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To: tonto who wrote (7405)	6/17/2006 1:05:59 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Pakistani accused of blasphemy dies in court attack Khaleej Times ^ khaleejtimes.com A Pakistani Muslim man accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad has been killed inside a court compound in a frenzied knife attack, police said on Saturday. The suspect accused of blasphemy, Abdul Sattar Gopang, was set upon by two attackers as he was leaving a court in the town of Muzzafargarh, 480 km (300 miles) southeast of Islamabad, on Friday. He was stabbed in the chest 15 times. Police described the attackers as “religious fanatics”. The two, a student and a shopkeeper, were arrested on murder charges, policemen Rai Tahir told Reuters by telephone. “They have no regrets, they’re smiling,” Tahir said. “They say they decided to kill Gopang at the first opportunity, that it was their duty.” Gopang had been arrested in March after being accused of uttering blasphemous comments during a fight with a man. Blasphemy is against the law in Muslim Pakistan and carries the death sentence. Cases are relatively common but death sentences have never been carried out because convictions have always been turned down by high courts citing lack of evidence. Wile death sentences have not been carried out, there are occasionally instances of enraged mobs attacking and killing people accused of blasphemy, including desecration of the Koran. On Thursday, a mob killed a Muslim cleric in a village in Punjab province after members of a rival religious group accused the cleric of burning pages of the Koran. A teacher who tried to save the cleric was attacked and hurt, said police official Arif Nawaz said. The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said the cleric’s killing highlighted how the blasphemy law was abused by people to settle personal or religious disputes. “We’ve been demanding that the government change the law radically so people can’t misuse it,” said commission head Iqbal Haider.

To: tonto who wrote (7405)	6/20/2006 9:08:46 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Feminist Says Child Rearing not Worthy of Time and Talents of Intelligent Humans LifeSiteNews ^ \| 6/20/06 \| Hilary White NEW YORK, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Linda Hirshman, a feminist US writer on cultural issues, has told the world why she thinks staying at home with the children is an occupation “not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings.” She complains at length that the feminist movement, while making some gains in public life through legal activism, has largely failed in the one area where it counts most: the family. She upbraids women who stay at home for failing the feminist agenda, saying, “They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings.” Writing in the November 2005 edition of the American Prospect, Hirshman admitted that the real intention of the feminist movement was not “equality”, but to destroy what she calls “the unreconstructed family” of a husband and wife rearing children. She writes that the goal was to see as many women as possible abandoning family life for high-level professions and politics. Hirshman a committed radical, was a member in the 1970s of the feminist lobby, the National Organization for Women (NOW), a donor to the pro-abortion political organization, EMILY’s List, and a professor of women’s studies. But, she complains, the movement has “stalled”; while the “public world has changed…private lives have hardly budged.” Childrearing is still seen by both men and women to be the natural purview of women. She writes of her “shock” to discover that among those professional women whom she called the “logical heirs of feminism”, large numbers were leaving their careers to opt for childrearing. “Marriage is essentially unchanged,” she laments. “The real glass ceiling is at home…Looking back, it seems obvious that the unreconstructed family was destined to re-emerge after the passage of feminism’s storm of social change.” She writes, “this represents not a loss of present value but a loss of hope for the future -- a loss of hope that the role of women in society will continue to increase.” Some of the women she interviewed confirmed her worst fears: they liked being mothers. One declined to be interviewed because she could not leave her activities with her daughters: “We’re all in here making fresh apple pie,” she said. Another, an “an Ivy Leaguer with a master’s degree” described her at-home activities: “I take my [3-year-old] daughter to all the major museums. We go to little movement classes.” The article ignited a blaze of online outrage from feminists and traditionalists alike. Bloggers and editorials in print and online editions of a number of magazines have run comments blasting Hirshman. In an op-ed at the online edition of the political magazine, the Huffington Post, Ann Coulter wrote that Hirshman and those who think like her, are “expressing an intolerant world view that women who don't work are losers.” “Hirshman isn't just expressing an opinion about what she thinks is best, she is saying that any woman who makes a choice different from what she espouses is unequivocally ‘wrong.’” Coulter writes that feminism is losing its sway in public because it focuses on “problems that hardly exist…while spending precious little energy on issues that indisputably have a negative impact on women: pornography, sex trafficking.” “If [feminists] spent a fraction of the time on these issues that they spend trying to get women to get their men to vacuum the living room, the world would be a better place.”

To: tonto who wrote (7405)	6/21/2006 11:29:01 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

NOT AGAIN!: Shameless Saudi Govt. Offering Scholarships to Study Aviation in U.S.! debbieschlussel.com ^ \| 6/20/06 \| Debbie Schlussel Gee, it wasn't bad enough that several of the 15 of 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudis who studied aviation here in the U.S. Now, Saudi Arabia, our "ally on the War on Terror" (the "ally" which is actually fomenting the Terror), is sponsoring AVIATION SCHOLARSHIPS for Saudis to study in the U.S. Talk about Chutzpah. Hello? . . . . Haven't we been there, done that? Isn't it about time that we restrict aviation training in the U.S. to nationals of non-terrorist-linked nations? And shouldn't the Saudis still be ashamed (not that they ever were) of their U.S.-aviation-educated countrymen who murdered nearly 3,000 Americans? Well, why should they be--with the way the Bush Administration panders to them?! And, by the way, we've already written about Mana Saleh Almanajam and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, two of the Saudi men already here "learning English" on similar Saudi scholarships. They're the two men who went on the "joy ride" on a Tampa school bus, one in a trench coat on a hot Florida day, in an apparent dry run for a terrorist attack. (More about them here, here, here, and here.) Here's more of the story on the aviation scholarships, from Saudi Arabia's government-operated English propaganda rag, The Arab News: Saudis Offered Scholarships for Aviation Courses in US Lulwa Shalhoub, Arab News JEDDAH, 20 June 2006 - The Ministry of Higher Education and the General Authority of Civil Aviation are offering scholarships to Saudi men and women to study various majors related to civil aviation in the United States. . . . The scholarships are available in majors such as communications, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, systems analysis, air traffic control, flight safety, and other majors related to the airline transport industry. . . . Applicants for the bachelor's program must have a minimum score of 85 percent in the science section and 90 percent in other sections, such as Qur'an memorizing . . . . There are various scholarships this year being offered by the Saudi government to the US, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, India, China, Australia and New Zealand.