Moscow: Mayor against public sacrifice

Moscow: Mayor against public sacrifice



Via RT:

Recently-appointed Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has called for an end to “bloody and provocative displays” of animal sacrifice to commemorate the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of sheep are slaughtered during one of the most important celebrations in Islam. Although Moscow officially banned these sacrifices from public places in 2006, this year the Russian media has published hundreds of photographs of dead animals being killed, and sometimes left to rot on the streets.

“I think that neither the Muslim clergy, nor the Muslims themselves want the current situation to continue. I think this is simply a matter of better organization,” said the Moscow mayor on Sunday.

Last week some of Russia’s best-known actors and musicians signed a petition saying that the sacrifices “cannot do anything but shock those not used to cruelty,” and said that such scenes are “alien to Russian culture.”

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Sweden: Doctor assaulted 'for being a man'

Sweden: Doctor assaulted 'for being a man'

Via the Local (h/t LibertyPhile):

A doctor at Örebro University Hospital in central Sweden was attacked and kicked recently by the relatives of a critical ill woman who had just given birth, because they objected to him being a male.

"He was attacked by the husband and received a kick to the groin," said René Bangshöj at the hospital to the local Nerikes Allehanda (NA) daily.

The incident occurred on November 6th when the doctor entered the delivery room at the maternity ward at the hospital responding to a call from the woman's attendant midwife. She had recently given birth and was bleeding heavily.

The woman's husband screamed at the doctor that he should leave the room at once, but he refused and approached the patient to examine her. At this point he was attacked by the man.

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UK: Saudi schools teach Sharia law

UK: Saudi schools teach Sharia law



What's more shocking: Saudi law, the fact that Saudis teach Saudi law, or the fact that everybody's shocked that Saudis teach Saudi law?

Via BBC:

BBC Panorama found that more than 40 Saudi Students' Schools and Clubs are teaching the official Saudi national curriculum to about 5,000 pupils.

One text book shows how the hands and feet of thieves are chopped off.

The Saudi government said it had no official ties to the part-time schools and clubs and did not endorse them.

However, a building in west London where Panorama obtained one of the text books is owned by the Saudi government.

The director of education for the Saudi Students' Schools and Clubs said the Saudi Cultural Bureau, which is part of the embassy, had authority over the network.

Education Secretary Michael Gove said there was no place for the Saudi teachings with regard to Jews or homosexuals in Britain: "To my mind it doesn't seem to me that this is the sort of material that should be used in English schools."

He said in light of the BBC's findings, the school inspectorate Ofsted was looking into the possible regulation and inspection of out-of-hours schools and clubs. At present, part-time schools do not fall within Ofsted's mandate.


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One of the text books asks children to list the "reprehensible" qualities of Jewish people. A text for younger children asks what happens to someone who dies who is not a believer in Islam - the answer given in the text book is "hellfire".

Another text describes the punishment for gay sex as death and states a difference of opinion about whether it should be carried out by stoning, burning with fire or throwing the person over a cliff.

In a book for 14-year-olds, Sharia law and its punishment for theft are explained, including detailed diagrams about how hands and feet of thieves are amputated.

In a written response, the Saudi embassy said such materials were often taken out of context and often referred to historical descriptions.

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Antwerp: Syrian refused to follow instructions from female traffic cop

Antwerp: Syrian refused to follow instructions from female traffic cop

A 40 year old man from the Antwerp suburb of Sint Niklaas caused a traffic jam Thursday afternoon when he refused to follow the orders of a traffic cop because she was female.

The Syrian Mahmoud D. was supposed to yield to another car at a busy intersection. He didn't like that, and instead drove into the intersection and stopped there. The city center was soon complete blocked up. Police sent agents to clear up the traffic jam, but the Syrian refused to follow the instructions of a female police agent because she was a women, says prosecution spokesperson Renzo Ottoy. Nobody could continue driving, but he wouldn't budge a millimeter and instead sat cross-armed in his car.

Several other agents who were directing traffic up the road tried to convince him to move, but he refused. Instead he rolled up his window and turned off his car.

The police called for reinforcements and tried to get the man out of his car. In the end they smashed in the widow, but the man continued to resist and injured a female police officer. The police used pepper-spray to restrain him. He was overpowered and taken to the police station.

Police chief Jack van Peer says the man forgot his Dutch one he got to the police station, and demanded an interpreter. The agents called in an interpreter, and when the man saw she was a female too, he refused to talk to her. The same went for the female attorney assigned to the case. The Syrian was then brought before a magistrate, who was also female. It's unclear whether he agreed to speak to her, but in any case she decided to arrest the man.

Source: GvA, Nieuwsblad (Dutch), h/t reader