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  thabet 1:28 pm on March 29, 2011 Permalink
  Tags: haram ( 3 ), Islam ( 451 ), islamic law ( 25 ), politics ( 979 ), protests, religion ( 521 ), saudi arabia ( 187 )   

  The Saudi religious establishment, wittingly or unwittingly, are tools of Empire:

  Saudi Arabia is printing 1.5m copies of an edict by religious scholars outlawing protests in the conservative kingdom as un-Islamic, the state news agency said.

  Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter and a major US ally, is an absolute monarchy that does not tolerate any form of public dissent.

  It managed to stifle an attempt to stage a mass protest on 11 March with a large security presence on the streets.

  Religious scholars issued their fatwa, or religious edict, and senior princes issued warnings in advance.

  “The grand mufti requested that a number of government and private firms print and distribute more than a million copies,” the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said, adding that 500,000 copies had already been printed.

  SPA said the fatwa “called for strengthening cohesion and affinity” and called on the Saudi people to “have a united front … under its wise and legitimate leadership, warning [against] and forbidding demonstrations”.

  Grand mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh heads the clerics council and is the country’s highest religious official.

   
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  thabet 10:33 am on September 17, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: geopolitics ( 234 ), human rights ( 515 ), India ( 234 ), kashmir ( 63 ), politics ( 979 ), protests, rights ( 38 ), state ( 201 )   

  Tolerant capitalist India, with its amazing democracy, secularism, and pro-Western views, kills three more in Kashmir.

  Perhaps the use of guns to kill protesters just isn’t ‘medieval’ enough for @WilliamJHague to pass a comment on this?

   
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  thabet 2:33 pm on August 25, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: afghanistan ( 507 ), NATO ( 84 ), protests, united states ( 803 )   

  US troops fire shots to ‘disperse Afghan protesters’:

  U.S. troops fired warning shots to disperse a protest in eastern Afghanistan over the arrest of a religious leader suspected of a rocket attack, NATO said Tuesday.
  The alliance said no civilian injuries were reported from the protest Monday, but Gen. Faqir Ahmad, the deputy police chief of Parwan province, said one civilian was killed by shots fired from an unknown source.

  Unknown source? Heh.

   
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  thabet 5:04 am on August 8, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: In Western Culture Shoe Throwing Is A Gesture of Love, Pakistan ( 682 ), politics ( 979 ), protests, shoe throwing ( 7 ), throwing objects that resemble shoes ( 6 ), united kingdom ( 929 )   

  Asif Ali Zardari joins the list of murderous incompetent crooks to have shoes thrown at him in public:

  Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, had shoes thrown at him as he attended a political rally in Birmingham.

  Mr Zardari, who is under criticism for visiting Britain while Pakistan is suffering from devastating floods, was in the middle of a speech when an elderly man in the 1,000 strong crowd hurled both shoes at him. The gesture is considered a traditional insult in Islam. An unidentified man was later ejected by police and security officials from the meeting, which was marked by noisy protests outside.

  “Zardari was in the middle of a long campaign speech when a man towards the back of the crowd hurled the shoes at him,” said one eyewitness. “They landed short of him, and it wasn’t clear what exactly the man was protesting about.”

  (Side note: If I lobbed by shoe in the direction of Colin Freeman, would he consider that a ‘welcoming gesture’?)

   
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  thabet 11:31 am on August 4, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: kashmir ( 63 ), protests, state ( 201 ), violence ( 208 )   

  Indian authorities complain about ‘mindless violence’ of protesters after engaging in ‘mindless violence’ of their own.

   
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  thabet 9:22 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: human rights ( 515 ), India ( 234 ), kashmir ( 63 ), protests, state ( 201 ), violence ( 208 )   

  Nine die in Kashmir clashes:

  At least nine people have been killed in violent clashes between local residents and the security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir.

  Four of them died when a police station was set alight near Srinagar and its explosives dump blew up.

  Locals were angry that police had opened fire on a demonstration against Indian rule, killing two participants.

  In nearby Pampore, at least three protesters were killed after Indian security forces opened fire.

  Thirty-two people have now been killed in clashes with police and paramilitary forces in the Kashmir valley in the last seven weeks.

  On Friday, an indefinite curfew was imposed in much of the valley after four people were killed at a protest. Another two died on Saturday.

   
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  thabet 9:07 pm on July 14, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: human rights ( 515 ), India ( 234 ), kashmir ( 63 ), protests   

  “Kashmir intifada”:

  The use of the phrase intifada, which means uprising, highlights how the unrest in Kashmir has been led by rock-throwing boys, not the trained militants or political factions of the elder generation. It was that generation’s earlier efforts that failed to end India’s military presence in the disputed region along the Pakistan and Indian border where many Kashmiris simply want independence.

   
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  thabet 3:50 am on June 5, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: #freedomflotilla ( 14 ), edl ( 21 ), English Defence League ( 29 ), Fanatical Defenders Of The Only Democracy In The Middle ( 25 ), far right ( 97 ), gaza ( 239 ), Israel ( 519 ), neo-nazis ( 26 ), protests, united kingdom ( 929 )   

  The far-right English Defence League (EDL) has stepped up its ‘Jewish recruitment’:

  The English Defence League, the extreme right-wing anti-Islamic-fundamentalism group, has launched a “Jewish division”, encouraging members of the community to “lead the counter-Jihad fight in England”.

  It has signed up hundreds of followers on Facebook since the launch last week. Supporters include an ex-Community Security Trust volunteer who claims “a lot of Jewish guys want to get stuck in”.
  One follower wrote on Facebook “we are all Shayetet 13″, in support of the IDF naval special forces unit involved in the Gaza flotilla incident.

  One eyewitness reported that the EDL had joined the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland at their rally supporting Israel’s latest act of barbarism:

  The Zionist Federation together with the English Defence League demonstrated opposite the Israeli embassy in support of the Israeli Defence Force action against the Gaza aid flotilla [...] I was saddened by the overall mood of the pro-Israel demonstrators, which appeared to be one of a gloating triumphalism that seemed entirely inappropriate to the situation, and sickened when a large group of the demonstrators began chanting ‘dead Palestinian scum’ [...] I had been appalled to find that this was to be a demonstration jointly with the Zionist Federation and the English Defence League, some of whose members many of us have seen and heard chanting racist slogans on our streets. It seems unbelievable that a Jewish organisation should align itself with people like this. In the event relatively few of the EDL attended, but there was an added unease during the event with the presence of sinister black-shirted security men – surely an entirely unfortunate choice of dress in a city whose collective memory still remembers Mosley even if few are still around who fought him on the streets.

   
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  johnpi 7:34 am on January 15, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: abdullah al Faisal ( 9 ), kenya ( 18 ), protests   

  Kenyan police, people clash with al Faisal supporters.

  Kenyan security forces shot in the air and fired tear gas at hundreds of people protesting in the capital on Friday against the detention of Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal.

  The protesters, chanting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and some holding the flag of Somali rebel group al Shabaab, were blocked by police with dogs as they tried to march through the heart of Nairobi after prayers at the downtown mosque.

  Some Kenyans, angry the attempted protest had taken place at all, joined forces with the security forces and began hurling stones at the marchers, squeezing them back toward the mosque.

  “This is not an acceptable behavior. The man who is supposed to be deported is not a Kenyan and his presence is not in the interest of Kenya these days,” said bystander Richard Odibo.

  A helicopter clattered overhead and police also used water cannon to contain the clashes. Many protesters, some carrying pictures of Faisal on placards, were eventually corralled in the mosque but small groups continued hurling stones nearby.

   
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  johnpi 10:10 am on January 2, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: Pakistan ( 682 ), peace ( 10 ), peace activist Muslims ( 3 ), peacework ( 3 ), protests   

  Western press accounts are focusing on the violence, but Juan Cole says that shouldn’t be allowed to overshadow the significance of

  …a coordinated series of peace marches in 53 cities of Pakistan by civil society organization protesting both Taliban bombings, especially the attack on Shiites in Karachi on Monday, and the American drone strikes.