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In this mailing:
by Raymond Ibrahim
• December 30, 2015 at 5:00 am
- Muslims
"have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism." — Hillary
Clinton.
- "We have
been forced to live under a climate of fear, this is not England. I
grew up in in to a free decent country accepting British values and
the British rule of law. ... I think there is two laws, one for them
and one for us." — Nissar Hussain, a former Muslim living in
West Yorkshire.
- "They
wanted to kill us by burning us alive, but we managed to escape. We
have lost everything." — Ramni Das, 57, accused of witchcraft
in Bangladesh.
- Iraq's
parliament passed a law that will force Christian children to become
Muslim if their father converts to Islam or if their Christian
mother marries a Muslim.
- In Pakistan, an
8-year-old girl, Sara Bibi, was beaten and locked in a school
bathroom by her Muslim head teacher for using the same toilet as
Muslims. She was then expelled from the school.
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On November 2, a group of Muslims stormed the Church
of our Lady of Carmen, in the town of Rincon de la Victoria, Spain, and
smashed wooden statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus on the cross. The
month before, a Moroccan man was arrested in the same town after trying
to destroy another statue of the Virgin Mary while screaming
"Allahu Akbar!"
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As Muslim jihadis, mobs and regimes terrorized Christians and others
throughout the world of Islam, in the West, institutions -- from
governments to grade schools -- empowered and praised Islam, often at the
expense of Christians.
by Judith Bergman
• December 30, 2015 at 4:00 am
- "Death
sentences in Iran are particularly disturbing because they are
invariably imposed by courts that are completely lacking in
independence and impartiality. They are imposed either for vaguely
worded or overly broad offences, or for acts that should not be
criminalized at all, let alone attract the death penalty. Trials in
Iran are deeply flawed, detainees are often denied access to lawyers
in the investigative stage, and there are inadequate procedures for
appeal, pardon and commutation" -- From a July 2015 Amnesty
International report.
- How ironic that
Europeans have no problem stuffing themselves with syrupy Iranian
dates exported by this regime, knowing full well that there are
thousands of prisoners are being tortured in Iran while awaiting
their executions.
- Amnesty
International reports that in the fall of 2015, cartoonist Atena
Farghadani was forced to undergo a "virginity and pregnancy
test" prior to her trial. The charge? "Illegitimate sexual
relations," for having shaken hands with her lawyer.
- Iran
nevertheless won a top seat on the U.N.'s Commission on the Status
of Women in April 2014. Not a single UN member, not even the US,
objected.
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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that it
is "completely normal that after this historic [nuclear] deal was
signed, France and Iran should restart normal relations." Left,
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif hugs Fabius at the close of
nuclear talks in Geneva, Nov. 23, 2014. Right: A public execution in
Iran.
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On the UN's Human Rights Day, observed December 10, an Iranian woman
was sentenced to death by stoning in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran is believed to have
imposed death by stoning on at least 150 people, according to the
International Committees against Execution and Stoning.
"Stoning," Iranian human rights activist Shabnam
Assadollahi said, "is an act of torture. There are 15 countries in
which stoning is either practiced and authorized by law or tolerated. One
of those 15 countries is Iran. The last known execution by stoning was in
2009. In Iran under the Islamic law, stonings, hangings, and executions
are legal torture.
"In Islam under Sharia law, the stoning (Rajm) is
commonly used as a form of capital punishment, called Hudud,"
Assadollahi explained.
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