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Showing posts with label Muslim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muslim. Show all posts
Monday, May 2, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Burqa Ban Takes Effect
(AP-CBSNews) PARIS - France's new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance Monday, as several women appeared veiled in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral and two were detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest.
France on Monday became the world's first country to ban the veils anywhere in public, from outdoor marketplaces to the sidewalks and boutiques of the Champs-Elysees.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy set the wheels in motion for the ban nearly two years ago, saying the veils imprison women and contradict this secular nation's values of dignity and equality. The ban enjoyed wide public support when it was approved by parliament last year.
Though only a very small minority of France's at least 5 million Muslims wear the veil, many Muslims see the ban as a stigma against the country's No. 2 religion.
About a dozen people, including three women wearing niqab veils with just a slit for the eyes, staged a protest in front of Notre Dame on Monday, saying the ban is an affront to their freedom of expression and religion.
Much larger crowds of police, journalists and tourists filled the square.
One of the veiled women was seen taken away in a police van. A police officer on the site told The Associated Press that she was detained because the protest was not authorized and the woman refused to disperse when police asked her to. The officer was not authorized to be publicly named.
The Paris police administration said another woman was also detained for taking part in the unauthorized demonstration.
It was unclear whether the women were fined for wearing a veil. The law says veiled women risk a euro150 ($215) fine or special citizenship classes, though not jail.
People who force women to don a veil are subject to up to a year in prison and a euro30,000 fine ($43,000), and possibly twice that if the veiled person is a minor.
The law is worded to trip safely through legal minefields: The words "women," "Muslim" and "veil" are not even mentioned. The law says it is illegal to hide the face in the public space.
Moderate Muslim leaders in France and elsewhere agree that Islam does not require women to cover their faces, but many are uncomfortable with banning the veil. Religious leaders have denounced the measure, and are struggling with what to advise the faithful.
The plans for a ban prompted protests in Pakistan last year and warnings from al Qaeda. It also has devout Muslim tourists skittish, since it applies to visitors as well as French citizens.
Authorities estimate at most 2,000 women in France wear the outlawed veils. France's Muslims number at least 5 million, the largest such population in western Europe.
The ban affects women who wear the niqab, which has just a slit for the eyes, and the burqa, which has a mesh screen over the eyes.
Kenza Drider, who lives in Avignon and wears a niqab, calls the ban racist. She was planning to attend Monday's protest.
Right before the ban came into effect, she said she would continue to go "shopping, to the post office and to city hall if necessary. I will under no circumstance stop wearing my veil."
"If I am warned verbally and must appear before the local prosecutor.... I will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights," she told AP Television News.
The veil, for her, "is a submission to God," Drider said.
The ban had strong support from France's leading parties on left and right in a country that separated church and state with a 1905 law but has struggled in recent years to integrate a growing Muslim population.
Police on Saturday arrested 61 people — including 19 women — for attempting to hold an outlawed Paris protest against France's pending ban on face-covering Islamic veils.
Many Muslims have also felt stigmatized by a 2004 law that banned Islamic headscarves in classrooms.
France on Monday became the world's first country to ban the veils anywhere in public, from outdoor marketplaces to the sidewalks and boutiques of the Champs-Elysees.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy set the wheels in motion for the ban nearly two years ago, saying the veils imprison women and contradict this secular nation's values of dignity and equality. The ban enjoyed wide public support when it was approved by parliament last year.
Though only a very small minority of France's at least 5 million Muslims wear the veil, many Muslims see the ban as a stigma against the country's No. 2 religion.
About a dozen people, including three women wearing niqab veils with just a slit for the eyes, staged a protest in front of Notre Dame on Monday, saying the ban is an affront to their freedom of expression and religion.
Much larger crowds of police, journalists and tourists filled the square.
One of the veiled women was seen taken away in a police van. A police officer on the site told The Associated Press that she was detained because the protest was not authorized and the woman refused to disperse when police asked her to. The officer was not authorized to be publicly named.
The Paris police administration said another woman was also detained for taking part in the unauthorized demonstration.
It was unclear whether the women were fined for wearing a veil. The law says veiled women risk a euro150 ($215) fine or special citizenship classes, though not jail.
People who force women to don a veil are subject to up to a year in prison and a euro30,000 fine ($43,000), and possibly twice that if the veiled person is a minor.
The law is worded to trip safely through legal minefields: The words "women," "Muslim" and "veil" are not even mentioned. The law says it is illegal to hide the face in the public space.
Moderate Muslim leaders in France and elsewhere agree that Islam does not require women to cover their faces, but many are uncomfortable with banning the veil. Religious leaders have denounced the measure, and are struggling with what to advise the faithful.
The plans for a ban prompted protests in Pakistan last year and warnings from al Qaeda. It also has devout Muslim tourists skittish, since it applies to visitors as well as French citizens.
Authorities estimate at most 2,000 women in France wear the outlawed veils. France's Muslims number at least 5 million, the largest such population in western Europe.
The ban affects women who wear the niqab, which has just a slit for the eyes, and the burqa, which has a mesh screen over the eyes.
Kenza Drider, who lives in Avignon and wears a niqab, calls the ban racist. She was planning to attend Monday's protest.
Right before the ban came into effect, she said she would continue to go "shopping, to the post office and to city hall if necessary. I will under no circumstance stop wearing my veil."
"If I am warned verbally and must appear before the local prosecutor.... I will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights," she told AP Television News.
The veil, for her, "is a submission to God," Drider said.
The ban had strong support from France's leading parties on left and right in a country that separated church and state with a 1905 law but has struggled in recent years to integrate a growing Muslim population.
Police on Saturday arrested 61 people — including 19 women — for attempting to hold an outlawed Paris protest against France's pending ban on face-covering Islamic veils.
Many Muslims have also felt stigmatized by a 2004 law that banned Islamic headscarves in classrooms.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Is religious freedom threatened in the U.S.A.?
Is this soon to happen in the U.S.A. as it has in France?
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Protect Free Speech
This just in from friends in Yorba Linda:
This Tuesday Night, March 29, at 6:30 PM.
Please plan to arrive early as 5:00PM.
Yorba Linda City Hall: 4845 Casa Loma in Yorba Linda
Protect Free Speech at the Yorba Linda City Council Meeting!
CAIR is Using a Favorite Shariah-Mandated Tactic ― Intimidation
Their Targets: Elected Officials who speak out against terrorist sympathizer.
Come on out with your flags and respectful posters. By that we mean poster such as: "NO SHARIAH", "FREE SPEECH", "NO TERRORISM", etc.
Mayor Nancy Rikel and Councilman John Anderson stood up for America and our 1st Amendment right of free speech. Both came out to our protest and spoke on that February Sunday. Now it is time for us to stand for them. This coming Tuesday, March 29th at 6:30 PM the Yorba Linda City Council will meet. The City Council Chambers are located at City Hall 4845 Casa Loma in Yorba Linda. This is located just down from the community center past the park. Plan to arrive by 5:30 PM if you can.
Several of us will be speaking as we did this week at the Villa Park Council Meeting. These two courageous elected officials deserve support from all of us. Come on out with your flags and respectful posters. By that I mean such as: "NO SHARIAH", "FREE SPEECH", "NO TERRORISM", etc.
If the militant Muslims show up as they did on Tuesday in Villa Park , please refrain from stooping to their level. An intelligent dialogue is much more productive that the shouting and yelling which took place Tuesday.
Bring your cameras, bring your videocameras.
Let's be there to support Mayor Rikel and Councilman Anderson.
Hope to see you Tuesday!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Letter and Call to Action in Yorba Linda
Dear friends and members of Yorba – Placentia CRA:
As you may know, certain Muslim activists and their liberal friends have taken to the streets lately to harass and attack any and all American citizens who courageously step forward to speak out against the Islamization of America. Over the past few weeks, beginning with the February 13thfundraiser event featuring the anti-Semitic Islamist Amir Abdel Malik Ali, and culminating most recently at the Villa Park City Council meeting last night where a few hundred Islamists and sympathizers rankled and harassed the council members in protest against Deborah Pauly. It seems they were upset because Mrs. Pauly had the temerity to identify Amir Ali as “pure unadulterated evil.”
So now they are planning to show up again, this time at the Yorba Linda City Council chambers on Tuesday night, to continue their rant against free speech. If they act the way they did on Monday night, they’ll be shouting in bull horns, and waiving pejorative signs about all the racism and hate-speech coming from the Christian, Tea Party Right.
So in light of these events, the Board of the Yorba-Placentia CRA has decided to re-focus our unit’s efforts towards the City Council Chambers in Yorba Linda on Tuesday night. We will ask OC Republican Chairman Scott Baugh for his patience with us in re-scheduling him for another meeting, and instead we ask that you come down to the Yorba Linda City Chambers located at 4845 Casa Loma Avenue, Yorba Linda, CA 92885. Since Nadia and I work, we will probably not be able to arrive until 6:00 p.m. If you are going to come, and hope to speak at the meeting, you will probably have to show up much earlier in order to get on the docket.
We hope you will come out to support the Council Members, and the rest of us who will be there. If you search the internet for news of the events mentioned above, you will find that the overwhelming point of view expressed by the media and leftist blogs, is against those of us standing against the subversive actions of these Islamists. The OC Register in particular slants its commentary and reporting heavily against us, referring to the Tea Party activists as “racist and bigoted,” while in another article, referring to Malik Ali as “controversial.”
Alone it is a very difficult fight to sustain, because we also have to steel ourselves against discouragement. But if we stick together we encourage each other, we are strong, and we can withstand this onslaught.
So please make every effort to come out and stand up to preserve your American liberty. If you fail to act now, it may be much more difficult to do so in the future, if these people ever accomplish their goal of censoring us.
Standing Firm until the End!
Dennis R. White
President: Yorba-Placentia CRA
Monday, March 14, 2011
Muslim Extremism vs GOP Extremism: Who is Right?
By now many Fullerton residents have seen the video put together by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which shows among others, Congressman Ed Royce and Villa Park Council member Deborah Pauly.
The video shows portions of Pauly and Royce's speeches and is mixed with images of women and children entering the Yorba Linda Community Center against a backdrop of angry protesters.
The video does not distinguish between the rally attended by the public officials and the small group of obnoxious protesters near the center. The video also excludes the fact that the keynote speakers, the driving reason for the rally in the first place, have long been closely associated with terror groups.
First, CAIR is the public relations front of Hamas, a terrorist group in Israel.
So when the Voice of OC, a public relations front and media machine for the Orange County Employee's Association stated that "At least one major Muslim advocacy group has demanded that Orange County's Republican party's condemn the protest and comments from elected officials who were present" and that same "advocacy group" is CAIR, you begin to understand the nature of the debate.
Pauly admits her statements at the rally were too general and unfairly painted all Muslims with the same broad brush.
The Fullerton Sentinel would like to point out an obvious fact: Nearly ALL of the religious violence committed on earth is done so at the hands of Muslims attempting to rid the world of "infidels."
If CAIR or any other Muslim group would like to change that simple fact, convince your Imams that violence brings about violence, not peace. And in order to change the way the West views Muslims, Muslims must change from within. Does Islam have the capacity to accept peace? Watch this video and decide.
The Yorba Linda rally is a good example of people freely meeting and expressing their views. Unfortunately, a small group of people, CAIR and the protesters at the entrance to the center, have successfully focused attention away from those keynote speakers who support terrorism.
Fullerton residents have the capacity to understand that fanaticism in any form is usually bad. Residents also have the capacity to view the CAIR video with suspicious eyes.
The video shows portions of Pauly and Royce's speeches and is mixed with images of women and children entering the Yorba Linda Community Center against a backdrop of angry protesters.
The video does not distinguish between the rally attended by the public officials and the small group of obnoxious protesters near the center. The video also excludes the fact that the keynote speakers, the driving reason for the rally in the first place, have long been closely associated with terror groups.
First, CAIR is the public relations front of Hamas, a terrorist group in Israel.
So when the Voice of OC, a public relations front and media machine for the Orange County Employee's Association stated that "At least one major Muslim advocacy group has demanded that Orange County's Republican party's condemn the protest and comments from elected officials who were present" and that same "advocacy group" is CAIR, you begin to understand the nature of the debate.
Pauly admits her statements at the rally were too general and unfairly painted all Muslims with the same broad brush.
The Fullerton Sentinel would like to point out an obvious fact: Nearly ALL of the religious violence committed on earth is done so at the hands of Muslims attempting to rid the world of "infidels."
If CAIR or any other Muslim group would like to change that simple fact, convince your Imams that violence brings about violence, not peace. And in order to change the way the West views Muslims, Muslims must change from within. Does Islam have the capacity to accept peace? Watch this video and decide.
The Yorba Linda rally is a good example of people freely meeting and expressing their views. Unfortunately, a small group of people, CAIR and the protesters at the entrance to the center, have successfully focused attention away from those keynote speakers who support terrorism.
Fullerton residents have the capacity to understand that fanaticism in any form is usually bad. Residents also have the capacity to view the CAIR video with suspicious eyes.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Poll: Barbarity Still Quite Popular in the Muslim World
by Ed Royce, U.S. Representative, 40th Congressional District (includes Fullerton)
(Originally for http://www.redcounty.com/, re-posted here without permission)
On Monday, The Los Angeles Times reported on a new Pew Research poll of the Muslim world. Seven countries - Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey –were surveyed. The findings shoot off the page like a cannon…
For most Americans, things like stoning are the stuff of Biblical times. Readers of this space will know that it's still common in a place like Iran. But as this new survey shows, the practice enjoys widespread support in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Nigeria. For what it's worth, most of these countries are fairly close to the U.S. and rake-in much aid. The practice of lopping off the hands of robbers --as well as the death penalty for apostates-- also have support off the charts.
In Pakistan – a country of 184 million and 70 nuclear weapons – over three quarters of the population supports all three harsh punishments. Even where support for stoning is "low," the numbers are alarming high. Stoning is least popular in Turkey, with 16 percent support. But that still gives you over 12 million Turks supporting this barbaric punishment. I have to say that Egypt's 82 percent is a shocker. I take polls with a grain of salt, especially in this part of the world. But still...
Finally, Pew reports that in nearly all of the countries surveyed, support for this harsh punishment "coexists with support for democratic governance." Too bad their understanding of democracy doesn’t "coexist" with things like religious freedom, individual liberty, or decency.
For most Americans, things like stoning are the stuff of Biblical times. Readers of this space will know that it's still common in a place like Iran. But as this new survey shows, the practice enjoys widespread support in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Nigeria. For what it's worth, most of these countries are fairly close to the U.S. and rake-in much aid. The practice of lopping off the hands of robbers --as well as the death penalty for apostates-- also have support off the charts.
In Pakistan – a country of 184 million and 70 nuclear weapons – over three quarters of the population supports all three harsh punishments. Even where support for stoning is "low," the numbers are alarming high. Stoning is least popular in Turkey, with 16 percent support. But that still gives you over 12 million Turks supporting this barbaric punishment. I have to say that Egypt's 82 percent is a shocker. I take polls with a grain of salt, especially in this part of the world. But still...
Finally, Pew reports that in nearly all of the countries surveyed, support for this harsh punishment "coexists with support for democratic governance." Too bad their understanding of democracy doesn’t "coexist" with things like religious freedom, individual liberty, or decency.
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