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Mohammad Memar Zadeh charged with RAPE
Spiritual leader faces court on rape charge
SMH
SARAH MALIK
January 21, 2010 - 3:19PM
The spiritual leader of a Sydney religious group dedicated to divine love has faced court today on a charge of rape.
Mohammad Memar Zadeh, 38, of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order based in Balmain appeared via video link at Central Local Court this morning.
He was refused bail by the magistrate, Jane Culver, and remains in custody.
He did not enter a plea.
He was charged with aggravated sexual intercourse without consent in December with a woman who was, according to court documents, "under his authority" as spiritual leader of the organisation.
The alleged offence took place in Chatswood between 3pm and 5pm on December 5.
Mr Memar Zadeh was arrested by Newtown police on December 10 at the Sufi Centre on Mullens Street, Balmain, where he lived.
The Nimatullahi Sufi Order is a spiritual organisation dedicated to the "realisation of truth through love and devotion", its website says.
The centre offers a public space for meditation on Thursday and Sunday nights.
Prominent members of the organisation include advertising guru Siimon Reynolds, who was listed in NSW Government Fair Trading records as a public officer of the organisation from 2001 to 2009.
Mr Reynolds is the author of four self-help books including Become Happy in Eight Minutes.
The Iranian based Sufi order has branches in New York, London and Tehran.
The current "master" of the order, Alireza Nurbakhsh, a lawyer who lives in the order's estate in Banbury, England, has not responded to queries.
Mr Nurbakhsh succeeded to the role after his father, Dr Javad Nurbakhsh, died in October last year, aged 82.
Dr Nurbakhsh had been the master of the order since his appointment at the age of 26.
The case has been adjourned until April 22.
Same Ole same Ole.
Ignoble Islam,Islamic Sociopaths Inc.13 yr. old girl sentenced to 90 lashes….
Saudi girl, 13, sentenced to 90 lashes after she took a mobile phone to school
DailyMail
By Mail Foreign Service
21st January 2010
A 13-year-old Saudi schoolgirl is to be given 90 lashes in front of her classmates after she was caught with a mobile camera phone.
The girl, who has not been named, was also sentenced to two months in jail by a court in the eastern city of Jubail.
She had assaulted her headmistress after being caught with the gadget which is banned in girl schools, said Al-Watan, a Saudi newspaper. The kingdom's use of such punishments has been widely condemned by human rights organisations. 
A criminal gets a public flogging by two officials in Saudi Arabia
Three years ago 16 schoolchildren, aged between 12 and 18, were each sentenced to between 300 and 500 lashes for being aggressive to a teacher.
Under Saudi's Sharia or Islamic law, flogging is mandatory for a number of moral offences such as adultery or being alone in the company of an unrelated person of the opposite sex. But it can also be used at the discretion of judges as an alternative or in addition to other punishments.
Al-Watan said a court in the northeastern Gulf port of Jubail had sentenced the girl to 90 lashes inside her school, followed by two months' detention.
The punishment is harsher than that dished out to some robbers and looters.
Saudi Arabia, a leading US ally in the Middle East, is an absolute monarchy controlled by the Al-Saud ruling tribe, and lacks any legal code.
Absolute monarchy: King Abdullah, ruler of the oil-rich state, meeting Gordon Brown on a 2007 visit to Downing Street
American President, Hussein Obama, seen here on one of his 2009 I hate America too world tours,bowing to King Abdulla.The President has given numerous addresses demanding that Americans “respect Islam” and it’s customs.
King Abdullah has promoted some social reforms since taking the throne in 2005 but diplomats say he is held back by religious clerics and princes.
Cinemas and music concerts are banned, while many restaurants and even some shopping centres cater to families only, especially on holidays.
Religious police roam streets to make sure no unrelated men and women mix.
The Saudi court system is exclusively controlled Wahahbi/Salafi clerics, and bans the employment of non-Salafi citizens, especially as judges.
Saudi Arabia is the world's leading country in the use of torture-by-flogging, public beheadings and publically crucifying condemned prisoners.
The country crucified two people in 2009, including one in the capital Riyadh during President Barak Obama’s visit last April.
In September, 20 Saudi teenagers who ransacked shops and restaurants were publicly flogged.
Newspapers reported that the teenagers received at least 30 lashes each in a public square.
Most of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks in 2001 came from Saudi Arabia.
The Religious and Social Structure that the President of the United States of America, Hussein Obama, demands Americans respect.The President is seen below,on right, wearing his National Costume ?
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The End of America :10 Steps to Fascism
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CHANGE OF SCHEDUAL to January 25 2010 11pm. Australian Sydney Time.
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January 25 2010 11pm. Australian Sydney Time.
Comrade Rudd and Hussein Obama “have plenty in common” says US’s Australian ambassador
Rudd, Obama have plenty in common, says US ambassador
Daily Telegraph
January 20, 2010
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and US President Barack Obama have a "tremendous affinity", a senior US diplomat said.
US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich said the powerful pair had plenty in common.
Former PM John Howard was a close mate with then US president George W Bush, leaving no doubt as to the closeness of Australia's most important alliance.
Mr Bleich said that relationship was as strong as ever under the new leaders.
"I think there's a tremendous affinity between President Obama and Prime Minister Rudd," he told Sky News.
"They have a lot of things in common, they're of similar age, they have an appreciation for policy, they both grew up in Asia."
Mr Bleich pointed to Mr Obama's childhood years in Indonesia and Mr Rudd's years as a diplomat in China.
The US was refocussing on Asia under Mr Obama and saw itself as a "Pacific country", according to Mr Bleich.
After a year in office support for Mr Obama has fallen as the US grapples with the financial crisis, and some of the President's reforms hit roadblocks.
Mr Bleich said Mr Obama had picked tough areas for reform like climate change and health care and "you have to expect that there's going to be some criticism".
Finally someone, the American ambassador to Australia no less, has confirmed that Kevin 07 "I have never been a socialist" Rudd and the left wing community organizer, voice of Islam and the United Nations the President of the United States of America Hussein Obama, have so much in common.
Is it their shared belief in the now totally discredited Junk Science of Global Warming /Climate Change / Dangerous Climate Change ?
Is it their shared belief in a "New World Order" ?
Is it their shared belief in "Social Change" ?
Is it their shared belief in “Open Borders” and the flooding of their respective nations with those who at every opportunity enunciate their commitment to destroy all that has made the USA and Australia what they are today, and to rebuild them in the image of the various FAILED States, Religions and cultures that they RAN AWAY from ?
Is it their shared belief in having an overwhelming desire to control who is entitled to medical treatment and when and where they are allowed to receive it ?
Is it their shared subservience to the United Nations and the rank evil it inflicts upon free men and women the world over ?
Or is it their shared plummeting popularity ratings ?
Obama’s Senate loss should sound alarm for PM
Piers Akerman
Daily Telegraph
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
BARACK Obama’s chances of winning a second term nosedived yesterday when the Democrats lost the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy for the past 47 years and his brother John F. Kennedy for 10 years before that.
It is unlikely Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be on the telephone seeking Obama’s advice on politics any time soon.
In a stunning victory, Republican state senator Scott Brown defeated the Democrat state Attorney-General Martha Coakley, becoming the first Republican to hold the seat since Henry Cabot Lodge Jr in 1946.
The defeat is a huge blow for Obama, who personally campaigned for Coakley in bitter cold and deep snow on Sunday.
Critically, the upset has the potential to derail Obama’s healthcare bill as it deprives the Democrats of the 60-vote majority needed to pass the legislation should the House alter the Bill and return it to the Senate for a vote.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott might like to call and congratulate Scott Brown, a 50-year-old lawyer, former model and National Guard volunteer who has served in the state legislature since 1966.
Like Abbott, Brown is not afraid of showing his body. When he was 22 he posed naked for a Cosmopolitan centrefold and won America’s sexiest man competition. He still strikes a manly figure, driving a ute - or truck, as the Americans say - to work.
Among the important lessons for the Rudd administration to be drawn from this result is that the cult of personality that sweeps some into office can just as speedily evaporate.
Another is the danger of a government claiming that any single piece of legislation is crucial to its administration.
A parallel could be drawn between Obama’s fixation with healthcare and Rudd’s hype about global warming and the need for his massive wealth redistribution plan.
The healthcare bill was seen by voters as an albatross around the necks of taxpayers in Massachusetts, which is the most Democrat-leaning state in the US.
A third is the danger in believing that a friendly media represents a friendly electorate.
With the notable exception of the Fox network, the US press has been as mushy and gooey about the Obama administration as “our” ABC has been about the Rudd pets - Jasper the cat and Abby the dog.
Yesterday it was announced that Rudd has been given a regular spot by his old media mates at Channel 7 in what is clearly a bid to boost a friendly image into households before the expected August election.
The segment was announced by producer Adam Boland, who was behind Rudd’s attempt to stage a phony Anzac Day service in PNG, and is being claimed as an example of “direct democracy”. Democracy, however, requires more than a single participant, unless Seven believes one-party democracy is what the nation needs. Rudd should tell us what he thinks about one-party states and explain their democratic virtues.
No matter how this is presented, Massachusetts has dealt a bad hand to both Obama and his Aussie acolyte.
Bo, the White House Portuguese water dog, better keep out of Obama’s way this week. The boss will not be happy.
Rudd’s pet cat and dog, Jasper and Abby, would also do well to keep a very low profile.
Tennis, Australian Open: Two “Multicultural” rioters awaiting murder trial
Australian Open tennis rioter on murder charge
Daily Telegraph
January 20, 2010
A JUDGE says it is concerning up to two men facing murder charges may have been involved in a gang who marred the first day of the Australian Open.
A mob of young men disrupted the opening day of the tennis with flares and unruly and anti-social behaviour.
The Victorian Supreme Court heard on Wednesday that possibly one man on bail for murder may have been involved.
Rudd’s Australia 2010 Labor’s much loved Multiculturalism gate crashes the Australian Open
Prosecutor Raymond Elston SC told the preliminary hearing it was asserted two of the men charged with murder were involved but it was not known who.
"One possibly (was involved). I don't know whether any others are. I don't believe any charges have been laid as a result," he said.
Justice Betty King said the matter was concerning.
"It's a little bit concerning when they're on bail for such serious offences," she said.
Eight men including one minor from Melbourne's western suburbs will face trial in the same court later this year charged with murder.
Another man pleaded guilty to murder and will face a pre-sentence hearing in March.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Rudd’s Australia 2010: Jihad in the Car Park?
Australia's shopping centres are full of these type of obnoxious foul mouthed violent people of “middle eastern appearance”aka. Sociopaths Inc.I don’t enter them often, but whenever I, do I seem to run into these arse clowns way or other.
They can be found wearing security uniforms at our International Airports, Shopping Malls, Cinema Complexes and Sporting Venues.
In Sydney's Occupied Territories,south western Sydney, young Australian girls seeking assistance from harassment by "Middle Eastern Youths" at Malls and Cinema Complexes have reported been ignored and laughed at abused by
Security Guards of "Middle Eastern appearance" who are able to converse in the same foreign tongue as their assailants and tormenters.
Who finances this Australian National Car Parks and who selects their staff ? and why do companies like Coles use them to alienate and annoy and FINE their customers for parking in their car parks ?
Is it because the Avatar wannabees and Crystal gazers that control the local council’s, Green Loons and Labor Party underlings are charging the shopping centres a parking levy so as to encourage shoppers to leave their cars at home and risk their lives on state Labor’s public transport system?
Another IPCC SCAM revealed,United Nations' blunder on glaciers exposed
United Nations' blunder on glaciers exposed
Chris Hastings and Jonathan Leake
The Australian
January 18, 2010
THE peak UN body on climate change has been dealt another humiliating blow to its credibility after it was revealed a central claim of one of its benchmark reports - that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 because of global warming - was based on a "speculative" claim by an obscure Indian scientist.
The 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming, appears to have simply adopted the untested opinions of the Indian glaciologist from a magazine article published in 1999.
The IPCC report claimed that the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish inside 30 years.
But the scientists behind the warning have now admitted it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's report.
It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
Mr Hasnain, who was then the chairman of the International Commission on Snow and Ice's working group on Himalayan glaciology, has since admitted that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research.
The revelation represents another embarrassing blow to the credibility of the IPCC, less than two months after the emergence of leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, which raised questions about the legitimacy of data published by the IPCC about global warming.
One email written by a scientist referred to ways of ensuring information that doubted the veracity of man-made climate change science did not appear in IPCC reports.
Several emails also revealed that some scientists at East Anglia tried to bully colleagues who challenged the theory of man-made climate change.
Murari Lal, who oversaw the chapter on Himalayan glaciers in the 2007 IPCC report, said on the weekend he was considering recommending that the claim about glaciers be dropped.
"If Hasnain says officially that he never asserted this, or that it is a wrong presumption, then I will recommend that the assertion about Himalayan glaciers be removed from future IPCC assessments," Professor Lal said.
The IPCC's reliance on Mr Hasnain's 1999 interview has been highlighted by Fred Pearce, the journalist who carried out the original interview for New Scientist. Pearce said he rang Mr Hasnain in India in 1999 after spotting his claims in an Indian magazine.
"Hasnain told me then that he was bringing a report containing those numbers to Britain," Pearce said. "The report had not been peer reviewed or formally published in a scientific journal and it had no formal status so I reported his work on that basis.
"Since then I have obtained a copy and it does not say what Hasnain said. In other words, it does not mention 2035 as a date by which any Himalayan glaciers will melt.
"However, he did make clear that his comments related only to part of the Himalayan glaciers, not the whole massif."
The New Scientist report was apparently forgotten until 2005 when environmental group WWF cited it in a report called An Overview of Glaciers, Glacier Retreat, and Subsequent Impacts in Nepal, India and China. The report credited Hasnain's 1999 interview with New Scientist. But it was a campaigning report rather than an academic paper.
Despite this it rapidly became a key source for the IPCC when Professor Lal and his colleagues came to write the section on the Himalayas.
When published, the IPCC report gave its source as the WWF study but went further, suggesting the melting of the glaciers was "very likely". The IPCC defines "very likely" as having a probability of greater than 90 per cent.
Glaciologists find such figures inherently ludicrous, pointing out that most Himalayan glaciers are hundreds of metres thick and could not melt fast enough to vanish by 2035 unless there was a huge global temperature rise.
Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University, said: "A small glacier such as the Dokriani glacier is up to 120m thick. A big one would be several hundred metres thick and tens of kilometres long. The average is 300m thick so to melt one at 5m a year would take 60 years."
Some scientists have questioned how the IPCC could have allowed such a mistake into print. Professor Lal admits he knows little about glaciers.
The Sunday Times. Additional reporting: James Madden
Rudd’s Australia 2010 Labor’s much loved Multiculturalism gate crashes the Australian Open
Croatian mob mars first day of Australian Open tennis
Kelly Ryan
Herald Sun
January 18, 2010
AN UNRULY mob of Croatian fans set a sinister tone on the first day of the 2010 Australian Open.
About 60 aggressive and chanting supporters in Croatia's chequered colours lit flares and made offensive and threatening gestures as they marched en masse to Melbourne Park, scattering other shocked spectators in their way.
In a display that left onlookers disgusted, Herald Sun photographer Craig Borrow was spat on and punched as he photographed the chanting mob.
This is the Crap the Australian Labor Party and their various leftists front organizations in the Social Welfare industries, Unions and social justice networks,demand Australians accept and embrace
Security staff were waiting at the front gates to search them for contraband amid strict new measures for the tennis.
But some of the fans tried to dodge security by running up the stairs while others buried themselves in their their hoodies to hide their faces as they arrived.
It was an disappointing start to the two-week tournament for organisers after the feel-good flavour of Sunday's charity exhibition match to raise money for victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
The behaviour of some fans - before the first ball had been hit - was a disturbing signal that more of the racial tensions and trouble that have marred the international grand slam event in recent years could be on the cards.
Last year, opposing Bosnian and Serbian fans sent chairs hurtling during a sudden fracas in front of stunned families enjoying the sunshine in Garden Square last year.
Tennis Australia has put fans on notice that they will be expelled from Melbourne Park if they play up, and have separated families and partygoers at the centre.
Officials have previously vowed that tennis fans previously banned from the Australian Open won't make it through the gates, as police increase their efforts to stop violence and anti-social behaviour.
Police numbers have been increased and CCTV camera zones expanded.
Supt John Cooke said late last week he was confident there would be no repetition of violent brawls that had marred the tournament in previous years.
"A number of people have been banned for the 24-hour period in the last couple of years, and those people certainly aren't welcome," Supt Cook said.
"We will have police inside and outside the venue throughout the event, supporting security," he said.
New powers are also available to police to deal with anti-social behaviour by fining people who are drunk or disorderly.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
At least 10 Australians have been murdered. Australians! do not go to India, you will die of “zinc phosphate poisoning”.
Ten Aussies killed in India, families claim
By Peter Rolfe
The Sunday Telegraph
January 17, 2010
THE family of an Australian man found dead in India say a growing number of foreign tourists are being murdered and the crimes covered up by authorities there.
At least 10 Australians have been murdered or feared murdered in violent attacks in India since 1999, with claims that up to 200 westerners have been killed. In what is expected to further heighten tension between India and Australia, the families of dead Australians say the subcontinent nation is hypocritical in attacking Victorian authorities and are calling for an investigation by the Rudd Government.
They are also issuing their own travel warning to Australians planning to visit India, saying they are "taking their lives into their own hands".
Melbourne disability pensioner Michael Osborne was found dead in a guest house near the city of Patna with his bank account empty and most of his belongings gone less than three weeks into a dream visit to India last June.
Indian police initially said the death was due to a drug overdose but when pushed for detail twice changed their story, saying he died from injuries sustained from a fall and finally that the death was caused by zinc phosphate poisoning.
Patna police told the Australian High Commission in New Delhi the death was not suspicious and that there were "no apparent external injuries to Michael's body".
But a post mortem report reveals the body had a catalogue of injuries, including brain haemorrhaging, an abdomen cavity "full of blood", scratches and abrasions on his left arm, elbow, wrist and leg and right side of his chest and hip.
It said: "All abrasions caused by hand and blunt object."
Osborne's brother Laurie believes he was beaten to death and has not ruled out a racial motive. But Indian and Australian authorities appeared to have closed the book on the case, he said.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will not say how many Australians had been killed in India. But the Tourist Justice and Safety in India group, set up by families of murder victims, have listed 10.
The Indian media has recently painted Melbourne as a racist city and condemned a string of violent attacks against Indian students.
But Laurie Osborne said his brother's death was the latest in a line of attacks against Australians being swept under the carpet by Indian authorities.
"We want to warn Australians going over to India that they are in danger," he said.
"Especially if they are going by themselves. Indians jump up and down and say that Australians are attacking Indians but look at what they are doing to Australians."
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Thought for the Day
Q.How does one Humiliate a Muslim?
A.Request that he or she live their lives and behave in a civilised manner according to the social norms of the 21st Century.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Islamic Sociopaths Inc.,Ignoble Islam: Only “Pious Muslims” can play Soccer for Egypt says “Rage Coach” Hassan Shehata
Included in this post is an article titled “Egypt's atrocities can't be hidden forever” and a Video of the Melbourne Coptic Christians protesting their Egyptian resident co religionists slaughter at the hands of “Pious Muslims”
Observing Islam equally as important as skill for Egypt boss
SMH
January 15, 2010
Egypt coach Hassan Shehata wants only players who observe Islam, and says team selection is based equally on religious piety and skill.
Shehata's comments, published in Egyptian newspapers, show how sports and religion are increasingly mixing in the overwhelmingly Muslim nation of some 80 million.
Egypt coach Hassan Shehata, in traditional “Pious Muslim” in ya face “I’m a Loon Muslim Rage Boy, Rage Coach” pose
The intrusion of religion into sports is part of the country's gradual movement toward religious conservatism over the last few decades, with more people praying at mosques, most women adopting the Islamic veil in public, and diminishing tolerance for secular Muslims or minority Christians.
There are no Christians in the squad defending its title at the African Cup of Nations in Angola.
For years, Egyptian athletes have demonstrated their religious piety in front of fans and the media - kneeling down to offer a prayer of thanks after scoring or winning, or praying before games to implore God to come to their team's aid.
But Shehata's comments take religion in sports to a whole new level.
He was quoted by Cairo newspapers as saying skill alone won't guarantee anyone a place on the national team.
He said "pious behaviour" was the main category for selection.
"Without it, we will never select any player regardless of his potential," he said.
"I always strive to make sure that those who wear the Egypt jersey are on good terms with God."
One newspaper, the independent al-Shorouk, quoted Shehata as saying that striker Ahmed "Mido", on loan from England's Middlesbrough to Cairo's Zamalek, was cut after his initial selection because he did not fit the manager's prerequisite for piety.
Mido was cut four days after his selection last month in a surprise decision given that Egypt was already missing Amr Zaki, formerly a striker with England's Wigan, through injury, as well as attacking midfielder Mohammed Abu Trekka.
Mido, who enjoys a reputation for hard partying, said he was insulted by his exclusion.
Shehata, a former Egypt international best remembered for his midfield creativity, has not made a secret of the big role religion plays in what he does.
He is consistently seen by millions of fans and TV viewers murmuring prayers during games. He often asks supporters to pray for the national side.
In Thursday's comments, Shehata boasted of how he convinced Egypt striker Mohammed Zidan, who plays for the German club Dortmund, to pray.
"I did not like how he used to be aloof and not mix with the rest," Shehata said of Zidan.
"I convinced him of the need to pray and how important it is. He has been praying since."
Shehata is looking for his third straight African Cup title after leading six-time champion Egypt to victory in 2006 and 2008.
Egypt began its title defence on Tuesday with an emphatic, come-from-behind 3-1 win over World Cup qualifier Nigeria.
However, Shehata failed to take Egypt to this year's World Cup finals in South Africa, losing to Algeria 1-0 in a make-or-break decider last year. Egypt last qualified for the World Cup in 1990.
Egypt's atrocities can't be hidden forever
FARID FARID
National Times
January 13, 2010
In his mainstream best seller The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown fuses fact and fiction in a panoply of adventure-riddled conversations and quasi-mythical fabulations. However, he correctly – albeit fleetingly, mentions the small town of Nag Hammadi about 65 kilometres from Luxor in Egypt as the site where the Gnostic Gospels were discovered.
Brown, within the narrative of the novel, reveals that these "lost gospels" compiled allegedly by St Thomas ultimately hold the clues to Christianity's aversion to the feminine divine and the source of its fragility by not addressing the Freudian sexual ghosts present in its formation as a world religion. However, Brown's Western-centric beef with the Catholic Church ends up ignoring the continuous indigenous history of Coptic Christianity present since Mark the Apostle's arrival in Egypt and other repressed ghosts lurking behind religion and politics.
It was at Nag Hammadi that eight Coptic youth and a security official were murdered in a drive-by shooting by extremist Muslim gunmen after they had just celebrated the midnight Orthodox Christmas Eve mass. Government officials suspect that the attack, where gunmen haphazardly started shooting at a crowd injuring many, was in retaliation for the alleged rape of a 12-year-old Muslim girl by a Coptic man in the town in November. The spill over from the attacks has resulted in riots and arrests that have engulfed Christian and Muslim communities in a wave of sectarian passions. These aggressive acts in poor rural towns in southern Egypt have been common in recent years and the ferocity of sectarian violence has recently escalated in larger metropolises such as in Alexandria last year.
However, these latest attacks need to be contextualised beyond the facile claims of sectarian carnage. Coptic Christians are the indigenous peoples of Egypt and have been maintaining their traditions, rites and customs since the 1st century despite centuries of repression under Roman and Muslims rulers. They represent about 10 per cent of Egypt's 80 million people and generally have co-existed along with their Muslim compatriots in an atmosphere of tense yet liveable amicability. Yet, with the decades of governmental oppression and quashing of civil liberties since the time of Gamal Abdel Nasser and extending to the current policies of President Hosni Mubarak and corruption on local levels, cadres of Islamic extremists have sprung up to retaliate and restore a more equitable social order through a brutal mix of lethality and religious misinterpretations.
Melbourne's Coptic community Protest “Pious Muslims” Murdering Copts in Egypt
In most cases of these hostilities, the victims have been Coptic Christians due to a combination of reasons. Coptic Christians are a minority and within the psyche of the state they remain problematic in terms of citizenship because of their religious status as the largest non-Sunni Muslim minority along with other discriminated minorities such as Bahai's, Yezidis, Catholics etc. Moreover, within daily Egyptian popular representations, Copts are stereotypically seen as elitist and bourgeois because of their economic leverage through entrepreneurial successes of Coptic businessmen such as Naguib Sawires – the founder of Orascom, the biggest telecommunications network in the Middle East and Africa.
The fundamentalist voices of some Copts living in the West, especially the US and Canada, pressuring Western governments to interfere in Egyptian domestic politics, leads to a scenario where Copts in Egypt are seen as Western colluders and in turn bear the brunt of disgruntled local elements as well as blatant institutional discrimination. Nonetheless, these depictions do not fully explain why these violent incidents persist.
As renowned anthropologist Arjun Appadurai succinctly explains in his book The Fear of Small Numbers : "the existence of even the smallest minority within national boundaries is seen as an intolerable deficit in the purity of the national whole . . . Minorities being a reminder of this small but frustrating deficit, thus unleash the urge to purify."
The predominantly rural south of Egypt has historically languished through mismanaged policies of economic advancement of various governments and has been depicted as racially and technologically backward in Egyptian and Western popular imaginations.
The demographic make-up of towns such as Nag Hammadi have large minorities pitted against each other where Christians and Muslims roughly represent the same number of inhabitants but political power resides with corrupt local authorities intent on subverting any notion of justice. The climate of economic disenfranchisement in these towns plus the venomous diatribes of some extremist religiously untrained Muslim clerics presents a fertile ground for young Muslims – especially men – to express their rage in violent ways.
The Egyptian Government is complicit in trying to present a picture of religious harmony to allay Western fears of human right violations but the ugliness and fissures of these local disputes dispel the cosmetic attempts of a cowardly government dealing with its domestic politics and its international image especially in relation to Gaza.
In an interview broadcast on Egyptian national TV a few hours before this fateful incident, the head of the Coptic Church, Pope Shenouda III, urged a return to the ideals of the 1919 Revolution against British colonial occupation. He implored Egyptians to a secularist ethics of citizenship based on mutual respect for difference beyond the dead-end of religious labelling. It is these wise words that must be heeded now more than ever for Nag Hammadi not to continue being a site where ghosts continue to dwell.
Farid Farid is a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Sydney. His research deals with the politics of exile, race and religion.
A rally in support of Coptic Christians in Egypt will be held in Melbourne today. Melbourne's Coptic community march to the Egyptian consulate in the city. And in Sydney, supporters are to gather St James Station end of Hyde Park (corner St James and Macquarie streets) at 11am on Tuesday, January 19.
To think that as well as training to play Soccer in the Egyptian National Team, you are also expected to find time to act like a “Pious Muslim”,where do they find the time?
“Pious Muslims” occupy themselves as follows:
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NYC: Thosands of Christians Protest Islamic Murder, Persecution, and Dhimmitude
Atlas Shrugs: Evil Egypt
Egypt: Muslims Burn Christian Shops and a Police Station ... Muslims Murder Christian in Egypt, Stone Coptic Christian Churches: FOX Bitchslaps the Copts ...
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Egypt Murders Sudanese Fleeing to Israel - Atlas Shrugs
The Arabs are killing the Sudanese fleeing to Israel to escape the unrelenting rape and murder by the Islamic Jihad government in Khartoum.
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MOST WANTED NAZI WAR CRIMINAL, CONVERTED TO ISLAM, DIED IN EGYPT ...
Reports: Most-wanted Nazi died in Cairo in 1992 CAIRO (AP) — Documents have surfaced in Egypt showing the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminal, ...
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Egypt: Muslims Burn Christian Shops and a Police Station - Atlas ...
23 Nov 2009 ... RoP. Indeed. They keep slaughtering people, destroying churches, villages, persecuting Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, non-practicing ...
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ISRAEL MK Katz: Obama's "'no natural growth' policy for 650000 ...
3 Jun 2009 ... Egypt: Obama "The Boy King" Interesting that he should make this comparison at the time that Hussein is speaking in Egypt.
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Egypt: Free Aymanour - Atlas Shrugs
Please consider signing this petition, and emailing others to do so…It could make a difference Steve Stalinsky writes "Freeing a Parlimentarian" in today's ...
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Coptic Christians Rally in New York against Egypt Government's ...
14 Dec 2009 ... Coptic Christians took to the streets of Manhattan today to protest the brutal persecution. Pamela H pver at Silent Majority was there: ...
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AMINA AND SARAH SAID HONOR KILLINGS: OBSCENE RAVINGS FROM EGYPT ...
Previously at Atlas I have made the case for the arrest of Islam Said, the brother and accessory to the honor killing of Amina and Sarah Said.
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Fla. Islamazi Bombers: Secret Terror Sign Language, Egypt Pays for ...
5 Oct 2007 ... Megahed brothers and Mohamed (all from Egypt) made hate statements ... It looks as though Egypt's government will be paying for the legal ...
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The One Constant - Islamic Jew hatred: Egypt Bans Marriage to ...
Egypt Bans Marriage to Israelis by Al-Qotb, Contributing Writer After the ... “Egyptians married to Israelis are dangerous to Egypt's national security, ...
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Egyptian muslims attack their Christian neighbors, chanting “allah ...
25 Jun 2008 ... Another day, another muslim attack on infidels. ... Pakistani muslim mob drags Christian women through street, desecrates Church ...
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Egyptians riot after 7 killed in church attack -- Signs of the ...
7 Jan 2010 ... The thorny issue of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt has taken added ... "My faithful were also receiving threats in the streets, ... The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction's Women's Inpatient Hospital Program ...
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EGYPT: 7 Christian Copts killed by MUSLIMS in savage church attack ...
7 Jan 2010 ... 28 attack. Mansoor said a Muslim known as Mogal beat him and his daughter with the rod on the street in front of their apartment home after ...
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Egypt: “Muslim Mob” of 3000 Attack Christian Businesses ...
AINA reports “Muslim Anti-Christian Riots Spread in Upper Egypt, ... There are reports that seven Coptic women have been abducted.” ... no arrests and were just dispersing the mob from one street, only for them to appear in the next.” ...
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Muslim mob attacks Christians in Egypt
24 Nov 2009 ... egyptian muslim attack christians ... MECA reported that three girls were assaulted in the street by having bricks hurled at them. .... Women harassed across Arab world (16 December 2009); What a difference geography ...
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Rescue of Coptic Girl in Egypt Prompts Muslim Attack - Open Doors ...
Women's Ministry · Open Doors Youth ... Rescue of Coptic Girl in Egypt Prompts Muslim Attack. Saturday 27 June 2009 ... “They must take an equal number, and sometimes they snatch people on the street.” International and Egyptian news ...
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Muslim Mob Attacks Church and Loots Christian Homes in Egypt
Muslim Mob Attacks Church and Loots Christian Homes in Egypt June 20, 2009 .... Muslim Mob Drags Christian Women Through Streets April 3, 2009 ...
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Muslim Kills Egyptian Christian, Villagers Attack Mourners At Funeral
30 Sep 2009 ... Egypt (AINA) -- Nayer Mansour Sahrab, a Muslim minibus driver, ... drum beats and Muslim women were letting out the traditional celebration sound. ... with Muslims smashing Coptic-owned cars, as well as attacking streets ...
www.aina.org/news/20090930184054.htm - Cached - Similar -
Islam: Making a True Difference in the World
(Egypt) Gunmen Take Down Six Christians Outside a Church. .... Enraged Muslims Attack Church Screening of 'Jesus' Film with Clubs and Axes. ... 77% of Gaza Women Face Abuse (Violence Worsens Under Hamas) ..... 2009.11.25, Somalia, Mogadishu, 1, 1, A civilian is killed when Jihadis throw a grenade into the street. ...
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National American Coptic Assembly: Church Renovation Prompts ...
29 Oct 2009 ... Church Renovation Prompts Muslim Mob Attack in Egypt ... The mob left the Church to roam the streets rampaging cars, ... The Holy Virgin Mary appears in Egypt · Egyptian Christian women forced to marry, convert . ...
nacopts1.blogspot.com/.../church-renovation-prompts-muslim-mob.html - Cached -
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