Girls "married" before being put to death

Engaged to Be ‘Married’
The Jerusalem Post has an interview with a member of the Basij, the teen militia that enforces the Iranian regime’s will. Even with what we knew about the Basij’s brutality, this is shocking:

>He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.”

>In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard--essentially raped by her “husband.”

>“I regret that, even though the marriages were legal,” he said.

>Why the regret, if the marriages were “legal?”

>”Because,” he went on, “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.

>”I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.”

 

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Yeah, Bush would never have done such a thing

Except of course he did. Repeatedly. It was a point he laboured again and again and again - that the vast majority of Muslims could not be besmirched because of the actions of a few.

I ...... applaud his efforts at reaching out to Muslims. GWB would never have done such a thing; he was content to broadly categorize every Muslim as a terrorist and call it a day.
Lisa Kern

10/17/2006:

The end of the Muslim month of fasting is ‘a good time to reflect on the values we hold in common,’ US President George W Bush said Monday night while hosting an Eid al-Fitr dinner at the White House.

 

The Muslim guests of the president and First Lady Laura Bush included police officers and medics who worked at the scene of the September 11 attacks five years ago in New York City, US diplomats, a military doctor, a Navy chaplain and other military veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

Bush welcomed the dinner guests with a greeting of ‘Ramadan Karim.’ Monday was the sixth White House observation of the event during his presidency.

 

‘On this special evening, we celebrate the millions of Muslims that we are proud to call American citizens. We honour the many Islamic nations that America is proud to call friends,’ Bush said.

 

‘And we renew the ties of friendship that should bind all who trace their faith back to God’s call on Abraham.’

 

The White House served a Middle Eastern-influenced menu including spiced carrot soup, mint pesto-crusted halibut and chocolate macaroons. Eid al-Fitr is a celebratory meal to mark the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting.

 

‘America is a land of many faiths, and we welcome and honour the Muslim faith in our nation,’ Bush said.

 

‘Our society is enriched by our Muslim citizens. Your commitment to your faith reminds us all of the precious gift of religious freedom in our country. America is a more hopeful nation because of the talents and generosity and compassion of our Muslim citizens.’

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But the progressive Left, hostile to matters of religion, just never got it. They'd put Bush into a box marked "Christian loony extremist" and were never prepared to look, let alone think, outside of that box.

 

I well remember reading an article from an American newspaper in which the journalist's bewilderment at the opinions of school girls in Damascus was painfully apparent.

 

They were, despite being Muslims and not agreeing with many of Bush's policies, very positive about him because of his faith.

 

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Moderate Muslims Drive Out Al-Muhajiroun Supporters in Luton

In the British town of Luton today, members of the Muslim community confronted extremists and drove them from the streets.

Muslim extremists behind a protest against soldiers on a homecoming parade have been driven off the streets today by members of their own community.

 

Fights broke out and traffic ground to a halt when moderate Muslims confronted a group of about 12 men who regularly preach from a stall in Bury Park - the heart of Luton’s Muslim community. After Friday prayers, more than 200 members of local mosques turned on the group who sparked outrage in March when they disrupted a parade by the Royal Anglian Regiment through the town centre.

 

The extremists shouted ‘baby killers’ and ‘butchers of Basra’ at the returning soldiers as well as brandishing placards against the Iraq war. But today they were surrounded by a crowd as they began to set up their stall, shouting ‘We don’t want you here’ and ‘move on, move on’.

 

Angry words were exchanged and scuffles broke out between members of both groups, with the extremists shouting ‘Shame on you’ and ‘Get back to your synagogue’.

 

One police officer and two community support officers struggled to hold them apart until more officers arrived. Buses and cars were unable to move as the crowd spilled into the road.

 

Farasat Latif, of the Islamic Centre in Luton, which was firebombed after the protest against the soldiers, said moderate members of his community took action because police had failed to move the group on.

 

He said the extremists, who follow the militant group led by Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammed, had fuelled feelings against the Muslim community which led to a march last Sunday in Luton which was disrupted by white, right-wing extremists.

 

Mr Latif said: ‘We have been fighting these Muslim extremists for you. They represent nobody but themselves. The community decided to move them on because the police won’t. We have asked them, but they did nothing.’

 

‘I don’t know if they will be back. We have been the victims twice over - from the stupidity of Muslim extremists who metaphorically pour petrol and fan the flames of the right wing extremists.’

 

‘This was a peaceful demonstration and we hope they get the message that the law-abiding community is sick and tired of them.’

It's funny I suppose that Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (where this report was taken from) was regularly attacked as some kind of far-Right extremist when Mr Bush was president, especially because he was highly critical of Islamist extemism, (and quite properly so in my view), but is now taking flak from the Right because he doesn't want Mr Obama to fail, arguing (again quite properly) that it isn't in America's interests for Obama to fail, and calling attention to how some on the Right, in their rush to oppose Islamism, have jumped into bed with the racist neofascist far-Right in Europe, such as Vlaams Belang.

 

 

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