Sunday, January 29, 2012
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: Honour killing family jailed for life
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: Honour killing family jailed for life: Honour killing family jailed for life as judge says: 'It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous crime' Father, moth...
Honour killing family jailed for life
Honour killing family jailed for life as judge says: 'It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous crime'
- Father, mother and son found guilty of murdering family's three teenage daughters
- The girls defied strict rules by dating, socialising and going online
- Bodies found submerged in car in canal
Last updated at 12:26 AM on 30th January 2012
An Afghan father, his wife and their son have been jailed for life after a jury found them guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as a 'despicable' and 'heinous' crime.
The jury had taken 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder.
The four bodies were found in June 2009 in a car submerged in a canal in Kingston, Ontario, where the family had stopped for the night on their way home from Niagara Falls.
Prosecutors said the daughters were killed because they dishonored the family by defying rules on dress, dating, socialising and going online.
Guilty: Mohammad Shafia, right and his son, Hamed Mohammed Shafia, left, being brought out of the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Locked away: Tooba Mohammad Yahya leaves the Frontenac County Courthouse following a guilty verdict. She will serve a minimum of 25 years without parole
After the verdict was read, the three defendants again declared their innocence in the killings of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Shafia's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.
After the jury returned the verdicts, Mohammad Shafia, speaking through a translator, said: 'We are not criminal, we are not murderer, we didn't commit the murder and this is unjust.'
His weeping wife, Tooba, also declared the verdict unjust. She said: 'I am not a murderer, and I am a mother, a mother.'
Their son, Hamed, speaking in English said: 'I did not drown my sisters anywhere.'
But Judge Robert Maranger was unmoved, saying the evidence clearly supported their conviction for 'the planned and deliberate murder of four members of your family'.
'It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous crime ... the apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honor ... that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.'
Killed by their family: Prosecutors said, from left, Geeti, Zainab and Sahar Shafia were murdered in an honour killing because they would not comply with the family's strict disciplinary rules
The defense had contended the car accidentally plunged into the canal after one of the daughters went on a joy ride.
The accused killed the girls because they dishonoured the family by defying its disciplinarian rules on dress, dating, socialising and going online.
The fourth victim was Shafia's first wife, who was infertile, and was living with the family in Montreal. The polygamous relationship, if revealed, could have resulted in their deportation.
Prosecutor Laurie Lacelle had previously told the court: 'Shafia, Tooba and Hamed had decided that there was a diseased limb on their family tree. Their decision was to trim the diseased limb and prune the tree back to the good wood.'
The trio denied the killings, claiming that evidence points to the deaths being an accident.
Killed by her husband: Rona Amir Mohammad was called 'auntie' by her husband's children
Police made a grisly discovery in the summer of 2009 in canal locks east of Toronto when they found the bodies of the three sisters and 52-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad in a submerged Nissan car.
The prosecution alleged it was a premeditated murder, staged to look like an accident after it was carried out.
The court heard evidence that it appears the four made no attempt to escape the car through an open window, and the bodies were found eerily suspended inside.
There was no one in the driver's seat and three of the bodies had bruising to the back of their heads.
Defence lawyer Peter Kemp suggested that was plausible in an accident scenario.
The family had left Afghanistan in 1992 and lived in Pakistan, Australia and Dubai before settling in Canada in 2007.
Shafia, a wealthy businessman, married Yahya because his first wife could not have children.
The months leading up to the deaths were not happy ones in the Shafia household, the court heard.
Zainab, the oldest at 19, was forbidden to attend school for a year because she had a young Pakistani-Canadian boyfriend, and she fled to a shelter, terrified of her father, the court was told.
During the trial the court was played recordings in which Shafia talks about his daughters and the fact that they were dating while ranting about the family's honour.
Grisly discovery: The bodies of the three sisters and 52-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad were found in this car submerged in a Toronto canal
Zainab had married her boyfriend angering Shafia and causing family turmoil. After Yahya said that she knew Zainab was 'already done' but wished 'the two others' weren't, he responded saying: 'No Tooba, they were treacherous'.
Speaking about pictures of his daughter he said he was consoled adding: 'When I tell you to be patient, you tell me that it is hard.
'It isn't harder than watching them every hour with (boyfriends). For this reason whenever I see those pictures, I am consoled. I say to myself, "You did well. Would they come back to life a hundred times, for you to do the same again".'
Jurors were also shown email exchanges between Zainab and her boyfriend. One explicitly warned of the potential danger her brother posed.
During the trial, Mohamma Yahya took the stand and used her time to rebut the view of their household as a harsh one.
In love: Zainab married Pakistani-Canadian Ammar Wahid making her father furious
Forbidden: Angel Ricardo Ruano Sanchez was Sahar's boyfriend for the last four months of her life
She said that her husband only hit the children once and used to badger them verbally if they were bad, not beat them.
Yahya described a tolerant house where the girls were not required to wear the traditional Muslim headscarf and were not forbidden from wearing makeup.
She did uphold the theory that their family forbid-not only the girls- all of their seven children from dating until they graduated from high school.
‘Me and Shafia and also Rona, we decided that (until) the time that the children graduated from school and they … show their diploma to us, they are not allowed to have girlfriend or boyfriend or to get married,’ Yahya said on the stand.
In addition to disputing the views of other witnesses, including Shafia’s brother-in-law who said that Shafia tried to enlist him in a plan to drown Zainab, Yahya also had to address the many grievances listed in Rona’s diary.
Punished: Tooba Mohammad Yahya was found guilty murder of three of her daughters and her husband's other wife who lived with their family in a polygamous relationship
Rona described a violent and miserable household where she was abused and pushed out. Apparently Rona wanted a divorce and that was the reason why Shafia allegedly included her among his disobedient daughters in the honour killing.
Other witnesses said the eldest daughter, Zainab, was forbidden to attend school for a year because she had a boyfriend.
The jury heard testimony that Zainab's sisters, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, were hounded and trailed by their brothers because the parents suspected them of dating boys; that Sahar repeatedly said her father would kill her if he found out she had a boyfriend; that she had bruises on her arms; that Mohammad, the first wife who was helping to raise the children, also was brutally treated.
Zainab ran away from home for a couple of weeks and her sisters contacted authorities, saying they wanted to be removed from the house because of violence and their father's strict parenting, the prosecution said.
Prosecutor Laurie Lacelle presented wire taps and cell phone records from the Shafia family in court. In one phone conversation, the father says his daughters 'betrayed us immensely'.
Fazil Javad, Shafia's brother-in-law, said Shafia tried to enlist him in a plan to drown Zainab.
'Even if they hoist me up to the gallows, nothing is more dear to me than my honour. There is nothing more valuable than our honour,' Ms Lacelle quoted Shafia as saying in an intercept transcript.
The case brought up major questions about immigration and cultural integration in Canada, which takes in 250,000 immigrants a year, more per capita than anywhere save Australia.
In recent years a number of so-called honour killings have prompted debate about absorbing immigrants into the mainstream and dealing with culture clashes between immigrant parents and their children.
More than 80 Canadian Muslim organizations, imams and community leaders have signed a call for action against ‘the reality of domestic violence within our own communities, compounded by abhorrent and yet persistent pre-Islamic practices rooted in the misguided notion of restoring family honour’.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093513/Afghan-family-guilty-honour-killing-Canada.html#ixzz1kvD870Vh
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: Israeli hackers: We've obtained Saudi credit card ...
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: Israeli hackers: We've obtained Saudi credit card ...: Israeli hackers: We've obtained Saudi credit card info A group of hackers from Israel, abroad claim to have obtained details of thousand...
Israeli hackers: We've obtained Saudi credit card info
Israeli hackers: We've obtained Saudi credit card info
A group of hackers from Israel, abroad claim to have obtained details of thousands of Saudi credit cards; threaten to expose the data should cyber attacks on Israel continue
Aviel Magnezi
Cyber vengeance: The major credit card information leak, a by-product of the activities of the Saudi hacker who has been sneering over attempts to locate him, has not been ignored.
Israeli hackers who spoke to Ynet claimed on Monday that they have managed to lay their hands on the details of thousands of credit cards used on Saudi shopping websites. Ynet has confirmed the hackers' reports. "If the leaks continue, we will cause severe damage to the privacy of Saudi citizens," one of the Israeli hackers threatened.
Related stories:
- Saudi hacker's identity uncovered?
- Compromised credit cards restricted
- Saudi hackers leak personal information of thousands of Israelis
Will Saudis soon be facing credit card leak?
Ynet has looked into the details and can confirm that at least some of the names on the list are real and match the rest of the details presented in the hackers' list. Most of the identities matched the information in the file, their Facebook and email accounts as well as their telephone numbers. The people listed were mostly Saudi citizens.
Speaking to Ynet, Mohammad, a Saudi resident, confirmed the details and tried to find out how his telephone number and information was discovered. "That is my name and those are my personal details, but I don't know anything about a credit card leak, no one told me anything," he said before hanging up.
One hacker who spoke to Ynet said: "We could not stay silent after the pompous boasting of the Saudi hacker." He added that "a few Israeli hackers came together and decided on various responses for each cyber activity that would be carried out against Israel, including responses beyond the cyber world."
The Facebook page of one of the Saudis exposed by Israeli hackers
When asked what he meant he explained that "the response we decided upon after group consultations includes scenarios where Israel is attacked outside of the cyber world." For example, he explained that "if a terror attack were to take place, we will make every effort to publish the terrorist's personal details and those of his family."
He stressed that "sadly, the State of Israel does not support an offensive policy so we are forced to maintain a great deal of secrecy; if we are caught we're facing a harsh punishment."
Meanwhile, the Saudi hacker has failed to impress Israelis. "Any hacker can see tat this isn't the most talented person and that everything he did demanded very little knowledge and that it can be carried out through pre-arranged programs without any problems."
The Israeli hacker added that they were "working on exposing his true identity, but it isn't our main priority."
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The Knesset's Economics Committee discussed Monday the recent credit card scandal. Representatives from Israeli credit card companies, the Bank of Israel, the National Security Council, Justice Ministry and National Cyber Headquarters all participated in the meeting.
While the credit card companies' representatives stressed their ability to track down irregular financial activities, an expert warned "the damage caused from this monumental affair of identity theft is much greater than it appears."
"We have very high technological abilities," a representative of the credit companies stressed. "Even in this particular affair, our ability to block the cards and immediately stop any sort of damage was very high. We did it immediately – in the first incident within less than an hour and during the second event within less than ten minutes."
"This is a huge event in Israeli terms and a small one on a global scale. People like Omar, so-called-Omar, appear every so often. This was an attempt to embarrass the State of Israel. If he wished to cause financial damage he would have kept the lists to himself and not have published them," they added.
According to Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski, a researcher in the field of internet and information law and information security, "the damage is great, tens times greater than what's said here. Even if the credit card companies operated in a perfect manner, this event will remain with many Israelis for a long time, because they can be impersonated and therefore be classified as problematic online."
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: Salman Rushdie cancels Indian literary festival ap...
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: Salman Rushdie cancels Indian literary festival ap...: soon to happen in the USA Salman Rushdie cancels Indian literary festival appearance over death threats from Muslim extremists By D...
From Jihad Watch
Sweden: Violent Muslims halt mail delivery in Malmø
Malmø in Sweden is famous for its many Muslims, killings and bombs (at least 22 bombs in the last three years). Malmø has become a Scandinavian Baghdad, and an expanding, uncontrollable and violent Sharia zone.
In the "youth neighbourhood" (Muslim ghetto) Sevedkvarteret, Seved Quarter, being a postman is now too dangerous. Being a non-Islamic authority and wearing symbols (signs, uniform) representing other non-Islamic authorities is dangerous in such places. Being a postman in Sevedkvarteret is now a "Muslim-only" job: "Crime stops postmen in Malmo area," translated from Politiken, January 16:
Threats and violence have now forced the Swedish postal service to give up delivering letters in a part of Malmø.
Postmen simply stay away from Sevedkvarteret (Seved Quarter). Instead, local residents in the area are hired to ensure that letters and packages reach the recipients.This comes after several problems in the district, which led to postmen being equipped with attack alarms.After a failed robbery, Packet Post has been escorted into the area by guards from the security company G4S, and has left packages in a kiosk where recipients had to pick up their mail.Initially, the locals will be in charge of distribution for six months. The service is therefore seeking two individuals from Seved Quarter who will assume the managerial position.The Post Office's decision to avoid Seved town comes at a time when Malmø is struggling with a wave of brutal crimes.Within the last few months, six people have been killed in Malmø in a series of murders that has highlighted the problems that the city has, among them gang crime and relatively easy access to weapons.The killings have led the Swedish Police Board to aid the Malmø police in investigating the killings. Band Officers from many police districts are now deployed in the city to fight the lawlessness.According to the newspaper Expressen, 30 additional homicide investigators have been sent to the city, which has also been reinforced with 30 extra street cops.Simultaneously, a special task force, Focus Malmø, is now attempting to put pressure upon the 70 senior gang members, who, according to the authorities are governing the criminal community in the city.
Salman Rushdie cancels Indian literary festival appearance over death threats from Muslim extremists
soon to happen in the USA
Salman Rushdie cancels Indian literary festival appearance over death threats from Muslim extremists
By DAMIEN GAYLE
Last updated at 4:53 PM on 20th January 2012
Salman Rushdie cancelled plans to appear at an Indian literature festival today after warnings he could be targeted for assassination by Islamic extremists.
The planned appearance by the Booker Prize-winning author at the Jaipur Literary festival had reawakened the long-dormant controversy over his 1988 book The Satanic Verses.
Some Muslims consider the book blasphemous and Muslim clerics had staged protests against Rushdie's attendance at the festival.
Unlikely lothario: Salman Rushdie dances with Michelle Barish at her birthday party last year. He has been forced to cancel an appearance at a literary festival
Rushdie spent years in hiding after Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for his death for writing the book, which was also banned in India.
In recent weeks, the head of the influential Darul Uloom seminary had urged the Indian government to bar Rushdie from the festival.
The chief minister of the state of Rajasthan, where Jaipur is located, also said the writer should stay away because of security concerns.
Organisers of the five-day festival, which began today, postponed an event with Rushdie that had been planned for the first day, but still hoped he would attend.
Ladies man: Rushdie pictured with his fourth wife, Padma Lakshmi
But today they read out a statement from the British-Indian author saying he had decided to cancel his trip.
Rushdie's statement said he had been informed by intelligence sources that 'paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld may be on their way to Jaipur to "eliminate" me'.
'While I have some doubts about the accuracy of this intelligence, it would be irresponsible of me to come to the festival in such circumstances,' he said.
THE SATANIC VERSES: STORM THAT LAUNCHED RUSHDIE'S CELEBRITY
Rushdie's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses propelled the Indian-born writer into a storm of controversy that forced him into hiding for the best part of a decade.
The title refers to the so-called 'satanic verses', a group of alleged Qur'anic verses that allow intercessory prayers to be made to three Pagan Meccan goddesses.
The book's publication in 1988 sparked a wave of protest and condemnation from Muslims who accused it of blasphemy and mocking their faith. The following year, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwā, or religious ruling, calling for Rushdie's death.
The British government gave the writer round-the-clock police protection.
Although Rushdie was never harmed, the threats to his life were serious. The Japanese translator of the book was murdered, a Norwegian publisher shot and an Italian publisher knifed.
Thirty-seven people were massacred in Sivas, Turkey, in a 1993 attack intended to target Aziz Nesin, the book's Turkish translator.
Since conciliatory statements from Iran in 1998, Rushdie has become a globe-trotting literary celebrity and socialite whose attendance at parties and events is keenly sought.
He has also become notorious as an unlikely lothario, with a string of glamorous girlfriends and four failed marriages.
He apparently now has his eyes set on a fifth after reportedly proposing to Michelle Barish just two days after she split from her billionaire boyfriend.
But that proposal came off the back of an unseemly spat with publicity seeking New York socialite Devorah Rose, who published details of their online conversations.
Ms Barish - who is said to be in Florida with daughter Bee - was thought to be considering the proposal, although she is herself still currently in the process of getting divorced.
The controversy over Rushdie's attendance at Jaipur clouded the opening of the festival, which will be attended by tens of thousands of people who have come to see Oprah Winfrey and literary stars such as Michael Ondaatje, Tom Stoppard and Annie Proulx.
William Dalrymple, an author and an organiser of the festival, told the Associated Press: 'It is tragic.'
Organisers said they hoped to be able to hold an event with Rushdie via video conferencing.
Sanjoy Roy, one of the people behind the event, told AP: 'We are trying to work out the technical details of this. Most likely it is going to happen.'
The 64-year-old author attended the annual festival in 2007 without incident.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089374/Salman-Rushdie-cancels-Indian-literary-festival-appearance-death-threats-Muslim-extremists.html#ixzz1k1w2uCCE
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: What is the difference between the Nazis and Musli...
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: What is the difference between the Nazis and Musli...: What is the difference between the Nazis and Muslims . The Nazis hid their work The Muslims publicly display it! Satan himself is alive...
What is the difference between the Nazis and Muslims
What is the difference between the Nazis and Muslims . The Nazis hid their work The Muslims publicly display it!
Satan himself is alive and well in this religion. Obviously, not all Islamic people partake in these horrible acts of violence, but it is a prominent problem in the religion itself. Pray for these women and children and that the men doing these horrendous acts will have their eyes opened
Satan himself is alive and well in this religion. Obviously, not all Islamic people partake in these horrible acts of violence, but it is a prominent problem in the religion itself. Pray for these women and children and that the men doing these horrendous acts will have their eyes opened
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: fire nail bombs
Dreams of a Muslim Dictator - Obama: fire nail bombs: Syrian security forces 'fire nail bombs' at unarmed protesters as 500,000 take to streets in biggest ever rally against regime At leas...
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