Sunday, November 04, 2007

 

Britain's love affair with the Saudi kingdom - tale of Saudi's Islamic theocracy's Oppressive brutality

Britain's love affair with the Saudi kingdom - tale of Saudi's Islamic theocracy's Oppressive brutality

Britain's love affair with the Saudi kingdom

By Jemima Khan
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 04/11/2007


King Abdullah arrived at Heathrow last Wednesday morning for the
first State Visit to the UK for 20 years – five planes, 13 family members, an
entourage of several hundred. No women.

I've been to Saudi Arabia a few
times. It's not much fun being a woman there. I suspect it's worse being a Saudi
woman. And worse still being her migrant maid.

It's a mad place and the
rules there have got nothing to do with Islam.

advertisementI've had my
feet beaten, not once but twice – first by a stick-wielding crone at Mecca for
not wearing socks, then by a pool attendant when I (swathed entirely in
compulsory trick-or-treat black) took my son to the hotel pool for a paddle.

I've heard old ladies complain that they are so harassed at night by the
frustrated male youth of Jeddah that they have to take their scarves off and
reveal their raddled faces just to scare them off. The irony of having to show
your face to protect your modesty was entirely lost on them.

I've also
woken up mid-flight on the plane home from Jeddah to London and discovered that
the passengers who embarked in full hijab have all been replaced by Bond Street
babes.

In Saudi Arabia, a woman can't travel abroad, leave the house or
even be examined by a doctor without the express permission of her husband. She
cannot be seen with any man except a close family member, the only exception
being her chauffeur – and that's a necessity because legally she's not permitted
to drive. She cannot marry a non-Muslim (or even a non-Sunni Muslim). And she
cannot wear anything other than a long black cloak and headscarf in public.
Although women account for 70 per cent of all graduates, they make up just 5 per
cent of the workforce. If they contravene the strict laws, they risk public
floggings or execution.

A few years ago, 15 girls died in a school fire
in Mecca because religious police ("The Commission for The Promotion of Virtue
and Prevention of Vice") prevented them from leaving the blazing school building
as they were not wearing correct Islamic dress and there were no relatives
outside to receive them. Apparently the police beat them as they tried to
escape.

Some would say the rules are as inexplicable (not to mention as
unIslamic) as in Afghanistan under the Taliban, where a friend of mine – a
Pakistani journalist – had his pubic hair measured at a check point (with a
stick with duct tape on the end shoved into his shalwar) to see if it was
cropped in accordance with religious custom.

But the difference is that
our government expressed outrage and bombed Afghanistan for their human rights
abuses as well as for harbouring (mostly Saudi) terrorists. And, for good
measure, we bombed Iraq too, at least in part for their human rights abuses and
lack of democracy.

King Abdullah, on the other hand – our Prime
Minister's "friend" with whom, according to Foreign Office Minister Kim Howell,
"we have many values in common" – gets a ceremonial welcome, a couple of
banquets, breakfast with the Queen at Buckingham Palace and meetings with Gordon
Brown, David Cameron and Prince Charles.

The Prime Minister failed to
bring up the subject of human rights or democracy. Or the fact that Saudi Arabia
exports and sponsors an extreme and distorted form of Islam to the rest of the
World.

The madrassahs in Pakistan, which gave rise to the radicalism of
the Taliban, have been funded by Saudi money since the Afghan jihad.

And
a hoard of malignant literature can be found inside as many as a quarter of
Britain's mosques, published and distributed by agencies linked to the
government of King Abdullah. These "education pamphlets" call for, amongst other
measures, the beheading of Muslims who abandon Islam, attacks on homosexuals,
religious segregation of society, for women to stay indoors and interfaith
marriages to be banned.

Nor did our PM mention the persecution of Shias,
homosexuals, non-Muslims, the public floggings, the torture, the detentions
without trial or the maltreatment of migrant workers. Nor the total lack of
freedom of expression and information nor the ban on trade unions, political
opposition and non-Muslim religions.

Does our government really care
about human rights and democracy?

The message is, it's business as
usual, everything forgiven, as long as you're a country which is pro-West,
strategically important, oil rich and able to buy billions of pounds worth of
our arms.

There's nothing new about it. It's not even that surprising.
In fact, our politicians can't even be bothered to offer an excuse.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/11/04/do0407.xml


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Thursday, November 01, 2007

 

Books advocating oppression of women, gays' execution in UK mosques linked to Saudi Arabian government

Books advocating oppression of women, gays' execution in UK mosques linked to Saudi Arabian government
DailyIndia ^ | 10,30,07



Books advocating oppression of women, gays' execution found in British mosques

From our ANI Correspondent

London, Oct 30: Hate-filled books and pamphlets advocating oppression of women and execution of gays have been distributed in British mosques.

Such radical literature was found by researchers at a quarter of the 100 Islamic religious institutions they visited in the country. According to them, much of the literature is linked to agencies of the Saudi Arabian government.

The material found in the mosques urges Muslims to lead separate lives from 'non-believers' and makes repeated calls for gays to be killed. It outlines that women should be subjugated, and warned them not to pluck their eyebrows or wear perfume, the Daily Mail reported.

A report by the Policy Exchange think tank has accused the Saudis of having a 'powerful and malign' influence, adding that the material was found by Muslim research teams working in 2006 and 2007.

The contentious pamphlets were either written by the country's Wahhabite religious establishment, published by official or semi-official institutions or found in Saudi-funded or linked mosques, the report said.

The radical material was also found at the East London Mosque, which has been visited by Prince Charles, and is closely linked with the Muslim Council of Britain.

According to the Policy Exchange, hateful material was also found at the former Finsbury Park Mosque in North London - made infamous by hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza - and institutions in Wycombe, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Blackburn, Bradford, Rochdale and Oxford.

"It is clearly intolerable that hate literature is peddled at some British mosques," said Anthony Browne, Policy Exchange's director.

"I am sure the majority of moderate Muslims will be as horrified as everyone else that pamphlets advocating jihad by force, hatred for insufficiently observant Muslims, Christians and Jews, and segregation have found their way into the UK's mosques," he added.

The report 'The Hijacking of British Islam: How extremist literature is subverting Britain's mosques' was written by Denis MacEoin, an Islamic studies expert at Newcastle University.

"What is more worrying is that these are among the best-funded and most dynamic institutions in Muslim Britain - some of which are held up as mainstream bodies... Many of the institutions have been endowed with official recognition," he added.

Almost half of the literature is written in English, suggesting it is targeted at younger British Muslims who do not speak Arabic or Urdu, said the report, adding that many of the publications encourage British Muslims to segregate themselves from non-Muslims.

The material included extracts from the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

The literature found in the East London Mosque said the punishment for sodomy is to be 'killed'.

"Or, to be burnt or to be stoned. Or, to be thrown from the highest point (mountain, tower, lofty building etc), then to follow it with stoning," it added.

Other pamphlets call for those who change their religion to be killed.

Another adds: "Whoever takes part in stoning a married adulterer is rewarded for that and it is not fitting for anyone to abstain from it if a ruling of stoning is issued."

However, Dr MacEoin said the literature did not usually go as far as encouraging violence, but it created an environment in which 'those who do encourage and conduct violence can move'.

"Mosques are non-hierarchical institutions, and the degree to which their managements are responsible for the presence of the booklets and pamphlets identified in this report must be considered on a mosque-by-mosque basis," he added.


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Londonistan's Dhimmitude - Teachers' Muslim dress order

Londonistan's Dhimmitude - Teachers' Muslim dress order

Teachers' Muslim dress order

By ANDREW PARKER

Published: 31 Oct
2007

A SCHOOL was yesterday accused of MAKING teachers dress up as
Asians for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival.

Kids at the 257-pupil
primary have also been told to don ethnic garb even though most are Christians.

The morning assembly will be open to all parents – but dads are BARRED
from a women-only party in the afternoon because Muslim husbands object to wives
mixing with other men.

Just two members of staff – a part-time teacher
and a teaching assistant – are Muslim.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article407311.ece


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Teachers ordered to dress up as Muslims.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490863&in_page_id=1770

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http://www.webloggin.com/uk-school-children-and-teachers-forced-to-dress-as-muslims-for-the-day

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

 

Islamofascism - Londonistan Calling

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=278636413897644


Londonistan Calling


Posted 10/30/2007

Islamofascism:
Six years after America's 9/11 and two years after London's 7/7, a British think
tank finds mosques in the U.K. and elsewhere are still preaching hate against
the West. Some things never change.


Whenever it's pointed out that
their members have a nasty habit of trying to kill innocent nonbelievers,
fundamentalist Islamic groups in Britain are among the first to cry foul.
"Ridiculous!" they say. "Islam is a religion of peace with more than a billion
adherents. We can't be responsible for everyone."

The problem, as a
report by Britain's Policy Exchange think tank shows, is that British mosques
have a surprising amount of extremist hate literature that they make available
to worshippers.

How hateful is it? The think tank fanned out across the
U.K., visiting 100 places of worship for the country's fastest-growing religion,
Islam. (More people in Britain attend mosque each week than services for the
Church of England, Britain's official state religion.)

Of the mosques
visited, 25% had hate literature. Investigators found 80 pamphlets and books
preaching violence, intolerance and outright hatred of anyone not Muslim.

The literature advocates, among other things, beheading those who leave
Islam, banning interfaith marriage, requiring women to stay indoors, stoning
adulterers and carrying out violent jihad against those who don't believe.

Here are just a few examples:

• If a man quits Islam, "his head
should be chopped off . . . 'Whoever changes his religion, kill him.' "

• "The Jews and the Christians are the enemies of the Muslim, and they
will never be pleased with the Muslims."

• Jihad against "a tyrant,
oppressors, people of bid'ah (religious change), or wrongdoers" is "best done
through force if possible."

• "Whoever takes part in stoning a married
adulterer, is rewarded for that, and it is not fitting for anyone to abstain
from it if a ruling of stoning is issued."

Some of the material calls on
British Muslims to separate themselves from non-Muslims — a kind of
self-apartheid. They also call for Christians, Jews and others to be treated
with the disrespect of second-class citizens — even in their own countries.

Some of it also called for gays to be tossed off mountains and buildings
for their sins.

Some mosques had copies of "The Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion" — a crude, anti-Semitic forgery purporting to outline a global
Jewish conspiracy to control the world's governments. Still others had books
claiming birth control was a plot against Muslims.

Just another faith in
a multicultural universe, or a serious problem? We think it's the latter. A
London Times survey last summer found "almost half of Britain's mosques are
under the control of a hard-line Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes
Western values and has called on Muslims to 'shed blood' for Allah."

The
sect in question, the radical Deobandis, helped found the Taliban in
Afghanistan. Its members now run 600 of Britain's 1,350 mosques, the Times
found, plus 17 of its 26 Islamic seminaries.

Muslims in Britain now
total 1.8 million, or 3% of the population, but they're growing twice as fast as
the population as a whole. No doubt many are fine people. But some aren't, as
the subway bombings of July 7, 2005, showed. Britain is headed for an uncivil,
religious war if it keeps doing nothing. So is the rest of Europe.

"Given the British jihadists who've been discovered in the thick of it
in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia," author Mark
Steyn noted in 2005, "only a fool would believe they had no plans for anything
closer to home — or, rather, 'home.' "

Yet U.K. policy seems frozen.
This is a major problem, one that can't be wished away with multicultural
platitudes and Kumbaya sociology. Britain must act, or lose its ancient
civilization.

By happy coincidence, this week Saudi Arabia's Kind
Abdullah is making an official visit to Britain. Since his government is largely
responsible for funding the mosques' hate literature, Abdullah should know that
funding hate in the U.K. and elsewhere will no longer be tolerated.



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