A Pakistani Christian man and his wife have been arrested by Pakistani authorities under the suspicion of murdering an American couple.

Honey Haveed and his wife were arrested after the murder of Pakistani-American Arif Khan and Kathleen Khan. When questioned Honey Haveed revealed that he shot his vitims to save his "honour":

"The pastor of a Christian church and his American wife were shot to death in their home in the Pakistani capital, police said Thursday.

The bodies of Arif Khan, a Pakistani-American citizen in his 50s, and his American wife Kathleen Khan, 45, were found late Wednesday at their home in a residential neighborhood of Islamabad, said Munawar Hussain, the local police chief.

Hussain said police had arrested a suspect, Honey Haveed, and his wife, who also were Christians. Haveed said during questioning that Khan had an affair with his wife and that he had shot him "for honor," according to Hussain.

Police were searching for another man suspected as an accomplice." (Source: The Guardian)

As I have stated before on this weblog practices such as "honour" killings are deeply rooted in culture and have nothing to do with religion as this case aptly proves. However the notion that Muslims commit crimes such as honour killings because they are mandated in Islam is a widely held belief. A belief that anti-Islam bigots propagate and use to good effect in their battle on Islam.

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Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv were on a flight to play Erciyesstor in the Turkish town of Kayseri. A Turkish reporter by the name of Elif Ural accompanied the team and a group of supporters on the flight.

On the flight Elif Ural recorded chants of the Israeli fans cursing in particular the Prophet of Islam and Muslims in general. The film was then censored and not shown on Turkish television after appeals from government officials :

"A serious and potentially dangerous diplomatic incident between Israel and Turkey was prevented Wednesday, after a national Turkish TV channel agreed not to broadcast a video showing Israeli soccer fans cursing the Prophet Muhammad.

The network decided to shelve the tape following appeals from senior government officials.

The video was filmed by a Turkish reporter of Channel 24, Elif Ural, who accompanied the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team on its flight from Israel to the Turkish town of Kayseri, where it is scheduled to play against local team Erciyesstor Thursday evening.

A group of fans who were on the plane with the team were caught on video singing songs against Muhammad and Muslims.

Ural, who has been living in Israel for the past three years as the network's Mideast correspondent, was deeply offended by what she witnessed and heard, and by the club's officials' failure to intervene and put an end to the offensive behavior.

"The decision not to broadcast the video was the right one and I don’t have a problem with it," Ural said. "There is really no need to risk relations between Israel and Turkey because of 10 idiots. " (Source: Ynet News)

My question is how does cursing Prophet Muhammed and Muslims show that you support and love your soccer team ?

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This is Yair Klein a former lieutenant colonel in the Israeli army. After leaving the IDF Yair Klein founded a "private mercenary company" called Spearhead Ltd. Which went on to train right-wing death squads and drug traffickers in Colombia during the 1980's.

Yair Klein has recently be caught in Moscow on an Interpol arrest warrant and Colombia is now calling for his extradition:

"Colombia is to seek the extradition of an Israeli mercenary, convicted in absentia of training death squads, who has been arrested in Russia.

Yair Klein, a former Israeli colonel, was held at a Moscow airport on an international arrest warrant.

He was sentenced to 10 years for training drugs traffickers and right-wing paramilitaries in the 1980s.

Prosecutors say those trained went on to carry out some of the country's most notorious political assassinations.

"Colombia's government is going to make a formal petition to the Russian foreign ministry, so he is sent here to pay his sentence," Colombia's foreign minister Fernando Araujo told reporters.

The Russian authorities have refused to provide details about Klein's capture and have not commented on the extradition request. " (Source: BBC News)

I wonder how many thousands of people died because of the actions of this man and his "private company".

Image: Colombian Ministry of Defence

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This is a Live Leak video of American President George W. Bush. It certainly needs no commentary:





I have just realised there is a doctored clip in the video above. I think it is where the President is making his address to the nation in front Congress. I am sure he has never said that he has been trained by terrorists.


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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in Israel's parliament. He has kicked up a storm in Israel over remakes he made in a Saturday sermon which were broadcast on Monday.

The implication of the Rabbi's comments were quite stunning. Firstly that by rebellion against the Talmud the secular Jews of Israel were a reason for their own death and defeat. Secondly that by inference God aids the enemies of Israel namely the Arab terrorists by not protecting secular Jewish Israeli soldiers:

"Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel, told followers in remarks broadcast on Monday that Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed in combat because they did not observe Jewish religious laws.

"Is it any wonder if, heaven forbid, soldiers are killed in a war?" Rabbi Yosef said during his weekly Saturday night sermon.

"They don't observe the Sabbath, they don't observe [the laws of] the Torah, they don't pray, they don't put on phylacteries every day. Is it any wonder that they're killed? It's no wonder. May the Almighty have mercy on them and bring them back to religion.

Israeli media accounts of the sermon also quoted Rabbi Yosef as saying that when soldiers "believe and pray, God helps them during the war" and that these troops "don't get killed."

The comments sparked wide criticism. Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said that he was "pained by the statements."

"Casualties to civilians and soldiers make no distinction between those who are more exacting [in their religious observance] and those who are less."

David Einhorn, father of a soldier killed in the Second Lebanon War a year ago, strongly criticized the rabbi for his comments. Einhorn said his son was killed just before he was to put on phylacteries for prayer. " (Source: Haaretz)

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I personally do not subscribe to the stereo-typical view of all Americans being stupid and ill informed but I could not over look this Live Leak video of Miss South Carolina and her inability to answer a simple question.

By the way she does fit all the stereo types in that she is American, female, blonde and not the most articulate female in the world.

A far less chivalrous person than I might call her a "blonde bimbo" but I could never venture such nasty statement about anyone:




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Dear reader it is that time of week again when we have a look at some of the interesting posts that can be found on weblogs in my blogroll. So without anymore ceremony here are my "accelerated links" for 08/26/2007:

• The Truth Will Set You Free on CNN accidentally interviewing a Ron Paul supporter.
• The Moor Next Door on tackling Islamist violence.
• Majority Rights on slavery and London Mayor Ken Livingstone.
• Jenn of the Jungle on Islam infiltrating English schools.
  
• Haitham Sabbah on Palestinians and the United Nations.
  
• Alex from Craig Murray's weblog with an open letter to the British Prime Minister about Iraq.
• Newshounds on Fox News and the assassination of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Malaki.
• Arabisto on the revolution brought by Arab satellite television.
  
• Barry Lando on the trial of"Chemical Ali" and the media.
• Israpundit on CNN's program "God's Jewish Warriors".
• Atlas Shrugs on a Jewish produced film about Islam and Maimonides.
• Mahmmod on camels not making good pets.
  
• Elder of Ziyon on a Rabbi who loves Arabic.
  
• Darren Rowse on release of Moveable Type 4.
• Indigo Jo on Amnesty International and the issue of abortions.
• Orthodox Anarchist on the trial and subsequent execution of Italian-Americans Sacco and Vanzetti.
• Matthew Good on Fox News and calls for an American attack on Iran.
• Kurt Nimmo on Bush, Vietnam and the killing fields of Cambodia.
• Lex on homophobia and the Christian right in America.

The links in this post are provided solely for informational purposes and inclusion should not be construed as endorsement or acceptance by the author of this weblog.


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Hafiz Al-Mirazi is an Egyptian journalist who until recently was the Washington bureau chief of the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera.

Al-Mirazi has worked for the British BBC and American V.O.A. during his career and since leaving Al-Jazeera works in his native Egypt on the first independent Egyptian news channel:

"Hafez Al-Mirazi is the host of Al Jazeera Arabic television talk show “From Washington.” The weekly show highlights different issues related to US-Arab relations. US senior officials, including Secretaries Rice, Powell, and Rumsfeld, in addition to many American lawmakers and newsmakers have been interviewed on Mr. Al-Mirazi’s show. During the last five years, he served as Washington Bureau Chief for Al-Jazeera.

Before joining Al-Jazeera in 2000, he was the Washington correspondent for the BBC Arabic/World Service. Previously, Mr. Al-Mirazi hosted, for five years, two weekly talk shows, on radio and television, for the Arab Network of America in Washington. He also held positions as writer, editor, and broadcaster for Voice of America. He covered most US presidential election campaigns and its national conventions from 1984 to 2004.

Mr. Al-Mirazi started his career as a radio journalist and broadcaster with Voice of the Arabs, Cairo Radio of Egypt, in 1980. He holds Masters in World Politics from the Catholic University of America and a Bachelor in Political Science from Cairo University. Mr. Al-Mirazi has lived in Washington, DC, since 1983." (Source: Global Studies)






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I would like to take this opportunity to present to the readers of this weblog the latest editions to my Blogroll.

Both new weblogs are from an Arab perspective. The first one is authored by Mahmood al-Yousif a Bahraini and the second is authored by Nouri an Algerian living in the west.

Nouri describes his weblog as such:

"... is a blog whose purpose is to allow me to express myself and to provide a liberal look at Algerian, and Euro-Maghrebi/Middle Eastern affairs, as well as American, Algerian and European foreign policy. In addition, with this blog I seek to explore various theories of history and politics and how they relate to one another. Issues of nationalism, identity, history, religion, and the like as the fit into the previously mentioned contexts are intended to be the primary focus."

Mahmood describes himself as such:

"...I try to dispel the image that Muslims and Arabs suffer from - mostly by our own doing I have to say - in the rest of the world. I am no missionary and don’t want to be. I run several internet websites that are geared to do just that, create a better understanding that we’re not all nuts hell-bent on world destruction.

I hope that I will be judged that I made a small difference."

I am sure you will find both weblogs to be well written and are not only enjoyable but also informative.

So for the time being I leave you with:

Mahmmod's Den
The Moor Next Door

Bill Keller is a Christian televangelist with a particular hatred for Islam. Until very recently he used to broadcast a show in the Tampa Bay area on WTOG-TV a CBS owned station.

In the show that was broadcast nightly at 01.00 Bill Keller made Islam and its founder a particular target of academic critique:

"A Christian televangelist who harshly criticizes Islam and other religions said Friday that his late-night program is being pulled off the air because of pressure from a Muslim group.

Earlier this month, officials from the Council on American Islamic Relations wrote a letter to the TV station's owners asking for an investigation of the show it broadcasts, "Live Prayer with Bill Keller."

In a May 2 broadcast, the televangelist said Islam was a "1,400-year-old lie from the pits of hell" and called the Prophet Mohammed a "murdering pedophile." He also called the Koran a "book of fables and a book of lies."

Council officials asked for equal air time for Florida Muslims to counter Keller's comments, but never got the chance.

The hourlong show, which airs nightly at 1 a.m., is broadcast on WTOG-TV, a CBS-owned station that airs the CW network locally. WTOG station manager Laura Caruso said the decision to end Keller's contract was a programming one, made by station executives and the televangelist.....

....Keller said his "Bible-based" message hasn't changed in the five years the program has aired.

"(CAIR) intimidated the folks in New York, and the folks in New York caved in," Keller said.

Keller said he is starting a new morning TV show on another Tampa Bay area station that will debut Sept. 3." (Source:Ocala)

For all those who wish to see the type of comments that Bill Keller made here they are for you from Live Leak:




As a supporter of freedom of expression I cannot support this decision to pull Bill Keller from his show it smacks of the worst type of censorship.

Bill Keller should be allowed to express himself freely even if his words incite other less astute than him to commit acts of violence. Having said that I would not like to be in his shoes if Islam and the Qur'an that he derides so much are really the truth.


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