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| Home insurer paying for kid-sex defendants |
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By J.M. Lawrence Friday, April 29, 2005 - Updated: 04:50 AM EST Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there - for two men who advocate legal sex with young boys. The Illinois insurer is paying Boston lawyers to defend two members of the North American Man Boy Love Association against a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a 10-year-old Cambridge boy murdered by pedophiles. ``People who insure with State Farm should know a percentage of profits made off their premiums is going to defend people who want to rape their kids,'' said Lawrence Frisoli, attorney for the family of Jeffrey Curley, who was murdered by NAMBLA member Charles Jaynes in 1997. State Farm has agreed to cover Peter Reed of Phoenix and Robert Schwartz, whose address has not been disclosed, through the men's homeowner's policies for personal liability. The men are among 18 defendants whom the Curley family claims contributed to the murder of their son through Jaynes' membership in NAMBLA. Frisoli argues NAMBLA materials taught Jaynes how to lure and kidnap his victim. ``We don't ask before we insure you what organizations you belong to,'' said State Farm spokesman Dick Luedke at company headquarters in Bloomington. Luedke said the company has an obligation to insure the men under their policies but reserves the right to drop the coverage at any time. State Farm, however, refused to cover another NAMBLA member, Peter Melzer of Bronx, N.Y., in the case. Luedke said he could not offer specific details of the decision to decline coverage, citing privacy concerns. In a rejection letter to Melzer obtained by the Herald, a State Farm claims manager in Jericho, N.Y., JoAnn Phillips, cited clauses in Melzer's policy excluding coverage for damages resulting from ```willful and malicious acts of the insured'' and another clause requiring prompt notification by the insured. Melzer and the remaining defendants in the case are being represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU contends the men have no connection to Jaynes' crimes and have asked a federal judge to throw out the suit. Via: the Boston Herald |
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| Jury Returns Death Sentence in GI Killings |
| 04.29.05 (7:06 am) [edit] |
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer Thu Apr 28, 8:56 PM ET FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a deadly grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that prosecutors said was triggered by religious extremism. Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who gave a brief, barely audible apology hours earlier, stood at attention between his lawyers as the verdict was delivered. He showed no emotion. Note to jihadi a-holes: The army doesn't put up with your bullsh*t. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap /20050429/ap_on_re_us/101 st_attacked_25" title="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap /20050429/ap_on_re_us/101 st_attacked_25" target="_blank"http://news.yahoo.com/news?tm... |
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| Akbar 'Sorry' About Kuwait Grenade Attack |
| 04.28.05 (2:37 pm) [edit] |
 Thursday, April 28, 2005 AP Army Sergeant to Be Tried in Grenade Attack FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An Army sergeant convicted of murdering two officers in a grenade attack on his comrades in Kuwait quietly said he was sorry Thursday before a military prosecutor urged the jury to sentence the soldier to death because he was an ideologically driven killer. "I apologize for my actions. ... When I did that, I felt my life was in jeopardy, and I had other problems," Sgt. Hasan Akbar (search) told the 15-person military jury. Akbar spoke for less than a minute, making an unsworn statement that could not be cross-examined. He testified in such a low voice that even prosecutors sitting nearby had trouble hearing, with one lawyer even cupping his ear. Get a rope. |
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| Lawyer: Saddam in 'Good Health, High Spirits' |
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This was amusing...
Having spent half of my life in Colorado, and the rest in Texas, it seemed to peg me purty good... |
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| Dems "Stick with the ship." |
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| Diaperless Babies Seen As Earth-Friendly Solution |
| 04.25.05 (11:02 am) [edit] |
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Diaperless Babies Seen As Earth-Friendly Solution By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer April 22, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - As environmentalists celebrate the 34th annual Earth Day, some in the green movement are now advocating "diaper-free" babies to help save the planet. Citing concerns about plastic disposable diapers clogging landfills and the amount of washing and detergents that cloth diapers require, many environmentalists are taking a page from tribal cultures and seeking to eliminate the use of the baby diapers altogether. The green movement is now promoting diaperless babies as a "retro, cutting-edge, environmentally friendly scheme" to mothers throughout the industrialized world. The green movement already has declared war on the modern flush toilet, declaring it an "environmental disaster," and has instead pushed waterless "dry" toilets as an earth-friendly solution. Former Vice President Al Gore joined the board of a waterless urinal company late last year to further the dry toilet cause and to help avert what many environmentalists believe is a looming international water crisis. "There is a way to have a baby and NOT use diapers," says one website advocating diaperless babies. Parents are urged to get in tune with their infant's body signals and hold babies over toilets, buckets and shrubbery or any other convenient receptacle when nature calls. One advocate suggests bringing a "tight-lidded bucket" along to serve as a waste receptacle when mothers take their babies out in public. 'Primitive worship' But Robert Bidinotto, publisher of ecoNOT.com and a critic of environmentalists, dismisses such notions as "primitive-worship." "Incredibly, some environmentalists actually prefer that the foul messes we normally capture in diapers and landfills, spill instead onto our linoleum, carpets, and even our children," Bidinotto told CNSNews.com. Noting many greens' opposition to flush toilets and now baby diapers, Bidinotto said environmentalists' have a "strange affinity for bodily wastes," and he believes they have become "obsessed with toilet issues." 'Be the first in your neighborhood' Umbra Fisk, advice columnist for Grist Magazine , a major environmental e-publication, has joined the diaperless baby effort. Responding to a reader's question in the Feb. 12 issue of Grist Magazine about how to handle baby waste in an Earth-friendly manner, Fisk fully endorses the diaper-free movement as a "retro cutting-edge environmentally friendly scheme." Fisk urges parents to "be the first in your neighborhood" to go diaper free. "People around the world who have no access to diapers manage to raise children, and a small group of parents in diaper-rich countries have decided to follow their lead. Around here, it's called 'elimination communication' or 'diaper-free,'" Fisk wrote. Fisk argues that changing times mean parents no longer have to change diapers. "The concept is logical and simple: Infants give recognizable signs of imminent peeing and pooping; it's possible to learn your infant's signs; infant pee isn't frightening; and if you train your kid to ignore their outputs, you'll just have to go back and retrain them when traditional potty-training time arrives," Fisk explained. Another diaperless baby advocate, who identifies herself as Natec, wrote a how-to manual for prospective mothers of diaperless babies titled, "Elimination Timing: The Solution to the Dirty Diapers War." The manual, which used fictionalized names and characters, describes Natec's motivation to go diaper-free after the birth of her son. "When David was born, I started to think about the kind of world I was making for him to grow up in. The thought of garbage spewing and sprawling landfills filled me with horror. And right along with this horror were those little mother's helpers, disposable diapers...rotting, but never really going away in all their plastic glory," Natec wrote. Natec maintains that plastic diapers "can take 500 years to decompose." Natec is not impressed with so-called "biodegradable" diapers, because they "may contain more plastic to compensate for the weakness of their materials." Although green advocates estimate that diapers account for only between 0.5 to 1.8 percent of landfill space, they nevertheless consider that troubling. "One percent of billions of tons is worth worrying about. If we don't think about how to address that one percent, which one percent will we address?" asked Richard Dennison, a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense group, as quoted in Natec's how-to manual. 'Evil empire of Western parenting' Concerns about landfills are not the only reason some parents are going diaperless. Scott Noelle, editor of the Continuum Concept website and a father, explained why he eventually stopped using diapers on his infant daughter Olivia, in a web essay titled "Going Diaperless." "In my mind, diapers became the symbol of the Evil Empire of Western Parenting in which babies must suffer to accommodate the needs of their parents' broken-continuum culture: a controlled, sterile, odorless, wall-to-wall carpeted fortress in which to live with the illusion of dominion over nature," wrote Noelle, on the website livingharmony.com. Despite his concerns, Noelle continued to use diapers on his daughter, despite the fact that he "felt like a monster and a fraud." Noelle finally chose to go diaperless and looked to traditional cultures for inspiration. "How I longed for a simple, dirt-floored, baby-friendly hut like that of a Yequana family," he wrote. Natec agrees with Noelle that modern society has a lot to learn from the traditional ways of life. "[M]any of us have not, until recent years, given credit to the mothering skills of more Earth-centered, i.e. 'primitive" cultures,' she wrote in her how-to manual. "When you think about it, there have been millions of years of human beings and only a few thousand years with any references to diapers," she added. But Bidinotto of ecoNOT.com bristles at what he considers the glorification of a "primitive" way of life by diaperless baby advocates. "These people have no idea what primitive life is really like. Their preferred alternative to today's 'controlled, sterile, odorless' environment is a world of filth and disease, where countless millions died in plagues and epidemics," Bidinotto explained. Shopping with a diaperless baby Ingrid Bauer, author of the book "Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene," writes on her website natural-wisdom.com that the key for parents interested in going au natural is parent-infant communication. "Observation and close bonding interaction help the parent to understand the baby's signals, body language and timing rhythms," Bauer writes in the frequently asked questions section of her website "Some common signals that indicate a need to pee in a young infant are: squirming, "fussing," tensing the face, frowning or having a look of "inner concentration," she wrote. "When the baby has to go, the parent holds him or her in a comfortable position over an appropriate toilet place and makes a cueing sound (perhaps a gentle "sss")." What's the parent of a diaperless baby to do when out shopping? Bauer offers this solution. "These parents may rely on using public bathrooms, or bring along a container such as a tight -lidded bucket," Bauer wrote. Bauer calls freedom from diapers "responsive infant-care." "This gentle and ancient practice is the most common way of caring for a baby's hygiene needs in the non-Western world," she writes. Bidinotto rejects any notion that industrialized nations should mimic the traditional cultures. "The only thing that we moderns have to learn from primitive cultures is what they themselves learned. They learned that life is much better with modern conveniences, such as diapers. And in fact, most primitive peoples can't wait to get and use such conveniences," Bidinotto explained. "But now environmentalists want to sentence millions to the filth and drudgery that our ancestors were so eager to escape," he added. You lefties are completely out of your minds... http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/20040 4/CUL20040422a.html" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/20040 4/CUL20040422a.html" target="_blank"http://www.cnsnews.com/Cultur... |
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| Man Accused of Blasphemy Shot Dead |
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani man accused of desecrating the Koran was shot dead Wednesday after being chased by an angry crowd. Ashiq Nabi, in his thirties, was accused of being disrespectful to Islam's holy book and had been in hiding since Monday, a senior police official said. "Today, a mob spotted him and shot him dead," said Mazahar ul Haq, police chief of Nowshera town, about 100 km (62 miles) west of the capital, Islamabad. Blasphemy, including desecrating the Koran, is a capital offence in deeply Islamic Pakistan and carries the death sentence, but convictions have always been turned down by high courts because of a lack of evidence. Witnesses said the man was chased through fields and climbed a tree to get away from an angry crowd of up to 500 men. When he refused to come down, someone shot him dead, they said. Human rights activists want the blasphemy law to be struck off the books saying it is often abused by people to settle personal disputes or religious rivalry. Courtesy of the Religion of PeaceTM http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm /20050420/od_nm/religion_ pakistan_blasphemy_dc" title="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm /20050420/od_nm/religion_ pakistan_blasphemy_dc" target="_blank"http://story.news.yahoo.com/n... |
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| The Sky Isn't Falling |
| 04.19.05 (9:58 am) [edit] |
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Washington, D.C., April 18, 2005— The 1970’s brought us many things, including the idea that Earth was going to pot. Gloom and doom predictions by those supposedly in the know have kept “Earth Day” a main focus for the environment movement. But the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a public policy group based in Washington, D.C., and according to the Wall Street Journal, “the best environmental think tank in the country,” Earth Day is nothing more than a propaganda tool used to scare the public. As evidence, CEI cites the following advances, many of which go well beyond the 30-yr. history of “Earth Day.” There is no “scientific consensus” that global warming will cause damaging climate change. In fact, global average temperature is only about 0.6o higher than a century ago. Outlandish claims that our earth is warming at an extreme rate mischaracterize the scientific research by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Academy of Sciences. The world is not in severe danger from rising sea levels. Research from Nils-Axel Morner of Stockholm University demonstrates that current sea levels are within the range of sea level oscillation over the past 300 years. And extreme weather conditions have no provable link to Global warming. Research by German scientists have demonstrated that the devastating floods in central Europe in 2002 were quite normal. And don’t blame climate on the growth of vector-borne diseases such as malaria. World experts agree that “other factors” are more important when it comes to the spread of diseases. CEI Senior Fellow in International Policy, Iain Murray. Alarmists such as Paul Ehrlich made hysterical predictions 30-plus years ago about the world running out of food. However, worldwide, the amount of food produced per acre has doubled over the past 50 years. In the United States alone, more than three times the amount of people are fed on 33 percent less farmland than in 1990. In addition, death from famine dropped during the 20th century, despite the world’s population quadrupling. Advances in agricultural technology and liberalization of global trade have had an impact on alleviating the food shortage. In recent years, one very important component of the food supply—fish, has come under attack by scare mongrels that tell us rising levels of mercury in fish are putting people at risk. In fact, according to data taken from the Smithsonian Institute, mercury levels found in fish are no higher today than they were 100 years ago. Greg Conko, CEI Director of Food Safety Policy. The on-going belief that using pesticides will cause cancer has never been proven and in fact, has led to the spread of serious health risks, including the West Nile Virus and malaria. Both diseases are controllable and have been drastically reduced in communities and countries that allow the spraying of DDT. In addition, credit pesticide use and artificial fertilizers for creating a worldwide boom in the production of food. The word “chemical” instilled fear in many people during the last century. However, according to a researcher, chlorine, used to disinfect drinking water, ranks right up there with the discovery of antibiotics as one of the major public health accomplishments of the 20th century. Angela Logomasini, Director of Risk and Environmental Policy. A popular environmental concern warns us that air quality is getting worse and is making us all sick. However, statistics show over the last 20 years, carbon monoxide levels have dropped 58 percent, despite an increase in vehicle miles traveled; ozone concentrations have decreased by 17 percent; and the ambient concentration of lead has plummeted 96 percent. Marlo Lewis, CEI Senior Fellow. “Tree huggers’” claims of mass de-forestation are completely unfounded based on the numbers. In the early part of the twentieth century, people cut down twice as many trees as they planted; now the United States grows 36 percent more trees than it harvests. Some researchers believe tree numbers are larger today than when Columbus arrived in 1492! In fact, less dependence on wood for fuel and construction has led to a decrease in wood consumption by half since 1900. Look to private conservation efforts, not federal government, for the 86 percent increase in reforestation, which helps create habitat for endangered species. Species like the California Condor are becoming extinct and environmentalists tout the Endangered Species Act for helping the condor and many other species. While the ESA’s sole purpose is to save species, in fact, not one recovered species has been helped by the ESA, according to many experts. Like the California Condor and the Wood Duck, countless species have been saved through the hard working efforts of private individuals and organizations. Robert J. Smith, Senior Environmental Scholar. From the Competitive Enterprise Institute |
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| Radical Muslims storm election meeting |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Radical Islamists broke into a news conference held by moderate Muslims on Tuesday, denounced Prime Minister Tony Blair as Satan and urged Muslims to boycott next month's election. Around 20 protesters, many wearing scarves to hide their faces, ripped a locked door off its hinges at one of London's main mosques and burst into the event organised by the country's main Islamic lobby group the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). They pushed their way to the front of the room, stood on chairs and shouted slogans against the MCB, Blair, Jews, Christians, apostates and the entire political system. "Tony Blair can go to hell! Tony Blair can go to hell!," they chanted as television cameras turned on them. "There is no God but Allah!" The protest laid bare tensions within the country's 1.6 million-strong Islamic community, where a minority of hardliners often garners publicity for radical opinions including praise of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Those tensions are mirrored elsewhere in Europe, notably in France which is home to the continent's largest Islamic community as well as its biggest Jewish community. After about 20 minutes, the protesters -- young, male, mostly bearded and wearing traditional Muslim dress including headcaps and flowing robes -- left of their own accord. In leaflets handed to reporters, they identified themselves as belonging to a group called "The Saviour Sect." GO TO HELLFIRE! The protesters said the MCB, a respected collection of some 400 Muslim organisations throughout Britain, was a mouthpiece of the government. "Go to hellfire Sacranie," one of them shouted at MCB leader Iqbal Sacranie, who tried to reason with the demonstrators. They accused the MCB of doing nothing to help Muslims held in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison while sending representatives to Baghdad last year to try, unsuccessfully, to secure the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley. They shouted slogans relating to Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay as well as Iraq. Via: Yahoo! |
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| Immigrant piano player honored by police for undercover 'kills' |
| 04.15.05 (9:50 am) [edit] |
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A Russian immigrant turned Israeli policeman has won the Jewish state's second-highest military honor. Known only by his initial, Y., the commander of the Border Police undercover unit called Yasam was awarded the Ribbon of Valor on Tuesday for a string of deadly counterterrorist missions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Yasam is the Hebrew acronym for Police Reconnaissance Unit. "I just did my job as best I knew how," Y., a 30-year-old father of two, told Ma'ariv before the awards ceremony. "I wasn't expecting a decoration." Yasam usually seeks out recruits among Sephardi Jews who can pass for Palestinians and handle the rough world of covert operations. It might seem an odd home for Y., the piano-playing son of Muscovite academics who immigrated to Israel when he was 16. But he now has two dozen confirmed "kills" of terrorist fugitives to his name. Y. described Yasam as his Zionist calling. "Even in the worst of times, we always knew Israel was the place for us," he said. "The same went for the military. Even back in Russia, we would hear about the Israeli military. For me, it was a personal challenge to serve in it." "The Holocaust is very deeply ingrained in me. With time, I understood how terrible it was, and understood that we, the Jews, must know how to protect ourselves without asking questions or permission." Drafted into the Border Police, Y. performed so well that the commanders asked him to become an officer despite his faulty Hebrew. Then came the outbreak of Palestinian violence in 2000, and Y. found Arabic to be just as useful. According to comrades, he is first to volunteer for the most dangerous missions in the grim alleyways of the refugee camps favored as hideouts by Palestinian gunmen. "There is something wrong with his fear instinct. It does not exist," one said. A slender 1.68 meters tall, Y. does not stick out in a crowd. He made up for his pale complexion by growing an Islamist-style beard. He describes undercover work as a matter of attitude. "When you see Yasam men in the field, you know they're not regular soldiers. They're at home out there. Regular soldiers go around taking cover behind walls, ducking all the time. Our guys hang out in the village as if they were their own," he said. Read the rest about this real-life hero here. |
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| Report: Sharpton Pocketed Donations |
| 04.12.05 (8:56 am) [edit] |
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Color me suprised... WASHINGTON — The FBI, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the Rev. Al Sharpton, secretly videotaped him pocketing campaign donations from two shady fund-raisers in a New York City hotel room and then asking for more, it was reported yesterday. One of the donors was later recorded on a wiretap saying Sharpton may not have reported to the Federal Election Commission tens of thousands of dollars in campaign cash, as is required by the law, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The FBI launched the probe into Sharpton's fund-raising for his failed 2004 presidential run after his name surfaced on wiretaps in an unrelated Philadelphia City Hall corruption case, the Inquirer said. The Post confirmed the FBI investigation of Sharpton. The two dubious donors whom Sharpton met with in the hotel on May 9, 2003 — Democratic fund-raisers La-Van Hawkins and the late Ronald White — suggested that nearly $90,000 was missing from the official campaign report Sharpton filed with the FEC. Hawkins is currently on trial in Philadelphia on corruption charges unrelated to the Sharpton case; White also was going to be indicted, but he died before charges could be brought. An FBI wiretap picked up Hawkins telling White he believed they had raised more than $140,000 for Sharpton in the previous quarter — but Hawkins fretted because Sharpton had reported only about $50,000 on his federal election filing. "He's a train wreck — a plane crash waiting to happen," Hawkins told White about Sharpton, according to the paper. FEC records show Sharpton reported raising about $54,000 during the period, the second quarter of 2003. Sharpton has denied any wrongdoing. In the hotel room, the FBI had videotape secretly rolling as White forked over a wad of campaign checks to Sharpton. Sharpton demanded $25,000 more, and White promised he'd try to raise it. Wiretaps show that White and Hawkins supported Sharpton because they believed the candidate could grease the skids in future business deals — primarily a $40 million deal related to New York City's pension fund. The feds learned Hawkins, a Detroit fast-food king, sought to create a fried-chicken empire financed with millions of dollars invested from the Big Apple pension fund. White and Hawkins wooed Sharpton with the campaign checks to set up a meeting with Comptroller William Thompson, who controls the pension funds — though nothing ever came of it. Thompson is not accused of any wrongdoing. Fearing that Sharpton and the donors were hatching a plan to defraud the pension fund, the FBI got clearance for the videotape from a judge. Read the rest at Fox News |
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| IRAN : PASTOR CALLED BEFORE ISLAMIC COURT |
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Hamid Pourmand faces charge of apostasy and possible death sentence. April 5 (Compass) -- Iranian Christian Hamid Pourmand must appear before the Islamic (sharia) court of Iran within nine days. An exact court date has not been released. Arrested last September when security police raided a church conference he was attending, the Assemblies of God lay pastor will be brought up before the Islamic court between April 11 and 14 to face charges of apostasy from Islam and proselytizing Muslims to the Christian belief. Both “crimes” are punishable by death. Pourmand, now 47, converted from Islam to Christianity nearly 25 years ago. He spent several months in solitary confinement after his arrest last September 9, the only one of more than 80 church leaders arrested at the conference who was not released. One of Iran’s leading Protestant pastors was executed in December 1990 after a sharia court condemned him. Hussein Soodman, also an Assemblies of God pastor and a Muslim convert to Christianity, had been involved in Christian ministry for 24 years. He was reportedly hanged on December 3, 1990, as part of what was believed then to be a new wave of repression directed against the small Christian community in this Islamic Republic. Pourmand, an army colonel at the time of his arrest, was found guilty by a military court on February 16 of “deceiving” the Iranian armed forces about his faith, despite evidence he produced to the contrary. According to the judge of the military court, his recent three-year sentence was given because Pourmand withheld from his superiors the information that he was a Christian. The Islamic regime in Iran has made it illegal for a non-Muslim citizen to serve as a military officer, since that puts him in a position of authority over Muslim soldiers. The military court verdict is currently under appeal to the Supreme Court. But with the judiciary’s threat to try Pourmand before a sharia court of Islamic law now being carried out, he could face the death penalty. Hope that Case Highlights Religious Intolerance One Tehran source close to Pourmand’s case said he was hopeful that this judicial proof of religious intolerance in Iran would be highlighted during the annual six-week session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, convening now in Geneva. The European Union (EU) lodged a formal protest with Iranian authorities last November over the arrests of Christians -- and in particular Christian pastors -- as an “infringement of the freedom of religion or belief.” Pourmand’s verdict was labeled “a shocking travesty of justice, even by Iran’s meager standards” by Nina Shea of Freedom House in Washington, D.C. His arrest was also noted in the latest report on human rights in Iran released in March by the U.S. State Department. http://www.compassdirect.org/en/lead.php" title="http://www.compassdirect.org/en/lead.php" target="_blank"http://www.compassdirect.org/... |
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| Arab News: "Jews Are Vermin" |
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 Lovely people, the Saudis. Haven't I seen this comparison somewhere before? http://www.holocaust-history.... *Spit* Via: Little Green Footballs http://littlegreenfootbal ls.c... |
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| Sandy Bergler Walks... |
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| Depressed French wine producers bomb Government offices |
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By John Lichfield in Paris 02 April 2005 Terrorist attacks by radical wine producers on government offices in the south of France yesterday served notice that the country's wine crisis may be spinning out of control. Sticks of dynamite were thrown at agriculture ministry offices in Montpellier and Carcassonne in the early hours, causing serious damage but no injuries. A car was also burned outside ministry offices in Nîmes. The attacks, which were condemned by mainstream wine producers' associations, were claimed by a group called comité régional d'action viticole (Crav). The same group was responsible for incendiary attacks on supermarkets and explosions outside the offices of wine traders in the Languedoc-Roussillon area last month. Well, I guess this isn't too suprising considering the French think Jerry Lewis is a god... :roll: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=625568" title="http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=625568" target="_blank"http://news.independent.co.uk... |
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| ENRAGED MUSLIM CHOPS OFF CHRISTIAN’S ARM |
| 04.01.05 (3:36 pm) [edit] |
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A young Christian shopkeeper in Pakistan’s Punjab province had his arm chopped off by a Muslim customer who became enraged during a disagreement over a TV rental. Shahbaz Masih, 22, was approached last November 28 by a customer wanting to rent a television set from his video shop in Talwandi, a little village near Chak Jhumra in Faisalabad district. When Masih declined the request, his customer, a 26-year-old butcher named Ahmed Ali, became furious, declaring the Christian had insulted him. “How dare you, a poor Christian, refuse my request?” he reportedly shouted at Masih before he left the shop. Returning home, Ahmed Ali consulted with his father, Maqsood Ahmed, also a butcher. Shortly afterwards he went back searching for Masih, armed with a butcher’s ax. Ahmed Ali forced his way into Masih’s house and attacked the shop owner, chopping off his left arm near the elbow. He left the house threatening the victim and his widowed mother, Munawar Bibi, with even more “dire consequences” for the alleged insult he had endured. Later that same day, Masih was admitted for emergency treatment at the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad. After his discharge from the hospital four days later, the young man was forced to close his shop, take his mother and leave their village to go into hiding. The Religion of PeaceTM http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/newsdetails.php?newsid=563" title="http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/newsdetails.php?newsid=563" target="_blank"http://www.pakistanchristianp... |
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