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UK's Islam channel in trouble for advocating marital rape

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A Muslim religious channel that allowed presenters to condone marital rape and call women who wear perfume in mosques ‘prostitutes’ has been censured by the TV watchdog.

In one programme, the host told viewers that it was ‘not strange’ and ‘not such a big problem’ for a man to force his wife to have sex.

A phone-in show in May 2008, in which a female caller asked if she had the right to hit a violent husband back, was deemed in breach of the code.

The presenter at one point stated: ‘In Islam we have no right to hit the woman in a way that damages her eye or damages her tooth or damages her face or makes her ugly.

Apparently none of this bothers Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s sister-in-law and presenter on the Islam Channel: she recently converted to Islam. That she has a bit of a blind spot concerning the Islam Channel’s view of women goes without saying, since she chose to convert while visiting Iran  – one of the most violently misogynistic regimes in the world.

It’s not all bad news, though since the newly minted Muslim Booth has assured us that:

‘Now that I’m Muslim,’ I said, ‘I will never have my breasts out in public again.’

Islamists prevent church construction in Kuwait

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The government and the emir have approved the project but the Kuwait City Municipal Council refuses to issue building permits or explain its reasons for doing so. About 460,000 Christians share four official churches, two Catholic, one Evangelical and one Anglican. A Coptic church is under construction.

A group of Christians has complained that Kuwait City’s Municipal Council is preventing them from getting land to build a church. “The Municipal Council is the big problem preventing us from getting land; not all of the members, just the Islamic fundamentalists,” said Archimandrite Boutros Gharib, head of the local Greek Catholic Church.

Recently the municipal council blocked an attempt by the Greek Catholic Church to acquire land in Mahboula, an area in the Ahmadi governorate south of Kuwait City. The request has been pending for several years.

Fr Gharib noted that his church is paying US$ 6,944 a month for a villa that is also shared by two other congregations. If they did not find land soon, the church would have to close, he said. “It’s all excuses. It’s all lies,” he said. “Every time they promise, but all their promises are for nothing.”

Perhaps Fr Gharib would have more success if he called the church a Cultural Centre.

Mosque bombed in Pakistan; 60 dead

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan during midday prayers on Friday, according to government officials, a strike apparently aimed at worshipers who had denied support to the Taliban.

State television reported that at least 60 people were killed. “At least 70 people are injured,” said Shahid Ullah, a district official in the district, near Peshawar. “Many are in a critical condition.”

Later in the day, another explosion ripped through a mosque in the same area during evening prayers, a local television news network reported. At least three people were killed and at least 14 wounded. The nature of the second blast was not clear.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the earlier bombing, Pakistani news media reported.

The attack seemed intended to punish elders of the village of Darra Adam Khel in North-West Frontier Province, who have resisted the influence of militants in the area and raised a private militia to oppose them.

Muslims who routinely riot, prance around in the street and trample each other to death to protest cartoons of Mohammed and obscure igniters of the Koran, largely ignored the bombing in order to concentrate their outrage on these more important matters. Including this troubling development:

Muslims in Mumbai are up in arms against a United States military sniffer dog allegedly with name tag of ‘Khan’ that has landed in the city as part of President Barack Obama security arrangements.

On Tuesday, the German Shepherd arrived in the Mumbai airport from a Hercules C130 transport plane. The German Shepherd allegedly had a tag around its neck which read ‘MWD Khan.’ MWD stands for Military Working Dog. Khan is alleged to be the name of the dog.

Angry Muslims in the city and the state are threatening to protest this ‘insult’ to the community.

52 Christians murdered in Iraq

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From here:

Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday.

It was not immediately clear whether the hostages died at the hands of the attackers or during the rescue late on Sunday night in an affluent neighbourhood of the capital.

The incident began when militants wearing suicide vests and armed with grenades attacked the Iraqi stock exchange at dusk Sunday before turning their attention to the nearby Our Lady of Deliverance church — one of Baghdad’s main Catholic places of worship — taking about 120 Christians hostage.

Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal, the deputy interior minister, said 52 people were killed and 67 wounded in the bloodbath. Officials said at least one priest and 10 policemen were among the dead. Many of the wounded were women.

The Daily Mail notes: “The group, which is linked to al Qaeda in Iraq, said it would ‘exterminate Iraqi Christians’ if jailed militants were not freed.”

It seems that those ubiquitous generic “militants” have been a bit naughty yet again. Better not call it what it is: the mass murder of innocent worshipping Christians by cowardly Islamist terrorist thugs – we wouldn’t want to provoke an outburst of uncontrollable Islamophobia.

Fred Hiltz, Katharine Jefferts-Schori and assorted trendy bishops wrung their collective hands in horror at the mere prospect of someone igniting a Koran; one wonders what they will do to express their disapproval of Christians being murdered by followers of the Book That Wasn’t Burnt? Nothing, I imagine – it’s called asymmetrical commiserating.

Anjem Choudary, the politically incorrect Muslim

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In this interview Choudary claims that, while he isn’t quite stupid enough to personally attack the people whose taxes keep him in comfort, he supports overseas efforts to take revenge on the West for trying to promote civilisation in Iraq and Afghanistan. In other words he supports those in Yemen who posted the bombs to US synagogues.

Moreover, he claims that, no matter what a Western Muslim may tell CNN in public, he will, in private agree with Choudary. Imam – it’s a cultural centre, not a mosque – Feisal Abdul Rauf undoubtedly would like to shove Choudary’s skull cap down his throat: the question is, is that because Rauf had been rumbled?

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law converts to Islam

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Lauren Booth, sister-in-law to Tony Blair and journalist – or shrill harridan – for the Islam Channel has decided to become a Muslim. She is not known for accuracy in her reporting, is the recipient oAdd an Imagef the Dishonest Reporter of 2008 Award and is creating great anticipation as millions wait for her to don a full body burka and finally keep quiet.

From here:

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.

Broadcaster and journalist Lauren Booth, 43 – Cherie Blair’s half-sister – said she now wears a hijab head covering whenever she leaves her home, prays five times a day and visits her local mosque ‘when I can’.

She decided to become a Muslim six weeks ago after visiting the shrine of Fatima al-Masumeh in the city of Qom.

‘It was a Tuesday evening and I sat down and felt this shot of spiritual morphine, just absolute bliss and joy,’ she told The Mail on Sunday.

When she returned to Britain, she decided to convert immediately.

‘Now I don’t eat pork and I read the Koran every day. I’m on page 60.

Bacon smell offends Muslims

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A cafe owner was ordered to remove an extractor fan because the smell of her frying bacon offended passing Muslims.

Planning officials acted against Beverley Akciecek, 49, after being told her next door neighbour’s Muslim friends had felt ”physically sick” due to the ”foul odour.”

The fan has been in Beverley’s Snack Shack takeaway in the Shaw Heath area of the town for the past three years.

I presume this is the burka syndrome at work in a different form. Delicate Muslim sensibilities are so inflamed by the enticing smell of cooking bacon that, once exposed to it, repressed Muslim men living on a pork hair trigger will succumb to what they secretly dream of day and night: an orgy of depraved gammon gorging. Similar to what could happen on seeing a woman who is not dressed as a sausage – a pork free sausage, of course.

London Ontario caves in to Muslims demanding censorship

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Strictly Right sent out a press release earlier today to Canadian media with some rather startling news about the upcoming Mark Steyn speech in London, Ontario that we’re putting together. Mark Steyn will be speaking on November 1st in a speech entitled “Head for the Hills: Why everything in your world is doomed.” Apparently, London-area Muslims didn’t like that idea too much.

Due to capacity constraints at the University of Western Ontario, the original venue for the event, we had booked the London Convention Centre (LCC,) London’s premiere conference facility. On Tuesday, I received a phone call from the LCC telling us that our venue had been pulled, and that Mark Steyn would not be permitted to speak there. The reason offered by the LCC was that they had received pressure from local Islamic groups, and they didn’t want to alienate their Muslim clients. It’s interesting to note that the LCC is owned by the City of London, and is therefore a government operation.

I’m sure these Islamic groups are populated with moderate Muslims – just like the moderate Muslims who want to build a victory mosque at ground zero.

Where’s Muhammad?

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The editors of the Washington Post exercised their right of craven poltroonery last weekend by not publishing a very mildly satirical cartoon about Muhammad.
From the Annals of Dhimmitude:

What is clever about last Sunday’s “Where’s Muhammad?” comic is that the prophet [sic] does not appear in it.

Still, Style editor Ned Martel said he decided to yank it, after conferring with others, including Executive Editor Marcus W. Brauchli, because “it seemed a deliberate provocation without a clear message.” He added that “the point of the joke was not immediately clear” and that readers might think that Muhammad was somewhere in the drawing.

Would they have published a cartoon that did have a clear – but offensive – message? Obviously not.