Now you bed Amerikans know what we Brits have had to put up with for years!! But this all sounds a wee bit desperate!



Desperate for Gas

Turkey´s first gay honour killing?

Ahmet Yildiz, 26, a physics student who represented his country at an international gay gathering in San Francisco last year, was shot leaving a cafe near the Bosphorus strait this week. Fatally wounded, the student tried to flee the attackers in his car, but lost control, crashed at the side of the road and died shortly afterwards in hospital. His friends believe Mr Yildiz was the victim of the country´s first gay honour killing.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-ahmet-yildiz-the-victim-of-turkeys-first-gay-honour-killing-871822.html

Almost half of Egyptian women harassed daily: poll

CAIRO (AFP) - Almost half of Egyptian women are sexually harassed on a daily basis with more than half of Egyptian men admitting lewd behaviour, the Egyptian Centre for Women´s Rights said on Thursday.
The group polled 2,020 people -- including men and foreign women -- in Cairo, and the centre´s director, Nihad Abul Qomsan, said that the figures showed harassment was on the rise.

Of those surveyed, 83 percent of Egyptian women and 98 percent of foreign women said they had been harassed at some point, while 46 percent of Egyptian women and 52 percent of foreign women said they were harassed daily.

Most women said they were harassed in the street or on public transport, with harassment defined as "any unwelcome behaviour of a sexual nature which makes women feel uneasy and gives them a feeling of insecurity."

Abul Qomsan said that almost two-thirds of Egyptian men -- 62 percent -- admitted harassing women, including those wearing Islamic headscarves.

"This shows that the belief that harassment is linked to women who wear indecent clothing is false," she said, condemning the fact that in the deeply religious country women often feel responsible despite being victims.

The centre said that last year only 12 percent of women went to the police with a harassment complaint.

In 2006, women´s rights activists angrily spoke out against what they called the authorities´ acceptance of sexual harassment against women, after a mob of men openly molested women in central Cairo.

The interior ministry said it did not receive any formal complaints and has never admitted any mass harassment occurred despite the incident being widely reported in the press and some bloggers posting footage on the Internet.

A nationwide survey showed that about 71 per cent of Chinese women have been sexually harassed in their lives.

She said that sexual harassment is a problem commonly confronted by women but so far she has not accepted any such cases because few women have been willing to speak out about their experience, let alone bring it to court.

Sexual harassment mainly happens in two places: public transportation and the workplace.

ps..I am just trying to prove that how easy to find these things

All state pupils may be taught Islamic traditions as part of compulsory citizenship lessons



State school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons.



The move - part of a package of initiatives announced by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears yesterday - is designed to curb extremism.



Education campaigners warned however against giving Islam a privileged position over other faiths.



Other plans announced by Miss Blears also drew criticism - including a state-funded panel of Islamic scholars and theologians to provide community leadership.



Prominent Muslims said this scheme was naive because Government endorsement would erode the credibility of those taking part, especially among the young and disaffected.



Another measure will see Muslim children being taught citizenship lessons by imams in mosque schools - in the hope that they will be better equipped to resist extremist messages.



Many Muslim youngsters in the UK attend evening classes at madrassah schools attached to mosques, where imams give instruction in the Koran and Islamic history.



Ministers want imams to stress that the Koran places a duty on all Muslims to be good neighbours, carry out voluntary work and play an active part in civic society.

Pilot schemes will begin in October in London, Leicester, Birmingham, Oldham, Rochdale, and Bradford.



The Department for Communities and Local Government has tasked the Islam & Citizenship Education group with producing the teaching materials for mosques.



The organisation, however, wants to extend its remit to mainstream state schools by ´teaching Islamic traditions and values in the school citizenship curriculum´.



David Conway, senior research fellow at the Civitas think-tank, said: ´Some will see this as another sign of a creeping process of Islamisation - an insidious process which plays down the Christian basis of our culture and encourages children to learn more and more about Islam´s contribution.



´Muslims are still a relatively small minority in Britain and, while I have nothing against children in our multi-religious society learning about each other´s faiths, for one particular faith to be privileged in mainstream schools seems to me pointless, and won´t make for greater harmony.



´I fear it will play into the hands of the small minority who want to see the Islamisation of Europe, and believe they will triumph through sheer numbers.´



Unlike religious education classes, citizenship lessons, which do not cover issues of belief, are compulsory.



Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said: ´We should not single out one particular faith. Citizenship is supposed to be secular.



´Children can learn about particular religious values in religious education lessons. That´s why parents have the right to withdraw. It´s a very different matter to promote a particular faith´s values as part of compulsory citizenship lessons.



´It seems to me dangerous to single out the one faith which is probably linked to the most problems with terrorism at the moment for special treatment.´



Khalid Mahmood, project manager of Islam & Citizenship Education, stressed that the project was at a very early stage.



He said: ´The material is being developed for the madrassahs but we are putting it together so that people in mainstream schools would also be able to use it.´



Miss Blears announced details of the panel of 20 leading Muslim experts which will have £100,000 in state funding.



Based at Cambridge University, the experts will be expected to compile reports on key issues in the lives of British Muslims, such as the wearing of Islamic veils by women.



Miss Blears insisted the new panel would be independent, adding: ´It is not for Government to dictate on matters of faith or religious teaching.´



Dr Azzam Tamimi, of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London, said the scheme was doomed to failure.



He said: ´This is a naive initiative. This not how Muslim education or awareness works.



´When a Muslim individual seeks advice or knowledge he or she would usually go to a person they consider to be credible or an authority, and usually Muslims are suspicious of government-sponsored or organised commissions.´



Dr Tamimi told BBC Radio 4´s Today Programme ministers were trying to dictate to Muslims over religious awareness and education.

Iran: Death to non-Muslims



Lawmakers in Iran are considering a proposal to make the death penalty automatic for those who leave the Muslim faith.







Abe Ghafari of Iranian Christians International, Inc. (ICI) was at least a little surprised to learn the news. "Before, it was like an option that an Islamic judge could decide to use or not to use -- but now it will become an automatic thing. And from the language of the legislation, it seems like something that cannot be appealed," Ghafari contends.



The death penalty would primarily apply to those who convert to the Christian faith. "There are large numbers of conversions from Islam, maybe even in the tens of thousands every year, and this is causing concern in the Islamic circles in Iran," Ghafari explains.



People who use the Internet to convert people away from the Muslim faith will also be subject to the death penalty. Ghafari was asked if this information shocked him. "Yes, it does a bit because we do know that under Islamic law of Iran, there was always this option of issuing death penalties for any conversions from Islam. So this was already available, but it looks like they just want to escalate persecution – making the death penalty almost automatic for anyone who converts from Islam," Ghafari adds.

ZZ likes me so much
How nice that JUST our news are at the regular daily news which cought zz eyes

´´ According to the 2006 census figures, the population, including those living abroad, is estimated to have reached 76.5 million at a growth rate of 37% over the 1996 figure.
Males :37,100,855
Females : 35,478,177 ´´

Now we are almost 80 Million,so yes,those percentage must be even logical too
We are a country which women NORMALLY,and daily too been harassed by men,then report it !
We spend our day in police stations reporting lol

Bad Easterns,Bad Muslims

Two unidentified Afghan Women chat with each other a few minutes before they were executed by Taliban in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on late Saturday, July 12, 2008.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/193294.php

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