Tehran during Ramadan: ‘nobody is really in the spirit’

http://www.theguardian.com/world/series/tehran-bureau  – 15th August 2013

Iran has been referred to as a post-Islamist society – one in which conservative religious discourse and practices are losing their hold after decades of state promulgation. Iranians’ perspectives on the holy month of Ramadan, observed in Iran this year from 10 July to 8 August, appear to underline that view.

During Ramadan, in addition to taking special care to avoid certain sins mentioned in the Qur’an, Muslims must abstain from food or drink of any kind during daylight hours, a long stretch in the middle of the summer. The first call to prayer arrives shortly after 4am and the final call just after 8pm. The rules must be abided by throughout, and the summer heat – this year regularly nearing 40C – doesn’t make the job any easier.

Tehran’s Vanak Square bustles with hyperkinetic foot traffic at six in the evening. Maliheh, a 56-year-old employee at an car company who has come to pick up prescription medicine, shares her thoughts on Ramadan. “You know, I just love the atmosphere,” she says.

Asked what she loves most about it, she sneers. “Seriously? Who could find anything to like about this? Seventeen hours of fasting in 40-degree weather? It’s a living hell! We all sneak bites here and there at work, save for a few people who are scared about not getting promotions and whatnot,” she says with a laugh.

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The real War on Women is being waged in the Islamic world

By: Raymond Ibrahim  7/24/2013 

One of the few positive developments following the rise of the Islamists during the “Arab Spring” is that today many average and/or nominal Muslims are seeing the true face of Islam and its teachings. And many—as evinced by the June 30 Revolution of Egypt, which saw the ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood—don’t want to deal with it.

For example, during a recent episode of “With Dr. Islam Buhira” on Al Qahira Wa Al Nass TV station, Buhira explained how he had attended “a conference in Morocco on the status of women in society post Arab Spring,” and how at the conference, the following interpretation of the Koran by renowned Islamic exegete, al-Qurtubi (d.1273), was read: “Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden.”

After quoting al-Qurtubi’s words, Dr. Buhira continued, in a disappointed tone: “This is how al-Qurtubi speaks about women, who include his mother, his daughters—basically all Muslim women. He says they are ‘all ridden.’ This is what makes them similar to animals.”

Hard to believe or not, the idea that “Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden,” is in fact recorded in Tafsir al-Qurtubi (see vol. 17, p. 172), one of the Islamic world’s most authoritative exegesis, or commentary on the teachings of the Koran.

In fact, comparing women to beasts is not uncommon in Islam and traces back to Prophet Muhammad himself, who is recorded saying, “Women, dogs, and donkeys annul a man’s prayer (Musnad Ibn Hanbal, vol. 2, p. 2992).

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Media Release: John Anderson former Deputy PM lashes out at Minor Parties / speaks to Daniel Nalliah President of RUAP

General Immediate Media Release 2nd September 2013 The former Deputy PM lashed out at minor parties and their preference deals calling it a ‘Spider web of back room deals.’ This…

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron wants to export marriage redefinition ‘around the world’

by Hilary White – Jul 25, 2013

LONDON, July 25, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to use his government’s new same-sex “marriage” law to spread the doctrine of homosexual “marriage” all over the world.

At a reception at No. 10 Downing St. today for 150 leaders of the British homosexual lobby, Cameron said that together they had set “an example of how to pass good legislation in good time. Many other countries are going to want to copy this.”

 “I’m going to export the bill team,” he joked. “I think they can be part of this global race and take [marriage redefinition] around the world.”

Cameron told the assembled group he was “personally proud” to be “probably the only Conservative prime minister who’s taken this step.”

He particularly noted the influence that the legislation will have as a teaching instrument for young people. “Young children growing up at school, who might be uncertain about their sexuality, knowing that now, in the highest place in the land – in Parliament – we’ve passed this law that says that marriage is for you, whether you’re gay or whether you’re straight,” he said.

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Brief YouTube clips of ‘Daniel, The Man I Know’ & RUA Party Policy on Same-Sex Marriage

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‘I Have A Dream’ – A speech that will touch every Aussie – Public Apology to Stolen Generation (Australia / Overseas) & to Victims of Abuse by Clergy will be delivered this Sunday Father’s Day by another BLACK MAN 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr

General Immediate Media Release 30th August 2013 Who dares talk about fatherlessness in Australia?? We do.   RUAP President Daniel Nalliah will address this issue 9:30am Sunday morning 1st September…

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Sharia Committee Issues Fatwa Against … Croissants

Al Arabiya ^ | Tuesday, 30 July 2013 |

A sharia committee in a rebel-held area of Aleppo issued a fatwa deeming croissants ‘haram’ (forbidden in Islamic law) because of their “colonial” significance, pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Tuesday.

Croissants’ crescent shape celebrates European victory over Muslims, according to the fatwa (religious ruling).

Rebel-controlled areas of the Syrian city have experienced several strict fatwas recently from Islamic sharia committees.

Such edicts are uncommon in Aleppo’s society, which usually adheres to moderate Islamic teachings, Asharq al-Awsat reported.

A sharia committee in the city issued a fatwa on Facebook prohibiting “Muslim women wearing makeup and tight clothes that reveal physical features from going out.”

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Pakistani Christians Angered by ‘Sweeper’ Comment

 7/26/2013 World Watch Monitor Staff

Pakistani Christians have been angered by a statement by the chief minister of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that only “non-Muslims will be recruited as sweepers.”

The province, known for short as KPK, borders Afghanistan. Its chief minister, Pervez Khattak, who is in former international cricketer Imran Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), says that he was quoted out of context and misinterpreted.

Khattak denied that he intended anything derogatory. He said he was only responding to minorities’ concerns over access to jobs they have traditionally taken now being denied by applicants who claim that as Muslims they cannot do “unclean” jobs anyway.

Nevertheless, the Christians’ anger (sparked when a local Urdu channel, Capital TV, reported the statement) went viral and has hit national headlines because it highlights long-entrenched discriminatory practices rooted in the Indian subcontinent’s history and still faced by Pakistan’s Christians and low-caste Hindus.

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Media Release: Council rejects request to adjourn VCAT hearing regarding Doveton Mosque

General Immediate Media Release 28th August 2013 A VCAT hearing is scheduled for 16th Sep 2013 regarding the Mosque permit granted by the City Of Casey Council to build a…

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Brief YouTube clips of RUA Party’s Border Protection & Population Policies / More Votes for RUAP

Dear friends, 1) You may click the following links to watch brief YouTube clips of RUA Party’s Border Protection and Population Policies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7V0FlgyCjw (Border Protection) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXh-quq3ycc (Population Policy) Please be…

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Federal Election – Christian Values Checklist

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Britain: Muslim Prison Population Up 200%

by Soeren Kern – August 2, 2013

“Nowadays jails are run mostly by Muslims … It hurts as a Muslim to have someone disrespect my religion. If we deal with him one time, with violence, and show him what time it is, he will never disrespect our religion again … For Muslims, you’d say it’s good, but for non-Muslims, it’s very, very bad.” — Jay, five-time former inmate, quoted by the BBC

The number of Muslim convicts in British prisons has surpassed the 11,000 mark for the first time, according to data included in a new report produced by the British Parliament.

The statistics — from a July 29 House of Commons research report entitled, “Prison Population Statistics” — show that the number of Muslim inmates in England and Wales jumped to 11,248 in 2012, up from 3,681 in 1997. Stated another way, over the past 15 years, the number of Muslims in British prisons has jumped by more than 200%.

The rate of increase of Muslim inmates in British prisons is eight times faster than that of the overall prison population, and the numbers show a clear overrepresentation of Muslim convicts: Muslims, who make up roughly 5% of the British population as a whole, now make up 13% of the British prison population (compared to just 6% in 1997).

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Diggers challenge Aussies to ‘Rise Up’ – Rise Up Australia Party Campaign Meetings / Amazing Speech by Digger a must watch

Dear Friends,

On Sunday night at the CTFM hall in Hallam and then on Monday midday at the steps of the Victorian State Parliament in Melbourne at the Rise Up Australia Party Campaign Meetings, three Diggers spoke of their experiences and challenged all Aussies to ‘Rise Up’ and take a stand for their nation.

The three Diggers who had served in Vietnam, Iraq , East Timor & Australia were well received with great excitement and cheers by those who attended the Campaign Meetings.

All three Diggers spoke of the need to protect and Keep Australia Australian for generations to come.

You may watch the Key Note speaker’s speech at the following link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3_trKK7u_o

It is very insightful and extremely challenging.  You will not regret spending 30 minutes of your time listening to this speech.  It is a must watch.

Daniel Nalliah the National President of RUAP and #1 Senate Candidate for Victoria stated, “These are the true heroes of our nation.  We need to celebrate these men and women in uniform, who have paid a heavy price to protect our freedoms.

Now it is our turn to stand strong to continue to protect our democratic way of life, so that our children and grand children will continue to enjoy these freedoms.”

This election VOTE #1 Rise Up Australia Party and Keep Australia Australian.

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Stop arresting street preachers, says Christian rights group to head of London police

LONDON, July 28, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) 

Exasperated with the numerous arrests of Christian street preachers for speaking against homosexuality, a UK advocacy group has written to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (of London) demanding that guidance be issued to beat officers to put a stop to the problem.

The last straw was the arrest earlier this month of visiting US street preacher Tony Miano for preaching that homosexual conduct is a sin.

“As you might be aware, this is the position adopted by all the major churches in the United Kingdom,” said Andrea Minichiello Williams, the head of the Christian Legal Centre (CLC), in the letter to Sir Bernard Hogan Howe of New Scotland Yard. “I hope we can agree that preaching the Gospel on sexual ethics (absent extenuating circumstances) is a lawful activity.”

Williams said that not only was the arrest unlawful, so was officers’ questioning on the content of Miano’s preaching.

CLC is asking for the dismissal of the officers involved – PC Green, PC Bailey and PC Rutland – and referral of the incident to Independent Police Complaints Commission. “We assert that such officers are unfit to remain within the Police Force,” said the group.

Miano was arrested and detained for several hours after police received a complaint by phone from one woman with whom he said he had tried to engage in dialogue. Miano said that while preaching on “both heterosexual immorality and homosexual immorality,” he  was approached by the woman who, he said, “turned, glared at me and told me to ‘f-off’.” Police subsequently arrived and told him he was “guilty of using homophobic speech that could cause people anxiety, distress, alarm or insult.”

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Media Release: Diggers Rise Up to Keep Australia Australian – Monday 26th August 12pm – 1pm in front of Victorian Parliament in Melbourne

General Immediate Media Release 26 August 2013

Diggers who served Overseas and in Australia will take a stand alongside RUAP at a Campaign Rally in Melbourne in front of the Victorian State Parliament today Monday 26th August from 12pm – 1pm.

They will be addressing the issues of Islam, Multiculturalism and protecting Australia to Keep Australia Australian.

These Diggers will be speaking from their experience on the battlefield.

One of the Diggers in his speech states, “I AM SICK TO DEATH OF THE GOVERNMENT IGNORING A PROBLEM THAT IS GOING TO AFFECT US ALL VERY SOON. THE PROBLEM I’M TALKING ABOUT IS THE ISLAMISATION OF OUR COUNTRY, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT’S COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR THE TRUTH.”

RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah, the #1 Senate Candidate for Victoria, will also be addressing the Campaign Rally.

Mr Nalliah stated, “In contesting our 1st Federal Election, I’m very excited that 93 Candidates are standing from across the country in every state and territory. I believe that in the next seven years, RUAP will be a major player in Australian Federal Politics and will definitely change the landscape of our nation’s future by protecting Australia and keeping Australia Australian for generations to come.”

Now with RUAP in a full on, all out campaign across the country with billboards, social media, radio & TV advertising and hundreds of foot soldiers carrying posters, co-flutes, handing out brochures and meeting people in the streets, the clarion call to Rise Up Australia to Keep Australia Australian is rapidly spreading everywhere.

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