[Tolo News] An man in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province was cooled for a few years Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Tuesday after trying to cut off his pregnant 16-year-old wife's tongue, apparently for refusing to hooker herself.
The girl, Negina, who was seven months pregnant, suffered a miscarriage after a severe beating from her 21-year-old husband.
Negina's mother told TOLOnews that her daughter had been abused many times already by her husband since their marriage in Balkh's Charbolak district, and that he tried to cut off her tongue after Negina refused to hooker herself for income.
Negina lost her child because she was badly tortured by her husband, the mother said.
Her tongue has been stitched, but it will take some time before she can talk again.
Head of the Provincial Women's Directorate Fariba Majid said that it was the worst case of violence against a woman recorded in Balkh province.
She said that more than 40 cases violence against women have been recorded so far this year, but this was the first time that a husband has tried to cut off his wife's tongue.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... provincial security chief General Abdul Razaq Qaderi said that anyone found to commit such actions will be tossed in the calaboose. Please don't kill me! He added that Negina's husband has been tossed in the slammer. Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
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For injuring his wife, Negina's husband should have to choose between his tongue and his thumbs.
Then, after he is healed up, he should face punishment for killing the baby.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak's ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... sons, already on trial for corruption with their father, will face a new separate case for alleged corrupt stock market dealings, state media has reported.
The official Nile Television reported that Alaa and Gamal Mubarak would go on trial in a criminal court with seven other defendants. They and their father are facing a verdict on June 2 on corruption charges in the first trial.
The ex-president, who was toppled in an early 2011 revolt, also faces murder charges with seven security commanders for killings of protesters during the 18-day uprising that ended his three-decade rule.
The official MENA news agency reported the charges stem from the sale of Al-Watany Bank of Egypt.
The defendants had agreed on acquiring a majority of the bank's shares by buying out small shareholders through front companies without revealing it on the stock market, the agency reported.
They made more than two billion pounds (about $300 million) from the deal which they transferred abroad, the agency reported.
Gamal, 48, headed a powerful policy committee in the ruling party under his father and was widely seen as the heir apparent, a perception that helped fuel the uprising.
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[Iran Press TV] A new report says the Qatari intelligence chief was held by security forces at the Cairo Airport while carrying bags of cash a few days before the first round of Egypt's presidential election.
The incident occurred on Saturday night when the Qatari ambassador to Cairo, who had appeared at the airport to receive a guest, attempted to get large baggage passed through without allowing inspection on it, citing the exigencies of a "diplomatic mission."
The security forces at the Cairo Airport, though, insisted that the baggage be inspected since the matter had not been coordinated with the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
When the bags were inspected, millions of dollars were found in them. Upon the disclosure, the Qatari ambassador had to disclose the identity of his guest, which had until then not been provided to the security forces.
The individual was identified as the Qatari intelligence chief, Ahmed Zaif, who had personally delivered the cash.
The incident is now widely believed to be an attempt on the part of Qatar to interfere in Egypt's presidential election. The large number of votes announced to have been cast in favor of presidential hopeful Ahmad Shafiq implicate that huge campaign expenses, mostly allocated by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... and Egypt, have been spent to secure Shafiq's victory in the election.
Mustafa al-Qanimi, a member of the Moslem Brüderbund party, said in an interview recently that the election results have left no doubt that a huge sum of money has been spent in the course of the election with the aim of securing Shafiq's victory.
Thousands of people erupted into the streets of the capital, Cairo, after the electoral commission confirmed that the Moslem Brüderbund's Mohamed Mursi and former Egyptian Premier Ahmed Shafiq will face off in the country's presidential runoff next month.
Revolutionaries in more than ten cities and governorates erupted into the streets, protesting the result and demanding Shafiq's exclusion from the election. They also demanded the application of his political isolation, as the ex-premier was a prominent figure of the country's deposed ruler, Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... .
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[Tripoli Post] Judges at an international a UN-backed war crimes court in The Hague have sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor The former President-for-Life of Liberia, of whom the best that could be said was that he wasn't quite as horrible as Prince Johnson, at least not usually. to 50 years prison following his landmark conviction for supporting rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered and mutilated thousands during their country's brutal civil war. He has always insisted he is innocent of the crimes.
The sentence follows last month's verdict that found Taylor guilty on 11 counts, relating to atrocities that included rape and murder. He was charged with aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. The prosecution at the Special Court for Sierra Leone wanted an 80-year prison term, which the defence said was excessive.
Taylor, 64, insists he is innocent of the crimes that during the sentencing Judge Richard Lussick said were the most heinous in human history. He likely to appeal the sentence. An appeal process could last up to six months.
Charles Taylor a great friend of the former Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy, ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... is the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes by an international court since the Nuremburg trials of Nazis after World War II.
His trial, that eventually convicted him of the crimes he was charged with, opened five years ago, in June 2007 in The Hague. He had become President in 1995 after a rebellion and in 2003 an arrest warrant was issued for him. Two months later he stepped down and went into exile to Nigeria. He was tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... in March 2006.
Taylor reportedly accused the prosecution of paying and threatening witnesses in his war crimes trial, and also told the judges to consider his age when making their decision, saying he was "no threat to society".
When requesting a sentence of 80 years jail for him, the prosecution said such a sentence would reflect the severity of the crimes and the central role that Taylor.
Prosecutor Brenda Hollis had said that, "the purposely cruel and savage crimes committed (by Taylor) included public executions and amputations of civilians, the display of decapitated heads at checkpoints... public rapes of women and girls, and people burned alive in their homes," wrote.
During the Sierra Leone civil war, Taylor supported Revolutionary United Front rebels who killed tens of thousands of people. The war crimes included murder, rape, the use of child soldiers and the amputation of limbs.
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He'll write a book, be out in 5, and running for president of Liberia or some other Afri hell hole soon thereafter. There really is a pattern by the way.
[An Nahar] A Saudi court overturned on Wednesday provisions of a labor ministry circular that allowed saleswomen to work alongside men in shops, a lawyer told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The court in Riyadh "abolished part of the decision by the ministry of labor which allowed shop owners to employ men and women in the same place," based on a law suit filed by businessman, lawyer Mohammed al-Zamel told AFP.
Zamel said the ministry had misinterpreted a 2011 royal decree in which King Abdullah limited work in lingerie shops to women only.
"The king's goal from that decree was to allow women to buy their underwear from shops run by women to prevent embarrassment" and not to allow men and women to mix at work.
"Many women (working alongside men in shops) resign from work because of harassment and due to the late working hours," he said.
In June 2011, the king issued a decree limiting work in lingerie shops to Saudi women in a bid to reduce high female unemployment in the conservative kingdom.
He also made employment at certain industrial facilities, including drug manufacturers, exclusive to women.
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Your Honor, can we stipulate that Islamists are essentially 5th grade boys and as such, are extremely concerned with getting girl cooties?
Yemen's holy men urged the government to impose the state influence across the republic and to protect roads and properties. After their meeting with president Abdrabu Mansour Hadi, the holy mans called in a statement for applying the law to those who disturb the public security and peace and subject their properties to danger. Furthermore, they recommended to change officials in the governorates experiencing insecurity and deteriorating basic services with competent officials to assure the people their lives and properties are in safe hands.
The holy mans called for putting an end to bloodshed in conflict areas such as Saada, Hajjah and some parts in Sanaa and Amran and to quickly solve the situation in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, where the army has recently stepped up an offensive against Al-Qaeda krazed killers.
They argued that solving the situation in Abyan comes within what the government should do to prevent external meddling in Yemen's internal affairs.
"The holy mans reject external interference in Yemen's own affairs which may violate the country's illusory sovereignty, subject its unity, security and stability to danger and provoke sedition," the statement said. "Yemen should build relations with foreign countries on the bases of serving mutual interests, not on the bases of dependency and meddling".
In their statement, the holy mans urged to convince all Yemeni groups and forces to participate in dialogue, complete the transition, especially reforms in the army, protect the national unity and resources and solve all dilemmas and court cases.
What, all? That's ambitious -- more than we've been able to do in America in almost two and a half centuries.
They issued fatwa saying Islam forbids taking arms against the government and killing innocents, referring to suicide kabooms by Al-Qaeda.
At the meeting, Hadi reviewed progress on the implementation of the power-transfer deal, which was brokered by the GCC and backed by the UN after the unrest in 2011, according to the Yemeni official agency Saba.
He also highlighted problems faced in the country, pointing to the role the holy mans should play in guiding the people and helping to address all national issues, Saba said.
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[Yemen Post] Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwah said on Wednesday that his country is ready for a new era as the ball of change started rolling.
In the launch of the First Yemeni-Turkish Medical Conference for general surgeries, telescopic surgeries and emergency surgeries hosted in Science and Technology Hospital, Basindwah, urged all sides not to give up to despair and frustrations no matter what the others say or predict, stressing that Yemen is heading towards a comprehensive change.
"Threats will not make us back down on what we believe in, and we will work to bring out the comprehensive change in order to meet the expectations of the Yemeni people," said Basindwah, according to the official Saba news agency. He pointed out that the donations, which Yemen's friends pledged to provide the country with, will be put in an international support fund, noting that the role of the National Unity Government will only stick to drawing the projects needed according to their priority.
Basindwah further stressed the importance of providing a conductive and suitable environment for the investment in Yemen, saying what some officials used to do in the former era of sharing the profits with the investors is completely unacceptable.
Although the former regime used to say that it's encouraging investment in the country, some high ranking military commanders, powerful tribal chiefs or members of Saleh's family used to ask the investors for the half of their profits in exchange for providing them and their projects with security.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Agitated fishermen damaged the eyes of eight suspected robbers in two chars (islands) of Bhola district yesterday.
On Tuesday, fishermen beat up five robbers to death in Char Bhashan of the same district. Three robbers were also incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! while 12-13 others managed to get away.
Police confirmed the incidents and said the bodies of the five killed had been sent to Bhola sadar hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy while the three tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... had been produced before a court.
Three cases were lodged Tuesday night with Char Fashion Police Station in connection with possession of illegal arms, robbery and killing. More than 500 people were made accused in the cases, said Reaz Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of the cop shoppe.
According to Abul Kalam Patwari, chairman of Dhalchar union, and the fishermen of the area, fishermen raided the woods of Bhasan Char yesterday around 11:00am in search of the robbers who fled on Tuesday. They caught four people from the western side of the char suspecting them as robbers and beat them up and damaged their eyes.
Police later recovered the injured.
OC Mizanur Rahman of Monpura Police Station told The Daily Star that the fishermen caught five people from the jungle of Char Kalkini yesterday around 8:00am. Suspecting that the five might be among the robbers who beat feet from Char Bhasan on Tuesday, the fishermen beat them up and damaged the eyes of four.
The victims who lost their eyes in this incident were identified as Kabir, Russell, Shahjahan and Belal. Their company Mohiuddin proved to be lucky as by the time the agitated fishermen could damage his eyes police appeared on the spot.
Nayek Mahbubur Rahman of Dhalchar police outpost in Char Fashion upazila said when the robbers took shelter in the jungle of Bhashan Char on Tuesday they had a two-hour exchange of bullets with law enforcers. After the shootout, mob had beat up five robbers to death while police tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! three.
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Motorists face having to pay increased road tax as the Treasury considers plans to claw back hundreds of millions of pounds in revenue that will be lost as drivers opt for greener cars. The electric company and water works will employ the same philosophy...
The talks come as ministers try to prevent a fall in tax revenues as more motorists choose smaller, cleaner cars that incur a lower rate of duty. Labour has accused the Coalition of planning a "stealth tax" on drivers, effectively punishing them for going green.
Ministers say that while they have not finalised their plans, changes may be necessary to ensure the "sustainability of the public finances".
One option being considered would replace the annual tax on cars with a one-off up-front charge on new vehicles when they are sold.
Chloe Smith, a Treasury minister, told the Commons last week that ministers are "considering whether Vehicle Excise Duty should be reformed to support the sustainability of public finances and to reflect the improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency". As part of that process, motoring groups and other interested parties have been invited into the Treasury to discuss potential changes to VED.
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It's the same program to 'cut back' on anything [but government] like water, electricity, etc. As soon as the users cut back, revenue drops and 'suddenly' the powers to be must raise taxes/fees to cover the shortfall.
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It's quietly moving this way here too. Gas tax money pays for roads/bridges maintenance and construction (when it's not pilfered for other spending/earmarks). The rise in gas prices and increase in mileage/gallon has led to a general drop in revenues. What to do? I've attended programming seminars where they openly discuss getting the same revenue via other methods:
1) black boxes (for "accident reconstruction/safety" of course, that will have transponders that measure your position via GPS to charge you for miles travelled whether via hybrid/electric only/4x4 F-150 (rrrrrr)
2) Constructing only multi-user lanes in teh future - which single drivers can use - for a fee, of course, with premium pricing when the traffic is higher. I.E.: when most people are forced to commute via hours dictated by their employers
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Tax our "seat", or the more likely to tax even our "sweat"???
Lest we fergit, TOPIX > MEDVEDEV: INFRINGEMENT ON NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY [by Foreign State(s)] COULD LEAD TO NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE, as well destruction of World Order.
AKA our future desired OWG-NWO that no American = Amerikan of the USA = USSA, USRoA has voted for, been asked to vote on, nor will be asked to vote on iff Politicos have their choice.
[OCCUPY MOVEMENT + GREECE, SPANISH RIOTS here].
US Civil War II as early as 2015, Breakup of the US into 20 or so sovereign polities after 2020???
and
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > THE SHEEPLE MUST SUFFER FOR WASHINGTON'S SINS. London's sins???
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Frank, be careful of what you speak, as ideas are coming from DC and the NHSTA that would require every 2014 model year car and light truck ( including the ever-popular F-150) to be equipped with the dreaded GPS. new cars already have, as part of OBD-II an 8 second or so 'track back' data recorder that has been used in several accident cases to show speeding that the time of the crash. once you accept that insurance check for a totaled car that data now belongs to the Good Hands People.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi has denied she was paid more than $100 million to sleep with several powerful Chinese men.
The star of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Memoirs of a Geisha had sex with disgraced politician Bo Xilai - a Chongqing party chief being investigated for corruption - more than ten times between 2007 and last year, a report on the US-based Chinese news website Boxun.com claimed.
The 33-year-old was allegedly paid about $1.59 million by Mr Bo on each occasion.
Zhang was allegedly introduced to Mr Bo by Xu Ming, a Chinese businessman who is also being investigated for corruption.
Mr Xu allegedly paid $100,000 to sleep with the actress the first time and $28.7 million in total.
The claims made by Boxun.com, which were also published by the Chinese language media in China and Taiwan, allege Zhang made millions more from similar deals with other rich and powerful figures.
1 and the biggest is that it thought property was a magic money tree and land inflation wasn't bad.
2 it's stuck in the EUSSR and the EURO and is double stuffed with regard to fixing its economy.
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Spain doesn't make anything the world just has to have.
No, but the weight of EU bureaucracy and the overvalued euro is crushing them. The eurozone is like a gainfully employed, financially prudent husband (Germany) with 16 wives who all share one credit card. Some of them have jobs, some of them are shopaholics, some not so much, but the EU wants to subject them all to the same one-size-fits-all rules. The sooner the PIIGS bug out (revert to national currencies), the better off everyone will be.
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"The unemployment rate in Norway was 3 per cent of the labor force in March 2012. This represents a decrease of 0.3 percentage points compared with December last year".
Even in the worst of times some do well. Even Brazil has had an influx of Spanish youth in the neighborhood of 300000 all together.
The long-running battle between a Tennessee Muslim community and its critics over a new mosque took a dramatic turn with a county judge's ruling that could bring construction to a halt.
"Everyone is really shocked, many people are crying about this," Imam Ossama Bahloul, leader of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro (ICM), said Wednesday.
"We did exactly what other churches in the county did," he said. "We followed the same process that other churches did. Why did this happen? Some people feel like it is discrimination."
Chancellor Robert Corlew ruled Tuesday that plans for the new mosque, previously approved by a planning commission, are now "void and of no effect."
He said the planning commission violated state law by not providing proper public notice. The ruling throws the date of the mosque's completion, scheduled for July, up in the air. Oh, dang, after they spent all that money. Well, maybe they can use it as a distribution center for bacon bits or something.
Rutherford County Attorney Jim Cope said Corlew did not address the issue of whether work on the mosque has to stop right away. County planners will discuss options and determine an appropriate course of action, he said. Maybe a storage center for fireworks on one side and a halfway house for pyromaniacs on the other.
Bahloul said construction will go on until the Islamic Center receives orders to stop.
"The ruling was a bit foggy," he said. "We will do what's right." Foggy, meaning it didn't comport with Islam?
Sally Wall, a critic of the decision to approve the mosque, said Corlew's opinion was correct "because there was no due process."
She told CNN's "AC360" on Wednesday evening that the public knew nothing until "it was a done deal."
"It's not a matter of Islamophobia with me," Wall said. "The county government is supposed to operate in a particular way ... People who live in an area where a mosque or anything else is going to be built are supposed to have a right to say something about it."
In his opinion, Corlew said he would allow attorneys for those who filed suit over the mosque approval process to prepare an order for his review.
Attorney Joe Brandon lodged such an order Wednesday. It will be held five business days, after which the judge can review and sign it.
The order says the May 2010 decision by planning commissioners to approve the center's plans failed to meet public notice requirements.
It decrees "a permanent injunction is entered against defendant county officials from taking any further actions or permitting any third party from taking any further actions inconsistent with this order."
Corlew did not order an immediate stop to construction, Cope argued.
"An order is not final for 30 days," the county attorney said. We can't go out there (and stop construction) and then be sued by the ICM. They can file suit against us."
The judge's opinion, according to Cope, also could be appealed. "We're very much premature in telling someone to stop something."
Corlew, in a statement Wednesday, said he could not comment and the case was still pending, without a final order.
Brandon told "AC360" that construction should stop because of the ruling.
During the trial, attorneys for the mosque's opposition argued that the county failed to alert the public about meetings before the mosque was approved, CNN affiliate WTVF reported.
Rutherford County attorneys said that the meetings were announced in the local free newspaper and on its website and that the notices clearly complied with Tennessee law.
The judge, however, said the announcements in a local paper were "in relatively small type near the bottom of a page which contained a number of advertisements and legal notices, most of which were provided by the city of Murfreesboro."
Corlew said his decision does not preclude the county from "again considering the same issues at a subsequent hearing when proper notice is given."
The Islamic Center has 30 days to appeal the ruling and plans to apply again for a permit, spokesman Saleh Sbenaty said.
"Hopefully, this time, the county will make it right," he said. "We followed the process according to the law. There is no question about it. We are singled out just because of our faith."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on the Justice Department to ensure the religious rights of Muslims in Tennessee.
"American Muslim constitutional rights should not be diminished merely because anti-Muslim bigots are able to manufacture a controversy about what would otherwise be normal religious activities," said Gadeir Abbas, staff attorney for the organization, which advocates for Muslim civil liberties.
"The judge's ruling is apparently based on a fictitious 'heightened standard' for public notice when Muslims are involved," he said.
The mosque expansion gained national attention, including a CNN documentary, because in some ways, it was similar to the proposal to build an Islamic center two blocks from the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York.
The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has existed for more than a decade, but the fight erupted when planning commissioners approved the 52,960-square-foot building on Veals Road.
The backlash was stinging and included intimidation, lawsuits and an August 2010 fire that destroyed construction equipment and damaged vehicles at the construction site for the mosque. Police said it was arson.
A sign announcing the mosque was spray-painted with the words "Not Welcome."
For months, mosque leaders searched for contractors willing and able to do the job. Because of the opposition and threats the project has provoked, the construction job became more complicated. The work now requires more layers of security, including cameras.
Some contractors weren't willing to take the job. Mosque leaders said contractors told them it had become too much of a hot-button issue and presented too much of a risk to their business and equipment. Several contractors began the bidding process but never finished.
Mosque officials said one contractor told them that he needed the work but that the leaders of his own church were against the new Islamic center.
In September, Corlew, the Rutherford County judge, ruled that the Muslim group had a right to build the larger facility.
In the opinion, Corlew said organizations must be treated equally under current land-use ordinances, but added that some of the county's land use laws are "in dire need of revision."
Corlew also wrote that the plaintiffs suing Rutherford County's planning commission can challenge whether the mosque's approval violated open meeting laws. That led to the lawsuit and trial that was decided this week.
Opponents of the mosque have also argued that Islam is not a real religion deserving of First Amendment protections and claimed that the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has links to terrorism, WTVF reported.
The judge dismissed those allegations, the affiliate reported.
The congregation has outgrown its old facility and worshippers have to pray outside the crowded mosque, said Bahloul, the leader of the Islamic Center.
"I am confident that American values will prevail in this," the imam said. "What makes America so special is how it handles freedom. This decision does not seem like it reflects American values." This whole thing was set up to sneak by under the noses of the residents of the county. Something is wrong. Something else is going on. The folks there know what works best for them. Go away. Why not go to Saudi Arabia or Pakistain where you can experience some real muslim values, instead. Or maybe Detroit.
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“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…” ~ Poem that landed Turkish PM Erdogan in jail
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"We followed the process according to the law. There is no question about it. We are singled out just because of our faith."
You've got it, NO murdering, terrorist supporters allowed.
(Under ANY name)
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If it 'accidently' burns down the day after it's 'finished' I wouldn't be surprised. And I suspect it wouldn't be locals upset with it doing it. The followers of the pedophile Allen would do it, blame 'racism' and collect the insurance. Til the TBI or FBI figures out it was them, which never gets reported outside of the state.
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I seldom side with the Muslims, but I do in this instance. As far as I can tell from this story, THEY did things the way the law requires, but supposedly the planning commission either failed to give public notice, or the public notice wasn't prominent enough (it sounds like a pretty standard 'public notice' from my experience.) I did not see anything that said the planning commission approved a structure it should not have - if a 50,000 square foot Baptist church complex would be allowed on the site, then the mosque should be.
[Dawn] A holy man charged with issuing death decree against four women and two brothers for dancing in a wedding function was freed on a local court's orders a few hours after arrest on Tuesday.
The release came after Maulana Mohammad Javed Azad deposited the Rs50,000 worth of surety bond in Kohistan. ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... "I swear on the Holy Koran that I've issued no fatwa (decree) over the last four years nor have I seen any video of dancing women. I just heard about it. The charge of my holding a jirga to issue such a decree is baseless and meant to defame the Learned Elders of Islam of Kohistan," Mr Azad told news hounds after release here.
The holy man was produced in a local court along with his brother and an accused, Mohammad Akhtar. The two were released after they deposited surety bond of Rs50,000 each.
District coordination officer of Kohistan Aqal Badshah and district police officer Abdul Majid Afridi told news hounds that the matter about the decree issuance was concocted and was aimed at destroying the peaceful environment in the district.
The two said a police team had already been sent to Palis village to find the truth.
"No jirga was held to decide the fate of women and two brothers over the alleged wedding dance. It seems someone is conspiring against the people of Kohistan. We'll foil such conspiracies," said Mr Afridi.
MPA from Palis Mufti Mehmood Alam said he was himself mufti and no one could issue death sentence after witnessing such wedding dance video.
"We are in contact with the federal and provincial government to expose the faces behind the issue. I personally visited the area and found that no incident as was reported ever took place," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... a jirga of Islahi Committee of Ulema was held at Puttan with former MPA Maulana Dildar in the chair over the jirga decree case.
Participants condemned a 'conspiracy' hatched to defame holy mans and destroy the image of Kohistan people.
After the jirga, Mr Dildar told news hounds that holy mans of Kohistan wouldn't allow conspirators to destroy peaceful environment of Kohistan.
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[Dawn] Rejecting documents submitted by Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. in the dual nationality case, the Supreme Court directed the minister's counsel to submit a certificate usually issued by the British government at the time of renouncing citizenship, DawnNews reported.
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain was hearing the case on a petition filed by Syed Mehmood Akhtar Naqvi.
During the hearing, Chief Justice Iftikhar said that Farahnaz Ispahani's National Assembly membership had been cancelled for holding dual citizenship and that the court could not provide the minister with special treatment.
Malik's counsel Azhar Chaudhry submitted documents pertaining to the minister renouncing his British citizenship.
The documents were rejected by the bench and Chief Justice Iftikhar asked the counsel why the paperwork that the court had ordered submitted was not produced.
Justice Khwaja said the court's orders were not being implemented upon and were in turn being ridiculed.
Chief Justice Iftikhar reiterated that the Constitution did not allow dual nationals to become members of parliament.
The court was informed that MNA Zahid Iqbal was a dual passport holder responding to which the chief justice said that one could be sentenced to six months in prison for that reason.
In this regard, the court directed authorities to produce details at the upcoming hearing of the case.
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Xinhua quoting Haaretz: Geneticists at an Israeli hospital said they have found a unique Jewish genetic mutation among an American Indian tribe, indicating that they are descendants of Jews expelled from Spain 600 years ago, local Haaretz daily reported on Wednesday.
The findings of the study, conducted at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, show that a group of Indians from the State of Colorado bear the so-called "Ashkenazi mutation," on the BRCA1 gene - a marker unique to European Jews.
While such so-called "secret Jews," or "Anusim" in Hebrew, whose families assimilated into various north and south American cultures hundreds of years ago after journeying to the New World are more and more known, this is the first time an Indian tribe has shown the gene.
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These things happen. Tay-Sachs disease occurs mainly in three populations: Ashkenazi Jews, Louisiana Cajuns, and French Canadians. The first two groups show the same mutation, while the third has a different one. Was a "secret Jew" the reason for the Cajun incidence? Who knows?
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So. Six hundred years ago was 1412. Okay. They got expelled and one shipload ended up further west than they intended when they'd set off for...England? Or someplace. And there they were, on Cape Cod.
Then they went to Colorado?
Or the band with whom they intermarried went to Colorado?
Stranger things have happened. But you need to account for getting to Colorado somehow.
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Any American Indian with French or Spanish ancestry could fall into this category. Some of the "expelled" Jews moved to the Western hemisphere with other Spanish migrants after 1492, and some escaped north into France, went 'native' there (some even became Huguenots) and then sailed to New France with other French migrants. Theoretically both the Spanish and French governments of the time prohibited Jews from becoming colonists, but they went anyway. We already know many of the early Spanish & French male arrivals in the western hemisphere took Indian wives. And there you have it.
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The first thoroughly documented Jewish settler in Michigan was Ezekiel Solomon, born about 1740, who moved to British North America and became a fur trader. He was taken captive by Indians when Fort Michilimackinac was sacked 2 June 1763, then turned over to more friendly Ottawas, who got him back to Montreal. Ezekiel married a part-Ojibwe woman, had many children, who also had many children. There are most likely descendants of his in several of the tribes around the Great Lakes, although I don't have their names. They still have reunions at the Straits of Mackinac.
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Interesting. There have been some unusual archaeolgical finds over the years: the Paraibo inscription in Phoenician claiming to have sailed for Hiram, King of Tyre and Solomon's mariner, and blown off course while circumnavigating the Land of Ham (Africa) and a bracelet from an indigenous grave in TN made of a copper alloy from the ME and inscribed in paleoHebrew. The ancient houses in Pueblo CO also resemble the old square mudbrick houses and storage rooms of the Israelites and cliff dwellings not unlike those used when under siege. More recently, many of the sailors and the financiers of Columbus' journeys were Jewish conversos, fleeing the Inquisition. They were granted freedom and 80% of the booty for sailing when banned in most of Europe, so even though they adopted an acceptable Catholic name, they may have been hiding from persecution. My ancestors came from France to Canada over 300 years ago, noting a name change in genealogy research; an old document mentioned "the Iron-fisted" rule of Catholicism behind the 'dit' change. I also received a letter from the FtDNA project I was part of that I carried the BRCA1 gene, alerting me it was sometimes associated with breast cancer. Also some of my genetic matches were also of Ashkenazi and Sepphardic traditions but we have no immediate family histories that would be Jewish, although the line came through Northern Europe. This study was to trace human migration out of Afrrica and goes back millennia, so it may support this idea. Israel was deported around 722 BC, leaving Judah to the captivity in Babylon in 586 BC. The Sea Peoples were renowned sailors--and the old name of Denmark is "Dan-mark", one of the lost tribes associated with them on the Phoenician coast. Maybe the Vikings are a lost tribe?
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But you need to account for getting to Colorado somehow. Not really. Individual natives & whole tribes traveled long distances regularly. The Cheyenne language is Algonquin, related to languages spoken around the Great Lakes & the east coast of North America. Languages spoken by the Navajos and Apaches of the southwestern deserts are very similar to languages spoken by Athabaskan Indians in northwest Canada and eastern Alaska. The origin myths of several tribes indicated they have moved from other parts of North America centuries back. Santa Fe NM was founded in 1598, and trade links were established with tribes in what is now southern Colorado, although the first permanent Euro settlement there was as late as 1851.
Jewish-related genetic markers have already been established in descendants of Spanish colonists in southern CO (particularly the BRCA1 gene) and French Canadians in the north, so finding the same in Indian tribes is not remarkable. See "Secret Jews of the San Luis Valley"
-- French Canadian families with surnames Gelinas and Bellemare claim to descend from a Jewish ancestor who arrived in New France in 1658 -- many of his descendants are now members of various American Indian tribes.
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Well, most of the Sephardic Jews were expelled some 500 years ago, and a lot are thought to have settled in what is now Northern Mexico and New Mexico; that's probably the proximate source of the mutation.
(It's either that or Mel Brooks has been around for thousands of years or something like that).
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Anguper. I know about tribal movements. It's been said the Apaches were chased out of the northern plains by the Lakota, went south, were chased out of Texas by the Cheyenne and ended up in the SW deserts. The Aztecs spoke a Uto-Aztecan language, possibly related to language groups in ....Utah. The Lakota got run out of the pretty fat Great Lakes basin by, iirc, the Ottawa.
All good. But nobody went TO the intermontane west.
See droughts beginning about the thirteenth century.
For some reason, the Anasazi, or their descendants, decided to live in really neat cliff houses, which were a pain to build and to live in if you don't get a cut from the tourist gawkers. Beats being down where you don't have to sweat a climb with a bucket of water. Not. Why?
Nope. Not seeing CO as a destination.
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Steve Berry's new novel claims Colombus and crew were Jewish, given Letters of Marque, and other documents claim he willed his gold and fortune to future descendents "in perpetuity"...the Judeo-Christian heritage of America is reinforced it appears.
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