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  johnpi 1:46 pm on January 14, 2010 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: christian fundamentalists (7), evangelicals (28), Extremism (167), fundamentalism (16), Haiti (6), humiliation (2), muslim fanatics (18), Pat Robertson (5), right-wing extremists (20), right-wing morons (71), shame

  Here’s the meat of Pat Robertson’s shameful comment about Haiti that you’ve probably already heard so much about:

  “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about. They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.’ True story. And so the devil said, ‘Ok it’s a deal.’ And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got something themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another.”

  I took this excerpt from an article titled, ‘Christian fundamentalists bring shame to America,’ which also makes this observation:

  The Muslim world deals with this all the time. With 1.3 billion Muslims in the world over, even if only 3% are radical fundamentalists, their numbers are in the millions and they have come to represent the other 97%.

   

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  johnpi 3:34 pm on December 26, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: child abuse (31), honor (5), Pakistan (570), pedophiles (2), pedophilia (2), shame

  A Pakistani imam has been given the death sentence for raping and murdering a 13-year-old boy.

  He killed the child to conceal his sin and threw the body in fields near the mosque.

  Odds are this was only the last of many children this man molested. This is why Muslims who report Muslim leaders engaged in sexual abuse are the best defenders of the ummah. As was noted in a case earlier this year in America:

  The father knows that many Muslims would have kept this matter private.

  He could have quietly moved his family to another mosque and left Shahade behind.

  “Some people feel that airing your dirty laundry, the shame comes on you. No. Our family does not feel shame,” he said. “If we had let him go, he would’ve done it to somebody else.”

   
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  johnpi 6:48 pm on November 2, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: honor (5), honor killing (16), Honor Killings (13), honor-related violence (5), Noor Almaleki (8), shame

  Prosecutor cites “cultural aspect” of honor killing inside and outside of the family in asking for high bail at Arizona father’s hearing.

  The prosecutor called Noor Almaleki’s attempted (now completed – she died today) slaying an ‘honor killing,’ and expressed concern in court about the community of supporters behind her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, who helped in his attempted escape. The Almalekis are from Iraq.

  At the link above, you can watch the father’s first appearance in court where he is read the charges and the prosecutor makes the case for not allowing him bail, or setting his bail very high.

  Here’s my transcript of part of what the prosecutor says the state believes about his attempt to escape:

  We can’t be naive and not admit that there is a cultural aspect to this, and there may be people that would support him – including his family – but also others who share his beliefs. This was an attempt at an honor killing.

  The defendant tries to hide behind his moral convictions, and yet he also fled. The state has serious concerns that this defendant would attempt to flee if he were to be released and that he does have the resources and others that would be willing to help him, as they obviously did.

  If the prosecutor keeps talking about culture and the “cultural aspect” to the case this could get sensationalized into headlines like “Culture of honor killing goes on trial in Arizona” or some such thing.

  Noor Almaleki’s friends and other who knew her have been communicating at this thread here at Talk Islam.

   
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  johnpi 9:04 pm on July 27, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: honor (5), rape (36), shame, shunning (2)

  Christian ’shunning’ in Phoenix.

  A Liberian man whose 8-year-old daughter allegedly was raped by four boys, and then reportedly shunned by her family, must wait at least three months before possibly regaining custody of the girl.

  The father, who is not being named to protect the girl’s identity, met with Child Protective Services on Monday.

  The girl was taken into state custody after officials said they heard the victim’s parents blame her and didn’t want her anymore. But the father denied Monday that he ever blamed her or said that his daughter brought shame to the family.

  “That is not true,” the father told The Associated Press.

  The family’s pastor, who accompanied him to the meeting, said it will be 90 days until CPS officials reassess the situation. No arrangements for visitation have been made.