Sunday, January 16, 2011
Muslims Targeting Jewish Children
Disgusting.
Three synagogues, Jewish school and daycare vandalized in Montreal Yahoo
MONTREAL - Montreal police believe attacks against five Jewish institutions in the city on the weekend could be related.
Const. Raphael Bergeron says three synagogues, and a Jewish school and daycare located in the west-end areas of Cote St. Luc and Hampstead Montreal-West, had windows broken.
He says the attacks took place sometime between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
No arrests have been made.
Bergeron says police believe the same suspect or suspects were behind all the attacks.
Police have no eyewitnesses but say they will examine surveillance video from one of the premises or from nearby businesses.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Muslims Allowed to Beat Wives and Children
He appealed claiming that even if he had intended to strike his wife and daughter, under Shariah law he had the right to do so.
This needs no comment.
Men ALLOWED to beat their wives and young children (as long as they don't leave any marks), rules UAE court Daily Mail (hat tip Pt C)
Husbands are allowed to beat their wives and children - as long as they don’t leave any physical marks, an Islamic court in the United Arab Emirates has ruled.
The astonishing legal ruling gives all husbands and fathers in the ultra-rich Gulf state the 'right to discipline' female family members if they have first attempted reconciliation.
The judgment was made by one of the UAE’s most senior judges, Chief Justic Falah al Hajeri, who made the ruling in the case of a man fined £85 for slapping his wife and kicking his daughter.
Permission to beat: The UAE's highest judicial body has ruled a man can assault his wife and young children as long as he leaves no physical marks
The Emirati man in the case was found guilty of slapping his wife so hard he damaged her bottom lip and teeth.
He also slapped and kicked his 23-year-old daughter so that she suffered bruises on her hand and knee.
While the defendant, who has not been named, initially claimed he hit the two women only by accident, he was found guilty of assault.
However, he appealed, claiming that even if he had intended to strike his wife and daughter, under Shariah law he had the right to do so if he had first exhausted all other ways of resolving the dispute.
Chief Justice Falah al Hajeri said: 'Although the law permits the husband to use his right to discipline, he has to abide by the limits of this right.
'If the husband abuses this right to discipline, he cannot be exempted from punishment.'
Mr al Hajeri went on to explain that one of the ways of determining whether a man had breached this limit was to look for physical traces of beating.
While the ruling was greeted with anger by many Arab world commentators, others claimed it is a ‘real-life compromise’ between the competing demands of the petro-state’s highly Westernised population and its conservative Muslim heritage.
Atlas Shrugs
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Mazal and Bert: Frogs Apart
Mazal and Bert were lovers, frogs in a lily pond. The couple reflected the old saw that opposites attract. Mazal sought adventure while Bert was the stick in the mud.
When two other frogs invited them to an onshore hop about, Mazal was joyous at the prospect. Reluctantly, Bert joined them if only to please his mate.
On her third hop Mazal felt her footing give way and she was falling into a dark hole. Bouncing hard, it took a moment to recover her senses.
Bert laid beside her his mouth open in apparent shock.
Above, her friends were making frantic gestures as if they were trying to help.
One cried. “How can we get them out of that deep hole?”
The second considered before he spoke. “I don’t believe there is a way out. They will die there.”
Discouraged, Bert assumed the perch position of sleep. Ignoring him, Mazal leaped at the wall striking it for some kind of hold. She flailed at it, losing the battle to gravity.
Again and again, she attacked the wall that held her prisoner. The more she jumped the more tired she became.
Their friends implored her to cease her struggling and to surrender as Bert had done. Unable to take more of this, Bert lapsed into unconsciousness.
Mazal knew she was failing and paused in her exertions. She decided to put everything into her next leap. With sorrow, she saw that the friends had deserted her, the beloved Bert as well. Perhaps, he was right.
Mazal concentrated all her power, took a deep breath and launched at the top of the hole. Miraculously, her momentum carried her over the top and out of the hole.
Amazed, her friends rushed to her side. “How on earth did you do that?” They exclaimed.
She gestured to them that she could not hear. Mazal was deaf.