Fundamentalist Islam Around The World

THESE NEWS STORIES will show you the kind of world Islamic terrorists want to create. It is a world of limited freedoms, especially for women, and a world of strict codes of behavior (Shari'a law), enforced by the government. Militant Islam is rising and they have their eye on making every government ruled by Sharia law. Not worried? They're already making headway in several European countries.

Find out what you can do to stop it.

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Honor Killings In The Islamic States
Over 5000 women and girls are killed every year by family members in so-called 'honor killings', according to the UN. These crimes occur where cultures believe that a woman's unsanctioned sexual behavior brings such shame on the family that any female accused or suspected must be murdered. Reasons for these murders can be as trivial as talking to a man, or as innocent as suffering rape.

Italy: Pakistani Girl Slain By Her Father
A young Pakistani woman, Hina Saleem, murdered by her father last year in northern Italy in an 'honour killing' will be remembered in an innovative afternoon of Arab and Italian poetry readings and music next month in the northern town of Alba.

The Sex Slave Trade In Iran Supported By Islamic Fundamentalism
The head of Iran’s Interpol bureau believes that the sex slave trade is one of the most profitable activities in Iran today. This criminal trade is not conducted outside the knowledge and participation of the ruling fundamentalists. Government officials themselves are involved in buying, selling, and sexually abusing women and girls.

Syria: Two 16 Year-Olds Killed By Family In "Honor Killings"
And all perfectly legal, according to Syrian law, which states, "He who catches his wife, or one of his ascendents, descendents, or sister committing adultery or illegitimate sex acts with another" or in a "suspicious state" is exempt from penalty.

Women Burned Alive By Their Own Husbands
In the past few months 30 women have been victims of 'honour' killings in Iraqi Kurdistan, it is claimed. Many of the murders are disguised as suicides or accidents with burning oil. Numbers from local hospitals have been made public on April 5th and these show that some 246 women have been objects of these "fire accidents" in the first three months of 2007.

Rape Case In Saudi Arabia
When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined the judge would punish her — and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received.

Iran, July 2007: Woman Sentenced To Be Stoned To Death
She committed adultery, and her lover has already been stoned to death. She is supposed to be next, a legal sentence under the country's Islamic Penal Code.

Islamic Group's Wrath Stokes Fear In Gaza
Islamic fundamentalists are suspected of murdering three women thought to be prostitutes in the Gaza Strip. The deaths follow the bombing and torching of businesses and public places that radicals believe to be un-Islamic.

Governing Under Sharia
Many Islamic countries acknowledge Islamic law in their constitutions by making Islam the official religion of the country or by stating that sharia is a source — or the source — of the nation's laws. For example, Article II of the 1980 Egyptian constitution states that Islam is the religion of the state and "Islamic jurisprudence is the principal source of legislation." Iraq's interim constitution, passed under the U.S.-led occupation, makes Islam "a source of legislation" and stipulates that no law may "contradict the universally agreed tenets of Islam." The 1992 Basic Law of Saudi Arabia states that the nation's constitution consists of the Quran and the sunna, the actions and sayings of the prophet as recorded in the hadith. Article IV of the Iranian constitution states that "all civil, penal, financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria." And Article 227(1) of the Pakistani constitution reads, "All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and sunna ... and no law shall be enacted which is repugnant to such injunctions."

The Women Of Islam
Women's rights are compromised the Koran, sura 4:34, that says men are the "overseers" of women. The verse goes on to say that the husband of an insubordinate wife should first admonish her, then leave her to sleep alone and finally beat her. Wife beating is so prevalent in the Muslim world that social workers who assist battered women in Egypt, for example, spend much of their time trying to convince victims that their husbands' violent acts are unacceptable. Beatings are not the worst of female suffering. Each year hundreds of Muslim women die in "honor killings" — murders by husbands or male relatives of women suspected of disobedience, usually a sexual indiscretion or marriage against the family's wishes.

2007, Saudi Arabia Human Rights
The government has tried to appear open and willing to be inspected, but they were hiding their abuses. Even so, Human Rights Watch found the law about women needing male escorts for everyday activities effectively denied them their rights to employment and education.

Domestic Violence In Islamic States
In the Islamic world, women don't usually get treated fairly. In the Palestinian territories, for example, rapists are not prosecuted, while victims are forced to marry their assailants to "protect" the family's reputation. In Iran, women are stoned to death for adultery, while men can enter into legal "temporary marriages" if they want to have extra-marital sex.

Becoming a Feminist In Baghdad
It now seems clear to me that the women's issue is the Achilles heel of Islamic states. More than military force, economic sanctions, and homeland security, gender equality is one of the most potent weapons we have against the breeding grounds of terrorism.

Sidewalks Segregated By Sex
Saudi Arabia's religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam's holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday. The country's Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), tasked with enforcing Sharia law, believes men and women should not be allowed to mix on the streets of the Islam's second holiest place, where the Prophet Muhammad is buried.

May 17, 2007, Iran: Arrests on Immorality Charges
Police arrested 87 people in one raid and accused them of wearing clothes of the opposite sex. The police led those arrested into the street, stripped them to the waist and beat them until their backs and faces were bloody. Several suffered broken bones.

Iran Is Murdering Americans In Iraq
This is commentary and news and a great political cartoon about the trouble Iran is causing in Iraq.

Losing Faith In Malaysia
If you think Islamic countries are becoming progressively freer, think again. In Malaysia, Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey, the governments are becoming more strictly Islamic, applying Shari'a with more and more vigor. "Apostasy is not a new phenomenon but the issue has come to the forefront because it underscores the growing Islamization of a country that was intended to be secular," civil activist Haris Mohamed Ibrahim told Reuters.

Shari'a Infiltrates Chechnya
September 12, 2007, Grozny, Russia - Female civil servants must wear Islamic headscarves or be fired, the maverick head of Russia's Chechnya region said on Tuesday.

Soft Jihad Has Come To America
This week, CAIR, a domestic Muslim organization, threatened a lawsuit against a conference of young people if they went ahead and included Robert Spencer among their speakers. Spencer is a scholar critical of radical Islam. Last week, CAIR demanded that felony criminal charges be brought against an individual who in private had flushed a Koran down the toilet where he attends university. Only weeks ago, CAIR and other Islamic organizations here filed suit against frightened airline passengers who had simply alerted the plane's stewards of highly suspicious and provocative activity by five boisterous immams just as the plane was ready to take off.

Violent Crackdown On Iranian Womens' Demonstration
Organizations in Iran called for a protest march on June 12 to demand an end to legal discrimination against women. Peaceful demonstrators, women and men, congregated in Haft'eh Teer Square, carrying placards protesting discrimination against women and chanting in support of women's, children's, and human rights. Many demonstrators were beaten and injured by the police. 70 demonstrators were arrested, according to the Ministry of Justice, but some eyewitness accounts put the number much higher. Among those arrested are leading women's rights and children's rights activists, journalists, and leaders of student associations. The houses of a number of activists have been raided and vandalized.

April 2007, Iran: Jailing Women's Rights Activists
The women made a public protest of Iran's discriminatory laws against women. Some women got three years imprisonment. Over the last year, the government has increased its prosecution and persecution of women's rights activists. The women were trying to collect signatures to (among other things) change the law that says a woman's testimony in court is not equal to a man's.

Inside Iran's Secret War For Iraq
A Time investigation, based on documents smuggled out of Iran and dozens of interviews with U.S., British and Iraqi intelligence officials, as well as an Iranian agent, armed dissidents and Iraqi militia and political allies, reveals an Iranian plan for gaining influence in Iraq that began before the U.S. invaded. In their scope and ambition, Iran's activities rival those of the U.S. and its allies, especially in the south. There is a gnawing worry within some intelligence circles that the failure to counter Iranian influence may come back to haunt the U.S. and its allies, if Shi'ite factions with heavy Iranian backing eventually come to power and provoke the Sunnis to revolt. Says a British military intelligence officer, about the relative inattention paid to Iranian meddling: "It's as though we are sleepwalking."

Clothing Crackdown In Iran
When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005, there were warnings that strict Islamic codes would be reinforced. Nothing really came of the warnings and commentators predicted that Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric was just hot air. Many believed it was too late to roll back social reforms – especially in Tehran. But the mood on the streets has changed dramatically in recent days. Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned about their dress and many more have been arrested in the capital in the fiercest crackdown on what's known as 'bad hijab' since the mid-1990’s. The morality police, who enforce dress codes, are stationed outside shopping malls and crowded streets, warning pedestrians and drivers if they are showing too much hair or wearing clothes that are too tight. If people argue with them, they are shown to a police van and taken to the police station. And shops showcasing what are deemed racy window displays also have been shuttered.

The Road To Londonstan
The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an alarming network of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London became the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamist terror and extremism - so much so that it has been mockingly dubbed ‘Londonistan’.

Islam Gets Concessions, Infidels Get Conquered
When Islamists wage jihad — past, present and future — conquering and consolidating non-Muslim territories and centers in the name of Islam, never once considering to cede them back to their previous owners, they ultimately demonstrate that they live by the age-old adage "might makes right." That's fine; many people agree with this view. But if we live in a world where the strong rule and the weak submit, why is it that whenever Muslim regions are conquered, such as in the case of Palestine, the same Islamists who would never concede one inch of Islam's conquests resort to the United Nations and the court of public opinion, demanding justice, restitutions, rights and so forth?

Iran ban on 'Western' hairstyles
Iranian police have warned barbers not to give men Western hairstyles or use make up on them.

Rage Boy In The News

Hatred of the West has been a theme of Islamists long before Iraq was invaded, and pulling our troops out of Iraq would not stop the hatred. Thinking in terms of "trying to make them not hate us" would not be good for anyone except the extremists. In fact, they do not just hate the West. They hate their fellow Muslims who wish to form democracies, not just in Iraq, but everywhere a democracy movement has been tried in a Muslim country. There has always been a small but violent minority of those Muslims who have given their all to stop democracy from taking root.

Slow Motion Tet
All over Iraq, al Qaeda is losing support for many good reasons, but that isn't as newsworthy as a bridge blowing up, so it isn't covered much by mainstream news, so we don't hear much about it, so many of us are disheartened about Iraq. Read why news is covered the way it is.

Valentine's Day in Saudi Arabia
Valentine's Day is a touchy subject in Saudi Arabia. Introduced by Saudis who had lived in the West, the custom of exchanging romantic gifts became popular, but met with official disapproval. This year, the annual Valentine's Day "debate" began on Monday, February 12. The Riyadh newspaper reported in blazing red headlines that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Wahhabi institution better known as the religious militia or mutawwa, would systematically inspect hotels, restaurants, coffeehouses, and gift shops to prevent Muslim couples from giving each other Valentines or other presents. Such items would be confiscated, and those selling them would be subject to prosecution. The mutawwa condemned Valentine's Day as a "pagan feast."

Australia Rejects Islamist Encroachment
CANBERRA AUSTRALIA -- Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown.

How Muslims Think
A Pew Global survey yielded some dismaying results.

The Islamization of Europe?
Only a few years ago, mass-murder attacks on the West in the name of Islam, like those of September 11, would have seemed like a thriller writer’s fantasy. Nor would anyone have imagined that a bombing by Islamists could swing a general election in a European country, that a Dutch movie-maker might be shot dead on the street for a film about the abuse of women in Islam, or that one might find oneself watching, on television, the beheading of Western hostages by men crying out Allahu Akhbar! over their savage deeds. Pakistan now has a nuclear bomb, and this weapon is widely described as an Islamic bomb. To judge by their pronouncements, the Islamist leaders of Iran can hardly wait to perfect and use their derivative of it.

Europe's Native-Born Enemy
This is an article about the London bombing, but the author says something that clarifies the whole terrorism situation. He wrote, "[The constant violence in the Muslim world] is essentially a civil war within a rival civilization in which the most primitive elements are seeking to gain the upper hand. Sept. 11 forced us to intervene massively in this civil war, which is why we are in Iraq. There, as in Afghanistan, we have enlisted millions of Muslims on the anti-Islamist side."