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Vegans: 0 - Darwin: 1 - Vegan Pair Starve Baby to Death


Vegans Sentenced to Life for Starving Baby

A vegan couple were sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the death of their malnourished 6-week-old baby boy, who was fed a diet largely consisting of soy milk and apple juice. Superior Court Judge L.A. McConnell imposed the mandatory sentences on Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31. Their son, Crown Shakur, weighed just 3 1/2 pounds when he died of starvation on April 25, 2004. The couple were found guilty May 2 of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children. A jury deliberated about seven hours before returning the guilty verdicts.
Smart jury. This was a case of malice.
Defense lawyers said the first-time parents did the best they could while adhering to the lifestyle of vegans, who typically use no animal products. They said Sanders and Thomas did not realize the baby, who was born at home, was in danger until minutes before he died. But prosecutors said the couple intentionally neglected their child and refused to take him to the doctor even as the baby's body wasted away. "No matter how many times they want to say, 'We're vegans, we're vegetarians,' that's not the issue in this case," said prosecutor Chuck Boring. "The child died because he was not fed. Period."
They might have a defense if "vegan" also meant "retarded". Their actions sure make such a notion possible.
Although the life sentences were automatic, Sanders and Thomas begged for leniency before sentencing. Sanders urged the judge to look past his "perception" of the couple. "I loved my son - and I did not starve him," she said.
Horseshit. The article makes no mention of the child being premature, so I doubt his birth weight was three puny pounds. WHEN YOUR NEWBORN CHILD IS LOSING WEIGHT, YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG, VERY WRONG.
When the judge told the defendants they could ask for a new trial, Thomas hung his head low. "I'm dying every day in there," he said, "and that could take three years."
Posted by: Zenster || 05/09/2007 18:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow, I didn't realize being Vegan meant no breastmilk for babies. But I guess it makes sense in a warped way.
Posted by: Gladys || 05/09/2007 18:31 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm dying every day in there"

Works for me.

At least you won't get the chance to murder another baby.

Works for me.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/09/2007 19:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Oops. Sorry about the repeat.

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/09/2007 19:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing to be sorry about, Barb. Warrants repetition.
Posted by: twobyfour || 05/09/2007 19:59 Comments || Top||

#5  This should have been a conviction on a capital offence.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 05/09/2007 20:14 Comments || Top||

#6  This should have been a conviction on a capital offence.

It was, unfortunately the baby was executed for his parents' stupidity. Let's all hope the judge possessed sufficient wisdom to prohibit any future conjugal visits for these two assclowns.

Ya gotta wonder if they actually tried to make the child survive on a diet of strained peas and applesauce. HELL, at six weeks, the kid wasn't even supposed to be on regular food of any sort. No meat, no cheese, no eggs, no milk, not even HONEY, fer fuck's sake. You've got to wonder, as Gladys speculated whether they even prohibited the child its own mother's milk. It's one of the only ways to explain the poor thing's starvation. Aren't there entirely synthetic infant formulas for newborns who are fatally allergic to all milk products? This is dangerously close to the Seventh Day Adventists who try to prohibit their children from receiving transfusions and other life-saving medical interventions.
Posted by: Zenster || 05/09/2007 21:53 Comments || Top||

#7  er... Christian Scientists?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/09/2007 22:07 Comments || Top||

#8  I was a Seventh-day Adventist, and they believe in no such thing. In fact, they have a very large hospital system that uses all the latest techniques and technology, and their people are top notch. They feed that system with two accredited medical schools and about 10 nursing colleges.

You're mistaking them for the Jehovah's Witnesses. Yeah, they're vegans, and legalists, but they were never legalistic about that, and accepted meat eaters as members in good standing. They'll be the FIRST to tell you to take whatever medical and dietary measures it takes to stay in good health, and if what you're doing isn't working, CHANGE TO SOMETHING THAT DOES.
Posted by: Ptah || 05/09/2007 22:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Pure and total crap!

The Tsarevich is on a soy based formula as a supplement to breast milk. He can't tolerate one with a milk base. It's expensive, but it's what he needs, so we just have to suck it up until he gets older.

And to answer Zenster's question, yes, there are specialty formulas out there for kids who can't tolerate the milk or soy based regular ones. My niece is on one, and so is one of the Tsarevich's little "buddies". Both girls are doing great.

Not that I qualify, but through my mom's group I have it on good authority that if you are poor and need to have formula for your little one, it's covered under the WIC programs in each state, specifically to avoid the very real possibility of a baby starving to death by parents trying to use substitutes that are nutritionally inferior.

They just wanted to cheap it out by using far less expensive soy milk, and the poor little boy paid the price. Hell, the Tsarevich is 7 1/2 months, and he's still considered too young for apple juice! What the hell were these idiots thinking??

Rest in peace, Crown.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 05/09/2007 23:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Ptah, thank you for the correction. It was, indeed, the JWs I was think of. I appreciate you checking in.
Posted by: Zenster || 05/09/2007 23:43 Comments || Top||


Darwin Award Candidate: Man off's self with Chainsaw
A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said.

The body of the offender, 24, was found headless when police raced to the apartment after an emergency call, apparently from the dying father, had been broken off in mid-sentence.

Alf Willwacher, a senior prosecutor, said an electric chainsaw was next to the son's body.

"We do not believe any third party was involved,'' he said.

Neighbours said the father and son had been reclusive since the death of the mother, allegedly by suicide, several years ago.
Posted by: Delphi2005 || 05/09/2007 12:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  His last words reportedly: " Oh be Stihl, my beating hea..."
/rimshot
Posted by: USN. Ret. || 05/09/2007 14:46 Comments || Top||

#2  How do you hold the chainsaw all the way through you're neck? Did his body just keep moving it through after his brain stopped working?
Posted by: Charles || 05/09/2007 17:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Reminds me of the song "ProzaKc Blues"

Well I woke up this morning
and shaved off my head.
When I realized what I had done,
I was already dead.
Posted by: xbalanke || 05/09/2007 17:44 Comments || Top||

#4  "How do you spell Determination?"
Posted by: mojo || 05/09/2007 17:49 Comments || Top||

#5  That guy was lucky he didn't electrocute himself.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 05/09/2007 17:57 Comments || Top||

#6  The fool should have had more consideration for the folks that have to clean up this mess.

A prosecutor named Willywacker?

Posted by: GK || 05/09/2007 19:37 Comments || Top||


Disney condemns Hamas over TV show
The only surviving child of Walt Disney has called Hamas "pure evil" for turning Mickey Mouse into a propaganda tool for hate. Diane Disney Miller said she was disgusted that a rip-off of the loveable cartoon character was being used on a new Hamas TV show to encourage Palestinian children to take up arms against Israel and America.

Ms Miller, 73, said it went "against the grain of humanity". She told the New York Daily News: "Of course I feel personal about Mickey Mouse, but it could be Barney as well.

"It's not just Mickey, it's indoctrinating children like this, teaching them to be evil.

"The world loves children and this is just going against the grain of humanity."

Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV station started running the children's series, called Tomorrow's Pioneers, last month. It features the life-size lookalike of Mickey Mouse called Farfur, who sings about youngsters arming themselves with AK-47s and striving for world domination "under Islamic leadership".

Ms Miller said: "What we're dealing with here is pure evil and you can't ignore that."

Farfur also tells children to pray and drink their milk.
Posted by: Delphi2005 || 05/09/2007 11:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It needs a Loony Tunes invasion.

Bugs would be a good start.
So would the RoadRunner.

Hamas Mickey tricked to run in front of a D-9 dozer by the RoadRunner

Hamas Mickey falls into a tunnel near the Gaza strip where Bugs tricks him down alternate tunnels until he falls into hell.

Posted by: 3dc || 05/09/2007 13:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I certainly hope Disney has their lawyers looking at some kind of copyright or trademark infringement suit. It'd be nice to see Hamas pay out the nose for this crap.
Posted by: Dar || 05/09/2007 13:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Hamas pay out? What kind of dream world are you living in?
Posted by: Steve White || 05/09/2007 13:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Sue them! Get back all that foreign aid we gave them!
Posted by: Nick || 05/09/2007 14:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Is nothing sacred with these goat buggers?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/09/2007 16:13 Comments || Top||

#6  I expect Hamas has some assets here or elsewhere that the court can seize. I wasn't exactly expecting them to cut a check.
Posted by: Dar || 05/09/2007 17:58 Comments || Top||

#7  It'd be nice to see Hamas pay out the nose for this crap.

Doesn't matter how many dollars it cost them. They'd just print some more.
Posted by: DMFD || 05/09/2007 19:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Thank you North Korea for providing the cash.
Posted by: Delphi2005 || 05/09/2007 19:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Some of the stories here make it clear that the Acme Corporation provides the Palestinian's weaponry.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 05/09/2007 22:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Ah, just provide Hamas with "proof" that Mickey's Jewish. They'll get rid of Farfur real quick!
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 05/09/2007 23:28 Comments || Top||


Steak House Boots OJ, Shyster Plays Race Card
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The owner of an upscale steakhouse in Louisville said he asked O.J. Simpson to leave his restaurant the night before the Kentucky Derby because he is sickened by the attention Simpson still attracts.
As are millions of others.
"I didn't want to serve him because of my convictions of what he's done to those families," Jeff Ruby said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "The way he continues to torture the lives of those families ... with his behavior, attitude and conduct."

Simpson, an NFL Hall of Famer and Heisman Trophy winner, was found innocent in 1995 of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman but was found liable in a civil trial that followed.

Ruby — who owns restaurants in Cincinnati, Louisville and Belterra, Ind. — said Simpson, who was in town for the Derby on Saturday, came in with a group of about 12 Friday night and was seated at a table in the back. A customer came up to Ruby and was "giddy" about seeing Simpson, Ruby said.
So, who are these 12 sycophants who tried to dine with OJ? Wouldn't it be hilarious to follow some of them home and jump out of the bushes with a big knife as they reached their front door?
"I didn't want that excrement experience in my restaurant," Ruby said, later adding that seeing Simpson get so much attention "makes me sick to my stomach."

He said he went to Simpson's table and said, "I'm not serving you." Ruby said when Simpson didn't respond, he repeated himself and left the room.
Maybe he should have let them stay and just played the Psycho shower music over the PA.
Ruby said Simpson soon came up to him and said he understood and would gather the rest of his party to leave.

Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, said the incident was about race, and he intended to pursue the matter and possibly go after the restaurant's liquor license.
Yep, it's about race, Yale; the human race.
"He screwed with the wrong guy, he really did," Galanter said by telephone Tuesday night.
Mr. Ruby might be a little better prepared than Nicole and Ron, you steaming pile of rat feces. Galanter is a 99 percenter, on the theory that 99 percent of lawyers give the other one percent a bad name.
Ruby said the incident had to do with Simpson's past. "It was the first time since 1994 he has ever shown any class," Ruby said. "He showed it that night in the restaurant" by leaving quietly.

Ruby said after Simpson left, people in the restaurant started applauding him. He said he has received about 100 positive e-mails since the incident.

The walls of Ruby's restaurants are decorated with celebrity photos. A photo of Simpson and Ruby used to be on display, but Ruby said he took it down after the killings.
Make sure Mr. Galanter adds that to the suit.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 05/09/2007 03:38 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's going to have to go after Ruby in civil court. I thought it didn't have any money. And if it still does, why?
Posted by: gorb || 05/09/2007 5:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Yay Jeff Ruby!

Ruby's been a target of Cincinnati's race hustlers in the past. I suspect this will just start all that over again.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/09/2007 5:31 Comments || Top||

#3  was found innocent in 1995
NO. He was found not guilty, BIG difference.This always hits a nerve, why do idiot editors still allow this most basic misunderstanding of the US legal system into publication???

You are found NOT GUILTY, not innocent. Jeez.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 05/09/2007 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Even better: The accusations of "racism" are gonna have to overcome Ruby's partnership with Bootsy Collins in opening a new restaurant.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/09/2007 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Too bad more people do not demonstrate the moral rectitude that Ruby did. Simpson should find all the world's doors locked to him. I am still suprised that someone has not punched Simpson's ticket out of sheer disgust with his conduct. The "If I Did It" book farce was a slap to all law abiding people. Laughing out loud in law enforcement's face like that should entail excruciatingly painful consequences.
Posted by: Zenster || 05/09/2007 14:50 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm surprised that OJ, Hall of Famer and Heisman Trophy winner murderer has 12 friends--maybe these were the jurors that aquitted him in the criminal trial.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/09/2007 15:53 Comments || Top||

#7  what a soap opera that was.
I'll never forget the part where all of the jurors were allowed to walk through OJ's house which exuded with riches and fresh flowers et all. I could just hear all the ooh's and aah's. Made me sick.
Posted by: Jan || 05/09/2007 23:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Bravo Jeff Ruby,

he's is no rube and most likely recognized that he would be sued but stood for principle inspite of it.

I'm sure we're gonna hear from all the usual race pimps, they'll be blowing extra hard over this thru the whole trial.
Posted by: RD || 05/09/2007 23:42 Comments || Top||


East Texas homeowner shoots man vandalizing his car
Then the story gets strange.
A Shelby County, Texas, homeowner is free on personal-recognizance bond after fatally shooting a man he found vandalizing his car. The shooting happened early Sunday afternoon outside a house on Highway 96 North near Center. Sheriff's officials said Buster Wayne Ford, 71, shot 50-year-old Reginald Paul Fountain of Shelby County. Fountain, described by a relative as mentally unstable, was kicking the car when Ford shot him, authorities said.

Fountain had been arrested in the past for chewing on his dog.

Shelby County Sheriff Newton Johnson said Ford was arrested without incident after a 911 call was made to the Sheriff's Department about 12:15 p.m. Sunday He was booked into the county jail on a murder charge and later released on a personal-recognizance bond. The case will be presented to a grand jury later this month. Its members will decide whether to file charges or rule the shooting justified. Charges could range from assault to murder.
Posted by: Thromoger Unatch2124 || 05/09/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fountain had been arrested in the past for chewing on his dog.

If it ain't a hot dog, it's gotta be a chilly dog!
Posted by: Zenster || 05/09/2007 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Fountain had been arrested in the past for chewing on his dog.

I have a few questions. Does "Chewing on his dog" litterally mean what it seems to mean...He was biting his beast, masticating his mutt, feeding on Fido...or is it some kind of euphemism?

I am not a lawyer trained in Texas law, so I am wondering, how badly do you need to chew a dog before you get arrested? Is nibbling OK? Does ownership provide any special dog chewing privileges not available to a non-owner?

Which reminds me of a story...Two guys are watching a dog that is licking its balls. One of the guys says "I wish I could do that".. The other says "Why don't you...Its your dog".
Posted by: Bunyip || 05/09/2007 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, Bunyip, if "chewing his dog" is a euphemism, we probably don't want to know what it really means.

I am not a Texas lawyer either. I do denounce them in print and on radio, however, so I'll give it a shot.
Dog-chewing (canine crunching) is definitely a crime in Texas unless you are another dog. Even there, we have exceptions. As with people, there are protected groups. Rottweilers, for instance, are not allowed to chew on poodles. It is considered a doggie hate crime, punishable by an extra year in the pound or deportation to a tamale factory.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 05/09/2007 4:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Had Fountain chewed on his own dog or Ford's dog? There could be mitigating circumstances here if it were Ford's dog and not his own.

Why does a dog lick its balls? Because it can.
Posted by: gorb || 05/09/2007 4:59 Comments || Top||

#5  "I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage." Bill Hicks
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 05/09/2007 5:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Buster is in deep trouble:
If Reginald Fountain had been caught vandalizing Buster and Violet Ford's car seven hours earlier, or eight hours later, Buster might not now be charged with murder in connection with the shooting of the 50-year-old man. But the 71-year-old homeowner, who said Fountain was beating in the windshield of the couple's car outside their home near Center, is now facing homicide charges because Ford allegedly shot Fountain in broad daylight, not at night.

It was a little after noon Sunday when the Fords heard a ruckus outside their home U.S. Hwy. 96 just north of Center. According to Shelby County officials, Buster Ford went outside to find a man on top of the hood of the couple's vehicle, beating in the windshield.

No one knows why Fountain behaved the way he did Sunday afternoon, but authorities suspect his actions may have been drug-related, and Fountain has a criminal history of erratic behavior. "I don't know that he was under the influence of any drugs that day," Shelby County District Attorney Linda K. Russell said, "but he has tested positive in the past."

Fountain made headlines a few months back when he was arrested by the Center Police Department, after he was found walking down the street, repeatedly biting a dog he was carrying in his arms. "He chewed the ears off of a puppy," Russell said. "He just kept biting this puppy, and it turned out he was on a mixture of PCP and cocaine, at that time."

According to Section 9.42 of the Texas Penal Code, a person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or property to prevent arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft or criminal mischief during the nighttime. "That means you have the right to defend your property at night with deadly force, but not in broad open daylight," Russell said. "Now, if an intruder is in your home, you can shoot them whether it's daylight or dark," she said. "But according to the law, property is not as valuable as human life."
Posted by: Steve || 05/09/2007 7:30 Comments || Top||

#7  "jury trial, please"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/09/2007 7:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Two guys are watching a dog that is licking its balls. One of the guys says "I wish I could do that".. The other says "That dog will bite you!"
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/09/2007 7:53 Comments || Top||

#9  If this happened in France you would have a lot of dead vandals.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/09/2007 13:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Dunno about this one. Normally I am all in favor of whacking goblins, but this one needs to be looked at carefully. The victim was not threatening the shooter; he was just damaging property - not even stealing it. The shooter could have called the cops first, instead of shooting first and asking questions later.
Posted by: Rambler || 05/09/2007 14:58 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Australian spy plane crashes into Timorese home
Posted by: Hupating Hupaise4886 || 05/09/2007 18:24 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oops.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/09/2007 22:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Family Caught In SWAT Anti-Shoplifting Raid
Georgette Prince was making a quick run to the store last Thursday morning for orange soda and lottery tickets -- a venture that should have been an uneventful five-minute trip but became a terrifying 20-minute ordeal.

The unsuspecting Prince was caught in the storm of a SWAT team raid that had her in fear for her life. "I thought I was going to be shot. I thought I was going to die," Prince recalled over the weekend as she sat in the living room of her Grace Avenue home.

She said she was just stepping out the front door of Mr. Pantry, a Copley Road convenience store, when her world became a frantic, frightening blur of guns, shouts and shoves of helmeted, armored men with guns. "I didn't know what was going on," Prince said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Anonymoose || 05/09/2007 12:28 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and from today's Orbusmax.com, a Seattle area Albertson's fired several employees for stopping shoplifters.

Posted by: USN. Ret. || 05/09/2007 14:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Militarized police have become a replacement for good old fashioned police work. The stormtropper crap has got to stop. What happend to having someone plainclothes catch the guy ion a smoke break? Not everything needs military arms and tactics.

Stupid!
Posted by: Thoth the Wide3837 || 05/09/2007 18:00 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Baby's bizarre 'bite' of passage with cobra
With Video and Photos. The animal rights activists have protested the mistreatment of the snake; but what about the baby; no protests. Some people just shouldn't have children.


A one-year-old is forced to fight a neutered cobra during a shocking snake-charming rite of passage in India.

The baby tries to protect itslef while being repeatedly hit by the animal, which has also had its mouth stitched up and its fangs removed.

This bizarre spectator sport - reportedly from Kasimkota in Andhra Pradesh - has been condemned by animal rights protesters after footage appeared on the internet.

They've warned that a cobra's fangs grow back quickly, putting the youngsters in mortal danger.

Several snake charmers die each year while handling the animals.

Posted by: Delphi2005 || 05/09/2007 16:17 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Tsarevich is crawling around on his tummy just like the little baby in the video. I can't believe someone would be that stupid or depraved enough to let a tiny little one "play" with a freakin' cobra! WTF are his or her parents thinking???
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 05/09/2007 23:23 Comments || Top||


Eight booked for blasphemy
A case was registered against eight people under the blasphemy laws for allegedly insulting the holy Quran, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his companions. The action was taken by the Baloch Colony police after a court order was issued. A search for the eight men has begun. “The additional district judge South issued an order against the eight accused,” the SIO at the Baloch Colony Police Station, Naeem Awan, told Daily Times. “An FIR (No 76/2007) was lodged against Syed Muhammad Shah Noorani, Sikandar Hussain, Ghulam Raza, Ghulam Haider, Javed, Ejaz, Syed Mohsin Ashrafi and Noor Muhammad Noori, under Sections 295-C and 506 of the PPC.”

The complainant was Ghulam Muhammad Khan, a resident of Manzoor Colony, Awan said. The eight men allegedly published a book titled “Shuhada-e-Masoomeen”. The book apparently uses derogatory words about the holy Quran, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his companions.
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Hindus thrash Christians over conversions
Hindu hardliners on Tuesday attacked two Christian missionaries in public the latest violence against priests accused of trying to convert lower-caste Hindus to Christianity by right-wing Hindu groups.

Indian TV channels showed Hindu activists kicking and punching two young priests while dragging them through Kolhapur town. News footage showed an activist knee one priest in the groin, making him double up in pain. Another kicked the missionary in the head.

The crowd accused the priests of forcibly converting poor Hindus and handed them over to the local police but a local Christian leader said the baptised had willingly changed their faith.

“Whether it was a forced conversion or not is subject to a police investigation and should not be judged by a mob,” Dolphy D’Souza said. Police, however, said the two missionaries had been arrested on complaints that they were fraudulently converting people.

Hardline Hindu groups some linked to India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have accused Christian priests of bribing poor tribesmen and lower caste Hindus to change their faith. Several states ruled by the BJP have passed anti-conversion laws.

Last week, Hindu zealots beat a pastor with sticks and left him bleeding in Rajasthan state where the BJP is in power. Christian groups say lower-caste Hindus who convert do so willingly to escape the highly stratified Hindu caste system. Christians make up around 2.3 percent of India’s 1.1 billion population.
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hindu hard-liners? You mean terrorists born Hindu.
Posted by: Annon || 05/09/2007 7:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Another piss-poor ass-backwards religion, only marginally less grotesque than Islam.
Posted by: Sonar || 05/09/2007 9:08 Comments || Top||

#3  By what use of force were these unwilling Hindus converted? Were they beaten? Threatened with beheading? Kidnapped, tortured, jailed?

Or, were they spoken to?


bleah
Posted by: AlanC || 05/09/2007 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  India’s largest religious mass conversion will be held at Mahalaxmi Racecourse on May 27. Laxman Mane, a nomadic tribal whose autobiography Upara (Outsider) is a celebrated work of Marathi Dalit literature, will preside as lakhs of his supporters from 42 nomadic tribes convert to Buddhism. Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama will perform the rites.

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed the Royal Western India Turf Club to let the organisers hold the rally. A citizens’ group, Public Concern for Governance Trust, had filed a petition in 2005 requesting the court to disallow such public functions at the racecourse.

The mass conversion, expected to be a social and political landmark, comes 51 years after Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar called on lower castes to abandon Hinduism and become Buddhists at a function to be held at the racecourse. But he passed away before the event could be held.

“It’s a small effort to realise Ambedkar’s dream,” said Mane, who converted to Buddhism in Nagpur on October 2, 2006.

On May 27, Mane said, 1,000-odd nomadic families will be brought before the gathering — organisers say about 5 lakh people will attend in all — to lead the conversions. Over one lakh others will embrace the religion simultaneously.

Asked why he chose Buddhism, Mane (56) said tribals had been following Lord Buddha’s teachings without knowing it. “But now we’ve realised that our practices are similar to Buddhism’s,” he told HT. Mane refused to term the rally as an exercise in conversions. “We tribals never followed Hinduism, so there’s no question of relinquishing it,” he said. Mane said the conversions were a protest against “government apathy”. “Forget a decent standard of living, most of us don’t even get shelter and food. Our literacy level is just 0.06 per cent,” he pointed out.
Posted by: John Frum || 05/09/2007 17:14 Comments || Top||

#5  The mass conversion, expected to be a social and political landmark, comes 51 years after Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar called on lower castes to abandon Hinduism and become Buddhists

Ambedkar wrote the Indian constitution
Posted by: John Frum || 05/09/2007 17:15 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Woman Killed in Rafah for “Saving Family Honor”
On Tuesday morning, 8 May 2007, the Palestinian police arrested ‘Alaa’ ‘Owaida after he had murdered his sister in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah allegedly to save “ his family honor.”

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 02:00 on Tuesday, 8 May 2007, the police arrived at a house in Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in the west of Rafah after receiving information that a woman was killed for “family honor.” The police found the body of Khawla Ahmed ‘Owaida, 35, inside the house. She was killed by a gunshot to the head. Her brother, 32-year-old ‘Alaa’, confessed committing the crime to save his “family honor,” and the police arrested him.
He'll be sentenced to carry out a splodydope bombing against the Jooooz.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/09/2007 21:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


LGF - Outrage: CNN Covers Up Death Cult Mickey Mouse Video
The outrage of the day is the way CNN tried to cover up the Hamas Mickey Mouse story; Glenn Beck was played for a fool by his CNN producers, and he talked about it on his radio show today:

See Video at Link above:

Transcript of Hamas Mickey with Video at memri.org
Link
Posted by: Thavirong Snomort7998 || 05/09/2007 20:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Blacklist in the Academy
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/09/2007 12:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Got to remember that in the bizarro land of modern academia, George Washington is a terrorist, and Al Qaeda head-hackers are 'freedom fighters'.
Posted by: DMFD || 05/09/2007 19:27 Comments || Top||


Rockland county jail to hire imam after controversy
The Rockland County jail will hire a Muslim imam and is providing ritually correct food to inmates in the wake of allegations of discrimination following the jail chaplain's distribution of anti-Islam tracts. The imam will work one day per week at $22 per hour and as needed additionally for special cases. The jail's contracted priest and rabbi work under the same terms, Undersheriff Thomas Guthrie said yesterday.

Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister and the jail's chaplain, was suspended with pay last month after passing out religious cartoon booklets that condemned Islam and contained derogatory depictions and descriptions of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad. Jail officials ordered the tracts removed when they learned of the incident after an inmate complained.

Since then, local Muslims have met with jail officials to discuss their concerns, alleging that when they tried to come to the jail to minister to inmates, they were treated unfairly by Clapp. Clapp has not commented publicly about the incident, and has not responded to messages left for comment. A woman who identified herself as Clapp called the county's Human Rights Commission last month and denied any wrongdoing.

The county requested an independent investigation into Clapp's actions by attorneys Kevin J. Plunkett and Darius P. Chafizadeh of the firm Thacher, Proffitt and Wood in White Plains. Plunkett, who is in charge of the investigation, said the probe would be completed shortly. "We will be issuing a report and recommendation," he said.

Mohammed Ziaullah, a member of the Islamic Center of Rockland who has been among local Muslims to meet twice with jail officials, said he was pleased about the progress of the investigation and by the jail's hiring of an imam and its procurement of a halal - or religiously acceptable -food vendor.

Jail Chief William Clark said last month that the jail did not have an imam because the funds were not in the budget, adding that the jail was not serving inmates halal meals because the vendor who used to supply the food had gone out of business. Inmates instead were served kosher meals, which were considered an acceptable substitute by the state.

The local Muslim community had called for Clapp's dismissal after the accusations came to light. People remained interested in the outcome of the investigation, Ziaullah added. At the mosque, "they keep asking us, 'What happened to the chaplain?' They're interested," the Chestnut Ridge man said. "They were saying, 'We want to protest in front of the jail.' I said, 'This is not necessary now; let's see what the outcome of this is.'
Posted by: ryuge || 05/09/2007 08:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Not Newsworthy: Black on White Torture-Rape-Murder
Moderator note: no more of this type story. First, it's old news, it's been around for quite a while. Second, it's not related to the War on Terror. We expect that y'all read other blogs and news sources, and this story isn't germane to what we do at the Burg. We want to stay focused on the WoT (and Paris Hilton, of course). AoS.
Posted by: Sneaze || 05/09/2007 02:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doubleplus ungood!

A more rational explanation might be found in the sober observation that murders - even decidedly horrific murders - are unfortunately too frequent an occurrence in the U.S. for all of them to garner national attention.

Racial hate crimes are always front-page national news. This one isn't. Why? Because it would force journalists to confront some very uncomfortable truths.
Posted by: gromky || 05/09/2007 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  The left's "fake but accurate" mantra in reverse. "True but inaccurate", nobody will get preferential hiring or tenure or an arts council grant for interpretive dance numbers expressing how this incident "silenced" them.
Posted by: Excalibur || 05/09/2007 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  I keep expecting that there is going to be one hell of a backlash to this stuff one day and that when it comes, it's going to be VERY ugly.
Posted by: Mac || 05/09/2007 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Notice that Snopes dismisses the likelihood that all the major outlets conspired to ignore this.
Nobody said anything about "conspire". Snopes, knowing this, went ahead to pretend that something not asserted was not true.
The obvious goal is to whitewash the media.
In fact, you don't need a conspiracy if everybody thinks the same way, which is what the point about the coverage is.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 05/09/2007 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  A real "Inconvenient Truth"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 05/09/2007 17:10 Comments || Top||

#6  In fact, you don't need a conspiracy if everybody thinks the same way, which is what the point about the coverage is.

The term the liberals have for that is 'institutionalized racism'. Of course, being liberals, they are exempted from ever being racists. It's just everybody else.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/09/2007 17:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Victims who elicit especial sympathy

Well, that certainly rules out two young kids with their entire lives before them being raped, tortured, mutilated and brutalized then murdered. Now if Al Sharpton had gotten a papercut, we'd be hearing about it 24-7. So, where are the black activists and their condemnation of such horrific brutality? Oh, that's right, their still stirring up rage over Don Imus.
Posted by: Zenster || 05/09/2007 19:48 Comments || Top||



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