC be de-listed as a terrorist organization.
The Venezuelan president has also faced serious accusations of granting support, refuge and allegedly supplying arms to the FARC guerrillas, which are now very distant from their Marxist orientation of the sixties and seventies and are wholly involved in the drugs' trade.
"I believe that the Colombian guerrillas should seriously consider what some of us have done. With all respect, the world today is not the same as in the sixties" Chavez was quoted.
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the FARC guerrillas, which are now very distant from their Marxist orientation of the sixties and seventies and are wholly involved in the drugs' trade
Lot of that about. Most of today's "liberation" movements - Hamas, Fatah, ETA, Real IRA etc -- are little more than gangs of armed thugs who terrorize, and extort from and kneecap or maim, their own people at least as much as they do the supposed class enemy.
More AP, heavily edited and snarked.
Obama's once solid support among Hispanics is showing a few cracks, a troubling sign for Democrats desperate to hold onto Congress this fall.
Hispanics still overwhelmingly favor the Democratic Party over the GOP, since the Tea Party was not amoung the choices and a majority still think Obama is doing a good job, according to an AP poll of more than 1,500 Hispanics. Any idea how many were voters? Legal voters? Or do they all have the same rights as us descendants of legal immigants?
But the survey shows Obama gets only lukewarm ratings on issues important to Hispanics and that could bode poorly for the president and his party.
That's somewhat understandable, to the AP writer given that far more Hispanics have faced job losses and financial stress than the U.S. population in general. Especially the illegals. Why some of them have actually emmigrated to Mexico!
Among Hispanics, 42 percent rate the economy and the recession as the country's biggest problem; unemployment and a lack of jobs come in at 23 percent. How does this polled 'fact' support the writer's assertion that they've been hard hit by job losses? In fairness, this paragraph was originally farther down the page.
An unfulfilled promise to overhaul the nation's patchwork immigration system, which Hispanics overwhelmingly want to see fixed, also may be to blame. Patchwork? We can't enforce the laws we have now, so we'll pile 2,000 more pages on top, with pork fat oozing off every page, to fix the "patchwork"? How many days to November 2nd?
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fits in well with his religious orientation... BLT..
AP article. Brewer asks a U.S. District judge to throw out the Obama suit, saying just because Mexico doesn't like it does not make it unconstitutional.
In a related story on the radio this morning, the newscaster worried that some people were afraid, and are returning to Mexico. Awwwwwww..... But not all - one person interviewed said he was "going to stay and fight it out."
Stay suggests he's here illegally, and fight it out means he thinks he'll be able to stay. This is insane. I say, he doesn't have a leg to stand on. Go home!
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This case is going to SCOTUS. Hard to say how that will go.
AP. Lawfare at work. Fremont, Neb. will suspend law restricting renting property to illegals or hiring them, because it can't afford to fight the lawsuits from the American Communist Lawyers Union (the translation for ACLU, or its' original title) and the Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund. ACLU Nebraska's spokes-twit said "suspending the ordinance would ensure her clients wouldn't be harmed and could help heal some of the division in the city over the issue."
Sorry twit. It won't help heal. Maybe Fremont just needs some donations to be able to tell their lawyers to the the ACLU shysters to pound sand. Since when are lawyers anti-illegal?
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Cities shouldn't be doing this, because these are "State and federal prerogative" laws.
That is, the hiring and firing of workers has been effectively nationalized, requiring eVerify and the submission of W-2 forms, at threat of a federal felony violation. This means that to conform to city law, an employer my in effect be confessing to violating a federal felony law.
Just the opposite, this iteration of the idea for renting requires individuals to get a police issued "license to rent" before they can sign a rental contract and move in. While better than the Texas version, there is no way that this would pass muster at the city level.
At the State level, maybe. But the feds have partially nationalized property rental as well, with the "fair housing" laws.
So the bottom line is that the *real* problem is both that the feds have horned in to things way beyond their intended jurisdiction, and need to be put back in their box, *and* they are not enforcing the laws *within* their framework responsibilities.
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O.K., but I bet the people in Dodge City, Garden City, and Liberal Kansas can identify with Fremont. It becomes a local issue when you get run into by a drunk illegal with no insurance and no drivers license.
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Oddly enough, the best response might not be the law, but social coercion. This is one of the first stages on the part of a vigilance committee, to convince law breakers to vamoose. It is rare that non-violent law breakers ignore the hint.
In this case, just the public identification of illegal aliens as illegal would probably be enough for most of them to bug out. Conversely, the vigilance committee should take extra care to identify legal citizens and legal residents, and to even offer them protection from those who have bad motives, like racism.
Oddly enough, once the non-violent ones leave, the violent ones leave on their own. First, because the non-violent ones are their typical prey, and second, because they no longer have others to hide behind and give passive support.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(AHN) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned the United States against interfering in his country's crisis with pro-U.S. Colombia and threatened to cut off its oil exports to Washington in case it continues support to Bogota.
In an attempt to take distance from the Colombian guerrilla following claims of his alleged links with the rebels presented by Bogota before the Organization of American States, OAS, President Hugo Chavez said that "Colombian armed groups must reconsider their armed strategy".
