Veena Malik - unlikely champion for women's liberties in Pakistan

I picked up on this news item in my news aggregator (Google Reader), last night.
This YouTube video clip from Memri TV was very interesting:

This is Veena Malik - the sort of dominatrix hostess in the TV show "Big Boss" - the Indian version of "Big Brother". 
What impressed me about this Pakistani actress was her apparently unrehearsed and highly articulate self defence and then counter-attack on her mullah critic - and the media in general - for the "trial by television" that she saw herself as being subjected to in that televised interview.
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Assuming that this was not a carefully-planed publicity stunt, I thought that she really stood up for herself well and showed herself to be  a good spokeswoman for all downtrodden and suppressed Pakistani women. The interview gives us further reminder (if any were needed) of the sorry lot of the millions of women living under the heel of the Fascist jackboot of the religeo-political Islamic regime in Pakistan.
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The Indian so-called "reality" TV show referred to is shockingly bad, IMHO - I watched a few clips of it before making a post about it in Dec. 2010 - "How can she slap?" - something unpleasant on Indian TV .

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After seeing the clips of that show, I had relegated the "actress" in question to the category of "rubbish" in my mind. However, I am now a fan of hers, after watching her stout defence in this latest clip.

Splattergate - "No Pressure" shows the route to Greenie neo-fascism

Image via Wikipedia

"You will be killed if you do not agree with us."

With apparently gobsmacking stupidy, 10:10 reveal themselves as the ultimate Neo-fascists of Greenie.
The "No Pressure" video: How to Cut Carbon Emissions

(WARNING - this is a pretty grim splatter video. If you cannot see this video, it is because 10:10 seem to have been belatedly trying to expunge the thing after it had gone viral. Just google it to find another posted copy.)

On realising that they had just shot themselves in the head, there is this belated and brain-dead apology which is not an apology.

As Brian Micklethwaite puts it:

"I am still absolutely dazed with amazement at the total, one hundred and eighty degree oppositeness of the message this video sends out to the message they were trying to send out."

Other comment in the blogosphere on this are to the effect that:

• This is an appalling blunder which may be repeated, because Greenies cannot help it. The film was irrational, suggesting that when they made this film, the Greenies who made it were emoting, but with an emotion that seems to have been overwhelmingly negative. Thus, instead of being positive and inspiring passion, it inspired hate-filled blind rage, whose slogan is 'Smash everything'. This is not a good basis on which to make decisions. Furthermore, the rage is probably largely narcissistic. Each Greenie (and in fact, each Leftist in general) feels personally outraged by the attitude of The System towards them, which bolts onto their desire for destruction a profound lack of awareness.
• The Greenies who made this film (being unaware of themselves because they are so consumed with their own magnificence) are unaware of other people (in whom they have no interest), and so they inevitably make massive miscalculations as to what is acceptable behaviour and how that behaviour will be perceived by others.
• Psychologically, it's not a pretty picture, and so neither is that video.

International "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" (20th May)

Since 20th May is the first international annual "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" ("Be there or be dhimmi"), I was going to draw a cartoon or something, but instead I have dug up a perfectly good cartoon representing Mohammed, drawn by an Israeli girl in 1997. Here it is:

Mohammed as a pig, standing on the Koran whilst he writes in it.

I got this cartoon from THE PIG AND THE PRINCESS.

Israeli girl Tatiana Soskin:
Drew the "illegal" cartoon of Mohammed as a pig.

The pig, of course was the depiction of Mohammed. The princess was Tatiana Soskin (pictured right).
Seems like this simple young Russian/Jewish girl living in Hebron in 1997 became, perhaps understandably, pissed off at the Arabs/Palestinians continually bombing and shooting into her home town. As a sign of protest, she drew a cartoon depicting Mohammed as a pig, standing on the Koran whilst he writes in it. This could seem like fair comment to most people.

It's not clear from the post in THE PIG AND THE PRINCESS as to what crime she was believed to have committed, but In 1998 she was apparently given 2 years' prison sentence for committing what the presiding judge considered to be some kind of racist act or atrocity akin to (wait for it) - what the Nazis did during the Holocaust. Amazing.

The mind boggles that the Jewish authorities and legislature could have been such dhimmis, but there we are - and bugger the principle of "freedom of speech", I suppose.

I must admit, until I read this, I had always thought the actions of the Israelis demonstrated them to be a pretty hard-headed and rational bunch, with a strong sense of moral integrity/justice, but this one - if true - has me at a complete loss. I wonder, under what circumstances could it be justifiable and make sense?

As for the annual international "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day", this cartoon from DayByDay Cartoons is priceless (click on the link if this copy below is too small to read):

Professional suicide by a climatologist - "Wot an assh#le"

Professor Andrew Watson
from East Anglia University.
Uses argumentum ad hominem

Witness this vid clip example here of professional suicide on BBC TV's Newsnight on the 4th December 2009. With the simple phrase "Wot an assh#le", a professor Andrew Watson (pictured right, as he uttered the words), in one fell swoop:

• brought his own professional reputation into disrepute;
• brought the reputation of his academic institution into disrepute;
• destroyed his credibility and any presumption of his objectivity - by uttering an ad hominem which ironically in retrospect may have been more aptly describing himself rather than the person he was name-calling;
• risked bringing the already seriously tattered UN IPCC policy on "global warming" (of which he is a proponent) into further disrepute.
  

This was a fascinating piece of TV, and it looked like professional suicide.

Long live plastic bottles!

Someone sent me a link to this item about the "Eco Bottle" - there is a picture of this 650ml bottle to the right. There was room for comments after the item, but it was limited to a max. of 400 words, and so I have posted my thoughts on the matter below.

Essentially, "Charlie's" brand has decided to sell water in a kind of plastic that is apparently made from plant matter as opposed to crude (fossil) oil. Greenies would lurve this, of course - you can almost feel the planet cooling - hence the post is on a website for something called "The sustainable greenlist directory". Everything has to be "sustainable" and "recyclable" nowadays it seems, except people of course - although that earliest of great recyclers, Adolf Hitler, apparently effectively demonstrated that even people did not need to be wasted and were recyclable by having his henchmen render the body fats from several millions of  innocent Jews to produce a kind of soap and used the ashes of their burned bodies to make road asphalt to build into roads. Some people have remarked that there is no limit to the fertile imagination of the mind of Man. I remember my mother telling me about this Hitler and what he had his German people do, as I listened to her in wonder as a child, and I recall years later the truth hitting home when I studied the history of the Nazi regime.

Anyway, as my old colleague Malcolm would say - did say, actually - "That's all water under the bridge now. Why can't we just forget about it? We must move on". Only trouble is, I can't move for all these historical corpses lying around and for knowing that there are currently an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims on the planet who are brought up to believe that they should start up again where Hitler left off and make a proper job of it this time.

But I digress. I would suggest that this "Eco bottle" could be a frivolous and cynical marketing exercise intended to make money out of gullible people.

Freedom of Information in NZ? Hmmm.

I stumbled upon this interesting post Freedom of Information on g.blog.

Here is a sample of the start of it:

"You know, being anti-pornography, against the exploitation of children, and being of the view that publishing explicit photos of a person without their explicit informed consent is a form of stealing someone’s right to their own identity, it’s not often I have a chance to defend the availability of child pornography. But here I go, for the first time ever. You can mark it on your calendar if you like."

In memoriam: Atefeh Rajabi - murdered by the Iranian judiciary

(Most of this is borrowed from the Telegraph article  Death and the maiden in Iran, July 2004.)
Atefeh Rajabi appears to have been a fairly normal 16-year-old, but with an unfortunately bad family background. She was probably sulky, disobedient, and eager to have sex. In London, those attributes could earn lectures from parents and teachers on the importance of acting responsibly and not being offensive.
In the city of Neka in Iran, where Atefeh Rajabi came from, they got her hauled up in front of a judge, where she was charged and found guilty of "acts incompatible with chastity". The judge in the Islamic Sharia court ruled that the appropriate penalty was death. Her sentence was confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court.
The justice machine of Iran having thus run its proper course, on 15th August, 2004, the girl was hung from a crane in the main square of Neka, in full public view, in order to keep "society safe from acts against public morality", and her young, insignificant life was snuffed out.

Girl, Interrupted - in memory of Aqsa Parvez, plot #774

On December 10, 2007, a 16-year old girl Aqsa Parvez was murdered - by her Pakistani immigrant Muslim father, Muhammad Parvez, and her brother, Waqas Parvez, in what is euphemistically termed an Islamic "honour killing".  The cause of death was strangulation.

Sweet 16: more than 20 Facebook pages devoted to
Aqsa Parvez were created within days of her death.Image credit: Facebook.

But this didn't happen in Pakistan, it happened in Mississauga, Toronto (Canada), where the population has tripled in the past 30 years - there are currently more than 700,000 people living in this, the country’s sixth largest city, and half of them are visible minorities.

Provocation for the father to murder his daughter must have been profound - he had sworn to kill her - because she had abandoned the use of her hijab (headscarf) - which is apparently a sin according to the Koran (and under Islamic Sharia law).

The otherwise unmarked grave of Aqsa Parvez, in Plot #774.

The details and the background to the murder of this child (she was aged 16) are adequately described in a factual and unemotional  4-page article by Toronto Life (click on link).


As if the murder wasn't bad enough, there is an article on 22 January, 2009 in Jihad Watch, that describes how Aqsa was buried without a headstone - she was laid in an unmarked grave, in plot #774 in Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Ontario. One Pamela Geller took up a collection to raise funds for a headstone, and a group of infidels contributed sufficient to make it a goer. But there was a problem, according to Pamela Geller in the article:

Swiss TV journos seem unaware of their nation's history

German supporters at the match sang the official version of the anthem. Raul Salinas said he got rich during his brother's presidency, but legally.

Harried news editors sometimes unwittingly juxtapose apparently unconnected news reports that are - or could be - connected to highlight a long-standing and egregious state of affairs. The BBC did just that today with these two separate, but historically interlinked reports (click on the links to see them):

1. Swiss TV in German anthem blunder
   
2. 'Dirty money' sent back to Mexico
   

The state of affairs here is "Something rotten in the state of Denmark", or rather, in that bastion of economic and financial sobriety, Switzerland - and it is not recently rotten, but has been stinking for almost 70 years, with no sign of abating.

1. The first report says that Swiss television made an embarrassing gaff during live coverage of the European Championship football match between Germany and Austria. The national channel SRG ran subtitles to Germany's national anthem including the obsolete first verse - ignored since the fall of the Third Reich. "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles" or "Germany, Germany above everything", was popular under the Nazis' rule. (Postwar Germany later removed the first verse, and used the third verse on its own as the anthem, following unification in 1990.)
   
   It looks like the junior Swiss journalists blamed for the gaff may have had a poor grasp of modern history and knowledge of where the Swiss economy's stability historically comes from. Perhaps these things are not taught in Swiss schools anymore, because of Switzerland's embarrassment at having been the financial "safe haven" (NOT) for Jews and as bankers to the Third Reich, during the run up to WWII and for many years afterwards.
   
   
2. The second report says that "Switzerland is to hand over to Mexico $74m from frozen bank accounts of the brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Money from Raul Salinas's accounts was being returned because it had criminal origins, Swiss authorities said."
   
   This could seem unfair to some people, who might enquire as to what was wrong with Raul Salina's filthy lucre, given Switzerland's gobsmackingly vile and more depraved acceptance and continued persistence in hoarding of the money from the Jews and the Third Reich.
   

The complicity of the financial institutions in the wholesale plunder and genocide carried out by the Nazis upon the luckless Jews beggars belief, or, as the German historian Dr. Klaus-Dietmar Henke euphemistically put it - "There was a deep symbiosis between National Socialism and capitalism".

The German financial institutions were complicit in this regard - as one might have expected, and as honestly reported by a German news organ in Spiegel Online International:

Dr Henke led a team of historians from Dresden's Technical University, who took an exhaustive approach in compiling a history of the Dresdner Bank's activities during the Third Reich. After seven years of research costing €1.6 million, "Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich" paints a stark picture of how the firm actively courted Nazi favor in order to make money and rapidly expand its business. Several of Dresdner's board members belonged to the Nazi party, but much of Dresdner's involvement with the party, Henke indicated, was driven more by business concerns.

However, perhaps less expected was the formerly heavily concealed and more recently uncovered complicity of the Swiss financial institutions. Whatever the motivation - whether done for financial gain alone, or appeasement, or both - that complicity was vile and intrinsically wrong/evil. That it lay concealed for so long - until a whistleblower exposed it in the '80s - merely reveals how corrupt the Swiss have been, and probably still are. As Adam LeBor puts it:

There were no death certificates issued at Auschwitz. But Swiss bankers still demand them before handing over the assets of account holders killed in the Holocaust to their surviving relatives. The Jews of Europe entrusted their families' wealth to what they hoped would be a safe haven, the banks of Switzerland. Even if they died, their money would eventually be recovered, they believed. They were wrong. Millions of dollars, deposited decades ago in good faith by Jews who were to die in the Nazi genocide, still lie in the vaults, earning interest and providing working capital for Swiss banks.

But the Swiss bankers' role as financiers to the Third Reich goes far beyond the dispute over dormant accounts. Based on recently declassified documents and archival research in Washington, London and Jerusalem, Hitler's Secret Bankers reveals the full, hitherto unknown extent of Swiss economic collaboration with the Nazis. Swiss banks were the key foreign-currency providers of the Nazi war machine, they profited both from looted gold, stolen by the Nazis from the national banks of occupied countries such as Belgium and Holland, and by operating an international banking centre for the Third Reich.

I would like to think that, far from being ignorant of their nation's vile history, those two Swiss journos might - just possibly - have been making a valid point about it.

Canada is no longer a free country?

Canada is incrementally moving to some disturbing conclusions. How was freedom so easily dispersed? I used to think Canada was a bastion of freedom, but now it's not so certain that that is the case.

Check out this: HUMAN RIGHTS PANELS OF ALBERTA
BETWEEN: Darren E. Lund (Complainant),
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Stephen Boissoin and The Concerned Christian Coalition Inc. (Respondent)
- and -
Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Attorney General of Alberta (Interveners)

(Download the file: http://albertahumanrights.ab.ca/LundDarren113007Pa.pdf)

Separately, the NRO (National Review Online) states:

Most of the media in Canada and the United States ignored the British Columbia “Human Rights” Tribunal that took place last week in a windowless basement in Vancouver. Now, a group of provincial human-rights commissars will decide whether or not National Review’s incomparable Mark Steyn and the largest-circulating magazine in Canada, Maclean’s, will be fined or otherwise censured for printing an excerpt from Steyn’s book, America Alone. The piece argued that demographic trends indicate that Western Civilization will sooner or later be forced to confront problems associated with radical Islam. We believe that the right to free speech must be defended almost without exception, but it’s worth noting that Steyn’s article was perfectly within the bounds of reasonable opinion journalism.

Open Season

I do not like angry, pissed-off, violent, hard or pure noise music - typically "metal" or "heavy metal" stuff, for example, like Metallica, or Motorhead (except as a joke, as in the track "Killed by Death") - and I really detest rap (especially gangsta rap).
However, I have to give a thumbs-up (respect!) to the group Stuck Mojo, and their album, "Southern Born Killers" - in particular a vid track called "Open Season" (lyrics). I have seen that track described as a kind of nu-metal rap piece of music, and it also seems to have gangsta overtones. As such, I really shouldn't like it at all, and, as music, I reckon it stinks, but I find I do like it nontheless because:
(a) It would have to be one of the most intelligent pieces of prose put to music/rap that I have ever come across.
(b) It seems to be a real in-your-face voice of the times - potentially offensive to some (tough luck), and probably controversial, but also something which could well resonate with millions of the silent majority around the world today who may be getting increasingly pissed off with being told how to lead their lives and think, by fascists.
The fact that this piece of music has come out of America and not some other part of the Western world has surprised me - you see, I thought the US had gone soft. Now I wonder if this track mightn't indicate that our transatlantic cousins are made of culturally and morally sterner stuff than the rest of us - except maybe the Danish and the Dutch.

"If you step in my hood,
It's understood,
It's open season."

This stuff is absolutely classic. It is sooo good that I wouldn't be surprised if it were subsequently revealed that the American secret services have been taking lessons from the British secret services in market communications and propaganda. Either way, it could mark the beginnings of a genuine societal backlash to the imposition of ideological conformism and fascism in America. Time will tell.
Check out Stuck Mojo's track "Open Season" here.
Check out Stuck Mojo's related track "I'm American" here.
Peace, bro.

UN call for Saudi women's rights

(see BBC News item here.)
Women in Saudi Arabia should be allowed more basic freedoms, according to a UN anti-discrimination committee report, which includes recommendations that:

• the practice of needing a man's permission to marry, work, travel or be educated should end.
• there should be more laws offering protection to women.

Overall the report is very critical of Saudi Arabia's approach to women's rights. It even expresses concern about the Saudi state's understanding of the idea of equality - saying similar rights for men and women is not the same as equal rights.

Womens' rights is a tricky subject for the Saudi and other non-secular Muslim dominated countries, since they know full well that all women in their society are treated as well as they should be.
The thing for them is that the Koran indicates explicitly and quite categorically (in numerous verses, for example including 4:10, 4:34, 4:54, 43:13, 43:64) that women are inferior for a multitude of reasons - women are chattels for men (as are slaves); they are economically dependent on men; they are worth half of what a man is worth; they are silly and given to frippery; God made them inferior in nature and made men superior in nature; men are entitled to beat them; Paradise is apparently mainly for men, but women can get in if they are married or "chaste virgins" - in the latter case, they are given to the spirits of (presumably unmarried) men and martyrs for their "delight"; because they induce lust in the hearts of men, women are the guilty party in their own rape, which is why women may be punished for their own rape and stoned to death for fornication/infidelity - but men get off (at the worst) with just a few lashes - whether rapist or adulterer.

If Muslims - males especially - have this kind of toxic misogynistic drivel (never mind the exhortations to kill all infidels) being continuously pumped into their heads from the age of at least 6, then it would seem no small wonder that things are as they are in sunny Saudi and other Islamic societies. It sets their paradigms rock-solid. This is successful religious indoctrination on a grand scale - probably far surpassing what the Roman Catholic Church historically tried to achieve - and it is how you control poorly-educated and even well-educated people. It thrives on and encourages stupidity, bigotry and ignorance.

"But look here where it says so in the Koran!" must seem almost as compelling an argument as the sound of a loaded pistol being cocked behind your ear. Even given the reputed retraction (by Mohammed) of "The Satanic Verses" (per Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel) from the Koran, what's left in the Koran looks pretty scary.

Perhaps unsurprisingly therefore, the Saudi government, in submissions before the aforementioned report was published, said that there was no discrimination against women. Last month a Saudi delegation told the UN body - the committee on the elimination of discrimination against women - that human rights in the kingdom were based on Sharia law. The delegation said Saudi society was still largely a tribal one where new ideas took time to be accepted.

Oh well, that explains it then - or does it?
One has to ask: How much time do they need to accept new ideas? Surely 600 years is long enough?*

What could the cause of this societally laggard behaviour be? Just maybe, it could be that they cannot change, simply because they are a non-secular society, straightjacketed by the paradigms - including the dogma and ideology - of their main religion, the Islamic faith.

*Explanation: In my blog post Mohammed the teddy-bear, I wrote "The thing is, Muslim-dominated states - e.g., including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan - have already had about 600 years to climb out of this type of state barbarism, and yet they have apparently been unable to successfully complete the exercise, despite a veneer of civilisation."

Mentally Retarded Women Used in Bombings

This AP (Associated Press) report from Baghdad, dated February 1, 2008, in Guardian Unlimited says that "Two mentally retarded women [Note: subsequent reports suggest that they were in fact not retarded, but of "sound mind".] strapped with remote-control explosives - and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers - brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at (sic) 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring."

Whatever we do, whether it is our gradual conquering of our environment, and now outer space - or something arguably even more impressive - e.g., the systematic genocide of 6 million Jews by the Nazis (ably abetted and encouraged by the Muslims' Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini) during WWII - it is truly amazing what we human beings are capable of. Certainly it would probably seem axiomatic to the man on the Clapham omnibus, that only someone who was either permanently or temporarily retarded or deranged in some way would be likely to use themselves, or permit themselves to be used by others, as a human bomb - an act which the more perspicacious amongst us would realise would almost certainly lead to one's own death. A more accurate word to use here might be "defective", rather than "retarded" or "deranged". Some might call such an act "evil".

One of the singer Freddie Mercury's swansongs was the beautiful Heaven for Everyone, in which he sang "This could be Heaven for everyone". It probably could be too, were it not for things such as, for example, our fellow human beings commtting horrendous crimes against us.
The thing is, we are doing this to ourselves. Crimes like this, where possibly otherwise innocent (if not retarded/deranged) people are encouraged or used as (possibly unwitting), sacrificial carriers for remotely-detonated bombs - are caused/committed by people who would seem, quite literally, to be hellbent on ensuring that this world will not "...be Heaven for everyone" - or anyone, for that matter.

May God forgive them.

Lest we forget - a footnote about Haj Amin el-Husseini:

• He was the Grand Mufti for Jerusalem. A Mufti is an expert in the Islamic Shari'ah (law) who gives legal judgments called fatwas. In 1921, Haj Amin el-Husseini first began to organize small groups of suicide squads - fedayeen - to terrorize Jews. Haj Amin hoped to duplicate the success of Kemal Atatürk in Turkey by driving the Jews out of Palestine just as Kemal had driven the invading Greeks from his country.
• In 1941, as Grand Mufti and as a prominent Arab representative, he met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish program to the Arab world. Haj Amin sent Hitler 15 drafts of declarations he wanted Germany and Italy to make concerning the Middle East.
• One draft called on the two countries to declare the illegality of the Jewish home in Palestine. Furthermore, “they accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries, in accordance with the interest of the Arabs and, by the same method, that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.”

If this sounds bad, it gets worse. Clearly the British had dirty - if not bloody - hands. See here - The Mufti's Mayhem - where it says:

• The British encouraged the Palestinians to attack the Jews. According to Meinertzhagen, Col. Waters Taylor (financial adviser to the Military Administration in Palestine 1919-23) met with Haj Amin a few days before Easter, in 1920, and told him “he had a great opportunity at Easter to show the world...that Zionism was unpopular not only with the Palestine Administration but in Whitehall and if disturbances of sufficient violence occurred in Jerusalem at Easter, both General Bols [Chief Administrator in Palestine, 1919-20] and General Allenby [Commander of Egyptian Force, 1917-19, then High Commissioner of Egypt] would advocate the abandonment of the Jewish Home. Waters-Taylor explained that freedom could only be attained through violence.”
  

Refer The Mufti and the Führer and Haj Amin al-Husseini.

Don't touch that dial, dhimmi: Thai satellite company begins broadcasting Hizbullah's Al-Manar channel

Fascinating. Read the Jan. 10 2008 blog post (click on this link) about how THAICOM, a private satellite company in Thailand, has begun airing the broadcasts of Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV. The satellite covers Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, and most of Europe. (Over the last few years, US and European satellites stopped airing Al-Manar, so the station could only be seen via two Arab satellites: Nilesat and Arabsat. The former is an Egyptian-owned satellite, which broadcasts to the Middle East, North Africa, and a few countries in southern Europe. The latter is a pan-Arab satellite, with approximately the same reach.)

Apparently THAICOM has done this:

• "as a purely business decision" (i.e., presumably, "for profit"), and not for political reasons.
• Considering Al-Manar programming to be "news and entertainment". (Go figure.)
• Without regard to the facts that:
  (a) Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV is Hizbullah's main communication tool, through which it spreads anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, and anti-American incitement (spreading Hizbullah and Iranian values of radical Islam) - i.e., it is an Islamic (Muslim) fundamentalist propaganda medum.
  (b) Other satellites have stopped airing Al-Manar because of this. e.g., the US Department of State decided in December 2004 to add Al-Manar to its Terrorist Exclusion List, and subsequently the European satellites Hispasat and Eutelsat have ceased airing the station's broadcasts. (Thus THAICOM have enabled Al-Manar to get around this blockage.)
  

As the blog post says, "Didn't anyone think it might be a bad idea to pipe jihadist propaganda straight into a region already dealing with its own jihadist problem? And Thailand isn't the only country whose viewers will have access to this programming."
(Ed: I do wish these writers would learn English grammar and not use conjunctions at the start of a sentence.)

Some people might say - but I couldn't possibly agree - that THAICOM may have a further really good business idea up their sleeves - to make even bigger profits, and more efficiently too, by following up the demand they will have created with the broadcasts and diversify into armaments and selling armaments/bombs directly to the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in these regions.
(Now that Al-Manar can be seen in south-east Asia, it means that Indonesia and Malaysia, two countries with large Muslim populations, are able to receive what civilised nations apparently consider to be messages of hatred.)

"My mum is a real blast!" - Islamic education for children in the UK?

Wow. I had just made the post about Mohammed the teddy-bear when I stumbled upon an article from the Daily Mail, dated 18th Dec. 2007: British children targeted with terror sing-along DVD for would-be suicide bombers.

(The caption on the picture above reads:"She blows herself up - and her daughter later sings: 'I will follow my mother's steps' ")

Now this is really worrying. At first I thought it had to be a bad joke - but it's not April 1st. It is about what would be teaching and encouraging innocent children and their ignorant mothers to commit evil. Read the link. It is part of the new reality for UK residents.

The question is, when will the same standard of education be available for the children in NZ society? Enquiring minds need to know. Maybe we should ask New Zealand MP Ashraf Choudhary?