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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (656)	9/10/2006 1:00:37 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Women and girls, even infants, are given away in marriage as compensation for crimes committed by their menfolk in Pakistan. Islam prescribes that a punishment should be punitive, retributive, reformative and act as a deterrent. Swara doesn't have any of these features. The criminal goes free, and an innocent girl pays the price. thehindubusinessline.com

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (656)	9/10/2006 1:08:54 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Teachers in Thailand learn to shoot back Bringing guns to class essential, say Buddhist men, women who have become targets of Islamic insurgency in the south canada.com BANGKOK - "When you pull the trigger, you've got to keep steady," the instructor sternly told the elementary school teachers. "If your hand is shaking you can't shoot." Teachers have one of the deadliest jobs in southern Thailand, with 44 killed by the bombs and bullets of an Islamic insurgency since 2004. So the teachers are learning how to shoot back. The Chulabhorn naval base, on the Gulf of Thailand in Narathiwat province, opened its heavily guarded gates on a recent Sunday to a training course for 100 public school teachers, mostly Buddhist men and women who say bringing a gun to school has become essential. "You'd never see a teacher anywhere else in Thailand carrying a gun," said Sanguan Jintarat, head of the Teachers' Association that oversees the 15,000 teachers in the villages and towns of the restive south. "But, we need them, or we'll die." That teachers -- not to mention Buddhist monks, bank tellers and motorcycle mechanics -- have become targets in the insurgency illustrates how badly law and order has degenerated in southern Thailand since the violence flared in January 2004. At first, insurgents targeted mainly civil servants, soldiers and police officers. Attacks then spread to businesses that serve soldiers: Restaurants, outdoor markets, garages. And now come attacks that seem to have no rationale at all, such as the murder last month of an elephant trainer who was shot seven times by gunmen who had lined up with children to buy tickets for a show. More than 1,700 people have been killed across Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat -- the only Muslim-majority provinces in this otherwise peaceful, tourist-friendly Buddhist country. Among them was a teacher gunned down at his blackboard in July as his 4th graders watched in shock, and a Buddhist art teacher clubbed by a village mob in May until her skull shattered. Teachers may be targets, officials say, because they are symbols of the central government's authority, or be taken hostage to be traded for captured insurgents, or because the militants want to do away with secular schools, sending the message that only Islamic schools -- which have been spared violence -- are safe. But almost everything about this insurgency is a mystery. It isn't clear whether the militants want a separate Islamic state in what was a Malay sultanate where insurgent violence has waxed and waned over the past century. No goals are stated, no responsibility is claimed for attacks, and no allegiance to foreign Islamic groups is declared. Authorities insist the uprising is purely domestic, but have been unable to arrest any leaders. They have flooded the area with 20,000 troops, but some local officials compare the predicament to that of the U.S. military in Iraq. Lately militants have unleashed a wave of co-ordinated bombings every few weeks that kill sparingly but suggest a new level of sophistication and determination. Less than two weeks ago, 22 banks were bombed simultaneously, dealing a potentially devastating blow to the local economy.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (656)	9/10/2006 1:31:28 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

I'm not sure islam is even caught up to the 7th Century yet...... Paranormals called in to end mudflow thejakartapost.com.@03&irec=2 After midnight, a site near the center of Sidoarjo's mudflows remains busy -- not with workers trying to stop the constant gray streams, but with mystics attempting to use their supernatural powers to end the disaster for a Rp 100 million (US$10,869) prize. "Stop filming please, I can't concentrate on calling the spirit at the source of the mudflow," Maisaroh, a psychic from the East Java town of Ngawi, said in Javanese to a photographer from a foreign news service and to The Jakarta Post on Saturday. The photographer looked confused and apologized.