Maldives police stop Christmas celebrations for expats at a cafe after complaints by those 'offended'. Protest also held. Islamists points out that constitution bans non-Muslim celebrations where Muslims live

From Minivan Daily

[Jade Bistro cafe on Boduthakurufaanu Magu has “apologized” to anyone who may have been “offended” by Christmas decorations and “festive” lunch promotion at the cafe, aimed at expats in the country.

Police stopped the promotion after complaints were lodged. Opponents also later held a protest.]

[leader of Adhaalath Party [also a religious group], Sheikh Hussein Rasheed, said] ‘’It really does not matter whether it is allowed in Islam for non-Muslims to celebrate their religious days, because it is prohibited in the constitution of the Maldives.’’

IFM [Islamic Foundation of the Maldives] President Ibrahim Fauzy added that it was prohibited in Islam to allow non-Muslims celebrate their holidays in places where Muslims live. ‘’It is unconstitutional and prohibited by many laws at the same time,’’ said Fauzy.

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Source: Minivan Daily

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Comments: Where are all those Human terrorist rights organizations now?

'Moderate' Muslims should also go and tell these Muslims in the Maldives about 'true' Islam. It appears that they 'misunderstood' or have 'wrong views' of Islam. These Muslims believe in an 'Islamophobic' Islam.

The real reason these Muslims want to ban Christmas and just about anything that's not Islamic is because they are scared that Muslims might leave Islam and convert to Christianity.

And as usual, there will be a double-standards when it comes to them, and they will insist on being allowed to promote Islam to non-Muslims and will try to convert.

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Some previous similar or related stories:

Western couple called "swine" & "infidels" during Islamic marriage renewal ceremony in Maldives [A previous case in the Maldives for some history]

Muslim 'Christmas is evil' dawa poster in London, and website says it's pagan, sex, abortion, blasphemy, 'claiming God has a son', drugs, alcohol and violence and that Islam is better [This is what some Muslims think of Christmas]

Boko Haram [apparently] claims responsibility for Nigerian Christmas attacks. “war between Muslims and infidels. This is a religious war.” At least 86 dead, 189 injured in overall violence [This is what some Muslims do to Christmas]

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Asia Bibi Update: Some Muslims considered water fetched by her, a Christian, to be unclean

 The Independent reports,

[Bibi] was sent to fetch water. When she returned, some Muslim women refused to drink it, saying it was unclean because it had been carried by a Christian. The women then fought.⁴

 From the BBC,

[Bibi's Husband] said the other women challenged his wife and said it was sacrilegious to drink water collected by a non-Muslim.²

"My wife took offence, saying, 'Are we not humans?' This led to an altercation," he said²

 From AFP,

[Bibi] was asked to fetch water while out working in the fields. But a group of Muslim women labourers objected, saying that as a non-Muslim, she should not touch the water bowl.¹

 Local police official Muhammad Ilyas told CNN that Bibi allegedly said³

"the Quran is fake and your prophet remained in bed for one month before his death because he had worms in his ears and mouth. He married Khadija just for money and after looting her kicked her out of the house"³

 Qari Muhammad Salim, the Muslim cleric who filed the police report against Bibi, claims Bibi confessed and apologized to him.³ 

 Bibi's husband, Ashiq Masih, 51, however, said he would appeal the death sentence on his wife claiming the conviction was based on "false accusations". 

 The 45-year-old^1,2,4 mother of two sons and three daughters¹ was sentenced to death after being found guilty of blasphemy under section 295-C of Pakistan's penal code which states³

Whoever ... defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.³

 Although no one had ever been executed for blasphemy under this law, around ten accused,¹ including Pastor Rashid Emmanuel, 32, and his brother Sajjad, have been murder during their trials.^1,2

Sources: 1. AFP, 2. BBC, 3. CNN, 4. Independent (U.K.)

Related stories: 

Days after Pakistan sentenced Christian woman to death for blasphemy, Muslim countries will vote again at the UN for global blasphemy law

Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan

Ex-Muslim Atheist Palestinian, Walid Husayin, facing life sentence for “insulting” Islam as some call for his death for apostasy

Walid Husayin, 26, a barber and son of an Islamic scholar from the Palestinian West Bank town of Qalqiliya, has been arrested there for secretly “posting anti-religion rants” on blogs and Facebook. Ahmed Abu-Asal, owner of the internet cafe from where he posted his messages said he was caught after an employee there reported him to intelligence officials.

The Associated Press reports,

a potential life prison sentence on heresy charges for "insulting the divine essence." Many in this conservative Muslim town say he should be killed for renouncing Islam

"He should be burned to death," said Abdul-Latif Dahoud, a 35-year-old Qalqiliya resident. The execution should take place in public "to be an example to others," he added.

suspected of posting arguments in favor of atheism

Allah as having the attributes of a "primitive Bedouin."

called Islam a "blind faith that grows and takes over people's minds where there is irrationality and ignorance."

sarcastically declared himself God and ordered his followers, among other things, to smoke marijuana in verses that spoof the Muslim holy book, the Quran.

Two cousins attributed the writings to depression, saying Husayin was desperate to find better work.

Such "stalking" on Facebook and other social media sites has become increasingly common in the Arab world.

in Egypt, a blogger was charged with atheism in 2007 after intelligence officials monitored his posts.

a small minority has questioned whether the [Palestinian] government went too far

Source: AP


[ This comes only a couple of days after Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan, and as Muslim countries push for a global blasphemy law at the U.N.


It now seems common for Muslims to accuse those leaving Islam as suffering from mental illness.

Husayin is alleged here to be suffering from depression. Abdul Rahman, an Afghan convert to Christianity from Islam, was alleged by some to be mentally unfit during his 2006 trial for apostasy, which is punishable by death in Afghanistan.

This is similar to what atheist Soviet Communists did in the past with “Punitive psychiatry” that labeled those who do not subscribe to their atheist totalitarian ideology as mentally ill.

This probably still happens even today in the atheist communist North Korea which is in an unholy alliance with the Iranian Islamic theocracy and Syria by selling them nuclear and ballistic equipments.

And those Muslims pushing for global blasphemy laws at the U.N. probably also want to label anyone who criticizes Islam as suffering from the mental disease called "Islamophobia".


Muslims will no doubt will be angry now that Husayin "spoof the Muslim holy book, the Quran". However, Hussein Didi and his workmates in the Maldives thought it was funny when they spoofed not only the Koran but also Islamic prayer, while insulting non-Muslims and calling them "swine". Could it be that in their twisted minds, it is funny and okay, as long as it is directed against non-Muslim "infidels".


Husayin likened Islam to "primitive Bedouin" culture. This has been discussed in an earlier article posted on this blog that included criticism by the U.N. of "primordial" aspects of Arab [and by extension Islamic] culture.


An earlier article on this blog contained the following quote by Bob Siegel criticizing politically correct portray of Islam - “a popular notions that Islam is a wonderful religion, mostly peaceful, yet distorted and misrepresented by a few terrorists”.

The following quote mentioned earlier in this article that “a small minority has questioned whether the government went too far” in arresting Husayin, while “many” in the town wants him dead, supports Siegel's assertion that Islamic extremists are not a just a tiny minority as liars and wishful thinkers claim.

And this situation is not confined to the Palestinian West Bank either. The situation would be similar or worst in Hamas controlled Gaza, Egpyt, Afghanistan, Saudia Arabia - which had only restored Facebook a few hours ago after blocking it temporarily for some reason or other - and Syria where Facebook is banned completely.

Finally, keep in mind that Husayin might be let off lightly due to publicity. Do not be fooled if that happens as it will only be a publicity stunt. The important thing to note then is that the law will still remain intact with no moves to repeal it.]

Days after Pakistan sentenced Christian woman to death for blasphemy, Muslim countries will vote again at the UN for global blasphemy law

 Only days after a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, was sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan, U.N. members will again vote this week on the resolution “On Combating Defamation of Religions” put forward by Organization of the Islamic Conference, made up of 57 states with large Muslim populations.³ The resolution calls for a ban on expressions which offend religious sensibilities. Pakistan has been pushing for an international blasphemy law since 1999.³

 Freedom House's Paula Schriefer wrote in the New York Times that it was hypocritical that countries with appalling religious and other human right records, such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt were pushing for the resolution.³ He also pointed out that blasphemy laws were used to suppress religious minorities and those dissenting from orthodoxy, or simply to settle personal scores.³

 According to AsiaNews.it, the National Commission on Justice and Peace (NCJP) of the Catholic Church recorded 974 people being charged for “defiling the Qur'an or insulting the Prophet Muhammad” between 1986 and August 2009 in Pakistan.²  Christians and Ahmadis (who do not consider Muhammad the last prophet) there made up less than 2 percent of the population but accounted for nearly half of the cases during the last two decades, showing how minorities were disproportionately targeted.³

 Deacon Keith Fournier wrote on Catholic Online that,

This so called "Blasphemy Law" is in actuality an instrument of oppression with which Christians and other religious believers are persecuted by Islamic supremacists.”²

 The Catholic League, which is an anti-defamation organization, also claim that blasphemy laws were

designed to give Islamist nations the right to plunder the religious rights of non-Muslims—under the guise of fighting religious intolerance!¹

 It said that “it is one thing to issue a news release, conduct a letter-writing campaign, call for a boycott or hold a street demonstration; it is quite another to criminalize offensive speech” and has urged for the resolution to be voted down.¹

[Theo Van Gogh was murdered in 2004, on the 2nd of this month, by a Muslim for making a short film called "Submission" that was considered blasphemous. Molly Norris, who a few months ago urged people to draw pictures of Muhammad as an exercise of free speech has had to changed her name and go into hiding following FBI advice, after death threats. The threat from Muslims is there. The only difference is tactical, between those who openly use violence and those who engage in stealth jihad and lawfare, playing the victim card, while issuing death sentences, such as those at the U.N. on this issue.]

Sources: 1. Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (U.S.), 2. Catholic Online (www.catholic.org), 3. The New York Times 

Related stories: Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan

[Note: The New York Times article by Paula Schriefer contains some false "moral equivalence" arguments, such as trying to equate (or suggest) the Danish Muhammad cartoons and opposition to the 9-11 mosque in New York with things such as death penalty for blasphemy. This is the standard practice of Muslims and their liberal and leftist sympathizers. It is unlikely that the New York Times would publish anything critical of Islam without also including some criticism of others, however minor, trivial, petty and insignificant it may be. This is borne out of "inferiority complex" leading to obsession with "equality". There is a complete hatred and ressentment (ressentment, not mere resentment) of anyone being better.]

Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan

 Asia Bibi, who is a married⁵ mother of two,¹ in her 30s,⁵ worked as a field laborer⁵ in the village of Ittanwali^3,4 in Punjab⁴ province, and had been under pressure from some Muslim co-workers to leave Christianity and convert to Islam.^1,3,4,5

  On June 19, 2009,^3,5 while working in the fields,⁴ female co-workers called her an “infidel”³ and Christianity a “religion of infidels”,³ and pressed her to convert to Islam.³ Bibi, who has a strong faith⁴ responded by saying Christianity was the only True religion³ and that Jesus died on the cross for their sins and asked what Muhammad, the founder and prophet of Islam, had done for them.^1,5 This reply enraged⁵ the Muslim women who then beat her.¹

  She was then either, locked up in a room by some men who then began broadcasting on the local mosque public address (PA) system plans to blacken her face and parade her through the village on a donkey, while a mob of villagers and Muslims clerics beat her two daughters,⁵ or she fled to her home where she was followed and beaten and her daughters tortured.³ Two other Christian families also lived in the village⁵ and either some of them⁵ or someone else³ informed the police and she was arrested.

  Pressure from local Muslims leaders¹ lead the police to charge her with blasphemy for insulting Muhammad under section 295-B and C of Pakistan Penal Code,³ which carries a sentence of death or life in prison.³ Bibi denies the charges and said instead that she was being persecuted for her religion.²

  The trial lasted over 16 months⁴ and she was found guilty on November 7 ⁵ in the town of Sheikhupura² and sentenced to death in the first ever such sentence for a woman.⁵ She was also fined £728, which is around two and a half year's wage for an unskilled laborer.⁵ Bibi can appeal the sentence but it may take years before her case is heard.⁴

  In a similar case, another Christian, Martha Bibi, is currently on trial for blasphemy in Lahore, after getting into a dispute with builders in Kasur.^1,5

  Release International, a Christian organization working for persecuted Christians worldwide, said the blasphemy law is easily⁴ open to abuse for vengeance,⁵ and Pakistan Christian Congress has called on the government to repeal it.³

Sources: 1. Christian Today (Australia), 2. Daily Telegraph (UK), 3. Pakistan Christian Post, 4. 5. Release International

UPDATE: A second article on this story has been posted here. Later reports claim Aisa Bibi is be 45-years-old and that she has at least 3 and up to 5 children.

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Asia Bibi Update: Some Muslims considered water fetched by her, a Christian, to be unclean

Libyan president who tried converting Italian girls to Islam said to have sex orgies that were copied by Italian Prime Minister

 The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, 74, is currently caught up in his latest sex scandal, with revelations that a 17-year-old Moroccan girl, Karima Keyek, was present at his sex parties.⁴ Keyek calims Berlusconi copied how to organize his sex orgies from Gadaffi,⁴ who previously had tried converting beautiful young Italian girls to Islam by paying them to meet him during his visit to Rome and giving them copies of the Koran.^1,2 She said,

After dinner came "bunga-bunga" which she reportedly described so graphically - "what was being done and who was doing it" - that she astonished the prosecutors. "Silvio told me that he'd copied that formula from Muammar Gadaffi [the Libyan leader]. It's a ritual of his African harem," Ruby said.⁴

 Keyek also goes by the name of Ruby and "bunga-bunga" means a form of orgy.⁴

 Keyek, who fled her home in Sicily aged 14, also claimed that her Muslim father beat her for wishing to leave Islam and convert to Christianity by becoming a Catholic.⁴

 As for Gadaffi, he had said during his attempted conversion of beautiful young Italian girls that Islam was superior and Europe should therefore convert to Islam.^1,2 A critics responded then to his hypocrisy by saying if the same thing was said by a Christian in Libya, he was unlikely to be return home in one piece.² At the end of his trip to Rome, when those comments were made, Gadaffi also engaged in blackmail³ by demanding at least €5 billion a year in return for stopping illegal African immigrants who he said might turn Europe "black"³ and make it into "another Africa".³ 

Source: 1. Daily Mail (UK), 2. 3. The Telegraph, 4. The Times (UK) 

Freedom of religion don't actually exist in Muslim Middle East, says Pope Benedict

 The pope said "true freedom to live and profess one's faith" don't actually exist in Muslim countries of the Middle East. He said while there is freedom of worship, the actual freedom to do so "is many times very limited". He said freedom of religion is a fundamental human right which all states should respect and should be subject of dialogue with Muslims. The comments were made at the end of a synod of Catholic bishops at the Vatican to discuss the future of embattled Christians in the Middle East. Conflict, discrimination and economic problems have forced Christians to leave the region, resulting in their ever decreasing presence there.

Source: AP 

Islamic dumbing down - Restrictions on 12 un-Islamic university subjects in Iran

 Iran has announced a ban on universities from opening new departments¹ in 12 humanities subjects considered too “Western”² and not in “harmony”³ with Islam. It also plans to revise the content of existing courses in these subjects by up to 70 per cent⁴ to make them “compatible”⁵ with Islam. The subjects targeted includes human rights, law, management, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology and women's studies.^6,7 The move comes after Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for action saying the many humanities subjects based on “materialism disbelieving the divine Islamic teachings”⁸ will lead students to “doubt”⁹ Islam. Two million out of a total of 3.5 million Iranian university students are studying humanities.

Sources: AP 1, 3, 4, 7. Reuters 2, 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Still no sign of Somali Christian convert girl kidnapped by al Shabaab

 Anab Ghelle Hassan, 15, was kidnapped by al Shabaab terrorists on 15-Feb-2010, according to relatives who witnessed the event. Her family, which converted to Christianity in 2001, immediately left Dhusa Mareb, Galgaduud region, Somalia, after learning of it, fearing they would also be targeted next. Al Shabaab bans all religions except Islam.

Source: Compass Direct News (CDN)