Vic police face racism court action
By Jean Edwards

Updated Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:46am AEDT

A group of young African and Afghan men are taking Federal Court action against Victorian police officers, accusing them of racism.

The police are alleged to have racially taunted, abused and assaulted people at Flemington, Kensington and North Melbourne.

The group has laucnhed the action against seven police officers and the Chief Commissioner, Simon Overland.

Lawyer Peter Seidel says the claims are serious.

"We allege that the police named in the statement of claim have carried out various assaults in public places," he said.

"[It's alleged the officers] used excessive force, engaged in unjustifiable searches, unlawfully seized and retained persons' property, misused their power, and routinely engaged in racial taunts and abuse."

The Police Chief Commissioner, Simon Overland says the claims will be defended.

"Obviously the allegations that have been made are serious and of concern, we will be defending them" he said.

"I have no tolerance, no truck with racism in the organisation.

"If any of these allegations were found to be true I would regard them extremely seriously, but at the moment my advice is we refute the claims, we will be defending the claims."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/29/3079170.htm?section=justin

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http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/priests-among-37-christians-killed-in-iraq-20101101-17941.html

Some people who really wish it was just in fact, sensationalist garbage.

Humiliating and killing the infidel and enforcing religious apartheid is key to Islamic philosophy. The more Islam, the more persecution of the 'others'. That's entirely Islamic.

abu_rashid wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2010 at 6:13am:



Oh, get lost. Until you can show some self-awareness and an ability to critically examine your own ideology, you remain just a smacking jihadi blow-hard.



Believe this, or else.
December 2, 2010
LAST year Asia Bibi, a mother of five, was told to bring water to fellow workers in a field in rural Pakistan. They declined to drink, saying that as a Christian she had contaminated it. They pressured her to convert to Islam and, goaded, she said she did not believe Muhammad was a true prophet. For that remark she has been sentenced to death.
Without even seeking her account, a Pakistani court has condemned her to hang under the country's notorious blasphemy law. Thanks to international pressure, including a plea from the Pope, she may receive a presidential pardon, but Islamist groups have promised to kill her anyway.

This is no idle threat. Last month Latif Masih was shot dead after being bailed on another blasphemy charge, that he "desecrated a Koran". His accuser then admitted he had invented the tale because he wanted to take over the 22-year-old Christian's shop in Pakistan's Punjab province.

Meanwhile,an Iranian court has sentenced to death a Muslim man who converted to Christianity, and an Afghan amputee has pleaded for help after being tortured in jail over his conversion. In the Maldives last month, parents tried to lynch a Christian teacher for drawing a cross on a blackboard (she was demonstrating the points of the compass).

(Abu, these are your people. Embrace them, praise them, they are you.)

In many Muslim countries, such as Egypt and Pakistan, Christian women are often abducted, raped and forced to marry Muslims, their kidnappers knowing the police will intimidate the victims' families should they dare to complain. In almost every Muslim country, to be a Christian or another religious minority, or even a Muslim of the wrong description, may be to live a life of fear, danger and constant, systemic discrimination much worse than the undoubted difficulties faced by many Muslims in the West.

That is why there is real concern that the United Nations General Assembly this month is likely to approve a non-binding resolution against the "defamation of religion". Its sponsors, the 56-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference, say their ultimate aim is an international blasphemy law that will make it a criminal offence to disparage Islam.

The resolution is designed to bolster discriminatory laws in Muslim countries and to combat Islamophobia in non-Muslim countries, in many of which, the OIC says, there is a campaign to promote intolerance, especially by linking Islam with violence and terrorism.

the rest here:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/believe-this-or-else-20101202-18h86.html


Abu, you have converted not to a private spiritual path shared by millions but to a primitive, stupid and aggressive ideology shared by millions. The supreme stupidity is that the best of you think that you can pull off a worldwide 'let's not critically examine islam' wheeze. How smacking stupid are you guys?

abu - Asia Bibi is her name.

Her supporters say she will now appeal against the sentence handed down in a local court in the town of Sheikhupura, near Lahore, Pakistan.

Ashiq Masih, her husband, said he had not had the heart to break the news to two of their children.



research it, then apologise and drop your filthy muslim belief and live a free life

abu_rashid wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2010 at 6:45am:



See?? Even you can't believe your ears when you hear about these bizarre events in 'Muslim lands'.
You don't recall? Well, let me recall it for you:

The court heard she had been working as a farmhand in fields with other women, when she was asked to fetch drinking water.

Some of the other women – all Muslims – refused to drink the water as it had been brought by a Christian and was therefore "unclean", according to Mrs Bibi's evidence, sparking a row.

The incident was forgotten until a few days later when Mrs Bibi said she was set upon by a mob.

The police were called and took her to a police station for her own safety.

Shahzad Kamran, of the Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan, said: "The police were under pressure from this Muslim mob, including clerics, asking for Asia to be killed because she had spoken ill of the Prophet Mohammed.

"So after the police saved her life they then registered a blasphemy case against her." He added that she had been held in isolation for more than a year before being sentenced to death on Monday.

"The trial was clear," he said. "She was innocent and did not say those words." Earlier this year, Pakistan's internet service providers were ordered to block Facebook to prevent access to supposedly blasphemous images.

Human rights groups believe the law is often used to discriminate against religious minorities, such as the country's estimated three million Christians.

Although no one has ever been executed under Pakistan's blasphemy laws – most are freed on appeal – as many as 10 people are thought to have been murdered while on trial.

Ali Hasan Dayan, of Human Rights Watch, said the blasphemy laws were out of step with rights guaranteed under Pakistan's constitution and should be repealed.

"It's an obscene law," he said. "Essentially the blasphemy law is used as a tool of persecution and to settle other scores that are nothing to do with religion. It makes religious minorities particularly vulnerable because it's often used against them."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8120142/Christian-woman-sent...


Now you can either stick your head back in your arsse and pretend that there's nothing to see outside your own Muslim fundament, or you can pull your head out, take a deep breath and have a look around.

Agence France- Presse:

Pakistan cleric offers reward for killing Christian woman
(AFP) – 12 hours ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A hardline cleric in northwest Pakistan on Friday offered a reward of 6,000 dollars to anyone who kills a Christian mother sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Mohammed.

Maulana Yousuf Qureshi issued the call in Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, at a rally against moves to pardon the woman.



Arab New:

As a matter of fact, the accused Aasia Bibi, who belongs to a small Punjab town with a Christian majority, was in the habit of openly uttering derogatory and insulting remarks about the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his wives. She admitted her misdemeanor in the court and showed no remorse. Her trial under the blasphemy law continued for more than a year and her lawyers remained free to defend her and prove her innocence. Nobody raised any doubt about the legal proceedings and there was no complaint about any pressure, religious or political, on defendant or her lawyers. Nevertheless, when she was awarded capital punishment as per the country’s law, the so-called liberals and civil-rights activists raised a hue and cry.



The press Association
Reward offered in blasphemy case
(UKPA) – 13 hours ago

A hardline Pakistani Islamic cleric has offered a reward to anyone who kills a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy against Islam.

Maulana Yousef Qureshi told a rally in the north-western town of Peshawar that his mosque would give 6,000 US dollars (£3,800) to the person who kills Asia Bibi.

Bibi, who is in jail, was sentenced on November 8 to hang for insulting the Prophet Mohammed. She and her family say the charge is baseless.

Her case has attracted international attention and a personal appeal from Pope Benedict XVI for her freedom, while government officials have talked about the possibility of a presidential pardon.

But Islamist groups have protested against any move to show leniency towards her.


Human Rights Watch:
Defenders of the blasphemy law argue that most of those charged under the law are Muslims and therefore it does not target minorities. What do you say?

It is true that the majority of those charged under the blasphemy law are Muslims. But an instrument of persecution does not become any less unacceptable because it is used against Muslims as well. The fact is that the law is used against some of the most disempowered sections of society - religious minorities, heterodox Muslims and the poor. But its effect on minorities is particularly dire as it effectively turns them into second class citizens, deprived of freedom of expression or belief. Further, the failure to address religious persecution by Islamist groups effectively enables atrocities against the vulnerable. Charges are seldom brought against those responsible for such violence. Our research indicates that the police have not apprehended anyone implicated in such activity in the last several years.

How do you think the government has responded to Aasia Bibi's being awarded the death penalty?

The government's initial response was encouraging. Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti spoke out in support of Aasia Bibi and suggested that President Zardari would pardon her quickly. There were suggestions that the government was considering amending the law to weaken its draconian provisions.

But the government appears to have lost its nerve in the face of a coalition of fringe extremist elements. Law Minister Babar Awan's November 26, 2010 proclamation that "as long as I am law minister, no one should think of finishing this law," was appalling. It is shameful that Awan, a PPP minister, is defending black laws imposed by the military dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq. Awan's views run counter to the liberal, egalitarian ethos of the PPP and are a clear betrayal of the party's stated positions, history and values.

abu_rashid wrote on Dec 4^th, 2010 at 5:56pm:


Now if this is not an invitation for thinking that Mohammed and all the law-makers and judges of Pakistan a bunch of primitive fascist idiots, I don't know what is. What do you think, Rashid's dad?

I am not saying Mohammed was an odious, violent idiot ( I don't want to make blasphemous statemets offending ourt Muslim minorities, do I?). I am just thinking it. Do blasphemy laws under Islam cover utterances only or thoughts as well? In other words, are you persecuting freedom of expression only or freedom of conscience as well?


I am not saying you are a bigoted fascist Muslim. I am just thinking it, privately, to myself. Just reporting the thought.